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43 TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1946 On Guard for Over a Century Vol. 115 No. 340 Five Cents urn 1 COOL I A tmnmam mmmm XVWT 7771 JEDV as. nee ejects Milk Grass Takes a Trimming Fra iik Cody Dies; nn HE'LL 'LOIN Public Haivg No.lIsFit to BeStyed mineral i Pneumonia Fatal to Councilman and Retired Head of School at 75 Soviet OK's April Parley of Big Four Ministers to Prepare for Final Conference WASHINGTON AP) A conference of Big Four foreign ministers in Paris late this month to speed final peace settlements with Germany's former European allies now seems virtually assured. Secretary of State James F.

Byrnes told a news conference that Russia and Britain already had agreed to his proposal for such a meeting, to begin April 25. France has not yet replied. BUT FRENCH embassy officials said there was no doubt Foreign Minister Georges Bidault would fall in line quickly with Russia's V. M. Molotov and Britain's Ernest Bevtn in agreeing to the Byrnes plan.

There was still plenty of doubt, however, as to when the twenty-one-nation European peace conferenceoriginally scheduled to start in Paris May 1 could be convened. When Byrnes last Thursday dispatched his proposal for the Big Four meeting, diplomats interpreted it as a last-minute move to' avert postponement of the larger conference, the deadline for which was fixed in the Moscow Big Three agreement last December. MONDAY, HOWEVER, Byrnes hedged when asked if he believed the peace parley could open on May Day. He said if the April 25 meeting came off it would then te up to Board OKs Ten Cents of 18-CentHike Pay of Workers Is Unaffected by Ruling BY JAMES M. HASWELL Of Onr Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The National Wage Stabilization Board declined to approve the wage increase of' 18 cents an hour for 1,175 inside employees of the Detroit milk industry as a basis for price relief.

The board ruled that only 10 cents of the total increase could be used by the companies in seeking price increases before the OPA. Labor members of the board, Carl J. Shipley, of the CIO, and Walter J. Mason, of the AFL, dissented. They contended that the case should have been sent back to the Detroit board for determination of the amount upon which price increase appeals to the OPA could be based.

Dr. Frank Cody, Detroit councilman and educator, died at 2:30 p. m. Monday after five weeks' illness at his home, 725 Burlingame. Pneumonia was the cause of death.

He was superintendent emeritus of Detroit public schools after 27 years as active head of them. He was a former president of Indoor ft A', urs ay Wayne University. For 30 vears. Dr. Cody was a member of the State Board of Education, with supervision of four State NoKnal Schools.

IN 1944, he was designated "Man of the Year" by the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, which he served as president one term. He was a former president of the Old Newsboys Association and of the Detroit Council of Boy Scouts. Dr. Cody's body will be at the Hamilton Chapel, 3975 Cass, until Wednesday evening. Services will be held Thursday at 11 a.

m. at St. Joseph's Episcopal Church, Woodward at Holbrook, with the Rev. William C. Hamm in charge.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, THE CITY. Council chambers will be draped in mourning Dr. Cody's death was the first of any councilman in office since that of John W. Smith, whom he FRANK CODY Long career ends succeeded in a special election in November, 1942. The last meeting Dr.

Cody attended was Feb. 12. Dr. Cody was 75 years old. He was born In Belleville, Dec.

31, 1870, the son of Timothy NM an Irish immigrant, and Clarissa Kipp Cody. His was a record of continuous public service from "1887, when he Detroit leaders eulogize Dr. Cody. See story on Page 4. first was appointed a grade-school teacher in rural Belleville, at the age of 16, until his death as a member of the Common Council.

HIS FATHER operated a farm on the banks of the Huron River and also owned a general store. It was there that Dr. Cody gained his first business experience, "learning how to gain and hold customers." With keen Irish humor, he enjoyed in later years having acquaintances tell of his Turn to Page 4, Column 1 Panda-Monium CHUNGKING (JP) A peacetime problem for the Chinese Government: The New York zoo has requested a mate for its white panda to replace one that died. A similar request has been received from the London zoo. jf.

