Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 1

TTHIE ATT IE eMMJMNAlL The Weather: S. Weaioer Bureau ui: Tuesday Cloudy, eld Wednesday Warmer PRICE THREE CENTS EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, TUESDA MARCH IS, 1941 18 Pages The State Journal Receive daily the complete newt report of Tie Associated Press. The L'mted Press and Tit International Service. Fighting $20,000 Fire in Lansing Township SULBS SPEEDY ACTION Report Final Group Rescued from Floe in Lake The Satioual Observer Prowling in U- S. Waters fr Zn.

Tw IIS trv I Slate Journal Phot This photo shows a part of the disastrous Lansing township fire that resulted in a $20,000 lass at the H. C. Fisher farm near the intersection of High street and the old GunnLsonville road (now Wood street) earlv Monday afternoon. Volunteers saved the garage at the left, but a huge barn and two smaller buildings were destroyed. Four horses lost their lives in the blaze and large quantities of equipment, machinery and grain burned.

The Lansing fire department was called when the blaze was small, but did not make the run because Lansing township has no contract with the city. The only fire fighting was done by volunteers one of whom is shown throwing water on the garage. Bremen's Fire xtinquished; Cause Unknown BERLIN. March 18 A fire aboard the German liner Bremen was extinguished yesterday alter doing "heavy damage" to the liner, pride of the Nazi merchant fleet, informed sources said today. "An investigation into the conflagration has not yet been concluded," these sources said.

No additional light was thrown on the ship's location, although publication of dispatches yesterday from Bremen disclosing the fire had been taken as indication the liner was tied up there. British Puzzled LONDON, March 18 The British were puzzled today by the Germans' frank disclosure of fire aboard the liner Bremen, and one authoritative source said he suspected it might have been bait to lure British bombers over a trap. So far, the air ministry has not claimed that R. A. F.

bombers set the liner afire in their heavy raids last week on German ports. RUSE 27 PCT. OP CHEST GOAL Campaign Workers Report First Day Contributions Totaling $40,483 A total of $40.483 57 was contrib uted Monday, the opening day of! the Greater Lansing Community Chest campaign, it was reported at the Tuesday noon luncheon of campaign workers. This amount represents 27 percent of the campaign goal of $149,500 and is a 2 percent increase over the amount raised the first day of the campaign a year ago. The campaign opened Monday morning with a "kick-off" break- i 125 Workers Hurt As Trains Crash Unconfirmed Report Says One Man Is Dead; Freight Plows Into Passenger Train Carrying Men to Construction Joh DEFENSE House Appropriation Committee Approves British Aid Measure REPORT CHIDES AXIS WASHINGTON, March 18 The house appropriations committee presented congress with a tersely worded alternative today to give quick approval to the $7,000,000,000 British aid bill or let the United States be stamped "a faltering welcher." The committee acted with speed, after hearing Secretary Hull, in testimony made public today, advise "full out" aid for countries resist ing aggression lest would-be conquerors" get a chance to deal with the United States "as they have been dealing with Europe and Asia." A Grim Note A grimlv dramatic note was add ed to the proceedings by reports that a Nazi U-boat was en route to American waters.

The appropriations committee asked that President Roosevelt's recommendations for the expenditure be approved with a single change and a rephrasing of another section. The change would provide that any defense article procured with the $7,000,000,000 should be retained by a government department at the discretion of the President, instead of being disposed of directly to a foreign government. At the same time, the committee redrafted a section which would permit the President to transfer funds in the bill to departments which dispose of defense materials. The committee noted that the amount carried in the bill plus authority In the basic law to dispose of a maximum of $1,300,000,000 worth of existing materials, made the total available for British aid The committee provided that the President mav reimburse- from the $7,000,000,000 fund, any department lor the value of defense articles it disposes of. "This transfer provision, to the extent it is availed of, will operate to reduce the ceiling of the committee report said.

