Barrett dies at 89, Adrian banker and seed magnate
Wilbert Hamilton Barrett a prominent Adrian banker and businessman died at his home after a short illness at 89. Born February 26 1858 in Shiloh New Jersey he taught school and led continued public service. He moved to Adrian in 1907 and built tomato seed plants statewide earning the nickname Tomato Seed King. He organized the Adrian Building and Loan Association and served on the Adrian City Water Board until 1943. He is survived by wife Elizabeth Benner Barrett and three grandchildren. His son Roland Benner Barrett died in 1942.
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Wilbert Hamilton Barrett
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Toledo Street
Shiloh
Cumberland County
N. J
Reuben Barrett
Lucinda Tomlinson Barrett
South Jersey Institute
Bridgeton
Hammonton
Wich
Mr. Barrett
Elizabeth Benner
Philadelphia
Elizabeth Barrett
Toledo
Robert T. Barrett
Ypsilanti
John D. Barrett
Battle Creek
Roland Benner Barrett
Adrian
Lafayette Ladd
Ladd
Michigan
Lenawee Preserve Co
E. F P. Lake
Barrett
Adrian Building and Loan Association
Adrian City Water Board
Draft Vandenberg Favored by Michigan GOP
In Detroit on August 12 a Detroit Republican group formed to draft Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg for the GOP presidential nomination. The party committee will seek him when he returns to Michigan within about 30 days. Arch ie Leadbetter said polls would show him a top choice if he clarifies eligibility. Vandenberg has said he will not seek the nomination since February in Grand Rapids.
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Detroit
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Archie Leadbetter
Wayne County
Sen. Vandenberg
Grand Rapids
Guilty Plea Entered by Bank Bandits in Circuit Court
James Szuch and Frederick Bakus, Detroit youths aged 22 and 20, robbed the Addison bank of nearly $3,000 on Saturday. They waived examination in justice court and pleaded guilty in circuit court, with bail set at $25,000 each, later raised to $35,000. They were captured within five hours after the robbery.
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James Szuch
Frederick Bakus
Detroit
Addison Bank
John K. Lowe
Arthur G. Rathbun
Michigan
Flaude Cleveland
Szuch
Bakus
Justice Court
Rathbun
Rex
Martin
Cuilis
Stutch
Miss Cleveland
Clayton
Submarine Rescues Dunked Flyer Off Long Island Sound
In Long Island Sound a submarine Finback surfaced to rescue pilot Godfrey J. LaPalme of Willimantic after his plane ditched ten miles offshore. The submarine, in submerged training, spotted the flier waving from the wing and took nine minutes to surface and transfer him aboard without further incident.
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Groton
Conn
Long Island Sound
Godfrey J. LaPalme
Willimantic
Robert H. Krombar
la Palme
Blissfield Harvest Festival set for Thursday with parade and games
Blissfield's 18th annual Harvest festival by the American Legion features a 10:30 pet parade for children under 15, a 2:50 ball game Blissfield Independents vs Deerfield Petersburg merchants, a balloon ascent, a radio demonstration by Lieut. Hannah, and entertainment by the Kibitzers and Red Hats. Miss Blissfield will attend the Legion dance, fireworks close the day, proceeds go to the Memorial Home fund, and businesses are urged to close all day Thursday.
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Telere
Blissfield
Robert Meachen
American Legion
Blissfield Independents
Deerfield - Petersburg
Hannah
U.S. Naval Reserve
Toledo
Kibitzers
Red Hats
Adrian
WABJ
Pin removed from child at University of Michigan
Kalamazoo reports doctors at the University of Michigan hospital removed a safety pin from the chest of three year old Carole Schanzlin daughter of the Rev and Mrs Paul Schanzlin. The pin was swallowed last Friday and lodged near the heart and lungs.
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Kalamazoo
Carole Schanzlin
University of Michigan Hospital
Carole
Paul Schanzlin
U S Orders Price Study On Food Clothing Housing
Attorney General Clark ordered an official probe by the Justice Department to determine if conspiracies push up prices in food clothing and housing. The plan seeks jail terms for violators and follows a three month price study led by Assistant Attorney General John F. Sennett.
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Washington
Clark
Justice Department
Anti-Trust
John F. Sennett
Detroit confronts gasoline shortage plan for city vehicles
Detroit officials consider restricting gasoline supply to essential municipal units. A four hour daily operation window is proposed for filling stations as city dispatches seek to conserve fuel and avert stoppages for police cars fire trucks and buses. Mayor Jeffries requests U S district attorney inquiry into the shortage while Police Commissioner Ballenger vows possible confiscation of gasoline from motorists.
