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32 for ONE THE DETROIT FREE PRESS -SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1929 MOVING VAN GETS THE TAX Delinquents Pay Up When They Face Property Seizure. Collecting taxes with a moving van has proved an effective way of bringing delinquents to reason, Embert J. Johnson of the Wayne county treasurer's office announced last night, and the method probably will be used freely in the future. Under the law, Mr. Johnson pointed out, the county may seize property of delinquent taxpayers, sell it and apply the proceeds on the amount due.

The last week, however, is the first time the plan has been used extensively to collect personal taxes. When the collectors drive up in front of a man's house with the big moving van, and while dunning the delinquent taxpayer cast speculative glances at his furniture, usually the taxpayer promptly produces a check for the amount due, Johnson said. Accompanying Johnson on his calls 8 have been George Wise, D. J. Pollard and Albert Buchner, all of the treasurer's office.

FLOWER SHOW BLOOMS GAIN Continued from Page One. nearly 40,000 persons came to pay her court. It is something of a breath-taking experience--or was Saturday--to step from the thawing street into the veritable bower into which Convention hall has been converted. The temperatures inside are the temperatures of spring and the thousands of concealed lights tinged the natural glare from the skylights into a close semblance of sunshine. Add to this the green, green grass of the gardens and the soft splashing of innumerable water falls and individual fountains.

Weaver Prize Winner. The Dale Estates, of Brampton, won a special $1,000 prize with its display of roses and a gold medal with a basket filled with literally hundreds of orchids. These rare flowers, in the development of which the Dale experts long have been interested, attracted attention and inquiry. The 3,000 specimens shown by William Weaver, of Mt. Clemens, brought him several prizes.

A. J. Stahelin, of Detroit, also took several firsts. Features of each of the displays were bouquets made up of roses six and seven inches in diameter that would have satisfied the requirements of such astute floriculturists as Gargantua or Paul Bunyan. Another event was the contest for assistant gardeners.

For the best basket of mixed bulbous flowers, Fred Welhausen, assistant. gardener for Mrs. J. B. Schlotman, won first place; Stanley Davis, of the E.

L. estate, second, and Ray Scotford, employed by Mrs. John S. Newberry, third. For the best basket of flowers, other than bulbous, Mr.

Welhausen again took first; Joseph Segida, assistant gardener for Edgar B. Whitcomb, second, and Herbert Welhausen, a brother of the other, employed by Dr. H. N. Torrey, of Grosse Pointe, third.

The judges were Mrs. Henry Ford, Philip Breitmeyer and Professor Alex Laurie, Following is a partial list of other of Michigan State college. prize winners: Ferns, Palms and Foliage Plants: (Open Classes). Adiantum cuneatum, one specimen: First, Dept. Parks and Blvds.

Second, Mrs. A. L. Stephens. Asplenium, nidusavis, three plants: First, Dept.

of Parks and Blvds. of 25 plants: First, Mrs. Collections Schlotman. Box tree, two First, Mrs. J.

B. Newberry. Croton, one specimen: First, E. B. Whitcomb.

E. Dracaena, one specimen: First, L. Ford; second, Mrs. E. D.

Speck; third, E. B. Whitcomb. House plant, foliage: First, Harry Heinl, Toledo; second, Myron Bloy; third, Mrs. J.

B. Schlotman. House plant, blooming: First, Wayne county, Eloise; second, Mrs. H. M.

Jewett; third, Myron Bloy, House Mrs. plants, H. three, blooming: First, M. Jewett; second, E. S.

Barbour; third, Mrs. A. L. Stephens. House plants, three, foliage: First, Mrs.

E. D. Speck; second, Wayne county, Eloise. Basket, Breitmeyer Flowers. Rose Nursery, specimen: Rockwood, Mich.

Japanese Model Garden: First, Albert A. Albrecht. Two Specimen Aucaria: First, E. L. Ford Estate.

Special Class Prizes offered by A. Frylink Sons, Bulb Speclalists, Long Island, N. Y. Class First, E. L.

Ford Estate, Grosse Pointe; second, Mrs. B. Schlotman, Grosse Pointe. Class First, E. B.

Whitcomb, Grosse Pointe; second, Mrs. J. B. Schlotman, Grosse Class First. E.

B. Pointcomb, Grosse Pointe; second, E. L. Ford Estate, Grosse Pointe. Pastry Chefs Competition, Confectionery Floral Design: First, Chef Cark Militzer, Detroit-Leland second, Pete Mazanek, Book Cadillac hotel; third, Hans Bendel, Cadillac; honorable mention, Pete Mazanek, Book Cadillac.

