Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 3

Quote of the Day Today's Chuckle Republican Gov. J. Bracken Lee, of Utah: "I think that a lot of the enthusiasm that elected Eisenhower is leaving him. The Republican Party will have a real fight on its hands la the next election." The first signs of spring are the blooming I A I Idiots along the highway, The Frame Maker Wednesday, August 5, 1953 THE SECOND FRONT TAGE Page 3 purns Order To Quit State Job r- Mm Carroll Loses Plea Ag Group Veils Cause Of Edict Commission Sets Sept. 4 Deadline New Cleiv Found In Cancer Study May Help Early Diagnosis, Cut Premature Baby Deaths Speetal th I re PreM ANN ARBOR Clews indicating that premature babies have certain chemical characteristics in common with those of cancer have been uncovered at the University of Michigan -4 iV "'v i i Frank Athan, a Modern Pioneer, Farms AH Day Amid the Thunder of Airplanes Police Hunt Waitress In Slayiiin Chris Knew What He Was Doing! We'd guess there never was an explorer more certain of what he would find than ole Chris Columbus.

Maybe he did have to beg the Queen of Spain to hock her jewels to get him started, but it was only after he had nailed down certain promises That he would be made admiral of all this new ocean, that he would be made viceroy of all the lands he would get one-tenth of all the precious metals he might discover. It history had not changed it all, can you imagine yourself as a descendant of Christopher Columbus with control of all the ships that sail from the North and South Americas, as viceroy of every country from Canada through the United States down through the richness of Brazil, the Argentine, and all South America? And then just lay back and daydream of what you would have with one-tenth of all the gold, silver, lead, uranium, copper mere-ly gasoline, selling at 31 cents a gallon! Gosh, you would have enough money to buy gas for a 300. or 400-mile vacation trip! Happy Note These are the things that make people happiest Why Not Farm On an Airport? Willow Run Traclor Jockey Has Made an Idea Pay Off BY LOUIS COOK Fr Prru Stuff Writer Thousands of passengers at Willow Run Airport have wondered about the iron-nerved farmer who plows corn propeller blast. Medical School. It is hoped that these may lead to lowering the high death rate among premature infants and possibly to earlier diagnosis of cancer.

A RESEARCH team has found the same chemical substances in the urine of premature infanta and children with cancer substance which are not found In normal, healthy children. These substances are apparently byproducts of a low metabolism, in which less than normal amounts of oxygen are used. Their discovery appears to confirm the theory that premature Infants go through a period of low oxygen metabolism, similar to that known to exist in cancer. Thus, this specific life process may hold the key to the high death rate among premature babies, a third of whom die from undetermined causes, and an earlier means of diagnosing cancer and some other diseases. The research team Includes Dr.

Bruce D. Graham, assistant professor of pediatrics, and Dr. Makepeace Uho Tsao, assistant professor of biochemistry, working under Dr. James L. Wilson, professor of pediatrics.

Nab Woman In Teen Drinl Kinr Neighbor Seized On Assault Count Sprrial to the Free PreM MT. CLEMENS Warren Township police Tuesday night arrested Mrs. Bessie Brown on warrants charging her with contributing to the delinquency of minors by furnishing liquor to teen-agers. At the same time Florian Un- gurean, zo, oi oouw racKara' Mrs. Brown, was arrested on an assault charge for allegedly threatening complainants in the case.

BOTH MRS. BROWN and Ungurean will be arraigned Wednesday before Municipal Judge Donald J. Parent. They were lodged in the Macomb County jail at MtvClemens. Wendell Lichtenfelt, aMacomb County assistant prosecutor, said the rhartrew ncrnlrtsf Vrn Rrnun I For Election State Board Denies Poll at Race Tracks Ray P.

Carroll's ptition for a representation election among employes of Detroit-area race tracks was killed Tuesday by the State Labor Mediation Board. It was another blow to Car roll, who has been trying to re coup since his ouster last April as Detroit head of the Building Service Employes International Union (AFL). HE HAD ASKED for the election when local tracks continued to recognize the BSEIU as bargaining agent for their employes. Carroll claimed that the maj ority of track workers had dis affiliated from the BSEIU and joined his new independent union, -the Building Service Employes Union of Detroit and Michigan. The three-member board, headed by Chairman George Bowles, was unanimous In its denial of the petition.

It cited precedents and said Caroll had failed to show a single authorization or mem bership card in his new union. "On the other hand," the opin ion said, "it Is clear that the contracting union (the BSEIU) is not a defunct union, that it remains an effective and identifiable representative, ready, able and willing to administer the contract." THE BSEIU contracts which Carroll had negotiated with the tracks prior to his ouster do not expire until 1955. Whether the contracts belong to the BSEIU or Carroll's new union is the subject of a current Circuit Court suit. In a concurring opinion. Board Member Thomas J.

