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19, 1947 On Guard for Over a Century Vol. 117 No. 138 Five Cents 7T7T Orleans New ml far urrwane Did You Know? Vodka Puts Joe Stalin on Wagon Reform Gives WCTU Hope tAt yc-- An MB. Assails 'Warmongers1 Stock Value Ford 90 a at EdseFs $131,548,434 Estate to Be Distributed; Pattern Seen Distribution of $131,548,434 of the estate of the late Edsel B. Ford, who died in May, 1943, was authorized by Probate Judge Joseph V.

Trombly, of Macomb County, Thursday. Mrs. Eleanor Clay Ford, the widow, is administratrix of her husband's estate. The order indicates agreement in the long-standing dispute be tween Mrs. Ford and the Department of Internal Revenue as to the value of Ford Motor Co.

stock. JUDGE TROMBLY accepted a valuation approximating $90 a share as contrasted with Mrs. Ford's original contention for $58 valuation and the department's tentative figure of $190. In the distribution order the court accepted a $103,842,810 valuation on 1,163,509 shares of Class A nonvoting common stock of the Ford Motor Co. and a $5,346,990 value on 59,411 shares of Class voting common stock.

In addition to these holdings, it was revealed that the estate includes personal property valued at $11,030,829. UNDER the Ford will his four children, Henry Ford II, Benson Ford, Mrs. Josephine Clay Ford and William Clay Ford share the Class common stock. The personal property was left May Lash Famed City Early Today Damage in Florida Put at $50,000,000 NEW ORLEANS (U.R) The Gulf of Mexico hurricane swirled Thursday night to within 170 miles of the Mississippi River passes below New Orleans, plunging this world-famed Southern metropolis into the orbit of a great storm for the first time in 32 years. No longer gay, New Orleans braced for hurricane winds at dawn.

The big winds gave Northwest Florida ports a final but brutal buffeting en route to the Southeast Louisiana coast. Thev had left a $50,000,000 dam age account in the south Florida playgrounds. HEAVY DAMAGE was feared along Northwest Florida, not so much from the winds themselves hut from the tides and ros- sible floods that threatened ex posed cities like Panama City and Pensacola. At 9:15 p. (Detroit time) the New Orleans Weather Bureau placed the center of the 80 to 100-mile-an-hour winds 180 miles south of Valparaiso, and 170 miles southeast of the many-mouthed Mississippi River Delta.

Gales carrying: rusts of 62 miles an hour beat asrainst Panama Citv. More than 1,000 residents were evacuated from the Pensacola waterfront. Thousands of fugi tives from the Northwest Florida storm fled into Georgia and Alabama. THE MAIN stnrm's urincr clocked ar SO rn inn miio an Hniir near the center, were expected to strike the New Orleans area around 3 a. m.

(Detroit time). New Orleans, lying below the level of the river as well as the sea, also feared the rarine- tides of the hurricane. Advance gales drove the water up one foot in Lake Borgne and Liie uaai marsnes along St. Parish, which adjoins New uneans. More than 700 lowlanders were being evacuated to Chalmette and Delacroix Island.

RISING WIND velocities. mounting tides and blinding sheets of rain along the Florida, Alabama and Mississippi coasts marked the great storm's unbridled passage toward Louisiana. Pensacola, fearing flood on its exposed peninsular position, clocked gales of 54 miles an hour at latest reports. Mobile, third of the Gulf's big ports after New Orleans and Houston, estimated that five-foot tides would engulf its waterfront. Large-scale evacuations were under way at gulf resort beaches.

APALACHICOLA, lying on an exposea peninsula 140 miles east of Pensacola, was lost from contact for several hours, but finally got messages through to the Florida State Police. Lighthouse staffs were evacuated at two points in the Mississippi River passes southeast of New Orleans and at another in Mobile Bay, Ala. Evacuation of 3,500 persons from a war hiusing settlement on Blakely Island in Mobile Bay also began. The New Orleans Dock Board ordered miles of wharves and dock space cleared of everything movable. MORE THAN 350 miles of Gulf Coast from St Marks, to Morgan City, were warned to beware of the winds' fury on their new course.

The port of Ft. Lauderdale, closest to the core of the storm when it passed over, lay in wreckage with 188 buildings knocked down. Miami, Palm Beach and West Palm Beach faced months of toil and expense to restore their tropic beauty which was in tatters. CITRUS AND truck plant fields were ravaged. Total crop damage was conservatively estimated at one-fourth of the state's estimated income from maturing crops.

At least another $25,000,000 worth, of property was wrecked. The Florida west coast appar ently escaped lightly when the hurricane passed into the Gulf, although houses were unroofed at Ft. Myers and palm trees were splintered. South Florida escaped with only two confirmed fatalities. FDR, and Wife Fined for Speeding LAKE SUCCESS, N.

