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eathcr Report Tartly cloudy and warmer Saturday and also Sunday (Complete Report on Page M) METROPOLITAN FINAL EDITION On Guard for Over a Century- "Saturday, September 20, 1941. No. 139 626 Ill th 20 Pages Three Cents ESPIONAGE MADE EASY Detrokcr Just Wrote to 'Aircraft Compan ies andTheyToUHimAU-orNearly City and County to Fight New $500,000 Increase in Gas Rates for Detroit Ewald Plans lo Appeal His Conviction Ex-Couneilman Grim as Jury Finds Hint Guilty in Bribe Case? Says Fund Was 'Gift' which developed one horsepower.f new devices in landing gear and a JyazisTake Kiev; Report Reds in Trap Third City of Soviet Falls in Big Drive; Half-Million Russians Declared in Net Br the Associated Press The Russian armies of the south appeared early Saturday to be facing imminent and perhaps general disaster. Kiev, the capital of the rkraine, the third city of the SAW TROUBLE AHEAD Youthful 'Green Hornet9 Tries to Hang Himself in ail Prosecutor Calls Boost Unnecessary- State Issues Revised l' Order to Company; Old Unit Is Abolished 'i i rly Mie Aitodiileil Press JNKW YORK, Sept. 19 Middle-aged BMmund C.

Heine's quest for American aviation information was translated by the Government late today into an alleged scheme to transmit to Germany important technical intelligence on prized developments in the aircraft industry. Heine, a Detroiter and former plant manager in Europe for the Ford Motor raised no objection to testimony of a dozen witnesses regarding his travels and his correspondence asking Information on aviation subjects. His counsel, George Gordon Battle, developed these aspects of the "case with a few friendly questions in each cross-examination. Trotest Two Articles But when two lengthy technical articles were offered, signed "Heinrich" which the indictment cites as one of Heine's several aliases --Battle was on his feet protesting vigorously. He contended that the Government had not shown the connection between Heine's curiosity and the details which the Government said were passed on to a spy ring for transmission to Germany.

Federal Judge Mortimer 1 Byers, presiding at the trial of Heine and 15 others charged with espionage conspiracy, admitted the papers, subject to the Government's establishing Heine's authorship. William G. Sebold, who said that he was assigned to espionage by the German Gestapo and then turned his commission over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, identified the papers ss having been given him by Lily Stein one of 17 who pleaded guilty to 'one or both counts of the indictment. Air Data Condensed The papers, embracing several thousand words of condensed specifications, told of the development of Diesel airplane engines, the supply of Pratt and Whitney motors to Grumman, Lockheed, Bellanca, Waco and other planes; a new General Motors engine, $6,000 Homes in Detroit Get Priority Rating U.S. Acts to Shelter Defense Workers Br the Asoillril Press WASHINGTON, Sept.

19 Builders of homes costing less than $6,000 in 275 designated defense areas, including Detroit, were given first call today on copper, zinc, electrical supplies, hardware other materials needed for construction. The Government priorities order will make it more difficult to obtain building materials in other areas or for other types of homes, defense officials said. Donald M. Nelson, defense priorities director, said that the order would apply to 200,000 privately financed homes and to 100,000 to be built by Government agencies. Quotas have been worked out for each of the areas, but they were not disclosed.

To obtain priority assistance, the builder in a defense area must apply to the local office of the Federal Housing Administration. Nelson said that the FHA offices would be utilized in order to put the plan into effect quickly, although it has no connection with FHA mortgage-Insured activities. No application will be considered until it is demonstrated that the homes will be available to defense workers, with prices within their reach, and at locations convenient to their employment. The highest preference rating will be assigned to defense housing projects which were under construction at the beginning of this month and to remodeling and rehabilitation jobs designed to create additional living quarters for defense workers. Lower ratings will be given to new construction for rent and a still lower rating to new houses to be offered for sale.

To qualify under the plan a house must be Turn to rage 3, Column 1 Bert Edward Smith, 19 years, old, self-styled "Green Hornet" who on Sept. 9 was sentenced by Traffic Judge Thomas Maher to 20 days after he had been convicted of driving without an operator's license, attempted suicide late Friday night in his cell In the Detroit House of Correction. Guards making their rounds found Smith, who had been caught driving without a license on three occasions, hanging from a water pipe with a belt and towel around his neck, according to A. B. Gillies, superintendent, Gillies, who ordered Smith taken to Receiving Hospital for observation, said that the' youth had told him he was worried about the negligent-homicide charge he.

was to face in Pontiac upon his release from jail. The warrant was recommended following the death of a six-year-old Pontiac girl last April. Court records show that Smith's license was revoked by State Police July 3. Then on Aug. 2 he was Involved in an accident at Elmhurst and Monterey and on Aug.

