Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 1

The Weather IV. S. Weather Bureau, east Lanjlnfl Little chance in tempera: ore tonight and Friday forenoon; intermittent light rain. (See weather lilt pat It) The State Journal Receives daily ehe complete new report of The Associated Press, The United Press and The International News Service. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29,1942 32 Pages-r288 Columns PRICE-FIVE CENTS Plan to Mobilize Manpower of U.

S. Is Sidetracked Sixteen Killed in Train-Bus Crash South Pacific Roars mm THE STATE elOTMMAL Ball! To Clin ax a Administration Reported to Have Decided The National To Delay Compulsory Mobilization Indefinitely; Action on Bills Now in Congress Unlikely By JACK BELL sJ' JX21 British Drive Into Egypt Slows Down as Axis Moves Up Reinforcements; Germans Crack Through Stubborn Russian Lines in Caucasus Region By ROGER D. GREENE (Associated Press War Editor) United States army troops and marines, hemmed in a corn (AP) The administration was WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 reported reliably today to have proposals for the compulsory mobilization of manpower. Congressional leaders, who had expected shortly after next Tuesday's elections to receive dor only six miles long by three miles deep, were officially could be cut to fit the nation workers into the wartime production machine, were said to have been informed that no credited today with inflicting bloody losses on the Japanese at Guadalcanal island, while elsewhere on the world far-flung White House recommendation time.

I In the absence of such a battlefronts the Axis showed new Japanese forces in overwhelming numbers were reported ceded privately it would be next to impossible to obtain action on a half dozen or more man- rrnniinnil IIITP 1 Pwer hH pending before tnunn 113 UN TY SURGED blocks and schoolbooks of the younger passengers on the bus were scattered along the right-of-way. The tragedy occurred at the Caniff avenue crossing at the edge of the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, This was the scene in Detroit after a Grand Trunk Western passenger train sliced through a crowded Detroit Street Railways motorbus, killing at least 16 persons, including several school pupils October 28. Bodies were strewn along the tracks for two Shocked Pushes Into Bu Crash Asserts the Government Has Done 'Practically Nothing' To Remedy Woes (By The Associated Press) Judge Homer Ferguson attacked the government's attitude on wartime housing Wednesday and Unit ed States Senator Prentiss M. Brown, whom he opposes, said anti-inflation legislation was keeping down the cost of living. Referring to Detroit's housing troubles.

Judge Ferguson said at a Hillsdale rally that Detroit had re ceived 250,000 additional residents in recent months and expects another 350,000 by next July while the gov ernment "has done nothing or prac tically nothing." The Republican nominee, assailing new deal bureaucracy," said that at one time 26 separate bureaus' in Washington were administering the housing situation and added "Is iw any wonder we are in the fix we're in?" He charged that government delay was responsible for the hous ing problem. "As a result of all this delay, con fusion and red tape," Ferguson said, living conditions have become ap palling. And they are bound to become worse. If something effective is not done, this condition will be come a national disgrace, if not a national disaster." Calling Senator Brown an exam ple of "inefficiency" in Washington, Ferguson said "my opponent claims that he wants to be returned to the senate because of his experience. Experience in inefficiency can be no reason to return a man lor a six-year period." Earlier in the day Ferguson had declared at Port Huron that "men who permit this bureaucracy to accrue in the first instance are not men likely to have the courage to restore government to the people." "The junior senator's statement that he would support the President whether he is right or wrong." he said, "is an attitude that has per mitted the growth of this bureauc racy which is throttling our war eiiort ana our civilian pursuits.

Brown's Views Senator Brown, talking to a group of Wayne county Democratic women, compared the present food prices with those of the last war and said that the legislation in which he had an important role was responsible icr a mg amerence. "Perhaps you paid 50 cents a dozen for eggs this morning," he said, "but you paid $1.10 a dozen in the last World war. If you paid $4.40. for See FERGUSON Page 4 BRANCH RICKEY NAMED AS NEW DODGER BOSS NEW YORK. Oct.

