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38 12 mid. METRO FINAL MTXLMUM WAGE LAW Our Washington Bureau Explains It. First of Two Articles On Page 19 37 3 tfi 35 3S 35 MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1950 On Guard for Over a Century 32 Pages Vol. 119 No. 264 Five Cents uised Fleisher Whisked Milan Cel to Bisg EYES DROOP Nov Slant on Style Irks Girls Chinese Look Greeted Coolly mi My TO Tucker Congratulated 4 I a j', l-'.

1 BY CHARLES MANOS Free I' -si Special Writer EAST LANSING Michigan State College co-eds believe sex appeal salesmen are out on a limb. The girls disagree with Harry Conover and other heads of top modeling agencies who declared that a pair of sloping eyes will be exhibit A for Miss Cheesecake of 1950. EXPERTS CLAI3I that eyebrow pencil and assorted shades of scotch tape will be used to create a slant-eyed look. Her eyes will be utilized for everything but to see with. The "falsie" trend has gone to her head.

"Preferred female anatomy will be hipless, shapeless and not much to it," Conover, who was visiting the MSC campus, said. To this MSC co-eds say, "nuts." THE SISTERS at Pi Beta Phi agreed that the average American girl will not pay much attention to the fashion dictators this time. "Their latest pattern Is out of bounds," exclaimed Sally Joe Eilber, Birmingham senior. She was supported by Frances DeBruyn, Flint junior. Men still prefer the girl friend on the natural side with the clean, scrubbed look, according to Betty Patrick, Detroit senior.

LIZ TRUDEN, Delta Delta Delta junior from Forest Lake, threatened to move to Alaska if the fad becomes popular. Kappa Kappa Gammas added that i and slant-eyed creatures have no place in man's "long range program." "He wants something to come home to," the co-eds agreed. Reels Set Trial of American Mobster Returned by Plane Bandaged, He Travels Under Heavy Guard His head swathed in bandages that masked most of his features, Purple Gang Chief Harry Fleisher arrived at Willow Run Airport at 6:05 p. m. Sunday.

Fleisher made the seven-hour flight from Miami aboard a Cap-! ital Airlines plane in custody of; two deputy United States mar-; shals and a Federal guard. The bandages were part of the extraordinary precautions taken I to prevent identification of Fleisher during the trip, the marshals said. THEY REVEALED the gangster was smugggled to the Miami Airport in an ambulance. At Willow Run the plane was! met by two cars manned by United States Marshal Joseph L. Wis-newski.

Chief Deputy Abel Lez-zotte and two deputies. Fleisher was placed in Wis-newski's car. which took the lead in the fast 15-mile drive to Milan Prison. Grounds at Milan Prison were heavily guarded before Fleisher's arrival. Tower guards were ordered to admit "only the two cars scheduled to carry and guard the gangster.

AS THE CARS stopped at the entrance to the receiving room, Fleisher leaped from his seat and raced into the room. The whole operation took 10 seconds, guards said. Fleisher had removed his head bandages during the ride from the airport. He was hatless and wore a top coat. He was hurried through routine examinations, issued prison cloth-: I ing and lodged in a quarantine cell.

I Physicians pronounced him "well-tanned and healthy." The 15-month search for the fugitive gang leader ended last! week when he was seized with a woman companion at Pompano Beach, Fla. FLEISHER, who now faces Turn to Page 8, Column 5 What They Are Saying HUGO L. BLACK, United States Supreme Court justice: "Americans have nothing to fear so long as we cling with unshakeable finality ta the right of the people to think, speak and write as their conscience may dictate." JUDGE SARAH T. HUGHES, of Dallas, first vice president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, speaking at the midyear i banquet Chicago: "Women's organizations can help to secure recognition for women through education and the molding of mihlic nnininn." "Every intelligent woman knows the progress toward full participation of women in the affairs of their nation will be a long, slow process. It is up to our own sex to prove that women have the qualifications and the ability to become leaders in world affairs." jPIolter Seized ROME (Jp) Police arrested an Italian carrying a bag of high explosives near the Spanish Em-j bassy.

