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Quofe of the Day James M. Cox, 1920 candidate for President, on 85th birthday: "The whole mess we are in now stems entirely from the destruction of the League of Nations. That was the worst crime ever committed against civilization. These days there are too many people in too many cars in too much of a hurry going in too many directions to nowhere tor nothing. The Kernel Friday, April 1, 1955 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3 residents Enter Dispute Today's Chuckle MSG SI Ml 4T City to Promote Giant Spectacle Aquarama Aug 20-28 to Rival Extravaganzas Elsewhere Strike On At U.S.

Rubber 6,500 Walk Out, Picket Plant Ask Death For Rapists. Kidnapers Would Require A Referendum President's Names Supply Mitre Fun So fascinated was he by 3 Attorney Hits View Of 4M' Dean Law Chief Insists It's Up to Voters BY OWLV C. DEATKICK or fnir Ijinstng Hurraa LANSING Michigan's Legislature has no legal power to call Michigan State College the Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied i I fc BY FRANK BECKMAN Free l're staff Writer I rotn Our I winning Itiireaa LANSING Four Re- big splash to put its name publican state senators on the worlds fun list. Thursday introduced ew Orleans has its Mardi Gras, Pasadena, the Tourna- bill providing electrocuJnt of Roses Iuisville its Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis -W 7 i6v 1 tion for adult murderers, and for all kidnapers and rapists of girls under the age of 12. The bill was introduced before legislators had learned of the dis-; THE SPECTACLE will be covery of the bodysof Barbara known as the "Detroit Interna-Gaca, of Detroit.

Itional Aquarama." It is planned A strike at the United! States Rubber 6600 Jefferson affecting memb' of Local Work ers began at 12:01 a. m.j Friday. I The strike started as manage-! ment and the United Rubber Workers Union were in the midst of negotiations. Lt. A 1 i Kosmowski dis-1 patched 20 policemen to see that order was kept.

He said that i pickets were thrown around the plant. i 1- ii 1 MismuwsM sxiu uiai ne was, notified officially by the firm! that the union had elected to Strike. 19 Plants Struck By Rubber Workers NEW YORK (JP) A spokesman for the U.S. Rubber Co. said early Friday the company's 19 plants were struck by United The bill carries a provision an annual weeklong festival A HAPPY FAMILY was stirred by tragedy almost in its backyard.

Mrs. Mary Jane Smelser, 46; her husband, 44; son. Robert, daughter Winifred, 10. Up front are Babe, 3, and Buddy, seven months. Did the Dogs Know A Slayer Whs Near? Rubber Workers (CIO) at mid-j night.

The company and the union had a referendum before it would be come effective. I A REVIEW by the Supreme; Court would automatically fol-; low any conviction that merited the death penalty. The senators who introduced the bill are Lynn C. Francis, of Midland; Frank Andrews, of Hill-man; Donald E. Smith, of Owosso, and Haskell Nichols, of Jackson.

"I appreciate the fact that Michigan has been cool to capital punishment bills," said Francis. "But this may focus attention on the need for drastic preventives to stop kidnaping and rape of your girls." Included in the death penalty! murder counts will be those com- jmitted dlinng prison riots or while prisoners are being movel to or from State prisons. Rapists and kidnapers who fail to return their young victims, either boys or girls under 12, unharmed, would be subject to supreme penalty, only if the jury so recommended. Prisoners sentenced to death would be confined in solitary I jbeen negotiating here for a new(jren have lived quietly for 13 Detroit is ready to make a the Motor Speedway, Now Detroit has cooked up an extravaganza, which it thinks could rival any of these. of mirth and beauty to dazzle fun-lovers here and everywhere.

The Aquarama will be Aug. The event will give Detroit a chance to show off its t'ivic Center and to put a bit of bounce on the River. i Plans for the festival were unveiled Thursday to some 75; leading citizens who jammed Maybr Cobo's office. T'Yto ont hitciQ cm rf tnnco nrac. i mus iii uusmew.

try, labor, professions, govern-1 ment and marine circles spill-; ed over. "at oeen mnoren a long tiie in the mind of Councilman Blanche Parent I Wise. She got the idea several! months ago and went around to; see what others thought of it. "The response was over whelming." she said. Mrs.

