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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1928
Page
1
Coal operators of Ohio reject union wage offer and state current scale works satisfactorily. Mineowners express satisfaction with present general working conditions and deem the Ohio situation suitably settled.
In Columbus July 19 Lee Hall and union officials called a possible settlement for the state wide coal strike but operators statewide said they would ignore union overtures and continue open shop production. They argued the United Mine Workers decision drives home rule in districts and will not affect Ohio’s soft coal market. Amid warnings, 40 000 idle miners face continued work stoppages unless a statewide plan emerges.
For the quarter ended June 30, Repub lic Iron and Steel Co reports net income of 1,052,855 after all charges. The earnings per share, after preferred dividends, stand at 1.03 on 596,030 no par value common shares outstanding.
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Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia faced brutal heat with deaths and drownings. Temperatures hit 92 in Cincinnati and rose through Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia. Thunderstorms were expected to relieve heat by tonight or tomorrow. Edward Sullivan 18 of Lakewood drowned near Rocky River. Joseph Teaser 15 died in Cleveland. Mrs Lulu Gordon Canning 50 in Columbus died from heat.
Audrey Stanley ten from Nelsonville narrowly escaped death when a southbound Hocking Valley train passed over her as she lay between railroad ties near the upper bridge. A small bruise on her arm is the only visible injury. she was unharmed apart from the fright and is able to recount the miraculous episode.
Fred Pickett of Cleveland posted a 500 bond for Edmund Putz a 24 year old Latvian sailor held in county jail for reportation after being picked up on a raft off Vermillion two weeks earlier Putz claimed to be a German sailor who deserted his ship in Baltimore three months ago and said he planned to show him a good time before he is sent back to Riga in six weeks
Herbert Hoover plans a specific farm relief program for his August 11 acceptance speech in Palo Alto California. The plan centers on cooperative marketing to handle surplus production and ties to railroad reorganization and the Great Lakes outlet to the seas. It was developed in three days with Coolidge Dawes and several state leaders and was dictated after months of work.
Two inmates in Atlanta captured a guard to use as a shield before losing nerve when a door would not open. They were Joseph Urbaytis of Toledo serving 50 years for mail robbery and Roy G Gardner of California serving 25 years. One guard was slightly injured and the pair were captured. Urbaytis had earlier been nabbed in Columbus after a similar escape bid aided by a tip from a Toledo source.
Mexican federal troops hunt a woman bandit leader and 200 rebels after a raid on a Laredo Mexico passenger train near Rincon. Seven passengers injured. three bandits captured and executed, others fled. Stranded travelers relayed news of the gun battle.
Columbus July 19 B F McDonald state prohibition commissioner announces the resignations of John Powell Springfield and Edward McGriff Greenville veteran state dry agents. They resigned to go into business McDonald said.
The Jewett house a Athens landmark for about a century on South Congress Street is being dismantled and sold to Guy Wilson as construction of a Christian Science church begins. Architects are finalizing plans with F W Bush leading the committee and the building will be removed within 30 days.
Henry burial plans outline Charles Delano Henry father of Mrs. Herbert Hoover to be moved to Palo Alto for burial on Friday after arrival in Placerville California where he died July 19 after near Hoover family services today in the local area
United Mine Workers districts move toward new wage scales ending the coal industry depression since the Jacksonville agreement expired April 1 1927. District officers may negotiate wages with operators on a mutually satisfactory basis and cooperate with the international union. Companies may employ workers under existing schedules until a district agreement is set, with ratification via district convention or referendum.
Ohio mines produced 1,015,000 tons of bituminous coal in June, the first million ton month since the soft coal strike. Thirty-two mines have reopened in eastern Ohio Hocking Valley and Cambridge as production rises from 233,000 to 275,000 tons weekly, with many former union miners now employed under a $1 base wage scale adopted last autumn by state operators.
Berlin report states Oberammergau, famed for its Passion Play, suffered partial destruction from flooding today. Local authorities assess damage and aid efforts commence as residents recover from the rising waters.
Estate valued at 950000 is left by Rufus C. Phillips former secretary of the American Rolling Mills company of Middletown. The will provides a trust for Mrs. Phillips and a 5000 bequest to the Middletown Y M C A. It also carries a moral instruction to his wife and children to be kind and democratic in spirit and charitable, living by his Christian ideals.
About 100 passengers from the Pennsylvania Railroad Steamer Maryland were transferred to the Steamer New York and were reported safe after an explosion off Cape Charles. The event follows ongoing turmoil in the bituminous coal industry as miners seek district wage autonomy and operators push for nonunion labor costs.
Policy committee ends week of talks on soft coal wages. Union abandons the Jacksonville scale of 7.50 a day and 1.06 a ton set by the 1920 Federal Coal Commission, allowing districts to settle with operators on mutually agreeable terms. District conferences plan new agreements aligned with the action.
Bernice Atkinson age 18 wins the second annual Miss Crystal Pool title at the swimming pool beauty contest after nine events in the carnival. Winners collect cups and medals. events include men and women s sprints dives relays and underwater swims with top names like Bob White Koogler Cross Morgan Evans and Spicer among placers.
Cleveland July 19 Mrs Helen Green former city councilwoman and WCTU leader assailed wealthy advocates of repeal of the Volstead Act and the eighteenth amendment. She charged the rich were trapped into opposing the dry law or unable to replenish private stocks while demanding prohibition for others.
Columbus July 19 action on transferring funds to reorganize the educational system at the Xenia Soldiers and Sailors Orphans home has been postponed awaiting more information.
July 19 report from Dayton states Mrs. Clare nce Weigner, 27, of Franklin, died when her car collided with a Cincinnati Enquirer truck three miles south of Mi amisburg. Six others are injured in the wreck.
The Ohio textbook commission in Columbus on July 19 approved an additional text for Ohio schools. The panel includes the governor, secretary of state, and director of education and endorsed the book at a routine meeting.
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