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21 i I MTf cKd 3LruU 1 il Ju UAW Insists. GM Top Ford, Chrysler Raises Free Press Photo RECEIVING HOSPITAL SCENE WHEN ROSALIE GIGANTI VIEWED HER ACCUSED ATTACKER Assistant rroaecutor Martin Paulsmo (center) questions girl about Frank Lobaido (left) Hitler Vs. 'Pals' Swapping Fuehrer's Body for Peace One of His 'FriendV Plots Star Witnesses Testify Today in Graft Trial Former Liquor Board Aide and McKay Bodyguard to Be Heard BY KENNETH MeCORMICK Free Press Staff Writer JACKSON Special Prosecutor Kim Sigler will present two star witnesses to highlight this week's sessions of the liquor graft conspiracy trial of Frank D. McKay and four as the State approaches the core of its case. BAD OEYNHAUSEN, Germany (U.R) Heinrich Himmler sought to murder Adolf Hitler and sell his body to the Allies as the price of peace and personal safety, according to British intelligence experts.

The story of Himmler's treachery, which resulted in Hitler disowning Himmler in his last will and testament April 29, was obtained from renewed interrogation of Col. Nicolaus von Beu-low. Hitler's adjutant. The British stress that Beu-low's story remains unconfirmed. ACCORDING TO Beulow, Himmler and his SS officers in the Reichs Chancellery' bunker during the last days before Berlin's fall plotted Hitler's murder, but it is not known whether any attempt was made to carry it out.

Rumors and reports in London shortly before then had said that Hitler had collapsed and that Himmler had taken over complete power in Germany. Beulow said Himmler's negotiations with the Allies were discovered definitely on April 28, and it was then that Hitler suspected his own brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein, was connected with the plot. Beulow believed that Fegelein was executed. Says Finn Must Pay for Strike Tool and Die Makers "Join in the Fight Hardships of striking General Motors workers entitle them to a higher wage increase than those won from Ford and Chrysler, UAW (CIO) Vice President Walter Reuther declares. Reuther also credits GM workers for the Ford and Chrysler agreements.

Ford workers won an eighteen-cents-an-hour raise, while Chrysler employees got 18 cents. "IN THE ULTIMATE settlement of the General Motors case," he said, "the corporation must pay a higher wage increase than Ford or Chrysler in order to com pensate the GM workers for the'j hardships the corporation has forced on them." He did not mention a definite figure at which the union would settle. Nineteen and one half -cents-an-hour had been stated earlier as the minimum increase acceptable. Both the union and GM officials denied that negotiations had been resumed, rumors that followed the Ford and Chrysler announcements. Reuther claimed part credit for providing the entering wedge in the wage battle.

HE ADDED: "Wage increases won at Ford and Chrysler are the result of the determined stand of the GM strikers, supported by the solidarity of Ford, Chrysler and other workers in carrying out the basic wage strategy of the UAW." Meanwhile, the union prepared to turn the screws tighter on GM Monday by stopping work in 15C tool-and-die shops, making GM parts. These UAW workers, members of Locals 155 and 157, were briefed in strategy for the Monday action at a Sunday afternoon meeting in Cass Technical High School. THE TOOL and die workers will begin negotiations with the Automotive Tool and Die Manufacturers Association at the Fort Shelby Hotel at 2 p. m. Wednesday, on their own wage demands.

Matthew Hammond, Local 157 president, said they would file a petition for a strike vote immediately if a substantial counterproposal to their 30 per cent demand were not made. OTHER developments on the Detroit labor front were: 1 National Labor Relations Board hearing scheduled to be-Turn to Page 3, Column 4 18 CENTS MAY BE She Names Ex-Offender as Attacker Child Found in Alley with Throat Cut Surly but shaken, a twenty-nine-year-old grocery clerk was held Sunday night in the criminal attack on a seven-year-old girl who was found with her throat slashed in a snow-covered alley. Frank Lobaido, of 3495 Ander-don, will be booked Monday on a charge of rape and attempted murder, according to Assistant Prosecutor Martin Paulsmo. The tiny victim, Rosalie Giganti, of 3417 Mt. Elliott, unwaveringly pointed ner nnger at Lobaido in a room at Receiving Hospital and identified him as the man who attacked her.

LOBAIDO STEADFASTLY maintained his innocence, but refused to make a detailed statement. Detectives planned to question him throughout the night. Despite the serious condition of the girl, police confronted her with Lobaido just three hours after she was discovered, still conscious, draped over a low gate in the rear of 3566 Mt. Elliott. Paulsmo was with Rosalie when Lobaido was brought into the room.

