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a a a a a a to to WEATHER Increasing cloudiness, not cold Sunday: rain Sunday night and probably Monday. The Detroit OVER A CENTURY 1OIst Year. No. 328 SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1932 TEN CENTS POLITICAL TRUCE TO AID CITY Free OF SERVICE HENRY LELAND, PIONEER AUTO BUILDER, DEAD Rose to Top Place in Industry; Started as Machinist's Hand BEGAN TO MAKE CADILLAC IN 1902 Civic and industrial leaders of Detroit Monday will honor Henry Martyn Leland, 89-year-old founder of the Cadillac and Lincoln Motor Car companies and one of the most picturesque of the automobile industry's pioneers, who died early Saturday morning in Grace Hospital of a kidney ailment. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Jefferson Ave.

Presbyterian He Churchen ill a month. In 1915, he fell in getting out of a moving automobile and broke his left hip. It shortened the leg an inch and a half. Ten years later in Los Angeles a man running for a street car struck Mr. Leland, knocked him down, and broke the other hip.

Inflammation Developed About a year ago, he became a bit unsteady and a friend told him of a treatment which he said might revivify his legs. He went ahead without consulting his physician, and the treatment apparently set up an inflammation which developed into a persistent kidney trouble. A month ago he went to Grace Hospital in the hope that a slight operation might correct the difficulty. The disease did not react favorably to treatment, however. He sank into a coma Friday night at 10 o'clock and did not regain consciousness.

He died at 5:25 o'clock Saturday morning. Wednesday night when his son, Wilfred C. Leland, and his grandWilfred, were at the hospital, Leland expressed an earnest desire to go home. Returned Home in Ambulance "It means a great deal to me," he said. His son tried to dissuade him.

"Just for 10 minutes," pleaded the elder Leland. "I'll come back then if it is necessary." His doctors agreed. An ambulance was called. The son rode with him. Along the way, Mr.

Leland repeatedly wanted a report on "Where are we now?" and was the Boulevard, wasn't The ambulance finally reached the home of his daughter, Mrs. Gertrude L. Woodbridge, 1052 Seminole with whom Mr. Leland had lived since the death of his wife in 1914. There he was put to bed.

The family sat beside the bed until 3 o'clock in the morning, when he had gone to sleep. About 6 o'clock 1 he called his son. Willing to Return "It has been worth it," he smiled. "I'm glad you brought me. Just to think- I've had a whole night in my own bed.

I'm willing to go back to the hospital now." Mr. Leland, a back at the hospital. developed but it bad cough Thursday night, grew worse He lost consciousness at 10 o'clock, and when his son left the hospital at midnight, doctors told him that his father's death was only a matter of hours. Henry M. Leland was a shattering contradiction of the claim that men do not initiate great undertakings after they are 40.

He was 57 before he turned to the new industry. Born in 1843, he started making transmissions for the onecylinder Olds car in 1900. His rise to prominence kept step with the industry, and in the next score of years his name became known throughout the world as the maker automobiles. and His father active of high business career was associated with the Continued on Page 2, Column 3 Church Begins Instruction to Avert 'Silly' Divorces Episcopalians Issue Pamphlets for Guidance of Those Planning Marriage Declaring that 90 divorces out of every 100 are obtained on "silly" grounds, and that the Christian ideal of marriage and the home is the main instrument for social redemption of the world, the National Council of the Episcopal ChurchS aturday inaugurated enforced instruction in marital duties upon all those contemplating wedlock. Last September, in Denver, the General Convention of the Church passed canon requiring its clergy to give such instruction both publicly and privately.

The Rt. Rev. Herman Page, D. bishop of Michigan, is chairman of the Convention's Commission on Marriage and Divorce, which recommended adoption of the canon. Life Problems Outlined "A whole sermon might be preached on the falseness of our prevailing scepticism about marriage," according to "Outlines of Marriage Instruction," one of two pamphlets received here Saturday and containing synopses of sermons for use of the clergy.

