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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1929
Page
1
World scientists gathered in the Philippines as the first total eclipse in memory darkened the islands for three minutes and forty six seconds. Naval observers exposed fifty eight plates from 65 foot and celestate cameras under clear skies, with data to aid comparisons to Einstein and Newton.
In the Philippines region, hundreds of natives faced embarrassment as the total solar eclipse of yesterday failed to end the world after 300 years. Scientists collected reports while locals scrambled to recover belongings given away in fear of the predicted apocalypse.
Mexican Catholic leaders remain silent as President Portes Gil signals willingness to discuss religious law issues with church authorities. They await Rome's guidance and expect Archbishop Ruiz y Flores to define the church's position.
May 9 report from New Lexington notes eighth grader Rhea Caughenbaugh at Dogwood School Madison Township near Mt. Perry has not missed a day or been tardy since first grade, eight years of perfect attendance.
Dr J M Higgins Athens County health commissioner orders a 60 day tie down for all dogs in The Plains district after a rabid dog owned by John Eisler of The Lower Plains was killed. No human or animal bites are believed to have occurred per Dr D C Snow. Quarantines extend to Coolville Amesville Kimberly Mineral Marshfield Carbondale and Five Points.
Two hundred eighty five cases are listed on the Common Pleas Court May term docket with 119 state prosecutions. Jury names include Grand Jury members from Ames York and Troy and a lengthy Petit Jury roster listing residents from Troy York Dover Trimble Canaan and others.
John J. Raskob, noted for his financial management at General Motors, proposes installment plan investments for workers and small investors. The plan targets gradual purchase of stocks by ordinary savers.
Mr Raskob delays enterprise waiting for a more notable market. Julius Rosenwald urged buying Woolworth at 118 and Radio Corp under 100, but many still wait for a lower price. The lesson remains that action, not waiting, makes men rich.
The Santa Fe begins service on June 9 cutting travel time between New York and Southern California by fourteen hours, reducing the trip to three nights. The cross country run from Chicago to Los Angeles will take fifty eight hours.
The article notes imminent rapid transcontinental flight service. It references flying machines on lines including Pennsylvania-Santa Fe and National City Bank-United Aircraft and predicts ocean to ocean travel in thirty hours, with future improvements to six hours.
Mr Jones a physicist in Mr Eastman’s Rochester laboratory arranges sixteen tints for coloring talking pictures. Colors would fit changing emotion in scenes with love scenes labeled rose toree and directors could color films to suit audience emotion.
Hollywood reports John Gilbert and Ina Claire will wed in Las Vegas as Constance Talmadge and Townsend Netcher tied the knot yesterday at Buster Keaton’s home, while a prior film couple’s ceremony remains a topic of talk.
Victor Hanson received a late night call to deliver a case to an address. He delivered to Willard E. Barcus, federal prohibition agent in charge of Cincinnati. Hanson faces arraignment today on charges tied to a promibilioa law event.
Eldeberry West must work six months on city streets and serve nights in Athens City Jail to pay a total of 316 dollars in fines and costs after repeated arrests for possessing intoxicating liquor. Mayor Woodworth announced the measure following arraignment and sentencing.
Former secretary of state Frank B. Kellogg, returning from Europe, will travel to St. Paul to reopen the law practice he left 15 years ago. He declined comment on reparations talks, noted broad peace sentiment in Europe, and praised Dawes' appointment as ambassador to Great Britain.
The city council approved a comprehensive traffic ordinance last Monday night. The Messenger publishes six columns of the text today and again next week as required by law. The ordinance goes into effect Thursday June 6 and covers rules for drivers and pedestrians alike. Readers are urged to study its provisions from start to finish.
The five day grand jury session is now six days with a report possibly not ready before Monday. If 20 plus cases remain, and the jury meets again next week, it could be the longest term in years. Witness fees total $460 with 253 witnesses to date. 72 were summoned today. Several cases involve liquor manufacture, four as third offense. five women are named in the charges.
Newton D. Baker former secretary of war and crime commission head warned in Cleveland that open western spaces are safer while big cities grow more lawless, depicting a new crime era in the United States.
Dwight Harrison, former official of the defunct R L Dollings Company, must serve a seven year sentence after conviction for falsifying a circular. He was admitted to Ohio penitentiary in 1926 on a three to five year term for false statements about Dollings Company interests. Federal officials confirmed he must serve the postal violations as well.
