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1916 lim- 3 70 July Consumers Gas and 200 5 sale Killer Makes (Continued from One.) struck him. The fugitive grappled with Hughes and tried to keep him in the line of fire, but the patrolmen him and dropped him with one burst of shots. Stray shots inflicted flesh wounds in the taxi driver's leg and shoulder but he conceded the patrolmen -Carl Pugh, Benny Klutts and Marion did good shooting." One of the recaptured trio is James O. Neely, 17, of Dayton, who. with Everhart, was accused of murder the shooting of the Tulsa detectil The otners recaptured were James Billbe, 18, Tulsa, charged with forgery, Edgar Mayhugh, 30, Tulsa, accused of car Still at large are Carl Baker, 24, San Diego, charged with armed robbery, Raymond Wilson, 23, Chicago, held for federal authorities on a Dyer act car theft charge.

War Powers Extension (Continued from Page One.) dustrial alcohol, would be freed. Only a few of the materials subject to orders of the Civilian Production Administration would be freed, and many of these controls are dead letters already. Thus, iron and steel order would die, but steel allocation is sparingly used: uranium order would expire, but the Atomic Energy commission is authorized to take over atomic energy materials. Control over building materials (which would continue to June 30 under the act), can be continued until the year-end under the Patman emergency housing The chemicals order would be eliminated. Originally the second war powers act contained 14 titles.

Seven have lapsed or been turned into permanent laws; the remaining four, which would lapse under today's proposals, are largely inoperative or unneeded. They are: Title II-Authorizing the condemnation and disposal of private property. Only rules authorizing disposal by sale, lease or other means remain in force. Title IV-Authorizing the Federal Reserve bank to buy government bonds in the open market, without regard to maturity date; a permanent law will be recommended. Title VI I -Exempting volunteer government employes, dollar-a-year men, and part-time consultants from the Hatch act ban on political activity.

It was meant mainly to cover unpaid workers in OPA ration boards, now disbanded. There are no more dollar-a-year men. Title XIV-Authorized the commerce department to turn over to OPA "confidential" reports from business firms. Its extension, said Mr. Truman, "it not necessary." Sees No Emergency In seeking blanket powers in time of emergency, Mr.

Truman specified that it would be used only "if there is a declaration by the President that such a national emergency has arisen." "Although I do not anticipate that such an emergency will occur, it is ites erative that the government should have power, during the remainder of reconversion the period, to deal with major unforecontingencies of this character," the message said. Mr. Truman gave up the power to seize strike- industries on December proclaimed threatened the end of hostilities. The power he now requests--which his aides said might used in time of a strike affecting a nationwide industry or utility--would serve only to conserve supplies of the commodity affected. Putting food at the top of his must-list for continued controls, the President declared world grain supplies are "still far short of essential needs." Controls must be continued to insure shipments to war-devastated nations and to prevent "disease and unrest" in Germany and Japan.

Unless sugar rationing is continued, he went on, speculators would hoard the supply, industrial users would buy more and cut down on household use, and the country's $1,000.000,000 annual sugar bill "might multiply several times." Import control insures that this country does not purchase more of the world's sugar supply than has been assigned by the international emergency food council. Because of similar international agreements. export and import control over fats and oils was urged. Congress Ready (Continued from Page One.) long. of work, with labor legislation one of the first objectives.

The house judiciary committee starts hearings today on a variety of proposals to deal with the portalto-portal pay, problem, while on Wednesday labor committee will begin consideration of general labor legislation. The same subject will occupy the senate labor committee Tuesday. It is already well along with its hearings. Report Ready A senate judiciary sub-committee which has been studying the portal pay situation for two weeks is readying its report to the full committee. Committees of both the senate and the house are moving ahead with consideration of air safety regulation.

while the house ways and means committee is marking time for its general tax study until the joint senate-house group concludes its task of studying the President's budget and fixing an appropriate ceiling. Final action by the budget group will clear the way for the first of the annual departmental appropriation bills, on which the house appropriations committee has been working for two weeks. 111. LES URS LEAD TO LOVE HOLLY -A wartime correspondence developed into romance for Actress June Lockhart, 21-year-old daughter of Actor Gene Lockhart, and William Warrick, former army fighter pilot of New Rochelle, N. Y.

