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355 BOOK OUT Stalin Hit by Trotsky from Grave Questions Cause of Lenin's Death IV Seven Enter Race TTft acksom BiiiBgledi- in in for Governors Votes 8 to 3 for Report on Force in Iran Gromyko Says He Won't Talk on May 6 NEW YORK (UP) The United Nations Security Council inflicted a new humiliating defeat on Soviet Russia by voting it eyiis ays Showers Major Parties Set for Primary; Hundreds Qualify as Candidates Four Republican and three Democratic candidates for Governor lined up as entries closed Tuesday for the June 18 primary. A four-way battle for the Republican Lt. Governor nomination also got under way. Mayor Jeffries, of Detroit, was the last to qualify to contest with Lt. Gov.

Vernon J. Brown, of Mason; Raymond J. Kelly, former national American Legion commander, and Kim Sigler, ousted special prosecutor of the graft grand jury, for top place Flowers Welcome April Wj S. A' aunoieiL, TO to a' 7 A I lit i Prefry NEW YORK AP Leon Trotsky in a biography of Joseph Stalin posed a series of questions whether Stalin might have had a hand in the death in 1924 of Nicolai Lenin, honored in Russia as the founder of the Soviet Union. The book asked these questions, and did not offer or supply a direct answer: "What was Stalin's role at the time of Lenin's illness Did not the disciple do something- to expedite his master's death?" "IT IS A monstrous suspicion," Trotsky says, "but that cannot be helped, when it follows from the circumstances, the facts and Stalin's very character." The book, "Stalin, an appraisal of the Man and His Influence," (Harper and Brothers) was published Tuesday, six years after Trotsky, Stalin's bitter political foe, was assassinated in exile in Mexico City.

Trotsky had completed about two-thirds of the book at the time of his death. BUT HE LEFT an outline, copious notes, and memoranda and partly written pages from which the editor and translator, Charles Malamuth, completed the lengthy work. The chapter relating to Lenin's death is included in this latter section. The book was ready for publication at the time of Pearl Harbor but "was withheld by the publisher until after the end of the war." TROTSKY says that when Lenin was bedridden after a stroke in December, 1922, he was "aflame with alarm" and that "his chief source of worry was Stalin," then general secretary of the Communist Party. Lenin proposed that a way be found to remove Stalin from his position because he had concentrated great power in his hands and Lenin wasn't sure he would use it properly.

"In those days," Trotsky says, "Stalin was morose his fate was at stake. He had made up his mind to overcome all obstacles." TOWARD THE end of 1923, declares Trotsky, Stalin told him and others that the sick Lenin suddenly had called him in and asked for poison. Lenin saw another stroke approaching, he was suffering and he wanted the poison at hand if he became convinced his case was hopeless. Trotsky continues with an intricate array of suspicions, suggestions and charges until his climax: "Whether Stalin sent the poison to Lenin with the hint that the physician had left no hope for his recovery or whether he resorted to more direct means I do not know. THE BOOK, from the opening paragraph, is a violent attack which has to be accepted or rejected on its face value, for it is almost impossible to chsck the allegations.

Trotsky didn't live to see Stalin's leadership of Russia in the World War. Whether he would have altered his appraisal in any way must remain a matter of speculation. Trotsky writes in his introduction that Stalin "is neither a thinker, a writer nor an orator" and that he "took possession of power, not with the aid of personal qualities, but with the aid of an impersonal machine." Trotsky observes, "has always been what he remains today a politician of the golden mean who does not hesitate to resort to the most extreme measures. "Strategically he is an opportunist; tactically he is a 'revolutionist'. He is a kind of revolutionist with a bomb," Trotsky says.

Trotsky's biography hammers on the idea that Lenin didn't regard Stalin highly and that "there was nothing even remotely resembling personal intimacy" between the two. XT i 0 Duce's Body Stolen from Milan Tomb Letter Left at Grave Points to Fascisti MILAN (AP) Swift, expert grave robbers dug the remains of Benito Mussolini from his unmarked grave in the dead of night, a municipal communique said. Officials disclosed finding a letter which said the body was 'I Killed Mussolini' A graphic account of the capture and slaying of Benito Mussolini as told by eyewitnesses is given in a series of two articles to be published Saturday and Sunday in the Free Press. Don't miss these exciting stories taken by the "Democratic Fascist Party." THE CORPSE was taken Monday night, and the open coffin was left at the grave. The letter, signed by the party's "Central Directive Committee," said "II Duce is again among us." The party took" the body, from which "the light of eternity is spreading," because it no longer could bear "the cannibal slurs made by human dregs organized in the Communist Party," the letter declared.

