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40-THE DETROIT NEWS-THE HOME NEWSPAPER
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1947

For Facing New Dispute
Strike Meetings Are Called by Locals

Strike meetings were being called today among the 130,000 production workers at the Ford Motor Co. in keeping with the UAW-CIO order for secret balloting to seek membership approval of strike action in support of their contract demands.
This added a second dispute to the one existing between the 3,800 striking foremen and the company.  The Foreman's Association of American (independent) today called the supervisory employees out of the powerhouses in an effort to enforce their pressure against the firm.

MEETING IS CALLED
Thomas Thompson, president of Local 600, UAW-CIO, and chairman of the union's national bargaining committee at Ford's, called the first meeting among his members at the Rouge plant.
This meeting will be held Sunday, June 8, at the Masonic Temple from 3 p. m. to 5 p. m.  A council meeting of Local 600 will begin at 10 a. m. that day, at which recommendations for strike action will be decided.
Thompson, in supporting the strike vote called made by Richard T. Leonard, UAW vice-president and director of the union's Ford department, said "we loathe strikes, but we cannot give up our economic strength when the company refused to bargain with us satisfactorily."

UNION POSITION
Thompson explained that the union proposed originally to discuss the economic issues, including 23 1/2 cents an hour wage demands and the pension plan, before continuing with the rest of the contract.
When the company insisted all economic issues were part of the regular contract talks, Thompson said the UAW was willing to postpone wage demands providing the company agreed on an effective retroactive date for the wages.
The company was unwilling to do so, Thompson disclosed, indicating that it was not prepared to offer Ford workers any wage increase.
The contract negotiations have been in progress nearly a month.  The present agreement expires May 31.

UNION LIMITATION
Meanwhile, the UAW-CIO took its first action in support of the continuing strike of 3,800 Ford foremen when Leonard sent the following instructions to Ford transportation workers.
"By action of the international union, transportation workers at Ford plants (Rouge, Highland Park and Lincoln) are instructed not to do any work that is normally done by outside trucking firms or any other work which represents a departure from their normal assignments."
A union spokesman charged that transportation workers, on company orders, have been taking over the work halted by AFL truckers who refused to cross FAA picket lines.  The new order was intended to end this practice.

PRODUCTION FIGURES
Production figures for Monday as released by the Ford Motor Co., revealed that the Rouge Plant was slightly above normal with 300 Ford automobiles completed.  At the Lincoln plant a total of 116 Lincolns was reported against an average of 130.  Highland Park plant officials reported that 135 trucks and .373 tractors had been built.
The truck production had been averaging 175 a day and tractors 400.  The decline in tractor production was blamed on machinery trouble in the gear department rather than the strike of foremen, a spokesman said.

Mix Religious Groups in Indian Experiment
NEW DELHI - Encouraging results have been obtained by the Indian army, in Lucknow, from the first experiment of mixing soldiers of different classes.
All the Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian soldiers of the 3rd Cavalry now eat together the food cooked in a common kitchen by cooks of different communities.
Extra care is taken to see that religious beliefs are not interfered with.  Jhatka and Halal meat, for instance, are cooked in separate utensils and every soldier has the option of eating whichever he wants.

Sky's the Limit for Planes of Future, Experts Assert
IN THE VERY near future it will be possible to board a plane in Detroit at any given hours, and arrive in San Francisco at the identical hour, the same day, the speed of the plane thus keeping pace with the lapse of time going westward.
This was asserted by John F. Victory, executive secretary of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, at the Economic Club, in the Book-Cadillac Hotel, Monday.  He was introduced by C. B. Burnett, manager of the Detroit City Airport.
"There is no known natural law which will limit the size, speed or power of an airplane, and scientific experiments are rapidly proving this," Victory said, "besides constantly reducing the element of danger."
Malcolm Ferguson, president of Bendix Aviation Corp., presented the Bendix Trophy, and $25,000 in prize money, awarded each year by the company since 1931 for the fastest time made by a pilot from Los Angeles to Cleveland, a prelude to the national air races, to Col. Leon W. Gray, commander of the 12th Reconnaissance Squadron, AAF, March Field, California, for his flight in the contest, last fall, of 2,050 miles in a Lockheed P-30 "Shooting Star," in 3 hours and 35 minutes, a speed of 572 miles an hour.
Gray arrived at Selfridge Field, Sunday, with his entire squadron, the first time the AAF has moved an entire squadron across the country.
"Aeronautical science stands today on the threshold of a new era made possible by the advent of new forms of propulsion," Victory said.  "The airplane in its present form is no longer a sound basis for future planning for the national defense.  The achievement of really high speed flight, even supersonic speed is within the grasp of any nation willing to make the effort."

