TH MIHGA ZA TIN SATURDAY. JULY 24. 1927 - a. THsEaMs rH if l! i ,.laiT 43L'I V#.'3./'1AV*Pii V ~M 1N&2 Pol y Overpass Was Mounted, Ford Policeman Says Tells Trial Examiner He Was Directing Traffic At Gate, May 26 Says Warning Given Ford Eimploye Says Union Fight Was On Company Property Btid ge, Parker To Enter First SinglesToday Americans Will Play Hare! And Austin In First Of Challenge Round Believes Justice Dead DETROIT, July 23.--P)-A Ford motor company policeman testified today that union organizers mount- ed a highway overpass at Ford's Dear- born plant where they were beaten May 26 after they were warned that it was private property. Albert Rasmussen, who said he has worked five years for the Ford service department which polices the plant, was a witness at a hearing on the National Labor Relations Board com- plaint charging the Ford company with unfair labor practices and with instigating assaults on the union men. Directing Traffic He told the trial examiner he was directing traffic near gate four of the huge Ford plant on May 26 when Richard T. Frankensteen, organiza- tional director of the United Auto- mobile Workers, and Walter Reuher, head of the NAW west side local, ar- rived. The warning to "stay off private property" was given, he said, by Theodore Greis, a Ford employe who. is awaiting trial with seven other men in a state court on an assault charge resulting from the beating of union workers. "About 20 minutes of 2 o'clock," Rasmussen testified, "A car drove up to the foot of the bridge (the over- pass) and five men got out. I heard Ted Greis say to them, 'Boys, don't go up there, that is Ford property.' + "Frankensteen replied, 'Who are you?' "Greis said, 'It doesn't make any difference who I am, don't go up there.' "Frankensteen replied, 'So what? We are American citizens, so wehare going up'." Tells Him To Move On Rasmussen said he told the driver of the automobile he would have to move on, and that he saw a "scuffle"' on the overpass, but didn't see any other fighting because he was direct- ing traffic. Hearing both Franken- steen and Reuther, as earlier witness- es in the NLRB testified they as- sumed the overpass was public prop- erty and were not warned otherwise until they were standing upon it. Both said that after that warning they were beaten and kicked down the stairs of the bridge. Fred A. Thomnpson (second from right) of the Ford Motor Co. testified at a session of the National Labor Relations Board hearing of charges against Ford, that the fight in which union organizers were routed on May 26 occurred on company property. Shown here, inspecting a map of the area, left to right: Louis J. Colombo, Ford attorney; Maurice Sugar, United Automobile Workers attorney; Laurence Knapp, NLRB at- torney; Thompson and Examiner John T. Lindsay. WIMBLEDON, England, July 23. -(AP)-Don Budge and Frankie Park- er, undistinguished grammar school kids when the United States last held the Davis cup, will stride out on Wimbledon's center court tomorrow for the first two singles matches of the challenge round against Great Britain's Charles Edgar Hare and Henry Wilfred (Bunny) Austin. Unsuccessful challengers six times since Rene Lacoste and Henri Co- chet carried off the trophy at Ger- mantown in 1927, the American team was favored so heavily there wasn't a London bookmaker accepting bets. Even -today's draw smiled on the challengers. It generally was con- ceded that Great Britain's only chance, however remote, was for the veteran Austin to get a chance to play Budge on the first day. Instead they were drawn to face one another on Tuesday. Parker, youngest player ever named to represent the United States in the challenge round, faces Austin in the opening match at 2:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. EST). Budge, approach- ing the end of one of the most tri- umphant invasions in Wimbledon's long history, meets the left-handed Hare when Parker and Austin finish. Budge and Mako will team up in the doubles Monday against Clifford Raymond Davys 'Tuckey and Frank Herbert David Wilde. For the finale Tuesday, tomorrow's singles pairings will be reversed with Parker meeting Hare and Budge playing Austin in that order. LAMOREAUX DIES * GRAND RAPIDS, July 23.-(W)- James F. Lamoreaux, 77, father of State Senator J. Neal Lamoreaux, died of heart disease today at his home in suburban Comstock Park. Pa t Harrison Gets 'Birdies' The Hard Way WASHINGTON, July 23.