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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Nov 30, 1936

Page

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Roosevelt Arrives in Buenos Aires for Inter-American Peace Parley

Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to set foot on Argentinian soil as he landed aboard the Indianapolis to open the Inter-American peace conference. President Justo and his cabinet greeted him. a grand procession and crowd reception followed with sirens, aircraft, and military honors in Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires Franklin D. Roosevelt United States Augusin P. Justo Mr. Roosevelt Indianapolis Roosevelt Justo Cordell Hull Sumner Welles Alexander W. Weddel Spruille Brayden Chaco Peace Conference Carlos Saavedra Lamas Eleazar Videla Diplomatic Corps Secret Service Customs House Custom House Government House

CCC Camps Proposed to Aid Jobless Girls in Nation

Washington officials announced approval of 50 feminine CCC camps under the relief program to employ about 5,000 needy girls. Planned centers under the WPA will operate in Rhode Island Arkansas Florida Oklahoma Missouri South Dakota and Tennessee with four month stays and five dollars monthly plus subsistence and clothing. Each girl will receive about thirty nine dollars monthly for room and board and perform daily work including domestic science handicraft hospital supplies and repairs. Some camps will place girls in tree and plant nurseries supervised by the forest service. The work is described as light.

Washington U.P Works Progress Administration Rhode Island Arkansas Florida Oklahoma Missouri South Dakota Tennessee Brown Forest Service Department of Agriculture

Bank Director Found Dead on Garage Floor

Howard C. Bond aged 58 a director of the Freeport bank in Ohio was found dead on the garage floor by his wife. Mrs Bond said he went to the garage to start the car and check if the radiator was frozen in Freeport Ohio.

New Philadelphia Howard C. Bond Freeport

Perennial Prisoner Returns to Prison to Die

Estil P. Butler, aged 60 with 24 years spent in prison, asks to die in the Kansas state prison at Lansing after parole by Governor Landon. He says he has no friends or relatives and prefers the quiet of prison as his home.

Lansing Kan U.P Estil P. Butler Kansas Landon Butler

Canadian is Prize Winner

Canadian farmer Herman Trelle won the wheat title at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago and earlier secured the oats title, adding to his multiple championships from 1926 to 1932. Trelle farms 700 acres in Alberta's Peace River District and presented prize samples of the reward wheat and victory oats varieties.

Chicago U.P Herman Trelle Trelle Peace River Alberta

Hyde Named Acting Superintendent at Apple Creek

Dr. Arthur G. Hyde, superintendent of the Massillon State Hospital, was appointed acting superintendent of the Apple Creek institution, succeeding Dr. L W Yule who resigned recently due to illness.

Columbus U.P Arthur G. Hyde Massillon State Hospital Apple Creek Institution L. W. Yule

Fourth Effort To End Strike Planned Today

Detroit reports widening gaps between Midland Steel Company and 2000 sit down strikers as a fourth attempt to end the three day deadlock is planned. Union seeks 10 percent wage rise while company has granted recognition and set hour limits. UAWU president Homer Martin to meet Fisher body works officers in Cleveland. Organizers from GM plants may wrap a national drive to deepen union organization.

Detroit U.P Midland Steel Company Midland Homer Martin UAWU Cleveland Fisher Body Works General Motors Martin

Extent of Double Tax on Ohioans Shown

The treasury department disclosed the extent of double taxation on Ohio taxpayers. The research division reported that from 1930 to 1935 Ohio collected nearly five hundred million dollars in eight taxes duplicated by federal levies.

Washingtonaup Ohio Treasury Department Treasury

Thanksgiving kindness leads to 35 year murder confession

Chicago police sergeant treats a wounded department store clerk Charles Kohr 64 who then confesses to killing his brother Henry 35 years earlier in Belleville Illinois. Kohr described the fatal blow after an argument over work and a later body disposal, the open verdict by the coroner’s jury and Kohr’s lifelong burden of guilt.

Chicago U.P Charles Kohr Kohr William Murphy Murphy Belleville Ill Charlies Porter Henry Charles Idie Belming

No Third Term For F D Magazine Says

New York report that Collier's Magazine quotes President Roosevelt as renouncing a third term in the spirit of Washington. The piece cites an intimate and George Creel as saying Roosevelt intended Hyde Park life in 1941 and a push for a new social order with NRA fundamentals, labor reforms, and standard hours and wages.

New York Roosevelt George Washington Collier’s Magazine George Creel Wilson Hyde Park NRA

Utilities Chief Charged With Embezzlement

CHICAGO U P Utilities Power and Light Company sues former president Harley L. Clarke for 3 million alleging misappropriation of 400 million and control of assets from 1929 to 1935. The filing seeks accounting, receiver, and injunction to prevent asset disposition pending settlement.

Chicago U.P Utilities Power and Light Company Harley L. Clarke Clarke Atlas Corporation New York Clark

Aides Named In Community Chest Drive In Athens

Eight colonels will lead a army of more than 200 solicitors in the Athens Community Chest drive under director John H. Preston. Divisions include Big Gifts, Industrial, Mercantile, Public Workers, Athens University units, and more. Kickoff dinner at Hotel Berry Monday. canvassing to follow. I. M. Foster donated first, from Washington.

