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117 No. 227 Five Cents A I WW TTTv Om Living Cosis Up 20 Pet 'in City Since March, 746 acta Republicans Push Probe of Traders But Senators Skirt Anderson Challenge WASHINGTON (U.R) Republican members of the Senate No Longer in the Lions' Plans BY JAMES M. HASWELL Or Onr Washington Bureau Mandel Also Ready worker's actual living costs have WASHINGTON A Detroit risen approximately 20 per cent the Bureau of Labor Statistics. to Uisnose A Detroit family of four which spent at the rate of $2,813 a year in March, 1946, had to spend at the rate of $3,293 a year Detroit Group Bids for Team; Gus Declines Offer to End Contract BY BOB LATSHAW Free Pits Sports Writer Charles E. (Gus) Dorais is through as coach of the Detroit '--St Lions.

Fred Mandel, owner of franchise since 1940, told the return in 1948. He also indicated that the sale of the Lions was CHARLES E. (GUS) Careers since March, 1946, according to same standard of living. This increase of $480 amounts to 17 per cent. However, the cost or living' Has gone up another 2 to per cent since June.

The Bureau pointed out that the statistics were based on neither a luxury nor a bare subsistence level, But represented "an attempt to measure a modest but adequate American standard of living." A CIO SPOKESMAN immediately interpreted the figures as proving that higher wages are an "economic must." Detroit is the seventh most expensive big city for workers' families in this country. This includes all workers. Washington is thexmost expen sive. A Detroit family moving1 to Washington would have to spend $3,458 a year to keep up. It would have to spend $3,388 in Seattle and $3,347 in New York.

THIS FA3HLY could get by on $3,004 in New Orleans, $3,010 in Kansas City, or $3,098 in Indianapolis. Housing causes the greatest dif ferences in living costs from city to city. ooa costs vary relatively little. Ewan Clague, commissioner of labor statistics, presented a cost-of-living study to Congress which has been two years in the making. It shows actual costs of the kind of living actually enjoyed by workers' families in 34, big cities.

The figures are for a family of four a wage-earning, 38-year-old father, married 15 years; home-keeping 36-year-old mother; 13-year-old high school son and eight-year-old grade school daughter. FOR TWO-MEMBER families the Bureau of Statistics estimates Turn to Page 2, Column 1 7 Lost, 9 Saved When Fisliiner Boat Capsizes Vessel Loses Race with Atlantic Gale MANASQUAN INLET, N. (JP) Seven persons were lost in the gale-swept Atlantic as the fishing boat Paramount cap sized 500 yards from shore after battling stormy seas in a race towards the safety of Manasquan Inlet. Caught in a rip tide just as it was about to nose into the inlet. the ship was toppled by a giant wave which crashed into its side.

Nine survivors were rescued from the icy waters. Quake on Coast LOS ANGELES (JP) Short and fairly sharp earthquake tremors were felt Los Angeles early Tuesday. BrahigriGhlenges Sempliner Appointment Sigler Can't Name Circuit Court Commissioner, Says County Clerk ion DORAIS with Detroit Lions at end after" commissioner, was a political ally or former Gov. Kelly. Sempliner, 33, had a similar ex perience when he was elected Cir cuit Court Commissioner, to fill a vacancy, in 1941.

After serving 10 months, for mer Gov. Van Wagoner appointed FitzGerald. THE MATTER was taken to court and the Governor was up held by a 4 to 4 Supreme decision. Issue appears -o be headed for the courts again. The opinion of Prosecutor James N.

McNally was net requested by either Branigin or the Auditors. McNally said he would have ruled the appointive power rests with the Governor. ATTORNEY GENERAL Eugene F. Black said he also is ready to rule the appointment valid, by vir tue of Supreme Court rulings. Harold H.

Warner, Sigler's legal adviser, declared the issue was eX' plored thoroughly before action was taken. B-29 Crashes in Tucson TUCSON, Ariz. (PV A B-29 Super-Fortress from Davis Mon- than Field crashed in suburban Tucson. The bomber was believed to have carried 20 men. Prelimi nary reports said eight men apparently had escaped.

Women Parade PANAMA (JP) Four thousand demonstrators, mostly women, paraded in front of the National Assembly Tuesday, urging rejection of an agreement with the United States for Panama Canal defense bases. was graduated from Detroit Col lege of law in 1922. He served as chief assistant prosecutor in the regime of Harry S. Toy from 1930 to 1935, gaining wide experience in trial work. WHEN TOY was named Attor ney General in 1936, Culehan accompanied him to Lansing as deputy, continuing until Toy was elevated to the Supreme bench in 1937.

