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The Detroit News Sunday, May in, 3005 EVERYWHERE. LOCALE EVf-RY WAY. EVERY DAY. Today's forecast is provided by Local 4 Chuck Gaidica. You can Becoming mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms today.

Highs A JL. Vyji L. -ii. watch hirn at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.

weekdays. in the low 70s. Chance of showers tnninht lnw in Hip low -Jklk I U-M athlete's selflessness predated sacrifices in WWII Five-day forecast at a glance Monday, May 30 Tuesday, May 31 Wednesday, lune 1 Friday, June 3 Thursday, June 2 7550 Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers 7356 Partly sunny and near seasonable 7253 Partly cloudy skies and pleasant 7051 Partly cloudy with scattered showers 6650 Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms 1 i Weather Roundup I. Regional five-day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Upper Peninsula 5 Northern Low 72 Western Lower 68' 49 49 51 63 Eastern Lower 66- 69- rr 50' 54 A 53' 58 li you probably know by this time," he wrote to his Phi Gamma Delta brothers, "Old Ged has been drafted." The Army had assigned him to the cavalry, though "the only horse I ever saw in my life was the one the milkman used." I le learned to ride, but made it clear he was hoping to transfer to the air corps. When his plane crashed in Raleigh, he was serving as the navigator.

By 1944, he was Capt. Gedeon, piloting a B-26 bomber out of Boreham Airfield, England. "The last time I saw him," Bob Gedeon said, "he told me, 'I had my accident. It's going to be good flying from now He said he had used up his bad luck." On April 19, says a report on Baseballl.ibrary.com, Gedeon wrote a letter to his wife, Laura. The next day, his plane joined 29 others on a bombing run over Bois d'Esquerdcs.

Staggered by German flak, the B-26 plummeted to Earth. Only the co-pilot escaped. Gedeon lies buried at St. Pol a Wolverine, a ballplayer, a hero, a memory. Need Rubin appears Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

Reach him at (33) 222-184, or 65 W. Lafayette, Detroit, Ml 48226, Weather watch on the Web After starring in three sports at the University of Michigan, Elmer Gedeon became an Army officer in the air corps. He survived one plane crash before being killed in France in 1944. The Air EPA pollution index: Moderate Winds Wat 5 to 15 mph today, then Sat 5 to 10 mph tonight On this day Record High 92 1987 Record Low 32 1966 Detnews.com tracks current conditions, updated hourly, In dozens of Michigan Cities, all five Great Lakes and throughout the world. Check out our animated satellite and radar maps.

There was a horrific crash, and then flames. Lt. F.lmer Gedeon, three ribs broken, freed himself from the wreckage and crawled away. Then he went back in. A crewmate a team mate was trapped.

Amid the remains of a bomber's failed take-off in Raleigh, N.C., Cpl. John R. Rarrat had a broken back and two broken legs. Gedeon pulled him out. He came away with skin grafts and a medal.

Memory is a flickering thing after six decades. Fred Janke, 88, thought that was the day Gedeon died: Aug. 9, 1942'. But Gedeon lived to fly again and to die, 20 months later, shot out of the sky above St. Pol, France.

History remembers F.lmer Gedeon, a three-sport star from the University of Michigan, because he was one of only two major league baseball players killed in combat in World War II. Janke remembers him because they did the dirty work together in Ann Arbor, playing offensive and defensive line in the age of skinny pads and leather helmets. "A very fine guy," Janke says. "A perfect guy. Everybody liked him." I dialed Janke last week at his daughter's house in Jackson.

She's a schoolteacher, recently retired. lie came home from the Navy after the war, went to work for an auto parts supplier called Hancock Industries, and eventually became its president. Later, some of the other movers and shakers in Jackson asked him to run for mayor. "I didn't know enough to say no," he says. He won, but there was too much compromise in the job and too little action, so he gave it up after one term.

These days, he wears a hearing aid and uses a walker. Life is quiet. He probably won't do anything special to mark Me-morial Day, but he doesn't have to. When you knew a war the way he did, when enough of i Pollen Count: Moderate Today's temperatures Houghton: 6146 Sault Ste. Marie: 6646 Marquette: 6044 Iron Mountain: 6644 Mackinaw City: 6648 Wisconsin Badgers team his father played on before he went off to fly P-38S in the Pacific.

Bob Gedeon and Elmer grew up together and used to ice skate at Brookside Park in Cleveland. One day the ice gave way and Bob plunged through, he said, "up to my neck. Elmer slid across the ice on his belly and pulled me out." Elmer Gedeon was a good football player and a great sprinter who set American indoor records in the high hurdles. Some days he would win his races, then change uniforms and start for the baseball team. He signed with the Washington Senators in 1939, played five games with them as an outfielder at the end of the season, and then spent 1940 honing his skills in the minor leagues.

