The Herald-Press from Saint Joseph, Michigan • 5

TOLL IS SET AT SEVEN; PROBES OPENED Fear More Victims of Powder Plant Explosion May Succumb NEW KENSINGTON, July 19 (UP)-The death toll in last night's explosion at the Logans Ferry plant of the United States Aluminun company mounted to seven today, with the death of four more victims. Two men were found dead in the debris of the plant, which is a subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America; another died a short time later at the Citizens General hospital and the other four died the night and morning at the during, hospital. The powder plant, located on the Allegheny river about mile below New Kensington, was wrecked by the blast, which was heard over an area of many miles in this district. Tragic scenes followed the explosion as rescuers searched the ruins for the dead and injured. Trucks were used as ambulances to rush the injured to the hospital.

An investigation was started to determine the cause of the explosion. WIFE'S SERVICE LOST; HE SUES LIVERPOOL, lawsuit in which a husband claimed damages for the loss of his wife's company and services due to an automobile accident was admitted to trial during the assizes here. The wife of Thomas Dobson, a furniture dealer, previously had been awarded 1,500 pounds for injuries received when run down by the motorcar of M. Gordon. Medical evidence showed Mrs.

Dobson- was a semi-invalid for life and had teen driven almost to idiocy. Dobson's lawyer contended the money did not compensate the husband for the losses he had sustained through the accident and demanded remuneration from Gordon. the judge held the claim admissable, the jury verdict favored Gordon. DETROIT MAN RUNS AWAY AND LEAVES FAMILY DESTITUTE DETROIT, July 19 the uniform cap and heavy blue suit of the Detroit Street railway, with whom he had been employed as a conductor, George Oliver, 36, disappeared from his home three months ago, leaving his wife and three daughters in destitute circumstances. Two weeks after he left, he ran into his eldest daughter near her school and told her he would return home that night.

Nothing has been seen of him since. His family is in great need. JACKSON. MAN DIES AT MANISTEE TODAY MANISTEE, July 19. W.

Herrick, 61, retired merchant of Jackson, who was touring the state with his wife for his health, was stricken at the Orchard Beach state park early this morning and died shortly after of cerebral hemorchage. Cotton Fiber in Tires 30 by automobile tire tains 1,723 miles of cotton fibre. LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF A class of 22 candidates was initiated when a regular meeting of Lake View Aerie, No. 425, Fraternal Order of Eagles, was held last night at their hall in the post office building. During the business session plans were made for a picnic to be held on Sunday, August 25, the place to be, announced later.

This picnic is the first to be held by the lodge in several years. A lunch was served following the business session. The next regular meeting of the lodge will be held Thursday, August 1. Eagles Initiate Class' of 22 Attend Chiropractors' Meeting Dr. and Mrs.

J. E. Bacheller of State street, and Dr. and Mrs. C.

B. McDonald, of Benton Harbor, were among those who attended the meeting of the Berrien County Chiropractors' association last night, at Barron Lake, near Niles. Members and their wives, numbering 16, enjoyed dinner at the West Shore hotel, followed by dancing at the pavilion. Arrangements for the outing were in charge of Dr. and Mrs.

Max Kasler of Niles. The next meeting of 'the association will be held August 29 at Buchanan. Home From Battle Creek Howard J. Newland, one of the owners of the W. G.

Newland and Sons' furniture stores in St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, has been removhis home on Colfax avenue, Benton Harbor, from the Battle Creek sanitarium where he nas been patient for treatment for the past several weeks. Spend Summer Months Here Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rosenberg, of Peoria, have arrived to spend the summer months here as the guests of Mrs.

W. B. Church and daughter, Miss Bernice Church, of 900 State street. Mrs. Rosenberg and Mrs.

Church are sisters-in-law. Attends Lakeside Camp Meeting Mrs. Alfred L. Anderson, of 512 Wayne street, left yesterday afternoon for Brighton, where she will attend the Lakeside Camp meeting. She is attending the convention as a delegate from the Women's Missionary society of the First Evangelical church.

