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Face EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR LA NSING, MICHIGA N. WEDNESDA NO EMBER 25, 1942 12 Pages 108 Columns PRICE FIVE CENTS The State Journal Receive! daily the complete newt re-porta of 7A Associated tress. The L'nited Press and The International Service. Where Soviet Jaws Close on Nazis 1 1 USE BUBO Extra Gas Notices HITLER SHIFTS Enem Losses Being MailedinCounty AIR POWER TO AFRICAN WAR RUSSIA frrSftaw- I Ji? KACtfALINOr vS Arn if V. ABGANEROVAiflr TSIMLYANS Don fc yKOTELNIKOVSKI ov ToCajcasUTV Near 100,000 In Red Drive Russians Tighten Trap on Axis Armies, Narrowing Escape Route to 30 Miles; Rail Supply Lines to Germans Cut; Stalingrad Defenders Rallying By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW.

Nov. 25 (AP) German losse. in dead r.d captured alone had rocketed close to 100,000, as the Russian counter-offensive gained momentum and squeezed the invaders escape corridor from Stalingrad down to a width of 30 miles, battlefront dispatches reported today. From the long-besieged city the Russians reported rollir.j back a Nazi wedge to the-VoIga, clearing another avenue for supply and reinforcement of the garrison which already is lashing out from its defensive positions and beating back the Nazi street-by-street. Northwest of the city the Russian offensive penetrated 50 miles into the depth of German defenses within the great Den Bend, and to the southwest the Russians had stabbed 65 miles DICES DEW-IN RAPING Six Months' Postponement Recommended by Special Congress Committee JEFFERS IS ADAMANT WASHINGTON.

Nov. 25 UP) A special house committee recommended today a six months' postponement of gasoline rationing in all or at ast pari of the presently unrationed area "to see what complete voluntary tire saving will accomplish." Trie group also suggested that studies of the office of petroleum coordinator and office of defense transportation be utilized in an effort to make sure "that our transportation system throughout the Ask Extra Gas For Salesmen WASHINGTON. Nov. 25 Traveling salesmen, except in the east, may be given more gasoline under rationing than tr.e -B" book maximum providing for 470 miles of driving a month, an authoritative source has reported. Acting on a plea of the United Commercial Travelers for larger rations for traveling salesmen.

Rubber Director William M. Jeffers is reported to have written to Price Administrator Leon Henderson, suggesting that he attempt to work out a satisfactory plan. representatives of the U. C. T.

who conferred recently with Jeffers asked that the salesmen be allowed a quantity of gasoline sufficient to do 65 percent of last year traveling. cour.try does not suffer a sudden ar.d crasuc coliapee through premature and forced gasoline rationing." Representative Anderson (Di of XT TUT Bvir-rA ha i rm an a en honrr) Mailing of notices Ingham county motorists who have been approved for extra gasoline rations was expected to start late Wednesday, according to Ross Hilliard, county clerk and rationing board member. Mr Hilliard said motorists who have been authorized to receive supplemental gasoline rationing books would be notified to call at a place designated on the card for their or coupon books. This place had not been determined early Wednesday, however. Meanwhile Arthur Sarvis.

director of the state office of price administration, announced that all persons must have their war ration book No 1 (the present sugar coupon book) by December 15 or they will be unable to obtain ration book No. 2 which will be distributed shortly after the first of the year. Factories Aid on Applications Mr. Hilliard revealed that ration board workers here are still keeping abreast of their task of processing supplemental gas ration applications, but he said he believed the greater share of these applications will be mailed 'in from local war factories later in the week. This is due, he added, to the fact that practically all industrial plants in the county have designated staffs to assist employes to apply for supplemental gasoline.

Before these applications are UPSETS Lavan, Levinson Convictions Set Aside by Opinion of Supreme Court The state supreme court Wednesday reversed the conviction of Martin J. Lavan, former legal advisor to George T. Gundry when he was auditor general, and Hyman Levinson, Farm- oi iraua in connection with the 1938 state tax sale VERDICT Arrows indicate where Red army offensives have pushed into the cold steppes west of Stalingrad to' theraten the entire Nazi salient in that area. Deepest reported penetration was at Chernyshev-skaya on the Chir river, 75 miles U1IPKE AIIO IT JEWS State's Defense Council To Offer Record to Kelly mitiee of a committee creat-l lngton weekly ec at a bi-partisan anti-rationing! newspaper pub-caucus of house members last week.iIt'?r charges if- Scale of Plane Attacks Shows Axis Girding for Last-Ditch Struggle EDEN VOICES WARNING (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 25 The scale of Axis air attacks in North Africa was reported authoritatively today to show that Adolf Hitler was backing up the enemy land forces with great air power for a bitter-end stand on the Mediterranean shore probably even to the extent of draining planes from his imperiled Russian front.

