Ludington Daily News (Newspaper) - January 26, 1931, Ludington, Michigan THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS VOLUME Kenneth Mackintosh Reveals Seven of This Opinion Four Have Pious Kenneth a mem ber of the Wickersham commis said upon his return here today that seven members of the law enforcement body fa vored a change in prohibition as soon as name the MacKintosh said He did not the four other members having still a which they designate as a pious that a change in or may bring a reason able degree of nevertheless favor revision if that hope is not I We found conditions almost I MacKintosh is unquestionably more drinking among young people before has raised the drinker from the gutter and put him in good early move to consolidate republican sentiment in con both wet and upon proposals for a nationwide pro advocated by members of the Wickersham forecast today in high congres There was no of voting on any ref proposal at this ses Memories of Recalled in Copy Ludington Record A copy of the Ludington Rec ord of so that it has the appearance of being only a few days has been given The News by John Eckland of the county The paper had been mailed to Louis judging by the name printed in type across the margin at the top of the front On the front page appear ads of the Busy Big Avenue Ludington Opera the jeweler Andrew and Shoes from to In a ad by Day Forslind ladies summer footwear clearance prices are quoted at follows Ladies shoes from to Slippers from 50 cents to 75 Mens shoes are quoted at to Another ad reads During the hot weather you can ride Continued on Page THE DAILY JANUARY A BIG ORDER PRICE THREE CENTS TAKES LIFE BY HEALTH HitRun Drivers Kill 2 Persons in Detroit JERSEY for mer governor of New Jersey and former United States sena committed suicide by shooting himself last He died Edwards son Irving said his father had been ill for some time and was The former governor was alone in a room at his home when he killed i F persons were killed by Automobiles which did not stop and two others died in hospitals from injuries suffered in other traffic acci Two men were arrested as the hitrun drivers responsible for ihe deaths of Maude and Edward One was captured by a fire man a chase of six blocks Starting at the scene of the ac and the other was found a girl said she was in the death Those who died of injuries were Louis and an unidentified woman about 60 years 1ASHES OF LIFE noted woodchopper will be 72 years old Wilhelm Hohenzollern seems o be in better trim than when he censed being kaiser 13 years go He attributes it to his daily rain or NEW More or less as will be shown by male golfers jf the coming The vogue for long pants gaining and some of the plus s being taken out of NEW Captain Frank Hawks has United States Senator Ed ward I Edwards was one ol those men in public life whose stand on prohibition was some what On that issue he was one the most vigorous and out spoken yet he did not use Although holding 1 i b e r a views concerning the use of in the senators opposi tion to the prohibition amend ment and the Volstead Act was based primarily on his opinion that both were an invasion of the liberties of the He was governor of New Jersey in a con ducted on the issue of personal and in his inaugural address attracted national at tention by his bold denuncia tion of prohibition and the Volstead He urged the at torney general of the state to institute proceedings to test the of the ment and the 25FOOT F Black bruises and facial cuts that necessitated wore the extent of injuries re by and Rohn Saturday afternoon when their car plunged into a 25foot ditch on 10 miles south of The car struck nose down and remained standing at an angle of 60 while sev eral cars passed on the above without their occupants seeing the predicament of the Ludington residents in the deep ditch bruises and cuts re from the severe and jolt but and Rohn climbed from the car unassisted and to the high way where a passing auto was hailed and the injured motor ists token to Holland hospital where cuts were stitched and wounds The accident resulted from the condition of the Rohn said this morn It was covered with slush making wheeling Jay Aged of Bachelor Succumbs After Brief few reservations are avail able residents of Ludington who would like to attend the Scottville Business mens ban quet at Community hall at 7 tonight and hear Sleepy ome from Fort Worth by slow I i so Mich Crowley made fane for him self as a member of Notre Dames original four horse en minutes te flew only 165 miles an on the compar ed with 200 plus at after Miss Cath of re ported the loss of a diamond and emerald men and his efforts as football mentor at Michigan State col lege are bringing Max superintendent of Scottville school and mem ber of the committee on reser said this noon that police returned it to her Sun jay Miss Kresge and there are still seats available attended a few Ludington jockey game and can be made by the They calling Brail told Sergeant Thomas Meade hey pickpockets but ie took their seat stubs and the jewelry in a pile of holdup moi went to Samuel Mills drug store in Birmingham Sunday night and Miss Madia dills young to open the Business men will bring their vash I said Miss Ander and one of the men push his pistol into her she said and then Help Mills heard her cry for came from behind the pre gave the the that was in the ash ff eclls who claimed o be 109 years old and to have 78 wives and 118 lied in a rooming house yester Jay of heart He told that he was a former NEW ore than in uding girls and Fere reported missing in New last year New Depot to Open Tomorrow Noon new depot at Madison street crossing is scheduled to be opened for ser vice by the Pere Marquette Rail way tomorrow The main line from the cross ing west will be used for yard service and the existing depot at foot of James in use for 32 will become an office Hold 13th annual midwinter convention of the Michigan Af filiated Exchange clubs was in session here A banquet will be held tonight with Harry president of Alma as the main Saranac Dentist den tist here for more than 25 died He was prominent in state dental circles and was widely Jay aged of Bachelor passed away