Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 1

ME STATTE dJOTMNA jL The Weather Cirnrmlly fair, Dicmrr Sunday; Monday partly cloudy, reaaioaaJ rain. (Details on Pace 2) N-DAT ISS XT EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR LANSING. MICHIGAN. SUN DA Y. OCTOBER 12.

1941 -30 Pages PRICE-FIVE CENTS CITV The War eizes' Nazi Agents in Greenland; Med Army Retreats; Moscow Evacnated Women and Face Quiz in Miley Slayings War Vessel Bringing LANSING G. D.P.MS SPAMS Agent of the Gestapo, Others as Prisoners VICTORY Norwegian Vessel Which Landed Hitler's Are Being Moved Out As War Draws Near Russians Put Up Stubborn Resistance but Are Forced to Yield Ground and Germans Press Slowly but Steadily Toward City far TAr Altocitlt Prttlt MOSCOW. Sunday. Oct. 12 Women and children were ordered today to leave Moscow and the Russians acknowledged officially that Red armiea are "retreating to new positions" closer to the imperiled capital.

"In the Vyazma region (125 miles west of Moscow), the Agent and Two Assistants on Coast Also Being Escorted to American Port WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 (UP) An American warship was bound tonight for the United States with some Nazi prisoners aboard, including a secret agent of the German Gestapo and a group of Norwegian quislings captured operating a hidden radio outpost in Greenland. The seizures were announced by the navy department which said the incident took place "during September. The prisoners are being rushed to an American port which the navy would not disclose.

It was believed the warship was nearing the enemy succeeded in pressing morning communique said. "Retreating to new positions our troops continued to put up stubborn resistance, destroying enemy manpower and In this engagement" SINGER PLEADS t' CY I Y'' 'ts Photographs and fingerprints of Leo Gaddis, left, and Tom C. Penny were sent by Fort Worth, police to Lexington, in connection with the slaying of Another Auto Crash Kills Man Near City Thomas W. Hayman of Jackson Dies When Cars Collide Nine Miles North of Lansing; Four Others Injured Nazis Race Time Hitler Needs Oil Wells Miles Away By KIRKE L. SIMPSON "TIME, and not much of It at 1 that, alone will tell whether the Nazi claim of liquidation of Russia as a factor in 1942 war plans ha an? real substance behind it or largely a propaganda device.

That Russian defenses are wavering under massive German blows from the upper Volga to the waters of the sea of Azov cannot be doubled It is highly significant, however, that Nazi victors' claims contain no hint that Russian capitulation is to be expected, even If Moscow falls and the Donets basin overrun before the Russian winter more or less Immobilizes most of the eastern front. Unquestionably there is a general line across European Russia from north to south which the German high command has set a lis pre- inter goal. Moscow to Rostov via the Don valley could be that objective although the Volga from northwest of Moscow to the Caspian sea would afford a better Insurance against Russian ietww to fight again aggressively next year. rYESPTTE insistent German claims that Russian armies aD along a 300-mile span in the renter and also far southward below the Dnieper bend have been or are being it Is ad nuiied that much bloody fighting remains to be done. that, coupled with the long distances still to go and the increasing communications strain for Nazi armies with winter near, makes It possible that Hitler would be content for now with a winter-frozen east-em front short either of the Volga or the Moscow-Rostov line.

With Moscow under close German siege. Russian communications would be crippled almost as effectively as If the city were captured. Moscow itself well might not be deemed worth the cost of attempting lo take it. Under close siece lis function as the hub and nerve renter of Russian defenses wtmld be lost In any case. That does not hold true as to the south end of the great German offensive, however.

It must be carried to Rostov and well beyond and sweep ojer Kharkov and the Don-Donets basin for urgent reasons. IIITLER'S necessity throughout this war. herever he turned. fc. been to reach adequate oil resources for his ever-expanding nwis.

