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U.S. Weather Report Thunderthowers on Saturday; fair and cooler on Sunday (Complete report en Pa ft 8) METROPOLITAN FINAL EDITION Saturday, June 3, 1939. 109th Year. No. 30 On Guard for Over a Century 24 Pages Three Cents 1 Navy's Orders Start Work on 24 New Ships Navy Plane Down on Lake Erie; Tug Rescues Th ree an nn U.S.

to Build Pair of Gigantic Vessels in Race with Japs A A tv Ml 0) o) 0 mm i SMS ui Big Federal Program to Cost $350,000,000 WASHINGTON, June 2 (A, The Navy, making a tremen' dous spurt in the world race for sea power, placed orders today for Star Admits She'll Seek Divorce two battleships and 22 other vessels. The new armada Becker Slaying Charged to Widow and Plant Aide is expected to cost $350,000,000. Assistant Secretary Charles Edl Osborn Warns Mappers Not to Slight Michigan ion, saying that the biggest peace time construction program was "clicking" at last, indicated that Flight of Trio from Grosse He Ends Abruptly Base Physician Is One of Those Taken Off Crippled Ship Feeble Signals Spur Rescuers to New Efforts Three Die in Attempt to Follow the Four Who Made Escape a major purpose was to speed Mrs. Juliette Becker and Ernest court room until Winter, justice restoration of the five-to-three or tne peace for Royal Oak Town Hawkins were held without bail Friday night for examination on ship, took his place on the bench ratio of superiority over Japan in tonnage. This ratio was estab first-degree murder charges in th A campaign to add approximately 40,000 square miles to the area of Michigan, launched from Possum Poke in Possum Lane, Poulan, Worth County, May Every seat was taken and many of the 100 or more spectators death of Mrs.

Becker's husband lished in naval treaties, but the treaties are now defunct, and Henry S. Becker, sixty-two-year stood around the sides of the old Oak Park manufacturer who small chamber. Edison told reporters today: "To the best of our information is, is still going strong, with field headquarters now established in was slain in the rear yard of hi Informed of Support home a week ago. Sault Ste. Marie.

the margin is now only about five to four. Japan and Great Britain One visitor strode up to Haw The prisoners, held in differen It began when the eagle eye of were building during the years jails until their arraignment be former Gov, Chase S. Osborn fore Justice Ben W. Winter in Kins, shook hands and said, "The boys at the shop are collecting money for you to defend this Michigan's ace defender, happened when we were idle. Work to Start at Once to light on an item on Page 534 of case.

Berkley court room, greeted each other warmly as officers marched them in for the brief proceedings tne l3B World Almanac published He identified himself as William by the New York World-Telegram i v. Without waiting for funds to become available July 1, the start Jacobs, superintendent of the sheet With norrilied incredulity, the at p. m. former Governor read therein that Greets Widow with Hello" metal department of the Cadillac Motor and said that Hawkins "Hello," said Hawkins, forty Three attaches of the United States Naval Reserve Air Base at Grosse He were rescued from Lake Erie late Friday after their amphibian Navy plane had been forced down. Commander M.

E. Arnold confirmed the fact that the plane had been forced down, and that the crew of three had been rescued. He said he did not know whether the plane remained afloat. Arnold said the report he received was that the plane had come down on the lake between Toledo and Sandusky, and that the ere" had been taken aboard a tug. Those on the ship were Lieut.

formerly had worked with him the State of Michigan has a total area of 87,980 square miles, of which 500 square miles are water year-old superintendent of the H. and the donors of the proposed fund. S. Becker Manufacturing Co. and close business associate of the surface.

Immediately, the aged veteran of many a campaign leaped into the breach, pen in Mrs. Becker stared fixedlv slain man. uie oor as me warrant was renrt Hello. Ernie," replied Mrs, nana. and remained silent as her attor of a new fiscal year, the Navy ordered work started on 19 of the 23 ships for which Congress provided in the $773,000,000 appropriation bill which President Roosevelt signed 'ast week.

