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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1937
Page
1
Walter L. Fry, a noted sit-down strike leader, shuts his seat cover plant in Detroit for 250 workers who refuse UAW affiliation. Fry vows no plant under UAW control after a volatile meeting, insisting on managing relations without third party unions.
In Chester West Virginia 22 independent dealers reopened after a one day lockout to sell gasoline at reduced rates. The Upper Panhandle Petroleum Dealers Association organized to push back against alleged unfair distributor practices and warned independents would suspend business after tanks were emptied.
The Ward Rural School District in Hocking County received authorization from the State Tax Commission to issue bonds totaling $14,950 in anticipation of collecting delinquent taxes.
Seven year-old Gabriel Klein pulled the tail of a full grown lion named Adam at the Bronx Zoo last Sunday. The act was witnessed by reporters after Gabriel’s father received a suspended sentence of five dollars? or two days in jail for exposing his son to danger. The lion lunged but missed.
Guglielmo Marconi, 63, father of wireless, died today of heart disease at his Rome palace. Mussolini visited the death chamber five hours later, praying for Marconi’s soul, while the Vatican notified Pope Pius.
Madrid dispatches report a major Nationalist counter-offensive south of Madrid along the Toledo Road and in the Brunette Quijorna Villanueva de la Canada salient. Alarmed residents saw artillery and air bombardment as 500000 troops mass on a 30 mile front northwest to south of the capital.
Emptoria Kansas editor William Allen White, a longtime Republican leader, endorses Fiorello LaGuardia as the next GOP leader. White argues for a non factional figure and recalls Lincoln as a historic comparison.
In Portsmouth WPAY ceased broadcasting as six employees walked out after five others were fired. Paul Wagner, head of the ARTU CIO affiliate, said the firings were for union activities.
Washington report says the United Mine Workers executive board meets to consider expelling William Green president of the AFL from the union. Debate splits 18 members with concerns over making Green a martyr and the impact of dual union movements amid the Courganite of a charter for the Progressive Miners union backed by the AFL.
Francis Lederer and Margo, a Mexican dancer and singer, will be married likely October 6. Margo left a South Seas film project to remain with her fiance in Hollywood.
Columbus Ohio Attorney General Herbert S Duffy ruled that the state auditor cannot withhold sales tax funds from counties to force debts owed to the state. The welfare department sought to use the Davis Act to hold June revenues until counties paid what they owe.
G H Reavis of the State Department of Education told 80 southeastern Ohio school leaders at a state conference in Edwin Watts Chubb Library that four teachers per school are needed to cover major and minor subjects. He cited broad vs narrow teaching assignments and noted seven teachers could handle 75 pupils.
The article recalls Guglielmo Marconi as a visionary who proved wireless Morse like signals could travel oceans. He helped create vacuum tube tech enabling voice transmission and long distance short wave radio. He received many honorary doctorates and a Titanic survivors gold medal for saving lives.
A wide inquiry began at the Eagles Club rooms in Pomeroy after Lafe Williamson was found badly wounded on W Main St and later died at Holzer Hospital. Prosecutor Manning and Sheriff Roscoe Fowler led questioning of 20 to 25 witnesses with Judge C E Peoples directing the investigation, aiming to reach the case's bottom.
Atlantic City N J. The National Federation of Business and Professional Women backed Roosevelt remarks that women now assume wider duties and urged a drive to place women in public posts, especially Congress. The president’s message to the convention stressed businesswomen’s aid in community tasks.
Los Angeles report states 31 year old attorney Dorothy May Garland died after a scuffle with movie extra Kay Tutwiler. Autopsy found acute alcoholism as the cause, despite bruises possibly affecting blood circulation.
Joseph H. Dowling aged 82 longtime grand treasurer of the Fraternal Order of Eagles for 22 years died of heart disease here Monday night.
The House approved a bill permitting erection of the Shenandoah Memorial in or near Ava Ohio. The action sets the stage for a commemorative structure honoring veterans and local history within the state.
County officers hunted burglars after a Wakeman post office was robbed and $145 was taken. The incident occurred near Norwalk with authorities pursuing leads.