She announced their engagement, saying they had written to each other before they met. They plan to be married a year from now when Warrick is graduated from Dartmouth university. THE MURRAY-FAIRLESS DILEMMA Steel output is at a 20-months high. Will it stay there? Will union and U.S. Steel agree? 100 100 Steel Strike Coal Strike Cool Strike 75 75 CAPACITY 50 50 CAPACITY $0 8 82 STEEL OPERATIONS 25 25 0 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV PEC JAN FEB MAR 1946 1947 Data American iron and Steel Institute Prepared for J.

A. Livingston Recession Talk Lost In Steel Mill Smoke BY J. A. LIVINGSTON The stock market's ding a little second-guessing. It's going up.

It's casting a shadow of doubt on its barometric forecast of last June Then stock prices cried out to heaven that something was wrong in business somewhere; then stocks went down, and whispers started: "A recession is around the corner." The whispers grew, till they reached a roar, with almost everybody ultimately joining the crescendo. But the recession hasn't come off. It hasn't even shown positive signs of coming off. True, there are layoffs here and there--New York Central and Bullard, for instance. True also, some prices have come down.

like corn, cattle, and butter; true, still further, January retail clearance sales are widespread, as in furs and jewelry. Yet, when you've said that, you've said nearly everything. And you haven't said that the smoke hangs heavy over Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Gary, Birmingham, and other steel centers. You don't have depressions in the United States or bad recessions either the country's steel mills run at 92.9 percent of capacity. Despite aluminum and plastics, despite war-born substitutions.

"as steel goes, so goes the nation" is a good economic rule of thumb until proved otherwise. There Are Still Buyers Here it is, a full seven months after June 1. when stocks turned down, and steel production is at the highest level in 20 months (see chart): the federal reserve board index of industrial production plods along at about the best rate since the end of the war: textile demard continues -income payments are at an all-time high--people still have money and still spend it. Department store sales--though not so buoyant as earlier in the vear -hold up. That's partly due to the January clearance sales.

These sales have tested the market, have shown that there are still buyers at a price. All this makes a business analyst stop, look. and question: When will the recession come? How long will it last? To be sure, students of the Dow theory are satisfied. They're sure we're still in a bear market. The rise last week was to them merely a continuation of the secondary rally in a bear market a continuation of the rally that got under way last October when the industrialis reached a low of 163.12.

But other market followers- those who follow resistance points are wondering if the rise through 180 could mark a breakthrough and ultimately prove to be the first leg of a bull market. You Pays Your Money If it weren't the way the steel rate holds up the way people for still flock to stores, there wouldn't be any doubt at all. It would still be a bear market. But now chartists are wondering if the market drop last spring could have forecast a recession that isn't going to come. The opinion of the economists--the men who study the fundamentalsis that a bull market cannot start now.

At the annual trade-association meeting of economists and statisticians at Atlantic City recently. economists freely predicted a recession some time this year. And most economists can't see bull market in security prices running head on into a bear market in business. After business starts declining, ves: but before, no. So, you pays your money.

and you takes your choice. My personal hunch is that a business recession lies ahead, that when price adjustments increase, production inevitably will The market has had good news to go up on. All last year, business was dogged by strikes and threats of strikes and fears of a second round of strikes. Now the time for the second round is here and the United States Steel Corp. and the United Steel Workers getting along nicely together.

They agreed to extend the contract, due to expire February 15, to April 30. That permits negotiations to go on without the pressure of a strike threat; also it allows time for the portal-toportal back-pay suits to be settled. Steel companies cannot well make a wage agreement until they know how much of a back-pay liability they have overhanging their bank accounts. CIO Breaks Wage Pattern The extension is significant. It departs from the wartime custom of making wage retroactive to the contract -expiration date.

