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rt 13 noon 74 8 p.m. 78 13 mid. 65 METRO FINAL tGRAZIANO WINS Scores TKO in Loudly Booed Decision. See Story Page 26. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1951 On Guard for Over a Century 40 Pages Vol.

121 No. 138' Five Cents THE BENNETT STORY arrr nennett mm BR IB 11 Tells What He Thought of Ford Private Talks, Secrets of Plant Police Bared fn AM 1 7W? 1111 1 Reds Seek Renewal of Truce Parley Foe Asks Ridgway tox Set Date of Next Meeting at Kaesong Attlee Calls Elections in Britain Labor Party Test Set for Oct. 25 ark Times Foreign SerTke LONDON In a broadcast to This is Harry Bennett's own story the story of the 30 years he served as Henry Ford's right arm. Perhaps no one ever was as close to the late automotive genius as this former sailor and boxer who soon became known as "the little man in Henry Ford's basement." Now 58 and living in semiretirement on his California ranch, Bennett is telling his story for the first time. In collaboration with Paul Marcus, a free-lance writer, Bennett has written a book which will be published Oct.

5 by Fawcett Gold Medal Books. A condensation of the book will appear in True Magazine, on the newstands Friday. Widespread interest has followed Bennett from the days when he was "the man to see" at the Ford Motor Co. until last February when he appeared before the Senate crime-investigation committee. Because of this, the Free Press has obtained special permission from True to reprint portions of the magazine article in two installments.

BY HARRY BENNETT During the 30 years I worked for Henry Ford. I became intimate companion. I was closer to him even than only son. The result has been a misconception in the public mind. A belief has arisen that Mr.

Ford was a simple man who was merely ill-advised in his unpopular actions and that I was his adviser. It wasn't true. After all, Mr. Ford was one of the world's greatest industrialists. He created a billion-dollar organization.

No "simple" man could have achieved the things he did. The reason Mr. Ford kept me on for SO years was that I did what he wanted me to do. Nothing ever happened at the Ford Motor Co. without Mr.

Ford's knowledge; that was a physical I have been called a thug, a gangster, a pro-Nazi, an anti-Semite. It has been said that I was fired from my job. AH of these accusations are just plain lies. TOKYO (U.R) The Communists proposed Thursday that I '4 Vv ''S Y.v the Korean truce talks be resumed immediately at Kaesong. I have no desire to glorify my- The Red proposal that the sus pended truce parley get under way again was handed to United Na tions liaison officers at the Pan Mun Jom highway station below Kaesong at a dawn meeting.

An hour later it was broadcast over the Peiping Radio. PROSPECTS FOR peace in Ko rea thus got their biggest boost since the cease-fire negotiations were broken off Aug. 23, almost a month ago. Kim Sung, the North Koreans supreme commander, and Peng Teh Huai, the Chinese Communist general, addressed their note to Gen. Matthew B.

Ridgway, UN supreme commander. It asked him to set a time and date for the next truce meeting-. The Communist note was in reply to Ridgway's message of last Monday when he told the Red high command he was ready to resume the conference. In that communication, Ridgway made it plain that the next move was up to the Communists. THE COMMUNIST commanders said, "We propose that the delegates of both sides should immediately resume the armistice negotiations at Kaesong without any need for further discussion of the conditions for the resumption of the armistice negotiations." As for the unsettled charges of neutrality violations, the Reds said, "we propose that at the first meeting after the resumption, of the Kaesong armistice negotiations appropriate machinery be set up by arrangement of both sides" to deal with them and to guarantee that there would be no future incidents.

The Communist message did not indicate whether the Red com' manders wanted the full delegation or the subcommittee to meet AFTER FABLING to agree on the location of a cease-fire line at the 16th meeting of the full dele gations, they turned the problem over to a subcommittee of two from each side. The subcommittee first met Aug. 17. It was about to hold its seventh meeting Aug. 23 when the Reds broke off the talks.

The Communist leaders ignored Ridgway's proposal for another meeting site. They stated definitely that the negotiations should be resumed at Kaesong-. There was no immediate indica tion from Ridgway's headquarters UN gives ground, slugs back in fifth day of vicious battle in Korea. Page 4. how soon he would answer the message nor when he would suggest that the meeting take place.