"THE TIME will come in which Benito Mussolini in his coffin, kissed by our sun, will parade through the streets of Italy" the letter continued, "and all the roses of the world and all the tears of our women will not be enough to give extreme greetings of the country to this great son." An inquiry to ascertain the. responsibility was under way. The discovery was made by workers who were in the cemetery to exhume other bodies. Mussolini was buried in a pauper's grave goon after his execution by Partisans near the Swiss border in April, 1945. Surgeons Remove 97-Pound Tumor SAN FRANCISCO (JP) A cystic tumor weighing 97 pounds was removed from a woman at San Francisco Polyclinic Hospital.

The operation lasted two hours and was accomplished without transfusions. Surgeons said the woman, 51, would recover. She weighed 280 pounds before the operation. Her name was withheld. Van Antwerp Still in Serious State Councilman Eugene I.

Van Antwerp remained in serious condition at Receiving Hospital Tuesday. He was admitted April 19 after he collapsed at the City Hall. 8 to 3 to keep the Iranian question on its program. Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gro myko, in his second boycott, then announced he could take no further part in the discussion.

GROMYKO TOLD the United Press he would not discuss Iran even when the Council meets May 6 to hear reports by Russia and Iran whether Soviet troops have left Iranian territory as promised. The question at once arose whether Russia would defy the Council's authority by refusing to report. The vote, a sudden, dramatic climax after two hours of increasing tension, came on a French resolution by which the Council would have dropped the Iranian question as settled, subject to a report by Trj'gve Lie, UN secretary-general, on developments. Gromyko associated himself with the French resolution in order to make it a test vote on the entire question. ONLY RUSSIA, France and Po land voted for the resolution and no negative vote was necessary as a Council majority is seven of 11 votes.

The effect was an eight-to-three defeat for Russia a defeat which, Gromyko had warned, would question the truth of Russia's statement that its dispute with Iran was solved. "THE DECISION to keep the item on the agenda is contrary to the UN charter," Gromyko said as the vote was announced. "Some delegates appear to doubt the veracity" of the declarations of Russia and Iran that their dispute had been settled, Gromyko said. The Council adjourned until Thursday when it will consider the proposal to investigate Franco Spain. Tehran Seeks Return of Azerbaijan Control TEHRAN (JP) Premier Ahmed Qavam announced he had sent an emissary to Azerbaijan to invite representatives of that self -proclaimed autonomous government to discussions in Tehran on returning the province to Central Government control.

The Soviet consulate in Tehran officially advised the United States embassy that Americans may not visit Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan, without Russian military permits. (In Washington the State Department said Iran has given assurances that no news dispatches to the United States have been censored and has promised that American reporters will be notified if their stories are suppressed. (The assurances came from Premier Qavam, the Department said, as the result of United States protests against reports that Iran had installed a system of "blind" consorship. Under such restrictions, reporters are not told if dispatches are held up or changed.) Spots Almost Isolate U.S. NEW YORK (JP) Radio communication between the United States and most of the world was almost blotted out and telegraphic service within the country disrupted, apparently by sun spot activity.

Press Wireless, reported it had had "no real contact with Europe for more than 24 hours, and that contact with South America and points in the Pacific had been interrupted. Tigers Beaten 3-1 by Chicago A combination of errors and inability to hit left the Tigers on the short end of a 3 to 1 score in Tuesday's ball game with the Chicago White Sox. For details of the game see Page 11. On Inside Pages as Cites Reason for Firing at Prison Admits Ionia Inmate Planted His Shrubs BY OWEN C. DEATRICK Of Our Lansing Bureau LANSING Former Warden Harry H.

Jackson was fired as head of Jackson Prison because "he wasn't making sufficient effort to run it as it should have been run." This was the direct testimony of Garrett Heyns, director of the Corrections Commission, in explaining the mass shake-up at Jackson last summer. Heyns testimony followed accounts by convicts of how they were inspired by prison officials to frame a troublesome guard by escaping from his custody. Another inmate told about his wife getting eight little pigs put in her car because he had given some of his buddies liquor. THE TESTIMONY came as the Civil Service Commission resumed the hearing that will determine whether Jackson will get his job back. He and five aides are appealing from dismissals entered after Attorney General John R.

Detainers had completed a prison investigation. Heyns gave only former Deputy Warden George Francis a good report. He said he had not recommended that dismissal and thought "Francis was caught in the middle." C. Pettit, former assistant deputy warden, was fired because of the escape of Joseph Medley and of his drinking with inmates," Heyns testified. Pettit withdrew his appeal just before the hearings opened.

