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I felephone 500 or 6 FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR MARSHALL EVENtHG CHRONICLE. MARSHALL, MICH. FRIDAY. APRIL 26. 1935 Mai pwcl HOLLYWOOD SCENE STRANGE SENATE VOTE OF FINANCE BILL MONDAY Hopes Upper Body Will Undo Action of House Wheat Vote May Not Be Made Public LANSING, April (UP) Administration forces in the Senate today succeeded in temporarily postponing action on the House amendments to the Fitzgerald director of finance bill when they moved to reprint the measure for consideration Monday night.

A caucus of insurgents was held In the Senate this morning indicating the time that attempt? mlghtjjl made to suspend the rules In the House amendments which practically kill the governor's bill. No motion came however, and Senate action is now definitely postponed until Monday night. Sen. Earl W. Munshaw, R.

Grand Rapids, purported leader the insurgents, declined to revea whether the caucus discussed the finance bill. Sen. D. Hale Brake, Stanton told newspapermen, however, "I wouldn't lie to you and I won't tell the truth." Closeted in the caucus which was held in the otllce of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Heud were Senators Baldwin. Vanderwerp, Mosier, Saur, Munshaw.

Brake, Wood, Pan- born and Cotter. Whereas Senate rule.s require a two- thirds vote of those present to suspend the rules today only a majority will be needed to concur in the amendments Monday night. Result of the referendum vote- to be taken among farmers May 25 to learn whether they desire continuance of the government's wheat control program may not be made public, at least until some time after the vote is polled, according to instructions received at the county extension office this afternoon. I The wheat allotment committee Ls to meet Monday, May 27, and the balloting, and the in- tructions specifically forbid any member from giving publicity to he rewtilts, and instruct the county agent to keep the records under DEDICATE NEW SCHOOL NEXT TUESDAY CONGRESSMEN PRIEST OPEN POLITICAL FIGHT Plan Exercises For Wilder District April 30 Dedintory exercises in behalf ofj the new Wilder school building in Eckford township, constructed Sand pending To'rd Tom replace the bulld.r* destroyed the secretary of agriculture. A two years aso last winter, vul.

series of meetings for the purpose of explaining the general wheat situation in the United States is to be held prior to the referendum date. The meetings will probably not be held in Calhouh county, however, until after the middle of May to Ralph L. Helm, county agricultural agent. GIRL PLEADS IN BEHALF OF KIDNAPERS Miss McElroy Asks Governor to Commute Death Sentence by i fire be held Tuesday evening with the list of speakers including Deland A Davis county school commis- sioncr. and Harley W.

Holmes Marshall school superintendent, it; was announced today The "Little Germ Band" Mm'shall high school, directed Waller Jenvoy. is tn provide music and i.win:', the 1'iri that th; biliUlmu a wurk relief proji-'-t iotticiuls ol the county relief I ministration Irnve been Invited to attend. The masonry work was in elm-go (if Simon Mingle, of shall. The school board consists of L.I IJ. Decker, Robert D.

Price, and S. Brubiiker, while the teacher Mrs. Blanche Smith, of Route Albion, the latter being in charge of the dedicatory program. The which has about pupils, was completed in time classes to be held of bv Mar- Latimer To Receive Full Pardon May 11 LANSING, April A full pardon will be granted to Robert Irving Latimer, 70-year-old Jackson prison inmate, on May 11, the 46th anniversary of his commitment, Governor Fitzgerald said today. The governor yesterday received recommendation for such action from Joseph C.

Armstrong, commissioner of pardons and paroles. Barring some unforeseen development, the pardon will be granted. Latimer was convicted of murder In Jackson and sentenced to life He has been promised lifetime employment by Henry Ford. 1800 PAPER JS OWNED BY MRS. LUEDDERS TWO KILLED IS O'Malley Lsmpke mass meeting in Detrdtl Father Coughlin Connelly Collins lo which 1 persons paid admission, the Rev.

