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LEGISIATIVE MESSA
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Cov, Kelly Outines Goals
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By The Associated Press
LANSING, Jan. 4.-Governor Kelly
today outlined to the legislature
goals he hopes to attain through
enactment of laws in his next two
years in office, but left for the future
disclosure of the heart of his pro-
gram.
His message, which he read for 75
minutes to -the house and senate in
joint session, drew from several leg-
islative leaders statements that they
considered the legislature would have
to return in a special session in 1946
if even most of Kelly's program is to
become law.
To Benefit Hospitals
The document featured requests
that funds be provided for immediate
relief of overcrowding in state hos-
pitals, including expansion of exist-
ing facilities and plans for construc-
tion of a new hospital in Wayne
County, for a liberalization of state
grants to the needy, and a $30,000,-
000 addition to the post-war state
building construction program.
Kelly left to future messages dis-
closure of what he will ask of the
legislature in the form of tax law
revision, liquor law reform, appro-
priations for the public schools and
sinpication of the formula for dis-
tributing the money, expansion of
veterans' care programs and some
other items, all of which await re-
ports by study groups.
Tourist Industry
He described the tourist industry
as a prop to help the state in the
expected post-war depression when
industry suspends to re-tool for civ-
ilian production, and declared this
great industry can be "trebled" with
proper . encouragement from the
state. He endorsed creation of a
tourist council to integrate promo-
tional activity.
Kelly asked the legislature to raise
average old age assistance grants'
from $29.78 a month to $35; average
grant for aid to dependent children
from $60.10 per family to $71 a
month; and to make an unspecified
increase in aid to the blind grants,
plus an expanded program of train-
ing sightless persons for gainful em-
ployment.
Over-Crowded Conditions
Proposing immediate steps to re-
lieve over-crowded conditions in
state mental hospitals, which now
have no room to receive several hun-
dred patients in need of care, Kelly
High lights
On Ca~mpus.
Father Bernard Kearns, on leave
from the Navy, will attend the party
to be held by the Newman Club of
St. Mary's Chapel from 7:30 to 9:30
p.m. today in the Newman Club
Rooms for student members and
servicemen.
Father Kearns, previously assis-
tant at the Chapel, left last February
to become a chaplain in the Navy.
He has been stationed in California.
An open house from 9 p.m. to mid-
night will be the regular program
tomorrow in the club rooms.
The Inter-Cooperative Council
will sponsor a dinner party at 6:30
p.m. today at the Robert Owens
House, 1017 Oakland.
Prof. Norman E. Nels.n of the
W ar Contract Englishbdepartment will discuss
W~r G o tr ctthe subject of "Cooperatives-
Their Role in Past, Present and
Course Begins Future" at 8 p.m. This will be
follbwed by folk dancing and
j nuary,22 games.
Michigan Youth for Democratic
.yAction invites veterans, students
Offered by Business and servicemen to a get-together in
Administration School the Women's Athletic Building from
7 to 10 p.m. Sunday.
A War Contract Settlement Course. This party will enable students,
sponsored by the School of Business veterans and servicemen to become
Administration, is scheduled to be- acquainted, Belle Rosenthal, presi-
gin on Mon., Jan.. 22, in Rackham dent, explained. Entertainment and
Memorial Building, in Detroit, Prof. refreshments will be provided.
Merwin H. Waterman, Secretary of
the School, announced yesterday. ada me W ei
The three-day course, limited pri-
marily to employees of war contract-
ors, emphasizes the following topics: To Speak Here
preparing claims, disposing of ter-
mination inventories, removing sur-
plus properties, interim financing and, D ughter of Mandarin
dealings between prime and subcon- is Chinese Lawyer
tractors.
