Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 1

The Weather: Fair tonight and Tuesday: not quit so cool tonight, warmer Tuesday. 16 Pages 144 Columns PRICE-THREE CENTS EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR LA NSING, MICHIGAN, MONDA A UGUST 23, 1937 THE STATE eMDUMNAL Car in Fatal Crossing Crash Completely Demolished Bakery Head Dies WEEK-END TOLL nr TDArnp iivi Big Shanghai Store Bombed; 400 Are Dead FOREST BLAZE KILLS TWELVE FIREflGHTEHS I Victims Trapped by a Sudden I Shift of a High Wind in I Western Wyoming 1 ''v0 TI JAPANESE Three Americans Are Wounded; Injured Placed at 1,000 GUNBOATS HIT CHARLES H. LAWRENCE I 1 1 n. inn mi Observer Says One Vessel RUNNING BLOOD Sunk, While Other Was Badly Damaged By MORRIS J. HARRIS i SHANGHAI.

Aug. 23 (AP); SHANGHAI. Aug. 23 An An estimated 400 persons American eyewitntrs stated tonight were killed and pethaps 1.000 he had sern one Japanese destrover ij badly damaged and a Japanese gun-! wounded. including boat sunl: by Chinese airbombers as Americans, by a heavy artillery the warships were covering the land- shell that smashed into a Ing of Japanese army uniU near Woo- Ic-owdeJ department store sec- Hermann of Chicago, an tion lhc international settle-oil chemist, said he viewed the battle ment today.

from the deck of a Texas company i Scores of Americans tanker. escaped death when a second projec- The Japanese destroyer, he raid, as tile pierced the iix story United hurried from the scene in tow of a 'States naval warehouse and crashed sister destroyer. through to the bottom, but failed to The gunboat keeled over at an angle explode, of 43 degrees and went down. I The wcunded Americans were This fight apparently was one of thony Billincliam. staff correspondent mam- that aloni the hanks of for The New York State Journal Fhoto when his car was struck by an east-bound train about 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon.

Wreckage of the car was carried about 150 feet down the railroad All that was left of an automobile driven by Albert Smith. 72. of Haslett after it was struck by a Grand Trunk passenger train Saturday afternoon, is shown in the above picture. Smith was instantly killed FORTY OTHERS INJURED CODY. Wyo, if Orlmy re-vcut workers poked throutri smouldering ruins of a mountain forest today seeking additional victims of a gale-driven fire which burned 12 of their companions to death.

Two f-ore others acre Injured 25 so reriouMy they required hospital treatment. All of the victim, many of them CCC enrollees. were trapped while bat thng the blase in Shevhonl National forest In norlhwen Wyoming. taught I'na wares The b. broke out Prlda ff undetermined cause about 3S miles lil .11 l.

lit 1IU i the same distance east of Yellowstcne park. It blackened 1.500 to J.000 acres of derue timber In the Aararoka moun-i tains. The rrarrheia ed.red forward as the flames subsided slightly under a driz- "We don't knoTt whether there are more mrn out there or not," said John titeker. foren luperlntcndent who lead the battle again, flames In which 500 CCC memberg. rangers and bureau of public roads employes participated.

"If tnere are. It seems impo.rib:e they could be alHe Eight bodies were recovered Sun day. Three others were found Sunday inlght among the gaunt skeletons of flame-stripped trees. The 12th victim was Roy Bevens. civilian conservation from Tex out.

"Ood, how lucky I am to be alive, after he was carried from Identification cf Hie u.ntd bodies laborious proce.s. CCC corps enrollee ho Mr. Lawrence. 63. rjresident of the Lawrence Baking company and prom imtnt In civic affairs of the city, died his summer cottage at Clifford lake early Sunday afternoon.

had been in falling health for the put few rcDct the h(j UlhrT ('ntinued an rage Three Assaults Arouse Police New Frenzy; 2 Victims Escape Death to CHICAGO. Aug. 23 i rV The slay I WIN 1 i iCOUPLEKILLS 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 Ul I Mill I IU llli STATE 23 DEAD Sunday Adds 13 Fatalities to Total, None in This Area; Jail Drivers Here THREE HELD AS DRUNK With 13 traffic fatalities reported Sunday Michigan added 23 the week-end toll of at least 113 In 'he nation, according to an Associated Press taoulation. Landing and the immediate vicinity escaped with but one fatality over Saturday and Sunday and only three persons were reported injured in acci- dents in the Lansing area Sunday 1 The only fatal accident near here occurred Saturday afternoon when Albert Smith. 72.

