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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1938
Page
1
Murray Levine, an upstanding attorney in New York, waits at his $23,000 New Rochelle home for word from kidnapers about his 12 year old son Peter. Police say a note asking for ransom, possibly 60000 instead of 600, prompted hopes for a quick deal.
The Athens Messenger is designated as the official publication for Nelsonville Centennial Week information. An augmented issue before Centennial Week will cover events, including a large historical pageant with hundreds of participants. The pageant will depict local settlement and valley growth and draw thousands of spectators from the district.
Governor's allies held firm as the Van Ness bid to extend the graft inquiry to March 28 failed. The 84 vote suspension needed, 59 were found, with 29 Democrats backing extension alongside 30 Republicans. 67 Democrats opposed. Stinchcomb subpoena added new scrutiny as Ferguson pressed state liquor contracts.
Republicans accuse the proposed profits tax of harming business and mood. Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee prepare to defend the tax plan against claims it targets closely held corporations and political opponents.
Chicago U P reports the Republican Committee on Program sent members home to gauge public opinion on a national scale for 1940 elections. It split the country into nine regions and appointed area chairmen to direct the survey, aiming to recapture Democratic voters and attract anti New Deal Democrats.
Harry Dingledine and his son Henry, both of Springfield, along with Harry Chapman of Chicago, were sentenced to die in the electric chair on June 17 for the murder of Patrolman Martin Randolph after a September 3 holdup.
Hollywood holds a lavish funeral for Jiggs the chimpanzee star who lived with his keeper’s family. Jiggs earned about $100 daily on film sets and could express emotion by laughing crying or displaying rage on command.
House leaders discussed with President Roosevelt a resolution to study wages and hours if no labor standards bill passes this session. Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn outlined difficulties facing a wage hour bill due to Labor Committee disagreements and Rules Committee opposition. They proposed a committee investigation into the subject until the next Congress.
Rev. Martin Niemoeller, a World War hero and militant Evangelical Church opponent, was sentenced in Berlin to seven months in a fortress and fined twice for defying the government’s Nazification campaign. He stood trial on four charges after being imprisoned since July 1.
Republican Steel Corp. today joined other steel firms in reducing office staff work weeks to five days. This move mirrors industry cost cutting as firms seek efficiencies in administrative operations.
A night fire at the H. S. Sayre Store in Buchtel caused heavy stock damage with loss undetermined. Firemen arrived about 2 a.m. and focused on the refrigeration area. this marks the third recent fire at Sayre properties in the area.
President Roosevelt signed the 250 million Works Progress Administration deficiency appropriation bill. The action will let WPA extend relief to idle workers, increasing the rolls by an estimated 750000 persons between now and June.
Japanese forces push westward through Shansi Province and cross the Yellow River into the Chinese Eighth Route Army stronghold. Reported trapping 100,000 Chinese troops in snowbound Shansi Mountains under heavy bombing.
London reports the British air force sets a record peace time plan with an $367.5 million budget for the coming fiscal year, and a home defense fleet that has more than doubled since 1935. It notes 4,500 pilots and 40,000 airmen added between 1935 and 1938, and links higher accident rates to fleet growth.
A trans continental two motor airliner with six passengers and a three member crew was overdue after leaving San Francisco for Los Angeles. Last heard near Tehachapi Mountains at 9 15 p.m. Pacific Time and later reported over the San Joaquin Valley north of Bakersfield, aiding searches continued.
The perjury case of Lee Bradley charged by Gov. Martin L. Davey was moved from East Cleveland to Cleveland Municipal Court by Judge Walter McMahon. The transfer followed a prejudice affidavit citing Judge Stanton Addams and pretrial statements about Bradley linked to the 1934 fundraising campaign.
William Randolph Hearst plans to break up his art collection valued near 15 million dollars. About two thirds will be sold or given away to reduce the inheritance tax his heirs would face, according to Joseph V. Connolly president of Hearst King features syndicate.
Premier Mussolini and aides visit Gardone to pay tribute to Gabriele D'Annunzio the soldier poet dramatist and lover who lies in state in his villa after dying Tuesday night of a brain hemorrhage in what is described as the world disgust room.
Vienna reports that 3000 mass meetings are planned over three weeks to mobilize support for the government against illegal Nazi activity. Storm troops of the pro government Fatherland Front will be ready after each meeting to confront any visible Nazi with a street fight.