This warning of the degree to which the Axis was girding to save its last footholds in North Africa came soon after Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the house of commons that the contest for North Africa had reached an "extremely critical phase." However, the strongest enemy ground concentrations were believed still to be those holding defensive arcs some 30 miles outside Tunis and Bizerte and in flight before Britain's Eighth army in Libya, although the Vichy radio yesterday reported strong formations landing at Gabes and Sfax in southern Tunisia. American, British and French forces, were reported roaming the length and breadth of Tunisia, clashing occasionally with enemy patrols in short but violent engagements and preparing for the final showdown with the Axis in Africa. Eden did not specify how or where the military situation in Tunisia was "critical." Air War Rages Hotly There was a dearth of news from North Africa today although the air war preliminary to the decisive ground battle continued hotly. Both Axis communiques stressed blows particularly against Allied shipping and Allied-held ports in Algeria. These enemy claims, however, had no The sinking of four Allied merchantmen, including a "transatlantic ship of 20,000 tons" and a destroyer by Italian planes and sub marines off the Algerian coast was reported by the Italians.

The German communique said Nazi night raiders had -scattered fires on the shorefronts of Algiers, Bone and Phillippeville and had de stroyed a merchantman set fire to another transport and damaged two destroyers in Algiers. The Germans' heavy use of air transport was underscored by a Reuters report from Cairo that a Nazi seaplane capable of flying 80 fully equipped soldiers had been shot down into the Mediterranean yesterday by R. A. F. long-range fighters off the eastern coast of Tunisia.

The plane was flvine northward, presumably after having disembarked enemy reinforcements. In the same waters, British fighters were said also to have shot down a Ju-52 transport plane and to have damaged a Dornier 24. Only the uornier had a fighter escort. Long-range American P-38 fighters ranged the skies above the ground troops, seeking out German and Italian concentrations, attacking troop columns and trains and occasionally engaging Axis planes. four German planes were shot down and a troop train was riddled by these fighters near Gabes yesterday.

British observers said that both the British Eighth army in Libya and the Allied army in Tunisia have built up their forces for a crushing See AFRICA Page 8 old Man for Trial On Assault Charge Accused of criminal assault on a 15-year-old girl, Harold Davenport, 21, of 334 East Main street, was bound over to the January term of circuit court Tuesday following a hearing in municipal court. Investigation by police detectives of youth delinquency here was stimulated by Davenport's arrest and that of his roommate, Raymond Jenson. Jenson is now awaiting trial in circuit court on two criminal assault charges involving minor girls. One of the girls accused Davenport, aiso. Davenport allegedly committed his offense August 15 and Jensen Au gust 4 and August 11.

Both are free under bonds of $2,000 each, pending trial. mace puolic the recommendations at a house interstate commerce com mittee hearing. Representative Sumners Texas protesting against nf'ad vertising in nation--Oakland wide gasoline rationing, said todavj that "thus idea of having somebody mrrv Washirernn an inrtiviri- wai now to go" about his own businessjcentral committee mailed to the ration board office they must be authorized by plant transportation committees, Mr. Hilliard pointed out. He said this preliminary processing by plant com- Warns of Errors In Filling Blanks DeWitt Hoadlcy, chairman of the county gas rationing processing board, ann Wednesday that hundreds of applicants for supplemental ration books are sending in their blanks without signing their name on the last page just above the space used for "renewal certification." Mr.

Hoad-ley also noted that hundreds of motorists have missed important questions on the applications. This means, he said, that the blanks must be returned to the applicant for completion, resulting in several days' delay in issuance o'f ration books. mittees will ease the burden of ration board workers in passing on such applications. It was also his opinion that plant-approved requests for extra gas probably could be immediately accepted by the ration board and noti- See EXTRA GAS Page 8 TO GIVE Most War Plants to Operate Thanksgiving Day; Union Service Planned Tonight Thanksgiving for thousands of Lansing war workers this year will mean simply one extra day on as sembly lines turning out shells and guns to furnish our boys overseas with additional weapons to defeat the Axis. Despite maintenance of plant schedules, however, the traditional observance of this annual holiday, replete with turkey and "all the fixin's will be celebrated In homes throughout the city.

