THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1935 Rescue Crews Labor All Night To Find Bodies More Than Forty Injured And Six Known Dead In ChicagoBlast Inquiries Launched Searchers Are Hindered By Mass Of Brick And Shattered Glass CHICAGO, Oct. 8. -(P) - Fresh rescue crews replaced those who had labored all night and pushed efforts today to find the bodies of possibly six more victims of one of the worst industrial explosions in Chicago's history". Six known dead and more than 40 injured were counted in the blast that demolished the soybean products plant of the Glidden Co. on the near Northside yesterday as though it were a cigar box in the path of a tractor. Searchers were hindered by the mass of brick, shattered glass and twisted steel girders. Firemen said it would require several days to clear the wreckage. The explosion caused damage esti- mated at nearly $1,000,000. It leveled the plant, felled three storage tanks, wrecked five automobiles parked nearby, crushed two box cars on a siding, caused serious damage to nearby homes and buidings and shat- tered windows within a radius of several blocks. The plant had reopened for the first time a few hours before the blast. It had been closed for five weeks to permit the installation of new ma- chinery. The known dead were Dana Noyes Merrill, 30, chemist, of Oak Park, Ill.; George R. Harger, 33, superin- tendent of Oak Park; Samuel Van Glider, 45, of Arlington Heights; John A. Satosky, 35, of Chicago;' Edwin' Seaburg, 48, of Chicago; Ralph Payne, 40, of Oak Park. Among those reported missing were Edward Biang, Frank Covey, Wilson Cruz, F. Lovell, and Frank Cozey. Investigations were launched by the coroner, the state attorney's of- fice and the fire department. Danger of new explosions from escaping gases added to the difficulty of rescue and firemen relinquished the task to crews from the building commissioner's department. Gas com- pany workers dug to the mains to shut off gas. Potato Growers Favor Changes In Control Act WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. - P) - A committee of potato growers wants the existing potato control act en- forced during the next crop year, but recommends that it be modified by Congress after that. Members of the committee, the AAA said, were selected by growers representing important commercial potato states at a meeting here last winter. The changes suggested in the law were: Increase of automatic allotment ex- emption from five to fifty bushels. Provisions for a referendum with approval of two-thirds of producers entitled to an allotment necessary for continuance after the first year. Provision to exempt the consumer from penalties with reference to stamping and packaging potatoes. Provision for growers who sell di- rect to the consumer to file returns on sales to eliminate attaching stamps to potatoes. Provision for regulation of ship- ments of potatoes in interstate com- merce in excess of grower allotments. The committee also suggested that a referendum be held to obtain sen- timent of growers during each allot- ment year. Mrs. Creiohton Confesses Aid In Poisonings MINEOLA, N. Y., Oct. 8. - VP) - A housewife who smiled with a child's unconcern confessed today, officials said, that she helped the alleged se- ducer of her schoolgirl daughter to poison his 220-pound wife. The woman, Mrs. John Creighton, 36-years old, also was represented as confessing that she did away with her own brother by the same poison -a crime for which she was tried and acquitted- a decade ago. An illicit relationship that Ever- ett R. Applegate, 38 years old, past commander of his American Legion post, allegedly carried on with Ruth Creigliton, 15, apparently inspired the Borgian conspiracy at Baldwin, N. Y. Mrs. Applegate died Sept. 27, the Digging For Blast Victims Glee Club Plans Broadcasts For Current Year, Victim Of Air Crash Many Tryouts And Veteran Singers Up Nucleus Forty Make To Ask Funds For Landscape Project LANSING, Oct. 8. - () -- Murray D. Van Wagoner, State Highway commissioner, said Monday that he will ask the Federal Bureau of Pub- lic Roads to finance one half of the previously contemplated landscaping project on US-25 between the Eight and 12 Mile Roads. East Detroit city officials oppose she project, but officers in Roseville, which also would benefit, favor it. Van Wagoner said that he will ask the Bureau to pay the costs of the portion of the project which lies in Roseville. Judge James E. Spier, of Macomb County Circuit Court, has denied the Highway Department's petition for an injunction to restrain East De- troit from interfering with the work. