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Railroad Shops a Shambles After Blaze mzxxmi spate SPORTS NEWS If Happened in Michigan By DONALD F. SCHKAM DETROIT 31, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1949 jfcT Urges Income End of Sales Tax Rep. Warner, Ypsilanti, Suggests Straight Impost of 1.5 Per Cent BY HUB M. GEORGE Free Press Political Writer LANSING Michigan cities and schools may have to fight to retain the $180,000,000 a year they receive from the State gales tax. A plan to repeal the sales tax as a revenue source and substitute a straight income tax was revealed by Rep.

Joseph E. Warner, veteran Ypsilanti Republican. tiirJfflijrVtit- T. IWt (Ml r'r: I Free Press Photo by Douk Kennedy RUINS OF MICHIGAN CENTRAL CAR REPAIR SHOPS DESTROYED IN $250,000 FIVE-ALARM BLAZE Fifteen cars in structure at Livernois and Vernor were consumed by flames that delayed several trains Guest Star Defends Fired Miss Morini Disputes 'Disloyalty as Symphony Heeds Cellist Threat of Purge Hale a piccolo player; i Theodore Evans, French horn player; Hugh Cooper, bassoonist, and Bernard Rosen, clarinetist. THE' VOTE followed Reich-hold's threat to fire the entire orchestra, if necessary, to get rid of dissident elements.

"Of course, this won't be he said. "At most there are no more than 10 disloyal members." He refused to name any of the suspected members. Reichhold said the rumored apology was not the sole reason Miquelle was fired. "This was just the last in a series of incidents showing Miquelle's disloyalty to the orchestra," Reichhold asserted. Miquelle, whose adverse opinion of Krueger's conducting ability has been known commonly for a long time, was fired summarily at the end of Wednesday's rehearsals.

PREVIOUSLY, he had handed in his written resignation, effective at the end of the season. CLASSIFIED Levy, State's spending wouldn't look half as bad if th erants to local units were eliminated and my pian would allow them to levy excise taxes in sufficient amount to build up their revenue locally," Warner said. WARNER SAID he is preparing bills for early introduction that would repeal the retail sales levy which now produces a year. Graduations would be Impossible an income levy under the Michigan constitution, but Warner believes a straight levy of 1.5 per cent would produce the money needed for state activities. "My figures show that a family of four now paying about $75 a year in sales taxes would get by with an income exaction of about $60 a year if the salary were in the neighborhood of $4,000," Warner said.

CHAIRMAN Walter Herrick, of the House Taxation Committee, isn't so sure his colleagues will look with favor on Warner's proposal. "If the sales tax is adjusted, I think it would be In the nature of a compromise reducing the levy to one or two cents," Herrick explained. Figures just compiled by Her rick show that State, Federal and local taxes upon Michigan cit izens have almost quadrupled in the last eight years. Trial Halted as Defendant Fails to Show The Sam Lucido mutuels gam bling conspiracy trial before Re corder's Judge John J. Maher was halted Thursday because of the disappearance of one of the 19 de fendants.

He was Louis Ellois, 42, of 1463 Fischer. When Ellois failed to appear for the trial opening, Sgt. Clayton Nowlin, of the Vice Squad, said Ellois had not been seen by his relatives since he left the court room Wednesday. WHEN ELLOIS still had not appeared at 12:30 p. Judge Maher forfeited his $2,000 bond and issued a warrant for his arrest.

The trial was scheduled to resume Friday morning. Joseph Louisell, attorney for Ellois, said his client has malaria which causes him to go to sleep at different times. At such times, Louisell said, "it is impossible to revive him for an extended period of time." Boy Seized with Stolen Car in Chase A 16-year-old boy was arrested Thursday night by the Sheriff's Road Patrol after he led a chase in a car he had stolen 90 minutes earlier from Michigan and Cicotte, Sheriff deputies said. Turned over to juvenile author! ties on a charge of auto theft was Bernard Pisarski, of 6428 Deve-reaux. Deputies Richard Poole and William Poole and William Nudd said they had sighted Pisarski driving without lights on Middlebelt and pursued him to Northline.

