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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS- THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1935 Passes Relief Merger Republicans Win on Fitzgerald Bill By James H. Denison LANSING, March 13- The AdminIstration bill to consolidate the two state welfare departments was passed by the Senate Wednesday by vote of 21 to 10, the members dividing strictly on party lines. The opposition to this, one of the key measures in Fitzgerald's economy program, was led by Senator Leon D. Case. of Watervliet, the Democratic floor leader.

He argued unsuccessfully against the provision of the bill that would transfer the functions of the present State Emergency Weifare, Relief Commission to a bureau new Department of Welfare setup. He offered an amendment that would have stricken this proposal from the bill, but lost, 10 to 21, the Republicans voting solidly against his plan. Defeats Election Change his surprise defeat Wednesday. Is Important Step Previously the Senate had defeated by a narrow margin the provision in the election law requiring bipartisan boards of election inspectors. Senator Arthur E.

Wood. Detroit Republican, who introduced the bill with the approval of Detroit election inspectors, could get but 15 other votes, while the opponents mustered 14. Seventeen votes are required for passage. Wood then obtained reconsideration and had the bill tabled so that he may offer amendments to save the bill for Detroit. Many of the outstate members, Democrats and Republicans, announced that their districts favor the so-called Ruff Act, and suggested that if its operation disrupted the Detroit election machinery, the metropolis be excepted from its provisions.

Wood probably will amend his bill to make the Ruff Act inoperative in Detroit as a consequence of ing Department favors it. Tourist Bill Advanced The passage of the welfare bill was one of the most important actions taken by the Senate thus far this session. It provides for return of many functions of the present Welfare Department to various existing boards and commissions, and creates County Relief Commissions to handle such matters as soldiers and mothers pensions. Senator Wood succeeded in getting another of his bills on election laws passed. It would authorize a check of names on nominating petitions for the purpose of validating the signatures.

The Senate voted down the Fehling bill to relieve the State Banking Department from making more than one yearly examination of institutions protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The vote was 13 to 17. The Senators to weaken protection given depositors. The vote was then reconsidered and the bill tabled, giving rise to the possibility that Senator Fehling may make another attempt to get the bill through. The Bank- The Senate worked through long list of bills in committee of the whole.

Among those approved and advanced to third reading was the Bishop bill to appropriate $300,000 for the advertising of the Michigan tourist and resort industry. The bill was later passed under suspended rules by a vote of 26 to 0. The rules were then suspended again to pass the bill that would compel Michigan institutions to purchase only coal mined in Michigan. It was sponsored by Senators Gerald J. Cotter, Mt.

Pleasant Republican, and Dale D. Doyle, Saginaw Democrat. Both are from districts in the mining area. Senator Andrew L. Moore, Pontiac Republican, introduced two bills to free county, village and township treasuries from the responsibility of meeting special assessment bond obligations on which taxes are delinquent.

Millions of dollars in bonds are involved, and many municipalities have seen their general fund balances threatened by the existing situation. Senators James B. Murphy, Detroit Democrat, and Case put in a bill that would extend the benefits of the Detroit slum clearance law to the entire state. Mrs. Bertha W.

Johnston Dies in Royal Oak at 65 ROYAL OAK, March 13- Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha W. Johnston, 65 years old, of the Rev. Frederic B. Johnston, who died Tuesday, will be held at 10 a.

m. Saturday in the residence at 203 Blvd. Burial will be in Marshall at 3:30 p. m. Constable Held for Bribery PONTIAC, March 13-Robert Wagoner, former Southfield Township constable, pleaded guilty in Circuit Court Wednesday to a charge of bribery in connection with traffic complaints, and will be sentenced April 8 by Judge Frank I.

Doty. Girl Who Kidnaped Herself Says Love Inspired Her Plot Wanted Money for Bridal Trousseau, She Tells Grand Rapids Police GRAND RAPIDS, (A. -A statement attributed by who police has confessed that she "kidto Helen Jean Banninga, herself for ransom, said naped" Wednesday that romance inspired the plot. Detective Inspector Frank J. who said he had obtained admission that the abO'Malley, A signed duction WAS a hoax, quoted the that she wanted the $5,500 she is eighteen-year-old girl as saying accused of having demanded from Pontiac Welfare Drive Is Mapped Breakfast Friday Will Open Campaign PONTIAC, March, 13-A breakfast conference feature the opening here Friday of the Sixteenth Annual Community Chest Campaign seeking $52,500 for welfare purposes.

