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126 No. 4 TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1956 38 Tages On Guard for 125 Years EttabUthmd in 1S31 re8 Press Wins 4th Pulitzer Prize Lee Hills Gets1 fo) Executive Ldilor Cited For Reporting on GAW FPC OK's r.v dalk nou.se Fre Pr Stiff Writer Executive Editor Lee Hills brought to the De-j'TA Ppl troit Free Press Monday its fourth Pulitzer Prize! Train Derailed lied Pupil -Fi most coveted of newspaper awards. Hills' award, a personal triumph for a longtime newspaper editor who turned back to reporting, was announced in New Increase 40,000 Await Action by State York. The 49-year-old vice president of the Free Press was cited for "aggressive, resourceful and JAMES M. IIASWELL BY 100 Hurl As Truck Hits Coach comprehensive coverage of thej United Auto Workers' negotia-j tions with the Ford Motor Washington Bur ran Staff WASHINGTON i Nt I i I'' .1 m1; 'i for supplemental unemployment jM 1 1 a Consolidated Co.

will be able to in- crease -its supply of gas for home heating in De-' troit by 70 per cent as THE KEPOKTIXG and writing by the Free Press' top executive under the title "A Look Behind the UAW-Auto Curtain" was judged the tep local reporting of 1955 under the pressure of Little Panic Noted Among 900 Aboard WAUKESHA, Wis. AP An excursion result of a Federal Power Commission ruling Mon day. i oprvin(T QHO pore. Hills' determined and penetrating pursuit of facts about the so-railed "guaranteed annual wage" talks scored consistently and gave eager readers a peek behind the scenes at the negotiations. I The ruling authorized jrb v-v, v.v.

American-Louisiana Pipeline free School pupils to a t0K bef baseball game in Milwau- 200 million cubic feet of natural' gas daily to Michigan was derailed when 1 dated and 100 million cubic feet'jj jy loaded gravel i' y' Hills commented in the Lee Hills ia-tidailv to the Michigan-Wisconsin jer1 Pipeline Co. truck Monday, injuring al of the "Curtain" columns more than 100 persons, mostly children. There was no loss of life as pursuing the GAW talks on aj near-24-hour basis for more than three weeks: "We have tried to cut away, the underbrush and tell you 'exactly what is goin on and' jwhat it means to you." The award to Hills marked the A spokesman for Consolidated said with the increased supply it would be able to take on more home-heating customers and lift all gas restrictions for industry. Fulfillment of the increase in Wreckage Strewn After Truck Knocks Special Train Off Track 10 coaches left the rails. None of the injured was reported in critical condition.

The truck driver, Gordon Hink-ley, 35. of Wales, suffered fractures of both legs but was reported in fair condition. second straight year that thej gas for home owners awaits Free Press has captured a Pulit-j action on Michigan award. Last year Royceied's application before the Mich- Play Prizes Are Swept By 'Diary' r-Man Hearst Team AUo Cprti Awanl Howes, associate editor, was i igan Public Service Commission honored for an editorial on the i to increase service to 40,000 cus-1 1954 Chrysler strike. Itomers.

Oneninjr of the American-Lou- A TOTAL OF 94 persons were admitted to Waukesha Memorial Tydings Leading In Maryland Foul Play Hinted in Scott Case TOLD OF THE honor. Hills, iisiana line from Louisiana to Hospital. Thirty-four were ad- hmnv rah rmrtr hi Detrnit is scheduled for mitted and 60 were treated and: first byline, exclaimed: released. Ten were taken to "Wonderful IL ii a unrr uuuul ucncmi iiuo- THE COMMISSION" said 135 pital and treated for minor in-i 1 1 i 1 NEW YORK W) A hus iniuion leei lor onsuuuaueu anu Teen-Agers Find Action by Mob To Be 'Disturbing' How do young people feel about mobs and minority bousing problems? Coole.v High School students recently wrote some themes on this subject, which had been highlighted by mob action in their own neighborhood. Some are quoted here.

