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5 a a a a a a I State Journal daily the complete ports of The Associated Press. United Press and The News Service. THE STATE NINETY-SECOND YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1946 32 Pages-288 Columns PRICE- -FIVE CENTS Off to Jail JUDGE ROWAN! George L. Mueller (center), president of the Power Workers union, is shown being led from a courtroom in Pittsburgh, by Sheriff Walter (left), after Ohio Youth Confesses Monaghan being sentenced to a vear in jail for contempt of court in calling a power workers strike while an injunction was in effect forbidding the walkout. (AP Wirephoto.) Spurn Plea By Hemans Lobbyist Denied Writ to Prevent Return; Appeal To Be Attempted WASHINGTON, Sept.

26 (AP)Charles F. Hemans' plea for a writ of habeas corpus to prevent his return to Michigan as a witness in a legislative corruption case was denied today by United States Judge Alexander Holtzoff. Judge Holtzoff refused to continue Hemans' $5.000 bond but ordered that he not be removed to Michigan before 4 p. m. (E.

S. T. so that he will have time to appeal to the court of appeals. While Hemans was locked up by the United States marshal after the court hearing. Judge Holtzoff agreed permit him to make $7,500 bail for his appearance in the eastern district federal court in Michigan on Monday.

Doubts Ruling Appealable Assistant United States District Attorney Edward Molenof told a reported he felt sure Hemans would be unable to post the new bond. Molenof first asked that it be set at $15.000. Michael Kearney, the federal marshal here. said Hemans could not be released on the new bond unless a removal warrant signed by another federal judge last week is vacated first. Judge Holtzoff.

in dismissing the habeas corpus petition. said he did not believe his ruling was appealable. O. R. McGuire.

Hemans' at- See HEMANS-Page 8 Murder Hearing Reset for Oct. 17 Clayton Smith Examination Again Is Postponed Examination of Clayton Smith. 25-year-old former rookie patrolman of the Lansing police department, charged with first degree murder of his wife here August 22. has been definitely set for hearing in municipal court October 17. it was announced Thursday.

Prosecutor Victor C. Anderson said that his appearance in circuit court to try criminal cases this week and next would make it impossible for him to hold the examination before October 17. Benjamin F. Watson, attorney for Smith, is representing one of the defendants in the bank conspiracy case, scheduled to resume October 9, and would be unable to represent the former patrolman until the following week. Smith was arrested by police detectives here following an investigation into the shooting of his wife, Roxanne.

22, who. Smith had asserted, was fatally wounded by jr. their 21-month-old son, Clayton, Lengthy questioning, according to police, brought a confession from Smith that he had fired the fatal short. He was taken scene the shooting at 215 East North street. where officers said he reenacted how he shot his wife.

Smith claimed he accidentally fired the gun. detectives said. JOURNAL The Weather news reThe International Court Blocks Detroit Gift In Tax 'Grab' DETROIT, Sept. 26 (P)-A $17.000 contribution from the city of Detroit to help advertise the state sales tax rebate proposal I was blocked at least temporarily today by circuit court. Circuit Judge Lila M.

Neuenfelt issued a temporary restraining order yesterday against issuance of the $17,000 check. Her action came as City Treasurer Albert E. Cobo stalled in signing the check pending a ruling on the legality of the contributionne restraining order was sought by Duane L. Mosier, who as a taxpayer contended the appropriation would not "directly benefit" city. City attorneys claim the proposed appropriation, part of a $30.000 state-wide goal.

is legal on the grounds that Detroit stands to gain $20.000.000 in sales. tax refunds if the proposal is approved in the November election. Ex- WAC Arrested Charged with Slaying Navy Veteran with a Bayonet In Reno Hotel RENO, Sept. 26 (P)-A 30- year-old former WAC was held in the Washoe county Jail todav, with slaying William H. Appleton, 24-year-old navy veteran.

Both formerly lived Clifton, N. J. District Attorney Harold O. Taber filed a murder complaint against the woman-Mrs. Mary Drew-late yesterday and.

after her arraignment before Justice of the Peace Harry Dunseath. her preliminary hearing was set October 1. Mrs. Drew was arrested at a Reno hotel early yesterday after Appleton, employed here as a truck driver. staggered from a room in a hotal.

collapsed and died in a hallway. Police Detective Gene Cowan said Appleton had been stabbed with a bayonet he had brought home from the Pacific as a war souvenir. Cowan added he found Mrs. Drew fully clothed but in bed in the hotel room. The said bayonet was found in a closet.

