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8 STATE JOURNAL. (Lansing, Mich.) Tuesday, August 4, 1953 Deaths Hit Rap P.M. A. i ppn-i 11 hmL LWn rTn -i-t hi mrTft-ni MIlilir-Tl-liir--fnK'Mii ill! Fowlerville Fair Show TO REVIVE LITTLE BED SCHOOLHOUSE Work is underway on this country school near Oxford, which will have little resemblance to the barren one-room schools of pioneer days. It will made its modern debut in the guise of a private school for carriage-trade youngsters.

Discipline and the old-fashioned 8-R's will be stressed. (AP Wirephoto) To Include 4-H lalent J. Hart, county 4-H club agent. There will be 15 members selected from district contests, including guitar, accordion, clarinet and piano solos, vocal numbers, baton, tap and toe dancing and readings. The Jackson county 4-H club band will also be heard on the Thursday evening program.

The local 4-H building fund will receive one-half of the net income from the grandstand on this Thursday night, according to Mr. Hartl ft. A A New High 18 Persons Killed in Ionia County During First 7 Months of 1953 (Special to The State Journal) IONIA, Aug. 4 An unusual se ries of fatal auto accidents since the first of the year had given Ionia county three new and un- desired records Tuesday. Police reports showed 18 per sons killed, the most for the first seven months of a year even to be recorded on the highways hef.

Four of the fatalities came in one week and three of them were of young children. Sheriff Ben Never said a sur vey also showed that 15 of the 18 deaths occurred in one-car accidents; An unusual number of these hap pened when the autos in which the victims were riding hit trees. lhe four fatalities last week re sulted from single car accidents and three of them occurred when two drivers hit trees along the roadside in separate crashes that happened within three hours of each other. One of these took the lives of two sisters, six and seven years old. A three-year-old boy was also killed during the week when an auto overturned.

The adult fatally injured was a 52-year-old man who hit a tree after driving all night from Buffalo, N. Y. Sheriff said although the causes of all the fatal accidents had not been determined that in the caes where they were ascertained there was not one instance of mechanical failure in the cars involved. A He attributed most of the acci dents to high speed and driver fa tigue, jtie declared these factors are a fatal combination, particularly in heavy week-end traffic. Name Detroiter Beauty Queen at Emancipation Day WINDSOR, Ont.

Aug. 4 UP) Louise Griffin, 18, Detroit, was named Miss International Sepia of 1953 early today in the final event of Canada's 21st Emancipation Day celebration. Runners-up in the field of 24 contestants were Johnny May Gibson, 16, and Cathy Frisby, 18. Both are from Detroit The eight judges deliberated until after midnight me winner is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 118 pounds. The three-day celebration was staged by the British-American As sociation of Colored Brothers, which has headquarters here.

Can ada has named Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, commemorating an 1834 law which outlawed slavery in the British empire. During the celebration, the association's annual freedom awards were presented to G. Hudson Stick-land, prominent in social service work and a member of the Windsor utilities commission, and Mrs. erates a Detroit business school.

Mrs. Grooms was cited for "launching literally thousands of young men and women of her race into weli-paying positions in tne business world." Stickland was cited for his work for "the progress and comfort of the needy, the blind and the sick, regardles of race, color or creed." Area Clubs And Lodges nvj.rx rF.VTFR The West Delta Helping Hand club will have in fnr mpmhers and children at the Gardner Crawford home on Nixon Thursday. Dinner is at 1 o'clock. MULIJKEN The Mulliken ice will hold its August meeting Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Mabel Burch, north of here.

By HUB Clear Away Wreckage (Special to The State Journal) OWOSSO, Aug. 4 Shiawassee county today was digging itself out of one of the worst wind storms in several years and counting up the thousands of dollars damage done to farms and city property over the week-end. Although no official count of the damage has open made, it has been estimated, that nearly in damage was caused by the 100-mile an hour winds that streaked through the county. At least seven barns were flattened, numerous farm animals crushed and four planes at the city airport damaged, one being thrown over 1,000 feet Telephone, power and highway crews were still working Tuesday to clean up the debris, which cluttered up roads from Chapin in the northern part of the county to Byron in the southeastern part of the county. S.

