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BtJRTOtt LlC LIBn Metropolitan UN 8 19 1 pjvL EDITION DETROIT 1 I Weather Report fair and cooler Saturday; partly cloudy on Sunday. (Complete report on Page 5) -On Guard for Over a Century L'JSBffl Saturday, June 28, 1941. No. 55 BURTON Ulth Year. 22 Pages Three Cents Frahiii Convicted of Graft in Baseball Poo liree Other Former Policemen Also Guilty Awaits Sentence as a Grafter Four Facing Terms of Up Red Fliers Slaughter Enemy; Nazis Drive Wedge into Line House Group Battles Hotly on Auto Tax OPM Seeks to Keep Dow Plant Going Plane Output Periled by Walkout at Slain Magnesium Concern; Parleys Deadlocked Br tht Awoclattd Fri SolientStatistics About Big Bomber srV "'K At" rl, I FRED W.

FBAHM Bitter over his conviction Record Heat Fatal to Two in Michigan Slight Relief Likely in Scattered Showers Friday's Hourly Temperature 12 noon 1 p. m. 2 p. m. 3 p.

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6 p. m. 91 7 p. m. 91 8 p.m.

93 9 p. m. 95 10 p.m. 94 11 p.m. 93 12 midnight 92 BERLIN, June 27 A pocket gouged out of the Russian defense lines by Panzer forces, annihilation of an entire Red Army division (15,000 to 20,000 men), and extensive disruption of Russia's rail system by air bombs were claimed for the German military today by the offi cial news agency, DNB.

The field headquarters of Reichs- fuehrer Adolf Hitler delayed its promised announcement of great and detailed successes in the six-day-old war with Russia, but DNB, primarily describing yesterday's fighting, was more specific. Call Main Decision Won Informed German quarters also said with optimism that the main decision over Russia already had been won. Without mentioning places, DNB said that the Soviet division which it claimed was destroyed had lost contact with the main body of Russian troops and lost heavily in every branch, particularly in heavy tanks, guns and trucks. The lines of Russian prisoners trudging back in the summer heat to prison camps have lengthened considerably in the last 24 hours, the agency stated, and piles of booty are mounting steadily. A German spokesman said that fig' ures on prisoners and booty could not yet be disclosed, however.

Desertions Reported DNB also said that reports from the entire front from the White Sea to the Black indicated that innumerable soldiers of the minori ties on the Russian side had volun tarily thrown down their arms and surrendered to the advancing Ger mans. It mentioned a Lithuanian bat tery which, it said, deserted yester day, and 200 Cossacks who came over to the Nazi side in a body. (The Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet reported from Ankara today, according to the United Press, tha'. the Russian Government had informed neutral diplomats in Moscow that it intends to leave the capital for Sverldovsk in the Ural Mountains. The Aftonbladet also carried from Ankara a report that the Russian secret police had discovered a "big anti-Soviet plot" in Moscow and had arrested thousands of persons.) The Luftwaffe, for which mas' tery of the air over the fighting fronts already has been claimed, again struck at Russian airports, railways and highways.

Report 21 Planes Destroyed Destruction of 21 Russian planes standing on the ground near the Rumanian border was claimed for the Nazi air force. Another German squadron was credited with smashing a Russian column of trucks without loss of a single plane. One German antitank gun was said to have smashed to pieces 15 Turn to Page 2, Column 7 F.D.R. Raps Texas 'Army' By the InllfJ rrri DALLAS, June 27 President Roosevelt, who personally indorsed Rep. Lyndon Johnson as his man in the United States Senate race for a successor to the late Morris Sheppard, tonight denounced as "preposterous" Gov.

W. Lee O'Dan- iel's plan for a Texas Army, Navy and Air Force. In a telegram to Johnson from his home in Hyde Park Mr. Roose velt said that he acted to spike rumors that he had indorsed the Governor in the race. It was the President's first direct part in the two-month old campaign and came on the eve of a special election in which 25 candidates seek Sheppard's place.

