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Show BROUGHT INTO OPEN BY FORCED CROSSING- DETROIT. Mich.. Jan. 22. When Icuy omciais, guaraen uy .uu uniformed uni-formed policemen effected a forced Icrotsin- January 9. of the Letroit L'nit-ed L'nit-ed railway lines with tracks of the . municipal traction system. they 1 brought into the open a streetcar controversy con-troversy that has wafd for years. The proposal to construct a municipally owned system has been enmeshed in lawsuits instituted hv the comuanv al- most as soon as approval of a $15,000,-000 $15,000,-000 bond Issue waa voted for the city system last April, j Detroit's streetcar controversy be-I be-I van as the outstanding is.ue in prac-i prac-i tirally every municipal election until un-til with the authorisation of the voters vot-ers for a municipal system. It became a fiaht for control of the city's streets. The charter amendment approved List April contemplates construction of 100 miles of city owned car lines, and to date about twenty miles of track have been completed. Despite the half dozen law suits Initiated by the Ie-troit Ie-troit United. Mayor James Couzens, who s (Kin sored the municipal ownership owner-ship plan, asserts the remainder of the proKfam will be carried out In 1921. |