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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1946 On Guard for Over' a Century. Vol. 116 No. 103 Five Cents C3 JzjLru A L3 3 INJURED; SHE ESCAPES WITH BUMP Racket Jwvw Jails Witness Mrs, Roosevelt Dozes at Wheel, Hits 2 Cars Negotiations Deadlocked at Zero Hour Key Industries Face Paralysis in Walkout Restaurateur '''asfsStoS. i ww.x..-- i I .4, Jo BRONXVILLE, N.

Y. (U.R) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the late President, was hurt slightly when she "dozed off" while at the wheel of her automobile, police reported. The car swerved across the Sawmill Parkway and collided with two other cars, the police report said. Mrs.

Roosevelt suffered a bump on the head and three other persons were injured, two seriously, in the accident about 20 miles north of New York City. THE OFFICIAL report of the accident said that when Mrs. Roosevelt fell asleep, her big sedan veered across the four-lane highway, clipped the bumper of one automobile and then crashed into a second. Mrs. Roosevelt did not require medical attention.

Her car was damaged badly and accepted a ride to New York from a passing motorist. Gertrude Jones, 40, Mrs. Roosevelt's maid; Albert Brooks, 51, and Thomas Dowdell, 34, both of Brooklyn, were injured. A young grandson of a friend of the maid escaped injury. THE ROOSEVELT sedan first crashed into an automobile operated by Stephen Rose, 26, of Ossining, then veered into the machine operated by Brooks.

The call for an ambulance was received by Dr. George Schadle of St. John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers. He and internes hurried to the scene. "MRS.

ROOSEVELT came di- rectly to me," Dr. Schadle said, "and instructed me to take care of the other injured first. She had a bump on her head and was visibly upset and shaken." i 'f-x Free Prc Photo STANLEY F. BRODERICK W. MONROE watch private wire for word to start Lakes strike Tivo Detroiters Face Early Trials in Germany Soldier Is Charged with Murder of Girl as Army Speeds Up Cases FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) United States Army headquarters took new steps to speed the prosecution of 13 American soldiers and civilians confined in a Frankfurt jail for up to two months without charges or counsel.

Following the release of one prisoner, the Army said it had served charges on a second prisoner and had read notice of trial I 1 Associated Press Wirephoto MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Injured slightly OPA Boosts Coffee Price 10-13caLb. Alo Hikes Dry Beans; Clothing Due to Rise WASHINGTON (AP) Coffee price ceilings were raised 10 to 13 cents a pound. OPA predicted a 5 to 7 per cent hike for cotton clothing made from top-grade textiles. The agency also: Authorized a retail increase of one to two cents a pound for dry beans.

Removed price controls on ranned and other processed cherries. OPA's forecast on better grade clothing was a follow-up on last week's announcement that prices for cotton garments made from basic grade textiles are going up 6 to per cent. ROTH CLOTHING increases, to be put into effect soon, result from price hikes of 13 to 16 per cent on cotton textiles, which were required by the new price control law, OPA said. Housewives will pay the higher prices on coffee and dry beans, the agency said, as soon as grocers make their first purchases of these items at higher ceilings. On coffee, the retail increase will be a little less than 13 cents Restaurant Java Remains the Same Coffee is giving restaurateurs a headache.

When OPA boosted ceiling prices by iu to li cents a pound, it failed to signify any increase of the lowly cup of Java served over the counter. "We're hotter than the coffee." one angry Detroit restaurant operator declared. "OPA has stuck its finger in again." St stores which do their own roasting. OPA said the price hike for coffee was necessitated by: 7 Cancellation July 1 of an importers subsidy of three cents a pound. 2 An Importers' price Increase of about two cents a pound au- thorized last June, but up to now not passed on at retail.

3 A fresh increase of about three cents a pound granted to Importers "as an inducement to Increase coffee importation' from Latin-America. An OPA official said coffee producers might halt deliveries if the additional price hike had not been allowed. Cremation Service for Wells Friday LONDON (U.R) The body of H. G. Wells, novelist and historian who died Tuesday, will be cremated Friday at a private ceremony.

Friends are planning a memorial service later. O.S.S. Is roinlof. Mroadway-Capitol Theatre. Adv.

KM iaMiMkaMiSMa WASHINGTON (UP) National Maritime Union (CIO) seamen manning Great Lakes ships struck at one minute past midnight (Detroit time) Thursday. The walkout threatened to tieup Lakes shipping and to cripple the steel, iron ore, mining, auto and other industries. THE MIDNIGHT deadline passed without further word from Washington, where NMU leaders, headed by National President Joseph Curran, and Representatives of 15 companies met in continuous session with Federal conciliators. The union and companies had been reported near agreement on new wage-hour contract Wednesday night. NMU Vice President Jack Law-renson said the union withdrew its demand for wage increases two days ago and also dropped its demands for severance pay and sick leave.

