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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1935
Page
1
Rain and cloudbursts hit Ohio during Fourth of July events causing seven drownings and multiple fatalities. Flooding affected Belmont and other counties, with property and livestock losses reported as rivers rose and bridges failed. Rescue efforts continued as authorities tallied fatalities and damages.
The National Coal Association reports U S bituminous output at 6.41 million net tons for the week ended June 29, up from 4.831 million the prior week per the Bureau of Mines and above 6.146 million in the same period last year.
Nationwide toll for the 159th July Fourth celebration reached at least 201 deaths with thousands injured. The Midwest led with 82 deaths while the Pacific Coast recorded 14, most deaths from auto crashes and drownings. three were fireworks related.
In Baton Rouge the Louisiana legislature advances Long backed measures to strip city officials of hiring and firing powers by moving them under civil service. Huey Long aims to take over New Orleans City Hall from Mayor T Semmes Walmsley and allied old regular foes by quickly passing bills that reduce municipal officers to titular roles while curbing federal relief fund use for political aims. Long also plans to curb opponents aligned with the national administration. He filed 26 bills at the House clerk as the third special session opened.
Mrs. Esther Brown widow of Millfield mine disaster victim Sam Brown was seriously hurt in a head on crash between Glouster and Murray City. She suffered a crushed ankle and facial lacerations requiring 55 stitches. Frank and Darewood Jewell, Glouster, were slightly injured and treated at Cherrington Hospital.
Chauncey Downey escaped serious injury when his sedan left a bridge, struck a telephone pole, and stopped near a steep embankment at Routes 3 and 50 two miles north of Athens. He blamed a steering lock as the cause and noted the car had another wreck the day before without inspection.
Rosamond Farrell Murray, 16, granddaughter of the former U S Steel Corporation head, faced a threat to kidnap her from Southampton L I home. Police investigated the warning and guarded her daily, with security stepped up at her residence.
Logan 24 year old Lee Summers died when his truck overturned and burned near Portsmouth while driving from Portsmouth to Dayton. His parents and five sisters survive. Funeral at Fairview Church near Rockbridge Saturday at 3.
Athens police investigated a collision on North Lancaster Street involving Strick Huggins driving a machine owned by Jack Stanley and another car operated by Harry Coots. Stanley agreed to cover damages and planned to file charges of reckless driving as Huggins fled the scene.
Columbus report: H J Berrodin chief of the division of Aid for the Aged orders an inquiry into Ohio pension payments amid findings that in some counties over 30 percent of residents over 65 receive aid. He plans to reopen all cases involving relatives of department employees to check for undue influence.
Ohio University graduate student Margaret Keehne Davis of Pomeroy will teach home economics and general science in Seward Alaska. She led the Lindley Hall dining room last year and will begin her duties in Seward after completing her studies.
A strict quarantine was ordered at the Deception Creek CCC Camp in Coeur dAlene following the death of 20 year old Chalmers Brewer of Camp 1% in a local hospital from spinal meningitis. Brewer will be buried in Greenville Ohio after body transport tomorrow.
In Circleville a divorce filing accuses Matilda Erb of being forced to husk corn and perform hard manual labor, claiming health impairment from the hardship as grounds in the case filed today.
Dr. Edmund D. Soper president of the institution announced today that Wesleyan trustee J D A Morrow, president of the Pi's High Coal Company, has been named to a trusteeship at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Will Rogers writes from Beverly Hills describing breakfast in Fort Worth and choices of flights to distant places including California Texas and Oklahoma. He muses on travel plans, busy government buses and the era’s energy noting the long journey home and the crowd among the wealthy.
President Roosevelt signed the Wagner labor disputes bill, creating a national labor relations board and granting employees the right to unionize and bargain. The measure, viewed as Labor’s Magna Carta by William Green, faces likely court challenges from steel, auto, and rubber manufacturers.
Dr. CG Dew, chairman of the Roosevelt-Davey Club of Athens County, warns officers and members to attend a club meeting on Tuesday July 9 at Buckeye Building rooms on West Washington Street Nelsonville to discuss important business.
Nelsonville staff reports John Clap a 70 year old resident near Whitmore Greenhouse on Cawthorne Road was struck by a car while walking home from Nelsonville around 6 pm Thursday. He suffered a scalp laceration and minor injuries. Police say the driver stopped but did not assist. Clap was taken to a physician’s office by other motorists.
Washington AP report on White House plans to broaden the tax the wealth program to middle income brackets and debate extending taxation beyond the million a year class. Guffey Coal Bill and talk of a "little NRA" for bituminous coal were also discussed ahead of adjournment.
