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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Sep 19, 1930

Page

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Youth and Women Factor in Disciples Convention

Rev Beckman urged regional Disciples of Christ delegates in Athens that the church must rely on youth to build its future wealth and strength. Rev Ashton warned against overreliance on women for church work, stressing women’s essential role in congregations.

Church of Tomorrow Paul Beckman Marietta Disciples of Christ Athens First C. L. Kendle George Ashton South Church of Christ I. F. Kendle N. B. Martin Crooksville I. J. Cahill Cleveland

First Husband of Dead Fli er Not Divorced

Ruth Alexander the young aviatrix killed in a San Diego crash left behind a sealed note revealing she was married to Ensign Robert A. Elliott. Her parents and ex-husband Mac P Alexander, living on a farm at Olathe, Kan, say they knew nothing of the marriage and that divorce proceedings were pending based on desertion charges.

Kansas City Ruth Alexander San Diego Robert A. Elliott W. T. Blaney Kans United Press Today Kansas City Journal-Post Blaney Mac P. Alexander Olathe Kan Alexander

Cuba Opposes World Court Protocol Blocking US Entry

Delegates in Geneva work to salvage a new World Court protocol as Cuba objects. The plan, devised by Elihu Root, would allow United States adhesion and its failure could bar American membership on the tribunal.

Geneva Switzerland U.R League World Court Cuba Elihu Root United States

Gunshot injures hunter in mistaken-identity incident

Riley B. Williams, 85, of Crooksville, a barber, is hospitalized at Good Samaritan with gunshot wounds after a hunting accident. A companion, who mistook his movements for a squirrel, fired at him on Thursday.

Zanesville U.P Riley B. Williams Crooksville Barber Good Samaritan Hospital

Artificial lung keeps young nurse alive in glass cabinet

Miss Frances McGann a 25 year old student nurse suffering infantile paralysis has been maintained for six days in a glass cabinet using a driker respirator at St Luke's Hospital Chicago doctors say the device saved her life and may aid recovery The apparatus uses a rubber diaphragm around her neck while a vacuum and pressure cycle causes her lungs to expand and contract with the head protruding from the cabinet and morale described as fair by physicians

Chicago Frances McGann St. Luke's Hospital San Francisco Miss McGann

Wife Changed Mind About Her Purchase of Poison

Mrs. Anna B. Arnot of Glasgow faces murder charges after authorities say she purchased poison the day before her husband’s death, earlier ruled accidental, and later exhumation found poison traces. The couple’s home basement burn pile was linked to the incident, with Evered verifying the drugstore purchase and Arnot’s reaction.

Glasgow Mont U.R Anna B. Arnot E. O. Evered Arnot

La Follette Family Dominates Wisconsin Leadership

The article praises the La Follette name in Wisconsin politics. It notes Robert La Follette’s enduring influence and highlights his son Robert’s U.S. Senate seat and Phillip’s election as governor, signaling continued family power and public trust in their integrity.

la Follette Wisconsin Robert la Follette United States Senate Phillip

Senator’s Family Roles Echo an Immortality of Life

A reflective passage notes one son in the Senate and another as a state governor, suggesting the family’s strong representation in American life. The speaker contends that their offspring confer a form of immortality beyond agnosticism, as they endure through their descendants.

Senate

Chicago Night School Attendance Rises 62 Percent

Chicago reports a 62 percent rise in night school attendance blamed on unemployment. Wise is cited as a man out of work who seizes learning to improve prospects and will not stay unemployed.

Chicago Wise

Oakland establishes nation’s first adult education center

R. A. Carrington, Jr. of The Oakland Post Enquirer reports that Oakland, California, with help from the University of California, creates the country’s first adult educational center. The aim is to provide information and address missed opportunities in childhood education.

Oakland California University of California R. A. Carrington, Jr Oakland Post Enquirer

No Man Should Feel Too Old to Learn

A quotation urges that the desire to learn proves the ability to learn. It notes a prominent British scientist who conquered Greek after the age of sixty, illustrating lifelong learning and intellectual perseverance.

