Rural Urban Tax Fight Looms in Ohio Legislature
The Ohio State Grange backs a state income tax and higher auto fees while opposing old age pensions and calls for true-value real estate appraisal. The Ohio Chamber of Commerce supports a tax on intangible wealth but opposes a general sales tax and a tax on chain stores, warning of reduced local budgets and fewer bond issues without revenue.
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Columbus
U.P
General Assembly
Ohio State Grange
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Grange
Wis
Chamber
Cf Mmerce
Son Testifies in Irwin LaFollette Murder Trial
In Cambridge Ohio opening testimony in the Irwin LaFollette murder trial was heard as jurors hear from Clyde Shear, son of the slain Oscar Shear, about a hammer hidden on him at the Gregg home where the shooting occurred. LaFollette contends Shear attacked him.
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Cambridge
U.P
Irwin LaFollette
Oscar Shear
Clyde Shear
Lawrence LaFollette
Denny Gregg
LaFollette
Shear
Gregg
Athens High senior wins third in state poster contest
Miss Arabelle Chute daughter of Robert Chute 2 Miller Street and a senior at Athens High pol earned a cash prize of $2 for a poster design symbolizing the progress of business women. Her entry placed third in the state contest behind Ralph Broun Cleveland and Paul Jackson Springfield. Her work will be shown during National Business Women's Week March 8 14 1981.
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Arabelle Chute
Robert Chute
Miller Street
Athens
Athens Business and Professional Women’s Club
Miss Chute
Ralph Broun
Cleveland
Paul Jackson
Springfield
Athens Messenger pamphlet offers home made candy booklet
The Athens Messenger Washington Information Bureau advertises a booklet on home made candy. Readers are asked to mail their name and address with six cents to receive the booklet, which promises over a hundred candy recipes and simple steps for home cooks.
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Athens Messenger
Washington Information Bureau
Gag Rule Considered to Shield Relief Bill in House
Speaker Longworth and the Republican leadership weigh a gag rule to block amendments to the House bill for drought relief. The plan aims to keep $80 million in reserve, opposing the Senate’s $60 million loan package and the President’s $25 million preference.
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Washington
House
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Hoover
Senate
Tilson
Snell
Rules Committee
White House
Mr. Hoover
Today By Arthur Brisbane
Sydney column by Arthur Brisbane features observations and reflections on current events and public life in a concise syndicated column style.
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Arthur Brisbane
Short coal accesses along U S 30 route noted
A traveler describes a one hour and a half motor trip from Salem Ohio through Ohio West Virginia and Pennsylvania on U S 30. He notes coal holes in hill banks where landowners extract coal as needed and calls the arrangement very convenient.
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Pittsburgh
Salem
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Through Lisbon to Alleghany County a booming steel city
The account tracks travel from Lisbon to Alleghany County in Pennsylvania amid coal iron mills and a growing city. It notes many workers and busy factories but warns of rising banditry with bank robberies and occasional murders, despite steel companies keeping most men employed.
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Lisbon
Liverpool
Ohio River
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Alleghany County
Hungry man questions entitlement as crowds watch cars
A scene at a corner shows unemployed men in work clothes while a powerful young man watches the rolling automobiles. The text questions how long a man willing to work can endure hunger for himself and his family, noting resistance from the educated class. Continued on Page
Tilson cries dole in drought relief bill fight
In the House, Republican Floor Leader John Q. Tilson denounced the 60 million drought relief bill as a dole and un-American. He opposed loans for food purchases but backed provisions for loans to farmers in drought areas for seed, fertilizer, and livestock feed.
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Washington
U.P
John Q. Tilson
Tilson
Renew Gang War Fires In Chicago Near Beverly Club
In Chicago on December 12 Rudolph Moreno aged 24 and James Tomasulo aged 28 were shot three times each and thrown from cars into a ditch near the Beverly Country Club. One man died before police arrived.
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Chicago
U.R
Rudolph Moreno
James Tomasulo
Beverly Country Club
Will Rogers Toasts a Tenuous Death Plan
Will Rogers jokes about government not killing drinkers with poisoned denatured alcohol and instead letting them suffer. He quips the new ingredient smells like garlic and bad eggs and jokes drinkers will endure by pinching their noses and diluting with cologne.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Will
Nobel Prize Criticism Sparks Interdenominational Meeting
Dr Albert W Beaven decried the Nobel Prize in Literature awarding Sinclair Lewis stating it fuels church attacks by ridiculing revered Americans like Washington and Beecher. He spoke at the Interdenominational Men’s Congress in Cincinnati before about 1000 delegates from 22 Protestant sects.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Washington
Henry Ward Beecher
Men’s Congress of the
United States
Albert W. Beaven
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
Rochester
N. Y
Northern Baptist Convention
Sinclair Lewis
Lewises
Menckens
Mother Held for Killing Children
Ida Twaddell a 38 year old Chester Pennsylvania mother is held without bail in Media awaiting coroner action. Police say she drowned two of her four children in a bathtub amid poverty fears while the father Lafayette Twaddell discovered the aftermath on his return from work.
