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State Journal Receives daily the complete news Associated Press, The United Press and The International News Service. EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR The National Observer The News Behind the Day's News OUR best military men do not share the economists' and diplomats' theories as to the reasons for Hitler's thrust into Russia. Experts who have made a thorough study of Der Fuehrer's campaign supreme believe confidence that it a rather was born than of desperation. They note also that victory would leave him poised for an autumn attack on either Britsin's home isles or her empire in the middle east. Our general staff's analyses show that Hitler never moves without careful calculation of the time materiel and personnel required for his particular objective.

In the present operation he had the advantage of information from German technicians employed by the Soviet to manage its factories, hydro-electric plants and mines. He probably has assembled more dats on Russia's strength and weakness than on those of any other nation he has invaded. He chose exactly the right season for his blitz. The greenness of crops makes it difficult for the Russians to destroy them before the German advance. The hard, flat terrain facilitates those lightning movements so essential to his panzer divisions.

Our observers expect the outcome to be evident within a few weeks. All depends upon the Russians' strategy. they retreat in slow, orderly style, maintining their armies while they wreck bridges, and roads, they may cripple Hitler. In this manner they could prolong the conflict for several months to a time when blizzards and fierce cold would cut Nazi supply and communication lines. But if the Communists stand and fight in orthodox fashion, they may be annihilated as were the Poles, Belgians and French.

Obdurate PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S discrimination forbidding against negroes in defense factories was literally pried out of him by threat of a "march on Washington" by members of that race. The prospect of such a demonstration at this time threw administration into panic. These manipulated every lever in sight to prevent the affair. The director of the threatened march. A.

Philip Randolph, wrote to the President several weeks ago. asking if he would address the group when it reached the capital on July 1. There was no reply for two weeks. Then Mr. Randolph, who heads the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters, received letter from Mrs.

Roosevelt. She said she had discussed the matter with her husband, and that he was sternly opposed to the idea. Last week negro leaders were invited to New York by Mayor La Guardia in his capacity civilian defense dioff rector. refused. the He President summoned begged demonstration them the Roosevelt but to they sub- call sequently sponsors to the White House, and personally asked them to leave the matter to him.

Again, they declined. Mr. La Guardia and Aubrey Williams. NYA director, attended this session. Mrs.

Roosevelt, who was at Campobello off New Brunswick, tried by telephone to persuade them to listen to her and her husband's arguments. Still the negro representatives, supported by the most prominent members of their race, refused to abandon the scheme. Mandate THE climax came dramatically White House conference early this week. The dramatis personae reveal the President's intense desire to avert a spectacle which inevitably would have political. social and economic repercussions.

Besides Mayor La Guardie. Mr. Williams and Social curity Co-ordinator Anna Rosenberg. P. D.

R. called in OPM-ers Knudsen, Knox, Stimson and HillmAn. The President opened the discussion by reiterating his firm opposition to the proposed He declared that problems affecting the negro race cannot be settied in that manner. He asked: would happen if the Irish and Jewish people staged a march on Washington? It would be resented by the American people because such a march would be considered as an effort to coerce the government and make it do certain things." Mr. Randolph replied that the Irish and Jewish people have no grievances, while the negroes do, and added that all other forms of protest have proven ineffective.

When Mr. Roosevelt refused to address the group on the ground that he does not speak to such semblages, he was reminded that he once spoke before the American youth congress which booed him when he denounced the Communists. F. D. R.

soon left the room after turning over chairmanship of the meeting to Secretary Stimson. The practical Mayor LaGuardia then suggested issuance of presidential order against crimination on defense jobs. Both Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Hillman opposed this because SO many other factors are involved in the defense program.

Both agreed, however, to use their "influence" to insure the hiring of negroes. Mr. Randolph and Walter White of the N. A. A.