Four O'Daniel, Johnson, Rep. Martin Dies and State's Attorney General Gerald Mann were favored, and the closest race in Texas election history was 91 89 8 84 83 84 to 5 Years Will Learn Penalty Next Wednesday; Jury Deliberates Over Verdict for 2 Hours BY KENNETH McCOKMICK tirt Frew Slatt Writer Fred W. Frahm, former superintendent of police, and three other suspended police officers were found guilty Friday night of graft charges in connection! with a million-dollar-a-year baseball pool. The jury of seven women and five men returned its verdict at 10:50 p.m. in Circuit Judge Earl C.

Pugsley's court. The others found guilty were James M. Dooley and John Mulligan, detectives attached to the Special Investigation Squad, and-Detective Lieut. Clyde E. Ranney, Bennett Found Not Guilty James E.

Bennett, a suspended member of the special investigation squad, was found not guilty. Sentences or the four will pronounced at 9 a. m. Wednesday by Judge Pugsley, who is presiding at all the trials growing out of Judge Homer Ferguson's grand-Jury graft investigation. The court Instructed the convicted defendants, If so desired, to be in his court Tuesday for Interviews.

He will have before him then a report of the Wayne County- Probation Department which will have completed an investigation into the background of the former police officers. The report is required by law. The probation reports often are taken for consultation by judges cerore uiey pass sentence. Five-Year Term Possible The four face possible maximum sentences of five years in prison. The case went to the jury st 8:50 p.

m. after the Court completed a charge which required an hour and 50 minutes. At 10 p. m. the jury asked that the two counts with which the defendants were charged by read by the court Judge Pugsley reconvened court and read and explained the charges.

At 10:22 p. m. the jury went back to the deliberating roon and discussed the case until 10:50 when they informed a deputy that they had reached verdict. Few Spectators Present There were few spectators in the court room when the jury re turned its verdict. The defendants appeared tired after being in court throughout a hot day.

The case began June 10. Frahm, Ranney and Dooley were found guilty as charged on the first ballot taken after a brief discussion in the Jury room. Two ballots were taken on Mulligan with three jurors voting not guilty. Two ballots were taken on Bennett. The first ballot on Bennett resulted in three voting hint guilty on count one.

After a short discussion the Jury voted unanimously for his acquittal. Then the court announced the time of sentence. Jurors Are Dismissed The Jury was dismissed after having been locked up in custody of the Sheriff since June 10. Frahm, who appeared very bitter, said: "I never favored any gambler or racketeer in my life. I have fought all of the gangsters and my record will show this, although they would not permit me to bring it in.

I think the prosecution's arguments were the most unfair I have) ever heard." Asked if he would appeal the case, he said, 'That Is up to my attorney." Bennett, apparently the most shaken of all, said, "What can I say. Only that I'm glad they are satisfied of my innocence of any wrongdoing. Now I am anxious to get back to my work." Works as Auto Salesman Bennett has been an auto salesman since the Indictment was returned a year ago last February. Mulligan, who was flanked by wife and mother, said, "I don't know whether I can appeal because I don't have any money. I have to support my mother, my wife and two children." Ranney and Dooley had no comment to make.

They have been standing together throughout the trial as they did while they were the crack team of the Special In vestigation Squad. Each of the convicted defendants, headed by Frahm, shook hands wit.i Bennett and congratulated him on his ac quittal. Special Prosecutor Chester V. O'Hara's only comment was, "It was one of the toughest Jobs I've ever had to do. I worked with all these men and was especially friendly with Frdhm, Ranney and Dooley." O'Hara and Thomas A.

Kenney, assistant attorney genera! attached to the grand jury staff, shook: hands with Bennett. Friday's session was taken up with the fmal arguments of Turn to Page Column Br the Aitoriatfd Prnt MOSCOW, June 28 (Saturday) The Soviet Command acknowl edged today that fierce Nazi tank thrusts have forced its army back toward the old Russian- Northern Poland frontier, but said elsewhere that Red troops held fast and even counter attacked across the Danube into Rumania to seize 500 prisoners. A Soviet Information Bureau communique said that the Red withdrawal to new defense posi tions occurred along a three-point line formed by Slaulai-Vilna-Bar-anowicze the path of a German drive to capture Minsk, White Russian capital and rail center. Retreat a Victory Soviet warplanes were said to have kept the invaders under long and violent aerial attack with such bloody results as actually to constitute, along with the defense of ground forces, a heavy defeat for the invaders. The Nazis were savagely following through with great tank formations, however, it was said.

