Ohio Supreme Court Upholds Diversion Of Auto License Revenue
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled the Lig igitt Act constitutional allowing a 25 percent diversion of county auto license revenues to fund poor relief. Akron and Toledo mandamus actions forced Sum mit and Lucas counties to transfer funds to relief, with decisions impacting a potential $3,000,000 for matching state aid. All seven justices concurred.
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Ohio Supreme Court
Columbus
Akron
Toledo
Summit
Lucas
Supreme Court
Supreme Sour
Garner Takes Firm Stand For Economy
Vice President John N Garner, casting his first Senate vote in years, supports budget cuts to reduce government spending. He backed a $115,259 cut from the civil aeronautics authority and indicated he would vote aye on future appropriations reductions, aligning with President Roosevelt’s budget stance. He missed a chance to vote on a $610,000 cut from the National Resources Planning Board fund.
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Washington
John N. Garner
Senate
Friends Today
Garner
Independent Offices
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Ting
National Resources Planning Board
Senate Alteches
May Extend More Financial Aid To Finland And China
Washington February 7 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved by 12 to 6 a bill to expand the export-import bank capital by 100 million dollars enabling broader financial aid to Finland and China A separate motion for a 50 million dollar increase was rejected 13 to 9 The panel endorsed Senator Pat Harrison’s proposal to back the sale of Finnish government bonds to private investors in the United States The measure also allows China to obtain an additional 20 million dollars beyond the 25 million already allotted Negotiations with Chinese officials for a new loan are under way as Finance official Jesse Jones says it would be repaid with shipments of tin to the United States China is seeking 75 million dollars
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Finland
China
Pat Harrison
D. Miss
Congress
Banking and Currency Committee
Jesse Jones
United States
Cleveland Woman Gets Federal Appointment
Grace G Glascatt of Cleveland was named regional director for the wage and hour division covering Ohio and Michigan. She will earn $5,600 annually, succeeding William J Kennedy who resigned to run for governor.
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Washington
Grace G Glascatt
Cleveland
Ohio
Michigan
Oil Service
Miss Glascatt
William J Kennedy
Last of Ohio Civil War nurses dies in Ohio
Mrs Harriet Brubaker, 95, believed last of Ohio Civil War nurses, died at her home in Paris Ohio. She was a native of Fultonham in Muskingum county.
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Urbana
Harriett Brubaker
Ohio
Paris
Fultonham
Muskingum County
Ohio Weather: Cloudy Tonight With Light Snow Later
The Ohio forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies tonight and Thursday with light snow in the west and south central areas on Thursday. Temperatures show little change, with high pressure over the Central Valleys and a low over the Rocky Mountain Plateau. Colder conditions prevail in the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley, warmer in New England, and general precipitation extends from the Mississippi to the Atlantic and into the Northwest.
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Ohio
Rocky Mountain
Plains
Mississippi Valley
New England
Mississppi
Atlantic
Death ends 69 year marriage of Lorain County couple
Mrs. Clocena Clifford died at home one mile west of Rochester after a short illness. She and husband Frank W Clifford were married 69 years. She was born in Chatham and lived in Rochester. Survived by her husband and a brother A W Robinson of Spencer plus nieces and nephews. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. Sharp funeral home Wellington and Rochester cemetery burial.
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Lorain County
Clocena Clifford
Frank W Clifford
Rochester
Clifford
Chatham
Baptist Church
A. W. Robinson
Spencer
Sharp Funeral Home
Herrick Ave. East
Wellington
Rochester Cemetery
City's Industrial Insurance Rate Sharply Increased
Service Director I D Faxon reported a sharp rise in the city's industrial insurance rate in a letter prompted by Mayor Joseph Q Petro. He urged city employees to increase care to lower the rate, noting state payments rose from 5106.60 in 1938 to 8018.17 in 1939 and citing a rise in minor accidents.
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I D. Faxon
Joseph Q Petro
State Industrial Commission
Munster 4305-Ton British Steamer Sunk
London Feb 7 British passenger cargo steamer Munster of 4305 tons has been sunk. It is not yet known if mined or torpedoed. All aboard about 200 passengers and crew were saved and landed at an English port where ambulances waited.
