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plants. Strikes involving 2,050 workers were responsible for most of the layoffs. A total of 43,500 persons had been idled by Tuesday night. CHRYSLER CORr. officials paid further layoffs in their plants would be necessary Wednesday unless the Briggs Outer Drive plant strike ended.

The Brljfgs strike of 1,200 workers was called under authorization granted in June by the I'AW (CIO) international executive board, according to Tom Clampitt, president of Briggs Local 212. It began Fri 2,05 V7 Li 0 Plea Bared President Ignored Auto Miss Hungary 54 ft g- Secretary to Confer ivith Truman Today Reveals July Note After Accusing Drew Pearson of 'Filching' Copy New York Times Service WASHINGTON On the eve of an important conference with' President Truman Wednesday, a private letter written last July by Henry A. Wallace to Mr. Truman was released suddenly. It revealed that the Commerce Secretary had urged the President to negotiate with Soviet Russia for the international control and development of atomic energy.

Over a Century Plan Is That Again 5 ifT Associated Prens ireihoto LIGHTS ON AGAIN Aurora Gives Another Show to Detroiters The Aurora Borealis sent streaks of vari-colored lights shooting across the sky above Detroit Tuesday night. While a haze restricted observation at the Weather Bureau, residents of many sections of the city reported a brilliant display. It was first reported about 10 p. m. The Aurora, commonly known as Northern Lights, was visible throughout the entire western portion of the United States, the Weather Bureau said.

Marines to Retire 'Pappy Boyington WASHINGTON (ZP) Lt. Col. Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, 33, Marine aviator credited writh 28 Japanese planes, will be retired soon for physical reasons, Marine Corps headquarters announced. A colorful figure of the Pacific campaign, "Pappy" shot down five planes while with the Flying Tigers in China, got the rest in the Solomons, including two the day he was captured by the Japanese. Judge Asks Fee Increase The high cost of living is about to hit the divorce courts.

Circuit Judge Arthur A. Webster recommended that the present fees of $5 for uncontested divorces be increased. This sum includes $3 filing fee and $2 decree fee, he said. Judge Webster said the higher fee would bring divorce costs in line with the increased cost of living and might check the soaring divorce rate. On Inside Paces Hamtramck Pair Goes Free on Bail Post $1,000 Each After Indictment BY CLYDE BATES Free Press Staff Writer The president and the secretary of the Hamtramck Board of Education were released under $1,000 bond each Tuesday after indictment on charges of conspiracy to corrupt public officials and accepting bribes.

Accused were Edward S. Danielowski, president, and Edward Kopek, secretary. Arraigned before Circuit Judge George B. Murphy in his grand jury headquarters, both stood mute and pleas of innocent were entered for them. Examination was set for Oct.

2. NAMED AS co-conspirator but not a defendant was John E. Tish-uck, a teacher at the Pulaski School. Both Danielowski and Kopek denied the charges. In a joint statement they said, "we do not control the actions of the grand jury.

Our guilt must be established- beyond a reasonable doubt. We have confidence that no evidence will be presented to establish that guilt." Kopek, who was 35 years old Tuesday, wept as the arraignment ended. THE BRIBERY CHARGES arose from a school board meeting last June 1 at the home of Stephen Sulczewski, a recently elected board member who headed a "reform" faction. At the meeting, it was charged, Tishuck paid $200 each to Sulczewski, Danielowski, Kopek and 3Irs. Pauline Zuk, another newly elected board member.

Sulczewski and Mrs. Zuk had arranged for a secret recording of the alleged transaction. After the meeting Mrs. Zuk and Sulczewski met with Attorney General John R. Dethmers and the alleged recording was turned over to Justice of the Peace Nicholas Gronkowski.

WHOLESALE CHARGES of bribery and corruption in the Hamtramck educational system followed and the grand jury investigation started. "This will end grand jury action in the Hamtramck situation for the time being," Judge Murphy said. "We have several weeks more work to do on labor rackets, which we interrupted only to take care o' the urgent situation in Hamtramck." Judge Murphy said action as to possible removal of Danielowski and Kopek from office would be up to Gov. Kelly. No petitions for their removal had been presented by late Tuesday afternoon.

Both men said they had no intention of resigning. Kopek and Danielowski were themselves elected to the school board as "reform" candidates in 1943. It was the iirst public office ever held by either. ASSASSIN SEIZED AT Ed Plea Details His Fight on A-Bomb Plan Calls Any Attack upon Russia Stupid BY PAUL R. LEACH Chief of Our Washington Barest! WASHINGTON "There is a school of military thinking which advocates an attack on Russia now before Russia has atomic bombs.