Without oil. great as his victories are or may be. he lacks the prime essential of a German-dominated new order in Europe, lei alone the world. Be if still a thousand miles from Russia Caspian oil wells if his armies take Rostov and also sweep Crimea to establish bases there for air-sea approach to the Caucasus While Russian war making efforts would be crippled vitally br loss ef that oil. the Germans even rounding the Rostov corner would still have major battles to fight against Russian-British Allies to gam the Caspian oil flow for their own use.

In the long view, therefore. claims that Russian military power has been broken to the point where it can be only a minor factor "for decades to come" can be dismissed as a rhetorical flight of fancy. So long as Russia fights at all. she must cause huge Nazi amTiM to be tied up in the east. ITVEN driven east of the Volga.

the Russians in their masses would be a never-ending threat on the flank of a German march throufh'- the Caucasus. II they could do no more than immobilize powerful German forces on guard cu.v in conquered Soviet territory or along a Nazi-determined east-em frontier, they would greatly aid Russian and British comrades defending the Caspian oil fields. And that urgently necessary fuel aource for Nazi tanks, planes, submarines and arms factories must be the real reason for the bloody Hitler -crusade" in Russia. Orsv through Russia via the Rostov comer has he a land approach to oil in sufficient quantity to meet his needs. That he also bids fair to obtain a sea approach be-vond reach of the British navy by sweeping the Black sea Russian coast or Red resistance only adds to the probability that the battle of European Russia is merely a gran preliminary to the battle of the Caucasus, whether it comes tins year or next.

JAP BOATS TFRETURN NATIONALS TO ISLAND TOKYO. Oct. 11 INS Under an agreement reached with the United Bisiex t-ne foreign office announced tocav Japan will send ocean liners to American ports to bring back Japanese nationals returning home. Three ships will leave next week bound for Seattle. Where to Look SECTION ONE Weather 1-2 Editorials 4 Armv Camp News Society 8-9-10 Women's Features 10-11 Radio Programs 12 Stage and Screen 12-13 Music-Books-Art 14 March of Events 15 Serial Story 16 Comic 1 Cross ord Puzzle 16 SECTION TWO Spars 17.

18. 19. 20. 21 Real 22-23-24 School Hew 25 Pratemai Hews 26 Markets 27 hews 30 Death rode the highways again in the Lansing area Saturday to claim its seventh victim in the past eight days. Thomas W.

Hayman, 30, of Jackson was killed and four others injured as the result of a traffic crash on highway US-2 7 about nine miles north of Lansing late Saturday night. rv, Iniii.ai4 Bob Sherman and Dick Kiep-pe Score All of Michigan State's Points RICHARDSON SPARKLES BY GEORGE S. ALDERTON (Stata Journal Sports Editor) Dick Kieppe and Bob Sherman. a pair of boys who learned their high school football lessons on Pat- tengill field scored a touchdown apiece to give Michigan State col lege a 13 to 7 victory over Mar quette in the Spartans' home open er at Macklln field Saturday. Sherman, Eastern high grad, scored the game's first touchdown in the second period.

He bucked over from the 2-yard line to culminate a drive that carried half the length of the field and Kieppe scored the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter on a 63-yard run-back of a Marquette punt. Kieppe, of whom Central high may feel proud, contributed to the first touchdown by a spectacular dash for first down when he had fumbled a fourth down pass from center in the second period-. His alertness was apparent all day and some of his tackle dashes were masterpieces. Sherman, who was transplanted from quarterback to fullback only last week, was a line-bucking power mac at times pierced the Mar quette forwards for big yardage. state scored still a third touch down, early in the second period, when Kieppe threw a 30-yard pass to Wil Davis but it was cancelled because Kieppe was not the re quired five yards from the line of scrimmage.

Hilltoppers Move After State scored the first touch down and kicked goal, Marquette went swiftly into action. The Hill-toppers moved down the field on the wings of forward passes thrown by the highly capable Jimmy Richard son. His 15-yard pitch to Johnny Goodyear in the end zone yielded a touchdown and made State's supporters fearful of the outcome if Marquette could continue that aerial offensive. And the Hilltoppers did throw many successful passes thereafter, but State's defense grew better by the minute. A line that was led by Bill Kennedy and Bill Rupp.

supported ably by Tony Arena handled Marquette's running game pretty well. Marquette lost the chance of a first period touchdown when a 15 yard-holding penalty took the ball from the one-yard line out of danger. State started a promising attack at the outset of the game. Marquette's klckoff went out of bounds, giving State the ball on its 35-yard line. An 18-yard sprint by Fullback Chuck Carey through the Hilltoppers' middle and a forward pass, Dick Kieppe to Bob McNeil, gave the Spartans a first down on the Mar quette 29-yard line.

