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of of of THE SEBEWAING BLADE the raid bushel VOLUME 49 EIGHT PAGES treme SEPEWAING, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939 NUMPER 45 ends." To Start Laying of Water Mains First Shipment of Pipe Expected Next Week. A marked increase in activity in connection with the WPA waterworks project here in another week is indicated with announcement by Wm. A. Shepherd, resident WPA engineer, that the W. L.

Johnson general contractors, of Toledo, have ordered four carloads of water and that the material is expected to arrive here next week. This shipment represents approximately one-sixth of the eight and onehalf miles of mains that will comprise distribution system. The contractor will also have a trenching machine here by the first of the week so that the work of laying mains may be started immediately upon arrival of the initial shipment of pipes. The first line of the main will be laid from the No. 1 well on East Main Street directly west to the water tower site opposite the Municipal Light Plant.

A special electric line to the well is now under construction under the supervision of H. J. Davis, light plant superintendent. The water pump for this well arrived a few days ago and pumping op-' erations will be possible shortly. The last of the four concrete piers for the water, tower was poured Thursday, and it is expected that work on the erection of the steel tower will be started by next week also.

Phelps Not to Spend Summer in County Huron City Church Will Miss Summer Sermons. William Lyon Phelps, professor emeritus of English literature of Yale University, has announced that he would not spend this Summer at his home at Huron City. His decision came after the unexpected death of his wife, Mrs. Annabel Hubbard Phelps, at their home New Haven, recently. "This will be the first time since 1928 that Prof.

Phelps has not been in Huron County, where he has preached every Sunday for many seasons. Prof. Phelps first came to Huron City in 1883 and, with Mrs. Phelps, Summer had there spent since that nearly timevery Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Hornbacher and daughter, Elaine, Mr. and Mrs. Leeland Gallow and son, Patrick, LISE and Mrs. Herman Gallow spent on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.

Miles Barrie in Detroit. Except The second meeting of the Seday evening at the home Wilbewaing 4-H Club was held? Monmer Gettel. Wilbert Binder showed the good and bad points of were cattle served judging. at the Refreshments meeting. The next meeting will be held at the home of Nelson Kuehn, at which time each member is to tell something about his project.

The membership drive will, close May 15, this date marking beginning of the dairy projects. All old and new members are asked to attend all of the club's meetings. Accident Kills Unionville Youth Son of Charles Gall is Victim. Carl Gall, 17, son of Charles Gall, Unionville village president and manager of the Unionville Lumber died Friday morning in the Unionville Hospital of injuries suffered Thursday evening when the automobile which he was a passenger crashed into a culvert five miles west of Unionville on the Bay Park road. Three other youths, all of Unionville, were injured and two others, including the driver, Richard Strieter, 16, were unhurt.

The six boys were on their way home after a fishing trip at Bay, Park when the accident happened. The injured were: Carl Fox, 17, who suffered face and head cuts; Harold Bauer, 14, half-brother of the dead youth, who received severe head injuries, and Matt Koreck, 15, who received a bad cut over the right eve. Blaze Hoffenberger, 19, was the other passenger who was not hurt. The dead youth was vice-president of this year's Unionville high school senior class and would have been graduated in June. Besides his father and step-mother he leaves two sisters, Jacqueline Gall and Mrs.

Joyce Bechtel, a sister, Jacqueline Bauer, a halfbrother, Harold Bauer. Funeral services were held Monday, afternoon at the Unionville Lutheran church and burial was in Immanuel Lutheran cemetery, Sebewaing. Rev Wilkening of Unionville officiated." F. C. Gillman left last Thursday to visit a short time in Detroit before returning to his home at Glacier Park, Mont.

Mr. Gillman had spent most of the Winter at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Ritsema. FRESH PICKERAL full-course dinner 50c, at St. Francis Auditorium, Pigeon, this Friday, Apr.