C. Dowling, of Consumers Power company, reported more than 2,000 subscribers without power at one time and William Joy of Union Telephone said 1,500 to 2,000 of the firm's users were without service for some time. Both called the storm the worst in years. TELEPHONE LINES OUT (Special to The State Journal) ALBION, Aug. 4 The southeast section of Albion from the 200-block of E.

Erie st, eastward to Alumni field was without electric service from 6 to 9:40 a. m. Sun day due to the collapse of a larger part of a big tree in front of the I. R. Orwig residence at ,217 E.

Erie St. Saturday night's windstorm ap parently weakened the tree's three main trunks, causing it to topple SV3 hours later after a night of intermittent rain. -The tree blocked tfce street, tak ing down electric wires and also breaking in two a telephone pole that supported a main cable and cable box, to which were attached the neighborhood telephone lines. The cable withstood the impact Utility employes had service re stored by afternoon. Millett Fire Department Breaks Ground for Station MTT.LETT.

Autr. 4-Millett vol unteer fire department workers have broken eround for the new fire- station to be located on mu- lett rd. Cinderella Gets Silver Slippers (Special to The State Journal) IONIA, Aug. 4 Another Cinderella will get her first day in court at the Ionia free fair which opens Saturday for an eight-day run though her sponsors had a little trouble finding a pair of silver slippers necessary for her elevation' to the spot She is Miss Doris" Normington, of the South Boston Grange, who will be the entry later of the Ionia Pomona Grange in a contest to choose a Michigan Cinderella. She will be ensconced in her new role at the Farm Day program on Friday morning, Aug.

14. A part of the ceremony will be the presentation of a pair of silver slippers which like those of the fabled Cinderella will be the magic wings that will take her into her court here and to the state contest later. The Pomona Grange committee sponsoringi the affair had trouble locating a' pair of silver covered slippers for the event, however. A number of shoe stores in the area had to be searched before one single, solitary pair was found. "She is all set to go now, however," John Leland, Pomona Grange lecturer, reported Tuesday.

Leland, who is in charge of the Grange's Farm Day program, said other features of the affair which will be staged in the grandstand will be appearances by the Saranac high school band, the Needmore Kitchen band, the Plainsmen, an Ionia area musical group and winners of a 4-H talent contest Carle-ton Runciman, Lowell, will be master of ceremonies for the pro gram. Dinner, Festival Planned by Church Novel Plans Are Made toj Solicit Donations (Special to The State Journal) ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4 Those who attend the annual chicken or ham dinner and festival at St Joseph church, Aug. 8 and 9, will have a novel opportunity to become original benefactors of the pro posed mi.

St. josepn scnooi. Un the festival grounds will be a display of proposed school plans, to gether with various types of construction materials. People may participate by purchasing portions of these construction materials or by making other donations. In re turn, their names will be recorded as original Benefactors and tney will be perpetually rememoered spiritually by the pastor and parishioners of St Joseph church.

At the festival, in addition to the traditional chicken or ham dinner to be prepared and served by women of the parish from 12 noon next Sunday, there will be enter tainment and refreshments Sat urday evening and Sunday. Olivet High Holds Annual Reunion (Special to The State Journal) OLIVET, Aug. 4 The annual get-together of the Olivet high school was attended by about 80 at the Congregational church Sunday. Many came to tne cnurcn serv ice, according to annual custom, when Prof. Edwar'd Speare, substitute pastor, gave the sermon.

A co-operative dinner in the dining- room followed. At tne Dusiness meeting, Harry Denison of Char lotte was chosen president; Ray Humeston of Battle Creek vice president; Miss Stella Davis of Olivet, secretary, and Mrs. Warren Powers of Detroit treasurer. Speaker for the program was Miss Laura Foster, recently returned to Olivet to live after years as a teacher in the Hawaiian islands. She talked on "Misconcep tions of the Islands.

Mrs. Minnie E. Keyes, honorary member of the association, spoke of early Olivet days. Girl Scouts Back From Lake Outing (Special to The State Journal) ST. LOUIS, Aug.

