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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1933
Page
1
The liquor control commission discussed proposed changes including permits for sale and home consumption on a limited basis. Views favored tighter licensing with potential revocation options and an executive head, pending Governor approval and further meetings.
A six state storm sweeps into the Midwest from the Dakotas and Missouri driving temperatures down to 18 degrees below zero at Lookout Ont and Duluth area. Rain follows with a sharp drop in cooling winds and a 70 mile per hour gusts expected.
A brief item notes a surveyor, identified as Carol Ohio, tied to a road building and highway material project. Officials indicate improvements will be made with a contract under a set budget and schedule.
Washington reports Henry Morgenthau Jr. replaced William Woodin and Dean Acheson in the Treasury as the dollar and bonds fell. Morgenthau sworn in as undersecretary amid talks of a France Britain alliance to fight a cheapened dollar. Inflation advocates cheer the shift toward controlled inflation.
Ralph R. Brown recently became chief psychologist at the United States Penitentiary for drug addicts. A former Ohio University psychology graduate (1931), he joined the Institute for the Study of Child Behavior in Chicago, then the hospital for the insane at Dickson, and the Leavenworth Federal Prison staff before taking his current post with broad authority and extensive equipment. Brown was active in debate and oratory as a student and Torch member.
November 16 in Wooster shows a frigid start at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station with the mercury at one degree above zero, the coldest this early in November in 45 years of records.
An old Messenger classified ad demonstrates quick cash by selling poultry, supplies, a used car, or renting rooms. Cox Bros at 77 W Union St report success, noting a couch sold to a waiting customer before opening. A studio couch with coil springs priced at $10 is advertised by Cox Bros.
R C Hess Athens Welfare Association president told Chamber of Commerce luncheon that President Roosevelt’s 1933 mobilization for human needs calls communities to supplement federal and state aid. He cited Red Cross Salvation Army Boy and Girl Scouts 4-H Ohio University YWCA and local hospital care as examples of expanded service beyond hunger and shelter.
Two state highway patrol officers will be stationed in Athens temporarily until barracks are built. They will live in a private home with a marked office, and use motorcycles with sidecars. An Athens Outpost Office will be set up near a key road intersection, with a roadside sign and telephones to contact other outposts.
New York November 16 U P reports Conrad H. Mann who served five months for violation of Federal Lottery Laws will return to Kansas City after a presidential pardon. He must pay a $10,000 fine. Co defendant Bernard C. McGuire was sent to Lewisburg federal penitentiary to begin a one year and one day term.
Oil Administrator Ickes announced the proposed price fixing schedule may be postponed to allow opponents to be heard. The delay follows protests from producers and refiners against hasty action.
In Chicago on November 16 a Fort Yukon Alaska Eskimo named Francisco Zepeda was arrested on a four count charge of stealing two fountain pens. He allegedly tried to trade the pens for ear muffs.
Paris reports two French aviators missing since June 30 over Portuguese Guinea were slaughtered and eaten by Cannibals of the Cacheo River Region. Pilot Gate and wireless operator Constant Bree were identified. Gate's wife joined Portuguese detachment led by Captain Rouxel to search for them.
Ohio's opening of hunting season sparks deadly and injurious incidents across the state. Four deaths are reported from shotgun wounds, heart attacks, and a train collision car crash. The deceased include Robert Snodgrass, Ed Pendlum, Gus Artz, and J J Moonan. Injured victims include Stephen Stawicki, Mick Anders, Sam Brown, Charles Harper, George Heindel, and Alfred Gerdeman.
Washington reports indicate closer American recognition of the Soviet Union after Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov's White House visit. Circles expect an immediate trade expansion understanding and ample credit facilities for Soviet purchases, while AFL President William Green reiterates opposition to recognition.
The Saxilby crew of 27 men abandoned ship in a storm off the Irish coast and were deemed lost after a search by the Berengaria failed to locate the lifeboat. The liner continued toward Cherbourg, France.
A 1,700 Armour and Company employees walked out in South St Paul after plant officials refused a 10 cent an hour wage increase demand. The walkout began today and affects the packing plant operations.
Mayor Robert S. Wood requests a recount of the Athens second ward precinct two mayoral vote, where Len McCune leads 166 to 129. Three other recounts and three coin toss tie contests are set for the election board next week, with readings on Coolville and Trimble Township races also due.
Washington Navy 16 A reservation to secure constitutional press freedom was scheduled for the code for newspaper publishers. NRA officials delayed comment but after Hugh S Johnson’s tour return it seemed objections to the publishers association demand would be withdrawn. The key question remained if the administration would accept the association’s language or offer a differently worded clause.
