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Weather Report Mild with showers Wednesday Pan rises sets 9:01 METROPOLITAN FINAL EDITION On Guard for Over a Century Wednesday, June 2, 1943. No. 29 113th Year 30 Pages Four Cents JV mm Aci lax Payro. ion on City Council Hasten Wind-Lashed Trees Smash Homes in Detroit ff UPROOTED AND BROKEN TREES SMASHED PORCH AT 12354 OHIO (LEFT) AND DAMAGED CHIMNEY AND ROOF AT 12669 WYOMING Part of the extensive property loss caused by the violent windstorm that swept Detroit and Lower Michigan Storm Spreads Ruin Score Hurt in Citv Canned Milk Placed on Rationing List One Red Point Per Large Can Required; Will Benefit Infants Evaporated and condensed milk were added to the list of rationed foods, effective a. nv Wednesday, it was announced Tuesday night by the Office of Price Administration.

Utility Service Is Disrupted; Traffic Tied Up; Floods Threatening One woman died snd more thancprerwere injured in Detroit Tuesday afternoon -daring height of a flash storm, accom panied by winds of cyclonic porpdrtions, which swept throughout Lower Michigan causng property damage estimated at several Lewis Told to Order Miners Back Ickes Calls Walkout Strike Against Nation Union Compromise of SI. 50 a Day Spurned By the Associated Press A walkout by 500,000 miners paralyzed the naton's coal industry Tuesday night while a stormy word battle raged in Washington over the negotiations in the wage controversy 1 Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, as fuel administrator, called the work stoppage a "strike against the government" and asked that John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, order the miners back to work. Ickes also accused a "few powerful operators" of deliberately opposing a compromise and demanded that both parties to the dispute do everything necessary to reach a speedy conclusion.

2 The operators made known that they had telegraphed the War Labor Board that the miners were "adamant in their demand for $2 a day, no more, no less," and had added that "the operators await further directions from the board." 3 Lewis replied that the operators' statement was "a flagrant misrepresentation of fact," and asserted the miners had proposed a temporary agreement providing for $1.50 a day portal-to-portal pay while a commission decided the- actual length of underground travel time. He proposed to make the $1.50 payment retroactive to April 1. The operators, Lewis said, objected both to the amount of money and the retroactive features. The operators confirmed report3 that they had proposed that "as a basis of contract negotiations we should accept the Government figures of 48 minutes underground travel time, with no overtime until after the statutory forty hour week." NOT A SETTLEMENT Edward R. Burke, representing southern operators, made it clear that was not an offer or settlement, but a basis on which to negotiate.

On a basis of straight time wage rates, 48 minutes would mean 80 cents a day for the worker earning the basic wage of $7 for a seven-hour day. At time and a half, it would be $1.20. Lewis said that Ickes had advanced the idea for a commission study of underground travel time with a temporary agreement meantime. He said that Ickes had not suggested a specific amount of payment. Bluntly, Ickes told Lewis that the miners' chief could not escape responsibility for the cessation of work.

"Without coal in adequate quantities we cannot win the war." Ickes said in a telegram to Lewis. "It is intolerable that there should be a cessation of work for bo much as one day." Ickes, in a similar telegram to Ezra Van Horn, chairman of the operators' committee negotiating with the union, denounced, too, "a few powerful operators" who, he said, had deliberately opposed compromises, and demanded that members of both groups do everything necessary to reach a speedy agreement. Ickes stepped into the situation late in the day after It was apparent that the Administration, had arrived at the grave domestic crisis of the war with the entire coal Industry virtually shut up tight. There was no hint what the Government, which is the operator of the mines, might do next if the miners' chieftain failed to comply with Ickes' request. READY TO CUT TRAVEL Preparing for the worst, offi cials made ready orders for a sharp reduction in train travel and a nationwide dimout should it become apparent the strike would be protracted.

An official said that the Office of Defense Transportation was ready to clamp a ban on none-essential rail travel and order train mileage cut 25 per cent, if this should seem advisable. The War Production Board's Office of War Utilities said that a nationwide dimout eliminating all nonessential use of electricity was a possibility although estimating power companies have a 10S day supply of coal on hand. CANADA FREEZES STOCKS In Ottawa, the Munitions Department announced that Coal Controller J. McG. Stewart had issued an order freezing all stocks of anthracite coal in Canada and all stocks of bituminous coal in Ontario and Quebec.

