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m. 37 4 d. m. 34 Unofficial FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1955 On Guard for Over a Century EmtblUhd in 1831 36 Pages Vol. 124 Xo.

282 Seven Cents i nn n2 4 COLDEI Cold with snow. Low 10-14, high 13-17. Weather Man oa Faca 3 GT7 mm WML Bad Roads Woman Shopper Shot in Parking Lot Snarl Traffic Temperature to Dip Further Today A new cold wave, accompanied by driving snow, swirled into Michi Statues Could Talk! If Only Late Rally Gives Chrysler '54 Profit Earnings Plummet 75 Per Cent; Firm Finishes 18 Million Ahead Chrysler Corporation's annual report disclosed Thursday the whopping size of the corporate shiner Chrysler suffered in 1954. But more important, it told of the thrilling comeback staged in the closing Police Hunt 2 Roys, Car In Mystery .22 Pistol Stolen Minutes Earlier A woman shoppei was shot by a mysterious driver as she walked through a crowded parking lot in Thursday night's snowstorm. In temporarily serious condition in Mt.

Carmel Mercy Hospital is Miss Lyle Heikkinen, 37, of 3675 Oakman. She was presumably shot with a automatic pistol stolen only minutes earlier from a nearby Sears Roebuck Co. store at 10750 Grand River. Senior Inspector Joseph V. Krug began a search for a dark car.

He alerted police to be particularly alert for teen-agers in such an automobile. rounds. PIXG AND BILLY would rip into the City Plan Commission if statues could talk. Hazen S. Pingree, mayor and governor, and William C.

Maybury, mayor and congressman, hated each other. Ping was a man's man, a rugged reformer who lived for the common man. Billy cooed his way into office kissing babies. For 43 they have been glaring with unseeing, metallic eyes at each other across Woodward in Grand Circus Park. The men who played important roles in Detroit in the late 1880s now will be closer neigh bors.

Maybury's statue will be moved to the west side of Woodward in preparation for under ground parking plans. I 'Viv- V'-vM; at f. cotter; 156 TONS Hazen S. Tingree Maybury BUYER RESISTANCE YOU Won I To Cut Coffee Price BY SYLVIA PORTER Tree Press Special Writer We, America's consumers, have won the great 1953-55 Battle Of The Coffee Bean. We have won it decisively and with just one weapon a For the full year, Chrysler sales dropped 38.1 per cent from a record 53,347,863,995 in 1953 to $2,071,597,960 in 1954.

Its earnings fell 75.2 per cent from a peak $74,788,617 in 1953 to $18,516,770 last year. But the resurgence of Detroit's biggest employer was shown in the tremendous rise in its sales in the fourth quarter. They more than doubled, from $317,542,690 in the third quarter to $668,672,368 in the final quarter. Actually, most of the sales were made in the last six weeks, because Chrysler's new line of cars was not introduced until Nov. 17.

CHRYSLER'S earnings, which were down to $3,724,383 for the first nine months of 1954 in cluding a corporate loss of in the third quarter rose $14,792,387 in the last quarter. The earnings were the equivalent of $1.70 a share for the fourth quarter, compared with a net loss of $1.38 a share In the third quarter. Production of Chrysler pas senger cars and trucks in United States and Canadian plants showed a sharp drop from units in 1953 to 883,769 vehicles in 1954. But output, which was down to 114,747 units in the third quarter, soared to 297,986 in the fourth quarter. Employment, which had slumped nationally in Chrysler plants in August to 104,559 workers, rose to 110,714 in September and was at a peak of 167,813 by year's end.

The corporation- market penetration, which had slumped to about 12 per cent, rose spectacularly to almost 20 per cent. Production in January, 1954 was Turn to Page 2, Column 1 Auto Firm Sued By Airline Over. Use of 2 Names NEW YORK (JP) Pan American Work' Airways Thursday asked an injunction to prevent iht Studebaker-Packard Corp. from using the words "Pan American" and "Clipper" on automobiles. The line said in its Brook lyn Federal court action that the automobile firm is attempting to capitalize on public recognition of nomenclature the airlines uses in its business and advertising.

