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69 6 7S S'J 80 7-1 68 Vol. 116 No. 80 Five Cents TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1946 On Guard for Over a Century orse Muus Wild at Ml DIRTY FACE? tatue of Called a Fair, YT1 1 1 Vc; mm JWLtziLru LbiUV. CHICAGO (AP) Directors of the Monument Builders of America, termed a "national disgrace" the "present dilapidated and unkempt condition of the Statue of Liberty." Miss Liberty, they said, has lost that well-groomed look because thousands of visitors daily take minor liberties with her-person. C.

P. Reynolds, of Toledo, president of the group, told the directors that the famous statue, "littered and defaced with refuse and lipstick drawings and knife carvings, is a tragic indictment of the American public- It also Is "an indication of Washington's apathy toward one of the world's most famous shrines," he added. 77 F.y E.K Hum 1 1 1 10 of 11 pit; i REP. RAYMOND Legislator urt ID Maintenance Men May Go OutToday Seek to Force Five Back into CIO Union DSR maintenance workers threatened to "go fishing" Tuesday unless five former members rejoin Local 312, United Public Workers (CIO). This could eventually mean a breakdown or interruption in DSR service, since equipment would be taken out of operation for lack of necessary repairs.

The maintenance union Is composed of some 1,800 members. Approximately 50 are office workers in that division of the DSR and the rest are "shop men." THE FIRST SHIFT of the maintenance crews reports at. 7:30 a. that of the office workers at 8 a. m.

The five who have refused to return to membership are clerks. They withdrew four months ago. They claimed that the office workers were a minority group demanded representation on the union's three-man grievances and negotiations committee. THE UNION, which is recognized by the DSR as bargaining agent for the maintenance workers, has no closed-shop agreement. The office-workers group was originally affiliated with an AFL union.

In 1942, the War Labor Board ordered an election after a ju.isdictional dispute. As a result, the CIO was named as bargaining agent for the maintenance workers and the office help in that division was included in the local's membership. Women to Protest DSR Firing of Conduclorettes Women will picket City Hall Wednesday to protest the firing of 340 women DSR workers. They are members of a newly organized Detroit Women's Committee to Fight Sex Discrimination. Mrs.

Martha Griffiths, of the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, is chairman. If the picketing fails, they resolved at a meeting Monday to take legal action to give the discharged conductorettes the same permanent Civil Service status that St. Louis and Cleveland women transit workers hava achieved. The meeting was called by Miss Nettie Davis, a conductorette, at the instigation of the Congress of American Women. Lansing Squanders One Cent to Tell About $1,980,611 'i- A $1,980,611 postcard was received by the City of Detroit Monday.

It was notification from the Michigan Department of Revenue that this sum was the City's share of the State intangibles tax collection and that a check was on its way to the City Treasurer. Quoth Councilman William A. Comstock, "They must be sav ing stamps in Lansing." 75 Days for 43 Cts. Aaron McBain, 52, of 670 Farm er, was sentenced to 75 days in the House of Correction by Recorder's Judere John P. Scallen for stealing 43 cents from a newsstand coin box.

Garbage Strike On LOUISVILLE (JP) About 125 City garbage men left an esti mated 200 tons of refuse uncollected here when they went on for a wage increase and overtime pay. On Inside Pages ru Lf Mare Tosses Rider, Then Rams Fence Spectators Scattered; One Injured Badly BY JOHN N. SABO Free Press Sports Writer Seven spectators were injured, one critically, at the Fairgrounds Monday in the worst horse racing mishap in Michigan history. The accident occurred when the mare Valdina Senora bolted into the crowd jammed against the fence in the stretch run of the seventh race. Valdina Senora, owned by Mrs.

Norman Hernandez, stumbled shortly after the start of the six- For details of Fairgrounds racing events, turn to the Sports Pages. furlong race. She unseated her rider, Apprentice Henry Ford, 18, of Baltimore. THE RIDERLESS horse trailed the field into the stretch. She was running wide 130 yards from the finish line when the cheers of the 12,000 fans appeared to frighten her.

The mare bolted at a right angle into the fence. Injured critically was Mm. Viva Vanetti, 57, of 411 Selden. She was rushed to Highland Park General Hospital unconscious, suffering from a skull fracture. Also taken to this hospital were: Mrs.

