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1 THE STATE JOURNAL, LANSING, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1935 OUT OF WAR. COUGHLIN WARNS Western Civilization Can't Withstand Another Military Disaster, He Says DETROIT. March 25 (P)-The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, commenting Sunday on the European upheaval that has followed Germany's announcement that she will rearm, issued a warning to America to "remain aloof as an agitated world gropes through the appalling darkness of the clouds of war." "It is well to remember the sober words of Lloyd George," he counselled after recalling that the British man is the only survivor of the "big who drafted Versailles peace treaty.

"An old man, heavy with years then and laden with wisdom warns us that all the allies have already broken the peace treaty. Why then such passionate denunciation of Germany's transgression?" civilization." the priest said. "already tottering to its fall. cannot withstand successfully another military disaster. for America, our duty, our necessity, is to remain aloof.

Our policy is to warn France and Italy and England. who already have repudiated their just us. that we will not sustain with money; that dethem we will not supply them with munitions; that we will not comfort them with moral support as they plan to marshal their millions of men to celesuicide of civilization." publisher Coughlin of the New felicitated York David Post. the Philadelphia Record and other metropolitan papers for an editorial to the questions propounded" a week ago by Father Coughlin in a challenge to the The priest had attacked the newspapers for what he termed their silence regarding issues which the National Union for Social Justice had advanced. Coughlin is right when he says the great majority of newspapers have pussyfooted on vital issue of monetary the priest quoted from the Stern editorial.

that challenge make the siceping editors recognize their responsibility as moulders of public opinion? it does not. the conservative of America will have only itself press blame if its editorial prestige sinks lower and lower, while public opinion rallies more and more to the standards of Father Coughlin and others who cannot be dismissed by calling them Births Born, March 18, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rosendahl, at their home, 1037 McCullough street, a daughter, Loretta Gail. Deaths Miss Mary Loepke Word of the death Sunday in Detroit Miss Mary Loepke, former resident of Lansing, has been received by relaThe body was to be retives here.

moved to the Gorsline-Runciman neral home here Monday, after which funeral arrangements will be an- nounced. Mrs. Genevieve Hadden Funeral services for Genevieve Hadden, 38, of 700 Julia street, who died Friday afternoon, will be held at Palmer -O'Donnell funeral home the St. Casimir's church Tuesday to morning at 9 o'clock. Prayer service will be held at the home at 8 o'clock Monday evening.

Interment will be in Mt. Hope cemetery. Howard Frederick Horn Howard Frederick, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Horn, 921 North Cedar street, died Monday morning.

Besides the parents, the survivors are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Hyde of Lansing and Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Ringle of Gratiot county.

The body was taken to the Estes-Leadley funeral home to await funeral Arrangements. Mrs. Lottie B. Snyder Mrs. Lottie B.

Snyder, 74, died Saturday at a local hospital. She had been a resident of Lansing for the past 11 years, living here with her son. Dewey, at 1024 South Pennsylavenue. Besides the son at vania home she lived, she is survived whose. other sons, Archie of Lansing and Miles of Mason.

Funeral services will be held at the Gorsline-Runciman funeral home Tuesday afternoon at o'clock. The Rev. William B. Hartzog of Mason will officiate. Interment will be in Maple Grove cemetery at Mason.

Funerals Fred Augustus Belt Funeral services Augustus Belt, 75, of 4024 South Cedar street. who died Friday, will be held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the GorslineRunciman funeral home. The Rev. W. G.

Flowerday will officiate. Interment will be in the new Okemos cemetery. Mrs. Ellen Palmiter Funeral services for Mrs. street, Ellen miter, 72.

of 1846 Davis died suddenly at the home of her Harold. 1021 Cooper street, son, urday. was held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Palmer-O'Donnell funeral home. Interment was in Deepdale cemetery. HIT BY AN AUTOMOBILE; GIRL BICYCLIST DIES ANN ARBOR.

March 25 (P)-Margaret Wiener, 11 years old, was dead Monday of injuries received Saturday she was hit by an automobile as when, was riding her bicycle on Packard road east of Ann Arbor. Margaret was riding on the left side of the road and though Glenn Struble, driver of the automobile, swerved into the ditch rolling his machine over three times, he could not avoid hitting the child. Struble escaped injury. The child died Sunday in University hospital. MRS.

