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The Herald-Press from Saint Joseph, Michigan • 120

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THE HERALD-PRESS, ST. JOSEPH, MICH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1940. PAGE EIGHT timaUd at 1400 persons in behalf dlde to at (ate Beaten Harbor Naval of the JtepttUieM Preatdential can-'armory, JANUARy- AY-eat -NOVEMBER- New Years Brings First Auto Fatality Berrien RoHi Up Republican Majority John O. Cox, nine years secretary The New Year arrived promptly hands of a friend on April 16.

Ific crash on US-31 on April 21. at the stroke of midnight and within i Oeorge D. Burdlck, 29, of Chica-I Charles R. Wlghtman, former AUGUST- IS minutes Benton Harbor bad it nit AeWian 7 Election day, Nor. Berrien roll go; and Alva F.

Curtis, 29, of Lone Benton Harbor city engineer, died Rock, Wis7 died as a result of a traf-'at his home. first fire of 1940, and Berrien county of the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce, resigned on January 10, to take a similar post at Danville, Va. Despondent over the death of his wife prompted Edward Stratton, 38, Hartford, to kill himself with mon ed up a heavy majority for the Re ru lint auto death or the year. On November 10 MUHwf, wnlek'r has no Are protection, was swept byl Heart Attick Kills Bo.rd Chirm'n from President publican ticket, down to coroner.

The entire Re MAY- The home of A. Neumann at 216 Lake avenue, Benton Harbor, was threatened by fire at 1:15 a. m. New ta-? a fir that destroyed a service publican county ticket was elected, oxide gas in his car parked at lonely headed by Al Hastings, candidate Two persons, both farm laborers, for the acceptance speech of Year morning. Select Three Rivers Girl Blossom Queen ror sheriff.

Probate Judge Malcolm met death from traffic causes in Wendell L. Wlllkle on August 17. Before daylight on New Year's day On the same day Murray D. Van Hatfield, running on a non-partisan Judicial slate, was re-elected for a third term, the first time a probate Wagoner, who later became gover Hagar park on January is. On January 17, It and 19 Ber-ren was gripped by sub-zero temperatures that kilted peach buds, euttmg the 194 crop in half.

and on May 3 Miss Esther Klann Four persons lost their lives in tlon and a blacksmith shop, A windstorm of cyclonic' proportions rocked the county on Novem-: ber 11 and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage wm done to buildings, trees and signs. Like the start of the Chicago fire, a cow kicked over a lantern In the bam at the Gustave Rosencreter nor, paid the twin cities a visit, Berrien county during August, although two murders were uncovered during the month. Those killed in traffic mishaps were James Lake, 57, and Abe Henry Snoeyink, 38-year-oia Benton Harbor factofy worker, died from Injuries sustained when he was truck down by a car driven by a tipsy driver. A coroner's Jury whitewashed the case two days later. A man dressed as a Roman Cath The badly decomposed body of Judge In Berrien waa ever elected for three consecutive 4-year terms.

two accidents with trains, and eight other persons died from traffic accidents In Berrien during May, one Steve Chepregl, 68, was found on August 17 in the shed on his farm. was selected as Miss St. Joseph. From Three Rivera on May came Miss Joan Payne, 19, selected as 1940 Blossom Queen. An estimated 200,000 persona Millard Wilson, a colored foundry Hughes, 78, both Itinerants.

Thirteen-year-old Kurt Holm worker and Benton township home of which was a head-on collision be willkie carried Berrien, the first time since 1928 that a Republican candidate for President had carried the county. Among the county officials elected was Don Pears, as olic priest, Howard A. Moore, was farm at the edge of Baroda and the owner, was fatally injured when tween two trucks in which both apprehended by twin city police on qulst, of Buchanan, won the soapbox derby at Rocky Oap park on knocked down by a car near his drivers were burned to death and January 11 for passing bad checks home on January 20. a third man died without regaining building was destroyed with a $4,000 loss. Only two Berrien auto deaths were chalked up during November.

county clerk, Congressman Clare An Investigation showed a long record and the fact he was wanted by A bearded, unkempt man with the consciousness. Hoffman was re-elected to hie fifth term from this district, by his big Those who died from accidents skin of a dog on his feet was found January 30 in a crude cave in a On November 14 Franklyn with trains were William Cereskie, He was victim of a murder that still Is a mystery. Reynolds Marks, 22, of St. Joseph, was drowned Just outside St. Joseph harbor, when the speedboat in which he was riding capsised on August 18.

