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79 a UnofliciaJ. 34 Pases Vol. 125 No. 118 Seven Cents TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1955 On Guard for Over a Century Established in 1831 Mart el Foes Expected to Return Gam MM -Z3 Next Monday, Labor Day, Martel was to have helped lead combined AFL and CIO unionists down Woodward in the traditional parade, the first time in history that the two groups will march as a single body, HE ALSO WAS to have spoken of the benefits of unity, sharing the speaker's platform with Former President Harry S. Truman and UAW (CIO) Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey.

Whether another AFL spokesman will be selected has not yet been determined. of re-entering the DFL so that unity negotiations with the CIO would be more representative. The majority of the 65,000 members in 'building trades unions withdrew long ago from the DFL and, with the Teamsters were Martel's bitterest foes. It has been estimated that Martel's DFL represented less than 30,000 of the 200,000 AFL members in the area. The dissident unions had vowed never to return while Martel headed the DFL.

The death of Frank X. Martel Monday arparcntly will accomplish what he never could achieve in his career unity within his own ranks. With his passing from the scene, AFL unions which had withdrawn from his Detroit anc. Wayne County Federation of Labor (AFL) are expected to regroup and rebuild the DFL. In the meantime, James Gibson, DFL vice president and long-time Martel intimate, will take over the federation.

While the DFL board of directors is empowered to call an election immediately, there were indications that (iibson would keep the post until the regular election next March. By that time, it is possible that plans will be well under way to merge the DFL with the Wayne County CIO Council, following the pattern to be set by the parent AFL and CIO in December. THE IMMINENCE OF MERGER caused the Detroit Building Trades Council (AFL) to explore methods recently You'll. Dig, But Not A r3 AMk Too LP i mSnt 10 rammer away I nces Are komj i I still in dispute. night to hammer away Labor Boss Stricken at Mackinac Headed DFL For 36 Years BY KOBEKT PER KIN Frp Prrfca f.shor Writer But Brakes Are On i I I 1 I Death ended the long i 5 Bernard L.

Smith Thousands Periled in Gunfight a. I BY SYLVIA PORTER Your cost of living will head higher over the balance of 1955 and into 1956. But barring "a violent crop disaster or world upheaval, you are NOT facing a new violent upsurge in the prices of the basic things you must and want to buy. The first great factor which will protect us from another cost of living spiral will be our farmers' vast output. This will help hold down the price level of food.

The second great factor will be industry's huge production. The fierce competition among businessmen to sell us their record production will help restrain their price hikes to what they believe the traffic (meaning you1 and me) Frank X. CLOAK-AND-DAGGER 'eejj JL will bear. Today, it takes well over $1.14 to buy what $1 bought in 1947-49. (The Labor Department's index of consumer prices is hovering around 114.7; the- period 1947-49 equals By the year-end, living costs, measured by this ba rometer, ill be up.

The index is on the rise now. Odds are the index will smash the 1953 peak of 115.4, the highest level in history. But even should it take $1.16 or more in 1956 to buy what less than $1.15 buys now, this rise wouldn't warrant the tag "spiral." It would be mild in comparison with the sensational spurts we suffered right after World War II and the outbreak of the Korean War. HERE'S THE WAY the cost of living trend shapes up as Turn Jo Page 2, Column 3 7" Sf fjffy I Starts Trial Run ABOARD THF CARRIER FORRESTAL AT SEA (P) The supercarrier Forrestal, world's largest warship. sailed ii iai run.

In the next four days, the I powers. Detroit authorities Monday were seeking ways to protect THE FOUR official views on the hordes of curious who scaling down the sinews of war gather near police in Big 4 Offer Arms Plans At UN Talk Committee Parley Opens in New York Free Press-Chicago Tribune Wire NEW YORK Four widely differing plans for world disarmament were proposed Monday by the United States, Britain, France and Russia. They were presented at the opening session of the United Nation subcommission on disarmament. Representatives of the four nations, along with Canada, sat down to tackle disarmament at the request of the recent Geneva conference of the Big Four 1 President Eisenhower's program for a military-blueprint exchange and air reconnaissance, first enunciated at the Big Four "summit" meeting in Geneva. This was spelled out in more detail by Henry Cabot Lodge.

