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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS FRIDAY. MAY 2 S. 1933 Farm Intruder Girl, 1 3 Admits Setting Fire Fells Woman! to House to Cover UP TheHs Safeguarded Birmingham Senior Title Winners School Aid Bill Gets Approval House Advances Plan to Third Reading id TV Takes Poison After Her Arrest at School in Saginaw; Other Blazes Investigated Man Held in Attack on Aged Victim 10 Governor Signs Bill for Supervision i if' 'I I I ai- 3... SAGINAW. May 25-An attempt to set tire to a neighbor's home to covei 'jp the theft of more than $100 worth of Jewelry and clothing was discovered here late Thursday when local authorities arrested Mabel Norton, pretty thirteen-year-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Wil-lard Norton. 2201 Park wood Ave. The dark-haired Weber School ANN ARBOR. Muy 25 Mike Piska, 43 yours old.

who pave his address as 20-12 Diamond Chicago, was held for investigation Thursday night In connection with an attack on Miss Lucetta Burg. 84 years old. who was rhoked into insensibility in her farm home three miles south of Saline shortly LANSING. May 25 Firm State supervision and control of bondholders' protective committees representing the owners of real estate issues aggregating $600,000,000 was established Thursday when Gov. Comstoek signed the Flynn Bill to establish a Public Tru-st Commission.

The Governor's action was upon agreement with legislators that they would sponsor Immediately amendatory provisions in a separate act. Mayor Frank Couzcns. of Detroit, had protested to Gov. Corn-stock that the broad general desig iM6'wim miirn 11 A tmmmmm mmmtmmiMimimtimtMtr before noon Piska. who was arrested in Clin- ton while Irving to hitch a ride her home, Mabel nulled into a hed-lnt.

Thmsdt.v afternoon denied I and drank a quantity of was held Thursday night at the Homestead Detention Home, pending disposition of her ease in Saginaw County Probate Court Saturday mo'nlng. Fire Marshal Hyman I.enlck. who was aslsted in the Investigation of the blaze by William H. County agent of trie State Welfare Department, said Thursday night that the girl had admitted that she stole the clothing, a watch and a clock and then set tire to the home of Knmaine Vltet, 2212 Parkwood to cover the theft. The loot was recovered in a quick search of the girl's room hy Mcleod.

Blent. Frederick Schoenoff and Scrgt. Paul Kruske, of the Police Department. Fire Marshall Lenick, Fire Chief Frank Bender and Honest, It Isn't SAGINAW. May 2-Frank A.

Picard, chairman of the State Liquor Control told the Kiwanis Club here Thursday that 3.2 beer Is non-Intoxicating. He challenged Michigan rtrys to cite an instance of drunkenness caused exclusively hy the new beer. LANSING. May 25 Corn-stock's $15,000,000 appropriation tr. provide special State aid for schools received tentative appiovrd in the House of Representatn on Thursday.

It was advanced to third reading with minor An attempt by Rep. Haskell Nichols, of Jackson, to boost in total to $20,000,000 inst of failed. The "milk czar" bill, proposing to invoke the police power of the State to regulate production and distribution of milk as a public utility and to tlx prices, also was advanced to third reading. Detroit, Rill Argued Tempers became ruffled at li public hearing by the City Cnrpn.v tions Committee on the Detroit bill to create a City Tax Commission and establish receiverships for tix delinquent property so that renials may be directed into tax channel-. The hill also permits cancellatp of taxes and of leniency to taxpayers unable to meet the inpayments.

The hill was vigorously attacked hy T. J. Welsh. Detroit real esta'a operator; Frederick C. Howard A.

Starret, Dr. M. B. lich-inson and others as too drastic in its application. Their remark drew a hot rejoinder from Rep.

Frank C. Calvert, one of the members. Councilman Edward J. defending the bill, clashed wiih Rep. Ate Dykstra, of Grand Rapids, who protested that Detroit difficulties always are permitted to reach a crucial stage before the Legislature is asked to help.

City Controller William J. Curi in and two Corporation Counsel assistants, Paul T. Dwyer and John L. Witherspoon. also appeared as advocates of the measure.

