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fin SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1950 12 noon S3 On Guard for Over a Century 124 Pages Vol. 120 No. 170 Fifteen Cents Schoolboy Parents rfor Mistre Slays Him atmg Defense Plans Stir Anxiety Plo Extor 0,000 to in Shootings Occur Near Kalamazoo Lad, 14, Shows No Remorse for Acts KALAMAZOO (P) A brooding schoolboy shot his father and mother to death, State Police said, because he felt he was mistreated. The youth, 14-year-old Raymond Peers, a Boy Scout, was held at the Paw Paw State Police Post while juvenile authorities pondered what action to take. from Grid.

Star Ba Auto Industry Companies Unsure of Status; Labor Fears Cut in Jobs BY LEO DONOVAN Free Prena Antomnt'ra Wriler What's going to happen to the auto industry in the transition between civilian and stepped-up defense production? That question has the manufacturers speculating and labor fighting-mad. Top UAW (CIO) officials, including President Walter P. Reuther, dispatched a strong letter Saturday to W. Stuart Symington, chairman of the National Security Resources Board. The letter demanded a Government-sponsored labor-management conference to correct Federal credit regulations already imposed.

"Regulations and will create mass unemployment before there is enough defense work to absorb the unemployed and take materials out of civilian production before they are needed in defense production," Symington was told. "This (the credit curbs) is the cart-before-the-horse approach." William J. Cronin, managing director of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, was one of the auto-industry representatives who attended the conference in Washington last week with William H. Harrison, chairman of the National Production Authority. it i III rt aeH 1 I'V''' i i i THE MANUFACTURERS wanted to.

find out what to do! so that they could best co-operate with the They were n.u,B on production -thafc military fleeda uronm reports "Apparently they doh't know in Washington what quantities of basic materials such as steel, rubber, copper, lead and aluminum they'll need in (he present level of expenditures, the military demands wouldn't be enough to affect the civilian economy. "Congress will be asked at its sessions in January to pass a substantially increased defense appropriation. "Apparently nobody knows whether it will be $10,000,000,000 or $20,000,000,000 or $50,000,000,000. But it will be spent largely for defense items instead of for pay and maintenance of troops and therefore will cut into already tight supplies of materials. "THIS COULD SERIOUSLY cut into automobile production RAYMOND PEERS Admits killing mother and father 1,800 More 'Chutists Join Mopup Forces GIs Capture Pyongyang's Port; Reds Turning to Guerilla War unless civilian demand drops off "Apparently, too, tney (m wasmngiun; are not loo wen organized.

They're just getting their agencies set up, and their rtivitie? call for a hieh degree of co-ordination. Until some not tOO Well i SGT. KENNETH H. COOK and Detective John Dalman said Raymond confessed killing his father, George Peers, because "he kept punishing me when I diJn't have it coming." The boy said his mother was stingy, according to Cook. The father, a 44-year-old manual training teacher in near-by Mat-tawan High School, died two hours after the shooting.

The mother, Marian, 38, died instantly. The boy had a perfect Sunday School attendance record for 11 years. State Police quoted him as telling them, pulled the trigger and shot my father. After I shot I didn't feel nervous at all. I thought it was funny." HE SHOWED little emotion admitting the slayings.

Prior to jthe confession he asked how a boy would be punished for killing his parents. The State Police told him he would probably go to the State Industrial School. Raymond asked if they taught music at the school. He played in the high school band. The slayings took place at the Peers farm home 13 miles west of here.

The officers quoted Raymond as saying he took a revolver out of his father's dresser and carried it to the hack of the house in a paper sack. The elder Peers was propping i a ladder against the house, pre-! iparatory to painting. im tr "He walked up to within 15 feet of his father and shot him in the back of the head." State Police ICapt. Clarence Miller said. The the state Police officer continued, he called to his mother, who was in the bedroom.

"Come here. Dad's hurt." Mrs. Teers ran into the living room and was shot in the head as she approached police said. At first police dubbed it an ap parent murder and suicide. They, theorized that Mrs.

