British Claim to South Polar Regions Sparks Quiet Clash
Washington dispatch notes that British sovereignty claims to Antarctic areas prompted a clash with American positions. The State Department drafted a repudiation after a British note in 1928, but Cotton’s 1929 reply dodged sovereignty while signaling the issue remains open for future U.S. action.
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Lyle GC. Wilson
Washington
Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
State Department
South Polar
Department
Renly
United States
Cotton
Byrd
Ack of a nickel causes $1 000 loss headline style
Fire at the Pi Kapne Alpha maternity house on the University of Michigan campus left property damage after a freshman failed to call for help due to lacking a nickel for the payphone. A friend across the street lent him a nickel, but the delay proved costly as flames spread before responders arrived.
Benton Harbor Pilot Killed In Midair Wing Failure
St Joseph Michigan March 15 Albert Jacob twenty four Benton Harbor was killed today when a wing crumbled in mid air causing a 500 foot fall to the ground The crash occurred about three miles north of Benton Harbor and the plane struck the Van Camp farm Jacob was dead on removal from the wreckage He had flown two years and had a prior narrow escape when his motor stalled over Benton Harbor clipping a telephone pole outlining a forced landing near the city Ann Arbor Michigan March 16 University of Michigan suspended two hundred sixty two students for unable to meet literary college requirements Most are freshmen and they cannot reenter until next fall.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Albert Jacob
Benton Harbor
van Camp Farm
Jacob
Ann Arbor
Mar
The
University of Michigan
Astronomers Announce Discovery of Distant Planet X
Cambridge scientists report a ninth planet beyond Neptune, located in the distant solar system. The world is estimated to lie about 3.72 billion miles away with an orbit of roughly 889 Earth years, and a diameter between 8 000 and 30 000 miles.
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Cambridge
Mass
Science
Flagstaff
Ariz
Percivyal Lowell
Neptune
Harvard
Methuselah
Earth
Natune
Jules Vernes
Trunk decoy used to nab dope plotter in New York
A trunk decoy loaded with heroin and morphine worth about 100000 was left on a New York pier to trap smugglers. John Bell alias Johny Bloom traveled on the Ile de France and Berengaria before being arrested abroad and facing passport falsification charges. Charles Wimmer was held on bail after posing as an agent and seizing a trunk. The case, led by United Attorney Tuttle, may implicate a wide international narcotics ring.
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United Press
New York
England
John Bell
Ile de France
Bell
Charles Wimmer
Johny Bloom
Southampton
United
Tuttle
Bloom
Michigan Convict Novak Held In Florida Prison
Frank Novak, who escaped Ionia Reformitory in 1928, has been sentenced to 20 years in Florida state prison for assault with intent to kill. He had previously been jailed for a 1926 Augusta Bank robbery in Kalamazoo County and confessed to a Battle Creek grocery store hold up. During his escape he allegedly stole four cars and wounded a police officer in an attempted robbery.
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United Press
Lansing
Frank Novak
Ionia Reformatory
Florida State
Arthur’ C. ‘Wood
Novak
Augusta State Bank
Kalamazoo County
Stamp One
Battle Creek
Ionia
Civil War veteran and physician Dr Arehd Van Derveen dies
Grand Haven Michigan March 15 Dr Arehd Van Derveen 90 a Civil War veteran and physician in the city for 65 years died at his home last night. He served as a medical officer during the war and maintained a long practice here.
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Grand
Haven, Mich
Mar
Arehd van Derveen
Three Detroit Firemen Hurt Saving Roof Rescue
Three Detroit firefighters were seriously injured while rescuing teammates from a roof as a five story blaze gutted a candy plant garage and radio store. Pfaff Burton and McGrath were among the injured during the 2 PM fire with $750000 in losses and eight total injuries reported.
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United Press
Detroit
Louis Pfaff
Laverne Burton
James McGrath
Pfaff
Weer
American
Globe Panel Company
Divorce suit filed by Jackson bootlegger against wife
Jackson, Mich march 15 Jasper H Lusk a local bootlegger filed for divorce in circuit court alleging his wife Mary pilfered all his money and property while he served a year for liquor law violations. He says his wife left him destitute.
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Jackson
Mary
Jasper H. Lusk
Business conditions show slight improvement with easier money
United States business conditions are improving slowly as money becomes easier. Rates have fallen to four year lows and credit is being pumped into markets. Large finance and steel sectors prepare for spring expansion, with Bethlehem Steel moving to absorb Youngstown Sheet and Tube and US Steel reporting higher February unfilled orders.
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Richard L. Gridley
United Press Financial
New York
United States
Federal Reserve
Eask
Hoover
Cleveland
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Cor
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
United States Steel Corporttion
Convict Plot Reported at Auburn Prison
A secret convict society has formed in Auburn prison since the December riot. The group, said to include about 100 long term inmates, allegedly aims to kill officials on a blacklist that reportedly includes Warden John L. Hoffman and keeper John M. Beckwith. Evidence in the Mortelito case is set for grand jury review.
