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a o. 23 TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1956 On Guard for Over a Century 2i Pages Vol. 125 Xo. 212-258 Seven Cents Ettablithed in 1831 Who Killed wi fUl Shew 1 mm LrU Spider Man 9 And Mother? o) j)) ml hmbi Odd Life of Victim Thwarts Detectives Secret Price Set On Ford Stock Flint Wife Watches In Horror Presses Rollins; At 3 Papers It's Back to Normal After 46-Day Strike Announcement. Due Today; Shares Go on Sale Wednesday NEW YORK (AP) A price was set late Monday on the 10,200,000 shares of common stock of the Ford Motor Co.

which go to market Wednesday. 'Dark Stranger" Spurns Money Spwial to thr Frer Frr" FLINT A sobbing Flint woman told Monday night of a terror ride with her husband and a dark -haired, bespectacled stranger that ended with her husband shot dead. Mres. Bettv Kahl. 32, said th The figure was kept a secret, however.

There will be no official announcement until Tuesday morning. Ike Submits -tit XVs The price wajs arrived at after a. series of meetings involving 't KV RALPH NELSON Fret Vim Staff Writer Now that you are getting a newspaper again, the police renew their hopes of solving one of Detroit's most baffling murders one that might be called The Case of the Spider Man and His Mother. Police have been baffled since Dec. 1.

On that day the bodies of a wealthy widow and her aging son were found, both beaten about the head with unrestrained savagery. Quickly investigating the pair's lives, detectives found themselves tangled in a web as involved as any ever put together by a mystery story writer. NOW THEY HOPE some reader will come forward to fill in some gaps for them. As a hint of what they are up against, consider this puzzle What manner of man is one who is known as a bachelor but who had a wife (with whom he had never had a household) and two children? What kind of a man is he who seems to be a "bird lover," but also is known to use a cat to destroy his feathered friends? What about a man who prefers weeds to flowers; who considers spiders "my pets The man was the son. Alfred Williams, 68.

An eccentric personality, he might buy a stranger a drink, but dourly. If the stranger tried to return the favor, he would stalk out like a proud cat. some said, that rebuffs any show of affection on the part of humans it deigns to befriend. TO GET INTO the story, start on the morning of Dec. 1 in a comfortable home at 1S901 Whitcomb.

The son's body was found in a basement fruit cellar. The body of his mother; Ada, 87. an almost helpless invalid, was found in her son's bedroom. Investigating detectives soon fcumd themselves without a motive, a weapon, or a clue to the killer. The murders almost wiped out the line of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest land-owning families.

Mrs. Williams and her son owned jointly 27i per cent of the stock in the Kern-Gray a holding company that owns the ground under the Fox Theatre Building. She was the sister of Frederick Gray, now living in retirement, who once owned a furniture store where the building now stands. The long police investigation has occupied the full attention of three teams of detectives of the Homicide Bureau. Turn to rage fi, Column 5 officials and counsel for thej seven firms co-managing and underwriting find executives of! BY WILLIAM F.

CHAPMAN Free Pres Assistant City Editor The bulk of the Polish Daily News again was printed in Polish. Michigan Rotary Press was busy with weekly newspapers-there was no Detroit Reporter. Toledo. New York. Chicago and Toronto newspapers were gone from the newstands.

Suite 1973 of the Fort Shelby Hotel was forlorn and lonely. The news pool effort of Detroit's three newspapers was ended. Advertiser, newspapermen, politicians, policemen and readers wer happy. Balanced Budget i stranger forced her husband. Ribert, 34.

into their car and i forced them to drive to a lonely spot south of Flint. the Ford Foundation. Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission will he advised of the price in an amendment to the registration statement already filed by th Ford Motor Co. covering the sale of the stock. Meanwhile, representatives of the 722 firms which will participate in the underwriting will 65.8 Billion Request Holds No Tax Cut WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisen There, she said, the stranger lold Kahl to get out of the car.

He walked a short way. shot Kahl through the heart and returned to the car. He ordered Mrs. Kahl to drivs to downtown Flint, where he leaped from the. car and fled into hower submitted to Con the night.

She drove to police IS i headquarters. MRS. KAHL told police she Ford's 8 Potential Millionaires. Page 1G. gress Monday a balanced $65,865,000,000 budget for the 1957 fiscal year The nation fifth largest city shook a six-w-eek enforced leth-.

argy, sighed with relief and got I back to normalcy, The newspaper strike was i ended. I THE DETROIT newspaper as i could think of no motive for the starting July 1. He called slaying. She said she and her husband had offered the stranger all the money they had, but that on the legislators for the Suddenly! There They Were Again i he had refused it. Kahl.

a cigaret salesman, was ill Monday and did not go to work, Mrs. Kahl said. shutdown lasted 46 from Dec. 1 to Jan. 16.