"If marriage is a risk, it also is a venture by which a lone man and woman may gain life's best values." One of the sermons compares married person's attitude to that of a soldier enlisted for the duration Press 1932 AUTO INDUSTRY LOSES A LEADER HENRY M. LELAND Two Bandits Rob Train Passengers SAN FRANCISCO, March 26-(A. --Two bandits held up the "Lark," Southern Pacific passenger train, just outside the railway yards here tonight, forced passengers riding lounge car to give up their valuables, and then leaped from the train. The amount of loot obtained in the holdup was not known. The robbers had boarded the train at San Francisco.

About 25 passengers were in lounge car and were forced at the point of guns to hand over their money and valuables to the bandits, company officials said. NORFOLK KIDNAP PARLEY REPORTED Important New Lindy Clews Hinted HOPEWELL, N. March 26- (U. -A feeling that an important development is impending in the search for the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs.

Charles A. Lindbergh, was evident tonight in Hopewell and Trenton, while State police maintained silence regarding reports that contact with the kipnapers has been established in Virginia. Reports that John H. Curtis, Norfolk shipbuilder, is definitely in contact with the kidnapers and that plans for return of the baby to its parents at Hopewell, N. are being negotiated, were current here tonight.

Curtis, one of the three prominent men who are reported to have received a direct communication from the kidnapers, left his home today, but did not go to his office. The Rev. H. Dobson-Peacock, who has been working with Curtis and Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage in an attempt to obtain return of the Lindbergh baby, said tonight: "I may have some definite news Monday.

There are no definite developments today." Unconfirmed reports said that Curtis has gone to negotiate ment of the ransom money and paytain the child. Nutley Cops Double for Easter Rabbit Special to Free Press and Chicazo Tribune NUTLEY, N. March 26 Restdents from "the wrong side of town" tried to beat the elite of Nutley out of their annual Easter egg hunt today. Two thousand gaudy eggs were secreted in Memorial Park at 5 o'clock by members of the Rotary Club. The hunt was to start at 10, but at 7 police found a miscellaneous group of men, women and children gathering the eggs.

The police halted them and recovered about 900 eggs, which they hid again. The annual hunt was a success, as usual, Shoots Self in Head; His Hearing Returns PARIS, March 26-(A. A suicide attempt by Guy O. Monroe County clerk, has resulted in restoration of his hearing, lost as the result of World War wounds. Gwyn shot himself in the head and for days was believed near death.

With his recovery 4 was found he could hear perfectly. "THE PILLAR OF Text by Joseph Fort Newton Decoration by Paul Honore Page Beautiful, Feature Section A 1831 EXTRA SESSION WILL HEAR TAX PLAN TUESDAY Governor to Indorse Weight Levy Return to Counties MAY ASK SHIFT OF REALTY LOAD By FRANK G. MORRIS of years. Has Studied School Levies LANSING, March 26-Determined that the age-old cry for tax relief shall be answered at last, Wilber M. Brucker today completed the message he will read to the Legislature when it convenes at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon for the first special session since 1926.

The members are to be occupied almost exclusively with this subject for the five or six weeks they will be in session. Details of the executive message are guarded carefully. Not more than 8 half dozen of the Governor's closest advisors are aware of his recommendations for redistribution of Governmental costs, aside from the fact that he will propose that automobile weight tax receipts be returned in full to the counties and that, property their owners delinquent be taxes permitted in annual installments over a period Gov. Brucker has admitted that he hopes to go further relieving property levies than these plans permit. month he has been puzzling over the burdensome school taxes and studying several schemes proposed for shifting these costs to a source other than property.

It is a general belief at the CapItol that he has decided upon a 80- lution. Perhaps it is an income levy; perhaps a sales tax. Not until he reads his message to the joint assembly of representatives, senators, justices of the Supreme Court and state officers will his plan be known. Although the return of all automobile weight tax receipts to the counties has been the one subject discussed most frequently, Gov. Brucker does not regard the plan as a solution to the tax problem.

