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Sweeps Every Precinct for Mayor GREGO EASILY Tkt National Wet Forces Win Test in Barry County E. 0. P. VIEWS VICTORIES AS 1 944 SIGNPOST Nazis in Wild Retreat As Driving Red Armies Near Rumanian Border Jap Morale Is High, Reports from Sweden Tell of Disturbances Inside Reich Ex-Prisoner Asserts A. P.

Correspondent, Returning on Exchange Ship, Says Nipponese Are Swept by Wave of Wartime Fanaticism lji I I MAYOR RALPH W. CREGO Sweeping every precinct in the city's eight wards. Mayor Crego was elected by a vote of nearly five to one Tuesday to fill the unexpired term of Lieut. Sam Street Hughes who resigned to accept a Jeffries Reelected As Mayor of Detroit Renamed to Post for a Third Term by Majority of Nearly 32,000 Votes Over Frank FitzGerald, Labor Candidate PUPPET REGIME IN PHILIPPINES (In the following dispatch Raymond P. Cronln.

chief of the Associated Preaa bureau In Manila when the Japanese Invaded the Philippines, gives the initial firsthand account of conditions inside Japan's "greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere" since the first American repatriates returned from Japan in July. 1942. Crontn. returning liama aboard tha exchange ahtp Grlpsholm. went to the Philippines In 1H35 after serving in Associated Press bureaus in Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio.

He covered the growth of the Philippine independence movement, the rise of the Japanese menace. General MacArthur's defense preparations and finally the invasion of the islands.) By RAYMOND P. CRONIN PORT ELIZABETH, Union of South Africa, Nov. 3 (JP) A Japanese puppet government, headed by a Filipino attorney-politician who advocated the Nippon way of life many years ago, rules the Philip pines today, but critical observers of the situation feel the regime lacks the support of the masses of the people, who remain loyal to the United States. As I left Manila on September 26 after 21 months internment in the Santo Tomas camp, the were on the eve of receiving their independence from Japan with Jose P.

Laurel installed as president of what the Japanese described as a "republic" operating within their sphere of influence. It is quite evident to all that Japan created the so-called republic to serve her war purposes and aid her in making East Asia safe and self-sufficient for the Japanese. The puppet government undoubt edly is functioning today, because the final step to the an nouncement of Independence by Tokyo was taken as the repatriation ship Teia Maru reached Singapore. This final step, according to the Singapore newspapers, was a visit to Tokyo by Laurel, Benigno Aquino, speaker of the puppet national as sembly, and Jorge B. Vargas.

Vargas, who had served as chair man of the Philippine executive commission under the Japanese military administration, was slated for the ambassadorship to Tokyo in the new setup. He formerly was a secretary to President Manuel Quezon, now in the United States. Just what this independence will mean is, in fact, impossible to say. but I am convinced that it. leaves the Japanese military authorities in complete control of the country politically and economically and that Laurel and his lew followers win dance to music written in Tokyo.

May Draft Filipinos Some observers express the belief that the provisional constitution adopted by Laurel's machine last month contains sufficient loopholes to permit the Japanese to force the puppet regime to draft Filipinos for war services in the interests or Japan. The "government in the form or an executive commission which the Japanese placed in power in the Philippines after the occupation of Manila looked like the Quezon cabinet of old-time politicos minus the fiery little president. Vargas, who is known to his fol lowers as "the little was made chairman of the commission by the Japanese military adminiS' tration, with Laurel as his chief aide the role of secretary of the in terior. Laurel also was chief of- the pacification and order drive by See PHILIPPINES Page 2 5 LI YORAL Acting Executive Elected to Office by 5 to 1 Margin Over Russell WARD CONTESTS CLOSE Ralph W. Crego, who has been serving as mayor of Lansing since resignation of Sam Street Hughes early in August, was elected mayor Tuesday by a majority of nearly 5 to 1 over his opponent.