29 Branch Rickey today was named president ana general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rickey was signed to a five-year contract, effective November 1. He succeeds Larry McPhail, who resigned the position to take a commission in the armed services. The board of directors declined to name the salary terms, but as vice president and general manager of the St. Louis Cards, Rickey's salary and commissions were believed to have run as high as $75,000 annually.

Observer The News Behind The Day's News WAR department representatives have launched an intensive backstage drive for eventual repeal of the OUaniel amendment requiring at least 12 months' train-tag of the 18-19 age groups before they can be sent overseas. They have advanced several compromises which they hope the postelection session of the house will accept and force upon the sen- 'while Chief of Staff Marshall wants no rigid restriction on drilling methods or periods, he may agree to a proposal providing 'lor only nine months' preparation. Some have recommended that the incubation time be lowered to only six months for specialists not scheduled for regular combat duty. Another possible basis for a less hampering law is a suggestion that no recruit be permitted to serve outside the country until he has passed his 19th birthday. General Marshall's testimony on the subject deeply impressed members and undoubtedly affected at least a score of votes in the face of sentimental appeals from million of mothers.

He explained that. whereas a replacement marching beside veterans in a unit can be fitted for the front in four months, it takes at least a year to perfect a division for active service. A telephone or radio expert obviously needs only a brush-up schooling to make him eligible for duty with the signal corps. In other words, there are all kinds of soldiers and there is no fixed standard for readying them for the theater of war. Bloc M'HK senatorial stampede to ap-prove the Tydings amendment providing blanket exemption of rural help from the draft reflects vividly congressional fears and expectations of a political revolt in the wide open spaces next week.

Although sprung hurriedly by the Marylander, it whooped through by a 62 to 6 majority. The panic on Capitol Hill was emphasized even more dramatically by the defeat of the Burton proposal to permit college students to finish the vear in which they come of legal" military age. Although this was shouted down on the theory that it was "class legislation," the same men cried "Aye" for the scheme designed to keep 'em down on the farm. It is true that hard economic facts accounted for the favoritism toward agriculturists. Every senator except those from cities has been flooded with reports that herds were being sold for want of workers and that the nation would face a severe food shortage unless the exodus to the factories and the armed forces was checked.

With one exception Gurney fR of South Dakota the adverse ballots were cast by elder statesmen from industrial areas. They were Walsh (D) of Massachusetts, Green (D) and Gerry (D) of Rhode Island, Maloney (D of Connecticut and Taft (R) of Ohio. As thev expressed it privately, they interpreted this first general exception to mean that the United States will go to war with an "all-metropolitan army." It is expected, however, that the powerful corn-wheat bloc in the house will O. K. the change and that the White House will accept it.

Hoover UEY Democrats facing the voters next Tuesdav have besieged President Roosevelt with recuests that he issue a pre-election appeal on their behalf. The demand has been voiced most plaintively by members who supported his foreign policy before Pearl Harbor. The candidates would appreciate a specific endorsement but they are not anxious for him to repeat the mistake Woodrow Wilson committed when he made his 1918 plea. What worries them most is increasing evidence of apathy on the part of the electorate, especially the younger elements supposed to favor Rooseveltian ideologies. Preliminary canvasses disclose that those who have not gone to camp are indifferent or too engrossed in the industrial phase of the conflict.

In the first main district only 2,000 of 25,000 shipyard workers took the trouble to register. Western states normally Democratic have been especially hard hit because of the drain which west coast plane and boat building centers have imposed on the 20-to-30 age classes. The Raybum-Barkley boys also note that Herbert Hoover has urged folks to perform their political duties. Although he did not restrict his suggestion to Republican voters, it is expected the former president's bugle call will affect them more impressively than supporters of the "ins." Proxy rpHZ army air forces and trans-port command are grousing privately about the number of dignitaries not directly connected with the war effort who are commuting between Washington and London these days. While they recognize the value of Mrs.

