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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1939
Page
1
The Warsaw radio, silenced since 11:20 p.m., reported a 19 day German siege with heavy bombardment. Berlin said Warsaw capitulated at 10:30 a.m. Warsaw time, unconditional surrender, Gen Blaikowitz to negotiate. Civilians faced food shortages, fires, water cuts, and mass casualties.
Ohio University president Dr. Herman G. James told students and faculty that repealing the arms embargo would start the nation toward war and urged Americans to oppose any step that drags the U.S. into European conflict. He argued for strong defense and keeping the nation out of war unless protecting homeland.
Administration leaders declare 56 Senate votes backing repeal of the arms embargo and a cash and carry rule for belligerent sales. Civic groups and lawmakers mobilize radio time and telegrams as supporters and opponents debate neutrality revisions and policy shifts.
James Gabriel, 74, of Seymour Indiana, collapsed at an entrance of Crosley Field and was pronounced dead at a Cincinnati hospital.
Vatican sources say Pope Pius XII will issue his first encyclical on October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The document will outline the Pontiff's program for Europe and frame present world difficulties as a moral crisis.
London British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Parliament that the German liner Bremen was believed to be in a northern Russian port. He spoke as wartime tensions rose over German maritime movements and the Allies sought to map enemy ships.
The Ohio Supreme Court reaffirmed a July ruling that provisional state employees cannot be discharged without charges. The decision notes the ruling will be nullified by the new civil service law, though no ruling was made on a suit about a referendum on the law next November.
In Philadelphia a jury convicted Grace Giovanetti 45 of first degree murder with a death recommendation for the arsenic deaths in a mass murder syndicate. The trial followed the 1935 death of her first husband Pietro Pirolli 53.
Frederick C. Ofechsner reports from the German west wall front where more than one million troops face French and British forces. He says the 30 mile deep defenses include thousands of anti aircraft batteries and blockhouses, with tens of thousands of land mines. The wall is being expanded and militarized, yet life in nearby villages continues.
The Cincinnati Freie Presse in German calls readers to oppose amending the neutrality act. It published 13 sample letters and postcard forms for supporters to send to their Congressmen.
Washington reports Chairman Martin Dies says reliable information indicates known Communists and Fascists will be purged from federal jobs. He also says CIO may announce dismissal of all Communists from its ranks and cites alleged Communist influence in government departments and labor unions.
At the AFL Metal Trades Department convention in Cincinnati delegates vote unanimously to declare the present neutrality act un neutral and to urge Congress to remove its provisions by allowing free sales to all nations in a manner that keeps the United States from favoring any warring group and avoids entanglement in war.
In Columbus 14823 additional signatures were filed with the secretary of state for a referendum on the Ohio civil service reorganization act. Democratic state chairman Arthur L. Limbach led the filing after Secretary Earl Griffith ruled the original petitions had insufficient signatures due to submission errors, delaying transmission to county elections boards and sparking a court dispute.
Paris police acting under a cabinet decree raided and sealed Communist headquarters and affiliated cells and labor unions at dawn. Conservative parties moved to convoke Parliament to expel 76 deputies and two senators.
Port Clinton mayor Fred Slauterbeck aged 47 died yesterday from a personal safety related bullet wound. Coroner R. R. Semon announced the fatal injury as the investigation continues.
London reports Britain's wartime budget totals about 8.08 billion dollars for the current year. Chancellor Sir John Simon unveils a supplementary budget with income tax up to 35 percent and warns a 500 thousand pound credit may not suffice to March 31, 1940. He stresses the need for national defense loans and a three year war plan with higher direct taxes and reduced exemptions.
Reports from Bucharest say part of Poland's gold stock in transit at the Romanian National Bank will be used by the Polish government. Polish sources indicate a new government awaits Paderewski's decision to lead, with Moscicki signaling willingness to resign if Poland's future is secured.
Freddie Bartholomew, 15, filed a suit to stop his mother and father and other relatives from suing him. He claimed the lawsuits kept him in court, preventing proper acting and draining his earnings from a $2900 weekly salary.
David H. Dubrowsky former head of the Russian Red Cross testified before the Dies committee that Soviet secret agents planned to steal American mail as the 1933 U S Soviet treaty was being signed and recognized by the United States.
The American Legion foreign relations committee presented a pronouncement at the 21st annual convention in Chicago. It urged strict neutrality in the European war, called for Congress to remain in session during the crisis, and asked expansion of armed forces to sustain neutrality while avoiding commitment on specific legislation.
U S State Liquor Director Jacob B Taylor announced a two year contract to Ohio Delivery Inc Columbus a subsidiary of U S Truck Lines to transport liquor for the department. This marks the second rate cut since January with a total reduction of six and a half cents per case. Before Feb 6 1939 the rate was 17 cents per case and 11 1/2 cents after the cut.
Ohio State University inaugurates its 13th freshman week with a record 3,286 new students meeting on campus. The event marks the start of a week of orientation activities and campus introductions for the incoming class.
On Parade (Acme Telephoto) captures a colorful Chicago American Legion parade with Legionnaires auxiliary Gold Star Mothers and families. Thousands line the Michigan Boulevard route despite a cold drizzling rain as the procession proceeds down the street.
The United States proposed a safety belt around the Western Hemisphere at the 21 nation Inter American conference. Sumner Welles urged internment of submarines of belligerent nations inside territorial waters for the war duration. The plan calls for a ban on belligerent acts within the belt and coast patrols for information.
Senator Carter Glass aged 81 a Democrat from Virginia remains seriously ill with bronchitis in Washington. The former treasury secretary is reported unchanged after a trip to the Senate to participate in debates on neutrality and to support Roosevelt’s push to repeal the arms embargo.
Washington reports rising tension between War Secretary Harry Woodring and Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson as the Roosevelt administration weighs possible action. At a press briefing President Roosevelt questioned a foreword Johnson wrote for a Cherne business book, calling most such works uninformed. Johnson, a former American Legion national commander, is from West Virginia. Woodring, Kansas native, is a former Legion state commander and World War I veteran.
In the North Sea, Churchill told the House of Commons that 20 German planes attacked the British blockading fleet with no British casualties and no ships damaged. Berlin claimed sinks and damage, while one German plane was shot down and another captured. The clash occurred as Soviet and Balkan diplomacy moved toward new influence in Europe.
Ohio industrial employment rose two percent from July and ten percent from August 1938, per the Ohio State University Business Research Bureau. Manufacturing added three percent, with food products up eleven percent contributing to the August improvement.
Federal Judge Paul Jones ordered Adrian Ettinger, once a NYSE star nicknamed “boy wonder,” to serve one year and a day in a federal penitentiary after he pleaded guilty to evading 594,421.23 dollars in income tax in 1930 and 1932. Including penalties, the total exceeded 1,250,000 dollars.
Mrs. Isadora Wagner, 73, of Dayton, was killed when the car she rode in struck the side of a meat bridge on State Route 49 about six miles south of Greenville.
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