C. H. Hutchins is general chairman. The 200 solicitors will meet in the First Presbyterian Church at 8 A. m.

to hear Hutchins outline the two-week plan of campaign work. The goal low this in year order has that been it set purposely may be reached, Hutchins said Wednesday. Among those who will have an active part in the drive are Harry F. Grossman, Harold Schmidt, Ben Jerome, A. C.

Girard, Robert Foresnab, Irving Steinman, John Stewart, Stuart Whitfield, Howard Huttenlocker, Harry Strang. Dr. H. A. Furlong, Aaron Fox, Joseph Greenhalgh, S.

S. Skelton, William P. Edmondson, Ross P. Tenny, James H. Harris, Dr.

P. V. Wagley. Dr. L.

A. Farnham and Herbert Watson. County Clerk at Ionia Turns to Translating IONIA, March 13-County Clerk William C. Holtz used his knowledge of the German tongue to good advantage Wednesday when he translated a legal document for two former residents. The paper was sent to him by a Detroit attorney to signed by George Voigtlander, who with his former wife were the mortgagees of a piece of property in Yugoslavia.

Through the translations of Holtz and Miss Julia Biehler, assistant prosecutor, the document was translated and signed. Boy's Shattered Brain Beginning to Function PORT CLINTON, March 13- (A. -Although a bullet shattered one side of eleven-year-old Jack Fleckner's brain, the other lobe is commencing to take over the injured portion's functions and the boy probably will fully recover, Dr. H. J.

Pool disclosed today. Jack's big problem at the moment, Dr. Pool said, is learning to talk and reason again. Both of these abilities were lost last fall, when the lad was shot accidentally by a brother at play. Six pieces of the bullet remain in the left lobe of the brain and cannot be removed safely, Consumers Power Loses Audit Fight LANSING, March 13-The Consumers Power long fight to prevent the Michigan Public Utilities Commission making an audit of its books was lost in the Ingham County Circuit Court Wednesday Judge Leland W.

Carr dismissed the power company's petition for an injunction against the consumers. The judge ruled that the company had not shown that the order for appraisal and audit is unreasonable. Hazel Park Budget O. K. HAZEL PARK.

March 13--A tentative budget for 1935 of 703.90, and a special budget of $14,000, was approved here Wednesday night by the Township board. The budget will be submitted to voters for approval at caucuses held in conjunction with the general election on April 1. An Ionia Woman, 35, Now a Grandmother I grandmother. The granddaughter, Marilyn Ruth, was born to Mrs. Longwell's daughter, Mrs.

Edmund Lyons, of Lake Odessa, a few days ago. IONIA, March 13-(A. Naomi Longwell, 35 years old, is a her father SO she could marry Raymond Reams, her Ellinwood (Kas.) sweetheart. O'Malley said there was no evidence to indicate that Reams, a meter reader on a pipeline owned by his father, knew of the plot. "I thought if I could get enough money from my dad and mother SO I could buy some pretty clothes and go to Kansas," he quoted Miss Banninga as saying, "we could get married.

I realize it was a silly thing to do." O'Malley said that the girl told of writing to Reams that she "hoped" to obtain soon the money they needed to be married, but insisted she had not confided in her sweetheart the plot she had conceived. Reams visited Miss Banninga a month ago and asked her then to marry him. Her parents refused to give their consent. The couple had corresponded for a year, but never met until Reams' visit to Grand Rapids. Miss Banninga faces a Federal charge of sending an extortion letter through the mails to her father.

The father. Bert H. Banninga, was tattempting to raise $2,000 bond Jailed Physician Goes Back to Cell Charlotte Sheriff Ends Use of Parlor as an Office CHARLOTTE, March 13-At the request of Sheriff Milton J. Krieg, Dr. Franklin W.

Sassaman is no longer attending his patients in the Sheriff's parlor. Sassaman, 60 years old, was jailed 10 days ago on a capias because he failed to pay a. $3,750 judgment in an alienation of affections suit. The physician, health officer here for 22 years, now is confined to his cell. Last week he was allowed the liberty of the Sheriff's quarters, and consulted his patients there.

Legislators Hear Views on Bar Bill 2 Detroiters Oppose Proposed Control LANSING, March 13- Voicing vigorous opposition to the integrated bar bill and efforts of the State Bar Association to acquire disciplinary authority, former Judge Aldrich Baxter Walter R. Nelson, of Detroit, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. George E. Brand, president of the Wayne County Bar Association: Roscoe O. Bonisteel, of Ann Arbor, chairman of the State Bar Association's Legislative Committee; Andrew C.