Two costly fumbles by Carey nullified this ad vantage. His second bobble gave the Hilltoppers the ball on the 50' yard line. See DICK KIEPPE Page 17 STATE AVIATION CADETS REPORT AT LAKEHURST WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 P)-The navy department announced today that 40 new naval reserve aviation cadets have reported at Lakehurst.

N. for training in lighter-than-air craft at the naval air station. Among them were James Thomas Ledden, Kalamazoo, George Anthony Woerfel. Boyne City, Mich. PRESIDENTPR0CLAIMS UNITY OF NEW WORLD WASHINGTON.

Oct. 11 (UP President Roosevelt, acclaiming the solidarity and unity of the new world in a Columbus Day statement, tonight said that the republics of the western hemisphere are firmly resolved to preserve and defend democracy. His statement was issued on the occasion of the 450th year since the discovery of America by Columbus. Children back our troops," today's early To Start $50,000 Project at Shell Plant; Nash Kelvi-nator to Bemodel Construction work has been start ed on another addition to the General Motors Forge plant west of the city In Lansing township. It was disclosed Saturday, and plans will be out next week for an extensive remodeling job of the Nash-Kelvi-nator aircraft motor parts division.

Contract for the General Motors forge addition was awarded to Fran cis J. Corr and Son, local contrac tors, but details on the building were not announced. It is esti mated that It will cost between $35,000 and $50,000. The forge addition is to be lo cated at the southwest corner of the recently completed plant. It Is not known just what operations the new building will be used for and all officials of the plant were out of the city Saturday.

The plane is producing shells for the army, having already turned out more than a million. Rash Nash Flans Engineers are rushing to comple tion plans for reconstructing the former Reo truck plant at the corner of Washington and Mt. Hope avenues for use in manufacturing operations by Nash-Kelvinator. It la expected that these plans will be ready for contractors by the middle of the week. The Christman company is now working on two jobs involving the expenditure of $300,000 at the Nash propeller plant on South Cedar street, and Granger Brothers have started a $68,000 alteration Job in the motor parts division, getting new office space constructed: a Work was completed during the past week by the Corr company on the new underground machine gun testing plant at the Olds Motor Works.

The building was completed in 45 days, exactly on schedule. It was pointed out Saturday that the government and industry are moving as rapidly as possible to complete factories and Install machinery here so that thousands of workers may be transferred early in 1942 from automobile to defense production. The Nash plants now employ less than 200. and when production is at a peak next year they will have approximately 8.000 on the payrolls. CHINESE CHARGE Chungking Officials Claim 300 Such Bombs Killed 2,000 Soldiers CHUNGKING.

Oct. 11 UP The official Chinese military spokesman charged today that Japanese war-planes blasting at Chinese troops outside Ichang dropped 300 gas bombs which kiUed nearly 2,000 Chinese soldiers. Military quarters claimed that the raid, staged by 36 Japanese planes was not the first time the Japanese had used gas, but it was said that never before had the Japanese used it on such, a large scale. Bitter fighting was reported at Ichang, 200 miles up the Yangtze from Hankow. Chinese troops were in the city, the westernmost point of Japanese penetration in China.

