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PART ONP THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SUNDAY. MARCH 7S. 19J4 Boosts 'Charity Waits Few Knew True Hopwood, Back of His Drunken Pose Coiner of and Playwright Really of Serious Mind, Gift Proves 'Decline Found in Extradition Denials Mount Under Gov. Comstock ivsivn V.rch Onv Com. 1 JCIiiilUCTJiUiC Card from the City Hall Fail to Bring Home Bacon FLINT.

March 24-Although the City of Flint sent all taxpayers a "cheerio" card with bills for the third installment of the city taxes due in february. tne result was the middle of the Sahara Desert. on Forest Sale Ruggles Millions Art Hanging on Trees GRAND RAPIDS. Marrl, Ruggles died three and a has denied mora than twice largest list of delinquent taxes! fA.P.i-If somebody will con-as nianv requests for extradition of 51 cent in Flint history. The along with some millions of dollar felons from Michigan In proportion greeting card legend follows: and in the mood to buy a fnre-- 1.

riiH thin "Mr. Taxpaver. a couple of Western Mirbic. Relic ft. 4M.

A UMi fete imiii -S l- fl lav of a Past Industrial 1 Wnwh ilav a nappy ana pro'perous lenows win start spending th.on New Year be yours. fr charitable purposes. "We will continue this year to Th8 tvo are Charles F. McPher render all essential services to you a Grand Rapids attorney, arv at as low a cost as possible. Edward J.

Pfeiffer, of Maniste. "The total tax rate for 1933-1934. re W1" of the lar, including city, school, state andlSharles RuSSlea. eccentric lumbe county governments. Is the lowest i in the last 13 years.

A continued low tax rate with 1 a wl" ii 1 1 reciea Aicr'nerson and J-Teiffr maximum of service will be given major portion of you with your co-operation. th JawPfil jnln "If you prosper, our tax collec-was for charity. Thev tions should increase. If our tax to account t0 anybod or th eir px wu penciiiures, ANN AKROR. March 24 rfvfr see me remember me this way hoys.

Mid an Inebriated Avery Hopwood as he a silk hat and stumbled maicstirally into waiting taxi. That was in 1924 when Avery Hopwood made his last visit to the campus of his Alma Mater, the University of Michigan. It was June and he had been giving a send-off party to the graduating brothers of Phi Gamma Delta. Apparently those who rememher Averv Hopwood at all do remember him 'this way. boys." for especially in his later years." he was often in that condition.

The real man. un- derneRth the sham of extravagant dissipation, was a stranger to most people even during his lifetime. But It was tne real man wno remembered the University of Mich igan in his will and gave it a large share of his fortune to be used as Awards for Creative Writing The lecent publication of Mildred Walker's novel. "Fireweed," which was one of last year's prize winners, has rrought A very nnpwooa nam 10 the American public. Oblivion Ilia Tragic Fate The saddest thing about this once I than six vears have elapsed since his tragic death at St.

des Tins, and yet his nsme is lost in ohlivion. The actresses who starred in his plays are still popular: I-enore I'lric, Tallulah Pankhead. Madge Kennedy. Grace George. Franclne if! Reminiscent of the ruined keep of some medieval castle, only a crumbling blast furnace marked the site of Wyandotte's great steel mills when fire ravaged them in 1890.

The ruin was cleared away about 35 years ago. It wai in these mills that Bessemer steel was first produced over 70 years ago. Then Wyandotte and the Downriver section ranked as a great iron and steel center. ana creauors win prosper ana prosper everybody will be happier, "Sincerely yours "Your City Government." The low tax return, in spite of these hopeful sentiments, may-cause payroll troubles before the end of the fiscal year in June, according to city officials. Brown Must Face Fake 'Fixer' Count Bound Over for Trial at Mt.

Clemens MT. CLEMENS, March 24 Harry Brown, 35 years old. Detroit, was bound over to Circuit Court Saturday by Justice Ray Callens on a charge, of obtaining money under false pretenses, It is alleged that Brown solicited Walter Dubay. proprietor of the City Transfer for $100. offering to "fix things" with the Michigan Public Utilities Commission so that I Estate la Vast Forest But they still don't know ho much money they will have 1.

spend. The estimates run from jr. 000.000 upward to figures son says are rediculous. The tate, after $1,000,000 liquid apsr: were used to clear up all debts an, small bequests, is composed of 7,1 000 acres of virgin pine white pin and California regular in Cai: fornia. "That stand Is worth millions McPherson said today.