On the 2trd death took Bar. win Sutherland, former Benton Harbor mayor, alderman, and three tames mih-sioswr. Nine persona were Injured, none gest majority, over 30,000. two other states for forgery. Francis J.

Plym, 70, of Niles, publisher, and president of the Kawneer company, died. 24. Mrs. Vivian Cereskie, 23, and of Chicago, was killed when his car skidded on M-80 into the path of a hillside near Lake Michigan beach. He had lived there for five months and was P.

A. Devo, a war veteran. Victoria Brown, 18, all of Harbert August 1. Clarence W. Barta, 44, former chairman of the Berrien board of supervisors, was stricken wUh a heart attack and died almost Imaiediateiy at his farm home In Lincoln township on August William Ruth.

90-year-old Benton Thlrteea-year-oM SCsHm Marti was fatally shot est Nov. 19 at ktt hoaae Pair hit by a Pere Marquette freight attended the Blossom parade on May 11, and in the evening hundreds went to the armory In Benton Harbor to hear Dr. F. E. Townsend speak on the Tows end plan.

Fred P. Rosback, banker, Industrialist, and former Benton Harbor mayor died est the morning of May 29. Unofficial census returns on the 1940 federal count-of-noses gave train on Mav 14: and Edward truck. Joseph Nurkowsky, of South Bend, was fatally injured when the car in which he was riding with companion ran Into another ear Marks who was hit by a Miichigan FEBRUARY- Central train at a crossing near his north of NHml home in Buchanan on May 17. Harbor pioneer, died on August 10.

Bainbridge Father Accidently Kills Son seriously, when two Chicago autos crashed head-on at Stanley's curve DECEMBER Benton Harbor police swooned near Twelve Corners on August 24. down on gambling spots, rounded up me body of Walter Ebelina. 31. Berrien county's population of eignt men wno peladed guilty and New York City theater Two persons were killed during February on Berrien's highways 8B2, a gain in 10 years of 7,416. $50,000 Fire In Benton Harbor were" fined in court on the 13th.

was iouno near Berrien Sennas. Other census figures announced for Those who died from auto crashes were Edward Warren, of Crawfords-ville, DeRoy Caveanous and Delmar Burkhart, of Metropolis, 111., Orlo E. Maxson and Gordon. L. Mitchell, both of Buchanan; Roy Smith, of Buchanan, William Lewis, of Watervliet.

and Mrs. Walter Clark, of South Haven. Miss Frances Forburger was chosen Benton Harbor queen on May 1 which were covered with snow and Republicans from all Darts of rifle on their farsa. Frank KeiMe, prominent Democratic leader, banker, and city official, died February I at hit home la St. Joseph.

ine two men who murdered him in units of the county were: Benton Berrien were a part of the huae Indiana and planted the body were Harbor St. Joseph Jaa iires, one auto death, and a Ice during much of the month. Those killed were John Thomar DouRherty. of New York City, hit motorcade that went to El wood sent to the Indiana penitentiary. Buchanan Niles 11,630.