He blood from it had been wiped on the bedspread. A clerk at the hotel said the couple had been registered there since July 10. He told the district attorney there was evidence the two had been drinking and that they had quarreled when they returned to the hotel late Tuesday night. In Paterson. N.

Elmer Drew. husband of Mrs. Drew. told newspapermen he would come to her aid here if she wanted him to do so. "She's still my wife." Drew.

a former navy Seabee and veteran of See ARREST -Page 8 Hospital Report Is Due Next Week Mediation Panel to Mull Statements on Dispute Recommendations by Governor Kelly's special mediation commission on methods of settling the dispute between Edward W. Sparrow hospital and Amalgamated Local Union No. 93. U. A.

I. will be handed the chief executive some time next week, it developed Thursday. This was the expectation of Walter J. Patterson. state labor mediation board conciliator and chairman of the special arbitration panel, after the commission's first meeting Wednesday evening at the labor meSouth Walnut street.

diation board headquarters, 226 Mr. Patterson said the commission completely reviewed the dispute from the first point of organization of the union to the present situation, which is critical in view of the fact that a second walkout of maintenance and housekeeping forces has been threatened by the union unless it is recog- See HOSPITAL--Page 8 Mercury's Dive Checked: Frost Prophecy Misfires Frost predicted for this area Wednesday night failed to materialize, the mercury dropping to only 47 degrees instead of the 38- degree temperature forecast. The temperature had climbed to 75 degrees by 2 o'clock Thursday afterroon and the weather seer predicted a low of 45 for tonight and a high of 70 for Friday Wednesday's highest temperature was 62 degrees. The highest for this date is 86 in 1920 and the low is 29 in 1926. Where to Look Bedtime Stories 13 Believe It or Not 26 Comics 26 Crossword Puzzle 26 Dorothy Dix 13 Editorials 8 Food 19-20-21-22-23 Health Talks 8 Markets 28 New York Day Ly Day 8 Radio 23 Society 14-15 Sports 24-25 Theater 27 Vital Statistics 28 Weather 1 Hourly Temperatures 6 47 11 a.

m. 5112 noon m. 53 D. m. a.

60 2 p. m. 68 U. Weather Bureau temperatures. (U Partly afternoon tonight Weather Bureau East Lansing) cloudy and warmer this becoming fair and cooler and Friday.

Amendment Would Balk Tax Repeal Attorney General Rules No Future Change Could Be Made in Sales Levy By JACK I. GREEN (Associated Press Writer) Gov. Harry F. Kelly disclosed Thursday an opinion of Foss O. Eldred, attorney general, that the socalled one-third sales tax diversion amendment would freeze the sales tax in the constitution and prevent future legislatures from changing that tax.

Kelly's statement was letter addressed to John Reid. secretary of the Michigan Federation of Labor, who had written the governor the subject, declaring "we are particularly concerned with the possible effect it might have on circumscribing our future efforts to bring about repeal or reduction of this inequitable tax at the earliest mo-! the fiscal position of our state would permit such a step." Kelly replied after consultation with Eldred that: 1-The sales tax amendment "definitely" would "anchor the sales taxes into the state constitution." Couldn't Abolish Tax' 2-It would prevent any future legislature from abolishing the sales tax while the diversion amendment was part of the constitution. 3-It would allow the legislature to remove the sales from "some necessity of life (food for example) only if it found some other sources of taxes which would equal that from the sales tax." any event. the sales tax on food" could not be reduced diversion below one cent" because, of the ammendment, wrote The amendment will be voted on at the November general election. The legal opinion expressed by Eldred, in which Kelly said he concurred, is exactly opposite from that given to sponsors of the sales tax amendment by municipal attorneys in Grand Rapids and Detroit.

They held that adoption of the diversion amendment would not freeze the sales tax in the constitution. May Bring Labor Opposition The issue had strong political connotations, because labor groups have indicated they would fight the diversion amendment if they thought it would cement the sales tax constitutionally. Organized labor traditionally has been opposed to the sales tax and has resisted any attempt to put it beyond legislative repeal. Kelley's letter to Reid was the governor's second attack feasibility of the diversion amendment. Previously.

he gave newsmen an analysis which asserted that actually because of the existing large rebates, it would divert one-half to three-quarters of the sales tax revenues to local governments, instead of one-third as its backers have contended. The National Observer The News Behind The Days News 'THERE is a little group of serious thinkers in and out of government who look with quiet satisfaction on the fact that it's becoming increasingly difficult to conduct business in large cities and that freight and other transport rates are showing an irresistible tendency to go up. The recent New York city truck strike caused an estimated loss of $400.000.000 to business in that city. These serious thinkers believe that this jolt may be worth $400.000.000 to the country itself. They have an eye on the atomic bomb.

