Tax plan stalls as House panel fights to revive sales levy
A draft tax program faced a deadlock as the House Taxation Committee debated reviving a general 1 percent retail sales tax. Dr. L. research director of the tax commission presented revenue estimates suggesting the sales tax would fall short of needed funds, prompting consideration of an income tax base and the abolition of school levies to meet a 1935 debt burden. The committee endorsed a 1 percent income tax and a 10 mill cap on budget levers, with move to pass several bills next week.
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Dr. L
Tax Commission
Comtc
Wre
Ted More
Ohio
House
Delinquent County Taxes Seek Foreclosure in Court
Two suits filed in Sunty Common Pleas Court seek foreclosure on delinquent county real estate totaling 3,675.60 in taxes. Actions target Coel Co in Trimble inactive since 1927, with 10 estates and 82 petitions asking sale by the county treasurer, led by attorney’s assistant.
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Col M
Sunty Common Pleas Court
Fram
Coel Co
Trimble
Unclear draft mentions March meetings and Kentucky militia note
Fragmentary text references a conference on April 5 and 6 with speakers including Copeland Findley and Mrs. Roosevelt. It mentions a Kentucky militia force of 000 men and a new law in March, with other garbled details about national cooperation and conferences.
County Teachers to Get Back Pay Up to Jan This Week
Athens County educational staff will receive back salaries up to January 1, 1934. Kenneth C. Ray, county superintendent, announced after arranging funds of 87,382 through Columbus banks to cover teachers, janitors, bus drivers, and maintenance costs. The act allows local boards to borrow, with notes to be bought by Huntington National Bank. May allocations will fund debts from the second half of the school year.
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Athens County
Kenneth C. Ray
Columbus
General Revenue Fund
Ray
Huntington National Bank
34 Knights Joust With Stolen Cars
Cincinnati police exposed a 1934 style joust using stolen cars as steeds. Douglas Barnett and Harold Schafer confessed to stealing more than 100 cars for their tournaments on deserted roads, where matches ended in wrecks and winners drove off in the victor’s car.
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Cincinnati
Douglas Barnett
Harold Schafer
Man Who Put Son in Furnace Sent to Lima
Harold Gross age 34 was taken to Lima Hospital for Criminally Insane after he threw his young son into a furnace saying God told him to do it. He was found to suffer messianic delusions following a concussion from a automobile accident.
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Lima
Akron
Harold Gross
Lima Hospital
Governor denies politics in liquor store openings
Governor White rejected charges by Senator Carl Sheppard that state liquor store openings favor Democrats and are delayed for political reasons. He said jobs are not being allocated on partisan lines and insisted openings proceed on schedule.
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Columbus
U.R
White
Carl Sheppard
Akron
Farmer Freed In Slaying Of Second Cousin
Walter Hager a 25 year old tenant farmer from Green Township was acquitted of second degree murder in the Jan 4 shooting of his 57 year old second cousin Robert Hager after testifying he acted in self defense. He claimed the elder man approached with a pitchfork during an eviction dispute and that six shots were fired when his fear grew as the elder Hager closed in. The confrontation followed an eviction notice threatening the tenant family.
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Gallipolis
Walter Hager
Green Township
Common Pleas Court
Robert Hager
Young Hager
Hager
State to Use Surprise Witness Against Clark
Lima reporter notes that a jury was to sit for the Russell Clark trial, a Dillinger gangster charged with murder in the Larber killing. Prosecutor Ernest Botkin said the state will present surprise witnesses to prove Clark acted as a lookout for the gang that raided the county jail, freed John Dillinger, and killed Sarber.
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Lima, CO
Russell Clark
Dillinger
Jesse L. Larber
Ernest Botkin
Clark
John Dillinger
Sarber
Charges Collusion in Chicago Receiverships
A congressional sub committe reveals delays in completing the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad receivership from 1925 to 1928 cost about 2 5 million dollars. The St Paul Roads receivership and Chicago Railways Company were prearranged and charges of collusion in the Insull utilities receiverships were lodged with the subcommittee.
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Chicago
U.P
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
St. Paul
Chicago Railways Company
Insull
Daeli Llco
Civic groups back Gunsett bill to aid Ohio schools
Athens County civic leaders and the American Legion endorse the Gunsett Bill with three amendments including higher salaries and revised funding rates. The unani mously adopted resolution was presented to Senate leaders as part of a statewide lobbying effort coordinated by the Legion.
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Athens County
Hotel Berry
American Legion “Save Ohio
Ohio
B. O. Skinner
Columbus
Gunsett
Senate
Ohio University
League of Women Voters
County Federation of Women's Clubs
Athens
Farm Unrest Flares in West
MARYVILLE MO March 21 Farm unrest once linked to mortgage foreclosures surges again as farmers oppose federal farm credit appraisal policies. They form Pitch fork Leagues and plan a mass meeting next Saturday at State Teachers College to protest allegedly low appraisals and foreclosures.
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Maryville
State Teachers College
Irish Girl Stowaway Collapses in Halifax
A 14 year old Irish girl, Catherine Carr of Belfast, who hid for 14 days in a lifeboat with two loaves and no water, collapsed on the deck of the freighter Salaria in Halifax and was rushed to hospital in critical condition. Surgeons said they could save her life.
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Halifax
U.P
Sularia
Catherine Carr
Belfast
Salaria
London
Roosevelt Calls Manufacturers Into Auto Strike Talks
In Hollywood California President Roosevelt presses manufacturers to join auto strike conferences and says he will confer with labor tomorrow. The piece notes domestic policy debates over government role in industry and includes a skeptical aside about postal profits in Britain.