It as Cram1 slmlin fhoton MARJOKIK KIDDKR SALLY BAKF.R Brewery Is Swept by $100,000 Fire Work of Incendiary Seen by Officers MUSKEGON, May (A. Officials plan an investigation of the origin of the fire which swept through the plants of the Muske gon Brewing Co. early Thursday 'causing a loss estimated at more ADKLINK Junior Collegians 1 to Hear ReCCOrd 82 Will Graduate at Highland Park Highland Park Junior College commencement exercises will be held Friday evening in the school auditorium. Dr. Augustus P.

Rec-cord. pastor of the First Universalis! Church, will deliver the principal address. The Barron Glass Memorial is to be presented to the school at this time. The Tatlcr Award, given annually to the graduate with the best scholarship also will be presented. Following are the 82 graduates: Krlin Atnlrew.

Huth Harhrneh. Mar-y than $100,000. The company, one of the oldest breweries in Michigan, "ct '0uW had obtained its permit ami was -deferred untn next. 1 hursday. about to put its beer on the mar- Itcfunding Bills Reported ket.

after spending thousands of! tu aw i. dollars in remodeling and new ma- I 71 tudents Diplomas at Baldwin High Exercises BIRMINGHAM, May 25 Seven-t; -four seniors of Baldwin High School, Birmingham, received diplomas here Thursday night. Paul Hickey, director of the Detroit Institute of Technology, was the commencement speaker. At the exercises the results of the annual class popularity contest were announced, giving Sally V.nlAr tbo titla nf most nnr.lllar girl, Adeline FJy that, of the most beautiful girl, and Marjorie Kidder that of the best all-around girl. James Walker was named most popular boy in the class, Harry Brelsford the handsomest and John McKee the best all-around boy.

Other events on the program were the valedictory address by Miss Phyliss Huston, the saluta Attempts to 'Fix Case Laid to Trio Warrant Recommended for Two Women and Man Two women and a man cnargeu witn obstructing justice, chinery. Fire officials and members of the Meeske families, the owners of tho I property, expressed the belief that nit: wtis sci. IOC ill nail 1 gained remarkable headway when discovered by police and in a few minutes flames were shooting i thtough the four-story brick struc- ture. Plants of the Anaconda Wire Co. ami the Stewart Hartshorn Co.

and other property in that section were endangered. One shed at the I Mewan iiarisnoi plant burned. I Juii.i iii-hu-uhI Harold i torion anuress oy miss iwary r-aimcr Hri-tni, iJmotiu'Ti Iii uer. Vniiram Rvniii inn. a nd the presentation of the class WnUS.

James ot ClllMe. M.ir.v Chilli. Roiemil I the class. v. j.oi Uuiin.in, 1 Rav A.

Palmer, president of the Iiiiriiai.ev Board of Education, was the honor ll Kllmaii faii'lii'iither, Clif I r.i-; i i. io Ken, -on. K.i.iev. her. ItJuest.

Principal Melvin C. Hart Willi mi Kot. y. Mil.iml Ki ll. in presented the class fo graduation Kio.lman I- man.

Ila.el Klllker- and Charles W. Crandell, superin- schools, distributed 4.r.iii.ini. tlnit Wiih.uu plomas. MiMiile, Miinnhti'ii. Jemmi- ronnection with the attempted rob-j bcry, though he said he had come from Saline.

i He did not fit the description I given hy Miss Burs. He was ol the same height, but was about IT) pounds lighter tnan the man wno rhoked Miss Hurc and demanded i money. I Piska paid that he was on his way to Chicago from Detroit. Miss Bute told Denuty Sheriffs George Randall and Thi mas Knight that shortly before noon she entered the farm house and noticed that the door she had closed was opened. She said a mar, hiding behind the door came cut and demanded money.

She told him her money was In the sank, she said, whereupon he seized ner by the throat and choked ihi When she regained consciousness, she called her nephew, John A. P.urg. who lives one "ile cast of Saline. Burg notified Sheriff Jacob Andres, but no trace was found of'the intruder. At the same farm, July 1921.

Miss i Hurg's brother, George, and Henry i Fulmor, another farmer, were slain hy Sam Mocen and i ony npino i iii an attempted robbery. The slay-1 era were sentenced to life terms Jloccri recently was t.aidoncd. Amounts ranging from one cent i 1o $20 were lost by University of Michigan students in burglaries reported to have occurred at four fraternity houses Thursday morning. The chapter houses entered were those of Trigon, Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Gamma Delta and Delta Upsilon. Ravmond I.atta, of Tampa, a gudnt living at Pi Kappa Alpha, was the heaviest loser.

