The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-02

CHUNGklNG-UP- Gener-
alissimo md Nine. Chang Kali
shek have returned from the
Cairo conference In a 42-hour
flight Of two long hops, 1t was
announced officially today.
CHICAGO-INS- The regional
office of Price Administration or.
dered an investigation today OF the
story that 10000 No. l war ra-
ton books were in a bundle OF
waste paper from Chicago report
ed found by workmen down in
Marseilles, III. The shoe coupons
were still good and OPA officials
were told there had been a mac
scramble for the books after which
the shoe stores whereabouts prac-
tically were mobbed.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico-lNS-
Mai. Gen. William +. Shedd today
assumed command Of the L. S.
Army's Antilles department. sue
ceeding Maj. Gen. Henry c. Pratt
who was assigned to become COM
handing general OF the third SER
vice command in the United States.
LANSING-UP-Sale of all IL
Quor will b banned after 8 p. m.
on Christmas Eve, Dec. "a, it was
announced today by the State Ii
quor Control Commission.
LANSING APP - Charles NJ.
Ziegler, state highway commission
err. said today the Detroit-Willow
Run expressway will be opened to
Greenfield Rd. for both eastbound
and westbound traffic Wednesday,
Dec. s. while the War Production
Board has extended the time for
completion OF the entire system
from December 81, 1943, TO June
80, 1914.
WASHINGTON-UP-A special
House investigating committee will
ask the Army today to explain re-
ports that costs of producing anti
aircraft shells at a Boston plant
rose by $4,000 a day after the fac
tory was seized by the govern
ment and leased to a Texas Arm.
NEW YORK-INS-Moscow Ra-
do reported today that Adolf Hit
Ter and Heinrich Himmler, Nazi
interior minister and Gestapo chief,
shortly would visit Poland and Ru-
mania.
NEW YORK-INS- Apparently
in the japanese army 1t pays TO
marry your emperor's daughter. To
kyo radio today announced promo
tion of Capt. Prince Morihiro Hi
gashikuni. who married Princess
shigeko Oct. 10. to the rank OF
major.
NEW YORK-TNS-The private
railway car of Field Marshal Karl
Won Rundstedt, commander of the
German forces in occupied France.
was destroyed when saboteurs re.
Gently set fire to his special train
at the Toulon station. the newspa-
per Courriere de Geneye said to-
day in an article reported to the
Office of war Information.
NEW YORK ms - Radio
France at Algiers reported that
the Lebanese Chamber OF Deputies
would meet in Beirut today to hear
a report from Premier Rad Snlh
on the country's recent crisis and
its consequences" but that 1.-The i'm
portant problem OF FrancoLeban
ese relations will not be APP
preached before General Georges
C~atroux's return to. Beirut"
NEW YORK-INS-The Argen-
tine government today ordered the
immediate suspension Of all teach
ers in universities and other educa-
tional establishments who "may ap-
pear TO have supported ideologies
contrary to the social order in
their teachings " writings, either
inside or outside the classroom,
Radio ell Mundo Of Buenos Aires
reported.
LONDON-INS - Capt. Walter
Beckham. OF Dufuniak Springs, Fla
today took his place as second
ranking Ace" OF the United States
Army's eighth Air Force. In yes.
terdays operations he shot down
two Nazi Focke Wulf 1O9 fighters,
bringing his score Of enemy planes
destroyed to eleven .
CHICAGO-UP-Despite a short
age OF cars, locomotives and man
power. the nations railroads have
increased their ton-miles of freight
handled in the first nine months OF
this year by Is per cent over the
same period last year. the Asso-
citation OF American Railroads said
today.
HOLLYWOOD Up Veronica
Lake appears in superior Court to-
day for an uncontested divorce
from Major John Detlie. stationed
al McChord Field. Wash. The
blonde star and her husband preyi-
ously had agreed on terms and Gus
tody Of their young daughter,
Elaine. Miss Lake was expected to
retain custody OF the child. with
Detlie having the right to VISIT her
when he wishes.
WASHINGTON-UP-The Office
OF Price Administration today es-
tablished uniform ceiling prices of
$fO.50 per cord OF 1928 cubic feet on
sales OF hardwood bolts produced
in Arkansas. Illinois. Mississippi.