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THE STATE eJOTBNAL The Weather Weathei Bureau Last Lanslrtft-Y Warmer tonight and Friday forenoon; possibly light showers. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1943 30 Pages 270 Columns PRICE FIVE CENTS The State Journal Receives daily the complete oeitl reports of The Associated Press, The VmUed Press and The International Srrs Service. LAKE LANSING COUNTER 7 he Sational To Bomb City Tuesday with Bond Appeals U. S. Bombers Of Tokyo Are Put to Death Luren D.

Dickinson Dies Quietly at Home, Ending Unique Career Bible Guided Dickinson's Life Flying Gunner From Portland Blood Clot Results in Ex-Governor's Death After Heart Attack zip pis'- ilfgg KtfiiMiiiiiilriiMii Ti innriMi in in i'Ii imf DICKINSON Latest Jap Barbarity Electrifies Nation; Termed a Crime ALLIED AIRMEN VOW REVENGE WASHINGTON. Aoril 22 tr) i new and burning challenge for revenge rode with America's air fighters in the Pacific today. They were called on by their chief. Gen. Henry H.

Arnold, to destroy the Japanese warlords who "have executed several of your brave comrades" in violation of what Arnold termed "every rule of military procedure and every concept of human decency." President Roosevelt's announcement late yesterday that some of the American flyers who helped bomb military targets in Japan last year had been put to death electrified and shocked the capital. Gets Quirk Results Mingled with Mr. Roosevelt's as-! sertion that these "diabolical crimes" would make America more determined than ever to "blot out the shameless militarism of Japan' were such comments as these Chairman Sabath of Illinois of the house rules committee: "Contemptible, damnable, outrageous. I hope when the time comes we will show no Speaker Raybumt "Gruesome. Representative Manasco of Alabama: "We won't take manj prisoners after that." Mme.

Chiang Kai-Shek: "This lat est flagrant violation of internation al and humane laws should steel the determination of the United Nations to bring immediately to task the en emy who knows no law but brute force." An American note to Japan, transmitted through Swiss diplomatic channels and made public at the White House yesterday, said the United States eventually will bring thofe responsible for the executions to justice. It also warned that any other violations of the Geneva convention regarding treatment of prisoners ol war "as military operations now In progress draw to their inexorable and inevitable conclusion" would bring punishment to those repsonsibie. The executions bv no means repre sented Japan's first disregard of military procedure. The war was less than a month old when the war department in its communique No. 35 on December 30.

1941. told of damage done to "undefended Manila by the repeated senseless and savage bombing by Japanese aircraft after it had been declared an open city." Included In that communique, which charged the enemy with deliberately selecting "churches and other centers of Christian worship and culture" as special targets, was this radiogram from Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur: "Enemy mercilessly bombed the open city of Manila using 63 bomber. Damage has been severe and includes all types of civilian installations, such ns churches, the cathedral, hospitals, convents, business and private dwellings. It is notable that before Manila was declared an open city and before our anti aircraft defense evacuated therefrom he had abstained from attempted bombing of anything in Manila except military Installations.

His present actions can only be deemed completely violative of all the civilized processes of interna tional law. At the proper time I bespeak due retaliatory measures Japan did not say how many American flyers it had put to death but informed this government through Swiss channels that it had See EXECUTION Page 6 Shoots a Zero By MI RLI.V SPENCER SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA April 21 tDelayed OP) American reconnaissance pilots met with increased Japanese aerial activity in the northeastern sector of General Douglas MacArthur's command tO' day. and a Flying Fortress fought off two enemy fighters until one was shot down in flames. Both those Fortress pilots who spanned the Bismarck sea for a look at the Japanese in Kavieng. New Ireland, as well as various points on New Britain and those who made the thousand-mile round trip to Wewak in northern New Guinea reported today patrols active tnrougnout the area.

Capt. Seth Terry of Denver said "We saw plenty of Japs in the air between Madang and Wewak." Lieut. Henry W. Evans of Chilo-quin. ran into six fighters a hundred miles north of Rabaul.

New Britain. Only two attacked. Evans reported, and his snapshooting turret-gunner. Tech. Sgt.