of Haslett was In- stantly killed as his car was struck by a Grand Trunk passenger train at r.rtl nc Rtffw.n Ualftf BIlH TalfP Unsmir. Two double fatalities were recorded, two Carrolton boys being killed at Saginaw when their bicycle was struck by a car and a Lapeer man and his housekeeper succumbing to injuries suffered in a collision near Columbia-1 ville. Other fatal Sunday accidents in-1 eluded another at Lapeer in which pedestrian was killed by the car of a Marine City minister, one at Muskegon in which a was killed as his ear hit a tree, and others at Coodells. Calumet. Reed.

City. Grand Rapids, Monroe. Dundee, and Royal Oak. Thrix of the fatalities reported earlier were in the Detroit vicinity. A.

Blown, 34. of Royal Oak, died Saturday of injuries suffered when by an automobile. Sharon ilodftes, one-year-old daughter of Mr Had Mrs. Thomas Ilodttes of Detroit of Raeville died of injuries sulfercd a week earlier. rnea saiuraay nigm.

iney were rreo; sil ridinB overturned after strik- 1 in? a guard rail. Mrs. Lottie Haskins, 0 of Bhc, fe frora a movlns 'cyclist who was struck by a hit and run truck, and James Huletk 75, oi injuries rece.vea wnen struck by an automobile two i nree Drivers Here Held as lirunK Three persons were sliRhtly iniured in traffic mishaps and three motorist were arrested on drunk driving charges, two of them folloivlnR rcci- rloKt. in I eineinrt r. A th, Lawrence Clcvcngcr, 59.

of 807 South Cedar street, suffered lacerations and! bruies when the car in which he aa nu State police said Peter Wazdatskey, 22 of driver of the car. was 1 1 UN 1 1 II UIMLJJUMUII Two Skeletons Discovered in Death Embrace AUSABLE FORKS, N. Aug. 23 (INS) Skeletons of a woman and a man. locked in a death embrace in the forest here, were Identified by relatives today as the remains of the mlfsing Mrs.

Ransom Smith, 42, married and the mother of three grown children, and George McDonald, also 42, her bachelor neighbor. Announce the Yangtze river as a new Ja'iane. army totisht a foothold on Chinese lorre Iind-d 1 i Under heavy barrages from 2b Jap nuiicis and de-tiojers the Jj- anese army today lanced a fornndab.e force in the Woo-Mnir area north cuuiiisuai. iu uv. tie for this city.

Japanese said they had put 50.000 otficers nnd men ashore; Chinese of Ificials said not more than 15.000 had landed; independent estimates ranged oetwecn incse ngurc. The reinforcemcnt.v were regular army divisions brought directly from ,1,. vaviuiu uu iic.tiru tuii.sj vi I 1 of a pretty nurse and arsault was killed Saturday night In an auto-w ln eolhsion and Jolm Caey. 27. Victim Beaten and Stabbed Before Body Is Thrown Into a Creek CHATTANOOGA.

Aug. JtFpriral rrnsp-nf inn Mondav aCf I couple neio. on 1TM Kr.ld KOX' IRlDl J.J. told hnn they slew Kcyels because transmitted a social disease to Mrs. Weathers, announced the state chames a jour.g 23 ment of the identification was made by i coroner George J.

Culver. skeletons were found close yicivcia cl.ABnn. ntcA Ix.nHn. Lnlfa I I iu vicinity ever was made because i 'entry would open a new pha'e In thCiland and artillery rangers and bureau cr pubUc oifuiaU took lurna viewing the and kneck Rlllh 6. of Fort Wayne.

IndJcvitable about November. May 5' p0' Revc'?" Idevastatinj. Shanj-hal conflict, which fringes of the flame-swept killed when an automobile in which! Th. e-rlhed much of the Uc believed they had eloped. has raged for 11 days on almoots equal shell Screams 1" i.vrM vemie had CONGRESS SEES i Unfinished Business to Make Special Meeting Necessary in November WASHINGTON, Aug.

