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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-07

C\~r.NE i. LlNGLM\N. Clerk;
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-07
LEGAL NOTICE
Roxborough 6 TsIisferro,
Attorneys-at-law.
403 Tobin Building,
Detroit. Michigan
STATE OF MICHIGAN
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
THE COUNTY OF WAYNE
IN CHANCERY
HERMAN FLEMING. Plaintiff;
vs., No 355.07S
CATHERINE FLEMING,
Defendant

At session OF said Court held al
the Court House in the City oil DE.
troit. in said County, on the 2Sth
day Of September. AID. 1912.
Present: The Hon.
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10 Liberty ships at . ship-a-day
Higgins CHARGES Pretext.

Higgins Charges Pretext.
In New Orleans, where Higgins
Industries are building motor tor
pedo and crash boats for the Navy,
Mr.. Higgins said:
They said it was a shortage OF
steel, that was their pretext. There
may be more behind it than their
bare announcement. It's my per-
sonal opinion that the decision in
Washington was arrived at and en-
forced by dollar "a year men.
Maybe we were going to build
ships too fast. maybe we were going
to build too many ships and too
cheaply."
The sudden close-down order halt
ed hum and activity at the 200
acre Michaud plant east of the city
where construction started last
March after award of the commits
sion's biggest merchant ship con-
tract. The cancellation left the tract
a maze of deserted streets. piling
and cleared woods and marsh.
Meanwhile, the commission said
that performance records of vessels
already in service have fully justi-
fed the concentration of effort ~on
Liberty ships. Some Shipbuilders
have informed the commission that
they will be able to turn out one
every 80 days. it was reported.
The current shipyard capacity
now is said to be SUFFICIENT to turn
out 1900 ships before the end of
1943, but there is the possibility,
officials now admit, that they might
have to slow down the process in
the yards because of the lack of
steel
Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery,
vice chairman of the Maritime Com
mission, and who is in direct charge
of the gigantic construction pro-
gram, said that the commission can
build all of the ships for which it
can obtain materials. He said. how
ever, Il have no assurance we can
get enough steel next year to keep
all of the yards operating at peak
production levels"
Admiral Vickery said that due to
the intensive application of prefab-
rication and mass production meth
DDS, American shipbuilders now are
producing merchant vessels in ap-
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Labor Policy
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of bargaining rights frequently shift
from union to union as personnel is
built up. In st. Louis munitions
plant recently, more than a score of
AFL craft unions and the CIO
sought approval as exclusive bar
gaining agent for employees. De-
cision in the case has not been made
by the War Labor Board. which pre-
sumably deferred it pending the
policy statement.
Machinery will be set up within a
plant for handling grievances and
disputes between labor and manage
ment until selection of the bargain
ing agent, 1t was said.
The Army and Navy labor policy
was announced by Undersecretary of
War Patterson and Assistant Secre-
tary of Navy Bard. 1t was explained
that while the two agencies had the
right to operate the plants them
selves. contractors were selected in
order to fully utilize labor and man
agement resources Of the country
and to minimize encroachment on
the Nations industrial structure.
Because of the unusual relationship,
u was said, existing Government
policies regulating labor relations
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Saboteurs Will GET
Chance 10 Testify
Al Trial Tomorrow
Government Case Against
Eight Accused as Spies
Is Nearly Completed