Vegetable Floral Design: First, vase arrangement, John Caubert, Detroit club; second, vase arrangement, Jean Caubert, Detroit club. Special Class-Oid English Garden: First, Maurice Haven, Woodward Gardens, Birmingham, Mich. Special Class -Naturalistic Garden: Forst. Lincoln W. Maire, Grosse Pointe Village.

In the competition for commercial growers only, first prizes were won by Clinton View Greenhouses, A. J. Stahelin, Weaver Rose Gardens, and F. B. Ward.

OCEAN SHIPS ARRIVED New York, March 16-Westphalla, from Hamburg. Gibralter, March from New York. March from New Oslo. York. SAILED.

New York, March for Southampton; Arable, for Antwerp: Antonio Lopez, for Cadiz: Minnewnaka, for London: Veendam for Rotterdam: tonio, for Liverpool: Albertic, for LiverAusonia, for London; Coute Grande, pool: for Genoa. Southampton, March 16-Stuttgart, for New York. London, March 15-American Shipper, New Fork. Shields, March for New Fork. Yokohama March son.

for Beattie SPECULATION WARNING GIVEN Continued from Page One. in the end to resort to higher discount rates. "We are all cognizant that rates are much higher for all kinds of credit than they were in August of 1927," the governor said. "For six years or more there, been an unusual demand form of credit that can properly be termed speculative; in fact, the unusually high rates that prevail in that feld make it evident that the demand has pressed hard on the supply. "The unusual demand for this particular form of credit has had an effect upon the cost of all other forms of credit SO that practically all lines of commerce and industry have been affected to a certain degree, although from all I can observe this time the increased rates commerce and business have not so far been a deterrent to active operation." James Van Buren Dies in Ann Arbor Special to The Free Press, Ann Arbor, March James H.

Van Buren, of the Ann Arbor office of Merrill Lynch Detroit brokers, died at St. Joseph's hospital here early this morning, after a brief illness. He was 34 years old. Van Buren was born at Dunkirk, N. and graduated from Princeton university in 1916.

He leaves his widow and A son, James Henry, his mother, Mrs. J. N. Van Buren of Dunkirk, N. one brother and two sisters.

Funeral services will be held at St. Andrews Episcopal church at three o'clock, tomorrow afternoon, with the rector, Rev. Henry Lewis, officiating. Burial will be at Dunkirk, N. Y.

Auto Hits Trolley; Two Men Injured Two men were injured when the automobile in which they were ridng collided with a street car at Field and Gratiot avenues at 7:15 o'clock last night. The injured, Thomas Reinsford, 43 years old, living in the River Rouge hotel, River Rouge, and Wilbur Willis, 40, of 8260 Marian avenue, were taken to Receiving hospital. Reinsford is believed to have suffered a fractured skull while Willis received minor lacerations about the head and arms. Walter Jackson, 37, of 639 Illinois street, driver of the automobile, is being at Chene street station on a charge of driving when drunk. STATE The Paquin collar of fox The geometric tuckings The youthful slight flare are points of individuality in The FASHIONS for MADEMOISELLE COAT 85:00 an exceptional price for an exceptional fashion! is the name given to our series of exclusive new fashions for "Miss 14 to 20." Created with the goal of style perfection in view, each SANDRA fashion represents an outstandingly smart mode, and unequalled value at the same time.

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upon SEE TORREON'S CAPTURE NEAR Continued 1 from Page One. and many federal soldiers had been killed or taken prisoner in the battle there. U. S. Planes Arrive.

The first three of 20 new airplanes ordered in New York by the federals have been completed and will be flown Mexico City Monday by Mexican army aviators. A statement by President Portes Gil said all captured rebels of General Aguirre's Vera Cruz army below the rank of lieutenant colonel had been liberated. In Naco, the commissaire of police and several civilian officers raided the foreign club owned by George M. Pratt, an American, seized gambling equipment valued at some $10,000 and burned it in the street a few feetufrom the, international line. this incident was connected with the revolution known.

Rebel Commander Escobar was said by government to be transferring his money to the United States and Canada, having already sent his family into the United States, in anticipation of the complete failure of the rebel movement and to pave the way for his own escape. report from El Paso, said Senora Concha Escobar, wife of General Escobar, entered the United States here late Saturday. She was accompanied by her son and by Senora Antonio Villarreal, wife of a rebel general, and Mrs. Jose Cueto. Seek Kidnapers of Two.

