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a i 17 V1J eaten Twice See ecord Tig 0) JV The Latest in Vacation Headwear Wind, Rain Strike Hard in Oakland Heavy Damage Done; State's Crops Aided A brillianf electrical and wind storm which reached near-cloudburst proportions in the Pontiac lake area lashed Detroit. Other parts of Lower Michigan also were struck by storms. Some harm and much good resulted. Two deaths in the state were attributed directly to the storms, which brought much-needed rain to many drouth-stricken areas. The rains, while heavy, were spotty, hitting some areas and missing others near by.

The dead were: JACKIE RAY ADAMS, 18. of 943 Division, Detroit, struck by lightning at the Fairgrounds in Caro. LORENZO PLINE, 36, of Westphalia, drowned in the Grand River near Ionia when the storm upset his boat. Six injuries also were attributed to the storms. Two women suffered minor hurts when a street car was struck by lightning in Detroit.

The Coast Guard was searching Lake St. Clair off Ten Mile, in St. Clair Shores, for a plane reported forced down at the height of the wind and rain in that area. Cornered Burglar Takes Own Life 2 Others Captured at Inn While Jimmying Safe; Police Tip Pays Off An ex-convict safecracker trapped in the Friendship Inn, 5718 E. McNichols, killed himself to avoid capture as police crept through a hallway toward him using a captured companion as a shield.

Later a third burglar suspect was found in a closet in a police raid set off by an anonymous tip. 17 0 er CIO Group Spurns Ship Strike Plea Continues Unloading Boats at Buffalo Strained relations between the National Maritime Union and another powerful CIO union were revealed as the seamen's strike against Great Lakes shipping entered its fifth day. Frank Leason, NMU port agent at Buffalo, said that CIO United Steel Workers continued unloading boats at the Lacawanna plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co. THE NMU had previously sought support from all CIO unions engaged in handling Great Lakes shipping in an effort to make the tie-up complete. Leason branded the unloading of "struck ships damaging to our cause but beneficial to the shipping interests." In view of the Steel Workers' failure to support the strike LeaSon ordered NMU pickets not to molest members of AFL unions engaged in similar work.

Meanwhile, estimates on the effectiveness of the strike continued to be at a wide variance. Charging operators with rerouting vessels "to avoid hot spots like Detroit, Duluth, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Buffalo," Joseph Stack, NMU vice president, said measures were being taken "to tighten" the strike at other points. Six vessels, he said, were reported as leaving port "badly undermanned." Stack predicted the strike would result in the tie-up of all lakes ports "within a week." In the face of NMU claims, the T. J. McCarthy docked in Detroit and was reloaded for its trip to Buffalo without molestation of pickets.

A CANADIAN Seamen's Union crew, however, refused to unload a cargo of ore at the Hanna Furnace Corp. docks. The crew agreed to take the cargo any place except a strikebound port. The ore was being carried by the SS Bayton. The vast fleet of bulk freighters, carrying iron ore, grain and coal, under the jurisdiction of the Lake Carriers' Association continued to ply the waters.

The association's fleet of carriers 316 unorganized vessels has been termed the main stake in- Turn to Page 9, Column 5 Stand Collapse Injures Five SHAKAMAK STATE PARK, Ind. (U.R) Five persons were injured when the judges' platform at the national AAU senior women's swimming championships collapsed, throwing about 25 persons onto spectators seated below. Leo Sanders, director of waterfront activities of the Indiana Conservation Department, and Mrs. Fred Schwarts, wife of AAU Com missioner Fred Schwarts, of Terre Haute, were hospitalized. Attorney General James A.

Em-mert, of Indiana, who was making the awards, was shaken badly. band's limb stumps were be- gun. He has come a long way in a year. "Today he is helping make a place to put the deep-freeze unit Mr. 'Larry's check will buy." The twenty-seven-year-old veteran was at Percy Jones Hospital at Battle Creek when his courage and optimism in the face of his seemingly hopeless plight inspired Free Press readers.

O.S.S. coming. Broadway-Capitol Theatre. AdT. Outfitted in a smart, tailor-made white cap, President Truman arrives at Quonset, R.

aboard the vacation cruise yacht Williamsburg. He exchanged greetings with Navy Secretary James V. For-restal on his visit to the Naval air training station. Season Total Mark Also Shattered St. Louis Rallies to Win, 4-3 and 6-3 BY L.YALX.

