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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1933
Page
1
Commanders of states naval vessels off Cuba may act on their own in emergencies, as the country faces renewed unrest since the Machado overthrow. Reports describe armed bands looting homes of Americans in Matanzas and Antilla, with 60 to 130 Americans targeted in various towns. Cavalry guards the presidential palace while authorities suppress uprisings and protect British prisoners on sugar estates.
An early preflight report from New York on Sept 25 notes Julian the Black awaiting suitable flying conditions for his solo attempt to Aden. Newsreel crews capture his moment at Floyd Bennet Airfield as a diesel powered craft is christened Abyssinia.
In a case from ATI, a 24 year old wife Mavis and her husband Grant were found dead after a gas-filled rented room. Authorities say financial hardship and the desire to live together rather than apart led to the pact and death. A separate item from Presis Germany notes the Communist Party Reichstag opening defense against charges of conspiracy and innocence.
Ohio accidents over the weekend killed at least six people. Robert Ray Strohl, 14, of Akron, was shot by his brother. Robert Creeger, 12, of Clarksburg West Virginia, died from crash injuries in Columbus. his parents were seriously hurt. William Kuhlman, 78, of Woodville, died after being hit by a car driven by Clayton Woodall of Lakewood. Woodall faces inquest. Also killed were Harry Snyder, 31, of Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Stone, 72, of East Liverpool. and Miss Woodies E. Fisher, of Zanesville.
Chicago detectives connect Gus Winkler to the machine gun slayings of Policeman Miles Cunningham during the Federal Reserve mail pouch robbery. Ballistic experts compare bullets to those from the Kansas City Union Station massacre and link the same weapon to the two cases. Financial motive is suspected to fund Harvey Bailey and associates in the Urschel kidnapping inquiry.
Ath ens County manager FEL Lantz of the federal re employment service asked employers to report needs for additional men. He will send qualified job seekers to openings, letting employers select. Re employment offices operate in Chauncey Glouster Nelsonville and Athens with 350 unemployed registered 111 at Athens office.
Post master General James A. Farley will headline the Federated Democratic Women of Ohio convention in Columbus next Saturday. The DNC chairman is expected to discuss repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and the party pledge to end national Prohibition ahead of Ohio's vote.
Judge Robert H. Day of Massillon, serving his second term on the Ohio Supreme Court, underwent above the knee amputation of his right leg at Grant Hospital. Attending physician Dr. J J Coons said Day's condition was very good.
sensational defense testimony emerges as Harvey Bailey and 10 co defendants face trial for the 200000 Urschel kidnapping. The Shannon family claim fear compelled them to aid Urschel’s abduction while investigators guard prosecutors with machine guns at the federal building.
The League of Nations opened its fourteenth assembly in Geneva as Goebbels defended Germany and pressed for rearmament if neighbors disarm. Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss warned against the Nazi question while meeting British and American officials to map positions. The session faces a year of stalled disarmament and regional tensions.
United States Civil Service Commission announces competitive exams for a junior calculating machine operator and rotaprint operator open to district residents. Each position pays 1440 dollars yearly with deductions for economy and pension. Information available from H. T. C. Kelley at the Athens Post Office.
Gallipolis Sept. 25 Jos eph Fichter assistant state director of education spoke to Gallia County teachers about the school situation. He said some salaries may be delayed but all back debts up to July 1 1933 are paid and fuel tax funds will aid about 3 per pupil. He urged boards to operate on 1932 33 salary levels until 1933 34 rates are set and expressed hope the legislature will provide aid next session.
Washington report notes a showdown over codes for retail and drug stores as President Roosevelt seeks wage and hour standards affecting five million workers. Hugh Johnson aims to clear the NRA buying campaign while price control provisions remain contested among retailers, economists, and NRA officials.
Otterbein College leaders in Westerville say a campus dance dispute is unlikely to recur this fall. Dean F. J. Vance said he has heard nothing about any college organized dance and any dance in town would be unrelated to the college.