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Detroit
Dettroit
Edward J. Jeffries
U. S. District Attorney
Richard A. Sullivan
Department of Street Railways
John F. Ballenger
Gravel Pit Barge Damaged By Fire Near Tecumseh
About 1 060 spectators watched Tecumseh firefighters battle a blaze at the Porter gravel pit south of the village. A 70 by 25 foot sand pump barge was destroyed along with a Caterpillar diesel motor and several electric motors. Loss estimated at 15 000 dollars. origin of the fire unknown. Firemen arrived after about a half hour fail and fought the blaze for an hour with a portable tank. Willis G Porter and Gale Hooten had left the building about 9:45 prior to the fire.
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Tecumseh
Porter Gravel
Willis G. Porter
Porter Sand and Gravel Co
Gale Hooten
SAY HUSBAND ADMITS DISSECTION KILLING DETROIT
Senior Inspector Marvin Lane said Harold Treaki, 50, confessed to killing his wife Ivy Jean Treaki, 20, and dismembering her body into five pieces after 11 hours of questioning. Officers report a verbal statement. no formal statement yet. The dismembered remains were recovered in three sections.
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Detroit
Marvin Lane
Harold Treaki
Ivy Jean Treaki
Lane
Treaki
Perseid Meteors Offer Earth Annual Treat
The Washington naval observatory reports a Perseid meteor shower visible across the northern hemisphere. Best viewing from midnight to morning light with thirty or more meteors per hour. the shower lasts several days and is visible tonight and afterward. Prof Charles P Oliver invites observers to count meteors per hour for study.
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Washington
Naval Observatory
Charles P. Oliver
Flower Observatory
Upper Darby
City Se wer Bids For Beecher North Street Projects
City officials opened bids for a Beecher Street sewer 3400 feet and North Street 7400 feet with feeder lines on Addison Elm Ormsby and Oakwood. Bids from McNamara 797,606 and Carr 33,514.50 were listed alongside Boam's 550,083.50 and 54869.52. Engineering estimates stood at 20000 and 34000.
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Beecher Street
North Street
City Commission
Regula
Addison
Elm
Ormbsy Streets
Oakwood Avenue
Thomas L. McNamara
Detroit
Roy L. Carr
Adrian
Boam Company
Morth Street
Fremon Ansted
Shoecraft, Drury and McNamee
Civil Engineers
Ann Arbor
H. W. Lundah
Ansted
River Raisin
Bent Oak Avenue
Riverside Avenue
Grand Street
Edward A. Zay
Lundahl
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Pearl Stadler
Roller Skates a Bond in Stop Sign Guilty Plea
Harold W Schnell of Perrysburg Ohio was arraigned yesterday before Justice M W Hensel at Blissfield and pleaded guilty to ignoring a stop sign. He was fined four dollars and thirty five cents plus costs. He posted a pair of roller skates as bond for payment by Sunday. Harry Sweet of Temperance Route 1 pleaded guilty to failure to yield right of way and paid a fine and costs.
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Harold W.schnell
Perrysburg
Ohio
M. W. Hensel
Blissfield
Harry Sweet
Temperance
Route 1
Britain approves wartime style recovery bill in Commons
The House of Commons passed the national recovery program bill 178 to 63 after an 18 hour debate. It grants the Attlee government power to direct labor and supplies to mobilize Britain’s resources for the economic crisis while vowing protections for press freedom. Churchill attacked the measure as dictatorial and the opposition demanded safeguards.
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London
House of Commons
Britain
Attlee
Labor Party
Commons
House of Lords
Winston Churchill
Clement Davies
Herbert Morrison
Custer Churchill
Churchill
Altthough
Buchenwald Camp Operators All Convicted by U S Court
All 31 defendants in the Buchenwald concentration camp war crimes trial were found guilty by a U S military court in Dachau Germany. Sentences will be announced Thursday. Ilse Koch, widow of the commandant, testified denying lampshade claims from inmate skin.
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Dachau
Germany
Buchenwald
U. S
Ilse Koch
Earthquake spot near Kalamazoo centers Midwest shake
A spot 30 miles southeast of Kalamazoo was reported as the quake center felt across five Midwest states Saturday night. Seismologist Rev. Alphonse Schmitt of Loyola University fixed the epicenter at the Michigan locality and called it the region’s most severe quake since March 1937 near Anna, Ohio, with Kalamazoo recalling a 1883 event.
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Kalamazoo
Chicago
Midwest
Alphonse Schmitt
S. J
Loyola University
Michigan
Anna
Ohio
Teacher killed in Howard City car crash near M-46
Anna J. Demond, 45, a Flint school teacher, died in a late night crash four miles west of Howard City on M-46. State police report a fractured skull and that she was trapped in the wreckage, body removed with an acetylene torch.
