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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1933
Page
9
Coal furnace fuels and stove sizes advertised with hand picked selections. Fresh onion sets and bulk garden seeds listed along with clover and lime manure. Special weekly prices from Sayres Nelsonville Store and The Carpenter Hardware Co. Green window shades offered at 39 cents each.
Findlay reports 440 Cooper Tire Corp workers walk out and picket for wage restoration. Spokesman John R. Newton cites 3 percent cuts since January and demand for reinstatement of dismissed workers amid agitation claims.
In Massillon Ohio a car carrying B B Conley 43 and his sisters Mrs Myrtie Van Nort 37 and Mrs Laura Baine —all of Genoa and Canton— was struck and demolished by an Intercity Rapid Transit electric interurban when Conley’s foot slipped from the brake at a Genoa crossing. The victims died yesterday. witnesses say the car failed to stop and rolled into the trolley’s path.
Flood crests were reported at Marietta and Cincinnati with forecast stages of 62 to 63 feet and 45 feet respectively. West Virginia Kentucky and Ohio villages flooded as guards patrol dykes. Ohio highway damage estimated at 750000 while sleet storms threaten Toledo as Maumee River rises.
Japanese and Chinese forces clashed at Kupeikow gateway in Jehol. Reports say General Tu Chin-Ming of the 734 North China Brigade was killed while Chinese troops attacked the Yiyuangkow Gateway defended by Japanese infantry.
The timetable lists several trains serving Athens with daily and Sunday exceptions. No 3 and No 4 depart Athens in the morning and evening, with routes to Southbound and unspecified destinations. Train No 37 and No 31 run daily except Sunday, with late evening arrivals and departures. The Baltimore and Ohio service shows No 1 National Limited and Nos 43 44 with daily patterns and time windows, plus east and westbound designations.
Rail stocks advance with Lehigh Valley and Hudson equal to yearly highs while Louisville & Nashville and New York Central climb. Industrials stay largely flat as small gains and losses balance with utilities. Dun & Bradstreet price index reports 72.29.
Oklahoma City faces a sweeping probe into a bootlegging style oil trade labeled hot oil. Gov. William H. Murray and Col. Cicero Murray figure among those implicated as 7,000,000 barrels allegedly diverted from local production, with investigations widening to brokers, steno graphers, and offshore links in Canada.
Live stock market recap shows hog receipts at 8000 with prices from 2.25 to 4.10 per pound for various weight ranges, cattle receipts at 990 with calves and steers firmer and cows steady, veal and bulls mixed. Sheep receipts 1100 with meager supplies, prices from 5 to 6. Shorn and light breeds listed with broader range.
President Roosevelt signed a 500 million dollar economy bill cutting veterans benefits and government salaries. The measure, enabling broad executive powers, targets about 383 million in post war disability and pension payments and reduces federal pay by 125 million. Tax revenues from beer and gasoline are expected to help balance the budget and restore credit. Direct service connected disabilities face possible reductions by executive order.
Ohio National Guardsmen were called to flood relief duties Adjutant General Frank Henderson ordered three officers and 145 men of Company E 145th Infantry to Manchester to assist local authorities. A patrol led by Major John F Blount surveyed Ohio River towns from Manchester to Higginsport.
Three army officers were killed when a single motor transport plane crashed in fog and burned near Petersburg Virginia. Victims were Major James A Willis, his son First Lieutenant James A Willis Jr the pilot, and Major John A Parker all from Washington with the Judge Advocate General’s Department and Bolling Field connections.
Chinese troops with 3000 Manchurian allies launched a heavy assault on Major Nakamura’s Japanese unit at Lengkow Manchuria. After initially repulsing the Chinese counter attack, fighting continued with unclear outcome.
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