She plans to be gone until next week. GREEN OFF TO SPEND WEEK IN THE NORTH LANSING, July 19 Fred W. Green left Lansing today for a five-day stay in the northern part of the state. Tomorrow and Sunday he will be at Grayling to review troops at the citizens military training camp; Monday he will attend a meeting of the state hospitai board at Traverse City. THE HERALD-PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1929.

LAST OF CAFE GANG NABBED BY OFFICERS Detroit Bandit Arrested After a Search of Three Months July 19 last of the recently prominent "Cafe gang," Anthony Tomala, alias Pete, was nabbed at Port Austin last night, after a three months' quest by detectives. Tomala was the last of a mob of six who prior to their apprehension by city police raised considerable turmoil among shoe store, drug store and restaurant proprietors. Joe Woznicki, Walter Dudo and Joe Smuskiewicz, are already serving 10 to 20 years sentences while Frank Tomala and Barney Carnecki face trial on July 23. They are all members of the Cafe gang. FAIL TO FIND SLAYER OF DETROIT MYSTIC DETROIT, July 19 a quiz of several hundred persons in the Italian district, police reported today they had no new information regarding the axe slayer of Benjamin Evangelist, cult leader and healer, his wife and four children.

Fifty detectives and patrolmen from the homicide, crime, bomb and blackhand squads are working on the case. The murders were committed two weeks ago. A WORD TO THE WISE VESTERAAS, Sweden. (UP). warning to the public to keep off the streets while a young woman was taking her driver's test appeared recently in a morning paper here.

The advertisement read: is requested to leave the streets today between 11:30 and 12:30. Margit is getting her driver's license." The notice was signed with the name and address of Margit's proud parents. AIR LINE TO SIBERIA MOSCOW, distance between Moscow and Irkutsk in Siberia, five days by train, can now be done in 35 hours of flying time. The air route has just been opened. There will be three planes leaving Moscow for Irkutsk every week.

Birds' Longevity The life of doves and pigeons in general is about 10 to 15 years. In captivity under favorable circumstances these birds might live a longer time. SNOOK TRIAL JUDGE Judge Henry L. Scarlett presides at the trial, July 22, of Dr. James H.

Snook, former Ohio State university professor at Columbus, charged with the murder of Miss Theora Hix, his medical student sweetheart. WOMAN BEATS TWO COPWOMEN; POLICE TO PROBE AFFAIR DETROIT. July 19 police order loomed today in the arrest of Marie Hesky, who bested two police women in a fight, following an order by Recorder's Judge Thomas Cotter, who severely censured the "common practice of arresting people on investigation." Addressing Violet Kidder and Mrs. Cecilia Shorts, police women who fought with Miss Hesky when they arrested her, Judge Cotter remarked: "It's becoming a common practice, isn't it, arresting people without charging them? I think it is, and it's a bad one." Miss Hesky, it is charged, was drunk when the police women came along. Today, before Judge Cotter, Miss Hesky was held for one week under $500 bond for assault and battery.

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Is Now Completed TORS rerefrigerator styles! door sizes! TROOST BROS. GEORGE MAST BURIED TODAY A large congregation was present at Trinity Lutheran church this afternoon for the funeral of George Mast, who had resided for about six years in St. Joseph to where he had moved from Bridgman. The Rev. Louis Nuechterlein offciated at prayers at the Mast home, 707 Pine street, at 1:30, conducting rites at the church at 2 o'clock.

The casket, covered with a huge spray of flowers, was carried by five sons nephew. They were Lloyd 'Mast, nephew, and William Claude and Jesse Mast and Herman and Carl Reck. Burial was in the cemetery at Bridgman. NEW YORK, exports will be close to $5,400,000,000 this year for the fiscal year 1928-29, the highest since 1920, according to the estimate of the National Foreign Trade Council. This means that at the dollar value of 1913 we are shipping more than 40 per cent more goods abroad than before the war.

The export balance will be close to a billion dollars or about one-third larger than for the average of the past five years. ACCEPTS $800 FOR DEATH OF HUSBAND PONTIAC, July 19 Margaret Engleman, has acceptea $800 to settle her suit for $25,006 against Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller, for the killing of her husband, John, by an automobile driven by Mrs. Miller on Oct.

