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Yanks and Bpsox Close In as Tigers Split with Chicago The Detroit Tigers split a double-header with the Chicago White Sox Sunday but managed to cling to first place in the American League pennant race. Hal Newhouser won, 1 to 0, in 12 innings in the opener. In the second game, a three-run rally in the ninth fell short as Ray Scarborough won for the Sox, 5 to 4. New York won the first game of its twin bill with the Washington Senators, 8 to 1, but the Yanks were trailing, 6 to 2, when rain washed out the second game in the fourth inning. Boston won its 22nd straight game from the Philadelphia Athletics in Fenway Park, 6 to 2.

Details in Sports Section. AT Taie Red rivm on Drivers Out; 60,000 Left Stranded Wildcat Strike Hits Greyhound Service Some 60,000 suburban commuters to Detroit will be without bus transportation Monday; morning. Long talks Sunday failed to get wildcat strikers of the Greyhound Suburban Line to return to their C7 Truman Names Czar 5 Inches of Rain Give Flint Dousing DETROIT N. Y. BOSTON CLEV.

Games Behind 'i 1 7 Games to Flay 20 21 18 16 Over Civilian Output Belt-Tighteniiig Program Mapped to Channel Materials to War Needs WASHINGTON fU The Government created a National Production Authority with arbitrary power to cut back civilian output. The purpose is to make sure that war industries get all the essential materials they need. The agency, counterpart of the i old War Production Board, will be rTOCJUCtlOn DOSS JL-40 W-85 A six-hour siege of thunderstorms doused Flint with more than five inches of rain Sunday afternoon. Southbound traffic on Dixie Highway was piled up for two miles late into the night, stopped by a 38-inch flood in the low section at Grand Blanc. Fisher Body Plant No.

1 and 500 Flint homes were without electricity after lightning knocked down wires all over town. AT LEAST 2,000 basements were flooded. Dirt roads were washed out. Dort Highway and Linden Road were inundated at viaducts. The storms splashed the Flint area from 1:30 to 7:30 p.

m. The biggest cloudburst came at 4:30 p. m. Sheets of water cut visibility to zero. The Flint area apparently was the only spot to get a record dousing.

Saginaw, only 35 miles away, reported .6 of an inch of rain. Battle Creek and Toledo had one inch each. In Detroit, less than half an Inch of rain fell during a short evening storm. The Weather Bureau forecast more showers and thunder-showers for lower Michigan Monday. Cloudy skies will keep daytime temperatures in the upper 70s, it was predicted.

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At bet. If i A A4 1 Seek Missins: Boy, in St. Clair Shores A statewide alarm was sounded Sunday as St. Clair Shores police and residents searched for an eight-year-old boy missing Yanks Look for Attacks on 3 Fronts But First Cavalry Yields Little Ground TOKYO (U.R) Communist forces opened a frenzied charge against the United States First Cavalry Division lines north of Taegu Monday. Before the attack, they had lobbed artillery shells into the town.

40,000 North Koreans poised to strike the vital city from three directions, the Reds made their first major assault from the north against the right flank of the First Cavalry eight miles above Taegu. AFTER A nightlong series of small-scale attacks along the entire First Cavalry front, the Reds charged down a hill directly into the American lines. United States guns poured small-arms and artillery fire into the savage attackers, but the Communists charged on. An Eighth Army communique said that F'rst Cavalry troops had repulsed the Ked charges in the Kasan area rorth of Taegu but that other assaults had forced them Back about 300 yards east of Waegwan, 12 miles northwest of Taegu. Eighth Army headquarters of ficers believed the assault may be the start of a full-scale attempt to capture Taegu once the temporary South Korean capital and still the nerve center of the United Nations military operations.

