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8 THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1943 Labor and Management Join Hands Army Air Instructor Will Be Buried Today s. Plan to Move Pins to Brazil Is Reported Peace Discussion Also Seen as a Reason for Trip by U.S. Prelate Continued from Tage One risks involved in a visit to Roma at this time without good reasons. He is a skilled linguist, close to President Roosevelt, whom he has seen a number of times since the war started, has served in the Vatican where he was a trusted assistant to the papal secretary of state, and has an outstanding rec- I 5 tj--x y.

-r -s i R. J. THOMAS SENATOR M. President of UAW (CIO) -er i ord as a diplomat. The whole Catholic world was thrilled by one of his exploits, in 1931, when he was selected by th Vatican which then was at odds with the Fascists to carry secretly from Italy an encyclical giving to the world the Vatican' version of a quarrel between th-- followers of Mussolini and the Church with regard to the Catholio Action Groups.

PLOT REPORTED Spellman left Italy by train, was said to have escaped a Fascist efffort to assassinate him, and leached Paris by airplane where he gave this writer and other correspondents the encyclical which was telegraphed to the i The exploit made Spellman a marked man and his rise to be archbishop of New York, a post that might lead to his eventual election to the College of Cardinals, followed. Because of his wide experience in Europe it was natural that, when the present war was started following increasing anti-Catholic activity in Hitlerite Germany and Fascist-dominated Italy the Archbishop should maintain close liaison with the Vatican and the White House. LED TO MISSION It was thi contact, in my opin- ion, which led to the present mis Willow Run Transport Is Blamed by Senators LIEUT. THOMAS II. MUNGER Killed in training flight Mrs.

F. A. Schmidt Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Monday for Mrs.

Anna Barbara Schmidt, 53 years old, wife of Frank A. Schmidt, vice president and treasurer of the Schmidt Brewing who died MRS. F. A. SCHMIDT, JR.

Rites to be Monday in Providence Hospital Thursday night after a month's illness. A solemn requiem high mass will be held in St. Ambrose's Church, Grosse Pointe Park. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

Mrs. Schmidt, whose maiden name was Meyer, was a native of Buffalo. She was married in Holy Rosary Church Nov. 14, 1923. She lived at 1008 Devonshire, Grosse Pointe Park.

Other survivors are two daughters, Rosemary and Jean Marie; a son, Frank "Schmidt III; three brothers, Edward. Albert and Stanley Meyer, and three sisters, Mrs. Max Dettenthaler, Mrs. Steve Ma-kowski and Mrs. Milton Hutchinson.

Bangliart Claims an 'Honest' $4,300 CHICAGO, Feb. 19(AP) Basil "The Owl" Banghart wants that $4,307.95 he says he earned honestly in the late '20s. In a claim forwarded to the Federal Court clerk here from Alcatraz Penitentiary, Banhart denied the 513,605 found in possession of the "Terrible" Touhy gang, when they were rounded up last December, represented ill-gotten gains. Banghart's version was that he had made money lawfully back in tne late '20s and loaned $5,000 to a friend. After Banghart and Roger Touhy led five other desperadoes in an escape from Stateville Prison last October, the friend paid it back, he said.

He didn't explain the $692.05 discrepancy between the amount of the loan and claim. v. I pf at Senate Hearing Fro1 Prvs Phnto SENATOR HOMER FERGUSON as Truman probe begins OPA to Place Price Ceilings on Fresh Food Continued from Page One nounced Sunday. Thousands of copies of the announcement will be posted next week in groceries everywhere to enable tc know the exact number of points each item will "cost." Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department announced tonight that an estimated 10,000,000 cases will be added to next summer's pack of canned vegetables for civilian consumption. Most of the increase will be in tomatoes and snap beans, with smaller increases in asparagus, lima beans and corn.

Other boosts in supplies of canned beets, carrots and fruit juices will be set aside for the armed forces and shipment abroad. WHAT TO DO WITH BOOKS Some pertinent facts about Ration Book 2: 1 It will consist of blue and red stamps in denominations of eight, five, two and one points. The total number of points for each rationing period of one month is 48. 2 Only blue stamps will be used for canned soups, vegetables and fruits. 3 Red stamps will be used later for meat, canned meat and canned fish.

4 The housewife can "spend" the 48 points in each ration book in her household in any way she chooses. 5 Point rationing will not affect people who eat in restaurants and hotels. Each restaurant and hotel will have its supplies of rationed foods cut to a certain proportion of the amount consumed in December, 1942. 6 People living and eating in boarding houses where more than six but less than 50' persons reside must hand over their ration books to the proprietor. These institutions will obtain supplies by using the books of all the residents.

