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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1929
Page
1
Reported engine failures on the Graf Zeppelin during a trans Atlantic flight lead to fear among passengers and crew about landing in a storm. French port Toulon receives updates as investigators probe cause and seek lessons to prevent future power loss.
Reports describe the battered airship Graf Zeppelin making a perilous approach to Toulon amid storms and alarms. Passengers recount a harrowing voyage as officials inspect engines and Dr. Ludwig Duerr travels from Friedrichshafen to study the machinery.
A fearful warning unfolds as a Cleveland tragedy and a Zeppelin incident are described with mass deaths and long term danger. The account contrasts wargas with civilian catastrophe and notes the deadly potential of future aerial assaults, officials rushing assist and a large rescue effort.
Ed Seipel of Mechanicsburg asserts a record for killing crows using a distress call to lure them. Township records show 1503 crows killed over three years with $200.75 in bounty from Athens Township. He explains other townships also bore their share of the winged destruction as he moves through wooded spots to shoot.
Ohio State Tax Commission sustains Meigs County Board in assessing the Ebersbach estate at over 124000 dollars. Case involves grantees Columbus reports say the value exceeds the county verdict due to assessment errors. Hearing likely in Meigs County Common Pleas Court before an assigned judge. Appeals possible to higher courts.
Columbus May 18 The board of inquiry will convene to investigate a second fire that destroyed the three story woolen mill inside the State Penitentiary last night The blaze caused about 100000 in damage and is being treated as possible arson The incident drew thousands as guards police and firefighters fought the blaze and kept order following a prior prison fire at Junction City earlier this week with 50000 damage The cause remains unexplained and the board will pursue the incendiarism theory
Pikeville report says 11 killed in bootlegging crackdown after Bruce Little shot policeman Lon Robinson and a gun battle left deputy commissioner Ridney Trivette wounded. The victory battle count includes nine prior deaths in ongoing district cleanout efforts.
Debates in Congress turn toward adjournment as administration gains ground. House Ways and Means slows tariff plans while conferees push amendments to satisfy bloc demands. Senate faces apportionment Melon case and origins provision before vacation. Former Senator Irvin Lenroot confirmed 42 to 27 as member of the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals after long debate.
TOULON May 18 Susy the lady gorilla aboard the Graft Zeppelin proves a steady sailor during a storm. She stays in her cabin eating bananas while shouting echoes echo around the ship. She heads to Chicago to join Lincoln Park Zoo.
Dr. O. B. Gibbs of Dalhousie University reported at the Nova Scotia Institute of Science that an electrically powered heart device could sustain life in a cat for hours. The five minute operation involved removing the heart and attaching the device, after which the animal revived and lived on.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss a person named Thumbinge Paticonum, a mention of Givatis Wiles, and a murder near POMEROY. It references riders from Chiuttestan and a Pattte Atountiin context with freight traits and unknown outcomes.
Judge Harley Whitcraft, reassigned from civil to criminal division in Cleveland, will hear his first case in the new role. He is to oversee the Albert Burchet murder trial, with Whitcraft returning home to preside as the case progresses.
Elks leader Glen Memine announced three events in Athens during the coming month. On Tuesday a business visit by Metrose Harbaugh, Southern Ohio district deputy, to the Athens lodge. On Tuesday May 28 a banquet and initiation. On Sunday June 6 the lodge conducts its annual Flag Day service.
Melvin Anderson was mislisted as dead in a Kansas City hospital when his parents were arranging burial. A hospital messenger corrected the record, revealing another boy had died and Melvin, recovering, was alive.
Eight hundred feet of copper wire was stolen from the Coal Company nine at Bind Run Thursday night. Sheriff W. J. Stove and deputies investigate ongoing wire thefts from Ward Township mines.
An elderly cowboy on a long lone journey heads from Oklahoma toward New York City to visit his sister Mea yo Dura. Descriptions note his white beard and western attire as deputies attempt to guide him toward a safer route. He insists the sun guides his travel while continuing along his chosen direction.
A mid air collision over Columbus involved two aircraft. Parachutes deployed during the crash. Army pilot Lieut Salter died after ejecting. Major Trevis, also on board, perished when the craft plunged toward a garage area. Witnesses from Nashville and Los Angeles described the catastrophe and wreckage.
In May 1805 at Sprelaty crews straighten widen and deepen a six thousand foot stretch of the ditch on the Ort Py Shaw Par reels Improvement. John Lavett of Murray City reports five hundred feet completed and that the project seeks to eliminate flood risk from the Murray City area after years of high water. A shorter prior measure failed to achieve full results due to insufficient creek reach.
Columbus May 18 The defunct J L Dollings Company founder Van G Benham, 68, jailed for mail fraud tied to the company collapse, is ordered released by the U S Attorney General. He would have served years with fines. parole denied after pleas. Attorney General Mitchell noted the man’s frail condition and strong opposition to release.
In Battle Creek a hospital report states Mrs. Harry F. Sinclair, wife of the jailed magnate, is a patient at Battle Creek Sanitarium as officials withhold details of her condition. In Toledo, Mrs. Frank Knapp of Cleveland is elected president of the Ohio Service Star Legion at its annual convention.
A scrambled weather bulletin notes mixed conditions across Ohio and Tennessee. Guards and deputies guard facilities in Tennessee amid reports of dynamite blasts tied to a textile strike, with temperatures fluctuating and showers possible midweek and a warming trend later.
Former Athens Mayor Alex Moore is set to return to Athens within days to answer ten charges of embezzlement and larceny. Indictments were returned by the Athens County Grand Jury, with findings detailing shortages and misused funds from November 1927 to March 1929. Returns indicate efforts to pursue charges in the Athens County Common Pleas Court, while Moore reportedly plans to comply with a Montreal origin letter.
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