Senate rules requires lay over one day. a bill must OFFICIALS SUMMONED Roosevelt Calls Seven Men on Work Relief Set-Up By RICHARD L. HARKNESS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April President Roosevelt JEFFERSON CITY, April Mary McElroy 27 year old daughter of Kansas City's city manager and victim of the first kidnaper in the United States to be sentenced to death came here today to plead with Gov. Guy B. Park for the life ol her abductor, Walter McGee.

McGee was the leader of four, men who two years ago kidnaped the socially prominent Kansas City girl and held her 29 dnys until the father paid a $30.000 ransom. Miss McElroy, was accompanied by Judge McElroy, who promised to do all he could to obtain commutation of McGee's sentence to life imprisonment. McElroy is the "right hand" of Tom Pendergast, Kansas City political leader whose power extends to the governor's office. Court Affirms Sentence Miss McElroy's plea restored McGee's hope of life after one avenue to a less severe judgment was The Missouri supreme court for in the new 1 structure alter the ChristIII.LS days. The building levelled by I flames two years ayo was one ol the county's olde.st rural schoo's.

Only residents of the school district are expected to attend Tues- I day's program, owing to limited seating capacity. Chairman of the house labor com- rcsi'iit ivc mittrr, Willi-im Connelly of Massachusetts, I William r.ollm.s, reprcst'iiting Aim-rii-an Federation oi Labor. WISCONSIN HAS CAMPUS SCANDAL TOLEDO AUTO APOLITICAL WORKERS MAKE ACTIVITY PILGRIMAGE HOUSE GRANTS UNIVERSITY IS BOILING $3,700,000 Plan to Picket Gener- Preparations for 1936'Also Passes Seven al Motors Building Campaign Being Other Ulster County Gazette Contains Tributes to Washington A newspaper 135 years old, the Ulster County Gazette, published at Kingston, N. is the property of Mrs. H.

A. lAiedders of Mar- whlch consists of a surprisingly good state preservation considering the fact It was printed more than a century ago. originally belonged to Mrs. Luetiders' great grandfather. It Is dated Jan.

4, 1800. The first page is devoted to pro ceedings of the American Congress and dispatches, evidently received by mail, from foreign counties Pages two and three, with thick black borders as column rules, con sists largely of tributes to Georg Washington, who had recentl passed away. Poetic Trflmto Murder, Suicide, Near Fatal Shooting: Occur in Colony HOLLYWOOD, (U.P.) cide and near fatal today provided police one of the most bizarre, teries record in colony 1 The playing of Wharton, 25, wealthy tion picture designer, followed in rapid sion by the shooting, Henry JL3olte, 1 UniverMjTof Calif .11 shall. The paper, four pages, in Charge Involves University Faculty Member and Congressman's Daughter grounds that the of a division in the work-relief set-up. Organization of that unit was the final step before starting dls- tribullon of the $4.000.000.000 reemployment fund.

The President will serve as dr lector-in-chief in spending $11,000,000 a day to create 7000,000 jobs and end direct rellet by July 1. 1936. The President will explain his completed plans Sunday night In the verdict of guilty and the ord proper discloses no Today's audience with the or nor, scheduled for 11:00 a. climaxed campaign Miss McEb-oy's in behalf of her rec- gov- m. long kidnapers.

She visited them in prison, conferred with their relatives and promised that she would work for McGee's sen- In Detroit TOLEDO, April Strikers at Toledo's Chevrolet plant carried their fight to the heart of the nation's automobile industry today. Eight carloads of workers 'Wade "on Half Dozen Fronts By H. O. THOMPSON United Press Staff Correspondent tion Bills Today LANSING, April appropriation bill which will provide the University of Michigan with an annual appropriation of $3,700.000 was passed by the House MADISON. April of improper relations ot iron.

