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METRO FINAL A li Cloudy, little rhant. I-ow 2-32, high 40-4 Mas a .4 Ito-Iail, Pn 4 HOI m.T TtHPHUUM si re. 38 rase Vol. 125 No. 202 Seven Cents TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1955 On Guard for Ettablith ii i i i i i I Lover Slays Stewardess Aboard Plane 5 m.

ft t'H f- Bf:) II PT. US II m. it I 31 Jilted tr frtma lr ttrrUr SEATTLE, Wash. A jilted lover shot and killed a. 25-year-old airline stewardess aboard a United Air Lines plane at the Seattle-Taroma airport Monday afternoon.

Minute later he shot and woundM himself fatally. The elder Clendenin said he did not know how the two had been seeing each other, since she had been flying between Chicago and Seattle, he believed. He di4 not know what his son was doing in Seattle Monday night. plane, grabbed Clendenin and threw him out of the plane. Clendenin got up and shot himself twice, in the abdomen and the neck, while standing on the ramp.

He and the stewardess were rushed to the nearby Renton (Wash.) hospital, where Miss Shedd was pro 0)V7 I Dr. Gariepy Begins Term Wade Cell-Bound Monday Square Local Votes to Quit UE And Join UAW Ross oS Present Union Ralhcd in Rid lo Object BY JOHN' DRIYER rree prrM Staff HrHer Members of Local 957, United Electrical Workers have voted 98 to 5 to secede from the UE and join the UAW (CIO), the Free Press I learned Monday night. him. He said he thought his son was in New York, where he worked for the J. A.

Hogle Investment a brokerage. The elder Clendenin said his son was not engaged to Miss Shedd. as far as I know." In fart, be said, be I i "A I Over a Century in 1931 when she apparently rejected him. Miss Shedd was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles E. Shedd, of Santa Barbara, Calif. In Salt Lake City, Clen-denin's father, Beverly S. Clendenin, an attorney, said this was verv to Physician Still Denies Tax Fraud I.or Final IMra In FViIrral Court Dr. Louis J.

Gariepy, 64, prominent Detroit physician and surgeon, started serving a four-' year prison term Monday for Federal income tax evasion. Dr. Gariepy. described by his attorneys as in ill health and "suffering from a heart ailment and diabetes." urrendered to a United States marshal after losing a final plea in Federal Court, The doctor had pleaded for a 'reduction of sentence, In refusing the motion. Federal I Judge James Alger Fee, of Portland.

said: "I find nothing that compels me to change the original sentence. The jury correctly found him guilty and they rightly do not beliee his story." Dr. Gariepy had protested his' innocence income tax fraud and earned his fight against conviction to the United State Su preme Court. JUDGE FEE, who as a visiting judge presided at Dr. trial more than two years ago, declared: "The defendant is here as a suppliant but is almost arrogant in his manner.

He pleads that he, wag unjustly found guilty and that he is innocent Clemency cannot ne graniea be because the defendant claims he was mis- 1U I Asked hV- i nKL nr become of him in prison. Dr. "I'll probably work in the Infirmary. They're getting the best damned surgeon they ever had behind bars. TO Kidnaped? Slain? Or Jus I 'Gone'? Police.

I'ntangling Writer of Our saw him Oct. 1 in New York and "he was talking about another girl." His son met Miss Shedd last summer when she was a bridesmaid at the wedding of a fraternity brother, he said, and "saw her a few times after that." ii Attacked in Home raped and robbed by a hurrlar! Airman First Class Harry Y. Mcranin. a. or vu -Navy, was, killed Monday when his car "mnri ouaoing i Mac Dl 11 A'r nrce Rase near Tampa.

-Air Pnlice said McFarlin. a nospnai waro atienrjant at tne apparently control. I I Robert Clendenin, 25. of New York, boarded a plane bound for Los Angeles and pushed his former girl friend, Mis Sally Sbedd, of Seattle, into a meat and tthot her three times through the chest. An Air Force officer, one of the passengers aboard the The local represents 1.200 workers at the Square 6060 Rivard.

which was torn by a violent strike more than a year ago. The meeting at which secession was voted was held Sunday, with 103 members present. The secessionists hope to join UAW Local 351. Albert J. Fitzgerald, international president of the UE, attended the meeting.

Angry demonstrators shout Square remains in effect until next May 20. A notice of the meeting was posted Friday on a union bulletin hoard on the Square I premise The notice said the merger committee would report, but it gave no indication that there would be a vote on the issue. After the meeting, Fitzgerald sent the company a telegram saying the local officers had "seceded from the union." were no longer in good sending and that the comnanv should deal the plant Monday among those who did not know a vote was to be taken on secession from UE. UAW Local 351 is headed by Paul Silver. Silver was one of the picket lino leaders during the 1954 Square.

strike. lie was arrested and charged with assault and battery in connection with picket line violence at the plant. The charges were dropped when the complainant, who said Silver threw a stone as he attempted to enter the plant, declined to press charges. KELLY WAS active before his death in pushing for affiliation with the UAW. Ed Perkola.

the local president, was aligned with the Kelly group, together with other local officers. Mates is a solid UE man. Support for secession from UE and merger with the International Union of Electrical Workers (CIO), evident at the plant during last year's strike, has about disappeared, leaving UAW supporters aligned against the incumbent UE proponents. Honor FDK VALLETTA. Malta (jp) A blue 4' -penny stamp is being ssued to commemorate Presi dent Roosevelt'a wartime visit this Bntish Mediterranean se.

nounced dead on arrival. Clendenin died three hours later. Another stewardess. Miss Marian Garland, told police the shooting probably was the result of a lovers quarrel. According to Miss Garland, Clendenin was with Miss Shedd Sunday night.