For many years Culehan was active in the Michigan National Guard and held the rank of artillery captain at the outset of World War n. He was quickly advanced to Inspector General of the Seventh sei Tpf sr U.S., France Open Talks on Germany Marshall Begins Diplomatic War LONDON (U.R) Secretary of State George C. Marshall opened negotiations Tuesday to unify the three Western occupa tion zones in Germany. Marshall thus made the first move in the bitterest diplomatic battle since the war as the result of the breakup in failure of the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference. He started unification talks with French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault at a private din ner at the French Embassy.

HOURS EARLIER, Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and his delegation had slipped silently away for Moscow. As he left, American, British and French diplomatic quarters said that the Council of Foreign Ministers probably never will meet again as it is now con stituted. Developments in the first day of an intensified cold war, in which Russia was expected to go all out to wreck the Marshall Plan included: 1 Marshall, realizing the gravity of the diplomatic fight now developing, sternly forbade his delegates to discuss the moves which the Western allies may make in Western Germany.

2 It was reported reliably that Marshall and his colleagues derided finally that the three Western zones In Germany must now be unified for economic purposes, and that some sort of provisional political unification for German "trlzonia" must be worked out. 3 Bidault intimated strongly at a press conference that France will join the United States and Great Britain in a unification plan. He cited France's conditions in great part constituting a guarantee against future German aggression and easv agreement is forecast. any Appropriations Committee side stepped a challenge from Secre tary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson.

He had asked them to push through Congress a joint resolution authorizing publication of the names of big-time traders in the commodity markets. Anderson told the Committee by letter that it would be illegal for him to publish a list of the names without specific Congressional sanction. HE IMPLIED that if the list were published, it might contain Congressional names. The Committee is studying charges that Government "in siders" had speculated in the com modity markets. Chairman Bridges N.

called a hurried conference of Republican members of the Com- mittee. He said afterward "that we intend to get all the names in some manner." Although he did not elaborate. there were indications that the Committee might serve a subpena on Anderson to try to get the confidential list of major market operators. ANDERSON SAID he had con sulted President Truman and was confident" that the Chief Execu tive would approve a resolution to puousn the list. He announced cryptically that he already had furnished the De partment of Justice with a list of traders for investigation by the irisi.

lie aid not elaborate, Meeting with Bridges were Senators Ferguson, of Michigan; Brooks, of Illinois, and Know-land, of California. As spokesman. Bridges said "we still believe that (Anderson) has the full legal authority to give out the names to a congressional committee." "We intend to look further into the situation," he added, i ONE SOURCE said the Committee would seek out by itself the names of all important traders, including any in the legislative branch of the Government. This source said the Joint resolution asked by Anderson would be introduced in Congress only as a "last resort" after the Turn to Page 2, Column Mercury Due to Tumble to 17 Today Detroit Area Gets 7-Inch Snowfall Southeastern Michigan, digging out after the season's worst snow fall, prepared for severe cold Wednesday. The Weather Bureau said De troit had more than seven inches of snow.

Wednesday will be most ly cloudy, with a low of 17 de grees, the weather Man said. HIGHEST temperature Tuesday was 33 just after midnight. From that time, the mercury dropped steadily to a low of 25 at 5 p. in. The rest of Michigan escaped the worst of the storm.

Some areas, including Grand had no snow. Air service was restored to near normal Tuesday. Planes had been grounded and buses delayed by the blizzard. THE AUTOMOBILE Club of Michigan warned that most Southern Michigan highways were "very slippery." US-112 to Chicago was reported sanded and in fairly good shape, however. Willow Run Expressway was reported dangerously slippery.

The cold snap sent the mercury below freezing as far south as Vicksburg, Miss. Heavy snow was reported in Northwestern Ohio'and Eastern Indiana. Panic Breaks Out in Trolley Collision ST. PAUL, Minn. (JP) Two Postoffice employees were seriously hurt and 35 trolley passengers, 12 of whom suffered major injuries, were thrown into panic as a streetcar and a mail truck collided head-on and burst into flames.

Many of the passengers beat out window panes to flee when they found their exit blocked by flames. MONTGOMERY WARD STORES Open 'til 9 'til ChrUtmaa. Shop lor Gift for Everyone. Adr. ot LLub Detroit's National Football League Free Press that Dorais would not a foregone conclusion.

