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FAIR A aw- r- i i I Fair and cooler. High 46-50, low 30-34. Datails on Page 3 HOURLY TEMPERATURES 3 o.m. 72 7 p.m. 62 11 p.m.

4 O.m. 72 p.m. 59 12 mid. 5 o.m. 70 9 p.m.

57 1 a.m. P.m. 68 10 p.m. 55 2 a.m. 52 50 46 43 rmnn MONDAY, APRIL 18, 19C0 TaRes Eiglit Cents 128 Years 3 C3 Weed Power, Hi mm i MosBitalreM name jrern Indians' Homer Champ Joins Detroit Tucsdav rs TTh 1YA IKI rVi, 'X 'luuia ayffja, biwi "l.u,..

i o-MUH mmwmniiinmem roi.v I i jm i.iuii.uiltni'u I Mothers and Babies Are Routed Memphis Ball Park Destroyed TTl TTJT-TTC? AT5 Other florics and pictures on Pages 37, 38, 40 and Back Page. BY HAL MIDDLES WORTH Free Pre Staff Writer LAKELAND, Fla. A Harvey Kuenn-for-Rocky Colavito trade became a fact instead of fancy, for the Tigers Sunday. Transfer of the Detroit and Cleveland batting stars was announced unexpectedly as the Tigers closed their exhibition campaign here with a 10-inning 5-4 victory over the fJi fe I Lx-Cr 1 ixio iix ibad? A baseball park grand-j Detroit split into two distinct stand went up in a camPs Sunday after Ithe trade of the American CaUSt OI Ilame bunday; League leading hitter for one night forcing a nearby of the game's greatest sluggers hospital to temporarily evacuate patients from one wing. A human chain of hospital workers passed about 35 newborn babies down a stairway to safety and fio mothers were moved from the maternity ward.

The fire, fanned by 20 mile and-hour winds, ruined the 12 000 seat grandstand at RUSS- On Guard for nn I wo Free Press Carriers End Tour Two Free Press carriers, awarded a nine-day trip to England and France in a contest sponsored by Parade magazine, arrived home Sun-da from Paris. The carriers. Ernie Myers. IS. of 405 Charles.

Yp.i-lanti. and Arthur Owens, 17, of 4215 McDougall. were among 73 contest winners. THEY LANDKD Sunday at New York's International Airport after a 14'2-hour flight. They were then flown to De- i troit.

While in England they visited Windsor Castle, the summer home of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, and met John Hay Whitney, the United States Ambassador to England. Myers said the most exciting part of the trip for him was a visit to Madame Tussaud's wax work in London. "It reminded me of a movie I once saw," he said. Capsule make with his arms, separated from its mother satellite as scheduled on the 17th trip over the Arctic Circle. BUT INSTEAD of dropping into the atmosphere where CI 19 flying boxcars were waiting to snag its parachute on trapezes slung beneath their fuselages, the capsule stayed close to its mother ship and became a baby satellite.

The Air Force, which launched Discoverer XI here Friday, said "some unknown malfunction occurred at a critical point just after A WW Vol. 129 No. S50 Fans Split On Tiger Switch BY JACK BEKKY Frt Pre Staff Writer Harvey Kuenn for Rocky iColavit good trade or as announcea- fans for thp tranp said Cola vi to would give the Tigers enough power to start climbing toward the pennant. Fans against it said Kuenn's consistent play and all-around ability was more valuable to the team. Rut the ht oiipstinn wheth- er Colavito will help the Tigers more than Kuenn will help the 'Cleveland Tndians-ill be an.

mavbe 125. That'll move the Mata Tucker xigers up in the standings, probably to second place. "I still think Chicago will win, though. The Sox have improved their club with those trades thev made this winter." On the other side, two youths Colavito. who hits some home iruns but strikes out a lot." BERNARD WOOD, of 4447 Kingston, Dearborn, a machinist, said anything that strengthened the Ti gers was "all right" with him.

"I think it's a better deal for Detroit," he said. "Kuenn is slowing down (in the field). This shows the management is trying to get us Wood a winner, it you want to get a Turn to Page 1, Column 1 Ford Gets PR Award The Ford Division of Ford Motor Co. Sunday was awarded the Silver Anvil, highest honor in the public relations profession. The award was made by the American Public Relations Association at its annual meeting in White Sulphur Springs, Va.