The Chinese Central News Agency said that about 1.000 Japanese still were holding positions in Ichang and that another 100 or so Japanese were holding a position on the south bank of the river across from the city. Central News said that Chinese troops were attempting to cut the Hankow-Ichang highway to keep the Japanese from sending reinforcements from Hankow, which they have held since 1938, DEFENSE JOBS PLANNED JAPS USING GAS SIT-DOWN' I STATE Rumblings Forecast Special Session to Ease Expected Unemployment ADJOURNMENT IS 'FLAT' By G. MILTON KELLY (Associated Press Writer) Quietly and coloressly, the 61st Michigan legislature adjourned Saturday, ending a month's-long revolt against Governor Van Wagoner. There were omens, however, it might be called back to a special session before many months have elapsed, and the governor himself conceded this was possible. There was no doubt, however, that he would exert every effort to avoid it.

The classic fight which raged for months between, him and the Republican majorities of house and senate were still fresh in his mem ory. Forecasts Unemployment Sober statements came from the governor and legislative leaders, that the curtailment of production by factories not engaged in defense work, and shutdowns to retool them for defense production, would cause a serious unemployment problem. "The uncertain future financial position of state government," said Van Wagoner in a prepared statement released at the noon adjournment hour, "and the strain that the defense transition period will place on state social services makes this emphatically a period in which the financial bars can not be let down, and when we must conserve any surpluses of the moment in preparation for any eventuality." The statement referred to his refusal to allow the lawmakers to override a number of his vetoes of appropriation items. "We are not yet certain of the extent of the problem which will face our citizens in the defense employment period." he continued. "The best method for coping with this problem is not yet clear.

So we agreed to the naming of a joint committee to study the unemployment compensation problem. "The moment we know where we are going, and what will be the cost of the most effective plan, I am confident that prompt action will be taken to meet the problem. We need bi-partisan cooperation, which has proved to be the way to make progress in Michigan this year. "Such cooperation will be needed again and again." He confirmed Republican legis lators' statements that they have his pledge he will consult wltii them, See LEGISLATURE Page 2 IS KILLED BY NAZIS Thirty-Five Communists Are Arrested in Croatia; Thou sands Jailed in Paris BERLIN. Oct.

11 UP) Dis patches tonight reported execution of 15 more Czechs, fatal poisoning of a pro-Nazi Czech journalist, ar rest by Croat police of 35 Com' munLsts and the arrest of thousands of persons by Paris police, including Emlle Dutiueui. described as com' munlst party treasurer. (A Stockholm dispatch reported many Norwegian Industrialists at Trondheim and North Troendelag have been arrested for refusal to pav workers for time spent at GuLs ling meetings. Another Stockholm dispatch credited Berlin sources with reports that 4.000 Lithuanian nationalists have been killed in par' tlsan fighting and that the Ger mans have dissolved their organiza tion and may refuseto restore their political independence.) KILLED IN CRASH MONROE. Oct.

11 (IF) A headon automobile collision on the Dixie highway near Monroe today killed Donald' Saul, 37. of Monroe. ment bureaus whose programs have become less essential." On the other hand, Senator La-Follette (P) of Wisconsin, another member of the economy group, voiced the opinion that the entire budget, including defense outlays, ought to come in for scrutiny. "The non-defense expenditures are proportionately very small compared with those for defense pur-pases," he said. "It seems to me that if we are going to make any real savings we ought to make certain whether the government Is getting its dollar's worth out of the defense outlays." END CI MORE Atlantic coast and would land her prisoners at any hour.

Norwegian Steamer Seized The warship also is escorting back to the United States a Norwega steamer which landed the gestapo agent and two assistants, on the frigid Greenland coast. The navr. however, would not give the speciSc location or other details of the first reported activity by American forces in the huge United States-protected Danish island. The seizure was made by war ship of the United States Atlantx patrol which was on duty along the Greenland coast. It was understood in authoritative quarters that the action occurred along the eastern coast where an American warship guarding the sea lane to the Iceland defense post, had engaged on one previous occasion a German submarine.

According to the navy a Norwe gian steamer of about 60 tons was intercepted by the American war ship after the craft had landed the gestapo agent and his two assist ants for the purpose of setting the radio station to dispatch weather and military information to German bases or perhaps German submarines operating in the north Atlantic. Equipment Disposed Subsequently the three, which the navy announcement described as a "gestapo agent and two other Norwegians, were captured and their equipment and supplies dis posed of. These three and the outer mem bers of the party taken aboard the Norwegian steamer which apparently had set out from German-occupied Norway were taken in'9 custody and are being brought to an American port for "examination," the navy said. It was the first time that tne United States armed forces actuaiiT had taken custody of any German- directed or German personnel. The capture was regarded as espe cially significant in view of the increasing use being msde of Green land as a naval and air base in the United States role in the Battle of the Atlantic.