Residents of large hotels w-ho eat there regularly likewise must surrender their ration books to the owner. Clares Agree on Globaloney By the Associated Pre BENTON HARBOR, Feb. 19 Michigan's Clare Hoffman, anti-New Deal congressman from the Fourth District, agrees with Rep. Clare Booth Luce's now famous "globaloney" speech and asserted in an interview here Friday that Congress is determined "to save freedom at home while American boys are fighting for it on a dozen war fronts." "The new members of Congress," Hoffman said, "are not disposed to goose-step to the orders of the chief executive as -Congress has done for 10 years. What Clare Booth Luce in her recent speech in the House called the 'globaloney' of the New Deal is out as far as these members of Congress are concerned.

Congress is bent on a management that will bring victory in the quickest possible time and at the least possible cost in blood and treasure. 3 in Lifeboat for 81 Days RECIFE, Brazil, Feb. 19 (AP) One American and two Dutch survivors of an Allied ship sinking have reached here, weak and thin, after 81 days in a lifeboat from which two of their shipmates were w-ashed to their deaths by waves. The boat contained a few rusted fishhooks they had used with strips of their clothing -s lines to catch enough fish to prevent starvation. Also, the survivors said, a few flying fish jumped into the boat.

When rescued by a warship they had gone five days without water. One of the Dutchmen had lost 70 pounds in weight. CUD AH HEADS COUNCIL MADISON, Feb. 19 (AP) John Cudahy, former United States Ambassador to Poland and Belgium and Minister to Ireland today was appointed head of the Wisconsin Civilian Defense Council by acting Gov. Walter S.

May Man Farms with U.S. Troops Roosevelt's OK of Plan to Harvest Nation's Crops Is Indicated Continued from rage One Everett M. Dirksen, Illinois Republican, to instruct the Agriculture Committee to draft a measure, scrapping the Administration's entire farm program and substituting a new one. The chamber put aside until Tuesday a measure which would ease existing restrictions on production and use of wheat, corn and peanuts. Controlled Slaughter for Meat Proposed By the Associated Pres Other developments bearing on the farm program included: An OPA official recommended controlled slaughter of all livestock through a licensing system to insure that meat will be diverted into normal trade channels as one method of combatting the black market in meat.

The sug gestion was made to the House Committee on Small Business by O. M. Elkinton. thirty-four-year old economist who calculates price ceilings on meats, fats, oils, fish and fish products. Frank Kracick, representing the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North Amer ica (AFL), informed the commit tee during the day that 4,000 Cin cinnati butchers plan to seek era ployment in defense industries be cause inadequate meat supplies under OPA regulations are limit ing their work.

ACT ON BLACK MARKETS At Chicago, criminal and civil action against black market oper ators was planned by OPA offi cials in an effort to halt illegal traffic in meat in the Midwest. Alex Elson, regional attorney for the Office of Price Administra tion, announced that 100 injunc tion suits would be filed by the end of next week, and predicted that extralegal country slaughter ing would be brought under con trol soon. John Hastings, enforcement at torney of the agency, reported investigations were under way with a view toward bringing crim charges against violators. They disclosed their plans at a press conference after the Amer ican Meat Institute, an association of packers, said that "a considerable number of meat packers shortly will be forced out of business" as a result of the operations of city racketeers and unrestrained rural butchers. PA EXPERIMENTS The Office of Price Administration said it had authorized an allocation system in an experi mental effort to obtain a fairer distribution of meat supplies in the San Francisco and Los Angeles area and in Rhode Island.

The agency authorized its local officials in those areas to divide up the meat supply according to restaurants, war-worker cafeterias and different types of retail stores. Tag Deadline One Week Off By the Avo'inted Press LANSING, Feb. 19 The Department of State warned almost 700.000 Michigan motorists Friday that they have only a week to obtain their 1943 automobile license plates. The deadline is March 1. The Department said that with exception of Detroit, an abnormally light demand for plates continues in branch offices, which Will remain open Saturday and Monday Washington's Birthday and some during evenings next w-ek to handle an expected last-n nute rush.

Thus far 227,739 plates have b'-en sold this year, compared with PIS, 000 on March 1 last year, it wis announced. British Laborilcj Won't Join Reds LONDON, Feb. 19 (AP)-The British Labor Party again today delivered an emphatic "no" to the Communist Party's request for affiliation. In a mphlet circulated to the press, along with a five-page reproduction of the constitution and rules the Communist International, the Laborites argued that the mmunists could not work with ti labor movement because they ed "primary loyalty" to the mmumst International. Soviet Aid Sought for the Chelniks LONDON.

