Plan to Lighten Tax Burden Draft Plan
The House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee began drafting a federal revenue law to ease the tax burden on about 200000 corporations. The plan keeps individual rates. it creates an undistributed profits tax of 16 10-20 percent with deductions and a 29 percent tax on the remaining balance. Small firms up to 25000 annually would be exempt, with a normal 12 1-2 to 14 percent tax on net income above thresholds.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Hig
Little
Fred M. Vinson
D. Ky
Wass and Means Committee
Robert L. Doughton
Wass and Means
Brenet
Reductions In Budget Face Opposition
Washington January 7 Congress resisted President Roosevelt’s budget plan while administration aides predicted gains from $539 million in proposed reductions. Key disputes focused on $200 million cut from highways reclamation irrigation and related items.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Administration
House
Senate
Martin Dies
Tex
Jed Johnson
Okla
House Appropriations Committee
Civilian Conservation Corps
Weather Summary for Ohio and Nearby Areas
Weather outlook shows fair and colder conditions with snow flurries in the northeast tonight. Saturday remains fair with continued cold. Last 24 hours reveals a moving low from Illinois to the Atlantic coast. high pressure dominates western regions. temperatures cooler in plains and Mississippi Valley, warmer along the Atlantic. Precipitation east of the Mississippi includes light lake snow and rain from Hatteras to New York along the coast.
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Ohio
Illinois
Atlantic Coast
New York City
Manitoba
British Corumia
Plains States
Mississippi
Atlantic
Lake Region
Ohio Valley
Hatteras
New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Commissioners Clash Over Harmony in 1988 Board Row
Democratic Commissioners John E. Davidson and Edward DeChant exchanged heated remarks with Republican Oscar G. Dunn for over an hour in a dispute begun after Dunn arrived. They sparred over loyalty, nepotism, and salaries, with accusations of bias and past resignations, ending only as Davidson lit a pipe and Dunn complained of being gas’d.
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John E. Davidson
Edward DeChant
Oscar G. Dunn
Dunn
DeChant
Davidson
Car Crashes Into Pole In Wellington
Martin Cole of Sullivan tried to drive an unfamiliar car and lost control crashing into a Prospect street telephone pole. The car sustained heavy damage while Cole suffered minor bruises and cuts and received treatment at the Falls Clinic.
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Wellington, D
Martin Cole
Sullivan
Prospect Street
Cole
Falls Clinic
Weisman Blames Political System For Recession
Economist Russell Weisman blamed the political system for the recession while addressing Elyria Kiwanis Club at The Graystone Hotel. He argued pump priming only works if continued, cited lack of new capital due to inflation fears, and noted a 26 percent excess profits tax curbing reinvestment, predicting a distant recovery and ongoing stimulus under current administration.
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Russell Weisman
Cleveland Plain Deal
Elyria Kiwanis Club
Graystone Hotel
Ralph E. Young
Cleveland Hotel
Rotary Club
Cameron Back
New York
Beck
New York Stock Exchange Institute
Kiwanis
Former Elyrian Hero Rescues Woman and Child in Blaze
Edgar Forbes Doty of Elyria and Poré New York is praised by firemen and newspapers for rescuing a woman and child from a burning house. Injuries include cuts from breaking a door and the loss of the tip of a finger. he received 11 stitches after the rescue and continues to recover at home. His father, L. E. K. Doty, is superintendent at the National Tube Company plant in Lorain.
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Edgar Forbes Doty
Elyrian
New York
Poré@stills
N. Y
Dots
Elyria High School
L. EK
Doty
East Ninth Street
National Tube Company
Lorain
Flyrian
Beye
Dot
Stamps sales at Elyria Postoffice hit 1937 high mark
Elyrians mailed more last year than ever before, with stamp receipts at the Elyria post office totaling 158 255.04 in 1937, up 6 611.02 from 1936. Money orders rose to 56 103 orders valued at 610 952.06, against 49 023 orders valued at 559 572.79 in 1936, as the fourth quarter led the year.
