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119 WW WW WW NO. 1 KILLER Slaying Case Takes New Turn iff en in Prime Easy Victims oi Heart Disease Because heart disease is America's No. 1 killer, the Free Press has gathered the most complete information on this subject ever to appear in an American newspaper. Free Press Science Writer Robert Goldman devoted three months to prepare this series. lie interviewed the nation's top experts to get material for these articles.

r' 1 1 fo vi Xv jr jrY E'XW im ixxx .1 hl v. NTScv BY ROBERT GOLDMAN Free Press Science Writer The ravages of heart disease in the United States are staggering. The onset is unpredictable, striking relentlessly, taking men at a time when they are making their greatest contribution to society. At 52, Wendell L. Willkie was at the prime of life, the champion of a new philosophy, now almost universally accepted, for PVT.

KENNETH J. NESBITT Makes new confession 47 45 4.1 41 MONDAY, APRIL world peace. But at 52, the great statesman fell victim to heart disease. Former Secretary of State Edward R. Stetti- No.

2 of a Series nius was just 49 when he died from a heart ailment last Oc tober. Walter Huston and Frank Morgan, beloved actors, are two of the disease's most recent victims. That list extends to Gen. Henry (Hap) Arnold, Erock Pemberton, Broadway producer, and Sam Wood, Hollywood producer, and a host of others. YOU DONT have to leave Detroit to learn of the disease's toll.

Last April 3, Edward J. Jeffries, would have been 50. He died April 2, after suffering his third heart attack. One of the greatest political leaders in Detroit history, Jeffries was mayor for longer than any man in the City history. His first heart attack came in July.

1947, while campaigning for re-election as mayor. Jeffries weathered that attack, bu was under close medi-Turn to Page 9, Column 1 What They Are Saying GOV. EARL WARREN, addressing California Republicans in the first major speech of his campaign against James Roosevelt for the governorship: "I'm not going to promise people everything under the sun in order to get elected. I won't promise people services that are going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and at the same time promise reduction in taxes, because it can't be done. If your government isn't solvent, you haven't got a good government." BILLY GRAHAM, evangelist, calling on President Truman to set aside a special day for the nation to and seek God's forgiveness, in an address before 50,000 in Boston: "We must continue confidence in each other race with race, creed with creed, color with color, remembering we are all Americans.

America Is the nation that has made every man a king." Bombs Hurt 23 QUIMPER, France (JP) Twenty-three persons were injured when two grenades exploded at a Communist meeting. HOT WEATHER Fears about wasting food can be eliminated by a good refrigerator. All good makes are offered for sale by the advertisers in "Appliances" 69 in today's Free Press Want Ad Section: It is easy to place a Want Ad. Just Dial WO 2-9400 and say, "Charge It" Rang ers a a MRS. GRACE DICKERSON Picture of slain daughter is her treasure MUSKEGON'S RECOVERY Fighting Spirit Brings Michigan City Out of Depression.

See Page 21. Babando Tallies to End Playoff 13,095 See Gee Get Assist on Clincher BY MARSHALL DANN The Stanley Cup has come back to Detroit for the first time since 1943. On a dramatic overtime goal by Pete Babando, a "poor cousin" on the Detroit squad most of the season, the Winga scored a 4-3 victory in the seventh and deciding game of the finals against the New York Rangers. The path to the Cup was rockv. and the last mile was the roughest.

The Wings fought an uphill battle for the second straight night to puu a game out of the fire. TRAJLING 2 TO 0 in the first period, they erupted for three goals in the second period to tie the count at 3-all. Then the teams played scoreless hockey for more than 52 minutes before Babando came through. The end came at 12:14 a.m. Monday with Babando slapping home a backhand shot from 15 leet after 28:31 of overtime play.

It was the second goal of the game for Babando, who shunted to the role of bench warmer for most of the series. Detroit's other tallies were from Sid Abel and Jimmy McFadden, while Al Stanley, Tony Leswick and Buddy O'Connor paraded goal- ward in that order for New York. THE GAME would have ended much sooner but for the stubborn ness of Ranger Goalie Chuck Ray-ner. He made 40 saves all told. with 15 of them in the overtime minutes.