He reported that $20 had been stolen, but that the burglars had shown some consideration in leaving him 10 cents. John Harriman, Ypsiiantl school principal, who has been at liberty on $7,000 bail following arraign- i ment on a charge involving an eleven-year-old girl, was rearrested on two more warrants of the same 1 nature late Thursday night. He will he arraigned Friday. School officials are aiding him, having helped provide his tlrst bond. City Attorney William I.aird Thursday received a ruling by Atty.

Gen. Patrick H. O'Brien on the local charter provision prohibiting the sale of beer on the east side of Ann Arbor, to the effect that the charter provision is invalidated hy the new law, University of Michigan studentr will have to wait until after June to purchase beer near the campus however, as the City Council does not meet until that date. Proponents of the plan insist that the council has taken its nry stann and is Just being stuhborn 1 the latest test in the Council, the vote was 8 to 7 against extending the sale to the east side. Officials Consider Alley Breweries Another conference between law enforcement officials and representatives of the State Liquor Control Commission was held Thursday to determine methods of checking the flow of racket beer in Detroit.

At the end of the meeting, which was held behind closed doors, George Carroll, Detroit manager of the Commission, expressed confidence that alley brewing could be stopped through the co-operation of law enforcement agencies. He announced that all offices of the Commission will he closed from Saturday noon until Wednesday morning and urged dealers to get their supply of beer stamps beforehand. Rites for Peter Schreiber Set for Saturday Morning Funeral services for Peter Schreiber, SI years old, president of the Schrciher Paint Glass will he heli! at 8:30 a. m. Saturday at his residence at.

50" Ashland Ave. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cem- etery. Mr. Schreiber died Wednes-! dav following a brief lie was born in Pot I oil.

a mem-: her or an old family. Kducated 1 here, he spent nirn-t of his life in 1 the paint business. He as a member of the Knights o- of while other smaller buildings in 1 effective date is set for Julv 1 I the district caught tire from sparks, Pensions of monthly would be All available fire apparatus In provided for 2O0.UM1 or nmto cf Muskegon was called, while Muske- i Michigan's population over 65. The gon Heights also sent one com- bill specifies destitution as a tun-pany. Volunteers armed with dition for receiving aid.

buckets also worked to put out The House approved tentatively fires caused by Hying embers. the Watson Kill to lessen penalties A gate and door at the front of for habitual criminals, the main building were locked at The Chiropractor Bill, setting up Until Joliii-'Mi. Kiffwr. KuiVil Liwtfni-i'. Kitvninmt I A 1 J.PW1- It i M(Alti-tii.

Onrc B.irti.tra ltriniu'll. I OiK'iinaii. i-l lltiilip. Clara (Jctircf INilN-ft Mary Klr.a-lwtii T)ormhv yitaitf, Kuth Hh.i. 1 re in 1 a Rolwrti.

l.nui'M Rn-. R'ir'it Riithfrfonf. iriitl- it'hnlz. Julian Smith (iwfti St.inffll. Ait(on J.

Sirnmar. 1'ia swam. Annft Thtnipnn, Chat Tmlil. Norma Vact. 'Maiuiii Waaikf.

Wauir, Viremia Watf. IUh-ih ilak-. K.i-wart) Wii'kPi'jiliam, rharlp Wind, Vn Wmklcr and Mithcil Yt'iiU. Democrats Plan March to Capital Will Take Patronage Demand to Lansing or LANSING. May 25 Preparations for a march on Lansing by 2.000 or more rHTdTha, patrerige seekers, to demand that Repuhacans be cut loose from the payroll and Democrats subsitutcd, Tr.jrsday, in a warrant recom- reported.

mended by I. A. Cappizzi, assistant The first unit of the brewery was prosecutor built in 1R70 hy Otto G. and Gus- Mrs. Clara Wieland.

Mrs. Clara I hrothers. Werson, and her husband. Flank. Frit I- Meeske, O.

