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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
WPA Rolls to
be Decreased


Washington, May 22-AP-sharp
cuts in WPA rolls between now and
July / to start and keep the new
fiscal year at the 1000, 900 work re-
lief level recommended by Presi.
dent Roosevelt we're reported today
70 have been outlined TO house
group by Howard o. Hunter, act.
ing WPA commissioner.
There were 497 900 on WPA
rolls on May Il. but the figure was
rapidly declining As defense and
other industries absorbed employ
ables.
Hunter appeared before a House
Appropriations Subcommittee for
nearly three hours yesterday. tes-
tifying on the Presidents request
for $3.50, 600. 900 for relief for the
fiscal year starting July l, a third
less than this years expenditure.
He was asked 10 return today for
further questioning.
Hunter was reported by commit
teemen TO have advocated abandon.
ment Of the present systo . OK
staggering WPA employment,
whereby fewer are kept on the
rolls in the summer months and
a larger number in the winter
when unemployment is greater.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22

Tokyo. May 22-UP- The
Japan Times and Advertiser.
organ of the foreign office. said
today that a union OF the Unit
ed States and Great Britain APP
peared TO be in the making.
II is reasonable 10 assume.
the newspaper said. that Pres
ident Roosevelt has such a
union in mind. as the back
ground 10 his imperial policy
because his actions point that
way.
The editorial lifted the fol-
lowing as points bearing on
such a union:
l. British commitments 10
the United States now are so
large and are growing TO such
astronomical figures that repay
ment is highly problematical:
2. The transfer to the United
States OF British territories al
ready has started; the transfers
may be permanent and q fedora.
ton might be a logical conse-
Quence rather than annexation;
8. The difficulties OF extend
ing aid to Britain and carrying
such supplies TO the British
Isles are mostly technical ones
of composing domestic policy
with foreign policy. and united
democracy would give America
a family reason" for defending
all parts OF the union:
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
Festival to be
Friday Evening

Rehearsal began today at 3 a. m.
on the II episodes in pantomime
showing the growth and progress
OF music in Michigan to be present.
ed Friday at Z o'clock in Island
Park by 1900 children OF city
schools. Participants were busy
following directions OF Roland Scha-
fer. director. and Superintendent
Ernest II. Chapelle. interpolstor.
Bleachers for the performance
will be erected on the west side OF
the field.
The pantomime opens with an
early Indian scene OF wigwams-
braves and squaws. Explorers and
missionaries interrupt the scene
TO depict the entrance OF civiliza-
ticn. Lumbermen and the circuit
riding preacher will be presented in
the next two episodes. Civil War
songs. rural schools music, indus
trial effects on music. medicine
show singing and vocal artists from
abroad will be portrayed. Closing
scenes will be OF the Chautauqua,
college sings and a cosmopolitan
group OF the madrigals. high school
orchestra, band and drum and bugle
corps and MothersipSers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22

NbX Inlleu GIeSS
Detroit, May 22-UP-Agents OF
the National Labor Board began at
noon (EST) today the task Of
counting an estimated $4,000 votes
cast Wednesday in bargaining cleo
tions at the Ford Motor Company's
River Rouge and Lincoln plants.
Representatives of the company
and two competing unions were on
hand TO observe the tabulation Of
ballots that will determine wheth
err Ford employees want a collec-
tive bargaining agent, or which
one, barring failure OF neither IN
ion to win a majority OF votes.
The United Automobile Workers
(CIO) and the federally-chartered
American Federation OF Labor un.
ions each predicted victory by
huge majorities. Each was prepar.
ed to present the company with
demands for wage raises and i'm.
proved working conditions.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
PRICE FIXING BY
LEON HENDERSON
UNDER SCRUTINY
Right Questioned by Sen.
Smith of Agriculture
Committee
DESIGNATED UNDER
EXECUTIVE ORDER
Further Active Measures
to Control Supplies
Deemed Likely
lRv Associated Pressl

Washington, May % -AP- The
price fixing powers OF Leon Hend.
erson were openly challenged to-
day by Chairman Smith (D-SC) OF
the Senate Agriculture Commit
te.
I'm going to demand that this
man Henderson come before our
Senate Committee and explain by
what authority he fixed prices, ="
said Smith, Dean OF the Senate
and frequent critic Of New Deal
programs and policies.
President Roosevelt, in his exc
cutive order. designated Hender-
son, economist and member OF
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission, as administrator OF the
Office OF Price Administration and
Civil Supply. Since then Hender-
son has fixed maximum prices for
steel, coal during the recent
strike, secondhand machine tools
and other vital defense materials.
A White House conference We'd
nesday between Mr.. Roosevelt,
Henderson and Wayne Coy, di-
rector Of the Office of Emergency
Management was considered an
indication that the administration
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
NATIONAL BOARD
To ACT AGAIN IN
SOFT COAL FIGHT
Southern Operators, clio
Break Off Relations
in New York
TENSION SEEMS EASED
IN OTHER LABOR ROWS
Coal Meeting Scheduled
Over Week End in
Washington

