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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 05, 1919

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Italian Peace Delegates Return to Paris Amid Conference Openings

The Belgian crown council voted to sign the German peace treaty. Italy plans to return to Paris as talks focus on Fiume’s status under a three year league control and on possible Austrian and German pacts. Premier Orlando in Rome seeks terms acceptable to Wilson and the allies.

Paris HMS Brussels Crown Council Germany France Pichon Quiando Sonnino Rome Fiume League of Nations Dalmatian Italy Wilson Orlando Marquis Imperiali Great Britain Bavaria Weimar St. Germain Versailles Serbia Radio Austria Bulgaria Turkey United States

Bolshevists Swept From Gary Streets by Loyal Citizens

May 5 Gary report of a street clash where 4 000 radicals and 3 000 lawmen militia and citizens fought. Sixteen radicals jailed awaiting federal action after visuals of Lenin and Trotsky. Police militia and armed citizens forced radicals from the area. red insignia torn away.

Gary Indx Sunady Pany

Supreme Court Hearings On Federal Rate Fixing Contests

Five cases argued before the Supreme Court challenge federal power to set intrastate and interstate rates for railroads and wires. North Dakota and others contend war powers and state police limits constrain federal rate control, while the government argues broad war powers and exclusivity of interstate rates.

Washington Supreme Court Railroad and Wire Administrations Railroad Administration North Dakota State Supreme Court Director General South Dakota Massachusetts Illinois Kansas John G. Price Ohio Congress Burleson United States

Aviation fields in Gouth abandoned follow list

Washington May 5 Abandonment of aviation fields has been decided by the war department Bar r on Field Carruther Field and Talia ferro Field all at Fort Worth Texas Call Field Wichita Falls Texas Eb erts Field Lonoke Ark Love Field Dallas Payne Field West Point Miss Rice Field Waco Texas Taylor Field Montgomery Ala and Gerstner Field Lake Charles La

Washington War Department Barron Field Carruther Field Taliaferro Field Fort Worth Texas Call Field Wichita Falls Eberts Field Lonoke Ark Love Field Dallas Payne Field West Point Miss. Rice Field Waco Taylor Field Montgomery Ala Gerstner Lake Charles

Bulgarias and Turks Peace Delegates To Stay In Paris

Paris May 5 preparations underway to welcome Bulgarian and Turkish peace delegates. French officials checked St. Cloud and Bellevue Hotels to establish quarters for them.

Paris St. Cloud Bellevue

Youths Denied Marriage License by Judge Phillips

A 20 year old woman and a 23 year old man were refused a marriage license by Judge Phillips this morning. The girl cited a divorce obtained at New Lexington last Saturday, and the judge ruled it was too soon to remarry.

Phillips New Lexington

Naval Flyers Prepare for Atlantic Flight

United States naval flyers at Rockaway air base plan a dawn takeoff on a three plane Atlantic crossing. NC-1 NC-3 and NC-4 will need two hours notice, with oil and gasoline aboard. Weather on Long Island and Nova Scotia must be perfect. strong northerly winds could delay the hop to Trepassey Bay Newfoundland and onward to the Azores.

New York United States Atlantic Rockaway Long Island Nova Scotia Towers Trepassey Bay New Foundland the Cay Halifax Azores

Victory Liberty Loan Drives Moral Appeal Across Nation

The campaign nears two thirds complete while only about a third of bonds are subscribed. The speaker urges Americans who fought for freedom to fund victory notes, honoring the 1.5 million servicemen overseas and the cost of victory.

Victory Liberty France Germany

May term opens as Davis case carried to next term

The May term opened with docket reading and grand jury empaneling in Athens county. Fourteen cases including one murder occupied the jury’s deliberations with fifty four witnesses testifying. Thurman Morgan begins his last term as court stenographer before becoming Clerk of Courts in August. Copeland also ends his term in August.

Davis Athens County Thurman Morgan Copeland

Shipbuilding Better Soon Under US Shipping Board

Washington May 5 officials say reorganization of the United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation is underway for peacetime work. The policy to refuse new ships for foreign countries remains Wilsons policy until peace is signed. Officials expect the ban on foreign contracts to be lifted with ratification of the peace treaty.

Washington United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation Wilson

Victory Loan Subscriptions Hit $301 Million in Cleveland

In the Cleveland Federal district by noon today subscriptions totaled 301.501 million dollars toward a 450 million dollar quota for the Victory Loan drive.

