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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2 5. 193 6 Jucfee Permits G. M. Parley Again Sought rAuto Union Renews Conference Demand Yule Bandit The Day: in ft i Auto Accidents Fatal to Three Four Others Receive Serious Injuries Driver Respite Delays Sentence Till After Holidays Pickert Sends Greeting to All Scouts Take Cards to 430,000 Homes I Whe Dopester Two persons were killed, two died of injuries and six others were injured seriously in traffic accidents Thursday.

The dead: From 4 p. m. to midnight, 18 motorists were jailed on the Labor Amendment 9.509 for the similar period in 1935. David Lasser, president CAPITOL HILL, Dec. 24 A se- Andrew Kenworthy, 50 years old, who pleaded guilty in Traffic Court Thursday to a charge of drunk driving, was given permission by Judge George T.

Murphy to spend the holidays with hia family, but was ordered to return Jan. 5 for sentence and be prepared to go to the House of Correction. When Kenworthy made the guilty plea, hia invalid wife and eight-year-old son pleaded with the judge not to take him awav An immPriiate penpro! ronfer-rnrp with officials nf th General Motor Corp. was asked Thursday by Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers. "Collective bargaining vhouM take place before a shutdown cret committee named by ica.

asked 2.000 units of his or-Maj. George L. Berry, industrial ganization throughout the country demonstrate Jan. 9 against co-ordinator, was rehab.y report- wpA payro reductions. I JVv Climaxing a holiday season during which his department overlooked no available method ef safeguarding human life In con-gested traffic, Folice Commissiorfr Heinrich A.

Pickert sent Y. Christmas message into Detroit homes Thursday by a novel method. Into the hands of 2.000 Bry Scouts, Commissioner Pickert placed 430,000 Christmas cards for distribution to the homes served by the department. Funds for the printing of the cards were pro-vided by John A. Fry, deputy commissioner in charge of safety.

The message follows: "Fellow Detroiters: At this Yule-tide please accept, from the bottom of my heart, my gratitude for your past co-operation in the safety efforts of your police depart-ment. "Let us not forget, however, the many homes darkened by the traf. fic tragedies of the past year. therefore, appeal to you, In the spirit of this Christmas rejoicing, that we do our part to make 1P37 happy for all by courteous and safe driving and walking. "May health and happiness reward vou.

"HEINRICH A. PICKERT, "Commissioner nf Police." ERRY CHRISTMAS. Striking Seamen Attack Policemen Sailors Driven Back by Gas and Bullets HOUSTON, Dec. 24 (A. Striking seamen stormed a waterfront police station three times tonight and were repulsed each time by tear gas and pistol shots fired by a small band of policemen inside.

The seamen had accused police of beating strikers with night sticks in enforcing order on the waterfront. Strike headquarters, soon after the attack, reported about a dozen sailors injured, including several suffering from gas. Between 50 and 100 shots were exchanged, Lieut. J. E.

Murray reported. Extra police squads, Including all motorcycle men, were rushed to the waterfront. from them over Christmas. Kenworthy was arrested in his home at 2226 Third Ave. Thursday aner ne naa left the scene of an accident at Grand River Ave.

and Henry St. His car struck another. He had a record of two previous convictions. Herman Rodin, 44, of 3253 Rochester pleaded not guilty when arraigned on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. Judge Murphy released him under $300 bond and set the examination for Jan.

5. Wednesday night, Rodin is said to have struck Frank Gargenski, 40, of Ecorse, Rodin fled, witnesses said. He was pursued by some of the witnesses, and caught, but ran away. Later he gave himself up at the County Jail. Gargenski died Christmas Eve in Lincoln Hospital.

Police said that the charge against Rodin probably would be changed to a more serious one. charge of drunkenness, 27: reckless driving; one, leaving the scene of an accident, and one for having no operator's license. In the same eight-hour period, police said, there were 54 injury accidents, six of them hit-run affairs. One was a fatal hit-run mishap. ROY MAY, 24 years old, of 5216 Philip Ave.

EDWIN KELLY, 43, of 4268 Burlingame Ave. JOHN APPEL, 73, of 473 W. Hancock Ave. THEODORE ZAMPICH, of 1919 Schaefer Road, River Rouge. Zampich was struck by a hit-run car at 11 p.

m. at S. Fort St. and Toronto Ave. Witnesses obtained the license number and said that a woman was driving.