To nve-year-oid murder mystery was tal population for Benton Harbor reopened in Berrien county during Within an hour after the morning while crossing a Benton Harbor street: and Jack L. Jervis, 22, son of December. and St. Joseph 25,478. SEPTEMBER- service on February 11, the 81 -year- The Herman Horace restaurant at a New Troy pastor.

old Church of Ood in Buchanan Niles was gutted by fire with an estimated loss of $9,000 on December -JUNE- money went to bring the Benton Harbor Good Fellow fund to i2.435.37. Clyde H. Young, 52, Beu Claire gasoline station operator, was shot in the back with a gun held by his wjf while they were hunting rab-! bit on December 21. Miss Jocelyn Nolan, 22, Bridgman, died December 21 of Injuries sustained when the car she was driving crashed Into a tree on US-12. south Harry Steele, 52, and Mrs.

Alice Meyers, 58, died February 2 in a fire Hitins Win. Hit Sheriff. Rice was destroyed by fire. Seventy-one persons were admit 7. Oa the 19tk the ted to citizenship by Circuit Judge Six Killed During Month In Berrien Fremont Evans on February 16.

which destroyed the hut in which they lived on the edge of Niles. Nine-year-old Harvey Fisher, Bainbridge, was fatally shot by his father who was loading a On February 22 two men held ud the Fred Standard filling station at Death stalked the highways in Harbor; Anton Shtukas, of Buchanan: and Miss Betty Whitcomb, of or St. Joseph, two days before. Buchanan and fled with $200. Hall block hi Beaton Harbor was wept by aa early morning fire that gutted the building with a Iom of mere than $50,909 and drove saore than a half doaen busineusee late other quarten.

Twin city industrial and bust- Four hundred dollars worth of cigarettes and liquor were stolen from the Griffendorf drug store in Benton Harbor on September 11. After killing his wife, Elba, during; a family quarrel, Owen E. Bell, of St Joseph, turned the shotgun on himself inflicting fatal injuries on September 32. Evans ton. 111.

On the morning of June 1 a lone June and six persons lost their lives in Berrien. One of them was George Beahrens, Kalamazoo truck driver, who burned to death in the cab following a crash on US-12 south of Three auto deaths, the primary election, two major thefts, and a campaign visit of the Republican presidential candidate, Wendell L. Willkie, figured prominently in Berrien county's news during November. Those who lost their lives on the highways were John Horvath, of SOuth Bend, and Mrs. Kenneth Griffee, of Niles, killed on different days while crossing US-31 In Nile; and Herman Stark, of St.

Jo seph, whose car hit a blinker light MARCH i i bandit held, up the Black Eagle service station in Benton Harbor nees firm paid out more than 1100,00 In Christmas bonuses te their employes, and other gifts including turkeys. December 24, the day before Guy Tyler, former Berrien county Find wo onot lo ueath in clerk, was appointed to the three member Berrien County Social Wei and fled with $446. The 21st annual encampment of Michigan Veterans of Foreign Wars opened in Benton Harbor on June 20. the twin cities on June 11. Other June auto death victims were Richard Condon, of South Bend; Robert Magnuson, of Ann Arbor; Duane Hardke, of Benton Christmas, was a busy one with fare board to replace W.

T. Parks Governor Luren D. Dickinson ap pointed Berrien's draft board, con Benton Harbor Elks entertalnina of Benton Harbor, on December 10. ststlng of B. T.

Foley and Solon 1,100 kiddies at their annual party at the Liberty theater. Twelve Only one traffic death occurred in Berrien county during March, but one murder and three suicides figured in the news. The lone auto A lone bandit held up and robbed the Producers Creamery company in Emery, of Benton Harbor, and Les ter Neuman, of St. Joseph, on Sep hundred Christmas baskets were JULY- Benton Harbor of $929.90 on De cember 10. temper 26.

distributed to needy families by welfare and religious agencies and Ed Wallace, 21, of Denver, shot to death his 19-year-eld estranged wife, Pearl, and then killed himself ia a' ear on Eastman avenue, Benton township. Charles K. Farmer, 79, former Benton Harbor postmaster and organiser of the local Naval Reserves, died in a Veterans' hospital la the East, en March 15. A balloon ascension and other death was Mrs. Frances LaLena, of Chicago, killed on TJS-12 north of Leo K.

