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fi 9 p.m. 63 12 p.m. 63 57 60 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1946 Hit-R Killing vmpect- Gives Up i7 rp Ml i un Or I ro) CI I i LI I iL Police Leave No Stone Unturned jn Search for Death i 1 -1 xBS--4 111111111 11 11 i I 1 IWIMW Questioned in Death of Blind Man Surrender Ends Door-to-Door Hunt Joe Boka, 28, of 305 Day, was held early Friday in connection with the hit-run death of a blind news vender at Central and Pitt. Lt. William Conner, of the Accident Prevention Bureau, said that Boka would be registered for investigation of manslaughter.

VICTIM OF the accident was Edmund Partenski, 28, of 2527 Stair. He had operated a news stand at Springwells and Vernor since losing his sight 12 years ago in a school boxing match. Boka surendered to APB officials after police, aroused by the death, had resorted to highly unusual methods in an effort to track down the driver. The only statement made was by Boka's two attorneys, Rich ard Lamb and John G. Balose.

Lt. Conner quoted them as saying that Boka was driving in the vicinity when the accident occurred early Thursday. Boka's 1940 Ford, when brought in for inspection, was revealed to have a damaged left front fender and a missing headlight rim, Lt. Conner sad. He added that there was blood on the fender and hood.

ONLY CLEW left on the sck was a chrome headlight rim. A check with car manufacturers re vealed that it came from either a 1940 Ford or 1940 Mercury. By teletype from Lansing, a steady stream of the names and addresses of all Michigan owners of 1940 Fords and Mercurys poured into offices of the Accident Prevention Bureau. Headquarters men chopped the long 11st into precinct groupings. Special APB squads went from house to house carefully inspecting cars ana questioning owners.

Fingerprints were found on the headlight rim, but they have not Been classified. POLICE REPORTED that the car which struck Partenski was traveling about 45 miles an hour, witnesses said the victim, was thrown back on the left fender and that the driver swerved sharply to aisioage the nody. Rewards totaling $800 had been offered for Information leading to the arrest and conviction of the driver. The Traffic Safety Association, through Director Donald Slutz, has offered $500 and the Detroit Coun cil of Lions Clubs, through Presi dent Allan Baker, has offered $250. THE COUNTY BOARD of Audi tors has a standing reward of $50 for information on hit-run drivers, Partenski's death was the third hit-run fatality this year, as compared with a total of 16 last year at this time.

Sgt. Wright credited co-operation of newspapers and radio for the smaller number. There have been 132 traffic fatal ities so far this year. Last year at this time there were 104. POLICE WORK OVERTIME IX INTENSE SEARCH FOR Names of car owners are sorted and grouped for house in Driver EDMUND PARTENSKI Wilkowski Bares Bribe by Hemans Got S600 for Vote, Ex-Senator Says BY KENNETH McCORMICK Free Press 8Uff Writer LANSING Former State Senator Leo J.

Wilkowski left his Jackson Prison cell to testify to collecting $600 in bribes and $300 in "campaign donations for his unsuccessful efforts to defeat the anti-branch bank bill in the 1941 legislature. Serving a term for bribe-taking in connection with other legislation, Wilkowski dragged the name of temperamental Charles Hemans into the limelight again by testifying that Hemans paid him $600 in bribes. THF also testified that Francis P. Slattery, assistant vice president of the Michigan National Bank, gave him a $250 "cam paign donation" after he was told hy Hemans to see Slattery. Wilkowski also received an envelope, he said, containing $50 from a girl employee when he went to the Bohn Aluminum Brass Co.

offices in Detroit. He went to the Bohn Wilkowski said, because he was told by Hemans that Hemans had been retained as' a lobbyist by Simon D. Den Uyl, secretary-treasurer of the Eohn concern and director of Michigan National. Hemans, confessed briber of legislators, was to have been the State's star witness before he fled to Washington and defied authori ties to force his return. FEDERAL AUTHORITIES are working at the request of Grand Jury Judge Louis E.

Coash to bring Turn to Page 4, Column 5 Hitch-Hikers Lose Shirts to 'Benefactors' Two Detroit youths, on a hitch hiking tour, were robbed and thrown from a truck near Buffalo, N. bv six occupants of the vehicle who had given them a lift. Uninjured and now back in Detroit, the youths are Charles Dueresne 19. of 18660 Sutherland. and Richard Parker, 18, of 17102 Lahser.

