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Drivers and Passengers 13 Pedestrians 58 Industrial Better Buy Bonds If You Can't Go Across, Then Come Across This Date Year Age, 98 Fatalities 31 Third Section Pages 19 to 30 112th Year. No. 354 Friday, April 23, 1943 HAM GONE WITH THE WAR Much-Rolled Easter Egg Elevated to Dinner Table U.S. to Fight Moves by Stephan for Delay a $50,000,000 School Aid Bill Signed Governor Vetoes Acts to Control Pay of Firemen and Probate Judges Record Appropriation Ratified tracking down every alleged violation. Elack market operators were offering chickens to retailers at from 50 to 75 cents a pound, live weight.

But eggs were in demand every Aid Sought at Playgrounds Assistance or parents at playgrounds this summer is being sought by the Department of Parks and Recreation. Faced with a lack of personnel, J. J. Considine, general superintendent, sent out a plea Thursday for volunteers, both men and women in order that children may continue to play in safety during the summer vacation. Nes-rty 25 members of the Streamliners, women's physical-fitness organization, have volunteered to assist in a part-time capacity.

There is a great need for men to help in the boys' pro- gram. Considine said. A training institute to prepare Xkfj U'vcrs caused one veteran butcher to pre diet that a favorite "country style dish would be reversed under the new order and become known to future generations not as "ham and eggs," but as "eggs and ham Health Unit on Long Week The Department of Health will go on a six-day forty-eight-hour week May 1 in compliance with President Roosevelt's edict designed to release men and women for work in essential war in dustry. The plan calls for an expenditure of $204,000 in overtime pay for 1,165 employees, and it will release no one to other work because the Department has been unable to fill 471 vacancies already existing, However, Charles G. Oakman, City controller, said that the change would bring the man-work hours up to par in the City's institutions.

BY GEORGE W. CAIN Free Press Staff Writer When Junior finds those colored Easter eggs this year. Mother is likely to confiscate them as the entree of the annual Sunday feast that once featured a juicy smoked ham. Many a Detroiter who once sniffed at the lowly egg in any form other than cake icing has discovered it is now one of the few pro teins available plenty. Meat and poultry dealers surveyed by the Free Press Thursday paid that Detroiters are buying the unrationed hen-fruit two and three dozen at a time and "not just for decorative purposes," as one sage put it.

Ham was available in limited quantities in some stores, but high ration point values and prices ranging from 40 to 55 cents a pound restricted most sales to one or two slices. Black market poultry sales were reported throughout the metropolitan district, and A. D. Reugsegger, chief enforcement attorney here or the Office of Price Adminis- tration, said his staff was busyj 3n Seen 3n lb elroil Al Muqlie5 J4atcli STEPHEN S. NISBET EUGENE B.

ELLIOTT Kelly approves Legislature's largest expenditure Role of Faith to Be Forum Easter Topic Plans were completed Friday for the highly unusual Easter Sunday religious broadcast of "In Our Opinion," the Free Press WJR radio roundtable program that goes on the air every Sunday at 12:30 p. m. The subject, "The Role of Faith in War Time," will be discussed by a panel drawn entirely from the congregation rather than the pulpit. In addition to two wounded Guadacanal veterans, there will appear three Detroiters particularly well fitted to tell how faith affects everyday life. Patrolman Guy Mulholland will speak with a background of several vears of riolice experience.

where, and supplies were generally plentiful at 47 to 53 cents a dozen. Many housewives bought two or three dozen eggs and a couple slices of ham, a proportion that volunteers will be held from 8 to 10 m. for five Mondays starting May 3. West Siders will train at Kronk Recreation Center, Junction and McGraw. and East Siders at the St.

Clair Recreation Center, Fairview near Warren. Further information may be had by calling RAndolph 8864. Foss, Guadalcanal Ace, Arrives in Washington WASHINGTON, April 22 (AP) Capt. Joe Foss, Marine Corps ace from Guadalcanal, has arrived in this country and is now at Marine Headquarters here, officials reported today. The flier is credited officially with destroying 26 enemy planes in Solomons fighting.

dquire Xooh younger MONT CALM xer Lehr Says INaoel Angle Was Aired Declares Letter Was Read to Jury and that Charges Were Probed by the FBI John C. Lehr, United States district attorney, Thursday issued a prepared statement concerning the Max Stephan case, in which he declared that there was nothing new in Stephan's story of his conversation with William J. Nagel, former Detroit postmaster. Stephan's story was read to the jury during the trial and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, prior to the trial, interviewed Nagel and he denied it, Lehr continued. Lehr said that in his opinion Stephan's statements, in his lette-to Judge Tuttle, "do not, under the wildest stretch of the imagination, constitute newrly discovered evidence." The district attorney said he hoped that Stephan's attorney would file his motion for a new trial without delay, to determine the truth or falsity of Stephan's story.

