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311 Seven Cents MONDAY, APRIL, 11, 1935 On Guard for Over a Century EitablUhti in J83I Gordie Gets 3 in Victory 5-1 Www WW Court Labor Canadiens Trail In Playof fs Again Kellv. Bouchard Banished For Flight: Scoring Marks Fall 3 Urged: Flying Age Arrives BY MARSHALL I) ANN free Pre Staff Writer Gordie Howe, the "big" man of the Red Wings with a king-sized shot, Sunday night led the Red Wings to within a single v'-tory of another Stanley Cup. Howe fired a three-goal "hat i Yirborne 'Manhole Cover' Is Tested Successfully, Amazes All with Its Simple Operation Say Chiaii" Told lo Golt Alone First Ike Wants to Assess Any Red Assault WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower, is reported to have direct- i ed American forces to! stand clear of fighting I that might break out in i T-1 jl tne rormosan area unui he can assess the extent -should come in Tuesday's con- i i. But. it will be played at i 1 1- fU for sure over the flaring lip, making the pressure under the lip relatively greater.

The counter-rotating fan3 act with a gyroscopic effect producing the stability. The contraption, about six feet in diameter and thirty inches high, is so light that two men can pick it up and walk away with it. The controls represent simplicity itself a throttle, plus another control for an undisclosed purpose. There is also a small engine temperature gauge. That's all.

The pilot stands in the center of the platform, his feet strapped in place, his hands resting on a light railing. Once airborne, he can fly the platform forward, backward or sideways simply by making an appropriate slight shift in his weight. ALTHOUGH IT looks as if it could easily be tipped over, ex perts say the platform has an inherent stability, a certain re sistance to sudden change of position. First man to go aloft on the platform was Phil A. Johnston, a World War II fighter pilot with two downed enemy planes to his credit.

He says he found the propelled manhole cover so simple to fly it was almost a disappointment. "Sure I'd let my kids fly it," he said ithout hesitation. "It's no trick at all." A Hiller spokesman said an utter novice can fly the round platform with only a minute's instruction. But oddly enough, trained pilots sometimes take three or four minutes to get the hang of it. He even jestingly suggested that a trained bear could take it aloft.

OBSERVERS FEEL that the flying platform may become a practical flying flivver for the common man of the near future. Because it is cheaper to build and simpler to fly. they say the platform may supplant the helicopter. It could serve as a flying Jeep to carry personnel or, when larger platforms are developed, could be used to transport tanks and other heavy equipment over difficult terrain. Johnston has flown it at altitudes ranging from eight inches to eight feet.

Once or twice, he scooted over the fields at the Hiller plant at a speed which the Navy was not willing to disclose. One big problem yet to be solved is emergency protection against engine failure. As it now stands rather, flies if either engine conked out, the platform Iw-ould drop like a brick, i IN BERKELEY, Luis Alvarez. famed University of California I Physicist who developedGround i Contrl Approach (GCA) for bad weather landings, was amazed at i word of the weird saucer. "Sounds very wonderful." he said.

"I'd like to see one. If true, a new age has started. But it seems so different from anything i I've ever heard of. any comment from me would be like an old; artillery man commenting on the atom bomb it's simply so fan-. tastic." Met Soprano, Hotel Owner Wed NEW YORK Roberta Peters.

24. Metropolitan Opera soprano, and hotel owner Bertram Fields. 33. were married Sunday at Temple Emanu-El. Miss Peters previously was married to operatic baritone Rob-; ert Merrill, 36.

Carp et Test Pilot Phil Johnston Flies the 'Thing Leiml Shifts Offered by Hoover Unit IVcw Ilcnili W011M Get Tax Cacs Too BY PAL'L R. LEACH hirt or Our Washington Hureao WASHINGTON It's going to take most of the lawyers in Congress to figure out what to do about the newest Government reorganization proposals of the Herbert Hoover Commission. A report i.sMinl Sunday makes 52 specific recommendations for modernizing legal services and procedure of the Federal Government. On a broad basis the report presents a plan to separate administrative and judicial functions in Federal agencies so as to give the public greater protection against abuses of power and aibitrary bureaucratic action outside of the courts. THE COMMISSION proposed that a new Federal administrative court should be established to handle certain labor, tax and trade disputes.

