Elyria business men oppose new Ohio tax proposals
A Elyria Chamber of Commerce meeting last night heard members oppose sales and gross receipts tax bills while urging a tax system based on ability to pay and reduced government expenditures. They discussed a possible personal property, utilities, and intangible tax mix and noted past road levy cuts and budgeting constraints. No action was taken.
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Elyria
Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
Ley
C. B. Smythe
Chamber
Smythe
Earl D. Bacon
Fred Lazarus
Columbus
J. W Warde
Loraincoun
County Council Legion Banquet Set for Wellington
Wellington will host the American Legion County Council banquet on Thursday evening April 18 with dinner, speakers, and entertainment. The event begins at 7 oclock in Herrick Hall. Legionnaires from Elyria are urged to reserve through FE PD Nielsen at 755-? inclusive. Steel works in Youngstown district run at sixty percent capacity, up from fifty-two previously.
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County Council Legion
Wellington
Pe. KR. W. Falls
American Legion County Council
Herrick Ha
Mil Legionnaires
Elyria
PD. Nielsen
T5sf
Youngstown, O
Younistown District
Ohio Weather Forecast Slightly Warmer Tonight Through Wednesday
Ohio forecast shows fair conditions tonight and Wednesday with a slight rise in temperatures. The extreme southwest portion of the state may experience milder conditions tonight.
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Ohio
Tax League urges White to slash expenses in Ohio
The Ohio Tax Limitation League criticizes five legislature failures in facing Ohio’s financial crisis and calls for a fifty ninth gubernatorial message urging economy, elimination of unnecessary functions, state and local expense reductions, and directing savings to schools before any new taxes.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Tax Limitation League
George White
Salaries Cut for Lorain County School Officials
The Lorain County Board of Education, in a special session, reduced salaries for most officials and workers by 850 while reemploying staff for the coming year. Allan T. Smith becomes attendance officer at 990, replacing E. G. Alexander. R. P. Vaughn remains county superintendent at 5850. Gerald M. Frank at 2500. Emma Gleason at 2400. Eva Mackey and Mary Salsbury keep their posts with 1620 and 3900 respectively. all contracts are one year due to Ohio school finance uncertainties.
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Lorain County
Lorain
R. P. Vaughn
Gerald M. Frank
Emma Gleason
Eva Mackey
Mary Salsbury
Ohio
Governor William Langer named in federal indictments
BISMARCK N D April 17 United States District Attorney FP W Lanier prepared to serve war trials of arrest upon Gov William P Langer and several state officials charged in indictments accusing a conspiracy to solicit funds from federal relief workers. Indictments followed a week long probe with 140 witnesses. Also named were Oscar Erickson publisher Oscar Chaput business manager Frank A Vore Hatsid McDonald Paul C Yeater C A Kinzer and his son Joseph who allegedly sought contributions for the party. The accused deny the charges calling the case a political frame up.
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Bismarck
X. D
United States
FP. W. Lanier
William P. Langer
Langer
Charees
Tam
Alleghany Mountains
Jeasog
Spring Cleanup To Begin On April 30
Council approves a $500 appropriation for the city春 cleanup set to begin April 30 with Services Director F A Underhill outlining the plan. Debate arose over spending versus private financing as Elmer Nelson suggested letting residents hire trucks for a small fee. The council chose to proceed as before to avoid dumping and to ensure disposal options for all residents.
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F. A. Underhill
Elmer Nelson
Committee to Plan Memorial Day Meeting Tonight
An Ao meeting of Memorial Day committees will be held tomorrow night in the council chamber at city hall at 7 34. This is the second gathering since recent appointments. All members are asked to report. George Cadryn is chairman, J G Schrock secretary, and Dan Symons treasurer. Nospattican Lensus subscription orders proposed. Lanier expected to open trial on the chatzgeg May 15.
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City Hall
Geores CaDyrn Aa Zenetas
J. G. Schrock
Secretaty
Dan Symons
Lanier
Middle Avenue safety strip debate at city council
A Middle Avenue delegation pressed opposition to a center strip and street lighting project, but Mayor Vanosier clarified that no assessments would fall on property owners. Officials discussed potential citywide lighting funding and other charges, while residents demanded cost details and questioned the strip’s impact on business.
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Middle Avenue
Council Chamber
W. H. Vanoster
B. Eb, Saunders
Z. Pitcher
Anna Kennedy
Pitcher
Elyria
W. G. Smith
Smith
Ohio Public Service Company
L. D. Hamlin
Frank Day
Vanosier
State Highway Department
Council
Jon
Ed, Notley
National Safety Council
Frank Wenke
Middle Avenues
Ty. Pitcher
Grain Pits In Turmoil Ripple Through Chicago Trade
CHICAGO April 1 The grain pits of the Chicago Board of Trade were thrown into turmoil today with the heaviest session of the year. Prices sank to new low levels amid brisk selling and nervous trading by brokers and farmers. The market showed renewed weakness across grains as speculative activity evaporated.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
City to Enter Into Contract With Hospital
A new ordinance authorizing the city to enter into an exclusive contract with Elging Memorial Hospital for indigent care in 1934 was approved by a five to four council vote. Mayor Vanoster vetoed a prior plan favoring the hospital over Elyria Clinic, with a switch in support from Councilman Thompson aiding passage. The ordinance, set for further readings, proposes $5.15 per patient per day versus the Clinic’s $4.90.
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Elging Memorial Hospital
W. H. Vanoster
Elyria Clinic
George Thompson
Leonard Fisk
Ed Notley
James Scott
Earl Lautenschleger
Thompson
Anna Kennedy
Elmer Nelson
William G. Smith
Frank Henke
Fisk
Trotzky Must Leave France
Paris April 17 Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut announced that he would withdraw Leon Trotzky’s permission to reside in France. The decision cites violations of neutrality and political activity including alleged support for a Fourth International to spark revolutions, forcing Trotzky to leave Barbizon promptly.