a University of Wisconsin faculty member and the daughter of a former congressman were left by a legislative investigating committee today to simmer on the campus over the week end. Promised revelations of "immoralities" on a faculty yachting party were suppressed last night at a the city at noon, bent on li: hing picket lines in front of the General Motors building in De (Copyright, 1935. By United Press) measure gives left April 26-(UP) addltion8 to the SLIIULIUH Ui litical activity boiled on a half- made available in the general sales dozen fronts today, with Republi- tax act cans preparing an intensive fund- Trie expeditionary force carried move ments springing into life placards telling of the Toledo sit- aroum the Long and Coughlin nation, and copies of "Strike banners Truth," the union's daily bulletin, Huey Long was heading west to Another bill making $1,678,609 raising campaign and independent i available for Michigan State col- The tributes include poem dedicated to "General Washington," with the author being designated Los and the suicide of M. Howard, sought as a iect in Wharton's Police said they learned hat both Wharton Jolte owed ward, a chauffeur, had been ployed to drive the designer's cording to Wharton apparently been reading detective ies before the murder. When police his apartment they two open Shot," by Berkeley, and "The of Judge McFarland, Mary Plum, strewn on floor.

Wharton, former protege only with the line, Lady." "By a Young lege was also passed, the actual grant being $1,478,609 plus the $200,000 in the sales tax. The final appropriation for the tor distribution to Detroiters. raise a Ta iiyi cry around his' Un i ver9 i ty Michigan Is $500,000 The pickets left shortly terfariT share-the-wealth drive Saturday at more than that recommended by Des Moines. The repercussions of lne ways an( means' committee the political outburst of Father tne ac ance being granted by rival of Thomas J. Williams, federal mediator, sent here from Washington in an effort session of the Senate committee attended by more than 1,000 persons, with a promise they will be made public later.

The disappointed audience heard lend it have the strike of 2200 union workers nt, the local assembly plant. Charles E. Coughlin ebbed across, amendme nt this morning. the land. The Republican stalemated.

a commutation of tence. Last Feb. 10 she ran away from howtveTTom a Snefi "The Union demands include a to war time proporti ons. liuvt cvci, i ii'arro minimum. fl, it applications and assign them regular governmental agencies for checking as to cost, the number of needy persons they will employ in their vicinity; their financing and economic feasibility.

composed of 22 federal officials and representatives ot business, organized labor, farm or- eanlaztlons and bankers, then will projects tentatively ap- pro Active Head Roosevelt will receive recommendations from WAB by districts, for his final approval or refusal. Controlling all allotments, he will be admlnistrator-ln- chlef of the whole program. construction will be conducted by existing departments except for three new agencies already announced by the White House. They will be rural re-settlement, grade crossing elimination department, and rural electrification department. progress division will see that all work Is can-led on as speedily as possible, check off federal relief rolls all needy put to work and drive the whole program toward its goal of ending the depression in 14 months.

Those called to the White House were Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, chairman of the new works allotment board; Prank C. Walker, chief of the division of applications and information; Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford G. Tugwell, head of rural re-settlement; Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins; Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Joseph P.

glen- the securities exchange and former Congressman Charles West, administration liaison officer. to Gee. Today she said: "It was my testimony that convicted those men. Their sentences doubtless were just. Kidnaping is a terrible crime and may merit ad night about those men.

I cannot forget death. But I have had nightmares have visited them in pri- to do them. I son. Something drives me this. I cannot let them go.

KIRK CASE IN HANDS OF JURORS Six Verdicts, Carrying Variety of Penalties, Are Possible Large bundle ol old at (he Evening Chronicle far office DKTROrr, April federal court jury here today will decide the fate of James O. Kirk. Battle Creek negro charged with assaulting a young woman on government property at Camp Custer last December. The case will be given to the six men- and six women jurors by the noon recess, according to Assistant S. Attorney William G.

Comb. judge Arthur J. Tuttle Is expected to instruct the Jury on the six possible verdicts they may bring in: Guilty as charged, which would result in a mandatory death penalty; guilty with a recommendation of life imprisonment, guitly of intent to commit the alleged crime. 20 years imprisonment in a federal prison; assault and battery, six two ousted dean of the Milwaukee extension division of the university charges that he was dismissed because he disapproved of relations between Mrs. Doris Berger Welles daughter of former Representative Victor Berger, with Asst.

