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Special Christmas Gift Guide in Rotogravure! Exclusive in Sunday's Free Press nv XOMOBBOW'S -r Free Press INoveraber 112th Year. No. 205 Wednesday, November 25, 1942 Pages 15 to 26 Second Section Meat Dealers Pr edict More Acute Shortage Soon in Detroit The Man Behind Santa Claus and a New Fan ltMapfiid I 8 a. i I If i Pinch Seen Growing in December Industry Preparing Plea to Washington to Lift OPA Quotas Blamed for Situation New Davison Road to Be Open Today Pressing Need Speeds Work; Dottleneckls Finally Broken; Post-War Plans Studied "V.e 1 I ff I vl 'I I It being" opened several months earlier than originally planned. The new highway is depressed from 12 to 17 feet below ground ievel and provides for three lanes of traffic in each driection.

It passes under seven intersecting streets, which are carried overhead by bridges. The commission's study of other highway needs Includes the proposed Harper-Sixth and Hastings-Oakman highways and the River drive. They are being considered chiefly as post-war Park way Land Suit Voided by the Court Condemnation proceedings filed by the Huron-Clinton Farkway Authority against 110 parcels of land near Belleville were dismissed Tuesday by Circuit Judge Clyde I. Webster, who held that private agreements the Authority had made with Henry Ford and the Detroit Edison Co. were Illegal and were unfair to the other property owners.

The case, a highly involved affair in which 15 lawyers participated, had been under way before a 14-man jury in Judge Webster's court since Nov. 2. The only thing for the Authority to do now is to file again for each of the 110 The Ford and Edison agreements would have exempted certain parcels. "There was no bad faith on the part of any one in the making of these agreements," Webster said, "but they obviously are unfair to the other property owners who can't make similar deals." III- Michigan By Donald F. DOTTIE, friend of the Fort Custer soldiers, has mooched her last cigaret The Camp's favorite mascot, a three-year-old doe, is dead, victim of a hunter who mistook her for a duck.

He shot her before the deer season began, and in a closed county, and left without that explanation; but the shotgun charge that shattered her jaw was undoubtedly intended for a duck. In a way, Dottie was the victim of starvation; her jaw might have healed, but the wound left her in such bad shape she couldn't eat Soldiers tried to spoon-feed her, but Dottie couldn't get enough; so she just closed her eyes and drifted into fatal sleep. Dottie has been the official Fort Custer mascot for more than two years, ever since she was brought back from Wisconsin by Second Infantry troops who captured her there as a foundling fawn. She was known far and wide for her habit of mooching and eating cigareU Last year the children of Mr. and Mrs.

William F. Onto staged a bang-up golden wedding celebration for their parents, only to learn after the party wan over that they had been married tnly 4" years. The fiftieth wedding date fell Monday, and there was nc celebration, due to lack of tires to bring the children home. Mr. and Mrs.

Omo, NT i 1 4. I II 4 Free Press riinttf NANCY LEE BROOKS CHARLES F. YVENDEL Her first parade Tlianksgiving Parade toBeLast for Founder Davison Limited Highway will be opened to traffic at 5 p. m. Wednesday, according to the Wayne County Road Commission.

At "the same time it announced a detailed study of the Detroit area's other major highway needs with a view to beginning construction as soon as possible after the war ends. No formal dedication ceremonies will be held for the Davison Highway, which breaks a traffic bottle neck through Hignand 1'arK oy providing non-stop travel for a mile and a half from Lincoln eastward to beyond Oakland. "The highway is needed so bad ly that we want to open it as soon as the workmen can complete their job and get out of the way," said Leroy C. Smith, County highway engineer. "Landscaping and other finishing touches will continue for some weeks." Smith estimated the cost of the project at $3,250,000, of which approximately $1,000,000 was spent to obtain the necessary right-of-way.

Construction of the depressed highway and service roads on each side at street level required the removal of 130 buildings. More than half of those. Smith said, were moved intact to new sites. The project, which was begun in the summer of 1941, was granted a highway priority rating and rushed to completion because of its importance to war industries. 1 it 'J Schram however, remember their premature celebration last year and felt hat everything happened for tha best.

KOWrN KOEPKE, city attorney in Saginaw, spent weeks trying to' get complaints signed against blackout violators, without too much success. Tuesday he proposed that future violators be given tickets to be settled at the traffic violations bureau, thus making signed complaints unnecessary. Only those who ignored tickets would be picked up on warrants. Mrs. Ivan Austensen of Battle Creek did her Christmas shopping early, and stacked the packages ifl a chair In her dining room.