Nine Ohio counties will provide emergency schools financed by Federal funds under a SH.1 grant approved by L. R. Alderman. Idle teachers will teach cultural and practical subjects, including Athens County which was allotted 234 dollars for this effort.
Youngstown reports researchers at Republic Steel have developed stainless steel false teeth. The new dental product is displayed at the company offices alongside other dental goods, promising sturdier teeth for the bridegroom of the future.
The Louis J. Ramona first degree murder trial linked to the Ellington Apartment fire will move tomorrow to the bedside of Fire Chief James E. Granger. Jurors lawyers judge and defendant will travel to Fire Department Headquarters to hear his testimony as he lies ill.
William I. Myers of New York will succeed Henry Morgenthau Jr. as governor of the Farm Credit Administration. Myers, an ex assistant to Morgenthau, is a former professor of agricultural finance at Cornell University.
Mansfield police discovered a second bomb like the device used in the Mansfield News Journal plant bombing. The makeshift bomb was found in the room of Joseph Puzzo, 22, who had vanished from the city after the attack.
Secretary of Labor Perkins announced that 85,000 workers found jobs in October and weekly payrolls rose by 6,000,000. The figures come from a survey of 89 manufacturing and 16 non manufacturing industries.
Kimball Scott age 28, a Hamilton attorney, died of pneumonia after his wife gave birth to a daughter last Thursday in a Cincinnati hospital, where both were patients.
Lenox B Lohr general manager announced a ban on fan dancers peep shows and other forms of nudity at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. This enforcement aims to maintain family friendly exhibits and public decorum during the event.
NRA employees pressed for a separate code with tighter compliance as Johnson outlines stricter industrial and commercial code enforcement. He ordered public hearings beginning December 12 on profiteering, while NRA workers plan a mass meeting for tomorrow to seek shorter hours and higher pay with AFL leader William Green set to speak.
Beverly Hills writer Will compares Germany and France as two quarrelsome cats. He notes Germany seeks talks and arms while France resists without joint league involvement, urging restraint after prior conflicts.
Perry L. Green of Hiram became president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. Resolutions call for a personal income tax, higher rates in the intangible tax, a general retail sales tax if needed, and higher excise taxes on utilities. They also push using gasoline tax funds for roads, liquor tax to fund old age pensions, a 10 cent per pound oleomargarine tax and 8 cent per pound lard substitute tax. The federation seeks state highway patrol jurisdiction, a state driver license law, county government reform, and four year terms for state county and township officers.
A Big Four Passenger Train No. 5 derailed at Worthington near Columbus shortly after 3 am. One passenger injured as seven steel cars left the track likely due to a broken rail. Doctors and ambulances were dispatched while passengers fled the coaches.
Dr. John D. Brock of Kansas City celebrated four years of a flight a day by taking off with 17 airplanes for a three state tour. The route began in Topeka Kansas then Lincoln Nebraska and Des Moines Iowa with three women pilots among the crew.
The Special Joint Legislative Committee adopts a resolution asking Governor White to add a personal property tax amendment changing listing date to December 31 and to include delinquent tax legislation in the liquor control session. Senator D J Gunsett proposes the measure amid calls for new tax collection methods beyond the old county treasurer-prosecutor system.
Extreme cold after Tuesday's blizzard turns Niagara Falls into sparkling fairyland. Trees sprayed by the Falls glisten with crystal jewels and branches form white latticework as light streaks dazzle observers at Niagara Falls New York.
Three men were found dead late Wednesday in a Greenwich Center rooming house about 15 miles south of Norwalk. Escaping gas fumes were blamed for the fatalities.
Ohio officials at a Washington conference pledged to start public works at once under the federal civil works program. Adjutant General Frank Henderson and Governor White led the state delegation and said Monday jobs at prevailing wage scales could be created for thousands of unemployed with federal aid under the rapid plan.
Ohio reports 200000 unemployed could gain work as 87 more secondary highway projects win Federal Bureau of Public Roads approval. Counties Morgan and Perry included. main highways contracts to eight counties including Perry. State officials aim to end unemployment with federal relief and civil works across Ohio.
William K. Vanderbilt II, 27, heir to the Vanderbilt fortune, was killed when his sedan, speeding north from Miami, crashed into a fruit truck trailer near Ridgeland South Carolina. A companion was injured and the chauffeur severely hurt. The car was said to be traveling about 75 miles an hour.
Police in Chicago issued orders to capture John Dillinger dead or alive after he escaped a trap last night. Dillinger, leader of Indiana outlaws, is linked to two bank robberies totaling about $80,000 and to killing a sheriff in Lima, Ohio, during a jailbreak.
On opening day of hunting season in Findlay nine hunters faced fines totaling 220 dollars. The incident list includes violations and the first day enforcement actions by local authorities.
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