P. Mceske. all of mti Caldwell were I K. J. Birk and K.

C. Farmer are charged with having intcrferred I the present otlicers of the Muske-with the prosecution of John Mo. en Brewing Co, Fritz L. Mceske, lisek and Martin Holadav. who were, president, expressed belief that the to come to trial in Recorder's Court fire of incendiary origin.

girl was arrested at school Thurs- day afternoon. When returned to Prison. nut recovered after treat jj riOnOrCQ She KF.NNF.TH JEWKIX YPS1LANTI. May 25 Kenneth Jewell, of Ypsiiantl, has been named president of Kappa Delta Pi, honor society on the Michigan State Normal College campus. Doris Mason, Rochester, is vice president.

Marion Jewell, secretary; Mrs. Helen Pfeiffer, treasurer, and Edith Squiers, corresponding secretary, are from Ypsilanti. Selfridge Fliers Back from South Action onGratiot Ave. Widening Asked Mf CLEMENS, May 25 The Selfridge Field contingent of 4S planes, which left here a month ago to participate In anti-aircraft maneuvers at Bowman Field, Louisville, returned Thursday moi n- ing, in comniand of Maj. George Brett.

Selfridge commandant. The trip to and from Louisville and the maneuvers there were without mishap, Ma). Brett reported. The. annual report of Walter Ol-sen, city director of recreation, shows that recreation events had a total attendance during the fiscal year of 136,021.

This is an increase of 35,000 over the previous year. The total cost per individual was less than two cents, according to the report. Anxious to obtain immediate action from the State in the wider Gratiot project through the business district of Mt. Clemens, this city has forwarded a resolution to Gov. Comstoek and Grover C.

Dillman, state highway commissioner, requesting the State to "proceed with the widening work without further delay." Mayors May Seek Beer Law Change Mayor A. P. Zirkaloso, of Lincoln Park. Thursday night submitted a report on a proposal to permit small communities to issue, beer licenses, to a meeting of mayors of western Wayne County towns in River Rouge. The meeting was called by Mayor Arthur L.

Valiidc. of River Rouge. Mr. Zirkaloso's report recom mended carrying the matter to the State Legislature, rather than to attempt to fight the constitutional- itv of the beer law in court. bill to be presented to the speciai 1 session oi tne Legislature in me I fall.

history of the art, have demanded that abuses cease. Under the new act, passed by the Senate Thursday, all applicants for a barber's license must acrve 18 months' apprenticeship under a competent instructor. The apprenticeship must be served, even though the applicant has a degree from a barber college. The novice will be admitted then to the guild only If he can produce i 1 5 P- ni, Wednesday, but were found UHIDCKCU inn IIIW WAN Ulli- covered, officials of the company Japs and Chinese Arrange a Truce Latter to Stay Behind New Deadline lly to l-'rre bn-s mi Chiiuo TOKIO, May 26 Friday) A nations might be interpreted to nun iiiiiiiii iini ioiiiia ni.tj iiiiri- ferp with the Detroit refunding program. Municipal Issues Excepted The amendments will specifically except municipal bond issues.

They will provide also that the 5 per cent assessment on bonds under the Commission's supervision might be held In abeyance to prevent foreclosing any owner unable tc pay such a fee. After the bill had been passed by the Senate, a determined lobby descended upon Lansing to block action by the House, and the latter body refrained from amendments on representations by Rep. William M. Donnelly that Senate concurrence in amendments was impossible to obtain. Gov.

Comstoek indicated that Andrew C. Belanger, of Detroit, would be named as one of the three members of tho Trust C01r.mi5.unn. Belanger was a Democratic candi- data for Congress in the Fifteenth District last fall and also represents that district on the Liquor Control Commission. Vetoes Liquor Bill The Governor vetoed the Doyle Bill, repealing tho section of the old Wiley Prohibition Act which prohibited advertising of intoxicating liquor. Although the Legislature has refused to designate 3.2 beer as nonintoxleating, it has become legalized.

The Governor held, however, that repeal would permit advertising of stronger beverages. which still are prohibited. rhe Governor also vetoed the Derham Mult Tax Bill, adjusting the amount of the levy on malt concentrates from 5 to 2 cents a pound, on the contention that it threw that tax out of LIance with the five-cent-a-gallon levy on wort. Detroiter Drowns Near Mt. Clemens MT.