Details of proposed expenditures had been withheld the report said-to keep "from certain foreign governments and their diligent agents detailed information which they should not have." One provision written in the bill by the committee forbids use of any of the measure's money for paying the salary or wages of a person who advocates, or is a member of an organization which advocates, the overthrow of the government of the United States by force or violence. OF STATE TROOPS Governor Says Units Will Be Organized Formally Within 10 Days Governor Van Wagoner said Tuesday the Michigan State Troops would be organized formally within 10 daj's to take the place of the Michigan National Guard, which has been called to active service with the army. The governor declined to discuss the part Col. Henrich A. Pickert, former Detroit police commissioner, would play in the organization.

Labor unions have protested against the informal designation of Pickert as commanding orficer of the troops, announced during the administration of former Governor Dickinson. "There has been no change there yet." Van Wagoner said. Col. E. M.

Rosecrans. adjutant general of Michigan, said informal units of the state troops probably would become fully recognized units when organization is completed. He said it was too early to discuss the man-power that would be allowed the organization. Governor Van Wagoner has said he considers a request for an appropriation for. 7,500 officers and men was too high.

ON BIG UNO PUB FORMATION (By The Associated Press) WINDHAM. March 18 A freight train plowed into the side of a nine-car Erie passenger train carrying 700 construction workers to the government's $19,000,000 Ravenna arsenal today. At least 125 of the defense workers were injured, 40 seriously. An Krie investigator said one man was killed. Other men were in a precarious condition in five hospitals to which they were taken.

The commuter train, carrying men from the Youngstown district, wa hit as it backed into the government reservation. The giant freight locomotive sheared away almost half the fifth coach, turning it over, and smashed the fourth coach, derailing it also. The freight train was proceeding east on its Cleveland-Youngstown run, and the commuter train was backing across its track to enter ST OF EAST AND SOUTH HIT BY COLD WAVE Death Toll in Midwest Storm Reaches 78; Search for Victims Continuing MODERATING IN WEST (BU The Associated Press) Most of the east and south felt the sting of the cold wave today as the Arctic chill knifed through from the storm-lashed middlewest. At least 78 persons perished In the storms which struck the northern states. The death toll in Minnesota and North Dakota, center of the storm area, increased to 66 as additional frozen bodies were recovered from snowdrifts und stalled autos.

The deaths by states: North Dakota 38. Minnesota 28. New York 4. Wisconsin 3. Ohio 2.

Michigan 2, and Pennsylvania 1. Temperatures moderated somewhat in the middlewest but subzero cold presisted in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Early today Bemidji. was the coldest spot with a reading of 20 below. Fears for the safety of 20 persons trapped on ice floes in Lake Superior while fishing subsided on reports that all had reached the mainland or islands off Michigan's upper peninsula.

Air Traffic Hit Forty-mile winds drifted highways in western and central -New York where temperatures ranged from 7 to 14. Winds of equal velocity forced air traffic to use. for the first time, the new Gravelly Point airport for emergency landings at Washington, D. C. Gales swept Maryland and other areas on the seaboard.

Early today the mercury touched zero at Big Savage mountain In western Maryland. Wind and sleet storms damaged utility lines in some sections of Maine. Maine's temperatures ranged down to zero. Gale winds subsided in Massachusetts. Continued cold was forecast for New Hampshire and Vermont where the mercury ranged from 10 to 20.

Except for Florida and the gulf roast, the entire south had freezing temperatures. Frost was forecast for northern and central Florida tomorrow while near freezing tempera tures were predicted for the gulfi coa.st. A fire drove 60 children from a grade school nrfir Brazil. into near wro weather. Some suffered frostbite.

High winds and cold hampered firemen fighting large fires at Buffalo, Rochester, Chicago, and Rensselaer. N. Y. A 15-day dry spell in the Pacific northwest was broken by rain yesterday. The rain ended threats of widespread brush and forest fires.