This is the ninth in a series on Detroit's slum clearance and housing problems. nines. BALTIMORE Millard E. I LOS ANGELES WR) Al 85 million feet for Michigan-, of dazed but calm chil Tydings clung to a glim lead most a year after his wife dis- Wisconsin wouia De permanenuy allocated. I Qf of appeared, clubman hwmg The other 80 million feet will Oconomowoc where a first aid Scott 59.

was reported rniSSing hand and wife Monday became, Hills was "in" on another the first such writing team to Pulitzer Prize in 1950. Asexecu-i-i i i fri tive editor of the Miami Herald, win a Pulitzer Prize. Knjght Rewspaper he were cited for the poignant i dircctcd a campaign against Broadway stage hit, "Th.3 Florida crime which won the Diary of Anne Frank." Pulitzer public service award. The 1955 prize, however, was Albert Hackett and Frances a personal award to Hills for his be delivered under temporary i rat- waa monaay oy nis wj.ch failed to appear in court for a civil hearing. early Tuesday in his Democratic 'primary bid for his old Mary jland seat in the United States 'Senate.

Returns from 1.208 of 1.277 i polling places gave Tydings 133. 717 votes to 121.99S for George Mahoney, Baltimore paving (contractor and his strongest opponent. Authorities said the gravel truck struck the first coach of i I i Evelvn T. Scott. 63.

dis- Mrs. 1955.. but her nif io-var special Mav 16 Road train at a rural grade aPPearea a I absence was not made public not crushing. Goodrich won the drama award ability as a reporter and writer, for their stage adaptation of the! The much-honored newspaper-diary of a 13-year-old Jewish girl man paid tribute to the reporters who died in a Nazi concentration of three Detroit papers for until early this year, when her allocation. The order holds open two questions er Michigan-Wisconsin will be permitted to enter new markets in Central and Western Wisconsin and which new cities will be permitted to buy gas from the American-Louisiana line.

Hearings on the latter question will resume Mav 21. EL7 SEELEY STEWART BV The tightness of the race was rrM Treu Staff rllr their work last summer on the Ten crowded coaches plunged brother filed a court plea to be off the track into a field. One appointed trustee of her estate, flopped over on its side, another! tore up 100 feet of track and' finally careened off the right- SCOTT, after an investigation. "Dangers Of a Mob" Was the Subject assigned reflected In the more important jGAW story. "They did a magnificent job under the most difficult circum- I Turn to Page 5, Column recently to the 12A composition class at Cooley High of rand.date arknowi- camp in World War II.

The play thus completed a fiweep of drama awards. It previously had won the New York Critics Circle Award and the Antoinette Terry Award for Drama. lnaicteu on jo cuums u. i edging a 76-76. i or-way.

i i The reservation of 80 million: Two other cars swun? diar-! forgery and grand theft for his SCnooi. feet of gas a day will makelonally across the main line of his wife's "pg assignment followed On the heels Of the! If the unit vote similar to the electoral colleee vote in pieniy or pipeline capacity coming to a precarious nan;" Sunny Day, ab to meet these requests, the: astride the main tracks. FPC said. I The clubman's automobile MacKinlav Kantor's "Ander- "Robson case," in which the Belmont Improvement dentiai election remains tied. Association bv mob action and bribery recently th nomLnattn man with the edge in popular drove out a family which is partly Negro.

'votes. It brought out some clear, moving expressions of youth ruf. Tydlngs.Ma- cpi ivTrprn nu L-if snnville," an historical recital of! TTt I7 the horrors of a Confederate) I I AT THE same time, the fn t. nA ynf thn will prevent both Michigan-Wis-1 abled coaches where most of theJ was found Saturday on a Santa Monica street with a hole In the windshield and a dent In the ear. Both could have been caused by bullets.

iconsiji and Michigan Consolidated serious casualties occurred. prison camp of tne Livu war, won the Pulitzer Trize for fiction. opimon wmcn stuaents, teacner ana principal were y' honey battle overshadowed inter- Creeps In the Free Press use. irom greauy increasing ineir: Twisted bits of wreckage from "firm" sales in present markets. the train and truck coach wheels.l Scott's criminal attorney.