C. P. replied that and "persuasion" have been tried and failed. Then it was that the President agreed to issue his mandate. Take MILLIONS of Yellowstone Americans and other will national parks this summer, proSee OBSERVER--Page 4 THE STATE JOURNAL LANSING, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, June 28th, 1941-10 Pages REPORT ROUT OF GERMAN Army's Biggest Bomber Takes to Air To the accompaniment of cheers from thousands of spectators and workmen at Santa Monica, who helped construct her, the B- 19, described by the army as the gracefully into the air on its maiden test flight from Clover field there and flew to March field, where it landed 56 minutes later.

In background is the Douglas Aircraft plant where the 50- "world's largest bomber," soared ton sky giant was built. Giant U.S. Bomber Faces Long Series Of Test Flights By DEVON FRANCIS MARCH FIELD, June 28 (AP) Its maiden flight completed, the Douglas B-19. described by the army air corps as the world's biggest bomber, was groomed today for a long series of test hops which probably will determine whether this country will build fleet of super-dreadnaughts of the air. Such a fleet, based on the experimental work which went into the $3,500,000 monster, with a fully loaded weight of 82 tons, is more than a mere possibility.

Responsible military opinion has held ever since the start of the European war that with air power's coming of age, larger, faster. and more heavily armed battleplanes inevitably will follow. For comparison with the big bomber which yesterday was flown from the factory at Santa Monica to March field, a distance of 75 miles. the standard American "heavy" bomber in production today weighs about 22 tons. Big Navy Plane Being Built A navy flying boat, also experimental in nature and expected to have approximately the same weight as the B-19, is under construction at an eastern seaboard factory, and it was disclosed for the first time yesterday that a contract for a bomber of about 50 tons has been signed by the air corps with another aircraft factory.

Where the second monster bomber for the army will be built was not stated. It was an uneasy, keyed-up group of factory and air officials which watched the propellors of the B-19's four Wright engines suddenly begin spinning at power at the far end of the Clover field runway. Engineers had figured what the plane, with its 212-foot wingspread, See BIB BOMBER-1 1 Locks Vulnerable To Hitler Bombers MACKINAC ISLAND, June 28 (INS) -Lieut. Col. Harold A.

Furlong, Michigan defense administrator, today gave a tip on how Detroit could be bombed and the vital Sault Ste. Marie locks destroyed. "If we enter the war." Furlong said, "Hitler can ship bomber parts by submarine to Kudson bay. The planes could be assembled on a remote island and reach the Soo within three hours. It would not take much longer to reach Detroit.

We must prepare at once for any eventuality." Infant Drowns In Milk Cooler (Special to the State Journal) OWOSSO, June 28-Barbara Jean Nickels, 15-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nickels, R. 1, Durand, was drowned about 2 o'clock Friday afternoon when she fell into a milk cooler. Efforts to revive the infant were unsuccessful.

Coroner C. A. Crane of Corunna was called and gave a verdict that the child met death by drowning. The body was removed to the Knapp Smith funeral wosso, to await funeral I ments. The Weather Weather Bureau Fast Partly cloudy and cooler with scattered showers Saturday; Fair Saturday night and Sunday; Cooler Saturday night.

PRICE-THREE CENTS COLUMN REVALUATION BILL SENT TO WHITE HOUSE Senate Passes Measure to Extend Roosevelt's Monetary Powers Two Years OPPOSITION DEFEATED WASHINGTON, June 28 (P)- vote of 40 to 20. the senate passed and sent to the White House today legislation continuing for two years President Roosevelt's power to revalue the dollar and to operate the $2.000.000.000 stabilization fund. The measure was approved after oppositionists failed in an attempt to the revaluation power. The dollar already has been cut to approximately 59 percent of its old gold content, and the approved legislation would permit an additional reduction to 50 percent. The amendment to eliminate the revaluation powers, defeated 40 to 22.

was offered by Senator Adams (D) of Colorado. Before, finally approving the stabilization fund measure. the chamber rejected on a voice vote an amendment by Senator Taft (R) of Ohio which would have terminated on June 30, 1943, the President's authority to issue an additional $3,000,000,000 in paper currency. Administration leaders had contended that the monetary powers, granted originally in 1934, now more necessary than ever because of the world economic situation. The opposition argued that it was "dishonest" to depreciate the currency.