Opening day enrollees at University For Adults diverse turnout

The opening day for the University For Adults welcomed a varied group including a banker, a day laborer, school teachers, two doctors, a dentist, a photographer, clerks, bookkeepers and an insurance worker as part of the freshman intake.

Bandits Escape in Stolen Plane Across Central Plains

A blue OX5 Travelair plane used by six bandits who robbed Lincoln National Bank of $100,000 fled Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma airports. The aircraft was stolen from Elk City Oklahoma airport superintendent W D Mauk. A penciled route on a highway map was found in a car abandoned by the robbers.

Lincoln Neb O.R Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Travelair Lincoln National Bank W. D. Mauk Elk City Okla

Jones indicted in fatal cliff robbery case near Fayetteville

Tom Jones, a Black man, was indicted on charges of robbing the late Charles W. Osenton of 1500 dollars as Osenton was carried home by Jones after a fatal fall over a cliff near Fayetteville. The incident occurred August 6 and Osenton was his former employer.

Fayetteville W. Va U.P Tom Jones Charles W. Osenton Here

Dressmaker Key Lead In Cleveland Girl Disappearance

Cleveland detectives report a dressmaker who saw 15 year old Virginia Wood on a street car is the last person known to have seen her before her Wednesday disappearance. Police have exhausted kidnapping leads and checked prior addresses without result as they search for the Horace Mann Junior High student who left with a friend that morning.

Cleveland Virginia Wood Virginia Public Square Horace Mann Wood Lee Wood Cleveland Westinghouse Electric Company

Prince Paul Rose Dies From Auto Crash Injuries

Parkerburg dispatch reports Prince Paul Rose a 46 year old Javanese vaudeville midget died from injuries suffered in an auto accident last Saturday. He passed away here last night.

Parkersburg W. Va U.R Prince Paul Rose

Bowman Boys Continue in Series of Crime

A national crime spree link ties thefts at Pomeroy and surrounding towns to the Bowman brothers. A Hupmobile vanished in Pomeroy with officers fearing further strikes tonight while Vance Miller’s death is cited as motive for renewed bandit activity. Lawrence Hall was arrested after surrendering.

Bowman Boys Miller Bowman Brothers Athens County Buick Company Athens Coshocton Studebaker Parkersburg Kroger Here Vance Miller Pomeroy Bend Lawrence Wall Raymond Zether Pension Ridge Letart Township Meigs County Hall Keiser

Drys Accept Challenge of Wet Leaders

The drys accept the issue in the November elections, with Anti-Saloon League Superintendent F. Scott McBride saying the question is clearer now than since prohibition began. Anti-prohibition groups plan vigorous campaigns in Massachusetts Delaware Ohio and other key states. Reports to the House clerk show 1930 anti-prohibition groups received 363000 and spent 425000. dry organizations took in 11621 and spent 9622.

Washington U.P Scott McBride Anti-Saloon League Massachusetts Delaware Ohio

Guard Charged With Felonious Assault In Liquor Case

United States customs guard Francis T. McCarthy faces felonious assault charges after allegedly striking Dr. Irwin over the head with a blackjack during an incident tied to two ounces of liquor seized from a party aboard the Majestic. The doctor, injured at the pier, was treated at a hospital and McCarthy was arraigned by Magistrate Michael A. Ford.

New York United States Customs Francis T. McCarthy Michael A. Ford Irwin Majestic Harry Jones McCarthy Jones

Waterbury Woman Rescued After Harbor Swim

Mrs. A. F. Cooley known as Gram a Waterbury resident and summer visitor failed to return from a swim off West Haven prompting an air search. A plane spotted her swimming toward the breakwater about two miles offshore. Her son-in-law Grover Palen and George Schlissel found her sunbathing on the breakwater after responding in a power boat.

West Haven Conn A. F Gram”) Cooley Waterbury Cooley Grover Palen George Schlissel

Norwegian Sealer Bratvaag Returns with Andree Remains

Captain Eliassen of the Bratvaag is pictured returning to Tromsoe with the bodies of the Andree polar expedition crew. His crew located the vanished party on White Island in the Arctic after 33 years of mystery.

Captain Eliassen Bratvaag Tromsoe Norway White Island Arctic

Woman Hater Funds Men Only Library In LeMars

Attorney T M Zinks will leaves estate 75000 to grow over 75 years to four million for a library strictly for men. His will bars women from access and forbids female authors, with wife disinherited and daughter receiving five dollars.

