Water Department Cuts Off Volunteer Bill-Payment Work
The City water department suspends the practice of volunteers working out water bills due to strained finances. About 600 to 709 workers previously handled quarterly bills, providing 3500 to 4600 dollars in quarterly income, while the department seeks to balance a 50 000 dollar quarterly expense with reduced factory and industry consumption. The last day to pay this quarter’s water bills is April 15.
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City Water Department
Fred Underhill
Water Department
Underhill
Kidnapped Doctor Returns Home in Peoria
Dr. James H. Parker, 65, a wealthy physician kidnapped March 14, was found unharmed and returned to his home in Peoria. The Chicago Secret Six disclosed Parker’s release and announced two men, Joseph Pursifall and J. W. Betson, were detained on orders of Director Alexander Jamie for suspected roles in the case.
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Peoria
Chicago
Secret Six
James H. Parker
Alexander Jamie
Parker
Joseph H. Pursifall
J. W. Betson
Thomas McCann
Vax Securities Corporation of Chicago
McCann
Jamie
Stimson To Sail Next Friday for League Conference
Secretary of State Stimson will sail next Friday for Europe to attend the reconvening of the League of Nations arm limitations conference on April 11. The White House announced the plans today.
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Washington
State Stimson
Europe
White House
The Weather Forecast Ohio Rain in parts and cold
Ohio forecast calls for rain in the southern area and light rain or snow in the northern portion. Colder tonight. Sunday will be cloudy and colder with snow flurries in the extreme north and extreme east.
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Ohio
Lindbergh Baby Safe Aboard Small Boat At Sea
News reports say Charles Lindbergh Jr. is safely aboard a small boat beyond the 12 mile limit. Immigration and coast guard units are alerted to recover the child at sea, with ransom demands possibly increased.
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Lindbergh
New York
Charles Augustus iAndbergh, Jr
Staten Island
United States Immigration
United Press
Coast Guard
Clifton
N. J
Lindbergh Estate
Charles H. Schoeffel
New Jersey
England
Raiders Cross Border Kill Six At Espinosa Ranch
Bandits in an automobile crossed from Mexico into New Mexico and killed six members of the wealthy Espinosa family at their dairy ranch near Rinero. A seventh relative Vincente Espinosa died later in a El Paso hospital from bullet wounds. Melquiadez Espinosa survived by feigning death as three or more attackers took money and a bill of sale before fleeing toward the border. Local and state authorities pressed the investigation as the raid echoed historic Apache-era violence.
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EL Paso
Tex
Vincente Espinosa
Melquiadez Espinosa
Rerino
Espinosa
Southwest
United States
Espinosa Ranch
Texas
New Mexico
Melquiades Espinosa
Radium Water Probe Widens as Byers Death Probed
Prominent citizens including New York Mayor James J. Walker are named as radium water users now under federal and medical scrutiny after Eben M. Byers died from radium poisoning. Dr. Charles Norris said it will take two months to determine the exact effects.
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New York
James J. Walker
Eben M. Byers
Byers
Charles Norris
Bright Spots In Business World
New York reports March bank failures at a monthly low of 40 per the American Banker. Detroit notes March Plymouth shipments up 323 percent to 13,170 from 4,079 in 1921. Chicago Greyhound earns $2.43 a share in 1931 vs $1.47 in 1930. New York Pan American reports 1931 net income of 105,452 versus 1930 operating loss of 305,271. Detroit Briggs Manufacturing raises payrolls 59 percent in March. Toledo Edison Company output reaches 36,212,642 kilowatt hours versus 35,144,518 previously.
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New York
Detroit
Plymouth
Pan American Airways Corp
Toledo
Edl Or Edison Company
Town Sinks Into Oblivion In Tay Napoli
Naples April 2 Thousands of residents flee a hillside town after homes collapse into a giant underground cavern believed formed by water seeping into porous ground beneath Santa Stefano. Troops set up a tent city as evacuation continues with no casualties reported.
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Naples
Santa Stefano
Sania Stefany
Leonina
Sanatorium Electric Bill Under Review By County Officials
County commissioners in Ohio discuss the tuberculosis hospital electric charges with Ohio Public Service Company. A fluctuating overall bill includes an $85 monthly service charge but lacks itemized breakdown. February and March bills show kilowatt hour rates around 0.0329 with totals near $217 to $260, matching with a fixed service fee when computed at 2 cents per KWH.
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Ohio Public Service Company
Aviation Corp Buys Century Pacific Assets in Major Deal
New York April 2 Aviation Corporation announced it has purchased Century Pacific Lines Ltd and Century Lines Inc and their physical assets from principal owner B I Cord and W A Harriman chairman of the board. The move expands Aviation Corp’s shipping interests and consolidates control of the Century entities in a single acquisition.