But for a jority of employes these features must wait for the close of the day's working shift. Reports Wednesday revealed that all units of the Olds Motor Works, including the General Motors shell plant, would maintain schedules through Thursday. Pull production also will be maintained at the Motor Wheel corporation and both the Cedar street and Mt. Hope plants of Nash-Kelvinator corporation. Reo Motors, will maintain production only on war contracts, making it possible to re lease approximately half of the plant lorce but the entire office force will work.

Fisher Body will be closed completely. Protestant denominations for the most part will celebrate their an nual Thanksgiving rites at union services scheduled to be held See THANKSGIVING Page 8 Federal Order Designed to Help Relieve Critical Butter Shortage WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 UP) The war production board today is sued an order to prohibit dairy pro ducers from distributing whipping cream or other heavy cream to household consumers, retailers, restaurants, hotels, and other institutions. Coffee cream or ordinary table cream is not affected. The order was recommended by the foods requirements committee to conserve fluid milk for consumer use and for the manufacture of dried whole milk, cheese, butter and other dairy products.

WSB said that the order will help relieve "the most critical butter shortage in 10 years" and local milk fluid shortages in many sections of the country. An exception to the order is made in the case of a farmer, rancher, or herd owner who may deliver up to four quarts of heavy cream per day if his deliveries averaged less than one gallon daily in the three months ended November 25. 0PA ASKS RESTAURANTS TO KEEP FOOD RECORDS DETROIT. Nov. 25 (JP) The office of price administration in Michigan asked today that accurate food consumption records for the month of December be kept by boarding houses, hotels, restaurants, clubs and other institutions.

Arthur H. Sarvis, state OPA head, said the information was necessary in order to determine the effect of current rationing programs on the service of meals and the use of unrationed foods. The information, Sarvis added, "will enable us to have a much clearer picture of the needs of public and private group eating places." Hourly Temperatures a. m. S7 43 II a.

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weather bureau temperaturta BONIS Hi 1 west of Kalach, rail town which the Russians previously seized. To the southwest of Stalingrad, Soviets were reported continuing drive after taking Aksai in an advance from Abganerova. i managed to channel volunteer work- ers to labor-starved farmers in suf ficient numbers to "clean up all but the final stages of the sugar beet harvest. Kelly's election campaign fea tured charges that the present ad ministration placed defense activities on a partisan basis, in some in stances naming Democrat-nominated defense councils In Republican counties. The council was informed by Don C.

Weeks, director of the civilian war service division, that 90 percent of itt local deiense councils contacted had responded to a request for im mediate organization of neighbor hood war clubs. Under this system, the volunteer service corps will be placed on the same block-type system as the air raid warden set-up. This was advocated by the office of civilian deiense. The council's salvage committee reported that 82 of Michigan's 83 counties qualified for salvage pen nant awards oiiered by the war production board's conservation di vision to counties collecting 100 pounds of scrap per capita between beptember and October 31. Michigan's total for the two-months' period was estimated at 135 pounds per capita.

The committee said local salvage groups were intensifying ef forts to top Michigan's scrap quota for 1.101,000 tons for the last six months of 1942. Downing Proctor, state recreation representative of the federal security agency, pointing out that juvenile delinquency had increased 79 percent in the Willow Run area since the war, recommended appointment of a Michigan director of recreation and physical fitness. He said rec reation centers have been estab lished in most communities. but that greater stress was needed on programs of social activities and physical conditioning. Raymond H.