Y. (JP) Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his wife, the former Ethel duPont, were fined $15 apiece by Police Justice William Hmnchs after they pleaded guilty to charges of speeding. They were charged with going through the village at 54 miles an hour two months ago. nc3 Associated Frees Wirephoto IT.

S. stirs UN TRAGEDY Boy Brakertian Six-year-old Richard Chadwick was battling for his life Thursday night because he fancied himself railroad brakeman. He failed uian attempt to prove his prowess, and the wheels of a freight train cut off his left foot and his right leg at the hip. RICHARD'S BROTHER Billy, 12,. carrying home a loaf of bread, witnessed the tragedy.

The boy, who lives at 10149 Barron, was 'playing with three of his chums at a swimming hole which is on railroad property near Deacon and the Rouge River. A 14-car New York Central freight train passed. Richard and Michael Patrick, 9, of 143 Forman, called to the others: Watch and well show you how to play brakeman." The boys hopped on a car just ahead of the caboose. Richard slipped. He hung on for a while, then fell.

HEARING Richard's screams, Conductor Hillman Lee, of 8311 Chamberlain, jumped off with a blanket and comforted the injured boy. Richard was taken to Receiving Hospital. Billy ran home to tell his mother, Mrs. Ethel Chadwick, 36, what had happened. Richard Is one of five Chadwick children.

His father, Robert Chadwick, 56, of 145 Gage, is separated from Mrs. Chadwick. He is a crossing watchman for the Union Belt Railroad. Streetcar Kills Woman 67 Mrs. Matilda Wolfschlager, 67, of 3262 Hogarth, was killed when she was struck by a north-bound Woodward streetcar at Woodward and Forest.

The car was operated by Louis Rubenstein, 56, of 1952 Seward. Police said the woman was running diagonally acros the intersection to catch a south-bound car when she was struck shortly before 11 p. Loses Special to the Free Press PORT HURON WCTU members "who shudder" at pictures of Joseph Stalin with a glass of vodka in his hand can take hope, Mrs. Dora B. Whitney, Benton Harbor, president of the i i a Woman's Christian Temperance Union, told the State WCTU convention here.

"Stalin is apparently in retirement," she said. "I give you three guesses what put him there." 'BY ADVICE of his physician Stalin is on the water wagon. I wish representatives of other nations could take the same stand." Mrs. Whitney said the WCTU will try to close taverns on Sundays in smaller communities of Michigan as the first round in a fight to stop alcoholism at its source. "The Michigan Woman's 1 Temperance Union will at-j tempt to dry up Michigan bit i by bit," she declared.

Miss Mary Erwin, National WCTU vice president and president of the Ohio division, replied to what she called the wets' argument of moderation in drinking. "MODERATION" IS the front porch of alcoholism," she said. "Every alcoholic was once a so-called social drinker." Mrs. Clara P. Todd, of Plymouth, treasurer of the Michigan WCTU, said there are 13,408 members in the state.

More than 300 delegates are attending the three-day convention. Chest Asks $5,350,000 '47 Drive Is Hiked Onlv2PerCent of the 1947 Chest Campaign goal at $5,350,000 was announced by John R. Davis, chairman of the drive. "The amount is only 2 per cent higher than the total of funds raised last year," he said. "Because the figure is an absolute minimum and because all costs are rising, the responsibility of the city is particularly large now," he said.

"Many people are bewildered and in need and re quire our THE RED FEATHER cam paign will be conducted Oct. 15 to Nov. 12 in behalf of 125 affiliated agencies. "Detroit gives far less than other cities of similar size," Davis declared. In 1946 it gave $2.28 a resident compared to St.

Louis' $4.24, Cleveland's $3.80 and Los Angeles' ne cuea. 9 Fly into Teeth of Hurricane to Study Course New York Timet Service WASHINGTON Nine men who flew farther into a hurricane than men have ever been came out with information which the Weather Bureau hopes may make possible forecasting of the path of these storms. Bob Simpson, of the Weather Bureau, rode into the heart of the hurricane off the Florida coast The new discovery, Simpson said, was that the warm air mass sur rounding all hurricanes apparently extends a "tongue" of warm air several hundred miles in the direc tion which the hurricane will follow. Killed by Elephant LAFAYETTE, Ind. (JP) Mrs.