Hundreds of acres were burned in Washington and Oregon during the dry period. i Southeastern New Mexico dug out 1 of a record late winter storm. Snow reached a depth of seven inches at Roswell an dsix at Carls- bad. I Searrh for Victim GRAND FORKS. N.

D. Marcli 18 i-Vi Weary woiki-ls, favored by fore-, casts of warmer weather, resumed their drive on snow-clogged rural areas in the Red River valley today I in search of additional victims of the week-end's savage storm which left at least 66 dead strewn over the I stricken area. How many victims might be count- ed ultimately was stiil obscure. Many missing were still unaccounted for See STORM Page 2 SIX NAVY FLYERS 'Two Planes Collide in Ma-j neuvers Over Pacific; 2 I Bodies Found WASHINGTON, March 18 The navy department announced today that six men attached to the aircraft carrier Yorktown were killed yesterday in a collision of two planes they were maneuvering over the Pacific ocean. The men were: Lieutenant JG Frank Mason Robinson of Springfield.

Mass. Ensign Kirby Leo Berry of Norman. Okla. Stephen K. Nyezso.

chief radioman of Washington, D. C. James Stewart McLendon. radioman second class of Raleigh, N. C.

Benjamin Daniel Christman, radioman second class of Danville, Va Miller Ora Dejarnett, aviation machinist third class of Drumwright. Okla. The exact location of the maneuvers during which the crash occurred, and details of the accident were not disclosed. The bodies of the two officers have been recovered, the department said Licenses for 1942 To Be Green, White Michigan motorists will display license plates with a green background and white numerals in 1942 as the result of a decision by the department of state, it was disclosed Tuesday. SMITH BEGINS TOl'R DETROIT, March 18 (JP) LeRoy C.

Smith. Republican candidate for state highway commissioner, opened a two-day speaking tour Tuesday that includes 14 communities in the western part of the upper peninsula, 1 and in tfcis KW Cold Weather a Continue To Wednesday HOI RI.Y TEMPFRATl RKS L'ANSE, March 18 IV) Five fishermen, who were swept on a Lake Superior ice floe to the Huron island shores Sunday, arrived at Portage entry this morning aboard a fishing tug commandeered by Capt. Fred Sollman of the Portage lake coast guard station. The five men Dewey Johnson. Tom Ross, Ray Archambeau, Toby Hackman.

and David Maki were 'the last of a group of 19 ice fisher men and a woman who were trapped by a sudden storm Sunday morning which broke up an ice field near Skanee Point, approximately eight miles from shore. Nine men and the woman were found by beach patrols yesterday after their floe touched shore near pine Point, and late Sunday night five others reached a lumber camp afer making their way to the mainland of Michigan's upper peninsula near the Huron mountain district. Although a number of the fishermen suffered frostbitten hands, feet, and faces, none was reported in a serious condition. TRAFFIC STUDY PLANREVIVED Council Reconsiders Survey Proposal; Refers It to Committee City council voted Monday night to reconsider a $46,000 traffic survey proposal it defeated two weeks ago, and referred the proposal to the ways and means committee for study. It was by unanimous vote that the measure, which was beaten when proposed by Acting Mayor Arthur E.

Stoppel, was sent to committee and it is considered probable that the committee will recommend inclusion of $6,000 in the budget to pay the city's share of the project, which would receive $40,000 from WPA. The comprehensive survey, recommended by the Lansing Safety Council and the traffic study committee, would make a scientific study of traffic movement over all Lansing streets and provide a guide for action in eliminating hazards and relieving traffic congestion as far a.s possible. A resolution from the Lansing Safety Council urging the city council to consider the survey favorably was read to the aldermen. The resolution pointed to the need for such a survey to provide the basis for an intelligent solution to present and future traffic problems, pointed out the cost to the city is nominal, and said the experience of other cities proves conclusively the value of such a traffic study. The Safety council also pledged its full cooperation with the city in the conduct of such a survey.

