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METRO FINAL FAIR Fair and cold. Low 2-6, high 10-U. Weather Man on Pace 3 RtilRLY TEMPER ATI RES noon 15 5 tm. 16 10 p.m. 11 ra.

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13 2 a m. 10 'Unofficial. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1955 On Guard for Over a Century EmtablUhtd in 183 1- 22 Pages Vol. 124 No. 283 Seven Cents Z3 32 Jobs mm aW mm Li i Slashed Off hest eek9 Auto OutDut I vei Hig 'Vital? Rolls Only 30 Are Now Called Essential Srw York Timf Srlr CHICAGO The list of Devasted 9 Will John L.

Fight Cm Lett tor tied 'occupations for Which yi sranti; deferments of militaryf ivacuatioii 01 From Tachens service is beir half. service is beinsr cut in First word of the changi came. Ironically, at a conference having as one of its major aim? Miners' Boss Could Give AFL-CIO a more draft deferments, with i exemptions for engineers, scien tists and technical students. 4 i TAIPEI, Formosa (UP) The Tachen Islands, burned and blasted into scorched ruins, were abandoned to the Chinese Communists Saturday. The last members of an Ameri- on the executive council of the AFL at that time were a little appalled at the thought of embracing the peasants in the factories of Akron, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Chicago.

They advised caution when Lewis pushed his daring plan for industrial organization. Lewis bellowed back. secretary of manpower in th Department of Labor, disclosed to the military-industria' con ference that a new list would sent soon to Selective Servici and the Defense Department. It will reduce from 62 to 30 the number of occupations in which manpower shortages are considered of critical Importance to the nation. Werts, who said the new list would be made public "very soon," was unable to say which job classifications would eliminated.

He called the list a guide to draft boards. Among occupations retained in the new list are engineers, chemists, psysiologista with masters' or doctors' degrees, aircraft and engine mechanics, die-setter foremen and high school and college teachers of subject required for training for critical occupations. 40 Injured As Flyer Is Deraileci 1 i mm amai i i i i in ts. 'V i 1 i f-' -v. lrT" i ''r 1 -L- SAUK CENTRE, Minn.

At least 40 persons were ed injured Friday night when Western Star, Seattle-Chftago L. passenger tram of the Oreat f': Northern Railway, derailed, West Union. 10 miles northwest of here. 7 None was reported seriously hurt." Many were treated and re- I leased. None of those named was from Michigan.

11. i) All 12 cars of the train were 4 derailed but the two-unit dieicl jv 1 it. i a 41 9 John L. Lewis Meets Another Year The elder statesmen of labor trembled with anger, and finally kicked Lewis and a number of other union leaders out of the AFL in 1936. The charge was that Lewis and his CIO associates were fostering "dual unionism," a form of heresy.

The brooding old boy has trod the national stage in C. Bergeron, 52, of 25 W. Alex andrine. She died when a car in which she was riding skidded on Ecorse Road near Wing Road, Romulus Townchip, and struck a utility pole. DEPARTMENT of Public Works crews worked throughout the night to clear main streets.

Despite their efforts, traffic crawled during the morning rush period. A minor train-car collision at the Detroit Terminal Railroad traces on Second near Turn to Page 2, Column 7 Prison Break GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (P) Allen Paul Melson, 31, who was sent to prison' for ten years for robbing a Murdock (Neb.) bank a year ago and sewing the loot in his daughter's rag doll, escaped from a prison work detail early Friday. You'll Find) Isles nationalists Is Completed Ona Munson Ona Munson, Star Actress, Ends Life NEW YORK 7P) A Ona Munson, 48, who came out of vaudeville to star in Hollywood and on Broadway, killed herself Friday with an overdose of sleeping pills. "This is the only way I know to be free again," she said in a note she left in her lavish eight-room apartment.

Police said she had recently been despondent. They formally listed her death as apparent suicide. Her third husband, Eugene Berman, a painter and stage designer, found her dead in bed. Born in Portland, Miss Munson started her career with Gus Edwards' vaudeville troupe. Her first legitimate stage role was in 1924 in a touring company of "No Other Girl." MISS MUNSON went to Hollywood in 1928.

Highlight of her many movie roles was as Belle Watling in "Gone With the Wind." It gained her an Academy Award nomination. During her career she also broadcast on radio. Some of her old movies have been revived for television. She, herself, made occasional TV appearances. Her last stage appearance was a revival of "First Lady" two years ago.

