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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03

ALL UsED-ALL RUN GOOD
Norge. Gu. It,, SIC so; Keivinstor, q gu
r., $3.50; q. r., ca. IT.. $3.50. 50
others
FENKELL APPLIANCE. 1908 FENKELL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Furniture, Household Goods

RANGES. beds. complete IS. refrigeraiors
furniture, ssh Jos. campau. 1859 Yves
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03

GARLAND ga c'rrlIatov nes'sr wi'h
'h'rmoTat. So f5ia MaN~sH !tsuhos
Is3?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Electric Refrigerator

A BRAND new & Gu. n. refrigerator. ts2
easy payments. long terms. Contra
stores 1898 Fenksn
CLOsEOUT- of-ia4lH Antgsr-GsnsEa
Electric, Phileo ana Kslvinator refrigsr
ai0fG. taken from our model homes; al
new slightly damaged. viii sAerifice 10
quick turnover. terms. WARDS Outlet
7t1t Harper
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
4-Room Better Home Outfit
Including 9x12 Rug, Tabletop
Gas Stove, Radio and Washer
SITS

1870 WASHER SALF
~ tfAnd rev Apex VashFfs mus, 40
ridiculous low price ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Reason for Order

Secretary or Labor Perkins,
meanwhile. assigned John Steel
man. head Of the Cancellation serv-
ice who worked out the agreement
in the coal strike. to the threat
ened United States Steel Corpora
ton shutdown. Steelman, now m
New York. is expected to confer
with leaders of both sides by tele-
phone Immediately.
The Immediate reason given for
The walkout order was the corpo-
rations refusal to extend the
present working agreement until
midnight. April Is
Go President Philip Murray
termed The rejection by Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corporation, largest
United States subsidiary, a lock
out
II was on this basis that he
notified presidents of GO SWOC
locals in mills and plants Of the
United States Steel subsidiaries
that when the present contract
extension expires at Tuesday mid
night. work must stop
He called for peaceful picketlng
ia -tl M violence
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Lover Leaps
Dues to-ELud Piekets
but Can't Get Out

Blocked by picketS from enter
ing the Ford Motor Company TO
obtain his pay. which he intended
to use in buying his girl an en-
ring. Ralph L. Kemp,
-. it was revealed Saturday,
Owed fully clothed into the Rouge
River and swan 1000 feet TO a
locked Ford coal barge.
Kemp. who lives at Stoney
Point, Mich, jumped into the river
near the Dix bridge and was
pulled from the oily waters by a
line thrown TO him by Capt.
George Gish of the barge.
Kemp obtained his money, but
is still in the plant because he
said he was afraid to leave.
lie declared he was engaged to
Miss Dolores Mickey" Nadeau, a
Monroe telephone operator. and
that he intended buying the ring
as soon as he gained freedom.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
HALF MILLION IDLE
IN DEFENSE STRIKES
BY International News service

