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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 04, 1933

Page

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Giants Strike Back in Second World Series Game

Stuart Cameron reports the Giants to defend their title as they aim for a second win over the Washington Senators. Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott led New York with timely hits and a crucial homer, while defensive miscues kept the game tight as the crowd exceeded expectations.

Stuart Cameron York Washington Senators Han Giants Nadles Carl Iday Mell Ott Hubbell Rove Gron

Baseball Play by Play Fragment Sees Runs and Outs

A partial baseball play by play describes first and second innings with players Myer Goslin Ryan Terry Manush Cronin Cruz and others. Sequence includes walks fanned batters and a home run by Myer and Goslin advancing bases with hits and outs amid scoreless periods.

TORS Myer Goslin Ryan Terry Manush Davis Olding Cronin Moore Cruz Tors — Schulte Tmacher Kuhel Bluege Sewell T Ts—Ott Jackson Tors — Crowder Kson

Attack near Millfield leaves man with head wound

Three men attacked by two assailants Tuesday night near a dance in VICEY. Barnes required seven stitches for a head wound and was taken to Athens hospital. Agnes Barnes Ruth Dickline Earnhardt Carl Dickson and others from Millfield were in the party. The attackers identity remains unknown.

Cks Barnes Athens Barnes Agnes Barnes Ruth Dickline Earnhardt Carl Dickson Millfield Marshall Burt Witham William Collins

Meigs County Loses Suit To Collect Taxes

POMEROY Oct 4 Staff Special After five years of litigation the Ebersbach interests of Pomeroy won a victory when a judge reversed the Ohio Tax Commission finding for back taxes from the Martin Ebersbach Company. Only credits were taxable for years 1924 through 1928, but county attorneys will appeal. The case may go to the court of appeals again.

Pomeroy Ebersbach Common Pleas Harley M. Whitcraft Logan Ohio Tax Commission Martin Ebersbach Whitcraft Ebersbachs Court of Appeals Great Lakes Coal Mining Company Pittsburgh Coal Company Board of Revision of Meigs County Martin Ebersbach Company Tax Commission Ebersbach Company Court of Common Pleas Common Pleas Court Ohio Supreme Court A. D. Russell D. L. Peoples

Roosevelt to address Catholic Charities on charity recovery link

President Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak at the National Conference of Catholic Charities in New York about charity within the national recovery program. About 3,000 delegates attended as Senator Wagner hailed the recovery drive as both economic and moral, aiming to make social justice part of industry.

New York U.P Franklin D. Roosevelt National Conference of Catholic Charities Robert F. Wagner James A. Farley Wagner

Peace in Coal Fields Sought

President Roosevelt moves to restore harmony in the soft coal industry for a third time. He reviews General Johnson recommendations and banking proposals from Woodin as he seeks quick steps to secure industrial peace and support for NRA plans.

New York Roosevelt NRA Hugh 8. Johnson National Recovery Woodin

Mushroom Profit Is Disclosed in Probe

Senate stock market investigators developed a tale of a $5,100,000 investment by Clarence Dillon and partners that mushroomed into a paper profit of $53,650,000. Dillon, head of Dillon Read and Company, told United Press he had not sold his stock to profit from the 1929 inflation of securities.

Washington Senate Clarence Dillon Dillon Dillon, Read and Company United Press United States

Aid Promised Disabled Vets By Roosevelt

Chicago dispatch reports the 1933 American Legion convention confronting the hospitalization of veterans disabled in service. The President pledged adequate compensation and federal medical care for those unable to pay, and protection for widows and dependents. He acknowledged past injustices and promised remedies and generous care for dependents.

Chicago American Legion Legion

Wolfe Heads NRA Compliance Board in Athens

T M Wolfe was named seventh member and permanent chairman of the NRA Compliance Board in Athens at a meeting of six members named a week earlier. Other members include Clarence Wyckoe Claud Clark R F Cuyler T W Craig Mrs B H Bing and R W Finsterwald. The board will handle education conciliation and mediation for complaints of non compliance by employers to NRA specifications. It cannot mediate labor disputes.

T. M. Wolfe NRA Athens Clarence Wyckoe Claud Clark R. F. Cuyler T. W. Craig

120 Year Old Missourian Dies After Amputation

Popular Bluff Missouri reports Uncle Ben Hodge aged 120 died from complications of old age. He had left leg amputated on August 28 and was reportedly recovering before returning home to relatives.