The suspect was nervous. He stood back from the bed and kept shaking his head. THE CHILD beckoned Lobaido closer and pointed her finger at him. Paulsmo asked her, "Is this the man who did this to you?" The girl, unable to speak, nodded ner head, "Yes." Paulsmo asked her what had happened. Rosalie clasped her throat.

"Do you mean he choked Paulsmo asked. The child nodded. Paulsmo asked her what happened next. Rosalie placed her hand over her mouth. "Did he put his hand over your mouth to keep you from hollering?" Paulsmo asked.

Rosalie nodded again. THEN, THROUGH motions and by nodding her head to Paulsmo's questions, the child conveyed that she had been raped and that she had suffered great pain. Inspector Charles Searle, head of the Homicide Squad, said that in May, 1943, Lobaido was convicted of assault with intent to rape and was placed on probation for two years. According to Detective Sgt. Delbert Raymond, Lobaido will be questioned in connection with the death of Suzanne Degnan, 6, of Chicago, who was kidnaped and hacked to pieces Jan.

7. Attaches of the police scientific laboratory reported that blood was found on Lobaido's trousers, on his shorts and also around his thumb- Other pictures on back page nails. Tests will be made to determine if it is human blood. LOBATDO WAS subjected to a complete physical examination. Police said that his body revealed no lacerations.

The dark-complected, mustached Lobaido is about 5 feet 7 inches tall and of husky build. According to police, his draft classification is 4-F. Although suffering from severe shock and exposure and loss of blood, little Rosalie has a "good chance" of surviving, doctors said. A tube was inserted in her throat so she could breathe. Physicians reported that the child sustained multiple lacerations of the neck, each about an inch deep.

A nerve just above the Turn to Page 4, Column 1 Support Urged on Opinion Polls CLEVELAND (JP) A recommendation that the American Economic Association aid private sponsors of opinion polls upon issues of public economic policy was made in a report by the subcommittee on consensus at the association's annual meeting. The committee also recommended formation of a board of editors to formulate reports and statements of opinion upon Issues of public economic policy. ROSALIE GIGANTI She may live S7 ree Press Piiolo FRANK LOBAIDO Held in attack COLD FIGURES Who Says If Cold? It's Balmy! Weather Man Offers Proof "Detroit is having a balmy time of it this winter," the Weather Man said as the mercury flirted with zero. This statement, coming on the heels of a frigid week-end, might give coal shovelers the idea that the Weather Man himself was fringing on balminess. Or perhaps he said it's balmy, because Detroit reported a low of only five degrees at 6 a.

m. after he had predicted four below. But according to his figures, the forecaster is right. (And besides, it did slide to 10 below Sunday at Cadillac.) SO FAR, Detroit temperatures have averaged 103 degrees above normal for January. That's about four degrees warmer each day than average.

In addition, the winter's snowfall so far measures but 13 inches, eight inches below normal. And to show he's a "right guy," the Weather Man called for cloudy and warmer Monday. It'll reach 82 degrees, he insisted. Better than that, it'll stay up there for a couple of days at least, he added. He felt a little hurt that the local thermometers didn't dip below zero, as he promised.

"BUT WE SURE rang the bell outstate," the forecaster went on. "Saginaw turned up with nine below. It was eight below at the Soo and four below at Flint." Grand Rapids reported a disappointing seven above. And from a low of live, the Detroit temperature sailed right up to 19 degrees at 4 p.m. Wisconsin grabbed off honors as the iceberg of the Midwest.

Three cities there reported 14 below. Canton, N. proved the coldest in the Nation with 21 below. Healthy to End-107 FORT ATKINSON, Wis. (JP) Mrs.

John HilL who frequently had declared she never had been sick a day in her life, died Sunday at the age of 107. IVri'" ill IN 50 YEARS? From Here to Moonin 90 Hours YoirHFilPcr Up in Space LOS ANGELES (U.R) Passengers in rocket ships should be able to whiz to the Moon in i y-hour trips within 50 "ears, VV. E. Osborne, radar expert and former Australian Army major, predicted. Refueling stations hung in space also should permit sight-j-ers to go to Mars, he said.

But a round trip to Mars would jike about two and a half years. Much time would be wasted waiting for the Earth to come around into the same spot before travelers could return. OSBORNE, who is here doing secret research for the American Government also made these predictions about interplanetary travel: With new improved fuels, scientists will be hitting the Moon with pilotless rockets in less than 10 years. But passenger trips will have to wait for space refueling stations. The theory of refueling stations already is complete, and it isn't too difficult.

