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Gramdi Transit Ur, wer ma Rapid If Happened in Michigan SPORTS DETROIT 81, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949 25 Ford Pension Plan Brings AW Split Rank and File Approval in Doubt After Move to Hike U.S. Benefits A wide-open split between factions of the UAW (CIO) national Ford council was revealed in a closed-session vote on ac Fire Fighter ceptance of the proposed contract. s4-v i -Jlf BY DONALD F. SCIIRAM Flying a rented airplane, Clarence Weaver, Battle Creek, got hungry for a chicken dinner, tried to set his plane down on a farm to find out if he could get one. He misjudged his landing, wrapped the plane around a tree and wrecked it.

State Police gave him a summons for failure to report the accident. Fred Barstow of Menominee bought a piano from Robert Therrianlt, but went to the wrong address to get it. Mrs. Mary Coleman called police to find out what had become of her piano, and Therrianlt called Barstow to find out why he hadn't come to fetch his. It took two more moves to get everything straightened out.

MARIE SIEGRIST, 17, Bay City, broke her arm two hours before her brother's wedding. She rushed to a hospital, had the arm set, and turned up at the church door just in time to be a bridesmaid at the wedding, as per schedule. Murphy, a milk-wagon horse, ran away in the heart of the business section of Grand Rapids, and was forced to the curb by a "ranger" in a station-wagon after a two-block chase. SUCCESSFUL bow and arrow deer hunters include Mrs. Harry White, 2112 Minnesota, Flint, and Dick Eddinger, 21, of Battle Creek.

Eddinger got another thrill when his car blew out two tires on a rail track and was demolished by a fast freight train. Eddinger and his passenger, William P. Black, 20, escaped injury. Did you lose your horse and colt? Oakland County Animal Welfare Society has custody of a pair found grazing on a North-. ville lawn seven weeks ago.

The eight-year-old mare and two-year-old colt will be sold if the owner doesn't claim them by Nov. 1. ARTHUR BUDER, 27, law stu-' dent at the University of Michigan, eluded police in a chase after they sought to intercept him for speeding near Fenton. But when he got home, they were waiting for him. They had taken his license number, and easily identified him bv using a student directory.

He (faces speeding and reckless driving charges. Roscoe Davis, of 14950 Lindsay, Detroit, has sighted a white robin Several times recently. First appearance was last falL SWEET PEAS planted by Mrs. Gillie H. Smith, 1018 S.

Kinney, Mt. Pleasant, are still blossoming. She picked two bouquets this week. The plants are seven feet three inches tall. ship meeting Sunday to set the date for a vote, a spokesman said.

CIO PRESIDENT Philip Murray supported the House's action in boosting Social Security. He declared the bill "a substantial advance in the right direction." Norman Matthews, director of the UAW Chrysler department, admitted that a new union proposal submitted In Wednesday's negotiations calls for a specific amount for pensions. Nat Weinberg, union research chief, estimated that Social Security benefits for a Ford pensioner would be about $57 a month Jan. 1, 1950, under the bill passed Wednesday by the House of Representatives. THIS WOULD mean the company would pay $43 a month to bring the worker's pension to $100 a month.

The Ford agreement calls for a 30-month contract beginning Oct. 1, 1949. It would be reopenable on wages only once after Jan. 1, 1951, and not reopenable on pensions before March 1, 1955. Counterfeiting Suspect Pleads Guilty In a surprise move, Salvatore Evola, 53, of 1175 Bishop, Grosse Pointe Park, pleaded guilty in Federal Court to a counterfeiting conspiracy charge.

Judge Frank A. Picard deferred sentencing. Evola also is charged with three counts of possessing and passing counterfeit bills. WHEN HE came up for trial Wednesday on all four counts, he pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge. Trial on the other three charges was postponed.

Evola was arrested Aug. 8 when he attempted to negotiate the sale of $25,000 in bogus bills. The "purchaser" was an undercover Secret Service agent. Evola has been linked to a huge nationwide ring which has circulated counterfeit $10 and $20 bills. Free Press Photo Scout George M.

Ramsay, 13, of Troop 83, was one of more than 1,000 Detroit area Boy Scouts who received Merit Badges for fire-prevention work at a Court of Honor at department headquarters. Making the presentation is Circuit Judge Robert M. Toms (left) while Detroit Fire Commissioner T. Curtis McKenzie beams his approval. A LEGAL SONG AND THEFT DENIED Father Drinks ivith Son-Misses $400 A 68-year-old father told police he missed $400 after drinking with his son and a friend of the son.