Feb. 19 (AP)-Conversations directed toward settling differences between Russia and the Yugoslav government in exile over Gen. Draza Mihajlovich have been opened between representatives in London, it was learned roMably tonight. It is understood that the Yugoslavs are prepared to offer important concessions to obtain support for Gen. Mihajlovich, who is minister of war as well as the active director of the Chetniks fighting Axis occupation troops.

U. S. Given Possession of Industrial Area An order giving the Federal Government possession of two acres of land now occupied by the Gear Grinding Machine 3901 Christopher, a a k. was signed Friday by Federal Judge Frank A. Picard.

The plant is already under Government operation, it was said, and the action Friday merely gives the Government full possession. All in Detroit Get Seniority Protection WMC Aide Says that Everyone Switched to Essential Jobs Will Be Covered BY FRANK B. WOODFORD Free I'ress Staff Writer Seniority rights of workers transferred from nonessential to essential war industries under the recent work-or-fight pronouncement of Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower Commission director. will be protected in the Detroit area, according to M.

A. Clark WMC district director. Clark announced Friday that the Detroit district labor stabilization, plan had been amended by the district labor-management committee to hasten the transfer of all available workers to essential jobs by protecting the seniority of those switching from nondeferrable jobs. Clark said that the amendment was adopted because the committee believed that workers who were forced to leave their jobs as a result of pressure applied indi rectly tnrougn tne aeiecuve sav-ice Act should be given the same job protection as workers inducted into the armed forces. In the Washington order establishing nondeferrable occupations and activities, no provision was made to protect the seniority and re-employment rights of the workers affected.

The Detroit area committee, recommended to other committees in Region which includes nearly all of the industrial cities of Michigan, that they adopt similar amendments to their labor stabilization plans. Originally the stabilization plan provided seniority protection only for workers moved from one essential industry to another. The WMC "work-or-fight" directive, issued Feb. 2, listed 29' occcupations as "nondeferrable regardless of the activities in which they are found" and also listed all occupations as nondeferrable in 19 manufacturing, eight wholesale and retail trade and nine service activities. It was emphasized at the time that these lists were preliminary and that they would be added to from time to time.

Employers Are Warned Concerning Pay Raises Employers who, from now on, put wage increases into effect without waiting for approval by the War Labor Board will be regarded "in all circumstances as violators of the wage-stabilization law and subject to full penalties," the regional WLB decided Friday. The board met to consider the first of some 750 voluntary wage-adjustment cases that had been turned over to the Detroit board from the Cleveland office. Edwin E. Witte, regional WLB chairman, made it clear that this ruling applies only to such cases that require board approval. The board overruled an increase which had been put into effect by a Detroit varnish company in the case of six employees.

Wage increases were denied in the case of the Peninsular Grinding Wheel Co. for 74 employees in an upgrading program. Four cases approved were: Luf-kin Rule Saginaw, 32 employees, 4 cents an hour; Central Station Steam Detroit, raises for five employees approved; Macomb Laundry, Mt. Clemens, 3 cents an hour for 24 employees; Boeckeler Associates, Trenton, wage adjustment for 60 employees. The Board ordered a panel to hear the case of 13 theaters of the United Detroit Theaters, and ordered a referee to hear the case of Long and Long, for 12 employees.

THE HOME FRONT Designed to encourage war work among school children, two Victory Rangers' trophies will be awarded Monday by the Forty and Eight Society of the American Legion. H. Rich Thompson, chef de gare of the society, will make the first award at 10 a. m. to Archie Talley at the Nolan Intermediate School.

Later in the day the Victory Rangers' trophy will be presented to Glenn Piot of Pershing High School. Presentation addresses will be made at both schools by George Miller, of Hutchins Intermediate. Students to whom the awards are made are selected by the Student Defense Council for outstanding contributions to war activities. Collection boxes for books for servicemen are being placed at all rationing registration centers in the Detroit Public Schools from Feb. 22 to Feb.

25, it was announced Friday by Everett N. Petersen, executive director of the 1943 Victory Book Campaign. OCD Seeking Volunteers as Rationing Teachers The Detroit Office of Civilian Defense is looking for 250 volunteers who will be used as recruiters for 12,000 "explainers" of the point rationing program which goes into effect March 1. Persons wishing to help out may give their names to rationing officials at their neighborhool school next Monday through Thursday when they register for Ration Book 2. The volunteers will be taught how point rationing operates in classes to be held at the schools.