The other five ships ordered today had been authorized previously. Involved contract procedure normally followed was shortened by receiving bids in advance. Edison estimated that six months or more would be clipped from the time required to complete the ships. Work Is Divided Becker, owner of a dress shop Sends Protesting Letters ney, Michael Duff McNamara, de at (lux w. warren Ave.

To the World Teleirram. the manaea an examination. BIRKENHEAD, England, Juno 3 (Saturday (Despite abandonment of hope by builders of the submarine Thetis, the Admiralty announced today that divers reported faint tappings on the hull of the vessel in which 90 men are entrapped. The tappings were heard at 2 a. m.

(8 p. m. Detroit time Friday), the Admiralty said. As a consequence of these faint signs of life, the Admiralty directed a vast array of rescue ships to push forward their operations throughout the night in attempts to raise the stern of the craft "when slack water provides the next opportunity." Had Abandoned Hop The builders of the vessel had given up for dead the men aboard her. It had been estimated that at the expiration of 36 hours under water 20 minutes before the tappings were reported heard the air supply would bt exhausted.

A naval officer arriving at Liverpool Hospital with one of the four survivors of the accident had said that salvage would be deferred After telling Hawkins that she senaon L. Etherton. iitnm.v director of the United States Geological Survey, the director of the felt "pretty good," the thirty ight-year-old widow talked with "awjims, imewise demanded an examination as his rltenr Bureau of the Census, and Rand Gordon D. Cady, Dr. E.

O. Coff-man. Naval Base physician, and I him in whispers before a packed McNally Co. went stern letters of his gaze on the ceiline- rex Rickards. protest.

jowerea nis eyes in the course of First reports received were that In his letter to the World-Tele me proceedings. the plane was forced down about an hour after It left the base at Youths Lashed gram, he pointed more in sorrow than In ire to the fact that partial Protests Justice's Order 2:30 p. m. Friday. Etherton protested as Justin Mrs.

Cady said she had been justice had been done in an obscure footnote at the bottom of the iniquitous page, "where no one Winter ordered both prisoners held without bail for examination at 9:30 a. m. Saturday, June 10. informed of the accident and that she expected her husband back in Detroit as soon as the tug reached would pick it out." Dividing the work between Government and commercial shipyards, the Navy awarded the two battleships and 10 other vessels to Navy yards and let contracts for 12 craft to private builders. Almost as the awards were announced, the President signed a measure authorizing $54,000,000 worth of construction at naval bases.

The bill virtually completed the for Riot in Jail Then Sent to Prison Osborn quotes the footnote in under the statutes." Etherton dock. toto: said, there is provision that in "Michigan contains approxi cases where the defendants have mately additional square miles as Dusmesses and are not known Britannia Unable by Ontario Judge follows: 16,653 square miles of criminals, bail may be set." winter held out some kevs and to Rule the Wives Lake Superior; 12,922 square miles of Lake Michigan; 9,925 square miles of Lake Huron, and 460 Two Windsor youths who I untu aawn and that hope had been abandoned by squads of workers. Ambulance squad workers were dismissed and pier lights were ex-I tinguished here, but the Admiralty instructed the attorney to open the adjoining judge's chambers and find such a statute In the law square miles of Lakes St. Clair Senators' Spouse to Crash Navy's legislative program for this aesslon of Congress. Included in nearly 100 projects was a drydock for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Pacific outpost.

wrecked their Sandwich County jail cells last Sunday night in a protest over a bread-and-water and Erie." Embassy's Royal Fete iiDrary there. "In other words," Osborn wrote, When Etherton reported that he the State of Michigan actually diet received 12 lashes each Friday in a ceremony that resembled an old-fashioned woodshed whip Spwial to Trr Pr uid Chlcaro Irltam could not find the statute referred to. Winter replied that he would nas a total area of 97,940 square miles, with 40,460 square miles of WASHINGTON, June 2 The remain open minded about the matter and fix bail at a later ping in more ways than one. Later the two youths, Jack Ber nat, 21 years old, and Peter Owad iresn water. Your table is misleading.

