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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1921
Page
1
The German cabinet, meeting in Berlin, unanimously rejects the Allied reparations terms. Berlin transmitted the decision to German delegates in London as Paris agreed demands called for 55 billion dollars. Germany offers 7.29 billion dollars in compensation.
Rome reports a growing casualty list amidSocialist and Fascisti clashes. Incendiaries burned San Marco shipyard causing 26 000 fire loss and 3000 workers displaced. Chamber of Labor at Forcomorto burned by Fascisti punitive expedition. Berseglieri attacked Empoli Chamber of Labor after reports of desecration of fallen sailors and soldiers.
Edwin N. Hollen of Priority Mortgage and Investment Co Akron sold 4196 acres of coal land near Sharpsburg to Pittsburgh and West Virginia capitalists. The deal, over half a million dollars, opens a rich Pittsburg No 8 coal vein in one of Ohio’s best undeveloped fields. Land held by E LeFever George Tolliver and Hollen for years, fronting the Federal Valley railroad at Hines Crossing. Purchasers plan immediate development funded by deposit at First National Bank Amesville.
Federal and city investigators sought the occupants of a closed truck said to carry whiskey and a roadster. The two vehicles staged a pistol battle on Covington streets late last night. The truck driver ordered the load to halt and a volley was fired. shots were returned and one man was wounded.
The state department released a letter from all former cabinet members praising former President Wilson. The letter said history will acclaim the great qualities of the late leader.
Mary Six obtained a divorce from Doug las after a drunken incident on August 21 1916 when Six fired a revolver injuring the plaintiff in the knee. The court granted the divorce and ordered Six to pay costs.
Two clerks in a motor car transporting mail from the Santa Fe depot to the post office at Sugar Creek were held up by four robbers who escaped with two bags of mail. Loot estimated at not more than $100.
Belisario Porras president of Panama urges United States help to avert war with Costa Rica amid Costa Rican troop movements and disputed awards. Panama’s legation seeks good offices to prevent bloodshed. The request's status remained unclear as the crisis unfolded.
Ossining N Y March 5 Guy Nichols of Trimble Ohio was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing for the murder of Samuel Wolchock a stationer on November 3 He was the second youth to die for the crime Walker of Evansville Indiana was electrocuted February 10 Nichols last words spoke of his family and noted five thousand dollars in war risk insurance to go to his mother The governor had been urged to commute the sentence but the Kings County DA opposed.
A general strike was called on the Birmingham Atlantic Railroad in Atlanta on March 5 as a wage-reduction protest. About 2,000 workers are affected, announced Val Fitzpatrick, Moliaire man of the joint committee of brotherhood representatives.
The family of Harry Dorsey learned that Miss Maud McBee of Morgantown West Virginia underwent an appendicitis operation in a local hospital. Miss McBee is a niece of Mr. Dorsey and her sister Mazie visited the Dorseys here last summer.
Six prisoners escaped the Mingo county jail during the Matewan war case as seventeen men await murder charges. The break involved a hole in the wall big enough for a person to pass through. Defense attorneys questioned witnesses about evictions by Baldwin Felts detectives last May preceding the gun fight.
American war vessels were dispatched to the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica to safeguard U S interests amid rising hostility between the two nations, as announced by the Navy Department.
Secret diplomacy spreads across Europe as German representatives and Allied negotiators pursue covert talks to avert a resumption of hostilities after the Allies' reparations ultimatum expires Monday. Both sides seek a weekend agreement and avoid breach, with late-night efforts to contact German financial expert Sigmund Bergmann reported.
Columbus March 5 Sleeping sickness caused the death today of Dr. James W Allbritain 45 a well known Columbus physician He had been ill two weeks.
Finance scouts in Wayne County launch a campaign tomorrow to underwrite the Boy Scout movement at a scale of 000 a year. The drive will run for one week.
In Cleveland on March 5 a ten cent loaf of bread returns as the price for a pound and a half loaf drops. Chain stores cut the price this day and other shops follow with loaves priced at 12 to 13 cents.