23 few of congress' key mtn. remaining at the camtol desmte adiournmcnt. i.u.j i i bound colleagues as too urgent await the regular session nest January'. Senator LaFolletle (P) of Wisconsin, one of the President's most Intimate congressional advisors, frankly asserted the administration would court disaster if it delayed Its permanent farm program until next year. Unless production control machin- ery i set up before farmers begin their winter planting, he predicted.

bumper wheat and cotton crops mav end farm prices tumbling next autumn and jeopardize the prosperity i of the nation. flans Laid Other congrcisional chiefs laid their plans to rush through farm legisla- lUfc Llll. lilll ail L11C llCttU UJ I 11 tl" endars for "next session" whether special or regular. The senate agriculture committee ctod 1 toi" ord anv sex c.ffene.- The latest a south side prairie Sunday night. She said the man approached her his fist.

Mrs. Hollander cried out: Take my purse, take my purse." but Instead he toie her again. her dress and struck Frightened by a paing ear. her ftPr vuig her on the ground unconscious. Hospitals Guarded Meanwhile, do Ice guarded hrx-mul homes, hotels and otlvr ltv- ing quarters for jour.g women while, authorities qucttoncd mere than 100 ln the asuult-slaylng of a U-year-old nunc, and the razor as- sault upon another a few hours later.

Capt. John PrendergaM. chief of assault tictim a andcr. SO. who was beaten, ed unconscious bv a r.ecro would be dropped "in view of the fact In 'Phe of withering naval barrage that a federal charge will be and punishing by Japanese Bodv Found alr DomDers.

the Chinese offered ftlffj I resistance to the landing, their ma- The body of the young man gun nesLs taltmg a hctVy f0n 0f found in Chickamauga park here, atterj neavily loaded boitJS than he had been seen with the couple last 2n Japanese planes repeatedly bombed Wednesday, the head almost severed the iriore lines. and the body bearing numerous atabi navlll officers stationed The National Observer The News Behind the Day's News ENA7.0I.S and' house members head for liome with a feeling that mat of the 1(37 session wasted. A sense of futility pervades men of both parties. The donkey hu UvJt to which his rara ran pclnt ith pride, and the elephant'i trumpet ef alarm aounda feeble note. The new dral lost a few are, but the opposition haa difllculty in filling on deuce.

In prhate talk 1th The Oberer many Urmorratle members admit that their ehlef Job during rrcs 111 be They diead the ross -examinations that await them at the corner store and filling fjo much expected, ao Utile done Vet members of the O. O. P. are dbsallsficd, too. They ho)e the country Is reacting agaliut the Rooelt court-reconditioning plan.

Aside from this they must fall back on the old "iMiie" of debt, drfielt, rxtravarance hlh tut ao little Ire in 1836. Both aldrj are fearful 'f tile rest session. Taxe mu-l be boew'ed jut before tlie primaries Paarr CjOVEnNMENT or.ri.iir ado-cau-s mailt olf the cpuing ac. ion as practically a total k. RrlEht dreams faded when Senator Norn was ordered away on ara-lion, llu tevcn-rccion poarr bill Immediately languished despite efforts of minor legislators to puMi It throurh committee.

New It faces new kind of eippltkn. President Rooneyelt. armed with legal opinion by counsel of tlie poer rommLsion, has taken the position that power r.v Hirers belong to he fcdrtal govrrnment and not to the states. He requires New England states to surrender these resources as the prlre of approval by congress of the Interrstatc compact looking to flood control, litis question hasn't come to a head yet. but It 111.

Members (rum all section are wondering lien tliey mil be to deliver the natural rlhra of the.r slates to the fedcial government lor developing and merchandising elec tile porr. Hi the Noirui bill un Hi'o head wind. )lH VOME of the Ingenious tec.iiiici.ie thst was empkiyed bsflle F. D. In his rcoritaniratlon plana was utilised br opixmenta of the wages-and-hotir bill.

Sunnh-pure mt dealers fumed and fretted while the hill was suffocated in the rules rommitlce. Members who would lrrdly dare fo vote against the bill directly were in sympathy lth the little band of intractable ho to report the bill out. A aecret poll probably would liave durlir-d a Iravy m)rttr asaiii't I lie bill. But it ould be incunli' dancrcm lab.ir reprbal to vole on -il rail. S3 the mess-me a kept In.m tile tlimr for many days.