United States representative at the UN. 2 A Soviet scheme for inspection and control points at large ports, rail junctions, highways, and airports. This was offered by the Russian plenipotentiary, Arkady Aleksandrovich Sobo-lev. 3 A British plan for all-inclusive inspection of armed forces, armaments, aircraft, munitions plants, nuclear installations, and factories capable of turning out chemical and biological weapons. Anthony Nutting, British minister of state, made this presentation.

4 A French paper on financial supervision of military ex-Turn to Page 2, Col. 4 Tourists Waleli Niagara Leap NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y. Robert H.

Persons, 58, lican falls as dozens of tourists ann u'3; Kwpnr nvpr i np mpr- watched. Indict Ex-OSS Officer In Wartime Murder WASHINGTON (U.R) A Federal grand jury Monday accused former Army Lt. Aldo Icardi and former Sgt. Carl LoDolce of murdering Maj. William V.

Holohan on a World War II cloak-and-dagger mission in Italy. Capping one of the most bi-1 zarre cases in American justice, tt-t- a the jury indicted Icardi for per-iHEAT BREAKENG Chrysler, UAW Press For Pact Only Top Officials In IVight Talks Stripped down nego tiating committees of! Chrysler and the UAW (CIO) met Monday I Only top level officials for both parties, accompanied by several experts, attended the evening session, which began at 8 p.m. It was the first time only the key bargainers have met since contract negotiations began June 27. OTHER MEMBERS of the committees who had met all day Monday were given the night off. The present contract, covering 139.000 Chrysler employes, expires at midnight Wednesday.

Meeting in the night session were Robert W. Conder. Chrys ler vice president-industrial re lations; John D. Leary, Chrysler labor relations director; Norman Matthews, UAW vice president, and Emil Mazey, UAW secretary-treasurer. They were accompanied only by their top aides and economic experts, including Nat Weinberg, UAW research director and prime mover in mapping the union's guaranteed wage campaign.

The group adjourned at 11 p. m. until 10 a. m. Tuesday when the full committees will meet.

Mazey said, "We've still got a long way to go." Both sides refused to comment on the reason for the unusual meeting. However, Weinberg's presence indicated the parties may be discussing application of supplemental unemployment benefits to some 8,000 Chrysler salaried employes covered by union contracts. CHRYSLER ALREADY has agreed to grant the union a modified guaranteed wage for 131,000 hourly production workers, but it balked at coverage for the salaried employes. This is one of the key points still in dispute. Chrysler maintained the recent Ford and General Motors contracts, which set the new pattern, did not cover salaried personnel.

The union charged that Chrysler's position discriminates against the group EANWHILE American Motors and the UAW will The present contract expires at midnight Thursday. her career and she" "just couldn't take it any more." Haymes, the friends reported, roughed up Rita during the quarrel. But Haymes denied to the United Press that he had hit' her or vica versa. Rita has two daughters by previous husbands. The breakup came just as peace and erity appeared to be arriving in their lives.

Haymes recently won a long battle to escape de-p a i on from the United States. 1 request for citizenship is heard soon in recently also Dick scheduled to be Washington. He worked out an income-tax settlement. Eclitli Gives East Coast 'The Brush9 MIAMI (vP Hurricane Edith, its threat to the American mainland "absolutely gone," put Bermuda on her weakest side and moved further out to sea Monday. 1 With top winds of about 8.

miles an hour, the storm center was 150 miles east of Bermuda, Nothing was in its path but the broad Atlantic. IT WAS moving at about 12 miles an hour in a north-northeast direction. Storm forecasters predicted it would keep to the same path for the next few hours and perhaps pick up more forward speed. Since the strongest winds are on Edith's east side. Bermuda was expected to get nothing! more than light winds and rain.

Rep. Burdick's Wife Is Killed W1LLISTON N.D. tJP) Mrs. of Frank X. Martel Monday.

