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Defiant Group Adds Higher Auto Fa Sigler 77" If Happened In Michigan gh increase I I way 21 rat NEWS dm CLASSIFIED SPORTS DETROIT 31, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1948 Tragedy in the Street if iL 7- .1 i i I Fund State Enters Battle Over Block Lights Present System Called Unacceptable While Detroit cussed and discussed, defended and condemned the block system, the now famous "Battle of Grand River" broke out on a new front. In Lansing, Charles M. Ziegler, State highway commissioner, entered the picture with the flat statement that the traffic control system is not acceptable to the State in its present form. OX THE OTHER side of the battle were results of a survey by Denby High school students showing a majority of the drivers prefer the present block system. that if Detroit does not come up with a Grand River traffic system that meets with State approval or attempts to put any system into effect without the approval of the State, he will take the matter into court.

Ziegler pointed out that final aproval of any changes affecting the flow of traffic over a State trunk line had to be given by the highway department. Grand River from Woodward to the City Limits is a State trunk line. PREDICTING a sharp rise in traffic accidents on Grand River with the increase in motoring due to good weather, Ziegler advocated a return to the old system with stress on greater traffic-law enforcement. Ziegler said he offered to cooperate with Mayor VanAnt-werp on any changes the City contemplated, but said he never had been invited to sit in on any of the conferences. As Ziegler declared an "honest poll would show few motorists who like it," Denby High students counted results of 2,000 questionnaires distributed to motorists.

The result, according to James A. Buck, Denby safety coordinator, showed nearly 79 per cent of those who replied favor continuation of the system. DENBY STUDENTS made the snrvev a rart of the Third An nual Free Press Safety Contest for high and intermediate schools Hizzoner CROSWELL Russel D. Soule was elected mayor by the City Council. Free Press Photo MRS.

THERESA -LLOYD She shouted names Crusading Bus Rider Found Guilty Jury Convicts Her of Disturbing Peace An East Side Republican. Cluh member, who staged a one-worn an protest agamst the DSR fare raise, was found guilty of dis turbing the peace in Recorder's Court. The crusader, who was ejected from a coach April 9 by police. was Mrs. Theresa Lloyd, 57, of 1593 Cadillac.

Shp. was found euiltv bv a iurv of 11 women and one man before Recorder's Judge Paul E. Krause. A JAMMED courtroom heard a score of witnesses describe tne hectic half-hour during which Mrs. Llovd defied a bus driver.

slapped a policeman, and held up a busload of rusn-nour passengers for 20 minutes. According to the testimony of the bus driver, Louis Jackson, of 2951 Newport, Mrs. Lloyd offered him an over-age transfer when she boarded the bus at Griswold and State. Jackson said he told her the transfer was no good, but said she refused to pay. When he said he would hold up the entire bus-load of passengers, Jackson said she finally consented to pay a dime, but abso lutely refused to add the three pennies.

JACKSON, corroborated by several passengers, said Mrs. Lloyd shouted names at him in a loud, angry voice. Jackson then called the bus dispatcher, who in turn called Patrolman William Chubb. Chubb was slapped and buffeted as he arrested the angry woman, according: to testimony. Judge Krause will sentence her next week.

i i Ifi'' i i i i it' I 1 1 i A. I I Opens Door for Boost of One-Third Still Opposes Boost in Gasoline Levy r.Y IIUR M. GEORGE t'M Press Staff Writer LANSING Gov. Sigler capitulated Wednesday to demands of the highway lobby that Michigan's 2,000,000 motorists be required to pay additional taxes for road building. Jn a supplementary message to he Legislature Sigler opened the door 1'or a 40 per cent jump in registration fees.

