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a SO Pages Vol. 119 No. 343 Five Cents WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1950 Over a Century Believed Victim issmg Navy Craft gmmmmm mm inmiMi iw econd OiDeratiom iKnieiaBer Bandit Fires Wildly at Crowded Corner Scores Cowed as Gunman Flees on Grand River; Onlooker Hit Firm Accused of Giving Aid to State Buyer' Printing Company Helped Finance Home, Aten Says BY HUB M. GEORGE Free Pre Starr Writer LANSING The Administrative Board ordered a searching inquiry after it was charged that the Franklin De Kleine Printing One man was shot and scores of home-bound Detroiters of Lansing, had helped finance the purchase of a home by a On Guard for Star Witness LOUIS F. BUDENZ Mum on Lattimore charges Progress Reported at Chrysler 8-Ilour Session Fails to End Strike The third consecutive night session between Chrysler Corp.

and UAW (CIO) neegotiators ended at 9:30 p. m. Tuesday without comment from either side. The negotiators retired after eight hours on deliberations that were reported to have reached the critical stage. BARGAINING will resume at 10 a.

m. Wednesday, spokesmen said. Tuesday morning observers reported both sides nearer agreement on the pension issue than at any time since strike of 89,000 workers began 78 days ago. It was pointed out, however, that rifts might develop. Meanwhile subcommittees occupied other rooms in the Sheraton Hotel, studying numerous contract issues which also must be settled before the strike can end.

Hearing Delays Removal of Wayne MUCC Officer Special to the Free Presa WAYNE Discharge of Mrs. Marie Ball, claims officer and assistant manager of the local Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission, has been delayed pending a hearing Wednesday by Max Horton, deputy MUCC director. Mrs. Ball was dismissed Monday by Eugene Busha, MUCC personnel director, on charges of conduct "unbecoming a State employe and for gross discourtesy to the public." She denied the charges. The charges were made by John Gaughan, Wayne County MUCC official.

DOWN ON THE FARM Hi" -r liiiiii-inwii-ill---- jammed traffic on Grand River up the neighborhood. He was store holdup. Isaac Malach, 56, was accosted by the bandit as he closed his store at 4829 Grand River at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday.

THE GUNMAN threatened Malach, took $896 in jewelry and Malach's own automatic and fled across Grand River. Malach pursued the thug, shouting "holdup." As motorists stopped and pedestrians fled for cover, the robber fired three shots at MaJacb. One of the bullets crashed a window of a second-floor apartment at 4835 Grand River and struck Mervin Martin, 33, on the right temple. His Injury was minor. MALACH CHASED the bandit up Grand River to Fourteenth where he ran into an alley and vanished.

The jewelry was recovered in the alley. Martin was taken to Providence Hospital where seven stitches were required to close the wound in his head. METRO FINAL SIT UP STRAIGHT! Beauty Expert Tells How to Sit Down Prettily In a Chair, Page 15 Ship Feared Shot Down over Baltic Washington Officials in Dark on Incident LONDON (P) Moscow reported that a United States bomber disappeared over the Baltic Sea after entering Russian territory and exchanging fire with a Soviet fighter last Saturday. That day an American Navy patrol plane vanished with 10 aboard. High defense officials in Wash ington indicated that they believed the Navy plane, unarmed, is the aircraft to which the Russians referred.

A four-engined Privateer, it dropped out of sight after leaving Wiesbaden, Germany, on round-trip flight to Denmark. SOVIET FOREIGN Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky protested that a United States bomber of the Superfortress type flew over Latvia that day and opened fire on a group of Soviet fighters that went up and ordered it to land. Vishinsky said one fighter returned the fire, "after which the American plane turned toward the sea and disappeared." The Defense Department in Washington issued statements by- Gen. Hoyt S.

Vandenberg, Air Force chief of staff, denying that any Air Force plane was involved, and by Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations, stating that the missing Navy plane carried no guns and was under standing orders to stay well clear of Russian territory. Sherman said the patrol plane, therefore, "could not have fired on any other aircraft or returned the fire of any aircraft." An investigation was ordered. AIR FORCE officials at Wies baden said they knew of no change in the search area as a result of the Russian announcement, but the searchers will fly in "ever widening circles" from the Baltic island of Bornholm, which would take them gradually nearer to Russian territory.