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Ida Twaddell
Chester
Media
Lafayette Twaddell
Most Depressing Land in World Says Lewis of U S
Nobel laureate Sinclair Lewis condemned American civilization in a Stockholm speech. He blasted mass conformity, business control, pretend pastoralism, and a disconnect between writers and life while praising football hero status and harsh views of US culture.
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Lewis
U. S
Stockholm
Sinclair Lewis
Murder of Five by Woman Revealed on Dakota Farm
A North Dakota farm tale emerges as Charles Bannon, jailed for hog theft, accuses Mrs. Haven of murdering her husband A. E. Haven and their four children. Authorities uncover burial sites in a barn and refuse heap on the Haven farm and find a sweater with bloodstains.
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Dakota Farm
Watford City
N. D
Dee
A. E. Haven
Farmer
Havens
Charles Bannon
Bannon
Haven
Escape From Jail Shaken by Wall Digging
Vinton County authorities hunt three fugitives after they tunneled through a jail wall Thursday night using an iron rod. The escapees are William Phillips paroled from the Ohio Penitentiary and brothers Cecil and Earl Riffie now jailed on larceny charges. Phillips had burglary ties and parole violation connected to the J. L. Beckley Store robbery and a 5 to 15 year Ohio Penitentiary sentence remains.
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Ohio Penitentiary
Dry Leaders End Conference In Washington
Nearly 100 temperance leaders wrap up a week long conference in Washington as a 16 member committee is tasked with unifying the dry forces for the 1932 presidential campaign. Prohibition Director Woodcock says the agency is not planning special campaigns for Christmas holiday drinking and will maintain a steady pressure drive against commercial violators rather than spectacular raids.
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Washington
U.P
Woodcock
Salvation Army Weekend Services Schedule
The Salvation Army lists weekend events: Saturday 7 p m street meeting and 8 p m praise meeting. Sunday 9 a m holiness meeting 2 30 p m Sunday School 6 p m Young Peoples meeting 7 p m street meeting 8 p m Salvation meeting with Mrs Bernard Stone speaking on The Great Potter.
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Salvation Army
Young Peoples
Salvation Meeting
Bernard Stone
Great Potter
Silence Is Fatal in Boston Classroom Incident
A Boston boy jabbed another with a pen during a recitation, causing tetanus. Raymond Purrington died at City Hospital. doctors say timely reporting could have saved him with anti tetanus serum.
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Boston
U.P
Raymond A. Purrington
City Hospital
Raymond
Woman sought in Mansfield mystery death of coal salesman
Police hunted a woman today believed to hold the key to a mystery surrounding the death by self inflicted bullet at J. R. Hainline a 30 year old coal salesman from Huntington West Virginia. His body was found in a blood stained coupe on Ashland Road with a .32 calibre bullet through his brain.
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Dayton
Arooda
Ullman
Tom Mix Named Defendant in Los Angeles Divorce Action
Victoria Forde Mix files for divorce from Tom Mix in Superior Court alleging mental cruelty over five years. The couple wed May 6 1918 in Riverside California and separated November 26 of the previous year.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Tom Mix
Victoria Forde Mix
Superior Court
Eight Million Embezzled By Building and Loan Head
Gilbert H. Beesemyer, secretary and general manager of the Guaranty Building and Loan Association, confessed to embezzlements that may total eight million dollars. Judge Harlan F. Palmer announced the confession after hours of questioning. Beesemyer, 45 years old and married, has led the organization since 1931.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Gilbert H. Beesemyer
Guaranty Building and Loan Association
Harlan F. Palmer
Hollywood
Beesemyer
Palmer
Bank System Is Sound Now
The Federal Reserve System reports it is in the soundest condition in its history with record high reserves and a high reserve ratio. Member banks borrow less from the system, with indebtedness at 257 million dollars, compared with 768 million a year earlier, and total reserves near 38.14 billion dollars including over 3 billion in gold. The U S holds about 4.0 billion of the world’s total gold stock, a figure just under 76 million kilograms.
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Washington
U.P
Federal Reserve System
Reserve
America
Treasury
United States
Gs Gig
Robbed of Jewels in Apartment Heist
Mrs. C. F. Zittell wife of Zit's Weekly publisher reported two armed men gained entry to her New York apartment by posing as furniture handlers and forced her to surrender jewels valued at about 100000 dollars.
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New York
C. F. Zittell
Zit
Holiday season lifts liquor prices in Cleveland bootlegging era
In Cleveland on December 12, customers report higher liquor prices as the holiday season increases demand. The rise affects bootleggers more than the prior Canadian embargo's impact, according to local patrons.