Alderman John H. Russell of the fifth ward. Unofficial returns from the city's 38 precincts gave Crego 7,120 and (Pictures on Page 2) Russell 1.570. The acting executive carried every precinct in the city and even ran nearly two to one ahead in Russell's own ward. Two new aldermen were elected and one was re-elected in the only three wards of the city where there were contests for council seats.

Wiegandt Has Big Margin Aid. Ralph W. Wiegandt of the third ward was re-elected for a full two-year term over Harr- E. Wilcox. He was originally elected to fill the Sticker Candidate Gets Single Vote James Connor, Lansing's lone sticker candidate, seeking election in the sixth ward alder-manic post received the distinction in Tuesday's election of receiving the smallest vote on record.

Connor's support came from precinct A of the sixth ward where one vote was tabulated in his favor. unexpired term of the late O. R. Starkweather, who died while In office. Wiegandt received 842 votes to 314 for Wilcox.

In the eighth ward Lyle K. Padg ett, 2212 Prospect street, was elected by a margin of 31 votes over Arthur J. Seipp. 418 North Clemens avenue, carrying two of the three precincts. The vote was Padgett 441; Seipp 410.

Samuel Brown. 2002 Massachu setts avenue, who has been a can didate for alderman in many pre vious elections, finally achieved his goal Tuesday when he defeated Stewart Bjie, 142S East Grand River avenue, by seven votes. The un official total was Brown 351, Byle 344. Aid. Harold Hungerford of the sixth ward was re-elected when he received a majority of votes cast at the primary last month, and John' E.

Bates was elected in the second ward to succeed Mayor Crego when he also received a majority In the primary. Four Aldermen Unopposed Four aldermen were unopposed for reelection. They were: W. R. C.

Smith, of the fourth ward, Orla B. Snyder of tne littn. uien Jtn- erman of the seventh and Arthur E. Stoppel of the eighth. In the eighth ward contest Mr.

Padgett was elected to fill the unexpired term of the late Edson Bas set t. Mayor Crego has been in the gro cery business here for the past 21 years, operating a store at Allegan and Logan streets. He was first elected to the council eight years ago and was serving his fourth term when he became acting mayor. He served as president of the council and also as chairman of the Ingham county board of supervisors. He was in the marine corps in World War I.

Mayor Crego issued the following statement after his election: "I wish to thank my many friends, associates and supporters for their unselfish helpfulness in my behalf. "It will be my earnest desire to strive to merit this confidence so favorably shown, and give to this splendid city the very best of my efforts and ability. Onlv 162 out of 4.000 East Lansing 'vrttrs vpnt in thp nnlls Tllp.sriflV to re-elect Grover C. Barnhart and Richard Lvman. to the city council and Harry W.

Lott to the city clerkship. Henry Schram was elected justice of the peace to fill out the term of the late L. F. Newell. Many Miners FDR's Back (By the Associated Press) WASHINGTON.

Nov. 3 President Roosevelt's directive to the nation's coal miners to return today to their jobs in the struck workings, now under government-seizure, was generally ignored in the major producing states this morning. The quiet suspension of activity, begun two weeks ago in scattered wildcat walkouts stemming from Continued absence of a working contract, spread to an estimated 460,000 I hard and soft coal miners as con-iferences looking to some settlement jwent forward here between United I Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and Interior Secretary Ickes, again designated as federal overseer of the pits. Typical was the word from Maryland that "the miners just didn't show up." For the second time tills year Mr.

Roosevelt ordered the mines seized Monday night. He gave Ickes authority to work out a contract with the union, provided the- terms follow the war labor board's rules. The U. M. W.

asked wage increases of at least $1.50 a day. Most of the operators consented to only 88 cents. The WLB suggested $1.12. The fourth strike in soft coal fields this year msanwhile crippled NIG RACE Observer The News Behind The Days News Qfvp white-haired Philip Murray stands on trial for his He as a labor and political leader this week's C. I.

O. national convention in Philadelphia. New dealers, including Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Vice President Henry A. Wallace, have been commandeered as speakers in an attempt to preserve his dwindling presage.