Executive pressure was hard to apply, torrnw-r ostensibly only outright fip)Knrnis were holding up the bill, and thry defied auih lire. tarlin nipprecfd the proKimn I tills -lc and uonue t.i xi next inter. hlleiise I WOL'l take an admit; n.i lime and a mrps of a om.ian; to to. si tip the in the hanu of Wallaie. to l-e aed laigely at his cjls.

retii.ri f.ir the 'l-fare of crirultmr lie av a Urge lir of euAtnnn rc eniie IOC 000,. ooo or so with hl(h to try to en-couraue exports of agricultural product. Foreign nations would retaliate If he should subsidize evpnrts. Mojeoer. luu nen Wa! larr millions for rtudy of grains, fruits: nullum for st.idirs of foreign farm method-: nnlllcnt for expanding bureau t.i covering dlsea es.

outveys. In. and regulations of kinds: and millions fr tu ef new strains and birrd. And that dors not Include tlie half billion or more for benefits under ih erosion nd frrtililv program! Hue au'hnritv to hire cIetts Is unlimited. Within the limits of corulltutiona posris enncrru I.

as gone I lie whole hm" for agrkul-lurt. The ret Is up to llmlllilir CENAlurt LEWIS and a fe ilirr mm In nmsre.x are ii over the Inrrra-e rf Amrriian armed forces at Shanglial. tvariia tlon of Amernan rmiians will be completed before the Chaumnnt ar-rives om Pan Irgo with a of mariner In some quarters It believed that Hie dipatch of marines from San Diego Is in pursuanre of an under, standing It F.irujiran nrers aiming at International pollrii.g rf ll-cj foreign settle ment at Fhanthal. Till has been broached, and the reaction of Japan and China la a nailed. The I'nlted States has to rrnrrvatlnn at Iwl are Importani commerrui holding, and of eoure the t'lilted xtatej is led equal use of the gicat treaty pit.

As a declaration of war by either nllnurd an lage I sur n.IXT TO "MOIlIf RI'M'4 WINDSOR, Ortt Aug 51 INSI Mayor E. Wigle. K. C. and city ouncll members will visit Flint.

Mich. tVrtember to liupect trolley bus operatmn. Tlie lnietivn trip a ordTKl avf'er the rtrcet railnjr com-mission ree e.niinnidesl I he fcusea for the treea cars now I I i i i. I I Take HeavT Toll ttt-o miles hplow nn the Whangpoo river jald they saw only fhor. However landings were known! (0 nave rf fcctcd at Paoshan rrcek.

about seven miles up the soulh bank of riVer from Woaung. Foreign in that area could see little of tlie op- 1 wounds. United States Commissioner Jamesi U. Anderson said he "exrcctcd thcjgx Japanese transport-i standing off CITY STREETS Abend, chief of staff for The New York Times in China, and Tenney, Shanghai-bom American. u.ner Americans niaj nac uiru killed or wounded.

fstlmate accurately the toll of injurecV and kmpd bit mund bodies nnd krow thcre nmst hBVe many more Origin of the department stores tncU was un-nown. Some military said jt nlay havf bec a j-jo-pound eight-inch shell which japanPSC warships off Woasung we: firms to protect landing of retnforre- nients. After the explosion. Chinese ar.d nsificd the air. battles on the city.

aj JCUl was just leaving the Wing On and Company department store wlea the shell screamed toward the set. tlement. Suddenly everyone in the crowded street seemed to know it wa coming. It exploded In a mass of humanity. The fronts of the two buildings oc cupied by the Wing On and Company were blown away, The facade and one whole corner of the Sincere and Company's great department store across tha street also were blown out.

After the e.xnloslon. brirlcs tinihe: and even Meel girders hurtled through. the air. adding to the destruction. The crowd went crazv in ILv Dauic.

Some probably were trampled to deaih. I saw Htllet Abend, himself wounded in the foot, fight hLs way through a mob carrying Anthony Dillingham. Semi-conrcious Billtngham collapsed Two other shells whistled into the panic-stricken international zone. Ona struck the crowded Ward Road prison in tne norliiern fector of the settle. ment.

