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Hope Died Vague Rumors Aid Rolling Store llourt: to 530, Mondays through Saturdays MP unt or War Dead 2 DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday. 'February 8. 1947 IN WASHINGTON Agreement Reported on Misr Budget Cut BY JAMES S. POOLER Free Pret Staff Writer The armed forces, have lost no time in tracing personnel who disappeared in the vast area of the Pacific. When Chaplain William.

E. Powers set out on his mission of discovering the fate of missing men last year, peace had not committee member, told a reporter he hopes the committee will not set a budget figure so low that I will have to be raised later. He said that while he would like to see expenditures pegged at $32,000,000,000, it might not be possible to do so. Meanwhile the House Ways and Means Committee voted to hold closed hearings, starting Feb. 19, on the 20 per cent income tax cut, bringing a cry of "steamroller taer tics" from Rep.

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16.05 MODERN MISS SHOP Fourth floor Teachers' Vote Results Due Feb. 15 Results of the strike vote to be conducted by the Detroit Federation of Teachers (AFL.) will be announced Feb. 15. Details regarding the vote were explained to 1,500 DFT members at a meeting in Cass Tech High School Friday night. The date of the vote has not been set yet.

MRS. HELEN M. MOORE, DFT executive secretary, declared that the vote is being taken to obtain an expression of confidence from the membership. "We don't want to strike," Mrs. Moore said, "but your of- ficers want to know whether they have your backing." During a discussion period, a member of the audience demanded the recall of Douglas Jamieson, president of the Board of Education.

Mrs. Moore said that the matter would be discussed at the next DFT meeting. THERE WILL be two types of ballots used in the vote, one for DFT members and another for nonunion teachers. The union will be bound only by the vote of members. Teachers will be asked to vote "yes" or "no" on the question of closing the schools if negotiations fall.

The ballots will be counted by a committee composed of Councilman Patrick V. McNamara, City Treasurer Albert Cobo and City Clerk Thomas D. Leadbetter. MEANWHILE, ballots have been distributed for another strike vote to be conducted Wednesday by the Detroit Teachers' Association. Representatives of various AFL and CIO unions, speaking at the mass meeting, pledged the teachers their support in case of a strike.

Associated i-rcss wirepnoio Harriet O'Rourke, 24, had beauty, charm and a silvery coloratura-soprano voice. She went to New York from Lima, was auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera. But she turned on the gas jets in h-ar apartment and ended her life. She left a note saying hope had died. Marshall Bars Cut in Armaments Continued from Page One mr Japanese-mandated islands under United States "strategic" trusteeship will be submitted to the UN Security Council about Feb.

17. Britain, Russia and Australia recently have suggested that the disposition of those islands be postponed until the Japanese peace treaty is negotiated. Marshall said he saw no reason for postponement. PALESTINE The United States is being kept fully informed of the present difficult negotiations in London. Marshall rejected the general assumption that the British were taking strong military action in Palestine.

China Marshall said he, the President, and the State Department abandoned mediation In China because all felt that It was not appropriate that "such a shell or semblance of negotiations" be continued. State Department Organization Marshall announced the amalga-tion of all the co-ordinating and administrative sections, which now serve the Secretary, into a single secretariat. He emphasized he wants an expediting and co-ordi nating body and not a policy group. Wants Tax Off UN Gifts President Truman asked Con gress for legislation to lift Federal taxes from gifts to the United Nations. He made the request in connection with a proposed gift of by John D.

Rockefeller, toward acquisition of a headquarters site for UN in New York City. The offer was conditioned on a waiver of gift taxes. Rubber Control Plea President Truman told Congress the Government should "maintain a synthetic rubber industry in the United States, adequate to the minimum needs of national security." He repeated his recent recommendation that the authority to continue allocation controls on rubber be continued a year. Cable Permit Urged The Senate Commerce Committee recommended that Congress permit the Western Union Telegraph Co. to continue operation of its trans-Atlantic cables or order the consolidation of international communications carriers.

Hits Air Safety Board Robert Ramspeck, executive vice president of the Air Transport Association, told senators it would be a "costly mistake" to establish a special Government board to investigate airplane accidents. Senator McCarran Nev.) has proposed creation of an independent safety board. Ramspeck told a Senate commerce subcommittee studying Mc-Carran's bill, that in his opinion this would "result in conflict of authority, 'duplication of effort, and divided responsibility." Saturday Hours 9:15 to settled -in the Pacific isles. After his party of eight four members of the graves- commission and four plane crew members took off from No. 2 Calcutta they had of "to skirt the shore a Series of Java to avoid antiaircraft fire.