Fannie Skinner, 44, of 1817 Eason, with a fractured jaw and possible fractured ribs. James Miles, 26, of 21627 Glen- field Court, Ferndale, a DSR driv er, with shoulder and head injuries Paul Van Hooser, 28. of 1405 Paris, Lincoln Park, with possible skull and jaw fractures. OTHERS INJURED were: Alex Vanetti, 49, of 411 Selden, husband of the woman critically njured. Vanetti, a chef at Frank lin Hills Country Club, suffered head and shoulder injuries.

Edward Whalen. 50, of 117 E. Jefferson, who suffered a deep cut over his left eye. Colie Outland, 53, of 510 Abbott, who sustained bruises of his right arm. DR.

MALCOLM D. McQUEEN. track physician, attended some of the injured. The freak accident happened during the running of the featured $2,500 Burlew Purse. Valdina Senora was on the outside in the stretch when her blinkers slipped over her eyes and blinded her.

The crowd was jammed against the fence anxious to see the finish. The mare snapped a cast-iron fene support at the top and bent it 18 inches when she hit. She bounced back onto the track and continued until the lead pony boy finally grabbed her reins in front of the club house. The fence alone the stretch is chest-high. It was not broken.

If the fence had broken, it is likely that the injury list would have been much larger. No lee Cream? WASHINGTON (D President Truman received a sixty-pound cherry pie from Pennsylvania. Miss Adah Allen, of North East, a cherry queen, presented the mammoth pie to a presidential secre tary. S3.000.000 RUMMY SNOW JUDGE LOUIS E. COASH pleads guilty to charges of bank bribe conspiracy 7 $1,000 IN YARD Veteran Digs Up Pot of Gold Special to the Free Press MANISTEE A Manistee veteran, Harry Konicki, found a pot of gold in his own backyard.

Konicki bought a vacant lot on which to build a new home. While digging a cellar, he struck a buried crock which contained $1,000 in gold, bills and certificates on Western banks. He thinks it belonged to a laborer whose home was torn down after he died 15 years ago. Blast Toll in Palestine Rises to 93 41 Known Dead; Debris Buries Scores Free Press Wire Services JERUSALEM The Palestine Government announced that 93 persons, including 14 senior Brit ish and Palestine officers, were killed outright or are missing under a "huge pile of debris" in the noon-time bombing of the palatial King David Hotel. The hotel was used as British army headquarters.

The Jewish Agency expressed horror at the bombing. IT CALLED upon the Jewish community in Palestine "to rise un aeainst these abominable out rages" by "a gang of desperadoes." runcc HLi.riDui.eu ute aiiaun. 'Jewish terrorists." Known casualties up to 9:30 p. the Palestine government said, were 41 dead, including eight unidentified bodies, 52 missing in the wreckage and 53 injured. The blast, which ripped through the secretariat and the headquarters of the British army, destroyed 25 rooms on five floors and tore off a whole corner of the hotel.

WHEN THE BODY of a member of the British Army Women's Auxiliary was brought out, several British soldiers were heard to say: There'll be hell to pay about our girls." The victims were reported to Include some of the most prominent officials in Palestine. It was understood, however, that both Acting High Commissioner Sir John V. Shaw and Lt. Gen. Evelyn Berket, British commander in Palestine, escaped injury.

(The London Daily Telegraph reported that the dead included G. D. Kennedy, 53, postmaster gen eral of Palestine.) THE BLAST rocked all down town Jerusalem. The wreckage in cluded huge blocks of concrete. Land mines were planted in the hotel-headquarters by Jews disguised as Arabs, officials said.

The terrorists gained entrance by taking in milk cans. The adjoining YMCA building was wrecked. The terrorists, discovered while planting the mines, fled amid an exchange of gunfire. An armored car set off in pursuit, but was blown up by a mine dropped on the road. Hundreds of persons were ar rested after the bombing.

They included two men and a woman suspected of having helped plant the bombs. Free Press Offers Full A-Bomb Story Readers of the Free Press will be given a complete story of the second atomic bomb explosion in Bikini Lagoon, in the Pacific, tentatively scheduled for 4:35 p. m. Wednesday. (Detroit time).

All Thursday editions, barring postponement of the test, will carry authoritative coverage arranged by the Associated Press, United Press and other wire services. Storms Kill 33 ROME (JP) Violent storms struck the northern Adriatic coast of Italy. At least 33 persons were drownci Deny Bribery Liberty Disgrace R1ISS LIBERTY Is her lipstick smeared? Hamtramck Jury Plea to Be Aired Judges to Consider Petitions Wednesday A road through the maze of Hamtramck's tangled political affairs may be mapped Wednesday. On that day, two petitions seeking definite direction through a grand jury investigation will be considered by judges of the Circuit Court bench. To open such a path, a majority or the 18 jurists must vote in favor of the petitions.

