The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-22
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State
Briefs


BATTLE CREEK-(T-Bar-
bara Joan Merica, one-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
ion Merica of Clarendon town.
ship, was killed Monday when
the automobile in which she was
riding overturned near Homer.
DETROIT-(R-Gen. Wlady-
slsw Sikorski, premier Of the
Polish government in exile, at.
tended the convention of Polish
priests of the United States here
Tuesday. The general, who Is
touring in behalf Of q Polish Le-
gion now being mustered In Can
ada, received a noisy welcome
here Monday when more than
5000 Polish residents Of Ham.
tramck and Detroit greeted him.
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DETROIT - up - Clarence
Bousson died Monday at Crosse
Pointe hospital of injuries re-
ceived when he was trampled
by q team of horses.
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DETROIT - up - Two per-
sons were killed Monday night
in traffic accidents in the metro.
politan area. Miss Kathleen
King, II, was fatally injured
when the automobile in which
she was riding overturned at
Eight Mile road and James Cou-
zens highway, and Ferdinand
Quatrin, 40, a pedestrian, died
after being struck by an auto
mobile.
SAGINAW - up - Seven
year-old Richard Cordney was
killed Monday as he dashed
across US-10-23 south of here
to meet his sister. A car driven
by Morris Brook, 20, of High
land Park, struck the boy and
hurled him against the running
board of another automobile
driven by Primeru Alessi of
Pontiac.
DETROIT - R James
Johnson, AZ, was sentenced to q
three-year prison term Monday
by Federal Judge Frank A. Pr
card after he pleaded guilty to
a mail fraud charge involving
the resale of postage stamps
sent to him on approval by 30
stamp companies.
DETROIT - R - Transfer
Of Lt.-Col. Joseph L. Bachus, in
chagre of army recruiting in
Michigan since 1887, to the Sixth
Corps Area was announced here
Monday. Lt.-Col. Bachus, who
begins his new duties at Chi
cago May 5, Is expected to be
IN charge of all recruiting in the
corps area, including Michigan.
Illinois and Wisconsin.
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BAD AXE - up - The navy
department Monday notified
Owen Perkins that his brother,
James Merrill Perkins, 81, first
class boatswain's mate on the
U.S.S. .McDougal, was killed in
an accident near Honolulu Sun
day night. Perkins, a veteran
Of ID years of navy service, was
a former resident of Bad Axe.
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GRAND RAPIDS - (R -
Franklin Drake, 70, died Monday
Of injuries received last Thurs
day when he was struck by a
Grand Rapids Motor Coach Co.
bus.
GRAND RAPIDS - (R -
Seventeen year old Margaret
Mary Grula will represent
Grand Rapids in the Benton
Harbor Blossom Queen contest
May 5. She was named Miss
Grand Rapids Monday night
from a group of FL contestants.
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DETROIT - R - A circuit
court jury Monday found James
Smith, 40-year-old taxicab driv-
er, guilty of negligent homicide
in the death of Mrs. Helen Slim
der, 20. last Aug. IA. Circuit
Judge Mark D. Taylor, visiting
jurist, sent Smith to Jail for
sentencing Friday.
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BENTON HARBOR - R -
Three officers and 102 men of
the Benton Harbor naval reserve
contingent left here Monday by
train for the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station.
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