There have been well-founded reports recently that American-built fighter planes are to be flown to Britain by way of this island and Iceland starting eariy next year. Existence of a German radio station would be a senous threat to such a venture. May Have Darked It was believed that the captured steamer was either in the vicmirr of a United States port or already had docked inasmuch as the action took place last month. No diplomatic outgrowth or tr. incident was expected by informed government officials.

The right to take any measures considered nec essary in Americas program ox hemisphere defense has been as sumed by the United States gov ernment and Greenland, an American protectorate since April 9. 1941. Is included in the zone ol the navy defense operations. DIVES; 1 KILLED i Failing to Gain Flying Speed, Aircraft Strikes Field Building DUNCAN FIELD, SAN ANTONIO. Oct.

11 UP An army flytrc fortress bomber, enroute from Duncan field to Panama, crashed and burned on the take-off today, killing the pilot and co-pilot and injuring 14 men. The dead: First Lt. M. H. Morgan, pilot.

San Antonio; and First Lt. Robert Rexh- stadt, co-pilot, Omaha. Neb. Hours after the crash, army authorities had not positively Identified some of those who were Injured critically. Witnesses said the bomber appar ently failed to gain sufficient firm speed.

It struck the Intelligence Bureau building, shearing off a wins. and skidded 1.500 feet across the field, bursting into flames almost against the Duncan field a fireproof building. Rescuers tore open the hatches to get at the crew members before the fire reached them. Ail were extricated. Relchstadt died 10 minutes later In Fort Sam Houston hospital.

FLYING the Germans lost not less than 9.000 men killed and wounded." Much Materiel Destroyed The communique added that 72 German tanks, 222 trucks with troops and ammunition. 41 guns of various calibers and many machine guns were destroyed yesterday. Earner reports told of another German advance In the Orel-Bry ansk area. 200 miles south and southwest of Moscow. On the southwestern front, above the sea of Azov, the communlaue said that "as a result of Incessant attacks the enemy wedged into our defense in one of these sectors." Stubborn fighting continued all day long." it added.

"Intense fight ing goes on. The enemy Is sustaining heavy losses." Only women and children needed for vital work will remain in the city, S. A. Lozovsky. vice commissar of foreign affairs, said In announcing the evacuation.

we have been evacuating them since the bombings of Moscow began to avoid casualties and especial ly to spare children the psychological effects of. bombings," he said. 'Now the fighting is fiercer and. although there are no bombings now. we gave instructions to evacuate all women and children not occupied In industry." Nazi Casualties Enormous The Russians said the Germans were advancing at the cost of enormous Nazi casualties in the direc tion of Vyazma, barely 125 miles west of the Kremlin, and in the Bryansk and Orel sectors little more than 200 miles to the south and southwest.

With new and seasoned Red army forces pouring into the "victory or death" battle for the capital, Lozov-sky declared that the Soviet government itself was not even thinking of leaving the city. He also categorically denied foreign reports that the government was considering an armistice. The fight will go on. he said, until the last Nazi soldier on Rus-sinn soil is annihilated. Front line dispatches emphasized the danger to Moscow and also In the south, where the German push is continuing toward Melitopol above the Sea of Azov.

Major General Kharltonov. whom the Germans reported had fled, told a correspondent of Red Star, the army newspaper, that his forces are maintaining resistance there and are not encircled, although some Nazi units have penetrated to the rear. Improved in Northwest On the northwestern front the soviet position appearea improving steadily at the approaches of Leningrad. A company of Russian tanks, supported by infantry, was reported to have driven, the Germans back 1n one sector there and captured 700 underground fortresses and destroyed two companies of German infantry. But it was on the center of the front that the battle of battles was under way In this 10th day of the gigantic German offensive against Moscow.

