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Oct. 28 (AP) The Germans have a lot of worries these days, and one of them is golf balls. The Commerce Department said it noticed ads in German papers in which the German Golf Association offered a prize for development of a new golf ball using materials available In the Reich. Apparently, Germany has no rubber available for golf balls. The prize is a lifetime pass to all German golf courses.

BY ROBERT t. TERRY Free Fnu Automotive Kdltor A new industry for Detroit, the $20 000,000 United States Naval Ordnance Plant, built and operated bv the Hudson Motor Car Co. at Nine Mile and Mound, was dedicated by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox Tuesday. The plant, already In production of 20 millimeter Oerlikon antiaircraft machine guns, has mushroomed from what was 135 acres of waste land seven months ago. Today it includes 14 modern Industrial buildings containing more than a million square feet of floor space and employs 1,300 men three shifts a day.

Knox Praises and Warns uM Pretia Wlrephoto P. J. CURRIER AT SENATE 1IEARIXU But committee dodges responsibility of labor war Louis Spann, bulky head of the Central Detective Agency, was found guilty of "contempt of court bordering on perjury" Tuesday at the Reading numbers-conspiracy trial by Circuit Judge Earl C. Pugsley. Spann will be sentenced Wednesday.

He was of giving testimony In conflict with that he had made before the grand jury. He occupied the witness stand most of the day Tuesday. Sent to County Jail The Court ordered Spann held In the County Jail overnight and said that he would be sentenced immediately after cross-examination by defense attorneys. Judge Pugsley's action followed a blistering cross-examination by Special Prosecutor Chester P. O'Hara, who obtained the Court's permission to question Spann as a hostile witness.

Sticks to New Story Even when confronted with the transcript of his grand-jury testimony in which he had admitted that he acted as a guard for money being transported from the Yellow Dog Numbers bank to the bank, Spann denied the truth of the statement and said that he did not know of the existence of the numbers bank. He 'also denied that Everett I. Watson, owner of the Yellow Dog, was in any way connected with the policy business. (Police revoked licenses of Spann and his organization for using special police credentials to Col. Knox, completing three days of touring Detroit-area defense slants, said: "I wish some of the Negotiations In a labor dispute which threatens to tie up four plants of the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Including its new S5.800.00O machine-gun plant at Plymouth, were recessed at 5 p.

m. Tuesday, to be continued 9:30 a. m. Wednesday at Plymouth. Victor C.

SwearHgen. State labor conciliator, said that the bargaining committee representing the United Automobile Workers (CIO) had agreed to recommend that the workers postpone their threatened strike, scheduled for Wednesday morning, but was unable to assure him that the Plymouth employees would not walk out before the conference was resumed. Wage Increase Demanded Tuesday afternoon, Swearlngen said, the union demand i a minimum increase of 5 cents an hour for workers in the company's three Detroit plants, and an adjustment in the Plymouth unit to bring wage scales there on a par with Detroit rates. The union also demanded that women employees be removed from machine jobs at the machine-gun plant, Swearlngen said. The company is paying $1 an hour to men on machine jobs, and 85 cents an hour to women, he added.

Union Demands 'Rejected Swearingen said that the company rejected the union's demands, but promised to submit a counterproposal Wednesday morning. Approximately 3,700 employees in the company's j.ants have threatened to join the 1,500 workers at the Plymouth unit in a walkout if a settlement is not reached. BY RADFORD E. MOBLEY Freo Prrfle Waahtncton Bureati. im Natlunal Prou Hulldini WASHINGTON, Oct.

28 The Truman Defense Investigating Committee today threw up its hands over the Currier case in Detroit, sending it back to the Federal Works Administration, which is expected to follow the OPM suggestion that P. J. Currier be denied the Wayne Housing project although his bid was low by In tossing the case back. Senator Harry S. Truman, Missouri Democrat, made It plain that the committee felt that legally the contract should go to Currier.

Col. Lawrence Westbrook, special assistant to FWA Administrator John M. Carmody, told the committee today that he would recommend that his superior heed the warning of Sidney Hillman, OPM associate director, that to give the Contract to Curriejr, who employs CIO labor, would mean labor war in Detroit. Other witnesses said that trouble would come from the AFL teamsters. Westbrook said new bids will be asked, if his recommendation Is accepted, but he plainly Implied that a contract for the Wayne job will be "negotiated" without bidders if Currier insists on making another offer.