Phil offense is that he combined with the White House in the Little Steel formula, wiuch limits workers' salary Increases to a 15 percent maximum aoove the level of September. 1941. Every informed unionist believes this arrangement was designed oiely to block further raises for Jonn L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. They have always regarded it as a display of partisan-amp rather than economics.

Now. however, this restrictive provision has backfired against members of the Congress of In-cuitrtil organizations, the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the American Federation of Laoor. It keeps them, too, from carrying home fatter pay envelopes each Saturday night. Even trie United Automobile Workers, a Murray outfit, has demanded that it be scrapped. In John L's series of struggles with the national war labor board.

Mr. Murray and two other erpeiied C. M. Van A. BiTtner and John Brophy have opposed attempts by the coal diggers to get more money.

These two are members of the federal agency. It is their presence on the board which prompted the U. M. W. chieftain to characterise it as a "packed court" and to refuse to recognize its Jurisdiction until It was legalized by an act of congress.

F. D. R-'s friends will be on hand to save Phil's tottering throne and to strive for an endorsement of a fourth term. But they will have fight on their hands for the fur: time since they began to coddle the boys in overalls. Influence discontent with the White House on the part of workers is vividly illustrated in recent issues of Labor.

This intelligent and interesting weekly newspaper Is owned by the 15 rtiiway unions: It is their official crpan In the capital. The editor is "Ed" Keating, a former congressman from Colorado. He is an ultra liberal who has borne aloft a flaming torch Jcr F. D. R.

for more than 11 years No body of unionists, day in and day out. has been more faithful to the new deal in all Its forms. But the last fewt Issues have amounted to diatribes against the administration. It is as if Izvestia or Pravda called for a Communist uprising against the iron man in the kremlin. The revolt has spread panic among the Democrats.

Here are a few sample headlines: "Rail Labor Chiefs Draw Battle Line? for Snowdown on Pay Increases" "Federal Officials Cause New Muddle in Wage Situation" "Will WIS Forget Prejudices. Give Miners Square Deal?" "Workers Ignored in New Rail Setts- The Rooseveltians have a right to be frightened, for no group carries more weight with the home folks than do trainmen. They meet and become well acquainted with a icn of voters. Their influence extends everywhere as they have local spokesmen at every crossroad town and junction. They tax part in local civic and social activities and are inveterate joiners of the E3ts, Masons, of C.

Mrmse, etc. For an office-seeker to antagonize the men who run and repair the trams is a quick method of enrr mining political hara-kiri. Friends NGLO-Russian-American differences publicized by the five senatorial giobe-trotters and Wendeii Wilikie have not ruffled the surface of the harmony prevailing among those foremost powers of the United Nations. Bidtennzs have provoked headlines and parliamentary recriminations. But they have caused no bitterness among the Big Three leaders, their diplomats and their military commanders.

Chief credit must be allotted to President Roosevelt and Cordell Hull. F. D. R. and Prime Minister Churchill are more than partners in a great cause: they nave become personal friends.

And all reports indicate that our secretary of state has made a ceep impression on Stalin by his candor, simplicity and unselfishness. "Uncle Joe" likes that type. Mare important, perhaps, than tie understanding among the hear: men is the teamwork of United States and British top r. -soldiers in Italy. England and eewhere.

Officers like "Ike" Eisenhower. Ira Baker and Mark Clari have proved to be diplomatic geniuses in getting along witn their opposite. As in the fim World war. Private Yank and Private Tommie may give one another a few bloody noses wner. they meet, but they are also handing a few to the Nazis.

Our generaj were chosen by Cnief of Staff George C. Marshall, timseif a wise and human person, althotiEh they were unknown outage army circles at the time of in-jr appointments. But It was See OBSERVER Page 6 KflTvO MARGARINE serve to vuccriminaucf guesu. Adv. By JACK I.

