Cooperation Keynote for G S 1 0 Finance
Central State College seeks funding for a new Mt. Pleasant athletic field through a unified drive. State board action raises student activities fees to 7 per term, funds used to back a 25 000 bond from Grand Rapids Trust Co. Alumni, faculty, and 1980 graduates have pledged about six thousand dollars so far. Business leaders plan to donate 2 500-seat stands costing about 5 000 as a city memorial, with a ten-team solicitation drive starting July 30.
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Central State
Evey
Mt. Pleasant’s College
State Board of Education
Grand Rapids Trust Co
Isabella County
Mt. Pleasant
Gentral State
My College
Hoover aims to showcase 16 months of progress in campaign book
A wartime era handbook compiling the first 16 months of President Hoover’s administration is being prepared by officials for use in the upcoming congressional campaign. Walter Newton calls reports from all departments to document progress, from waterways and building programs to tariff and farm relief, plus the diesel lightship and diplomatic reorganizations.
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Washington
Walter Newton
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Dawes
London
Edge
Paris
Sackett
Parlin
Garrett
Rome
Russia
China
Keeler-Mitchell No 2 Gas Well Flow Rising
The Keeler-Mitchell No. 2 gas well in Broomfield completed at 1342 feet with a daily production of 2,250,000 cubic feet. Flow shows a steady rise after gas was first encountered at 1218 in a stray sand. the field gasser hit the mug sand at 1819 last February and operators prepared to case the well this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broomfield
Communists Capture Priest and Two Americans in Changsha
Hankow Communists attacked Changsha and captured Father Guilo Baima, a Catholic mission official, along with three foreigners, two of whom were believed to be Americans, after they refused evacuation. Mission sisters were saved by an American gunboat after word of the assault. Rumors said Communists planned an attack on a Socony oil plant with gunboat officers prepared to fire.
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Changsha
China
U.P
Guilo Baima
Detroit raid nets six Sicilian suspects in shootings
Detroit police and state officers raided a Wyandotte house finding an automatic rifle three repeating rifles a shotgun and five pistols with six men seized all described as Sicilians. The sweep followed a Grosse Pointe raid linking five gangsters to multiple killings including Lanstra Meyer Roth Mietz Buckley and Walters.
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Detroit
Wyandotte
Grosse Pointe Village
Grosse Pointe
Iver
Claude Lanstra
Erhart Meyer
Mietz
Jerry Buckley
Gerald E. Buckley
New York
William Delisle
Black Hand Savad
Buckley
Wilcox
Chicago
St. Louis
Florida
Youth Rescued From Gas Fumes
Royal Oak July 29 A 16 year old, Ray J Walker, used motion picture thriller tactics to save himself after being overcome by gas in his parents basement He crawled to the first floor toppled the telephone receiver before losing consciousness, a signal that brought police and revival from officers on the scene.
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Royal Oak
U.P
Ray J. Walker
Walker
Hin
Public Speaking Department Banquet At Central State Teachers College
National authorities Dr. Robert West of Wisconsin and Professor J M O Neil of Michigan head a lineup for Central State Teachers College first annual banquet on Thursday evening July 31. Central State faculty members include President E C Warriner Dean Bertha M Ronan KK P Brooks J Merrill Heaphy and William Dickman of Midland. piano duet by Katherine Fingleton and Beulah Walter. Ninety percent of the speech students have reservations. many others plan to attend. Arrangements by Edw Heaphy and Patrick Smith.
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Robert West
University’ of Wisconsin
J. M. O’neil
University of Michigan
Central’ State Teachers College
Central State
E. C. Warriner
Bertha
M. Ronan
KK. P. Brooks
J. Merrill
Former State Students Head to Virgin Islands for Teaching
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Dorsch of Custer former Central State Tenohars college students plan to sail in mid August for Frederickstad Ste Croix Virgin Islands. Dorsch will teach English and history and the couple will travel with two month old daughter Helen. Ste Croix is noted as an American possession bought from Denmark in 1917 and has been settled mainly by whites.