Decentralization of the chief defenses against the atomic bomb, they ONE feel. is decentralization of industry. While American industry is fairly well spread out, compared with some European countries, a dozen atomic bombs accurately placed could render the United States almost powerless to wage war. Decentralization is even a defense against old-fashioned blockbuster. as the Germans showed Germany spent billions in funds and billions in man hours to disperse and put underground their arsenals.

Germany might have been knocked out earlier had she not done so. When the first edition of Stars and Stripes was planned for Germany. the warrior journalists picked out the tiny town of Pfungsted for printing operations because it had been untouched by Allied bombs. After they had been there some time, these warriorjournalists, searching through the town brewery for goodness knows what, discovered a secret entrance See OBSERVER Page 11 Fire Destroys Farm; Owner Found Wounded BENTON HARBOR, Sept. 26 (A- Harry Molter.

Millburg farmer, was taken from his home to Mercy hospital early today after fire destroyed the Molter home, barns, outbuildings and livestock. Molter was found between his barn and woods with a bullet wound in his head and a shoulder injury. He was, Sheriff's conscious officers but said unable to Molter talk. was estranged from his wife and under injunction not to molest her. Officers said, Mr: Molter infomred Molter had threatened to burn their home and kill himself.

Army Wants One-Fourth Of All Meat Serves Priority Papers on All Packers Operating Under U. S. Inspection WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (P)-The army slapped a claim today on a fourth of all meat turned out by federally-inspected slaughterers as the pre-election storm over bare butcher counters mounted in intensitv. With the administration already split over the issue of keeping price lids on the rapidly vanishing commodity, top Democratic party chiefs assembled here for a huddle that appeared certain to take note of the whole situation.

The White House today turned aside questions about suspending price controls on meat an issue that has split administration supporters and set hungry clamor throughout the nation. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross told reporters he was "not at liberty" to discuss the proposal of Leader McCormack Houser Massachusetts that controls on meat and other scarce foods be lifted for 60 davs. Reporters were to see the President himself at his 4 p. m.

(EST) weekly news conference. The congressional elections are just 40 days off. But the army showed no disposition to await possible action by any other branch of the government. Reporting that its "visible supply of meat is less than a month's requirement." the army last night served priority papers on all packers operating under federal inspection ordering them to set aside 25 percent of their total output for the armed services. the war shipping administration and veterans hospitals.

Goal Is Set While reminding that "punitive action" awaits those who violate the set-aside orders. the army announcement left unanswered whether its goal of 60.000.000 pounds of meat a month be achieved. "Meat slaughter descending to could, the vanishing point," it declared. The political storm broke in earnest yesterday after House Democratic Leader McCormack of Massachusetts demanded in a telegram to Price Chief Paul Porter that OPAL suspend control over meat and other scarce food products so "our hospitals and our citizens" can have enough to eat. Republican National Chairman.

Carroll Reece, branding McCormack's action as "cheap politics. noted in a statement that the 60- day period proposed would carry the suspension just past the November 5 elections. Declaring the Massachusetts Democrat is trying "to kid the voters," Reece added that if the administration "had listened to Republican advice during the last session of congress such chincanery as Mr. McCormack now proposes would be unnecessary." Reece called the control system McCormack was a prime battler for the administration during the long house fight over extending, and then reviving. OPA.

Since then administration emphasis has been on the necessity of keeping controls over food and other scarce items. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson. who in a radio speech from Albuquerque Tuesday night said he considered present price ceilings high enough to give farmers a fair return on their meat. promised in a statement last night that he will act promptly on any formal, he petition added.

to "if remove one of controls. the requirements for decontrol is a showing that the commodity is not in short supply, such a finding might be difficult to justify, as the present outcry for more meat would indicate." How It Works Under the price control law. only OPA advisory committees may petition for decontrol-a step now be- See ARMY -Page 8 M.S. C. Foresees 12.000 Students Registration Nears 5,500 Short of Half-Way Mark Registration through.

