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John Deering, 39, had spent 17 years in jail and hated it. When he was arrested in Hamtramck, Mich., last July as a robbery suspect, Michigan authorities wanted to jail him again. But John Deering (who had shot his way to freedom once before) rather than take a 15-year jail sentence in Michigan confessed to the murder of Oliver R. Meredith Jr. in a robbery at Salt Lake City two months before. Extradited to Utah and tried for first-degree murder, he stolidly maintained that he was a habitual criminal, would be better dead. The judge agreed. Utah...
...than the Democratic primary voters, chose Frank D. Fitzgerald to run in November against Governor Frank Murphy, who ousted Mr. Fitzgerald in 1936. No Senator was involved: all incumbent Representatives (eight Democrats, nine Republicans) were renominated except Democrat George Sadowski who lost to Mayor Rudolph Tenerowicz of Hamtramck...
...people disputed the noose-worthiness of Anthony Chebatoris, 40, sneering, hard-bitten little Pole of Hamtramck, Mich, who, with an accomplice, shot two officers of the Midland (Mich.) Chemical State Savings Bank, killed a passing truck driver, was captured thanks to the marksmanship of a deer-hunting dentist. Taking life during a bank holdup calls for the death penalty under Federal...
...stated his equivalent of Herbert Hoover's chicken and two cars most concretely in Detroit's suburban Hamtramck, declaring: "I am thinking of a better future for America, a future of more wages, more holidays, shorter hours, Saturdays off and Sundays off as well. Some people would call it boondoggling, this idea of providing more facilities for recreation, but if that is boondoggling then I am for boondoggling...
...Hamtramck, an independent municipality completely surrounded by Detroit, 250 housewives led by Mrs. Mary Zuk formed the Women's League Against the High Cost of Living, began picketing butchers' shops and branches of packing plants. They demanded a 20% cut in the price of meats. All but one shop in town closed. Angry butchers petitioned AAA to explain to Mrs. Zuk and friends that they were not responsible for the price of meat. AAA refused to admit its responsibility for meat prices...