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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS EDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 9. 1928 D. U. R. BLOCKED BY GOVERNOR Continued From rage One.

BLAINE BRINGS SMITH BACKING Continued From Page. One. bers of this commission digest their contents with a couple of hours? Detroit's Interest Large. "Detroit has a big interest in this reorganization, especially since it owes the company several millions of dollars. The interests of other cities now being served by the D.

U. K. also should be safeguarded." Doyle, who la the only member of the commission from Detroit, said he does not doubt but that the reorganization is fair to all parties concerned. He merely wants his colleagues to learn what the plan means. The commissioners who signed the order last night Samuel over the budget, announced in New York July 26, he said.

"The Republicans have set their goal as from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000, but I have information that it is between $6,000,000 and $8,000,000," Raskob said. rived here this morning. "I feel the commission is violating its public duty in hurriedly rushing into this. The papers detailing this scheme 8re a stack a foot high. It took enable attorneys weeks and weeks to prepare them.

How can the mem Turning to farm relief, Raskob said the east "has never understood the farm problem." it "I have never met a man, Including myself, who understood the Mc-Nary-Haugen bill," he said. "Governor Smith has arranged for a survey of the situation by a capable economist and, if elected, he will be able to recommend an agricultural 4' n1 scm i program which will win the support of the east and the applause of the west." Raskob and his party will leave tomorrow night for Hot Springs. to attend the notification cere MISTAKE IDENTITY monies for Senator Joe T. Robinson, CHANEL fo T3KAID DOUQU? I SALLY Vf ktf iff vice-presidential candidate. Smith Weighs Tour Route, New York, Aug.

28 (AP.i As he shapes plans for his campaign stumping. Governor Smith la keeping In mind a lesson he believes many a candidate for public office in the past has learned to his sorrowIt's unwise to disappoint crowds. And it is this conviction, coupled Infrequently we hear of a man who thinks one of his new Manhattan shirts has not worn as well as his old ones. Invariably this turns out to be a case of mistaken identity. The shirt which wore out too soon was not a Manhattan.

For uniform and standard quality and style, men have learned to ask for I Odell, James Bice and Robert H. Dunn. Byron P. Hicks, the fifth member, is in the west on a vacation. Doyle also has been on a vacation, but he is to remain at his office the remainder of this week or until he understands completely the details of the D.

U. proposal. Under the plan the bankrupt D. U. R.

will be taken over by four new corporations. New bonds, some of the issues yielding 7 per cent, will be exchanged for those outstanding. From the sale of new securities enough additional cash will be raised to lift the present organization out of receivership, add new equipment, and provide working capital. The present organization is to be sold at public auction Sentember 5 by William S. Sayres, special master of the Detroit federal court The new corporations will bid for its purchase.

The reorganized companies will be known as the Eastern Michigan Railways, which will own all of the property of the D. U. R. except its contract with the city of Detroit by which the city is paying for the D. U.

R. tracks purchased within Its limits; the City Contract company will be organized to own and control this contract: the Eastern Michigan Motor Busses will control all of the D. U. bus lines, and the East Michigan Toledo railroad which will control the present Detroit-Toledo short line railroad operated by the D. U.

R. All of the stock of the latter three concerns will be owned by the Eastern Michigan Railways. Companies Are Aligned. The bus lines to be taken over by the East Michigan Motor Busses are the Public Service Transit company, Star Motor Coach line, Peoples Motor Coach company, White Star Motor Bus company, Highway Motor Bus company, De-troit-TolejJo Transportation company, Wolverine Transit company, Gray Line Motor Tours, Detroit and Toledo Trackless Coach company, Pierce Motor Bus company, Outer Belt Transit lines and the Sprlngwells Motor Bus company. The East Michigan Railways will own, besides the D.

U. R. property, the following subsidiaries: Detroit United Realty corporation, D. U. R.

Trucking company and the Highland Park Royal Oak Railroad company. Bonds Issues contemplated are a $3,350,000 issue called the first mortgage and collateral trust bonds of the East Michigan Railways; an Issue of $4,915,500 called the adjustment mortgage bonds of the East Michigan Railway and a third for $1,800,000 called general mortgage bonds of the East Michigan-Toledo railroad. The 850,000 shares of stock will have no par value. According the Fitzpatrick, a New York firm has agreed to underwrite a largo part of the issues that will yield 7 per cent. This firm is prepared to advance $500,000 immediately, he told the utilities commissioners.

The commissioners also were told between 90 and 95 per cent of the present holders of D. U. R. bonds have agreed to the reorganization. Fitzpatrick told the commission the tenure of a receivership has shown that although it can be operated successfully, the present organization never will be able to pay its debts.

