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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1937
Page
1
War from the air in North China shows Japanese planes destroying Saiyan barracks and flattening blocks of buildings in a relentless drive toward conquest. The scene near Tientsin reveals widespread destruction and casualties as Nippon's forces push forward.
Sheriff Roscoe Fowler and Deputy Hank Young step back from official duties as grand jury investigates Lafe Williamson death in Pomeroy. Special prosecutor Craig Davis joins from Columbus. jail duties assigned to George Beards and Delbert Welker. Bonded witness Dana L. Roush freed on 12000 dollars. Grand jury reconvenes at 1 PM.
Charles Correll known as Andy of the Amos n Andy team cut short his honeymoon. He and Alyce Mercedes McLaughlin planned a weekend in Del Monte but a radio broadcast required his return to Hollywood. He wed at Wee Kirk o the Heather on Saturday and flew back with his bride.
Mrs Grace Bradford aged 55 of Lima was killed by a Pennsylvania passenger train four miles west of Lima. A note on the body reads Forgive me if you can Thanks for all you've done for me addressed to Irvin Bradford. Acting Coroner Frank Smith would decide if death was self inflicted.
Kenneth Brenneman of East Liverpool died when he fell from the third floor chimney of a building under construction. The accident occurred in the fall season at the construction site. Officials reported the teen was pronounced dead at the scene.
Chicago's 700000 school children stayed home to curb infantile paralysis spread. Classes postponed with no make up. six radio stations broadcast lessons for grades three to eight to fill the breach.
Laura Lee, 21, found barefoot and bloodstained at a Hollywood studio gate after a death by self harm. She claims a movie executive lured her to his office and attempted assault. police found torn shorts, shoes, and a bloodstained wallet in a studio office.
Bethlehem Steel Cambria plant in Johnstown Pa ends strike as workers resume duties after an agreement with management. The walkout began June 10 and spurred a plant wide steelworker action. the CAMBRIA mill resumes operations though CIO strike remains in effect.
Public schools in suburban Bexley delayed two weeks to September 27 due to a threatened epidemic of infantile paralysis. School officials announced the postponement today.
In Geneva the Loyalist leaders press the League of Nations to address the Mediterranean piracy issue. Juan Negrin vows to urge the council to protect Loyalist merchant ships from non Spanish pirates, alleging Italian submarines sink Loyalist vessels under treaties. Russia shows mixed signals but Moscow hints at acceptance.
Loyalist divers work to free the crew of a supposed pirate submarine trapped near Cartagena. Officials would not confirm the report but investigate oil slicks as they monitor the rescue and assess the vessel’s possible identity amid tensions with Britain.
Bette Cooper 17 from Hackettstown NJ won Miss America but left the title claiming contract terms were too strenuous. She rejected appearances on Steel Pier, a Hollywood screen test, vaudeville contract, and a $1000 Persian Lamb coat. Her father said she will finish school first before modeling.
Phil Murray, steel workers organizer chair, calls Gov Davey a traitor to organized labor and William Green a man fit for a psychopathic ward. He cites Green’s telegram to General Motors in urging management to avoid a UAW contract as further proof of betrayal. Murray declares guards and force harmed workers unjustly.
New York Senator Royal S. Copeland renewed opposition to Justice Hugo L. Black's confirmation to the U S Supreme Court. He said the court and Senate should find a way to block Black despite confirmation, citing an article alleging Black is a Ku Klux Klan life member.
Nationalist columns in Asturias consolidate positions amid cold rain before moving on Ribadesella. They occupy Mount Mazuco Ridge, a key overlook that dominates the Ribadesella Road and could serve as a base for a large attack on Ribadesella, 38 miles from the Biscy coast base.
Miss Geneva Batdorf 26 of St. Paris Ohio was killed when her car collided with a truck on Route 40 a half mile west of Luray Ohio. Police reported the fatal crash occurred today as paramedics dispatched to the scene.
William Green head of the AFL announced a militant drive to unionize all news and editorial workers in newspapers nationwide. He criticized The American Newspaper Guild for joining the CIO as a stab in the back to free trade and unionism and pledged federal unions to expand organizing.