The son, Shelton Skinner, 30, no permanent address, was held for investigation of grand larceny. His friend, known only as "Dick," is sought. THE FATHER, Emmit, 1222 Lakeview, said the pair invited him out for drinks Saturday night. After a few drinks he felt sleepy and concluded he had been doped, he said. The next day he discovered that; the money, whief he was saving for a farm, was gone, he told Detective Lt.

Walter Chlopan. The son denied the theft and said if the money was stolen it was taken by "Dick." Lt. Chlopan said he probably win request a warrant Friday. 5 Unionists on Probation in Riot Case Plead Guilty to Charge KALAMAZOO Five defendants in the Shakespeare riot trial were placed on one year's probation and ordered to pay $1,000 each in costs. A sudden reduction in charges against the five CIO steelworkers officials brought the trial to a quick end.

On a motion from the defense, Circuit Judge Earl C. Pugsley ac cepted pleas of guilty to conspir acy for mass picketing a misde meanor. At the same time eight felony counts were dropped. JUDGE PUGSLEY said the pro- Dationary period for the defendants depended on their refraining from further violations of State and Federal labor laws. Thursday's developments ended the possibility of another long legal battle.

The first trial ran seven weeks. It ended in a hung jury Aug. 1. The retrial began last Tuesday. Sentenced were Thomas Shane, i Michigan USW director: Glen E.

Sigman, international representa tive, and field representatives Rob ert L. Farmer, Arthur Menozzi and Clarence A. Jackson. Maximum penalty on the mass- picketing charge is six months' imprisonment and $1,000 fine. THERE WERE originally 11 defendants in the case.

During proceedings charges were dismissed against six. The others were, tried specifically on a charge of conspiracy to incite riot. That could have brought them up to five years' imprisonment. Prosecutor Clair S. Beebe agreed to droppmg the more serious fel ony counts.

Originally, the State alleged that the defendants plotted and led the predawn raid in which some 300 union members from the Detroit area demonstrated at the Kalama zoo firm. During the raid, seven persons were injured and property was damaged. Inmate Flees Milan Prison Special to the Free Press MILAN Police throughout the State were alerted to be on the lookout tor Alden W. Brooks, 24, who escaped from the Federal Prison. Brooks last was seen in his dormitory at 5:15 p.

m. Thursday, Warden C. J. Sftiuttleworth reported. His disappearance was discovered at the 8 p.

m. count, the warden said. Brooks was serving a two-year term for transporting a stolen automobile. He was sentenced on June 1 from Grand Rapids. His home is at Engadine, Mich.

24 Million State Surplus a Surprise Estimates Exceeded by 12 Million BY OWEN C. DEATKICK Of Our Laosing Boreas LANSING Michigan's financial books, officially closed for the last fiscal year, show a surprising fat surplus of Controller Robert F. Stead-man said. The fiscal year ended June 30. The surplus had been estimated at $12,800,000 when the new budget was prepared.

"IT IS A good omen," Steadman said. "But we will need every extra nickel we can get." Included in the surplus was some $3,000,000 from reducing liquor stocks, Steadman said. The inventory is now around $13,000,000, Suggestions to cut it even lower have come from legislators who don't want new taxes, but the administration has not moved to bring on more reductions. STEADMAN SAID the surplus might reduce the prospective State deficit if it could be applied. Administration officials, headed by Gov.

Williams, expect the deficit to reach $50,000,000. Steadman's announced surplus is, $4,000,000 greater than the figure mentioned recently by Williams. The Governor's figure itself was a surprising upward revision of earlier estimates. SENATOR George N. Higgins, Ferndale Republican, chairman of the Taxation Committee, disputed from the outset Williams claim that current operations were in the red and would cut into a carryover surplus of $13,000,000.

More than any other legislator, Higgins blocked the Administration's proposed 4 per cent corporation tax, designed to raise an additional $60,000,000 a year. Higgins also disputes Williams' $50,000,000 deficit estimate. Other Republican members of the Legislature also look on the surplus report as evidence that no new taxes are needed at this time. 115-Year-Old Former Slave Wanders Off A former slave, now reported to be 115 years old, was found wand ering in a dazed condition at Gratiot and Farmer. He was identified as Sam Wright, of 171 Tennyson.

Highland Farm. Police came across him about 2 hours after his daughter. Mrs Lucy Perry, 50, reported him miss ing from their home. TAKEN TO Receiving Hospital, he could identify himself but could not remember his address. He later was removed to his home.

Mrs. Perry told police she has records to prove that her father was born into slavery on a Texas plantation April 9, 1834. During the Civil War he was ordered to remain in the fields while his father was called into battle. He came to Detroit seven years ago from Guthrie, Okla. U.S.

