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News THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SUNDAY, MAY 2. 1943 News- 11 40-Mnute Blackout Friday to Test New Michigan Signals PART ONE Seeks Recruits' Legislators Gird for Tax Battle Harry C. Lear, Reporter for 40 Years, Dies at 73 Harry C. Lear, former Free brother, William Lear, of Find-Press reporter who was known lav O. affectionately to many in official I Detroit as "the oldest police re- er Jerome in Michigan Battle Brews for Top Post in State CIO Rumors that SchoIIe Will Not Run for Re-Election Bring Other Candidates BY DANIEL L.

WELLS Free Press Labor Editor Battle lines are shaping up with Rev. oorter in th world." died Satnr. Funeral services for the By Donald F. Schram AS THE MANPOWER SHORTAGE forces the Nation to jetti 1 i day morning. He" was 73 years old.

He died at Harper Hospital, where he had been taken from his home at 81 Blaine after suffering a heart attack. Mr. Lear, in his reporting days which spanned nearly 40 years, worked the police beat for every daily paper in Detroit. He covered the Spanish-American War for the Evening News and served as a lieutenant in the Army during World War I. He was police reporter for the Free Press from shortly after the Democrats Appeal for Support of Their Bill; GOP Presses for OK on Ruml Plan By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 1 In formal reports today, the House Ways and Means Committee's Democratic majority called upon Congress to support its compromise pay-as-you-go tax plan while the Republican minority pressed anew for passage of the Ruml skip-a-year alternative.

The Democrats called the Ruml plan "unfair, a gross violation of the principle of ability to pay," while the minority countered with an assertion that the opposition in the State CIO Council over the question of who will lead that son one tradition after another, it was no surprise to us to learn this week that another timeworn tradition has been dumped at Central Michigan College. A freshman co-ed has become an orchestra leader, and we think it is an improvement. There are a few bright spots in a war, and Miss Glenna June Douglas is one of them. A month ago, Bruce Benford, last male orchestra leader on the Central Michigan campus, was inducted at' Fort Custer, along with several members of his dance band that had furnished campus entertainment for the past three years. Then Glenna stepped up and announced that she was ready to take over the job, and that her own ten-piece orchestra was ready to take over at campus dances and other social functions.

7 Counties Near City to Participate Windsor Also Joins in 7th Raid Alert; War Plants Will Be Excepted from Order A forty-minute blackout will comprise Detroit's seventh airraid alert next Friday, when the new State warning signals will used for the first time, Frank M. McLaury, director of the Detroit Office of Civilian Defense, announced Saturday. The blackout, which will start at 9:45 p.m., will include seven counties in Southeastern Michigan. They are Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Monroe, St. Clair and Genesee Counties.

WARNING AT 9:43 P.M. The first warning signal in Detroit will be a two-minute steady blast of sirens at 9:43 p. m. Under raid conditions this is the "Blue" warning which indicates that an air raid is probable. All street lights in Detroit will be dimmed, while lights in homes and buildings must be blacked out, it was reported.

Pedestrians should prepare to seek shelter, and vehicles, other than emergency machines, will be permitted to move at a speed not to exceed group. The State CIO convention is to be held in Mackinac Island at the end of June. Already rumors are thick that William F. Jerome. 77 years old, retired Episcopalian rector, who died Friday night following a heart attack at his home, 17176 Monica, will be conducted at 10 a.

m. Monday from St. Paul's Cathedral. Burial will be in Hillsdale, Mich. A native of Andover, England, Mr.

Jerome moved from Bothwell, to Michigan during the 1890s. He held pastorates Croswell, Lexington, Algonac, Hillsdale. Dexter and St. George's Church, Detroit. He was in charge of St.

James Church in Dexter when he retired in 1935 following the death of his wife. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1915-16. During the First World War, Mr. Jerome served overseas with the YMCA. Following his retirement he often served as assistant to Dean O'Ferrell, of St.

Paul's Cathedral. He was a Knight Templar and a Forester. Surviving are one son. Dr. J.

T. Jerome, of Traverse City; two daughters, Ella Jerome and Mrs. Lowell Butler, of Detroit; one brother, J. J. Jerome, of Lansing, and four grandchildren.