Roose- gee OBSERVER Page IS Charter amendments discussed on Page 4. Sam Street Hughes, mayor. decided to sidetrack indefinitely a pattern from which legislation will be forthcoming for some recommendation, sponsors con congressional committees. However, Senator Hill (D) Alabama, author of a bill that would give President Roosevelt broad authority to say where a man or woman should work, told reporters he would press for speedy action by the senate military committee on his and several other measures. "I think it is inevitable that we are going to have legislation which will mobilize all of our citizens for the war effort and which will di rect them into the job they can do best," Hill said.

"This can be done on a voluntary basis for the most part, but there must be machinery to enforce it upon those who won't make any sacrifices to win the war. Opposition by labor leaders either to the "freezing" of workers in their Jobs or government action transfer- ing them from one field to another was said to have contributed to the decision to delay consideration of compulsory measures of the sort urged publicly by Chairman Paul McNutt of the war manpower commission. The commission's action in direct ing local selective service boards to defer workers on dairy, livestock and poultry farms as well as its admonition to the army and navy not to recruit such men, was expected to be supplemented by final adoption of an amendment to the 'teen age drait bill which would direct deferment of all essential farm workers. Even this, however, promised little or no relief to farmers who already have lost their hired hands to the armed services or to more highly paid industrial jobs, a condition that Senator Vandenberg (R) of Michigan said was becoming critical In many sections of the country. as an Illustration, Vandenberg said there remained enough sugar beets in the ground in Michigan.

Indiana and Ohio to produce pounds of processed sugar, but workers could not be obtained to harvest them. On another phase of the problem, a senate labor subcommittee reported yesterday that the "unplanned recruiting" of doctors for the armed services had created "a dangerous health emergency" in some sections of the nation. Chairman Pepper (D) of Florida urged that President Roosevelt -order a survey of medical personnel available for both civilian and military needs and "reallocate" the supply of doctors. Scrap Drive Over County Still Pushed The scrap- drive in central Michigan is rolling alone successfullv ac cording to reports coming in from various schools, Boy Scout troops and juiik oeaiers. At least 260 additional tons of scrap metal has been gathered bv a few schools and from other sources from which information was received Thursday.

From the rural school drive out side of Lansing in scattered sections of Ingham county came word that piles oi scrap are growing and school children are in the battle with more enthusiasm than ever. At the Haslett school, where a See SCRAP Page 4 FOOTBALL INJURY FATAL WICHITA, Kan, Oct. 29 (P) Walter Scott, jr, died today of a fractured skull suffered in a sand-lot football game. Scott had the ball and was charging with his head down and struck a tree. are going to be as ragged as George Washington's soldiers, and maybe as hungry.

We are gomg to fight with our backs to the walls as the Russians are fighting now." Stresses Educators' War Job Van Paassen's alarming predictions came after L. C. Emmons, dean of the liberal arts division of Michigan State college, had told the assembled throng in his welcoming address that the first job of educators is to help win the war and "at the same time not lose sight of the fact that we hope to live a long time in a democracy at peace." Continuing to stress the conference's wartime pattern, destined to shape an educational program contributing most greatly to the nation's unified effort, S. S. Nisbet.

See TEACHER Page 4 Boys' Hi-Tops $2.98 Davis. Adv. Southwest Pacific Commander Stresses Need for Single Leadership By JOHN H. WIGGINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 VP) Mounting protests -against a divided command in the south Pacific appeared today for climactic action by what was regarded In some quarters as' an appeal from Gen; Doug las MacArthur for unified direction over the entire embattled area.