Here the Germans were using tanks in battering ram assaults against the stoutly defending Red armies. The iron behemoths in cluded German 10. 19 and 21 ton tanks and others of Czech, Polish and French make. Iu denying that the government would flee Moscow. Lozovskv said German propagandists had let loose a "flood of lies" In their reports, of smashing German successes In the new offensive "In the nope of achfeving a moral effect before Germany feels the catastrophic re suit" of her losses.

New Troops in Field The Russian answer to Adolf Hit' ler's supreme offensive was to rush up to the battlefield tens of thou sands of the reserves from her huge manpower reservoirs. The Germans still were acknowl edged to outnumber the Russians In the central sector, but Red Star said the Russan reserves moving up day and night to the battlefield had never seen action In the present conflict Nevertheless they were described as' fullv trained for modern war fare and armed with the most mod em weapons. Including new tanks guarded bv fast new planes. Indicating the confidence the So viet feels in the final outcome of the battle. Red Star added: "All the men are warmly dressed, fit for win- FDR U.

S. UNITY V. F. W. Leader Advocates A.

E. F. if Necessary to Protect Americans Advocating another American ex peditionary force only in case it be comes an absolute necessity for the protection of this country. Max Singer, of Boston. national commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, made a plea for national unity here Saturday evening.

Singer also scored subversive ele ments and recommended action be taken to dispel such elements. The V. P. W. sanctioned an outright re peal of the United States neutrality act at their national encampment in Philadelphia in August.

Speaks at Banquet The national commander spoke at a banquet of the annual state V. F. W. pow-wow which opened Saturday at the Hotel Olds. About 300 delegates had registered for the meeting at 6 o'clock Saturday evening, and an additional 200 were expected to appear by Sunday morn ing.

Department commanders of the veterans' organizations in Michigan and other states also spoke briefly at the banquet Saturday evening. They included Alton C. Britton of Battle Creek. Michigan commander Leo KlrfLs. Ohio department com' mander; Mrs.

Grace FLslier, depart' ment auxiliary president: Frank Tonush, supreme commander of the Military order of the Cooties; Her man F. Luhrs. department com mander of the American Legion in Michigan: Cornelius G. swart. Mich lgnn department commander of the United Spanish War Veterans; Frank Kaulsky, department commander of the Disabled War Veterans.

Brig. Gen. Heinrich Pickert, for mer Detroit police commissioner. acted as master of ceremonies at the banquet in place of C. C.

Carlton of the Motor Wheel corporation, who was called out of the city. Rushton, Brown Introduced Two state officials, Herbert J. Rushton. attorney general, and Vernon J. Brown, auditor general, were introduced at the banquet.

Also introduced were Jesse Miller, state veterans' employment represent ative; Norman Borgeson of the de partment of public instruction, representing Supt. Eugene Elliott: State Senator Joseph Baldwin: State Rep resentative John L. Espie; Wayne Wilgohs. inspector of the Ohio de part ment of the V. F.

Harold G. Skinner, past Ohio department com mander, and H. E. MacDonald of the adjudication office of the United States veterans' administration The Michigan department of the V. F.

W. will push Detroit as the site for the next national encampment it was decided at a council of administration meeting Saturday morning. which Fred Beard, of Detroit, com- mlttee chairman, presided, opened the official program of the pow-wow See V. F. W.

Page 2 EQUESTRIENNE KILLED IN DETROIT ACCIDENT DETROIT. Oct. 11 INS Horseback riding in the outskirts of Detroit. Frederick R. Vine, n.was killed tonight in a collision with an auto.

The horse was killpd Instantly while the two women occupants of the car Mrs. Crystal Davis, 28, and Mrs. Maurlne Hlpner of Redford township and Farniington suffered minor injuries. The youth was thrown from the horse and fell beneath the car's wheels, police were informed. INJURIES FATAlT BIG RAPIDS.