4 A session of rummage and bake sales had its reward as the Girl Scouts of Troop No. 2 returned from a week's out ing at Crystal lake Sunday. The money which the girls earned during the winter was used to finance their outing at the lake where they occupied the wneeier cottage, lvirs. Rnvd Curtiss. troop leaaer, was their chaperone.

Eaton Department Puts Out Barn Fire (Special to The State Journal) EATON RAPIDS. Aug. 4 A barn, 30 by 40 feet, on the Charles Fowler farm on the Plains rd. east of Eaton Rapids, caught fire early this morning. Eaton Rapids firemen were able to extinguish the blaze before much damage occurred.

Firemen were unable to determine the cause of the blaze. but it was thought it might have been ignited by lightning. Dam age was estimated at $zuu. Ferguson Opens Campaign Office DETROIT. Aug.

4 UP) Homer Ferguson announced plans today to open his campaign for re-election with an appearance at the Ionia Free Fair next week. The state's senior senator then plans a two-week swing through the upper peninsula beginning Aug. 12. He said he would return for his Detroit campaign late this month and would tour the lower peninsula in September. Ferguson opened ins campaign headquarters in the Federal build ing yesterday.

Red Cross Sponsoring Percy Jones Programs (Special to The State Journal) CHARLOTTE, Aug. 4 Eaton county chapter, American Red Cross, is sponsoring a series of entertainments for Perey Jones hospital. Battle Creek. rne iirst in tne series was given last week by Tommy Perfitt Grand Ledge, and his band, con sistin? of Charles Kine. James An derson, and Nicholas Vellanti, and two singers, Gerald King and Don na McKrilL Adventists' Annual Assembly to Open Thursday at Grand Ledge iionierence wonnas About 12,000 Seventh-day Ad-- ventists are expected to attend the 85th annual Michigan camp meet ing assembly at urana Ledge De-ginning Thursday, according to Dr.

G. E. Hutches, state conference president. The 10-day meet is expected to draw one of the largest crowds in the camp's history. Many families will commute, but those living in more distant points of the state will live in the 450 tents pitched in rows on the shaded grounds, in the 236 permanent cabins, in trailers, or in nearby hotels.

Guest speakers from the denomination's world headquarters in Washington, D. C. will be present and will include Elder William H. Branson, president of the general conference of Seventh-day Ad ventists. Heading the local delegation will bo Elder L.

F. Kagels, pastor of the Lansing Seventh-day Adventist church. The Walter Browns Mark 40 Years of Marriage (Special to The State Journal) ITHACA, Aug. 4 More than 165 friends and relatives honored Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Brown at an open house to mark their 40th wedding anniversary Sunday after noon. After a lawn reception, din ner for 30 guests was served at the Harold Emery home. The Browns have lived here since their mar riage. He is a tailor and she is the county agent for the department ol social welfare. Area Births HOWELL To Mr.

and Mrs. John Zim-merle, a daughter, July 21. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin Cranston, i daughter, July 22.

To Mr. and Mrs. Howard Beach, I on, July 24. To Mr. and Mrs.

Willis Duncan, daughter. July 24. To Mr. and Mrs. Lee W.

Miller, daughter. July 23. To Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Devereaux, a daughter, July 26.

To Mr. and Mrs. Kalman Gynge, daughter, July 28. To Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Misslltz, a daughter. July 28. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Melnschmlt, a daughter, July 28.

To Mr. and Mrs. Excell Blackwell, a daughter, July 29. To Mrs. Martha Slmmonds, a son, To Mr.

'and Mrs. Robert Allen, a daugh- ter Aus i To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baldwin, a daughter, Aug. 2.

WEBBERVILLE To Mr. and Mrs. John Culver, a daughter, July 25. BRIGHTON To Mr. and Mrs.

Robert El- dred, a daughter. July 27. roWLERVILLE To Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Brockway.

a son, July 31. These 16 births were all at McPherson Memorial hospital. Howell. BRIGHTON To Mr. and Mrs.

