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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1929
Page
1
Capital dizzy with wrangles as Senate expected to be scene of wordy war over terms of measure. House 1 put farm bill over without delay in rapid action and partisan discord.
Washington June 7 The House prepared to ratify the administration farm relief bill with little debate. Senator Norris warned of a Senate fight over eliminating the debenture provision as McNary backed sticking with the debenture. The Census reapportionment bill and conference on the farm relief measure were to be sent to the Senate within hours.
The Athens Messenger promotes a Department of Agriculture booklet with full canning directions for fruits and vegetables. Readers can request a copy by mailing the coupon with four cents for postage and handling through the Washington Information Bureau.
Ernest N. Smith, general manager of the American Automobile Association, said he would not use Federal Highway No. 50 again until dust is laid. He spoke in Athens while en route from Washington, D.C. to Cincinnati for a directors meeting, noting heavy construction between Winchester and Red House and urging improvements to the southeastern Ohio section from Parkersburg to Chillicothe for a safer, cleaner highway.
The exchange of ratifications ends long standing Roman question as Vatican City becomes a temporal state again. The event reestablishes Italy Holy See ties and halts controversy over church state issues after Mussolini's recent statements.
Rome reports Pope Pius Xistr rebukes Mussolini for condemnable modernism as he seeks to restore papal temporal power. The Pope cautions that secular clashes risk Christian unity and hints at Vatican danger if Mussolini presses ahead. European watchers weigh potential fallout.
Cirrvelville report states guardsmen and posses with blood hounds resumed search at dawn for three State Brick Plant escapees from Junction City. Prisoners found a mile east of Cirrvelville. over 100 residents joined a four mile sweep without success. plane from Columbus also scouted the area.
Electric power in Athens will be off from 4 to 6 AM Sunday due to necessary work at the West Athens substation. Crews will suspend service to allow repairs and installations.
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine depart Los Angeles after the 55th annual session ending June 7 1930 without choosing a host city. Most members board special trains heading home with some bound for Honolulu.
The Messenger was late today due to a breakdown of a main motor powering the presses. Expert electricians labored for hours to repair the fault and start the presses.
Paris reports the Owen Young Plan is adopted by Germany and allied creditor nations to settle World War obligations. Germany agrees to a large cash payment and a fixed annual sum to Allies, with an international bank to manage reparations and a reduced US priority of about $1.09 million yearly.
Cleveland news reports that Anna Szeman, a kitchen maid, will be tried for first degree murder in the death of her wealthy mistress Mrs Alonzo M Snyder. Prosecutors expect a first degree indictment and seek the death chair as evidence is reviewed by the grand jury. Snyder’s husband and his son from a former marriage testified after initial grief.
The search for the Black Hand letter writers tied to the Athens County Infirmary threat continues after Superintendent D H Daugherty’s car was stolen from his garage Monday night. Investigators report Italian and Spanish phrases in the note and say clues are being pursued by Sheriff William Williams and Deputy Wayne Wingett.
Cleveland police sergeant John Mack led a liquor squad raid on the East Side that wrecked a fully equipped distillery. Firemen aided in the operation uncovering two 100 gallon and two 75 gallon stills in the plant.
About nineteen residents faced Mayor E. C. Woodworth and paid fines on the first day of Athens traffic enforcement. Offenders were ticketed for double parking and other petty violations with fines of one dollar doubling on a second offense. Officers wore new uniforms as tagged cars appeared on Court Street and Mayor Kk. C. Woodworth vowed strict enforcement.
The Senate approved a constitutional amendment to abolish short sessions of Congress. If ratified, sessions would begin January 2 instead of December's first week, and terms would end on that date instead of March 4.
New York June 7 A Count Makence Mare Joseph Michael De Polignac accused European head of a liquor syndicate was arrested in a Savoy hotel suite along with 42 others in a major prohibition raid. Bail set at 25000 and authorities prepare indictments under the Jones Law.
Hod Hunter, driver of a roadster stalled at the Glen Ebon crossing, was arrested and arraigned on intoxication and operating while intoxicated charges. He pleaded not guilty. The other occupant was not located. The car was left to be struck by the train and carried into the Hocking River. Hunter’s trial is set for Saturday in Magistrate Worter’s court.
Nipon Wisconsin marks 75 years of the Republican Party with a rally at a hillside campus near the white frame schoolhouse where the party is said to have begun. Secretary of War James W Good will deliver the principal address as workers finish an artificial amphitheater for the event.
The Interstate Commerce Commission denied petitions from the Western Pennsylvania Coal Traffic Bureau and the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad to reopen the lake cargo coal rate controversy. Coal operators in southern fields opposed the move, urging continuation of the existing compromise rates.
A Meigs County mother is reported to have left a 3 month old boy at Union Station in Columbus. Mrs. Paul Kanuckel of Millersburg sought to adopt the infant after answering letters from a woman using the name Helen Bradford and a neighbor, Lillian Cheatham, who claimed the other mother would not take the baby. The meeting at Union Station revealed a woman posing as Bradford and an unsettled attempt to place the child amid confusing claims.
In Cape Porpoise Harbor the Mouette anchored with Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride Anne Morrow aboard. A crowd gathered as Lindbergh appeared on deck at York Harbor for fuel, while Mrs Morrow remained inside one cabin. The couple’s voyage along the Atlantic coast follows their June wedding in Englewood New Jersey.
In Cleveland on June 7 a locomotive crane left the rail and toppled into Culbertson Cut at the Colon Terminal. One man was killed and another trapped inside the steam filled cab as debris and machinery collapsed.
Washington reels as diplomacy and politics collide over liquor policy. The embassy corps quarrels over ambassadors and equipment while the Law Enforcement Commission faces Senate fire for secret sessions. Hoover urges a joint committee to reorganize enforcement and move control to Justice.
Former State Treasurer Bert B Buckley is back in Layton awaiting action by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals on his appeal to reinstate his case. He remains under a sentence of two and a half years in the Federal penitentiary on charges of conspiring to offer a bribe and violating national prohibition laws.
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