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-v. Today's Chuckle Nitwit 0m ftee, Quofe of fhe Day Sir Winston Churchill: "The Russian question must be worked out somehow. We must not forget that in the Soviet I'nion there are human beings." To take a great weight off your mind, dis-card your halo. The Frame Maker Saturday, Dceraber 19, 1953 THE SECOND FROM PAGE Tage 3 Two City Officials Wrangle in Court SunnuSMz sr a Express Operations Normal More Gifts Asked For Exhibit Hall $6,500,000 in' Private Funds Needed to Finance Half UAW Steps Into Control Of Local Board of Kaiser 142 Asks for Action Heavy Fuss Stockpiling of Cases Charged 900 Return After Strike Detroit business and industry were asked Friday to dig down again Into the corporate sock to help a multimillion- The UAW (CIO) announced Friday it had placed an admin hJiui'imiK unci aiiuna a i i. nc i BY FRANK SIMMON'S FrM Fri SUff Writer A record number of building-code violation cases in Traffic Court Friday touched off a heated squabble between the City's Corporation Counsel and Railway Express Agency, dollar civic dream come true.

swung back to Christmas holi- The apppal for more contribwtiong for the proposed normal Friday after Convention Hall-Exhibits Building in the riverfront strike-caused 58-day halt. civic Center WM made ftt a meeting of the Capital Gifts The 900 Detroit employes be-; Comrnittee in the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. istratorship over the affairs of Its Kaiser Willow Run Local 142. It said it took the action at the unanimous request of the Local 142 executive board. The local bnnrd niri the m-nh- Li i 111 Kan remming 10 worn bi jz.ui: a.

m. following a union vote to call off the strike pending a fact-! g- finding board's recommendations, i I -m m- s-m I No specific sums or acing Kaiser workers as formulas" were mentioned. a re8lIt of tne cosing down of Kaiser operations at the plant BI Frederick C. Matthaei, jwere "far beyond the possibility chairman of the committee, 1 0f solution at the local level." Math yamu room. A Good Deal All Around We have just heard about the little old lady out on the East Side who is struggling along on a pension.

She has made a deal with a Campfire girl, living near by, to get her family's Free Press for 15 cents a week. The papers may be a week late but the old lady figures she still is getting a bargain. Oddly enough, the Campfire Girl figures it is a good deal, too. Frankly, We're At Sixes and Sevens A good friend' reminds us that we ought to tell our readers that it is just as impossible to write correctly, "There are three fours (for, four, fore) in the English language" as it is to write that there are three twos (to, two, too). There are just too many twos and fours for anybody to yell "fore" and come forward with a toothsome answer.

Could Ray Win a War? If we ever go to war with Russia we wonder if our pointed out that an additional $6,500,000 would have to be AGENCY OFFICIALS a deluge of calls Friday for trucks to pick up ship Raised if private sources were to HCGF. Willow Run plant Ursa mifphfiflAil Mntlu Kv rian- purchased recently by ments. However, they said the the Department of Building and Safety Engineering. Ninety-four cases were brought before Traffic Referees John M. Wise and John G.

Carnpy. They heard 81 cases, handing out fines totaling $1,160. One boarding-house keeper got a 10-day jail sentence when he refused to pay a $50 fine. Sixteen violators drew suspended sentences, 13 persons ignored court summonses and an additional 16 violators were given suspended sentences. the cost of the Gen- May Drop Car Fleet finance half structure.

calls were being handled swiftly. Persons shipping goods imme 1 IX, eiHi iviuiors orp. 10 replace its Hydra-Math: transmission facilities at Livonia, lost in a fire last August. diately "have every reason to ex pect delivery by the This would Include $500,000 still needed for the Community Arts Building at Wayne University, now under agency reported. BY JAMES RANSOM FrM Trfni Stuff Writer Detroit may replace many of Kaiser, which once had as many as 12.0(H) employes at the plant, has 'been laying them off since It lost Government plane-building contracts last summer.

its 1,067 passenger cars with automobile expense allowances for City employes and officials. Hie Capital Gifts Committee was formed in 1951, Detroit's 250th Anniversary year, to raise $8,500,000 from private sources. A STATEMENT by Slater, assistant corporation counsel who prosecuted Friday's It said the only delay imiy occur at rail transfer points where freight may compete with heavy Postoffiee shipments. Meanwhile, similar strikes at Milwaukee and Pittsburgh also The abandonment of much of the City fleet appeared likely Edward Cote, director of the Of that amount $1,500,000 was Friday after Common Council t0 irn to the Community Arts UAW's Kaiser Department, was were called oft at the oraer of lul1" m-mniR mm cnugu Building, and $7,000,000 for the namen Dy me unions interna tional exutive )oard to take the Brotherhood of Railway and OI Rross misuse oi uuy-ownea Convention Hall. Estimated cost of the Convea- over the local Steamship Clerks (AFL.

