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3 Killed and 2 Injured in Crash at Intersection CLASSIFIED SPORTS Foremen to Launch Dual Drive To Push Fight Congress Bills BY FRAN MARTIN Free Press Labor Writer 31, MONDAY, MARCH NEWS DETROIT'S 'JEAN Executive Back to Close DETROIT Wreckage in Which Three Died i VI PI 1 'i THIS CAR GOING EAST OX ELEVEN MILE CRASHED INTO VALJEAN' Returns to Out His Debt fl ler automobile had a defective muffler. SADLER TOLD police that he believed he had driven by instinct from Six Mile and John R. to his home, a distance of about three miles. At that intersection, he said, he remembers that he seemed to doze off. As he stopped in front of his home, Sadler slumped over the horn.

Neighbors found Mrs. Sadler, unconscious, beside him. Until notified of the Sadlers experience, Hazel Park police had been searching for a hit-run motorist, who sideswiped another auto near Six Mile and John R. They believe that Sadler's car figured in the mishap. Police said that Sadler did not recall the incident.

a 1 x- c-jxv The Foreman's Association of America, bolstered by the Su preme Court decision assunn, its bargaining rights, will start a full-scale organization drive. Coupled with the drive will be lobbying in Washington against pending legislation aimed against organizing of foremen. Later, the union may start a drive for a general wage increase, President Robert H. Keys said. Meanwhile, it will seek elimination of alleged wage inequities.

THE PROGRAM was recommended by Keys and approved by the union's 16-man executive board Sunday at FAA headquarters, 515 Barium Tower. "We will start a high-class educational program for supervisory employees on a national basis," Keys said. He estimated that 2,000,000 foremen were eligible for FAA representation. There are now 33,000 members in auto, steel, rubber and miscellaneous industries. AUTO INDUSTRY contracts include those with the Ford Motor Co.

and the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Keys said the union had won 38 and lost four elections conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. The union plans to petition the board for another 200 elections. Negotiations with the Packard Motor Car which was a party in the Supreme Court case, will open shortly, Keys said. Keys will direct the educational program geared "to bring about better harmony, co-operation and understanding between management and foremen." "WE LOOK to foremen settling production workers' grievances," he said.

"This presumably has been part of the normal grievance procedure under union contracts, but foremen have not been empowered to settle grievances equitably." One hundred foremen will participate in the Washington lobbying, according to Keys. Five bills, including the Ball-Taf t-Smith Bill, seek to deprive foremen of benefits under the Wagner Act. Keys predicted that such legis lation would put foremen "on a slugging-match basis" with em ployers. He asserted that "inaccurate" testimony had been given by management representatives be fore the House and Senate labor committee, relative to foremen. Aid to Migrants WATERVLIET Allegan, Ber rien and Van Buren Counties have established committees to develop progress of education, recreation and health for migrant families.

Associated Press WireDhoto MEL SHANE RE-ENTERS PENAL INSTITUTION Detroit factory head pays penalty for escape OVERCOME BY FUMES Couple Saved from Death by Blaring Auto Horn THIS CAR GOING NORTH ON GREENFIELD, MAKING TANGLED WRECKAGE One driver and two passengers died and two were hurt as the result Autos Not Weavirt the Green 17, 1947 Prison Detroit's Valjean," Mel Shane, 37, returned to the London (O.) prison farm Sunday to finish out his debt to society. Like the hero of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables," Shane became a wealthy manufacturer until his past caught up with him. Since he slugged a prison guard and escaped 12 years ago, Shane has risen from a $50-a-week machinist to become owner of a tool and die firm at 2045 E. Eight Mile. BUT AS CONVICT George Mason, he once more is serving a one-to-20-year term for possessing explosives and burglar tools.

As he walked through the prison gates, this modern "Valjean" still uttered no bitterness toward the unidentified tipster who "turned him in." "I suppose he got the usual $25 reward," he once commented. GOV. SIGLER, while "reluctantly" signing extradition papers, earlier indicated he would recommend clemency on the part of Ohio authorities. After his escape, Shane worked six years as a machinist at the Detroit Gear plant, 12345 Kercheval. For a year he served as president of Local 42, UAW (CIO).