13 he was apprehended for running through a stop street at Schoolcraft and Wyoming. Charged with reckless driving, he pleaded guilty Aug. 25. The "Green Hornet" was fined three times in the last year and officers stated that he had eluded them on six other occasions. Following the revocation of his license, Smith got an instruction permit under an alias.

On April Baruch Urges One-Man Rule over Prices Says Henderson Is Man for Job By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 Ber nard M. BarUch appealed urgently to Congress today to toss the "busi ness as usual theory out the window for the duration of the emergency, urged universal price curbs under one-man rule and. in passing, criticized the British con duct of the war. The tall, white-haired New York financier who, as chairman of the War Industries Board, ran the nation's industrial mobilization for the World War with what he said were inadequate price controls, urged the House Banking Commit tee to revamp the Administration's price-control bill drastically.

Ask All Prices Controlled Criticizing the measure as "piecemeal," he said that it should provide for establishment of a ceiling over the entire price struc ture commodity prices, wages and rents. His mild criticism of the British war set-up came when Rep. Frederick C. Smith, Ohio Republican, asked whether It would not be better, in providing for administration of the price law, to take a cue from the British, who put it in the hands of the Board of Trade, rather than to give it to one man to handle. "I don't think much of the British system ofhandling the war," Baruch replied, adding quickly that he did not want to seem unpleasant.

"But they have had a lot of trouble a lot of disagreements. 1 wouldn't want to follow them." Lauds Henderson In advocating a one-man administration of the law, Baruch turned to Leon Henderson, present head of the Office of Price Administration, and said, "Here is the best qualified man for this job." Straddling a chair and folding his arms over its back, the witness repeatedly told the legislators that he and his associates had made many "grievous errors" during the Turn to Page 3, Column 8 SUNSPOTS, MAYBE City and county officials will. vigorously fight the $500,000 increase in Detroit gas rates or-derM Friday by the Michigan Public Service Commission, Wil liam E. Dowling, Wayne County prosecutor, announced Friday-night. Statine that there "was no rea son whatsoever for the increase," which becomes effective on meters read beginning Saturday morning, uuwung saia mat ne, James H.

Lee, assistant corporation counsel and a lonc-time leader in Detroit' fight against the gas rate, anl other officials would combat ths increase locally as well as in Wash-ington before the Federal Power Commission. "We'll also take the fight back to the Michlcan Publie Servlen Commission," Dowling said. Increase Divided Under the new ruling, spare heating customers will nav S2M 000 of the increase, and the vastly larger numner or customers whoj use gas for cooking and heating water will pay $268,000. The increase is designed to giva the Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. an annual income of $3,500,000,, or iVt per cent on the fair valu fixed by the commission, in November, 1940.

The readjustment of the rates also retains for De- troiters the $700,000 annual savings planned by the commission In 1940. Last November the commission reduced domestic rates $1,200,00 and Increased house and store-heating rates S600.000, but because of protest the heating-rate increase was abandoned. Friday action is to restore to the company the $500,000 income promised in the 1940 order. Old Vnit Abolished The new rate order abolishes! the Detroit Gas Unit as a measurement of gas consumption, and also enas tne conrusmg promotional and immediate rates oh which gs' bills have been computed since th introduction of natural gas. The new gas rates are based on sale of gas by the cubic foot.

For domestic consumers they are: Minimum monthly charge, Pfl cents a month, less 10 per cent for prompt payment, or 86 cents. Up to 1,000 cubic feet. 16 cents a 100 cubic feet, less 10 per cent for prompt payment, or 14.4 cents. Over 1,000 cubic feet, 13.2 a 101 feet, or 11.9 cents. Space-heating customers: For all gas.

7.2 a 100 cubic feet, less 10 per cent, or 6.5 cents. Chairman John J. O'Hara said that the change in rates would not affect persons who use up to 1,000 cubic feet a month and who pay their bills before discount day. Charging Two Rates The company has been charging domestic users an "immediate" rate and a "promotional" rate, intended to induce consumers to usi more gas. Using 2,000 cubic feeC as roughly equivalent to four Detroit Gas Units, in which the bills have been computed, commission statisticians said that a person, using 2,000 cubic feet now would, pay $2.63 a month.