The government plans to buy clothing, equipment and supplies and undertake large scale CCC construction this fall according to Director Fechner. Lumber purchases total about 100 million feet as a market opens for clothing shoes stoves hardware pipe and other items. About 550 new camps will be built and 900 existing camps winter proofed, with outside labor providing carpentry and other jobs.
Dr Paul J Zentay assistant health commissioner says the St Louis sleeping sickness outbreak is definitely in decline nearing disappearance. Since July 1 there have been 171 deaths and total cases number between 900 and 1000 as records document.
A Santa Monica letter argues strikes are unpopular across fields and questions any strike tactics by the Iowa Farmers Association if the Frazier mortgage refinancing bill is not passed. The writer doubts Roosevelt’s influence and urges concern for workers, farmers, and stockholders while stressing that the unemployed deserve jobs more than anyone else.
Hollywood reports Sally Eilers and director Harry Joe Brown married in Yuma Arizona after secretly eloping from Los Angeles. The ceremony followed her Mexican divorce from actor Hoot Gibson announced weeks earlier.
A radically streamlined railroad coach capable of 90 mph appeared on test tracks in Dearborn Detroit today. The Mystery Ship, designed by William B. Stout famed for all metal tri motor aircraft, was built by the U S Engineering Laboratories for the Pullman Car and Manufacturing Corp and named Baltiplane.
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh left at 2 30 pm in their seaplane bound for Moscow to attempt a dangerous Moscow River landing. Russian aviators warned the river was not suitable for a landing yet Lindbergh insisted he would try and return if impracticable.
The United States launches a subsistence homestead program using 25 million dollars from the National Recovery Act. An advisory committee will outline policies, selecting early sites near manufacturing centers for industrial workers to live and farm. Notable members include W. A. Julian of Cincinnati and Jouls J. Tabor of Columbus.
In Waynesville North Carolina three men Dewey Potter Clarence Buchanan and I R Ledford were held after the ambush slaying of 65 year old former Union Pacific official Thomas Price. Sheriff Jacob Lowe said Potter confessed and a blood feud motive tied to Price intervening in Potter’s earlier hunting arrest.
Governor White said weak Ohio school districts are in better financial shape than a year ago. Teachers have been paid up to July 1, and few if any schools will be forced to close. Some districts may face salary delays until funds arrive. Legislature recall date undecided.
Horace Liveright 49 a prominent publisher and producer dies of pneumonia. Federal services will be held tomorrow in New York. He helped introduce Ben Hecht Eugene ONeill Ernest Hemingway Theodore Dreiser and others to readers and encouraged first books hoping second works would improve.
Diaries and Miller will speak to the Unemployed League at Mechanicaburg School House on Tuesday evening at 7 30. A music program will also be part of the event.
Gunmen robbed a Hays Kansas bank of 3000 dollars then forced a female book keeper Miss Hilaria Schmidt to shield them from pursuers fire before releasing her unharmed. The incident details suggest a dramatic bank raid with hostage elements and subsequent escape by the gunmen.
President Roosevelt after a White House conference pushes to free billions in frozen deposits and assets from closed banks. The plan aims to expand credit, boost commodity prices, and aid the recovery program while avoiding new inflation. Jesse Jones backs lending on borrower character to restore credit.
Archduke Otto, heir to the Hapsburg line, bids for power as Austria faces political upheaval. He accepts honorary citizenship from three towns while in Belgium shelter, son of the late Emperor Charles I of Austria-Hungary, and poised to turn 21. His mother Empress Zita backs a bid to restore the monarchy amid postwar turmoil.
Hollywood report states Charlie Chaplin will fight an accounting accusing his former wife Liza Grey Chaplin of spending 834000 on their two sons over 22 months for maintenance and education from September 1931 to July last.
The Rev John Thompson will preach Tuesday night at 7 20 o clock at the Mission Church at uuhrig according to today’s notice.
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