New Mayor Says Council Planned Law Enforcement Program
Rumors of a move to ask Mayor Alex M Moore to resign were denied by Mayor FE C Woodworth who led the council. He said no resignation was discussed at the March 11 or March 16 meetings and that the council aims to enforce a stricter program to eliminate liquor and vice. An audit of city books by a state examiner was expected to begin that afternoon.
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Athens
Alex M. Moore
FE. C. Woodworth
Moore
Beasley Milling Company
Beasley
Fred Fenzel
Park Place
C. H. Harris
Athens Messenger
Niagara Falls
Anada
Buffalo
Cleveland
Cambridge
Parkersburg
J. L. Henry
W. Va
Bishopville Pike Improvement Underway by State Highway
Seven trucks hauled crushed limestone to Bishopville Pike as the State Highway Department lime resurfaced the road. Work began near the C. L. Eddy residence and extends toward Bishopville, with ten carloads stored near the city light plant for the project. March 20. Staff.
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Dal
Bishopville Pike
State Highway Department
C. L. Eddy
Bishopville
City
Fister
Ohio and Indiana Farmers Tour New York Markets
Twenty five dirt farmers from Ohio and Indiana Farm Bureaus visited New York wholesale markets to study one link in the chain of distribution pulling cabbage from soil to metropolitan dumb waiters.
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New York
U.P
Ohio
Indiana
Messenger Booth at Exposition Delivers Nightly Updates
The Athens Messenger booth in the Men's Gymnasium offers late local and outside news tonight and tomorrow night after the regular edition. Flashes include former Mayor Alex M. Moore’s Niagara Falls return and Ohio University library funding approval. The display also shows engraving steps for reprints and original Messenger art from global coverage via United Press.
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Athens Messenger
Alex M. Moore
Niagara Falls
Athens
House Finance Committee
Columbus
Ohio University
Hoover’s push for air power in modern warfare
The piece argues air superiority matters in Mexico’s conflict and questions if the U S government will back air defense. It notes Herbert Hoover, an engineer, advocates the latest machinery and executive authority, likening Hoover to Roosevelt amid China tensions.
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Herbert Hoovier
MR. Culahan
Washington
Hoover
Roosevelt
China
Foch dies at 77 former Allied World War supreme commander
Paris reports Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch the Allied armies supreme commander in the World War died at his home after a long illness. He was 77 and had recently faced heart trouble and uremia. A priest administered the last rites before his death at 5:55 p m.
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Foch
France
Paris
U.P
Ferdinand Foch
Vaudeville Star Ed McWilliams Heads Through Athens
Ed McWilliams, a Keith circuit headliner and former Ohio University student, visited Athens for a few hours to renew old acquaintances. He spoke to the Ohio Senate yesterday and is billed as Jim McWilliams on recent stage engagements with Frank Crumit after performing in Athens last night.
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Ed McWilliams
Keith
Ohio University
Athens
McWilliams
Columbus
Keith Theater
Athns
Frank Crumit
Ohio Senate
Jim
Governor Signs Jones Bill for World War Veterans Memorial
Columbus March 20 Governor Cooper signs a bill by Representative Tom Jones Meigs County authorizing a World War veterans memorial on the west steps of the State House with a $10 000 appropriation.
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Jones
Bill Columbus
Cooper
Tom Jones
Meigs County
Carpenter Bill Signed Repeals Pence Public Utilities Rate Law
Gov. Myers Y. Cooper signed the Carpenter Bill in Columbus, repealing the Pence Public Utilities Rate Law. The measure becomes law in 90 days and fulfills a campaign pledge to end rate increases by public utilities before state utilities commission approval.
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Columbus
O.R
Carpenter
Myers Y. Cooper
Cooper
State Utilities Commission
Russell Approved In Tax Case Fight
POMEROY March 20 On application by Prosecuting Attorney D H Peoples and county commissioners the Court of Common Pleas appoints Judge A D Russell to assist in suits to collect back taxes from the Martin Ebersbach Company Judge Crow signed the court entry The case has been appealed to the Tax Commission of Ohio and is expected to be hotly contested with a large amount of money at stake.
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Starf
D. H. Peoples
Court of Common Pleas
A. D. Russell
Martin Ebersbach Company
Crow
Tax Commission of Ohio
Governor Cooper Signs Bill Cutting Canal Land Rental
Governor Myers Y. Cooper signs the bill by Rep. FE G. Schuessler of Cincinnati reducing annual state rental from 32000 dollars to 100 dollars for abandoned Miami and Erie Canal land now a boulevard in Cincinnati.
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Columbus
Myers Y. Cooper
FE. G. Schuessler
Cincinnati
Cinccinnati
Clears Mystery of Kidnaping in San Francisco Case
San Francisco police say the disappearance of Barbara June Osbon eight from San Francisco and her later appearance in Los Angeles is solved by the confession of Mrs Edna Sharp who admits kidnapping to obtain a little girl. She had earlier confessed to kidnapping Doris Murphy who was found in her possession.
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San Francisco
Barbara June Osbon
Los Angeles
Edna Sharp
Ohio University Budget Approved For 350000 Library Plan
The finance committee of the Ohio House approved a 1 724 560 appropriation for Ohio University, including 350 000 for a new library building and equipment. Details of cuts from the submitted budget were not revealed and will be published when the bill is introduced about Thursday.
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Ohio University
House of Representatives
Columbus
Samtions Betterments
Eight held up at James Kercal Coffee Shop in Cleveland
Three men were hospitalized with bullet wounds after eight men robbed the James Kercal Coffee Shop in Cleveland last night. The injured are James Guffar 42 Olie Mamish 36 and Sam Allie 36.