The National Mediation Board
prepared today TO act for a second
time in the soft coal wage contro-
versy. while in some other labor
disputes tension appeared TO be
easing
Contract negotiations between the
CIO United Nine Workers and the
Southern Appalachian operators
were broken off in New York yes
terday. with both sides issuing
sharp public statements. In news
paper advertisements, the southern
mine owners charged that John l..
Lewis. UNIV president, was at
tempting to become dictator OF this
country" by gaining death grip"
on the flow OF bituminous coal to
industries. In answer, X. c. Adams,
spokesman for Lewis. called the
southern operatores mock pa
triots."
The union and southern operators
were TO appear before the Media
ton Board at Washington tomor-
row morning, and the northern op-
orators and the union Saturday.
After a general work stoppage
throughout the industry in April.
the northern operators agreed to
increase wages from Sc to 81 a day,
and the southerners entered a tenn
porary agreement TO raise the basic
wage from $3.50 to $3.50. but were
unwilling to eliminate the Accent
sectional differential as the union
demanded. 80
A longshoremen's strike at Buff
falo, N. Y. and a walkout OF 5000
laborers at an Army shell-loading
plant being built near Ravenna,
Ohio, were reported ended. The
AFL longshoremen switched from
a previous stand and decided to ac-
cept a pay increase of IA cents
an hour which had been awarded
by a federal arbitrator who was
called into the dispute involving two
Great Lakes package freight lines.
The new basic wage for longshore-
men. boatmen, extra warehouse
checkers and dock clerks became
SIN cents an hour, with 77lz cents
/ Tor warehousemen.
The Ravenna laborers agreed TO
return TO work for 10 days while
their demands for wage increases
were negotiated. An AFL construc-
ton official had declared the strike
unauthorized. The men were re-
ported TO be receiving SIS cents an
hour and asking 80 cents.
Three of the IL San Francisco
Bay shipyards which had been
closed for IL days by a machinists'
strike were reopened yesterday
when AFL craftsmen crossed picket
lines established by the striking
AFL and CLIO machinlsts.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22

Burlington, Kansas. May % -
ms A warning that the Uni
ted States must face he possibility
OF finding itself bankrupt in a
bankrupt world when the current
war Is eYer-was left before the
nation today by Alfred VI. Lsndon.
Imam address before the gradua-
ting class Of the Burlington High
School, the 1885 Republican pres!-
Dental candidate said:
1T may be that by the time this
war is over. We will be a bankr lTt
country. along with every other
nation In the world. Whether We
enter the war or stay out. We may
be living in world that II not
much better than an armed
camp"
The United States already is
facing expenditures and commit
ments that will call for an outlay
greater than the total cost OF
the last war, Landon pointed out.
Referring 10 the desperate need"
OF speeding national defense e..
forts. the Republican leader said
there was little appreciation N the
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22


Lansing, May 22-UP-The Sen
ate Finance and Appropriations
Committee swung into action today
and prepared to report out House
approved budget measures as the
House COP. bloc was charged
with an "unwillingness to reduce
the Democratic deficit"
Don vanderwerp, chairman o.!
the Senate finance group, was ex-
pected to report the major budget
bills which have been snagged
while the committee awaited the
81. 900 900 capital outlay bill, passed
Wednesday by the House. and the
100000 school aid bill received
from the education committee. Con
sideration OF the two measures
was expected TO follow clearing OF
other appropriation bills by the
committee.
Rep. John P. Espie, r.. Eagle,
veteran chairman OF the House
Ways and Means Committee, ac-
cused House Republicans Of bitter
partisanship in consideration OF a
deficit.appropriation bill Espie,
asserting that the state budget was
$12,000,000 out OF balance on the
basis OF revenue expectations for
the next bienniuLl, said the house
bill to slash that smountl fros-eiAe
deficit accumulated by the 1879
Democratic administration would
have to be killed IL the house re-
fused to clip budget measures.
ut looks TO me" Espie said
that these Republicans are afraid
to reduce the Democratic deficit,
but | think it's more to our credit
to cut It than TO tackle Republican
deficits"
The ways and means committee.
ignored previously by the house In
protesting a sG25,000 increase for
state aid to libraries and An add
tional 100000 for school assist
ance, was defeated on the floor
again yesterday when members
boosted the capital outlay bill ST.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
Fail i'm
Alcatraz Plot