They would be shot through the atmosphere by rocket propulsion and set in the same orbit as the Earth. They would turn with the Earth. A pace ship headed for Mara could go through the atmosphere, refuel at the station, go on to Mars, alow down and atop; start back, refuel again and return to Earth. But the ship wouldn't come straight in through the atmosphere or it would burn away in incandescence. Guided by radar, the rockets would have to circle the atmosphere four or five tTmes, gradually working their way in.

GOING TO MARS wouldn't take much more energy than it would to go to the Moon, for once the rocket is through the atmosphere it would take little power. A one-ton rocket would need about 65 ton of present-day fuel to go through the atmosphere. Atomic energy, of course, would be much less in weight The future traveler, however, may be enticed more Dy a trip to Venus, which has a tropical climate compared to the coolness of Mars, Osborne concluded. British Mansions Urged as Flats for Homeless Chirago Tribune Foreira Service LONDON About a quarter of a million families, now homeless, could be lodged in the big residences of the British aristocracy and the "upper 10,000" If they were converted into flats, according to a report published by a subcommittee of the Central Housing Advisory Committee attached to the Ministry of Health. Such conversion, the committee pointed out, would go far towards solving Britain's housing crisis and could be carried out at a cost of only $1,200 per house.

On Inside Pages Amusements Chi Ids 18 I Lyons 22 6 Merry-Go-R'd 6 19-20 Monaghan 10 21 Radio 21 6 Sabo 14 11 Sports 14-15 6 Stokes 6 21 Town Crier 22 Classified Crossword Editorials Fashions Guest Horoscope Keeping Well 11 Women's 10-11 More Than a Score Die in Fires Across Nation Kansas City Blaze Takes Lives of 10, Including Five Children Free Press Wire Seirices More than a score of persons lost their lives as an epidemic of fires trailed a cold wave across the Nation. Largest loss of life was at Kansas City, where 10 persons, including five children, were burned to death when a blaze began in a clothes closet and raced through a ramshackle, three-story building being used as a rooming house. Twenty persons were injured NUERNBERG (JP) Rein- hard Heydrich, the assassinated "hangman" of Bohemia-Moravia, was accused by a bitter enemy on the German Army General Staff of staging the 1939 beer-cellar explosion in Munich to shatter a peace movement among high Army officers. Heydrich was accused by Gen. Georg Thomas in a statement to American authorities of stage-managing the deadly drama while Adolph Hitler was safely absent.

Eight obscure Nazi Party members were killed in the blast. Heydrich was slain three years later. a THOMAS CLAIMED the beer-cellar blast was timed by Himmler's men to shatter a fledgling peace movement among high Army figures, described by Thomas as opposed to Hitler's blitzkrieg warfare and resentful of Nazi politicians. Thomas said the dissident generals, represented by Gen. Ludwig Beck, former chief of staff, asked him to lay before the entire General Staff their proposal for "removal of the Hitler Cabinet if Hitler should not be ready for an immediate understanding with the western powers." Report British Offer to Egypt LONDO N(jp) Reliable but unquotable sources said that Great Britain had offered to negotiate on Egyptian demands, including full independence and the evacuation of British troops from Egyptian territory.

The Egyptian Government has agreed not to present its demands to the United Nations Organization. The source said that a British note replying to an Egyptian request of Dec. 20 for revision of treaty relations had been handed to the Egyptian Embassy. The note was described as "friendly in tone." UNO Wit Explodes a Symbol of Peace LONDON (U.R) Scores of suggestions for United Nations anthems, flags and symbols are overflowing the files of the assembly secretariat. All but one have been promised serious consideration.

The exception, contributed by an anonymous wit, proposed as a fitting symbol a dove of peace in the act of laying an atom bomb. City Aide Quits KALAMAZO Andrew C. Leak, city building inspector for 23 years, has resigned to enter private business. Fred C. Ehrmann, 1939 Liquor Commission secretary and an ad- mitted McKay "puppet," and Isadore Schwartz, the former Republican boss' friend and bodyguard, will testify.

Ehrmann and Schwartz were co-defendents with McKay and the others in two liquor-conspiracy trials in Detroit Federal court. They have since turned State's evidence and will testify under immunity from prosecution. CO-DEFENDENTS with McKay are William H. McKeighan, former B'lint mayor; Fisher L. Layton, ex State Highway Department executive, and Charles H.

and Earl Williams, father and son, Detroit liquor agents. The trial is in its third week before a jury of eight women and six men. Circuit Judge John Simpson is presiding. The defendants are accused of conspiring to corrupt the administration of the Stat liquor law by controlling liquor sales and distribution. THE PROSECUTION contends that McKay and his co-defendants accomplished such control by planting Ehrmann and other "stooges" in key positions.

