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Las GoodOby to John Say Lodge If Happened in Michigan A Stork at the Opera SPORTS NEWS DETROIT 31, MICIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1950 17 10,254 CASES TO GO Detroiters Mourn Longtime Leader Line Files Past Bier in City Hall to Honor a 'Good, Honest Man' BY HAROLD SCHACIIERN Free Press Staff Writer Detroiters from all walks of life filed through the hushed corridors of City Hall Tuesday to pay their last respects to John C. Lodge. The city's elder statesman, Mr. Lodge died Monday at SS.

The rich and poor, humble and elegant paused, each in his turn, for a final gaze at the man who had done so much for their city. April Sale on Liquor Approved by State LANSING Bargain prices that will cut the cost of slow-moving liquors as much as $1.02 a bottle were approved by the :w.wnwi 4 V. I y' 1 1 I BY DONALD F. SCHRAM Curtis Bradford, 18, Benton Harbor, attempted to make a left turn and his steering gear stuck. His car went round in a circle and hit a tree.

The impact threw his leg against the gear shift lever and pushed it into reverse. The car backed up, reversing the circle and this time hit a fire hydrant. Water gushed out in a huge spray over the car. Bradford stayed inside and out of the wet until the water department shut off the water. Mrs.

Anna Buiskool, of Grand Rapids, thought she ought to postpone the celebration of her 100th birthday until the birth of her 114th descendant. But the child a great-great-grandson was born a few days earlier than expected, and so the celebration will occur Thursday when the anniversary occurs. Mrs. Buiskool has four children, 26 grandchildren, 71 greatgrandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren. ROLLY McXTVEN, operator of the McNiven Hotel at Franken-muth, got an unintended brushoff by It Happened in Michigan.

We implied in a report of the sale of the Fischer Hotel to Zehnders, that the latter would have a monopoly of the chicken dinner business in Frankenmuth. McNiven Hotel has been serving chicken dinners in Frankenmuth since 1925 and has not sold out to Zehnders. There will continue to be competition, McNiven says. Diners of good capacity will have a choice of where to eat. Alderman Claude ver Duin, of Grand Haven has proposed that the City Council ban all movies featuring Ingrid Bergman and Rita Hayworth.

Other members of the Council said they would "take their time" to consider the proposal. ADAM DREKOLIAS, of Washington, D. in Owosso on busi ness, dropped into a restaurant for a cup of coffee. He asked the proprietor, Frank Simons, if he was a Greek, and Simons said he was. They discovered that they had played together as boys in Greece.

They came to the United States in their youth. CANASTA scores of more than 5,000 continue to pour in with applications to join It Happened in Michigan's 5,000 Canasta Club. Here are today's new members: H. Keith Macy, 1733 Bennett, Flint; 6,165. Joey Daniel, 11, of 33 W.

Chicago, Quincy; 5,615. Mrs. Mary O'Neill, Port Hope, who learned to play canasta while visiting her sister, Mrs. Isabel St. Louis, 1850 E.

Grand Detroit, and got a score of 5,390. Mrs. Ralph Smallman, 604 N. Franklin, Dearborn; 5,335. Mrs.

Leon E. Northrop, 130 W. Grand, Highland Park; 5,545. Arthur D. Chappell, 1222 New York, Lansing; 5,505.

Walker Evatt, 2131 Hyland, Ferndale; 5,415. CLASSIFIED State to Buy Local FHA Mortgages Republicans Win Split Board Vote From Our Lansing Bureau LANSING Michigan FHA mortgages in a special category will be bought by the State Employes Retirement Fund when they are as good as other investments. This was the partisan decision of the State Administrative Board in a five-to-three Republican-Democratic vote. The Republican majority favored a diluted motion presented by State Treasurer D. Hale Brake to the policy set forth by Attorney General Stephen J.

Roth. IT WAS ROTH'S idea to concentrate fund investments in Michigan. Brake's prevailing proposal gives him the right to put up to 25 per cent of the fund, with the board's approval, in the special FHA investments such as the El Siglo apartment-house deal in Arizona. In that transaction the State has started foreclosure proceedings to protect its $671,000 investment. While the board decision was a victory for the Republicans it represented a compromise by Brake.