Answering a newspaper report attributing the two separate commands in the Pacific chiefly to "po litical Washington" and a MacAr- thur-for-president campaign," the 62-jear-old leader of United Nations forces in Australia disavowed any political ambitions whatsoever. Disavows Intentions From his headquarters last night (Washington time), MacArthur declared that any contrary suggestion "must be regarded as merely amiable gestures of goodwill dictated by friendship." "I started as a soldier and I shall finish as one," he said. "The only hope and ambition I have in the world 'is for victory for our cause in the war." This, topping louder and louder demands from Capitol Hill for better teamwork in the Pacific war theater, was interpreted by some sources here as at least an indirect appeal to eliminate any political considerations that might be ham pering his direction of the war effort in that part of the worldi'" These sources pointed-out that such a statement from a commanding officer in the-field was highly unusual and was almost bound to provoke some decisive action. The congressional protests became more vocal this week after Vice Admiral Robert H. Ghormley was re placed as commander of the southern Pacific area embracing the Sol omon Islands by Vice Admiral Wil liam H.

Halsey. There was no explanation for the change but it was recalled that United States naval operations in that See MacARTHUR Page 4 LORD HOWARD IS CAPTIVE LONDON, Oct. 29 (IP) Lord How ard, who succeeded to the title of Baron Howard of Penrith in 1939 from his father, who had been known in Washington as Sir Esme Howard while he was ambassador to the United States, is a prisoner of war in Germany, it was disclosed today. He was a captain in the royal artillery and was wounded at the time of his capture. strength in Egypt and Russia.

of the prize Guadalcanal air artillery and tanks. Washington gave this heartening Japanese invaders began their TEACHERS GET To Register All Motorists at Schools; Tire Serial Numbers Held Essential (Ration Form on Page The state department of nubile instruction Thursday distributed preliminary instructions to 35,000 school teachers throughout the state concerning registrations for gasoline rationing. As in the case of sugar rationing. registrations for so-called "A gaso line rationing booklets will be made at the schools. Teachers and volunteers will handle the work.

The announcement said it would be left to the discretion of school officials wnetner it would be necessary to close the schools part or all of the expected registration period, No vember 9 to 11, inclusive. Edward T. BroadwelL in charge of the gasoline rationing program, instructed the education department that the teachers would have no authority issue booklets to persons who have no serial numbers on their tires, unless orders to the contrary are received from Washington. Such cases, he said, should be referred to rationing boards. DwtMr Most Register On the basis of present instruc tions from Washington, only the person to whom the certificate of registration of the car is drawn may present it for a rationing booklet See PLANS Page EXHAUST SUPPLIES OF COFFEE HERE Grocers Expect No More Stock This Week; Many Wait for Honrs in Lines There will be no more coffee in Lansing this week and some stores may not get additional supplies until the rationing system becomes effective late in November, it was revealed Thursday.

One large wholesale house re ported that the October coffee sup ply was exhausted alter the first 10 days of the month and this concern could not forecast the November supply at this time. Another wholesaler was able to allot but four pounds to each retailer. It was pointed out that Lansing's population has increased greatly and the city is rationed on the basis oi consumption before thousands of additional persons made their homes here: At some super-markets Wednes day hundreds of persons stood in line for hours waiting for a half-pound each of coffee, a supply of which was to have arrived by truck. Many remained after it was disclosed that the truck had broken down and would be late. The super markets, unlike other independent stores, have placed their coffee supply on the shelves as it was received and allotted no more than a half pound or a pound to a customer.

Other stores hav kept their meager supply under the counter or in a back room for regular Where to Look Bedtime Stories 20 Believe It or Not 28 Comics 28 Crossword Puzzle 28 Daily Patterns 20 Dorothy Dix 20 Editorials 12 Food 2L 22, 23, 24. 25 Health Talks 12 Just Before the Deadline 3 Looking Over Lansing 5 Markets 29 New York Day by Day 13 Radio 29 State Deaths 6 Serial Story 28 Society ......18, 19 Sports 36. 27 Theater 14 Vital Statistics 6 Weather 1-32 Charter amendments discussed on Page 4. Sam Street Hughes, mayor. RATION PLANS crowding American defenders base on three sides, using heavy Nevertheless, the navy in account of the struggle since the days ago: "Enemy losses in men and equip ment in troop actions on the island since October 23 have been very heavy as compared to our own." Lately, the navy said, the Japa nese assault has taperea down to 'small scale indicating that the enemy was either waiting for reinforcements or had been stung to discouragement by the fierce American defense fire.

