Ohio Legislature Pushes Relief Bill Amid Tax Relief Debate
Ohio lawmakers struggle over a $6.5 million relief bill as city and county officials protest family allowances. Gov Davey backs repealing the food sales tax, while rival Stephen Young pushes broader relief and tax repeal. Senate delays unemployment insurance action to await more amendments.
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Columbus
Ohio
House Finance Committee
Senate
House
Martin L. Davey
Stephen M. Young
Cleveland
Youngstown
Lucas County
Hal Griswold
Cuyahoga County
Tax bill conference races toward accord by tonight
Washington dispatch says conferees from the Senate and House work day and night on the new tax bill. Some Democrats push for relief for small corporations earning 10 thousand dollars or less annually. A plan proposes a 15 percent flat tax on corporate income and a 5 to 30 percent surtax on undistributed earnings with a 2000 dollar exemption. Chairman Doughton signals possible agreement within a day or two.
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Washington
Senate House
House
Senate
Doughtion
Leigonnaire Verdict Expected In Black Legion Plot
Detroit June 17 AP Eleven accused Black Legionnaires await a verdict. Clarice C Prye admitted participation in the conspiracy to kill Arthur L Kingsley publisher. Dayton Dean described the plot and Kingsley opposition to N Ray Markland for mayor.
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Utor
Duncan C. McCrea
Clarerice C. Prye
Arthur L. Kingsley
Dayton Dean
Black Legion
Klingsley
Highland Park
N. Ray Markland
Markland
Congress Debates Ship Subsidy Bill and Other Legislation
The senate debates a ship subsidy bill while the house weighs miscellaneous measures. A special committee continues probing the Townsend old age pension movement. A housing bill moved yesterday to passage. A military affairs panel studied an airport bill for New York harbor. The Vinson bill regulating the bituminous coal industry was passed and sent to the Senate. The rules committee reported the Walsh Healy bill to set minimum labor standards in government contracts.
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House
Townsend
Military Affairs Committee
New York Harbor
Vinson
Rules Comittee
Walsh-Healy
Slain Inventor Mystery Deepens as He Dies
Beatrice Moore, daughter of slain inventor D McFarlan Moore, travels to Red Bank mortuary to view body of Jean Philip Gebhardt who killed himself near New Monmouth after police questioned him. Authorities speculate Gebhardt may have killed Moore in jealousy over an invention offer rejected.
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East Orange
N. J
D. McFarlan Moore
Red Bank
Jean Philip Gebhardt
Miss
Beatrice Moore
Gebhardt
New Monmouth
Moore
Thomas A. Edison
Loretta Young Saves Baby in Onstage Fire Scene
Hollywood star Loretta Young and Ramon Lugo watched a lamp ignite gauge netting above them during a Ramona scene. Flames reached dry leaves and foliage, threatening a cradle with the infant. Young grabbed the baby, ran to safety, and her dress caught fire but was extinguished.
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Calif
Loretta Young
Miss Young
Ramon Lugo
Washington Representative Zioncheck Held for Mental Observation
Authorities at Gollinger Municipal hospital said they expected to dispose today of the case of Representative Marion Zioncheck of Washington state who is confined for mental observation. Officials did not indicate whether he would be released or sent to another facility for further stay. Zioncheck told reporters that consideration had been given to sending him to Shepherd Enoch Pratt Hospital a private sanitarium at Towson Maryland.
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Gollinger Municipal Hospital
Marion Zioncheck
Washington State
Zioncheck
Shepherd Enoch Pratt Hospital
Towson
Eight Convicts Abort Virginia Pen Break. Guard Killed
Virginia state penitentiary officials probe an abortive breakout last night by eight long term inmates. A guard named Powhatan Bass, 46, was killed and another guard wounded as the convicts seized an enclosed prison truck and held two guards and a trusty convict as hostages during Recreation Hour.
