,PAGE TWVO .1HRE 11MC111C A:ND A ILY Aviators in" Ca mo uflage Present 'Greatest Show Michigan Farm Leaders To Fight Sale of Meat on Black Market Detroit Stockyards Suffe 50 Per Cet Loss of CansignMein LANSING, Feb. 24.- (A- Leaders of Michigan farm, packer and live- stock groups today proposed to com- bat "black marketing" of meat through legislation requiring state- wide meat inspection and licensing of slaughter houses. At a meeting of the Michigan Packers and Sausage Manufacturers Association, attended by state and federal officials, representatives were warned that consignments to the De- troit stockyards had dropped 50 per cent due to recent black market ac- tivities in the state. Maynard E. Beukema, food price specialist for the Detroit Office of Price Administration, said the OPA was clamping down on violators and had" assigned 90 per cent of its in- vestigative staff to the task, but that cooperation of packers and farmers was needed. Jllonr Foss of Bay City, meeting chairman, appointed a special com- mittee to recommend to the legiS- lature passage of a law requiring Counties Stay On Slow Time Statute Is I terpreted By Attorney General LANSING, Feb. 24.- (A)- Attor- ney General Herbert J. Rushton held today the time change law does not allow counties to remain on "fast time." His opinion, addressed to Prosecu- tor George Meader of Ann Arbor, said the statute alows "Any municipality confronted by a war emergency" to retmain on Eatern War or "fast" time, but that a county .is not a mu- nicipal corporation and the exemp- tid is open only to incorporated cit- ies and villages. The opinion declared county offices must open and close on Central War Time, but the attorney general added orally this did not necessarily settle' the question of Whether a county building located in a "fast time" city should follow the time of the city or the rest of the county. "We will an- swer that question if it is presented, to us," he said.I licensing of all slaughter houses and I state-wide inspection of meat. Named to the cominittee were charges Figy, State Agriculture Com- missioner; D. ;. Stark, Michigan State College Extension Specialist; Frank Oberst, President of the Mich- igan Livestock Association; W. G. Armstrong, State Grange Master; C. L. Brody, Secretary-Manager of the State Farm Bureau; D'r. Bruce Douglas, head of the Detroit Health Department; Harley Peet, of the Peet Packing Company, Chesaning; D. W. Rooers of the Detroit Packing Com- pany, and Walter Thomasma of the Grand Rapids Packing Company. Figy reported that regular meat supplies were diminishing because regular livestock growers are not fat- tening steers in view of the present price situation and' that Michigan's meat shortage will be even greater next year. Armstrong asserted that the OPA was responsible in some measure for the meat problem, declaring that black marketing of unprocessed food had resulted because price structures were established "in reverse." He said ceilings should be determined at the point of production, based upon a fair estimate of the production costs. Higher livestock prices in legiti- mate channels, Oberst said, could be borne by consumers thus eliminating temptation to many farmers to sell meat on the black market. Molten Metal Fatal To Steel Workers KALAMAZOO, Feb. 24-(A)-- Mol- ten metal from a heavy ladle spilled on three Men at the Centrifugal Steel Casting Company early today, burn- ing one of them to' death and severely injuring four others. William Roe, 54, died this morning, S10 hours after the accident, the worst war-time industrial mishap in Kaloa- mazoo'. The others,' who suffered first, second and third degree burns, are Malcolm Fitch, 25; Abraham De Ruyscher, 38; William Truax, 26, and George Brink. FIRE HITS PACKING HOUSE GRAND RAPIDS Feb. 24.