Drastic reform urged in state election laws in Michigan
Lansing March 20. The house elections committee and state department officials urged immediate reforms to Michigan election laws after findings of ballot mishandling in Mecosta Newaygo and Oceana counties. They cited unsealed or improperly wrapped ballots and limited recount remedies. Proposals include inspector training penalties and a recount board discretion to count mishandled ballots.
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Lansing
Mar
WRI
Michigan
House Elections Committee
Department of State
Clark Brown
Department of State Compilation Division
Kit FP
Clardy
Mecosta
Newaygo
Oceana
Judge Barton
Earl C. Pugsley
Barton
Pugsley
Brown
Mecosta County
Girls should not wed before age twenty, states doctor
Boston report quotes Dr. Augusta F Bronner of the Judge Baker Foundation warning that girls under twenty lack emotional stability. She says delaying marriage helps prevent future parental and offspring difficulties and promotes better adult self control.
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Boston
Mar
U.P
Augusta F. Bronner
Judge Baker Foundation
Sticks To Wheel Of Flaming Oil Truck
Dave Carson, driver of an oil truck, stayed at the wheel as flames broke out in Nyack. He drove the vehicle toward the town outskirts to avoid danger while firemen fought the blaze. The truck carried 2000 gallons of gasoline and did not explode. Sparks from overheated brake bands likely caused the fire. Carson was unharmed.
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Nyack
N.Y
Mar
Dave Carson
Caime
Carson
Missing Detroit movie man investigated after disappearance
Max Siegel, Detroit movie owner and loan office proprietor, vanished after leaving his Atkinson Avenue home to go to a garage. His son found the car running with Siegel missing. a nearby watchman reported a taxi speeding from the alley near the time of disappearance.
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Detroit
Mar
U.P
Max Siegel
Siegel
Atkinson Avenue
Daniel
Early thaw frees Thunder Bay ice after sudden spring break
Alpena reports an unusually rapid thaw of Thunder Bay this spring. Ice vanished within days after a hard freeze, with fishing boats already operating by Tuesday as water levels fluctuated and churning currents carried warmer water to the surface.
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Alpena
Thunder Bay
Lake Huron
Frank Jermin
Auction Sale Schedule For March Near Mt Pleasant Remus and Rosebush
A series of farm auctions listed by date with sellers Mary Goffnett Mrs J W Packard Arthur J Johnston Gibson and Arthur Reid. Locations include Mt Pleasant Remus Deerfield Center Rosebush and Mt Pleagant. Sales begin between 9 00 and 1 00 o clock with cattle horses hogs sheep implements and feed on offer.
Auction at residence near Clare sale of livestock and implements
Friday March 29 per head auction at Owens residence three miles south four miles west and one mile south of Clare or two miles east of Wood's store. A list includes four horses 15 head of cattle and various implements. Sale starts at 12:30. Davis and McCall auctioneers Bert McGuire clerk. Sale list to appear in a later issue.
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Mary Goffnett
Herman Kalburg
Mt. Pleasant
Davis & McCall
Willis Genuine
Amarch
J. W. Packard
Remus
Deerfield Center
Woodruff
Arthur J. Johnston
Rosebush
S. C. Forney
Roy B. Matteson
Marcis
Owens
Clare
Wood
Bert. McGuire
Frozen Danube Sparks Hungarian King Prophecy
Budapest reports an old Hungarian legend revived as the Danube freezes from bank to bank during February and early March. The prophecy claims a king is chosen when the river locks, a belief echoed by monarchists supporting Prince Otto and by nostalgia for King Matthias.
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Budapest
Mar
U.P
Hungary
Danube
Otto
Mathias of the
Hunan Province Bans Coeducation In Schools
The Chinese province of Hunan orders all schools to abandon teaching girls and boys together after testing coeducation. The provincial commissioner’s document states co-education does not work.
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Peping
Hunan
Roundup of Communist Leaders in Bombay and India
A large raid across Bombay and other strategic areas in India led to the closure of several cotton mills for a day. Eight Communist leaders were arrested with more to follow, as raids targeted homes railroad union offices and party plants under conspiracy statutes.
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Bombay
India
U.P
Senate bill nearly spoils Thanksgiving feast
In Lansing on March 20 the senate faced a near disaster when a bank holiday bill dropped the letters oe from feast ing, a misprint that could have affected the Thanksgiving menu, thanks to Senate Senator Person's alertness.
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Lansing
Mar
U.P
Senate
Capone Appears For Quizzing In Chicago Today
Capone the Chicago beer racketeer appeared at 10 a m to testify before a federal grand jury investigating beer running. He was escorted by attorneys and trailed by armed guards as police watched for possible reprisals linked to the Morin massacre.
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Chicago
Mar
Scarface
Capone
LO A. m
Florida
United States District Attorney’s Office
Jearler
Chicago Heights
Cicero
Daniel Anderson
Federal
United States Attorney General’s Office
Avas
Fez Armies Prepare Move Against Insurgents
Fez Morocco reports three infantry squadrons with cavalry machine guns and airplanes, supported by a battalion, are ready to move against insurgents within the next 100 days as disclosed today.
