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River Stages low 8 Lock Dam 28; pool 418.28 Tnll water 399.90 ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH (Established January IS, 1836) 5c Per Copy ALTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943 Member of The Associated Press Weather Forecast Slightly Warmer- 26 to 30 ids Called on ond Issue for "orking' Fund Street Light Contract Union, Western ft I ID 1 'I 4h Permit City to Borrow from Self Without Interest layor Explains Plan an Must Be Repaid Could Be Issued on Council Vote lids were called by the City jncil, Wednesday night, on a issue of $30,000 to $150,000 create a "working cash" fund, which the city itself would row to meet running expenses, it now borrows from banks. Offered City at Lower Rate Charge Diner Cook Murdered Ensign's Bride ALBANY, Jan. 28 A first degree murder charge which authorities said was based on circumstantial evidence and a reported confession, has been brought against a dining car cook oo rifl in the slaying of a navy brifle aboard a California-bound passenger train last Saturday. District Attorney Harlow Wein rick filed the charge in justice court yesterday, Folkes. 20, Los naming Robert Angeles, seconc loans, under the statute pro- ing for such a bond issue, would repaid to the "working cash" id.

The bonds could be Issued vote of the council, without a erendum of the people, fhe council vote was on a reso- ion after Mayor Struif had ex- lined the proposal, and after a by Alderman Kennedy, i-enth ward, seconded by Shane the same ward, to postpone the te had been defeated. It was pointed out in council bate that the vote to call for Is was not a commitment to cept bids or to issue bonds. Text of Resolution The resolution was presented by derman Dooley, Third ward, airman of the finance and seconded by Alderman ivey, First ward. The resolution "Be it resolved, by the City mncil that the -finance mmittec is hereby and directed to solicit bids for issuance of bonds in the sum not less than $30,000 nor more an $150,000 to create a 'Work- Cash Fund' for the City of lion, in accordance with the 141 Illinois statutes the iccessful bidder to furnish the reposed bond ordinance to be sreafter passed by the City of iton, and also to furnish the irms of bonds lo be issued there- nder." Mayor Slruif, explaining the (solution, pointed put that for everal years the city has been orrowing above the limit, nd fn periods forbidden by the iw. He recalled that, in the 30's le city was forced to skip a pay- ay toward the end of the year.

flans lo the city, on tax-antici- ation warrants, have been made hrough the indulgence of the anks, the mayor added. That ractice, Struif added, cannot-be ontinued, under banking regula- ions. Cites Statute The present situation began, he several years ago, dur- ng the depression period when tax quendes increased. The refer a number of years has ieen that toward the close of its 'iscal year, the city government Bnds Itself without funds and with month or more of the year to operate. With anticipations at the legal limit, the city cannot meet Its running expenses for that interim, the mayor said.

He then stated that, under an nois statute, cities may issue ids, on vote of the council, to up a working cash fund. From (und, the city may borrow the period toward the close of fiscal year. Then, when tax ftnue for the new year Is avail- re, the city must repay that 4 The law strictly limits the 5 of the "working Struif ded, and places upon the treas- rer the duty of repaying all loans it as soon us revenue is avail- lie. The "working fund" may not used for any other purpose, and from ii may be made only vote of thi' City Council. Under the statute, the mayor ntmued, a city could issue up to 00,000 in working cash bonds, the only limit the total that ul(i be amortized by a 'h of one percent tax cook aboard a unit of the Southern Pacific's west coast, limited as defendant.

He is held In IMS Angeles, where, Weinrick was informed, he 'made a statement admitting the killing. The charge against Folkes constituted the first important development In the fantastic case since the morning, five days ago, when the body of Mrs. Martha Virginia James, 21, of Norfolk, was Reduction of $3650 in the cost of treet lighting has been proposed by Union Electric Co. for a new 10-year contract to replace the one now in force, Mayor Struif told the City Council, Wednesday night. The present contract has two years to run, said the mayor, and officials of the power company have Informed him the firm Is do- sirious of signing a contract to replace the one now In force.