Wises groundwork led to the setting up of a group to handle arrangements. John Mulford, president of the Gray Marine Motor was happy to become chairman of ve committee. MRS. WISE and Benson Fcrd, vice president of the Ford Motor Co. and general manager of the Lincoln-Mercury Division, became co-chairmen.

Mayor Cobo and Council President Louis C. Mirieni were named honorary chairmen. Mrs. Wise bubbled over she talked about Aquarama. as "The acres of magnificent river' at our doorstep give Detroit the greatest aquatic playground of any city in the world," she said.

"Our beautiful Civic Center cells and have no contact withitne xecuti contract. The old one expirea at The sonkesman. E. M. Cushms.

in charge of company negoti-; ators said "it all happened sud- denlv." He declined further nAmm-nf Union sources could not be reached for comment. Wages were not'an issue in the1 contract talks, covering some I wfrnftTTR Rnhher workers. Seeks to Halt Deportation Of Family Rep. Charles C. Diggs, has! introduced a bill in Congress to halt the forced return of a Detroit woman and three of her children to Communist China.

She is Mrs. Katherine Loo; Feun, 37. who was married to Seto Guen Feun, of 7501 Beau bien, in China after Feun had; presumed his first wife died dur 7 Hotel's Sale To Diocese Confirmed Will Become Home 111 1 Or AjJPd ny Jlllie 1 i PnrrViQCD rf iya Tornir or VI 1 I 1 1 1 1 11 '11 1 1 1 Hotel lay the Detroit Catholic Archdiocese as a residence for f- the aging was confirmed Thursday, The 12-story, 700-room hotel will be taken over by June 1 and will be used immediately to ac- annOUnCement rom Archdiocese said, Cost of purchase will be met by gifts to the 1955 Arch- mocesan uevelopment Fund, it The residersrp nnsratorf bv the carmelit- Sisters for the Aged and Infirm Consummation of the transac-i tion fulfilled a long-sought goal of Edward Cardinal Mooney, archbishop of Detroit, and members of his staff. "GUESTS WILL include single persons, married couples and a limited number of chronically ill," a spokesman said. "Wlien remaining rooms are made available, total capacity will be 650 residents." Facilities will include a large chapel, medical and rehabilita-' tion departments and aits and "crafts center.

There also will be kitchens and medical dispensaries on each floor. It is the most ambitious project ever undertaken in the Detroit area trt assist the' aging. The structure also will serve as a center for activities for all elderly persons. It will be modelled after similar ventures in New York, Phila- de'phia and Boston. THE HOTEL IS located at Woodward and Adelaide, a short distance north of the downtown area.

WOlllclll DlivGF AcCUSCfl 111 Death Mr, EarHne Wagons. Metamora. driver of a car in-1 voiveu in an acciueni wnicn naicu 1JVT HI Hl. 111 VJAJLUIU Dec. 5.

was bound over to Oak land County Circuit Court Thursday on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Mrs. Wagonshutz appeared be fore Springfield Township Justice Emmett Leib. who ordered her J2.500 bond continued. She will be arraigned in Circuit Court Tuesday.

Socialile Dies NEW YORK (-P) Mrs. Mary Osgood Field Hoving. 54, former socialite wife of Walter Hoving, president of Bonwit Teller de partment store, died in a hospital of burns received in a gas stove explosion at her home. the (Jack) Smelser and their chil- years at 4975 Halstead. West room home was invaded by fV 1 011100151 I -K-m.

-mm, m- Vow to Aid Coroners BY TOM! CRAIG Tree Pre.s Staff Wrllf i Wayne County's coroners, fighting for their jobs, held an "urgent emereencv meet jing" Thursday night in thej Barium Hotel to answer "vicioUS attacks" and an nounce some "amazing revela i'ati Addressing a group of 35 County Democrats, including some persons who have repeatedly served on coroner's juries, attornt Arthur L. Rob-bins acted as spokesman for Drs. Edmund J. Knobloch and Samuel B. Milton.

