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METRO FINAL HELP STOP WASTE Read 'Editor's Notebook' and Get Behind Economy Drive. Page 4, Section WARM Looks like 86 degrees with a northwest breeze SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1949 On Guard for Over a Century 108 Pages Vol. 119 No. 46 Fifteen Cents Tnn me Real Depression Hits Muskegon as Aftermath of War Swollen Population and Dwindling Production Put Load on Welfare S. POOLER Staff Writer BY JAMES Free Prest MUSKEGON You don't Czech Suitor Jilted Enraged by Loss vuiu nere.

Weasel words like "recession" or "readjustment period" don't fit what's happened to Muskegon. It has a depression. And what's happened here may be a weathervane to economic winds for other war-swollen cities. Prelate Sees Fire Truck Piles Up Part of Muskegon's plight is due to dwindling production and other economic factors, but more to a swollen population. MUSKEGON counts itself "a war casualty." It soared from 94,000 persons in 1940 to 130,000 it has now.

Like Detroit, to which its industry is closely allied, it became a part of "The Arsenal of Democracy," paid high wages, i expanded its plants and drew workers from all over. Now it is suffering from its patriotic industrial zeal. Things are really tough in Muskegon. JOHN C. BEUKEMA, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, reports 12,500 unemployed out of a total work force of 45,000.

That is more than 25 per cent. The unions don't quarrel with those figures. Theirs are similar: 11,300 unemployed out of a onetime peak employment of 47,000. But numbers can make you miss the essential fact that the bread winner in one of every four fami lies here isn't working. You can tell how it hurts when you talk to people like the cab driver, the bar keeper, the movie owner i barometers in a financial pinch.

ARCHIE BAIRD, a cabbie, says, we were maKing $45 to $50 a week. Now we're lucky to make Karl manager of the biggest movie here, says, "Business is awful. It's down 50 cent lor us." William Vullari3, of the swank Lakos Restaurant, says all thej bars report business off 40 per cent. The most conservative estimate Is that the payroll loss since the first of the year has been That means $20,000,000 a year taken out of Muskegon's buying power, MOVE UP THE scale and you find this pay loss cutting into other business. Arthur Wilson, manager of Grossman's, one of the biggest Turn to Page 4, Column 2 I 1 xi Free Prew Photo by Vine Witpk The auto, a driver-training car owned by Clarence Bell, -of Hazel Park, was driven over the curb and badly damaged.

Fireman Richard Vettese, fire; truck driver, called the fire department by radio and another- vehicle was dispatched to the fire a minor one at the Joe Bathey Club, 1038 Second. Speeding to a fire Saturday night this track from Ladder Co. 1 failed to negotiate a turn west into Lafayette. from Wayne. Fireman Richard VanRaemdonck, who steers the rear wheels of the long vehicle, said the turret wheels locked.

The rear end crashed into the rear of a parked automobile. JV 16 Doom OlivetRebels Fail to Get College Site New York Denies Them School Charter Special to the Free Presa OLIVET Former members of the Olivet College faculty, denied a charter to establish a college in New York, are going ahead with plans to establish 'a school elsewhere. The group's application for a charter to establish Shipherd College at Sackets Harbor, N. was denied in Albany by the New York State Board of Regents. Dr.

James A. Richards and Tucker P. Smith, who led a rebellion against Olivet administration, met Saturday in New York with Dr. Alvin S. Johnson to discuss what new moves Would be taken toward establishing the school.

DR. JOHNSON, president emeritus of the New School for So cial Research in New York, agreed in April to accept the presidency of Shipherd College whenever it was founded. "We are not the least bit downcast and we are going to set up the college anyhow," Dr. Johnson said. "We have several prospects York state," Dr.

outside New Johnson said. Although he said he was not at liberty to disclose the sites under consideration, he did say that "they are all in New land." Eng- CHARLES A. BRIND, counsel the New York State Education Department, said the application for the charter had been denied because the proposed college did not have $500,000 in assets required by law before a college may be chartered in New York. The plan for the college was launched by a group of disssatis-fied Instructors, students and alumni of Olivet. The firing of five Olivet instructors in the last school terra resulted in the resignation of at least eight others.

