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the Receives daily the complete ports of The Associated Press, United Press and The News Service. State Journal THE STATE EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1942 12 Pages-108 Columns PRICE -FIVE CENTS First Extra Gas Notices Being Mailedin County Mailing of notices to 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 applicatins, 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 COURT UPSETS FRAUD VERDICT Lavan, Levinson Convictions Set Aside by Opinion of Supreme Court The state supreme day reversed the tin J. Lavan, to George T. Gundry when he was auditor general, and Hyman Levinson, Farmington weekly newspaper publisher on charges fraud in connection with the 1938 state tax sale advertising in Oakland county. Lavan, former member of the Democratic state central committee and A former Brighton city son were sentenced Judge Charles H.

ham county circuit to 5 years in Their arrest, jury affairs, resulted news reThe International court Wednesconviction of Marformer legal advisor Martin Lavan attorney, a Hayden prison. growing investigation from lisher tiac have $7,600 lating Oakland tax Lavan inson $2,600 to their Little sociate son S. of the Hyman Levinson Clarion, Hyman Levinson venture. Lavan had advertising distribution. The court said the $2,600 in question property of Little and Lavan and Levinson guilty of fraudulently from him.

During a appeal, the justices Little felt he had been should pursue civil Reed and the two and Levinyear ago by of Ingcourt to serve out of a of state charges that Little, pubof the PonNews, was to been paid for circupart of the county's list but that and Levconverted of the sum own uses. was an asof Levinand Charles Reed, publisher Rochester in charge of the unanimously that never was the that therefore could not be converting it hearing on the implied that if defrauded he action against defendants. Liquor Discount Due Clubs, High Court Decrees The Detroit Athletic club won its case Wednesday before supreme court to compel the state liauor control commission to grant private clubs the same 15 percent discount on liquor supplies that is allowed public establishments. The club was given me writ of mandamus to enforce the edict by a sir to two decision court. Justice Emerson Boyles, wrote the controlling opinion and Justices George Bushnell and Bert D.

dier 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 legislature general, intended had contended discount to only for commercial establishments. The dissenting pinion criticized the verdict on the ground that it permitted a "select group of individuals to purchase their liquor at a discount price which the public cannot share." TEXAS FUGITIVE NABBED NEAR LOUISIANA BORDER AUSTIN, Nov. 25 (AP)-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 LouisianaTexas 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. JOURNAL Where Soviet Jaws Close on Nazis RUSSIA SERAFIMOVITCH Don R. Chi, KLETSKAYA KACHALINO CHERNYSHEVSKAYA STALINGRAD Volga R.

GANEROVA TSIMLYANSK3 AKSAI Don R. AP ROSTOV I To Caucasus 50 STATUTE MILES UTILITY STRIKE DATE TO BE SET Negotiations Between Union And Consumers Power Company Break Down JACKSON, Nov. 25 (AP) The Michigan State Joint Utility Workers 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 meethas 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 cannot 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 fully realizes that unless company, management is willing to grant an increase in wages that will bring 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 by the fact that the employes are quitting in droves each day, yet company completely disregards the fact 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, quoted in statement as saying that the company never has negogiated a contract in good faith, and now has See UTILITY-Page 8 ANTHEM COMPOSER DIES DUBLIN, Nov. 25 S. Kearney, 58, the Dublin house painter whose "Soldier's Song" became the Irish free state national anthem, died yesterday.

HITLER SHIFTS AIR POWER TO AFRICAN WAR Scale of Plane Attacks Shows Axis Girding for LastDitch 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 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 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, ing 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 confirmation. The sinking of four Allied merchantmen, including a "transatlantic ship of 20,000 tons" and a destroyer by Italian planes and submarines 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 destroyed a merchantman, set fire to another transport and damaged two destroyers in Algiers.

The Germans' heavy use of air transport was underscored by 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 flying northward, presumably after having disembarked enemy reinforcements.

In the same waters, British fighters were said also to have shot down Ju-52 transport plane and to have damaged a Dornier 24. Only the Dornier 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 Hold 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, also. Davenport allegedly committed his offense August 15 and Jensen August 4 and August 11. Both are free under bonds of $2,000 each, pending trial.

Welfare Board Supports Kelso's Recon Recommendations The state social welfare commission set out Wednesday on a substantial administrative reorganization, leaning heavily on recommendations made by Dr. Robert W. Kelso 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 integration 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 executive and cautiously suggested to the counties they might save operating funds if they did likewise. Commissioner Carlton H. Runci- The Weather (U. S. Occasional sibly Thursday (See Weather Bureau.