Foley, state housing administrator, informed the council Michigan's war housing program ims oeen cianned' somewhat by renewal of priority applications for ouuaing materials by the war production board, but that the problem remains critical in the near-Detroit and Muskegon areas. He said 24,000 privatelv-construct ed units may be completed in the uetroit-ypsllanti area bv Julv and that the "bulk" of 500 family units and 500 temporary dwellings could be built at Muskegon. Fluctuating industrial demands, Foley said, may result in a more serious housing shortage than expected at Adrian, toagmaw and runt, but may alleviate the problem at Midland and Lansing. Japs Making 'Last Stand' On Beaches (By The Associated Press) In the far Pacific, American and Australian troops battled at close quarters with the "last stand" remnants of a Japanese invasion force on the beaches of New Guinea today while Allied planes sprayed death into the enemy trapped along a 12-mile coastal strip. Dispatches from Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's headquarters indicated that the struggle for the enemy's last footholds in the Buna-Gona sector was nearing an end. with Allied troops surrounding the enemy on three sides and steadily closing in. Australian troops found 100 Japa nese dead in a single village, and other Japanees bodies were strewn along the sand. Every available Allied plane was sent skimming in low-level attacks over the Japanese positions with machine-guns and cannons blazing. No Japanese planes appeared to challenge the aerial assault, dis patches said.

On the China war front, United States army headquarters reported that American bombers, accompanied by the biggest fighter escorts yet seen in the China theater, blasted two of Japan's main air bases in south China without drawing opposition from a single enemy plane. The targets were an airport on the Island of Sanchti, 72 miles south of Canton, and the Tienho airfield at Canton. UTILITY STRIKE DATE TOBE SET Negotiations Between Union And Consumers Power Company Break Down JACKSON, Nov. 25 (fP) The Michigan State Joint Utility Work ers Council-C. I.

O. will meet in Lansing Sunday at 1 p. m. to fix the effective date for a strike of the 2,500 operating employes of the Consumers Power company, it was announced Wednesday in a prepared statement by Herman R. Chadwick of Saginaw, council president.

The statement followed a breakdown of negotiations between the Utility Workers Organizing Committee and Consumers Tuesday afternoon. Chadwick said notice of the meeting has been sent to the United States department of labor, the national war labor board, and the state labor mediation board. The meeting will be at Auto Workers' hall, 1122 South Washington avenue, Lansing. Strike Voted Last July A strike of the U. W.

O. C. employes of the power company was voted last July, but was held in abeyance pending a national labor relations board election, which was won by the C. I. O.

union in September. Bargaining with the company began October 1, but. ended Tuesday in a dispute over wage increase and a closed shop agreement. "We have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to negotiate with a company whose management caqnot and will not agree among themselves," said Chadwick. He charged that M.

Wilson Arthur, vice president and assistant general manager, has made agreements in which Frank G. Boyce, vice president and production and transmission department director, refuses to concur. "The company fully realizes that unless the management is willing to giant an increase in wages that will bring the employes above the $30 per week average they are now receiving it will be impossible to retain these people in the company's employ," Chadwick continued. "That they intend to quit and seek employment elsewhere is evidenced bv the fact that the employes are quitting in droves each day, yet the company completely disregards the tact that the breakdown of the company operations will result in the complete shutdown of all industrial plants engaged in the production of the planes, tanks, ammunition, and other equipment so necessary to the winning of the war." Francis C. Bow, secretary of the union council, is quoted in the statement as saying that the com pany never has negogiated a contract in good faith, and now has See UTILITY Page 8 ANTHEM COMPOSER DIES DUBLIN, Nov.

25 Peadar S. Kearney, 58, the Dublin house painter whose "Soldier's Song" became the Irish free state national anthem, died yesterday. man of Lowell, generally considered the spokesman for rural interests on the commission, alone voted against integration. A tabulation of the commission action on the Kelso and civil service reports showed the commission adopted 11 of Kelso's recommendations and delayed a vote on two others. It approved six of the civil service proposals, delayed action on two, rejected eight, and said three others already had been placed in effect.

In seven instances, where Kelso's recommendations opposed those of civil service, the commission sided with Kelso. Governor Authorized Study Kelso was chosen by Governor Van Wagoner last summer to study reorganization of the state's welfare set-up. The civil service agency undertook its survey last spring as one of a number of "economy" studies of all state departments. Its first report was rejected completely by the commission and withdrawn on the See WELFARE Page 8 into the invadeis' lines. The jaws of the nutcracker still were closing.