August Scholle, incumbent president may not run for re-election. In addition to being state president, he is the ClO-appointed re Seven of the 10 members of Glenna's orchestra are girls, and compromise was "a stepchild of political pressure" and "a con- she has a girl singer as well gional director and recently has been given wider duties throughout the Midwest as national CIO representative. Glenna is only 17 years old, and isn't even majoring in music, glomeration of stubborn differ ences. ENSIGN ELIZABETH BARMES SEE LITTLE DOUBLING UP TP Scholle would not commit him riiiwt miy turn of the century to 1917, when he resigned to join the Army. While working for the Free Press he solved a famous murder of those days and collected the $1,000 reward offered by the Detroit News after "scooping" the stofy for his own paper.

Born in Delaware, he graduated from college at Findlay, before coming to Detroit and going to work for the Evening News in 1895. During the Spanish-American War he covered the activities of' the 33rd and 34th Michigan regiments in Cuba for the same paper. In the first World War he served as intelligence officer on Long Island. Through his- efforts. 1,1 I 1 1 1 1 I i "Under the committee bill," said the Democrats, "there will be no doubling up for more than seven million new taxpayers, and the old taxpayers while forced to undergo some doubling up will receive substantial reduction of their self last week on this possibility.

And on his decision apparently awaits the announcement of several other prospective candidates. Ben Probe, secretary of the State CIO, says he will run for re-election as secretary tut admits that many backers are urging him to run for president. John Gibson. Ensign Elizabeth Barmes will conduct the WAVES SPARS Traveling Recruiting Board this week to four Michigan cities to interview candidates for the Women's Reserves of the Navy and Coast Guard. The schedule is Holland Monday, Grand Rapids Tuesday and Wednesday, Alma Thursday, and Ionia Friday.

1942 tax." The Ruml plan, said the Repub CIO member on the State Unem licans, "is the outgrowth of reason Dr. Pearcc 20 miles an hour with lights on ployment Compensation Commis and common sense. It is as sound low beam. as it is simple. It meets the need May 1 sion, is regarded as a presidential candidate.

And Mort Furay, re GAINESVILLE. UP) Dr. Haywood Jefferson for putting the income-tax system four spies were captured and interned. Following his discharge from the Army, Mr. Lear returned to Detroit and again went back to gional director of the State.

County on a genuine ability to pay basis At 10 p. air-raid sirens in Detroit will sound three minutes of fluctuating notes and a series of short blasts on factory whistles for the "Red" warning, signifying that raiders are overhead and and Municipal Workers, may be a secretarial candidate. Pearce, 71 years old, president of Brenau College for 50 years and one of the nation's best-known educators, died here today after a long illness. Paul Ste. Marie, who ia to make the full blackout takes effect.

COMPLETE BLACKOUT by gearing current tax payments to current income, thereby relieving all taxpayers of any overhanging income-tax debt. The two reports were filed only a few days after the Administration, through Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, threw its weight behind the compromise ver his exit Mav 9 as president of Bullet Wound Fatal to Wife By the Associated Press MUSKEGON, May 1 Mrs. Olga Lemke, 28 years old, died in Mercy Hospital Saturday from bullet wounds which Coroner Thomas C. Clock said had been inflicted by her husband, Albert, 24, Tuesday afternoon. Lemke, a former United States During the thirteen minute "Red" period, all lights must be blacked out and street lights will Ford Local 600, UAW (CIO), surprised some observers last week when he sent a congratulatory letter to John L.

Lewis. It read: irn-ntiiTTiiiri' i i i--i-irr v-4 GLENNA JUNE DOUGLAS AND HER ORCHESTRA be turned off. Pedestrians must sion, designed to cancel approxi- "Congratulations on the brilliant take shelter and all vehicles, ex fight in behalf of the mine workers. cepting emergency vehicles, must God speed the day of ultimate stop and extinguish lights. The second 'Blue warning, victory.

