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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1936
Page
1
Athens County voters faced a long wait for tabulations with turnout under 10,500. Key races included Sheriff Stratton victory, Eleanor Minister for clerk of courts, L. F. Jones for coroner, and W. Wilson for engineer as late results shifted several margins.
In New York a hotel show displayed compact living with retractable cupboards and portable sinks built into walls. A joke about mistaking a double boiler for a tub adds light note to the event. classified ads offer a Walnut baby bed with drop sides for 7.50 by Richmond.
Passaic New Jersey Kasper quadruplets aim for financial success four days after birth as mayor Ed Turner’s business manager signs exclusive photo and interview deal with a New York newspaper. Down payment is 750 dollars with 40 dollars weekly for the first year and a 10 dollar raise on the babies first birthday.
In Gallia County eighteen of thirty precincts report at noon with leaders for re election. Betz leads Republican for state representative, Hatfield leads for sheriff, McCormick Rees and Myers ahead for clerk of courts recorder and treasurer. Ewing Jones and Haskins top for county commission. Roosevelt leads Breckenridge. Taft delegates favored. Cox leads Democratic Congress nomination and Jenkins leads Republican for Congress.
The General Conference elected two new bishops on the south ballot, choosing Dr. Wilbur Hammaker of Youngstown and Dr. Charles W. Flint of Syracuse University. Strong candidates were Dr. Harry W. McPherson and Dr. John B. Magee, with Hammaker and Flint winning two thirds. Both new bishops align with a less liberal stance than the federation's social service goals.
The National Labor Relations Board ordered Wheeling Steel Corporation of Wheeling West Virginia to stop alleged unfair labor practices. After hearings the board found the company violated the National Labor Relations Act by refusing to bargain collectively with employees represented by the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers of North America.
In St Paul Minnesota federal officials say Alvin Karpis co leader of the Barker Karpis gang will try to clear up the Edward G Bremer kidnaping case He is the last of 26 indicted who remains alive or unsentenced Fourteen were slain by agents or gangsters and the rest were imprisoned Campbell pleaded guilty and received a life term.
Columbus reports a drop of 1318 in the number of workers employed on Ohio projects last week, according to state headquarters of the administration.
Pike County administration and board were charged with 2728.67 dollars in recoverable funds per a county OB file report. The disclosure appears in today’s county records and notes the fiscal finding.
Dr Willis L Gard 67 longtime education professor at Ohio University died suddenly of a heart attack in his Ellis Hall office on Tuesday May 12 at 3 16 pm He was completing his 28th year and leaves a wife Olive and son Leavitt. Funeral set for May 14 at the Presbyterian Church with interment in Poland Indiana that evening.
Louisville report says Thomas H. Robinson Jr. may plead guilty to kidnapping Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll in exchange for a prison sentence, though U S District Attorney Bunk Gardner denies any deal. Robinson, a 29 year old female impersonator, was captured after a lengthy fugitive status. his father planned to hire counsel in Nashville. Frances Robinson and Thomas Robinson Sr. were tried last fall for complicity and acquitted.
Floyd F. Mees, Pomeroy businessman, captured the Republican nomination for state representative in Meigs County with 2,727 votes. Opponents Ben Turner 1,531 L. D. McMaster 1, +43 Burt Knight 839. Sheriff race won by Delbert Welker 2,175. Congressman Jenkins defeated Edwin Jones 4,114 to 2,537. Bricker leads GOP for governor with 3,933. Democrats nominate Davey 1,025 and Young 265. County offices See details: Thom a 505. Beegle 4,001. Bingham 5,287. Bolin 2,831. Meinhart over Davis 1,674 and Young 1,361. Weeks for treasurer 2,969 to 2,581. Beards 3,068 over Gibbs 1,895 and Wood 836.
Speaker Joseph W. Burns read a letter from William Green of the American Federation of Labor urging House friends of labor to oppose the bill. The AFL nominee letter signals administration opposition as leaders fear the 83 000 000 000 Frazier Lemke farm inflation bill may pass despite earlier predictions of a 50 vote defeat.
Washington Authorities discharge Arch W. Loney, a government wood expert who had sought clemency for Bruno Hauptmann. Ickes claimed Loney failed to disclose a prior Pittsburgh arrest on a job application. the charge was dropped and Loney exonerated.