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Paris
Albert Sarraut
Leon Trotky
Russia
France
Trotzky
Sarraut
Barbizon
Barbizon School of Painting
Denies He Called President A Kerensky
Laurence Todd of Tass Soviet News Agency testified before the House investigating committee that he did not call President Roosevelt a Kerensky at the Wirt dinner in Virginia last fall.
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Washington
Laurence Todd
Tass
3A Hose
Roosevelt
Kerensky
Virginia
Two Convicts Escape From Colorado State Penitentiary
CANON CITY Colorado April reports state ten convicts escaped from the state penitentiary during a night break. Prison officials fear they could not have traveled far as guards maintain a cordon around town. Raymond Perry and Claude Redoth, both Robbery convicts, were recaptured in Sedar. Marvin Green Roy McVey and William Crosby, Denver robbers, remained in solitary confinement after receiving light lashes for their role.
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Canon City
Colo
State Penitentiary
Amas
Raymond Perry
Claude Redoth
Colorado
jaTsa Sedar
Marvin Green
Roy McVey
William Crosby
Denver
Two Bus Passengers Still in Very Serious Condition
Two of the fourteen passengers injured in the Route 20 wreck on Center Ridge Road remain in serious condition at Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Marie Kaser, 31, of Hustington Park, California, shows slight improvement but stays serious with skull, nose, and right forearm fractures after a blood transfusion. Mrs. Anna Williams of East Chicago remains in a semi conscious state with maternal injuries and head cuts. Yen Yung, an Oriental from Philadelphia, was discharged after being initially thought severely injured.
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Center Ridge Road
Memorial Hospital
Marie Kaser
Hustington Park
California
Kaser
Anna Williams
Williams
Yen Yung
Philadelphia
Yung
Hoy Yung
Dick Jean
Chicago
Council Cuts Intoxicated Driving Fine to Fifty Dollars
A city ordinance reduces the minimum fine for intoxicated drivers from one hundred to fifty dollars to align with state law and ease prosecutions. The measure, supported by Councilwoman Anna Kennedy, aims to boost enforcement, with the maximum fine set at five hundred dollars and driving privileges suspended six months to one year. Kennedy says the change will improve law enforcement.
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Asso
Anna Kennedy
Gasoline Station Operators Strike Hits Cleveland Traffic
In Cleveland Ohio on April 17 about 2900 members of the Gasoline Station Operators Union walked out, grounding most stations run by chains while independent dealers stayed open. Tank trucks serving the independents faced possible shortages as drivers pledged to cooperate, and Pocahontas Oil Co announced organizers would meet with executives to discuss the strike.
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Cleveland. O
Cleveland
Philip Hannah
Man Found in Ditch Seriously Ill on Vulcan Street
Police found Frank Roiz, an elderly Western Harsh resident, in a semi frozen ditch on Vulcan Street yesterday morning. Memorial Hospital reports him in critical condition with pneumonia contracted during exposure.
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Frank Roiz
Western Harsh
Ohio House Tax Committee backs 70 million bond refund plan
In Columbus on April 17 the House Taxation Committee approved a combined Armbruster-Mildren bill totaling 70 million dollars for refunding outstanding highway bonds, canceling unpaid assessments, and repaying 50 percent of prior special highway assessments. The measure, tied to a one cent per gallon gasoline tax, aims to fund bond refunding and assessment repayments over ten to thirty years, with GOP opponents and sales tax supporters watching closely as votes neared.
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Columbus
House Taxation Committee
Jerome Curtis
Cleveland
House
Senate
British Budget Omits War Debt Payment to U S
Apri 117 report states the British Budget presented to the House of Commons includes no provision for war debt payments to the United States nor even a token payment. Chamberlain said Britain budgets reparations receipts and could source funds outside the budget if needed.
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United States
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Britain
Bond fixed at 31000 by justice
Failing to have an attorney at his manslaughter hearing before Justice Joseph Petro A W Schaffer of Norwalk pleaded not guilty and asked to be bound to the grand jury He was in charge of a truck parked on Cleve land road early Sunday morning allegedly without rear lights authorities say was partly responsible for the bus crash that killed six and injured 14 two critically Schaffer remained in jail awaiting grand jury action called by Prosecutor Frank E Stevens for a special session Thursday to sift responsibility also held on 1000 bond each with William Daniels for the Nevin Western Lines bus crash case
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Joseph Petro
A. W. Schaffer
Norwalk
Schaffer
Cleveland Road
Hugh Arnold
Arnold
Norwalk Truck Lines
Frank E. Stevens
William Daniels
Pittsburgh
Nevin Western Lines
Daniels
Clarence W. Dick
Justice Petro
Lorain County
Stevens
Nevin
Insull's Ship Arrives in Catania Under Guard
Samuel Insull, facing fraud charges in the United States, arrived at 7 A M aboard the steamship Exilena in Catania Sicily. He was kept under tight surveillance during the voyage from Smryta and refused permission to inspect the engines to prevent self harm or escape.
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Catania
Sicily
Samuel Tusuli
United States
Exilena
Exilona
Sm+r~ta
Insull
Boston
Wenzel Habel
Burton Y. Berry
Tarkey
Bank at Milford Center Held Up Bulletin
Bank at Milford Center robbed by two young bandits of The Farmers and Merchants Bank today, taking between 1700 and 1500 dollars in cash. Two bank employees and two customers were inside the bank at the time.
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Milford Center
Yi--Teo
The
Tae
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