Parolees Face Hard Return to Society in Michigan City Visits
Paroled convicts struggle to find aid as state police investigator Joseph Sheridan, after an eight city sweep, found welfare agencies uneven in assisting parolees. He posed as a parolee, received mixed help, and earned five jobs unaided in Pontiac and Detroit. Authority official Arthur Wood called for scrutiny of agencies.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Joseph Sheridan
Sheridan
Pontiac
Detroit
Arthur D. Wood
Wood
King’ Society
Grand Rapids
Battle Creek
Mulgeon
Jackson
Flint
Kalamazoo
Hoover May Have All 17 Votes of Washington State
Washington delegates at the Republican convention opened with strong Hoover support as 750 of 960 delegates were claimed. Some counties instructed delegates to Hoover while others showed potential for Lowden or Dawes. Democrats backed Governor Smith, affecting expectations for an instructed delegation. In Spokane, Hebberd’s influence sparked talk of an instructed Hoover delegation. A separate report notes 20 children drowned in a Kuban river boat accident.
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Yakima
Wash
United Press
Washington State
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Frank O. Lowden
Charles G. Dawes
Kansas City
Washington
Spokane
Pover
Inland Empire
Charles Hebberd
Pacific Northwest
Hebberd
Alfred. E. Smith
New York
Home Management Extension Class Plans Achievement Day
The M S CG extension class in home management hosts an achievement day with exhibits to showcase the year’s work. Event at the Methodist church parlors in Mt. Pleasant opens at 10:00 a m Friday May 11 with a 11:00 to 12:00 business meeting and roll call. luncheon after, tickets from Mrs. W J Hazelwood. Speakers include Mrs Isabel Kinch of Port Hope and Robt J Baldwin of Michigan State College.
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Methodist Church
Mt. Pleasant
Michigan State College
Yellow Fever Martyr Dies in Grand Rapids
William Dean, 50, a Grand Rapids plasterer and veteran of the 1898 Seventh U S Cavalry, died of heart disease contracted after volunteering for yellow fever experiments in Cuba during the Spanish American War. He was bitten by four mosquitoes and survived the fever test years earlier.
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Grand Rapids
William Dean
Cuba
Dean
Seventh United States Cavalry
Walter Reed
Altho
Chicago
Sever New Wells Started at Muskegon
Muskegon oil field braces for a new boom as two wells drill below 1000 feet and seven new wells start at announced locations next week. Standard Oil Indiana leases land on Pere Marquette sidetrack North Muskegon to build two 2500 barrel tanks and enhance loading facilities. Of 22 completions, 15 are producers with two large gas wells capped. 18 oil wells produce about 800 barrels daily.
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Muskegon
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Pere Marquette
North Muskegon
Canada Protests Firing On River
Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lowman sent a headquarters intelligence agent to Detroit to investigate Canadian complaints that U S officers fired across the Detroit River endangering Canadian lives. He blamed hijackers rather than prohibition officers for the incident.
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Washington
U.R
Lowman
Detroit
United States
Detroit River
Hves
Couzens Victory in Tax Decision on Ford Stock
The U S board of tax appeals ruled Senator James Couzens did not owe a 10 million tax on Ford stock profits. It set fair market value at 10 000 a share for 1913, reducing the taxable amount. The ruling also abated 9 455 804 of the jeopardy assessment and favored others holding Ford stock in 1919.
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Washington
U.S
United States Board of Tax Appeals
James Couzens
Michigan
Internal Revenue
Ford
Couzens
Internal ‘Revenue Bureau
Internal Revenue Bureau
Rover
Blair
Hoover Opens Indiana Campaign With Farm Relief Message
Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, sent a telegram to John G. Brown in Indianapolis outlining his farm relief views. He opposed McNary Hauger style price fixing or government control of farm products and urged farm bureaus be placed on the same successful basis as industrial corps.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.P
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
Indiana
John G. Brown
Farm Bureau
Hoover
Brown
Federal Farm Bureau
United States
James E. Watson
Post Office Clerks to Meet in Alma
The Michigan Branch of the National Association of Post Office Clerks will hold its annual convention in Alma on Memorial Day May 30 at the Elks Temple. Local plans include entertainment for clerks wives with visits to floral gardens King Home Michigan Masonic Home Alma College and other sites. Hundreds of postal clerks from across Michigan are expected making Alma the smallest city to host the state convention.