Donahue said the matter was an Intra- union dispute and not a jurisdictional fight. He said the board therefore was not required to conduct an election. Carroll said he would have to discuss the matter with his attorney before deciding on further action. "I presume, however, that the next step will be to the State Supreme Court," he said. Jackson Nails Prisoner Liquor Ring JACKSON (JP) Jackson Prison officials announced the breaking of an inmate liquor smuggling ring which operated on prison trusty farms and in the Old Southern Michigan Prison in downtown Jackson.

Warden William H. Bannan said seven inmates, believed to have been the operators of the ring, were transferred from trusty assignments and placed in cellblock 15, disciplinary cellblock at Jackson Prison. STATE POUCE and prison officials discovered the liquor smuggling ring Monday in a raid on' cellblock 18, which is outside the main prison wall. Detective Charles Southworth, who led the raid with George Bacon, deputy warden at Jackson, said he thought the operators of the ring had outside help possibly from a parolee. Bacon said none of the liquor found its way Into the main prison.

Raise Is Given Unexpectedly MUSKEGON (p) Much to the surprise of 450 employes of the Central Paper Division: plant here of the D. Warren Co. of Boston, Frank W. Roberts, local general manager, sad the company was granting an un- solicited four cents an hour raise to the workers, and five cents hour additional to 20 specialized employes. there, his shirt fluttering in the That's Frank Athan.

He doesn't care how close the Constellations brush him as long as the corn keeps growing. FRANK HASN'T always been a farmer. He was a carpenter at the Ford Motor Co. for many years. Five years ago he quit.

He bought a tractor not a dime down, because he didn't have one and started plowing home garden lots. Inside of six weeks he had made enough to pay off his tractor, plow and disk, and was making a living. He decided then that he wouldn't go back to hammering and sawing, ever. Frank wanted a farm. But land prices were high.

He worked other men's land. Then three years ago he drove past Willow Run and a mighty idea came to him. HUNDREDS OF acres of land at the east end of the airport Were returning to jungle in a mass of scrub oak, scrub elm and willows. Part of the land had been scalped of topsoil to fill other portions of the airport. Other portions had served as dumps.

Pools of water lay about and frogs croaked in rushes. Frank went to the University of Michigan with i. proposition, lie would clear and drain the wasteland if the University would let him grow crops on it. The University, which owns Willow Run, turned over 400 acres to B'rank and wished him good luck. FRANK STARTED grubbing out brush and trees, using a chain and his tractor.

He sweated long hours with a brush hook. He plowed shallow drainage ditches. In three years he has managed to put 160 acres of the once-scorned land under cultivation. His wheat yields 40 bimhels to the acre. He has 60 acres of corn that probably will go 85 bushels an acre If the weather continues good.

The land still belongs to the University, of Course. When all of it Is cleared, which probably will be in another HOSPITALS WILL' BE to Dearborn Council Raps Orvie Plan to Curb Gas Price War Tabled BY JOHN GRIFFITH Free PreM Stuff Writer Charging that a proposal to curb Dearborn's gasoline price war is the "brainchild" of Mayor Orville L. Hubbard, the suburb's City Council voted Tuesday night' to table the measure until its next weekly session. Councilmen openly voiced their displeasure over reports that gasoline dealers had gone to Hubbard for help rather than to the Council. THEY VOTED down a motion to suspend rules and reach an immediate decision on the proposal, which would ban the sale of gasoline between 10 p.m.

and 6 a.m. They then decided a a 6-0 vote to put the measure over until next Tuesday so all Denrborn gasoline dealers could be polled. The proposal, which would amend an existing ordinance, was offered by the Retail Gaso line Dealers Association of Dearborn through its attorney, Raymond A. Kaltys. He said that in the last three weeks gasoline dealers a half mile either side of the Giant Gasoline Station, located on Michigan at Oakman, have had to cut their prices up to four cents a gallon.

He charged that the price war has been "a major oil company operation," but did not elaborate. THE GIANT firm, which has been doing a land-office busi ness, claims it must remain open 24 hours a day because it oper ates on such a small margin of profit. Hubbard quipped that the gasoline dealers' association had come to his office be-rause "I was on the job and Council members were not." When asked by Councilman Lucille H. McCollough. to voice his opinion of the price-war curb, Hubbard only smiled and said: "If the Council passes it, we won't veto it." IN ANOTHER development In the Hubbard-Council feud, the Council approved a budget of $9,763,684 for the 1953-1954 fiscal year, consisting of $6,656,409 to be raised by taxes and $3,107,275 from other sources.

The budget would mean a tax increase of 36 cents per $1,000 of valuation. Four other budgets passed by the Council for the fiscal year which began last month have been vetoed by Hubbard. Swimmer's Boily Sought PORT HURON Coast Guards dragged in the St. Clair River Tuesday for the body of George A. Munro, 42, of St.