Norman Luttermoser. a son. July 23. at the G1D- son maternity home, Howell. VERMONTV1LLE To Mr.

and Mrs Duane Shaver, Vermontville, R. 2. a daughter, Aug. 3. CHARLOTTE To Dr.

and Mrs. Vernon LeDuc. a son. July 31. To Mr.

and Mrs. Lyle Royston. Charlotte. R. 5.

a daughter. Aug. 1. To Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Sparks, a rWM Jame, W. rwe.I. a daughter. Linda Denise. July 29.

Mrs. Dowell Is the former Miss Donna 1A- and Mrs. JohnRobb, a son, Mrs. Frank EUes, a son, July 27. These seven births were at Hayes-Green-Beach hospital.

EUREKA A daughter. Rita Lynne. born July 31. to Mr. and Mrs.

John Vackwire of Eureka at Clinton Memorial hospital: in St. Johns. GRAND LEDGE To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomas.

R. 3. a son. Gary Lee, July 29. at McLaughlin hospital.

To Mr. and Mrs. Roger Austin, 709 Pleasant a daughter. Debra Jean, Aug. 1.

at McLaughlin hospital. Area Deaths Mrs. Georse M. IJvlntston ALBION. Aug.

4 Services will be held Wednesday at 3 at the King and Helnsel home for funerals here for Mrs. Mabel Joy Livingston. 75, widow of Dr. George I. Livingston, who died Sunday night after a long illness.

Burial in Fairview cemetery, north of Parma. She was dean of women at Hiram (Ohio) college prior to marrying Dr. Livingston in 19Cb. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Keith Fennimore.

Albion, and Miss Marion Livingston. Ann Arbor, and a son. Benjamin J. Livingston, Detroit. Ernest A.

Flepenbrok ALBION. Aug. 4 Services were held Tuesday afternoon at St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church in Indianapolis, for Rev. Ernest A.

Piepenbrok. 60. a former Albion pastor. He died Saturday after a year's illness. Rev.

Piepenbrok. pastor at the Indianapolis church for 31 years, came to Albion in 1914 to begin his ministry at Salem Evangelical church here and remained here until 1919. Mr. Piepenbrok married Miss Frieda Arndt here dunng his pastorate and the family spent its summer vacations at Duck lake here until recently. Kenneth W.

Ralnsterrer ALBION, Aug. 4 Kenneth W. Rains-berger, 39. proprietor of the Albion Cab company here, died unexpectedly at his home on Hutchinson rd. in Concord township Sunday of coronary thrombosis.

Mr. Rainsberger was a native of Burt Lake, Cheboygan county, and lived at Turner, Arenac county, and in Detroit before, coming here in 1936. Surviving are the widow. Louise; live sons, Larry. Roger.

Lynn and Dennis, at home, and Marion of Bellevue; two daughters. Sheila and Jaqueline; the father, Fred McMichael of Burt Lake; the foster parents. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Rainsberger of Turner; a brothers Leon Myers.

Jackson, and three sisters. Services were held Tuesday at 2. Mrs. Mary Herein HOAVELL, Aug. 4 Mrs.

Mary Bergin. 77. died in McPherson Memorial hospital Sunday. She was Mary Hughes before her marriage to Michael J. Herein, in uceoia twp.

She was born Feb. 3, 1876. Survivors are two daughters. Mrs. Otto Wait of Lansing and Mrs.

Louise Cisler of Howell and a son. Max Bergin of Howell. She Hi so leaves a sister. Mrs. Thomas Scully of Howell; two brothers.

George Hughes of Howell and Joseph Hughes of Fowlerville: eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral services are Wednesday at 10 a. m. at bt. Josepns Catholic cnurcn.

Mrs. Alton Knauer CONCORD, Aug. 4 Storm-broken tele ohone lines delayed for over 22 hours noti' fication of relatives in the Maple Rapids area or the death of Mrs. Alton Knauer 74, who died Saturday afternoon. She leaves her husband: a son, vviiiard, or Concord; two daughters.