They said he had planned; to blow up the building. Associated Pre ss Wirephoto Tucker's wife Vera, Tucker, bis attorney, Frank McAdams, and Joseph Kouba, foreman of the jury. Preston Tucker, second from left, head of the collapsed Tucker is congratulated after his acquittal on mail fraud charges in Federal Court in Chicago. Left to right are latfaWHMfe Ice Angler Gets Whopper Special to the Free Press CHEBOYGAN A six-foot, one-inch sturgeon, weighing 115 pounds, wps taken from Mullett Lake Sunday. The fish as speared by Ruben Zehnder, of Frankenmuth.

His brother, Walter, aided in getting it up on tht ice. The brothers were fishing two miles off shore in 14 feet of water. The sturgeon was the ninth taken from Mullett Lake this year. It was the second largest. ACROSS U.S.

Speedster Blisters Airways 3Iantz Beats 5-Hr. Mark NEW YORK (JP) Speed Flier Paul Mantz spanned the continent Sunday in 4 hours 52 minutes 58 seconds. He claimed a new west-east record for planes with gasoline-fueled engines. Mantz's time' bettered by about seven minutes the time established last March by former Army Maj. Joe DeBona.

DeDONA flew from California to New York in a single-engined, propeller-type plane in 5 hours 5 seconds. Flying a converted F-ol from Burbank, Mantz streaked over LaGuardia Airport at 3:06:17 p. m. (Detroit time). The plane was equipped with a Rolls-Royce Packard engine.

His arrival time was recorded by Fred H. Wilkinson, official timer for the National Aeronautics Association. Wilkinson, however, said he had not figured the elapsed time and added: "All I did vvas record the official time over LaGuardia. Picture on Page 2. I will submit my report to the headquarters in Washington, where it will be determined if the flight has established a transcontinental record." THE transcontinental record for all types of planes is held by Col.

William Council, who flew a P-80 jet plane to New York from California Jan. 26, 1946, in 4 hours 13 minutes 30 seconds. The 47 -year -old Mantz said he hit a top speed of 580 miles an hour between Omaha and Chicago. He left Burbank with 880 gallons of gasoline and 180 gallons remained after he landed Idlewild Airport, where he continued after clocking in over LaGuardia. Mrs.

Doan is survived by two sons, Leland of Los Angeles, and Herbert H-, of Midland; a daughter, Mrs. Parker Frisselle, of Midland; her mother, Mrs. Grace B. Dow, of Midland; a brother, Alden of Midland, and two sisters, Mrs. Anderson Arbury, of Midland, and Mrs.

Harry Towsley, of Ann Arbor. be returned to The body will Midland Monday. Services will be at 2 P- m- Tuesday at the First resoyienan unurcn, jvuaiana. Burial will be in Midland tery. Aides Also Cleared on All Counts Cheers and Screams Greet Jury's Verdict CHICAGO (U.R) A Federal Court jury Sunday found Auto Man Preston Tucker and seven associates innocent.

They were charged with executing a $28,000,000 fraud on the American public in attempting to build a postwar rear-engine "dream car." The panel of seven men and five women deliberated 17 hours over a span of two days in rejecting Tucker's background. Page 20. counts of mail fraud, Securities and Exchange Commission violations and conspiracy. THE GOVERNMENT had contended that Tucker, president of the ill-fated Tucker and the other defendants had perpetrated a gigantic fraud on stockholders and the public in their attempt to mass-produce a radically new "Tucker Torpedo." Tucker, central figure of the three-month trial, and his associates, many of them veteran automotive men, broke out in unrestrained joy at the verdict. Some were tearful.