Baird, of Detroit, and others, urged the necessity of the integrated bar machinery to curb unethical practices. Nelson charged that the legal profession would be shackled by the measure. Detroit practitioners have manifested increasing interest in the measure, which is backed by the American Bar Association a and virtually all organized Michigan groups. Chairman George C. Watson, of the House Judiciary Committee, is considering a Detroit hearing.

Fred Ring, of Kalamazoo, and his wife, who were prosecuted as leaders of the Berrien County nudist colony, are expected to appear Thursday night in a judiciary hearing on the Fitzgerald Bill to forbid such havens and to penalize the owners of property upon which they are found, 12 Planes Forced Down at Monroe MONROE, March 13-Two airplanes were forced down at the emergency field here Wednesday by snow and sleet. One was piloted by Frank Walters, of Toledo, bound for Wayne. The other WAS a National Guard plane heading for the Wayne County Airport. The names of the occupants were not learned by the Monroe field officials. Neither plane was damaged.

Study of Courts Favored WASHINGTON, March 13 -(A. Senate adopted a resolution Wednesday requesting the Department of Justice to investigate the advisability of revising the Federal judicial districts in Michigan. It now goes to the House. The resolution was offered by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg.

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Quarts OLD IMPORTED. BY 5015 $9.25 5014 $3.45 5032 $4.35 JAS. BARCLAY CO. LIMITED, DETROIT, MICHIGAN, U.S.A, Obscene Card Leads to Jail Sender of a Note to President Sentenced GRAND RAPIDS, March 13-(A. -Frank Connors, 49 years old, of Grand Rapids, who addressed an obscene postal card to President Roosevelt, must serve 15 months in the Federal Prison at Chillicothe, 0.

He was sentenced Wednesday by Federal Judge Fred M. Raymond, after conviction of sending indecent matter through the mails. Judge Raymond also sentenced two former postoffice employees for embezzling postal funds. Roger M. Marker, 33, of Elk Rapids, must serve two years in the Chillicothe Prison, and Clyde E.

Dohm, of Sodus, 15 months in the same prison. Box Thief Sentenced repeal. Convict Ends Life Raymond K. Grey, 20, of Summit City, was sentenced to 15 months in the Chillicothe Prison for larceny from a mail box. Judge Raymond sentenced Harvey J.

Vander Veen, of Grand Rapids, former CWA foreman, to six months in the Milan Prison for using CWA laborers on personal projects; then suspended the sentence. Vander Veen was fined $300. Judge Raymond also fixed the penalties Wednesday for convicted members of what Federal and State investigators described as Michigan's biggest illicit liquor ring since The ring had its headquarters near Kalamazoo, and most of the convicted defendants lived there. There were nine convictions but one of those awaiting sentence, Harvey Hill, 55, shot and killed himself at his home in Kalamazoo last night. George Corbett, 29, described by witnesses as the "brains" of the ring, was sentenced to three and a half years in Leavenworth Prison for violation of the Internal Revenue Act, and fined $3,000.

Appeal Planned Corbett's attorney, Harry S. Bennett, of Detroit, said i that an appeal would be taken, attacking the constitutionality of the Inernal Revenue Act. Other sentences included: Mrs. Minnie Conyer, 35, a year and a month imprisonment, plus two years' probation and a $500 penalty; Joseph Nook, 51, a year and a day, plus fine; Burt Decker, 35, eight months and $800 fine a and penalties; Maurice Pontius, 31, six months and $1,600 in fines and penalties: Berina Norville, 34, one year and $1,500 in fines and penalties; George Whitehurst, years and $700 fine and 'penalties; John Zlinka, 35, six months and $2,700 in fines and penalties. It Happened in Michigan JACKSON An increase in pay asked by police and firemen has been turned down by the City Commission.

KALAMAZOO Plane are comfor the annual conference of the county normal schools of Western Michigan which will be held at Western State Teachers' College Thursday. Allegan, Berrien, Barry, Calhoun and Oceana County normals are expected to attend. owosso Louis Walling, 43. Fairfield Township farmer, is in Memorial Hospital here, suffering from a fractured pelvis, as the result of falling off a load of hay. KALAMAZOO This city's 1935 home exposition has closed after six days exhibition.