Gertrude Burton, 64, of Clinton, wardrobe mistress for the Dailey Brothers Circus, was crushed to deatn wnen an eie phant stepped on her. Get Out! ALBANY, N. James 1 Green, a tenant contesting an eviction suit, accused his landlord of breaking his arm after he re fused to pay a rent increase. r.paEtlNi PUSH Wp Sunday's Vjraphic Magazineyt7 YJlS Vishinsky Blasts Plan of Marshall UN Delegate Hits A-Bomb Hoarding FLUSHING, N. Y.

(U.R) Russia charged in the United Nations General Assembly that American policy threatens to wreck UN and foment a third world war against the Soviet Union. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky, in the most bitter anti-American attack the Soviet Union ever made, accused the United States of having an expansionist policy in Europe, of fomenting open political conflict with Russia and of undermining UN. HE FLATLY rejected Secretary of State George C. Marshall's program to overhaul UN ma chinery.

Vishinsky made these charges against the United States: 1 It is trying to abolish the big powerTdominated Security Council in a drive to wreck the UN. 2 It Is paying only lip service to disarmament while engaging in a furious armaments and atomic-bomb race. 3 It is using the Truman Doe- trine and the Marshall Plan-in violation of the UN to subjugate Europe to American economic policy and to pursue Its "crazy" desire for world domination. 4 American Government officials as wel'' as private citizens are trying to foment a third world war with Russia with their "warmongering." 5 The United States Government is deliberately welching on its solemn agreements with the other big powers, such as the agreement on Korea. Vishinsky attacked the United States for refusing to destroy its atomic bombs now, and refusing to disarm.

This, said Vishinsky, raised "serious apprehensions" about America's professed intentions in world affairs. He said the active American warmongers included John Foster Others stories Back Page Dulles, Republican adviser on foreign affairs and a member of the United States delegation to the current assembly. mm VISHINSKY ASKED the General Assembly to approve a resolution condemning "the criminal propaganda of a new war which is being carried on by reactionary circles in a number of countries, particularly the United States, Turkey and Greece." A formal resolution which Vishinsky offered also would make war propaganda subject to criminal punishment, and call upon UN members to speed disarmament and atomic control. This was Vishinsky's answer to Marshall's request for curtailment of the veto, and a shift of peacekeeping responsibility from the Security Council to the General Assembly. As for Russia's aims, Vishin-' sky said the "warmongering propagandists" know that "the Soviet Union is not threatening in any way with an attack on any country." Many of the delegates said later the deputy foreign minister had made clear his country did not want war.

VISHINSKY SAID proposals for diminishing the Security Council's powers were "ill conceived" and must be rejected. He refused to consider Marshall's request that the General Assembly try to settle a Soviet-American dispute over a government for Korea and opposed placing the Greek case before the General Assembly. Vishinsky said Russia could not accept any change in the unanimity rule, which allows any member of the Big Five to Turn to Page 2, Column REUTHER OPTIMISTIC Council Puts Rent Issue Up to State $8,634,000 DSR Bond Issue OK'd BY JOHN MURRAY Free Fret Staff Writer Common Council deferred action on the politically hot question of local rent controls. At the request of Mayor Jeffries, the Councilmen tossed the issue to the Michigan Legislature by a vote of 4 to 3. IN THE SAME special formal session, Council unanimously approved an $8,634,000 DSR revenue bond issue for the purchase of new equipment and garages.

A few minutes before Council was to vote on a resolution instructing the Corporation Coun- sel to draft a local rent control ordinance, Mayor Jeffries ap- -peared and succeeded in defer' ring the question. Jeffries told Council that Gov. Sigler was calling a special session of the Legislature on a question of financing certain veteran benefits. HE ASKED that Council petition Sigler to include in the call a request for legislation which would clearly give Michigan cities the power to control rents. "There is at best a grave doubt that Detroit has rent control Jeffries said.

"This is a better procedure than a local ordinance." The heated Council oratory of previous sessions quickly yielded to the Mayor. Council President George Edwards agreed to the substitution and the resolution squeaked through. VOTING "No" were Councilmen William A. Comstock, Charles G. Oakman and William G.

Rogell. Voting "Yes" were Council-men Edwards, Patrick V. Mc-Namara, Eugene I. VanAntwerp and Fred Castator. The DSR bond issue, which split the Council during committee sessions, drew a "Yes but" vote from Edwards.

"My vote in favor of the DSR bond issue is a recognition of the need for improving that agency's equipment and service, without constituting approval of their plans to this end, -Edwards said. OBSERVERS pointed out that this left Edwards free to criticize the announced DSR plan to replace streetcars with buses. DSR General Manager Richard A. Sullivan said the bond money would be divided for terminal facilities and $5,329,395 for coaches and streetcars. The latter figure allows $806,540 to buy 26 new streetcars for the Woodward line.

