Assembly May Approve Relief Tax Bill Today
Ohio lawmakers in Columbus faced a tight vote on Governor White s relief program and a gasoline tax diversion bill while the upper chamber quickly passed the excise tax and bond measures. House opposition centered on diverting gasoline tax funds with hearings ending after utility and highway interests urged restraint.
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Assembly
Columbus
U.P
George White
General Assembly
Senate
Boards of Education
House
O. R. Gillogly
Muskingum County
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
State Association of County Commissioners
50 000 To Compete in World Bridge Tourney
NEW YORK March 31 The World Bridge Olympic tournament opens with 50 000 players worldwide. The event begins at 8 01 p m Friday with sixteen mailed out hands to captains in all states and Shanghai Manila and Timbuctoo. At the end 350 field and silver trophies will be awarded.
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New York
Earth
Union
Shanghai
Manila
Timbuctoo
Billion Dollar Tax Bill Moves Rapidly Through House
The House neared final passage of a billion dollar tax bill amid bipartisan pressure to balance the budget. The drive added 463 million dollars in taxes over two days with a three cent postage increase approved after Post Office Chair Mead and allies relented to emergency funding needs.
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Washington
House
Crisp
Days and Means Committee
Consid
Mead
Post Office Committee
Miami Beach Front Page Preview of Storms and Ford Cars
Blizzards rage in eastern states while Miami Beach enjoys sun and sea. John Hertz recounts a return to business optimism. Henry Ford unveils eight and four cylinder models with high speeds and interchangeable chassis. Readers are invited to explore tropical shores and Key Island scenery. Continued on Page 4.
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Miami Beach
Fla
John Hertz
New York
Chicago
Moving Picture
Ford
Mr. Ford
Patient Kills Woman at Columbus State Hospital
A female patient at Columbus State Hospital choked to death fellow patient Susie Rose 57 of Love City Guernsey County after freeing her arms from a restraining device. Marie Endsley 30 Coshocton choked the victim claiming she called her names. Due to space, patients shared a room. Endsley likely to be sent to Lima for criminal insanity. Two years earlier another inmate killed two patients with a chair before being subdued.
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Columbus
U.R
Columbus State Hospital
Susie Rose
Love City
Guernsey County
W. H. Pritchard
Marie Endsley
Coshocton
Weather Update Global Cold Snap With Clearing Eastward Drift
Yesterday highs reached 76 in San Francisco Phoenix and New Orleans. Todays lows include 18 below zero at The Pas and 12 below at Winnipex and 8 below at Min nedosa. Expect clearing skies with a shift to cotter tonight and Friday turning fair.
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San Francisco
Phoenix
New Orleans
Pas
Winnipex
Minnedosa
Cotter
News Writer Dies in Logan
Logan March 31 Staff Special William Ackers a 76 year old retired newspaperman died at his West Main Street home after a 10 week illness Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 pm at his home conducted by Rev James R Fields Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery Ackers worked over 50 years in newspapers starting as a printer with The Cincinnati Enquirer in 1870 He reported for The Athens Messenger and state papers during his career He served as secretary of the Hocking County Draft Board in World War I and was a state legislator in 1913 14 and 1917 18 He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church He leaves a widow one daughter Mrs Charles C Hansen Chillicothe six grandchildren and one great grandchild
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Logan
William Ackers
West Main Street
James R. Fields
Methodist Episcopal Church
Oak Grove
Ackers
Cincinnati Enquirer
Athens Messenger
Fastest Columbus Cleveland Rail Trip Reported
The Ohio State Limited on the Big Four Railroad ran 155 miles from Columbus to Cleveland in one hour 57 minutes on Easter Sunday. Engineer Charles Burrows of Cleveland piloted the train at about 80 miles per hour.
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Columbus
Cleveland
Ohio State Limited
Big Four Railroad
Charlies Burrows
Crisis past declares recovery for industrial expansion
Cleveland economist Col Leonard P Ayres says the financial crisis is past and recovery hinges on higher purchasing and rail freight, as he applauds next week’s industrial expansions by a large motor company. He warned the deep low mood may persist years but stressed boosting production to reduce unemployment.
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Cleveland
U.P
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Company
Vast Motor Corporation
Ayres
Senate
Postponed Arbor Day Program At West State Cemetery
Inclement weather forces postponement of the memorial program planned for Friday at West State Street Cemetery. Arbor Day activities proceed two weeks later with ten trees planted to honor ten Revolutionary soldiers and to mark the Washington Bicentennial tree planting. Civil War veterans will attend as guests of the American Legion at their South Court Street home on Friday, April 15.
