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I creased costs cf establishing the six-day week. Mayor Jeffries re-i fused to discuss premium pay for the working hours in many departments, where the work already is being done capably," Fred Ming, Ex-Speaker of State House, Dies at 76 overtime for City employees. TO COUNCIL. TUESDAY SERGEANT KILLED MT. CLEMENS.

Feb. 22 Sergt. Alidoor Baertsoen, 52 years oid, assigned to Selfridge Field from November, 1923. until December, 1942, was killed in action somewhere in the European area on an unreported date, the War Department notified his wife, Ann, of 47 Dorothea. Monday.

Firm Expects Big Loss on Housing Job Martel said. "In these cases this plan adds unnecessarily to the cost of City government without accomplishing anything." I Corporation Counsel Paul Krause will present to the Council on Tuesday the proposed resolutions 48-Hr. Week in City Work Denounced Martel Calls Plan Without Premium Pay a 'Cheap Trick' Schedules Protest Martel also attacked the gram as an "unfair discrimina IV Pvt. Folia at F.D.R's Request NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (AP) See here, Pvt.

Falla, it's only a matter of weight that's kept you from being an admiral. Falla, President Roosevelt's Scottish terrier, has been made a private at the President's request following- the receipt of $1 from his master by the War Dog Fund. He hasn't joined the K-9 Corps because, for all his personal spunk, he just isn't big enough for the duties of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard canines. Dog owners contributing to the War Dog Fund are entitled to have their pets named either an Army private or a Navy seaman. PLAIN THIS WEEK! 10:30 a.

m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Catholic Church, Grosse Pointe, for Ray E. Danaher, who died Saturday at Henry Ford Hospital. Until the funeral, Mr.

Danaher's body will be at his home, 699 Lake Shore, Grosse Pointe. He was born Oct. 23, 1881, at Ludington, and was president of the R. E. Danaher Lumbering a family business for three generations.

He was also a director of the Detroit Trust Co. Mr. Danaher was a graduate of Georgetown University, and a member of the Detroit Club, -'the Country Club, and the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club. Surviving are his wife, Lula a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, two sons. John E.

and James and his father, James E. Danaher. Burial will be at Mt. Olivet CLEANED 3t i I AND CHt effecting the inauguration of the six -day week and providing general pay raises of 4.54 per cent for all City employees. The resolution makes no provisions for premium pay.

Final establishment of policies in the next year's budget, tentatively set at $77,596,000. will be determined at another meeting in the Mayor's office at 10 a. m. Thursday. At the suggestion of City Treasurer Albert E.

Cobo, the Mayor said he probably would direct all City department heads whose employees will go on the forty-eight-hour week to cut 10 per cent from their appropriations. An additional 10 per cent "shotgun" savings on blanket appropriations where possible also will be imposed, the Mayor indicated. tion" against firemen and policemen. "They'll work the same long hours at no increase in pay except the general 4.54 per cent raise voted for the 30,900 City employees," he said. CITES OLD ORDINANCE Martel accused Mayor Jeffries of "hiding behind a provision in the City Charter which makes it compulsory for the City to pay time and a half for overtime based on a forty-eight-hour week," adding: "The Charter doesn't forbid payment of decent overtime wages before 48 hours." After a three-hour conference Monday on the proposed 1943-44 budget, including provisions for in- Frank X.

Martel, president of the Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor, Monday branded the City's new forty-eight-hour k-w without premium pay "a cowardly, cheap, chiseling trick," and predicted that hundreds of City workers may be expected to take weekly "holidays" when it goes into effect March 8. Martel said the federation would file a written protest with the Common Council Tuesday. "There is no occasion to extend Herman Gardens Contractor Reports Delays Will Put Him $500,000 in Red The Cauldwell-Wingate of New York, contractors constructing the S. James Herman Gardens housing project will suffer a loss conservatively estimated at $500,000, Herbert S. Greenberg-, attorney for the company said Monday.

"The delays in getting materials, the delays in substitutions of materials, the difficulties in getting efficient help and many other factors all due primarily to the war will cause our loss, which is over and above any profit we originally estimated," Greenberg said. Greenberg, with Herman Braloff, vice president of the company, was in Detroit to confer with City officials on the possibility of receiving support in a new petition for reimbursement for $35,000 extra costs in maintaining heat during the second winter of construction of the project. Charles F. Edgecomb, director- BODY FOUND AT CABIN ROSE CITY. Feb.

22 (AP) The frozen body of Charles Bartell, 53 years old, was found Sunday night in the doorway of his cabin, two miles west of here. Bartell last was seen a week ago during a heavy snowstorm when he left the cabin to purchase groceries. By thff Associated Vres CHEBOYGAN, Feb. 22 Fred R. Ming-, seventy-six-year-old Republican leader, died at his home here Sunday night as the result rt a heart attack suffered last Thursday.

Mingf, an influential figure in Michipan politics for many years, formerly served as Speaker in the Legislature. Funeral services will be held here at p. m. Wednesday, with the Rev. A.

R. Gold of the First Congregational Church officiating. Burial will be in the family plot at Pine Hill Cemetery here. He was first elected to the House nf Representatives in 1905 and in 1907 and 1911 was named to the State Senate. He returned to the House in 1923 for a ten-year period.

In his last two sessions in the Legislature, he served as Speaker of the House. Mr. Ming was instrumental in obtaining passage of the bill which established a tuberculosis sanatorium for the northern half of Lower Michigan at Gaylord. Besides the part he played in State affairs, Mr. Ming was at one time sheriff of Cheboygan County, a veterinary surgeon, fruit grower, livestock dealer, livery stable proprietor, police and fire chief, county supervisor, and a member of the Cheboygan Board of Education.