HAUPTMANN ADDRESSES CROWD Approximately 900 Hear Her In Detroit; Cash Gifts Barred DETROIT. March 25 (AP) Mrs. Anna Hauptmann continued Monday on her travels to raise funds for her husband, convicted slayer of the Lindbergh child, without the of some of the audience of 900 which heard her appeal here Sunday night. About 900 persons paid 75 cents each to hear Mrs. Hauptmann, ing in German, reiterate her belief in her husband's innocence and appeal for money which she said was necessary for his appeal from the death sentence imposed on him at Flemington, N.

J. After her speech about 200 of the audience gathered to meet her. Some attempted to contribute to her fund but were halted by Inspector Irwin Patterson. Patterson asserted that no permit to collect money had been obtained. TRAFFIC TAKES TRAGIC TOLL OVER WEEK- END (Concluded from Page internal injuries, and lacerations about the head.

Clifford Myers, 22, of R. F. D. 2. was slightly injured at 12:05 o'clock Sunday morning, when a car driven east on Cavanaugh road collided with a west-bound machine driven by Fay Gilson, 305 Cavanaugh road.

Clark Myers, 59, of R. F. D. No. 2, driver of the car in which his son was injured, told state police he was blinded by lights of the approaching automobile.

Child Hit by Machine Edward Rood. 3, of 308 Denver street. suffered a fractured leg and lacerations Saturday afternoon at 2:35 o'clock when he was struck while crossing the street in the 1700 block of South Washington avenue by a north-bound car driven by Glenn E. Slucter of the Campus hotel, East Lansing. The Rood boy was removed to St.

Lawrence hospital where his condition was described as good. Darlene Peabody, 7. of Okemas, was slightly injured at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon when she was reported to have run into the side of an automobile, Main driven street. by Stanley The Jackson, accident occurred at Grand and Michigan avenues a8 Jackson was driving north. The girl was treated at a physician's office.

Fred Kelley, 62, and Mrs. Grace Kelley, who reside at 1225. North Grand River avenue, were slightly injured shortly before 1 o'clock Sunday morning when the automobile said to have been driven by Mrs. Kelley struck a lamp post and a cement loading platform at the northwest corner of Grand River and Washington avenues. Three Drivers Arrested Ed Osman, 50, of R.

F. D. 6, Eaton Rapids, was arrested on a charge of driving while drunk at 12:47 o'clock Sunday morning after he collided with a parked car in the 1700 block of South Logan street. Osman was arrested after receiving treatment at St. Lawrence hospital for minor injuries.

Police also held J. V. Howald, 38, of 527 Clifford street, on a charge of drunk driving after his car sidewiped two parked automobiles in the 1100 block of East Michigan avenue Sunday morning at 1:25 o'clock. Joseph Green, 61. of Grand Ledge, was arrested by state police Saturday night at 9:20 o'clock at Leslie on a charge of driving while drunk.

He was held in the county jail at Mason. W. H. Tolles, 60, of 1114 Glenn street, suffered a fractured left arm and other serious injuries shortly after 9 o'clock Monday morning when he cranked his car while in gear in the 100 block of East Michigan avenue. The machine ran across the curb and pinned Tolles against the side of the American State Savings bank building.

He was taken to Edward W. Sparrow hospital where his condition was reported as serious. Durand Printer Hart Special to The State Journal: DURAND, March 25 M. L. Carrier, Durand printer, was in local hospital Monday with head face lacerations suffered late Saturday night when his automobile collided with another machine on M-78 at the intersection of Saginaw street here.

He was alone in the car. In the other machine were Robert Groat, the driver, and Miss Geraldine Castle, Miss Evelyn Adchaunbalt, and Jack Parkhurst, all of Flint. Groat suffered head injuries and Parkhurst and the two young women were bruised and shaken up. One Killed: Local Man Hurt TRAVERSE CITY. March 25 (UP) -Charles Irish, 44, Traverse City, was killed and Lloyd, Traverse City, and Arnold Jeffers, Lansing, were injured when a cab driven by Jeffers left the road and rolled over Saturday.