Morrison T. Wade Dead In a Week Of Hun tins TS. first i Lr A Uii-hman'. deer hunting season passed Mon- day with the toll in human life climbing to 32. Latest hunter to die was Stanley Syabula, 34.

of Riverview. He was stricken by heart attack while riding home after hunting near Rapid River in the Upper Peninsula. THE TOLL includes seven gunfire deaths. A Wyandotte hunter, Willie Hacknev. 38.

was bound over to Circuit Court Monday in Crystal Falls on a charge of reckless of his brother, Charles of FIat Rork- Ili-zh School OKW Property owners in the Fern-dale School District voted Monday to build a is.snn.nno high school For the first time In history a written message may bo placed Inside a parcel post package or Inside a magazine moving at second-class rates without payment of first-class postage on th entire mailing. The sender must indicate the outside that a letter is and pay an extra 3 cents in addition to the regular par eel post or magazine rate. rv 1 Ressie Iou Wade 1 ed him down when he tried to RV RAY COURAGE present the IK rase. rrM st.ff riur A worker asked him where he wa during last year's strike. Warren Township Po- Fitzgerald expla.ned lice had Six "suspects" that he was busy elsewhere, he and an automobile full oi to th clues Monday in the mys- terious.

disappearance of 10Tn't eiymd David William Velandra. the temper of the entire mem- r. bership of 1.200. Rut they were unable to find Dave Mat business agent Velandra. 26, a finance company for the Iocal glnce the recent employe whose vanishing led death of Charles Kelly, said there-fear that he may have been kid- was no pr0per call for the meet-naped, slain or both.

There was; irg and that a motion to secede even a possibility Velandra just was offered illegally at a routine took off." meeting. Mates quoted Fitzgerald as FIRST I. WARD offered in saying he would not recognize the case was authorized by the tn action because no proper no-board of trustees of the Kratern-' ice K'ven and because the at Order of Fairies. Van Dvke contract between the UE and 7-Year Fight Of Charily Faker Ends High Court Settle 750,000 Case BY RALPH NELSON rr 'rM Staff Writer Morrison T. Wade, convicted charity faker, will go to prison next Monday, after a seven-year legal wrangle, according to Assistant Prosecutor Samuel Brezner.

A plea by Wade for reconsideration of his case was denied by the United States Supreme Court in Washington Monday. His first appeal to the high tribunal was denied in October. WADE AND his wife, Bessie Lou, were convicted as charity racketeers in 1951 following a one-man grand jury investigation by Recorder's Judge Gerald W. Groat. Wade was sentenced to serve four to 10 years in prison.

He began serving his term Oct. 15, 1954. Less than two weeks later he was freed on $5,000 bond pending a Supreme Court ruling. I ruling. 1 His wife was placed on fiv (years' probation and fined $5,000 for her part in the $750,000 fraud.

A STAY proceedings granted Wade's attorney, Larry! S. Davidow, Brezner said, pro-' tects Wade from immediate ar- rest and cancellation of his bond. The stay was granted by Associate Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed. Bremer, chiei appellate lawyer for the prosecutor's office, aid, however, that Davidow had advised State Solicitor General Edmund E. Shepherd in Lansing that he would surrender his client at Jackson Prison Monday.

Brezner said there is one more legal loophole which Wade may Oosterbaan And Crislcr A 1 Say Player Regret Action BV TO.HMV DEYINFi frra trrt Sport a Writer H. O. (Fritz) Crisler, University of Michigan 'Athletic Director, and Head Football Coach Bennie Oosterbaan Monday issued formal apologies for the Wolverines unsportsmanlike conduct in their Big Ten game Saturday with Ohio State. The unprecedented srtion public apologies by a Western Conference director and-coarh came after Crisler and Oosterbaan conferred with players and members of the Wolverine -osrh-ing staff. In addition to the public apology, Crisler sent letters to Or.

Hovard I- Revi. president of Ohio Slate, and Richard C. the RucUeve' athlet- Ic director. Michigan, beaten 17 to 0 In a pame which gave Ohio State the Big Ten championship and sent Michigan State to the Rose Bowl, turned the final minutes of the game into a free-for-all with foul play and arguments with the officials. EIGHT PENALTIES most of them personal fouls were called on Michigan in the final two minutes of play.

Two Michigan players. Find Ron -Kramer ard Tackle Al Sigman, finally were ejected from the contest. Oosterbaan, disturbed by what has been described as the moid shameful incident in Michigan's football history, met with members of his "staff and discussed the developments of Saturday's game. He then conferred with Wolverine players. After the two meetings, the veteran Oosterbaan issued his formal apology.