He pointed out also that the D. U. R. soon will be forced to purchase new equipment and stand other expenses for the betterment of the service. creatsd this mperb gown of transparent (rayon) velvet with hi new berthe cape of flesh chiffon, richly embroidered" with beads.

Classic aimplicity of line, the waist ornament, and the akirt draping are evidences nf Chanel unerring touch. For a 'a vhj? at with a desire to cover as much ground as possible without dissipating his strength and voice, that is making it difficult for the Democratic nominee to determine Just where he should go and how many speeches he should deliver. Political lieutenants of the Democratic standard bearer are urging him to travel far and wide, and to make many speeches, but he Is clinging to a program of "meeting and greeting." but not of talking himself hoarse. XT SHIRTS Pajamas and Mansco Underwear Don't mery nk for "thirl" tar "Manhattan Shirt" luSHA 10VT.S.KSX SKETCHED AT THE CASS THEATER BY MISS ROSALIND HIGHTOWER. I.nhor Men Cheer for Smith.

Rochester, ft. Aug. 28. (A. Mention of the name of Governor Smith by William Green, president of the American Federation of I-abor, today brought on a two-minute ovation by most of the 500 delegates to the sixty-fifth annual convention of the state federation.

Green devoted most of his address to the six-hour day and the five-day week, but toward the close spoke of "social justice legislation." Fm tnrimHmwmwjwmMmm mmm of the league to secure control of the manufacture of arms, thi Soviet government telegraphed that the league had done nothing toward Jthe solution of the problem of real, 1 if only partial, disarmament. ror Ae-ciection Greeks Unveil Statue Of Ypsilanti Today George A. Dingman WOULD LIMIT BIG WARSHIPS ('onllmi''1 From Tflge One. compromise agreement. It will br useless to convoke the disarmament commission.

Soviet Sees Failure. In announcing today refusal to collaborate with the present effoita WAYNE COUNTY Insisting that urgent steps should be taken to obtain definite results and avoid the risk nf future wars, Maxim Litvinoff. Rttwiian vice-coni-missnr for foreign effaira, wired th secretary of the lcagu, Sir Drummond. that an attempt to supervise the production of armaments is merely calculated to public opinion by holding forth false hopes of real disarmament. Ahepa Vice-President Urges Members to Give Fealty to United States.

Members of the Archontic Order of Ahepa spent the second day of their national convention in Detroit yesterday in business sessions at the Book Cadillac hotel and in preparation for the high mark of the gathering today, the unveiling of the General Ypsilanti statue in Ypsilanti. In an address, George Phillies, supreme vice-president, urged the Attacks Rahkoh Statement. Lafayette, Aug. 28. (A.

Senator J. Thomas Hetlin, at home today for a brief rest, took occasion to Issue a statement attacking John J. Raskob. chairman of the Democratic national committee, for "telling Republicans that they can step over and vote for Smith for president without changing their politics or losing their identity as Republicans. THUGS IN 2 JOBS ROB CLERK, TRUCK DRIVER A lone thug, who held up Kenneth Koppin, clerk, in a drug store at 11140 Gratiot avenue at 10 o'clock last night, rifled the cash register and escaped with $75.75.

Robert Thierrier, truck driver employed by the J. T. W'oodhouse company, was robbed of $16 at 7:15 o'clock last night by two thugs who forced him to pull up against the curb on Wootlbridge street bet-tween Hastings and Rivard streets and then searched him. His clean record as engi- neer and county official merits your support. Republican Primarie, Sept.

4th ic Be not confused by a similar name on the ballot. delegates to transfer their alle same whole-hearted purpose shown by the ancient soldiers of the Greek republic. He said: "In his history of Greece, the historian, George Grote, wrote: 'It is the Greek soldier alone who feels himself bound by ties reciprocal and indissoluble who obeys neither the will of a king or his own Individual impulse, but a common and imperative sentiment of obligation whose honor or shame Is attached to his own place in the ranks, never to be abandoned or "Let. us, then, give all we have within us to the zeal of fraternalism and of American Hellenism, so that we, too, may receive the tribute of others as did our forefathers for what they gave to their deathless arts and their arduous tasks." A. C.

I.ingon, chairman of the convocation committee, announced that delegates would be entertained Saturday at the Ford airport. The dedication today at 2 o'clock in Ypsilanti of the statue to the hero of the Greek war for independence, in 1823. will be attended by Michigan members of congress, the Greek minister, state authorities and city officials of Ypsilanti. The statue, or marble from the same quarries from which the Perthenon was built, stands at Washtenaw avenue and Cross street. giance to their newly-adopted country, the United States, with the Sea Foods Direct From the Cout Whole Broiled Baby Lobster la Carte, $1.25 Lobster Dinner Completa with Soup, VegetabUi, Salad, Dauert and CoITm, $2.

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