Drive Starts For Central State Stadium At College
Central State Teachers college launches a fundraising drive for a new athletic field stadium and dressing rooms. President Warriner outlines plans while Athletic Director Parker compares past and present football rosters and shows a field sketch with four practice fields and two baseball diamonds. Grace Ryan and alumni leaders voice support and pledge aid for the project.
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Central State Teachers College
FB. C. Warriner
Wallace C. Parker
Central Sitl
Moleskins
Parker
Grace Ryan
Central State
Miss Ryan
Malcolm Crawford
Caro
Central State Alumni Association
Wm. J. Burkett
Fenton
Mt Pleasant High School basketball champions banquet
Members of the 1930 Mt Pleasant High School basketball squad were guests of Virgil McClintic at a banquet in Frankenmuth Zehnder hotel Friday night. University of Michigan coach Harry Kipke spoke, recalling his playing and coaching days with the Maize and Blue. The squad was joined by Coach Osborn Principal L C Wendt Rev C W Mackenzie and E Claggett of Pure Oil of Saginaw.
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Mt Pleasant
Virgil McClintic
Zehnder
Frankenmuth
Harry Kipke
University of Michigan
Osborn
L. C. Wendt
Rev. C. W. Mackenzie
E. Claggett
Pure Oil Company
Saginaw
Death of Peter Rowley in crash near Grand Rapids
Peter Rowley a 36 year old sales manager of a local dairy company died in St Mary's hospital from injuries sustained when his car collided with a truck Thursday east of Grand Rapids. Nurses reported he passed away today.
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Grand Rapids
Peter Rowley
St.Mary’s Hospital
Here
Detroit prisoner seeks protection from blackhand squad
Llewellyn Blackwell, weighing 225 pounds, asked for protection while in Central Police station. He told Detective Hutchinson that his life was in danger, and a pistol was found under his coat, leading to his placement in a city jail cell for safety.
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Detroit
Llewellyn Blackwell
Central
Blackwell
Thomas Hutchinson
Doherty Hotel at Glare to Add Ten Cottages
The Doherty hotel plans ten fireproof cottages on the east lot to handle rising patronage. Construction began Thursday with occupancy expected by June 1. Each two bedroom unit will have a bath, steam heat, running water, modern furnishings, telephone, and bell boy service.
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Doherty
Aladdin Company
Bay City
Clare Hardware and Furniture Company
J. 3. Doherty
Clare
Clare Electric Company
Correction on Shepp Tire and Battery move location
A correction notes an error in Friday's article about the relocation of Shepp Tire and Battery. The business actually moved to the Grimm building next to the Central Storage, not the Central Storage garage on Court street.
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Shepp Tire and Battery
Gourt Street
Mr. Shepp
Grimm
Five Killed As Indian Forges Continue Riots
Royalton Illinois April 19 A riot between rival miner unions left five men shot one likely fatally The clash occurred as Alexande Howat head of the rump union prepared to speak Two attacking cars dispersed the crowd about 25 shots were fired Barney Davis Ziegler Irl a miner was wounded in the stomach others Constable John Hicks Adam Ivanich Roy Grove Ray Edman were shot with varying injuries
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Royalton
Illinois
United Mine Workers of America Toar
Alexande Howat
Barney Davis
Ziegler
Irl
Miner
John Hicks
Adam Ivanich
Roy Grove
West Frankfort
Ray Edman
Jackson couple confess extortion plot in Michigan
United Press report from Jackson Michigan says two youths confessed to planning to extort $150 from barber Joseph Martone father of five. Grove and his teenage fiancée admitted illicit romance and said the plot aimed to cover Grove's debts. They described a tryst with Martone and a $10 payment for silence. Martone faces possible charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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Jackson, Mich
Joseph Martone
George Grove
Grove
Joseph Coleman
Wall Street Baptist
Martone
Jovers
Clare 60s No 1 Well Drilling to Resume Friday
Clare Development company plans to resume drilling on the Mary Huble farm well at the northwest city limits. The project, formed by fifteen Clare businessmen, acquired 187 acres plus leases and contracted Oil Well Engineers of Mughegon to drill to 1637 feet. Financial difficulties delayed work for two weeks.