Two thousand cubic feet is about! the amount of gas a typical small family uses in Detroit for cooking and water heating. The former penalty charge for' tardy payment of bills was 10 cents for each DGU. In the case of gas-furnace users this amounted to nearly 30 per cent. Substitution of a- straight 10 per cent penalty will save these customers up to $65,000 a year. For the very small user, the 10 per cent penalty charge is greater than 10 cents vast amount of other technical data.

Shows Letters of Inquiry Introduced at the trial without any objection from Heine were correspondence files. Heine on July 22, 1940, wrote to the Consolidated Aircraft San Diego, saying that, to settle "a few disputes among friends," he would appreciate information on a bomber which hc company had advertised as having required nine months "from conception to flight." Heine asked whether the company had referred to their B-24, and in a series of questions asked just what stages of production were included in "conception to flight." "If any of these questions are not answerable for military reasons," Heine's letter concluded, "please do not answer same." Norman Davidson, Consoli-dated's assistant contract administrator, identified the written matter with which he had "replied to Heine's queries a 500-word letter defining terms used the advertisement, and answering all questions except one about the number of man-hours of work on a plane. 11 Boyd Aldrich, a Washington aviation mechanics instructor, said that he responded to an advertisement that Heine had placed in a trade magazine asking for aviation instruction. "Heine told me he was anxious to be able to talk intelligently about aviation," testified Aldrich. "He mentioned his boy in Germany and said that he himself knew so little about aviation he couldn't even talk with his boy about a model airplane.

"I showed him around the Washington airport, and took him into the cabin of an American Airlines plane there. He asked me about supercharging on stcato-planea, and about condensers and auxiliary motors. "He wanted the location of all Turn to Page 2, Column 1 Knox Lifts Ban to Bare Repair of British Ships Reveals 12 Wareraft Are in Navy Yards By tlte Atsncluifd Prr-hi WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 The presence of 12 British war vessels in United States harbors among them the battleship Warspite was officially revealed by the Navy today in the first major modification of Anglo-American publicity policies since such ships began streaming into American ports for repairs and supplies. The decision to give out this information and follow it up with similar reports in the future apparently was designed to enable both Americans and Britons to comprehend the full extent of naval assistance being given Britain by the United States under the Lease-Lend program.

F.D.R. Reported on Fund (A few days ago, President Roosevelt reported that under the Lease-Lend program $78,169,377 had been spent in repairing and outfitting naval vessels and on military and naval bases.) Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced the policy change in a release issued by the Navy Department and said that it 4iad been agreed upon after several weeks of consultation with British authorities. It was promulgated on the general basis that while a reasonable degree of information would be given out "no information will be disclosed which might be of value to the enemy." Warspite on West Coast The Navy statement then listed the names of the 12 vessels and the ports in which they are. The Warspite, completed by the British in 1915 and armed with fifteen-inch guns, was reported at Bremer ton, Wash. Why she was there and the extent of her damages, if any, were not disclosed, nor were such facts given about any of the other vessels, listed as follows: Aircraft carriers: The sister ships Illustrious and Formidable both of 23,000 tons, finished in 1940, 735 feet long and normally Turn to Page Column 2 On the Sports Pages Today BASEBALL The St.

Louis Cardinals defeat the Chicago Cubs, 3 to 1, to cut the National League lead of the idle Dodgers to half a game. GOLF a i Row, of Meadowbrook, defeats Mrs. Don Weiss, of Flint, 4 and 2, in the thirty-six-hole final of the Women's district championship at Red Run. Sam Snead leads Hurst invitational with first-round record 64 at Philadelphia. Details of these and other events will be found on Pages 12, 13 and 14.

Grcenberg Balks i at Service Show Hank Greenberg, now a corporal at Fort Custer, has declined to take part in a nationwide radio program designed for Army en-iertainment and morale-building, it was announced Friday. The program, which is to be sponsored by the joint Army-Navy athletic subcommittee, will feature athletic champions and other outstanding personalities in 'the Army. Greenberg did not ex plain why he refused. for each poitnd it weighed; the Bell Airacobra which "operates efficiently at 36,000 feet" altitude; KDMIND 1IEINK Curious about airplanes the principles of the Boeing stratoliner; Bendix motors; hydraulic fuel systems; prbpellor types used by the Army and Navy; F.D.R.Silcnt on Report Naval Attack Axis Warship Said to Have Been Sunk By the Assoe iated Press HYDE PARK. Sept.