This scheme is not only immoral but stupid." Thus did Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace highlight his position on United States relations with Russia in his July 23 letter to President Truman. WALLACE, IT IS now clear, detailed in his letter the explosive comments he made in his speech in New York last Thursday. It was this speech which President Truman told a news conference had his full indorsement an indorsement the President later repudiated. In his letter, as he did in his speech, Wallace took a slap at Republican co-operation on foreign policy.

He wrote: "There is some reason to fear that in our earnest efforts to achieve bipartisan unity in this country we may have given way too much to isolationism masquerading as tough realism in international affairs." A DIGEST OF the letter in quotations follows: "I am troubled by the apparently growing feeling among the American people that another war is coming and the only way that we can head it off is to arm ourselves to the teeth. "I am conscious of the aggravations (our diplomats) have put up with and the apparent incon-Turn to Tage 2, Column 6 Bowles Loses Nomination HARTFORD. Conn. (p) Lt. Gov.

Wilbert Snow, Wesleyan University English professor, received the Democratic gubernatorial nomination over Chester Bowles, wartime OPA chief, and three others. Snow led Bowles, 525 to 455 on the first ballot. Bowles himself, although not a delegate, moved that Snow be given the nomination by acclamation. Snow will oppose his former chief at Wesleyan, Dr. James L.

McConaughy, in the November elections. Dr. McConaughy received the Republican nomination last week. Aid Sent to Ship Without Propeller LONG BEACH, Calif. (JP) The Coast Guard dispatched a cutter to aid the British Liberty Ship Sam Leyte, after the vessel radioed she had lost a propeller and was drifting helplessly.

The ship was reported about 80 miles offshore. It was not believed in immediate danger. led cL day over discharge of a union ttteward. Clampitt said negotiations on union demands presented in June ere still incomplete. RRIGGS SPOKESMEN charged ontract violation by the union, on he grounds that the case of the discharged worker had not been indled through grievance pro-p dure prior to the walkout.

Robert Lomasney, Michigan Mediation Board official, beld separate meetings with the disputants Tuesday. Idled because of the Brings strike are 1,100 Tackard Car Co. workers; 4,000 Chrysler' Kercheval plant workers; 3,600 Chrysler Jefferson workers. Also idle are 8,500 Dodge Main workers in body trim, paint and final assembly lines; 900 DeSoto workers, and 15,000 in Briggs' Meldrum, Mack, Vernor, Eight-Mile and Conner plants. Another 7,300 Dodge Main plants workers also were laid off Tuesday because of shortages of Sari Gabor (right), attractive Hungarian actress, was aided her sister, Eva (left), in obtaining a divorce in Los Angeles from Conrad Hilton, a hotel man.

The sisters testified that Hilton had repeatedly said that he did not want to be married; he wanted to be free. Miss Gabor was "Mis3 Hungary of 1938." No. 300 for Hank Helps Tigers Win Hank Greenberg's three-run homer, the 300th of his major-league career, helped the Detroit Tigers defeat the Washington Senators, 6 to 4. Al Benton was the winning pitcher. In the National League, the St.

Louis Cardinals held their two-game lead by trouncing New York, 10 to 2, as the second-place Brooklyn Dodgers beat Chicago, 4 to 2. For details of these games and other sports events, turn to the Sports Fags. Hemans Case May Be Set for Thursday U.S. Attorney Tries to Speed Hearing The Federal Government hopes to start Charles F. Hemans, recalcitrant state graft grand jury witness, back to Michigan from Washington Friday.

Assistant District Attorney Edward Mollenoff told the Washington Bureau of the Free Press that he had filed a request to advance Hemans' removal proceedings to Thursday. ARGUMENT ON the petition will be heard Wednesday before a United States commissioner, he Absence of Charles F. Hemans aids defense in anti-branch bank bill conspiracy examination in Lansing. Story on Page 15. said.

Removal proceedings were originally scheduled for Sept. 25. Ross Thompson, assistant Ingham County prosecutor, said he would appear to identify Hemans. Hemans is sought as a witness in an alleged legislative conspiracy to block passage in 1941 of the anti-branch bank bill. An indictment returned Monday against Hemans by a Federal grand jury in Detroit will be presented as evidence of a "probable cause" to return the witness.

MOLLENOFF said that under ordinary routine, the indictment would satisfy requirements for removing a witness to another jurisdiction and that the case could be cleared through the United States District Court by Friday. A hearing also has been set in Tallahassee, for Oct. 2 on the extradition of William H. McKei-ghan, former Flint mayor, who is wanted for questioning by the Macomb County grand jury. He is under indictment charging conspiracy to violate gambling laws.