HE SAID the demand for a forty-hour week was changed to 44 hours and the request for union hall hiring was modified to maintenance of membership. Strike strategy headquarters in Cleveland reported men out by or before the midnight deadline at numerous lake ports. Co-Chairman John Rogan said that seamen at Cleveland, Chicago, Duluth, Milwaukee, Toledo, Buffalo and other points jumped the deadline. Pickets were established, along with kitchen facilities for strikers, at many waterfront restaurants, headquarters said. Meanwhile, several shipowners in Cleveland charged that despite NMU's claim that its major demand was for a reduction in the "inhumanly long work week of 56 nours," immu leaders had told their men the strike was "just a way to get you more pay." THE WALKOUT has been called against 11 bulk freight fleets and six tanker companies, representing about 15 per cent of the total Lakes carrying capacity.

Altho-gh only 1,100 NMU men on 46 vessels would be Involved in the strike, Its picket lines probably would tie up more than 800 other vessels rrying iron ore, steel, fuel and grain. Six hundred CIO oil workers and AFL longshoremen at Toledo pledged their support of the strike, Lewis Ferrari, port agent of the NMU, said. The workers pledged not to load strike-bound ships. All coal, ore and oil loading docks in the city will be picketed. NMU President Curran claimed that the union has more than $1,000,000 earmarked to win the strike.

HE SAID that "deep sea" members of the NMU are heading for lake ports to join the picket lines and thousands of workers in other CIO and AFL unions have pledged their support. Sixteen lake cities have been designated by the NMU as lay-up ports for struck vessels. Vessels afloat at the strike deadline were to put in at one of these ports. 5-Cent Airmail Starts Oct. 1 WASHINGTON (President Truman signed legislation reducing the domestic airmail rate from 8 to 5 cents an ounce, effective Oct.

1. Simultaneously Postmaster Robert E. Hannegan ordered the airmail rate changed to 5 cents an ounce between all United States territory and the Armed Forces abroad. Morphine Stolen PITTSBURGH About 15,000 morphine tablets were stolen from four city hospitals by a gang described by police as well-briefed and quick working. On Inside Pages Amusements 10 Bingay 6 Chatterbox 8 Childs 6 Classified 18-20 Crossword 21 Donovan 17 Dr.

Crane 9 Editorials 6 Fashions 9 Financial 16-17 Guest 6 Horoscope 21 Keeping Well 9 Kitchen 9 Lyons 22 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Monaghan 8 Racing Chart 16 Radio 21 Smith 14 Sports 14-16 Teenager 9 Theaters 16 Town Crier 22 Women's 8-9 PAT YOUR BILLS WITH AJJ INDCSTRIAE, National Bank Pergonal Cheokinir Account as thousand of Detroitera are dinn. Adv. Gets 60 Days for Contempt Ellis Still Quizzed as Nort Goes to Cell BY CLYDE BATES Free Press Staff Writer An alleged front man for several Detroit and Hamtramck enterprises, Morris R. Nort, 33, was jailed by Judge George B. Murphy's labor rackets Grand Jury.

Nort, second witness to be jailed, was sentenced to 60 days for contempt of court after a grilling in Grand Jury head quarters which lasted three days and nights. The dapper, suave manager of the swank Wedgewood Room, a restaurant at 1463 E. Jefferson, refused to answer questions and gave "evasive and misleading" replies, Judge Murphy said. BOTH NORT, whose police record dates back to 1931, and Peter Ellis, former president of the Retail Florists Association, had been held in protective custody by the Grand Jury. Ellis, who was cleared several years ago of charges of operating a shakedown racket among funeral directors in conjunction with a Teamsters Union official, was released by the Grand Jury until 10 a.

m. Thursday. A sweeping investigation of Teamster activities in this field was started last week by the Grand Jury. ELLIS ALSO was questioned intermittently for three days and nights, and a special prosecutor reportedly intensified the grilling Tuesday night. Nort is also a one-time associate of Arthur M.

Stringari, former AFL organizer and now operator of a labor relations firm, who was handed a thirty-day contempt sentence by Judge Murphy in June. Nort was believed to be under questioning concerning his former association with Stringari in handling labor relations for the organized Ford dealers during the war. Nort relinquished the job to Stringari, when the latter was discharged from the Army a year ago. Police records show that the Class liquor license at the E. Jefferson restaurant is held in Nort's name.