"Michigan regrets ery deeply the incidents which occurred during the final minute of the Ohio Slate game," Turn to Page 23, Column 1 Story Fulsc, He Admits WASHINGTON A Washington rooming house operator pleaded guilty Mondav to falsely accusing a White House clerk of selling White House secrets to the Russian embassy. By his plea, Leonard Wesley. 40. formally acknowledged the falsity of allegations he made against Thomas M. Jones, 29, in a.

letter sent to the White House last April. weley was allowed to remain free on bond pending Rules Fixed. Pa; 21. Jl if iifl IS AllCUtL Of MSU Dr. Clariepy in Custody of Aerie No.

24.1". Irving G. Little, secretary, said $50 reward would be paid for information that would clear tp the disappearance. I. xtr Monday afternoon.

Police ittartt'd a earrh of Hill's Woods, a "lover's lane" in the is area north of ight Mile. The woods are two miles from where Velandra car was found abandoned. ISKIGHHOH HELPLESS Woman Is By Robber A 4S-vear-old woman was i ut. vva m'Ua i FROM A TANGLE of hat itn Ma, jn the uture appeared to be unrelated facts. Detective Lt.

Anthony F. Winters MATES REPORTEDLY was tried to get some semblance of grooming Paul Simpson to repre-Prd'r- sent the local in the plant. Winters had these facts: There was dissatisfaction in "I am absolutely innocent but "'i" i if by sentencing me to four years, neighbor with all the publicity, it makes it! Police said the woman arrived 1 easier for the Government to col- at her home in northwest Detroit: () lftlSM lect taxes, then I feel my found three quarts of finement will be a service to the, had been taken from the ilk Jy 1 1 1 11111211 attempt to use. use of firearms. JUDGE FEE canceled Dr.

"He may claim a violation of He waa accused in the acci. Gariepy's bail of $15,000 and or-hia Federal nghts in the Federal dental wounding last Wednesday dered him to turn himself over country, Turn to Page 2, Column 4 Bricher Calls Nile the Top Air Defender WASHINGTON Secretary of the Army Wilber M. District Court." brezner aM "bui he must be in custody before' sucn a move is made, if it Is planned." THE WADES headed the Society of Good Neighbors and were Tnrn Page Column 4 FOR THREE CENTS TOP O' THE MORNING GpI-T otifih Program for Drivers 1 Velandra's car, a 1950 Nash, was found abandoned Sunday on Eight Mile, just east of Russell, in Hazel Park. 2 The keys were in the ignition lock. 3 Velandra's horn -rimmed glasses, snapped at the bridge and with one lens smashed, were on the front seat of the car.

4 A si-inrh section of lead pi re was on the floor in the rear of the car. 5 Stains In the car were found to be blood. The Detroit Turn to Pago S. Column 0 $10,000 Is Just Around The Corner! You Can Still Win TANGLE TOWNS First Pr Ize Starilnq i chute and placed on the ground ENLISTING THE ai of neighbor, she entered her home, The gunman, who waited for them in the living room, robbed the neighbor of JS. the woman' $12, and then raped victim ias her friend fared the 'under threat of the gun.

wall Warmer Dav Is Predicted Detroit will warm up a little Monday's high waa 34. Lower Michigan can expect or- casional snow in the north por- tion. but freezing will still be the top temperature for the dav in the northern part of the state. Educator Dies BLOOMINGTON. Tnd.

Dr. William Lowe Bryan, preiij. dent emeritus of Indiana Uni-: versity, died Monday in his home jon th campus. The SVyear-o'd (educator had been rnUtally ill ten days. Dannv Kavc Savs Xo' to TV a Plans to Stick with Movies.

Pag Brucker said Monday the Tuesday. guided missile "can seek; The Wea'her Bureau said tne out and destroy any aircraft, no temperature will go up to 42 matter how high or fast it may after a morning low of 1 to 32. fly" 'It will be slightly cloudy, tro. It's OK to Place Note in Yule Parcel (llv UklallOmCL Second in Football Poll. Page 23.

This missile is now the "major i Army weapon" for the antiair- craft defense ef the principal cities and industrial areas of the! Nation, the Secretary added. Hi remarks were in a peech prepared for the Society of Medical Consultants to the Armed Forces. Brucker's claims for the Nike added another chapter to the discussion of the weapon's effectiveness. Some Air Force and Army pe pte have been skeptical of Nike I value against fast plaxes. WASHINGTON CJ.P The Postoffice will allow you to put a letter in your Christmas packages this year for only 3 cents additional postage.

Up to now any such enclosure would have subjected the sender to fines up to $100 unless first-class postage was paid on the whole package. The department's new combination' mail service starts next Mondiy. a 0-day trial basis. Amusement 13 Astrology 21 Bridge IS Day in Michigan 34 Drew Pearson Z1) Editorials Financial 2-33 Movies 26 Radio and Teleuion ports Want Ads Women's Pages 31 ao-rw 1 vi TO HAVE THE FREE PRE? DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME PHONE WO 2-8900 Today. See Page37jba.

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