GREEN HASTINGS, Nov. 3 (P Barry county wets, victorious in the first local option election in Michi gan In nearly 10 years, attributed their decisive majority in Tuesday's balloting to a definite trend away from outright prohibition as a solution of liquor traffic evils. They were quick to declare that the public apparently has become convinced local option will not work, while the defeated drys took comfort from a belief that the election had served as a warning to erring liquor dealers by showing that strong dry sentiment exists. Barry county wet leaders declined to consider their victory in the light of an Indication of state-wide senti- See BARRY Page 4 Referendum Vote 4,490 to Charter Changes Win by Wide Margins Placing patriotism before personal desires, Lansing voters expressed their wishes to keep the city on eastern war "fast" time for the du ration at Tuesday's election by a vote of 4,490 to 3,686. Three charter amendments, one setting up a new pension plan for policemen and firemen; allowing the city treasurer to seek reelection, and the third, to name a single city as sessor for a four-year term, won the approval of the electorate by margins of more than two to one.

The controversial time issue, which had haunted the city council for several months, will be officially acted upon by the aldermen following a canvass of the vote. According to their pledge to be guided by the referendum "fast" time will be adopted by the council for the duration of the war. War production plant executives and employes had campaigned for maintenance of the present time schedule because it permits a maximum synchronization of their activities with those of other major war industry centers. The three charter amendments will become effective January 1, 1844. Approval by the electorate of the new police-and fire -pension plan will result, it was estimated, in an annual savings of upwards of annually.

It requires a 5 percent instead of 2 percent contribution which is now paid by the members of the two departments. It sets the retirement age for members now under the preesnt plan at 50 years, providing they have 25 years prior service. They will receive half-pay not to exceed $1,800 annually. Two assessor Jobs will be abolished January 1. 1946, and the lone assessor elected will be permitted to hold office for a four-year term.

Terms of the three present assessors expire on that date, and if they wi-in to seek the office, they must oppose each other at the 1945 fall elcotion. The city treasurer will be allowed to seek reelection as the result of a two to one majority given the proposal at Tuesday's election. Previously the treasurer was not allowed to serve more than two consecutive years. OF BACK ATMASH JOBS Production Increasing as 98 Pet. of Personnel Returns; Issues Up to WLB Production was being stepped up rapidly Wednesday in Lansing plants of the Nash-Kelvinator corporation with approximately 98 percent of the employes back on the job.

Both the management and Local 13 of the U. A. W. C. I.

O. notified the regional war labor board in Detroit Wednesday morning that production had been resumed in compliance with an order issued Tuesday by the board, which assumed jurisdiction over a dispute which twice halted production of aircraft propellers duiing the past 10 days. Campbell Wood, general manager of the Lansing plants, said workers started returning to their jobs on the second shift at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, that there was a material increase on the third shift at 11 p. m. and about 98 percent of the normal personnel was on the job whei the first shift reported at 7 a.

m. Wednesday. Donald Palor, international repre- See NASH Page 2 Where to Look Bedtime Stories 8 Believe It or Not 12 Comics 12 Crossword Puzzle 12 Dally Patterns 8 Dorothy Dix 8 Editorials 6 Health Talks 6 Just Before the Deadline 16 Looking Over Lansing 5 Markets 13 New York Day by Day 6 Radio 13 Society 9 Sports 13 Theater 8 Vital Statistics 13 Weather 1 CITY TO STAY ON FUST TIME BULK Republicans Win in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania BLOW TO FOURTH TERM NEW YORK, Nov. 3 Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey, commenting on election returns, said today that "nothing has happened" to change his decision not to be a candidate for the presidency in 1944. (By the Associated Press) Triumphant in key eastern sea board contests, Republicans viewed the off-year election returns today as a signpost on the road which they hope will lead back to the White House in 1944. Democrats, beaten In New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, con fined their Initial comment to con gratulations to the winners. Wendell L. Wlllkle.

Republican nominee for president In 1940, said in New York: "The returns from New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Philadelphia and other places all point one way. The country is tired very tired of the present national administration." In Washington, Representative Martin (R) of Massachusetts, former Republican national chairman, said the election returns "clearly in dicate the trend is still running against the new deal." "The results in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania." he added. will greatly encourage Republicans all over the country. It is evident that when people get a chance they vote against the bungling, inefficiency and waste of the new deal. This tide will continue its momentum and result in a Republican victory in the presidential campaign next year." Voting, heavier than expected in seven states in view of the absenteesin uniform and in war factoriesyielded these results: NEW YORK Republican Joe R.

