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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1941
Page
1
A report describes a hammer attack victim tied to a group called Real Team and notes a 7 day work week vote. Details are limited but indicate ongoing public interest in safety reforms and local political actions.
Roosevelt plans a $7 billion appropriation to fund the British aid program, to be detailed in a message to Congress. The House and Senate committees discussed a cash-only plan with no contract authorizations, covering the life of the bill and including $1.3 billion of current war supplies.
Former Gov. Martin L. Davey was released from Cleveland Clinic after a monthlong illness from coronary thrombosis. He said he feels better and can carry on his business on a limited scale despite limited mobility.
In Budapest a time bomb found near a suburban school detonated when children attempted to pry it open, killing two students and injuring many others as the blast occurred in a classroom.
In Rising Sun Indiana, treasure hunters dig out junked autos from the Ohio River bank to sell as scrap metal prices rise. Mayor A B Cooper threatened arrests to halt the digging activity.
Central Ohio police report two of the four inmates from the Girls Industrial School fled during the night, prompting a search.
Ohio's Robert A Taft warns at New York luncheon that higher taxes could absorb 15 to 20 percent of incomes under $10,000 and that federal policy risks inflation and expands government. He estimates war costs at 50 billion dollars annually and urges a tax system meeting 25 percent of national income.
Bad Girl a 175 pound St Bernard ignores parade duties to aid a roadside rescue.Anna Marie Schmidt's leash breaks as the dog leaps a 40 foot embankment carrying a starving German shepherd in a basket. A second puppy in the basket is found dead.
Henry Ford envisions a near future where farmers grow most car materials and possibly fuel from plants. He announced an experimental plastic body from cellulose fibers and discussed plastics expanding into homes and offices. Ford cited tiles from corn cob and tree bark and socks from sawdust as lab products and said engines could run on farm-produced fuels.
Kansas City police have not located the hammer killer of Leila Adele Welsh a 24 year old University of Kansas City beauty contestant who was slain in her bed early Sunday A $500 reward remains in force as investigators pursue clues in the case with blood analysis indicating she woke moments before the fatal blow.
Plane out of gas lands on a highway in Montrose Pennsylvania blocking the route for two hours. Snow plow operator Gene Krupa and the pilot were helped by a team of horses to haul the aircraft off the road after Krupa had cleared four-foot drifts.
William M. Billy James former Columbus theater owner and past potentate of the Aladdin Temple in the Masonic order is seriously ill in Hollywood Florida after suffering two strokes in recent days friends report.
Washington D C October hearings opened on a proposed two year extension of the Soft Coal Act to keep minimum prices for soft coal. Ickes led a list of witnesses supporting continuation of the act enforced by the coal division. Several others planned to testify including past opponents who fought the act when it faced expiration. The coal division sets prices at the mine mouth and demand has risen with industrial expansion, with some coal selling above fixed minimum rates.
AFL riggers struck the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula Mississippi over recognition wages hours and conditions with 2000 employees. In Philadelphia CIO steel workers protested for higher wages union shop vacation and seniority concessions at J G Brill Company employing 1500. About 2400 AFL electrical workers walked out at Carnell Dubilier in Plainfield New Jersey demanding improved wage conditions.
In Columbus AP report, three Bricker administration finance bills stalled as 2 3 Republican holdouts refused support. Senate GOP caucus failed to produce a vote plan on a $12 million annual local government sales tax allocation, auto license funds diversion, and a two year re enactment of the liquid fuel tax. Names of hold outs kept private.
United Mine Workers of America boss John L. Lewis announced a demand for a $1 per day wage increase for about 450,000 soft coal miners in eight Appalachian states. The union seeks proportional raises for monthly paid workers, two weeks of paid vacation, and a $7.50 daily rate for tonnage workers during vacations as wage talks run toward a new agreement replacing the expiring contract.
Mrs. AlphonS Foley, 36, mother of nine, was found shot to death in a field near her East Side home. Her WPA worker husband was hospitalized at St. Elizabeth's after identifying the body and said he knew of no enemy.
Washington aims to rush small naval craft to Britain to blunt the Nazi U boat campaign while Fascist leaders denounce intervention. British shipping losses rise to 29 vessels in the week to March 2, signaling anxiety yet confidence as measures improve.
Washington reports officials weighing a 21 to 25 draft age as a transition from the current 21 to 35 system. The plan aims to align with European practice of training at a set age such as 18 or 21.
An American air liner with 11 aboard slid from a concrete runway into deep mud at Cincinnati Municipal Airport during a heavy rainstorm. Six occupants were injured, with the pilot and a passenger possibly seriously hurt as the twin motor craft rammed a river-dike bordering the field.
Mexico City reports the Ministry of Agriculture has announced an agreement with the United States to experiment with rubber cultivation within Mexico, aiming to develop domestic rubber production and agricultural ties between the two nations.
The WPA announced plans to construct 1,100 new structures for the War and Navy Departments and allied agencies, to be built under government programs.
London sources claim Britain has enough trained personnel to crew the U S fleet for the Battle of the Atlantic and that American air and naval experts are coordinating with Britain to absorb U S equipment quickly amid intensified submarine and air campaigns.
Axis propaganda hints at U S trouble in the Pacific as Yosuke Matsuoka prepares to meet Hitler and Mussolini. Rome papers label his trip an immediate answer to Washington’s British aid move. Greece claims gains as Italians suffer and prisoners rise in Telepeni amid Albania fighting.
A skeleton picket line remained at Burke Machine Tool Co after the firm won an injunction against the AFL International Association of Machinists. The order limits pickets to one at each doorway, restricts interference with deliveries, and bars striking workers from molesting others.
Ohio issued its 10th and 11th draft calls for 2701 men. All will report between March 31 and April 1. The 10th call will take 2641 white men and the 11th call 60 negroes for a year of military service.
Earl Hartley, 31, was sentenced to four months in the Toledo Workhouse after burning his young sons fingertips to stop them from playing with matches. The case outlines a brutal parental act carried out in an attempt to enforce discipline.
Welfare Director Charles Sherwood reports Ohio's two month poor relief bill will be at least 1.2 million lower than a year ago. February costs total about 1.892 million from 109 of 153 areas, an about 620 thousand drop, while January costs are 582 thousand below January 1940. A mild winter and industrial activity from the defense program are credited.
The House Mines Committee voted to remove the requirement for inspection by petition from miners or their representatives. It replaced the clause with a discretionary provision allowing inspections beyond the mandatory annual checks, at any time the secretary of interior deems fit.
In London Beatrice Clough Rathbone was elected unopposed to Bodmin District in the House of Commons, succeeding her late husband Flight Lieutenant John Rankin Rathbone who was killed last December on his first mission over Germany.
A 14-year-old boy named James Manus died in hospital after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle in Columbus. He lost consciousness at the scene and did not regain it before his death a few hours later.
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