Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 10

10 THZ rXQOSEK AVD VTWS BaUUa Creek. Fri, Mr 24. 19M Inquiry Hopes to Determine If Street Car Doors Jammed American-Marsh Hit by Walk-Out 135 Machinists Go on Strike; Moulders Stay on Job. Storm Disrupts Phone Service CHICAGO Investigators of I high speed into the path of the on- the collision and fire fatal to 33 per coming truck? U. S.

Gasoline Helps End Rationing in England LONDON iJPi Britain wiped out gasoline rationing today through a deal ending a long boiling dispute between American oil companies and the British government. Derationing, effective tomorrow, was made possible because the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and California Texas Oil Co. agreed to supply oil and take British sterling Instead of dollars In payment, the government said. The provision was that Britain would abandon rationing.

The Labor government has been under pressure from Winston Churchill Conservatives and motoring groups to do away with rationing. Power Uns Alto Hit, But Rain li Aid to Crops. XH Of j. 0 ffy sons tried today to find whether rear doors of a street car Jammed last night, sealing the crowded car into a blazing prison on wheels tor passengers. Most of the 33 dead were found In the street car.

Many of them died because they could not escape from the street car after it collided with a gasoline truck and burst into flames. Piles of charred bodies were stacked three and four deep inside the rear doors. Center of Inquiry Coroner A. L. Brodie said his inquiry will center on these questions: 1.

Was the street car too overcrowded, making escape impossible? 2. Did the rear doors jam shut or did they open even temporarily? 3. Did metal bars outside side windows of the car prevent escape? 4. Did the trolley's motorman miss a switch signal, causing the car to turn left into the switch at too Approximately 135 machinists at the American Marsh Pumps plant went on strike at 10:15 a. m.

today after rejecting a new contract proposal offered by the management. The workmen, all members of the International Association of Machinists union, held a meeting In the plant this morning at which time Fred R. Bloomhuff, business agent for the union, presented the offer from the company. The offer was to provide three paid holidays and to keep the present wage scale. The union members 162 Properties Sold for Taxes Owners Still Have a Year To Pay Up City Levies.

The city of Battle Creek today sold at auction 162 properties on which 1949 taxes were delinquent, but the action does not mean that the recorded owners necessarily lose their properties for failing to pay the city taxes on time. The owners still may pay the delinquent taxes. If they do not pay the taxes within the next year, the persons who bid them in at the sale this morning can obtain a tax deed which may be recorded and remain as a lien against the property bearing in rest until such time as the owner decides to make a settlement. A total of 231 properties out of the advertised list of approximately 400 were oflered at today's auction. The other 170-odd properties were redeemed by the owners before the date of the sale.

The city itself bid in 69 properties on which no bids were received. Most of the properties in today's sale were vacant lots. Tin city received a total of $3,453.64 for taxes of 162 descriptions. Thirteen persons bid on the 162 descriptions with six bidders taking most of them. Seven persons bid on Just one or two descriptions.

Chicago's 6S3 streamlined trolley cars have various safety devices, but it was uncertain whether they have oae to open rear doors In an emergency, persons who escaped last night tumbled out of large rear windows, which have no bars. Slide Like Accordion The Uiree rear doors, made of several vertical, weather-stripped glass and metal panels, fold and slide aside like an accordion in opening. They require slight clearance inside, and to this extent they open Inward. The conductor, William Liddoll, was quoted by the Chicago Sun-Times as saying he tried to open the doors by turning his control lever "but there were so many people jammed against the doors they could not open." Failure of inward-swinging doors to open has caused 'many lire deaths In the past, including some in major tragedies like the New London, Texas, school explosion and fire in which 294 died in 1937. Some areas later required outward opening doors, and pressure-opening bars, as a safety measure.