The search planes have orders, however, not to go within 20 miles of Russian-held territory. There is a westward drift, the officials said, which would carry a floating aircraft or liferafts away from the Baltic countries. They speculated that the Navy plane may have been shot down or disabled so it could not reach a safe landing. The Russian protest identified the plane as a B-29. Air Force officials in Wiesbaden said they believed the Privateer, a single-tailed version of the twin-ruddered B-24 Liberator, might Tense Spot statu MOSCOW ALLEGED BATTLEGROUND Washington is puzzled have been mistaken for the heavier B-29 in a side.

view. LATVIA IS considered by Russia to be part of her territory, but Turn to Page 2, Column 5 It Grows on Tree in Brooklyn NEW YORK (U.R) Frances Graubert, 10, found a roll of currency totaling $1,745 in the backyard of her Brooklyn tenement. If no one claims it in six months, it will be hers. I QFINLANDJ-i "21 r' f-- LATVIA BERLiC' RUSSIA wm, POLAND BudenZ Subpenaed in Red Quiz McCarthy Calls Him as Lattimore Witness WASHINGTON Former Communist Leader Louis F. Budenz, billed as a "mystery witness," agreed to testify on Thursday, April 20, on Senator McCarthy's charges against Owen Lattimore.

McCarthy has accused Lattimore of being the No. 1 Soviet spy in the United States. CHAIRMAN Tydings Md.) had previously issued a subpoena for Budenz to appear next Monday before Senate subcommittee which has been McCarthy' sweeping charges of Communism in the State Department. But Tydings later announced that the date had been changed to three days later to accommodate Budenz, who is on a speaking tour. Meanwhile, Budenz, who was in Midland, denied that he had ever seen or talked with McCarthy, and McCarthy agreed that he was "absolutely correct." THE WISCONSIN Senator said he has three former FBI agents helping him dig up information in connection with the inquiry, and he indicated that it was through them he had approached Budenz to testify.

"I have copies of affidavits covering what Budenz knows about the Lattimore case," Mc Carthy told newsmen. "Budenz' testimony will speak completely for Itself. I'm not worried at all about It." Once a member of the powerful Communist central committee, Budenz renounced Communism in 1945 after 10 years of party service: He is now a professor at Fordham University in New York. BUDENZ DECLINED to discuss any testimony he might give the Senate committee. He told reporters, however, that United States policy in China has been "disastrous." In another development, William J.

Goodwin, a registered lobbyist for Gen. Chiang Kai Shek's Chinese Nationalist Government, sent a telegram to the Associated Press savins' is readv to annear be fore the Stenate committee "to answer the charges leveled against me by Mr. Lattimore." LATTIMORE, IN one of his angry replies to McCarthy, had accused the Wisconsin Senator of being a "willing tool of the China lobby" and named Goodwin as the chief lobbyist trying to swing Congressional aid to Nationalist China. Goodwin said he had been released at his request from his duties as public relations counsel to the Chinese News Service and would Turn to Page 5, Column 1 Surgery for Bevin LONDON (JP) Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, 69, entered a hospital for an operation. Doctors Find Tumor Near Spine Senator's Condition Termed Satisfactory New Vork Times Service WASHINGTON Senator Vandenberg Mich.) under went another major operation at Georgetown Hospital Tues day for the removal of a tumor near his spine.

The operation, performed by Dr. O. Hugh Fulcher, chief of neuro surgery at Georgetown Hospital, was described as successful. A statement issued by Vandenberg's office stated: "Dr. Robert F.

Owen, attending physician, states that Senator Vandenberg's postoperative condi tion is considered to be satisfactory." THE FIRST tests made after the operation indicated that the tumor was not malignant. Additional tissue tests will be made within the next few days. This was Vandenberg's second major operation in last six months. The lower lobe cf his left lung was removed lpst Oct. 3 i University of Michigan Hospital.