19-Presl- dent Roosevelt said at his press conference today that he did not know exactly when he would sign the nation's biggest tax bill, a $3,553,400,000 measure which he brought with him from Washington. Asked about a story in the London Daily Express that an American naval ship had sunk an Axis wareraft, the President said that he did not care to comment one way or another. (The London Express story referred to, dispatched from New York, byC. V. R.

Thompson, said that rumors had come from Panama that an Axis raider had been sunk by American warships. (Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox previously had announced that warships were searching islands in the vicinity of the Canal to find out whether a suspected raider was hiding there. (According to Thompson: "Washington kept silence on these reports but did not specifically deny them. Naval officials at Balboa in the Canal Zone also said nothing." Frank Sadler, Balboa commandant, said 'I've no news to release today on that The President, who arrived this morning for a short stay at his ancestral home, said he thought that. 48 hours was not too long to study the tax bill and said that holding it up a day or so would not cost the Government anything.

BOLIVIA AIDS V. S. LA PAZ, Bolivia, Sept. 19 (A P) The Bolivian Government decided today to give the United States exclusive right to purchase Bolivia's lead output. is 'a girl In a That means that for every 1,000,000 persons in the United States there's only one woman CPA and that's not enough.

We have plans for expansion." Miss Preister confessed that members of her organization averaged about 23 years of age and that very few of them were married. "That's not exaggerating much, Gertrude," said Mrs. Broo. "Now let's get back to that story In the Free Press and dispense with the board meeting tonight." But pleasant Mrs. Grace A.

Dimmer, of 16634 Pinehurst, the national convention chairman, put down a neatly clad foot and said perhaps they'd better have just a short meeting. Mrs. Broo went into the meeting room to gather girls. Then the others followed. Only Mrs.

Broo was there. "Now what do you think of that?" declared Miss Preister. "By virtue of that wonderful story in that lovely newspaper every last. one of the girls has got a date. "Meeting's adjourned I'm i going to get my hat." 4.

i i BY KENNETH F. McCORMICK i lr Prrta Staff HrHrr Following the conviction Fri day of ex-Councilman Robert G. Ewald on a charge of taking a Edward N. Barnard, the defendant's attorney, announced that an appeal of the verdict would be taken to the Michigan Supreme Court. Ewald was convicted of having sold his vote for $5,000 in connection with the awarding of the original $8,300,000 Herman Gardens housing contract.

Jury Debated Eight Hours The verdict was given bv the jury at 10:30 a. m. after just eight hours of deliberations, during which only two ballots were taken. The trial was conducted by Recorder's Judge W. McKay Skjllman.

The State's case was presented by Prosecutor William E. Dowling. Ewald, who admitted to the Free Press while the jury was deliberating that he had accepted a "$5,000 gift" from Chicago con tractors, was released under bond pending an investigation by the Probation Department. He will be sentenced. next Friday.

Ewald was grim-faced as Jury Foreman Fred Dixon, led the venire into the court room. His appearance belied his statement of the previous night in which he predicted his fate. He obviously had held out the hope that the jury would see fit to send him home a free man. Guilty on All 3 Counts The defendant was found guilty of bribery on three counts: Promising to vote for concrete construction of the housing project; accepting $1,000 as part payment of the bribe, and payment of the $4,000 balance. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment.

Ewald told reporters that he knew William F. Lipman, head of the Lipman Construction and Seymour Smith, an officer of the A. Smith Construction co-winners of the corrupt contract. Called Fund 'for Campaign He admitted that he had received the $5,000, $1,000 on one Occasion and $4,000 on another, but contended that it had been given to him by Lipman as a campaign contribution when he was running for the office of County Auditor. In announcing that he would appeal the verdict, Barnard said: "I am not in the least disturbed by the verdict in this case.

We have only commenced to fight. I have protected the record throughout. The law relative to bribery in this State is very clear that money must be corruptly received with the intent of allowing it to influence the judgment or decision of a public official. "Mr. Ewakt's original decision to vote for concrete never was altered.

He never intended that it should be. Hence, under no circumstances, could Robert Ewald be guilty of accepting a bribe." Bulgars Decry 4Red Invasion' By the Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 19 It was announced here today that a group of parachutists had landed in Southern Dobruja Sunday and were killed in a fight with soldiers and police. Bulgarians said all evidence indicated that the parachutists were Russians, and a protest was filed with the Russian Legation. The 'chutists managed to kill a Bulgarian lieutenant and a police chief and wound five other per sons before they were slain, It was stated.

