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PUBLIC LIBRAE AUG 1 6 1933 THE WEATHER Thunderitoritu on TuetiUy nd Wedneidny) not so hot EDITION Tuesday, August 16, 1938. 108th Year. No. 104 On Guard for Over a Century 20 Pages Three Cents Social Security Dodge Drowned on Honeymoon; U.S. Probe Bares Progress by Reds Working in U.

A W. 400 Schoolmen Protest Plan to Slash State Aid They Open Statewide Falls from Boat on Way to Doctor After Dynamite Blast Maims Him Relief Predicted for Detroit Area Following Rains Romance Ends in Tragedy Auto Heirs Bride Hurt in Explosion Scionfs Body Hunted in Georgian Bay; Wed Aug. 2 Employee at Lodge Is Injured in Mishap mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmf-. 1 I i i A i 4 I f. i VJ'f 1 1 i -I Campaign to Fight $12,000,000 Cut Demand 90 Per Cent of $28,000,000 Grant By James M.

Haswell LANSING. Aug. 15 Four hun dred Michigan school executives launched a statewide campaign of protest Monday against reported plans of Gov. Murphy to cut from the $28,000,000 authorized State aid to schools. Rejecting plans to compromise on a $5,000,000 cut, the schoolmen unanimously demanded that they be given at least 90 per cent, or $25,200,000, of the $28,000,000 legislative grant.

This was the amount allowed by Gov. Murphy for the last school year. With schools scheduled to open In three weeks, superintendents, board presidents and finance of ficers loudly condemned what they termed the indecision and uncertainty of the Democratic Administration's financing program. Horseplay, He Declares "I think they've been horse- playing with this for six months," said Leland H. Lamb, Flint superintendent.

He referred to Gov. Murphy and Budget Director Harold D. Smith. A. J.

Phillips, managing direc tor of the Michigan Educational Association, reported that he had been unable to obtain a definite statement from Smith of what the cut would be. If $12,000,000 is the final figure, heads of smaller schools agreed that many schools would be forced to close for part of the year. In Garden City the schools can operate only for four months on such an allotment, it was pointed out, while other small districts faced the prospect of six-month sessions. $872,000 In Detroit The proposed cut will affect the big and wealthy school districts least of all, but John H. Webster.

of the Detroit Board of Education, pointed out that the $12,000,000 cut would mean that Detroit would have $872,000 less than it had last year, and $2,672,000 less than it expected to get this year. This cut will mean that teachers leaving the staff will not be re placed, that the number- of stu dents on half-day sessions will be increased, mat regular pay raises earned ry seniority will not be Please Turn to Page 3 Column 4 Home and $5,000 Are Left to Church Will of Mrs. Cowles Filed for Probate St. Johns Episcopal Church, the Children's Hospital of Michigan the Protestant Children's Home and the Detroit Institute of Arts are among the beneficiaries named in the will of Mrs. Elisabeth Cowles, who died Aug.

5, it was re. vealed Monday when the will was filed for probate. To the church Mrs. Cowles left $5,000 and her home at 1042 Semi nole Ave. for use as a rectory.

The Children's Hospital and the Protes. tant Home will receive $5,000 each. Three paintings and a bronze statue will go to the Art Institute. Other furnishings of the Cowles home were left to relatives. The bequest to the hospital is to endow a bed as a memorial to Mrs.

Cowles' mother, Mrs. Harriet Stur. devant Howard. Twelve relatives will receive bequests of $1,000 to $5,000. The residue of the estate will go to a cousin, Elisabeth Harris, of Ardcn, N.

C. Mrs. Cowles was the widow of Israel T. Cowles. A hearing on the will will be held Sept.

29 be fore Probate Judge Joseph A Murphy. The Union Guardian Trust Co. was named executor. A. P.