They took the boy into custody after he abandoned the car and attempted to flee across fields. Pisarski admitted the car was stolen, the deputies said. New Chief SAGINAW Dr. Herbert Helmkamp was elected chief staff at St. Luke's Hospital succeed Dr.

E. C. Galstered. O. of to companiment, either here or elsewhere.

"I don't know how such ridiculous rumors get started," she declared. Meanwhile, the Detroit Symphony, chastened by the threat of mass firings for "disloyalty," gave a vote of confidence to Karl Krueger, its musical director, and Henry H. Reichhold, its president. Eugene Braunsdorf, member of a sj-mphony committee, presented the vote at rehearsal Thursday morning. Others on the committee are VIOLINIST ERICA MORINI Astounded by Detroit row i sC Jit jTjL iZi Replying to the charge that he had "apologized" to Miss Morini, Miquelle said: 'The accusation Is ridiculous.

I said nothing of the Kina. He added that he had heard Two hundred young Traverse City men will be stood up on blind dates they had for the week-end of Jan. 29. The Traverse City Chamber of Commerce reluctantly announced the cancellation at a week-end outing trip planned by members of the General Motors Girls Club of Detroit. Not enough girls had registered for the trip to make it worth while, it was explained.

The Chamber had acted as an informal date bureau and had recruited 200 young men to serve as escorts for the girls while they were in Traverse City. Ten years without a doctor ended Thursday for Sanford, Midland County village, when Dr. Ancrum Waring, opened his practice there. He is a graduate of South Carolina Medical College of Charleston. He was induced to locate in Sanford by its Chamber of Commerce.

A COURSE in practical nursing, offered in Grand Rapids by the Grand Valley Children's Center, has enrolled three men and 22 women as students. Graduates will receive a license to practice. The men are Kenneth W. Van Prooyen, 26, a former Medical Corps technician; Anthony J. Mar-siglia, 29, head orderly of St.

Mary's Hospital, and Lloyd LaMar, 24, orderly at SC Mary's for sLx years. James, wight and Joseph McLeese, Decatur brothers, took the Royal Arch degree in Masonry together at Lawrence. TWINKLE, pet cat of Dick Cree, Central Michigan College freshman, plays the part of "Uncle Elizabeth" in the Play Production Class presentation of "I Remember Mama." Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E.

Fleek of Route 2, Jackson, will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Friday. They have three children, three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Bar Owner Fined for Firing Gun to Rout Brawlers Jack Bommarito, 46, operator of a Dar at I30uz Kercnevai, iirea three shots at the floor to rout brawlers. In Recorder's Court, Bommarito was fined $25 by Judge W. McKay Skillman for "aiming firearms without malice." Bommarito said he had asked police to help but said he had been told they weren't bouncers.

Husband Finds Wife Hanged The body of Mrs. Carra Deel, 42, of 18810 Reed. Melvindale, was found hanging from a rafter in the basement of her home. Her husband, Kindred, made the discovery when he returned from work. He told police his wife had been despondent because of illness.

Yf auro SALE now now Overcoats, Ladies9 Dept. 1 485 6f CLDunir CBireaittcBOtl Smile finn 1KB) Daley Raps Sublette at Hearing Council Members Add Their Criticism BY JIM RANSOM Free Press Staff Writer Donald J. Sublette, secretary of the Civil Service Commission, was pictured as a potential dictator hungry for power in a blis tering attack by City Controller John N. Daley and several coun-cilmen. The occasion was a Council hearing on the rejection by the commission of the promotion of four minor employes in the real estate division of the Corporation Counsel's office.

THE PROMOTIONS had been recommended by Edward A. Wal-inske, chief of the division, Daley and Common Council. "Sublette treats City employes Just a little better than a dog," Daley said. Applause from City employes who packed the Council Chamber greeted Daley remarks. Daley charged the civil service examinations for promotions do not pertain to the type of work the employes are doing.