Robbins said he was "shocked by the attitude of the prostituted press in their failure to inform the people of the fraud being perpetrated." HE REFERRED to an earlier contention by Frank X. Martel. president of the Detroit and Wayne County Federation of I I i 1 i 1 that recent game we had, in which the first letters of the last names of seven Presidents spells the word CALVERT, that Billy Bee; of Hubbell has dreamed up another pair of games along the same line. The first one of these goes What President's name can be spelled with the first letter of last names of other Presidents? And so you can have some lasting fun out of this don't go peeking into any reference books here is one that gets a little tougher. Identify each letter in the words LAMB, MARCH and CHATTER with the first initial of the last name of a Presiden repeating the name of no single President in all three words? And since a few of you reported you got stuck by that word CALVERT oddly enough by one of the most obvious names of a President which is why it was a fooler here is a rundown on it: Coolidge, etc.

A Adams, etc. Lincoln Van Buren Eisenhower Roosevelt Truman, etc. In Memory Of the Old West We find now that our fine contributing artist, Marvin E. Girard, of Owosso, also has the soul of a poet. For along with a fine black and white sketch of the plains Indian, he sends along a poetic tribute in memory of Col.

Zack T. Miller, of 101 Ranch. Col. Miller, as many of you Old Timers will re- member, not only was owner of one of the huge ranches in Oklahoma but it was under his fine hand that the "Wild West" show became standard entertainment. And he also had a hand in originating the "rodeo" as diversion for Easterners.

Sometimes in Miller's "Wild West" shows the Sioux as they had a few times in reality won the battles. Which made it easier years ago, when you played "Cowboys and Indians," to gel some boys to play the part of "the Indians" but we mustn't stray. For have to get on with the column and the fact that Girard's drawing goes very nicely with the poem BROTHER TO THE INDIAN Windblown men stood on hunk of Oklahoma and said their goodbys to a name and an Empire. Shovels listened in the snow while Ponca Tom told the wind and the sky and The Great Spirit of a new sleeper. Windblown men said their goodbys to a Yesterday and a Tomorrow remembers.

A pioneer sleeps somewhere in Oklahoma, and the Western moon, rides night herd on star critters and remembers. The big bowlegged wind sings comber songs on Cowboy Hill and remembers the Indian's brother. A buckskin jacket and a proud Stetson are hard things to forget! bcience, Dean E. Blythe Stason, head of the University of Michigan Law-School, told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Dean Stason said only the people could make that change by altering- the Constitution.

A graduate of Slaxon law school, Leland Carr, attorney for MC since disputed Mason's Interpretation of th Constitution. Carr. son of Leland W. Carr, Supreme Court chief justice, really put his foot in his mouth when he started out to add that he was "disappointed in the attitude" taften by Stason. Senator Haskell Nichols, Jack- ff a of ment NirhnVrH "I apologize," said Carr.

"APOLOGIZE TO the dean then," commanded Nichols. Carr did. Later he and Stason shook hand3 and remembered jthat Carr had never been in any class taught by the dean. The hearing was in answer to a demand from U. of M.

of-' ficials who objected to the bill that would change the college name and already has House approval. Tt. It was a contest as bitter as any football conflict between the two institutions Dr. John Hannah, president of MSC, was surrounded by his top wher U. of M.

President 1 "attcT cnr (echelon assistants er.tered the room "HELLO JOHN," said Dr. Hatcher, extending his hand as he crossed the narrow room. "Welcome back from the North Pole." Hannah smiled as they shook hands and said he was glad to be back from the governmental inspection trip atop the world. From then on, the two presidents snarled politely at each other in a manner that even Emily Post couldn't criticize. Hatcher called MSC "that great sister institution for which we have the friendliest feelings," and then proceeded to tell MSC name after starting as the Indiana Agricultural College.

He recalled tuning in the MSC radio station and being shocked when can until they get to 'T thought I was listening to Hannah said Hatcher's ttrni-j parison between MSC and an argicultural college In Indiana wa not appropriate. He said far as he knew Purdue wai always Purdue since the time John Purdue gave, the land and money to start it. "That's Hatcher whispered to his associates. Committee chairman Harry F. Hittle, Lansing Republican, a of Law.

asked both sides to sub stitutional and legal questions involved. Fixing Light Real Thing Detroit police received half a ozen reports of a flying saucer in the Telegraph Road-Soluthfield area Thursday night. "Red and tubular," somewhat like a neon sign, was the consensus of observers. They saw right It was a light plane carrying a red neon sign advertising an automotive agency. Tw.n Beach Elementary children were born there.

