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119 No. 275 Five Cents on Is Morn to Bergman in ome 7 GROUNDHOG SAYS: TO A Rossellhii at Clinic ivith Star Director Excited, Priest Declares 2 Jul 6 Col You ROME Glamorous In- grid Bergman, Swedish movie; The wreck occurred four miles from this town, which is 30 miles north of Milwaukee. THE TRAIN was bound from to a hospital Washington. in near-by Port! THE DEAD man and those seriously injured were not identi- fieri Three coaches, a diner and a parlor car rolled completely over, i actress who rose to stardom in Road's southbound Chip-Hollywood, gave birth to a boy'rwa Hiawatha streamliner The groundhog in Detroit was scared by his own shadow. So he scurried back to his hole Thursday for six more weeks of sleep.

As legend has it, that means just that much more winter. BIT PI NXSl'TAWNEY, may hope for an early spring. Its groundhog, of Gobblers Knob the recognized national authority on what might happen was buried under a cloud. The Weather Bureau, Avhieh claims to be more reliable than the groundhog, says that for the next few weeks any way temperatures may run a little below normal. For Friday, it predicted partly cloudy skies and temperatures ranging from 15 to 35 degrees.

SAUKVILLE, Wis. One man was killed when the Mil- struck a broken rail and rolled i over Thursday night. Reported mm Daring Pilot Saves 13 Stranded on Ice Defies Storm in 7 Trips to Floe Adrift in Saginaw Bay Special the Free Irrs PINCONNING Defying wind-lashed snow, a pilot skimmed his light plane across a widening gap of water seven times Thursday to rescue 13 fishermen from an ica floe. 15,000 at Rouge to Get Extra Work Capacity Production Planned; i 1 ml January Output Sets 2 Records Nearly 15,000 hourly rated workers will go on a six-day week Saturday" at the Rouge plant of the Ford Motor Co. This represents in effect, a 30 per cent increase in the workers' pay.

All company operations will bej i I i .1 't 1 1 i feeks Future 4 4 CAL CARSTENS Flew 13 to safety He was peeved at Rudolf Bing, the opera company's new manager, who had refused to tell Melchior whether he would be rehired for next season. The old Opera House was jammed Thursday night. There were some 300 standees. THE DEMAND for tickets by fans who wanted to hear Melchior and Helen Traubel sing their last operatic songs together had oeen terrific. Miss Traubel also had considered leaving the Met when she I'icture on Back Page heard that Kirsten Flagstad was to replace her.

But Bing disclosed Wednesday that both she and Flagstad would be given contracts. Bing had intimated that Melchior has been using his opera connection chiefly to promote his concert career. rf 1 A pouthwest wind had spun trrrd the ice on Saginaw several hours earlier. Bay Tilt; DARING pilot. Cal Carstens.

took off on the appeal of Pn'ice Chief William Hasso, whose brother, Al, was among the marooned. Visibility was almost zero, strong trusts whipped up snow from the ice. Another plane from Bay City circled overhead as Carstens dropped down seven times to carry the men to solid ice a mile off shore. COAST GUARD and Naval Reserve Rescue Squads took care of them. None suffered ill effects.

Said Carstens: "There wasn't a whole lot to it. I just picked 'em up and flew 'em back." Without his airborne aid the stranded men would have had only one other way to safety. That was to walk 29 miles across the ice to the other side of the bay. Carstens. 29.

operates Sportsmen's Airport at Pinconning and drives a school bus. He was a bomber pilot in the war and flew 17 missions over Europe. body under one of the train's overturned coaches. Three otfier persons were injured seriously. The railroad company reported I that 12 to 15 persons were taken l1 V.

Seek Trio in Slaying of Hoodlum Woman, 5 Men Held in Trunk Killing Three Sicilian "muscle men" were being sought by police in the gangland slaying of Jack George, 36, described in the underworld as "a little man with big ideas." Police thought the imported hoodlums may have killed George because he had hijacked gambling joints on Detroit's near East Side. A search was begun also for a married woman with whom the ex-convict had been associating for a year. She was said to he the wife of a man "powerful" in local Syrian circles. George's body was found Wednesday night in the trunk of his parked car. His legs were jack- IrnifAH hfthinH on4 tr Vtio wvi.ittu V.

mo hands with sash cord that looped around his neck. CHIEF OF DETECTIVES Jack Harvill said that the three Sicilian "muscles" arrived in Detroit last week. According to his information, they were brought in from the East, presumably New Y6rk, to "persuade" independent gamblers to join the Italian syndicate. Harvill's men were checking downtown hotels, at one of which the trio reportedly registered. FIVE HOODLUMS already were being held for investigation and a woman was held as a police witness.