TheBentleyllis- torical Library at U-M owns a copy of an April 1941 fraternity news- your classmates died that you've long since lost track of which one you heard about first, every reverie can be a memorial. Michigan football, 1938. Coach Fritz'CrisIer's first season. The first year for tear-away jerseys and the winged helmet. Janke, the team captain, played guard and tackle.

Gedeon was an end. Everyone played offense aitd defense; come out of a game, you were done for the entire quarter. Gedeon was "a tall, skinny guy," Janke says, 6-foot-4 and 196 pounds. "A rather serious kid. He could kick quite well.

They used to pull him back in serious situations and let him punt the ball, because he could punt it a mile." Author Terry Frei, then with the Portland Oregonian, took an interest in Gedeon some 15 years ago and tracked him all the way back to his first cousin in Cleveland. Frei would later write "Third Down and a War" to Go" (Wisconsin Historical Society, about the 1942 Charlevoix: 6745 Alpena: 7046 Oscoda: 7048 Houghton Lake: 7045 Traverse City: 7048 nriicmgan outlook An upper level low will continue to produce scattered showers and a chance of afternoon thunderstorms across the state today. A few scattered showers will continue tonight. Expect another chance of showers across the state tomorrow with thunderstorms possible in the southern Lower Peninsula. Midland: 7149 Bay City: 7149 Ludington: Port Huron: 7151 6348 Muskegon: 6748 Grand Rapids: 7150 Lansing: 7350 Rainfall City Detroit: 7153 May 0.73" 2.15" 2.03" 2.79" This Year 7.78" 7.89" 11.42" U.03" 5.89" 11.63" Alpena Gaylord Grand Rapids Marquette 1 Monroe: 7250 Kalamazoo: 7253 1 -J 'II i'l Sault Ste.

Marie 1.74" letter with a note from Gedeon. "As 5 ti White Lake 1.66" "All forecasts. graphics 8 data by Weather Central, Inc. 2005 The nation An upper level low will be responsible for scattered showers and thunderstorms over the Upper Midwest. Showers will be possible over New England under mostly cloudy skies.

Showers and thunderstorms will be possible from the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf Coast, as well over the central Plains and the Southwest. Scattered thunderstorms will extend over the central Rockies to the Pacific Northwest. Today's birthdays Clifton James, actor: 84 Bob Simon, CBS correspondent: 64 LaTaya Jackson, singer: 49 Annette Bening, actress: 47 Rupert Everett, actor: 46 Melissa Etheridge, singer: 44 Michigan outdoors Sunriseset: 6:00 a.m.9:00 p.m. Moonriseset: 1:59 a.m.12;06 p.m. Last New First Full May 30 June 6 June 14 June 21 CD Planets: Mercury ENE at 5:41 a.m.

Venus Mars Eat 2:50 a.m. Jupiter at 3:43 p.m. Saturn ENE at 9:21 a.m. The Lakes Huron: Wind 5-10 knots. Waves 0-1 feet.

St Clair Wind 5 -10 knots. Waves 0-2 feet. Erie: Wind variable 5-10 knots. Waves 1-2 feet. Superior Wind SW 5-10 knots.

Waves 0-1 feet. Michigan: Wind SW 5-10 knots. Waves 0-1 feet. Fishing on the Cheboygan River are reeling in an occasional steelhead. By Rogers City, the fishing activity this week is slow.

East Perch are starting to bite on Lake Huron near Lakeport. Between St. Clair and Algonac, the walleye fishing is very good. Southeast The walleye fishing is very good on Belleville Lake. Crappie fishing is good on the lake.

Bluegill fishing is fair. Northwest The Frankfort area, the whitefish fishing is good on Crystal Lake. Perch fishing ranges from fair to good on the lake. At Kalkaska, the panfish fishing is spotty on most area lakes. West: Anglers on Chippewa Lake are catching panfish.

Both crawlers and wax worms are being used. At Baldwin, the bluegill fishing ranges from good to very good on most area lakes. Southwest Lake Michigan is producing very good salmon fishing out from Holland. At Sturgis, the bluegill and crappie fishing is pretty good on most area lakes. Source: AAA Michigan Michigan Hotline Recorded information (updated weekly) on Michigan events, fishing conditions, and other travel and recreational opportunities.

(800) 644-8644. At last, country star to release reggae CD Country music icon Willie Nelson is trying something a little different. form the single "Don't You Forget About Me" from the 1985 film, directed by John Hughes. This year's awards will be hosted by Jimmy Fal i. -'-va.

