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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jun 26, 1934

Page

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Aid to teachers eyed as revenue plan moves forward

June 26. A foundation program for education is urged by the Education Association. Cedar Point unanimously backs a resolution asking the Legislature to provide annual funds per pupil for elementary and high schools. The group pushes a liquid fuel tax and sales tax as revenue sources amid talks of emergency measures. Governor White outlines steps to aid schools facing financial problems, while a state liquor probe committee nears a partial report and may require a two thirds vote for emergency actions.

Pesky Education Association Con- Cedar Point George White Spe Emnor White Jou

Golf Open Tourneys See Pace-Setters Led by Evans

Epidemic in the Open golf qualifying disrupts play as four invaders from the west edge the field. Adams posts 141 while Smith of Nashville racks up 148 in the two round totals. Shute of Philadelphia, the defending champ, rebounds from a rough 76 to reach a two round total near 149, advancing in a tight field with late surges.

Eng Sates Percy Allin Janes Adams Smith Nashville Atlantic Shute Philadelphia Schancea Slim

Is im of Heat Is im of Heat 8 June 26 Fire Report

This fragment describes a morning barn incident near Thivinir, with Sherman Hailey and a missing elder relative. Coroner W. Lewis was notified. the body or evidence involved was found shortly after. The report mentions a heart incident and a boy with a grandfather, but many details are unclear due to the damaged text.

Sherman Hailey Thivinir W. Lewis

Indian leader escapes bomb attempt unhurt

A bomb attempt near Gandhi during a June incident in India caused injuries to none of the local bystanders. An auto rickshaw and crowds reacted as the explosion occurred while the leader was unharmed.

Tests Set on Three Sites for State Patrol Radio Station

Tests at Athens airport Chauncey and Albany are compared in Columbus to choose the best site for a state patrol broadcasting station. North Hill land proved unsuitable but any site may be used. Plans expect operation within 60 days costing 7000 to 10000 dollars. A six-operator barracks will accompany the station.

Athens Chauncey Albany Columbus State Highway Patrol E. DD. Shippley North Hill Shippley Ohio Cincinnati

Ohioan Found Guilty Of Chiseling Relief

Paul Cleary, 24, fined 100 dollars and sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty in municipal court to obtaining public relief under false pretenses. He was one of five arrested as warrants were issued in a campaign against hundreds suspected of “chiseling” relief while employed or able to pay.

Youngstown Paul Cleary Cleary Leo

Want Ad Scottie Says Classified Ad Lineup

The Nelsonville Column highlights daily classified offers including a 5 ft electric refrigerator, a car seeking school teacher contact, hand decorated cake covers, and rooms apartments or houses for rent or sale. The columnist endorses classified advertising as beneficial.

Nelsonville

Goering Attacks Monarchist Moves in Nazi Ranks

In Hamburg on June 26 Hermann Goering denounced monarchist sentiment within the Nazi movement. He asserted unity behind Hitler and warned that betraying confidence risks execution. He rejected any return of a Hohenzollern throne under Hitler.

Hamburg Germany Hitler Herman Wilhelm Goering Goering A M Hohenzollern

State Claims To Have Confession Of Murder

Malone N Y June 26 UP The perfect case was drawn up against Thomas Frederick Showers 27 CCC worker accused of the assault and slaying of 4 year old Cleo Telistone District Attorney Harold W Main said the prosecution would be based on a signed statement purporting to be a confession by Showers that he lured the girl into the woods Saturday attacked her and crushed her skull with a club.

Malone N. Y Thomas Frederick Showers CCC Cleo Telistone Harold W. Main Showers

Ohio Bankers Hold Convention with Roosevelt System Talk

The Ohio Bankers Association opened its two day annual convention in Columbus. Theodore H. Tangeman Ohio director of commerce and Paul Mallon Washington political writer spoke on economic developments and discussed "The Roosevelt Three No Trump System."

Columbus Ohio Bankers’ Association Theodore H. Tangeman Ohio Commerce Paul Mallon Washington

Daddy Browning Near Death in East

Near death illness grips W. Browning a 63 year old millionaire real estate operator in New York hospital. His adopted daughter Dorothy Sunshine Browning arrived from North Carolina with her husband Clarence Hood Peaches to visit. Browning’s estranged wife remained in Chicago for a theatre engagement.

New York Badward W. Browning Dorothy Sunshine Browning North Carolina Clarence Hood Peaches Browning Chicago

Death prompts search for Mrs. Rose Wilson in Troy

Police and relatives sought Mrs. Rose Wilson after she delivered a suicide note to her sister Mrs. Clara Duke. The note was handed to an acquaintance for delivery.