Jeffers' name does not appear in the city directory. NOTICE Due to a general increase of production costs and a desire to assist the newspaper boys who distribute The State Journal in Lansing and East Lansing, the weekly delivery rate of The State Journal, starting with the first of April 1935, will be 15 cents. U. M. C.

EARNINGS UP Net Sales of Units Increase 83.8 Percent and Wages 53.8 Percent, Sloan Says DETROIT. March 25-Alfred P. Sloan. president of General Motors corporation, in delivering the corporation's 26th annual report Monday pointed to the general improvement of its business. An increase in foreign sales was a large features and net earnings were up to $94,769,131 as compared with $83.213,676 in 1933.

The net sales by export corporations amounted to 220,560 units with a net wholesale value of $202.263,625. Sloan reported that this was an increase of 83.8 percent in units and 93.3 percent in sales value. Corporation sales within the United States, said the report, up 31.6 percent, the volume amounting to $843.807.849 as compared with 010,542 in 1933. The current wage scale in the poration, Sloan reported, is the highest in the history of the concern. The 1934 pay rolls, amounting to 225.

were up 53.8 percent over 1933. Sloan took a critical view of current proposals to place the regulation of all forms of transportation under a federal commission, and pointed out that even though rail regulation was originally adopted as a weapon against monopolies, present trends in regulation had interfered "seriously with free enterprise." together with bureaucracy and political considerations," said, "the factors contributing to the present situation of our railroads." "Let us restore the principle of free enterprise and encourage initiative. This is the road to progress," he said. GRATIOT FUGITIVE CAPTURED AT FARM Clayton Edgar, 23, Faces Probable Arraignment as Habitual Criminal Special to The State Journal: ITHACA, March 25-Clayton Edgar. 23-year-old former convict who broke jail here last Thursday night after being sentenced to serve 15 to 30 years in prison on a breaking and entering charge, was back in his cell Monday after having been captured Sunday morning near Breckenridge.

He will again face Judge Kelly Searl in circuit court here, this time with the new charge of breaking jail against him. It is said to be his fifth felony and he is expected to be sentenced under the habitual criminal law. Edgar was captured about 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning at the farm home of Harry Bert, living a mile south of Breckenridge near Edgar's former home. Edgar had gone to the Bert farm seeking assistance in his plan to get his wife and children from their Alma home and leave the community, it was said. The farmer summoned Sheriff William Nestle and several deputies, however, and Edgar offered no resistance when the officers arrived.

The fugitive admitted he had stolen an automobile at Ashley, driven to Freeport, and thence to Battle Creek where he stole license plates in an attempt to disguise the car, and then came back to Breckenridge, officers said. The automobile was at the farm when he was re-arrested. Edgar made his getaway from the jail Thursday night when Sheriff Nestle's attention was momentarily distracted in the jail waiting room. A drunken man was brought into the room and created a disturbance. Sheriff Nestle helped subdue the belligerent prisoner, and when he again turned attention to Edgar the young man had disappeared.

K. OF C. TEAM TO PERFORM Special to The State Journal: IONIA, March 25-Frank H. Weiczorek, recently appointed district deputy of the Knights of Columbus in the Ionia area, announced Monday that he had accepted an invitation for Ionia degree team to exemplify the third degree for a class to be inducted at Battle Creek Sunday, April 28. Funeral Service MODERATELY PRICED Dependable Your selection--with the figures before you--deter mines what the complete cost of Gors lineRunciman service will be.

GORSLIN E- RUNCIMAN MEMBER, THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN RULE Discovery Of Skeleton Ends Mystery MAYVILLE, March 25 (AP) The discovery of a swamp-hidden skeleton Sunday solved the nine-year-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of Francis Blassius, prominent Tuscola county farmer. Angus Campbell and Archie Lobdell came across the bones in a swamp about a mile from the farm house from which Blassius walked away on May 16, 1926, never to return. With the skeleton were Blassius' watch, ring and wallet. F. Jeffrey took Sheriff, Georgese and instituted a search of the ground nearby in an attempt to learn how he met his death.

