Protest Against Gasoline Tax Diversion to Relief
Ohio groups oppose steering gasoline tax funds to direct relief arguing it worsens unemployment and substitutes charity for wages. The Ohio Good Roads Federation urges funds remain for roads and labor, while the Ohio Contractors' Association warns diverted road dollars create payroll losses and calls for broader taxation on luxuries.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Ohio Good Roads Federation
White
General Assembly
Federation
United States
Duncan
Darrow Likely to Plead Unwritten Law in Massie Case
Clarence Darrow, 75, plans to appear in circuit court in Honolulu to plead unwritten law for Mendolu's alleged honor slayers. He seeks a further trial delay from March 28 to April 4 and will defend Mrs Granville Roland Fortescue, her son-in-law Lt Thomas H Massie, A J Lord, and A O Jones in the second degree murder case over the killing of Joe Kahahhawai Jr in the Thalia Fortescue Massie affair.
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Honolulu
T. H
U.P
Clarence Darrow
Mendulu
Darrow
United Press
Chicago
Granville Roland Fortescue
New York
Washington Society
Thomas H. Massie
A. J. Lord
A. O. Jones
Navy
Joe Kahahhawai, Jr
Thalia Fortescue Massie
Income Tax Receipts Rise for March to $2.93 Million
Washington reports March income tax receipts totaling 2,925,794.97, up slightly from the same date last year. Through the month’s date, total for March reached 187,041,841.53, about one million more than early estimates for the month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pilot to resign next summer after weather flights
Cleveland, March 25. Ralph C. Wensinger, a United States Weather Bureau airplane pilot, earns 50 a day for two and a half hours of work at altitudes between 15 000 and 20 000 feet. He will resign next summer due to severe physical strain and weight loss from the job. He credits altitude and cold as major health costs and notes a 44 salary for 13 000 feet plus bonuses for higher flights. He is 29, single, and a Ohio State graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, CO
U.P
Ralph C. Wensinger
United States Weather Bureau
Wensinger
Weather Bureau
Weasinger
Ohio State University
National Guard
Luke P. Wolfford
Cleveland
Dew Hotel
Wolfford
John 8
Sheller
73D Infantry &Gade
Ohio National Guard
Emil Marx
St. Marys
Connelly
Florida Leaders Push Home Tax Exemption Plan
Miami Beach advocates a real estate tax rethink led by Carl Fisher and Edward C Romsh, proposing an exemption for a homestead up to a set value. The idea seeks to shield a family home from taxes as long as it remains in the household, contrasting with aging tax schemes.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Florida
Carl Fisher
Edward C. Romsh
Miami First National Bank
Florida land boom tales warn of inflated values
In Florida, a sober look at land prices shows a Miami parcel sold for fifteen hundred dollars over a two thousand dollar mortgage after boom-era highs of four thousand, six thousand, twenty thousand and even ninety thousand. The piece notes optimistic outsiders fueled the surge and the current price reflects a sobering correction.
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Florida
Miami
Dippy D’s Bank Loan Sparks Oceanic Collapse Tale
An unnamed man known as Dippy D asks for a hundred dollars to start, Romsh doubles it to two hundred, and the loan fuels a heist of wealth. He amasses millions in transactions then dumps his wife for a younger one, and finally leaps from a mid ocean steamer, nullifying all mortgages.
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Mr. Romsh
Oceanfront prices rise as Miami Beach grows around Lasker estate
A. D. Lasker of Chicago notes improved land values along Miami Beach after developers like Carl Fisher expanded the area. He recalls land near his fine house and John Hertz’s home, once twelve cents per acre, now priced at about one hundred thousand dollars per acre, a price he deems unlikely to fall. Continued on Page 4.
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A. D. Lasker
Chicago
Carl Fisher
Miami Beach
John Hertz
Crisp
Treasury
House
Snell
White House
Hoover
Treasury Mills
Silas Straun
Three Norfolk Men Renew Efforts On Lindbergh Baby Return
NORFOLK VA March 25 Three prominent local men rear Admiral Guy H Burrage retired Reverend H Dod son Peacock and John Hughes Curtis announced renewed efforts to secure the return of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr The trio said they visited the Lindberghs in Hopewell New Jersey and that details of the conference remain confidential They urged publication only by Colonel Lindbergh if statements are to be shared Rumor also linked a possible ransom return through a rum runner who allegedly offered to secure the baby's return for the noted fifty thousand dollars
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Norfolk
U.R
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Guy H. Burrage
H. Dodson Peacock
John Hughes Curtis
Chesapeake Bay
Hopewell
N. J
Col
Lindbergh
Curtis
Real Men Dine with McGraw Honor List in Beverly Hills
John J. McGraw hosted a dinner with guests including Jim Jeffries Ted Sloan Barnet Oldfield Chief Meyers and Mike Donlin plus his wife Mabel Hite. The writer reflects on past celebrit y and notes the gathering as a lasting memory from his youth.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
John J. McGraw
Jim Jeffries
Ted Sloan
Kings
Barney Oldfield
Chief Meyers
Mike Donlin
Mabel Hite
McGraw
Will
Memorial services for Margaret Updike
Fremont March 25 funeral services were held for Margaret Updike 15 a Ross High School student who took her own life after being reprimanded at school by shooting herself Police reported no foul play and the tragedy sent shock through the community with the district mourning the teen attacker and the school advising counseling services for students and staff
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont
U.R
Margaret Updike
Ross High School
Substitute for Sales Tax Is Being Sought
The Democratic controlled Ways and Means Committee seeks new revenue plans to replace the defeated sales tax. Leaders from both parties push for balanced budgets while measures like a 3 cent beer tax and increases in postage gasoline and tobacco taxes are proposed for House consideration.
