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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Nov 18, 1932

Page

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Campaign Opens On New Fronts In Athens County Chest Drive

The Athens County Community Chest expands its 1933 drive to cover more areas as new givers are sought. Uniformed Salvation Army soldiers tour West Side Athens homes, while high school students in Albany and Amesville organize pledges and cash collections. Cap Reif plans pledge cards at Salvation Army services as totals rise though final figures aren’t in.

Athens Salvation Army Fred Reif Wil

State Relief Commission Approves Aid for Eleven Ohio Counties

The State Relief Commission in Columbus approved 11 counties for relief funds totaling 330 558 dollars in utility excise tax bonds. Fairfield County may divert 5 000 from tag funds. Portage Lorain Miami Hamilton and Niles received designated relief budgets. Akron to receive 31 736 via RF C grant. Massillon bonds purchased 34 000. Monthly checks to Dayton Stark County Columbus and Akron to cover prior federal relief obligations.

Fairfield County Columbus U.P Ohio State Relief Commission Portage County Lorain County Miami Hamilton County City of Niles Reconstruction Finance Corporation Akron R. F.C Massillon Dayton Stark County

Recitation Contest Held at University Awards Given

The third annual Poetry Recitation Contest sponsored by Kappa Gamma and the National Forensic League for Women was held in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Edna May Stauffer Eric Pa won first prize with a gold medal. Doris Lee Fletcher Gillette New Jersey took second. Mary Sullivan earned third. The poem performed was Caravans by Hal Borland, and Stauffer also read Patterns by Amy Lowell and El Dorado by Squires. Judges were H R Wilson and W H Cooper with Mrs L C Staats.

Kappa Gamma National Forensic League For Women Fine Arts Auditorium Edna May Stauffer Eric Pa Doris Lee Fletcher Gillette New Jersey Mary 8 Sullivan Hal Borland Miss Stauffer Amy Lowell Squires H. R. Wilson Ohio University W. H. Cooper L. C. Staats

Sophomore Girls Fall 3–1 to Junior in Class Hockey

Athens High girls opened the class series with a Sophomore team losing 3 to 1 against the Junior team. Frances Wilkes and Marianne Schuler scored for the Juniors while Sophomores included captain Eula Pendergrass and players like Katherine Reynolds and Ruth Phillips. Next week color teams of black and red to be organized for more games.

Athens High Eula Pendergrass Katherine Reynolds Jean Mills Marjorie Cassels Anna Mae Siminton Ruth Phillips Ruth Williams Ruby Rice Mary Winning Ivn Hutchinson Mary E. Littler Katherine Burgess Ruth Shepard Jewel Chandler Agnes Kilpatrick Frances Wilkes Jane Marquis Jean Barlow Mildred Edmundson Betty Littler Juanita Davidson Mary Hedges Frances Metcalf Phyllis Schuler Evelyn Ruston Marianne Schuler

Classified Highlights Offer Real Estate And Furnishings

A Chevrolet coach may be purchased for 25 dollars. Dressed turkeys are offered for sale at 25 cents per pound. A mahogany spindle desk is available for 10 dollars and 75 cents. Classification numbers indicate different ad sections.

Bolin Defense Plans New Trial Motion in Daugherty Dynamite Case

Raymond Bolin of Buchtel faces a postponed sentencing in Athens County Common Pleas Court after a guilty verdict for complicity in the September dynamiting of Curt Daugherty’s home. Bolin’s attorneys intend to file a motion for a new trial within three days. State witness Malachy Byron testified Bolin supplied the dynamite and instructions. Bolin admitted meeting Byron but denied supplying explosives.

Raymond Bolin Buchtel Curt Daugherty Athens County Common Pleas Court Bolin

Fifty Parolees Granted Final Release in Ohio

Ohio Penitentiary parole board freed fifty inmates on final release and revoked paroles for seventeen others. Names include Colonel Stewarts Meigs County larceny, Elza Patrick Athens County larceny, and Earl Summers Athena County shoot to kill.

