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Reid Appeals to Kelly for Veto Slue TOP Thursday, March 25, 1943 ofMightvay Patronage Bi fPaStOl'S Fight on Ration Points for the Plenty of X5 7- 'Piety Hill9 Requests Commission to Deny Permits in Church Areas 4. jW-'i BY HUB M. GEORGE Free Press Political Writer LANSING, March 24 Pastors of North Woodward churches in Detroit have renewed their fight -srmuioo aonbi'-T ajBs sq? ajojaq sion for a refusal of liquor licenses and the drying up of the "Piety Hill" area adjacent to their churches. The Rev. Herbert B.

Hudnut, pastor of the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, has written the commission protesting the re-licensing of the Philwood Bar, 8420 Woodward, a bar conducted by Nick Radelscu and John Getyina, at 8361 Woodward, and any establishment at 8340-8350 and 8360 Woodward, where he says equipment has been installed. All are i within 500 feet of his church. Consideration of the protest has been reserved until the Commission's next regular meeting Tuesday. Mr. Hudnut complained that affected church groups never assented to the licensing of the Phil- wood Bar, and that they were i overruled by a former commission in their protest against licensing of i -a.

i vjW 15 and now weighs seven and half pounds. The Campbells were one of the first families to occupy Herman Gardens project last December and are well pleased with their six-room apartment. Fears Wreck of Highway Standards BY JAMES M. HASWELL Frrf rrrss Lansing Bureau LANSING. March 24 Describing it as a bill to wreck the Stats highway system.

Commissioner Lloyd B. Reid crossed party linen Wednesday and delivered a direct appeal to Gov. Kelly to veto the bill to distribute State highway maintenance work as patronaga among the S3 county road commissions, most of whom are Republican. The Senate agreed to minor House amendments to the bill Wednesday and forwarded it to the Governor. "The people of Michigan expect you to repudiate politicians who put patronage grabbing above wpr requirements and proven performance," the Democratic highway commissioner wrote the Republican Governor.

Reid listed five reasons why opposes dividing up the State road maintenance. Because the war ia curtailing construction and rebuilding of roads, he said, goo I highway maintenance has become essential to keep materials and munitions traveling to and from w-ar plants without stoppages or tie-ups. The effect of the bill would to set up 83 different standards of maintenance, he declared. "The basis of the bill is political patronage," Reid told the Governor. "It has as its primary purpose the hiring at State expense by the county road commissions of some 1,200 new employees on a political patronage basis to replace the experienced State highway maintenance workers, all of whom are under State Civil Service," he said.

"As a Governor who is pledged to Civil Service principles and to efficient war-time use of labor, you can see the evils of this change-over." The bill would push back highway progress a generation, ha said. The former Republican highway commissioner, Frank Rogers, in 1925 "found that county road commissions with few exceptions were not trained for or interested in a modern State highway trunk line system," he said. That year Rogers centralized the building of the State's highways and the next year he begari the process of centralizing the upkeep of State highways. Today the State builds all its own roa and keeps them up In 52 of the S3 counties. Reid objected to the provisions of the bill giving final say in the relations between the Highway Department and the individual road commissions to the State Administrative Board.

Board members are not engineers, he said, arguing that road maintenance is too technical a subject to rest responsibility "with a non-expert body." Campbells 3 1 Free Press Photo GERALD DARROW A reDorter remarked that the big little family would come in handy around income-tax time, and Campbell quipped: "Yes, and around meat-rationing time, too. I sure hope they all turn out to be vegetarians." President Roosevelt's order for a general forty-eight-hour week becomes effective April 1. Employees of the Board of Health, the Public Lighting Commission and the Water Board Wednesday joined Department of Public Works employees in refusing to work a six-day week at straight time. Anthony Tashnick, business representative of the Greater Detroit City Employees Union (AFL) notified the three department heads, Dr. Bruce Douglas, Louis Schrenk and Lawrence Lenhardt, that the union employees would follow the lead of the DPW in refusing to work six days unless they were paid time-and-a-half for the extra day.

JUNE JEAN MRS. CAMPBELL AND BABY MARION Baby Marion was fifth in four years It's News Briefly Told Baby Marion Breaks Tivins Custom Mayor's Travel Trouble Delays 48-Hour Hearing Second enew 3ars Radelscu and Getyina. Liquor Chairman R. Glenn Dunn expressed disappointment Wednesday that the Legislature had killed a proposed statutory prohibition of licenses within 500 feet of churches and schools. "A firm stand by the lawmakers would have strengthened our position," he pointed out.

Mr. Hudnut's complaint was communicated to the Rev. Hillery Stratton, pastor of the First Baptist Church; Rabbi B. Benedict Glaser, of Temple Beth El; the Rev. Charles Haven Myers, of the North Woodward Congregational; Dr.

Edgar DeWitt Jones, pastor of Central Woodward Christian Church, and the Rev. William Ham, rector of St. Joseph's Episcopal Church. The Rev. E.

