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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1932
Page
1
Columbus reports Governor White outlines three emergency measures to cut state payrolls by 1.5 million dollars annually and reduce local expenses by 180 thousand annually. He also plans RFC financed housing projects and tax, highway, and tax-collection reforms.
In Oberlin Ohio William Seames 35 was committed to Toledo State Hospital after shooting 15 year old newsboy Martin Johnson who was delivering papers. The boy remains hospitalized with a shoulder wound. The Standard Oil Co of Ohio announced a statewide gasoline price cut of one half cent per gallon effective Wednesday.
Lima, Sept 27 Alvin W Couples 38 was convicted of second degree murder in connection with the death of his wife and today faced a sentence ranging from one to twenty years in the Ohio Penitentiary.
President Hoover announced the appointment of Representative Charles R. Crisp Democrat to the United States Tariff Commission to succeed the late Lincoln Dixon of Indiana. The selection expands the commission as of September 27.
Governor Franklin D Roosevelt pushed to win Progressive Republican support in New Mexico led by Senator Bronson Cutting who split from the Old Guard. He hoped tariff agriculture and water power stances would swing dissatisfied Republicans back to the Democrats and planned brief talks in Lamy with party leaders after Albuquerque stop.
Toledo witnesses a shift from melodrama to legal proceedings as Page Dairy and Northwestern Sales prepare for a trial over a $200,000 damages claim and a permanent injunction to stop Northwestern from interfering with Page Dairy’s business.
Four people, including Porter Grove Nagle of Athens, pleaded not guilty to operating an automobile while intoxicated before Magistrate C. H. Porter and were bound over to Athens County Common Pleas Court on $200 bond after arrest by Peter Barrows at Kimberley. Marvin Heil of Columbus was fined $25 and costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving regarding an auto crash on Court Street. Millfield residents Jesse Smart, Dick Martin, and Anthony Breitter pleaded guilty to intoxication charges. Martin fined $10, Breitter $15 with costs, Breitter had prior intoxication fine suspended a week earlier.
LEAVITTSBURG Ohio September 27 Full time operations seven days a week have begun at the Denman Tire and Rubber Company plant with 199 workers employed. Dana orders are three times larger than a year ago. In Wooster Ohio the Toycraft Company has booked enough orders to keep 100 workers at full force until Easter, says sales manager George Heisler.
Gandhi is nursed back to health in Yeravda Prison as he resumes a normal diet of goat milk curds fruit whole wheat bread vegetables tomatoes and almond paste. Sir Rabindranath Tagore and others look on in silence while Gandhi's hunger strike referenced the Round Table Conference settlement on the communal question.
OCHISHI Japan Sept 27 The steamer Hokuho Maru owned by the Japanese Department of Agriculture began a search around the northern Kurile Islands for the Junkers Hochi Nichibei a three man crew monoplane lost since Saturday on a projected non stop flight from Japan to Nome Alaska Belief held that the plane and crew landed safely after storms over the North Pacific Ocean
Youngstown report notes that Republic Steel Corporation has raised ingot production at its Massillon open hearth plant to about 25 percent of capacity, doubling the recent output rate.
In Cherbourg on September 27 defective machinery was blamed for a blast and fire aboard the new French submarine Persee. The incident killed three crew members and injured 31 others.
High Street N 67 airy first floor front sleeping room and front room on second floor. Also small apartment with private entrance for students close in. Dial 250.
President Hoover urged railroad wage reductions be deferred until January. Doak said the plan aims to let economic conditions clarify after year’s end, awaiting better prospects before any cuts. Labor leaders and executives debated immediate talks, with unions resisting early wage concessions.
Alice Marks, 16, daughter of King Joseph Marks, was abducted near Toledo as four armed Gipsies stopped their car and forced the family to surrender money and the girl. Police expect a ransom and possible arranged marriage as tribes clash over the king’s re election.
Ohio counties may distribute their regular intangible tax quotas at once as ruled by Attorney General Gilbert Bettman citing a Cincinnati Court of Appeals decision. Surpluses above quotas remain tied up pending a State Supreme Court ruling on whether distribution to counties missing their quotas is constitutional. Bettman will appeal to the high court. counties cannot use surpluses until decision.
Opened today in Massillon Ohio the Republic Steel Corporation activated a second blast furnace. Officials say production capacity increases and job status remains steady as operations expand at the plant.
Senator Robert J. Bulkley of Cleveland defended repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as Gilbert Bettman, the Attorney General, pressed the Republican path to repeal. In a 3000 plus audience the two clashed over prohibition with sharp exchanges and strong applause for each’s stance.
The Ohio Supreme Court convened in Columbus to start its fall term, marking the start of a new judicial session with justices ready to hear cases.
Beverly Hills report notes quiet weekend as Democrats attack and Republicans defend. The writer argues Republicans must promise plans and justify delays, fearing October pressure on aging voters and questioning if reform comes in time.
Eighteen collieries report 2,426 men active with 2,119 new workers this morning. No. 267 Obie Collieries Mine cited as employed. Three guards, firing on a passing car near Hollister, narrowly missed the Hocking Valley Miners' Scale Committee members en route to Glouster.
State Highway Director C W Merrell announced five more contracts let on Sept 16. In Meigs County the Ohio River road in Salisbury Township will be paved with concrete over 1.426 miles, awarded to Bellefontaine Development Company of Bellefontaine.
Paroled Ohio convict Harold Wheatley 23 from Springfield Ohio is seriously wounded in Covington hospital after Sheriff H L Cumming and a deputy shot him during an alleged house robbery and car theft attempt in Falmouth Kentucky. The watch was found on Wheatley.
Chicago September 27 Samuel Insull Jr the sole heir of the immense utilities empire left the United States after the collapse of the $2 0 billion concern.
One of two guards at Mine No. ST in Hunterdon shot killed 19 year old Clarmont Banfield while dressing at home. Bartrug and Bass arraigned on manslaughter charges with $8,000 bonds after investigators split on which fired the fatal bullet.
Parkerburg West Virginia September 27 Vice President Charles C Curtis defended Republican tariffs and immigration limits saying they raise living standards and wages versus other nations He acknowledged flaws in Smoot Hawley but argued benefits outweigh issues and urged support for tariff policy aiding farmers
Paris September 27 Samuel Insull reportedly wants to be forgotten but offers to aid the United States Government in straightening out his utilities firms affairs as claimed by the Continental Daily Mail The paper noted the headline Insull ready to go to United States if needed was not supported by the text It also claimed Insull is living in a cheap hotel despite residing in Paris at a luxury hotel
Two men, Jack Stinett and Carl Allman of Nelsonville, are held in Athens County Jail after fingerprints on dynamite tied them to an Aug transfer. Carl Poling, earlier tied to the dynamite, admitted possession in a signed statement to Prosecutor Bolin. Police and National Guard officers arrested the pair following Poling’s statements and an extensive investigation.
Cleveland Sept 27 Employes of the Cuyahoga County treasury were to testify for the state in the trial of Maurice Maschke veteran Republican leader and five others on charges of embezzlement from the county treasury.
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