"You ca guess for yourself how manv -them. If there's anybody in th world who wants to buy a forp and has the money to pay for I haven't heard of' him." McPherson is a losy-chepfeer heavy-set man who likes horses an is proud of the trophies he has wi with his stable. Pfeiffer is less ta and heavy. He likes camping an plays a tough game of pinochle. It was 30 years ago that MrPh" son met the eccentric Ruggles.

Th millionaire looked at the young a torney and demanded that he iii: play proof that "you've got a nm for figures." McPherson did. A Checker Tlayer Fired Pfeiffer got his start as an nfhr boy. He went to a bookkeepm school and returned to Ruggles en ploy as a clerk. He resigned th that Ruggles recalled him to tak charge of some work in Californi and retained him In an advisory Steel Industry to Celebrate Wnt Ecorse Meeting Wednesday Will Pay Tribute to Return of Mills to First Site in Michigan Great Rebirth that 'the nights were made hideous with their But there were' to be new Inven- tions and methods to spur the in dustry on. Clauss said.

In 1861 1 William Kelly, in Johnstown. was experimenting with a process Dubay could obtain his trucking job and It was not until years late license wnnoui ueiay, Jules Doretti, 33 years old. De- did Gov. Wilber M. Brucker.

his predecessor, figures released in the executive office revealed today. In the period from Jan. 1, 1931, to March lO, 1932, Gov. Brucker granted 89 applications for extradition and denied 18. In the comparable period.

Gov. Comstock has sent 33 criminals back to other states, and refused the extradition requests in the cases of 21. Brucker's score for the 107 cases in which a final decision was reached stands: 83.17 per cent of requests granted, 16.82 per cent denied. Gov. Comstock has granted 61 12 per cent of the 54 applications for extradition and has denied 38.87 per cent, the report shows.

Humanitarian Grounds Given George Murphy, assistant attorney general in charge of extradition matters, denies that Michigan is becoming a haven for criminals. He explains the great Increase in the number of refusals on humanitarian grounds. Few of the men wanted by other states are actually desperate criminals, he maintains. Mr. Murphy says that the majority of extradition requests result, from failure to pay alimony, or from non-support charges.

The view Is taken in Lansing that if the men charged with these offenses have married again and established homes here, it would add to the welfare load to send them back to other states, leaving their families without support. The extradition policy of Gov. Comstock came under fire when he refused to grant extradition of Louis iLuigi) Riccardo and Ber nard Hallas, of Detroit, wanted in Cleveland on arson charges. Murphy recommended that Ohio applica tlon be denied on the ground that the affidavit accompanying the re quest failed to link them with tne crime. Thomas A.

Burke, an assistant prosecutor at Cleveland, complained after the hearing that Michigan was attemntinc to mak him s- close too much of his case before granting extradition. He contend- ed that to reveal all evidence in his possession would strengthen the hand of the defense. A Peculiar Case Murphy explained today how a in that condition to a Toledo hos pital The victim of the mishap like- wise was taken to the Toledo hos pltal, where she died. The driver recovered and returned to his home in Detroit. Ohio preferred man- slaughter fhar-CP" npnincl him onH sousrht to return him to Ohio for trial.

The application was refused on the ground that Ohio did not have jurisdiction. I The most sensational of th. sii. r.r I IwT fZ, v. from chair Ln f- iUKi'ift from a chain sanar.

Gov. Comstock refund to grant his ex tradition on the ground that the affidavit accompanying the apnli- cation was faulty. PP Doctor Loses Bet as Baby Is a Boy MT. CLEMENS, March 24 It was a boy, Dr. W.

J. Kane is desolate. For years Dr. Kane has been able to lord It over all the doctors In town because all his children are bovs. and the others had trirls.

i of making steel from cast Iron Kllu burning out the carbon and other north of the Himalaya impurities through the agency of Thirteen large boxes containing a blast of air which he forced zoological and botanical specimens I troit. gangster who Is serving life pneity from then until his death in Jackson for murder, refused to Both McPherson and Pfeifff testify Saturday against Abe Maius, 1 have a wealth of anecdotes on tii 24, of and the warrant eccentricities of Ruggles. Their jvorue is ine story aoout now nui he-: files entered his plant and rallr against Maius was dismissed. Doretti, shot last Nov. 27, lieved that he was dying.

