Youth Hurt Attempting Rescue From Burning Garage Fire
Tom Spalsbury a local high school youth is in critical condition after entering the burning garage of T K Buzzard on Pickard avenue last night to rescue a truck gasoline exploded igniting his clothing He rolled on the ground to extinguish flames but suffered severe burns on both forearms and part of his face The Buzzard drilling contractor building and three trucks were destroyed by the fire which origin is undetermined.
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Tom Spalsbury
T. K. Buzzard
Pickard Avenue
Spalsbury
Buzzard
Patrolman Confesses to Robbing Stores on His Beat
Detroit April 29 Patrolman Arnold Senst admitted to entering unlocked stores on his beat and taking merchandise or cash. He had confessed to six robberies since last December and is jailed at Palmer Park police station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Arnold Senst
Palmer Park
Senst
Lawrence Maloney
Sdnst
Michigan counties receive first weight tax payout totals
Checks totaling 2 100 000 represent the first 1980 weight tax payments to Michigan counties. The act distributes 6 000 000 to counties with three remaining installments planned. later payments depend on gasoline tax receipts. Notable checks include Gladwin 2 074 78 Isabella 8 235 75 Mecosta 6 186 05 Midland 7 243 14 Toritcalm 13 806 30.
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United Press
Lansing
Frank D. Fitzgerald
Highway Department
Glare
Gladwin
Isabella
Mecosta
Midland
Toritcalm
Senate Debates Parker Nomination Amid Prohibition Debate
United Press reports Senate continues debate on Parker nomination as committees resume investigations into prohibition amendment. Commerce panel reviews Rivers and Harbors bill while campaign funds committees meet. House resumes hearings on banking and currency measures and related appropriations.
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Senate
Parker
Commerce Committee
HOUSE
Phrates
Banking -and Currency Committee
Police Force Under Fire in Pontiac
Pontiac April 29 police administration under fire as Detroit judge rebukes Pontiac vice squad frameup. Chief Alspaugh and Lt. Gooley deny local guilt while other officers condemn leadership. Prosecutor Orr cites long defiance by liquor operators.
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United Press
Pontiac
Police Administration
Detroit
Robert Alsnaugh
Edward Gooley
Alspaugh
Norman C. Orr
Library Round Table Meeting to be Held in Mt Pleasant
The Michigan Library Association rounds table to meet at Central State Teachers College Mt Pleasant on Wednesday April 30. Miss Constance Bement will preside in the morning in room 157 and library reports will be shown. S. W. McAllister will speak on labor saving devices. An 1 pm luncheon at the Woman's Commons precedes an afternoon session at McAllister's home 508 South College Avenue with county library activities report and Miss Florence McClinchy discussing her book Foo Pete. The day ends with a tea hosted by the City Library board.
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Michigan, ‘Library
Mt. Pleasant
Constance Bement
State Library
Central State Teachers College
S. W. McAllister
Woman's Commons
South College’ Avenue
Florence McClinchey
Foo Pete
City Li Bcuny Board
Researchers Estimate Brain Fuel Needs in Thinking
Carnegie Institute scientists Dr. Francis G. Benedict and Cornelia G. Benedict report a half peanut or an oyster cracker could sustain brain activity for an hour during thinking. They studied how much food a person uses while thinking.
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Washington
Edison
Einstein
Carnegie Institute
Francis G. Benedict
Cornelia G. Benedict
Wrnter
Liverpool rider Tom Cullinan wins Spring Cup after Grand National
Liverpool April 29 Tom Cullinan who rode Shaun Goilin to victory in the Grand National completed a fine double by winning the Liverpool Spring Cup on Keakushin the following day.
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Liverpool
Tom Cullinan
Shaun Goilin
Shaun Goilin’s half-brother Gomar in training at Curragh
Curragh Ireland April 29 Shaun Goilin the 1980 Grand National winner has a half brother Gomar a three year old in training here Gomar still has to make his debut on a race course.
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Curragh
Ireland
Shaun Goilin
Gomar
Emperor Honors Police With Cigarette Gift
Emperor Hirohito donated 55 160 cigarets to policemen guarding his Imperial Procession route during the reconstruction inspection in Tokyo after the 1928 earthquake and fire. Cigarets are a traditional Imperial gift to soldiers and police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Tokyo
Hirohito
Treasury Dept Rushes War On Liquor In March Report
The Treasury Department pursues a relentless war on bootleggers as it plans to transfer prohibition enforcement to the Justice Department. March arrests reached 5,380 with 1,947 stills seized, sugar remains the leading bootlegging material, and officials note bootleggers lean on corn and cane sugar under permits. President Hoover urges Congress to pass enforcement bills, including the transfer proposal, court congestion relief, prison expansion, and border patrol reorganization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury Department
Justice Department
Prohibition
Doran
Hoover
Congress
Treasury
Border Patrol
Prohibition Bureau
Naval Parley Delegates Reach New York Harbor
The steam Leviathan bearing the American delegation to the London Naval conference reached quarantine near New York Harbor at 12 50 am. Destroyers flanked the liner with a third leading and the Los Angeles airship overhead as a civic reception preceded plans to sail for Washington. A bag of special mail for Secretary of State Stimson and delegates was dropped from the airship but narrowly missed the smokestack. it later landed on deck and was delivered.
