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Oscar-winig
Melvyn Douglas
dead at

From AP and UPI
NEW YORK - Melvyn Douglas, who
won awards for his work in television,
film and stage during an'acting career
spanning 53 years, died yesterday at
the age of 80.
Douglas died at Memorial Sloan Ket-
tering hospital of penumonia and heart
trouble, his son, Peter Douglas, said.
He had been there about four days.
THE HOSPITAL is known as a can-
cer treatment center, but Douglas said
his father chose it because the hospital
treated his wife, Helen Gahagan
Douglas. Mrs. Douglas, a former
California congresswoman, died last
year of cancer.
Douglas, whose most recent award
was a 1980 Oscar for best supporting ac-
tor in "Being There," had recently
completed filming of the thriller "Ghost
Story," in which he joined Fred Astaire
and Douglas Fairbanks.
Dashing in the early stage of his
career, he played the leading man' to
such famous stars as Greta Garbo,
Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford.
DOUGLAS' SON, Peter, 47, a
psychoanalyst, said his father died of
pneumonia complicated by a cardiac
condition at the hospital in Manhattan.
In all, he made 70 movies. The last to
be released was "Tell Me A Riddle"
last April 5.

Douglas
... made 70 movies
Douglas was born Melvyn Hesselberg
in Macon, Ga., son of a Russian pianist.
He took the name Douglas from the
family of his Kentucky-born mother.

Today
To catch a thief
A TOPEKA, KANSAS man who allegedly stole a classic 1957 Cadillac
had more than one stroke of bad luck. First, he ran out of gas, then he
hitchhiked a ride with the Cadillac's owner, whs took him straight to waiting
police. Steve Fagan, owner of a car restoration shop, was notified early
Monday by police that his shop had been broken into. On his way to meet
police at the scene, Fagan recognized his hardtop black Cadillac valued at
$7,500 parked on the side of the highway. Nearby was a hitchhiker. Although
Fagan did not know for sure that the hitchhiker had taken his car, he stopped
and offered the man a ride. The hitchhiker allegedly told Fagan that his
Cadillac had run out of gas and he neede a ride to a gas station. Instead,
Fagan, using electric locks in his car to keep the man from escaping, drove
to his shop and turned his passenger over to police. Richard Grant Reddick,
18, of St. Louis, was arrested on charges of auto theft and burglary. [:
Shower power
T HANKS TO A newly designed low-flow shower head, American sailors
no longer have to play "Russian roulette" with a ship's water supply to
take a shower, say Navy engineers. Using a kitchen sink dish rinser as a
model, engineers Mike Kelly and Bud Keffer of the Naval Ship Research
Center have invented a hand-held, push-button shower head that gives
sailors the extra pressure they need for rinsing by storing water as they soap
up. The Navy has 10,000 of the reduced-flow shower heads on order, and
already has begun installation in the fleet. Kelly estimates the shower heads
will savy the Navy $20.8 million annually, based on projected costs of
operating distillers which turn salt water into fresh water. With conven-
tional heads in use, the demand for fresh water often outstrips the
capabilities of the water distillers. "Instead of having to play Russian roulet-
te to geta shower, they can take a shower anytime they want," Kelly said. [
Today's weather
Partly cloudy, warm, and humid is today's forecast with a'chance of scat-
tered thundershowers.w
Happenings...
Films
C2-The Working Class Goes to Heaven, 7:30 p.m., Seduction of Mimi, 9:30
p.m., MLB 3.
CFT-Blow Up, 4, 7, & 95p.m., Michigan Theatre.
Miscellaneous
University Musical Society-Concert, Northwood Symphonette and Keith
Bryan, flutist, 8:30 p.m., Hill Aud.
Ark-Hoot Night, Open mike, 9 p.m., 1421 Hill.
Rackham Chrstian Forum-Meeting, 12 noon, Michigan League.
The Michigan Daily
Vol. XCI, No. 55-S
Wednesday, August5, 1981
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Showdown for food
continues in Poland

From AP and UPI
WARSAW, Poland - Bus drivers and
truckers blocked Warsaw's biggest in-
tersection for the second day yesterday
in a showdown with the government
over meat ration cuts. More than
100,000 workers in two other cities shut
factories and demanded more food.
Premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski
appointed an "anti-crisis staff" of
civilian and military officials em-
powered to make swift decisions on
distributing food and raw materials and
"ensure the necessary means for the
population to survive the supply
crisis," the government said.
IN CZESTOCHOWA in southern
Poland, more than 100,000 Solidarity
members staged a one hour strike as
part of the wave of protests sweeping
the country over chronic food shor-
tages.
The 900,000 Solidarity members in the
Warsaw region planned a two-hour
strike in the capital today and warned
of more drastic action in the event of a
confrontation with the government.
For the second day, a convoy of buses
and trucks sat idle in Warsaw's main
traffic intersection after police stopped
it from driving past Communist Party
headquarters in a food protest on Mon-
day.
INSTEAD OF turning around, 150
protesters parked their vehicles where
police stopped them, and refused to,
move until after today's warning strike.

"After the Wednesday strike, we will
go home or to work," a statement
issued by the protesters said. "But we
declare the patience of people is run-
ning out . .. there are only 150 of us but
it could be thousands."
The strike today is over the same
issues that prompted protests all across
Poland for the past two weeks: a one
pound cut in the 7.7-pound monthly
meat ration of every Pole, chronic food
shortages and proposed price hikes.
THE GOVERNMENT, which an-
nounced an emergency program to deal
with the food crisis Sunday, says it does
not have enough hard currency to buy
imported meat to fulfill demand.
Both the government and Solidarity,
which adjourned talks until Thursday,
appeared adamant not to back down
from the standoff.
As the stalemate continued in War-
saw, snarling traffic for blocks around,
the tension on both sides seemed to melt
into a holiday atmosphere in which
radios blared rock music and
protesters and police exchanged lazy
smiles.
PROTESTERS stripped to the waist
stretched atop their trucks, taking in
the summer sun. Two Polish comedians
turned up to entertain.the stalled con-
voy with political jokes.
"It's a kind of a picnic," said one
onlooker, part of a milling crowd of
several thousand curious Poles kept
away. from the trucks by Solidarity
security guards in yellow hardhats.

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