Ohio House 10 Vote on Dry Referendum
Columbus Feb 25 The Ohio House set to vote next week on a statewide prohibition referendum after Judiciary Committee approved Nippert Resolution to repeal the present Ohio prohibition amendment. The panel backed reporting with a recommendation for passage ten to seven, with a tax issue postponement motion defeated fourteen minutes earlier. The measure faces a tough hurdle of three fifths in the House and a Senate majority to pass, while Wet supporters claim optimism but offer no firm tally.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee
Nippert
Louis Nippert
Cincinnati
Ohio
Senate
House
Carl D. Sheppard
Akron
Hugh EB. Addison
Sheppard
S. Payton Baker
Hf. F. Krickenberger
Darke County
W. P. Tucker
Adams County
Addison
Crowe
Lawrence County
Foster
Cleveland
Pringle
Schweikert
Fairfield County
Sheffler
Sandusky County
Smolka
Vail
Blum
Jones
Jackson County
Baker
Krickenberger
Ohio Weather Forecast Aims For Fair, Cool Next Two Days
The Ohio Valley and Middle Atlantic show slightly below normal temperatures this morning while the rest of the region runs above average, especially near the upper lake region. Forecasts call for continued fair and cool conditions tonight and Thursday with shippers expecting north to west winds rising 25 to 36 degrees above normal in various directions.
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Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic
Upper Lake Region
Oberlin Speaker Calls for Opposition Party Movement
Oberlin Feb 25 Howard Y Williams executive secretary of the League of Independent Political Action urged a party of opposition. He blamed both major parties as capitalistic and failing workers and farmers and predicted labor would turn to politics within 16 years as Britain did with a Labor Party. He urged a league to coordinate small groups, education, and opposition to current parties to end monopoly and aid Negroes and the foreign born. The talk cited a $25 weekly U.S. average wage and warned of overproduction and weak purchasing power.
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Oberlin
America
Howard Y. Williams
League of Independent Political Action
Williams
United States
Significant Bills on Hoovers Desk
Washington Feb 25. President Hoover faces three major bills including the veterans loan measure the modified Muscle Shoals bill and the Wagner federal employment system. Treasury Secretary Mellon War Secretary Hurley Labor Secretary Doak oppose all three. Hoover may veto all three or delay action as Congress nears adjournment with several days left to act before noon March 4.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Congress
Treasury
Mellon
Hurley
Doak
House
Veterans Affairs
Hines
Rotarians Hear Music Program at Elyria Meeting
At the Elyria Rotary Club weekly gathering in Hotel Newell, Jack Flynn and his orchestra presented modern popular music under chairmanship of Arthur Giles. The program showed harmony between classical and modern genres as solos duets and numbers by the orchestra delighted Rotarians with several vocal interludes. Lawrence H. Webber Rotary district governor joined in the program.
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Elyria Rotary Club
Newell
Jack Flynn
Arthur Giles
Rotary
Lawrence H. Webber
Million Dollar Pier Fire Destroys Providence Pier
A blaze at Providence South Waterfront pier caused damage exceeding 1 million dollars. A defective oil heater on the first floor sparked the fire, destroying wooden supporting pillars and causing the main building valued at 530000 to collapse into the harbor after about four and a half hours. The Patria liner delivered large cargoes of naptha oil and bedding to the pier just yesterday. no ships were tied up at the time.
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Providence
R. I
State Pier
South
Thompson Again Nominee for Chicago Mayor
Unofficial returns show Thompson leading the Republican field for mayor with 296,000 votes, ahead of John H. Lyle and Arthur Albert. Democrat nominee Anton J. Cermak led his side with about 285,000 votes. DeVaney lagged. Thompson and Cermak advance to the April 7 head-to-head contest for the city’s top job.
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Chicago
Thompson
John Lyle
Arthur FF. Albert
George K. Schmidt
Eugene McCaffrey
Cermak
John B. DeVaney
Big Bill Thompson
John H. Lyle
Arthur Albert
George Schmidt
Camptroller
Eugene McCaffery
Anton J. Cermak
Cook County Board of Commissioners
Big Bill
James Walker
Na‘thon
Huey Long
Louisiana
Lyle
la Salle
Ridgeville to establish first fire department in history
Ridgeville Township trustees plan a volunteer fire department of 23 men with Louis Hadaway as chief and Clarence Aster as secretary. Equipment bids and housing plans underway. funding secured without a bond issue for 1931. Five sections will cover the township with a call system. Chief Wise of Medina Fire Department to speak to volunteers.