They said devaluation would cause suffering to holders of defense bonds and life insurance policies and would frighten business men engaged in defense production. Earlier senate-house ference committee, broke up in disagreement $935,905,000 relief bill, which must be enacted by Monday midnight unless the Works Progress Administration is to be deprived of funds. CAB HITS WOMAN: DRIVER IS FINED Clifford Stardevant, 22, Admits Reckless Driving After Injuring Pedestrian Clifford Stardevant. 22, of 114 south Hosmer street, was placed on six months' probation and assessed $81 in fine and costs in municipal court before Judge Louis E. Coash Saturday a morning when he pleaded guilty to charge of reckless driving growing out of an injury to a woman pedestrian at East Michigan and Pennsylvania avenues early Friday evenng.

Stardevant, a driver for the Michigan Cab company, allegedly ran down Lela Joseph, 27, of 713 Carey street. as she was attempting to cross North Pennsylvania avenue toward the west. at the Michigan avenue intersection. The woman was taken to Edward W. Sparrow hospital with an injury to the left leg.

Her condition Saturday morning was reported as "good." City police said witnesses informed them that the cab driver was going east on Michigan avenue and attempted to beat a changing light in making a left-hand turn onto Pennsylvania avenue. Clifford Vollmar, Detroit. was also arrested on a reckless driving charge late Friday afternoon by city police. He was released and ordered to report June 5. PEACE DRAFT LONDON, June 28 (P)-A tentative draft of proposal for close Anglo-American cooperation after the war has been drawn up by Sir Rowland Evans, it was learned today.

Steps were reported taken already to form an all-party committee of members of parliament to further the plan for postwar leadership. HEAT HITS NEW HIGH FOR YEAR One Prostration Recorded in City as Mercury Reaches 91; Relief Is Predicted HOURLY TEMPERATURES Journal temperatures. U. S. weather bureau temperatures.

A Lansing man was overcome by the smothering heat which pushed the mercury to a new 1941 high reading of 91 degrees Friday afternoon, but the weather man promised cooler weather for Saturday and Sunday. With the mercury standing at 83 degrees at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, H. M. Wills, meteorologist at the United States weather bureau at East Lansing, said the high for Saturday probably would be around 85 degrees with showers due by night. Cecil Bradley, 42, of 413 North Butler boulevard, was overcome by heat at his home and revived by the inhalator squad of the city fire department.

Along with the prospect of cooler temperatures Sunday, Wills said there would be cloudy weather and scattered showers Saturday. Michigan counted five persons dead in the wake of the blistering wave. Deaths blamed on the heat wave were those of D. W. Hayes, 18, Detroit, who died after a boxing match; Daniel Gladstone, 50, Detroit, who collapsed in a gasoline station and died later: George Kylfin, 38, Detroit, who died in the customs office at the Detroit end of the Detroit- Windsor tunnel while returning from a trip to Canada.

Mrs. Emma J. Pennock, 72, fell dead in a strawberry patch at Hickory Corners, rear Hastings, and Prank James, 24, drowned while wading in the Saginaw river. Because of the heat. a general exodus from metropolitan centers was expected over the week- end.

Lake resorts were anticipating booming business as were the various cruise ships that ply the Great Lakes. EAST INDIES TO HALT JAPAN RUBBER SUPPLY SINGAPORE, June 27 (P)-The Netherlands East Indies will discontinue all sales of rubber to Japan at the end of 1941 and will deliver virtually their entire output to the United States, usually reliable sources said today. Projected Subway Strike Worries N. Y. Commuters (By The Associated Press) Millions of New Yorkers, countless numbers of them directly associated with national defense activities.

wondered today whether they would have trouble getting to and from their jobs next week in view of the projected subway strike. Their mayor, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, has said the city will not recognize as "legitimate" the proposed walkout of some 32.000 transit workers in the city -owned subways. set for July 1. But the C.