They will be expected to teach the 12,000 recruits, who will in turn be stationed in grocery stores and markets to explain the point system to shoppers when the new system goes into effect. sion lo rtume ana il wouia seem quite possible that the Archbishop may transmit President Roosevelt's latest views on many matters of interest to the Holy See and receive an equally frank report on the Vatican viewpoint which can be brought back to Washington. Parts of the Brooklyn Eagle article, which implied that the-. Archbishop was establishing contact between Pius XII and certain governments which wished to evacuate him to Latin America, probably Brazil, were denied in circles close to both the Catholic Church and the State Department and an impression gathered from these denials was that the Archbishop might be making his trip at the behest of the Pope to receive a special message for America-from the Pontiff. The extent of any possible over, tones in such a message would depend upon the report which the Archbishop will make to the Pope regarding the attitude of the American public toward a settlement of the present conflict.

President Roosevelt's pronouncement regarding "unconditional surrender" may bf discussed. It may be important, too, to remember that Count Ciano has just been appointed Italian ambassador to the Holy See. Ciano until recently was Italian foreign minister, anU his views on and peace could be transmitted to the American Archbishop at the Vatican. Washington is represented in Axis-surrounded Vatican City by Harold Tittmann and London by d'Arcy Osborne and Spellman undoubtedly will confer with these diplomats. First announcement regarding Spellman's mission was made by i the Berlin radio in German, possibly to prepare the German public for peace proposals which certainly would be popular in Italy.

Funeral services for Second Lieut. Thomas H. Munger, 26 years old, son of Thomas L. Munger, of 1136 Collingwood, will be held at 10 a. m.

Saturday at the R. G. and G. rt. Harris Co.

Funeral Home, 4251 Cass. Burial at White Chapel Cemetery will be conducted by an Army Air Force detach ment from Selfridge Field. Lieut. Munger was killed Monday when his plane crashed on a routine flight near the Walnut Ridge Basic Flying School, in Arkansas, where he was an instructor. He was graduated from Central State Teachers College in 1941 and entered the Army Air Forces shortly afterward.

Army dispatches said that Lieut. Munger died in an attempt to save his plane and the student he was draining. Mrs. Agnes Styplnski Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes Stypinski, of 3127 E.

Forest, fifty-two-year-old social worker, will be held at 10 a. m. Saturday in St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, Can-field and McDougall. She died Tuesday night in Providence Hospital.

Mrs. Stypinski had been employed by the Polish Aid Society for 14 years, first as an investigator and later as supervisor. She also was active in Community Fund and War Chest drives. Surviving are her father. Frank Kurkowski; three sisters, Mrs.

Frances Froehlich, Mrs. Sophie Zander and Mrs. Anna Krolick, and three brothers, Joseph, Walter and Frank Kurkowski, Jr. Marko T. Lugonja Funeral serices will be conducted at 1 p.

m. Monday at Ravanica Serbian Orthodox Church, Russell and Warren, for Marko T. Lugonja, believed to have been the last survivor in America of the Serbian revolution against the Turks in 1876-77. He died early Thursday after an emergency operation in Highland Park General Hospital. He had lived with a daughter, Mrs.

Gladys Petrouleas, of 19460 Stratford Road. He leaves another daughter, Mrs. Draginya Stojadinovich, of Alpena, who is on the way here by airplane from Tucson, a son, Vladimir M. Lugonja, of Cleveland, national secretary of the Serbian Singing Federation; a grandson, George Petrouleas, an Army Air Force cadet at Pecos, and two other grandchildren. Born in Serbia 84 years ago, he came to America in 1907, and to Detroit in 1916.

Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. The Rev. Firmiliyan Ocokolyich, the pastor of Ravanica Church, will officiate. Lynne Overman SANTA MONICA, Feb 19 (AP) Lynne Overman, 55 years old, veteran stage actor and movie comedian, died today from the effects of a heart ailment. Overman was taken to Santa Monica Hospital eight days ago.

overman, wno C'-tt 's was born in iviaryvine, made his first stage appear-ence i Milwaukee in 1907. After many years on the stage, he be Overman came one of the most popular portrayers of character roles in screen productions. Dr. Michael Feenan Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m.

Friday in St. Alphonsus Church, Windsor, for Dr. Michael Feenan, 73 years old, a retired physician, who died Wednesday at the home of his sister, Mrs. William Conley, 731 Hall, Windsor. Burial will be in St.

