Eight Devices to Escape Taxes Revealed by Helpering
Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy Helvering outlined eight devices used to dodge federal taxes at a congressional hearing. He cited personal holding companies and noted Cecil B. DeMille’s involvement while saying courts deemed his methods legal. Magill warned wealthy taxpayers exploited loopholes to split income into multiple entities to lower taxes.
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Washington
Guy Z. Helpering
Congressional Tax Inquiry
Paraoval
House Senate
The
Treasury
Helvering
Cecil B. DeMille
DeMille
Roswell Magill
Magill
Congressional Committee
Cleaned Portrait Gallery Brings New Light to Lorain Sheriff Hall
Lorain County displays 36 former sheriffs in a large frame, cleaned and rearranged by Deputy Sheriff Claude Adams, amateur photographer in charge of civil work. The frame includes all sheriffs since 1524, plus the late Clarence Adams, father of Claude, among the faces looking down on attorneys, criminals, deputies, and visitors.
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Lorain County
Claude Adams
Adams
Clarence Adams
Claude
Cleveland Man Faces Income Tax Charge
Adrian Ettinger a 43 year old once known as the Boy Wonder of the Cleveland Stock Exchange was to be arraigned before Federal Judge Samuel H West on charges of defrauding the government of 1250000 in income tax He allegedly evaded taxes from 1930 to 1933 with an indictment by the federal grand jury The government cited evaded tax payments totaling 545440 plus penalties and interest exceeding 1 million Ettinger opponents and his counsel Marc Grossman said he would fight the charges Everett L Foote assisted U S attorney led the prosecution and the government rejected a compromise offer
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Cleveland, O
Adrian Ettinger
Boy Wonder
Cleveland Stock Exchange
Samuel H. West
Ettinger
New York Stock Exchange
Everett L. Foote
U. S
Marc Grossman
Hitler Masses Fleet Near Spain's Coast
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler massed his war fleet within striking distance of the Spanish coast as he conferred with Joach Von Ribbenstramot, London envoy, on the crisis in the Spanish civil war. German and Italian officials hinted at a joint plan of action should further Loyalist attacks occur, stating any German move would be defensive and that fleets are ready in Spanish waters to back policies.
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Berlin
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Joach von Ribbentrop
London
Leipzig
Germany
Italy
Buried Someone Else's Dog
Clarence Kruth of South Amherst was puzzled when Medina County Dog Warden Lee Minkler returned his dog, thought buried last November, after the other dog killed by a car near his home was identified by 1936 Lorain County license on the recovered animal.
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Clarence Kruth
South Amherst
Lee Minkler
Kruth
Minkler
Medina County
Lorain County
Fruit thinning underway in Lorain County orchards
Lorain County fruit thinning is progressing after a profuse bloom and spring warmth reduced frost risk. County agent C. Hummel notes heavy thinning needed to improve size and quality, with Baldwin apples needing caution to avoid corky spots. Early apples should thin soon, fall and winter varieties after fruit drop. Prospects look good for meat fruits but warn against increased scab and fireblight from heavy rains. Second cover spray advisable this week using lime sulfur to combat scab.
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Lorain County
Hummel
Visit Green House Feature At Lorain County Four-H Club Meet
A tour of Heinrich greenhouses in Columbia township was highlighted at the Lorain County Senior Four-H Club meeting last night. Club members heard about greenhouse operation challenges and the water and heating systems during the session following a business meeting at Julian Perkins's home. In a separate note from Saint Joseph Missouri dated June 24, Robert McGausher tried to escape a blazing car after it caught fire, abandoning the vehicle.
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Heinrich Greenhouses
Columbia Township
Lorain County
St, Joseph, Mo
Robert McGausher
War on Rodents Declared in Elyria by Outsider
B L Strawnburg of Hagere Maryland arrived to plan a campaign against rats mice termites and roaches in Elyria. The drive was approved by J D Faxon safety service director and Harry W Luethi Elyria Chamber secretary. He will base at the Elyria police station and begin in Lorain next, teaching building workers to continue the work.
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Elyria
B. L. Strawnburg
Hageretown
Maryland
J. D. Faxon
Harry W. Luethi
Lorain
Death Records Highlight Local Obituaries and Survivors
The notice reports the deaths of Louise Perkins Wellington, 47, in Oberlin. Joseph Montz of North Ridgeville. and Orrin Lakely Somers, 76, of Elyria Memorial Hospital. It lists survivors, funeral times, and burial sites, noting perished’s ages, family ties, and memorial arrangements across Brighton Township, North Ridgeville, and Elyria.
Potato Growers May Go To Michigan
Lorain County potato committee discussed a possible trip to Michigan for local growers to study potato farming. Members noted overall good growth with some overwatered by recent rains. Most late plantings are not yet in the field, and Agent C S Hummel said heavy rains likely would have rotted early plantings if completed before the rains.