At that1 one of a group of three workmc tv, roitn m-tDi i larnegie liirna mm iiwn Kelly tried to interest Eastern nipn, uiciuumg a wn vention. but with no success. Capt. Ward heard of it, brought Kelly i to Wyandotte, and there. In 186.1 1 By Frank B.

Woodford Within the past decade South eastern Michigan has witnessed the advent of a vast new industry, the business of converting the raw ore of the northern ranges into iron and steel. The lurid reflections of the hearths against the clouds, the roar of blast furnaces and the din of rolling mills and forges have be-; come familiar along the banks of i the Detroit River and Lake Erie I from Eeor.se to Monroe. To steel men the sight heralds the further; growth of the industry in this sec tion and causes them to preaici that Detroit is destined to become the steel renter of the country. Wednesday steel men will gather at Ecorse to pay tribute to the advance the industry has made In this district and to discuss the problems of the present and the future. Sit of Industry- Birth The meeting, to be sponFnred by the American Society of Mechani- ca.

Engineers, could'be held in no I commercial steel was produced by: tlon of bird and animal skins ever I peculiar quirk of fate led to the the Bessemer process. brought to the United States from I denial of one extradition request. "Sir Henry Bessemer, credited: the land of the. Lamas. He also A driver involved in a fatal auto-with the invention of the process.

brought a valuable collection of mobile accident a few miles north Clauss said, "is thought to have paintings from Buddhist Monaster- of the Ohio line was knocked unlearned of it from Kelly, and ies. kashmir shawls and ornaments, i conscious in the crash and taken time he named Maius as his assailant. Doretti recovered, however, and retracted the statement. Percy L. Moore, once, the youngest sheriff in Michigan, said Saturday that he would be in the race for sheriff again this year, thus setting at rest rumors that he would run for the State Senate.

LOUlltV ett Sill of Injured Autoist Port Huron Mn fl-U 1 flfVl nl "ad Blamed Bad Paving sued an order of discontinuance Strn.v lt for K8.noo filed ihV K. Marsrien. of Port -i 'V 'or IT. ,1 'f warn: Pe3'c "ruck a de- it-, i- itn lir- ii i KPlim l. The case was settled for $1,800, away from his Job for a game checkers, p.ugglea always currier! small checker hoard In his pocket and played in unusu: places.

After an hour's play Ruggles marked to the workman: "(jam over. And I see those two men wr worked with you hardly you from the job. They ran along all right without "you. i to the office and get your tim You're fired They can tell them by the ho i Warehouse Needed for Mail McPherson and Pfeiffer had hat ly been entrusted with their tin teehip before they decided the fir benefaction to which Rugsle money would he put. That will I a new hospital for Manistee.

Hi the project must wait upon tt forest, and their first definite pin also was their last, for the sun renson. When the word first became pi lie that they would be the czni who would distribute the Ruggl' wealth mailmen trod a weary pa' to their respective offices with le tera suggesting how they mis' spend the money. First the tin tees attempted to save these lette in a filing cabinet, but decided la a warehouse would he more appr Glory ft Tibet. Treasures Arrive at U. of M.

Dr. Koelz Sends Rare Birds from Asia ANN ARBOR. March 24 -A. Dr. Walter N.

Koelz, University of Michigan scientist, who makes his headquarters at Leh, capital of ne Province of Ladakh in Western Tibet, is returning to the Lnited h'a'es after 18 months absence on ana exa mpies or 1 loetan art ror tne iiiineisny museums nave arrivea in Ann Arhor anad of th. The present shipment is the second ni aom, ny vr. Koeir. since ne The Michigan explorer first went to Tibet in and returned in May, 15132. with the larcest collec- The results of his second expedi- ition are believed to he even more nir msi Doxes unpacked rontained bird skins, many of them new 10 science, utner Boxes were Scient sts here belie Scientists here believe fir TCnoW has some special faculty for malt-- Ing friends with the inhabitants of stiange lands and inducing them to work for him and that the entire populations of Tibetan villages are aiding mm in his research.

Berkley Launches a Drive for Taxes Delinquencies Force City to a Crisis BERKLEY. March 24-Faced with the most serious financial rri- aia in thin f.itlr'0 rit.t.-,ri. fr.mma- sinI1pr ritincAn S. Mrnonntrl henH of the Department of Finance, launched an active campaign Saturday In an effort to reduce Berkley's tax delinquencies. "Only 23 per cent of the 1933 fax levy has been paid Into the city treasury to date." Commissioner McDonald revealed Saturday.

