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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS -TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932 RAISERS ARE WETS NOW Charge 'Betrayal' by U. S. Officials SAN FRANCISCO, April 25-(A. of 9,000 grape growers of California today advocat- unanimously adopted a program ing revision perthit Eighteenth Amendment to the sale of naturally fermented beverages. The program, drafted director by Donald Conn, managing the California Vineyard Association, for to permit restricted, manufacture.

of wines for under certain supervisory conditions. The use of fortifying material to increase the alcoholic content would be forbidden, limiting the strength to that produced by natural fermentation. Betrayed by United States In his report Conn declared the California grape growers had been "betrayed" by a reversal of policy the part of the Government in prohibition enforcement under which wine-making in the home has been outlawed. He asserted that for 12 years the Government had "approved and juice grapes for home assisted the growing wine sale of only to reverse itself under a court decision handed down by Federal District Judge Merrill E. Otis in Kansas City last November.

In reply to a statement carried from Washington to the effect that the Department of Justice "was never consulted and did not participate in any conference concerning the marketing of grape concentrates making wines in the for. said: No Misunderstanding "I personally called on the Assistant United States Attorney General in May 1927, and had a four-hour conference, particularly concerning the right to make concentrate, and the method by which it should be marketed. "Again in December, 1928, January, 1929, and in March, 1929 I led a delegation of grape growers to the offices the Department of Justice to discuss the very thing which they now contend they have never been consulted about." Village Officials May Get Pay Cut Proposal Calls for Reduction to Lower New Budget Salaries of officials and employees of the Village of Wayne will be lowered from 10 to 20 per cent for the next 12 months, according to plans now being prepared. The tentative budget, which will be completed at a meeting of the Village Commission 3, calls for reduction in operation expenses in every department. The plan, according to George Gerbstadt, Village president, will bring about the desired reduction without seriously hampering operations.

Vernor Chosen Cruise Chairman Plans were discussed and committees named at A meeting held Monday night in the Fort Shelby Hotel for the annual Board of Commerce cruise. James Vernor, was appointed general chairman. Committees and their members are: Sales--Ralph C. Wilson, chairman, and Charles Breenan, secretary, Boat--Melvin Kennedy, chairman; Pearce Bland and Gar Sweezy, assistants. Sports -Jacob Mazer, chairman; E.

H. Prine, secretary. EntertainmentJoseph Mulleavy, chairman; L. J. Robinson, S.

Avery Burnham, MauCaplan, C. C. McGill and Joseph Mills, assistants. BridgeM. A.

Enggass, chairman; Charles Boyd, secretary. Golf--Robert Chambers, chairman; Leonard Simms, secretary. Destination, the boat and other details have not been decided upon. The cruise will begin Thursday, June 16, at 5:30 p. and end the following Monday at 8 a.

m. Single Elopement Nets Two Divorces Two divorce decrees arising from cause were granted Monday mornIng by Circuit Judge Joseph A. Moynihan. Married In 1905, Mrs. Elizabeth P.

Bencel obtained a divorce from Anthony Bencel on the claim that he deserted her in 1913 and ran away with Esther T. Molnar. The second decree waS granted George Molnar because his wife Esther ran away with Anthony Bencel. TOY HOLDUP' FAILS Jack Riley, 50 years old, of 1567 Brainard was arrested yesterday on complaint of Walter Harms, Flint horse handler, who said Riley tried to hold him up in a barn at Watson and Hastings Sts. Harms sald he took A toy pistol from Riley, who had been drinking, according to police.

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Mrs. Bessie Betrus, her mother, 44, same address, shock. Miss Audrey Stoness, 45, of 156 Avalon bookkeeper at the plumbing shop, both legs lacerated, burned face, fractured shoulder. Kenneth Newton, 25, of 2089 Princeton employee of the plumber, head and face lacerations, face burned, cuts about body. Walter Kufske, 25, of 18645 Greeley employee of the plumbing shop, face burned and lacerated and chest injuries.

Edward Malin, 19, of 215 LaBelle head and back lacerated. Archie Cohan, 41, of the Hotel Granwood, severe lacerations of the face, body covered with brusies. Mary Shad, 2, of 239 LaBelle face lacerated. Miss Grace A. Gain, 42, of 675 Pallister bookkeeper at the plumbing shop, both legs cut, face burned, fractured shoulder blade, scalp lacerated.