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Michigan
Lorain County
Two Auto Crashes Reported In City Police Records
Traffic incidents list two minor collisions yesterday on city streets. Martin Lee at 209 George Street reported his car was struck about 8 10 p m near Lake Avenue and Lodi Street by a track. Charles Stewart of 2177 East 74th Street Cleveland said his auto was hit by another vehicle at Broad and Cedar Streets about 11 30 p m and he gave the other car's number to police. After years away, American buyers attended this year's Spring Fair at Leipzig in Germany.
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IWO
Martin Lee
George Street
Lake Avenue
Lodi Street
Poker
Charles Stewart
East 74Th Street
Cleveland
Broad and
Cedar Streets
Oberlin Community Notes Reflect Guild Picnic and Local Events
Oberlin news reports the Methodist Service Guild annual picnic and business meeting at Vermilion-on-the-Lake with about twenty-five members, officers elected for the coming year, and six Oberlin youths attending the Congregational state conference at Linwood Beach Park. Also listed are a Democratic Women's Club picnic, Buckeye Boys' State participation, and various local notices including fish fries, travel, and family events.
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Oberlin
Methodist Service Guild
Morgan Cottage
Vermilion-on-the-Lake
Treasdent
Hazel Worcester
Norman Smith
Eva Smith
Congregational
Linwood Beach Park
Ohio
Mary Beth Hartson
Helen Morse
Mary Alice Webber
Lucille Portman
Ward Worcester
Jarvis Strong, Jr
Fostoria Mayor Refuses to Back Stop for Strike Returning Workers
FOSTORIA June 24. Mayor Frank Culp said he would not voluntarily supply police protection to reopen the Electric Auto-Lite Co foundry after a strike. About 200 pickets awaited access as 25 Toledo reinforcements returned when the back-to-work plan was postponed. Police and deputies were sworn in but would act only if ordered by the mayor.
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Fostoria
Frank Culp
Electric Auto-Lite Co
Foundry Workers’ Union
United Automobile Workers
J.M. Walsh
Verne F. Deats
Culp
Robert O'Donnell
Toledo
UAW
Truthful arrest and fortune telling at Tucson license bureau
In Tucson Mrs. F E Shoemaker was arrested for not having a license after telling City License Inspector J D McAllister her fortune predicting someone in law. McAllister joked and confirmed the arrest. In Pontiac Dr Morrell Mallory Jones invited 2,900 birth-day assistants to a party with 1,000 expected attendees and plans to photograph the event for his memories.
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Tucson
Ariz
F. E. Shoemaker
J. D. McAllister
McAllister
Pontiac
Mich
Fire in Tree at Warmon Field Ends Without Damage
A fire started by matches burned a hole in the center of a large tree at the north end of Warmon Field on East River street. Elyria Iremen blamed for the blaze. fire crews took 54 minutes to extinguish it, but the flames were confined to the tree and caused no property damage.
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Elyria Iremen
Warmon Field
East River Street
Sixty Couples to Marry Free at Izmir International Fair
A mass ceremony at the Izmir International Fair in Turkey will wed sixty couples free of charge this summer. After the vows, the couples will receive a complimentary wedding breakfast and a free honeymoon package.
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Izmir
Turkey
Divorces and a pavement injury case fill Lorain court docket
Rita M. Paradis won a divorce from George Paradis for wilful absence. Frances Mercurio divorced Phillip Mercurio for neglect. Coliella Kolbe granted two divorces from Steve Kolbe for cruelty and neglect. A jury awarded Dorathy Postle 550 in a sidewalk injury suit against the Village of Grafton for a Cleveland Street hole. Pension volunteers eyed a suspension of pensions, under advisement by Judge Huston. Eva Collier’s divorce petition was dismissed after a 37 year marriage amid charges of neglect and cruelty. Sophia Kargnich divorced John Karganich on cruelty grounds. Mona Bennett Hasenau was granted a divorce from Martin Hasenau.
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Rita M. Paradis
George Paradis
D. A. Cook
Frances Mercurio
Phillip Mercurio
Guy B. Findley
Coliella Kolbe
Steve Kolbe
Village of
Grafton
Dorothy Postle
Cleveland Street
Lorain Fire Department
Common Pleas
C. H. Huston
Firemen’s Pension Board
Eva Collier
Elyria
Warren Collier
Sophia Kargnich
John Karganich
Lorain
Asaph R. Jones In Contest For Mayor
Asaph R. Jones former three term mayor of Elyria is a mayoral candidate with experience as Fourth Ward councilman He helped elevate New York Central tracks and led wartime city programs His background includes business real estate chamber of commerce Florida NRA compliance Kiwanis leadership and a long Elyria residence with wife Edith Day and five children.
