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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1935
Page
1
A government tax proposal stirred debate as Democrats and Republicans argued over revenue goals and the size of projected adds. The House committee considered raising funds beyond 250000 with claims of balanced budgets while opposition warned of overreach and shifting power to a few.
A historic Ohio rainstorm caused widespread damage across multiple counties. Scioto County saw 3.18 inches in 19 hours and Rarden suffered flooding with a damaged store and restaurant. Sandusky saw sewers flooded, basements and streets inundated, delaying the Sandusky Register and halting traffic in Warren.
A fragmented report notes Mrs Artie involved in a disturbance during a boxing event as her husband Rob seeks a divorce. The chaotic scene includes accusations and charged exchanges amid tense moments.
News reports say General Juan Vicente Gomez, long time Venezuelan strongman, is gravely ill and near death. His possible demise could trigger violent turmoil in a country where substantial American and British investment exists.
In downtown Peoria Illinois three payroll robbers fought police. one suspect Ed Mace of Kansas City was captured wounded. A tavern guard Joseph Backus died from a shotgun blast and a female shopper Mrs John Edinburgh was hit by a stray bullet. About 25,000 dollars were taken but much money was scattered as the robbers fled.
About 10 World War veterans at the U S veterans facility in Northport New Jersey were recovering after eating tainted food. One veteran had died in the incident.
The League of Nations said Magim Litvinoff plans a July 31 council session to address the Italy Ethiopia East Africa dispute after receiving notes from both nations. Ethiopia seeks broader discussion of the entire controversy while Italy blames Ethiopia for the Scheveningen commission collapse and warlike Italian plans.
Six prisoners led by two escaped convicts busted a wall at Harrison County Jail and fled. Sheriff Arthur Hedges formed a 100 man posse with bloodhounds to pursue footprints west of town. The escapees were Smith and Denton, both previously held at area camps, who were later captured.
Mrs Alma Yohalem of Cleveland Heights recalls the name George Yohalem as prediction manager in a film four months prior. The county grand jury indicted a George Yohalem, living in Los Angeles, for failure to provide for his minor son Martin aged 15. Prosecutor Frank T Cullitan requested Los Angeles police to arrest him.
Former Republican governor Myers Y. Cooper says relief today often fuels poverty and pauperizes people. He urges bold government action and private enterprise growth to cut idle wage earners, clarifies policies on investment, money value, and tax threats, and notes his possible 1986 vice presidential consideration.
In Santa Monica, Will Rogers quips that wrestlers could earn more rehearsing than by a match. He notes politics and arms talks with Italy and England, then praises a recent World's championship wrestling event as entertaining and reveals producers push actors to study wrestling.
Six thousand people were receiving unauthorized relief in Mahoning County in January 1934, with only half removed. Miss Caroline Emma Driscoll testified that over 200 families received two or three grocery orders each and about 2,000 people not on relief rolls got FERA work anyway. She said a list of unauthorized clients was reduced to 2,512 and sent to another department, where the report lay unread for three months before being filed.
Athens County 4-H clubs plan a day at the fairgrounds on Friday August 2 with a 10 am Majestic Theater picture show Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch coordinated by the Athens Chamber of Commerce. Lunch at noon recreation at 1 30 offers four activities including Crystal Pool half price admission and visits to the Beasley Company and the Athens Messenger Building. Wallace Gillogly leads the recreation program and Villa Tippie heads the refreshment committee.
Berlin reports Governor Erich Koch announced the dissolution of the East Prussian Stabheim Steel Helmet veterans organization, Germanys equivalent of the American Legion, under the February 2 1935 law for the protection of the people and the state.
The War Office in Tokyo proposes a five year modernization and expansion of land and air armaments. The plan calls for expenditures around 261 million dollars and would be added to existing military funding in the cabinet budget.
Federal Judge Benson Hough extends a temporary restraining order preventing tax collection on hog processing from Columbus Packing Co. J. Fred Schmidt Packing Co. Columbus and the Stedman Co. of Athens. A crowded docket delays hearing on the cases.
