The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-05-04
STATE NEWS
INV BRIEF

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being sought as deserters from the
draft In Oakland county. A list was
com sled after 50 men responded to
the call for examination out OF about
400 who had previously failed to re
port
Algonac-In addition TO oversub-
scribing the Liberty loan quota, Clay
township, in which this village Is To-
Gated, has completed the raising OF a
fund of $4,000 to be turned over to the
Red Cross when the big drive begins
In May.
Albion Following strenuous efforts
on the part of Albion's war board of
Is to smoke out" all financial slack
ers who would not contribute to the
monthly war fund. notice was served
that a list OF the noncontrlbutors will
be published
Lansing-A warning against PRO
| moters' OF banks has been issued by
Banking Commissioner Frank Merrick.
Tn. warning came following reports
that number of outside promoters
were preparing to enter Michigan and
real. harvest.
| Detroit-Gas fumes from the home
| of Mrs Lillian Torrance, 20, of 537 Ri
.ard street, caused neighbors to break
into the house. They found the wo-
| mans decomposed body in bed. The
coroner believes she had been dead for
at least two weeks.
Lansing-The Boston cafe, a Jack
| son restaurant, was ordered closed
| tor one week by the food administra-
.ion The proprietors of this place,
| Greeks. are said to have been wholly
forgetful of all regulations pre-
scribed by Administrator Hoover.
Marquette Sheriff William II.
| Krempal. of Luce county, was found
dead, bullet hole in his right temple,
in his office in the Newberry court
house at Newberry. His automatic
| pistol lay at his feet and the pre-
| sumption Is that ne took his own life.
Yale-Wharton & Co.'S elevator and
hay shed at Yale, together with $1,000
bushels of oats and barley, were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss Is between
s35, 900 and $4,000. The fire started
from a bonfire near the Wharton shed
and there is no suspicion of incendiar-
Ism. Nss-vS
| Detroit-Mrs.-, Maude Koch, 80
years old and the mother of five chill.
dren, leaped into the Detroit river and
was drowned She pushed her way
through a crowd of people boarding
ferry boat at the Woodward avenue
dock, and jumped into the water be-
fore she could be stopped.
Detroit.-Since the establishment OF
the bureau of delinquents $500 stack
ers have beep rounded up in Detroit
and sent to Camp Custer. The Amer
lean Protective league, the police and
| federal officials have been the three
factors in rounding up the delinquents,
through visiting the haunts where sucn
men are likely to congregate.
Ann Arbor. --Lieutenant Edwin Den
by, of the United States Marines, form
er Detroit congressman. speaking in
| Whitney theater in behalf of the Lib
! erty loan, declared Americans are too
|
although he predicted an ultimate
victory for the Allies. pointed out that
victory is still, far from achievement
| Pontiac-Harold Buse. former clerk
Of the local draft board in Pontiac,
| was sentenced to one year In the he.
troit house of correction by Judge XII
| Its In the United States district court.
| He had been indicted by the federal
| grand jury on a charge of accepting
money from drafted men for aiding
them to escape military service, and
| pleaded guilty when arraigned on that
| charge.
Hastings-That young men exempt
| ed from army service on agricultural
grounds will be Immediately re-classi-
| fed and sent into the service whenever
| 1t is shown that their agricultural
production falls below a point where
| It is an important factor in increasing
| the country's food supply, is an
| nounced in a statement by William w.
| Potter, of Hastings, chairman of the
first district draft exemption board
Pontiac.-Four motorcycle patrol.
men will cover the roads OF Oakland
| county this summer to enforce the
state automobile laws The supervl-
| sors authorized the employment of
officers at $50 = month, and the pur.
chase of machines for them. Two
| officers we're employed last year. but
were able to watch only the main
roads to Detroit. Speeding has Seen
general on all improved roads in the
| county.
Camp Custer--To keep in close con.
| tact with all non-citzens in the divl-
sion, the intelligence section has set
| in motion its plan to have records Of
all such soldiers on file in its Offices.
When arriving, uon-citizens are asked
| TO fill out card telling of their ma.
tionality and attitude toward the war
| and the United States. Each com
pany commander will interview these
| soldiers and note on the card their i'm
| pression OF the c1an's loyalty.
| GAYLORD. Herman Marquardt. a
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