The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page 2

FRIDAY, -FEBRUARY 16, 1940. THE PORT HURON TIMES HERALD PACE TWO Convicts' Escape Plan Thwarted Penny for Your Thoughts, Doctor large nrofit EAST DIES OUT on oil the New Iberia the amount allows te WW ITM.S I oil OF HEAVY SNOW Maestri Claims Oil Gains Were Legal New Orleans, Feb. 16 AP Mayor Robert S. Maestri, political ally of the late Huey P. Long, said in a formal statement that any money he had made in the oil business in Louisiana was legally earn-ed.

O. John Rogge, assistant U. attorney general, released a department of interior report Wed- state commoner of 'I have bean thorouT very legal right taffi money in an oil ra2S mayor 8ald in his tSSr day. 'the same aslS teen in any other tiJt i aiion." TK Fir $27,560 Worth Of Property Sold In Scavenger Sale A total of $27,650 has been obtained in the state sale of delinquent-tax property in St. Clair county since the sale started Tuesday morning in the Armory until noon today, County Treasurer Waiter P.

Treleaven said today. Sale of property in Marine City started this morning and was to be completed this afternoon. Thirty-six of 80 parcels offered were sold this morning. No property will be offered Saturday but the sales office in the Armory will be open from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m.

to receive payments on parcels purchased today. Sale of property in Marine City will start Monday and continue Tuesday; Sale of property in Port Huron will start the week of Feb. 25. The definite date for storting sale of Port Huron property has not been fixed. Mr.

Treleaven said. Money obtained in the sale will be pro-rated among taxing units which levied the taxes that were not paid. "j' lfk VW III So. More Than Sixty Dead As Result Of Blizzard (By Th Associated Prasa) With more snow expected late Saturday, the north Atlantic seaboard states speeded efforts today to clear away the great St. Valentine's day snow heaviest of the winter and in some sections the heaviest in years.

The death toll was estimated at more than 60. Overnight more than 5,000 men and 2,259 pieces of equipment were at work in New York city alone, ridding streets and sidewalks of drifts and ice. The weather was clear and the temperature, 20 degrees at 7 a.m., was rising. The New York Central railroad reported its Southwestern Limited, due in New York at 8 a.m., was an hour late. Other trains were running on schedule.

Milk distribution in New York city had returned to normal, after some delays. The Hudson river was frozen solid to West Point, 50 miles north of New York city. The oil tanker Aztec, which called for help at sea Wednesday night, reached port in tow of two tugs. Upstate New York reopened its schools and most highways. The forecast for the state was continued cold and more snow Saturday.

New England, which suffered the brunt of the storm, counting 27 DOWN TO BRASS TACKS! When Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donovan, of Roscoe, N. learned that thev might expect a blessed event, it seemed a cute idea to save all their pennies to pay Dr. Edward Miller above), $90 for officiating at the baby's arrival.

Now see what their whimsy did to him. His bank refused the coppers in bulk, insisted he pack them in rolls of 50 each. Resembling a "free lance" mine shaft, this tunnel electric lights and all was dug and boarded by convicts at the Eastern penitentiary in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, who hoped to reach freedom through it and another one leading from cell blocks. Officials discov Tops In value! A bis, luxurious 1940 Packard Sedan delivers here for a down payment of only Finnish Relief Fund dead, was slowly ngnung us way back to normal. Schools re-opened in most cities, and Boston department stores, closed Thursday on a regular business day for the first time in 14 vears.

were onen. again. ered the plot. Passes $1,600 Mark Donations to the Finnish Relief Communication and utility ser PLAN TO DIVERT SCHOOL AID GETS Orphan Roads Issue Flares At Highway vices, disrupted in some sections, wr fund of $46.29, announced today by S. A.

Graham, administrator of the fund here, raised the total amount contributed here to $1,621.14. The Several vessels were abandoned at spa after rescue of their crews, COLD RECEPTION Engineer's Meeting and other ran aground. At least figures: Previously acknowledged $1,574.85 Ann Arbor, Feb. 16 AP Behind St. John's Evangeli Easy to own! 4 times out of 5 the car traded in exceeds the down payment, further during the low monthly payments.