The group hoped to establish the school in abandoned Army barracks at Sackets Harbor, The group had applied to the War Assets Administration for acquisition of the 101-acre former Madison Barracks Girl Steady Jobs Put Ahead of Pay Hike Reulher Rejects Proposal as Unsound Ford Motor Co. called upon the UAW (CIO) Saturday to withdraw demands for pensions and wage boosts and to freeze current pay scales for 18 months. The proposal was made by John Busas. Ford vice president in charge of industrial relations, to UAW (CIO) President Walter P. Reuther.

CITING SIX evidences of lobs becoming scarcer and production falling off, Bugas concluded: "The postwar buggy ride ef ever higher wages, costs and prices is over." Comnanv and union beean bar gaining June 2 on a new contract and the union's demands for $100 monthly pensions, nospitauzation and death insurance and a cost-of- living wage boost. THE UAW (CIO) immediately rejected the proposal on grounds that it was "economically unsound and unrealistic. At the same time Reuther an grily criticized the company for allegedly releasing copies of the letter to the press before it had reached his desk. "It is obvious that this communication is primarily another in- a series of propaganda handouts by the company rather than a genuine and sincere move in collective bargaining," Reuther said. "Ford is proposing the same kind of economic patent medicine administered by the men who steered our economy into the catastrophic depression of 1929." BUGAS IN AN earlier statement on the union demands had said flatly that because the auto industry had entered a buyera market, wage boosts in any form; would be impossible this year.

Warning that the air is full or uncertainty" and recalling that Reuther last week in Washington had admitted "a bad slump" might be on the way, Bugas offered the following "stabilization pattern:" 1 That the union withdraw all general economic demands for a period of 18 months. 2 That the company be permitted to maintain present wage rates for a period of 18 months from July 16, 1949, provided there are no drastic upward or downward changes in living costs. Bugas proposed that the living cost situation be reviewed Jan. 15, 1950, and again on July 15, 1950, at the request of either party. PAY ADJUSTMENTS would be rdade, under the Bugas "stabiliza tion pattern" if the latest published Bureau of Labor Statistics index showed a change of four points or more in the interim.

Bugas said the situation "has changed drastically since the union several months ago launched its 1949 wage demands. "The economy is in a downward trend," Bugas said. "Some indus-Turn to Page 4, Column OFFSPRING GALORE 'Make 'Em MindS Says Champion Dad LOCK HAVEN, Pa. (U.R) The American Father of the Year said that there's nothing wrong with the younger generation that a little old-fashioned discipline wouldn't cure. William Casper Peter ought to know.

He has 18 children and so many grandchildren and great-grandchildren that he often meets them on the street without recognizing them. "THE ONLY WAY I know some of them is when they say Hi, he admitted. The 79 year old farmer, chosen by the National Fa-; ther's Day Committee for the 1949 award, always insisted that his children "obey the letter of the law." The trouble nowadays, "Uncle Billy" thinks, is that parents don't expect their children to obey and cant be bothered to correct them. He has 140 grandchildren an great-grandchildren who live within a radius of 25 miles of his homeland gather each July for a family reunion. Boy, 5, Slain ST.

LOUIS (JP) Richard Bognar. 5, was shot to death accidentally when a seven-year-old brother pointed rifle at him, police said. Don't Heed 'Confession Archbishop Forewarns Catholic Breaks Silence in Prague's Church-State Struggle hesitate to use that fear-inspiring Victim Fret Press Photo ROBERT PLANTE Shotgun ends romance Byrnes, once one of the most ow 1 New Dealers of the Roosevelt era and a close confidant of President Truman, cut loose with a blast at the Administration's domestic policies. IN A SPEECH at Washington and Lee University's bicentennial celebration, he called upon Congress not to economize on foreign aid but on all proposals pulling this Country toward a "welfare state." He voiced fear that the United States might be "going down the road to state-ism." "Where we will wind up. no one Can tell." Byrnes said.

"But if some of the new programs seriously proposed should be adopted, there is danger that the individual, whether farmer, worker, manufacturer, lawyer or doctor, soon will be an economic slave pulling an oar in the galley of the state." HIS REMARKS seemed certain to touch off a political explosion in Washington, where Administration forces are fighting an uphill battle to get the President's social-economic program through Con gress. Byrnes devoted most of his address to foreign affairs. He praised the firm stand taken toward Russia by the American representatives at the Big Four conference in Paris. Under President Truman, Byrnes, as secretary of state, launched this Country's "firm-but' Datient" policy of dealing with Russia. Byrnes resigned in January, 1947, for reasons of health.