The other sheared through thu walls of the naal and unaslied Into the concrete basement noot exploding. lleislrurtian Horrible I ni uir I mm coinoanv DllliO. At, the Sincere and Company build. mz tl)e destruction was terrible On'i few minut shoD Hundreds of bodies lay In p.les. It seemed as if the force of the blast had gathered them up and rolled them together.

Mott them ere taisted honiblr. burned. Others were torr blood glistened in the strct car tracks and gutters. Fragments of 1'gs and arms plastered build ing ironis. home ere scattered lr the street two blocks away.

The fronts of the Sincere and Wintg On bull'ltngs virtually were frurri the wails and torn out. Glass, shattered bricks and mortar, and ste girders littrred the street Framems of the building; hum dor frrm tl.e Smeere store ba. I ontinued on Page There Si.ntY.ir Jl TPAf KEW YORK, Aug. 25 d.N'Si Twenty-six persons were injured. 10 eriously, and 100 others badly shaken up early t'jday when the scronil car e.f a fivc-ar train Jumped tj, tracks at the Cortland street termini! Ilujx.n lube ar.d aas virtjai.y demolished.

Two Boys Steal Deadly Fireworks MT PIEASANT. A-k 23 llcard wl peal today to fo iX' to w'urn to aerial bomb taken durit.g Ut Michigan Oil and Cn they p'jrsluie death or ncus iniun-. i-iiAsc V'Uiuutrl uim rcinuivs of the couple agreed the deaths were' the result of murder and suicide. IN SEX LAW TEST jlonia Circuit Judge CautiOUS In Analyzing Statute; Raises Questions Sptc-ai to The State Journal: IONIA, Aug. 23 A decision on the constitutionality of the recently-enacted law permitting sex criminals to be Hawley.

The law was rto.ely analyzed by him on its constitutionality and would loarefniiv tiiHr tli hri.f nnhfilriin the i I I i the uniformed pohce. ordered all dis- snoniy oetore a clock 'tio NoVembcr. if the President UicU to "bring In every man with a Sunday morning. He was taken to ddes to call congress back, reccrd for any sex offense." after MlfSiEdward w- Sparrow haspltal where his I Leaders of both houses already have rj.r,nr. )i condition mornins was i.

i unu.u-v.l, Ith a raxor by an intruder he "good Their Lat of dead: I nin a e.t Sheridan. Wyo. for-. Billy Lee. 30.

Cody, highaay fere- man man Jimmy Sabln. llyattr.lle. CCC foreman. Rex Hale. Junior teilinlcian at Uchrd to the Cm George Itogeia.

George. Teg. CCC i ciirollee. Ilov Bevens. Smithnlle.

Tei reel enro.iee. Injutrd Hcnpilal Ihe injured were eared for the anlinved Page Three Clean Shaker on Dirty Furnace Is Proved Instrument With Which He Killed Her WASHINGTON'. Aug clean sluker on a dirty furnace led todav lo That Detertivi Captain Ira Keck said was a confession In the kill-' of Mrs. Henrietta Anderson, 3-1 rnl nrgro jan' Itor. Ma.tor McAfee, statement that he crushed Mrs.

An- denon'i head wiiii uir nr.T iron ha iter "because her- he wa jealous of Keck said. Me Aftr the ila-int Afee wa.led the shaker wi'h kerosene and hot T1 P''-'on of lnvestlgau.ri Rironn WOWS MURDER i crations because of smoke from large in the street. There were four shrap. fires nearby. nel wounds in his chest.

His left arm Three other villages along the and hand were mutilated. He suffered Yangtze north of Shanghai were from shell shock. named as sites of Japanese landings. Ab'-nd. who had been Wing Oi Japanese civilians predicted that and Company elevator with Billinp-the rewly arrived army would open a ham when the blast shook the store, smashing offensive apainn the Chi- rushed him to the hospital.

east on County Road No. a ieTies of ticar IliiilctL and failed to ste a curve a 'a state hospital, even though not prorxaed control legislation 17 cities, beginning September 30. (adjudged insane, Monday awaited fur-Senator Pope D) of Idaho remained ther action before CIrcuiC Judge Royal in connection with arrangements for th's- I ine nearings wi.i end November I.ar.d Charles J. Dovel, alstant attor and within a few days thereafter the (ney general, during a test case brought committee members taid, expects to under it. The court indicated it found its bill ready.

line statute loosely drawn and vague. The houie agriculture committee but stated it still had an open mind ncsc within a matter of hours. Center Of War Zone Placed Near Peiping By C. V. McDAML'L TIENTSIN.