Wircphoto Six Jurors Sworn In to Try Tammany Chief as Racketeer Dewey Restricts Trial to Hines and Tells of Million Victimized in N.Y. Authors Given Roosevelt Pat Harrison Included in Praise Despite Fight in the Last Session President Is Defied by Senator George WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 President Roosevelt tonight pledged that his social reform program would be extended to "all who need protection" and appealed to the voters to elect candidates in sympathy with his objectives. The Chief Executive headed a list of high Administration offi cials who spoke in a nationwide broadcast observance of the third anniversary of passage of the Social Security Act. Mr.

Roosevelt gave high praise tonight to the four "legislative fathers" of the act, among them Rep. David J. Lewis, of Maryland, who is campaigning as a "100 per cent New Dealer" to unseat Senator Millard Tydings, frequent opponent of Roosevelt measures. He described Lewis as a pioneer in the cause of social security. Gives Thanks Publicly I thank publicly, as I have so often thanked them privately," the President said, "four men who have had long and disting ulshed careers in the public serv ice Besides Lewis he named Rep Robert Doughton, of North Carolina, and Senators Robert F.

Wagner, of New York, and Pat Harrison, of Mississippi. He also acclaimed the service of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in promoting social secur ity legislation. Praise Is Surprise His words of praise for Harrison occasioned somewhat of a surprise Since the President supported Senator Alben W. Barkley against Harrison for party leadeship in the Senate, his relations with the Mississippian have been strained. At the last session of Con' gress, Harrison, chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, de nounced the President in a floor speech after Mr.

Roosevelt had excoriated congressional conservatives, including Harrison, for scuttling his cherished undistributed profits and capital gains taxes. The President tonight expressed hope that the next Oangrcss would broaden the Social Security Act to cover those now excluded. At his request, he said, Federal officials have been studying ways to extend to the people "more adequate health and medical services" and also "some protection against the economic losses arising out of ill health." Praises People's Choice If the people in recent years, he said, had chosen "a reactionary administration or a do-nothing Congress, social security would still be in the conversational stage." "We must face the fact," he asserted, "that in this country we have a rich man's security and a poor man's security and that the Government owes equal obligations to both." Mr. Roosevelt spoke "one word of "In our efforts to provide security for all of the American people, let us not allow ourselves to be Pfca.se Turn to Page 2 Column 5 Incurable Stowaway Ends Fourth Voyage NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (A.

Thirteen-year-old Robert Stap returned today from his fourth voyage as a stowaway. His mother, Mrs. Yvonne Stap, and two detectives, met the Grace liner Santa Elena, in which Robert had taken a sixteen-day trip to Caribbean ports, and prepared to take him to Children's Court. Robert had been on probation because of his third jaunt to sea. His total nautical mileage as a stowaway is 20,200.

ing requisition of private equipment and goods. Busses and trucks were conscripted for the maneuvers. The correspondence service usually reflects Government views Reports from Prague said that Britain and France had been told by the German Government that the maneuvers were not aggressive. This, to some extent, allayed fear in Czechoslovakia that Germany planned the demonstration to intimidate her in the dispute with the Sudeten German minority. As Germany paraded her military manpower, 40.000 Belgian soldiers were massed along the German frontier' tonight for maneuvers intended to prove that Belgium never will become another Austria.

The Eelgian war games, along both the Netherlands and German borders, will begin Belgium's peace-time soldjeis in the wee of war games Will "defend'' the fame route over wh.ch the Kaisers armies marched In 1014. Daniel G. Dodge, youthful heir to a $9,000,000 share of the Dodga automobile fortune and bridegroom of 13 days, drowned in Georgian Bay Monday afternoon as he was being taken to a hospital by boat for treatment of injuries received in a dynamite blast. Dodge, who was honeymooning at Kagawong, the Dodge summer camp 20 miles west of Little Cur rent, on Mamtoulln Island, suffered a fractured skull and his left arm was torn away when a stick of dynamite he had picked up exploded. Bride Hurt in Blast Mrs.

Dodge, the former Laurine MacDonald, a telephone operator at Gore Bay when Dodge met her several years ago, was injured seriously in the explosion. Physicians at Mindemoya Hos pital, 28 miles inland from th island port of Little Current, reported she would recover. They held less hope for Lloyd Bryant, another member of the party, who is an attendant at the camp. He suffered internal injuries and Injuries to his arms and legs. Mrs.