The Chinese government and its ambassador in Washington sharpened accusations against Japan over North China hostilities. Beijing urged both nations to withdraw troops to pre July 7 positions and resolve differences through diplomatic talks.
The Japanese Cabinet met in emergency session and authorized self-defense actions in North China citing breach of truce by Chinese forces around Peiping. A Japanese warplane dropped warnings at Wanpinghsien as batteries fired and the castle towers were destroyed, with one Japanese killed and one wounded as Chinese artillery responded.
In Columbus the State Civil Service Commission was notified by four of five Meigs County Children's Home trustees of abolishing the superintendent position held by J. H. Eastman. Eastman had a temporary reinstatement last week after the commission refused removal. Trustees had named a matron to replace him by July 13.
Three masked bandits believed to be part of Al Brady's gang robbed the First National Bank of Centerpoint near Brazil Indiana of $2000. Authorities described the incident as a suspected Dillinger style heist with no injuries reported.
Meigs County commissioners were authorized by the State Tax Commission to issue 37000 dollars in bonds in anticipation of delinquent tax collections.
Mrs. Daniel Gonzales of Port Arthur Texas became a teenage mother twice over. Her first child born before age 12 grew into a robust boy. A daughter Estella Alice arrived in July, just weeks after the mother’s 13th birthday on June 15. The father is 22.
The House passed the Whittington Bill authorizing 24,877,000 in emergency flood control construction in the Ohio River basin. Projects will favor flood walls levees and drainage structures selected by the Army Engineers chief with local rights of way. The bill also funds channel clearing and debris removal and permits surveys for erosion and water flow retardation nationwide.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt wife of the President has been hired to write advertisements for Stella Dallas Samuel Goldwyn said payment would go to charity He noted the First Lady already writes a newspaper column and makes radio broadcasts and would contribute the same type of earnings to charity.
In Tallahassee Florida white men with paper sacks over their heads lynched two young Black suspects accused of knifing a policeman. The victims Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder were taken from the county jail and shot near a highway. A Black woman found their bodies beside crude warning signs.
In Decatur Alabama the jury selection for Andy Wright and eight other Negro defendants in the Scottsboro assault cases continued amid talk of further state defense compromises. Close sources say Clarence Norris and Heywood Patterson, already sentenced, are viewed as ringleaders in the March 1931 freight train assault on Mrs Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, with Norris facing a third death sentence and Patterson a 75 year term from January 1936.
U S Commissioner B D Nicola issued fugitive warrants for 13 men six from Cleveland in a bootleg whiskey conspiracy. The group began in Steubenville and extended to Pittsburgh and Cleveland Define alleged losses at more than 100000 dollars from Navy contracts from 1936 through June this year.
New York reports the death of Commander Winfield Liggett Jr retired U S N renowned bridge figure. Liggett aged 56 passed away today leaving a legacy in contract bridge circles nationwide.
Columbus Colonel Lynn Black orders curtailment of highway patrol services after a 167800 reduction in the two year budget dropping from 1170000 to 1002200. Inspections of school buses, patrol cars, radios and finger printing will be trimmed. some barracks may close and uniforms, ammo, and reports will be limited. Public impact warned in emergencies.
Washington report says a Democratic fight over a new Senate majority leader continues as leaders plan to select a successor to the late Joseph T. Robinson on Wednesday at 10 am. Barkley and Harrison vie with administration and anti court change factions in a tense intra party struggle.
London reports delegates from nine nations convened to decide whether to accept British proposals for a new neutrality control in the Spanish civil war or let the non intervention plan collapse. The Gibraltar issue loomed as Churchill accused Nationalists of fortifying the coast with German or Italian aid to threaten the rock and harbor works.
Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy ordered eight defendants and the Ford Motor Company held for trial in September term of circuit court on charges of assault and battery in connection with the Ford riot of May 26.
Thirty five WPA workers at the Ohio State Sanatorium in Mount Vernon went on strike Monday to protest the dismissal of a foreman overseeing a sewage disposal project.
Moscow officials announce that 24 more traitors have been executed in Khabarovsk in the Far East on charges of espionage and wrecking activities.
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