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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1937
Page
1
Detectives hunted for an insane high school boy after a brutal double killing in a boy’s car near Hollis Queens. The two victims Lewis Weiss and Frances Platek were found with a lipstick circle on the brow and the girl stabbed seven times, raising questions about motive and identity.
In Illinois at Frank Q. Lowden’s Sinissippi farm estate Hoover and Alf Landon met to discuss national and party issues. Spokesman said they were in agreement on every essential problem. Hoover then left for New York while Landon stayed overnight in Winnetka with Hill Blackett. first post campaign meeting since 1936.
Gen Attilio Terruzzi commander of Italian volunteers in the Spanish civil war returned on leave. He urged sending a full Italian army corps to aid the Nationalists as government weighs a joint Franco British invitation on foreign volunteers withdrawal.
Three Findlay men Burton Russell Edward Noel and Clarence Payne were jailed in Bowling Green on charges of selling merchandise without a license when they were questioned by State Highway Patrol officers about the slaying of Patrolman George Conn near Cadiz last week.
A Sunday blaze at the Burkey pottery plant in Zanesville caused estimated losses of 70000 dollars. Fire crews battled the flames as the building burned, with damage not immediately accounted for beyond the plant's destruction.
Howard Rietzz aged 17, a telegraph company messenger, was killed today after his bicycle was struck by a truck in Toledo. Investigations underway to determine fault and cause of the crash.
The AFL opens its 57th annual convention with calls for expulsion and attack on the rebel CIO. The council denounces the National Labor Relations Board for bias toward the CIO, urges amendments to curtail the board and protect craft unions, and plans to invade CIO strongholds in key industries to organize rival AFL unions. The report shows 831,671 new members in the past year, a total of 3,271,726, and cites price increases outpacing wages in steel chemicals gasoline and cotton goods amid alleged lumber profiteering.
Thousands of Chinese troops face isolation as Japanese forces press toward the new Chinese Maginot Line west of Shanghai. The retreat is orderly but peril grows at the Chinese south end as Japan lands heavy guns to blast through and then send in infantry.
Samuel Levinger, 20, from Columbus left in January to enlist with the International Brigade in Spain. He died there, and his parents, Rabbi and Mrs. Lee J. Levinger, received word today. Earlier he had written last Saturday that he had been slightly wounded.
Twin sisters Donna Ruth Gelhbaugh and Evanda Gelhbaugh married Gerland and Harold Shaeffer of near Nevada, Ohio in a double ceremony Saturday and were honeymooning today. The event linked two families in a single wedding pageant across Marion.
James Mason, imprisoned since 1931 for motor vehicle theft, climbed a 150-foot water tower at Ohio Penitentiary and stayed for over 12 hours to protest parole denials. Rain and hunger brought him down after nightfall following talks with Warden James C. Woodard and inmate Harry Wiess.
President Roosevelt urged rapid action on crop surplus control and a possible special Congress session. He argued that agriculture is not a purely local matter and compared contract based programs with government promises to achieve the same result. He predicted swift passage of crop control legislation ahead of the 1938 season as Justice Black prepared to join the Supreme Court.
Police stood guard outside Tower Bridge court as 106 anti Fascists were brought to trial for rioting linked to Sundays clash with 9000 British Fascists marking their group’s fifth anniversary. Communist and anti Fascist mobs disrupted the parade amid injuries.
The British Labour Party conference at Bournemouth unanimously urged a boycott on Japanese goods and called for a ban on munitions or credits to Japan. The party executive also pressed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for a special session of Parliament over the Chinese Japanese crisis.
John F. Mahaffey aged 57 drowned when he fell into a watering trough at his farm home on Sunday. His wife says he was prone to fainting spells.
Chicago reports 250000 railroad workers receive a 44 cent daily raise after two months of talks. The Big Five unions had sought a 20 percent increase but railroads refused. the National Mediation Board says the settlement raises payrolls by 35 million dollars annually and ends the looming nationwide strike.
WELDON Texas. Twenty three convicts from Eastman Prison Farm planned discipline today after a Sunday raid on the arsenal ended with two dead and two wounded. Guard J H Thomas fired on the attackers killing Roy Thornton husband of Bonnie Parker and Austin Avers, companion of Raymond Hamilton. Thomas then struck Forrest Gibson a 60 year inmate with three more shots.
The 1937 38 term is set to test constitutionality of major New Deal laws and economic policy. Cases target Securities Exchange and Commodities Exchange acts, Truth in Securities, Dollar Devaluation, and National Labor Relations Act issues. Also under review are Municipal bankruptcy, sit down strike injunctions, and Public Works Administration loan and grant programs for municipal power plants.
Ed M. Howe, 84, noted author editor and philosopher, will be buried Tuesday in Atchison where he settled and founded his newspaper 59 years ago. He died Sunday morning on the day his divorced wife Clara L Howe was buried in Falls City. His sons Eugene A Howe publisher of the Atchison Globe and James Howe foreign correspondent attended the funeral journey from Falls City Neb. His first book The Story of a Country Town brought him fame in his youth.
In Ohio over the weekend at least eight people died in collisions with trains or cars. Notable deaths include John Gannon a 55 year old man struck by a Cincinnati Lebanon and Northern train in Cincinnati. William K Robinson a 63 year old Columbus interior decorator and painter died when an express train hit the car he rode four miles southwest of Galloway. Frank Monahan a 70 year old Cincinnati man fatally injured when hit by a car driven by Franklin D Miller 22 of Canal Winchester Miller says Monahan stepped into the path of the car from behind a parked vehicle.
In Columbus Indiana polis James Towles aged 6 dies from septicemia following an insect sting on his upper lip.
Twenty two major oil companies and nearly 50 executives went on trial in a Sherman Act case accusing a conspiracy to fix gasoline prices across ten Midwestern states. The defense may argue the government promoted practices through the NRA. The firms allegedly move about 4.5 billion gallons of gasoline annually through 4,000 distributors in eight states.
U S marines protested to the Japanese command over shelling near the American defense zone of the International Settlement in Shanghai. Eighteen shells landed in the zone, killing one Chinese and wounding twelve.
Two hundred convicts at Joliet State Penitentiary initiated a hunger strike and were locked in their cells by Warden Joseph Ragen. The prisoners said the protest targets the State Parole Board demanding a fair deal.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are expected to depart Paris in mid November after a Germany visit. The Duke plans to study housing and working conditions as a self appointed ambassador for Britain. In the US he aims to visit Ford plants and meet President Roosevelt. The Duchess shops for a wardrobe and will accompany him.
The Supreme Court opened its 1937 session at 12 02 p m with Justice Hugo L Black taking his seat beside eight colleagues. A motion to challenge Black's appointment was raised but the court deferred action as Black's oath was already taken in private. Jerome Cooper, a Birmingham Jew, was named Black's new law clerk, while the justice's staff includes a Catholic secretary and a Catholic messenger.
A Chicago housewife compares tonight's steak and chop costs to World War era prices, with U P surveys showing high retail meat prices likely lasting until next summer. The drought and burned out corn feed blame but expect relief only after bumper crops. Cleveland mayor William S Fitzgerald, 56, died of angina pectoris after serving since 1920.
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