Ohio approves broad relief measures during special session
Ohio's General Assembly, urged by Governor Kite, passes five relief bills to fund hunger and poverty programs. The package includes a state relief commission, education aid for needy children, and tax and bond relief schemes. Total funds estimated around 28 million for the period, with 22.5 million available this year if counties issue bonds.
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Ohio
Kite
Eberle Harding
Asiues
County Commission
Assembly
State Tax Commission
Elief
Conservaive
Pringle-Roberts
Stanford student Evelyn Chaplin dies in self-inflicted shooting
Stanford University student Evelyn Chaplin, 23, of Surf California, shot herself beside her sweetheart James Cary, 4. Police reports say she was found with a revolver in hand and died at the scene. Cary, her companion, was unharmed and questioned by authorities.
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Evelyn Chaplin
Stanford University
Surf. Calif
James Cary
Cary
Miss Chapman
Cla
Qhot
It Is Not a Sales Tax Says Will on Purchases
Beverly Hills letter-writer Will argues Congress rejected a sales tax yet taxed matches and candy, claiming the new levy targets essentials. He lashes at the oil from Venezuela and insists the tax is on things one must buy, not a sales tax.
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Cal
Congress
Venezuela
Will
Mules and Men Scrambling as Train Passes in South
In a Southbound journey from Florida through the Deep South the scene shows mules and African American laborers preparing cotton land while debates on crop choices circulate. A British Irish quip contrasts pond water value to transportation costs as fruit rots in Florida. A developing view suggests light rail compatible auto transport could aid distribution.
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Florida
North
Fairfax
South Carolina
Hoarding Ad Money Warned By Bank Official
Melvin L. Straus vice president of Straus National Bank urged firms to keep advertising budgets at normal levels. He praised daily newspaper advertising as the best way to revive buying and said hoarding funds is damaging to business and public confidence. He cited 1921 data showing national firms prospered with more advertising while others cut budgets and suffered losses.
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Chicago
U.P
Melvin L. Straus
Straus National Bank
Straus
Salesman Arrested on Intoxication Charge in Court Street
A man claiming to be Albert M. Bunting from Kansas City was arrested on intoxication charges in Court Street last night. He said he was a traveling salesman and is to be arraigned before Mayor Robert S. Wood tonight for a hearing.
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Kansas City
Court Street
Roberts
Wood
Weather snapshot with regional highs and six-day lows
Yesterday high temperatures reached 86 in Phoenix 78 in Los Angeles and 78 in Miami. Six day lows included The Pas 14 below Winnipeg 6 below and Minnedosa at zero. Weather conditions suggest cloudy skies with gradually rising temperatures over the next 36 hours.
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Dairymen accuse Cline Ice Cream officials of misrepresentation
Dairymen in Athens area accuse the Cline Ice Cream Company and its parent Imperial Ice Cream of misleading farmers about an unlimited market for milk. A cooperative milk association in Athens formed after farmers met strict inspections, built facilities, and faced price drops, with contracts to sell milk and later surplus handling arrangements amid drought and market shifts.
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Cline Ice Cream Company
Hocking Valley Cooperative Milk Association
Athens
Imperial Ice Cream Company
West Virginia
Logan
W. Va
Ohio
Vinton
Morgan
Meigs
Imterial Ice Cream Company
Morgan, Vinton
Lan MA
Route 31 grading paving contract to be let April 15
Nelsonville and Haydenville segments of State Route 31 will be included in the April 15 highway letting. The project covers 36 foot grade with 20 foot pavement, with 60 percent of labor to be drawn from unemployment relief committees in Athens and Hocking counties. Local workers from Nelsonville, The Diamond, and Haydenville expected to participate.
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West Corporation
Haydenville
Barton Holt
Logan
Athens
Hocking
State Highway Department
Hall
Athens County
Diamond
Columbus
U.R
Washington
Morgan Counties
Logan- Athens
Famed Surgeon Evan O'Neill Kane Dies in Pennsylvania
Dr Evan O Neill Kane longtime chief of staff at Summit Hospital died of pneumonia in Kane Pennsylvania. He gained fame for self operations including a 11 years ago appendix removal and a January 7 hernia repair using only local anesthetic. He reportedly recovered faster than expected.
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Kane
U.P
Evan O'Neill Kane
Summit Hospital
100 in Death's Shadow
More than 100 patients using radi thor a radium water are poisoned and face death similar to Eben M Byers the Pittsburgh steel man whose death prompted a federal medical probe. Dr Frederick B Flinn says the Radium solution is linked to the fatalities.
