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Athens Sunday Messenger (Newspaper) - March 31, 1940, Athens, Ohio Public forum writer Rulea Are to keep this feature popular a me Avenger a Fox pop $1 t sunni a ihc00citgct weather sunday fair and la Armer monday showers Quot of cattle change in temperature. Co 8. Weather Bureau report vol. Xxxv no. 110 a Athens Ohio sunday March 31, 1940 a dim no a Uve cents Hull busts use of Force by japs. Bazis better get ready to answer a flock of questions Berlin cd amp Foj jugs in s. 9uncle Sains census taker will be galling Coonerty 1 1� a snare responsibility Columbus a those census questions Congress has been having such a Row about Are going to Start popping next tuesday. On that Day april 2, hundreds of Cen. A us enumerators throughout the state loaded with Blanks and forms will begin trudging from Oor to door gathering information my government thinks it needs from its citizens on population housing and Allied questions if or. Or mrs. Citizen thinks some of the income questions Are a hit too intimate to be recorded by an enumerator the answers May be written out placed in a sealed envelope and mailed to the director of the census at Washington to guarantee privacy except for government records. The envelope is handed to the enumerator. Up census officials explain that stiff penalties Awalt any employee who divulges information Given to him in the course of his duties. But of the citizen insists upon greater privacy the mails can be used a without Cost. If the Seal on the envelope is broken the offender is subject to prosecution. The government promises that data collected will be used for preparing statistical information Only on the nation s population resources and business activities. Quot your census reports cannot be used for purposes of taxation regulation or investigation Quot says a statement on the questionnaire. There Are three sections to the census beginning april 2 population housing and another set for farm groups. Here Are some of the questions on the population schedule marital status single married widowed divorced. What is the highest Grade of school that you have completed How Many weeks did you work during the entire year 1939? what was the total amount of Money wages or salary you earned As an employee housing questions Are divided what is the present unpaid bal according to whether the person Anre questioned is a Home owner or i How often Are regular payments renter. Required on this land contract and samples of housing questions Fol How much is each payment follow eluding interest if you own your Home estimate i if you rent Here Are some of the the monthly income for which it questions could be rented unfurnished. What monthly rental you now from what source you obtain pay your water Supply i is the use of furniture included what Type of toilet facilities is in your monthly rent available for your household j what is the average monthly what is the Market value of the Cost to you. Foi the following property i utilities and fuels electricity Gas. If the property is mortgaged other fuel water envoys j for War Spring on Kansas Prairie Secretary of state Griffith Dies saturday Columbus u.f9�?Secretary of state Earl Griffith it. Gilead newspaper publisher and one of the Best known figures in Ohio Republican politics died saturday of a heart attack. He was 52 years old. Griffith was serving his first term As Secretary of state and was candidate for renomination in the May 14 primary election. Gov. John w. Bricker will fill the vacancy by appointment until the november election when both the unexpired term and the regular two year term will be filled by voters. His weekly newspaper the Morrow county Sentinel had been in the Griffith family for 89 years. It was founded by his Grandfather the late John w. Griffith and continued by his father the late Harry s. Griffith who once was on the old Board of managers of Ohio Penitentiary. Griffith was it. Gilead postmaster from 1928 to 1934. He resigned to be chairman of the Republican state Campaign committee. He managed the successful Campaign of Clarence j. Brown Tot the Republican nomination for governor in 1934. Official Dies there a dust in your Eye Down Kansas Way As Sun tries gallantly to Pierce dense swirls of it Over Wichita in years worst dust storm. Farmers fear recently sown Grain May have been blown away by fierce winds sweeping in from the South. This picture was taken Friday afternoon. Federal court to decide Dies dispute with reds Washington up a the Dies committee and the communist party saturday headed toward a showdown test of the committees authority in Federal court. Twice last week the committee cited party members for contempt because of their refusal to answer questions. Its first citation was sustained by House members authorizing contempt jelled proceedings in the District court Here. But the communists contend that toe committee is invading the party s constitutional rights by men be ship and dues payment ques ions and charge that the group is seeking to establish an anti communist blacklist through Industry by publicizing membership