May God forbid that the UAW (CIO) ever fail to remember but that doesn't hold her down any. She likes popular music and mately 44 per cent of last year's determined that a shortage of manpower wasn't going to stop the individual tax obligations, collegians from enjoying it. "The morale of Uncle Sam's Navy 'TAX LAWYER'S DREAM' must never drop," she said, with particular reference to the 60 co" Navy Air cadets and 475 midshipmen who will be on the campus cks" most otter this term for specialized training. taxpayers; that it is so complicated which is a steady two-minut Army Air Forces bombardier, took its everlasting obligation to vou blast of sirens, will be sounded from 10:15 p.m. Street the police beat, first for the Free Press and later for the Times.

He later left the newspaper field for publicity work and, in recent years, was employed by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission. INACTIVE OFFICER He always maintained his interest in Army reserve activities. He was a major on the inactive reserve list at the time of his death. For several years he was president of the Michigan Department of the Reserve Officers' Association. He also was a past commander of Barker Post, of the American- Legion, and a member of Friendship Lodge, F.

A. M. Military rites will be conducted at 11 a. m. Monday from the chapel of the William R.

Hamilton 3975 Cass, with burial in Evergreen Cemtery. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Harriett Murphy, and two granddaughters, of Detroit, and a his own life by shooting himself in and your mine workers." the temple after shooting his wife lights will dimmed, but lights Navy 16-Inch Guns Now Anti-Aircraft NEW YORK, May 1 (AP) Battleships of the United States can turn their big sixteen-inch turret guns to aircraft defense, says "Seapower," official magazine of the Navy League. The article, approved for publication by the Navy Department, tells of ammunition especially designed and manufactured for use by the big guns against enemy aircraft. Gilbert Cant, military analyst, editor and author, said this development will give battleships a multiple role in large combined task forces.

"They are destined to develop into floating fortresses of the world's largest anti-aircraft artillery," he says. in the back following a quarrel in homes and buildings must re Miss Douglas is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy W. Douglas, it will provide a "tax lawyer's MRS.

MLSON WINS SUIT PONTIAC, May 1 Verdicts of main off during the period, while dream," and further that it is so at the home of Lemke's brother, Edward, the coroner said. pedestrians may leave their shel unbalanced that it will create "a no cause for action were return loan shark's seventh heaven." ters and traffic will be permitted with low beam within the speed Mrs. Lemke, formerly Miss Olga ed Friday in Oakland County Circuit Court in two civil dam- With the setting arranged for limit of 20 miles an hour. the second showdown on the tax At 10:25 p.m., the "White," or all-clear signal will be sounded by issue early next week, the Repub Carlson of Denver, was married to Lemke in 1941 while he was in the Air Corps. Lemke was discharged from the service about two years ago after being injured of Ionia.

A catering club to aid East Lansing matrons with entertaining problems is the latest project of the Michigan State College Home Economics Department. Eleven co-eds specializing in foods and institution administration will assist housewives in planning, preparing and serving meals, and will serve as hostesses and waitresses if needed. Prof. Jeannette Lee, assistant dean of the Home Economics division, is adviser to the club. lican members' formal dissenting three one-minute steady blasts fge suits filed against Mrs.

Matilda Dodge Wilson, of Rochester, by Mrs. William Jbhnson, who alleged that she fell, injuring herself, while visiting the Wilson estate in 1941. report outlined their arguments alternating with two minutt periods of silence. against the Democratic-drafted measure and asked Conaress to in an airplane crash. Thousands of city air-raid war support the skip-year plan for' clens and other volunteers at the control center will mobilize with these reasons.

the opening "Blue" warning sig CUT OUT AND MAIL TO A MAN IN THE ARMED SERVICES WILLIAM J. GEKARDO, Sturgis business man, is one of the nal and will remain on duty for the duration of the test. 200 reserve officers of the first AEF who founded the American War plants will not be asked 1 "It accomplishes the objective of placing taxpayers on a current, pay-as-you-earn basis, and not at some distant time. 2 "It involves no doubling up of payments. 3 "It treats all taxpayers equitably, and is the only plan Legion 24 years ago in Paris.

