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METKon Council xnursday. March l. 1951 23 OICs City State The Day in Michigan BY DONALD F. SCIIKAM School Board Quits Decontrol Antidote Hens Tie for Honors Crime Body Miriani Would Keep Power from Citizens BY JAMES RANSOM Free Prr Staff Writer Common Council unanimously approved a resolution recom PALLBEARERS CARRYING the coffin of Fred M. Zeder at the entrance to SS.

Peter and Paul Church. From left to right, watching the solemn cortege are Thomas E. Murray, of the Atomic Energy Commission; O. E. Hunt, retired vice president of General Motors K.

T. Keller, chairman of the board of Chrysler Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor and Dr. Howard R. Hartman, of the Mayo Clinic. 'JIVE ADDICTS' JAILED Girls, 15 and 16, Blame Reefers for Downfall Bill to Ban Felons OK'd by House Would Bar Them from Legislature From Onr Lanning Bureau LANSING The House of Representatives joined the Senate Wednesday in adopting a rule barring ex-felons from legislative service.

The vote was practically unanimous. The House version also disqualifies persons who confess and gain immunity as witnesses. TWO WEEKS ago the House failed by seven votes to adopt a constitutional change embodying the same principle. It was to have been submitted on the April ballot. It mustered 60 votes but 67 or two thirds were required.

All Democrats but one voted against putting it in the constitution. The House adopted a bill relieving the superintendent of pub lic instruction of an old statutory responsibility of publishing annual lists of authorized school text books. No superintendent in recent years has paid any attention to 1927 enactment. BUT NOW Supt. Lee M.

Thurs- ton faces a court action brought by Sons of the American Revolution to enforce compliance. It is due for early hearing. The patriotic society wants full listings so that they may be searched for suspected improper and subversive material. Flu Waning, Reports City Health Chief Detroit llu conditions "look somewhat brighter," Health Commissioner Dr. Joseph G.

Molner said Wednesday. Industrial absenteeism, which had risen as high as five times above normal, has dropped to less than four times above normal in the last 24 hours, he said. SICKNESS among teachers still was high, school officials reported. Students were being doubled up classes, officials said. Docked Pay Bickering Idles 3,200 Dispute Involves 5 Minutes! Work mending formation of a State The resolution was resolution was introduced by Council President Louis C.

Miriani. He said it was time "to band together and expose" organized criminals. "I'M NOT sure the condition exists in Detroit," he declared, "but in some places crime syndicates have exploited public officials. "I don't know who they get to, but they get to someone." Councilman William G. Rogell remarked: "A few years ago I was laughed at when I said a bet could be made within sight of City Hall.

"I was told I was dead wrong. You still can make a bet within sight of City Hall." THE MICHIGAN Crime Investigating Committee, as proposed by Miriani, would be composed of five members appointed by the Governor. It would be State-financed. If members terms were staggered, Miriani said, the commission would "not necessarily be hampered" by politics. Miriani argued that such a commission is preferable to a citizens' V.

a latla ie fnr answerable to no one for its activities. STEPHEN J. CAREY, Detroit's legal representative in Lansing, and Michael O'Brien, head of Wayne County's legislative dele gation, will report to Council Monday. Miriani denounced one-man grand juries. He said they were "repugnant to American ideals" and "cuffed people around without provocation." Miriani's resolution will be sent to Gov.

Williams, members of his "cabinet," State senators and representatives. Students Spend Day with Officials ADRIAN Three hundred and 50 Lenawee County high-school seniors met with numerous state and county officials Wednesday at a senior Government Day program. Adrian College was host. Students discussed issues of the day with experts in the various fields. m.

All five members of the School Board in Hudson have resigned in a dispute over firing the high school principal, who hasn't been fired. The board hadn't even voted to fire him before the squabble broke out. A citizens' mass meeting attended by 200 registered a protest against the suggestion that a renewal contract not be offered to Dale Fausey, principal lor 16 years. Following the mass meeting, Board Chairman Joseph O'Reilly and A. B.

McGehee resigned. Wednesday they were joined by Mrs. Ruth Throne, Lawrence Foster and Walter Hutchings. Before they quit, they called a new election for March 8. LANDLORDS in Grand Rapids, freed Wednesday from rent control, formed a 10-man committee to protect the rights of tenants.

"We don't want controls back again" was their explanation for their concern. TWO Eaton County Hens tied in an attempt to outdo the other in egg production. Harvey Hol-comb's hen produced one that weighed five and three-quarter ounces, and Frank Rusts's hen matched it with one of exactly the 6ame weight. PLAYIN three-handed pinochle at the Petoskey Elks Club, Roy Godwin held a double run, aces and a pinochle. TWO railroad flatcars ran away on a mile of main rack in Hart Wednesday, and crashed through a concrete wall two feet thick at the Hart Farm Bureau Elevator.

They started rolling from a siding when workmen attempted to unload utility poles from one of them. Two elevator employes were in the wrecked building but were unhurt. Dam age was $3,000. TULIPS and iris are up in Ihe yard of Mrs. Grover Grant, at 20100 Steel, Detroit.