Miss Munson previously had been married to Eddie Buzzell and Stewart McDonald. Husband, 91, fero Qf Fire MT. CLEMENS A 91-year-old Clinton Township man and his 76-year-old wife escaped with only minor burns Friday after he pulled her to safety through a first-floor window of their blazing home. Then the pair, Mr. and Mrs.

John Griffin, cheerfully comforted each other as they stood in the snow and cold watching their small frame home burn to the ground. Clinton Township Fireman George Sieferlein was overcome by smoke and taken to St. Jo- sepn riospitai in Mt. Clemens. France's Pflimlin Savs Herll Do It PARIS CP) Pierre Pflimlin iwent to Elysee Faiac early Saturday and told President Rene iCoty he believes he can form a rew French Government the Na-tional Assembly will endorse.

In his formal acceptance of the premiership for France's postwar Government, a member of the Popular Republican movement, said he would ask Assembly approval I -Si's -i 167,095 Turned Out By Plants Hot Pace Betters 8.6 Million a Year Passenger car production soared to an all-time weekly high of 167,095 vehicles this week. That figure is at the rate of 8,688,940 cars a year! The industry also turned out 14,824 trucks. But even at this modest -ate, it would turn out 771,848 in a year which combined with passenger-car assemblies, is at the rate of 9,460,788 vehicles in 12 months. Ward's Automotive Reports, the terrific pace, said that it was 1.3 per cent above the previous record of 164,876 set during- June 13-17. 1950, and 1.7 higher than last week's near record of 164,265 completed units.

"This week's upthrust finds General Motors aiming at a record in weekly car volume," Ward's reports. "Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. are paralleling last week's heavy turnouts, while the independents are geared to the highest point in 81 weeks of car scheduling." THE RAPIDLY rising production by the independents included the best output in 13 months for Nash, the best in 19 months for Packard, the best in 65 weeks for Hudson, a 32-week record at Willys and the top output in 76 weeks by the statisticians reported. "Still stronger car output is in the offing, provided parts become more plentiful at Chrysler Corp.

and Packard," Ward's said. All Ford plants were scheduled to work six days this week, while all Lincoln-Mercury assembly plants except the one at St. Louis were expected to follow a similar overtime schedule. DeSoto planned a Saturday overtime addition to its output. Plymouth worked overtime daily as did GM's seven Buick-Olds-mobile-Pontiac assembly plants.

BECAUSE OF a 20 per cent drop in truck output this week, however, combined production will fall slightly behind the combined output for the industry last week. So far this year the industry has assembled 1,080,028 passenger cars and trucks. The year's one-millionth car is scheduled to be completed Tuesday. Animal Problems A RENO (XEV.) man has a weighty problem. Wesley Richards, 29, a bartender, said his, wealthy uncle in Florida, who was an animal importer, has willed im two elephants.

"What am I going to do with two elephants?" asked the perplexed nephew. "I understand there's not much of a market for elephants right now." WHEN YOU pat a cat on a cold day, it makes electricity. Consolidated Edison of New York, reported Friday it assigned an engineer to measure the power of a cat pat. He found that to light a 75-watt bulb for a minute would take 9,200,000.000 cat pats. Incidentally, Consolidated is now planning an atomic power plant.

IN CHICAGO, John Myers, 59, asked a court for emergency action on his divorce suit before his wife's 93 parakeets make him end up "in a cage myself." He said the birds dive-bomb him and keep him awake at night with whistles and squawks. (False Prophet KANSAS CITY OP) Tom H. Prophet, of Mountain, Grove, a former Internal Revenue agent, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of failure to file Federal income fax returns for himself in 1951 and 1952. iwvfiHjutc on uic tracks. Four of the cars overr turned, with two mail tossed nearly 100 feet their sides.

cars' onto' Detroiters to Shiver In Near-Zero Cold No Relief Likely Till Monday; Florida Citrus Belt Threatened IV, ft. i. Headache many dramatic roles since then, sometimes as a heavy villain, sometimes as a hero of the workers. Whatever his role, Lewis has been feared and respected. Even his severest critics would concede that the incredible vanity of the man can be described as an objective appre ciation of his own genius.

AT 75, Lewis is isolated from the labor movement and heavily beset with the problems afflicting the coal industry, which can't keep its men at work except when there's a war. But only a complete innocent would say that Lewis was through. Lewis is, above all, unpredictable. Iiis smoldering hatred for the brilliant younger men who have come up in the labor movement, like George Meany of the AFL and Walter P. Keuther, of the CIO, could erupt at any time, so long as the old man breathes and retains command of his rich vocabulary.