In counterattacks during this re treat the Soviets said that they de stroyed 40 German tanks and a German field headquarters, and killed a Nazi general. In this most vital of all the battle areas the Nazi thrust against Minsk was in twin col umns headed across the Polish plains north of the Pinsk Marshes in the regions of Vilna and Baron owicze. In the Slaulial sector, the Germans appeared trying to strike northeastward in the direction of Riga. Tank Drive In South Beaten The Russian communique gave this picture elsewhere: In the Luck and Lwow areas in Central and Southern Poland, a great German-Russian tank bat tie went through its second day, German attempts at a break through being beaten back with heavy Nazi losses and the Soviet capture of much booty and many Germans. Along the Prut River Soviet de fense forces still held their lines while a stab into Rumania across the Danbue near its mouth was aided by a Red flotilla.

The Russians said that they took 800 German and Rumanian prisoners along the Prut. 700 Casualties Reported In heavy fighting to recapture an unidentified village, Soviet troops were reported to have killed or wounded 700 Germans. Unending offensive action by the Red air fleet was stressed. New and devastating raids were leveled on Bucharest; Plocsti, Rumania's major oil city, and Constanta, its cnief port, it was stated officially, Sir Stafford Cripps, the British ambassador to Moscow, returned here Friday by plane bringing mission representing the British Army, Navy, Air Force and eco' nomics. It was assigned to in tegrate the British-Russian war Alec Templcton Becomes Citizen CHICAGO, June 27 (A.

Alec Templcton today became citizen of a country he has never seen. The noted blind pianist swore allegiance to the United States with about 150 other new citizens before Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe. Templeton came to the United States from Cardiff, South Wales, six years ago. CONTENTS NOTED A Sad Word to It Must Ever Be Detroit City Hall, Council Chamber, June 27, 1941 Mrs.

Vicia Ann Barrett, 161 Atkinson, Detroit, Mich. Dear Mrs. Barrett; It looks as though the Common Council Isn't going to write you a nice private letter or change the name of Orleans, either. Street names can't be chanced in secret. Somebody is liable to read the sign and want to know how come.

1 Anyway, your letter, which the Council received Friday, got a grin when the clerk read that your face was red when you taw your first letter asking them to change Orleans to something flossier turn up in the newspapers a week ago and heard about yourself on the radio. You asked the Council whether there wasn't any justice or privacy any more. Well, about the justice, you might wonder if you heard taxpayers yelling icr lower taxes and City employees screaming for more pay. And there's mighty little privacy Increase in Levy May Be Kept Small; OPM Calls Parley on Further Cut in Output BY CLIFFORD A. PREVOST Fcea Vttt Wathlnittan Bnrr, I J'il National l'rnt Uulldlnl WASHINGTON, June 27 The House Ways and Means Commit tee was engaged today in a ter rific battle over Administration proposals to "tax the automobile industry out of existence, with every indication that a com promise would be reached in favor of the industry.

Michigan representatives on the committee, John D. Dingell, Detroit Democrat, and Roy O. Wood- rurr, Bay City Republican, are hopelessly outnumbered, but indi cated that they would force out a bill which would at least give the Industry a "break." Huge Tax Boost Proposed The present excise tax on auto mobiles is 3 per cent. Some offi cials have advocated a tax as high as 25 or 30 per cent in an effort to force curtailment of nondefense production. In -the face of opposition threat ened by the Michigan delegation the Treasury has agreed to accept a tax of 15 per cent, which is a compromise between the 7 per cent tax originally advocated cy me Treasury and the 25 or 30 per cent later suggested.

Dingell and Woodruff are hold ing out for the 7 per cent levy. There was every indication that the new tax would be somewhere between 7 and 15 per cent. lAnto Parley Called Meantime, John D. Blggers, OPM production director, called all automobile manufacturers to a conference to be held here July 2 to discuss a further reduction in auto and truck production. He said that' defense require' ments definitely will force greater cut in production than the 20 per cent originally decreed for the next model year.

