State to reclaim lands sold for delinquent taxes in Michigan
Conservation commission urged attorney general to recover lands alleged to have been illegally sold by the auditor general. Some sites include 11 producing oil wells and key forest and game lands. If deeds cannot be reclaimed, leases may replace titles under existing policy. A list of properties was begun, with further investigations ordered and court action possible. The panel also weighed a limestone development proposal and a five year deer hunting ban petition amid northern county controversy.
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Lansing
U.P
Auditor General
The
Conservation Commission
Harry H. Whiteley
Iants Committee
Commission
Whiteley
TR. A. Smith
Presque Isle County
Michigan Veneer Company
Detroit
Emmett County Board of Supervisors
Lower Peninsula
Yale Students Clash With Police In Dormitory Riot
Yale New Haven May 8 police subdued student rioters injuring six officers and many students. Fourteen students were arrested including two campus leaders sent by Dean Mendel to quiet the disturbance started in Berkeley Oval freshman dormitory. Bottles books firecrackers and debris were hurled as police reserves charged Elm Street.
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New Haven
Conn
U.P
Yale University
Clarence W. Mendel
Berkeley Oval
Elm Street
Michigan Wet in Digest Poll Returns
In the Literary Digest prohibition poll Michigan remains among the wets with 204 543 votes tabulated. Enforcement 55 220 modification 64 569 repeal 84 764. National totals show 4 150 017 votes: enforcement 1 248 589 year 1 231 849 repeal 1 669 579. Detroit judge sentences Fréd Compton to one to five years for larceny after seven years since arrest in 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Literary Digest
Michigan
Detroit
Fréd Compton
Nime
Compton
Bandit Horde Slaughters Thousands in North China
Sin Wan Pao reports a four day raid through Yang Yang district in Honan province by 3 000 to 4 000 bandits. About 15 000 villagers killed, villages looted and burned, women and children slain, 500 prisoners taken for ransom. The attack follows months of bandit activity near Nanking due to famine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
China
Yang-Yang
Honan
Sin Wan Pao
Nanking
Henan
Groesbeck Says Green Will Run for Governor
Detroit May 9. Alex Groesbeck says Fred W. Green will run for governor again. Groesbeck says James Couzens should be reelected to the U S Senate and Green cannot beat him. He calls Couzens’ service worthy of another term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
James Couzens
United States
Senate
Fred W. Green
Couzens
Alex Groesbeck
Michigan
Washington
Groesbeck
Green
Frovernor
Goesbeck
Western Union Manager Confesses Kidnap Tale Was Fake
Sidney Cissler, manager of a Western Union branch, admitted to police he staged a kidnapping and robbery report claiming $640 was taken. He hid the money and will be held pending charges.
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Grand Rapids
Sidney Cissler
Western Union
Novelist's Son Killed In Crash
James Oliver Curwood, 23, son of the late novelist, was reported near death after a plane crash in Owosso Michigan. He and two passengers Miss Beatrice Pine and Hugh Pate suffered injuries. Curwood's neck and skull were damaged. He held a pilot license renewed in Lansing yesterday and had been flying for over a year. He resided here with his mother after his father's death and married last summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owosso
Mich
U.P
James Oliver Curwood
Curwood
Beatrice Pine
Hugh Pate
Butler criticizes US tariff plans from London visit
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, warns that proposed American tariff increases would harm global relations and strain trade. He tells United Press the policy is economically unsound and risks boosting worldwide resentment toward the United States.
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Virgyth Pinkley
United Press
London
U.P
United States
Nicholas Murray Butler
Royal Society of Arts
Butler
Columbia University
New York
United States Congress
Congress
Garfield
Blaine
McKinley
Washington
America
Ile
Europus
Federal agents reveal plane smuggling linked to Capone kin
Federal agents disclosed a Chicago liquor smuggling ring allegedly headed by Ralph Capone. They reported 14 000 cases worth over 1 600 000 transported from Windsor Ontario to Chicago using two cabin monoplanes and a tri motor Fokker with pilots. Dawn raids on Cicero night clubs Greyhound Inn and Cotton Club followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Canada
Scarface
al” Capone
Ralph
Ralph Capone
Greyhound Inn
Cotton Club
Capone
Cicero
Ffedérali Prohibition Department
Fokker
Discovery Plot To Wreck Ohio Prison Factory
The discovery of a plan to wreck and set fire to the Ohio state penitentiary workshop sparked alarms as officials report overcrowding and ongoing unrest among convicts. The deadly fire that followed Easter, killing 322 inmates, haunts efforts to restore order amid brewing plots to damage machinery and ignite sheds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio State Penitentiary
Roberts Named To Supreme Court By Hoover
Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, chief prosecutor in naval oil cases, chosen by President Hoover for the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Parker. Senate confirmation expected without contest. Roberts, 55, renowned for handling oil case prosecutions and upholding fraud findings in major decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Owen
J. Roberts
Philadelphia
Hoover
United States Supreme Court
John J. Parker
United Press
Roberts
Senate
Supréme Court
Doheny
Sinclair
Fall
Jefferson Medical College
Psi Upsilon
Phi Beta Kapna
Interior
Albert B. Fall
E. L. Doheny
Harry F. Sinclair
Robert
Wildcat gas well blow-off sparks near disaster
Several hundred students and townspeople gathered at the Broomfield Isabella Oil and Development well to witness a blow-off. A rope on the derrick ignited when struck by a nail key, narrowly sparking a fire as the valve closed and grass fires were promptly extinguished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broomfield Wildcat
Isabella Oil and Development Company
Local GM Radio Dealer Highlight at J I Battle Motor
The new General Motors radio will be represented by J I Battle Motor Sales at 801 East Broadway Mt Pleasant Michigan. Quick service is a feature of the GM merchandising plan with strategically located major service stations. The 8 tube set includes four tuned RF stages and three screen grid tubes. Prices range from 136 to 270 dollars without tubes. Five models are offered, two with electrical phonograph reproduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Motors Radio
J. I. Battle Motor Sales
East Broadway
Mt. Pleasant
Michigan
General Motors Radio Corporation
Dayton
Ohio
General Motors
United States
Italy ready to resume naval talks with France
In Rome on May 9, Foreign Minister Dino Grandi told the chamber of deputies Italy is prepared to resume interrupted naval limitation negotiations in London and pursue an understanding with France, expressing willingness to continue efforts toward an accord.