Reier, 43, of Dayten, Ohio, the Good Fellow fund. events attracted hundreds of per? Gn Blast At Reiori Kills Three Sawyer on March 31. sons to the Farmers Fall Festival at Woodward's pavilion, oldest slipped while hoboing on a Pere Marquette passenger train at St. Howard J. Westfall, for nine years amusement place on Paw Paw lake, Joseph and sustained the lose of the Benton Harbor fruit market.

On Sept. 30 Wendell Willkie, Republican candidate for President in Edgewater. On September 9, 200 strikers at the Kawneer plant in Niles were dispersed by 75 police. Ringleaders were later fined. In a hot primary doe on Sept.

10, for the Republican nomination for sheriff, County Clerk Al Hastings captured the nomination from Sheriff Charles L. Miller, running for his fifth term, by a majority over the sheriff of upwards of 800. ana a mecca for pleasure seekers both feet on December 15. July wrote the most bloody record of any month In 1940. since 1897, was sold on December 26 Sam Tomasello, 30, of Benton Thomas Conkey, 21, was crushed to Joe Krenek who plans to move entered Michigan 'or a 2-day tour of the state.

His first stop was at Death came to 10 persons during Harbor, and Joseph Neuff, 29, of to death in a Niles freight elevator. it from the lake front to the high In charge of the county infirmary, resigned to go to Three Rivers. Forrest Brant, of St. Joseph, took his own life on March 9 by diving Into Lake Michigan from the south pier. On the same day Peter Mares, 20, an immigrant from Bohemia, shot himself to death In a barn near Stevensville.

C. B. Holmes, 93. Benton Harbor Chicago, were charged with the that month on the county's high way where it will be made into a Civil war veteran and the last com murder of a Millburg farmer, recreation hall. ways.

Those killed included Ber Niles and 5,000 Berrien Republicans turned out to hear the O. O. standard bearer make a 10-mtnute talk. August Gagliano. In February of mander of the local O.

A. R. post Mrs. Constance Wells, 22, of Mon- rien's drain commissioner, William 1935. The men were arrested De aiea Marcn 31 at the home of his Heyn, whose car was Involved In an daughter in Bloomlngton, m.

cember 16. Neuff confessed. accident on the 31st. Others who OCTOBER- mouth, 111., was fatally injured December 26 on US-12. six miles east of Benton Harbor, when her husband, Ray, attempted to pass a car and crashed Into an oncoming milk truck in a fog.

met traffic deaths during July were APRIL- of Indiana Harbor, was drowned on Independence Day. The second Paw Paw lake drowning in eight days occurred at 4 a. m. July 12 when Leonard Truhn, 21, of St. Joseph, tipped a fishing boat over.

Three persons died from borne and five others were put in Mercy hospital on 'July 25 ae a result of gas tank explosion at the Flo-Ruth resort in Beaton township. The dead: Mrs. Clara Schwartz, 52, wife of the proprietor; Henry Kading, 37, of Cassopolis; and Mis Pauline Luban, 50, a cook. July brought the death, at Marquette prison, in the upper penin Edward Barry, 66, of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs.

E. S. Hough, of Chi Berrien's Fighting Man Power Enrolled Unknown Sets Home Of Doctor Afire cago; Miss Ida B. TurnDuil, of Chi Fletcher Thompson, 59, drore hb ear onto the Michigan Central tracks a mac west of Niles and waned the arrival of the streamlined train, Mercury, which killed him Instantly. It happened December li.

Twenty-one of the larger fruit glowers In Berrien went on record December 19, as opposing the fed cago; John Payne, of New Troy; Wm. J. Johnson, of Tennessee; Three new faces were put on Benton Harbor's city commission, and upsets that were unexpected placed supervisors, Norbert Hutchlns, of Watervliet; Herman Gnodtke. of David Stringer, 53, of Detroit; Sam Schultz, 79, of Bridgman: and Wm. After-Christmas political announcement oame from two Benton Harbor attorneys, for- mer Prosecutors Charles W.