He declared that any attempt on the part of Stephan's attorney to delay final disposition of the case would be opposed by the Government. After he had given his statement to newspaper men, Lehr said that it appeared to him as though Nicholas Salowich, Stephan's attorney, was trying the case in the newspapers. "I have sent the newspaper articles to the Department of Justice, in Washington, with the recommendation that it oppose a new trial with all the force it can muster," Lehr said. "It looks to me as though Salowich is going to wait until the last minute to file an appeal, so that he can ask for a further delay on the grounds that he discovered additional evidence." ISSUES STATEMENT Lehr's statement said: "While it is my responsibility to see that justice be done, both to the people of the United States and the defendant Stephan, it is only fair to Mr. Nagel at this time to state that Stephan, prior to his arrest, in his original statement to the FBI, told of a conversation he claimed he had with Nagel relative to his aiding an escaped German war prisoner.

"That statement was read to jury during the trial and is contained in the printed record of tlie case, as reviewed by the Circuit Court of Appeals, and is filed with the Supreme Court. "The FBI interviewed Nagel at that time relative to Stephan's story of their conversation and he denied it completely. Now, with a sentence of death hanging over his head, Stephan has amplified his original story and, in his letter to Judge Tuttle, has still further amplified it. "Each overt act of treason charged against Stephan in the indictment and which was proven by two witnesses, in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution, was actually committed by Stephan before the time when he claims to have had his conversation with Nagel. "In my opinion, the statements of Stephan in his letter to Judge Tuttle do not, under the wildest stretch of imagination, constitute newly discovered evidence.

If his statements are true, Stephan knew of those facts at the time of his trial and both his trial attorney and his present attorney knew of his alleged conversation with Mr. Nagel." Huron-Clinton Seeking Property Condemnation Condemnation proceedings involving a strip of territory approximately eight miles long by 500 feet wide got under way Thursday with the choosing of a jury before Circuit Judge James E. Chenot. The property is required by the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority. RATION CALENDAR CANNED GOODS Blue coupons valid through April 30.

MEAT, FATS, OELS Red and coupons valid through April 30. SHOES Stamp 17 One pair to June 15. GASOLINE No. 5 coupons expire May 21. SUGAR Stamp 12.

5 lbs. expires May 31 COFFEE Stamp 26. 1 lb. expires April 23 FUEL OIL Period 5 coupons good for 11 gallons; Period 4 coupons good until April 17. r5 4 Free Press Photo GOV.

KELLY It's News- Briefly Told Jefferson Approved Detroit Street Plan Detroit's street design was approved by Thomas Jefferson, according to the findings in the documents of the Public Library Burton Historical Collection released coincidental with the celebration of the former president's 200th anniversary. The documents, according to library researchers, disclose that Judge Augustus B. Woodward favored rebuilding Detroit after the With plenty of opposition to his plan, Judge Woodw-ard went ahead with his ideas and overwhelmed his opponents by finally securing the approval of President Jefferson. Noisy Shirt Nemesis to Rejected Draftee Military police in downtown Detroit broke the snappy precision of their stride to take another look at Samuel Lee Howard and his buck private's uniform. The uniform was correct in all but one detail he wore a green shirt so loud in shade that it stood out like a shout in church.

When FBI agents questioned Howard Thursday he said that he had been rejected for the draft. "I wanted to look like a soldier," he explained. Howard, a former defense worker, is 22 years old and lives at 8777 Cardoni. Sentence Suspended to Permit Induction A suspended sentence of one to five years with plenty of strings attached was given to Meyer Yaras, 36 years old, of 4061 Clements, by Recorder's Judge John P. Scallen Thursday.

Yaras, one of seven persons found guilty last week of conspiracy to violate the gambling laws, was sentenced a week in advance of the others when it was learned that he was subject to immediate induction in the Army. The suspension was to be effective only if Yaras were accepted by the Army and was to endure only if he received an honorable discharge from service. Although not intending to be prophetic. Judge Scallen set the terms of the sentence to expire after five years. Landlady Confesses Looting Tenant's Larder Trapped by the amateur sleuthing of her tenant, Mrs.

Stella Lester, 45 years old, of 1260 Glover, pleaded guilty before Recorder's Judge Donald Van Zile Thursday to stealing canned food from William Tucker and was on probation for three months. Tucker, who now lives at 11211 E. Jefferson, marked his canned goods with a rubber stamp he used in war-materials Inspection. When police found some of the marked goods in Mrs. Lester's food locker she confessed.

BV JAMES M. HAS WELL Free Press Bureau LANSING. April 22 Gov. Kelly cleared his desk of legislative acts Thursday except for one measure which he will decide Monday. He vetoed a bill to provide minimum salaries for city firemen on the grounds that it would be an invasion of municipal authority, and signed a number of major measures.