THE ranks of idle American workers in strike bound
defense industries sweed to about 100000 Saturday
every Ford Motor Company plant in the nation
closed because of the strike in the parent Dearborn factory
In many sections of the United States, representatives
of management and labor continued conferences in
aided by federal concators seeking agreement
disputes causing disruption of vital national defense
duction
Developments in the situation
With 900 idle, the soft coal operators refused
comply with proposal for the reopenng of
btumnous mines The mine workers had previously
accepted Dr. John Steeman, head Of United States
Cancellation service appreciate portion of
the Appalachian would reopen next week
either government proposal negotiated peace
Conferences between miners and operators will resume
Sunday
The Federal Bureau of Investigation probed industrial
sabotage the Dearborn plant after company officials
aviation dies smashed of the 10 hearth fur
wrecked and molten steel the plant floor total of
$4,000 Ford workers idle throughout the country
and S155OOOOOO worth of defense orders awaited their
return
The national mediation board Saturday took up
sideration of AlsChamers strike Milwaukee. The
board is seeking Quick agreement between the
company union President Roosevelt warned of direct
open the plant which has been closed for -
days unless something is done
than 5000 workers returned to their jobs at four
General Motors plants in Oakland, Cal.
The strike picture at glance:
Civ Company Workers Idle
Detroit-AI Ford Motor Co. plants in United
states .............. $4,000 (CIO)
NiIvaukee-AI Ills Chalmers Mfg Co. .... 1900 (CI0)
York-Soft coal mines in IL states 100000 tCiO)
Utica " Utica and Mohawk cotton mills 1000 (CIO)
Chicago-Continental Can Co ............ l25 tCiO)
Jersey City, n. J-Continenta Can Co 600 (AFL)
CASTING Co. -. $50 (CIo)
Detroit-Michigan Forcing Co ........... 100 tCIO)
Battle Creek Mich-Fort Custer defense
housing project ......--......... 400 (AFL)
San Lorenzo, Ca.-Trojan Powder Co
commercial plant .............. 81 (CIO)
Erie Pa-Contnental Rubber Co. ......... 700 (CIO)
Huntington. Ind-Schacht Rubber Mfg Co. $50 tCIO)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Act to MoUe Capital

The YugoSlav government made
preparations quickly 10 move It's
seat and its archives from Bel
grade, which hes only 80 miles
from the Rumanian frontier. TO
Banjaluka IN Bosnia. l7o miles
west Of Belgrade and almost the
exact geographic center of Yugo-
slavia.
Meanwhile. Soviet Russia in 4
new communication vas reported
10 have offered 10 mediate the
dispute between Yugoslsvia and
the Axis which arose out Of the
SmovIc governments refusal "a
help Germany attack Greece. in
spite of the Yugoslav signature TO
the AXIS alliance.
Encouraging Yug os lavia 70
adopt a firm stand against aggreS-
sion. United States Minister Ar
thur Bliss Lane has personally
telephoned the YugoSlav foreign
office on an average Of Is times
daily in the past week or so. II
was learned. The subject Of these
conversations is American mater
ial aid that Yugoslavia would OBJ
tam under the leaSe-lend law if
she is forced 10 defend herself.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
DeUOut BOlU Palm Sunday
To Usher in Holy Week

fr0IterS VII observe Ire Ore Serv-
ices. signifying ChriSt's agony upon
the cross.
Archbishop Edward Mooney will
Doutiicate the mass Friday at
Blessed Sacrament Cathedral and
DR. NJ S Rice. following a custom
of - years standing. will preach
the Ire Ore sermon at the noon
Lenten service in the Lafayette
Thcatcr
-Christ,S- pieteFy- over death will
inspire The Easter services. Sunday
April Is
Detroit's Jewry will celebrate
the feast of the Passover begin
ming al $40 p m. Friday by sitting
down ~ their Seder tables. ~
Worship in the tabernacleS will
be an 9 a. m. Saturday and Sunday.
VOTERS-No one can know how
YOU vote. Don't let any one scare
YOU VOTE AS YOU CHOOSE.
ADV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Maintenance PROVISION

The Go chief. as national chair
man OF the SWOC. said the union
will attempt TO arrive at an
agreement with the companies in
Volved 10 provide for the contlnu-
ance at work Of the necessary
maintenance men during the Sus-
pension of operations.
The SWOC opened formal con-
versations with Carnegie-Illinois
on March 20 after months OF in
formal discussions. Conferees
agreed thai the union would deal
directly with Carnegie and that
other contracts would be pat
termed after il.
Besides Carnegie-lllinoiS, other
United States Steel properties al
iected arc American Steel and
Wire. National Tube. Columbia
Steel. Tennessee Coal and Iron
Railroad. American Bridge, Vir-
einia Bridge, Scully Steel, Uni
verSal. Atlas Cement. Oliver Iron
Mines. Duluth Messabe Railroad
Union Railroad. Oil Well Supply,
C'Rclhne Fence and -YilSon-A
~rx-rirf
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Ford Peace Hope Gains;
$4,000 Steel Men to Quit
Governor
See Farley Lead
To Settlement