28, at 5:30 p. m. Charley Forge will serve them without bones. 45t1c Washington Diplomatic Front Burning Midnight Oil 4-H CLUB NEWS Our Washington Letter ical supplied through the medium By National Editorial Association of one agency than though the Special to The Blade medium of a half-dozen agencies." Washington, April 27 Lights burning in imposing government office buildings these nights represent something more than janitors and scrub women on a cleanling jaunt. The midnight mazdas are indicative of a nation on the alert in a history-making crisis.

Decoying experts with their books of mysterious symbols scan the cablegrams from American agents overseas so that officialdom may be kept abreast or ahead of world developments. Diplomats find it advisable to beat foreign news correspondents to the cables with facts for the guidance of the President and his counsellors. Just now everybody is on their toes awaiting inside tips the trend of Hitler's fateful 5 spech to the Reichstag next Friday. State Department officials who are great gadabouts in the social sphere cancelled many important dinner dates this week. They were reported in constant touch with the ambassadors and other embasattaches here to check on cablegrams from our observers abroad.

The entire diplomatic colonly has displayed uneasiness as the time approaches for Hitler's response to President Roosevelt's Is message. The feeling at present that the dictators will be obdurate with an eye to some facesaving gestures rather than risk war. It is admitted that the encirclement policy of the British government has not been as successful as alleged owing to the unIf we certainties of the Russian angle. pass the next week-end withwarlike moves on the out Eurothat pean checker-board it believed the flood the danger will have passed stage. On the domestic front, the wrangling in the Senate and House devoted to phases of mental priation for and govern- approthe next fiscal year thrown into the pot agricultural for spice.

problem The proposed establishment of a PubWorks Agency calling for merger of W. P. the Works a Progress Administration, the NaC. C. the Bureau Administration, the Youth Roads and the Procurement of Public vision has stirred bitter feuds.

Diplan is The Special Committee by to the Investigate Senate Unemployment and Relief with the furnished by explanation the that United "the States aid more to provide work can Government efficiently and econom- Lutheran Churches Observe Centennial To Hold Special Services Next Sunday. All Missouri Synod Lutheran churches in the neighborhood, with 4,000 sister churches in the Synod, will hold special services on Sunday in commemoration of the centennial of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States. Local Churches participating are: Immanuel of Sebewaing; St. John's of Kilmanagh; St. Peter's of Bach; St.

Paul's of Unionville: St. Paul's of Linkville, and Christ of Owendale. The Missouri Synod, with a membership of one and one-third million souls, had its beginning in the immigration from Saxony, Germany, of 665 Lutherans in 1839. Unable to worship God in their homeland according to the Lutheran faith, these sturdy people chartered five ships and came to the United States because this country guaranteed them religious liberty. They settled in and near St.

Louis, and soon made their presence felt among the Lutherans in the United States by the introduction of a truly democratic form of church government and life. The rapid growth of their denomination has been in part due to its democratic form of church government, according to which each congregation is sovereign. The synod is only an advisory body. The Saxon immigrants came to America with the intention never to return to their native land. They came to stay and from the very beginning they looked upon America as their homeland to which they owed allegiance.

Dr. Walther, great leader of these Saxon Lutherans, in a sermon preached on the Fourth of July fourteen years after the immigration, declared: "Thrice blessed may this day be! On it the foundation of a State was laid in which freedom of religion and conscience has been made a principle of government. Blessed be this land in which we enjoy this freedom. As citzens of this countriy, let us work zealously, fight bravely, and, if need be, shed our blood cheerfully that this country may remain a free country and that it may above all retain the golden crown of its freedom, namely religious liberty." A thank offering for home and foreign missions will be taken in all of the participating churches. Father Hafner to Speak at Harbor Beach May 4 Seventh District Legion Convention to be Held in That City.

Burhans-Hagedon Post No. 197 at Harbor Beach will be hosts to the Seventh District American Legion convention to be held at Harbor Beach on the evening of Thursday, May 4. The banquet will start at 7 o'clock. Rev. Fr.

A. P. Hafner, of Sebewaing, past State American Legion chaplain, will give the main address. His subject will be "Americanism." Separate meetings of the Legion and Auxiliary will be held after the program and the evening will wind up with a dance starting at 9:30. All events of the convention will be held in the Harbor Beach Community House.