Washington, March The state department was informed by Ambassador Morrow today that General Calles sent troops in pursuit the bandits who kidnaped Henry, Hanson, an AmeriReid, a British subject, on March 1. The men were employed by a mining company and presumably were held for ransom. Reports to the state department in connection with the Mexican revolution were that General Calles and his staff had reached Durango and Ambassador Morrow said he had been advised that some of the general's forces already were advancing on the railroad to Torreon. State department officials rolled down the tops of their desks for today the week-end holiday vastly more relieved over the Mexican situation than they have been since the revolution started. While the department made no public comment, the indications were that this government feels the worst has passed and that the rebel movement has shown its maximum strength.

There was a noticeable lessening of the apprehenslon which was felt in WashIngton immediately after the revolt suddenly flared up. The Weather -PARTLY CLOUDY. Lower Michigan: Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday; rising temSunday. perature Monday and west portion Sunday, west portion; rising temperature Upper Michigan: Partly Cloudy in northunsettled, rain probable rising in afternoon or night, Ohio -General temperature. fair with slowly rising fair, temperature Sunday; Monday and somewhat warmer.

following Weather Bureau. observations Detroit, were March taken Department of Agriculture, places named below: Direction (miles 52 hours Precipitation Weather. Stations of dad of wind in last 14 Clear Cloudy Clear Pt cl'y Pt cl'y NW Cloudy 20 Cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear NW Clear 5: NW Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Pt el'y Cloudy Clear 12 Cloudy Clear NW Cloudy Cloudy Clear Pt el'y 30 Clear Clear Clear 35 Clear TEMPERATURES. 88 degrees; degrees; 80 per cent; 8 95. NORMAN B.

CONGER, In. Charge, FEAR BIG DEATH TOLL IN FLOOD Continued from Page One. plies. 100 Autos Going To Elba. Burnt Corn, tributaries of the Alabama river, subsided somewhat today, but was expected flood the town again, as Murder creek began a second rise.

Direction of relief and disease prevention was taken over at Montgomery today, with Enterprise, Troy, Dotham and the National Guard base at Cemetery hill designated. Most of the 2,000 refugees from Elba and environs were huddled together on a knoll, without shelter and, in most cases, without adequate clothing, while guardsmen pushed to completion a temporary roadway over which automobiles will take the flood victims to Troy. A caravan 100 cars was used in the of removal. The first train from Flomaton, one of the towns, reached Mobile this afternoon. J.

S. Martin, Mobile, conductor of the train; C. Brown, flagman, and R. Nelson, baggagemaster, told of taking scores of refugees into the coaches. Train Carries Supplies.

The train that brought the In Initial information of conditions at Flomaton, left again for the stricken territory with supplies. Also seriously affected by high water was Caryville, across the line south of Geneva, where hurried efforts were necessary to take the inhabitants to safety zones. Two hundred persons were rescued this morning, motor boats took women children from the second story windows of two hotels and others were saved by clinging to housetops and the tops of trees. The Choctowahatchee river was 26 feet and rising four inches an hour. Flood stage is 12 feet.

Governor Bibb Graves was in temporary command of 17 army airplanes from Maxwell fleld, which flew over the various flood sectors with food, serum and other sup- Returning news correspondents automobiles were moving toward the Elba region to take some ordereD refugees from Cemetery hill on the governor. Sanitary conditions were rapidly becoming dangerous there and an outbreak of measles among the refugee children threatened to spread. State health department physicians, working with national guardsmen and Colonel W. A. Gayle and local Red Cross workers, were inoculating refugees against measles and typhoid.

Governor Graves, in broadcasting a. second appeal for aid, today said $225,000 would be necessary for immediate. relief. The Red Cross Washington informed the governor that three national disaster relief workers had been ordered to Coffee, had county, been and that mobilized local on chap- an emergency basis. Southern Ontario Rivers Flood Homes, Cause Havoc Toronto, March Heavy rains and snow throughout Southern Ontario last night and today sent swollen rivers and streams to higher levels.

The Grand and Nith rivers continued to be the chief sources of danger. Much damage was reported from Galt, Paris, and Cayuga. Reflooding occurred at Galt and occupants of the buildings along the river front were suffering hardships owing to lack of fuel. The rising of the Nith was responsible for the flooding of many homes. The Grand continued to rise at Brantford, but the city is well protected by its dyke system.

Cayuga, where residents were seriously alarmed at the rapid rising of the Grand, reported the water had dropped four feet from the high mark recorded last night. Boats and wagons, however, were used to effect rescues at some of the flooded homes. A 20-foot wall of ice had piled up in cut and dammed up the Flood In Iowa Serious. Chicago, March Rapacious rivers were carrying on their incursions over varying sections of the middlewest tonight while other streams reached their crest and gradually subsided. The situation in Iowa took A more serious Reports were received that hundreds of residents of lowland territory had been forced to evacuate homes.

