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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02

He was such a dear, dear man,
Such devout church worker"
The reflection Of the stranger
with the cigar was staring at
Henry out of the glass plate. The
fellow had crossed the floor silent
ly and was only two steps behind.
The plate slipped and went
crashing down. Miss Wensley
screamed.
"Kinda on edge, aren't your
asked the stranger, staring at the
little clerk.
Henry Potterw asserted Miss
Wensley. You have a guilty con-
science!"
Henry's boss came out Of the Of
fee as Henry started picking up.
the pieces. you'd better go home
until your nerves quiet down." the
old man told him. II can take care
Of business today-if there is any,
Miss Wensley was going out the
| door.
Henry looked up fearfully. Z
I'm all right" he protested.
Mr.. Brown shook his white head.
His eyes, although troubled, were
not unkind. I'm sorry, but can't
you see what is happening? Gus
toners won't want to come In here
while you are under suspicion. 1t
is embarrassing for them +
But why am I under suspi-
cion?' Henry asked wildly. What
have done? I hardly knew Ives!
1 just happened to be passing the
place where the club was meeting
and :"
Don't misunderstood me-" his
employer soothed him. There is
no one in this town more incap-
able Of murder than you are,
Henry. know that. But perhaps
know you better than others do.
That's why I say :"
you mean, you don't want me
TO work here any more, just be-
cause
mo, no! Not that, Henry! don't
mean you should give up your Job.
But-well-couldn't you take your
vacation now"
In the middle OF winter? l.
I. :"
The stranger was staring at him
again.
"All right" agreed Henry. his
heart humping "I'll take a vaca-
ton! I know how to spend II. I'll
look for the man who killed John
Ives" He swallowed. And when I
find him, I'll be back.''
(To Be Continuedl
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02
TROJAN LAUNDRY WINS

L. ]. Wagner came up with his
second one-hit pitching perform
ance OF the season Thursday as
Trojan Laundry checked Central
Specially, TO, In a City League
softball game. A single by out
fielder Vernon Hall in the second
inning was Central Specialty's
only safety. Trojan's battery
combination OF Wagner and
Vaughan Koppin also topped the
hitting with two singles each.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02
MICH, SATURDAY
Regular Plans Postponed as
DELAYED Contests Are Played

Friday afternoon finally saw the
muddled first half OF the City
League Baseball season straight
ened out as Athletic Director Chris
ty Wilson completely revised the
schedule for the coming weeks OF
the season. Although the rest OF
the country has been suffering
from lack OF rain, Ypsilanti has
had an abundance OF It and conse-
quently many OF the league games
had TO be postponed. Almost every
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02
TWO GIRLS DROWN

Lakeview. Mich. Aug. ZAP
Two OF five girl occupants OF an
cupboard motorboat drowned last
night when the craft upset on
Town Lake, five miles east OF
here. Three were rescued by
Frank Cowley OF Lakeview. who
was In another boat. but he was
unable-to save Gloria Jean Soren-
son, Il, OF Mt. Morris, and Eliza.
beth Dyer. IL, OF Nc Bridges.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02
FATALLY INJURED

jackson, Aug Pr John Simp-
son, 81, Chicago, received fatal
injuries Friday when his automo-
bile crashed into the cement base
OF an abandoned railroad trestle
near Michigan Center. His wife
and two passengers were hurt
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02

week saw its postponed game and
up till Friday. the end OF the
twelfth week OF the season. nine
games were waiting TO be played
off; and with only three weeks re-
naming 10 the season and thus only
three open dates II was obviously
impossible to play Off the postpone
ments Also. as yet the first half
title winner had not been decided
and something therefore had to Be
done to clear up the situation.
II was finally decided to suspend
temporarily the regular schedule
and play off all the postponements
in the coming two weeks. Then be-
ginning August IS. the final three
weeks OF the schedule will be
played. This will bring the season
up to September when the final
game will be played, and the fol
lowing week beginning September
and running through September
~. the championship series will be
held.
Following is the new schedule for
the rest OF the season.:
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02

Games behind leader.
Fridays Results
Pittsburgh 6, New York 3.
Brooklyn 5. Chicago 4.
Cincinnati 5, Boston !.
Philadelphia at St. Louis, incom-
plete.
Today's Games
Brooklyn at Chicago.
New York at Pittsburgh.
Boston at Cincinnati.
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02
GIVEN PAY INCREASES

