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Happens to Divorcees? DRIPPY Eain, snow cold and windy Weather Map on Pane 17 Tl'ESDAI TEMPERATURES IVIETRO FINAL NEW FORD PLANT Ford to Construct' Foundry and Motor Plant in Cleveland. Story on Page 21. 7 in a m. a.m. 20 a.m.

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259 Five Cents 11 a.m. 12 noon -o 11 12 audits Invade Vault Grab 1,000,000 Mm o)Nl UuUM Study Reveals Hardships Faced by Divorcees Younger Ones Will Remarry; but Most Have to Get Jobs Dp Gang Raids Brink's in Boston Masked Men Pass Up Another Million Free Press Wire Services BOSTON" The nation's biggest robbery was pulled in Boston Tuesday night when a bandit gang made off with "more than $1,000,000" from an armored truck firm. CTo) IIS BY JAMES S. POOLER Free Press Staff Writer What happens to women after divorce? How many remarry? What are their chalices for happiness? How many have to go to work? An amazing study of divorces in Detroit the first of its kind has produced the answers to such questions and a story of national significance. More than two years ago Dr.

William J. Goode, professor of sociology at Wayne University, began his unusual investigation into divorce. Not essentially its causes, but what happened to the people afterward. Chrysler Pension Rejected by UAW Union Calls Offer of $100 Monthly 'Inadequate'; Threatens Strike BY ARTHUR O'SIIEA Free Press tabor Writer Chrysler Corp. offered the UAW (CIO) a pension program which was promptly rejected by the union.

Patterned after recent industrial settlements, the Chrysler program offered $100 monthly pensions. I Under the terms, Chrysler com- ULAa He. picked for his study mothers between 20 and 38. Hp divided them into groups of those divorced two months, six' months a year, two years. INTERVIEWERS went out to see them in Detroit, River Rouge, Pleasant Ridge, Birmingham, throughout the Metropolitan Detroit area.

Right at the start some of the tragedy of divorce became apparent. Homes broken debts feeling alienated from their former friends trying to avoid the circle in which their former husband might move stepping down the social ladder having to go to work again. Many divorcees were hard to trace. BUT THE professor persisted and the results of his research have been so significant that, starting this week, they are the basis of a series of five articles in the Saturday Evening Post. In an interview for the Free Press, Dr.

Goode said that, roughly, these were some of the highlights of his study: 1 A high percentage of divorcees have had to get jobs. By the time they were interviewed two-thirds had jobs of some kind. Half of the divorcees have full-time jobs. 2 They had great difficulty taking care of their children. The alimony rarely was enough to live on.

The inadequacy of alimony was reflected in over half the cases with the allowance for a child only from $7 tc $10 a week. Nearly all the women kept their children but Turn to Page 11, Column 1 $10,000 DAMAGES Vandal Forces Plant to Close; 26 Lose Jobs Special to the Free Press EMMETT, Mich. A vandal who smashed patterns and core boxes valued at $10,000 has forced the Emmett foundry to close, throwing 26 men out of work. Frank Cooke, owner of the foundry, said someone had used sledge hammers to wreck the equipment. HE HAD OBTAINED $140,000 worth of orders recently, Cooke said, but now all will be canceled because it would take six to eight months to replace the patterns and core boxes.

"That means the plant must be closed and may never reopen," Cooke said. The foundry reopened recently after having been shut by the coal strike since Oct. 25. COUNCIL IN CHORUS VI UVU mitted itself to make up the difference between Federal social security benefits and the pledged $100. The proposal also offered to liberalize the current contributory life, sickness, accident and disability insurance program.

ONE OF THE principal stumbling blocks in the eyes of the UAW was the Chrysler demand that the current contract be extended for five years. Norman Matthews, director of the UAW Chrysler Department, termed the offer "completely inadequate." A union spokesman predicted that the union would serve a seven-day strike notice on the company Wednesday at the scheduled bargaining session. This would mean that if a more liberal offer is not forthcoming, the UAW would shut down Chrysler's 25 plants Jan. 25. Chrysler has 14 plants in the Detroit area, employing 79,000, one at Marysville, and 10 plants elsewhere.

MATTHEWS rapped the pension offer because it contained no provision for putting a fixed amount per man-hour into a trust fund. He also complained that no provision was made for joint union-management administration. Maximum benefits, under the proposal, would accrue to an employe who had completed 25 years of service at 65. The settlement reached last Sep- Turn to Page 10, Column 4 Mighty Mo Stuck in Mud Off Virginia Army to Dredge Out Grounded Battleship NORFOLK, Va. (U.R) The battleship Missouri's first cruise under a new skipper, Capt.

