16 Jan 1930
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Newspaper
Mount Pleasant Daily Times
Location
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1930
Page
1
The MT Pleasant high school team beat the Indians 19 to 17 in the second overtime after a 15 15 tie at the end of regulation. Bauer, Ching, McClintire and Wrorris sparked the Indians while Peete and stalling sealed MT Pleasant’s victory.
Isabella county and state taxes through January 10 total slightly over 125000. State taxes reach 50780.63 and county taxes 74457.21, both below last year at 141918.61. World middleweight champion Charles Fischer defeated Zack Malkev in a lengthy two fall match with injuries.
City and county officials announced a drive against motorists who have not bought 1930 license plates. City Manager E. S. Anderson said all Michigan and foreign cars with 1929 plates will be hailed before justices. About 40 percent of Isabella County motorists have not yet obtained new licenses.
Senator Heflin announced to day he will ask the Senate Cotton Price Investigating committee to summon Henry Ford over charges that his cotton buyers are remorseless. Arthur R. Marsh, former NY Cotton Exchange president, testified that remorseless buying by Ford and other large purchasers contributed to low cotton prices.
Two earthquakes struck southern California causing clocks to stop and services to halt. The 4:25 and 4:35 p.m. shocks rattled Los Angeles and counties including Beaumont, Banning, Pasadena, Riverside, Tustin, and Long Beach, with damage and scattered mail disruptions amid rain.
In Mt. Clemens two Romeo youths David Shoemaker and John Lyons told juvenile court they obtained liquor on Christmas Eve from Frank Couts a one year old farmer. Couts was arrested late yesterday on a prohibition violation charge and the youths faced disorderly conduct charges.
The article cites two major periods of broad lawbreaking in U S history. It notes colonial defiance of English Trade Acts and post revolutionary resistance to enforcing Federal Fugitive Slave Laws, detailing smugglers like John Hancock and regional reluctance to convict. It also links earlier whiskey rebellion and antebellum resistance to fugitive laws to broader anti government sentiment.
The Arctic commission received an unconfirmed report that Captain Carl Eielson and Earl Borland may have landed near Anguema river 120 miles from Cape North while attempting to reach an icebound vessel. They disappeared in the Siberian Arctic region in November.
Detroit January 16 church bells rang nationwide in tribute to ten years of prohibition. The Anti Saloon League met in convention and declared renewed warfare on alcohol. The group urged renewed scientific temperance education in public schools to inform future citizens and sustain freedom from liquor.
The Isabella County Road Commission awarded contracts in session at the courthouse yesterday afternoon. Enrico Oil Company received the oil supply contract for county road trucks while the firm of Burch and Stirling was awarded the insurance underwriting for all highway equipment.
Mt Pleasant announces a new officer to the police force. Chas Baumgarten, former deputy sheriff, is appointed to night duty with Ed Ball. The city now has two officers on duty in the business section day and night.
Lew Sarett the woodsman poet will give a lecture recital on the College Lyceum course Tuesday January 21. He has traveled 12 000 miles by canoe across Lake Superior Hudson Bay and the Mississippi and lived with the Indians. He is a Northwestern University professor and prolific writer with Eastern magazine pieces and poetry.
Isabel Ian County National Farm Loan association shareholders met Tuesday January 14 to elect directors Ray V Hoyle Frank Stuber H H XN Costright Rey Sumers and George W Wheeler The 164 farmers hold 26580 in capital and the association has loaned 9316000 to farmers in the county E J Van Leuven serves as secretary treasurer Michigan has 130 associations with over 26000000 in loans.
Snowbound mountain states face a brutal winter with missing persons searches and perilous air missions. Maury Graham, pilot of Western Air Express, is missing after a snowstorm near the Bristol mines. a plane was found undamaged but no trace of him. Army pursuit planes grapple with storms from Montana to Utah while an Arctic Patrol project is abandoned. In Tioga, Colorado, six-year-old GarfiI Manes and four-year-old May Thompson die of meningitis as medical relief struggles through snow. An El Paso aviator ferries serum to a dying Albuquerque child, and a Montana pilot is aided by a rancher after a forced downed plane.
George Winesberg will sell 20 head of young horses four to six years old weighing 1400 to 1800 pounds at the Tin Barn Mt Pleasant sale begins 1:30 o'clock S C Forney auctioneer adv will appear in Friday and Saturday issues
Island Park rink flooded yesterday but cold weather promises extended skating. City officials installed electric lights heated dressing room and canteen to serve sand wiches and confections. A pumping system draws water from the Chippewa river to flood the rink as plans for contests are considered.
In accordance with state banking laws the two local banks held annual meetings Tuesday and named their directors for 1930. Isabella County State Bank reduced its board from ten to nine while Exchange Savings expanded from eight to nine with new directors E. O. Harris Wm. D. Hood Jas. E. Johnson C. S. Larzelere W. E. Lewis C. W. Riches and A. J. Tillman. officers to be named within a week. Isabella County State Bank officers include President J. S. Weidman Jr Vice Presidents Elton J. VanLeuven R. M. Weidman and E. S. Weidman Cashier J. W. Benford Assistant Cashiers J. Elmier Graham K. A. Fraser and Harry L. Thiers Directors include J. S. Weidman Jr Elton J. VanLeuven Ed. M. Weidman Peter F. Breidenstein J. W. Benford Ed. J. Dittman TR. S&S. Weidman Frank G. Thiers and J. J. Walkington.
Business in Clare paused for two hours as the Clare Development Company spudded its inaugural oil well just half a mile from the city limits. A group of local business and professional men backs the project, showing strong faith in Clare’s oil-field development.
Governor Green announced that a formal request will be presented to the State Administrative Board on Monday seeking a small fleet of high powered cars armed with machine guns and tear gas bombs to combat ram runners in southern Michigan.
Commissioner Landis and Arthur Shires will hold a Chicago conference Monday to urge the White Sox first baseman to abandon boxing. Shires suspension from the White Sox after a scuffle with Lena Blackburne last fall will also be discussed.
Mrs Isabel M Hugle wife of Ralph Hughes assistant attorney general died by her own action in her Lansing home yesterday afternoon. She was found dead in her room by her housekeeper and two children after a shot was fired while she was despondent over ill health.
Superintendent Gannard outlines two weekly adult gym sessions at the high school for Mt Pleasant residents. Women meet with Miss Emma Deerr on Tuesday January 21 and men with Coach Osborn on Thursday January 23. Classes run through winter into spring with exercise and games encouraged for many adults.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday with probable local snow. Cold tonight and through Friday with gentle to moderate north to northwest winds.
Water levels surge along the Mississippi and its tributaries as the Wabash threatens 26 foot levees at Vincennes Indiana. Farmers flee rising floods while highways fail and national guardsmen guard levees near the White river and Hazelton bridge with threats to dynamite a dam risk.
James K. Shields urged a nationwide push for municipal and village prohibition ordinances at the Anti-Saloon League convention in Detroit. He called for local enforcement leagues, arguing power comes from many, and that small speakeasies and bootleggers undermine prohibition more than investigations.
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