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FINAL EDITION COLD Partly Cloudy, Continued Cold; Keep Earmuffs Handy SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1945 On Guard for Over a Century Vol. 115 No. 233 Fifteen Cents C3 JVL inter Suspect Jailed in Grosse Milling 9 Die in Two Family Tragedies FINAL SALUTE 'His Boys' BidPatton Farewell Sorrowing GIs File Past Bier JOvy 3 If 1 Free Press Photo It difficult to obtain Just the items they wanted, but were good-natured despite their disappointment. LATE SHOPPING RUSH Thousands of tired shoppers crowded Detroit's downtown stores Saturday. This scene, in a Woodward shoe store, was typicaL Many last-minute buyers fqund U.S.

to Open Its Doors Train Kills Four in Car atlnkster 5 Children Suffocate in Farmhouse Fire The lives of seven children and two adults were snuffed out Saturday as pre-Christmas tragedies left charred rubble and twisted wreckage in the Detroit area. The five children of and Mrs. Otto Winkelman were suf- Mercury Delayed by Derailment The New York Central's Mercury was delayed twice on its run to Toledo Saturday night, once by a train-car crash in Inkster and again when a-coach jumped the tracks near Erie, Mich. Officials said that no one was Injured. State Police reported that one wheel of the coach went off the tracks.

Repair crews got the car back on the rails within an hour. focated when trapped in upstairs bedrooms of their burning farmhouse on Thirteen Mile Road in Erin Township. They were Marion, Dale, Shelba Jean, Allen, 3, and Barbara, 18 months. A FAMILY of four, apparently on the way home to complete Christmas preparations, was wiped out when a train crashed into their car at the Jim Daly Road crossing in Inkster. The dead were identified as Cornelius J.

Martin, SO, 26215 Pennie Road, Dearborn Township; his wife, Frances, 29; a daughter, Marilyn, 6, and a son, Robert, 2. A second train-car crash Lincoln Park seriously injured three persons. Mrs. Winkelman, 26, was seriously burned in futile attempts to rescue her children. She is in St.

Turn to Page 7, Column 1 Mines Peil 2 Troopships LONDON (U.R) Hundreds of mines torn loose by gales bobbed in the English Channel, endangering two American troopships carrying ff.OOO men. They were the Le Jeune and the Bierville. An unidentified British naval officer was killed when the mine he was attempting to neutralize on the Sussex Coast blew up. The Kent Coast echoed with explosions as warships shelled floating mines. Arthur C.

Train, Novelist, Is Dead NEW YORK (JP) Arthur C. Train, 70, lawyer, novelist and creator of "Mr. Ephraim Tutt" a fictional character whose corporeal existence was taken for granted by countless readers, died in Memorial Hospital after a year's illness. OPEN SEASON Congestion Is Worst in U. S.

History Hundreds Stranded in Detroit Stations Detroit terminals, like those throughout most of the Nation, were packed Saturday with the greatest travel jams in the country's history. While thousands of civilians sought to get home for Christmas, 100,000 returning service men were stranded at West Coast ports with no hope of reaching home by the holiday. AT CLEVELAND. 50 travelers jammed into a baggage car, re fused to leave until promised that 100 Michigan GIs Flying Homeivard SEATTLE (U.R) Two C-97 transport planes, loaded with 201 overseas veterans homeward bound for Christmas, were en route from here to Chicago Saturday night. One plane carried 100 Michigan soldiers, 46 of them from Detroit, and the second bore 101 Illinois veterans.

The 201 were selected from among soldiers who have been delayed the longest by the troop jam on the West Coast. a coach would be added to the train. At St Louis, 1,000 tried to crash a depot gate, causing a riot. Riots and stampedes broke out in Chicago railroad stations. In many other cities, gate-men reported, crowds attempted to break through, even after trains had started to move out.

Military police, shoulder to shoulder, aided bus and railroad employees in holding back civilians so that GPs could get aboard. HUNDREDS of Detroiters, bound for distant points, faced the possibility of having to stay in the city, as loaded trains departed without them. At the New York Central station, a rush of passengers completely filled the giant waiting room Saturday. Extra police tried to unsnarl the traffic outside. Ticket sales for eastern and southern points were halted for several hours.