Several letters, received fromj cities wnere similar surveys nave been made, were presented to the aldermen, who in their previous vote turned down the $46,000 measure to save $6,000. Division Lifted The survey would include the following 1 Accident records, compilation, and analysis. 2 Vehicular traffic volume. 3 Pedestrian traffic volume. 4 Intersection studies.

5 Traffic control devices, traffic signals (need for timing, and inventory traffic signs, pavement marking. 6 Parking, street parking, off-street parking, commercial loading and unloading practices. 7 Cordon count, central business See TRAFFIC Page 2 Lansing Selectees Ordered to Virginia Two Lansing selectees and one from Owosso were ordered transferred from Fort Custer to Camp Lee. Tuesday by Major-General Cummins. A Mt.

Clemens man was also listed for transfer. Harold S. Cuyler and Max L. Mc-Cutchan, both of Lansing, and James G. Rase of Owosso men of the central Michigan area who were ordered to the Virginia station.

Orton M. Erlandson was the Mt. Clemens resident on the order list, according to an Associated Press dispatch. William G. Sharp and Robert II.

Pepper, both of Port Huron, were transferred from Fort Custer to Camp Livingston, La. DYNAMITING OF BRIDGE FAILS AS EXHIBITION FORT OGLETHORPE, March 18 (V) With newspaper and news reel photographers standing by, the Sixth cavalry's demolition squadron was set to dynamite a bridge to "check the enemy." Troops rushed across the span with the enemy supposedly in pursuit. No explosion occurred. Again and still again the squadron attempted to set off the charge. Two hours passed and the photographers still waited.

Twilight fell. The squadron announced the bridge would be destroyed later in the week. The Weather iU. S. Weather Bureau.

East Lansing The cold air mass continue its nouth-easterly advance with the freezing line now reaching almost to the gulf. However, a warm air mass is following through the northwest and is already beginning to be felt in the upper lakes. Underrunning cold air over the west eulf region is producing heavy rains in nhat section The XeziS Behind the Day's iXezvs BUSINESSMEN attached to OPM tare discovered serious T-rsrr effects in their check-Thev nigh; have proved if they had hiciien until actual cf a war involving the Vmiei States Srth cepa.rtrr.ent5" purchasing Ntfrns were sloppy and They bought great vcl- ci material; lumber, shoes. 5--l curing peak pro-r iruoa rr the normal, civilian t-ait. Therefore they were unnecessarily high prices.

They -ver tnousht to order on a bifis. buying Ircm a source tr.e pemt cf consumption. until the last minute ttain land for contonments. cf getting options in ad- tnrough use of dummies, r.ar.c out high fees to pri- -e ral estate operators for un-' In original estimates trie mount cf aluminum need-far the two-ocean fleet, the -TT- c-LDTSteiv fixed the figure twire trie total required. Had error net been caught by com- ertxrts.

the swollen figure ruici have produced critical for the army and pri-u" tr.erets. Na'ural reaction to these dis-r ha? bfr. a hope that the naval ar.d air experts are bze'- the science of war in their business practices. emirs, including present and farmer cfticers. wonder.

Charre "arsenal of democ-rkr'." may turn out to be a Tc.z.'yr bcx cf troubles. Within a cvs of passage of the fc-11. almost every neu-nstion f-d an official or for weapons "on i or order" Roosevelt has tried to American countries tne banner of democracy. tney f-e! that he ought to arm K.t personal emissary. EU" Donovan, has asked -o Lr.e up with Britain at to s-nub Hitler's ad- London cannot arm tr.e T-rts.