1 'I- i tj" i i I i .1 i -r-J' 10, i T-r Warm (Dili itaflimarf 1 'J --i Ringwald Nelson, 72, will release a long-awaited reggae album, "Countryman" in July. He shot videos in Jamaica this month for a cover of Jim Snow Ice T-hit-mw Travel y. who worked on the album videos. Nelson, 72, began production on "Countryman" in 1995. The project was shelved when the country star switched labels, and revived in 2004 after he signed on with Nashville, Lost Highway Records.

Director Stone faces drug, DUI charges Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was arrested for investigation of drug possession and driving while intoxicated, police in Beverly Hills, said Saturday. Stone, 58, was arrested Friday night at a police checkpoint on Sunset Boulevard after showing signs of alcohol intoxication, Police Sgt. John Edmundson said. A search of his Mercedes turned up drugs. Edmundson said.

Stone was released Saturday morning after posting $15,000 bail. 'Breakfast Club' cast to reunite on MTV Don't you forget about "The Breakfast Club." At the 2005 MTV Movie Awards, to air June 9, the network plans to reunite the cast of the classic '80s movie, the cable channel said. Though Emi'io Estevez, who played Andrew Clark, isn't confirmed, in attendance will be Molly Ring-wild (Claire Standish), Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds), Anthony Michael Hall (Brian Johnson) and Judd Nelson (John Bender). Yellowcard will per- Nelson Airports Dallas: Delays possible New York: No weather related delays expected Chicago: Delays possible Phoenix: No weather related delays expected San Francisco: No weather related delays expected lon To be taped June 4 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, scheduled performers include Mariah Carey and Eminem Nine Lien Nails dropped out of the MTV Movie Awards on Saturday after clashing with the network over an image of President Bush the band planned as a performance backdrop. Detroit News staff reports and wire services.

my CliflFs reggae classic "The Harder They Come" and Johnny and June Carter Cash's country music-classic "I'm a Worried Man." "Willie started the project to years ago when he first came to Jamaica, but it's only been pleted now," said AEke Cacia, Metro almanac Precipitation yesterday by 12 p.m. To dateNormal i I Yesterday Month Year 4- 3: I Metro Airport Trace 1672.72 in. 10.4912.08 in. 2. City Airport .09 in.

1112.72 in. 7.4712.08 in. 3. Mount Clemens .00 in. .902.57 in.

9.291156 in. I 4. White Lake .00 in. 1662.38 in. 116310.37 in.

Big Ben stops ticking for 90 minutes Heating degree days Day Season Normal Last year this date: 11 Normal this date: 4 6 6114 6371 Last season to date: 5924 The heating degree days figure, an index of fuel consumption, indicates how far the day's mean temperature was below 65 degrees. City by City: Forecast reflects temperatures for today, weather for tomorrow. SThe 147-year-old London clock's lapse baffles engineers; hot spell may be to blame. Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Tomorrow Hi Lo Fcst World day. Officials do not know why the 147-year-old clock on the banks of the River Thames stopped at 10:07 p.m.

Friday. It resumed keeping time, but stalled again at 10:20 p.m. and remained still for about 90 minutes before starting up again, a spokeswoman for the I louse of Commons said. There has been speculation a recent spell of hot weather may have been to blame. Temper atures in London reached 90 Saturday, and forecasters called it England's hottest day in May since 1953.

Big Ben, which is operated by the Palace of Westminster, survived attacks by German Luftwaffe bombers during World War II, continuing to mark the time to within seconds of Greenwich Mean Time. However, the clock has experienced occasional problems. In 1962, snow caused the clock to ring in the New Year 10 minutes late. In 1976, the clock stopped when a piece of its machinery broke. Big Ben also stopped on April 30, 1997, and once more three weeks later.

Big Ben is actually the clock's 13-ton bell, which was named after Sir Benjamin Hall, the British commissioner of works at the time the clock was built. The official name for the Gothic tower holding Big Ben is St. Stephen's Tower. Amsterdam Athens Bangkok Beijing Belgrade Berlin Brussels Cairo Dublin Frankfurt Geneva Helsinki Hong Kong 75 77 97 76 83 77 75 91 60 80 86 63 85 By Thomas Wagner Associated Press LONDON Big Ben, the landmark London clock renowned for its accuracy and chimes, stopped ticking for 90 minutes, an engineer said Satur Jerusalem 81 Johannesburg 65 Kiev Lottery numbers 84 66 84 US- Hi Lo Hi to Fcst U.S. HI Lo Hi Lo Fcst Albany, NY.

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