The proffered reduction In rate is on street lights exclusive of the white way systems, the mayor said The city now has 661 lamps OJ 250 watts each, at a cost of S30.60 each; and 61 lamps of 600 watts each at a cost of $50.76 each, said Mayor Struif. Proposed by Ahe company is a rate of $26.40 each for the 250 watt lamps; and a rate of for the 600-watt lights. This would be a reduction of $4.20 each on the 250-watt, and $5.88 on the 600-watt lamps. An over-all reduction of $3650 or 13.5 percent Is indicated. Struif added.

Seek Approval Of Wage Boost Ask War Labor Board For Prompt Action on Request Make Joint 1 Plea Russians Threaten German Hold on Maikop Oil Fields Allies Blast 2 Italian Ships Agency Had Held Hike Might Influence Election found in the aisle of, a sleeping i car on the speeding train. The young woman, four months' bride of another Virginian, Ensign Richard P. James, had slashed across the throat as she lay in lower berth 13 of D. In Los Angeles Defective Capt. Verne Rasmussen said Folkes admitted the killing, saying he had stabbed Mrs.

James with a sharp boning knife at the instigation of another unidentified man. The price now paid for the 250- Fire in Milton District Routs Family of Six Early-Morning Blaze Destroys Franor Street Residence Mr. and Mrs. L. 1 Ahtrobus and their six children, resided at 3201 Franor street, wfre left homeless at 3 m.

when fire destroyed their 3-room, house. one- levy, "Ivalcnt to a 10-cent rate. Borrowing; in 1 ic largest sum ever borrowed 'ty in a single year was said Slruif. Then, outlin- advantages of the bond-Issue he asserted that If the issued $150.000 in bonds and a working cash fund, bor- The location of the Antrobus home feeing outsiisle was ho fire protections Tfwhwtte and contents were destroyed, me family had just time enough to escape from the burning building. An electric sewing machine was said to have been the only article saved from the house.

Antrobus, who is a war worker In the plant of Western Cartridge said he was awakened at 3 a. m. by what he believed was an electric light that some one had left turned on in the kitchen. Getting up from his bed he discovered the light was coming from flames in the kitchen. Arousing the family, he and his wife set to work getting their children out of bed and carried them to the home of Mr.

and Mrs. N. Rodgers who live next door. Just enough bed clothing to wrap the smaller children was taken along ahead of the flames. The six children varied in age from 2 to.

13 years. Today all that remained of the building were the remains of a heating stove and parts of a piano that had gone through the fire. The house occupied by the Antrobus family was known as the old Nev Carter home. Antrobus was quoted as saying he had a small amount of insurance, about enough "to cover one third of the loss." A number of women in the Milton area were today setting about making clothing for the children of the family. Steel Biggest Ship Bottleneck, Says Land WASHINGTON, Jan.

28, Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, told an executive session of the Senate military affairs committee today that steel was the biggest "bottle neck" against a merchant ship construction program of 20,000,000 deadweight tons this year. He the committee that the 300,000 additional workers needed to reach such a goal could be found among women, men above the draft age and men with minor incapacities exempting them from armed force duly. He said he was opposed to compulsory manpower distribution unless it wag abso- watt lamps Is less than that provided in the present contract, due to a voluntary reduction by Union Electric, said Struif. The contract has not been offered as yet, but company officials have indicated the reductions that would be made, the mayor continued.

The contract will be before the next meeting 'of the council, the mayor stated, adding that the proposed reduction in rate would not affect the 2-percent tax on commercial lighting now paid by Union Electric. Several aldermen inquired as to the company's reasons for offering the reduction, but the mayor said he was possessed- only of the facts he had given the council. New contracts, in advance of the expiration of old agreements, had been proposed in other cities, he said, providing for rate reductions. PetitionsFor Parking Meter Vote, in EAST ALTON, Jan. 28 American Federation of Labor and Western Cartridge Co.

representatives joined today in asking the Wat Labor Board to approve a wage crease for employes of the big war plant. The telegram, addressed to WLB Chairman William H. DaVls, was signed by Fred Olds and C. E. Bundy for the A.

F. of and Roy W. Kelly for Western: "The American Federation of Labor joins with Western Cartridge "Co. in requesting the War Labor Board to take immediate action upon the pending request for approval of ail increase in the hourly wage rates and changes in the bracket system with the under-, standing that all other pending matters are to be taken collective bargaining without prejudice because of this telegram." The joint action came only 48 hours after the A. F.

of L. decisively won an N. L. R. B.

election to determine the collective bargaining agent for production and maintenance workers at Western. The company asked permission from the WLB on Nov. 10 to grant a general 5-cent-a'n-hour increase, and to change wage brackets and boost the minimum hiring rate in many jobs. the changes proposed by the company was an increase from 48 cents to 55 cents in the hiring rate for women machine operators, and from 54. to 55 cents for the maximum rate.