th-y have turned to tl I Fate SAFETY GROUP ACTS 10 EQUIPPATRDLS Larsing- Organization Also Opezs Membership Rolls; Cornmittees Named r-er? cf the board of control Lar.s.r.g Safetv Council, meet-Mcnnar at the Home Dairy cirected the council to as-r fu.ar.cial responsibility for ec.u.rn-."r.t for the Lansing opened rrr.t; in the council to Jn- interested in s.ar:.-Ji committee mrm-- fr. ti patrol financial bcurd authorized the to furr.i-h necessary equip- members, including bacges. r. ar nds serv ice bars and also au-irire-c tr.e council to appoint a -o cooperate with the ptrDls. directed by Sergt.

rr- Sn.cer cf the Lans.ng police to determine needs ofj err sr.ira ion. r. a resolution opening; mem.trship to interested indi-i-s tr.e boarc decided that a rr.r.ersmp fee cf SI a year be rommfe mTr.bers named Mon-frf Traffic safety Victor1 tsc- cr.a.rman: Sidney Anger. Earber. Evans Boucher.

Crp. Charles Ecker. Harolo -zt Cref Karold Haun of the Landing po-ce aepartment. -rs I Kemdon. D.

R. Hoadley, Sim Street Huehes of munic-: court. Chief John F. O'Brien ti Lar.v.r.g pohce department. Parr, and acting-mayor ur Ston'eL itmbersf.ip W.

Wi'Jord. airman: C. Carlton. Wesley E. Alfred T.

Clausen. Charles cer. Wai-o O. Hiidebrand. Ster-r Kosle-, M.

J. Mavnard. Lu- M-ll C. V. Otto.

S. E. W. Wsnger Patrol Walter H. Mun-thirman: Paul Martin, pub--r.

Trie State Journal; Dr. Fred SAFETY Page 2 aval Recruit Here Praised By Governor C- err.DT- Van Waeoner wrote a 7 Monday to a Lansing young r-wir. wr.o carrying on a long rcari cf military service for has Tn nor? ii addressed to jeme 5 itertxK K-r. 18-year-oli son i.rr.5 A Knickerbocker, 1015 The youih List -rsoiT er.listed in the United m-'s r.avr, ar.d the governor's let-r camrr.er.ceci h.ni for his to serve your country." Voui.r Knickerbocker is the rtr. ccnj-ecutiie feneration in his to ere the armed forced U.e Slates.

His father ic u.e Philippine insurrec- ar.d a a lieutenant in the war K-s grandfather. James a Knickerbocker of Hubbarcston. a sercear.t in the war His great-grand-' Jf.rh Tucker of Olive town- ton served with ir. the Civil war. Churchill Says Nazis Operating Off East Coast VA PLANES IN EUROPE BUSY (Bt The Associated P-ettl Adolf Hitler has tent "not only German U-boats but German battle cruisers to hunt shipping on "the American side of the Atlantic," Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared in London today.

Churchill said the German overseas raiders "have already-sunk some of our independently-routed ships not sailing in convoy" as far west as the 42nd meridian about 1.500 mile east of New York. The Pan American "neutralirr zone" extends 300 miles out into the Atlantic, but it has not been recces -nlzed by belligerent powers. Churchill's statement follow4 upon information received in Washington without comment from government officials that at Wst or. long-range German U-boat heading across the Atlantic to pry on shipping off the American coast At the same time, a censer- improved dispatch from an Associated Press correspondent with the British fleet in the Mediterranean revealed that British warships have escorted to Greece, some cf the largest cenvovs since the war started. Tankers and freighters cf everr description, loaded with impci-ar: war supplies and British All-ed forces, steamed through the Mediterranean and Aegean ea escort by cruisers, dest rtn ri a rut battleships without hrwtUe r.tertr- rnce dispatch said This apparently waa confirma tion of reports from the that British troop already ha landed in Greece.