Bryant ana ranK vau- quette, other employees at th summer camp, escaped injury. Found Dynamite in Garage Valinuette said that the mem bers of the group were sitting in. the garage of the summer cottage about 4:30 p. m. when Dodgt picked up a piece of dynamite.

"While Dodge was noming tn dynamite in his hand, it exploded," Valiquette jelated. "It shattered his arm and struck the side of his face and head. Mrs. Dodge was hit in the legs. Bryant was badly hurt.

He was struck on the side." Valiquette said that Mrs. Dodg gasped, "Danny is badly hurt. Help me quickly!" Bride Helps Injured Man Though In great pain, her legs, arms and head terribly injured, Mrs. Dodge helped Valiquette draff the moaning youth to the motor-boat and they sped toward Littl Current, about 20 miles east of the summer camp. "Mrs.

Dodge drove the boat," Valiquette said. "She deserves A lot of credit for her courage as she was suffering considerably and the boat was hard to drive in th heavy seas. "I was bandaging Dan's arm and he was giving me instructions about stopping the flow of blood. About halfway over Mrs. Dodgs got faint and asked for somebody to spell her off.

I went up to ths front of the boat and she moved to the back." Tortured by Pain The pain became torture to th twenty-one-year-old husband. He apparently had been blinded by the explosion and his left arm hung in shreds. As the boat approached Little Current, Dodge suddenly clambered to his feet, stood for a brief moment, swaying in the motion of the boat and then hurled himself overboard. There came a cry from Mrs. Dodge: "Danny's gone overboard." Valiquette put the speeding craft around in a wide circle.

There was no trace of Dodge. The. boat went on to Little Current. First aid was given the injured at Little Current by Dr. C.

Young. Valiquette then took them on to the Red Cross Hospital at Mindemoya by automobile. "I have never seen a woman show such courage," said Dr. Young in speaking of Mrs. Dodge.

"She never whimperca or com-Phase Turn to Page 3 Column 2 War Games Army Facing Real Shells in Brush Fire CAMF BULLIS, Aug. 15 (U. Fire raced through dry brush on the Leon Springs Military Reservation tonight, endangering the lives of Texas National Guardsmen engaged in the Third Army maneuvers. Hundreds of soldiers called from, the defending "blue army" to fight the fire faced danger from exploding shelb. Many "duds" which had failed to fire in practice were on an artillery firing range through which the fire spread.

A drop in temperature Tues day, bringing relief from a two-day heat wave, was predicted by the Weather Bureau Monday night. Occasional thundershowers were anticipated. At 3:30 d. m. Monday the mercury stood at 89, tne days peak.

It had fallen to 79 at 11 p. m. Scattered showers Monday after noon gave only momentary relief from the heat which brought added discomfort to hay fever sufferers. Aug. 15 usually is known as the official opening day of the hay fever season, but many persons have been suffering for weeks because of the advanced crop of pollen-casting weeds.

The pollen count Monday was 205 grains a cubic yard on the official testing slide, as ragweed and golden rod cast their peak crop upon the winds. The count was 67 Saturday. At that Detroit was mors fortunate than most large cities throughout the country, where temperatures stayed in the middle and high 90s Monday. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, showed a temperature of 100 degrees. At the other extreme, the temperature was 33 at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone Park, a new low for Aug.

15. A freeze was reported unofficially at Tower Falls. Snow fell in high mountain passes. Felon Admits Killing Baker He Implicates Friend in Holdup Slaying Two men were held for murder Monday night in the holdup slaying of Stephen Szucs, 50 years old, in his bakery 417 S. West End Ave.

early Saturday. They were lVcholas Shary, 22, of 604 S. Harrington and Angelo Butera, 28, of 551 S. Sol-vay Ave. Shary is a parole violator from Ionia Reformatory.