Thursday noon indicated Michigan State college enrollment might go beyond the 12,000 mark, exceeding by 1,500 students the previously anticipated figure. Robert S. Linton. registrar. reported through Thursday noon that 5.494 students.

including 3.225 veterans, had registered for classes. which start Monday morning, and "We are not even half way through the Registration started Wednesday morning and by the end of the day 3.588 students. whose names began with the letter through Z. had been signed. Those enrolling Thursday were in the block with last names running from through P.

Although signing of students will unofficially end Saturday noon, late registrations will be accepted all next week. Man Stabbed to Death At Inkster in Fight INKSTER, Sept. 26 (P)--A man identified by police as Fred Fornera was stabbed to death during a street fight shortly before midnight here last night. Police said several men have been taken into custody. Reason for the fight has not been determined, they said.

Court Rescinds Order Against Strikers in Pittsburgh Walkout Gazelle Boys Now Total Five In Middle East By CARTER L. DAVIDSON JERUSALEM, Sept. 26 (AP) Gazelle boys they eat grass, run 50 miles an hour and speak only the language of their foster parents are enlivening this year's silly season in the middle east. First reported in Trans-Jordan six weeks ago, the gazelle boys now number five. Each story is a little better than the last previous one.

The original report that three hunters seeking the gazelle an antelope with large. friendly eyes had found a 14-year-old boy living with a herd. They gave chase in a car going 50 miles an hour, captured the boy and took him to a hospital where he would eat nothing but grass and mumbled inarticulately. The story was told in Palestine and Trans-Jordan and found its way into print. Later it was learned the boy was the son of a Bedouin family living in the neighborhood and was mentally deficient.

He is now in a hospital. He doesn't eat grass. The other gazelle boys subsequently turned up Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. One, the wags say, is being trained by oil companies to do a 50-mile-an-hour pipeline patrol. Another, according to the latest story, is being taught English by professors at the American university at Beyrout so they can learn what the gazelles talk about besides love.

Ship Firms Are Probed Committee Turns Attention from Kaiser to Profits of Other Companies By WILLIAM F. ABROGAST WASHINGTON. Sept. 26 (AP) The house merchant marine mittee turned its attention Henry J. Kaiser today to the war profits of other merchant shipbuilders.

Among the firms awaiting scrutiny is the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Corporation of Florida which, the maritime commission reported to the committee. ran a $600 capital investment into estimated profits of $2,080.000. But the commission's figures, assailed by and other witnesses as "misleading" and ridiculous." fast were becoming the committee criticism. As a resuit Chairman Bland (D) of Virginia announced that the current phase of the hearings will conclude tomorrow with testimony from commission officials.

No further sessions are See -Page 8 Engineer Burned At Chaard Plant Lloyd Chubb. 42. Repairing Vat. Sprayed by Oil Lloyd Chubb. 42-year-old chief engineer at the Chaard Laboratories, 317 East North street.

was painfully burned Wednesday afternoon by boiling oil while repairing a Vat in the plant. Mr. Chubb was working on a tank of the hot vegetable oil used in the cooking of dehydrated potatoes, when a gasket blew out, spraying his arms legs with the scalding grease. He was removed to Edward W. Sparrow hospital condition was reported as "improved" Thursday.

The victim is the inventor of much machinery used at the Chaard plant, which processes french fried potatoes sold under the trade name The Chubb residence is located at 1712 Boston boulevard. Grocers to Meet on Meat Possible action designed to relieve the current meat shortage will be considered by directors of the Michigan Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers association meeting Monday afternoon at the Hotel Olds. RUNAWAYS DECLINE New Vocational School Program Getting Results By LLOYD J. MOLES (Journal Staff Writer) Ralph N. Garner, superintendent of the Boys Vocational school, said Thursday that a marked decrease in runaways by youthful inmates of the institution has been noted during the past four months.

A new record of 20 consecutive days without an escape from the school was set in July, Garner said. Since June 1. 52 youths have walked away from the institution, and 18 of these boys are still at large, he said. The superintendent explained that the school counts as runaways only those boys who leave the grounds. This statement was made to clear a report that the state police had received notice of 97 escapes.

