Tax Collection Totals Near One Million Four Hundred Thousand
Chief Deputy Treasurer Walter Wright reports tax collections total about 1.4 million dollars, roughly 70 percent of the current general tax. August 15 is the deadline to pay without penalties, with some districts far below average and risking short funds for the year. He notes January receipts were about 85 percent of the current duplicate and warns of tighter budgets without early economy.
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Walter Wright
Wright
Willys Sees Slowly Restoring Business Tone
Washington July 28 John N Willys head of Willys Overland Company and retiring ambassador to Poland called on President Hoover and predicted a gradual rise in business He said improvement has been seen in the past 30 days and buying remains cautious as people protect themselves while prices trend upward signaling better times.
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Washington
John N. Willys
Willys-Overland Company
Poland
Hoover
Willys
Chicago
Ceer
Grain Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Commission
Canada
Europe
L. A. Downs
Illinois Central Railroad
Sewell L. Avery
Montgomery Ward Co
Great
Bradstreet
Commercial Review
Patrick H. Joyce
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Walther League Increases Budget In Los Angeles
The Walther League of the Lutheran church raised its annual budget from 25150 to 30150 at the convention in Los Angeles July. The increase funds the presidents conference convention expenses and departmental promotion work while urging cooperation to eliminate a 10000 deficit tied to the Lutheran radio hour. The group also recommended incorporation under suitable state laws due to growth and assets. It adopted a pledge to preserve peace among nations and support athletic competition in Olympiad style contests as a model of constructive superiority.
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Los Angeles
Walther League of the Lutheran Church
Ihs
International Executive Board
Lutheran Radio Hour
International Walter League
League
Blast in Atlantic City destroys gymnasium and damages Lyric Theatre
A bomb believed blast in Atlantic City destroyed a gymnasium and set fire to the Lyric theatre and nearby buildings. The downtown area was shaken with shattered windows for blocks and several machines in front of the gym were wrecked. No injuries reported as police and fire crews comb debris.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Lyric Theatre
The Weather Forecast Ohio Thundershowers This Afternoon
Local thundershowers are expected this afternoon or tonight in Ohio with a move to fair and cooler Friday. Highs and timing not provided. Stay alert for localized gusts and brief downpours in the strongest cells. Forecast issued for regional readers.
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Ohio
Believe Auto Theft Ring Broken Up By Capture Of Three Men
An auto theft ring operating between Cleveland and Detroit appears broken up after three men were captured. Kenneth Baumhart and railroad detective L V Jones led the arrests. two fled, one held, later confessions traced the stolen car to Cleveland and the trio were turned over to Cleveland police. Ages 29 35 and 48.
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Cleveland
Detroit
Kenneth Baumhart
Lake Road
Lorain
L. V. Jones
Bauphart
Baumhart
Jones
Baumbart
Adams
Toledo
Threat Of War Admitted By Paraguay
ASUNCION Paraguay July 26 The threat of immediate war between Paraguay and Bolivia over the Gran Chaco was admitted officially in a foreign office statement today. The government said Bolivian troop concentrations indicated an attack on Paraguayan positions and that Paraguay is taking all necessary measures to defend its sovereignty at all costs.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Bolivia
Gran Chaco
Foreign Office
Chaco
Man Struck by Passenger Train in Lancaster Ohio
Ben Jones, 52, of New Straitaville, Ohio, was admitted to City Hospital after being hit by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He suffered a lacerated ear and a bruised chest with only serious injuries avoided.
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Lancaster
Ben Jones
New Straitaville, O
City Hospital
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fine suspended for 18 year old on petit larceny charge
Sam Moore of Mechanic Street, 18, was fined 50 dollars and costs and given 30 days in county jail on a petit larceny charge. The fine was suspended. He was charged with stealing 25 pounds of copper tubing valued at 1 dollar from the Studebaker Garage, arraigned before Mayor W H Van Oster.
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Sam Moore
Mechanic Street
W. H. van Oster
Moore
Studebaker
President Hoover Meets Pomerene Behind RCFC Shakeup
President Hoover held an early morning conference with former Senator Atleen Pomerene appointed this week to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation board. The meeting at the White House included Treasury Secretary Mills as Pomerene prepared to be named chairman within a day.
