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Show kCltOHAIRE ASSIGNED TO WORK IN JAIL Dodge Conforms to Rules of Reformatory With Good Grace DETROIT Mich., March 18. John Duval Dodge who possesses a million mil-lion and a half in his own right, wa assigned to real work in the house f of correction today with others who are serving short term senences. He ; shoveled coal. The young millionaire, who is serving five days for speeding, took the menial work with good grace. One of his fellow prisoners, apparently appar-ently in a facetious mood, told him if lie preferred to "sit around" all ; that was necessary was a refusal to work, which woud lead to confine-i confine-i ment In the prison dungeon Dodge merely shook his head and pushed his shovel Into the fuel pile. Dodge last night ate the prison ' supper of noodle soup, applesauc-. j bread and black coffee and spent his ! second niht In Jail on one of the cots In i corridor, provided for short term prisoners. Strenuous efforts made by his attorneys at-torneys to obtain his release throuKh ' habeas corpus proceedings proved unsuccessful. un-successful. I lodge's duties today consisted of shoveling coal Into u haadCatf -it the supply pile and wheeling the cart to the furnace rooms where he dumps It within reach of the stokers. He expressed himself as satisfied w-ltn the assignment, saying It would keep him "ou'slde" 'he greater part of the day. The spirit in which he accepted his Imprisonment whb shown at breakfust this morning. Th iepat consisted Of pork sausage, brown grave gra-ve l.,r. I -iti.l coffee Tod(r praised the bread, saying It was better than he sot outside. 4 The five day term will end Monday forenoon and the following mornlnsr he Is scheduled to appear In Kalamazoo to answer charges growing out of nn automobile acclden: there last Sunday morning. |