Hazel in Call- fnmin. nriH Vpr at home: 10 Brand- children and several great-grandchildren; ihrp hmthers. William Frisbie of Owosso; Fred Frisbie of Maple Rapids; Edgar of Haslett: and two sisters. Mrs. Nellie Townsend of Elsie and Mrs.

Joseph Upton of Maple Rapids. Services were to have been this afternoon here. wtctphat.ta. Aue. 4 Mrs.

Elizabeth Fedewa, 75. died at her farm home Monday after several months illness. She was born June 1. 1878, and lived in the township all her life. Her husband.

Albert, died nine years ago. She leaves a son, Roman, here: three daughters. Mrs. Alfred Johnson and Mrs. Elton Drake of Detroit and Mrs.

Bernard Meyers of Portland; four grandchildren: a sister. Mrs. Theresa Fox, onH thrd hmthprc. William Phelan. here.

Peter of Lansing and Anthony of Pewamo. Services will be Thursday at 9 a. m. at at. wary cnurii iui n.

Aloysius Miller officiating. Area Funerals Sirs. Cella May Mead tPTTTTAMcmv. Ant? 4 Funeral serv ices were held Monday for Mrs. Celia May MHH ci Qho i survived by one son.

Asa Eugene, one daughter. Mrs. Lucy Langham. one brother. George Wygant of Vebberville, and three grandchildren.

Victoria Bedford utt.t.tavston. Auz. 4 Funeral serv ices were held Tuesday for Victoria Bed ford. 78. or Lroy townsnip.

tie nan uvea iipar Webberville for the past 43 years. He I survived by the widow, Emma, two daughters. Mrs. Murl Graham of Webberville and Mrs. Ena Meader of Lan sing, one granddaughter and one sister.

Mrs. La Vina Wygant of Lansing. Camp Ready (Special to The State Journal) HOWELL, Aug. 4 Among the attractions at the Fowlerville Fair this week will be the Livingston County 4-H Talent Show composed of 19 young people who are com peting for a cnance to oe in tne state 4-H talent show at Lan sing Aug. 13 and 14.

The Talent snow win appear before the Fowlerville grandstand Thursday evening, according to H. TheLprd's Baptist Church Crop Yields 917 Bushels On 30 Acres (Special to The State Journal) ERRY, Aug. 4 "The Lord's crop" was a bountiful 9i ousneis of wheat from a du-acre neia. Men of the Antrim Baptist church planted the wheat last fall as a congregational project Profit from the crop is rne parisn is in the process of building a new church to replace one destroyed by fire last November. Rev.

John Germaine is pastor. Women of the church furnished a hot dinner to the harvesters who reaped the crop Saturday. Nab Flint Man For Deportation WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 OP) Russian-born Abe Bernard Wolfson of Flint has been arrested for deportation on grounds of Communist party activity, the justice depart ment announced yesterday. A native of Mmsk, Russia, Wolf- son, 50, entered this country 1933.

He has recently been em ployed at a Flint dry cleaners where he was taken info custody. The justice department said he had been active in the party from 1937 until 1940 and once was a fi nancial secretary for the party's Denver branch. He was released on $1,000 bond pending deportation action. Isabella Shatters Its Cancer Quota (Special to The State Journal) SHEPHERD. Aug.

4 With S4 412.47 already collected and its books open to Aug. 31, the Cancer Crusade in Isabella county has shattered its quota of 53,500 and may break the all-time record of collected last year. Mrs. Kenneth Wright, co-chairman fh charge of Mt. Pleasant, reports that her section total is 458.65.

Outcounty workers, directed by Mrs. Walter Chapin of Shep herd, nave reported Supplies for Flint (Special to The State Journal) SHEPHERD. Aug. 4 The local Rebekahs and Oddfellows took in enough from their recent rummage sale to purchase 30 sheets and 30 pillowcases for victims of the Flint storm. Lansing CALL Terms as Littls as $1.25 a Week Rule Change Isabella Market Group Wants Committee to Have Authority (Special to The State Journal) MT.

