28 Mar 1939
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1939
Page
1
Columbus UP reports legislative leaders press for speedy passage of a 320.78 million biennial appropriation recommended by Governor Bricker. He claims a 9.97 million saving versus past operating costs and outlines new education and old age pension funding.
Franco’s forces seize Madrid as the 32 month civil war concludes in a Nationalist victory. Franco pledges pardons for Republican troops not guilty of crimes while foreign units under Italian leadership help pace the occupation, signaling new international tensions despite victory.
A German radio broadcast from Cologne Sunday stressed the German character of Eupen and Malmedy now in Belgium after World War I. Nazi officials denied political aims, but the program emphasized German tradition architecture and culture in the two districts.
In Bratislava the Slovak government resumes peace talks with Hungary while hastening war preparations. Desultory fighting continues in the eastern area despite a truce agreed Saturday until a Slovak Hungarian frontier commission finalizes the border between Slovakia and Carpatho Ukraine, the former Czechoslovak province seized by Hungary.
Paris U P reports Adolf Hitler may tighten economic grip on Central Europe with a trade pact between Germany and Jugoslavia similar to the German Romanian treaty. Germany is Jugoslavia’s best customer, absorbing 40 percent of its exports even before Czechoslovakia’s annexation.
Washington sources report a fast Senate showdown over the constitutionality of taxing future government securities. Treasury lawyers say Supreme Court rulings removing immunity for reciprocal taxation open the path for a bill taxing government bonds and salaries of state and local workers. The House passed the measure. the Senate considers it with no retroactive tax provision.
The text argues it would be wise for Congress to pass the bill under consideration to remove any doubt about Congress's intent that salaries be taxed.
Still missing after several days, four year old Jackie Grady from Waterbury Conn remains unfound as scores of searchers and two planes patrol nearby areas in a broad search focusing on rescue.
The body of 63 year old John Martinitz was found at his Bucyrus bakery with wrists cut and signs he took poison. Police reported no immediate suspects as investigators examine the scene for motive and method.
John Thornberg, 28, nicknamed the Human Dynamite Bomb, held up the First National Bank for 4860 dollars yesterday. He fled northwest toward Salina with dynamite sticks and wired caps, prompting state patrols and border checks from Nebraska, Iowa, and Colorado. Thornberg, an amnesia patient, was well known locally and feared to detonate the bank.
Ohio Attorney General ruling says caregivers for a rabies victim cannot claim state coverage for preventive inoculations. The law pays medical costs only to the person bitten by a rabid animal. The opinion was sent to Perry County prosecutor T. B. Williams.
Joseph E. Leighton, OSU philosophy head, says Nazi tourists in Italy claim we do not need colonies we have Italy. He notes Italians distrust Rome Berlin Axis and doubt Mussolini will fight with Hitler in a possible showdown. He warns German efforts aim to keep workers loyal through cruises.
Oral Daugherty of Nelsonville acquires 2300 acres including mines houses offices and equipment from Sunday Creek Coal Co with 1000 adjoining acres leased. He will retire April 1 and Frank G. Smith becomes Sunday Creek district general superintendent. The Carbondale Forest of 160 acres with 300 000 trees adds to the purchase.
Mrs Lindsay, wife of the British Ambassador to the United States, returns to Washington from England to find a two foot stack of calling cards. The cards are from socialites seeking invitations to royal functions during the King and Queen of England’s visit to America.
A proposed constitutional amendment to require only a majority vote for local bond issues was presented to Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert for form approval. The measure, led by George Rice and backed by building trades unions, aims to boost public construction by lowering the approval threshold from 65 percent.
Political parties in Bohemia and Moravia were told to dissolve voluntarily or be compulsorily liquidated by the government as the former Czechoslovakia provinces are now part of the German Reich.
Frostproof growers hail Lillie Stoate a 67 year old deaf woman from Oxford Mississippi as the rainmaker who ended a damaging dry spell. Stoate stood by Lake Reedy for three and a half days to bring rain, after being brought to Frostproof by local growers from her home city where she has been reputed to make it rain since 1916.