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draft boards were instructed not to
classify married men as Immediately
available for service. Draft officials
acted after receiving a telegram
from national headquarters an
nouncing the proposed regulations
which followed passage of the
family allowance law. Congress en-
phasized that family ties should be
preserved as long as possible, but it
was made clear that no deferment
Is permanent and that the new
policy should not prevent meeting
calls.
June 80 Registrants.
Local boards tomorrow will start
working on the cards of the 18. 19
and 20-year- -olds who registered
June 30. Date of birth rather than
a national lottery will determine
the order of call of the 20-year-olds
and the younger registrants as they
turn 20.
The work piling up for local
boards includes the completion of
this job, finishing the classification
of those who registered February
16, sending out occupational ques-
tionaires to those who registered
April 27 and reviewing from the
beginning of the first registration
the cases of all registrants of mill
tary age with an eye to finding
those whose circumstances of de-
pendency have changed.
1t is on this review that boards
will 60 through the machinery to
set up the seven groupings so that
all available men in each grouping
can be called before the next group
ing is touched.
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| tinuing the latter's deferment a
while longer.
Allotments to Wives.
He also pointed out, however, that
local boards could explain to wives
who could work but don't that they
would receive certain amount
through the family allowance bill,
The working wives could then
be given the choice of living on the
Government allotment or going to
work. This is a possibility that has
been discussed to draw women into
industry to replace the men who are
being called to service.
In order to fill July and August
calls, District boards have been tax
ing quite a few" married men with
working wives. These were regist-
rants who had been partially pro
cessed" and represented a consider
able part of the pool of men for the
summer calls.
After July l, however, pending the
issuance of the new regulations
which came out July II, District
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Higgins
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in full scale production, and because
the Higgins program necesSitates
the creation of vast new facilltie!
such as shipways. shops, machine
tools, railroads and transportation
and housing for workers, the amount
of steel required would best be di-
verted into existing construction.
The commission said that in spite
of curtailment of the construction
of the huge yard, the announced
program of new shipping will be
met by the end of 1943. If more
steel becomes available, this pro-
gram can be increased
Method Commended.
The new Higgins methods of con-
struction, in which pre- fabricated
parts would swing into place as the
ships moved down the assembly line,
was commended by the commission.
The mehod was we'll engineered
and feasible and would produce
ships at rapid rate if the neces-
sary steel were available" it was
said.
The commission, however, pointed
out the original estimate for ia
cilities had been $29 100000, which
was later revised upward to a total
cost Of $65 100000.
The yard would have turned out
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erson warned last night that total
amounts delivered to consumers
must be less and less
Our reserve petroleum stocks in
the East are so desperately low that
we must use less and less gasoline
Through the new coupon plan we
intend to confine gasoline consump-
ton to essential uses" he declared.
His statement continued:
Ever since registration for ra-
tions began 10 days ago, OPA off,
cials have repeatedly urged the
$500 local War Price and Ration
ing Boards to adhere strictly to the
rationing regulations in issuing any
coupon books. Supplemental ra-
tions are to be issued only after
applicants have proved their need
and Boards have been instructed to
reject all applications in which
mileage claims have not been clear
ly established"
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are not entirely suitable