"Unless an appreciable portion of the present 77 per cent who are delin- f)Uent. py up tneir taXP3 this rit flre and pnlice r( tection. We can't supply the necessary services if funds aren't available, because we have cut governmental expenditures to the limit already." McDonald said Saturday that, despite the drastic slash in property valuation from $10,000,000 assessed valuation in 1931 to $4,000,000 In 1934 absent owners of property have failed to assist by paying their taxes. McDonald said that If his drive for funds fails the curtailment of public services must be instituted within 30 days. Five Rural Homes Raided in Monroe County Cleanup MONROE.

March 24 Sheriff Joseph Bairley, pushing his drive to clean up Monroe County, made five raids In Milan Township Saturday following complaints that liquor was being sold in rural homes. One man R0 years old and another 75 were found in two of the houses, the sheriff said They were released to appear Monday. Saturday's raids bring the total to 45 since the advent of legal liquor, Sheriff Bairley said. The number is much smaller than in past years, he said, inasmurh as most of the cases now being pressed on disorderly charges are merely to rid the county of illicit sales. Unlicensed Cars Ordered Impounded in Pontiac PONT I AC, March 24 Auto drivers who have failed to buy stickers or 1934 license plates will do well to dodge Pontiac beginning Sunday morning following the edict issued Saturday by Police Chief George J.

Eckriardt. The police have been ordered to impound Improperly licensed cart and hold them until the owners turn up with new plates or stickers. A storage fee of 25 cents a day will be charged. Gov. Comstock on Program of Party Fete at Pontiac PONTIAC.

March 24 Gov. Comstock will head the large delegation of State Democratic officeholder? who will be speakers and guests of honor at the annual Oakland County Democratic banquet here Tuesday night. Assistant Prosecutor Charles F. Webster, chairman of arrangements, announced Saturday. 'Mora (baa 800 persons arc expected, i 1 I from Tans and from Venice, he i was recalled to "discuss an wi'h a producer, and that meant! ano'her play.

Apparently that first year after college was the turning point in nis lire, ror ne never succeenea in lea vine; the theater, much as he: wanted to. He could not recapture his lost year. A fart of which his classmates were ignorant at the time waa that college was the happiest period of his life. Prof. J.

L. Brumm, Mrs. Walter Pillsbury and Post Rich: were in a small writing club with him. They unite in recalling a lone-i some, rather diffident, although bril- liant student. One Ann Arbor woman sat behind i mm in rienrn cjhsh anu one uay he wrote her a note asking her ifj she would go dancing with him.

She 1 snobbishly refused. Nobody went out with Avery Hopwood. his pants and coat didn't even match! The 1 same woman admits being proud to meet the impeccably dressed author at me opening nigni or nis piays in Washington a decade later. "ce. when he was collaborating Kob.rt, Kierirr on a he and' Mrs.

Rinehart talked about when they weren't writing Do you continue to discuss plots, or are you I To which Avery replied, "Mrs 1 Rinehart is a good friend; to tell you the truth, the last time we had dinner together we spent two hours 1 'I W.Zl...r'.VZ.l Captive's Dentist 11 .1 rnena Arrested i Alleged Gang Robber Found in Office FLINT. March 25 While holding Joseph Medley for investigation before turning him over to Calhoun County authorities on robbery armed charges, Genrsee County of- ficials late arrested Dr. F. C. Barber, the Flint dentist at whose office the notorious outlaw was captured.

Dr. Barber was held for investigation, Prosecuting Attorney drew J. Transue announced after thumbing law books all afternoon to determine what charge could be placed against the dentist, who pulled seven of Medley's teeth Friday. Deputies and detectives surrounded the dentist office at 1557 Detroit St. late Friday night and found Medley in Paiamas.

The nieit ve had been trailed from Mhigan to California and Texas He is wanted in Marshall as one of the gang that kidnaped and lobbed Louis Brooks. retired wealthy manufacturer, of $48,000 In cash and bonds last October. Two other members of the alleged gang, Louis Gonynu and Marjorie De Vere. have pleaded guilty to robbery armed charges nnd are awaiting sentence. Trial of Melvin Brown is to start in Marshall next Tuesday.