He established the Shane Grinding Service, 2537 Myrtle, then sold out and opened the Eight Mile plant. SHANE WAS married in 1944 and has one child. At the time of his arrest last November, the couple was estranged. A native of Riverdale, he worked in Lansing and Toledo before his conviction in Cleveland. While denying he had participated in any burglaries, Shane was arrested in the company of companions with police records.

HE SERVED three years and two months before his escape. Shane boasted that his firm became known for strike-free labor relations. During the war, he said, his plant worked for two years without letup through Sundays or holidays. About 100 Detroit business men and union leaders petitioned Gov. Sigler to deny extradition.

During his absence, Shane's business will be managed by his attorney, Maurice Dreifuss. he stated. Accepts Call THREE RIVERS The Rev. Robert Fischer, of Pontiac, has accepted a call to the Bible Church, Three Rivers, and will assume his duties Easter. i -I Autos Hurled 100 Feet by Collision Five Hurt in Two Other Accidents Three persons were killed and two injured when a speeding car smashed into another at a stop street in Berkley Sunday night, police said.

The dead were Francis J. Schaub, of 3184 Gardner, Berkley; Mrs. Ernestine Ellerthorpe, 56, of 15710 Archdale, and Ross C. McBraine, 42, of 869 Longfellow. Roy H.

Ellerthorpe, 56, husband of the dead woman, is in critical condition at Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital. Also in the hospital is Schaub's daughter, Cynthia, 3. THE FORCE of the collision at Greenfield and 11 Mile catapulted the cars more than 100 feet off the highway. Berkley police said Ellerthorpe was driving east on 11 Mile Road when he hit Schaub's car going north on Greenfield.

Schaub and McBrain, a passenger in Ellerthorpe's car, were killed instantly. Mrs. Ellerthorpe was dead on arrival at Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital. Five person were injured in two other Detroit area accidents Sunday night.

All are in Wayne County General Hospital. DOLORES PEREZ, 13, and Miss Florence Brooks, 19, both of 26054 Carlysle, Inkster, were injured critically by a hit-run car on Jim Daly near Colgate, Inkster. Police at the hospital were tipped off to the alleged driver's whereabouts by a telephone call from his wife. They arrested Michael Koteles, 28, at his home, 25947 Annapolis, Dearborn Township, Koteles who, police said, had been drinking admitted hitting the women. He said his wife, Bessie, had called police.

He is held for investigation of leaving the scene of an accident. A three-car collision in Allen Park claimed three victims. Seriously injured were: Mrs. Alice Gray, 48, of 3360 Hudson, and her two passengers, Miss Lois Halyard, 38, of 507 Vinewood, and George Stevenson, 77, of 5202 Williams. Allen Park police said a car driven by Oreth Rader, 30, of 3826 High, Ecorse, smashed head-on into Mrs.

Gray's car under the DTI viaduct on Ecorse Rd. AFTER THE collision, a third car hit the wreckage. It was driven by Rex Buckels, 27, of Belleville. In another accident earlier Sunday a pedestrian was injured seriously by an automobile at Plymouth and Mark Twain. The pedestrian, Quinton Stave, 45, of 12340 WTashburn, was taken to Highland Park General Hospital.

Herman Chambers, 50, of 280 W. Chicago, Livonia Township, driver of the car, was held for investigation of reckless driving. Reuther Local Set to Vote UAW (CIO) West Side Local 174, "home" local of President Walter P. Reuther, Monday will start a five-day ballot for officers. A heavy vote is anticipated.

Edward J. Cote, who has headed the pro-Reuther administration for four years, seeks re-election. His opponent is George A. Young, a former international representative. 'Body in Trunk Alarms Citizens JACKSON Detective Sgt.

Rex Sawle was one of several officers 5ent from headquarters to find a car with a body in the trunk. The alarm came from frightened citizens. In checking the license number. Sowle discovered that it was his car. Then he remembered he had I taken his car to a garage to have a raiue jocaieu.

ine serviceman had told him he would place a mechanic in the trunk to try to find it. Bibles for Schools JACKSON Michigan Gideons, in session here, heard D. J. Depree, of Grand Rapids, their state president, tell of the organization's plans to place Bibles in schools in a campaign against child delinquency. Visiting Gideons spoke in 34 churches here Sunday.

