The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-15

soft coal fields.
. NEW YoRk-lNS-Twenty-
eight passengers aboard a eos-
ton'New York Greyhound bus
were reported Injured today
when the bus eolllded with a
truck In the Bronx. Seventeen
OF the Injured were removed to
Fordham Hospital. The force
4. Of the collision was so great,
y Police said, that the driver Of
the bus was pinned in the
wreekage. He was extricated
by an emergency crew using
aeetylene torches.
WASHINGTON Up A modi-
fled national dim out" to save
Afuel and transportation is being ad-
'vocated by the Office OF Civilian
Supply, 1t was learned today. The
agency repeatedly is using as it's
chief argument the present waste
OF electrical energy. Ii is incon-
sistent, according to this argu.
ment. TO burden transportation and
sfnel output by permitting free use
sbf electricity 20 advertise commod-
tiles which are rationed.
FOLKESTONE, England --AP-
Heavy gunfire was heard across
the English Channel from the VI
cinity OF Boulogne and Cape Girls
Nez today. the bombardment con-
tinuing for some time at regular in.
tervals.
-
- NEW YORK --AP- A special
motorcycle police detachment of
81 men with renewed vigilance to-
day in an attempt to cut down the
city's rising number OF "mugging'
. attacks, after a clergyman's Is
Aear old son had been set upon by
gang of a dozen negro youths
while he was taking two girls home
from his fathers church. The
youth, Frederick w. Teichmann,
Jr., was in a hospital with stab
wounds near the heart. Police
said the girls he was escorting
from a young peoples meeting last
might escaped unframed while
Teichmann fought the gang.
. MOSCOW-AP- Pravda, Com
munist party organ. devoted half
its foreign news section today to a
report made by Lend-Lease Admin
istrator Edward R.. Stettinius, Jr.,
AMarch I on weapons and materials
sent to Russia under the lend-lease
agreement. The account was con-
tanned in a Tass News Exchange
dispatch from Washington and
was dated March IL.
THE TOKYO RADIO,-In q
broadcast recorded by the Asso-
1 Siated Press. reported that Premier
General Hideki TOTO had returned
to Japan today after a visit to
Marking to discuss important
questions with Wang Ching-Wei,
Chinese puppet premier OF the
Marking regime.
A. WASHINGTON --AP- A quiet
Sput persistent campaign is under
way to reestablish the recently-dor-
mant Democratic steering commit
tee as an undisputed policy-making
body in the House of Representa-
tiyes. Newly Chairman
Robert Crosser Of Ohio. holding
the advantage OF &c years exper-
..;ence IN Congress and backed by
other members. says he wants the
committee to become a patent fac
tor in directing the legislation
program OF the majority party. He
initiated the plan several weeks
ago.
ALGIERS-AP- Pausing here
q an extended tour of the North
African war zone, Archbishop Fran
ole Spellman of New York de-
cIared yesterday in a broadcast
address that Americas war aims
and peace aims represent the as
pirations and hopes Of all freedom
loving peoples"
q LONDON-INS-Fifty children
miraculously escaped injury today
when Axis bombers scored direct
hit on a hospital in northeast Eng.
lard. An official announcement sara
that no children were trapped III
the hospital, which was severely
damaged.
DETROIT, Multiplying Ford
Motor Co. revealed today with per-
mission of the War Department
that Il is turning out the Army $
new MILO tank destroyer on assem-
NV lines that also produce Ma
tanks. Ford released additional de-
tail, Of this powerful rev weapon
n which first was reported IN quan,
tity production at the Fisher body
u,nk arsenal OF General Motors
Corp.
NEW YORK-INS - The four
winners OF the eighth annual Me
trolopitan Opera additions today
were a long step nearer to fulhlling
4. their lifelong ambitions. Miss Pa
trice Munsel, a 17-year-old colora'
tura soprano. OF Spokane. Wash
and Miss Christine Johnson. con-
tralto from Hopkinsville KY won
the two first prizes, consisting OF
$1,000 each and contracts with the
METROPOLITAN.
~ NEW YORK-INS-Reich Mar.
shal Herman Goering's current visit
20 Rome is aimed at overcoming the
'indecision of Mussolini and his
,nu, cahinet and TO force them to