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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1932
Page
1
Washington reports Britain may offer to pay 65,500,000 of its 65,500,000 December installment if the US keeps a moratorium on full payment. Britain owes 65,500,000 in interest and 30,000,000 on principal. 90 days’ notice could delay principal under the debt agreement.
Hunger march leaders asked the District of Columbia government to provide food and shelter for three days next week. They planned to present their request at the Municipal Building, hoping officials reverse policy. William Reynolds of Detroit led the effort, alleging intimidation of property owners, with police counting 19 marchers en route.
English journalist and lecturer Angell arrives in Athens to address a public convocation at Alumni Memorial Auditorium Wednesday at 9 40 am. He will attend a Sigma Delta Chi dinner at 7 15 pm and reach Athens at 6 15 pm.
Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, a longtime Progressive Republican, says he is glad to help defeat President Hoover even if it costs him the Senate Judiciary Committee chairmanship. He jokes he would give up two chairs to beat Hoover while noting rumors of a possible reward after Democrats gain Senate control.
In Washington on November 29 a bloc of more than 90 Republican wets endorsed the Democratic program for repeal of Prohibition and early modification of the Volstead Act. James M. Beck said he supported the anti prohibition plan and would convene the GOP group to back the Democrats in a Monday vote on repeal and Federal protection for states.
Ohio State University figures show half of November bond issues approved in county districts. Five of ten bonds totaling 171000 were authorized in Bluffton-Richland Allen Urbancrest Franklin Clark Holmes Roseville Muskingum Beaver Pike areas. rejections occurred in Canaan Athens Berne Union and Clearport. Fairfield Concord Hamilton and Shaleraville Portage reported levies approved. statewide state aid areas fared better with 280 levies submitted and 199 approved.
Ohio retail trade rose in October per the Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research. Cash sales climbed 12 percent and charges 10 percent. The Southeast District posted a 12.8 percent gain, the state's largest increase.
Jacob Jefferson Spencer aged 74 died Monday at the home of a niece Mrs Alice Kesterson at Flatwoods near Chester Meigs County after a three year illness He was born in Radford Township Meigs County and lived there most of his life a few years in Illinois He was a United Brethren Church member at Mt Herman Funeral at Mt Herman Church Wednesday 2 3 PM burial in the church cemetery Survived by two sisters Mrs Amanda Putlins and another sister both near Chea the Mt Hermon Church four brothers Harmon Tipton Iowa Andrew Delaware Ohio John Edward and CC M Spencer Chester and several nieces and nephews Parents a brother and two sisters preceded him in death
The Public Utilities Commission will hold a hearing December 19 on Medusa Portland Cement Company's protest of railroad rates from the Ohio No. 8 District to Bay Bridge. The announcement was made today in Columbus.
New Jersey authorities intensified the Lindbergh baby inquiry as Colonel H Norman Schwarzkopf led a world wide manhunt. Investigators traced ransom money dropped at a Bronx cemetery and multiple bill discoveries raised hopes for a key clue.
Springfield police dispersed small groups of strikers using long hickory sticks as about 200 Progressive Miners of America members gathered to oppose the Peabody Coal Company mine which had UMWA signed operations. About 125 men reported for work as the mine resumes normal activity.
Eay mond Gansman a 36 year old Cincinnati gasoline truck driver was shot and fatally wounded last night in Marathon village northern Clermont County. He had finished a delivery at a Marathon filling station and was found wandering in a nearby cornfield with a bullet wound in the head. He died soon after from loss of blood with no trace of an assailant.
Fifty inmates at the Federal Reformatory in Chillicothe broke dishes and windows Monday over food they deemed poor. Warden Albert McDonald said they returned to work in an orderly fashion today. Officials called the grievance imaginary. In Cleveland, Father James J. Quinn, 72, founder and longtime pastor of St. Catherine's Church, died after a heart attack.
Washington lawmakers debate whether to specify alcohol content by weight or by volume to define beer strength. Alcohol weighs less than water, causing weight based percentages to differ from volume based measures, altering stated beer strength.
Mrs. Garnet Bretz of Guysville sues her husband and Mrs. Ethel Shott for twenty thousand dollars in an alienation of affections action filed in Athens County Common Pleas Court. Drained by lengthy testimony, the case centers on alleged improper relations between Bretz and Shott after Bretz’s 1928 illness and the death of Bretz’s wife.