It is important, and perhaps necessary, he agrees, but it will cut only $15,000,000 at most from A total property levy of $254,000,000. He does not believe that reduction can be called relief. Seeks Shift of $80,000,000 Hence his search for a new tax. He has been seeking some method of transferring from $80,000,000 to $100,000,000 from the shoulders of the owners of real estate. Yet at the same time he has hoped to guard against a new levy that will force one part of the State to support another.

He has indicated he does not believe money should be raised in Wayne County to pay the cost of schools in Oceana. One of the income tax plans would do that very thing. In preparing his program, Gov. Brucker has sought the advice of leaders in all parts of Michigan. Municipal officials, members of the Legislature, former Governors and other public figures have been attending his daily conferences.

Session on Taxation Only The Governor will not permit many other subjects to come before the lawmakers, for this is to be a tax relief session and he only wants matters covered in his messages considered. It is probable he will legislation authorizing Detroit asks. refund a short term indebtedness of $60,000,000. It is probable, too, that laws will be suggested to aid banks. But the principal topic is to be taxation.

The to return all weight taxes to the will give these units about $21,000,000 annually from the State instead of 000. The legislation probably will provide that the money must be used to eliminate the property tax for road purposes. The Governor's scheme to Rid delinquent property owners will permit them to pay their tax debts In annual installments over a period of about five years, instead of losing their homes and other property to the State Government or tax title buyers. Half of His Salary Must Go as Alimony Circuit Judge Homer Ferguson Saturday ordered Homer Johnson, 225 Covington Drive, an advertising man, to pay half of his net salary for the next year to his former wife, Mrs. Lucylle B.

Johnson, a Cleveland radio entertainer. Mr. Johnson on an order to show cause why he should not be cited for contempt because of alimony arrears of $750. At the divorce Sept. 8, 1931, he was ordered to pay $75 a week.

He remarried the day after the divorce. Better Value Monday Bargains On Page 3 Today's Free Press Gay Pageants Hail Dawning of Eastertide By HARVEY KLEMMER Christ is risen. Again glad tidings are heralded by Christian worshipers everywhere. In story and in song, with pageantry and with joy, millions chant the old story that is ever new -the resurrection of the Saviour from Calvary's Cross. At Easter the hearthfire of living, like the real hearthfire of medieval ceremonies, is lighted anew.

Like burgeoning nature, we don the habiliments of spring and parade in sartorial symbols splendor. of purity, Tall rear lilies, them- liturselves in home and at altarside. Eggs assume transient hues of the rainbow, while to childhood is brought fleecy chick and romping bunny. The warm sun pushes back the co coverlet of snows; the farmer feels his fields alive, clamoring for growth. Water flows again as a life-giving necessity.

Nature welcomes with open arms the season of fruitful growth. Norse Provided Symbols The word Easter is a Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon term derived from Ostara (or Eastre), divinity of Spring for the ancient Norsemen. Winter to them meant dreary, sunless months. With joy they welcomed Ostara's return. From comes the use of the rabbit at Easter time.

The color- CHILLY--MAYBE RAIN That pleasing feeling that comes to wearers of new things will have to keep displayers of spring fashions warm this Easter -the spring garments will -according to weather forecasts. Easter Sunday will be cloudy and cold, although obably not too cold, the weather man says. There may be rain, he says. The temperature will be at or near the freezing point in the early morning, it was predicted. Special services will feature the Easter programs of most churches.

Florists said it will be their big day. Sales of Easter lilies and other plants were brisk Saturday, and the Belle Isle Conservatory is expecting a capacity crowd for its Spring Show. ing of Easter eggs was borrowed from the rays of the Aurora Borealis--the northern lights--and the rays of the Easter sun. Other customs, still practiced in some countries, included the decoration of wells with flowers and the lighting of bonfires on hilltops to disperse the germs of evil. Maidens and men desiring marriage during the forthcoming year danced around the fires.

