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Your Host and Hill Prince Favored in Kentucky Derby Page 15 WINDY Batten down the hatches, men FRIDAY TEMPERATIRES METRO FINAL FOR TEEN-AG ERS Junior Journal Tells How Youths Can Tour Europe on a Bike. 6, 1950 No. 2 Five Cents On Guard for Over a Century (9(1 74 73 SATURDAY, MAY er KM Tig Senators 9 9 Meat Daughter's Slayer on Trial 24 Pages Vol. 120 (left) confers with accused mercy 'Ail I iva li 4 Killed, 72 Injured in Midwest Gales 90-Mile Wind Rips Up ninth; 60-3Iile Gusts in Detroit Forecast A huge whirlwind, its spiral covering several states, roared into Michigan Friday night. Whipping in gusts of hurricane force, it brought death and destruction to many Midwest communities in its path.

At least four persons were killed and 72 injured. Texas, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin counted one dead each. More than half of the injured were in Kansas, where a tornado struck. "Dust rode the winds, covering the sky with a dull, gray veil. The center of the storm was a low-pressure area moving slowly northeastward across the plains.

Air was being sucked into this vortex like water into a whirlpool. THE AIR that was drawn in was replaced by more air behind it until the counter-clockwise wind spiral widened to many hundred miles. The winds were most violent closest to the center. At Duluth, the storm rushing toward the vortex gath ered speed across Lake Superior. ripped Into Diilutn and Superior, it was at a 90-mile clip.

It tore off roofs, bowled over an airplane hangar, demolished two houses, toppled a radio tower and uprooted countless trees. A warehouse was lifted from its foundation and blown into Lake Superior. A crane rigg collapsed. ALSO CLOSE to the storm cen- EDWARD N. BARNARD EUGENE BRAUNSDORF MRS.

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10 p.m. 11 m. 1 mid. 'mi MHM Chrysler Calls In First Crews Picket Incident Easily Solved Barring further difficulties, Chrysler Corp. will be ready Monday morning to resume full production.

The back-to-work applecart was upset Friday morning when Dodge Local No. 3, UAW (CIO), threw a picket line around the Dodge Main plant and two smaller plants. MAINTENANCE and repair men were prevented from entering the plants to prepare them for production. Chrysler's entire operation is geared to the Dodge Main plant, which employs 30,000 of the 89,000 workers. The Issue was resolved late Friday afternoon.

Through Chrysler department representatives of the UAW, a Chrysler Issues Work Call Chrysler Corp. ordered workers in the following plants to return to work Monday on regular shifts provided the new contract is ratified Saturday by the UAW (CIO) and maintenance crews are permitted to operate: Dodge Main, Highland Park, Dode Forge, Dodg. Truck. Lynch, Plymouth, Nine Mile, Kercheval, Jefferson, Warren, DeSoto-Wyoming, John and Amplex. Any workers in these plants not included in the order will be notified, officials said.

meeting was arranged between the Dodge local's union shop committee and Dodge labor relations offi cials IT WAS AGREED that maintenance and repair men would be rcrmitted to enter the nlants al uiough picket lines were being maintained. Clarence Johnson, Dodge labor relations official, said the Dodge Main plant will be ready to resume full production with the first shift Monday. The afternoon shift of maintenance and repair men went into the plant a few hours late Friday. All shifts have been ordered to report for work Saturday. About 1,200 maintenance and repair men are involved.

CHRYSLER said that all of its employes, unless otherwise notified, should return to work on regular shifts Monday, provided: 1 Maintenance and repair men are not prevented from entering the plants. 2 Ratification of the company-union contract is voted. All affected locals of the UAW will begin voting Saturday on the contract, which was approved Thursday by negotiators after a costly 100-day strike. Chrysler said that final announcement of the back-to-work order will be made on the radio Sunday. HERMAN L.

WECKLER, vice president and general manager, announced that vacation pay would be given to the hard-pressed Chrysler strikers two weeks earlier than usual. Normally, the payments are made on the last Frida in May. Weckler said the payments will be made May 12 instead. Eligible employes, he said, will receive from $62.20 to $124.40 each, depending on length of service. APPROXIMATELY 3,000 employes of the Budd a Chrysler supplier, are being recalled to Pictures on Back Page.

their jobs at the Charlevoix plant, according to a company announcement. The company said that a tand-by plan" made it possible to resume immediately production of uitomobile body components for Chrysler. Some of the 24,000 Briggs Manufa'uring Co. workers idled by the Chrysler strike already were back at their jobs Friday. Briggs ia a key Chrysler supplier.