The work stoppages, slowing1 Henry Ford A sain Head of Company Nearly 80, Founder Takes Place of Son; Eclscl'fi Widow on Board; Sorensen Stays Henry Ford, who will be 80 years old in July, returned Tuesday to the presidency of the Ford Motor which he- founded and developed into a worldwide empire before stepping down from the post 25 years ago in favor of his son Edsel. The death of Edsel at 49 last Wednesday took from the presidency the man whom Henry Ford had groomed from infancy for the stupendous task of guiding the destinies of his company. COMPLEX JOB UNDERTAKEN Ford, as predicted exclusively by the Free Press Sunday, will return to direction of a company made enormously more complex by its 100 per cent commitment to production of tanks, airplanes and other vehicles of war. In fact so great is the job that the sprawling Ford Willow Run. bomber plant, which would be a career for any other man, is but a facet of the whole.

Ford was elected at an adjourned annual meeting of the shareholders of the Ford company, which was followed by a meeting of the board of directors. Mrs. Eleanor Ford, Edsel's widow, was elected a director, as was Harry H. Bennett, Ford personnel director and a close associate of Henry Ford. SORENSON RETAINS POST Next in line to.

Ford will be Charles E. Sorensen, who was elected to retain his position as Turn to Page 2, Column 4 2 Readings Ready Bill for Debate Hearings to Be Held Very Shortly; 3Iayor Says He Won't Balk at a Referendum The Common Council by a unanimous vote Tuesday night placed on the order of first and second reading an ordinance im posing a 1 per cent occupational or payroll tax on all residents of Detroit and nonresidents, to yield an estimated annual rev enue of between 10 and 12 million dollars. The tax, which was proposed last week by Mayor Jeffries, would supplement real estate and personal property taxes to provide a fund for capital improvements including super highways, parks recreation areas, airports and the development of Wayne University. NO LAWS BAR WAY Although no hearings have been held on the proposed levy, Corpo ration Counsel Paul E. Krause has declared that no change in the State Constitution, State laws or local ordinances would be neces sary to levy the tax.

All salaries, wages, commissions and other compensation earned after Jan. by residents of Detroit and similar compensation earned by nonresidents for work done or services pirformed in De troit would be subject to the tax. Under the provisions of the ordi nance, the City Treasurer will be charged with the responsibility of levying and collecting the revenue. Mayor -Jeffries said Tuesday that if the Common Council so desired he would have ho objection to a referendum vote on the proposal. HITS MORE THAN WAGES The tax would be imposed not only on the payrolls of individuals but of firms and corporations and the revenues of professional men.

It would provide funds for a capital improvement program which is not included in postwar planning for which funds have been set up in the current budget. Council President John C. Lodge said last week that the subject probably would be debated publicly for the next two months. City Treasurer Albert E. Cobo has opposed the program principally upon the grounds that it does not relieve the burden of real estate taxes, but many other individuals and organizations, including the Retail Merchants Association, have indorsed the plan, providing a limitation is set on the extent of its application.

Davies in U.S.; Reports Today Br the Associated Press SEATTLE, June, 1 Joseph Davies, President Roosevelt's emissary to Josef Stalin, arrived here today en route to report to the President in Washington, it was announced by Maj. Frank E. Williamson, commanding the Air Transport and Control Detachment. The former ambassador declined to be interviewed, but announced through the military that he would leave for Washington tomorrow morning to report to President Roosevelt. Davies will remain in seclusion here overnight.

His whereabouts are unknown. The military announcement said Davies' plane left Moscow Saturday; crossed Siberia and arrived at Nome, Alaska, Monday, and reached Seattle early today. SUB SINKS U. S. SHIP WASHINGTON, June 1 (AP) The Navy reported today that a small United States merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the Caribbean area in the middle of May.

Survivors landed at Miami. Weird Tales of Two World Wars Out of the searing blast of war comes strange things things that one says cannot be but ARE. Be. sure to read "THE DEAD RIDE HARD," first in a series of soldier stories that do not die, but live on. WHY.

