The Yale expositor., 1918-05-09
STATE news

AOEL IluTOu.-DuL lNO IOIL IluiOh
druggists and two in st. Clair county,
outside OF the city, will sell liquor for
medicinal purposes.
Albion.-In response to largely
signed petitions of Albion tax payers
the school board dropped the years
study of German in the high school
and full credits will be given for the
years work.
Hart.-Attorney Leslie Green, form
erly prosecuting attorney and now
lieutenant in the United States forces
overseas, was slightly wounded in one
OF the recent German drives, accord
ing TO word received here.
East Lansing.-If possible Michigan
farmers who have been unable to Sc
cure help locally, will be supplied by
the federal farm labor bureau, accord
ing to A. B. Cook, federal farm labor
director, who has established his head
quarters here.
Lansing.-The state food administra-
ton closed the jamestown Co-opera-
tive Elevator Co. for one week for
selling wheat without substitutes and
for not having a license. Three hun
dred Ottawa county farmers are mem
bers of the firm.
Escanaba-More than $50 cases of
beer and 25 gallons of whisky were
c~onfiscated in Delta county in the first
of a series Of raids made on saloon
property. The biggest results were at
an Austrian boarding house, where S3
cases of beer and 10 gallons of whisky
were %conficated.
Allegan-Mrs. G. l.. Hicks, a promi-
nent Allegan woman, died of heart
disease or apoplexy during a fire
of the John Hopkins hospital here. She
was not on the floor which burned.
All h other patients were quietly re-
moved to places of safety.
Battle Creek.-Clarence Everett
Brown, listed among the American
casualties as dying of pneumonia, is
the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brown,
of Emmett township, Calhoun county.
He entered Camp Custer September
10, and later was SEN to Waco to
join the National Guard units.
Camp Custer.-Maj. Potter, of the
340th Infantry has received word that
a younger brother who recently went
overseas in the aviation service has
been killed in action. Although he
sailed but a few weeks ago, the young
ster succeeded in bringing down N
enemy plane before being killed.
Flint.-Intimations that the One
Hundred and Twenty-ffth infantry,
formerly the T|hirty-third Michigan,
has been in action in France are given
in notification received by John Fitz-
gerald of Flint that his son, John j..
Fitzgerald. Company G. One Hundred
and Twenty-ifth, has been wounded.
Detroit-Lieutenant Edwin Victor
Rickenbacker, a former Detroiter, one
of the most prominent racing motor
drivers in the United States, brought
down a German aeroplane recently, ac-
cording to dispatches from France.
Rickenbacker went to France as per-
sonal chauffeur for General Pershing.
On his request he was later transfer
red to the aviation department.
Flint-Preparations made by A. G.
Vandewalker, owner of the Bank of
Mt. Morris, to aid him in Ease of an
attack by robbers caused the capture
of Russell Smith, 20, of Flint, who
stole $4,000 in currency after locking
Vandewalker and his wife in the vault
of the bank. Vandewalter had secre-
ted a screw driver in the vault and
with this was able to make his escape.
Lansing-In an effort to defeat the
amendment initiated by the liquor in
t~erests. which would legalize the sale
of beer and light wines in Michigan,
the Michigan A~nti-Saloon League pro-
poses to raise a campaign fund of
$150,000. Additional workers will be
placed in the upper peninsula, where
IL is expected the beer and wine
amendment may appeal strongly to the
foreign element.
Grand Rapids.-Mrs. Lee A. Runnels
wife of a manual training teacher,
who confessed she held lighted match
eS 10 ln6 HduuS VI HtT HNt-N6dT-Olu
step-son until the lads fingers were
blistered, ito keep him from touching
things" a sent by Probate Judge
Bigbee to the ~psychopathic hospital
at Ann Arbor. She was classed as a
nervous patient by a Kalamazoo state
hospital alienist.
Detroit-Harry Griffs, also known as
Sailor Scotty," whose freakish mus
cular control has puzzled many prom
inent surgeons and medical men, has
been accepted as a member of the De-
troit police force. Griffs. without APP
parent effort, can increase his height
more that six inches and reduce Il
about three inches. He can extend his
reach about one foot; by a series e
dislocations of the hip bones reduce
the size of his legs. and produce many
uncanny physical contortions.
Camp Custer-Private Herbert F..
Atkins OF Detroit, member of the 3s7th
Efold hoapffol Qr0tb Confto~, 4.us.