Power Increase Discussed Last Night in Council
Objections to the Buckeye Power Co rate hike were outlined in a council reading of the ordinance for a second time. A 25 percent increase on commercial lighting and power was urged to be rejected or postponed, with a third reading set for two weeks hence and appeal to concerns about franchise rights and public utilities.
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Buckeye Power Co
City Council
Steubenville
New York City
Anis
Franchtiha
Council
Electric Company
Publi Utilities Commission
Columbus
Ohio
C. L. Williams
Court of Appeals
Public Utilities Commission
Cornelison
Military to Take Part in Davis Inauguration Parade
Adjutant General Navy E Layton announced today that he will call out an entire regiment of infantry and additional Ohio National Guard units for the parade connected with the inauguration of Governor El¢ Chevelgad.
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Stumbus
Navy E. Layton
Ohio National Guard
el¢ Chevelgad
Steel Firms Prepare Wage Readjustment About Jan 1
Philadelphia December 15 independent steel companies plan wage readjustments around January to compete for orders with United States Steel Corporation. Though no official statement has been issued, the move is believed to be widespread among independents as they seek to keep plants operating.
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Philadelphia
A. P
United States Steel Corporation
Statewide System of Elevators
The Ohio State Grange in its forty-eighth annual convention in Cleveland is expected to back efforts to tax intangible property. It will likely endorse creating a million dollar holding company to unify Ohio’s statewide cooperative grain elevator system owned by farmers.
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Cleveland
A. P
Ohio
Grange
Legislative and Taxation Committee
Reformation of Force Demanded Lima Grand Jury
The Allen county grand jury urged reformation of the Lima police department after an extensive probe begun Oct. 3 across three sessions. No officer was indicted though findings suggested action to improve results. Safety Director Fred Fisher pledged city cooperation. Chief O J Roush awaited the safety director’s statement. Sergeant John L Goebel shot Melvin T Fannigan linked to a whiskey ring. Fannigan died.
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Lima
A. P
Allen County Grand Jury
Fred Fisher
Grand Jury
John L. Goebel
Melvin T. Fannigan
Flannigan
O. J. Roush
Weather report for Ohio with snow flurries expected
Cloudy conditions continue tonight through Thursday with snow flurries likely in the north and extreme east. Temperatures show little change, keeping a cool, unsettled pattern across the state.
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Ohio
Austria Admitted to League as Mandate Debate Ahead
Austria was elected a member of the League of Nations by the assembly in Geneva on December 15. The meeting prepared for a possible animated debate on mandates with the council delays and questions over boundary terms and accountability. Delegates from Canada and Norway urged action as others pressed for clarity before reporting to the supreme Allied council.
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Geneva
A. P
Austria
League of Nations
Assembly of the League
Assembly of
Assembly
C. J.doherty
Canada
Dr. Nansen
Norway
Council of the League
Supreme Allied Council
Council of the Jeague
Senate Finance Panel Takes Up Bonus Bill Hearing
Washington report notes the Senate finance committee opened hearings on a proposed veterans bonus. A delegation from the American Legion urged consideration. The House had passed the measure last spring. Senators, while noting treasury strains, seek a swift disposition this session. The hearing moves before the full committee rather than the naval sub committee.
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Washington
A. P
Senate Finance Committee
American Legion
House
Treasury
Congress
Senate
Naval
Must Take Sugar At 22c Per Lb
New York Supreme Court Justice Cahalan ordered consignees in 24 sugar cases to pay 22 cents a pound for sugar they had agreed to buy from Lamborn and Company. They refused delivery in Baltimore as the market fell below ten cents, totaling over a million dollars.
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New York
Supreme Court
Cahalan
Consignees
Lamborn and Company
Baltimore
Highwaymen Shoot Up Polish Clubroom in Wild West Style
Two bold highwaymen roamed a Polish city clubroom about 7:30 pm Tuesday, firing into the front window, robbing the proprietor of a small sum, and terrorizing nearby residences with bullets. They fled but were arrested an hour later on Wells Street, loaded with guns. Suspects A Selway and J Sokel held for hearing in Mayor's court. Selway has a police record.