It is from your table that wives of the senators of the United States boasted a victory over the British Embassy tonight and MADELEINE CARROLL The blond screen star Friday confirmed reports that she is contemplating a divorce from Capt. Philip Astley, English real estate broker, whom she married in 1931. Miss Carroll said that she would file suit in the English courts. Her studio announced that the title of her current picture "Are Husbanda Necessary? would be changed to spare her embarrassment. Smuggling Count Names a Widow Worth 20 Million date if he could be shown leeal 23, were sentenced to serve eight newspapers and other disseminators of information take their they gave the chief credit to Mrs.

provisions for such action or was John N. Garner, wife and secre figures. provided with an order to fix bail years each in the penitentiary at Kingston for robbing two alleged bootleggers. Taken to the court tary of the Vice President. Says Water Area Is Included Turn to BECKER rage 5 Forty-eight hours ago, a majority "In the case of Canada and the snuwea mat the full rescue force was at work at the disaster scene.

Finn's Announcement At Birkenhead, Sydney Woodward, secretary of Cammel, Laird firm which built the sulv marine, announced to a tense crowd late last night: "I am sorry, but there Is no hope for the men remaining in the submarine." Many women relatives of ths trapped men became hysterical. Following four men who escaped, three others died late Friday in a futile effort to get free with Davis lung devices, according to incomplete reports reaching Liverpool. One of those who died was understood to be Stoker Wiifr.n provinces of Canada, in your table of the senators and their wives were entirely lacking invitations to the royal garden party that the Suspects Confess room of Justice Gerald Kelly, of the Ontario Supreme Court, both youths refused seats and expressed a desire to remain in a standing (wnicn is all that most people NEW YORK. June 2 (A. A Federal grand jury Indicted the wealthy and socially prominent ever see) you correctly include the Briggs Contract Parley Off Until After NLRB Election British ambassador.

Sir Ronald iresn-water area in each province Lindsay, and Lady Lindsay will Laundry Robbery ana in tne total. Mrs. May Hancock Ayer today on charges that she smuggled more give nest Thursday in honor of 'In justice to Michigan and all King George and Queen Elizabeth. man $14,000 worth of jewels and clothing into the United States. or the lake states, also to the United States of America itself, Tonignt 100 per cent of the Picked up Friday by detectives.

The indictment said the offenses Thomas Bradley, 25 years old, of Know you win be glad, in future, senators and their wives had been Invited, despite Lady Lindsay's to include the area of the Great ees trederick and Charles Thompson, 24, of 934 Garfield Lakes in all affected figures in The management of the Briggs Manufacturing Co. flatly refused Friday to negotiate a new contract with the striking C.I.O. group of the U.A.W. until a bargaining agent had been designated by a National Labor Relations Board were identified by three wit your tames. observation a week ago that the guest list of 1,300 could not be stretched to include them.

The last-minute expansion of the list. I appeared discouraged, however, and it seemed evident from the manner in which Friday's conference ended that the two sides were farther apart than when the strike began May 22. The company based its demand for an NLRB election on Homer Martin's claim that his inde Thomas Hole, whose wife received nesses and later confessed, police This clearer presentation of snid, lo a noldup last Saturday in which a woman was shot in the leg. an Admiralty message saying that her husband was believed to be dead. Beforo the new tannmir the facts will give Michigan eighth place, instead of twenty-second, in area.