1 There have been longer strikes against single newspapers. Butj it was the longest news dimoutj in history for a United States "utmost co-operation" in keeping it balanced. Immediate reaction on Capitol Hill was praise from Republicans who said Mr. Eisenhower was keeping faith with the peo Argentina Frees Pero'ns 'Nelly' BUENOS AIRES (P) Tress reports from northern Argentina said Nelida (Nelly) Rivas, the city of more than a million population. The final ratification vote that marked an end to the six weeks void came at 2 p.m, Monday, when newspaper truck drivers unanimously okayed their agreement at the Free Press.

TOP O' THE MORNING 16-year-old beauty once reported on intimate terms with ex-dicta- tor Juan D. Peron, was released by police Monday to return to Buenos Aires. Nelly and her parents were I detained by police Saturday in; Russian Roulcllc Kills Boy, 16 PRICE. Utah (yp) Teenager Joseph C. Ciarus wanted to prove he wasn't afraid.

Sheriff Albert Passic said the 16-year-old boy suggested a game of Russian roulette to three friends. He put a bullet in the cylinder of a .22 revolver, pointed the weapon at his head and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. He did it again. Again nothing happened.

Then Ciarus did it once more. The gun fired, sending a bullet into his brain. He died three hours later. Twice in the last, few days, a stranger had called on the phone and asked for Kahl, who was out of the house. Monday night, after the.

couple had dined in their apartment at 2649 Orchard Lane, he drove a car belonging to his employer to a private garage nearby, with Mrs. Kahl following in their own car. After Kahl had garaged the car, the tall stranger appeared from the shadows end followed Kahl back to the spot where Mrs. Kahl had parked. He ordered Kahl into the car, climbed in and directed them over a four-mile route to a place near the Torrey Road on the south side of the city.

ftign contracts at theVall Street offices of Blyth the head of the undei-vriting group. IX ADDITION" to the underwriters, the shares will be for sale through hundreds of other brokerage houses. It has been reported that some of the biggest investment firms will have several hundred thousand, shares of stock for their customers while the smallest may get r.o more than 1,500 shares. In any event, there will be a scramble for the stock. Wall Street is confident there won't he nearly enough to meet all orders and many brokers are worried about the number of unhappy customers they'll have to deal with Wednesday morning.

More than the regular customers are involved, however. The co-managers have instructed participating underwriters to make sure that some of the stock goes to people who don't have accounts with them. The underwriters will be asked to submit reports when the offering is over, Turn to Tage 2, Column 1 Astrology, movies and television Page 21 Bridge, Graham, Day in Michigan and Town Crier Page. 23 Comics Tage 22-23 Business and roundup Page 17 Cobo tackles City budget Page 4 Editor's Notebook, Drew Pearson, Sylvia Porter Teamsters at the Times ratified their agreement at 9 a.m.: had already ratified at the News. Resistencia, near tbe Paraguayan bbrder.

It w-as believed Nelly was seeking to cross into Paraguay so she could join Peron later in Panama, where he is in exile. ple, and a bit of hooting from Democrats, some of whom said they were "astonished" and "discouraged" at the amount the President wants to spend. ONCE MORE, Mr. Eisenhower withheld any recommendation for a general tax cut at this time. Some members of Congress said he was right; others raised a cry for cuts.

budget for the next fiscal year and a revised one for the current year ending June 30 provide for slender surpluses that will help scale down the 274-billion-dollar national This is on the basis that while spending Is going up. Federal revenue is going up even more. For this fiscal year, the Gov-Turn to Tage 2, Column Page 9 Page 8 Page 18-19 Page 5 Page 2 Tage 6 Page 12 Page 20 Page 13-15 Page 3 Tage 12-13 and Inez Kobb Editorials Financial Gov. Williams' message on State budget Grace Kelly to wed Prince Rainier How GM became industrial leader Ike pressed to run again Obituaries Sports Weather map Women's pages EIGHT CONTRACTS were! negotiated to end the s'rike. The! pattern they set provided: An average wage increase of $3.75 per week the first year; $2.75 the second year.

2 Increased health and welfare benefits. Six of the contracts will end Nov. 30, 1057. The agreement Turn to Tage 17, Column 1 Rocked by Quake Ecuador Strong earth shocks rocked this Pacific port city Monday night. Bandsman Hurt William Finzel, whose band has played at Detroit Tiger baseball opening games for 53 years, broke his left leg in a fall near his home Monday afternoon.