THE FIRST petition, requesting an investigation of the school board and other alleged irregularities in the city's administration, was made by State Attorney General John R. Dethmers. It asks that Judge George B. Rlurphy's labor grand jury be widened to Include the Ham-tramek probe. The second, calling for a one-man grand jury probe of the school board, either by a Wayne County or an outstate judge, was made by the Hamtramck Taxpayers Association.

MEANWHILE, the Hamtramck Civil Service Commission investigated charges of neglect of duty against Joseph Pawenski, suspended vice squad patrolman, whose case set the Hamtramck pot boiling. The petition of the taxpayers group for a grand jury brought new charges of graft against the school board, which wese quickly denied by a board official who refused to be identified. John Radwanski, of 2002 Yemans, chairman of the taxpayers group and a former janitor at the Kosciuzko School, charged that 550,000 worth of lumber pur- Turn to Page 2, Column 4 EVERYBODY MUM ON Who Fleeced HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Hollywood pitched in to unravel the mystery of who fleeced whom in an alleged 3,000,000 gin rummy swindle. Several movieland notables lost their shirts to fast-shuffling card sharks. Most of the victims weren't talking.

Producer Sam Gold-wyn. reported to have dropped $40,000 on a stacked deck, said, "It's a dirty, blankety-blank, stinking lie!" COL. LEON MANDEL, Chicago department store magnate, was said to have been another heavy loser in the colossal swindle, carried on for several 1 ifsi I 1 oc an Final Vote Shaping Up 011 Conferee OPA Bill Food Ceilings Barred Till Aug. 20; Porter Calls Measure Improvement WASHINGTON (AP) Senate-House conferees completed action on the OPA bill compromise, clarifying it to forbid ceilings on major food items for 30 days. Price Administrator Paul Porter told President Truman that INT ADDITIOX, Reynolds said, thousands of persons who visit the monument daily must approach the statue via a "grass-less terrace littered with partly eaten fruit, sandwiches and soda bottles." The MBA In a resolution urged Congress to provide adequate funds for the Immediate rehabilitation and future maintenance of the statue and its grounds.

In New York, Charles S. Marshall, superintendent of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, termed the statement that Bedloe's Island was littered with debris "a gross1 exaggeration and a misstatement of fact." MARSHALL SAID "the lipstick point is entirely true," but added: "We have a plan for construction of a wire guard barrier to prevent that sort of defacement." But as to knife carvings, he said: "I don't know of any. There may be some scratching of Interior paint, but It would take a heavy chisel to do any carving. I would like him (Reynolds) to show me any." Marshall said the monument had been operating with what he termed "an inadequate staff but that there was some progress in getting additional personnel." As soon as the wire guard is constructed, he said, the Government plans to cover the lipstick and scratches with a coat of paint. City Gets Hail All by Itself Hailatones as big as marbles pelted down 20 minutes to give western Detroit some strictly exclusive weather, i There was no rain anywhere else in Michigan, and very little in the entire Nation, as it poured .02 of an inch Monday night.

The hailstones were reported by Harry Berry, of 6002 Hecla, and several other callers. Tuesday's temperatures are expected to remain about the same a maximum of 85 with fair skies. CRUISING-WOO TABU Slap Hands AcrossBorder Curb cruising In Windsor is tabu for romantic males. Three Detroit youths learned this the hard way when they were sentenced to 10 days in Jail after pleading guilty to charges of accosting four girls. They are Edward A.

Kociem-ba, of 4261 Herbert; Joseph J. Tarnacki. of 5300 Twenty-Eight, and Henry C. Kosielny, of 8335 Carlin. The Detroit youths were ar-v rested Saturday night by 'two constables who saw them cruise along the curb and block the girls' path at an intersection.

Received by Pope VATICAN CITY () Pope Pius XII received Fiorello H. La-Guardia, UNRRA director-general, at a twenty-minute audience. La-guardia introduced his son, Eric, to the pontiff. Will Your Picnic End in Tragedy? To be really carefree, outings should be based on good thinking at home. Read "Plan Your Picnic First," an engrossing picture story In the Free Press Sunday PARADE MAGAZINE.

In a full color photo. Jack Van Coevering, Free Press Wildlife Editor, has caught man and deer as true friends in fishing season. On the cover of the SUNDAY GRAPHIC. Don't miss SUNDAY'S FREE PRESS Free Press Photo Rep. Snow Admits Guilt 'to Get It Over' McKay Counsel to Act for Stoddard, Ballard From Our Langinc Bare a a LANSING Eleven of the 24 defendants named by the graft grand jury in the bank bribe conspiracy were arraigned by Grand Juror Louis E.