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West State Street
Washington
American Legion
South Court Street
Maine Delegation Backs Roosevelt At Democratic Convention
Maine will cast its 12 votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention only while a majority of the delegation believes the New York governor has no path to the nomination.
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Portland
Maine
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Dairymen in Cooperative To Sell Milk to Columbus
Dairymen of the Hocking Valley Co operative Sales Association voted to send milk to the M A Diatetics in Columbus under a new contract. About 110 members will ship via the Farm Bureau to Columbus with first shipments tomorrow. The Cline and Bennett companies had contracted for much of the milk. several members have already signed with them individually while others remain under association contracts.
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Dairymen
Columbus
Athens
Hocking Valley Cooperative Sales Association
Hocking Valley
Cline Ice Cream Company
Bennett Company
Banks Ice Cream Company
Banks Company
Cline and Bennett Companies
Farm Bureau
Depot Street
Cline
Vinton
Morgan
Cline Company
Athens County
Dairymen’s Asociation
Tax deadline extended for Athens County tax returns
Athens County taxpayers may file tangible and intangible tax returns by April 20 without 50 percent penalties. County Auditor J Clyde Edmundson said the delay follows a State Tax Commission bulletin. About 4000 returns filed to date. Furniture rules apply to rooms for boarders and students. exemption for owner use.
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Athens County
J. Clyde Edmundson
State Tax Commission
George White
Tax Commission
Hearing Requested on Kentucky Coal Field Conditions
Senator Costigan announced an informal hearing to hear a delegation of college students expelled from Kentucky coal fields while investigating conditions there. The invitation list includes members of the Senate Manufactures Committee as a pending resolution seeks a senatorial investigation of Harlan and Bell County mining regions.
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Washington
Costigan
Colorado
Kentucky
Senate Manufactures Committee
Harlan
Bell County
Taxes Cause Will To Put Up Real Loud Squawks
A Beverly Hills writer railed against Congressional taxes targeting the rich. He blamed penalties on dying malt liquor taxes and sales taxes, and mockingly opposed chewing gum taxation as a harm to the poor.
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Beverly Hills
Jack Garner
Congress
U. S
Grand Jury Expected To Report On Woods Truesdale Case
The Allen County Grand Jury, summoned to probe the murder of Thelma Woods aged 17 and Earl Truesdale aged 21, was expected to deliver its findings late today after nearly a year of investigation.
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Lima
O.R
Allen County
Thelma Woods
Earl Truesdale
Coal price cut to 1920 levels aids competition
Pennsylvania anthracite producers dropped hard coal prices to 1920 levels. Operators expect the move to spark real competition with Soviet and other imported fuels, notably in New England. The industry also seeks tariff bill support via an amendment by Rep. Patrick Boland taxing imported fuels 10 cents per 100 pounds.
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Scranton
U.P
Pennsylvania
New England
Congress
Patrick Boland
Dem
April Fool Prank Triggers $20,000 Suit in Parkersburg
J W Green of Madison files a damage suit against L G Matheny, a Parkersburg car dealer, claiming a prank on April 1 last year led to poisoning from a supposed motor lubricant. Green's companion died hours later, and Green alleges long term health damage.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
J. W. Green
L. G. Matheny
Green
Madison
Matheny
Queen
Kentucky
Miner killed in powder blast at Hitch man Mine
Bellaire March 31 a powder explosion in the Hitch man Mine at McMechen killed 20 year old Alex Zihar of Bellaire. His brother Paul Zihar died earlier when a stone fall struck in the same mine.
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Bellaire
Hitchman
McMechen
Alex Zihar
Paul Zihar
Automatic phone to do all the work
The Sound Engineering Corporation unveils an automatic telephone answering plan. A received call triggers an automatic arm to lift the handset and start a tiny record. the message is recorded for playback on returning home via the phonograph.
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New York
The
Sound Engineering Corporation
Wood alcohol fatal trio in Chagrin Falls case source
Three men from Chagrin Falls died after drinking two quarts of wood alcohol sold Sat night. Victims Wilhart Lane 40 Alex Algren 51 and Herman Hill 61. Marshal Alvin Smith found two quarts at Hill’s Low Street home labeled poison.