In other xey theaters, these were the high spots: Egypt B. L. Mont gomery's six-day-old offensive to drive the Axis out of North Africa appeared to be hitting stiffer oppo sition after British shock troops had broken gaps in the enemy's forward defense wall on the El Alamein line, 80 miles west of Alexandria. British headquarters failed to note any new gains and gave the follow ing terse description oi the desert battle: 'During the night of October 27- 28, the enemy counterattacked our positions and was beaten off. "Yesterday there were some minor tank engagements in which damage was inflicted on the enemy.

"Fighting continues." -While the British communique in dicated that Nazi Field Marshal Er- win Rommel was striking back, Ital ian field headquarters stressed the fury of the British eighth army assault. "The bitter struggle which for several days has been fought in the El Alamein front of Egypt contin ued yesterday with powerful enemy attacks against which Axis forces offered violent resistance," the Fas cist command said. "We destroyed several dozen en- See WAR Page 4 Meatless Day Suggestion for State Canceled The state, defense, the advice of federal agencies, retreat ed Thursday from its recommenda tion that Michigan institute one "meatless" day -weekly. Instead, the council said, Michigan will participate in a different fed eral meat conservation program in which householders will be asked to cooperate. The recommendation for a "meat less" day was adopted by the coun cil last Saturday.

Lieut CoL Harold A. Furlong, defense council administrator, ex plained "at the time the council was meeting, members of the staff attending a conference in St. Louis 'See MEATLESS Page 4 BIRTHS IN PARIS RISE VICHY, Oct 29 (UP) For the first time in more than 50 years. births are exceeding deaths in the Paris area, a vital statistics report showed today. In September, there were 412 more births than deaths in the Seine department CHRISTMAS MAIL SHIPPED WASHINGTON, Oct 29 VP) More than 1,000,000 Christmas parcels were Included in a record total of 3,398 tons of mail sent to American armed forces overseas during the first 25 days of October.

This volume far exceeds the amount sent to the A. E. F. in the same period of the World war. Secretary of War Stimson said today.

Julia Hutton, Detroit, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Clara P. Todd, Plymouth, treasurer, and Mrs. Millie Powell Grand Rapids, recording secretary. "I can tell you where to get man power," Mrs.

Whitney declared in her militant talk, while at the same time pointing to a labor shortage which forces women and mothers to work in mills and factories for the war effort Answering critics by certain pub lications Including "Life" magazine leveled at W. C. T. U. delegates lor cluttering up rail transportation to assemble In Birmingham, Ala- for their recent national convention, Mrs.

Whitney told her audience, "I shall continue to travel as long as the beer truck is left on the highways." She singled out metal beer casks as possible contributions to the present scrap metal shortage and criticized the continued use of rubber- See W. C. T. U--Pag 4 SETUP War Labor Board to Use Offices of" Wage-Hour. Division for Task WASHINGTON, Oct.

29 (Jf) De centralized administrative machin ery to regulate all wages and most salaries up to $5,000 will be operat ing 10 to 15 days. The war labor board announced It had arranged in cooperation with Secretary Perkins of the labor department to use the wage-hour division field offices to help administer the responsibilities given the board under the President's execu tive order of October 3 and by James F. Byrnes, director of economic sta- DUization. Treasury officials were expected meanwhile to announce a formula for limiting salaries to a maximum of $25,000 a year, after deduction of federal Income taxes, customary charitable contributions, lire insur ance premiums and fixed obliga tions. It will be the treasury's task also to control payments in the lower-salaried professional and executive brackets.

