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as Peron Met Match in Tackling Church? Page 4, Section WET 3IETRO FINAL Knight Acclaims Eden's Victory See Page 4, Section Partly cloudy and cooler after rain. Low, 53-57; high, 66-72. Man und Details on Tttzt 3 SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1955 Twenty Cents 96 Pages Vol. 125 No. 25 On Guard for Over a Century Established in 1831 j7 fin MM ITU KJ 1 1 o)fr Tornadoes Skip About In Michigan 3 Fishermen Saved On River by 'Copter Contract Talks To Resume Today Rcuther Sees Wide Gulf Between Union aiid Company BY ROBERT PERRIN Fr Tress Writer The UAW (CIO) Executive Board Saturday-afternoon approved a unanimous request from the union's Ford Council, authorizing the council to call a strike at the Ford Motor Co.

Thursday. Walter P. Reuther, UAVV and CIO president, said that "as of the present time it will require considerable change in the company's attitude to avert a strike." But he said he would be at the Ford negotiations when they resume at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. "I'm going to sit at the bargaining table no matter how many hours it takes," Reuther aid.

"We are going to do everything humanly possible between iiow and th-deadline to avoid a strike." The executive board's action merely gives the Ford Council authorization to call a strike Thursday. There is no directive that a strike is to begin at that time. Although the Thursday dead- I i Tornado alerts that made Saturday a day for thousands in southern Michigan were canceled at 9 p. m. i Funnel-shaped clouds jumped across Michigan throughout the i Twisters grabbed at the State Ford Plan Could Bring A 'Revolution' Stock Buying Might Result In 4 Worker Capitalism' BY LEO DONOVAN Free Press StaTf Writer Is Henry Ford II, whose grandfather's mass-production techniques revolutionized industry, aiming at leading America to a new form of capitalism? This question was being debated hotly Saturday by those discussing Ford's plan to sell Ford Motor Co.

stock to thousands of employes at half price. The basic idea is not new, just as mass production techniques were familiar on a small scale in his grandfather's day. But the elder Ford shook the world with his applications to basic industry. And his grandson's proposal could be equally sensational some estimate it could quickly help widen America's ownership of big busines by 20 per cent. TO UNDERSTAND the possible significance in his proposal it is worth remembering how the first Henry Ford felt in Eaton and Kalamazoo Counties.

Others formed but stayed well above ground, whirling out their destruction against ominous black clouds. A BARN "WAS reported knocked down outside Schwartz Creek, seven miles south of UAVV President Walter Reuther Tells Reporters of Ford Strike Flans Flint, shortly after 8 p. m. i Grand Rapids got a scare shortly after 6 p.m. when a.

fun-j nel-shaped cloud was seen twoj miles northeast of the airpottj there. It was between 400 and; 500 feet from the ground. i Tito Seen Rejecting Red Bid Youth Admits Killing Woman Minister 59 Says She 4Donblc-Crossed Mc mi Rv Interfering wilh His Dales THE ALERTS covered lower Michigan south of a line from I Ludington to Oscoda. I The Weather Burean blamed line was an apparent 24-hour postponement of the June 1 con-j tract expiration, Reuther and his i aides said it was a matter of interpretation. The present pact does not specify the time of day of expiration; it could be 12:01 a.m.

Wednesday or midnight Wednesday. The company had interpreted the deadline as of Wednesday morning. One factor in the union's Thursday deadline, was a contract provision requiring certain workers to be on the job June 1 in order to be eligible for vacation benefits. Reuther said he hoped the time the weird weather on a slow cold i front marching across Michigan, about Ford Motor Co. stock.

He didn't want anyone outside the family to own a single share at any price. Henry Ford I paid more than 29 million doUars to buy out Senator James Couzens a generation ago. And legend has it that he agreed to name his grandson rs his successor in deed as well as in name under family pressure which included a threat to sell some of its shares on the open market. BELGRADE U.R Marshal Tito was reported Saturday to have spurned a Russian bid to link Yugoslavia with the Soviets eastern European satellite bloc. The report from informed RAY CITY JP) Shotgun wounds a woman minister.

