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63 10 1 1 12 to Chrysler egins to Ira Looks Ahead. to Strike? Where? 100,000 iii Detroit Area Idle as Briggs Lays Off 21,000 BY ARTHL'R S1IEA Free Press Labor Writer The UAW (CIO) settled down for a long battle after S9.000 striking workers poured from Chrysler Corp. plants across the nation Wednesday. High union sources predicted the walkout would last at least "1 a month. The strikers had hardly set up if y.l L.T.i rml token Picket lines at 14 Detroit-jtl LLClllL jrlll ar Pants ploying 79 000 fore the full meaning of the huge I 1.

fg 7 v. 1 jjuMttfT iwmri wnmitiwti.1 11 niniim.rairuiiiM.iJ of Zoo on Last Legs Keepers Fight to Save Aped Elephant BY OEKKV WEEKS Free Press Staff Writer A gallant old performer at 7tr io Ori-O 7ial7 ill Walkout Felt walkout was felt throughout the icitv. i I HRIGGS Manufacturing Chrysler's biggest supplier, im-mediately announced it would be-jgin at once to lay off most of its 21.000 employes in the area. State and Federal labor mediators promptly began their task of getting the company and union negotiators to return to the bargaining table. UAW President Walter P.

R.euther said he was willing to jvene by appointing a fact-finding! jThis could not be confirmed at iUAW offices or in Lansing. E. M. Sconyers, of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and Philip Weiss, of the State Labor Mediation. Board, had stepped into the picture Tuesday.

Both expressed the hope that meetings could be resumed this week. Obvious bitterness, however. at 9:45 a. m. Wednesday.

THE FINAL, phase of the deadlock started nine days earlier when Chrysler offered its $100 monthly pension program. After the breakoff, Herman Weckler, Chrysler vice president and general manager, who did not 36 Pages Vol. 119 167 Decrees a Record for January Heat Wave Expected to End Tonight Detroit sweated out another January heat record 67 degrees at 4 p. m. That was one degree warmer than it was on Jan.

11, 1890, the previous January high. It was six degrees higher than the previous record for the date 61 in 1944. The Weather Bureau said the warm spell will end Thursday. IT FORECAST a morning high of 38 for Detroit before a drop to 15 Thursday night. Light rain changing to snow was predicted for the Detroit area.

Snow was forecast for all Northern Michigan. In the Upper Peninsula, three to six inches of snow were expected Thursday. As the cold air rolled in, sleet and electrical storms disrupted telephone service and electric power lines at points in the northern part of the Lowrer Peninsula. HARVEY, near Reed City, was isolated. Lightning knocked out I transformers at Harbor Springs, Wolverine, Alanson and Pellston.

The Michigan Bell Telephone Co. said heavy snow was tearing down lines at Houghton, Esca-naba and Petoskey. Meanwhile, near-record cold stung the snow-blanketed Rockies and the northern plains states. Chester, reported 57 below zero. The coldest ever recorded in the United States was 66 below at Yellowstone Park Feb.

9, 1933. Minnesota and North Dakota reported lows of 25 to 33 below zero. Peace Nearer at Gar Wood Speeial to the Free Press WAYNE Progress was reported toward a settlement of the nine-week-old strike of 800 workers at the Wayne and Highland Park plants of Gar Wood Industries, Inc. Both the company and Local 250 UAW (CIO) sid negotiations Wednesday were "promising." Another meeting was set for Friday. The union called the strike in a dispute over the firing of two employes.

Get Recognition LONDON (U.R) Moscow Radio said the Soviet Government had decided to recognize the United States of Indonesia. ris of appropriating a $150 check sent through his office as alimony payment to a divorcee, according to John K. Purcell, prosecutor, also a Democrat. Harris was accused of trying to cover his aet by issuing a check in that amount on his own bank in which he had insufficient funds. Harris spent seven months in 1932 in the penitentiary, convicted on a charge of forging veterans names to Government checks.