lists. Late Friday House members gave the committee a vote of Confidence by sustaining with but one dissenting vote the committees first contempt citation against James h. Dolsen 55-year-old Pittsburgh communist. The committee itself has voted a second citation against. George Powers russian born Secretary of Western Pennsylvania comm f lists. Chairman Martin Dies d., tex., has requested a third against or. Albert e. Blumberg former Johns Hopkins University professor who is Secretary of the Maryland District of Columbia party. Earl Griffith Secretary of state of Ohio and a it. Gilead Morrow county newspaper publisher who died saturday following a heart at tack. Griffith for years had been actively identified with Republican politics in Ohio. Nazi target Kennedy and bullitt named in by United press britons saturday accepted president Roosevelt a admonition to Quot take with a Grain of Salt alleged polish documents published late Friday by the German foreign office asserting that United states diplomatic envoys abroad shared responsibility for the outbreak of War in Europe. Nazi organs in Berlin and other parts of Germany charged that William c. Bullitt ambassador to France and Joseph p. Kennedy ambassador to London Quot by their actions shared responsibility for the Quot the document above All incriminate bullitt is the Man who can claim the dubious Honor of having in the fateful Days of March 1939, forced upon still a dilating England an Alliance with Poland and thus a War of encirclement against the greater retch Quot said the influential hamburger Frem Benblatt. British newspapers however a a. W gave prominence to Friday s speech j. Sprz to huh t by soviet Premier foreign com Dor at Washington is pie Missal Viacheslav m. Molotov in lured at front door of his embassy which he expressed russians deter Horny after publication of German Mina Tion to remain out of the War. R a dais fostered the european War. Axis creaking the nazi papers quoted diplomatic generally the British interpreted documents allegedly written by Molotov a speech As confirming Potocky in which anti German sen reply to in Lieuter German charges . Will not stove blast Portsmouth a a six members of a Blackfork family were dead today from Burns received when their four room cottage was destroyed Friday when gasoline was used to Start a fire in a stove. Mrs. Teresa Leedy 36, whose husband and four of her five children lost their lives died in a Portsmouth Hospital Friday night. She was fatally burned while rescuing one child and trying to save the others. Raymond Leedy 36, a Kiln fireman at the Salt Glaze Plant of the Cambria Clay products company at Blackfork Lawrence county and his children Betty 6, Charles 4, and Raymond jr., 2, perished w Hile huddled together in the Frame House. Delores 6, died in the Hospital later. Another child Mary Lou two months old was burned on the face hands and legs but her condition was reported favourable today. Trade treaty Extension foes plan new fight Washington a Republican and Western democrats Defeated by three votes in an attempt to require Senate ratification of reciprocal Trade agreements concentrated saturday on lining up support for a proposal to subject the pacts to approval by both houses of Congress. Quot we Are not licked yet a said sen. Edwin c. Johnson d., colo., after the Senate rejected 41 to 44. The ratification plan of sen. Key Pittman d., Nev. But sen. Pat Harrison d., miss., floor manager for the program contended that Quot the fight is he predicted that the House approved Resolution to extend the plan for three years would be passed either tuesday or wednesday without amendment. Two democrats a Sens. Vie Donahey of Ohio and Harry h. Schwartz of Wyoming were the free Salesman questioned in co eds death state College up a state police admitted they were in Quot just As much of a fog As every in their search for the Slayer of coed Rachel Taylor and announced the impending release of their Only suspect in the Case. Major Lynn g. Adams head of the state police Force said that Nagle p. Young 35, state College heating contractor questioned since Friday in connection with the killing of the 17-year-old Pennsylvania state College freshman would be released the Taylor girl daughter of a wealthy new Jersey commercial Fisherman was found bludgeoned to death Early thursday in the driveway of a Rural schoolhouse four Miles from the Campus. She met death As she returned from easter vacation. Plumbers to fight charges Cleveland a a a one Hun tibents were said to have been voiced by William c. Bullitt u. S for Reich Ley in Columbus doubt until almost the last moment but they finally aligned themselves with the administration. Had both voted for the amendment it would have been adopted 43 to 42. Earlier indications that the Russo German approximation of an is Quot was creaking because of rus a ambassador to France. Sian hesitancy in collaborating. A. With Germany a my the French War office said Thall fill Iti i ii Lull to i Friday there was some patrol a 1 Ilu us i Rull i Ivity and heavy artillery fire West of the sear River and Vest of the Vosges mountains sector. On