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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1936
Page
1
Loyalists diverted a waterfall near Alberche southwest of Madrid flooding the Talavera Santa Clalla Quismondo and Maqueda zone and stopping rebel advances.
The Ohio Federation of Labor endorsed a constitutional amendment to replace the two house Assembly with a unicameral legislature. The move argues the current system blocks popular will and aids special interests. The convention also approved a bill to bar outside groups from paying for hire of special deputies and set a new executive committee selection.
Albert D. Cash, general chairman of the Democratic campaign committee in Cincinnati, rejected Father Charles E. Coughlin’s demand that anti Roosevelt candidates be axed. Cash warned that any candidate refusing loyal support to President Roosevelt would lack regular Democratic support in the upcoming election.
DELAWARE Harry W. Robinson age 63 once a buddy of former Governor George White during the Yukon gold rush in 1808 died here today of a cerebral hemorrhage. Robinson had been an undertaker here for 35 years. NEEDY ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF WASHINGTON The Federal Social Security Board approved West Virginia’s Public Assistance Act making 35 200 needy persons eligible for government benefits.
Eleven year old Orville Bruce of Sis sonville smiles from a Charleston hospital bed after rescuing his dog Tony from beneath a car. Orville was struck by the vehicle driven by O M Mays of Charleston but state police exonerated Mays. Attendants said the boy is cut and bruised but not seriously hurt.
In Shanghai British and American forces prepared for defense amid a growing dispute after the killing of a Japanese sailor. British troops were to patrol the international settlement bridge while U S Marines waited in barracks.
Ohio State University prepares a large scale orientation program for incoming students as attendance rises to a record level. The effort mirrors a traditional Freshmen week with activities designed to integrate new arrivals into campus life.
In The Literary Digest poll Landon leads Roosevelt by about 3 to 2 as 503 509 votes are tallied from 21 states. Landon 293 972, Roosevelt 185 495, Lemke 19 632. California favors Landon, while Roosevelt leads in Alabama Florida and Georgia.
In Cincinnati common pleas court the Remington Rand strike case was dismissed marking the end of the dispute that closed the Norwood plant and affected about 1700 workers. Attorneys for the company and the International Association of Machinists requested dismissal of prior injunctions tied to the labor dispute. The strike began over union recognition and other concessions.
Akron area talks between B F Goodrich management and the Rubber Workers Union resume as the union rejects a peace proposal. Management would reopen the plant but opposes removing a non union employee in the braided home department. Campaign costs listed in Yuma report total 45 cents.
In Chicago a six day old infant, Julian Tafel Jr, died after post operative shock and toxic poisoning from imperfect elimination. Parents, tearful, said they were glad for mercy in the death, the father having prayed for the end and the mother expressing sorrow yet relief.
The Senate Civil Liberties Committee, examining worker rights violations, seeks details on gas gun use by strikebreakers. It aims to show Lake Erie Chemical Co supplied gas to union busting efforts in Salinas lettuce strike and 1934 San Francisco waterfront strike. E. E. McGuffin of National Corporations Service to testify on firms providing industrial information.
About 5 000 Catholics gathered at Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown for the Cleveland Diocesan Eucharistic Congress led by Bishop Joseph Schrembs. Ten thousand more were turned away from the mass as thousands streamed into streets around the venue for the midnight service with Bishop McFadden. Fr Leo Gainor urged unity under the Constitution and warned against persecution while urging Catholics to oppose Socialism and Communism.
More than 2,500 miners in Muhrenberg and Ohio Counties will return to work under a wage agreement reached today between Western Kentucky Coal Operators and District No. 23 United Mine Workers. The contract raises outside pay from 3 to 3.50 dollars per day and inside pay from 4 to 4.50 dollars, with a seven hour day. The agreement takes effect April 1.
