The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-12-26


al stark recorded a Christmas
greeting to all American forces
in the European theater before
his departure.
REVERE, Mass-INS- Said to
have borrowed an automobile he
found parked in the street when
he had TO rush his wife to a mater
nifty hospital. Charles Forse, %,
today was under treatment for a
head injury sustained when the
car crashed as the owner gave
chase in another vehicle.
PHILADELPHIA - ms - For
five years Miss Katherine Colahan
carried identification cards because
some day I'll probably drop dead
in the street" Just as she had
predicted, the body of the 81 year
old woman was found on a side
walk in downtown Philadelphia
yesterday Physicians said she
succumbed to heart attack.
CHICAGO-INS- Proud OF its
,recogd of hospitality to service
men, Chicago today estimated That
more than $4,000 soldiers, sailors
and marines were entertained
Christmas Day at the city's three
service mems centers.
SILVER CITY, n. NJ ms -
Bodies OF three soldiers killed yes
terday in an accident in which two
buses plunged from the Silver City
Deming Highway today were to be
returned to their homes for burial.
The victims were: Pvt. Samuel
Schasetz. Port Chester, n. Y, Pvt.
Daniel L. Worthen, ST. George,
Utah, and Pvt. Carl Marchesi, 81.
Louis, Mo.
CHICAGO-INS 49, Effective on
Monday, the price Of the Chicago
Tribune, a morning newspaper, will
be increased from two to three
cents a copy for each daily issue.
an announcement said today.
Greatly increased costs OF produc-
ton and distribution the an
nouncement added, necessitated the
boost.
NEW YORK-INS-Tra ships
of 10000 tons lightweight which
were under construction in British
yards today are being made the
subject of an experiment as meat
carriers by British ship.buildins
interests through use of an accumu-
latioin of refrigerating machinery
originally intended for the trans
portation OF foodstuffs in fast lin
ers.
CHICAGO-lNS-The war and
increased police vigilance combin
cd in 1912 to put gambling in Chi
Cago at its lowest ebb in years,
Judge Oscar S. Caplan said today.
The jurist reported that slot ma.
chimes and similar devices virta--
ally have disappeared and that the
number OF fully.serviced handbooks
now operating is the smallest in re-
cent history.
NEW YORK-INS- 4 "slow-
down" demonstration in the three
Brewster aeronautical plants at
Long Island City, n. Y: Newark
n. j., and Jonesville, Pa. caused
when workers refused to take more
responsible jobs at the same pay.
was ended today pending negotla.
tions.
TAUNTON, Mass.-INS- state
police. soldiers. and volunteers to-
day searched plackmore Swamp for
trace OF an Army airplane and its
pilot, Lieut.. Bart Judge, Jr.. "a, of
Milford. Penn, reported missing by
the First Service Command. The
young officer left a Rhode Island
airport on a routine flight and was
last seen in the vicinity Of New
Bedford.
AUCKLAND. y. Z.-INS-Amer-
lean troops on New Zealand soil
celebrated Christmas in the good
old American way yesterday with
turkey. fiXin's n everything. Com
missioned and non-commissioned
officeres had New Zealand orphans
as their guests at dinner.
WAKE, Mass lNS-MIS. Beat l
rice st. Dennis Bowler. p. who
gave birth to baby boy Is days
ago. today was removed from the |
maternity ward at Mary Lane Hos.
pital and lodged in jail on a charge
Of Staying her husband, Rudolph |
on Dec. s. The baby was removed /
to the Jail with his mother. Mrs. |
Bowler, mother OF three boys, Is |
charged with shooting her husband |
with a u gauge shotgun. Rudolph |
was buried on Dec. Il. the day |
the new baby was born.
LONDON ms The Berlin |
radio claimed today that U-boats
had sunk four fullyladen merchant |
vessels aggregating $4,000 tons |
The merchantmen were part OF a
small but strongly protected con. /
voy in the North Atlantic, Berlin /
added. according to the Reuter- |
news agency.
WASHINGTON INS-President |
Roosevelt issued an executive or /
der today establishing an American /.
typhus commission within the War /
Department to make a study and I
control Of the disease both within I.