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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1927
Page
1
At Lansing State Penitentiary 328 inmates continue self imprisonment in the mine for over 42 hours the longest mutiny on record. Guards held by the inmates are reported safe and telephone contact with the supervisor confirmed all is well. Oats for mine animals may feed the men for days.
Geneva sources suggest a shift from the Anglo Japanese alliance toward an American Japanese partnership. Continent writers cite Gibson's lobbying of the Japanese delegation against British disarmament proposals, particularly reopening the Washington treaty limits.
Newport Beach Calif June 23 40 Search for the body of Lieut Commander William Hactor U S N continued today. Lieut Thomas G Fisher pilot is sole survivor found unconscious three miles south of Laguna Beach after swimming more than nine miles to shore from the crash site en route to San Diego.
Mrs. Robert Bentley, a visitor from Nelsonville en route to Loudonville, allegedly attempted to take her own life on an Ohio Transit bus Tuesday. She was taken to the easter hospital in Logan after reportedly ingesting arsenic and remains under care as doctors say she will recover.
The county announces a three to four day road closure on the Athens to The Plains route for construction of a new steel bridge over Margaret’s creek. The old covered wooden bridge is being torn down and the new bridge will have a creosote wood block floor.
Chicago June 23. Russell Scott, convicted murderer, has spent most of his imprisonment in Cook County jail since late 1924 with a brief stay in a state hospital. He today faced his fifth escape attempt from the gallows with stoic calm.
Syracuse dispatch reports Professor B. D. Williams longtime Racine high school head has journeyed to Columbus to visit his sister and relatives. He plans to return by Sunday to oversee a broody brood of chicks and manage household duties that he bears alone.
Athens County collected $670 412 42 in taxes for the first half of 1926, including delinquent personal taxes, with $660 957 16 as actual taxes. County Treasurer Rafael Johnson handed over the funds to County Auditor J Clyde Edmundson for distribution. Athens residents paid $176 671 56, Nelsonville $89 087 85, Glouster $37 180 31. General taxes were $610 353 91. county specials $17 212 07. township specials $512 39. municipal specials $32 878 79.
Col. Charles Lindbergh, hosted by Orville Wright, spent the night in Dayton and departed at 8 40 a m for Washington.
John Sutphin Jones 78 longtime president and chair of the board of Sunday Creek Coal Co died at Mt. Carmel Hospital Columbus at 6 pm after six weeks illness licensed in 1849 born Wash DC educated in Ohio began as railroad telegraph operator rose to train master superintendent later led Sunday Creek Coal Cap stock holder director Huntington National Bank and Tavares Gulf Rail, Bryn Du Farm Granville as show place of Central Ohio hobby breeding livestock and greenhouse farming
Logan reports Jethro Barber indicted for manslaughter by a reconvened grand jury after a fatal collision at Maine and Hunter streets that killed Alexander Sneddon of Murray City. Indictments also include William Parks for abandoning a legitimate child John Henry Flowers for same charge and Carl Koon for manufacturing intoxicating liquor.
Two Amesville youths Virgil Wolfe and Herschel Wolfe are jailed after police nabbed them fleeing with railroad station tires. Hal Brawley, Amesville marshal, arrested them in an automobile shortly after the daytime theft. Virgil is of age. Herschel is believed a minor. Charges include entering the station with intent to steal. Virgil to face Magistrate Pearl W. Helwig. Herschel to appear in Probate court.
Israel Linscott, 77, died last night at 11:30 at his Hooper Ridge home from heart disease. Funeral plans are pending. He leaves a widow and two daughters, Mrs Earl Carpenter of Athens and Mrs John Howard of Columbus.
The first Lindbergh air mail postage stamp to arrive at the local post office was pasted on a package sent to Pearl Reed in Athens. The item was mailed from Cleveland and the stamp is ten cents in denomination.
