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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1939
Page
1
Reports from Prague claim Nazi actions in Bohemia and Poland were harsher than admitted with executions and student deaths cited in a Prague riot. Berlin officials deny turmoil, while allies reinforce neutral trade and mine clearance as aerial and naval battles persist with sporadic disturbances near London.
Berlin reports Baron von Neurath has been summoned to report to Hitler on Prague disorders. High Nazi leaders have been sent to Prague to restore order in Bohemia Moravia. Nazis claim Czech disorders are curbed and note executions of 12 students last week to deter further protests.
Bayonne New Jersey Captain Andrew Bastian of Standard Oil dismissed sabotage as the cause of an explosion on the tanker J. J. Mowinckel. The blast damaged an 8000 gallon compartment, four people injured including a woman two miles away, others with ankle injuries from leaping to the pier.
Washington U P Ap pointment of 150 key officials who will direct enumerators in the decennial census next year was announced Saturday night by Director William L. Austin of the census bureau. Appointees include area managers or assistant area managers at salaries from 175 to 350 dollars a month. About 50 additional assistant area managers are to be named. These will be trained locally by those selected today.
Mrs. Mary Brown Martin, first Black member elected to the Cleveland board of education, died Sunday from a cerebral hemorrhage after bronchial pneumonia.
Cleveland Democrats push for a relief session as Rep. McGregor charges Rep. Feighan with bad faith. He cites voting records showing Feighan and six Cleveland colleagues opposed relief bills and questions future support for welfare levy changes.
New Deal economist members of the Federal Monopoly Committee say anti-trust laws must be modernized to curb potential steel industry monopoly. Testimony suggests monopolistic competition and restricted competition, with price discrimination basing point use and market control cited as concerns. If Sherman and Clayton acts aren’t updated, monopoly may become uncheckable.
Louisville police test seven strands of hair found with the partly nude body of Bonnie May Robinson in South Louisville. The 30 year old woman had been missing since Wednesday and was reportedly assaulted. A neighbor saw a tall dark man with her early Wednesday as detectives interview workers on a relief project.
Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee said the executive committee will meet in Washington on December 7 to map plans for the 1940 campaign. The group will review national organization activities since the last gathering but will not discuss convention plans, which are reserved for the full committee.
Havana Cuba U P reports the government opposition won 41 of 76 seats in the national constituent assembly with 401 of 5 764 precincts reported, a setback to Col Fulgencio Batista and his presidential hopes as the assembly prepares to draft a new constitution next month.
Fritz Kuhn's wife went to his defense against larceny charges in New York. She is expected to testify he is a model husband while he allegedly used band funds to move Florence Camp's furniture from San Francisco to Cleveland and aid Virginia Cogswell, Georgia Beach, and others. His attorney Peter Sabbatino is to close the defense.
Federal Labor Conciliator James F. Dewey called negotiators to a conference in Detroit to push a final session in the 46 day Chrysler UAW CIO wage dispute. The talks have kept about 60,000 workers idle as negotiators deadlocked on a proposed 10 cent per hour raise and vacations with pay.
In Alameda California a midair collision of two small planes killed two men. Chester D. Vienot 33 an AFL cleaners and dyers union organizer and Peter C. Peterson 28 a bookkeeper died after the crash into the tide flats of the bay.
In Louisville a fight aboard the Duffy was blamed for the drowning of master pilot Capt. William Daugherty and deck-hand John Brendel. Daugherty, 63, of Louisville, and Brendel, 42, of Utica Indiana, argued at supper then disappeared on the starboard deck ten minutes after. They were last seen between Charlestown landing and Twelve Mile Island. coast guards planned to drag the Ohio River.
A German bomber crashed on Dutch soil near Roermond after Dutch anti-aircraft fire. It was unclear if the plane was shot down or crashed while evading fire. the pilot was killed as the aircraft violated Dutch neutrality by entering Holland.
The British report 14 ships sunk in nine days due to mines in the North Sea signaling resumed German unrestricted warfare. Among the losses were the Torchbearer and Wigmore with crews of 13 and 16, and the Dutch liner Simon Bolivar with 400 aboard, many survivors distributed across Harwich Colchester and London hotels.
Former Kaiser Wilhelm II narrowly escaped injury as a cyclone swept his private park near Doorn. The storm felled three beech trees over three feet thick, their trunks breaking into segments and parts hurled into the ground. He returned home alarmed and offered prayers of thanks.
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor defended the AFL in its four year feud with the CIO. He released a pamphlet calling it a complete chronicle and urged the public to read the record, study the facts, and draw its own conclusions about peace efforts.
Ohio State University trustees near selecting a new president after Dr. Rightmire's 1938 retirement. The Dec 11 meeting may name the successor from three candidates Dr. James Grover McDonald Dr. Wilson Penn and Dr. Frank P. Graham.
Nelson Berkey, 23, a gas station attendant in Ashland, was shot in the back during a holdup that netted 22 cents and $300 more not recovered. Authorities said the masked youth fled after Berkey handed over the money. Berkey was hospitalized in serious condition and the operation’s leader, J. E. Bohn, released a statement.
In Dallas Corinne Maddox a stenographer shot and killed Brooks Coffman an attorney on a crowded street using a 32 and a 38 caliber pistol. She claimed Coffman attacked her during a May stabbing and forced a trip to the country. She said Coffman slapped her and stalked her for weeks.
Prof. James E. Pollard of the Ohio State University journalism school said German propaganda of an official type is being received at the university. The German library of information in New York has been mailing copies of Facts in Review to the school.
Washington sources report President Roosevelt promised the Army and Navy preferential tax treatment for manufacturers expanding facilities to meet national defense needs. Closing agreements with the government would predefine depreciation and obsolescence rules under the Vinson Trammell Act, avoiding new legislation and easing investment risk for expansion.
President Roosevelt returned to Washington after Hyde Park and teased reporters about his 1940 plans while dedicating a $350 000 library for his papers. He hinted at July 1941 when his official papers would be opened to the public, remarking for the press to write about tomorrow.
Fritz Thyssen, German iron and steel magnate once aided the Nazis, says in a letter to United Press that his opposition to the war and Reich policy forced him to leave Germany. He is staying with his family at Locarno, Switzerland.
The German steamer Windhuk, 16 662 tons, reportedly escaped Lobito Portugal West Africa disguised as a British ship and carrying a full armament of a sea raider. The crew includes picked men from other German ships interned at Lobito.
A four hour fire battle in Richmond Indiana yesterday damaged the International Harvester cream separator plant. Firemen brought the blaze under control. loss assessment was not yet estimated.
Five members of the Ohio National Guard were arrested and charged with desertion for not reporting for general mobilization in November. Federal authorities filed the charges against the guardsmen, detailing their absence during a key mobilization period.
Randall Martin charged with first degree murder for the shooting of his son-in-law Granville Write was held to the Gallia County Grand Jury under a $1,500 bond after arraignment. Martin failed to furnish bond.
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