Father Goes on Trial in Mercy Slaying Killer of Crippled Daughter Held 'Unable to Reason' BY CALVIN MAYNE Free Frest Staff Writer Eugene W. Braunsdorf, pale and drawn, was pictured Friday as a man who maliciously shot his crippled daughter, and as a distraught father who killed in mercy. ter, tornadoes dipped from the. Saturday's forecast is for partly clouds into two Minnesota areas jdoudy skies and diminishing winds, at Redwood Falls and Maple Lake, Temperatures will range from Further from the vortex, winds 46 to 58 degrees in Detroit, it was were not quite as strong. predicted.

ERP Sliced 250 Million by Senate 'Point Four' Plan Gains Clearance WASHINGTON UP) The Senate passed a $3,122,450,000 foreign-aid bill after economy advocates had taken a slice off the next Marshall Plan installment. The final vote was 60 to 8. Final passage climaxed three weeks of sporadic but heated debate on the global aid measure, which the House passed March 31. BESIDES PROVIDING for continuing the Marshall Plan of economic aid designed to bolster Europe against Communism, the bill calls for assistance to Korea and other areas. Only two Democrats opposed the bill.

Senator Johnston, of South Carolina, voted against it, and Senator Bird, of Virginia, was paired against it. Republican Senators Dworshak, of Idaho; Jenner, of Indiana; Kem, of Missouri; Malone, of Nevada; Wherry, of Nebraska; Williams, of Delaware, and Young, of North Dakota, also voted against the bill. Two other Republicans, Cape-hart, of Indiana, and Langer, of North Dakota, were paired against it. ALTHOUGH Administration leaders lost in their effort to win approval of the full $3,100,000,000 requested for the European Recovery Program, they scored a victory by gaining clearance for President Truman's "Point Four" plan to aid backward areas of the world. By a 37-to-S6 vote the Senate adopted a $45,000,000 authorization to start the "Point Four" program after rejecting, 41 to S3, a Republican move to turn the matter over to a bipartisan commission for further study.

Senator Ferguson Mich.) voted against the program and Senator Vandenberg Mich.) was paired for the bill in the showdown. Chairman McKellar Tenn.) of the Appropriations Committee, served notice, however, he opposes the technical aid proposal and said he will seek to block the $45,000,000 outlay when the actual money bill comes up later. THE PRESENT bill is an "authorization" measure which puts Congress on record as favoring the aid, but appropriates no actual money. The House previously had approved the "Point Four" plan but trimmed the amount to $25,000,000. As passed by the' Senate and House, the big foreign-aid measure authorizes $2,850,000,000 for the European Recovery Program; $100,000,000 for Korea; $100,000,000 for economic aid to the China area; $27,450,000 for Arab refugees in Palestine, and the "Point Four" plan.

The legislation now goes to a Senate-House conference group to work out differences in the two bills. The biggest Senate fight came over the Republican drive to whack up to $1,000,000,000 off the Marshall Plan program for the next fiscal year, starting July 1. THE ADJONISTRATION forces beat back the $1,000,000,000 reduction proposal of Senator Kem by a tidy margin, 62 to 17. But on the next move to cut it they just squeezed through on a 40-to-40 tie vote. It was a coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans which finally put across the $250,000,000 reduction on a 47-to-33 roll call vote.

The voting came after warnings from Democratic leaders that a deep cut in the Marshall Plan funds might force this country to increase its defense outlays vastly. Do the Germans Want an Army? Is there a new German army in the making? What do the German people themselves think about a new Wehrmacht Read "New German Army?" an illustrated factual feature in which German citizens speak their minds, exclusively in Parade of SUNDAY'S FREE PRESS i to 6 CATHERINE BRAUNSDORF slayer and wue Uncle fehot to Death in Front of Home Estranged Mate of Niece Held by Police Shot twice while standing in front of his home, Joseph Gibson, 30, of 9017 Patton, was dead on arrival Friday night at Redford Receiving Hospital. Detective Paul Montgomery, of the Homicide Squad, said the estranged husband of Gibson's niece has been arrested. He identified him as George Blair, 24, of 1174 W. Warren.