In Greek mythology, Persephone served the same function as Ostara. Persephone originally was compelled to abide in Hades as the wife of Pluto. Her mother, Demeter, finally won a concession from the gods through which she was permitted to return to earth for three months each year -the springtidebringing light and warmth and sunshine to the waiting earth. Virgins Blessed Fields In the Middle Ages, virgins were carried into the A awakening fields to bless their products. Because the Norsemen thought that the sun actually danced in glee, modern Scotch hurry at dawn to the to catch there a maidens, shimmering reflection of the rising disk, hoping to see image of the man they are to marry.

Persians still believe that the world was hatched from an egg at Continued on Page 4, Column 2 MILD WEATHER, RAIN PREDICTED FOR WEEK Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: For the region of the Great Lakes. temperatures mostly seasonable; rather frequent precipitation. FREE PRESS TODAY PART I 02.00 Sir Advertising. Horace Plunkett Dies. Mystery of Photography Unfolded.

01 Advertising. 20 Editorials. -3 House Rebels Save Leaders. 00 Michigan News. 10 Knights of Columbus to Hold Golden Jubilee.

10 Europe Aghast at Economic Crisis. 11 "Around the 12 Automotive Topics. 13 Dude Ranches Lure Tourists. 14 Heroic Doctor Dies Suddenly. SPORTS SECTION 7- 9 Financial News.

10 Real Estate. PART II 1- 6 Everybody's Want Ad Section. PART III Bloomfield Hills Society. Royal Oak Society. Rochester and Ann Arbor Society.

Wyandotte, Flint and Windsor Society. 5 Dearborn and Grosse Ile Soclety. Club News and the Week's Calendar of Eventa. 7 F.uth Alden's Advice. 00 Household Hints and Recipes, 00 Lansing, Ann Arbor Pontiac Society.

10 Spring Fashion Notes. PART IV 1- Stage and Screen. Stage. Fraternal News. 01 Gardening Suggestions.

00 The Arts. FEATURE SECTION The Pillar of Light. "I Jerusalem's Easter Miracle of Fire." Mad Adventures of Queen of Paris Night Life. 4 That's How They Told It to Me. by William C.

Richards, 10 Science Says You or "John Are Worth $1. Has Trial by Jury Outlived Its Usefulness? by Bart A. Lynch. 7- 8 The Unkissed Bride, by Berta Ruck (serial), 9 Girls' and Boys' Page. 10 Vignettes of Life.

GRAVURE SUPPLEMENT AND TEN PAGES OF COMICS, TENSION RUNS HIGH BETWEEN JAPS AND REDS Soviet Activity Shows Preparations for Possible Strife TOKIO'S TROOPS SENT TO BORDER WASHINGTON, March 26-(U. -Increasing tension between Japan and Russia on the Manchurian-Siberian border was indicated today in dispatches from the Far East. The advices said Soviet Russia apparently has agreed to permit the new Manchurian, regime of Henry Pu Yi, sponsored by Japan, to share in running the rich Chinese Eastern Railroad. order of the road's board of directors, including both Chinese and Russians, a composite flag -the blem above the Soviet Hammer and Sickle-has been hoisted over the railroad stations. Both Take Precautions Precautionary military measures were being taken by both Japan and Russia, reports indicated.

1-Moscow was said to have ordered a large number of army and doctors, Siberia. technicians, aviators Their mission, it was understood, is to survey the problems Russia must meet should its armies clash with of Japan on the Manchurian-Siberian border. 2-Japanese forces were reported to be deployed along all branches of the Chinese Eastern Railroad and also in such other positions that, if necessary, they could move on the Siberian border from five directions. The reports followed others received here last week, describing "intensive military preparations" by Russian troops around Vladivostok, focal point of Soviet interests in the Far East. Russia was said to have 50,000 troops in the Vladivostok area.