It will show Michigan unaer leminine pressure, was generous to Include a considerable election, and until the union group of House members and The robbery occurred at the 10 De wnat It actually is. the their wives. Sterling Laundry 900 E. heard early today, signals from the submarine had crown faint largest state east of the Missis- The change in plans was broneht Ferry when bandits helv up ippi." and finally stopped at 1:30 p. m.

about at a Capitol conference and Mrs. Gladys Saunders, 30, of 13934 position while the case was reviewed and while sentence was passed. The flogging, administered by order of the Attorney General's Department of Ontario, was the first for several years. The prisoners were stripped to the knees and shackled in a bending position over an oak table, their ankles to the legs of the table and their arms to a cell door. A heavy blanket was wrapped around each youth to protect the body from the waist up and the exposed portions were flogged thoroughly with a twelve-inch leather strap attached to a wooden handle.

The strap was about an eighth of an inch thick. Only a moan or two escaped the two during the flogging which required 40 minutes. Large welts appeared with each slap, forming a criss-cross pattern according to witnesses. The skin was not broken in either case, jail attendants said. Both youths were blindfolded so they could not identify the guard who administered the flogging.

Rand McNally Co. gave its luncheon between Ambassador llene Miss Mane Bale, 27, Lindsay and some of his closest of 4147 Scotten and Miss copy of the letter some thought, finally replying that much as they would like to help substantiate Four Men Escape Ninety-four men were ahnard pendent U.A.W. represented a majority of Briggs workers. This was the first time Martin had been considered in the discussion since last Friday, when he and a group of followers conferred with the management. 'The Thomas grouo and the so-called Martin group each claim to represent a majority of our employees," the company's statement occurred Aug.

30, 1937, and Sept. 28. 1938. Mrs. Ayer's apartment overlooking the East River was searched last month by a customs inspector on information from an unidentified woman.

Mrs. Ayer, whose husband, the late Dr. James C. Ayer, left her more than $20,000,000, refused to discuss the incident. Federal authorities said she probably would be arraigned Wednesday.

The firm of Blake Voorhees, her lawyers, issued a statement that Mrs. Ayer was a resident of Nassau, British West Indies, and that "under the law a nonresident citizen of the United States does not have to declare or pay any customs duty upon articles of clothing or jewelry brought into the United States for personal Use She was described as being seriously ill. benate friends, includlne- Vice President Garner, at which the the claim, the official figures would Clara Turk, 33, of 6210 Holcomb and escaped with $50. It was the third robbery at the laundry within a year. the Admiralty announced, when the Thetis, on acceptance trials, made plight of senators omitted from waived all demands for a union shop.

Discussions between- the two groups ended abruptly at 3 p. m. Union officials charged the company with bad faith and adoption of a "belligerent" position. They denied that they had given any ultimatums on the union shop and said they were willing to accept a contract granting sole-bargaining rights, with a provision voiding the contract if an NLRB election went against the C.I.O. union.

Dewey Seems Discouraged James F. Dewey. Federal labor not permit. the guest list was discussed. The ner maiuen dive at 1:40 Turn to OSBORN' Page 14 The women told police that the conference was arranged after the left-out Senate ladies had formed Thursday from which the craft never rose.

said. committee and appealed to Mrs. men entered, produced a large revolver and ordered them to stand against the wall. Mrs. Saunders Four men two naval officers Claims Altitude Mark LOS ANGELES, June 2 (U.P.) We will not enter this fartlnnnt uarner.

dispute. as shot in the leg when she stoker and a civilian reached the surface Friday morning by using Davis lunes. If no mor ira Grace Huntington, twenty-six- 'The Government, thront-h th. walked too slowly to the desig Barber Shop Bards nated spot. The bandits were arrested at year-old Los Angeles aviatrix, today claimed a new women's altitude record for planes powered by engines of less than 500 cubic inches displacement.

Miss Hunt Twang Mean Tonsils NLRB, can determine, in the democratic way, by secret ballot in our plants, which faction our employees want to accept as their conciliator, said discussions would Warren and Grandy Aves. after Be resumed in the Hotel Book TULSA, June 2 (A.P.) filling-station owner had com Cadillac at 10 a. m. Monday. He plained of their suspicious actions.

ington reached 20,000 feet. ine narmony was terrific as delegates thawed their pipes today at the first annual convention of brought up alive, the Thetis will go down as the worst submarine disaster in the history of the British Navy. Not counting the four who escaped, there were 59 navy men and 31 civilians aboard the craft. Late Friday, a six-inch steel cable, with which rescuers were attempting to raise the craft, snapped. Stern Raised for Time Uprisings Sweep uaig ming agent.