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL DISAPPEARS Mary Elizabeth Reedy Missing from Farm Home Near Avoca Since Saturday PORT HURON, March 25 (AP)-Police of the Thumb district marshalled their forces over the week-end in search of 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Reedy who disappeared from her farm home at Avoca Saturday afternoon. Posses of farmers joined in the after police indicated that the circumstances of the girl's disappearance led them to believe that she might have fell the victim of a kidnaper or attacker. She was described as an attractive girl, somewhat large for her age who might have been mistaken for 14 or 15 years of age. Mr. and Mrs.

Tom Reedy, Mary's foster parents, said she left their home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon to visit friends down the road. About a mile from home she stopped to talk with an eight-year-old boy. He told police that Mary said she was going to the home of a girl friend a little farther on. The girl said Mary had promised to "be over" Saturday afternoon. She did not arrive and has not been seen by friends since.

FARMER FOUND DEAD: SUICIDE. CORONER SAYS READING, 25 (AP)-Edmund Berry, 69-year-old retired farmer, was found dead in his home here Sunday night. Coroner Frank T. Aldrich said Berry had taken his life by slashing his throat. NEWS PUBLISHER'S KIN IS KILLED BY A TRAIN DETROIT, March 25 (P)-John Nellis Jenney, 28, grandson of the late John Nellis, Mt.

Clemens newspaper publisher, was killed Sunday when he stepped in front a Michigan tral train at Riverview. Harlan McFall, foreman on the train, said he saw Jenney step on the tracks, but was not able to give a warning before the train struck him. Officers who investigated said they found A note in Jenney's clothing giving his name and directing disposition of his body and personal property. NEGRO STABS YOUTH DETROIT. March 25 (P)-Joe Masternak, 22.

was in a hospital here Monday with knife wounds suffered Sunday when he resisted three negroes who robbed him of small sum of money. DOUBLE TRAGEDY STILL A MYSTERY Survivor of Drinking Party Remains in Jail; Death Of Companions Probed GRAND RAPIDS. March 25 Albert Pendry, sole survivor of a drinking party which ended in a double tragedy last November 7, remained in jail Monday while attempted to unravel his nauthorities companions. Sheriff Hugh M. Blacklock of Kent county said Monday he "hoped to get a break" that would end the mysterious deaths of William A.

Shaw, 45, and Harry H. Smith, 45. Smith, Shaw and Pendry, all residents of the Soldiers' home in Ottawa county, bought a bottle of liquor and went to the banks of the Grand river to drink it. Neither Shaw nor Smith was ever seen again alive. Smith's body was recovered the next day, the head shoulders immersed in the stream.

The legs sprawled against the bank and apparently had not been in the water. Pendry was questioned at the time, both as to Smith's death and Shaw's mysterious disappearance. Deputy Joseph Branzki reported Pendry insisted Shaw had walked along the river bank and that Smith had followed him, fearing Shaw would fall in the river. The veil of mystery over the missing Shaw dissolved Saturday when his body was found in the stream. Two bullet holes, one in the left cheek and the other in the neck added a sinister note to the tragedy.

Officials said he had been slain. Pendry was taken into custody and questioned Saturday. Branszki indicated he would subject Pendry to further questioning Monday. NOTED KALAMAZOO WOMAN IS DEAD Dr. Caroline Bartlett Crane Was City's 'First Woman Citizen' KALAMAZOO, March 25 IA -Dr.

Caroline Bartlett Crane. Kalamazoo's "first woman citizen." died Sunday after a fall down a flight of stairs at her home. The title as the city's first woman citizen was conferred on Doctor Crane last year in recognition of her outstanding work in the suffrage ment and in civic reforms that carried her influence into 14 states. Burial will be Tuesday in Mountain cemetery, following services at Peoples church, of which she was once pastor. The Reverend Patterson, Boston, will officiate, assisted by the local pastor, Edwin Palmer.

Doctor Crane 1S survived by her husband, Dr. Augustus W. Crane. world-famous roentologist. a son, W.