This imparts flexibility to the wage negotiations. The company and the union will bargain on retroactivity the new wage rate will take effect. That aids making a deal. The corporation might be willing to pay a flat sum in retroactive pay instead of incurring, say, a big boost in the wage scale. That might suit the union too -another cash windfall for vorkers! There's another flexible factor in the labor outlook.

The CIO has broken away from the fixed pattern of wage rates. In cotton textiles, the increase was 10 cents an hour: in woolens, 15 cents, and in meat ing a variety of rates. averaging around cents. This is a far cry from President Truman's across-the board 181-cent standard last year. Wait and see what happens in steel.

There's a real prospect that fabricators will get a better wage deal than the basic steel companies, that the union won't demand the same wage Admiral (Continued from Page One.) ers in the first American bombing of Tokyo in April, 1942. Survivors include his widow' and one sister. Flags were dropped to half-staff throughout the vast naval center here as his death became known, and ships in Hampton Roads followed suit. Hospital officials had not reported Mitscher's condition as serious in regular bulletins issued last week. He had been reported as resting comfortably and also was undergoing a thorough physical checkup.

Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced. Lived in Virginia Since taking over command of all Atlantic naval forces. with headquarters here. the veteran naval commander had made his home at nearby Virginia Beach. Mitscher was born in Hillsboro.

Jan. 26, 1887. He attended grade and high schools in Washington, D. and was appointed to the naval academy from Oklahoma in 1906. After graduating in 1910 he served for two vears afloat aboard the battleships USS Colorado and USS South Dakota.

He was commissioned an ensign to rank from March 7, 1912, and his latest promotion was to vice-admiral, to rank from March On Dec. 8. 1945, 1 he was appointed by the President to the rank of admiral effective UDON assuming command of the 8th Fleet about March 1. 1946. Mitscher served on the gunboats Vicksburg and Annapolis from 1912 to 1913.

and then was assigned to the USS California. He later was aboard the destroyers Whipple and Stewart before reporting to Pensacola, for flight training in October, 1915. In 1916 Mitscher won his wings and was designated naval aviator. He served continuously with the fleet's aviation branch since that and it was time, as commander of the navy's mighty Pacific task forces that he won his greatest fame. His carrier-based airmen were a key factor in the defeat of the Japanese empire and destruction of the Nipponese fleet.

Commanded Station Mitscher later commanded the naval air station at Miami, and in May, 1919, was pilot of one of the planes on the navy's first carrier. He went aboard the USS Saratoga as head of the air department when she was commissioned in 1927 and served later as her executive officer until June, 1930. Mitscher served in the Bureau of Aeronautics from 1930 to 1933, and then was chief of staff for four vears to the commander of air forces. whose flagship was the USS Wright. He was anointed commanding officer of the Wright in 1937 and commanded Patrol Wing 1 from November 1938 to June 1939, when he reported back to Washington as assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeroneutics.

Mitscher commissioned the carrier USS Hornet in 1941 and served as her "skinner" until June 30. 1942. During that time the Hornet became the famed "Shangri-La" from which American planes under command of Maj. -Gen. James Doolittle took off for the first American bombing of Tokyo.

He was in command of the Hornet during the battle of Midway, but was detached in July 1942 to command Patrol Wing 2, where he served until Dec. 1, 1942. 1 Vice Admiral in 1911 Mitscher then commanded all fleet air activities in the south Pacific. with headquarters at Noumea, New Caledonia. and later was in command of naval air forces in the Solomons, with headquarters at Guadalcanal.

On Jan. 6. 1944, he took command of a carrier division and on March 6, 1944, became a vice admiral in charge of naval operations for air in July 1945 and command of the 8th Fleet in the Atlantic on March 1. 1946. Mitscher held the Navy Cross with two gold stars.

the Distinguished Service Medal with two gold stars, and the Legion of Merit. The admiral also wore the navy's prized NC-4 medal commemorating pioneer trans-Atlantic flight in and two banks of lesser decorations. He also held the order of Tower and Sword, official grade, presented by the government of Portugal. SOCIETY CANCELS MEETING UNION CITY -Because of the funeral of Mrs. P.