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Chagrin Falls
Marehat
Alvin T. Smith
Wilhart Lane
Alex Algren
Herman Hill
Marshal Smith
Lane
Hill
Low Street
Princess Kwatha White Eagle Pleads For Gov Hunt To Spare Man
An Indian princess from Murray Utah writes Gov George W Hunt asking to serve Golney Seymour’s life sentence for murder. She pledges to take his place and endure prison to let him return to his wife and baby. The governor replies he has no power to intervene.
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Proenix
Ariz
Mare
Real April Showers Brighten Early Spring Day
Today's rainfall nudged toward a full April shower standard with violets and flowers sprouting. Temperatures rose from a 26 degree low to the low fifties by morning, rainfall around 40 inches by 9 am, and forecasters expect clearing skies and cooler air to follow. The Hocking River eased from 5.8 to 5.5 feet as county observations tracked the change.
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Hocking River
This Dog Was Pal Of Just Anybody
In Detroit March 41 Judge Henry S Sweeney faced a dog prop story. Miss Mattie Lillard claimed Jeisie Bivins dog was hers. The dog chose sides by running to each claimant and finally to the bench, then licked the judge’s hand. the case was dismissed.
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Detroit
U.R
Sweeney
Solomon
Mattie Lillard
Jeasie Bivins
Rex
Miss Lillard
Spitz
Teddy
Bivinu
Case
County Commissioner J. W. Lax Seriously Ill at Home
Condition of County Commissioner J. W. Lax, at his home near Hebbardaville, is reported as critical today after a serious illness.
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J. W. Lax
Hebbardaville
Ohio and West Virginia Miners to Walk Out Tomorrow
United Mine Workers orders 13 000 Ohio and Panhandle District miners to strike starting tomorrow the fourth anniversary of prior losses. About 12 000 already idle in Hocking Valley protests over wage reductions as guards monitor the field amid talks for a new agreement.
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Ohio
West Virginia
United Mine Workers
Columbus
West Virginia Panhandle
Hocking Valley
Iimole
Mentio
International and Dissetrict
Weale
United Ming Workers of America
Ludwig B. Conetly
Cleveland
Hodining Valley
Sunday Creek
Pottscroy Benatrike
Whitevand
Midnite
Tuscarawas Field
Adj
Henderson
Walford Newport
Wesl
New Ph Pbia
Neal
Hoe Valley
White
Hanna Coal Company
Piney Fork
Ward
Dillonvale
Ex Governor Myers Cooper to Speak at Voter Dinner
Former Ohio governor and Republican candidate Myers Y. Cooper will speak at a district dinner at Motel Berry next Tuesday at 6 PM. He will outline his tax program in a talk titled Lower Taxes and How to Get Them. The event is hosted by Kiwanis and the Chamber of Commerce for all district voters with 75 cent tickets available at the hotel.
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Myers Y. Cooper
Ohio
Motel Berry
Cooper
Kiwanis Club
Chamber of Commerce
Cowper
Mayor Warns Athens On Loose Dogs And Chickens
Athens Mayor Robert Wood warns residents to confine dogs and chickens to their property. He says trespassing and property destruction violate state law and will be prosecuted, urging civic pride to protect gardens and lawns from damage.
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Athena
Robert 8. Wood
Athens
Harbor shops reopen set for Monday
Ashtabula Ohio March 31 additional railroad activity noted with the New York Central Railroad Company harbor shops to reopen Monday.
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Ashtabula, O
Harbor
New York Central Railroad Company
Gunmen Kidnap Cleveland Man In Auto Fire Car
In Cleveland on March 31 gunmen seized 26 year old Mueller from his car bound his hands with wire and blindfolded him They dragged him to a road ditch and set the car on fire as firefighters searched the scene Police sought the assailants amid the blaze and a burning vehicle on the roadside
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Robert A. Taft
Republican
Cincinnati
H. C. Corey
Springfield
Columbia Gas & Electric Company
Randolph Hide
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Arthur Brisbane
Sunshine
Cocolobo
Black Caesar's Island
King Features, Inc
Henry Ford
Ayers
Roosevelt
Dairymen's Association
April
Seymor
Hlinois Field
Virginia
Lee Hail
Percy Tetlow
James R. McCormick
James KR. McCormick
David Watkins
G. W. Savage
Tressurer
Herman Theisen
Sam Phillips
Cambridge
John Crmgie
Eastern Ohio
Thomas J. Price
Tuscarawas
Pearl Parker
Meigs County
Minera of
Panhandle
Miiatricta
Reemain
United Mines of America
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J. A. Farrell
Valley Con
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