Gasper La Baido, 72, of 338 Pasadena fractured shoulder blade, right middle finger to be amputated. Those injured but released after treatment were: Harry August, 55, of 236 Ford head lacerated. Assistant Fire Chief William Considine, 48, of 104 Hill left leg burned. Darwin Marucco, 22, of 8930 Sussex face burned. Fanny Dabney, Negro, 40, of 13816 Thompson A cuts, leg bruised.

Miss Julla Betrus, 21, daughter of Mrs. Minnie Betrus, of 361 Englewood head cut. Tony Schwab, 29, of 6437 Van Buren face and eyes burned. Mike Betrus, 50 of 13935 Hamilton head and hand lacerated. Kelly Clennan, 21, of 8821 Prairie employee at the plumbing shop, right hand cut.

Chief Baker was injured but did not go to the hospital. He was struck on the head by a brick. Mayor N. Ray Markland commended the bravery of Chief Baker and his aides at a meeting Monday night of the Hignland Park Council. Hyman, a plumber employed in the Goodfriend shop, was returning from a job when he received his fatal injuries.

He walked in at the moment the terrific detonation brought the building down. Hyman was unmarried and lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hyman, and 8 sister, Mrs. Hugo Friedman.

Two versions of the incident that led to the explosion were given. Dan Pop, 48, of 1737 McDougall an employee of the plumbing shop, said that he believed the gas pipe was broken when the men HOOVER TO SIT BY ROOSEVELT They'll Be 'Neighbors' delivering coal slid their chute Into 1 the basement. "They threw it in violently," he said, "and almost immediately afterward I smelled gas. I went to them and remonstrated, and they told me nothing serious had happened. A few minutes later they ran into the shop and warned us that gas was leaking.

We all left the building and about 10 minutes later the explosion occurred." Darwin Marucco, one of the coal men, who was injured in the explosion, told a different story. Marucco said that he was at work in the basement when the accident happened. A big chunk of coal smashed against a gas pipe joint, about an inch thick, he said, and snapped it off. He clambered out of the coal hole instantly, he said, and warned Schwab, his fellow worker. Together they ran into the plumbing shop and warned the men there.

Then Marucco called the gas company and the Fire Department, he said. They were standing in front of the building when the gas exploded. Schwab was knocked off his feet. Hears Noise, Sees Flash "I never knew what hit me." Marucco said. "I heard the noise and saw the flash.

The next thing I knew I was picking myself up behind a car parked in front of the shop and dodging bricks and glass falling all around me." An investigation by John M. Wright, assistant treasurer of the Detroit City Gas supported the story of the coal men, he asserted Monday night. According to Mr. Wright, the coal was being put into the building through a shaft intended for ven- tilation and light only. It was constructed when the front of the building, but not the basement, was extended six feet recently, he said.

The gas service pipe was directly under the shaft, Mr. Wright said. and apparently the falling coal broke the pipe. The building permit for the improvements was issued April 14 but the job had not been inspected, he said. Next door to the plumbing shop, in a second story flat over a laundry, Mike Betrus' family was buried under the debris of the crumbling building.

Braving the flames which followed, Fire Chief Baker fought his way through the wreckage and rescued Mrs. Betrus and one of the children, he found in a bed which had hurled to the whore, ground. Girl Describes Explosion Julia, Mike Betrus' daughter, was washing dishes, she said, when she heard the clang of a Are company bell. "I was afraid something was going to happen so I ran into the front room to get the baby," she said. She was lifting the six-day-old child from his crib when the blast occurred.

Neither was seriously hurt. Betrus was in a chair at the time, holding his son, Peter, on his lap. Fire Chief Baker, Assistant Chief Considine and Pipeman Otterbein responded to the report of the gas the plumbing shop, taking at White House WASHINGTON, April -The prospect is strong that Republican President Hoover and Democratic Gov. Roosevelt, of New York, may sit almost side by side at a dinner to be given at the White House next Thursday night. It developed today at the Executive Mansion that in a tentative seating schedule drawn up by the official arbiters, Gov.

