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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
1
Authorities prepared to thwart a Ku Klux Klan initiation planned for 500 Clevelanders as imperial wizard was expected to preside. County Prosecutor Edward C Stanley said a grand jury investigation is underway and eight police flying squadrons stood by to interrupt any meetings.
Geneva dispatch notes adjournment of the current assembly to October 4. The league, once envisioned as a super state, now acts as an instrument to coordinate and recommend international actions. It has secured hostilities ceasefires with Poland and Lithuania and fostered talks between Chile and Bolivia. It also helped check Serb Albanian aggression while publicizing the dispute.
President Harding via Secretary Hoover instructs the national unemployment conference to limit efforts to immediate relief measures and avoid deep debate on deeper unemployment causes. The aim is to generate work for men quickly while preventing internal fights over wage cuts and railroad refunds.
Washington dispatch reports the arrest of E. G. Rickmeier assistant chief of the personnel audit section income tax unit on charges of seeking bribes to obtain confidential government information and secrets in a plot valued near one and a half million dollars.
A sequence of brief each entry notes a historical figure linked to Ohio. September 29 marks an 1812 Sandusky bay clash with Indians. 1816 James Backus pioneer builder of Marietta’s first frame house. 1858 Charles S. Howe Case School president born in Nashua New Hampshire. 1867 Edwin C. Binwid Anti Saloon League leader born in Springfield. 1900 Samuel F Cary ex congressman Greenback vice presidential nominee born Cincinnati.
Henry D. Nice of Morris Avenue and East State Street motor cycle dealer is recovering from a severe blood infection in his right hand and arm. A small finger pimple led to the illness, keeping him home for about a week and necessitating two operations to relieve the infection.
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission warned that added incentives for government ownership of rail lines would be offered only if railroad companies accept voluntary consolidation into a few major systems. Hearings on the consolidation plan likely within a month. labor likely to approve while railroad heads oppose.
Cincinnati was chosen as the 1922 Kiwanis convention site marking the close of the Ohio District Kiwanis International meeting in Lima. Frank L. Poling of Mansfield was elected Ohio district governor on the second ballot.
Caledonia O Sept 29 a large billboard along the Erie railroad track announces Caledonia as President Harding's boyhood home. The sign proclaims CALEDONIA HARDINGS BOYHOOD HOME WE PRODUCE MEN and is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce to attract travelers and attention.
In Steubenville Ohio prisoners at the county jail laid out self enforcing rules crafted by a burglary convict. Non cleaning of cells triggers fines from fifteen cents to seventy five cents and lashes with a razor strop with fines directed to the tobacco fund. the chief lasher role was given to the author of the rules.
Lima Ohio September 26 report says Stanley Pash aged 25 confessed to police that he robbed two Lima homes after reading the social calendar showing absence from the city. He was arrested previously at Fort Wayne Indiana on burglary charges.
London September 29. Britain signals willingness to seek a settlement with Sinn Fein through a formal conference in London on October 11. Eamonn De Valera is invited to name delegates, with status as a sovereign state disputed by London. Britain's empire remains non negotiable, but personal talks are pursued.
Cleveland readers warned about a Cincinnati based swindle using the American Fields name. The bogus operation fronts as a merchant group with Sylvester Marshall as division manager and cashes checks across Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky. No accounts or managers exist. public urged to guard against cashing strangers checks.
Henry Swartz of Five Points in Carthage township was treated at Copeland Howe hospital after a severed knee cut with a corn knife led to infection. A surgical operation was performed Wednesday and his condition is much improved today.
Columbus Sept 29 A consolidation of the nations railroads proposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission would lower freight and passenger rates in Ohio and improve service, said Geo T Poor chairman of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission in an interview. He added intrastate traffic would benefit as a result.
Six masked bandits stopped Santa Fe passenger train No 15 Kansas City to Galveston near Edmond Oklahoma early today they seized four mail pouches including one registered and fled in an automobile. Mail clerks were forced to throw sacks from the car door and pursuing posses are in pursuit no passengers harmed.
Baltimore and Louisville will begin the little world’s series for the minor league championship next Wednesday in Louisville. The announcement came from the International League office in New York.
A fragment notes the Amazon river mouth stretching over a hundred miles of estuary with shifting waterways and broad tidal marshes. The report hints at navigation and coastal dynamics shaping the delta landscape.
Governor Harry L. Davis proclaims October as the month to display service star flags across Ohio. The move honors 215,427 Ohio World War soldiers and supports the national Victory Memorial Building plan in Washington.