Lt. Col. Michael L. Looney, of the Madame Wei Tao-ming, wife of
Termination Division of J. A. G.; the Chinese Ambassador to the Unit-
Prof. Waterman and Prof. E. H. Gault ed States, will lecture at 8:30 p. m.
of the business administration school; Thursday in Hill Auditorium, under
Prof. J. W. Ruswinckel of Michigan the auspices of the Oratorical Asso-
State College and members of the ciation.
armed services compose the faculty. Madame Wei, first woman lawyerj
Bendix Aviation Corporation, Bohn in Shanghai, was nominated in the
Aluminum and Brass Corporation, '20's as president of the Shanghai
Chrysler Corporation, Eaton Manu- District Court. She served as a mem-
facturing Co., Nash-Kelvinator Cor- ber of the Provincial Government of
poration, and Packard Motor Car Co. Kiangsu, as Chinese envoy extra-
are some of the 70-odd Detroit com- ordinary to France, as a member of
panies whose representatives have at- the Executive Yuan, and as a member
tended the course in the past. of the commission for the draft of
Blaw-Knox Company, Martin Fer- China's Civil Code.
ry, Ohio, sent a Priorities Director, Dr Wei Made Ambassador
a Contract Claims Analyst, an Ad- In 1941 her husband was appoint-
ministrative Advisor and a Contract ed Ambassador to France and in
Claims Analyst to attend the course. August of that year he and Madame
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Wei arrived in Washington enroute
the Chief Clerk of their Contract to Paris. They remained in Wash-
Termination Division. The Evans- ington and had been living in Wash-
ville, Indiana, division of Republic ington for several months when Dr.'
Aviation sent two representatives to Wei was appointed China's new Am-!
take the course. bassador to this country.
While attending in Paris Dr. Wei
Briggs Manufacturing Co., Detroit, met his future wife, Suomay Tcheng,
sent twelve men to take the course; who was taking her degree of doctor
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Ak- of law there. Although a daughter
ron, Ohio, and General Motors Cor- of a Chinese mandarin of the Man-
poration, Milford, Detroit and Lan- chu dynasty she had participated in
sing sent six each; and Lima Loco- the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and
motive Works, Inc., Lima, Ohio, sent had already plead China's case in the
five. Shantung problem in the United
recommended appropriations for ex-
pansion of the Pontiac State Hos-
pital, Caro State Hospital and Cold-
water Home and Training School, in
addition to a request for forwarding
plans for construction of a state hos-
pital for insane in Wayne County.
Deficiencies in state contributions
to teacher, non-teaching school'm-
ploye, and state employe pension
funds should be "reduced," he said,
urging the legislature also to provide
a $1,000,000 fund for state participa-
tion in expected "bargain sale" of
federal surplus.war property.
State Planning Laws
Strengthening of state planning
laws to allow regional planning of
slum clearance and other projects;
addition of $30,000,000 to the five-
year post-war state building con-
struction program to bring it up to
$90,000,000; a broad program of state
park improvement, preparation of
land use and forest surveys were
among other points he requested.
The Governor cautioned lawmak-
ers that when his tax program is
submitted, they should approach it
"with open minds, seeking t find
solutions that will be best for all the
pecple, and not measure our judg-
ments with what is best for just part
of the people."
Kelly asked for "serious considera-
tior" of demands of the University
of Michigan and Michigan State Col
lege for increases in their appropria-
tions, and recommended appropria-
tion of an additional $2,500,000 for
financing local post-war planning
projects.
UAW To Vote
On No-Strike
Referendum
DETROIT, Jan. 4-()-Ballots for
votes of members of the United Auto-
mobile Workers (CIO) now in the
armed forces on revocation of the
"no-strike" pledge were in the mails
today, the first of some 1,200,000 bal-
lots to be sent to UAW-CIO members
in a nation-wide referendum.
The union approved the referen-
dum at its national convention in
Grand Rapids, Mich., last September,
when it heard demands for rescinding
the pledge.
Results of the vote are not ex-
pected to be determined until March.
Union members in the armed forces
have until Feb. 28 to return their bal-
lots, while ballots from civilian rem-
bers of the union must be mailed for
return by Feb. 17.