Scottv Hall of Portland, Mich- blasted one that came in from above. The Fortress crew watched it disappear flaming into tne clouds below. Heavy Civilian Casualties Suffered in Aberdeen, London Reports LONDON. April 22 (P. German bombers attacked a Scottish town, identified by the Berlin radio as Aberdeen, last night and it was feared that heavy civilian casualties were suffered there, authoritative sources said today.

The Berlin broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, gave few ofher details concerning the raid, which the British said was one of the heaviest yet directed against the town. Several families were reported still buried under debris of smashed tenements. In a suburban housing development several liomes were wrecked and many others badly damaged, but most of the residents had reached shelters before the bombs were dropped. One bomb fell on the corner of a hospital, killing a nurse and a patient and injuring several others. Another bomb crashed into a shelter in which there were a number of men and killed all but two of them.

Twenty others were trapped under a four-story tenement, which was one of three hit on a single street. Bombs dropped near other Scottish towns, but mast of them fell on open ground. Ventura bombers late vesterdav followed up Tuesday night's attacks on Stettin. Rostock and Berlin by bombing the railway vards at Abbe ville, France. One German fighter was destroyed and three Venturas and two British fighters were reported missing.

A Moscow broadcast, recorded by See BOMBING Page 6 Perfectly Legal SANTA FE. N. M. HP) A former New Mexico resident, now living in Virginia, sent State Income Tax Di rector Earle Kerr $5 although he owed nothing. "After living else where, the man explained, "I think it Is worth at least $5 to call New Mexico my home Puzzled at first.

Kerr quickly decided a dummy tax return could be fixed up so tne state can keep the $5. RFRMSNS RAID SCOTTISH TOWN HELD IN HIT-RUNJEATH A. P. Midbo, Arrested Near Scene of Monday Accident, 'Can't Remember' FIND CLOTHING SHREDS '(Pictures on Page Arthur P. Midbo, 38, of Luke Lansing was being held Thursday by state police for investigation in the brutal hit-and-run killing of a 16 vear-old Okenios boy last Monday morning on highway US-16 east of that village.

The suspect was arrested about 2 o'clock Thursday morning on highway US-16 in the vicinity of the spot where the fatal accident occurred. Officers said that Midbo was intoxicated when they arrested him. Although Midbo declared he could not remember an accident and de nied having had anything to do with the hit-and-run killing. Sgt. Leon Hopkins said his car answered the description of the death car and that the right front fender was crumped and shreds of clothing were found on it.

Testing Clothing Samples Tests of the clothing specimens were being made Thursday by Dr. Lemoyne Snyder, state police medi co-legal advisor, to determine if it corresponded with that worn by the victim. Official investigation of the hit- and-run killing revealed that the victim, Arthur D. Miller, was walking east on the highway near the in tersection of Cornell road when struck by a speeding automobile. The impact was so great that the boy's body was thrown 305 feet east and to the right of the road where it dropped on the dirt shoulder.

Ser geant Hopkins said the car must have been traveling at a righ rate of speed because when the bov was hit it tore the soles from his shoes and ripped off a pair of leather gloves which he was wearing. The boy was wearing a helmet type headgear with chin strap. Hopkins said the chin-strap was snapped like a piece of tissue paper. Hopkins said Prosecutor Victor C. Anderson would be asked for a warrant for Midbo, charging him witfi negligent homicide in connection with the fatal accident.

Kelly Vetoes Minimum Pay For Firemen Governor Kelly Thursday vetoed a bill which sought to establish by state law minimum legal salaries which municipalities might pay members of their fire departments, one of the controversial issues which beset the legislature. "It seems to me that this bill contravenes the very principle of home rule and it takes away from city governments the right to fix salaries, or at least minimum salaries, regardless of the finanial condition of the city," Kelly's veto message said. He asserted that to approve the bill would be to establish a precedent for state fixing of all municipal salaries which "would in effect nullify the home rule act luseit. "Each city government," he said, "would be deprived of its own judgment as to the amount of taxes to be raised and could not with any degree of certainty adapt, its budget until it receives the mandate of the legislature." "It can hardly be denied that lo cal governing bodies have a better knowledge of their financial con ditions and responsibilities than the legislature," he added. The bill would have established minimum wage scales for firemen in cities of more than 7.500 population.