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Alma
Michigan
National Association, of
Post Office Clerks
Elks Temple
Chamber of Commierce
King -Home
Michigan Masonic Home
Alma College
Sousa in Autobiography Recounts 50 Years Conducting
New York May 5 United States music scene notes Sousa memoir Marching Along surveys his 60 years as conductor and the people he met. He recalls the Stars and Stripes Forever completed in 1897 and stories with kings, presidents, and entertainers.
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New York
United States
Sousa
Germany
Vienna
Paris
Edward
Bob Titzsimmons
de Wolf Hopper
Desiree
Navy
Vatalto
Horn
Washington, D. C
Marine Band
Boston
Webster Pearce to Speak at First Methodist Service
Webster H. Pearce state superintendent of public instruction and former Mt. Pleasant mayor will address the morning service at the First Methodist church here Sunday. Pearce is noted as an interesting speaker and many local friends will welcome his visit.
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Webster H. Pearce
Mt. Pleasant
Central State Teachers College
First Methodist Church
Pearce
Methodists Declare War on Cigarettes by Women
The Methodist Episcopal conference in Kansas City on May 5 began a campaign against cigarette use especially by women. A resolution condemning the manufacture sale and use of cigarets and tobacco generally was moved by Dr David Hargis of Philadelphia and sent to the temperance committee for later reintroduction.
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Ansas City
Methodist Episcopal Conference
David Hargis
Philadelphia
Committee On Temperance, Prohibition
Army air service ends three day demo in Virginia
At Langley Field Hampton Virginia the army air service closed a three day demonstration and flew to Fort Bragg North Carolina to display further ability to protect towns and troops and defend itself in the skies. Assistant Secretary Davison said that we can in all confidence look to future army air defense.
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Langley Field
Hampton
Virginia
U.R
Army Air Service
Ft. Bragg
North Carolina
Davison
Army Air Defense
17 year old farm boy confesses to seven family murders
Eldorado Kansas May 5 A 17 year old farm boy Owen Oberst confessed to police he killed seven family members and burned the home on April 20 He said anger at being denied use of the family automobile motivated the slayings He was arrested after the bodies were found and later re-arrested following a night of grilling He claimed long running quarrels with his father and little spending money led to the crime
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Eldorado
Kansas
U.P
Owen
Oberst
Here
Herbert
Edith
Labor Day Demonstrations Planned in Suburban London
Nine large demonstrations will be held in London suburbs tomorrow to celebrate Labor Day. Thousands will march to centers like Victoria Park and Blackheath, where union and Labor Party speakers will address crowds from horse drawn wagons. Police will accompany the processions. officials expect orderly events with growing female participation following recent franchise advances.
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London
U.R
London Labor Party
Labor Party
Victoria Park
Finsbury Park
Parliament Till Tields
Streatham Common
Peckham Rye
Southwark Park
Blackheath
Bobby
Britain
Stanley Baldwin
New Navy Seaplane Endurance Record Set
A U S Navy crew Lietts Arthur Gavin and Zeus Soucek aboard PN 12 set a world endurance record by flying from 2:50 p m Thursday to 2:51 a m the next day totaling 6 hours 1 minute 13 and four fifths seconds over Philadelphia. The previous record was 28 hours 35 minutes 25 seconds set in 1925 by Lieuts C H Schiddaner and J R Kyle.
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Washington
W.P
United States Navy
Lietts
Arthur Gavin
Zeus Soucek
Philadelphia
C. H. Schiddaner
J. R. Kyle
Navy
Dow Chemical Stock Hits New High Of 175
Dow Chemical common shares rose to a fresh peak at 175 as 10 shares traded in Cleveland at that price. May 1 record date for a 10 percent stock dividend payable May 15, while a 20 percent increase in quarterly cash dividend from 1.25 to 1.50 per share aided the rise. The firm offered 10 000 shares at 100, likely to be taken by current holders amid active rights bidding.