The new tribunal would take over the judicial functions now exercised by the National Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practices cases and similar functions now in the Federal Tax Court and various independent agencies which handle trade-regulation cases. The commission held that the same officials should not in estigate, prosecute and judge cases. Six of the dozen commissioners, including Attorney General Herbert Brownell and former President Hoover, who is chairman of this group as he was of the 1949-reporting first body, filed a separate statement regarding 20 of the proposals. THEY NOTED that they did not vote for this section of the report "because of their possible consequences and possible in crease in expenditures of the Government." tions under their cloud, dealing with revision of administrative procedure, were advised by outstanding lawyers, Turn to Page 5, Column 1 Did you know it's real easy to enter my big Cinerama Holiday Trip Contest? Keep the answers to these daily questions and include them on your entry with my crossword puzzle each Sunday. My question for Monday Is: Who did Charlie Brown name as our first president? You've heard a lot about this full name with 12 letters in all.

Turn to "Peanuts" in the Comics on Page 39. MONDAY'S ANSWER Keep this as a reminder so you can write your answer in the space provided on your Sunday crossword puzzle entry blank and you may win not only $500, but a fabulous $2,000 all-expense paid Cinerama Holiday vacation in Switzerland for two, plus $100 spending money! Wm TRAGEDY IX A VACAIVT LOT trick" that converted a 1-1 dead-. lock into a 4-1 lead in a space of IS minutes. From there the Wings cruised to an easy 5-1 decision over the Montreal Cana diens at Olympia. The triumph, seasoned with a fist fight between Red Kelly and Butch Bouchard, gave the Wings a 3-2 lead in the series in which the home team has won all five games.

The Wings get two chances for the necessary fourth victory nn the basis of this game, it th Montl.eai Forum, where the Detroiters were something less than terrific in their two stands there last week. A seventh game would be i i played Thursday at pijmpia. HOWE'S GOALS were sandwiched between tallies by Glen Skov and Vic Stasiuk. All these followed Jean Beliveau's counter that gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead that lived for five minutes. Hockey's record book was rewritten as a result of Howe's feast on Jacques Plante.

He ran his total for nine playoff games to 19 points on eight goals and 11 assists. This broke the record of 18 points set by Montreal's Toe Blake in 1944. Linemates Ted Lindsay, who gathered two assists, and Dutch Riebel, who was blanked this time, joined Howe for another record. They have 4'J K)ints, one more than the previous high by the Canadien line of Blake, Elmer Lat and Kocket Richard. Howe's hat trick was the third i in the high-scoring series.

Lindsay got four goals in the 7-1 opener, while Bernie Geoffrion notcned three in Montreal's ini- Ual victory, a 4-J altair, If the home-ice factor can be ignored. Saturday's outbreak may signal a wrapup by Tuesday. The Wings sagged when the Canadiens cracked their 15-game winning streak, but they may be in the victory groove again. AN" INDICATION of a scoring spree came when heavy body checking early in the first period. Detroit had adopted a puzzling nonaggression policy in the losing pair at Montreal.

Canadiens wilted in the late stages after the pounding. But they came back snarling to share in the last-period battling. Sticks were high and tempers hot several time, but the only fistic outburst was the Kelly-Bouchard go. It was a good one hile it lasted. A one-time amateur boxing champ, Kelly stripped off his gloves for several belts at the 210-pound Montreal captain.

Turn to Page 29, Column 2 Easter Fire Ravages Town EOWLING GREEN. Va. (Pi An Easter Sunday fire, fanned by high winds, swept through three-fourths of the business district of this community of 700 persons. Firemen conquered it after a four-hour battle. When firefighters got the upper hand about 6 p.m..

only six buildings remained standing in a four-block business area along me iown mam sireet. lgnieen were destroyed. Damage estimates ranged all rrir 1- VKJ. sunuay mgnt were faced with a water shortage the supply was exhausted by some 15 to 20 fire companies. Belli Rin 2 C1HCAGO CP) City Fire- 'man Joseph Flashing was charged Sunday with sounding nine false alarms within thiee hours while off duty.

