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THE DETROIT FR EE PRESS TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 2 5. 1841 U.A.W. Charges Wholesale Lay offs of Union Workers at Ford Rouge Plant Acts to Appeal pass, but sought to emphasize their contentions that it was unneces Discuss Ways to Make Better Citizens Aid-Bills Foes sary. "Not one scintilla, not one shred of evidence can be deduced," Clark contended, to show that Adolf Hit to 'Stump U.S.

to Labor Board Plea to Ask Contempt of Court Writ ler has any designs against the United States "and no competent A School of Landscape Design for Amateur Gardeners Plan to Take Fight to military authority has made or will make that statement" Intervention Admitted LaFollette said that proponents People After Vote Continued from Page One of the measure "are openly admit ting that tnis bill means intervention and quite logically, of your fight. Our backs are against the wall." course, intervention means war." For the first time in history, he "This bill means war," he cried. "Whatever fine trappings it is decked witli it hides the skull and bones of death on old world battlefields and death on the seven seas. Who will assume to limit CONDUCTED by Mr. Robert Sturtc-vant, nationally known teacher and lecturer.

Offered by the Detroit Garden Center, sponsored by the Michigan Horti. cultural Society. No charge for this course, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 25 and 26 at 10 A. M. and 2 P.

M. each day in the Twelfth Floor Auditorium. said, this country is going into an undeclared war "that we had nothing to do with, that rages on another continent on which we have no troops." Declaring that "we are the absentee warrior," Johnson scoffed at Administration claims that an expeditionary force will not be sent to Europe. where the graveyards of this war will be?" Forecasts Dictatorship He charged that the bill would CLIPPER DOWN FOR REPAIRS BELEM. Brazil Feb.

24 (A The New York-bound Yankee Clipper made an unscheduled stop here today for motor repairs. She was expected to continue tomorrow to Port of Spain, Trinidad. create a dictatorship in the United Tuesday) at 10 A. M. "The Home at 2 P.M.

"Detail," Wednesday) at 10 A. Beds and at 2 P. M. "Special Problems." States and suggested "perhaps it is the logical result of the viola tion of the third-term tradition." In another radio address, Alf M. Landon called the lease-lend HUDSON'S bill the most dangerous proposal ever brought before Congress, and said that "there is still time" to mine's 1225-123S Woodwtri Are.

defeat the measure. "There has been an attempt to make ordinary individuals like you and me feel helpless in the The U.A.W.-C.I.O. prepared Monday to ask the National Labor Relations Board to press contempt-of-court charges against the Ford Motor Co. for the alleged wholesale layoff of union members In the Rouge plant's glass division. At the same time, counsel for the union sought a writ of habeas corpus in Circuit Court in behalf of Jack Earle.

UA.W.-CJ.O. plant chairman, charging that he had been forcibly detained in the Ford employment offices during the incident that led to the layoff charges. Ford Denies Trouble A Ford spokesman denied that any trouble existed, declaring that business was "going on as usual." Circuit Judge Joseph A. Moyni-han, In whose court the writ was sought, was informed by counsel for the company that Earle was not in the plant late Monday afternoon and that his time card showed that he checked out at 3:20 p.m. The writ hearing was adjourned until 11 a.m.

Tuesday. Union Organizing Cited The union's threat to Invoke the National Labor Relations Act in the glass-plant incident was based on the NLRB orde." requiring the company not to Interfere with union organization. Michael F. Wldman, director of the union's Ford organizing drive, issued the following statement Monday afternoon: "At 9:30 this morning a foreman approached Frank Senko, a union member, and told him he was being transferred to another Job. Senko accepted the transfer, but a union committee askci Plant Superintendent Treese to explain his action.

Treese refused to explain, but had Senko sent to him and told him he was discharged and wrote on his time card that he was discharged for attempting to instigate a strike. Told to Report Back "Senko reported to the employment office where he was told to report back tomorrow morning. "Earle then went to Treese and asked why Senko had been fired, whereupon Treese told Earle that Jt mi present situation," said, "But I say to you we are not helpless. Send word to your Sena i tors tonight Tell them the Amer rm Pnaa Photo FROM LEFT: PETER H. FRIESE, WALTER E.

ALLM ENDING ER, WALTER JORGENSEN Leaders at the Kiwanis Club conference on a school for young delinquents ican people do not want war." Must Fail, Danaher Says Senator Danaher asserted that "this bill must and should fail," because it empowers the Presi -It MUSIC dent "to take us into any war, among any nations, anywhere." NEW DRESS for Your Pictures Speaker Sam Rayburn said that Authority on Scriabin Tells of Strange Concert Hoodoo he had been told by Senators Alben W. Barkley, Kentucky Democrat, and James F. Byrnes, South Carolina Democrat, Administration WILL WORK WONDERS Parley Is Held on Delinquent Mentor Says Schools Train for Fascism A fact-finding conference, at which the proper method of conducting State schools for delin It was from that mildly diaboli BY i. D. CALLAGHAV i Free Press Music Editor cal set of happenings that the trouble with the Poem dates.

Never does Miss Heyman play it but something happens. The happen-ings are usually merely mildly an 4-Day Special Tuesday, Wednesday, managers, that the bill would be returned to the House for action on any Senate amendments by the week-end. Vote Possible in Week Barkley said later, however, that the Senate would be occupied with the bill for the remainder of this week and that he might propose on Friday that a second Saturday session be dispensed with in return for an agreement to vote the following Tuesday. Administration officials pro noying. Ihursday, rriday "I guess it's lust a fixation," she SPRING'S on the way, and you are tuning up your household.