U S Senator Robert J Bulkley of Ohio released a letter from Ohio Works Progress Administrator Dr Carl Watson explaining that rural sanitation projects and similar work have been curtailed to save money. The letter responded to Bulkley s prior request containing 75 protests about the closures.
Athens residents kept indoors over the weekend as an early cold snap pushed temperatures down. Sunday's high reached 75 with a 50 night low, while early this afternoon the mercury hovered around 65 and was unlikely to top Sunday's high.
A 72 year old former Deputy U S Marshal Morton D Wainwright of Winthrop and formerly of Washington State collapsed in the courtroom after a Federal Judge sentenced him to one year in jail for threatening the life of President Roosevelt. He was carried from the court room.
Dr. Charles Edward Jefferson, 77, famed educator and Congregational minister, died of a heart attack on a Sunday at Fitzwilliam Depot, authorities said. The well known figure in Columbus circles had long served in teaching and religious roles.
The coroner ordered an autopsy for Cecelia Gilligan 25 chief stewardess Western Air Express found dead Saturday in a Hollywood hotel. Officials note no suicide signs but list possible heart failure as tentative cause and investigate a prior suicide attempt and strange behavior. She registered as Patricia Maguire and left a disturbing do not disturb sign.
President Roosevelt cuts short an 18 day vacation to return to Washington and steer the government toward a policy to keep the United States out of war amid European and Far Eastern crises. He will land at the White House tomorrow morning and may cancel a planned western trip. Secretary Hull expected to visit first. A cabinet meeting before Friday is possible. He has outlined a stance against pirate submarine raids and the Chinese Japanese conflict.
Nuremberg dispatch notes Adolf Hitler and the Nazi leadership, exhausted after a week of speeches, signaling a peaceable foreign policy stance. He claimed Germany seeks peaceful construction and argues a navy is needed before bases or colonies, and that colonies are useless without reduced armed forces.
Ellis Parker Butler author of Pigs Is Pigs died at his Housatonic summer home after a May operation. He would have turned 78 on December 5 and had long frail health as a resident of Flushing New York.
John P. Springer aged 14 claimed the line about movie methods as he handled a .22 pistol Sunday. The weapon fired and the boy died from a temple wound at the scene.
A sightseeing plane piloted by Charles Selge 19 and its four aboard collided mid air with another aircraft over Bendix Field in South Bend Indiana. The left wing of the passenger plane owned by Lloyd Butz 29 was torn away and the craft crashed half a mile from the field, killing Butz and his three passengers Floyd Allenbaugh 38 Abbie M Deehe 32 and Fred B Kidder 50. Selge the transport pilot survived after landing the damaged craft with minor injuries to his 16 year old passenger Donald Eldridge Jr.
A dozen Ohio cities will join Columbus before the State Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday for reopen ing hearings on Columbia Gas & Electric Corp rates. The case, tied to gas delivery by Columbia subsidiaries, has hovered in litigation since 1924 and could affect gas rates across Ohio.
Father Thomas Quinas Quirk, a 92 year old priest known for riding between three mountain parishes on horseback for over five decades, died Sunday at his home on Loveberry Ridge.
Police linked George Tong to a murder suicide case in a laundromat bedroom. Tong, a Chinese man, killed 14 year old Alice Devine with a .38 revolver and died by inhaling gas via a rubber tube after the act. Police found six photographs of Alice and the corpse of Tong nearby.
Shanghai region will be abandoned in stages with defense moved inland to the lake country west of Shanghai. The military spokesman said Chinese lines would be held in the interior while coastal positions are relinquished under pressure from invading Japanese forces.
Geneva United Press report: China formally protests to the League of Nations against Japan for invading China. The appeal invokes Covenant Articles X XI and XVII to seek protection of territorial integrity, peace and representation at hearings.
The Chinese retreat to a third line of defense followed intensified Japanese strikes around Shanghai. An official statement said China would avoid engaging the enemy fleet guns and move to defense outposts as casualties mounted on both sides, with Shanghai fighting yielding massive destruction and about 20 000 Chinese killed and 30 000 wounded in four weeks.
Police blamed the CIO and AFL unions for a string of tear gas and stench bombs that hit 21 neighborhood theaters Sunday night injuring at least 25 as crowds packed theaters. The incident followed a long standing union dispute between the two federations.
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