Red Cross Drive Progress Report in Elyria
Elyria headlines report progress on the Red Cross war fund drive with a $25,000 local quota. The Elyria Chapter targets $20,000, expecting $5,000 from outside areas, led by Mrs. Fred Mahike’s $919 team and strong Western Heights support. Churches join Red Cross Sunday to urge clergy cooperation in the emergency nationwide drive for $50 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Elyria
Dover
Nyu
Fred Mahike
Leo R. Meyer
Karl W. Plocher
Western Heights
Hed Cross
Norman H. Davis
Natonial Red Cross
Davis
National Red Cross
15 Per Cent Salary Withholding Tax Is Now Being Considered
Treasury tax leaders weigh a 15 percent salary withholding tax and cut personal exemptions to 300 for singles and 1000 for married couples to fund a 9 billion war revenue program. Enacted changes would shave about 4 from a 38.50 weekly paycheck for a two earner family earning 2000 annually. No firm proposals yet. recommendations to Ways and Means in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Fox
O.P
Treasury
Congressional
House
Ways and Means Committee
Swerves Car Into Ditch To Avoid Hitting Train
A car owned by J P 354 Furnace Street and driven by Gortze Buch 26 of 93 Widnut Street was slightly damaged at 1:35 a m when the driver steered into a ditch on West River Road to avoid a collision with a freight train on the single track crossing near Route 254. Bush told deputy sheriffs he approached the crossing about four miles an hour and the brake failed. Two roadside stands owned by Charles Mecera on Route 7 west of Avenue were damaged when a car driven by George Barto of Levain failed to make a turn and crashed into them. Damages to the stands were estimated at 73. Closets Froved Feasted glass was planned for a collision on Route SP near Route 1 PM at 12 48 a m today involving cars driven by John Detilhe 32 of RD Ws Amherst and his Nowell of BR 1 1 L Oberli Detilie said he could not see where he was going and that his car got to the wrong side of the road. The left sides of both cars were damaged. The right rear tires tore. A car driven by Mrs Fries Peatley of Cincinnati was damaged yesterday afternoon on Bred Street in a collision with a car driven by Ann Volingki of Elyria Triplet daughters die Youngstown Jan 10 Triplet daughters born Friday night to Mr and Mrs Lewis SObbinsky are dead Pauline died yesterday morning Anna died last night and Cecelia died today
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J.P
Furnace Street
Gortze Buch
Widnut
West River Road
Route 254
Bush
Happ
Charles Mecera
Tia Avenue
George Barto
Levain
Damane
Oberli Detilie Tald
Fries
Mra Fries Peatley
Cincinnati
Bredtreet
Ann Volingki
Elyria
Elyria City Schools Budget Certifies 578,839 for 1932
An estimated 578,859 will be available for defraying Elyria city schools operating expenses in 1932, per the county budget commission. The figure exceeds last year’s by 22,983, with anticipated receipts from real estate taxes at 209,700 and other sources at 267,934, leaving a 21,610 balance. Bond retirement is set at 151,055, of which 82,025 will be raised by taxation. Lorain city schools also received a certificate for 723,500 to cover general operating expenses and bond retirement, with a 75,473 balance at year’s end.
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Elyra City
County Budget Commission
Budget Commission
Texation
Lorain City
la Rain
Rev B H Ryan Seriously Ill In Ohio Home
Rev B H Ryan a longtime Methodist minister in Levain county is reported seriously ill at the home of his daughter Mrs C Trish in Elyria Ohio He had preached in Vickery and served churches in Amherst Lorain county and towns including Avon LaGrange and Fields
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Wey
Ryan
Levain County
C. Trish
Hamiton Avenues
Elytia
Vickery
Ohio
Lorain County
Amherst
Fields
LaGrange
Avon
Ohio Braces as Subzero Chill Persists Across State
Ohio endures near zero to slightly above readings for a sixth straight day. Overnight lows included Toledo six below, Dayton two below, Columbus airport zero, Cincinnati two above, and Cleveland six above as light winds lessen wind chill slightly.
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Ohio
Toledo
Prinus
Dayton
Columbus
Cincinnati
Cleveland
County Budget Funds Certified for General Operations
County Auditor S Kelser announced the county budget commission will certify available funds near the 640 611 figure set in the 1842 budget. The certificate, to be presented to commissioners Monday, will enable prompt appropriation to departments and institutions to cover salaries and obligations. The certification estimates funds for the year plus a carried over balance from 1931 of about 78 000, with 160 060 set aside from the 267 968 sales tax allocation for county use and 187 988 for subdistrict distributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Kelser
Budget Commission
West Malaya Front in Inferno as Forces Clash
Descriptions of a shattered West Malaya front near Kuala Lumpur where British and Japanese troops fight in a tangled, mobile battle. The article portrays a frontless, chaotic clash across a 30 mile wide area bounded by Port Swettenham and Tanjong Malim, with fighting in towns, jungles, and along roads under tropical downpours.
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West Malaya Phont
Dan
West Malaya
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Kualat Lumpur
Malaya
Federated Malay States
Port Swettenham
Jeading
Tanjong Malim
Bryden
Court Suspends Duffy Funeral Attendance at Lorain Court
Court activities suspended Monday morning to allow Municipal Judge William P. Duffy’s funeral attendees from the Lorain bar. Lorain County Bar Association meeting to resume next week. no default judgments Monday. Funeral at St Anthony’s, Lorain. Jane Thompson dies suddenly at 16 after basketball class in Berea Ohio.