The primary function of the hun dred-odd field offices of the wage-hour division will be to answer spe cific questions of employers and em ployes as to the application oi ine executive order. The waee-nour oi- fices, when fully staffed, will be able to tell an Individual employer, for instance, whether an individual or blanket wage increase in his plant must be approved by the board to make it legal. Since some exemptions have been provided, it is expected many questions for specific Interpre tations will be Exempted from the regulations, for example, are employers of eight or fewer workers, provided price ceilings would not be affected by any increases. Other exemptions are individual promotions or reclassifications, individual merit increases within established salary rate ranges; operation of an established plan of salary increases based on length of service, increased productivity under incen- See WAGE SETUP Page 4 OfiDEREDJ STATE Draft Boards Get Relayed Instructions Not to Upset -'Labor Pool' Local draft boards and anrieal boards throughout Michigan Thursday had instructions from the state selective service headquarters to avoid upsetting what amounts to a pool" of labor for dairy, livestock and poultry farms. orders, relayed from Washington.

to the boards Wednesday from Col. E. M. Rosecrans, state selective -service director. Instructing them to defer from the draft those classified as essential to production on such farms.

'All dairy, livestock and poultry farm workers and producers who are already deferred- on account of de- See DEFERMENTS Page 4 JAPS BOMB AIRFIELD NEW DELHI. India. Oct. 29 (Pi Japanese air forces continued their assaults on Allied air bases in northeastern India yesterday, but- were met by United States fighters which shot down two of the" enemy and damaged several others, it was announced today. First reports indicated very few Allied casualties and slight damage, a communique said.

Charter amendments discussed on Page 4. Sam Street Hughes, mayor. I I BARED ARM DEFERMENTS Detroit Inquiry now their automobiles home to save on tires and -So severe has become the employment problem that the D. S. R.

has long been advertising lor help, call ing attention to its top scale of an hour for bus drivers. When this wage was set in recent media tion, the mediation board declared it was the highest in any municipal transportation system in the world. Identification of the 11 women and five men killed in the crash was completed last night. They were: Eugene Chlebnik, 15, Detroit high school sophomore; Mrs. Esther Kemp, 36, Detroit; Mrs.

Pearl Jones, 38, Detroit; Miss Helene Chociano- wicz. 17, Detroit high school senior; Mrs. Marie Le Fever, 35, Detroit school teacher; Norbert Turkowskl, 25, Hamtramck; Mrs. Berdele New- by, .30, Miss Clementine Gazda, 20, Detroit department store clerk; Robert W. Beith, 17, Detroit seminary student; John Feschuk, 15, Detroit high school student; Mrs.

Pauline osadchuk, 47, Hamtramck; Roger Leleman, 19, University of Detroit freshman; Mrs. June Per- sicheno, 39, Detroit; Mrs. Helen Drake, 45, Detroit; Mrs. William Wendt, 25, Detroit, whose husband is a coast guardsman, and Mrs. Bet ty Crosson, 32, Hamtramck.

POLICE. FIREM Board Authorizes Inquiry as Step Toward Deferring Experienced Men The board of police and fire commissioners- Wednesday evening authorized Chief John- O'Brien of the police department and Charles P. Van Note, one of. its members, to investigate and, if necessary, to ask local draft boards to "freeze" police and firemen in their present with loss of many experienced men to the armed forces. the board finally agreed to make some effort to retain its men in the two departments.

No effort will be exerted, however, to deter those wishing to enlist, it was pointed out. On several occasions in" past months the board has mulled the question of deferment for its men, but because it had previously gone on record as not wishing to ask deferments, it had balked at changing its decision. A picture of depleted and inexperienced police and fire departments had been painted to the board members by both Chief O'Brien and Chief Paul Lefke of the fire department on various Only one board in the citv refuses voluntarily to defer police or fire men without a reouest from the board of police and fire commissioners, it was asserted. The other draft boards have made it a general practice to defer all police and fire men. Hourly Temperatures m.