I. Transport Workers union went ahead with strike vote. a second group of employes voting to back up demands for higher wages. The union asks a dollar a day more for all workers. Car cleaners now get $24.96 to machinists $41 to trackmen $35.38 to conductors about $36 and motormen from $46 to $53.

the union said. C. I. O. Pres.

Philip Murray 1s supporting the transportation workers. while John H. Delaney, chairman of the city's board of portation. says the contingency has been foreseen and protection will be given men who sant to work. I GEN, GAMELIN ESCAPES FROM FRENCH I PRISON Former Generalissimo of Allies Reported to Have Made His Getaway TWO NABBED AS AIDES VICHY.

Unoccupied France, June 28 (P)-Rumors circulated in the past two days that General Maurice Gustav Gamelin had escaped from his place of confinement were officially denied tonigance NEW YORK, June 28 (AP) The German radio reported in a Vichy dispatch today that General Maurice Gustav Gamelin, former generalissimo of the Allied forces, has escaped from prison in France and that two persons are under arrest on suspicion of having aided his getaway. Gamelin had been under arrest since September 16, 1940, by order of the government of Marshall Petain, and held along with former Premiers Daladier, Reynaud and Blum and others for trial over their responsibility for the French declaration of war and the collapse of France. The German radio said Gamelin escaped at 11 a. m. Friday from the prison at Bourraso and that his flight was announced in Vichy only this morning.

The announcement was quoted as saying that the national security police of France are searching for him and that in their investigation they detained two persons at Clermont-Ferrand. a temporary seat of the French government when it was in flight before the German advance last summer. VOCATIONAL BOYS' ESCAPE IS FOILED Five Youths Caught as They Attempt to Flee Institution; Tried to Take Car Five youthful inmates of the Boys' Vocational school escaped briefly early Friday evening before being rounded up by city police. First reports of the break were received at 6:30 p. when city police were informed that two boys were trying to make away with an automobile at North Pennsylvania avenue and Jerome street.

They were almost immediately apprehended. The other three, walking east on Michigan avenue, were apprehended shortly after. Major Robert E. Marsh, superintendent of the school, declared Saturday morning that the boys had "never been off the grounds" and were "all back by 6:45." MOVIE PRODUCER, ILL, MAY WED IN HOSPITAL HOLLYWOOD, June 28. (P)-Film Producer James Cruze, 57, may be married in a hospital, where he is ill from a heart attack.

His bride-to-be, Alberta Beatrice McCoy, 43, applied for a marriage license yesterday, but not until she had returned to the hospital for Cruze's affidavit. Cruze, who rose to prominence in the early '20's when he directed "The Covered has been married three times. One of his wives was Betty Compson, film star. Reich's Spearhead Reported Smashed In Minsk Vicinity Russia Reports Tanks, Planes, Artillery, Have Stopped Nazi Troops Which Had Cut Deeply Into Polish Zone; Berlin Claims It Will Tell Details of Gains Sunday to bar planes column place side about source (By The Associated Press) The Red army, now standng on the old Russian frontier the road to Minsk and Moscow, reported today its tanks, and artillery in blitzkrieg style had routed a German which had cut deep into the Polish buffer zone. The smashing of this spearhead, the Russians said, took somewhere west of Minsk, which is a scant 20 miles inRussia a proper, about 400 miles southwest of Moscow and 150 miles from the nearest German border.

Axis sources in Istanbul--without support from any other that the Germans, instead of being routed, SCOUT RESCUES TWO FROM PIT BUS. TRUCK CRASH; ONE DEAD, 32 HURT Several Michigan Persons Among Injured Victims In Indiana Accident MICHIGAN CITY, June 28 (P)A collision and fire that destroyed Pennsylvania Greyhound bus and heavy freight truck brought death to the truck driver and injury to 32 persons on the bus late last night. The vehicles collided on threelane highway US-20, five miles west of here. The fatality was John Cytia, driver. 36, of South Bend, the truck The bus, driven by Robert Hurka, 26, of Chicago, was eastbound from Chicago to Detroit.

