The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-17

IdrIel, the famous scientist, mas
been keeping art.fcially alive was
29 years old today. Dr.. Carrel dis
closed that the tissue is not only
still alive in its plasma bath but
has continued to grow.
DETROIT. Mien.-lNS-Thlr-
ty-four men and one woman,
alleged members OF an lnterna-
tional alcohol manufacturing
and smuggling ring which as
sertedly defrauded the govern
ment out Of S2,5oo,ooo in taxes,
were indicted today by the reg
ulsr federal grand jury. Those
Indicted on seven counts OF
manufacturing high proof al
cohol, possession and sale Of
Illicit alcohol, operating a dis
tilery without bond, and SNUG
Cling, are residents OF Detroit,
Eeorss, Chicago, Cleveland,
Toronto, and Hamilton, Ont.
NEW YORK-INS-New York |
ers will soon experience a black
out such as every war-endangered /
European city has nightly Plans |
were under way today. Mayor f. II. |
LaGuardia announced. for series |
OF test blackouts beginning in Feb |
ruary. At first small outer-edge |
areas will be BACKED out but the |
climax will come with the black |
out of all of New York City, an |
area of 1873 square miles.
ETROlT-lNS- The Ford
Motor Co. today declined TO
consent TO a National Labor
Relations Board election to de-
termine whether the UAW-ClO
shall be the collective bargain
ing agent for the $500 workers
at the Ford Lincoln plant. The
refusal was contained in a let
ter written by Ford General
Counsel |. A. Capizzi to Frank
n. Bowen, regional director for
the NlRB in Detroit.
TUSKEGEE. Ala.-AP-Several |
hundred Tuskegee Institute stu /
dents. striking against the negro !
colleges dining hal. food, faced the
prospect today of be ng suspended. |
DR.. F. d. Patterson. institute pres =
dent who estimated there we're 500 |
to 600 students on strike, announc- |
ed that all students mot at work |
or in class" today will be auto |
matically suspended"
HOLLYWOOD UP - Morton |
Downey. the lyric tenor, arrived by |
plane early today in an effort 20 |
dissuade Barbara Bennett, his wife |
and mother OF his five children, !
from d.vorclng him. He waited I'M
til the airliner was ready to be |
whee ed into a hangar, hastily got |
OF and ran. for a parked automo- |
bile. He left with a friend who |
refused TO identify himself.
CANBERRA, Australia, Up
Attorney General William NJ
Hughes today outlawed the ~eii-
gious sect Jehovah's witnesses on
the ground that it was spreading
disaffection ana hindering the war
effort.
WASHINGTON UP Federal
economists predicted today that
national prosperity during 1871
would surpass the fabulous boom
year" of 1929. Defense spending
will be primarily responsible. Ma
tionaI income will be about the
same as 1929, but, because of low
er prices, real purchasing power
will be about 10 to Is per cent
higher. the Bureau OF Agricultur
al Economics said.
BERLIN-AP-Thr new direct
bomb hits on the British aircraft
carrier lIlustrious, heavily attacked
by Nazi warplanes twice in the last
six days, have so damaged the 30
000.ton vessel that she probably
will be out OF action for the re-
mainder OF the war. informed Ger:
man sources said today.
KANSAS CITY-AP-Ray G.
Cowan. the paradoxical jurist, de-
creed today there1l be no draftee
divorces in his court for the dura-
ton.
WASHINGTON-AP-The Labor
Department reported today that
during December the Cancellation
Service disposed Of 230 labor dis
putes involving 1912 workers.
WASHINGTON-AP-Th Agri
culture Department today forecast
price advances during the next sew
eral weeks for such farm products
as meat animals, truck crops,
grains, potatoes and possibly cotton.
WASHINGTON UP-The Priv
fleges and Elections Committee be-
gins public hearings today on the
dispute Of two appointees to the
Senate seat vacated by Gov. NJ. NJ.
Nicely of West Virginia. The dual
claim TO the seat arose when former
Gov. Homer a. Holt appointed Clar-
ence Z. Martin. former president
OF the American Bar Association.
and Nicely appointed Dr. Joseph Z.
Roster. college president
LONDON Undetermined to
arrest the flow of contraband TO
Germany by way OF the Pacific. the
British government was reported
reliably today to be consulting the
United States in hope OF coopera-
ton. II was said that Britain hoped
to halt traffic through Panama and
other points bound for Vladivostok
and then across Russia to Ger.