From rooftops in Taegu, wit nesses saw gunfire in the eastern outskirts of the town well behind the American lines early Monday. The skirmish apparently was between American or South Korean troops and Red infiltrators. Although the gunfire was in the vicinity of the Taegu airfield, that base still was in operation. THE TENSION that existed in Taegu in the face of the new Com munist threat was heightened when an American Air Force plane mistakenly strafed the town. The pilot, believing he was over Kumchon 30 miles to the northwest, made three strafing runs over the heart of the city.

There were some casualties and some damage, the Air Force said. American fighter planes and bombers blistered the attacking Communists with fire bombs north of Taegu and ripped the Red lines Turn to Page 2, Column 3 North Korean Staff Chief Dies LONDON (JP) The Moscow radio announced that Kam Gen, deputy minister of national defense and chief of the general stare of the North Korean Army, died at the front Sept. 8. A Tass news agency dispatch from North Korea gave no details. It said Kam Gen was one of the organizers of the North Korean Communist Army and was "the closest militant friend" of North Korean Premier Kim II Sung.

Typhoon Sweeps Closer to Japan TOKYO (JP) A typhoon, the second in a week, continued sweeping in from the southeast towards Japan. It is expected to strike the main island of Honshu Tuesday or Wednesday. It was reported 570 miles south of Tokyo, with winds of more than 103 miles an hour. Elect FRANK X. N0RRIS Probal Judf (To 1U1 Tioancy A3t.

COST-OF-LIVING ACCORD Raise Ends Walkout at Wyandotte Chemical Production at the strike-bound Wyandotte Chemicals Corp. -ill be resumed Monday. The 2,500 chemical workers who walked off their jobs Tues-Jay were ordered back by John Badoud, regional director for District 50 of the United Mine Workers. jobs. A second attempt to settle tM unauthorized walkout will be made at 1 p.

m. Monday. A meeting of drivers, union leaders and company representatives will be held then, probably at American Legion Headquarters, Cass and Lafayette. ABOUT 250 drivers, the sub urban system's total force, ga raged their buses in designated terminals early Sunday and failed to report for the Sunday schedule. Approximately 200 buses serving Pontiac, Birmingham, Mt.

Clemens and Wyandotte were idled by the walkout. The strike was one of the Beries of recent "pressure" walkouts staged to bring about reopening of labor contract wage clauses to compensate for rises in living costs. Charles C. McCaffrey, business agent of Local 1303, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes (AFL), said the walkout was not authorized. HE SAID NO particular individ ual or group had inspired the strike, but that it was "spontane ous.

The union currently has a two- year contract with the company, not reopenable for negotiations until it terminates in January, 1952. Under the present pact, drivers with two-years' seniority receive $1.60 an hour. Minimum pay is S1.36 plus a 5-cent bonus granted if the driver has no chargeable accident. J. V.

Powell, assistant general manager of Greyhound Suburban Lines, said employes had not asked to meet with company officials and that no formal grievances had been stated. McCaffrey spent most of Sunday talking to drivers. He said he had been unable to contact many and that settlement was virtually impossible without an organized meeting. The walkout did not affect other intra-state bus operations by Greyhound. Helpless Ship Rolls in Path of Hurricane Tow Line Snaps in Heaving Atlantic ELIZABETH CITY, N.

(JP) Her engines lifeless, the Danish freighter Paris wallowed in the storm-churned Atlantic Sunday mnt About 40 miles to the south a hurricane barreled toward the ship. Earlier, the vessel, which had radioed that it was sink ing, was taken into tow by the tanker Amtank. But Coast uuara officials reported here that the line had been snapped. COAST GUARD cutters were on their way to the scene. No attempts had been made to transfer the Paris' crew of 27 to the Amtank.

The vessels were reported about 170 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras. Storm warnings went up on the North Carolina and Virginia coasts in the path of the hurricane. Its winds were estimated at about 100 miles an hour. A second hurricane was reported about 1,000 miles east of Puerto Rico and 2,200 miles southeast of the Florida coast. It had winds of 70 to 80 miles an hour and was moving slowly west or northwest.

