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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1934
Page
1
A Cleveland based political clash unfolds as Lt. Gov. Charles competes for governor and blasts “stop Davey” efforts. Davey counters with names of advisers and calls out mercenary bosses and graft linked to the plunderbund.
Report from WOWN Pennsylvania details a trio of dogs attacking livestock on Cambria County farms. Witnesses say cattle and sheep were bitten while a local farmer Austin Ringler fought off the animals roadside.
In ND on July 19 AP reports a prolonged taxi cab dispute reached a peace agreement. The pact mandates a $12 hourly wage by both parties on an open shop basis, with union members endorsing the plan and cooperative recognition among taxi operators.
The readable fragments describe fragmented dialogue about ads and offers, mentioning people and weekly events. Details are unclear, with missing context and incomplete sentences.
The North Dakota House convened at 12 03 p m defying Lieut Gov Ole H Olson proclamation revoking a special session. A truck convoy of Farmers Holiday Association supporters for William Langer arrived in Bismarck with more on the way. Olson moved to physically occupy the chief executive office with guards posted in the Statehouse corridors.
Strife erupts as Olson posts a proclamation revoking a Langer called special session. Doors to chambers locked, Adjutant General Sarles pledges support for Olson while Langer loyalists threaten wholesale impeachment of officials. Courts previously ruled Langer ineligible. martial law declared by Langer, Olson countermanded.
The Army Rivers and Harbors Board in Washington announced that the Cincinnati district engineer has found the Beaver Mahoning route preferable to three alternatives for a canal linking the Ohio River with Lake Erie. Notices were sent to local interests inviting further suggestions or requests for more consideration. The board stressed it is evaluating the best route, not the construction itself.
The Loyal Helpers Sunday School Class of As bury Methodist Church met Tuesday with Mrs. Carl Duckworth. Mrs. Helen Underhill of Columbus visited her mother and sister, Mrs. Mary Karr and Miss Marcia Karr. Local residents attended a Republican rally at the K of P Hall in Pomeroy. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Oliver returned from a visit with relatives in Charleston W Va.
Paris July 19 Premier Gaston Doumergue averted a cabinet crisis by declaring the need for unity and sending trusted aides to brief former premiers Andre Tardieu Edouard Herriot and Camile Chautemps. He insisted charges linking Chautemps and radical socialists to Serge Stavisky swindling be limited to a quarrel between Tardieu and Chautemps.
San Francisco moved back toward normal meals after a general strike committee eased rationing. Fresh meat vegetables and fruits returned, union restaurants reopened, and about a thousand trucks were authorized to push food stocks past picket lines as distribution resumed through commission houses to retail stores.
Doris Bush and Ada Ruth Sutton demonstrated fruit salad and cottage cheese sandwiches at the Junior Busy Bee Food Club meeting held at Anna Mae Wade's home in Canaanville. The next meeting is set for July 25 at the leader's home.
Oklahoma City July 19 UP, during Dick Bailey's suit to replevin his hamburger business building a juror offered to trade a witness for an Arkansas acre farm. Justice Crismore read the note from Juror Frank Ditto: Bring that note up here and hang around, I want to trade you out of that Arkansas farm after the trial.
Beverly Hills reader Will Rogers argues the Reds and Greens harmed public support by backing a general strike. He says both sides show radicals, harming labor efforts and proving a broad strike cannot win. public inconvenience will turn workers away.
Nelsonville July 19 A meeting of Presidents of local unions U M W of A and mine committees from the district is set for Saturday July 21 at 10 am at the Dew Hotel Nelsonville Pursuant to a Kimber ly Local No 3905 call the gathering aims to restore local autonomy and to elect mine workers officials for District No 6 with all field officers urged to attend
In Danville, Kentucky a dummy of Boyle County representative Sterling Towles was hanged in the Boyle County Courthouse yard as a protest against the new state sales tax. The effigy bore a handbill accusing Towles of breaking his pledge to Boyle County voters. Towles dismissed the incident, saying he would act the same if he could redo his legislative career.
Lord Baldwin told the House of Commons Britain will add 41 air force squadrons over five years. Thirty three squads will defend the home front, boosting home squadrons from 42 to 75. The rest supply the fleet or serve abroad.
Athens County real estate tax and assessment payments have been extended to September 1 after Treasurer G. D. Gorham requested more time and the State Tax Commission approved. Collections were due July 20 originally, with no further extensions expected.