CLEMENS. May 25 Bruno Kroll, 18 years old, 13207 Gallagher Detroit, was drowned Thursday in the north branch of the Clinton River at the Whiskey Road, north of Mt. Clemens. Kroll, with Charles Skoczek and George Sbarcea, also of Detroit, were fishing in the river when Kroll fell in. It is believed he fainted or struck his head in the fall as the others said he was an excellent swimmer.

Deputy sheriffs were called and they found the body. $1 1,000 Scrip Issue to Pay Northville School Teachers VnrjTMVTT.T.F! Miv fibrin the amount of $11,000 will be is- sued soon by the School Board to meet teachers' salaries and other obligations. The scrip, will be backed by approximately $20,000 in delinquent 1930 and 1931 taxes. It will bear four per cent interest and will be redeemed in one year, according to Sherill Amber, secretary of the Board. The scrip will be used chiefly to reimburse teachers for 20 per cent wage cuts begun in February.

Wed 70 Years AMI MRS. STOCKS COLUMBUS. May 25 Some 70 friends and relatives recently hclped Mr. and Mrs. Francis Slocks! celebrate their seventieth wedding anniversary in the home where they have spent.

59 years. Stocks is 90 veat-s old and a na tive nf England, while his wife. 88, was born in Ontario, hut both came to this country as children. They wcr married in Port Huron. I 4 -'1 V.

nt. hi tun i 1 I 1 i i 1 I were announced in me Papuan Thursday night, following a meet- ing of nearly 200 members of the KaTIISnPfl I Wayne County Democratic Dele- J'cU lL1 1(-U i-wCdUCl gates Federation. 1 A Armed with departmental pay-! Qt Llllt ArTPSlPn rolls which had been analyzed and UA VUU nUC3l-CU found to contain many Republican i names, the delegates met at the.parad Found in City Despite Olds Hotel to protest. A committee Mcl.cod were continuing their Investigation Thursday night in hopes of clearing up several other fires in that neighborhood in recent months. The Vliet fire, in which $b30 property damage was caused, occurred on May 8.

Margjerite Keating. 43 years old, wife of George W. Kcat'ng. production manager of the Lufkin-Rule was electrocuted when she grasped a short circuited electric door lamp and at the same time touched a steam radiator nt her home Thursday. The body was 1 found hy her son Leo.

She is survived hy her husband three sons, Leo, Louis and George all of Saginaw; four sisters and three brothers, fruncral services will be held Saturday morning from St. Man's Church. The half-way mark was passed Thursday night In the Community Concert Associations drive for 600 members to insure a concert course for next winter in Saginaw, campaign officials annout.ccd. The drive will close Saturday night. Leavintr a note behind Indicating intention to commit ucide because of family troubles, Gustave Ruck, It), of 649 Ring win drowned in Saginaw River near tho Mackinaw St.

bridge. The body 'v is recovered I Thursday afternoon. The man, the father of live children, had been ni using for four days. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon for Edward C. Max-son, for nearly a half century in the decorating business in Saginaw, who died Wedensday ni the age of 82.

He was active 111 fraternal circles. Maxson is by a daughter, Mrs. Charles T. Stclzener. Saginaw, and a son, William, of Saginaw.

Harry Lnnway, 38 years old, ex- convlct with a long record, was 1 returned here Thursday night from Detroit to face charges of robbery armed in connection with tho theft of $2,000 worth of old coins and jewelry taken from the home of Thomas A. Saylor, prominent Saginaw resilient, several months ago. Lieut. Myron Wilson, chief of detectives, and Detective Sergt. Harry Colo brought him from Detroii.

Lanway has already confessed to Saginaw police for his robbery here and admitted also to guilt in an Iowa city murder, officers say. Lansing, Jackson and other Michigan cities also were interested in the arrest of Lanway several days ago by Detroit police. Lanway will be arraigned Friday or Saturday on the charges here. Lieut. Wilson reported that part of the loot of the local theft was recovered.

Lanway escaped capture by narrow margin after being interrupted by Mr. and Mrs. Saylor. In the melee he escaped in hail of bullets. Auto Passenger Injured by Collision in Dearborn Albert Dubke, 31 years old.

