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Gable Weds 'Sugar Mama' What's West's Geneva Goal? Power Pact Doomed by Ike Kaline Tells Hitting Secrets See Column 4 See Column 1 See Column 6 See 25 FINE METRO FINAL Sunny and comfortable. Low 60-64, high 85-89. Msd anil Details Pace 3 HOlRl.y TEMPERATIRES 11 am. 74 4 o.m. Sum nnsnn 71 12 noon 7S 5 n.m.

83 10 n.m i 1 n.m. 7 2 p.m. SI 3 m. S3 Unofficial. 6 m.

11 p.m 7 P.m. 79 12 mid 11 p.m. fi 8 p.m. 75 1 a.m. 6- TUESDAY, JUI 12, 1935 On Guard for Over a Century Established in 1831 38 Pages Vol.

125 No. 69 Seven Cents mm JUYJ West Prepared To Vow Peace In German Area Pledge to Soviet Could Net Geneva Accord u. LONDON (AP) The big Western powers were reported Monday night ready to guarantee Communist Europe against aggression by a reunited Germany if Russia approves free all-German elections. the Big Four powers or their deputies will be assigned to the job later of translating the proposals into firm international accords. The Western package deal was said to hinge on the assumption that no European settlement is possible without prior East-West agreement on the reunification of Germany.

The West accordingly has set out to make their program for reuniting Germany more attractive to the Kremlin than it seemed to be in 1954 when it was rejected. Broad outline of the Western Package dal as given by the informants: German reunification must be brought about by free, internationally supervised elections as set forth in the 1954 Eden plan. Reunited Germany must have the right to choose her military allies. THE ARMY of a reunited Germany would be kept to the level now allowed in West Germany (500,000 soldiers with ceilings on Diplomatic informants said this is the nub of the American-British-French terms for a carefully negotiated European settlement with Russia. Th3 settlement would cover: Reunification of Germany.

2 Formation of an East-West security system to keep the peace of Europe through an exchange of firm nonaggres-sion pledges. 3 Limitation and eventually the cutback of arms and armies throughout the continent. 4 Relaxation of East-West trade bars. 5 Ending of the East-West radio propaganda war. RANKING OFFICHLS of the Western powers are putting the finishing touches to such a pack age deal.

It will be submitted for the approval of American, British and French foreign ministers who meet in Paris on Friday. The foreign ministers of the 12 other Atlantic Pact nations will be consulted about the proposals Saturday. President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden and French Premier Edgar Faure intend to outline these ideas in their approved form to Premier Nikolai Bulganin of Russia when they meet next Monday in Geneva. IF RUSSIA agrees to nego-4 tiate, then foreign ministers of foiifltimrrfwnfflifrtittirrT'ni iiiiifiriiftiiiiawiiiiwiiWfiirirrriiiiiiiiniriyiTlliMiiioYTiMTliniirf'-'ri nrnri wrtinnrtifili mi uri rr Clark Gable and His Bride Clark Gable Weds Snreckels' Ex-Wife ttmm I Law Donna Sue Davis All Water Cut Off In Utica Chromium Wa-te Taints Supply Special to the Free Presa UTICA The 1,200 residents of Utica were without drinking water Monday night. The water supply became so heavily contaminated with deadly chromium wastes that health officials ordered all water drink ing stopped.

Mayor Donald Havel said he and other city officials had been aware for several days of an increasing volume of chromium poisoning in the Clinton River, from which Utica gets its water supply. HE SAID it was believed the wastes were being poured into the river by a chrome plating plant near Pontiac. Havel said concentration of the chromium began building up Monday afternoon and increased steadily until State Health Department representatives ruled it unsafe. The health department workers have been at the Utica Water Department Turn to Page 2, Column I 6In God We Trust' To Be 011 U.S. Bills WASHINGTON (U.R)presi-dent Eisenhower Monday signed into law a bill requiring the inscription "in God we trust" to be put on all United States currency and coins.

The words now appear on coins but not on paper money. ry-v a I MINDEN, Nev. (U.P.) Cinema Star Clark Gable married ex-actress Kay Williams Spreckels late Monday in the front parlor of Justice of the Peace Walter Fischer's home. attendant for th bride and Menasco was the best man. BIPARTISAN SENATE MOVE Ike Gains Ammunition For Geneva Parley New York Times Service I I aaaJ Ike Orders Dixon-Yates Pact Killed Memphis to Build Own Power Plant WASHINGTON (UP) President Eisen hower Monday ordered immediate steps to cancel the Dixon -Yates private power contract which stirred up one of the big gest political storms of his Administration.