W. D. Brown, ended ingloriously on a mudbank in Hampton Roads Tuesday. The Army hurried to the rescue when the Navy failed to free her. Sixteen tugs strained at the "Big Mo," the Navy's only active battleship.

SHE ONLY wallowed deeper in the mud. Tuesday night the Navy called off the attempt to free the Mis- Pictures on Back Page souri and decided to wait until early Wednesday. A dredge manned by Army engineers is scheduled to arrive then from Baltimore. The 45,000 Mo was not badly damaged, the Navy said. But she was firmly stuck, with about eight feet of her underwater hull protruding above the calm sea when the tide fell.

TONS OF supplies and movable equipment were taken off, and 40,000 barrels of fuel oil were siphoned out, but that was not enough. A Navy spokesman said the Missouri might have to give up the rest of her oil, her ammunition and most of her men before being dug out of the mudbank by the Army dredge. JV Seared JUDGE IRA W. JAYNE Executive's Son Killed by Auto Driver Says Youth Ran into Highway H. Clay Poss, 19, son of a Nash-Kelvinator vice president, was injured fatally Tuesday in an automobile accident.

He died at 10 p. m. in Wyandotte General Hospital, nine hours after he was struck on Telegraph, three miles north of Flat Rock. His father, H. Clay Doss, of 20066 Stratford, is vice president in charge of sales for Nash-Kelvinator Corp.

RICHARD YESUE, 28, of 1904 Philomene, Lincoln Park, said that Doss ran in front of his car. Witnesses supported Yesue's state ment. Yesue was released, but he will be recalled to make a statement Wednesday to the, Monroe prosecutor. William tReinhold, of 23206 Telegraph, near where the accident occurred, said Doss had been a guest in his home for two weeks. Reinhold said he was a friend of Doss' father.

IN DIVORCE SUIT A Dog's Life Is Placed First Mrs. Betty Burgess, of 7232 Chatham, is a patient woman. In filing suit for divorce against husband, George, 68, she explained that she put up with his running around with other women. But when he started beating her dog every time he got mad at her, that was too much, she said. She obtained a temporary order from Circuit Judge Lila Neuenfelt to prevent him from molesting the dog or of disposing of any property.

Spain Disclaims Deal with Soviet PARIS (IP) A Spanish Em bassy official denied reports that anti-Communist Spain is negotiating here to buy Russian wheat. The official said Spanish diplomatic and trade representatives here have had no dealings with Soviet representatives and that no special trade mission has arrived here recently. Another for Reds BERN, Switzerland (JP) Switzerland extended full recognition to the Chinese Communist vi Police Supt. Edward W. Fallon said "over $1,000,000 was stolen." SEVEN BANDITS, wearing orange, and black Halloween masks, walked into the office of Brink's, at 7:10 p.m.

Two other waited in two getaway cars. The bandits picked up all the money they could carry, but left behind more, than $1,000,000 when they fled. The robbery was so well planned and so swiftly executed that Capt John D. A'Hearn of the Police De partment's special service squad said it must have been engineered by the "Cream of the Boston underworld." THE BANDITS apparently sneaked up the back stairs of the terminal garage annex to reach the main vault on the second floor. They met no opposition.

They went through six doors, three of which were believed locked, and passed two unmanned guard stations. The money had been collected from various business establishments throughout the city and was being sorted for banking Wednesday. THE MONEY, all in paper bills, was scooped from an open vault into laundry bags brought by the robbers. They left behind nearly 50 bags of silver lying in the vault. The garage is on the waterfront in Boston's congested North End.

Witnesses told police the men raced out of the Brink building into the waiting automobiles. The Brink robbery was the sec ond major holdup in Boston within 34 hours. SJhortly before 9 a. m. Monday, three men took $47,627 $26,000 in cash from the offices of the Hotel Statler in Park Square.

In that case four men, all armed and wearing paper bags as masks staged a three-minute robbery that also showed evidence of careful, advance planning. Thomas B. Lloyd, head Brink's cashier, said he and four other workers were trussed with heavy wrapping cord carried by the gunmen. Reds Losing in Finn Vote HELSINKI, Finland (U.R) President Juho K. Paasikivi, who has been denounced by the Soviet press as an arch-reactionary and an American tool, forged far ahead in early returns in Finland's election.

With 1,324,130 votes officially counted, Passikivi polled 765,535 or 57.8 per cent; Urho K. Kekkon-en, Agrarian candidate, 272,064 or 20.5 per cent; and Mauno Pekkala, Communist, 286,531 or 21.6 per cent. Era's Incision Stops All Trains New Vork Times Foreign Service BUENOS AIRES All trams in Argentina were stopped 10 minutes Tuesday in sympathy for Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, the President's wife, who had her appendix removed last week. The railwaymen's union issued the order. Jeffries is trying to get the earlier meeting to save overtime pay for elevator operators, members of the City Clerk's staff, and heat and light.