Dearborn Township, suffered serious internal injuries Thursday night, police said, when the car in which he was riding collided with another at Outer Drive and Ford Road, Dearborn. The car In which Pubke was riding was being driven by Gust Helm, also of Dearborn Township, and the other car was driven by Stanley Holmes, 20, of 127-19 Ardmore Detroit. Roth escaped injury. Holmes was held ny pearborn police pending the outcome of Duhke's iniuries. Duhke Was taken to Henry ital.

i CnmnAir nf Mntriac v. Is Sued for Divorce I LOS ANGELES. May 23-(A. -Claiming Stan Laurel, film com-; edian. had told her he no longer loved her and wanted a divorce as nuiekly as possible.

Lois Laurel itlll Hint H.vnrce in Snnerinr tiled suit for divorce in Superior Courl today. She said that at parties Laurel ignored her. His ascension in the field of film comedies made his attitude unbearable, she claimed, and caused her embarrassment. A settlement of community property has been made, making provision for the support of the wife and their child, Lois, years old. Michigan Deaths I.INPKN Kdward Whilney 8i.

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fit. PETOsKKY Mrn. Iliiidtutra K.ilinskn. 1110 nAPlTW Mr. Sni-nh timer.

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A I.I.K'-. Kiiiw-h I Mil KVOIX M' Curl t. MI'lisllN Mir. I.nip. Spj Mine, fitl NOKTI1 UKANCH Mrs.

Seville Wilenx. Vr. T-ena Wl.ori sn UKH-1H-. HI11. in M.

Chirk l.A si; 1 1,.. in I'AMIlltlA "I I AM liKN SliiM-r, I two weeks ago when he fell against a piano In his nome nt S31 Henry (St. formal truce between China amrb.j(,f brush agreed that amendments would be Detroit, refunding bills and the measuu; to permit the reopening tho Citv- hiuioot to rut ti-, $68,000,000 tax spread, making but one minor amenilment. Pasi.g of the measure is expected following which House com 111-rence will be necessary. The Legislature of wun, 1 be required to worry over the lis.

problem of laising $10 ikih ihki $12,000,0110 additional to linanre pensions piovidetl for in -i well Bill third reading in the House a special board of rhiropi at-b-r nic I. ii.n,- tying any practicing physician fur State Board membership, and bill to register chiropodists wiio advanced to third reading. Objectors, charging disci iiuiti.i-tion in the special conccssmm gianted. SMctned likely to aside the Michigan Shooting reserve Acl, which has moir ti stock uplands with pheasants thin any measure on the Conservation Code The act has been subjected to attack for years, because it concedes to the owners of such preserves a slightly longer shooting I season than obtains outside the horders and soniewhat larger ha limits, in recognition of the co I and effort toward restocking the public shooting grounds, Noted Preserves Threatened Amendments to save such sports men's havens as the Kmory L. Ford preserve in St.

Clair County were lost. The Hurry Jewell preserve in Northern Michigan also will be outlawed if the House finally adopts the Collins Bill, advanced to third reading Thursday night. The Representatives had another with Ihe issue nepotism when Rep. Olc H. Clines succeeded in taking from the table l.nnn Kilt t.1 fdlh.

hv anv Thn i.ui f()r to permit amendments Ucnresentatives Josepn c. koosc- vrt an, Kdward J. Walsh renewed their guerilla warfare upon Judge Henry S. Hulbert. presiding over tnp Prohnte Court in Detroit by virtue of his seniority, when they introduced a revamped bill to deprive him of voire in the selection of an executive judge, RciucHcntatlves George C.

Wat son and George Green introduced mensuies calling for appointment of a legislative commission of five to icvise and codify tho bunking law. United Hebrew Graduates of 1923 Mark Anniversary The firs! graduation class of I be United Hebrew Schoo.s relehra'cd its tenth anniversa.v Thui evening with a dinner nt Ihe delphia-Rryon Talmud Torah. Four teen of the In graduates were present. Speakers included Max Chotn. president of the alumni: Robert R.

Marwill. oreildent of tne United Hebrew Schoo.s: Kurt Pei- -ser, director of the Jcvish Welfnte Federation, and Phillip Slomnvitz. puuur 01 me ijciioit .11 wish i icle. wiiii 11 iiini'i ing and an all night stay in in' desert. In the morning the flight was resumed, but Cooper had i IX hnm- and his father was dead 1 when he finally reached Battle Creek.