the other Side of the world the japanese after months of delay finally installed a puppet government at banking under former Logan staff special three Premier Wang Ching Woi. He was score men engaged in a Day Long Given the title of acting president search of Benton township Hills Quot pending return to the capital of and valleys Friday in a fruitless president Lin sen Quot hut Lin who Effort to find Trace of c. H. Quot Coon Quot now is in chunking again Reichley who has been missing bounced Wang As a traitor and or since March 4. Sheriff Joe far dered the arrest of 77 of his fore Beann directed the search Camp most followers. Foreign diplomats Hocking enrollees assisted. Did not participate in the in Augu they dug into a saw dust pile ration of the Wang regime. Which appeared to have been re predicting intensification of the gently disturbed and investigated european War first lord of the two areas where Earth had been admiralty Winston Churchill said noved recently. In a radio speech late saturday sheriff Farbeann said saturday that supreme exertions will be re investigation would be continued Japan has set. Up by armed Force quire of the British and French in Columbus As leads have develop 0 Asia. He then coupled his of not seeking War there. Officers and relatives sedation with a statement that take Paul in peace moves by United Prem a bristling statement of Secretary of state Cordell Hull late saturday reiterating this nation s condemnation of act of aggression by Japan in China was regarded in Nome official Washington quarters to apply to Germany a aggression in Central Europe and to be further significant indication that the United states will remain aloof from peace moves whether in Europe or in Asia. Hull indicated that this country would not consider the retention of territory seized from one country by use of arms from another country As being a a the just and equitable conditions which president Roosevelt some time ago said must he the basis of peace. The president in his press conference Friday declared should take with a Grain of Salt that he saw scant immediate Quot hts in or boosted it to three Chance of a pee. Based on Hoac Zyx la fuzz foundations in Europe and that ent time. Information gathered by under Secretary of state Sumner Welles would Quot undoubtedly be of great value when the time comes for the establishment of such a the carefully chosen breadth of the language Hull used was considered significant because of official irritation Here Over publication by the German foreign office of a series of a White papers charging the United states intrigued to hasten the outbreak of War to Europe. Administration officials american and foreign diplomats and congressional leaders have chorused their conviction that the German documents Are spurious and Clumsy attempts by the German government and propaganda office. No recognition Hull said that the United states a has ample reason for believing that the government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek at chunking Quot still has the allegiance and support of the chinese people and that the United states would not recognize the puppet chinese government the japanese have set up in banking. The establishment of the new banking government he said Quot has the appearance of a further step in a program of one country by armed Force to impose its will upon a neighbouring country and to Block off a Large area of i he world from Normal political and economic relationships with the rest of the Hull said that the complexion of the new japanese sponsored government appeared to he no different than that of other systems William c. Bullitt american ambassador to France what was reported in the German documents to have told the polish ambassador to this country that the United states Quot undoubtedly would participate in inter stages of the declared that he had Quot never mid to anyone the statements attributed to pole denies Harges polish ambassador Jerzy Potocky made the denial general when to termed the allegations Quot German propaganda Quot and said he Quot never had any conversations with ambassador bullitt on american participation in chairman key Pittman d., Nev., of the Senate foreign relations committee termed the charges Quot unmitigated falsehood Quot and declared that Quot the purpose of hitlers government is to stir up opposition to the president and create fear in the minds of our Quot Congress alone can declare War and it is not responsible for statements made by our diplomats and will not be influenced by he said. Churchill commenting upon were considering the possibility the Anglo russian relations said Quot it is Asod Man May have been struck no part of our policy to seek War by a motor vehicle and that he with Russia Quot but that Quot we shall was 4aken from the District follow this War wherever it leads meanwhile word is being from relatives in Iowa and again As in previous addresses i Wyoming in the belief that he May he invited Neutral nations to rally have hitch hiked there. To the Allied cause. He said there could have been a Short War and briton appointment that perhaps there