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued fromPage 4) African war. Everyone is welcome to attend. Coming Events Weekly Reading Hour: Thursday, October 10,' at 4:00, Room 205 Ma- son Hall. Miss Phyllis Blauman will give a lecture-recital of Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple." The public is al- ways welcome at these Thursday af- ternoon reading hours. ACTRESS TO MARRY NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-(P)-Blanche Sweet, who won fame as a silent mo- tion picture star, announced today that she will marry Raymond Hack- ett, the actor, tomorrow. The Varsity Glee Club, under the direction of Prof. David E. Mattern of the School of Music starts out the new year with every indication of a successful season. With 30 new try- outs and 40 members returning from last year's organization, it has a host' of material from which to choose the forty voices which comprise the mem- bership.I 'heclub will make three broad-? casts, the first of which will be made this fall. The broadcasts will go out frcm the Morris Hall studios, which is directly connected with Station WJR, Detroit. A series of concerts will again be given throughout the state. This year the Glee Club will sing at the stadium between the halves of the annual homecoming game. As a climax to the activities of the club, an eastern concert tour is being ar- rgnged. Although not definitely de-1 cided, the trip is being tentatively scheduled for either Christmas or Spring vacation. The Four Men of Note, a quartet formed from the members of the club, have made several campus appear- ances, making a very creditable show- ing QUADRUPLETS' DAD RUNS LANSING, Oct. 8. -(UP)-Carl A. Morlok, father of the famous Lansing quadruplets, faced a contest for re- nomination as constable in today's primary election. -Associated Press Photo. Chicago firemen are shown digging in the ruins of the paint and varnish plant which was the.scene of a terrific explosion which killed several persons and injured more than a score. -Associated Press Photo. John F. Cushing, president of the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock company in Chicago, was among the 12 victims of the crash of an airliner near Cheychne, Wyo. Women, Children Join Relief Pickets BUFFALO, Oct. 8. - (/") -Women and children joined the picket lines of Buffalo striking relief workers to- day as relief authorities continued to "outwait them." The strike, called last Friday in protest against a $55 a month WPA wage scale, entered its fourth day still free of violence. OCTOBER. GARGOYLE OUT TOMO RROW Get that Years sSubscription for 50c Clark Hurt In Auto Crash Near Chelsea Gilbert Clark, 34 years old, of 1204 Granger Road, was seriously injured when his automobile collided last night near Chelsea with a car driven by Ben Lawrence, also of Ann Arbor. State Police who attended the ac- cident, rushed Clark to St. Joe's Hos- pital for treatment of severe head and neck injuries and lacerations on his right side. Clark was driving west on U. S. 12 and Lawrence was going north on Freer Road when the two automobiles smashed at the intersection. Halstead Named Head Of Speech Association Dr. William P. Halstead, instructor in the speech department, has been named manager of the Michigan High School Forensic Association to take the place of Dr. James H. McBurney, who has been given leave of absence to study under a scholarship at Co- lumbia University. Dr. Halstead has announced that the limit for entering the Associa- tion's debating contest is Nov. 1, and the first debate will be held on Nov. 22.- At present there are 201 entries for the debates, 125 of which will be, held throughout the state during the coming school year. i i i Eh-- ---° - ----- ilf ' A Pia2 AL 'nlos MUSICAL SUPPLIES FOR STUDENTS to Rent Repairing of All Musical Instruments Schaeberle Music House New Location: 203 East Liberty St. Phone 60 40 Years in Ann Arbor 11 - --_6 MNLore cigarettes are smoked today because more people know about them-they are better advertised. But the main reason for the increase is that they are made better-made of better tobaccos; then again the tobaccos are blended - a blend of Domestic and Turkish tobaccos.