Lewis is contemptuous of most of his fellow labor leaders, partly because of his general aversion to other human beings and partly because the labor leaders rejected his daring plan in 1947 to subvert the Taft-Hartley Law by mass disobedience. As soon as Lewis emerges from the benign atmosphere of his 75th birthday celebration, one might expect some salty comments from him about the "unity" of the AFL and the CIO. AM) ALTHOUGH no old man loves the Florida sun bet-Turn to Page 2, Column 1 High Court Of Russia Shaken Up LONDON A shift in the make-up of the Soviet Supreme Court was disclosed by Moscow radio Friday. Six judges were removed and seven others elected to the bench. There appeared to be no obvious connection between the court changes and the recent shake-up in the Soviet Government.

None of the dismissed judges was known to be prominent in political affairs. II observers here noted that Marshal Klementi Voroshilov, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (parliament), signed the decree Feb. 7, just one day before Marshal Nikolai Bulganin succeeded Georgi Malenkov as premier. The Moscow radio, meanwhile, pictured Russia's new leaders Friday as firmly wedded to policies of peace and coexistence. This was coupled with the usual Red raps at Western defense arrangements.

The broadcast appeared designed to counter a belief in the West that the Sovjet Union has assumed a new tough look. "THE FOREIGN policy of the Soviet Union and of all countries of the Socialist (Communist) camp," it said, "ia a policy of preserving and strenthening peace. It is based on Lenin's principles of the coexistence of different social systems." The broadcast came a few hours after the Moscow radio complained that Xmerican newspapers gave a false and sensa- Turn to Page 2, Column 3 Number's Up PITTSBURGH (U.R) Cambria County Judge A. A. Nelson was ousted from his duties as a visiting judge here Friday because he told a lottery case jury he had "played the numbers myself." A railroad spokesman said the wreck apparently was caused by a rail breaking in the subzero t' BY EDWIX A.

LAHEY Of Uur Washington Bureau MIAMI BEACH Labor leaders of the United States made history this week in declaring an end to the 19-year-old war between the AFL and the CIO. They worked in the long shadow of one important labor leader who wasn't present John L. Lewis. It was old John L. himself who started the ruckus they finally patched up the other ('ay in a love feast in the Ocean Room of the Roney Plaza, the fanciest spot in which labor history was ever made.

BY COINCIDENCE, Lewis will observe his 75th birthday Saturday in Washington, in seclusion with his family. Feb. 'i happens to be a national holiday. Many people assume that it commemorates the birthday of an ex-president named A. Lincoln.

But in the coal valleys of America the miners tend to regard Mr. Lincoln as a scissor hi II who is riding- on "Ole Jawn's" coat-tails. Nobody mentioned the name of Lewis at the unity clambake. But. the history of the American labor movement in the past two decades could hardly be written without the Mine Workers' president in a dominant role.

Back in 1935, Lewis and a few associates in the United Mine Workers and other unions saw that the hour was at hand to organize the workers in traditional open-shop industries. THE ELDERLY and conservative aristocrats of labor Milkmen To Sleep In On Sundays The milkman, Mother, now will stay abed along with the rest of us on Sunday mornings. He set up th pleasant surprise all for himself Friday night. BY NEARLY a 2-1 vote, Local 83, United Dairy Workers (CIO) decided to do away with Sunday deliveries. Local Secretary George McLean reported.

A total of 1,150 milkmen, who like sleep Sunday mornings, fast their votes for. the proposition. Those who voted to get up 580. Now the union an the creameries will negotiate to determine just when the new idea will take hold. Observers said Sunday deliveries will probably stop in 30 to 40 days.

Arrows Banned NEW YORK (JP) Mayor Robert F. Wagner Friday signed into law a measure banning the sale of hunting arrows to children under 16 years old. That's Life OGDENSBURG, Wis. A3) The fire station here burned down while volunteer firemen were out fighting a blaze. ONLY DAY LEFT Cor Yea Identify This Car? Enttr "NAME THE CAR" Contest Pag IS $20,437 ia Priies! 1 can naval party left the islands at midnight hriaay aner completing the demolition of military installations.