A communique added 3.400 more German dead overnight to the toll in the Stalingrad-Don bend sector alone, raising the official count of the killed to 44,400 in six days, and battlefront dispatches said the tally when all reports were in would be close to 50,000. The communique gave no specific figure on Germans captured overnight, but dispatches said the previous total of 36,000 now, too, was probably close to 50,000. Soviet communiques reported both rail supply lines to the siege forces cut early in the offensive which started seven days ago and today's front line dispatches indicated that only a narrow strip running through the Don river elbow north of Kalach and south of Trekhostrovskaya re- mained open to an estimated 300.000 Germans and their Allies for moving supplies, or escaping. The fall of Kalach, on the Stalin-grad-Kamensk railroad, was reported Sunday and Trekhostrovskaya fell yesterday to forces pushing down from the southwest. Army Paths Uncertain (The official communiques have not made clear the paths being followed by the several Russian offensive columns but the location of the Germans'" escape avenue north of Kalach would indicate that the same Red army which cut the Stal-ingrad-Novorossisk railroad southwest of Stalingrad swung part of its forces rjorthwestward and captured Kalach, which lies about 50 miles due west of Stalingrad, and then swerved west to take Surovik-hino, another 35-40 miles west.

(Earlier Russian communiques reported penetration to Chernyshev-skaya, about 75 miles west of Trekhostrovskaya, and this gives the picture of a German-held corridor stretching some 120 miles west from Stalingrad within narrow confines before it spreads out into relative security for the invaders.) Adding to the troubles being built up behind the Axis siege armies, the Russians reported yesterday that they had shoved a column down the Volga from the north to effect a junction with Stalingrad's tough garrison In the northern part of the city and clear out a wedge that the invaders had driven between this sector and the main part of the town. Cheered by this direct and indirect relief, the hardy defenders of the war-torn city pushed ahead slowly in their own offensive, the regular midnight communique reporting the enemy cleared out of several dozen blockhouses and blindages in the factory district with 900 invaders killed. A slight advance also was claimed for Red troops in the southern outskirts of the city. Today's midday communique reported continued advances overnight within Stalingrad as well as to the northwest and south of the city "in the same directions as previously." Red army soldiers were said to have advanced further in the factory district, although no details were given, and in the southern outskirts 400 Germans were reported killed when Soviet troops occupied a number of fortified positions. One German regiment was declared wiped out in futile counterattacks northwest of the city and the Russians moved ahead but no details were given on this advance.

To the south, 3.000 Germans were reported killed when the Russians occupied several towns, the names of which were not given. Local German attacks were said to have been repulsed in the Black sea zone near Tuapse and in the Caucasus near Nalchik while small scale thrusts gained some ground for the Russians in the Leningrad area. Where to Look Bedtime Stories 7 Believe It or Not 12 Comics 12 Crossword Puzzle 12 Daily Patterns 7 Dorothy Dix 7 Editorials 4 Health Talks 4 Just Before the Deadline 2 Looking Over Lansing 3 Markets 16 New York Day by Day 4 Radio 8 State News 2, 5, 7 Serial Story 12 Society 7 Sports 9 Theater 6 Vital Statistics 10 Weather 1-5 Michigan's council of defense is prepared to rest on its record when Harry F. Kelly turns to that phase of state wartime administration after he takes office January 1. Although the council appointed by Governor Van Wagoner still has another meeting before the Repub lican governor takes office, it received orders from Lieut.

Col Harold A. Furlong, state defense administrator, Tuesday to prepare a comprehensive transcript of its one-year history. Created by an act of the 1941 leg islature, the council's 12 members and administrator are classed as an executive group, serving at the pleasure of the governor. Furlong's recommendation affects chairmen and officials of the council's numerous subcommittes and agencies, who were asked to submit detailed accounts of their accomplishments to the governor before January 1. "The report must be complete enough to convince the legislature of the need for continuing the defense council and justify its expanding budget" Furlong asserted at a luncheon which also was addressed bv Governor Van Wagoner.

The re tiring executive expressed gratitude for the "complete co-operation the council which he described as "one of the best civilian deiense groups in the country." Earlier in the meeting. Furlong said that at a recent conference in Washington, James M. Landis, director of the office of civilian de fense, described Michigan and Penn sylvania as the two states which had done "the most outstanding jobs of civilian defense organization." He said Landis indicated the fed eral government planned to send a consultant to Michigan to study how the state had coped with the farm harvest problem. Furlong said defense leaders and school officials had One Trip Daily Apt to Be Rule Soon in Besidence Areas; Losing Men Continued losses of carriers to the armed forces have forced the post office here to curtail mail delivery on residential routes in some parts of the city to a single trip daily. Postal officials said Wednesday that sections now receiving two dailv deliveries may expect curtailment of this service in the future as more men are called to service.

