The Weather 0.8. Weather Bureau Forecast. Warm. (Details Page 2) 16th YEAR \ h “ge : oy 2 : ao ae iar. J Recah * 4 hh oeeaceere A. ee GM in Canada Faces Layoffs Due to Strikes Lack of Parts Hitting. 10,000 as U.S. Disputes’ Continue Locally DETROIT (P—The push to settle more General Motors local US. strikes went on today with a big layoff in Canada as a prod. A shortage of auto parts because of GM's strikes in § this country is leading to a layoff of 10,000 of the com- pany’s production workers in Canada by the end ol the week. Approximately 75,000 men, or less than a fourth of GM’s national comple- month secret investigation of a $1 million-a-year bookie ring here. enough, their presence en- couraged agents into dar- ing acts during the search for evidence against the ring, Municipal Court yesterday. ' Detective Tells How Bet Ring Was Cracked ‘Racing Forms Gave State Police Agents Tip on Activities Racing forms convinced undercover State Police agents that they were on the right track in their 412; While racing forms by themselves are innocent it was disclosed in i | “5 MUSCLES STILL NEEDED — Modern on Formosa _ Modern -weap- ons fight modern wars, but old fashioned muscles still come in mighty handy. Here artillerymen bling one of the cei ecaltcles Unit on Vernwan ott antes to protect the islands. UPI Phete missiles which have been set up On the stand was Det. Stephen GM Moterams Read y for Opening ment, are back to work. UPI Phote GM’s total normal employ ment is 275,000 hourly paid employes. Thirty-two of GM's 126 plants were in operation after a few more recen|! local-issue settlements. The strikes date back to Oct. 2 settlement with the United SOUNDED ALARM — Butch, snack as partial reward for his a part-chow, gets a special insistent barking which alerted 10 persons when fire swept through a Dallas, Texas, apartment house. Feeding Butch Phillip Reele is Nancy Cox, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. The Reeles were aroused by Butch, who called the fire de pamment we led tenants safely from the burning building. | gambling laws. Galat, testifying against five per- sons accused of conspiring to op-, erate the ring in violation of state * * * The five, being examined before Municipal Judge Cecil McCallum! are LaRue E. Gullett, 41, former, deputy city treasurer, and his wife, | Gladys, 35, both of 301 Dick Ave.; Basi] W. Burke. 59, of 29 Salmer Ave., described by State Police as Top Billing for Firebird By DAVID J, WILKIE NEW YORK i — An automo-' bile without steering wheel, brake pedal or foot accelerator, but with! nearly everything else that could be crowded into its mechanism, | will go on public display here But General Motors’ to attract most visitor interest.) No engineering expert has made ‘cated electronic bookkeeping ma- 'a public estimate of the cost in-| |chine. By the use of a button the ‘volved in putting Firebird III to car can be converted to automatic’ gether. It undoubtedly is the cost- guidance and speed control. jliest automobile ever built. It is! | car of putors are used lavishly. The in- isome distant tomorrow is certain terior of the equipment section re- Be sembles the inside of a compli- Ready to Battle Civilian Agency Transfer Plan Draft Appeal to Ike on Bid to Take Von Braun, 2,100 Scientists WASHINGTON (# — Top Army missile chiefs planned a direct appeal to President Eisenhower today to protest a request that the Army surrender its major space talent and facilities to the ‘new civilian space agency. Maj. Gen. John B. Me- daris; head of the Army’s Ordnance Missile Com- mand, flew into Washing- ton Tuesday night soon aft- er disclosure of the request from the National Aero- nautics and Space Admin- istration. It was learned Medaris asked Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker to arrange an appoint- ment with Eisenbower for this morning. Brucker, queried by a report- | would be wrong,” he said. However, Pentagon officials, who Jrges Compulsory Voting The control stick is located 7 i AE LE Nik ‘the first car ever designed around ‘he center of the car. Auto Workers on a national the ring leader; Charles D. Apley, asked not to be identified, said contract. GM's Canadian officials met yes- terday with the UAW at Oshawa, Ont., the center of the company’s| operations in Canada. lo Turn Tide of Apathy Numerous reasons have been given for the sparse voter, Both American Motors and recistration and election turnouts in Pontiac and| Chrysler continued céntract ne- \ gotiations in Detroit with the throughout the state, but few effective means have been} UAW, the latter with regard to discovered to find a solution. Aenea engineers and = Recent registration figures for the City of Pontiac . have prompted Arthur J. Saas: a vee