Besides Tucker, the defendants were: ROBERT PIERCE. 51, Detroit iiuancier formerly associated with the Briggs Manufac turing who served as Tucker's first treasurer. OTIS RADFORD, 46, formerly of Detroit, Tucker's treasurer and former Reconstruction Finance Corp. employe. FLOYD CERF, Chicago stockbroker, alleged to have received $2,500,000 in commissions as underwriter of the Tucker stock.

FRED ROCKiCLMAN, 60, of Chicago, executive vice president of the Tucker and former president of the Plymouth Division of the Chrysler Corp. MITCHELL DULIAN, 56, of Chicago, former general sales manager of the Tucker Corp. CLIFF KNOBLE, 45, of Chicago, Tucker advertising man-Turn to Page 20, Column 1 Alan Hale, Actor, Dies HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Alan Hale, 57, one of the most widely known of Hollywood's screen actors, died Sunday night. He entered Hollywood Hospital Saturday night for treatment of a liver ailment complicated by pneumonia. Hale contracted a cold on a recent trip to Montana for the premiere of a picture in which he appeared.

Avalanche Buries Village TEHRAN, Iran (JP) A report from Kurdistan Province said the Village of Tangesar was buried under an avalanche of ice and snow and 44 families perished. Thus far 55 bodies were reported recovered. Tangesar is about 20 miles southwest of Sinneh, capital of Kurdistan in Northwest Iran. Priest Beatified by Pope Pius VATICAN CITY (JP) Vincenzo Pallotti was beatified in solemn ceremonies conducted by Pope Pius XII in St. Peter's Basilica Sunday.

It was the first beatification the last step toward elevation to sainthood of the 1950 Holy Year. Pallotti, born in 1798, became a priest at the age of '22. During the cholera plague of 1837 in Rome, he constantly risked his life to help the stricken. Patient Presents Huge Problem LONDON (U.R) The staff of St. Peter's Hospital at Chertsey, Surrey, had problems when Ernest Evans, 25, was admitted as a patient.

Evans is 8 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 434 pounds, occupies two beds, needs two sets of bed sheets and eats enough for two average men. It took 11 male nurses to lift him off the operating table. Rebels Vote to Continue Coal Strike 54,000 Out of 90,000 Reported in Favor PITTSBURGH (P) United Myie Workers officials said that about two-thirds of John L. Lewis' 90,000 striking United Mine Workers are refusing to end their walkout. Confusion and uncertainty reign in the seven states where the diggers have been striking two weeks.

The strikers want a contract and return of the five-day week. Union President Lewis has decreed a three-day week during the contract-talks deadlock. THE LATEST tabulation on week-end voting on whether to end the strike in the seven-state walkout shows: Back to work 35,150. Continue on strike 51,550. UMW officials won't hazard a guess that all of the men who voted to work will mine coal.

They've heard reports that some of the diggers who voted to continue the strike will set up picket lines at mines which choose to work. IX DISTRICT NO. 5 of the UMW (the Pittsburgh area)r the return-to-work movement gained momentum. An official said 24,950 miners in 57 locals in that district voted to follow Lewis' end-the-strike suggestion and that 3,200 members of five locals rebelled. In adjacent District Xo.

4, which centers around Union-town, the picture was far different. Only 31,000 of 23,000 strikers voted to go back to work. William Hynes. the District 4 president, wasn't available for comment. Hynes was booed down i by nearly 3,000 miners last week i when he implored them to go back to work.

I FIRST REPORTS from North ern West Virginia showed 2,000 of 12.000 voting to end their strike. In Ohio, where 9,000 have been striking, about 1,400 have voted to go back. Miners representing 5,000 Kentucky diggers said they'd follow Lewis' suggestion. There were no reports either way from other states where a total of about 11,000 have been idle. In Washington, Senator Robertson Va.) said he would introduce a bill Monday which in cer tain cases would permit antitrust action against labor unions.