DUE 10 BE CLOSED Costly City Experiment, Seen Duplicating County Aid, To End October 1 Another costly and non-essential division of city government will be discarded by the city council here next October 1. when it closes the children's home, effecting an an nual saving to the taxpayers of ap proximately $20,000. Built in 1928 at a cost to the city of $81,000. the home since that time has incurred a net cost to the city of $172,545.44. Tills figure represents the total exxpense of operation amounting to $21.494 33, less rrcrlpt.s See HOME Page 6 Where to Look Bedtime Stories 12 Believe It or Not 26 Comics 26 Crossword Puzzle 26 Daily Patterns 12 Dorothy Dix .12 Editorials 10 Food 19-20-21-22-23 Health Talks 10 Looking Over Lansing 5 Markets 27 New York Dav by Day 10 Radio 27 Serial Story 26 Society 14-15 Sports 25 Theater 24 Vital Statistics 27 Weather 1 MAN ATTACKS Ft TO JARALLIES British Repulse Tank and Infantry Charge; take Prisoners ENEMY VESSELS SUNK By WILLIAM B.

KING ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 22 P) British infantrymen, tanks and artillery have beaten back three major thrusts by Axis ground troops seeking to ease the pressure upon their Tunisian defense lines, inflicting losses which included destruction of 27 tanks and capture of 500 Germans in the Medjez-El-Bab sector alone, it was announced today. Fresh British gains on the southern front were declared firmly held. Between 60 and 80 tanks and at least five battalions of German infantry perhaps 3.000 men) stnick by moonlight Tuesday night at the positions of Lieut. Gen. K.

A. N. Anderson's First army in the mountainous area of Medjez-El-Bab, itself 35 miles southwest of Tunis. Get Warm Welcome The assault forces, described here as some of the best of Marshal Er-win Rommel's men in Africa, were met by heavy fire. They suffered consideramle casualties and the survivors were withdrawing at dawn, a communique said.

Among the 27 wrecked tanks they left behind were two of the 60-ton Mark VI Tigers. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery Eighth army massed artillery bat teries to beat off two counterattacks against its new lines anchored In the region of Takrouna, five miles northwest of Enfidaville, and in the area of the Djebel Garci, 10 miles inland from the coast with a heavy loss to the Axis. "Our positions were generally im proved and all gains firmly held," the communique said.

General Montgomery men. who face 10 miles of extremely difficult hill country in their latest push to ward Tunis, have already driven through three miles which had once bristled with Nazi defenses. Observers said the Axis forces were striking with all possible strength in an effort to slow their progress, regardless of the cast in troops and materiel. The German command included units of the Hermann Goering Jae ger regiment and the Goering Gren adiers in the attack on the First army and they struck on an eight-mile front. Tank forces which had previously seen action in the battles of Fondouk, Kasserine pass and Maknassy were thrown into the Iray.

Twenty-seven cf these tanks were See TUNISIA Page 6 KILLED IN ACTION Death of Pvt. Ray J. Lehman, Previously Reported Missing, Revealed Here Relatives here have been notified that Pvt. Ray J. Lehman, former basketball couch at St.

Mary's Ca thedral high, ho was reported missing February 2. was killed in action in the north Atlantic. His mother, Mrs. 'Catherine Lehman, 712 North MS' Sycamore street. JLW had been notified previously by the war department that her son had been missing since the period of February 2 "in the North Amer ican area." Private Lehman's death was con- Kfirmed by the fol lowing tci egram msl: rerpiveri lhmannere.

"The secre tary of war desires me to express hjs deep regret that it now has been officially determined that your son. Pvt. Raymond J. Lehman, who was previously reported missing in action on February 2. 1943.

lost his life as a result of enemy action in the north Atlantic on February 3, 1943. Letter follows." Was State Employe Lehman, who was 36 years old. was prominently identified with Lansing interscholastic athletics for several years as coach at St. Mary's. He resigned from the position of coach following the season.

His teams hud won signal honors over a period of several years and he was regarded as one of the most successful high school coaches in the state. For three years previous to being inducted into the army last August 30, Lehman had been employed by the parole board of the state corrections commission. He had been stationed at Camp Myles Standish in Massachusetts and had written letters to relatives and friends from there. He had Indicated in a recent letter that his unit was about to move but did not know the destination. Survivors, in addition to the mother, are: two sisters, Mrs.