SMITH trr I'rr Sports Editor Everything was great! The crowd (57,235 paid) the after noon (warm and sunshiny) the hot dogs (juicy and tender). Attendance marks were smashed the largest throng of cash-on he-line customers ever to wit ness a day of baseball In Detroit jammed every inch of space In Briggs Stadium. Their presence not only shat tered the previous one-day high of 57.149, established last April 23, but also smashed the all-time season total of 1.280,341 set over 77 games at Briggs Stadium last yea r. THE TIGERS still have 22 tames to play at home. Yet Sun day's crowd boosted their 1946 at tendance to 1,337,403 and presaged a season total of an estimated The ball games? They were the only sour note of Detroit's greatest baseball day.

The seventh-place St. Louis Browns swept both ends of twin bill, 4 to and 6 to 5. It might have been the sight of the record crowd, or perhaps it was because the Brownies had lost five in a row until this particular afternoon. But whatever the cause, the Tigers were generous to a fault in losing a double-header for the fourth time this year, while slipping two games behind New York in the battle for second place. PAUL, (DIZ) TROUT was spotted a three-run lead in the first inning of the first game at the expense of Nelson Potter.

But the walk to Eddie Lake and singles by George Kell, Doc Cramer, Roy Cullenbine and Skeeter Webb produced the first and last scores that Potter gave up. And they weren't enough. In the nightcap, Freddy Hutchinson reversed the first-game procedure and let the Brownies nick him for three runs In the first frame. Outfielder Al Zaril-la's third home run of the year caused all the trouble. The Bengals then began peeking away at Denny Galehouse and finally tied the score on Hoot Tirn to First Sports rage ONE DRINK isitor Finds Detroit Is a'Knockout Her first drink of whisky in Detroit proved too much for a Denver woman, she told police.

The visitor, Lucille Crowe, 29, lost consciousness, her purse containing $164 and her traveling ON' HER WAY to the home of a friend from the Michigan Central depot, a taxi driver gave her a drink of liquor, Miss Crowe reported. She 'Jpassed out." While reporting her theft to police, the woman fainted. She was removed to Receiving Hospital in temporarily serious condition, attendants said. Death Is Blamed Upon a Shoelace FLINT Police said that Glen Leach, 56, who died in Hurley Hospital of skull fracture two days after he was found lying on Stockton had fallen to his death after he tripped on a shoelace. Earlier, the possibility of foul play was being investigated.

6Ike' Heads Home MEXICO CITY (JP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower left by plane for the United States after a three-day stay in Mexico City. Fruit Ceiling Off WASHINGTON (JP) OPA announced the removal of price controls on all dried fruits except ppplcs, effective Monday. Inspector Marvin Lane described'' the suicide as Peter N.

DeFlorio, 32, of the Hoover Hotel, 12939 E. Jefferson, who served terms at Jackson and Leavenworth prisons. CAPTURED were Francis J. Maher, 45; of 2564 Hillger, a garage mechanic, and Raymond Nowicki, 29, of 2254 E. Willis.

Maher and Nowicki confessed and named DeFlorio as the ring- police said. They were surprised, police said, while using an elaborate set of burglar tools on ft safe that contained only petty cash. A 500-pound safe containing $125 in Canadian money had been wheeled from the building and driven away earlier. Police said the prisoners told them where it had been hidden. WITH POLICEMEN guarding front and back door, Maher and DeFlorio made a break, police said.

Maher was captured, but De Florio dashed back inside and bolted the door. Policemen broke down the rear door and, forcing Maher ahead of them as a shield, crept Into the building. As the police moved forward, Maher pleaded with DeFlorio to surrender. A shot was heard from the upstairs hallway, and DeFlorio was found unconscious from a head wpund. WinLE THE other policemen left with DeFlorio and Maher for Receiving Hospital, Patrolman John Duszka remained at the inn to await the arrival of the owner, Leo Swietoslawskl, of 17127 Syracuse.

Investigating a noise, Duszka opened ft closet door and raptured Nowicki. DeFlorio was dead on arrival at the hospital. Nowicki, who is drawing unemployment compensation, was placed on a year's probation in 1943 for assault and battery. He hat, been arrested twice for larceny investigation but released. Foreign News Ban Is Lifted NEW YORK (JP) Lawrence Kammet, National Press representative of the American Communications Association (CIO) an-n that the association's membership had voted to lift an embargo on international transmission of news matter.