The truck was taking $10,000 cargo of silk and airplane parts from South Bend to Chicago. State police said the bus pulled into the third lane to pass another automobile and the truck hit it on the side, throwing it into A ditch in flames from a broken gasoline tank. The passengers, unable to get out fast enough through the front and emergency doors, broke through windows. Six had broken bones. The others were cut and bruised and many were burned on the hands.

Several Michigan persons aboard the bus received hospital attention here. Their injuries were not made known directly. The group included Steven Maranik, 56, Paw Paw: Puchtol, 49, Dowagiac; E. H. Nichols, 50, Battle Creek; John H.

Dickey, Pontiac, and Anne Akkanen, 31, Sault Ste. Marie. Service Camp For Objectors To Draft Opens for Michigan opened 'Its first camp conscientious objectors to milltary service Friday, a temporary camp on a farm near Kaleva. Fifteen of a contingent of 16 men were en route to Camp Onekama where they will be assigned peaceful endeavor such as control of soil erosion and reforestation on federally -owned property. The 16th, Johnny A.

Hughes of Mason, missed a bus at Owosso but military authorities said he would reach camp later. A large farmhouse, to serve as a mess hall, and four 16 by 16 foot tents for sleeping quarters constitutes the temporary camp. Lieut. Col. J.

I. Croshaw said the group would be moved in July to Camp Stronach, near Manistee, an abandoned CCC camp with facilities to house 200 men. He said Michigan has registered 101 conscientious objectors to date. Two objectors were delivered to Camp La Gro, Indiana, from MichIgan Thursday, Croshaw said. and nine were en route Friday to Camp Bluffton, Ind.

BODY IS RECOVERED ers Friday recovered the HOUGHTON, June 28 SearchThomas Klein of South Bend. who drowned in Otter lake Thursday night when he walked into deep water. Klein was president of the South Bend teamsters and chauffeurs union. Donald Peterson, 16, to Get Medal for Saving Drowning Girl and Boy Near City A Lansing girl and a Mancelona boy visiting here owed lives, it was revealed Saturday, their, bravery and skill of a 16-year-old Boy Scout who rescued and revived them after they sunk while swimming in a gravel pit north of the city. Sgt.

Harry Snider, head of the school safety patrol system for the local police department, learned details of the rescue late Friday after receiving a belated report of the near -tragic incident which had occurred Thursday afternoon at the Bushnell gravel pit near highway US-27 about four miles north of the city. He said Donald Peterson, of 220 West Randolph street, who performed the rescue, would be awarded a heroism medal given through the safety patrol organization. Young Peterson, Sergeant Snider learned, was sunning himself on the bank of the gravel pit, casually watching the antics of a boy and girl who were disporting themselves in the water near the edge of the pit. The girl was screaming, apparently in fun, as her companion led her farther into the water. They both disappeared beneath the surface, only to come up momentarily and then to to to to to to to go under again.

Alarmed, young Peterson ran to the edge of the pit and dived into the water where the gir's hair was still visible near the surface. He found that both the girl, Dorothy Powers, 13, of 937 East Briggs street. and Arvid Brown, 16, of Mancelona, who has been visiting relatives here, See RESCUE-Page TO HOLD UP PART OF OFFICIALS' PAY Administrative Board Service to Go Uncompensated Awaiting Decision That portion of state elective officials' pay which they receive for serving on the administrative board will not be released Monday, Wendell L. Lund, secretary of the board, said Saturday, pending 8 decision on whether he will contest the refusal of Vernon J. Brown, auditor general, to grant increases to the officials approved by the legislature.

