T HE MIICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY,-OCT .1, 1943 Speed Limit In Michigan Legally OK'd Attorney General Passes Proposal To Slow Up Fast Highway Traffic By The Associated Press LANSING, Oct. 6-The State High- way Department and State Police to- day received an official go-ahead from the Attorney General division to declare the entire trunk line road system a safety zone in which it would be a misdemeanor to exceed a 35- miles-an-hour speed limit. The order will declare it a misde- meanor punishable by fine and jail sentence to drive at higher speeds on and after Oct. 12. James F. Shepherd, chief assistant attorney general, addressed a memor- andum to G. Donald Kennedy, State HighwayCommissioner, informing him the order as edited by him "is in compliance" with the law. His letter marked a recession from a previous opinion by Attorney Gen- eral Herbert J. Rushton, who had held the law did not permit a blanket statewide speed zoning. Shepherd said the new order was acceptable "because it has been strip- ped of political advertising which the highway departmet attempted to in- sert in the original order. It now sim- ply states that, effective October 12, it will be illegal to exceed 35 miles an hour on trunkline highways." The speed limit already is in ef- fect, by proclamation of Governor Van Wagoner, enforcement relying largely on the patriotism of motorists to comply as a means.of war-time tire conservation. Capt. Caesar J. Scavarda of the state police said it is possible, even without the speed control order, to arrest persons who weave in and out of traffic at speeds in excess of 35, because the state law provides that speeds must be "reasonable and pru- dent" in relation to traffic and road conditions. The license numbers and names of flagrant violators also are being not- ed for information of gasoline ration- ing boards, in event they may choose to impse restrictions in gasoline al- lowances upon noncooperative driv- ers, =.Scaarda said. Instraction Schools PlannedBy OCD LANSING, Oct. 6- (:)- Bomb reconnaissance agents outside of the Detroit Metropolitan area were noti- fied todayof two schools of instruc- tion planned by state police and civ- ilian defense officials. A two-day school will take place at the East Lansing state police head- quarters Thursday for Lower Michi- gan agents and one Oct. 12 and 13 at the Marquette state police post for Upper Peninsula experts. The men will be trained to. diag- nose the presence of unexploded bomrbs. Many are sheriffs, municipal police and firmen recommended by localcommander's of the citizens' de- fense corps.. White-Hot Gasoline Flames Mark Spot Of Tragic Crash CDVO Officials Seek Voluntary Help For Gasoline, Oil Rationing White-hot gasoline flames blaze from a tank traile r which collided with a bus near Lumberton, N. C., kill- ing at least 11 persons. The bus is between the cab an d the tank trailer of the gasoline carrier. Russian Dfemwand For Second .Front Causes Return Of U. S. Ambassador 4> To prepare for the approaching f date of nation-wide gas rationing,R local CDVO officials have issued the request for specially qualified volun- teers to aid the ration board in regis-' tering Ann Arbor drivers for gasolinel allotments. According to the computations of Mr. James H. Cook, Chief of Volun- teer Services, Michigan Council of1 Defense, on the basis of car and truck1 registrations several hundreds of vol- unteers will be necessary for gasoline, rationing in Washtenaw County. Fol- lowing the instructions of State Di-' rector of OPA Arthur H. Sarvis, vol- unteer help, of which 70 per cent' should be men, will be relied upon. Because of the official nature of this volunteer assignment, certified public Senate Adopts Large Portion Of Taxing Bill. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 6-The Sen- ate got off to a running start today on the nation's biggest tax bill by adopt-, ing all non-controversial amend- ments offered by the Finance Com- mittee and the stiff individual income tax rates voted by the House. Working at a pace which kept the reading clerk panting for breath, the Senators flipped through the 577- page measure in slightly more than four hours but several important matters were reserved for future con-+ sideration. Sharply increased individual in- come tax rates were tentatively ap- proved, for the committee presented no amendments and accepted the high schedules voted by the House. Those rates, however, will be subject to possible change later. Senator LaFollette (Prog. - Wis.) was reported to be preparing an indi- vidual income surtax schedule more gently graduated than that voted by the House. The combined normal and surtax rate on the lowest .bracket in- comes Would be 19 per cent, under the House plan. 25 Freshman Students To Supplement NROTC Supplementing the Naval ROTC's quota of 250 this year will be a spe- cial group of twenty-five freshman Naval Science students, the, Depart- ment of Naval Science and Tactics announced yesterday. These students, though not in uni- form and not required to participate in drill, will attend classes and reci- tation sections at the Naval ROTC headquarters in North Hall. accountants, bookkeepers, and insur- ance men are requested to serve. 'A' Rationing Through Schools According to present plans, the preliminary or 'A' rationing bracket in which everyone owning a car will get his card entitling him to a basic gasoline amount will be done through the schools about Nov. 7, and volun- teer help will not be needed. However, applications for additional gasoline, by certain people in classifications of business as set up by the OPA for 'B' and 'C' cards, are expected to be tak- en about a week later and this will require seven volunteer helpers, if each serves on a full-time schedule, to each 1,000 auto registrations per ration board area. Their services will be needed for the seven days duration of this supplemental rationing opera- tion, with hours of duty from noon until 9 p. m. each day. Specialists Needed The program involving the use of volunteers on rationing fuel oil has not yet been made public, but the local ration board, according to the CDVO, will need specialists familiar