Evening star., 1943-10-04
"a Candidates Enter
Primary in Detroit
Mayora|ty Campaign
By the Associated Press,

DETROIT, Oct. "A once-re-
called Mayor, two men bearing
names widely known in the States
political history, and an incumbent
whose second term in office has seen
broad social, economic and indus
trial dislocations incident to an un-
paralleled wartime boom are among
candidates for two nominations for
Mayor of Detroit at tomorrow's
municipal primary.
Detroit chooses it's city officials on
nonpartisan ballots, but, while party
lines have been lacking, the primary
campaign has not been without
sharply defined differences of opin-
ion on the part of the candidates
and their supporters.
No fewer than IA aspirants for the
sl5,o00-a-year mayoralty job filed
nominating petitions and their $10O
fees to get place on the ballot next
Tuesday. Forty-seven men and
women are seeking 18 nominations
for the City Council and four candi-
dates have filed for two designations
for city clerk.
Four Major Contenders.
Despite the multiplicity of candi
dates for the mayoralty, the cam
paign has been confined largely to
four OF their number-the incum-
bent, 43-year-old Edward Jeffries:
Charles Bowles, who was recalled in
1880 after little more than six
months in Office: Frank FITZGERALD.
45-year-old native of Holyoke, Mass,
the candidate of organized labor,
and Frank Murphy, newcomer to
Michigan political activity until he
was elected Lieutenant Governor by
the Democrats in 1910.
Michigan once had Governor
named Frank Fitzgerald who died in
once few years ago. .and Detroit
had a Mayor Frank Murphy who
later became Governor and now is
an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court.
All the candidates agree the lob
or Mayor of this great war produc-
ton center for the next two years
VIII be one of tremendous RESPONSE
blllty with problems of housing,
transportation, taxation and post
war planning made more complex
by the recent influx of something
ike a quarter of a million persons.
taxing facilities provided for a nor
NAL population of slightly more than
100000.
Jeffries Seeks Third Term.
Detrolts race riots of last June
have not been made an issue in the
mayoralty campaign.
Mayor Jeffries. seeking a third
term has based his appeal to the
voters largely upon the contention
that his administration has placed
the city on financial pay-as-you-
go basis. He served four two-vear
terms in the City Council before
his election as Mayor in 1899. Of
postwar planning he has said that
S5O,O00,000 in plans and specifica-
tlons will be ready soon for post
war road, street, sewer and rebuild
Ing projects to provide employment.
The Mayor has proposed ali occu-
patlonal tax to raise the needed
funds
Mr. Bowles. who was born in Yale,
Mich, in 1883, is a one-time street.
car conductor who studied law. be-
came a judge of Recorders Court in
Detroit and was elected Mayor il
1929. Defeating a suit to restrain
his assumption of Office at that
time, he was removed in a recall
election a few months later, after
the validity Of petitions circulated
for that purpose had been upheld
by the State Supreme Court.
The petitions charged Mr.. BoWles
with permitting laWlessness on the
part of law enforcement agencies.
He advocates the erection of a new
City Hall, street paving, slum clear
ance and rehabilitation of the street
railway system. He opposes the
JeffrleS suggested occupational tax.
Labor Indorses Fitzgerald.
Mr.. Fitzgerald. a law professor at
the University of Detroit and Cir
cult Court commissioner here, has
the Endorsement of both the United
Automobile Workers (CIO) and the
city organization of the American
Federation of Labor He has urged
test case by the city to determine
swhether the city can grant exclu-
sive bargaining rights to any unit of
organized labor
Of postwar planning he advocated
slum clearance and new housing,
express highways, airport facilities
and riverfront developments. He
said he was dead set against" the
Jeffries proposed payroll tax. The
city program, he said, should be
lntegrated with that of State and
Federal Governments.
Mr.. Murphy, born in Rensselaer,,
N. Y, in 1897 said he would oppose
any new forms of taxation to finance
a postwar program. If additional
funds are needed, he said, the city
should proceed by legisla tive action,
to get a greater share of funds its
citizens already pay to other gov