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St. Anthony's Ehirdh
GTRL
Cleveland
Jane Thompson
Berea
Diah School
Japanese Drive Continues Across Malaya As British Fall Back
British defenders pull back before intensified Japanese pressure along Kuala Lumpur front. Kuala Lumpur sector abandoned, allowing Japanese forces toward the important rubber city. Aerial efforts by Britain and the United States aim to slow the advance with raids on Japanese bases in north Malaya and southern Thailand.
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Malaya
Singapore
U.P
Kuala Limpur
Tokyo
Lumpur
Thailand
United Press
Harold Guard
Kuala Lumpur
Burma
Malay
Bangkok
Oberlin College Adopts Three Term Plan For 32 Month Degree
Oberlin College announced a three term plan allowing completion of the full degree in 32 months. The program, approved by the executive committee of the board of trustees in Cleveland, will run three 16 week terms yearly instead of the traditional two semesters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberlin
Oberlin College
Cleveland
Ernest H. Wilkins
Three Killed in Army Plane Crash Near Springfield
An Army C45 aircraft crashed near Springfield on a farm one and a half miles north of Brightn Ohio at 040 last night killing three crew members. The men identified were Harold Wolfe 24 Dunkirk. Clayton Head 21 North Adams. George Migling 22 Dayton. Engines fuselage found wreckage scattered. two bodies burned. Local witness Gedert described a bright flash and the plane plunging.
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Springfield
Pittsburels
Patterson Field
Dayton
Joseph Olinger
Brightn
Ohio
Olinger
Wright Field
Joseph Geebert
Brighton Grill
Gedert
Scrap Shortage Cuts Steel Production in Mahoning Valley
Early notices show Mahoning Valley steel plants trimming output to 89 percent of normal next week due to iron and steel scrap shortages. Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Carmegi diingis, and Republic Steel alter operations with two furnaces idle and most open hearths and blast furnaces operating.
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Youngstown
Mahoning Valley Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tubes Company
Carmegiediingis
Republic Steel
Warren
Bessemers
Russians Say Germans Start Surrender As Soviets Press Fronts
Russian war communique claims mass surrender by German troops on the eastern front. Red Star reports reinforcements fleeing west, while Soviet air and ground forces strike across a vast front from Lenin to the Black Sea. Bombing raids disrupt rail lines into Latvia and Lithuania as pilots fly in blizzards to target supply routes.
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Kalinin
Moscow
Hitler
London
Kuibyshev
Russia
Hinev
Red Star
Europe
Tronpe
Lenin
Black Sea
Latvia
Lithuania
Rzhev
Dvie
Leningrad
Crimea
Swere
Tikh
Vin
Chinese Airmen Shoot Down Seven Japanese Planes
Chinese war communique from Changsha front in Hunan Province reports seven Japanese planes shot down and four damaged after a dogfight. Official broadcast recorded in San Francisco by United Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ghungring
United Press
San
Elyrian Joins the Army Air Corps
William Renz son of Mr and Mrs Ray Renz of 342 Karvard Avenue has been accepted by the army air corps He heads to Wichita Falls Texas for training and service entry is announced today.
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Wiliam Renz
Ray Renz
Karvard Avenue
Army Fir Corps
Wr. Renz
Wichite Falls
Texas
Cities Can Spend For Defense
Ohio municipalities may use general revenue funds to finance civilian defense activities. Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert ruled that tax money can pay salaries rent light heat and travel for personnel involved in civilian defense and cover necessary materials for the effort.
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Columbus
Ohio
Atorney
Thomas J. Herbert
Japanese Transports Sighted Off Mindanao in War Buildup
Washington reports massed Japanese transport concentrations off Mindanao as forces gather for a possible mop up of unoccupied islands and an offensive toward the Netherlands East Indies. A strong Japanese base at Davao, 500 miles south of Manila, signals troop and war disposition buildup.
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Washington
U.P
Japan
Philippine
Mindanao
Netherlands East Indies
War Department
Davao
Manila
Tokyo
Islands of Cebu in Philippines target of potential Japanese mop up
Philippine islands lying between Mindanao and Luzon including Cebu, where American communications have been re established, may see Japanese forces deployed in a mop up drive. In Imson and Bataan, MacArthur's forces face imminent offensive with reported cracks in the first American defense lines around Corregidor.
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Philippine
Mindanao
Luzon
Cebu
Imzon
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Corregidor
Manila Bay
Ndt
Tokyo
MacArthur
World War II Fronts and Movements Report
Fronts across Europe Africa and Asia show German surrender hints on the eastern front while Red Army advances along a broad 1100 mile line. Axis forces retreat in Tripolitania as Free French engage. British forces pull back toward Singapore as bombers strike Malay and Thai cities. U S forces report a major attack on Philippine defenders and a freighter loss off the Dutch Indies.
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China
Burma Road
Rangoon
Yadht
Tage
Mrs. Lewis
Sobinsky
Pauline
Anna
Cecelia
Rev
B. H. Ryan
Duffy
Elyrian
Army Air Corps
Itn
Rors
Bakkene
Germany
Goering
Himmler
Tripolitania
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