Peers had wounded her husband and then! killed herself. The boy ran to the home of a neighbor and reported he had found his mother and father dead. The neighbors found the mother lying in the living room and the father unconscious at the foot of the ladder. CAPT. HLLER SAID Raymond's first story was that he was feeding the chickens behind the barn at the time, but that he heard no shots.

"Then he finally told us the story," Miller said. "He doesn't seem to have any real reason for the killing, or to feel particularly bad about it," Sgt. Cook related. "The house shows that the kid had pretty nearly everything he wanted." One source of friction report edly was that Raymond went to the school where his father taught. Cook said the boy wanted to change schools some time ago, but his father "laughed him out of it." WEIRD HAPPENINGS TOKYO (U.R) American cavalry troops captured the major North Korean port of Chinnampo early Sunday.

A second parachute landing placed nearly 6,000 paratroopers reel Dancer Tells 2 Versions of Attack Creekmur Denies Meeting Girl at Party Star Tackle Lou Creekmur, of the Detroit Lions, was named by Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien Saturday as the target in a bizarre $10,000 extortion plot. O'Brien said Dave Mazroff. a notorious hoodlum, and two others schemed to "shake down" the athlete with rape charges brought by a brunet dancer. SHE IS MISS Lucille Genoff.

20, who is not charged with any wrongdoing. The prosecutor said Miss Genoff first accused Creekmur of criminally attacking her after a gay drinking party in a hotel Sunday night. Then, O'Brien said, she told him Creekmur, 23, had only "made advances," which she repelled. But Saturday night the attractive young woman flatly denied that the football player was the man who attacked her. She refused to name her attacker or to identify him except to say he is a member of a wealthy Detroit family.

Reached in San Francisco where the Lions will play the 49ers Sunday, Creekmur said: "I never have met Miss Genoff. I was not at anv hotel party Sunday night. I know nothing; about any plot." Held with Marzoff. once a prims suspect in the murder of State Senator Warren Hooper, were Mrs. Jeanne Kuhn, 27, and Charles Robert Jones, 23, of 13224 Santa Rosa.

MISS GENOFF had shared Mrs. Kuhn's home at 320 Belmont. Mr3. Kuhn is a bar waitress. Mazroff, Jones and Mrs.

Kuhn stood mute at their arraingment before Recorder's Judge Charlea W. Jones on conspiracy charges. Jones set Oct. 31 for their examination. He fixed bonds totaling $80,000.

Marzoff had been sought for many months for new questioning about the 1945 Hooper slaying on a country road near Springport. State Police took custody of Mazroff after the arraignment and whisked him to an undisclosed destination. HOOPER WAS assassinated on the eve of testifying before the Carr-Sigler graft grand jury. Renewed interest in Mazroff as a suspect presumably stemmed from an informant's statement that Mazroff visited the Senate chamber in Lansing a few days before the Senator was shot. This informant said Mazroff had asked to have Hooper pointed out to him.

Miss Genoff told police that Mazroff had said to her during an auto ride: "I'm a hot packaee. I'm the fingerman in the Hooper killing." Miss Genoff's home 13 under Turn to Tate 1. Column 1 The Man Behind the Plow is very important. He has the satisfaction of knowing that through his efforts Americans are the best fed people in the world. If you would like to assist in producing the nation's food you will find farms of all sizes listed daily and Sunday in the Free Press "Farm for Sale" classification.

It is easy to place a Free Press Want Ad. Just Dial WO 2-9400 and say, "Charge It." Big Power Peace Talks OK'd in UN Moves to Include Red China Defeated Free Press Wire Service LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. The United Nations Assembly's 60-nation Political Committee unanimously indorsed a Syria-Iraq resolution calling for big-power peace talks. The actual vote was 59.

Iceland's delegate was absent. Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky stubbornly attempted to have the Chinese Red regime listed as one of the big powers. But after two rebuffs, he voted along with the committee in the rare show of unanimity. WHILE AMERICAN Delegate John Foster Dulles a-pproved the proposal, he has warned the world not to get its hopes up.

He and Secretary State Dean Acheson have previously emphasized that Russia must be judged by her deeds, not words. The Syria-Iraq proposal recommends that the five permanent Security Council members listed in the UN Charter as China, the United States, Russia, Britain and France consult together on their differences. It sets no date for the talks. The big five, however, agreed after a Security Council meeting; to meet some time before Tuesday to attempt to solve the impasse over Secretary General Trygve Lie's expiring term. Such a meeting would be the first session of the big five in the spirit of the Syria-Iraq resolution.

