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Friday,•Oetober 31, 1947
City to Elect Mayor,
Council on Tuesday
The city election will be held this coming Tuesday.
Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Every good
American citizen will take it upon himself as an obligation
of his citizenship to vote. The Chronicle herewith pre-
sents the programs of the two mayoral nominees and of
council candidates. They will help you to decide who merits
your vote.
Edward J. Jeffries
Eugene l'art Antwerp
Mayor Edward J. Jeffries,
seeking his fifth term as chief
executive of Detroit, has based
his campaign on pointing out
the tangible benefits he has
brought this city.
He declares that Detroit, when
he took over its administration,
1 a $14,000,000 debt which he
turned into a $29,000,000
cash surplus.
That after years of dreaming
of better highways he has two
of the great super-highways-
the Lodge and Ford expressways
—under construction.
That the new Civic Center is
underway with the Veterans
Memorial Building and, with the
voters approval in tts election,
the second step—the new Coun-
ty-City Building—will follow
rapidly.
Councilman Eugene I. Van
Antwerp said that the present
mayoralty campaign will decide
whether Detroit continues to
fumble and bumble along or
settles down for the hard job
of civic and muncipal rehabili-
tation."
Van Antwerp, who amassed an
impressive victory margin over
his opponent in the primary, has
flailed away at what he terms
Jeffries' "do-nothing policy of
drifting."
"Detroit is today at the cross-
roads," Van Antwerp said. "We
have a terrific job of municipal
betterment before us. The peo-
ple will decide November 4
whether the incumbent's pre-
vious four terms in office have
provided enough substantial im-
provement in the city to coun-
terbalance the plain fact that we
have the highest tax rate in
our history."
Van Antwerp charged that the
tactics of his opponent have
been similar to the "sneers,
jeers, and smears meted out by
him to every mayoralty candi-
date who dared to oppose him."
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Del Smith
Del Smith was a telegraph
operator at 17 and branched
into other phases of railway
work—firing a locomotive—and
then becoming identified with
the United Detroit Railway
where he advanced through the
various grades step by step un-
til 1926 when he became gen-
eral manager of the system un-
der municipal control.
Such progress called for hard
work, and no one living in De-
troit for any period of time
will forget the improvements
he instituted by the introduc-
tion of express railway service,
parlor buses, trackless trolleys
and modernized roadways.
Del Smith has been active in
every civic enterprise in this
city for a quarter of a century
including inter-racial affairs. Nd
one has given more generously
of his time for the civic good.
John A. Kronk
The only. council candidate
whose municipal legislative ex-
perience dates back to the old
aldermanic days, John A. Kronk,
said he believes his experience
and service entitle him to elec-
tion.
Kronk, now 63, was first
elected to the old Council at
the age of 31. He sponsored the
so-called Kronk Five Cent Fare
ordinance which settled the 1918
strike against the Detroit United
Railways and saved the car
riders $10,000,000 in fares. He
is justly •proud of having been
instrumental in developing the
Redford Branch Receiving Hos-
pital and the creation of mu-
nicipal recreation facilities for
children among them the well
known Kronk Community Cen-
ter, the first yearroynd com-
munity-house in the country.
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
George Edwards
Council President George Ed-
wards is the only World War
11 veteran who is a candidate
for city office.
Edwards was inducted in the
U.S. Army December 1943, re-
fusing to ask deferment either
on grounds of office or family.
While in service, on leave of
absence from the council, he
returned all of his salary to the
city. He left a wife and two
sons to enter the Infantry.
Edwards served as a private,
non-commissioned officer and of-
ficer in infantry training at
Camp Wheeler, Ga., Camp
Maxey, Tex. and Fort Henning,
Ga., and overseas in the Philip-
pine Islands. He was stationed
in Manila wlien reelected as
council president two years ago.
As council president, he has
fought for veterans' rights and
veterans' housing.
William A. Comstock
Councilman William A. Com-
stock's background of years of
experience as a Detroit business-
man and his proven ability in
civic affairs will be greatly
needed on the Common Council
during the post-war period of
economic and political confusion
just ahead.
While governor of Michigan
during a similar period of emer-
gency, William A. Comstock
proved his statesmanship and
progressive leadership by bring-
ing order out of chaos and as a
result his administration is
known as the golden age of
legislative accomplishment.
Under his courageous leader-
ship, the thoroughly disorganized
financial status of state taxes
was put on a sound basis as-
suring the financing of public
schools.