C. Prettyman, secretary of the Michigan Temperance Foundation, said Wednesday that subsequent to the legislative abandonment of Sunday closing of taverns, he had been consulted by a group of Central Michigan coun ties on plans for local option elec tions in November, 1944. About six counties are affected, he said. cent since the reorganization of traffic control was disputed Wednesday by Lieut. James T.

Lupton, of the Accident Prevention Bureau. Checking records that date from the establishment of the present system of traffic control on May 29, 1937, Lieut. Upton found that fatalities have been reduced only 30.4 per cent. The decline began in 1938, he said. In a publicity release the traffic division of the IACP takes credit for saving S89 lives last year in the 28 cities where the organization assisted in modernizing police traffic bureaus.

Oslo Reports British Sahoteurs Repulsed LONDON, March 24 AP) The German-controlled Oslo radio reported today that a group of saboteurs had been landed on the Norwegian coast Monday night by British motorboats but had been spotted at once by German troops and driven off with sharp losses. The broadcast was recorded by Reuters, British news agency. NAVIGATION OPENS ST. JOSEPH, March 24 (AP) Lake navigation opened here Wednesday with the arrival of the first gasoline tanker of the 1943 season. the new Mrs.

June Campbell, of 8637 Rut land, had a pretty good idea Wednesday of w-hat the legendary one-armed paperhanger with the seven-year itch was up against. The twenty-one-year-old house wife had just returned to her Herman Gardens apartment with her fifth child in four years and, as she explained with remarkable restraint: "They sure keep you busy." Her husband Jack, 23, an inspec tor at the Timken-Detroit Axle Co. plant, sprang to the defense of the first four, twin boys and twin girls. 'They don't cause much trouble," he said. "They're good kids." The first pair of twins, Darrow and Gerald, were a surprise to parents and doctor when they were born here Jan.

23, 1939, Mrs. Campbell said. The family was prepared for twins, however, when Joan and June were born on Father's Day, June 16, 1940. "I thought it was going to be twins again when I went to Marr General Hospital earlier this month," the slim, reddish-haired mother said. "We were wrong this time, though." Baby Marion was born March Because of Mayor Jeffries' delay in reaching Washington Wednesday en route home from his Florida vacation, the public hearing on a proposed forty-eight-hour week for City employees will be held at 10:15 a.

m. Monday instead of Friday, it was announced by Council President John C. Lodge. Mayor Jeffries is scheduled to meet City Controller Charles G. Oakman in New York City Friday to sign approximately $3,000,000 in public housing bonds.

He will return to Detroit by train Friday night or Saturday. "The Council wants to hear from the Mayor before it decides whether to order a general forty-eight-hour week for City employees," said Lodge. "Nothing can be done before next week." Section Pages 17 to 28 'Children's Canteen' to Open April 5 Registrations for Day Nursery at Hutchins School to Start Next Week The first "children's canteen" in Michigan for after-school and Saturday care of children of working mothers will be opened at the Hutchins School, 8820 Woodrow Wilson, Monday, April 5, Miss Edna Noble White, chairman of the State Day Care Committee, announced Wednesday. Registrations will be held at the school next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, from 7:30 to 8:30 a. m.

and 4 to 8 p. m. Eligible for enrollment will be elementary school children who reside In the area bounded by West Grand Blvd. on the south, Woodward on the east, Lawton on the west and Chicago Blvd. on the north.

This includes the school districts of Grossman, Fairbanks and Thirkell public schools. Weekly charges have been tenatively set at $2.50 a child, including seven meals a week, Miss White said. The "canteen" will be directed by Miss Eleanore McCabe, with Mrs. Helen Zimmerman as assistant. Similai programs will be Instituted throughout Detroit, Highland Park and Hamtramck with Federal funds under the Lanham Act as soon as arrangements can be completed, Miss White said.

Meanwhile, the Wayne County Committee on Day Care for Children adopted a recommendation Wednesday to establish a new countywide agency to give centralized service to work mothers who want a place for their children. This agency, to be known as the "Children's War Service," will act as a central information and assistance bureau. It will be several weeks before it will start functioning. Federal, state, county and War Chest funds will support the agency until it can be included in the Lanham grant. No Illness Is Traced to Fuel-Oil Rationing WASHINGTON, March 24 fAP) A group of 30 medical and public-health authorities has found "No evidence whatsoever that the health of the people in the fuel-oil rationed areas has suffered" as a result of oil rationing.

Joel Dean, director of fuel rationing in the Office of Price Administration, who supplied the report, said further that many of the authorities believed that "the desperate shortage of fuel oil would have doubtless resulted in much suffering and injury if its distribution had been left to favoritism and chance" Instead of rationing. Floor AT STATE to 9 o'clock Battlefront Tours Urired by Reuther Combat Experience for Plant, Labor Leaders Suggested to Spur War Effort BY ARTHUR W. CARSTEXS Free Pres Stuff Writer Muscle-weary but enthusiastic after three days of training with soldiers at Camp Atterbury, Walter P. Reuther, vice president of the UAW(CIO), proposed Wednesday night that groups of management and labor representatives be sent to battlefronts for experience as combat soldiers. He suggested groups of 12 each from the UAW and from war plant management personnel could easily be transported to the African front and there spread among combat units for short periods, just as 250 UAW leaders were given Army training experience this week at Camp Atterbury.