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Washington
U.P
House
Ways and Means Committee
Crisp
House Beer Bloc
LaGuardia
New York
Coughton
North Carolina
Seize $250000 In Liquor Raid by Stamford Police
A seagoing tug named William H Moody from Rockport Maine and a convoy of trucks and automobiles were seized along with liquors valued over 250000 dollars at the Stamford Mason Supply Company Dock. Fifty men were arrested after police halted a suspected rum running operation. Stevedores moved liquor from the tug to trucks as seven loaded with champagne whisky and other fine liquors sat on shore.
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Stamford
Conn
U.P
Stamford Mason Supply Company
William H. Moody
Rockport
Maine
Last Civil War veteran Samuel Richland dies in Amanda
Samuel T. Richland aged 90, the last surviving civil war veteran in Amanda, Ohio, died Thursday leaving a widow and local community with his memory.
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Amanda Lancaster
Amanda
Here
Samuel T. Richland
Youths Back Teacher in Fight for Church Activities
In Rogers Park Congregational Church Chicago 300 younger members back Dr Howard Dobbs the Sunday school teacher whose resignation was demanded by elders nearly all the older group oppose his push for athletics dances and recreation within the church program. Dobbs plans to conduct his Bible class for the last time on Easter Sunday and hints he may move the class outside the church. The education committee led by Dr Frank J Knapplo asked for his resignation effective Sunday.
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Chicago
Rogers Park
Dr. Dabba
Dabbs
Dobbs
Religious Education Committee
Good Friday Observed Across Rome and Jerusalem
Good Friday solemnities mark churches in Rome and village processions in Sicily. In Anticoli Corrado a coffin ceremony reenacts Christ’s body. Thousands walk the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem as pilgrims anticipate Easter crowds.
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Rome
Sicily
Anticoli Corrado
Jerusalem
U.P
Via Dolorosa
Christ
Via Dolorsa
Pontius Pilate
Jesus
Calvary
Christendom
Milano and Polizzi Gang Raid Nets 48 Leaders
Cleveland police from Central Headquarters swarmed an establishment labeled Milano and Polizzi Importers in the early hours and arrested 48 alleged underworld leaders. Investigators said a council of war was in progress and linked the site to a February 5, 1930 murder of Joe Porello and Sam Tilocco.
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Cleveland
U.P
Central Police
Milano
Polizzi
Joe Porello
Sam Tilocco
Porello
Frank Milano
Mount Union Coed to Lead in Broadway Musical
Marion Ball a 21 year old Mount Union College student will star in A Few Wild Oats opening at the Forrest Theater in New York. Her parents will attend the debut. Her first theater work came with a Mount Union College stock company.
Son Born to Hall Family in Elmwood Birth
Mr and Mrs R G Hall announce the birth of a son Gordon Keith Hall five and one half pounds born Thursday March 24 at the home of Mrs Hall s parents Henry C and Dorothy Ayers 39 East Elmwood Place.
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HALL
R. G. Hall
Dorothy Ayers
Gordon Keith Hall
C of C Urges Blocking Tax Increase in Ohio
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce asks Governor White to add a memorial to the extraordinary session urging faster collection of delinquent taxes to fund relief for the poor and unemployed. The group argues existing $101,000,000 in delinquent taxes should be used, not new levies, and cites Hamilton County tax collection success.
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Columbus
George White
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
General Assembly
White
Hamilton County
Largest concrete pour completes South Bridge base at Athens
The Athens South Bridge project finished a 16 hour pour at 2 am delivering 240 cubic yards for the base slab of the south abutment. Workers began Thursday at 10 am and used 350 mixer loads to supply concrete, with the four foot thick front sloping to three feet six inches, secured by 158 piles and reinforced with steel. A second steel beam was installed and cross beams joining girders are being set.
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Athens
Senate committee sets wet bills for April 14 hearings
Washington March 25 Senate committee will begin hearings April 14 on four resolutions to amend or repeal the eighteenth amendment and 10 bills to modify the Volstead Act. Chairman Blaine said witnesses needed a fortnight to prepare briefs for repeal as part of the wets program for a show down vote next month on wet and dry issues.
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Washington
U.S
Senate
Blaine
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Easter on Main Street Promenade Color and Costumes
Reporter Jane Warner notes Easter Sunday may bring sunny or chilly weather. Main Street will buzz with color as corsages and fashion flourish, adults in Sunday best and youngsters in pastels, eggs hidden at dawn, and vesper services to cap the day.
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Main Street
Jane Warner
Mandela
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Ticipants
Sunday Creek and Manhattan Coal Companies Abandon Early Opening
In the Hocking district miners and operators suspend all mining and abandon plans for early resumption. Sunday Creek and Manhattan Coal say they will operate no mines now, citing unsafe conditions and lack of promised protections. National Guard observers and authorities remain on duty as the dispute cools, with economic losses estimated at over a million dollars.
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Sunday Creek
Manhattan
Nelsonville
Hocking
Manhatan
Asd
Sunday Creek Coal Company
George K. Smith
Columbus
Smith
Sunday Creek Co
The
Manhattan Coal Company
Lick Run
Chauncey and Luhrig
Crookaville
Millfield
No. 6
Andy Chute
Frank D. Henderson
National Guard
Mendelson
Neval
Loos
Portabia
Mille Field
Doe Moe
United Mine Workers
Iica
Fond. Poeta
Storm Toll Reaches 334 Dead In Southern Storm
The South’s most disastrous storm toll rose to 334 dead and over 2,000 injured with about 7,000 left homeless according to Red Cross updates from Montgomery Alabama dated March 5.
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Red Cross
Montgomery
Als
South
American Red Cross
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Luhing
Anr Coad
Sunday Creek Company
Tts
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