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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1931
Page
8
A Michigan barberry eradication campaign reduced rust damage on grains but cannot end losses until every bush is destroyed. Surveys cover the lower peninsula. outbreaks now trace to isolated bushes. Farmers urged to report finds to Francis B. Powers in East Lansing for identification aids.
Default on a 1930 mortgage by William and Jessie Bradwell to William Braun leads to a public sale June 12 1931 at 10 am in Ann Arbor Washtenaw County Michigan to satisfy 794.92 dollars plus past due taxes and costs. Parcels include Lot 344 and Lot 261 in Park Ridge Subdivision Ypsilanti with houses on both lots. The mortgagee attorney is Lee N Brown Hewitt Building Ypsilanti Michigan.
Silas H. Strawn opens the International Chamber of Commerce meeting in Washington. President Hoover urges cutting armaments and argues a world economic revival hinges on reducing defense costs and a new League of Nations conference. Theunis outlines tariff policy as a key issue while Melvin A. Traylor blasts profiteering and calls for reform in industry and finance.
Delegates addressed at the international meeting were invited to Chicago for a May jubilee from the 10th to the 20th with plans for festivals in the Loop, parades, Fort Dearborn replica dedication, Century of Progress buildings, and an air force war game. Boy Scouts of America conclude a Memphis council meeting marking 21 years. Walter W. Head presides. Mortimer Schiff elected president for 1931. silver buffalo honors go to Lord Hampton and others.
George Fisher Baker of New York, famed banker and third richest American, died of pneumonia at ninety one and was buried Tuesday in Tuxedo Park New York. Prominent financiers attended the funeral as the nation faced a period of price low mood.
The article notes New York poised to revive inheritance tax on a $500 million estate, while international tensions shape economics and diplomacy. Briand backed by Czechoslovakia resists Austro German customs accord, Chiang Kai-shek moves to end extraterritoriality with China establishing foreign jurisdiction but creating special courts.
Michigan State College farm crops department reports that planting seed pieces 12 to 18 inches apart improves yield and reduces hollow heart in potatoes. Two years of tests show 18 inch spacing outproduces 36 inch spacing by 47 bushels per acre and hollow heart drops from 16 percent to 3.6 percent. Fertilizer trials 500 pounds of 4-16-38 yield 30 extra bushels of U S No 1 grade over unfertilized plots from 1927 to 1930. Fred Gentner injured trimming trees at Levi Palmer farm Clearlake, fell 80 feet, injuring ankle and face.
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