Get an appraisal on your car today. Own ririt stunning 1940 Packard that's sky-higb in valueand rock-bottom low in upkeep, PACKARD ASK THE MAN. Wilt OWNS INI delivered In Port Huron the apparently peaceful setting of two remained in difficulties. Inventors Honored As Modern Pioneers $2,000,000 LOSS IN CEREAL PLANT FIRE IN BUFFALO Buffalo, N. Feb.

16 AP Heat and buckling floors kept firemen outside today as tons of grain, packed cereals and carloads of cardboard containers burned in a $2,000,000 cereal plant fire. The building, recent addition to the plant of the Washburn-Crosby company, eastern division of General Mills, was nearing completion when the fire broke out Thursday. Company officials had expected to open it Saturday. Deputy Fire Commissioner Robert J. Zahm said the active fire had been segregated in one section of the building and that they intended to Viet it burn itself out," the annual Michigan highway con Miss Perkins Thinks Vandenberg Will Be Republican Nominee Los Angeles, Feb.

16 Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins predicted today that Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan would be the Republican presidential nominee. In an address before the California Federation of Democratic Women's Study Clubs, Miss Perkins said she read speeches of opposition party candidates to detect weaknesses in her own party ana found Vandenberg's speeches of particular interest because "I think personally that he will be the next Republican candidate for the presidency' Soil Conservation Committees Meet Plans for the 1940 soil conservation program in St. Clair county were explained to township committees of the county conservation committee at a meeting this morning in the council chamber of the city hall by I. O.

Kellerman, Elk-ton, district field man. Mr. Kellerman said township committees will start March 1 to canvass every farm in the county. Farm programs under the soil conservation plan will be prepared for each farm participating in the program. A detailed report on all vegetable acreage in the county, in connection with the vegetable growing program established by the Agricultural Adjustment administration and recommended by the National Vegetable Growers association, will be obtained.

Each farmer who plans to participate in the 1940 program must sign farm plans by May 1. Robert Meikle, chairman of the county soil conservation committee, presided at the meeting. ference here the issue of the state's cancelled trunklines or orphan At Detroit Banquet cal church 11.40 League of Catholic Women 10.00 First Presbyterian church 8.00 Mr. and Mrs. C.

G. Gruel 5.00 Mrs. Jacob May 1.00 Mrs. Russell A. ,1.00 Miss Anna E.

Huner .1.00 C. M. Engelgau 1.00 George W. Fralick 1.00 Delbert Anger ,50 roads was raised Thursday night Shortly before the conference banquet, at which Murray D. Van Wagoner, state highway commis sioner, voiced, tribute to the confer' ence's founder members of a quar Lansing, Feb.

16 AP A proposal by Auditor Gen. Vernon J. Brown that a special session of the legislature be called to take from public school funds and re-appropriate them for welfare purposes faces militant opposition from the Michigan Education association. Dr. A.

J. Phillips, executive secretary of the MEA, challenged the auditor general's assertion that such a diversion would work no hardship on the schools. "Unpaid bills will more than absorb that $2,000,000," Dr. Phillips said, "and among those bills will be a good many for unpaid salaries of the teachers." He declared any serious threat of diversion certainly would bring William McGulock .50 ter century ago, the directors of the Coin box in Red Crown Michigan Association of Road Com Recreation .54 missioners and Engineers instruct Coin box in First National ed a special committee to employ legal counsel in behalf of any bank lobby 4.10 Coin box, 1.25 county against which court action Total is brought in the orphan road con troversy. How Dare Yoo The orphan roads issue, which state highway department officials said was raised for the first time Oklahoma City, Feb.

16 A man circulating petitions to repeal Okla in 15 years since, trunkline cancel a vigorous fight from school homa's dry law idly walked into an office. "I need only a few more he began. lation was adopted, has flared repeatedly in the last several weeks since Missuakee county farmers gray haired man behind the desk near Lake City seized state and said "no" frigidly. Only then did county equipment to clear their the visitor notice the lettering on roads of snow. the doon "Anti-Saloon League of Eighteen miles of orphan roads Oklahoma, W.

J. Losinger, Supt." in Missaukee county and one mile in Delta county now are being maintained by the state. The two counties will be billed for the costs, state officials said. Leon Luke, Mt. Clemens, Macomb county highway engineer, was elected president of the State As ON YOUR OLD FASHIONED JEWELRY! whose influence was apparent in the 1939 legislative session.