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Richmond
Virginia State Penitentiary
Powhatan D. Bass
C. H. Smith
Gass
Robert G. Reams
Oscar Reams
Alaska Heat Wave Strains Seward Residents
In Fairbanks and Seward, Alaska, ten days of record heat push residents to seek relief. Seward reports an unofficial 108 degrees, the territory’s highest reading, while two people were overcome yesterday in Seward as heat intensifies.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Britain to End Sanctions on Italy and Guard Malta
The British cabinet approved ending sanctions on Italy with a policy announcement due in Parliament. The plan may tie Italy sanctions withdrawal to guarantees against discrimination as trade channels reopen. Sir Samuel Hoare promised Malta would remain defended and not evacuated.
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London
Commons
Italy
Il Duce
Frog farmers face charges in frog farming scheme
Fremont Ohio reports two frog farm operators Albert Broel of Detroit and Sylvester Schutt of Fremont await extradition to Ohio after a New Orleans arrest on federal indictment alleging mail fraud in a 1933 frog farming promotion. Each faces $2500 bond.
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New Orleans
Toledo
Albert Broel
Detroit
Sylvester Schutt
American Frog Canning Co
Ohio
Gooch Seeks Clemency From FDR via Last Appeal
Arthur Gooch the first Lindbergh Law kidnapper condemned to death placed his hope for presidential clemency in a last minute appeal to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt from McAlester Oklahoma.
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Mcalester
Okla
Arthur Gooch
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Paris Fears Rightist Move as Strikers Threaten
Paris faces rising tension as 700000 armed Rightists are accused of plans to march on the capital. Leftists warn the Fascists aim to disrupt the Popular Front program amid senatorial strife and currency devaluation hints. De La Rocque denounces the critics, while Socialists call him a tool of big business ready to spark a civil war.
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Paris
People’s Front
Popular Front
Spanish Leftists Cite Rightist Provocation After Vote
In Madrid on June 17 AP reports Spanish Leftists blamed Rightist provocation for labor riots while the government faced a no confidence vote. The session closed with Premier Santiago Casares Quiroga winning 207 to 0 as the right personnel quit the chamber before the ballot.
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Madrid
Santiago Casares Quiroga
Nineteen Hurt as Bus Crash In Cleveland Injures Drivers
Nineteen men were injured when a West Penn Forwarding Company bus left a highway near Tweinburg Cleveland Ohio. The vehicle carried 22 drivers en route from Pittsburgh to Detroit to drive new cars back to Pennsylvania.
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Cleveland, O
Tweinburg
West Penn Forwarding Company
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Pennsylvania
Senate Debates Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill
The House passed the measure 161 to 90 and sent it to the Senate interstate commerce committee, which has already approved it. The bill reenacts price fixing provisions of the old law while dropping labor sections, and John L. Lewis warned of a shutdown if wage cuts occur without passage.
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Guffey-Vinson
Supreme Court
Senate
House
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lancaster Men to Face Charges Here
Sheriff Joe Farbearn returned two prisoners from Lancaster in connection with a theft of copper wire worth 259 dollars from the Greendale Brick Co. plant at Greendale. Clifford Botts and Martin Flowers, both Lancaster residents aged 28 and 53, will face 11 different charges.
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Joe Farbearn
Lancaster
Greendale
Teacher Recovering After Major Operation at Grant Hospital
Miss Alice Frasch, a Logan high school teacher, is recovering at Grant hospital in Columbus after a major operation performed there last week.
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Alice Frasch
Logan
Grant Hospital
Columbus
Yale Honors Sinclair Lewis With Doctor of Letters
New Haven, June 17 AP Yale awarded one of its highest honors today to Sinclair Lewis conferring an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
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New Haven, Conn
Yale
Sinclair Lewis
United States to Probe Arkansas Flogging Case
Reports circulate that a sharecropper died after a beating in the eastern Arkansas strike zone. Officials say Frank Weems is alive and deny knowledge of fatal injuries. The Justice Department considers an investigation into alleged flogging of a Presbyterian minister and a young woman near Earle.