The President acted after receiving personal assurances from Mayor Frank Tobey of Memphis that the Tennessee city will build a municipal plant to supply its own power needs. Attorney General Herbert BrownelL who announced the action at the White House, was unable to say whether the cancelation will cost the Government any money. But Edgar A. Dixon, an official of the private power combine, said it is entitled to reimbursement for work and commitments already made for the West Memphis (Ark.) plant. He called the President's action "a bolt out of the blue." Congressional ciitics, who considered the project an attempt to kill off the Tennessee Valley Authority, were jubilant.

Sen ator Kefauver Term.) said it will mean "great relief" for the nation's taxpayers. MR. EISENHOWER told a news conference last weeK ne would cancel the contract if he was sure Memphis could and would build its own power plant. Brownell said the Justice De partment will open talks immediately with Dixon-Yates officials. He said he could not say when the contract will be termi nated, but it will be done "very quickly." The plan called tor construc tion by Dixon-Yates of a 107- million-dollar steam plant at West Memphis.

It would have fed power into the TV A system to replace TV A power going to atomic energy plants. Chairman Clinton P. Anderson NJW.) of the House-Senat Atomic Energy Committee indicated the controversy is dead as far as his committee is concerned. But Kefauver said his Senate Antimonop oly subcommittee will continue to explore the "dual role" of investment banker Adolphe H. Wenzell in the Dixon-Yates project.

Kefauver's subcommittee, which contends the contract is not binding, has called on the comptroller general to block any payments to the Dixon-Yates group. Senator Gore another bitter foe of Dixon-Ofates, said the contract was Mr. Eisenhower's "Achille's heel." He said it was "conceived in secrecy, nurtured in duplicity aid now the Administration is in full flight." Kefauver said the contract was canceled because "it was becoming more scandalous, more smelly all the time like a dead fish." The Administration worked out the proposal as an alternative to letting TVA build more steam plants to expand its own capacity. Memphis was the key to the plan since it would have received most of the power generated by the Dixon-Yates plant. OVer allS over Falls Kills Tourist NIAGARA FALLS, (JP) An unidentified man was swept to his death over Niagara Falls Monday before the eyes cf 100 tourists.

4 Several said they saw him jump from the Goat Island Bridge. WASHINGTON The Senate leaders of both parties arranged Monday to put that body on record as sympathetic to peoples now "subjected to the captivity of alien despotism." Child Stolen From Crib In Iowa Coroner Calls It Criminal Attack SIOUX CITY, Ia. (AP) The body of two-year-old Donna Sue her pajama tops wound around her neck, was found late Monday at the edge of a field. She had been stolen from her crib within minutes after being tucked in bed by her mother Sunday night. Police Chief James O'Keefe said the child "definitely had been raped." The body, which bore marks of a beating, was discovered on farm a mile south of South Sioux City, across the Missouri River from here.

NEIGHBORS of the child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Davis, a family of modest means, reported seeing a man prowling about the Davis duplex Sunday night. Another neighbor pursued a man running with a bundle down an alley near the Davis home but failed to catch him. Coroner Thomas L.

Cor'den said Donna Sue was killed by a severe blow on the head, causing a massive brain hemorrhage. He confirmed the girl had been sexually assaulted. Donna was helped into her pa jamas at 9:30 Sunday night by her mother. Then Mrs. Davis went into the kitchen to read the paper.

The Davises' other children, Mary Claire, 11, and Timmy, 7, were asleep in another room. Davis, a railroad clerk, was in the parlor watching television. ABOUT 30 MINUTES later, the father went to Donna's room and found the crib empty. Then, he said, he saw the window screen gone. The window of the first-floor bedroom is only four feet from the ground.

George Berger, a neighbor, saw a man cross through a hedge near the Davis duplex minutes after Donna was put to bed. Nearby the dog of Mr. and Mrs. Laif Fjeldos barked loudly. They saw a man in a white T-shirt, carrying a bundle, run away when Fieldos turned on a backyard light.

Fieldos chased the man but didn't catch him. food very well and is quite vigorous now." "She has a better than even chance to survive," he declared. "And every hour she lives gives her that much better chance." The baby, who Dr. Hasty said appeared to have been born about a month premature, was found by Melvin Blair, of Houghton Lake. Blair called State Police when he determined the cries were coming from the bag in a thickly wooded area.