He denied the charges. i 1 1 "11L41I 11 III VlltloV-y l--rfllvl IS In Flaminir Crash Police Free Driver Trapped Under Car Special to the Free rre HOLLY Folice chased F.mmet Schmidt. 21. cf Walled Lakc, from downtown Holly a Tn south of town at i0 mi an hour, Schmidt car missed a. curve, knocked over a railroad crossing sign and a utility pole, ilt rolled 50 yards and burst into flames.

SCHMIDT was trapped underneath. Patrolman Wood, of the Holly Police, called the Holly fire department which put out the fire. Doctors at Tonliac (ieneral Hospital said Sunday that Schmidt suffered only face cuts and miHor burns. His passenger. John Martin, 23, of Holly, was thrown clear.

He was given first aid. Wood was trying to give Schmidt a speeding ticket. APPALLING? Mathematics Of Birth Rale Is Staggering WASHINGTON (A1) Dr. Robert C. Cook, director of the Population Reference Bureau, said Sunday "the late et which babies are being born in the world is something that would be appalling if one considered the mathematics of the situation.

"If the present rate should keep up," he said, "there is a potentiality that in a fev-' centuries, the entire hind surface of the earth would be as densely populated as New York City. The problem of feeding thai many people is something I don't even like to think about." However, he Indicated things seem to have a way of taking care of themselves and that "it appears inevitable there must be either a drop in the birth rate, or an increase in the death rate." Dr. Cook's bureau, a private scientific organization, has its "main objective to make available in accurate, nontechnical form the facts upon which rational population policies must be In the United States, he said, the size of the family 13 on the increase. The birth rate is now 23. per year per 1.000 population, against 18 in 130.

3 Flee Fire In Home GRAND RAPIDS (Jp) farniiy Cf escaped when fiames destroved their home at j.farn near hpre rnes xv ine 37. said he broke down the front storm door and pushed out his six children and his wife. The door was hooked and he had trouble unlatching it. Kline said he shot boles fnt. two containers of bottled gas outside the house so thev would not explode.

A ruptured drum started the blaze, he said, Fire departments from Ida roe, Cooperfville and Conkhn were summoned. diiu iiiLcat ui any miudi; Chinese Communist at- tack. The President is represented by persons versed in the Administration's Far Eastern policies as having informed the Chinese Nationalists they hold the primary responsibility for defending not only Quemoy and Matsu but Formosa itself. MR. EISENHOWER'S present position was summed up this way: The Nationalists, who have been given the latest types of American fighting equipment short of nuclear weapons, will be expected to bear alone the initial thrusts of any attack that develops.

There is a strong feeling within the Administration that Chiang Kai Shek's men can handle anything short of an all-out invasion. American forces would stand in readiness outside the range of battle. They would not join in the firing unless deliberately attacked. If Mr. Eisenhower decides the I Nationalists can't repel the Reds" alone, his decision on American intervention will be based on the best United States evaluation of Communist intentions at the time.

If the Communists should change their propaganda line by announcing publicly they want only Quemoy and Matsu, Mr. Eisenhower would have to consider world opinion and the likely opposition of America's allies toward defending the coastal islands under those circumstances. IF THE PRESIDENT is convinced, however, that an assault on Quemoy and Matsu is the beginning of a massive effort to take Formosa, American forces would move into action with tactical, small-size atomic weapons. There would be no employment of the fusion type of H-bomb with its lethal fallout over wide areas. The effort Turn to Page 2.

Column 4 Lorctta 111 OXNARD, Calif. (U P) Film i and television star Loretta Young was hospitalized here Sunday after she was stricken during the "acute appendicitis. lice activities and a nunaan i I New Tork Trnifi Service PALO ALTO. Calif. You have to see it to believe it and even then, chances are you won't.

It's a flying machine that defies the laws of gravity without benefit of such old-fashioned gadgets as rotor blades, wings, tail, or an ordinary propeller. Seen in the air at a distance, it looks an airborne manhole cover with a man standing on top. Seen up close, it resembles a cast iron stew pot on four short legs. THIS EXTRAORDINARY device, officially dubbed a "flying platform" by the Navy, was unveiled at the Hiller Helicopters plant here Sunday. Its first vertical takeoff in free flight with a pilot aboard was made last Feb.