C. Bonney Tues- day afternoon, the meeting of the Women's Society Christian Service of the Methodist church has been canceled. SO-YOU'RE THE I WAS JUST MAYBE HE MANAGER OF THIS DOWN TO THE THINKS I'M MAUSOLEUM, HEY! SWIMMING BOUNCING 40 THE MOST UNUSUAL POOL. THE LIFE- BUCKS A DAY SUNSHINE, YOU WEATHER IN 100 GUARD WAS TO BASK IN THE HORN ADVERTISED? I BEEN AFTER-EFFECT TRYING OUT SUNSHINE TOAD HERE. OVER A WEEK OF THE ATOM BOMB-- A PAIR OF OF HIS INN AND SNOW IN FLORIDA SKATES.

SMILE. ON THE BLIZZARD IN CALIFORNIASUN-BAKED FIRST TIME I'VE WORN DESERT A COAT SINCE I CAME AND I LEFT HERE--YOU SHOULDA NOVA SCOTIA OH-H-H-H- BEEN HERE LAST FOR THIS. ME WEEK-WHY-WHYARTHRITIS! WHAT MATTER IF THE DAY HATH NO WARMTH? YE RESORT MANAGER ALWAYS DISHES OUT A HOT LINE. THEY'LL DO IT EVERY TIME RESERVED 2-3 Injuries Fatal (Continued from Page One.) right side. Both cars were extensively damaged.

Mr. Stockwell was thrown from the car and in addition to the fractured skull, suffered a severe throat laceration and internal injuries. Mr. Stockwell had been employed as a stripper at Post Cereals since the war. and other local industries several years.

worked 'He at Wilcox- Rich during four years of the war period. Mr. Stockwell was born at Quincy, Aug. 24, 1914. the of Berton L.

and Nellie (Shindler) Stockwell. He attended Athens and was a graduate of the high school there. Survivors are wife. Jane; a son. Clare: the father, now residing at of Albion, brothers, Lee Sarasota.

and Walter of Bakersfield, and a sister. Mrs. Andrew Crater of Birmingham. Mich. The body was taken to the Spencer funeral home at Athens where services will be held at 2 p.

m. Wednesday with the Rev. John D. Perrin officiatine. Burial will at the North Athens Baptist cemetery.

PRESENT FLAG ANN ARBOR- United flag States that flew the Uni- versity of during Michigan campus World war No. 2 was presented to the Veterans Wars. Request the for was made Dr. Clar- Rungee, VFW national sur- goon New Haven. cf who said organization was maka flags that were used during war time.

UP THEIR PAL DROWNED--Tommy Williamson, 7. and his dog watch from the banks of the Missouri river in Council Bluffs. as firemen futilely dragged the cold water for the of LaVern Mendenhall. 8. who slipped off the ice and drowned while the two boys played.

Tommy said he looked around just as his friend "was sliding off the ice into the river." AP (AP Wirephoto via Radio from Paris). BODY OF GRACE MOORE ARRIVES IN PARIS- -The coffin containing the remains of Grace Moore, renowned opera singer killed in a Copenhagen plane crash, is transferred from a plane to an ambulance after its arrival at Le Bourget Field, Paris, from Amsterdam, Holland. THE ENQUIRER AND NEWS 11 Battle Creek, Feb. 3, 1947 PORTAL SUITS U. S.

JUDGE DECLARES CHICAGO (U.P.) Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe said that the flood of portal-pay suits filed by labor unions "amounts to a public scandal." way labor leaders are coming into court with cases amounts to a public scandal." he said. "What's all the hurry?" Igoe made the remark in a hearing on a petition filed by the CIO United Workers. The union to amend Automobiles its $2.200.000 portal-pay suit against American Car and Foundry Co. The suit was filed on behalf of 11 employes.

