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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1939
Page
1
Harold Holt Jr of Monongahela Pa survived a rare tumor after doctors declared the case hopeless. The growth was removed by Dr. Alexander J. Chilko at New Rochelle Hospital leaving the child lively in his crib with a good chance of survival.
The Ohio Senate Liquor Control Committee outlined a clash over repealing the 3.2 local option for beer sales. A separate Senate bill creating a new parole commission passed, ousting the current board, while Bricker signed a conservation restructuring bill. A zoning bill restricting highway billboards was killed by the House Judiciary Committee after hearings. A separate panel will probe alleged subversive activity in state schools, described by sponsors as necessary to root out Marxist influence.
Hollywood reports Baron Raven Erik Angus Barnekow charged slander after Countess Dorothy Di Frasso labeled him a Nazi spy. He denied the charge, said he is becoming an American citizen, and warned legal action to protect his motor factory business.
A new production company with a capital of 3 million dollars was formed in Hollywood. Leaders Sol Lesser and Ernst Lubitsch will oversee the venture into the motion picture field.
Striking unionists returned to work on three Matson Company ships today under a truce that ended a five day tie up.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that the territorial National Guard field army would be raised to war time strength of 340,000. The regular peace time army at home remains 114,000, with the territorials taking the main burden of home defense including anti aircraft.
Chairman Tetlow of the National Bituminous Coal Commission says the panel is in the final stages of preparing to reestablish minimum prices for soft coal. He cannot predict an effective date, noting hearings on marketing rules discounts and coordinated prices remain. The price fixing under the Guffey Coal Act aims to guarantee production costs for bituminous operators who estimate losses between 60 million and 100 million dollars last year.
Grand jury in Pomeroy will begin Thursday morning to decide whether Charles Warner, bound over on kidnapping charges, should be indicted. Court officials expect speedy work and a possible one day session with minor cases also on the docket.
Washington reports the navy plans two new 45 000 ton battleships that would be the world’s largest warships. Each ship would cost about 95 million dollars and likely carry 12 sixteen inch guns, exceeding the armament of the current 35 000 ton battleships under construction.
Richard Hugh Richards a 33 year old Englishman laughed at society dowagers and politicians as he admitted posing for six months as a foreign correspondent with London ties. He told immigration authorities he jumped ship from the Aquitania last September in New York and planned a lecture tour.
In New York four Appalachian soft coal operators and four United Mine Workers members met informally to bridge gaps blocking a new two year wage hour contract for 338 600 eastern bituminous miners. Both sides aim to avert a mining suspension before the March 31 deadline.
Hollywood police report Delia Bogart 17 and actress in a Jackie Cooper film was clubbed from shadow on a Hollywood street while walking home from a late show. She was unconscious at Hollywood General Hospital but aided by three women including Laura Lee who struck the attacker with a golf club and drove him away.
Britain reportedly abandoned a public Stop Hitler pledge and sought a secret agreement with major powers to aid each other against German expansion. Cabinet discussed coordinated British and French military plans for threats to Holland Belgium Denmark and Switzerland while keeping Russia out of official ties. A Moscow trade mission signaling a shared peace policy suggested a joint approach with Russia.
Johnny Torrio, famed mentor to Capone and a major Chicago crime figure, faces federal income tax evasion charges in New York as the trial begins. The longtime racketeer helped build the Chicago syndicate that battled rival gangsters including Dion O’Banion.
Washington reports Germany and Italy plan a post Madrid trade push in South America. The move uses the Nationalist victory in Spain to expand economic and political influence in the Western Hemisphere, stirring concern in official circles.
Governor Bricker welcomed a new pet a long-eared beagle with a white tipped tail presented by Henry J. Pfeiffer of Kenton in Columbus Ohio.
The Japanese Domei News Agency reported troops occupied Wuning in Kiangsi Province south of Hankow today. The terse dispatch notes the advance as part of Tokyo’s wartime operations in central China.
Madrid reports the Nationalists fully end the war with rapid captures of Valencia and major towns including Ciudad Real Cuenca Murcia Almeria Guadalajara Jaen Alicante and Cartagena. Republican leaders flee or are imprisoned as ration trains begin delivering food. Gandia harbors unknown fates.
The National Safety Council reports February marked the 16th straight month of fewer traffic fatalities than the prior year. January and February combined show 4,260 deaths, down from 4,720 the year before, with 8,900 lives saved since the improvement began in November 1937.
President Roosevelt departs Washington for a ten day holiday at his Warm Springs Georgia home. He will stop in Tuskegee Alabama to address Tuskegee Institute students and later speak at Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn.
New York U P report says Joan Crawford will return to Hollywood to personally testify in her divorce case against Franchot Tone. Judge Benjamin Scheinman had barred using deposition evidence and delayed the case until April 18.
Kent State University officials announced vigorous protests against a proposed reduction of almost $500 000 in 1939 40 funding. President Karl C Leebrick argued the governor's appropriation does not cover higher enrollment and operation costs.
In Nevada City California a heavily armed sheriff's posse hunted William Ebaugh a 275 pound bearded man accused of criminal assault after he fled from his cabin into the Sierra hills. Ebaugh previously was committed to a state hospital and authorities kept the victim's identity undisclosed.
CANBERRA Australia Premier J A Lyons announced the cabinet has decided to introduce a compulsory national manpower registration as part of its defense program.
President William Green of the AFL urged Americans to boycott German-made products in a radio address. He condemned Austria's annexation by Hitler and the dismemberment of Czecho Slovakian statehood, saying Germans attack trade unions abroad and urging a powerful boycott.
Cleveland police judge called Andrew Kollar a potential murderer after he drove his wife and four children into the rain last Saturday night. He was fined 200 dollars and costs and sentenced to six months in the workhouse for neglect of his children. The sentence was the maximum allowed by law.
Logan Logan Staff Special Andrew J Curl was ordered by the State Liquor Department to report as clerk at the Logan retail liquor store on April 5. He will replace Ray Zanner.
A House committee cut $50 million from President Roosevelt relief requests and approved a $100 million WPA measure to use through June 30. The action reduces the President’s total relief needs, with a move to report the bill to the full chamber amid limited opposition.
The Works Progress Administration fixed April 5 as the deadline to remove outside political affiliations from hundreds of WPA administrative and supervisory staff. Deputy Administrator Howard O. Hunter called for state reports by April 15 on all aspects of the clean-up, following House approval of a thorough inquiry and Congress's January vote to fund the program with 725 million dollars.
The Ohio House Labor Committee defeated a bill to require compulsory union incorporation and cap union holdings at $50,000 by a unanimous vote. AFL, CIO and railroad union spokesmen denounced the measure while Rep. Rodger Farnsworth spoke in favor, saying it was asked by Northwestern Ohio business men.
Governor Bricker announces April as cancer control month in Ohio by proclamation. The designation covers April 1 through April 30 to promote awareness and public health actions.
Cuban president Gerardo Machado, toppled in the 1933 revolution, died in Miami Beach following an operation.
London reports General Franco's victory strengthens Francoist Spain and slows Great Britain and France from forming a united Halt Hitler front. The victory heightens British and French concerns about Mediterranean lines of communication and three-front risks.
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