Since returning to Washington on Dec. 20, Senator Vandenberg has suffered intermittent but severe pain, particularly in his right leg and left He went to his offica almost every day in January, but has not participated in the debates in the Senate since early in February. He has been ii. hospitals on seven occasions in the last nine weeks, once in Doctor's Hospital Turn to Page 1, Column 2 BUT NO SUB Whale of Tale or Tail of a Whale? SAN FRANCISCO (U.R) The Navy called off its search for an unidentified submarine reported sighted on the surface 32 miles west of the Farallon Islands by the pilot of a military air transport plane. The Navy said that a search of the area was negative ex-, cept for a large school of whales.

A Navy spokesman said, "It is possible that from a high altitude a whale could have been mistaken for a submarine." Artist Injured HOUSTON, Tex. (JP) Seymour M. Stone, 72, who has painted portraits of many well known Americans, was seriously injured when hit by a taxicab. On Inside Pages Amusements 19 Horoscope 29 Special Senate Group to Probe Crime Rings Ferguson and Wherry Criticize Action of Democratic Leaders WASHINGTON (JP) The Senate Democratic leadership decided to take the investigation of crime away from rival regular committees and give it to a specially picked group at Fourteenth as a bandit shot trying to escape after a jewelry MERVIN MARTIN Bullet creases skull THE DECISION brought angry rumblings from a number of Re publicans. Senator Ferguson Mich.) said: "I said yesterday that I'd been euchered out of his investigation and today I have been." Ferguson is a member of the Judiciary Committee, but does not expect to be picked for the special committee.

He has said that if he had a part in the inquiry he would want to look into the Kansas City crime situation, and also into the situation in his own city of De troit. Senator Wherry (R.f Neb.) asked reporters: "Is this to be an investigation or is it to cover up? SENATOR LUCA5 of II is the Democratic leader, said the inquiry would be full and fair. Lucas announced the new plan after a two-hour meeting of the policy group. He aaid specifically that the gambling information question comes within the scope or the special committee. Lucas said the five-man -quiry group be named by Vice President Barkley to investigate crime and- gambling, consolidating the Judiciary and Commerce inquiries.

He said Senator Kefauver Tenn.) probably will be chairman of the special panel, expected to include three Democrats and two Republicans. KEFAUVER SAID he expects the committee to visit several cities to investigate crime first hand. Asked if these would include Kansas City in the President's home state, Kefauver said: "As far as I am concerned, there is not going to be any shying away from Kansas City." He said he made no effort to keep Ferguson or anyone else off the committee, and that any member of the Judiciary and Commerce committees would be welcome to sit In and question witnesses. is Hm irnup aB "State buyer." Auditor General Murl K. Aten made the allegation after the Board had voted to reject all bids on a pending $906,000 State printing contract and ordered that the contract form be revised before new bids are asked.

The De Kleine firm has had the State printing contract for many years. ATEX SAID THE circumstance came to his attention a week ago when the files in a suppressed divorce case were released. In the suit, Mrs. Helen De Kleine Stewart won a decree from Richard Stewart, former general manager of the printing company and an ex-son-in-law of the late Franklin De Kleine. Former Gov.

Kim Sigler had represented Stewart in the divorce suit. It came out in the board's pre liminary inquiry that J. Lyle Sage, who had been an expert consultant called in to discuss features of the pending contract, was the "buyer" involved in the house deal. THE ALLEGATIOX was that Stewart, as De Kleine manager, had purchased a home and ad vanced $1,500 on a promissory note given by Sage as a down payment when the property was transferred to Sage's name on a land contract. Just last Saturday, Sage told the board, he refinanced the debt on the home and paid Stewart off in full.

Sage, 59, the father of four children, denied that he is even a "State buyer" or that any irregularity existed in the transaction. He said his civil-service rating is as a "printing estimator No. 3" and that he is paid $4,720 a year. Sage denied that any $1,500 loan was involved, in the transaction or that he had given a promissory note. HE SAID THE home was worth $6,000 and that his arrargement with Stewart merely was that he was to remain a tenant in the property until accumulated rentals were sufficient to be considered a down payment.

He had accumulated $600 of credits when the property was transferred to him, he said. Seth Bidwell, present president of the De Kleine firm and a former brother-in-law of Stewart, pleaded that the company should not be adjudged guilty of an impropriety without a full hearing. HE SAID THAT because of De Kleine's ill health, Stewart ran the business for more than a year and a half before De Kleine's death. Aten was ordered to make a thorough audit and investigation and report back to the Board. Bid-well offered Aten access to the firm's books.