Finzel, 76, of 3730 Commonwealth, is in serious condition in Receiving Hospital. Achooooooooo ALGONQUIN, 111. Jean Gen-tele, 16, marked a month of sneezing Monday. The Dundee High School girl has had to give up classes. cracking walls in many build the ings.

Residents fled into streets in panic. OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO FREE PRESS READERS Comic i IF section i in History eaie My, What a Day For the Comic With Wednesday's Free Press, you're going to see the most sensational comic package ever to come along. In a special comic review section, we're going to bring you up to date on all your favorite Free Press Comics. There'll be 24 pages, packed with those favorite strips you missed over the past six weeks. Once again, you can go through the heart-tugging experiences of Dondi.

the mystery of Judge Parker and the fantastic episodes of Dick Tracy. All this is in addition to a special thumbnail review which also brings you up to date on your comics and which appears today back with all these outstanding Free Press comics on pages 22 and 23. Now be sure to get your Wednesday's Free Press with that 24-page comic section. It's going to be a real Brand-NeM 1,000 Cash Prizes Contest! If you missed your friendly Free Press during the Detroit newspaper strike (and we hope you did!) it'll be easy for you to enter a big, new contest that offers $1,000 in 38 cash prizes. All you do is finish this statement in 50 words or less: "I'm glad to have my friendly Free Press back again because The full details on this new $1,000 cash prizes contest and the official entry blank will appear during the next few days.

The "I'm Glad" contest is open to almost everyone men and women, children and grandparents who missed the friendly Free Press and is glad to have it back again. First prize will be. $300; second prize $150; third prize. $100; then, 10 prizes of $25 each and 25 prizes of $10 each. The Jlochy Road Ahead in Marriage Dr.

Richard M. Steiner, one of tbe foremost marriage counselors in the country, starts a stimulating series of articles on many of the illusions and pitfalls of marriage in today's Free Press. You'll find the first of the daily articles r.n Page 10. Designed to help couples plan a happier marriage, the articles offer words of warning to the girl who marries only for the husband who manages everything ar.d the mother-in-laiv who interferes with her daughter's married life. Dr.

Steiner also offers valuable suggestions arrived at through actual case studies to those couples whose marriage is threatened. Read the first article today and continue to follow this stimulating series in the "For and About The Family" section of the. Free Press. Grace Kelly9 Story: Main Line to Monaco Prediction: The story of Grace Kelly's bethrothal to Prince Rainier of Monaco will go down as one of the year's biggest news stories! You can read about all the behind-the-scenes events in this fabulous love affair in the exclusive Free Press story of the lovely and gracious star's road to romance. What will life be like for the glamorous Philadelphia beauty when she lives in the tiny principality of Monaco? Can she successfully and happily make the transition from leading lady to Princess What about Prince Rainier'3 romantically-sprinkled past? The intimate story of Grace Kelly will unfold during the next few days in the Detroit Free Press.

Watch for this modern-day "fairy tale" In the Friendly Free Press. Bonanza's Back ith Netc Puzzle, IS'etv Prize RV BONANZA BILL to Fr Pre Snnny Side Department Wal. it's shore good to be back to greet all my fans again. I heard from 70,037 of you when I printed my last puzzle, Sunday, Nov. 27.

You'll remember I had just paid out 5550 in Christmas money to the Henry Stange family in Washington. and I offered you $200 for the correct solution to a new puzzle. I've had plenty of time to check your answers to that one, and I can tell you now that nobody got all the answers right. I'm printing the detailed answers today on Page 6. Ordinarily I raise the prize money $50 a week.

But I've been away a long time, and you've been very patient. I haven't been idle, though. While you were doing without me, I was thinking about you Turn to Page 6, Column 1 Tangle Towns Is Back Ready for Tangle Towns puzzles pick up today right where they left off. When the Free Press last was published, on Dec. 1, puzzle No.

44 was printed. For your convenience No. 44 is reprinted today, along with No. 45. on Page 6.

You'll find a back puzzle coupon on the same page, so you can order any of the back puzzles which you may have missed. You also can get back puzzles at the Public Service Office on the main floor of the Free Press Building. Remember, you didn't miss any puzzles. The deadline date for submitting your entry with the 54 puzzles will be extended, so you'll have plenty of time to work out all 54 puzzles. Remember, too, that there are 10 puzzles to go; if you haven't started playing the Tangle Towns game, there's still plenty ct time to get started.

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