San Francisco, May 22-AP -
Hard steel anc calm, resourceful
Guard Captain Paul Madigan kept
four desperate life termers from
cutting their way out OF Alcatraz
Prison, Warden James A. Johnston
said today.
The four convicts, described by
Johnston as all desperate and all
plotters." worked nearly two hours
and trussed up three prison oficefs
yesterday in an attempted break
from the mat shop at the San
Francisco Bay island penitentiary.
Johnston said the quartet were:
Lloyd II. Barkdoll, oregon bank
robber; Joseph Paul Cretzer and
Arnold Kyle, brothers-in-law con-
victed of bank robbery at Los An
geles and additionally sentenced
for escaping from Mcneil Islan1
Federal Prison and smuggling a L..
S. marshal, who later died. at
Tacoma, Wash, and Sam R. Schok-
ley. Muskogee, Okla, bank robber
and kidnaper.
The conYicts had broken the In
side detention sash on one OF four
small rooms in the shop and were
working on the tool-proof steel bars
with an emery wheel when Guard
Clyne z. Stops came into the
room.
They overcame Stops and bound
him hand and foot, then proceeded
with their work on the bars. Next
10 enter during routine inspec-
ton was c. ]. Manning. superin-
tendent of prison industries He
was likewise bound, as was Lionel
Johnston. work area yard officer,
who entered later.
Johnston said Captain Madigsn
entered the room about $50 p. m.
and the convicts grabbed him. BY
that time they had been two hours
at work on the bars, with little
success.
Captain Madigan was resource
full and persua sive," the Warden
said. He convinced the already
discouraged convicts that their eff
forts would be futile. The convicts.
disguised with their failure. releas-
ed Madigan and he sounded the
emergency alarm.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
LandOn Warns Nation Will be
Bankrupt When Conflict Ends

country OF the burden this pro-
gram will impose upon everyone.
"No one is able to tell when this
job will end" he said. therefore
IL Is difficult 10 estimate what It
will cost. But with lust a good
start on our defense expenditures.
We already have debt fast ap-
preaching 50 times the amount OF
the national debt in 1915.
And in considering that situa.
ton. We must remember America
is not as wealthy country as It
was. We have lost billions in the
last 10 or ~ years. We have lost
billions OF national wealth. partly
through foreign investments. and
partly through failure TO repro
duce wealth through production
and partly through waste and
extravaganza"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
Maxi Parachutists Fail to
Take Crete, All Out Bomb
Attacks Expected to Come
Union With Britain?

4 The world policy Of both
nations would be merged into
q single policy carried out by a
central authority. the same prin-
ciple would apply 10 central mil.
itsry and economic control"
5. Americas imperial ambi-
tions. evident since the days OF
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
and Theodore Roosevelt. would
he gratified, but with the edi-
flee OF apparent moral right and
Justification;
6. Such a union would cores
pond 10 the world movement
toward larger spheres OF govern.
ment and cooperation:
:. America would be assured
OF a world wide market and
pool OF natural resources:
S. There would be restora-
ton OF the family system.
which obtained before Amer
lean independence. but in this
instance It would be the parent
surrendering the leadership and
initiative TO the younger gener-
alton"
3. There would be centraliza-
ton but the autonomy now ex.
isting in the dominions and COM
monwealths would continue"
10. There would be provision
for a British base in America
should Germany take the Brit
ikh Isles.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
Marion Talley Tells How
She Tried to Obtain Susan

Los Angeles, May 22-INS-Mar-
ion Talley, the former grand opera
star and motion picture actress. to-
day was 10 continue the story of
her long conflict with her husband,
Adolf Eckstrom. 43-year-oh music
teacher. over custody OF their child,
Susan. 6.
Miss Talley. who rose 10 opera
tic heights in 1925 as a soprano with
the Metropolitan Grand Opera and
then came TO Hollywood for a ca
reer in the movies, is suing Eek
strom for a divorce and complete
custody OF the child.
Eckstrom is opposing both al
though he does not seek a divorce
for himself In New York he filed
a petition for Sussn's custody. but
Miss Talley was given provisional
custody and now has Susan with
her in Beverly Hills.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
Coroner's Jury Probing
Death Of Miss Briggs
Adjourned to Tuesday