Roosevelt, leading aspirant for the Democratic Presidential nomination, is ranked upon the list. third, might well place him within easy chatting distance of the Presi- dent. Pollard Heads List White House social authorities, who have wrestled in the past with been engaged some days upon delicate seating, problems, have how they would seat the members of the Governor's Conference, meeting in Richmond, when they come to dine this week with the Chief Executive. The way the dinner list now stands, John Garland Pollard, Democratic governor who is host the conference, is at the will be given the seat is foland, probably, lowed by Norman S. Case, Republican governor of Rhode Island, with Gov.

Roosevelt third in line. Meanwhile, the long-awaited test on Alfred E. Smith's challenge of Gov. Roosevelt's bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination tonight was in the hands of chusetts and Pennsylvania voters. Both Sides Confident With 112 Democratic delegates to the National Convention at stake in Eastern primaries tomorrow-36 in Massachusetts and 76 in Pennsylvania--partisans of the two New Yorkers brought their furious campaigns to a close with expressions of confidence.

Smith chieftains predicted their principal gains would come from the Bay State, which gave the former New York Governor its electoral vote in 1928. Roosevelt supporters looked to the Keystone State to provide the biggest boost in his delegate total--now 267-- and to end the "stop-Roosevelt" movement. In addition to the 112 delegates to be chosen in these two states, the Democrats also will name six in a primary tomorrow in far-off Alaska. The Roosevelt camp long has forecast victory there. G.

0. P. Polls Tame Affording less popular interest, the Republicans tomorrow will select 119 delegates in three primaries and two conventions-34 in Massachusetts, 75 in Pennsylvania, two in Alaska and four each in Arkansas and South Carolina. President Hoover, who has 423 delegates pledged and claimed for him to date, faces little opposition in the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania voting. Former Senator Joseph I.

France, of Maryland, Mr. Hoover's avowed opponent for the RepublicPresidential nomination, lone candidate for the preference vote in Pennsylvania. TWO DRIVERS GET JAIL SENTENCES 20-Day Term Given Drunk Driver Frank Potwardowski, forty-seven4500 Six Mile Road, was fined old grocery store manager, of $100 and sentenced to the Wayne County Jail for 20 days Monday as a drunk driver by Judge Sherman D. Callender, of Traffic Court. Potwardowski was arrested Sunday when he drove into a car operated by John Stanislowski, 6220 Dubois St.

Potwardowski failed to observe a stop sign. Both men escaped injury. Two other motorists convicted as drunk drivers were Leo Dace, 32, of 1527 Russell and Joseph Swiak, 36, of 5027 Twenty-eighth St. Judge John J. Maher fined Dace $100 and Swiak, $75.

Swiak was placed on probation for one year and ordered to make restitution to Joseph Murowski, of 6603 Majestic for damages to his car. Side-swiping the parked car of Louis Snyder, clerk of Recorder's Court, brought Walter Jasinski, 36, of 5200 Trowbridge Hamtramck, a $90 fine and probation for one year for reckless driving. Judge Maher also revoked Jasinski's license for two months. Operating a car without brakes or lights led to a $60 fine and 10- day sentence for Harry Martin, 35, of 936 Cavalry Ave. Seventeen speeders were fined $10 to $66 for speeding.

HELD AS PLOTTER TO SLAY HUSBAND Woman Here in Jail After Formal Examination Charged with soliciting to murder, Mrs. Catherine Zagurski, 3443 is being held in jail following examination Monday before Judge John V. Brennan in Recorder's Court. Bond was set at $10,000, two sureties. The white-haired, sixty-year-old woman is accused of plotting to kill her husband Michael for his insurance.

Frank Miller, 31 years old, 4043 Thirty-third testifled that he was approached by Mrs. Zagurski offer of a "split" in the insurance policy of $1,000 which carried, if he would hire a gunman to do the job. Alarmed, Miller went to police with his story, he said, and Patrolman Philip Kovinick went to the house April 14 in the guise of a hired gunman. Mrs. Zagurski, Offcer Kovinick testified, talked to him of the plot and gave him an advance payment of $20 which she declared was the last money that stood between her and starvation.

She promised him the balance of a total price of $500 if the death of her husband should be accomplished, Kovinick told the court. VICTIM THOUGHT DETROITER A man believed to be Densel Pointer, 22 years old, 3853 Harrison was killed Monday night when his car crashed into another near Springfield, Ill. Illinois police reported finding papers in the dead man's pockets indicating that he was Pointer. The police believed that Pointer fell asleep at the wheel End next winter's Heating Worries right now! Install Automatic Home Heating iN. blast.