Toledo Firm Closes Shop in Pension Fight TOLEDO (JP) The Manufacturing shut by a CIO United Auto Workers' tsrike, announced that it is ceasing operations in Toledo. The company, that produced electrical appliances here for 54 years, informed its 200 employes of the permanent closing in newspaper advertisements. SWARTZBAUGH IS one of eight smaller Toledo plants shut down by the UAW's Local 12 in the union's-effort to compel manufacturers to join an area pension pool. Last fall Local 12, under the guidance of UAW Vice President Richard T. Gosser, tried without success to sign up major Toledo manufacturers in an area pension plan.

Under the plan, plants would contribute to a central pool for workers' pensions. In recent weeks the union has launched a similar drive, concentrating its demands on smaller firms. Light Seen copter "which stood still in the sky" above Northern Quebec, and sent Indians racing 50 miles west to Nemaska was reported soon after the submarine was sighted. There was no Canadian aerial activity in the area at that time. THREE HUGE explosions "like earthquakes" in the wild territory inland from the East Coast, which shook buildings at Old Factory River, were reported by Dr.

B. H. Harper, regional physician of the Indian Health Service, early last March. Reports of strange men around Fort George have been brought back by the Indians all summer. LOUIS CREEKMl'R Intended as $10,000 victim LUCILLE GENOFF Confused about "attack" DAVE MAZROFF Accused by girl as plotter Germans Fight Red Troops in Soviet Zone Four Poliee Killed Many Workers Hurt BERLIN (U.R) West Berlin newspapers said that East Ger-! man civilians killed four "people's police" and clashed with Russian i troops in scattered incidents in the Russian zone.

Scores of workers were injured and hundreds of East Germans arrested, the papers said. The American licensed Neue Zeitung said uranium miners staged a pitched battle with police at the railroad station at Johann-; georgenstadt. The report said the miners braved gunfire to rush a squad of: police, attacking with their pit' lamps and killing four. THE FIGHTING started when! the miners disobeyed an order to leave a crowded train, the paper said. Violence in recent days also broke out at Grimma, according to the British-licensed Telegraf, as a result of attacks on German i women by Russian soldiers.

In Leipzig, scores of persons were arrested when police raids turned up a sizable quantity of hidden riflps. pistols and ammunition, the Telegraf said. I mmum mm inn mi f.iniri.ini -TvCr -rT i might the defense program. At I by that time rnnfnsion will continue." Don't Arm Reich, Red States Urge Soviet Bloc Decries Plans Free Prens Wire Sen-ices Russia and her Eastern Euro pean Communist associates called on the four big powers for a new declaration promising to keep German demilitarized. The Soviet bloc nations, meeting at Prague, acted in the face of growing demands in the West for rearming Germany.

THEY ALSO proposed steps to unify Germany and end the Allied occupation. In Washington, the Communist bloc's action was regarded as a political and propaganda countermove against Western European defense plans, hacked by the United States. Some Western political sources said the Communist appeal was aimed at stirring the patriotic sentiments of the German people in an effort to avert the inclusion of Western Germany in the Western defense system. Russian Deputy Premier V. M.

Molotov presided at the two-day Prague conference of foreign min isters of eight Communist nations A COMMUNIQUE issued Sat urday accused the Western Allies of violating the Potsdam agree ment on Germany's future. It de manded: A pledge by the Big Four Turn to Page 4, Column 3 private firms and individuals at $205,500,000,000. State and local governments owed another $18,100,000,000. Adding them all together, the Department came up with an over-all net debt of for all borrowers in the United States as of last Dec. 31.