In a statement to Buffalo police the youths said they were robbed of a suit case containing eight shirts and a sport ooat. Some change in Parker's pocket also was taken. They were unable to describe their assailants. Sch icellen bach-ach WASHINGTON (JP) The Labor Department reported that Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach entered the naval hospital at Bethesda, for treatment of minor back injuries suffered in a fall.

'Good OV George9 LONDON George Jefcoate. in hia will -hist nublished. beaueathed $208 for the boys in his favorite puD to drmK nis neaixn at p.m. every Sunday as long as the money held out. i Britain Would Lead War, Wallace Asserts WHAT IS POLICY? CIO Balks After U.S.

OK's Raise East and Gulf Coast Acceptance Awaited SAN FRANCISCO (U.R) A special assembly in New York of the National Council of the National Maritime Union (CIO), the world's largest organization of merchant seamen, officially declared the union on strike i as of midnight Thursday. The local office of the Committee for Maritime Unity announced the action. Headquarters of CMU, a seven-union federation, said basis of the strike is the demand for the $10 won by the AFL unions in excess of the $17.50 the CMU won last 1 June 15. I Free Press Wire Services WASHINGTON The AFL maritime strike ended on the West Coast at midnight Thurs day. The settlement rnmA ftor White House, by-passing the Wage oiaDiuzauon tsoara, produced a peace plan designed to give all striking seamen their wage demands.

THE WEST COAST acceptance not as vet matched bv Fast Gulf Coast seamen was an nounced by Harry Lundeberg, head ji me ssauors union or the Pacific (AFL), after a conference with the Pacific American Shipowners As- The shipowners agreed, Lundeberg said, to pay the West Coast sailors the $22.50 monthly increase they won in collective bargaining and which was authorized by the White House plan. The Peace fnrmiiia um icnia Stabilization Director John R. Steelman existing wage-price regulations. It simplv provides that. th ernment may pay the same wage which private onerators in anv in dustry are willing to pay without ocenuig price increases.

HOW QUICKLY th. ptmt fv- which has blocked the nation's harbors would end comrjletplv r. mained in question. The Seafarers International Union and the eastern SUP voted unanimously late Thursday to continue their strike on the East and Gulf Coasts. They demanded written assur ances from Government agencies.

mciuuing tne war snipping Administration, that the full wage raises won in bargaining with ship operators would be approved. The East Coast seamen are ask ing a $27.50 raise. The CIO his maritime unions avowedlv are bent on e-ettine- th same treatment accorded the AFL. iney seemed certain to get it, ultimately. JOSEPH CURRAN, president of the National Maritime Union (CIO), said in New York that he had recommended to an emergency meeting of the union's national council that a strike be ealled for Friday morning.

Curran said the principal NMU demand would be establishment of uniform maritime wages "at the highest level." The NMU won a $17.50 monthly, increase in June. Many officials confessed uncertainty as to the exact meaning of Steelman's plan as applied to the waterfront shutdown. BUT HERE IS the way ln formed persons figured it: 1 The Maritime Commission may immediately agree to reimburse East Coast and Gulf ship Turn to Page 2, Column 1 Tropical Storm East of Miami MIAMI uh A small tropical storm was centered near Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, about 120 miles east of Miami. The Federal storm warning bureau here advised small craft along the Florida East Coast to seek shelter. The bureau said the storm was moving northeastward, away from Florida.

Iii Air Again LONDON A strike of 1,600 employees of Britain's three oversea airlines was called off after having lasted one day. DICKEY RESIGNING Tigers Whip Yankees, 6-4 The Detroit Tigers clung to their slim mathematical chance of winning the American League pennant by whipping the New York Yankees, 6 to 4. Roy Cul-lenbine and Hank Greenberg contributed home runs. The victory gave Detroit a two-game edge on third-place New York. In the National League, the St.

Louis Cardinals boosted their lead to 2V4 games by trouncing second-place Brooklyn, 10 to 2. For details of these and other events, turn to the Sports Pages. Meat Men Say Stores Will Close Claim Price Bungling Cuts Off Supplies BY ROBERT STTJRGISS Free Press Staff Writer The meat famine will force more than half of. Detroit's butcher shops to close before the week end, the Retail Meat Mercnants Association reported. What stores remain open next week will have only fowl and an occasional cut of meat, according to Alex Bell, president of the association.