Detectives Hiram Phipps and Charles Perry said George had been sticking up gambling joints for the last few weeks. He usually was in the company of two Southerners, they said. The detectives said George had been getting the "freeze" treatment from local underworld characters because of his robberies and for turning "stool pigeon" at Jack- son Prison in 1946 GEORGE'S MURDER was the fifth gangland slaying in Detroit in less than six years. Police said there was a defi nite link between the. George killing and the October, 1947, murder of Gust Andromalos, 34, a Greektown numbers operator.

Andromalos was trussed in similar fashion and left to die in the trunk of his parked car. The knots bowlines were identical. "FIND THE MEN who killed Andromalos," said Inspector Wal-Turn to Page 7, Column 1 Halt! LONDON (IP Srotland Vard i i i The engine remained up- right and a baggage car left Railroad officials said it was believed that cold weather caused the steel rail to snap as the train passed over it. 1 1 ji 11UU5U11 ViUlS Prices $88 to $170 Super and Custom Commodores Reduced Price reductions on 1950 Hudson Motor Car Co. products to be introduced Feb.

10 will range from $88 to $170.25, the com- pany announced. Prices on the new Hudson Pace-j maker models, however, will not be affected, it was reported. A. E. BARIT, Hudson president, isaid: "These are not token price reductions but represent substantial savings to the customers in the price of the new cars.

"I would Ike to stress that every body type in the 1950 line of the Hudson Super and Custom Commodore series is affected." The reductions, Barit said, were the result of the company's efforts to offset rising prices. The company has been able to reduce over-all costs, depitc new refinements in quality, styling and engineering, he added. ADVERTISED delivered prices, not including State taxes, license and title fees, and preparation and delivery charges were announced as: Super Six Brougham. coupe, four-door sedan, convertible brougham, Super Eight Brougham. 152; club coupe, four-door sedan, $2,189.

Custom Commodore Six Club coupe, four-door sedan, convertible brougham, $2,809. Custom Commodore. Eight Club coupe, four-door sedan, $2,365.50, and convertible brougham, $2,893.25. What They Are Saying THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY discussing England's election campaign: "The day approaches, we are told, when nations will have to disintegrate the very world we live on Those who seek power to disintegrate the very of responsibility." JOSEF STALIN, replying to a remark by Winston Churchill: "There are lots of things that happen even here in Russia hich our secret service does not necessarily tell me about." FRED M. ALGER urging Gov.

Williams to act on making Percy Jones a State hospital: "While I have no intention of adding glory to your political career, nevertheless, it occurs to me that there is a possibility that should be explored." INGRID BERGMAN Her Mexican divorce suit still pending SWAX SO.VG A KEALITY Thursday night in a Rome clinic. Roberto Rossellini, Italian movie i anecior, wnose romance wiwi Miss Bergman has caused a world i sensation, was at the clinic. I A CATHOLIC priest who is a close friend of Rossellini was called to the clinic and announced the birth. The priest said It took plae three weeks earlier than had been expected. He added that Rossellini was so excited, he forgot to say how much the baby weighed.

Both the infant and mother were reported doing well. Last week. Miss Bergman filed suit for divorce in Juarez, Mexico, from Dr. Peter Lindstrom, Hollywood brain surgeon. She married Lindstrom in their native Sweden at the outset of her brilliant career.

LINDSTROM announced later that he would file a divorce suit of his own in California. There have been disputes between the pair over property settlements and other details. Rossellini's priest friend said that the director and Bergman had agreed that the baby would be brought up in the Catholic faith. No name for the boy has been chosen yet. In Hollywood.