Clair. He and a companion, Lewis Burns, 26. Port Huron, were: swimming about 100 teet from; shore when Munro yell 3d for help and sank, Burgs said. Munro won the Silver Star forj gallantry in action on Leyte Island in World War II. From Our Lasting Bur LANSING Charles Figy, director of the Department of Agriculture, has been told to resign by Sept.

4 and has refused to do so. Flgy's resignation was demanded by the Commission of Agriculture not the Board of Agriculture which runs Michigan State College at an executive session in Benton Harbor Monday. George Mclntyre, Millington Republican and chairman of th commission, said the commission gave no reason for its action. "I CERTAINLY will not resign until someone submits som6 reason," Figy said. Mclntyre said three of tht five commission members Charles Flgy asked for the resignation.

Mclntyre is one of two Republican holdovers from the Kim Slgler regime. The other three have been appointed to the bipartisan board by Gov. Williams. Mclntyre said his term and that of the other Republican member expire this fall. He said one member had no vote on the resignation demand, nor did he himself, as chairman.

ASKED WHAT the commission found wrong with Figy, who ha been in the $10,000 a year job 11 years, Mclntyre said tha commission was not dissatisfied with his work. William A. Anderson, of Benton Harbor, secretary of the commission, said that the officials "had good reason to ask for the Figy resignation." He said the commission would announce the official reasons at the September meeting In conjunction with the State Fair in Detroit. "We have been hinting to Figy that he should resign for some time," Anderson said. "But he has ignored these hints.

This time we mean business." ANDERSON said the commis- jsion had no successor in mind Uther commission members insisted Figy's health was poor and that he "would live longer he resigned." Figy, who looks the picture of health, denied that his health has anything to do with the commission's action. Flgy said the law allows the commission to hire a director at its pleasure. He was given One-year terms until 1947 when tha commission just hired him a director for an unstipulated time. Miles of Cars Wait to Cross The Straits Spertal to the Free rrex CHEBOYGAN Resort traffic to Northern Michigan this summer is greater than ever. With the entire State ferrv fleet running as fast as possible.

"6 lo rieame. cars a Salrday US-27 for five miles at one time. The Une-up was 3 to 4 miles long most of the day. jvionaay cars were lined up for three miles or more on both US-27 and US-31, which merge at Mackinaw City near the State ferry docks. Crash Fatal HILLSDALE James Bun-Hewitt.

73, of North Adams, died Tuesday in Hillsdale Health Center of injuries suffered Monday night in an automobile collision. 1 ij Vf LA. 1 Detroit Cafe Owner Heaten to Death Police from coast to coast hunted a tiny former waitress and her ex-convict husband, wanted for questioning about the killing of a restaurant owner with a pipe wrench. But there was no trace of Eugene M. Gilleo, 27, and his wife, Roberta, 21, Tuesday evening.

They were wanted in connec tion with the death of John Caruso, 60, a Greek who came here as an immigrant and operated a small restaurant at 10339 Woodward. CARUSO WAS found along a rural roaa, ust oft US-24, near Grand Rapids, Monday morning. Dr. William Burrow, Lucas County (Toledo) deputy coroner, said Caruso had been knocked enwle by blows from the wrench which lay near by. He had been choked by his own blood.

It seemed certain that Caruso had been killed shortly after he closed the cafe at 4 a.m. Sunday and set outj in a car with Mrs. Gilleo, a former em ploye. Dr. Burrow estimated Caruso had been dead 24 to 36 hours when he was found, still Oilleo wearing the and white chef's white shirt nanfa Vl a wore when he disap- i beared Roberta, previously married at 15, mother of two by her first husband whom she divorced in 1950, is a slight girl.

She is 4 feet 10, black haired, weighs only 90 pounds and has a distinctive birth mark on her left cheek. Gilleo, paroled in 1950 after serving 13 months in Jackson Prison for carrying concealed Weapons, worked until a week The couple married two years ago at Maumee, had lived at 1548 Marsnall, Ferndale, a five-room frame house which belonged to Mrs. Gilleo's mother, who went to California about four months ago. School Till Is Empty, Board Quits Special to the Free PreM SANDUSKY Members of the Holbrook School District Board of Education in Greenleaf Township, Sanilac County, have given up the job of trying to make ends meet and have resigned. The school district is in debt and can't hire a teache- because fof insufficient funds, board mem- "ers torn Jonn K.

rancis, bani' lac County superintendent I scnoois. The three who submitted writ 'tor; Curtis Cleland, Moderator, land Lloyd Brown, treasurer. I if five years, the deal is to" be "re-examined." THAT MEANS, probably, that Frank will have to start paying rent on the land. In the meantime, however, it's all his. The project has paid off neatly.