Sunday afternoon following a brief ill ness with pneumonia and acute brights With her passing two little eight years and are left Shock to Many Word of the death of Pitcher came as a great shock to her many friends throughout the who although they knew of her were not aware of its Her condition became critical Friday Ruby Grace DePeel was born in March Nine years ago she was united in marriage to Jay who and had lived at Bachelor Pitcher lived in Mason county all of her Father Among Surviving other than the widower and two small daugh ters are the De Peel of Ouster a Leon Baker of Scottville two Reynolds and Ivan De Peel of Manistee and a host of Funeral services will be held at 2 oclock Wednesday after noon at Bachelor Stewart Inter ment will be made at Bachelor Local Folk Give Views On Wickersham Prohibition By JAMES Superintendent Gillen The Wiskersham commis sions report is very and theoretical and very polit The findings of the com mission are not surprising they have again called our at tention to a condition of which we are all The report has merely brought more con fusion to the prohibition ques so helplessly muddled with The commis sion makes no definate recom The recommendations they have made are elastic i that I can see nothing but tinder for the coming presidential It is quite evident that the public expected a report that would Jean toward a I do not think the report the time and spent on i By Community The first thing that one wants I to say about the Wickersham report after reading the com ments and editorials is that no one should discuss this without having read carefully the full text of the Obviously some of the com ments on the commissions re port are written with a mind that is decidedly prejudiced or uninformed as to the Theres Much to Be The one most certain fact that one gathers from this re port is that there is much to be desired both for the drys and for the That does not mean that the report is use less as some commentators have intimated but rather that the commission in its report has told both the drys and the wets something of the magnitude of this problem and that in as in any other program which is only time and education together with a sincere effort to find the best will eventually bring about the solution of the Another thing that stands out as one reads this report is that we have while not alto gether an unprejudiced Continued on Page Prince to Marry Pretty Just Like in Fairy Tale One of the story books most ap pealing that of the pretty girl who marries a ap today about to come true in The principals in the romance are Prince grandson of King Gustave and son of the monarchs second and Karin daughter of a prominent industrialist of Stockholm who is of Dutch de Court circles deny that stories of impending announcement of engagement of the two are cor but the newspaper Continued on Page BY Paralysis Is Fatal Funeral Wednesday at 230 from By GILBERT Associated Press Staff legislature will reconvene its institutional in trips completed and the The cir beean to careen ind cleared for serious deliber arl I n with the institutional unmanageable and I building program again an Wilber Brucker will submit a special deal ing with the Hartman en acted two years Provides It provided a fouryear build ing program involving the ex of The first two years of the schedule will end June If the present legislature whishes to continue it to completion in the time specified by Green and the 1929 it will have to ap for these purposes alone for the biennium Continued on Page Sentencing Is LOS of Daisy De Boe the alleged theft of from Clara Bow was postponed today until next Monday by Judge when de fense counsel made a motion for a new trial and asked a de lay to permit preparation of ar A letter was received bv District Attorney Buron Fitts this morning from Clara ex pressing the actress hope that mercy will be shown to Daisy De become lost control Rohn said this his face bruised and We went off the road and the ditch at the side of the It was a good thing that the bottom was filled with brush and limbs or cur might have been more for a badly da moored it was Hol land mechanics believed the rnr could continued under own and Rohn were en route to Stort and nt returned to yesterday by passenger Marie Dressier Funny in Reducing Polly Moran CoStar Picture Marie Dressier and Polly Moran running a beauty arl Jupiter and Mars Shine All Night Some of the planets ore un usually Interesting these nights when the sky is as was the case Sunday Jupiter and Mars shine practically all Mars is the bright reddish star visible high in the east in the Jupiter is a bright yellowish star somewhat farther Between the two are the moderately bright twin stars Castor and Around mid night Jupiter and Mars are high in the Mars is still visible low in the west in the early mornings and slightly north of clue The two planets are oast of the con Venus is the beautiful star in the southeast in the early it is by far the brightest star in that and is visible almost Mars is the last to fade out in the X The For and vi Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday not much change in temper ature fresh southwest and west Sick Girl Saved by Parrots Blood Used by Mistake Lillian Fisher was recovering from an attack of infantile paralysis today with the blood of a parrot in in her body through a j Lillian was in a serious con dition last The fam ily physician called the Dur and hospital in Chicago and asked that a serum be He returned to the Joliet hos had been in formed that serum was no longer used in such cases and that the latest thine was the injection of parrots There are not a great many parrots in but hospital attaches finally found a wom an who was willing to allow nor bird to undergo the opera It was given an an esthetic and five cubic centi meters of blood was taken and injected into the with both the and the parrot i George chief of staff of the Durand heard i about He said he doubted that the injection had helped the but that he knew nothing harmful in a parrots The doctor just misunder stood said said parents not parrots Scatter sunshine with Greet ing Snows Drug Troop 3 Will Defend Cham at Manistee Final