It is reported that 9,800 persons visited the exhibits and plans are already under way for the 1936 exposition. BATTLE CREEK Mrs. Willa Lee Harper, 22, Negro, was convicted of murder in the second degree here Wednesday, after the jury had deliberated an hour and a half. She slew Charles Cattreel, a restaurant porter, Jan. 8, during a quarrel in his rooms.

LAPEER-Rev. Edward M. kamp, of Saugatuck is the KortPresbyterian minister for Lapeer. He will take the place vacated by the Rev. N.

D. Draby, who accepted a call to Battle Creek. LAPEER-Asa Gray, of Lansing, has been sent to assist in the administration of the emergency welfare office in Lapeer County by Dr. William A. Haber.

Mr. Gray has done similar work in Genesee, Kalamazoo and Eaton Counties. YPSILANTI- Michigan Conservationists will meet March 14 to 16 with the Ypsilanti Garden Club for a three-day conservation institute in Central High School here. BIG RAPIDS Albert Huber was ordered to serve from two to 10 years in the State Prison by Circuit Judge Earl C. Pugsley Wednesday after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to kill his wife.

MONROE-Morton H. Auld will be a sticker candidate office of County school commissioner on the Republican election, April 1, it was announced here Tuesday. Girl, 4, Dies of Burns After Falling into Pail HILLSDALE, March 13-(A. -Four-year-old Patricia Marshall, burned when she fell into a pail of boiling water at her home, died Wednesday in a Hudson hospital. The mother, Mrs.

Howard W. Marshall, had placed the pail of water on the floor in the kitchen and the child stumbled and fell into it when she backed away from a sink. Kills Self with Gun MONROE, March 13-William J. Dusseau, 46 years old, shot and killed himself Wednesday in his home at 7018 E. Fourth St.

College U.S. Rural Experts Day. 1,000 Expected to Hear Two International Authorities KALAMAZOO, March speakers of international tion will be presented at State Teachers College March 15, on the occasion twenty-ninth annual Rural day. The speakers are Dr. J.

Galpin, Washington, D. reau of agricultural Dr. Galpin since 1919, is ity on rural country and in he was United the general assembly national Institute Rome, and in 1927 agricultural decoration class by King His lecture subject of Rural Life and day and Tomorrow." Miss Frysinger much time in study tions in this Country She was United States delegate to the International Rural Life conference in Belgium in 1926 and made a fivemonth European study for the Department of Agriculture. In 1927 she, too, received from King Albert the agricultural decoration. In 1930 she represented the United States at the International Conference of 13 Two reputaWestern Friday, of the Progress Charles bu- economics, Department of Agriculture, and Miss Grace Frysinger, Washington, division of co-operative extension, Department of Agriculture.

It is expected a proximately 1,000 men and women interested in rural life problems will be in attendance. Dr. Galpin, who has been connected with the Department of Agriculture an authorconditions in this Europe. In 1926 States delegate to of the InterAgriculture in was awarded the of the first of Belgium. is "The Place Its Problems To- also has spent of rural condiand abroad.

Miss Frysinger Rural Women's Organizations at Vienna. Her subject Friday will be "Family Living in the Farm Home of Tomorrow." Dr. Stuart A. Courtis, of the University of Michigan, and Dr. M.

L. Turner, of Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, also will speak. Dr. Eben Mumford, of Michigan State College, will preside at the norning, session, and president Niles of Hagel- the Kalamazoo County Farm Bureau, at the afternoon session. New Clew Found in Hunt for Flier Report Places Plane Near Manchester MT.

CLEMENS, March 13-Hope was revived at Selfridge Wednesday for Milton A. Lampl, flying cadet who has been missing since Sunday. The most reliable reports received thus far came from the vicinity between Ann Arbor and Jackson. A plane was reported heard near Manchester about 9:45 p. m.

Sunday. The report said that the plane's motor had stopped suddenly. to Although communicate Lampl with was Selfridge, not heard field continuously broadcast instructions to him to leave this vicinity if he was unable to make a landing and to fly west to get out of the If Lampl heard the instructions and followed them, 9:45 p. m. Sunday would have put him in the vicinity between Ann Arbor and Jackson.

Fifteen Selfridge planes Wednesday searched the area near chester and Leoni. Food Shortage Laid to AAA Crop Plan owosso, March 13-James F. Thomson, State Commissioner of Agriculture, Wednesday declared that the United States is facing food shortage as the result of crop curtailment plan of the AAA. Thomson, speaking at a luncheon meeting of the Owosso Kiwanis Club, questioned the wisdom of paying farmers for not raising the necessities of life and then importing them from other countries. He said that last week only 33,000 hogs were marketed in the entire country, while Chicago's needs alone are 9,000 hogs per week.