Lindstrom de-clinned to comment on the birth. Lindstrom had visited Miss Bergman here late last April to "clarify the situation" after reports of her romance with Rossellini. It was thought, for a brief time, that they might be reconciled. BUT SOON it was made known that she intended to divorce Lindstrom and marry Rossellini, with whom she was making the film "Stromboli" on the Italian volcanic island of that name. Miss Bergman's baby was born while fashionable Rome gathered to see the world premiere of the supermovie "Volcano," starring Anna Magnani, Rossellini's former girl friend.

It was made in competition with "Stromboli." Ingrid is 34. Rossellini is 43. Miss Bergman's 11 year old daughter Pia is in Hollywood with Pia's father, Lindstrom. IN RECENT WEEKS. Miss Bergman had been living in the i seclusion of a "hide-out" apart- ment on the outskirts of Rome.

Rossellini became free to marry Miss Bergman only re- cently. The Turin Court of Appeals recognized as valid an annulment of his marriage to Marcella de Marshis Rossellini, whom he wed in 1936. The annulment was granted in Austria last Dec. 23. On Inside Pases Amuse'ts 8-9 Beauty 13 Brady 27 Bridge 26 Chatterbox 12 Childs 6 Classified 23-25 Comics 26-27 Crosby 26 Crossword 28 Donovan 16 Editorials 6 Fashion 14 Financial 16-17 Food 14 Guest 6 Horoscope 26 IQ Test 5 Lippmann 6 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Prinsrle 14 Racing Radio Riley Schram Smith 22 27 12 19 20 20-22 Sports Star gazing 8 Thea'ters 10 Town Crier 28 Wilson 28 Women's 12-14 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads Call WOODWARD 2-9400 there were calories in beer will say there are calories in lipstick and to cut this out, too), file past the padlocked refrigerator, take another notch in my belt (what do you know, it moved a notch!) and go out into the cruel world.

BOSS, YOU DO not know what a fantastic land we live in. All the way to work, billboards lovely billboards about stuff to eat and drink. It's a wonder I didn't have an accident. Run into a restaurant or something. Here we are in a land burning up 50,000,000 bushels of potatoes, and who could take care of half the crop right now, dasn't.

Here we are taxed to feed the Turn to Page 10, Column 1 ntonagon' Mich" to Milwukee Wrecking- crews found the Bl Doing Well would have the aim of moving; U.S. Weighs Reprisal in Red Blockade Russia Accused of Breaking Paris Pact WASHINGTON (JP) The United States is considering "counter measures" against the new Russian transport restrictions between Western Germany and Berlin, the State Department said. A department spokesman accused the Russians of violating the Paris agreement which ended the Berlin blockade last year. MICHAEL. McDERMOTT, State Department press officer, declined to discuss what counter measures might be taken.

During the previous blockade the Western Powers retaliated by putting an economic squeeze on the Soviet Zone of Germany. McDermott told newsmen the State Department's information on the present Berlin situation shows satisfactory food and fuel reserves 30 Burn to Death in Bus Crash BOGOTA, Colombia (JP) Thirty persons burned to death and six were injured when a passenger bus crashed into a bridge near Ovejas. about 62 miles southeast of Cartagena, the newspaper El Espectador said. 50 Billion in Aid Urged as Plan to Control Atom Irked by Neiv Director, Melchior Quits the Met NEW YORK (U.R) Lauritzjance would be his last at the Met Senator Would Bid for Russian Agreement Avith Economic Help Free Press Wire Services WASHINGTON Senator McMahon Conn.) proposed that the United States try to woo Russia to a foolproof atomic-control program with a five-year, $50,000,000,000 global-economic-aid plan. a peace crusade, he said, heaven and earth to stop the atomic armaments race'' and head off a tragic war.

through May, according to present production schedules, Company spokesmen said, however, that a shortage of coal or steel, or a combined shortage, could interrupt the postwar high production schedules. HENRY FORD II. company. president, had announced a few weeks ago that plans were being made to achieve in the first six months of 1950 the highest half-year production in the company's ry" With the announcement that overtime work and six-day operations would be necessary in 'most of the company's manufac turing and assembly plants, the company reported that the Janu- ary output reached 148,393 vehi- cles for a postwar monthly i record. On Jan.