Oct. 11 P) Mack Hansen, 46, died today in the Big Rapids hospital from injuries received Friday while working at a planing machine in the Hanclictt plant here. The Hanchctt worker was employed in defense production when he was injured. Marion Miley, champion woman golfer, and her mother. The two ex-convicts were arrested in the south on charge of stealing a car from a Louisville.

Ky, night club owner. Charles Prince. 1513 Donors street. Lansing, condition critical, extent of injuries unknown. Mrs.

Lucille Hayman, 24. wife of the fatality victim, slightly hurt. Charles Cooper, 27, Brooklyn. possible fractured skull, head Injuries and a fractured clevlcle. Mrs.

Alice Cooper. 20, his wife. lacerations of one leg. All the Injured were removed to Edward W. Sparrow hospital here.

State police said Prince was riding alone in one vehicle, traveling north. Apparently, they believe, the brakes on his car set and the machine skidded into the path of the other car moving south in which Hayman and the other injured were riding. CLEVELAND FIRM GETS ORE CARRIER CONTRACT WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 UP The maritime commission today awarded contracts for six Great Lakes ore carriers to the American Shipbuilding company, Cleveland.

Amount of the contract was not disclosed. Four of the vessels will be built at the firm's yards in Lorain. and the other two at the Cleveland yards. Two of the Lorain vessels are to be delivered on April 1, and the other on June 1 of that year. One each of the Cleveland vessels are to be delivered on the same dates.

BRITISH SHIP SL'NK NEW YORK, Oct. 11 INS Sinking of the 10.000-ton British steamer Caledonia was reported tonight by the German radio in a broadcast picked up by NBC. The broadcast gave no details except to say that the report had been received from Oslo. Byrd said there was little hope of reducing defense expenditures, estimated at $17,000,000,000 In the current budget, although he commented that there might have been "extravagance" in some items, such as those for the construction of army camps. "There has been a necessity for speed in defense spending that has been some excuse for high costs." he said, "and while that has been regretable.

I don't believe we can save much there. But it seems to me that we can cut heavily Into some of these overloaded govern FOUND NEAR CLARE Authorities Jake Krupp, 72, Died of Heart Attack in Bean Field. (Sprctal to Tht Slate Journal) CLARE. Oct. 11 The body of Jake Krupp, 72-year-old farmer who resided southeast of Clare in Vernon township, was found in a bean field near his home Saturday by neighbors.

Deputy Jerry Kyle of the Isabella county's sheriff's office and Coroner R. A. Northway, who Investigated, said Krupp died of a heart attack and had been dead about four days. Investigators found $273 in his pockets, discounting any theory of foul play. His body was removed to the Friz funeral home in Clare to await funeral arrangements to be completed when three brothers, Theodore, Charles and Leo, of near Chesaning, are contacted.

Motorist A rrested As Drunk Driver George Amenta, 44, of 1215 North Larch street, was being held in the city jail Saturday night on a charge of driving under the influence of liquor following a rear-end collision in the 2400 block of South Cedar street. Police said the car driven by Amenta struck oile being operated by Rufus Prince. 41. of 330 Everettdale avenue, as the former was attempting to enter Cedar street from Tls-dale avenue. The crash occurred shortly after 7 o'clock.

Georgia of the senate finance committee, another member of the inquiry group, said It was his opinion that there could be no substantial reductions until congress begins consideration of next year's appropriation measures in January. George said the finance committee would turn over to the inquiry group a series of estimates to be filed this week by the budget bureau. The bureau was instructed by the finance committee to furnish tabulations showing where savings of from $1,000,000,000 to were possible in this year's BODY OP Slash in Non-Defense Expenditures Proposed WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 A $2,000,000,000 slash In non-defense expenditures was proposed today as the goal of a budget Inquiry to be launched next week by a joint congressional economy committee.

Senator Byrd of Virginia, author of the tax bill amendment which brought about formation of the 12-member group, told reporters he would propose a one-fourth reduction In domestic expenditures which he estimated would approximate $8,000,000,000 In the fiscal year ending next June 30. While Byrd predicted that some savings could be made in current spending. Chairman George ID) ot 5.