DOES MARY COME HOME SO LATE And on the answer to this question hangs juvenile delinquency. An ar-tricle dealing with methods being tried to combat trouble among the young folks. RADAR NEW WAR SECRET The story of a scientific marvel that is helping us win the war everywhere. SUNDAY'S FREE PRESS Willkie Turns Query with a Quip OBERLIN, June 1 (AP) Wendell L. Willkie told a press conference today that he hadn't decided whether to enter Ohio's Republican preidential primary, and declared that he might get the 1944 GOP nomination "in spite of myself." He declared "Ham Fish is against me, Gerald L.

K. Smith is against me, and I understand Landon is against me. If this keeps up, I may be nominated in spite of myself." After reporters had filed out, Willkie reopened the door and volunteered: "Say, add Col. Mc-Cormick, of the Chicago Tribune, to that list." The 1940 Republican presidential candidate came to Oberlin to receive a degree of doctor of laws, and stayed to address an alumni luncheon. Maxon Replies to Charges by Thomas Defends Food Given to Camp at Onaway BY FRANK B.

WOODFORD tree Pres Staff Writer Lou R. Maxon, OPA information director, and aide to Administrator Prentiss M. Brown, Tuesday defended himself against charges of R. J. Thomas, president of the UAW(CIO) that he had obtained ration privileges for his cabin at Onaway, to stock it with enough food for SO persons.

Thomas' charges were made Sat urday and accompanied by photo static copies of the ration appli cations. ADMITS GETTING FOOD admitted -receiving the allotment for food for the cabin. which, as he described it, is actual ly a resort with accommodations for sleeping 72 persons. "But." he said. "Thomas had only part of the facts.

"Actually, the cabin is owned by the company (the advertising agency which Maxon heads), and has been company property for the last 10 years. "What we obtained is in no way out of reason, and if Thomas ever saw it, or knew of the purpose for which it was used he wouldn't be so upset." Maxon said the cabin is in use by company employees and their friends the year arouna, ana ne labeled as false Thomas conten tion that the ration allotment was for the summer period. FOR A YEAR'S SUPPLY "The application," he said, "was for our requirements for the whole vear and was based on the actual amount of food consumed last year." He said the lodge, which in eludes a preserve with recreational facilities, is visited on week-ends during the summer by as many as 300 persons from Onawav and that sandwiches and other kinds of food are provided for them. "I have been to the lodge myself just once this year and was there three times last year," Maxon said. "But employees take their families up there and the families stay the entire summer.

He said that occasionally clients of his firm were entertained there, but not often. "I thought," Maxon went on, "that Thomas favored good employer-employee relations, and that is all we have been trying to build up. Here in Detroit we have a free cafeteria, barbershop, med-Turn to Page 23, Column 5 Northeast Gets Gas Slash Br the Associated Press WASHINGTON, June 1 The Office of Frice Administration ordered a sventeen-per-cent slash today in value of and coupons in the Northeast and took other drastic steps which Administrator Prentiss M. Brown described as "tough." Beginning at midnight, these gasoline rations will be worth two and a half instead of three gallons from Maine to Virginia. Brown directed rationing boards to deny applications for additional rations of gasoline to restore mileage lost as a result of the reduction, revoked a provision allowing up to five gallons to service men on furlough, and ruled against supplemental rations for applicants living "within a reasonable walking distance" of their work.

2 REDS BECOME ADMIRALS MOSCOW. June 1 AP) Soviet Russia has elevated two of her fleet commanders to the rank of admiral, it was announced to-dav. The new admirals are Vladi mir Trubutz, commander of the Baltic Fleet, and Ivan yumasnev, commander of the Far Eastern Fleet. I Free Press Pholos House Group Votes to Nip Food Subsidy Br (he Amoeiated Press WASHINGTON, June 1 House Banking Committee directly challenged the Administration's plan to use subsidies in rolling back the cost of living today as it approved unanimously a measure extending the life of the Commodity Credit Corp. for two years.

The committee wrote into the measure an amendment "to prevent the funds of the Commodity Credit Corp. or any other Government agency from being used for the payment of subsidies to maintain maximum prices' on agriculture products. The action came as the Office of Price Administration put into effect a 5 cents a pound subsidy on butter at the manufacturing level, scheduled to be reflected in retail prices in about 10 days. OPA also is planning subsidies to roll back meat and coffee prices. Funds for these subsidies are coming from the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

By a single vote, the committee rejected a far-reaching amendment, sponsored by Chairman Wright Patman of the House Small Business Committee, which would have taken control of wartime food prices and food rationing away from the Office of Price Administration and given that assignment to Food Administrator Chester Davis. Laundry Fired by Gunmen Two bandit firebugs wearing chauffeur's caps crawled through a window of the Splendid Laundry, 10515 Harper at 10:30 p. m. Tuesday, held up a watchman and another employee and then set the place on fire with gasoline. One of the firebugs was armed with a pistol.