BRAKE SAID he had previously shunned Michigan investments "because I didn't want any treasurer to have to foreclose on Michigan property." The board was told that there may be investments available in Lansing, Grand Rapids and Niles. School Strike Off BAYONNE, N. J. (IP) Bayonne High School students striking to protest the transfer of 23 teachers agreed to return to their Free Press Pboto where his wife gave birth to a daughter. Returning 10 minutes before the shov Conant handed out candy to Dorothy Nordling, left, and Pauline Chavels, members of the cast.

John Conant (right) almost missed his curtain call for the Civic Light Opera's opening performance of "Up in Central Park." The 24-year-old baritone skipped dress rehearsal to rush to his home in Lansing Civic Opera Brings Old Neiv York to Life BY J. DORSKY CALLAGHAN Free Press Critic Nineteenth Century New York the Gotham of Boss Tweed and the Tammany boys who looted the city, comes to life on the stage of Masonic Temple this week in Civic Light Opera's "Up in State Administrative Board. The sale will start April 1 and will dispose of 10,254 cases of stock that have clogged warehouses and dealer shelves. INCLUDED will be whiskies, gin, liqueurs and wines. Liquor Control Commission members assured the Board that the State will not lose any money on the lower prices.

The products of 15 firms are included in the bargain sale. AT THE SAME time, the Liquor Commission revealed that a review of a Detroit license transfer into the "Piety Hill" section is on schedule for next week. The Commission said church groups were complaining against moving a license owned by Leo K. Kormendy from 707 E. Forest to 114 Pallister.

Church representatives wired the Commission expressing "unalterable opposition" to the transfer. "We feel there are enough places already established," they said. THE MINISTERS pointed out that, the Commission promised them in 1944 that no more bars would be permitted in the area. Signing the telegram were Dr. Perry E.

Gresham, of the Central Woodward Christian Church; Dr. Herbert B. Hudnut, of the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. G. Merrill Lenox, executive secretary of the Detroit Council of Churches.

The "Piety Hill" section extends from Woodward to Hamilton and 'from Grand Blvd. to the southern limits of Highland Park. Commission members said they knew nothing of a prior oral agreement with an earlier Commission. ON ANOTHER liquor front, the commissioner of insurance', David A. Forbes, announced that license holders would save about $86,000 on lower surety bond premiums.

The premiums were cut 25 per cent at the request of the Table Toppers Association. The board also approved using the ground floor of the Cadillac Square Building in Detroit as a liquor store. 7 1 2. Before the doors were opened at 10 a. Mayor Cobo led a group of the City's top officials past the bier.

A policeman and fireman stood at attention before the casket, which was backed by a towering bank of palms. A SINGLE SPRAY of American Beauty roses, atop the casket, were the only flowers in evidence. As in his lifetime, Mr. Lodge inspired few displays of emotion in death. His appeal to Detroiters was of a stronger, more rational sort and he heartily disliked human outbursts of feeling.

There were the two elderly women, for instance, helping one another along, who stopped and said simply: "He was such a good, honest man." THERE WERE, too, men who had worked closely with- him and had a deep affection for the stern arbiter of civic disputes. Former Mayor Eugene I. Van Antwerp paused for several minutes at thebier of the man who had been his colleague for 16 years in tha Common Council. The usually hearty Van Antwerp seemed unable to answer old friends who spoke to him. The same was true of former Council President George Edwards, who probably was closer to Mr.

Lodge than any other man of the younger generations. The staid, conservative aristocrat of old Detroit and the bouncing young liberal from Texas formed one of the strangest coalitions in City Hall history. Their association became almost that of a father and son. When Edwards felt safe to try to talk, he said in a choked voice: "He was a good, good friend and a great citizen." THAT MR. LODGE could be a simple, lovable man beneath his usual aloofness was shown by his only servant, Miss Mary Irving, Mary Irving went to work for th- late councilman and mayor as a girl.

For the 21 years preceding his fatal illness she was virtually the general manager of the Lodge household. She bought the food, paid the bills, did the cleaning. She alone could do his old-fashioned pleated shirts and "hard" collars the way he liked them. Miss Irving was one of the few persons in Detroit who ever dared "boss" her aged employer. She wept uncontrollably before his coffin.

BUT MR. LODGE was of another generation and it was mostly those of middle age and beyond who came to make this last visit. Services will be at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday from the William R.

