Taxpayers group asks council lead way in fight on utility rates
A Pennsylvania relief plan moves through the legislature with a $22 million package for the needy over 28 months. The Tabor bill would fund the aid from government economies, with allocations set for April May and later months as surplus funds and motor fund adjustments are considered.
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Taxpayers’ Group
Council
Roosevelt
Suzzard
Joseph &. Wasney
United Press
Aarkisburg
Mar
Pinchot
Tom
Ratchot
Devtuber
City Council Eyes Sharp Yet Feasible Property Valuation Cuts
City officials and the Board of Education weighed a significant property tax valuation cut to raise state aid for Corry School District. Indebted municipal finances and state-aid changes limit drastic cuts, with a proposed drop exceeding fifty percent to reach a level enabling roughly 400 yearly teacher aid, amid varied district valuations across nearby towns.
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Council On
Corry
Beyind
Goyuest
Ralph »S_ Dewey
Smith
Love
Kane
Piranklis
Titusville
OK City
Meadville
Warren
England
Echos
Giros Given Jail Sentence in Erie Prohibition Case
In Federal court at Erie seven cases against alleged prohibition violators were decided. Pete Giros received two months in county prison and costs. Gus Glotas was placed on probation with costs and fined $100 on another count. Aghia Dennis and James Goats were placed on probation, with others also given probation, fines, and costs. Proceedings continued against closed establishments, with reopenings allowed upon posting bonds.
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Erie
Pete Giros
Gus Glotas
East Main Street
Aghia Dennis
James Titus
Nick Markins
Joe Schulte
Corry Réstaurant
Ray Dashis
Corry Restaurant
Four Held at Youngstown in Kidnapping Case
Four men were under arrest in Youngstown charged as suspects in the abduction of Peter Myers Jr a 15 year old from Masury. Detectives planned to question the men and confront the father and Stevens to identify the suspects.
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Peter Myers
Masury
United Press
Youngstown Sharon Highway
Hieales
Mike Stevens
Chaffigur
Myers
Campbell
Lakewond
William Tally
Father
Stevens
Thim
Stayins
Conservators Appointed for Girard Banks
National Bank of Girard and First National Bank of North Girard appoint conservators. Dury and Robert Fenton named conservators. cashiers reportedly to receive commissions at noon and begin duties immediately.
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ME Dury
Peen
Sunday Sports Bill Enacted by Senate Harrisburg
The Pennsylvania Senate approved a Sunday sports bill by 26 to 23 authorizing baseball and football on Sunday afternoons if statewide and municipal referenda grant licenses. The measure, part of the blue laws reform, faces House concurrence and Governor Pinchot approval before taking effect in 1934, with two lawmakers switching positions.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
House
Pinchot
Seawarty
McClure
Scott
Poor Board Ripper Passes First Reading
Harrisburg March 21 The State Senate moved the Zeh neim bill on its second reading calendar. It would remove the selective poor board and substitute an appointive board named by the courts. The measure passed on first reading after committee approval.
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Ripper
United Press
Harrisburg
State Senate
Zenheim
Seective Poor Board
Ow Net
Four Power Peace Pact Placed Before France
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald met with French Premier Daladier in Paris to present Mussolini's four power peace pact. Daladier will study the plan with experts before deciding on cooperation, warning France cannot abandon the Little Entente and Poland. He seeks an equal, inclusive pact extended to all nations.
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Ralph Heinzen
United Press
Paris
Ramsay MacDonald
Ngland
Mussolini
Howard Deladier
France
MacDonald
Deladier
John Simon
Joseph Paul-Boncour
Deladiér
MacDonall
England
Italy
Germany
Pranne
Poland
Europe
Gas Company Cuts Rates for Heavy Gas Use in Pittsburgh
Western Pennsylvania three large gas firms filed with the Public Service Commission a new rate schedule for customers using more than 15 000 cubic feet monthly. Equitable Gas Co says 160 000 customers will see savings with 4 25 percent cut on 16 000 to 200 000 cubic feet and a further 3 percent cut above 100 000 cubic feet.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
Western Pennsylvania
Public Service Commission
Equitable Gas Company
Frank Phillips
Philadelphvs? Company
Equtables
Senate Recess Delays Beer Bill Return to White House
The Senate recess postpones sending the 3.2 percent beer and wine bill to President Roosevelt for signature by one day. If signed tomorrow, sales could begin in some states on April 7, restoring legal beverages after Prohibition. Speaker Haney had approved the conference report as the first step to restore light wines and beer.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
Garner
Roosevelt
Tates
Haney
Lion
No trace found of autoist who killed Betts
Deputy coroner in charge of the investigation reports little progress noon today in locating the driver who struck and killed Charles Betts 74 a former resident of Corry east of Girard early Monday. A Ford car is suspected but license plates or state are undetermined. Search extended toward Conneaut Ohio and garage calls for repair may reveal clues. Betts body sent to Davison Funeral Home with funeral plans incomplete.