Popular Bluff U.P Ben" Hodge

Dreams and schemes reach Harold Ickes loan desk

Washington reports a flood of unusual loan requests to Harold Ickes the administrator of the federal public works fund. Applications include a western circus seeking funds to rehabilitate its show using three elephants as security a plan for concrete battleships that could not sink and a high speed continental belt to move passengers at 100 miles an hour from New York to San Francisco.

Washington U.P Harold L. Ickes Federal Public Works Fund New York San Francisco

Wild Weather and Political Hunt Hit Havana

Torrential rains and hurricane winds batter Cuba's Central Provinces as authorities pursue opposition leaders in Havana. The U.S. battleship Mississippi and a destroyer move to Matanzas Harbor to aid ill sailors while hurricane warnings spread from Jamaica toward Cuba's south coast.

Havana U.P United States Mississippi Matanzas Harbor

Camp to House Civilian Conservation Corps at Gallipolis

Gallipolis will host a CCC camp this winter at the Gallia County Fairgrounds for about 200 youths. Barracks will be built, lumber bought locally, and the group, likely in place through April, will work on reforestation and erosion control on private lands in the county. Government land access totals 2,000 acres per a Gearhart survey.

Gallia Gallipolis Civilian Conservation Corps Major Savage Ft. Hayes Columbus A. C. Safford Gallia County G. M. Gearhart

Believe Assassin's Shots Signal Revolt in Vienna

Vienna reports indicate the shots that wounded Chancellor Engelbert Dolfus were seen as a signal for a wider revolt. Vice-Chancellor Emil Fey said three days ago the Styrian Heimwehr, once allied with Ernst Starhemberg, had urged its members to prepare for action after deserting the Heimat block.

Vienna U.P Engelbert Dolfus Emil Fey Heimwehr Ernst Starhemberg Heimatblock

Death Toll of Welfare Workers Caught in California Brush Fire Is Estimated Between 40 and 75

(No readable details about welfare workers in California brush fire are present in the text.) Auto driven by son kills father at dusk in Laurel Township. Harry Febus, 48, farmer and trustee, dies after being struck by son Harold Febus. Harold, married, transports father to Cherrington Hospital where he dies two hours later.

California Harry Febus Hocking County Laurel Township Logan Harold Febus Harold Cherrington Hospital Febus Samuel Febus

NRA reorganizes to speed industrial code completion

The NRA consolidates its structure to hasten the finishing of permanent industrial codes. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson will delegate duties as plans for unified centralized code administration are drafted. Thirty codes have been completed, including seventeen signed by the President yesterday.

Washington NRA

Noted Speakers To Be On Education Program

Outstanding speakers slated for the Southeastern Ohio Education Association annual meeting in Jackson October 26 and 27 were announced by W. G. Scarberry. Included are Dr. E. B. Bryan president of Ohio University Dr. Donald H. Tippett Bexley Miss Elsie Clappe Ballard Memorial School Louisville Ky Dr. P. E. Harris University of Pittsburgh Dr. Francis G. Blair Illinois commissioner of education and Dr. Rudolph Lindquist Ohio State University head of the University Training School.

Southeastern Ohio Education Association Jackson W. G. Scarberry E. B. Bryan Ohio University Donald H. Tippett, Bexley Columbia University Elsie Clappe Ballard Memorial School Louisville P. E. Harris School of Education University of Pittsburgh Francis G. Blair State of Illinoils Rudolph Lindquist Ohio State University

Scarlet Fever Tops State Disease List in September

Scarlet fever led all diseases in the state during the last two weeks of September per a health department morbidity bulletin. The state logged 356 scarlet fever cases, compared with 240 in early September and 5349 in the same period of 1932. Three sleeping sickness cases were reported, including one in Lorain County Columbus and in Barberton.

Columbus U.P State Department of Health Lorain County Barberton

Court Test of Milk Price Is Prospect Now

In Columbus the Ohio Milk Marketing Commission seeks power to fix prices via codes as Kroger Stores resist the commission’s retail schedule. The case questions license eligibility and could trigger a court fight, with eight cents a quart milk and five cents a pint charged vs nine cents and six cents under the commission rule.

