Ludington Daily News (Newspaper) - December 23, 1932, Ludington, Michigan H v Stores For Last Minute Day JL BOOST LUDINGTON THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS Classified Adi Produce Results Phone 21 VOLUME THE DAILY DECEMBER PRICE THREE CENTS TIKE UP BEER ISSUE BUT NO PON IS EXPECTED Bingham Ready to Call for Vote If Quorum Is On Hand POST SHOWDOWN UNTIL AFTER CHRISTMAS RECESS Points Out That Motion to Bring Before Senate Means Immediate Vote BULLETIN Senate to take up beer legislation It rejected a move by Senator Bingham aimed to net im mediate consideration for the beer by the The vote was 48 against 23 in favor of taking up the sr Senate became involved ih the beer issue but in chat a move for immediate consideration of the Collier would be Only two days after the House had passed the measure by a 65vote Senator Bing ham was ready to call it but his success de pended entirely upon a Even should one be and many senators already have left the capital for the Christmas Dem were expected to vote against immediate considera tion of the which legalizes a brew of percent alcoholic agreed in conference late Thursday that the best strategy to insure its passage be to send it through the usual They to act on inde pendently of other tax a decision which Virtually closed the door the possibility of adding a sales tax or other revenue legislation a A to today would not be and would immediate vote on consideration provided a quorum Bingham is sued cates on Indications that action would delayed until after the Christmas brands of cigars and and Sahl 4 NO PAPER MONDAY Subscribers are reminded that there will be no issue The next paper after Sunday will be that of In order that members of The News Staff may enjoy Christmas eve with their and also to insure earlier delivery to subscrib the Sunday issue of this newspaper will go to press several hours in ad vance of the usual Sunday In It is probable that the press run will be completed late Saturday In the city of Ludington and Scottville carriers will make delivery Papers for the various rural and suburban post offices will be distributed to those points by auto Saturday as soon as It will be impossible to make the usual mail con which will be a legal con sequently rural route sub scribers will not receive their papers until Frank Sellner of Riverton Today Recalls 90 Years Of Colorful Life The vicissitudes of almost a century as an a pioneer and a were reviewed in a mental panorama of life today by Frank widely known resident of RiVerton as he observed his 90th birthday Sellner is living with his Sellner and family the farm he bought in An Eventful Life His life has been an eventful As a young man he toured came to America on a Dozens Grab Trains Even Be fore Formar Motions for Recess Senate Approves 10Year Freedom for Philippines Now Upto House The spirit of Christmas gripped Congress dozens of senators and representatives dashing for homebound trains even before formal moves to re the holidays Jrad been Speaker Garner doubtful as he prepared to call the House together that enough representa tives would be to sact but there efforts were to be tp plete action on the supply take up the compromised Philips pine independence a brief re Senate leaders planned a 10d4y recess for that Final passage of the interior department measure was blocked Thursday De Priest of in a move which showed lack of a Priest sought to have an item of added measure he decided to travel He boarded a packet freighted and after an Interesting journey down the Mississippi arrived ih New He sought and found employment on a sugar First Voted for Grant There it was that he his privilege of citizenship for the He voted for General Grant as president of the Please turn to Page OF DETROIT TO SPEED RECOVERY Michigan Congressman Com pletes Legislative Program for Reconstruction Would Prevent Loss of Farms and Homes Because of Delinquent Taxes Hazards Greatly Multiplied During Bar ber Points Out With homes in every part of the city the scene of happy parations for Christmas Chief George Barber of Lud ington Fire department casion this morning to issue a timely warning against Hazards are greatly multi plied during the holiday sea he The of ordinary caution will prevent the ruination of your holiday serious burns and property That possibilities of fire were not removed but only lessened when the oldfashioned Christ mas tree candles went is from Bar bers asto how to avoid Are Electric lights are far safer than lighted candles on a he but care should be used in their for short cir cuits and of hot with flimsy are liker start Use decorations that are either slow burning or until i the death of his instead of f then he engaged