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Rome
U.R
Italy
London
Dino Grandi
Chamber of Deputies
France
Youthful bandit held in South LANSING
John F. Middaugh, wanted for the shooting of Trooper Harry Nelson, is held at Columbia, S. 6, on grand larceny charges. He was sentenced April 25 from Chesterfield county after a Jan 18 gun battle near Allen and Coldwater. Middaugh, using the alias John Jenkins, escaped Lansing jail and is under nation wide pursuit.
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Lansing
U.R
John F. Middaugh
Michigan
Harry Nelson
Columbia
Fbureau
Middaugh
Chesterfield County
Nelson
Allen
Coldwater
Quincy
Michigan State Police
John Jenkins
Doctor Kiefer Michigan Health Commissioner Dies
Dr. Guy L. Kiefer health commissioner of Michigan died at his Detroit home from an acute heart attack. He had led the state health department since 1927 and was 64. Gov. Green called him a humanitarian who improved public health and plans for disease prevention.
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Detroit
Lansing
Guy L. Kiefer
State Commissioner of Health
Kiefer
State Department
Michigan
U.P
Green
Catholics Hold Holy Services During Night
In Tunis and Carthage during the 30th Eucharistic congress pilgrims from many nations held services in all Catholic churches from 10 p m to dawn. National groups decorated churches with their flags while Senegalese troops protected roads to Carthage and disciplined near mosques. A few pilgrims were slightly injured in an electric train rush. the first mass honored Christian martyrs from Roman arenas in northern Africa.
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Stewart Brown
United Press
Carthage
Tunisia
U.K
Tunis
Africa
Robinson Attacks Hoover Forecast in National Debate
Senate Minority Leader Robinson condemned President Hoover's assurances that stock market effects would vanish, saying confidence in the administration is eroding. He spoke last night via the Democratic National Committee, signaling a Democratic challenge to Republican economic policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
Hoover
Senate
Robison
Democratic National Committee
First General Disarm Meet Seen for 1931
Geneva May 9 The world’s first general disarmament conference is likely to be convened mid-1931 with a League of Nations preparatory disarmament commission meeting set for November 3. League circles expect next year to see an international conference on land sea and air disarmament using the draft project as its base. The project’s military and aerial clauses are nearly finished and the London naval conference is viewed as a step toward a naval accord.
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Geneva
U.P
League of Nations Preparatory
Earthquake in Persia Near Urumiah Causes Massive Losses
Unofficial estimates put the death toll near 1,000 with Salmas and Urumiah most affected. Urumiah, an Armenian town of over 30,000, lies about 66 miles southwest of Tabriz and hosts a girls seminary and college.
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Iteheran
Persia
Jes
UPA
Urumiah Lake
Eaid
Salmas
Urumiahk
Urumiah
Tabriz
Iske Seminary For Girls
Urumiah College
Destruction at Pegu Burma After Quake and Fire
May 9 Rangoon Burma United Press dispatches describe Pegu’s ruins after fire and earthquakes. More than 1,000 of about 14,000 inhabitants dead with hundreds buried beneath debris. other quake areas near Rangoon report 21 deaths. Looters driven off by British officers. water famine looms and disease threat rises. Buddhist pagoda weather vane valued at 1.25 million dollars among rescued stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rangoon
Burma
U.P
Pegu
Kingdom of
United Press
Moving Picture House
Riots in Sholapur Prompt Evacuations of Europeans
In Bombay reports warn European residents to evacuate Talegaon near Poona as rioting widens. At Sholapur Indians kill six police and burn the district court, with 50 dead and hundreds wounded. The Duke of Wellington’s regiment moves from Ahmednagar to assist police as European women and children are evacuated by train amid tense security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis ‘Low
United Press
Bombay
U.P
India
Poona
Mahatma Gandhi
Surat
Talégaon
Talegaon
Duke of Wellington
Sholapur
Ahmednagar
Eleven Die in Armour Plant Blast at St Joseph
In the Armour and Company meat plant in St Joseph a massive explosion ripped through a six story building. Eleven bodies were recovered with seven more believed buried in the debris. Over 40 workers faced exposure to fumes and burns as rescuers searched the wreckage. Fire officials cite ignition of fumes from an ammonia plant as a possible cause though exact origin remains undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Joseph
U.P
Armour and Company
Missouri Methodist Hospital
Detroit Area Weather Outlook May 9
Lower Michigan forecast partly cloudy to cloudy with possible showers or storms tonight and Saturday. Cooler tonight in the northwest and west south central areas. Readings list temperatures for Alpena Chicago Detroit Duluth Houghton Grand Rapids and more with varied highs and lows.
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Detroit
U.R
Lower
Michigan
North Portion
South
Northwest
Chicago
Duluth
Hscanaba
Grand Rapides 1
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