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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS THURSDAY, DECEMBER I. 19 32 PICKED FOR LEAD IN SENIOR COMEDY City's New Directory Tells About Pranks of Jo Mendi Mother Drowns Baby and Herself Nine Stand Mute on Arson Charge Held in Plot to Burn Apartment Building De Soto Sales Force to Meet Company Lays Plans for Business Boom Labor Asks Job Insurance After Fighting It for Years A. F. of L. Calls on Industry to Bear Cost; Backs Proposal with Threats of Walkouts CINCINNATI.

Nov. 30 (A. generally;" State rather than Fed- Gold and Maroon Volume Covers Wide Field Second Child Rescued from Cistern of Facts; Changes Are Numerous pseudo-sciences and handicrafts Detroit'! new City Directory has TOLEDO. Nov. 30 (A.

Pi-Throwing two of her children into I -v' i' color as well as facts. Completely reversing Its former eral legislation proposd because of stands, the American Federation of I the restrictions of the Federal Con- and dealers in odds and ends far off the beaten path of commerce. There are condensed statistics showing the development of Detroit The gold and maroon volume, issued Wednesday by R. L. Polk A tells about the antics of Jo Mendi as well as the construction Nine persons, four of them women, were arraigned Wednesday before Recorder's Judge John A.

Boyne on charges of conspiracy to commit arson. All stood mute and Judce Boyne entered pleas of not guilty. Bonds for them were set as follows: Rosario La Rocca, 50 years old. 2160 E. Fort bia wife.

Concetti, 45, their son, James, 20. Joseph Palazzola, 29. of 3934 Fairview Labor today declared Its support of a system of unemployment insurance. It accepted its Executive Council's plan for compulsory unemployment Insurance, paid for by industry and administered by the Stat and as it did in calling for the six-hour dav and five-day week, it of the new Federal Building. While one page tells about production of automobile factories, others reveal that the home of the automotive industry also has four his wife, Catherine, Michael horseshoers and eight livery stables.

L. Polk Co. is very jealous of the efficiency of the Detroit City Caruso, 27, 3934 Fairview his wife, Anna, 24, Leonard Acquaviva, 36, also of the from earliest times. Among new features are; A story regarding the first year of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel; a quick-reference record of the makes of autos and trucks manufactured in the Detroit area, and a description of the new Samuel Francis Smith Memorial on Belle Isle. The Polk Company estimates that in the polyglot Detroit 75,000 surnames are represented in a population of 1,568.662.

Smiths are most numerous, occupying 48 columns. Millers take 26; Johnsons 254; Browns 24; Williamses 21; Joneses lS'-a; Wilsons 16, and the Davlses 15. A card hand of surnames would embrace three Sixes, a pair of Nines, one Ten, 47 Jacks, 18 Queens and a stack of Kings 7 feet high Directory." the company announced. Fairview address. $2,000, and his wife, Antoinette, 30, $1,000.

The De Soto Motor Corp. will launch an aggressive 1933 business campaign here Thursday with a aalea conference which officials believe will be the largest and most Important in the history of De Soto. The Detroit meeting, which will be held in the Wilson Theater, Parting at 10 o'clock, will be the keynote session of a series of 27 similar conventions that will be held this month. More than 10.000 people will participate in theae meetings which will be held from coast to coast. The Detroit meeting, like the others that are to follow, ia being held to acquaint the sales organization with the plans formulated for an increase in business In 1933.

The keynote meeting will be held under the joint direction of Byron C. Foy. president of De Soto, and Roy Peed, general sales manager. John J. Palmer, assistant to the president, and R.

M. Rowland, assistant general sales manager, will occupy prominent places on the program. More than 750 people are expected to attend the Thursday sessions. Included in the gathering will be factory district sales managers and a cistern, Mrs. Rose Burger, 29 years old, jumped in after them today and drowned.

One of the children, the feet bound together, was rescued, but the other drowned. Floating in the water with the bodies was the will of Mrs. Burger's father, John Geckle. 75. over whose death and disputed provisions of the will she was reported to have been despondent.

Six-month-old Clarence Burger drowned with his mother. Virginia. 5, was rescued by the father, Fred Burger, who was aroused by a third child, Janet, 7. Mrs. Burger tied Virginia's feet together and the baby's hands behind his back.

She fastened a water bucket to her own feet to make certain that she would sink. Burger said he and his wife sat up late last night discussing her father's will, over which relatives were reported dissatisfied because Mrs. Burger was a principal beneficiary. Mrs. Burger and her brother, Clarence, of Detroit, were bequeathed $1,000 each.

