The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-17


BELLAIRE, O.-UP- Rivermen
dragged the swollen Ohio River to-
day, searching for the bodies Of
the captain and three crew men,
bers listed as missing in the sink
ing OF the towboat Katie Lyons
which went down after one OF its
barges struck a bridge pier in a
dense fog.
WASHINGTON-UP- Admins
tration leaders in Congress today
were trying to slow up ground
swell for immediate enactment OF
drastic anti-labor legislation with
assurances that some form of anti
inflationary wage control is being
considered. Demands for crack
down" on labor, which started
again as a rumble late last week,
reached a roar in Congress Monday.
WASHINGTON-INS-A modih-
cation OF the rigid AAA quota sys-
TEN, is expected to be made today,
it was learned. to prevent destruc-
ton Of some 100000 acres Of vol
unteer wheat in Kansas.
WASHINGTON.INS- Diploma
tic sources in Washington today dis
closed that Mexican Foreign Min
lister Ezequie! Pedilla will shortly
visit the United States to undergo
a physical check-up at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, y. y. and 10
discuss hemisphere defense and
financial matters in Washington.
.. PENDLETON, Ore.-INS- TWO
separate crashes OF giant Army
bombers, one in eastern Oregon
and the other in western Idaho,
which took a toll Of IA lives, were
investigated by Army and civilian
authorities today. Two men escap-
ed with their lives in the Idaho
crash. In the Oregon crash, three
officers and seven enlisted men died
when the bomber zoomed into d
mountain peak, 20 miles south of
Pendleton.
LONDON-UP-W arships OF TIE
British Mediterranean fleet and
Royal Air Force planes from Egypt
have inflicted heavy damage on
Italy's great Rhodes Island base
off the Turkish coast, in a perfectly
timed sea and air bombardment.
dispatches asserted today.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay Up
The Uruguayan ship Montevideo
had been torpedoed and IS men are
missing, It was understood today.
NS-Confidence that
the German naval concentration on
the Norwegian coast has been brok-
en- up for the time being was ex
pressed by British authorities to-
day. They said this result had been
achieved by the recent British at
tacks on the German battleship
Tirpitz. newest and mightiest 35,.
000-ton German dreadnaught. and
the l0,000ton cruiser P.inz Eugen.
SHERMAN, n. Y.-INS- Three
persons were injured slightly to-
day when the Pittsburgh Buffalo
express Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road System was derailed one mile
north OF Sherman as the result Of
a track washout
LONDON ms The London
Daily Mirror said today there are
300 Americans imprisoned in Hong
Kong. but half Of them will not sur.
viye for six months unless condi-
lions in Stanley Prison improve
radically Dr. Gordon King. a for.
mer professor at Hong Kong Uni
versiiy was quoted in this state.
ment. He escaped to inland China
when the crown colony fell into the
hands of the japanese invaders.
NEW YORK ms President
Roosevelt's New York bodyguard.
Detective William j. sinnott. will
retire from the police department
March 81, after thirty years, seven
months and nine days OF perfect
service it was announced today.
Sinnott was wounded while pto-
tectinc the President against tho
bullets OF an assassin in Miami.
in 1888.
NEW YORK INS-A British
radio broadcast heard by CHS 10.
day said Swiss police at Lucerne
arrested 10 members of a press and
information service described as
National Socialist in character. The
broadcast added that legal action
is being taken against them all"
WASHINGTON INS-A three
way investigation OF charges that
representatives of various indus
tries within the War Production
Board have been obstructing plans
for the nations about war effort
was under way today Separate con
gressional probes will be made ~
the House and Senate while Don.
aid NJ. Nelson. war production car.
Is making his own investigation.
WASHINGTON lNS-The Unit.
ed states government 70 vas
Learned on high authority today. is
Planning TO negotiate a mutual aid
and econo ic pact with Soviet Rus
STA The agreement will he nego.
tlated under the provisions Of the
Lend-Lease Vet. and will be known
by that name.