The Balkan reports said 100.000 troopa the ran-guard of a force of 300 000. had -to take up positions to oppose any German invasion of fe Greek kingdom. Churchill also disclosed that thre German submarines were sunk ye- United States Ambassador John Winant, he commented: "Not since October, 1939. hv I been cheeered by such a trtc event." At the same time. Hitlers command reported slashing r.r blows against Britain vital con rC- "isvsrem Authorized quarters in Berim quick to scoff at the U-boat wr.

declaring it was a "put-up icq American war inciter rlum.v propaganda" and artdlr.a: "We are not so naive as to airac the United States wstn U-boau me razi high command aa-d a German submarine sank five arrri merchant ships totalhriz 35300 ten in an attack on a convoy, and tha: a 4.000-ton merchantman had i sent to the bottcm -in the North sea. Washington reports said at a jone German submarine was en rou-e ao United States coastal waters perhaps the forerunner cf otiters (such as assailed American shir? U3. the World war. In London, the admiralty reccrce-i another heavy toll of shiTrpms losses 25 ships totalling 98 832 t-tis for the week ending March 9 r.c a spokesman declared: "We must be prepared tc faca See WAR Paje 2 COMMITTEE HEAD Chairman Says He Wasn't Pistol Consulted About Range Recommendation A committee report recommending approval of a $10,000 pistel rani-for the police department went ban to committee after causing a ci--cussion at city council meeting llrr-day night. The report, submitted by fo-r members of the ways ar.d meai.s committee, brought a quick charge rf tVi nMnTniHaA tVif V- a lknow anything about it and dicn jnke the idea of railroading a HQ j0 expenditure through the council The committee report stated th range had been approved by tr.e fire and police board and mended the $10,000 be included the 1941-42 budget and the pc board be instructed to go aiead with construction jrr.meciateiv "I am chairman of the ways ar.d means committee and this is first I have about this report." Smita remarked.

"I am opposed to it Tl chairman can at least be aiid about this and not have it railroaded through." He declared that he could in writing where the state pcce pistol range has been for scrr.e tune and still is available for the Lar.i police department. can't -ee tis reason for such a hurry cm tfci. YOU Can't go OUt tomorrow IRKED BY REPOR the arsenal grounds. Fifty leather seats of the steel fifth coach were scattered along the right of way. together with workers' lunch boxes.

Screams and moans went up from the wreckage. White-faced men in the other coaches, shaken up but suffering little but bruises and cuts, went to the rescue. They removed at least two men with severed arms, and others with skull and leg fractures. Men built bonfires to ward off the 12-drgrec cold. After hitting the commuter coaches the freight locomotive 'smashed into an embankment, and turned on its side.

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I tl.v State Journal trmprralure. tl S. wralhrr burriu trmprralurri. tin An Erie investigator said unit reporting 46 percent. SALARY TAX LEVY High Treasury Officials Believe Congress Will Find Standard Sources WASHINGTON.

March 18 V) High treasury officials said today they were considering asking congress to increase some existing federal taxes, but they minimized the possibility of any new levies such as sales or payroli tax. Among those which may be raised, thev hinted, were Income, excess profits, estate and gift taxes. Some changes in specific excise taxes, such as those on liquor and tobacco. also were deemed possible. Treas ury-congressional conference on the tax problem are scheduled about April 1.

More sensational pians ior raising money have been bruited about by congressmen and others. The suggestions have included a 5 percent tax on all wages, to De aeauciea oy emplovers, and a general sales tax. to be paid by manufacturers. Treasury oiiiciais saia tney aouui-ed if a majority of the lawmakers would agree to such innovations. The treasury, as weu as congir.

is searching intently for more reve nue because the British aid program boosted the next fiscal years outlay to more than $20,000,000,000 while the most optimistic estimates of the government's income during that Dcriod do not exceed 000.000, taking account oi iax in- creases wnicn were mn-mr venr. and the upturn in inLsiness. i i The treasury was (jauitumn) skeptical of a sales tax. omciais predicted that before congress would nass such a levy, it would exempt foods and so many other items that the tax yield would be disappoint- Their opposition to a payroll tax" was based on the belief it would discriminate against persons who work for wages and favor persons who get theix income from investments or real estate. The easiest way to get more money out of the income tax would be to boost the "normal" tax rate on individuals.

