Ohio lawmakers debate $4 daily expense plan and tax bills
The Ohio General Assembly debated a plan to pay each senator and representative up to 4 per day for expenses during the session. Four new bills were introduced including restoring taxation on household goods paintings and jewelry over 500 and a resignation demand against Public Utilities E. J. Hopple. Leaders worry about funds and a looming emergency tax program.
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Columbus
W. M. Boyd
Dem
Cleveland
House
Senate
Boyd
John J. Lehman
Sandusky
White
E. J. Hopple
Gus Kasch
Akron
Reference Committee
George White
General Assembly
Paul Yoder
Dayton
Thomas E. Bateman
Dwight Matchette
Horace S. Keifer
Springfield
Joint
Public Utilities Commission
Kingsley Taft
Ohio Weather Forecast Fair Tonight and Friday
Ohio expects fair conditions tonight and Friday with slightly colder air tonight. Temperatures dip modestly as high pressure dominates and skies remain clear across the state.
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Ohio
Dollar Crisis Deepens As Gold Value Falls
The international monetary crisis widens as the dollar is pegged at 59.06 percent of its gold value and a 2 billion stabilization fund operates to steady the dollar against foreign currencies. In London the pound slides to $5.03 amid market confusion while Paris weighs measures to shield the gold standard. President Roosevelt expresses confidence that devaluation will expand credit and stabilize prices and markets.
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United Press
London
Stock Exchange
Washington
Roosevelt
America
Paris
France
Leap from bathroom window blamed for hospital death
Daniel Markov, 48, died after leaping feet first from a second story bathroom window at St Thomas Hospital in Akron. He had been treated for arthritis since December 15 and reportedly locked himself in the bathroom, removed his glasses, and pushed through the window. Coroner Oscar Hayes ruled death by own action.
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Akron
St. Thomas Hospital
Daniel Markov
Markov
Oscar Hayes
Threats Sent to Former Folies Star Ann Pennington
In Pittsburgh on February 1 a note demanded $5,000 and threatened Ann Pennington, ex Folies star now dancing in a local nightclub. She reported the message to city police after receiving it at her hotel. The note demanded payment by Monday and warned not to call police.
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Pittsburgh
Ann Pennington
Follies
Miss Pennington
Views Gradual Elimination of Work
Cincinnati talk by G A Fischer at the Y M C A outlines a future where 12 hours of leisure accompany every 1 hour of work if trends from machinery and mass production continue. He cites Emerson data and notes machines replace many workers, reducing hard labor needed for production.
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Cincinnati
G. A. Fischer
Central Y. M. C. A
Fischer
Harrington Emerson
Cleveland
Rosenbloom Knight Bout Postponed By Rain
Miami report says the Maxie Rosenbloom versus Joe Knight light heavyweight title fight scheduled for tonight is postponed until next Monday night due to rain.
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Miami
Fla
Maxie Rosenbloom
Joe Knight
Walter Wellman Dies at 75 First Trans Atlantic Dirigible Explorer
Walter Wellman, once famed Arctic explorer and author of the 1910 failed America dirigible trans Atlantic voyage, dies in New York at age 75. He and brother Frank founded the Penny Paper in Cincinnati in 1881 before selling to E W Scripps, shaping early American journalism.
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Walter Wellman
New York
Wellman
Atlantic
America
Lindbergh
Paris
Bermuda
S. S. Trent
Hatteras
Frank
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Evening Post
E. W. Scripps
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Verdict Against Former Lorain Mayor in Campaign Debt Suit
A Lorain Common Pleas jury found former mayor Paul J. Goldthorpe liable for 206.57 to Ohio Service Printing Co. for 1931 campaign literature. The court dismissed the Republican Central Committee members, but kept Goldthorpe liable with testimony about funds turning to him for payment of bills.
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Common Pleas
W. B. Thompson
Paul J. Goldthorpe
Lorain
Ohio Service Printing Company
Goldthorpe
Joseph Conley
Republican Central Committee
Paul Cook
Central Committee
Publicity Committee
Henry King
Cook
Board of Elections
King
Thompson
Frank Stetson
Stetson
Henry
Charles Heiman
Foremen’s Club Sets February Meeting in Elyria
Plans for Elyria Foremen’s Club February 15 meeting at the YMCA are announced by club secretary W O McClellan. The executive committee and past presidents will meet tonight at the association building to start preparations. The club holds monthly sessions for foremen and plant executives in Elyria.
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Elyria Foremen’s Club
Association
W. O. McClellan
Foremen's Club
Elyria
Congressional Debate and Committee Actions Report
Senate continues debate on the St Lawrence Waterway Treaty. Privileges and Elections Committee receives sub committee report on Louisiana election case. Banking and Currency Committee probes Detroit banks. Senator Black's special committee handles air mail contracts. Appropriations begins work on independent offices bill. House concludes debate on commerce justice labor and state department appropriation. Subcommittee reviews agriculture and war department funds. Rivers and Harbors reviews New York projects.
