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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1933
Page
1
The article discusses a sound money policy and the expected government refunding of a quarter billion dollar issue. It explains how officials argue the move reduces annual interest and improves debt structure while plans for new 12 year bonds are anticipated to replace maturing ones. It notes NRA actions and bond market implications amid inflation concerns.
Relief official H. Frost announced that additional food and money relief would be sent to county families within days. A shipment of cured pork from the Relief Administration was countersigned for Readjustment Commission but has not yet arrived. more pork and other aid were expected to reach the county soon.
A United Press dispatch notes the Bolivian government plans a $23,000,000 armaments issue. Read and Co. submitted the proposal and Hayward, VP in charge of foreign business, said the state department has full information on the plan and its inception.
A defendant pleads not guilty to an assault and battery charge as recorded in the court docket. The case proceeds to further hearings with bail and defense motions anticipated.
Gallipolis notes that General Charles Edmond Hennocque born here became a divisional commander in World War I and a grand officer of the Legion of Honor. He grew up partly in France after a brief childhood in Gallipolis near Gallia Academy. He graduated from Saint Cyr and married Lafayette’s descendant, with Lafayette’s lineage visiting the town in early colonial days.
Two youths avoid execution at Ohio Penitentiary after Chief Justice Weygandt grants an indefinite stay. Chester Probaski and Merrill E. Chandler were to die for their roles in killing a Mansfield Reformatory guard. Governor White had denied commutation requests prior to the stay.
Warren F. Burris 45 of Columbus a United Air Lines technician and husband of Helen Miller died in a transport crash near Chesterton Indiana He leaped from the plane to avoid flames He had two small children and a 14 year old son who planned to join him in Chicago for the Worlds Fair Funeral arrangements are in Columbus Ohio References tie Burris to Athens and Meigs counties through marriage
More than 125 Athens County High School Teachers Association members attended the Greens Run High School meeting. County Superintendent Kenneth C. Ray spoke on the school situation. A unanimous resolution thanked Mr. Ray. A resolutions committee and county music teachers provided entertainment. The Jacksonville-Trimble High School was chosen for the November meeting.
Three hundred Bascom residents may become owners of the Bascom wood working plant under the will of W. J. Garfield Haugh. Employees have a year to form an organization to buy the company and ten years to pay. An appraiser will fix the purchase price.
Police raids on the Khaki Shirts of America headquarters thwart an alleged plot to seize weapons from the Third Regiment Armory and arm marchers aimed at forcing President Roosevelt into dictatorship in Washington.
Findlay College President Homer R. Donathan, returning from the east, called the abduction and beating of Karl Roller a outrageous uncalled for attack. Roller, a 22 year old junior, was seized by four men as he left a campus building, bound and blindfolded, driven off, and severely beaten. He was found on a country highway by farmer W. H. Warrell.
A medical team at Central Islip Hospital removed 48 teaspoons and six other foreign particles from a woman's stomach in a successful operation. The patient, an inmate of the hospital, had suffered severe stomach pains for several days.
Joyce Alene Dickinson, 16 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Niel Dickinson, drowned Wednesday in a fish pond at their home in Norwalk. The tragedy was reported from the family residence. Funeral plans were not immediately announced.
A rifle volley fired at a train carrying King Carol of Roumania near Tragoviste Station failed to harm the monarch. The attack occurred as the train left the station five minutes after passing.</analysis>
Ohio Senate special committee hears claims American Book Company officials boasted of shaping school boards. Witnesses include George Christman of Logan and Clarence Skinner alleging threats and improper textbook influence tied to Hocking County cases. Lobbyist W F Nihart subpoenaed and questioned over paid hotel stays.
A warehouse of the Black Clawson Manufacturing Company was destroyed by fire in Hamilton late Wednesday, causing an estimated loss of 175000 dollars.
WHEELING West Virginia October 12 at 12 01 a m Friday the 13th the Anti Superstition Club will shatter a mirror and hold a program to prove superstitions have no place in modern life organizer Edward McKee says 13 members will pay ten each as initiation fees to join the charter group and take part in the celebration.
Hollywood leaders fear a government inquiry into film pay will reveal high salaries. Figures widely cited include Maurice Chevalier 150000 per film, Will Rogers 125000, Greta Garbo 150000, Ann Harding 90000, Constance Bennett 100000, Janet Gaynor 100000, Kay Francis 5000 weekly, John Barrymore 75000 for 15 days plus 5000 daily for extra days, Mae West potentially 500000.
Rural mail carriers and local officials gather at Gallipolis Courthouse to push a plan for federal funding of secondary roads in the Tenth District. The campaign follows a Bidwell meeting where Congressman Jenkins outlined using 25 percent of Ohio road funds for feeder roads.
The body of Fred Fore aged 18 who confessed killing Louisiana Larose aged 14 was hanged from a bridge near Labadieville Louisiana by a mob of about 100 last night after marching to the jail and forcing Deputy Sheriff Adel Landry to surrender him.
William Green’s re election as president of the American Federation of Labor appeared certain after John L. Lewis pledged continued support. Nominations for AFL officers were to be filed during the federation’s 53rd annual convention session.
The Department of Labor warns its staff they may not interfere with newspapers or dictate editorials. Secretary Perkins said no federal statute authorizes such censorship, a reaction to actions attributed to a Labor Department conciliator regarding the Tallassee Tribune editorial content.
Progress toward a settlement of the Pennsylvania soft coal strike was made today at conferences in Pittsburgh. Thomas Moses of H. C. Frick Coke Company met with Philip Murray of the United Mine Workers of America to pursue a peace agreement.
Secretary Ickes announced the first government subsistence homestead project to aid 200 unemployed coal miners and families near Morgantown West Virginia. Homes with two to four acres will cost about 2000 each and be bought on 20 year contracts with small payments. The plan includes a nearby factory for post office equipment and handicraft industries, a self governed New England town meeting style community, a school community center, and employment on a 1100 acre site within two miles of homes funded by 25 million Recovery Act funds.
A Beverly Hills letter-writer warns of Republican groups hiding in trees and notes sightings of Jim Watson and Ambassador Edge amid autumn leaves. He urges swift action to quell what he calls uprisings to the Democratic party.
Candidates for repeal and against repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment are listed for the Ohio convention. The names include Joseph N. Ackerman through William W. Wood on the repeal side and Don Aikin through Harvey C. Yoder on the anti repeal side, as received by Athens County Election Board clerk David Johnson.
A 33 degree temperature drop to 0 degrees yesterday afternoon gave way to 87 degrees this morning as the day began. The night low settled at 47 while clouds cleared and a thin morning fog veiled the hills.
Two small tremors registered near Lake Nemi today with light shaking reported in several nearby towns. No damage noted and tremors described as brief and faint by residents.
Oklahoma City reports George Machine Gun Kelly and wife Kathryn jailed for life under the Lindbergh Law after an hour of jury deliberation. The verdict ends the kidnapping case tied to Charles Urschel, with Kelly to be sent to federal prison. Several co-defendants were already convicted or awaiting sentencing.
Mrs. Andrew Goldsberry testifies in defense of her husband, charged with second degree murder in the slaying of farm hand David Gregor who allegedly sought Mrs. Goldsberry. She says Gregor urged divorce and got $80 for that purpose. husband claims Gregor worked at their home last winter and was killed in a gun battle after wounding him.
Ohio will implement its own recovery act starting October 18 as an active NRA program aid. O. W. J. Coffin of Cleveland, Governor White's envoy, was named administrator of the Ohio Recovery Administration and will oversee program details in Washington.
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