Councilman Charles G. Oakman also accused Sublette of using dictatorial tactics. "I DON'T BELIEVE Sublette has any more knowledge of what type of work these employes do than the Council," he said. "I don't believe he has ever been in the office of the real estate di vision," he said. Councilman Charles F.

Edge- comb joined in the criticism. "You suddenly have gone wer crazy over there," he old Sublette. i Paul Dwyer, chief assistant corporation counsel, told the Council that the Civil Service Commission has no-authority over a promotion approved by Common Council. "SUBLETTE has the attitude that he knows better than any department head just how a department should be run, but he is unwilling to take the blame for the inefficiency of any department," Oakman charged. Oakman said Sublette allows "personla animosities" to govern his actions.

He said that a few years ago he turned down a request for more guards at the House of Correction because "he didn't like the superintendent, A. Blake Gillies." The guards were provided when the Mavor ordered them, Oakman said. Sublette sat red-faced without answering the charges. James V. Bellanca.

a commissioner, made the only reply in defense. "THE FOUR EMPLOYES had a right to appeal their cases to the Commission," Bellanca saia. "Tilings have become increasingly worse between the civil service and department heads. Council ordered the Commission to meet with a three-man Council committee and report back in 10 days on a statement of policy to be followed on future promotions, It also ordered a review of the four pr6motions. Hoffman Son Found in Coma ALLEGAN (IF) Rep.

Clare Hoffman's 46-year-old son was under treatment at a hospital here after being found unconscious on the bank of the Kalamazoo River. Friends said Carl Hoffman, the Republican congressman's son, left Tuesday by boat for a hunting lodge on the river. He apparently fell from the boat and, stunned or ill, lay on the bank of the river until searchers found him Wednesday. He was suffering from exposure. U.S.

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Lake City 2 23 San Fran'co 49 45 Seattle 32 18 33 31 Atlanta Jacksonville 67 Memphis 44 72 42 10 33 22 AlhiN IVnv- Ihuquerque 41 er Fort Worth 35 Anreles 67 Okla. City 30 rnreoorted. Detroit sunrise 7:55: lets. Suspect Held as Arsonist in 6 Fires Garages and Autos Burned in Small Area Police are seeking an arsonist who set a series of fires that destroyed six garages and nine automobiles within less than an hour in an area of a few blocks. The work of the firebug played havoc with the Fire Department as equipment was shifted from one blaze to another.

THE FIRES broke out late Wednesday when much of the equipment was battling the $250, 000 blaze at the Michigan Central car shops at Vernor and Livernois. With several stations short of equipment, the confusion caused by the garage fires created added problems in moving apparatus without leaving certain areas unprotected. Joseph Hardy, 38, of 7386 Twelfth, was arrested for question ing in the garage blazes but denied any connection with them. Police said he also was wanted for ques tioning in earlier arson cases. The six garages were located on Richton, Cortland, Fullerton and Sturtevant between Linwood and Wildemere.

INSPECTOR Roderick Goeriz, of the Arson Squad, said all of the fires were started inside the automobiles. It appeared the arsonist saturated the cushions with gasoline before igniting them, Goeriz said. Damage was not estimated. The Arson Squad and Fire Marshall's office continued to hunt the cause of the Michigan Central blaze. The car repair building, five cars loaded with coal, seven boxcars were destroyed and three freight trains were delayed because loco motives could not be moyed from the roundhouse near by.

Firemen Roy Price, 26, and Boris Nicoloff, 35, were injured fighting the blaze. Hudson Lines to Be Halted Hudson Motor Car Co. assembly lines will be shut down Friday, idling 12,000. Shortage of axle housings due to a supplier strike in Cleveland, caused the shutdown. Work will be resumed Monday, a Hudson spokesman said.

Meantime, reports indicated that the week-long Cleveland strike at Midland Steel Products Co. will end Friday. Members of Local 486 UAW (CIO) walked out when the local president and the chief shop steward were fired following an argument over production standards. Auto Rider Dies JACKSON Donald Dean, 20, died in Foote Hospital from injuries received when a car driven by David Johns, 20, hit the side of a freight train. Johns was injured seriously.