Police held a 20-year-old youth who said he shot her because "she double-crossed me and told the girls not to go out with scattering storms before it. The strange weather threw some traces of snow in the air in downtown Detroit early Saturday afternoon. High winds forced the cancellation of Saturday rounds in the element question would be only sources appeared to be confirmed OTHERS HAVE apparently had the idea of speeding the Women's Wolverine Open Golf among them the giant Generarf Tournament spread of business ownershi Motors Corp. But the startling reversal of me. Mrs.

Theresa Austin, 59, pas-, tor of the Pentecostal Church in Prescott, was struck down on "her porch. Held in Ogemaw County Jail in Prescott, is Albert Bowen, of Prescott, one-time communicant at Mrs. Austin's church. Bowen, was arrested in Prescott. Police said he led them to the weapon used in the shooting.

his grandfather's policy an academic argument ana tnai agreement will have been reached on a new pact. But Reuther. who earlier in the day had been turned down in Full Text of Henry Ford's letter is on Page 0. by the gloom of the high-level Soviet delegation at the windup of formal talks between leaders of the two estranged Communist states. COMMUNIST Party Chief Ni-kita S.

Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin were grim when the two delegations gath makes the Ford position especially- dramatic. Holiday Toll Reaches 10 In Michigan Memorial Day weekend acci dents claimed 10 lives in Michigan up to a late hour Saturday night; In addition, a Detroit man was killed in a crash 16 miles east of Windsor. Five of the Michigan deaths were on the highways. Four were drownings. The 10th man was the victim of a heart attack while fishing.

NATIONWIDE, the number of traffic deaths was lagging well behind earlier predictions by the National Safety Council. Its experts were optimistic that the death toll for the three-day holiday might be at least 60 less than the 360 they had predicted. At 10:30 p. 84 traffic fatalities had been reported. There were 20 drownings and 13 deaths from -other accidents for a total of 117.

At the same time a year ago there had been 111 traffic deaths. RAIN AND wind Saturday afternoon were blamed by State Police for a flurry of minor accidents in Southeast Michigan. The Automobile Club of Michigan reported that Northern Michigan and Canadian resort areas seemed the prime attraction for state motorists. Dead were: RICHARD SHAFER, 30, of Bronson, killed in a crash near ered for lunch after meeting for three hours in an atmosphere Certainly, it is not a sudden whim, but a plan well thought out in all details. There was a tip-off of what was to come several weeks go in a New York speech made by Henry Ford II.

It hinted Rt a new concept of America's capitalistic system. "OWNERSHIP OF industry is being rapidly democratized diffused throughout the population," he said then. a bid to have Henry Ford II, president of Ford, or Ernest R. Breech, chairman of the board, appear at Saturday's sessions of the Ford Council, was not taking I THERE WERE times when the sun broke out, but Weather Bureau observers said: "That just makes the weather worse." Three fishermen were plucked from the Detroit River in midafternoon by a Navy helicopter from Grosse Isle Naval Air Station. Navy sources said the trio's metal rowboat was swamped by wind-driven waves.

The men were taken to the base hospital, but were released immediately. They were identified as William Brewer, 32, of 46560 Willis. Belleville; William Turn to Page S. Column 7 of frigid protocol. But Tito, immaculate in black coat and striped pants and cas-jually smoking a cigaret in his pipe -style holder, appeared chipper.

I Informed sources disclosed. Albert Bowen OGEMAW Assistant. Prosecutor William P. Jennings quoted Bowen as saying: "She drove me crazy and I shot her. I attended her service four years.