Ten years ago he retired from public life and devoted himself to farming. He was born in Rochester, N. and moved to Michigan in 1SS5. Ming is survived by his widow; three daughters, Mrs. Fred Clark, Middle Lake, Mrs.

Arthur L. Martin, Cheboygan, and Mrs. Clinton Spies, Detroit; and a son, Fred, Cheboygan. EVERYBODY CAN LEARN IN THE ARMY AIR FORCE they say: "STOOGING for cruising "GROUND LOOP for mental confusion "STATION MASTER" for commanding officer CAMEL for the Army man's favorite cigarette With men in the Army, Navy, Mrs. Ella R.

Woolfenden Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2746 W. Grand for Mrs. Ella R.

Woolfenden, who died Saturday at her home, 683 W. Ferry. She was 89 years old. Mrs. Woolfenden, a lifelong resident of Detroit, was the daughter of a Michigan pioneer, the late Francis Raymond, and the widow of Frederick Woolfenden, a founder and the first cashier of the Dime Savings Bank.

She was the oldest member of the congregation of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, and had served on the Board of Directors of the YWCA. Surviving are four sons, George, Edward, Frederick and Raymond Woolfenden, and two sisters, Anna K. and Marriette E. Raymond. Mrs.

Woolfenden's body will be at the William R. Hamilton 3975 Cass, until the funeral. Burial will be at Woodmere Cemetery. secretary, and Vance G. Ingalls, i attorney for the Detroit Housing; Commission, aereed to ask the i 0 Any Arthur Murray teacher will make you a good dancer in 6 fun-filled hours Federal Public Housing Commission to consider The petition.

All the apartments in the project will be ready for occupancy within three weeks if the weather continues favorable, Greenberg said. Twelve-hundred of the apartments are now occupied. Marines, and Coast Guard, the favorite cigarette is (Based on actual sales records in s-r Post Exchanges and Canteens.) Surely everybody WANTS to dance and everybody CAN dance and dance well if the right teacher and the right method of instruction is applied. The Arthur Murray simplified method has been proven successful in hundreds of so-called hopeless cases. In just a few hours you'll be dancing the latest steps in the Rumba, Fox Trot, Waltz, Conga, even jitterbug, with a brand-new confidence, a wonderful feeling of poise and grace.

You'll be happier, gayer, more popular at your next party. You will have gained healthful exercise and vibrant energy. Frank Law son Funeral services for Patrolman Frank Lawson, of the Detroit Police Department, will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday.

Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Lawson, who died Saturday of a heart attack, was attached to the Motorcycle Division. Born in Flat River, Lawson joined the force in 1925. He was a veteran of the first World War. Surviving are four sisters, Mrs.

Lula Casserly, Mrs. Lucille Leary, Mrs. Leona Seddon and Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, and a brother, James Lawson. Dr.

George Trueman MUNISING. Feb. 22 (AP) Dr. George A. Trueman, 72 years old, a practicing physician Yictp for 47 vears.

died suddenlv Jean Shugert specializes in putting beginners mt rase, making them self' confident dtneen. I Monday of a heart ailment. A pio- I 1 4.1 Tl rr. ex mii I -ME FOR CAMELS 4v I EVERy TIME! THEY'VE Af -l 1 GOT WHAT IT 'A i Parents Ask Aid in Finding Girl, 14 Mr. and Mrs.

J. D. McLaughlin, of 11821 Flanders, have asked the Free Press to help find their daughter Geraldine, 14 years old, who disappeared from home two weeks ago. The girl, who is a brunet, 5 feet 4 inches tall, was wearing a brown box coat with double rows of pearl buttons, a green pleated skirt and a brown sweater when last seen. She was a sophomore at Denby High School but had been enrolled there for only a few days, recently having come to Detroit with her parents from Huntington, V.

Va. Relatives in Huntington have heard nothing from the girl. U. S. to Build 600 neer resiuent oi me cnjr.

xji. iiue-man served as mayor of Munising for two years. Charles II. McCulloch Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m.

Wednesday at the Burrell Funeral Home, 8738 Fenkell, for Charles H. McCulloch, for 22 years an employee of the E. Jefferson Municipal Garage, who died late Sunday at Mt. Carmel Mercy Ray E. Danaher Funeral services will be held at Gas on Stomach Relieved in 5 minutes or doable yar money back WhCQ exresa stomach arid causes painful, suffocating; 8.

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Feb. 22 (AP) Senator Homer Ferguson, Michigan Republican, said Monday that the Federal Public Housing Au ZjA-ZA Iff. Mr. McCulloch, a welder, was for many years recording secretary of Local 1116. International Association of Machinists.

He was born in Springfield, 57 years ago, and had lived in Detroit for more than 25 years. His home was at 14945 Cherrylawn. Surviving are his wife, Ella; a daughter, Mrs. Arim Magarian; a son, Richard; a sister, Mrs. Ella Farr, of Springfield, and a brother, Harold.

SIGH OF A OH AY STUDIO Cadillac 3377 ARTHUR Hotel Statler rr ff thority had authorized construe- tion of 600 temporary homes for war workers in Michigan. The project will include 250 homes in Saginaw, 250 in Bay City and 100 in Midland. i uou zs use TAEtETS. SALVE. rttSt" DROPS JlP v.

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