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Ridgeville
Ridgeville Township
Louis Hadaway
Clarence Aster
Johnson
George Fortune
John Fitts
Sterling Mills
Matthias Myers
KE. L. Thompson
C. T. Winckles
Rothgery
Lyndhurst
Firemore
Wise
Medina Fire Department
A. D. Ault
Paul Knapp
Ralph Steinmetz
A. Diedrich
Carl Lehman
Henry Baehr
Ray Dunham
Clarence Bartter
Irwin Bislich
John Schuster
Wilson Fortune
Howard van Arsdale
Raymond Witts
E. A. Brandt
Theodora Pape
Theodore Johnson
Herbert Myers
Paul Richards
Bernard Gilgenbach
Malcolm van Wormerl
Clarence Oster
Heavily Insured Man Ends Life in Personal Crisis
Cincinnati report details Lawrence Ach, 45, former Cincinnati broker and son of Commissioner Samuel Ach, who killed himself after writing four notes about sacrificing his life for his wife and children. He cited wild speculation and financial reverses as motives and left an insurance nominal value of about 1.5 million dollars. Ach shot himself in the downtown office of a friend in New York after leaving notes for relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Lawrence Ach
New York
Samuel Ach
Adi
Ach
Max Stsra
Robbers Take 18090 From Dayton Bank Breakin
Five bandits armed with shotguns robbed the Central Branch Bank of the Union Trust Company in Dayton Ohio shortly after opening. They herded employees to a rear room and took all the cash from cages before fleeing in an awaiting automobile. Police pursued the robbers, and a second note details city transportation upheaval as streetcar service may end at midnight Saturday due to court orders. Officials seek temporary bus service to prevent transit disruption.
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Dayton
Central Branch
the Union Trust Company
Transportation Committee of Council
Lorain
Samuel H. West
Cleveland
Gardner Abbott
J. Mayers
Cleveland Southwestern Railway Company
Council
Mayers
Committee of Transportation
James A. Hewitt
Transportation Committee
Abbot
Florida
Judge West
George Stevens
Paul Wainwright
Myron Jones
Hewitt
Gardner Abbot
Ernest
United States District Court
Legion Heir Society formed by Elyria Post 12 Legion
The American Legion Elyria Post 12 organized the Legion Heir Society at a regular meeting on Ohio Street. Junior members, children of Legionnaires, will be registered with a numbered card and identification button. Over 100 children signed up. membership aimed at about 1000 within a year. President Agate noted new signups and a petition available at the Legion home.
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Legion-Heir Society of
Elyria Post 12
American Legion
Legion
Ohio Street
A. R. Agate
Junior Legion Society
Sons and Daughters of Legionnaires
Agate
Department of Ohio
Ohio Legion
Legion Home
Alva Smith
Otto K. Mischka
Smith
Walter Peet
Donald Card
Chester Groshotz
Earl Greenland
St. Petersburg
Florida
Greenland
H. L. Collis
Grafton
Herbert Hoover
Elyria Legion
Carl Wolf
Lorain County
Legion Hall
Walter Malanosky
Mayers to Represent Welty in Writ Case
Prosecutor Don W. Myers was chosen to represent County Auditor Monica H. Welty in a mandate writ filed by four appointed county building commission members demanding the auditor publish bids for the nurses home. Judge W. B. Thompson indicated the auditor’s interests should be protected. A hearing is set for Friday at 2 p.m. before Judge Thompson.
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Don W. Myers
Monica H. Welty
Tthe
County Building Commission
Myers
W. B.thompson
Thompson
EU Olfiels
Ibe Evert
Train Plunges Off Mobile Drawbridge Near Here
A Louisville and Nashville passenger train, Pan American, plunged off an open drawbridge into the Mobile River near Mobile, Alabama. Four crew members drowned: engineer Arthur R. Ingram, fireman Exekiul Crompton, baggage man J. Nick Vaughn, and porter L Woods. Officials say the open bridge may have prevented warning signals and hindered rescue efforts.
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Mobile
Ala
Ci i
Lou Lie and Nashville Railroad
Mobilé
Here
Arthur R. Ingram
Exekiul Crompton
J. Nick Vaughn
L. Woods
New Orleans
Seldon H. Stephens
Charles Nelson
Louisville and Nashville
H. P. Hearon
Mobile-New Gr‘Teans Division
Hill resigns as educational director of state prohibition dept
Mrs Nellie M Hill announces she will resign as educational director to the State Prohibition Department effective March 1. She states she received a courteous letter from State Prohibition Commissioner Clarence H Sears requesting the resignation and extends best wishes to her successor yet to be appointed.
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State Prohibition Department
Nellie M. Hill
Hill
State Prohibition Headquarters
The
Chronicle Telegram
Sears
jState
Clarence H. Sears
Gnanner
Amma
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Los Angeles
Phoenix
Northfield
Prince Albert
Ripon
Katherine Wescott
Glenway Wescott
Wisconsin
Ripon, Wis
Bandits
WELTY
Ghat
Alabama
Mag. Hill
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