This rate now is 4 percent, compared with 6 to 12 percent during the World war. However, treasury spokesmen indicated that they preferred first to increase the income "surtax" rates the graduated 4 to 75 percent rates imposed on larger incomes in addition to the "normal" rate. In this manner, they said, they thought the law could be kept closer to the intended "tax according to capacity to pay" theory. CEMENT FIRM BURNED DETROIT, March 18 (JP) The building and equipment of the Peerless Cement Block company was destroved here Monday night by fire. Stanley T.

Socholski. the owner, said damage was estimated at $45,000. breaks, not daring to go near the water's edge for fear of falling through thin ice, unable to see more than 10 feet away. "We were surprisingly calm. I never thought I'd be able to face death quite like that "Our ice floe kept breaking off at thr edges, getting smaller all the time.

Finally we gathered in the middle of the floe. It wasn't very big, because I could see the water all around from the middle. "We couldn't see anything but a great white wall and we heard only the raging wind and the roaring water under the ice. "It seemed ages before the storm cleared up for a little while and we saw thet mainland, a welcome dark blot, about a mile away. We started to move toward it, jumping from one piece of ice to the next, sinking with each one, sometimes to our knees, and never knowing when we'd sink for good.

"When we finally thought we See SlRVIVOR rage 2 PLAN MINIMIZED i 3 ill High "colonel at the Tuesday noon report luncheon was a. i Clausen of the red unit. Industrial division, who reported 58 percent of his division's quota raised during the first dav. High "colonel of Industrial division was Fred; vvoineri wxiuse leam tuiiiru ui percent of its quota. The schools division under Dr.

J. W. Sexton reported 24 percent of its quota. Edward G. Hacker was high "colonel" of the general sales division, reporting 16 percent of the division's quota.

The individual winning teams were Wayne Otis' Team 31 of the blue unit, which reported 31 percent and (Wallace Bennet's Team 14 of the Trophy Awarded The red unit, of which Jack Mavnard is "general" was awarded the Spartan trophy, having turned in 39 percent of its quota. Largest divisional meeting of the campaign was that of the state employes, who staged a rally which completely filled Prudden auditorium Monday afternoon. Louis M. Nims, sales tax director, presided, introducing Carl Havens, vice chairman of the campaign, who outlined its details, and told of the work accomplished by the 18 affiliated agencies. State employes have been divided into two groups.

Team headed by Wendell Lund and Leonard Sauer, and Team led by Gus Hartman and Sophus Lund. Campaign workers are holding daily luncheons at the Hotel Olds to report progress, except for the Thursday noon luncheon which will be held at the Michigan State col- lege union. The campaign will end with the "victory dinner" Tuesdav i evening at the Hotel Olds. The following additional endorse- was receiv Community' i L'nesl neaaquarters luesuay: "The members of Fisher Auxiliarv No. 202.

U. A. I. wholeheartedly endorse the Greater Lansing Community Chest Fund Drive. The commendable results of these annual drives may well be a source of pride to all of us.

The officers and workers in this group deserve the loyalty and staunch support of every individual in the community. "FISHER AUXILIARY. No. u' A' Irene Grable. president.

Doris I. Eno. acting secretary." Where to Look Bedtime Stories Believe It or Not Comics Crossword Puzzle Daily Pattern Dorothy Dix Editorials Health Talks .10 6 .14 .14 .10 .10 4 .10 Looking Over Lansing 18 Markets 15 New York Day by Day 4 Radio 15 State Deaths 7 Serial Story 14 Society 11 Sports 13 Theater 12 Vital Statistics 1 Weather 1-5 last aim cuhluiuc imuuuiuj i i With spring officially only one dav distant, the United States weather bureau at East Lansing pre- dieted Tuesday it would be Wednes day before Lansing gets any relief from the frigid blasts which have gripped this vicinity since Sunday noon. For the next 24 hours, the weather man predicted it would be partly cloudy, with continued cold Tuesday night. The mercury was expected to drop to the 10-degree mark Tuesday night.