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Charles Betts
Corry
Girard
Homer Mile c Mast
Springfield
Pennsylvania
Conneaut
Mills
Hopeles
Davison
Corry Taxpayers Union seeks rate cuts on utilities
The Corry Taxpayers Union asks City Council to reduce electric light water and telephone charges citing no cuts since the low mood while other costs fell. The board approved a resolution urging the city to obtain substantial reductions from the Corry Water Company and Pennsylvania Electric and to request a voluntary tariff decrease for Corry itself.
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Corry Taxpayers’ Union
C. B. Wilsox
Taxpayers’ Association
The
Corry Taxpayers Union
Cory
Corry
Colmel
Bank Bandits Terrorize Village in Local Heist
A gang jailed the Bowersville bank vault with 14 charges of explosives and escaped with estimated loot between 8000 and 5000 dollars. Police pursued suspects after the raid in Bowersville, about 15 miles from here, with clues and aftermath reported by XENTA.
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Warteo Fras Xenta, G
Mar
Bowersville
Bowersville Bank
Steagall Bill Referred To 10th Committee In Senate
United Press reports the Steagall bill was sent back to the banking and currency committee to provide non member state banks with emergency access to Federal Reserve credit. Red Cross to assume remaining stabilization wheat by August 1 and cotton by October 31.
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United Press
Washington
Mar
The
Senate Today
Banking and Currency Committee
Steagall
Federal Reserve
RED Cross
Farm Board
Morgenthau
Roosevelt outlines broad public works labor program
President Roosevelt proposes a three tier approach to unemployment relief including enrollment of workers for public employment, grants to states for relief work, and creation of a broad public works program. He seeks a federal relief administrator and notes funds from last year will cover only until May. He mentions a civilian conservation corps focused on forestry and flood control.
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Frederick A. Storm
United Press
Pittsburgh
Roosevelt
Congress
Office of Federal Relief
Lie
Relief Administration
Tiw
Civilian Conservation Corp
Yale
Ghio
Washington, Mar
Civilian Conservation Corps
Senate
Leider Robinson
New Registration Officials Named for Pittsburgh
Harrisburg March 21 The names of two new Pittsburgh registration commissioners were presented to the Senate executive nominations committee by Governor Pinchot. Mary Jane Clare and John McCarthy would replace John M. Menty and Thomas A. Joyce, removed after a conference with state Democratic leader Joseph Guffey. The Senate approved the governor’s nomination requests.
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Uniter Press
Harrisbirg
Pittsburgh
Senate Committee On Executive
Pinchok
Mary Jane Clare
John McCarthy
John M. Menty
Thomas A. Joyce
Joseph Guffey
Senate
Henry
Joyce
Guffev
Favorable Report on Farm Relief Measure
The House agriculture committee issued a favorable formal report urging passage of the Roo valt fame relief program as essential to national relief. It describes restoring pre war farm price levels as vital to farmers and grain merchants and warns that continued high agricultural prices threaten consumer costs and industrial demand.
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United Press
Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Roovalt Fame
Niles
J. J. Desmond Talks at Rotary on US UK Trade Ahead
J. J. Desmond of the W. & A. P Howard Co spoke to the Rotary Club after a European trip. He described growing commerce between the United States and Great Britain, calmer British attitude toward America, and developments in banking, ocean travel, and American influence on British customs. The talk highlighted wartime recovery and current European dynamics.
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United States
Great Britain
J.J. Desmond
W. & A. P Howard Company
Europe
Rotary Club
Carry Wider
Desmond
England
America
Tresmond
Mie Desmond
Renzi Pleads Guilty Pate to Get Hearing
Dominick Pate and Pasquale Renzi, both jailed on arson charges in the Renzi car fire on North Shady Avenue, face hearings after Renzi pled guilty before Justice of the Peace Walter Goodwin in Wesleyville. Police report the fire occurred after an alleged theft near the Electric Theatre on February 8, with the burned car found days later along Shady Avenue.
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Dominick Pate
Pasquale Renzi
Renzi
Shady Avenue
Pula
Renxi
Etre
Rengl
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