Athens John H. Preston Big Gifts T. M. Wolfe Industrial R. C. Hess Mercantile Harry Beckley E. F. Sells O. F. Rowland Ohio University F. B. Dilley Athens State Hospital Cc. H. Creed Anna K. Price B. M. Covert Hotel Berry I. M. Foster Washington, D. C Preston

Detective Plunges 14 Feet to Death in Columbus

In Columbus a 46 year old detective, John P Sears, and a Toledo team sought a Toledo murder suspect. When the door resisted, Sears kicked it in and fell 14 feet from a rotten railing, landing head first in an alley and dying.

Columbus U.P John P. Sears Toledo

Glass Cutters' Board Rejects Strike Support

Nixon of the Window Glass Cutters' League says the national executive board voted not to back a strike by workers at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. He would not state reasons beyond the union, led by J. E. Mayeur of Columbus, not being in sympathy with the strike aims.

Columbus U.P.H PD. Nixon Window Glass Cutters’ League of America League Pittsburgh Plate Glase Co J. E. Mayeur

State Tax Workers Face Enforced Leave in December

Columbus reports the State Tax Commission will place 700 employees on enforced leave during the final week of December to avert a $20,000 payroll deficit by year end. Vice chairman Dar gusch announced the measure and cited fiscal strain.

Columbus U.P State Tax Commission Carltona. Dargusch Dareusch

Gas Pickets at Berkshire Knitting Mills

Fifty six pickets including twelve women were gassed by police and arrested at Berkshire Knitting Mills in Reading Pennsylvania. They blocked the main entrance aiding a strike ongoing since October. Tear gas dispersed the crowd and many were jailed or fined for loitering with obstructing passage.

Reading Berkshire Knitting Mills

Sand dredge sinks after collision on Ohio River near New Martinsville

The 25 000 dredge sank in the Ohio River Sunday night following a collision with the towboat Steel City near New Martinsville. No injuries reported and investigation under way by harbor authorities.

Bellaire U.P New Martinsville Ohio River Steel City

Black Legion Killers Guilty in Coleman Slaying

Five Black Legion members including Harvey Davis James Roy Lorrance John Bannerman Irvin Lee and Charles Rouse were found guilty of murdering Silas Coleman the 42 year old Negro war veteran. Davis and Bannerman already sit on life terms for another WPA worker killing. Judge Donald Van Zile set Saturday as the sentencing date.

Detroit U.P Silas Coleman Recorder's Court Donald van Zile

Desperado Awake as Police Surround Stolen Car

George Emmett Daffron, 26, of Vincennes Indiana, awakened in a stolen automobile in a cornfield with police guns at his head. Officers decide on prosecution for kidnapping or robbery in Indiana or Ohio. Daffron had boasted he would not be taken alive and was wanted on kidnapping charges in Ohio and Indiana.

Elnora Ind George Emmett Daffron Desperado Indiana Ohio Daffron Vincennes

Ohio State Senator Van Everett Emmons Dies at 68

State Senator Van Everett Emmons, age 68, who served 14 years in the Ohio Legislature, died at his Akron home Sunday as his term neared expiration in a few weeks.

Akron U.R Vaneverett David Emmons Ohio

Money? Pooh Its Easy To Get At Newport Jail

In Newport Kentucky Sam Malusch a 75 year old resident of Cold Spring is a jailhouse trickster. He netted 37 dollars on a first day of mental observation and later handed guards multiple bills totaling 50 in tens and fives before being stripped. He was seen whistling and tossing a 50 cent piece while resting on his cot.

Newport U.P Sam Malusch Malusech Cold Spring Malusch

France backs Britain and Belgium with massive navy build

Paris reports France will align with Great Britain against any aggressor and mobilize its land, air, and naval forces in response. A 15 billion franc to 700 million dollar navy program supplements existing military plans. Italy and Japan near Manchukuo and Ethiopia recognitions, while Spain seeks League aid for civil war.

Paris France Great Britain Yvon Delbos Chamber of Deputies Britain Belgium Moscow Russia Goslar Germany Hermann Goering Italy Japan Manchukuo Ethiopia Rome League of Nations Genéva Madrid

Madrid Struggles as Reinforcements Await in City Fight

Madrid braces for thousands of fresh reinforcements as a third international column and Moorish volunteers approach. International forces under Gen. Emilio Küber repelled attacks near Rosales and Moncloa while bombardments rattled the area around the American Embassy. A British commission urged 1000 cars with drivers and fuel to aid civilian evacuation, narrowly escaping a shell near the Scottish ambulance unit.

Madrid U.P Spaine Morocco Society Emilio Kieber

Princess accused of killing husband threatens self after arrest

Mexico City A P report says Consetta Leone Nigeradze threatened suicide if her husband Vladimir, a reputed Georgian prince, left her. She is charged with shooting him dead Saturday night as he spoke with the Finnish vice consul Leo Grauross outside the consul's home.

Mexico City A.P Consetta Leone Nigeradze Vladimir Leo K. Grauross

Kirey Hungarian To Meet 2 More Tomorrow

In Budapest Prena Sargas says he will duel three times tomorrow morning. He accuses Victor Cally bank employee Dr Gabor Dako railroad official and Ellmer Logonce cigar store dealer of mercenary motives related to his marriage to a wealthy young wife.

Budapest Hungary U.R Prena Sargas Victor Cally Gabor Dako Ellmer Logonce

Police Shoot Robber During Gametime Robbery in Youngstown

Police shot James Welsh a 25 year old from Youngstown in the abdomen during an attempted robbery at a local gaming arcade on Sunday. The suspect was wounded and taken into custody for questioning.

Youngstown James Welsh

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