Japan Guards Strategic Points Apparently the preparations have been counterbalanced by those of Japan. The Japanese troops in and near Korea were said to be so placed that they could move quickly northwest dos Manchuli Station, where the Railroad enters Manchuria, to several points on the northeastern border, and to Vladivostok. Meanwhile, efforts of the new Manchu Government to stop exports of wheat to Vladivostok, where the Russians are supplying themselves against an emergency, apparently have failed. The GovContinued on Page 2, Column 2 ERIN DISARMED FOR REVOLT FETE 10,000 Will March in Dublin Parade DUBLIN, Irish Free State, March -Ten thousand Irishmen with the flag and uniform of the Irish Republican Army will parade through Dublin tomorrow to celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of Easter rebellion which brought Eamon De Valera into the spotlight. As President of the Irish Free State, De not participate in the demonstrations, and he will keep the Free State Army confined to barracks to avoid the trouble, concerning which there is sO much apprehension here.

Dublin's celebration will be one of many throughout the Country and only its lack of firearms in tomorrow's parades will prevent the Republican Army from appearing as a rival force to the Free State troops. De Valera was in command o. little band of picked fighters at Boland's Mill when the Republicans were forced to surrender the postoffice to the British 16 years ago, and he, too, was obliged to surrender. The leaders of that uprising who are now members of his cabinet also will refrain from participating in tomorrow's demonstrations. Accused of Running Speakeasy in Court BATTLE CREEK, March 26-(A.

Marshalthe, Peace Arthur Day, of was in jail here tonight, charged by Federal prohibition agents with having turned his combination office and court room into a speakeasy. Officers raided the justice's office in a downtown business block and said they confiscated a small quantity of liquor. AUTHOR'S SON KILLED: SUICIDE THEORY HELD St. Louis, March 26 (U. The body of Dr.

Daniel W. Lippincott, twenty-eight-year-old son of Prof. Isaac D. Lippincott, economist and author, was found 300 feet inside a limestone cave near a picnic ground today, with 8 bullet through the heart. Police leaned toward the, suicide theory.

The senior Lippincott said his son had "overworked." A pistol was by the young man's side. ICE SKATING TODAY -OLYMPIA 2 to 5 p. Monday Night, -Adv. BICYCLE RIDE. ENDS IN LAKE Ice Cake Catapults Boy into Lagoon as He Washes Muddy Wheel Mud and ice mix no better than oil and water, Harry Edwards, 15 years old, 4000 Vermont discovered Saturday landing in a lagoon at Belle Isle and being rescued by Patrolman Earl West.

Harry was riding a bicycle at the Island with two companions when he slipped and fell in the mud. The bike was all muddy, too, and Harry went to a nearby lagoon to wash it and himself. He walked out on the ice and started the ablutions only to have the ice cake tip and dump both him and the bicycle into the icy water. His friends tried to reach him but failed. Patrolman West rode his horse up to the lagoon, dismounted and pulled Harry out.

The bicycle was to be recovered later. E. H. NELSON'S CAREER ENDED Founder of Chemical Concern Dies Edwin Horatio Nelson, prominent in banking circles and president and founder of Nelson, Baker manufacturing chemists, died at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon in Harper Hospital. He entered the hospital March 13.

Previously he had suffered a slight stroke but insisted on continuing his usual duties. Funeral services will be conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Christ Episcopal Church, E. Jefferson near Hastings St. Rose Rapidly in Business of Commerce of Dearborn. Member of Clubs Born June 27, 1856 in Brighton, he later attended the Toronto College of Pharmacy.

Coming to Detroit as a young he was employed in the Frederick Stearns' drug store on Woodward Ave. His rise was rapid in the concern and he later became secretary of Frederick Stearns drug manufacturers. Nearly 40 years ago he founded Nelson, Baker Co. and remained actively in charge of its destinies since. His gon.