The debt increased $11,400,000,000 in 1949. i th The UAW oiticiais urgea oym- incton to convene "as speedily as possible" a joint conference of labor and management to "work out sound and and equitable measures to restrain inflation and to prevent hardships." "'Careful examination of Regulations VV and (restricting consumer credit on purchases of nutos and household equipment and requiring higher down payments on houses) leads inescapably to the conclusion that they are discriminatory, ill-considered and dangerous. They are a grievous blunder. "THE FEDERAL RESERVE Board, living in a world of banker mentality and unaware of basic production problems, has through Regulations and made a stab in the dark, and the knife is in the backs of America's low-income families." Thousands of workers will be forced out into the street as production declines, the union officers predicted. "The real answer to our materials problems is to expand our capacity to produce steel, aluminum and other basic materials not to drive consumers out of the market and create mass unemployment," the letter continued.

"NO ONE in government took the trouble to inform the union that measures were under con-Turn to Pajfe 4, Column 5 You'll Find: Amusements Sec. Pages 20-21 Editorial See. Page 4 Radio, Television Sec. Page 6 Travel Sec. PaBes 16-17 Financial Sec.

Pages 7-9 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads Call WOODWARD 2-9400 across Communist escape routes South Koreans mc i LlSt 9M4S DCOU REPUBLIC OF KOREA ARMY HEADQUARTERS (P) The war against the Reds cost the South Korean Army 9,643 killed. 39,965 wounded and 28,721 missing, this headquarters reported. These figures represent battle casualties only. Some 3,000 other deaths and injuries have occurred through accidents and illness. (The last official, but incomplete, count of American casualties was 26,083, including 4,036 dead.) 7 Reported Lost in Peru Landslide LIMA, Peru (JP) A landslide which blocked the Santa River in the Andes threatened to send flood waters over a wide section in mountain valleys.

An unconfirmed report said seven men were missing and that several were injured. The Santa River hydroelectric works were heavily damaged. IN ARCTIC roaming around the Fort George area. The incidents have been reported from the areas on the polar air route from Russia to the United States. Three Eskimos, Sydney Lotitt, 30; Erland Vincent, 50, and Oliver Rickard, 36, said they saw the submarine at 7 a.

Sept. 26, not far from the mouth of the Moose River. THEY SAID they watched it for an hour from distances ranging from two to six miles as it moved broadside to their anchorage. They work on a Government barge. Rickard, an Army veteran, north of Pyongyang.

i The Communists launched a guerilla war throughout the country as their organized resistance neared an end. The Seventh Cavalry Regiment took Chinnampo. 23 miles southwest of Pyongyang, in the process of hunting down a column of 3,000 to 5,000 Communist troops reported by airmen to be trapped behind United Nations lines near the port. THE TRAP around Communists in the Pyongyang area was tightened Saturday morning when an additional 1.800 men of the United States 11th Airborne Division dropped in the Sukchon-Sunchon area 26 miles north of Pyongyang to reinforce 4,000 dropped there Friday. Previously, tne South Korean Sixth Division had crossed Korea and linked up with the paratroopers.

The South Koreans then pushed on north. The North Korean Government retreated to the Manchuri-an border under the impact of the Allied avalanche, which swept to within 75 miles of Chinese Communist territory. The once mighty Communist i Army of 150.000 to 200,000 had been reduced to about 35.000 men in organized units, fighting only Turn to 4, Column 4 Men, Eerie was positive that it was a submarine, because he had seen such craft during the war. The strange red light was seen in the sky above the wilderness at Nemaska last spring by William McKee, Hudson's Bay Co. factor there, and his assistant, Roy Hancock.

NEMASKA is on the east coast of James Bay. The men described the light as deep red, like a traffic stop light. It circled slowly, then moved to the south. Appearance of a very large airplane accompanied by a smaller craft, possibly a heli Mystery Planes, Strange S218 BILLIONS TO 205 U.S. Out-Owes All of Us Chicago Tribune Foreign Service TORONTO The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating a report by Eskimos that a mysterious submarine has been snooping around James Bay, an arm of Hudson's Bay, in the sub-Arctic area.

The Mounties also are looking into other weird events including a strange red light in the sky that has frightened natives in the Far North and the appearance of unidentified airplanes. STRANGE WHITE men. who run and hide in the woods when spotted by Indians, have been reported WASHINGTON (JP) The Federal Government entered this year deeper in debt than all the private firms and individuals put together, the Commerce Department said. The Government's "total net debt" was put at the total net of.

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