The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-12-12
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THE WEATHER: Tonight:
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Snow, colder
MADISON, Wis.-INS - The
State Supreme Court today set
Monday for a special session 70
hear arguments on the question of
who will become governor OF Wis
COnsin Jan 4 The date was an
nCunccd by chief Justice Marvin
b. Rosenberg after GOV. Julius 3.
He'll requested the high tribunal
to make a ruling in the case The
question arose because OF the death
last Monday of Gov-elect Orland :.
LOOMS. a Progressive.
CAMP GRANT, In.-lNS-Sec.
ond Lieut.. Martha Kane, formerly
Of Champaign, Ill, today is groom
ing herself Tor foreign service-to
ayenge the death OF her husband,
Second Lieut.. Joseph +. Kane, Jr,
20, Of Chicago Lieut.. Kane, a
former law clerk who joined the
Army Air Force, was fatally
wounded BY Japanese aerial gun
fire while helping a gun crew on
a merchant ship.
OTTAWA-INS-CaEualtie5 re
vealed today by the Royal Cana
dian Air Force indicated that Pilot
Officer Kenneth Earle Warner CT
Lexington, ore, had been killed
"on active service overseas and
that Sgt. John Donahue Of BrooE-
lyn. y. Y. previously listed as miss
ing while serving with the RCAF,
now is for official purposes pre-
sumed dead.
NEW YORK-INS - Forty-siX
emergency calls left as many emp,
ty seats at a dinner in honor II
DR.. Bella Schick, discoYerer of the
Schick test for diphtheria, check
up revealed today. but neyerthe-
less there were a goodly number of
doctors in the house. At the start
OF the banquet, given in connection
with the physicians section OF tho
Russian War Relief Committee,
there were SOC doctors in attend
ance and within three and half
hours nearly eight per cent OF them
were hurriedly summoned by exiy-
encies of their private practice.
WASHINGTON-INS - Presi-
dent Roosevelt, it was announced
today. will broadcast a Christmas
greeting message to the people Cf
the United States on Dec. "a. as
he attends the annual Christmas
tree lighting ceremony on the
south lawn of the White House.
OTTAWA-AP--A tiny Canadian
Corvette on submarine patrol in
= the Atlantic, has rescued the 195
survivors OF a torpedoed Canadian
merchantmen on the high seas and
landed them safely at a western
Atlantic port Fifty-nine passenS-
ers, including Sc women and Il chill
dren, and 1876 crew MEMBERSHIP
entire ships company-wers taken
from lifeboats on calm, moonlit
sea and crowded into the Corvette
Morden, which was built to accom-
modate only 90,
CHICAGO-AP- Inland Steel
Company said last night that it
had telegraphed the War Labor
Board protesting a WLB reviewing
panels ruling which II said violat-
ed a presidential promise that the
government would not order the
closed shop A company statement
said that the panels order granted
the CIO National Maritime Union
mot only union maintenance. but
the hiring hall for its vessels on
the Great lakes a system Inland
told the WLB. "deprives us OF the
right to select employees on merit.
LONDCN-INS- New. authentic
evidence Of widespread disturb
ances in Italy, in one of which 40
600 armed peasants were said to
have been joined by the local Fas-
Ctst party militia, was reported
today by the London Evening
Standard.
WASHINGTON-AP-The Navy
Department announced today that
1913 new casualties OF the Navy.
Marine Corps and Coast Guard
were reported to next of kin from
Nov 1880. The casualties, which
included dead. wounded and miss.
inc. brought the total reported to
next OF kin since the Pearl HarboT
attack 10 lS,S3S.
ALBANY. n Y.-AP-The SHOW.
an amateur production OF THE
Nockug Bird went on in tho
heroic tradition Of the theater last
night, and local music critics call
ed it IAN unusually fine perform.
ance". Four hours before the Gu
tain. the company's director. Fred
W. Keruer, 81, died Of a heart at
tack at his home the victim Of an
ailmont he had kept secret ne.
tween himself and his physician.
LONDON-AP-Prime Minister
Churchill. in a message of THANKS
to Chinese Generalissimo Chang
KaiShek for his greetings on the
anniversary Of Pearl Harbor. tele-
graphed today that the spirit Of
comradeship arising from the fight
against Japan will find expression
in the ultimate construction. of
new world whore free peoples shall
live together in peace and amity."