It was presented to Holmes Brown, Ford Division public relations manager, tor the job done in introducing the compact Falcon to the public. (A I 1 to dim 44 ill wood Park, home of the only by the final stand-ern Association Memphis ings this fall. Chicks. "IT'S THE best trade the BAPTIST HOSPITAL, lo- Tigers have ever made." said cated just across the street jPatrolman Vernon Smith, of from the park, stood by ready (Central Station, to evacuate its 14-stories at we've got someone who one point but a lucky shift in lean knock in some runs. I'll bet the winds gave firemen the up- iRockv bats in at least 100 THE GRANDEST Easter Parade ever was held Sunday at Eastland Center despite threatening weather that dimmed the brightness of the background.

The paraders men, women, children, entire families were rompetins for merchandise certificates worth SI, 160. Prizes were awarded in six divisions on the basis of fashion, harmony and ensembling for the third year in a row on the Grand Court. (Other picture. Page 9.) POPULATION SOARS Says Ilarvev Kuenn Rocky Colavito Kuenn, Colavito Compared Here's how Rocky Colavito and Harvey Kuenn compared last year with the bat: Colatito Kuenn Batting average .257 .353 Home runs 42 9 Runs batted in 111 71 Total hits 151 IDS Here's how thev compare their major league careers: Colavito Kuenn Gamps 537 1'049 BattlnS average .272 .314 Home runs 129 53 Games 537 Runs batted in 373 423 P. P.

24 P. 37 I 3 P. 10 Rains on Easter Out Mark Clark Movie Guide Names and Faces Sports TV-Radio Want Ads World Once-Over Women's Pages 49 li 37-41 18 33-35 12 24-30 HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE WO 2-8900 i per hand. Firemen from SO trucks trained hoses on both City and Baptist Hospitals to keep the fire from spreading. The heat and violent winds whipped up by the draft broke almost every large win dow in the block.

At City Hospital, separated from the grandstands only by a narrow alley, hospital work-: ers and interns helped man! hoses inside the building near ine inreaienea wan. combustibles bandage materials, sheets, mattresses and the like from the outer rooms. Patients along the west end of the wing were temporarily moved out on all four floors. Toronto Area Enjoying Giant Industrial Boom Kansas City Athletics. Kuenn, last year's American League batting champion, played six innings of the contest and raised his spring average to .418 with a double and single.

COLAVITO. who shared the league lead of 42 home runs with Washington's Harmon Killibrew last season, was in Memphis for the Tribe's exhibition with the Chicago White Sox. The two stars will swap uniforms at Cleveland Tuesday, when the Tigers and Indians open the American League season. Kuenn, who got the news while puffing on a cigar in front of his locker, said. "I'm going to miss Detroit but this is just part of the game." The deal was completed by Tiger President Bill DeWitt, from his home in St.

Louis, in telephone talks with Frank Lane, general manager of the Indians. It was announced here by Rick Ferrell, DeWitt's special assistant. "WE FEEL that we are making the right move in adding more power to our line-up," DeWitt said in a telephone interview. "Colavito's average won't compare with Kuenn's but he hit 42 home runs and drove in 111 runs last season. Our biggest need now is to score more runs, and we feel Rocky 'will help us more than Harvey in that respect." DeWitt paid a special complement to Kuenn.

who hit .353 to win the league hitting crown in 19.59. "I have the highest regard for Harvey, as a player and as a gentleman," DeWitt said. Turn to Page 38, Column 4 Storms Kill 5 In Midwest Easter Sunday dawned sullen and threatening in the Midwest: after a night of pounding tornados, rain and. snow. I nve ueams were at inouiea to tne rasn or storms.