r key figures in fridays narrow . Vision. The position of both was in tits two compan so a sedation Union and individuals connected with the nation s plumb ing Industry in 16 states prepared today to defend themselves against charges of criminal conspiracy to freeze plumbing prices above Normal Levels in violation of the Sherman anti Trust Law. They were indicted late Friday by a Federal grand jury Here. Department of Justice officials said the defendants controlled so Vinton county native Dies at Home in South River passed 7.k00t Mcarthur staff special a a be. Rains continue Thomas a. Mcfarland age 65, an a a a attorney living in Birmingham concurrently with a drop in ala., and a native of Zaleski ated. Temperature of about 20 degrees Friday. Burial will be made a streams and creeks in Athens area Wellston monday. I swelled by a rainfall of 1.53 inches or. Mcfarland a former student saturday brought the v Chin at Ohio University first practice River to a Eyel of 7 25 f Law in Mcarthur with the late judge Mcgillvery and later was associated with the late Timothy s. Hogan in Wellston. He married miss Lucille Sylvester of Wellston who survives him with their four children. Mrs. Lester Blaker Dies following Long illness mrs. Margaret Blaker age 35, wife of Lester Blaker died at the re Bent of the nations plumbing family Home 16 Maple st., Satur business and charged that the Alday afternoon following a years a ged Price conspiracy had raised illness. Plumbing costs 17 to 25 per cent. Besides her husband an employee be indictments included Kohler of the Ohio fuel Gas co., she Crane and Standard sanitary corp leaves four children Mary Eliza oration officials Beth la Ruth Marie 8 Lyle 6, and Genevieve Joann 3 her Mother mrs. Blanche Graham Bartlett two Sisters Bernice Graham. Marietta and mrs. Ralph Britton Akron and six Brothers Thomas Delaware o. Harold Marietta Jackson Dayton Rodger and Fred of Bartlett and Ned of Frankfort by. Funeral services will he held at the jagers funeral Home but arrangements had not been com would have been no War at All if All of the neutrals sharing the allies convictions had stood together. Churchill announced that nearly 200 Neutral ships had been destroyed and that nearly t,000 Neutral seamen had been Quot slaughtered in a a Hitler a frantic Endeavor to terrorize All who seek to Trade with Britain to faculty revoked new York supreme court Justice John Mcgeehan saturday revoked the appointment or Bertrand Russell British mathematician and philosopher to what foe called a a chair of indecency Quot at the College of the City of new York. Russell had been engaged to teach mathematics for two seasons at 8,000 a year. The appointment was immediately attacked by Bishop William t. Manning various Chicago weather Outlook of other religious leaders and Amer i to g. Lean legion and taxpayers groups Ohio Valley and Tanner Sara a the rounds that Rua Aall a Orion showers about tuesday and attain ,., o i i marriage divorce and sexual mor toward end of week. Seasonably. A Genera made him a Dang warm for youth. More rain forecast for Valley this week legend of buried Gold Quot a a a t old a bout Gallia 11 ame the attitude of the United states toward use of armed Force is an instrument of National policy to Rob Peoples of their Independence a Well known. President Roosevelt at his Friday press conference said that one j. E. Mandrell is found dead Jesse Earl Mandrell age 48, ended his life by hanging Early saturday in his Home in 5th st., Jacksonville it was reported by Coroner a. L. Pritchard. The Coroner stated that Mandrell a world War Veteran accomplished his death by fastening one end of a heavy Cord to the Headpiece of his bed tying its other end around his neck and strangling himself by lying Down on the bed. Mandrell had been in ill health for about three months and unable to work. He is survived by his wife a daughter Cecelia who is employed in the office of the county auditor and two sons James and Billie ail at Home. One son Bobby preceded him in death. Also surviving Are his patents or. And mrs. James Mandrell and a brother Clyde All of Marion 111. Funeral arrangements had not been completed saturday. Ohio i o boost Boud spending Columbus our a an expenditure of $22,582,237 in Federal and state funds for 1940 Highway improvements was contemplated saturday by the state Highway department. The amount would exceed the $19,796,994 spent on such work in 1932 and $18,507,625 in 1939, and result in the largest such expenditure in the last to years. In addition the departments state wide spa program will result in another Large item of newly constructed Road mileage. For construction of new highways and streets in Small villages which will he constructed this year the department and spa will spend an estimated $10,000,000 which if added to the contemplated regular expenditure would raise the total spent for new roads and Road structures to More than $37,500,000, Gallipolis staff special a activities of the sesquicentennial old Homes committee Are to have uncovered an interesting p. Rn., a Rise of 3.30 feet o i in Days High of 3.95. As the rain Begar in the