Turks Thank U.S. for Ship Cortege WASHINGTON (JP) Presi sent ismet inonu of Turkey ex pressed "friendship and gratitude' for United States sympathy in re turning the body of the late Turkish ambassador, Munri Ertegun, on the battleship Missouri. Actress Divorced LAS VEGAS, Nev-(JP Mar-got Grahame, 35, English-born actress, won a divorce from Allen Alderson McMurtin, wealthy Canadian gold miner, whom she married in 1938 in Montreal. The purposes of Operations Crossroads have been gone into rather thoroughly, The principal one, according to Col. Young, is to learn how best to deploy ships and aircraft to minimize damage and to determine accurately the dangers to personnel so that protective measures may be developed.

Task Force 1.5 will assist in the gathering of scientific data but the principal objective for the training here is delivery of one improved A-bomb at Bikini Atoll and integrating of all correlated" "air activities. Grass planted at the Flower Show on the Tree Press Phot floor of Convention Hall grew vigorously. Miss long blades with shears. The grass has grown Georgette Rinaldi, of 3794 Iroquois, goes over the more than four inches since the show began. SARASOTA, Fla.

(JP) of South Florida's wiliest outlaws, John (the snout) Dillinger, 250 pounds of fighting razorback hog, is safely behind bars. Before he was taken by a group of rangers, John had killed one dog, slashed two others to ribbons and forced several of the hunters to turn tail. TWO DAYS of constant running by the dogs and mounted men forced his surrender. For almost 10 years John was a holy terror to dogs, hunters and fences in Sarasota, Manetee DeSoto counties. A half dozen hounds were counted among his victims and more than one hunter has escaped injury only because there was a tree handy.

U.S. Offers Argentina Treat New Attitude Demands 'Deeds, Not Promises' WASHINGTON (AP) The United States confirmed a change in its Latin American policy by declaring it would sign a hemispheric defense pact with Argentina if the regime there lived up to its commitments. Previously, emphasis had placed on denunciation of the Argentine Government for its alleged links with Nazism and on refusal to sit down with it to draw the defense pact. BUT "THERE must be deeds and not merely promises," a mem-; orandum issued by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes bluntly! stated.

Previously the State Department, in refusing to participate with Argentina in a treaty-making conference, had charged that the military government headed by Gen. Edelmiro Far-rell had paid only lip service to its pledges to get rid of Nazi and influences. The decision to give Argentina another chance marked the second broad indication of a shift in the heretofore tough American policy. LAST WEEK, it was announced that George Messersmith, present ambassador to Mexico, would go to Buenos Aires to fill the post left vacant six months ago by Spruille Braden, now assistant secretary of state for Latin America. To speed the day when a mutual defense pact can be acted upon by all the 21 American republics, the United States said it would suggest the appointment of a committee to co-ordinate five drafts of such a pact now under consideration by the Pan-American Union.

Alley Is the Spot for Tin Cans Noiv DPW Commissioner Glenn C. Richards said that flattened tin cans are no longer being picked up separately. They will be collected with the other rubbish if they are placed in the alleys in containers. The cans will be separated at the DPW separation plant and will be sold when there's a market available, Richards explained. Beach Disappears VALPARAISO, Chile (JP) An-kana beach, on the north, coast of Easter Island, disappeared during the seismic disturbances in the Pacific last week, the port captain yHole THE BOARD'S action does not prevent paymeni, of the 18 cents increase which went into effect March 2.

It does raise a question of whether the dairies will try to revoke the March 2 wage settlement. (Detroit dealers said they would first appeal the board's decision before considering any steps toward approval of a reduction in the wage increase.) The eighteen-cent increase was negotiated between the Detroit Milk Dealers on behalf of 14 firms supplying 75 per cent of Detroit's milk, and the United Dairy Workers Local 83 (CIO) after a ten-day strike. THE BOARD RULING was based on rejection of the idea that the 18 Yz cents increase obtained by automobile workers in Detroit established a pattern for wage increases. In defending 10 cents as a basis for price increase, the board majority opinion said: "There was a very substantial prewar differential between automobile and dairy rates inr Detroit. During the war this differential was materially reduced.

