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'f THE EVENING CHRONICLE, MARSHJaJirrRniAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937 PRICE THREE THREE DEAD IS BUN BATTLE DEATH TOLL NEK NOTES By UNITED PRESS OLIVET, Feb. (U.PJ— In cordance with a ruling suggested to tbfe inter-sorority council, 21 rnenjbers of Olivet college fraternities and sororities today were suspended active membership In their organizations for scholastic deficiencies. To continue member 'minimum scholastic requirements must be met. GRAND RAPIDS, Feb. Rapids' most outstanding citizen will be selected soon for an award, it was announced today by the Junior Association of Commerce, sponsoring the selection Candidates must be less than 35 years old and must have performed meritorious service to the city in 1936.

A- citizens' committee will aid Commerce Association members Sn the selection PORT HURON, Feb. Eastern St. Clair county today dug out of eight inches of snow deposited last night by a sweeping bMzzard. The storm was local In character, and was the first heavy (Snowfall of the season. The temperature dropped to 10 degrees.

Farnsworth Given 4 to 12 Years WASHINGTON, Feb. John S. Farnsworth, former U. S. naval officer, was sentenced by Justice James' M.

Proctor today to not less than four and not moje than twelve years in prison for conspiracy to communicate American naval information to Japan. Sentence was passed after the I RETIREMENT ACT PASSED BY SENATE NAMED TO MICHIG former navy lieutenant command-1 0 til HOUS6S Now Provided fo Justices to Retire At 70 er failed In his eleventh hour attempt to prevent sentencing thru a motion for arrest of judgment. I Withdraws Motion His attorney, Richard i withdrew the motion when court! convened today. It was made after Federal Court Justice James M. RV JOE ALEX MORRIS Farnsworth's United Press Staff Correspondent.

permitted to! WASHINGTON. Feb. Proctor overruled request that he be change an original plea to one of senate, acting shortly after he would make a fireside address to nolo i the nation March 9, today quickly "not guilty" and stand trial on the President Roosevelt announced charges Farnsworth first pleaded contendere" thereby, in effect, ad-1 passed a house-approved bill pro- mlttlng the truth of the govern- viding for voluntary retirement on I menfs charges altho- not techni- full pay of supreme court justices) cally pleading guilty. He asked' reaching the age of 70. I permission to change the plea to! The vote on passage of the re- not guilty on the ground that he was subjected to "heavy pressure" I Voting against because he consented to make the Bridges, nolo contendere plea.

HAMTRAMCK, Feb. Hamtramck. will vote April 6 on a proposal to place 300 employes under civil service regulations, the city- council decided last night. MT- CLEMENS, Feb. Probate Judge Ray H.

Callens seeking an annual salary of $4,700 Instead of the $3,700 set by the board- of supervisors, yesterday won the first step in his battle when Judge James E. Spier issued an order to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not be issued, xdirecting County Treasurer Carl Bradenburg to pay Judge Callens a monthly salary of $391.66. Brandenburg will appear Monday. U7DINOTON, Feb. Louis, Swanson, 75.

former lumber inspector and resident ttot 80 years, died of a heart tack yesterday. VILLAGE COPS ARREST NO. 1 'PUBLIC RAF tirement bill was 76 to 4. i were H. Styles William J.

Bulow, S. Hiram W. Jchnson. Rep. and A.

Harry Moore, N. J. The senate acted quickly on the bill which now goes to the White House for President Roosevelt's signature. May Afford Compromise By some congressional leaders the 'voluntary retirement measure was regarded as affording a possi-- Joel K. Moore, supervising pro AND HUSBAND FOR BIGAMY Lansing Man Arrested After I Auto Accident Orvlllc Miller, 34.

an employe of the Olds Motor Works. Lansing. was arrested by Officers Gilbert Marple and Willard Purcell early last night after his automobile struck the triangle at the north side of Wast End park I WO MICHIGAN CONVICTS OfflGER i i in Jail After Dropping Rubinoff Suit Tlie car was badly wrecked, of-, 01. nll jo Prtlippmftri 7crs said Miller was taken to Ihe rOHCeiimjl NEW YORK, Feb. (l lo pay a fine and casts amount- Life had many complications lo-' ing lo or spend 90 days in day for Peggy Garcia, the Vir inia His operator's license sus- county Jail to await court action, SuCCUTTlbS Today Arraigned this morning before Justice Carrcll Scott on a charRO tCT Escaped PriSOU" of driving while intoxicated, Mil-' Tr'll lor plcndod guilty and wa.s direct- 61'S Al'6 Killed born blonde who tliot the love she pendcd for a period of one year IQ i ST.

