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Complete CohCoii Vote Guide Back Page 3IETRO FINAL pjtoM 0m DAMP Partly cloudy, showers. Low 64-68, high 83-87. Map and Detail on Pag 3 HOURLY TEMPERATURES 7 a.m. 7i a m. 85 3 p.m.

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76 10 a.m. 82 2 p.m. 87 6 p.m. 74 rmmi for 130 Years No. 81 Monday, July 24, 1961 On Guard LTU in row VJ 4 4 Steve Boros is" Politicians Get 'Indirect' Aid In Guatemala A I t' I Vol.

131 4 Burned To Death In Crash 4 Others Injured In 3 -Car Wreck Four persons, including a small boy, were burned to death and at least four others were hurt in a blazing three-car crash on E. Eight Mile east of Hilton in Ferndale Sunday night. The wreck occurred beneath the Grand Trunk Western Rail road overpass on the Ferndale Detroit border. All bodies were burned be yond recognition, he said. THREE VICTIMS in one car were identified as Detroit police patrolman William E.

Stewart 28, of Northwest Precinct, and his wife. Sharon, 22. and their son. Scott, 2, of 17101 Curtis. Ferndale Police Capt.

Glenn Silverthorn said preliminary identification was made through a membership card from the Detroit Police Officers Association upon which Stewart's name was discernible. Stewart had been a policeman since 1955. The fourth body was identified as that of Ronald McKen-zie 24, of 1628 E. Hayes, Hazel Park, a nephew and passenger of one of the other drivers. McKenzie was a tree trimmer.

Michigan's traffic death toll reached 15 for the weekend. The quadruple tragedy snarled traffic for miles as police and firemen fought to save other passengers from flaming death. THE BODIES were taken first to a Ferndale funeral home and later transferred to William Beaumont Hospital. Silverthorn said the wreck was caused when the westbound car driven by Arthur McKenzie. 45, also of 1628 E.

Hayes, Hazel Park, made an abrupt U-turn in heavy traffic beneath the viaduct. WITNESSES SAID McKenzie turned directly into the Turn to Page 2. Column 1 IB U.S. Cash Eases Budget, Lets Them Spend Taxes This is the second of a five-part series by Edwin Lahey, chief of the Free Press Washington Bureau, on the results of United Slates foreign aid to Guatemala. BY EDWIN A.

LAHEY Chief of Our Washington Bureau GUATEMALA CITY Wages of $1 a day or less are commonplace in Guatemala- But not at the national palace. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes of Guatemala gets $144,000 per year, half as salary, half as expenses. 1 Dag Seeks Peace in Tunisia Flying In Today To Probe Crisis By United Press International United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold took off for Tunis Sunday-night to try to bring about peace between France and Tunisia. A UN spokesman said Hammarskjold left New York via jetliner and would be in Tunis Monday afternoon. Tunisian President a i Bourguiba had cabled Hammarskjold and asked him to fly to Tunis in the wake of the battle with France over the French base at Bizerte.

HAMMARSKJOLD cabled Bourguiba a reply. It said, in part: "Such a request on your part puts on me the clear duty to place myself at your disposal for such a personal exchange, which. I hope, could help in a development towards peace. "At the same time, I observe that the Security Council Vina AartiAaA 4 nnnntm I lido UCLlUtU t. IL3 UI3- cussions.

Under these conditions, the basic problem is outside my personal competence." Diplomatic quarters said Hammarskjold most likely would gather Bourguiba's thinking on the conflict and report back to the Security Council. At Hammarskjold's request, the Security Council Saturday issued a call to both France and Tunisia to agree to a cease-fire. Both parties agreed at once. Tunisia reported Sunday that 670 Tunisians were killed and Turn to Page 8, Column 3 Union Aide Due For Defense Post HYANNIS PORT, Mass. The summer White House announced Sunday Fresident Kennedy intends to appoint John E.

Cosgrove, of Keokuk, an AFL-CIO official, as assistant director for training, education and public affairs in the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. He succeeds Kenneth Downs in the position. i Jlay Weaver: He did it. it Judge FitzGerald Judge FitzGerald Dead at 62 Heart Attack Fatal To Circuit Jurist Wayne County Circuit Judge Frank FitzGerald died Sunday morning at his home, 18491 Roselawn. He was 62.

Judge FitzGerald suffered a heart attack when he went into the bathroom to bandage an injured finger. His wife Mary, 56, called Dr. Raymond Sokolov, who pronounced the judge dead at home. The doctor said the judge died instantly. Dr.

Sokolov said the judge had been under his care for a year for a heart condition and a back injury. Judge FitzGerald was elected to the Circuit bench in 1947. He was previously a Circuit Court commissioner. He was selected by his fellow jurists to succeed the late Judge Ira W. Jayne as the Court's executive judge in 1956.