"Some of our 400 members, who operate with little reserve, are threatened with the loss of their business," he declared. WHILE MEAT EATERS pre pared to tighten their belts four dav after the resumption of price controls, spokesmen for the meat industry bitterly attacked ufA. "Price bungling has choked off the city's meat supply and threatens to wreck the packing industry," Benjamin V. Unwin, secretary of the Detroit Independent Meat Packers, charged. "There will be no volume of meat until OPA ceilings are adjusted to give the packer a return on his investment or until farmers come down on livestock prices," he declared.

DETROIT PACKERS met Thursdav to hunt a solution to new wholesale price ceilings, which they claim give mem no opportunity to break even, much less show a profit." Some charged the strong farm bloc had forced livestock prices up and labor unions had held retail prices down. Packers, they declare, were caught in the middle and became the "whipping ooy. TV DETROIT, hundreds of em ployees had been laid off by idled packing companies. Six hundred were sent home at Hy-Grade, one of the largest concerns. Thrnnchnut the nation 25.000 had been forced off and 25.000 more were facing loss of jobs within a week, unions reported.

Boo! For the superstitious, today is Friday the 13th. draped commins, Lt. Gen. John of hundreds that the five airmen Government officials that the five men "gave their lives for the Nation while wearing the American Army uniform." "To us, the soldier and his mem ory are sacred," he added. "May their souls rest in peace." LEE MADE no reference to the controversy with Yugoslavia caused by the shooting down of the fliers' plane Aug.

19. The bodies were those of Capt. Richard H. Claeys. of St.

Charles Capt. Harold F. Schreiber, of New Albany, capt. uien Freestone, of Burley, Cpl, Matthew M. Comko.

of Monessen and Cpl. Chester J. Lower, of Enfield, N. H. Clash with Byrnes' Line Seen in Wallace Speech BY JAMES RESTON New York Times Service WASHINGTON--Capital observers expressed the belief that Commerce Secretary Henry A.

Wallace's speech on foreign affairs would be a source of considerable embarrassment to Secretary of HEADLIGHT CLEW UEW Votes Interim Pay Boost Bid Union Expected to Demand 17-Cent Hike BY WALTER W. KUC1I York Time Service MILWAUKEE The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (CIO) took the lead among the "Big Three" of the CIO in demanding immediately an interim round of wage increases in all new contracts. They would be subject to revision upward once a new national pattern has been established. IT WAS ESTIMATED unofficially that the new wage increase demand for 2,000.000 steel, auto and electrical workers would be about 17 cents an hour. Six hundred delegates, representing about 500.000 members, declared that the 18 i cents an hour increase won last winter and spring was "being wiped out." Thev pledged their co-operation with the UAW and the United Steel Workers of America (CIO) for an all-out assault against the wage front.

SUCH A rOLICY is being mapped now in Washington by economic experts drawn from a number of the CIO unions. John Leto, business agent of Local 103, currently negotiating a new contract wits the Radio Corporation of America In Camden, N. with 6.500 employees involved, said that the union demands, on an interim basis, had been estimated at about 14 cents an hour. The action of the delegates was unanimous. It sounded the opening gun in the broadside for wage boosts on an industry wide basis.

THE UAW, taking advantage of a re-opening clause, has already served notice that it will take up the matter of a new wage increase against the Chrysler Corp. next month. The UEW made it clear "that the major assault for wage increases this winter would be made in concert by the "Big Three" of the CIO. Woman Dies in Niagara NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.

(JP) A woman tentatively identified by police as Julia Fink, 56, of Buffalo, was earn a to ner aeatn over the 165-foot American Falls. Witnesses reported that the woman had waded into the upper rapids about 500 yards from the cataract. Her body was recovered a few minutes later at the Canadian Maid of the Mist landing acrrs the gorge from the falls. On Inside Paes State James F. Byrnes in the peace-treaty negotiations in Pans.