Hamilton Co. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, where he will lie beside his sister Harriett, who was his lifelon, companion until her death in 1943. During the funeral, all Circuit Courts will pause briefly in their routine. Recorder's Courts will close at noon. Other City employes will observe a mirute of silence.

Mrs. Loeb Leaves Estate to 3 Sons CHARLEVOI X(P) Mrs. Anna H. Loeb, who died here Jan. 23, left her estate, valued at more than $225,000, to be divided equally among three surviving sons, Er- i nest, Allan and Thomas, all of Chicago.

Another son, Richard, was convicted in 1924 with Nathan Leopold in the Chicago thrill-slaying of Bobby Franks. He was killed later by another prison inmate. Mrs. Loeb was the widow of a Chicago business leader. KM ournei 4 Free Press Photo BISHOP WILLIAM MURPHY Jovial churchman succumbs Death Takes Bishop Murphy Rneriai to the Free Pre! SAGINAW The Most Rev.

'William Francis Murphy, beloved bishop of the Saginaw Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, died at his home here Tuesday. He was 64. Bishop Murphy had been ill for a year. He suffered a heart ailment. THE JOVIAL and kindly prelate was the first head of the Saginaw Diocese.

He was consecrated as a bishop in 1938 at the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Detroit. Bishop Murphy had more than 100,000 communicants in his diocese. The district covered 16 counties from Saginaw north to the Straits of Mackinac. Every summer he had thousands of extra Catholics to care for when migrant Mexican workers were brought to Michigan. To bring the church to these workers, Bishop Murphy organized the Mexican Apostolate.

Last summer, more than 4,000 workers and their families were served by the Apostolate. HE ENCOURAGED drives to aid European war victims and urged his constituents to make room in their homes for displaced persons. The bishop was a product of Michigan and he served the people of his state until he died. He was born May 11, 18S5. in Kalamazoo, the only son of William and Mary Murphy.

He had nine sisters. THREE OF THE girls became nuns in the Catholic Church. With priesthood his goal, Bishop Murphy attended parochial school in Kalamazoo and two Catholic colleges in Ontario. In 1904 he was appointed to study theology at North American College in Rome. Three fellow students in Rome Included Edward Mooney and Samuel Stritch.

both now cardinals, and John J. Sonefeld, now a monsignor and vicar general of the Saginaw Diocese. Mnsgr. Sonefeld has been appointed administrator of the dio-cose until a new bishop is named. The designation was made by the Board of Consultants, made up of priests of the diocese.

Bishop Murphy was ordained as a priest June 13, 1908, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. IX LATER YEARS he did parish work in Ann Arbor and Marine City. In 1921, he founded and became pastor of St. David's Church in Detroit.

During his many years in Detroit, Bishop Murphy became well-known for his humor and good comradeship. Bishop Murphy is survived by four of his nine sisters. They are Sister Mary Lucill2. of Dowagiac; Mother Mary DeChantal. of Detroit; and Mary and Elizabeth Murphy, who were the bishop's housekeepers.

NEUAL SERVICES will be -onducted at 10:30 a. m. Saturday from St. Mary's Cathedral in Kaginaw. Requiem mass will be said by Edward Cardinal Mooney, of Detroit.

Samuel Cardinal Stritch, of Chicago, will preach. Central Park." The operetta is not one which presents you with memorable tunes, although the Romberg music is unfaTiingly pleasant. There is another, undefinable quality about it that entrances the audience. IT tS, TO put it concisely, a period piece which depends on atmosphere to a large extent. This is what is supplied unfailingly in the production.

The costuming and settings are most Impressive, and apparently authentic. The surface elegance of Victorian America, in which vulgarity shone through with engaging candor, is lined with care. the production is Kenny "taker, the tenor who seems to have a monopoly of sorts on youth. As John Matthews, he is just enough of the stuffed shirt to make his role as a New York Times reporter authentic. BAKER MOVES easily in the part, giving it the needed aura of romance and idealism.

His voice is employed with the expert-ness of long experience. In his love scenes with Evelyn Wyckoff, the Rosie Moore of the piece, there was a most charming quality of ingenuousness. Miss Wyckoff, who made a thousand friends last week in "No, No, Nanette," made even more converts. Her portrayal was gay and heart warming. Notable too in a lesser role was Shirley Vernon, who takes to the femme fatale part with easy grace.