Harry Lumley stopped 26 at the other end. It marked the first time in Cup history that a seventh and deciding game went into overtime. But then, these playoffs have been wacky all along. Detroit went the full seven games in the semifinal against Toronto, winning the sixth and seventh games to survive. Then they had more trouble with the Rangers, whose fight and play belied their fourth-place standing.

Detroit had to win Saturday night, 5 to 4, to force Sunday's play. This was the fourth time Detroit has won the Stanley Cup, but the 13,095 fans at Olympia Sunday were the first ever to witness a presentation on home ice. CLARENCE CAMPBELL, president of the National Hockey League, handed the big silver mug to Capt. Sid Abel in center-ice ceremonies while the fans still were cheering Babando for his climatic goal. Detroit's other Cup triumphs came in 1936, 1937 and 1943.

Abel, Defenseman Jack Stewart and Forward Joe Carveth are the only members of the current squad who date back to the list triumph in 1943. rf FROM THE TIME the overtime action started it was Detroit's game, but it took a long time to prove it. The Wings carried play throughout the first extra 20 min utes but were wild with their shots. They had chances galore in the second overtime, but the goal just wouldn't come. George Turn to Page 22, Column 8 Grocer Slugged, Robbed of 1,015 Desmond Herbert, 22, of 31040 Ecorse, Romulus Township, was slugged and robbed of $1,015 by two men outside his father's grocery, at 5871 Telegraph, Taylor Township.

Police said the men were waiting as Herbert left after closing up. Bulletin YULIN, Hainan Island (JP) Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek handed over half of what remains of Nationalist China to the Communists. He ordered total evacuation of invaded Hainan Island. Five armies totaling 125,000 men may be left behind. (Earlier story on Page 7.) No.

355 Five Cents 10 Killed in State Traffic Three Lose Lives in Foir-Car Collision Ten persons lost their lives in Michigan traffic accidents as motorists flocked to the highways this week-end. Dead were: EDGAR H. STRETEN, 54, of 19600 13 Mile, Beverly Hills; his wife, GRACE, 55, and th ir son, ROBERT, 14. JOHN CHROBAK, 64, of 5636 Plumer. MRS.

HELSIE THOMPSON, 49, of 2535 W. Grand Blvd. HARRY MORA, 52, of 2500 Wabash Melvindale. LEO BAGGENTOS, 24, of Conklin. MISS MARVEL J.

MTITZEY, 24, of Belding. ROBERT C. STEBBINS, 17 months, of Sheridan Road, south of Bridgeport. RALPH DAVIS, 33. of Niles.

Another traftic casualty was Chester Cook, 25, of Hillsdale. He died Sunday in Foote Hospital, Jackson, of injuries suffered last Tuesday when his car crashed into a truck on M-60, near Concord. The Stretens were killed Sunday noon in a four-car crash on TJ. a mile north of White Lake Road, Oakland County. Nine per sons were injured.

OAKLAND COUNTY Sheriff's officers said the Stretens were traveling north when a car, driven Pictures on Page 21 by James W. Commons, 26, of Flint, crossed the centei line. The two cars collided head-on. Commons and two passengers, Walter Hollimion, 25, of Pon-Turn to Page 8, Column 5 Dock Strikers Defy Union LONDON (JP) London's striking dock workers defied their union boss. They threatened to ex tend their wildcat walkout because the union leader refused even to consider the conditions on which the strikers said they would return to work.

The Government has called the strike Communist-inspired. Arthur Deakin, general secre tary of the Transport and General Workers Union, urged the strikers to return to work at once. The men had proposed to end the strike if an election were ordered to let them vote on the ouster of thre dockers by union officials. 'Kill Him Says Mother of Slaying Victim Technicalities Bar Air Force Trial of Suspect in Killing Speeial to Ibe Free Press FLINT "I think they should turn him over to the Air Force be hanged," Mrs. Grace Dickerson said Sunday when sh learned that Air Force Private Kenneth J.