William J. Cody tor Jud ProbM PoL AdT. fj W-80 plant strikes which have rut the nation's soda ash output by 65 per cent. Defense officials appealed to the iTjMW to halt the strikes, claiming i mediator. "RETIREMENT AND welfare benefits were not discussed locally," he said.

The cost-of-living escalator in the proposed contract here would adjust wages one cent every time the price index rose or fell 1.14 points, using Aug. 15, 1950, as a base period. The union originally asked for an interim wage hike pending expiration of the present contract in January. Says U.S. Should Break Red Pacts COLUMBUS, O.

(JP) The 1948 National Commander of the American Legion urged immediate cancellation of every pact and treaty between the United States and Russia. James F. O'Neil, of Manchester, N. said the United States should demand that Marshall Plan countries cease trading with Russia. Chief Confirmed DOWAGIAC Police Sgt.

Kenneth McLeod, Dowagiac, who has been acting police chief for some time, has been appointed permanent police chief. a branch of the Commerce Department. IT WILL be headed by William Henry Harrison of New York, 58, phone Telegraph Corp. Harrison will be sworn in Monday. With Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, he will meet immediate-ly with 21 top steel executives to map plans for voluntary allocations and priorities to channel steel to essential users.

In advance of the NPA'S first action, the Commerce Department reimposed export controls over nearly all iron and steel products, effective Sept. 30. The NPA'S first compulsory regulations, probably dealing with inventory controls, may be issued before the end of this eek. THE AGEXCY was created under the new home front mobilization law which President Truman signed Friday. The swift action made plain that the civilian belt-tightenting program will get into high gear at once.

The President warned all Americans that "business as usual" is a thing of the past. He said that sacrifices in all walks of life will be required for a long time to insure the success of a rearmament program that will send defense costs to more than $30,000,000,000 a year. He said wage-price controls are I not necessary yet. But he nevertheless created a new Economic Stabilization Agency to determine when and where they will be needed. Its chief has not yet been named.

THE XPA has the power to establish voluntary or compulsory programs to channel scarce materials where they are most needed. It ran establish priorities and allocations. It also can place ceilings on the size of industrial inventories and make direct Turn to Tage 4, Column 3 Water Bombs Help Fight Forest Fires First Trial in Canada Successful SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. ((JP) Airplanes "waterbombed" forest fires in Ontario for the first time Sunday.

The Department of Lands and Forests for Ontario had previously tested this method. They dispatched three planes to waterbomb two actual fires in remote areas. MEANWHILE crews set out on foot. When they reached the fires, they reported the bombs had helped bring the blazes under control. Forestry Specialist Tom Wood-side termed results as "very successful." Hospital Periled ANCHORAGE, Alaska (JP) Two large brush and forest fires that periled the Elmendorf Air Force base hospital were brought under control.

Employes voted 1.336 to 94 bun-Jjy night to accept the new wage jffer made by the company at a jargaining session Saturday. THE COMPANY offered a 10- ent hourly wage boost retroactive they hindered the Korean war Sept. 1 with another five-cent jfort. Soda ash is used in the pro-vage hike to be tacked on in ajduction of key war materials, ar. "The Wyandotte strike was Zhis brings the basic wage aver- 1 strictly a money dispute," accord-ge to $1.75 -in hour, a company inr to Harold K.

Daniels, federal 8, since early Saturday evening. The boy, Joseph Housey, of 22210 Madison. St. Clair Shores, had left his home to visit Jefferson Beach Amusement Park, a quarter of a mile away. Police said late Sunday they feared he had drowned.

HIS BICYCLE was discovered on a walk just inside the park. He was last seen with an unidentified young friend at about 8 p. m. standing in the doorway of a public hall near his home watching a wedding reception. The companion, Billy George, since has left town with his parents.