The report to Governor Davey from Col. C. O. Sherrill’s survey calls for reorganizing the State Tax Commission to cut operating costs by 40 percent. It projects $752,700 savings in 1935 and $931,209 annually thereafter. It also notes a push to cut personnel in the new Sales Tax Division and proposes lowering the gasoline evaporative allowance to boost revenue by $800,000.
Addis Ababa reports Ethiopia pleaded with the United States to press Italy to honor the Kellogg Briand Pact. The note, delivered to William Perry George, cites Italy’s war preparations and seeks US action to keep peace through legal means. Emperor Haile Selassie vows to defend independence by lawful methods. Authorities say they face trouble securing munitions from European suppliers.
United Fuel Gas Co filed in Federal District Court a suit to bar the Ohio Public Utilities Commission from obtaining a statement of coal or fixing a rate on gas produced in Kentucky and West Virginia for Portsmouth Gas Co. A temporary restraining order was issued before a hearing by Judge Benson W. Hough. The WV incorporated firm argues the commission has no right to fix a rate on out of state gas. Stalsn argues the commission’s action lowering the Ohio River gas rate to Portsmouth abrogates a contract and seeks to regulate interstate commerce in violation of the U S constitution.
Merton Ward Goodrich, identified as the confessed slayer of 11 year old Lillian Gallaher, prepares to return to Detroit by train to answer for the crime and to be questioned on other unsolved child crimes investigators link to him. He told prosecutor Duncan C McCrea he fears flying and requested travel by train.
In Brin g Lake New Jersey police found 87 year old Jennie A McCloskey dead in a upstairs room and her brother John aged five malnourished. The pair had lived in seclusion since coming from Ohio with mail order supplies their only contact. County physician Dr Harvey W Hartman said Jennie died of natural causes two to three weeks prior. John was taken in for care.
A. F E. Douglas Carseytown was arrested Thursday by Police Captain Charlies Maple and Patrolman Leate Bradfield on a charge of driving recklessly in Richland Avenue. He was ordered to report for a hearing today at 2pm.
J. J. Bernet, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio and Pere Marquette Railroads, died at his Cleveland home this morning after a brief illness.
The Great Northern Empire Builder derailed after washing out a section, injuring 24 aboard the transcontinental train near Bainville. Initial reports say a wall of water swept down a hill ahead of the westbound passenger, blocking signals and complicating rescue efforts.
Harry J Weat erman retires today as a cartoonist for The Ohio State Journal. He will continue in syndicate and portrait work.
Miss Florence Stillman daughter of C C Stillman federal relief administrator for Ohio resigns as case investigator in Delaware County and leaves for Europe seeking new assignment and duties.
Department of Commerce data show May US foreign trade with a deficit of 5.1 million dollars. Exports reached 165.5 million, up slightly from April and May 1974, while imports totaled 170.5 million, essentially flat from April and down from 1974 levels.
Mt Gilead Ohio, Justice C W Boyd heard William R Waht plead innocent to shooting with intent to kill after firing a borrowed shotgun toward two boys, Raymond Belcher 16 and Lloyd Burson 15, who allegedly threw firecrackers on his porch. Belcher was hit in the leg. Burson injured. Waht says he warned them and aimed at ground to frighten them. Bound over to grand jury under $900 bond.
Nelsonville Pilgrim Holiness Church on East Chestnut Street will host a vacation Bible school directed by Mies Heten Francie. Boys and girls aged five to sixteen will attend, with two weeks of sessions starting Monday morning. A commencement and awards for perfect attendance and memory work will close the program.
Capt Percy Tetlow president of District 6 United Mine Workers of America spoke to mine workers and citizens in Nelsonville. He urged passage of the Guffey Bill to regulate coal prices and restore NRA principles, praising worker unity with operators in the district. He criticized NRA court decisions and warned of price cutting and demoralization if the law fails. John Owens cited improved conditions and cooperative operator efforts, predicting early passage and resisting legal challenges.
Wheat prices slid five cents a bushel today as traders liquidated holdings. Some feared the Canadian government could alter grain policies, risking a surge of Canadas wheat surplus onto the world market.
Eight inspectors from the state division of minimum wage were dispatched to survey various retail businesses regarding employment of women and minors.
Hazen Cuyler, nicknamed Kiki, left the Chicago Cubs to join the Cincinnati Redlegs in a recent signing. The move shifts Cuyler from Chicago to Cincinnati as a new chapter in his baseball career.
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