I i. Tn nnpctinn nf pvnanninff Kjsnf rail. onH Vi y-iLr on tiaa artH ti bright sun Monday mean winter has left The doesn't i c.ivj jfranK ceicner, auvanceu me hv the situation adults had cre-i Michigan-Wisconsin markets in telegraph poles littered the right possibility of foul plav andjaled and some of tnem hadi Wisconsin is involved in a Mid- of way for hundreds of feet, Poiice chief William H. Parker i share(1 Xhev aiso were embar-' western Gas Transmission Glass from shattered windows was oossible. I jv f-.

est in the Presidential preference primaries, where President hower and Senator Estes Kefau-jver had the stete'a nominating votes tucked away. Since neither write-in voting nor crossing of party lines Is legal, the Presidential pref- erence results were discarded as Indicators of relative Battleship Limps Home After Wreck ru i iir-i ir I cwaua CLULICO I hearing. Midwestern seeks to was everywhere. Scott had been scheduled to invariably described the P.obsoni appear in connection with "gang" or "mob" as "including: S6.000 judgment obtained against Coolev High School students." by a printing firm for a debt Thp teach 12A com Waukesha County Sheriff Mike Lombard! estimated the speed of the train at 70 m.p.h. when it collided with the truck at the Duplainville crossing, about 23 miles west of us.

The weatherman said frost would creep in Monday night, another strong reminder that spring is late this year. A low of 32 degrees was expected in the Detroit area with 22 to 28 in the northern part of the Lower Pensinsula. Fair weather was expected again Tuesday with a new-promise of spring a high of about 56 degrees. I serve the same cities, The FPC also authorized American Louisiana to build a 1 $7,820,000 branch line from Payne. to connect with the i a Wisconsin at Bridgman, Mich.

incurred in the publication of a NORFOLK, Va. 0J.PD More I heavily damaged than in two THE ANNUAL awards were, made by the trustees of Columbia University under the will of the late Joseph Pulitzer. The Watsonville (Calif.) Keg- Ister-rajaronian, with a circulation of 7.800, was of the Public Serice Award in Journalism. The newspaper's crusade led to the resignation of a District Attorney and the eoniction of one of his as- sociates. roving three-man team from the Hearst newspapers, headed Turn to Page 2.

Column 1 strength. Democrats outnumber Repub- book he had sponsored. uo.t th hattljcriiT Wisrnnein hobbied into port Monday after licans 'n the 8tate io sition, who gears writing assignments to the news, sensed this disturbance as the girls and boys read newspaper and magazine reports of their neighborhood story. A BENCH warrant was issued 316.196. a collision with a destroyer.

The escort destroyer Eaton The train, designated as a for Scott by Superior Judge special." had originated Curtis Smith in the civil action Tydings, a bitter antagonist of Senator McCarthy Drouth Over rammed by the Wisconsin Sun at Portage 90 minutes before the but the case was continued until He broke down the "Dangers arrived at the was defeated in 1950 after wrv- ST. LOUIS (.3) A six-month crash chric1h occurred at May 15. when Scott is scheduled of a Mob theme into headings Portsmouth (Va.) Naval Ship- inS 24 years in the Senate day in a (CST). fog. A Repeater In this primary he was shoot- toenter a plea on the grand jury enough to cover their ds fter a precarious tow.

apoutch ww.s eri inr cnuuren anu uieir leatu- fnrcrprv an rrflnr1 thpft inrlirt- for another crack at the in NEW YORK (JP) Eric Haas, tling Co. lL lev sjii i u. s-rtii vi ers, a noiiaay mooa. naa i uooiey ign seniors uunKing on stern-first. with al- the' Socialist Labor Party in 'recognize Teamsters Local 688 Panned to attend the Milwaukee Braves-Brooklyn Dodgers game.

and that if Scott most her entire forward area flooded. The destroyer will be 1952, w-as nominated Monday to as bargaining agent for 200 driv run again this year. ers. Test II-Bomb Slill Dclavctl -INHOIANITY is the only drydocked for repairs. Senator John Marshall Butler.

Butler won renomination Monday night. ME. EISENHOWER held a commanding margin over the only other choice Republican voters had a space on the ballot marked "uninstructed delega jvc, lu. M.r uvn iW Fuiui.s up outcom of an unorganized mob: wauKee. said it appeared to him most of the bail money caah le gathere1 for the pur.

that the tnick drove around five with a bonding firm. the in automobiles which had stopped Parker said the fact that Scott ow-n hands one boy wrote. 100 DY FLOOD The Wisconsin moored at the Norfolk Naval Base. She undoubtedly will have to go into drydoek for major at me crossing anu aitemptea brought forth the large sum in "if one only thought of how- to race across the tracks cash may have made him a he himself would feel if a mob One of the teachers aboard the tion" and seemed to have the "target for criminals." The onlv casualty was a turned on him. the horror he Whole Alaskan Town Stranded on Rooftop ABOARD USS MT.