School, said the family heard Buddy, a boxer puppy, and Babe, a springer spaniel, barking THE ITKST Mrs. Feun sprinfeer spa found after the end of the warjmamy" and refused her husband's re-j Winifred ran after the dogs quest for a divorce. and called them, but they came ux.uia. uui6 Purchase of the Westminster a wonderful aquatic festival. Community Center a three.story "Detroit is seeking the 1960 building at Hamilton and Bos-Olympic Games.

The Aquarama ton, to house the Associated would give us experience in Charities of the Archdiocese of planning for them." Detroit also was announced. Mr. and Mrs. Winfred E. BQOmfield Xownship Thursday their modest live rlir- nffir-ialc femeisers nome is lne nearest to the country dump Wilt I octx Udi a K-tOO.

UVVi a-o where Barbara Gaca's body was found. SMELSER returned from his job at the General Motors Truck and Coach Division in rontiac at p. m. There was no dinner on the table. His wife, Mary Jane, 46, hadn't had a chance to fix it.

"Every time I start to put mv apron on, someone wants to take a picture," she said. The rail workers who found Barbara's body reported their find to Mrs. Smelser at 2:30 p. m. She called the State Police and the Oakland county sneriri office.

The Smelser house Is about 300 vards from the dump. ALTII0UG NOXE of tne family saw anything suspicious, thejr two dogs had to be called back from a dash toward the dump late Wednesday afternoon Winifred 10. a fourth-grader baek growling and continued thv were Put in the house- is. is a student Walled LaKeHigh School. Th, family has two other sons, one married and the otner in me Air Force.

Mother Slimmed; Son Faces Writ Recorders Jude Gerald Groat Thursday recommended rnsed of shatterine: a cup against his mother's face. Police said James Wooten. of 8571 Rutland, injured his mother, Irene, 35, with the cup Tuesday when she objected to his telling a friend of periodically beating her. 3Iichian Forecast (U. S.

Weather Bureau) Detroit area: Partly cloudy ajid mild Friday with moderate south to southwest winds. Low 40-44. i high 60-64. On year ttn Fridatr: l.nw 33. hirh 38.

prriDitation o. i i Labor (AFL). that a tni om it. majority of the Board of Super-! visors had not voted on a motion' to ask a referendum to abolish! HATCHER SAID Purdue Uni- the coroner's post. jversity had found a different i Ann.aiJ Board said it is "compelled byj law" to order deportation.

Thej Feuns have a fourth child, born J'J? Iftcted by the order. Legislators Inspect Park Special the Fr Pre MONROE Members of the Senate Appropriations Commit (The Free Press reported March 19 that the board's motion passed on a first vote, 43 to 39, and that a later roll-call vote put the issue on the ballot by tne announcer said, "This is a 70-12 majority.) i Michigan State." instead of Mich igan State College. IN A prepared statement, Elsie; MSC supporters have agreed Gilmore artino- rhairmsr. rf ifcolto drop the college part when- otner prisoners. Go Easy On 4Louie LCC Asked Attorney Edward F.

Collins pleaded with the Michigan Liquor Control Commission Thursday to show mercy to Louis (Big Louie) 3zczepanik. Szczepanik was before the Commission to appeal its order) revoking his tavern license at 3500 Junction. "I ask you to extend the hand of mercy to Louis Szczepanik's wife, an invalid for 15 years, and their two smal) children" Collins pleaded. All we want is a chance to sell the business so that the wife and SSJSrSf tors who have about S30.000 com intr" r-nllinc air! SZCZEIWNIK and his brother. "Little John," also are awaiting a rehearing before the Michigan Supreme Court on one to five-vear terms imposed bv Record- ers judge w.

ivicrvay ssKuirnun. brothers were convicted in! a driver's license scandal. I i 1 The Commission took the! license" anneal iinder advisement. Did you know it's real easy to enter niy big Cinerama Holiday Trip Contest? Keep the answers to these daily questions and include them on your entry with my crossword puzzle each Sunday. My question for Friday is: Tou can use what to make a $17 table? Find the four-letter word oni the Do-It-Yourself Page (14).