Dorais signed to a five-year contract reportedly calling for $25,000 a year before the start of the disappointing 1947 season, had been offered "a substantial settlement to resign." "HE TURNED it down," Man-del said. "But, while his contract technically has four more years NOT NOTIFIED 'Still Gus Declares "I still have a five-year contract that has four years to run. Until some adjustment is made or until I have been officially notified that I am through, I'm still head coach of the Uons." That was Charles E. (Gus) Dorais' reaction to the news that Owner Fred Mandel had declared Dorais was through as coach of the Lions. "Mr.

Mandel has indicated that he would like to make a change," Dorais said, when reached, by the Free also said he was dissatisfied, but nothing has been definitely said about my status next year." to run, I am saying definitely that he will not coach the Lions next year." His abrupt statement came hard on the heels of the announcement that a group of prominent Detroit business men had organized to negotiate for the purchase of the professional football club. It also substantiated reports by this newspaper that Mandel was dissatisfied with the job turned in by Dorais this season. The Lions finished last In the Western Division of the National League with three victories and nine defeats. THE TIPOFF of Dorais' de pariure came wnen Mandel revealed that the only club officials who will attend the league draft meeting at Pittsburgh this week end were Mandel, Business Man ager Lev Cromwell and Bob Winslow, the backfield coach. It further Indicated that should the proposed sale of the Lions not be consummated that Winslow, former assistant coach at the University of Southern California, would be Mandel's No.

1 choice for head coach of the Lions. Neither Dorais, Lion coach since 1943, nor Joe Bach, line coach Turn to First Sports Page Marshall to Make His Report Friday WASinNGTON (U.R Secretary of State George C. Marshall will report to President Truman and by radio to the nation Friday on the collapse of the London peace conference. He Is scheduled to start for home by plane Wednesday. Merci! PARIS (JP The" French Na tional Assembly, with Communist members abstaining, voted its thanks ta the United States for food contributions to the Friend ship Train.

On Inside Pages A plaque honoring the memory of Fred J. Fisher was unveiled in the presence of his five famous brothers. Page 21. Amusements 25 Bingay 6 Chatterbox 16 Classified 27-30 Clubs 18 Crossword 32 Donovan 26 Editorials 6 Fashions 17 Financial 26-27 Food 18 Guest 6 Horoscope 15 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Pringle 17 Racing Radio Riley Rose Smith Sports 24 31 16 32 22 22-24 24 Theaters Town Crier 32 Women's in June, 1947, to keep up the 1-Man Jury viewed by iffh Court Contempt Powers -Attacked at Hearing From Onr Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The United States Supreme Court will decide whether Michigan's one-man grand-jury system for discovering crime will live or die. The court heard arguments Tuesday on the power of a judge, acting as a grand juror, to jail witnesses for contempt.

The case arose out of Judge George B. Hartrick's sentence of William Oliver to 60 days in Oakland County jail because he considered the pinball operator's answers to questions "evasive." Hart- rick was investigating gambling in uaKiand county. THE QUESTIONS were asked in secret session, and Oliver had no lawyer present. His attorney, William Henry Gallagher, of Detroit, contended before the nine Justices Tuesday that Oliver never had a chance to tell his side of the story. He contended that the Michigan system of jailing witnesses for contempt violates the citizen's constitutional right to the protection of.

"due process" in law enforcement. Justice Wiley Rutledge asked Edmund E. Shepherd, Michigan solicitor general, if a decision in favor of Oliver wouldn't seriously curtail the one-man grand-jury system. "It would utterly destroy Shepherd said. "It is an effective and efficient method of discovering crime.

And in this case I am con cerned about the danger of de stroying the system. THE COURT also began hear ingr a Detroit civil-rights case in volving: the refusal of the Bob-Lo Excursion Co. to carry Negroes on its boat trips to Bob-Lo Island. Wilson XV. Mills, of Detroit, argued for the company that the Michigan Civil Rights Law requiring public accommodations to be offered equally to all without discrimination as to race is in this case an undue burden upon foreign commerce.

The Bob-Lo boats ply between American and Canadian waters, and the company does a "foreign" commerce business, he said. All justices present exhibited strong interest in the Michigan one-man grand-jury system. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER reverted several times to the procedure in contempt cases. Of im portance appeared to be the fact that the Michigan Supreme Court reviews such cases only on transcripts of the record which the grand juror edits. A grand-jury witness protest-, ing a sentence for contempt could not, as of right, insist on getting the whole grand-jury record before the Michigan court, Frankfurter observed.