East Lansing) light rain tonight poschanging to snow, and colder forenoon. Weather Data, Page 5) HOUSE BOARD URGES DELAY IN RATIONING Six Months' Postponement Recommended by Special Congress Committee JEFFERS IS ADAMANT WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (P) A special house committee recommended today a six months' postponement of gasoline rationing in all or at least part of the presently unrationed area "to see what complete voluntary tire saving will accomplish." The 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 (AP) Traveling salesmen, except in the east, may be given more gasoline under rationing than the 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 gasoline sufficient to do 65 percent of last year's traveling. country does not suffer a sudden and drastic collapse through premature and forced gasoline Representative Anderson (D) of New Mexico, chairman of a subcommittee of a 15-man committee created at 8 bi-partisan anti-rationing caucus of house members last week, made public the recommendations at a house interstate commerce committee hearing." Representative Sumners (D) of Texas, protesting against nationwide gasoline rationing, said today that "this idea of having somebody from Washington telling an individuai how to go about his own business looks too much like the bug that bit Hither." The people, Summers told a house interstate commerce subcommittee. are demonstrating voluntarily that they can conserve rubber. He sugzested that they be permitted to continue on that basis rather than emploring gasoline rationing as a basis for conserving rubber. Despite the protests by Sumners and others, Rubber Administrator William M.

Jeffers declared the ratoning program stands and will begin 2.5 scheduled on December 1. Representative Johnson (D) of Oklahoma said he would continue his fight for a 90-day stay and Representative Anderson (D) of New Mexico said he and a group of other oll-state congressmen would try to show that nationwide rationing is completely unnecessary. See RATIONING -Page 8 FACT-FINDER GROUP RECESSES TO DEC. 2. Kelly Committee Finds State Agencies Slow to Submit Budget Data The "fact-finding" committee of state officials which Governor-elect Harry F.

Kelly appointed to hold budget hearings called a week's recess Tuesday night to permit departmental heads to submit their requests in full. After two days of hearings, members said state agencies had been slow to submit their data to C. J. McNeill. acting budget director.

Hearings will resume December 2 at 2 p. In. McNeill said he planned to have "complete financial picture" ready for committee next week to allow the committee to accomplish its work faster. Pearl Harbor Day To Honor Mothers Anniversary of Japan's stab-in- the -back attack on Pearl Harbor will be observed in Michigan December as a time in which to pay tribute to the mothers of men and women in the armed forces. Governor Van Wagoner proclaimed the day as Blue Star Mothers Day, "in keeping with President Roosevelt's request that this date be observed as a day for prayer and silence" and to honor "mothers whose sacrifices and prayers are a constant ally supporting our men and women on fighting fronts." LEAS I EVERYBODY EVERY PAYDAY, SO Enemy Losses Near 100,000 In Red Drive 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 De Witt Hoadley, chairman of the county gas rationing processing board, announced 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 used for newal certification." Mr. Hoadley also 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 of ration books. mittees will ease the burden of ration board workers in passing on such applications.

It was also his opinion that plantapproved requests for extra gas probably could be immediately accepted by the ration board and noti- See EXTRA GAS -Page 8 MANY TO GIVE THANKS ON JOB 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 assembly 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 will be celebrated in homes throughout the city. But for a majority 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.

Full 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 release approximately half of the plant force but the entire office force will completelisher Body will be closed Protestant denominations for the most part will celebrate their annual Thanksgiving rites at union, services scheduled to be held See -Page 8 WHIPPING CREAM BANNED BY WPB Federal Order Designed to Help Relieve Critical Butter Shortage WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UP)The war production board today issued an order to prohibit dairy producers from distributing whipping cream or other heavy cream to household consumers, retailers, restaurants, hotels, and other institutions. Coffee cream or ordinary table cream is order not affected.

recommended by the foods requirements committee to conserve fluid milk for consumer use 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. OPA ASKS RESTAURANTS TO KEEP FOOD RECORDS DETROIT. Nov.

25 (AP)-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 6 m. 43:11 a.

m. $38 41 00 m. 431 1 p. m. m.

43 12 noon 9 a. m. 2 p. m. 49 10 a.

m. 40 Journal temperatures. U. S. weather bureau temperatures.

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) losses in dead and 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 rolling back a Nazi wedge to the Volga, clearing another avenue for supply and reinforcement of the garrison which already is lashing out from its defensive positions and beating back the Nazis street-by-street. Northwest of the city the Russian offensive penetrated 80 miles into the depth of German defenses within the great Don Bend, and to the southwest the Russians had stabbed 65 miles 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 Chernyshevskaya on the Chir river, 75 miles 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. State's Defense Council To Offer Record to Kelly 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 Although the council appointed by Governor Van Wagoner still has another meeting before the Republican governor takes office, it received from Lieut. Col Harold A.