Long The ailing party is Paulina Hraneed a meeting oldest female elephants mcav- directo'r, also ex-ity Paulinas age is estimated willingness to meet, at 69. Wednesday she suffered what! Supt? Frank Mclnnis described as ANOTHER POSSIBILITY was Ja pre heine- ad- that Gov. Williams might lnter- 0 trike 28 FELLED Cream Puff Is a Weapon COLUMBUS, o. Cream-puff poisoning apparently a warm-weather woe struck at least 28 persons in Central Ohio. Health officials said the pas-teries came from one Columbus bakery and that damp and unseasonably warm weather probably caused their spoilage.

Poisoning cases were reported in Columbus, Springfield, Zanes-ville, Chillicothe, Marion, Newark, Granville and Jacksontown. Loyalty Test Due for 50 City Aides Inquiry Scheduled to Start Wednesday BY JAMES RANSOM Free Press Staff Writer Names of more than 50 City employes "believed to have Com munist leanings" will be given to the Loyalty Investigating Committee when it starts operating Feb. 1. Sgt. John Palek, of the Police Department's Subversive Bureau, said the names are those of City workers recognized by investigators at Communist-front meetings.

HE EMPHASIZED that the report is not in the nature of an indictment. The names were sifted from several hundred which were checked. Hii own investigators cleared many, he said. The 50 persons to be investigated further fall short of original estimates of the Civ il Service Commission that 150 Communists held City jobs. The investigating committee, called for under the Charter amendment adopted in September, has not yet been named.

Mayor Cobo said, however, that he is studying a list of about 15 persons recommended. UNDER THE ordinance, the Committee must secretly investigate any cases called to its attention. Findings then are referred to a Loyalty Commission composed of the Mayor, Council president, police commissioner, clerk and treasurer. Meanwhile. the Corporation Counsel's office is ready to go into Circuit Court in the next few weeks to test the constitutionality of the amendment.

A suit to challenge it has been brought by Eugene Greene, a sanitation division employe. 3Iillions in Fund LAKE SUCCESS (JP) The United Nations Appeal for Children collected $31,475,110 in its 1948 fund raising cajnpaign in 68 countries and territories. A Detroiter in Hollywood a i Morgan, the Highland Park School graduate who became a singer, is in Hollywood now. She's the protege of Joan Crawford really going places, they say. You'll get a glimpse of Marion being "glamorized" with the help of Miss Crawford, in "Detroiter in Holly-viood," a picture story in GRAPHIC of Sunday's big Free Press.

ministered in an effort to keep her a PAULINA WAS purchased from th Hasrenbecks of Germany. She; came to Detroit in June. 1928. two months before the opening of the zoo near Royal Oak. Like most old ladle, she was immensely fond of children, ThrmiL'li the years she tarried thousands of Detroit youngsters on her broad gray back.

Determined to Stick By Perjurer Five-Year Term in Prison Assessed BY WILLAKD KDWAKDS Free Press-Chicaso Tribune Wire WASHINGTON State Secretary Dean Acheson defended Alger Hiss, convicted perjurer, six hours after the former State Department official had been given a five-year prison sentence in New York Federal The repercussions on Capitol Hill were immediate. Demands were made for an investigation of whether "the Hiss influence" still lives on in the State Department. Threats were made to cut off appropriations. THE ACHESON statement, termed "fantastic" in Senate de bate, was delivered at his press conference in emotional tones: "I should like to make it clear to you that whatever the outcome of any appeal which Mr. Hiss or his lawyers may take in this case, I do not intend to turn my hack on Alger Hiss." There was more, including a biblical injunction.

Word of this sentiment caused an uproar on the Senate floor. Hiss had been sentenced Wednesday morning by Federal Judge Henry W. Goddard, who declared that the penalty "should be a warning to all that a crime of this character may not be committed with impunity." PALE BUT composed, the 45-year-old defendant had made a final statement, just before sentence, in which he again denied his guilt, decided by a jury last Saturday after a two-months trial. "I am confident," he said, "that in the future, the full facts 4as to how Whittaker Chambers (admitted Soviet spy who was the Government's chief witness) was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed." The Court then imposed th maximum penalty of five years on each of two counts of perjury but decreed that the sentences should be served concurrently. No fine was imposed.