Death Cause LOS ANGELES (JP) Sally Oswald, 39, whose nude body was found in a hotel Wednesday with strange notes penned on her chest and back was found to have died of alcoholism. Four Boys Found Dead on Life Raft Freeze to Death on Choppy Lake CLEVELAND (U.R) Four Boy Scouts were found dead Tuesday in a rubber raft on Lake Erie after drifting 17 hours in near-freezing weather. A combined Coast Guard air-sea rescue team found the teen-agers. The search began Monday night when one of the frantic fathers telephoned police he could see his son being swept out into the lake. A B-17 Flying Fortress from Selfridsre Field, one of 12 Army planes in the search spotted the drifting raft about 25, miles northeast of Cleveland.

A four-man motor lifeboat crew was the first of the six boats scanning the lake to reach the raft. Two of the youngsters were huddled in one corner of the sur plus Navy-type raft, amis around each other. Another lay on his side in the center of the water-drenched boat Pictures on Back Page and the fourth was draped over the edge. Ten-foot high swells carried the raft up and down as it hit the trough of the waves. THE WATER broke over the sides, washing over the bodies of David Hahn, Dick Bauer and Roland Riemer, all 14, and William Van Hof, 13.

It was Hahn's father, Clarence, who saw the winds whip? ping the boys into the lake from the east side beach where they embarked In an effort to retrieve a canoe. The boys, all members of the Holy Cross Catholic Parish Troop, and next-door neighbors, had stripped down to T-shirts and blue jeans and had gaily shoved off in the raft. The craft belonged to Bauer. It was equipped only with a broken paddle. The effort of keeping the raft from being swamped in the choppy waters, plus the 36-degree temperature of the spray that drenched them continuously exhausted the boys.

They died of exposure, according to Lake County Coroner W. R. Carle. Bulletin ALBUQUERQUE, X. M.

(JP) A B-29 plane of the Strategic Air Command plunged Into the ground east of Albuquerque with 13 men aboard. A fire was reported at the scene of the accident which is near the Sandra secret weapons base. Separate inquiries had been proposed by the Judiciary and Commerce Committees, and the conflict was near the stage of open fighting. The decision of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee came less than three hours after an announcement that the Commerce group planned to call city mayors for testimony on interstate transmission of gambling information. What They're Saying CHATTNCEY HUNTER, direc tor of the Custom Tailors and Designers Association, bemoaning the troubles of the trade: "Successful and monied men have a cautious approach to clothes because there has been a social revolution.

Young men are afraid that flashy or too sharp clothes will give an Impression of flightlness or preoccupation with the less serious side of life." DANIEL J. TOBEV. president of the AFL Teamsters Union: "To me the most disgusting thing Is to see a 50-year-old woman walking down the street with a cigaret hanging In her lips without even holding same in her hand and not endeavoring to hide it." Farm Safety Week WASHINGTON (President Truman issued riroclamaticffi set- finer aside the week beeinniner Julv 23 as National Farm Safety Week. IQ Test 9 Letters 6 Marriage 13 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Racing 22 Radio 29 Riley 12 Smith 20 Sports 20-22 Stamps 28 Star Gazing 19 Theaters 15 Beauty 15 Bingay 6 Bridge 28 Chatterbox 14 Childs 6 Classified 25-27 Comics 28-29 Crosby 28 Crossword 30 Editorials 6 Fashion 13 Financial 23-24 Guest 6 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads Call WOODWARD 2-9400 He'll have you in a dither with his zither! See THE THIRD MAN now MADISON Theatre Adv. Hey TOWNER, N.

D. (JP) A Census taker encountered two Polish displaced persons working on a ranch near here. They couldn't understand a word the census taker was saying. The census taker couldn't understand a word the DP's said. The census taker tried to get the information from the rancher for whom the DP's work.

"I can't understand them either," he apologized. "How can you tell them what to do?" asked the census taker. "Well," the rancher replied, "they understand one word-hay and that's all I want them to do, haul hay." A mAAA4.