Local New York Central railroad officials said the Government had requisitioned 2,000 coaches from the East to ease the troop-transportation tie-up. AS A RESULT, 31 NYC trains left Detroit minus one or two coaches each. Officials said the coaches were taken off to supply the Government order. "We're trying to meet the greatest holiday demand in history with only 80 per cent of the equipment needed for normal, off-season periods," the NYC spokesman declared. Removal of the coaches meant that about 325 fewer people per Turn to Page 4, Column RIDING HIGH $6,500 Paid for Chance to Drive a Cab Sometimes It takes as high as $6,500 to get a taxicab license in Detroit, taxicab men report.

Police Commissioner John P. Ballenger said he had heard of licenses changing, hands at that figure. "So long as the new owner has a public vehicle license and has the transfer passed on by the public license bureau the transaction is valid," he explained. Licenses from the City cost $50. LT.

JOHN G. Callahan, head of the Public Vehicle Licensing Bureau, said that when a Checker cab owner-driver quits or dies his license, cab and stock in the company often are auctioned off to the highest bidder. The sale price in those instances often is around $6,000, he said. Resembles Youth Who Fled by Car Captive Gives Two Detroit Addresses Tictures of a Detroit man held In Elgin, 111., as a suspect in the highway murder of Roy Gordon Ben were on the way to Holland, Saturday night for identification. The photographs will be studied by Donald Milewskl, 19, and his fiancee, Rose McCormick, 18, who were kidnaped by a hitch-hiker Friday In Grand Rapids.

The suspect was identified as John Holzhoffer, 25. He gave two Detroit addresses, one on Leland and one on Chalmers. Holzhoffer claimed to have served six months in the Navy in 1942. WILLIAM BOEVE, Ottawa county sheriff," was notified that the man's description tallied closely with that given by Milewskl and Miss McCormick and also with one given by two Holland motorists who picked up a hitch-hiker Thursday night near the spot where Beh's body was found. Holzhoffer, held for investigation, refused to talk.

When asked where he slept the night of the murder, he replied: In a bed, you fooL" A check in Detroit showed that Holzhoffer moved from the Chalmers address last Monday. He had roomed there since June and had worked as a helper on a brewery truck. WHEN HE moved, it was learned, he obtained a job at the Fenn Hotel, 711 Third. Hotel officials reported that Holzhoffer checked out Thursday, leaving a Los Angeles forwarding address. Boh, thlrty-four-year-old well-to-do sales representative and resident of fashionable Grosse Polnte Farms, was slugged on the head and shot in the side with a 45-caIiber steel-nosed bullet.

His body was found in his car, which had been run off the road into a snow-covered field about 12 miles north of Holland. S- i the scene by the two Holland motorists got out at Grand Haven. I Friday afternoon a man thumbed Milewskl for a ride in Grand Rapids and forced him at I the point of a gun to drive him vto Gary, Ind. Elgin is approximately 50 miles om Gary. 7 AI5UVE TUIJA1 Cold Lingers; Netv Snow Due for Holiday Continued cold weather, extending at least until after Christmas, is in prospect for Detroit and most of the Midwest area, the Weather Bureau said Saturday.

Sunday in Detroit will be partly cloudy, with the temperature expected to reach a low of 7 degrees, the Bureau said. No further snow is foreseen until Monday night or early Christmas day. THE DEPARTMENT of Parks and Recreation reported that there were approximately 200 rinks scattered throughout the City. It listed these major skating facilities: Belle Isle, Rouge Park, Falm-er Park, Baby Creek Park, Chandler Tark, Clark Park, Pin-gree Park, the two Stoepel Parks, Northwestern Field, Lodge Field, Jane Playfield (three parks), St. Claire Playground, Mld-llefleld, Atkinson, Algonquin arfd Gallagher Field, and the University of Detroit campus.

A fresh mass of frigid air from Canada, meanwhile, moved across the border, sending temperatures to new lows in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota. On Inside Pages Part One Financial 10-11 State News 7 Travel 8 Part Two Amusements 7 BooHs 6 Bridge 6 Crossword 6 Editor's rr-t-hook 4 Fraternal 8 Merry-Go-R'd 4 Music 6 Radio 2 Town Crier 1 Voice Part Three Society 1-8 Part Four Classified 5-8 Real Estate 4 Spoils 13 Suit to loch Increase in DSR Fare Threatened Consumers Council Contends 10-Cent Rate Is Excessive BY JOHN MURRAY' Free PreM Staff Writer The threat of a taxpayers' suit to restrain the Department of Street Railways from putting its proposed fare raise into effect on Jan. .1 was voiced by Charles Lockwood, president of the Detroit Consumers Council. Meanwhile, Richard AJ Sullivan, acting DSR general manager, reiterated that the raise necessary to operate the system. DV KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN New York.