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Purchase Air Lines
New York
Aviation Corporation
Century Pacific Lines, Ltd
Century Lines, Inc
B. I. Cord
W. A. Harriman
Logal School Building Bid War Near Final Approval
Elyria plans a new elementary school on Lake and Morgan avenues with an estimated cost around 60 thousand dollars, roughly 13 thousand less than the Allen School. Thirty four bids were submitted across general, plumbing heating and electrical work, with two low general bids under 38 thousand. The board will decide at the April meeting which bids to accept, under a pay as you go policy, for occupancy at the 1932 33 school year.
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Elyria
Lake Avenue
Morgan Avenue
Allen School
Abbe Road
Board of Education
Allen
Fox
Cleveland
Jefferson School
Crestline man fined and car seized in liquor transport case
Andrew Tuscan, 51, of Crestline, pleaded guilty before Judge A R Webber to transporting liquor and was fined 200 dollars plus costs. His automobile was confiscated after deputies stopped him last night in Ridgeville where forty gallons of liquor were found in the car. The liquor leaked from a damaged can when Tuscan's car blew a tire and collided with two other vehicles.
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Andrew Tuscan
Crestline
A. R. Webber
Tuscan
Claude Adams
Ridgeville
Tuscon
Relief bills await White's signature in Ohio
Columbus April 2 Four bills from the special session forming the administration relief program were before Governor White for final approval. He planned to sign them Monday after consulting Commerce Director Theodore Tangeman and Finance Director Howard Bevis. The Taft Act extending tax return deadlines was signed Friday, making it effective now. The session ended with a six minute House session and Senate delays over recess appointments before adjournment.
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Columbus
General Assembly
White
Commerce
Theodore H. Tangeman
Howard L. Bevis
House
Senate
Tax Commission
Arthur Hamilton
William G. Picktel
City Plans Conservative Spring Street Repairs
Service Director Fred Underhill said paving funds are limited this year and only maintenance work funded by gasoline tax and auto license fees will proceed. A city survey will identify needed repairs while the plan hinges on disposition of streetcar property on Middle avenue Broad street Cleveland street and Lake avenue.
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Fred Underhill
Underhill
Middle Avenue
Broad Street
Cleveland Street
Lake Avenue
County officials dispute bus hire in murder trial transport
Murray argued the jury could have been moved in county cars and the $10 bus hire saved. Court Bailiff J. C. Jackson said he acted on court orders while County Commissioner C. D. Rhoads refused to sign the land bill. The county plans to bill the state for the jury transport costs and relates to Benzak murder proceedings with George Rhoads noted.
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Murray
J. C. Jackson
C. D
George Rhoads Murray
Thomas Peebles
Rhoads
Benzak
Three Lorain farmers apply for crop loans under USDA act
At a Lorain County committee meeting, only three farmers have filed for the $50 million crop production loans authorized by Congress and channeled through the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Applications go to the county extension office, must be checked by two members, and then sent to Washington for approval. The act requires an emergency finding that farmers could not obtain loans for 1932 production.
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Lorain County
United States
Department of Agriculture
Act of Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
United States Secretary of Agriculture
County Agricultural Extension Service
Federal
Departent of Agriculture
Washington
Tiffin Plans House to House Job Hunt Drive
Dated April 2 in Tiffin three hundred men will canvass neighborhoods to seek work for the unemployed. Citizens will be asked to pledge a definite number of hours per week for a 90 day period.
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Tiffin
Chart on U S finances 1922 to mid 1932 shows deficits
The Treasury's financial research section provides a chart tracing the nation's finances from 1922 through the first half of 1932. It explains why tax increases and spending cuts are pursued, notes 1930 and 1929 boom effects, and shows a national deficit buildup culminating in the figure of 1,376,740,985.78 for the first half of the year.
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Section of Financial and Economic Research
Treasury Department
Washington, DC
Tax bill faces Senate battle after House approval
Washington April 2 The Senate takes up the partisan tax bill after the House backed a billion dollar revenue plan 327 to 64. Democrats claim it balances next year’s budget while Treasury Mills argues a shortfall he estimates at 88 million. House leaders push cuts and new taxes including a stock dividend levy amid swift committee action and protests from lobbies.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Secretary of Treasury
Mills
Senate Finance Committee
Smoot
Woul
Congress
Ways and Means
Rep
Near & P. Mm
Rentals Pep Talk for April Ix Month of Rentala
April Ix the Month of Rentala highlights meat rentals as the prime time to secure tenants for vacant houses or apartments. Landlords are urged to seek recatts where they are cheapest, and to use CHRONICLESTAIR for quick, effective advertising.
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Stimson
Tria
Chicago—Greyhound Corp
Detroit—Briggs Manufacturing Co
LOGAL
Cleveland Contractors
Bill
Ers
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