The list enumerates Chas. E. Hughes as Secretary of State Andrew W. Melton as Secretary of Treasury John W. Weeks as Secretary of War Edwin Denby as Secretary of Navy Harry Daugherty as Attorney General Will Hays as Postmaster General A B Fall as Secretary of Interior Henry C Wallace as Secretary of Agriculture Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce Jas J Davis as Secretary of Labor.
Washington March 6 Ex Senator Henderson of Nevada was shot in the wrist by a crank in the Senate office building. The assailant named Grock from Nevada and was described as mentally unbalanced. Henderson had just finished his Senate term and was preparing to return to Nevada when Grock entered and fired. He was taken to a hospital for examination and later grinned despite the wound saying he nearly got me. The shooter, once an inmate of Reno insane asylum, had a long grievance from a case twenty years earlier and followed Henderson since then.
Report says a group at Portsmouth followed a theater mind reader who directed them to Hun where the machine and alleged thief were found stuck in mud several miles from the city. Police await further details as the incident unfolds.
W J Bryan faces rival Robert Deaver in Harris county Texas as Deaver runs a long campaign for civil district court clerk. Deaver has run fifteen terms over thirty years and added wooden signs on all county phone poles for permanence.
New York plans to place moving pictures under state censorship starting August 1. A three member board will oversee approvals with salaries of 7500 each for five year terms. Entries for exhibition must be submitted for review with a 3 per reel examination fee. Rejected films risk license loss.
A fragment notes a meeting of the Athens Chapter 39 Royal Masons with presumably officers Palmer and others listed, indicating fraternal work and lodge proceedings at the comene event.
United Press reports economist George B. Roberts of National City Bank calling President Harding’s inaugural address inspiring economically. He commends the tax revision, reduced government expenditures, and a world peace posture. Roberts says cooperation, balanced industry, and shared prosperity are essential for recovery.
A congressman receives two years’ salary for a single week’s service as the 62nd Congress convenes. The report notes the elected official, Patrick Mo... and mentions Willie Waleroy and the committee drawing his fate.
A court ruling states a woman can wear a kimono or bathing suit in public without it being a crime unless she is completely nude. Magistrate Rosenblatt noted full nudity would trigger police action.
From Reval reports say Russian rebels seized the Baltic fleet and fortified positions while Petrograd sailors flocked to the White standard. Developments indicate White forces gain strength, reportedly in command at Kronstadt and its naval training establishments.
Helsinki dispatch reports revolutionary forces in control of Petrograd and Kronstadt. More than fifty killed and 800 wounded in street battles. Moscow braces as 360,000 Soviet troops allegedly mutiny and move northward. Additional red units ordered from the south.
Crooksville high school basketball shows strength in the Delaware tournament. The team swamped Sunbury in one game and later edged Lancaster by 18 to 12. Lancaster previously beat Athens, who narrowly defeated Crooksville earlier, prompting Crooksville to claim a stronger showing.
A new thermometer features a flag that automatically points to the current temperature on a circular horizon scale. The design emphasizes quick visual reading and novel integration of a moving pointer with a round scale.
Congress may receive only a brief recess as officials consider a plan to ease British activity in Central American oil fields. With army and navy appropriation bills pending, leaders say a special session could be called within two weeks to complete funding and policy steps.
Edward J. Henning of San Diego California was appointed assistant secretary of labor. It marks Secretary Davis's first official act. The piece notes subsequent swearing in of Charles Hughes and John W Weeks as new war secretary with New ton D Baker among attendees. Senator Albert B Fall sworn in as secretary of interior with Payne present.
D Gilbert thirty six year old superintendent of public schools at New Waterford north of East Liverpool was struck and killed by a passenger train on the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad this morning.
United Press reports in Washington that President Harding, in March, begins formal work at his desk amid new facing tasks. The administration weighs policies and personnel changes as it prepares for upcoming duties and legislative calls.
Washington marked the funeral of former Speaker Clark attended by President Harding Vice President Coolidge and cabinet members. Dill of government buildings flew at half mast as leaders and lawmakers paid tribute while Senator Reed and Representative Mann sent best wishes. Clark was laid in state then carried to Bowling Green Missouri for burial.
In Paris on March 6 the chamber of deputies approved by a large majority the government proposal to recall the class of 193 in the colors to face the reparations situation.
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