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Washington
Hoover
Atleen Pomerene
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Pomerene
White House
Treasury Mills
Roosevelt to Speak in Ohio August 20 Campaign Kickoff
Governor Franklin D Roosevelt will open his presidential campaign with an address before the Ohio Democratic state convention in Columbus on August 20. The convention opens August 19 to allow delegates to adopt the state platform and conduct convention business before his arrival.
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Columbus
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Ohio
Henry G. Brunner
Democratic State Executive Committee
Roosevelt
Anti-Saloon League Head for Hoover
Shelby Michigan July 28 President Hoover won endorsement from Dr F Scott McBride head of the Anti Saloon League who praised his enforcement of prohibition as effective and said prohibition cuts across party lines not a party issue Congress backed the 28th Amendment ratification with both major parties evenly divided and no party should bind wet or dry members to a platform.
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Shelby, Mich
Hoover
F. Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
McBride
White House
Congress
Boy Drowns in Pit Near Scioto River
In Columbus Ohio on July 28 10 year old Robert Enis drowned in a gravel pit in the Scioto River after slipping from an inner tube. Eleven year old Robert O Donnell and several older youths nearby swam to help but the body was not recovered immediately.
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Columbus
Robert Enis
Scioto River
Robert O’donnnell
Hitler Calls for United Germany In Berlin Rally
Adolf Hitler spoke to about 160000 supporters at Gar enewald stadium amid rain and torchlight parades urging unity beyond class lines. He blamed past administrations for Germany's woes and warned against disunity while promising peasants clerks and workers would unite to strengthen the nation.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Garenewald Stadium
Hitler
Count Wolf Helbert
Vaterland
Otto Braun
von Papen
Prussia
Thorn In Foot Proves Fatal For Ironton Boy
A year after a thorn pierced his left foot Failien Hall ten of Ironton died in Columbus hospital from anemia after a second operation to remove infected bone. The first operation amputated the leg to the hip on June 26.
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Columbus
Failien Hall
Ironton
Tony
President Pushes Shorter Work Week to Cut Unemployment
President Hoover weighs a national shift to a five day or shorter work week to broaden employment. He will meet with New England officials including Gary and John C. Winant to discuss a plan to boost jobs by 10 percent, potentially opening work to about 3 million unemployed.
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Washington
Hoover
Gary
John C. Winant
New England Conference
New England
White House
Tank Blows Up Near Brecksville Killing Two Men
An accumulation of gas in a 500 gallon tar tank wagon near Brecksville village caused an explosion that killed two county road repair laborers, John Huratt, 35, and Henry Walters, 47. Tar burned Joseph Jelinek, 65, who remained in serious condition.
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Goleveland
Brecksville Village
W. H. Larkman
Brecksville
John Huratt
Henry Walters
Joseph Jelinek
One Seventh Motorists Reckless At Crossings
Washington July 28 observers at 282 grade crossings counted 316,371 cars and 4,130 trains in eight hours. Among motorists 74 percent were careful, 14 percent reckless, 12 percent doubtful. Sixty-seven had narrow escapes and 140 school buses did not stop at crossings.
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Washington
American Railway Association
Walker Responds to Seabury Charges From Seabury
New York July 28 Mayor James J Walker prepares an answer to corruption charges leveled by Samuel Seabury of the State Legislative Investigating Committee. The document is to be sent to Albany this afternoon with secretary Thomas F McAndrew and bodyguard Thomas F OConnor. McAndrew plans to deliver it to Governor Franklin D Roosevelt possibly late today.
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New York
James J. Walker
Samuel Seabury
State Legislative Investigating Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Albany
Thomas F. McAndrew
Thomas F. O’connor
McAndrew
Hosiery Mills Fail To Open In High Point
In High Point North Carolina on July 28 mill owners failed to reopen 24 hosiery mills as only 30 of about 3000 workers who walked out last week returned. Within a half hour the few who entered left again signaling a postponement amid a peaceful scene before an 8000 strong crowd.