The embargo went into effect eight days ago. Kammet said the ACA also voted unanimously to accept arbitration in its dispute with Press Wireless and that full crews would be back at work by Wednesday night. Troops Halt Mass Frays in Calcutta Epidemic Threatens; British Alert Tanks CALCUTTA, India (UP) The casualty toll in Calcutta's three days of murderous rioting between Moslems and Hindus has reached 1,000 killed and 4,000 seriously injured, police estimated. New clashes continued amid the threat of epidemic from corpses in the streets. Two battalions of British troops in armored cars and Bren gun carriers patrolled the city to reinforce 10,000 native policemen.

THEY MANAGED to impose a semblance of peace on the bloodstained city at midafternoon by shooting wherever necessary to enforce a prohibition against assembly of more than five persons. Mass attacks had ceased, but individual assaults continued and police could not prevent all of them. Efforts were under way to eliminate the cause of new outbreaks by evacuating as many as possible of Hindus in Moslem districts and Moslems in Hindu districts. The break in the wave of killing came as British authorities alerted a tank squadron and held it in reserve near by for use if needed. Scenes incredible violence and fury stained Calcutta's streets with blood Saturday in the riots, stemming from a Moslem call for "direct action" demonstrations against British-Hindu plans for a new government.

Thirty bodies were found within the space of a single block. The victims included many women and children. A number 01 rape cases were reported. NATrVE RESIDENTS, who number 2,488,000, refused to observe a 9 p. m.

to 5 a. m. curfew clamped down on Calcutta. (Dispatches from Bombay said there was not a food market left open in Calcutta and that residents are living on whatever they had in their homes before the fighting broke out.) As the slaughter continued, Calcutta health officials expressed fear that an epidemic would rise from the large number of corpses still lying in the streets. IN ADDITION TO bodies littering the streets, other hundreds of victims were believed burned to death in houses set afire by the mobs.

The fighting now is beyond all political motives and has turned into a purely communal battle between Hindus and Moslems. Conservative estimates place at more than $4,000,000 the loss from the first two days of looting and burning, and the figure was mounting rapidly Sunday as the looting continued. A Dollar Down SHANGHAI (U.R) The Central Bank of China set a new official rate of exchange of 3,350 Chinese dollars to one United States dol lar. Previous rate was 2,020 to one. the second $500 sum to the Hensels.

MRS. HENSEL wrote, in "Yesterday (Aug. 12) we celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary. A year ago yesterday your paper made the generous presentation that made this farm home possible. "We are grateful to your paper and others like Mr.

O'Larry today. A year ago a series of operations on my hus KIR mm If. 2. Jfc Associated Press irephoto Blast Kills 43 on Beach Near Trieste Explosion of Mines Endangers Bathers, TRIESTE (JP) Forty-three persons were killed and 57 were injured, 19 seriously, when several mines piled to await disposal exploded on a beach at Vergarola, reports reaching the Allied Information Service said. The explosion occurred only 30 feet from where hundreds were bathing.

Mother, Baby Hurt in Crash A mother and newborn son re turning home from Mt. Carmel Hospital were rushed back to the institution ofter injury in a collision at W. Outer Drive and Greenfield. Mrs. Kathleen Krishke, 25, of 7382 Artesian, and her eight-day-old son William were riding in a cab driven by Edward W.

Flanigan, 42, of 14369 Glastonbury, when the accident occurred. The driver of the other car was Robert L. Weir, 28, of 18473 Whitcomb. Mrs. Krishke was unconcious and suffering from cuts and a fractured shoulder.

The baby received only a bump on the head, police reported. Flanigan was ticketed for reckless driving. Rationing Pays DUNDEE, Scotland (JP) Food Minister John Strachey said that bread rationine' saved Britain 109,000 tons of flour in the first tnree weeks of its operation and added that the nation's bread supply now was "100 per cent safe in this critical period." Steals Show WASHINGTON (U.R) John Marsh Hopkins, 17, a movie usher who never had a flying lesson, was arrested for the theft of an air plane. The FBI said Hopkins flew ,10 miles and crashed. VI jwswn PKTEK N.

IE FLOKIO Death averts arrest Decision Due Tuesday on School Delay Board to Take Up Polio Problem Confronted by an infantile paralysis epidemic which has resulted in 111 cases and 10 deaths, Detroit Board of Education members will meet Tuesday to discuss postponing the opening of school for at least a week. Superintendent of Schools Arthur Dondineau said he would request that the opening date be set back from Sept. 4 to 9. The Health Department reported 25 new polio cases last week. Throughout the State, the disease has stricken 212 persons, claiming the lives of 24.