The points hardest hit were Waterloo, where the Cedar river was on a rampage; Cedar Falls, Des Moines, Mason City and Keokuk. Rail traffic was seriously impaired by flooded roadbeds and thousands of dollars' damage to farm lands was reported. Weather bureau officials predicted further rise of streams over the area. The United States weather bureau at St. Louis, eyeing the Mississippi and its tributaries, reportantici- ed no serious danger was pated unless there were additional rains.

Mississippi Peril Wanes. Memphis, March The lower Mississippi valley high water situation assumed a more hopeful appearance today with the forecast of a crest stage at Cairo, by Thursday and the prediction of generally fair next week in the Ohio valley and Tennessee. Word came today from Marked Tree, that an apparent attempt had been made to dynamite the main St. Francis levee near there. Three sticks of dynamite were found in the dyke, and it was believed timely arrival of a guard prevented the motive explosive from being set off.

No for an attempt to blast the levee was advanced." SHARPE GAIN LIGHT IN VOTE RECOUNT Picks Up Only 128 Out of 997 Needed for Nomination. Former Judge L. Eugene Sharpe picked up only 128 votes in the 376 percincts tabulated by the city eleccommission last night in the recount of the vote cast for circuit judge at primary last Monday in 571 precincts, members of the election commission announced. With 997 votes to go to displace his nearest rival, former Prosecutor Robert M. Toms, who was fourteenth on the list of 14 Republican nominees, Sharpe's chances seemed fading.

Oakley E. Distin, chief superviser of the elections commission, also announced that 1,566 new registrations for the election April 1 had been made up to last night, bringing the total for the city to 417,312. The number of qualified at the primary was 415,746, GALE HOLDS 14 CAPTIVE IN SKY Giant Ford Plane Kicked Up Like Football, Held Motionless Against Wind. Special to Free Press and Chicago Tribune. New York, March of a mad wind, 14 passengers in a tri-motored Ford sightseeing plane were marooned in mid-air over the Newark, N.

airport for 45 minutes late today. Meanwhile, the gale slashed across the New York district at a height of 200 feet. The $100,000 flying train, owned by Paul W. Chapman and designed to carry 26 passengers in his contemplated ship-todoorstep service, was sent somersaulting, to wing a at landing Newark. with Two a other planes dived and zoomed six or seven times in bucking the gale that kicked them aloft.

And a veteran ace, with a wheel missing and leading gear damaged, was forced to make a stall-motor landing at Curtiss field, L. I. Hovers Above Field. Later, at twilight, the lumbering, heavy, reconstructed biplane, built for freight service years ago by Prospect Bonelli, smashed its landing gear at the Newark airport after trip from Washington, D. C.

Two passengers in the big ship were shaken up, but not injured. A wheel buckled under the plane when it was set down on the field. The passengers in the great Ford, many of whom were making a momentous first flight, spiralled to effect a landing at Newark airport just as the crazy gale arrived. Edwin Weatherdon, veteran Ford pilot, sensed his predicament when winds tossed the ponderous plane away from the ground. He climbed to 1,000 feet, nosed into the gale and raced his three motors, but the wind was strong the big plane hovered directly over the field, almost as though lashed to a mooring mast.

The passengers were obviously frightened when Weatherdon finally landed, his plane, aided by weight the passengers, threequarters of an hour later. But they were enthusiastic in praising the pilot's resourcefulness in the emer- gency. Plane Kicked Into Air. While the wind was sending shivers through the 14 Ford plane passengers, 17-year-old Richard James, who won a $1,000 prize for being the first juvenile to fly across the continent, also was kicked into the air by the wind as he attempted to land at Newark. He flew around for a half hour with his passenger, Jack Scarpullo, a schoolmate from his Flushing, L.

home, but finally spiralled his travel air biplane to a perfect landing after taking an hour for the trip from Curtiss field, L. ordinarily requiring but 15 minutes. Simultaneously a Consolidated biplane, piloted by a flier from Far Rockaway naval training station, shot down to make a landing. The gale smacked light and speedy craft at 200 feet and sent it aloft again, six times the pilot nosed down to make a landing--while mechanics and ambulance attendants ran out on the field expecting a crash--but each time the wind conquered the motor and the plane was forced upward. Finally the pilot cruised away, deciding wisely to ride out the storm.

Signals Save Aviator. Although the giant Vincent J. Burnelli plane, owned by Chapman, was turned over twice by the prankplaying gale, neither the pilot, Captain Earl E. Stewart, war time ace, nor John Hannon, mechanic, was injured. The somersaulting of the plane demolished the left wing and damaged the left propellor and under carriage severely.