He resigned as executive judge the Court's administrative head in 1959 because he wanted to return to trial work. A DIRECT and able jurist, he was respected by attorneys for his ability to find and decide the basic issues of a case. He was also known for his painstaking personal investigation into the background of a Turn to Page 2. Column 1 Says: The $72,000 salary is all take-home, since there is no income tax in Guatemala. Thus, the President of this tiny republic, into which United States taxpayers have poured 130-million-dollars in aid, does better than the President of the United States, who gets $100,000 salary, and $50,000 expenses, but who has to see the income tax man afterward.

Eight Cents Steve Lost To Team 4-6 Weeks He Collides With Lary at Kansas City BY JOE FALLS Fret Press Staff Writer KANSAS CITY Third baseman Steve Boros suffered a fractured left collarbone Sunday in a collision with Frank Lary and will be lost to the Tigers for a month to six weeks. Boros was hurt while the Tigers were sweeping a double-header from the Kansas City A's, 6-4 and 17-14, to regain first place in the American League. The Tigers 'moved one percentage point ahead of the Yankees, who were beaten by the Boston' Red Sox, 5-4. BOROS WAS HURT In the second inning of the second game. He and Lary' were racing after Dick Howser's bouncing bunt when they collided on the third base foul line, about halfway between home and third.

Boros was sent sprawling to the ground and immediately clutched his shoulder In pain. Lary suffered a charleyhorse in his right leg. He finished out the inning before also leaving the game. Lary is not expected to miss his next pitching turn. BOROS LEFT, the field, groggy and pale, with Tiger trainer Jack Homel.

He was treated in the first-aid room, then taken to St. Luke's Hospital to have the fracture set. Chico Fernandez replaced him at third base. Boros is the third Tiger to be seriously ailing. Catcher Dick Brown is on the disabled list with a broken middle finger on his rleht hand.

Brown was hurt against Minnesota on July 15 and also will be out about a month to six weeks. Terry Fox, meantime, is bothered by a sore elbow again and is being flown back to Detroit Monday morning for examination. Boros. who was kept overnight in the hospital, will return with Fox. Both will be examined by Dr.

Russell Wright, the Tigers' team physician. FOX'S ELBOW has bothered him since the second week of spring training. Fox has pitched even when the elbow hurt him. He has posted a 3-1 record and a 1.65 earned run average, but has been ineffective in recent weeks. Boros was sent to Detroit Osteopathic Hospital when hit on the head by Ell Grba in the first game of a double-header in Tiger Stadium July 9.

Boros spent several days in the hospital but missed only one game because the injury came just before the All-Star break. Lary's collision with Boros came after Lary had experienced an upset stomach while warming up for the first game and had to go back to the clubhouse, Paul Foytack started In his place and got credit for the Tigers 6-4 victory In the opener. Lary, after resting in the first game, started the second, but obviously was off form. He was tagged for seven hits and six runs, three of them unearned, in the two innings he worked. $6,900 Scoop OTTAWA (UPI) Thieves broke into the circulation department of the Ottawa Citizen early Sunday and stole 16,900.

o) it I -fcB-oa .484 UffL Lahey His Niagara In Arms President Ydigoras also has a "confidential" fund of approximately $775,000 per year. Apparently much of this "confidential" fund is used in private charity. This is pretty obvious from the horde of people who wait to see President Ydigoras to put the bite on him for funeral expenses, or to spring some member of the family from the hospital. QUEENSTON, Ont. (UPI) A slightly built 39-year-old Canadian successfully shot the rapids in the Lower Niagara River Sunday in a tiny, torpedo-shaped kayak-style boat with a small outboard motor.

The daredevil, Ray Weaver, of Niagara Falis, is the business manager of Lloyd Hill, who announced recently he planned to go over the falls in the same boat. However, Hill was unable to make it Sunday and Weaver decided to shoot the rapids, a not uncommon feat, but one which has not been accomplished in seven years. WEAVER, who spent more than two hours caught in a whirlpool before his craft Winn Pennant Special (ill jltitj Arrest Jaunt Ends of Police finally drifted in to shore, was promptly arrested by Niagara Park Commission police. Although unhurt in his hazardous ride, he faces a fine of $100 on a misdemeanor charge of demonstrating in Niagara Park. Weaver started his wild ride at 5:30 a.m.

in the seven-' foot-long yellow metal boat which has a closed canopy with small portholes. He managed the two-mile long trip through the Devil's Hole. Rapids, but at the treacherous whirlpool he was unable to control the craft and it kept going around in He was spotted around 7 a.m., still spinning. The boat finally drifted in to the shore and friends helped Weaver refuel and get his craft around to the other side of the whirlpool, where he was ablp to continue the trip to the end of the rapids without further I mishap. WHEN HE arrived at the Queenston (Ont.) dock about six hours after he set out on the journey through the rapids below Niagara Falls, police arrested him.

Last week, Nathan Boya, of the Bronx, N.Y., who plunged over the 161-foot falls in a rubber-coated steel ball, was fined $100 for his adventure. It was at this time that Hill, whose brother, Fred, died in a similar attempt in 1951, said he would go over the falls in the kayak. Need Doctors TOKYO (UPI Health Officials said Sunday the city's all-out campaign against polio is in danger of being crippled by a shortage of doctors at 55 government operated centers. There have been 146 polio cases reported in Tokyo this year. Mergers Hit Executives Sylvia Porter reports that many top business leaders are scurrying for jobs these days.