Injunction Is Dissolved on Petition of City Authorities; Power Tie-Up Continues; All Street Car Service Suspended PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26 (AP) At the request of city officials, Allegheny county common pleas court today dissolved a stern anti-strike injunction--a principal bone of contention in Pittsburgh's paralyzing power strike. In its action, the court also dropped contempt charges against 10 union leaders who had defied the injunction. City Solicitor Anne X. Alpern petitioned the three-judge court to dissolve the preliminary injunction- -which immediately was granted on behalf of the court by Judge Walter P.

Smart, who had issued the restraining order against striking Murder of Librarian BRYAN. Sept. 26 (P) Sheriff Norman A. Barnes said he would file a murder charge today against a Bryan youth who confessed "an urge kill" led him choke and stab to death Emily Abernathy, city librarian. in the library basement here last Thursday night.

Barnes reported that the youth. James Robert Engle. 21, a former Bryan high school student and son of an auto supply store manager. signed a confession last that he "just wanted to kill" the attractive blonde librarian to satisfy "an urge to kill" he first got in England as a U. S.

sailor. Miss Abernathy's body was found lying between blood-spattered book shelves, punctured with 23 stab wounds. She was not raped. Engle gave Charles G. Stahl.

Wil- Jury Moves Kept Secret Detroit Witnesses Guarded In Aftermath to Hoffa's Alleged Threat DETROIT. Sept. 26 -Moves Murphy's of Circuit Judge George B. grand jury in the aftermath to James R. (Jimmy) Hoffa's alleged threat to a court witness in the labor conspiracy case were kept secret today.

Left unexplained was a sudden night session of the grand jury to which 14 of the state's witnesses were paraded under police guard the testimony regarding Hoffa after, been heard yesterday. Judge Murphy and Special Prosecutor Lester S. Moll were closeted for hours with the group, who included Herbert R. Crimp and Frederick Willis. subordinate union officials responsible for the testimony.

Judge Murphy convened the grand jury directly after he had recessed until tomorrow the examination of Hoffa 17 other of L. unionists. The police guard escorted the witnesses from court to jury quarters in a nearby building. Testimony that Hoffa had threatened Crimp had been characterized Prosecutor Moll as an "open and palpable attempt to obstruct justice and tamper with witnesses." Crimp. business agent of a local affiliated with the A.

F. of Teamsters joint council. accused Hoffa from the stand of having said him "your dumb Do you want to get killed?" The remark, Crimp said, was made to him during a court recess Tuesday and alluded to his testimony relative to teamsters union issuance of "permits" to merchants seeking to buy meats at packing Crimp said Hoffa, however, later apologized, saying "forget what said." Willis, an earlier witness. said he overheard Hoffa make such a remark to Crimp. Willis, also an official of a union affiliate.

and Crimp are named co-conspirators though not defendants in the grand jury's indictment. Attorneys for the teamsters union, after consulting with Hoffa following the testimony. said there would be no statement in reply from the union chief. Until yesterday's surprise testimony, the examination had dealt entirely with the technicalities of union procedure in last spring's organizing See SECRET Page 8 All boys listed as missing are reported to state police, but many of these. Garner said, are found hiding somewhere on the school grounds and are not recorded as runaways.

Stress on Education "The noticeable decrease in runaways in the past few months can be attributed to the entire supervisory staff of the school." Garner said. He praised the full cooperation being accorded to a new long range program based on education. rather than detention of the youths confined at the school. Garner said the institution has started a balanced physical education program, with a trained staff in charge. He asserted that 90 percent of the restlessness among boys 'in the institution has been caused liams county prosecutor.

a bladed penknife during the confession and identified it as the weapon used. Stahl reported. "I stabbed her 25 times or moreI don't really know how many times." Stahl said the contession stated. Engle said in his statement. Stahl reported, that he went to the library "to look at magazines" and after seeing Miss Abernathy "all alone" went for a walk.

returned and had her take him to the basement to look at newspapers. The lights were out when he followed Miss Abernathy to the base'with the idea of killing this woman." Stahl said the statement related, but "something stopped she came down and told me it was time to go. I grabbed her and she screamed. I put my hand over her mouth and she screamed and screamed. I knocked her down and beat her with my fist and kicked her." After leaving the library.

Engle's statement said. he washed the blood from his hands and clothing at a pump in Garver park. He stopped at a service station on his way back to town. "looked at myself in a mirror there and saw that I looked like a mad dog." the statement related. "I cleaned up some more." Stahl said Engle's statement concluded.

