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MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS
Pewamo — The Pewamo Elevator Co. is building a branch at Westphalia.
Howell — Construction work has been started on runways for a new airport here.
Portland—Low water in the Grand River and a crippled auxiliary oil engine left this community in darkness for several nights.
Alpena—With the contract awarded only Federal aid is lacking to start construction of the new Alpena County Courthouse here.
Burr Oak—Central Screw Co. is moving from Coldwater to the Burr Oak Manufacturing Co. plant here and expects to employ from 20 to 40 hands.
Mt. Clemens—A series of 11 meetings will be held in Macomb County in the next few weeks to acquaint wheat growers of the government's demand that they cut their crop this year by 15 per cent.
Detroit—Poisoning resulting from abrasions received in a fall a month ago caused the death of Frank Ciminelli, 13 years old. The boy was taken to a hospital by his parents several days after he had suffered scratches while playing near his home.
Jackson — Local banks report a marked shortage in pennies here which they are unable to explain. The sales tax bill has increased the demand for the coppers, they say, but even before that law came into effect the lowly coin was conspicuous by its absence. New shipments are constantly being ordered.
Saginaw—Suit for $100,000 was started in Circuit Court here by Edmund E. Johnson against the Simrall Pipe Line Corporation of Delaware and others, claiming they took oil and gas from his field in Midland County illegally. The bill of complaint charges the defendants sunk wells in his field and sold the $100,000 worth of oil without his permission.
Jackson—What is claimed as a new record in horseshoe pitching was made here by Bobbie Hitt, 11-year-old Dearborn boy, who threw 12 consecutive double ringers in a contest in which he was opposed to Ralph Baxter of Hillsdale, twice champion of Indiana. The boy is entered in the State horseshoe pitching tournament at Grand Rapids, Sept. 25 to 28.
Grand Rapids—The American Bar Association in session here recently placed the University of Detroit Law College on its approved list, the eighty-third school to be accepted into the fold since the Elihu Root Committee laid down its standards 12 years ago. It increases the number of full-time law schools in the United States meeting Bar Association requirements to 73, or 90 per cent of existing full-time schools.
Mt. Clemens—Sixty per cent of the depositors in the Mt. Clemens Savings Bank, which closed here in January have signed agreements for the reopening of the institution. Another 25 per cent is needed before the reorganization can be made, according to the plan approved by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Capital stock of $124,000 also has been subscribed, leaving a balance of $30,000 necessary for the bank to open again for business.
Lansing—City Judge Sam Street Hughes "sentenced" a 20-year-old girl to "get married and settle down." The girl, Olive Singer, of Mt. Pleasant, charged with the theft of a ring from the home of her employer, Mrs. Helen Robinson, told Judge Hughes she was planning to get married. "All right, go back to Mt. Pleasant and settle down," said the court. Olive left, promising to carry out the sentence. The ring she admitted taking was valued at $25. It was recovered.
Lansing — Manufacturers, farmers and wholesalers were exempted from the 3 per cent sales tax when the Commission of Tax Administration reversed its policy for the third time and agreed to follow instructions from the Legislature. The new ruling, which was made retroactive to Aug. 1, means that manufacturers need not pay the tax on their purchases of fuel, machinery, oil and the like, and that farmers will not pay it on seed, implements and other equipment. Wholesalers will not be subject to the levy when they buy wrapping paper, cartons and packing cases.
Battle Creek—Contending that none of the train crew called "Battle Creek," so she was carried beyond her station, Mrs. Susie H. Wilkerson began a suit for $3,000 damages against the Michigan Central Railroad. She says that the train was stopped later, in the yards, after she had been carried past the station, and that in trying to get out of the yards she fell over a rail and sustained severe injuries. Battle Creek railroad officials say that this is the first suit of this kind of which they ever have heard.
Owosso—A crew of 77 men is reconditioning the Owosso plant of the Michigan Sugar Co. preparatory to the campaign this year, after five years of idleness. The stand of beets is good but needs rain.
