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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1931
Page
3
Delbert Clare reports on a July meeting called by the Commerce Secretary where bituminous operators discuss rising unemployment due to mechanization. Declining demand, higher fuel efficiency, and engineering advances have reduced miners' workdays and job numbers, with strikes and picketing anticipated by some unions.
Odd Fellows Lodge in Athens will install new officers Friday night at East Washington Street. BR S Wolf of Coalville will conduct the ceremony with Ashford Hatch named Noble Grand and L Martow Vice Grand. Veterans jewels and a Pomeroy male quartet featuring Art Kies Harry Wehring Roy Heines and Charles Wildermuth will appear. Local talks and visitor remarks follow. Captain Bift Jones, famed Army football coach, returns to West Point as assistant graduate manager of athletics.
Mexico protests to the United States after Judge Thomas Greet in Chicago sentences Adolfo Domingues for contempt of court. Foreign Secretary Estrada filed the formal protest through the Mexican embassy in Washington. The case follows a fatal shooting in Armore Ola near Mayor Ortiz Rubio's relative.
Uick Henry L Hazlett 37 heir to a West Virginia estate has been recommitted to the state hospital for the insane in Huntington after a Sanity contest. He escaped last year in an airplane to New Jersey where a lunacy commission revoked its decision. a habeas corpus writ briefly freed him before a new warrant placed him back in custody. Excessive alcohol use is cited by the Hazlett family as the cause of his condition.
Three robbers posing as prohibition differs held up truck driver George Pati Thamilian near College Hu stealing Sik. Governor White signs Robe Whitney Bill providing $75.00 for peri ermation of the state in a world fair feature at the Chicago World's Fair.
Rudy Walier and his bride the former Fivy Webb were honeymooning in a luxurious uptown New York apartment amid curious crowds. The couple wed earlier in New Jersey where Jean Vallee's daughter reportedly married M Wobb, son of the Santa Monica police chief. Vallee had prior marriage ends in divorce.
Bernard Halloran 38 known as promoter and owner of Lima Baseball Park died in Lima. He promoted many major league players and left a legacy in local baseball circles.
Sterling Shinglar was arrested by Officer Charles Bayless on Wednesday for operating a motor vehicle near Carbondale with intent, following a prior Sunday incident. The case proceeds under local charges.
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