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Howard City
Anna J.*demond
Flint
Here
U S Drops Jewel Case in Berlin
U S investigators label the missing royal jewels of Princess Hermine as a dizzy merry go round of family intrigue and hand the case to German police. Army CI chief O R Carlucci says no American involved and no further pursuit planned.
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Berlin
U.S
Hermine
Kaiser Wilhelm II
O. R. Carlucci
Army
Private Building And Repairs At Record Level
Private construction and repair work reached a July record of $1 billion, up six percent from August 1946. Total construction, including highway and public facilities, was $1.3 billion, 16 percent above July 1946. Contractors employed 1,817,000, up 55,000 from June and 190,000 from July 1946. For January-July 1947, spending totaled $7.5 billion versus $5.8 billion a year earlier.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Daughter Of Jap Peace Envoy To Wed Yank Official
Tokyo report says Pia, 21, daughter of Japan peace envoy Saburo Kurusu, will wed Frank White of General MacArthur's reparation section. White, former Michigan State College student, plans to stay in Japan another year before returning to the United States with his wife to resume engineering studies.
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Tokyo
Japan
Washington
Pearl Harbor
U. S. Army
Saburo Kurusu
Pia
Frank White
States
Forrestal Sets Aside Conviction Of Two Marines
Secretary Forrestal has set aside court martial convictions of two Marines tied to a rape case involving a Chinese girl in Peiping last winter. Cpl. William G. Pierson of Sumter, S.C., and Pfc. Warren T. Pritchard were affected. Pierson received 15 years and dishonorable discharge, Pritchard ten months and bad conduct discharge. The case sparked anti-American demonstrations in China and drew attention from Dr. Hu Shih who urged respect for American justice.
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Washington
Forrestal
Peiping
Navy
William G. Pierson
Sumter
S. C
Warren T. Pritchard
Pierson
Pritchard
China
Hu Shih
Work Begins On Atom Energy Plant At Camp Upton
CAMP UPTON N Y Aug 12 Work has begun on the nation s largest project to turn the atom to peaceful uses Dr Lyle B Borst head of the Brookhaven nuclear reactor project operated a power drag line shovel to break ground for a 10 9 million atomic pile at Camp Upton He hoped to have the pile in operation within a year.
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Camp Upton
N. Y
Lyle B. Borst
Brookshaven National Laboratory
Borst
Way Clear To Pacific Pact
Deputy Prime Minister Herbert V. Evatt returned from Japan with General MacArthur and announced the way is clear to a peace settlement that would form a stable foundation for Pacific security. He said consultations with MacArthur showed broad agreement on steps toward preparing a treaty.
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Brisbane
Australia
Herbert V. Evatt
Gen. MacArthur
Japan
Pacific
Evatt
Clinton Regional Union Man Now Is In Clinton
Clinton Ma chine Co strike nears end after two weeks as 100 workers defy pickets to resume work. State mediation board, company and union reps set to meet at 1:30 p m as Michigan State Police maintain order at plant gates. Wages rise eight cents an hour with a graded bonus on motors. crowds observe from afar while labor and business leaders praise the workforce.
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Clinton
Clinton Machine Co
Mediation Board
Donald Thomas
Harry F .Hittle
Lansing J
Leonard Donaldson
Detroi
William McCauley
Pontiac
Uaw-Cio
Clintor
W. H. Whitelock
Local 608
Michigan
Caesar Sea Yvarda
Scavarda
Thomas
Bringman
Mr.Thomas
Red Cross
al Motors
O. E. Priest
Chamber of Commerce
Charter Change Studied for Grand Rapids City
City Attorney R. Roland Allaben reviews Stanley J. Davis proposal to modernize the Grand Rapids charter in line with a Metropolitan Planning Commission report. The Michigan experts urge shifting more authority to the city manager.
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Grand Rapids
R. Roland Allaben
Stanley J. Davis
Metropolitan
Hudson Boosts Prices Across All Models
Hudson Motor Car Co. raised prices by 45 to 95 dollars on every model citing higher labor and material costs. George H. Pratt, vice president in charge of sales, announced the increases and did not provide a model by model breakdown.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Co
George H. Pratt
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GOP
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Stuch
White Hat
Jack Feldman
Dunked Flyer
James Stuch
Delbert Bailey
Bailey
Sergeant Austin
Blissfield Post
Michigan State Police
Beecher and
Clinton Machine
Brian
Atom Energy
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Hudson
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