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Cleveland
Plane Wing Escape Ends When Mechanic Returns
Ralph B. Myers, a Sacramento airmail field mechanic, rode a tri-motored Boeing wing 3000 feet after a local takeoff. Tapping a cabin window he alerted the pilot, who descended and brought him back safely after about 20 miles in flight.
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Ralph B. Myers
Sacramento
Calif
Myers
Olga Left Out As Organ Grinder Arraigned
Louis Silverman an organ grinder was arraigned on a charge of intoxication in Cleveland. His parrot Olga cried I object when he was arrested and again when he was led to a cell, but was ordered left home to avoid disrupting court proceedings.
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Cleveland
Louis Silverman
Olga
Athens Home Christmas Lighting Contest Opens
Athens to host a Christmas lighting contest judged on artistic merit effectiveness and simplicity. Entrants must mail entry blanks to The Messenger by December 23 with judging set for December 23 to January 2. Prizes total about 150 in merchandise and entries restricted to individual owners. non entrants include shopping staff.
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Athens
Messenger
Athens Retail Merchants Association
Indivi
Borah Warns U S Trade Moves May Ruin Soviet Ties
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Borah cautioned that Treasury trade regulations could wreck Soviet U S trade relations. He cited Stalin interview in Moscow and emphasized economic aspects amid ongoing relations with the Soviet government.
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Washington
United Press
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Treasury
United States
Moscow
Joseph V. Stalin
Stalin
Towns Need Water In Ohio Drought
Representatives from four Ohio communities facing exhausted water supplies due to drought meet the Ohio Public Health Council. Caldwell and Greenwich in particular rely on untreated surface water, deemed a health menace.
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Columbus
Dec
U.R
Ohio
Qohio Public Health Council
Blancheater
Clinton County
Caldwell
Noble County
Barnesville
Belmont County
Greenwich
Huron County
Bank Robbery in Girardville Bank by Four Masked Bandits
Four masked men burst into the Girardville State Bank seized a large sum of currency before fleeing in an automobile along the mountain road toward Ringtown. Police at state and local levels pursued the suspects as bank staff began counting the cash.
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Girardville
Soviet Trade Decline Seen Over U.S. Restrictions
Soviet business and political circles view the drop in Soviet purchases in the United States as inevitable due to new American import limits. Izvestia mocks charges of convict-labor use and notes Soviet buying in America rose while Russian product sales stayed largely steady.
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Moscow
United States
Izvestia
America
Bequest of 100000 to Western Reserve University Medical School
A surprise $100,000 bequest from the late George Clark Russell estate will go to Western Reserve University Medical School. Dr. Russell died May 22, 1929, at his Lake County home. he was born on a farm near Chester, Ohio.
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Cleveland
Western Reserve University Medical School
George Clark Russell
Sidney 8. Wilson
University
Russell
Lake County
Chester
Former Lima Attorney Jail Awaiting Arraignment on Embezzlement Charge
Paul E. Winegardner, 36, Ada, once Lima attorney, remained in the Lima Jail today awaiting arraignment on a embezzlement charge. He is accused of appropriating 611 dollars from a World War veteran who was his ward.
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Lima
Paul E. Winegardner
Ada
Winegardner
Dassie Kendrel Convicted of First Degree Murder
In Columbus on December 12 Dassie Kendrel a 34 year old African American man was found guilty of first degree murder in the killing of Joseph Jenkins. The jury recommended mercy.
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Columbus
Dassie Kendrel
Joseph Jenkins
Ohio teacher's wife admits shooting husband in quarrel
Iva Wickham 35 confesses to Nobla County prosecutor that she shot Clarence Wickham 36 a schoolteacher after a morning quarrel at their home in Summerfield. Coroner questions and investigation show the bullet entered the neck from behind. detention followed as arraignment looms.
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O. B. Brubach
Wickhams
Wickham
Bertha
Maybelle
Dream of transcontinental railroad nears reality
The Interstate Commerce Commission approves Denver and Rio Grande Western plan to acquire the Denver and Salt Lake Railway. This move would complete the next to last link in the Van Sweringens Cleveland brothers goal of a through New York to San Francisco system.
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Washington
U. P
New York
San Francisco
van Swerian Brothers
Cleveland
Interstate Commerce Commission
Denver and
Salt Lake
Denver and Rio Grande Western
van Sweringens
Trans Continental Railroad
Trains Will Quit Routes in Ohio Abandonment Order
The Public Commission authorizes the Co. and O. Railroad to abandon passenger service on April 1, 1931 between Logan and Wellston, Dundas and Jackson, Logan and Jackson, Wellston and Dundas, and Jackson and Dundas.
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Columbus
Pee 12
O.R
The
Public Commission
Logan
Wellston
Dundas
Jackson
Dr Prince 90th Birthday Noted in Springfield
Springfield December 13. Dr F Prince oldest living graduate of United Lutheran College celebrated his ninetieth birthday. The remark is made in honor of the Grand Old Man at Wittenberg College.
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Hoga
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