- ()- Firenei fought three hours before extinguishing a fire that destroyed seven smokehouses of the Grand Rapids Packing Company in subur- ban Wyoming Park today. Traveling Rody Teaches Troops Mysterious Art Talks, Charts, Films Illustrate lodern Techniques of Hiding k By LEO BRANHAM Associated Press Correspondent5 WITH THE U.S. ARMY EIGHTH AIR FORCE IN ENGLAND (De- layed)- Ordinarily it would be a bit: early in the season for a circus, but Uncle Sam has one on tour in Eng- land. Born of war, its properties do not include wild animals, acrobats. clowns or horsemen, yet it travels in trucks and operates just like any "greatest show on earth." And it draws the crowds-earnest, attentive young fighting men who know that what they see and learn at this show will make them better soldiers and5 may someday save their lives. Instruction in the art of camou- flage, not entertainment, is the bus- iness of this circus. Lecturers, train- ing films, charts and striking pictor- ial displays make up some of its side- shows. Its nearest approach to freaks are mud and paint-smeared dough- boys in queer looking sniper suits which blend with the ground upon which they crawl. This traveling show, the Eighth Air 'Force's camouflage school, is touring American Air Force stations teaching the troops how to hide or disguise themselves and their weapons from enemy bombers. With chicken wire, chicken feath- ers, steel wool, seaweed, rope nets, burlap, canvas and paint the school's personnel of former architects, engi- neers, artists and theatrical designers perform some amazing tricks. For instance: Building Camouflaged You are standing on what oncej was a municipal golf course. Off to the right a few hundred yards away rises with gentle slopes a hill which stretches many acres. The elevation appears covered with dull green grass generously sprinkled with patches of brown. As one walks nearer his eyes open! wide in astonishment. It isn't a hill' at all. It's avast canopy of chicken wire aid colored cloth covering a huge brick building in which men are busy at machines -or pore over maps and papers at their desks. This masterpiece of camouflage is made more amazingly realistic by trees which seem to spring from the slopes' of the flimsy canopy. Closeup,' through the wine and cloth netting, one can see the tree trunks extend- ing on down to the level ground. ' If the casual observer only a few; hundred yards distant is fooled, it's quite obvious how well such covering conceals military installations from ' aerial photographic observation. Concealment and false work are, types of camouflage, First Lieut. Thomas B. Lee, assistant camouflage officer and former theatrical design- er of New York City, explains. Con- cealment involves constructing cover which merges with existing features of surrounding terrain. False work consists of constructing dummy air- dromes, planes, buildings, gun em- placements and similar military works. Guns Hidden On one section of the showgrounds, the sergeant "ringmaster" puts a' crew of well trained performers through their paces before a soldier audience. Using poles, wire and col-t ored burlap the crew, in remarkably fast time, throws up a "flat top" which' simulates foliage over guns, trucks and tanks. Another team demonstrates the mixing' of camouflage paints, how to drape a single truck and how to con- struct a dummy airplane of canvas and wire. Halsey Fights Incrtease in' Speed Limit. LANSING, Feb. 24.- iA)- Opposi- tion to proposals to increase. the highway speed limit in Michigan to 50 miles an hour were expressed to- day by Maxwell Halsey, State War Transportation Coordinator. The question arose yesterday when Governor Kelly asked Capt. Donald S. Leonard, State Defense Council Administrator, to investigate com- plaints that a labor shortage at the Willow Run Bomber Plant resulted partially from workmen having to drive long distances to and from work at 35 miles an hour. Truckers also were said to be asking a higher speed limit for their vehicles. -- . --4---' T W~oodenIc i ' Protects' Coti gro-ssmen' OPA Places Price Ceilings on SpinachLettuce; Effective Today New 'Freeze' Applies tenteporary, with more uniform price I regulations promised within 60 days. To Retailers, Shippers in other actions today OPA slightl Wholesalers, Receivers reduced sugar rations, and tightened up on distribution of "war tires" and WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-(A'-The non-rationed types of shoes. Office of Price Administration to- Sugar Stamp No. 12 was made night established emergency price good for five pounds in the 11-week ceilings on lettuce and spinach. period beginning March 16. The cur- Effective Thursday no retailers, rent ration is one-half pound a week. wholesalers, terminal