The defendant's bail was dou bled, to $10,000. Hiss will be free pending appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Hiss swallowed hard when the sentence was pronounced, then turned and walked back to a seat beside his wife, Priscilla. HISS' ATTORNEY, Claude B. Cross, pleaded with the judge not to imprison Hiss, declaring the two trials (the first of which ended in a jury disagreement) had ruined him financially.

The second trial defense, he said, had been financed by "his loyal friends and loyal Americans." Acheson told reporters who asked him for a comment on the sentence: "Mr. Hiss, case is before the courts and I think it would be Turn to Page 12, Column 1 Other Stories of Major Interest on Inside Pages Coal Pinch Acute, U.S. Expert Says. P. 4 0 Senate Votes Women Equal Rights.

Page 8 Guest 6 Amusements 22 Beauty 17 Brady 35 Bridge 34 Cam'raPage 23 Chatterbox 16 Childs 6 Classified 30-33 Comics 34-35 Crossword 36 Horoscope 35 IQ Teat 4 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Racing 27 35 16 36 25 25-27 34 Radio Riley 'Ruark Smith Sports Stamps Donovan Editorials Fashion Financial Food 28 6 17 28-29 19 Star Gazing 22 Theaters 18 Town Crier 36 Women's 16-19 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads Call WOODWARD 2-9400 Princess to Visit LONDON (JP) Princess Elizabeth hopes to find time this spring for another visit with her sailor husband, Prince Philip, at Malta. She has a heavy schedule of public appearances. iMiWirii -aii Maates waMMXaierSTiPf ytiamaaWrfiiwBMiWK-WiifaSsbMMJfcMjj nr.iii a.rfr i I Free Press PIhmms that a strike is in progress. Policemen idle near-by, clearly baffled by the lack of the usual militant picket line. A UAW (CIO) flying squadron sitting quietly in car at the main gate of Chrysler Jefferson plant is almost the only evidence In 1940, she was thought to be marked the union's exit from little too old for such boisterous gotiations in the Sheraton Hotel Union Declines to Picket Chrysler participate in the talks, said thatjat'tn chrysler BUT WEDNESDAY they just sat in cars and watched the policemen who were trudging around.

Officials at UAW headquarters said the boycott would continue "until the company attempts to maneuver." They declared that one man may be assigned at each gate to carry a placard but only if it becomes necessary. "We're growing up," UAW President Walter P. Reuther commented. "And we're getting smarter all the time." OLDTIMERS WHO remembered picketing in freezing weather praised the maneuver. "We don't want to go into the plants, anyway," was the general sentiment.

"There aren't any strike breakers any more." RED DEFENDER ACCUSED behavior and the rides were stopped. But her lumbering good nature kept her a favorite with both kids ano adults. As cold weather set in early this winter, Paulina was stricken with a partial paralysis of her trunk. avx- r.Avc ev, wa unable trv toss hav in her mouth and had to be fed bv her keeper, Sam Falca. 1 She was unable to suck up water to drink, a process that has delighted a generation of Detroit children.

So Falca squirted water mto her mouth with a hose. Now Paulina lies helplessly in her warm quarters, her huge sides moving only faintly as her breath grows shorter. Ex-Deputy of IjlllltV Mason Killing BELTON, Tex. OP) Sam Smithwick, 62, ex-deputy sheriff, was found guilty of murder with malice in the shooting of W. H.

(Bill) Mason. He was given life imprisonment. Mason, a crusading radio commentator and former Detroit advertising man, was shot to death in Alice, July 29. Smithwick. then a deputy sheriff, had testified he fired after Mason grabbed at the gun Smithwick was holding.

SMITHWICK did not change expression while the verdict was read. Mason, 52, was a veteran newspaper man turned broadcaster. In his last broadcast the dav before he was killed Mason had that Smithwick owned property on which the Ranch Allegro, a night club, was situated. He charged that prostitutes plied their trade there. stravs walked over to the union half at 1551 Hart.