But there was no doubt that he would agree. All along he has said he was willing for the talks to resume. THE RED NOTE said that in view of the fact that the UN had expressed regret concerning the Sept 10 strafing of Kaesong and a willingness to "take a respon sible attitude" regarding viola tions of the neutral zone, they proposed immediate resumption of the talks. It also said the Reds did not wish to let the "unsettled incidents continue to obstruct the progress of the negotiations." A I Vn- yl Tuiffi'i -fit Miniir iTriMtiWMrir.iii mm tmm" $t('-u-7rwmmmmammmmmwmmtmmHim HENRY FORD AND HARRY BENNETT Powerful pair in relaxed mood in 1940 GOVERNMENT SURVEY SHOWS 18-Year-Olds Say Robbery Was Motive Victim Struck with Rubber Mallet BY KENNETH McCORMICK Free Frew Staff Writer EAST LANSING Three teen-agers confessed Wednesday night that they killed Nurse Pauline Campbell during a drink-inspired robbery attempt, police said. The youths, all 18, were identified as: Max Pell, an employe of an Ypsilanti garage.

David Royal, of Milan, a construction worker. William Morrey, of Ypsilanti, who said he had just enrolled as a freshman at Michigan Normal CoUege in Ypsilanti MISS CAMPBELL, 34 was slain early Sunday as she walked from work at St. Joseph's Hospital to' her rooming nouse on the fringe of the University of Michigan campus at Ann, Arbor. -Washtenaw County Prosecu tor Douglas K. Reading and Ann Arbor Police Chief Casper Enkemann said Pell was the first to crack, Reading said all three will be charged with first-degree murder.

Th young men probably will be arraigned Thursday before Municipal Judge Francis O'Brien, in Ann Arbor. Reading and Enkemann quoted Morrey as, saying the three had dates with Ann Arbor girls and had been drinking beer in a Milan tavern. They took the girls home. "WE SAW THIS nurse walking along Washington Heights," the authorities quoted Morrey as saying, "It was kind of dark and we decided to rob her. "I got out of the car and started to walk down the street after her.

I had a rubber mallet In my hand that had been brought from a garage. "Max and Dave drove along behind me slowly with their lights out. "Then I came up close to her and let her have it twice with the mallet." Morrey said the two others drove up, started to load Miss Campbell into the car but "had some trouble." "So," Reading quoted Morrey as saving, "we dropped her and drove away." THE CONFESSIONS were announced shortly before the three were to take lie-detector tests at State Police Headquarters. A tip from a fourth teen-ager cracked the case wide open, when it seemed that there was no important clew. Donald Banghey, 18, of Ypsilanti, told police that one of the Turn to Page 4, Column 6 1 1 f.

1 PATJLLVE CAMPBELL Her slaying solved hi Elderly Couple Needs $150 a Month lo Live WASHINGTON A Government survey showed that it costs about $150 a month for a "modest but adequate" living for a retired husband and wife, age 65. the British people Prime Minis ter Clement Attlee announced that he had asked the King to dissolve Parliament so that a new election could be held on Oct 25. Thus he ended nearly 18 months of uncertain tightrope walking by a Labor Government with a majority of only six in the 625-mem-ber House of Commons. Now the British people will have a chance to say whether they want more socialism or have had enough. THE LAST time the issue, was submitted to them in February, 1950, they a desire to mark time.

The indications now are that they are In a mood to cry halt It is an unhappy time for Labor to seek a new mandate from the electorate. Labor is restlessly demanding wage hikes. The left-wing labor-ites, led by rebel Aneurin Bevan, are attacking the Government's rearmament policy as being carried out at the sacrifice of socialist advances. There are many within the party who favored waiting on the theory that an election now could end only in defeat and that it might pay to wait in the hope that something would turn up. But Attlee, who has access to much information hidden from the public, decided otherwise.

His is the sole responsibility for de-deciding when to submit the issue to the voters. THERE ARE several reasons why Attlee decided to risk de feat now rather than later. For one thing the hope that fighting in Korea might be ended through negotiation and that the dispute with Iran over oil might be resolved has proved fruitless. But more important than that Britain is moving toward a new economic crisis. Partly because of rearmament her exports are dwindling at the same time that the cost of her essential imports are rising.