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High Point
N. C
Huge gas well on Jackson farm sets Lorain County record
A massive gas well on Sylvia Jackson’s Grafton Road farm near Route 2 produced about 9.0 million cubic feet daily, the second largest in Lorain County history. Drilled by C. A. McMillen interests, the well sits between two existing producers a north 2.0 million on the Egger property and a south 5.0 million by Ohio Fuel Gas. Gas appeared around 9 p.m. and drilling resumed after casing changes with Clinton sand indicating steady output potential.
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Lorain County
Sylvia Jackson
Grafton Road
Route 2
Carlisle Township
C. A. McMillen
McMillen
Clinton
Egger
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Steel and Tues Company
Pomerene Starts New Role With Reconstruction Finance Board
Former Senator Atlee Pomerene arrives at the White House to assume chairmanship of the $3.8 billion Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He notes the seventh board member will be appointed soon and prepares for intensive work with Secretary Mills and other directors. He jokes about having 98 cents and already fielding loan requests.
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Washington
Atlee Pomerene
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
White House
Hoover
Pomerene
Secretary of Treasury
Examinations at Cascade Pool This Week
Cascade pool teachers conduct tests for intermediate advanced and life saver classes today and Friday while beginners take tests Saturday morning. The July schedule has averaged about four hundred attendees per day.
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Cascade Pool
Who Can Do It Who Can Do It Want Ads
Questioning who can fix household faults leads to a call to the want ads. The text suggests repairs for cords sweeping machines sewing machines roofs walls floors and furnaces and prompts readers to turn to want ads for service providers.
Not Represented? Call 4412 4413 For Easy Plan
If your business is not represented, call 4412 4413. We will gladly call and explain our easy plan.
Peace appeals urge Bolivia and Paraguay over Chaco dispute
Five neutral nations including the United States sent notes urging Bolivia and Paraguay to refrain from hostile acts in the Chaco region. Mexico Cuba Uruguay and Colombia joined in seeking a peaceful settlement through their commissioners in the United States as mediators.
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Washington
United States
Bolivia
Paraguay
Chaco
Mexico
Cuba
Uruguay
Columbia
Miners Trapped as Union Pickets mass at Dixie Bee
In Terre Haute Indiana July 28 up leaders say seventeen night shift miners are trapped in the Dixie Bee Coal mine after more than 1000 union pickets converge on the shaft. Sheriff Dreher and ten deputies rush to aid as state efforts to resolve a months long Indiana coal field strife intensify.
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Ulletin
Terre Haute
Ind
Joe Dreher
Neve
Her
Harry Gy Leslie
Indianapolis
Indiana
Bricker Addresses Lorain Bar on Local Government Reform
John W. Bricker Republican nominee for Attorney General spoke to the Lorain County Bar Association at the Lorain Country Club. He warned of centralized industry and government, urged county by county local solutions, and discussed utilities regulation and public finance. The speech followed by remarks from local judges and leaders. A separate item notes James Ickes, 9, fractured his wrist after a fall on home steps and was hospitalized.
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John W. Bricker
Lorain County Bar Association
Lorain Country Club
Bricker
Ohio
Commission
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Hughes
The
Utilities Commission
G. A. Resig
Webber and Thompson
David Aiken
James Ickes
West Street
Memorial Hospital
Hee
Bonus Army mobilizes and clashes near Washington riot scene
Several hundred bonus army veterans surged toward government property in downtown Washington as police and Army reserves prepared behind the repossessed National Guard Armory. Bricks from demolished buildings flew in a chaotic melee near Third Street and Pennsylvania Avenue as Thompson’s 5,000 men moved from Anacostia Flats. Police Chief Glassford led the force, was struck by bricks but uninjured, and the mobilization continued amid growing authorities’ unease.
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Washington
Bonus Army
Treasury
National Guard
Third St
Pennsylvania Ave
Are
Anacostia
George R. Thompson
Anacostia Flats
Thompson
Camp Marks
National Guard Armory
Glassford
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