House Group Keeps Food Tax Amid Budget Clash
Columbus December 11 The House taxation committee keeps the food tax to January 1 1937 and plans a senate sales tax bill. Senate leaders draft a section by section revision of the present law. Gov Davey vetoes prompt a two party effort to balance finances with new taxes to meet relief needs as counties demand funds.
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Columbus
House Taxation Committee
Senate
House
Davey
Simmer
Serait Il
General Fund
State Highway Patrol
Highway Department
Ery Davey
Ledy Huml
Cuyahoga County
Billy
Gibson
Salem
Columbia
Fairfield
Licking
Picklaware
Union
Richland
Barthleme
Stark County
Child Injured One Driver Arrested In Safety Campaign
In Portsmouth on Tuesday a driver was charged with driving while intoxicated after a wreck that injured a child and damaged several vehicles. Shaw, 36 of Friendship, was arrested and jailed. another driver, Tur, was treated for bruises and released. State patrol noted a two mile crash path on Route 52 east of Portsmouth near Third Street.
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Portsmouth
Csorts
Shaw
Ted
Ipom
Surchett
Ferry
Mendieta Quits as Cuba Chief and Barnet Takes Over
Cuba faces rapid political upheaval as President Mendieta resigns under pressure from factions blocking elections. Jose Barnet, 71, becomes provisional president and ministers meet to formalize the handover within 48 hours. Military police and 300 army intelligence agents flood Havana in a bid to secure the city. A hijacked radio station CMQ raid causes about 40,000 in damages while a Havana capitalist ransom case looms over the capital.
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Havana
Cuba
Carlos Mendieta
Jose A. Barnet
Mendieta
Senor Barnet
Gerardo Machado
Council of State
Nicolas Castano
CMQ
Two Camps Will Close Transient Units In Adams And Pike
State transient director Walter A. Hixenbaugh said Serpent Mound in Adams county and Kincaid Springs in Pike county will be closed within two weeks. Occupants will be reassigned to WPA projects if employable or returned to home counties. Seven other camps statewide ordered closed. Adams county occupants helped Serpent Mound state park improvements while Pike county workers aided the new fish hatchery.
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Adams and
Pike
Serpent Mound
Adams County
Kincaid Springs
Pike County
Walter A. Hixenbaugh
Wallace Calls for Wider Income Range to Spur Expansion
Secretary Wallace argues redistribution of income is essential for full economic recovery. He contends expanding the share for lower earners will boost consumption and combine with coordinated production growth while distinguishing this from AAA emergency crop programs. He warns deliberate avoidance will cripple agriculture and prolong unemployment.
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Wallace
AAA
Langer’s New Jury Formed for Third Trial in North Dakota
A jury of 12 and one alternate was qualified today to hear evidence in the third trial of former Governor William Langer and three associates on conspiracy charges in Bismarck.
Legion Plans Model State at Columbus Camp
The Ohio department of the American Legion announced plans to educate 5 000 to 10 000 high school boys in a model state at the state fairgrounds in Columbus. The camp will simulate state, county, and municipal government units with boys electing their own officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Department of the American Legion
Legion
Bankhead Act at Supreme Court Shadowed by Illness
The U S Department of Justice readies defense of the Bankhead Cotton Act before the Supreme Court as Solicitor General Reed postpones oral arguments after a illness. Police in Washington seize eight slot machines under city limits while owners claim operators rent the devices.
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Washington
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Stanley Reed
Reed
Hughes’ Gavel
Bankhead
New Deal
Temperatures Observer Schirrman's Report Today at 11 AM
A weather note records today at 11 am a high of 31 and a low of 24. It lists yesterday’s maximum as 30 and the minimum as 24. It also compares with the same date last year when the maximum was 25 and the minimum 14.
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Schirrman
Agreement Reached On Distribution Of Surplus Supplies
County commissioners and FERA reached a plan to continue surplus commodity distribution in Scioto county. The county pays half the salaries of four investigators and provides trucks and a warehouse. FERA supplies commodities, a supervisor, and half the investigators’ salaries. County costs funded via WPA bonds. Investigators will identify relief families eligible for commodities. J C Zuercher and A R Christenson met WPA district 11 officials in Chillicothe to discuss local project revisions.
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FERA
Scioto County
J. C. Zuercher
WPA
A. R. Christenson
Chillicothe
District 11
Safety slogan contest offers $10 prize in Portsmouth
A public contest opens today for a brief safety slogan to guide drivers and pedestrians in 1936. Any resident may enter, with a $10 cash prize awarded by Portsmouth Public Service Co. The poster committee will select the best slogan, to be posted on streetcars for the year.