Hanley was elected lieutenant governor over Democrat William N. Haskell, retired lieutenant general, by more than 300,000 majority. Gov ernor Thomas E. Dcv.ey and Wendell Wlllkle actively supported Hanley: President and James A. Farley backed Haskell, although the President's support was confined to a vote cast at his Hyde Park home.

Edge Wins in Jersey NEW JERSEY Former Senator Walter Edge, Republican, defeated Vincent J. Murphy, Newark's Democratic mayor, for the governorship despite a better than 100,000 majority for Murphy piled up in the Hague-dominated Jersey City area. PENNSYLVANIA Acting Mayor Bernard Samuel of Philadelphia, Republican, was elected to a regular term in that office over the Democratic candidate. William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to Russia and to France, for whom President Roosevelt had spoken a good word.

The state continued Republican. KENTUCKY This normally Democratic state produced a real horse race for governor with Republican Simeon Willis trailing Democrat J. Lyter Donaldson by only a few thousand votes with hundreds of districts uncounted. Harrison Spangler, Republican national chairman, saw in these returns a death blow to any fourth term movement for Mr. Roosevelt.

State after state, he declared, has "rebuffed the new deal." "Next November," he added, "these same voters will turn to a Republican president and a Republican congress to get our country back on the American road." Hanley's majority In New York contest far greater than Dewey himself was able to pile up last year against a split field was considered a more than ordinary tribute to the governor. The Republicans fought the campaign on Dewey's record as executive. Dewey's Stock to Rise One immediate assumption was that Dewey's stock would rise considerably in the 1944 G. O. P.

presidential convention though he has insisted that he intends to serve out his full term in Albany, which has two years more to run. There has been some talk in the party of "drafting" him. Dewey's organization got in some surprising licks in New York city where the governor first made his name as a racket-busting prosecutor. The Democrats carried the city as usual but only by a fraction of the majority they generally hurl agamst the upstate Republican vote. BULLETINS LONDON, Kov.

3 (JP) The largest force of American heavy bombers ever to operate out of British bases raided northwestern Germany today escorted by long range Thunderbolt and Lightning fighters. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS, Nov. 3 (iP) A German-held cruiser of the Regolo class the Ottavlano Augusto was put out of commission when American Mitchell bombers hit her in An-cona harbor Monday, it was announced officially today. LONDON, Nov. 3 UP) Eight hundred Italians held by the Germans have been freed from a prison camp by Yugoslav partisan troops in the course of heavy fighting in Montenegro, Gen.

Jo-sip (Tito) Itrnz' Free Yugoslav radio said today. FIFTH SEIZES MASSICO RIDGE By RICHARD McMURRAY (Associated Press War Editor) The German army, losing a fight for its very life in South Russia, reeled back in disordered retreat today to within 120 airline miles of Rumania as tenuous Swedish reports told of serious disturbances in Germany and the imposition of a state of emergency in Berlin and other cities. The Crimea was bypassed and it far behind. Cossacks thundered 40 miles across the desolate Nogaisic steppe beyond the Seizi? Skadovsk on the Black sea, tie Eesi army was near Rumania and only 104 direct miles from Odessa. Tia Soviets were but 65 rrr from Ki-kolaev at the mouth of Tie river, toward which the beaten Germans apparently were retreatica-.

The Russian communique suggested the retreat was becoming a rout. It spoke In these terms: enormous losses, several t-nva-r Nazis drowned in the Dnieper at re captured Kakhovka, Urge booty. large numbers of prisoners, enemy units completely annihilated. The Germans still were counterattacking at Krivoi F.og to ioid open escape routes from tne Dnieper bend. Within the Crimea, the situation was vague.