THE TARGET of his proposal, he indicated, is Lewis and his miners. Robertson's bill would make unions subject to antitrust laws where the organization is involved in an action which amounts to "unreasonable" restraint of trade, and where the action affects "essential" industrv. Chinese Bomb Red Forces TAIPEI, Formosa (JP) Extensive new bombing raids against Communist small craft and troop concentrations along the mainland coast were announced by the Chinese Nationalist Air Force. Targets included Amoy and Foo-chow and extended northward to Hangchow Bay, 100 miles south of Shanghai. The communique said B-24 bombers had set huge fires at a Foochow drydock and other shore establishments and heavily damaged invasion craft all along the coast.

On Inside Pages Amusements 26 Beauty 17 Blackard 16 Horoscope 31 Industrial 25 IQ Test 10 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Pringle 18 Racing 24 Radio 31 Ruark 32 Sports 22-24 Star Gazing 26 Theaters 27 Town Crier 32 Women's 16-18 Bridge 30 Chatterbox 16 Classified 27-29 Comics 30-31 Crossword 32 Editorials Farming 6 11 17 18 6 Fashion 'Food Guest TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads Call WOODWARD 2-9400 Manila Assassins Miss Detroit Woman Justice Murphy's Sisler-in-Law Attacked in Auto by Gunmen ml Mrs. Irene Ellis Murphy, sister-in-law of the late Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy, narrowly escaped assassination as the latest target of terroristic groups in the Philippines. Mrs. Murphy, formerly of the Detroit Council of Social Agencies and the Welfare Department, was riding in her car near Malacanan Palace, Manila, when two gunmen fired into the automobile, the United Press reported. A CAR WINDOW was shattered, but Mrs.

Murphy, crouching swiftly, was unharmed. She ordered her driver to proceed to the safety of the guarded palace grounds. The gunmen escaped. Mrs. Murphy is serving as United Nations social and welfare consultant in the Philippines.

Previous to her UN assignment, she was director for Philippine War Relief. Her daughter, Sharon, 19, is a student at Michigan State College. Murphy was married to the late Supreme Court Justice's brother, Harold. The couple was divorced in 1936 and the husband died in October, 1946. Mrs.

Murphy, who had been in the Philippines for a year when Frank Murphy was Governor General, took her present post early in 1946. VIENNA. (JP) Robert A. Vogeler, the American business-! man who has been held in Com-', SALLY BUTLER, presi-munist Hungary for more than dent of the International Federa-tu-o months, will go on trial with- tlon of Business and Professional in the next few weeks on charges Women, at the same Chicago meet-of spying and sabotage. inS: Veto Seen for Quick Tax Slash Truman Wants Offset to Any Excise Cuts Free Press Wire SerTlce WASHINGTON A i 1 placed Democrat predicted that President Truman would slap on a veto if Congress should pass a tax bill that slashed excise levies and did not pick up revenue from other sources.

This forecast was made privately by a lawmaker who conferred with the President Friday. It came in the face of reports that quickie excise-cutting legislation, disregarding other White House recommendations, 1 might be speeded through the Senate. HOWEVER, such Senate action probably would require advance assurance that the bill would be considered in the House. This appeared unlikely. The House likes to write its own tax legislation.

But it also is being urged to push through such a bill. Mr. Truman will send his tax message to Capitol Hill Monday noon. It is expected to call for. a reduction of around $750,000,000 in excises on so-called luxury items and other things such as fur coats, luggage, cosmetics, jewelry, communications and Higher levies on corporation income and on estates and gifts probably will be asked.

THERE MIGHT BE a suggestion for some easement of taxes on certain smaller corporations. Lawmakers who attended Friday's White House tax conference indicated that the President wanted a net tax increase of something less than This would be far shy of the $5,000,000,000 needed to balance next year's Federal budget. The Congressmen do not expect Mr. Truman to ask for any increase in levies on individual incomes. But the message probably will suggest to Congress that it try to pick up some extra revenue by a crackdown on tax dodgers who do Turn to Page 8, Column 2 De Gasperi Told to Keep Trying ROME.