Free Pres Photos HIT-RUN DRIVER to house checkup the Western Hemisphere, the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom in the British Commonwealth. OBSERVERS HERE believe that while Byrnes and Wallace were, as the President said, in line, on ultimate objectives, the tactics proposed by both for attaining those objectives seemed to be dissimilar in some cases and almost contradictory in others. For example, Byrnes is known to feel that the United States attempted for many months to be accommodating to the Soviet Union and that this policy did not succeed. Many observers have been criti cal of the Administration's tend ency in recent months to oppose the Russians on almost every point under BUT MOST OF these observers agree with Wallace's observation that America and the Soviet Union must make peace with each other before they can make peace for the rest, of the world. Few observers, even though they concede that the spheres of influence have been created, believe, however, that Wallace outlined a feasible plan for achieving this U.S.

Tie to Nation to He Criticizes 'Treat Russia Tough' Policy Truman Says Speech Has His Approval New York Time Service NEW YORK Secretary of Commerce Henry A-- Wallace warned that the British imperial istic policy in the Near East combined with Russian retaliation would lead the United States straight to war unless we have a clearly defined and realistic policy of our own. Secretary Wallace spoke in Madison Square Garden at an anti-Dewey, anti-Republican rally spon-sired by the National Citizens Political Action Committee and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. HE DECLARED that the United States could not handle the forces in the world by a "get tough with Russia" policy. "The tougher we get, the tougher the Russians will get," he said. "To prevent war and Insure our survival In a stable world, it is essential that we look abroad through our own Ameri? can eyes and not through the eyes of either the British Foreign Office or a pro-British or anti-Russian press." We should recognize, he asserted, that we have no more business in the political affairs of eastern Europe than Russia has in the political affairs of western Europe, Latin America or- the United States.

"WHETHER WE LIKE it or not," he continued, "the Russians will try to socialize their sphere of influence just as we try to democratize ours." Secretary Wallace disclosed that his formula for world peace had the approval of President Truman. "In this connection, I want one President Truman, in approving the entire speech in advance, said that he considered it to be in line with the policies of Secretary Byrnes. THE GENERAL reaction in the capital, however, was that the speech was strikingly dissimilar to the firm line being developed Dy Byrnes in; regard to the Soviet Union. It was feared that the President's indorsement would prove especially embarrassing to Byrnes treaty activities. "For the last six months, the pol icy followed by Byrnes and supported by Senator Vandenberg who is with him at the Paris peace conference, has been one of taking a firm line against further expansion of Soviet domi nation in the countries of eastern Europe.

BUT IN HIS speech, Wallace was openly critical of the "get-tough-with-Russia" policy. He emphasized that, in his opinion, we have no more business in the political affairs of eastern Europe than Russia has in the political affairs of the Americas and western Europe. Wallace left himself open to the interpretation that he would favor the creation of vast spheres of influence for the United States in Flier-Victims of Slavs Receive Nation's Tribute WASHINGTON (AP) The bodies of five American fliers shot down by Yugslav fighters arrived in the Capital by plane to receive the Nation's last tribute and honors. In a brief ceremony after the Army transport landed at the National Airport with the flag C. H.

Lee told a hushed throng ieu in wie vi uulv. ii i.1 Meanwhile, William L. Clayton, acting secretary of state, announced that the United States had decided not to stop UNRRA relief shipments to Yugoslavia as a result of the air attacks. He said such action would violate international obligations. THE FLIERS' bodies will lie In an amphitheater near the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery until final funeral arrangements are made.

Gen. Lee, commanding general In the Mediterranean Theater, told the assembly of high rank- Vafch for 'Aggie the New Sunday Comic Joining the famous family of Free Press comics Sunday is "Aggie Mack," fast-stepping youngster who's always getting into trouble and getting out again. You'll enjoy "Aggie Mack" and the 28 other world's best comics in the bigger, better comic section. IN SUNDAY'S FREE PRESS Amusement! 25 Kitchen 18 Bethunim 19 Lyons 32 Bingay 6 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Chatterbox 13 Pringle 15 Classified 28-30 Radio 31 Crossword 31 Riley 14 Donovan 26 Sabo 24 Editorials 6 Smith 22 Fashions 15 Sports 22-24 Financial 26-27 Stokes 6 Guest 6 Theaters 27 Horoscope 31 Town Crier 32 Keeping Well 16 Women's 13-18 thing clearly understood," he said, "I am neither anti-British nor pro-British, neither anti-Russian nor pro-Russian. "And just two days ago, when President Truman read these words, he said that they repre- Turn to Page 2, Column 6.