LOUIS. Feb. Serg. Thomas Sullivan, 45, City i detective, died at Firmin Dialogs Miner tu oe uuiv vg muni- gave violinist David RubinofT was! thc necessary payment some time hospltal today third victim. rf, Wntt-ln Vvstf tirAAn nAltSIM worth $500,000.

today. A plaintiff yesterday, she awoke today to find herself a defendant; in bigamy action brought by a i frail, nervous woman who informed authorities that she married Miss Garcla's husband years before the southern beauty ever heard ol him. "What we both need is a drink," gun battle between police escaped convicts from the Senior Class Play A Riot of Laughter State penitentiary at Jackson Rusch, 19, Flint, and Mott, 19, Detroit. ST. LOUIS.

Feb. Alvin Mott, 18, died in Oity hospital last night of gunshot wounds inflicted by police after Raymond An absent-minded father, a denf Rusch, 19, one of his companions id rather distracted but beautiful a sensational escape from Miqh- i igan state prison, had been shet said Miss Garcia, sadly, as she! mother, three very elislb.e daugh- kmed ln gun detectives. The two escaped seven days- ago with Joseph Scone, 26, by means of a crude ladder with which they TT 1 i me icuicmc-i Merle andenbusniR 0 osev its and Companion Taken After Bank Robbery officer for all U. S. bie method of compromise in the district courts since 1923, is the new warden of the South- dispute over Mr.

Roosevelt's com-j ern Michigan penitentiary at Jackson. Moore was named, by Murphy as his "New Deal" appointments. He succeeds Warden Harry Jackson. Moore attended Albion college and was once a member of and Michael LaRocca were being fl prospective son-in-law, whc photographed and fingerprinted at wns convinced he was a klepto- police headquarters. m.uimc.

crook and hl.s But what he got a cUbe7 wall ln iiice sergeant his three patrol- Mich They were cornered in a Her arrest came after Mrs. Kath- MllHl1 hotcl they had men plain-clothes deteclive. leen Murray LaRocca told police m( sl lUgnltted yman. a high- ten-d JUK er narnes prehensive judicial proposals. They pointed out that should one or more justices take advantage of the retirement act pressure for Mr.

that LaKocca was her the father of her three She introduced two boys, ten and' nt four, and a girl, five. pressure business man, and efficient chauffeur, mtuli Rusch wa.s killed instantly with a bullet Ihru the heart after. i bandit voutlM had wounded- a cast of 17 people who capab- up ly presented the play. I Thief," which kept a large tcctlve SerReant Thomas Sullivan audi- ancl Delccl vc Raymond Roesster. WHITE PLAINS, N.

Feb. 26. Vandenbush, Wisconsin and Michigan "bad man," faced Me term in a federal prison the Lind- program probably would be relaxed. The measure was passed after a flurry of debate in which Senators Hiram Johnson, Calif, and Edward Burke, Nebr. charged that the measure was being used as "bait" to obtain the retirement oi justices and thus make President Roosevelt's judiciary program unnecessary.

Albion college factulty. Officials said Miss Oarcia knew Mott in a car but ot lI1Ll ui 6 rirnL'n hv nnlirft iw.a POLICE FUMY FORCFJIT AT WAUKEGAN 1 LaRocca was married at the time she married him and therefore she went thru a ceremony with 1 him, was culpable. Neither One Upset two hours ut the high school clitorium last It was the senior play and the efficient training of the ca-st wa.s shot down later by police car The bullet hit him I below the eye and he died a few hours later. Detective's Condition Critical Har-! Mrs. Bess Murray was Indicated critical lold Hastings said he would pre-j th flnlshed a lion.

He was shot thru the chfet the double bigamy case before I and abdomen when the youth Miss 1 star.s in a home talent play is Hives answered a knock on their a grand Jury today while misa Oarcia and LaJlocca appear in the'; hotel door with a volley of Man Killed at Charlotte When Auto Crashes CHARLOTTE, Feb. James Armstrong, 46, of Flint, was killed instantly and his brother John, 40, seriously injured early today when their automobile car- a'rr'ested eened off the highway and crashed into a house on the western limits of Charlotte. It was brtievcd that James Armstrong, thc driver, lost control of the machine as it rounded a curve. The automobile ran up a three fdot embankment and plunged into the unoccupied home of Floyd 'f Wilson. Windows Broken in House So great was the force of the crash that chimney bricks were loosened and windows in the house today tor violation of bergh kidnaping law: O-men announced they would seek his removal to New Jersey where he is under indictment for jthe kidnaping of State Trooper William A.