Athens County school system paid teachers in full for the past year with $92,000 distributed to 18 districts this week. Bus drivers and janitors also received full pay as most operating expenses were settled. Funds came from notes sold by local boards under a special legislative session and bank purchases, with state buy up planned from the general revenue fund. Some accounts remain unpaid due to tax delinquencies.
HARTSDALE N Y July 19 4 Little Bobby Connor showed strength but left a question about his disappearance. Officials debate whether he was lost or kidnapped with police and the district attorney expressing cautious doubt about wandering. The boy remains in hospital under careful observation.
Bodies of 120 flood victims in southern Poland have been recovered, with 189 missing and feared dead. Over 55,000 left without food or shelter as swollen rivers overflowed. Gendarmes rescued 500 scouts trapped when rivers rose and camps were overwhelmed.
Henderson NC July 19. W A Newman a merchant did spring cleaning late and found a drawer from his cash register containing a 1928 check for 237 dollars a 1927 check for 15 dollars five old style dollar bills and nearly a dollar in small change.
The State Relief Commission approved sixty six FERA projects across 29 counties, providing work for 2,089 people at a total expenditure of 836334 dollars. In Athens County, projects include street repairs in Athens for 3043 dollars and storm sewer work in Trimble for 82109 dollars.
Five residents of Chandlerville Indiana were killed when the automobile carrying them to the World’s Fair in Chicago collided with a truck near Bloomington. The victims, all from Chandlerville, were identified as occupants of the car in the tragic route accident reported today.
In Athens candidates for state and national offices gathered with Judge Ballard Zimmerman and John M. Vorys speaking at a noon Hotel Berry event. Zimmerman seeks another Ohio Supreme Court term while Vorys campaigns for the U.S. Senate.
The Ohio Milk Marketing Commission announced a new price agreement for Marion County. Retail milk rises from nine to ten cents a quart while pints stay at six cents. Class One producer price increases to 2.06 dollars per hundredweight, up 30 cents.
Two Stark County boys died within thirty minutes while swimming in separate sections of the county. James Mensch, 16, of East Canton, and Eugene Bauer, 10, of Waynesburg, were seized by cramps during swimming, authorities reported.
Marion court grants divorce to Jean DeWolfe Weil 26 of Marion from Charlies M. Weil of Los Angeles California former Cincinnati resident. Weil is daughter of the late Marshal FE DeWolfe and granddaughter of the late Mrs. Warren G. Harding. He died twenty years ago in Colorado.
The P. W. Johnson Construction Company of Chillicothe Ohio submitted a bid of 57 983 for the superstructure of the Princeton West Virginia post office building, the lowest of four bids received.
In San Francisco the general strike loosens its grip as buses and shops resume, while rescue of the waterfront remains fragile. Alameda County vote to end the walkout looms. forecasts hint at a broader settlement amid gunfire and raids on radical sites.
Urbana reports Mrs. Blanche Sayers 40 confessed to murdering her husband Clarence 39 a farmer and World War veteran. She said he abused her and that he got what he deserved. The body was found with a gun trigger fixed to the floor of the barn and a finger tied to the trigger.
PORTLAND Ore July 19 UP A complete waterfront shooting inquiry was promised by Mayor Joseph Carson after waterfront guards fired on an automobile carrying officials including Senator Robert F Wagner and KE F P Marsh. The car ahead was struck by a bullet. Guards later returned to duty and spent the night at the police emergency hospital.
In Spokane on July 19 Bernice the barmaid found Charlie the barman trapped in a basement refrigerator while he connected a new keg. The door had slammed shut and he cried for help until freed.
In Grafton West Virginia on July 19 authorities said a Pruntytown State Industrial School for Boys inmate confessed to killing James Powell a 16 year old trusty. Powell was struck with rocks stripped of clothing and body tossed into the Tygart Valley River. The confessor David Braner 14 implicated Albert Nichols 16 of Fairmont.
Kenton July 19 Glen Neal was sentenced to one to years in Ohio Penitentiary after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the slaying of L W Bean a Dunkirk grocer Neal had earlier pleaded guilty to homicide Ben Curl convicted as an accomplice and Richard Knight who pleaded guilty to second degree murder received life terms
Former governor Alfred E. Smith reenters Tammany Hall leadership under James J. Dooling. He meets to discuss revising New York City's outdated charter, with Smith directing the City Charter Commission as its chairman.
Jackson jury after fourteen hours of deliberation failed to reach a verdict on Ray Freeman 25 charged with murdering a 54 year old farmer. trial continued in common pleas court.
Mrs Martin Johnson arrives in Cairo with her husband aboard an amphibian airplane after twenty months filming big-game interiors of Africa. The journey begins in Egypt on July 19.
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