Why not give that time-honored picture a brand new Hudson custom-made frame? Choose one in a smart light tone, a great favorite these days. You'll notice the difference. For a frame oftentimes makes a picture. Our custom-framing department h3s a reputation for workmanship. Custom-Framing Eighth floor Bridge explains, "and I try to overcome it." $460 quent children was discussed, was held Monday under the auspices of the associated Kiwanis Clubs of Detroit and Highland Park.

Shampoo, Finger Wave, Arch and Manicure Miss Heyman, a former resident of Detroit, will appear Wednesday night in the Art Institute with the he was fired. It was then that Michigan WPA Symphony Orchestra, playing a Scribian concerto. Experts on juvenile work addressed the meeting In the auditorium of WWJ. The meeting was Is there an evil genius which attends the playing of the "Satanic Poem," of Scriabin? A genius which interferes with the flying fingers of the performer and causes unaccountable things to happen? Katherlne Ruth Heyman, noted authority on the works of the Russian composer and mystic, doesn't think so. She thinks that her troubles with the work are based in a groundless fixation, Dogged by Events Yet, how would one account for the fact that every time she attempts the piece a series of unhappy events is set in motion? Monday night, while Miss Heyman was delivering a lecture recital In the Bendetson Netzorg School of Piano, the same old hoodoo made its appearance.

She had played an exhaustive program from Scriabin's and played it en ceeded with preparations to act swiftly in Britain's behalf upon the bill's passage, which they took to be certain, A $3,812,311,197 It won't be the "Poem Satanlque," however. Miss Heyman's lecture was given over to a discussion of arranged by Arthur G-T. Courteau, Permanent Wave Emulsion I $095 Oil Treese and the foreman walked down the line, picking out men with union buttons, who were loaded into busses and taken to the employment office. "Most of the men In the glass plant are wearing union buttons. "At the employment office, offi deficiency appropriation reconv mended to Congress by the Presl the mystical, rhythmic and har HUDSON'S monic qualities of Scribian's music.

dent today, while primarily for domestic armaments purposes, car chairman of the Kiwanis district boys and girls work committee and an officer of Juvenile Court. Among the speakers were Dr. Russell Smart, psychologist of the Merrill-Palmer School; Clyde L. Reed, superintendent of Ford Republic; Dr. Norman Westlund, CI I ried funis to expand production facilities which presumably could Boy Cyclist Is Killed cials refused to talk to the men I I be used to turn out materials for in a group or to their spokesmen, so the men left." Regular $1.00 Pound Jar Lady Diana All Purpose Cream, Special for 49c Beauty Salon Mezzanine Britain as well.

When Hit by Truck After dinner Monday evenlnsr. Widman said that the union did not know exactly how many men The Senators speaking against the bill also conceded that it would psychiatrist of the Wayne County Clinic for Child Study: W. H. thirteen-year-old Joseph Kaster- had been laid off, but that at 1:30 tirely from memory. son, pf 930 Twenty-fourth took his Then wnen she attacked tne chilling procession of tones which bike and went to visit a friend.

On Twenty-third near Ruskin he make up the Poem, the orderly Allmendinger, principal of the Greenfield Park School and Harold G. Myron, superintendent of recreation for Highland Park. Allmendinger said that the modern school can train young people was struck by a truck. He was events of the evening seemed to taken to Receiving Hospital and come all apart. Playing Interrupted MAKi: THIS INVESTMENT AXD "STEP-UP" YOUH APPEARANCE From their place on top of the "only tor fascism because of the rigid discipline necessitated by present-day educational methods." aiea at 7:57 p.

m. The boy's father was killed In an auto accident 10 years ago. The truck driver, Lyle B. Whit-taker, 26, of 923 Marcy, was released after making a statement. piano, her glasses leaped to the floor.

Unseemly notes made their p. m. nearly 100 of the glass plant's 800 workers had reported to the union office that they had been dismissed. He added that the employment officials would not tell the men their status, and that all involved would report for work at 7 a. m.

Tuesday. C.I.O. Aide Asks Million, Charging He Was Tarred A $1,000,000 damage suit against the Ford Motor Co. and four employees, among them Charles (Chuck) Bernard, former U. of M.

football star, was filed Monday by a C.I.O. organizer. Hj charges that he was beaten, tarred and appearance under her fingers and finally the playing had to come to a dead etop. Miss Heyman began the work again and this time played it through without Incident. It all began, Miss Heyman said, Clare W.

Purdy, 61, of 79 Watson, died Monday night at United States Marine Hospital, of injuries suffered Feb. 2 when he was struck by an auto on John at Edmund. WAGE COMMITTEE TICKED WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (A. The Wage-Hour Division of the Labor Department announced today the appointment of a committee of 15 to recommend minimum wages up to 40 cents an hour for the rubber Industry.

back in Vienna when she was giv. The driver, Peter Radak, 28, of Ing the first Scriabin recital ever Milan, will be recalled for presented in the city. A short, questioning. powerful, blond man entered her dressing room at intermission and said he was a friend of the dead feathered in August, 1937, In Dallas, at the instigation of 8 a en composer. "He really wasn't," Miss Hey.

New Spring ord authorities. The plaintiff was Herbert Harris, of Salem, The other defendants, besides man went on. "He just wanted to become acquainted with me, it ap BEST CO. POINTS TUXEDO 2-J7M peared. He broke into my mood to "the extent that when I went back the company and Bernard, who is identified as head of the Ford service departments of all branches, the stage I gave a terrible per fill were: Harry Bennett, personnel formance of the Poem.

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