nv the thin cotton and other glass When it burnable Place your tree a distance from any or lighting fixture and fasten it so it wont fall Lighted even in this age of electricity are used FRANK SELLNER sailing vessel that was battered by all his belongings in the Chicago down the Mississippi on a packet worked a sugar planta became fied with the sturdy pioneers who laid the foundations for a prosperous settlement in Mason Sellner was born in Aus tria His parents were He obtained his elementary education in the grade schools and spent four years at According tothe prevailing custom of the he toured Clarence Detroit today had an entire pro gram for relief and reconstruc tion pending in Included are three just designed to assist in bringing about substantial im mediate relief and ultimately business The two would prevent further losses on homes and farms through inability of own ers to pay mortgages and The third is intended to save the an estimated annually in interest charges on Liberty bond obliga It would authorize the secretary of the treasury to issue tax exempt bearing inter est of 2 percent or for retire ment of six billion dollars worth of percent Liberty bonds callable in McLeod had intro measures he ex complete his recovery One would authorize appointment of a special com mission to determine causes and Please turn to Page Hoover And Roosevelt Clash Over Debt Correspondence Governor Expresses Regret At Presidents Utterances Death of 22YearOld Store Clerk Is Apparently With out Motive Who killed Miss Rose 22yearold department store clerk and were questions puzzled day as they y j investigators to shifted the few Today In Congress SENATE Considers calendar Receives Bingham motion to take up beer Interstate Commerce commit tee continues study of radio re vision HOUSE Considers interior department supply ftT lift Santa Visits Schools of Ludington jingle bells The tune followed Santa Claus oh his round to the schools It greeted him in full chorus from the packed crowd of young sters assembled to greet him in the lower corridor at Lakeview school where all children of the lower their younger brothers and sisters and some of the were He played that tune and others on his baby danced for jingled his asked them questions as to their good and behaved himself generally in a manner to fulfill wildest anticipation and Shopping nil I up his mind to try his K trip was made on a sail requiring 51 days of varied He landed in New York 1871 speak a word of proved a but he was learning apt in of his From New York he went to where all his be longings to come to He obtained employment in the lumber mills and after been here a short word came of the Chicago his Job to go Chicago where that thing he had owned had been destroyed in the sometimes and they have led to turn to page 8 10DIE1 lETHIS enew their assurance that he s their patron saint and good Upstairs with the higher he was just a little more He brought messages rom Santa Claus telling hem she would have been glad o only she had or some new fangled disease like The upstairs room was having its party when he ar but suspended activities during his At Longfellow building he slipped first through the back door into Bessie room where the children were all ready for him with a program of They questioned him and he delighted them with jokes and quips and with the unes he played and the jigs he A gift said to contain some handkerchiefs and a gold was presented by one of the tiny collective token of love from Longfellow In Miss Ella room Santa had a wonderful Miss Mendelson met him half way and they danced across the Then they aU sang as Santa played his funny instru it go wrong some turn to pate 7 WEATHER rose at and sets at central Station barometer 7 Sea level barometer 7 Relative humidity 7 98 12 noon Temperature 7 36 12 Highest temperature in last 24 hours 41 degrees at 3 Lowest temperature last night 32 degrees aU Highest wind velocity for 24 hours ending 7 South at Precipitation for 24 hours ending 7 Weather Forecast For Ludington and vicinity Rain probable tonight and Sat not much change in temperature moderate to fresh mostly south to south west For Lower Michigan Rain Saturday Somewhat warmer in southeast portion For Lake Michigan Moder ate southwest winds becoming fresh Saturday rain probable tonight and Two men were burned to death and several others were injured as a six story elevator crammed with grain was des by flames The blaze ruined the elevator and probably a million bushels Of wheat and other grains at a loss estimated at A dust explosion in the cuo pola atop the structure appar ently touched off the granary and it a flaming In less than an hour the blaze had from top to menacing nearby