So he asked the Corporation Counsel to rule on whether 4 p. m. is evening. AS LAWYERS often do, the Corporation Counsel came back with a report that said everything. It quoted Webster: "The latter part of the day and early Bingay, Judge in Hospital Brandy-and-Coffee Mixture Explodes As 100 diners shouted in horror, cascades of flaming brandy sprayed over a group of prominent Detroiters at a dinner given by a union at the AFL Labor Temple, 82 W.

Montcalm. A coffee and brandy concoction blew up in the diners' faces. MOST SERIOUSLY injured were: Recorder's Judge Joseph A. Gillis. Malcolm W.

Bingay, editorial director of the Detroit Free Press. James Massaroni, official of the Cooks' Union. Peter Luzi, restaurant official. All were hospitalized with burns. Gillis and Massaroni were taken to Receiving Hospital, Bingay and Luzi to Grace Hospital.

ALSO INJURED were: Circuit Judge Ira W. Jayne. Cliff Bell, restaurateur. Eugene Mathevit, personnel director of the Wayne County Civil Service Commission. William Walters, general manager of Cliff Bell's.

Jayne and Mathevit were treated at hospitals and released. JUDGE JAYNE said he was sitting next Bingay when the explosion happened. He wrapped his coat around Bingay's burning vest, smothered the flames. "Judge Gillis started running. his face and coat afire," Jayne said.

"Somebody threw a towel around his face. "The towel probably saved him from much deeper burns." Jayne said tne flash fire occurred when maple syrup was dumped into a big bowl along with the brandy and coffee. Circuit Judge Miles N. Culehan said of the explosion: "It looked like a flamethrower." Many Detroiters prominent in business, politics and law circles were present at the dinner. THE PARTY turned in a second from a gay scene to one of shambles when the explosion oc curred over a huge silver punch bowl of "cafe diablo." Councilman Charles G.

Oak-man, who was not burned, said the guests had just finished an elaborate meal when the explosion and flash fire occurred. "All of a sudden, there was a followed by a flash fire," Oakman said. "EVERYBODY seemed stunned momentarily. Then a woman's scream brought everybody to life again." Judge Gillia may be scarred for life, doctors said. Both he and Massaroni suffered second-degree burns or the face, hands and arms.

Those burned were nearest the punchbowl. Recorder's Judge John P. Scal-len, who aided the injured, said Turn to Page 5, Column 6 On Inside Pages Amusements 14 Bingay 6 Bridge 26 Chatterbox 12 Childs 6 Classified 23-25 Comics 26-27 Crossword 28 Editorials 6 Fashion 13 Financial 21-22 Guest 6 Horoscope 26 IQ Test 4 Marriage 13 Merry-Go-R'd ft Pringle Racing Radio Riley Rose Ruark Smith Sports 13 20 27 12 26 28 18 18-20 Star Gazing Theaters 14 11 Town Crier 17 Wilson 28 Women's 12-13 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 by Flames MALCOLM W. BLNGAY Free Press Photos JUDGE JOSEPH A. GILLIS Victims of coffee blast What re mg SENATOR LODGE Mass.) reporting jthat the United States has developed new weapons that would make coastlines invulnerable to invasion: "We had better do everything we can to hold Europe because of the great difficulty of getting back again once it has been seized by an aggressor." REP.

GWTNN N. "Now cities are giving up home rule, confessing their inability to manage themselves, and crying to the Federal Government to build houses for their people, to fix prices on food, to educate their children." MAYOR ERNST REUTER, of Berlin, urging Western powers to "liberate" Poland and Czechoslovakia: "The Russians do not want a war. Not because they are paci-. fists, but because they are not prepared for one. The only way to get along with them is to show no compromise at all." RFC Readies Lustron Suit WASHINGTON (Government lawyers got orders to prepare for court action in the case of the big Federal loans to the Lustron Corp.

Lustron is a producer of prefabricated housing in Columbus, O. launched with $37,500,000 bor rowed from the Reconstruction Finance Corn. The RFC board of directors said the company "is in default on a major part of the loans. The RFC legal staff has been instructed to recommend whether the next step should be foreclosure, receivership or some other legal action. aye's Free CUERNAVACA, Mexico () Faye Emerson's divorce from Elliott Roosevelt became effective Tuesday.

i They Say Coal Strike Threatens Industry Steel Mills Closing, Power May Be Cut PITTSBURGH The spreading strike of more than 81,000 soft-coal miners bit into the Nation's steel production Tuesday. But there were new signs the Government soon may seek a court order against John L. Lewis. Coal shortages, which already have curtailed railroad service, threatened to close 300 big Pitts-1 burgh-area industrial plants by cutting off electrical power. ROBERT DENHAM, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, indicated he may ask Wednesday or Thursday for a court order against the three-day week which Lewis fixed for miners last July 1.