Hope for a general conferences
Monoay or Tuesday between Ford
Motor Company officials and
UAW-CIO leaders. out of which
a settlement may be reached
quickly was expressed in a state
ment issued Jointly by Gov. MUIR
ray D. Van Wagner and Federal
Conciliator James F. Dewey Sat-
urday evening.
Neither the governor nor Dewey
would elaborate on the statement.
The statement read:
Progress in conferences tn
date makes 1t possible for us to
define and reduce to writing
what has been discussed.
During the weekend we will
review what We believe will be-
acceptable to both sides with
their officials. Our objective is
joint conference on Monday
or Tuesday. We hope to reach
settlement at that time so
that work can be resumed.
minor difficulties are rapidly
disappearing so. that now it will
be possible to discuss issues OF
settlement"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
You Vote Monday!
Your Vote Is Secret

BE sure vote Monday at the Spring election.
Remember that your is secret 1t belongs to you
and to you alone
Nobody else The world possibly find out how you
Do therefore be eeerced intmdated by vague
threats rumors that you don't vote the right way 1.-The
right way being way minority pressure groups want
you to vote you may suffer reprisas
Your vote your own. II IS absolutely and definitely
secret.
Vote Monday strictly according your best judgment
Thus will You fulfil your civic duty
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Croat's Peace Demand
Provokes New Crisis
But Yugoslavia Becomes Armed Camp
Awaiting Zero Hour as Belgrade
Prepares to Move Capital
BY MICHAEL CHINIGO

TO the people the necessity of
maintaining peace and ordering
an initial token" demObiliza-
ton of Yugoslavia's army OF
$1,000 men.
O-Creation Of a crown council
- of three men--a Serb,
CrOat and Slovene leader-to
advise i7-year-Old King Peter III
ON state affairs.
9-Fuil respect for Croat rights
- as defined in the 1899 Serb
CrOat agreement.
The two strongest members oi
the Yugoslav cabinet - Interior
Srdjan Budisavievic, who
the national police. and
War Minister Gen. Bogoljub Ilic
who heads the huge army~stub-
bornly refused TO yield 10 Mack S
stubborn attitude.
These two powerful officials In
sisted on firm policy toward the
Axis. arguing that Adolf Hitler
despite the forces he has maSsed
AT YugoSlavia's borders, may be
"bluffing." but even if he is in
earnest, the Serbian people com
prising the largest Yugoslav ma
Will not tolerate the
slightest hint Of capitulation &c
Germany.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
His Wife CoildpSes

Sherer'S wife. Lulu. collapsed az
her home when told of the shoot
ing. Two daughters Eva. a
school-teacher- -I.-1tl1---I1Er
fathers helper in tho store. said
tfTTy TTdT TTTTT- TIT :
woman named BOYD and neither
they nor their mother had ever
suspected Sherer Of intimacy with
another woman.
Under quesrggrfnE Of Inspector
Whitman and Lieut. William
Dwight Of Dawson precinct who
made the arrest short stout
Sherer shook with Sohs as he told
the two-year story Of his life with
Mrs. BOYD He said
II met her i'm beer garden
with "A friend two years ago.
During the two years | spent
$1,000 on her. l set her up in a
confectionery business ON Sheri-
dan avenue, paid her store rent
and her apartment rent. ! was
going to ask my wife for di-
vorce ~ | could marry Betty
a. ne called herr
II loved her--so | did. But
about two weeks ago ! heard
rumorS she was entertaining
other men in my apartment. 1
couldn't sleep. didn't believe
1t until Last night when some
good friends told me.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Sentence Driver
In Boy S Death
Youth Gets lO-l5 Years
for Killing Child 3