Gerardo recalls the assembling of to participate in the blackout the 200 officers on invitation of Theodore Roosevelt, father of the Legion plan, in the Cirque de Paris to draw up rules for membership. Returning to his home in Toluca, 111., Gerardo McLaury pointed out, while prosecutions of violators will be limited to "those obviously flagrant, willful violations of the blackout Letter from Home for the Serviceman which abates the 1942 tax as- vnT 1 became the first delegate for the Illinois organization meeting in DETROIT, SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1943 No. 25 Peoria. Since then he has held major Legion positions there and Certain emergency lights also will be permitted to "remain on in other States and has helped organize scores of Legion posts. during the blackout period, including railroad gate lights, train lights, signal lights on right of way, airway beacons and other sive principle by which it was imposed.

YPO PlC 4 "It is simple to understand, -1 I C5 and simple to put into operation 1 1 and to administer. i-mlVtP fil fil Of 5- "It is the only plan which OULULVr meets every problem squarely, fWl li it I i similar lights. Windsor will accompany Detroit in the blackout test by employing openly, fairly and honestly." IfflC OT LAIC Briefly, the Democratic plan the same warning signals, it was Edward J. Morse, of Battle Creek, who gave up his job as County clerk of Calhoun County to return to the Navy after the death of a son, Edward at Pearl Harbor, now has two other sons as well as two nephews in the Navy. Richard D.

Morse, second son, enlisted in the Navy as a radio technician soon after Pearl Harbor, and the third son, Jack became a Naval Aviation cadet two weeks ago. The elder Morse was a Navy veteran of the War of 1918. Nephews are Milan Morse, of Kalamazoo, machinists mate in the Navy, and Claire Morse, of Battle Creek, in the Coast Guard. A third nephew, Robert Morse, is in the Army. would abate an estimated BY OWEN C.

DEATRICK announced by H. J. Lassaline, regional officer of the Ontario 400,000,000 Of last year's taxes, free Press Staff Writer by applying the lower 1941 in- There just wasn't anything in Civilian Defense Committee. dividual rates and higher exemp-J the Army's book of rules to McLauryy will meet with the Detroit Municipal Defense Coun tions to 1942 income. Collection, cover what happened to Pvt." of the 1942 levy would be spread Robert William Matney of the over a three-year period.

Army Air Force Ferry Com- Both measures carry a 20 per' mana at Komuius on his forty- cil Monday to complete all plans for the test, while final instructions to air-raid wardens will be given by McLaury and Chief Air Raid Warden George Edwards at a meeting at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday for. eigni-nour easier leave. cent withholding provision XV. SCOTT MUNN, of Eaton Rapids, found retirement a night collection at the source, designed e.Y?n sKina-ms for JMmly tn or.

into offer after Julv. Taxes' Fost shoulder hardware, mare, and he's back in the thick of things after getting tired of vacations. Munn was a postal employee for more than 50 years, roifected in that wav would be I wno tel1 soldiers how to behave in ucu headquarters, 2631 Wood ward. I iri fii and was assistant postmaster two years ago when he retired, applied against the amounts due' 1v-'u'f" ever ng- f.im. filpH hv' "red out xvhat to do when a town when income returns are filed by When civilian defense activities were as big as Detroit is practically March 15 of next year.

organized, Munn was a willing volunteer, He helped out in sugar rationing, became Girl Prefers Willow Run to Modeling Job Willow Run was one up on New York last week when Glee Marie O'Neill, 20 years old, of Wyandotte, said she didn't think she would be a model at least while the war is on because she thought she could be more use to her country on the bomber line. Beauty scouts from the East had heard about Miss O'Neill and, after verifying the reports, offered her a job in New York as a model. Just about that time Miss O'Neill learned that Bill Gallagher had been killed in the Solomons. "Bill taught me to swim and showed me how to swing a baseball bat," Miss O'Neill explained. She got a transfer from her secretary's job in the Ford Administration Building in Dearborn and started as a typist at Willow Run.

Later she was switched to "chasing stock," and today she's one of three women inspectors in the pref light- department. She has her eye on" a specialist job in the final test--ing hangar so she can learn to fly. Miss O'Neill buys a War Bond every two weeks and one night each week is a USO hostess at Grosse lie. Marine Sergt. Barney Ross will make a six-day tour of Detroit war plants starting Monday.