Columbus U.P Ohio Milk Marketing Commission Kroger Grocery and Eating Company Kroger Company Commission Kroger Cincinnati

Ironton Widow Is Murdered in Home

Ansel Osborne and Doc Osborne were arrested by Sheriff E. W. Bennett in connection with the slaying of 74 year old Mrs Callie Davidson Rogers found beaten to death in her isolated Ironton Ohio home. Authorities believe robbery was the motive.

Ironton, O U.P Ansel Osborne Doc Osborne E. W. Bennett Callie Davidson Rogers Rogers

Five Acre Site Sought for Citizens Conservation Camp Near Athens

Major E W Savage from Southeast District Ohio headquarters visited Athens and asked Chamber of Commerce secretary C M Gill to help locate five acres for a government camp. They expect land donation and plan buildings including barracks mess hall cook shack recreation hall officers quarters and more to house two hundred men.

Citizens Conservation Athens E. W. Savage Ohio Chillicothe C. M. Gill Chamber of Commerce Cook Shack

Farm Bureau offered 100000 for propaganda campaign

In Senate subsidy probes American Farm Bureau Federation officials offered a 100000 campaign for shipowners to sway farmers in favor of ocean mail contracts. They claimed a powerful Washington lobby and reach to 1250000 farm families but funding fell short. The group denies any conflict with its anti subsidy stance.

Washington Senate American Farm Bureau Federation I i Farm Bureau Democrat Alabama Farm Bureau Federation National Electric Association National Lumbermen’s Association Portland Cement Association The Copper and Brass Research Association National Automobile Chamber of Commerce 4 Farm Rest

Crooners Over Radio Should Be Pedigreed And Well Publicized

A reader from Beverly Hills compares baseball radio coverage to singer profiles. He urges announcing crooners with hometown weight age batting average and personal life details, citing a hypothetical adobo style bio for a singer from Adenoid New Jersey. He calls for frank publicity of backgrounds to boost radio appeal.

Wein Named Athens County Federal Reemployment Manager

Conrad Wein of Nelsonville is appointed Athens County manager of the Federal re employment service after KE L Lants resignation. He will receive registrations from relief and non relief workers and coordinate work with Nelsonville Glouster and Athens area projects including the Nelsonville road program. Employers and job seekers are invited to contact the Armory office. no charges apply.

Conrad Wein Nelsonville Athens Federal KE. L. Lants J. P Porter Wein Armory Glouster Nelsonville Road Porter

Repeal movement advances as Virginia votes

In Richmond on October 4, wet forces win by about two to one as repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment nears, needing four more states for nationwide repeal. Dry forces lose on national and state prohibition. a liquor control plan is approved. Florida votes next Tuesday. six states vote on November 7. final ratification occurs December 6 with the thirty-sixth state.

Richmond U.R Virginia Florida

One Shot Three Beaten In New Picket Clash

In Ambridge Pennsylvania workers clashed as steel workers and miners struck Western Pennsylvania. One man was shot and three others beaten as workers tried to breach a picket line at the Spang Chalfont Seamless Tube Company gate.

Pittsburgh U.P Pennsylvania Ambridge Spang-Chalfant

Investigation Started To Fix Blame For Sending Men Into Trap

Los Angeles October 4. Between 40 and 75 county welfare workers were burned in a brush fire in Griffith Park while battling the blaze. Nine were critically injured. Authorities opened investigations into responsibility as fire officials blamed workers for ignorance of fire tactics. The fire started by a cigarette, spread to a canyon where workers were trapped. about 1,000 acres burned with many bodies found along canyon walls. Survivors may be eligible for compensation under state law.

Farm Bureau Federation Ontaing Chicago Legislative Department Wassen Oles Los Angeles Griffith Park Ferno Los Anegies Bride Path Supreme Court

Instruct COC Recruits To Report on Thursday

Cards from the Athena County relief office direct several score of young men to report Thursday for consideration as new Citi zone Conservation Corps recruits. Camps will be established and more men enlisted. Applicants must be 18 to 25 and from relief families. students cannot withdraw from class to enlist.

Athena County Relief Office Citizone Conservation Corps

Stolen Sedan With Radio From Holzer Hospital

A large sedan with Ohio license N 206 866 was stolen in front of Holzer Hospital Tuesday night. The vehicle carries radio equipment and has loose rear upholstery. Police report.

Gallipolis Ohio Holzer Hospital

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