Assistant Prosecutor A. Tom Pasieczny, who ordered murder charges be placed against the suspects, said that Shary had made a detailed confession of the slaying and had implicated Butera. Both Are Identified Both suspects, Pasieczny said, were identified at a police show-up by two young men who witnessed the robbery and who were threatened by Shary when they chased him as he fled from the bakery. Pasieczny taid that Shary had told him that he and Butera planned to rob Szucs because they needed money lor dates they had made witl. two young women.

"I had only 7 cents," Pasieczny quoted Shary as saying. "But I lived near the bakery and knew the layout there. We went to Butera's house and got his gun, then drove back to the bakery. 'Got Soared and Fired' "I told Butera to wait outside while I went in with the gun asked the baker for a loaf of bread and put the gun on him. He made a grab for it and I got scared and fired.

He staggered, but that's all I saw. I ran out without taking anything. Shary said that Butera had be come frightened and had driven away from the bakery, but that he had met him in the neighbor hood later and that they had gone home. Szucs died of a bullet wound above the heart. Shary was arrested Monday morning by Detective Sergt.

Rudolph Shrock and Detective George Bradley, of the Fort Station. The same officers picked up Butera Monday night. Slayer Has Record Police records showed that Shary has been arrested eight or 10 times, and that he was once sentenced to one to 15 years in Ionia for breaking and entering. After serving about six months he was paroled, and was arrested as a parole violator in September, 1937. Returned to Ionia and paroled again, he violated his parole a second time last Feb.

14, and had been at large since that time, police said. The witnesses wno uientiiiea tne suspects were James Szabo, 23, of i 401 S. West End and Alex Papp, 21. of 329 S. West End Ave.

I Szabo said that he had known Shary for 10 years. Won't Exploit My Name, John Roosevelt Declares BOSTON, Aug. 15 (A. Back from Bermuda with his bride of two months, John Roosevelt, the President's youngest son, to- i day declared he took a job "at! the bottom" in a Boston depart- 17 in State Linked with Communists Mortimer, Sugar and Reuther Named by A.F.L. Leader Radical Party Tactics in Elections Revealed By Clifford A.

Prevost WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 The Communist Party has sought for three years to dominate the United Automobile Workers of America, and has changed its nolitical tactics because of organization success in the motor Industry. This charge was made today in sworn testimony before the House committee investigating un-American activities. The testimony was given by John P. Frey, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, who richly documented the evidence he had to offer.

It was his second day on the stand, and the testimony was but an intimation of what is to ccme relative to unionization efforts in the motor and steel industries. Michigan Men Named Frey listed 17 persons from Michigan, including C.I.O. organizers and aides, as being connected with the Communist Party of America. Most prominent among these was Wyndham Mortimer, ousted vice president of the U.A.W. Another was Walter Reuther, member of the U.A.W.

executive board. Mortimer was listed as a member of the National Committee, Communist Party of America, for the current year. Frey put into the record the entire list of the committee membership and testified that at the convention in New York early this year Mortimer had been referred to as "Comrade Baker." Reuther, still a member of the union's high command, "has been to Russia several times and has made reports on the results," Frey testified. He added that "Reuther, in a letter written back to this country, said, 'Carry on the fight for a Soviet Charge Against Reuther Frey testified that U.A.W. President Homer Martin had preferred charges against Reuther.

When asked by a reporter about this statement, Frey said that he might have confused Walter with one of his brothers who had been it moved by Martin. Walter Reuther was not among the members of the executive board against whom charges were preferred several weeks ago. For hour after hour Frey read documents, the sources of which ere not revealed. However, he reached an understanding with the committee that he would reveal the sources confidentially to committee members. His information is understood to have come from A.F.L.

labor spies. feme Turn to Page Column 6 Pit Is Pumped Out in Hunt for Body While a crowd of 3,000 persons watched, Dearborn police and Fort Motor Co. engineers Monday night were pumping dry a clay jwry at Michigan and Ford in an effort tn nvnwr th if Thomas Patrick, 12 years Of 524R Floi-Mo Aiu drowned there at 4 p. m. According to police, the boy had swimming with his brother A1rt, 10.