Robert Byers, 42, confessed his report of being kidnapped was a fabrication. He was fined $50 and $5 costs in police court for making a false report to authorities in Columbus.
Mayor Len B. McCune denounces the shiny Court Street drinking fountains as not wash bowls and warns violators will face full penalties or jail for washing hands there. He orders the fountains cleaned out twice daily to prevent misuse.
Charles West a prominent Ohio Democrat and former representative heads toward a high administration post promised after his New Deal campaign. Roosevelt has nominated him as undersecretary of Interior a newly created post paying 10000 dollars annually. West has served as deputy governor of the Farm Credit Administration and acted as White House liaison with the capitol.
Forest D. Chism manager of the Western Union Athens office will travel to Bloomfield New Jersey for a 12 week course on operating the new automatic telegraph typewriter system to be installed in Athens in November. The Simplex system is already in use for McBee Company messages and relays telegrams to the McBee plant without messenger service. C. T. Haman will serve as relief operator during Chism's absence.
Duane Howard a 28 year old flying instructor and Miss Virginia Thomas 16 of Berwyn Pa were killed when a monoplane fell in a tailspin in suburban Glenview near Chicago.
Fire swept the Citizens Bank Building in Caldwell injuring four firefighters and causing an estimated 35 000 in losses. Bank officials did not estimate damage but firefighters called it Caldwell’s largest blaze on record.
The Columbus report notes the National Highway section from Hebron to St. Clairsville is set to remain unimproved for at least another year with no funding in sight.
K. T. Crossen Post of the American Legion in Athens will be represented at the Eighth District convention in Memorial Auditorium Mt Arthur Sunday with John DeMolet Clarence Wolfe and John W Dowler as delegates. Pau Herbert past state commander will be principal speaker. Drum and Bugle Corps of the Sons of Legion will not attend the parade due to equipment issues. Other speakers include MB Campbell trustee Ohio Sailors and Soldiers Orphans Home and Congressman Thomas A Jenkins among others.
In Washington senators on the Lobby Committee expressed surprise at testimony by Representative Patton about buying 3000 dollars in bonds during a spring when his salary was 3100. A witness recalled Patton with an email box at John Carpenter's hotel room day before he opposed a provision affecting holding companies. Patton denied impropriety as his bank records stand. Separately in Cleveland an employer will pay August 1 wages in silver dollars to trace spending.
The incident left the actress severely injured after a crash involving a parked truck. Elsie Janis, famed as the Sweetheart of the A. E. F., was hospitalized in New York for treatment and is reported to be recovering.
Col Frank Knox former publisher railed at President Roosevelt over New Deal laws he argued undermine the Supreme Court. In Oklahoma City Patrick J. Hurley warned of a 1936 defeat, saying Democrats created a Frankenstein Monster and the group may be struck as unconstitutional when the Supreme Court rules.
A committee of southern coal producers urged Secretary Perkins to push for a renewal of the current wage and hour contract through April 1. Rumors circulated that the government might suspend new wage and hour negotiations until Congress acts on the Guffey Coal stabilization bill and a new framework for the bituminous industry.
Cincinnati Archbishop John T. McNicholas warns diocesan leaders that state control will turn schools into a bureaucratic system. The diocesan letter claims educators steal the minds of children and turn out agnostics, atheists, and radicals, urging opposition to government funding of schools.
Governor Davey urged county relief control and backed a 15 million dollar county relief bond plan to fund aid for Ohio’s 4 145 000 needy. Tax expert Carlton S Dargusch said all counties could benefit, and a crisis is unnecessary. He plans a statewide conference to craft a relief program for a September special session.
The Rev. K B Wall at Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus asks Captain J B Allen for a seed or root of his giant hollyhocks. Wall says it would be a pleasure to have a few plants of that size at the penitentiary. Allen, leading local hollyhock growers, reports his plants have grown two feet in a week and now stand 17 feet tall.
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