Sinclair gift not shown on GOP records in 1920s
Washington reports the Senate Teapot Dome panel heard that Harry F. Sinclair donated 160000 in Liberty bonds not appearing on Republican National Committee ledgers. Only 2000 plus 1000 listed, with 25000 of bonds routed to cash, and 50000 from John T. Pratt unlisted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.R
Harry F. Sinclair
Republican National Committee
William V. Hedges
Senate
Will H. Hays
National Committee
Hodges
Sinclaiy
Hays
John T. Pratt
Wright Memorial Bridge to Honor Ammi Wright in Alma
Alma officials accept Mrs. Sarah H. Lancashire's offer to fund a $40,000 memorial bridge over Pine River on Superior Street near U S 27 and M 46. In cooperation with the state highway department the city will widen approaches to the bridge, which will pass over the two trunk lines. Construction is planned for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma
Sarah H. Lancashire
New York
Ammi W. Wright
Pine River
Superior Street
State Highway Department
Mussolini Promises US Visit During Drug Conference
Benito Mussolini says he will visit the United States this year if the World Anti Narcotic Conference in New York continues in the spring. He made the pledge during coverage of the international conference on fighting drug traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
United States
New York
U.P
Benito Mussolini
Postponed Auction Listings For March Farm Sales
Auction notices announce two farm sales in Michigan regions. On Monday March 12 Jes Corcoran plans to auctions at his Mt Pleasant area residence with livestock and implements, sale starts 12 30. Dav is and McCall are auctioneers. The sale list appears in Times on March 8. On Wednesday March 14 Jesse Burgess sells at his Farwell area residence with horses cattle hogs at noon. Davis and McCall preside with Wm Schauppner as clerk. see March 10 issue for list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corcoran
Mt. Pleasant
Salt River
Davis and McCall
Jesse Burgess
Farwell
Woods’ Store
Weidman
Auction at Wm D Conway residence on US-27 North
On Thursday March 15 Wm D Conway will auction a mixed livestock and farm implements sale at his home four miles north on US-27 and one mile east on the Joe Roy farm. The sale begins at 12 30 with Davis and McCall as auctioneers and Homer Campbell as clerk. See idle list in issue of March 12.
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D. Conway
Joe Roy
Sile
Davis and McCall
Homer Campbell
Auction notice at Winn Riverdale sale of horses and goods
Tuesday March 18 George McGregor will sell at his residence two miles south and three miles east of Winn or six and a half miles north and one and a half miles west of Riverdale. The sale lists horses implements feed and other items. Idle commences at 1 00. Auctioneers Davis and McCall. Clerk Paul Binkley. See sale list in issue of March 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McGregor
Winn
Riverdale
Davis and McCall
Paul Binkley
Federal Veterinarian Assisting In Tuberculin Tests
Dr M G Kremen, a federal veterinarian, arrived to aid Dr J W High in testing Isabella county dairy herds for tuberculosis. He is assigned to Vernon township and nearby areas in Isabella.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. G. Kremen
J. W. High
Isabella County
Dr. Kremen
Vernon Township
Isabella
Justice Holmes Celebrates 87th Birthday Quietly
Oliver Wendell Holmes, longtime Supreme Court associate justice and Civil War veteran, marked his 87th birthday in Washington with no special observance. His career spans over 25 years on the high court and more than four decades in major judicial roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
U.R
Oliver Wendell Holmes
United States
Justice Holmes
United States Supreme Court
Indiana Law Allows Malt Sale Under Narrow Exception
Indiana's strict prohibition law cannot bar malt extract sales unless proof shows seller knew it would be used for beverage purposes. The Indiana Supreme Court reversed Morris Bernstein's conviction for selling malt extract, noting the product sold to prohibition agents was not used or sold for beverage making but for evidence.
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Indianapolis
U.P
Indiana
United States
Indiana Supreme Court
Morris Bernstein
Miss Boll Plans Ocean Flight to Paris from New York
Miss Mary Boll known as queen of diamonds told a United Press reporter in Havana that she intends to attempt a New York to Paris airplane flight in the spring likely April. She plans to use a Ford plane and will begin preparations after reaching New York. She did not name a companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
U.R
Mary Boll
Queen -of- Diamonds
United
Settlement in Sight on Telephone Case Michigan
Michigan Attorney General Wilbur M. Brucker said settlement in the dispute with Michigan Bell hinges on an acceptable proposal. Talks with city officials and the Michigan League of Municipalities discussed a possible rate cut that could add about 1 million dollars in annual revenue for the company but shift a similar burden to outstate cities. Detroit returns eight percent while outstate cities show a deficit of 900000 on seven percent.