market receiv- "War tires," made of reclaimed ers, or country shippers may charge rubber. were classed as grade No. 2 more for fresh lettuce or spinach instead of No. 3. This means only than he charged in the last five days. motorists with monthly mileage ra- Farmer prices were not affected tions of 560 miles or more may buy The action followed a similar them. Those with lesser mileage al- "freeze" Tuesday of the pf ices of lowances must depend for replace- fresh cabbage carrots, snap beans, merits om used tires or recapped ones. peas and tomatoes. OPA tonight also gave its local of- fices authority to increase the ceil- MUHI A N ing prices of these vegetables and MICHIGAN lettuce and spinach as well, wher- ever necessary to remedy any local Today through Saturday inequities. All of these actions on fresh vege- tables are aimed at preventing sharp- ly increased retail prices, resulting both from fr~ost damage to southernS crops and from an anticipated switch in public demand from canned vege- tables to fresh varieties because of rationing of processed foods. Today's action brought the per- centage o cf foods under price control to 96 per cent. The principal foods still unregulated are apples, sweet potatoes and fresh fish. Indications are that apples and sweet potatoes probobly will be regulated when theirI prices rise to parity levels, the prices considered by some.authorities as giving a fair return to producers. The authority given local OPA of- *' -* fices to increase some prices is neces- sary to adjust prices of frost-dam- aged +vegetables, which have de- < p'ressedprices abnormally in some localities, OPA said. All of these vegetable ceilings are Rep. George Bender (Rn.-O.) insuects one of the wooden guns and dummy gunners which Rllp. Harold D. Cooley (Dem.-N.C.) disclosed in the lloure re "anti-aircraft protection" on the roofs of Congressional, office buildings for the nation's lawmakers. This gun and gunner are' one of the units cn the ncw House Offic Building in Washington. TAKEN OFF TABLE: Republicans Revive Bill To Shift Control of 1ighway Department By The AsnSOiated Pres fect. If the measure passes without LANSING, Feb. 24. -A Republican- an immediate e:fect provision the sponsored bill to shift control of the post of highway commissioner would State Highway Department from go on the April 5 election ballots, sAT FOR RENT CLASSIFIED RATES Non-Contacdt $ .40 per 15-word insertion for one or two days. (In- crease of A0c for each additional 5- words.) $1.00 per 15-word insertion for 3 or more days. (Increase of $.25 for each additional 5 words. Contract Rates on Reuest FOR SALE' IDENTIFICATION PHOTOGRAPHS -Any size. For 1-day service 'come to 802 Packard. 6-7:30 weekdays. FOR RENT-Large suite for 2 or 3 boys. One block from campus. 520 Thompson. Phone 7758. TYPING MISS ALLEN-Experienced typist. 408 S. Fifth Ave. Phone 2-2935. MISCELLANEOUS WASHED SAND AND GRAVEr- Driveway gravel, washed pebbles. Killins Gravel Co., phone 7i12. TYPEWRITERS of all makes. Of- fice and portable models. Bought, rented, repaired. Student and Of- fice Supplies. 0. D. Morrill, 314' South State St. Phone 6615. LAU NDERING Democratic to Republican hands was revived with dramatic suddenness in the Senate today and sponsors said they had the votes to pass it tomor- row. The measure was taken off the table, where it had lain for a week after once being rejected. and was amended to give the Governor au- thority to appoint the highway chief. The original bill sought to have the appointment come from a three- man board named by the Governor. To accomplish their purpose, Re- publican leaders overrode Lieut.