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St. Lawrence Waterway
Privileges and Elections Committee
Louisiana
Banking and Currency Committee
Detroit
Black
Appropriations Committee
HOUSE
Commerce, Justice, Labor and
State Department
Appropriations
Agriculture and War Department
Rivers and Harbors
New York
Lorain Chamber surveys shippers on harbor may gain water routes
The Lorain Chamber of Commerce seeks county wide input on products that could move to Lorain by water and requests Lorain County shippers to complete a questionnaire. A harbor improvement hearing in Washington is planned next week to support dredging the outer harbor and enabling vessel access to the municipal pier.
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Lorain Chamber of Commerce
Lorain Harbor
Lorain County
Lorain
Washington
Lorain Chamber
Detroit
Chicago
Montreal
New York
W. A. Rowley
Chamber
Great Lakes
London
Rotterdam
Antwerp
LaHavre
Hamburg
Oslo
Prosecutor Files Claim Over Spring Valley Sewer Bonds
Prosecutor John M. Harding filed a claim for 32799 dollars with the Insurance Department of New York acting as liquidator for Lloyds Insurance Company of America. The claim covers defaults on improvement bonds for County Sewer District No. 2, Spring Valley, up to the insurer's liquidation last August.
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John M. Harding
Insurance Department of
State of New York
Lloyds Insurance Company of America
Spring Valley Sewer District
Believe Insull Will Go To Turkey
Samuel Insull the fugitive Chicago utilities operator remained in Greece under sufferance as the deadline for his expulsion expired. His future stay depends on whether departure would imperil his life due to heart disease. If he leaves, an airplane trip is expected and Turkey is viewed as the most likely haven.
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Athens
Greece
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Insull
Turkey
Factor Not Kidnapped For Ransom, Says Defense
Chicago February court session hears William Stewart argue Roger Touhy and associates not proved to have abducted John Factor. Defense says evidence fails to show Factor was kidnapped or connected to the abduction, amid looming death penalty arguments.
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Factor
Chicago
John
Jake the Barber
William Scott Stewart
Roger Touhy
Touhy
Consel
Stewart
Flames Devastate C. O. Mercer Store in North Ridgeville
A morning fire at 1 a.m. destroyed the C. O. Mercer store with living quarters above, with flames threatening three neighboring structures. Ridgeville and Elyria fire crews battled the blaze for over an hour, preventing spread to the Tavern, McAvena store, and an unoccupied house. No injuries reported. damage estimate unavailable.
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C. O. Mercer
North Ridgeville
Ridgeville
Elyria
W. N. Bates
McAvena
Emma Goldman Arrives in U S After 15 Years Exile
Niagara Falls New York February 1 Emma Goldman the anarchist returns to the United States after a 15 year exile under a temporary 90 day visa issued by President Roosevelt.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Emma Goldman
United States
Roosevelt
New Blue Eagle To Be Issued
In about a week NRA code authorities will begin issuing a new Blue Eagle. The new badges resemble the original in appearance but carry the issuing industry name and an individual registration number to distinguish codified enterprises from blanket code operations.
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Washington
NRA
Verne Sankey Under Scrutiny In Lindbergh Case Link
Chicago February 1. Federal agents pursue links between Verne Sankey the Denver and St Paul kidnapper and the Lindbergh crime. Investigators say evidence points to Sankey as a suspect in the Lindbergh kidnapping though he denies involvement. Five months of inquiries yielded records of calls to New Jersey and notes on Ruth and Dempsey earnings.
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Chicago
Verne Sankey
South Dakota
Department of Justice
Melvin Purvis
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Sankey
Charles Boettcher II
Denver
Haskell Bohn
St. Paul
Lindbergh
William Hamm, Jr
Edward G. Bremer
North Side
Michael Kinkead
St. Paul Prospector
Babe Ruth
Jack Dempsey
America
Joseph Keenan
Keenan
Kinkead
Kimball
New Jersey
Sankey Ranch
Chicago Police Department
Melvin H. Purvis
Room 276 Of Treasury Building Is Mysterious Place
A vivid look at Room 276 where Roosevelt's two billion stabilizing fund is managed by Morgenthau and Archibald Lockheed. The room houses ticker machines and a stenographer as Morgenthau and Lockheed coordinate daily currency operations with New York agents watching world markets.
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Treasury Building
Heed
Foreign Exchange
Lochheed
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Lockheed
Morgenthau
New York
Roosevelt
Gold flows to U S as Roosevelt devalues dollar
A renewed flow of gold to the United States appeared as President Roosevelt moved to devalue the dollar. The London and Paris markets showed gold prices at a record high while speculators sought profit by buying gold locally and selling in New York.
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London
United States
Roosevelt
New York
Paris
Roosevelt devalues dollar fixing gold content at 59.06 cents
Washington reports Roosevelt creates a 2 billion dollar stabilization fund to buy and sell gold and foreign exchange. The domestic effect is seen as minor while the international impact could be world-shaking, with Britain and France as key players in a potential currency stabilisation race. Morgenthau will set $35 per ounce for gold purchases.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Roosevelt
Great Britain
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Morgenthau
New York Federal Bank
France
Three Stores In Mentor Razed By Flames
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed three stores in East Mentor early today. The restaurant, a shoe repair shop operated by Nick Degeorg, and an Edwards Food Store were burned as Mentor township and Patmnesville fire companies aided in fighting the blaze.
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Mentor, O
East Mentor
Nick Degeorg
Edwards
Mentor Township
Patmnesville
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the Treasury
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U.S
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Archibald Loch
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