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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1934
Page
1
The legislature weighs a package including a sales tax, income tax, and utilities levy to balance the 1955 budget. Committee discussions centered on raising revenue while easing burdens, with estimates of large revenue gains and potential remissions noted during the debate.
Dr Houghton of Chicago urged at a convocation the centennial of the University College of Medicine that medical service can be furnished by half the graduates, and that the door to medical education must be protected from gross impropriety and venal influence to safeguard the field's future.
Municipal judge announced today he will rule on eight motions to dismiss charges against the Lima Nashin Company and Earl editor of the News after a charging attorney attacked him. The dispute arises amid the Dillinger gang murder trial of L. Sather and related proceedings in Charles City.
The federal relief program moves into effect in multiple rural states next Monday per Hopkins. He did not specify which states will pilot the new plan that replaces the CWA. In Ohio, despite demobilization, the Civil Works Administration approves local projects to keep work for the unemployed, with 46 projects totaling 300249 dollars aiding 2420 workers across 25 counties including Athens.
In Michigan City Indiana Harley Edwards 39 convicted murderer died in the electric chair after a 22 hour effort by state crews to save his life. He attempted suicide when Governor McNutt denied clemency and received two blood transfusions before being brought to the death chamber. Guards assisted his frail walk from the hospital to the execution chamber.
Columbus March 2 The state relief commission raised county relief expenditures for March to 3,000,450.14 from February's 2,902,462 though still short of the 3,307,602.70 requested. Allocations and aiding families listed include Athens 1,100 and 14,887 dollars Gallia 425 and 4,907 Meigs 007 and 80 159.
A F Whitney chairman of the Railroad Labor Executive Association told the Senate Commerce Committee that a six hour day for railroad employees would aid in restoring 800,000 men to their jobs. He testified in support of a bill by Senator Hugo L Black to apply the six hour day to all interstate or foreign commerce industries.
An official American source says President Roosevelt wants a world non aggression treaty parallel to any disarmament agreement. He believes limits on offensive weapons must be paired with safeguards so remaining armaments are not used to invade. Britain meanwhile presents Europe with a choice between disarmament and vast aerial armament expenditures.
Cincinnati report cites 60 American university leaders in a symposium predicting neither fascism nor communism will dominate the United States soon. Educators anticipate gradual societal change and more government control, but say democracy would avert totalitarian extremes.
E. Bertram Mott, Republican state chairman, dismissed rumors that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh might be invited to run for governor in New Jersey. He said there was nothing to it and Lindbergh would not be available to begin with.
President Roosevelt to confer with Senate and House leaders on a bill to bar members of Congress who are lawyers from practicing in cases involving the government and to limit activities of national committeemen in cases where government interests are at stake.
The Paraguayan government announced its official rejection of the League of Nations peace proposals aimed at ending the Bolivian War. The decision came as Asuncion responded to the international mediation effort on March 2.
A Will Rogers column mocks U S policy toward Panama and the canal, noting Panama’s demand for gold payments and a yearly $250000 for mosquito control and the irrigation project. It jokes about returning the canal and mentions Japan coronating a Manchurian emperor and Washington obtaining liquor.
President Roosevelt asked Congress for broad powers to adjust tariffs to pursue reciprocal commercial agreements. He said world trade has fallen sharply and U S recovery requires new trade advantages while warning quick results are unlikely. The message also proposed a bank for Philippine independents and bases relinquishment upon independence.
In Washington on March 2 a general conference of code authorities is summoned for Monday. President Roosevelt and Johnson will outline NRA reform and a new industrial employment campaign as protest meetings shrink in attendance during inauguration week.
The Bear of Oakland cleared the Bay of Whales Monday, heading north as the Byrd Antarctic Expedition rests on the southern ice. It battles heavy seas and huge icebergs in the dark early winter night while pursuing exploration of the barrier and a flight toward the South Pole.
A negro messenger for the State Planters Bank was held up by three white bandits in Richmond Virginia today and robbed of $60,000. The crime occurred in the city as police search for the suspects.
