The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-14

DETROIT ms - A work
"stoppaee" in the huge 6-bulld-
Ing Of the Rouge plant Of the
Ford Motor Company was re-
ported toGay by officials OF the
UAW-ClO who hurried 10 the
plant to confer with company
officials.
NEW YORK-INS Bruno Wal
ter, famous opera and symphony
orchestra conductor. today was
prohibited by order OF the Amer
lean Federation of Musicians from
conducting three scheduled con
certs OF the Boston symphony.
The Boston Symphony is non
union organization.
SAN FRANCISCO-lNS-- Five
crew members OF a two-motored
Army bomber were treated for
minor injuries today. following a
crash near Sacramento, Fourth
Army headquarters announced.
Three OF the fl ers, the announce
ment said, parachuted to safety.
while the pilot, Lieut.. Wilton B,
Maxwell, and his co-piiot Lieut.. j.
3. Rosenkrantz. stayed with the
ship and made a successful crash
landing.
NEW YORK-INS- The Board
of Education was reported today
preparing to issue standard metal
Identification tags to 100000 stu
dents in public and parochial
schools. The tags are designed TO
be worn for the duration OF the
war.
NEW YORK ms DR.. Chen
Chieh, former Chinese ambassador
10 Germany was revealed today as
the victim OF a S507.50 swindle.
Arthur Wolf. head Of the Consoli-
dated Travel Bureau was arraigned
yesterday and pleaded not guilty.
The charge was based on exchange
OF checks last summer when Dr.
Chieh purchased transportation to
Cuba through VOLTS travel bureau
NEW YORK-INS-Airplane riv-
cts, abandoned on the assembly
line floors of warplane factories,
are being swept up and sent to
the New York Association for the
Blind to be sorted and classified
by the skilled and sensitive fingers
OF the blind, 1t was revealed today
LONDON ms A report that
the dreaded typhus epidemic
sweeping eastern Europe has pene-
trated into Germany itself was
published by the London Daily
Mirror today.
NEW YORK -IFNS-Mrs. J. Dor.
den Hartman, former United States
minister to Norway. today headed
campaign TO raise 100000 to pur'
chase medical supplies and equip
ment for the growing Norwegian
overseas forces.
NEW YORK-INS-Communica'
lions by land between northern Nor
way and Finland have been para
lyzed by Norwegian saboteurs, the
British radio said today In q broad
cast heard by NBC. Two important
bridges have been blown up in the
far northern province Of Finmark,
said the BIC. 1.-THE land supply
route to Lieut.. Gen. Eduard Dietels
northern army Opposing the Rus
sisns) has been cut
Observation-Disclosures today
and every business day thereafter
"for the duration" activity on the
floor OF the Chicago Board of Trade
will stop for one minute at II a m
while the members engage in silent
prayer for victory.
ENGLEWOOD. n. J.-INS-Wear
ing Of Stacks by high school girls
and teachers had the tacit approval
today Of the board OF education
Board members praised Stacks as
wartime apparel and refused to act
on a protest against teachers and
girls who donned them for school.
OTTAWA-INS- National De
tense Minister Leighton Ralston was
advised TODAY that the Japanese
government Is ready to exchange In
lorna ton on prisoners OF war they
also would be willing to make avail.
abe information regarding casual
ties.
SAN FRANCIS CO-ArCrieas Of
government men for ships and more
ships for Americas war effort
brought agreement from Pacific
Coast shipbuilders and unions to-
day to keep production going "a
hours a day, seven days a week.
STOCKHOLM. Sweden-AP- In
new reprisals for British raids on
Norways Lofoten Islands. German
occupation authorities have de
stroyed by lire some 40 buildings
on the Islands belonging to MOI
wegians who went to England. and
confiscated ell their property. ad
vices from Norway said today.
CHUNGKING, China - AP -
Twenty-three thousand japanese
corpses have been counted on the