Gladstone Residents Fish for Free Coal GLADSTONE, March 13-Free coal for all who are ingenious enough to salvage from the waters of Lake Michigan has brought nearly 200 men out on the ice each day this winter. When a coal dock burned here several years ago, 100,000 tong of coal was dumped into the bottom of Bay de Noc. The coal is retrieved by most salvagers with a basket and pole device. Melodramatic Rescue Is Staged on Tracks JACKSON, March 13-(A. was just like a melodrama as police and firemen worked feverishly Wednesday to free a helpless victim whose foot was caught on a railroad track, with a train approaching.

Just A8 the train came close enough to set off the crossing signal, the rescuers were successful. Moments later, a passenger train roared by. The near-victim was a horse attached to a milk wagon. SHENANDOAH AT ALL STATE STORES 75e for No. 13-pinta $1.45 for No, Hearing Held on State NRA Merchants Sharply, Split on Issue industrial and business leaders Free Press March 13.

Michigan, found themselves in sharp conflict Wednesday evening when several hundred of them gathered in Representative Hall to discuss the merits of the State NRA Code statute proposed by Reps. Haskell L. Nichols, Jackson Republican, and Martin Baginski, Detroit Democrat. Abner E. Larned, compliance administrator of the Federal Code for Michigan; A.

J. Barnaud and Albert J. Koepcke, his Detroit aids, marshaled a formidable group small business executives to plead for adoption of a State code, which would be superimposed on the Federal Code. John L. Lovett, general manager of The Micigan Manufacturers' sociation: The Detroit Retail Merchants' Bureau, and other business interests in Detroit, on the other hand, were vigorous opponents of the proposal.

Larned asserted that Federal authority is lacking for clear cut administration of interstate transactions. Oscar J. Webber, vice president and general manager of the J. L. Hudson E.

Meder, counsel for the Manufacturers' Association; S. Wells Utley, president of The Detroit Steel Castings Roscoe Rau, 'of Monroe, representing the retail furniture dealers, and others out, however, that Michigan business interests might be exposed to unfair trade handicaps in national competition if the State imposed conditions which were not applicable in other states. Clyde V. Fenner, representing independent merchants, also opposed a Michigan code authority. Among those who pleaded for a Michigan code were George Holensteen, of Detroit, spokesman for 600 lumber dealers and their resentative in administering the replumber executive; code; Roy N.

J. Bibble, trucking Ridley, past president of the National Association of Cleaners Dyers; James tobbaconist, and C. C. Means, Jones, printer. House Committee Offers Income Tax Levy Would Aid OldAge Pension (From the Free Press Bureau) islature LANSING, March 13-The Legconsidered income tax islation Wednesday when leg- the House Taxation Committee favoramended reported the Holbeck Bill, ably and one per cent levy on to call for a straight one sonal income to be dedicated perfor old age pension a and school relief.

The decision in the United States Supreme Court this week in which the Kentucky graduated sales tax was found unconstitutional suaded the lawmakers to peravoid graduations in the proposed Michigan levy. Estimates are that the bill will produce $7,500,000 annually, an additional exaction from Michigan taxpayers, who four times have voted down income tax amendments the polls. The Holbeck Bill would the first $1,000 earnings of exempt a single man, with $2,000 exemption for the head of a family, plus $300 tion for each dependent. exemp- 30 Pontiac Pupils Named for Honors PONTIAC, March 13-Sixteen girls and 14 boys were named Wednesday. Pontiac High School faculty members membership in the National Honor Society for scholarship, leadership, service and character in high school activities.

The students are Helen Foss, Harger Green, Lloyd Huntley, John Gessinger, Harry Shoman, Alice Merriman, Robert Nelson, Mitchell, Ruth Doty, Edith Howell, Mildred Jack Lefevre, Margaret Shuler, LaDoit Patton, Carl Alfsen. Shirley Stoothoff, John Burt, Dorothy Race, Thalia Chaffee, Charlotte Tiffany, Robert Sibley, Marjorie Stevens, Nelson Davis, Glenn Clarence Erickson, Marian Mary Langs, McClure, Anderson, Maxine Williams. Toy, Forbes Sibley, Mapley Washtenaw Man Killed ANN ARBOR, March 13-Paul Homer, 54 years old, who lived south of Saline, was killed Wednesday night when struck by a car driven by Erwin Frederick, 27, three miles south of Ann Arbor on the Saline Road. Man Aids Study in China ANN ARBOR, March 13. -Prof.