KUHL-BUEHLER WEDDING Miss Ruth Kuhl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Kuhl, and Carl son of Mr. and Mrs.

John Buehler, were united in marriage Kithsanash afternoon at the Lutheran parsonage by Rev. A. D. Stoskopf. Their attendants were, Mabel, sister of the groom, William Kuhl, brother of the bride.

Following the ceremony, dinner was served for the immediate families at the home of the bride's parents. A Proclamation Know All Men, Women and Children By these Presents: That, WHEREAS, the health, happiness, life safety and general welfare of each citizen are dependent upon existing living conditions, and WHEREAS, the lives and property of our people are endangered by fire caused by rubbish accumulations in factories, homes, alleys and streets, and WHEREAS, a city is judged largely by its general appearance of cleanliness, freshness, and beauty, WHEREAS, sandye can benefit the unemployed by creating jobs for needy improvements, NOW, THEREFORE, I Florando Schweitzer, President, do hereby designate the week of April 24 as Fire Prevention Clean-Up Week, and most respectfully call upon all departments of the city, the Chamber of Commerce, civic clubs, schools, all other clubs or associations, and our people in general to take active part in the constructive program planned to make our city Clean, Healthful, Thrifty, Safe and Beautiful. In testimony whereof I hereby sign my name and Seal of Office this 24th day of April, 1939. Florondo Schweitzer, President. Attest: C.

L. Manske, Clerk. Von Wende Trial Opens Monday Bad Axe Attorney to Defend Sebewaing Man. The trial of Arthur Von Wende of Sebewaing on a first degree murder charge in the furnace explosion Grant Pitcher at the house here on Nov. 23, 1938, is scheduled to open in circuit court at Bad Axe next Monday, May 1.

Originally set for April 18, the trial was postponed when it became necessary to appoint new defense counsel. Judge X. A. Boomhower appointed Frederick S. Beach, Bad Axe attorney, to defend Von Wende and postponed the trial in order to allow Mr.

Beach time for preparing his case. Prosecuting Attorney Thomas R. McAllister will represent the people. It is the prosecution theory that Von Wende placed dynamite in the furnace of the home owned by his divorced wife, who lives in Saginaw. It is charged he placed the dynamite charge with the intention of "getting" his former wife.

Von Wende, who was arrested in Flint on Nov. 24, has been in jail in Bad Axe since that time. He has steadfastly maintained his innocence, claiming knows nothing about how the dynamite became placed in the furnace. LOCAL NEWS Mr. and Mrs.

L. C. Stowell spent Sunday with his parents in Lansing. Mrs. Henry Gaeth is spending this week with relatives in Detroit.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gilbertson of Chicago were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E.

W. Brewer last Friday. Mrs. W. Scheurer and daughter, Ethel, and Miss Mary Katzenberger were in Bay City Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Eisengruber and son, Richard, visited relatives in Bad Axe Sunday. FRESH PICKERAL full-course dinner 50c, at St. Francis Auditorium, Pigeon, this Friday, Apr.

28, at 5:30 p. m. Charley Forge will serve them without bones. 45t1c THE ROAD HOG HONK HONK HONE HONK HONK PUT SOME WHEELS ON THAT THING, OR GET IT OFF THE ROAD! INDUSTRY LABOR ACT WAGNER PUBLIC AMENDMENTS WENDMEN PROGRESS! MEN DMEN AMEN MEN Annual Junior Band Concert May 5 America to be Theme of Part of Program. On Friday, May 5, at 8 p.

the Sebewaing Junior Band will present its sixth annual concert in the High School Auditorium. The concert will include the two numbers the band played at the music festival at Elkton and one number performed by the alldistrict band on that occasion. The last half of the program is entitled, "America in Review." Seven scenes from America's past and present will be demonstrated in musical settings as follows: (1) A Colonial minuet; Merry-making among the Pioneers of the Middle- west Steve's (3) Mountaineers from eastern Tennessee (Hill-billy Band); (4) "The Cotton-picker's Jamboree," by the beginners' group; (5) "Home on the Range," (cowboy octette); (6) The American College of Today (presenting a group of twirling drum majorettes); (7) The U. S. Navy (a group of sailors give a marching, tumbling and pyramid-building demonstration).