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A. Selway
J. Sokel
Atyla
Caccavan
Wells Stree
Man killed in storm tied to Toledo crash in Ohio
Cleveland, Dec 15. A gale driven sleet storm in Northern Ohio caused one death and injuries to seven others in auto crashes on wet roads. Alfred Arnold, a Toledo advertising salesman, died when his car skidded, hit a tree, flipped, and crushed him. Wind damage included shattered windows and silo damage. No distress reports on Lake Erie vessels. wind reached 75 mph. Grain steamer Winona last reported passing the sea at 9:30 Tuesday. officials fear for the vessel but expect it tied up somewhere up the lake once winds subside.
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Cleveland
A. P
Ohio
Alfred Arnold
Toledo
Lake Erie
Winona
New York Stock List with Dividends and Prices
A dense ledger style listing NYSE equities with ex-dividend marks and percentage values. Companies include American Beet Sugar American Can American Car & Foundry American Locomotive American Smelting and Refining Anaconda Copper Atchison Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel Central Leather Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago Milw St Paul Corn Products Crucible Steel General Motors Great Northern Ore Cafs International Paper Kennecott Copper Mexican Petroleum New York Central Norfolk & Western Northern Pacific Pennsylvania Reading Republic Iron & Steel Southern Pacific Southern Railway Studebaker Texas Company Tobacco Products Union Pacific United States Rubber United States Steel Utah Copper Westinghouse Electric Willya-Overland and others with varied percentage figures.
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American
American Car & Foundry
American Locomotive
American Smelting & Reft
American T. & T
Atchison
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio
Bethlehem Steel
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul
Crucible Steel
General Motors
Great Northern
Marine Pfd
Rae International Paper
Kennecott Copper
Mexican Petroleum
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Republic Iron & Steel
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Studebaker Corporation
Texas Co
Toodacco Products
Union Pacific
United States Rubber
United States Steel
Utah Copper
Wees Bon
Westinghouse Electric Wee
Willya-Overland
Wheeling Bog
Neuaganne
Banker Sued for Damages in Alienation Case
Ralph Baker sues George Whitaker, cashier of the Hopedale bank, for $15,000 claiming the defendant alienated his wife Georgia Dye Baker by kissing, gifts, auto rides, letters, and persistent attention. The Bloomfield figure is described as prominent with ties to a local steel firm. case filed in Common Pleas court.
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Ralph Baker
George Whitaker
Hopedale Bank
Bloomfield
Common Pleas Court
South Sixth Street
C. L. Williams
Georgia Dye
Steubenville
Hopedale
Weirton Steel Company
Cotton Consumption in November Reports Higher Totals
November cotton usage reached 332,057 bales of lint and 29,256 bales of linters, totaling 361,313 bales. The report also notes production of 491,250 bales of lint and an unspecified amount of hogs?
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Washington
A. P
Typhoid Waves Overcome by City Filtration Plant
City Chemist J C Scott told Steubenville business leaders that three typhoid waves from the Salem outbreak were neutralized by the filtration plant. Tests showed thousands of germs per glass before purification, but the mains now run clean. The meeting also featured Prof J T Thompson urging civic improvements and concerns over crime, roads, housing, and schools.
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Steubenville
Forum
Chamber of Commerce
J. C. Scott
Ohio River
Salem
Scott
J. T. Thompson
F. C. Chambers
Guy Johnston
J. W. Hawley
Thompson
Adams
Washington and Sixth Street
la Belle View
Market
C. of C
Herald- Star
Chambers
Con
Beetham Conditionally Named Speaker of Ohio House
Funeral services were held in Xenia Ohio for Susan Bush a Black woman aged unknown who died Sunday night. She was grandmother to 42 children and great grandmother to 25. She was mother to 18 children with only four living.
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Xenia
Susan Bush
Plans For Enforcement Of Prohibition Law
Prosecutor Roy Carpenter announced plans to form city enforcement leagues in each county to cooperate with officials in enforcing liquor laws with uniform methods. An early meeting in Jefferson County was proposed to organize the local enforcement league and discuss impeachment methods for noncompliant officials. Attendees from this county included Carpenter and R. L. McLaughlin.