Violence Flares in Italian Strike ROME (Jp) Violence broke out again in Italy montn-oia iarm strike, bringing the death toll to six. A nonstriKing iarmnana was shot in south Italy. Four hundred farm strikers stormed the City Hall at near-by Oria. and hoisted a red banner Shot down as she fled A I CI 1 I cvf 'I a ly by the 'Welfare-State' Plans Attacked by Byrnes PRAGUE (U.R) Archbishop Josef Beran appealed to his Catholic followers in Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia not to of Dates 3 Shotgun Blasts Hit Fleeing Victim A 16-year-old Southeastern High student, Mary Louise Coleman, was shot to death Saturday afternoon by a lovesick youth whom she had spurned, police said. Her mother, Mrs.

William Em mons, 41, stood horrified on the porch of their home at 5757 Lenox, as Robert J. Plante, 19, fired three blasts from a shotgun. MARY LOUISE was shot as she ran away from a car in which Plante was sitting. Plante fired with a stockless .410 gauge, bolt-action shotgun, police said. The two had gone together two years, but quarreled recently, according to homicide detectives.

"It's no use," police said the girl told Plante before she was slain. "Get away and stop pestering me." As' she spoke, according to police, Plante leveled the shotgun. One blast struck her as she fled in terror. Witnesses told police the youth fired the second and third blasts into her back after she had fallen in the street. AS NEIGHBORS and passers-by rushed to the scene.

Plante, dazed, sat on the steps of a nearby house, his head in his hands. The girl's brother-in-law, Herbert Moore, of 12552 Camden, grabbed Plante and beat him severely. Plante whose home is at 5925 Drexel, was treated at Saratogo General Hospital as a result of the beating before he was taken to Police Headquprters for questioning. Plante first was taken by William McClure, a plant protection man, to his home at 5778 Lenox, where he was arrested a few moments later by Conner Station police. The girl was dead on arrival at Saratoga General Hospital.

MOORE TOLD Lt. John Edwards, of the Squad, that Plante had called Mary and tolde her he was coming to see her. When Plante drove up, Moore said, the girl exclaimed "Oh, no, not again. I told him not to come." But she went out to the car and Moore, watching: from the front porch, thought they were arguig. Moore said he heard Plante say, "That's a dirty trick," just before he saw Mary leap away from the car and run.

PLANTE FIRED the first time as the girl ran to the back of the car, apparently looking for Tyrn to Page 4, Column 2 Paris Police Clash with Gaullists Break Up March on Communist Rally PARIS (U.R) Police clashed with ah estimated 1,000 followers of Gen. Charles de Gaulle after Free French veterans tried to break through a police line and march on a giant Communist rally. More than a dozen men were arrested. Witnesses said the struggle was brief but bloody. Under orders to prevent a Com-munist-Gaullist battle, police immediately charged the veterans when they refused to be diverted to a side street and started to scuffle.

THE SKIRMISHES followed two rival political rallies, Communist and Gaullist, held less than hair-mile apart on Paris' South Side. An estimated 40,000 persons gathered In the Place d'Orleans to hear De Gaulle and his brother Pierre, president of the Paris City Council, speak at a ceremony changing the name of the Avenue d'Orleans to the Avenue General Philippe LeClerc. The Communist rally was frank a counter-demonstration. Blast Injures 7 NEW YORK (U.R) A passer and six firemen fighting an automobile fire were" injured when car exploded inside a public garage. a believe any "confessions" he might make in the future.

He Fears Truman Proposals May Bring Economic Slavery LEXINGTON, Va. U.R) Former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes charged that Truman Administration programs before Congress would create a "welfare state" in which the American neotfle would be "economic slaves." Gehringer Bashful at Weddin Delays Ceremony to Elude Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (U.R) Baseball's immortal Charley Gehringer, Detroit's "most eli gible bachelor," married Jose phine Stillen, also of Detroit, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church Saturday.

Bashful as he ever was during the diamond career that got him into the game's Hall of Fame, the former Tiger second baseman and his bride fooled photographers by switching churches. THE CEREMONY was to have been beld at St. Claire's Church in nearby Santa Clara at 10 a.m. but the Rev. Father William McNally admitted co-operating with the pair to escape the photographers and reporters.