Twice they took off just a day ahead of rebellions, one of which wiped out one-fifth of a Dutch garrison. The speed with which Uncle Sam has carried on the search for the fallen is reflected in the latest Navy statistics only 49 Navy overseas personnel still listed as "missing." FATHER POWERS, who after his somber mission spent a leave here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.

Powers, of 1995 Webb, set up his headquarters at Makassar, at the southwestern tip of the Celebes. His search for the missing was governed by some official reports. The last reading from a faltering plane. The reports of fliers on where a ship went down. The rumors of native gossip.

The Armj' was overlooking nothing. Both the Dutch and British Graves Commission loaned invaluable assistance. At Toli Toli, the Dutch Navy sent in a corvette to escort him and the bodies of eight fliers out, with full military honors. EVEN NATTVES, still intimidated by the Japanese and bitter about other white nations, took him to lost graves in the jungle. "They have a marked respect for Americans," Father Powers said.

That's why few searches were fruitless. The graves of America's fallen were kept green. The headman at Tontalete, known to have been a Japanese collaborator, showed Chaplain Powers where a P-38 had crashed and the graves of the fliers. At Balikpapan, he found two tidy rows of 14 graves. Through the identification tag of one man, seven members of a crew were identified.

THE NATIVES insisted that five were war possibly Australian, killed when their jeep hit a land mine while they were covering the invasion at Tarakan. In the remote Celebes, Father Powers started to check the rumor of a bomber which crashed off Point Kapas lighthouse. Two natives told an amazing story of seeing two United States planes flying in, one low and in distress to crash on a reef 300 yards off shore. Almost instantly a submarine popped to the surface. A small boat put out from it and took 10 fliers off the wings of the sinking plane.

FATHER POWERS sent in his report of their story. Another investigator had sent in the same story. Only his happened off Donggala. But back came confirmation that they both were right. There had been rescues at both points.

In fact there had been more such daring rescues there in the Strait of Makassar, under heavy Japanese defenses. A highly efficient rescue system had been worked out between Army and Navy. (Tomorrow: 'How natives help America- piece together the fate of its missing personnel and civilians who vanished in the war.) Troop Arrivals By the Anociated Pre Scheduled to arrive in New York Saturday from Bremerhaven was the troop transport Bridgeport. I ff -kK v' 5 and beautiful I Yi i ri. beautiful blouse expertly V- A 1 A f.ShIoned from Aluracel XM i t'rrr pre Wire SerTtre WASHINGTON Republican congressmen working on fiscal problems were reported virtually apreecl on a $5,500,000,000 slash in President Truman's budget.

They hope to hold spending in the fiscal year starting July 1 to 5.32,000.000.000 and anticipate revenue of $39,000,000,000. This, if realized, would permit an income tax cut of $3,500,000,000 and a payment on the national debt of a like amount. A NUMBER OF REPUBLICAN members of the Senate-House Budget Committee, meeting in se-c ret, were reported to have agreed tentatively on these estimates. The full committee is to report by Feb. 15.

Senator Taft Ohio), a Cold Forces Power Cut in Britain LONDON (JT) The British Government announced that the nng-heralded breakdown of the electrical industry was at hand as the result of an unprecedented coal famine. It ordered electric power cut r( from factories in the industrial heart of the country beginning Monday. A cold wave was responsible. A Board of Trade spokesman aid 4,000,000 workers would be thrown out of jobs. The industrial paralysis also affected millions of householders whose electricity also will be cut off for five hours each day.

THE ECONOMIC chaos ahead, which a Board of Trade spokesman s.iid was comparable only to that nf the depression of the '30's, brought hints in the conservative press that the Labor Government would be compelled to resort to a coalition government to solve Britain's crisis. The Government hoped the power blackout would not con-tintie more than three or four days a week at the most. The order came in the midst of Britain's coldest winter in years, with many dependent on electricity for heating. 11 2I 6. At last a sicirt with literally 63 pleats exciting new freedom of silhouette.

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Scars of the operation in which Ruge's face was reformed were almost invisible. EVERYBODY has been fine to me," he said. "My face looks good and the doctor says it's going to look a lot better." Dr. Ferris Smith, who performed the plastic surgery, pronounced the operation a success. He refused a fee.

Ruge's plight came to public attention when he tried to extort $1,000 from his employer. He explained in court he wanted the money to pay for an operation. "That's all behind me," Ruge said of his past humiliation. said he was going to try to get his old job back at a Chicago glass company where he was a truck-loader. 27.45 42.10" 58.35 fllK 15 FED.

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