Medley surrendered meekly when officers told him to "come out reaching." Two pistols, one of them loaded, were found in an ad-Joining room. Medley refused to make any statement to police, hut told Prose- fl.Hno. Atlnl-ncvr Willinrv, of County, that he wanted wj bpf hp t0 Marshall, Medley is being kept in solitary confinement. No prisoners are on the other side of the wall from him and he Is the only occupant of the rourtn-rioor ceil block, as authorities learned that prisoners could communicate across the wall by removing water from a tap in their cells and using the plumbing as a speaking tube. Holland Landmark Becomes History Workers Raze First Furniture Factory HOLLANO.

March 24 The removal of the Ottawa Factory corner stone will mark the passing of another landmark, the birth of the furniture industry in this city. It is being razed to make way for a proposed municipal dock. Apparently some sentiment was felt by those in charge of the raring, since dissembling of the plant commenced on the north sec- imiii ill 1 nr UUII'MHK woi Ken up 1 in ine em'ih. irinrKfr is oaten 1887. Th.

of th. niani i ret occupied by sawmill and flour mill, built by O. D. Vander-Sluis in 18.V1. The machinery of the mill was hauled by oxcart from Detroit.

It was destroyed by the fire which swept the city In 1871. For some time following the conflagration the plot lay Idle, due to lark of capital among the destitute residents. The Chicago fire was in a large measure responsible, since the large insurance comnanies. with whom the lo- Cal citizenry had been Insured, were also wiped out caninR and of the site tmj faot that rprrmins K.fnr. h.

i3oft i. tumble. This will be a spectacular event and newsreel concerns have already sought permission to record the toppling. The date has not been set as disposal of the column Is still to be made. Funeral for Judge Smith Will Be at Caro Monday CARO.

March 24-Circuit Judge Henry H. Smith, who dropped dead Thursday at Daytopa. Beach. "hile watching a prize f'cht. will ie hurivi Monday afternoon here rfter services in the irst Metho-di't Church.

Members of the Tuscola and Lapeer County Bar Associations will be palihearers. His widow and State Senator H. P. Orr are expected in Caro Sunday night. The Rev.

H. W. Kuhlman will conduct fauiatal ipriate and that wouldn't, be wort Mrs. Frank Pare, Sfi years old. while.

So the suceestions all wei same down-ilver section mat i yeais ago witnessed the birth and development of the modern roncep- tlon of the iron and steel industry, When the engineers gather, all of their time will not be taken up with technical matters. One of the features of the will 1 a paper entitle, The Romance of Iron and Steel, which win ne rean by J. A. Clauss. chief engineer for th.

Ceat Lakes Steel of Ecorse Associated with the steel Industry since he was 14 years old. Mr. Clauss has worked in most of the great steel centers of the country. recent years he has spent considerable time and money in research and study that have made him an authority on the historical aspects of the steel business. Once a Steel Center "Although there are men still living who had prominent parts in the development of Iron and steel in and around Detroit, few people know today that, this section was formerly one of America's chief Iron and steel centers," he said.

"There were a few forges and fur naces in Southern Michigan back iin iin pioneer aaye, and their output of little conse- tol.frn.n raveii mr the erett. a local mnn. raven ne in me northern part of the state heard Indian, the lis In City Hospital suffering from into the waste baskets. So do tt serious hums received Saturday new ones, now infrequent. when her clothing caught fire from I "I guess when the time conv a gasoline stove In her home at we'll he able to find plenty of wa; i 21 14 Stone St, (of spending that money where I will do good without any coachir Reports on fingerprints of the frnrn tne 8'delines," McPhers" unidentified man who hanged hlm-js'1fi' It went so far that.

Dr. i-eign, rm, wno esrapeo trom cleaned up quite a hit. of Kalamazoo State Hospital on cash bv bettine. every time an- Dec. 28.

Larnmore. The Clitics whodamned and praised are still writing: jior- ert Benchley. G. J. Nathan.

Joseph Wood Krutrh. Walter Prichard Eaton. His first producer is still the Grand Old Man of the theater: William A. Pradv. Yet, because his plays were light comedies, were "of the times, timely." Avery Hopwood is almost completely forgotten.

Public tastes changed radically just at the end of his career and he did not have a rhanre to change with them. Few people even rememher that Avery Hopwood was co-author of that famous mystery play. "The Rat." Almost nobody knows that he coined the term "gold-digger" to designate "that, type of Broadway chorus girl who takes a lot and gives nothing." In 1931. wnen the University an nounced the Hopwood awards, stu- dents asked in wonder who Avery Hopwood was. They were told that he was an alumnus who made a million dollars writing bedroom farces.

