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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1934
Page
1
A large bus plunged down an embankment near Sing Sing, bursting into flames. Sixteen people including children were aboard. many rescued, several feared dead as crews battled the blaze and investigated the cause.
The Athens H Clubs invite boys and girls to a Tuesday gathering at 1 o clock for a first feature film at the theater. County Extension agent Johnson will greet the group. A picnic lunch will be served by merchants with games and contests planned.
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Ben H Ewing 57 a leading local undertaker in Pomeroy died suddenly at his West Main Street home of a heart attack. He built a prominent funeral business after a 1912 start with Biggs and later Ewing Funeral Home. Survived by wife, four children, two brothers, a sister and one grandchild. funeral arrangements not yet set.
Mrs Elizabeth Nease aged 78 died Saturday evening at her Minersville home. Survived by husband Summer Nease and son A. S Nease. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 PM from the residence with burial in Gilmore Cemetery.
In Vatican City on July 23 Pope Pius held a general audience for 60 American cruise passengers guided by Rev Father Thomas B Walsh of Hina Rirvempneh Oto.
Will Rogers reflects on a labor strike with sardonic humor noting alibis from both sides. He reports traveling from San Francisco to the bay, joking about bridges to Honolulu if credits hold, and laments the lack of clear responsibility for starting or stopping the strike while praising sailors’ stubbornness.
War Department committee led by Newton D. Baker urges an Army Air Corps without peer and calls for 1,000 additional planes to reach 2,320 total. The report warns of a future war likely to begin with aerial engagements and stresses early air supremacy as crucial. It opposes a unified air force as impractical and criticizes Congress for underfunding.
J. O. Parsons and his two relatives were wounded from shotgunfire after a dispute near Southside West Virginia. Parsons said Othe Henshaw fired at him twice while Parsons’ son Roma 4 and bar boy Bud Harse 17 exchanged blows. Russell 15 fired at Henshaw, who then shot Parsons and his daughter Martha as they moved inside. Sheriff Gus Doukins of Mason County transported the injured to Holzer Hospital.
Violet Hilton of the Siamese Twins plans marriage within two weeks in Pennsylvania. She and Maurice Lambert of New York have received offers from Pennsylvania justices of the peace after New York authorities refused to issue a license. The pair continue engagements with her sister.
Severe storms lashed Albany and nearby areas Sunday evening with cyclonic wind hail and heavy rain. A bank was struck by lightning and barns and silos suffered extensive damage across Lee and surrounding townships.
John Grierson, a British pilot, took off from Londonderry at 7.45 p m for Ottawa via Treeland and Greenland. Weather was ideal. He previously attempted a flight to News via the same route in 1983 but his plane crashed at Reykjavik, Iceland.
Five hundred guardsmen arrived from the outskirts to reinforce the city as police convoys prepared to move trucks through lines of striking drivers amid rising violence.
John Dillinger, sought bank robber, is killed by federal agents in Chicago after a gun duel that ends his flight. Father John Dillinger Sr. and sister Audrey Hancock await funeral plans in Indiana as authorities confirm burial at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
In BISMARK N D July 21 lawmakers gather as William Langer’s forces oust a governor and press for impeachment of opponents while Acting Governor Ole Olson seeks a senate quorum. Langer appeals to 2000 farmers at Judson rally and calls for a defense fund, with 400 contributing in a tin bucket.
Police and Boy Scouts comb Alliance for Mine Helen Hillis three who did not return from an eye doctor visit Saturday. Authorities seek clues to her whereabouts as daylight wanes and the search expands.
Chicago dispatch notes the North Side as a magnet for the nation’s most notorious criminals. Dillinger and aides lingered amid gaming dens and resorts, evading officers many times, with police later killing three St Paul criminals in a tipped apartment raid.
The famed gangster John Dillinger is shot and killed by federal agents after he enters the Biograph Theater in Chicago with an audience nearby. Purvis and other officers pursued him through an alley where he is hit by five bullets. witnesses and investigators describe a dramatic, fatal confrontation as crowds and guards rush to the scene.
Three desperate killers blasted from the Death House at Texer State Prison in Huntsville Texas after overpowering guards and firing on escaping inmates. Ray mond Hamilton linked to Clyde Barrow era Joe Palmer and Blackie Thompson led the break leaving one dead and two wounded. Hamilton Palmer and Thompson were condemned to death for bank robbery and prison guard slaying.
Heat extended across the country with temperatures climbing and livestock losses, crops, water supplies strained. A survey from Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains shows thousands of cattle dead and crop losses in the hundreds of millions. Findlay reports 21 year old Seedal Ingel confessed theft of mail sacks and destruction of checks and money orders totaling thousands.
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