Ann Arbor. Mich. May 22-Pros-
ecutor George Meader said today
that the coroner's jury inyestigat.
ing the death of Miss Hazel Briggs.
3S, Detroit, in Manchester had
adjourned until next Tuesday.
In the meantime an official re-
port OF the autopsy performed on
Miss Briggs charred remains will
be prepared. Mr. Meader said. and
photos Of the scene OF the dump
where the ashes we're found will
be developed and printed.
1t is believed Miss Briggs, who
disappeared from her mothers
Manchester home April 10. was
stuffed into a barrel. either before
or after having been killed, oil
poured in the barrel and ignited.
The remains were found in a ref
use pile on the farm OF Raymond
Trolz, near Manchester, by TrolE
two young sons the evening of
May 10.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
Woman Pilot
Beats Storm

All in a days flying was the az
titude OF Miss Muriel Rumsey who
landed the light plane she was n.y.
ing at Ypsilanti Airport just BIS
fore the storm broke Wednesday
evening. Miss Rumsey, social
worker at the Ypsilanti State Hos
pital who has been taking private
instruction, received her private
pilots certificate Wednesday and
had taken her first passenger, Miss
Katherine Jackson, aloft.
She had just made her landing
when the wind started to blow
hard. But before she came down,
men filters at the airport had cast
many anxious eyes at the dsrken-
ing sky.
Hotel Huron Hit
The storm increased in violence
and about 1880. lightning struck the
Hotel Huron 1t hit the pent house
which houses the elevator motor on
the northwest corner OF the build
ing and loosened rs TO 30 bricks.
They narrowly missed the sky light
in the kitchen and some fell on
the roof and others on the ground
below.
Without Lights
The section OF town north Of
Cross st. and east OF the Huron
River was without lights for about
an hour and half Wednesday
evening when lightning struck pri-
mary wires a few transformers
we're also out. but they we're re-
paired in about a half hours time.
~ Telephones Out
Twenty-three lines with ~ tele-
phones were out OF order Wednes-
day night when rain damaged a
cable. They were situated princi-
pally in the northwest section OF
the city in the Lowell and st.
Johns SITS. area.
One trouble case was reported
in Belleyille wheE lightning hit a
tree.
Wires Blown Down
Utility wires on n. River and
Park SITS were repaired by com
pany crews today. A tree was
removed from ". River ST. where
II had blown down.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
Production of
BOmbers Will
be Stepped up
Knudsen Expects
500 Monthly

Washington. May 81 APP -
Authoritative congressional sources
declared today that the once of
Production Management has been
urging the War Department TO al
most double its $500, 600 900 esti-
mates for the year ahead, to per-
NIT a tremendous new expansion in
production of bombers, tanks and
other arms.
William s. Knudsen, OPM d.
rector, announced one step toward
increasing the nation s7-and Bri-
tain s-aerial striking force when
he disclosed yesterday that four
new contracts were being nego-
tiated TO step up production OF
long-range. four-motored heavy
bombers to 500 month.
At the same time, Jesse Jones,
federal loan administrator, allo-
Gated 10000, 900 to construct new
government-owned airplane. alumni
mum and magnesium plants. Mag
nesium and aluminium are widely
used in the manufacture OF de-
tense goods. particularly airplanes.
Gaping those two developments,
well-informed legislators said Army
officers had told them the OPM
was, advocating that the War De-
partment appropriation bill for the
year starting July be increased
by 100000, 900 or $4,000 900, 900
TO finance a vastly expanded bomb
er and tank output and to provide
all equipment for 1000, 000-man
army.
Sidney Hillman. associate OPM
director, said in New York last
night that although the present
defense program calls for an out,
lay of $4,000, 100000. further and
yaster sums will probably have 10
be expended"
At present, the Army's program
calls for 1,41S,00O men in training
by June 80 and for provision of
full equipment for 1000 900 men.
Congress voted approximately
S750,000,000 earlier this year TO
provide the productive facilities re-
quired to turn out SUFFICIENT arms
and material TO maintain a 4.000.-
000-man ground force on a com bat
status.
The air corps is engaged on a
21,000-plane program for which
contracts already have been let
and which, with the Navy and
British-aid contracts requires an.
annual capacity OF about $4,000
planes. Defense production sources
recently disclosed that the need
for heavy bombers had increased
to such an extent that a productive
capacity OF $4,000 planes yearly
was under consideration.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
Greeks, British in
All Key Points
of Island
French on March
in Lebanon,
Syria
CBy ssocIafed PrAsE,