Twenty one witnesses for the plaintiff and seven for the defense are summoned for tomorrow in Common Pleas court. The York township Mining Company seeks a permanent injunction to bar union officials and miners from interfering with mine operations by non union workers. Lee Hall of United Mine Workers District 6 is named among the defendants. A temporary injunction was issued to restrain interference pending the hearing after a protest meeting at the mine against employing non union men.
Services for Bates Children’s Day will be held at the Bates church Sunday at 8 o’clock in the evening.
A 4-year-old boy, Bobby, was struck by a car on East State Street at 6:45 pm. He remained unconscious for about twelve hours, regained consciousness at 7 am, and asked for supper. Driver Albert Britz said he did his best to avoid the child and skidded ten feet while trying to turn.
Commander Richard E. Byrd’s planned weekend trans Atlantic flight to Paris faces delays due to fog low temperatures and winds over the Grand Banks keeping the Amer ica grounded at Roosevelt Field New York. The Weather Bureau gives one in ten odds to end the storms by tomorrow with better conditions hoped for Saturday. Byrd reportedly scrapped the dawn departure plan and also received a Master of Arts from Yale at New Haven commencement.
In Rapid City South Dakota on June 23 the future of the Philippine Islands was to be discussed at a temporary White House conference. President Coolidge called in Governor General Leonard O Wood and John Q Tilson to assess whether Wood should return as governor general despite ill health. Wood reportedly wishes to return to finish the job, even if it requires dying there with his boots on.
Mr and Mrs FE Berry and Mrs Cornelia Hawk are motor visitors in Gallipolis today.
The small Iron District town of McMechen with about 1500 residents buzzes with two major events. Fort Rogers company of Wheeling opens a flying field at Eskey, and the town greets a child named Latth Lindbergh Myers born as Lindbergh’s plane passed overhead at 10 o'clock this morning.
In northwest Chicago a running gun battle left two patrolmen and a bandit dead early today. The bandit was with a girl in a stolen motor car. the girl escaped. The patrolmen had accosted the trio on a city street.
Pittsburgh officials and United Mine Workers clash over the 1927 coal strike impact. International VP Philip Murray says the Pittsburgh Coal Company imported about 55 000 Southern Negro workers in the past two years. He estimates today 3 500 to 4 000 Negroes remain in the working force while the company’s peak is around 5 000. The dispute centers on alleged nonunion lines and a looming eviction battle as the company moves to subdue miners from company owned housing.
Hollywood industry leaders hedge bets as Paramount Famous Players Lasky cuts salaries above fifty dollars a week by ten percent. Jesse Lasky says the move stems from rising costs and insufficient net income, signaling a wider stabilization effort amid mounting expenses in the motion picture business.
Washington June 23 President Porter Adams of the National Aeronautic association will fly to New York to seal the barograph and fuel tanks of Commander Richard Byrd's Trans Atlantic plane. Adams says Byrd plans to depart tomorrow morning.
The Athens Messenger offers readers a booklet on swimming and life saving from the American Red Cross. Clip the coupon, send four cents for postage and handling, and include name and address for a copy. Addressed to Frederic J. Director Information Bureau Washington.
Pittsburgh Coal officials plan to ask a federal court injunction to curb striking miners interfering with eastern Ohio mines. Superintendent McCasland reported a prior temporary injunction followed street disturbances in Adena where eggs were thrown. Colonel Maubrich to return from Adena after investigation and meetings with UMW officials.
The state of Ohio moved to continue the Ohio Bell telephone rate hearing by hiring H. R. Allensworth, an engineer, to investigate appraisal areas in the state public utilities commission proceeding.
Ohio plans to fund a major Richland Avenue route linking the Athens state hospital grounds to Mechanicsburg. The project includes widening to 44 feet with two 18 foot traffic lanes and an 8 foot parkway, seven new bridges, straightened streams, extensive drainage, and 18 000 cubic yards of excavation. Local property owners will pay less for driveways and sidewalks than for sidewalks alone, with bids set for July 1.
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