New Tax Bill Moves Toward Early Hearing
The $250 million tax measure moves toward quick House action with predictions of swift approval. Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee condemn it as confiscation while Democrats defend it as equitable. The bill hikes taxes on incomes over 50 000 and faces questions from the Senate Finance Committee about graduate taxes on corporate incomes.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Senate Finance Committee
Morgenthau
Treasury Secretary
Dem Leaders Gird for 1936 Campaign in Ohio
Columbus Ohio July 31 AP Democratic leaders rally for 1936 re election of President Roosevelt and Ohio Governor Davey The Ohioan official state committee publication praises Davey as Ohios fighting governor and signals a possible second term Davey says he is subject to gross suspicions The paper carries a Farley letter outlining national campaign issues.
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Columbus
Ohio
Roosevelt
Davey
Democratic State Committee
Ohioan
Francis W. Poulson
James A. Farley
Congress Today Debates Pension Restoral Bill
Debates focus on restoring Spanish War pension benefits while committees probe lobbying inquires. House advances several minor measures. Mississippi river setback and army promotion bills pass. Ways and Means approves tax measure.
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Associated Gas and Electric
House
Ways and Means Committee
Death Claims Frederick H. Gillett Former Massachusetts Speaker
Frederick H. Gillett 83, longtime Massachusetts Republican and former U S Senator, died early today at Springfield Hospital from leukemia. He served 38 years in Congress and was Speaker of the House from 1919 to 1923, first MA man named speaker since the Civil War.
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Springfield
Mass
Jay
Frederick H. Gillett
U. S
Massachusetts
National House
Springfield Hospital
Old Guard
Congress
James.a. Seaman
Santa Barbara
Calif
Senate
Camp Clark
House
Massachuetts
Liquor Signs To Come Down In Ohio
Ohio State Liquor Board prepared to order removal of all outside signs bearing brand names. The board aims to stop donated or sold brand name signs and enforce warehouse receipt sale licensing under the amended liquor act. Isadore Topper said provision takes effect now rather than Sept. 5.
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Columbus, CO
State Liquor Board
Ohio Beer and
Isadore Topper
Liquor Board
First Ohio Woman Legislator Dies in Cleveland
Mrs Net tie MacKenzie Clapp Cuyahoga county's first woman member of the state legislature dies after a year long illness. Born Cincinnati August 22 1868 she passed away yesterday funeral set in Cleveland and burial planned for Lisbon Friday.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Nettie MacKenzie Clapp
Cuyahoga County
Bridegroom of three weeks slain in Chicago abduction
Dr Walter J Bauer 38 a Chicago bridegroom of three weeks was abducted in Ann Arbor Michigan and taken to a south side wood where he was mutilated and died five hours later at Jackson Park Hospital. His bride Marie Bauer a nurse in Kirksville Missouri notified and heading to Chicago. Detective Doyle said the victim named a suspect the man Mrs Bauer had often mentioned.
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Chicago
South Side
Walter J. Bauer
Jackson Park Hospital
Ann Arbor
Mich
Howard Doyle
Dr. Bauer
U S AID FOR SPORTS FIELDS UNDER ROOSEVELT PROGRAM
The Works Progress Administration approves 19 097 976 for athletic fields stadiums pools golf courses armories and tennis courts in ten states. About 8 million for pools 6 093 811 for playgrounds 2 142 694 for golf courses and 1 300 000 for athletic fields. Ohio receives 506 579 this month among other allocations totaling 19 million plus.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
Roosevelt
Ohio
Ickes Leads PWA Sales Tour Across 22 Cities
Secretary Ickes borrows a navy plane to push more PWA projects with five trusted aides. Col Horatio B Hackett heads the mission from Columbus, Ohio, en route to the west coast and back via the northwest, with E K Burlew Phillip Benton Edward Foley Jr and M W Straus aboard.
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Washington
Ickes
PWA
Horatio B. Hackett
West Point
Columbus
Ohio
E. K. Burlew
Phillip Benton
Edward H. Foley, Jr
M. W. Straus
Nazi factions clash as Berlin weighs drive against Jews
Nazi radicals and moderates clash behind the scenes over actions against Jews political Catholicism and other state enemies. Dissolution of Stahlhelm units continues as factions spar while the Prussian arm of the group remains intact.
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Berlin
House Group Studies Bill to Create a Little NRA for Coal
The Guffey bill to organize the bituminous coal industry as a Little NRA was reviewed by the Ways and Means Committee after a Hill subcommittee stripped a $300,000,000 coal mine purchase provision. Doubts on constitutionality were cited as the subcommittee's reason for not approving, despite Roosevelt urging no hindrance from constitutional questions.
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Washington
Guffey
Full Ways and Means
House
Samuel B. Hill
D. Wash
Hill
Secretary of the Interior
Roosevelt
Harahan Named Leader of Three Railroads
W J Harahan was elected president of Nickel Plate rail road a day after being named head of Chesapeake Ohio and Pere Marquette railroads. He succeeds the late John J Bernet who died recently.
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Cleveland
W. J. Harahan
Nickel Plate Railroad
Chesapeake & Ohio
John J. Bernet
Miller Accepts WPA Post Shifting Hocking County Relief Office
Frank Brown, FERA auditor, will run the Hocking county relief administration until a successor is named. Chester Miller leaves for Athens to supervise the WPA wage and adjustment department serving Athens and surrounding counties. Samuel Ryan will maintain local headquarters during the transition.