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London
Munster
Student Musicians Set For District Contests At Shelby
Loram County students will compete in the North Central Ohio District band orchestra solo and ensemble contest at Shelby on March 5. Entries must be filed by February 26. Open to all first nine grade pupils with solo and ensemble rules. W R Conger chairs the event under Ohio Music Education Association authority. Private teachers may enter pupils via school music supervisors.
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Loram County
Ohio
Shelby
Gerald M. Frank
Estestes
W. R Conger
Viva Shaw
Lorain County
Ohio Music Education Association
Frenk
Elyria School
Marjore Rossiter
J. Martin Beck
Farmer Shot To Death After Wounding Deputies
Lebanon, Feb. 7 A 48 year old farmer Lloyd Gentry barricaded his home for five hours to resist arrest on an intoxication charge and was killed early today after wounding two deputy sheriffs. He lived with his wife and four children in an old schoolhouse at Pehin five miles north of Lebanon on the Dayton pike. Sheriff William Huffoard was summoned by neighbors who said Gentry was drunk and threatening them and his family.
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Lebanon
Lloyd Gentry
Gentry
Pehin
Dayton Pike
Willam Huffoard
Soldiers Relief Commission Answers Davidson Statement
The Soldiers Relief Commission replied to County Commissioner John L. Davidson about requesting an itemized accounting of relief funds. It defends secrecy of recipients, notes funds are approved by the County Board before payment, and states relief directors are County appointees while commission members are appointed by Common Pleas Court judges.
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Soldiers Relief Commission
John £. Davidson
Soldiers
Davidson
Soldier's Relief Commission
Chronicle- Telegram
Soldiers’ Relief
Legion Home
County Board of Commissioners
County Relief Office
Soldier Relief Commission
Common Pleas Court
Nordic Sympathy Grows With Finland Aid Amid German Attacks
In Copenhagen and Oslo public opinion hardens against German bombing of neutral ships. Norwegian and Danish newspapers urge neutrality safeguards and press for unity with Sweden to aid Finland against Russia. Editorials condemn Germany for firing on lifeboats and threaten possible trade boycotts if assurances are not given.
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Denmark
Scandinavia
Germany
Finland
Russia
Tidende
Bergen
Norway
Berlingske Tidende
United Press Bergen
Oslo
Syofartsti-4dende
Sweden
Vidt
Eater In Law
National Legion Commander To Attend Lorain Banquet
Elyria Post 12 announces National Commander Ray Kelley will attend a banquet at Lorain Post 30 on February 13 at 6 PM and the open meeting at Lorain High School Auditorium at 8 PM. Distinguished guests include state and local officials. Elyria Drum and Bugle Corps will perform. posts exceed 1940 quotas. Military Ball planned February 22 at Elyria HQ.
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Elyria Post No. 12
American Legion of Ohio
A. E. Pontius
Lorain Post No. 30
Ray Kelley
Post No . 30
Post No. 30
Kelley
Lorain High School
R. B. Gardner
American Legional Ohio
Harold G. Skinner
V.F W
Robi. E. Kennedy
C. L. Kuntz
Dist
American Legion
Carll Smith
Fifth Dist
Ellis C Vander Pyle
WGAR
Cleveland
Fifth District
Carl T. Smith
Ohio Street
A. R. Agate
White presses campaign for real recovery through jobs
Norwalk congressman Dudley A. White entered the Republican race for U S Senator in Ohio. He pledged to save orderly constitutional government from world dictatorship and one man rule, criticizing the New Deal and urging a jobs based recovery to return 9,000,000 unemployed to work. He outlined measures on peace, economy, labor disputes, and trade pact ratification.