Troy Rose Wilson Clara Duke

When Dictators Meet Its No Peace Pact

Will Rogers comments from Beverly Hills on wartime figures Hitler and Mussolini, praising William Allen White for Americanism and noting Roosevelt at a Tammany Hall gathering as the hall’s influence resurfaces.

Beverly Hills Calif Hitler Mussolini William Allen White Kansas Roosevelt Tammany Hall

Million Dollar Firebug Gang Busted in Chicago

Police hold 17 suspects including one woman in a Chicago arson and extortion ring. The gang allegedly started fires to collect insurance and kidnap victims for ransom, defrauding insurers of about 1 million dollars and charging merchants up to 10 percent fees. One confession cites a $250,000 fire in the Loop in 1931.

Chicago Harry Welch Toledo, O Welch Toledo Loop

Slaying of Three Highway Workers Stuns Oklahoma

In McAlester Oklahoma several people are being held for investigation after the bodies of three Canadian Oklahoma highway workers Homer Beasley Hobart Watkins and Bill Gann were found in hill country twenty miles northeast of the town two days after they disappeared A scribbled note on a campaign card names Jack Rackley Hill Moore and George Baker as possible killers and all three residents of Canadian are in custody denying involvement.

Jack Rackley Hill Moore George Baker Homer Hobart

Motorist Plunges Into Creek Near Margarets Creek

Denver White of Carbondale son of Mr and Mrs Sant White narrowly escaped drowning after losing control on the New Marshfield Road. His new coupe sank in about ten feet of water and he escaped through a partly open door window after failing to break the windshield.

Denver White Carbondale Sant White New Marshfield Road Margarets Creek White

New License Tag Rate Effective Saturday

Licenses for all motor vehicles may be purchased at half the regular price beginning Saturday. Charlies Jordan, deputy registrar, announced at the courthouse. Tags may be used any time after Saturday midnight. The reduction applies to passenger and commercial cars, trucks, and motor years.

Charlies Jordan

Roosevelt Moves to Control Labor Strife in New Deal Push

President Roosevelt opens a week of high pressure as an emergency labor board looms with power to settle collective bargaining. Officials expect personnel with authority to regulate stock markets and communications. Names circling for key posts include Landis and Sykes. Hopkins may head housing relief.

Washington Roosevelt Hawaii James M. Landis Federal Trade Commission Ferdinand Peora Senate Banking Committee Stock Market Board Communications Commission Eugene 0. Sykes Federal Radio Commission Robert F. Wagner New York New Labor Board

Hope To Float Steamer Soon

Gallipolis reports divers at work on the Steamer D. T. Lane which sank in the Great Kanawha River in twelve feet of water. The vessel built in 1871 at Pittsburgh faced a possible float within days if hull damage is not grave. Pilot George Hamilton watched the sinking as Lane prepared to move 17 barges of coal toward Cincinnati. Captain Frank Johnson is noted as the oldest Ohio master in service with no prior serious accidents. The note recalls prior vessel losses at Louisville in June.

Gallipolis D. T. Lane Kanawha Pittsburgh George Hamilton Cincinnati Frank Johnson Ohio

Snow Falls Over Mount Lassen Loop Highway

Snow blanketed Mineral California and surrounding Sierra Nevada after a heat wave, with six inches of fresh snow reported at the Mount Lassen Loop Highway summit. The quick change in weather surprised residents who had been enduring hot conditions just hours earlier.

Mineral Calif Sierra Nevada Mountains Mount Lassen Loop

Zanesville Couple Fatalities Blamed on Possible Explosive

A blast in Zanesville Ohio destroyed an automobile and killed William Gardner and his wife. Officials weighed accident theories tied to Gardner’s work with explosives against a possible time bomb, with clues including a dry battery found at the scene. Coroner Glaser withheld verdict pending further facts.

Buckeye Pipe Line Company William Gardner H. T. Glaser Gardner Harold Nims Glaser William Curtis Curtis

Urges End of Postal Savings System

In Columbus on June 26 Ohio bankers pressed to abolish the postal savings system. Theodore Tangeman praised the banking system as strong while Clark Will urged government to regulate banking without extending government control, warning against credit facilities falling under political influence. More than 500 bankers attended the state convention.