Lansing, Aug. PAP State
highway department announces
that 1852 employees will receive pay
increases averaging $1,000 a month
each. The announcement said that
the adjustments had the approval
OF the civil service department.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02
How They Stand

Fridays Results
New York 3, ST. Louis 0.
Washington s, Chicago 2.
Only games scheduled.
Today's Games
Detroit at Boston.
Chicago at Washington.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
ST. Louis at New York.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02
Baseball Schedule Revised For City League Season

Coldwater, Aug. 2-williAm T.
Stansell. IS. former city clerk and
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02

Arrested by a federal narcotics
agent outside the st. Louis hos
pital in which he was undergoing
extensive plastic surgery opera
lions upon his face, Jacob "Kup-
py" Migden is pictured as he ar
rived in New York police head
quarters. He is wanted in con-
nection with the Staying OF Irving
Penn, Bronx music publishers
clerk, who was killed by monsters
by mistake two years ago. -
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02

former died Friday Funeral services
County Board OF Supervisors, will be Monday.
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Six Held After Kansas City
Is Backed Out by Strike

A police detail headed by Mayor
Gage and Chief Anderson elected
some Is strikers from the Northeast
Power Station. Current poured back
through the lines as non-strikers
went back to work under police
protection.
The Police Board announced 1t
was swearing in $50 special officers
to serve through the emergency.
I'VE are not taking sides in any
labor controversy" said Edgar
Shook, Police Board chairman, but
so far as the public welfare is con-
cerned there will be no perhaps
about it."
The A. F. L. Buildings and Con-
struction Trades Council said In a
formal resolution the walkout was
without q doubt the greatest mis-
take which union labor could have
made" and instructed members Of
its crafts to ignore the picket lines.
A. e. Bettis, vice president Of the
power company, said enough men
were on duty to operate the plants
"if no interference" was offered.
The strike grew out Of jurisdic-
tional dispute between the A. r. l..
Union and the Independent Union of
(See BLACKOUT. Page Nd
Evening star., 1941-09-17
BY the Associated Press.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 17.-Swift
official action today checked an un-
heralded power strike which blacked
out this city of 100000 for four hours,
plunging hospital operating rooms
into darkness and stalling laden
streetcars and trolley buses.
Police seized six men involved in
what Mayor John B. Gage called
an outlaw strike against the Kansas
City Power 81 Light Co. A bat
talon of the recently organized Mis-
souri, Home Guard was modified by
Gov. Forrest c. Donnell and another
ordered to stand alert. Neither was
called into action Immediately.
Albert F. Wright, representative
of the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers "a. F. L., was
arrested at a power plant by order
of Police Chief Harold Anderson. He
was released on bond after being
held incommunicado several hours.
Chief Anderson said charges Of
sabotage or malicious mischief
would be sought against the other
five men arrested-all striking en-
ployes.
"If any deaths have been caused
BY this the charges should be mur-
der" the police chief said.
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Germans Threaten
Hostages Of All
Paris Glasses
ReprisoIs Are Not to Be
Confined to Communists
Authorities Announce
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, Sept. 17.-German au-
thorities announced today that
shooting of hostages in reprisal for
attacks on Germans would be ex-
tended to include not only Com
munists but ''all classes of the Paris
population"
The announcement came as a
German commissioned officer
died Of bullet wounds inflicted Mon
day by an unidentified assailant in
defiance of the executions for pre-
vious attacks on members of the
army of occupation.
The new policy. announced in all
Paris papers and posted on walls
throughout the city, read:
IF attacks continue, the occupa-
ton authorities will shoot increasing
numbers of hostages, and these
hostages no longer will be taken ex-
clusively from among Communists,
but from all classes of the Paris pop
ulation''
Second Reported Slain.
The soldier was the second re-
ported slain in Paris in the last few
weeks.
Both French and German author
tiles pressed a citywide search for
the person responsible for the latest
attack and for the kidnapers of
Manuel Herteaux, 20-year-old son
of 1t. Col. Alfred Herteaux, vice
president of the Veterans Legion
which now is the official party of the
Vichy regime.
Newspapers published an appeal
asking woman who witnessed the
fatal shooting to come forward and
help officials with their investiga-
ton.
Young Herteaux was reported kid
naped September 8 in the fashion,
able Passy district of Paris. Thus
far no trace of him or his abductors
has been found.
In the unoccupied zone a British
Catholic priest, Father Price, was
arrested at Tarbes and sent to a
concentration camp on a charge OF
"anti-national activity and disre-
spect toward the chief of state"
The prefect of the Upper Pyrennes
(See PARIS, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Gerard D. Reilly Is Nominated
As Member of Labor Board
Choice of Solicitor
In Labor Department
Ends Reorganization

