Ohio lawmakers drop $4 per day expense plan
Columbus legislators abandoned a plan to pay each senator and representative up to 4 dollars daily for expenses during the session. The Rules Committee found it impractical, as the body opened debate on emergency tax measures and other bills amid state financial concerns.
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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 Forecast Promises Fair Weather Tonight and Friday
The Ohio forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with a touch colder air tonight. High pressure keeps skies clear and temperatures edge down slightly overnight.
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Ohio
Dollar Crisis Rides Global Fronts As Gold Peg Holds
United Press reports the dollar again pegged to gold at 59.06 percent of its former value while a 2 billion dollar stabilization fund runs to steady the US currency. London sees a sharp drop in the dollar and a new high gold price as the pound struggles. Roosevelt expects the devaluation to broaden credit and shield American markets. Paris watches a sliding dollar and weighs protection for the gold standard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
London
Stock Exchange
Washington
Roosevelt
America
Paris
France
Leap From Hospital Window Kills Patient
Daniel Markov aged 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, after locking the bathroom, removed his glasses and jumped. Coroner Oscar Hayes ruled death by own action.
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Akron
St. Thomas Hospital
Daniel Markov
Markov
Oscar Hayes
Threat against Ann Pennington prompts police inquiry
A note demanding 5 000 dollars and threatening former follies star Ann Pennington, now a nightclub dancer in Pittsburgh, was given to city police after she received it at her hotel. The letter warned to deliver the money by Monday and to avoid police or face death.
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Pittsburgh
Ann Pennington
Follies
Miss Pennington
Views Gradual Elimination of Work
Cincinnati on February 1 1950 the working man is seen to gain leisure as machinery and mass production reduce labor. G A Fischer a Cincinnati manufacturer cites Emerson data as he predicts a shift to one hour of work for every twelve hours of leisure by 1950 and 11 hours leisure per two hours work by 1940.
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Cincinnati
G. A. Fischer
Central Y. M. C. A
Fischer
Harrington Emerson
Cleveland
Rosenbloom Knight Bout Postponed by Rain
The Maxie Rosenbloom Joe Knight light heavyweight title fight in Miami was postponed due to rain and rescheduled for next Monday night.
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Miami
Fla
Maxie Rosenbloom
Joe Knight
Walter Wellman dies at 75 in New York
Walter Wellman, famed Arctic explorer and early trans Atlantic dirigible pilot, dies at 75 in New York. He gained fame for the attempted crossing in the America in 1910, a ship noted for its crude design and a catastrophic equilibator device wrecking it after 72 hours at sea while aiming for Bermuda. He and brother Frank founded the Penny Paper in 1881 Cincinnati.
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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 finds former Lorain mayor liable for campaign debt
A Lorain Common Pleas jury returned a verdict against Paul J. Goldthorpe former mayor of Lorain for 206.57 owed to Ohio Service Printing Company for 1931 campaign literature. The suit also named 49 Lorain Republican Central Committee members, who were dismissed.
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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
Elyria Foremen's Club Schedule February Meeting
Plans for the February 15 gathering of the Elyria Foremen's Club are set. The executive committee and past presidents will meet tonight at the association building as announced by club secretary W. O. McClellan. The club holds monthly meetings for foremen and plant executives in Elyria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria Foremen’s Club
Association
W. O. McClellan
Foremen's Club
Elyria
Senate debates waterway treaty and Louisiana election case report
Congress Today notes Senate continues the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty debate and reports from a sub committee on the Louisiana election case. Banking and currency probes Detroit banks. Senator Black leads a air mail contracts inquiry. Appropriations panel starts work on independent offices bill. House finishes commerce justice labor state department budget debate. Subcommittees address 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 shipper needs for harbor work
The Lorain Chamber of Commerce seeks county wide input on goods that could move by water to Lorain Harbor. A hearing on the dredging plan to reach the municipal pier will be held in Washington next week. Elyria Chamber backs the survey and partakes in distributing the questionnaire to Lorain County shippers.