McKIN-LEY, Eniwetok (UR The explosion of America's first air- rlropped hydrogen bomb was postponed for the second time ir as many days Monday as un-. favorable winds threatened to waft its deadly radioactive cloud over inhabited areas. state's 24 votes in his pocket. Returns from 950 polling would feel as he saw a sea of scratched nose suffered by a anzry faces coming toward him, sailor on the Eaton when he train, Mrs. Oscar Mayer, said 'she was in the car that over- turned.

About 25 of her seventh Oil 11 rllKi! and eighth grade pupils were the anguish he would feel as he fell. realized that all of these 'ani-' The Wisconsin chewed a 30- places showed 45.597 votes for Mr. Eisenhower, 2,263 cast for imals' actually hated their vie-, foot gash from the deck to the an uninstructed delegation. tim. he would never participate waterline of the smaller ship and Kefauver was having an easy bow in mob action." i stove in ner own buckled her decks.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska CJ.R One hundred persons were trapped Monday atop a two-story schoolhouse as the Kus-kokwin River flooded the village of Sleitmute, 20S, mfles northwest of here, civil defense authorities reported. ana time his bid for the 15 votes 'in the Democratic nominating convention. Task force officials said the! blast now is tentatively set forj early Thursday (Wednesday, afternoon But another de-l with her. and two or three were hurt. 1 "When it happened, all I could I think about was my own kids back home," she said.

"But the children in my car and most of ithem are only 12 or 13 years old, were very calm. They surprised me. They didn't get panicky." Rescue planes were unable i Win $500 Enter Used Car Value Contest With 1,055 polling places reported, his unofficial total was 8,784 to 41,263 for the umn- jay was consiaerea uxeij. th stranded villagers A girl wrote: "The qualities of a neighbor can only be I judged rightfully in one way. What kind of a person is he, not what color, or what religion, or what nationality.

Tarn to Page Column 1 The test originally was sets because of poor flying sstructed delegation. Amusements 2fl Astrology 8 Bridge 9 Comics 36-37 Day in Michigan 13 Drew Pearson 29 Editorials 6 Financial 21-23 Jumble Word Game S3 Movie Guide 37 My Answer 13 Radio and Television 35 Sports 25-29 Town rier 20 Used Car Contest 34 ant Ads 30-34 Women's Pages 17-13 Choose your favorite used car for Tuesday (Eniwetok then Wednesday and finally' Thursdav. Nelsen Resigns WASHINGTON UB Presi weather. Officers said it was impossible to make any rescue attempt Monday. CIVIL DEFENSE officials declared an emergency throughout the flooding re- Pets, Owner Killed Twenty members of a construction gang were evacuated from their camp near Aniak, 50 miles upstream from the mouth of the Kuskokwim.

Meager radio reports received by civil defense officials here indicated flood waters at Sleitmute had reached the second floor of the school building, forcing the entire 100 resident of the village to move to the roof of the frame building. Tsh Tsh! description in today's Free Press Want Ads. Tell us in 50 words or less why you'd like to own the car described. That's all there is to entering the exciting Used Car Value Contest which offers prizes of $500 weekly and free vacation trips. For rules and entry blank turn now to dent Eisenhower Monday accepted with "extreme'' reluctance the resign at inn rrf Ar.cher Operation Slated ALBANY.

N. iyPl-v. Averell Harriman win enter Co-: lumbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan May 20 to undergo a "minor the Governor's office announced Monday. 1 I MEMPHIS, Tenn. CP) An animal trainer and 25 animals 'died Monday when fire rwept a ST.

JOHN'S. Nfld. .7) Po- gions. where mild tempera-lice are looking for a hit-and-run tures melted the snowpack ia driver. Hit a parked automobile' the- Kuskokwim Mountains, nd kept right on going with his sending the streams rampag-horse and buggy.

mg down to the Bering Sea." Nelsen as Rural Electrification Administrator, Nelsen ta quitting May 15 run for Governor of Mir.neota. TO HAVE THE FREE PRESS Pt shop. Overcome by smoke; DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME while he slept was Magnus F. PHONE WO 2-S3O0 ICook. FREE PRESS WANT ADS.

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