A Trophy for Air Champion
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Malcolm Ferguson, president of Bendix Aviation Corp., presents the Bendix Trophy of Commander Leon W. Gray, 12th Reconnaissance Squadron, winner in the 1946 Los Angeles to Cleveland air race, at the Economic Club of Detroit meeting.-News Photo

Obituaries
CARL W. BAHR
Services for Carl W. Bahr, 42, of 1875 Lancaster Road, Grosse Pointe Woods, who died suddenly Saturday at St. Joseph's Hospital, Mt. Clemens, will be conducted at 8 p. m. today at the Verheyden Funeral Home, 16300 Mack avenue.  Burial will be at Lima, O.  Mr. Bahr collapsed and died at the hospital where he had just taken his daughter, Karen.  The girl fell out of the automobile and was cut and bruised. Mr. Bahr was an employee of the Mogul Corp., for 11 years.  The wife, Flossie; a son, Norbert; two daughters, Karen and Judith; a brother, William, all of Detroit; the father, A.W. Bahr of Dala, O., and a brother, Myron, of Ada, O., survive.
 
ALLEN WYCKOFF
Services for Allen Wyckoff, 16135 Braile avenue, who died suddenly Monday night at Lexington, Mich., will be held Thursday at Sincoe, Ont. Mr. Wyckoff was born in Sincoe 71 years ago and came to Detroit in 1922.  His wife Leota; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Richardson and Mrs. Jeanne Sharp; a son Leigh, all of Detroit, and a sister, Anne, of Sincoe, survive.

MRS. ANNA K. KULICK
Services for Mrs. Anna R. Kulick, 69, who died Monday at her home at 3705 Junction avenue, will be at the Holy Redeemer Church at 9 a. m. Saturday.  She was the wife of the late Dr. Stanislaus A. Kulick.  A daughter, Vivian, and a sister, Mrs. Sophia Johnson, survive.  Burial will be at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.

Kiwanis Convention
PORT HURON, Mich., May 27-The annual Michigan district convention of Kiwanis International will be held in Lansing, Sept. 14 to 16, Frank O. Staiger, secretary-treasurer, announced today.

Navy Bares Polar Plans
Asks Congress O.K. on Sub Conversions
WASHINGTON, May 27-(AP)-The Navy asked Congress Monday for permission to equip four submarines and three ships for polar operations and to convert nine big destroyers into special anti-submarine vessels.
Vice-Admiral Earle W. Mills said two submarines would be converted into troop-carriers equipped to transport 100 fighting men each as far as 3,000 miles.  A third submarine would become a cargo carrier, and another would be equipped as a "polar picket craft."
The polar program also contemplated refitting two dock-landing ships and one attack cargo vessel.

Candles for Europe
PHILADELPHIA.-(U.P.)-Many homes in Europe will be lighted soon by two tons of candles collected by the Council of Churches in Philadelphia.  The candles, new and used, were sent to the church world service shipping depot at New Windsor, Md., for reshipment overseas.

May Explains Lumber Deal
Garssons in Mess, Wouldn't 'Run Out'
WASHINGTON, May 27,-(U.P.)-Andrew J. May testified at his war fraud trial Monday that he continued to operate a lumber company for the Garsson munitions combined while he as chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee because he did not want to run out on the men he had "gotten into a mess."
May was cross-examined by Chief Prosecutor William A. Paisley.  He is charged with accepting more than $53,000 from the Garsson brothers, for favors in war contract dealings.  The Garssons are co-defendants.
Paisley asked May about the time he devoted to the business of the Cumberland Lumber Co., Whitesburg, Ky.  The Government charges the company was funnel for bribes to May and never produced anything.
May defended his work as committee chairman.  He told Paisley, "you'll find we did more work than any other committee."
"Why didn't you tell Henry and Murray Garsson to go run lumber company and say them, "I've got a war to run chairman of the Military Affairs Committee?'" Paisley asked.
"I didn't tell me I'd gotten into a mess that I was running out on them," May replied.

Approve Changes in FBI Retirement
WASHINGTON, May 27.-A House civil servant subcommittee Monday approved legislation which would grant special retirement benefits to FBI agents.  Atty.-Gen. Clark said the [[?]] is needed to halt a [[?]] turnover of G-men.
The bill, similar to one approved by the Senate, would permit FBI agents to retire at [[?]] after 20 years of service.  They would receive retirement payments of $2,000 a year.
At present, the FBI is covered by a complicated system which permits retirement with [[?]] benefits only when a agent reached 62.

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