W. O. McManus of Lansing and Mrs. Herbert Coopes of Detroit, and four brothers, Larry and Ervin of Lansing. Dr.

C. F. Lehman of Houghton Lake, and Otto Lehman of Sauk City, Wis. Kl TOLD EX COACH 9 4 Private Observer The Neivs Behind The Day's News T-HT Girauc-DeGauIie row far more than a dispute beweii two Temperamental per-sor-sities. although understand-k3 have been made to fc? it on that level.

As indicated tv Glands recent proposal lor a colonial council, it is a clash in-To'vz-g postoellum settlements and associations supremely vital to millions of people scattered tram Casablanca to Teheran. is cenerally regarded as iif country's favorite in the con-nv-cV Wf contacted him in oc--pi' France after his escape. TTE-isponeG him to Morocco, sup-a-d imanced him. and --uip his troops. He stands as -DeUious and romantic sym-hf'ajramst pre-war established -es." De Gaulle is Britain's ridiia-e in the contest.

He has hi headqtr--ers in London and oeen officially recognized by Secret that Anglo-French h-remony to the dark continent ur'" the Levant, has not been popular. The nations of the nttd-cT-ast in particular dislike evident plan to tie to Russia at the peace con-as thev are suspicious ot kcow designs aU that area. -hei dissident groups prefer "mTican influence should "STaorknant this sphere. Their of Giraud is only mci-cer-taTto their long-range amm-Z--T-know that we have rtL-'in-erest in -this region ri. -eve that we shall get out aToones we have achieved our 4 aims Thev do not have feline about the Eng--Tri The French, whose han-cl "mandates and protecto--S.

in this part of the worid after Versailles has not left too js.v memory. Demands -THOTGH couched in highly Ar3 lir.zuace. recent ag- bunetins show evidence r. s-jch stEpies as wheat and pork "-o! more killings and allur--n- hoc marketing is show- a' trend. From Oc- to March of this year was a deficiency of five inspected pigs f-r the butcher.

Ac-j to Washington officials. 1 sre sending smaller ship- -I-- 0 packing houses because sre waiting for larger re-. the ral famine comes, isjriinE for their own use: iliir.E local centers, or 4 j-g 0 their wares on the market. Li-Uhood that meat may jrjjTi more scarce during c-tng and rammer." says a document, "apparently causing mar.y farmers to more than the usual r-imaer ar-imais in order that i-- families may be assured of a- adecuaTe supply. It is normally rcimmon for farmers in certain factions to supply relatives and Z-tr-V in town with meat during tne i2 "arid winter, and slaughter Jar such purposes seems to have awe Total wheat stocks for July 1.

Ii2. Including carry-over and -jsr-tive crops, are estimated at one four hundred and fifty bushels, or one hundred arc sixtv-three million bushels irss last vear. But the amount nr-a-d for feed, alcohol, larger domestic demands and cargoes amad be the create st in his- n-r s-retary Wickard has of--x sprf-nl ir.crntives for more planting. Bj: we may still have to Import the mtkmgs of "ham and from Cahaci and the Argentine. Opportunity E.

DEWEY is the key G. -er anchor man in presidential tug of war. Wh: he Insists privately that he jnf out his term as gover-rnr ersdir.tr in 1945. party Insiders r-jimti'si he is likely to to a craft view of certain circumstances which now appear to develop. in talkins off the record, here is hew the smarter boys analyze the as cf a vear hence.

Wen-del Wulki-e is "held to be an svrwed and aggressive contender, and ncbodv minimizes his threat irt Icrirer. 3ut the -regulars" and co not want him. F-rer; if he does make the nomina-t-n crade. thev think he will be a se-ur frr F. R.

The man they can muster -reseni to hold him off seems to be John W. Bricker. Ohio's triree-terr-: chief executive, who hi? rs kmd cf support that might Wendell in a two-man 3u: the middle westerner this strategy "and it will for him to escape it. preliminary set-to will er.gen-vr such personal and factional c.verT.rss tr.at both Bricker and transplanted Hixisirr may be c.i.'.irrd ur.avai.ab -oulJ came Mr. Dewey 'a a compromise olfrr-m; F-rw believe that he would ce-c-ine he won the convention -rute tir.Cfr these conditions, es-pecially if were to become a He utijcan rear.