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Lansing
Mich
U.P
of Michigan
Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Wilbur M. Brucker
Michigan League of Municipalities
Brucker
Michigan Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
G. Welsh
Detroit
A&P Store Reopens Meat Market After Remodel
Work crews at the A P store on South Main street remodel and install a modern meat market. Management announces a big opening sale event planned for Saturday in this issue of the Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Main Street
Times
Green tackles Michigan insane asylum shortage plan
Governor Fred W. Green admitted Michigan faces a severe shortage of hospital beds for the insane. He said the problem has grown over years, with facilities not keeping pace with population growth. He noted no funds exist for extensions and proposed possibly issuing bonds, perhaps via a referendum, to obtain needed capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Mich
U.P
Fred W. Green
Green
Business Men's Club Postpones Tonight Meeting
There will be no meeting of the business men's athletic club tonight at the high school gymnasium due to the tournament. Next week the club will meet on Tuesday and Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business Men’s Athletic Club
Scholastic Meet Set for May 18 at Central State Mt Pleasant
The third annual scholastic contest for Michigan high schools will be held Friday May 18 at Central State Teachers College Mt Pleasant. The event will use the new Administration Building and includes two divisions academic and vocational with tests in agriculture algebra biology chemistry civics English French geometry history languages and more. Schools are classified by size with badges and trophies awarded for top placers and the contest aims to motivate scholarship and interest in both scholastic and athletic fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Central State Teachers College
Mt. Pleasant
Central
Indictment Warrants Stewart in Chicago Affair
A warrant was issued in Chicago for Robert W. Stewart, chairman of Standard Oil Co of Indiana, after a District of Columbia Supreme Court indictment for contempt of the senate. U R report notes the U S marshal's office prepared the warrant and notified Stewart by telephone. he was expected to appear today to post bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.R
Senate
District of Columbian
Five Patents Granted on Fuelless Motor Inventions
Five U S patents issued cover inventions attributed to Lester J Hendershot of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The devices claim power from electricity drawn from air or earth and operate without fuel. Patent officials doubt commercial value and practicality of the five creations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lester J. ‘Hendershot
Pittsburgh Penn
United States Patent Office
United Pressman
Patent Office
Mellon Concerns in Coal Investigation Rise
Washington March 8 The Pittsburg Coal Company with Mellon family links becomes the focus of a Senate coal investigation. C G E Lesher vice president was subpoenaed after United Mine Workers requested it and before J L Lewis of the UMW completed testimony. Lewis charged the company with abrogating its 1924 miners contract to improve Mellon dominance on the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Pittsburzh Coal Company
Mellon
Senate
CG. E. Lesher
United Mine Workers
Senate Interstate. Com
Merce Committee
Jl Lis
Lewis
United
RB. Mellon
Attorney General Rules Townships Pave Covert Road Taxes
Lansing Mich March 8 Townships must pay the full Covert road tax assessed against the township at large to counties. They are not obliged to pass the full amount to the county on levies against benefitting property owners if those assessments are delinquent. The ruling was issued by the attorney general Wednesday at the request of N F Dengler Saginaw county treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Mich
N. F. Dengler
Saginaw
May Postpone Flight to Planet Venus
Miami Beach, March 8. Robert Condit considers delaying his flight to Venus due to congested meteoric streams and low capital. He plans to decide Friday, noting backers have not provided further funds and he may wait until August if funds do not arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
Fla
U.R
Tlus
Robert Condit
Venus
Condit
Lady Bailey Plans 8000 Mile London Cape Town Flight
Lady Bailey, hailed as the champion woman aviator, announced a London to Cape Town flight next Wednesday. The 8000 mile journey aims to set a long distance record for women aviators and she is married to a South African millionaire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Lady Bailey
Cape Town
South Africa
Italian poet defies pope on heresy charge in letter
Gabriele dAnnunzio replies to a papal indirect attack by defending writers against clerical persecution. He says many thinkers have suffered before receiving high honors, and frames his defiant stance as aligned with Mussolini’s frank Vatican policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brescia
Italy
Gabriele dAnnunzio
Tomasco’ Bonicelli
D'Annunzio
d’Annunzio
Psychology students visit Lansing school
The class in clinical psychology under Dr. E. C. Rowe plans a field trip to the state boys vocational school at Lansing on Friday. This first inspection visit follows similar trips by mental and sex hygiene and individual psychology classes to Traverse City and Lapeer each term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Rowe
State Boys Vocational School
Lansing
Trav‘vse City
Lapeer
Wrangler Club To Debate Here
Notre Dame University's Wranglers Club will debate Central College's team on March 17 in the Training School auditorium on condemning United States policy toward Latin American industries. A McMurry College two man team from Abilene will debate Central's affirmative team March 19 with similar timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wranglers Club
Notre Dame University
Central
United States
Wranglers Club ‘of Notre Dame