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United Press
Auburn
N. J
Mutual Welfare League
John L. Hoffman
Hoffman
John M. Berkwith
Anthony Mortelioto
Cayuga County Grand Jury
Mortelito
Beckwith
Atorney
James M. Hosmer
Hosmer
Hoover May Be Forced to Shift Dry Law Stance
Washington report quotes Leo R. Sack predicting growing pressure to liberalize the 18th amendment and Volstead Act. Sack says Hoover’s hardline dry policy could face shifts by 1932 as enforcement discontent grows and anti prohibition sentiment spreads in Congressional districts.
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Hoover
United Press
Washington
Leo R. Sack
Scripps-Howard
City Club
Sack
al Smith
Weather forecast for lower Michigan including Detroit
Detroit forecast warns of rain or snow in the north beginning tonight with increasing clouds in the south. Southeast to south winds will be gentle to locally fresh as temperatures rise slowly.
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United Press
Detroit
Lower
Michigan
North
Notrion
South Portion
Astronomical agriculture and natural laws in farming system
Local farmers Ernest C. and Frank J. Schaffer report a farming system based on a proposed link between planetary cycles, weather and vegetation. They argue astronomical laws are fixed while natural laws can be disturbed by outside interference, with claims of practical experiments and public inquiries.
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Daily Times
Ernest C
Frank J. Schaffer
Earth
Canadians May Ban Export of Liquor
United Press Ottawa March 15 The bill to prohibit liquor exports to the United States passed its second reading unanimously and heads to the Senate after debate. Premier King warned MPs that failure would endanger Canada external affairs, while opposition leader Bennett criticized the session as pressured and questioned the measure’s principle.
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Ottawa
Ont
United States
MacKenzie King
House of Commons
Senate
King
House
Lord Curzon
Canada
R.P. Bennett
Man Offers Self as Slave to Pay Debts in Pittsburgh
A Pittsburgh man who signed as "Hungry Old Boy" wrote to the Pittsburgh Press proposing to sell himself as a slave or as a medical research subject to settle debts before dying. He said hunger was driving him to despair and he wanted to sell his body to a hospital for research due to illness.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Press
Soviets Order Violence Ban
The Communist party ordered immediate cessation of violence and official oppression against peasants amid anti atheistic and collectivization drives. It calls for restitution of confiscated property, reopening illegally closed churches, and punishing officials who use terrorism. The central committee admits brutality and vows peasants must counter collective associations only after demanding them.
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Moscow
Communist Party
U S Japan Pact On Navy Size Is Announced
London reports terms of an agreement between Japan and America would grant Japan 60 percent of the American battleship strength 70 percent of heavy cruiser tonnage and equality in submarines the accord extend to 1936 with a future conference. It also outlines cruiser tonnage limits and timing on 8 inch gun cruisers amid ongoing negotiations. Great Britain backed Japan on the 6 inch cruiser displacement issue.
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Webb Miller
London
Japan
America
United States
Light
Great Britain
Flag Passing Ceremony Signals End of an Era for Local G A R
Owen Barrett Post No. 110 will host a dinner next Tuesday at the local Legion headquarters to mark the transfer of the G A R flag to Waubano Post No. 205 veterans. G A R remnants, now few in numbers, will entrust the emblem to American Legionnaires as speakers honor county G A R members and Spanish American War veterans. Post Commander M G Hunt urges attendance and requests transport names for any G A R veterans needing rides to the Legion hall.
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G. A. B. Post
American Legion
Owen Barrett
Waubano Post No
Legion
M. G. Hunt
Legion Post
Legion Hall
Bread returns with help in a roadside kindness tale
An anecdote from a Detroit county road official highlights neighborly aid. F D Fitzgerald, en route to Detroit, assists a stranded engineer manager Roy Smith of the Wayne County Road Commission, who tows the car to Novi and later to Bediford, then returns Fitzgerald to a hotel. Smith, formerly deputy state highway commissioner under Frank Rogers, is noted for his contrasted career move.
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F. D. Fitzgerald
Detroit
Roy Smith
Wayne County Road Commission
Fitzgerald
Mr. Smith
Novi
Leo Bates
Bediford
Grand River Ave
Smith
Frank Rogers
Wayne County
Rogers
Charlotte Republican
Police Seek Suspect After Muskegon Acid Attack
Muskegon Heights police hunt an unidentified woman in the acid assault on 32 year old Mrs Albert Wickerink. Neighbors describe a club with a spike found at the attack site as Detective Joslyn says the assailant aimed to blind and kill but was resisted by the victim. The attacker allegedly asked for the Wickerink house before fleeing.
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Muskegon
Mich
Albert Wickerink
Hackley Hospital
Muskegon Heights
Ev Ory
Tony Joslyn
Wickerink
Joslyn
A. Brainard
Railroad signals planned after fatal crossings in Jackson
New York Central railroad officials announced flash signals will replace watchmen at the Canson street crossing in Jackson to prevent further crashes. The crossing has seen two deadly accidents within a month, the latest yesterday when a passenger train struck a car killing Frank O'Brien, 29, and his wife Fern, 28.
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Jackson
New York Central Railroad
Canson Street
Frank O'Brien
Fern
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