The Detroit contractor, who has insisted that his prefabricatlon methods enable 'him to build a home at a cheaper price than with craft union methods, said that whether the Government accepts his offer or not, ho intends to continue building low-cost houses for defense in the Detroit area. Currier said that his houses might be bought by defense work- critics would spend a few days in Pleads Guilty, Then Innocent Tree Prnra Photo Detroit and adjust their MISS MARY FRANCES HOG AN Hers was the last dwelling In the area comments to the facts." He congratulated Hudson officials and men of the Naval Ordnance Department in residence at the plant for results to date, but warned: Three Elderly Sisters Evicted Irom Their Home of 53 Years ers for $16.85 a month through FHA. Asked whether he had been advised by the Justice Department that there was no legal basis for refusing Currier the contract, Westbrook said, "That is quite correct." Senator Truman brought the hearing to an abrupt end by stating that, in the committee's belief, when bids were taken In good faith and the low bidder was eligible, he should get the award. He told the FWA however, the committee was washing its hands of the matter. Senator Truman said he planned to make a speech on the matter before tho Senate.

The man accused of killing eight-year-old Jimmy O'Leary, of 21725 Nowlln, Dearborn, in a hit-run accident and leaving him dead In an alley, pleaded guilty and then Innocent Tuesday morning before Justice of the Peace Leo R. Schaef-er, of Dearborn, to charge of leav. ing the scene of an accident. The guilty plea was changed abruptly after a conference between the defendant, Clyde Griffith, 52, 22546 Nona, Dearborn, and his attorney. Griffith was freed under $3,000 bond for examination Nov.

5. Yetta Dubin, of 1951 W. Euclid, wife of a factory worker, who bought the property two months ago on a land contract from a firm which in turn had purchased the delinquent tax title from the State Land Board. "We gave the people four or five chances to arrange rental," Benjamin Berkowitz, attorney for Mrs. Dubin, said.

"Right now we'd be glad to sell It back to them without a cent of profit." Meanwhile, the Sisters Hogan took shelter at the home of friends. guard policy houses.) HEADS CIHIRCH GROUP BAY CITY, Oct. 28 AP) The Michigan Council of Church Women tonight elected Mrs. John C. Young, of Royal Oak, The case Involves former Mayor Richard W.

Reading and 63 others in graft charges. A a X- XX A "Don't think for a second your responsibilities are relaxed because you have a plant. You think you've done a lot here, and you have, but you'll have to do The plant will produce a variety of ordnance, ranging from delicate fire-control and direction apparatus to parts for gun mounts, torpedo tubes and catapult guns. Accompanied by Aides Knox was accompanied on the Hudson program by Rear Admiral W. H.

P. Blandy, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department; Commander F. F. Foster, U. S.

Ordnance Inspector in charge of the new plant, and President A. E. Barit, of Hudson. They had toured Pontiao Division's gun plant at Pontiac, also producing the Oerlikon and of the Chrysler Tank Arsenal. K.

T. Keller, Chrysler Corp. president, joined the party at the tank plant, and was with the party on arrival at the Naval Arsenal, where the Secretary's flag was run up and 3 nineteen-gun salute fired. Knox was a luncheon guest of Henry Ford and left by naval plane for Washington at 3 p. m.

Youthful Gunman Gets 10-2(kYears Lawrence Nelson, 24 years old, of Brinley, was sentenced to from 10 to 20 years in prison Tuesday by Recorder's Judge W. McKay Skillman on a charge of robbery armed. BY KENNETH THOMPSON Free l'rew Staff Writer A constable and six helpers called on the Sisters Hogan Margaret, Hattic and Mary Frances-Tuesday morning at their two-story brick residence at 517 Beech, from which, through 53 years, they had seen a quiet, comfortable neighborhood slowly transformed into a district of parking lots and business buildings. When, nine hours later, darkness had made their block even colder and windier, Miss Mary Frances, a former physical-science teacher, stood shivering beside their pans, fruit jars, tables and old cabinets, piled in disarray around the old building, the last dwelling in the area. An eviction order had been carried out, and she remained as spokesman for the dispossessed trio.

A fourth and widowed sister, Mrs. Catherine Peters, became a patient at Eloise Hospital a year ago. "Just say we are over 60," Miss Mary Frances replied to a question about her age. "Our father, James Allen Hogan, bought this property from Lewis Cass (the boy governor of Michigan) Sept 29, 1862. He built a large colonial home on the corner and we all were born there.

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And after they get it, they are convicted of speeding the permit is lifted for 15 to 30 days. If the speeding causes an accident the license is taken away for from 15 days to six months by the Board of Revocation of Operator's Permits. During the last four months the BROP reviewed 800 cases involving accidents. The result was 223 licenses suspended and the other drivers called before the board for a severe warning. Speeding in Washington Is anything over the sign limit of 25 miles an hour.

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Even the production of arms has been hampered by a lack of decent housing. "Our streets are too small for the growth of traffic and no amount of traffic violations tickets are going to solve the traffic problem. But I am much in favor of newspaper educational campaigns against reckless drivers. "I also think Detroit parks are woefully inadequate for Detroit's population. We need more neighborhood parks end a river-front drive.

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