McMurry College of Abilen
Texas
Herbert L Willett Named Winter Graduation Speaker
Commencement for winter term graduates will be Thursday March 9 at 9 a.m. Herbert L Willett of the University of Chicago will deliver the address titled The Youth of the Twentieth Century. Classes run until noon Friday March 23, with vacation to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert L. Willett
University of Chicago
Oil Derrick Nearing Completion East of Mt Pleasant
The Pure Oil Company derrick east of Mt Pleasant nears completion and will be ready to drill deeper into the Dundee sand by early next week. Oil flow into storage tanks averages about 82 barrels daily as the current hole has only penetrated a foot. Preparations begin for a second well 600 feet north of the present site on the adjoining farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pure Oil Company
Mt. Pleasant i
Dundee
Pure’ Oil Company
Gilliam Announces Prohibitionist Indiana Senate Bid
Indiana attorney general Arthur L. Gilliam announced his candidacy for the Republican senatorial nomination on a platform of prohibition without fanaticism and hypocrisy and Americanism without Klanism. He disputes with the Anti-Saloon League and is taking depositions for a suit to oust the Klan from Indiana, running against Senator Arthur L. Robinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
U.P
Arthur L. Gilliam
Indiana
Hickman Trial To Reach Jury Tonight
Los Angeles March 8 The trial of William Edward Hickman and Welby Hunt for Ivy Thoms murder was expected to reach the jury tonight with closing arguments by both sides. Hickman is sentenced to hang April 27 for Marion Parker’s murder and may have his body sent to the Mayo Clinic for insanity proof if he is executed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
U.P
William Edward Hickman
Welby Hunt
Ivy Thoms
Hickman
Marion Parker
Mayo Brothers Clinic
Rochester
Minnesota
Democrats Seek Senate Candidate After Ferris Announces Exit
Detroit March 8 U P Senator Wood bridge N Ferris states he will not run again due to hostility to Gov Alfred E Smiths presidential candidacy Prominent out state Democrats Edward Frensdorf Kim Sigler John Miner George D Jackson Alva S Cummings William A Comstock Alfred Lucking speculated as potential successors Comstock insists Ferris intolerant on wet dry issue while Ferris backs Walsh for party standard bearer Party leaders plan a series of luncheons and banquets April 13 to define Jeffersonian Democracy in county conventions and steer campaign on broad Democrat Republican differences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
U.P
Woodbridge N. Ferris
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Edward Frensdorf
Hudson
Kim Sigler
Hastings
John Miner
Jackson
George D. Jackson
Bay City
Alva S. Cummings
Lansing
William A. Comstock
Alfred Lucking
Comstock
Ferris
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Smith
Baseball Practice To Start At Once At Central State
Central State announces immediate start of regular baseball practice under Coach Dutch Lodewyk. Indoor sessions will continue until spring weather allows outdoor workouts. Battery men have trained two weeks to loosen throwing muscles, and candidates should contact the coaching staff in the gym office. Many players return from last year with brighter prospects as spring term begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central State
Dutch” Lodewyk
Chicago Businessmen Plan Art Exhibition Dispatch
Chicago business men take up art and plan an exhibition as a dispatch notes. They probably figure that art is long and in Chicago life is fleeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Endurance Flight Attempt by Halderiann and Stinson
Halderiann and Stinson launch an endurance flight from Lake St. Clair aiming to reclaim the air record. The monoplane carries 550 gallons of fuel and 20 gallons of oil, with a barograph sealed for official recognition. They hope a long distance flight may follow if weather cooperates, while maintaining the prior two day plus effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Clemens
Mich
Lake St. Clair
E. I. Stinson
George Haldemann
Ruth Elder
Atlantic
Azores
Grace‘uly
Ray Cooper
Detroit
National Aeronautic Association
Stinson
3 Air
Tinson
Haldemann
Sas
Jess
New Farm Relief Bill Reported Favorably by Senate Committee
Washington March 8 The new McNary Haugen farm relief bill was favorably reported today by the Senate Agricultural Committee. It replaces the equalization fee with a loan system and aims to meet President Coolidge's objections from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McNary-Haugen Farm Relief
Coolidge
Senate Agricultural Committee
Sandino Reported Well Equipped Army Not Bandits
General Augusto Sandino of Nicaragua is described as leading a well equipped army rather than a band of bandits by Major M. Fr Thatcher of the Marine Corps upon his return from a tour of inspection in Nicaragua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.R
Augrstino Sandino
M. Fr. Thatcher
Marine Corps
Nicaragua
Mt. Pleasant Man Is Taken On Liquor Charge
Vincent Hayek of Mt. Pleasant was arrested Wednesday and arraigned in Justice Wardrop's court on illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. He was released on $1,000 cash bond and bound over for circuit court trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Pleasant
Vincent Hayek
M.S. Wardrop
Hayek
Bowling Results and Winners on Wednesday
Wednesday bowling results show Senators beating Nationals in a 2 of 3 set with 200s from Schmidt and others. Cubs defeated Pirates with totals around 2380 and scores including Fiz.nz 218 and Wileay 200.
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Senators
Nationals
Tota
Schmidt
Cubs
Pirates
Stesignt
Fiz.nz
Wileay
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Miss Boll
A—P
Business Men’s Club
Scholastic Meet
Blanché Beasant
University
Oper
Stewart
Attorney-General
Wrangler Club
DEMS
U.S. Senate
Halderiann
Germany
NEW Farm Relief
BILL
Sandino
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