Mechanics running along the ground and waving wheels saved Storm Archer, president and chief pilot of the Pioneer Aero Trade school, after he lost a wheel in taking off from Curtiss field. TWO CONVICTED AS KIDNAPERS Continued from Page One. stony faces. Not a shadow of emotion was betrayed by either. "We are guiltless.

We will prove it. I hope the boy is found," said father. The son practically said the same thing. The whereabouts of Melvin is as much a mystery as ever. Since he disappeared from in front of the home of his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond Horst, three days after Christmas, not a definite trace of his whereabouts has been found. There is no information tending to show whether he is alive or dead. Early 'pothted year the hand of suspicion to the Arnold family, and Elias and his Arthur, together with another son, a daughter and her husband and Bascom McHenry were indicted. The indictments against the other three had been nolled prossed and the trial of the father and son opened last week.

U.S. COURT BAILIFF DIES; WAS LONG ILL Joseph J. Guyette Served as Deputy Marshal. Joseph J. Guyette, bailiff in Federal Judge Charles C.

Simons' court, died at 4:30 p. m. yesterday in his home, 1532 West Willis avenue, after 'a long illness. Guyette served as turnkey under Sheriff James Burns from 1905 to 1908; was appointed United States deputy marshal under Marshal Henry Behrndt in 1917. For several years he had been court bailiff for Judge Simons.

He was a native of Detroit, having been born on the site directly across from the old Michigan tral depot on December 16, 1960. He organized the now defunct Guyette soft drink manufacturers, of which he was president for about 20 years. Guyette was educated in the city's schools and at an early age began his career in business. He leaves the widow, Lucy and three sons, Joseph Louis E. and William C.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 8:30 o'clock in the home and at 9 o'clock In St. Dominic's church, Trumbull and Warren avenues, Burial will be in (M4. Olives Thompson Given Moth Franchise Appointment of Thompson Aeronautical corporation as distributors in Michigan and Ohio of the De Havilland Moth, sport plane, for the Moth Corporation, of Lowell, is announced by Tex Marshall, vicepresident of the local company. The Thompson company is already distributor in this territory for Stinson Aircraft and in making this new connection, had added a different type of ship to its line. The Moth is a small training ship, powered by four cylinder, straight-line air cooled De Havilland Gypsy motor, which develops 98 horse, power.

After Thompson Aeronautical corporation will be the sole air mail operator in Michigan. It maintains divisional sales and traffic offices at 820 Book building. Theodore N. Fordon is sales representative for this territory. COURT DECISION HELD VICTORY Continued from Page One.

after losing their battle in the circuit court carried the to the supreme court. In an opinion handed last November, that body decided in their favor. The plaintiffs had asked that the formal decree contain an to the city to return funds collected from disputed boulevards, and it is on the court's refusal to issue such a mandate that the city bases half its claim of victory. "In addition, reading of the decree shows that the restrainer applies only to the two streets directly concerned in the suit," Dwyer declared. "Other 'boulevards' stand in exactly the same relation to the city which they did before the suit was started.

If they are not boulevards in fact, the city can and will collect for new paving. What the supreme court decided, as I see it, was merely that Cloverlawn and Northlawn are boulevards fact. As such, naturally the residents are not liable for the cost of the paving." Floods Overtake Quake-Ridden City Philippopolis, Greece, March 16. -(A. -Floods today overwhelmed this city which was rocked by a series of earthquakes last year.

The residents are fleeing to the mountains to escape the steadily rising waters. Fifty houses are known to have collapsed and a thousand more are under water. Army forces are striving to erect barriers to hold back the swirling waters. JOHN PRIDGEON DIES IN EAST Continued from Page One. shipping interests here during his lifetime.

The former mayor was married first about 1878 to Cora S. Edgar, who died sometime ago. of this union, there was born one child, son, who died in infancy. On June 2, 1915, at the age of 64, Pridgeon married the the present Mrs. Pridgeon who survives him.

The wedding took place in New York, and attracted considerable notice at ether time because of the prominence the two persons. At the time of her marriage, Mrs. Pridgeon was the widow of the late Earl Holmes Cate, classmate at Princeton of former President Woodrow Wilson. Since 1915, the home of the Pride geons has been made mainly in and about Boston. present Mra.

Pridgeon was formerly of Hacken- sack, N. Y. While here, Pridgeon was treasurer and director the now extinct Detroit Blue Ribbon and Driving club, which was founded by his intimate friend, Daniel J. Campau. Pridgeon is also a former treasurer and director of the White Star Navigation company.

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