Gore and E. A. Weetin, saying that they would be candidates for circuit Judge in the February non-partisan Judicial primary. Circuit Judge Evans will be a candidate alao, asking a second term, Weesaw; and Mrs. E.

B. Storms and Three auto deaths figured prominently in Berrien's news during October. Arthur Pischke, St. Joseph youth, was knocked off his bicycle and fatally injured October 8, near his home; Emmerson Miller, a Grand Rapids truck driver, was Delllnger, 72, of Three Oaks. live new men In Berrien's political arena on the county board of su Other headline July news events pervisors at the general spring elec were: eral government's plan to construct two county migrant labor camps at a cost of $400,000.

sula, of Berrien's most famous convictFred (Killer) Burke. Burke, a tion, April l. George Hayden, colored Benton Harbor factory worker, stabbed his member of the Al Capone gang of Elected to the Benton Harbor city commission were Thomas Oreen, killed on October 17 when his truck crashed into a tree on US-12 south While crossing a Held near her farm near Galien during a storm on October 6, Mrs. Emma Striding, 32, waa struck by a bolt of lightning and instantly killed. The body of John J.

Polerecky, 43, Chicago tailor, was found hanging from a tree near Union Pier on October 10. He was a suicide. On October 16 some 12,000 Berrien men between 21 and 35 registered at polling places for compulsory military training service. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan's senior senator, spoke to a crowd es- estranged wife to death and within As December ended, 590 eases of Chicago, was serving a life sentence for the murder of Policeman a few hours confessed the murder of St.

Joseph; and on October 26 measles were reported in St. Jo Miss Anna McBrlde, both of Niles. The roster contained 27 Republican supervisors and 12 Democrats. On April 13 'a mysterious fire ef Ineendiary origin threatened the North Shore drive home of Dr. and Mrs.

Boston Sowers and Its occupants. The mystery was never unravelled. Floyd Sampson, 17, of Niles, was fatally shot by a rifle held in the on July 2. Charles Skelly of St. Joseph.

Burke seph. Roman I. Jarrie, former Benton Harbor postmaster and for 00 years a leading figure Berrien's Democratic politics, died In his 89th year. From the White House came a wire ef condolence to the family. The annual Benton Harbor Ex A barn, tools and livestock valued Preparing to leave the sheriff's of died of a heart attack, his death closing the career of one of the William J.

Cleary, George Culver-house, Elmer Ormlston, Myron Becker, and Charles L. Peapples. Elected from the city to the board of supervisors were Stanley Stock, William Weber, Ray Neary, and E. Barry. The latter was a new member who Joined four other new at more than $15,000, were burned up on the Albert Veeder farm In fice after serving for eight years.

Sheriff Charles L. Miller was ac most notorious gangster killers who George King, 55, of New Buffalo was killed instantly by a hit and run driver on US-12 in that village. Despondency prompted George J. Tanczyn, 56, to hang himself in the garage of his farm home on Napier avenue, Fair Plain, on October 5. Sodus township, also on July 2.

corded a farewell party by hia came out of the prohibition-rum running and bootlegging days of When his boat capsized in Paw change club's newspaper sale netted friends, on Dec. 27, and presented with a gold watch. t.ri the hectic 1920's. Paw lake, Sylvester Sackowtzz, 26., $1,000.14, the largest on record. The -JANUARY- APRIL- MCKAY INDICTED Frank Murphy Appointed To U.

S. Supreme Court Former Detroit Mayor Indicted By U. S. Jury men of Michigan of the 32nd division were sent to Camp Beauregard, La. Representatives of Michigan members of the C.

I. O. passed a resolution deploring John L. Lewis' endorsement of Wendell Willkie, and promised "every effort to reelect President Roosevelt. Ex-Governor Frank Murphy was appointed an associate justice of the United States supreme court, berg touched off the Michigan order received from the National Defense Commission, "We are not doing business with the British, or taking office at the age of 46.