Woman Dies Under Truck Mrs. Joanne Farris, 23, of 9163 Cameron, was accidentally crushed to death under the wheels of a truck-trailer operated by her hus band, William, also 23. Farris told police he applied his brakes suddenly to avoid hitting an automobile which cut in front of him and turned into a trailer camp at 17742 Dix, Melvindale. Farris said his wife, riding in the cab with him, apparently was thrown to the pavement when the trailer brakes took hold. He was returning from Monroe after delivering a load of waste paper.

Bulle Digs Out of 10-Incli Snow BUTTE, Mont. Trees were shattered and telephone and power lines were broken beneath- the weight of the heaviest twenty-four-hour snowfall ever recorded here for September. The Federal Weather Bureau reported 10.6 inches of snow fell between 11:30 p. m. Monday and Ell a.

m. Tuesday. The total com pared with the previous September record of 6.9 inches, on Sept. 24, 1920. Citv Will Rename Parks for Heroes A resolution to appoint a committee to rename parks and civic monuments in honor of war heroes has been approved by Council.

Forrestal Levels Blast at Wallace Comes to Defense of Byrnes Policy New York Time Service NEW YORK James V. Forrestal, secretary of the Navy, unleashed all the blistering sarcasm at his command to make evident his scorn for the recent foreign affairs speech of Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace. He voiced his wholehearted support for Secretary of State James F. Byrnes.

IX AN EXTEMPORANEOUS address that won him an ovation from 1,200 industrialists and high-ranking Navy officers at a dinner of the Navy Industrial Association, Forrestal referred bitingly to "a certain atomic disturbance that happened in this town in recent days." Although he did not refer to Wallace by name, there was no doubt in the minds of those present about his meaning. Forrestal said that Byrnes was "a great American, who has served his country well" and added that "if the world will permit it, he will serve it equally well." WHEN HE CONCLUDED, the audience rose and cheered him with an enthusiasm seldom seen at a formal dinner. Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey rose from his seat to voice his thanks for "a very wonderful speech from a real American." Forrestal's extemporaneous address was the result of a last-minute change of mind, his second within a few hours.

Originally he had been scheduled to make a prepared speech. REPORTERS who had heard rumors that the prepared speech contained references to the Wallace-Byrnes incident were told by Forrestal that this was correct. He said he had thought it over and decided not to make the speech. He said that the decision had not been requested by President Truman. Reading, Out of Prison Richard W.

Reading, was released on parole from Jackson Prison, where he had been a companion of his father, former Detroit mayor. Young Reading had served nine months and four days. Good conduct reduced his sentence of one to five years for conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Detroit graft scandals of 1941. The elder Reading, serving a 4Vi to five-year term on a similar conviction, has been in the prison hospital because of heart trouble. Naval Air Carrier Assissned to Fleet in Mediterranean WASHINGTON (3) The carrier Randolph will join United States naval forces in the Mediterranean about Nov.

1, the Navy It will mark the first peacetime assignment of an American carrier to European waters. The training cruise of the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Mediterranean is nearing an end. Her trip evoked charges from the Moscow radio that the United States was parading its naval strength to influence the ownership of Trieste and the Greek The United States, said Wallace, should be prepared, "even at the expense of risking epithets of appeasement, to agree to reasonable Russian guarantees of security." WASHINGTON WAS stirred by the lengthy letter issued without Mr. Truman's approval.

Wallace vigorously stated his fear that American people "feel that another war is coming and the only way we can head it off is to arm ourselves to the teeth." In general, Wallace maintained that our present approach to Russia is aggressive and dangerous. He suggested a new approach, which would revise the Baruch atomic-energy plan by substituting treaties for the United Nations system; reduction in military expenditures; high-caliber economic and trade missions and tenderizing a "tough" policy. The letter revealed officially for the first time that Mr. Truman previously had invited Premier Josef Stalin to visit the United States. THE LETTER, dated July 23, showed that four days previously, President Truman had asked Wallace for his views on the troubled world.

All Cabinet members had been similarly requested to submit suggestions as to foreign policy. Sensational developments accompanied the release of the Wallace letter. When, at last it was given out, it was prefaced by a Commerce Department statement that the document had been "filched from the files and is in the hands of a newspaper columnist." Immediately afterward, Drew Pearson, newspaper columnist who had arranged to publish the letter beginning Wednesday, said he would sue Wallace for libel if the "filching" charge was not withdrawn. A SHORT TIME later. Charles G.

Ross, presidential press secretary, announced that President Truman disapproved publication of the letter. Ross took full responsibility for the publication, through a misunderstanding. The meeting at the White House scheduled for 3:30 p. m. Wednesday will be the first between the President and the Cabinet member since Wallace made his sen sational speech in Madison Square Garden last week.