He was caught by police in an auto chase near the scene of the shooting. BLAIR WAS held at Schaefer Station. Police said a man had visited Mrs. Betty Blair, 24, at the Patton address and then left, after an argument, saying "111 be back and get you." A divorce is pending, Mrs. Blair told police.

Gibson was still alive when police found him on the front porch, Montgomery said. Other Stories of Major Interest on Inside Pages News of Religious Activities, Page 8 Truman Would Aid Small Business. Page 3 Amusements 4 Horoscope 22 IQ Test 4 Jr. Journal 14 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Beauty 10 6 22 8 19-21 22-23 22 24 6 10 18 10 Bingay Bridge Churches Classified Comics Crosby Crossword Editorials Fashion Financial Food i Guest Racing 17 Radio Riley Ruark Schram Sports 23 11 24 13 15-17 Star Gazing Theaters 4 17 Town Crier Women'g 8 24 11 4-Run Rally in Eighth Nets Victory Trout Is Winner; Trucks Batted Out BY BOB LATSHAW Free Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON The Detroit Tigers won their second straight road game the hard way rallying to gain a decision over Washington. The score was 9 to 6.

It was anyone's game going into the eighth, the score being tied at 5 to 5. BUT THE Tigers, with some help from the Senators, broke the deadlock with a four-run splurge. Winning pitcher was the veteran Diz Trout, who replaced Starter Virgil Trucks with the score knotted in the fifth. Steve Nagy was the loser. Hoot Everg and Johnny Groth opened the eighth with singles.

Dick Kryhoski walked, filling the bases. Don Kolloway batted for Aaron Robinson, forcing Evers at the plate. But Pinchhitter Pat Mullin's fly brought in Groth. The other runners advanced on the throw home. Lipon hit to Eddie Yost and Detroit had two more runs when he pegged badly to first.

Gerry Priddy's double chased home Lipon. Details on sports pages. What They Are Saying DR. HARLEY LUTZ, Princeton professor emeritus of public finance, now a tax consultant for the National Association of Manufacturers "How are we to hold the position of global leadership and responsibility if we are to confess before the world that we are not able to give the most important of all demonstrations of power and strength at home, which is an orderly management of our finances?" FRIEDA HENNOCK, member of the Federal Communications Commission, commenting on the caliber of radio programs: "Instead of programs which are designed to develop an enlightened public opinion or to aid in the cultural development of our people we get, for the most part, programs molded in the fires of business competition and whose salutary effects are merely incidental horror and crime stories for children, soap operas for adults." Moscow Calls German Leaders BERLIN (U.R) Germany's top Communist leaders have been summoned suddenly to Moscow for a secret meeting, usually reliable sources said. It was suggested that the summons might foretell a meeting of the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) bloc.

Reds Restricted ROME (JP) The Italian Gov ernment outlawed the Communist practice of plastering walls with scrawled signs and placards. 2 Die in Fire NORTH BRANFORD, Conn. (U.R) Two children died and another was burned critically when fire destroyed a six-family home. On the west coast of Lower Michigan, gusts tore inland at 80 miles an hour. At Muskegon, branches snapped from trees, roof tiles blew off and wires came down.

Wires were also torn down at Frankfort, Cadillac, Manistee and Traverse City. Smashed windows and broken trees were reported at Traverse Picture on Page 7 City, where a patrolman, Henry Larson, saved a boating angler, Norene Cole, from the bay when the wind rose suddenly. In Grand Rapids, the storm velocity stood at 40 miles. Gusts were reported at 60. A Central League baseball game against Saginaw was called off.

One pow er failure was reported. IN DETROIT, winds of 45 miles with gusts up to 60 were expected. Heavy rains came with the storm in most areas. In some places there was hail. U.S.

WtATHtn SUUAU MAP figures Shorn Avorag tor At Arrwt Dnoi Wind Wow Condition At Of 1ST May Highs ond low in Inchet A year ago the average employment for the first quarter was 396,261 and payrolls totaled UNITED STATES and foreign income taxes provided out of first quarter earnings rose to compared with $95,489,000 in the same quarter in 1949. Shipments of cars and trucks here and abroad totaled 865,756 in the first quarter six per cent over the nrevious peak in the third quarter of last year. Despite the record output which resulted from stepped up and overtime schedules after the coal controversy ended, stocks in dealers' hands "have remained at very low levels," the report stated. It added that "the management believes that operations cannot be expected to continue indefinitely at the current peak rate." Wine Tax Kept WASHINGTON (JP) The House Ways and Means Committee refused to vote a cut in the Federal excise taxes on wine. High Tmprcriure and Ara Prtopttation xpttd Votyrdoy 60 50 40 Aft 50 60 Waorhcr 1 30 M.