He went to a bowling alley, across from the library on the public square. After a stay at the bowling the youth said he returned home." meeting and talking with Charles R. Ames. a former mayor, on the way. Engle, who has been unemployed since his discharge from the navy last May, first admitted the crime to his mother.

Mrs. Helen Barnes said. Then. with his father, George youth went office of Assistant Prosecutor S. L.

Newcomer dictated the statement to Stahl. His arrest followed immediately after signing the confession. The killing was the first in decades to occur in this rural northwestern Ohio community of about 6.000. Miss Abernathy came to Bryan June 1 Pulaski. where her parents live and where she taught in a county high school.

During the war she was a librarian at the Quantico, marine base. and prior to that had served in the UniI versity of Cincinnati library for two years as a cooperative student from Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn. Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 26 (INS) -A navy blimp sent from San Francisco today in search of the steamer Sea Runner, with 2.100 troops aboard, which has been unreported since September 23.

The Machine Exchange said heavy fog was delaying most incoming ships but delay of the Sea Runner was excessive. Comstock Talks Here Tonight for Democrats A Democratic rally to stimulate interest in the Murray D. Van Wagoner ticket in the November general election will be held at 7 o'clock Thursday evening at the Woman's clubhouse. William A. Comstock, Detroit common councilman and former Democratic governor, will talk and congressional.

state and county candidates will be introduced. Co-sponsored by the Jefferson club and the Eleanor Roosevelt League of Women, the affair followed opens with a dinner at 7 o'clock. by Comstock's talk. by lack of an outlet for their youthful energy. "We are them a balanced program giving, physical education which provides needed recreational activities for these youngsters," the superintendent pointed out.

The old system of lock-step marching formation had been abandoned, and the only time marching formation is used. Garner said. is when the boys go from cottages to the detail hall. Given More Freedom The youths are allowed more freedom in all activities, he said, which gives them a greater feeling of independence, despite the fact they are under firm supervision A vote of confidence has been received by the school from numerous juvenile courts throughout the state, Duquesne Light company employes. Court proceedings required only about five minutes.

In making the surprise motion, the city solicitor commented that the injunction had been ordered "to protect the welfare of the community" -whose industry and transportation nave been stymied by the hectic. three-day-old strike. "No person has suffered physical injury, no lives have been lost," declared Miss Alpern. Last night the Independent Association of Duquesne Light Company Employes voted four to one not to end the strike until the injunction was lifted. A walkout by street car operators started today in this strike-harassed steel capital, already in the grip of a power strike now in its third day.

Other strikers were threatening in apparent sympathy walkout by the power workers union. The strike on the street car system of the Pittsburgh Railways company, main method of public transportation in the city, was called suddenly at 4 a. and left thousands of early morning riders without transportation. The company announced all cars had been withdrawn from service. A company spokesman stoppage was in sympathy said, the power workers, but local leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Workers denied it.

They said the strike sprung from their own disputes with the railways company Both the the the Pittsburgh Railways company and the Duquesne Light company, whose production of electrical energy to an 87 square mile area has keen reduced to 40 percent by the power strike. are subsidiaries of the Philadelphia company. Workers Rally National and city labor leaders were rallying to the support of the power workers in their fight against an anti-strike injunction handed down by the Allegheny common pleas court. Leaders of I. O.

and A. F. of organizations in Pittsburgh with approximately 375,000 members called special protest meetings. Normally the railways company serves about 1,000.000 riders daily with 950 cars. However, since the start of the power strike the number of cars has been reduced to 225 as a measure to conserve electricity.

Meanwhile, the strike of the 3,500 power More workers than hit 2.100 an impasseembers voted better than four to one against considering any company offer to end the three-day old strike until the injunction is lifted. The strike had made more than 36.500 idle 3,500 workers of the struck Duquesne Light company. 8.000 sympathy strikers at the Jones Laughlin Steel corporation and the Westinghouse Electric corporation and over 25,000 others in scattered mills, mines offices and shops. In a dramatic development, Union President George Mueller, who on Tuesday had beer. given a year in jail for contempt of court, came before a three-mar panel of the Allegheny county court, apologized for having called the court's temporary anti-strike injunction "just a scrap of paper," and was given his freedom for a few hours to attend a meeting of the union.