Firemen told newsmen they found all of the street car's doors closed when they put out the flumes. But at least two passengers told of forcing their way through one section of the rear door panels. rejected the proposal and voted to go on strike Immediately. Te union earlier had taken the strike votes required by law. Foundry men.

who belong to an AFL union, remained at work in the plant. Mr. Blocmhuff said the LIE SATISFIED WITH TRIP Trygve Lie. (left) secretary general of the United Nations, is greeted by his assistant Byron Price as he arrives in New York from his "pilgrimage of peace" trip to Europe. He was satisfied with his conversations with leaders of the Big Three, including Joseph Stalin of Russia.

(NEA Telephoto) St. Philip Recital Is Scheduled Tonight Bulletins Dr. Robins Is Elected To Michigan TB Post foundry men will be asked to honor the machinists' picket lines Monday. Negotiations on a new contract were staited four months ago when the plant management filed notice that it desired to decrease wage rates by 15 cents an hour. E.

M. Jenkins, chairman of the board of the company, is now in Europe, and other plant officials would make no comment today. At the A-B Stoves plant, members of two stove mounters unions still are picketing the plant. A meeting between union and management representatives on a contract proposal was being held today, how- A lummer rain storm swooped In on BtUe Creek area yesterday and ent bomeward-bound worker scurrying for cover. Phone and electrical sendee was disrupted.

The ftorm tu accompanied by 40 mlle-an-hour winds and stronger gusts that inapped off limb and blew down trees at various places In the city. Lightning and winds disrupted telephone serrice to some 600 residents, Michigan Bell official reported. Many Still Out Some 400 telephones were still out of service this morning but this was being restored. Two cables were down on Territorial road last night, affecting some 200 customers, but their phones were back In service by 11 p. m.

Disrupted telephone service for the remaining 400 customers was caused by wet cables, some wires down and lightning. The Consumer Power Co. reported trees and limbs down at various places throughout the city, but fortunately major power lines were not hit generally. During the storm the west end Industrial section power was lnterupted off and on during a 15-mlnute period as a result of lightning. Hotel Power Off Power to the Hart hotel and to Bill Woods Tire Service went off at 6:15 p.

m. when a main power line was hit by lightning. Elevator service, air conditioning and the hot water system were out until 11 p. m. at the Hart hotel untlll workers ran a temporary line and repaired a burned out Junction box.

Initial rain was accompanied by a brief hall storm lasting for only a few minutes and causing no damage to garden and field crops. Strong gusts of wind hurled hall and large rain drops against windshields of moving cars, making driving hazardous to Impossible. Many motorists pulled over to the side of the road to wait out the storm. Kellogg Field reported a total of .73 Inches of rain, the most for the area. Marshall had A3 Inches, Hickory Corners about a half Inch and Coldwater only .06 of an Inch.

The Coldwater State Home and Training school reported that most of the rain was to the north with Oirard receiving a good soaker. At County Health Director Is Named Trustee. CINCINNATI (JP) Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler today told Dick Wakefield to report to Oakland in the Pacific Coast league.

The temperamental outfielder was sold to that club yesterday by the New York Yankees, but said he would not report. He carried the plea to Chandler in a telephone conversation, declaring he had had no real chance to show his stuff with the Yankees. Jackson Dean Finds U.S. Troops Fear War The St. Philip school music department will present Its first recital this year, "Springtime Frolic," at 8 p.

m. today In the school gymnasium. More than 60 students will take part in the recital, playing piano and violin solos and duets. Two recitals will be held in the gymnasium Sunday, one at 3 p. m.

and the other at 8 p. m. The afternoon program will include piano solos by students in grades two through five and selections by the junior high school chorus. Senior music students will present the evening program which will Include accordion and piano solos and the high school glee club. Janet Thurtle will be the accompanist for all three recitals.

least two trees were down In Cold-water as a result of strong winds. In Albion the home of David Sutton at 202 River road was damaged as a large portion of a tree struck the rear of the house, damaging the cornice and ripping off a portion of the roof. Several trees were down In Albion, with two or three streets blocked briefly. Damage to an Albion Cab Co. taxi resulted when a good-sized limb snapped off in the wind and struck the cab that was parked on West Porter street.