Columbus report says Ivan Pickering 24, escapee from the Junction City brick plant fire, repudiated his yesterday confession as coerced, claiming no knowledge of what caused the blaze. The statement follows his Hamilton interview and aligns with his prior denial.
A slain Kernshaw service station owner Frank Bowen was found in a car in Charleston after a robbery and shooting. Three suspects Elizabeth New Jersey tourists Morrison Wilmott and Violet Wilmott were captured. a grand jury will weigh murder charges. The 14 year old bride Violet is in jail. Morrison is a former Jersey Central Railroad special officer and Wilmott a florist and greenhouse operator.
Authorities guarded the county jail as three tourists including a woman were detained over the murder of Hernshaw station owner Frank Bowen. Walter Wilmott and ten Elizabeth residents were stopped while speeding. Bowen’s body was found under an overcoat in the back seat. Wilmott allegedly said they waylaid Bowen at Hernshaw, switched license plates, then headed toward Charleston.
Lt A Soucek pilots a small biplane while awaiting Bureau of Standards barograph data to confirm a record height. He claimed a 40,000 foot reading before engine limit halted ascent, risking eye injury as temperatures dropped.
President Hoover discussed Col Theodore Roosevelt as a potential office holder but reports of an agreement to succeed Horace M. Towner as governor of Puerto Rico were not confirmed at the White House today.
ZANESVILLE May 9 U P D reports that Chuck Connors, indicted for first degree murder in the Ravenswood West Virginia case, was captured by Constable Huteskey of Rimersburg Pennsylvania. He faced charges tied to the death of Henry Walbrown and was linked with co defendant Thelma Bonifant who was acquitted.
George W. Wickersham of New York is chosen for the Hoover Commission of Inquiry on law enforcement. He may not serve as chairman as he declined the post due to business commitments. Former President Coolidge is not expected to join the commission.
Senate lapses on a farmer aid proposal as House Democrats spar over a bounty idea and tariff actions. The dispute signals mounting trouble for the administration as lawmakers clash on agricultural policy and trade measures.
New York editor Marlen K. Pew urged nationwide action against graft and the rackets in a speech to journalists at the Missouri Press Congress. He cited the murder of Don Mellett in Canton and called for civic renewal and honest public service by local newspapers.
Twenty English ceramic experts plus American delegates will tour clay manufacturing sites in the Hocking Valley and nearby districts May 12 and 13. They will visit Zanesville New Lexington New Straitsville and Haydenville with tours of Logan Greendale and Logan Clay plants and a dinner at the Spinning Wheel in Logon before traveling to Columbus.
In Gastonia North Carolina a group of 13 textile workers drove toward Washington to seek congressional inquiry into mill working and sanitary conditions along the North Carolina textile belt.
In Pomeroy a 56 year old man, J W Jones, lifted one end of a heavy metal beam weighing 1709 pounds by 15 inches, while the other end rested on his shoulder. He raised himself 18 inches with the beam, raising him and the beam by muscular effort. Did he lift half the beam’s weight?
Congressman M A Michaelson of Chicago was acquitted by a federal jury of violating the national prohibition law. Spectators packed the courtroom cheered as the defense centered on trunks claimed to contain liquor, with Michaelson and Walter Grann as key witnesses.
Heavy coal trains leave Pomeroy for Hocking Valley Railroad as the new Stalter Essex mine near Syracuse reports strong output. On Tuesday the Syracuse mine shipped 60 tons with a projection of 1200 tons daily soon. The same day No 5 mine on Thomas Fork loaded 1.10 tons and passed through the new coal washer recently established.
A Midwest coalition of GOP farm lawmakers and Democrats push a debenture tariff plan to pay farmers via plastic bounty certificates equal to half the import tariff on exports. Wheat would yield 21 cents per bushel. Vote in Senate 74 to 44 signals growing cross‑party backing.
Meigs County Dog Warden Henrys Seidenable reports continued sheep killings by dogs in rural districts. He notes $760 worth of losses in April and expects May losses to match April, with payments to be drawn from the dog licensing fund.
The House Ways and Means Committee today reports a new tariff bill favorably by a 16 to 2 vote. The measure advances to the full House for consideration as leaders seek new trade policy.
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