Mueller promised the court he would ask the 3.200 members of the Independent Association of Employes of the Duquesne Light company to accept a new company offer, end their strike and return to work. The new offer. the company said, See STRIKE Page 8 Liquor Revenues Near 40 Millions New Accounting System Speeds Fiscal Report The sale of alcoholic beverages brought state and local governments a total of $39,922,845 in profits, tax revenues, and license fees during the fiscal year ending June 30, the state liquor control commission reported Thursday. In the first report under a new accounting system installed by C. R.

Angell, commission comptroller, the commission said the state's net income from liquor was $25,398.450. In addition the commission collected and paid to local governmental units $2,620,829 as the 85 percent of retailers' license fees intended for enforcement, and $11,894,565 from the new 10 percent state tax on packaged liquor for the benefit of local governments. Liquor sales in the fiscal year were $125,446,484, an increase of $17,194,979, the report said. Only $6,423,456, however, represented an See LIQUOR-Page 8 Secret Nazi. Note Bared Document Discloses Japan Hoped to Make Peace Between Germany, Russia By JOHN M.

HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON Sept. 26 (AP) A German secret document published by the state department disclosed today that Japan was hoping to make peace between Germany and Russia at the very moment in 1943 when Hitler was urging Japan to attack the Soviet Union The document also offered new confirmation for the idea that Germany hoped by conquering all western Russia to link forces with her eastern partner once Japan had accomplished the planned conquest of India. The new document, one of 400 tons of German official papers captured by the American army, is published in the official state department bulletin. German Account It is the German account of a conference between Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, Japanese Ambassador Oshima, and Major General Okamoto in May, 943. at the time when the American and British forces were readying their offensives from North Africa into southern Europe, man The version report of also the reason contained for a the Ger- attack Russia, despite the fact that Germany, union.

had It a said: treaty with the "With the conclusion of the threepower pact with Japan (including also Germany and Italy) Russia had war) had been intended been expressere excluded (from the for her the role of a sort of neutral silent partner in the war against the Anglo-Americans." "Russia," Ribbentrop further told Oshima, "had abandoned this role when she made impossible demands and assumed an aggressive attitude against Germany. So Germany had to take steps against Russia." Ribbentrop alleged to Oshima that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov had demanded a "free hand" for Russia in Romania, Finland and Turkey and had declared a Russian interest also in the Kattegat and Skagerrak. Moreover, he said, "a powerful concentration against the German frontier was well underway" so that Hitler decided it was necessary to go to war with Russia. Wanted Japs to Strike Ribbentrop spent much of the conference trying to persuade the Japanese representatives that the See NOTE-Page 8 Mrs. J.

G. Reutter Taken by Death Ex-Mayor's Wife Formerly Was Child Aid Executive Mrs. Blanche M. Reutter. 62, wife of J.

Gottlieb Reutter, veteran business man and former Lansing mayor, died Wednesday morning at the home, 116 East St. Joseph street. Mrs. Reutter had been a resident of Lansing for 36 years, coming from Eaton Rapids. She was a former teacher in the Moores Park and Genesee street schools and for 11 years was employed as executive secretary of the Michigan Children's Aid society.

Mrs. Reutter was 8 charter member of the Zonta club and had been active in civic endeavors here for many years. In addition to the husband, whom she married in 1930, she is survived by two brothers, Harry and Floyd Bennett: a sister, Mrs. Florence Baker, all of Lansing; a step-son, Lewis G. Reutter and a step-daughter.

Mrs. Olga Steers. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the Estes-Leadley Colonial chapel, with burial in Mt. Hope cemetery. Clare D.

Harrington will read the Christian Science service and pallbearers will be: James and Don Baker and Arthur, Richard, William and Robert Bennett. for its. new program. the superintendent disclosed. A major problem faced by the school here, Garner said.

is that it can keep no check on boys released or placed private homes throughcut the state. The school lacks field probation officers to do this work. As for escapes from the institution. Garner said it would be impossible to them without building prison walls. Despite the opportunities for escape, relatively few boys take advantage of them.

Garner said he had encountered some criticism for not reporting runaways to city police as well as state police, but he had been under the impression that Lansing police received the reports from state police radio. He said that in the future all runaways also would be reported to city police. Woman Hit by Car Mrs. Willis Struble, 45, of 927 North Pine street, suffered minor injuries late Wednesday afternoon when struck by a car at Allegan street and Grand avenue. The machine was operated by Ethel Sigler, 129 East St.

Joseph street. Mrs. Struble was removed to her home Ifor first aid treatment..