600 Men Obtain Jobs in Meigs County Mines
Meigs County coal mines report steady employment after a strike settlement. About 400 workers are in Syracus e Mining Co. No. 5 near Rutland and No. 75 at Syracuse since last Wednesday. Additional mines include Blackstone cooperative near Rutland and Charter Oak Mine run by M L French, supplying river boats and towboats with coal. Over 20 home mines employ 3 to 6 locals each, mostly avoiding labor troubles.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Syracuse Mining Company
Rutland
Syracuse
Blackstone Coal Company
Coal Company
Charter Oak
M. L. French
Insull Audits Show Losses and Collapse of Empire
Audits presented to the Federal court by receivers reveal that Samuel Insull’s vast utilities empire faces probable investor losses exceeding a billion dollars. The financial juggernaut’s downfall is traced to its own corporate structure and heavy bank-held stock pledged as collateral for loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.R
Samuel Insull
Fish Dealer Sues Over Lindbergh Kidnapping Incident
Garret Schenck of Hopewell New Jersey, a fish dealer, claims abduction and 76 days of captivity in Pennsylvania tied to the Lindbergh baby case. He files in Federal court for $50,000 against ten defendants including J J Devine and Police Chief Russell Love among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Garret Schenck
Hopewell
N. J
Pennsylvania
Schenck
J. J. Devine
Russell Love
Dubois, Pa
H. H. Cupp
Paul Cupp
Ruben S. Rakestraw
Joseph Havener
Charles Horner
Ned Benshoff
Avery Connors
Frank Shugerta
Olive Hamon Dancer Makes Two Unsucceessful Marry Attempts
Olive Bell Hamon known as Loma Worth and daughter of slain Jake Hamon tried to obtain a marriage license twice in New York within two days. She first secured a license to wed Clifford Cross, then withdrew and accompanied Pedro Lianuza, whose Chicago divorce papers were incomplete, thwarting the second attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Olive Bell Hamon
Jake Hamon
Oklahoma
Loma Worth
Clifford Cross
Pedro Lianuza
Seaplane Collision Kills Six Over Spezia Bay
In Spezia Italy today two large seaplanes collided during exercises over Spezia Bay. The crash killed six army fliers and injured two others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spezia
Italy
Spezia Bay
Poorhouse Inmates Not Poor Enough
Newark story reports 21 inmates evicted from the City Poorhouse after an economy review found they had greater resources than other destitute people. Overseer Owen A. Maladhy cited cases including a man with 800 dollars in savings a 635 dollar trust fund and a 25 dollar monthly pension and another with a Morristown house and prosperous relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
U.P
Owen A. Maladhy
Morristown
Ingalls To Speak In Nelsonville Campaign Kickoff
Republican governor hopeful David S. Ingalls will headline a Nelsonville Public Square meeting on September 21 launching Athens County campaign activities. The event includes a 5 30 reception at the Presbyterian Church, a 6 o'clock dinner, and a 7 o'clock address from the Dew Hotel porch with city band performances and enhanced loudspeakers.
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Nelsonville
David S. Ingalls
Ohio
Athens County
Ingalls
Ironton
Presbyterian Church
Nelsonville High School
Dew Hotel
Charles M. Hogan
L. J. Eberle
Dan A. Bardin
Roosevelt
Salt Lake City
Rail Men Stand Against More Salary Cuts
Directors of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen voted to oppose any further pay reductions. The resolution, adopted at the biennial convention, represents 17,000 workers. Timothy Shea of Cleveland said workers feel cheated by existing salary reductions.
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Albany
N. Y
U.P
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood
Timothy Shea
Cleveland
Stock Exchange Sued For 21 Million In Federal Suit
Pirnie Simons and Company Inc stock brokers sue the New York Stock Exchange its president Richard Whitney and 40 board members in federal court alleging a boycott and blacklist harming their business Seeking 3 million actual and 4 million punitive damages plus treble under antitrust laws totaling 21 million dollars.
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New York
U.P
New York Stock Exchange
Richard Whitney
Pirnie Simons and Company, Incs
Exchange
Ingalls Passes on Landing in McArthur Crowded Field
Ohio gubernatorial hopeful David S. Ingalls refused to land at McArthur on Friday as children swarmed the single field. He circled for an hour, then flew to Sandusky and sent regrets by telephone.
Watchman at Hollister Mine Shot In Foot
Hollister Ohio on duty Andrew J Price watchman at Mine No 267 of Ohio Collieries shot in the right leg Friday afternoon. Bullets also struck the Thompson home in Glouster as National Guardsmen responded. Bookkeeper Walter Duncan of Mine No 6 was arrested in Chauncey with liquor and a government revolver.