The War Department recently urged a further cut as much as 30 per cent additional, according to some sources. Biggers did not say how much of an additional cut would be necessary, but explained that the meeting was intended to work out methods of minimizing dislocations which might result from the curtailment. At the same time, Biggers announced the appointment of James S. Adams, executive vice president of the Colgate-Palmollve-Peet as chief of a new OPM automotive-industry section. He will preside nt Wednesday's conference.

Biggers said that a defense-industry advisory committee rep-Turn to Page 2, Column 1 U.S. Accuses Leftist Group Br the railed Tresr WASHINGTON, June 27 Acting Attorney General Francis Bid-die tonight authorized institution of criminal proceedings in St. Paul against loaders of the Socialist Worker's Party, Trotskyite branch of the Communist movement, on charges of seditious conspiracy and advocacy of overthrow of the Government by force. Immediately following this authorization, special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, armed with search warrants, en tercd headquarters of the Socialist Workers Party in Minneapolis and St. raul, seizing records, propa ganda and other material.

The Justice Department said that the principal party leaders against whom the action is being brought also are leaders of Local No. 544 of the General Drivers', Helpers' and Inside Workers' Union of Minneapolis. This union recently seceded from the Inter national Teamsters union (AFL) and was absorbed into a CIO union headed by A. D. Lewis brother of former CIO president Jonn Li.

Lewis. Kids and Horses to Lose a Trough The horse trough on Lawndale between Olivet and Witt will have to be removed because it inter feres with the business of a near by beer garden and anyhow, thirsty horses can get a drink out of bucket at a gasoline station across the street The Department of rublic Works persuaded the Common Council with these arguments Friday to order removal of the trough, which has become a water hole for the neighborhood children. Bj the AMutiatrd Prr Here are some facts and fig ures about the huge B-19 which passed its first air test in Cali fornia Friday: Wingspread: 212 feet. Fuselage: 132 feet. Height: 42 feet to rudder top.

Weight: Capacity 82 tons: empty 41 tons. Bomb load: 18 tons. Top speed: 210 MPH. Cruising: 186 MPH. Landing: 69 MPH.

Range: 7,500 miles. Celling: 22,000 feet. Power: Four 2,000 H.P. Wright Duplex Cyclone engines. Fuel: 11,000 gallons maximum.

Normal crew: 10; sleeps eight. Cost: $3,500,000. Insurance: $1,000,000. (Premiums: $82,000 first minute; for each succeeding test hour.) Giant Bomber Proves Itself on First Flight Army Pilot Is Up an Hour in Test BY RONALD W. WAGONER I'oltfd Prem Corrponlent MARCH FIELD, June 27 The United States Army Air Corps today launched its "battleship of the air," the giant Douglas B-19 bomber, in a test flight that was successful in every respect After a flight of 57 minutes at the controls of the world's largest plane, the test pilot, Maj.

Stanley umstead, said that she flew "as lightly and gently as a kite." lhe fifty-ton ship settled grace fully on the runway of this Army air base with only a couple of slight bounces, and rolled to a stop 2,000 feet away. Aviation experts for both the Army and the Douglas Corp. had admitted that they regarded the landing as the most crucial phase of the test, since it necessitated a combination of setting down the tremendous bulk at reduced speed. Tested in Maneuvers The ship took off from Clover Field, Santa Monica, adjoining the Douglas Aircraft plant and landed here, 60 miles away. During the flight, It circled out over the ocean and above Long Beach to permit Maj, Umstead and his crew of six to test the huge ship on turns and elementary maneuvers.

The big ship wobbled slightly on the take-off and bounced on its wheels in landing, but Maj. Um stead said that it was "ballooning" because not enough weight was aboard the craft to keep it from being feathery at the controls. Takes Off In 1,700 Feet One of the most important re suits of today's tests was that it required the big ship only 2,000 feet to land and only 1,700 feet to take off. The runways, both at Clover Field and at March Field, had been extended to a mile In length. Aboard the plane, In addition to Maj.

Umstead, were Maj. Howard G. Bunker, co-pilot; Mark Koogler, crew chief; Lieut. Col. James G.

