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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1935
Page
1
A jumble of letters and quotes shows Ohio leaders debating a drastic 3.8 million cut to the state's university budget. Dr. Rightmire and other officials push for a minimum appropriation while the governor seeks to finish the plan within ten days. public pleas for funds and radio protests are noted as the budget fight intensifies.
Fragmentary OCR text references deaths, a January date, a man and a woman, a shoe store, and a confession but lacks clear names, places, or outcomes to summarize a definite news item.
Disturbances in the Seville strike area prompt Adjutant General Emil to call authorities as troops aid. A night of howling threats drew about 1,000 pottery workers to Roseville and another patrol at Roseville, with no reported injuries or arrests.
A fragmented note discusses aluminum lining and its cooling effect in tropical clothing. References Dr. G P London School of Hy and Africa. Mentions selling under classified ads and the need to use ads to reach buyers.
The League of Nations debates sanctions against Italy for its Ethiopia invasion. Italian dispatches claim rapid advances and the seizure of Aduwa and surrounding towns while Addis Ababa reports evacuation as Ethiopians fight with mountainous guerrilla tactics. Ras Seyoum claims successes against Italian forces in the north.
In Chicago Mandeville W. Zenge a Canton carpenter is tried for the murder of Dr Walter J Bauer. His defense centers on insanity and irresistible impulse claims while prosecutors seek guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The case echoes Leopold Lab and Krauser Scott legal battles of 1925.
Concrete pouring began today at the Dover Dam on the Tuscarawas River five miles north of Dover. The Dover Dam is the flagship piece of the Muskingum watershed conservancy district, a $35 million program. Engineers expect a 20 hour work cycle within a week and anticipate two years until completion with a final cost of $5,358,700.
Riley Taylor, 87, of Ashley, wed Eva Brollier, Cardington widow of a Civil War veteran. Both had previous marriages, marking their third union after three decades of acquaintance.
Columbus reports prepaid tax receipt collections for the week ending Oct 5 totaling 817 721 54 bringing year to date to 33 064 891 10 Revenue from the 36 week old tax supports schools old age pension financing and political subdivisions.
Coroner's jury and P Bix technical experts were instructed to privately investigate the explosion at the Soya Products plant of the Glidder Company in Chicago where six men were killed Monday.
Mrs Cora Moler 58 wife of W E Moler died suddenly of a heart ailment about 5 o clock this morning at their home by Hillcrest Inn. She was born in Byer Jackson County and had lived in Albany and Athens. She was active in church and club work and helped operate Hillcrest Inn. Funeral Friday at 2 in the Presbyterian Church with burial in Hebbardsville Cemetery. Also five hundred City Auto Stamping workers end six day strike returning under a one year contract.
A Denver churchman Rev. John W. Hudson aged 83 inherits a $10500 estate from an elderly English immigrant girl he aided. The girl, who lay critically ill a decade ago, recovered then but died recently after an emergency operation, and her will was filed for probate.
Government witnesses link Mrs Francis Robinson and her father in law Thomas H Robinson Sr to the $50,000 kidnapping of Mrs Alice Speed Stoll in Louisville on Oct 10 1934. Testimony details a diagram of the Indianapolis apartment and alleged roles in delivering ransom and aiding the escape.
Mrs. John Creighton was arraigned and held for the grand jury on a murder charge in the poisoning death of Mrs. Everett R. Applegate. District Attorney Littleton said Creighton confessed to poisoning gradually to get even, absolving her husband. Applegate, age 36, died September 27 in a bungalow shared with the Creightons. she had implicated Applegate in a prior statement and faced a charge of attacking Creighton’s 15 year old daughter Ruth.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted kidnapper of Charles A Lindbergh Jr, suffers another defeat as New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals upholds his first degree murder verdict from the trial court.
Berlin AP Adolf Hitler opened the Nazis third annual relief drive urging resolve against Bolshevism and stressing Germany's limited territory and economic constraints. He spoke before relief workers in the Reichstag stating unity and idealism guide the nation and that the community must seek peace rather than war.
Governors Alf M Landon of Kansas and Harold G Hoffman of New Jersey will speak at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce annual meeting in Cleveland on November 6 and 7.
Ohio State University faces severe budget constraints as maintenance funds dwindle to 360 dollars from a 9,000 weekly appropriation. Professors cover essentials with personal funds while the storeroom sits empty and coal reserves run low. Students weigh demonstrations but heed officials guidance amid Governor Davey’s vetoes.
Two hundred sixty six WPA projects won Roosevelt approval for a 16 million 651 thousand dollar allotment. Comptroller General McCarn must review. Ohio totals rise to 67 million with 29 925 already at work and a 300 000 goal by Nov 1 set by Stillman.
Three newsboys credited with aiding police in locating an alleged hit-skip driver Peter Biemer 11 witnessed a car strike a safety zone injuring Joseph Belanger 9. Edward Moore 17 carried the injured boy to a doctor Larry Triviano 19 obtained the license plate. Police arrested a suspect in Grafton Ohio based on the boys information. The injured boy was hospitalized with a possible skull fracture.
Logan county grand jury indicted James Davis age 21 of Dayton for manslaughter in the death of Oliver Ford age 21 of Lancaster. Davis allegedly struck Ford on the head with a poker during a fight at a civilian conservation corps camp near Logan on March 3.
The 47th annual convention of the Ohio Building Association League opened in Columbus with leaders asserting business is improving and that lean associations are out of the depiction.
Barber M M Manafield chased a thief who stole his car during a haircut. He pursued in another vehicle, caught the would be thief after a brief chase, returned the car, and finished the customer’s cut.
Representative Bolton of Ohio blasts the Roosevelt program calling it wasteful and U.S. citizens face a backlog of WPA projects valued at $822,187,255 awaiting approval in the comptroller general’s office. WPA quotas total $1.14 billion with $1.04 billion allocated and about $586.6 million approved so far.
George Eppley of Cleveland is appointed chairman of the Ohio liquor control board by Governor Davey succeeding Wellington Leonard of Mansfield. Leonard remains on the board as a Republican member. Director James W. Miller also serves. Salaries are $4,500 yearly.
Elyria reporters inquir ed further today into the short married life of Joseph Meluch 28 a self described detective on trial for second degree murder in the death of his bride Dorothy 21 after seven weeks of marriage William Gage Lorain testified that Meluch said he did not want to keep his wife and would get rid of her neighbor Walter Melush said Meluch told him he wanted to be rid of her London inmate Will Robinson 34 escaped from the farm power plant Tuesday after being convicted in Hamilton County in January 1935 for receiving stolen property
The New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals upholds Bruno Hauptmann’s death sentence for the Lindbergh kidnapping murder. The ruling rejects a new trial claim and allows potential appeals to the Court of Pardons or the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision notes the homicide occurred in Hunterdon County and backs the jury’s murder verdict tied to burglary elements.
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