Martin Dodges Showdown Both the CI O. union and the management agreed last week to a consent election when the services of the Labor Board were offered by Frank H. Bo wen, regional director. Martin, however, evaded the issue. Pickpocket in Church Takes $97 from Pair WASHINGTON C.

June 2 (A. Picking pockets in a church netted a thief $97 today. He took billfolds from F. W. Crvder.

of Delaware, and S. A. Morgan, of Columbus, as they attended high school commencement exercises at the Methodist Church. Holy Land Again JERUSALEM. June 2 fA.

P.I Earlier in the 15 feet of A Labor Board hearing on the 1 day, the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. And that sentimental tune, "I Had a Dream, Dear," quivered under the initial tonsil twanging of the first 50 or so delegates to arrive. They hit it low and dreamy, high and sweet, fast and swingy. "Honey," also came in for a thorough vocal mauling, with the "Kentucky" group closing strong. The convention ends tomorrow night with the finals for the first World's Championship Barber Shop Quartet.

British troops were reported tonight to be fighting a major en petition of Bnggs Local (C.I.O.) "TX'X. for sole collective bargaining Dictator of Home Retired by Revolt Charging that her husband was a dictator In their home. Mrs. Ruth A. Rohde, 33 years old, of 911 Edgemont Grosse Pointe Park, testified in a divorce suit i before Circuit Judge Clyde I.

Webster, Friday, that marital domination had reduced her to a state of collapse. Her husband, Arthur J. Rohde, of 5791 Bedford told her on numerous occasions that a wife was incapable of thinking for her- self, she said. i The couple married June 26, 1930, and separated July 14, 1938. gagement in the Kalkaliya Hills with an Arab band as a new wave of bloodshed swept the Holy Land.

The Arab band in the day killed four British soldiers and three worked against time, attempting to cut a hole In the stern through which to pump air to the men below. But before they could succeed, a strong tide shifted the Thetis and plunged it completely under the surface. It slipped loose from marker buoys. Turn to SUBMARINE rage 8 Jewish policemen who were on a road patrol. In addition six Arabs were killed.

rights was scheduled to start here Monday, but an sdjournment of several days appeared likely Friday. The company's statement pointed out that 27 grievances which had led directly to the calling of the strike had been settled by Dewey. The statement added: "We are now in serious controversy over a demand for a closed or tinion shop. We will not agree to this, as we are not willing to give up cur right to hire the person we think most fitted to fill a particular job, whether or not he cares to join a union. Turn to BRIGGS Page 5 including a native policeman, when a time bomb exploded in a market place near the Jaffa Gate.

The bomb burst amid shopping- crowds. JIICJ nave i 4 years old. Judge Webster issued a decree in the uncontested suit. FULL PAGE OF PICTURES OF KING AND QUEEN Sunday's Free Press rotogravure section carries as a special feature a full page of pictures of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth taken on their American tour. Included is a large reproduction, suitable for framing, of the British government's official photograph of the king and queen and the two young princerses.

You'll want to see them. A MOVING NEW ROMANCE In the "All-Fiction" Magazine, you'll find the first HALF of Temple Bailey's fascinating book-length novel, "Tomorrow's Promise" a tender, thrilling story of modern divorce, and modern LOVE. Four great short stories also invite your attention. HOLLYWOOD GETS OUT OF TOWN The athletics craze hat hit the movie capital full force, and when the start aren't busy in front of a camera you'll find them on a horse or a mountain top or a boat. Clarke Wales tells you about Hollywood sports and their devotees in a two-page, illustrated feature in Screen Radio Weekly.