Columbia University faces a student strike amid picketing by union painters and charges of anti-labor policies. The American Student Union demands reinstatement of Robert Burke of Youngstown, Ohio, president-elect of the Junior Class, expelled for leading a protest outside Butler's home over Columbia's Heidelberg anniversary ceremonies.
Northeast storm warnings were issued along the Maine coast east of Portland as a tropical storm swirled northward over the Atlantic and was expected to strike tonight. In Urbana WPA officials warned that workers refusing corn cutting jobs will be dropped from relief rolls after a federal re employment report noted a 200 shortage in Champaign County.
Britain's wartime prime minister David Lloyd George, in his war memoirs, accuses General John J. Pershing of rushing brass hats to France while infantry was needed. He says Pershing refused to adopt Foch's suggested procedure, until the Supreme War Council pressed him to change.
Governor Alf Landon campaigned through Iowa en route to Minnesota and Wisconsin to press New Deal trade policy criticisms and present a Republican social security plan. Dairymen and livestock leaders argued current reciprocal trade deals hurt dairy and meat sectors, while former New Dealer George A. Peek warned of Canada trade effects. Landon spoke before 500 farmers and editors in Des Moines after briefings with Iowa leaders.
The American Legion reaffirmed its stand for Americanism and peace at the annual convention in Cleveland. Delegates passed resolutions denouncing pacifism in schools, Communism, and Fascism and urged withdrawal of U S recognition of Russia. The group planned to elect leaders and adjourn, with the 1937 convention set for New York City.
Mrs. Marie Moore, 24, will remain in Jefferson County Jail to be near her husband James A. Moore, 25, held on manslaughter charges after his alleged self defense killings of his father in law Joseph Lucskay and brother Joseph Jr. The deaths followed a dispute over slate dumping from Moore's mine onto the father in law's property.
Frank H. Reid Uhrichsville newly elected Ohio Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias is in serious condition after a heart attack at a downtown intersection. He had just addressed the Grand Temple of the Pythian Sisters of Ohio when the attack occurred on his way back to his hotel.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt again interceded with police to free Steve Vasilakos the nation s top peanut vendor who had sold at the White House entrance for 27 years. He was arrested last week while the first lady was ill.
Attorney General John W. Bricker Republican candidate for governor outlined a three point program for the State Department of Agriculture. He called for crop experimentation farmer education and expanded department powers to guard consumers against unhealthful foods. He charged a political machine in the department and criticized $16 000 billboard spending for the state fair as taxpayer misuse.
Governor Martin L. Davey used a statewide radio address to attack Republican rival Attorney General John W. Bricker. He charged Bricker with false statements that the Davey administration raised state costs by over 19 million dollars, citing 15.5 million in increased annual expenditures for pensions debt service relief to counties Muskingum Valley Conservancy libraries hospitals and a 1936 American Legion convention appropriation.
Attorneys for Martin Moore convicted of killing Helen Clevenger prepared to file exceptions and assignments of error for a new trial before the North Carolina Supreme Court the week of November 4. The court granted a writ of certiorari delaying his execution by lethal gas previously set for October 2.
Bernie Bierman and the national champion Minnesota football squad escaped a hotel blaze in Missoula Montana. The team was traveling to Seattle to face Washington on Saturday after stopping overnight at Hotel Florence.
Toledo report says Libbey Owens Ford Glass Co assents to a new five year contract with General Motors Corporation granting sale of 120 million dollars worth of plate glass.
President Roosevelt calls Democratic leaders to Hyde Park to decide if he should repeat the coast-to-coast campaign tour. Officials discuss travel, funding, and how to frame issues for the November election amid requests from doubtful districts.
The Edison Drum and Bugle Corps of Chicago won the 1936 American Legion finals at Municipal Stadium Cleveland before 40 000 fans, beating San Gabriel California by a mere .22 point to claim the title.
Delaware bandits robbed the Capital Loan Company escaping with 500 dollars after threatening manager Paul Crimm and two employees. They fled east toward Sunbury in a black sedan, with an accomplice waiting outside.
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