4, 1927. The case was to come up again at the next session of circuit court. BULLET -LOADED BODY IDENTIFIED IN DETROIT DETROIT, July 19 bullet-loaded body, found on Buckingham road July 4, was identified yesterday as that of William Phillips, 26, believed by police to have been rum-runner. Identification was made by a former roomer, at Phillips' home. folly Valant, wife, who for left a early vacation, this month wired last night she was hurrying here to take care of the body.

NO DISSATISFACTION with rooms, apartments or jobs would exist if everyone made use of the classifled section. RATTLER BITES BERRY PICKER Bulletin Two important spray bulletins were issued to Berrien county peach and mellon growers today by County Agricultural Agent Harry J. Lurkins. They read as follows: Peach growers: Spray or dust all varieties of peaches now for scab, brown rot and the fungus that makes leaves drop. Spray with dry mix 7, of sulphur the 1929 lime spray (See cal- sec15, page endar) or dust with sulphur dust (with fluffer).

Lead arsenate should not be necessary at this time. Any of the commercial materials containing sulphur without poison should give good results. Varieties subject to brown rot should be sprayed or dusted with above materials again about 10 to 15 days before picking. Remember to put in cover later than the first week of August. Melon growers: Spray now to control bacterial wilt, anthracnose, angular leaf spot and downy mildew.

Use 6- 12-100 Bordeaux with high pressure and cover the underside of leaves AS much possible. Remove the wilted cHines from the field as they appear. If aphids appear on any hills, bury them with the entire plant right there. Files Divorce Bill Charging that his wife left for Canada with her former husband and that she conspired to defraud him 15 acres of his farm, James Hutchinson, a Benton township farmer, today filed a bill for divorce in Berrien county circuit court against his wife, Mable Hutchinson. They were married in South Bend, and have no children.

According to the bill complaint filed by Attorney Wilbur M. Cunningham, who represents the plaintiff, Mrs. Hutchinson left recently with her former husband for Canada, but before leaving she sold the 15 acres of his farm he deeded to her. He asks that the deed be set aside after the money paid by the purchaser is returned. Drivers Fined Three persons were fined $1 for all right parking, according to the records at the manager's office today.

J. F. Plotts the fine of $1 and the towing charge of $1. Two others paid similar amounts, but their names were not learned. Recovering From Heart Attack Mrs.

Samuel H. Bransky, who suffered a heart attack early yesterday morning at her home on the Lake Shore drive, was reported to be somewhat impoved today. She is the wife of the well known twin city fruit broker. She is being cared for by her daughter, Mrs. M.

A. Michaelson, who with her son, Richard, is visiting here from Chicago. Dr. C. W.

Merritt is the attending physician. Gain Recognition at College' Dr. Henry W. Church, a former well St. Joseph resident, and Mrs.

Church are meeting with much success at Allegheny College at Meadville, where the former is an instructor. "Dr. and Mrs. Church and their son, William, appeared in a concert this month as a feature of the college summer session. The program consisted of vocal solos by Mrs.

Church, who is gifted with beautiful alto voice; organ selections by Dr. Church, also a talented flute cian; by and William several Church. numbers Dr. on Church, the who is the son of Mrs. W.

B. Church of 900 State street, has the the romance languages at the college. Gets Kazoo Post Ira Wagner, former clerk of Berrien county, today was appointed district manager of southwestern Michigan district for the Associates Investment company, of South Bend, Indiana. Wagner's headquarters will be Kalamazoo. His office will be located in the Peck building of that city.

He will move from Buchanan to Kalamazoo this week. Five Jailed Four negroes and a Mexican were arrested on charges of train riding by Fere Marquette Railroad Detective Rice at New Buffalo. They were sentenced to serve 15 days each at the county jail by Justice George Rose of New Buffalo. Those arrested were: Roosevelt Bass, 23, Indiana Harbor; Klein Henison, 21, Kansas City; Thomas, 29, Washington, D. Robert Wright, 39, Nashville; and J.

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E. Bryant attended him. The Indian's condition is not serious. Bogile is one of 50 Calhoun and Cass Indians engaged in picking berries. A companion killed the snake.

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