The Senate Labor Committee unanimously votes to start hearings on April 11 into proposed amendments to the Wagner Labor Relations Act. AFL-CIO presses for action while CIO seeks delay as peace talks continue. Elmer Andrews is nominated as administrator of the Wage Hours Act with a Senate vote expected tomorrow.
The House prepared to decide on new spending for farm parity payments and the Works Progress Administration. The $250 million farm aid proposal ties to Roosevelt’s call for $150 million more for the WPA. The chamber approvedA 352 to 27 vote to study the WPA, though inquiry plans hinge on action on the $150 million request.
Argentina contracts to ship 100000 tons of wheat and 8000 tons of wool in six months in exchange for railroad equipment. The deal strengthens Germany’s position in the Argentine market amid shrinking US exports and stricter foreign exchange rules. Mrs. Helen Fortescue Reynolds plans a six week stay in Reno for a friendly divorce from Julian Louis Reynolds, tobacco heir.
Harold E. Gray, veteran trans Pacific flyer, commands the new Yankee Clipper on its first Atlantic inspection flight. Twenty other men join him, the largest crew to cross the Atlantic in a heavier-than-air craft.
President Roosevelt approved navy plans for construction of 45000 ton dreadnaughts. Two ships are believed approved with funds to be sought from Congress. The navy currently has six 35000 ton battleships under construction. Approval was given orally to Admiral William D. Leahy as foreign powers build larger war vessels.
Ohio employment shows a gentle up swing with 6 253 firms surveyed. February employment is one per cent higher than December and two per cent above February 1938, at 88 per cent of the 1926 industrial total. A separate Champaign county grand jury indicated it would return more indictments soon in a vice case stemming from a University of Illinois student from Ohio.
Pan American Airways reports minor mechanical trouble delays Clip per Ship flights from San Francisco and Honolulu delaying service between the two ports.
The article notes Franco will be titled El Caudillo with lifelong dictatorial powers as Spain moves toward a corporative regime inspired by Mussolini and Hitler. It cites potential Franco leadership as figurehead for Juan de Borbón, Spain's damaged postwar state, and analyzes Franco’s aim for a Mediterranean role and possible anti Communist alliance with Italy and Germany. It also outlines Spain's wartime destruction, refugee flows, and the urgent need to repair roads and railways after extensive bombing.
At the New York conference the Appalachian joint group aimed for a rapid wage hour agreement for 330000 soft coal miners. Operators and United Mine Workers reduced their 32 member negotiating committee to four per side, signaling a quick settlement before the current two year pact ends at midnight March 31.
New York Supreme Court Justice Peter Schmuck delayed ruling on James J. Hines bail request while awaiting appellate court action on his four to eight year sentence for participating in the Dutch Schultz lottery racket. Hines remains in custody at the Tombs.
Joan Crawford asks Judge Benjamin Scheinman to grant a divorce from Franchot Tone on grounds of incompatibility and his marriage to the Group Theatre. She calls their New York meetings wonderful and says she cannot stay married while he remains allied with the theater project. Hollywood faces easier divorces if the ruling sets a precedent for painless separations from afar.
Charles Gollob and his wife Elsie said they were beaten by three men after leaving Eddie Cantor's joke program about Adolf Hitler. They were treated for facial cuts and bruises at Hollywood Receiving Hospital. Gollob identified one suspect as Bert Gordon, a fellow Cantor comedian known as The Mad Russian.
Paris reports that Foreign Minister George Bonnet may resign if the government moves to open negotiations to satisfy Italy’s Mediterranean and Red Sea ambitions. Bonnet backs rapprochement with Italy but his ties to the policy draw distrust from Germany and Italy.
In Columbus the State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson must pay salaries of the State Bureau of Unemployment Compensation employees. Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert ruled the new bureau's salary obligations are valid, despite Ferguson's earlier claim that the law creating the bureau is unconstitutional and his plan to withhold pay.
The village of New Washington suffered a 24 hour power outage threatening a brood of 152,500 chicks due Wednesday and thousands of eggs incubating in hatcheries.
Cumberland readers raise funds to memorialize State Highway Patrolman George A. Conn killed near Freeport on September 27, 1937. The bronze tablet honors his service and sacrifice.
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