The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-29
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than $4,000 soldiers OF the Fourth
Army. including the fKst draftees
considered ready for actual COM
bat. will test their military knqwl-
edge in the most extensive man
euyers ever held on the Pacific
coast. The mimic war. scheduled
for May "a TO June 80. will involve
movement OF 10000 men and com
plete OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, artil-
lery. anti-tank guns and ambu-
lances-from Fort Lewis Wash. TO
Camp Ord and Hunter Liggett res
eryation in California.
SILVER CITY, y. Map A
physician made daring flight
over the lofty peaks OF Mogollon
range yesterday TO drop medicine
and instructions for the care OF
forest rangers wife stricken with
a serious stomach ailment in the
lonely. snowbound station at vii
low Greek. DR.. II. +. Cone had TO
climb 10 10000 feet TO clear the
peaks and then zoom to 1000 feet
TO drop the package for Mrs. Louis
Il. Holdridge.
DOWNEY, Calf -AP- Vultee
Aircraft Company officials said To-
day Me .serschmitt fighting plane
shot down over England will ar
rive Tuesday for study by the con
Germs engineers.
FL PASO. Tex.-AP A II day
ola girl appeared to be thriving to-
day an food given her throu h
tubes inserted in her stomach in
ali operation doctors said would be
a surgical miracle IL successful.
The child, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs J X Gotten of Santa Rita.
y. NJ. was born with an incomplete
esophasus and unable TO swallow.
She has gained weight since the
operation, week ago.
WASHlNGTON-AP-T Presi-
dental proclamation placing fats
and oils under export licensing con
troll does not indicate the estab-
lishment OF an embargo" the State
Department made known today.
WASHINGTON-AP- The civil
liam conservation corps next month
will be able to give jobs and de-
tense training in nearly all states
TO cligibles. In making the an
nouncement James J. McEntee, Ii
rector. said there would be a gra
dual cut In enrollments and the
number of camps beginning April
], when a replacement program
will start to enroll $4,000 young
men and war veterans to fill April
vacancies.
WASHINGTON-AP-Th Ford
Motor Company had a Sl,417000
War Department contract today 10
build trucks, and the contract did
not include provision stipulating
compliance with labor laws where
applicable The Department ex-
planned that the controvcrted
clause was omitted because the
order was not a defense contract
WASHlNGTON-AP- Abner II.
Ferguson. Federal Housing admin
istrator, said today that the de.
mand for new homes as a result
OF defense industrial activity had
brought a record total OF 5.591 ap-
plicstions for new home mortgage
insurance during the week ended
March -.
BUDAPEST. Hungary ms
Large numbers of German Nation
ais hurriedly left Nugoslavia today.
according to advices received in
= Budapest from Belgrade.
NICHN-AP-Informed sources
said today Vice Premier and For
eicn Minister Admiral Jean Darlan
might 90 TO Paris Monday to meet
Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke
Matsuoka Il was believed. how
ever, that no definite decision had
been made.
CHICAGO-AP-A strike al the
sprawling Chicago Stock Yards. CON
centration point for thousands Of
animals destined for the meat pack
ing plants, was threatened today
by a breakdown in negotiations for
labor contract.
VICHY-AP-The town OF Mon.
Inns in German-occupied France
was reported today TO have been
fined 10000 francs because OF ths
appearance OF anti-Nazi slogans
written on the walls OF buildings.
BERLIN - AP --- Authorized
- sources said today German minis
ter Niktor Won Heeren was receiy-
ell by a Belgrade crowd with in.
sultins calls and whistles as he
participated in church services in
cidental to the enforcement Fri
day Of King Peter II OF Yuso-
sl1Nia.
VTCHY- APP Horsemeat was
added to the French food ration
list today Other meats have been
rationed for months
NICHY- APP 4 military court
al Clermont-Ferrand today SEN
fenced Armand Pene industrialist
OF Dakae. French West Africa. to
eight months in prison and Joss
Of civil rights for one year on
charccs Of spreading propaganda
for Gen Charles DeGaulle. leader
Of Frenchmen still fighting the
Axis.
LONDON APP Reuters Bri-
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