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Dudley A
Dudley A. White
Norwalk
Elyria
U. S
Ohio
White
Post
America
Senate
Plan Meeting Sets Lorain County Achievement Day Program
The Lorain County Women's Home Council 1939 1940 officers and district chairs plan the April 2 Achievement Day for farm women. The meeting is at 7 30 p m Thursday hosted by Mrs E C Catton on Lake Avenue. Planning committee members include Mrs H L Leimbach Mrs A J Cooper Mrs Carlton Mrs Howard Moon and others from Elyria Oberlin Belden Brownhelm Grafton Pittsfield Penfield and Grattan. A Washington's Birthday oration and a full house are expected. The Elyria American Legion posts hold a February 20 birthday dinner for Post No 12 members and plan a house warming in the Post Canteen after the meeting.
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Lorain County
County Women's Home Council
E. C Catton
Lake Avenue
H. L. Leimbach
A. J. Cooper
Brownhelm
Carlton
Howard
Washington
Elytis Dust No. 12
American Legion
Post Home
Ohio Street
Elyria
Ohio
Post No. 12
House Committee
Post
Federal Grand Jury Indicts 17 Christian Front Members
A Federal Grand Jury in Brooklyn indicted 17 members of the Christian Front on seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to seize federal property. Arrests were made January 15 after agents seized rifles and ammunition stolen from the New York National Guard. The two counts cover conspiring to overthrow the U S government and to embezzle federal property between 1938 and 1940.
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New York
U.P
Brooklyn
Christian Front
United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New York National Guard
Matthew T. Abruzzo
Two Irish youths executed in Britain amid IRA turmoil
Peter Barnes and James Richards, aged youths, were hanged at Winton Green jail Coventry for a bicycle bomb attack last August 25 that killed five and wounded 50. The executions, carried out in secrecy, sparked fears of IRA reprisals and intensified wartime security measures in Britain.
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Birmingham
Eng
Peter Barnes
James Richards
Winton Green
Eire
Great Britain
Coventry
I. R A
North Ireland
United Kingdom
Britain
London
Scotland Yard
Whitehall
Criminal Investigation Department
Sir John Anderson
Home Secretary
Bequest of 500 dollars in Medina will
Bequest of $500 to the Elyria Home for the Aged is provided in the will of the late Mrs Clara RB Clement of Medina whose will was admitted to the Medina County probate court this week. Thirty people including several first and second cousins will also receive bequests.
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Elyria
Clara RB ‘Clement
Medina
Medina County
Russians Attack Finns In Second Battle Of Mannerheim Line
Reinforced Russians, aided by better communications with Leningrad, launched strong attacks on the Mannerheim line for the seventh day. Front dispatches say they fight in sub zero cold with heavy artillery and two rail lines supplying large forces to the Isthmus. The Finns call it the strongest Russian offensive yet and note expanded air raids with a new incendiary bomb device aimed at wooden towns.
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Webb Miller
Helsinki
Leningrad
Nish Mannerheim
Mannerheim Line
Laks Ladoga
Mannerheim
Officials Protest New Law Diverting Fines to County Law Libraries
Local officials threaten boycott over a state law diverting municipal court fines up to 3000 dollars per county to county law libraries for books and maintenance. Mayor Petros calls it pernicious and seeks repeal. Lorain officials warn of funds loss to city operations and discuss constitutional questions.
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Justice of the Peace
Common Pleas
Law
Lorain
Joseph Q. Petros
Ohio League of Municipalities
Personal Tax Collection For 1939 Totals $424,651
County Auditor S Kelser announced 1939 personal tax collections totaling 424,651, up 14,312 from current charges and reducing delinquency. Tangible and intangible components shifted, with intangibles dropping from 104,602 in 1938 to 80,614 in 1939, funding public libraries in Lorain Elyria Wellington Amherst and Avon Lake. Distributions totaled 283,736 excluding libraries, with funds allocated to townships schools cities counties and libraries. Elyria receives 2,149 and Lorain 70,838 from the Oct collection.
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S Kelser
Arthur Giles
Lorain
Elyria
Wellington
Amherst
Avon Lake
County General Fund
Sheffield Lake
Giles
Moscow Says Soviet Planes Shot Down Three British Foers
Moscow says three Soviet fighters shot down three of five British planes used by Finland. The report stated the incidents occurred in recent days and involved a new type of British craft recently delivered to Finland.
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London
Bruce On Tada
Moscow
Finland
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