The battler who held three Destroyer Traded to Britain Is Lost LA yours for the asking. So Matney had to make up the answers as he went along. First, he was just another soldier doing a quick KP on the onion pile so he could get a short pass into town. That left him with only four hours sleep before he stepped into, the USO as practically every other service man does when he's Detroit financial collector for the community chest drive, and served as chairman of the salvage drive. He still didn't have enough to do, so he ran for the City Commission last December and was The' Swift Scion Accused Again in Balm Suit Chicago Tribune Foreign Service CHICAGO, May 1 Mrs.

Kath-erine Gertrude Buchanan, 50 years old, of San Antonio, has filed an action in United States District Court here, denying the counter-claim of Louis F. Swift, to her $110,000 breach of LONDON, May 1 (AP) Admiralty announced today thatj the British destroyer Beverley, for-, elected. That made him superintendent of public works. merly the USS Branch, had been ucuiiuuii lost. No details were riven ex-' to find a welcoming committee in lost.

No details were given ex He has been elected president of the Free Press Photo NICK D'AMICO ROBERT MATNEY MARILYN HYATT Orchestra leader serenades lucky soldier and "date" Premiere of British Spy Film Shows Danger in Loose Talk cept that kin of casualties were 1943 community chest drive, coming in man iu -ume in nere since we being informed. June he's secretary of the Kiwanis Club, twenty-four-; Pearl Harbor," the The Beverley, a of which he has been a member for 20 year-old veteran of long, tough ioiq mm years without missing a meeting. He's assignments in the North Atlantic' mg 10 th ronvov route' "est of the Free Press for two MUNN rlono 4. member of the Masons. tA Unrmgnclr was AnP rf thfl a-jat iu a irpui let 4t Many will recall the seventy-one-year-old Munn as the tall destroyers traded to Britain by' Photographer, i So Mr On( So Mr.

One-in-a-million start- the United States in 1940. eader of a band which toured the State for many years i ed out after the USO picked out Hostess Marilyn Hyatt, of 16400 Evanston, as his "date." promise suit. Swift is the son of the late meat packer. In her action Mrs. Buchanan admitted that in March, 1929.

she had Signed a release which had been cited by Swift as absolving him of all claims by THINK OF THANKSGIVING They went swimming, had a CAM A TMrSrr A nril 9R Detroit war workers learned the cost of careless talking at the pre-dawn premiere of the British War Office film, "Next of Kin," at the Adams Theater Friday morning." It was a large crowd which defied a drenching rain to attend the first showing of the English warning picture in the Midwest. The premiere was sponsored by the Free Press, with all of the proceeds, exclusive of the Federal tax, to go to the USO. Many of the "first nighters" were in their factory clothes indicating they had just finsihed a late shift on their war jobs. John Bugas, chief of the Detroit office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saw a preview of the film and urged all De-troiters to see it. "That's just what Detroit needs," he said.

"It packs more punch and drives home the lesson that careless talk may cost lives better than anything of its kind that I've seen since the war started." (UP) The Turkey Growers' Co-i "TZrZ" W. S. Ballenger, general manager of a campaign to raise $1,000,000 for a new Women's Hospital in Flint, has announced that an anonymous contributor has pledged $250,000, conditional on the pledging of the remaining $750,000 during the forthcoming campaign. K. T.

Longway and James K. Bo roughs have been named to head an advance committee of the volunteer soliciting organization. Aim of the building committee is to increase the capacity of the hospital to 160 beds, operative of Northern California' already is taking steps to see that "nS" Ma' service men have turkey for their "fj a Lvf Tnvfvina Hmnpr Thpv' taxi 611(1 turned in at his hotel Mrs. Buchanan. She alleged.

Mrs. Buchanan Ul- r.r.1 crnhhlon "fccmn. uum ncvci near auoui however, that that or he would never live it she had been forced to sign the release by threats bv Swift to where now there are 40. In 1942, 326 patients were turned away because all available beds were filled. Stain Removal TWO HUNDRED FIFTY ALLEGAN COUNTY FARMERS Booklet Offered have asked the county Youth Farm Labor Committee for 2,216 farm laborers of either sex and from 14 to 70 years old.