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Dow Chemical Company
Cleveland
Midland Republican
All Americans in Tsinan China Reported Safe Amid Clash
American officials report that all Americans in Tsinan are safe as fighting occurs between Japanese and Chinese troops. Consuls in Shanghai and Peking corroborate that the situation is quieting and Americans in the city are unmolested.
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Washington
U.R
Tsinan
China
Gate
Ernest B. Price
State Department
Edward §. Cunningham
Shanghai
MacMurray
Peking
Rain Stops Ypsi Game Freshmen Win From Sebewaing
The Central Ypsilanti freshman baseball team defeated Sebewaing 2 to 1 before rain halted the game after the first inning. A doubleheader at Ypsilanti will stage the return game to even the schedule.
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Central-Ypsilanti
Ypsilanti
Central
Sebewaing High School
War Secretary Opposes Medal for War Ace Rickenbacher
Secretary of War Davis disapproved of congressional medals of honor for World War I ace Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker. He praised Rickenbacher but said ten medals have been awarded and no further congressional honors should be issued. Rickenbacher already holds the Distinguished Service Cross.
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Washington
U.P
Davis
Eddie Rickenbacher
House Military Affairs Committee
Rickenbacher
Dow Company Donates Flag Pole To Longwood School
The Dow Chemical Company Mt. Pleasant branch supplied a sturdy metal flag pole erected this week on the Longwood school grounds north of Mt Pleasant. The pole was delivered and a letter from Dow attached requesting the school accept the donation and the pole with compliments from the company signed by B L Winslow Superintendent.
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Longwood
Dow Chemical Company
Mt. Pleasant Branch
B. L. Winslow
Dam Breakage Threatens River Valley Dams
May 5 Greenville North Carolina three Saluda river dams faced imminent failure as flood waters from Cable Rock Cove dam spilled through the valley. Upstream breaks risked Piedmont Pelzer and Southern Public Utilities sites with thousands evacuated and workmen at the Utilities dam attempting to hold back water. No deaths reported though broad area warned and danger of further breaks persisted.
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Greenville
N.C
U.P
Saluda
Cable Rock Cove
Greenville Waterworks
Piedmont
Pelzer
Southern Public Utilities
Belton
Ware Shoals
Southern Utilities
Here
Utilities
Saluda River
Esc
Michigan air route awarded to Thompson Aeronautical group
Postmaster General awards the contract for a new Michigan air route to the Thompson Aeronautical Association of Cleveland. Service will begin early this summer with freight charges listed at 89 cents per four pounds.
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Washington
New
Michigan
Thompson Aeronautical Association of
Cleveland
Music Contest Winners Announced for State Finals
About 900 to 1,000 participants from 44 high schools took part in the eighth annual music contest at Central State Teachers College. Winners advancing to Ann Arbor finals include Alpena and Lansing Vocational entries across bands and choruses, with judges Mrs. Foster Krake and Arthur Farewall.
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Central ‘State Teachers: College
Mt. Pleasant High School
Ann Arbor
Glee Club
Alpena
Big Glee Club
Ludington
Bip Rapids
Sonia
Lansing Vocational High School
East
Jordan
Reed City
Clare
Greenville
Mt. Morris
Ithaca
East Lansing
Kingsley
Pattingill Junior High
Lansing
West Junior High
Foster ‘Krake
Chicago
Arthur Farewall
Michigan State College
Foreign death costs cited for aliens in Mexico city
A Mexican city report lists charges for foreign deaths including chapel to station transport and uniformed attendants. The piece notes unofficial fees may be scandalous and urges foreigners to arrange dying costs domestically, as U S burial and transport are not included.
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Mexico
Ibe
Ichape
Ehisse
Frontier
United States
New York World Fires Columnist for Disloyalty
The New York World announced the dismissal of columnist Heywood Broun for disloyalty to the paper. The action follows years of quarrels with editor R. Pulitzer over censorship and Broun's Sacco and Vanzetti coverage, and ties to a Nation article.
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New York
New York World
Heywood Broun
Broun
Haywood
Brouin
Vanzetti
Wi van
Braun
Waald
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Kuban River
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Tax Board of Appeals
Webster Pearce
RMY
Eliers
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Dow’ Company
South Carolina
Michigan Air
MML
New York World Fires
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