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Elyrians
Charles J. Sarter
Elyria
Sartor
Post Office
Dynamite blast kills three Gouge children in Tennessee
In Elizabethton Tennessee a dynamite blast at Harmon Gouge home in Hampton killed three Gouge children Loma 9 Luena 7 Roma Jean 6 and critically injured Gouge s wife The blast followed Gouge s confession to murder Arnold Tollett Sheriff J M Moreland said four suspects including Tollett s sister were in custody Gouge 35 fled Johnson City to hospital and is free on a 10900 bond The court case against Gouge and Tollett remains delayed by the February docket and prior court actions
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Harmon Gouge
Arnold Tollett
Gouge
Hampton
J. M. Moreland
Tollett
Loma Gouge
Luena Gouge
Roma Jean
Moreland
Noah Welton
Carte
Mas Tollett
Eee Tollett
Eee Tollett Was Hot and Gouge
Gouse
Green Demands Action To Meet The Recession
Washington reports that President William Green of the American Federation of Labor urged Congress to act immediately to combat the recession. He proposed seven measures including shortening hours via maximum hour rules, maintaining wage levels, extending public works and housing programs, boosting home construction through tax relief, broadening Social Security with unemployment and old-age benefits, and resuming large scale work relief.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor Today
Congress
Green
New Dietitian for Local Hospital Appointment
Elyria Memorial Hospital announced the resignation of Miss Louelya Hoopes as dietitian due to ill health after serving since September. Miss Virginia Webber, from East Cleveland and current assistant dietitian at University Hospitals Cleveland, will succeed Hoopes and start January 17. Webber is a Western Reserve University graduate and completed the University Hospitals dietetics program.
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Louelya Hoopes
Elyria “Memorial Hospital
Frank W. Hoover
Virginia Webber
East Cleveland
University Hospitals
Cleveland
Miss Hoopes
Elyria
Salem
Hoover
Miss Webber
Western Reserve University
Rules On Benefits In Washington January 7
Acting Works Progress Administer Aubrey Williams ruled that persons eligible for unemployment compensation benefits under state laws must automatically leave Works Progress relief rolls.
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Washington
Works Progress
Aubrey Williams
Works Progress Relief
Kennedy Named Ambassador To Britain Transfers Announced
President Roosevelt named Joseph P. Kennedy chairman of the Maritime Commission as ambassador to Great Britain. Joseph E. Davies will become ambassador to Belgium, with Hugh R. Wilson to Berlin and Norman Armour to Chile. Davies formerly chaired the Federal Trade Commission and led wartime cost research.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph P. Kennedy
Maritime Commission
Great Britain
Joseph FE. Davies
Soviet
Russia
Belgium
Hugh R Wilson
Germany
Norman Armour
Canada
Chile
Kennedy
New Deal
Bingham
John Hopkins Hospital
Wilson
Berlin
William E. Dodd
State Department
Davies
Moscow
Federal Trade Commission
Soviet Russia
William ©. Bullitt
Paris
Adams Reports On Foreclosure Sales In 1937
Sheriff’s annual civil division report shows foreclosure sales totaling 1 271 231 dollars in 1937 surpassing 1 569 273 dollars in 1936. Farm acreage average rose 17 dollars per acre. 39 farms covering 1 102 acres sold at 8 762 dollars per acre. Home and other parcels totaled 314 with sale price 511 159 627. Subpenas and summonses counts, transfers to state institutions, Toledo Hospital for the Insane figures, and department costs and mileage are listed.
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William F. Gralls
Claude Adams
Sheriff's Department
Subpernis Ps
Toledo Hospital
Plane Forcibly Lands in Marsh Near Newark Airport
An American Airlines flagship with five passengers forced to land in a marsh near Newark due to heavy fog and poor visibility. All aboard and crew of three escaped unharmed. only the undercarriage damaged. Pilot Usher Roach located the crash site and reported to rescuers.