Tumbull last Nov. 11. His pal, Harry Brunette, who escaped with him from a prison farm at London, last July, now is serving a life sentence for his part in the kidnaping. Had Robbed Bank Three village policemen, unaware of the importance of their "catch," Vandenbush dubbed CONFERENCE REACHES ITS LAST POINT to By WILLIAM II. LAWRENCE shells among them, attempted United Staff Correspondent masks whloh re06rtedly WAUKEOAN, 111., Feb.

ere smU i ed Jn to em with their food several days ago. There enough to go around and wrt handkerchiefs castor oil "Public Rat No. 1" by G-men, and two companions less than a hall hour after they had seized more than $17,600 from the Northern Westchester bank of Katonali. N. Y.

An alarm was broadcast immediately. Three of the four police- men comprising the force in Armonk, famous Gretna Green of New York state, stationed themselves on a highway and halted all Of mum Wage Rates Held at G. M. Union Meeting BV JAMES C. AUSTIN DETROIT.

Feb. 26. (U.P.) General Motors and mobile Workers conferees consifl- ered the last six union demands in Sit-down strikers Fansteel Meta'lurgical today und3r a barrage of and knockout gas bombs hurled by 60 sheriff's deputies. For more than an hour the at- lackers, enforcing two court orders previously defied by the sit-down- ci.s. pom gas into lhe two occupied buildings from a constructed "gas gun tower" M.

If! 1-'mounted on a company truck Thc truck drove rp to the buildings and the barrel of a tea gas Him was ihruit from a slit. Gas pi commi-nced pouring lapld-fire through the broken windows upon the strikers, many of whom were taken by surprise. The windows were shatlered in the successful tear gas attack which ih strikers wilhslood for two United Anto- houj ail priday. line-up at police headquarters. Neither appeared greatly upset.

"No woman in this world is legally married to me except Peggy" LaRocca said. "Altho I did get in a mess with this other woman, it i means nothing legally." MLss Oarcia saw her prospects Roefiglcr shot brickbats in the general direction) of the newspaper, so the attempt iWill not be made. "Stop Thief" is a farce comedy with so manvl famny jewels, wedding presents and securities, to say nouung o. slolcn car he and Ruflch hw Mrs. carr's ear trumpet disap- ed at the curb He was and reappearing, first in rftdlo managed to fire his gun.

He shot Rusch thru the heart. Mott, (he cast mid then in thnt of anon their nev; in fighting gas which aught to the strikers by union leaders There was a bitter for an hour. Tlie strikers hurled pulley wheels and metal fragments used in manufacture of vital automobile parts from the windows. Streams of mild acid from fire extinguishers were sprayer upon the heads and shoulders of at- A policeman hurried along the battle line with a thermos bottle full of acid counteractant. which he.

smeared on the burned faces and necks of deputies Gradually the fire from inside on rv Lft 4 WH for a theatrical career endangered 1 le of one member ol, detcctlvea on their way to A Broadway agent had informed! her that he'd already obtained' thirty weeks' booking for her as a other unlil all Ihe actors in play, with the exception of the thc' result of the publicity she received and his ,1 1 ,1 .1 during her breach of promise ac- didn't right'y know whether they i scene of the shooting. Police found the escaped convicts when they acted on a tip that who staged seven beries here Wednesday night were The (Concluded on Page 2, Column B) ition against RubinofT. were afoot on horseback. The at the The RubinofT suit was dismissed cause of ll a Wtts llnsl x1 Can't Find Scofle at Miss Garcia's request. She had of Mr.

Carr. played Th(J youths at the had enough, said. Mart lhe mald Ne play The woman who called herelf ed Marlon Tadman. who was Mrs. LaRocca said that she and aided an Uie lhlef 'LaRocca got their license to wed Do )la by Giroux in 1926-lhc same year in which and bridegroom.

I Miss Garcia became a child bride 1 1 who wa convinced he was in Roanoke, that no cer- kleptomaniac, played by Jumeo until after Moses; Doctor Willoughby, pluyed MORTUARY Mrs. Minnie L. Marsh Mrs. Minnie L. Marsh by Jack Cruig.

had a hand in con- at 6:45 clock th morn ing didn't want the Mncing Cluney that he wa.s at her home. 610 east I published In the Catholic church, kleptomaniac, and from the first strcet fo owing a i ong pericST Of cars. They had questioned thc oc- tneir post-strike settlement negoti- cupants of about 40 cars when a atlons loday a lcr labor troubles in I the first barrage one man' djmjnished Tfte slrlkers started of which they were adherents jumped from a second story win- dlsappeurunce of a wedding pres ill health. dow und stasgered away small coupe driven by a sleek. wo tnc corporation's subsidi- injured nun was removed flashily dressed camejn sight.

ary p)anls had dlsrupted thc rcgu to Hayes-Green hospital here where his condition was said to be serious. Police reported that with the brothers in the car were two canaries and a monkey. One of the birds was killed and the monkey received a "black eye," police Mr. Farm Owner If you have a farm for rent, the easiest, quickest and most inexpensive way to get a good tenant is through the lassified Section of The Chronicle. This ad ran three times and the farm was rented: FOR acre farm.