One man was fatally from the elevator and anothers body was thrown to a dock on the nearby Chicago river by an Five tugs and motor appar atus brought by a half dozen special alarms poured a tre mendous volume of water into the burning building from a snarl of hose lines but their fight seemed to be The two tugs had to move to safer locations when the west wall of the elevator threatened to col a wellknown resident of Ludington for many died suddenly at according to word received by relatives this Clauson went to Florida a few ago spend He is survived by a daughter William Bradshaw of Pere Marquette and three sons Jo seph Charles both of James Clausen of It is the be brought to for last Pope Pius Obtains Armistice Ih South America VATICAN Dec Pius XI obtained today a pledge of a Christmas 24 on the Gran Chaco battlefront from the gov of Bolivia and Para Moth agreed to Vatican pro that hostilities cease from 10 tomorrow until 10 in compliance popes desire there be no fighting on The pope thanked the govern ments and expressed the hope that the armistice would lead to A foreign ministry announce ment at declared the truce would be night to midnight Hold Two Itinerant Preachers in Death of 5YearOld Girl NOTICE Banks of Mason County will not be open Weather Conditions pressure has A legal hrf appeared over entire north and a secondary disturb ance has come eastward to the northern lake Another disturbance is central in Rain has fallen in the south ern plains the middle Mississippi and most of the upper lakes and was heavy at There was further heavy rain also along the north Pacific is mild in the great central the lake and the Warning To Skaters known facts about her death in the hope of solving the Her stuffed in a burlap was found Thursday be neath a river Her skull was The investigators knew she had telephoned her dressmaker from the store where she was employed about a bright Christ mas dress last Wednesday that she also talked to an un identified man with whom she made an but whether she ever kept not remained unknown but they did know that she never kept an appointment with the dress whose Christmas dress will be Miss The police said they were con that ransom was not the motive for the brutal although a note demanding was found by her parents almost at the same time the body was One theory was that the girl was slain when she vances her Henry called by two who stains cm the found bound with a dirty cloth and i into the bag WET IDEA OF BEER FOR To Celebrate Birth of Christ With Malt Would Be In Statement Says I Il is a pily lhal any of intimation should fed given out that I consider it Utt desirable to assent to coopera tive action on foreign Presidentelect Koose was caused by f the body from the bridge jtp he ice on the Beck and the boys moned to appear at a coroners v Illinois Will Be Operated By New Company ne founded hree years ago by officials of he Goodrich Transit company and the Wisconsin nd Michigan Transportation of will operate he steamship a run Chicago and West succeeding the Good ich Transit it was learned here The Goodrich ter minal here will be maintained as will the the ines operating as separate en It has not been deter mined whether the will operate into or Grand Haven trucking there from other West Michigan Jf you want a Sheaf fer pen a or dont miss seeing Skaters are warned not to skate on Pere Marquette lake un til the ice is solidly of is thawing weather to but during the recent cold period the lake was well frozen and hundreds of skaters enjoyed sport Mayor William McGuire called attention of The News Thursday afternoon to the fact that Cross are moving a fish tug from the Lunde boat east of the Washington avenue to the open It has been necessary to break a channel through the ice to do leav ing open water under the on both sides and through the entire lake to the big most skaters are aware of but parents are urged to see that all children are Despite a purported officers today continued an in of the death of a 5 yearold allegedly at the hands of two itinerant preachers who sought to drive out the devil they believed responsible for her partial Murder charges were filed against the Oaks and his brother Coy pre cautions taken to prevent pos sible mob Sheriff Nat Curtright said the two ac described by him as of the Apostolic admitted they had choked the child to death in an attempt to cure NOON BLAZE DOES VERY LITTLE DAMAGE Nominal damage resulted from a basement fire at Smiths Recreation West Luding ton at this aft The fire started when a spark from the furnace fell in some sweepings The blaze filled the basement with Firemen used hand watertanks to suppress Residents of Goshen county plan to establish s bureau through