The next quarterly report on her finances will show that the United Kingdom and the whole sterling area has a trade deficit not only with the dollar countries but with the rest of the world as well. AND WHAT is worse there had been a loss of some $300,000,000 in her gold reserve. Now that is bad news for Britain but it plays right into the hands of Bevan and his rebel followers who have said all along that in undertaking to spend 4,700,000,000 pounds in the next three years on defense Britain was bitting off more than she could chew. Bevan and his supporters were planning to point to the country's troubles and boast they had fore seen all when they resigned from the Government last spring the high prices, the dislocations and all problems that are besetting worried people in this austere land. BUT NOW Attlee has acted if not to stifle their chorus of criticism at least to muffle it.

He has called parliament which is now adjourned, into session for Oct. 4 to finish its business. That means the Labor Party conference scheduled for the first week of October will just about have time to hear the set speeches of Government leaders but not for replies of the Government's critics before it yields to the priority of a parliamentary session. And even Sevan's mellifluous voice may be muted in the interest of party harmony to Turn to Page 9, Column 6 Revolutionary Tube Receives Color TV BY WILLIAM L. LAURENCE New York Timet Serriee NEW YORK A revolutionary type of color television tube which receives television programs in both black and white and color without the need of any disc or wheel converter has been devised.

The tube can be mass-produced by any television manufacturer at a cost only' slightly above present black and white receivers. sen. tsut ror tne sake or my family, and for my own peace of mind, I want to try to set the record straight. (BENNETT FIRST began work ing for "Henry Ford in the com pany's Highland Park plant. After six months, he was moved by Ford to the Rouge plant, then under construction, to be Ford's "eyes and Exactly what was my job with Mr.

Ford? WelL I guess the simplest way to define my position is to say that I was Mr. Ford's aide, his man-of-all-work. The first nine or 10 years I was with Mr. Ford was an educational period for me. I learned to know Mr.

Ford. In those early days, he once said to me: "Harry, never try to outguess me." I was green then, and I didn't quite get it. I said: "You mean, I should never try to understand you?" "Well," Mr. Ford said, "that's close enough." HE WAS THE most incon sistent man I ever knew. Yet he hated nothing more than to be called inconsistent.

I used to tell Mr. Ford that he was inconsistent, and he'd get angry and say: "If you mean change my mind, I reserve the right to change my mind any time I want to." Just because he said something yesterday never meant that he felt obligated to do it today. The one thing in the world Mr. Ford couldn't stand was ridicule. He couldn't stand any slur on his intelligence.

While I was with him I some times ignored orders; I took issue with him any number of times; but I know now that if I ridi culed him, I'd have been through. DURING THOSE early years, Mr. Ford gave me a lecture on the matter of gifts. He told me: "Never give anything without strings attached to it." A gift from him always had a rubber band on it. Gifts to me were one exception.

In 1918, Mr. Ford resigned as president of the Ford Motor Co. though he kept his seat on the board of directors, and Edsel, then 25, was elected president Though Edsel remained president of the company from then until his death, Mr. Ford never really gave him anything but the title. Mr.

Ford was boss, and no one ever had cause to doubt it I KNOW THAT Mr. Ford loved Edsel dearly, but there was an unrelenting, though sometimes hidden, struggle between them which went on to the day of Edsel's death. The basis for this was in Mr. Ford's to have Edsel be Torn to Page 8, Column Graft Trial Wrecked by Bookie Balky Witness Jailed for Contempt NEW YORK (ff) Balky, silent Harry Gross wrecked the Brooklyn graft trial of 18 policemen. The state charged money was paid to seal his lips.

Quivering with defiance, Gross refused for a second day in a row to testify against the policemen, who allegedly protected his gambling ring. He said he feared for the lives of his family if he talked. WITH NO OTHER choice before him, Kings County Judge Samuel B. Leibowitz threw out the indictment Then he sentenced Gross to Jail for five years and fined him $15,000 on 60 counts of contempt of court. In a cold rage, Leibowitz called Gross "a miserable wretch" and said nothing gave' him greater pleasure than to sentence him.