That was all they learned and that was not exactly accurate. Rut there is no published biography of the playwright who had more box office successes than any other American dramatist Only One Failure There are 33 productions In the records with only one failure. In 1909 "This Woman and That Man" ran only four weeks In New York. That was failure to the man who i i way, or ae' I "failure' was a serious drama of i of which Clyde Fitch said. "If 1 had written that play the critics would rail it my masterpiece." But Avery Hopwood was already noted for his farces, so the public turned down his first and last attempt at a serious theme.

Later he remarked, "I don't like failures; that is why I've never written another serious play." Avery Hopwood may not. have liked failures, but it wasn't the truth when he said that he hadn't written any more serious plavs. He wrote dozens of them whirh were stored away. In spite of his tremendous success In light comedy, Avery was a terribly serious per-eon. serious to the point of melancholy.

The tragedy of his life lay in his inability to shake off the easy way and write real literature He want- ed above all else to write a novel. He started one in college and the! late Prof. F. N. Scott predicted great things for him in that field.

But he needed money in older to live In leisure to be able to write the novel. He made money easily In the theater but he hated what he was doing. Early in his career he made no ecret of his literary aim in life, but as he became more and more drawn into the life of Broadway and the flesh-pots of a magnificent fortune, the ideal become secret. He stopped mentioning it to the reporters who interview him. Kvens Way for Genius Instead, he msde a will which would give some hudding genius at the University of Michigan the chance to go right on from college for at least, one year writing before he has to think about money.

Avery himself went through college on a shoe string. His father, through a fondness for drink and gambling, lost what had been an important Cleveland fortune just before his son was ready for college. So the son spent a miserable freshman year at Western Reserve, where a diary-writing boy was nothing but a misfit. His mother, de-termir-sd that her only son should be happy, took a position as cashier in her husband butcher shop to be sure that a portion of the money was saved out. for Avery's allowance each month.

At the end of the second vear even mat income stopped, nut Jule Hopwood was a determined woman, fcecretiy. because she loved it so, I he had managed to save one large diamond from the dwindling family fortunes. She sold it and with the money continued to send a small allowance to her son In Ann Arbor. When, upon graduation. Avery discovered his mother's sacrifice, he vowed that he would replace "Moth er Diamond" with the first money he made.

Accordingly his share of Clothes" went into a large jewel for his mother 'Clothes Make the Man was a play written while he was still In school. Prof. L. A Strauss read part of the manuscript for him. It was based on Carlyle's "Sartor but when William A.

Brady saw it he turned it over to Channlng Pollock, who put In Broadway touches, and it became a popular farce. "Mothers Diamond" became a Inke between Mrs. Hopwood and her on. for after each success he repaid her again by buying another diamond (or a sapphire), and each time that he engaged In some escapade of which she did not approve he her with another diamond Theie were over .10 successful plays, but Mrs. Hopwood's jewels Increased until she bad an important collection of hundreds of unset etones.

Hopwood wealth after the first few years of playwriting was enough to retire on at any time In order to write the novel which was hie great regret. He talked ften of doing Just that, and even yerJ to. But from other doctor was about to become a father, that it would be a girl. And he always won. Then it.

was rumored around that Dr. R. F. Salot was exneetine an heir. Dr.

Kane blithely went fr medical investigation, ahead with his usual bets. Rut for once he was wrong and now Dr. The Mueller Brass Co. Saturday Salot Is helping him crow over the announced a per cent wage in-rest of the physicians. I crease, effective April 1.

from an old by namej' door nd available to of Manjikajik. of the existence or 1 (hB jorB, market Bt, cheaper rates a mountain of iron. (nan js t0 its Eastern competi- "Everett. with a few white men Dptoit sle(1 mav soon again and the Indian as a guide, pro-! hj ition of 60 years ago. reeded to Investigate the story.

1 through his introduction of it In i England gave his name to it." For the next 30 years the industry boomed in Wyandotte. In 1870 1 the city ranked eighth (n steel a Wyandotte mill prouueeo. ine iarg- est piece of boiler plate ever turned out up to that time. It was sent to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where it was regarded with awe by thousands, Kastorn Mills Cain Ground Pennsylvania and Ohio hnH 'j i ha1 P'ed its value once Ward And be cause these sections had coal and natural gas, much better fuels than rharcoal. they were able to produce cheaper steel than the Wyandotte mills.