Hiring rates tor men machinist helpers wjfiuld be raised from 63 to 74 cents, and the maximum from 75 to 80. required to obtain the jiSfaxirnum Air Offensive Resumed Over Tunisia; Nazi Supplies Raked U.S.Casualties in Tunisia Total 1258, Knox Reveals RAF and 12th Air Force Combine in Attack on Trucks Lull in Ground Action Torrential Downpour Bogs Down Important Roads Want Question Placed on Ballot at City Election increase A petition to the mayor and City Council asking that the puestion of retaining parking meters in Alton be put to a vote of the citizens at the April elebtion has been put in circulation by a committee of businessmen which long has opposed use of the devices. The petition forms read: "We, the undersigned businessmen, and residents of the City on the eve of an election may endanger the fairness of the election." The board promised, however, that if it approved an increase after the election, the boost would be retroactive to Nov. 10. WPB Seizes 196 New Trucks, Cars Africa Springboard For Allied Drive ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan.

28. 48-hour conference here attended by the best military brains in Britain and America today sharply foreshadowed the day when the United I Nations will use North Af rica as a sping- board into Europe. The military chief conferred with Lieut. Gen. Dwight D.

Elsenhower, commander In chief of the Allied expeditionary force in North Africa, after speeding eastward from the Casablanca conference of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. That they came to this theater after the policy making Casablanca conference was tak- eh an indication the Allies Consider a Mediterranean of fen "sivie against the Axis as one of the best bids for victory. All the conferences centered around Gen. Eisenhower. This combined with the presence of Allied leaders was taken as an indication, the Allies are plan ning a union of all forces in the Mediterranean Into one great theater with a coordinate command.

Such a step has long been foreseen by military experts as a necessity. Leaders Played At Backgammon Daring War Talk ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 28, Decisions which will guide United Nations' strategy in this critical year of the war apparently were shaped largely over a backgammon board. During their 10 days in Casablanca, Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt did much of their work at night and did not retire until 2 or 3 a. long after most of the members of their party.

At these night sessions the President and the Prime Minister often played backgammon while discussing and formulating the world strategy of the United Nations. Til Speak My Mind, 9 Rubber Czar Declares Says OWI 'Made a Mistake' in Urging Censorship of Alton in order to determine lutely necessary. Penalty Aimed at Union Interference With Trucking whether the citizens of the City of Alton are in favor of having the city continue the operation of uarking meters, request you to kindly place this issue on the ballot in the city election in April, 1943." H. F. Wadlow, Upper Alton shoe dealer and a member of.the group sponsoring the petitions, said that only signatures of bona fide residents of Alton who are of voting age are being sought to the petition.

If the parking meters win an affirmative majority at the election, he said, the committee will go before the council and formally withdraw its opposition to the devices. The call for the city election will bo authorized by the council at Its next meeting, hence there must be relatively early filing of the petition now being circulated for it to receive aldermanic attention. The meters came up for brief comment in City Council last night. Alderman Kennedy of Seventh ward said that, with parking meter receipts declining due to wartime restrictions on use of cars, he would bring In a resolution to keep only the meters paid for. He urged the council committee on meters to hold a meeting In Upper Alton in the near future to hear of the opposition to meters among businessmen.

Up to the first of this year the citv had received gross receipts of a little more than $23,000 on the parking meters, and had paid to the meter manufacturer three-fourths or approximately $17,500 as rent to apply for purchase of the meters at total cost of about $26,000. This financial showing was on a yean, ex The meter Installation September. NEW YORK, Jan. 28 The War Production Board today requisitioned 196 new trucks and automobiles from a corporation, charging the concern failed to take proper care of them. The action was directed against the Lasky Motor Car Corp.

of Brooklyn, William McCaw, chief of the WPB requisition branch, said. He added it the first action of its kind. McCaw said he acted under Conservation Order M-216, which set up standards for proper care, preservation and maintenance of motor vehicles. Six were to be moved this afternoon from a vacant lot and the other 190 were In storage in Brooklyn McCaw said. The seized vehicles will be put In nearby garages and the method and amount of payment to be made to the company will be determined later.