Studebaker-Packard has 20 days to reply to the suit. Away 65 TONSWilliam C. Big Owosso Plant Swept By Flames Spwlal to the Fre Presa OWOSSO A million-dollar fire Thursday night wrecked half the six square block Owosso Manufacturing Divi sion of the Mitchell Bentley Manufacturing Co. The souh end of the four-story plant which produces automotive trim and storm doors was destroyed. The fire, which raged for three hours, was brought under control at 11 p.m.

by 40 firemen from Owosso, Corunna and Flint. Firemen said the blaze broke out shortly after 8 p.m. In the upholstery cushion room. The alarm was turned in by the night watchman, John Studenka. No ore was reported injured in the blaze, which brought out a large crowd.

The wind direction was cred ited with keeping the fire from spreading to nearby houses in the northwest section of the city, a DON R. MITCHELL, company president, estimated that in material was lost in the blaze. He placed building damage at $250,000. The plant recently was converted to produce automotive trim. The plant also was preparing fo produce auto bodies.

Heavy smoke and a snowstorm hampered firemen. A Flint pumper and truck raced 25 miles over icy roads when the 20-man Owosso force called for help. About 150 employes worked in the ruined section of the plant. The unaffected half was closed down awaiting the changeover. gan Thursday.

Bad highway conditlona throughout the state accompanied the new blast from the north which gripped the entire Midwest and moved down into the South. a a a ALL MAIN arteries were slip pery, the AutomoDiie iuo or. Michigan reported. Conditions were particularly bad along the Lake Michigan shore. The, wintry blaat came after several days of moderate temperatures.

The Weather Bureau issued a special storm adisory at noon Thursday. About 2:30 p.m., when much of the state already was covered by snow, rain began falling in Detroit. It increased in intensity, became mixed with snow. When the rush-hour traffic beg'n, the snow was driving and swirling, forming a slushy base for down town triffic. Deputy Police Supt.

Miles J. Furlong described traffic conditions as the worst of the winter. Crowding cars slithered in the slush, more than doubling the normal rate of minor accidents. a a a TRAFFIC WAS slowed as the side streets became hard to negotiate. The Department of Public Works sent out 98 trucks with salt spreaders and nine mechanical loaders manned by 233 men.

A spokesman said they expected a night-long struggle against the snow as it continued to fall heavily. The Accident Ire-entlon Bureau was swamped with calls up to 8 p. m. from housewives whose husbands normally ar- rive home at 5:30, Indicating delays of more than two hours In the trip from downtown. Salting rews were handicapped by tieups at traffic lights, police said, and the snow was falling so rapidly they couldn't keep the cars moving.

a a a AIRLINE FLIGHTS at Willow Run were behind schedule but planes managed to continue taking off and landing. The wave was expected to be one of the most widespread of the winter. Readings of 30 degrees below zero were expected in some parts of the Midwest. New snow mpasured up to seven inches in Illinois and winds lashed into drifts on the highways. Chicago was hard hit early in the day with a fall of from three to five inches.

The snow' hit Detroit in time to make homebound rush-hour traffic a nfghtmare. By 10 p.m. it had piled 2.9 inches the heaviest snowfall of the winter on the city. Only flurries were expected Friday by the weather bureau but the thermometer waa plunging. After a high of 45 degrees shortly after noon, the mercury dropped steadily.

A low of 12 degrees was forecast and a high of about 15 degrees with still colder Friday night. Low temperature readings included 27 below ze- at Dickinson, N. 23 below at International Falls, 10 below at Duluth, 12 below at Minneapolis and 1 below at Omaha. In some places temperature dropped 50 degrees In 24 hours. IVew H-Blast? Air Indicates It TOKYO Or-) The Tokyo Central Meteorological Bureau said Friday its stations in West--ern and Central Japan recorded sudden atmospheric pressure' fluctuations Wednesday and Thursday.

