The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-12-24

NAdus lOudY Ug distributing 70 tN-
cry home owner in this city of 5000
e a paid in full electric bill for Deem
Der Mayor Floyd n. Avery said the
municipal power plant could well
afford to cancel the December bills
which total more than $4,000 be.
cause the water and light depart
ment is building up a surplus OF
more than $4,000 a month.
CHlCAGO-INS-A test OF the
national no-strike agreement an
nounced a year ago by President
Roosevelt was sought today in a
suit filed in circuit court by Tabin-
Picker & Company which is being
picketed by members OF the Inter
national Ladies Garment Workers
union.
LONDON-UP-Iudignation was
widespread today over profiteering
in toys. liquors and Christmas deli
cacies. Toys which would cost about
so cents in the United States or
Canada sell for 81 or S. in Lon
don. Simple wooden toys that cost
60 cents in peacetime cost IS now.
NASHINGT0N-AP- Life Inn
prisonment or death will be pro-
posed in the new Congress as the
Maximum penalty for persons con
Victed Of wilfully manufacturing
and delivering inferior or defective
materials for the nations armed
forces, Rep. Hobbs DALAI said
today.
WASHINGTON APP The
Treasury wound up the greatest
war financing campaign in history
today with a food OF money send
ing the gigantic victory loan drive,
first OF this war, over the top by
more than $2,2OOO00,OO9
CANBERRA, Australia -Ap-
-, Minister John Curtin sent
b Christmas message to Austral-
ian soldiers on many fronts today.
telling them they had a message
10 deliver to Gen Hideki Toto,
Japanese premier, next year asking
them to deliver 1t in bullets,
bombs and shells"
CHICAGO -AP-- The Great
Lakes Naval Training Station, in
one year Of war. has mushroom
ed to 10 times its former size. the
annual report OF the Navy Public
Relations Office here said today
And Chicago's Annapolis. a for
mer unit of Northwestern Univer-
sity. is pouring young naval Off
GERS out at rate Of 1000 every
three months.
PHILADELPHIA -AP- Miss
Adelaide c. Yost, retired school
teacher in her late eighties, made
her annual Christmas tour OF her
neighborhood earlier than usual
this year. passing out dollar bills
10 all the children on Tuesday.
Yesterday she was found dead in
the home where she lived alone.
LEWlSTOWN, Pap State
police guarded all roads leading
into the Kishacoquillas valley,
Amish farming settlement n Milf
film County, today, as medical au-
thorities sought to isolate an out
break of smallpox which had
reached total of II cases. Trooper
details from Lewistown. Hunting
don and state College, summoned
by health officials of Miiflin, Cen
tire and Huntingdon Counties. barrt
Caded the highways, turning back
the canyas-covered wagons Of the
drably-garbed Amishmen. market.
bound with food for the Christmas
trade. Borough police set up a sec
ondary guard around this city.
NEW YORk-AP - Associated
Pgess war correspondents around
the world were sent- Christmas
greetings today by General Manager
Kent Cooper who told them by
radio that their stories have put
iron into the veins OF a fighting
people
WASHINGTON-,AP- The War
Labor Board. authoritative sources
disclosed. has decided to propose a
presidential order to assure that
railroad wage decisions shall be
made in conformity with the sta
bilzation principles it has laid
down. The National Mediation
Board has taken jurisdiction Of the
first major railroad wage dispute
To arise since the War Labor Board
was constituted.
WASHINGTON-AP- The Navy
has reduced to two years Of high
school work its educational require
ment for girls enlisting IN the
WAVES and the Coast Guard Re
Serve. Rear Admiral Randall JAG
obs. chief OF naval personnel. ex-
planned that the previous require
meut OF high school diploma was
unnecessarily rigid for certain
types OF work now to be done
CANBERRA-AP- The Austral-
ian government announced today
that the 93S-tun corvette Armidale
had been sunk by Japanese bomb
err some 250 miles northwest Of
Darwin early IN December with
loss Of two officers aud IS men.