Lemars Town U.P T. M. Zink'sa Zink

Prison Only Remains Says Jobless Youth

Charles Wasalshen, 19, told Cleveland police he would rather be sent to prison than endure further unemployment after attempts to rob a bank with no gun. He described a five month drift through Detroit, Baltimore, Butler and Cleveland seeking work while living with relatives. He said he would work for ten dollars a week but could not find a job and was held for investigation.

Cleveland U.P Charles Wasalshen Central Police Station Wasalishen Julia Merva Detroit Baltimore Butler

Changsha Ruins After Communist Repression

Report from Hankow describes Changsha as a city of dead and ruins after clashes with Chinese Communists. Refugees recount massacres of officials and merchants, executions in streets, and heads displayed on public buildings. Prices for passage to ships rose sharply as foreign lines profited.

Hankow U.R Changsha Hunan Fifth Red Army U. S

Fire sweeps Empire Apartments in Toledo. six seriously burned

A blaze at the Empire Apartments in Toledo left at least six people seriously burned and about a dozen overcome by smoke. Four injured were taken to St Vincent's Hospital. Many residents escaped by leaping from windows or being carried down by firefighters and police through smoke-filled stairways.

Toledo U.P Old Empire Apartments St. Vincent's Hospital

Guard Eddie Short Held on Contraband Charge

Hold guard Eddie Short of the state penitentiary is investigated for carrying prisoner contraband after officials found letters mailed privately to prisoners in his possession during a search before leaving the penitentiary last night.

Penitentiary Columbus U.R Eddie N. Short Short

Rises to Power In Germany and the Reichstag Shifts

Adolph Hitler leads the German Fascist Party after general elections that award 167 seats in the Reichstag. The fascists oppose the republican government and seek power in Germany.

Germany Adolph Hitler

Sugar Tariff Debate Grows From Farm Board Advisory Panel

A storm over sugar policy forms as the Federal Farm Board weighs a report from a beef and cane sugar advisory committee. Chair Charles M. Kearney leads seven members urging higher tariffs or ending Cuban sugar preferences and criticizing foreign shipments on government lines. The panel cites Philippine sugar and other imports as a rising threat to U S producers with about 60 percent of domestic consumption sourced from Cuba.

Washington Amertcan Federal Farm Board Tta Résport Phillippine Une Fair Practice Charles M. Kearney Morrill Nebraska Cooperative Beet Growers Association of Nebraska Farm Board Mobr D'écmarehy Ae United States Quba

Old Princess Weds Man of Fever Years

Princess Amadee Charlotte Constance De Broglie aged 73 wed Prince Ferdinand D Orcleans Bourbon in a secret ten minute ceremony at a London register office. The match, blocked in Spain and France, was pursued when King of Spain failed to obtain consent. the couple said England allowed the marriage without paternal consent.

London Amadee Charlotte Constance de Broglie Ferdinand D’orleans - Bourbon Spain France Prince Louis Evening Standard Italy England

Manchurian warlord urges end to China's Civil War

Chang Beneh Liang a rich and powerful Manchurian warlord intervened to hasten the end of the civil conflict. He had remained neutral in the fighting between the Nanking government and the troops in the field and issued a circular calling for a halt to hostilities and for national affairs to be decided by the central government.

Shanghai Uri Chang Beneh- Liang China Chang Nanking Trore Thorn

German Bonds Rally Suppressed by Rumors on Wall Street

On Sept 19 in New York, Wall Street rumor mill touched German bonds. The Young Plan era annuities offered by House of Morgan fell sharply from 90 to around 2, while German Agricultural Bank notes slid from fractional to about two points, with several near year lows.

New York Wall Street Germany House of Morgan

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Rev. Beckman Rev. Ashton America Arthur Brisbane King Peatures Incorporated Paul Block Angels Pomeroy John Blaettner Ohio River McBride Fcdchal Cust Andree Argentina Uriburu Buenos Aires NEA Service Irigoyen Iowa Cleveland Boy By Lyle G. Wilson United Press
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