Defense attorney City Again to Alter GR Lights Block System Out After Peak Hours The present block-system of traffic control on Grand River will be abolished during the "off-peak" hours starting June 1. The announcement that motorists would return to a progressive system from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. was made by Traffic Engineer Alger F. Malo, following a conference with Mayor Cobo.

Malo said that the Mayor agreed to the change but insisted that the "block" system remain in effect during the peak hours from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. HE SAID THAT a $140,000 budget item would permit the change from Cass to Oakman, half way on the nine-mile route from Cass to Southfield, by June 1. Completion of the change from Oakman to Southfield will be ef-; fected by Aug. 15, Malo said.

The traffic control system on Grand River has been a controversial political issue in local government for more than two years. MALO AND Cobo agreed that a majority of the 10,000 motorists who quit traveling the street because of the inconvenience of the block system will gradually return. The $140,000 is being used for installation of new traffic signals, location changes for signals and master control apparatus. Mayor Cobo said that on Sundays starting June 1, the block system will be in effect from 7 a.m. till 2 p.m.

After 2 p.m. on Sundays, he said, the progressive system will be in effect. On holidays, the Mayor added, the progressive system will be used during the entire day. Ship Adrift Amid Icebergs HALIFAX The 600-ton Norwegian vessel Hillevaag, drifting helplessly with a damaged pro-pellor in iceberg-infested waters 90 miles off Southwest Greenland, sent out an urgent call for assistance. Blast Toll Cut CATANIA, Sicily (JP) Three men believed among the dead in a disastrous bomb explosion were found alive in hospitals cutting the death toll to 12.

LOW AREA SHOWS STORM'S CENTER Heavy winds move around it counter clockwise EARNINGS TOP 212 MILLION GM 3-Month Profit Again Sets Record General Motors' profits soared to a record $212,387,765 in The pictures were drawn by op- posing counsel as the murder trial of the 52-year-old musician got under way in the court of Recorder's Judge Gerald W. Groat. THE JURY is composed of 11 women and three men. Two of the jurors will be dropped by lot when deliberations begin. Of 60 veniremen excused, 17 men and 17 women admitted con victions for or against mercy kill ings.

Assistant Prosecutor John A. Ricca said he would not insist on a verdict of guilty of first-degree murder. "The State will ask you," he told the jury, "to find the defendant guilty of whatever degree of felonious homicide you choose." Braunsdorf can be convicted of first or second-degree murder or manslaughter. He can be acquitted. DESCRIBING how Braunsdorf, on May 21, 1949, drove his daughter, Virginia, 29, to a secluded spot at Evergreen and Eight Mile, Ricca said: "He put a pillow behind her head and shot her In the back.

When the girl asked why, his answer was three or four more bullets into her body. "We will offer evidence to show that his act was not spontaneous, but that it was a deliberate, willful, premeditated, malicious act, planned four days to a week ahead of time." Ricca said he would let the jury decide whether Braunsdorf had tried to commit suicide after killing his daughter. EDWARD N. BARNARD, de fense attorney, described Brauns- Turn to Page 7, Column 1 Sunday Want Ads taken until 11:00 A. M.

Saturday. To buy, sell or rent anything, use a Free Press Want Ad. It is easy to place an Ad. Just Dial WO 2-9400 and say, "Charge It." the first quarter of this year. C.

E. Wilson, president, and Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of the board, in a joint statement reported that peak operations in the first three months of this year resulted in sales of cars and trucks and other GM products totalling $1,642,659,449. THE AMOUNT earned on the common stock was $209,155,686, equivalent to $4.76 a share after deducting dividends of $3,232,079 on the preferred stock. In the same period last year sales totaled profit was $136,763,338, equivalent to $3.04 a share of common stock.

Sales and earnings, the GM executives reported to the corn-pan y's 433,000 stockholders, were matched by other new records Including new high payrolls, employment, production and taxes. Employment was at a new peacetime peak or 4.50,00. employes 'earned $404,000,000, the highest payroll for any quarter in the history of GM..