Max Lasky, company president, said he was ordered to disassemble his cars, which he said numbered tower than 140, by Dec. 31, but was able to process only about 30 because of shortage of labor and equipment. Early In January, he said, he asked the WPB for a 30-day extension but received no reply until he was informed today of the vehicles had been requisitioned. By WKS GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 28, Allied air forces have resumed the offensive in Tunisia with 'a series of attacks on Nazi ground targets and a blast at two Italian destroyers, one of which was left in a sinking condition, the Allied spokesman announced today.

Bad weather limited ground activity to patrolling. B-25 Mitchell bombers, escorted by P-38 Lightnings, found the two destroyers 100 miles off Tunis in the Mediterranean narrows and scored two direct hits that left one burning and shipping water. The RAF and the 12th air force combined in sweeps with Spitfires, Lightnings, Warhawks and Boston Bombers, raking Nazi transports Continued on rage 2, Column 8. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 American casualties to date in Tu- isia have totaled 1,258 dead, vounded and missing, Secretary of War Stlmson said today.

The Tunisian casualties of Unil- States army forces include 226 men listed as missing who have seen reported taken prisoners, Stlmson said, while 211 have been 'eported killed, 532 wounded and mother 289 listed as missing. Revised reports of the recent irmored raid by American forces against enemy positions in central Tunisia showed these results, he said: two. United States soldiers were killed and two tanks were ost; the enemy had 25 killed and .50 men taken prisoner. Stimson, declining any general comment on the historic Casa- Vazi Captives At Stalingrad Flay Flight of Their Leaders conference of loosevelt and Prime President Minister Churchill of Britain, said they "undoubtedly were heartened by the continued good news from the battlefronts." Remarking that in all theaters 'all of our air operations have been brilliantly Stimson said that during the last 11 months of 1942 army fliers shol down or probably destroyed 1,345 enemy aircraft, against a loss of 309. with the meters In use xtended trial period on the expires next 'P'oved legislation today to "moor lexers to 'UK'S and ImnHcnn "Provided Jan, 28, Judiciary" committee sub- and imprisonment the 1934 anil- in cases Involving with Interstate com- Uck ent, such ai blocking BnlpnicHljj fhe comma lee-, action in cxecu- WHS on a split vote, ot New York bill, which Rep.

Hobbi, Alabama. i 'Itttkm would subject to "Wtwuncm en8lly of 20 er ing aw ith huJmJS commerce movements during wartime. Hobbs said It was aimed at practices of some labor unions blocking truck shipments because union labor was not employed. Sponsors of labor control leguJa- tion wld privately the Hobbs bill was the first move in what they expected to develop Into a concerted program to curb practices of labor organizations. Southern members of the House, ai and Representative Smith, Democrat, Virginia, Jong have sought unsuccwafuWy obtain enactment of such With the Increased in the House, the group said their chance were much bettei thiui for now Striking Dressmakers Ordered Back to Work NEW YORK.

Jan. 28 W-Approx- imaU-ly 26.000 New York were ordered to return to Way David Dublnsky, president of the International La- dcs Garment Workers Union (APW, after a two-day stoppage a result of a dispute with five employer associations. DublnsKy said he ordered the of the dres.makerii un- affiliate, back to heir jobs last night after the War Board had informed the un- would take UP the dispute tho returned Jap Float Planes Fail in Attack on U. S. Ships WASHINGTON, Jan.

28. The navy announced today that two Japanese float planes attacked United Slates ships somewhere west of our positions in the Aleutian Islands. No damage was suffered, the navy sold. It was the first such Japanese attack in the Aleutian Islands In months, a navy spokesman said. The Japanese planes probably were operating out of Kiska.

What type of United States ships were attacked was not specified. Text of the communique number 264: "North Pacific: "1. On Jan. 28th, two Japanese float attacked United Slates ships operating to the westward of our positions in the Aleutian Islands, No damage was suffered. South Pacific east longitude).