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Frank Brown
FERA
Hocking County Relief Administration
Brown
Chester Miller
Hocking County
Athens
Hocking
Washington
Vinton
Gallia
Meigs
Morgan
Miller
WPA
Marjorie Eberst
Constance Fitzgerald
Samuel Ryan
Pickaway
Works Progress Administration
Pollution of River Studied Campaign Gains Fresh Support
Sanitary engineering chiefs from Ohio Kentucky and Indiana met in Cincinnati to advance a regional drive to clean the Ohio River and its tributaries. West Virginia pledged cooperation, and about 50 cities plan sewage disposal plants with federal grants and self liquidating loans including Cleveland Akron Irontion Canton Circleville Springfield and Hamilton.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
F. H. Waring
Columbus
B. A. Poole
Indianapolis
F. Clark Dugan
Frankfort
West Virginia
Waring
Cleveland
Akron
Ironton
Canton
Circleville
Springfield
Hamiton
Jorgenson Seeks Pardon After Robbery Conviction
Arthur Jorgenson, 33, returned to Ohio Penitentiary hoping Governor Davey would grant a pardon for a robbery sentence. Judge Lee Skeel denied a new trial in Cleveland but sent the case records to the governor for review.
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Columbus, CO
Arthur Jorgenson
Ohio Penitentiary
Davey
Cleveland
Lee Skeel
Jorgenson
Counties Await Mileage Addition To State Highway System
Counties delaying highway mileage additions will wait until late next spring as announced by Ohio Highway Director John Jaster Jr. The update explains delays in expanding the state road network.
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Columbus
John Jaster, Jr
Pair charged in shotgun killing of Victor Paavola
Police accuse Mrs Warma Paavola and John Waltonen a boarder at the Paavola home in Ashtabula Ohio of first degree murder in the death of Victor Paavola a widely known dairyman. They are jailed in Ashtabula Jefferson but officials say the death remains a mystery. The accused deny knowledge of how Paavola died.
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Warma Paavola
John Waltonen
Paavola
Ashtabula
Victor
Ashtabulaco
Jefferson
Hocking Valley farmers urged to focus on next year says expert
Dr J B Park of Ohio State University warns flood damaged Hocking Valley crops will yield little this year. He advises late planting is futile and urges soybeans or rye cover crops for next season with county agents to guide actions.
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Columbus
Hocking Valley
J. B. Park
Farm Crop Department
Ohio State University
Park
Four Vote At $50 Election In Ohio Bond Issue
A bond issue election in Washington Court House Ohio was held yesterday under eight officials. The cost was 50 dollars with four votes four to support the issue in Fayette county precincts of Silver Creek school district. Nearby Greene county results showed 874 to 159 in favor for a 95000 dollar school construction at Jamestown.
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Washington Court House O
Fayette County
Silver Creek
Greene County
Jamestown
Health fears rise in flood zone after Hocking River flood
Lancaster O July 31 Residents along the Hocking Valley remain under health precautions after the disastrous Hocking river flood and flooding from nearby streams.
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Lancaster
Hocking Valley
Hocking River
Vet Reunited With Children In Mobile Alabama
World War veteran Michael A. Casper reunited with his three children Irene Robert and Arnold after more than a year apart. The children were brought to Mobile by touring visitors after a moral panic story tied to a baby slaying sparked a state investigation. Casper had been released from the veteran's hospital two months earlier.
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Mobile
Ala
Michael A. Casper
Irene
Robert
Arnold
Alabama
Veteran's Hospital
Chillicothe
Insurance angle seen in slaying
Jefferson Ohio July 31 AP reports insurance company representatives joined the investigation of the death of Victor Paavola a dairy man. His widow Mrs Paavola and John Waltonen 47 a boarder remained jailed charged with first degree murder. They maintain the death was accidental or suicide.
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Jefferson
Insurance
Victor Paavola
Ashtabula Dairyman
Two Railroad Veterans Plan Final Run Together
Dan O'Brien of Cleveland and Engineer Teddy Leahy of Cincinnati began their careers on the same train 50 years ago and planned to make their last run together today before retirement on pension. They started work at Springfield on the Big Four line from Cincinnati to Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Dan O’brien
Cincinnati
Teddy Leahy
Columbus
Springfield
Farmer Dies From Barn Fire Burns in Ash tabula
Philip Daley aged 52 a Plymouth farmer died at Ash tabula General Hospital from burns suffered when a straw stack in his barn caught fire last night.
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Burns
Ashtabula
Philip Daley
Plymouth
Ashtabula General Hospital
Ohio Governor backs highway department reforms for savings
Governor Davey endorses a survey committee report urging a broad highway department reorganization, staff cuts, a merit system, shorter work week, and civil service for most employees to save about 2.5 million annually with further economies totaling nearly 5 million if implemented.
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Columbus
Davey
State Highway Department
C. O. Sherrill
Cincinnati
Civil Service
Ohio
Fire Damages Stockyards Barn in Kansas City
Fire at Kansas City stockyards burned one barn housing 300 animals, destroying at least 33 mules and releasing over 125 horses. Stampeding animals blocked a main traffic artery as flames raged for about an hour. Ford Owen, head of the firm, was in Grand Island, Nebraska.
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Kansas City
Ford Owen
Grand Island
Nebr
Population of Council Bluffs Man Dies After Prolonged Heart Repair
In Council Bluffs Iowa Pete Torrez a Mexican man survived 25 hours with a functioning heart after being pierced by two pistol wounds. He died last night. The report notes doctors were astonished by his heart function during the long surgery before his death.
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Council Bluffs
Pete Torrez
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