-(W)- Just as if Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi weren't an expert at golf, a touch of magic enlivened a recent game he played. He was on a difficult par-four hole playing his third shot. He seemed optimistic about making it in three because he told his fat caddy to re- move the pin and stand aside. The caddy did and Harrison swung. It was a short shot. The ball ca- romed gently off the caddy's stomach and bounced into the hole for a three. .' * Losing to Representative Rob- ert Rich of Pennsylvania on the golf course is a pleasant experi- ence. He won't be paid in cash- wants a check. And he frames the check and hangs it in his trophy room,. IWhere To Go 1 1 I Theatre: Michigan: "Hotel Hay- wire," with Leo Carrillo, and "Too Many Wives," with Ann Shirley; Ma- jestic: "The Hit Parade," with Fran- ces Langford and Phil Regan; Vuerth: "Isle of Fury," with Hum- phrey Bogart and Margaret Lindsay, and "Top of the Town," with Hugh Herbert; Orpheum: "Thunder in the City," with Edward G. Robinson and "Black Legion," with Humphrey Bo- gart. Play: Repertory Players production "Yellow Jack." Excursion: The General Motors Proving Ground and Laboratories at Milford. Dancing: Summer Session Dance at the Union, the Blue Lantern at Island Lake and Bartlett's at Pleasant Lake. GRIMM TO RETURN ST. LOUIS, July 23.-(AP)-After resting today and tomorrow on his country farm, Manager. Charlie Grimm of the Cubs plans to return Sunday to Chicago, where he will re- join his team when it comes back from its eastern road trip. He was released yesterday from a hospital here where he had undergone treat- ment for a sciatic condition. Read Daily Classified Ads Mrs. Stella Crater (above), wife of the famed Joseph Bryce Crater, New York Supreme Court justice who disappeared mysteriously seven years ago, expressed the opinion for the first time that he "must be dead" at her Belgrades Lakes, Me., home. As New York police offered to re-open investigation of the case, Mrs. Crater's attorney said he would seek $20,000 insurance carried by the justice. Nebraskan's Recital To Be Held Monday Miss Ellen Nelson, pianist, of Cole- ridge, Nebr., will present a recital at 8:30 p.m. Monday, at the School of Music. This recital is a partial ful- fillment of the requirements for the' degree of Master of Music. Miss Nel- son is a student of Prof. Joseph Brinkman, of the School of Music. Miss Nelson's program includes the "Concerto in C Major," by Bach, "Va- riationen und Fugue uber ein Thema Von Handel," Opus 24, by Brahms, "Moments Musicaux," Opus 94, by Schubert, and "Sonata," Opus 57, by Beethoven. New Laws F or Divorce Passed By Parliament After Jan. 1, Desertion, A Cruelty, Insanity Will Be Grounds For Separation LONDON, July 23.-(P)-The fight of a humorist turned crusader against the "Holy deadlock" of England's rig- lid divorce laws was victorious today when Parliament completed enact- ment of far-reaching changes in the conditions for terminating marriage. Adultery is now the only grounds for divorce in England. When the new law becomes effective next Jan. 1 these will be added: Desertion without cause for at least three years; cruelty; incurable in- sanity for five years. The new law will apply only to England and Wales, not to Scotland or northern Ireland. Scotland al- ready recognizes desertion as grounds for divorce. The new act was hailed as a tri- umph for A. P. Herbert, who first achieved fame as a member of the staff of "Punch," wrote in his novel, "Holy Deadlock," a powerful indict- ment of present divorce laws, and carried his fight for liberalization to the House of Commons when he achieved election as an independent member from Oxford University in 1935. Today's action consisted of the Commons' acceptance of amendments in the House of Lords to Herbert's original bill, which the Commons had approved. The act now needs the King's assent, which is automatic. GRANDMOTHER WHEN 28 The wife of Mayor Janos Milinarics of Bajasca, Hungary, became a grandmother at 28. She married at 13, as did her first daughter. TYPEWRITING MIMEOGRAPHING rromptly and neatly done by exper, aced operators at moderatq prnoo. O. D. MORRILL 314 South State btree% hom in suburban ...Comst._k P... .. ,. "Report Me and. My CauseA Last Showboat Is Still Afloat On Chesapeake HOPEWELL, Va., July 23.