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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1927
Page
1
Wayne Wheeler, prominent head of the Anti-Saloon League, is reported to have succumbed Monday after a physician pronounced him out of immediate danger earlier in the day.
Wayne B. Wheeler, key Anti-Saloon League figure, died in Battle Creek of a heart ailment after a kidney issue. His wife died earlier in a stove explosion, and Wheeler’s death triggers recall of a long prohibition campaign. Funeral planned in Columbus with league leaders and officials attending.
John Morris 76 longtime resident of the district died at his Hooper Ridge home after a day of illness. A former township trustee and school board member, he was respected in the community and leaves his wife and three sons Joseph Athins Charles Columbus and Pearl near the family home.
Striking miners in Glouster and Corning plan a mass meeting September 8 to appeal for financial assistance from the public. If they solicit funds, it will mark the first public appeal since the strike began in April.
Chicago reports a settlement may have been agreed upon with the Jacksonville wage scale as a basis. F C Honnold of the Illinois Coal Operators association said he cannot confirm any deal and expects a meeting of operators and miners tomorrow with no known outcome.
Two infantile paralysis cases in Zanesville lead to postponement of school opening until September 19. Frazerstown schools close indefinitely after one paralysis case and several scarlet fever cases. The Parkinson school also shuts as a precaution.
Guards have been posted along the million-dollar tunnel near Moxahala to thwart a reported plot to dynamite the structure. The alleged plan aimed to disrupt non-union coal shipments from West Virginia. Two Athens railroad workers overheard two men in a sport car discussing the plot. no arrests reported from Athens.
After Congressman Jenkins visited Pomeroy and cited red tape, the drive for a new post office has stalled as the government authorizes no new buildings. Postal receipts of about twenty thousand dollars annually are reportedly required, higher than local estimates. A government agent may be sent to investigate the situation.
Dr J M Higgins county health commissioner says Athens County has no cases of infantile paralysis and no reports have been made. The health department has answered hundreds of calls from anxious parents and schools begin today with Athens city schools starting next Monday.
Mrs. Ciemington Corson of New York City began a Channel crossing attempt from South Portland at 8 56 a m seeking to swim from English to French coast. She previously swam Cape Grisnez to Dover last August in 15 hours 32 minutes, as a mother of two.
At Cranwell Airdrome England Captain Hinchliffe and Charles A Levine postpone the Bellanca Columbia non stop flight to New York or Philadelphia until 6 a m tomorrow due to a 30 mile head wind over the Atlantic. Miss Mabel Bell arrived but will not accompany the flyers.
The Fokker monoplane Old Glory lifted from Old Orchard Beach at 1:25 p.m. EDT heading for Rome in a bid to complete the longest nonstop flight on record.
City owned mascot Buster of Austin Minnesota was legalized after Engine Co. 1 firefighters presented a bill of sale to the city council. A city resolution approved the mascot adoption, formalizing ownership and status.
Labor Day celebration in Glouster draws an estimated 15 000 to 18 000 people the largest on record in the Sunday Creek valley. Food runs short despite ample preparations with fourteen quarters of beef 800 pounds of beans 300 dozen ears of corn and other provisions consumed. Music from multiple bands and a trained dog act entertained as speakers urged miners and operators toward a cooperative wage scale.
Death came suddenly yesterday to the reformer who fought to pass the eighteenth amendment. He collapsed from a heart affliction while reading at the Battle Creek sanitarium, an event his attending physician described as entirely unexpected.
City and rural schools open with only one mild infantile paralysis case in the county. In Hocking, Perry and Athens counties registration will be short as at least 2,000 children lack books and clothing due to the mine strike.
Detectives who uncovered a bomb nest in Brooklyn and loose materials capable of wrecking many buildings planned to question six men suspected of bombing the Courts building yesterday. Nearly a dozen items including anarchistic literature maps of cities clockwork devices and parts to fashion ten bombs were seized. Seven men were taken in raids with one later released. Suspects named include Mario Medreno Jesus Silva Julian Hoyos Eugene Fernandez Jose Roa Chrestozal and Victor Fern Mexicans and Puerto Rican.
In Columbus on September 6 three inmates escaped from the Franklin county jail by sawing their way through a cell wall. Authorities pursued leads and tightened security after the breach.
Cleveland police disrupted a late night burglary at a theater as two safe-crackers, scaling a ladder to the second floor, were caught before escaping with about $4,000. Suspects nabbed at the scene.
A ten ton slate fall in a Pittsburgh mine pinned Clif ford Jenkinson of the Second ward against the wall with a high voltage trolley wire between his back and the wall. Fellow workers freed him while Ewing’s ambulance and doctors from Pomeroy arrived. Jenkinson survived with a seared back and minor injuries.
President Coolidge gears up for a clash with Congress on four main policy fronts. The unfolding drift in events paves the way for opposing factions as the new session opens.
Republicans hold a theoretical majority of one seat, leaving no working majority. The fragile balance means party leaders face negotiation gaps and potential stalemates in key votes.
Rapid City dispatch outlines a coming stormy Congress with President Coolidge preparing to battle over tax cuts farm relief foreign policy and naval building. Senate control remains precarious as Republicans hold a slim edge and Democrats could organize if desired.
Grace Stallings Wehr and her son Char testified in Woodsfield as Clayton Edison Roe, charged with first degree murder, admits slaying Dent Wehr. The trial opened with the confession Roe allegedly made to authorities.
A booklet advises systematic spending to advance progress. It emphasizes studying each dollar, its potential, and practical uses, presenting useful facts about handling earnings large or small with a coupon offer.
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