Attorney Irving Meyers union wanted to add more plaintiffs. "I cannot understand the tactics of labor leaders in these cases." Igoe said. "I have always been fair to labor, but I cannot understand the haste." He continued the hearing to March 1 10. rise from them as, say, from U. S.

Steel and Bethlehem. The Murray-Fairless agreement has a strategic import. It throws the ball--in the labor rivalry--back to John L. Lewis The coal miners' truce with the government expires March 31. What will he do then? Meanwhile, the agreement assures a high rate of steel production for another two months.

Pepper (Contiuned from Page One.) might be negotiating for the purchase of Greenland from Denmark. The Greenland rumors have been officially denied both here and in Denmark. But, said Tydings, "it is perfectly obvious to informed people in each country that both Russia and the United States are extending their bases and building up their defenses in the Arctic with an eve to possible conflict in the Tydings' observations came only two days after Senator Bridges N. accused Russia in a statement plans to turn Germany into a "satellite and ally" and of treating China "like a conquered nation." His voice regained after an attack of laryngitis which prevented him from making a senate speech on the subject covered by his statement, Bridges said he stands ready to defend his views if Pepper brings them under attack. There have been indications that Chairman Vandenberg Mich.) of the senate Foreign committee intends soon to speak out on conditions in China.

Vandenberg has said there will be no break in the present bipartisan foreign policy program, but ce has contended the Republicans have not been consulted about China and Latin-America. He has invited Secretary of State Marshall to sit down with the comto discuss world affairs in general before the cabinet officer leaves for the foreign ministers' conference in Moscow next month. Marshall, just back from his 1n- successful efforts to bring peace to China's warring factions, is expected to discuss not only American policy in relation to that country but to clarify for the senators this country's attitude toward Argentina. Even before Marshall finds time for such a discussion, however, the senate may receive the four Balkan peace treaties to which this country is a party. The treaties will be signed formally in Paris February 10 and the state department has indicated they will be sent to the senate swiftly thereafter for a vote on ratification.

MEETING TIME CHANGED UNION CITY The meeting of the General Circle of the Union City Congregational church women's organization has been changed to 3 p. m. Tuesday instead of 2 D. m. to permit members to attend the services for Mrs.

P. C. Bonney, wife of the Wesleyan Methodist pastor, who died Friday in a fire at her home here. The circle meeting will be at the home of Mrs. John Bronson on the Sherwood road, and transporta-1919, tion will be available from the Congregational parsonage.

The Modern Q's and All-Star circles will be hostesses. The Alpha circle will conduct the devotionals, and the Mystics and Dorcas circles will arrange refreshments. The Amaranth circle is in charge of the program which will include an illustrated talk by Mrs. Ben Schwendener on the Olivet adult institute. Gordon Bray will sing.

Within the present generation improvements in engines and design have enabled man to step up the pace of his travel from 12 miles an hour to more than eight miles a minute. Your Today's Market NEW YORK-(P)-The direction market with many industrials and since last September. Dealings, fast at the start, soon several leaders in the minus column predominated. Buying still was attributed to ings and labor relations. The lengthy ming of accounts here and there a possibility.

NEW YORK STOCKS Furnished by Hulburd, Warren Chandler 4 Security Bank Arcade Phone 2-4015 Open Noon LOCAL Foods 433 43 Equip. 21 249 American Airlines 91 Allis Chalmers American Car and Can 951 Locomotive 29 Tel. American and Tel. Radiator Arserican 164 Rolling Mills Amer.can 36 American Waterworks 18 Anaconda Copper 403 10 Atenicon 95 Aviation Corp. Locomotive 23 155 Baltimore and Ohio Bethlenem Steel Corp.