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Clare Development Company
Mary Huble
Clare
Demorest
Mughegon
Unrest Plans May Day Demonstration Nationwide
New York reports organized forces pledge a May 1 mass display to crown weeks of unrest. Leaders promise a level of activity unmatched since postwar agitation. Counter demonstrations are planned in New York and other cities amid potential violence. In Pontiac, Mrs. Elsie Ellis, 24, insulted Judge Henry Harpster over her husband’s case and received a five day jail term.
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New York
Pontiac
Henry Harpster
Elsie Ellis
Five Shot in Labor Rioting in Calcutta and Chittagong
In Calcutta and Chittagong Bengal insurgents attacked railway stations and police armories. A sergeant major and four Indians were killed defending buildings as trains were derailed and telegraph lines cut. Women and children sought refuge on the docks. In Flint Michigan ten men and eight women faced liquor charges after raids by federal agents.
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Calcutta
India
Chittagong
Bengal
Flint
James Reid
Bay City
Local Science Farmers Chart Planting Times by Soils
Chart prepared by Ninest and Prank Schaffer outlines planting times for crops on different soils. The excerpt notes spring planting on high soils beginning April 21 and strawberry and fruit tree plantings later in May, with soil preparation and weed control instructions. The full chart appears in Monday’s paper, Charted November 21, 1929.
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Ninest
Prank Schaffer
Al Capone Seeks Control Of Chicago Street Department
Chicago reports say Al Capone plots to name the street department superintendent and establish a plumbing bureau with many jobs. The Plumbers union backs the ordinance, Aldermen fear threats, and Capone’s gunmen backed Serritella for ward committeeman and state senator in last week’s primary.
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Chicago
al Canone
Scarface al
Canone
Plumbers’ Union
William Taglia
Capone
Serritella
Edward F. Moore
Moore
Seritella
Fire kills nearly 150 in Costești Romania church disaster
Frantic search continues in Costești for bodies after a blaze ripped through a wooden village church during Good Friday services. Doors opened inward as flames leapt from curtains, trapping worshippers and turning the church into a burning furnace before collapse.
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Vienna
Austria
Costeshi
Rumania
Dodds Handles Prosecution In Big Brokerage Fraud
Assistant Attorney General Nugent Dodds handles prosecutions of four brokerage men charged with embezzling 5000 dollars from the F H Smith company of Washington. Indicted are G Bryan Pitts former chairman Samuel J Henry former president C Albert Anndale former vice president and J H Edwards Jr former treasurer and director. The indictments allege destruction and hiding of records to conceal the embezzlement.
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Nugent Dodds
F. H. Smith Company
Washington
United Press
F. IH. Smith Company
G. Bryan Pitts
Pitts
Samuel J. Henry
C. Albert Anndale
J. H. Edwards, Jr
Weather forecast for Detroit area Apr 19
Detroit forecast calls for increasing cloudiness tonight with Saturday night into Sunday showers. Temperatures near 60s rising to mid 40s in some locations. readings show Chicago 48 42, Detroit 42 60 40, Grand Rapids 40 48, Ludington 42 36, Marquette 34 48 30. Local readings list varied values across Michigan cities.
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Detroit
Tweather
Marquette
Supreme Court May Be Asked for Decisions
Ionia case and Traverse City bond issue seed a statewide contest over tuberculosis testing and sewage plant mandates. Ed Townsend challenges the TB testing and state authority argues the acts are valid, with officials facing contempt charges in Ionia and a bond hearing upcoming for Traverse City.
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Claude J. Markle Lansing
Supreme Court
Ionia
Herbert S. Powell
Agriculture
Paul E. Eger
State Steam Control Commission
Traverseity
Powell and Eger
Department of Agriculture
Ed Townsend
Townsend
Department
Royal A. Hawley
Ionita County
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Chicago
Naval Treaty Nears Final Form for Five-Power Accord
London April 19 The major sections of the Five-Power Naval Treaty are in each government hands awaiting final revision before presentation to the London conference plenary next Tuesday. U S sources say preamble formulas are done but French and Italian chiefs are absent delaying final fora. France and Italy seek mention of the League of Nations. the United States Britain and Japan favor a similar preamble.
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London
Francis
Italy
League of Nations
United States
Great Britain
Japan
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