which it wiU be possible to trade coal and lum ber for produce and It has been X is to return coal and the district when produce National headquarters of the Womens Christian Temperance union today issued a statement in which the political downfall of members of Congress who voted for the Collier beer was The men who voted for the Collier will some day pay for it in a manner which will wipe them from public life the statement It also said there must be a providence watching over the American people to have thwart ed the plans of the brewers for beer uing it stated To celebrate the birth of Christ with the restoration of the which is what the Collier ll would do and will do unless would be an indescribable insult to the Master and his Alcohol is a racial poison in beerit meets a combination of elements which the worlds most brutalizing To think of it as a Christmas present is Martha Washington Candies for 75c per Lewis Franklin after pondering until late last night President Hoovers statement that the presidentelect had found it undesirable to ap prove the White House plan for cooperative action on foreign has affirmed his wil to cooperate with the president and expressed regret at the chief executives utter In a formal issued an hour before Roosevelt said he felt it was pity from an international standpoint that any statement or intimation should be given that I consider it undesirable to assent to cooperative action on foreign Denies Lack of The having ire Winter To Be Says Steph Basing Prediction on Old Weather Prophecy Advertise PREMIER IS ACTIVE with dramatic today launched what amounted to debt nego with America by personally calling on United States Ambassador Edge at the He asked that Edge the matter up with Wash ington so that France may help in reaching a solution of the debts the Hoover proposal for joint action with the president toward setting up to deal jointly with world disarmament and economics declared he a practical program fot approaching the problems dhd had made a definite offer of i haye made to the president the definite Suggestion that he select his representatives to make preliminary s t u d i e Roosevelt I have asked to be kept advised as to the pro Please turn to Page 6 Interesting Marine Data Lists Big Lake Disasters During Past Ten Years By STEPHENS an old weather prophecy can be relied the present winter will be although the several severe storms made it seem as if the au tumn was a hard Wind direction and weather conditions 21 and 22 are said to be a reliable forecast of the weather for the next three In that since those three days were beautiful the tem Febru ary and March will be mild with southerly winds ATTENTION PATRONS Anyone noticing an odor of gas in their vicin kindly notify the Gas especially those who on the rocky shores near Stur come from the east or west sea have frequently been heard to scoff at descriptions of navigation hazards on the Great your lake is like a pond compared to our Yoti people on Lake Michigan dont know anything about When these remarks reach the ears of a big Lake sailor his na tural yeah seems pardon Assembles Marine Data Data on marine disasters dur ing the past 10 collected in the office of Luding ton Chamber of shows that Lake Michigan has taken its proportionate toll of life and Since the compilation more than 20 ships have foundered on the lake during periods of the heaviest with loss of 133 Except for the fall of 1929 these disasters have involved comparatively smallsize vessels and the toll of life was relative ly But that memorable fall of three years ago left death in its wake and caused thousands of dollars of property Lashed by storms of almost un precedented Lake Michi gan engulfed four large steel vessels and wrecked a schooner Ninetynine per sons lost their The first disaster was that of the a stone carrier which frequently brought stone into Ludington during construc tion of the sheet asphalt pave ments six years This vessel foundered not far from Holland 9 with loss of 25 Next was the Grand Trunk plying be tween Grand Haven and the port after which it was named on the west This boat also had sailed out of more than 15 years It sank at night some distance off taking with it 48 members of the men from sections of Western from Manistee and Seven days later the Wiscon sin sank to a watery grave with loss of 16 she foundered off Then came the freighter which collided with another vessel and sank oft Port taking IQ 1930 Record Better In 1930 there were fewer The Salvor was driven the beach north of gon and five of the crew lost their The North ft Please turn to Fage BIG CHRISTMAS DANCE Sunday 25 at Rainbow Gardens Come down in iUe shite ttw Music by Joe and Ws 50c per