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Frederick D. Dorsch
Custer
Central State
Tenohars College
Frederickstad
Ste. Groix
Virgin Islands
Helen
Antilles
Dorsch
Central State Campus
Educators To Speak At Meeting Tomorrow
Two superintendents Leonard Allen of Otter Lake and Mac Bieer of Vernon will speak at a meeting of the Administration Club of Central State Teachers College tomorrow night. Mr. Biezer will discuss financing high school athletics and Mr. Allen will address discrimination against small high schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Allen
Otter Lake
Mac Bieer
Vernon
Administration Club
Cantral
iState Teachers College Tomorrow Hight
Baddy Bennett
Palo
Biezer
Allen
Nine Democrats vie for Oklahoma governor in 1929 primary
Oklahoma City July 29 voters head to primary booths to pick nine Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls led by W. H. Murray and Frank Burtram. The field includes two ex governors J. C. Jack Walton and Lee Cruce alongside impeachment veterans seeking vindication. Walton runs as an independent. others are party candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Herbert Hoover
W. H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray
Frank Burtram
Tulsa
Murray
Buttram
U. S. Senate
J. C
Jack Walton
J. B. A. Robertson
Lee Cruce
Walton
Brucker Promises Malt Tax Repeal If Elected Governor
Coldwater July 29 Attorney General Brucker, candidate for governor, pledges to urge the 1931 legislature to repeal the malt tax. He insists the tax is inequitable and proposes overhauling the tax system, with a possible special session to focus solely on tax reform. He argues the present patchwork burden falls mainly on property and industry and calls for redistricting the tax burden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coldwater
Ku.pi
Brucker
Central Michigan Golf Amateur Qualifying Opens
Four local golfers from Mt. Pleasant start in the Central Michigan golf tournament at St. Johns Country Club for preliminary rounds. Participants from Alma Ithaca St Johns Greenville Portland Ionia Squawse and Mt. Pleasant compete as elimination play determines the year’s champion.
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Central Michigan
St. Johns Country Club
H. H. Theunissen
Elmer
Frank Theisen
Bob Northway
Mt. Pleasant
Alma
Ithaca
St. Johns
Greenville
Portland Ionia
Squase
Detroit Weather Forecast Brief for Lower Michigan
Forecasters call for fair conditions today across lower Michigan with cooler tonight in the southeast. Highs range from the upper 60s to 90s and cooling in the north with readings near 54 to 70, including Alpena 62 to 90 and Detroit around 70 to 100 with cooler conditions in the evening.
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Detroit
U.P
Lower Michigan
Dake Michigan
Hi’ LO
Alpenassissiers
Chicago
Is.eies
Detroits
Sersee
Dultth
Escanaba
Grand Rapids
Ludington
All American air derby moves to Ogden Utah
Los Angeles to Ogden Utah serves as the next leg of the All American air derby on the trans continental tour. Lieut Lee Gehlbach led the field with an 8 01 a m Pacific departure followed by Herman Hamer and Lowell Bayless in sequence.
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Los Angeles
Calif
U.P
Fliers
Ogden
Utah
Lee Gehlbach
Gehlbach
Herman Hamer
LaSalle
Ill
Hamer
Lowell ‘Bayless
Cleveland
British Zepp Starts Hop to Montreal
The airship R-100 crossed the Atlantic toward Canada in rain and cloud as darkness fell. At 1 p.m. S.T. the craft reported a position of 54 N 16.20 W to the air ministry.
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Zep
Montreal
London
U.P
Atlantic Ocean
Canada
British R-100 Airdship Launch Marks Empire Link
The R-100 dirigible left Cardington for Montreal with 44 aboard including 7 passengers. It set course via Ireland, Greenland, and Labrador toward St Hubert Quebec, beginning Britain’s aerial communication link to the empire.
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Cardington
England
British Empire
Montreal
Canada
Ireland
Greenland
Labrador
St. Hubert
Quebec
Britain
Clare Girls in Beauty Contest at Bay City
Young ladies from Clare enter the Miss East Michigan contest at Bay City after 23 contestants. Judges Kenneth Duncan C E H Trombley and A H Alerrie were honored guests at a Barnes cafe luncheon before the judge meeting at the Doherty hotel. Winners announced at the Princess theatre by Miss Loraine Budge of Beaverton.
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Clare
Bay City
East Michigan
Mary
Rwin
Farwell
Florence Caivis
Harrison
Hilda Long
Beaverton
Virginia Evans
Gladwin
Donna’ Carbénau
Kenneth Duncan
C. E H. Trombley
A. H. Alerrie
Barnes Cafe
Doherty Hotel
Princess Theatre
Loraine Budge
Fifteen Drown When Dredge Sinks on Lake Erie
Fifteen crew members and one woman perish when the sand dredge George J Whalen sinks west of Dunkirk New York after cargo shifts Survivors say lake was calm until a daybreak windstorm Then the turning hull dumped crew overboard Bodies of the dead include W T Wage Captain Matt Emline Arthur Willets Carl Abeechele Ralph Weiss Ned Detar W P Longnecker Arthur Zack Thomas Pierce Joseph Stalley William Meusseler Kelly Brook and two men known only as Ed and Charles with his wife.