While she was elsewhere in the house, an overheated sun-lamp set fire to the chair, the presents were burned up and the furniture ruined. MRS. FRANCES EEARDSLEY, of Marcellus, who was 95 Sunday, is still active as correspondent for two Cass County weekly newspapers Paul Runyon (not related to Paul Bunyan) shot a deer in Marquette County that had 28 prong on its antlers, and weighed 200 pounds. Arnold Berry, 16, of Columbiavllle, was denied a chance to go deer-hunt- Ling because his Boy Scrut uniform was the cowr of a deer. Alter his father, grandfather, and uncle had gone, he put on a pair of borrowed green trousers, went out and shot a six-point buck.

His ciders didn't get a deer that day. i v. Hats 3.25 HOOH "Detroiter" WINNING LINE-UP! BV FRANK WOODFORD Free Phis Stuff Writer What is the real situation concerning the supply of meat in Detroit? For nearly a month this has been one of the chief subjects of conversation, speculation and rumor. On one hand there has been the claim that a real meat shortage exists. On the other, it has been contended that there has been adequate meat.

The point of view depended, apparently, on which butcher shop was patronized and the ability of that particular butcher to obtain supplies to sell to his customers. In order to get at the facts in the matter, the Free Press Tuesday canvassed the situation, obtaining reports from stockyard men, packers, wholesalers and retailers. These are the conclusions which Were reached: 1 There Is at present an acute meat shortage in Detroit. 2 It will be extremely serious in December. Unless the Federal Government eases restrictions, it will grow Increasingly serious in the first part of 1943.

4 Rationing meat, due to become effective within 60 days, will not help matters. Packers and merchants declare that there Is nothing to be gained by placing a limit on private consumption if the consumer Is unable to obtain the share allotted to him. Detroit's plight may be laid directly to governmental tinkering with the law of supply and demand. Local authorities insist that, despite the huge drains on meat stocks by the armed forces and lend-lease requirements, there are adequate supplies for civilian needs in the country. '0T GETTING SHARE It simply narrows down to the contention that Detroit, and a few other localities, are not getting their just share.

The restrictions on meat were placed by the OPA several weeks ago as a conservation measure. In a blanket order, applying to the nation as a whole, slaughter houses were prohibited from killing in the final quarter of 1942 more than 70 per cent of the beef and 75 per cent of the pork killed in the same period of 1941. From a strictly local standpoint, these restrictions are Inequitable, according to the Detroit meat Industry. In the first place, war Industry has caused an Increase in the Detroit area population, estimated at more than 800,000 persons, not taken Into account when the quotas were fixed. In the second place, the quota was placed on a period which represented the lowest volume of consumption in years, according to S.

J. Leichtman, secretary of the Detroit Restaurant and Hotel Operators Association. KEEPS FIRMS IDLE Many local slaughter houses idle a year ago are not allowed to operate now as a consequence. The remaining operating slaughter houses must supply a larger population with a quota based on an outdated situation. Meat men lack figures showing comparative supplies, shipments into this market and per capita consumption.

They are attempting to remedy that now. All parties, including slaughter houses, packers and shippers, are reporting their figures to the Detroit Board of Commerce where they are being compiled Into a picture which will "how both Detroit's situation and Detroit's needs. Willis H. Hall, who is handling the statistics, says the picture should be fairly complete by next i v. eck.

12th Hunter Shot to Death Harold Schlehugcr, of Moran, the twelfth deer hunter killed hy gunfire in the 1942 Michigan fleer season. He died Monday night, fivc hours after having been shot accidentally by a rifle in the hands Everett Litzner, also of Moran. The two were hunting near their home in Schoolcraft County when the accident occurred. The Weather ANn VtHNrrY SlicWly Zu, senile to nimlerale MICHIGAN OcraMmial llrht I' flnzzle in extreme ixinti pinion with lillle rheum in tcmiwr. wanner in soutli aucl cast- nurimtn.

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This year all the rubber floats will wear tags saying "I'm on My Way to the Rubber Salvage." And after the parade they'll be wheeled into the alley on the Gratiot side, slashed with razor blades and tossed on a salvage heap. Wendell will be up at 4 a. m. when the equipment starts gathering and along the way he'll watch for the face of Nancy Lee Brooks, 2Va years old, his great -granddaughter, seeing her first parade. Court Rebuffs Architects Permit Board Free Prn Ijinslnf Burran LANSING, Nov.