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Heather Bureao. MOVE TO RETAIN DETROIT, Oct. 29 (AP) In company with railroad offi cials and the police, heads' of Detroit's war-burdened trans portation system pushed an in-. vestigation today into the horrifying grade crossing crash which killed 1 6 motorbus pas sengers. Authorities arranged to take of ficial statements from witnesses and survivors of yesterday's tragedy, the worst of the system history, which a Grand Trunk Western pas senger train demolished a crowded bus.

Meanwhile the bus driver, 25- year-old William Clos, was placed under automatic suspension, the customary procedure in accidents, and was instructed to appear at an inquiry. He was one of 27 occu pants of the bus to escape with injuries. The victims, bodies of some of whom were jammed against the locomotive boiler when the train came to a stop. Included three school chil dren and a University of Detroit student. Eleven persons suffered serious injuries.

Prosecutor William E. Dowling said he would attempt to determine whether the bus was too crowded to permit the driver to exercise proper caution. The prosecutor pointed to the statement of one survivor, Marie Giles, 21, that the driver, before starting up after allowing a freight train to pass, had asked his passengers If "everything was clear." It also was to be determined whether flasher signals were readily visible in the midst of the motor traffic at the crossing, Dowling- said. Witnesses said the flashers were operating at the The tragedy focused attention on the war's effects on the Detroit Street Railway system. The D.

S. R. heads have expressed concern that their trolley cars and buses might be unable to handle a huge patronage increase from persons State Assured Liquor Hoarding Is Unnecessary x' Asserting "Michigan will have liq uor as long as any does," Ralph Thomas, chairman of the state liquor control commission, appealed to liquor buyers Thursday to refrain from hoarding stocks of spirits. Because the commission foresaw federal control of alcohol during wartime, Thomas said, there is no need to fear a lack of whiskies as long as they are available in the nation. Distillers hive their stocks as containing three to five years' supply.

"If the public will just take It easy, there be any trouble, Thomas declared. "Michigan, along with Ohio and Pennsylvania, has been, one of the top whisky custom s- See LIQUOR Page 4 UNION TO APPEAL. DETROIT, Oct 29 (JPy Walter P. Reuther, vice president of the United Automobile Workers (C. I.

said here today that the national war labor board's decision on the wage case of automotive plant maintenance workers is "completely unsatisfactory," and announced that the union will reopen the case. W.C.T.U.ToldU.S.Needs Liquor Industry Manpower Teachers Told War Result Of U. S. Shirking World Job Barkeepers and other employes of the nation's beer and liquor industry could serve their country to better advantage if they enlisted in some phase of the war effort, Mrs. Dora B.

Whitney of Benton Harbor told delegates of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union assembled at Central Methodist church Wednesday evening for the opening session of their state convention. Citing the current shortage of manpower, the speaker, who is president of the state organization, told her hearers that employes oi 000 places throughout the nation where drinks are served would be contributing much more to the war effort if they volunteered for service in the army or on farms and as sembly lines. Delegates re-elected the entire slate of officers Thursday morning, including Mrs. Whitney who was returned as president for the eleventh consecutive year. Others named Grant M.

Hudson, 7181 Britten avenue, vice president; Mrs. "This is America's war, fought for America's sake; a war for her physical survival." said Pierre Van Paas-sen, noted author and expert on European affairs, addressing more than 3,000 teacher-members of Region 3. Michigan Education association, Thursday morning at the openr ing session of the two-day conference being held in the Michigan State college auditorium. World War II, claimed Van Paas-seh, is not Roosevelt's war, Churchill's or Stalin's war or even Hitler's war. It is a war of cause and effect, he declared.

After fighting to "make the world safe for democracy," the speaker said, America would not "lift her little finger" to assure that safety. She allowed other nations to "lock Germany in a steel cage and make her become a savage animal. She betrayed the men who died on the tattle fields of France and Flanders. "Before this war is over Americans i.