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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1933
Page
1
Local solicitors begin a five day canvass to boost the Community Chest and Red Cross memberships. Johnson and Rose coordinate talks at a breakfast meeting in Cincinnati, urging funds for relief and aid to stricken homes and unemployed workers.
Akron reports two balloonists Lieutenant Commander T W G Settle and Major Chester Foundy launched from Municipal Airport to reach the stratosphere. The air tight gondola and hydrogen balloon drifted southeast, reaching 4000 feet as ballast was dumped for a rapid ascent toward 36000 feet and then 58000 feet later. Conditions for cosmic ray study and scientific observations were declared perfect.
Fragmentary notice recounts Abraham Lincoln era event on November 2 in Pennsylvania. Mentions Slests Ger and the dedication of a New York MoEPOnator and an 1863 cavalry battle. Readable names and places are sparse.
Dispute between O W Merrell state director of highways and George S Myers secretary of state bursts into public as Mrs Maud M Rutherford is named deputy registrar of motor vehicles in Athens effective Dec 1 replacing the present clerk David Johnson who also runs the election board. Myers had appointed C L Jordan for Athens earlier and other deputies across Albany Coolville Glouster Nelsonville while Merrell announced a rival Albany deputy and transfers follow the legislature move of the bureau to the highway department.
Ivan Persinger a 28 year old deckhand on the Steamer Otto Marmet fell from the front barge into the Ohio River at Gallipolis Island while the tow moved before daybreak He had married two weeks ago and resided at Raymond City W V Search is under way for his body
A wartime era appeal emphasizes feeding and clothing the hungry while expanding relief to the aged, desolated families, hospitalization, home nursing and youth guidance. Federal and state funds back local welfare efforts as Newton D. Baker and Mrs. Roosevelt back the Community Chest to meet lean year needs.
Washington business leaders from the Association of Reserve City Bankers and the U S Chamber of Commerce publicly oppose Roosevelt administration finance experiments. They reject permanent bank deposit insurance and any plan to devalue the dollar to restore price levels. Conflicts are seen between Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board and the Reconstruction Finance Corp over credit expansion. Roosevelt defends experimentation while labeling opponents as stories and doubting Thomases.
Seven Negroes charged with the Scottsboro assault case plead not guilty at arraignment in Decatur Alabama before Circuit Judge W W Callahan. George W Chamlee of the International Labor Defense Counsel moves to quash indictments as fifteen armed guards stand on duty with governor approval.
Maria Brown known as Mrs. Charlies Tribe aged 22 died at Sheltering Arms Hospital at 8 p.m. Saturday from childbirth complications. She lived on R. D. 9 and leaves husband, infant son, father W. H. H. Brown, four sisters and six brothers. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. Hebbardaville Church with Reverends Warner and Radford. burial Hebbardsville Cemetery. Friends may visit at the W. H. H. Brown home.
Slight improvement reported in the condition of Dr. 8 H Bing, Ohio University faculty member, seriously ill at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis. He underwent an operation and blood transfusion Friday night. Miss Marianna Bing arrived from New York City to Gallipolis and is with Mrs. Bing and family at his bedside.
James Stewart aged 73 of Zanesville died of a heart attack while hunting on Saturday. The body was taken to the farm home of his daughter Mrs Charles Bell in Center Township Morgan County for burial arrangements.
E H Rardin sub manager for Athens Meigs and Vinton counties with the Ohio Home Owners Loan Corporation is assigned charge of Lawrence Jackson and Gallia counties The move is through Thomas C Dye Columbus district No 1 manager The six counties form Sub District No 5 for the 10th District in Southeastern Ohio Applications from McCormick in Gallipolis will be sent to Bardin for checking.
The Federal Home Loan Board announces a new division of the Cincinnati Home Loan Bank to aid formation of federal savings and loan associations. John H. Fahey says the unit will help communities lacking adequate home financing facilities, with C. Gordon Jones heading the Cincinnati division.
Akron reports St Vincent’s High School will be suspended from the Ohio High School Athletic Association until January 1 for using two ineligible players on its football team.
Ohio state civil works administration prepares to appoint a state paymaster to distribute the first 2.2 million dollars in CWA wages this week. Major Ellis Braught says garnishee actions will not affect federal payrolls and county disbursements will use normal channels. Athens County lists 1,210 workers and 7,260 dollars in clothing allotments.
Cleveland, Nov 2. Jease Kearney, 36, bakery truck driver, poisoned ginger ale for wife and three children then shot himself. Two children died, mother and one child critically ill. A broken water main left the home short of water and a quarrel preceded the tragedy.
Washington November 20 relief officials report about one in five people in Ohio's nine largest cities rely on federal or local aid. In October 118,348 families and individuals were on relief rolls, up from 115,367 in September, with an estimated 520,000 persons on relief using the Hopkins formula. Expenditures rose from 2,441,445 to 2,625,918 dollars.
Governor George White endorsed the advisory commission’s liquor report but rejected a state monopoly. He favored removing profit motive in liquor handling, supported sales by the glass in clubs and hotels with limits, and urged strict local option protections and a prudent tax to curb profiteering. He also backed nominating the state liquor commission by unofficial organizational heads.
D A R McKinstry age 85 died at noon Sunday at his son’s home 107 East State Street after long illness. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm at the family residence Hebbardsville Cemetery burial. Former clerk of courts for 12 years. taught school and owned Albany Echo. last worked in real estate. Survived by widow from second marriage, five children, two brothers, two sisters and many relatives.
In Cincinnati a mail truck driver Harry Dyer 47 allegedly intoxicated crashed into a fireplug and shot Louis Backs 68 a factory watchman in the back as he retreated Dyer then assaulted restaurant patron Thomas Craddock who was struck in the face. Dyer later claimed amnesia about the events.
Column by Will from Santa Monica notes warm weather leaves Californians with little to do and jokes about global blame, J. P. Morgan’s White House visit, and shifts among big men as the country trends Democratic.
In Columbus on November 2, the Ohio Advisory Liquor Control Commission report modification faces bill drafting issues. The draft suggests three liquor commission appointments from nonofficial nonpartisan state groups, but a drafting panel finds this unconstitutional under Section 27 of the Ohio Constitution which restricts appointing power.
In Athens and Coolville, voters faced tied totals and the board used coin tosses to break deadlocks. Mrs Eva Van Dyke and Charles Day tied at 193 for Third Ward council in Athens while Ralph Chevalier and D C Davis tied at 67 for Coolville council. A recount paused another Trimble Township trustee tie. The board planned further recounts and checks in multiple precincts and mayoral races.
Athens County moves from grocery orders to cash wages under the civil works program. 1210 men began 30 hour weeks at prevailing 40 cent hourly rate with road projects in multiple townships and a plan to add 600 more by Wednesday. Officials from Nelsonville and Columbus outlined funding, payroll, and construction rules as relief transitions.
The Rev Charles E Chandler of Johnstown Ohio a former Athens M E Church pastor will speak at the anniversary service at the local church Tuesday night at 7 30. The quartet will sing violin solo by Prof W Bennett Shimp and Mrs Charley Clendenin of Youngstown director of the Reform Church Choir at Columbiana will sing. Tonight there is a social at the church at 6 30 and services are held each night this week except Saturday.
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation distributed nearly 4.5 million dollars in cash and bonds to 1,415 Ohio homeowners as part of weekly loan disbursements. The report covers the weekend and cites Columbus as the center of these activities.
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