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Erie
U.P
Syhen
George
J. Whalen
Dunkirk
N. Y
W. H. Neil
W.T. Wage
George J. Whalen
Marshall’ Emline
Arthur Walters
Wage
Cleveland
Emline
Walters
Sandusky
Charles
W. T. Wage
Matt Emline
Arthur Willets
Carl Abeechele
Ralph ‘Weiss
Ned Detar
Bay City
Mich
W. P. Longnecker
Huron
Ohio
Arthur Zack
Thomas Pierce
Joseph Stalley
William Meusseler
Kelly Brook
Federal agents crack five international narcotic rings
Treasury officials announced the breakup of five international narcotic rings and the arrest of 20 leaders. The operation, two months in scope, involved imports of morphine and heroin from Turkey into New York and shipments across the East, with shipments valued at millions. Ring heads included Tony Laptino of Long Island and “Boss” Vessassé of Norfolk, among others, with arrests in Washington and New York.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Turkey
New York
Treasury
Tony Laptino
Long Island
Tony
East
Harry J. Ansbriger
Narcotic Bureau
Norfolk
Vessassé
Anslinger
Sam Ferera
J. F. Swinford
J. A. Kincaid
Swinford
Pacific Coast
L. J. Williams
Frankie Fields
Wilming
Dynamiting Breaks Pure Oil Pipe Junction Near Oil City
A Pure Oil company junction north of Oil City was dynamited early Monday, damaging the line and wasting oil. Authorities and company officials discuss a powder blast, with the junction at a two and three inch pipe joining in the Sias district. Police investigation not yet confirmed.
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Pure Oil Company
Oil City
Sias
DeLong to Aid State in Kidnaping Cases
Detroit man Stanley DeLong pleaded guilty and will aid the state in upcoming trials of former partners Harry Hallisey and Ben Rubenstein, tied to the two year old kidnapping of Reuben J. Cohen, a wealthy merchant whose wife paid $7,990 for his release.
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Detroit
Stanley DeLong
Harry Hallisey
Ben Rubenstein
DeLong
Hallisey
Rubenstein
Reuben J. Cohen
Cohen
Bank Robbers Lock Cashier In Vault Stole Eight Thousand
Two armed men forced cashier William Niergarth and clerk William Studt into the bank vault at Monmorency County Savings Bank Hillman Michigan and escaped with 8000 dollars and bonds. Victims nearly suffocated. vault opened with help of Kathleen Bushey. Car abandoned southeast of Hillman. authorities alerted.
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Hillman
Mich
U.R
William F. Niergarth
Monmorency County Savings Bank
William Studt
Niergarth
Studt
Kathleen Bushey
Ford
Coupe
Avitnesses
Alpena
Michigan
Tof Hillnjan
Governor Tobey Details Aiding Punishments At State School
Governor Charles W Tobey charged that girls at the Manchester state industrial school were subjected to brutal punishments during Emersons tenure including 100 to 250 lashes with rubber hoses the water cure and the dungeon treatment The governor said girls stood under a cold shower while hoses hit their naked bodies and were confined for up to two weeks in dark shed like dungeons with minimal furnishings.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Charles W. Tobey
State Industrial School
Manchester
Tobey
Charles S. Emerson
Milford
Emerson
Governor candidate to speak at courthouse lawn in Mt Pleasant
Republican Attorney General Wilber M. Brucker will address a Mt Pleasant crowd at 8 30 p m on the courthouse lawn after arriving from Harrison. A 7 30 p m Republican gathering at Park Hotel precedes the talk with Isabella county leaders. Brucker tours central Michigan as Green and Groesbeck and Jeffries remain in the gubernatorial field.
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Wilber. M. Brucker
Court House
Brucker
Mt. Pleasant
Harrison
Court ‘House
Republican Committee
Grand Rapids
Pleasant
Remus
Michigan
Toward Teacher Retirement Gains Ground Says Holland Official
Supt. EB E Fell of Holland notes a rising trend in retirement legislation over the past years. He cites growing interest in the Teachers' Retirement Fund and explains how funds are organized into free, district, and state systems across states.
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Holland
Central - State Teachers College
Taechers
Pu Fse
Idnstead
Gas pipeline plan eyed for Mt Pleasant field
Public Utilities Commission heard Michigan Natural Gas Corporation proposals to gather and pool gas from the Mt Pleasant field and link to the city. The line would run from Broomfield to Mt Pleasant limits and marketed locally by Consumers Power. Incorporators include A E Butterfield Virgil W McClintic and Bliss Keeler.
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Lansing
Public Utilities ‘Commission
Michigan Natural Gas Corporation
Beanie
Ave
Broomfield
Public Utilities Commission
Galssers
Mt. Pleasant
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