Although initial rain was hard, It slackened and continued as a heavy drizzle that soaked into semi-parched soil. Farmers throughout the area welcomed rain that was several weeks overdue. Rains earlier this week were too light to do much good. At the W. K.

Kellogg farm, near Hickory Corners, C. M. McCrary said that of the .53 inches that fell there yesterday evening, about a fourth was hard and the rest a heavy drizzle. Kellogg farm workers had anticipated finishing corn planting today but are having to postpone it until the ground dries out some. Crops to Benefit Pasture and hay were expected to benefit the most from rain.

Hay at the present time has made only about half Its normal growth In many areas and farmers are anticipating a shortage this year. Stuart Love, fanner southeast of Marshall, said Wednesday that his hay would be mighty short this year unless rain was forthcoming. Mr. Love's corn will benefit greatly from the rain as will all other corn that was In the ground. Thunderstorms raked most of lower Michigan and scattered hail and wind damage was reported.

Treated for Shock Dorothy Updike. 14. was treated for shock after being felled by lightning which struck a cabin she was helping to paint at Cadillac. Four cows were killed in Kent county, near Cedar Springs. Adolphe Bothe.

who lives northeast of East Lansing, estimated $12,000 damage was caused by a lightning bolt that struck his barn, setting It afire and destroying the building and implements stored in NEW VEGETABLE STORAGE BUILDING NEARLY READY WASHINGTON iJPt President Truman today nominated Edward Lee Norton of Birmingham, Ala to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Norton is an investment banker and radio station owner. BIRTHS ST. ANDREWS, Scotland JPy Frank Stranahan of Toledo, and Dick Chapman of Pinehurst, N. battled their way today into the finals of the British amateur golf championship and will meet over the 36-hole route tomorrow for the title.

Mr. and Mr. John Fore of 14 Fourteenth street, a daughter 10:23 a. m. Thursday at Leila hospital.

Local Young Man On 'Round World Sailing Venture It thiiiRs work out the way he hopes, Carleton G. (Skip Gcnebach, Jr. will be busy the next two or three years sailing "round the world. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Carleton Genebach of the Battle Greek Country club. Skip laft New Orleans May 16 on the 62-foot ketch Arthur Rogers which is owned by a British family by the name of Hepworth. The first stop is Belise, British Honduras. After laying over for two or three weeks there, they will proceed through the Panama Canal and on to the south seas. Skip who has been attending Tulsa university is not new to the sailing business.

In September. 1948, he sailed aboard the Carib on a West Indies cruise. At the Admiral Billiard academy. New London. served first as bo'sun, then as first mate, aboard the schooner, Yankee, on summer cruises.

The elder Mr. Genebach said today that his son will share part of the expenses on the trip, and that the length of the trip and the Itinerary still are not completely worked out. In two or three years the ketch may wind up In the home port at Falmouth, Eng. after which Skip will make plans for getting back to the U. S.

A. Mr. and Mr. Lucas D. Polirella of 105 Terrace avenue, a on at p.

m. Thursday at Leila hospital. JACKSON' (T) American troops In Germany fear an early war more than native Europeans, according to Dr. W. N.

Atkinson, dean of Jackson Junior college, just back from a Michigan State college "flying classroom" tour of Europe. He said the 65 educators visited every country outside the iron curtain, talking with members of the American embassy, Marshall plan officials, European government representatives and business, industrial and union leaders. "The European leaders believe that Russia was more seriously damaged by war than we supposed." said Dean Atkinson. "They think that Russia will be unable to carry on a large scale war for many years to come even if she wants to." American troops in Germany, on the other hand, were extremely concerned over the concentration of Soviet troops and the development of air fields, he said. He said Europe is rebuilding as rapidly as it can for the welfare of the people.

Leaders of all nations the educators talked with have a united Europ- In mind, but they do not look upon it as a matter of immediate practicality. Dean Atkinson said. They expressed encouragement by the decline of Communist votes. Mr. and Mn.

Kenneth Rench of Sherwood, a snn at 7:31 p. ra. Thursday at Leila hospital. More Strike Violence Feared in Tennessee Mr. and Mrs.