Approximately 85,000 men, or t Ree less than a third of GM's national Law, Democratic candidate United Auto Workers force, were for state representative back to work. GM’ Eeoual UAW from the city, to come up employment totals 275,000. h what he beli ht Forty-two union bargaining units with what he believes mig have settled local-issue strikes or be the answer. have gone back to work pending | * * od settlement. They are scattered) “Why not adopt a system of among some 35 of GMs 6 UAW- ‘compulsory voting like that in Aué- nepresentes pian tralia,’ Law suggested. Local-issue strikes, which at one; _ time had all GM plants down, date | Since so many people have back to a 12-hour walkout Oct. 2) sold themselves short of this that preceded a UAW-GM eal contract. The UAW advised locals | ing, I think its about time some- site o. aie Pack UE eee) Gia) thing be done correctively to Ss) “ee - | those who do not exercise this Latest to settle were 3,500 at | privilege,” the former Pontiac GM's Detroit Technical Center, | mayor and city commissioner great American privilege of vot- which has eight UAW ai ed | said. » kee's AC Sparkplug | . = gai am at at tired | Australians are fined if they are Oldsmobile . Pontiac Assembty | Physically and mentally capable ARTHUR J. LAW at in Wilmington, Del, The jie vote and don't. boxe! ° latter's union is voting on ratifi- | : * * * : ; ' But in this country its common ed. Nor would it help to extend c ation today. Wilmington’s is the first assembly plant to settle and f elec on day ioe cofe (anor day: |for many a non-voter to shrug of 44, of the same address, and aoe Pruzor, 34, of 4S. Saginaw Senet is accused of keeping the ring’s books; Apley and Pruzor are charged with gathering bets. Galat, a member of the State Police rackets squad, wag field commander for the undercover work and helped lead the Aug. 29 raids that authorities say smashed the ring’s activities. Galat testified that he secretly followed Burke, Pruzor and Apley and on different o¢éasions at the beginning of the investigation no- ticed they carried racing forms. * * * Burke habitually earried what appeared to be a racing form from his Pontiac apartment to the apartment house at 3292 Auburn Rd. in Auburn Heights, where the ring’s activities were allegedly centered, Galat said. It also became apparent, Galat continned, that Apley picked up (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) ‘59 Pontiacs Selling Like The newest of General Motors’) experimental models — the Fire-| bird ITI — has top billing at the revived Motormama. The lavish presentation, staged dorf-Astoria hotel, has ‘Imagina- tion in Motion,” as its theme. It will run here from Oct. 16 through Oct. 22. Its only other piel; will be at Boston starting Nov, 8 GM's several car divisions have brought 26 of their differ- ent 1959 models for display at the show. Besides these approx- imately 5@ nRon-automotive ex- hibits or displays other than au- temobiles wil] be shown. mainly in the ballroom of the Wal-' :a single-stick contro] system. * * * Aside from the hand-controlled ‘the car'has a dual engine system— ,a 10 horsepower aluminum piston- type unit to drive all accessories, and a 225-horsepower gas turbine engine to drive the rear wheels. A two - passenger vehicle, _ the ’ Firebird [1 is missile-like in ap pearance, Its body is of fiberglas. It has a wide, tapered nose, twin plastic bubbles over the passen- gers and seven fins clustered laround the rear of the body. * *« * Electronics, transistors and com- NEW YORK—A strong. 1959 reaching a total of 1, and export use was forecas general sales manager of Division. Hotcakes Nationwide acceptance of the new, 1959 Pontiac was evidenced 'was a 21 per cent increase GMC Truck Official Sees Sales Upturn recovery in truck sales for 100,000 vehicles for domestic t today by R. C. Woodhouse, the GMC Truck and Coach | At a press conference here Woodhouse said this figure; over expected truck sales for, ‘1958, which will be in the area of 900,000. He estimated there would be between 730,000 and acceleration, steering and braking, creak Sauce Quells Fire probably will be GM's first back into production of 1959 automo- biles, ‘his or her failure to cast a ballot! /with the hackneved saying, ‘‘Oh, | well, * * * Law agreed with many what it is like to be deprived of that} oa difference anyway.’ ‘Workers at a third among. GM's Although Law calls his sugges- the voting privilege are the major | six plants represented by the Ins) tion a ‘drastic’ step, he helieues factors for the smaller turnouts ternational Union of Electrical 41) other remedies howe failed and/on election days. Workers ue ve oS ‘ saat that this might be an answer. He’ He gave credit to many or- mention Me a es i _