24 The Supreme Court rebuked the State Board of Registration for achi-tects, professional engineers and land surveyors Tuesday, and ordered it to grant an architect's license to V. J. Waier, of Detroit. In refusing Waier a license, the MIDWAY, FIVE MONTHS AFTER: A series of exclusive pictures taken at Midway show the Uvea of our fighting men there. In the GRAPHIC with Sunday's Free Press.

Court said, the Board had "substituted its own judgment for that of the Legislature." Waier had applied for a license under the clause in the 1938 law re-defining the qualifications for architects, which directed the Board to issue a license to persons who had practiced for 12 years previously. Waier presented evidence that he had designed and built St. Martin's School, St. Hedwig's School, Corpus Christi School, the Waggoner Apartments, the Eastown Theater Building and other Detroit structures. In the case of the Jackson Lodge of Elks versus the Jackson Lodge of Odd Fellows, the court held the bowling alleys went along with the club building the Odd Fellows' landlord sold to the Elks.

In a death compensation case, brought by William Sheeter, guardian, against J. P. Burroughs Son, the court ruled that a child who is both illegitimate and posthumous may not make a claim for the death of a father. An illegitimate child may, if a dependent; a posthumous child may as a 'lineal but an illegitimate, posthumous child is neither, the Court said. Sl'PREME COURT T.ANSISO, Nov ''A The Supreme Court TuetiiliiV the fnlltiwlng Ar'KIRMKD Vtf.ill v.

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Oltls. ft 8 I Truly "Detroiters" variety of in Put town! skins cuffs styles in New Don't get give the answer! BY JAMES S. POOLER Free 1'reM Staff Writer For 17 years Charles F. Wendel has been as intangible as Santa Claus. He stood back of a lot of sentiment and spectacle but you never could put your finger on him.

In those 17 years at least 7,000,000 folks here have admired his magic. Kids now grown up, in Africa, Australia, Iceland, perhaps wondering this Thanksgiving if the same old Santa Claus parade is rollng down Woodward. Smaller fry like Wendel's own great-granddiitighter who this year for the first time will struggle through a forest of legs to see the pageantry that climaxes in the same jolly old boy coming down tho street. Time has passed along, too, like a parade for Wendel, who contrived it all. The first kids who saw his Santa parades are far off now, scattered with the military forces.

And he is 69, with a great-granddaughter to watch the big show, and this is his last parade. WILL GIVE CP TASK He is bowing out as the man who contrived Santa Claus' annual introduction and next year O. A. Luke, his assistant display manager at the J. L.

Hudson will take over if there are any more such shows for the duration. Nobody knew that the gray-haired, dark skinned man who tagged along after Santa Claus and his reindeers every year was the man who had wrapped it all up in the parade tinsel. He took his anonymous satisfaction out of watching the delight in millions of faces. Sania Claus can stay eternally young, but if you tag along after parades for 17 years and watch the kids growing up, if ynu had a granddaughter who rnde in the parade as Snow White or on the float with the good little boys and girls and now Is bringing down her daughter to see the parade, you get the idea that somebody else can carry on a job well done. Wendel combed Europe for the materials that went into the Hudson Santa Claus parade.

He made 10 trips abroad. He attended the big carnivals at Nice, Viareggio, Leipsig, in Belgium, France, Italy, Austria and Holland when Europe was up to carnivals. He brought back the grotesque heads that the children here fancy and hundreds of photographs of floats. Over there they were 25 feet high but they had to be built down to 14 feet in the store studio at Beaubien and Napoleon so they would clear the trolly wires of Detroit. A LESSON EVERY YEAR If being a great-grandfather wouldn't teach you what children like, handling Santa Claus' parade would, particularly when you came along counting the pleasure in shining eyes.

Probably tops are those grotesque figures and heads, the Flemish giants, then come the animal cages and the floats of the nursery rhymes the kids all know, Wendel has found it fun weaving them all together and to hint "no parade hits been best but each one has been better." That (Toes for the parade which this Thursday will start off at 8:15 a. nt. at Amsterdam and Second, weave down Second to Pigskin Gloves HANDFUL OF SMARTNESS! tjL yourself in our hands for the best glove buys in These fine pigskins are table cut of top quality unexcelled for workmanship and fit. Backs and edges are hand saddle stitched, Slip-on or button cork or natural. Other gloves from 1.29 to 2.59.

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