The 66-year-old president of the Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor (AFL) fell dead of a heart attack shortly after noon in the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Martel had flown Monday to PellstonHe crossed to the island by ferry. Walking up the long hill to the hotel. Martel carried th equipment bag of a Detroit newspaper photographer as a friendly gesture. He was in the office of Hotel Owner W.

Stewart Woodfill checking on his reservations for a banquet in honor of Former President Harry S. Truman Mon-i day night when he slumped to the floor. He was pronounced 'dead by Dr. Leroy Futterer. ASSOCIATES IN Detroit said Martel had been under a doctor's care for some time because of a heart ailment.

Where other means had failed to oust the silver-haired, acid-tongued labor leader over nearly two-score years, death wrote the final chapter. As a legacy, Martel left a badly divided AIL in Detroit, but he also left 36 years of progress in tradj union principles. There will be a stillness on the Wayne County Board of Supervisors, where he served 16 Martel's career earns tributes. Page 4. years; in Common Council, where he argued his causes, and on the City Hall steps this coming Labor Day.

Funeral arrangements were not complete late Monday. MARTEL'S WIFE, Mary, was notified of his death Monday afternoon at their home, 10950 Averhill Court. He is survived also by two daughters, Mrs. Jean Stringari, of Detroit, and Mrs. Patricia Stanard, of St.

Clair Shores: a son, Frank also living in Florida, and five brothers. Martel died virtually on the eve of the historic merger of the AFL and CIO, scheduled for November. Ironically, merger probably would have meant the end of his own labor career, but Martel was unstinting in his desire for unity. Unfortunately, unity eluded him where it counted most within his own ranks. EVEN AT HIS death, ne-y efforts were afoot to end his long reign and to bring the bulk of the AFL members in the Detroit area back into the fold.

Usher L. Burdi. k. wife of Rep. 'quietly through the Virginia Burdick IR I for less thaniCaps at sunset Monday on her Martel CASE A lyonna Be Stormy Severe thunderstorms were forecast Monday night for Southwestern Lower Michigan as the Midwest's heat wave broke in the ruck of a long squall line.

Temperatures plunged 15 degrees over much of the Midwest as rain hit Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Showers and thundershowers were forecast by the Weather Bureau over all of Michigan for Monday night and Tuesday. Hot weather was expected before the cooling effect of the front reaches the Detroit area later Tuesday. Astor Heiress isks Separation Free Press-Chicago Tribune Wire NEW YORK Sylvia Obolen-sky Van Der Meersch, scion of both the Obolensky and Astor clans, has broken up with her banker husband, descendant of one of the oldest families in Belgium, papers on file in Manhattan Supreme Court disclosed Monday. Sylvia, granddaughter of the.

late Col. John Jacob Astor, is seekinsr a separation. Her hus- band John is mter-suing for separation. Ceil SO red CHICAGO (U.R) Sheriff Joseph Lohman set up a new library in the County Jail Monday and immediately banned one book. It was titled "How to Escape" and was written by a former convict.

Forrestal will be subjected to resume their contract negotia-every indignity in the nautical tions at 9 a. m. Tuesday after book. She will be put through! a two-week tpcpss a montn, was killed Monday when thrown from a horse. Mrs.

Burdick, the former Mrs. Edna B. Sierson. of Haverhill, and the 76-year-old vet- eran congressman were married in Washington July 31. lurv because United States courts have no power to try: cases that occurred in Italy.

It charged that Icardi, ofi Pittsburgh, lied to a Congres-j sional committee about the crime in 1953. LoDolce, of Rochester, N.Y., who once confessed that he took part in the slaying and later retracted his story, was not indicted. He never testified before the House Armed Service subcommittee which '-Testigated the slaying. If convicted on all counts, Icardi could receive a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison and an $80,000 fine. ICARDI, NOW, 34, was ordered arrested immediately.

He is em-'ployed as a private investigator in Pittsburgh. The Grand Jury indictment Ufa tort flatlv that. Holohan. lead of an office of Strategic! Services mission behind Nazi Holohan, a small, wiry man, was slain after his small detachment, including Icardi and LaDolce, were dropped by parachute near Lake Orta on the Italian-Swiss' frontier. Their mission was to contact Italian partisans who had been harassing the Germans.