Far to the ncr--a where the terrible Russian water has started plains of ice and snew. the Russians said they captured a height of great importance near Vitebsk. Reports of disorders Inside Germany were printed in the Svensica Dagbladet of Stockholm, qiiourt travelers reaching; Maimoe frcm Denmark. Stories of German unrest started circulating in Sweden a month ago: the Moscow conference was calculated by the Allies to stagger German morale further fcv ending any Hitlerian hope to and conquer. The Swedes said ngorsus police control had been tizntened through Germany.

Austria was a focal point and Himmler was saai to have reinforced his guards there. The American Fifth army captured the heights of Massico Pc? and nearby Mount San Croce to crack open the western end of tie German line in central Italy. Sicw and painful gains up to three miles routed the Nazis from Prsteiia and Gallo. In areas nine miles fnaa Venafro and Isernia. The Garigiuno river was in full view; the lass heights before Venafro were wen; new high ground was captured covering the upper Volturno rrrer valley.

German opposition was hardened by tanks. The Briush F-ghT-q arsry bridged the Trigno river aam and worked on the Germans with cannon. The Algiers corcmunicue said enemy resistance pockets were reduced. Civitavecchia, north of Bane, Aquila and Ancona on the Adraoc were bombed. The latter cry was said by the Swiss "no longer to exist." Lieut.

Gen. Carl Snaas rr whipsaw 15th United States airfarce announced the destruction of least 30 planes yesterday in iis initial raid on the Messerschmitt piane woiks at Wiener Neustadt. 27 south of Vienna. The formation cf the lath means the number of bombers at Italian bases had been. increased greatly; that SDaatz was ready to match aerial blows at Ger many with the Eighth airfarce based in Britain.

Wearier w-2. favor Spaatz. Yugoslav partisans divided their time in fighting the Germans and the Yugoslav war minister. General Mihailovic. They asserted they freed 800 Italian prisoners and re pulsed Nazi attacks in Bosnia.

Dai-mat ia and Croatia. Fighting around a fuming vol cano. American marines ciaUenaed the Japanese hold on Bouzainvule. last and strongest enemy position in tne Solomon islands nortneast of Australia. Details were withheld as the battle swirled, except that Gen eral MacArthur reported a Japanesa cruiser and destroyer force was intercepted Monday night, fought and turned back before it couid reach, the invasion scene.

Tokyo spoke cf naval and air battles to come in the showdown battle for RabauL New Britain, which BougainviUe heina shield. That is just what MacArthur and Admiral Halsey pray for. Steady progress was reported on nearby Choiseul and Treasury is lands. An 8.000-ton Japanese freighter was bombed to the bottom off New Ireland. A three-deck transport was sunk off north Bougam-ville.

FIRE DESTROYS COTTAGES OAK BEACH. Nov. 3 tjf Cottages of Sheldon Florence and Floyd Inwood, both of Detroit, and Whitfield Patterson. Bad Axe. were destroyed by fire Tuesday in r- Saginaw bay summer resort.

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'Alala jAUrnal tfnaaratara. V. t. weather area a tcmacraaanav COAL SUPPLY IS DEPLETED Russell Brine, vetrmn Aociji1rd Prei( foreign correspondent returning ahroftd the exchange lilp Grlpaholm after more than two year In Japanese internment camps, throws new light nn conditions in Japan in the following dispatch from Port Elizabeth one of the first accounts to come out of Japanese-held territory In over a year. Brines was captured fcy th Japanese In Manila, and after a period of internment there was transferred to Shanghai in September.

1M2. lie served in the Associated Press bureau In Tokyo for two years before going to the Philippines in 1941. A graduate of Pomona college, he joined the Associated Press in Honolulu in 1935.) By RUSSELL BRINES PORT ELIZABETH, Union of South Africa, Nov. 3 (JP) Swept by a wave of wartime fanaticism and tightly governed by the army, the Japanese people show no indication of any crack in morale despite mounting shortages of commodities, travelers returning from Japan say. Residence In Japan during two years of the empire's greatest struggle has convinced them the Japanese people will support the war See BRINES Page 2 G11AT1 Lansing Workeri to Share In WLB Award, on Basil Of 4 8 -Hour Week Liberalized vacation payments for more than 400,000 employes of the General Motors corporation, includ ing approximately 10,000 Lansing workers, have been approved by the war labor board, according to an Associated Press dispatch I Washington Wednesday.