Furlong, state defense administrator, Tuesday to prepare a comprehensive transcript of its oneyear history. Created by an act of the 1941 legislature, 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 subdetailed accounts of their accomplishments to the governor before January 1. "The report must De complete of enough the need for continuing the deto convince the legislature fense council and justify its expanding budget" Furlong asserted at a luncheon which also was addressed by Governor Van Wagoner. The retiring, executive "complete expressed co-operation" gratitude of the council which he described as "one of the best civilian defense 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 defense, described Michigan and Pennsylvania as the two states which had done "the most outstanding jobs of civilian defense organization." He said Landis indicated the federal 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 MAIL DELIVERIES BEING CURTAILED One Trip Daily Apt to Be Rule Soon in Residence 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 daily 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 later 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. managed to channel volunteer workers to labor-starved farmers in sufficient numbers to "clean up all but the final stages of the sugar beet harvest." Kelly's election campaign featured charges that the present administration placed defense on a partisan basis, in some instances naming Democrat-nominatcoudefense councils in Republican The council was informed by Don C.

Weeks. director of the civilian war service division, that 90 percent of 166 local defense councils contacted had responded to a request for immediate organization of neighborhood 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 defense. The council's salvage committee reported that 82 of Michigan's 83 counties qualified for salvage nant awards offered by the war production board's conservation division to counties collecting 100 pounds of scrap per capita between September 1 and October 31.

Michigan's total for the two-months' period estimated at 135 pounds per capita. The committee said local salvage groups were intensifying efforts 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 recreation centers have been established in most communities. but that greater stress was needed programs of social activities and on physical conditioning.

Raymond H. Foley, state housing administrator, informed the council Michigan's war housing has been "clarified" somewhat by program renewal of priority applications for duction building by the war promaterials board, but that the problem remains critical in the near-Detroit and Muskegon areas. He said 24,000 privately-constructed units may be completed in the Detroit- Ypsilanti area by July 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, Saginaw and Flint, 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 three sides and steadily closing in. Australian troops found 100 Japanese 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, dispatches said.

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 Sanchu, 72 miles south of Canton, and the Tienho airfield at Canton. into the invaders' 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 remained open to an estimated 300,000 Germans and their Allies for moving supplies, or escaping. The fall of Kalach, on the Stalingrad-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 Stalingrad-Novorossisk railroad southwest of Stalingrad swung part of its forces northwestward and captured Kalach, which lies about 50 miles due west of Stalingrad, and then swerved west to take Surovikhino, another 35-40 west. (Earlier Russian communiques reported penetration to Chernyshevskaya, 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 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 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 Dorothy Dix Editorials Health Talks 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 NEW NAZI PURGE AIMED AT JEWS Hitler Orders All Members of Race in Europe to Be Killed This Year WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 of a campaign to exterminate all Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe by the end of the year are to be laid before a committee of leading Jewish organizations today in New York. The story reportedly confirmed by the state department and a personal representative of President Roosevelt-deals with how more than 2,000.000 Jews already nave been slaughtered in accordance with a race extinction order by Adolf Hitler. Before leaving for New York to address the committee this after- noon.

Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman of the World Jewish congress and president of the American Jewish congress, said he carried official documentary proof that "Hitler has ordered the extermination of all Jews in Nazi Europe in After a consultation with state department officials, he announced they had termed authentic certain sources which revealed that approximately half of the estimated 4.000- 000 Jews in Nazi Europe already had been killed and that Hitler was wrathful at "failure complete the extermination immediately." To speed the slaughter of the other half during the remaining month before the edict's deadline, See PURGE -Page 8 DECISION TO FORCE HIRING OF FIREMEN Estimate Lansing to Need 10 To 15 More Men on Force Under New Law Constitutionality of a new state law granting municipal firemen 24 hours off duty in every 16 days. in addition to their regular 24-bour relief period every other day. was upheld by the state supreme court in an opinion handed down Wednesday.

The suit, brought by the Grosse Pointe Park firemen, now makes it mandatory for all municipal fire departments to hire extra men to make up for the shortage resulting from the extra days off given each man under the law. In Lansing it is predicted by members of the board of police and fire commissioners that from 10 to 15 extra firemen be employed because of the court's ruling. This will mean an added burden to local taxpayers of some $27.750 if 15 new firemen are hired. At the end of three years, when these men become full paid firemen. their total salaries would jump to $33.750.

Virtually all municipalities in Michigan have protested the act passed by the last legislature. The municipalities declared that the law was an infringement on home rule and therefore should be held unconstitutional. man of Lowell, generally considered the spokesman for rural interests on the commission, alone voted against integration. 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 commission and withdrawn on the See WELFARE-Page 8 Initial O. K.

Given For CAP State Aid Defense committee of the state administrative board approved a request of the Michigan wing of the civil air patrol Tuesday for $26.011 for personnel and supplies, Approval of the full administrative board is reqired to release the money from 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 tertainers for negro soldiers stationed at Sault Ste. Marie. The committee asked the governor to obtain more recent request from the USO than the one on which he has sought action since he received it in July..