The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-30


may start on Memorial Day
on shipping and manufaetur-
ing facilities. You will take
all necessary precautions and
wherever found contact collect
OF customs and police"
HILLSDALE-A three year labor
contract was signed here with the
Harvard Trouser Co., of Hillsdale,
by the Amalgamated Clothing Wor-
kers Union No. 81 (CIO). The 100
workers will receive a 10 TO 10
per cent wage increase.
LANsING-Forty to fifty thous-
and Michigan citizens will be re-
cruited this summer for a stand
by-civilian-defense program, Lieut..
Col H. A. Furlong, administer of
the new State Defense Council said
the councils first meeting. The
men will be trained to do civilian
emergency work.
LANSING-AP-Need of govern
ment wheat marketing provisions
was stressed today by Clark l.
Brody, Michigan Farm Bureau exc
cutiye secretary. as he urged APP
proval Of quotas for the 1871 crop
in nationwide referendum vote
10 be conducted Saturday.
WASHINGTON-AP- President
Roosevelt has left for T. week end
visit at his Hyde Park IN. "
home.
HAVANA-lNS - Proclamation
OF an emergency in Cuba similar
10 that announced by President
Roosevelt in the United States was
predicted TODAY. provided the Gu
ban congress approves a bill pre-
pared by Rep. Jose Gonzales.
NEW YORk-INS - John G.
Winant,. American ambassador %
Great Britain. who is flying back
TO the nUited States aboard the
Yankee Clipper to confer with
President Roosevelt, is expected
to arrive at LaGuardia Field at
2:45 p. m. (EDT) today. He is
accompanied by Ben Cohen, spe-
cial counselor of the embassy.
CAIRO-lNS - A British an
nouncement that a munitions ship
blew up when Raj bombers al
tackled the French Tunisian harbor
OF Sfax was cited today as justi-
fcation of the raid, which caused
sharp protest TO London from
Vichy.
WASHINGTON-lNS- The OF
fce of Production Management dis
closed today that plans have been
worked out TO curb civilian con-
sumption OF gasoline and other Pc
troleum products along the Atlantic
seaboard because OF an anticipated
shortage due to lack of transporta-
tion facilities.
BERLlN-INS --- Condition of
former Kaiser Wilhelm Of Ger
many. who has been confined to
bed at his exile home in Doom
because of intestinal disorders, i'm
proved slightly today.
NUM- FL In . OluhluR OF the lIdl-
ian troop transport Conte Rosso
was announced by the Italian high
command today The Insertion
vessel was well known before the
war as a passenger liner OF the
Lloyd Tirestino Line.
DETROIT. Mich Employees OF
the State Liquor Stores in the De
troit area late Thursday filed no
tice with the State Labor Media
ton Board OF intention to strike
next Tuesday to enforce demands
for wage increases, a forty-hour
week and time-and-a.half overtime
pay. The strike vote Is expected to
be followed by majority Of other
municipal-area locals throughout
the state.
FLAT ROCK. Mich-Plans for a
community funeral service were be.
ing discussed today for three Boy
Scouts, killed by lightning when
they paused under a huge maple
tree for shelter while on the way
to school Thursday noon. The dead
we're Dwight Emrick. lS Kenneth
Weller, Il, and Karl Kstz, IS.
DETROIT. Mich. Approximately
1000 employees OF the Packard Mo
tor Gar Co. will receive a pay raise
OF eight cents an hour, effective
Monday. under the terms OF an
agreement ratified almost un1ni-
mously by 5000 members OF Local
109. JAW (ClO). The agreement
ratification ended threats OF
Strike. The company next January
will pay . $40 bonus -