Montie Chisholm, l'-j miles east on Duck Lake road. Tel. 7145 Fll. MARSHALL CHRONICLE Nearly Gave Up "For a time it looked like we had lost." said a Fansteel "W-e poured gas into the building and I don'l know how lhe llnnt 1 atlon stood up. Finally just wher ll ll we were about ready to give up they commenced pouring out of the building lhe conference session, they had More lhan IQQ sU lkers had Antl-OniOn Breath 'shelved settlement talks to cohsidei pd peb U) i wcv rk i.

1 shutdown Of Lhe Fisher dy i their demand for collective bar- Man Out Ot Job and Chevrolet plants at ftn( recognlllon Ul lr wls elosed the Corporation union Amalgitmaled Iron leel NEW YORK. Feb. ler 20 workers had struck protest-, Tm Worlcers wn ich is an affiliate Patrolman W. Gerald Hcndricks lar course discussion, stepped into the path of the car Wlln lne pro bi of the 30 hour and motioned the driver to halt. work week disposed Thc man evasive." Hend- labled for lhc Umc ricks said later, and posed as a lors lumwl lo informal discussion (Concluded ou Page 3, Column Cl of waRe rates.

Earlier in 1 had retreat. The knockout gas proved loo much for them. Many were, sickened and staggered us they' lied irom thc building through 10-loot gap in the fence which i been cut. by thc deputies HI ol the slrlkers' re- Gov. Horner Commutes Woman's Death Sentence ent unlil lhe curtain fell on the i Mrs Marsh was bo ln i third act, the Carr residence re-' ja towns 7-, ipi Peb U) 1 5fli 'scmblcd a filled with just passed her KV91 my, irrational people ml) estone.

She had spent Jean Carr und h-L-r Maters, Caro-, ner enUre Hfe ln line and Madge, who was the husband Samuel Marsh. bride-to-be, played by Valeria era yearg ago Stelpflug. Verna SharpMeen und urv jving relatives CHICAGO. February 26. Gets Money Post YORK.

onion anti-defamalion has worked itself out of job Thc committee wa.s formed la.st September to sec what could be done to promote the sale of onions The group of producers and distributors at first called itself the Committee to Lift the Onion Ealer from the Category of Social Lepers. But thai name was too un- wicldly. Arthur Lockwood secretary initiated a campaign to educate onion eaters in lne technique ui eliminating ouiun breiith Got Kid of Surplus "We were so successful; Lock- commillee they believed was lhe un- Qf Jonn warranted discharge of a fellow- employe Will Not Interfere. "This situalion will nol inlerk-re with lhe conference," C. E.

Wilson. vice president and head ol (Concluded on Page 2, Column 5) Judge Collingwood Dies in Florida 1 Lewis' committee loi' industiial organizaiion The Fuivtol company obtained an injunctiQ.il and an eviction writ which lhe tinkers defied and on Feb 19 Sheriff A. Doolittle attacked the plant with 150 and police The strikers repulsed' attack with b.Hiles of acid and rare metals worth $500 a contained Goc Henry Horner commenced energetic peace conferences in an attempt lo settle the conflict peace- TAMPA Fla. Feb 26 These collapsed late last Funeral services lor Judge night when Fansteel president Collingwood. 76.

of Robert Aitchison announced he wood said today, "that we got rid Mich, will be held at the Moss refused to bargain collectively with of the surplus and increased the funeral home at Clearwaler. I organizers representing his price of onions first to $1 100 this afternoon pounds, then to near $3. a piucti- After the services the body will be: "That would be tacit recognition shipped to Lansing where addition- a I unit." he said. and burial will lake The company immediately pressed for enforcement of the court orders to clear its property of sit- cally unprecedented figure Lockwood was proud ol ihe al committee's success and at the, place same time a trifle forlorn over, who retired losing his job. But there was, a lin-'lrom the circuit court of Ingham downer: ing.