Holohan originally was reported lost in a skirmish and battles. Thousands were endangered Sunday night in a tense four-hour struggle between 100 policemen and a crazed gunman holed up in a house in the W. Outer Drive-Burt Road area. DURING the battle two policemen were wounded, one seriously. But none of the 40 shotgun and rifle blasts fired by the demented gunman reached into Pictures and Related Stories on Back Page.

the crowd that surged to within 100 feet of the besieged house. When it was over, shortly before midnight, Charles Rollins, 44, a moody former Tennessean, lay dead in the yard. The heavy night air had crackled like an infantry battlefield as he broke from the rear of the burning house at 11046 W. Outer Drive. Eddies of smoke from round after round of tear gas swirled around him as he made his-break, and fell with 29 shotgun slugs in his body.

Although a rain of bullets from police service revolvers and riot guns let loose at Rollins, only the charge from a riot gun struck home. That was enough, ROLLINS' death broke a dam of tension that had gripped the neighbrhood where he went beserk shortly before 8 p.m. He holed up in the "house, belonging to a niece, Sybil Smith, and her husband, Bernard. With their two small children, they were away on a vacation in Tennessee. The family did not know Rollins was in the house, although he had visited and stayed there frequently.

After he threatened a neigh bor Sunday evening, police were called and the weird i battle began, lighted by car- lights and searchlights. Later, light was added by a fire in the house, apparently set by an exploding tear gas bomb in the tinder-dry attic. More than 40 tear-gas bombs and shells were fired and hurled into the 1 V2 -story frame house. Rollins ignored them. But fire in the attic, which firemen fought with lines from Turn to Page 10, Col.

1 WE HAVE TO THINK THINGS OUT," SHE SAYS Rita Walks Out on Ettynies in Tiff I lines in 1944, aiea rrom poison Five hours later he was piace(j in his soup by Icardi and spotted crawling on a ledge SS-jjQolce and from bullets "dis-f eet below the ajls. He was charged from a gun held by Sgt. rescued but died later in a I LoDolce." hundreds of tests to determine her fitness to join the fleet. that Rita had vanished from but he said "I still love her and I hope we will get together. There will be no divorce." Rita packed up her two children and moved out of the couple's Malibu home after a sizzling battle with the singer at the Ambassador Hotel Sunday.

Haymes, who is singing in the Cocoanut Grove at the hotel, came home Sunday night to find their seaside home empty. RITA, MEANTIME, was scheduled to visit her attorney, Samuel Zagon. to discuss her $150,000 breach of contract suit against Columbia Pictures. The suit is slated to open Tuesday -in Federal Court. Friends said Rita told them the fight was over their tangled career troubles.

They said Haymes was trying to control HOLLYWOOD UP) Rita Hayworth, pale and red-eyed from crying, admitted Monday he walked out on Dick Haymes but said "I don't know" whether she'll try for. fourth divorce. The shapely star, who stuck by the crooner during two years of his legal and personal i i culties. a ced through her attorneys she had thro wn in the towel "to think things out." "I have separated from Dick because i Deneve in the best in- Rita terests of my children, Dick and myself. It is necessary that both of us have time to think things out, she said.

Haymes admitted earlier nospitai. You'll Find: Professor Kelly Tells Senate Investigators He's No Red P. 26 Amusements 18 Astrology 33 Bridge 33 Day in Michigan 32 Drew Pearson 17 Editorials 8 Financial 19-21 Movies 17 Radio and Television 12 Sports 23-25 Want Ads 27-31 Weather Map 3 Women's Pages 15-17 TO HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME PHONE WO 2-8900 was considered a war casualty until 1949, when his body was found in a weighted sleeping bag at the bottom of Lake Orti.j An Italian court convicted Icardi and LoDolce in absentia for the murder. I Italy tried to extradite the two men but United States courts! ruled they could not be forced to leave this country. The Italian Martel.

after 36 years as president of the federation, could easily have quit this bitter fighting, but he refused to leave under fire. He passed up an opportunity to retire in October, 1953, on his 65th birthday and spend the rest of his days at his Turn to Page 3, Column court, in absentia, sentenced them to long prison terms.