Nesbitt had confessed killing her daughter, Beatrice, 17, last July 11. GI Drops Denial of Slaying Girl New Confession Made at Flint Special to the Free Pres FLINT After talking to his pretty fiance, Air Force Pvt. Kenneth Nesbitt, 23, broke down Sunday night and again confessed the slaying of Beatrice Dickerson, 17-year-old theater cashier, here last July 11. Nesbitt admitted that he lied earlier Sunday when he repudiated previous confession, sheriff's officers said. Genesee County Prosecutor Leon A.

Seidel said he would authorize a first-degree murder warrant Monday for Nesbitt. THE HANDSOME airman made his second confession to WAF Cpl. Patricia Simmons, 21. They are scheduled to wed next month. After a short talk both broke into tears and embraced passionately.

Nesbitt then told officers he would sign the previous confession made Saturday night. Cpl. Simmons, who is stationed at Selfridge Air Force Base, was brought to Flint Sunday afternoon. Earlier, Nesbitt had maintained he had made the formal statement of guilt, after nearly 12 hours of questioning, because he "was tired out and wanted to get it over with." AFTER THE meeting, Cpl. Simmons told reporters: "I love him, I love him.

I'll wait for him and I know now it will be a long time." She expressed surprise that Nesbitt has a wife, his second, living in San Antonio, Tex. When told there is no record of divorce, Cpl. Simmons added: "If that's the case we'll have to wait until that's cleared up." SHE WAS wearing a class ring Which she said Nesbitt had given her as an engagement ring. Cpl. Simmons said Nesbitt had written to her parents in Eugene, asking permission for the marriage.

A native Texan, the brown-haired young woman enlisted In the Women's Air Force 14 months ago. She met Nesbitt at Selfridge when she was transferred there last January. "He never mentioned the mur der," she said, "but I knew he had something on his mind because of his heavy drinking." She said she believed Nesbitt had been in need of psychiatric help. "They wouldn't give it to him at the field," she went on. AT THE CLOSE of their meeting, Cpl.

Simmons and Nesbitt embraced and kissed repeatedly. Meanwhile, Sheriff Thomas W. Wolcott and State Police Sgt. Vincent Neering said they would make a second attempt to have Nesbitt point out where he threw the murder gun. Turn to Page 8, Column 4 Other Stories of Major Interest on Inside Pages Reign of Terror Nears End in Detroit, Page 5 U.S.

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The Russians protested that they knew nothing about the Privateer. They said their fighters nad answered fire from an American "B- United States plans to halt Red thrusts. Page 2. 29 Flying Fortress" encountered April 8 over Lepaya (Libau), Latvia, one of the Baltic republics. Two life a radio guidebook and a piece of wood, all of which may have been from the lost plane, have been found in the Baltic.

NEUE ZEITUNG said the Russians had removed "tens of thousands" of Baltic nationals and resettled them in the interior of Russia to safeguard their coastal fortifications from spies and saboteurs. Russian farmers have been settled in the vacated Baltic lands Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania which Russia annexed 10 years ago, the paper said. The United States never has recognized Russian acquisition of the three countries. Vatican sources said that to 1,000,000 Lithuanian Roman Catholics were deported to Siberia last winter in a Russian campaign against the church. Many more were said to have been deported from Latvia and Estonia.

Neue Zeitung said the purge was most intensive in Estonia, where "many patriotic Estonians" were being removed from government posts after being denounced as Quislings or Tltoists. These, as well as the farmers, are being replaced by Russians, Neue Zeitung aid. 6 Phone Union Poised for Walkout Strike Is Called for 6 A.M. Today NEW YORK (JP) Last minute talks to avert a nationwide strike of telephone installation workers collapsed shortly after Sunday midnight. The strike was set for 6 a.m.