But Spring won he here until March 21, the astronomers say. BLESSED EVENTS are occurring with great regularity in a fish bowl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nordeon Townsend, in Chesaning. Some months ago they bought a pet snail for their ton Mitcneu, zl monins oiu.

1 1 i Every six weeks the snail, isolated in a fishbowl, has had young. The first one was named Sammy, and the next, Calico. But now the snail has brought forth eight youngsters at once, and Mrs. Townsend is short of names for them. Because of the snails capacities.

Mitch and his mother have named their pet Maggie Jiggs. MRS. PAUL BR ENN EM A of who fell over two weeks ago, didn't know until this week that her spine wns fractured. She had continued with her work since the injury, which was disclosed by ray Final Rites Held for Fred Zeder Great of Auto World Attend Leaders in the automotive industry paid solemn, final tribute Wednesday to Fred M. Zeder, engineering genius.

Several hundred friends and associates joined in the cortege at SS. Peter and Paul (Jesuit) Church where a solemn high requiem mass was chanted. Mr. Zeder who was to have retired next month after long years of service as vice chairman of the Chrysler died Saturday in Florida of a heart attack. ATTENDING THE funeral of their noted associate were K.

T. Keller, chairman of the Chrysler Malcom W. Bingay pays tribute to Sir. Zeder. Page 6.

C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors and Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Co. Hundreds from Chrysler whose plants stopped operations for silent tribute for a few minutes during the funeral, attended the rites. Among them were L.

L. Colbert, president, and Walter P. Chrysler, son of the founder. O. R.

Skelton and Carl Breer, who with Mr. Zeder helped design the first Chrysler car, were among the honorary pallbearers. THE MOST REV. Allen J. Bab-cock, auxiliary bishop of Detroit, paid tribute to Mr.

Zeder's spiritual consciousness and his example in the funeral sermon. The mass was sunjr by the Kt. Rev. Msgr. Edward J.

Hickey, chancellor of the Detroit diocese. Assisting were the Rev. Fathers B. J. Rodman, S.

pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Church, and Edward A. Timmons, S. J. Burial was in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.

AMONG INDUSTRIAL, business, civic leaders and close friends attending the services were: Dr. Howard R. Hartman, chief diagnostician of the Mayo RSochester, Thomas E. Murray, of the Atomic Energy Commission; Vice Adm. Harold Bowen, retired.

Hugh J. Ferry, president of Packard Motor Car George vinator Thorn as vice president of General Motors and general manager of Chevrolet, O. E. Hunt, retired vice presi- iV1I' Frank Couzens; John Bugas, vice president of Ford Motor and Walter O. Briggs, Jr.

Study Pollution EAST LANSING Approximately 200 municipal employes are expected to attend the Michigan Institute on Air Pollution at Michigan State College March 7-8. Crime Commission. Budget Put at 8i Million in Dearborn Hubbard Says He'll Cut Request Dearborn department heads proposed a 1951-52 budget higher than the current fiscal year's. Mayor i 1 1 L. Hubbard promptly declared he would trim the total "to keep the tax bill low without impairing service." AUTOMATIC cost-of-living pay increases and requests for 118 more employes account for most of the boost, Deputy Controller William B.

Godette said. The proposals include an expanded recreation program, a Northeast branch library, a dental clinic and an accelerated Civil De fense program. Judge Clears Officials of Rent Agency Holds They Fulfilled Terms of Contract Two officials of the Bonded Rental Bureau, 4644 Woodward, were found innocent Wednesday of larceny by conversion. A client, Abis Ali, 50, of 676 Madison, had complained that the agency took $20 and failed to live up to a promise to find nim a house within two weeks. RECORDER'S JUDGE George Murphy ruled that the contract required only that they search for a house and that it had been fulfilled.

The officials are Manuel Zech-man, listed as the agency licensee, and its assistant cashier, Mrs. Margaret Battle. CEEQuf today at 9 a. arty Curiosity led two high school girls to a night of debauchery and introduction to marijuana. The girls, 15 and 16, told their sordid story in a tearful reunion with their parents.

The two young "jive addicts" had been returned from Chicago, where they fled when they "were scared to go home." Policewomen said the girls will be held as material witnesses against a cab driver and two musicians accused of giving them dope. THE CAB DRIVER, Robert Remson, 35, of 3503 S. Bassett, is in jail as a drug law violator. Leo Blevins, 25, of Chicago, is held for statutory rape and Eldeen (Torch) Mcintosh, 22. of Houston.

for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Mcintosh is a drummer and Blevins a guitar player in the Amos Milburn band, which 4 Suspected Dope Peddlers Facing Trial Federal Judge to Hear Cases Tuesday Federal 'authorities announced that the trials of four persons seized in the week-end raids on dope peddlers would begirr Tues day before Federal Judge Thomas I P. Thornton. Thirty-five persons were arrested on warrants in the raids. Twenty-six others also were seized.