Columbus Ohio Penitentiary Ohio Board of Parole Colonel Stewart Meigs County Elza Patrick Athens County Earl Summers Athena County

Hoover Enjoys Warm Greeting as He Travels East

President Hoover greets a youthful admirer at Glendale as he travels eastward after a brief rest in California. The smile signals a calm mood during the overall trip.

Hoover California Glendale

Debt rise in Hoover era hints at tax and cut battles

Washington reports a deficit for the fiscal year could reach 2.006 billion as Hoover aides press drastic economy. Secretary Hurley says every department must be cut to the bone while Congress faces tax drive and limited savings from clerks and housing programs.

Washington Hoover Hurley House Appropriations Committee Treasury Congress Garner Burns War and Navy Departments Detroit

Minority report opposes Ohio unemployment insurance plan

A dissent by two members of Governor White’s Unemployment Insurance Commission argues against compulsory unemployment coverage. They warn it could breed idleness, undercut labor independence, and create a costly bureaucratic system funded by workers and employers.

Columbus U.P White Unemployment Insurance Commission W. F. Kirk J F. Lincoln Auragee Ohio England Australia Ohio General Assembly

Efficiency Boost Cuts U S Coal Demand

Columbus November 18 Clyde E Williams assistant director of Battelle Memorial Institute said increased efficiency of combustion devices in heat and power production reduced US coal consumption in recent years. Railroads the largest user cut about 250000 tons from 1919 to 1990 while power plants became about 20 percent more efficient.

Columbus United States Clyde E. Williams Battelle Memorial Institute Willams

Expenses Lighter GOP Campaign Invest Was Not Huge

Columbus dispatch reports the Republican State Campaign Committee spent 55 645 71 during the recent campaign with contributions totaling 55 846 and an unpaid bill of 150 nearly wiping the small unexpended balance. Two years earlier the committee closed with a deficit of 63 000 or more than the recent expenditures.

Columbus Republican State Campaign Committee Brown Republican Committee

Otterbein College Dancing Debate Continues After Vote

Otterbein College in Westerville faces ongoing strife over a dancing ban after students vote to back a protest, framing it as an operative campaign. Harold Martin, Student Council president, says the majority favor dancing and will push the effort.

Westerville U.P Otterbein College Harold Martin

Prosecutor asks for death in Quinlan murder trial

Frank T. Cullitan assistant county prosecutor urged jurors to impose the death penalty on Francis FE Mack Bush for the first degree murder of jeweler Herbert E. Quinlan during an attempted robbery in Cleveland.

Cleveland Francis FE Mack) Bush Herbert E. Quinlan Frank T. Cullitan

Ingalls Campaign Spends Trackable Four Thousand

Columbus Nev report shows 1940s campaign outlays for Ingalls governor bid. Personal expense accounts list 4402 dollars with 1000 dollar state committee contribution and 2027 for printing. Bulkley and others report separate funds and committees with hundreds to thousands in donations and expenditures.

Columbus Nev David B. Ingalls Brown Ingalla Cleveland A &. Ingalls Robert J. Bulkley Bulkley Democratic State Committee Cuyahoga County Senator Thomas Coughtin Lucas County Ingalls-for-Governor Mis J. Warner Toledo

Cochran to push rewrite of Home Loan Bank Board act

Chairman Cochran of the House Expenditures Committee said he would start a drive to rewrite the act creating the Home Loan Bank Board. He charged the board had given false hopes to people and failed to provide mortgage relief to homeowners.

Washington Cochran House Expenditures Committee Today Home Loan Bank Board

Community Farm Food Drive To Reap Summer Work

Ashtabula Township to distribute harvest from Ridgeview Cemetery community farm to fifty needy families tomorrow. 1 800 bushels potatoes 15 tons cabbage 6 500 cans tomatoes plus beans and carrots to be shared, along with flour sugar meat tea coffee and butter.

Abshtabula Ashtabula Township Ridgeview Cemetery

French Cut Expenses ParI . Nov 18 War Ministry trims army costs

The War Ministry announced that Minister of War Joseph Paul Boncour cut 1933 army expenses by 34 million dollars. The move reduced the force by 43 000 men and 527 officers, the first such cut since 1920, with economies for home and overseas defense.