PLEASANT, Aug. 4 Gerald S. Fuller was elected to his 15th consecutive year as chairman of the Isabella Production Marketing association committee as township delegates met for" the annual coun ty convention While a one-third cut in the county wheat crop allotments for next year was the big topic of convention talk, a recent change in P. M. A.

regulations also brought a major share of attention. Daniel Mogg of Denver township was re-elected vice chairman and Leander Bierschbach of Nottawa township was reelected third mem ber on the county committee. H. L. Post of Chippewa was named first alternate and Glenn Blackmer of Broomfield was selected second al ternate.

The new P. M. A. regulation authorized nationally earlier this year, forbids the nomination of; county chairman or other county P. M.

A. officer posts with that of of-of manager job. "In effect that means bringing an outsider to do the work, Ciiairman Fuller said. "The basic principle of the P. M.

A. program and its soil payments, allotments and crop loans has been, to me, its grass roots origin. To bring in a full time office manager would be putting an outsider on the job and putting the committee mto tne background as a mere policy making The township representatives unanimously passed a resolution, which will be sent to the state P. M. A.

office, urging that: "Operation of the Isabella county P. M. A. office be given a budget and that the county committee be authorized to administrate all P. M.

A. programs to the best of its ability." Mr. Fuller, who has been active in the county P. M. A.

program since it was started here 21 years ago, said no complaints have ever been heard about the operation of the office here. "We've always gone under our annual DUdget," he noted. Consensus of the township dele gates was that county wheat farm ers would "go along" with the sharp cut inf acreage allotments tor tne countys wheat crop. Action by the state office last week cut percent from the average acreage in the county for the past two years to 18,407 acres as com pared to 29,403 planted this year. The two year average checked out at 27,506 acres.

Farmers indicated they would probably plant more of other crops to take up the slack. Owossoan to Head Illinois Company (Special to The State Journal) OWOSSO, Aug. 4 James F. Van de Vusse, general manager of the Union Telephone company, will become president of the Illinois Telephone company, with headquar ters -in it was announced today. Mr.

Van de Vussee has resiened his position here and will take over his new position Sept. 1. His new firm is about the same size as the Union company, both firms belonging to a holding company in Gary, Ind. His successor here has not been named. Coming here from Fort Wavne six years ago, Van de Vusse has been active in civic organizations, the country club and is a past vice presiueni 01 me Michigan independent Telephone association.

Montcalm Views Soil Conservation (Special to The State Journal) CARSON CITY. Aue. 4 Direc tors of the Montcalm county soil conservation district have been touring Montcalm county by air, to view the progress of their land conservation projects. Five planes useu in maKing xne tour were provided by the Michigan Flying Farmers. The directors reborted that, al though much progress has been made, areas were noted where new projects are desirable.

W. A. Smith of Greenville is chairman of the conservation district. Frank M. Bramble, editorof the Carson City Gazette, represented Montcalm county publishers.

CROP Program Is Considered (Special to The State Journal) SHEPHERD, Aug. 4 The CROP project is again under considera tion. Last year Shebherd and Pleasant Valley Methodist churches, under the supervision of Rev. Harold Taber, pastor, received almost 5100 in grain and cash for CROP. The local vacation Bible school has already contributed 2,500 pennies to purchase dried milk, each penny providing a quart of reconstituted milk.

Gibson Employes To Vote on Pact GREENVILLE. Aug. 4 UP) Some 3,000 employes of the Gibson! Refrigerator Co. will meet Thurs-i day morning to ratify an agree-! ment reached last night for settle-' ment of their three-week strike. The settlement was announced last night by Gibson and the of ficers of Local 137, C.

O. United: Auto Workers. No terms were re-j vealed. Union officials said earner the: strike was called over a series of. grievances.

Millett Women Join Club Members on Holland Trip (Special to The State Journal) MILLETT, Aug. 4 Mrs. Donald Ramsdill and Mrs. Murr Baisel were among the group of home- makers of Ingham county exten sion clubs who made the trip to Holland last Thursday. The women visited the museum, the Little Netherlands, the wooden shoe factory, went to the beach for swim ming and enjoyed a boat tour.