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Roosevelt
Confess Spy Plot Paris Police Say Labor Drive for AFL Recognition
Detroit and area workers, spurred by union leaders, push for full AFL recognition amid a booming auto industry. President Roosevelt faced pressure to mediate as talks focus on plebiscite and possible licensing under the NRA to curb code violations.
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Sidney B Whipple
United Press
Detroit
White House
Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
Paris
Greedy Regime Exposed At City Poorhouse In Welfare Island
New details emerge on alleged exploitation by officials of the City poorhouse on Welfare Island. District Attorney William C. Dodge reports a missing superintendent linked to a widow’s thefts amounting to over nine thousand dollars, with inmates coerced to name officials as beneficiaries.
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New York
Welfare Island
William C. Dodge
Laula J. McNally
Tammany
McNally
Matilda Beecher
Long Island
Forest Camp Jobs Available
Ohio CCC applications open to unemployed single men until March 31. Apply to county directors in local communities. Ohio quota about 13,500 with roughly 6,750 new entrants beyond last year. First Ohio CCC transfer set for April 2, with more transfers in April and May.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Hitler says wages come before dividends in warning to makers
In Rosenheim Germany Chancellor Adolf Hitler told employers wages must come first over dividends. He urged timely wage increases to support workers amid economic pressures and avoid unrest.
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Rosenheim
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Subsistence Gardening Added to Ohio Relief Plan
Ohio plans a subsistence gardening program as a core part of relief efforts. About 185000 gardens will be run statewide this year, with 115000 already maintained under relief supervision. County directors are to provide a garden for every relief family, and courses will be taught in emergency schools. When funds are short, seeds and supplies may be purchased with federal or state relief money.
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Henderson
Ohio
Columbus
U.P
Relief Activities
Frank D. Henderson
Relief Commission
Cornty Political Race Expands With Two New Candidacies
Two Athens County races gain candidates L H Blackwood county commissioner seeks Republican nomination for re election and Clarence Wolfe Waterloo Township trustee files for state representative Republican nomination Blackwood a lifelong resident of Lodi Township runs his family farm while Wolfe leads township trustee efforts and road improvement advocacy.
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Athens County
L. H. Blackwood
Clarence Wolfe
Waterloo
Blackwood
Lodi
Wolfe
State Association of Trustees and Clerks
300000 Trees To Be Set in Gallia County
Gallia County farms will plant about 300000 conifer deciduous pine and nut seedlings next month. About 70000 locusts to be planted. 100000 seedlings obtained from Marietta state nursery today. Capt. Virgil Pownall of Cleveland reassigned to Camp Gallia for six more months.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
CCC
Gordon H. Walker
Camp Gallia
Marietta
Virgil Pownall
Cleveland
Guthrie Dies in Columbus Hospital
Dow Lorenzo Guthrie died at 2 20 this morning in White Cross Hospital Columbus He was born in Athens and lived in Columbus at death Survived by a widow six children seven brothers and seven sisters including Elizabeth Kinney Helen Barrett Fred Howard and Henry Guthrie Funeral arrangements not yet completed
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Dow Lorenzo Guthrie
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Guthrie
Athens
Elizabeth Kinney
Helen Barrett
Fred
Howard
Henry Guthrie
Foundry Wins Injunction Over Route 31 Expansion
Judge O F Rowland in Athens County Common Pleas Court grants a perpetual injunction against the City of Nelsonville and the State Highway Department to stop using part of the Nelson Foundry and Machine Company premises for Chestnut Street widening. The court found no prescriptive or statutory right by the public to use the site and noted the public’s rights were not intended to extend beyond those then enjoyed.
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Nelsonville
State Highway Department
Nelsonsonville Foundry and Machine Company
O. F. Rowland
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Rowland
Further CWA Cut Takes Effect Tomorrow in Athens County
Athens County CWA forces will be reduced by 21 more employees on Thursday. The present quota of 1,010 men will drop to 80 percent under the new wage scale approved by state CWA authorities. Unskilled labor remains 50 cents an hour. skilled workers receive Bricklayers 1.25, plumbers and plasterers 1.25, Sloan volls and painters 80 cents. New quotas in other counties announced in Columbus by the Ohio State Relief Commission include Gallia 236 Hocking 433 Meigs 62 Perry 624.
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Athens County
CWA
Theodore H. Smith
Smith
Sloan Volls
Columbus
Ohio State Relief Commission
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
Perry
Spy Plot Principals May Get Leniency
Robert and Marjorie Switz, young Americans held as principals in a major espionage plot, may escape prosecution after revealing ring activity in France, England, and the United States. The secret service announced charges of espionage for Germany and Soviet Russia, while Russian authorities and Berlin denied involvement.
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Paris
U.P
Robert
Marjorie Switz
France
England
United States
Secret Service
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Berlin
Three Face Court of Justice Porter Here
Ralph Nice of Rome Township was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Roy Goldsberry on an affidavit from his wife charging assault and battery. He was committed to the county jail in default of a $400 bond set by Magistrate Carl Porter. Roscoe Shields of Athens Township was arrested by Constable Frank White on an affidavit from Nettie Shields charging failure to provide for four minor children and was bound over to the grand jury under a $400 bond after arraignment before Magistrate Porter. Shields pleaded not guilty, posted bond, and was released. Earl Powell of Reedaville was arrested by Constable White on an affidavit from Wilma Cubbinson for failing to provide for a minor child and was committed to jail in default of a $400 bond after pleading not guilty. Powell was arrested Monday at Reedsville.
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Ralph Nice
Rome Township
Roy Goldsberry
Nice
Carl H. Porter
Roscoe Shields
Athens Township
Frank White
Nettie Shields
Porter
Shields
Earl Powell
Reedaville
White
Wilma Cubbinson
Powell
Reedsville
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