These include the school aid bill, the liberalization of the Workmen's Compensation Act, changes in the Unemployment Compensation Act, and the act creating a pension system for State employees. JUDGES WIN VETO The Government also vetoed a bill regulating probate judges' sal aries and war powers at the request of the Probate Judges Association, and a bill which would shorten the time during which an employer might turn garnisheed money into court. Decision has been reserved on a measure wmcn would autnorize State payment for mental patients lodged in private hospitals. Kelly is not satisfied with State controls over the procedure, and is asking for a report from the State Hospital Commission. In vetoing the firemen a act, which papallels a 1941 law fixing minimum salaries for policemen, Kelly issued a plea in defense of municipal home rule.

CITY RIGHTS TAKEN "It seems to me this bill contra venes the very principle of Home Rule and it takes away from city governments the right to fix salaries, or at least minimum salaries, regardless of the financial condition of the city," he said. "If the Legislature can fix the salaries of some employees then it must fol low it can fix the salaries of all employees. "This would in effect nullify the Home Rule Act. Each city government would be deprived of its own judgment as to the amount of taxes to be raised, and could not with any degree of certainty adopt its budget until it received the mandate of the Legislature." Kelly pointed out that the en actment of an employees retirement measure was in line with his inaugural message. The law permits any employee at tne age of 60 to retire after Jan.

1, 1945, and provides compulsory retirement at 70. It calls for contributions of per cent of the employee's sal ary, and pensions, depending on salary and length of service, up to 51,800 a year. BENEFITS LIBERALIZED The liberalization of the Work men Compensation Act is the first carried out since 1912. It provides benefits up to $21 a week, maximum payments of $1,500, a longer pension period for total disability, and a graded scale of death benefits up to $27 a week, based upon the number of dependents. The act also substitutes an all-in clusive occipational disease pro- elusive occupational list of specific compensable diseases.

The unemployment compensa tion amendments provide a shorter waiting period for beneficiaries and provides benefits for persons honorably discharged from military service. Echoing the Chrysler slowdown case, which went to the Supreme Court, the new bill provides unemployment benefits for persons thrown out of work because of factory stoppages. A prevision is added barring women employees from receiving benefits because of child-bearing. The Governor also signed the act liberalizing old age assistance and making persons owning homes valued up to $3,500 and personal property up to $750 eligible for benefits. Churchill Refuses to Curb Saluting LONDON, April 22 (AP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill refused today to cut down on the amount of saluting going on in Britain's large cities.

Capt. Bertie V. Kirby, a Labor member of Parliament, asked that saluting not be required in London or other large cities because its frequency was embarrassing to both officers and men. Replying in the House of Com mons, Churchill said, "Saluting is an acknowledgment of the King's commission and a courtesy to Allied officers, and I do not con sider it desirable to differentiate between one city or town and an other in this matter." The Weather DETROIT AND VICINITY Warmer Friday, with scattered lieht shower Fri- av ninrmriK: eentie to moderate winds. LOWKK MICHIGAN Warmer Fridav.

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Its flexibility follows your flatters your features. Its rich, lustrous, suede-like surface testifies to its superb quality. No wonder men say: "Mellow, exclusive, serviceable Jolly Rounder's got everything! It's the Dobbsl" In a selection of handsome colors. Spokesman for youth will be Glen Forhan, president of the 12B class at Cooley High School. The Guadacanal veterans will be Tech.

Sergt. Edward Karcz and Corp. Edward C. Colby. They will be asked to discuss the often repeated assertion that "there are no atheists in foxholes." Both men have been recuperating from wounds at the Percy Jones General Hospital at Battle Creek.

Representatives of the sponsors will be William J. Coughlin, Free Press staff writer, and George Cushing, WJR news editor. Munt Slaying Guilt Admitted In a surprise move Thursday, Wayne Banning, Detroit auto mechanic, p'eaded guilty to a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Doris Mae Munt, whose battered body was found Nov. 18 in a field on the outskirts of Lincoln Park.

Scheduled for trial next month on first-degree murder charges, Banning was before Circuit Judge Ira W. Jayne on the matter of two diamond rings, gifts to Mrs. Munt, which he wished to turn over to his attorney, Ernest Papps. While testifying, Banning suddenly offered his plea of guilty to a lesser charge, which was accepted. Banning was charged with slaying Mrs.

Munt, Windsor war worker, when she broke off their friendship in an effort to return to her husband, a member of the Canadian Navy. He will be sentenced next week, Judge Jayne ruled. Crash Kills 10 in Army Plane By the United Prei EVANSVTLLE, April 22 Army authorities announced today that all 10 men aboard an Army trnnsnrt were killed when the ship and burned in making a routine landing at the Municipal Airport shortly Jttef ore midnight last night. Maj. S.

A. Dixon, Army Air Forces officer in charge of the investigation, said that the names of the dead would be withheld until relatives had been notified. 7.50 WOODWARD at UNTIL PARKING sX 13 54 D. i 63 1 t. 58 10 o.

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