() President i i Einaudi told Premier Alcide de Gasperi to keep trying to form a new government. The Premier spent Sunday consulting political leaders on the solution of Italy's Cabinet crisis, which started Jan. 11. DETROITER AMONG Six Persons Lose Lives in State Auto Crashes Six Michigan residents, including one Detroiter, were killed in This information came from the American minister to Hungary. Nathaniel P.

Davis. Vogeler probably will be defended by a Hun-; garian attorney appointed by the Hungarian Government. Prime Minister Matyas Rakosi flatly rejected Davis' request to see Vogeler. I Report Dutch in Rebel Role JAKARTA (BAT A VIA) Indo- nesia (JP) A private army led by former Dutch Army Capt. R.

P. P. (Turk) Westerling w-as reported to have attacked troops of the new United States of Indonesia. Neutral sources said Wester-ling's guerilla force seized the town of Tjimahi, 11 miles west of Bandoeng, Java. Justice Douglas Back in Saddle TUCSON, Ariz.

(JP) William O. Douglas, United State Su-j preme Court justice, went horseback riding Sunday. It was the first time he had! tip Tfp ttr i pVT ViTiT "'W AlLiMCLM I I lll; Dow President's Wife Dies in New York VICTIMS Rycus was exonerated by witnesses. Mrs. McGuire and Rump were killed when a car, driven by Rump, swerved into a clump of trees on US-12, east of Galesburg, police said.

Also injured were Mrs. Mc-Guire's husband, Donald, 24, and Miss Marjorie A. Treash, 21, of Kalamazoo. Both were treated at Borgess Hospital. IN MUSKEGOX County's fourth traffic fatality this year, Pecak was killed when his car skidded and struck a tree near Montague, according to police.

Pecak, the father of two children, was alone and the accident was not discovered until several hours later. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks were killed when their car crashed into the rear of a parked truck at Gratiot and Twenty-eight Mile, Lenox Township. State Police said no warning lights were burning near the truck.

Sperial to the Free Press NEW YORK Mrs. Ruth Dow Doan, 54, wife of the president of the Dow Chemical of Midland, died here of a heart ailment. week-end automobile accidents, The dead were: CASSIUS L. WINSOR, 60, of 16220 Lawton. ALBERT C.

RUMP, 24, of Kalamazoo. MRS. PATRICIA McGUIRE, 22, of Kalamazoo. JOSEPH PECAK, 29, of Meinert Park, Oceana County. VICTOR BROOKS, 40, of Port Huron.

MRS. MAE MATILDA BROOKS, 34, of Port Huron. IN Wasil Orechow, 67 of 8701 Lumpkin, died Sunday in St. Francis Hospital of injuries suffered Jan. 11 when he was struck by an auto.

The driver of the car, Raymond J. Redman, 29, of 5334 Jos. Cam-pau, was exonerated. Winsor died early Sunday in Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital an hour after his car crashed into one driven by Richard P.

Rycus, 20, of 3711 Tyler, at James Cou- ens and Manor. done so since last November, when i Doan, arrived in New ork Satur-he was thrown from a horse and: day for a visit. She collapsed Mrs. Doan was the daughter of the late Dr. Herbert ri.

Dow, founder of the Dow Co. She and her husband, Leland 1. while eating dinner at the Hotel Plaza with her husband. MRS. DOAN was the sister of Dr.

Willard H. Dow, former pres ident ot the chemical comoanv. who with his wife and three other persons, was killed in a plane crash March 31, 1949. In addition to her severely injured in Washington State. dded Troubles GEORGETOWN, British Guiana 7P)-Alligators and snakes, lurking around porches and doorsteps, plagued thousands marooned by flood waters on British Guiana's coastal belt..