Cleveland Cleveland Federal District

Lynching Threat Follows Arrest in Teen Teacher Murder

Latrobe PA May 5 The arrest of the fiend who killed Miss Emma Austraw a 19 year old school teacher whose body was found under a shed on an abandoned farm near here Saturday is believed imminent Citizens and farmers massed around the police station awaiting the killer and threatening lynching if he is captured

Latrobe Emma Austraw

Laundry mark may reveal Broadwell murderer identity

A faint laundry identification mark found on a handkerchief tied around the throat of Mrs. Mary E. Broadwell in Clew may identify the murderer. The clue is in the corner of the garment and could lead to the culprit.

Barrett Mary E. Broadwell

Brazil's President-Elect to Visit U.S. for Study Trips

Paris dispatch reports Epithia Pessoa, Brazil's president elect, will depart for home after signing the peace treaty. En route he will pause in the United States to study cotton ginning and irrigation for ideas to apply in Brazil.

Paris Epithia Pessoa Brazil United States

Trans Atlantic flight prep for US Navy planes in Trepassey

American destroyers Stockton Hopewell Philip Roper Dent and Waters refueled at Trepassey Bay and will head to the Azores to form a bridge of boats for the trans Atlantic flight. Weather is clear and cold with lookout measures set along the Newfoundland and Nova Scotia coasts.

U. S S. Prairie Trepassey Stockton Hopewell Philip Roper Dent Waters Azores Navy Trepassey Bay Halifax Long Island Nova Scotia Commander Towers New Foundland

Prediction Wilson to Call Extra Session by May 26

Washington report says Paris signals of Italy's easing create strong expectation that President Wilson will convene an extra session of Congress before June 1, possibly on May 26.

Washington Paris Wilson

Need Miners at Utley

The Jennings Coal Company at Utley Ohio seeks loaders machine men and trackmen. Good prospect for steady work with excellent working conditions. Location Utley Athens County. Date 5 3 2.

Utley Jennings Coal Company Athens County

Taxation Checks Begin. 1400 Athens County Returns Review

Assessors start verifying personal tax return blanks in Chamber of Commerce rooms and the county treasurer's office. About 1400 blanks were sent to the auditor from Athens County residents. Auditing will take a week, then several months for complete review as township visits compile missing returns.

Chamber of Commerce Athens County

Suffrage Vote Seen Likely From Western Delegations

Washington May 6 The Suffrage Militant claims a solid suffrage vote will come from western state delegations in both houses and the senate. It also says nineteen states will send delegations with a majority in favor of federal suffrage, while southern Democratic states largely oppose and four are uncertain.

Washington Congress Senate

Masons Meet Tuesday With Eleven Candidates

Special communication Paramathia Lodge No. 25 F and A M convenes Tuesday May 6 at 2 PM. Eleven E A candidates to seek initiation. Roy Hinchman W M J A Palmer Sect 5 5 2.

Masons Paramathia Lodge E. A Roy Hinchman W. M. J. A. Palmer Sect

Leaders tour Versailles as peace treaty preparations progress

President Wilson Premier Lloyd George and Premier Clemenceau visited the Trianon Palace in Versailles to inspect arrangements for signing the peace treaty. India revives ancient shipbuilding using timber from its vast forests.

Paris President Wilson Lloyd George Clemenceau Trianon Palace Versailles India

Home Telephone Operators Strike Briefly Interrupt Service

A Saturday forenoon strike by Home Telephone operators caused about forty five minutes of service interruption. Managers Jones and officials quickly secured emergency help and four strikers returned to duty. Rural Bell patrons will soon be connected. new operators are praised for courteous, accurate service.

Secretaries son receives pony for birthday gift

Washington May 5 The ambition of Secretary Tumulty's son was to own a pony. At ten fortieth birthday he got a tiny Shetland pony from a Kentucky admirer. He felt he was too heavy to ride it and gave the pony to his son Phillip who is proud today.

Washington Tumulty Kentucky

Second Charge Made By Police

Mrs. Alice Jennings was arrested for operating a house of prostitution on South Lancaster street. She previously pleaded guilty to the same charge and paid a hundred dollar fine. Ray Dick, an occupant, was jailed and later fined ten dollars. A nine teen-year old girl found at the scene was released for lack of charges. A new attachment aims to permit soft coal use in hard coal base burner stoves.

Alice Jennings Lancaster Street Woodworth Ray Dick

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