FRIDAY'S ANSWER Keep this as a reminder so you can write your answer in the space provided on your Sunday crossword puzzle entry blank and you may win not only 5750, but a abulous J2.000 all-expense paid Cinerama Holiday vacation in Switzerland for two, plus $100 I i tee and the House Ways andjan assault and nattery warrant Means Committee toured Ster-! against a 17-year-old youth ac jling State Park on Lake Erie near here Thursday. The committees are considering a. request made by the State Conservation Department for money to continue the dredging program now under way at the park. WtATHlg BUREAU MAP us." Robert F. Hastings, vice presi dent of the architectural firm of Smith, Hinchman Grylls, displayed some sketches his trt.

in iiau inaue to illustrate me cw colorful parades with a marine motif, boat races, fireworks, swimming spectacles colored balloons and banners looking- down on an artificial lagoon at the foot of Woodward, TVy'lI 711 11JOW lllOJIC C0fl fo Finn kJUiii KJ M. 11 III YPSILANTI Representatives of Willow Development Co. and the Ypsilanti Township Board Thursday signed the final agreement for sale of Willow Village to the firm. The firm paid $30,000 to the township. U.S.

Temperatures it Hnnn Endl mt ft P. M.t Official Government Fienres MICHIGAN Hteh l.nw Hich I AInen -J J3rkon 62 31 Bjitlt fk. "3 Marauette 6.S 4r PF.TROIT R3 3 Mukeron 34 Escanaba 4S Sai-inaw P4 3-2 Flint fi-J 31 S. S. Jfari il 22 (id.

Ranidii 62 Trav. Cut 30 MIDWEST Bismarck 5S 33 Ind n'polis PI 3.1 ctnearo 9 hans cut 4" rt? 7 4( Milwaukee- t4 S4 4 Omaha 2 4'1 MA M.Loui 4" KS IVs nines i'i Dulllth F.ST N-w York 4 Wssh rion 2 53 TH 4n Miami 4 it N. Orlean 7S 43 as Atlanta to 4 1 Phri'T 77 31 5. La. OtT 5.

57 -M 50 Tncan 73 S3 ft. worth 79 41 45 Okla. Cut 71 IVtToH nri. m. Msoa rse.

12:13: K-t. 3:09 i i i i Blizzards Will Rule (April Fool) I 1 Countv Democratic Com imittee. promised party support jof the coroners in opposition to ment in the County by a Repub- lican minority." The movement to abolish the coroner system has been taken up by one group or another in almost every election since 1939. The Wayne County Medical Society and other groups have advocated replacement by a Civil Service medical examiner system. In Los Angeles Thursday, Dr.

Charles P. Larson told the Amer- ican Academy of General Prac 2.000 certified pathologists who could investigate nearly all unexplained deaths. Physicians generally, be said, should work for the operation of coroners' offices on a medi cal investigation basis. Trained personnel are needed. 1near Columbia.

S. Thursday as reports of telephone-line de- i nicked lirt in the strik STTUCtlOn piCK.ea L.p uae striA. against the Southern Bell Tele- 1 phone Co. "'-'he said, not only to uncover" Trnnfratnrn Marh 31 'nre crime, but also to get and pre-lw htrh so (i943. medical evidence properly.

1 hinrrr foreraM hour 30 mil): North 28. all other direction i above freeztnr. Blast Phone Line SE and t.orr Mirhican- ParfN rlourlr and mild with orrational horr. i wind lo-is mnh. iw ATLANTA (JP) A under-! hith 62- ground a 1 carrying about! and NW T-ower Mwhiran: Parti rloui and mild with orrasional tbo.rrv 1,000 Circuits a dynamited h'h 5fW64 3'', and Vowr Mirhian: pari r'oudT and mild with oreaional shower, Soothe-lT wind.

10-15 moh. Lew 34-40. htrt bS2, spending money!.

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