Frank Thayer Nelson, 29 Kenwood Road, Grosse Pointe Farms, is the vice president. He was one of the organizers of the National Bank of Commerce in 1907 and was continually connected with it as a director and in other posts. When it was consolidated with the Guardian Detroit Bank he was selected as a director of the new institution. He also was on the executive committee of the Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc. He had been president of the Bank Mr.

Nelson was a member of the Country Club of Detroit, the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Boat Club, the Grosse Pointe Club, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Detroit Board of Commerce and the Detroit Racquet and Curling Club. With his wife, Mrs. Anna Louise Gilkeson Nelson, he lived in GarCourt Apartments, 2906 E. Jefferson. A daughter, Mrs.

Carl W. Blossom, lives in Cleveland, and a sister, Miss Frances Cornwall, in Toronto, Ont. Sing Sing Convicts Laugh at Depression Special to Free Press and Chicago Tribune OSSINING, N. March 26-Depression is unknown in Sing Sing Prison. Total gross sales of prison products for the fiscal year 1931- 1932, with three more months to go, have already topped figures for the year before by $60,000, it was disclosed today.

The previous year's sales were $800,000. LODGE NAMED TO TAKE LEAD IN FINANCING Program Designed to Solve Bond and Tax Problems CHIEFS TO MEET WITH BANKERS Elimination of political considerations in solving City's financial problem was the keynote Saturday as Councilman John C. Lodge apparently took charge of the machinery through which it is hoped to refinance maturing bonds and avoid. an Lodge increase will in head a taxation. committee composed of Councilmen Smith, The latter appointBradley and President, Couzens.

ment of the committee Saturday. It will meet with Ralph Stone and Henry Hart, representatives of the New York bankers; Mayor Murphy and Clarence E. Wilcox, corporation counsel, Monday afternoon. Lodge to Take Charge Mr. Lodge with the Mayor Saturday conferred, but saying he declined to discuss the nature of the conference.

It was generally conceded, however, that he would take charge of the movement to unravel the tangle, Gov. Wilber M. Brucker informed Mayor by telephone that he would lay Detroit's financial plight before the Legislature, which will meet in special session Tuesday. Mayor Murphy said that Gov. Brucker was not prepared to state whether he approves legislation be presented by, the City, but that he would way for presentation of Detroit's claims.

"There has been a great deal of bickering about financial measures, but I am not engaged in any quarrel with members of the Common Council." Mayor Murphy said. "The situation has become so acute that politics must be forgotten in an effort to place the City in a posttion where this financial storm may be weathered." HUGE G.M. UNIT TO PUSH SALES Grant Named Head of New Organization With the formation of the BuickOlds-Pontiac Sales announced Saturday by Richard H. Grant, its head, General Motors Corp. has constructed what those familiar with its details term one of the world's In it will be Genforemost selling eral Motors' sales activity in the medium-price car field.

It will serve as a sales and distributing organization for the Buick, the Oldsmobile and the Pontiac. Sales Work Intensified While its unites the selling organizations of the three divisions of the parent corporation, it is in no sense a contraction of these organizations. Rather, it presents means for intensifying their work. representatives will be assigned to hundred a sales and service work and it is Mr. Grant's expectation that normally the new organization will sell 350,000 cars 8 year, this volume representing 8 retail value of $400,000,000.

These cars will be distributed some 65,000 men. In all, the through 6,500 dealers employing Co. employ about 3,000 men and 25,000 men will be to manufacture the cars which it necessary expected to sell. Heads Selling Organization Mr. Grant, vice president of General Motors will head the selling organization in addition to his activities as general supervisor of sales, advertising and service.

Assisting him as general sales manager will be W. A. Blees. R. K.

White and George H. Wallace will be assistant general sales managers. Formerly Mr. Blees was vice president in charge of sales of the Oakland Motor Co. and Mr.