98 Mfg. Pacific Railroad Central Aguirre 21 981 951 and Ohio 52 Columbia Gas 11 11 Commercial Solvents 251 Commonwealth Edison 31 Corn Products Consolidated Edison 29 20 Cil 39 Consol-Vultee Aircraft Steel Co. 31 34 Detroit Edison 27 2714 Airlines 1914 Railroad 124 123 Wood 39 General Electric Motors 593 59 Goodrich Rubber 671. Goodyear 56 Northern Railroad 49 Hershey Hudson Motors Illinois Central Inspiration Copper International Iron 13 13 International Nickel International Tel. and Tel.

Kroger 46 163 Locomotive 51 Marshall Field and Co. 321 Montgomery Ward 6174 61 Motor Wheel Kelvinator National Biecuit 311 National Dairy Products Central 21 Northern Pacific 2074 Motors American Airways 125. Paramount Pictures Davis 403 J. Penney Pennsylvania Railroad 26 Pepsi-Cola 30 Service Pullman. Inc.

611. 61 Corp. of America Steel Roebuck 37 Oil 16 16 -Vacuum Southern Pacific Southern Railroad Sparks Withington Oil. California 56 Standard OIl. Indiana 41 41 Oil.

N. J. Standard Studebaker Motors Swift and Co. 353 Timken- Detroit 201 201 Transcontinental Airways 201 Twentieth Century Fox 361 36 Carbide Co. 961 96 United Aircraft 19 193 Airlines 23 23 Drug Rubber 8 Steel Warner Bros.

17 Western Union Tel. 22 Westinghouse Elec. Co. 15 Wilson and Overland Woolworth Youngstown Sheet and 70 TOLEDO LIVESTOCK TOLEDO HOES 125: market ACtive, 25-35c higher. 180-250 lbs.

$21.85: 250-300 Ihs, 300-400 160-180 $21 $21.50: 140-160 100-140 lbs. roughs stags Cattle steady. Calves steady, broad demand. Top $28. Sheep and lambs steady.

Lambs $21.50. DETROIT LIVESTOCK Hogs salable 1.200. No to eariv undertone steady strong. Cattle salable 2.000. Receipts include around dozen load slaughter steers and 8 mixed yearlings; about 25 percent run cows: slaughter steers and yearlings opening active, strong 10 25c higher: loads and lots average medium numerous to average good shortfed steers and in mixed yearlings cluding load 966 lb.

steers at $22.50: odd good steers to $23.50. few common medium lighteer weights 50c beef cows getting improved action to 31 higher: early sales $11-813: odd head beef cows to $14 and above: canners cutters slow. steady: early sales little done on bulls, undertone steady. Calves salable 550. Vealers opening strong.

top kinds $2 about with higher: 25 $30. top: other good and choice vealers common to good culls Sheep salable 1,700. No early sales: asking strong to slightly higher. with good choice native wooled lambs held around $23. DETROIT POULTRY DETROIT-4P Paving prices for live poultry per pound FOB Detroit for No.

1 quality. Fowl, heavy type 32-35c: light type 20- roasteres, heavy type 29-32c: fryers. heavy type 29-32c: broilers, heavy type 28- stars 18-22e: old roosters 16-18c: heavy 20-31c; light 25-26c; ducklines 30-31c. Market firm on fowl. Receipts very light to moderate.

Trading good. Chickens unsettled. Supplies light to moderate. Demand fair. Moderate arrivals of chickens in or due from Delmarva and Virginia.

DETROIT EGGS -Michigan graded eggs caselots FOB Detroit: Whites--Grade A extra large 421-46c; large 42-44c: medium 42c. Browns- Grade AA large 44c. Grade A extra large 12-47c: large 41-45c: medium 42c. Grade large 42c. Checks 26c.

Market easy and Irregular on large with trading dull. Mediums and under grades firm. BATTLE CREEK GRAIN (Courtesy of Battle Creek Farm Bureau! Red white CLASSIFIED again was upward in today's stock rails edging into new high ground slowed. While profit cashing put near midday fractional advances optimism over good dividends, earnrecovery, however, caused the trimon the idea a technical reaction was GRAIN MARKETS CHICAGO GRAIN Chicago Board of Trade daily range of prices. furnished by Hulburd.