Temperatures (24 Hours Ended at P. Official Government Figures MICHIGAN Alpena B7 53 Jarkson 70 (58 53 61 47 61 48 41 44 63 58 60 54 61 Battle Creek 68 53 Lansing- 61 40 Marquette 60 54 Muskeron 65 DETROIT Escanaba Flint Gd. Rapids Bimarok Chioaeo Cincinnati Cleveland Dps Moines Dulutb Boston New Tork 69 57 64 67 53 Satrinaw 63 48 S. Ste. Marie 61 50 Trav.

City 61 MIDWEST 62 50 Indianapolis 69 66 76 75 76 63 64 70 57 Kansas City 82 63 Mpls-St. P. 75 57 Milwaukee 64 58 Omaba 73 52 EAST 48 Philadalphia 65 56 Washing-ton 78 SOUTH 69 Miami 85 78 New Orleans 88 64 St. Louis 75 WEST 54 Phoenix 94 49 S. Lk.

City 64 66 S. Francisco 62 62 Seattle 56 60 63 79 65 61 62 45 52 45 Atlanta 78 Jacksonville 86 Memphis 82 Albuquerque 81 Denver 70 Ft. Worth 85 Los Atiffeles 70 Okla. City 86 58 Detroit sunrise: 6:35: nets 6:04. Trianon Goes On and On a Year After Expose When the case of the Trianon Ballroom comes up in court Cost of Mall and Subway 267 Millions Gas Tax Hike Asked to Help Finance Job BY CHARLES WEBER Free Press Staff Writer Detroit was offered a new $267,000,000 transportation program by the City Rapid Transit Commission.

The commission urged immediate construction of a depressed 15-mile Grand River Expressway served by rapid transit trains operating in a center mall. The project would cost an estimated $165,000,000. The commission urged completion by 1956. IT WOULD BE followed immediately by the extension of the north-south John C. Lodge Expressway to Six Mile, with rapid transit trains operating in the center mall.

The commission criticized the failure of planners to provide for a center mall in the first section of the Lodge Expressway now under construction from downtown to Pallister. The commission termed the planners' action a "$41,000,000 er ror of judgment." This error, they said, would necessitate the construction of a four-mile subway to carry the trains from Pallister downtown to Woodward and Woodbridge. THE SUBWAY and expressway extension would cost an estimated $102,000,000. i The commission urged completion by 1960. The commission's 151-page report is the fourth major transit plan submitted to the city within the last four years.

Together they have cost several hundred thou sand dollars. The new report was based on a year's study of Detroit's transportation needs by The Conway Philadelphia transit experts. The city hired the firm at a cost of $75,000. Staff members of the DSR and City Traffic Engineer's office assisted the experts, pusmn the actual cost well over $100,000, it was estimated. MODERN, electric 12-car trains operating in the depressed express ways at 60 miles an hour wjere preferred by the commission over all r- t.

otner iorms oi rapia iransiu- The lines would be financed through revenue bonds. Train fare would be 15 cents, with Tree transfers to local busses. A. tan transit authority was urged to operate the new lines and the DSR. The State was urged to levy an extra 2 cents gasoline tax to finance expressways.

The commission requested immediate drafting of State legislation on the gas-tax increase and creation of a metropolitan authority. The report also urged construction of a Hastings-Mound Road Expressway on the East Side and the extension of the Edsel Ford Expressway from crosstown to the eastern city limits. The Hastings Expressway would run from downtown to Conant and Mt. Elliott and then due north along Mt. Elliott to Eight Mile.

The Common Council announced It would schedule a hearing after studying the report. In 1945, three other experts were hired to study the city's transit needs. THAT STUDY resulted in a beautiful brochure. It cost the city $48,000. A few months later the DSR published a large brochure on its "Modernization Program." In it, the DSR promptly junked important phases of the plan recommended a few months earlier by the outside experts.

These included center malls in some expressways. IX 1946 THE Engineering Society of Detroit made its own study and decided that the DSR's plans were neither "sound nor practical." The Society scored failure to include center malls in the first sections of expressways then being planned. The Society urged the malls for operation of rapid transit. Edward J. Jeffries, then mayor, strongly defended the DSR, declaring that r.

high-capacity rail system was not necessary. He said center malls would be loo expensive. Polish Hero to Be Honored The death 170 years ago of Gen. Casimir Pulaski will be commemorated in Detroit Sunday with a parade by military units, veterans organizations and polish groups. The parade will start at 1 p.

at Peterboro and Woodward and wjll proceed to the City Hall where a reviewing stand will be set up. Grand Marshal of the parade will be Col. George Stapleton. About 15,000 persons are expected to take part the parade. CLASSIFIED First Class DANCE will have passed since the Free a breeding place of immorality.

license was revoked when it was learned that the "old crowd" was hanging around the ballroom. This did not stop operations. The Trianon kept going at tpp speed, without a license. In August, the police of Woodward Station started issuing tickets for illegal operation. That led to the case which is now in court.