Roscoe Arbuckle freed on first degree murder charge in the Virginia Rappe case and must return to San Francisco to plead to the manslaughter count. District Attorney Brady pledges speedy trial while Arbuckle plans a quiet Los Angeles departure with wife and mother in law.
James W. Waldie of New York sues the Calidan Club for 62 dollars claiming wet goods vanished from his locker, prompting a civil action seeking restitution.
Dr. Lewis Stephen Pilcher of Brooklyn was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the final session of the G A R national convention in Indianapolis.
Dr. Pilcher, cousin of Roy Pilcher of the city, plans a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Pilcher in Athens next Saturday before continuing home. He is a former state commander of the New York G A R.
In Chillicothe Ohio on September 29 a civilian employee at Camp Sherman offered to continue working without pay until Colonel Forbes of the veterans bureau assumes control of the camp as a vocational training center.
Columbus reports Attorney General Daugherty prepared a plan to curb Ku Klux Klan activity. He will outline details on his return to Washington after reviewing latest investigation reports, stating the Klan will be the first matter he addresses. He cannot reveal specifics yet.
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission ordered intra state freight rate reductions for sand, gravel, crushed stone and brick with effect October 20. Sand, gravel and crushed stone rates revert to August 25 1920 levels, bricks see a further ten percent cut, while sandstone, flag curbing and cement are unchanged.
In Cleveland on September 29, Officer J. Dyer followed two men carrying a heavy sack. They measured a hole, planned to bury contents they claimed would nearly put them out, but were interrupted by the flying squad. The sack held six bottles of brew and the burial proceeded with heads bared.
A Tuesday cap-snatching incident sparked a student town fight at Court and Union streets. Jim Gates and Alva Fry were jailed overnight, each fined about $20 for disturbing the peace. Hamilton Roush warned freshmen to stop raids as Mme Marie Louise Petetot arrives from Paris to study at Ohio University.
Odds of seven to five that the New York Yankees would beat the Giants in the World Series were being offered today with small bets taken.
A short tale notes that after a few weeks of marriage a man discovers a superb cook holds more appeal than dancing and other social entertainments.
The Lake Erie fishing trade revives as lines return to the waters near Sandusky. Fall fishing opens within two weeks as cooler weather brings back activity after a warm midsummer. Most fishermen plan full work by October 1 amid widespread labor abundance and wage reductions of about twenty percent.
The Philippine government plans a four million dollar loan to sugar planters to save the crop. Much of last year's harvest remains unsold and growers owe four months of wages to workers. Philippine sugar output runs about 225000 tons annually with over half destined for the United States. Government investment totals seventeen million dollars in loans via the Philippine National Bank to six centrifugal mills organized by Filipino planters.
Next Sunday at the First Christian church a Bible school rally will be held with efforts to reach every class member by personal contact. University students, an Ohio University student leading the orchestra, and a new Sunday school choir will participate. Rev. M. E. Chatley will speak on The Bible School Vision for Today.
Colonel Fred E. Bury, governor of the National Military Home, is awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for handling a dangerous postwar situation amid friction between American and British troops in Russia after the armistice.
New York physician Dr. Arnold H. Knapp sues for divorce accusing his wife of egocentric behavior in response to a counter suit alleging his use of personal affairs to strike back. The dispute centers on alleged fault and marital strain.
Two slight earthquakes were felt in the southern part of Los Angeles early today. No damage occurred. Additional shocks were reported at Riverside and Redlands about fifty miles east, on Monday.
Chicago reports all major railroad unions approved strike action to reject a 12 percent wage cut. Trainmen shopmen clerks and engineers firemen and conductors unions authorize leaders to call a walkout, aiming for leverage in wage negotiations amid rising living costs since wartime controls.
Police investigated a man found fatally shot along a rural road near Cincinnati on Wednesday. Before dying, the victim claimed to be the man responsible for several auto robberies in the area.
Babe Ruth is sidelined today with an air cold and will miss the afternoon game against the Phillies. The Yankees left him in New York at 11 this morning while he is examined. physicians expect him to return to the lineup tomorrow.
Wheeling West Virginia September 29 six hundred delegates gathered as the thirty third annual American Legion convention was called to order this afternoon.
Snow flurries fell in Amarillo as residents bundled in overcoats and temperatures hovered around 40 degrees marking the city’s first taste of winter.
Seventeen species of shark abound in the Pacific Ocean with some individuals reaching about 25 feet in length.
Government pamphlet offers a free booklet titled Care of Food in the Home to educate women on preventing food spoilage and contamination. Send 2 cents for return postage to Frederic J. Haskin of the Athens Information Bureau in Washington, D C, plus name and address for delivery.
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