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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1928
Page
1
A hostile group is reported to have lighted a fiery cross on Mount Helena overlooking the city. Police investigate as residents express concern over a public display of intimidation.
Governor Alfred E. Smith heads east from Helena with Montana and North Dakota stops planned before St Paul and Minneapolis. He denounces Hoover over Teapot Dome and Harding scandals, urges repudiation, and warns of Ku Klux Klan hostility observed near Mount Helena.
District Supreme Court Judge Justice Stafford refused the motion by District Attorney Rover to postpone the perjury trial of Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, set for October. The request cited Senators Nye and Walsh as campaign speakers on the trial date.
A government illustrated booklet on kitchen layouts and equipment promises practical, savings in daily chores. The ad notes steps and lifting reduced by better arrangements and offers the booklet for four cents postage and handling with a coupon.
Flood waters from heavy rains swamp the Everglades complicating burial and cremation of hurricane dead. Red Cross relief director A I Schafer reports death toll over 2200 with Pelican Bay possibly drowned. Refugee camps reported good sanitation and a health campaign fights epidemics.
President hopeful Herbert Hoover will depart Washington on October 5 for a rapid southern trip targeted at Elizabethton Tennessee and Johnson City to visit a veterans hospital. A Bristol rear platform rally will host up to 150000 people with special trains from four surrounding states. The swing ends back in Washington by 6 p.m. E S T after a 31 hour journey.
Five candidates for the Athens police chief post have obtained applications but none filed by noon. The last filing day is October 2. Examinations will be at 7:30 p.m. October 3 in the City Building. The top three scores will be sent to Mayor Alex M. Moore for selection to replace Herb J. Parker who resigned to pursue the sheriff race.
Chauncey September 25 Staff Special The Plains road is being oiled from the covered bridge near Beaumont to the Zion Church on Lower Plains as a detour during Athens Chauncey brick road repairs Dusty conditions caused by heavy traffic led Beaumont and The Plains residents to petition the county commissioners for aid with more than 350 signatures.
State-wide search was conducted today for three prisoners who escaped from the London Prison Farm Honor Camp Sunday night, according to the State Bureau of Identification.
Near GLOUSTER on Sept 25 reports show 2190 men at Hocking sub district open shop mines. Official check shows 76 riding the labor train, up from 70. Operators report securing orders ensuring steady work for a considerable time.
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant U.S. attorney general, accused Governor Alfred E. Smith of Tammany training and retreat on prohibition. She linked his policy shift to restoring liquor traffic and urged support for Herbert Hoover in Warren.
C L Heaton of Athens won the contract to build a Christian Science Church at 11 South Congress Street for 11965 dollars, under Breinig and Frum's bid by 2700. The one story brick and hollow tile structure will have a basement auditorium reading room dressing room and furnace room with red oak interior and a massive batten oak entrance. Excavation to start immediately with completion hoped by early 1929 subject to weather.
A telegram to Mr and Mrs James E Love Millfield reports their daughter Mrs Guy Griffin and family are safe at their West Palm Beach Florida home. The Griffins who formerly lived in Chauncey have lived in Florida for some years after moving from Dover Township.
Athens Kiwanis Club discussed delegate transportation housing and entertainment needs for the Ohio Parent-Teacher Convention at Hotel Berry. No firm plans were made. further action will be taken at the next regular meeting, officers stated this morning.
Maryland Senator Bruce repeats accusations that Clarence Darrow admitted drinking with Herbert Hoover. He refuses to withdraw charges until formally denied by Chicago attorney. The dispute centers on a whispering campaign alleged by Galen L. Tait Republican chairman and linked to Senator Curtis of Kansas and Pimlico whisky claims.
Senator William E. Borah of Idaho called former Interior Secretary Fall a traitor to a 3,500 crowd in Tulsa. He defended Hoover’s cabinet, attacked Governor Alfred E. Smith and Tammany Hall, and blamed farm value declines on Wilson era policies and postwar conditions.
Eight witnesses testified as Ora Randolph seeks payment for nursing care of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson in Hockingport. The trial continued after Leslie Albright's prior testimony was read, with Mrs. Breinig confirming the value of a practical nurse's services. The first trial had set aside the verdict against John W. Johnson but sustained the claim against Nora Johnson.
The northeast Ohio Methodist Conference endorsed Herbert Hoover by name for president after a four hour session. About 700 votes were cast with only two against Hoover. The resolution rejected Alfred E. Smith citing Hoover’s life record and prohibition stance, not religion or party.
In official circles a substitute program from cruiser and submarine limits is being considered as an alternative to the Anglo French naval plan. It may influence the forthcoming State Department note to London and Paris, though it faces disfavor from naval officials and awaits final decision by President Coolidge.
Pomeroy Ohio September 23 The Ohio Fuel Company advances a 30000 dollar gas boosting station at Darwin with pipelines to the Bedford Salisbury field. New wells are being drilled on Dayton Thomas Bur dette Heilman farms. A Bull Run gas line to Burdette extension to Cabin Oil Co gassers. Leasing tight from Ball Run to Harrisonville.
The Athens Smith For President Club met at Bethel's Store on Court Street to consider points for and against Alfred E. Smith and Herbert Hoover. New members attended and voting trends were reported by several present. The president spoke of strong local support for the Democratic candidate.
Consolidation of the Athens Pomeroy and Middleport Camps of the Spanish War Veterans will be considered at a meeting in the Council Chamber of the City Building Thursday night at 7 30 o clock. Plans for the state convention in Athens next summer will be considered. Committees in charge of the convention plans will be selected at this meeting.
Columbus records show the Columbus Delaware and Marion Electric Company filed a protest with the State Utilities Commission against the Marion Lima Transit Company's bid to open a new line through territory allegedly covered by the protestant.
Chicago reports Nathe Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb, jailed for the Bobby Franks murder, may be eligible for parole after 11 years and three months due to a sentencing error and good conduct. The State Board of Pardons and Paroles chairman says they are progressing toward parole despite public protest.
New Jersey Senator Edward S. Edwards charges that Mrs Mabel Walker Willebrandt should resign as assistant attorney general. He accuses her of appealing to religious prejudice in opposing Governor Alfred E Smith and calls her Northeast Ohio Conference address a disgrace to the department.
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