14 Nations Sign Debt Promises Sought by State Dept
The State Department seeks signatures of fourteen debtor nations on agreements to repay about 200 million dollars over ten years at four percent interest. Embassies received the requests. Austria and Greece were excluded due to existing commitments. Officials foresee June 30, end of the Hoover Moratorium, with Congress resistant to debt reduction and wary of further postponement.
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United Press
Washington
State Department
Europe
Wilhem Congress
United States
Congress
Treasury
Austria
Greece
State Auditor Arrives to Aid Cuyahoga Probe
State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy was to confer with state examiners in Cleveland on preparations for an audit of the Cuyahoga county treasurer's office. The probe seeks to verify a reported deficit of 679,482 dollars as of December 18, 1931, with 475,099 dollars listed as missing taxpayers' money and the rest from uncollected checks. The audit, covering cash and resources, will also look back to 1921 and is hoped to finish by week’s end.
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Cleveland
Joseph T. Tracy
Columbus
Cuyahoga County
L. G. Collister
Ohio Weather Forecast Tonight And Friday
The forecast for Ohio calls for cloudy skies with possible light rain in extreme south and extreme west areas tonight and Friday. Temperatures remain steady with little change expected.
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Ohio
Memorial Day speaker named for Elyria event and primary turnout hints
E J Bailey named principal speaker for Memorial Day exercises in Elyria with music by Elyria High School band and veterans drum corps. Rev W C Fowler to deliver Memorial Sunday sermon. Primary registration in Elyria and Lorain shatters records with about 750 and 1400 respectively, signaling high voter interest for May 10 Lorain County election.
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E. J. Bailey
Mason Smith
Harry Forbes
Elyria High School
Elyria Ladies
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
W. C. Fowler
Capitol Theatre
Charles Abbey
Elyria
Lorain
Election Board
Loramn County
Arms Conference Delegates Split At Geneva Meeting
Delegates at the world disarmament conference in Geneva failed to reach agreement on abolishing aggressive or offensive arms. The general commission adjourned after two days of heated debate with sixteen nations backing a vague British abolition principle and fourteen nations backing a French counter resolution. Prime Minister MacDonald and other top leaders held private talks to avert an impasse as leaders from major powers, excluding Japan, prepared to arrive.
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Geneva
General Commission
Stimson
MacDonald
Yardien
France
Japan
Ceiling Collapse Buries Twenty in Corsica Courtroom
In Bastia Corsica on April 21 a courtroom ceiling collapsed during a trial at the correctional court burying twenty people. Ten were reported dead or seriously injured.
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Bastia
Corsca
Ten Thousand Personal Tax Returns Filed in County
About 10 000 individuals and local firms filed personal property returns with the county auditor. Deputy Clark Phinney reported the figures and noted final filing without penalty was April 20. Penalties rise after 60 days and half the year’s tax is due by April 30.
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Clark Phinney
State Tax Commission
Phinney
Autos Damaged In Oberlin Road Collision
Cara of Andy Toth Kipton and Mr. Morgan of Oberlin were damaged in a collision on Oberlin road about midnight. Deputy Sheriffs Jack Breagger and Gerald Nan reported today.
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Oberlin
Cara
Andy Toth
Kipton
Mr. Morgan
Jack Breagger
Gerald Nan
Urges U S And Britain Join To Solve Problems
London April 21 Winston Churchill former Chancellor of the Exchequer urged a Anglo American cooperation to solve the world crisis during the budget debate in the House of Commons. He blamed rising gold prices and misdistribution of gold stocks for the crisis and said a U S Britain agreement would force France to seek admission to councils next morning. It was his first major public utterance in over a year.
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London
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Churchill
U. S
Great Britain
France
Dawes Attacks Bonus Measure in House Hearing
In Washington Dawes denounced the 2 billion dollar soldier bonus bill before the Ways and Means Committee saying it would inflate currency and destroy confidence. Congressman Cullen of New York voiced support for the bill while Dawes defended Reconstruction Finance Corp loans and criticized the Patman proposal as inflationary.
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Washington
Charles G. Dawes
House
Ways and Means Committee
Cullen
New York
Lammany
Dawes
Reconstruction-Finance Corporation
United States
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Germany
Suit challenges validity of Espy Roberts relief act
Columbus, April 21 The constitutionality of the Espy Roberts act, passed by a special legislature to fund local relief activities, is challenged in six grounds in a brief filed by the Ohio state tax commission for Hamilton County. The brief argues the law never became operative as it exceeded the governor's call and, even if not, would violate prohibitions on state assuming a sub division's debt.
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Columbus
State Tax Commission
Hamilton County
Pertry L. Graham
Attorney General's Department
Bettman
Supreme Court
New Gas Well Yields 619000 Cubic Feet Daily
A Ras well delivering 619000 cu ft per day was brought in yesterday by Ramage and Willis Oland Gas Co on the F. E. Armbruster farm on Route 57 near Grafton. This is the second producing well on the farm. Depth is 2860 feet and a third well is planned soon.