and Stewart Hall, 11, 52,4 Proctor Ave. Thomas, we hoys said, swam out in the quarry, which is filled with about jwe fret of water and is nearly yard? wide and. as he reached middle, became tired and wnk. Because so much rubbish had dumped into the quarry, "nu-h was flooded bv recent rains, to drag for the body were avniljn Start the Day Right with the Free Press Tages A1lfn, Ruth 7 jjfi'md the 10 Chatterbox a Col yrs Selections 13 Co 19 Cros, 'word Puzzle 9 Editorial 'nancial "ign News the Donester "iTmann. Walte ''lonal Whirligig 4 rirq 17 Robert 4 P.Mir 13 14 12 lft fi ft ji 4 17 11 .1 of the Sadd Vat, W5.

MRS. DODGE Democratic machine or Hines per sonally. The Jurors picked today were: Elliott R. Brown, securities business, who will serve as foreman; Don L. Campbell, sales executive; Hugh C.

Harle, stock broker; Fred D. Suydam, insurance broker; Walter B. Southwick, sales man, and Ernest C. Hapgood, in surance. Justice Ferdinand Pecora of the Supreme Court granted Dewey', plea for a separate trial for Mar tin Weintraub, lawyer for the gang of the late Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz), who was named the same indictment.

This left Hines the only one of nine defendants in the case to go to trial. Three others have pleaded guilty and the rest are missing. The guilty three who are ex pected to testify for the State are: J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, counsel for Schultz; Harry Schoen-haus, Schultz collector; and George wetnoerg, another rang lieutenant The indictment charges Hines and his alleged confederates specifically with violating the lottery laws of the State. One misdemeanor count charging conspiracy and 12 felony counts are included.

In an explanatory statement to the talesmen before their exam lnation, Dewey estimated that perhaps a million persons in New York City play the policy racket daily. Most of the players are persons of meager means, he stated. The racketeers, according to Dewey, fixed the parimutuel pay off digits at the horse tracks upon wnicn ine winning number is based In order to steer away from a heavily played number. Hines, a stocky built Individual, 61 years old, expressed confidence of an acquittal. He called the case a "political battle" and "not the first I have been in." Noted Botanist Dies WASHINGTON, Aug.

15-(A. Guy N. Collins, sixty-seven-year-old Agriculture Department botanist who introduced the avocado pear into the United States, died yesterday at his home Lanham, Md. DANIEL G. Business Hails Ford Rehiring Fall Outlook Brighter as 24,000 Get Jobs Predictions of a fall upswing in business conditions and employment in Detroit were bolstered by the recall Monday by the Ford Motor Co.

of 24,000 men laid off Aug. 1 when the Rouge plant shut down for the annual inventory. By the end of the week, statisticians will be prepared to release figures which, they indicate, will show a slight upturn since Aug. 1. This will be the first encouraging report since last fall, when the Detroit employment Index was 124.9, a figure from which it declined steadily to 47.8, as of July 31, 19118.

"The recall of men to work in the auto companies last week started the first upward turn in Detroit employment since last October," according to Ward's Automotive Reports. While no opinion on long-time employment is expressed, statisticians and automotive officials look for a rising employment scale in the next few months, when automobile production is stepped up. New models will be displayed in the next two months, and factories will be supplying new stocks to dealers for late fall and early winter delivery. "Inventory in the hands of deal ers has been reducing almost steadily since last December," Bald Ward's reports. After new automobiles have been manufactured and placed in the hands of the dealers, future employment in the auto industry will depend in large measure on general business conditions throughout the country, according to automotive authorities.