It was pointed out that in recent months the local department has lost six regular and two substitute carriers to the armed forces, in addition to the retirement of two other regular carriers. None of these men, officials said, has been replaced. It was announced also that the daily delivery in residential districts Monday will be set ahead to around 9 a. an hour laUr than usual, because of prolonged darkness during the early morning hours. This later delivery schedule is expected to continue through January.

CAN'T WITHDRAW PLEA DUE TO STIFF SENTENCE The supreme court had held Wednesday that respondents may not change their minds and withdraw a plea of guilty after sentence has been passed, merely because the sentence is more severe than they had expected. In two unanimous opinions it upheld refusal of Judge Ray Hart in the Midland county circuit court to allow Mrs. Virginia Vasquez and Lloyd Severn of Midland to withdraw their pleas of guilty of issuing forged checks. Mrs. Vasquez is under sentence of to 14 years, Severn 4 to 14 years in prison.

They had admitted she wrote the checks and he cashed them, but sought after sentence was imposed to withdraw the pleas on charges the sheriff had "fraudulently" induced them to piead guilty. MAIL Hitler Orders All Member ci Race in Europe to Ee Killed This Year WASHINGTON. Nov. 25 of a campaign to all Jews in Nazi-occupied Eurcpe irr the end of the year are to be laud before a committee of ladic Jewish organizations today New York. The story reportedly corJtrxed by the state department ar.d a per- CAtia nf TT Roosevelt-deals with how mora than 2.000.000 Jews alreair csve been slaughtered in accordance a race extinction order bv AdoS Hitler.

Before leaving for New York to address the committee this afternoon. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairn-ja of the World Jewish cor.sress and president of the American Jcwtsn congress, said he carried official documentary proof that "Hitler has ordered the extermination cf 11 Jews in Nazi-ruled Europe in iMZ." After a consultation with state cr-partment officials, he a r.r. our.cI they had termed authentic certa-a sources which revealed that approximately half of the esUmaied 4.00C.-000 Jews in Nazl-occupted Eurooe already had been killed and taat Hitler was wrathful at "fatiure to complete the extermination tane-diately." To speed the slaughter of th other half during the reiEaunin month before the edict's See Pl'RGE Pace Estimate Lansing to Need 13 To 15 More Men on Forc Under New Law Constitutionality of a new stita law granting municipal firemen 24 hours off duty in every 16 days, ra addition to their regular 24-tour relief period every other cay.

was upheld by the state supreme cours in an opinion handed dewr Wednesday. The suit, brought by the Grcse Pointe Park firemen, now makes mandatory for ail municipal fire departments to hire extra men to make up for the shortage restilttr? from the extra days off "given eacn man under the law. In Lansing it is predicted bv members of the board of police and commissioners that from 10 to 15 extra firemen must be emploved because of the court's ruling. This w'JI mean an added burden to local taxpayers of some $27,750 if 15 new firemen are hired. At the end of Xjzrre years, when these men become full paid firemen, their total salaries would jump to $33,750.

Virtually all municipalities to Michigan have protested the passed by the last legislature. The municipalities declared that the law was an infringement on home re and therefore should be held unconstitutional. Initial O. K. Given For CAP State Aid Defense committee of the stata administrative board approved a request of the Michigan wing of the civil air patrol Tuesday for $26011 for personnel and supplies.

Approval of the full administrative beard is reqired to release the money froia the state war fund. The committee refused the demand of Governor Van Wagoner, presented in person, that it say "yes or no" immediately to his proposal that $2,400 be released from the fund to the united service organizations to provide negro entertainers for negro soldiers stationed at Sault Ste. Marie. Th committee asked the governor to obtain a more recent request iron the USO than the one on wiuca he has sought action sine be received it in July. DECISION TO II OF FIREMEN county.

Lavan; rm member of the Democratic state Martin Lavan ana a xormer Brighton city attorney, and Levin son were sentenced a year ago by Judge Charles H. Hayden of Ingham county circuit court to serve l'u to 5 years in prison. Their arrest, growing out of a grand jury investigation of state affairs, resulted from charges that xaJames Little. Dub- 7-3tiac News, was to been paid for circu- Oakland county max list but that 4RLavan and Lev- incfin rnnvprferi of the sum their own uses. JlllLittle was an as- ociate of Levin son and Charles Reed, publisher the Rochester Hyman Levinson clarion, in the venture.