-Gov. Eugene C. Keyes, also a Republican. Then they found they lacked the necessary two-thirds majority to suspend the rules and pass it imme- diately. Keyes ruled that the amendments giving the Governor the appointive power, introduced by Senator Jerry T. Logie, Bay City Republican, were "essentially the same" as those re- jected when the bill previously was defeated by a vote of 16 to 14, one vote short of majority. Under a Sen- ate rule, amendments once defeated cannot be reconsidered. The Senate overruled Keyes by a vote of 19 to 13. On the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill immediately the vote was 20 to 12. two short of the necessary two-thirds poll. Detroiters Change Votes Senators Carl F. Delano, Kalama- zoo, and Arthur E. Wood, Detroit, Republicans who voted against the measure originally, voted for it to- day, while Senator Joseph P. Cloon, Wakefield Republican, cast an af- firmative vote where he previously had not voted. At the same time, Senator Audley Rawson, Cass City Republican, switched to oppose the bill and Senator Joseph A. La Fram- boise, Gladstone Democrat, aban- doned his previous non-voting posi- tion to oppose the bill. The voting was preceded by a Re- publican caucus at which, members said, 19 votes were counted for the bill and 20-or two short of the re- quirement-to give it immediate ef- even though the selection of the' peo- ple would be put out of office by mid- summer. Kelly "Uses Club" Senate strategists said Governbr Kelly "really used a club" to help him line' up the additional votes re- quired to pass the' bill. They said' they hoped the action,' being taken virtually on the eve of Friday's Dem- ocratic State Convention in: Detroit, would upset Democratic campaign plans. Democratic leadiers said they would nominate a highway commis- sioner candidate anyway. There wer'e hints in the House that the bill as amended might not be immediately acceptable and would'be sent to a conference committee. If that action is followed, the Demo- crats might be kept in uncertainty even longer. The bill as amended would give the new department head, whose ti- tle would be Chief Engineer, a four- year term beginning Aprif 15, 1943. He would be required to be a regis- tered civil engineer with 10' years experience in highway matters and 10 years of residence in Michigan. He would be paid $7,000, $500 less than the commissioner. Sunday Hunting Permitted The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill to permit Sunday hunt- ing throughout Michigan, to which a referendum was attached, and a measure making the theft of live- stock a felony. The tourist and agriculture adver- tising bill, scheduled for a final vote tomorrow, was reduced in committee of the whole from $290;000 to $210,- 000, eliminating an $80,000 special grant to the four state tourist asso- ciations for the remainder of the cui- rent fiscal year. A bill passed earlier by the Senate requiring employers to supply their employes with statements of all de- ductions' from pay checks was adopt- ed by the House, amended to limit the requirement only to common car- rier firms such as bus and- truck lines. It goes back to the Senate for consideration of the change. 'Wickard Asks Farm. Program WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.- ()- Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, re- iterating his opposition to higher pri- ces as a spur to farm production, asked Congress today for a "clear man'date" program to assure maxi- mum 1943 'food 'output. such a program must include as- surances that farmers' returns will cover' the increased costs of extra production asked by his department, Wickard told the House Agriculture Committee. Higher prices, he contended, might accomplish the' purpose but threaten inflation "even more ruinous to farm- ers than to others." Instead he proposed incentive' pay- ments on nine war crops, and pur- chase and resale operations, particu- larly by the Commtodity Credit Corp. This latter method, he said, already is' being followed for oil crops "and we' hope to: be able to continue' it for these products and others for which it is' practicable." T, LAUNDRY - 2-1044. Soxc Careful work at ldw price. darned ALEC TEMPLE-TON SENSATIONAL PIANIST THURSDAY, FEB. 25 8:30 - HILL AUDITORIUM I; /~%i) WAR BONDS ISSUED HERE Continuous from 1 P.M. NOW' 1943'S B1G SENSATON Progra'nz Preldci Arioso......Bach-Templeton Chorale Prelude: Mortify Us By Thy Grace.............Bach-Rummel warum-Aufschwung .....Schumann Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 78.................Beethoven Intermezzo in E-flat....... Brahms Interaezzo in C..........Brahms Prelude in B miner ........... Liadov Prelude in E flat minor...., Chasms Introduction and Allegro...... ..... ..... Ravel-Templeton Reharmonized Harmonious' Black- . r smIth (Handel) ........ Templeton . ~ TAA'U i IC -4'~; * w - - rimn,,o - I r 9