It said such air pressure flue-J tuations usually are caused by a tremendous explosion of an ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT Con Yea Identify This Car? Enttr "NAME THE CAR" Contest Pag 13 $20,637 in Priies! Ford Plans 20 Million Parts Plant It Will Be Erected In Sterling Twp. Ford Motor Co. an nounced Thursday that it would begin construction in midsummer on a new 1,300,000 square foot chassis parts plant at Mound and 17 Mile. Cost of the multimillion-dollar project ia not yet known because the architectural firm of Albert Kahn Associated Architects, has not yet submitted a figure, Ford said. Robert J.

Hampson, general manager of the Chassis Parts Division, said the new plant would employ 6,500 workers when it goes Into production early in 1957. The new facility will replace the present Mound Road plant, which is leased from the Navy and now employs 5,700 workers Hampson said the new plant will become the divisional headquar ters for the Chassis Parts Divi sion. The new plant would manufacture the same parts that are made at the present Mound Road plant and would have only the added automation features that would be in keeping with normal technological progress. Employ ment would be up about 15 per cent. ANNOUNCEMENT that Ford Motor Co.

had acquired the 157 acre site for a new manufactur ing: plant was made Dec. 16. Although Ford officials nor mally do not announce cost figures on such expansion plana. the normal factory construction costs of $12 a square foot, plus equipment costs, could bring the figure above 20 million dollars. Conference already have been held with Sterling Township officials about water and sanitary facilities for the huge development.

Township Arthur Prlehs said plans call for an extension of the present water main from 16 Mile and Van Dyke to the Ford site. The company has requested a Zoning Board hearing which is set for p.m. Feb. 16. Ford wants part of the plant site re-zoned from light to heavy industry.

Township Clerk John Wright said no building permit had been issued yet for construction. Hampson said that the building would be all under a single roof with the exception of administration offices. Wise Guys RICHMOND, Thieves climbed through a rear door of the Reams Coal Co. here and stole just one thing the burglar alarm. You'll Find: closed pocketbook.

The price of coffee at your neighborhood grocery now is plunging as sensationally as it shot up 12 months ago. From coast to coast, stores are advertising various brands of coffee as "loss leaders," cutting prices 10 cents, 15 cents even more under last week's levels. In the primary markets of Wall Street, green coffee beans are being traded at prices approximating those of late 1953 before the phenomenal price upsurge got under way. a a BRAZIL, the world's leading coffee producer, has just made a major move designed to permit its coffee exporters to cut the price of coffee without loss to themselves so Brazil can compete better with other lands producing the beans. America's biggest coffee roasters and wholesalers are eagerly slashing prices and planning more reductions.

Traders in coffee have switched to the selling side with a vengeance. As coffee prices tumbled on the New York Coffee Exchange last Monday, trading was the heaviest since the Exchange reopened after World War II in October 1946. Few commodities ever have had as dizzy a ride on the price roller coaster as has coffee "during the last 15 months. a a a COFFEE STARTED its mad upspiral shortly after the Fourth Turn to Page 2, Column 1 Reuther Hits U.S. Job Policy BY JAMES M.

II AS WELL Of Our Washington Bureau WASHINGTON CIO President Walter P. Reuther told Congress Thursday that Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey's money policies are stifling prosperity. Reuther said the Administration is banker-minded. Its policies are designed to make money more valuable rather than to put people to work, he said.

The nation has recovered only 40 per cent of the ground lost in the recession two years ago, Reuther told the Congressional Joint Committee on the President's Economic Report. a a a THE 60,600,000 employed last December was the smallest December figure in five years, he said. The 62,200,000 employed last August was the lowest annual peak since 1949, he said. "There are no economic facts in sight to support the optimism in the President's report," Reuther said. The automobile industry Is building cars at a nine-million-a-year rat and selling them at a six-inillion-a-year rate, he said.

"What happens after we make the six million cars at the rate of nine million a year?" he asked. "We are in trouble." "Hasn't the auto industry always been seasonal?" Senator Flanders asked. Reuther said it has but that it doesn't need to experience such violent ups and downs. "There Is no natural economic factor covering production over which we can't get some control," he said. "I know it's a hard job but you have to do the hard jobs La this world to survive." Reuther said current auto production is higher than sales justify and is piling up inventories.