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Tenn
United States Department of Justice
Arkansas
Claude Williams
Little Rock
Ark
Willie Sue Blagden
Earle
Sue Blagden
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
New York
Norman Thomas
Roosevelt
Tinner Killed by Collapse of Folding Ladder
In Coshocton Ohio on June 17 an AP report says Opha E. Boor a 48 year old tinner fell to the ground and died after a folding ladder collapsed.
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Coshocton
Opha E. Boor
Fresh Out strikes erupt in Liege violence widens
Brussels reports a fresh outbreak of strike violence as armored cars guard Liege. Police arrest 50 amid overturned cars and small arms factory raids. Riots spread to Ghent Hainaut and Verviers with 170000 strikers. Independence Belge accuses Communist agitators imported from Scandinavia.
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Liege
Ruysbroeck
Ghent
Hainaut
Verviers
Independance Belge
Scandinavia
Veteran film actor Henry Walthall dies at 55
Hollywood reports Henry B. Walthall, famed for Birth of a Nation, died at a sanitarium in Monrovia after three weeks of treatment for a chronic ailment. The Shelby City, Alabama native had just completed an un released role in China Clipper and acted with Wallace Beery, Will Rogers, and Ronald Colman in notable films.
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Hollywood
Calif
Henry B. Walthall
Shelby City
Ala
Pasteur Sanitarium
Monrovia
Wallace Beery
Will Rogers
Ronald Coleman
Enterprise Woman Dorothy Klinger Hansley Dies
Mrs. Dorothy Klinger Hansley wife of Ben Hansley died at Lancaster City Hospital at 9 26. The body was taken to Leonard Funeral Home Logan for arrangements. She leaves her husband her father Jacob and several brothers and sisters.
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Ben Hansley
Enterprise
Lancaster City Hospital
Leonard Funeral Home
Logan
Hit-skip Victim Michael Gary Dies in Dayton
Michael J. Gary 77 of Dayton died from injuries after being struck by a hit-skip motorist Saturday night in Xenia Ohio. He was a Spanish American War veteran.
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Xenia, O
Michael J. Gary
Dayton
Florida Senator Fletcher Dies in Washington
Florida Senator Duncan A. Fletcher died suddenly in Washington from a heart attack. President Roosevelt praised his service as banking and currency committee chair during banking upheaval. Senators Robinson and Loftin delivered eulogies as Fletcher’s Senate term dated from March 4, 1909.
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Duncan A. Fletcher
United States Senate
Florida
Senate
Roosevelt
Fletcher
Great Committee On Banking and Currency
Senator Borah Dead and Senate Power Shifts Noted
Senator Borah of Idaho, the Senate’s oldest member by service since 1907, died at his home. Senator Smith of South Carolina joined Fletcher in Democratic seniority, outranking other Democrats. Fletcher’s term would have ended in 1939, while Florida suffered a second Senate loss in a month as Park Trammell died May 8 1917 and was succeeded by Scott M Loftin, ex ABA president.
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Idaho
Senate
Senator Smith
South Carolina
Fletcher
Florida
Park Trammell
Trammell
Scott M. Loftin
American Bar Association
Jealousy Charged in Husband's Death Trial Insight
Springfield AP report details state witnesses in Clarence Haslep murder trial for Luther Chapman's January 2 death. Mrs Chapman's testimony cites intimate relations with Haslep during his stay in the Chapman home, framed as motive tied to love for Mrs Chapman.
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Clarence Haslep
Luther Chapman
Chapman
Haslep
Lep
Riverside Flim Star W C Fields Shows Improvement
Riverside California June AP reports comic actor W C Fields, recently stricken, is showing distinct improvement according to Dr Jesse Citron who described early signs as positive and encouraging for his recovery.
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Calif
W. C. Fields
Flim
Jesse Citron
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