This called off all bets on the contemplated Friday adjournment (f the special session. SIGI.Elt HAS repeatedly said in previous messages to the lawmakers and in frequent public speeches that he would permit no new taxes. I'arts of his program for constitutional changes have met stout opposition on the legislative floors, however. His yielding to a legislative demnn 1 for more highway funds is believed to be an attempt to hold supporters in line regardless nf his previous denunciation of "deals." A ITER EXPLAINING that he still opposed a gasoline tax boost, Sipler's new message to the Legislature said: "There is room for constructive work to be done in readjusting the weight tax levies for 1919 both for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. 'Consideration in particular should be given to whether or not the commercial vehicles are paying the proper share of the costs of" construction and maintenance of highways." Promptly a bill was dropped ir.to the hopper by Rep.

Alpheus Decker, Sanilac Republican, proposing to adopt adjustments rec ommended py ms iiignway au-visory Committee. PASSENtiEK CAR registration f. os would be jumped from C5 to od cents a hundredweight to add iT.i'ii.non a year to the a now being- collected. License, fees of trucks, fun-rral cars and other commercial vehicles would bo jumped approximately one-third to add S3, 1 00,000 to the $8,500,000 these vehicles are now pro ducing. The entire $10,900,000 of added tax would go back to the counties which are maintaining nearly 100 road commission lobbyists in Lansing in a fight to gain more road building money.

I LER'S SURRENDER brought prompt protest from the cities ard notice by the Michigan Automobile Club that it will fight to protect members from the new exaction. Obiousv unless someone can tind a system of distribution that wi'd be equitable to the cities, they will have to oppose tin- lav increase," said John N. lluss. executive secretary of the League. Previously the highway advisory group had recommended giving ti State Highway Department 41 per cent of all highway revenue, counties 37 per cent and cities 39 per cent.

1U THE counties which ap-prar to have the strongest lobby here would have no incentive in rhifting from a grab that will add to their revenue to a formula that would give them onlv $9,000,000 additional. 2ND TRUCKER ALSO IT BY DONALD F. SCHRAM State Senator Don Vander-Werp, of Fremont, got a ticket for speeding in Portland, but it doesn't count. The Ionia County sheriff has told him to forget it, he says. It's not a fix.

The State Constitution, provides that a legislator is immune to arrest except for treason, a felony, or a breach of the peace during sessions and for 15 days before and after. VanderWerp pleaded immunity when he got the ticket, but Deputy Peter Van Vleck was unimpressed and took the Senator be fore a justice. VanderWerp asked for time to clarify the Constitutional question, and the case was thereafter dropped. Van Vleck said the senator was coiner 50 in a school zone, but VanderWerp' said he was driving safely on a four-lane highway with three lanes open, and no children in the road. "It was not careless driving," he said.

Pranksters at Michigan State College hoisted a four-foot by six bed sheet dyed with a star, hammer and sickle to imitate a Communist flag to the top of the flagpole in front of ROTC headquarters in East Lansing. A workman on a construction crane hauled it down, and President John Hannah, arch-foe of campus Communists, commented, "College boys don't change much over the years." WHEN one of hr youths picked a fight with him on a Greenville street, Howard De- Young, 230 pounds, knew his ad versary was a twin because na looked just like one oi tne ouiera. He had no trouble, however in identifying Blaine C. Stewart, 19, as his 140 -pound attacker when the case got to court. "I iust baneced his head a few time on the concrete so I would recognize him," he said.

Stewart was fined ana janea xo aays for disorderly conduct. A gasoline storage tank exploded Wednesday In Cheboygan, and a terror-stricken woman thought an atom bomb had struck. But the tank was filled with water for and only the fumes from a feed pipe, ig--nited by a welding: tool, really blew up. There was more noise than damage; the tank roof was blown off. beautiful shades: Grey Beige Blue Green Maroon Sandyne Navy Fawn to Attack on Dondineau to Oust Head of School System Six specific instances of "bad judgment" on the part of Superintendent of Schools Arthur Dondineau were cited by the Better Schools Association in MlHnc for nrmointment of a superintendent from "outside the system." In an open letter to newspapers and the Board of Education, the association reiterated and ampli fied its charges against don dineau which were first made in another letter last week.