Until the attorney general decides whether Lund should take Brown's decision before the courts, the secretary said. "I do not believe I should go through all bother about either submitting the payroll with the increases or without. In either case I may be wrong." The elective officials, or whom Brown is one, will be paid their constitutional salaries, however, Lund said. The officials are paid additional sums for serving on the administrative board. It was these salaries the legislature raised, the attorney approved, and Brown refused to pay.

Where to Look Bedtime Stories Believe Churches It or Not 3 Daily Patterns Dix Editorials Health Talks Henry McLemore New York Day by Day Radio 3 State Deaths 5 Society 6 Sports 10 Theater 3 Vital Statistics 8 Weather actually had captured Minsk, after cutting across Russian-occupied Poland. Berlin itself laid no claim to but again set a date -tomorrow a detailed account of "our big successes in the eastern theater of war." The first date set for disclosure of German triumphs "baffling the imagination" was Thursday. Reds Claim Victories The Russian high command claimed two other smashing victories: annihilation of a German regiment. in the Bessarabian sector and of "large detachments of enemy troops and the entire staff of the 39th Panzer corps" in the Luck sector of Poland. In the latter clash the Russians claimed they captured a large quantity of war material.

numerous prisoners and plans for the blitz operation against the Russian frontier in that region. But the battle there continued. still undecided at the time of the communique. Meanwhile, in Moscow, BritishRussian integration of effort against a common foe was sped by a visit of Sir Stafford Cripps, the British ambassador, to the foreign commissariat. He arrived at Moscow yesterday with British military, air, naval and economic experts.

Nearing the end of a week of war on history's greatest battlefront, the Red army was reported to have fallen back on the fortified frontier old Russia in one strategic sector of its buffer zone and met the full force of Adolf Hitler in a showdown fight. "The hour of payment for crimes of wild cannibalism and most impudent violence against men and nations has come," said Pravda. Moscow organ of the Communist party. Use Numerical Superiority Resorting to one of their trumps in the epic contest between two of the world's greatest -that 1S, numerical superioritythe Russians used an according to one Moscow broadcast. to overwhelm an annihilate a German-Rumanian regiment trying to break into Bessarabia.

However, it was not in the Bessarabian sector, fronting on the Ukraine that Russia was most threatened, but in the Polish-Baltic section of the front where a steeltipped Nazi spearhead has shoved along Napoleon's 1812 road to Moscow, already within perhaps 30 to 40 miles of the frontier that WAS Russia's before occupation of the Baltic states and half of Poland. The Russians declared they were holding firm in the southern, or Bessarabian sector, and, at some places, counter-attacking into Rumania. The German-controlled Oslo radio carried reports it said came from Turkey that the Soviet government had moved from Moscow to Sverdlovsk, almost 1,000 miles east. There was no confirmation of such a move. Finnish radio listeners reported, meanwhile, that the station at Riga, in Soviet-held Latvia, broke off during a program last night with an announcement in German that the See WAR -Page 2 Governor to Air Policies On Labor at Boston Meet Van Wagoner to Use National Conference of State Executives for Statement of Views; Strike Might Keep Him Home By, G.

(Associated MILTON Press Writer, KELLY Governor Van Wagoner has chosen the national conference of governors in Boston as the sounding board from which to deliver a significant statement of his views on labor disputes in industries materials for national defense. governor scheduled to address the conference. Monday, to discuss defense production and labor disputes affecting it. He said only deadlocked labor mediation in the Dow Chemical dispute, necessitating his intervention, would stop him from making the trip. At Boston he also will present bid, for which much groundwork already has been laid, to have the governors hold their 1942 meeting in Michigan, on Mackinac Island.

It would bring them to the state from which Luren D. Dickinson, as governor. attended a New York convention and returned to deliver public blast against "high life practices" and drinking by women he said he observed at the meeting. Van Wagoner said he also would advantage of the Boston trip tol RESUME PARLEY IN DOW STRIKE VanWagoner Ready to Go to Midland if Situation Becomes Serious MIDLAND, June 28 (UP) -Negotiators met today to receive a new formula worked out by federal and state mediators as basis for ending a strike at the Dow Chemical company, manufacturers of 75 percent of the magnesium used in airplane production. Chairman Thomas J.