The same marked civic ability
characterized William A. Com-
stock as mayor of Alpena and
later as regent of the Univer-
sity of Michigan.
Louis C. Blount
Louis C. Blount, candidate for
council, bases his campaign on
the fact that he has been a
successful Detroit businessman
for 25 years, he is a veteran of
World War I, and is "preferred"
by the press and the Detroit
Citizen's League. Blount is
president of the Great Lakes
Mutual Life Insurance Co.
ELECT . . . LEO J.
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William Rogell
A fearless, conscientious mem-
ber of the Detroit City Council,
who has never faltered, regard.
less of criticism, in his fight for
measures which he considered
for the good of the general
public, in his nine continuous
years of service in the council,
William G. Rogell is a candi-
date for reelection.
Rogell has been a leader in
the fight for rapid transporta-
tion on arterial highways, which
is now being realized with the
construction of the Edsel Ford
and Lodge expressways, in ob-
taining funds for improved sew-
erage facilities to stop the flood-
ing of homes; and as a champion
of the property and civil rights
of private citizens against
'goon squad" violence and law-
lessness generally.
James H. Garlick
institution should be taken over
as a responsibility of the state
government, just as the financ-
ing of the needs of other state
colleges is.
"The operation of the Detroit
House of Correction is another
function which the city govern-
ment should eliminate without
James H. Garlick, jeweler and
civic leader, is seeking to re-
turn to his old council post. He
was a member of the Common
Council from 1940-43.
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further delay."
Stanley Nowak
"A progressive victory in De-
troit next week should have a
good influence on American pol-
icy both at home and abroad
dor a return to the principles
of the late President Roosevelt,"
says Stanley Nowak.
Nowak is fighting for lower
prices, more housing, fair rent
controls, equal rights for all
Detroiters, and better school-
ing for the children.
"The right kind of people on
the city council can do a great
deal on all these issues," No-
wak declares. "So far we have
had a do-nothing council.
"A progressive council can
tackle high prices in an effective
way. It can issue proper di-
rectives to the police about such
matters as shooting children to
death and violating the rights
of citizens. It can provide for
additional well-trained teachers
and for new school buildings
with smaller classes."
Charles G. Oakman
Councilman Charles G. Oak-
man, who is a candidate for re-
election, outlined his progressive
plan for giving Detroiters a
better place in which to live,
work, relax and enjoy benefits
in City government never be
fore realized.
'The city needs $500,000,000 in
new improvements, which the
vast majority of our people
agree are essential," he said. "A
realistic solution to financing
this work must be found by
your mayor and council in the
next two years if Detroit is to
gp forward, and it will take
skill and courage on their part
to put it over.
"Building of improved sewer-
age facilities, new schools and
playgrounds must not be held
up by individuals in our City
government who say 'It can't be
done'. We must have men at
our City's helm with the 'know
how' to do it".
He is pledged, as chairman
of the Joint County-City Office
Building Committee, to push
through to completion the pro-
posed City-County Office Build-
ing—backbone of Detroit's new
civic center, which wills permit
more efficient and economical
operation of the county and city
governments.
DR. HUGO HEIMANN, head
of the laboratory for indus-
trial chemistry at the Hebrew
Institute of Technology, Haifa,
Palestine, who will address the
Detroit Chapter of the Ameri-
can Technion Society at 8:30
p. m. Wednesday in the Hotel
Book Cadillac.
Louis C. Miriani
Speaking of Louis C. Miriani
in an editorial the Detroit News
said, "No man in Detroit, or in
Michigan, has given more un-
paid time to civic betterment
or voluntarily assumed more
headaches in the cause of pub-
lic service."
Miriani understands Detroit's
labor problems because he was
first a member and then chair-
man of the Regional War La-
bor Board. He was a state wel-
fare commissioner for eight
years and a member of the DSR
commission for 10 years. He is
a veteran of World War I and
a lawyer with 10 years' ex-
perience.
Al[ forum
to Sift Role of
American Jew
"Jews in the American Scene"
will be the theme of a conference
to be held by the Detroit Sec-
tion, American Jewish Congress,
Sunday afternoon, Nov. 16, in the
Jewish Community Center, it was
announced by Morris Gleicher,
chairman of the committee on
law and social action.
Byron Miller, midwest regional
director of AJC, as guest speaker
will analyze the current temper
of American society in relation
to Jews and other minority
groups.
ELECT . . . LOUIS C.
BLOUNT
Councilman
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