Stanton—Arthur Damoth, Grand Rapids, must pay a $300 fine and $500 costs for the death of Verna Mahlich. The child was struck by his car last April. He was convicted of negligent homicide.
South Haven—A post card mailed at Bangor seven years ago has just reached South Haven, 11 miles from the point of mailing. The card was written by a woman to her daughter. The daughter was killed in an auto accident the year the card was mailed.
Detroit—An injury which Walter Lang, 23 years old, suffered when his hand was struck by the fan of his automobile resulted in his death. Lang, who had been examining the engine, paid little attention to the injury until an infection set in which made it necessary to admit him to a hospital.
Lansing — Representatives of 59 creameries have organized the Michigan Co-Operative Creameries, Inc., for the purpose of operating under the proposed dairy code. G. S. Coffman, of Coldwater, is the president; Mark Ardis, of Marion, is vice president, and Clark L. Brody, of Lansing is secretary-treasurer.
Ann Arbor—Twenty-three foreign countries had representatives among the Summer Session students at the University of Michigan, plus Hawaii and the Philippine Islands and five Canadian provinces. All 48 states and the District of Columbia and 75 of Michigan's own 83 counties also had students on the campus, according to Registrar's tabulations.
Mt. Pleasant—Central Michigan oil production, already boosted to 30,000 barrels daily and with proration in effect as a result, was further increased with the bringing in of a 4,500-barrels-a-day well in Porter Township. The new gusher is the Whitney No. 1, owned by the Pure Oil Co. It offsets a 5,000-barrel-a-day well, the Howard No. 1, owned by the same company.
Monroe—Frank Bunn, 44 years old, mail carrier here for the last 10 years, was jailed by United States postal inspectors from Detroit. He was charged with having taken money from letters in his possession. The letters containing the money had been prepared by the inspectors and put in his possession for the purpose of trapping him, it was said. He is married and has three children.
Calumet—The town which gave Notre Dame football the immortal George Gipp, and later "Hunk" Anderson, its present coach, has another candidate for the Irish eleven. He is Dominic Vairo, 22, who as a sophomore last fall played substitute left end. He is 6 feet 2 and weighs 200 pounds. Dominic is doing a little pre-season training on the local field and works out almost daily. He is concentrating on catching passes.
Lansing—An order requiring the State treasurer to show cause why funds placed in his custody by bank receivers should not be released was issued by the Supreme Court. Suit was instituted by H. O. Mohrman, of Nashville. Funds deposited with the State treasurer were placed by him in banks which now are closed. The object of the litigation is to determine whether such funds can be forced out of the banks. The date for the hearing has not been set.
Owosso — Because their sister, Mrs. Nellie Bilhorn, of Chicago, failed to have her will witnessed when she drew it in 1932 just before an operation which proved fatal, John McCaughna, of Oakland County, and George B. McCaughna, of Los Angeles, formerly a prominent Michigan National Guard officer, lose their share in the McCaughna homestead left to them in the will. Judge R. D. Matthews, of Probate Court, following an Illinois decision, refused to admit the will to probate here.
Owosso — Paul Konkus, 12 years old, of Brady Township, Saginaw County, is in Memorial Hospital in a critical condition from a bullet wound through his abdomen. Konkus and his chum, Stewart Walker, 14, were going after cows, each carrying a rifle. The Stewart boy is said to have pointed his gun at the Konkus boy, saying that he was going to shoot. Konkus warned him that the gun might be loaded but young Walker said it wasn't. He pulled the trigger and Konkus fell to the ground.
Ann Arbor—Edward H. Krauss, formerly dean of the School of Pharmacy and the Summer session at the University of Michigan, has been named dean of the Literary School, it was announced by Vice President Dr. Frank E. Robbins. Krauss, who succeeds the late John R. Effinger, came to the University of Michigan as assistant professor in mineralogy in 1904. He has been dean of the Summer session since 1915, and has headed the School of Pharmacy since 1920.