TRAPPED for an hour in a colander holder, Susan Morton, of Muskegon, gives vent to her feelings. She was playing with it; slipped it over her head and became enmeshed. Her father arrived home in time to put both child and collender in their rightful plares. cases, ignited the feuding. "It's obvious that the room-In R-hou-w death of 3-year-old Billy Robinson on Nov.

21 Is the basis for the record number of cases In court," Slater said. "The heat's on and the Building Department is trying to un- tion Hall was then $14,000,000. Local 142 spokesmen, who said MAYOR COBO provided an- Latest estimates on revised plans they "wanted no possible ques uusi tsiuniii.es on rtvuru puiig wnui.ru nu TIIF T'VIOV the order1 ijuco- 1, h7finr.rnr olhf.r whe" the structure, including 'tion arising over the handling of after the Government $3,000,000 for parking facilities, i local assets" were praised by Thursday sued a terse directive to alI city appointed a fact-finding group tod rtmenU warnlnfr them that study the union wage demands City.owned cara are for U8e onl and issue recommendations. I The Detroit branch of the union is seeking a 30-cent hourly is $25,000,000. Cote for their "high sense of re- tsponsibility." MATTHAEI told the assem-j bled business and industrial lead-1 HE SAID he would 'Work ers Friday that the Committee is closely with the local officers still $2,500,000 short of the to aid laid-off workers.

He add-original goal, having raised ed he would seek to gain pref- Hoffa Threatens Truck Walkout tif wage increase. iload part of their backlog of violation cases on the Corporation Counsel as rapidly as possible." Slater asserted the number of cases referred for prosecution has doubled in the last 10 days, Answering Slater's blast was r-J 1 v. The Council appointed a three-man committee to study thoroughly the possibility of substituting personal ear allowances for the City fleet. Council President Louis C. erential hiring status for these $1,000,000 for the Community Arts Building and $5,090,000 for Police Boss workers with GM.

More than 12,500 questionnaires have been sent to former BY ROBERT FERRIN ficer for the Building Depart ment. Apolo Irr PrMStfr Hritpr I A major trucking strike which could virtually tie up the Midwest was threatened by the Teamsters Union (AFL) I the Convention Hall. If the 110-50 ratio between private and public fund Is to he maintained, Matthaei said, another 000,000 would have to be raised, making the total private contribution to the "WE AREN'T going to take the rap for the Corporation Miriani named to the committee Carl Guider, superintendent of the motor transport garage; DPW Siipt. Glenn C. Richards and Budget Director David V.

Addy. The committee also was directed to investigate the cost involved in a rental fleet con- Friday for early in January. ToCIO The strike, if called, would be concentrated in Ohio. ZtH $11,000,000. Kaiser workers to determine their employment problems, Cote said.

He estimated that pension funds covering Kaiser workers, Including those now working at other Kaiser plants, are about $6,000,000. Funds for hospital-medical and Insurance benefits total about $1,200,000, he said. A Kaiser union meeting sched necause ot mat state strategic Dec. 45 cases have been turned position in long-distance hauling to tncir the Folic Commissioner Donald usual rate three-a-day. as hard it.