War Ministry Joseph Paul Boncour League of Nations

Roosevelt plans debt talks with Moley and Hoover aides

President elect Roosevelt works with Hoover administration to discuss war debt payments. Prof Raymond Moley of Columbia will be chief adviser as Roosevelt travels to Warm Springs for talks with Congress leaders and Treasury Secretary Mills. London reports Britain may default if December war debt payments are missed.

Raymond Moley Columbia University Bladesk Washington Moever Ogden J. Milla the Treasury Treasury Mille Withtin Roosevelt House Congress

Plot to wreck President Hoover train leads to arrests

Be prudent Wisconsin November 11 authorities charge Henry Vance 37 Beloit man with larceny in a plan to claim a hero reward after endangering President Hoover's special train near Beloit on November five. Vance admitted a plot with others to remove spikes from the Chicago and Northwestern track to wreck the presidential train. He was arrested by railroad detectives while walking the tracks with a crowbar. Hayes White denied ownership of the tool and any plot and was released.

Edward Lamar Lamar Jesse Clark Frankfort Reformatory Janesville Wis Hoover Beinit St Paul Henry Vance Beloit Negro J. 8. Fessenden Vance Chicago & Northwestern Beloit Hayes White Hayes

Clashes Resume at Cora Mine Amid Miner Picket Line

State police and deputies repeated efforts to clear pickets at the Peabody Coal Cora Mine 14 miles north of Springfield. Tear gas drove demonstrators from the highway as workers attempted to reach the mine under police protection amid snowy fields and jeers.

Springfield Cora Peabody Coal Company Here

Boran Buys Time with Army Navy Cut as Tax Alternative

Senator Boran Republican Idaho proposes cutting 300 million dollars from Army and Navy budgets as an alternative to a general sales tax to balance the budget. He rejects the sales tax saying it would hit citizens hard. fate of the tax depends on President Roosevelt and Congress.

Washington Boran Idaho Roosevelt Publican N. Y Coughton NCA Reed Congress House Rainey

Bobcats Travel To Delaware For Rivalry Game

Ohio University fans from Athens and nearby areas prepare to travel for the annual game against Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware. Kickoff is 2 10 PM with a special 745 AM train carrying students and the band. Tickets sold at the Men's Gym and at the stadium. admission $1 65.

Ohio University Delaware Athens Ohio Bobcats Ohio Weeseyan New Heaton High School Athens High Athena Wesleyan

Cadiz Man Harmed By Pellet During Rabbit Hunt

In Cadiz yesterday James Mahoin was injured when a pellet from Emerson Miner’s rabbit hunting shot struck his tooth, breaking it. The incident occurred during a local chase near town.

Cadiz James Mahoin Here Emerson Miner Maholm

French pilots plan non stop Paria to Brazil flight

After Record Lucien Bossoutrot and Jean Mermoz, the crack French flyers prepare a non stop journey from Paria to Brazil to break the existing distance record held by Russell Boardman and John Palum bo of the United States. They intend to follow the African coast then cross the South Atlantic.

Lucien Bossoutrot Jean Mermoz Paria Brazil Russell Boardman John Palumbo United States South Atlantic

Veteran horticulturist Paul Neigemind dies in Ohio hospital

Paul John Neigemind, aged 87, a Franco Prussian War veteran and 15 year horticulturist at the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics, died at Holzer Hospital from pneumonia after surviving a car crash with rib fractures. Born in Munich on Oct 24 1887 he enlisted in 1871. Survived by daughter Mrs Laura Smoot of Girard Pa. Funeral arrangements not announced.

Gallipolis Paul John Neigemind Ohio Hospital Holzer Hospital Munich Germany Laura Smoot Girard

Police uncover cache of dynamite behind riverfront hotel

Gallipolis police chief John Fraley found 25 sticks of dynamite hidden behind the Riverside Hotel at the foot of State Street. He suspects it was stolen from road contractors and cached for transport toward West Virginia. A quantity of fuse was also seen with the dynamite.

Gallipolis John Fraley Riverside Hotel State Street West Virginia

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