The association pointed out that Dondineau's three-year term of office terminates this summer. They recommended that the board "hold an open hearing on the question of the superintendency before making an appointment." Calling for a change in admin istration, the BSA stated that, "in our opinion, the superintenaeni snrf thp Roard of Education have damaged public and employee re lations by specitic instances oi bad judgment." THEY LISTED them as: 1 Teaching staff reductions with a consequent increase in class size. The BSA said the staff reduction came despite an enrollment increase of 4,000 children. 2 The salary policy of 1947 which nearly resulted in a teachers' strike. 3 Large percentage of teenage dropouts from high schools "through failure to provide an interesting program." 4 Unsatisfactory sick leave policy for teachers.

5 Inadequate retirement fund appropriations. The "redisricting" policy at Higginbotham School which resulted in a shortlived parents' "strike." Reading to Ask Delay of Fine Former Mayor Richard W. Reading, scheduled to pay a fine of $10,000 in Federal Court for conviction on two counts of income tax evasion, will ask for a time extension. Frank O. Schemanske, his law- vr.

said Reading: would ask for a 30-day period of grace in order to complete negotiations tor tne saic of real estate holdings. Beef Roast wnwFT.r, A fire caused bv lightning: destroyed a barn, 55 cows and two horses on the farm of Joseph Eisner, five miles south of here. ANNIVERSARY PRICED AT TLB. ITU EH 0 an auto driven by George D. Phillips, 46, of 19160 Manor, police said.

Attendants at Receiving Hospital said the boy may have a skull fracture. Police and bystanders aid Gerald Jones, 12, struck down by an auto on Woodward near Collin gwood at noon Wednesday. Gerald, who lives at 76 Englewood, darted out from behind a parked car into the path of i 'BUY ME SOME PEANUTS Senators Seek Recess to Watch Tigers Play umns Today! A great Anniversary feature! From Onr Lansing Bureau LANSING The Legislature was torn between two fires Wednesday: Desire of the House to stay and clean up the calendar this week. Desire of the senate to kmck ff work Fridav to see the Tigers onner A1TER THE TWO bodies had agreed to adjourn Friday, the Senate Spurns MSG Plea for Extra Fund From Onr Lansing Bureau LANSING Michigan State College will have to refuse admittance to some students because the Legislature will not allow the college enough money to complete new physics building, Senator Harry F. Hittle, East Lansing Republican, charged.

Hittle's effort to get an extra appropriation for the college failed by a 7 to 15 vote as senators rushed through a capital construction and expenditure appropriation of $11,272,648. COLLEGE authorities said that $1,500,000 would be needed to complete the building. The Senate allows $500,000. The bill now goes to the House. Afternoon US.

WEATHER BUREAU MAP ill I Vernor Files His Answer to Wife's Charge James Vernor, in a document filed in his suit for divorce, said he i3 ready to prove in detail what happened during at least three dozen meetings between his wife and "Mr. Answering his wife answer to I his crops-bill. Vernor said he can! establish the dates, hours and minutes of such meetings. 1IE DECLARED he can produce witnesses to prove the truth of his allegations and demonstrate that her denials of affairs with "Mr. are downright perjury." Vernor, heir to the ginger ale fortune, described her answer as a "desperate attempt to raise a smoke-screen to cover her own misconduct." "She finally realizes that she has been apprehended in improper conduct she thought never would be discovered," Vernor said.

KILLED roadeos sponsored by the American Trucking Association. He was employed by the George F. Alger Trucking Co. A Pleasant C4 Lou 1017 LOW it so-i-i-i 2ru 10. a liampion Driver Dies A I iter trashing into Loiv Senate came up Wednesday morning with an urgent plea for delay.

Chairman Otto II. Bishon. of the Senate Finance said it was impossible to get the vital appropriation bills out of the way by Friday. lie was DacKeu up Dy a group of baseball ians. So they rescinded the vote by which the S'enate agreed to quit Fridav and shifted the date over to next Wednesday.