Petitions were circulated In Ber campaign in Lansing for the elec tlon of Wendell L. Willkie, who de JUSTICE POTTER DIES NOVEMBER rien and Oakland counties request any other foreign government. John Kasap and John Kurzaw, held In Detroit, confessed the slaying of Dorsey E. Bowman and Philip G. Loyst to secure money from the sale of their cars.

Fire and explosion destroyed the New York Central railway station and the Allegan County Farmers Co-Operative at Allegan. Grand Jury warrants issued In Detroit involved former Mayor Richard W. Reading in a corruption conspiracy charge. The Michigan Merit Svstem au- feated him for the Republican ing Attorney General Thomas Read Willkie Carries Michigan Van Wagoner Is Elected Reuben Smith, former Detroit Presidential nomination at Phila delphia. to start proceedings to dissolve the policeman, a fugitive from the Pontiac asylum, slashed his wife to Michigan apple commission.

Four Detroiters, including Wil order to test Michigan's laws of succession, appointed Mrs. Mathilda R. Wilson of Rochester lieutenant-governor. Frank D. McKay, Republican national committeeman and former state treasurer, was indicted by a special federal grand jury on the charges of an attempted $300,000 fraud in connection with a Grand Rapids bond issue In 1938.

McKay called the indictment 'a' frame-up." Dr. John F. Thomas, president of the Michigan Education association died on Nov. 20 from injuries received in an automobile accident which took two other lives. When the Michigan deer hunting -season ended on Nov.

30 the Conservation department announced it was the worst in years from the standpoint of hunting casualties. -Twenty-nine hunters were killed and 66 wounded. The navigation season of 1340 ended officially on Nov. 30 on the Great Lakes, the Detroit river, the gateway to the Great Lakes, having seen one of the busiest seasons in its history. 24 Sault Ste.

Marie, the coldest spot in the United States, recorded death in Marine City. liam B. Maycock, pilot, died in an WTWT I LAJLu JULY Killer Fred Burke Dies At Marquette State Prison ciation took the first formal step in a campaign designed to write civil service into the constitution. a temperature of 34 degrees. Infantile paralysis struck swiftly in the upper peninsula, with 11 cases reported within two days.

Barry county authorities prepared to prosecute Calvin Wagner, tenant farmer, oh charges of murdering Mrs. Emma Travis Miller, Kalamazoo widow. Forty residents and euesta es airplane crash near Casey, I1L Michigan and Wisconsin state officials signed a motor vehicle pact granting full reciprocal privileges to licenses of both states. 22 Chase Osborn, former governor of Michigan, observed his 80th birthday. United.

States and Canadian of The Most Rev. Joseph Gabriel Pinten, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Grand Rapida since 1926, resigned. Michigan went to the polls on Nov. 5 and gave its Presidential vote to Wendell Willkie, the first time since 1928 the state had gone Republican nationally. Willkie carried the state over President Roosevelt by a majority of 6,826, according to thcofficial count.

The total vote was defeated by State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wag ficials began rigid enforcement of caped from the Hotel Chief Tecum-seh, when the hotel was destroyed by fire. new immigration restrictions at border ports. SEPTEMBER MAY Fred (Killer) Burke, gangland FEBRUARY i. yf 1 Republicans Bolt Boss Rule At Fall Meet Ford Declares He Can Make lfiOO Planes Daily desperado, slayer of Policeman Michigan Republicans Hail Vandenberg For President The Detroit Free nreu was aiilrl oner, Democrat, by 131,291.

Other FRANK McKAY Political sensation In Mich Iran in state officials elected were: Attor DECEMBER- Supreme Court Holds Peaceful Picketing Legal ney General Herbert J. Rushton, by its owner, E. D. Stair, to John S. Knight, publisher of the Akron, Beacon-Journal and the Miami.