Harvey Champine, St. Clair Shores chief of pojice, said he will order dragging operations begun Monday in near-by canals and along the lake front if no clews develop. The child's description was sent to all Michigan police departments Searches of the park on the theory the child might have fallen asleep there failed to disclose any trace of him. HIS PARENTS. Helen and Joseph Housey.

6aid their son left the house at about 6 p. m. They said he had been scolded for attending a police and fire men neia aay in me neignoor- hood Saturday afternoon against their orders, tsut tney teit uus punishment was not enough to cause him to stay away from home after dark. An amusement park attendant reported seeing the child near one of the rides at about 6:30 p.m. The Houseys have two other sons, Donald, 13, and James, 17.

Housey is an auto worker. The home was crowded Sunday with relatives who had come to join in the search. IN ONE CORNER of the dining room the distraught mother had placed a candle before a religious image, praying for her son's safe return. The youth, a third grade student at Lakeview School, is 3 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs 52 pounds. He has jet black hair and a dark complexion and was wearing a white shirt and brown pants.

Flies lo U.S. LIMA. Peru (JP) Maria Del-gado de Odria, wife of Peru's president, flew to New York for medical treatment. WILLIAM II. IIARRISOX Heads new agency 9 Missing as Superfort Falls at Sea 3 of Crew Picked Up Search On for Others TOKYO (U.R) A B-29 Superfortress crashed into the East China Sea off Okinawa shortly after take-off.

Nine of the 12 men aboard are listed as missing. Gen. Douglas MacA headquarters announced. Far East Air Force headquarters said three crewmen were picked up by the Air-Sea Rescue Service soon after the plane hit the water. Search for the missing nine is continuing, with both planes and surface vessels sweeping the sea.

Capt. Nathan C. Haynes, of Sherman, was commander of the plane. (None of those aboard was list ed as from Michigan.) Plane Ditched al Sea All 7 Crewmen Saved PEARL HARBOR (JP) A Navy transport plane, her fuel tanks empty, was ditched in the Pacific near Midway Island. But within three hours all seven men aboard were rescued.

The Hawaiian Sea Frontier reported a patrol boat picked up the seven men from a life raft tossed about by 12-foot waves. None of the men required medical assistance. Among the seven was Midship man W. Campbell, of Flint, Mich You'll Find: Amusements Industrial Snorts Women's Pages 36 37 SO to 33 26 to 28 Radio and Television 43 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads WOODWARD 2-9400 Call Vnrp Fop Vaml'nberr for Laeuienant Governor Pol. Adv.

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Adr. joseph housey Object of search The at a Crisis Gl ance KOREAN' FRONT North Koreans open frenzied attack against American troops defending Taegu; Allies advance in two key areas on northern front. North Koreans say most of industries have been destroyed by American air raids. Page 17. WASHINGTON New defense production authority set up.

Secretary of State Acheson cites Allied aims on eve of Western Europe defense talks. Page 29. MOSCOW Communist paper charges United States is plotting third world war. Page 21. Fog Halts Ship SAGAMORE.

Mass. (JP) Dense fog forced the pleasure i craft Boston Belle, carrying 2,300 passengers, to anchor off the east end of the Cape Cod Canal. RETAIN RECORDER'S COt'RT JUDGE CHARLES WESLEY JONES, 634 On Ballot Pol. Air. "Vole for Lnl JffrlM Hsdtb for Councilman.

Nob Pol. AdT. ipokesman said. An escalator clause geftred 1o the price index will provide additional wage hikes if the cost of living goes up. The contract will take effect at nce and run to Jan.

21, 1953. THE MEX struck in a dispute ver the classification of helpers. The proposed contract met- the inion demands that helpers be classified as Class mechanics. The Wyandotte walkout was the latest in a series of chemical What Is Cost of Your Child? Just how much is your child worth in time, money and energy expended? It sounds odd to evaluate the small fry, but an expert has done some fancy research. He presents the "sane approach to raising children" in a special feature in PARAPH of SUNDAYS FKEE PRESS.