"Auto dealers are unhappy," he said. "They are being compelled to take cars for which they have no customers. Bootlegging of new cars appeared in January again." a a a UNDER QUESTIONING from Turn to Page 2, Column 3 "Very Pleased" The advertiser placing the ad MISS HEIKKINEN. a bench assembler at Burroughs 6071 Second, was shot in the right thigh and the bullet ranged downward, lodging just above the knee. Krug also hunted for two small boys who were near the woman when she was shot.

She was walking among cars crowding: the Sear parking lot behind the Kroger supermarket at 4031 Oakman. Miss Heikkinen said she did not realize she had been shot until one of the boys, aged 8 to 10, asked her, "Lady, are you hurfc?" She said they said, "Don't worry, we'll catch that ear," and began running after it as it went south on Oakman. Carrying a large shopping bag, Miss Heikkinen walked into the grocery where she discovered she had been shot. JACK NAGEL, of 11351 Deer ing, Redford Township, manager of Sears gun department, re ported that a long French automatic pistol was stolen from a case 15 minutes before the shooting at 7:15 p.m. Krug said the shot was "doubtless from the stolen gun." So frightened that sedatives were administered, Miss Heikkinen said she could think of nobody who would want to hurt her.

She never has been married. She said she had no enemies and lives alone. This was substantiated by her brother in law, Matthew Musich, 40, of 11451 San Jose, Redford Township. Friends at Miss Heikkinen's apartment three blocks from the shooting scene said she has lived there only a few months. On Hunger Strike PARIS (JP) Andre Barnes, a newspaperman who has been held in prison for four months during the investigation of leaks of French defense secrets, has gone on a hunger strike, prison officials said Thursday.

from Worry Sunday PAID OFF the Fight Stocks Soar To Record High Mark NEW YORK (P) The stock market moved into new high territory again Thursday in an advance that swept some shares up $4 and more. By and large, the steels, air-crafts, chemicals, oils and rails were the best-acting groups. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks advanced $1.10 to a record high of $159.20. Volume was 3,460.000 shares compared with 3,360,000 shares Wednesday. Ralph Rotnem, of Harris, Up-ham commented that "the public is nibbling at stocks." This, he said, had become much more evident in the last two months.

(Details on financial pages.) Ike Hunts Quail In Georgia THOMAS VTLLE, Ga. (U.R) President Eisenhower flew to this southwestern section of Georgia for a weekend visit Thursday. He set out quail hunting 20 minutes after his arrival. President and Mrs. Eisenhower and her mother, Mrs.

John Doud, were weekend guests of Treasury Secretary and Mrs. George M. Humphrey at their 600-acre plantation, a a a THE PARTY flew from Washington. Within 20 minutes, President Eisenhower had his clothes changed and set off with Humphrey across the field for some late afternoon shooting. The President wore a pair of heavy boots and hunting pants, suede jacket and salt-and-pepper cap and carried a .20 gauge double-barrel shotgun.

At the end of an hour's shooting, word was that Mr. Eisenhower and Humphrey each had brought down two quaiL Too Much Rain GENEVA (Jp) Heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in many parts of Switzerland Thursday. Toward a Happy Life! below reported at least 20 calls atomic or H-bomb or by a vio-( while she was at home) and i lent volcano eruption. A down-to-earth prescription for peace of mind written by a University of Detroit professor has attracted wide attention. In his good natured view, worries and neuroses spring from a single cause: The factor, he says, that gives one person phobias may make a showof of another or cause a third to live with one hand on his pulse.

Fortunately, there's a quick cure which is not only easy to use but also very pleasant to apply. You'll enjoy his article in the Sunday Magazine. BONANZA BILL'S SURPRISE He'll be back with a $200 puzzle Sunday and also an announcement you'll not "want to miss! nOW DO YOU COMPARE WITH THE AVERAGE An article in the For and About Women section Sunday reports on the average Detroit family what the father makes, typical interests, church-going habits, etc. You'll not want to miss it HE BUILDS CHURCHES IN AFRICA An unusual picture-story in Roto Magazine about a former Wyandotte resident. DOWNHILL SCHOOL WORK WINS A's See the Sports section Sunday for a report on the Michigan college that ranks skiing as a major sport.

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