"The local industry began to decline." Clauss said. "Labor troubles developed, the Wyandotte Roll- and the Eureka company were entirely destroyed by fire. Nothing was left but. a few ruins, and the company offices, whtcn today. standing at the corner of Elm and Blddle Sts.

in Wyandotte, are occupied by the Wyandotte Savings Bank." So passed one of the colorful episodes In Detroit's history. But less than 40 vears later it was destined to return. The automobile 11 The automobile indus Detroit the leading cus- indu.t Tne I a PM Ion of electricity to steel nj. -i uan oaa wUh markrt Bt lts Eichorn Returns; Greeted by Wife Her 17-Year Wait to See Him Ends ITHACA, March 24 (A. ti, r.l- Albert Eichorn came home to day from the prison that has held him for the past 17 years.

The Gratiot County farmer, sentenced to Marquette for life In connection with the death of Beatrice Epler, Alma girl, in 1917. was paroled this week by Gov. Comstock. Eichorn made the last leg of his journey from Saginaw in a taxicab. He left the prison at 1 p.

m. Friday, traveling by train to Saginaw. He was greeted here hy his wife whom he had not seen since he went away. "I didn't want her to see me up there." he said in explaining why she never visited him in prison. Eichorn may never work again.

Four years ago he underwent an operation at the prison. His left leg and foot are paralyzed and he is suffering from rheumatism in one hand. Through the years he has spent behind bars, Eichorn always has sworn that he Is innocent of the crime of whirh he was convicted. He reiterated his innocence today while talking to newspapermen. 100 Diners Consume Thousand Pancakes MT.

PLEASANT. March 24 A thousand pancakes were consumed hy ion diners at a supper here recently, at which co-eds of the Home Economics Club of Central Stat Teachers College were cooks. Th cost was 25 cents for an hour and a hairs eating, with no limit to the number of pancakes except the Embezzler Gone; Judge Gets Not Woman Convicted Kalamazoo Sought KALAMAZOO, March you call me for sentence Saturdi I will he sailing the high seas the Atlantic," Mrs. Hazel K. ton, convicted on a charge of er bezzlement, wrote In a letter reived by Circuit.

Judge George Weimer Saturday. And on Saturday, the date for t' sentence, Judge Weimer call' three times for the responde without her response. Her bail was declared forfeited and warrant for her will he issued. M' Merton was convicted last week embezzlement, of insurance fun collected hy her after a fire whi' destroyed a house which she buying on contract. Rollo D.

Smalley. former boo keeper in the County Jail, placed on probation Saturday Circuit Judge George V. Weim for tw-n years, following Smaller plea of guilty to a charge of emb zlement of County funds. He given two years to make restitutio. Mrs.

Bertha Menck, 45 years died In Bronson Hospital Saturd from burns received when Menck farm home at Dougher Grand Rapids Youth Relates Experiences on World Tour Student of Architecture Hunt Antiques in Desert Sands of Asia GRAND RAPIDS. March 24 Attn Nineveh and to Klrkuk, where Oand Rapids youth out of work he got a job with a British nil com-but possessing $100 decided 14 pervl4ng a fleet of new i American trucks built especially months ago to take a trip around for desert travel. the world. The other day Sibley "Thev were th. Inrireot trnek.

i self in the Algonac Fire Hall I Thursday have Identified him as The body of Herbert. Young-1 blood, Negro pal of Dlllinger, was shipped Friday afternoon to Uni-! versity Hospital, Ann Arhor, to be have ever seen." he said "and as they traveled In rnnvny, one be hind another, they sounded like so many planes in action. I had a small car of my own, carrying emergency supplies and ratlons'snd either led the way or followed behind, according to the land. Frequently the trucks broke down or became stuck In the sands with tneir sixty-ton loads, and It often days before we would return imm a trip. 'There also were times when I felt, that the trucks could do without me.

Then I would head into the open spaces nnd investigate antiquities some Arab had told me about. Especially after a rain It is often possible to pick up antiques that have been in the sand for hundreds of years. There are places no archeologist has visited." Four months of British rule with Arab drivers was enough, so one morning he continued to Palmyra. Raalhek. Beirut and Damascus.