(all dales are "2. On Jan. 2Cth, United States troops on Guadalcanal Island continued to advance to the west despite stiff enemy resistance, Forty Japanese were killed and five prisoners and some enemy equipment were captuir Drydock Tied Up Above City Floating drydock, which cradled the S. S. Peto, first Inland-built naval submarine, on Its trip to New Orleans, apparently found it difficult to break through the Ice of the Mississippi river about Alton harbor after it left the locks Wednesday at mid-forenoon, for the craft, which Is being pushed by the i was backed downstream this morning and tied up above the waterworks.

The drydock took a path tip- stream, which had been broken through the Ice Wednesday morn- Ing by small barge and low boat coining down the river, but It stopped for several hours near lllinl island apparently when I he lee became too packed for it to proceed farther. About 5 p. m. a small bout ana a huge craft met the AvyAocb. The large boat passed and proceeded downstream through the lee until it.

reached the Mississippi Co, dock and tied up for the night. The small boat cut a path for the "Minnesota" and Us tow until the two craft reached a point about 200 feet off the shore ol Greenwood Island. There they anchored for the night. Charles Noman, a veteran rivermun. told the Telegraph.

morning at 7 the "Minnesota" and the drydock backed downstream und remained liwi up at noon. Shortly afternoon, however, the Uij' Up rlvor was resumed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, Rubber Director William Jeffei doesn't think he violated any pres identlal orders when he said arm aqd, production expediter were "loafers" who Interfered wit war production. His office confirmed today thfl Jeffers intends to "speak my mind when asked about the rubber pro gram, despite a letter from Elme Davis, director of the Office of Wa Information, reminding him tha President Roosevelt has instructe government officials not lo a their disputes in public and to sub mil all public statements to OW for clearance.

Davis' letter said, "The public airing of such conflicts and particularly in the language attributed to you not only contributes to confusion at home but furnishes ammunition to the propaganda machines of our enemies. OWI's 'Mistake' "Such incidents can be avoided in the future if you will be good enough to submit to the OWI for appropriate clearance any remarks that you intend to make on occasions where such utterances are likely to reach the public." Jeffers was not immediately available for comment on the letter, but his associates said he hail voiced "the utmost respect for Mr. Davis' views" while feeling nevertheless that the OWI chief had "made a mistake." The remarks in Baltimore earlier this week were murte in answer to questions nt r. round table conference of the council of state governments and were not in any sense a speech, they said. "But it Is now 14 months since Pearl Harbor, and one year since the synthetic rubber plant appropriations were made," Jeffcrs was quoted by a spokesman.

Ills Only Concern "In all those months not a single pound of synthetic- rubber has been mmlc by those plants," he cd. "I know the capacity of business In this country if it can once get rolling, and my only concern is to help get It rolling." To accomplish this aim, Jcffers was quoted, "I will speak my mind." Jeffers currently is involved In a clash with the army and navy over which should get top priority ratings for equipment and material, UK? rubber program on one hand or the aviation gasoline and escort ship programs on the other. Duvis told his press conference yesterday Jeffers' remarks wore "clearly a contravention of thi' Fire, 'Buster' Bombs Hurled At Duesseldorl Raid Is 4th'iii-Past Tw Days German Industry (President's) loiter Davis, Mdld not muko his letter lo JefCers -''public, but Jeffors had no hesitancy in doing so. A spoki'sniiiii Miid Ji-f fern Intended lo comply with tin; rules governing clenrnnet; of public utterances but Unit In- nevertheless Intended to Hlvt; his views directly und fully when called upon for information Davla miute an honest mistake, 11 rubber director was represented bc-HovIng, in thinking that replies to forum questions In IJal limure wme tin official state-men planned for public litler and Officers 'Ran and Left Prisoners Say Two Towns Fall Reds Retake Points 19 and 25 Miles from Oil Center By ALFRED K. WALL LONDON, Jan.

28, UP) Th RAF hit the German city of Dues seldorf with several hundred tor of high explosives and Incendlar bombs last night during the fourl Allied aerial blow at the Germa war machine In two night and clay, it was announced today. "Preliminary of las night's raid on the Rhineland jancasters and Hallfaxes show sev eral hundred tons of high explo sives and incendiary bombs wer dropped on Duesseldorf in 20 mil utcs," an authoritative statemer said. 6 Planes Lost The Air Ministry had reported hat six bombers were missing from a heavy attack on industrial objectives in the Rhineland, which continued a cycle of raids featured by the first U. S. Air Force assault on the Reich and the first bombing of Copenhagen.