Three Fliers Die in Navy War plane SAN DIEGO, Aug. 15 (U.P.) Three Navy aviators were killed late today when their torpedo bomber crashed near Rosedale while on a routine flight. The dead were: Michael Frank Moscicki, Pensacola, Ralph Thomas Carter, San Diego, and Donald Fay Smith, Des Moines. Fire Department Calls Halt on Abuse of Plugs The Board of Fire Commissioners notified the Common Council Monday that it was tired of having its fire hvlrants twisted and damaged by the D.P.W., the D.9.R., the Public Lighting Commission, the Department of Parks and Boulevards, the Department of Recrea- tion and the Works Progress Ad- i ministration. I Unless proper tools are used to open hydrants hereafter and the hydrants are turned off properly i sitr usr, ine i-ire Uepartmenl will issue no more genera! permits for such privileges, the commission I warned.

Copies of its warning were sent to the offen'ijig depart- DODGE Special ti Fre Pre md Chtcaro Trlhnne NEW YORK, Aug. 15 Six jurors were sworn in late today for the trial of James J. Hines, powerful Tammany Hall leader and alleged political protector of New York's' ring of policy game racketeers. The six were accepted by both sides after hours of examination of the "blue ribbon" panel. Six more jurors and two alternates must be selected.

Thomas E. Dewey, thirty-six-year-old district attorney and smasher of New York rackets, moved cautiously, seeking to eliminate all prospective Jurors who had enjoyed favors from the city's Detroit Will Plan to Fete Corrigan Luncheon Already Is Arranged for Flier Plans for the reception which Detroit will tender Douglas Corrigan, the wrong-way trans-Atlantic flier, next Thursday will be completed at a meeting in Mayor Reading's office at 10 a. m. Tuesday. A committee of 50 headed by James M.

(Pat) O'Dea and in cluding many of the city's aero-J nautical notables will greet Corrigan on behalf of Detrcit. Details of the public appearances which Corrigan will make in Detroit will be decided at Tuesday's meeting. Corrigan la to leave Roosevelt Field on the first leg of his projected nationwide tour Tuesday afternoon. He is scheduled to land in Albany, N. at 4:40 p.

m. He is due in Detroit at 11:30 a. Thursday; Indianapolis, 2 p. m. Friday: Chicago, 11 a.

m. Saturday; Milwaukee, 11:30 a. m. Sunday. In Detroit, a luncheon In his honor will be held in the Hotel Statler under the sponsorship of the Adcraft Club.

The luncheon will be public and those wishing to make reservations may do so through the Adcraft office in the Book Tower. Corrigan is expected to fly here in the same ancient monoplane i that carried him to Dublin when he headed for California. An an- i swer received Monday accepted Mayor Reading's telegraphed in- 1 vitatmn to Corrigan to Include Detroit in his itinerary. A Whopper! DELAND. Aug.

Miss Lurlayne Mercer decided to cool off today, took off her shoes i and dipped her feet into St. John's River. Then, to r-ake the sport. interesting, she tied a string to her toe and an artiftrial plug minnow to the string A moment is'er she jumped hv from the ater. and an eight-pound black Hitler Watches Reich Mass in Ominous War Maneuvers Germany Begins Weeks of Military Games to Show Its Might to Europe BERLIN, Aug.

15 (A. .) Thousands upon thousands of German reservists dressed up in Swastika-decorated uniforms today and reported for nationwide maneuvers 'ith the regular army-six weeks' operations which military observers estimated would put between a half-million and a million men under arms. Reichsfuenrer Adolf Hitler himself witnessed part of the first day's operations on a visit to Juetorbog, 40 miles south of Berlin, site of a large reserve officers camp. There was no longer any attempt to hide public misgivings over the forthcoming demonstra- Deu tsch land were natural in view of the tacts that: since tne World War was drattm? reservists for maneuvers with the regular army, and 2 The Government for tne first ime had invoked a law authoriz "A NEW FIGURE FOR FALL" Are you overweight? Has summer added unwanted pounds that far from flatter you? Does your figure need slimming down to match the smart new clothes you'll soon be wearing? Then here's the help you've been looking for a new seriy of articles that point the way to the pleasing figure that every woman wants. Appearing each week-day on Free Press Women's Pages, these articles will discuss every phase of the figure problem.

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