The $3,000,000 for parking facilities would be subtracted from the total cost in computing the public-private ratio. Leonard issued a personal apol-, tract with a private agency, ogy Friday to the CIO for an! attack made falsely on unions THE HIGHLIGHT of the hear by Patrolman Albert Gramm of liff came when Guider, who pvtt- Mayor Cobo stressed that the Brotherhood Co-Chairmen Appointed the Accident Prevention Bureau's cipitated the investigation with convention Hall-Exhibits Build- "The Corporation Counsel has been piling rases up and has thrown them Into court at one time. "I don't know why they did It except, maj be they wanted to look good." The threat of a walkout was made by James R. Hoffa, president of the Central States Teamsters Conference as the re- i suit of a new Ohio highway "us-; age" tax. uled for Sunday has been post- fatal squad.

cnarges mat t-uy-ownen ig tne on, in the Gramm accused union officials are used for shopping, joy-riding civic Center still not completely foned pending results of a union employment survey, Cote added. of interfering with attempts toand pleasure trips, was asked financed. arrest a union member on a enlarge on ine claims ne maae charge of leaving the scene of an earlier this week Harvey Goldman, president of the Jewish Community Center, and Circuit Judge Joseph A. NEVER MISSES He told Councllmen that the injury accident, Hoffa said the truck operators are attempting to have the Individual drivers pay the tax which would axerage out to $10 a load. Slater denied stockpiling the cases.

absolutely did not save any cases for Friday," he said. "Our office had so many this week that, if we had an extra stenographer, we could have LATER GRAMM admitted he He emphasized that plans would go forward even. If the from private sources Is not realized, "because this project is Important to the future of Detroit and the tax base of the City." Police Hunt secret weapon aouldn't be Johnny Ray! U.S. Is Almost Out of Wirries We not only have discovered another Detroit citizen with! the same house and phone number but something more unusual. In reporting that Gertrude Lussky, of 16877 Sorrento, hag the number duplicated by her telephone UN J-6877 Frances Sisco, of 16510 Lindsay, adds this information: "The Michael Wirries, of 1S021 Lahser, are the only family of Wirries in Detroit.

In fact, at the time of World War II they discovered their family was the only family of Wirries in the United States. National Worries we got but no Wirries Pan sirs Don't Know It's Winter Snow may have come before this item runs, but we think a few courageous misuse of motor pool ears was not as widespread as It was a yearago. At that time the City began pasting seals and stickers on the ears, Identifying them as City property. Moynihan were appointed co-; chairmen of the Brotherhood' Week committee Friday. I Their appointment was an-i nounced by George W.

Stark, made no attempt to arrest the man but said it was the bureau's "policy" not to arrest a man in a factory because "the unions At a conference between the taken 25 additional cases to truckers snd the union Thurs- court." day in Chicsgo, Hoffa said the; Dead-Eye The proposed building will be general chairman for the parties reached a deadlock on Guider also has produced rec- would pull a strike." bounded by the Detroit River, JJ I '9 But he u-fm unnhle to furnish ords Rhnwinc the hieh aceidenti T.arnH First arA a Una Brotherhood Week in Michigan the Issue. Under the master con- idwayl lJlflllUlll Hil v.Mnra,. campaign, tract, he said, such a deadlock a single example where a union rate of City cars. Among the; between Cass snd Wayne. It will Girl Faces Embezzling I gives the union the right to a best accident records was that i have a total floor area of threatened to strike if member were prominent in strike.

rrested on the job. of the DPW, which had but 42 000 square feet. "We have notified the opera accidents a one-year period. iThe DPW has 109 cars assigned 1 tors that we are reserving the ST. CLAIR OPENS Charge to it.

right to strike," Hoffa said. He said he was giving thej The man sought was Eugene Fanalnew, 39, of 2673 Holmes, Hnmtramck, whose car was traced to the R. C. Mahon 6565 E. Eight Mile, through a license number supplied by a witness.

lOUNCTLMEN also ask Ice Skating that a complete report on ca pool use of the cars be compiled each monlh. It asked that the report list to whom a car i Called Good In Area Fanaisew sdmitted his car struck Mita Savice, 65, of 6661 i tvtoriA r7 tna ran a tin mninl. Seminole, at Conant and Halleck. Central precinct detectives are looking for a bombardier who has scored two direct hits on the American Umbrella Co. The firm is located at 515 Woodward, on the third and top floor.

Immediately adjoining the building towers the Union Guardian building 40 stories high. WORKERS at the firm thought it was Just an accident when an inkwell crashed through their skylight a short time back. The skylight glsss was replaced. Thursday afternoon another inkwell dropped through, scattering the workers and spattering broken glass about. The skylight is 18 inches wide.

