Fox Furnace Co Wins Govt Order For Air Conditioning Units
Fox Furnace Company completed twenty one Gas Automatic Air Conditioning units for Maxwell Field Alabama residences. Government order valued about 20009 dollars. President C A Olsen says the sale shows growth potential as government engineers favor residential air conditioning over older heating. Company projects plans for further government projects and a May layoff only for manufacturing, with shipping and offices unaffected.
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Fox Furnace Company
United States
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Alabama
Maxwell
C. A. Olsen
Fox Furnace Co
Capone to stay jailed amid Lindbergh kidnapping search
The government will not release Al Capone to aid in the Lindbergh kidnapping probe. No court bail action or pardon is planned, and President Hoover is said to support keeping Capone in prison with limited chance of a pardon.
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United Press
Washington
al Capone
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Capone
Chicago
Department of Justice
Hoover
The Weather Forecast OH10 Fair Tonight and Thursday
Forecast notes fair tonight with heavy frost and Thursday to be fair as temperature edges higher. Warming trend continues into the end of the week with gradual rise in temperatures.
Board Agrees School Costs Must Be Cut Substantially
Elyria school officials held a special meeting to plan large cost reductions for the 1932 33 year due to falling tax receipts. They found the shortage uncertain and will seek more information before finalizing savings measures to fit the available local funds.
Willy to quit diplomatic post to Detroit leader
William Julius Willys chairman of Willys Overland announces he will resign as ambassador to Poland in June to return to Toledo and direct company affairs. Reorganization likely as control reverts to preferred stockholders after July 1 following four missed dividend payments. stockholders reelect Willys and officers.
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Toledo
John N. Willys
Willys-Overland Company
Poland
Willys
Hoover
Warsaw
Willy
Mr. Willys
C. O. Miniger
Marshall Field
Charles F. Store
Rathbun Fuller
Gordon M. Mather
Thomas H. Tracy
J. H. Gerkens
T. A. Russell
L. A. Miller
Legion approves widows and orphans pension bill
The Elyria Post No. 12 of the American Legion unanimously adopted a resolution urging Congress to remove the word pauper from the Widows and Orphans Pension bill. The plan provides twenty dollars a month for the widow and six dollars and six cents per child, similar to the Mother's Pension, and is expected to cost Lorain County taxpayers about ten thousand dollars yearly.
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Otto K. Mischkr
Elyria Post No. 12
American Legion
Congress
Detroit
Widows and Orphans
American Legion Post
County Soldiers’ Relief Fund
Lorain County
Bright Spots In Business World
The steel industry benefits from higher auto output, with operations averaging 23 percent of capacity, up from 22.5 percent. Philadelphia Electric reports first quarter net income of 6,475,669 dollars, versus 6,337,228 last year. Otis Elevator wins a 200,000 dollar post office and court house contract in Detroit. St. Louis Terminal handled 31,740 revenue freight cars in the week to April 23, up from 30,664. American Ice Co. and subsidiaries post 86,104 dollars net for Q1, 61 cents a share. Third Avenue Railway nine months ended March shows 2,224,730 net income, up from 2,029,864 a year prior.
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New York
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Electric Co
ST. Louis
St. Louis Terminal Association
Jersey City
Third Avenue
State Examiner probes TB sanatorium records and costs
State Examiner H. T. Manners orders a pause on County Building Commission functions while he probes tuberculosis sanatorium construction funding and actions. questioning whether spending exceeded bonds, examining sinking funds, banquets, and compensation for four members, with a full report to follow.
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County Building Commission
H. T. Manners
Building Commission
Frank Ellenberger
Mauner’s
Manners
Columbus
Charles Weedman
Wellington
Fire Fatal in Portsmouth Leaves Four Dead
A mother Mrs Mary Bentley aged 41 and her two daughters Edith9 and Luta8 perished in a house fire in Portsmouth Q April 27. A spectator Fred Buckley 75 died of a heart attack while watching firemen fight the blaze which destroyed four houses and damaged three more. The husband James Bentley escaped but was overcome by smoke. The fire began in an adjoining attic and spread rapidly through a dense row of homes in the East End.
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Bulletin
Portsmouth
Mary Bentley
Edith
Luta
Fred Buckley
James Bentley
Bentley
Buckley
Atricken
Hoover urges tax reform to unlock national recovery
In Richmond Virginia on April 27 President Hoover told governors that lowering taxes and cutting duplication in taxation will aid national recovery. He urged new revenue sources and warned property taxes are unfair as prices and incomes fall, increasing burden on owners both rural and urban. He spoke after traveling from Washington and delivered a message for local and national government action.
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Richmond
Hoover
Conference of
Washington
Elyria Council Eyes Busy Monday Session
The Elyria city council plans a long meeting Monday with Mayor Van Oster detailing municipal gardens and a commissary operation. Officials will discuss outside fire protection and a possible study into Elyria manufacturing electricity at the water works, comparing with Norwalk’s plan.