Mwinly. after 26 years on At 5 a Sheriff Doolittle "Sen John Jameson of thc lush the JtbrncH. died at Clearwater i 0 his force ol to north Free State, a big whisky maker Beach Wednesday night. He had Chicago and attacked the plant. has written to ask me what could been in Florida for his health since Dozens of gas bombs were hurl- Edllh Elhlt Mrs.

daughter Mrs race Marble Head" Bolton was saved Carr P'ayed by Margaret Miller; acllson sev en today by Gov Henry Horner from Mr Jamicson. the blustering reat grandchildren, several fate she said she "deserved" played by Galen Cos- includ i ng Mrs. Prank Walfi He commuted her sentence of C. clergyman. Rev Spel- Marsna an several nephe i death In the electric chair to 199 am by Thomas Orn; The remains were taken i years in prison.

lhe detective, played by Court funeral The governor also saved one Arthur Gocdwm: the police ser-, where friends may ca ji. other and granted to a third a 8 eanL la i' ccl Harold Keller i arrangements four-day reprieve alld hls lhree policemen, played by laler Governor Henry Horner saved Irft Hershbereer. Owen Gasklll and JMrs. Bolton less than three hours William Dobbertem. and the I before she was to have walked to chauffeur, played by Dick Carver.

Uhe chair, the first white woman dld especially good work An i in Illinois to meet such a fate exceptional play, exceptionally well She had refused to hide beyond presented, is the verdict of the DETRO IT. Peb, 'her woman's skirU in a plea for lar audience which witnessed it. The weather Iorecas A L-VIU 11 iirT'UV i THE WEATHEBl clemency after being condemned Lower Michigan Partly Assisting Mrs Murray as direc ifor killing her husband. lor W11S MibS Dor Beml.s. while in lo cloudy wtth much i "1 detest women who hide be- of properties were Dk'k in tempcrat ure tonight and'' i hind their sex," she told newspap- Carver and Miss Marion Jenkins.

Remains Calm Miss Grace Freeman was publicity chairman und Bernard Waidelich Tlie calm exterior which her was the nickname, "Marble Mildred." did not break either before or after the reprieve. urday. Weather Conditions: The high pressure area manager A u-aturc of the which moved extending from' was much enjoyed was the crest Saskatchewan to mu.sic of the high orches- and colder wefltner has be done about whisky breath." he, la.st November. eri into tlw factories from the said. "And the U.

government The jurist became known in 1928 1 truck tower and by men with guns with a lot of Virgin island rum on as the "Life, for a Pint" judge. He sr-t, up outside the wire mesh fence which surrounded the plant Taken by Surprise The strikers, many awakened by its hands, to know if rum sentenced Mrs. Etta Mae Miller, a breath can tw conquered." "So," he added, "it looks like am still In the breath business." grandmother, to life in prison lor her fourth conviction ori a charge of possessing liquor. the first explosions of tear txlward T. Taylor With thc death of Representative James P.

Buchanan, 70, of Texas, the chairmanship of powerful house appropriations committee paases to Representative Edward T. Taylor of Colorado, above. Taylor, 70, the oldest member of the house, has not been in the beat of henlth recently and la expected to pass on some of the chairmanship's arduous dutiea to Other committee members. I have no adequate words to Under the direction of Walter. JnU) lhe Centers i express my feelings," she said "I Jenvey they played the opening, pressure are in Utah and i still have no fear of death and overture and also favored with mouth of tne st LawMnoe, 1 never did have." luiieful scTections between acts snow was gene ral over the The clemency which saved Mrs.

Th( receipt amounted to ap- east region and in Bolton and two others did not extend to Rufo Swam, college-educated negro, nor to Allen Mitchell, proxiniiitely $100. which, combined; northwestward, with with the receipts of $28 when the ln oarts the wefit play was given Wednesday after- weat TemperaturtS East St. Louts. 111., negro board- noon for lne lower grades, made the re gioft4l total of $128. After expenses are valley.

It is degrees paid there will probably be ap- i North Dakota And, Ing house keeper. did save Mrs. Mitchell, accused with her husband of the murder of Sam Simpson, another East St. Louis negro, and Joseph Rappa- 1 port, son of a wealthy rabbi. Mrs.

Mitchell's sentence was com' muted to 199 years and Rappaport was allowed to live until Tuesday because today Jewish holiday proximetely $100 left with which to leave a ('lass memorial for the high school and for other class Large bundles of clean papers, lOc, at Evening Chronicle Office. Alberta. The sun sets rises Saturday at 7:11. THE High for past E4 Low wvw.