"I got mad at her last Oc-; tober. I discovered she had double-crossed me and I couldn't take it any longer. i "She told the girls not to go -out with me, that they were not enough for me because they jwent to shows and things like that." Jennings said Bowen went to Teachers Strike ROME (U.P. School teachers struck Saturday for' higher pay, giving 1,000,000 pupils a reprieve from final exams. Autos Caught 111 Snowslide "More and more white and blue-collar workers own more and more of the business firms for which they work, through profit sharing plans, direct stock ownership or indirectly through a wide variety of pension and retiremen funds.

"Thus in modern capitalism the owner, the manager and the worker are logically united in a. common concern for the well-being of the company which feels all three of them." THE CIO leadership, however, refuses to accept this reasoning. As an example, Ker Bannon, director of the UAW's National a bright view. ASKED ABOUT the similarity the union has charged exists between the proposals made by Ford and the General Motors Reuthef said: "There is obvious collusion taking place here." He emphasized that Ford had not obtained information on the GM proposal made several days earlier from the union. The union leader was reticent about discussing the GM proposal, which has not been made public.

The union called the Ford proposal a "watered-down version of an inadequate GM proposal." Asked if the GM offer was better, Reuther said: 'If is inadequate, certainly minus something is YAKIMA. Wash. (P) An undetermined number of auto however, that the Russians and the Yugoslavs had agreed on tne main lines of a final communique to be issued when the Russian visit ends. They said would Include, declarations of the desire foe peace, a plea for disarmament, and other schemes to encourage peacefu. co-existence.

The informants also disclosed that the Russians and Yugoslav made good progress on normalization of'trade between the two countries. Reliable sources said the Russians had argued that Yugoslavia is a Communist state and its place lies witfT the eastern Florida and got a job as a circus GIVE UP AFTER SIEGE Aged Couple Kills 3 In Battle with Police mobiles were buried by a snow-1 early last month. slide in the Cascade Mountains Saturday, the State Patrol re ported, Sgt. Ed Tull said the slide yaaall occurred on the east side of Chinook Pass. He said it caught! OCALA, Fla.

(U.P.) An elderly couple shot and killed three Dolice officers from their barricaded house Saturdav Ford Department, sees no bene- night and stoo(J off gome 3Q other lawmen in an hour-and-a- CARLSBAD, N. M. (U.R) A judge sentenced Mrs. Myrtle McCool, a witness in a land-partition suit, to 48 hours in Jail for sticking out her tongue at an attorney at'the hearing. a line of cars stopped by earlier slides.

Tull said "six kids and a woman who were pretty badly injured" were hospitalized here. Communist bloc led by Russia. THE YUGOSLAVS replied I they remained determined to ley, who was armed with a rifle or a shotgun. inadequate." Like the Ford proposal, the pursue their policy of "active co- existence," independent of both Ail, lui ui ul wwirvcio. "The proposal quite obviously demonstrates that the executives of Ford Motor who with members of their families enjoy a great measure of security, and who share fully the unprecedented prosperity of the Ford Motor neither understand nor are Turn to page 9, column 2 Good Reading Inside CM offer reportedly includes a stock-sharing scheme and a loan Turn to Page 9, Column 5 She resisted an attempt to; take the weapon and, in the struggle, one of the deputies was; pushed into a shotgun blast fired by Lindley.

The elderly man then shot the other officer. i I half gun battle. The couple. Mr. and Mrs.

B. E. Lindley, both reported to be in their 70s, surrendered after offi-! cers fired more than 1.000 rounds at their three-room house I and filled the structure with i I tear gas. Killed were Deputy Sheriffs Bob Wooten and Curtis Assistant Police Chief jM. O.

Tuck. OFFICERS FOUND inside the Page 5 Page 7 Pages 10-11 "Detroit First" Month Speak Up, Detroit Business and Industry Actress Wed Marshall. ROBERT M. REED, 23, of Jackson, killed in a collision near Jackson. ALVIN J.