-W)- Most of the old-time showboats may have docked for the last time, but "The Original Floating Theatre" still plies southern waters-and reports that business is better. Launched as the James B. Adams, she is said to have inspired Edna Ferber's novel, "Show Boat." Every summer since she first flaunted her white allurement on Chesapeake Bay 23 years ago, the James B. Adams has been purveying virtue-always-triumphs melodrama to folks along the Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina shores. She's the last of the regular-run showboats, says her owner, Mrs. Nina S. Howard, widow of a New York in- .surance company executive. Once you get an inkling of life aboard, you wonder why more show- boats aren't running. The entire company of 32 lives on board. It's nice and cool no matter how hot and stuffy on shore. Once the repertoire is mastered you're not bothered with a lot of rehearsals. They Eat Well There's lots of time for girls of the ensemble to while away-sunbathing, reading "Variety" or fishing. They eat well. Rosa Teel of Rich- mond, kitchen boss of the James B. Adams for years, sees to that. You don't have to pack your bags every time you move to another stand. You just go to bed. Tugboats haul theatre, props and troupe right down the line. Here's how a show goes-it's "Sin Takes A Holiday," as presented at Hopewell recently: The theatre is filled--540 persons about equally divided between shore folk who see only the theatre the river brings them, and folks from around Richmond. Pop Neal Still On Job The eight-piece orchestra, with Pop Neal, 78, who came with the boat 'when Mrs. Howard took it over five years ago, still on the bull fiddle, plays an overture. Sin takes the stage. Some of the younger element from Richmond laugh as the heroine starts toward the downward path; the faith- ful shush disapproval. But by the time the heroine has begun to get back into virtue's line, there is no noise. Senator Lynn Frazier of North Dakota grins a little sheepishly when he talks of the way he "studied" Ger- man at the University of North Da- kota. He was on the football team, and it just happened that there were many mornings when he sidled into German class unprepared. The professor was cranky, but near-sighted-fortunately for Fra- zier. One of the other students was Vilhjalmar Stefannson, now famous as an explorer. German was one of Stefannson's enthusiasms. So when the professor called on Frazier and Stefannson saw a look of worry on Frazier's face he began to recite, imitating Frazier's voice. Fra- zier just moved his mouth. * * * For the most part lobbyists don't like to talk about their business here. But one was pressed recently by a visitor into making some explanation. He did it this way: "It's like this: I'm up on capi- tol hill with the congressmen. They're there for politics and I'm there "for business." In the court records at Salisbury, N.C., there is a notation "Andrew Jackson, fined $8.90, for trespass." It has been circled in red with the notation: "Satisfied, Jan. 8, 1815." Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri, who is starting to write a biography of Andrew Jackson, tells the history of that red-inked "satisfied." When Jackson was a young blade at Salisbury he went skylarking one Hallowe'en. His gang damaged one of those little houses that seem to attract pranksters on Hallowe'en. The owner, a crochety farmer, sued Jack- son and got the $8.90 judgment. But by that time Jackson had gone off to Tennessee to make his fortune. More years passed and Jacksontwon the brilliant victory at the Battle of New Orleans. When the news reached North Carolina, the farmer, then very old, tottered to the courthouse, drew the red circle and wrote, "Satisfied." He also added the date, which is that of the battle of New Orleans. * * * Maine has a self - appointed publicity agent in Representative Ralph Brewster. He never misses a chance to paint such enticing pictures of his home state that his listeners can smell the pine trees. His last gesture was to comnile . . .so spoke the dying Hamlet to Laertes. These words sum up the ardent desire of every man to be fully and accurately represented before his fellow men. To report every cause aright is the task of The Associated Press. Itis trained staff of 80,000 patrols the corridors of the world tQ get the news --to get it accurately and report it impartially, with all possible speed. It performs this task daily with marked success through the coopera- tion of its 1360 member newspapers. Pr L.A O%9 ". 1A X91. .. R.2 . k a. _ _ __d_ _7K7'