Warren Chandler. member ol Chicago Board of Trade. Security Bank Arcade, Battle Creek, Michigan. Previous High Low Noon Close WheatMarch 2167 200 May 200 1941 July 184. 184 CornMarch 13215 1321 1321 128.

128 March 75 May 69 July 621. UNLISTED SECURITIES by Frowbridge Co.) Bid Ask A. Dutton 2.75 3.25 Federated Pub. Common 42.00 Kellogg Co. 27.00 25.50 Michigan Carton 33.50 Michigan National Bank 31.00 31.00 National Stee.

Co. 9.50 10.59 Shatterproof Glass Co. 2 00 3.00 Union Steam Pump 25.00 o. w. United Steel Wire Co.

9.50 10.50 Wellington Fund 18.37 20.04 UTILITIES (Furnished by Hulbard, Warren Chandler. Security National Bank Bldg.) Power Preferred. Bid Ask percent 113 114 INVESTMENTS Furnished by S. C. Coleman, Investments) Keystone Custodian Funds- B-3 17.56 19.27 8-1 9.76 10.69 27.17 29.82 13.16 16.65 12.

16 13.71 5.09 5.64 19.02 20.88 K-2 22.57 21.79 Manhattan Bond Fund 8.07 8.81 American Business 4.16 1.55 Geo. Putnam Fund 15.68 16.86 New York Stocks. Agriculture 9.84 10.82 Automobile 7.36 8.10 Building Supplies 9.97 10.96 Business Equipment 13.30 14.61 Electrical Equipment 8.75 9.62 Merchandising 11.13 12.23 Oil Industry 12.25 13.16 Railroads 5.88 6.40 Railway Equipment 8.50 9.35 Steal Industry 8.56 9.41 D' versified Speculative Sh. 12.56 13.80 Unlisted SecuritiesBattle Creek Gas Co. 11 00 Central National Bank 13.50 W.

Consumers Power Co. com. 38.25 39.25 astings Mfg. Co. 16.50 W.

Kuhlman Electric Co. 1.25 5.25 Michigan Bakeries, Inc. 16.50 o.w. Security National Bank 14.00 o. W.

Britons Told (Continued from Page One.) disastrous mess the Tories (Conservatives) would have made of these difficult years of transition." This view was not by the Conservative press, however. The Sunday Chronicle stated that members of parliament, including key Laborites. were discussing the possibility that conditions leading to the resignation of the government "may well develop during the next three months." Other conservative papers likewise hinted that the Attlee government might fall. or be forced to form a coalition because of the crucial situation. The government also came in for a scolding at the hands of big business.

The Westminster bank, declared in its annual report that "we have not moved very far along the road to recovery" and blamed controls imposed by the government and the "prevailing psychological attitude of our people." In gloomy outlook was depicted by two automobile manufacturers, Sir Miles Thomas, vice chairman of the Nuffield Auto Manufacturing or ganization, and Sir William Rootes, chairman of a number of motor companies. Miles said that due to the fuel shortage 22,000 workers were being placed on a basis this week. Rootes said was doubtful time his plants could work more than "a small percentage of the week" and said lack of heat and pay reduced by layoffs were causing "impossible working conditions." Meanwhile the vast Austin Motor works at Birmingham prepared to shut down for an indefinite period because of the fuel shortage. A move that would make 17.000 workers idle. It was also reported that steel output had dropped 15 percent below the planned level because of fuel cuts.

APPOINT DEPUTIES JACKSON -(P) George Kropp, former personnel director of the State Corrections department, and George L. Bacon, former record clerk at Ionia reformatory, have been appointed assistant deputy wardens of Southern Michigan prison, Ralph Benson, warden. has announced. They replace Carl Brayman and John Martin, temporary deputies, who failed to qualify in recent civil service tests. Since birth of the petroleum industry in 1859 consumption of petroleum products per American has increased 141,000 fold.

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