1940 was the indictment of Frank Herald. McKay of Grand Rapids by a federal grand jury on Charges alleging 10 Governor Luren D. Dickinson and Murray D. Van Wagoner, state high commissioner, Won the Republican and Democratic nominations for governor with overwhelming pluralities in the primary election. Winners in the line-up for lieutenant-governor were: Dr.

Eugene C. Keyes, Dearborn Republican; Detroit business leaders estimat that he participated in a shakedown Charles Skelly of St. Joseph, died in Marquette prison of a heart attack. The WPA in Michigan, in line with extensive Army plans, was notified to begin construction work at Camp Custer to accommodate most of the Army's fifth division. "Giant? Robert Wadlow, 22, 8 feet 94 inches tall, died in Manistee as a result of a foot infection while on a tour.

Petitions in Michigan's guberna ed $50,000,000 worth of orders for defense eauiDment to rtonr into of commissions taken from firms selling liquor to the Michigan liquor Michigan manufacturing centers. commission. McKay, Republican national committeeman and long a Michigan Republicans launched Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg as a promising candidate for the promising candidate for the party's Presidential nomination. Governor Luren B.

Dickinson refused to remove Wayne county prosecutor Duncan C. McRea, indicted for an alleged baseball pool conspiracy. Claude S. Carney, prominent Kalamazoo Democrat and member of the state liquor control commission, died at the age of 61. warren uunes site in Berrien county, was listed to receive a portion of the S2.000.000 annrnnrintinn LATE JUSTICE POTTER Member of the Michigan supreme Frank Murphy, Detroit Democrat leading figure in Michigan politics, was indicted with several others for state park development.

court and one of the state's widely whose trials are scheduled for early in 1941. suspected Fifth Column" activity was blamed for the fatal shooting of Orman HeDDenstall nv rivrie known lawyers, Justice Potter died in July from injuries received in an automobile wreck. For U. S. Senator: Frank Fitzgerald, Detroit Democrat; U.

S. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican. Michigan stepped in its national defense preparataions by setting OCTOBER Republican; a Treasurer Theodore I. Fry, Democrat; Auditor General Vernon J.

Brown Republican, re-elected; Supreme Court Justice Emerson R. Boyles, Republican; United States Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican, re-elected by 113,000 majority. Lieutenant-Governor Frank Murphy, Democrat. Michigan voters also adopted a constitutional amendment providing for a civil service system in the employment of employes In state departments.

Grover M. Rouse close political friend of Governor Luren D. Dickinson, died following the defeat both of the governor and of the bus referendum he championed. Trygve Berg Johnson of Grand Traverse county was given three years in federal prison by Federal Judge Fred M. Raymond, as Michigan's first draft dodger, on Armistice day.

Violent winds uprooted trees. Bittenbender, chief pattern maker Michigan National Guard Called Out For Training in a sparta lactory. Henry Ford declared the Ford Motor company could nrodnee 1- torial race were filed by Attorney General Thomas Read, Melville McPherson, O. S. Smith, Chares Renaud, Governor Luren B.

Dickinson, State Treasurer Miller Dunckel, Ernest T. Conlon and Roscoe Conkling Fitch. AUGUST Under the revised apportionment according to the growth In popu-i latlon recorded by the 1940 census, Michigan gained one seat in the House of Representatives. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced to waterway conferenco in Detroit he would ask Congress to approve a treaty with Canada for completion of the St.

Lawrence-Great Lakes seaway. Loss of more than $65,000 was Involved in the raging, uncontrolled fire from Michigan's deepest test oil well near Bay City. The Michigan supreme court brought state law into line with federal decisions, reversing its 42-year old verdict that peaceful picketing was Illegal. Lieut. Harold Mulbar, director of State Police investigation of sub- versive activities, announced that industrial sabotage and espionage exists continually In Michigan and Is being investigated quietly by the State Police "fifth column" detail.