Instead of taking paid vacations, the employes will receive the equivalent of a 48-hour week's pay for one year of service and 86 hours pny for five years or more of service, and will remain on the Job. Employes must have been on the pay roll as of July 1, or have been laid off since May 1 to be eligible. The plan differs from one adopted previously, in an agreement between the corporation and the U. A. W.

C. I. only in the fact that the war labor board upheld the union's request, agreed to by the corpora tion, that payments be on the basis of a 48-hour rather than a 40-hour week. Now on Longer Week The board's decision Increases the basis of payment from a 40-hour week to a 48-hour week on grounds the plants are now working the longer week. Overtime and night shift premium rates are not included in reckoning the vacation rate, however.

Some employes who do not qualify for the vacation payments on this basis, but who have worked 75 percent of the pay periods between July 6. 1942, and July 4. 1943. and have the seniority requirements, See G. M.

Page months of this year, Heyns reported, adding that in similar periods of 1940 two were committed; three the following year and five in 1942. Fifty-four 16-year-olds went to prison In those same nine months, he said. The number was eight In those months of 1940 and in 1941, but leaped to 22 in the first nine months of 1942 The prisons swallowed 141 17-year-olds In those months, Heyns continued. The number in the similar period of 1940 was 81. In 1941 it was 84, and in 1942 it was 93.

Heyns said he considered it significant that in the 18-year-age group, the minimum for the draft, the total was 115 in the first nine months of his year. The totals in those months of past years were: 103 in 1940, 99 in 1941 and 104 in 1942. The number of 19-year-olds sent to prison in the first three quarters of this year dropped to 106, compared with 122, 91 and 108 In similar periods of 1940-41-42, while in the 20-year-age group the number was 84, compared with 111, 85 and 102. Educate Young Convicts "It is significant and distressing," Heyns said, "that of the 1,540 per sons committed to prison in the first nine months of this year. 34 percent were minors, while in 1940 23 per- 6ee DELINQUENCY Face 1 INCREASED naval appointment in August.

Mr. Crego has been serving as acting mayor. He will be officially sworn in to serve in his own right after the official canvass of votes Thursday night. the other hand, said that he would have led the mayor in the primary without the support of the Negro voters In Tuesday's voting FitzGerald received virtually all of the Negro vote again, the total running ahead of the 28,000 he was given In the primary. In one "Paradise Valley" (east side Negro section district FitzGerald got 418 votes to Jeffries' 17; in another he won 222 to 8 and in a third his margin was 325 to 17.

In a statement following his election Jeffries called upon all the elements that opposed him to forget the bitterness of the campaign and unite in the city's war production effort. Wants No Bitterness "I sincerely hope," Jeffries said, "that all bitterness engendered in this campaign will be quickly dissolved. I feel no bitterness whatever toward Mr. FitzGerald or toward tho.se groups which opposed me in this campaign." During the campaign. FitzGerald accused Jeffries of "feeding the fires of race prejudice and class hatred" See JEFFRIES Page 2 ir it ULUGI MYJUMED 'For Lease' Sign Goes Up on Quarters Here; 'Double Talk Preceded Move Final chapter in the "off-record" move to abolish the Lansing OPA field office was written here Wednesday when a "for lease" placard went up at the headquarters here in the Cahill building, Capitol avenue at Ottawa street.

W. E. Witzgerald, district OPA director at Detroit, announced at the same time that abolition of the local office was for "economy measures and field men and investigators for the district will maintain quarters in the local war ration board." This decision was made public here Wednesday after most of the local organization already had been disbanded and office furniture, for the most part, had been shifted to Lansing's new west side rationing board. In addition to price and investigation departments, the area rent control office, also' having quarters in the Cahill building' is expected to be transferred to the west side board office "probably by December 1," Charles P. Van Note, director, said Wednesday.