Detectives sre looking for somebody with a sharp eye and a steady hand. 'i nance costs. Fanaisew said he Intended to Goldman moan The skating rink at St. Clair truckers until the first part ofj The Prosecutor's Office said January to change their position they would seek a warrant for and accept the tax burden them- embezzlement Saturday against selves. The first quarterly pay-j Miss Phyllis Peters, 21, a cashier ment of the new usage tax who reportedly stole $20,000 to due Jan.

22. jfinnnre love affairs. Miss Peters, of 14060 Ardmore, A STRIKE would seal off the: was arrested Thursday after the borders of Ohio as well as halt 'shortage was discovered at the all trucking operations withinjaute Craft Supply 305 the state, Hoffa declared. i Michigan, where she was em ployed. Michigan truckers wiih loads for the south or east would be A WARRANT for extortion forced to take an expensive receiving stoten money may and time-consuming round- be issued against a man identi-about route.

Ohio also Is on as George Autsin, 22, an the main tranrnntinental high- alleged boy friend of Miss Peters way system. -who is reported to be in Florida, police said. Hoffa estimated that some, Aar0n D. Garza, 24. of 928 The Information Is to pass through the DPW, which operates the motor transport garage.

Guider and Richards said after Metropolitan Beach was opened Friday night. It will be open daily from surrender. Gramm and Patrolman William Harvey told Fanaisew to report to police headquarters after his shift ended. Leonard said that although a 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

and will be warrant is required to invade pri-l the hearing that personal car; floodlighted at. night. In addi- vate property to make an arrest; allowances would not be justifi- tion, there will be free parking, Jewish service organizations, is president of the Harvey Goldman Co. and is widely known in the machinery industry. Moynihan, former vice president of the National Council of Catholic Men, is presiding judge of the Michigan State Court of Claims.

in a misdemeanor case, no war- able if City workers and officials; music, warming rooms and a rant is required in a felony. were allowed to turn in expenses food bar. for their personal mileage. A new skating rink at the HF. SII a member of the! Unless safeguards were pro-jLower Huron Metropolitan Park APB had called the company and vided.

Guider said, the allowance near Bellville will open Saturday, asked "What is your procedure" system Probably would be little; 10,000 truck drivers in Tones who also was arrested Rrnlhnrhnvl WaaIj u'ill avtnn THE DEPARTMENT of Parks released after from Feb. 21 throueh'Feb 28. utM" BUU uia was be affected. questioning. according to Robart M.

Frehse, and Recreation announced good skating at the following Chandler, Balduck, Far we 11, The truckers and other states eveputive riireptnr rf th riolrntt in making arrests of employes. Deuer man me present one. The personnel director, Joseph! McNally replied that a warrant; 'Iff Si if if Off was required for a misdemeanor! 111 VJ arrest on plant property. Mc- jr Til I Nally said he understood the easel gl Qf Round Table, the local affiliate 8 WP" 88 lne umon are "Sit Driver Dies In Crash; Friend Hurl 3 Bandits of the National Conference of ,1" ln" un, ing me unn charged was Christians and Jews. Jayne, Pingree, St.

Clair, Cannon, Stoepel 1 snd 2, O'STiea, Hope, Votrobeck, Fitrpatrick Green Belt, Elmwood, Palmer Park West Lake and neighborhood rinks. was a miuemeanor ana was not; Get 8650 Children told there had been an injury. Leonard rebuked Inspector Donald A. Ouinn. APB head, for to drive the trucks off the highways." Truck companies complain that payment of the tax would put them out of business.

Earl Buchmann, 33, regional Pick-Ax Slaver Is Sentenced pansies deserve a pat on their silly little heads. For on Dec. 5 Mrs. D. A.

Taher, of Midlands picked five of them out of her flower garden; another on Dec. 7. Lovely ones, measuring 2'i by 212 inches. Mrs. Taber adds that if she has pansies for her table on Christmas she won't write she'll wire.

Is anybody having to bat tulips back in the ground? Doesn't He Like His Striped Suit? Remember that old gag which sounds better aloud There also is tobogganing at of rca Communiea- At Drugstore not having the APB exercise! A Christmas party for blind their authority to make arrests nd visually handicapped children Balduck. Itions. was killed Fridav In the Wayne County Park whpn hi car crashefl into a via- Walter Brown. 24. nf of preschool age will be held at Three men, two of them armed.