OTHER FORMER officials failed to be on the job or failed to fall into the pattern of re organization, Heyns said. He said that a general reor ganization was proposed in Decem ber, .1944, but was not followed Jirough. Attorneys for the State offered files instead of witnesses to speed the hearing. They said that the records would show prisoners on the loose all over the State when they should have been in Jackson. Among these vacationers was Fred Frahm, former Detroit police superintendent, convicted by the Detroit graft grand jury of conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Heyns said that the practice of giving privileges to prisoners Turn to Page 3, Column 3 Forger Found Guilty by Jury SAN FRANCISCO (White-haired Alfred L. Cline, 56, ex-convict and former choir singer was convicted of forging papers in the estates of two of the four elderly women who died mysteriously while in his company. The jury returned the verdict in less than two hours. Judge Herbert C. Kaufman set Saturday for sentence.

The maximum term would be 126 years. Cline was charged with forgery involving the estates of two women who married him Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt Lewis Cline, of Oakland, and Mrs. Eva Delora Krebs Cline, of Chicago. Both died and were cremated by Cline'g order.

Mrs. Krebs Cline left her husband $300,000. Stabs Self The Navy said Smith had stood a two-hour watch on the LST 172 just before midnight and some time before 3 a. in. obtained a carbine.

Then with the carbine and a pistol which he had concealed among his effects, he went to the compartment, switched on the lights and opened up on 30 sleeping seamen. PITD PIPER CLEANER eagy on the hands No rub No crub. Adv. Free Press Phoio by Doug' Kennedy first real showery day this April, although there were, traces of rain several days earlier in the month. The prediction for Wednesday is fair and mild.

Tuesday was a typical April day and in between the showers Joyce Brittan, 10, of 1415 Drexel, climbed into a tree to have her picture framed by lovely, cherry blossoms. It was the fon the Republican ticket. State Senator George Girrbach, of Sault Ste. Marie, announced candidate, declined the issue and filed instead for his present Senate seat. THE DEMOCRATIC entrants are Murray D.

Van of Birmingham, former governor; William J. Cody, Wayne pourt commissioner; and George F. Schermerhorn, Reading industrialist. United States Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R) and James H.

Lee (D), Detroit assistant corporation counsel, were spared primary opposition and will contest for the Senate seat in November. Seven Republican congressmen and two Democrats escaped primary contests. They are Reps. Paul W. Shafer, Battle Creek; Clare E.

Hollman, Allegan; Bartel Jonkman, Grand Rapids; Jesse Wolcott, Port Huron; Albert J. Engel, Muskegon; Fred Bradley, Rogers City; and George A. Don-dero, Republicans, and Louis C. Rabout, Detroit, and Frank E. Hook, Ironwood, Democrats.

AFTER FRIENDS qualified Lester C. Doerr, of Grand Rapids, to oppose Jonkman in the Fifth, he announced he had no intention of running. Osmund Kelly, Flint veteran, is without opposition for the Democratic Lieutenant Governor nomination. Mrs. Constance Murphy, Detroit, widow of the former Lt.

Frank Murphy, failed to file. Speaker Howard Nugent, of Bad Axe, Senator George N. Higgins, of Ferndale; Dr. Eugene C. Keyes, of Dearborn, and Col.

Owen J. Cleary, of Ypsilanti, will battle for second place on the Republican List of Candidates on Page 4 ticket. Former Lt. Gov. Thomas Read, of Shelby, did not fill his petitions.

DEMOCRATS FAILED to produce senatorial candidates in the Ninth, Tenth, Nineteenth, Twenty- fifth, Twenty sixth, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth districts. They offered no House candidates in the Charlevoix, Emmet, Gladwin, Grand Traverse, Isabella, Mason, Newaygo, Osceola, Presque Isle and Seventh Wayne districts. There may be others as records areassembled from districts where filings were completed in the candidate's own county. The final rush of 253 candidates who qualified in Wayne nearly swamped County Clerk Caspar J. Lingeman's staff.

They included 19 Democratic and 20 Republican candidates for five congressional seats and 42 Democratic and 26 Republican candidates for State senator in seven districts. Two Democratic rivals are neighbors in the same apartment. CLERK LINGEMAN, Prosecutor O'Brien and Drain Commissioner George A. Dingman are without primary rivals but Sheriff Andrew C. Baird, Democrat, has seven.

Aspirants must decide within three days whether they will let their names go before the voters. Withdrawals are expected to be heavy because of the prevalence of "name" candidates. Ford Honored The proposed Crosstown Expressway hereafter will be known as the Edsel Ford Expressway in honor of the late Detroit industrialist. Common Council unanimously approved the name Tuesday. as L.

B. N. C. Smith, 19, of Asheville, SMITH WAS fighting for life Tuesday night. He suffered three deep self-inflicted knife wounds in the abdomen.