US, WEATHER BUREAU MAP D9f tmnt of Commi PM. JAM 20. t9. MANSION that the violinist was dissatisfied with her accompaniment. Since reorganization of the or chestra under Krueger and Reichhold several important members have resigned, including two con- certmasters Ilya Schkolnik and Josef Gingold.

Others were Jascha Swartz- mann, cellisx; Morris Hocnoerg, violinist; Florian Wittman, violin ist, and Leonard B. Smith, trumpet player. DESPITE THE vote of confi dence, many members of the or chestra back Miquelle. Said one: "I don know how Miquelle will be replaced." Reichhold said: "If any of the players are dissatisfied, they may as well resign before they are fired. As for the public, if it doesn't like Krueger's Germanic interpretation, It doesn't need to attend concerts." Miquelle shrugs and says: "I only hope that the whole thing will clear the air as" far as the orchestra is concerned." KRUEGER ALSO did not seem unduly concerned.

When the or chestra rose to applaud him at the morning rehearsal, he said "Our responsibility is to carry on with our music. Let's pay no attention to anything but that." 65.00 suits 60.00 suits 90.00 salts 35.00 salts Suits. Suits. now 79.85 now 94.85 AT MONTCALM of Extraordinary Price Redactions Taken on Special Groups to Clear Our Stocks for the Opening of Our New Store BY J. DORSEY CALLAGHAN Free Press Music Writer Erica Morini, who suddenly found herself in the middle of a Detroit Symphony internal dispute, expressed herself as being utterly astonished by developments.

When I talked to her in New York Thursday, she backed Georges Miquelle to the hilt in his denial of disruptive statements. Miquelle resigned and was later fired as first cellist. He was accused of having apologized to Miss Morini for a "bad accompaniment" by the orchestra to her performance of the Tschaikowsky Violin Concerto. HE DENIED having made any such statement. "He absolutely said nothing of the kind," Miss Morini said.

"As a matter of fact, he would have been all wrong if he had. The performance was one I will remember always, for the beautiful support that was given me. "Mr. Miquelle and I talked about my last performance here. He was kind enough to praise my performance highly.

That was all that was said." MISS MORINI also said she had made no complaint about the ac MUSIC Symphony, Minus Cellist, Draivs Crowd BY J. DORSEY CALLAGHAN Free Press Music Critic The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, minus one cello player, gave the first of this week's pair of concerts at Music Hall. The first chair in the cello, section, formerly occupied by Georges Miauelle. was filled by Arthur Bachman, under the directions of Conductor Karl Krueger. WHETHER because of or In spite of the widely publicized dissension within the orchestra, the hall was nearly filled for the concert.

The presence of some 200 Burroughs employes would hardly account for the increased attendance. Of course, one must give due credit to Martial Singher, baritone soloist, for his power to attract listeners. The French singer gave a finely polished performance of the music in his portion of the program. He has brought the art of vocal expression to a high point. The showmanship which has made him a leading attraction at the Metropolitan Opera House was evident in his songs.

THE SONGS were, in the main, unfamiliar to the usual concert goer. There was the group of Berlioz songs, interpolated in orchestral passages from "The Damnation of the aria, "Che faro senza Euridice," of Gluck, and Ravel's three songs, "Don Quichotte a Dul- cinee. The Gluck aria ordinarily Is sung by a contralto, as the role of Orpheus generally is assigned to a woman. It Is- far more acceptable when sung as Singher sang it with a manly and heroic grief. Eachv offering of the artist was finely molded.

They were a complete expression, musically and verbally. THE ORCHESTRAL portion was no less interesting. William Grant Still's Afro- American Symphony was a major item. The composition reveals Still's sensitive feeling for native mu sic, especially in the first and slow movements. The Interlude and Dance from Falla's "La Vide the Bacchanale and Venusberg music from Wagner's "Tannhauser," and Weingartner's refined setting of Weber's "Invitation to the Dance" gave variety and color to the concert.

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