Welcome Strike TOKYO (JP) -Tax workers, demanding summer bonuses and pay raises right in the middle of mailing income tax notices, struck Monday with aitdowns and refusals to work overtime. armaments). Frontier guarantees would insure that the Germans never try to break out from their boundaries. Another plan would be to de militarize East Germany and perhaps parts of Wsst Germany to form a buffer zone. There would' also be agree ments to thin, out foreign armies on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

guided missile attack on allied centers of population. Flanders suggested that the President "publicly and unilaterally wipe this bestiality off our strategic plans," regardless of what others did. Senator Mansfield Mont.) argued, however, that it was wishful thinking to suppose that there could be any such thing as "limited" atomic warfare. A Great Day For Everyone Orangemen mark the Battle of the Boyne Tuesday. They'll have a nice day for it.

So will everyone else in Detroit. The forecast is fair and pleasant." "generally A high of 87 is predicted. There's be gentle to moderate northeast to east winds. House Cuts Ike Aid Bill 627 Million Defense Dept. Dealt 420-Million Slash New York Times Service WASHINGTON The House Monday passed and sent to the Senate a $2,638,741,750 foreign aid appropriation for the fiscal 1956.

The figure represented a cut in the amount originally requested by the President. The largest single reduction, 420 million dollars, was made in Defense Department funds. The heavy slash, recommended by the House Appropriations Committee, was approved by vote of 251 to 123. THE ADMINISTRATION made no attempt to restore the funds in the House. LiFtead, officials indicated they will concentrate their pressure on the Senate, traditionally more generous than the House.

The Senate Appropriations Committee Vvill start work on the bill in closed hearings Tuesday. The heavy House cuts were di rectly attributable to members' anger with the Defense Depart ment for suddenly "obligating, or committing, 614 million dol lars, on June 30, the last day of fiscal 1955. Both houses specifically had provided that no more than 200 million of unobligated funds could be carried over to the new fiscal year. THE MICHIGAN delegation voted on the aid bill as follows: For: Machrowicz, Hayworth, Rabaut, Lesinski and Griffiths, Democrats; Meader, Ford and Wolcott, Republicans. Against: Johansen, Bentley, Thompson, Cederberg, Knox, Bennett and Dondero, Republicans.

Hoffman (R) was announced as paired against. Diggs and Dingell, Democrats, were not announced. Bomb Found In U.S. Building New Vork Times Foreign Serire SAIGON, South Vietnam A package containing a powerful bomb was found on the second-floor landing of the American apartment building housing the United States Information Service library. Experts believe the bomb could have caused much damage and some deaths if it had exploded there.

As it was, it exploded harmlessly in a field outside Saigon. the holdup man into the market office, opened a safe and gave him the money. The holdup man and an accomplice fled in a car. About 30 shoppers were unaware of the holdup. Only Head Cashier Virginia Gerammaito, 24, of 5937 Pennsylvania, said she was aware that there was something wrong.

"I didn't do anything, she said. "It might have jeopardized Jerry's life." "I GAVE THEM what I fig ured was a pretty good wed ding, he said. He added that they were "pretty mum' on their destination after leaving Minden. "I asked Gable if he was going into Reno and lose all his money but he just grunted as he went out the door." The party came and left in two cars. When they left Fischer's residence, they headed back for US-395, which leads to Reno in one direction and to Los Angeles in the other.

The highway also hits a junction leading to Lake Ta-hoe, a favorite vacation-honeymoon 6pot in the Sierras. FISCHER SAID all five of the party "seemed awfully happy" and added that Gable "kissed his wife pretty well" after the ceremony. The couple obtained the marriage license from the Minden county clerk in this small town 30 miles south of Reno. During her battles in court with sugar heir Spreckels, Miss Williams accused him of beating her, chopping down her door and using abusive language. Nearly a year to the day after their August, 1952, divorce, Spreckels beat her with a shoe so severely that she was hospitalized.

HE LOST AN appeal and spent 30 days in Orange County jail, Santa Ana, for assault. Gable's last domestic battle was with Lady Ashley, widow of Douglas Fairbanks. It ended peacefully in 1952 with a settlement for her reported to be about $150,000, although he once claimed her demands were "exorbitant." Miss Williams has custody of the two Spreckels children, Joan, 4Ji, and Adolph III, 6. You'll Find: Sylvia Porter Views Big Stock Boom-P 17 The pair," who had been had linked romantically for some time but denied marriage plans, apparently decided on the step on the spur of the moment, since they got their marriage license only minutes before appearing before the justice. AFTER THE rapid ceremony the newlyweds, accompanied by Elizabeth Williams Nesser of Los Angeles and Mr.

and Mrs. Albert S. Menasco of St. Helena, left for an undisclosed destination. The marriage climaxed 13 years of friendship between Gable, now free-lancing after 21 years at MGM, and the beautiful, blond blue eyed former Erie (Pa.) resident.