President Roosevelt today nomi-
mated Gerard D. Reilly, solicitor Of
the Labor Department, to be men,
Der of the National Labor Relations
Board.
Mr. Reilly's nomination is for the
membership left vacant by the ex-
piration of the term Of Edwin S.
Smith. The new term is for five
years dating from last August 27.
The position carries salary Of
$4,000 annually.
The appointment of Mr.. Reilly, a
former newspaperman, completes
the reorganization of the Labor
Board, started when William M
Leiserson was transferred to that
agency from the Craftsmanship Of
the Railway Mediation Board to
replace Donald Wakefield Smith
Subsequently DR.. Harry A. Mills
Of Chicago was named to succeed
j. Warren Madden as chairman.
Before this reorganization and
the overshadowing of the work of
the board by the defense program
and creation of the new National
Defense Mediation Board, the N. L.
Evening star., 1941-09-17
President Places
Export Office Under
Wa|Iace's Board
keighbor Nations TO Get
Aid Faster; Milo Perkins
Named Administrator
By BLAIR BOLLES.

In a move aimed primarily at
eliminating the economic bottleneck
in inter-American relations, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has signed an ex-
ecutive order placing the ONCE Of
Export Control under the Economic
Defense Board, Vice President Wal
nounced today.
Mr.. Wallace said he expects that
hereafter tighter controls over ex-
ports will be set up because the
international crisis requires a de-
termined intensification of our pol
icy of preventing shipments to Axis
dominated countries"
Mr.. Wallace said Milo Perkins, the
boards executive director, was re-
placing Brig. Gen. r. L. Maxwell
as export control administrator. Mr..
Wallace disclosed that President
Roosevelt has ordered Gen. Maxwell
to return to military duties at the
War Department.
Complaints Increasing.
The executive order was issued in
the midst of b growing number of
complaints from South America
about the slowness with which ex-
port clearances are being issued
for the dispatch of sorely needed
materials in the countries to the
south. Apparently Mr.. Wallace had
this in mind when, in announcing
the shift in the Export Control
Once, he said:
1--WE must help see to it that
other nations in that part of the
world which is still free get enough
goods to maintain the stability OF
their own economies insofar as that
is possible. This is particularly i'm
portant in the Western Hemi-
sphere"
At the same time Mr.. Wallace
announced that plans were being
laid for the Economic Defense Board
to take a key position in stepping
up the supplies Of raw materials to
the United States for the defense
effort. He made 1t clear that the
United States is about to increase
its purchases of defense-program
raw materials from Latin America
He said the administrator is max
ing preparations to set up an ever
normal stock pile" Of critical raw
materials.
To Advise S. p. A. B.
The executive order attacks
another angle of the bottleneck in
inter-American relations by setting
up the economic board as the ad-
wiser of the Supply Priorities and
Allegations Board-of which Mr..
Wallace also is chairman-on the
amount of materials and commodi-
ties required for export purposes IN
the interest of the economic defense
of the Nation. The board, however,
1see EXPORT CONTROL, Pg. AID
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Two House Groups Plan Quiz
On Transfer Of S. Agencies

Chairman Downs said all Cabinet
members and department chiefs
would be invited to attend.
Due to overcrowding OF some
ofiicial facilities here because of the
influx OF thousands OF Government
workers for defense jobs, many
members of Congress have proposed
decentralization of the Government.
The investigation was authorized
by the House several weeks ago. AS
the first phase of the inquiry, the
House Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee conducted hearings on
the Governments leasing of the Du-
pont Circle APARTMENTS move
which brought protests from tenants.
Several agencies of the Govern
ment have already transferred their
activities elsewhere and others are
planning to move.
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Basic Food Prices
Up S96 in Month,
Henderson Asserts
RetoiI Quotations
Beginning to Climb
In Earnest, He Says
By the Associated Press,


Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son testified today that since con-
gressional hearing on price-control
legislation recessed a month ago,
prices of basic foodstuffs had in
creased per cent.
ReSuming his testimony before the
House Banking Committee on bill
to empower the President to estab-
lish ceilings for prices, Mr.. Hender-
son declared that since the hearings
recessed there was mo question that
wholesale prices everywhere are con-
tinuing to increase" and that retail
prices also were beginning to move
up in earnest"
He exhibited a specially prepared
daily index showing that % basic
commodities had increased from $50
on August 16 to 157 on September l3
and on that date were still trending
upward. In the period from August
Is to September s, he said, the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics all-com-
modify index, based on the 1926 level
rose from 1876 per cent to 81 per
cent.
"Profiteering Charged"
The cost of living generally rose !
per cent, he added. from mid-July
to mid-August, and 712 per cent
since August, 1889.
Discussing specific instances, Mr.
Henderson said that. in the case OF
chemicals, some "unscrupulous
dealers" had combed the market for
certain commodities and were offer
ing high prices for them.
There have been authenticated
reports that some manufacturers
1See HENDERSON, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Catoe 10 Go on Trial
First in Staying Of
Mrs. Abramowitz
U. S. Attorney Believes
Cose Is One Of Strongest
Against Prisoner

Under indictment in five slayings.
Jarvis R. Catoe, 36, colored, will go
on trial in District Court october
Is. on charges of criminally assault
ing and numbering Mrs. Rose
Abramowitz. %, bride of few weeks,
in her apartment in the 1900 block
Of Sixteenth street NV, March 8.
The date was set early this month,
but it was not announced until to-
day on which case he would be tried
first. United States Attorney Ed
ward M. Curran, it was said, be-
lieveS the Abramowitz case is one Of
the strongest against Catoe.
Strieff Case Date Not Set.
The prisoner allegedly knew init
mate details of the Abramowitz
apartment and took detectives there,
they said, to re-enact the crime.
Mr.. Curran said he would ask the
court to set the case of Matte
Steward, 48. colored, who was crimi-
nally assaulted and murdered last
November, for trial Immediately
after the Abramowitz case is dis
posed of.
No announcement was made as
to when Catoe would be tried for
murder and assault on the death
of Miss Jessie Elizabeth Strieff, %,
War Department clerk, whose body
was found in garage in the rear
of the l700 block of @ street NV.
In the case of Matte Steward
who was killed in the 1400 block of
Swami street NV, police said they
recovered the womans hat, coat and
parasol through information given
them by Catoe
Officials Confer.
Announcement of the trials came
following conference between Mr.
Curran and an assistant, John W.
Fihelly. and Acting 1t. Jeremiah
Flaherty and Detective Sergt. John
Wise of the Detective Bureau.
The defendant is represented by
Attorneys Walter NJ Shea. j. Robert
Esher and George j. Boden.
Evening star., 1941-09-17

The explosions occurred in Haar-
fsjaerden HarbOr, a fjOrd on the
Baltic Sea coast south of Stockholm.
used by Sweden's rapidly expanding
navy as proving ground.
All three destroyers were rela-
lively new and Swedish-built.
The 1,040-ton Goteborg, completed
in 1886, was said to have blown up
and sunk first. Explosions followed
on the sister vessels Klas Horn and
Klas Uggla, each of 1920 tons.
The Klas Horn sank quickly and
the crippled Klas Uggla went down
later.
Details of the series of blasts still
were obscure. however. as every
available coastal boat put out to
rescue survivors and recover the
bodies of the dead from the burn
ing waters.
Every ambulance in Stockholm
was rushed to Haarsfjaerden to help
with medical aid as the victims were
brought ashore.
Sweden has embarked on a big
naval building program, much of it
secret, but informed Swedish sources
have asserted it was adding a unit
week for at least the past six
months.
The number of Swedish deStroyers
was not known before todays dis
aster, but the Swedish Navy has
is modern destroyers. of which IL
are Swedish built and four new ones
bought from Italy. There are be-
sides, six old but probably still serv-
iceable destroyers.
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Conodo Tightens Rules
On War Plant Strikes
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA. Sept. 17.-Labor Minis
ter Norman McLarty announced
today that strikes in Canadian war
industries would be illegal unless
sanctioned by a majority of workers
in polls supervised by the Labor De-
partment.
Mr.. McLarty said an order-in-
council to that effect was approved
yesterday by the cabinet.
Violators are liable to fines up to
$500 and prison terms up to IL
months.
The current strike at McKinnon
Industries, Ltd, at st. GATHERINGS,
Ontario, will not be affected.
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Allied Staff Officers
Enter Teheran While
Armies Ring Capital
Iron Calls on japanese
Legation to Surrender
Jerusalem Grand Mufti
Rs the Associated Press.