Bartlett Crane, and a daughter Julianna Crane. LANSING MAN FREED OF GUN THEFT CHARGE Special to The State Journal: IONIA. March 25-Acquittal by Justice Donald M. Steele of Joseph Babcock, 30, Lansing mechanic, on a charge of larceny terminated a dispute over the return of a deer rifle that has smouldered for the past six years. In filing formal complaint against Babcock, Frank Ricker, Matherton resident.

charged the Lansing man with failure to return the borrowed weapon. Babcock countered with claims he returned the gun to a mutually agreed upon location and denied allegations of theft. GEISLER the Famous Bird Importers Present Canary Follies of 1935 7 All-Star Acts Tuesday and Wednesday SEE "The 4 Stepping Sisters" "The Canary Bike Riders' "The Canary Hitch Hikers" and other spectacular features. Free Performances 11 a. m.

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NAILS CLIPPED FREE. White Canary Given Away For the best last line to this limerick: There was a Canary named Pete Who did nothing else but eat He wouldn't sing Or do anything Fill in and bring to Lansing Dry Goods Co. Bird Show with your Name Address Do you own a Canary? Pet Shop Specials White Canaries and Living Music Boxes, understudies of the Geisler Canary $7.95 Male Rollers, guaranteed singers $4.98 Geisler's "Balanced items. Regular value $1.40 for only 98c LANSING DRY GOODS CO. State Briefs (By The Associated Press) DETROIT-Harry Thiese, 30.

died Sunday of injuries suffered when an automobile hit a safety zone post. Edward Melton, the driver, was placed under bond, charged with negligent homicide. -Employes of the Eastern Michigan railway system will meet Monday night to consider a compromise proposal by Master in Chancery William S. Sayres in their wage dispute. Sayers suggested a cash bonus and profit sharing wage scale instead of an increase in wages from 52 to 65 cents an hour.

HOLLAND -The tulip time commitof Holland announced Monday that it is completing plans for the city's annual Maytime tulip festival. The committee estimates 3.000,000 tulips will be in bloom during the fiesta, May 11-19. Clerk Takes Lein On a Boy's Happiness FLINT. March 25 tAP--City Clerk Ned J. Vermilya has a two-cent lein on a boy's happiness.

Vermilya was conducting a city auction when a small and dilapidated wagon went on the block. A small boy looked up. "Two cents," he bid. Going, going, gone." Vermilya replied in a hurry. The small boy fished in his pockets.

String. marbles, a piece of glass, a rusty key, and an eraser came forth. "Say mister," he asked, "will you trust me for the two cents?" POLICE BAFFLED BY TORSO MURDER Another Portion of Victim's Body Washed Ashore Near Buchanan, Mich. BUCHANAN, March 25 (P--The gaunt framework of the Bertrand bridge over the St. Joseph river threw another grim shadow across police records Monday as officials studied the baffling "torso" murder of an unidentified man.

Chief of Police E. D. Mitchell Buchanan found another portion of the victim's body washed near the shore at a bend in the river Saturday night. It was the upper portion of the body and gave police little help in their efforts to identify the victim. Earlier last week lower part of the body was discovered eight miles south, near Niles.

Until the head is discovered county officials have indicated their work will be hampered. The victim is believed to be a man of Latin stock, about 25 years old and weighing about 150 pounds. TRAIN INJURES BOY DETROIT, March 25 (P--Frank Pusateri, 9, was near death Monday with injuries received Sunday when he attempted to hop a ride on a freight train. The boy fell under the wheels. His right leg was cut off.

his left foot crushed. and one hip fractured. CENTER EATON GROUP TO MEET FOR DINNER CENTER EATON, March 25--The Center Eaton Woman's Home Missionary soicety will meet at the church Wednesday, March 27, at 12:30 p. for a potluck A program and box opening follow the dinmite ner. Each member is asked to bring or send her mite box.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. J. Vahs have sold their home on South Oliver street, Charlotte, to Supt.

Jay Dykehouse of the Charlotte schools. The North Eaton Thimble club will meet with Mrs. Mary Adams on Thursday, March 28. PLAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Special to The State Journal: IONIA. March 25-Over 700 rural school pupils will take part in a county music festival to be held at Riverside park here Sunday.

May 12, according to Elwood M. Brake, county school commissioner. WOMAN FACES QUIZ IN MATE'S DEATH DETROIT, March 25 (P) Detectives were to question Mrs. Laura Collins, 25, Monday, about the asphyxiation of her husband, Clay, 25. Mrs.

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