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Portsmouth Citizens’ Safety Council
Portsmouth Public Service Co
Citizens’ Safety
Carl J. Phipps
Care
Portsmouth Automobile Clubb
Portsmouth
Ohio
Citizens’ Safety Council
Harry Ll. McKillip
A. Graves Williams
Cairman
Charles Clowe
CC. E. Korns
Lincoln Park publisher slain in Minnesota murder case
Minneapolis investigator John Hilborn said Mrs. Walter Liggett positively identified Isadore Blumenfeld a liquor agent as the slayer. Blumenfeld was held for questioning after Liggett was shot near his apartment. Governor Olson called the killing an outrage and ordered the crime bureau to assist. Liggett had warned he feared assassination and kept evidence against political enemies. Langer trial linked by Liggett’s plan to testify in defense against conspiracy charges in Bismarck.
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Minneapolis
John Hilborn
Walter Liggett
Isadore
Rich Cann) Blumenfield
Hilbern
Blumenfeld
Liggett
Floyd B. Olson
State Crime Bureau
Ed J. Goff
Bismarck
N. D
William Langer
Mr. Liggett
Mr. Langer
Ele
Child Burned To Death In Blazing Home Near Stockdale
STOCKDALE December 11 Robert Boggs three years old, sleeping in his crib, perished as flames consumed his log house on route 355 between Stockdale and Minford. Parents and seven siblings escaped in night clothes after breaking a window pane vainly to reach him. Fire started near a fireplace. the one story dwelling owned by Dr. Don Allard of Portsmouth was destroyed, few clothes saved. The Boggs family were sheltered by Charlie Brown.
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Stockdale
Robert
Sherman Boggs
Minford
Don Allard
Portsmouth
Charlies Brown
Bernet Estate Assets Valued at 37655 in Cleveland
Probate court records reveal the estate of John J. Bernet, administrative head of the Van Sweringen railroad empire, valued at 37655. Securities totaling 261d are listed among the assets, with the filing dated December 11.
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Bernet
Cleveland
John J. Bernet
van Sweringen
Aged Workman Killed by Train at Portsmouth Works
Edward C. Terrill of 231 Lakeside New Boston was fatally struck by a moving Westbound train in the Wheeling Steel Portsmouth works near the blast furnace. He had worked at the plant since 1917 and was known across the large facility. Coroner Ross Moore Gault ruled accidental death. Funeral arrangements pending at Emrick funeral home with services Friday at 2 pm conducted by Rev A Eg Huntington. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Edward C. Terrill
Lakeside
New Boston
Portsmouth Works
Wheeling Steel Corp
Terrill
Portsmouth
Ross Moore Gault
William Scaggs
Rosemount Road
Oscar Smith
Lucasville
Virginia
Orange
Henry Hammes
Firebrick
Emrick Funeral Home
A. Eg. Luntington
New Boston M. EE
Memorial Park Cemetery
Probe plane deaths near Tatsfield in Kent crash
Air ministry officials opened an inquiry into a Belgian air liner crash near Tatsfield Kent that killed 11 people. The craft, hampered by ice formations, struck a hill then plunged into a valley, tearing the plane apart. The only woman passenger, German, was decapitated. Seven passengers and four crew died aboard the London bound flight from Brussels.
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Tatsfield
Kent
England
Air Ministry
Amld
London
Brussels
Cession Of Eritrean Port To African Kingdom Proposed
A proposal surfaces to cede an Eritrean port to an African kingdom amid rising tensions. Discussions suggest acquisition of adjacent provinces by fascist powers, signaling shifts in colonial boundaries and regional influence.
Peace plan raises fears in Ethiopia over throne and land swaps
Ethiopian officials said the proposed peace formula would require Haile Selassie to yield Tigre and adjacent lands, exchange territory with Italy, and risk his throne if he accepted. Paris talks tied to Mussolini's aims include securing Assab and linking Eritrean, Somaliland ambitions, with a league mediated settlement seen as delaying sanctions and shaping a broader European crisis.
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Great Britain
France
East Africa
Haile Selassie
Addis Ababa
Tigre
Ethiopia
Italy
Ilduce
Rome
Mussolini
Eritrea
Somaliland
Assab
Red Sea
Aksum
Ogaden
Danakil
League of Nations
Egyptian cabinet to quit over British authority
Cairo December 11 The cabinet of Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha decided to resign under Nationalist pressure to end British influence in the kingdom. The resignations will be submitted to King Fuad tomorrow, who is expected to accept. Premier Mohammed Makmud Pasha then met with former premier Nabib Pasha guiding a unity plan among the Wafd and Liberal Constitutionalists to push for changes.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Tewfik Nessim Pasha
Fuad Tonmorrow
Mohammed Macmud Pasha
Nabas Pasha
Wafd
Egypt
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Philippines
James W. Douthat
Police Record Bureau
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Mr. Phipps
W. H. Good
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