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...since 1830, before Michigan became a State, had anyone been executed in Michigan.† Governor Frank Murphy thought trying to preserve that tradition would be a popular gesture. With Killer Chebatoris scheduled to hang at the Federal Detention Farm in Milan, Mich, last week. Governor Murphy appealed to President Roosevelt to have Chebatoris hanged in some other State...
There were visits to the reclaimed Pontine Marshes, Florence, Milan and the northern Italian lakes. Described to the delegates were Dopolavoro's 1,227 theatres in which are given 25,000 performances annually, Saturday matinees with seats selling at 2½, 5? and 10?. The delegates were taken to the sumptuous Dopolavoro clubhouse of the Air Force employes, and to the equally impressive railroaders' Dopolavoro club in Rome: 100 guest bedrooms, a theatre seating 1,500 persons, a library of 7,000 volumes, a restaurant, bar, poolroom, bocci-ball court, gymnasium. Also on view were "Thespis Cars," trucks...
Last week the dammed-up waters of the Saline River spilled through a generator at the little village of Milan. Mich, creating power for Ford Motor Co.'s 15th "factory in the meadow." All but three of the 16 are in Michigan within 50 miles of Dearborn, and the Milan factory is fairly typical; a good example of Henry Ford's back-to-the-farm hobby which also helps him make automobiles at a profit...
More than a year ago Ford workmen appeared in Milan, began throwing a dam across the Saline, turning the Milan Garage and an old grist mill into a factory to manufacture ignition coils and to process soybeans for plastics. Into the factory, shaded by trees on the bank of the little lake made by the dam, last week went 30 Milan villagers. It will give employment eventually to some 30 more. They will spend their spare time on their farms growing their own food. They will work with cheap water power and they are expected to work more quickly, more...
President Benes hopes to cool the Sudeten crisis with a new minority statute. Last week in Prague, Premier Dr. Milan Hodza was conferring with Sudeten and other minority leaders. In a few weeks a new Czech minority program may be promulgated, offering the minorities more generous political and educational concessions. To remove signs of Czech dominance in the Sudeten areas, last week the bulk of the army reserves sent there five weeks ago were demobilized...