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Ramage and Willis Oland Gas Company
F. E. Armbruster
Route 57
Grafton
Ramage and Willis Company
Capitols Guarded as Mooney Case Nears Decision
Sacramento Calif April 21 A heavy police guard stood at the state capitol hours before Governor James Rolph Jr planned to announce his decision on Tom Mooney's pardon application The governor considered one of four options either a commutation time served or another date a pardon denial or parole The decision expected between noon and 4 p m was prepared with a long report by Judge Matt I Sullivan and followed a December hearing Mooney refused parole saying it would imply guilt in the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing He was convicted and sentenced to life a co defendant Warren Billings reportedly would accept a parole continued on Page 2
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Sacramento
Calif
California State Capitol
James Rolph, Jr
Tom Mooney
Mooney
Capitol
Rolph
Matt I. Sullivan
San Francisco
James Walker
New York
Frank Walsh
Aaron Shapiro
FINTGR HEARINGS ON REVENUE BILL
The Senate Finance Committee closed two weeks of hearings on the House one billion dollar revenue bill. More than 90 witnesses testified on administrative features. The panel plans to rewrite the bill within days and aims to report by May 1 with six weeks for debate and final concurrence before June adjournment. The committee may drop the income tax on stock dividends and cut the stock sales tax to four cents a share while considering restoring the general sales tax. Senator Reed says the panel is moving toward a sales tax, though Democrats doubt it.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Senate
Congress
Reed
Billings Ready To Accept Parole In Mooney Case
Warren K. Billings, co defendant with Tom Mooney in the San Francisco bombing case, expressed willingness to accept parole in a California prison. He hinted at a tacit admission of guilt to win release and awaited Governor Rolph's decision on Mooney. At 39, he maintains innocence but seeks freedom under certain conditions after 15 years behind bars.
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Follsom
Calif
Warren K. Billings
Tom Mooney
San Francisco
Rolph
Mooney
Billings
Boats battered by gales in Pacific
Four of six men aboard the barge Gracia reached safety after a line was floated to shore off Point Vicente as heavy seas battered the craft. Coast guardsmen hoped the two remaining crew members would be saved. The Melrose, with five aboard, drifted onto rocks as lines holding it parted. The Sierra rode nearby with four aboard while 265 mile gale winds set records. Property damage ran high and an ambulance was sent to the scene.
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Gracia
Point Vincente
Interpid Coast
Melrose
White’s Point
Coast Guards
Fort McArthur
Sierra
Aury
City Officials Seek Gas Rate Deal in Columbus
A Columbus visit led by Mayor W. H. Van Oster sought a new Elyria gas rate of 1 for 1000 cubic feet and 55 cents for each extra thousand, with no compromise. The current rate is 1 per 600 and 60 cents per additional thousand, and the group may take the matter to the State Public Utilities Commission.
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Columbus
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Elyria
W. H. van Oster
State Public Utilities Commission
Leonard Smith
Walter Kohn
Carl Curtis
Howard Butler
Charles Sartor
Lawrence Webber
J. Clare George
Chronicle-Telegram
No Cabinet Names On List In Senate Probe Remarks
Washington April 21 Willam A Gray counsel for the Senate Banking and Currency committee stock market investigation said he examined the complete list of short sellers on the New York Market submitted to the committee and found no names of cabinet officers There had been rumors that a member of the cabinet was on the list.
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Washington
Willam A. Gray
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
New York
Air Mail Pilot Dies In Crash At Fort Wayne Airport
Fort Wayne April 2 Lieutenant George Hill a veteran airmail pilot with Trans America was killed when his plane stalled at 360 feet and crashed as he prepared to land after a flight from South Bend. A World War aviator Hill resided in South Bend.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
George Hill
Hill
South Bend
Flyer
Immigration deportations exceed March arrivals in historic first
Washington reports that for the first time, March deportations surpassed entries as 2,112 aliens were deported under formal warrants while 2,000 immigrants were admitted. In Dayton, Archierie Blouse, 14, died from injuries after a car driven by his father collided with a truck at a downtown intersection.
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Washington
Secretary of Labor
Doak
Roy
Dayton
Cherie Blouse
St. Paris
Miami Valley Hospital
R. W. Blouse
Seven hundred girls to perform at Elyria High gym display
Elyria High School will stage a biennial physical education demonstration next Friday at 7 30 p m in the high school gym. Seven hundred girls from all classes will participate in a grand march and a program featuring volleyball cage ball badminton deck tennis basketball and ping pong doubles. The second period class will present folk dances and a Washington bicentennial tribute will end the program with a Minuet. School band and several pianists provide music.
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Elyria
Misa Marian Kemble
Washington
J. Martin Beck
Catherine Seward
Katherine Maston
Mildred Findlay
Irene Zachman
Irane Upton
Unrest and Guards in Ohio Coal Fields Amid Reopening Talks
Cadiz area notes unrest as National Guard units prepare to protect mines in Belmont Harrison and Jefferson Counties. Col. William L. Marlin says reopening may employ about 11,000 miners while crews feed families and local officials pledge protection and possible troop deployment. Sniper incidents injure no one but signal ongoing tension.
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Cadiz
Ohio
William L. Marlin
National Guard
Adena
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
West Virginia
Brookside entrant to speak at Northeastern Ohio contest
Andrew Sechkar 18 a Brookside School junior in Sheffield Township will represent Lorain County in the Northeastern Ohio Oratorical Contest at Kent on Friday. He will speak on Crime, competing against other counties in the district as part of the New Eastern District schools contest.
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Andrew Sechkar
Brookside School
Sheffield Township
Lorain County
Ohio
Kent
Sechkar
Lanela
Newt Eestern
State To Finish Ranch At Milas
State Conservation Director Jam H Ralbert announced funding for ranch improvements at Milan Harom State to complete fencing and improve rabbit conservation. The State Board released 12006 for a fence project and 9000 for a competitive associate program, with Columbus noting the April authorization.
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State
Milas
Milan
Harom
Jam H. Ralbert
State Board of
Columbus
Coompete
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