ROGERS, 37, of Lansing, hit by a car near Lansing. MRS. FRANCES STEELE, 75, of Jonesville, killed by a crash near Jonesville. GEORGE MOLARGICK, 58, of Ann Arbor, drowned in the Huron River near Ann Arbor. ROBERT ADAMS.

31, of Coldwater, drowned in Hemlock Lake near Reading. ERNEST ADAMS, 29, of Coldwater, Robert's brother, drowned in the same accident. BET YOUNG, about 45, of Lake Orion, drowned in Lake Orion. JOSEPH BONONSE, 41, of Sheboygan, died of heart attack while fishing in the Upper Peninsula. WARNER JOEL MALLORY, 23, of 524 Kitchener, killed in a crash 16 miles east of Windsor.

VERNON MIDDAUGH, of Lansing, killed in crash in Ionia County. SHAFER was killed early Saturday when his car went off a curve on US-27 east of Marshall and hit an abutment. Police said Strike Fund Estimated At 10 Million NEWBURGH, N.Y. (U.P.) Actress Martha Wright was married here to George Manuche, New York restaurant owner. the East and West blocs, the.

sources said. The possibility of Yugoslavia rejoining the Cominform, from" which it was expelled in 1948, was not mentioned, the informants said. Talks were expected to continue over the weekend on a less formal, lower-pressure basis. In Belgrade, there was an air of jubilation and a growing tendency to circulate nasty jokes about the Russians. Yugoslav sources said Tito not interested li "neutralism" on the Austrian style.

But they denied that the Russians had proposed any such thing. Likely S-Tory LONDON (U.R) Sir Winston Churchill's cat Gabriel, who apparently took off on a tour of polling places election night, has been returned to his master after being missing 24 hour. Section Sunday Magazine, Real Estate Should Parents be Punished Too? Page 1 They Lisp in French Page 2 Editor's Notebook Page 4 Keal Estate and Building Pages 7-11 Travel and Resorts Page 12 Section For and About Women She Turned Down a Movie Career Page 1 The Wrong Summer Diet Page 1 Patio Cottons Page 6 World of Stage and Screen Pages 7-8 Section Sports. Want Ads Tigers Whomped, 16-4 Page 1 bullet-pocked house a rifle, at least two 12-gauge shotguns, two automatics, three automatics, a pistol and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Police said the battle was started by an argument between the Lindleys and a neighbor, Douglas Wingfield, who told police he had posted a "keep out" sign to stop the Lindleys from drawing oil from his oil drums.

Electrified The advertiser who placed the ad below, to sell an electric range, was delighted with the many calls received, one of which resulted in a quick sale. ARMED CITY, county and state officers rushed to the scene. While police peppered the house from cover, State Highway Patrolman Sam Oswald pulled off a window screen and tossed a tear-gas bomb inside. Oswald then ran for shelter but Tuck, who apparently was covering the patrolman, was shot down as he stood about 30 feet from the house. Mrs.

Lindley gave up first, officers said, and came out of the house alone. She went back inside and apparently persuaded her husband to surrender. Lindley came out with blood streaming down his face but police said he apparently suffered only cuts from flying glass. WESTINGHOUSE Electric Stove. Gotxl cond.

Make offer. PK 6-4498. A UAW (CIO) strike against the Ford Motor Co. would find the union not quite half way to its goal of a 25-million-dollar strike fund. The union recently raised its dues by $5 month to $7.50 in order to build the fund.

Unofficial estimates put the fund now at 10 million to 12 million. However, by borrowing from other union funds, the union would have an estimated 25 million in its war rhest by June 2. You, too, can find buyers for your unneeded equipment, appli Wingfield said he was drawing ances, or furniture, through Free r-, a water his back yard when a Vukovich Tries for Third 500 ant Ads Page 3 Pages 5-12 WO 2-9400 shot was fired at him. He called police. Wooten and Youngblood ar- find an experienced ad-taker will TV Prevue in Section be glad to help you word your ad.

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