May died in Receiving hospital at 3:40 a. m. Thursday of injuries received at 11:20 p. m. Wednesday when the car he was driving was struck by another at Birwood and W.

Davison Aves. Harry Pixley, 20, 11644 Manor the driver of the other car, was Injured slightly. Mrs, Eleanor May, 23, wife of May, was taken to the Redford Branch of Receiving Hospital in serious condition, as was Mrs. Theda Pixley, 19, wife of Pixley. Both Drivers Blamed Tolice said that both drivers were at fault.

William R. Bolio, assistant prosecutor, released Pixley to appear later. Kelly, a factory foreman, was injured fatally at 2:30 a. when he drove his car, in which his wife, Mabel, 38, was riding, into the Detroit Terminal Railroad abutment at Tireman Ave. near Greenlawn.

Four witnesses, including an engineer and a fireman who had stopped at the crossing, said that the auto-was speeding. About 100 o( tne Workers Alliance of Amer- Ex-Tax Official Released for $60,000 U. S. Trial NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (A.

Upon hia promise to return to Chicago and face trial on two indictments charging him with evasion of Federal income taxes total ing $60,000, William H. Malone, former Illinois tax commissioner, was released in $5,000 bail by United States Commissioner Garrett W. Cotter here today. Malone told the commissioner: "I'm going out to Chicago to see my grandchildren for Christmas. This is just one of those things." Malone faces three years in jail for each indictment if found guilty.

$141,373 Bankrupt Plea Filed by Ford Laborer Emil J. Bruckner, of 5753 St. Hedwig Ave, a laborer at the Ford Motor filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy Thursday in Federal Court listing liabilities of $141,373 and assets of only $1,904. His petition states he used to he a lumberman. Most of the debt Is owed on notes to banks and trust companies.

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Sales Co. dk-trlbuted a week's pay and a turkey to each of its 250 employees Thursday as a Christmas present. ed today to be striving lor an agreement among labor groups on a proposed constitutional amendment to regulate hours and wages. The committee was set up, Berry's intimates said, in the belief that recent Supreme Court decisions had made it impossible to co-ordinate relations between employers and employees until the commerce clause had been (This clause says that Congress may regulate "commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states. New Dealers had hoped to use it as a basis for wide regulation in social and economic fields, but major efforts to that end were halted by the Supreme Court.) "After extensive Investigation," informed officials said, "Maj.

Berry became convinced that the court's interpretation of the commerce clause is an insurmountable obstacle to industrial amity the hours and wages of labor." The work of the committee, they said, was "not unknown" to the White House. Legal Expert Resigns Another key man in the Roosevelt Administration retired from public life today when John Dickinson resigned as assistant attorney general. Dickinson, who argued for some major New Deal legislation before the Supreme Court and who had commanded the Justice De- partment's Anti-Trust Division since July 23, 1935, left to resume his teach ing duties in the i rsity of ylvania law school and to practice law privately. i nt Roosevelt said i. vurtl.

ma vvuie. was or inetf highest value hope that at Mr- Dickinson some future time "the Government will again be fortunate enough to have you as one of its members." The broad-shouldered forty- two-year-old Pennsylvanian helped draft the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, argued for the Guffey Coal Control Act, which the Supreme Court invalidated and successfully defended a ma jor case of the Communications Commission involving telephone companies. C. M. Denies Charge ijeneral Motors Corp.

filed a formal denial today in answer to the Federal Trade Commission's complaint alleging that the corporation's financing plan was erroneously advertised as costing automobile buyers only 6 per cent interest. The corporation, on behalf of seven of the 21 automobile manufacturing and financing companies named in the complaints, said that the "6 per cent'1 description never referred to interest, but designated what was commonly called a "finance charge Capital Notes A gay touch was added to the President's desk today with the submission of Rexford G. Tug-well's streamlined report of the Resettlement Administration's activities during its first year. Of college yearbook size, the slick-paper volume is bound in red, green and brown. The Census Bureau reported that automobile fatalities in 131 major cities totaled 9.176 during the first 51 weeks of this year, compared with MJiiafmy if 1 y.4 4 I Arch Preserver rff'7B'k 1 lAjr llfl jather than after." an id Martin in hia aeconrt letter in four dayi ys toj lotors nud- I Alfred F.