Coal operators have filed charges of unfair labor practices against Lewis. They say the short work week is the United Mine Worker president's way of controlling production. Steel production at the near-by Midland (Pa.) plant of Crucible Steel Co. of America was reduced 25 per cent. A thousand of the firm's 13,000 workers were laid off.

A company spokesman blamed the "no-contract-no-work" coal strike. He predicted larger layoffs within days unless coal production improves. THE United States Steel Corp. plans to shut down four electric furnaces at Duquesne, if electric power is cut off. Republic Steel Corp.

plans to reduce blast-furnace operations Monday. The Wheeling Steel Corp. said it will have to close in two weeks unless it gets more coal. Duquesne Light serving Greater Pittsburgh, served notice on large industrial customers to prepare for complete electrical power shutdowns Friday. With its mines closed by strikes, Duquesne Light said power sup plies will be shut off first to in dustries if rationing of coal be comes necessary.

Can't Collect Gambling Debts in Nevada Courts Free Press-Chicago Tribune Wire CARSON CITY The State Supreme Court ruled that gambling debts cannot be legally collected in Nevada. The court upheld a district court ruling denying the claim of a Reno casino owner seeking to collect $86,000 from the estate of a wealthy Denver socialite. The socialite, Leonard Wolff, killed himself a few hours after he had written checks in that amount to cover his losses in an all-night blackjack game. The opinion, eagerly awaited by owners of Nevada's casinos, was the first of its kind since gambling was legalized in 1931. TIRED OF PAYING RENT? Then why.

not read the Real Estate for Sale ads in the free Press Classified Section. Leading brokers present their offerings every day. Turn now to Classified. For Want Ad Service DIAL WO 2-9400 Bin Year Ahead, Say GM Heads Optimism Abounds at N.Y. Luncheon BY LEO DONOVAN Free Press Automotive Writer NEW YORK General Motors Corp.

raised the curtain on the more abundant Me" Tuesday, with Alfred P. Sloan, and C. E. Wilson directing the prelude. The occasion an industrial luncheon in the Waldorf-Astoria's Starlight Room" was saturated with optimism and predictions of prosperity.

SLOAN SAID that in 1949 GM earned more than half a billion dollars, the biggest profit for one year of any business in history. He said the company's 1949 profits are "likely to move up over" 600,000,000, as compared with a net income of in 1948. Sloan and Wilson addressed some 500 industry, finance and civic leaders at the luncheon. The luncheon marked the beginning of a series of events preliminary to the opening of General Motors' "Mid-Century Motorama," a lavish display of GM automobiles and other products scheduled to open Thursday in the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom. BOTH SLOAN and Wilson assured the audience that confidence was required to achieve the goal of more and better things for more people.

Progress, they said, could be made only by adherence to basic social and economic principles. Sloan, chairman of the board of GM, said, "I think 1950 will be a good year. What we can accomplish in any year depends upon the national economy." AS REASONS for his optimism, he cited the increase in the national income, the prospect of an additional 4,000,000 new car buyers, the spread of population to suburban areas where automobiles Turn to Page 10, Column 1 Sunlight part of darkness and night." It quoted the fact that in the Southern United States evening extends from noon through twilight. It quoted corpus juris secundum that evening "comes at sunset and continues until dark." "These are merely guesses by other people of when evening is," Jeffries snapped. "We've made a mistake in asking the Corporation Counsel's opinion instead of making a guess and setting evening any time we want it." After long discussion, the City Clerk was ordered to draw up a law or something making 4 p.

m. officially evening. Hare you seen a Cricetne lately Four are visible en the "Pat 'n Johnny" Show. WXYZ-TV, Channel 7 at 2:30 P.M. AdT.

'In the Evening by the BY JAMES RANSOM Free Press Staff Writer When is it evening? The Common Council is in the dark. Is 4 p. m. evening The Corporation Counsel, among other things, says 4 p. is afternoon.

Councilman Edward J. Jeffries, with the local smog being what it is, says 4 p. m. is evening. AND IT IS a mighty important point since Jeffries, in the interest of economy, wants the formal Council meeting at 4 p.

m. rather than 6 p. m. Tuesdays. But the City Charter says the formal meeting "must be held in the evening.".