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Glouster
Andrew J. Price
Ohio Collieries Company
Hollister
Mike Thompson
Thompson
Andrew Allen
Walter Duncan
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Millfield
Chauncey
National Guard
Nelsonville
Duncan
U. S
Fred Horn
Luhrig
Horn
Democratic Senator Defends Roosevelt Economy Push at Athens Rally
Senator Robert J. Bulkley told Athens residents that Republicans cannot slash the costly regime they built. He urged voting for Roosevelt, urged a Democratic House and Senate, and critiqued Hoover era cuts and tax hikes while backing temperance and state control of liquor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Robert J. Bulkley
Athens
Bulkley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Ohio to Convene Special Session September 27
Ohio Governor George White announces a special session of the General Assembly for September 27 to push economy measures including reducing official salaries and personal service pay. He also signals a push for RCC grants, slum district eliminations in large cities, and changes to property assessments and finance laws.
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Columbus
Ohio General Assembly
George White
White
Seasion
General Assembly
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Perry County Miner Shot In Ambush Near Shawnee
Nelsonville Ohio September report says Herbert Harvey 35 of Shawnee was shot in the back during an ambush on a road above the Salem Hollow Coal Mine. Harvey and Willard Lang were attacked as six shots were fired. car windows smashed. Eight men including Homer Trimmer and several Lannings were arrested. warrants issued for three others.
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Nelsonville
Cliifford Wilson
Perry County
Herbert Harvey
Shawnee
Harvey
Ohio Collieries Company
Willard Lang
Salem Hollow
Homer Trimmer
Trimmer
Albert Call
Clem Craig
Stanley Spencer
Clarence Spencer
Oliver Lanning
Virgil Lanning
Roy Lanning
Curtis Defends G O P Planks in Eastern Campaign Speech
Vice President Curtis praised Hoover leadership for turning the business tide in his first eastern address. He defended the Republican farm relief record against Roosevelt attacks and argued tariff policies under Wilson and the past 12 years of Republican rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fogelsville
U.P
Curtis
Hoover
Franklin D Roosevelt
Topeka
Weather forecast for Ohio Valley showers into Friday
The Weather Bureau issued a forecast for the week starting Monday. The Ohio Valley will be fair Monday then showers through Thursday night in Tennessee and Friday in the Ohio Valley. Temperatures rise Monday then cool Wednesday and Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
United States Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Coal Rate Cut Now Extended
Public utilities commissioners extend the order reducing coal freight rates from the Cambridge and Hocking districts to Northeastern Ohio from September 20 to September 27 after petitions from New York Central B and O Pennsylvania and the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads. The carriers had asked for September 29.
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Columbus
Public Utilities Commissioners
Cambridge
Hocking
Ohio
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Wheeling and Lake Erie
One Room School Fight May Reach Courts
In Washington Court House, Howard Grimm fights to keep White Oak’s one room school open after a district vote to consolidate with Madison Township at Madison Mills. Despite automatic abolition, Grimm continues classes for 23 pupils, claiming a competing petition urged continuation with more signers.
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Washington, C. H
U.P
White Oak
Madison Township
Madison Mills
Howard Grimm
Grimm
Utah miners seek a new economic deal with Roosevelt
Representatives of Utahs mining industry appealed to Governor Franklin D Roosevelt in Salt Lake City on September 17 to support a new economic deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
U.P
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civil War Veteran Recounts Early Battle Experience
Seventy one years ago Capt. J B Allen of Athens recalled his first Civil War battle, the Battle of Carnifax Ferry in West Virginia on September 17 1861, fought between Clarksburg and Weston.
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J. B. Allen
Athens
Young St'' Allen
Carnifax Ferry
West Virginia
Clarksburg
Weston
Athens Garden Club Hosts Wolfe Home Meeting Sunday
The Athens Garden Club will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Wolfe Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Franklin Murphy will speak on Dahlias.
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Athens Garden Club
T. M. Wolfe
Franklin Murphy
Public notices and local events report drift across pages
Citizens discuss a potential public monument in Pomeroy while WCTU members hold annual elections. Nelsonville hosts a Sept 24 dry advocate speech as fall church activities resume. DuBois wife found dead in a concrete vault after his suicide, and Republican support for Hoover from Borah appears amid a Cincinnati overdose tragedy. Gallia County fair and seed farm insurance cancelation noted along with 13 Holzer Hospital nurse graduates.