As a Vtf rftr Prortrat treatment is one of the most important rules in seekine to remove stains from clothin? and house Bond Drive Goes Over the Top Detroiters came through just as they always do to buy more War Bonds than were necessary to reach the goal of They passed the mark on Wednesday and had three extra days to increase the total. On Friday Detroit was $22,000,000 over Its quota. The whole State of Michigan filled its quota of $300,000,000 to help the Nation set an all-time buying mark of Despite this ahcievement, Gov. Kelly urged everyone who helped in the drive to keep right on selling bonds. He pointed out that the end of the campaign didn't mean the end of the war and "we must not end our effort to finance the cost of the down." After church they joined the fashion parade in spite of gray skies and then had dinner.

Somewhere, in the day Matney found time for a long distance call to his family on a farm in Missouri. Then he caught a bus back to Romulus and the big adventure was over. That is, it was over all except the memories and the expectation of a new watch that an official of the Myers Jewelry Shop promised him as a permanent souvenir of Detroit. hold textiles. There is a remedy for Every stain and these are Riven in the start toward filling the request, 43 city-dwelling Otsego High School students signed up to work on farms after school and on Saturdays and business men and others who can spare even a few UD-to-date authoritative Government nnMatinn STIV HEMOVAT.

FROM FABRICS. The index will ruide you to the treatment of the particular stain ou wish to eradicate. Order vour cod todav onlv cents oostnaid. Use This Coupon The Detroit Free Press. have her arrested on criminal charges because the two had been living together as husband and wife for some years.

Mrs. Buchanan alleged that after having signed the release she had warned Swift that she would take legal measures to abrogate It, whereupon Swift had agreed to provide for her for the rest of her life, and for the support and education of her children. She said that Swift complied with the agreement until 1935, when a written contract was executed. Swift abided by this contract until October, 1940, she said, after which he made no further payments. OX RATION BOARD BAD AXE, May 1 (AP) Speaker Howard Nugent of the Michigan House of Representatives has accepted an appointment as a member of the Huron County War Price and Rationing Board.

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C. I enclose herewith FIVE In coin (rarefullv wTaoned in naoeri for a codt of the booklet STALN REMOVAL. Kochs and Cancer Cure hours are being asked to volunteer. Late opening of navigation at the Sault locks and in Lake Superior seems to come with war time, when earliest possible opening is most urgent. Lake Superior harbors were frozen tight during all of May, 1917, just after the United States had entered the World War, hampering movement of needed ore supplies.

On June 6 of that year, 17 ships were locked in the harbor at Duluth when a west wind drove huge blocks of ice into the harbor. There was a heavy snow fall on May 27 at the Sault and as late as June 15 ice bergs measuring 70 feet from top to bottom were floating around Whitefish Point. However, last year, soon after our entrance into the war, the opening of navigation was possible a month earlier than this year. GLEE MARIE O'NEIL She prefers bombers boxing titles has decorated for heroic conduct in the South Pacific. He killed 22 Japs while protecting three wounded comrades.

Scarce liquor has abolished the "double-shot" at nearly all of Detroit's drinking spots. Tb bar owners are faced with ration troubles and are spreading their stock out in a thin trickle. Some spots are even in line to ba closed for a day or so every week to stretch their goods. Name Street or Rural Rout recruiting boss when you went through the mill at the Detroit induction center, has been moved up a peg. His new title is chief of the personnel division for District No.

1 of the Sixth Service Command. That puts him in supervisory charge of induction centers here and at Kalamazoo and Marquette, with Continued on Next Page Government claims is misbranding their medical laboratory products. Prosecution witnesses claim the medicines are only distilled water under a fancy name. The Koch witnesses, including a lot of doctors, say they do the trick. Col.

Joseph L. Bachus, who was probably the enlistment and Iffy the Dopester remarked the other day that the Dr. Koch cancer remedy trial is running longer than "Abie's Irish Rose." Last week was the sixteenth week that a jury in Federal Court has heard witnesses argue for and against Dr. William F. Koch and his brother Louis.

They are on trial for what the Cit State (Mail to Washington. D..