Michigan Governor Signs Death Penalty Bill
Governor Brucker signs the death penalty into law as the major issue for the April spring election. The measure sets the death penalty for first degree murder in specific crimes with automatic Supreme Court review and a potential April ballot. The bill faces printing deadlines and county clerks receiving copies by Saturday.
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Brucker
Lansing
Mar
U.R
Senate
House
State Supreme Court
Green
Wich
Highway Department
Hoover regime reaches second anniversary in office
United Press staff correspondent notes Hoover marks second year with a split Congress and 14 vetoes recorded, overridden twice. Democrats focus on prohibition and power, while Republicans tout drought relief, unemployment aid, rail consolidation, and London naval arms pact efforts. Wagner-backed aviation funding bill stalled despite two laws.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Mar
U.P
Hoover
Congress
Norris Muscle Shoals
National Committee
Mr .Hoover
Wickersham
Drouth
Mr. Hoover
Wagner
Heavy Storms Slam East Coast From New York To Coast
A severe March storm lashes the Eastern seaboard with high seas and snow. In New York a 60 mile gale hampers ferries and sea traffic while snow falls all day and winds remain strong. Motor travel is hindered and several minor casualties are reported. A separate report from Parton Beagh notes the highest tide in 40 years washing over a resort boulevard as coastal seas threaten waterfront cottages.
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New York
Mar
U.P
New Jersey
Manhattan
Parton
Beagh, N
Coast Guards
Truce Signed Ends Indian Civil Strife After Yearlong Uprising
In New Delhi on March 4 1940 Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin signed a peace truce ending nearly a year of passive resistance against British rule. The agreement prompts nationalist participation in drafting a new Indian federal government and halts violence that damaged property and claimed lives.
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New Delhi
India
Mahatma
M. K. Gandhy
Lord Irwin
Gandhi
Registration Deadline Nears for Spring Elections
Saturday March 23 is the final day to register for spring elections. About 2500 voters are registered in the city and new residents or precinct changes should register at the city clerk's office. The spring election is April 6 with no city contests. county and state offices appear on the ballot.
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Frank Brownson
H. G. Caszatt
The
Supreme Court
University of Michigan
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Board of Education
State Board of Agriculture
Einstein Heads to Germany After U S Visit
Dr. Albert Einstein arrived in New York for the final day of his three month American visit. He was tired from travel and went to the Deutschland liner pier to rest before the ship sails at midnight for Germany. He said he was too weary for interviews and planned a day of quiet.
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New York
Mar
U.P
Albert Einstein
America
Einstein
Deutschland
Wnth
Germany
Adrian Finances Are Satisfactory
The Adrian college financial status is very satisfactory says Dr. C. L. Daugherty president of the board at the semi annual meeting in Detroit. The $120000 campus gymnasium construction, abandoned, will be resumed to finish by October. The college will end the current school year with no deficit.
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Detroit
Adrian College
C. L. Daugherty
Pittsburgh
Auction Sale at Crawford Area Farm by Lydia Bailey
Mrs. Lydia EB Bailey will sell her farm contents including two good lists of machinery and implements and an Overland car and household goods. Location described as one mile north and 1.5 miles west of Crawford, or four miles south and 1.5 miles west of College Crossine Mt Pleasant. Sale starts at 12:80. Auctioneer S C Forney. Clerk Luman Burch. See ad in Monday Daily Times.
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Lydia EB. Bailey
Crawford
College Crossine
Mt. Pleasant
S. C. Forney
Luman Burch
The
Daily Times
Push for Indian independence terms revealed in peace proposals
The proposed terms call for ending civil disobedience, restoring normal governance by the viceroy, permitting salt gathering and sale along the coast, and allowing peaceful picketing while avoiding provocation of law. They also abandon demands for investigations into alleged police excesses.
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Gandhi
Committee to probe charges of Chas Rubiner
The Michigan legislature moved to investigate statements by Assistant Attorney General Charles Rubiner. A joint committee of three senators and four representatives was approved to hear witnesses, with Rubiner likely to be called. Rubiner defended his remarks as applying to government generally not the state legislature.
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Claude J. Markle
United Press
Lansing
Mar
U.P
Senate
Herbert J. Rushton
Charles ‘Rubiner
House
Rushton
Norman B. Horton
Sen. Horton
Horton
Rubiner
Michigan
Sen
Kansas
Georgia
Legislative Committee
Fred R. Ming
John Esmer
Eagle
Charles H. Reed
Ohio
Grnude W. Cogtes
Munising
Vernon J
Rangers Begin Clean Up Drive in East Texas Oil Fields
Henderson Texas March 4 Texas rangers kept headquarters in the East Texas oil field towns as about 400 "floaters" of suspected character were arrested in two days. Captain Tom Hickman said he had only started the drive.
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Henderson
Tex
Texas’ Rangers
East Texas
Tom Hickman
State Ranger
Sebewaing Sugar Plant To Operate This Year
Bay City Mich March 4 The Sebewaing Plant of the Michigan Sugar company will be the only one of eight branches to operate this year. It has a contract for 12 000 tons of beets at 6 a ton, compared with 8 a ton last year. Field labor costs are 18 an acre this year vs 23 last year.