Other relatives were left sums ranging from $25 up. stitution. 2 Levies upon industry alone to provide adequate reserves, pay benefits, and pay the cost of administration, because "unemployment is, to a certain extent, one of the inevitable incidents of production, and must, therefore, be regarded as part of the unescapablej costs of assessments of not less than 3 per cent of normal payrolls are suggested. 3 Administration by state commissions, either new or existing, on which management and labor are given equal representation. 4 Investment of the Insurance plan reserves in Federal securities or those of some states and municipalities.

5 Unemployment insurance benefits to be a legal right due to ail making claims, without regard to citizenship, union attlllation, or labor disputes, and due if work is available only at lower than prevailing rates or conditions; partially unemployed to receive partial benefits. 6 The whole scheme should be so constructed as to induce and stimulate so far as possible the regularization and stabilization of employment. Police charge that the La Roccas, owners of the building in fairview "and as such It Is presented to its users as the outstanding product of the directory publishing business." Page size has been increased slightly, as has the space devoted to the alphabetical listings on each page. Changes are numerous, 80 per cent of the 743.856 listings being different from those In the previous directory- conspired with the others, tenants of the building, to destroy it. They intended to collect the backed its proposal with threats of strikes and boycotts.

The Federation convention then supported "immediate modification of the Volstead Act" and "repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as rap-Idly as that can be brought about." Just one year ago. the Federation threw out three resolutions for unemployment insurance. Today, motivated by what leaders called "needs of the hour." it rallied to fight along a national front for such a plan. Willian Green, president of the Federation, defended the plan, but agreed that "employment would be better." The unemployment Insurance plan which the Federation proposes as a basis for legislation is as follows: 1 Legislation in each state making unemployment Insurance compulsory, because "voluntary schemes are unlikely to pervade industry $17,000 Insurance, Sergt. George VV.

Smith, head of the arson squad, 4. s. JUL. said. A fire was prevented, he ex by actual measurement in the plained, when neighbors saw a flame creeping along a- fuse toward the directory.

Much of the vacant residence property is accounted for by the dwelling Thanksgiving evening The flame was checked before it statement that there is a pronounced tendency of families to reached the building, every apart' OXFORD TO DEBATE Rembrandt Photo STELLA EN'GELBERG The seniors of Northeastern High School will present "Merton of the Movies," by George Kaufman and Marc Connelly, on Friday and Saturday evenings, Dec. 8 and 10, in the school auditorium. The Saturday evening performance will be double up in houses. ment of which had been saturated OXFORD, Nov. 30 Oxford with oil.

Smith said. Another fam Diversity of industry is Illustrated by the 1,104 different types of ily, living in the flat, had no knowl High School meets Davison's debaters here Friday night after one edge of the plot, smitn sam, but enterprises. Listed are many practitioners in the arts and sciences, victory each. had been invited out for the day. featured by an alumni reunion with dancing between the acts.

The title role will be played by-Wesley Vascl, and the part of Flips Montague will be taken by Miss Engelberg and Katherlne Duditch In alternate performances. Others in the cast Include: Pauline Hubbard, Theodore Zwyczyk, Vivian DeBeauclair, Victoria Wolnie, Victor Finney, Arthur Quatro, Jack Baker, Irene Zajkowski, Marian Rakowski, William Chodupski, Hil-lard Giuszewski, Lucille Grabowskl, Alice Tarlo, Steve Gortat, Helen Pesta and Anthony Cimino. A district representatives from all parts of the country; leading dealers from coast to coast; the entire Detroit district organization, including all De Soto dealers and salesmen from Michigan, Indiana and northern Ohio, and 60 automobile editors of metropolitan newspapers. Following the morning session the party will lunch at the Hotel Rtatlcr. Detroit district dealers and salesmen will return to the theater for a special meeting with L.

J. Hannah, Detroit district manager, while the remainder of the group will visit the Chrysler engineering laboratories and the Do Soto factory. On Friday and Saturday the na Convicted Slayer Asks Communion tion-wide field organization, consist Ing of district managers and district representatives, will hold special meetings with factory officials. at Sacrament Given Altar in Cell Holv Communion was the sole re quest of Albert Talbot, 59 years old, 934-f Marietta after he was1 sentenced Wednesday to seven and Old Ethics Called Need of Business Howard A. Coffin, president of the White Star Heflning told 250 members of the Detroit Rotary Club, Wednesday, that what present day business need most ia a return to "Golden Rule ethics." "We have rome to the crossroads In he said, "and out-throat tactics are creeping in.

We must stop and ask ourselves whether we will continue to operate businesses under the law of the Jungle, or whether by co-operation and mutual assistance we can again return to the Golden Rule era of American business." a half to 15 years in the House or Correction for murder. Judge Christopher E. Stein granted the request and Rev. R. E.

Randall, pastor of the Mariner's Church, improvised an altar in Talbot's cell and administered the sacrament. Talbot shot and killed James Settles. 36. of 4746 Ellery Place, Sept. 23.

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