arc IlOJ SIlblIciy siuIdblc'
The departments desire, the state.
ment continued. to preserve the
greatest freedom OF organization
and collective bargaining by en-
ployes of the plants in so far as 1t
is compatible with the necessary
discharge of their responsibility for
maximum production and the safe
and efficient operation.
Discharges made by the contrac-
tor for violation of plant rules. in
efficiency or other reasons will be
subject to review through estab-
lished grievance procedure.
The policy provides for discharges
directed by the Army or Navy for
suspicion of subversive activities
Before any plant starts operation.
the contractor must have the wage
scale approved by the War or Navy
Departments. Any subsequent ad-
justments will be worked out by the
contractor and employees through
established procedures, though ap-
proval of the service involved must
be received before the changes be-
come effective.
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the amended dependency policy
which is based on family ties rather
than merely financial support, that
local boards should consider giving
occupational deferment to men who
are not continued in Glass 3-A or
3-B but who may be necessary
men" in critical occupations es-
Sential to the war effort.
The local draft official also pointed
out that in each of the groupings.
there would be men who would have
to be continued indefinitely in Glass
because of demands at home. For
instance, though single man with
dependent is supposed to be called
before married man, the single
mans dependent might be an in
valid mother whose medical care
cost too much for her to be other
wise provided for.
Men in each grouping are sup
posed to be called by order number
but the District draft official indi-
Gated that a man with a working
wife could be called before a man
with working wife by con-
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Gasoline
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open. said Mr.. Keneipp. and an
AAA spokesman agreed with him
The spectacle of dozen autos
waiting at service station has
been due to excess of demand over
supply-"more tickets have been
sold than there are seats in the
ballpark."
According to these official esti-
mates, by week from today the
situation will be reversed and sup
plies will exceed the demand of per-
sons who have ration coupons.
Mr.. Keneipp declared that the
new ration system is so much
tighter" that most people using x,
B-3 and B-2 cards now will be
holding A books henceforth. or per-
haps B books emitting them to
much smaller amounts than prev
iously.
Price Administrator Leon Hend-
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again at 10 am. Monday, July 90.
The midday communique, given
to newspapermen when the COM
mission recessed for lunch, disclosed
that for two and a half hours it had
listened to one of the FBI agents
who took part IN locating the four
who USED the Florida entrance into
this country and also briefly heard
two other unidentified Government
witnesses.
Witnesses Identify Exhibits.
The'entire day, the Official state
ment indicated, was devoted to the
case against those who came ashore
on the Florida coast. The Govern
ment previously had rested its case
against the other four who landed
on Long Island and "bribed" a
Coast Guardsman on the beach
patrol.
Both communiques issued by the
Commission yesterday showed con-
siderable time was spent by the FBI
agents in identifying the American
money. clothing and other articles
brought into this country by the
four Nazis who came ashore just
south Of Jacksonville.
The first official statement Of the
day said:
The morning session began at
10 am. and ended at 1890 pm.
"An FBI agent was on the wit
ness stand until 1920 reading doc
ument into the record an Identify
ing various pieces of clothing,
money, and other articles allegedly
belonging to one of the prisoners in
the so-called Florida group.
He was cross-examined exten-
sively.
Just before the recess two other
FBI witnesses were called to testify
briefly"
End Expected Soon.
Hearing of IA witnesses in a single
day-the greatest number in any
one day since beginning of the trial
shows that the commission is try
ing to end it's work as quickly as
possible. The official announcement
that the Government had "practi-
cally completed" its case indicates
rather conclusively that the historic
trial may come to an end within a
few days.
The best guessers at the Justice
Department where the trial has
rounded out its tenth day. predict
q verdict not later than Thursday.
The commissions decision may send
the saboteurs before a firing squad
or to death on the gallows
The prisoners-if they go on the
witness stand-are not expected to
take more than two days in retelling
the stories they gave the FBI agents
who arrested them. and being cross
examined by Government counsel
which includes Attorney General
Biddle. There are few defense wit
nesses. 1t was said. Allowing a day
for closing arguments. the trial
might end Wednesday, or not later
than Thursday.
No decision has baen reached
whether the commission will an
nounce its findings or leave that to
President Roosevelt.
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proximately hall the time contem-
plated in the original contracts
made in March. 194l, Six months
per ship was allotted in those con-
tracts. and now the schedules call
FOR delivery into service in los days
and some builders are setting rec
ords as low as As days.
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gagged in the war effort but who
maintain a bona fide family rela-
tionship with wife and children or
children only: June to July /.
7. Married men who are engaged
In the war effort and who maintain
bona f1de relationship with wife
and children or children only: After
July l.
Occupational Deferment.
National headquarters of selective
service emphasized in putting out
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CAMDEN, N J-PIGEONS IN PINCH-When the Produc-
on Board banned installation of wire facilities at Garden State
Park the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin utilized carrier pigeons
to get and pictures of the opening of the $1500
its Philadelphia Offices miles the Delaware
River Don Donoghey Qeft and Ed Pollock Bulletin sports
writer's asten containing their copy the for
the trip (Story in sports section) "A P. Wirephoto
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Largest Easter Sales in Years
Keep District Florists Busy

services of a trucking concern to
augment his own delivery service.
Its the warm weather." he said
when asked what makes business
so good. "It makes 20 per cent diff
ference-people 60 to thinking about
cherry blossoms and sunshine and
bris"t colors and springtime, and
they ct fower-minded.
AnoI. er, who described his shop
as a eth Ne-ring circus" said it was
the war. W
THE waf makes people turn to
flowers" he I'd. Their beauty pro-
vices rest, \ lsurcease from sor-
row."
The telephone operator of another
shop, told what the reporter would
like to talk to the manager about,
promised to "try to get him" but
came back five minutes later and
said:
Everybody is running around and
around. The manager said he's too
busy to come to the phone but TO
tell you that business is Is per cent
better than it's ever BEEN"
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Woman, 80, Is Injured
In Auto-Taxi Collision