Coash. Ten of them demanded examination and were told to come back to court on Aug. 1. In the meantime they are at liberty under $2,500 bond each. The eleventh defendant Raymond Snow, Flint Democratic State Representative and a war veteran, broke the solid ranks of the defendants and pleaded guilty.

SNOW ASKED Judge Coash to pronounce sentence right away "so I can get this over with." But the judge deferred sentence pending a conference with grand jury aides. Among the 10 who demanded examinations were Byron L. Ballard, general counsel for the Michigan National Bank, and Howard J. Stoddard, East Lansing, president of that banking combine. Stoddard handed newspaper reporters a prepared statement asserting that Federal bank examiners had examined the bank records and could find nothing wrong in the accounts.

"The chief national Tsank examiner told me that he was fully satisfied no improper expenditures had been made over a six-year period," Stoddard's statement declared. THE STATE in the conspiracy warrant charged that the bankers and lawyers conspired with law-Turn to Page 2, Column 1 Deatli Takes Cue SAPULPA, Okla. (U.R) Aunt Lizzie Devers, who celebrated her 115th birthday two months ago without making her usual birthday statement that ain't never going to die," was found dead in her modest home here Monday. Bill the new bill is better than the one 4th U. S.

Ship Sent to Trieste WASHINGTON (JP) The Navy disclosed that the Huntington, a cruiser, has been or dered to Trieste to join the Medi terranean Fleet. It will bring the United States naval strength in the Mediter ranean up to two cruisers and two destroyers. The Navy described the move ment of the Huntington as "routine." (All American military flights into Yugoslavia have been canceled as a result of a new Yugoslav rul ing requiring Vienna-to-Belgrade planes to fly on a new course taking them over Hungarian soil, thus necessitating Russian clearance.) LOSS THE IRATE GOLDWYN also denied that he hired two internationally known detectives to track down the card sharks and expose their gin-rummy skullduggery. Internal revenue agents were on the track of the winners but weren't talking, either. At last reports, nobody was admitting anything.

And all the gin rummy enthusiasts in Hollywood had suddenly switched to double-solitaire lest they find themselves mixed up in the swindle, too. EVSTALOANS To finance the personal needs of individuals. Rational Bank of Detroit 30 Offices, Adr- it if Mr. Truman vetoed in June. long after the White House itself had gotten back into the price control fight with a report that prices have increased rapidly since OPA died.

THE REPORT, from the Commerce Department and unaccompanied by any comment from Mr. Truman himself, argued that prices would have risen even more were Substantial decreases in meat prices likely. Story on Page 2. not for efforts by OPA's foes to keep increases at a minimum until the fate of OPA is determined. Porter said he had made no recommendation on whether Mr.

Truman should sign or veto the new bill if it passes. He said he would not do so until it arrives at the White House. Meanwhile, showdown votes on the new measure were arranged for Tuesday in both houses. THE COMPROMISE bill as finally approved by the Congressional conferees gives OPA a new year of life under new rules for pricing in general and a prohibition against ceilings on meat, poultry, milk, eggs, grains and other basic foods before Aug. 20 then.

The committee left to a three-man control board, to be created with higher authority than OPA, the final determination whether any further price ceilings at all may be clamped on the food items. The bill continues rent control authority unchanged. Outside the list of decontrolled foods, ceilings could go back into Turn to Page 2, Column 6 Whom in Hollyivood? years in filmland's best drawing rooms and country clubs. Mandel allegedly was taken for 5115,000. (He is a brother of Fred Mandel, owner of the Detroit Lions.) Winners were said to be three wealthy Los Angeles men, one of them the husband of a film actress and another the son of a millionaire socialite.

They operated, it was said, with psychological tricks as well, using such dexterity and finesse that their victims paid off unsuspectingly. It wasn't until recently, when the losers began to remember who had consistently won huge sums, that sus picion was directed toward them. I Amusements 12 Guest 6 Bingay 6 Horoscope 19 Chatterbox 8 Keeping Well 9 Childs 6 Lyons 20 Classified 16-18 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Crossword 19 Radio 19 Donovan 0 Sabo 15 Editorials 6 Smith 14 Fashions 9 Sports 14-15 Financial 10-11 Town Crier 20 Gavin 8 Women's 8-9.