From a low of six degrees Sunday and a minimum of eight in the last 24 hours, the mercury had climbed to 22 degrees at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, according to official tem perature readings compiled at the East Lansing bureau. The wind, which approximated 30 miles an hour Sunday about 5 p. had moderated to a gentle blow and brought with it nn indication of warmer weather. The weather man predicted rising temperatures for Wednesday when spring is scheduled to arrive at 7:21 p. m.

temperature reading the past 24 hours was eight degrees re corded at 2, 3 and 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, it was at tnat point the mercury started its ascent. CHEESE TO BE RATIONED IN GREAT BRITAIN SOON LONDON. March 18 The food ministry announced today cheese would be rationed soon. The amount to be allowed was not disclosed, but a statement said farm workers and miners receive larger allotments than other groups. This will be Britain's first allocation of special amounts of food to different classes of workers.

Post Would Reduce Postage Allowance Representative James I. Post (R) of HilLsdale says he considers a $25 supply of postage is about all any legislator can reasonably expect free from the state. Post served notice on the house of representatives Monday night lit u'niitH rtnmanrt rrli irt inn nf i i freight engineer told him he "had a clear signal." Erie's offices in Cleveland launched an investigation. fceventy-nve ot the injured were taken to Warren City hospital: others to Youngstown. Ravenna and the arsenal field hospitals.

All War ren doctors were called to aid, as well as the Red Cross. The crash, at 7:06 a. m. Eastern Standard Time), occurred within the government reservation. at its northeastern corner.

Construction of the plant started last fall, and late this summer workers there are scheduled to turn out shell at the rate of a million rounds a month. A carpenter employed at the arsenal gave this account: "The commuter train was backing up on the main line into the arsenal grounds when the freight crashed broadside into the fourth coach, demolishing it and derailing four others. "The wooden coach which was struck was splintered and only the framework remained. This coach an- parently was carrying about 85 men. Some of hem wre mt hv i.

glass. "A locomotive from the arsenal station picked up two coaches rom the rear of the commuter train to SEE TRAIN WRECK Page 2 Civil Service Body Almost Given Praise Legislative praise for its recent actiqn in reinstating several dismissed state employes was almost but not quite heaped upon the shoulders of Michigan's powerful new civil service commission Monday night. The house of representatives adopted a resolution sponsored bv Representative William C. Stenson R) of Greenland lauding the com- mission for its reinstatement action Later in the evening's session, however, Representative Robert N. Sawyer (R of Monroe asked that the vote be rescinded.

He told his colleagues that a governmental agency should not be praised for "doing its duty" because "that's what they're paid to do See ntAlSE rage 2 Woman Survivor Reveals Story of Night on Ice L'ANSE. March 18 (V) A dramatic story of hardship and suffering while adrift on an ice floe in Lake Superior was told today by-Mrs. Ed Kuivinen, wife of a Pelkie mail driver who went out on Huron bay Sunday to enjoy her first ice fishing. She was one of eight persons who rode a floe to shore Sunday in subzero temperature, buffeted by a 50-mile wind. Mrs.

Kuivinen related that her husband caught a two-pound trout "before it (the breakup of ice) happened." "All of a sudden everything turned white as snow and a high wind screeched off shore," she said. "Ed took our bearings by the sun and we headed for shore, bucking a wind that whipped right through us. Then ahead loomed a great dark space water, an endless space of open water. Our windbreak was whipped out of our hands. "We met six other fishermen who appeared out of the snowy curtain.

We huddled behind three tiny wind $75 limit on postage allowances the' hou5e thereupon nullified the house ways and means committee i action and sent the resolu-had proposed in a resolution. to the rulcs 8nd resolutions measure was sent to the resolutions! committee. iee REPORT Paje 2.