'Dairy rates have been increased by 23 cents, as against approximately 15 cents in automobile "THE DIFFERENCE "in terms of percentage of increase has been even more marked. Dairy workers have previously received virtually the full amount of the 33 per cent cost of living increase prescribed in the executive order there has been and will be a cutback in the automobile industry in hours and reduction in take-home pay going substantially beyond any present or contemplated reduction for the dairy workers." Home Items Off OPA Curb List WASHINGTON (JP) Immediate suspension of price ceilings on several hundred items of personal, household and professional use was ordered by the OPA. Typical items are: Decorative sofa pillows, mops and mop sticks, curtain rods, coat hangers, ice cream freezers, plant boxes and flower pots, fly swatters, pocket knives, lawn sprinklers, binoculars and telescopes, domestic jewelled watches, small leather goods, hypodermic needles and New U. Clash over Iran Is Threatened Byrnes Stands Pat on Policy as Reds Demand Closing of Case BY CHARLES McC ANN NEW YORK (UP) A new, direct clash between the United States and Russia is threatened imminently in the United Nations Security Council. Secretary of State James F.

Byrnes indicated that he definitely opposed the Russian demand that the Council take the Iranian question entirely off its program. -f rownmg Story Told by Mother She Says Act Was to 'Protect' Child, 4 A thirty-two-year-old Dearborn mother revived from a coma Monday to calmly describe how she drowned her four-year-old daughter in a tub of cold water. "I did it because I wanted to protect her," Mrs. Dorothy Berg, 511 N. Melborn, told Assistant Prosecutor Ralph Garber.

"I just couldn't see any future happiness for her." Police found the nude body of Anita Berg on a bed in the family residence April 2. Mrs. Berg is the wife of Hagbard Berg, 36, grocer and president of the Dearborn Junior Chamber of Commerce. After the drowning, Mrs. Berg swallowed 90 sleeping tablets, half a bottle of iodine and then went to the basement to turn on the gas, officers said.

She was questioned Monday after regaining consciousness for the first time at Henry Ford Hospital. DETECTIVE LT. HOWARD FORM AN, of the Dearborn police, said his staff would confer with the Prosecutor's office Tuesday to determine whether Mrs. Berg will be arraigned, held for a coroner's Turn to Page 4, Column 5 Ammo Blasts Panic Saigon SAIGON, French Indo-China An official estimated that 20 persons were killed and 20 gravely injured in a series of tremendous, still-uncontrolled explosions in a huge French ammunition dump. The fate of 100 workmen who were inside the dump had not been learned.

Earlier reports indicated that another 50 persons suffered lesser injuries. The roads were filled with panic-stricken people fleeing the city. Reds Nosed Out in 'Whcatstakes9 New York Times Foreien Service PARIS The long-heralded ceremonial entry of a Russian ship with 5,000 tons of wheat for France, for which Soviet Ambassador Alexander Bogo-moloff waited on a pier at Marseille several days, was somewhat spoiled. An American ship bringing ft nnn tons of wheat nosed in ahead of the Red Argosy and got its cargo under the only suction pumps in the harbor. Scientist Ordered Held in Spy Case MONTREAL.

(JP) Dr. Raymond Boyer, McGill University professor, was ordered held under $15,000 bail for trial on charges of violating the Official Secrets Act in conveying information to Rus-sift. The scientist, a former employee of the National Research Council, had a preliminary hearing two weeks ago. Tribute to FDR ATHENS (JP) A cenotaph in memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt will be unveiled in the National Cathedral of Greece Friday, the anniversary of his death.

KEYKO M.4RiARIN"E is enriched with 16,000 unit of Vitamin A. Adv. C0NS0i.rn.vrK tocr debts. Pay all with Instaloan Kational Bank of Detroit 30 Office. Adr the four foreign ministers to discuss when the peace conference would start.

Byrnes also proved cagy on a number of other issues. He declined- to indicate directly how the United States would line up on the Polish proposal for United Nations Security Council action against Franco Spain. He said that before commenting he would want to know what action was proposed. HE DID RECALL, however, that the United States had taken a stand against Council action on Spain in a recent reply to a pro posal for such a move by France. In any case, Byrnes will not return to New York for Council sessions in the near future.

He made it plain that Edward R. Stettinius, the permanent United States delegate, would occupy this country's chair at the Council table this week. Touching briefly on other inter national issues, Byrnes: 1 Said it would be up to the Greek Government to decide when plebiscites should be held to deter mine wnetner or not exuea lung George will return to his Athens throne, and whether the present regency will continue. 2 Said he had received no fa cial answer from Yugoslavia to the request that American officers be permitted to testify at the treason trial of Gen. Draja Minauovic, ana no reply from Russia to a note on Manchuria.

