21 Jun 1927
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1927
Page
1
The article indicates potential discussion of American program options or long British proposals regarding Japan. Key figures and institutions are implied but not fully detailed in the readable text.
Britain approves a larger capital ship build while the United States presses for reduced merchant shipping tonnage. The push reflects wartime strategy debates as naval economies shape policy.
The Geneva conference opened with Japanese British and American leaders forming an executive committee to divide work into sub committees. They will review preliminary programs on warship size numbers and capital ship life under Washington treaties, aiming to draft acceptable drafts for plenary approval and limit naval armaments.
Cincinnati sources say a local official will travel to Upper Sandusky to question Roy Dean held there on blackmail and theft charges. Dean alleges he can name five gang members linked to church arsons and robberies in Cincinnati.
At Roosevelt Field New York on June 21 officials said Byrd may depart late today or tomorrow for Paris if Atlantic storms clear. He will be sworn in as an air mail pilot before the flight, which will be the first official government air mail trip across the Atlantic. Byrd carries 200 letters already at the field.
In St Louis Lindbergh, famed New York to Paris flyer, is pictured driving unbothered by crowds while wearing a grey hat. He weighs leading an air corporation, heads to New York and Washington within weeks, and reads a flood of congratulatory mail as his mother resumes teaching duties in Detroit.
The Civil Service commission began eliminating prohibition bureau employees who lack qualifications for dry law enforcement work. Buffalo administrator Roscoe C. Harper was first affected for missing required executive experience. Several other administrators are expected to be dismissed for similar reasons. Military service is not counted as executive experience.
Floods swollen by heavy rains inundated hundreds of acres across Kansas Oklahoma Missouri and Arkansas with Kansas suffering the worst. Wheat loss ran into thousands of bushels as harvesters worked amid rising waters. Officials estimated production drop in southeastern Kansas near twenty five percent.
The county commissioners at yesterday’s meeting directed complaints and fixes for township roads to be handled by trustees. Athens officials and state highway reps will discuss rebuilding the Lancaster street stretch near Courtney hill after a landslide, with potential cost sharing among state, county, and city. The commissioners also visit Vinton county to view new road equipment amid heavy rainfall.
At the 18th annual Ohio State Teachers' association summer convention two gubernatorial hopefuls addressed the crowd. Congressman James T. Begg of Sandusky spoke on The Foreign Service and Democrat Martin L. Davey of Kent spoke on Conversation during the morning session.
June 21 Columbus reports a tunnel network under the prison used by First K a group of hardened criminals resisting rules. Warden P E Thomas uncovered the elaborate underground route disrupting a planned wholesale delivery.
Columbus reporting that workers at Ohio penitentiary uncovered no tunnel under the chapel during digging eight feet deep. The legendary escape of General John Morgan and thirteen Confederates in 1863 through a sewer to reach the yard remains unlocated after the collapsed passage theory.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh endorses making Roosevelt field a permanent airport but opposes renaming it Lindbergh field. In a letter to the Lindbergh flight memorial committee from Garden City New York he praises Quentin Roosevelt's sacrifice and urges the field keep his name.
Washington June 21 The Navy may attempt a Honolulu hop not by plane but with the dirigible Los Angeles. After repairs at Lakehurst the airship could moor at Honolulu and await completion of a mast at Fort Worth and San Diego. The trip would be first of its kind for a lighter-than-air craft, though other aircraft compete for a rapid Pacific run.
London June 21. G R Lane Fox secretary for mines was questioned in the house of commons about special British facilities for coal export to the United States amid the central district mine stoppage. A questioner suggested U S help during the coal strike merited reciprocity. Lane Fox said export facilitation did not require government action.
A council committee will meet with state officials to push financing for more than two fifths of the Courtney bill repaving. The county commissioners oppose the state share shift and favor a city county split. The group includes Mayor Moore, City Solicitor Hughes, Service Director Romine, and Totman to discuss adjustments with the highway department.
Cleveland records 44 homicides since January 1 as of today. Police orders seek to seize all firearms in the city and sweep suspects in murder districts for concealed weapons.
Seattle business men contributed 25000 dollars for a prize for the first nonstop airplane flight between Seattle and Tokyo. The funds are deposited and the National Aeronautic Association is asked to supervise the contest. Distance is about 4900 miles.
Dr Dean A Worcester associate professor of psychology at Ohio University will resign effective September to join the University of Nebraska Lincoln as associate professor of educational psychology and measurements. He will work with graduate students and undergraduates and has two books in press with other prominent psychologists. He authored articles this year in educational journals and has ongoing research on the permanence of learning in high school subjects.
Elmer J. Johannigman, 38, a former bank messenger who rose to cashier at Cosmopolitan Bank & Trust Co., was arrested today on three warrants charging embezzlement.
Columbus police were asked to search for Angeline Sereno 21 from Youngstown and Dorothy Shaw 206 from Portsmouth after they escaped late Monday from the state institution for the feeble minded.
Four boys were arrested after police jailed Joe Hatala aged 18 who confessed to stealing 32 automobiles in the past six months. The arrests also included a 15 year old and three 13 year olds who provided confessions at the station, solving 49 auto thefts and five store robberies.
Governor W J Fields announces Joseph T O Neal will serve as mayor of Louisville Kentucky replacing Republican incumbents ousted by the Court of Appeals decision The action comes as part of broader city and county appointments in 1925 with all remaining Democratic nominees named to office
Commander Richard E. Byrd announces four men will fly to Europe in the tri motor Fokker. Lieut Bert Balchen Norwegian aviation expert will be the fourth man joining Byrd Lieut Geo Neville and Pilot Bert Acosta on the expedition.
United Press reports possible British withdrawal from capital ship limits after objections to Washington plan. debate centers on 10,000 ton cruisers and 7,500 ton after conference. U S naval tonnage and costs cited, with Japan and Britain key players. Officials hope for a treaty but friction over cruiser tonnage and auxiliary ships persists.
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