Heard Four Blocks Away rescue and chemical equipment with them. "I realized the danger of plosion as soon as I got there," Chief Baker said. "We put in a call for more men and warned the people in buildings around the shop. We were standing at the rear of laundry, adjusting our gas masks to go into the basement when the explosion came." Car Upset by Blast All three firemen were hurled across the yard in the rear, a distance of 30 feet, and slammed against a fence. Fannie Dabney, the laundry employee, was emptying a tub of water when the blast knocked in the walls of the building and buried her in plaster.

She was frightened and hurt, she said, but she managed to crawl out of the ruins. One man, driving by at the time, was hurt when the explosion upset his automobile. Another car was filled with bricks when the walls collapsed. Debris flew 150 feet in the air, Patrick Dugan, of 21. E.

Grand Highland Park, an employee of a gasoline station on the corner, estimated. He administered first aid to two persons in the station. George Voorhis, City assessor of Highland Park, had been in the plumbing shop a few minutes before the explosion, he said, inspecting an addition being constructed. He was getting into car a block away, when he heard the Police Sergt. Joseph Pipp heard it in his home at 49 Ford nearly four blocks away, and saw crowds running toward the scene.

He joined some 30 fellow officers sent to the disaster to handle crowds and help firemen in the search, At 5 o'clock Chief Baker and Chief Patch announced that all the occupants of nearby buildings were accounted for and that a search of the debris revealed no dead or injured persons. The fire, which followed the blast, was extinguished after a two-hour fight. Detroit Will Escape Threatened Snowfall Despite the chill winds faced by Detroiters Monday, this City and vicinity will be free Tuesday from the snow which threatens nearby areas. Norman B. Conger, United States meteorologist, predicted cloudy skies, a little rain and no change in temperature.

SEEK NEGRO BANDITS IN GROCERY ROBBERY A City wide search was started Monday for a pair of. Negro bandits, believed to have committed a series of robberies here in the last two weeks, following their latest holdup in which they obtained $536.65 the grocery belonging to Peter Blier, 7441 W. Warren Ave. After forcing Blier to open the safe, the thugs locked him and a clerk, Ernest Nelson, 2706 Pingree in an icebox. in its most economical form RITES THURSDAY FOR C.

A. STECKER Masonic Leader Dies at Pine Lake Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday for Charles A. Stecker, Pine Lake, who died at his home Monday morning.

Mr. Stecker was widely known in Detroit fraternal circles and was affiliated with Palestine Lodge 357, King Cyrus, Chapter, Detroit Commandery Detroit Consistory No. 1 and Moslem Temple. He also was a member Pine Lake Country Club and of the Mount Hope Congregational Church. At one time he served as president of the Men's Club of St.

Petersburg, Fla. Fraternal rites will be observed at his funeral. He was vice president of the old Stecker Electric and Machine until its sale in 1920. He is survived by his widow, Ethel a daughter Catherine, three sisters, Mrs. Frank Mitchell, Mrs.

Charles B. Weber, and Luella M. Stecker, and four brothers, Alfred, Henry, Edwin and Frederick Stecker, all of Detroit. Services will be held at Mount Hope Congregational Church, with interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. PNEUMONIA FATAL TO MRS.

DONOVAN Body of Merchant's Wife to Be Sent to New York Following a week's illness with pneumonia, Mrs. O'Brien wife of Daniel Joseph Donovan, president of Gately's Clothing died at her home, 405 Lakeland Grosse Pointe Village, Monday evening. She was 39 years old. Married in 1910, the Donovans moved from New York to Detroit, where Lane, William and Timothy, their three sons, were born. Mrs.

Donovan was active in St. Vincent de Paul charitable projects. Following the funeral in St. Paul's Church, Grosse Pointe, Thursday morning, the body will be sent to New for burial in St. John's Cemetery.

Mrs. Donovan also is survived by her father, John L. O'Brien; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Canavan and Edward McNailey, and a brother, Frank O'Brien, all of New York. THREE FIRE VETERANS ASK TO BE RETIRED Three veterans of the Fire Department voluntarily retired Monday, informing the Commission of their desire to be placed en the pension rolls.

They were Capt. Colin P. Brown, assistant fire marshal: Capt. Fred Waltz, Engine Co. No.

3, and Engineer H. J. Ward, Engine Co. No. 25.

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