Frank now has 75 acres of his own, just west of Belleville on Huron River Drive. As the clearing work pro-gresws, more and more land comes under the plow. Frank has help from his son, Howard, but he has had to hire help, too. "They're not as used to the planes as I am," says Frank. "It's a funny feeling at first, to watch a four-motor job heading right down- your throat." "THE JETS ate the worst, although there are not many of them around here.

Had a hired man scared half to death by a jet, once. "Sometimes the planes pass over so close you could reach out and touch them. Frank and Mrs. Athan live at the Belleville place. He commutes to work dally either by truck or tractor.

From his humble garden tractor, Frank in five years has advanced to ownership of three tractors, a wheat drill, three cultivators, a combine, corn picker and three trucks. "It worked out real good," says Frank. "We been thinking about spending the winter in Florida." Prisoner Sentenced IONIA (yP) Dale Line, 25, of Evart, was sentenced to 7 to 15 years in Jackson Prison Tues day for breaking Into a Saranac gasoline station while a trusty at the Michigan Reformatory. Circuit Judge Morris K. Davis sentenced Line, who pleaded guilty to the theft of four pistols, ammunition and cash from the station Feb.

3. Guards found the weapons April 19 in the reformatory's sewage plant, where Line was a trusty, and in a dairy barn. Line already had been serving a 1V 15-year term for breaking and WARNED "as Deei ertect 3t tne nospi- tal for the entire 27 years he has been on the staff. He said that the hospital has always been notified immediately o' any big accident, jfire or other catastrophe in which a number of persons might be injured. "Receiving has always been ready and waiting before any of the victims reached the door," he said.

In some cases, he pointed out, the hosDital has had extra nurses and doctors alerted for service. were based on statements madei0 la0r" Consumers to him bv two rirla. one 14 andiPowe'' Co- Oakland County. Finding Four Leaf Clov ers. (Submitted by Frances Elston, of Flint.) What makes you happiest Oslo Gets Letter For Norway, Mich.

It went the long way around but Mrs. Hugo Swan-son, of Norway, finally got the letter mailed to her from Pontiac. That's right just what you'd expect the letter traveled first to Oslo, then back to the United States, before getting squared away for the right Norway. It makes you wonder if the folks in Argentine, Baltic, Denmark Junction, Gi-bralter, Holland, Klondike, Malta, Sparta, Tokio, Tunis and Westphalia, have similar trouble. This Boy's Smarter Than Teacher Thinks From Bed 102 in Eloise Hospital, Albert Slade writes to tell us about a neighbor's little boy who, some years ago, may not have been bright in school but certainly was around home.

His parents were immigrants and not too familiar with our school system. So his mother bustled over one day, proudly with his report card. A lovely row of Ds and Fa. "Her little boy had told her they meant he was doing, 'fine and Slade says. "We agreed, he was a very bright little boy." They're Yellow Don't forget, if you want to keep bugs away from your outdoor lights, use yellow lights instead of white ones.

But don't ask us why bugs don't like yellow lights. We can't understand why some people don't like the other 17, who said they hadi been served beer and liquor by Mrs. Brown at her home at 11552 Cadillac, Warren Township. MRS. BROWN is alleged to have held rowdy parties for teenagers at her home over the last two years.

Five neighbors previously had told Lichtenfelt about drinking and "indecent conduct that continued far Into the morning by young people at Mrs. Brown's home. Mrs. Brown, mother of five children, is separated from her husband. Bishop Home From Hospital GRAND RAPIDS (yP) The Most Rev.

Francis J. Haas, bish- op of the Grand Rapids Catholic diocese, returned home Tuesday from St. Mary's Hospital, where, he was treated for pulmonary edema. Neiv Policy to Speed Treatment of Injured A new policy designed to speed treatment of seriously injured accident victims was announced Tuesday by Police Commissioner Donald S. Leonard.

Leonard ordered that the hos-l pitals to which the injured will be taken are to be notified in DR- AUSTIN Z. HOWARD, advance. Police will radio superintendent at Re-quarters from the scene. jceiving, said the policy actually Msgr. A.

P. ArzulowiM, chan-jten resignations and the board's! cellor of the diocese, said the! books are Lynn Spencer, Direc- Eishop appeared to be in excel-, lent condition. SCrlROEDER, HOW 00 YOU manase to play all tm05e 63eat pieces oh a tot piao? fej 3r.lPl lh' f' YCN 6CTTA J) 77 Headquarters will telephone the hospital. LEONARD SAID the plan will prepare private hospitals to which conscious and coherent victims ask to be taken. "He said that in the case of Receiving, always prepared for emergencies, it will be valuable when several ermon have been sericusly injured in an accident.

Leonard also suggested that, whenever possible, relatives of the seriously injured be notified by police from the scene..