Easter snows fell from Wy- to Northern Tllinnia I Tornados rumbled across! farms in Eastern Kansas. North-i western Missouri and Eastern1 Iowa. 4n tlie Beauty This is the second in a series of articles on how Canada in the years since World War II is reaping the fruits of an industrial revolution. BY EUGENE GRIFFIN Free Prest-Chicago Tribune Wire TORONTO Canada's industrial explosion of the last 10 years has moved dramatically in the Toronto metropolitan area. from Boysville, near SAILORS IN Memphis on Clinton, were critical of the liberty from the Memphis Na-j trade.

val Air Station were rounded "I don't like it," said Pete up by shore patrolmen and Mata. "Kuenn was the Tigers' placed on emergency duty as; best player. He was consistent, a cordon of guards around the always getting on base." area. "i don't think it was a good Deputy Fire Chief J. D.

John-! trade," said David Tucker. "I son the fire was under 'think it was foolish to trade control. He listed Russwood-the league's best hitter for of Toronto, called North York, which had a population of 38,000 persons in 1948, is now 230,000. Hamilton, Canada's steel capital and home of some 500 other industries, gained 000 in population in five years. The 40 miles along the lake Turn to Page 9, Column 1 Father Didn't See Kidnapers PARIS Automobile magnate Roland Peugeot never saw the kidnapers of his son, Eric, when he paid the ransom that obtained the boy's The kidnapers were reported to have asked $100,000 ransom.

Peugeot has not said how much! he paid. TOLICE SAID Sunday the! ransom payment was arranged last Thursday in a district near the Arch of Triumph. They gave these details: Peugot was instructed over the telephone by one of the kidnapers to stand at the entrance to the "passage doisy" facing outward. He was to hold the ransom in a briefcase beneath his left arm. A man would come up behind him and s3y "keep the key" and slip the briefcase from beneath Peu-geot's arm.

Peugeot was there at the appointed time. The man came up, gave the password and added twice, "Don't turn around." Then he fled. The boy was abandoned on a sidewalk and discovered by a passerby eight hours later. Police have collected several clues since the boy was freed and a nationwide manhunt started. They are trying to trace two fingerprints on a letter sent Peugeot by the kidnapers.

They believe there were two men and a woman. Slight traces of lipstick were found on another letter. Although the ransom was paid in used banknotes, the number on the notes were listed, and the list is now being distributed. Steal Safe Burglars broke into the Rayco Seat Cover store, 14025 Gratiot, and took a safe containing $2,000 in cash and checks. FOILS RECOVERY PLAN A solid arc of industries is outstretched for 80 miles around Lake Ontario from Oshawa on the east, up through Toronto, and down to Hamilton on the way to Niagara Falls.

Expressways sweep past scores of factories of low, flat, functional design, point ing to the confidence of world investment in Canada's future. Most are but Am i a fin pfliss ts names are also common in the corporate titles seen on new plants. Many factories also are backed by British, French, Dutch, Swiss, German, Italian and Japanese money. So much-foreign capital has flooded into this country, often through devious international routes, that it is not always known, who has a finger in what. A sample rumor heard in Toronto is that money deposited in a Swiss bank by Premier Nikita Khrushchev of Russia has been invested here in real estate.

POPULATION growth has been phenomenal in some districts. A quiet little suburb north UdtB Park as a complete loss. In addition, three restaurants, a barbershop, a beauty shop, two dress shops, two florists, a branch bank and a shoe store were heavily damaged or ruined. The fire broke out a few hours after an exhibition game between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox. Orbiting This is a technical way of saying certain secret devices, designed to slow the capsule down enough so it would fall to Earth, just didn't work.

The satellite the entire second stage of the Thor-boosted Discoverer is expected to fall back Into the atmosphere and disintegrate early next week. There is no estimate at the moment on the "life" of the capsule. This was the 10th unsuccessful attempt to recover an object from orbit, a key step in learning how to send men into space and back in the future. Tigers Donn Athletics 5-4 Satellite VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Discoverer XI satellite and its disobedient pup a capsule which was to have parachuted seaward Saturday near Hawaii are still whirling around the Earth in egg-shaped orbits.

Although officers expressed disappointment over failure of the capsule to return to Earth, they said the launching was by far the most successful of any of the Discoverer series. The 300-pound package of Instruments, about the size of the circle a tall man can Hallelujahs King Pull Out of ITS Amusements 32 Ann Landers 30 Astrology 16 Billy Graham 1 1 Bridge 36 Comics 42-43 Drew Pearson 31 Earl Wilson 43 Editorials 8 Industrial 20.

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