The father vvns for 10 years a law enforcement nlllerr in Hellevue and llaton County, hut had moved tn Baltic Creek, "in later yiars being a worker in the cont.iin.t-r division 1 1 nmrsllnL clerk and night watchman at Belle; vue and was undet sheriff from to 1901. Mrs. Cooper died tn 1911 and 'n two sons, Claud and Hoy' S. er lived in California. The latter HVCO in til could not leave.

Japan was arranged Thursday at! HvL-niin town between Pcii.inc and Miyun, the Foreign Ollice (lis elespit this mm-ninc. Siuninir of! the agreement was deferred until Monuay wncn represent nuves Gen. Huang Fu, Held comniandaiit, and Gen. Ho Ying Chin, war min- ister of the National Government, and the Japanese commanding olli cer will sign the document. China agrees to cease all provo cative acts and withdraw to the south of the previously arranged line.

The Japanese promise not to proceed beyond the line. (Provocative acts, as interpreted recently by the Japanese, have been the Incursions of Chinese troops on areas where Japanese have warned them not to. The deadline provided in the truce runs diagonally southeastward from Yenking, which is northwest of Peiping and also north of the Great Wall, through Changping, Shunyi, Paoti. to Lutai at the sea-coast north of Tantku.) The Foreign Ollice nounced that Manchukun has agreed to negotiate for the pur chase of rights to the Chinese East- ern Railway from Soviet Russia, hut has requested Tokio to have the sale, negotiated by Tokio to facilitate the giving of Japanese nuvice iu i.iaiicnimuo. ictiiiviiriit.

1t1a.11 i 1 i charged with robhery not armed and larceny by trick. The trio, according to Cappizzi, attempted to "fix" the complainant. inn 'l. was robbed of $2,100 by Mo.isek ana noiaciay, Dy means of a fidence game, police said. rromise to 1-eave Wallace D.

Farad, self-styled "King of Islam," was beinir held by detecting of the Special In- vestigation Squad Thursday after he had been picked up In the Tray more Hotel. Farad was released last fall upon his promise to leave Detroit, after voodoo-crazed James Harris, Negro, had stabbed to death James Smith, also Negro, on a voodoo altar. Farad is said by police to have more than 4,000 followers among the Negro population. He will he held pending an investigation Into his activities since his reappearance, police said. Complainant Dies After He Testifies Excitement of Taking Stand Is Blamed for Heart Attack ROYAL OAK, May 25-A heart attack, believed to have been brought on by the excitement of his appearing in court Wednesday to testify against a thug who held him up, caused the d.ath Thurs- day of Myron S.

McGee, 29 years 1 old. 504 N. Main St. VtcOce iltonned dead in an elevator of a Royal Oak office building as he was on his way to his doctors otllcc. He was the principle witness Wednesday against S.dney Gun-moro, 16, 207 S.

Conntcticutt who recently returned to Royal Oak from a reforestration camp to face charges of holding up McGee in the latter's gas station on Jan. 31 and robbing him ot $14. Gun-more was turned over to juvenile court authorities, after ho had pleaded guilty to the charge in justice court. i 11 r. Neighbor VlSlt rreventS Dearborn Woman's Suicide A "eifthbnr.

coming In to borrow a of prevented the sui- of Mrs. (atnerine reurzyk. a.i --v hni'n inumday, police reported They said Mrs. Peitrzyk had turned I on lhc her kitchen and oven-ome uy gas wncn ir. I Jumbus.

The meeting took no action on Mr. Schreiber is survived by his the recommendation because the widow. Mrs. Mary Daly Schreiber; mayors of all the towns affected three sons. Frederic, John and i were not present.

Another meet-Thomas, and a daughter, Maignrct; I ing is planned In two weeks, at three sisters. Sister Marie Thro-j which time it is planned to frame a Mt-c Val-h tnfi.mn an a rl urt rt tha and V. Kirchoff. and' bv two brotners, ireaeric ana i.ewis Schreiber. of 35 was named to wait on tne Governor and forinal.y ask for recognition for worthy Democrats.