Michigan Deaths ALGONAC Miss Mabel D. van IB. BRTDEN Herbert E. Brannon. 43.

CAMDEN Ada Roost. 70. CHARLOTTE Theodore B. Bauer. 70.

CLIO John Skepnek. 54. OLDWATER Mrs. Edward H. Fish.

65. FLINT James Hayes. 49; Mrs. Nora KerfUfon. 7H: Mrs.

Elie C. Dobbs. 70: Mrs. Mary Ingham. 81; John C.

McCord. '4GOOPELLS John H. Purtell. SO. HARBOR BEACH Mrs.

Gustav Moeller. HOLT John Rummins, Bl. JACKSON Daniel C. Jaeokes. 74: Thomas A.

Fitzgerald. 71; Mrs. Abbie R. McBnde. 79.

KALAMAZOO Mrs. Mary Bauer. S3; I'harles E. Brooks. 53: Mrs.

Rosalie 40: James H. Shugsrars. 64. LANSING John S. Meredith.

78: Mrs. Klureiiee V. Stevens. 41; Mrs. Rachael B.

IcReavy. 63. LAPfiER Dana E. Rose. 2o LAWRENCE John Nichols.

81. MARCELLUS Mrs. Anna G. Laramie. 4 SOV Mrs.

Marjtaret Mayke. 72. MEMPHIS Miss Nettie Z. Dunning. 73.

MT. MORRIS Mrs. Tamson F. Fullen. ')0OTSEGO Richard Wui.

71. PORT Hl'RON Mrs. Henry C. TVnkel-ber fiO- Mrs. Edward Busha.

68. IPDLETON Mrs. Henry Wort. 81. VERNON Georce H.

Let ion. 71. XYLAND Mrs. Jessie L. Clack.

81. BY THE O'CALLAGHAN Ye say that Corktown's dead? That the brogue, soft the way ye could be spilttin it with a bog shovel, has become the Yankee twang? Then, in all truth, ye were not at the doin's at Holy Trinity the Sunday past. Men, women and childer, with Ireland but a memory whispered by ancient grand-sir, somehew found the lilt of the Mother tongue blurring their talk. AND BY THE same token, was not a tear or two about blurring the vision as pageant and story spun the tale of the little spot of green that was Old Corktown? By twos and by dozens, the sons and daughters of the oldsters who made the Shadow of Holy Trinity a hallowed land, drove up in their brave new automobiles to attend the doin's at Holy Trinity Church. But, sorrow's the day, divil the one of the propserin cars bore the one color that may be tolerated on the eve of St.

Patrick. The blaring of an automobile horn in front of their home at 23329 Carlisle, Hazel Park, probably saved the lives Sunday night of Lonnie Sadler, 48, and his wife, Icye, 43, victims of carbon monoxide fumes. The Hazel Park Fire Department inhalator squad, notified by neighbors, revived the couple. Police determined that the Sad- Champagne Thief Touchy About Loot FLINT Sheriff William R. Marshall is looking for a thief with expensive tastes.

A bar on N. Saginaw was broken into and 10 quarts and 10 pints of champagne were taken. The rob ber ignored a complete stock of beer and wine. 1. Thotog by Wilder Heather green, make the closest bids, when any Irishman worthy of the name knows that the heather bells the hills with purple.

And this, hold yer whisht In a town that once painted its streetcars a glorious emerald before risking them through the streets of Old Corktown. BUT, GREEN or no, the spirits of old Corktowners rose to the occasion as the pageant unrolled before them. Pipes lilting of ancient memories found their echoes in the sighs that rose like an incense at the famous church. Light of foot as the deer that mothered Cuchullain, young ones sped through the dances that made glens and crossroads merry and brought the laugh to the listening ears of the folk of the Elf-mounds. The shame that was Detroit's, through her largest industry, was forgotten even as wistful fingers caressed shila-laghs with the thought of retribution.

Rival Factions in UAW Recess Harmony Talk BY ARTHUR O'SHEA Free Press Labor Writer LOUISVILLE A two-hour UAW (CIO) harmony conference ended Sunday night with the door still I open for peace among rival right and left-wing factions. The meeting, arranged by mutual consent of both groups, was held in the suite of George F. Addes, UAW secretary-treasurer. HEADING A rival faction, which is seeking to curb the political warfare that has rocked the union for 12 months, was UAW President Walter P. Reuther.