Lavan had charge of the advertising distribution. The court said unanimously that the $2,600 in question never was the property of Little and that therefore Lavan and Levinson could not be 'guilty of fraudulently converting it from him. During a hearing on the appeal, the justices implied that if Little felt he had been defrauded he should pursue civil action against iReed and the two defendants. Liquor Discount Due Clubs, High Court Decrees The Detroit Athletic club won its raw Wprtnpsrinv hpfnre the state supreme court to compel the state iliauor control commission to grant private clubs the same 15 percent discount on liquor supplies that is allowed public establishments. The club was given a writ of mandamus to enforce the edict by a to two decision of the court.

Justice Emerson Boyles wrote the controlling opinion and Justices George Bushnell and Bert D. Chandler dissented. The controlling opinion contended that a club is an "establishment licensed to sell for consumption on the premises" just as much as a Class drinking place. The liquor commission, defying an opinion of the attorney general, had contended the legislature intended to discount onlv for commercial establishments. The dissenting opinion criticized jthe verdict on the ground that it permitted a "select group of individuals to purchase their liquor at ja discount price which the public cannot share." TEXAS FUGITIVE NABBED NEAR LOUISIANA BORDER AUSTIN.

Nov. 25 (JP) State police were informed today that Beaumont officers had captured Claude (Cowboy) Henry, convicted slayer whose wife faces execution in Louisiana Saturday, in a rooming house. Henry escaped from a Texas prison farm Monday. Beaumont is near the Louisiana-Texas line and less than 50 miles from Lake Charles, where his wife. Anne Beatrice (Toni Jo) Henry awaits electrocution for the slaying of a Houston, salesman.

yiti.J. S3 I mmiiwihiim fl iots too rr.uch like the bin that hit Th people. Sumners told a house arerstate commerce subcommittee, re demonstrating voluntarily that ther can conserve rubber. He sug-Kested that they be permitted to on that basis rather than emptying gasoline rationing as a basis for conserving rubber. Despite the protests by Sumners an others.

Rubber Administrator M. Je'ters declared the program stands and will begin as scheduled on December 1. Representative Johnson (D) of Ot-ahoma said he would continue lu for a 90-day stay and Representative Anderson D) of New Mexico said he and a group of other congressmen would try to new tnat nationwide rationing is unnecessary. (tee RATIONING Page 8 FACT-FINDER GROUP RECESSES TO DEC 2 Eeih- Committee Finds State Agencies Slow to Submit Budget Data The "fact-finding" committee of officials which Governor-elect Harry F. Kelly appointed to hold ouzget hearings calied a week's recess Tuesday night to permit departmental heads to submit their requests in ftill.

After two cays of hearings, members said state agencies had been iow to submit their data to C. J. JirNeiii. acting budget director. Hearings will resume December 2 at 2 p.

ci. iicNeili said he planned to have a "complete financial picture" ready far the committee next week to allow the committee to accomplish its work faster. Pearl Harbor Day To Honor Mothers Anniversary of Japan's stab-in-tn-aack attack on Pearl Harbor will observed in Michigan December as a time in which to pay tribute tc tr.e mothers of men and women ir. the armed forces. Governor Van Wagoner proclaimed the cay as Blue Star Mothers Day.

keeping with President Rocsevf it's request that this date be ooserved as a day for prayer and si.enee" and to honor "mothers uncse sacrifices and prayers are a constant aUy supporting our men and women on the fighting fronts." mm mm I I 1 Welfare Board Supports Kelso's Recommendations The state social welfare commis sion set out Wednesday on a sub stantial administrative reorganization, leaning heavily on recommendations made by Dr. Robert W. Kel so of the University of Michigan and rejecting many proposals made by the state civil service department. The social welfare commission Tuesday balanced reorganization recommendations made by Kelso and an "economy" program proposed by the civil service experts and looked with favor on Kelso's report for the most part. Its action prompted speculation of a renewed legislative fight over in tegration of the now-separate welfare and social security bureaus of the welfare agency, a divorcement fostered by rural supervisor forces and fought by social workers.

Favors Integration The commission recommended to the legislature it permit integration of the two divisions under one exec utive and cautiously suggested to the counties they might save oper ating funds if they did likewise. Commissioner Carlton H. Runci-.