They had parcels containing explosives, weapons, radios, passports and Bulgarian and foreign money. There were reports that parachutists had also landed in other parts of Bulgaria. (The Soviet Information bureau, quoting the Italian radio on a similar account, said, "The Italian radio liars contrived to stage the whole battle between Bulgarian troops arid six Soviet parachutists! There is no need to prove that the Soviet Union did not and could not send its planes and parachutists to Tells Her Friends to Use 'Tree Press for Results" The person who caused this Want Ad to appear is an experienced ROOM RENT advertiser; KiKltEK. war Puritan and Oiwnield: room, new home. Vermont She phoned to say that this Want.

Ad in the Free Press gave her exceptional returns and that she was so well pleased that she was telling all her friends to use the Free Press for the be.st results. Phone Tour Room-Rent Ail to RAndolph 9400 Soviet Union and the third most important of all German objectives, was by official Nazi accounts in Hitler's hands. Even Moscow admitted mar. tne invaders had burst through to one of Kiev's gates. Poltava, 200 miles to the east, overrun, the German High pmmnd declared, by a con tinuing advance reaching out toward Kharkov, 80 miles further on ind at the very heart of the matest and most vital of the surviving Russian war plant ircas.

Bon Valley Imperiled Still further to the east, the valley the Don, another such irea of great industrial production, irmcd ultimately, although not immediately, threatened, for in all th long stretch between the Donets and the Don there is no natural obstacles of consequence. a uwnu'. still silent on details. said only that the giant- struggle raged "rt from the Arctic to the Black Sea and was "particularly lieree" at Kiev. A.

late bulletin revealed that an air-raid alarm the first since Sept. 9 -was In force in Moscow 11:40 m. Friday until 2:20 a. m. Saturday.

No details were given. Hitler's eastern headquarters nut out a series of extraordinarily confident communiques claiming not alone the occupation of Kiev, which is about the size of Baltimore, and Poltava, but that four Red armies had been entrapped about 125 miles east of Kiev and were being progressively annihilated. ,5110,000 Hinted in Trap The size of this encircled force was not specifically estimated, but the impression was given, that it nas around 500,000 men. This, according to Berlin's reports, was what had occurred: Two armies, one commanded by field Marshal Gerd von Runstedt and the other by Gen. Field Marshal Fedor von Bock had effected junction beyond Kiev an operation which In the process isolated that city from the east by the merger of the two columns and were now fused into an enormous and irresistible striking force.

Two Nazi Forces Join Von Runstedt, who was declared to have crossed the lower Dnieper on a sevcnty-five-mile-wide front at the beginning of this maneuver, i'wept over Poltava. Von Bock, vho earlier had held the lower 'Mitral front, had stormed across the Desna River well above Kiev Turn to Page 2, Column 5 Plane Plant Faces Strike By the Awirlatrd Prm SAN DIEGO, Sept. 19-AFL machinists reported tonight that they had broken off wage negotiations with the Consolidated Aircraft and were prepared to strike to enforce their demands. George C. Castleman, general vice president of the International Association of Machinists, said the controversy was referred tonight to the National Mediation Board Hfter the company refused the union's demand for a blanket ten-wnt-anhour wage boost.

In a telegram to Sidney HilI'man, re-director of the Office of Promotion Management, and John Steelman, director of Federal la-tor conciliation, Castleman re-W'sted that a hearing be set immediately. Officials of the company, which ns a backlog of move than in defense orders for the lulled States, Great Britain, Can-M. Australia and The had no comment. The company signed a contract Uh the union last June. 12.

Walkout Threatened Rl'FFALO, Sept. 19 AP)' The Aircraft, nonaffiliated union of employees at Curtiss-Wright Corporation's two Buffalo warplane P'Mts, voted tonight to strike un-ss the National Labor Relations Boani giants an election within 10 (lays. TODAY'S INDEX Pages 5 10 4 7 17-18 19 6 15-16 7 9 Amusements Around the Town ''(lurches flapper, Raymond Classified Ads Crossword Puzzle Editorial ''maneial LlPPmann, "Waller Inquiring Reporter Kdgallen. Dorothy McLemnre, Henry Day ''''Ho Programs 1 14 ri'nt. Pages S'atp News Passages Statistics tthor Report Pages 12-1 14 lfi 17 8-9-10 BERT EDWARD SMITH He collected traffic tickets 21 an automobile driven by Smith struck and killed six-year-old Carol Jean Featherstone near Pontiac.