Described by many of the workers as "mass silent action," the new strategy involves placing five members of the flying squadron at each plant gate. What They Are Saying DR. RALPH W. SOCKMAN, Methodist minister, urging Protestant home mission effort be centered on reviving big-city community spirit as a defense against Communism: "Our large cities like Chicago and New York are headed for spiritual degeneracy if we keep draining away the responsible citizenship to the suburbs." DR. EDWIN G.

NOURSE, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "Forecasters agree with a unanimity that is surprising that the short-run outlook for business is good. But when all the forecasters agree, that is the time to watch out. I might say that I don't know what's going to happen in, 1950." That Ain't Pork DALLAS (Attorney Stan- ley G. Hogg filed suit behalf of his client, Stanley Pigg. Hogg asks that Pigg be awarded $750 in back wages Hogg claims is owed by a Dallas firm BY SAM PETOK Free Tress Staff Writer The UAW (CIO) unveiled a surprise "boycott" weapon as its 1 89,000 members went on strike 'NO picKet lines were set up.

Instead, small bands of police stood alone at plant entrances, puzzled by the new union tactics. Half an hour after the men walked out there were few of the usual signs of a strike to be seen anywhere. Placards were scant. Sound trucks had vanished. No soup lines were drawn up.

THE WORKERS had gone home. Furthermore, they had been told to stay there until Chrysler showed its hand. "Don'f come near the plants," Boh Verville instructed workers of the Kercheval and Jefferson plants who had massed in the street on Corey. Verville is chairman of the Local 7 flying squadron. In a brief instructional meeting, he and Tony Cassara, local vice president, outlined the new strategy.

"WE'RE GOING to show our militance by staying away." Verville told the orderly throng of 4,000 workers. "Go on home now and obey the policemen in crossing Jefferson." Within 10 minutes silence enveloped the street. Only a few 9 Leap Safely from Falling B-29 FORT STOCKTON. Tex. (U.R) A B-29 from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, crashed and burned 17 miles north of here, but the nine-man crew parachuted to safety.

Fort Stockton Memorial Hos-1 pital said some of the men were injured slightly when they were dragged through cactus and spiney brush by winds of 40 miles an rood or better than anv the CIOl has "The union leadership wants a Walkouts Shut Chrysler 3 Times There have J)een three major UAW (CIO) strikes against Chrysler Corp. In 1937, an organizational strike involving 71,000 workers lasted 32 days. In 1939, an organizational strike kept 69,000 out of work for 54 days. In 1948, a wage strike, idled 75,000 for 17 days. kitty that it can get on," Weckler said.

Its hands "That is the only possible excuse for its demand that regardless of Chrysler's guarantee to pay pensions to retiring employes, 10 cents an hour must be set aside in a fund over which the union would have some control." Weckler said that Chrysler paid its wages and its bills regularly and that its pension and insurance payments would be "just as sure and sound." REUTHER CHARGED the com pany was trying to squeeze out Turn to Page 12, Column 6 NEED MONEY to tide you time, or to over income tax pay extra bills Read the advertisements or firms in Classification No. 124 in the Free Press Want Ad Section. For Want Ad Service DIAL WO 2-9400 Indiana Judge Indicted hy His Own Grand Jury SULLIVAN, Ind. (U.R) A judge who headed a committee to protest the trial of 11 Communist leaders was indicted on bad-check and embezzlement charges by his own grand jury. When the grand jury ended a week-long session, it told Circuit Judge ftorval K.

Harris it had indicted one person him. Harris, a Democrat, once got a presidential pardon from Franklin D. Roosevelt to escape a Federal-penitentiary term imposed for forgery. He was co-chairman with Singer Paul Robeson last summer of a committee formed to protest the New York trial of the Communist leaders who later were convicted. A SPECIAL JUDGE will have to be named by the State Supreme Court before an arrest warrant is served on Harris.

The indictment accused Har-.