At midnight they issued a joint statement: "We have recessed to hold a further meeting later this week." The regular quarterly session of the 22-man executive board begins here Monday. Both sides presented peace formulas, it was understood. Whatever compromises might be effected would have to be approved by partisans of both leaders before a second meeting could be held. FLANKING REUTHER at the peace parley were Thomas Starling, Atlanta regional director; William McAulay, Pontiac regional director, and Norman Matthews, regional co-director of Detroit. It was the first time since Reuther's election last March that Matthews was openly aligned with Reuther's wing.

With Addes were Richard T. Leonard, UAW vice president; Percy Llewellyn, Detroit regional co-director; Jack Holt, Flint regional director, and Arnold At-wood, Indianapolis regional OR. WHO LIVES AT 19952? Home Is Castle to 2 Men No, it's not a Sassenach plot. Not by the length of the mile that landlords foisted on the folks of Erin. FOR THE RANKS of the automobile builders are a-swarm with men who flaunt ancient names the way a banner is unfurled.

Keep it dark, but it seems that even Henry Ford, and he not too far separated from the turf of the County Cork, can't muster a passable Irish green in the rainbow colors of his cars. Whisper it behind the hand, but the single shade of green in the Ford line has turned out to be a shocking Botsford blue, of all things! LEXINGTON and Vermont greens are a-plenty in the Packard lines, but who ever heard of them in Eire? The same is true, wirfa-asthrue, of Kaiser-Frazer, where Crystal and Turf greens come closest. General Motors, with their forced his way into his home brandishing a knife and an-announcing: "It's a shame when a man can't come into his own home." Cargile hit the intruder with a poker. LATER HILL appeared at Receiving Hospital. He told police that he was struck by a stranger he found in his home.

Police are holding Hill at the hospital for investigation while he recuperates. Wife Slayer Faces Murder Count Monday Octavio Finati, 42, who confessed to police that he clubbed his wife to death in her Highland Park home, will be arraigned on a first-degree murder charge Monday. The mutilated, seminude body of Marcella Finati was found Thursday morning in the living room of her home at 262 Massachusetts. He will be arraigned in Highland Park Municipal Court at 9:30 a. a half hour before funeral services for Mrs.

Finati at the Calcaterra Funeral Home, 1201 E. Grand Blvd. Five-Day-Old Ttvin Has Tooth Pulled CASS CITY Virginia Bethmil-ler, one of twins born to Dr. and Mrs. Don Miller, had a tooth extracted when she was five days old.

The tooth was fully developed in her lower jaw when she was born. Her father also had a fully developed tooth at birth. Her twin brother, Joel Ernest, had none. You'll Enjoy the Protection and Smart, Good Looks of "Gold -Label" All-Wool Gabardine Here are coats that are tops for year-round wear in chill, in rain, in any weather. Raglan- or set-in-sleeve models of 100 worsted gabardine specially treated for rain resistance.

Gray or tan. Other Hudson Raincoats $6.75 to $40 1 1 I Who was at home and who wasn't James Cargile, 23, of 19952 Birwood, thought he was, and John Henry Hill, 45, of 19992 Birwood, was sure that he was. Cargile told police a stranger Trappers Find Frozen Body Near Algonac Special to the Free Prew ALGONAC Two Indian musk-rat trappers reported finding a man frozen in ice on an island in the St. Clair flats 10 miles south of here. State Police at the St.

Clair post said all persons reported drowned in the St. Clair River in recent months have been accounted for. Detroit police were asked to check records in an attempt to identify the victim. The trappers estimated that the body had been in the water since summer. U.S.

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City 64 S5 22 Los Angeles 72 45 Seattle 70 39 12 Gladwin 27 11 22 Cadillac 25 -14 17 Pellston 28 7 22 Houghton 24 10 22 AlDena SO 15 Chicasro Cincinnati Cleveland DETROIT Gd. Rapids Indianapolis Marquette Ste. Marie Trav. City Bismarck Des Moines Duluth Kansas City Mintieanolis- St. Paul Jackson Battle Creek Lansintr Musketon Sannaw 31 34 31 31 30 3." 24 30 25 31! 34 28 44 31 20 30 7 28.

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