The StiGest sentence ever
handed down in Traffic Court sent
Edward Schroeder. Is. OF 4409
Magnolia avenue. 10 Jackson
Prison for from 10 TO IS years
Saturday
r He was found guilty by a Jury
Of eight women and four men of
the hit-run death Of 6-year-old
Maurice Mann. run down al Four
te-nth and Linden avenues while
on his way home from kinder
garten
In passing sentence Judge
Thomas r Maher said
This court cannot show you
any lenieDcy. You were paroled
from SeVen-mOnth TO fiVe-year
sentence for stealing a ear and
= YOU promptly fell back into your
old habits.
IF. upon Your release at the
end of 10 years, you remain a
bad man I will recommend that
YOU be sent back 10 prison to
serve the additional five years"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06

or ut fFiti1S=C atffUiiC Profess
rant and JewiSh-this next week
brings some Of the most solemn
days Of prayer 10 tine church
calendar
Catholics and ProteSiants Will
commemorate ChriSt's triumphant
entry into Jerusalem Sunday with
traditional Palm Sunday obserN-
anceS.
The blessing Of the palms SYM
bnlic of the palms sfft-tf-'f4-- before
Jesus as lie rode into Jerusalem
. 900 years ago. will climax the
special rite Sunday. 'inaugurating
Holy Week.
Special devotional> VII be held
throughout The week
ON Good Friday devout De
HEAR GOV. VAN WAGNER
and Don Kennedy Highw'Y Comm r
TODAY. WV. WJR. / Boz. WXYZ
and network. = sos Adv
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06

BELGRADE, April 5.-Yugo-
Slavia's government, preparing TO
NOV its capital 10 avoid capture.
was rocked tonight with a new
internal crisis provoked by the de-
mand OF Vice Premier vladimir
Mack, Croat leader, that concrete
laSt-hour moves be made 10 avert
war with Germany and Italy.
Yet, despite this fresh domestic
peril. all Yugoslavia became a vast
armed camp ready for instant war
Nearness of the zero hour was
given spectacular proof When
Yugoslav anti-aircraft guns fired
on German warplanes that twice
flew high over the Croat capital Of
driving them away. Yugo-
slav planes steadily patrolled the
threatened border areas.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Texas, WOOing Industries,
Outlaws Strike Violence

AUSTIN. Tex. April 5.-fINS1
Texas today has new law
against force and violence in labor
strikes The bill. signed by Gov.
Lee O'Daniel last night went into
effect Immediately The governor
said he hoped the law would help
TO bring industry into Texas.
1.-THE bill il fair to labor"
ODamel commented. "as IL gives
the laboring man the right To
work"
O'Daniel said he had already re-
ceived queries about the bill from
other states including Michigan.
Florida. illinois, and South Caro-
lima. z-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Frontiers Reopened

First result OF the governmental
rift was the sudden reopening Of
The Yugoslav frontiers which had
been closed for several hours.
The borders facing Italy, Ger
many and Nazi-controlled Hun
gary Rumania and Bulgaria. had
been tightly sealed Saturday and
roads across the frontiers were
understood 10 have been mined.
while Yugoslav warplanes steadily
patrolled the frontier zones
MacekS forceful proposals were
presented and debated at an
emergency meeting OF the Simoyic
cabinet that lasted four and a half
hours still without the govern
mcnt declaration.
Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia
have signed a treaty al Moscow.
d. vas announced tonight by the
London radio in broadcast
picked up in New York by the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Mack authoritatively was I'M
derstOod also 10 have threatened
a territorial secession of Croatia.
with its $500 600 people. from the
rest Of YugoSlaVia. unless the
Simoyic cabinet carries out GER
tain formal promises said to have
been made 10 the Croat leader 10
induce him 10 resume his post OF
first vice premier and thus con-
solidate national unity These
promises wire stated reliably TO
have called for:
IA peaceful solution Of Hugo-
Il slavia's grave controversy
with the Axis powers, entailing
beforehand declaration by
Premier SimOvic, pointing out
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
VOtersDeCide
If City. Enters
Gas Business
Proposals on Ballot
Provide Purchase
Through Bond Issue