The 54-year-old Gable thus took his fifth wife who, until August, 1952, was -the fifth wife of millionaire playboy Adolph Spreckels IL The ex-actress is 37. The couple had been linked since 1942. Gable figured in 1951 testimony during her court battles with Spreckels, who charged she told him she and Gable had been intimate. GABLE'S PREVIOUS wives had been Drama Coach Josephine Dillon, Reah Langham, Actress Carole Lombard who was killed in a 1941 plane crash and Lady Sylvia Ashley. Miss Williams was married briefly in 1942 to Argentine sportsman Martin De Alzage Unzue.

At the time she was a player at MGM. Justice Fischer said the he-man actor and his blond bride-to-be showed up about 5:30 p.m. with the three others. "They were all kind of quiet," he said. "They talked quietly among themselves while I filled out the necessary papers." Fischer said Gable was dressed in a "kind of a dark blue-black suit" and that his bride had on a "light tan colored summer suit." Fischer said Mrs.

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Oall PR 0 0000 after 6 m. Such quick response is typical for users of the Free Press Want Ads. To place a Want Ad just call WO 2-9400 or 0 to your nearest Free Press Want Ad Station. 4-DAY-OLD GIRL 'DOING WELL Thev put in a resolution to this effect, intending to have it approved by the Senate before President Eisenhower sits down at Geneva on July 18 in the Big Four conference. Their purpose was.dual: To reassure those in Soviet satellite countries that the United States views their position with regret, but to stop at that point and without mentioning the Russians or their satellites by name.

2 To neutralize the continuing efforts of Senator McCarthy to force tne issue of the satellite countries onto the agenda of the Big Four meeting. THE RESOLUTION, which had been approved by the President and the State Department, was introduced by- Senator Knowland the Republican floor Knowland moved with the support of the acting Democratic Senate Leader Clements while McCarthy was circulating a drastic proposal of his own. The McCarthy paper, against which a great bipartisan majority of the Senate was being marshaled, would put the Senate on record srs demanding a rupture with the satellite Communist lands. On June 22, the Senate by a vote of 77 to 4 had smashed down the initial McCarthy effort to force President Eisenhower to bring up the issue of the captive satellites at the Big Four meeting. This, his second effort, smoothly thrust aside by the combined planning of Senators Clements and Knowland.

On the eve of Tuesday's bipartisan consultation between the President and congressional leaders before his departure for Geneva, the Senate heard other proposals dealing with that conference. SENATOR FLANDERS (R-, "Vt.) called on the President to announce at Geneva that this country would never use the atomic bomb against civil populations except in reprisal for atomic or Baby in Paper Bag Is Found in Woods HOUGHTON LAKE (JP) State Police Monday were seeking to identify an abandoned baby girl, four or five days old, who was found alive in a paper sack in nearby Denton Township Sunday night. Cries attracted a man ratting SUPERMARKET ROBBED $3,000 Holdup Set Up By Telephone Threat Two bandits used a telephone ruse to rob a Grosse Pointe supermarket of more than $3,000 Monday afternoon. Jerome Grogis, 25, manager of the Big Bear Market at 17410 Mack, Grosse Pointe, told Police Chief Tom Trombley he was called to the phone by a clerk. weeds in the area.

Dr. Earl Hasty, of West Branch, said the baby had received no medical care since her premature birth. He said survival was due to heat generated by the child's own body inside the bag. THE BABY was rushed to Tol-free Memorial Hospital at West Branch, where Dr. John D.

Boehm said Monday she wasi 1 1 "The way things look now. she "She's taking nourishment, her 1 kAWWl "uu Dr. Boehm said the baby weighed 3 pounds 9 ounces when found. "She was suffering from exposure and insect bites," Dr. Hastv said.

"But she is taking Amusements 18 Astrology 22 Bridge 22 Drew Pearson 12 Editorials 8 Financial 29-31 Movies 28 Radio and Television 14 Sports 25-28 Want Ads 32-35 Weather Map 3 Women's Pages 19-21 Grogis, of 25356 Collmgwood, Roseville, said he answered in one of the store's two front booths. The caller told him: "The man sitting in the next booth to you has a gun. Do what he says or hell blow your brains out." Grogis said he looked and saw a young man wearing sunglasses and holding a revolver under a newspaper. FOLLOWING THE phone instructions, Grogis said, he led TO HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME PHONE WO 2-8900.

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