"He could petition the Supreme Court to demand it," Shepherd Turn to rage 2, Column 4 4 Die in Blaze WASHINGTON, Pa. (P) Mrs. Martha Ealy, 40, and three of her six children, burned to death as flames swept through their frame farmhouse in nearby East Finley Township. 'A 7 4f i 6 1 Appointment of Arthur W. Sempliner as Circuit Court Com missioner to.

succeed Frank FitzGerald was challenged by County Clerk Edgar M. Branigin. Sempliner was named to the post Tuesday by Gov. Sigler to fill the vacancy created oy intzueraia advancement to the Circuit Bench. BRANIGIN contends the Gover- nor lacks legal authority to make the appointment.

He claims the appointive power rests with a board consisting of the presiding probate judge, prosecuting-attorney and County clerk. Branigin said he has the' back' ins of Presiding Circuit Judge Ira W. Jayne and the Detroit Bar As sociation for his opinion. THE APPOINTMENT was at tacked from another angle by the Board of Auditors, who decided the job was unnecessary and voted not to certify Sempliner's pay. It was recalled that the Wayne County Circuit bench, proposed legislation at the last session to reduce the number of Wayne County Circuit Court commissioners from four to three.

At that time, it was proposed to distribute the fourth commis sioner's salary among the other three in the form of a pay boost. In taking their action, the Audi tors claimed they were granted authority by. the Board of Super visors to "determine what jobs are necessary. BRANIGEN" is also of the opin ion a fourth circuit court commissioner Is unnecessary. It was revealed, however, that Branigan had written to Sigler a few weeks ago recommending the appointment of Harold G.

Groehn to the post he now deems superfluous. Groehn, deputy State securities Tree Titan Photo JOE BACH bad season ARMY HER RIVAL Wife Admits Many Dates with 'Mr X' Under cross-examination, J.Irs. Dorothy Jeanne Hadley, of 677 Lakeshore, Grosse Pointe, testified that her boy friend came to live at her and her mother's home four months after her husband had been told to leave. Mrs. Hadley is seeking a divorce from her husband Charles, a former lieutenant colonel in the Canadian army.

She charges that he told her "my country comes first" and deserted her for five years to serve overseas with the Essex Scottish regiment of Windsor. WITH Harrison T. Watson, her husband's attorney, cross-examining her, Mrs. Hadley admitted that two months after her husband had gone overseas, she was having dates "with several different She testified that It narrowed down to a "Sir. wha took her to dinner at the Hotel Statler, the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club and the Detroit Athletic Club.

When she went to Florida, "Mr. visited her there and went out with -her, she said. She testified that after her father, the late William H. Mc-Kiggan, a former Borg-Warner Corp. executive, died in 1946, "Mr.

started living, week-ends at her mother's heme. SHE SAID THAT he later moved in and is living there today. Circuit Judge Ira W. Jayne refused to permit Mrs. Hadley to name "Mr.

although her attorney, Louis J. Colombo, said he had no objection. Mrs. Hadley charged that because of her husband's age, he performed only "adrninistrative'' duties in the army and "could better- have stayed Army and participated in the Normandy landing and in offensives of that unit in France. Twice winner the Bronze Star, Culehan also received five battle stars.

He was discharged as a lieutenant eoloneL CULEHAN was an unsuccessful bidder for the. Republican congressional nomination in the Fourteenth District a year ago. He was active In the campaign of Gov. Sigler. With his wife and daughter he lives at 1401 Somerset.

Culehan must seek confirmation of the voters in the election in November, 1948. LARGEST Weekday Circulation of Culehan Gets Judgeship Detroit Newspaper 425,024 Weekdays; 461452 Siiiidoys (For 6 months9 period ending 9-30-47 The weekday circulation total quoted above, 425,024, is the LARGEST circulation total ever reached by any Detroit daily newspaper for ANY six months' period. It's an all-time record high. Since 1940, Free Press circulation has increased 102,341 weekdays and 159,664 Sundays. This weekday INCREASE IS ALSO LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER DETROIT NEWSPAPER.

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS John S. Knight, Publisher Miles N. Culehan, 50, former deputy attorney general and a veteran of both wars, will be the new Circuit Judge succeeding the late James E. Chenot. I He was appointed Tuesday by Gov.

Sigler. Culehan is expected to be sworn in late this week. He has been special counsel for the Senate Committee investigating war con tracts. The new judge was born in Syca more, 111., and was graduated from Northern Illinois Teachers' College in 1918, enlisting immediate ly and serving as a private and Air Corps cadet in World War I. While serving as a court clerk for the late Recorder's Judge John Faust, Culehan studied law.

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