Taylor, representing the chief of the Army Air Corps, and three Douglas engineers, Jack Grant. Merle Steele and Raoul Escallier. Mrs. Barrett: Plain 'Orleans' about public business. It Isn't considered good form.

Your suggestion to polish up the good old name of Orleans a bit by adding "Drive" Just didn't click with the Council. Maybe it was the heat. The City Hall was kind of hot today. Or maybe the Council figured if Orleans could thrive for a hujv dred years or more without any props, it could stagger along alone the rest of the way. There wasn't any argument against your claim that one's address certainly does mean a great deal to a person's dignity or prestige, but It' looks as though Orleans will have to do for your new home.

Seeing that the Council wasn't going to write as you asked. thought it would be a shame if you didn't get a letter about Orleans. I was going to mail this but that stamp that's been in mp hiy pocket since I came out uneven on my Christmas cards didn't have any stickum. Yours regretfully (on behalf of the Council), OWEN C. DEATRICK, Free Prcs3 Staff Writer.

Special to the Tret Pr MIDLAND, June 27 Union and management were still deadlocked Friday night when negotiations in the Dow Chemical Co. strike adjourned until 10 a. m. Saturday. The CIO announced Friday that it would attempt to close the plant Saturday.

A spokesman for the Dow Chemical union membership said that they expected to have enough workers out of the plant to force a halt in operations. The Office of Production Management had asked Gov. Van Wagoner to keep the plant operating. Van Wagoner said that the OPM considered the Dow company, which produces 75 per cent of nation's magnesium, one of the most vital in defense industry. The plant employs 4,500.

Metal Vneil In Planes On this point. Judge John L. Connor, Federal conciliator said: "It is one of the greatest, if not tht greatest, single defense plant in the nation." The metal is used In airplane manufacture. Regarding the negotiations, Judge Connor said: "We have been in constant session since 4 a. m.

We see no particular change in the position of either party. They are still deadlocked on the issue involved." The plant is continuing to operate. Head of Firm Returns Dr. Willard H. Dow, president and general manager of the company, who had been in Washington negotiating for additional defense contracts, arrived in Midland at 2 p.

m. Friday by plane. Also joining the conferences In the after noon were John Q. Jennings, of the United States Conciliation Service, and Gale Smitii, OfM representative. The strike began Thursday when Dow employees affiliated with the United Mine Workers (CIO) chemical division walked out in protest against the disciplinary layoff for two weeks of Kile King, service department employee, who also is a steward of the CIO union.

Nearly 100 State Police main tnlned order Friday morning as 1.000 Dow workers on the day shift went to work through picket lines of 171 union men, while an other 600 or so looked on. There is no existing union-company labor contract, although a Na tional Labor Relations Board elec tion has been sot for July 8. Em ployees will determine whether the UMW (CIO) or the Brother hood of Chemical Workers, an independent union, or neither, shall Turn to Togc 4, Column 1 Flint lo Ration Water Supply Sprclal to the Free I'rr FLINT, June 27 Reporting that water consumption In Flint is reaching a "danger point," City Manager George T. Gundry re-vealed today that plans are un der wav for the "rationing" of water for the duration of the current heat wave. A new record was set today with more than 30 million gallons pumned at the Citv waterworks.

The maximum capacity of the Plant is rated less than this figure, he said. Overtime defense work In Flint plants is responsibly for a large share of the increased demand, "We are going to ask residents of the city to restrict sprinkling of lawns betwen 6 and 9 a. m. on weekdays," Gundry said. LOOKING FORWARD TO SUNDAY OMPLETE BOOK-OF-THE-W Don't miss Alice Ross Colvcr's fascinating love story, "Not Just to Remember" the story of a girl who couldn't make up her mind about love until it almost slipped from her grasp.

DO YOTJ KNOW YOUR NAVY Meet its ships, men and leaders in a full page crammed with all the things you've wanted to know about your fighting forces at sea. In the Sunday Graphic. TOMORROW'S SUNDAY FREE PRESS OPM Requests 8 New Plants for 'Aluminum Would lie Built by U.S. to Aid Defense Br the Asuoelated Tent WASHINGTON, June 27 Defense officials today recommended the construction of eight new aluminum plants to produce an additional 600,000,000 pounds a year, raising the national capacity to 1,400.000,000 pounds. William S.