arrangements are to be made this week for the annual Boy Scout rally to be held Friday night at Manistee high school Troop sponsored by Com munity church of will be called upon to defend its won last The Ludington troop will try to retain the News Advocate won jointly by Troop 4 of Ludington and Troop 18 of Manistee two years Friday nights rally will bring together of the strongest and most formidable troops in Pere Marquette Troops of Eastlake and Bear Lake will take The program of events will be the same as that used in the eastern district rally at Bald won by Troop 20 of Foun Most of these events have been the basis of competition for The rally will start at 8 parlor Thats what they do in their latest costarring Re which opened a three day showing at Lyric theater It is quite the finest and most hilarious comedy they have yet and the delight ful scenes follow each other rapidly from start to Miss as the country sister of prosperous beau ty parlor displays her splendid talent in combining uproarious comedy with a pene character and Miss Moran has never been seen to greater The epi sode at the South Bend ticket with Marie trying to buy train and berth tickets for her elusive ranks among the best comedy Lucien addicted to flute is excellent as Elmer Maries Buster Anita Page and Sally Eilers supply the ro mance and the remainder of the cast being equally A revue of Gus Edwards charming child and news precede the main Reducing remains Lyric tonight and Is Smoot of Utah was August aged 75 and for 50 years a resident of passed away Sunday afternoon his 808 east Loomis death resulting from a stroke of paralysis with which he was Born in Ger July 1 Christ iansen came to America in Was Married in lie was married here in Oct ober of year to Miss Mary who vives They established their home i at the time when ths forest crowde I close littletown pushing its way the shores of Lake Michigan and Christiansen found employment in the camps and mills engaged in forest into Later when the lumber mills had accomplished their was employed at the clocks Continued on page column 3 Jones Gives Lecture on London The main auditorium of the First Methodist Episcopal church was crowded Sunday with the audience gathered to hear the illustrated lecture on London given by Maylan Fine music was provided by a male composed of Jesse Robert x Williams and George Joseph Williams operated the machine by which the pictures were thrown upon the from with the buildings and parks of was able to give much beyond the casual descriptions a stranger have The wealth and power of as expressed in fortress and con centration of great centers of money and legal were im pressed upon hearers by means of these fine aa well as the beauty and interest of the city for the In conclusion the speaker quoted Queen Victoria in assertion that England is because founded on the He prayed that America would pronounced much better toI hold to that same day following an attack of in The service closed with the singing of DESTITUTE MEN AND CARRYING MEAGRE TELL GRAPHIC DROUGHT STORY at the Tuesday Would Take Sundays from Pay of Solons evidence of the econ omy A joint resolution was prepared for introduction in the legislature tonight to strike Sundays from the pay of mem Dana Hinkley of sponsor of the resolu tion which would require an amendment to the said that he believed the people By Associated Press Staff MARKED clogged with and auto men and women with sacks of flour on their shoulders and pails of lard in their tell a graphic story of what the drought has done to parts of Its the same picture nearly everywhere in the eastern sec tion of the which is the heart of the drought Theyre Share These are the share crop pers as they are on their way to the nearest Red Cross relief office or going back to their homes with the meagre rations thus for are a philosophical Hardships are not new to Most of them are1 resigned to their condition and are Homes Contain The homes of these share croppers contain the drama and tragedy of the drought Many of them live in shacks built of logs or in board They have lit tle a Continued on Page Dont Expect Men to Do Married men should not be ex Nearly always its a sack of to go in for dish washing and either a pail of lard except in the voca or a little package of plain salt guidance committee of the These are prescribed by the Red State Home Economics associa tion was told Miss Ada Hess state of home from the a week one 501 was authority for the cents for each child given j they sometimes find it It is well for the men to know to save out a little meat one now to the but ib week and lard the so is the Place of the wife the i i i j i It in approving a salary of a day one week taking to do she We COURT OF HONOR MEETS THURSDAY Ludington Boy Scouts will have their last chance to win advancement before the Lud rally when the local court of honor goes into session at scout Thursday All scouts desiring advance ment will have to pass court of review Thursday Merit badge applications must be in Saturday Ludington seascouts plan to attend the state mid winter An invita tion is to be extended for Michigan seascouts to hold their 1931 cruise in for legislators never meant to i and the next endorse a Sunday He pointed that voters re advise the in the schools to a proposed amendment in either 1926 to raise the salary of mem automobiles bers from to a year but approved the wage in The present salary schedule amounts to for two j Relative of Smith Dies in Milwaukee i Theyre walking or riding in take home wagons and for when people must eat in have sold their s restaurants they should if they ever had j what things to eat and in what or they do not have the money to operate For the most these Decorative Candles for every destitute people who are Snows Drug pendent upon the Red Cross and 208 north Rath left this morning for by the death of I Smiths sisterin Smith had a number i of friends in Ludington as she was a frequent visitor at the residence of Death was not unexpected as she had been seriously ill for three LYRIC Tonight and tomorrow Marie Dressier and Moran in that weightlifting comedy carnival REDUCING And Movietone News and Matinee tomorrow at and