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Pomeroy
Nelsonville
DuBois
Hoover
Cincinnati
Gallia County
Holzer Hospital
Bloodhounds In Man Hunt In Cookson Hills
In Tahlequah Oklahoma on September 17 a posse using bloodhounds chased Cookson Hills Gang members after officers encountered four outlaws. Deputy Sheriff Webster Reed was killed and Tahlequah Night Police Chief Frank Edwards was shot in the neck. Buddy McLain 27 died from machine gun fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tahlequah
Okla
U.P
Cookson Hills
Here
Webster Reed
Frank Edwards
Buddy McLain
Bandits Squander Loot Road Man
Two Toledo women and two men are jailed on charges of stealing 1750 dollars from William Buckley a 60 year old tower man for the New York Central Railway at Findlay Ohio. The foursome spent most of the money on two autos and planned a down payment on an East Toledo farm before their arrest one suspect confessed to police.
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Toledo
U.P
William Buckley
New York Central Railway
Findlay
East Toledo
Extra Tonight Watch for Peace in Hocking District
Miners' delegates meet at Murray City Sunday afternoon to vote on a compromise peace plan expected to end a strike in the coal fields. If ratified, Athens Messenger will publish an extra edition carrying meeting details. no extra if terms fail.
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Hocking
Murray City
Athens Messenger
Violate Liquor Laws Majority of Federal Prisoners Break Prohibition
Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics show that over five years three of every five federal women prisoners were convicted for violation of prohibition laws. Total male prisoners admitted numbered 10 044 with 27 342 breaking prohibition regulations.
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Washington
U.R
Bureau of Prisons
Cherokee Opening Re-Enacted in Enid Anniversary Event
Enid Oklahoma witnesses a reenactment marking the thirty ninth anniversary of the Cherokee Strip opening. Participants dress in period clothing and recreate frontier life as pioneers are feted and actors simulate old west combat amid mock saloons and prairie wagons.
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Enid
Oklo
Cherokees Strip
Resigns Over Legion Bonus Stance During Portland Debate
Detroit veteran leader Phelps Newberry a World War II lieutenant colonel and treasurer of the American Legion Convention Corps resigns from a local post in protest of immediate payment of the soldiers bonus. He cites principled opposition and risk of financial chaos and says he cannot stay in an organization supporting the plan. Newberry also chairs Michigan division of the National Economy League as New York reports the league will fight the bonus proposal to the finish at Portland.
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Detroit
Phelps Newberry
American Legion Convention Corps
Veterans’ Organisation
Portland
Newberry
Michigan
National Economy League
New York
American Legion
Ore
Roosevelt outlines rail program to rehabilitate railroads
Gov Franklin D Roosevelt on his transcontinental tour at the Mormon Tabernacle proposed a Rail Program AURA with federal regulation of motor competition, consolidation of lines, and continued government aid. He urged pulling the railroads from the red and out of receiverships threatening them.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mormon Tabernacle
Hold Sons in Father's Death
Three Tate brothers were held for questioning after George Tate 17 confessed to shooting Laley S. Tate 64 a cattle dealer. He died after being ambushed while returning from selling land near Haydentown. The body was found hidden in brush near Haydentown following a two day search.
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Uniontown
U.P
Laley S. Tate
Bruceton
W. Va
George Tate
Sam
John
Tate
Haydentown
Al Smith One Of Whose Stand You Are Sure
LA report notes Al Smith’s strong stance in a featured article. It mentions Roosevelt heading west to meet voters and Hoover starting campaign travel plans while radio supporters tune in.
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al Smith
Will
Los Angeles
Calif
8. E. Post
Roosevelt
Hoover
Potomac
Miners Expected to Ratify White Plan in Murray City
Delegates from 40 locals and 98 miners meet in Murray City to vote on Gov George White’s compromise plan to end the Hocking District cost strike. Friday’s session adjourned without a vote due to lack of rank and file instruction and unclear provisions.
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Columbia
Mineral Beate Committee
Lee Hall
Hall
David Watkins
Percy Tetlow
Beale Committée
Guards Seize Guns in Raid Near Lubrig Mine
National Guard observers conducted searches across Glouster and nearby areas using nine warrants. Two Springfield rifles 45-70, a revolver, and ammunition were confiscated along with a Savage .22 rifle found at Brookville. The Lubrig Mine near Athens, idle months, is to reopen Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Lubrig
Manhattan Coal Company
Athens
National Guard
Glouster
Brookville
Waterlee Township
Girl Rescuer Dies After Saving Sister at Home
Ethel Peck, 16, died in Columbus hospital from burns suffered while saving her sister Virginia, 17, from a fire. Both were Central High School students. Virginia was slightly burned on the arms. They had been using paraffin to can fruit when the incident occurred.
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Columbus
U.R
Ethel Peck
Burna
Virginia
Ethel
Central High School
War department blamed for Hurley eviction miscue
Brig. Gen. Joseph P. O'Neil, retired, assumed responsibility for the use of war department envelopes that led to Secretary of War Hurley's eviction explanation at the National American Legion Convention. He cited a clerk’s error in choosing the wrong envelopes, which caused Legion censorship of the department.
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Portland
Ore
War Department
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