Aug. 23 f7'i Some CO 000 Chinese arri troom wcre engaged in furious battle 30 miles southwest of Peip.ng today, the open ing of a wid, chlne.se offensive ontinued on Page Three Refuirees Fle3 'Statute, submitted by Dovel before Monnay ior ine auiomoone planned no hearings, but members aereed informallv to oather in u'suh. mgton in October for a month's work nitmuic. uiairman Jones (D) of Texas delayed his de parture to give further study to them. Seme of those here said privately that the only thing which could forc 5tall a special session would be a sud den rire in wheat ar.d cotton prices, of 30 days to five years at the Mich by an unexpected shortage igan reformatory for gross Indecency.

abroad. Tlie statute provides that on peti Other legilation. most of it of corrections departments parole pi Many wcr Shanghai ncpbof Many were vho quetioned the negro until hechest Mrt). she said she rotlleirwV. It rharoivrl with t.rgra wnn mur cnarges to oe ined some ume toaav or tomorrow." Officer Smith said Weathers eon- fessed he and his wife halted Revel's car as ne was anung in waiver coun- ty, by "piling rocks in the road.

"Weathers said he hit Revels over the head with an automobile crank while Revels was seated in tlie car," said Smith. Weathers said when Revels jumped out of the car and ran, he and his wife chased him down and he, Weathers, beat him while Mrs. Weathers stabbed him with a knife and cut his throat. took! Burn Auto Weathers said they then Revelv body to Chicamaiu-a creek, trussed him with his undershirt and then threw the body in the creek, 'They then crov- his automobile into the outskirts of Chattanooga and nurnea it. Officers continued to drag the wfh ,7 aay a'd into the wa- Smith said that Weathers had ad-' lg a chain gang at SummerviHe.

bl(tBmv IIe nas convicted at Lafay.t q3 Smit)l addcd I officer's investigating the case said' weathers, and that the two families i known each other for some itme Mrs. Weathers in an interview said she met Revels Iirst last 4 at a swimming party. i Revels, a coal truck driver here, clis- appeared from his home a week aw. Sunday and no trace was found until jhu body was discovered Wednesday. lii ave I1 ire Laddies jr rw I OH I I lay IXejefee PHILADELPHIA.

Aug. 23 riNSi when hubby slaps his on a street corner, the missus is entitled 10 Pce protection but not the aid; the fire department. ccj'1 Mrs. Mary van Ment jusu today to learn that. She was lined for Pulling the corner fire which brought firemen on four engines, and the fire chief in his red chariot.

Whcrc to Look Bedtin Stcnes Believe It or Net Ccrr.ks Daily Dorothy Dix Editorial Health Talk. Markets New York Day ty Dsy Ridio Serial Etciy Society Spor: Theater Tne World and All Vital Statuses Weather 1 and 2 I 4 I i Sunday. Mij Anna Kurhu as slain and g-yaulted by a neftro who ent ered her h-- sccond-floi room at the Chica pital through a fire escape wind Saturday. Captain Pirndergast aid a ciffinne program to end the wave of npjn women will be drafted at a conference tomorrow. Amcr.z thae in- Ivlted to attend, he s.Ud.

nere ralloe Ccmmiloner Jan.e P. Alliuan nnd "mrde Keeler of the Nortiiwr tern ur.iver.'ity crime detection laboratory Seek Artion Concerted a.tion by to puirrt i iiirtner nca.i r. itrin Pjrh rh. essn hr.tnitjil rminrll -we're going to talk thy thing over ar.d see what can ty done." he said. vi.