Timet Foreign Sen ice HEIDELBERG Gen. George S. Patton, was taking his final salute Saturday night from men of the three armies he commanded the Seventh, the Third and the Fifteenth. Sunday, it will be the turn of the diplomats, the "brass" and the dignitaries. But Saturday belonged to the GIs.

As early twilight closed in on this university town where his vigorous 60 years of life ended, they came to pay a soldier's respects to a great soldier from across the sea who, unlike themselves, will not be going home soon or ever. FOR HE will rest in Hamm, one of the largest American cemeteries in Europe, a few miles from Luxembourg City, which he and they liberated a year ago. At Villa Reiner, a handsome residence on an eminence overlooking Heidelberg proper which has served of late months as a Seventh Army guest house, his body lay in state. It was here his troops came to do him honor, since the limited seating facilities will not permit their extensive participation in the funeral service at Christ Church at 3 p. m.

Sunday. THEY CAME in groups as the lights winked on in Heidelberg and a fog rolled in. They trudged on foot or splut tered in Jeeps up steep and narrow mountain byways to the spacious buff-colored mansion which was reached by its sweeping, circular driveway. They swept off their garrison caps and scraped their feet punctiliously and self-consciously as they fell into line at Its brilliantly lighted entrance hall and inched slowly along to the flower-banked bier. Gen.

Patton lay in state In the spacious, dark-paneled living room of the villa, his casket directly ahead of and slightly tilted toward the main doorway, on a catafalque lurr ounded with flowers. IN WREATHED wall niches at either side, smaller tapers flick ered as a quartet of MPs from the 504th Battalion stood guard. Through a gorgeous floral display passed the files of uniformed men and women he had led to victory and another era. Officers' insignia glistened on many shoulders up and down the line as the evening wore on. But these hours were in the main remarkable for the prevalent presence of common soldiers.

TO EACH OF THEM it was gratifyingly appropriate that Patton, in repose in which they never expected to behold him, rested against the brave background of the Stars and Stripes arranged in sunburst fashion between flags of the Seventh, Third, and Fifteenth Armies. They came in quietly, looked respectfully "at their dead leader and left as soberly as they had come, inarticulate as always when confronted by a situation in which actions litter more than tongues. Governor Is 83 MADISON. Wis. JP) Gov.

Walter S. Goodland, oldest man ever elected governor in the Nation, observed his eighty -third birthday by working as usuaL TREE LIGHTING TO City Marks BY J. DORSEY CALLAGIIAN Free Frew Staff Writer Detroit will celebrate its first Christmas in peace since the bloody afternoon of Dec. 7, 1941. Already the symbols of peace are making the streets glow with joy, and the windows of homes are lighting up with Yule candles and evergreen wreaths.

Even in those homes where half-a-world separates the members of families, the "peace that passeth all understanding" presides over the hearth. The loud guns are stilled for America and only the bickering Detroit Stays in Running for UNO Site All Cities West of Mississippi Eliminated New York Timet Foreign Service LONDON The United Nations Preparatory Commission, yielding to British and Russian desires, voted to locate the permanent headquarters of the new peace agency in the Eastern United States. It authorized a twelve nation subcommittee to select up to six sites for the General Assembly's final choice from an area bounded on the west by the Mississippi River. However, it has become apparent that the area of selection will be much narrower than that. THE ODDS are practically prohibitive that the site will be in New England or within 50 miles of New York City.

The British favor a small town near Boston and appear to have a majority with them, while the Soviet Union is reportedly keen on being close to New York. Hyde Park has been mentioned frequently. (Detroit is among the applicants still eligible for consideration under Saturday's decision.) By its vote of 25 to 5, with 10 abstentions, in favor of the East, the Commission eliminated San Francisco, which it acclaimed as the cradle of the new organization, as a contender for the permanent home. hero will never return will the" advent of a peaceful Christmas seem an occasion of sadness. The City can only pray with them and for them in the midnight churches.