International officers of the union
have announced they favored retain-
ing the no-strike pledge in war
plants. Opposition to the pledge is
headed by the UAW rank-and-file
steering committee, a group headed
by Larry Yost, chairman of the Ford
Local 600 Aircraft Union.
Soldier Workers 1
Offered UA W Crds
DETROIT, Jan. 4-()-The Unit-
ed Automobile Workers (CIO) Union
today offered honorary membership
to any soldier furloughed by the
Army to work in war plants with
which the union has contracts.
Announcing the offer, R. J. Thom-
as, President of the International
UJAW-CIO said the memberships
would continue for the duration of
the soldiers' employment in the
plants.
The furloughed soldiers he said,
would not be required to pay dues
or initiation fees but would receive
all privileges of the union and all
benefits of union contracts. The
membership cards issued to them are
to be similar to those given UAW-
CIO members in the armed forces.
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satin side out, in black, navy or
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ST E A K S F R OM S W O R D F IS H -- Meat shortages in New York City made Fulton fish
" market even busier than usual. Here three-workers saw- up a 329-pound swordfish into steaks.
Army and Navy officers have
attended the course in the past.
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Touchy Issues
Introduced by
New State Bills
LANSING, Jan. 4-(P1)-Two sure-
fire controversies were broached in
the legislature today as bills to re-
open the "fast vs. slow" time ques-
tion and to reduce small loan inter-
est rates went into the hoppers.
Senator Elmer R. Porter, Bliss-
field Republican, introduced a bill
to repeal the "local option" provi-
sion of the war time statue. He
would force the entire state to fol-
low Central War (slow) Time. Cities
now have the privilege of following
Eastern War (fast) time if they
wish.
Asserting fast time has not aided
the war effort as its sponsors con-
tended, Porter said "Wayne county
is a sort of island in a midwestern
sea of slow time. All of Ohio and
States.
Author of Many Books
She is the author of many books,
the most outstanding being "The
Constitutional Movement in China"
and "A Girl From China."
The University of Michigan was
recently made one of the four col-
leges in this country to receive a
$1,000 scholarship for Chinese stu-
dents, the presentation being made
through Dr. Wei.
Auditor General
Retains Shepler
LANSING, Jan. 4-to)-John D.
Morrison, new Auditor General, said
today that Richard C. Shepler, one
of his assistants, who for months
has been a storm center at the Liquor
Control Commission as an "outside"
accountant criticizing publicly its
procedures, will remain at this job.
Morrison said Shepler's assignment
as the auditor general department's
auditor of Liquor Commission books
and records, and observer of its ad-
ministration, would be continued "be-
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ALLEN IN GYM WORKOUT -- Comedian Fred Al-
len (right), back from making a movie in Hollywood, runs a lap
with Mike Pedbereznak as the latter completed his 21,000th mile
. in 21 years at the West Side Y.M.C.A., New York City./-
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The Latin-American Society will
sponsor a semi-formal dance to be
held from 8:30 p. m. to midnight
tomorrow at the Rackham Building.
The theme of the dance will be
the commemoration of the "Dia de
Reyes," a traditional Spanish festi-
val. On this day the children receive
gifts from the Three Wise Men of the
Orient, rather than on Christmas, as
according to American custom.
Spanish music will be featured,
and Latin-American students and
their friends are invited, Natalie Bel-
lei;, chairman of the social commit-
tee, announced.
Farm Exemptions
To Be Reviewed
LANSING, Jan. 4-State Selective
Service headquarters today directed
all local draft boards to review the
deferments of all farm workers be-
tween the ages of 18 and 26, follow-
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B L O OD S H I PM ENTT--Anassistant in the blood bank at
Kalamazoo, Mich., checks a shipment of blood donations in a
Church refrigerated container, used to keep temperature constant
en route to laboratory where plasma is made..
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