REPEATS SUGGESTION' Reuther had suggested earlier that management officials be given the same intensive taste of Army camp life as was given the labor leaders. "I make that suggestion in no sarcastic or critical way," he declared. "Management has no more concept of total war than labor has." The thirty-six-year-oid labor leader made no secret of the fact that the three days at Camp Atterbury had been a revelation to him. Blistered feet, bruised shoulders and legs that he said were "numb from the waist down." bore mute testimony to the truth of Reuther's statement that "nothing a man does in the shop, no matter how-Ion or hard he works, can compare, in actual physical punishment, with what our troops are going through." Reuther and his 250 companions. most of them from Detroit, arrived I at Camp Atterbury Sunday night, were given basic training Monday and advanced to Ranger training with units of the S3rd Division Tuesday.

They ran obstacle courses, scaled eight-foot walls went on forced marches at night and ourams swaying i ope bridges with dynamite exploding around them. FIRST WAR 'SOFT "When we got through," Reuther said, "some of the older men who bad served with the toughest Marine outfits in the last war that was like a Boy Scout outing compared to what these boys are going through just training for the real thing." Reuther said he was agreeably surprised at the absence of any resentment among the Army men gainst the high-paid war workers. "There was no antagonism at all," he said, "no feeling that the boys tip here in Detroit are on the gravy train. They feel that we're doing fin essential job, just as they are." "All of our men came back enthusiastic about holding up our end of the war on the production front," he said. "They got something in the way of morale that they couldn't get by any other means.

The experience developed a feeling of solidarity between production soldiers and front line soldiers. The Army men realized it as well as we did." Soldiers with whom Reuther and othpr union men talked asked few questions about wildcat strikes and work stoppages but were almost unanimous, he said, in asking, 'What's going to happen to us when the war's over?" "That is the big question they are really disturbed about. They want assurance that jobs will be waiting for them when they come back, Reuther declared. Canada Is Studying Post-War Airlines New York Times Service OTTAWA, March 24 Plans for post-war transocean and interna- tional flying are under considera tion by Trans-Canada Air Lines, it was announced today by S. H.

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Recorder's Judge Joseph A. Gillis ruled Wednesday in placing James L. West, 28 years old, of 2322 Fourth, on probation for six months for assault and battery. West, a Great Lakes Steel plant worker, was arrested on his wife's charge that he slapped her when he caught her chewing his gum. He admitted the charge.

'Fox Hole9 Refugee Gets ISo Sympathy Making his thirty eighth appearance in Recorder's court Wednesday on a drunk charge, William J. Smith, 49 years old, tried a new explanation. "Something went off and hit me as I was climbing out of a fox hole on Beech Street," he said. Unimpressed, Judge John V. Brennan sent him to the guard house for 90 days.

Pick a Name The petition of Horace Hawkins, of 998 Hague, to change his name to Sahr Jarrah was granted Wednesday by Probate Judge Joseph A. Murphy. Hawkins said that he had adopted the Asiatic name some- time ago after seeing it in a book. Although granting the request. Judge Murphy said that in the future name changes would not be permitted in his court unless good legal reasons were presented.

"I do not propose to start any agitation." Murphy said, "but it appeals to me that persons who want to live here should use their own names and not adopt religious names." Slaughter Checked Under the terms of a temDorarv injunction issued Wednesday by Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle, David Wolin. doinp- business in Flint as the Wolin Packing was restrained from slaughtering anv beef until April 1 and limited to killing Sll head of cattle or an amount not in excess of 455,450 pounds during the quota period of April 1 to June 30. The injunction was asked by the Office of Price Administration, which charged that Wolin had ig- nored the quota set for his pack- ing house. A hearing on the case was recently held by Judge Tuttle while sitting in Bay City.

Wolin will be subject to a fine of $10,000 if he violates the injunction. April Stamps Valid Blue and stamps in War Ration Book 2, intended for use in April, will become valid Thursday and will have the same value as the March and stamps, it was announced Wednesday by the OPA. After March 31, however, blue stamps and will no longer be valid. The blue and stamps will be good through April 30. The overlap period will permit consumers who may have low- llnrnl, etomo in Inonffiviont valuer in i vii ni ii i iiiouiiii.ii.iii quantities to purchase desired items to combine them with April stamps, an OPA official pointed out, Writing on the Wall Giant five-foot-long photographs of the handwriting of Patrick E.

McBride, 44 years old, were displayed before a jury in Federal Judge Frank A. Picard's court Wednesday, resulting in McBride's conviction on a charge of impersonating a sailor. He was sentenced to two and a half years in Federal Penitentiary. McBride, it was pointed out, has a prison record dating back 22 years and was brought to Detroit to answer the latest charge from Leavenworth, where he studied law in order that he might represent himself in court. Cops vs.

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