Professor Frank Hirsley. He said he learned from Mrs Welles' own mother, a regent ot the university, that Hirsley stayed several days in the WeUes home in 1932 while Welles was absent from the city. Honorable" "Mrs came to my office and told me," he added, "that everything was 'perfectly honorable:" He learned later, he said that Mrs. Welles planned to divorce her husband, president of the Milwaukee Teachers' Federation, to marry Hirsley. He blamed his own troubles on the anger of Mrs.

Berger, her daughter and Hirsley because he refused to recommend the instructor for a three year reappoint- menc. Most of the anticipated testimony of unconventional faculty relations was suppressed by presentation in documentary form Included was Snell's account of a houseboat party which he descrlbA as "shocking." He attributed his dismissal Wednesday- to his presentation of the incident to the university regents. I Senator E. F. Brunette said tha document would be held by the committee until it completes its investigation.

The representatives passed seven national com- nlinor expropriation bills anc The -strike here has been under- mittee strengthened its Washington sent em to lhe senate. They call way since April 23. Negotiations to OI an iz a tion in preparation for its for tne following appropriations 'effort to swell Its campaign chest for eacn tne nex two fiscal years: Jackson prison, $1,334,850. Marquette prison, $302,076. Ionia reformatory, $423,450.

Boys Voca. school, $233,300. Girls training school, $124,200. Soldiers home, $206,083. Ypsilantl Normal, Mt.

Pleasant Normal, $210,200. Kalamazoo Normal, $511.000. Marquette Normal, $186,500. Mich, school for deaf, $155,200. Mich, school for blind, $92,495.

State public school. $202,840. The last page consists entirely of advertisements, with one column devoted to sheriff's sales. One announcement is signed by Matys Van Steenberg, who wishes to make known to Gazette readers that he is no longer responsible "for debts contracted by my wife, Hannah." Three advertisements seek the return of catUe which have seen fit to stray. Prisoner Escapes.

JACKSON, April search for Harry MacGregor, 47, inmate of the Michigan state prison, was continued today. MacGregor, who was sentenced from Bliss- fleld last May to serve five years for burglary, was sent to the Dai- ton prison farm to repair a tractor. He was discovered missing Wednesday. at the door of WS nearby. critically 70-cent-an-hour wage minimum, a Democrats, involved in adminis-; five per cent general wage Increase, tration details centering around recognition of seniority rights, tne work-relief program and the abolition of the speed-up system on congressional outlook, counted up-, the assembly recognition.

line, and I More Shooting In Illinois Miners' Warfare Unlon on constructive results toward economic recovery as their best campaign material. Hamilton To Aid Fletcher John D. M. Hamilton, Republican national committeeman, transferred from Kansas to the Washington office, was expected to help Chairman' Henry P. Fletcher in a cam- 111., April paign to build the party coffers for; a campaign year.

Republican leaders expressed out some divergence of views about the Hamilton appointment. SPRINGFIELD, (U bloody Illinois mine union warfare that has claimed some two score lives broke again today. Leader McNary i one said the selection Indicated a desire progressives stoned united, to give representation to the mid- enroute to work in another west, and machine guns were Urges Free Speech Bullets whistled countryside south of here in STOCKS clash; Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg, Michigan, frequently mentioned as months, and not guilty. Kirk stated on direct examination yesterday that third degree methods were used to obtain a con- leslson from him at the Battle Creek police station.

Comb offered as rebuttal witnesses Lieut. Cleon Cramer and Mrs. Vera Avery, of the Battle Creek police, who testified that Kirk confessed of his own free will, and that no coercion was used. Kirk had specifically charged Dale Schumaker and Louis Bartelli, of the Paw Paw state police, as those who beat him to force con- feulon. outburst.

drawn up to protect three mine mn.i>«&«". unto" prisoners in the Springfield a possible Republican presidential candidate, 'said the move "shows The -hooting occurred near that the national committee is giv- Paivi 111' where two truckloads of iny full, fair representation to progressive union miners enroute every school of Republican thot. to Springfield from West Frank-! Long's speech at DesMoines is fort to engage in picketing were expected to be another of his ef- overhauled and fired upon. Truck forts at tires were riddled but none was wounded. United mine workers going to work in the Woodside mine of the Peabody Coal company here this morning were stoned and by pickets but continued their posts.

jeered on to Roosevelt. discrediting President If he can inflame the mid-west against the New Deal he will have accomplished a major part of his purpose of alienating the nation against the Roosevelt administration. John Sweeney, Detroit Capitalist, Sportsman, Dies DETROIT, April eral services for John S. Sweeney, 79, capitalist, sportsman, and former newspaperman, 'were being completed here today. Stricken 111 while vacationing in South Carolina, Sweeney was returned to Charles Godwin Jennings hospital here Sunday.