A sharp exchange of rifle and mortar fire erupted along the Franco-Spanish frontier at Hendaye as forces clashed on the Madrid front today.
J Tracy Dirlam 21 and sister Mary Lou 19 students at Lehigh and Stanford were in the airliner missing in California. They hurried home to care for their father J N Dirlam banker whose illness has not yet been broken to him.
A Douglas plane en route to Union Air Terminal disappeared after turning back toward Fresno. Chief Pilot John D. Graves and crew were aboard with passengers including L B Watts W Krause Tracy Dirlam and Mary Louise Dirlam and M H Selisbury. The search spanned Tulare and nearby areas before the plane was declared missing at 1 a.m. with no explanation.
Steubenville hearing introduces letters said to be written by Rev. Harold C. Zeis Rector of St. Paul Episcopal Church in a $100000 breach of promise suit by Cora Lillian Burnham a 43 year old New York divorcee employed by a publishing firm. Burnham says courtship began in 1925 while Zeis was a Kenyon College student Gambier. Zeis and Emma Carter Sharpe widow wed Jan 3 1936.
Mamie Capone and brother Ralph kept to themselves in San Francisco while denying to reporters that Chicago crime boss Al Capone, visited at Alcatraz Island, is suffering from any condition beyond nervousness and despondency.
Ralph E. Flanders of Jones & Lamson Machine Co testifies before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee that the recession is caused by government policy. He cites high bank deposit turnover and government borrowing as fueling the downturn and calls for renewed investment and employment.
State fire officials and city leaders announce orders to remove liquor control and motor vehicle registration from the Ohio Hartman Building. The 800 employee facility is described as a fire trap and reportedly in danger of collapse.
The Fifth District Court of Appeals granted a permanent injunction preventing the Muskingum Conservancy District from issuing 1.5 million dollars in general property tax bonds. The funds would have bought land across 16 eastern Ohio counties and paid for dams and flood control devices.
Navy officials renewed their study of lighter-than-air craft following a $3 million appropriation by the House Naval Affairs committee for a new navy dirigible. The move signals renewed interest in airship development as part of naval research programs.
Joseph P. Kennedy arrived in London to assume duties as United States ambassador to Great Britain and begin his posting amid official ceremonies and diplomatic activity.
In Columbus, several House members supported the Van Ness Resolution to extend the Senate graft investigation while Banks D Athens County Betz R Gallia County Mees R Meigs County Wright D Hocking County opposed it.
An ex all American and head of Franklin Warehouses told the State Liquor Department its records were seized but he can produce duplicates. In the Senate the rules committee blocked the Metcalf resolution seeking resignations of top liquor and state officials as lawmakers debate adjournment and prorogation measures amid a partisan clash over the administration.
In Ravello Italy the town halls of a dozen villages watched for bans on the marriage of Leopold Stokowski and Greta Garbo following Garbo’s return home to Sweden after a second U S divorce. Stokowski sailed later aboard an Italian liner in discreet fashion.
J. Frederick Essary, veteran Washington journalist, addressed Ohio University students urging faith in democracy. He argued fundamentals of American social, political and economic systems remain intact despite seven years of turmoil and warned against despair of future. He discussed Roosevelt's possible third term, suggesting only congressional defeat of his policies could prompt a run again.
Democratic leaders privately push to end Poulson case and bar further inquiry. The House rejected a relief director office and leaders oppose large university funding without state department money. Senate considers emergency measures to extend the Whittemore tax installments law.
In Moscow the Hall of Columns hosted the trial of 21 defendants named traitors after a three year purge. Among the accused was Nicholas N. Krestin sky, once German ambassador and former finance and foreign commissar, alleged German spy since 1922. The defendants included prominent national and international figures with long Bolshevik ties.
Seven nurses from Champaign County Hospital would present grievances to the county medical board and demand dismissal of supervisor Ruth Clyburn and assistant Lora Moore. They allege discrimination in assignment to better paying private cases and describe treatment as unjust and unfair.
The Bureau of Air Commerce absolves Erie Isle Airways and pilot William Somogy of blame in the Putin Bay crash on December 29. One woman and two men died. the pilot survived. Mrs Nancy Howard of Lexington Kentucky was recovered, while Delbert Watkins of New Plymouth Ohio and Albert Anderson of Sandusky were not recovered.
General John J. Pershing, 77, has emerged from a coma and is improving in Tucson. Doctors report he is eating solid foods and remains seriously ill after a week of illness.
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