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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1927
Page
1
Polish government extends invitation for a Warsaw visit. The air tour group will stop in Italy and Prague next week. Wives accompanying the pilots plan to fly to Prague to meet Chamberlin and Levine.
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Levine will visit Munich Vienna Prague and Warsaw as part of their European air tour. They depart Berlin in the Columbia and plan Rome as the final leg following meetings with German officials and Frankfurt and Polish officials invite them to Warsaw.
The body of Garnet Shorter 11 son of Mr and Mrs Wade Shorter Westerville was found this morning on an island in Alum creek. He had been missing since June 3 last seen by his brother Charles who left him in the grandstand at Otterbein college athletic field. County officials and Westerville citizens searched. the island was almost covered when he disappeared.
In Adena on June 10 two union organizers were arrested following an attack on workers en route to the New Pittsburgh Coal Company mine at Robyville. Richard Wannicot, brother of the Adena mayor, was injured in the assault.
Columbus June 10 R D Williamson of Xenia Republican chairman of the house finance committee was named a member of the State board of agriculture by Governor Donahey to replace G B Warner of Wellington for the term ending in October 1931.
Plants at Bucyrus Mansfield and Willoughby were sold at a receiver's sale in Bucyrus to M O Garner of New York representing Morgan Dean and Joyce, New York financiers, for Hadfield Penfield Steel company.
Steubenville report says Roy and Ray D Autremont may be sent to Oregon to testify at Hugh D Autremont's trial for murder linked to the Siskaton train robbery. U S Marshal Bartels orders close custody as Justice and postal bureau heads travel from Washington. Roy speaks of heartbreak over marriage to Hazel Goodwin who visits with their baby.
Hollywood police abandon search for a so called gorilla man after Doris Dore reports a break in and seven K shaped marks. Detectives say no evidence supports the assault as a publicity stunt engineered by the actress and plan to place her under observation. wounds are superficial and mirrored K marks suggest self inflicted. George Lamont, friend of Dore, says she aimed for a daring publicity stunt and he advised against it.
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Levine travel in Europe without passports and are effectively subject to arrest and expulsion, according to United Press reports.
In Cincinnati on June 10 the U S circuit court of appeals affirmed the conviction of Daisy L. Burnerson of Cleveland, a court stenographer, for contempt after she told prospective jurors that Josiah Kirby, accused in a financial swindle, was “a very fine gentleman.”
Moscow report says twenty monarchist white guards and spies linked to foreign intelligence services were executed. Among the dead were an Englishman Sidney Riley and Russian princes. authorities allege plots against Soviet leaders including Chicherin and Ry-kov.
John Hickman, Chillicothe officer slayer, is scheduled for execution at 8 p m at the Ohio Penitentiary after the state board of clemency refused a stay. George Vargo also faces death tonight for killing his landlady, with no stay expected. Hickman’s lawyers cited supposed new evidence from a Huntington psychic, but the board dismissed it. Hickman was baptized earlier and will bid farewell with his brother Montrose, a life-term accomplice, nearby.
In Pittsburgh on June 10 the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp filed fifty one new eviction actions in common pleas court against striking miners occupying company houses. Company counsel says cases will be filed against all unemployed miners, potentially exceeding 1,000 actions. Judge Moore stayed evictions of seventy five striking miners and their families, with arguments set for the week of June 13 after an order on leases.
Francesco De Pine do arrived at Ponta Delgada in the Azores at 2 45 p m today after a flight from Horta via Flores. He plans to leave at 6 a m tomorrow for Lisbon Portugal.
In Washington on June 10 President Coolidge formally appoints Seymour Lowman former lieutenant governor of New York to be assistant secretary of the treasury. He succeeds General Lincoln C Andrews who resigned as director of prohibition enforcement.
Former Canton police chief A Lengel will retain counsel to defend against the murder charge of Don R Mellett. His arraignment is set for next Monday by Common Pleas Judge Charles Krichbaum after indictment service this afternoon in Judge A W Agier's court.
The U S circuit court of appeals reversed a lower ruling and held Richard M Kelly a Norfolk and Western fireman entitled to recover under the employer's liability act. Kelly, from Honag West Virginia, sought 50000 damages for injuries from an accident at Bluefield.
Postal inspectors arrest Roy and Ray De Autremont in Steubenville Ohio after a long chase. A third brother Hugh was seized earlier in the Philippines. The trio is linked to a 1923 train robbery near Siskiyou Oregon that left a clerk and three trainmen dead. Hugh faces trial now.
In Baltimore on June 10, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, mother of Charles Lindbergh, alighted from a Red Arrow train at a suburban Mt. Washington station to avoid publicity. Detective Chief Palmer soon intercepted her, offering transport as she left the station, and she reportedly headed toward Washington in a light sedan.
In Mille Lacs Lake Minnesota a storm capsized several boats. Seven men are believed drowned and rescue workers search the lake while nearly twenty people are rescued or reach shore aided. Two Twin City boats capsized and a Midland rescue boat overturned causing two deaths.
The Portage county American Legion resolved to request a hearing for Prof. H. D. Byrne, one of the teachers discharged at Kent State Normal School during a meeting held in Kent.
Federal road bureau engineer Hall from Columbus examined Richland avenue rebuilding plans in Athens with state highway engineer Dowler. A federal report will be issued Monday. county and state officials approved the project extending from Athens State hospital gate to Mechanicsburg, with 26 foot wide roadway and sidewalks for safe student access.
Two French aircraft crews plan a near Atlantic crossing from Le Bourget to New York within a month. Tarascon pilots a thick wing monoplane with a 420 horsepower Jupiter engine, joined by Lieut Le Prieur. A second Farman Goliath, 600 horsepower engines, to be piloted by M. Drouhin with navigator and wireless operator, aims to break the endurance record.
American crowds greet Charles Lindbergh as the hopeful cruiser nears home. The navy reports destroyer dirigible fleet and about 106 planes on the high seas amid the return voyage and near-future arrival plans.
United States dispatch reports a grand reception for Charles Lindbergh as Memphis expected to reach port tonight. Six destroyers, the naval dirigible Los Angeles, and about 160 planes accompanied the fleet to escort the transoceanic flyer home. The return is billed as a foretaste of a tumultuous welcome planned by Paris Brussels and London. Officials caution against possible dangers during the cheers.
The Memphis cruiser prepared to lower a boat to take aboard photographs of Colonel Charles A Lindbergh aboard a U S warship during its Atlantic crossing. The ship maintained 22 to 24 knots off the Chesapeake Bay with most of the voyage completed. A solo prior sighting of the Bremen had left the crew isolated since Tuesday.
On the Cunard steamship M Raymond Orteig passengers report watching Clarence Chambertin's Cates plane dip from clouds 400 miles from land during the New York to Europe voyage. Orteig valued the sight at about 100000 and commented on Lindbergh's well known Paris smile and calm manner.
Gritz a Boston bookseller’s clerk was fined 100 dollars by Municipal Judge William Sullivan after conviction for selling an obscene copy of Upton Sinclair's new novel Oil. Gritz appealed the ruling.
After two days of frantic investigation into eight Girard homes, police in Girard and Youngstown say they are closer to catching the marauder than after a series of depredations last February. The notes indicate a terror pattern and ongoing search efforts in the Ohio area.
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