Mrs. Mary S. Harrison, 80, OF the
Westchester Apartments suffered
shock and ankle injuries when the
automobile in which she was riding
was in collision with a taxicab late
Yesterday in the 200 block of Mass
echusetts avenue NV, according
to police. She was admitted to
Casualty Hospital.
Gilmore Curren. 9, of 1919 North
Ivanhoe street, Arlington, Va, suf-
fered a compound fracture of the
left leg when struck by an automo-
bile while playing near his home,
police reported. He was taken to
Emergency Hospital by the Claren-
don Rescue Squad.
James Matthews, 27, Of La Plata.
Md, is in a serious condition at
Physicians Memorial Hospital, La
Plata, from injuries suffered when
he was thrown from the rumble seat
of an automobile
Mr.. Matthews suffered fractured
skull. broken hip and broken
ankle.
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Stimson TO Inaugurate
Radio Army Hour Today

Secretary of War Stimson will
inaugurate a weekly series of Army
Hour" radio programs today from
$3.50 to 4:30 pm. over Station WRC.
A feature of these weekly pro-
grams will be several overseas "pick-
ups" Following an Army Day
message from MIR. Stimson, 1t. Gen.
Lesley j. McNair, chief of the Army
Ground Forces. will speak He will
call for responses from the COM
manding generals of the Field
Armies of the continental United
States.
They are: 1t. Gen. Hugh A. Drum.
First Army; 1t. Gen. Ben Lear.
Second Army; 1t. Gen. Walter
Kruger, Third Army, and 1t. Gen.
John L. Dewitt, Fourth Army.
Chaplain George F. Rixey of the
Office of Chief of Chap!ains will
talk from Fort Belvoir, Va. from
which station a choir of Negro SOL
diers from the Engineers Replace
ment Training Center will be heard.
A dramatic sketch produced from
Mount Vernon, the home of George
Washington, will conclude the pro-
gram.
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Taxi Rent Increase
Charged 10 Drivers
Will Be Probed
Honkin Promises Inquiry
After Jennings Cites
Hikes Up to 100 Pct.