Only an hour before, the last Nationalist soldiers boarded an American ship to complete the evacuation of Nationalist troops and civilians from the islands 200 miles north of Formosa. THE GIANT evacuation oper ation, started six oays ao unaer cover of the United States 7th Fleet and American planes, was completed ahead of schedve without any serious Incidents. The Peipinj radio said four United States Sahrejets violated Communist China's territorial air Friday in the coastal area, of Liaoning province, Northeast China. They flew away when Chinese planes chased them, the broadcast said. The radio called It "an act of war provocation." United Press Correspondent William Miller reported that avestruck sailors stood on the decks of ships offshore and watched the thundering death throes of Tachen.

Towering columns of fire leaped into the freezing night. Great explosions were felt even aboard navy cruisers lying miles off shore. All that was left for Red "lib eration" were "dead men's islands." The northern anchor of Gen. Chiang Kai Shek's island outpost line had been rolled back to Nanchi Island, 140 miles north-j west of Formosa. The Communists stood by and wached the evacuation.

Their orooaEranda radio blustered at Chiang aide denies. United States made pledge defend Quemoy. Page 7. the presence of the huge United States fleet. But thc-y knew they were getting the Tachens free.

ONE OF THS last naval officers to leave Tachen was Comm. Elbert Churchill, of Grand Ledge, "There will never be another sight like this," Churchill said. "These explosions all around you people dropping with exhaustion. It is beyond all I have ever seen in my Churchill said the most impressive part of the evacuation was the daring and seamanship of American skippers who took their ships through pounding surf and high winds to bring out the last troops and trucks. (In Washington, the State Department announced that American naval and air forces had completed their work in the evacuation and "will now resume their normal operations." Trieste Economy, To Get U.S.

Boost ROME OP) The United States agreed Friday to give Italy 53 million dollars to boost Trieste's economy and to help the Italian Government raise living standards in southern Italy. The agreement was signed by Prime Minister Mario Scelba and United States ambassador Clare Boothe Luce. See Sunday For Compfe on Bonanza Bill's NEW CONTEST! i I temperature. It was 14 below atl the time. Washout Derails Maine Express AUGUSTA.

Me. A crack Rebounding from its heaviest snowfall of the season, Detroit braced itself for a bitter Arctic onslaught expected to push temperatures down near zero Saturday. The Weather Bureau predict- ed a low of 4 above, with a higntraffic death of Mrs. Glenna M. Maine Central Railroad train plowed into a washout near here Friday night, sending two empty, milk cars hurtling into the Ken-1 nebec River but leaving four pas- senger coaches derailed on a iv steep embankment.

r4 About a dozen of the 145 pas sengers were injured, none appar ently seriously. ine accident happened a driving rainstorm 5'i nfales iiorth of Augusta at 9:15 p.m., 10 min- -utes after the Boston-Bangor j1" train had pulled out of the Augusta station. i Passengers, including m'any pretty girls bound for the winter IV. carnival at Colby College in J' nearby Waterville, reported there was no panic. I'C VA Home Loans Continue High WASHINGT ON fP) The Veterans Administrationlsaid of only 14.

No new snow is ex pected this weekend to add to the 2.9 inches which fell Thursday and early Friday. Forecasters also predicted a frigid unday, with temperatures ranging from 8 to 16. Some warmth may slip in Monday, pushing the mercury into the 20s. Monday also may bring another snowfall. THE LATEST wave of harsh, stinging cold covered a broad area of the United States.

Temperatures were beldv zero in a dozen interior states. Freezing weather extended from border to border and from the Rockies to the eastern end of the Great Lakes. The cold wave moved into the Florida tourist and citrus belt Friday evening, threatening a freeze as far south as Miami. Lows of 17 to 20 degrees were expected in heart of the- citrus belt. Millions of dollars worth of ripe fruit is on the trees.

In the Miami region, the Weather Bureau predicted a skid to freezing Saturday morning. The high Friday was 78 degrees. FIVE MICHIGAN deaths, four in the Detroit area, were attributed to the storm. Heart attacks suffered while shoveling snow took the lives of Dr. Fred Townsend, 70.

a dentist, of S501 Dickerson; Willis A. Clifford. 75, of 4515 University Place, and Charles J. Sheeran, 66, of Jackson. Mrs.

William McClain, 51, of 10101 W. McXichols, suffered fatal heart attack while removing enow from her car. The storm also resulted in the Friday that applications for GI home loan guarantees in January totaled 51,917 the sixth straight month in which the number ex ceeded 50,000. Quick Sale It didn't take long for the advertiser of the restaurant equipment in the ad below to find a buyer. By the second day it had been soldi COMPLETE muurunt IcaM.

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