Fifty-four of the new streetcars are in service on Woodward now. Sullivan specifically promised that none of the bond money would be used to buy buses to replace streetcars on existing lines without approval by the Council. LaGuardia on Deathbed New York Timet Service NEW YORK -Former Mayor i 1 1 LaGuardia lay dying Thursday night in his Riverdale home, i The 64-year-old "Little Flower" had been almost continuously in a coma since Tuesday evening, and no hope was held out for his recovery. Dr. George Baehr declared the "general trend" of the ex-mayor's condition was downward.

Guests Work PHILADELPHIA (JP) Some 900 guests in the 18-story Belle- vue Stratford Hotel made their own beds and did their own dust ing Thursday with' no settlement of the strike of 700 hotel employees in sight. Union Stores Point to Real 'Co-Ops' BY ARTHUR O'SHEA Free Frets Labor Writer By selling groceries to members at cost, the UAW (CIO) is currently violating several basic principles- of consumer co-operatives. But President Walter P. Reuther hopes "the experience gained through pooling money for mass purchase will stimulate a real interest in the co-operative idea." Share to Mrs. Ford.

The Class A common stock and $148,487 of real estate were left to the Ford Foundation. FINAL accounting of the huge fortune is expected to follow shortly the partial accounting included in the order for distribution. The latter' shows that $27,000,000 has been paid in inheritance taxes, but is without estimate of the gift or income taxes. The pattern of settlement of the Edsel Ford estate may have bearing on the probating in the Wayne Court of the huge fortune of the elder Henry Ford, who died last April 6. Included in the Henry Ford estate, estimated at around $500, 000,000, are 1,804,000 nonvoting Class A shares of common stock which were left to the Ford Foundation and 172,645 shares of Class voting stock of the Ford Motor Co.

which were bequeathed to his four grandchildren. In addition, the estate contains vast holdings of personal and real property. SCHOOL'S STILL OUT In Boyne Fallst Only Children Are Happy Special to the Fre Press BOYNE FALLS School is still out The schoolhouse burned down a year ago. With $22,000 insurance, the School Board borrowed $75,000 and started a new building. The cost of building went Aip faster than the school.

THE MONEY ran out before the building was complete. It will cost $30,000 to finish. Parents who had to send their children to Petoskey and pay tuition are unhappy. So are the parents of 200 more children who aren't going to Petoskey to school, or anywhere else. The State withheld school' aid money claiming' that unless school is maintained, payment is illegal.

ALL FIVE members of the school board thereupon resigned. They are Edward Topolin-ski, Earl Carson, Harry De-Nase, Harry Reynolds and William Gien. A special election for a new board will be held Tuesday. Meantime, more vacation. Civil War Threat LA PAZ, Bolivia (JP) The Government 'decreed a state of siege to counter what it said were plans to start a civil war.

ANDREI Blistering attack BROTHER SEES RAIL Six-Year-Old Leg Playing mm. RICHARD CHADWICK His daring costs leg and foot Truman Due in U.S. Today ABOARD USS MISSOURI (JP) Tanned by the sun and wind, President Truman" "will return to the United States Friday from the Rio Defense Conference to face an accumulation of foreign and domestic problems. The "Mighty Mo," which he boarded a week aero Sunday after receiving the acclaim of Brazilians, is due in Norfolk berore noon. Mr.

and Mrs. Truman and their daughter Margaret will transfer at Norfolk to the presidential yacht Williamsburg for the cruise to Washington. The Williamsburg is due at the Washington -Navy Yard Saturday morning, 7 Butane Tested as Plane Fuel OKLAHOMA CITY (JP) First officially observed flight of an airplane using butane natural gas reduced to its liquid state as fuel was made by a two-place Cessna with a converted motor. Landrum L. Hughes, who developed the airplane motor-conversion process, said aviation gasoline costs about 37 cents a gallon.

The butane used in the test flight cost nine cents a gallon. DR. TOOLE PKNTIST. 110 West Lafayette. Cor.

Michigan. Opp. City Hall. Av. rry on a I Today, there is not a genuine union-initiated co operative in Michigan, although big plans are afoot.

The "sale-at-cost" idea began early this month at Ford Local 400 in Highland Park Consumer advocates hailed it as the "real thing." Last week Briggs Local 212, following the Local 400 pattern, started the second wholesale grocery store, capitalized with $10,000 in local union funds. LOCAL 400 is operating on a $4,500 budget, also from the local's treasury. Now the sale at cost idea is about to mushroom into 40 other Detroit-area locals. Reuther announced Wednesday that 40 local union presidents will immediately ask their memberships to contribute a $1 per capita loan to stock grocery stores in union halls. Where are the locals going to buy their groceries? ANYWHERE they can get them, union spokesmen say.

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