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Bay City
Mich
Mar
U.R
Sebewaing
Michigan Sugar Company
End of Stormy 1st Congress Marks Hoover Signing Day
Congress ends its stormy session at noon as the 1st Congress adjourns. President Hoover sits with his cabinet signing last minute bills in the Capitol, with Attorney General Mitchell ruling on signing timing.
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Washington
Mar
U.P
House
Senate
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Hoover
Mitchell
White House
Akeote
Congress
Halliburton crews cap giant eastern gas well in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvan ia reports a No 1 Meaker gasser in Tioga county flowing 70 to 99 million cubic feet daily. Halliburton experts use high pressure cementing to cap the high‑pressure well, with trucks from Mt Pleasant aiding and a prior 600 mile cap completed. The 75 million cu ft daily gasser is billed as the largest east of the Mississippi.
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Penn State Gasser
Tioga County
Halliburton
Mt. Pleasant
Pennsylvania
Halliburton Company
Penn State
Muskegon
Kansas City
Meaker
Mississippi Iver
Firemen to Hold Midwinter Banquet at Club Rooms
The Mt. Pleasant Fire Department plans a midwinter banquet this evening at their club rooms near the Mt. Pleasant Drug Company building. Eighteen men comprise the force and will attend with informal program to follow supper, weather permitting.
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Mt. Pleasant
MacLean Weds at Bedside of Father Keeps Honeymoon Plan
Douglas MacLean former film star and writer wed Lorraine Eddy actress at the bedside of his ailing father Reverend C C MacLean Presbyterian minister The ceremony was to coincide with his father's 58th wedding anniversary but occurred amid his illness in Hollywood Washington unveiled a Senate inquiry into unemployment insurance and Dearborn Inn Henry Ford's new hotel near the airport scheduled to open in June with management by New England executives
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Hollywood
Mar
U.P
Douglas MacLean
Lorraine Eddy
MacLean
Fordson
Mich
Dearborn Inn
Henry Ford
New England
Greenfield Village
Edison Institute of Technology
Weather forecast for Lower and Upper Michigan today
Partly cloudy and cooler in eastern Lower Michigan tonight. Thursday will bring increasing clouds and light northerly winds. Upper Michigan sees partly cloudy skies and colder conditions in the east with snow in the far west tomorrow. Readings show varied temperatures across cities.
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Detroit
Mar
U.P
Lower Michigan
Upper Michigan
Daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson Weds Liner Purser
Roberta Semple McPherson, 20, daughter of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, married William Bradley Smith, 28, purser on the liner President Wilson, in Singapore Wesley Church during a world tour. The couple met in San Francisco and engaged in Shanghai. honeymoon aboard the President Wilson en route to Capri. Countess Thyra Holmblad of Denmark was matron of honor.
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Singapore
Roberta Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson
Wesley Church
William Bradley Smith
President Wilson
Novel drilling rig unveiled in Michigan tests
A strikingly compact drilling rig built by Frank Layman, shown at 315 Pickard and Lansing in Michigan, claims equal speed to Marshall wells with cores preserved for geological study. The four way unit supports rotary and jet drilling with a triplex mud pump and weighs about 9500 pounds. It has drilled several Marshall wells in Osceola county and aims to cut costs by easy site shifts and lighter structure.
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Michigan
Frank Ayman
J. A. Cree
Pickard
Lansing
Layman
Marshall
Dundeg
Institutes for three grades to be March 7
The county plans institutes for third, seventh and eighth grades on March 7 at five schools Shephard Oberlin Deerfield Center Weidman and Seaton. Teachers will lead lectures and oral quizzes and administer written tests to about 600 rural and village students.
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H.G. Cassatt
Shepherd
Oberlin School
Holland Township
Deerfield Center
Weidman and
Seaton
Michigan Adopts Four New Seats as Apportionment Moves On
Lansing March 4 Apportionment under the 1930 census becomes final with four additional Michigan representatives. The House proposes 17 districts replacing 18 while Sen. Ernest Conlon leads a committee to study redistricting and Sen. Fred Harding refines a Detroit based plan. Rep. Frank P. Darin of River Rouge suggests Wayne County gains five districts with Monroe joined in a sixth.
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Lansing
Mar
URI
Reis
Hae National Congress
Michigan
Paul W. Voorhies
Frank P. Darin
River Rouge
Wayne County
Monroe County
Wayne
Ernest T. Conlon
Grand Rapids
Fred Harding
Detroit
Winners announced in Boys and Girls Club day exhibit contest
The Boys and Girls Club day exhibit contest at Central State Teachers College on March 2 drew about 800 county children. H. C. Caszatt announced prize winners, with Hoag No 1 Lincoln earning top school honors and Ethel Pierpont as teacher. Prizes totaled about $100 across 95 contestants, and attendance set a record.
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Central State Teachers College
H. C. Caszatt
Hoag
Lincoln Township
Ethel Pierpont
Ano
Lincoln
Ethel, Pierpont
Morn Abe
Deerfield Center
Deerfield
Jessie Haight i
Rosebush
Isabella
Gertrude Stickle
Onnu
Ka Scheghs
Wane Tse Guahetischia
Jessie Haight
Taylor
Cscs
Mary Wamie
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