Logan staff report notes Dem ballots dominated the high turnout primary Tuesday in Hocking County with close races for county commissioner and county recorder. Precincts not tallied at noon delayed winner determinations, listing detailed tallies for state and local offices across parties.
Newton D. Baker former secretary of war and current chief counsel for five power companies accuses the New Deal of spending 1,175,000 to study a national power program while denying any such plan exists. He argues a 200,000,000 municipal power program is unconstitutional and cites PWA actions under Harold L. Ickes to finance hydroelectric projects. Jerome Frank, PWA attorney, disputes the claim.
The tabulation of state primary election returns was believed to have been the slowest in years, hindered by large ballots and many candidates seeking office.
Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the Republican National Committee, complains of censorship in the campaign paper Uncensored. He mails a mutilated page copy to Postmaster General James A. Farley and seeks an investigation and orders to end the practice.
A Cambridge police officer cited a horse in Cambridge for parking improperly after it stood too far from the curb. The incident notes a humorous clash of city rules and street life as an animal encountered urban enforcement.
A United Press report notes that if the dollars the treasury spent on relief during the downturn were laid end to end they would encircle the globe 48 times, illustrating the scale of wartime and postwar aid.
In Athens County primary results Republicans favor state representative H T Phillips and others across offices including Oliver Rowland for Common Pleas judge Samuel Johnson for Pro bate judge Harold Rose for prosecuting attorney J Clyde Edmundson and John Hope for county offices Eleanor Minister for clerk of courts Georgia Kilpatrick for treasurer and J W Wilson for coroner Democrats back George A Banks Ira Whitmore and Walter Maccombs for county commissioners Ruth Burdette for clerk of courts Charles Bayless for sheriff Madge Rothermel for recorder John Preston for treasurer B F Becker Jr for engineer and A L Pritchard for coroner unopposed
Four persons die and eleven injured in a blaze at Sham rock Night Club in San Francisco. A torch dancer Betty Blossom dropped a flaming torch, igniting draperies and fueling a stairway crush as patrons fled.
Rome reports an imminent proclamation by Premier Benito Mussolini that Italy has resigned from the League. The decision, foreshadowed by Virginio Gayda of The Giornale d'Italia, frames Italy as tired of Geneva and prepared to depart with disciplined detachment.
A decade long tariff war ends with a commercial treaty to promote profitable trade between France and the United States. It secures French market access for American auto makers fruit growers fish canners while opening the U S to French perfumers vintners and lacemakers.
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico Congressman Marion Zioncheck demanded Marines guard him during his honeymoon after a wild sequence ending with a crash into a gate. He and his bride were involved in a chaotic pursuit that included a fisherman, a pistol threat, and a tense stand near a Puerto Rican house. Authorities struggled to contact Governor Winship as Zioncheck escalated the incident.
Washington officials report Chairman Hatton W. Sumners of the House judiciary committee urged Congress to stop issuing patents on labor-saving devices amid rising unemployment. The proposal targets delaying patents during the current jobless period to curb widespread displacement.
Washington. U P Work Progress Administrator Harry L Hopkins issues a double barrell directive to all state WPA directors forbidding armed guards and prohibiting blacklist of workers who organize. The move targets suppression of labor organizing amid wartime social controls.
Ohio primary returns show Taft leading GOP delegates with Borah likely to win district seats. Gov. Davey leads Republicans by about 70 000 votes as Bricker is nominated for governor. Roosevelt dominates Democratic side with Breckinridge as anti New Deal rival. Bricker, Paul M. Herbert and others lead their fields in statewide races.
With 600 of 2 347 precincts reporting, Attorney General Homer A Holt holds a lead of about 9000 votes for the Democratic nomination for governor in West Virginia while Judge Summers H Sharp continues to lead the Republican race in the same precincts.
The Hindenburg raced toward its new home port in Germany en route to a trans Atlantic record from Lakehurst New Jersey. Tail winds were expected as it covered 3895 miles toward England at about 75 knots on the Great Circle Route with a current record of 55 hours 22 minutes.
The House Interstate Commerce Committee reported favorably for House action in amended Sea Bill. It provides for federal regulation of gas in interstate commerce under the Federal Power Commission. It does not limit production but urges states to enter compacts as conservation.
Auglaize County Board of Elections reports a rule that last precinct committeemen reporting tabulations are automatically discharged. As a result, county results are tallied by 11 30 p m each election night with results ready before midnight.
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