He also is listed in County records as a partner with his wife in the Hamtramck Motor Sales agency, 12435 Joseph Campau. IN FEBRUARY, 1931, he listed his occupation as auto dealer when he was convicted of grand larceny at the age of 19. He was given a year's probation. Also In 1931, Nort was questioned in connection with a blind-pig killing, but was released. Charges were dismissed in two later arrests.

Nattily dressed when he was first called in for questioning early this week, Nort was haggard and be-whiskered when he was sentenced. JUDGE MURPHY first asked him if he wished to change his testimony and purge himself of contempt. "I don't think I have anything to say," Nort answered. He was taken directly to the County Jail by investigators who had been guarding him constantly. rocket flights of 140 miles in tests which would be started Aug.

22 at White Sands, N. M. Dr. Swann, whose organization was one of the co-sponsors of the B-29 flights, explained that cosmic rays are invisible high-energy particles emanating from the cosmic (space). They are the most penetrating form of radiation.

They pass through the human body 20 to 30 times a second, can penetrate 75 feet of lead and have been found in deep mines. Even Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, Air Forces chief, looked dazed as the scientists discussed the power of the cosmic ray. ATTO PBICES tT: SAVB Finance with lnstaloan National Bank of Detroit 30 office Air.

Mower Cuts Arms Off Girl Special to the Free Press ROCKFORD Both arms of five-year-old Charlene Flsk were severed at the shoulders when the little girl fell from the back of a horse in front of a mowing machine. Charlene and her six-year-old sister were riding the horses in a team driven by their father, Merle Fisk. She is in critical condition' in a Grand Rapids hospital. Starr to Take Bench Today Special to the Free Press LANSING Justice Raymond W. Starr will be sworn in as Federal judge for the Western Michigan district in Grand Rapids Thursday.

Speaking at a banquet at which he was honored here Wednesday, Starr suggested that an intermediate court be set up to relieve the State Supreme Court of much of its work. Gov. Kelly is expected to name a successor to Starr on the Su preme Court this week. Banker Rothschild Weds a Countess Free Press-Chlraro Tribune Wire LOCUST VALLEY, L. I.

The sixty-four-year-old bachelor head of the great banking House of Rothschild's Vienna branch, the Baron Louis de Rothschild, was marrried here to Countess Hilda Auersperg, daughter of the late Count Anton Auersperg, of Vienna. The bridegroom was held by the German Gestapo for a year or more. He is said to have been freed after his banking dynasty paid $20,000,000 in ransoms. He is now an American citizen. BIG BROTHER MORRIS R.

NORT Sentenced for contempt Dodge Plant Is Closed by Celebration City V-J Observance Is Generally Quiet Detroit's observance of the first anniversary of V-J Day was generally quiet, although a flurry of celebration closed the Dodge plant of Chrysler Corp. Featured events were a solemn ceremony at City Hall and street dancing in Washington Blvd. There were scattered celebrations among veterans' groups, but the overall scene was little reminiscent of the wild picture a year ago when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. FOR MOST workers who last year were producing implements of war it was just another day behind machines retooled for peace. But at the Dodge plant, an unauthorized walkout of 1,100 trim- V-J Day Observed Quietly by Nation By the Associated Pm The United States observed the first anniversary of V-J Day without widespread celebration.

President Truman had asked that Victory Day be marked by prayer. In Tokyo, there was a parade on the Imperial Palace plaza by the United States Seventh Cavalry Regiment. Most of the occupation forces were given a holiday. shop employees forced the layoff of another 6,500 assembly line and body building workers. "The men quit to celebrate V-J Day," said Mike Novak, president of Dodge Local No.

UAW (CIO). "There were no other issues Involved. They will be back at work Thursday." Company spokesmen said they understood that most of the workers who walked out were veterans. "AMERICA HAS PAID a great price," Maj. Gen.

Louis J. Craig, deputy commander of the Fifth See pictures on back page. Army, told a crowd of 2,000 at noontime ceremonies in front of City Hall. "Our proud performances of the recent past have been a product of the American way. A great people working together willingly and Turn to Page 4, Column 1 of flights at various points from Canada to the border of Peru.