Fitzgerald's announcement relative to the closing pointed out that "there have been several resignations in the Lansing office which have not been filled due to a lack See OPA Page 2 NO. 4 RATION BOOKS AVAILABLE AT BOARDS Residents here and throughout the county who neglected or were unable to obtain No. 4 ration books during the first registration period, will be able to get these new books, starting Thursday morning at 9 o'clock, either at the ration board office in the Michigan theater arcade or at Mason. Residents were again warned that a No. 3 book must be presented with each application for a new No.

4 book. OF DETROIT. Nov. 3 (V-Mayor Edward J. Jeffries was re-elected in Tuesday's biennial non partisan! municipal election by a margin of 31.982 votes over Frank FitzGerald who had the endorsement of a large part of tbe city's union labor or-ganizations The tbtaTvote of 383.616 fell considerably short of early predictions of the city's election experts and failed to double the turnout of the primary in which Jeffries ran second to FitzGerald.

In reversing the primary outcome Jeffries took 207,799 votes to Fitz-Gerald's 175,817. Boosts Primary Vote Thus Jeffries, supported by Detroit's three English language dallies as well as some sections of the American Federation of Labor, and campaigning on issues of experience, the racial problem and the charge that organized labor was seeking to control the city government, boosted his primary vote by nearly 150.000. FitzGerald, -who criticised the mayor's management of the street railway system, his proposal for an occupational tax to provide post-war jobs and his handling of the racial disorders last June, managed to increase his primary strength by only about 78,000 votes. The tabulation of votes at the city hall Tuesday night offered little encouragement to Jeffries in its early stages. The mayor trailed until all but the last 200 of the city's 1.057 voting precincts had been counted.

At one stage of the tabulation FitzGerald had a lead of nearly 19,000. Trend Swings to Jeffries The trend swung quickly to Jeffries, however, as the last precincts, mostly In the outlying heavily populated areas came in. Jeffries is the first Detroit mayor in 25 years to be elected to a third term. In the campaign his supporters asserted that the. heavy Negro vote polled by FitzGerald in the primary represented virtually the entire voting strength of the Negro population.

FitzGerald, on Disregarding to Work Order war industries and prompted Ickes to forbid dealers to deliver coal to any home which has more than a 10-days supply. Deliveries were limited to one ton. Ickes also diverted 2,000,000 tons of soft coal on trains toward Industrial plants. The secretary urged home owners to share their extra supply with neighbors who need help. Union miners in the field were outspoken in continuing the strike until instructed by U.

M. W. headquarters to do otherwise. John J. Hanpatty, union official at Birmingham, asserted that Ickes and Lewis "can reach an agreement" If the WLB "would quit playing politics." He said he hoped for a solution "within the next 48 hours." Said Jim Eubank, president of the local in Fayette county, W.

"I am not going back to work." An official of District 19 said Kentucky and Tennessee miners would stay away from tbe pits. Coal cutters, who must be on the job before the mines can produce, remained away from West Virginia workings last night which made it certain that nothing could be turned out in any event today. The feeling prevailed in this state that only a order from Lewis would change the situation. Juvenile Delinquency Rise Shown in Prison Records By G. MILTON KELLY (Associated Press Writer) Michigan's prison system Wednesday reported the story of the gravity of the juvenile delinquency problem is written graphically in their records, which list nearly 800 'teen age" youths behind their bars, and the rate of committal rising.

The report showing 12 youths 15 years old serving sentences in adult penal institutions, 65 16-year-olds, 199 17-year-olds, and 240 18-year olds was made public as Governor Kelly called together two groups cooperatively attacking the delin quency problem. Garrett Heyns, state corrections director who supervises adult penal institutions, said a survey of the ages of persons committed to prison in the first nine months of the year disclosed an unbroken decline in the number of persons over the age of 18 sentenced to prison. He said he believed the draft and greater opportunity for honest, gainful employment explained reduced criminality in that age group, but that increases shown in convictions of younger persons "are a shocking thing which requires intelligent study and action." Commitments in Abrupt Rise Seven 15-yrnr-old youths were sent to prison in the first' nine.