OKE AGAIN W. W. Wallops Another Hit Chalk up another win for Weatherman W. W. Oak in the Wacky Weather Series.

Standing well away from the plate, he connected with a "warm and showers" forecast for a solid hit. A high of 54 degrees, coupled with a dewy humidity, placed the day well Inside the warm classification. Showers were heavy, enough to make footing precarious between street-car tracks. "Cloudy and cool" is the pitch, for Tuesday, near-freezing In the early hours. The averages to date: Pet.

21 7 .750 Dog Gone HOUSTON. Tex. U.R Bell's Hampden Ace, an $1,800 Boston bulldog from Baltimore, was kidnaped from a crowded dog show, and is the object of widespread search. Oh Inside Pages Amusements 12 Bethurum 11 Bingay 6 Chatterbox 8 Classified 16-18 Crossword 19 Donovan 10 Editorials 6 Fashions 9 Financial 10-11 Guest 6 Horoscope 19 Keeping Well 9 Kitchen 9 Lippmann 6 Lyons 20 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Pringle Riley Radio Smith Sports Stokes 3 19 14 14-15 6 9 Teenagers Town Crier 30 Women's S-9 9 MONKEY. BUSINESS and Simian Are Up a Tree Rather than give up the pet monkey her son Gerald brought back from the South Pacific, Mrs.

Gladys Gark is willing to endure the tortures of househunting in Detroit. Circuit Court Commissioner Louis J. Schneider ordered Mrs. Gark to vacate her upper flat at 2142 Drexel by July 6, taking her son and the monkey with her. RUDOLPH SOKOLOWSKI, the landlord, who lives in the lower flat, said Mrs.

Gark refused to get rid of the monkey. His petition for a writ of eviction complained: "You have broken your rental agreement by having an animal in your flat. Also, your daughter was to live with yon. Instead, you have someone else." The "someone else referred to was not the monkey, Soko-lowski hastened to explain, but son Gerald. "THERE WERE eight of these nine-man crews when the competition started Feb.

15. The three remaining crews who survived by their outstanding accuracy, will go to the Marshalls where the one bomb-dropping crew will finally be named. They are gathered here as part of the 393rd Squadron, Task Force 1-5 of the 58th Bombardment Wing. There Is also a standby crew beaded by CoL Paul W. Tibbetts, Jr pilot of the "Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima last Aug.

6. MSgt. Wyatt E. Duzenberg, of Council delegates were working out their policy toward Russia's demand. If accepted, it would be a confession that the Council violated the UN charter by merely discussing Iran.

BYRNES SAID in Washington that this country stood pat on its position. This position is that the Council cannot drop the Iranian dispute until both Russia and Iran have submitted reports to the Council May 6 on whether Red Army troops have completely evacuated Iran. Preparing for a formal meeting at 3 p. m. Tuesday, delegates discussed the Russian blast in secret hotel-room Copies of the letter in which Turn to Page 4, Column 4 Lansing, is flight engineer of Tib-bets' crew.

Also at Roswell are the crews of the planes that will drop instruments into the bomb-blast area to measure certain reactions. Their job is as vital and nearly as' exacting as that of the bomb-dropping crew. THEIR TRAINING here is nearly completed. April 12 the program here will be wound up and the entire group, including some 2,500 officers and men, will head for the little atoll of Bikini. They are to be operational there by May 7V SHARPSHOOTERS PRACTICING Three Air Crews Competing for A-Bomb Job BY CURTIS HASELTTNE Fra.

Press Aviation Writer ROSWELL, N. M. Over New Mexico's plains and broken mountains three crews of crack Army Air Force fliers are in fiercest competition. The prize is the privilege of dropping an A-bomb in the much-heralded Operations Crossroads at Bikini Atoll some time next July. The airmen are all combat veterans, and the cream of the crop.

They have more actual experience in bombing operations than any similar group of men anywhere in the world, according to CoL M. C. Young, chief of staff of the A-bomb task force. Truman May See Bombing NEW YORK A New York Times Foreign Sen ice dispatch from Kwajalein, in the Pacific, said that preparations are being made to receive President Truman on a visit to witness the atom-bomb test in Bikini lagoon. President Truman is expected to attend the inauguration of the Philippine Republic on July 4, the-dispatch said, and it was expected that the bomb test would be delayed so that he could view it.

The test is now scheduled for July 1..