The ceremony was performed at 5 p.m. Gehringer, 46, came to the West Coast for the ceremony with his 30-year-old fiance, so that his one-time baseball buddy, Marvin Owen, could be best man. Owen lives In San Jose. The Gehringers' plans for their honeymoon were a well-kept secret. Five Killed in Auto Crash LOUISVILLE.

Ky. (Jp) Five young dancing instructors were killed when their automobile crashed into a loaded cattle truck. Four other persons were injured. Frederick Villafranka, Arthur Murray dance studio manager in Louisville, said the instructors had left their jobs at 10 p. m.

They were returning to the city after attending a night club in the countyt the coroner said. The dead were listed as Wordie Adams, 24; David Carby, 22; Charles Everhart, 19; Miss Betty Thompson, 22, and Miss Bonnie Lee Craig, 21, all of Louisville. Thieves Get Away with Church Safe Robert Brown, 64. an elder at the Peace Baptist Church, 13450 Goddard, told police thieves stole 350-pound safe from the church. It contained about $30 and I church.

records. rmli AirT I His words recalled a similar plea by Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, of Hungary, before he was tried and imprisoned for life. Msgr. Beran's remarks touched off one of the most impressive demonstra tions seen here since the Commu nists took over. The 64-year-old Catholic prelate spoke to his followers from the pulpit of the chapel of the Stahov Monastery a few minutes after he left his palace, where Czech secret police still stood guard.

In tones unusually fervent for him he "Perhaps very soon you will hear all sorts of things concerning me from the radio. "YOU MAY HEAR that I have made confessions or other things. I hope you will believe in me." Women sobbed softly in their pews as he spoke. After the service, commemorat ing the Feast of Corpus Christi, when the archbishop left to get into his car, the congregation crowded around him and shouted: "We won't let you be taken! We won't give you up!" A reverent throng of several thousand followed him to his palace, which police reportedly have ransacked for evidence against him and have guarded for three days. They sang" Czech national songs and hymns.

IN HIS MONASTERY address, the Archbishop warned hia followers: "One day if you learn about the conclusion of an agreement between Church and State, you should know that I would never conclude an agreement which Gamp Advice for Children Are you planning to send your, children to a summer camp? Know how to select a good one? How your son or daughter should behave? Read "Camp Advice," a time-, ly illustrated feature in PARADE of next SUNDAY'S FREE PRESS would infringe the rights of the church and the bishops. "Nobody shall force me to do that. "No true Catholic can exist where the bishops are not in the cnurcn. "THERE ARE Judases whom even the love of Christ cannot deter from treason. "Not all whose names are pub lished in the newspapers are really in agreement with what is beinsr done many are not even aware of what has been done.

This statement referred to recent claims of the Prague press of growing support for the new Government-sponsored Catholic Action Committee. Several hundred priests have been listed in the press. Meanwhile, Minister of the Interior Vaclav Kopecky, in a speech to workers, assailed the Catholic hierarchy in Czechoslovakia as the remnants of reaction. He charged the hierarchy, under Vatican influence, has spun schemes' against "our people's democratic order." Woman Dies After Rescue ETOWAH," Tenn. (U.R) A 74- year-old woman died a few hours after she was brought down by stretcher from rugged Starr Mountain, where she was lost two days.

Mrs. Maacha Henderson was found by a party of 150 National Guardsmen and volunteers had been searching for her since she set out on a walk from her home at the foot of the mountain. Dr. Boyd McClary said she had suffered shock and starvation. Sneezing Boy Quits After 37 Days LONDON (JP) The sneezing boy finally has quit sneezing.

Michael Hippisley, 14, whose 37 day seige of uncontrollable "achoos" attracted worldwide attention, was reported cured by a London nursing home. Just how the sneezes, averaging one every three secoads, were stopped remained a mys-tery CHEATS DEATH Girl, Falls from Cliff, Clings to Bush SPOKANE, Wash. (U.R) A -year-old-girl was rescued after clinging by one tiny arm to a cliff-side bush 100 feet over the Spokane River. Jean Marie Henderson had been playing near the edge of the cliff when she slipped and started tumbling toward the river. ABOUT A THIRD of the way down the 150-foot cliff, one small bush stood out from the smooth surface.

Little Jean clutched the shrub with one hand. A cocker spaniel owned by Mrs. I. E. Delaney started barkine and running back and forth near the edge of the cliff.

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