Over 100 performers will take part in this musical pageant and all will be dressed in appropriate costumes. There will be color, tion a-plenty. program should rhythm, harmony, humor and acprove as entertaining as any yet given by the Junior Band and no one should miss it. LOCAL NEWS Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Meyers of Flint spent last week end with Mrs. Meyers' parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.

Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Konkle of Saginaw spent last week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.

J. E. Konkle and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bach.

WILFRED SELLERS GETS POST AS FIELDMAN Wilfred Sellers, truck driver for the Sebewaing plant of the Michigran Sugar Co. five years, has been appointed fieldman in the Unionville territory to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Clinton Honeywell. Mr. Sellers will move to Unionville. Local Man Talks on Labor Problems Speaker at Chamber of Commerce Meeting.

Nearly 50. members attended Monday evening's meeting of the Sebewaing Chamber of Commerce. President List read correspondence from Speaker Howard Nugent and Senator Leonard Paterson and from the Department of Conservation relative to the establishment of a State park near the C. A. Thomas fishery in Tuscola county.

Both Speaker Nugent and Senator Paterson pledged their support and the Department of Conservation promised to make a survey of the site in the near future. Mr. List also announced that Richard Conrad, senior high school student, had been chosen by Stamnitz-Lindeman American Legion Post as this year's Sebewaing representative at Michigan Lansing Boys' State to be held at East in June. A. C.

Hoeh of the Sebewaing Tool and Engineering Co. gave an interesting talk on the current labor situation. Mr. Hoeh's talk had to do mainly with labor within the automobile industry, in which industry he spent many years both as a mechanic and in factory executive positions. He has an intimate knowledge of factory methods and in handling of factory employees.

His talk was instructive and enlightening. Dickinson Determined to Balance 1939-'40 Budget (Our Lansing Letter) Lansing The capitol circus is topsy-turvy. Sideshows over the McKay bridge fee and State purchasing investigation, just to mention two stellar attractions, are stealing the spotlight from the legislative big tent. The net result is confusion, and a number of legislative veterans have come to the conclusion that they should attend to four major welfare, civil service, labor the budget and go home. death of Governor Fitzgerald, the advent of a new leader and the subsequent inquiries which have centered around the convention manipulators, Frank McKay and Edward Barnard, have all tended to impede action in the House and Senate.

The fourth month is drawing to a close, and comparatively little has been accomplished. This is not intended as sarcacm. Circumstances have been almost unusual. Party Purge While headlines hint of new sensations in connection with McKay and the Republican party, a group of legislators, at Lansng is grimly determined to purge the party in Michigan of the growing suspicion that conventions have been controlled in recent years by big city, bosses. fiery, crusading Elton R.

Eaton of Plymouth, in Wayne county, led a band of young Republicans in the House to effect passage of a bill aimed at the clipping of Barnard's wing at Detroit. In the senate the bill encountered an unfriendly committee. A substitute bill was hurriedly introduced by Senator D. Hale Brake of Stanton. With the McKay inquiry adding fuel to the flames, the Brake allies are demanding a thorough "clean-up" of the party, once and for all.

Apprehensive lest the party be accused of conducting a "white washing" investigation, James Thomson, chairman of the Republican state central committee, sent an invitation to Attorney General Frank Murphy at Washington for action by G-Men. Murphy is said to have smlied cryptically at the letter and remarked: "He is just two weeks late." Department of justice agents' have been sifting possible evidence of fraud in connection with the Blue Water bridge financing. While it is very doubtful whether anything worthy of grand jury investigation will be found, Murphy is reported to be hopeful that G- men will be able to substantiate the charge which the New Deal governor made frequently last fall that gambling interests were leading contributors to the Fitzgerald campaign chest. Thomson invites an inquiry, pointing out that the committee has a treasury deficit of $43,000. Messrs.