The voters Of Detroit viii be
faced Monday with a community
decision Of momentouS proper
lions shall the city government
Of Detroit enter the gas business ,
Far overshadowing the nine
other propositions ON the ballot
the municipal gas plant proposals
viii give The public The final word
in a bitter quarrelsome debate
which has rocked the City Hall
for the last SIX weeks
Sponsored by Council President
John ". Smith and backed up by
Mayor Edward !. Jcffues. the gas
pfan proposes that the city com
mencc condemnation SUIT against
the Michigan Consolidated Gas
Company and obtain a part Of lis
properties
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Most Optimistic

The statement was the most
optimistic since the Ford Rouge
plant at Dearborn was closed down
Wednesday.
MISUNDERSTANDING and suspicious
that have delayed mediation up 10
this time apparently have been
Ironed out in a manner satisfac-
tory 10 both the company and the
union
A decision this week by the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board 10
hold an early bargaining represent
tation election at the Ford Motor
Company was forecast Saturday as
the board concluded hearings in
Washington.
The oral arguments before The
complete board in Washington
ook barely two hours. /. a.
CapiZzi, Ford counsel. represented
the company Another representa-
tive was w. s. Mcdowell, one time
active in the Ford Brotherhood, an
organization termed a company
union by the CIO-UAW. Mcdowell
argued that the Ford employees
should also be permitted TO desig-
nate the Brotherhood as a bargains
ing agent.
If the election is ordered. it II
expected the Rouge and the Lin
coin plants will ballot as separate
units. There was no opposition
from any OF the interested parties
today to this system. All sides
also agreed that all production.
maintenance and chemical en-
ployes in the plants viii constitute
one bargaining unit, except for %
small groups of employees at The
Lincoln plant and 81 at the Rouge.
Meanwhile. in Detroit the sihia-
ton at The huge strike-bound
Rouge plant was quiet. Thousands
of picketS still patroled the plant
gates under the eyes of state po-
lice. Maintenance men and others
permitted IN the plant under the
truce agreement were entering the
plant on special state police
passes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Airline Judge, Fianle
On Flight 10 Nevada

HOLLYWOOD. April 5.-INS1
Airline Judge. brunei Him star
lett here on a chartered airplane
today for Las Vegas. Nev.. with
her aance George Huntington
Hartford III and Hollywood re-
ports were that the couple planned
a surprise marriage Wedding plans
were denied by Miss Judge, who
said
we may get married later.
On this trip we are just looking
the ground over and weighing
the possibilities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Battle
Nazis in libyd
7 heir First Big B n c
on Land Since June
Ia,.rastiaoal New. SSs,'ryiee Wire

luffrNatinhaf NfN~ ~FfNtff WIZ
CAIRO. April G. Sunday
The FIRST major land battle be
tween British and German forces
since the Dunkerquc retreat last
June was reported early today in
the Libyan desert east of Bengal
after Brifaln's imperial troops col
lided with and s,emmed Nazi
armored divisions leading a new
offensive toward Egypt.
a Cairo communlQue. announc-
ing that German panzer units
aided by Italian mechanical treeps
had been successfully held was
followed at midnight Saturday by
the assertion Of a British military
spokesman that there are reasons
for great optimism
The spokesman revealed that
the battle. which started with a
counter-attack by motorized troops
of General Wavell's army of the
Nile several miles east of Nazi-
occupied Bengazi Saturday. was
still in progress. with the British
doing we'll against 10000 pan
ger corps tank and armored- car
troops.
This news followed a report
that the Italian garrison AT the
Eritrean port Of Massawa on the
Red Sea rejected a British de
mand for surrender. while to the
southwest the historic town of
Adowa. scene of an AbySsinian
massacre of Italian troops IS years
ago. was occupied by a British
column.
News reaching Cairo from the
Anglo Egyptian SudaneSe capital
of Khartoum said the Italian COM
mander at Massawa indicated his
forces will fight to the finish in
defense of that vital seaport
Threatened by a British advance
eastward from the captured Fri
trean capital of Asmara.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06