MICHIGAN along with other in felony cases. there there system is good skating on Llvernois near Toledo 3B40 Concord, was sentenced to states eurrentlv i held nn the nronrietor of tha 10 a.m. Saturday at Taylor Park School, on Pinecrest in Taylor of SUI.ahath PfU anrl tnhnfr. i 7 1 Ave. Ifour to 15 years Fridav after make arrangement, with nhlo tniArndt Druestora.

2650 Gratiot. Township. ganing at Cass Benton In the Middle Rouge Parkway. Buchmann's passenger, John he pleaded guilty to manslaugh- make Its trucks immune from 'and two customers Friday night, Butler, 29, of 16835 Sorrento, ter. the tax.

while operating in and escaping with a quantity of nar- cotics and $650 in cash win jcnuuBiy nun. neuuruer t-ouri juage through Ohio, The party will be sponsored by the Cradle Club, composed of parents of visually handicapped children, five years old or under. Buchmannn, a reserve Army W. Griffiths said she was takinz Bar Looted Hearing Delayed In Hazel Park May oral Dispute A hearing on a motion to de- cantain. was a native of New note of Brown's excellent he.

Orleans. Ma tried and the father Savior in the past, including his Burglars stole $550, a Japa- Mis. Lillian Rirker, founder of The bandits held guns on Sol 'Katz, 40, of 19321 Santa Rosa, the owner; John Arndt, 35, of 936 Barrington. Grosse Points, land Shew Wong, 25, of 2745 the club, plans to open a nursery. nese rifle and 50 bottles oof a five-year-old son, he lived outstanding war record I'nder such "reciprocity" systems already In force, trucks certified In Michigan do not have to buy Ohio license plates, for example.

The same holds true for Ohio trucks operating In Michigan. IlrAMrn I. i 1 1 n.l UTUli. T.nl,.n. school for visually handicappedjwhisky flom the Green Oak Bar, at IO16O Albany, Oak Park ciaie lnvHiio me appointment i children some time in February.

18403 Oakland, police were toldl The RCA 48, 1464 E. Fort, with a pick fii nmt ff ml The AIIen Pal'k Soroptimist by the owner, Albert Thompson, line, office in the Penobscot ax Sept. 16 during an argument Dec 28 iClub Is furnishing gifts for the; 48, of 319 Glenale, Highland Building handles foreign radio-. following a minor traffic acci-Th. complaint was filed ms- dent at Riopelle and E.

Congress. THERE THEY ransacked the medicine drawers for narcotics. Should Michigan fail to work inCiuiing at least five ounces do you uru it ctav jimi uea! wuii uruo regai umg opium and 15 vials of morphine. I the tax, it could apply pressure i Thev took $600 from Katz' by cancelling existing reciprocity wallet" and from the cash register si iTVlUU XX) gSALLYT UkE ME. CMARUE WHAT I MEAN DO YOU REALLY REALLY LIKE ME DO YOU PE ALLY" nioiini I KfcAllT piiuT TUEPEITUAT4 REALLY REALLY LIKE ME? REAU.Y..X MST ABOUT IT 1 I (has to vj WHE5E SMeN STANDS Oakland County Circuit Court hy Charles K.

Lawson, president of the Hazel Park Civic Improvement League. Judge George B. Hartrjck had set Friday as the hearing date. Lawson charged City Council's appointment of Elias was illegal because It was done at a secret session. Last Monday the councllmen In an open meeting again appointed Ellas mayor.

agreements. and $50 from Arndt. The operators have contended the driver should pay the tax! 1 fit olll under a phrase In the Ohio law; I'OIlllS 0Mll which holds that the "driver is ALBION The Albion Board responsiible" for the payment, 0f Education sold its 18-year Hoffa said. i $750,000 elementary school ex- Hoffa claimed this meant onlyjpansion bond issue to a svndicata that the driver was to keep rec-j headed by First of Michigan ords of his mileage. Corp.

at 2.38 per cent Interest. "what's black and white and red all over?" and the answer used to be, "A book." The modern version of what's black and white and red all over is slightly different. The answer is, "an embarrassed zebra." llLi4Wjft Ik-imiJtSkiJ. MAm4)v4)i.