Eaton and Brake have grabbed hold of the lion by the tail. Or, in language of the street, the party purge has become a "hot potato." Somebody's hand are sure burned! Dunckel-Brown Feud When Governor Luren D. Dickinson announced shortly after taking the oath of office that he would not be a candidate to succeed himself, party leaders immediately began to speculate on (1) whom would Dickinson appoint to From The Office Chair By H. G. M.

A case of vandalism of a type SO extreme as to be disgusting is noted at the Sebewaing County park. Wanton destruction of county property there is of a nature that should be brought into the open, if possible. The park, the smallest in Huron county, is also least frequented on account of the lack of a suitable bathing beach, yet it is used by several hundred Summer tourists as an over-night stop, by picnic parties and by many Fall duck hunters. Most of the ceiling in the old bath house has been ripped off and the several picnic tables with which the park was equipped have been wrecked and apparently used as fuel for fires. Not a vestige of the table remains.

The well pump was also wrecked. But the height of the destruction was reached in the wilful wrecking of the two toilets on the property. Built at a cost of $150, the two buildings demolished and parts of them strewn over the south section of the grounds, where they were I located. Even the heavy concrete floors were moved off the foundations. State police have made an investigation and it is hinted that the vandals are known.

If that is the case, it is to be hoped they will be brought to book and forced to make complete restitution for the damage done. It is further hinted that the destructionists are home people and the pitable thing is that they are said to be of a mature age. Hardly to be Believed a fool tossed steam a Bel. time, WaS bison ,1915. punty ring sued ne, R'S HOME -F2 Mick, ME on Except to 8:00 ay ment.

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Eyes p. 1-P Catches Live Swan Gerald Cline, local conservation officer, was showing a live Whistling Swan in town Monday. He had captured the bird, weak and unable to fly, early in the afternoon in the drain just south of North Point. It was at first thought the bird was ill, but since he was placed into an enclosure at the home of L. H.

Denner he has been feeding normally and is apparently regaining strength. Mr. Cline will take him to the State Game Farm at Mason. The Whistling Swan is a regular visitor here each Spring and Fall. At present about one hundred of the big, graceful birds may be seen on the sand flats near Lone Tree Island.

Flocks usually tarry on the Bay a few weeks on their migration flight to the Arctic Circle, where they nest and rear their. three to six young, and pay their return visit here in their Fall flight. They Winter in the South to the Gulf of Mexico. be lieutenant-governor? (2) who would be the Republican nominee for The governor in governonr let it be known that he would not select his successor as lieutenant governor during the legislative session, and probably would make no choice at all. As for the 1940 nomination, capital observers began to survey the "cabinet" to weigh possibilities.

Simultaneously, while the McKay sideshow was getting a full house, Auditor General Vernon J. Brown precipitated a counter atraction with a disclosure about cancellation of state purchasing orders involving many thousands of dollars, and substiute orders at higher prices. State Treasurer Miller Dunckel, who with Brown and Thomas Read are responsible for state purchases, promtply branded Brown as a publicity seeker and declared openly that he (Brown) was courting the nomination in 1940. Dunckel said that the higher prices could be explained. Thus, the first inter-cabinet feud has started.

Schools Get a Break The decision of Governor Dick- inson to sign a bill appropriating $2,500,000 for public school tuitions comes as a relief to educators. Grover C. Dillman, of the state budget, recommended that this amount be authorized as an advance payment on the school's allocation of state money for the coming fiscal year. Dr. Eugene B.

Elliott, superintendent of public instruction, reported that none of the financially distressed lic districts schools. would have John to close pubRep. Espie, chairman of the House ways and means committee, added encouragement to the picture by saying that the committee had agreed upon a allocation for the schools and that it might not be necessary to deduct the $2,500,000 from that sum. Dillman opined: "The state is very sound financially. Its net debt is only some $5 per capita, and only 12 states have a lower net debt and some states have a debt nearly 20 times as high as Michigan's.