pital. of nues at' the Jef'fetn Park ilasplla, as flaslr(j on the WtJ by a noise In the nurses' 'louniri nn thr fir.vt flnor of th hn- another nurse walked into the room. BONES REVEAL STORY OF ANCIENT TRAGEDY NEW BALTIMORE. Aug 21 'IN Bores of a mother and child Mondat Intel ft'-v 1 OOO.t rfir-iM Discovered la-t eek bv Amateur Yrrheoloist Harry Ilo-ack. Detroit.

was being carried on the muliici back at the Ume of the deatis II YM POISON'S TIIRt.1: DETROIT. Aug. 21 el.NSi City ham hkh to test served at a wedding party at Stachrifkl. 4'. I onlinurd on Page Three FIREMEN BATTLE uywmywu lOireeis in ajeiroil Are Blocked as Thousands Watch 10c Store Burn DETROIT.

Aus. 23 More than 100 firemen, with 13 pieces of ap battled fcr more than an hour today to bring under control a mec-! Iarular which broke nut in th U'rvtln ru-tri eAmMnf out in the F. W. Wool worth company downtown store. A crcwd estimated at 10.000 persons hMkfii Woodward avenue as 123 girl emplovcs and hundreds of shoppers, in the fire broke out.

the street fafely. firr Chief Stephen J. Demav said out In a vent in a titchen. T're trapped for a tim. hrn 'relght elevator stopped be- floors.

Firemen were rending atreams of water up the stair fU Pt Umc Tnc elrl escaped HitU-precure toers were used to wau'r ml 1 the blare spread to the third floor lr.mage was not immediately deter- m.ned COLLISION KILLS 11 GENOA. Italy. Aug 23 Ten Italian sailors ar.d a trainman were jonfJ ay in head-on collljion of their excursion train arrt ra.n at Y'igo Morasso trrve .1111.11. Sheep Finds Car Just Won't Fight MITCHELL. Ind Je.we Terry haa no sh.ee a.

Terry stopped his automobile after serir.g a big buck rhep charging to- mard him on a road. Bat, W00LW0RTH BLAZE with X'r Anderson, brunette plU1. 7he man plow ovrr and mother of three children. nrr fac, remarkrd: -Keep quiet ci-oerrd In her apartment yes- give vou the others got" RJbrta I.ukas.j Without warning hrr a sallant hat fhetk girl In a fashionable hotel 'hacked her with a raor. at the same rn after tlie discovery officers quot- time tearing her clothing.

I ed MA tee as saying he had reen two The man Jumped through a men lsit the apsrtment. window eight feet to the fide- Keck said that according to the con- walk btlow and fled when Miss Swan- lewion both McAfee and hl xlctlm 'son screamed for help. had been drinking The negro called The murder of Miss Kuchta was the at Mrs. Andron a apartment, he said, fourth assault slaving here in two une'er the Influence of whisky and she. 'years.

After crushing the girl skull brandishing an pUk. chased him with brick the slayer left through away. A almrt time lir th cm i.h.- h. controversial, will be awaiting action n. hjpnvor nnraas.

whenever congress reconvenes. IS Alm Aldermen Expected to Allow Issue to Go to Popular Referendum oily council memoers Monday nignt are expected to decide whether to settle LIQUOR BY GLASS i ruling. The test case resulted from a pe titicn brought by Hilmer Gellein, state Icorrections department head, for trans- jfer to Ionia state hospital'of George 'Frontczak, Detroit. ser-inj a sentence divisions, prisoners deemed "sex de- i nr nmrVpHs" shall hnvp a rlr generates or perverts" shall have a cir icuit court hearing with a jury unless, me jury is waived in tne county oi imprisonment to decide on transfer. "Degenerate" Not Defined 1 'The phrase sex degenerate is not adequately defined in any dictionary, Jnor has it been by any court," Judge Haw Icy said.

"I would like to have it defined." Dovel acknowledged this but de-! ciared courts could deline the term by thev have of andi ether broad terms. "Under this act a cervert might be one who seduces a woman under promise of marriage," the court said. "He may," Dovel replied, "but our idea is the statute would enly apply to one who continuously violates the code and particularly one who children and like." "Continuous vlolatlcns would raise 'the question cf insanity. Existing law( adequately provides for disposition of 'criminal tnanc." the court Interposed ior persons no are r.oi insane ou; who are a menace bcra.ise cf abnor- mal sexual tendencies, and to cuBht to csred for Dut thf court unm io procu im.c icgai ju.c rl "ht lridivie Cantlnued cn ai.u riKJiis vi uia.iuuaLT bjjuuiu First, the de- Page Three KELLER CONVALESCING DETROIT. Aug.