The watchman. Jack Horner, 68 years old, of 10505 Shoemaker, and Louis Gold, 51, of 2530 Clair- mount, the other worker, were forced into a small room and placed in jeopardy as the men poured the gasoline on the laundry and applied a match. The men were protected from the flames by a steel partition and the fire alarm was not sounded until a few minutes after the firebugs escaped through a rear door. Five Found Slain on Virginia Farm LEESBURG. Va June 1 (UP) A.

Morris Love, 52 years old, wealthy Loudoun Country farmer, his wife, their son James, 21, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Russell, iarm tenants, were found today slain on Love's 500-acre farm eight miles from here. Consumers will use their red stamps in War Ration Book No. 2 for the purchase of canned milk, it was announced.

The ration value will be one point per pound. TOINT FOR LARGE CAN OPA officials said this point value means that one point will be good for one large can containing 14'a ounces or for two small cans of six ounces each. However, since the minimum rationing schedule is based on one point the purchase of one small can will require a full point. No additional points will be made available to consumers for canned millt purchases, the new order stipulates, as a means of reducing all nonessential consumption of canned milk in an effort to conserve limited supplies for infant feeding and for those who require condensed milk in special diets. Under the milk rationing regulations, parents of breast-fed babies and infants drinking regular milk can continue using the baby's 16 red points a week for buying meat.

On the other hand if a baby is on a formula and uses one can of milk a day, the parents will have nine instead of 16 points to use for their meat purchases. SHORTAGES ARISING The heavy demand for manufac tured dairy products to meet mill tary requirements has created shortages in milk supplies, the OPA said. The most important phase civilian needs for evaporated milk is the requirement for infant formulas, it was pointed out. With the ration value estab lished at one point per pound, in fant formulas will require the sur render of approximately seven points a week for milk. The points will be provided out of the current ration of 16 points a week a'lowed for the total protein and lal requirement of ordinary diets, An additional three to four points per week will provide the amount of canned milk required by.

adults, the OPA said, although only persons unable to obtain fresh milk should use their points for tht. limited canned milk supplies. MORE TO BE AVAILABLE Persons requiring additional canned milk because of illness may apply to their local ration boards for supplemental allowances. Similarly, hospitals may apply for extra point allotments. Institutional users applying for their allotment of foods included in the meats and ats program must report their inventory of canned milk as of the close of business June 1.

1943. On Inside Pages Amusements 20 Bingay 6 Clapper 21 Classified 23-28 Crossword 24 Edgar Guest 6 Editorials 6 Ernie Pyle 9 Lippmann 21 Lyons 30 Menard 12 Merry-Go-R'd 6 My Day 14 Newton Quillen Parade Radio Reporter. 6 6 10 29 9 18-19 Fidler 20 Grafton 21 Horoscope 29 Iffy 30 Len Shaw 20 Sports Town Crier 30 Washington 21 Women's 12-14 hundred thousand dollars. PubliCrutility service was disrupted, trees and poles blown down and traffic paralyzed during the storm, which reached its hight during a half-hour period in Detroit shortly after 3:30 p. m.

More than 50 fire alarms were answered durin? the storm. STORM'S PATH VARIES Outside the metropolitan area the storm followed a crazy quilt pattern, hitting some parts of the state and missing others. A seventeen-year-old youth, Phillip Elliott, was drowned near his home in Clare. State Police headquarters at East Lansing reported at 11:45 p. m.

Tuesday that they had received reports for the last hour of damage wrought by a new storm of tornado proportions northeast of Lansing. Reports of trees uprooted and houses twisted off their foundations had come in from Bath in Ingham County and Corunna and Shaftsbury in Shiawassee. Connty. A hatchery at Bath was reported destroyed by the storm. Officers said that extent of the storm could not be determined and that additional reports were still coming in.