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Fez
Morocco
Hospital Board Seeks More Facilities For State Hospitals
Traverse City March 20 WP The state hospital commission urged no more admissions at Pontiac Kalkaska Newberry and Traverse City hospitals until expanded facilities are funded by the legislature. The panel asked superintendents to admit only fill vacancies caused by death parole or discharge and to require probate judges to verify available accommodations first. Chairman Harry Musselwhite said the system is stretched and funding is needed for an expansion program.
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Traverse City
State Hospital Commission
Pontiac
Harry Musselwhite
Manistee
Refugees Return as Floodwaters Recede in Deep South
Receding floods in the southeast foster a refugee redeployment. Thousands remain at improvised camps awaiting sanitation work as naval rescue planes from Pensacola drop food packets to stranded groups in isolated towns.
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Montgomery
Alu
Pensacola
Seventeen Die in Canadian National Train Collision
Seventeen people killed and five injured in a head on crash between two Canadian National passenger trains near Drocourt Ontario. Most victims were trapped and burned in a car that caught fire. Fire crews and emergency teams rushed from Toronto Sudbury and Parry Sound to the scene.
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Toronto
Ont
U.P
Canadian National
Drocourt
Parry Sound
Ovas
Sudbury
Patry Sound
Byrd Rescues Three Antarctic Expedition Members
Com. Richard E. Byrd flew to the rescue of Larry Gould Bernt Balehin and Harold Juno after their plane was crippled by a storm while attempting a height over the Rockefeller mountains. The men were found safe and well with Byrd’s party locating them after radio contact failed.
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New York
U.R
New York Times
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Richard BE
Byrd
Larry Gould
Bernt Balehin
Harold Juno
Rockefeller Mountains
Ohio newspaper man shot and wounded in Canton
Alfred Davis 20, circulation manager for the Canton Daily News, was shot and dangerously wounded today by Lloyd Hoover 21, a man he befriended. They met in a sandwich shop and Davis agreed to drive Hoover home, then Hoover drew a revolver, took his purse, and was later arrested at the Canton bus terminal.
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Canton, D
Mar
Alfred. Davis
Canton Daily News
Davis
Lloyd Soover
Marouth Davis
Hoover
Canton
Brooklyn Police Battle Prompts Bootlegger Investigation
Reports say Brooklyn officers allied with bootleggers, prompting Commissioner Whalen to start action. In the Owl's Head Tavern gun battle a mortally wounded Patrolman Daniel J. Maloney, off duty, may have been targeted as part of bootlegging wars. Suspects Charles Higgins, Paul Ecker, and Thomas Kilduff face felonious assault charges.
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New York
Brooklyn
Avith
Grover
Whalen
Owl’s Head
Daniel J. Maloney
Charles McGarty
Maloney
Kilduff
Sliggins
Owl's Head
Sergt. McGarry
McGatty
New York Ex Convict and Wife Murdered in Astoria
Samuel Sacco and his wife Rose were slain today in Astoria when gunmen broke through an iron door. Sacco, freed from Sing Sing a few months earlier after a homicide sentence, may have been targeted by others implicated in a prior slaying linked to his imprisonment. Bullet holes littered the room, suggesting a violent struggle.
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New York
U.P
Samuel Sacco
Rose
Astoria
Sacco
Sing Sing
Saccos
Ferdinand Foch Dies at 77 After World War Leadership
Marshal Ferdinand Foch supreme commander of the Allied armies in the World War dies at his home in Pajus at 5 56 p m after heart trouble and uremia. He led forces from many nations at the height of the conflict, guiding the Allied effort to victory. Born 1851 in Larbes he rose from Metz to become a key strategist and the celebrated Marshal of France.
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Allied Forces
Pajus
Ferdinand Foch
Hhad
Clemenceau
Poincare
Foch
France
Marshal Mac- Mahon
College of St
Larbes
Trance
Poch
War College
Paris
Uy Ha
Joffre
Marshal Zech
Torch
Fifth Artillery Corps
Orleans
The
Twentieth Army Corps
Nancy
Marne
von Kluck
Aisne
Flanders
Somme
Italy
England
Woodrow Wilson
Paul Painleve
Negro ax killer hunted by Gary police
Gary police sought a black ax killer who slain Josephine Adorizzi a 20 year old grocery clerk whose mutilated body was found by schoolboys near her home. Authorities reported previous women had been assaulted or threatened by a man with an ax in the area.
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Gary
Ind
Josephine Adorizzi
United States Leads In Night Air Routes Says Association
The American Air Transport Association reports the United States now flies more than 15,000 miles of airways after sundown. The result highlights a significant expansion of nighttime air travel nationwide.
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Chicago
United States
Eitopé
American Air Transport Association
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Mt. Pleagant
M. Davis & McCall
Alabama
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Ohio
GE Aller
Gary Police
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