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New York
U.P2
Eben M. Byers
Pittsburgh
Frederick B. Flinn
Flinn
Byers
Athens County approves certified tax rates and 1932 appropriation
County commissioners approve certified tax rates for General Fund Road and Bridge Bond Retirement and set the 1932 appropriation totaling 407 476 27 dollars. Inside outside levy totals 3 45 mills inside 3 mills outside. Estimated receipts include cigarette tax fees fines and miscellaneous sources. Bond Retirement and Road and Bridge funds receive substantial allocations with bonds and debt service covered from the Retirement Fund.
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Athens County
County Budget Commission
Athens County Commis:oners
Child Safe After 17 Feet Deep Lead Mine Rescue
In Picher Oklahoma Gerald Collins age two spent twelve perilous hours wedged 17 feet underground in a narrow 10 inch shaft before miners drilled a parallel hole to reach him. He called for his mother as floodlights lit the rescue. He was carried to the surface wrapped in blankets and treated at a hospital as 3000 onlookers cheered.
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Picher
Okla
U.R
Gerald Collins
Gerald
Dry Vote Now Showing Gain in Prohibition Poll
The Literary Digest Prohibition Poll shows a continuing dry gain across the nation with Kansas narrowing its dry edge to 50.07 percent and forty of forty eight states voting three to two against repeal. Ohio and other Fast North Central states report large dry majorities with 767,728 wet to 247,077 dry statewide. In Ohio 257,132 voted wet and 96,868 dry.
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New York
Kansas
Literary Digest
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
County teachers take annual certificate exams Saturday
Twenty five county teachers will act as pupils and sit the county certificate examinations Saturday morning at Athens Junior High School. Elementary and high school teachers without state certificates participate in the four yearly tests for prospective teachers and those renewing their certificates.
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Athens
Mi Renew
Cerutente Sever Ohlo Knivaraiy
Clues Point to Triad in Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
HOPEWELL N J April 1 The thin triangle formed by New York Philadelphia and Norfolk Va seems to contain the clues to the Lindbergh Jr kidnapping from exactly one month ago After a halt in negotiations at Norfolk with men claiming to be the kidnapers interest shifted to New York and Philadelphia when two private detectives Morton Bernstein and Samdel Kras conferred with a representative of Colonel Lindbergh at the
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N. J
New York
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Virginia
Charles Augustua Lindbergh, Jr
Morton Bernstein
Samdel Krasnow
Lindbergh
General Assembly Four Day Session Cost Estimated
Columbus April 1 The four day special session of the General Assembly cost the state between 3000 and 3500 dollars as estimated by clerks of the Senate and House. Mileage paid will total 1875 dollars and 46 cents at 3.6 cents per mile to members and several special staff. About 60 House employees called back or present will receive around 800 dollars. House supplies run about 50 dollars.
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Commissioners Journal
General Assembly
Columbus
U.P
Senate
House
Lower House Set to Pass Record Tax Bill in 909 Million Levy
The House of Representatives is expected to approve a historic budget-balancing revenue bill that would raise 909 million dollars in new taxes from rich and poor. It covers 44 items from millionaires incomes to chewing gum and matches, with added postal rates and various excises to balance the budget.
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Washington
U.P
House of Representatives
House of Congress
Ten Ohio University students elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Ten individuals including eight students and two alumni are named to Phi Beta Kappa by Ohio University. Among the seniors elected, with one junior, are Martha Cottrill and Katherine Dye Schmidt, Eleanor Stafford, Catherine Wary, and others. alumni honored are Louis H. Boley and Clinton Poston Biddle. A banquet and initiation are set for April 20 at the First Presbyterian Church.
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Ohio University
Phi Beta Kappa
Raymer McQuiston
Ohio
Martha Cottrill
Chillicothe
Katherine Dye Schmidt
Nelsonville
Eleanor Stafford
Cambridge
Catherine Wary
Youngstown
Harry Berkowitz
Brooklyn
N. Y
Steve Beech
Flushing
Hugh Davia
Pomeroy
Marian Morris
Davia
Louis H. Boley
Weattern States Teachers College
Kalamazoo
Mich
Clinton Poston Biddle
Riots Break Out At Bombay Docks Amid Strikes
U P dock workers clashed with Pathan strikebreakers near the Bombay docks and later fired numerous dwellings in the Pathan section amid the unrest.
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Bombay
U.P
Pathan
Quick Livestock Sale Sparks Fast Response
A Messenger ad for Mr. R. Cook of R. D. 3 advertised a few pigs and a sow. He planned three days but canceled after one day as several buyers phoned and the stock sold quickly. The notice shows how fast livestock can move with an effective classified ad.
Scores of Men This District To Attend Vital Session
Miners in Ohio, West Virginia and nearby states left Bellaire and Chauncey to attend a crucial meeting in Trimble area. State officers planned talks on wages, with 70 workers affected as Ohio and Indiana fields face cuts, possibly reopening with nonunion labor in some districts.
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Noia
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