About 100 merchants from Athens, Meigs, Hocking, and Vinton counties met in the Athens high school auditorium to elect four representatives for the National Code of Fair Competition for the Food and Grocery Trade. H. G. Householder will head the independent merchants, E. L. Gibbs represents corporate chains, F. E. Dowler and C. D. Shafer Co will represent independent wholesalers, and C. H. Beastey leads the voluntary wholesaler group. The Local Code Authority will enforce the NRA code and handle labor complaints, with Edward E. Roeser outlining duties as chairman.
Senate insurgents vow to fight for increased veterans benefits despite White House moves to stall economy cuts. Senator Pat McCarran says he can block an independent offices appropriation unless bills liberalize veterans compensation rules. Independent Offices Bill, packed with veterans amendments, awaits House action as administration weighs next steps.
In Lima Ohio, John Dillinger might not testify at the trial of Harry Pierpont, billed as the jail raid’s trigger man, with Pierpont’s attorneys asking Judge Beebe for permission to admit Dillinger’s deposition. Dillinger is jailed in Indiana as the case opens next Tuesday.
An Amerikan monoplane laden with food and medical supplies stands by in Nome Alaska awaiting orders to fly to aid 101 Russians marooned on Arctic ice. The party includes ten women and two babies, survivors of the sunken Chelyuskin. Three Russian airmen who arrived in town will proceed to Alaska to attempt a rescue.
Cleveland march 20 the Ohio Bell Telephone Company will appeal the Public Utilities Commission order to refund 13 million dollars to higher courts The company president Randolph Eide said the decision was not warranted by facts or law and the company must protect itself He added the fight may go to the state supreme court or to federal courts
Names of insiders who sold air mail carrier stocks before the cancellation order were awaited as the Senate banking committee probes stock manipulation. The committee subpoenaed the New York Stock Exchange to produce records of short sellers in the latest rapid developments in the inquiry.
The sea monster Whatizzit, photographed and radio transmitted from Cherbourg, France, baffles scientists. At 25 feet long with a five foot girth, experts deem it not a whale or known seal, suggesting a furred seal or manatee as possibilities, while noting its dorsal fin and unfamiliar features.
Four men were killed and three others critically injured in a calcium carbide blast at Beaverdale in the Logan Coal Company workings. The explosion occurred while workers attempted to thaw the mine and was believed to have been caused by a struck match near calcium carbide.
Samuel Insull, Chicago utilities magnate, refused to comment on reports he offered a large sum to become king of Andorra between France and Spain. His extended stay in Athens to escape American extradition charges ends tomorrow.
Columbus March 2 Addition of approximately 100 miles of roads to the state highway system will be discussed at hearings this month by State Highway Director O W Merrell.
Cleveland March 2 Liberals in edification attacked the public school system as a bulwark of the status quo. HM OK Beale of the American Historical Association accused patriotic groups religious organizations politicians the press labor and big business of dominating schools and suppressing new ideas.
Memphis March 2 independent tire dealers testified at an FTC hearing on Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company alleged discriminatory contracts with Sears Roebuck. Dealers claimed secret rebates and a stack bonus force them from the market by mail order and factory-store competition.
Annie Allegra Longfellow Thorp, 78, last daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and widow of Joseph G. Thorp, died yesterday at Craigie House on Brattle Street. Her life spanned 50 years of fame and links to the poet, with the family home as the scene of her death.
The Ohio Home Owners Loan Corporation reported February totals of 5,655 loans surpassing prior records. State Manager Henry G. Brunner announced the month’s loans amounted to $17,829,356 with $1,546,206 disbursed in cash.
Officials fear a flood more disastrous than last year as a warm thaw and scattered rain raise river levels in the Ohio Valley. Warnings were issued to shippers from Pittsburgh to Toledo and Gallipolis as ice and snow melt threaten channels feeding the Ohio and Monongahela rivers.
In San Luis Obispo California March 2 death struck 10 Filipino farm workers after eating toadstools at a community dinner. Fourteen more men from the same ranch operated by Walter and Jack Huber were reported critical and hospitalized.
Dr. Roger B. Morris, head of the University of Cincinnati Medical Department and noted expert on blood diseases, died in Cincinnati after being found near Glendale exhausted and exposed. He had walked away from the Cincinnati Sanitarium.
Peter Treadway, the murder suspect who escaped during a jail break in Cleveland last week, was captured in Hannibal Missouri while attempting to rob a gas station. He was driving the same stolen car used in the escape.
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