orly hours saturday the Mercury fell from its Friday High of 79 to a Low Point of 44 in the night. The refuse to Cut rates Washington the interstate Commerce commission saturday refused to lower rates on Carload shipments of Coal from night watchman was held under temperature began another drop $-,0,000 Bend tonight in connection after caching a High Mark of to with the fatal shooting of Archer plated saturday evening. Friends Story perhaps legendary connect nay Call at the funeral Home any led with a residence now occupied time after 4 of clock sunday after by mrs. Harvey Wolfe the former Neon. Garnet Mcgonagle on first. Between Olive and Szyca ii no Railroad Man in us it that it has shooting of student Long been a family tradition that a the Home she occupies a log Struc Bowling Green Ture Long since covered with weath a. O. Ramey age 40, a Railroad Jer boarding was erected by one of degrees saturday morning. Bridge to reopen Marietta the Ohio River Bridge Between Williams Ujj Southern West Virginia Virginia j town w. Va., and Marietta will be and Eastern Kentucky to hemp reopened monday. It was closed ton roads va., for trans shipment j last sept. To after part of the by water. A Structure caught lire. Moore age 22, a senior at Western the Early French settlers. He was said because of Lack of banking facilities to have buried a considerable number of Gold French Kentucky state teachers College coins in or about the Structure in six killed in storms Iii Louisiana towns Lake Charles la. A >�? Toni Henry age 26, heard with utter indifference a jury verdict Fri covering the City a realty he a night which condemned her to searched to establish possible Iden in Ltd no for the murder of j. P. Cal Tity of an Early French builder was Huston i exas. Mrs. Complying Johnston Learned that Henry and Harold Burks age 25, the builder and first owner was who were hitch hiking were pick new Orleans a Relief Peter metre a first settler who up by Calloway who was later workers entered ravaged areal of possessed the property in 380d. Shot to death by the woman As Southern and Southeastern Ixo three years later at his death it be pleaded for his life. Mrs. Henry Iana today searching for possible passed into Possession of Rene car she and Burks wanted his car additional victims of storms which Al and then Down through the to use it in a Bank robbery. Had killed six persons. Years to Jonathan Vowelthorn-1 a greatest damage was at the As Holderman Robert Warth new flood inundated isolated French speaking fishing James Curry William Bray Alex. Settlement of Pierre part on Shepard Theodore g. Hum Jacob Northern California Lake Verret. Four persons Werf r. Thomas Jane Randall aunt of _. J known dead there. Two persons mrs. Wolfe and then to the latter1 a Quot Incisco North were dead in be Southeastern by will. A in California Rivers burst their i l our Ghana a Strawberry parishes a How Many of any of the Long bunk5 saturday and flooded Low j doctors estimated the injured at line of owners were aware of the Anos the second time within tween 50 and 60. Legend is not known or if any of a month. Highways were blocked a a a a the train services disrupted and farms killed by train Community Survey help us improve our service to you. V awards this week Motorola radio $23.95 Motorola radio 3 it. Sauce pan $3.95 value 6�?$1.25 a Congress Bridge sets 6�?$1.09 bottles Jergens lotion ads to be checked today them located the and a former player on the Gin a place known Only to himself. He property has been in Possession of inundated in the Sacramento Napa Sandusky a a Man Ridenti Cannati bengals professional foot died without Issue and All know mrs. Wolfe s relatives since 1867, a Al Sao Lorenzo River valleys. J tied through a social Security card Ball team. Edge of the alleged secret hiding and she has knowledge that since there was a possibility of a re As Alexander Wisnewski 24, new Moore was shot Early saturday place was buried with him. That time considerable searching i petition of the $15,0 x,000 flood of Braintree mass., drove into the Side in Bowling Green after a College a messenger representative con and digging about the old log Early March As week Long Rains of a new York Central train East dance. Witnesses said Moore was Techei attorney Hollis c. Johnston Story and a half Structure a been particularly heavy in the last 48jof Sandusky saturday and was shot Down without provocation. And requested that an of abstract done but without result. Hours continued. It killed. Large ads Luckoff s Bank of Athens Cliff Brown Gem pharmacy Miller lumber co Cox Bros. Athens airways Small ads f. R. Beasley Farley dry cleaning Quick s drug store Woodworth a steppers Beauty shop Cornwells colonial finance Dwight roads Sinclair agy. C. V. Strawn Acme dry cleaning fair stores Athens automotive service Harris furniture House 4 ads Athens Oil co. Food ads Cliness pharmacy c Shafer co. Berry hotel Siemers Market awards to come $112.75 Frigidaire $89.50 magic chef Range $89.95 Abc Kroner $79.95 a b c electric Washer $11.95 Royal vacuum cleaner $100 Motorola radio

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