Of ficer Shoots Boyhood Chum in Break-In Patrolman Thwarts Robbery in Saginaw SAGINAW, Sept. 19 A Sagi naw policeman, posted In a pool room Thursday night to thwart an anticipated burglary, seriously wounded his boyhood friend and schoolmate, Irving Reid, 28 years old, when he shot at two Intru ders. Attendants at St. Mary's Hospital gave slight hope for Reid's recovery. He was shot through the hip by Patrolman Vance Webber, the bullet lodging in the abdomen.

Thomas Lagalo, 25, of Bridgeport, alleged to have escaped when Reid was shot, later was taken into custody at his home. He has denied taking part In the break-in. As Officer Webber, after the shooting, searched through his uniform for a nickel to telephone for a police ambulance, the wounded Reid called, "Here's a nickel, Vance." He told Prosecutor J. P. Frlske that Webber was "only doing his duty," and claimed Lagalo proposed the break-in.

Looks as Though All Is Forgiven LANSING, Sept. 19 What the Governor of Virginia said to the Governor of Michigan was a secret that only the "Boys of V.M.I." knew Friday night. Gov. James H. Price, arriving in Lansing from Richmond, to attend the ceremonies Saturday at which Gov.

Van Wagoner will return the 13 battle flags to Southern States whose forces yielded them to Michigan troops during the Civil War. found that he and Van Wagoner were invited to a reunion of alumni of the Virginia Military Institute. Ralph Thomas, president of the Automobile Club of Michigan, also an alumnus, arranged the party. The two Governors cemented the relations of North toast, either. of an analysis of the Russian situation came the voices of two girls.

"I don't know what the (censored) is the matter with him, the old (censored)," said one girl sweetly. "Well, what did you do?" asked the other. Said the first: "I fixed it for Eddie to pick up a guy for you and afterwards w-e'll go to the party," "I guess it's okay," said the second, "but how do I know the guy Eddie's to bruig for me is all rieht." Radio listeners and the by now near-crazed WAAT staff never did learn how that problem was solved for. the voices faded, but at least 30 men called the station saying they were free for dates if WAAT could fix it. up.

"Aurora, horeal's!" Mil VA AT employees, or something- worse, AX ACCOUNTANT FIGURES What's a Little Convention When We're All Lovely Ladies? Rabelaisian Intruder on Radio Horrifies Harried Housewives per ixiu. Renewal of Old Fight Friday's rate increases, as well as the hearing before the Federal Power Commission referred to by Dowling and scheduled for Oct. 6, mark a renewal of a long- BY TOD ROCKWFXL Free Press Slaft Writer A story in Friday's Free Press which began "More than 200 lovely ladies with an eye for percentages" wrecked the plans of the joint annual meeting of the American Woman's Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Society of Women Accountants, at least as far as Friday was concerned. "We've been called everything," declared smartly gowned Mrs. Ida Broo, of Indianapolis, the Hotel Statler, where the sessions are being held, "but no one ever called us lovely ladies before.

"The 'girls' are pleased beyond measure. In fact, they don't want to talk about anything else." Mrs. Broo, who is president of the AWSCPA, said she didn't think she was doing her organization an injustice by indicating that the average age was about Attractive Mips Gertrude Prcist-er. of New York, president of the ASWA interrupted: "Von might tell the man. Ida." she began, "that every one of us protracted and bitterly fought battle by the City and Wayne County, and the gas company.

The fight has been before the public almost constantly for the last three years. The City has fought for rate reductions on the ground that the company induded in its assets a stand-by service consisting of huge gas holders and manufacturing equipment labeled unnecessary by Lee and other City authorities. Lee contended that the company's use of pipelines from Texas gas fields canceled the necessity for such stand-by service. In its defense, the compan argued that the threat of break in the pipelines was justification for such stand-bv service. This fight led to placing issue on the municipal ballot last Br the Asociated Press JERSEY CITY, Sept.

19 Sweet chamber music from Radio Station WAAT soothed harried housewives today and then back of the muted strings came the voices of two men. "So everything was all right, huh?" asked one. "Wow!" said the other. More dialog followed, characterized in polite journals like this: Housewives dropped their irons, tossed their dust cloths on the nearest chair and dashed to the telephone. The telephones at WAAT besan to riner.

It wasn't the radio station, bewildered station employees said, hazarding a guess that the visiting I sunspots were having fun plaving i i with a telephone cable and a radio high-fidelity line which parallel each other. Thn came the news report WAAT, And then in the middle I November, when the voter rr-I iected by a 3-to-l vot a I fnr th" Pify ship of the gas i.