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Their Coats Cost $10,000 DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday, April 89, 1852 Reds Study Blanket Bid for Truce MUNSAN, Korea (P) The Communist high command on Tuesday studied an undisclosed Allied proposal for solving the criti cal issuea blocking a Korean armistice. EXCLUSIVELY WITH HIGGINS ft FRANK proposal, described only as I an overall solution, was made at Monday's session of top-level negotiators at Panmunjom. Registered CfcrtlW TAILORED BYTAILOR-S 1 -'T-l V.1V- t'Vr ve-, 3-1 1 I It moved the patience-exhausting negotiations now nearly 10 months old into a new and perhaps decisive phase. THE REDS agreed to a United Nations Command suggestion for a news blackout future sessions of the full-dress delegations. Then they called for an indefinite recess in the talks pending a study of the new Allied proposal.

The negotiations are tightly deadlocked on three main issues: Prisoners exchange, Allied refusal to accept Russia as one of six neutral truce inspectors and Communist insistence on the right to build and repair military airfields. YESSIR, THESE DOMESTIC CHINCHILLAS are worth $10,000 when they are made into a fur coat. Bat don't rush right out and order one for the little lady because delivery won't be for another eight to 12 years, according to exhibitors at the week-end chinchilla show held in Flint. These cute little animals, which make good pets incidentally, are the descendants of 11 animals introduced to this country from South America in 1923. Down there the species, once abundant, has just about died out.

Breeders estimate that there are about 200,000 chinchillas in the United States now. About 3,000 of these are in Michigan. So far only two garments have been made from the domestic pelts. One was a full-length coat using 282 pelts and worth only $60,000, the other an $18,000 cape made of 80 pelts. If you've got from $1,000 to $2,000 you can get a pair of chinchillas for breeding purposes.

Life expectancy Is about 10 years and the females bear as many as three litters a year. About 200 of them were shown in Flint by the First' Michigan Branch of the Chinchilla Association of America. At left one of the tiny animals is held in a man's hand. Center is the "best-matched" pair in the show, owned by Phillip Savage, of Holly. At right, Sirs.

Ellen Woodward, of Flint, wife of the show chairman, holds one of her pets. It was the only true "pale" chinchilla in the show. THEY'RE ALL WANTED nrssrnrsn tiliiilii If Police Hope Suspect Is Four Other Guys William Mason, 28, of 1037 Erskine, was held by police Monday for investigation of obtaining money under false pretenses. Police thought Mason was at least four other guys. The four included an Allen Belcher, an Ike Williams, a George Hill Young Bishop Must Face U.S.

Court PHILADEL HI A () The Rev. Vorel D. Trifa, 37, consecrated Sunday as the world's youngest Romanian Orthodox bishop, must appear in Federal Court Wednesday on a charge that his election to the post was "illegal." The Most Rev. Ioann Theodoro- ALONG WITH JURY 'Big Louie' Takes Guided Court Tour BY JOHN GRIFFITH rraa PrM Staff Writer Louis (Big Louie) Szczepanik was taken on a guided tour of Traffic Court Monday, a place he allegedly knew so well that he was able to engineer the theft of three suspended drivers licenses. The lumbering bar owner tagged along at the rear of a jury of 14, Recorder's Judge W.

McKay Skillman, assorted attorneys and his co-def endents. and a Reuben Tocks. the $560.25 with Mason. Miss Brown was held for It's Equal to Its Fame vich, metropolitan of the Ukranian Orthodox Church in the United States, consecrated Trifa- despite a Federal Court order obtained a Detroit bishop directing heard the testimony of Traffic Referee John M. Wise.

It was Wise's discovery that a license he had impounded was missing that touched off the investigation and resulted in the arrest of the Szczepaniks and Scuttle. postponement of the ceremonies. Hearing Week Set May 4-10 Acting Mayor Louis C. Miriani proclaimed May 4-10 National Hearing Week in Detroit. Object of the campaign is to promote better hearing through education.

An estimated 200,000 Detroiters suffer -some loss of hearing. Tropical Weight GABARDINE Gabardine of smooth silky texture in a most desirable weight for now 'til late fall. Able designing and skilled hand tailoring by "Registered" assure perfection of fit and lasting satisfaction. Single and double breasted models in blue, brown, or tan. $105 DEFENSE ATTORNEY Maxi- Mere claims are net reliable.

But haven't yea heard the resounding echo of thousands who say that Dexter Dairy lee Cream it best? This long-loved, ice cream has a never-before flavor and goodness that makes friends and keeps them. Why not awaken spring in your heart tonight? Serve Dexter Dairy Ice Cream in a delightful packaged bouquet of favorite flavors or plain as yon prefer. Stop at Peoples an your way home! Together they, or he, obtained more than $3,000 from the Detroit Teachers' Credit Union at 735 Calvert. BELCHER obtained $550 as a loan and a month later came back In and got an additional $350, police said. Ike Williams got $550 and a week later got $352 more.

George Hill got $350 and 11 days later "borrowed $300 more. Reuben Tocks got $560.25. Then a woman entered the picture. A May Martin got $560.25 and then applied for another loan. While she was negotiating with credit union officials, an employe, Miss Marylin St.

Ledger, 20, of 13944 Tuller, took a long look at the man impatiently waiting for her. "That man," she reported to officials "is Ike SPECIAL Investigation Detectives Miles Barrie and James Blessington said Miss Ledger was only partly right. He was everyone in the case except May Martin and she, they declared, was Cassie Lee Brown, 22, of 1333 Theodore, who had split A IV I On trial with him are his brother, John, 52, and suspended Traffic Court Patrolman John Scuttle, 49. They are charged with conspiracy to steal the licenses and records and return them to their original owners for a fee. i JUDGE SKILLMAN said the tour was arranged so that the jury will have "a visual impres-eion of the court and the things that will tie in with testimony." Starting with the cashier's cage, the group visited all phases of Traffic Court operations In the Cadillac Tower.

They were shown the vault from which the licenses were stolen and the usually unlocked file room where 1,500,000 master violations records were kept. They also stopped by the warrant office where Scuttle had been employed. AT EVERY halt. Big Louie squeezed his 370 pounds into a chair to rest. At one point, he said he wished he had a case cf beer.

During the afternoon, the jury Westinghouse Raises Pay PITTSBURGH () Westing-house Electric Corp. raised wages of 15,000 non-union employes Monday. It offered the same cost-of-living pay boost to four unions which represent another 75,000 EG Non-lnflommobl. millian J. Klinger said he had advised church officials to go through with the consecration.

He said he "felt the restraining order was not vaild and that the court order interfered with ecclesiastical and religious matters in violation of the Constitutional freedom of religion." Bishop Andrei Moldovan, of Detroit, had petitioned for the postponement until Wednesday, charging that Trifa, of Cleveland, was elected at an "illegal convention" in Chicago. Federal District Judge Allan K. Grim issued a temporary restraining action. The consecration elevated Trifa to the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the United States and Canada. Wathobi.

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