31, the company turned out 7.220 units to establish a postwar daily record. THE EXPANDED production program should reach more than 8.000 units daily, including 5.000 Ford passenger cars, by April 1, the company announced. "Ford passenger-car production for 1949 showed a 53 per cent increase over the previous year, hich as the highest gain registered by any maker of cars in the industry, a company spokesman said. Schedules will vary from week to week in the company's manufacturing and assembly plants, but i aaiuraay worK win ue auueu in i the automotive manufacturing op erations at Rouge. THE 15.000 workers at Rouge who will begin their extra day operations Saturday are employed in seven divisions.

Their extended; work week is expected to continue through May. Most final-assem-: bly operations will continue on a nine-hour-day basis. In its national operations, 14 assembly plants are scheduled to work five hours of overtime each week during February. Plants at Chester, and Chicago will work at least one eight-hour Saturday in February. At Highland Park and Long Beach, workers will put in 10 extra hours each week in February.

Steel production operations win and stronger than since 1945." at any time "In all we are doing we are seeking peace," Johnson told applauding listeners. "There is only one nation in the world that would start a war. We seek to have a militarv establishment sufficient to deter that aggressor and to lick hell out of her if she doesn't stay deterred. "Joe Stalin will know that if he starts something at 4 a.m.. the fighting power of the United States 1 will be on the job at 5 a.m." Melchior, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, quit the Met in a huff Thursday night because of his feud with its new director.

"Not only as Lohengrin, but as Lauritz Melchior, I have sung my sw-an song at the Metrop 1 i a the hefty 59 year -old Danish tenor said. "I will not be back." In the opera which he sang I. 1 5 i Melchior "Lohengrin." in Thursday night. Melchior, as Lohengrin, is carried off the stage in a swan-drawn boat. MELCHIOR HAD said earlier that if he "didn't miss the swan boat," Thursday night's perform- Dy(et)ing Delirium a BY JAMES S.

POOLER tree rrestaff Writer (After four days of desperate struggle we have Fatso Pooler back to the 162 pounds with which he began his diet. Yesterday he went to the extreme of getting a haircut unusual for him in the winter and emptying his pockets of odds and ends collected through the years. So Pooler, who is supposed to be showing men how easy It is to diet, is now back to his starting weight.) Memo to the Boss, Today the fifth day of my diet delirium set in. It was welcome. You do not know how nice delirium is.

iss, until you have been starving to death. I was so delirious that the cup of black coffee and the half grape- I I I i Reporter Finds Welcome Relief said that political processions had continue at capacity and purchas-been banned in London for the ing activities will continue at new next three months. peaks, the company announced. McMahon is chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Committee. HE WARNED that in Russian hands the projected hydrogen superbomb "might incinerate Americans in the space of minutes." President Truman asserted at his Thursday news conference that this country striving continually for international agreement on atomic controls.

In effect, this rejected the suggestion of Senator Vandenburg Mich.) that the United States declare its willingness to halt work on the H-bomb the moment such horrible weapons are "dependably outlawed." TRUMAX said it was neither necessary nor desirable to take such a step because American delegates to the United Nations already were trying, almost Senators seek UN Army, Page S. every week, to get a control plan adopted. So far, Russia has blocked all efforts. McMahon outlined his proposal in a Senate speech. He said he hoped it would start a great nationwide debate on what Turn to Page 10, Column 4 Festive Notes NEW YORK (JP) Violinist i Fritz Kreisler, celebrating his: 75th birthday, received messages from Pope Pius XII.

President Truman and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. 'COULD FIGHT IN U.S. Can 'Lick HelV Out of Stalin Johnson fruit looked good.

In fact, this morning I could not eat it all. I left the rind of the grapefruit which, with the help of a little catsup, I always could manage on the first days of my diet. XOR DO I look with longing at the cat's filling breakfast. I talked soothingly and reached down to pat the dear creature but she, suspicious, gathered up her pork chops and hid under a bed. If I'd just been a little quicker, and was not too plump to pursue her under beds! Oh, well, there will come another morning; when that cat won't be so alert.

So there was nothing to do but kiss my wife goodby (I suppose you wonderful people who found WASHINGTON (JP) Defense Secretary Louis A. Johnson said that America's armed might will be sent to "lick hell" out of Joe Stalin if he starts anything. Johnson told a gathering of about 300 fellow alumni of tne University of Virginia, that this country's defense system is reaching a Doint where it can be reidy for action within an hour. JOHNSON SAID that through unification, "the defense of the United States is in better shape.