A tenth victim also was in the hpspital. The names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin. An immediate court of Inquiry was ordered. 10 Civic Groups Charge City Budget Is Illegal Dwyer Replies that Courts Uphold Allocation of 6,500,000 at Issue Paul T. Dwyer, chief assistant corporation counsel, defended the City's budget of $97,018,724 after representatives of ten organizations had charged that it was illegal.

In a letter addressed to Mayors Jeffries, councilmen. City treasur er and controller, the group charged that the proposed budget is about $6,500,000 in excess of taxes that can be levied under the 2 per cent tax limitation. THE GROUP maintains that debt service charges in the budget come under the 2 per cent tax limitation in the City Charter. The City's position is that the debt service is exempt. This question was settled by the Michigan Supreme Court in 1934," Dwyer declared.

"The Court then held that, according to an act of the Legislature, the debt service could be excluded from the 2 per cent.limitation.' THE PROTESTING group announced they would seek a restraining action in Circuit Court on or before May 7. Signers of the letter were Harvey J. Campbell, of the De IT SPREADS Ford Gives New Duties to B. J. Craig He Will Manage All Nonprofit Enterprises B.

J. Craig will relinquish his job as treasurer of the Ford Motor Co. to manage all of Ford's nonprofit enterprises. A meeting of the company's board of directors will be held Wednesday to elect a new treasurer. An announcement by President Henry Ford II said that Craig will assume 'direction of the Ford Foundation, the Edison Institute and Museum and Wayside Inn.

AT THE SAME time it was learned that James W. Bishop, 71, who began work with Henry Ford, at the Detroit Edison Co. and who was widely known for his direction of the Edison Institute, has been released from the Ford Motor Co. Company officials had no comment on Bishop's status. It was reported that Bishop had been "cut off permanently" from the Ford payroll last Thursday.

Bishop said he hoped it was "just a layoff" and expressed the opinion that Ford, knew nothing about it. He was placed on the Ford payroll Dec 1, 1929. Craig also will take over "many of the activities and responsibilities" formerly handled by Frank Campsall, who died several weeks ago. Campsall was secretary to Ford, for many years. CRAIG WELL continue to serve as a director of the company, of the Ford Hospital and of the Henry Ford Trade School.

Prior to becoming treasurer of the company several years ago, Craig was secretary and assistant treasurer. troit Board of Commerce; Loren B. Miller, of the Bureau of Governmental Research; Henry Steffens, of the Michigan Public Expenditure Survey; William P. Lovett, of the Detroit Citizens League; Richard S. Weber, of the Realty Owners Association.

Lewis Laskins, of the Building Owners Association; G. Oliver Frick, of the Business Property Association; Duane H. Mosier, of the Taxpayers Council of Wayne County; Richard S. Hickey, of Bondholders Management, Clarence Treadwell, of the Detroit Real Estate Board. Pilot Killed PHILADELPHIA (JP) A Marine pilot, William E.

Peek, 27, of Jenkintown, Pa, was killed when his plane nosedived into- the Sassafras River near Fredericks-town, Md, the Navy reported. ters, where each charged the other with assault and battery. Detective Joseph P. Nufer made a no-decision ruling and advised them to consult the prosecutor's office. Later, Ganan called to say that Mrs.

Patton had returned with reinforcements and that he wanted a police escort home. He got it. MORTGAGE LOANS TO FIT TOUB individual requirement! to buy, build or refinance at Industrial National Bank. Adr. TURNS GUNS ON 30 SLEEPING GOBS Fight Is Better and Butter Sailor Kills 9 Mates; OVA Raises Lid on Cheap Caskets WASHINGTON (JP) The OPA announced increases up to 535 in the price ceilings for low-cost caskets, with the intention of encouraging manufacture of more caskets in this class.

Brass Hats Dented WASHINGTON (P) Some 14,500 Army officers from colonels through captains will be reduced one grade in rank by next Feb. 1 under War Department plans just announced. KEYKO MARGARIF as a spread, eagoniov, ahoneiiin it yery good. Adr. Police couldn't decide who got the "butter" of an argument between Mrs.

Elizabeth Patton and Sidney Ganan. Mrs. Patton, of.692 W. Milwaukee, wanted a pound of butter. So she went across the street to Ganan's grocery store and made her modest request.

Ganan said he had no butter. Mrs. Patton said he did- A VIOLENT debate brought both parties to Police Headquar SHANGHAI (P) A teen-age seaman suddenly went berserk on a Navy LST up the Yangtze River. In a brief and tragic rampage he shot to death nine shipmates before stabbing himself. One of his mortally wounded victims, the Navy said, managed to leap from his bunk in the LST's sleeping compartment and disarm the young sailor before he, himself, fell to the deck.

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