An investigation by the District
Public Utilities Commission of COM
plants that some taxi companies
which rent cabs to drivers had
raised their rates as much as nearly
100 per cent was promised yester-
day by Chairman Gregory Hankin.
In a letter to Chairman Ran
dolph of the House District Com
mittee, Mr.. Hankin said his group
expects to get to that problem
soon"
Increases Cited.
Mr.. Randolph had advised Mr..
Hankin that information given him
showed that one company which
had charged 50 40 for a cab for
l2-hour period had increased the
rate to 81 when the drivers were
granted a 10-cent increase in the
first-zone fare. Another company,
he said he had been informed,
raised rates from SIS to $26 a week.
Il am bringing this to your atten-
tion,' Mr.. Randolph wrote Chairman
Hankin, because under these condi-
tions the drivers have not pro1ted
by your recent regulation"
Mr.. Hankin replied he had been
aware of the increases, but was first
attempting to establish decent"
taXicab service in the District before
inquiring into the higher rental fees.
Service Held First Goal.
"It is my hope that we will get to
that problem soon," said Mr.. Hankin,
but first we must establish better
relationship between the drivers and
the public. My first concern, of
course, is to establish a decent taxi
cab service in the District"
Mr.. Hankin cited steps already
taken to curb bad practices among
the taxi drivers" and added:
"I feel that with the taxi service
established on paying basis there
should be no excuse for failure to
render adequate service. That is the
reason why I have approached the
problem from that standpoint first" !"
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others resulting from improper use
of the body"
Secretary of War Stimson and
the War Department have put it
squarely up to the communities of
the country to provide pre-induc-
ton training which among other
things will give the Army men
hardened physically for the rigors
of a campaign Both the District
Health Department and public
school officials through Supt Frank
w. Ballou have recognized this
problem as a special war problem of
their Jurisdictions as well as a
desirable peace-time service to Dis
trict citizens of the future.
More Teachers Needed.
The Board of Education approved
in 1888 comprehensive physical
education program which is now in
effect completely only in one senior
high school and partially in two
others because of inability to obtain
the necessary funds for physical
training teachers.
1t has been estimated approx
mately 10 additional physical train
ing instructors are needed to place
this flve-period week program in
effect in all senior high schools and
step-up to four periods a week the
program in the junior high schools.
The present average is about two
45-minute periods a week.
The Health Department is struga
Cling vainly with present personnel
to give school students four physical
examinations during their public
grade, one in the fourth, one in
Junior high and one in senior high
but are unable to keep up the pace
for a large number of the boys and
girls. Repeated requests for addi-
tional medical inspectors have been
denied.
Having just completed the first
dental survey of Junior and senior
high pupils, the department found
two thirds of the junior high group
and more than three-fourths of the
senior high with defects. Efforts 10
establish an adequate yearly inspec-
ton program and dental clinics
costing in all about $25 ,000-have
been denied.
Once defects are disclosed, under
the medical and dental inspection
system, the pupils are referred to
their family dentists and physicians
for diagnosis and correction. Public
(See HEALTH, Page AID
Evening star., 1942-04-05
Glen Echo Is Opened
For Summer Season.;
Big Crowd on Hand
Park Is Equipped With
Blue Lights to Handle
BIoekout Emergency

Anticipating its biggest season Of
all time despite the tire shortage
Glen Echo Amusement Park opened
its gates for the summer season yes
terday to hordes of children, par
ents, young couples and soldiers
on leave
The crowd will continue all sea-
son, Manager Leonard Schloss pre-
diets, because motorists will go there
instead of taking long weekend
drives to New York or the beaches
Because manufacturers could get
no metal for new amusement fea-
lures, the park is not advertising
any innovations this year. AL
equipment has been put in repair
however, and worn spots rema-
cadamized so that sandals and toe
less shoes will not get filled with
pebbles.
Stocks Up With Pennies.
Newest equipment at the park are
the stacks and stacks of pennies
supplied to each cashier booth to
handle change from amusement
taxes. Every expenditure of a dime
is subject to a one cent tax. Since
all amusementS cost at least dime,
Mr.. Schloss has laid in plenty of
pennies. Only children under II
years of age, who are admitted to all
features at half-price will be tax
free.
Mr. SchlosS Is more worried about
keeping staff big enough to handle
the trade than he is about the exact
number of Customers the summer
will bring him. Due to inroads of
the selective service system and ex-
tensive Government employment he
has had to replace 40 per cent of
his former staff. Only the coaster
dip and merry ry-go-round crews are
intact.
Compulsory first aid training has
been added to requirements for all
park jobs, he revealed yesterday
The park has been equipped with
blue lights to handle a blackout
emergency.
Pool Opens May %.
AS In Cne past, MI. ScnlOSS ex-
poets the coaster dip and the SWIM
ming pool to lead the list of attrac-
tions in popularity. The pool will
open Saturday, May %. The ball
room, another popular feature,
opened last night with music by
Paul Kain.
AS lengthening of working hours
and cancellation of leave keep more
people in Washington, Mr.. Schloss
expects more customers will dis
cover his picnic grove back of the
midway. 1t can accommodate 1900
picnickers with no difficulty.
Other features at the park are the
whip. flying scooter, waterway canal,
dodge 'em cars, carousel, spook
house, game concessions and two
restaurants, the roof garden cafe
and the concourse cafe.