l
TEHERAN. Iran. Sept. 17.-Rus-
sian and British staff officers en-
tered Teheran today as their mech
anized forces surrounded the cap
ital.
The Russian forces had come
down from the northwest, the Brit
ish up from the southwest. leaving
their previous zones of occupation
to take over the capital in the wake
of yesterdays abdication Of the
ruler, Reza Shah Pahlevi, and his
succession by his 2l-year-old son.
The Soviet mechanical troops had
pitched camp on the northwestern
desert at the edge of Teheran after
the British military attache, Col, w
A. K. Fraser, yesterday had urg-
emily suggesting halt until a
brigade Of motorized British Life
Guards could arrive from Sultana-
bad.
Demand Surrender of Mufti.
The Iran government. meanwhile,
at the insistence of the British. sent
a note to the Japanese Legation de-
manding the surrender of the Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, dissident Arab
leader in the Palestine revolts Of
years back.
The Grand Mufti fled to Teheran
when Iraq, Trans western neighbor,
was occupied by the British a few
months ago. He was reported to
have taken refuge with the japanese
when the Allied invasion began late
in August.
1t also was reported that the
former war minister, Gen. Ahmad
Nakhjevan, and general staff
officer, Gen. Riazi Nakhjevan, both
Jailed by the abdicated Shah for
mutiny, were liberated by the new
Shah, along with other high political
prisoners.
The new Shah may have his
secular coronation ceremony in his
palace on his birthday, october rs.
Troops Guard Teheran Streets.
Iranian troops stood guard in the
streets of Teheran as precaution
against disorder as British and Rus
sian forces approached the capital.
Can authoritative British source
in London said occupation of
Teheran would depend on the
situation there, and declared the
converging British and Russian
forces might remain outside the
Iranian capital if an orderly re-
gime seemed likely.
(No program other than one
which would give assurance of
less autocracy and wider benefits
to the Iranian people would sat-
isfy the Allies, however, this
source asserted)
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Earlier Story on Page B-14o

Earlier Story on Page B-l4)
TWO subcommittee of the House
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds were set up today to divide
the work Of conducting hearings on
the SABBATH resolution for decen-
tralization Of Government estao-
hshments.
Chairman Lanham announced
that Representatives Downs OF Con-
necticut and Boykin Of Alabama
would head these subcommtttees.
These two subcommittee chairmen
are to meet tomorrow to decide
which departments and agencies OF
the Government will be taken by
their subcommittee for hearings.
They will decide at this conference
when the hearings will start. It Is
hoped to have both subcommittees
sitting at the same timea
Evening star., 1941-09-17

Casualties were feared to be nigh
but the full extent OF the disaster
was not known because of flaming
oil hampering desperate rescue ef-
forts.
1t was established, however, that
/ officer, commissioned Off
GERS and "a marines were killed, be.
sides IL others injured in the ex-
plosions.
Swedish authorities said they
could not account for the blasts
which apparently started on one
ship and sank all three, one after
the other.
CA dispatch from Stockholm to
the Swedish News Ex-
change said a boiler explosion
aboard the Goteborg was the
cause of the disaster. This would
indicate that ammunition may
have been set off and hit the
other ships.
Can unidentified transport was
reported in a DNB. German
news agency broadcast also to
have been lost despite heroic
efforts The news agency said
the 1,570-ton Swedish minelayer
Klas Fleming was heavily dam
aged when mines aboard her ex-
ploded The transport was said
to have burned
The destroyer Goteborg. on
which the first blasts occurred,
split in two and sank instantly,
D.N.B. said So fierce were the
explosions, said the broadcast,
that soldiers on the nearby island
of Maergarns had to take refuge
in air raid shelters.)
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Nuzis Claim Sinking
Of Six Freighters
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE high
command reported today that Ger
man submarines had sunk six
freighters, totaling $1,000 tons, IN
the North Atlantic.
Evening star., 1941-09-17
3 Swedish Destroyers Blow Up
MysteriousIy While at Anchor
At Least 81 Killed; Flaming Oil flinders
Desperate Effort to Reach Survivors
By the Associated Press.


STOCKHOLM Sweden Sept. 17-Three Swedish destroyers
myserouy today while at anchor
reports said at least 81 killed
Evening star., 1941-09-17

r. B. had been under severe fire
from Congress, from industry and
from portions of organized labor.
Edwin S. Smith, who is now to
1See RFTIII,Y Page ABB
Evening star., 1941-09-17
GUIDE FOR READERS

(See PARIS, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1941-09-17

(See REILLY, Page A-3)