Theodore Tangeman Commerce Ohio Clark Will Circleville Ohio Bankers Association Will

Marie Dressler Seeks Health Return at California Estate

Marie Dressler, renowned actress, rests at a Santa Barbara estate recovering from illness. Few visitors allowed. friends say she is not in immediate danger. In New York, June 24, Gene Tunney and wife welcome a second son.

Santa Barbara Califf Marie Dressler New York Gene Tunney

Grim Reaper Takes New Born Cubs At Car NIV

Tragedy strikes the Lion family as two newborn cubs die in Athens at the Lionas camp. Mr and Mrs Leo Lion mourn privately while the other performers, including B Warner, offer condolences. Leo, the famous captive lion, bears scars and ponders life and fate as the troupe continues the show with other acts.

Grim Reaper Leo Lion Athens B Warner Lion

Heart Attack Claims Investment Banker Aboard Flight

Archbold June 26. Robert E. Christie Jr. 41 president of the Investment Bankers Association of America died aboard a plane en route to Chicago after suffering severe chest pains near Archbold. A physician was summoned but could not reach him in time. Christie had helped formulate the NRA code for banks and was a partner at Dillon Read & Company since 1927.

Christie, Jr Investment Bankers Association of America Christie Dillon, Read & Company Robert Schaffner Chicago Schaffner Akron Archbold A. Morton

Extortion Notes Reach Kidnap Victim in Gettle Case

Beverly Hills millionaire William F. Gettle received new extortion notes demanding $6000 to atone for his testimony against Loretta Woody and Mona Gallighen. The two women had been convicted of conspiring to misuse the mails in a $60,000 ransom plot while Gettle was held by kidnapers.

Los Angeles William F. Gettle Beverly Hills Loretta Woody Mona Gallighen Gertle

Deputies Consider Armed Patrol to Protect Field Work

Kenton June 26 deputies move to organize a staff of 530 armed deputies and arrest a traffic charge operator as 400 non striking workers prepare to join the field labor in the onion marshlands. Sheriff Wilbur Mitchell proposes arming deputies with pistols and clubs and housing them in the McGuffy school building.

Kenton Wilbur Mitchell MccGuftey

Ohio residents certified for July old age pensions

Twenty one people in Columbus have been certified to State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy as eligible to receive old age pensions on July 30. Payments range from ten dollars to sixteen dollars monthly.

Columbus Joseph T. Tracy

Harriman Hosiery Mills Shutdown Over NRA Blue Eagle Fight

Harriman Tennessee June 26 AP The Harriman Hosiery Mills closed and 653 workers were laid off as the NRA clash over the Blue Eagle escalated. Attorney T Asbury Wright Jr charged NRA administrator Hugh S Johnson set out to wreck the company and invoked property rights under the Blue Eagle dispute. President Roosevelt plans to speak Thursday in a nationwide radio address with details not yet disclosed.

Harriman, Tenn Harriman Hosiery Mills NRA Hugh S. Johnson T. Asbury Wright, Jr General Johnson Wright Roosevelt Washington Walter Reed Hospital United States United Wrkers Textile Union Harriman

Coach Bartholomew Waives Hearing In Death Case

Washington state news item reports wrestling coach George Bartholomew of Wash ington and Jefferson College waives preliminary murder hearing in the death of Thomas Manis a 25 year old night club performer Bartholomew signed a statement saying Manis went limp in his arms during a struggle Manis body found near a brush pile with broken spectacles nearby and Bartholomew claims Manis tried to blackmail him Also noted is the death of Miss Blanche Moler a former Athens school teacher in Tucson Arizona her body to be returned for burial in Athens

Washington George Bartholomew Washington and Jefferson College Thomas Manis Robert FE. Burnside Bartholomew Donald Hart J. F. Carmichael Manis Blanche Moler Athens Tucson Ariz

Yesterday’s Weather Update Fragment Misses Key Details

Fragmentary text shows a weather note mentioning yesterday’s high and low and an 1 pm timestamp, but lacks complete values or location. Without full data, the report cannot establish temperatures or forecast conclusions.

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Stax Solons Jlumbus Peream Isim Gallia County India Gandhi Merce Scioto Marshes McGuffey Bill Hamlin Weeder Patrol Scottie Will Rogers Oklahoma Creek Harriman Company Johnson Emergency Labor Board Mist Congress Marty L. Hopkins Hopkins Duncan Bruce W. L. Barry Robert Nugent Louisville West Coast Highland Zanesville Zanesville, O The Ida Lupino Hollywood Ohio Bankers U.S Garmph Mr. Lion New England Annapolis Yeueterday J. D. D’armond W. & J. Athletic Aetor Mee
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