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Columbus
Roy Carpenter
Carpenter
Jefferson County Enforcement League
R. L. McLaughlin
FR. L. McLaughlin
Missing naval balloon from Rockaway still unlocated
The naval balloon that departed Rockaway Point for Canada Monday with three crew members remains unaccounted for. Officials at Rockaway naval air station have heard nothing since, lacking any homing pigeons or other word from the crew led by Lieut Walter Hinton with Lieuts Stephen Farrel and A L Kloor aboard. The craft reportedly crashed near Fork mountain, Wells, N Y, but confirmation is unavailable today.
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New York
A. P
Rockaway Point
Canada
Fork Mountain
Wells
N. Y
Rockaway Naval Air Station
Walter Hinton
Stephen A. Farrel
A. L. Kloor
Morgenthau to Represent Wilson in Armenian Turkish Mediation
Henry Morgenthau of New York, former ambassador to Turkey, chosen by President Wilson to act as the president's mediator between Armenian and Turkish Nationalist factions.
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Washington
Tw A. P
Henry Morgenthau
New York
Turkey
Wilson
Fire destroys Fairchance Lumber plant in Fairchance
Uniontown Pa December 15 Fire early today destroyed the plant of the Fairchance Lumber Company at Fairchance six miles from here with an estimated loss of fifty thousand dollars.
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Tyniontown
Fairchance Lumber Company
Fairchance
Republican caucus at Columbus to select house leaders
Columbus Dec 15 By A P Selection of Rupert R Bee tham Cadiz Harrison county for the house speakership by the Republican caucus this afternoon was virtually conceded. C C Crabbe Madison county is favored for the majority floor leader with Maynard unopposed for clerk. Two women Potter Worthington and Ella Potter Mac Connellsville likely for top clerical posts. Democrat caucus also expected to endorse H S Atkinson for speakership.
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Columbus
A. P
Rupert R. Beetham
Cadiz
Harrison County
Eighty-Fourth
General Assembly
Causcus
H. T. Robins
Chillicothe
Robert Dunn
Wood County
Beetham
C. C. Crabbe
Madison County
Crabbe
John P. Maynard
Mias Potter
Worthington
Caluorbus
Ella Potter
MacConnellsville
Clery
Alfred Robinson
Trenton
James Dalzell
House
H S. Atkinson
Selecting Jury To Try McGannon
Cleveland, Ohio reports early indications the jury for Chief Justice William H. McGannon, charged with second degree murder in the Harold Kacy case, may be completed before adjournment. Nine tentative jurors were chosen from the secular venire as the session opened, with the trial possibly extending over Christmas and New Year.
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Cleveland, O
A. P
Wm. H. McGannon
Harold Kacy
Tatesmes
General Hill Dies in Mexico City
Mexico City reports General Hill, secretary of war, died early this morning after several days of critical illness. The news describes a sudden, grave condition leading to his death while abroad. Generals and government officials express condolences as the military leadership contends with the loss.
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Hill
Mexico City
Ohio News Briefs: Gun battle. rail robbery. fatalities
In Dayton early today Otis Arnold was killed and seriously injured after police surprised alleged coal thieves on the Westside. Rail officials report a gang robs cars of about 20 tons daily. In Cleveland a switch engine overturned on Detroit Avenue leaving one man dead or fatally injured and two others hurt. In Cleveland Mrs Rudolph Deutsch was robbed of 7000 in jewels by three armed thugs at Parkwood Drive. In Springfield George Paregna was killed by a truck while returning home from Whitehall Farm. A fire at FCC Gerald packing house near Ashtabula caused about 109000 in damage. In Springfield the price of eggs fell five cents to 85 cents a dozen. In Youngstown John Valley reportedly committed suicide.
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Dayton
Westside
Otis Arnold
R. R
Cleveland
New York Central Railroad
Seven Road
Detroit Avenue
R. &. Hunter
Thomas Whitford
Rudolph Deutsch
Parkwood Drive
Gare End
Springfield
George Paregna
Whitehall Farm
Yelow Springs
Yellow Springs
Parsons
FCC
Gerald Packing House
Bpringfield
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Davis
Bulgaria
OME
Cork
Hamar Greenwood
Ireland
NEW York Stock
George Bickerstaf
Ohio House
Morgenthau
McGannon
Ohio News Briefs
Youngstown
John Valley
Pensive
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