GUS T. Hartman. Rennhltrnra MARCH- 000 planes daily within six months, Governor's Wife Dies; Strait 8 Bridge Approved aaaing mat -government meddling be forbidden. Gov. Dickinson Suspends Wayne County Prosecutor Henry Ford, on his 77th birthday June July 30, said, "I waa never more confident than I am today that future will bring happiness to our Gov, Dickinson Decides To Make Another Campaign up a state-wide system of draft boards! Govern Luren D.

Dickinson authorized 300 names for final federal approval on 196 Michigan draft boards. In their state convention at Grand Rapids, Republicans ejected the politically powerful Edward D. Barnard and denied Frank D. McKay, his ally, the right to Impose his will in shaping the ticket. Nominations were: Herbert J.

Rushton, attorney-general; Harry F. Kelly, secretary of state; Vernon J. Brown, auditor-general; Senator Felix H. Flynn, treasurer; Emerson R. Boyles for short term as supreme court justice.

Dr. Eugene Keyes, candidate for lieutenant-governor, was seriously in lured in an auto accident smith Betty Wilson at a Willkie demonstration in Detroit received a fractured skull when hit by-a metal wastebasket thrown "in a spirit of fun" by Doris La Rue, employe of the Federal Housing administration. A state-wide police search for Common Pleas Judge Robert E. Sage followed a shooting in the Judge's Detroit office, which left two dead and one injured in an argument over a court decision. Sage's body was found in the Detroit river.

Registration of young men eligible for the first peace time draft found thousands of men between the ages of 21 and 35 lined up in Michigan. Michigan's toll from heat and drownings during a 10-day heat wave, stood at 89. Locks at Sault Marie closed to the public, on order of the war department. Congress approved legislation enabling Michigan to proceed with plans for a four-mile bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, at an estimated cost Of $26,740,030. 8 Mrs.

Luren D. Dickinson, wife of Gov. Dickinson died at her farm home near Charlotte at the age of 79. The state moved to take over the $8,000 estate built up in prison by Governor Luren B. Dickinson suspended Duncan C.

McRea, Wayne county prosecutor. Gus T. Hartman, state budget director, rejected a $50,000 request from the Michigan Tourist and Resort associations. More' than 800 licensed drinking places faced automatic loss of state permits, due to delinquent taxes or unsavory reputations. Naval Reserve officials and police investigated the death of Mi-s Charlotte Cranson.

following an unauthorized visit aboard the U. S. 8. Dubuque at Detroit. smashed buildings, swamped vessels on the Great Lakes aa freezing weather gripped Michigan In the most violent wind storm In many years.

Sixty-five lives were lost on the lake, four ships sunk; five ships were grounded, five damaged. people." Two training airplanes collided In the air over Detroit, killing John W. Stevenson, instructor for the Civil Aeronautics authority. William W.Potter, one of the best known members of the Michigan supreme court, died on July 21. Death resulted from injuries received In an automobile smashup.

Justice Potter was one of Michigan's best known lawyers. Three years ago he suffered a severe heart attack, but recovered to return to state budget director, tendered his resignation to Murray D. Van Wagoner, Democratic governor-elect. Investigators In Port Huron and Canada sought solution of a suspected case ol sabotage of airplane motors consigned from an American manufacturer to a Canadian aircraft firm. Governor Luren B.

Dickinson announced his candidacy for a second term, and petitioned the War department to allocate a complete regiment of coast artillery and anti-aircraft unit to be established in Detroit. Henrj Ford stated, regarding an Dr. Robert S. Shaw. nresfHpnt Clyde Cross, Pentwater man Michigan State college, resigned.

who "fears no weather" rescued 17 crew members from the foundering Novadoc in his fishing tug In the storm. iiia sun-in-iaw. John A. Hannah was appointed to succeed him. Michigan's Christmas toll of violent deaths reached 14.

Nine were traffic accidents. tne late rred Burke. U. S. Senator Arthur H.

Vanden- ilia wii iiic m-iivu, ill; no a' I en a state funeral at Lansing, of Lowell. More than 7,000 National Guards- Governor Lurea B. DicUstaon, in.

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