Donahue of the state labor mediation board said the formula was worked out by the federal state mediators and representatives of the Office of Production Management last night after conferences with company and United Mine Workers (C. I. chemical division officials ended in stalemate. The union called the strike yesterday in protest against disciplinary action against one of its members, U. M.

W. officials said he was dismissed because of union activities, but the company said it was because of insubordination. Union negotiators issued a formal statement declaring that the OPM and federal and state conciliators had recommended that the strike be ended by putting all men back See DOW -Page 2 HUNDREDS STRICKEN ILL DURING PICNIC Some Physicians Say That Strange Malady Caused By Food Poisoning WILLIAMSPORT, June 28 (P) -Perplexed authorities today sought the cause of a mystery ailment which suddenly struck down 300 men and women as it swept through a throng of 5,000 adults at the height af picnic outing. Commander-in-Chief George made of the Williamsport Masonic consistory which sponsored the fete said some medical leaders attributed the wave of illness to food ing. Detective Chief Joseph M.

mucker, however, declared this uncertain and ordered an analysis of food, ice cream and soft drinks served. The picnickers were sprawled over the lawn of Former State Senator Charles W. Sones' nearby 200-acre estate when stricken yesterday during the principal address of the o- casion. The program halted immediately and the gala scene within matter of minutes turned into what resembled an emergency hospital Doctors and nurses among the crowd volunteered to attend the sick which overflowed the three-story Sones' mansion. Many men sought refuge from 95-degree heat in nearby woods where they collapsed.

bulances in the area were not suf. ficient to rush the stricken to medical aid and fire trucks stripped of hose and ladders and hearses were pressed into service. Forty-five persons were admitted to hospitals but none was considered in serious condition. Many of the sick were able to return home in automobiles after receiving emergency treatment at the scene. Piremen and state police combed the entire property before nightfall to make certain all had been located.

The first few stricken were believed victims of the broiling sun but this was dispelled quickly as others doubled up in pain. Many declared they were too sick to talk and pleaded "just leave me alone." Stomach upset was the first warnof the ailment with violent illness following immediately. Soft drinks and ice cream were distributed in huge quantities as well as box lunches. Lamade said it might have been the combination of the heat and cold drinks and ice cream that caused the sickness but added there was no series of circumstances to give a definite clue. Many of those stricken had eaten only at a consistory luncheon preceding the outing.

The metropolis takes the view that there is no such thing as strike of municipal employes, such as the subway workers, who are under civil service. On the west coast the C. I. O. machinists gave defense officials some encouragement by voting to go back to work in the San Francisco bay shipyards if they are given separate contract.

A. F. of L. unions of the craft already had agreed to return under master agreement providing for $1.12 an hour and time-and-a-half for overtime. Some 1,800 members of the A.

F. of L. and C. I. O.

groups struck seven weeks ago, asking for $1.15 an hour instead of $1, and for continuation of double pay for overtime. In Washington, Sidney Hillman, associate director of the OPM, said the government would try to establish "zone" agreements covering airplane manufacturing. designed to prevent strikes and stabilize labor relations defense construction. Such agreements have been worked out in shipping circles, to keep the See STRIKES-Page 2 I invite the governors of the southtern states to come to Michigan this summer for a ceremonial at which Confederate flags captured by Michigan troops in the Civil war will be returned. The governor said he would be back in Lansing Tuesday to participate in inaugural ceremonies in which three incumbent state cials, reelected in the spring election, will take their oaths.

They Donald Kennedy, Democratic state highway commissioner, Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, state superintendent of public instruction, and Wynand Wickers, member of the state board of education. The two major parties' state tral committees collaborated in arranging a program for an inaugural ceremony which normally would be a perfunctory taking of oaths without public fanfare. Halstead Apt to Get Post More pressing on the governor when he returns will be the of final decision on patronage affairs, See GOVERNOR -Page 2.