Knudsen, director of the Office of Production Management, and Sidney Hillman, associate director, sent the recommendation to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson for approval, after which it will be sent to the Defense Plant which would be asked to finance the new plants. Tne areas seieciea ana me proposed annual aluminum capacity include: Arkansas, 100,000,000 pounds; Bonneville-Grande Coulee area, two plants, one of 85,000,000 pounds capacity and the other of 55,000,000 pounds; upper New York State, two plants, one of 100,000,000 pounds capacity and the other of 50.000,000 pounds; Alabama. 100.000,000 pounds; Cali fornia. 70.000.000 pounds, ana North Carolina.

40,000,000 pounds. OPM said that the problem of power had been solved and that construction of all eight plants could be started Immediately. The plants are to be built and owned by the Government, but will be operated by private companies under lease. The companies were not named. THEY CAN'T TAKE IT Taxi Dancers Say 'Marathon' One Michigan woman was killed by the heat and a man was report ed drowned Friday when swelter ing temperatures set new marks for the year all over the State.

In Detroit, where the mercury hit 95 at 3 p. two persons were prostrated. Slight relief was in sight, according to the Weather Bureau The official forecast was for fair and cooler Saturday, but the weather man explained that "cooler" meant only that temperatures would be about five degrees below those of Friday. Sunday will be partly cloudy. Outstate, Mrs.

Emma J. Pen nock, 72 years old, fell dead while working in the strawberry patch at her hbrrte at Hickory Corners, 16 miles southwest of Hasttlngs, Dr. C. P. Lathrop, Barry County coroner, said that death was caused by the heat.

Frank James, 24, of Saginaw, was reported drowned in the Sagi naw River, into which he waded Turn to Page 2, Column 3 Miss Beasley and her colleagues scoffed at the idea that the extra time would be too heavy a burden for them, particularly when dancing with large, clumsy gentlemen. "Weight doesn't mean a thing," she snorted. "It's the eccentric dancer the gentleman who learned one step back in 1896 and keeps pushing you around until you find out what it is who wears you down." "I'm afraid the longer dance will cause many of our best customers to discontinue dancing wis summer," said Miss Betty Hellok, "because men can't take it in this heat." The temperature of Detroit's taxi dancing establishments Friday night, was exactly that of the weather outside (see U. S. weather report).

The order lengthening the taxi dance was Issued by Miss Eleanor Hutzel, bead of the omens Division of the Police Department. She said it was an experiment and that she thought everybody would be pleased. "Oh, said the taxi dancers. WillWilttheElderlyClientele BY TOD ROCKWELL free frew Starr Wtlter The battle of the taxi-dancing time limit boiled over during Friday night's heat in the city's 10- cent-a-dance emporiums. "Our gentlemen customers," said indignant Miss Pearl Beasley.

27 years old, of 114 S. Washington, Royal Oak, "are mostly middle-aged and elderly. "It's a question of their health. They simply can't stand a dance of two-and-one-half minutes." She, with 200 other Detroit taxi dancers, was preparing to battle the police edict that beginning July 3 a dime buys a dance of two-and-one-half minutes. The time now is a minute and 30 seconds.

Miss Eeasley, who is secretary and treasurer of Dancing Teacher's Local No. 22429 (AFL), is the top taxi dancer at the Hollywood School of Dancing, 4211 Woodward. She has been doing the job for five years. "The police order cuts our in come in half." she complained. We can earn $5 a night, at one and one-half minutes.

We'll be lucky if we make J2.50 now. TODAY'S INDEX Pages Amusements 15 Around the Town 18 Church News 10 Clapper, Raymond 6 Classified Ads 18-19-20 Crossword Puzzle 18 Editorial 6 Lippmann, Walter 4 McLemore, Henry 7 My Day 9 Radio Programs 17 Financial 16-17 Sports Pages 11-12-13-14 State News 5 Vessel Passages 18 Vital Statistics 18 Weather Report 5 Women's Pages 8-9.