At the moment, portico? relieve that it wilL Success IkfEKICAN ingenuity Is solving cr.e cf the worst problems our es face Africa Uncle Sam is now shipping i trains" on vessels docking at am ports of the dark continent. Lse rt- off the transports load-wrth food and weapons, and placed immediately on tracks -h. iuckiiv fcr us. were buiit on A tee OBSERVER Page 1 KEVKO MARGARINE rich with Lansing will be bombed next Tuesday but, unlike the stab in the back the Japs unleashed at Pearl Harbor December 7. 1941.

the bombing here will be a peaceful one bv fnendlv aircraft. It was announced Thursday by Claud Erickson. chairman of the Lansing war savings committee, that a four-motor bomber of the United States army air corps will fly low over Lansing at approximately 1:10 p. m. next Tuesday.

Children and adults alike will not be forced to run frantically for bomb shelters, however at least not this time because the bomber crew will drop only friendly messages rather than destructive explosives from the ship. Ten thousand leaflets giving In formation on the money Ingham county has raised toward the goal set to sponsor a destroyer in the United States navy will be dropped bv the giant aircraft. "Air raid sirens will be silent this time," Mr. Erickson said, "and they may always remain silent if the people buy bonds in sufficient vol ume. It's better to buy bonds now than to run from bombs later," he commented.

The bomber will come here from Owosso and after about five minutes over the city will depart for Jackson. The schedule includes visits to 14 Michigan cities in three hours, giving the people a slight idea of how fast enemy aircraft could travel if they reached American shores. The bomber and crew that will circle Lansing next Tuesday, In the near future will be flown to one of the fighting fronts where command ers are pleading for more planes as well as the other materials made possible by purchases of war savings bonds and stamps. Two Victims Thrown Clear Of Wreckage as Ship Falls and Burns EVANSVILLE. April 22 (TV-An army airplane crashed while making a landing at the Evansville municipal airport shortly before last midnight and 12 men were killed.

Major F. C. Dickson, army repre sentative at the field, reported. Major Dickson issued this formal statement: "An army airplane crashed at the Evansville airport at 11:26 p. m.

(central war time) Wednesday and 12 men were reported killed. The! names are withheld pending notifi cation of their next of kin. State police and local officers sent to the field said the plane burned after the crash. Major Dickinson would not say from which field the plane came. Employes at the field said the plans approached from the south and lights were turned on to facilitate Its landing.

They said that as It neared the control tower at a low altitude the pilot apparenUy decided to make another circle of the field before landing but the ship stalled and fell, rolling over and over as it hit the ground. Flames flared up Immediately. A fire truck whs called from a nearby industrial plant but by the time it arrived the plane was nearly consumed. Two men were thrown clear of the ship but. both were killed.

Papers on one identified him us the pilot. Bulletin WASHINGTON, April 22 (JPh-The house roted today for an Easter recess until May 3, and Speaker Rayburn (I)) of Texas announced the body would have a final showdown on that date on pay-as-you-go taxation, with another vote on a modified Ituml plan to skip an income tax year. Members promptly began leaving for their home distrirts to spend the Easter season. Senate concurrence in the recess resolution was required and, according to house leaders, would be forthcoming. INHALATOR'S USE FAILS TO REVIVE LOCAL MAN Jess C.

Johnson, 50, of 201 North Homer street, died of a heart attack at the residence shortly after 2 o'clock Thursday morning. Efforts of a fire department inhalator squad to revive him failed. Mr. Johnson had resided in Lansing for the past 27 years and was a salesman for Charles Gutzki. local real estate dealer.

He was born in Homer. 111.. August 29. 1892 and was a veteran of World War No. 1.

He hnd been In ill health for several yea rs. Surviving are the widow. Mrs. Clara Johnson, his father, U. G.

Johnson of Sidney, 111., a brother. Fay Johnson of Chicago, and a sister. Mrs. Robilla Bonnell of Urbana, 111. Funeral serices will be held at the Gorsline-Runciman funeral home Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock.

Burial will be in Mt. Hope cemetery. Lehman, King Confer LONDON, April 22 (Pi Herbert H. Lehman. United States director of foreign relief and rehabilitation, talked today with King Peter of Yugoslavia and continued his conferences with United States Ambassador John G.

Winant and with Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. British director general of the ministry of economic warfare. Lehman expects to leave for the United States in a few days. Men's work shoe saie. Davis.