Monday. A last-minute meeting to avert a nationwide strike of telephone installation workers was called in New York late Sunday by Federal mediators. SOME 11,000 telephone installers around the country are slated to walk out, at least 100 of them in Detroit. In New York, Ernest Weaver, president of Division 6, Communications Workers of America (CIO) said that if the dispute is not settled the installers "just won't go to work at 6 a.m. Monday." IN DETROIT, Glenn Thornton, president of local 38, CWA, said his group was waiting instructions from Weaver.

Thornton said that he already was having difficulty keeping some men on the job. Not involved in the dispute is Division 44, "CWA (CIO), representing 10,500 Michigan operators. Judah Drob, division spokesman, said: "It is the long-established policy of our union not to cross picket lines." A MICHIGAN BELL spokesman said if a strike is called and operators refuse to cross picket lines, "we will have to do as we did during the 47-day strike in 1947." During the 1947 strike. Bell supervisors and other nonunion personnel manned switchboards to prevent a serious breakdown in service. "Local dial phone service would be affected very little," the spokesman said, "but such a tie-up would have more serious effect on long-distance Federal Mediator Thomas Steu-tel called the joint session of Western Electric Co.

and Division 6 of the Communications Workers of America (CIO) at 9 p. Sunday in New York. Steutel would not make any optimistic statement on possibilities of settling the dispute. "But we're always hopeful," he said. Some 100,000 other phone workers in 42 states plan to strike Wednesday if a 60-day truce obtained by President Tfuman is not extended.

"I think they should treat him the same as he did my girl. Kill him." Lawyers here pointed out that the Air Force would have no jurisdiction since the crime did not occur on Federal property. NESBITT WAS arrested at Selfridge Air Force Base, partly on the basis of work done by an Air Force investi-gator, Sgt. Maurice Gilchrist. He was turned over im-media tely to State Police and Genesee County sheriff's officers.

Mrs. Dicker-son, wever, couldn't understand the legal technicalities of what she asked. Sgt. Gilchrist she knew only that the slayer of her daughter should die. "SHE WAS such a good girl," said the 55-year-old mother.

"An honor student at Kearsley School, she would be graduating this year if she ha' lr She worked at the theater because she wanted nice clothes. "She never would let anyone pick her up and I still don't believe she got in that car willingly with that soldier, like he said she did. I think he forced her in." Mrs. Dickerson, a widow four years, Yiri had other troubles since Beatrice's bodv was found in a swamp. One of her older sons died last winter, leaving: his and two small children.

A younger son was in the hospital for several months with a nervous breakdown brought on by his sister's murder. MRS. DICKERSON lives with her three youngest chil 'ren, Emily, 20, James, 16, and Gordon, 13. Three older sons and two older daughter, all married, help out when they can. Blast Burns 10 OSMOND, Neb.

(JP) Ten suffered burns when a 750-gallon gasoline tank exploded in a farm fire. iw 4 fXNW Toledo Ship Opens Lakes Season at Soo Coal Carrier Enters Locks in Ceremony SAULT STE. MARIE IJP) The 1950 Great Lakes shipping season opened officially at 30 minutes and 39 seconds past 8 o'clock Sunday morning when the freighter Algocen entered the Davis Lock. The coal-bearing freighter, up-bound from Toledo, had been expected to pass through the locks late Saturday but she was delayed by ice floes and heavy slush in the St. Mary's River.

BECAUSE OF the early hour, only a handful of spectators was on hand to see Capt. M. A. Livingstone, of Collingwood, presented with the Gene Herman Trophy, a ship's clock which goes to the winner of the race to open the season. The 70-year-old captain also was presented a top hat on the Canadian side.

Livingstone reported a rough trip upriver. Similar reports came from the Coast Guard Icebreaker Mackinaw in Lake Superior. The Mackinaw encountered heavy ice on the Marquette run. It will be a while yet before ves-sles move through to Duluth. Gardener Injures Leg Ambrose P.

Doherty, 49, of 22710 Bayview, St. Clair Shores, was taken to Providence Hospital after his left leg became caught in a garden tractor. Doherty's leg was caught in the machine for 40 minutes before neighbors and police arrived. Doctors held little hope of saving the leg. TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 1.