German fighting men, floating
down in parachutes and landing
from elders and troop transports,
have failed 10 crack the defenses
Of the tiny, strategic island of
Crete after two days OF the most
violent warfare, the British as
serted today.
Military experts IN London ex-
pressed belief, however, that the
worst was yet TO come and said
they felt the ,Nazis now would re-
vert to their familiar tactics OF all
out bombing to prepare the way
for their SKY troops In what
Britons said was the first round
OF the fight for Suez.
The British acknowledged that
some OF the German troops landed
on the island in the last two days
might still be holding out but add
ed that all key points were under
control of the British-Greek de-
tenders.
Further to the east, French
troops were reported on the
march in Syria and Lebanon and
long-idle French warships began
exercise in the harbor at Beirut.
Stand Ready
These facts seemed TO point Up
tie recent warning TO the British
BY General Henri Dentz. high COM
missioner for these French-man-
dated middle eastern territories,
that his army stood ready TO
meet force with force"
And although this army was
counted as loyal TO General Dentz,
Reuters British news agency
dispatch and a broadcast from the
Free French radio at Brazza.
vile. French equatorial Africa,
reported that full regiment OF It
had deserted and gone over 70
Free French" forces said 10 be
advancing into Syria from Paies-
tine.
Bad weather brought flat lull
in the western air war but the
British reported successful raid
against the German naval base at
Helgoland and against a power
station and oil refineries near
Bethune. German-occIpied France.
in daylight Wednesday.
They acknowledged the loss OF
two bombers and six fighters in
these assaults but claimed des-
truction Of five German fighter
planes at the same time.
In Washington, informed sourc-
es said the United States would
pursue a "watchful waiting po-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22

Sometime after the couples mar.
rage on March IS, 1885. they sep
arated and Eckstrom kept Susan
at the home OF his sister. Mrs. Ruth
(. Nelson. in Msmsroneck. y. Y.
Miss Talley said she did not know
OF Susan's whereabouts for three
years and that when she finally
did learn and attempted TO get the
child back she was met with re-
sistance from Mrs. Nelson and also
from Eckstrom.
The singer testified she lost her
first attempt 10 gain possession of
Susan inasmuch as she was forcibly
elected from the Nelson home, but
that later she brought court action
which resulted in her being given
custody of Susan for nine months
Of each year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-22
Five Injured
i'm Collisions

Five persons were treated for IN
in this area during the last "A
hours.
Four Ypsilanti residents we're
taken TO Eloise General Hospital
shortly after midnight this morning
suffering from injuries sustained
when a car driven by Edwin A. Bell,
146 n. Devonshire Rd., crashed into
the rear OF a parked truck driven
by c. NJ Barnes, Albion, on U.s.
112. near Eloise.
Besides MI. Bell. those injured
were his passengers, Mrs. Joseph
Manus. 1907 n. Huron St; Miss
May Poe and Carl Batrick. giving
their address at 1850 Newton St,
Wayne County sheriff's officers
said.
At Boyer
Sylvester Taylor. Detroit, was
treated at Boyer Memorial Hospital
Wednesday night for head injuries
received in an automobile collision
at the corner OF Ballard and Pearl
SITS. He was to be discharged to-
day.
Mr.. Taylor was the driver OF an
automobile which collded with an
other, operated by Edward Williams,
Ann Arbor.
ConeeaIs Identity
A car driven by a woman. who
refused to give her name, collided
with an automobile operated by
Theodore Breckon, Dearborn. We'd
nesday afternoon at the Perrin and
Cross SITS. intersection. Mr.. Breckon
told police he had stopped TO make
a left turn off Cross st. 10 Perrin
ST. The license number OF the I'M
identified car was obtained by Mr..
Breckon and checked by city police.
The car was listed in the name
of Jack L. Kett, Midland.
Backs Into Car
Emil Parre. 5S4 Mause Ave. driv.
ing a truck on Race st. Tuesday az
ternoon backed into the parked car
OF August Schlsffin. Detroit. The
Schlaffin car had been parked In
the driveway at city water offices.
Ralph Cutler. Ann Arbor, and
Arthur Reynolds. 4s9 Harris Rd..
driving automobiles at W. Cross
and St. John SITS. intersection Tues
day afternoon collided as Mr.. Reyn-
olds pulled away from a gasoline
station.