Alphonsus Cemetery. Dr. Feenan was a native of East Pillsbury, and moved to Windsor in 1931. He practiced there until two years ago when he was forced to retire due to poor health. Mrs.

Anna M. Conhlin Services will be held for Mrs. Anna McDace Conklin at 10 a. m. Monday in St.

Vincent's Roman Catholic Church, Fourteenth and Dalzelle. Mrs. Conklin, who for many years was chief matron of the Hunt police station and later of Canfield station, died Thursday. She was 66 years old. Surviving are a sister.

Mrs. George Varley, of Port Huron, and a foster son, William Joseph Frank. Mrs. Mary G. Pease Funeral services for Mrs.

Mary Goodrich Pease, former school teacher, will be at 2:30 p. m. Monday at the William R. Hamilton Co. chapel, Cass and Alexandrine.

Burial will be in Grand Lawn. Mrs. Pease was born 40 years ago in Ovid, Mich. She was a graduate of Nordstrum High School and the Detroit Teachers' College. She taught for many years at the Goldberg School.

Mrs. Pease, whose home was at 13536 Griggs, died Thursday in Henry Ford Hospital after a long illness. She leaves her husband Frank, her father, the Rev. George E. Goodrich, of Ovid, and two sisters, Mrs.

Eugenie Benson and Mrs. Thomas Stanford. Joseph Velick Services will be at 3 p. m. Sunday in the Ira Kaufman Funeral Home, 9419 Dexter, for Joseph Velick, 76 years old, of 1929 Elm-hurst, who died unexpectedly in Highland Park General Hospital Thursday.

Burial will be in Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Mr. Velick, who resided in Detroit for 56 years, was one of the oldest scrap dealers in the city. He leaves his wife Celia, two daughters, Ida Velick and Mrs. Eleanor Epstein; three sons, Alex, Samuel and Casper Velick, and two brothers, Abe and Samuel Velick.

I i C. WALLGUEN EDSEL FORD shakes hands with Ford president not as a probing body but as a fact-finding group trying to be helpful. After the plant inspection, the subcommittee, which was headed by Senator Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington Democrat, conferred with officials of the Ford Motor Co. In the conference some of the investigators told officials that "the supervisory system is one of the things that has to be licked." Senator Harley M.

Kilgore, West Virginia Democrat, said that the committee had no ax to grind but only wanted to do everything possible to speed up production and get the bombers on the firing line. He said that the plant compared "favorably to any in the country as far as actual work is concerned." Senator Joseph H. Ball, Minnesota Republican, voiced the committees' amazement at the scope of the bomber plant. He said that the senators were impressed with what they saw. In the day-long inspection, the committee was asked by company officials to help solve the manpower situation at the bomber plant by explaining the production problem to manpower officials.

Before breaking up for further production investigations in dif ferent parts of the country, the senators heard both management and labor's side of what is needed at the big plant. LABOR GIVES ITS SIDE R. J. Thomas, president of the UAW (CIO), told the subcommittee that the principal problems at Willow Run are transportation and housing. He and George F.

Addes, international treasurer of the UAW (CIO), gave labor's side of the picture in the first executive session called by Senator W'allgren. "I told them at we could probably get a big improvement at the bomber plant with a management-labor production committee," Thomas said. "But the big problems are housing and transportation. "They are building dormitories out there for single men when nearly every single man Is in the Army. What they need out there is some place for married men to live with their families.

The dormitories may be all right for single women. "We promised the committee that labor would do everything possible to make the bomber plant the biggest production plant for airplanes in the world. That can be done if the plant can be made to work right." PLAN TO FILE BRIEF Thomas and Addes said that they would file a brief with the subcommittee to explain in detail all of the points raised at the Detroit meeting. Thomas added that the committee had been told that it had been difficult to get the proper supervision at the plant. He pointed out that in a transfer of employees some had been taken from the glass plant and put 'm unfamiliar work.

The senatorial committee waded right into the task of finding production bugs in the bomber production at a breakfast in Ferguson's suite in the Hotel Statler. Edsel P'ord outlined the general problem that was described in detail to the subcommittee after a tour of the plant. Senator Wallgren said that this was the third investigation of the bomber plant by the Trumr.n Committee. "We were here about a year ago and some of the committee came back six months ago and went through the plant after inspecting the tank arsenal," Wallgren said. "The committee has to consider all sides of this production question." OTHER HEARINGS DUE Wallgren said that the trip to Detroit probably would be the forerunner of official hearings in Washington, when Army and War Manpower Commission officials will be asked for their version of what has been done and what can be done at Willow Run.