His condition steadily grew worse, and he died yesterday. ey married Margaret Scripps, a daughter of the late James E. Scripps, founder of the Coldwater Merchant Dies. COLDWATER, April Harold A. Tribolet, 43, prominent merchant and public official died late last night.

A member of the board of public works Tribolet wa chairman of the city Republican committee, a former alderman, and was long active in church and! Rotary affairs. Detroit News. Sweeney 'became active in the Scripps-McRae newspaper league and for many years managed the group. When he retired from business, Sweeney devoted most of his time to riding, golfing and fishing. He was president of the Detroit Golf association.

Secretary Iclm Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes ia snapped speaking at luncheon of Associated Press in New York, urging the safeguarding of freedom of assemblage, NEW YORK, April Silver shares ran Into heavy profit-taking in the afternoon dealings on the stock, exchange today and some early gains ranging to several points were replaced by losses. Selling increased in other sections. Du Pont lost more than 2 points and losses of fractions to a point were sustained by U. S.

Steel, General Motors. Case, Westinghouse Electric, Consolidated Gas, Chrysler, and American Can American Telephone was fractionally higher after receding from 113 1-2 up 1 1-8 and a new high for the year made around noon City Briefs Circuit Judge Elaine W. Hatch yesterday signed a decree granting a divorce to Arthur Perry, of Battle Creek, from his wife, Pern, on grounds of extreme cruelty. John Lett, of Toronto, Canada paid a fine and costs totalling $9.45 when arraigned wday before Justice Norrls J. Bossard on charge of speeding in Michigan avenue.

He was arrested by Police Chief William Vosburgh. Owing to shortage of eight-page paper, it has been necessary to omit several of the regular fea tures from today's edition, including part of the comics, the Bris bane column, etc. have been made to Insure a shipment of paper reaching here by tomorrow, and the comics missed today will be published tomorrow in addition to the regular run. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles E. Larkln of Battle Creek, today in clrcui court started suit against South worth S. Sargeant, of Adrian, ask ing that the latter, who recentU filed petition for writ of assistance in ejecting the Larkins from property to which he recently obtaine title, be compelled, to accept pay ment of $92.58 as the amount yet unpaid in tax obligations that the plaintiffs can retain poa mee Semple McPherspn, found last night-in studio apartment the film colony realaehtfe' JBJjhfc shot three times through He died before he could his slayer. i Leaped Thro Window Search for a man who leaped through the window shortly, iftTttr the shooting and fled hi an automobile was Interrupted was found apartment, wounded. Upon reaching the scene of the second shooting.

police found Howard's body sprawled ojl the floor with a bullet hole thru "the head. Police said Howard answered the description of the suspect who was reported to have fled from ton's apartment murder. A photograph found in the lain designer's rooms was identl-, ed as a likeness of pace said, and an automobifif found utside the apartment in which he ommitted suicide answered the escription of the one which Via een leaving Wharton's apartment ollowing the murder. Investigators were at a when they attempted to assign motive to the murder and suicide and were further baffled When (Concluded on 3) THE WEATHER DETROIT. Mich.

April The weather forecast: Lower cloudy to cloudy tonight and Saturday. possibly showers in extreme jortlon; slightly southeast Weather CondtUttM During the last 24 hours tation has occurred at a of the stations between sisslppl river and the tains and in southern Amounts exceeded 0.25 tnch tlons In Louisiana, braska, Minnesota, the Dakotas. The crest has moved to Ft and another one appears northwest. The principal low pressure is In other in southern were no general changes of importance. The sun sets tonight at 7J rises tomorrow THE High for Low for Temperature.