District Attorney Miles F. McDonald and his assistant, Julius Helfand, broke down and wept as they watched their biggest case tumble into bits after 20 months of hard work. JUDGE LEIBOWITZ tried every way he knew to get Gross talking asain, even warning the bookie kingpin he'd "rot in jail." "I'd sooner go to jail," snapped Gross, the state's star witness in the big mass graft trial. It was one of the wildest clashes ever seen in a New York courtroom. Gross and Leibowitz traded fiery, angry words in a state of near hysteria.

Leibowitz, needled into fury by Gross' blunt defiance, roared at him: Til give you a thousand years. I'll hand it to you. I'll bury you. You'll rot there." Then he began reading questions and answers from the grand-jury record that led to the indictment. Every time Gross refused to say whether the answers were his, Leibowitz slapped a contempt citation on him.

THE JUDGE ticked the cita tions off one a minute 10, 20, then 40 and finally 60 in all. Grossi just blinked and kept his mouth shut. Nor did he say a word when Leibowitz angrily accused him of planning a mistrial in the case against the 18 policemen, who allegedly took $1,000,000 a year in bribes for him. McDonald, red-faced with sorrow and anger, said: "We have evidence that a sub-Turn to Page 4, Column 4 Findings of the survey, based on October, 1950, living costs, were outlined in an article published in the Labor Department's monthly Labor Review. Living as measured by the department's index, have risen 6 percent since the survey.

THE STUDY showed that in about, half of the 34 principal cities of the nation, a modest level, of living for a retired couple, approximately 65 years old, costs between $1,700 and $1,800 a year. Cost estimates in the 34 cities range from $1,602 in New Orleans to $1,908 in Milwaukee. The figure for Detroit was $1,818. The budget priced in the. was described as including goods and services "necessary for a healthful, self-respecting mode of living that allows normal participation in the life of the community in accordance with current American standards.

THE BUDGET provides for no automobile. It contemplates rental of a two or three-room dwelling. It provides for no elaborate medical care but supposes that it covers elderly couples "who are able to get around and take care of themselves, with the husband retired or having only" occasional employment." The survey said that one of every 12 persons in the country now are 65 or over. Compared with the department's findings that a retired couple needs $150 monthly for "modest but adequate" exist- ence is the $70 average payment to retired couples now being made under the Federal Social Security retirement system. The department said the average city family of four now needs $3,600 to $4,200 a year.

FRAUD SEEN 25 Convicts Are Indicted JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (JF) Twenty-five convicts were indicted on charges they operated a scheme in the state prison which bilked the Internal Revenue Bureau out of more than $3,500. The indictments were returned by a Federal grand jury. The scheme, which consisted of making false claims for refunds of tax overpayments, was discovered several months ago by income tax investigators. Coin Keeper WASHINGTON (JP) A propo sal to place all of the Govern ment's financial operations under one head the secretary of finance was made by Rep.

Sieminski N. You'll Find: Amusements Editorials Financial Movies Photography Radio and Television Sports Women's. Pages 23 6 30-31 22 15 37 26-29 18-22 It was given a private demonstration in the presence of a small group of electronic engineers and physicists at the offices of the Paramount Pictures Corp. THE NEW TUBE promises to bring color television to the home much sooner than expected. It was invented by Prof.

Ernest O. Lawrence, of the University of California, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron. He is one of the world's outstanding atomic scientists. Dr. Lawrence flew here from California to demonstrate his latest invention.

He explained that he developed it In his spare time in his hobby shop near Berkeley, in response to questionings by his children. Prof. Lawrence's invention promises to settle the controversy that has been raging between rivaj television manufacturers. It can be adapted at no great cost to receive both CBS and RCA color programs, as well as programs in black and white. TO RECEIVE CBS programs in color all that would be needed, in addition to the Lawrence tube, would be an adapter and three additional electronic tubes.

Major credit for the development of the new tube was given by Dr. Lawrence to the Paramount Picture which has organized a subsidiary company, the Chromatic Television Laboratories, to translate Dr. Lawrence's ideas into actuality. The tube reproduces colors with a life-like fidelity without any apparent uzziness. The Chromatic Television Laboratories will manufacture the new color tubes and receivers.

It will license other companies to manufacture the Lawrence color tubes. Production is expected to begin soon..