Full results of the B-29 experiments were not revealed, but an Air Forces spokesman said that mysterious atmospheric radiation at high altitude affected the plane's radio and electrical equipment. "Complete remodification of existing equipment will have to be considered for future highflying aircraft and air rockets to offset the influence of these unidentified rays," the Air Forces said. Whether the mysterious rays were cosmic rays was not determined. THE B-29'S RESEARCH was in connection with rocket research. The Air Forces announced that it hoped to achieve Auto Official's Home Guarded After Threat Chrysler Aide Gets Threatening Call A police guard was thrown around the home of M.

F. Phelps, of 14007 Freeland, superintendent of the Chrysler Corporation's W. Fort plant, after he complained of threatening telephone calls. Phelps said the anonymous callers threatened to harm him and members of his family and damage home. PHELPS TOLD police that 200 embers of Local 490, UAW (CIO), had walked out at Chrysler's Oakland plant in Highland Park and established picket lines at the W.

Fort plant. 'Lillie' Hitslwo TOKYO (P) A ninety-mile-an-hour typhoon, named "Lillie" by the United States Army weather station, lashed Iwo Jima. CHARLES NMU officials Detroit Area Shipping Is Paralyzed Picket Lines Formed as Boats Are Docked Great Lakes shipping in the Detroit area was paralyzed at midnight Wednesday, as the National Maritime Union (CIO) struck the entire Lakes fleet. As vessels glided into riverfront docks they were abandoned by their crews. Picket lines were established at the terminals as fast as the ships landed.

DOCK WORKERS refused to remove cargoes. The first ships in the Detroit area affected by the strike were the Steel King and E. C. Pope, laden with steel from the furnaces of the Indiana steel belt, and the Charles Donnelly, an auto carrier which came in empty. They were tied up at the Nicholson Transit Co.

docks at the foot of Great Lakes, in River Rouge. Seamen off duty assembled at union headquarters, 138 Cadillac Square, Wednesday night, for picket line duty. A DIRECT WIRE to Washington where top union officials were conferring with ship operators brought news of the developments of the eleventh-hour effort to prevent the strike. Charles Monroe, Detroit port director for th NMU, estimated that at least seven more vessels would be tied up at Detroit docks by noon Thursday. He said that within 24 hours 25 ships would be strike-bound in this area, including passenger vessels.

The Detroit Cleveland Company's Eastern States left for Cleveland at 11:30 p. m. TDZD UP in Detroit Thursday will be the other two passenger ships, at least one Georgian Bay Line ship and the excursion boats to Bob-Lo and Cedar Point, Monroe said. Ford Local 600 UAW (CIO) pledged support to the NMU that its members would refuse to handle cargo on struck ships and would provide a soup kitchen for strikers. The Lagonda, an unorganized ship, was prevented from sailing light from the Ford docks.

Strike headquarters are to be set up in River Rouge. jfor murder against a third. A fourth prisoner will be tried Thursday. a PFC. DANIEL P.

Walczak, twenty-two-year-old Detroit soldier whose letter to an Army lawyer precipitated an investigation of the prolonged detention of prisoner at the Frankfurt Guardhouse, was notified that ne would be tried on a charge of murder. Walczak was locked up June 11 and held without formal notice until Wednesday. He was told he would be tried as soon as the Army's Criminal Investigation Division had completed a probe of the slaying of a German girl. (Walczak's mother recently received a letter from another soldier asserting that he, and not her son, had killed the girl.) The headquarters command judge advocate said charges had been preferred against Henry E. Grewe, 43, ex-sailor, of 4369 Helen, Detroit, who was jailed July 9.

Grewe was charged with forgery of Army currency control books, misappropriation of Army rations, firing pistols from his billet window and hiding German women in his billet. NO. 1 of Manners A -Bomb a 'Popgun? to Cosmic Rays KEEP DETROIT CLEANER! It's a Matter fix vXJ JTT -A r. ki 1 New York Times Service WASHINGTON The mysterious cosmic ray was pictured as a theoretical source of energy that could make the atom bomb resemble a child's popgun. A conference of top Army Air Forces officers and prominent scientists heard the information from Dr.

W. F. G. Swann, head of the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Dr.

Swann hastened to assert, however, that at present it was impracticable to harness cosmic energy, which has "ten million million times" the force of the present atom bomb. THE CONFERENCE coincided with the end of a cosmic-ray study made by a specially equipped B-29 bomber which landed here after four months Home Doesn't End at the Front Door Complaints about the condition of Detroit's streets and alleys are being kicked about as freely as the paper and rubbish on same. The mess remains. Maybe the solution lies in good taste, or etiquet. Maybe IT'S A MATTER OF MANNERS.

Have the good taste to use the good manners to treat your city as you do your living room. That'll keep it clean..