I Ozias B. Griffith, 91, oldest resi dent of Maple Rapids and the last of the Spanish War veterans there, broke his hip in a fall at his home Saturday and is at Carson City hospital. Parishoners who came late to church at Maple Rapids Sunday had a good excuse. A seven-hour, 15-minute power interruption made wake-up time for everyone 5 a. according to electric clocks.

A windstorm broke the main electrical line. Find Big Sums On Two Arrested As Shoplifters DETROIT, Aug. 4 UP) Two women were arrested in a downtown department store yesterday. Det. Lieut Walter Chlopan said they were seen stuffing infants' wear into shopping bags.

At police headquarters officers looked into their purses. In Mrs. Thelma B. Fothering- ham's they were surprised to find $250. in cash.

Then they peered into Mrs. Helen Duquette's. There they found $1,671 in cash and serial numbers on bonds in her name totaling about $100,000, Lieut Chlopan reported. He said both refused to tell where the money came from. The women were charged with simple larceny and ordered to appear in court today.

Body of Owossoan Found in His Home (Special to The State Journal) OWOSSO, Aug. 4 The body of Horace G. Barnhart, 73, was found in his one-room home Monday morning, by a newspaper boy. Coroner William Scarlett said that Barnhart had died of natural causes and had been dead since Friday. A neighbor said he had had.

heart trouble. Reconditioned Pair Hunted In Slaying Parolee and Ex-Waitress Are Sought in Death of Detroit Man DETROIT, Aug. 4 A Jackson prison parolee and a former waitress were sought today in the wrench slaying of a Detroit restaurant owner whose blud geoned body was found along lonely Ohio road. John Caruso, 58, who operated the Splendid restaurant in downtown Detroit, was found dead early Sunday about 25 miles west of Toledo near Grand Rapids, O. W.

Hollis Burrow, deputy cor oner, said death was caused from bleeding and several blows to the head and face. Burrow said Caruso had been dead "some time' before he was dumped by the roadside. A bloodstained wrench was found near the body. broadcast a nationwide alert for Eugene M. Gilleo, 27, and Roberta Mackey, 25.

Police said Gilleo, who was paroled from Southern Michigan prison hi 1951 after serving 13 months for carry ing concealed weapons, and Miss Mackey, a former waitress in Caru so restaurant, had been living together as man and wife in sub urban Ferndale. Caruso's body was Identified early today by Wilmer Raynes, 21 whose father owns a rooming house where the restauranteur lived. Raynes told Ohio authorities he saw Miss Mackey enter Caruso's restaurant about 4 a. m. Sunday and said they both drove away in her car a short time later.

Raynes said they were followed by a second car occupied by two men. He told police one of the men answered umeo general description. College to Mason is uuatu iuuvc (Special to The State Journal) OLIVET, Aug. 4 Vaughn Snook, head athletic coach at Olivet college, has resigned to direct athletics in the Mason public schools. He will teach social studies, as well.

at the Ingham county seat. Mr. Snook, who took his A. B. at Olivet came here from a post as coach at a military academy in the south.

Mr. and Mrs. Snook and their four children will move to Mason late in August. Go Down 3,715 Feet But Fail to Find Oil (Special to The State Journal) SHEPHERD, Aug. 4 The Coe township oil test under W.

B. Stewart's supervision on thi Gray farm, a part of the Adams homestead in Coe township, Isabella county, has failed to show oil after being drilled 3,715 feet The oil test well was one mile south of the county farm 80, which is under lease by the Carter Oil company. PtMrU Mtttr SSattf C-tiol MMh Snri JMwill Cm HOME DEM5HTRATICT it- In Ann Arbor Call 30588 UKmJLS 4012 S. Cedar special: limited Tim! $49 Value! NEW PORTABLE ELECTRIC SEWING ,4 MACHINE 48477 I Sudser To a Limited Number Peoplt EfijjP 60 Mile Radius SEWING MACHINE s29.50 As Little as $1.25 Per Week Reconditioned by Hub FOR FREE HOME DEMONSTRATION Reconditioned 0 -I 3 1 by Hub Experts 7 llllUU $1 A95 A Real Buy.

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