From a long-term point of view, the state government is sound financially, although it is seriously embarrassed as to immediate cash requirements." Governor Dickinson indicated that the 1939-40 budget would be balanced despite the $2,500,00 payment this Spring. Labor Mediation Two of the major problems civil service and labor have had identical treatment in the legislature: 1. A drastic labor relations bill, calling for the Fitzgerald 10-day strike notice, was passed by the house by Republican caucus agreement only to be thrown out by a senate labor committee. 2. A civil service bill, calling for reduced classifications so that less than one-half of all employees would be affected, was passed by house only to be sidetracked in the senate.

The senate labor committee, of which liberal Senator Harry Hittle of Lansing is chairman, has reported out a substitute bill. This measure would create a three-man labor mediation board to seek settle(turn to page four please) Always Ask for Beet Sugar This is Michigan Made Beet Sugar Week, officially proclaimed so by Governor Luren D. Dickinson. The week is designed to bring the public's attention to a major Michigan agricultural industry, the importance of which is still not realized by many, people. The added publicity Michigan made sugar is receiving, during the week will well serve to acquaint more people with its merits and to create more demand for it.

Michigan is the third largest beet sugar producing, state in the Union past several years beets have been most here profitable farm crop. The product of the State's factories is second to none and every housewife should insist on nothing but beet sugar. Many legislators are opposed to this latest legislative measure on the ground that it will perpetuate New Deal agencies essentially of a temporary nature. Others fear the change in ratios of relief funds will play havoc within the densely populated states' finances. The report states that allotments of Federal funds will no longer be left to the discretion of the P.

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on a Instead forgrants mula fixed by Congress. The Senate committee wants the alloting of funds to States "upon the basis of the number of unemployed and the population with a State." Tactics adopted by Senator Thomas of Utah, chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, in regard to proposed changes the National Labor Board Act provoke complaints from trade unions and employers alike that he is deliberately stalling action at this session. His latest stunt, of suggesting that business men, who have suffered from the law, should be content to file briefs rather than deliver oral protests has brought a storm of protests over his head. An attempt will be made to force a bill through the House carrying the amendments approved by, Wage and Hour Division the Department of Labor to make this act more workable. It is doubtful that the same strategy will prevail in the Senate.

The farm organizations and others wanting changes in the wage and hour law are making a stand over there. broad changes will be resistAny, by the Administration to the extent of killing the measure rather than accept what they consider weakening exemptions. The rural mail carriers in your neighborhood may seem distracted during the first two for weeks alarm of May. There is no cause beas to their mental condition cause they are merely performing routine chore counting the a mail. The Post Office Department has ordered a count mail delivered and collected on every rural route.

They are obliged to report details which would probably Besides irritate doing a their everyday work, trained bookkeeper. the carriers must record the number of applications for money orders triweekly routes, of the value of stamps on mail carrier, and of collected by the value of the postage stamps and other stamped paper sold. The annual Sebewaing township financial statement has just been printed and copies may be had by applying to L. Appold, township clerk, or at the Farmers and Merchants State Bank and at various other business places where Mr. Appold has left a supply for the convenicense of taxpayers.

Unionville Couple Married 55 Years Children and Families Gather at Home of Mr. and Mrs. John Graf Sunday. A delightful family gathering was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

John Graf at Unionville Sunday in honor of their fifty wedding anniversary, which occurred Monday. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Gus Marotzke and son, Kenneth, of Sebewaing; Mr. and Mrs.

Oscar Graf and family and Mr. and Mrs. Tim Lowthian of Unionville, Mrs. Norman Graf and Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Johnson of Saginaw. Dinner was served at 5 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Graf were presented with a table.

Mr. radio, Mrs. Graf (Elizabeth Gremel) were married in Sebewaing on April 24, 1884. They lived on a farm near Unionville for many years before retiring to live in the village. Both are enjoying good health.

LOCAL NEWS Miss Tula Grassman of Bay City spent last Saturday with her aunt, Mrs. Hulda Dressler. Mr. and Mrs. E.

H. Davis and family and H. J. Davis spent Sunday at Van Ettan Lake. Miss Maran Martini of Lansing spent last week end with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. Martini. Mr.

and Mrs. R. S. Wurm and son, Clarke, and Mrs. Marie Faist spent Sunday Mr.

Wurm's mother, Mrs. Katherine Wurm, in Pigeon..