Adv. PLANE CRASH KILLS TWELVE NEVER KNEW END WAS NEAR Luren D. Dickinson. 84-year-old crusader against liquor and the first man to reacH the governorship of Michigan by the death of a predecessor. died during the noon hoar Thursday at his farm home near Charlotte.

Death came quietly, slightly man than 24 hours after Dickinson cad suffered a severe heart attack at his Center Eaton home wnere ca had been in virtual retirement sinew he was defeated in his guberr.atonal reelection contest by Murray D. Vaa Wagoner, former governor. The life of the veteran of Michigan politics ended at 12:30 o'clock. Examined Hoar Before Dr. H.

Allen Moyer. state ceaH commissioner and Dickinson's personal physician and friend, had examined Dickiiison ies than one hour before and had declared he was "sinking" but that "he clings tenaciously to life." The doctor had returned to his own hcre only a few minutes before he was called back to the Dickinson residence and pronounced the farmer chief executive dead. Dickinson suffered the heart attack while recuperating from strained back suffered shortly before his 84th birthday last Thurs-dav. An old friend. Mrs.

Bemice Curtis, a neighbor of the Dickinsons far many years, Mrs. Mane Sr.cw. ft nurse, and Miss Delia Patterson, child of an adopted daughter cf Dickinson whom he often caed h-Jt niece and sometimes "my granddaughter." were with him as the former governor quietly ceased to breathe. Doctor Mover said the ared nan apparently was unaware of hew seriously ill he was in his dying moments. Mover said a blood clot in an ar tery leading to the heart had caused death.

Kelly in Tribute Governor Kelly, informed cf the death of Dickinson, issued the following statement: "I have known Luren D. Dickin son for many years and admired ha fine purpose in life, his hign ices-s. his unswerving integrity and co operation. "During the last four years, hew-ever. I have had an unusual opportunity to become closely acquainted with him in the administration cf state affairs.

My respect and affec tion for him during this period gre- day by day. He has been an inspiration to me and to all others who have had the privilege cf comma in close contact with him. "Michigan has lost one of its most illustrious sons, a son who watched this great state grow from a sparsely-settled section to a leading, if not the leading, state of the nation. "Luren D. Dickinson made a great contribution to the welfare of th state and its people during the fourscore and four years of his life." Dickinson, while eolorlrss In appearance, was a colorful character In the political scene a showman and a fighter, too who employed unorthodex language and tactics to attain his goals.

He waged an unrelenting personal See DICKINSON Page DIESElMTlRE HALTED BRIEFLY Over 100 Men Idle Yew Hours at Hill Factory; Boti Sides Deny 'Strike' More than 100 men were isCe Thursday morning at the Eili-Dsel Engine comany here as the result of a dispute over wages and prod-jc-tion. Work was resumed 11:30 a. m. Fred Heidrich, secretary-treasurer of the company, agreed with union, spokesmen that "this is not a sJts or a walk-out." He said it was a minor dispute and involved the war labor board. He said Ralph B.

Rogers of New York, president of the company, would be herer.ext Monday to meet with representatives of Local 649 of the U. A. O. The second shift workers Thursday morning met at the union hail instead of going to their jobs and Don Falor. sub-regional director ci the U.

A. I. O. told them to report for work and that difficulties would be worked out. Mr.

Heidrich said a formal state-menf could not be made until Mr. Rogers arrives next Monday. I'nion Official in Statement Donald R. Falor. sub-regional director, of the U.

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weatber areas temperasarea, LUREN D. Former Governor Dickinson, who died Thursday, is shown here reading the Bible in a picture typical of the simple and religious life he led. He had followed a custom of OF A CAS Britain Vows Retaliation if Nazis Use Poison Chemicals Against Reds LONDON, April 22 (P) Asserting it had received reports that "Hitler is making preparations for using poison gas against the Russian front." the British government vowed today that any use of gas by either Germany or her satellites would bring immediate reprisals in kind against military objectives "throughout the whole expanse of Germany." The governments's statement was issued by Prime Minister Churchill from 10 Downing street and newspapermen were called into an extraordinary session early this morning at the ministry of information to hear it. The British Broadcasting company also quickly beamed shortwave broadcasts to Germany, directly informing the German people what they could expect if their leader orders the use of gas. The broadcasts emphasized the United Nations' air superiority and quoted the prime See POISON GAS Page 6 Don't Be Alarmed By Sirens Friday Air raid sirens throughout Ingham county will screech forth a warning for five minutes Friday morning, but it will be only a test.