Then they proposed a recess from Thursday afternoon until Monday night for the benefit of the baseball fans and trout fishermen. The House declined to go along u-irh the changes and sent the ad journment resolution back to the UDDer Chamber, rsow it being threshed out. Prospects are that the baseball fans will prevail. 2 Women Placed on Probation for Egg Bombardment Two women employees of the Detrola 1501 Beard, were placed on three months' probation by Recorder's Judge John J. Maher after they admitted throwing eggs at another employee.

The two, Miss Adele Labanaw-skus, 33, of 13083 Venness, Wyandotte, and Miss Dorothy Balow-ski. 23. of 5039 Dubois, pleaded guilty to charges of assault and battery. They were accused by Mrs. Cathryne Sclrerbarth, 51, of 8420 Whittaker, who said that on March 17 she and some jellow workers were targets for tossed eggs in a union factional dispute.

U.S. Temperatures i Hours Kndrd at 8 P. M. Official Figure MICHIGAN Hiph Low Hich Low Alpena 50 34 Jarkson til 38 Battle Creek 38 Lansing 58 39 Cadillac H4 Marquette 29 Calumet 6H 30 MusUeirou 60 38 DETROIT 57 40 Sapinaw 37 Kseanaba 47 3( S. SHe.

Marie 58 30 Flint 57 39 Trav. City 53 33 Grd. Rapids 62 39 MIDWEST Hifh Low Hiffh Low Chicago 58 39 KanaOty 50 Cleveland 55 39 Mpla -St. P. TO 43 Des Moines 9 43 Milwaukee 54 3tf Duluth ti9 38 Omaha 71 46 Indianapolis 59 41 EAST Hiph Low Low Boston US 43 Philadelphia f5 S8 Cincinnati 5B 43 Washington.

74 60 New York 71 61 SOCTU Hiph Low Hiirh Low Atlanta 83 58 Miami 75 65 Jacksonville S3 5 New Orleans S'i 58 Memphis 6t St. Louis 67 45 WEST Hich Low Hiffh Low Alhuo'erque 0 H'l Phoenix 94 Denver 7 4 4 Salt Lk C. 4 5.V Fort Worth 84 65 S. Francisco 58 49 Los Atieeles 63 h'l Seattle 67 47 Okla. City 3 67 Detroit iiznrUe, 6:41 m.

I uiietrT: Bl. 4 Deluxe Pure Worsted Gabardine Jacket Kdson A. Smith. 42, of S097 Strathmoor, former world's champion truck driver, 'was injured fatally Wednesday near Three Rivers "when his truck struck a cow. The collision deflected Smith's ttuck into a headon collision with another ituck.

i 'QCjWW i and its driver also was killed. was Ken- neth Gutman, 35. of Juneau, Wis. The accident occurred on M-60 near Leoni-das, in St. Joseph County, 19 miles east of Three Rivers.

Fred Dinney, owner of the iSmith row. said he and his son were trying to clear their cattle off the road just before the collision. Gutman, a driver for the Bridge-wav Co was trapped in his cab Tni was burned to death when the truck caught fire after the impact. Smith was taken to a Three II i vers hopital. where he died sev-nal hours later.

SMITH WON THi: truck driving championship of the nation IV 1938 end 1939, competing in Today! This new exceptionally handsome pure-worsted Gabardine Jacket at worthwhile Anniversary savings! beautifully made with handstitched collar and pockets worsted' knit waistband, double button cuffs, zipper fastener and full rayonT lining. Choice of 8 beautiful shades. Sizes 36 to 46. Mail and phone orders filled. w5 Shefby Street end State Associated Press Wirfphoto It will be a warm, pleasant day Thursday.

The Weather Bureau said the mercury will climb to a high of 62 in the afternoon after an early morning low of 36. There will be a Rentle breeze. Wednesday's high was 56. Meanwhile, it was generally lair-and-coel over-most of the nation. DETROIT.

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