4 a date now compared by astonished observers with Dec. 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers made the first flight with a heavier-than-air machine. This gadget ones its ability to rise vertically to two counter-rotating ducted fans located horizontally just under the platform on which the pilot stands. A Navy spokesman said it represents a new principle of lift and propulsion known as "the ducted fan." THE FANS, enclosed in a circular casing, suck in air through holes in the platform, then thrust it forth with great force. They are powered by twro separate engines which together develop less than 100 horsepower.

In addition to the thrust of the fans, lift is provided by the flared lip of the platform, like the edge of a pie tin. The fast flow of air through the sieved platform by the sucking action of the fans reduces the air pres- Salk Arrives In Ann Arbor For Big News Special to the Free Press ANiT ARBOR Dr. Jona3 E. Salk, discoverer of the vaccine that may end the scourge of polio, arrived here Sunday. He immediately went into seclusion.

Friends said he would remain incommunicado until 10:20 sum. Tuesday when the momentous announcement on the result of the year-long vaccine test will be made public. IT WILL BE the first dis closure of the results of the inoculation of 2.000.000 school children in 44 states, Canada and Finland. By Sunday night. Ann Arbor found itself in the midst of an invasion of scientists and news men.

Dr. Thomas Francis. director of the studv. said he and his staff would continue their investigations right up to the Tuesday deadline. TILL TUESDAY Your Finery Is Still Safe If you can extend your Easter vacation a day, Monday's the day to do it.

The Weather Bureau expected partly cloudy skies and continued warm for Monday. Gentle winds will blow. High in the afternoon will be about 75 degrees after a low temperature early Monday of 50. Cooler weather, with a chance of showers, is anticipated Tuesday. i 1 i Sun Brings Out Boys And Spears and Death BY ROBERT De WOLFE ree Press Maff riter Spring stirred in the hearts of boys Sunday.

In the balmy Easter afternoon the dreariness of school You'll Fiiuh Amusements 16 Astrology 20 Bridge 20 Day in Michigan 38 Drew Pearson 17 Editorials 8 Industrial 19 Movies 18 Radio and Television 37 Sports 29-32 Want Ads 33-36 Weather Map 2 Women's Pages 23-27 TO HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED TO YOUR HOMElnight with what apparently was PHONE WO 2-8900 was forgotten. Boys thought instead of an cient duels with spears, medieval knights jousting with lances gleaming in the sun, natives tracking lions in Africa, the javelin throw that won the meet. RONNIE BRANDON, 14. of 10047 AsMon, and his best friend, Johnny Gunnerson, 14, of 10014 Ashton, went out to play. With two other boys.

Wayne Bugis. 13. and his brother, Marvin, 10, of 9900 Ashton, they ran to a vacant lot where Ashton dead-ends at the Chesapeake Ohio Railway tracks. The boys found sticks and tossed them about, pretending the branches were spears. Ronnie had a five-foot piece of molding.

It worked fine. He wired a file to his spear and tried it. It stuck twice in the earth. It struck deep and quivered in an old stump. The others envied Ronnie.

JOHNNY WAS running. Without direction. Ronnie tossed his spear mightily and yelled. It cut straight and clear into the deep blue sky. It struck Johnny in the head.

Johnny, the son of Mrs. James O'Bryant. was dead when admitted to Mt. Carmel it Ronnie, released after state- ment to the prosecutor's of- fice. sobbed: I didn't mean to.

I didn't mean to." Free Press io Publish 'Meet Mr. Eisenhower' A revealing series of articles by Merriman Smith, dean of White House correspondents, "Meet Mr. Eisenhower." will appear daily in the Free Press starting Wednesday. written, mterestins account 01 picture of his way of life. Merriman Smith will treat Free Press readers to an inside story of the President's life, disclosing dozens of things about Mr.

Eisenhower vou never knew before. (Qn the back page i5 a review of he book by Vice President Richard M. Nixon.) Be sure you get every installment. Order your Free Press home-delivered. Call WO 2-S900 today and ask for Circulation, or see your newspaperboy or distributor..