SNAPSHOT CONTEST WINNERS Have you a camera? Can you snap a picture? Sunday's rotogravure section presents the first weekly winners in the Free Press Amateur Snapshot Contest. See these pictures and discover how easily you can win one or more cash prizes. ON THE WOMEN'S PAGES All sorts of interesting features cosmetic gifts for the June bride white graduation frocks that will serve as summer formals salads that men like to make a snapshot test for your rooms the etiquette of gifts. TOMORROW'S SUNDAY FREE PRESS A score of Arabs were wounded so seriously that they were taken to hospitals. Horror gripped the Holy Land Villager in Alaska Flee as Volcano Flares Again SEATTLE, June 2 (A.

Volcanic Mount Veniaminof on the Alaskan Peninsula renewed activity today and fear-stricken Indians prepared to flee afoot. The village of PerryvUle, menaced by the volcano, had only two white residents today, Mr. and Mrs. A. D.

Johnson, and a radio message from Johnson aald, "Tomorrow there will be only myself and wife in village." All but 12 of the normal native population of 92 have left for seasonal fishing grounds farther away and were reported to be glad to get out of the region. BULLETIN SAX DIEGO. June 5 (C. Lou Gomez, twenty-year-old Los Angeles middleweight fighter, was killed Instantly tonight when he was knocked out In the second round of a preliminary fight at the San Diego Coliseum. Gomez collapsed from a hard body blow delivered by Hut Thompson, his Negro adversary, after two minute and 48 seconds of the round.

in the wake of the outburst. Tension grew hourly as police and military authorities strove to retain order by swift punitive meas Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages Alden, Ruth 12 Amusements 13 Around the Town 20 Church News 4 Collyer's Selections 17 Comics 23 Crossword Puzzle 20 Editorial 6 Financial lg Good Morning 6 Guest, Edgar A 6 How to Grow Younger 11 Iffy the Dopester 3 I Wish to Report 11 Lippmann, Walter 20 National Whirligig 6 Obituaries i Quillcn, Robert Radio Programs 20 Serial. "Second Best 23 Society 10 State News 14 Theater Vital Statistic" 21 Ward to the Wis IS Washington Weather Report 8 President Is Kept in Bed by Slight Sinus Trouble WASHINGTON, June 2 (A. President Roosevelt continued to run a slight temperature WPA Checks Tardy; I Woman Sings Protest ADRIAN. June 2 Because her husband failed to get his last two WPA paychecks, Mrs.

Arthur I Clark picketed the Lenawee County relief office today, carry-1 ing placards and singing hymns. Although the relief office has nothing to do with WPA checks, i Administrator James McVea said i i he would try to locate Clark's. The placards read "Out with McVea," "$25 Plates for Politi-I cians, Five-Cent Meals for the i Poor" and "Over the Hill to Pot- teix Field." The fact that Clark moved here from Detroit recently may account fnr the failure of the checks to kcatch up with bjnu from his sinus trouble today and his physician ordered him to re- ures and with ceaseless patrols in all sections of Jerusalem. The Arab band wiped out the road patrol of four Britons and three Jews 35 miles northwest of Jerusalem and seized a machine gun and other arms. The Jerusalem Community Council issued a manifesto to Jews proclaiming rerret and horror over the death of innocent persons in Jerusalem and demanding restraint of all Jews in their battle against the new British policy for sn independent Palestine state with ths Jews in a minority.

Clubber Kills Three main in bed. His condition, however, was de Minncv Dipner Drowns MANISTEE, June 2 Andrew Lijewski. 76 years old. was drowned Friday while dipping minnows in the Manistee River. City police snd coast guardsmen recovered the body.

scribed es decidedly improved. I STOCKTON'. June 2 A. White House aides said he A mysterious clubber ably would be up tomorrow and three men and critically injure.l back on the job. He had a tern- i another in silent attacks upon iran-perature of less, than one-half of sienta in the hobo jungle here a degre.

Todays press conference! the last two niehts. Police (ought was called a homicidial maniac..