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Cleveland
James Kercal
James Guffar
Olie Mamish
Sam Allie
Forced To Wait Twelve Years To Marry
In Korea a marriage is delayed for at least three years after a family death. Four deaths timed to delay the wedding for twelve years. Maggie Bengel of Pomeroy, a Methodist missionary, wrote home about the sorrowful lovers. Charles A. Hartley, Messenger rep, publishes the story of Bengel and other Pomeroy missionaries in next Sunday's Messenger magazine.
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Korea
Maggie Bengel
Pomeroy
Methodist Church
Charles A. Hartley
Messenger
Miss Bengel
the Messenger
Gas Tax Drive Aims At Four Cents A Gallon
In Columbus on March 20 a General Assembly push seeks a four cent gasoline tax. Rural House members back the measure while portraying it as funding state highways and pressuring Gov. Myers Cooper to support it as an administration move. Fears of a premature adjournment add urgency.
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Columbus
U.pr
General Assembly
House
Senate
Myers Cooper
Toledo Couple Admit Involvement in Station Holdups
A young mother Mrs Evelyn Orzechowski and her husband Joseph 19 confessed to police they were behind several filling station holdups and the kidnapping of attendants. They were arrested at the Bowling Green interurban station.
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Toledo
Evelyn Orzechowski
Joseph
Bowling Green
Fiancée pledges loyalty in Salem poison case
Eleanor Butler, fiancée of Harry Bloehmer of Salem New Jersey, says she will stay with him after he confessed poisoning death of Alice Whitesell, a Salem high school sophomore. Bloehmer told police he intended to marry Eleanor and did not think the poison would kill. He faces trial.
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Eleanor Butler
Harry Bloehmer
Salem
N. J
Alice Whitesell
Salem High School
Alice
Eleanor
Bloehmer
Ballot Slips May Halt Pomeroy Projects for Paving and Schools
A Ohio attorney general ruling forces a new vote on Main Street repaving and new high schools for Pomeroy Racine and Columbia Township. The bond plan totaling about 60000 dollars faces delays until the next regular election as legal errors in election procedures are reviewed by state officials.
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C. A. Hartley
Messenger
Pomeroy
Columbus
Main Street
Racine
Columbia Township
Board of Elections
Ohio
Pomeroy High
Racine High School
Attorney General
Scarface Al Capone Appears in Federal Jury Testimony
Al Capone, famed Chicago beer racket figure known as Scarface, appeared on time in Chicago before a federal grand jury investigating beer running, answering a summons to testify today.
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U.R
Scarface
al Capone
Body of Floyd Collins Found Near Crystal Cave
Floyd Collins body, stolen from a metal casket near Crystal Cave, was recovered by bloodhounds 500 yards from the cave on the Green River. A trail left by overalls a cap and gloves led to the remains as searchers scour three counties for the thief.
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Floyd Collins
Horse Cave
Crystal Cave
Floyd Collings
H. B. Thomas
Green River
Collins
Sand Cave
Grave Digger Asbury Jadwin Retires After 2000 Graves
In New Lexington, veteran grave digger Asbury Jadwin retires after 33 years in the local cemetery. He says he personally dug more than 2000 graves and dismisses ghosts, joking a shovel could stop any such spirits. He is a well known figure in New Lexington.
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New Lexington
United States
Asbury Jadwin
Asbury
Jadwin
Wedding Bells End Gun Drama in Bellaire
In Bellaire on March 20, Thomas Weekley 25 of Stewartsville shot his sweetheart Miss Winifred Ramsey after finding her with another man on February 27. Ramsey later marries Weekley, who pleaded not guilty to shooting with intent to kill and awaits grand jury action.
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Bellaire
Thomas Weekley
Stewartsville
Winifred Ramsey
Belmont County
Weekley
Ramsey
State censorship plan to continue after committee defeats
Columbus March 20 The Senate Education Committee killed three bills attempting to liberalize or broaden existing censorship laws, ensuring the state's current movie censorship plan remains in place.
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Columbus
U.P
Senate Education Committee
Bis
Mrs Eunice Aguirre Schwertfeger backs Mexican revolutionaries
The divorced wife of General Manuel Aguirre and her 14-year-old daughter root for the rebels. Mrs. Aguirre now Mrs. Eunice Aguirre Schwertfeger of Weirton West Virginia says the revolution was hatched in 1925 by her ex-husband and other Mexicans at Benwood West Virginia where many Mexicans work in the mines.
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Manuel Aguirre
Aguirre
Eunice Aguirre Schwertfeger
Weirton
W. Va
Benwood
Second Athens Exposition Opens Amid Fire Hazard Warning
The second annual Athens exposition opened at the Ohio University Gymnasium with a large crowd, over 1,300 attendees noted by Rufus Hopkins. The event showcased prizes from booths, a style show, and nightly drawings including a grand Ray-Glo stove. patrons urged not to smoke due to fire risk after a recent blaze in Zaville.
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Athens
M. H. van Sycc
Mille
C. D. Shafer
Robert Collins
West Street
F. 8. Stedman Company
Wallace Johnson
Ripley
F. J. Milling and Grocery Company
Ray-Glo Corporation
Shouts At Robsera Greenwhich Watchman Incident
A partial OCR note describes a confrontation in Greenwich involving Mae Ur A watchman near Dr. James and McCarthy, with mention of recently inherited jars from Marianne Pee.
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Conn
Mae —Ur
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