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New York Harbor
Los Angeles
New York
Stimson
Wain
Washngton
Nantucket
Guards Fire On Rebellious Ohio Convicts
Columbus April 29 guards fired on unruly prisoners at the White City cell block of Ohio State Penitentiary. National guardsmen and naval reserves moved in with machine guns and searchlights while inmates, including George Tonoff and Jewell Joffa of Toledo, were reported wounded.
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Harry W. Sharpe
United Press
Columbus
White City
George Tonoff
Toledo
Jewell Jofffa
P. &. Thomas
Ohio State
Moonday
Thomas
Fear Gandhiism May Spread 10 Native Troops
London reports a British India Office communique hints Gandhi's passive resistance could sway Hindu soldiers. An entire battalion of the Garhwal Rifles, recruited from high caste Hindus, is ordered to Abbottabad for inquiry after discontent in two Peshawar platoons. The piece notes the unit’s WWI record and two Victoria Crosses.
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London
India Office
Royal Gahrwal Rifle
Abbottabad
Peshawar
Garhwal Rifles
United Provinces
France
Meerut
Lease sale by state fails to draw bidding
Oil and gas leases on about 800 acres were sold in Michigan at the third public auction by the conservation department. Bids came on three parcels averaging 22 cents per acre, far below the 50 cents per acre average in past sales. Parcels spanned Mason Lake Kalkaska Clare Midland and Newaygo counties with buyers Charles Strange Reed City Arthur Adams Reed City and M Kienholz Scottville.
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Lansing
Conservation Department
Mason, Lake
Kkalkaska
Clare
Midland
Newaygo
Midland County
Charles Strange
Glare
Mason and
Lake Counties
Arthur Adams
Reed City
Mason County
M. Kienholz
Scottville
Prohibition Debate Shapes Michigan Democratic Pre Primary
Niles Michigan April 29 The prohibition issue and whether Michigan Democrats will pledge repeal of the eighteenth amendment will top the state pre primary conference at Jackson May 24. Henry H Hei Mann announces a four resolution program with debate limited to four advocates.
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United Press
Niles
Mich
Democratic Party of
Michigan
Jackson
Henry H. Hei Mann
State Central Committee
Ecall
Republican Party
Congress
G O P Club Faces Internal Strife and Debated Membership
United States Detroit April 29 members of the revived Michigan Republican club confronted two divisive issues and a shakeup that could remove president Elbert H. Fowler from leadership. Charles Green of Battle Creek challenged Fowler over admittance of women, urging adherence to non factional charter while stressing organization work and a solid Republican base.
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United
Presa Lansing
Michigan Republican Club
Elbert H. Fowler
Detroit
Fowler
Howver
Charles Green
Battle Greek
Th’ Club
Green
Youthful Pilot Aims at Junior Coast-to-Coast Flight
Frank Goldsborough, 19, prepares from St. Louis to resume a record attempt spanning the Atlantic Pacific routes. His father Bryce Goldsborough was lost at sea with Frances Grayson on the prior flight. The pilot landed the American Boy at 6:15 p m after departing Columbus Ohio four hours earlier, having taken off from Westfield Rahway New Jersey.
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St. Louis
Atlantic
Pacific
Frank Goldsborough
Goldsborough
Bryce Goldsborough
Frances Grayson
Columbus
Ohio
Westfield
Rahway
N. J
Local Bands Present Joint Concert Tonight
Mt Pleasant High School and Central State Teachers College bands join in a public concert at the college auditorium tonight at 8 13 PM. Newell H Long directs both groups with the Bandoliers providing two selections and a college men's quartet singing. The program ends with two pieces by the combined bands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Pleasant High School
Central State Teachers College
Newell H. Long
Detroit youth loses legs in freight car accident
Michigan brief reports 14 year old Tony Phillips of Detroit had both legs severed below the knee after he fell between a freight car and a switch engine while hitching a ride on a Grand Trunk train in Ferndale on April 28 or 29.
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Ferndale
Mich
Tony Phillips
Detroit
Grand Trunk
Weather Forecast for Lower Michigan Wednesday Showers Likely
Detroit Anr 29 Increasing cloudiness likely showers on Wednesday and in extreme west portion tonight slightly warmer in south portion tonight Readings include a list with temperatures for Detroit Duluth Grand Rapids and Chicago.
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Detroit
Michigan
Penn
Chicago
Duluth
Egeanalipi
Grand Rapids
Dairy conference fuels Isabella county industry drive
A Michigan dairy conference in Mt. Pleasant attracted 39 delegates from rural Isabella county and local business leaders. The program highlighted purebred sires and registered cows, alfalfa and silage as feeds, and better milk handling to raise profits and standards.
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Isabella County
Wabash and
Ann Arbor
Michigan State College Extension Division
Mt. Pleasant
P. W. Schwengerdt
W.-. C. Cribbs
State” College
G. A. Bowling
Michigan State College
K . E. L. Salisbury
Eli Lewis
S. Strickle
E. 3B. Cheadle
J. E. Whitmore
E. E. Hapner
F. E. Lathmore
Clyde’ R. Johnson
Emer Bates Earl Bayes
William Broadstétter
Vernon Snyder
Alvin Robard
Tornado sinks steamer Condor killing 200 in India
United Press reports a tornado on the Padma river near Calcutta blew over the flat bottom Condor with 218 aboard, drowning two hundred. only eighteen survived as massive waves and wind tore through decks and cabins. Survivors recall a fierce, howling storm and the ship being toppled suddenly.
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United Press
Calcutta
India
Condor
Parma
Padma
Ganges
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England
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United Preas
NAVAL
N.Y
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