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Chronicle-Telegram
W. H. van Oster
Hhis
Elyria
Carl Curtis
Curtis
Norwalk
Defeat Proposal To Restore 1918 Income Tax
Washington note reports the Senate finance committee defeating by 11 to 6 an amendment by Senator Couzens to the billion dollar revenue bill. The plan would have restored the 1918 income tax with surtaxes up to 65 percent on incomes over 1 million dollars and lowered exemptions. It also proposed a wartime schedule setting 6 percent on the first 4,000 and 12 percent on excess income.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committees
Couzens
Michigan
Edison School to be Named Thomas A Edison in Elyria
Elyria will name its new Lake avenue grade school the Thomas A. Edison School. The decision was made at a city school board meeting, noting Edison’s Milan birth and the local habit of naming schools after famous Americans. The Jefferson School would not be renamed to avoid confusion. The name will be carved in stone on the front of the building slated to open for the 1932-33 school year in September.
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Elyria
Elyria City
Lake Avenue
Morgan Avenue
Thomas A. Edison
Jefferson
Hamilton
McKinley
Roosevelt
Jefferson School
Farmer Tells Of Being Tortured By Robbers
ST. CLAIRSVILLE O April 27 Search for the men who whipped and burned John Todd 80 year old farmer and recluse to force him to reveal the hiding place of his life savings 6000 in Liberty Bonds turned today to West Virginia. Todd was found unconscious by neighbors strapped to the bed in his shanty near Sewellsville 20 miles west of hers. He said he underwent six hours of torture before telling the robbers the hid ing place of his savings. Four masked men entered his shack Monday night tied him to the bed beat him and burned his feet with an oil lamp until he could stand the torture no longer the aged victim said.
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ST. Clairsville
John Todd
West Virginia
Todd
Sewellsville
Burglar Shot By Watchman At Bradford Store
A burglar was shot and likely fatally wounded today by Harvey Fourman night watchman of the Petty Department Store at Bradford eight miles from Piqua. Fourman fired from his second floor office as the suspect climbed through a transom. the man fell inside the store. Two other men outside fled.
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PIQUA
Harvey Fourman
Bradford
Fourman
Lester Beck
Ingalls Advocates Narrowing Ohio Government in Lorain Speech
David S. Ingalls, Republican gubernatorial hopeful, urged cutting the Ohio state government to curb expenses at a Lorain high school rally. About 500 attendees heard him condemn 66 bureaus and departments, noting a 300 percent cost rise in 16 years and urging Ohio mined coal for state institutions. He promised immediate relief for coal miners if elected.
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Walter Godfrey
David S. Ingalls
Lorain County
Lorain High School
Ingalls
Ohio Coal Jwigiers
Ohio
Deep Sea Diver Tells Of Little Known World Below Ocean
Robert M. Zimmerman, veteran deep sea diver, spoke to Elyria High School students about the submerged world. He displayed corals, shells, sponges, fish, and other items from the ocean floor and described diving methods and helmet use for depths under 100 feet. He recalled a 1927 incident when pump operator died and air failed, noting he now requires a strong heart certificate from pilots. He described dives to 250 feet in flexible walls and 1,200 feet in iron suits, and warned of nitrogen absorption dangers in deep descents. Continued on Page 7.
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Elyria High School
Robert M. Zimmerman
Kaiser
Immerman
Saa
Real threat to Roosevelt chances in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
United Press reports strong showing for Alfred E. Smith in Massachusetts with a 3 to 1 lead over Franklin D. Roosevelt and full delegation. In Pennsylvania Roosevelt leads Smith by about 6,000 as counts continue, with Roosevelt at 58, and Smith at 52,497. Roosevelt could gain 321 delegates if victorious, Smith 112 if he wins the state. Butler loses in Senate race. McFadden leads Pinchot in 15th district. Joseph T Frances of Maryland is lone candidate for Republican presidential contest as party backs Hoover.
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Alfred E. Smith
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Smith
Franklin D. Rivett
Roosevelt
Smit
Butler
James J. Davis
Smedley D. Butler
Senate
Congresseman
Louis T. McFadden
Cordelia Brice Pinchot
Gov. Pinchot
Joseph T. Frances
Marylam
Hoover
Defeat Conceded By Mrs Pinchot In Congressional Race
Philadelphia April 27 Mrs Gifford Pinchot wife of the governor conceded the nomination to Rep Louis T McFadden in the fifteenth district claiming voters were not ready for her to run while McFadden led with 17428 votes to her 13553 at noon today indicating a decisive outcome in the Republican contest.
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Philadelphia
Gifford Pinchot
Congress
Louis T. McFadden
McFadden
President Hoover vetoes pensions bill in Washington
President Hoover vetoed a bill granting pensions or increased pensions to 367 soldiers and sailors of the regular army and navy and to certain veterans and widows of past wars, returning it to the House of Representatives. Dr Samuel A Stout of Beavertown Ohio was fatally injured when his automobile skidded and overturned on the Wilmington Pike near Dayton Ohio while passing another car.
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Bulletin
Washington
Hoover
House’of Representatives
Regular Army
Navy
Dayton
Samuel A. Stout
Beaveertown
Wilmington Pike
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