Robert A. Show of 2P2 We.t Manchester. mi enter at 8:36 p. m. Thursday at Leila hospital.

HOMER Finishing touches are being put on the new 30,000 crate vegetable storage building on the Harold Huston vegetable farm Just north of here this week. The storage will be ready to handle Mr. Huston's onion and carrot crop this summer. During normal years the building will be used to store potatoes as well, but Mr. Huston isn't growing potatoes this year nor did he grow any last year.

On 130 acres of muck land his normal rotation includes carrots, mint, onions and potatoes. He generally leaves mint in for two years but when labor is short he leaves it in for three years. Mr. Huston lost 12 acres of onion sets two weeks ago as a result of the heavy winds. Many other producers in the Homer area lost a lot more than that.

"I had only been planting about three hours when the blow began," Mr. Huston said, "so I didn't lose too many." He estimated that some sections. of his muck lost an inch and a half of soil. In addition to his muck land, he has 100 acres of upland on which he is establishing orchards. It includes about a dozen various apple varieties, among which are golden delicious and double red delicious.

He said that the fruit enterprise will fit in well with marketing of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas -W. Snyder of 9 Hazel, a son at 12:09 a. m.

today at Leila hospital. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Helns of 200 West Bidwel.

a son at 4:46 a. m. today at Leila hospital. THE WEATHER r. a nd Mrs.

James Rlcha rd of 51 2 West VanBuren. a son at a. m. today at Leila hospital. Dr.

Hugh B. Robins, director of the county health department, was elected a trustee of the Michigan Tuberculosis association at the group's annual meeting in Lansing. The two-day conference closed yesterday after more than 250 delegates had attended several lectures and panel discussions on various phases of TB work. Dr. S.

A. Yannitelli, director of the Arthur S. Kimball sanatorium, took part in a panel discussion on sanatorium patient service programs. He pointed out that the Kimball sanatorium is working closely with the county health department and various welfare agencies and volunteer groups to work out problems arising when a person enters the sanatorium for treatment. One of the major problems, the panel agreed, was that of removing the "breadwinner" from a family to give him bed rest necessary for treating tubeculosis.

The panel noted that It is often difficult to keep a patient In a sanatorium for complete treatment, especially if his family is in economic trouble. Psychiatric cases are likely to develop in such situations, and that is why programs that include rehabilitation courses for the patient and assistance to his family are essential in TB work, Dr. Yannitelli said. He also touched briefly on some of the patient services offered at Kimball sanatorium. They include a library service, movies three times a month, educational and vocational courses.

One of the lecturers, Dr. J. Arthur Myers of the University of Minnesota school of medicine, charged that BCG, the so-called tuberculosis vaccine. Is a "smoke screen" which "destroys our most valuable weapon against tuberculosis, the tuberculin test." BCG develops a mild form of TB In the body when injected. "While BCG tuberculosis in developing," Dr.

Myers said, "tissues become sensitive to tuberculin so that the tuberculin test is no longer able to detect the presence of infection caused by active TB germs." He stated that "the use of this vaccine could lead to a false sense of security which might result in a breakdown of tuberculosis control." The fact that many persons have tuberculosis without knowing it was Illustrated by Dr. John Cowan of the state health department, who said that one out of every eight persons who dies of TB In Michigan is not known to be ill "until the death certificate is filed." FORECASTS (U. S. Weathtr- Bureau) Lower Michigan Mostly cloudy tonight, with occasional showers In extreme southeast; cooler In east. Saturday cleartng.

Low tonight, 40-45 north; 45-52 south. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Keathley of Route 5. a son at 4:48 p.

m. Thursday at Community hospital. it. Wind did an estimated $3,000 CLASSIFIEDS FOR RESULTS Mr. and Mrs.

Cornelius McNichols of 33 Peninsular, a son at 11:52 p. m. Thursday at Community hospital. Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Willavize of 2469 West Michigan avenue, a son at 3:39 a. nt. today at Community hospital. (B C. Flood Warning mattonl Battle Creek Area Slowly decreasing cloudiness tonight and Saturday.