When they arrived at the Executive Office, they were advised by O. K. jcliann, me vovernoi sec- reiarv, mat ne was mn if vious'ly he had announced that no appointments would be made for this week, that he was devoting his entire attention to his legislative program. The committee was wroth and upon reporting bark to the main body, plans for the "march on Lansing'' were formulated. An effort will be made interest the presidents of all Democratic clubs in Detroit, numbering neatly 100.

and to enlist the entire personnel of the Delegate group numbering 1.IM.1. band will he engaged to add im-l pi essiveness to the visitation. The pilgrimage was tentatively ached-1 uled lor tne minaie 01 in nrsi ween in June. The delegates contended that thei State Garage has on its payrolls, 14 Republicans and only seven! jDcmociats. and that the foreman is' ia Republican who assigns menial! work to the Democrats rnis coiiipiaini may Le however, with the intimation that the superintendency of the garage is to go to Edward J.

Kinner. of Detroit, succeeding the late William Icnnraili whose rieuth occurred after only a few weeks in the ollice. The Kinner appointment is not yet formally announced, but it is understood it will be effective next Wednesday. U. S.

to Improve State's Streams ANN ARBOR, May P.1 Dr. John R. Greeley, of the University of Michigan Institute for Fisheries, Thursday announced that lake and stream Improvement would be carried out in four areas in Michigan on state-owned land as a part of the Government project to furnish employment and promote conservation of forests and other natural resources. Recruits 10 tne lorest conservation camps will be used as laborers in the proj ect. The Michigan are is named for work designed to fishing, are the Kscannba River regi and! Mackinac State Park, rear Garnet, both in the Upper Peninsula, and 1 rip riaruwoiMi nuup ni est.

near Wolverine, ami Hiuttins State Park, near Grayling, both ii -the Lower Peninsula. i-'r. ureeiey. or ine -ate Conner- vation Department, was among the first to suggest that, i.r, proved fish ing he made a part of President inmii- t.oi i I Roosevelt a reforestation project, 1 i Temperance and Morality to Be Barbers9 Watchword Health, Competency and Apprenticeship of 18 Months also Decreed by Legislature Air Race Across Continent to Father's Bedside Is Futile Snow Forces Plane Down Twice and Son Reaches Battle Creek Too Late BATTLE CREEK, May 25 Rac-1 Reno, to resume Us fight. ing here by airplane from the West nii' lap was interrupted by By Frank G.

Morris LANSING, May 25 The fine art of barbering has reached its zenith at last, after struggling upward since the first caveman decided that his whiskers were unbecoming. By decree of the Legislature, all barbers in Michigan hereafter must be moral and temperate, healthy and wise in the finer points of the craft. The measure has passed! both the House and Senate and! will be before Gov. later this week for his signal e. It seems that the public too long has been "nicked" by barbers who! either suffer from the jitters or -lack piide.

in workmanship. True, I the state has requested all to paw an examination before being licensed, but it has been a tet-t that almost any fancy whil-tler could pass. Master barbers and journeymen, proud ot th high Coast to reach tho nedside of his dying father. Claud K. Cooper.

deputy controller of the Slate of California, was twice torred down snowstorms and unvfj several hours too late. His Charles W. Cooper, 4 years old, died in a local hospital to which he hud been taken from his rcsidcr-cc fnl'nwing a second stroke of paralysis. Cooper. informed of the nt iruiurw.ca rtf l.ic Illrw.i-., iPft Sacramento for Michigan at midnight.

Over the noiintains. sev hours later, snow loaded the Then Cooper took a train to a doctors certificate proving ex- I.i I i rellent health; can prove by exam-j mI yV I mh Ination that lie is competent: run Ki.iNT 1.4ml. Mi Hie lefcrcnces showing good moral I'-'i-y. character and temperate habits. '''''r The measure prohibits barbtJr shops in groceries, soft drink 1 Injuries in Fall Fatal parlors.

restaurants and coflee shops unless a partition is built William Nelson. 45 years old, died to the ceiling. It would be an i Thursday night in Receiving Hos-offense to neglect such finer points pital of head Injuries he suffered Pailina Roll. 4439 Bingham wings of the plane so Heavily that' discovered her. M-s.

Peitrzyk was i the pilot turned back and retraced taken to Elnise Hospital where miles. innru x.w.iin. ll IIlllS. or tne art as changing tne paper on the head rest after every cus tomcr, was stated ihe would recover..

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