White was his assistant. Mr. Waliace was general sales manager for Buick. Mr. Grant said Saturday that R.

M. W. Shaw will continue as advertising manager for Oldsmobile, R. H. White for Pontiac and E.

J. Poag for Buick. Detroit will be the organization's headquarters and it is expected that it will occupy almost all of the General Motors Building's fifteenth floor. Five sales regions will established, York, their centers Chicago, being Deand San Francisco. Memphis 33 Warehouses Planned For the wholesale distribution of cars and parts 33 zone warehouses will be established at strategic points.

Creation of these centers will permit prompt service in all parts of the Country, according to Mr. Grant. The centralization of selling effort will bring to Detroit sales a let activities formerly carried on in Flint, Pontiac and Lansing. "This new organization is not a deflationary move to reduce three sales organization to one," explained Mr. Grant.

"The motive back of it is to build the greatest sales organization that the motor car industry has ever known. "The new organization covers the field in which there is the greatest number of competitors and we expect as a result of new organization to enlarge the field and thereby create more work. "The present field organizations of the three companies will be combed for the best talent available and their efforts united under one directing organization." Political Enemies Mayor Murphy and Councilman Smith are political enemies and this animosity has resulted in considerable controversy in the Common Council. Responsibility for the financial chaos is fixed by most members of the Council with the Mayor, and for that reason little progress has been made in the plans for refinancing of debts. "This financial problem is one which must be met by the City with a united front," Mr.

Lodge said. "Detroit is not broke and is not in a serious condition. We cannot weather the storm unless the Mayor and the Council agree on the course to be followed, and I do not believe there, will be any difficulty in getting the executive and legislative ends of the government together." "The credit of Detroit is essential to our continuance as a government," Mr. Lodge added. "We must chart a proper course and stick to it.

There must be no talk about repudiation of our debts. This becomes obvious to those who understand that for years to come we must continue to borrow money to operate the government." Mr. Lodge attributed the present market value of Detroit bonds, which are selling 70 cents on the dollar, to unfavorable national publicity, The utterances of public offcials regarding the financial status Continued on Page 7, Column 1 Mackerel Soused, and It's No Wonder of whisky. NOW is the time to offer good apartments to RENT. and Free Press Want Ad columns is the place to make the offer.

Others are renting apartments via this route. Here's Mrs. A. Finkel, of 15730 Idaho, who offered a small apartment for rent through a 3-line Free Press Want Ad. "Secured excellent returns," was her comment on what happened.

Do your renting regularly through "Rental" columns of the Free Press. The 'phone number is Randolph 9400. NEW YORK, March 26-(A. -A customs guard stopped a man to ask what was in the gallon can he carried. "Soused mackerel," was the reply.

"If you don't believe it, I'll go get a can opener to prove it." The guard waited long and patiently, but the man failed to return-so he opened the can by force. Inside was a layer of mackerel on top of three bottles of a war. "He does not desert though beds are hard, food scant and comrades fail. Families are built by the heroic, the Nation dies. Healthy children, balanced emotionally, are developed by the endurance of men and women who console and cherish each other though hell rages round them." Teachers Given Aid "Preparation for Marriage," the other pamphlet issued Saturday, is a bibliography listing 43 books touching on marital problems, and is intended not only for the clergy, but to aid parents, deaconesses, teachers and other leaders character education.

The list includes the works of writers of international repute on such topics as divorce, child guidance, sex education, petting and the modern youth. The pamphlets were prepared by the Rev. C. Rankin Barnes, executive secretary of the Department of Christian Social Service of the church. The Rev.

Joseph T. Ware, executive secretary of Department of Social Service of the Episcopal diocese of Southern Ohio, who co-operated in preparing the pamphlets, will lead the discussion of the problem of instructing for marriage at the yearly National Conference on Social Service, which will meet in Philadelphia from May 13 to 17,.