Sloan. General Motors president, and William S. Knud en, executive vice president Having directed settlement to Kelsey-Hayea Wheel Co. plants and the Aluminum Company of Americas Detroit factory Wednesday, Martin and his associates in the Committee for Industrial Organization gave instructions to a. dozen new organizers and concentrated their attention on General Motors.

The object of the immediate freneral conference, Martin a a i d. is "for the purpose of discussing iind negotiating on matters affecting the present declared policy of the General Motors Corp. with relation to collective bargaining, enionty rights, the speed-up in your factory, rates and methods vf pay, and other conditions of employment." 1um Are Called National Continuing. Mr. Martin said: "In accordance with your present declared policy we have taken up and will continue to take up minor grievances with local and division managements.

"However, we would like to point out that the issues here involved cannot be settled by either local or division managements, because these issues are not local, hut actually are national in scope, and are determined by the policy of the General Motors Corp." Asserting that he wanted to emphasize the importance of an Immediate conference, Mr. Martin i concluded with this remark: "We feel that it is quite evident that you have either nnsunder-atood the purpose and intent of; rur first letter, or you have deliberately evaded the issues involved. "But let me insist that whether there ia misunderstanding or evasion the Issues are real and should be. met without further delay or equivocation on your part," Will Start Monday Meanwhile, officials of the Kel-sey-Hayes Wheel Co. made prep-erations to resume operations Monday morning, two weeks after the strike started.

They manufacture wheels, brakes and castings for the Ford Motor Chevrolet, Fontiac and OldmobiIe. Ford officials likewise arranged to resume full production schedules when their supplies of parts are replenished. Similar arrangements were made by the Murray Corp. Of America and the Briggs Manufacturing Ford body manufacturers. With glass supplies sufficient for only from two to four weeks operation on hand in automobile factories, interest was aroused In the prospects for a settlement of the strike of about 17,000 workers in plants of the Pittsburgh Flate tilass Co.

and the Libby-Owcns-I'ord Glass Co. Glen W. McCabe, president of the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, blamed automobile manufacturers for some of the con flicts which exist between mem bers of his union and their employers. OppoMtion Is Blamed "It is evident that the opposi tion to real collective bargaining on the part of General Motors and other large auto manufacturers is behind the failure of our organization to negotiate a satisfactory wage agreement with the Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh Plate Glass companies, the two companies that furnish 90 per cent of the glass requirements of the auto industry," McCabe said. "Up until this year our union had no difficulty in arriving at a mutually satisfactory agreement and in the past we found these companies willing to subscribe to the principals of collective bargaining.

"A study of the present situa tion brings out the facts that practically all auto parts manufacturers are either dominated by tne large auto manufacturers pol Icy towards organized labor or else they have decided to subscribe to the same policy." McCabe said that his visit to Detroit was to strengthen the alliance between the union he heads ajid that of the auto workers. Kick and Kickback DALLAS. Dec 24 (A Eggnogg County Health Officer Horace L. Duncan said in an in terview. is a concentrated food and should be partaken of sparingly to avoid distress.

Result: Friends have called Dr. Duncan and said never mind about attending their Christmas eggnogg 7 ALBERT J. FISHER A warrant charging Albert J. Fisher, 42 years old, with holding up a gas station, with a companion, to get money to buy Christmas presents, was recommended Thursday by Assistant Prosecutor A. Tom Pasieczny.

Fisher, of Campnu Road, East Rockwood, confessed to participating in the. robbery of Willis Rldwell at a gas station at Telegraph Road and Erie Flat Rock, police of that town said. Fisher is married. He named Edward Hamilton, SO, of Gibraltar, as his accomplice. Police still seek Hamilton.

Edward Moody on Holiday Eve; Talks to Wallie ENZESFELD. Austria, Dec. 24 For the self-exiled Duke of Windsor it was not a very merry Christmas Eve. The day was brightened for him only by a telephoned exchange of greetings with Mrs. Wallis Simpson at Cannes.