TOLEDO GOES ICELESS TOLEDO, Feb. 19 (AP) Ice deliveries were at a standstill in Toledo today because of a strike of teamsters at both the plants of the Peoples Ice Co. and Ice Delivery Co. Continued from Page One solution was suggested months ago by Detroit transportation committees. Ferguson said that he realized that such a plan would require the consent of transportation officials in the Government.

The senators spent three hours in the vast bomber plant getting a first-hand account of the production schedule. They explained that the committee was in Michigan My Day By Eleanor Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 Thursday was a breath-taking day. At 10 a. m.

I went to make a recording to be used on one of the Treasury Star Parade programs. Home again, and a few of the usual complications about tickets for the Senate and House galleries were awaiting me at my desk. The speech by Mme. Chiang was not only an interesting occasion, but unique. It marked the recognition of a woman who.

Mrs. Roosevelt through her own personality and her own service, has achieved a place in the world, not merely as the wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, but as a representative of her people. We left the White House a few minutes before 12 to go to the Capitol, and people along the way waved and smiled their recognition of Mme. Chiang Kai Shek. I went at once to the gallery overlooking the Senate chamber, where she was to appear for few minutes and deliver an extemporaneous speech.

When i saw her little, slim figure in her straight Chinese gown coming down the aisle, she seemed overshadowed by the men around her. I could not help a great feeling of pride in her achievements as a woman, but when she spoke it was no longer as a woman that one thought of her. She was a person, a great person, receiving the recognition due her as an individual valiantly fighting in the forefront of the world's battle, I HURRIED FROM the Senate to that House gallery to hear her deliver a speech which she had prepared. Then we went to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Senator Con-nally and Rep. Bloom greeted us.

Here, Mme. Chiang tried to gain a few minutes to correct her extemporaneous speech. For she knows, as we all do, that one may say things in rather careless fashion, which in print look very different from the way-they sound when spoken. People kept crowding around her congratulating her on her speeches. Even when she retired to another room, one member with a special message came to talk with her.

It was fortunate that lunch was a little delayed, so she finally had a chance to go through the manuscript. Lunch was pleasant and restful. At the end, the entire membership of the Foreign Relations Committees of the Senate and the House shook hands with Mme. Chiang, after which we hurried back to the White House. I shall remember for a long time the applause given her when she made a plea that we look upon Japan as our major enemy.

It was evident that the plea struck a responsive chord in the hearts of the men and women before her. This balance between our two fronts certainly brings up difficult questions for decision, but I imagine we shall have to trust our military authorities to plan the wisest strategv in both oceans. ENSIGN KILLED MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 19 (AP) Ensign Lawrence G. Gay, 24, of Kalamazoo, was injured fatally in the crash of a Navy training plane near here today.

vT Dowling 3Inm in Quiz on Liquor Importation About a dozen licensees and managers of state liquor stores were questioned Friday by Prosecutor William E. Dowling concerning the alleged practice of bringing liquor into Michigan from other states to avoid payment of taxes. Dowling refused to reveal the results of the questioning, hut denied reports that he had ordered a store on Grand River near Oak-man closed. "If the staff closed the store when they came to my office it was their own idea," he said. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Assessment Rolls for the year 1943 will be completed March 1, 1943.

BOARD OF ASSESSORS OFFICE 13th Floor Water Board Bldg. Detroit, Michigan, February 14, 1943 Pursuant to Section 4 of Chapter 2 of the Charter of the City of Detroit, as amended, April 7, 1941, in effect April 23, 1941. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the general assessment rolls for the entire City of Detroit, for the current year 1943, will be completed on March 1st next, and be ready for the inspection of the taxpayers at that date. The said Board will at any -time thereafter, on or before the fifth day of April, 1943, review the assessment of any person rwho may complain either verbally or in writing before said Board, and will make proper corrections thereto, and any person who has previously complained to the Board of Assessors as herein provided in section four, considering himself aggrieved by the assessment of his property, and the decision of the Board of Assessors thereon, may appeal to the Council, such appeal shall be in writing and shall state specifically the grounds thereof and the matter complained of, together with the address of the complainant, and no other matter in connection therewith shall be considered by the CounciL Such appeal shall be filed on or before April twentieth. BOARD OF ASSESSORS, J.

A. Schulte, President K. J. McCarren, Vice President T. M.

Corcoran E. P. Grierson.