At mat time ne expressed a concept of international relations utterly conflicting in many re Turn to Page 4, Column 6 Army Eases Ban on Axis Marriages FRANKFURT, Germany (JFt Americans in the United States Army's European Theater were given permission to marry Hungarians, Bulgarians and Romanians but they still may not marry Germans. The Army ruling applies both to soldiers and to American civilians accompanying the occupation forces. Dapper Diapers CHICAGO (U.R) Monogrammed diapers went on sale at a Michigan Blvd. children's shop. FINANCE THE PURCHASE OF TOCR NEW CAB with Industrial National Bank.

You'll save money. Adv. Judge Watts Lends Hand in Bond Fight Places Court Behind Fixing High Bail Traffic Judge John D. Watts has placed his court squarely behind the Free Press-sponsored policy of high bonds for certain types of criminal offenders. Watts, favoring the doctrine "100 per cent," declared that "we have had much experience with people who raise bond and then proceed to commit other offenses." HE CITED the case of Sidney Lepler, 17, who admitted robbing a tavern while on bond in a hit-run driving case.

Lepler, who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, was described by Watts as a "vicious juvenile criminal." Watts' declaration was touched off by a Free Press investigation into the bond situation. It followed a statement by Inspector Marvin Lane, head of the holdup Squad, that low bonds allowed criminals to commit further depredations. AIRPORT Reilly adds that after the war began, "it took us a little while to learn how to handle some of the strange men and women Mrs. Roosevelt invited into the White House." At first, Reilly says, she would say, "I am not prepared to listen to a lot of idle gossip about my friends, and I'll invite anybody here that I choose to invite." THE SECRET SERVICE countered by making checks on guest lists, and once it laid evidence before Mrs. Roosevelt that a caller was a Communist or otherwise an unwise guest, that person was never invited again, Reilly says.

But one person, he adds, on whom the Secret Service was never able to pin anything directly although morally certain he was a Communist, continued his visits. Mrs. Roosevelt could not be reached for comment. A moror-iine pans. uompany rials said this particular layoff was unrelated to the Briggs strike.

THE CHRYSLER Dodge Truck plant on Mound Road remained losed. It was struck Friday by SoO assembly line workers in pro-. tost against discharge of a pro-bationary employee. The plant employs 4,000. Plant protection men were Mrmitted entry into the plant Tuesday by LAW (CIO) Local 110 members.

They were kept out Monday along with super visory and office workers. Local 140 will hold a mass membership meeting at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at Dodge Local 3 Hall, 8425 Jos. Campau.

Continuance the strike will be urged by union leadership, officials pre dicted. CHARGES OF "irresponsible" leadership by Arthur Hughes. president of the local, were made hy Robert W. Conder, Chrysler director of labor relations. I Conder, in a letter to Hughes, i said 57 strikes had occurred at I the plant since Hughes became Turn to Page 2, Column 7 Rub a Dub Dub, 20 Million in a Tub SHANGHAI (U.R) Charges of stealing two bathtubs full of gold bars valued at $20,000,000 were brought against two Chinese UNRRA officials.

They were accused of seizing the gold while taking over the Japanese Fishing Administration in Shanghai. The gold had been buried in bathtubs in an air raid shelter. New Fashions from California To see latest fashions for sports, afternoon and evening and spectator wear, Jean Pearson, Free Press fashion writer, has flown to California. Beginning Thursday, she will bring you full details of the fashion show, in words and pictures. Don't miss her reports daily and Sunday in the Free Press.

Plot to Murder Churchill on U.S. Visit Is Revealed NEW YORK (JP) Winston! Churchill narrowly escaped assassination during his visit to the United States in June, 1942. This was disclosed by Michael F. Reilly, who headed the White House Secret Service detail during much of the Roosevelt Administration, in this week's Saturday Evening Post. Reilly says British authorities overruled his efforts to have Churchill's plane takeoff elsewhere than from the public British overseas airbase at Baltimore as the Prime Minister prepared to leave.

HE DECLARES Secret Service men were ordered to accompany him to the plane, nevertheless, and that one of them, John Chandler, overpowered a field guard who was muttering: "I'm going to kill that Churchill." The guard later was judged insane and committed to an Amusements 20 Horoscope 25 Bethurum 7 Keeping Well 12 Bingay 6 Kitchen 13 Chatterbox 10 Lyons 26 Childs 6 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Classified 21-24 Pringle 11 Crossword 21 Radio 25 Donovan 19 Smith 16 Editorials 6 Sports 16-18 Fashions 13 Theaters 20 Financial 18-19 Town Crier 26 Guest '6 Women's 10-13.