In Palestine be lived with a Jewish colony on the banks of Halilee. and in Jerusalem he lived In a mona--terv within the old walls. After Christmas in Bethlehem be went to Egypt, climbed the pyramids and then left for Greece. Italy. Switzerland.

Germany and Holland Then he continued to London and bark to New York. Ten Hoor believes It Is time he i was After enduring great hardships traveling through primitive forests of the Upper Peninsula, they finally located the mountain a few miles from Teal Iake, near what Is now Negaunee." Forge Set l'p In 4 This find. Mr. Clauss pointed out. convinced capitalists that, there was ore in the Lake Superior region In sufficient quantities to merit their attention.

A small forge, set up near Negaunee in 1848. produced first iron from Superior ore. This first Iron consisted of only a smfl'l Rtiltilliu, mil nmnn nil A r-. Tl, miniate murHPi. n.

uirn, captain, who had acquired the st earner Walk In the Water, the first to sail the lakes, bought the Iron and had it forged into a new walking beam for bis vessel. This captain was Eben B. Ward, whose name is now almost a tradition In Detroit. It was Capt. Ward who became the motivating force In the Michigan steel industry, and he also became the first of America's steel millionaires.

"Capt. Ward was Instrumental In the organization of the Eureka Iron Co. and the Wyandotte Rolling Mill, both of which started business in 1855," Clauss said. "The two companies secured a tract of 2.200 acres, most of which was forest, and which included the present day Ecorse, Wyandotte and Lincoln Park, extending from the river to Fort St. The forests supplied the charcoal which was then exclusively used, the entire section at one time being dotted with charcoal pits.

Strong Men, Strong Drink "The advent of the Industry brought with it a large number of workers, all physically powerful men, for in those days the industry was no place for weaklings. Capt. W.atd was fanatically opposed to: lirn-or and barred it from his 2.200- nee tract. However, on the a Fettlement of saloons. known to the men as Sehastopol.

grew up. 1 "Every night it was the custom for a parade to form in Wyandotte and to the accompaniment of Iron bars banged together the entire male populace- would sarr. off for I Sehastopol. The results were, ac- Corners burned to the ground es iTen Honr returned home with $102: and a million experiences. He sailed as assistant to the chief engineer of the Lurline on Its maiden voyage to the Pacific Ocean.

From Quinry, the Lnrllne headed south through the Panama Canal to Hawaii. Australia, New Zealand, Guinea, Java and China. The Lurline stopped at Shanghai. Ten Hoor went ashore and hy the simple expedient of tipping a hotel bellhop insured himself of uninterrupted sleep while the ship sailed away. He admits that he didn't particularly care for the chief engineer.

Immigration authorities didn't think so much of his idea and put him aboard a tramp steamer to catch the Lurline at Hong Kong. At Yokahoma he left the liner and took a tramp boat to Singapore. There he lived for several days with two Americans at an animal farm where they were collecting specimens for the St. Ixuiis Zoo. Then he continued to Calcutta.

Renares, Cawnpnre and Lucknnw, Agra and the Taj Mahal and I-a-hore. Turning southwest he followed the trail of Alexander the Great over the deert into Jarachi on India's wes'ern shore and at Pombay boarded th mail steamer whirh spent two weeks in the Arab- ian Sea and the Persian Gulf before I reaching Rasra at the mouth of the Tigris and the Euphrates He visited cities known Bible students: Vr of the Chaldees, Baby lon, Klsh, Baghdad and others. Then he "into northern XraaJ her in the day. Her husband Har is In a serious condition In Brr. son Hospital.

The house was flames before the occupants we aware of the fire. They had mov into it a week ago. A uctioneer in Thuml Dies Following Cras LAPEER, March 24 Hugh Donaldson, 60 years old, gene: auctioneer, well known throughr the Thumb District, died here day night of a heart attack brous on by injuries received in an au mobile accident Tuesday night. Michigan Deaths y-. t.u'l M'-Bld REM'HTim Hrlrna 29-tl Anlhnnv Fill 50, MARSHALL FdwuM Miller.

T. PORT HI RON Ia-h devoted attention to his rhon pro- i nirt Mniinn. st: Louiw Sters fession architecture. He has a box i of photographs, a diary full of notes LITCHFIELD Mr. Sua E.

Aaxi ana an architectural education thatl 2 laofdicj to attatemfojajx teatimoAfcappetiU ot JJta dltven didal (et omt ot book.