with heating problems and those with ability to make certain computations on the basis of data submitted by applicants in determining fuel ra- tions. Since both rationing programs will be conducted on a county-wide scale, it is requested that men and women enroll at once as volunteers for the rationing of gasoline and fuel oil. In Ann Arbor, persons should register at the Armory between 9 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. daily, Saturday and Sunday ex- cepted. Engineering Enrollments Are greater Many University officials were gravely concerned yesterday about Michigan's ten per cent enrollment decrease, but Dean Ivan C. Crawford of the Engineering College was'happy about the nine and six-tenths in- crease in the total number of engi- neers. This semester's undergraduate en- rollment, he said, is the largest ever registered in the College of Engineer- ing at this time of the year. Specific reasons for the increase were not available. However, it is generally conceded that the promi- nence of engineering in the Univer- sity's wartime program is responsible for the many engineering aspirants. Cold facts on the increase also showed that there was a 19 per cent increase in the number of freshmen this year in comparison with the fig- ures at the same time last year. Then; there were 487 neophytes in the col- lege, while at present there are 582 standard-bearers of '46. Dean Crawford also mentioned that this year 12 women have en- rolled in engineering courses. Total enrollment figures for this year are 2,241 undergraduates. Last year at this time they totalled only 2,060. STATE PAY RAISES LANSING, Oct. 6.-'()-Pay raises for state employes will be held up, pending a joint study by the civil service and budget office of wage "freezing" Federal orders, C. J. Mc- Neill, acting budget director, said to- day. By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst Admiral William H. Standley, the American Ambassador to Moscow, is coming home to report-and there can be little doubt that he will pic- ture the Russians as increasingly im- patient over the lack of a second front. That mood was made abundantly clear by Premier Joseph Stalin's re- cent letter to Henry C. Cassidy, As- sociated Press Correspondent in Mos- cow. So far there has been no direct comment on this letter from the lead- ership of the United States or Britain. President Roosevelt had nothing to say at his press conference yesterday, and Prime Minister Churchill merely, warned Parliament "not to press these matters .unduly at a period which is certainly significant." Exactly what that Means, is far from clear. Churchill coupled his warning, however, with an assertion that he had nothing to add to the "carefully weighed statement" on Allied-Russian relations he had al- ready made. That obviously was a reference to the Churchill report to Parliament September 8 after his visit to Egypt and Moscow. He then revealed a rift with Russia over Allied second-front delays. "The Russians did not think that we or America had done enough to take the weight off them," he said, "and this is not at all surprising in view of the terrific onslaughts they have withstood with marvelous ten- acity." Mr. Churchill was then convinced, however, that he and his American colleague, W.. Averell Harriman, Pres- ident Roosevelt's personal represen- tative, had succeeded in reassuring Soviet officials of "our loyal and sin- cere resolve to come to their aid as quickly as possible without regard to the sacrifices and losses involved so long as the contribution is toward victory." That seems to be the "carefully weighed statement" to which he has now referred. One implication is that, despite the Stalin-to-Cassidy letter, the British leader sees no widening of the second-front rift since he spoke. The other, implicit in his warning against Parliamentary ex- ploration of the subject at so "sig- nificant" as time, is that the hour for Allied deeds-to ratify-Allied assur- ances to Moscow is close at hand. The only other statement that Mr. Churchill has made on the subject since his September 8 speech was his recent warning against published speculation about the when and where of Allied attempts to ease Nazi pressure on' Russia. 'That- also im- pressed this writer: withthe feeling that Anglo-American offensive moves might be closer than Moscow thinks. Time, and not much of it, will tell as to that. There was another Chur- chill remark on September 8, how- ever, which events in Russia have since gone far to make good. "Of the Russian front," he re- marked, "I will only at this moment say-it is the 8th of September." We rent typewriters . All makes. Expert, repairs. Supplies, ALL MAKES--ALL MODELS 0 D MO1UULL No State Convicts For Army Yet By The Associated Press, LANSING, Oct. 6- Despite pres- sure to "let down the bars," Michigan will not hasten parole of large num-, bers of convicts to provide the armed forces with additional men, it was in- dicated today. Col. E. M. Rosecrans, Adjutant General of Michigan and Selective Service Director, declared that "there seems to be no immediate need" for either selective service or the state parole board to change present poli- cies. "We wouldn't want these men until they had been paroled in the normal course of events as having paid their price for having committed an of- fense against society and until they are again in good standing as citi- zens," Rosecrans asserted. "The num- ber of-men who could be released to us in any event would only be a drop in the bucket." A. Ross Pascoe, chairman of the parole board, said a rough survey of the convict population indicated that between -500 and 700 men might be eligible for parole to the Army if a relaxed program were adopted. He said upwards of 500 parolees, released through normal procedure, now are in the services. As a result of a conference with selective service officials, Pascoe an- nounced, the state's current parole policy will be maintained. "If the army really needed our inmates, the board probably -would be willing to reconsider its policy," he said. "But we now are convinced there is no need for a change." 314 S. State St.. 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