heart and criti-
cally wounded
her brother as
the climax of a
Jealous rage in
the Hazel Park
apartment h q
maintained for
her.
Bald, bespec-
tacled Edward
c. Sherer Of
$1,000 st. Louis
a We n u q. then
phoned Detroit
police
Il just shot
a man and
a woman. Ill
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Pay With Bonds


By issuing revenue bonds the
cty would then pay the condem-
nation award in an amount eSti-
mated between SO 100000 and
SEQ 600 600 and start oul IN The
retail gas business
The war Of words has WaXcd
hot and heavy over The air
through the HA~ spapors- by pam
phlefs word Of mouth. and in the
bitter clash Of opposing attorneys
p the city sponsored town meet
iugs
In substance tho objections 70
The plan. as advanced by Henry
\. Montgomery. gas company at
tofney. have been these,
THE gas business i highly
i complicated retail enter
prise which j. in keen competi-
ton with electricity. fuel oil
and coal. II j. not monopoly
that would adopt itself 10 mu-
nicipal operation under board
dominated by City Hall poIlti-
clans.
O-Pre~ent customers OF the
- gas company have few COM
plants and there il No public
demand that the city enter such
venture.
O-SerVice to suburban commu-
- mites by the present gas
company would have 10 be cur
tailed under municipal owner
ship because of legal restrictions
in the Michigan Constitution.
other legal tangles involving
stockholders would also result.
i-FAperience Of mum cipai
ownership 81 gas systems IN
other cities does not suhSianti-
ate promises that rates could be-
lowered or service bettered
under municipal ownership.
The DSR il not an out>tand-
- ing success and fares have
been Increased under municipal
ownership. also water rates.
E-The eity's proposed "econo-
" mics" in the operation of the
system. Including the building
of Bntane Eas standby service.
have been explored by the gas
company and found to be I'M
workable. Impractical aud I'M
some eases dangerous.
There has been too short
time for a study Of the pro-
poSalS.
Cny's Arguments
On the other hand The city
position as. expressed bv Corpora.
lion Counsel Paul r. KrauSe and
Assistant Corporation Coun ell
James II. Lee IS this
THE Detroit Plan of rates.
which was put into effect
with the arrival of natural gas
In 1886. and regulation by the
Michigan Public service Com
mission have both failed to bring
substantial rate reductions.
Municipal ownership is the only
remaining recourse for the city.
O-The gas system i eNtrava-
gantly operated at present.
Continued on Page ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-06
Strikers Denied
jObteSS Funds
Voluntary Ford WaIkout
Group Not Eligible

Ford workers voluntarily out Of
the plant on strike are not eligible
for unemployment compensation,
but men thrown out of work as a
by-product of the strike are. for
the most part. eligible. Varnum B.
Steinbaugh, director of the unem-
ployment compensation commits
sion said Saturday.
The technical question as to
which. if any, type of claimant is
involved IN a labor dispute still is
under investigation by the COM
mission.
Employees OF other Ford
plants, such as the little plant
at Milford. who are forced out
of employment by lack of ma
terials probably will receive
weekly benefits If they apply for
them" Steinbaugh said.
The commission fund for bene-
fit payments totals SSl .335, us. a
report Of the commission stated
BY Saturday afternoon the COM
mission had received approx
mately 10000 claims from Ford
and 1000 from non-Ford
workers out of work because of
the strike.
The commission expects 10 get
claims from about $1,000 Ford
workers if the strike continues
over a period of several weeks
and a similar number from nom
Ford workers. made idle by the
strike