Page 30. The U.S. aid money is care- fully channeled into approved projects, and does not ever go directly to pay Guatemalan government salaries. However, United States officials here concede ruefully that the infusion of our money into the Guatemalan budget has given Guatemalan politicians elbow room to play with their own public revenue. In this connection, it is generally accepted as fact that some friends of President Ydigoras have enjoyed self-enrichment through government contracts.

The political foes of Ydigoras name specific families who have fed at the public trough. AMERICAN officials admit that the talk about Ydigoras is probably true. One of them, in a sad commentary on public morality, declared: "The corruption is probably no worse than elsewhere in Latin America." While the United States aid money is never left exposed to the profane touch of the local politicians, foreign aid sometimes provides indirect fringe benefits in other areas, like the banking industry. When Congress passed the first 500-million-riollar appropriation to get the "Alliance "for Progress" off the ground in May, Senator Williams Del.) fought for, but lost an Turn to Page 5, Column 1 Veteran Actress Of Movies Dies LOS ANGELES Character actress Esther Dale, 71, who played in more than 100 movies, died Friday in Queen of Angel3 Hospital after an operation. Her most recent roles were in "The Egg and and "Ma and Pa Kettle "at the Fair." She went to Hollywood from the New York stage In 1935.

Miss Dale was the widow of writer-producer Arthur Beck-hard, who died last March. President Maps Talk To Nation HYANNIS PORT, Mass. fUPI) President Kennedy ipent a working holiday polishing the radio-TV ipeech he will make to the na-Son Tuesday that will reveal plans for mustering: American nilitary might for the Berlin irisis and any future emergency. The chief executive, who plans to fly back to Washington Monday morning, was described is concentrating his attention in "portions of a draft" while ther technical passages are eing prepared in Washington. THE PRESIDENT and First Lady attended mass in Hyan-ais.

Then, shortly before noon, Jie Kennedys and their daughter, Caroline, went boating on Natucket Sound, enjoying a lelightfully sunny and breezy lay. Acting press secretary T. Hatcher, meantime, innounced these items from the weekend White House: 0 Mr. Kennedy will be visited July 31 in Washington by Premier Chen. Cheng and foreign minister Shen Chang Huan of Nationalist China.

Their government has been at odds with the United Turn to Page 4, Column 4 Copper Strike Near in Chile SANTIAGO. Chile Ana-jonda's copper miners and transport workers at Portreril-8s and the port of Caleta Bar-luito took a vote Sunday on whether to strike for higher pay and benefits. A strike is expected a3 there las been little progress in negotiations to extend contracts expiring July 31. IS OUR IMMIGRATION POLICT WRONG Robert Boyd, of our Washington bureau, writes that the United States is aroused of driving Polish refugees back to the Reds on Page 30. MICHIGAN IN CIVIL WAR.

Another chapter from Free Press Chief Editorial Writer Frank Woodford's book "Father Abraham's Children." Turn to Tage 9. IS AIDING KENNEDY FROGRAM James Reston, veteran Washington cor Miss Porter Tigers Thriving On Sunday Punch BY WINN PENNANT Free Press Staff Writer You probably thought I had deserted you last week, when the Trumbull Terrors lost a couple and dropped a whole game behind the darned this is a family newspaper Yankees. You probably pegged me as a fair-weather friend. which I am. I am a foul-weather fan, too, however.

I braved the tornado warnings all the way downtown to tell you that the Tigers were just taking a "breather." Just dropping back for a few seconds to see how the rest of the league was doing. OUR BOYS, YOU SEE, will be all right as long as they keep playing Sunday doubleheaders and these are as American as Audie Murphy and grandma's potato pancakes. Listen On July 9, a Sunday doubleheader, the Tigers swept the Angels, 1-0 and 6-3, and went back into first place. On July 17, a Sunday doubleheader, the Tigers swept the A's, 11-1 and 8-3, and "went back into first place. On July 23, a Sunday doubleheader, the Tigers again swept the A's, 6-4 and 17-14, and went back into first place.

See? The pace is the pace that kills. The Tiger3 may drop off it occasionally. Do not despair. respondent, says the Kremlin is creating what it feared most and Is helping speed the President's plans. See Page 27.

JUST FOR YOU. Ninth of a series designed for teens from 13 to 19 tells of exercises Miss Teen should do each day. Turn to Page 25. Amusements 36 Ann Landers 22 Astrology 38 Billy Graham 40 Bridge 38 Comics 37-39 CrosswordSzle 38 Death Notit.ft 17 Drew Pearson 9 Earl Wilson 9 Editorials- Feature Page 9 Industrial 14 Movie Guide 33 Names and Faces 36 Home Remedies Obituaries 17 31-35 28 17-19 21-26 16 Sport TV-Radio Want Ads Women's Pages World Today HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE WO 2-8D00 ,5.

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