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Newark
N. J
American Airlines
Chango
Usher Rouch
Roach
Italy To Build Battleships In Response To Britain France
Italy will begin immediately constructing two 35,000 ton battleships, twelve scout ships, and substantial submarines in response to French and British programs. Premier Mussolini announced the plan, noting it follows the four 35,000 ton battleships laid down in 1934 and launched last summer, Lit torio and Vittorio Veneto.
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Rome
Italy
Benito Mussolini
France
Great Britain
Littorio
Vittorio Veneta
War Department requests 259500 for Lorain harbor work
The War Department proposed two appropriations totaling 259500 for Lorain harbor construction and maintenance for the next fiscal year. Deepening the outer harbor would receive 207006, and maintenance at Lorain would get 252500. The plan also notes broader flood control and Ohio port improvements, with budget cuts likely to reduce new work.
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Lorain Harbor
War Department
Congress
Washington Today
Department
Lorain
Ohio River
Ohio
Lake Erie
Fire Department
Rocky River
Cleveland
Fairport
Ashtabula
Conneaut
Put-in-Bay
Sinc
Roosevelt
Army Engineers
Huron
Toledo
Port Clinton
Sandusky
Dunn Plans Resignation From County Board of Public Assistance
Commissioner Oscar G. Dunn announced he will resign from the County Board of Public Assistance, a role he has held since its organization last year. He objects to the county's aid for dependent children policy and says another commissioner should serve in his stead.
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Oscar G. Dunn
County Board of Public Assistance
Dunn
Edsel Ford Explains Sale of Detroit to Pennroad Railroad
Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Co, testified before a Wheeler Senate inquiry that Ford sold the Detroit, Toledo and Trenton Railroad in 1929 because of restrictions imposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The testimony related to the railroad sale to Pennroad Corp and its holding company.
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Washington
Edsel Ford
Ford Motor Co
Senate
Fords
Detroit, Toledo and Trenton
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ford
Burton K. Wheeler
Pennroad Corp. & Holding Company
Huge Fighting Airboat Lost At Sea
SAN DIEGO Calif Jan 7 The disappearance at sea of a huge bombing plane with seven men aboard stirred wartime maneuvers off the coast It was the 7 P 4 fighter airboat engaged in a security patrol A vast search of 150 ships and 200 planes was tried but no trace was found The crew included Lieut T E Carpenter and Cadet Philip Qo Browning The loss follows a previous bomber nose dive into the bay with six dead keeping Navy hopes alive
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San Diego
Cal
Navy
Scott P. Hawkins
T. E. Carpenter
Possumpsic
Philip QO. Browning
Lees Summit
Edgar Anglin
Norfolk
G. A. Mills
Prescott
Mich
Joe D. Adair
Carruthersville
Co. C. Creech
Richland
N. Y
L. Peace
Nebraska Man Is Named Assistant Labor Secretary
Charles B. McLaughlin of Nebraska has been named Assistant Secretary of Labor, succeeding Edward F. McGrady who resigned. The appointment follows McGrady’s role as mediator in major strikes under the New Deal, with McLaughlin a railroad labor leader tied to independent unions. George A Cook of Illinois was nominated to the National Mediation Board for a term ending February 1, 1939.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Charles B. McLaughlin
Nebraska
Edward F. McGrady
George A Cook
Illinois
National Mediation Board
Labor
McGrady
Radio Corporation of America
John R. Steelman
Department
Conciliation Service
McLaughlin
A. F. of L
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Woman Found Slain Along Detroit Highway
The body of an unidentified about twenty five year old blonde woman was found along a west Detroit highway. She had been strangled with a lace from her dress and struck on the head. The slaying remains under investigation.
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Detroit
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James F. By
Acme Tele
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Knudsen
Harry L. Shaw
Shaw
John Davidson
Sheriff’s Department
Sheriff's Office
Wellington
Weisman
Adams
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