Ohio General Appropriation Bill Clears House
The General Appropriation Bill carrying over 121.9 million dollars for 1931 and 1932 cleared its first legislative hurdle in Columbus. The House approved 98 to 1 after a long debate, sending the measure to the Senate, with amendments adding about 1 million to education and highway funds and preserving welfare and state hospital allocations amid clashes over withdrawals and proposed cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
House
Senate
Finance Committee
Earle Johnson
Lake County
Director of Agriculture
Jacob D. Woehrle
Girls’ Industrial School
Maumee River
Toledo
Defiance
Hawthornden Farm
Cleveland
Cleveland State Hospital
H. S. Keifer
Springfield
H. A. Baldwin
Medina County
S. K. Mardis
Athens
Mardis
Keifer
Cuyahoga County
State Prohibition Department
Heat Wave Grips Nation. Deaths Reported in Midwest
A summer heat wave sent temperatures above 90 across the western half and reached 99 in Chicago, with Phoenix topping 144 and Amarillo over 100. At least two painter deaths linked to the heat. Crops face stress amid drought-like conditions and slow relief expected. Authorities forecast prolonged heat with limited relief until after tonight.
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Chicago
Atlantic Seaboard
United States
Phoenix
Amarillo
Mercury
L. Shapiro
Benton Harbor
Mich
Henry Brandt
Oak Park
Ill
Shapiro
Brandt
Northwest
Southwest
Midwest
Canton
Dakotas
Minnesota
Manilla
Cairo
Springfield
Jll
Davenport
St. Lewis
Sioux City
Flying Boat Do-X Sets Course From Rio To Brasilia
The Do-X giant German flying boat departed Rio de Janeiro at 5 45 am heading south toward the capital. It spent the prior night in Bahia on its Natal to Rio flight, continuing the long journey.
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Flying Boat
Bahia
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Natal
Rio
Brandenburg Clings to Ledge as Fire Engulfs North Side Flat
Walter H Brandenburg a 40 year old plastering contractor and former school board member clung for 20 minutes to a sixteenth floor window ledge as fire ripped through his exclusive north side Chicago apartment. He was alone his family away in the country he escaped with paralyzed fingers and severe burns to one side describing flames blocking both exits and the bedroom as the only safe room his rescue followed a breath catching struggle through smoke and heat.
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Chicago
Walter H. Brandenburg
North Side
Brandenburz
Notable Escape From Burning Building
A resident describes fleeing a fire by jumping from a window after clinging to a ledge. Flames erupted from the window as the person moved to safety, fingers stiffened and blistered while awaiting arrival of fire engines below.
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Trader Horn
Supreme Screen
Y Ou
New York City
the Lewis Economy Store
City Hardware Co
Broad Street
Horn
Thomas
Elyria
Mansfield
Broad ST
General Electric
West
Ohio Public Service Co
Cities Service Co
Boston
W. Broad Street
Elyria, Ohio
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