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...bank loans from Manhattan and R. F. C. replaced closed First National and Guardian with two new banks. That plan failed because Manhattan refused to do its part. Last week's plan was less ambitious. Edsel Ford and associates raised capital with which to merge four suburban banks (Highland Park State Bank, Peoples Wayne County Bank, Guardian Bank of Dearborn, Dearborn State Bank). The R. F. C. agreed to lend $17,000,000 on the assets of the four banks, also to lend $25,000,000 on the assets of the big Guardian bank permitting payment to its depositors...
...test of a nation's sense of stability is the manner in which it treats crimes against the state. In Britain month ago a young Highland officer, Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart, was tried for espionage and high treason in the full glare of publicity. In Italy last week a secret military tribunal met behind locked doors to try the case of 25-year-old half-French, half-Italian Camilla Agliardi of Brescia and her lover, Warrant Officer Ugo Traviglia. They had been in jail for months, but only a handful of people in all Italy knew they had been...
Died. Raymond William Stevens, 58, onetime president of defunct Illinois Life Insurance Co.; by his own hand (pistol); in Highland Park...
...ardent amateur ornithologist, Stevens sat in the library of his Highland Park (Chicago suburb) home, within reach a volume of an encyclopedia open to an article on birds. Taking a revolver in hand he fired a trial shot into the fireplace, then put a bullet through his head. Insurance to be paid on his life was estimated at $300,000. His brother and his father, 79, were to go on trial with him, but the father last week lay ill unto death with apoplexy and his life insurance of $72,000 was in danger of lapsing unless premiums were paid...
Briskly Henry Ford marched into his Highland Park plant, where part of the Briggs operation is housed. Three hours later Briggs posted a notice of return to a guaranteed hourly wage, abolition of "dead time." Old employes were given two days to come back. Then general hiring would begin. "We'll have to have bodies," said Mr. Ford, "even if we have to make them ourselves...