Duesseldorf, a center of transport and heavy industry in northwest Germany, is 160 miles southwest of the Wilhelmshaven naval mse which, with Emdon, was licav- ly pounded yesterday by United States heavy bombers. The German high command, in a communique broadcast from Berlin, sought to discount the effect of the American blows. Striking buck by daylight, German fliers attacked a southeast coast town of England this morning, Inflicting considerable damage and some casualties. Some of Britain's biggest aircraft, Lancustors and Halifaxes, each capable of carrying four two- ton blockbusters were officially reported lo have participated in the blows against the Rhineland. By EDDY OILMORE MOSCOW, Jan.

28, Russians continued the merciless extermination of the doomed Germans before Stalingrad today, quoting prisoners as denouncing Hitler and officers who "ran away and left us," and widened the Caucasus front westward by capturing two cities close to the Maikop oil fields. (The Germans announced a new retreat west of Voronezh to a shortened line. The communique said their Stalingrad forces shattered new attacks.) 60 Fliers Seized Pravda reported 60 German, aviators were captured near Stalingrad when the Red army was driving the from behind into the city. One captured pilot said the German fliers came only recently from Sicily. The eruption, of new fighting in western Caucasus was disclosed with the capture, of Apsheronskaya and Neftegorsk.

Apsheronskaya, is, than 19 miles from Maikop' and Neftegorsk is 25 miles southwest of the oil center which was' burned and blasted by the Russians before they moved'out in the face of the German advance early last summer. The news of this advance, tying in with other successes reported in the Caucasus which would help encircle the Maikop area, came as the Russians pushed another spear-' head into the arc bristling against Rostov and as fresh reports came of the surrender of thousands of cold, war-weary Axis troops on other fronts. (The Russian midday communi- que as recorded in London by the Soviet radio monitor told of the capture of a number of towns in last night's fighting in the Caucasus but did not Identify them. 8500 Surrender (By last night the Russians figured the force at 8500 with hundreds surrendering to the Red army forces that, hemmed them in.) The latest thrust toward Rostov was from Salsk, whence a Red army spur had raked northwest- Continued on Puge 2, Column 7. Mutinies Among Nazis At Bayonne Reported MOSCOW, Jan.

28. Tass News Agency published today a dispatch from Bern which suid it was reliably reported that mutinies broke out last month in German units stationed at Bayonne and Dijon, France, when they were ordered to the Russian front. Four German officers and 18 men were shot at Bayonne, the dispatch said, while a platoon of Infantry at Dijon which protested against being sent to Russia was disarmed und sent under escort in sealed cur's to Germany. East'Side Jury Indicts Three In 'Pacific Movement' Probe WASHINGTON, '28 A two-count sedition Indictment charging thai Japan's notorious Black Dragon Society launched nationwide movement to alienate the loyally of American Negroes has been rolunie.1 by federal grand jury at East St. Louis, III.

Attorney General Biddle announced the Indictment late yesterday and said named tho Pacific Movement of tho Eastern World General (a na.me not a title) Butler, president of Hut corporation; David D. Erwln, its national adviser; und a Japanese described only as "John Doe." The charges were conspiracy to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny and refusal of duty in the armed forces, and conspiracy to hinder compliance with the selective service law. Tho justice naicl that. Nimo Guzman, 'lii, a Filipino now under for forgiuu mouov orders, WHS the actual lounder of the Pacific movement, which once claimed 100,000 members. The- department said that brunches had been established in 17 cities, chiefly in tho middle west and Including East St.

Louis, Mounds and Chicago, III. Tho Indictment covers only acts alleged to have been committed since Pearl Harbor, and concerns principally meetings held in East St. Louis under tin; leadership of Erwln or Butler, the department said. Jjullcr, a JHiillor who resides In East St. Louis, and Bt'Win, 42, a cook of si.

Units, both negroes, wciu arrested on the indictment lust night. Their bund WAS fixed at $5,000. Attorney General Biddle said the Negro population of the country had been "quick to condemn to weaken their JoyttHy by tin- bort of Axis propaganda employed In this case.".