23 (INSi Walter Clure at Ford tospr.al Sunday. I i Children Scream as Planes Swoop Over Boat in Friendly Gesture MANILA. P. Aug. 23 Ch.ld refugees screamed Monday as el-coming airplanes swooped low over the liner Hoover bearing 871 persona fletuig from tlie Sliar.g-hai war cf.

The vetscl was held several hours at the breakwater while the were Innocuialed against cholera. smallpox. and typho.d. Tft0 roared overhead and i group of children jlted below, mem ory-ridden by terrifying experlenret Shanghai hen similar birds cast death about them. Three hundred of the refugees nere housed at Fort William Me.Kir.ley Others ere given lodging In Manila ar.d at the mountain resort of Immediate financial help was a-'-ked by 232.

Pres. Manuel Ciercn. wl'h an wort, as at the prf'r tj meet Mrs. Vicfjr Cifkga and tx: daujh- tor Ann. Czekga.

now of Shanghai. as wiih Admiral Richard Eyrd on hi firr't Antarctic expc-dl'ton. and Queson met Mis. Czekga at Eyrd's re- Small Ann teld anyone who would the question of liquor by the glass them-'social -selves or to petition for a special elec-1 violates with the furnace rhaker. McAfee not cr.ly to the! hit wife in 1S2J They said he was1 acquitted of that cringe several years ago.

I The Weather C(K rc 'in li.e i ticn at which Landing voters may ex-1 press their desires. While it is said that a number of the aldermen are in favor of allowing sale of liquor by the 'tfmPl to oectae tne ivue, pre- ferring to let the qurv.ion be settled bv a vote of the The matter Is expected to be brought for them before harm Is done to mno-brfore th? council by Aid. II. T. Busch.

r.t 'of the third ward Aldn-rnari Bjsch Judge Hawley rcpl.ed: 'Such ease ton ul nrt'nrt Mu-h r.iihr bones, found in the midt of the i.rpiriit t' r.u'heT ttiitm of Iniltar. tots arri deer bores. sX'liVcVr "m'd lh' O' i.oen liiiirj ii (,,,, savages. An' Hoaacit said the child apparentlv announced following a hearm; held nii.RUdjr niiib 11- tlie matter to the council at iu mteVM- Monday nlzhu Whil; membsrs of the Injham Coun-1 Wednesday nisht that he would Bft" r-d Liquor Dealers associa-; tlon in favor of liquor by the 8 la.j rales at the meetxg Wednesday i Muhitan to tt.e oris The i.nn iitn.r4 raiistra to at rr ana f.jvea'.t.r attp lv th. HOI BIT TIVrtKlTIKK i a llaelKilrt tlalt Je-aeatl iraiaereilatet.

2 I -er i J. r.tm.u4 Ina.r.ir. kiih aisiea weseker karesa iixreiiineei. listen about the big booms" in Shang- Eheriff Kennedy ja.d the hai. were to have tx-en pa'1 lh Another n-fugee.

Tomas Oppus. a works dupiay bjt had lyen laid aiiOo Phllipp.ne national tsfemaij-man because trie fx-r were burned off. termed tlie Chinese city he had Just To coys plked up the br.mtn a "heU on earth." var.jihed Into t.i? crod Hrewocis "Tne war will be a loi.g one." lie experts warned that any attempt to taid. "Th; Chinest apparently are well lenlie the b.rr.bs all! result in an e-preparcd and are exceptionally aggres- plojlon which endanger sU per- fur stricken with food the sheep. Terry said, continued on.

110 opposition was offered by Keller. Palmer Park, brother of Chryt- butted the front bumper of the car the dry forces of the city. Whether Corporation President K. T. Keller.

Victims were John 27. Ig- ard kr.o.kfci ny cppcsition would presented Monday was convalescing after an nan Ignajkl. 31, and Mr Frances g-; in a few minutes ar.d Monday night could not. be asccr- abdomlrai operation by Dr. R.

D. Mc- Raised shakily tamed. I -ive I nfar. i I.