Tonight the former King Edward VIII was alone at. the chateau here with his hosts. Baron and Baroness de Rothschild. He had declined an invitation to join Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania for Christmas. Five Christmas trees blazed with lights in various rooms of the chateau, and earlier the Duke looked in at a party at which Baroness rie Rothschild distributed gifts to 25 children whose parents are employed on the estate.

With the children the Duke seemed cheerful enough. But other companions were said to detect evidence that his show of cheerfulness was superficial, that he felt his separation from the Christmas festivities of his family at Sand-ringham Palace and from Mrs. Simpson. He did manage to resume his golf in this afternoon's bright sunshine and bowled for a while. Message Pour In Cablegrams and letters, including thousands from America, con tinued to pour in on the former King, most of them applauding nis sacrifice of his crown for love The Duke, however, showed little interest.

At Cannes, dispatches said, Mrs. Simpson spent a quiet Christmas Eve, shunning the traditional gay trench celebration at the Cannes Casino. She was expected to re main tomorrow at the Herman Rogers villa and again to exchange Christmas greetings with the Duke of indsor by telephone. Mrs. Mmpson helped arrange the villa's decorations of holly and mimosa, but there was no Christ mas tree.

l.loyd George Chimes In LONDON. Dec. 24 (A.P.V David Lloyd George, war-time prime minister of Britain, startled the nation today with a telegram of Christmas greeting to the Duke of Windsor regretting "the un-chivalrous attacks upon you." Newspaper posters blared 'New-Edward Sensation," and displayed prominently the text of the telegram sent to the Duke in Austria. It read: "Rest Christmas greetings from an old minister of the crown who holds you in as high esteem as ever and regards you with deeper loyal affection, deplores the shabby and stupid treatment accorded you. resents the mean and unchiv-alrous attacks upon you and regrets the loss sustained by the British Empire of a monarch who "vmpathizcd with the lowliest of his Boom for Ickes SAN ANTONIO.

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m. and Saturday at a. m. 1827 pair! For Women. i Sfj yilw All from regular stork! i jj Formerly $9.30 to 12.30 Rroken lines but all sizes 1 1 Itjff is I in the group.

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Mrs. Kelly's serious condition prevented police from obtaining a statement. She was taken to Receiving Hospital. Pinned to Seat of Car Kelly was pinned to the front seat of the car. Appel died in Receiving Hos pital at 4:45 a.

of injuries received Nov. 20, when he was struck by an auto driven hv Robert M. Gillesspi, 24, of 3630 Har rison at Forest and Cass Aves. Gillespie was not held. Police were seeking the driver of an auto which struck Daniel Howard, 45, of 13316 Ardmore he left a street car on Grand River near Grand Blvd.

The driver took him to the Redford Branch of Receiving Hospital, but left without giving his name. Howard's condition was reported as serious. Woman Pedestrian Injured Mrs. Marian Booth, 80, of 1316 Delaware was taken to Ford Hospital with head injuries and a broken right leg after having been struck at Hamilton and Lothrop Aves. by a car driven by Mrs.

Phyllis Lynch. 21, of 155 Highland Highland Park. Witnesses said that Mrs. Booth walked into the path of one car, which swerved to avoid her, and that Mrs. Lynch did not see the woman in time.

Mrs. Lynch was held for questioning. Christsen Chrlstensen, 53, of 18372 Farmington suffered a fractured skull and broken right leg when his car struck a parked truck on Meyers Road near Linden St. He was taken to Receiving Hospital. Dismissed Officer Found Shot in Leg Held After Refusing to Explain Wound Thomas Riley, 36 years old, dismissed from the police force in 1935 for conduct unbecoming an officer, was held Thursday at the retoskey Station for investigation.

He had been shot in the leg, but refused to say how he had been wounded. He was discovered at Linwood and Euclid Aves. at 3 a. m. by Patrolman Roy Dawson.

He was taken to Providence Hospital, treated and returned to the police station. He refused to talk, was taken to Receiving Hospital for further treatment, and again was returned to the station. The wound was not serious, hut doctofs found fragments of a bullet In his left leg. 0 0 Suffrin Chr istmas (greetings $095 i I SsS at $2.95. Water buffalo I (sizes I to 9) and a few )' grey and brown buckos (sizes I to 6 at -s a $3.95.

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