1 CHARGE ACCOUNTS AVAILABLE Al jt? IIBSSSi i 5 I-1 Some union leaders had pre dicted unanimous acceptance, of the contract by delegates, but the vote was 659 to 381. Rank and file support for the contract was thrown in doubt by the proposed expansion of the Federal Social Security program. THE WORKERS will vote this month. Ford Motor Company's pension costs would be cut if the boost In old age benefits approved by the House gets favorable action in the Senate. The proposed contract provides that the company will give pensioners enough money in addition to their Social Security benefits to provide $100 monthly pensions.

Walter P. Reuther, UAW president, predicted that the Ford workers would appreciate the fact that they have won "a greatly improved and strengthened agreement when the contract is fully explained to them." "RUMORS AND speculations on a contrary vote are without basis in fact," he declared. Reuther revealed that in the closed-session vote by the national council Thursday delegates from Highland Park Local 400 and Lincoln Ford Local 900 voted unanimously against the contract. A split vote was offered by delegates from Rouge Local 600. "OPPOSITION was directed primarily at two contract provisions, not the pension plan," Reuther said.

"Objections were voiced to a section on production standards and one on strikes and lockouts." He said the union would give detailed information on the contract to the workers before they vote on it. LOCAL 600 will hold a meeting to explain the contract Oct. 23 in the State Fair Coliseum. Leo, Romano, local vice president, 'insisted that proposed increase in Social Security- will not influence the pension vote. "Our pension drive is part of a long-range program to gain increased social security," he said.

"And you can be sure that if the Ford workers reject the pension agreement, Congress is going to lose interest in added old-age benefits." Local 400 has called a member- open dallv rm for occasions wlicra yon mast look your HiEIIfiSI flfillElSI again Oct 14, more than a year Press exposed the dance hall as Operators of the ballrom at 3747 Woodward are seeking a permanent injunction to restrain Mayor Van Antwerp and the police from interfering- with their business. They won a temporary restraining order Oct. 1. IN SEPTEMBER, 1948, a Free Press reporter patronizing the Trianon and other ballrooms found that the dance halls permitted im moral dancing and condoned accosting and soliciting by employes. Subsequently, four taxi danc ers were convicted.

After the series of Free Press stories, police conducted their own investigation. A policewoman worked as a taxi dancer and plainclothes men accompanied girls from the dance halls IX FEBRUARY, 1949, Police Commissioner Harry S. Toy de manded revocation of the Triah on's license. The next month, Van Antwerp held a long hearing and when it was over police seized the license of the Trianon held by Si and Jake Blum. Pleas to have the dance hall reopened were lost in court.

Then one day in May police dis covered that the Trianon was go ing full blast again. It developed that there was a new licensee, one Theodore Jodzio. THE WOMEN'S Division re ported that Jodzio had no police record and was not known to have any connection with the former owners, the Blums. However, In July, Jodzio's Spn-in-Law Slays Farmer CHARLOTTE Lawrence Eb- erly, 44, Oxham Township, farmer, was shot and killed Thursday in a quarrel with his son-in-law, Rob ert XV. Benbow, 21.

Benbow admitted the shooting, but claimed self-defense, police said. He was brought to Charlotte for questioning. Benbow is the husband of Eh erly's daughter, Joyce, 20. They have three children. The Eberly iarm is near iviuiiiKen.

Lightning Kills Team The only bolt of lighting observed in the area during Thurs day's showery afternoon killed a team of horses on the farm of George Copp, Livonia Township. he reported. Copp said he saw the bolt and the horses dropped. The horses were pasturing about 75 yards from his farm home, Copp Workman Injured as Scaffold Falls Wayne Castor, 25, of 2535 W. Grand was injured critically when he fell 60 feet while in-1 stalling a heating plant at the EUiman Steel 2700 W.

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66: Louig L. Mosu-rak. 48. ROCHESTER Marfarei Adit ins, 78. IS WOODWARD AT MONTCAIM Associated Press Wlrephoto The low-pressure center which caused Thursday's rain is by-passing Detroit and making room for the cold front sweeping in from the Friday will be partly cloudy with a high of '65, the Weather Bureau said.

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