Death Delays Troop Debarkation NEW YORK (JP) Debarkation of troops from the Newbern Victory was delayed several hours to permit segregation of 421 military personnel who had been in the same quarters with a serviceman passenger who died at sea. The passenger died Saturday on the troopship when it was 400 miles east of New York. The ship brought 1,493 troops from Leghorn, Italy. good this year and the chicken stock is expanding daily. Mainly they wanted to acknowledge receipt of a $500 check from a man who keeps his promises Laurence O'Larry, 45, of Detroit and California.

When Free Press readers were piling up their gift of gratitude to Sgt. Hensel, O'Larry gave $500 and promised a total of $2,500 over five years. Last July 23, O'Larry mailed A BESDDENT reported to St. Clair Shores Police that he saw what he believed to be a plane in distress about four miles out over the lake. Then he lost sight of it, later picking up lights which he thought to be the plane's on the water.

Police went to the foot of Ten Mile and reported seeing what appeared to be someone flashing an SOS with a weak flashlight. Then the light disappeared. State Police throughout the storm areas were alerted by Capt. Donald S. Leonard, commander of the uniformed division, when he received radioed reports from the Keego Harbor post of the storm's intensity there.

MANY TREES and wires were reported felled throughout southern Oakland County. Many basements were flooded. The hardest hit appeared to be the Hazel Park, Keego Harbor and Oxford areas, where most of the trees were down. Lightning struck a house at Browning and John R. in Hazel Park, burning out one room.

Nobody was at home and the firemen had to break in. Traffic on most roads in the Pontiac area was slowed to a crawl at the height of the storm when visibility was practically zero. FLOODING of many streets and roads, caused by overtaxed storm Turn to Page 9, Column 4 Son and Daughter See Parents Wed and Do Likewise FORT SCOTT, Kan. (Jp) A son and a daughter watched their parents get married, and then surprised the parents bv beins- wed. too to each other.

Clyde Marsh, 59, of Louisburg, was married to Alta Russell, 35, of Buffalo, then saw his son, Wendell, 31, and his wife's daughter, May Russell, 17, wed. The older couple said they hadn't the slightest inkling their children had intended marriage, too. Fire Hits Hotel ST. LOUIS (U.R) About 800 guests fled by fire escapes and elevators from the fashionable Park Plaza Hotel when a fire swept up an air shaft and spread smoke and fumes through the twenty-seven-story building. On Inside Pages Teamsters' Arraignment Due Today 18 Indicted Officials to Hear Charges BY CLYDE BATES Free Press Staff Writer Eighteen top officials of the AFL Teamsters Union, indicted by the labor rackets grand jury of Circuit Judge George B.

Murphy, will be arraigned before him Monday. They are charged with extortion and conspiracy to violate State labor laws. Headed by James R. Hoffa, thirty-three-year-old czar of the Teamsters, and Bert Brennan, president of Truckers Local 337, the 18 are the first to be indicted in an explosive-laden investigation that promises new and startling developments momentarily. JUDGE MURPHY and Lester S.

Moll, the jury's special prosecutor, did not divulge whether they would require the appearance Monday of 32 other Teamster officials named as co-conspirators but not defendants. Both indicated that other indictments would follow, perhaps before the week is out. A steadily increasing stream of witnesses is expected to be questioned Monday by Moll. THERE WERE recurrent reports that the investigation has already swept far afield to take in many phases other than labor rackets. While the grand jury's actions substantiated these beliefs, Judge Murphy and his aides continued close-mouthed as to what direction proceedings are taking.

It was the Teamsters' drive to organize Detroit independent retail merchants earlier this year that precipitated a Free Press investigation leading to birth of the jury. TRIAL OF the 18 defendants might require as long as 18 months, Moll said. GI WHO LOST PARTS OF ALL LIMBS SUCCEEDS ON DREAM FARM Hensels Write Thanks to Free Press Friends A cheerful letter full of appreciation for things done and of bright hope for the future came to the Free Press from a young couple Sunday. It was written by Jewell Hen-sel on behalf of herself and Fred-ric Hensel, first GI to lose parts of all limbs in World War II. FREE PRESS readers donated 527,000 to help buy the 143-acre "dream farm" at Pinson, near Birmingham, where, the couple wrote, the crops are Amusements 17 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Bingay 6 Monaghan 10 Chatterbox 10 Pringle 11 Classified 18-20 Racing Chart 16 Crossword 18 Radio 21 Editorials 6 Smith 14 Fashions 11 Sports 14-16 Guest 6 Stokes 6 Horoscope 21 Teenagers 11 Industrial 12 Theaters 18 Kitchen 11 Town Crier 22 Lahey 12 Women's 10-11.