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Asaph BR. Jones
Asaph KR. Jones
Elyria
Jones
Fourth Ward
New York Central
Lake Erie
Johnstown
Johnstown Steel Company
Lorain
Plent
National Tube Company
Chamber of Commerce
Bradenton
Fla
Edith M. Day
West Avenue
Village Children Form Largest Harmonica Band
In Mount Calvary Wisconsin the nations largest harmonica band of 122 village school children rehearses daily for a series of public concerts. Dressed in blue and gold capes the group played its first concert in Fond du Lac. Organized eight months ago by Fred David as a WPA project the band includes children from third grade up and plans further performances after a popular program of classical, old favorites and patriotic airs.
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Mount Calvary
Wis
Fond du Lac
Fred David
David
Jury hears suit over dog bite injuries in LaPorte case
Jurors in Judge D A Cook's court heard testimony in a suit filed by Dorothy Pearce 18 of LaGrange against Arthur Diedrick et al of LaPorte for 3000 dollars. Pearce says she was bitten on the elbow by a large dog owned by the defendants as she was about to enter a car in front of the defendants' house last August 3.
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D. A. Cook
Dorothy Pearce
LaGrange
Arthur Diedrick Et al
LaPorte
Cleveland Markets Show Live Poultry and Cattle Rates Narrow
Market report from Cleveland lists live poultry receipts and prices for hens, broilers, turkeys, ducks, and other fowl with color notes. Cattle receipts steady to slow with steers and butchers’ cattle priced, plus sheep and lamb values and early hog figures. Grain and feed quotations follow, including oats, corn, wheat, flour, and hay by various units, with Toledo and Chicago quotations interspersed.
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Tin Sheets Elevator Co
Montana Milling Co
Ceri
Chicago
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth
Corted States Department of Agriculture
United States
Culligenia White Hose
U. S
Caroina Cobblers
Aklshoma Cobblers
Arksnsas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Adpalerni U. & 4
Gas Co Appeals From Springfield Rate Ordinance
Otic Fuel Gas Co. appeals to the State Public Utilities Commission against a Springfield ordinance of April 26, 1937, fixing a 48 cent gas rate for natural gas from June 1, 1907, to Sept. 1, 1937, arguing the city lacked authority for a rate under two years and that the rate is unjust and inadequate to fairly compensate service.
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Columbus, C
Otic Fuel Gas Co
State Public Utilities Commission
City Commission of
Springfield
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Hitler
Spain
Green House
G. J. O'Connor Thone
Louise Perkins
Wellington
Erwin Perkins
Brighton Township
Allen Hospital
Glenn
Roy
Margaret
Ronald
John Hackers
Brighton M. EB
Patrick
Greenwood Cemetery
Joseph Moltz
Joseph Montz
North Ridgeville
St. Peter's Church
St. Peter's Cemetery
Mary Francesco
Notre Dame
Orrin Lakely Somers
Wooster Street
Memorial Hospital
Taylor Funeral Home
Will J. Foster
Church of Christ
Brookdale Cemetery
Somers
Chardon
Lyman Somers
Loisa Somers
Belle-Vernon
Willoughby
Garford Manufacturing Company
Laura F. Somers
Howard B. Somers
Adelbert Somers
Homer Somers
Gates Mills
Harriet Smith
Howard B. Somers, Jr
O'Donnell Paint & Wall Paper Co
Esther Wood
Professor St
Guild
Oberlin Democratic Women’s Club
Margaret Utterback
Morgan Street
Ernie Worcester
College Place
Coffey
Thomas Wood
Dudley A. Wood
Eaat College Atreet
Columbus
Buckeye
Department of Ohio
American Lexion
Royal Arch Masons
Harry Morgan
Vermillon - On-The- Lake
Harold Papworth
Union Street
New Hampshire
Maurice Kessler
Fleurette
Gaspe Peninsula
Barry Weber
Spring Street
Wisconsin
John R. Kirwan
Bratrot
United Press
Bluebird
Mona Bennett Hasenau
Etting Wan
Martin Hasenau
Asaph R. Jones
Guy B. Finchey
Mona Bennett
Elsrna
Cad AY
Ayers
New York
Fayria
Sandy
Ave Pte
Telede
Leghurst
Brullern
Amull
Ligherm & Pounuds
Leghorn
Ublokens
Win
No. T
Young & Pounds
Plutem
North Caroline
Loulalana Keds
Eulou
Osu
Lacelpta
Nba
Toledo Ghats
Neakroay
Nee
Wwe
Uakrots
Caullelower
Wxtra
Fancy Toye
Fancy
Fcaberg
Boston
Musulrooms
Murbach
E. F. Whitney & Son
Broad Street
China Shop
MR. Weis
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