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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 Bond Claim In Spring Valley Sewer District
Prosecutor John M Harding files 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 also known as Spring Valley sewer district 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
Insull Remains in Greece While Fate of Exile Hinges on Life Risk
Samuel Insull, the fugitive Chicago utilities operator, stays in Greece past the deadline for expulsion as authorities weigh whether departure would endanger his life due to heart disease. A likely destination is Turkey, with a plane as the planned exit.
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Athens
Greece
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Insull
Turkey
Factor Not Kidnaped For Ransom, Defense Says
Chicago February 1 defense counsel William Scott Stewart told the jury Roger Touhy and two gangsters are not tied to the Factor abduction. He argued there was no real evidence Factor was kidnapped and the state has yet to prove any link to Touhy. Stewart spoke in a low direct tone as deliberations neared.
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Chicago
John
Jake the Barber
William Scott Stewart
Roger Touhy
Touhy
Factor
Consel
Stewart
Flames Destroy C. O. Mercer Store in North Ridgeville Blaze
A fire at 1 a m destroyed the C O Mercer store at North Ridgeville with its contents. The second floor housed unoccupied living quarters. Fire crews from Ridgeville and Elyria battled flames for over an hour, preventing spread to nearby Tavern, McAv ena store, and an unoccupied house.
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C. O. Mercer
North Ridgeville
Ridgeville
Elyria
W. N. Bates
McAvena
Emma Goldman Arrives Back in United States
Emma Goldman an anarchist returns to the United States after about 15 years exile under a temporary 90 day visa issued by President Roosevelt at Niagara Falls New York on February 1.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Emma Goldman
United States
Roosevelt
New Blue Eagles to Be Issued by NRA
Washington February 1 in about a week NRA code authorities will start issuing a new type of Blue Eagle. The new eagles resemble the original but carry the issuing industry or trade name and include individual registration numbers. They will distinguish codified enterprises from blanket code operations.
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Washington
NRA
Secret probe links Sankey to Lindbergh case in Chicago
Federal agents pursue Verne Sankey in Chicago amid a five day plan to dig for evidence tying him to the Lindbergh kidnapping. Sankey admits earlier kidnaping acts and raises new suspicions about his links to the Lindbergh infant murder and other abductions.
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U. S
Verne Sankey
Chicago
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 Treasury’s Mysterious Stabilizing Fund Chamber
A Washington Treasury Department room, numbered 276, houses Roosevelt’s looming 2 billion stabilizing fund. Archibald Lockheed and five associates study world financial news as Morgenthau and Roosevelt oversee covert currency operations with ticker machines and redrawn charts.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Sta.r
Roosevelt
Gold flows to United States after dollar devaluation seen
In London and Paris renewed gold movement followed President Roosevelt's dollar devaluation. The gold price reached a record high of 34.078 10 an ounce versus 35 in the United States, with speculators buying here to sell in New York, while Paris showed the same trend.
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London
United States
Roosevelt
New York
Paris
Dollar devaluation creates 59.06 cent gold dollar and 2B fund
Washington reports President Roosevelt devalued the dollar to 59.06 cents based on gold, establishing a $2 billion stabilization fund to buy and sell gold and securities. Morgenthau fixes gold at $35 an ounce for Bank purchases while exports, prices, and international markets react.
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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 East Mentor stores early today. A restaurant a shoe repair shop by Nick Degeorg and an Edwards Food Store burned. Fire companies from Mentor township and Patmnesville aided in fighting the blaze.
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Mentor, O
East Mentor
Nick Degeorg
Edwards
Mentor Township
Patmnesville
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Marriner S. Eccles
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
The
U. S. Treasury
Washington, D. C
Henry King
Cook
Board of Elections
King
Thompson
Frank Stetson
Stetson
Henry
Charles Heiman
Foremen’s Club
Congress Today
GOP
Treasury
Ogden
Utah
the Treasury
Eccles
Dgeuill
U.S
Bulletin
Aidnaper
Treasury Building
Archibald Loch
Heed
Foreign Exchange
Lochheed
Lockheed
Mentor
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