Legislators freely describe the MEA as having the most powerful lobby in the state. Dr. Phillips declared that not only could the schools- not spare any money from their appropriar tion, but that they would fight for stronger subsidies from state and local governments in the future. He said he would recommend that the association oppose 15 mill tax limitations in populous counties, and that large local school districts be compelled to raise not less than five mills for school purposes by taxation to become eligible for state aid benefits. They now are required to raise not less than three mills to become eligible for -state aid.

Governor Dickinson received Brown's suggestion coolly. He said he would cross no bridges until he came to them, and that there was no immediate urgency to require a special session of the sociation of Road Commissioners and Engineers during Thursday's sessions. I I i I 'I. if I 4 ft if I 1 I ft Scottsboro Negroes Get Parole Hearing Montgomery, Feb. 16 AP Voluminous files of Alabama's nine- year-old "Scottsboro case" were before the state pardon and parole board today for study following a hearing on freedom applications of legislature for any purpose.

five imprisoned Negroes. 1 I A I EMEXS0N M0KI 130. (Right) Built-in Loop Antenna No Outside Aerial or Ground Alex Smith, chairman, told "ad Brown Thursday recommended that $2,000,000, provided by the legislature as a "cushion" for school funds, be diverted as the vocates and opponents of parole that the cases would be given careful consideration only means of balancing the bud The Negroes were convicted of charges growing out of the alleged mass assault of two white women aboard a -freight train in 1931. Charges were dropped against four of the nine original, Negro defend ants. Detroit.

Feb. 16 INS Awards as "modern pioneers" on the national frontier of industry were held today by 49 outstanding Michigan inventors and research scientists whose achievements have made living better for everyone and contributed materially to progress in the United States. The awards made at a dinner sponsored by the Michigan Manufacturers association. Employers Association of Detroit, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Board of Commerce were in connection with the nation-wide observance of the 150th anniversary of the United States patent system. Harvey C.

Fruehauf, director of the National Association of Manufacturers, told the group: "The awards are the results of a nation-wide search for the unsung heroes of industry's workshops and laboratories. Patents do more than stimulate invention. They make it possible for industry to develop new discoveries and inventions so that they can be put into practical use to create new jobs Conway P. Coe, U.S. commissioner of patents, declared social and political gains as well as economic progress in America have been accomplished by the patent system.

Among those honored as "modern pioneers' were: Carl Breer, director of research, Chrysler corporation Theron P. Chase, engineer, research division. General Motors corporation Henry Ford, Charles F. Kettering, vice president and director, General Motors Research corporation; David A. Wallace, president, Chrysler sales division, Chrysler corporation: E.

I. duPont de Nemours Co, Flint Ronald A. McGlone, Stephen J. Roskosky. Dewey Says New Deal Failed On Farm Problem Boise, Feb.

1 6 AP Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Republican presidential aspirant, asserted Thursday night that the present Democratic administration "has not yet made any single successful assault" on the nation's agricultural problems. In a public address that climaxed his day's visit to the Idaho capital, Dewey said that in spite of federal expenditure of $5,000,000,000 in the administration's farm program, agricultural prices were "16 per cent below the corresponding industrial prices as compared with 1926." He said one way for the farmer "to get decent prices" would be the formulation of an Industrial program so that industry could absorb some of the 9,000,000 unemployed. He did not elaborate but raid he would devote an entire speech at Lincoln, early in March to a discussion of the farm problem. Dewey left by train, with next stops scheduled at Evanston and Cheyenne, Wyo.

Little Chance For Processing: Tax Washington, Feb. 16 AP Despite a strong indorsement by Secretary Wallace, house farm leaders said today there was little possibility that congress would approve the certificate plan of providing permanent agricultural subsidies. Wallace recommended the plan to the house agriculture committee Thursday, saying that it would produce a more regular income for farmers than fluctuating appropriations and that it appeared far superior to other farm aid proposals. Warsaw, Ind, Feb. 16 A woman in nearby Churubusco sent 25 cents to Lee Levy, Warsaw grocer who once had a store there.

She explained that she had stolen two loaves of bread from him 11 years ago. get and still providing adequate welfare services. He said he felt it would be illegal to incur a deficit to finance welfare, as has been proposed by Emerson R. Boyles, the governor's legal adviser. Dull Picture? Indianapolis, Feb.

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