Max Lee, 1939 distribution boss, and Charles Webber, purchasing director, are also indorsed as State's witnesses. Webber, however, is seriously ill with a heart condition, and is not expected to appear. In that event, Sigler will move that the court permit the reading of Webber's preliminary examina tion testimony to the jury. Defense attorneys are expected to oppose such a move. THEY FAILED to take advantage of their rights to cross-examine Webber at the earlier hearing and are expected to try to keep his story from the jury.

The trial will reconvene at 9:30 a. m. Monday. State Senator Murl H. DeFoe, Charlotte Republican and 1939 liquor commissioner, will occupy the stand for the third straight day.

Air Conference Is Arranged on Atlantic Rates BY JAMES J. STREBIG HAMILTON, Bermuda (JP) A document has been prepared for study in London and Washington which solves a dispute which has delayed the United States-Great Britain air conference here since Jan. 14, a well-informed official announced. The following points are included Rates will be fixed initially by air-line operators through a traffic conference scheduled for New York in February. The conference, called by the International Air Transport Association, will determine trans-Atlantic fares on the basis of operating costs.

THE NEXT STEP will be the review of. fares at regular intervals by the British and, United States Governments to insure that charges are adjusted to meet changing costs. The number of trips each air line may fly will be unlimited. The right to carry passengers from one country to another along regular routes will be virtually unlimited. Plane Strikes Power Line and Crashes Student Pilot and Instructor Are Hurt A civilian aviation instructor and his student pilot were injured when the undercarriage of their training plane caught on a power line and plummeted 50 feet to the ground at an airport at Plymouth and Middle Belt.

The student, Robert Black. 18. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Black, 6510 Mead, Dearborn, was still unconscious five hours later, according to Wayne County General Hospital attaches.

JOHN PARKER, 25, of 15498 Fox the instructor, suffered leg injuries and remained a hospital patient. Black, who expects an Army call soon, was at the controls practicing forced landings. The plane, owned by Jack Wagner, of the National Flying Service, was demolished." War Probers Call Roberts WASHINGTON (JP) J. Roberts, former Supreme Court justice, will be called before the Congressional Pearl Harbor investigating committee Monday to tell about his spot checkup of the Japanese attack. The joint Congressional committee wants to know, among other things, whether his findings were published in full.

Roberts will be preceded by Capt. Ellis M. Zacharias, former naval intelligence officer, who will be asked about his reported prediction, prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, that the Japanese would strike at Hawaii on a Sunday. Soviet to Get Gift of Penicillin Lab BOSTON (IP) The Hugh Cabot Memorial Fund announced plans to erect a $2,000,000 penicillin research laboratory and plant in Russia through the voluntary contributions of United States citizens. The fund is named for the late scientist.

Sponsors- of the project include Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thurman W. Arnold, Dr. Charles Kettering, Dr.

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Igor Sikorsky. Science Awards LONDON (JP) The Moscow radio said that two TOO.OOO-ruble ($16,660 at the diplomatic rate) Stalin prizes had been awarded to Konstantin Antonovich and George Leonov; members of the Academy of Science of the USSR, for "some process In connection with mum ura- Jenisalem Alert JERUSALEM (JP) Police Increased security measures around Jerusalem's general postoffice js rumors persisted of threats to blow up the building. and another 50 made homeless. THE BODIES of nine victims trapped on the third floor were taken to a funeral home.

Hours later attendants said only two had been identified. The others were burned beyond recognition. A fire which wrecked the three-story, if ty-r Alpine Hotel) in an old section of downtown St. Louis caused four deaths. One of the victims was Turn to Page 2, Column 1 KEY figure than the 18 -cents-an-hour boost he has suggested.

The CIO agreements In the auto industry with Ford and Chrysler for 18 and 18 't -cent increases, respectively, were expected to influence the steel situation. Officials feel that the steel walkout must be ended quickly if the automobile, electrical manufacturing and other struck Indus-Turn to Page 2, Column U.S. Expects Early End to Major Labor Disputes WASHINGTON (UP) Government officials said that they expect early settlements in major labor disputes as a national wage pattern began to develop around pay increases close to 18 cents an hour. They said that no immediate steps were planned toward end- in the week-old steel strike. Other sources, however, expected strong Government efforts to break the deadlock after the Office of Price Administration makes a report on higher steel prices to the White House next Friday.

The Feb. 10 deadline for a report by a fact-finding board in the dispute still stands. PRESEDENT TRUMAN Is reported to have informed the. panel that it can recommend some other 4 i.