The sirens will let go promptly at 11 a. m. and civilian defense officials will make a check to determine if the siren equipment is in good working order. The test is a routine operation conducted from time to time to see that all air raid precaution services in the county are in working order. R.

C. Huston, commander of the Citizens' Defense corps, suggested Thursday that wherever practical, factories try out their sirens also during the test period. BERLIN 11 conducting a daily religious service at his home and taught a Sunday school class at the Center Eaton church near his farm. Governor Signs $50,000,000 Measure, Also Liberalized Compensation Bills Governor Kelly Thursday signed into law the $50,000,000 state school aid bill, the most generous in Michigan's history, and bills which lib eralize the workmen's compensation act, make permanent the 1942 liberalization of the unemployment compensation law, establish a state employes' retirement fund, and declare several thousand additional persons eligible to receive old age assistance. The school aid appropriation is $5,500,000 greater than the present allocation and contains a provision that local contributions to support of the schools may not be reduced without lass of state aid.

By agreement, the increase is ear-marked to provide salary raises for school employes. The workmen's compensation act is the first general revision of that law since its enactment in 1912. It requires all employers of eight or more persons, save the employes of farm labor, domestic servants or casual workers, to come under the terms of the measure, and increases benefits for temporary or permanent total disability and in cases of death of insured employes, grants more liberal compensation to dependents. For the first time, the lntter provision Is scaled to the number of dependents of the victim. For temporary total disability, the See SCHOOL AID Page 6 STATE PAYS $218,262 IN U.

S. 'VICTORY TAX' A check for $218,262.25 is on the way to the internal revenue bureau to pay the first three months' victory-tax on earnings of state employes. Vernon J. Brown, auditor general, reported Wednesday. Brown said the state pays the tax quarterly.

theater Thursday noon, called Him "a marvelous example of holy obedience, even to death." The catastrophe of the present war comes ns a terrible judgment against nations, who for the mast part have forgotten about God." said the speaker at Thursday's program, recalling the Last Supper before the Crucifixion. There is no satisfactory substitute for obedience. Doctor Coors said, adding that such a policy would "tax Christians to the end of time to follow the pattern of the Master. "Jesus." he declared, "toughened up the ethical standards for holy living." Community Protestant services Friday are slated both in the Michi- See GOOD FRIDAY Page 6 APPROVAL Japs Promise to Repeat Execution of U. S.

Airmen Lansing Preparing Again To Mark Tragedy of Cross City-Wide Good Friday Observance Being Arranged; Many Churches Plan Special Tre Ore Rites; Stores Close at 1 P. M. (By the I'nited Press) The Tokyo radio said today that President Roosevelt's protest against the execution of American airmen who raided Japan last year cannot be taken seriously and hinted that similar punishment will be meted out to any flyers captured in future raids on that country. One broadcast said that Mr. Roosevelt's accusation was motivated solely by a desire to ward off a "storm of protest" against his policy of censoring all unfavorable news.

"Observers here point out that the office of war information has been criticized severely for withholding information from the American public," the announcer said. He defended Japan as "perfectly justified in severely punishing American flyers found guilty of carrying out wanton attacks on innocent civilians, hospitals and schools." Another Tokyo broadcast said: "Make sure every flyer that comes here has a special pass to hell, and rest assured it's strictly a one-way ticket." "American authorities are as ever loudly clamoring for air raids on Japan as the only way to defeat Japan." the broadcast said. "The American authorities seem to have a one-sided illusion that only American planes can carry out long-range bombing. That is really a nice thought only if it were a fact. "But remember, two can play at the game.

You know, you raid us, we raid you. It's all part of the war, Christian worshippers throughout the city Thursday prepared to mark Christendom's most tragic hour, symbolized by the sorrowful Tre Ore period Good Friday when services, both community-wide and denominational, will mourn the crucifixion Practically all business throughout the community will come to a halt Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock and stores and offices, including city departments, will close during the Tre Ore period. State offices will close at noon for the remainder of the day. giving employes a prolonged week-end. Pointing out how Christ should "fill our horizon as we proceed through this Holy Week." Dr D.

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