Cooler tonight with a low of 46 degrees. Continued cool Saturday with a high of 70 degrees. Gentle to moderate north to northeast winds. Mr. and Mrs.

Glenn Loveless of Routs 1, Olivet, a son at 7:47 a. m. today at Community hospital. damage when It blew down a sheet steel tank wall being constructed by the Lakeside Refining Co. at Kalamazoo.

Vineyards Destroyed Hall furiously pelted a 10-mile square area of VanBuren county, virtually destroying 400 acres of vineyards. County agricultural agents said the loss represented about five percent of VanBuren's total vineyard acreage. Flower gardens were ripped to shreds by hail at Orand Rapids. Power Interruptions were general, but service was restored quickly in most areas. Lightning knocked down a tree at the state health laboratory at Lansing, setting off an automatic fire alarm.

No fire developed, however. TEMPERATURES IN BATTLE CREFK Max. Mln. Teeterday (mlrtmsht to midnight) 9 2 A week aKO today 74 4S A year today 3 MORRISTOWN. Tenn.

(JP) A detachment of 35 state highway patrolmen remained on duty at the strikebound American Enka Corp. plant today, following violent incidents yesterday. State Safety Commissioner Sam K. Neal, who spent the day here yesterday on orders of Gov. Gordon Browning after workmen were reported stoned as they crossed picket lines, said the officers were left at the plant "to protect property and enforce the law." He said he was "not interested in the merits of the strike" one way or the Six workmen entering the plant yesterday morning were hurt slightly by rocks, Patrol Sergt.

Carl Gilbert reported, and received first aid at the plant. When the afternoon shift ended, workers leaving the plant also were the targets of stones, said newsmen on the scene, but no one was reported hurt. A crowd of 150 to 200 jerring bystanders, identified as part of the 700 striking members of CIO Textile Workers' union local 1054, watched the entrance to the plant, about seven miles out of town. Only six pickets patrolled the gate, however, under provisions of a temporary injunction preventing mass picketing and forbidding strikers to molest persons entering the plant. WINS FINAL DECREE LOS ANGELES Pr Hungarian Film Actress Eva Gabor told superior court her husband, Charles Isaacs, preferred to be a bachelor.

She made him one yesterday by obtaining a final decree of divorce. She obtained the interlocutory decree May 9, 1949, saying he spent his on his. yacht instead of with her. A GRADUATION GIFT WORTH WHILE I.OW lint BUM a. m.

today Noon today SS Precipitation (noon to noon .72 The. aun acta today at 8:06 p. m. and rises tomorrow at 5:10 a. m.

Th moon rises today at 2:22 p. m. and acta tomorrow at 2.3H a. m. Flint reported some basements TKMPERATVREti El.SEWHKUE Highest Low of yesterday nlchl and streets flooded by an overnight downpour of 1.40 inches of rain.

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Brownell Mrs. Lulu A. Brownell. 77, a member of a pioneer Battle Creek family and for 65 years a member of the First Methodist church in the city, died at 4:30 a. m.

today at her home at 71 Rose. She had been critically ill for two days, and in ill health for three years. She was a member of Battle Creek chapter No. 355, Order of the Eastern Star, and a lifelong resident of the city. Her brother, the late Ellsworth Roberts, contributed much to the city's history in his historical writings.

Mrs. Brownell was born here on Nov. 18. 1872. a daughter of Franklin T.

and Celia (Ellsworth! Roberts. She was married to Harry H. Brownell in Pattle Creek on June 24. 1897. He died Dec.

7. 1939. Surviving are a son. Kenneth Brownell of 50 Massachusetts avenue: three daughters. Mrs.

Willinm (Marion) Land of Fort Knox, Mrs. Harlan (Clarice) Cleaveland of 71 Rose, and Mrs. Max (Laura) Wheeler of 140 South Woodrow avenue: and 11 grandchildren. Three olher children preceded her In death, Harold Brownell, Mrs. June Borgerson, and Mrs.

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