DAMAGE HEAVY Neighboring areas and outlying districts reported heavy damage resulting from the storm, inclua-ing threats of a flood along the Tittabawassee River in the lowland sections of Midland. Over 500 residents were ordered to evacuate the threatened sector. A forecast of additional thunder showers Wednesday morning Turn to Page 23, Column 5 the purpose of the original ban has been accomplished through the recovery of wool that would have gone into full cuffs. Enough materials has been recovered, it was estimated, to make 300,000 garments. Today's order also extends the length limits for wool trousers to heavier weight cotton and rayon fabrics such as corduroy and cotton gabardine.

The only exceptions to these restrictions now are nonwool summer weight garments weighing three pounds or less per square yard. Likewise the ban on real or simulated trouser tucks or pleats, previously applied only to wool garments, was extended to all fabrics 4 except nonwool summer weights. Meanwhile the WPB overhauled its entire priorities system covering the textile, clothing and leather industries by abolishing all priority ratings except for military needs and essential civilian orders, such as medical, agricultural-food processing, work clothing and other necessary uses. Deposit yonr War Bonds for Ssfekeepinc with Industrial Kstionsi Bank. Sale.

Con- Startling Shift Puts De Gaulle atFrencliTop BY DREW MIDDLETON York Times Foreign Service ALGIERS, June 1 Marcel Pey-routon. governor general of Algeria, tonight resigned his post to the Fighting French leader Gen. Charles de Gaulle and became a simple captain of the colonial infantry in a startling shift of politics which symbolized De Gaulle's mastery of the political situation here. Peyrouton, who was appointed by High Commissioner Gen. Henri Honore Giraud.

sent a letter of resignation to De Gaulle after 48 hours of political conflict in which De Gaulle demanded the removal of Peyrouton, Auguste Nogues, governor general of Morocco, and Pierre Boisson. governor general of French North Africa. GIRAUD LOSES POWER Giraud's last vestiges of power slipped away with this action which Peyrouton declared was done to facilitate the union and to obtain victory." De Gaulle has won a political victory of far-reaching significance not only in the resignation itself, but in the fact that Peyrouton, who long had been attacked as a former collaborator by the De Gaullists, resigned to him and not to Giraud. It is evident now that De Gaulle has mastered in fact, if not in name, the political destinies of North Africa. ISOGUES SLATED NEXT Persons close to De Gaulle are i confident of Nogues' offer of resignation "shortly.

Giraud, who was built up so laboriously as the "civil and military commander in chief of the North Africa Unit" now is in the unfortunate position of seeing a man whom he appointed resigning to his rival. Peyrouton addressed his letter to De Gaulle as "president of the executive committee," which was the first indication that De Gaulle Turn to Page Column 2 U.S. Subs Sink 7 Jap Ships By the Cnited Press WASHINGTON," Juri 1 American submarines have sunk a Japanese destroyer and six other enemy ships, including a large tanker, a medium-sized transport and four cargo vessels, the Navy announced today. The sinkings, a communique disclosed, occurred- in the Pacific and Far East. They bring the total of Japanese ships destroyed in the Pacific by United States submarines to 169 and in addition the Navy lists 27 enemy vessels as probably sunk and 44 damaged.

OPEN RIIYS TO P. M. si Frarwh Offir ldUonal Sank of Detroit. Adr. i I A BREAK FOR THE HEFTY BOYS You Can Get Pants Cuffs If You' re Short andF at Free Press-Chieaico Tribune Wire WASHINGTON, June 1 Short, stout men and those who like high water pants may henceforth have full cuffs on their trousers and others may have 'simulated (false) cuffs, the War Production Board advised today in relaxing previous restrictions on wool trousers.

The new order lifts the ban on all types of cuffs for wool pants, but continues in force limits on the over-all length of men's and boys' trousers. The net result, officials said, will be that the most men will be able to buy pants with a-three-inch "turn-up," enough for a false cuff. Full cuffs, however, require about five inches of material and this amount will be available only to chubby men built close to the ground because of over-all length restrictions, it was explained. Regular trousers with a 32 waist, for example, are limited to an inseam length of 35 inches, but the permitted length is increased proportionately with larger waists, thus giving the stouter man of the same height more material for cuffs. Explaining the dropping of the coal output to a trickle and threatening early interruption to vital phases of war production, were in direct challenge to: An injunction of the War Labor Board, and hence to the Government's whole war-time machinery for handling labor Turn to Page 11, Column 1 cuff prohibition, WPB aid that renient.

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