She was the blond menace on the make, named Lotta Stevens. RUSS BROWN, so Irish it hurts, does the role of the boss foreman and Rosie's father. It is a projection of his Finian MacLonergan of blessed memory, with stress on the fume-and-fuss angle. The cast is populous. It gives opportunity to many members of the local choruses to appear in name roles.

The list includes Rob Roy, Martin Thomson, Chester Utecht, Alice Truscon, Richard Stoddard, Cal Putnam, Fran Kaner, Esther Emerson, Paul Wagner, Pauline Chavels, Joan Corrigan, Grace Bliss and George Zoritch. THE ACTION dance. is lavish with Choreographer Dan Eckley has extended himself in this de- this spring tlio tenci is State Gets Warning on Work Bids From Our Lansing Bureau LANSING State officials were warned by the Administrative Board to stop giving their own versions of work specifications. Because an official of the Michigan State Normal at Ypsilanti told a contractor a different ver sion of a painting-job requirement than the advertised specifications the State had to waive a low bid on the job. THE BOARD agreed that in the future only the written record would count and bidders would have to accept the written requirements as advertised.

Because of the mixup the paint job that got a low bid of $5,875 88 given to the second low bidder at $6,200. Hich bids nn the iob raneed up to $13,000, officials said. Prictt aoifct ttlm tax 'fr partment this week. There are tableaus which explode into action, such as the skaters dance. The danced story of Rip Van Winkle captures the folk quality of the tale with utter nicety.

Ollie Franks contributes her genius as a knock-about dancer to the wild-eyed success of "The Fireman's Daughter." AIDING AND abetting the progress of the plot were Joe Macauley, in his highly individual characterization of Boss Tweed; Donald Burr, Earle MacVeigh as Thomas Nast; Gerald Harrington, Lew Woods, Ross Callaway and Thomas Gaige. The artistry of the presentation extended even to the two children, Dorothy Louise Silk and Inez Motzkus. It's a most pleasant evening that's in it, as Russ Brown's Timothy Moore would, or could, or. should have said. State Costs Up 114 Per Cent in 5 Years From Our Lansing Bureau LANSING State Government costs have gone up to per cent in the last five years, Gov.

Williams said. Next year he hopes to keep the increasing spiral to 3J2 per cent which he said would be the lowest annual boost to budget costs since the war. LAST YEAR in the first half of the Williams regime the costs jumped 6 per cent. "This small rise was made necessary by increased costs in several agencies which we cannot fail to support adequately," Williams said in a radio address. "Our State colleges must have about $2,500,000 more because the high-tuition GI students are dis appearing.

'We will have to pay out. more money for debt service on veterans bonds as a matter of law. "HIGHER CONTRIBUTIONS to the state employes pension fund and wage increases that were long needed and extra money for the Veterans Homestead Tax Exemp tion law win be part of the added costs. "Completion of the new hospital for partial occupancy early next year at North ville will require extra money. "But the Overcrowded rnnrlirirvn of Receiving Hospital in Detroit makes these hosnital fnr-iUrioo badly needed." U.S.

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Kts 5:55. That's the big news right now in" men's clothing because club checks are styled to match the invigorating tingle of spring in the air. Whether you're headed for a campus date or a week end in town, U-Hall club checks are right at home. And Hudson's has 'em in crease-holding worsteds or smooth draping flannels in a wide range of handsome spring colors of brown, blue, gray, green or tan. Plan now 'to stop in see them try one on.

Convenient Part Payments are available on purchases of $25 or more. From 39.50 2nd Floor Woodward Section DETROIT'S STYLE CENTER Struggling Up top US. WtATHi BU(AU MAP jf-fa- I 1012 Ow- Cww( TfJAS74 (t I fBT3T517' I CtUt f'tr-t Wim i i i '1' GEGS3IP0 ai05Q3dr77 efiEt? Associate! Press Wueptiolo Partly cloudy and somewhat warmer weather is predicted for Detroit as the high pressure area passes by on Wednesday. The Weather Bureau said the mercury will rise from a low of 20 to an afternoon high of about 38. The wind will be gentle to moderate east to southeast.

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