Charles Remer, of the University of Michigan. Economic Department, Friday to serve as expert adviser on international trade to the American Economics Commission, which will spend the next several weeks in China. Michigan Deaths BATTLE CREEK Mrs. George Slemon. 78; Jasper A.

Schultz. 89: James Manzer. 68: Harold P. Swift. 27.

TEMPERANCE- Elizabeth Hack. man. CARLETON--Emily Hassenrik. 40. Mrs.

RAPIDS- -Andrews Jansma, 72: GRAND Louise Hafenbrach, 71: Frank H. Brockheim, 48: Mrs. Vera Umlor. 28. BIG RAPIDS- Mrs.

Verna Donley, 55. BOYNE CITY--Mrs. Christ Mathisen, 80. MARION--Charles Brooks, 76. IONIA-A.

A. Catt, 63. -Joseph Caywood, 66: Mrs. Charles Germayne. 74 MILFORD Mrs.

Cyrena Mendham, 89. ROMEO Emma Day, 83. PONTIAC- Ora C. Valentine, 67. ROYAL OAK -Anthony Smitt, 53.

LANSING--Charles E. Claflin. 67, KALAMAZOO- John C. Welling. 72: George L.

Greene. 52: Mrs. Ida Barnes, 69: Oliver L. Barber, 72; Samuel Puglise, 58. MUSKEGON- John J.

O'Connor, 67; Mrs. Mary Reichert. 46. JACKSON Bieniecke, 21: William N. Cowing, 70.

HARBOR SPRINGS--Jack Riggs. 21. PINCKNEY- -James Burroughs, 80. FLINT--Arthur R. Dillon, 73: George H.

Blackman. 49. MULLIKEN-Enhriam W. Bacon, 60. EAGLE--Dow Pennington, 82.

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DIA-BET, Laboratories Corp. Death Parts Twin Brothers Inseparable for 85 Years William Fessler Dies at Caro; Came to U.S. in 1855 in Old Sailing Vessel CARO, March 13 William and Augustus Fessler, twins inseparable for 84 years, were parted by death Wednesday night. William died just two weeks before the twins would have celebrated their eighty-fifth birthdays. Born in Baden-Baden, Germany, March 28, 1850, within a block of the famous Rhine river, they came with their parents America in 1855, landing in York.

The sailing vessel which brought them this country took six weeks for the voyage. The family went to Schenectady, N. where they remained until 1861, when they moved to Ellington Township, Tuscola County, eight miles north of here. The family besides parents and twins consisted of five brothers and sisters. A few years after coming to this county, the father, Christian, suffered a stroke while trimming trees, and died at the age of 59.

Augustus Fessler was the first Meeting Is Called on Borough Plan Royal Oak Officials to Study Statutes ROYAL OAK. March 13-Members of a committee seeking to reorganize Royal Oak Township communities into a borough system of government will meet Thursday night to study Michigan statutes. Sherman A. McDonald, Royal Oak Township attorney, and chairman of the sub-committee seeking to untangle legal phases of the proposed plan, said Wednesday that he had asked for an opinion from Attorney General Harry S. Toy.

At the Thursday night meeting, Orph C. Holmes, Ferndale City attorney, representing the cities, and Arthur E. Moore, Clawson Village attorney, representing the villages, will report on the legal complications of the plan as it pertains to their districts. As goon as the legal rulings have been given, the sub-committee and alternates will draft proposed enabling legislation which will be submitted to the general committee of 28. for approval.

Senator A. L. Moore, Pontiac, and Rep. Melvin H. Lee, of Royal Oak, will be asked to foster the legislation.

It Takes 45 Minutes to Give Thief 90 Days BIRMINGHAM, March 13 Joseph Payne, 42 years old, was sent to jail for 90 days here Wednesday, 45 minutes after he had robbed the Ford Sales and Service Garage of tools valued at less than $50. Employees saw Payne leave the near the garage. Justice Forbes S. police. Two or officers arrested him garage with package and called Haschall passed sentence.

of the twins to marry, Susan McDurmon as his bride choosing 1871. She died in 1879. William in wag married to Alice Coleman in 1886, and she died several years ago. Children of Augustus are George Fessler, of Fessler, of Caro, Charles children Portland, Ore. William's of Caro; are Mrs.

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