GREATEST SYMBOL of the day will be the municipal tree on the City Hall lawn, which stood in darkness during the war. This year it will be ablaze with lights, touched off by a child. Nine-year-old Bonnabelle Scully, infantile paralysis patient from the Children's Convalescent Home at Farmlngton will pull the switch at 5:30 p. m. Monday.

to Refugees Truman Orders Immigration Priority WASHINGTON (U.R) Presi dent Truman ordered the admis sion of displaced persons and refugees into this country at a maximum rate of 3,900 a month under existing immigration laws. With specific orders to the head of each, the President directed the State, War and Justice Departments, the War Shipping Administration, the Public Health Service, and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to cooperate in the program. EXPLAINING that he hoped the majority of those admitted would be orphaned children, President Truman said that the United States shares responsibility for relieving the suffering of displaced persons and refugees in Europe. "I consider," he said, "that common decency and the fundamental comradeship of ail human beings requires us to do what lies within our power to see that our established immigration quotas are used in order to reduce human suffering." The President said that although he had no intention of excluding the issuance of immigration visas in other parts of the 'world, a decision had been made to concentrate the program in the immediate future in the American zones of occupation in Europe. IN THESE ZONES, he said, are citizens of every major European country.

Visas Issued to these persons, he said, will be charged to the countries of their origin. visas, the President added, will be distributed fairly among all faiths, creeds and nationalities. The President said he hoped the program would' be' tmdef 'way' by early spring, "so that Immigration can begin immediately "upon the availability cf ships. However, be emphasized that "nothing in this directive will deprive a single American soldier or his wife or children of a berth on a vessel homeward bound, or delay their return." The President strongly' urged that there be no further reduction in immigration quotas by Congress. "The increase asked bv the DSR Commission is entirely unneces sary.

and unwarranted," Lock-wood charged. "THERE SHOULD BE a public hearing to determine what increase is necessary for the system to operate. This might be one or two cents, but ihe proposed raise of all fares to 10 cents will bring the system more revenue than it needs. "We are thinking of an injunction to restrain the raise and a suit to force the Commission to show why the raise is The four-sided battle over the fare raises calmed to watchful waiting over the week-end. Mayor Jeffries, Sullivan and Samuel T.

Gilbert, DSR Commis sion president, are on record in the most positive language that the raise is necessary and that it is going into effect. THE OP WinCH has com pleted an audit of. the DSR books, waited word from Washington on its next move after Mayor Jeffries Friday flatly refused a request of Chester Bowles, OPA administra tor, to postpone the raise from 30 to 60 days. Mayor Jeffries telephoned Washington that on Monday he would try to arrange a meeting of the OPA and the DSR Commission later in the week. Meanwhile, -Dedo, an engineer hired to' survey DSR mechanical' equipment, defended his report that the proposed raise would net about- $9,000,000 more annually and that the system could break even with a five and ten-cent fare system.

Schoolgirl Hunted COLUMBUS CU.R) Police in New York and Chicago were asked to join in the search for Patty Lee sixteen-year-old junior-high-school student missing from her home here since Thursday. Willoiv Run Shut as Vets Seek Homes Despite the clamor of veterans. for housing facilities, the managerial offices of the Willow Run project were closed Saturday until next Wednesday. In its efforts to reach someone in authority at the project, the Free Press talked to one of the firemen employed there. HE SAID that a number of veterans had come out to the development to inquire about vacancies and had signified their intention of renting as soon as the manager's office opened again.

The DSR will begin running busses to the project Wednesday under a State subsidy. There are 1,800 vacancies earmarked for veterans. 1 The tree will be accepted for the City by Mayor Jeffries from Voi-ture-102, 40 and 8,, American Legion. HUgh Torbert, national judge advocate of the will make the presentation. A TABLEAU representing the Manger Scenewill be enacted on the City Hall steps as a background for the 150 youngsters trained in the City's recreation centers in the singing of carols.

June Gardner, dramatic soprano who appeared recently with the Turn to Page 6, Column First Peacetime Yule in Five Years of diplomats breaks the calm of Christmas. AS DETROIT families pause In their merry-making to breathe homage to the Christ Child, there is the knowledge that sons and brothers are doing the same among the ruins of Nuernberg and the Shinto shrines of Kyoto, or perhaps among the burning ghats of Calcutta. Boys who crouched among the dripping tangle of the jungle or the bitter snows of Europe are snug and safe again. Only in those homes to which a ,1.