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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1939
Page
1
Hocking District miners will receive a total of 200000 in pay this Wednesday marking the first of three Christmas season pays benefiting about 3700 miners and local merchants.
In Ohio the Inter-Organization Conference urged that relief crises be addressed by municipal administrations. They criticized Cleveland and several cities for not raising local funds or tapping potential sources while Dayton Akron and Portsmouth had passed levies. A Cleveland council meeting faced threats of self help by relief clients and mayoral warnings against anarchic hunger. Columbus officials noted a nearly 1.5 million dollar relief shortfall.
The second district court of appeals ruled that speeding beyond limits set by law is not enough for a reckless driving conviction. Jack Hanlon, 23, was convicted in Springfield Municipal Court after testimony he drove 45 mph in a 35 mph zone. The court found no evidence of recklessness, noting he stayed on his side of the street and no danger to others was shown.
British Ambassador Lord Lothian deposited the Magna Carta in the Library of Congress for the war period. The document will be kept in a special case under 24 hour guard until the war ends after being exhibited at the New York World’s Fair.
London dispatch reports a new Parliament session opened during the war with the king delivering a war-focused speech. The ceremony lacked pomp as the king traveled in a closed car instead of the royal glass coach.
Report from Brussels states anti aircraft guns opened fire on several foreign airplanes flying over the city. Casualty details were not immediately available.
The State Pardon and Parole Commission continued hearings in the bribery case of former Lorain County Sheriff William F. Grall today. The proceedings were adjourned until November 1940.
About 659 unemployed residents in Athens and nearby areas will share 8300 in corrective payments before the holiday period. Checks range from 1 to 150 dollars with an average near 13 dollars, reflecting a February 23 formula change that raised the average weekly wage and boosted adjustments for 63 percent of claimants.
Grand larceny charges against Fritz Kuhn go to a general sessions jury in New York today. Defense counsel Sabbatino urged jurors to set aside wartime feelings and ridicule Kuhn, insisting his prior effectiveness has been destroyed and his love letters illustrate the ridicule.
In England the start of rationing is delayed to January 8 with butter and bacon limited to four ounces per consumer per week. Minister William Morrison announced in the House of Commons explaining the delay was due to private traders requesting no regulations during the Christmas season.
Elyria Ohio (UP) Mary Strong, 67, of Lorain, seeks an eighth marriage to 57 year old John Zommer after applying for a license. Strong lists six former married names Zommer has been widower twice.
Hamilton Minnesota Republican Rep. Harold Knutson told the Hamilton Women’s Republican Club that danger lies in the President maneuvering the U S toward war. He backed Taft’s view that the New Deal risks future peace, and vowed GOP and Jeffersonian support to block Europe’s war aims.
In Cincinnati at the General Protestant Orphans' Home superintendent Louis W. Tenner recalls four siblings who had never received gifts or heard of Santa Claus. The children recently saw their first movie and asked what a Christmas tree shown on the screen was.
The Commerce Department reports October exports rose 14 percent and imports increased 19 percent from September, reflecting overall gains in U.S. foreign trade despite ongoing European conflict.
A mother and her three sons perished in a Monday fire in New Brunswick New Jersey. The woman reportedly saved two other children by tossing them to safety from a second story window before dying.
Secretary Henry Wallace unveiled the 1940 farm program proposing more than 750 million dollars in government subsidy payments. The plan emphasizes soil conservation, maintains the same total benefits despite rate changes, and depends on a 500 million appropriation by Congress. Acreage goals are adjusted for wheat and corn, with cot ton and other crops' targets largely unchanged.
A WPA program in Athens County repairs toys shoes furniture and personal items for distribution to the needy over 12 months employing 31 people under John Powell. Work began last Wednesday with labor and materials supplied by WPA and the county.
New Haven Conn. administrators of the estate of F Donald Coster Musica former McKesson Robbins president were sued in federal court for 25 821 231 alleging dividends paid between 1928 and 1938 were illegal.
The Navy announced contracts totaling 12,283,824 dollars for armor but said wartime secrecy requires keeping the intended use undisclosed.
The Gasco Food Institute comes to Athens High School auditorium for three days November 29 30 and December 1. Esther Roehm and Dorothy Duncan teach with James Cole managing events in an all gas kitchen. Admission is free and door prizes include a new Tappan gas range.
The Dies Committee met in a special executive session in Washington to consider inviting Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to testify on charges that the American Youth Congress is dominated by the Communist Party. Chairman Martin Dies said she would likely be given a chance to air her views, the first time a president’s wife would appear before a congressional committee.
The Muskingum Valley Association plans a legislative investigation into the Muskingum watershed conservancy district accusing it of extravagance inefficiency and faulty appraisal work. It claims 15 000 taxpayers as members and will send a resolution to State Senator Walter G Nickels this week. The group opposes benefit assessments on properties below flood control dams.
Paris dispatches say a major clash occurred 12 miles east of the Moselle on the western front as a German column tried an artillery blockoff. French grenadiers and machine gunners repulsed the attack leading to hand to hand bayonet fighting in the sector.
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York said he would seek the 1940 Republican nomination if a real demand grows for a World War veteran who favors staying out of European entanglements. He cited a Wheeling American Legion post request as the prompting factor.
Toledo public schools reopened after funds allowed issuance of two weeks of September and two weeks of October pay to about 1500 teachers and staff. A $309000 state foundation fund payment enabled the disbursement amid a prior six week school closure for funding issues. Uncertainty remained about whether all pay would be fully current.
National Coal Association Executive Secretary John D. Battie denounced the St. Lawrence seaway project as a glittering and costly gold brick. He argued the plan would preempt seven million tons of bituminous coal per year and dismissed shifts in framing as political posturing.
Chrysler President K. T. Keller and CIO Vice President Philip Murray met privately to settle key issues delaying a contract as about 60 000 workers were idle. About 400 workers entered the Dodge plant while a 4 000 strong CIO UAW picket line stood along eight blocks guarding the entrance.
The bituminous coal division of the Interior Department has completed government testimony on proposed minimum prices for soft coal. The trial examiners must hear only a few representatives from district boards and a few individual producers before closing the hearing.
BATAVIA officials from Cincinnati report that WPA workers strike in Clermont County is settled today. Thomas Coler and Charles Todd district personnel relations officials say the walkout occurred over Hamilton County supervisors and foremen and the alleged refusal to allow make up lost time.
Barberton council votes to grant a second pay increase in two years for a dozen elected city officials. The action reflects ongoing salary adjustments approved by local government leaders.
Soviet Leningrad district ordered Red Army forces to suppress Finns firing on the frontier amid a Finnish note denying border fire and proposing mutual troop withdrawal. Helsinki held calm as Moscow pressed for a solution and Baltic expansion loomed amid wider war concerns.
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