A United Press tally shows football fatalities fell about 30 percent in 1952. Twenty five youths died from direct or indirect play, plus two children aged 16 and 6. Only four victims were college students, with one varsity injury. Ralph McClere of Colorado College died from a fractured neck in a game at Colorado University.
Charles W. Payne of Buger Grove is in serious condition at Lancaster City Hospital after his clothing ignited when he stooped near an open fire to light a large kettle of lard while hutching on a local farm.
NORFOLK Neb Nov 2 4UP Diamond Dick creator Dr Richard Jerome Tanner recalls his frontier career denying dime novel myths. He says his exploits were not bloodthirsty but featured marksmanship horse trips and a famed Lincoln Neb to New York City ride. He notes calm health long gray hair and a belief that old bad men rival today’s gangsters.
President elect Roosevelt and Democratic leaders in Warm Springs Ga discuss farm relief and broader New Deal measures. He meets with Henry Morganthau Jr Henry Wallace and other advisers to craft a program for the short Senate session and to align committees for swift passage.
Charleston West Virginia reports that Carr, a leader for the Kanawha Mining Company at Conburg Whe, died in hospital after being wounded entering the coal mine during a wage strike. State police seek four men said to have fired on the mine car. no arrests yet.
About 1000 people attended a Columbus meeting of Ohio license tag sellers with Gov. George White and Secretary Clarence J. Brown. Athens County participants included David Johnson Pred M. Rbougher Edward Frane and others. Brown urged buying tags early to speed tax district relief, with tag sales starting Thursday Dec 1 and offices open daily then at the Courthouse. New licenses usable December 10 and required on all cars by January.
P McNaught state superintendent of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League spoke in Findlay and predicted beer legislation but warned beer would prompt reactions that could keep the Eighteenth Amendment from repeal. He said renewed liquor regulation would eventually drive people to banish it forever.
In Birmingham Alabama on November B five hundred hunger marchers delayed their Washington trek until police released a woman comrade detained there.
Student of politics and lecturer Mr Angell will address the public in Athens tonight and tomorrow at the Ohio University convocation period. His lecture will cover the world economy and political situation.
About nine hundred marchers arrive in Toledo in a caravan from Detroit and Pontiac. They eat a supper of ham beans cabbage and potatoes then voice discontent booing the city and calling food slop. The group forms into squads marches to the coliseum singing The International while some 5400 supporters enter for a fee of 50 cents.
London reports say UK cabinet members argued for postponement of the December debt payment to the United States. Britain may offer 66.5 million in interest and delay 36.59 million on principal while arguing to protect credit and empire trade. Paris meanwhile debates US war debt with a motion opposing payment.
The six page Athens County School News distributed today covers athletic contests plays and student special programs school of the air broadcasts the upcoming basketball season class activities attendance scholarship achievements and other items of general interest An editorial titled Sales Tax The Solution appears in this issue.
Michigan Republican congressman James McLaughlin, 14, of Muskegon, died of heart failure in his Lincoln Hotel suite in Marion, Virginia. He had been traveling from Michigan to Washington and collapsed after rising this morning. Smyth County coroner's inquest ruled heart failure as the cause.
In Cincinnati on November the US and labor drive for a 30 hour week loomed as American Federation of Labor members pushed for a six hour day and five day week. President William Green urged militant action to secure the reform noting the nation faces mass unemployment under present conditions and that force may be used if needed to balance production with work hours.
In Cleveland Ohio Urbana Mervin White won grand champion steer at the eighth annual junior livestock exhibition judged by Prof K A Livesay. Merlin Bene roth 12 Veughnaville took second prize. Benroth sister won junior Shorthorn and Carole Meltroy Peoria Union County earned the Baildon Beymour Trophy for best girl exhibitor and placed second in Aberdeen Angus junior yearling.
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission plans an engineers’ study of Ohio gas availability and the Logan Gas Company to prepare a new rate covering 1924 to present. Cities like Athens Bucyrus Ashland Crestline Willard Cardington and Marion seek lower rates as Bricker notes end is near.
In Warren a 13 year old boy died from a head wound after an incident tied to a revolver room where the boys were present. The report references Jenee Foreman, aged 12, in connection with the event.
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