Another alleged peddler, arrested Tuesday, was arraigned Wednesday. The suspect, Leon Tanner, 27, no known address, refused to enter a plea until he obtained an attorney. MEANWHILE, in Recorder's Court, a man who said he stole to buy heroin was sentenced to one to four years in prison. Herbert Bell, 23, of 19912 Griggs, pleaded guilty to stealing nine pairs of nylons from a store at 1700 E. Seven Mile, Jan.

18. Police said he had been arrested twice since August on simi lar charges. In September he was placed on three years probation AT LANSING, Senator Harold jM- Rya- Detroit Democrat. pro posea a consuiuuonai amenameni which would cover illegal dispens ing of dope by pharmacists, doc- tors and veterinarians. Specifically, this amendment would permit search and seizure without a warrant except with in dwellings.

Such search now is legally pos- sible only when authorities are hunting unlicensed firearms. Rain in the morning changing to snow flurries about noon Is the forecast for Detroit Thursday. The mercury will range from 28 to 85. The wind will be fresh to northwesterly. BUktAU MAP recently ended an engagement here at the Paradise Theater.

The girls told the following story to policewomen: The 16-year-old, who had been a nightly visitor at the Paradise while the band was there, met Mcintosh at the stage door on the night of Feb. 20. He took her home that night and the following night. Last Thursday she brought the 15-year-old with her and they went out with Mcintosh and Blevins. Remson took the four to a hotel room and gave them the cigarets.

"They told us how to smoke by inhaling and holding our the younger girl said. "It made me feel high." Remson left and returned for the girls at 4:30 a.m. Friday. They told him to drop them at Michigan and Schae-fer, in Dearborn. "We were scared to go home, so we hitch hiked to Chicago." one of the girls said.

"We knew the band would be there Sunday." THE GIRLS' parents notified police that their daughters were missing. A diary belonging to one of the girls linked them to members of the band, the girls were picked up at the hotel where the band stayed in Chicago. The marijuana party occurred on the eve of the widespread raids in which Federal narcotic agents rounded up scores of persons suspected of selling dope to Detroit teenagers. Remson was described by police as a known dope peddler. He had been under surveilance for some time and was about to be arrested.

Bendix Told to Reinstate 3 to Jobs Bendix Corp. has been ordered to reinstate with back pay three UAW (CIO) members discharged for union activity. The order was given by Robert E. Mullin, trial examiner for the National Labor Relations Board. He found the company guilty of labor practices.

THE EMPLOYES Stephen Jacob, Carl Steinhoff and Nick Bidnock each will receive about $4,000. They were fired in Janu- iou. Mullin further recommended to the NLRB that Bendix be ordered jto "cease and desist" discouraging membership in the UAW and to refrain from coercion and threats, I WllliaillS SCCkS Tr Tt JVeiaUVCr lieUim a nsttsth cinv wnii.n.. joined in Wayne County Prosecutor Gerald O'Brien's request that the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee return to Detroit. leaving Washington Wednesday he called the Senate's crime prober to press Michigan's request.

U.S. Temperatures CJl Hours Ended at 8 P.M.) Official Government Figure MICHIGAN Hich Low Hirh 32 33 Low 21 19 15 oo 18 18 29 47 17 24 34 Alpena C6 18 Jaokon Marauotte Battle Creek 3.T Cadillac 27 DETROIT 34 Esranaba 23 Flint 35 Gd. Rapids 33 21 15 15 18 Muskesron 32 Sairinaw 30 Ste.Marie 24 Trav, City 31 MIDWEST Ttktnarck 1H 49 Chicago 37 Cincinnati 44 7 Kansas Otv 68 Mpl. 23 Milwaukee 34 Omaha 53 31 2fi 33 10 Cleveland 41 Dps Moines 4fl Duluth 17 EAST 32 Philadelphia 4 3iJ Washington 49 SOITH 52 Miami T3 55 X. Orleans 80 59 St.

Louis 68 WEST Phoenix Boston New York 35 45 41 42 68 63 42 Atlania 72 Jacksonville 82 Memphis 71 Alh'querque 47 Denver 4R Ft. Worth 71 Los Aneeles 58 Okla City A3 S.Lake City 37 Francisco Seattle 43 23 24 2 39 63 Bickering over docked pay idled 3,200 Chrysler Corp. workers Wednesday. After leaving five minutes early for lunch, 725 body workers at the De Soto-Warren plant were told they would be docked. They walked out.

THE COMPANY sent home 1,250 more at the Wrarren plant and 1.200 assemblers at the De Soto-Wyoming plant. Operations at Briggs Manufacturing hit by a wildcat walkout Tuesday in the paint spray department, returned to normal Wednesday. Ex-Patrolman Awaits Trial A former Vernor Station patrolman, Chester Lichota, 34, was held for trial on a charge of larceny. He was placed under $300 bond by Recorder's Judge Paul -E. Krause.

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