The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-05

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ministered by local farmer commit
tees under direction of the Agricul.
tural Adjustment Administration
and Agricultural war Boards.
ElkTON, Md.-lNS-With at
least 20 persons already be-
lieved dead and more than 100
injured. the death toll from an
explosion at the Triumph Pow
der Company was expected to
rise today. Maj Robert chut.
ter. in charge Of the Army Re-
sional Office Of Safety and Sc.
curity, and the Army's Third
Service Command, with head
quarters in Baltimore, were in.
vestigatino the disaster.
WASHINGTON-INS-The War
Labor Board today announced it
had granted 10 per cent wage in
creases to actors, singers, announc-
ers and sound effect technicians OF
seven broadcasting companies.
LONDON-INS-A Rome broad
cast heard by BIC today said an
American Flying Fortress was shot
down over Sicily. The Italian an
nouncer said a woman journalist
was aboard the plane. The report
was unconfrmed in Allied quarters.
NEW YORk-lNS-A new uni.
form contract covering the SIS ship
yards on the Atlantic Coast will be
sought by the Industrial Union of
Marine and Shipbuilding workers
of America. Clio when the current
agreement expires on June %.
BALTIMORE. Md.-INS-Theo-
dore r. McKeldin today was tn.
first Republican to be elected mayor
OF Baltimore in the last IL years, O..
winning Tuesdays election by an
estimated plurality of 10000 votes
over the Democratic incumbent,
Howard w. Jackson.
OTTAWA-lNS- The Canadian
government today made public the
first list of non-essential occupa-
tions from which workers may be
drafted into essential war jobs.
The list, issued by Labor Minister
Humphrey Mitchell. applies to men
of military age physically unfit for
service or those deferred for 9th
er reasons.
NEW YORK-INS- Death OF
Second Lieut.. Charles II. Brown,
%. son of Mrs. S. b. Pearoe OF
Mineral Ridge. o., was confirmed
today by the Army second service
command. Lieut.. Brown was kill
ed in the crash Of his Army fight
er plane Tuesday near Creston,
Coln.
PORTLAND. Ore.-TNS- A II
year old son OF the Chinese gener-
al who kidnapped Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek in 1885 is a stu.
dent at Hill Military Academy IN
Portland. the Oregonian said to-
day. The boy is Lu Ling Chang.
son OF Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang,
erstwhile overload OF Manchuria.
The marshal was sentenced to 10
years imprisonment and =immed-
lately pardoned after kidnapping
Chang in an effort to obtain
promise of more resistance 10 ia
panese encroachments.
CHICAGO-lNS-- The nations
biggest wage dispute. the plea of
Is incorporating railroad unions
for a 20 cents an hour wage in
crease with 20 cent minimum.
quietly drew to a close today. As
the presidential fact-finding board
began winding up its hearing in
the case. final arguments were
presented by attorneys for the ma.
tons railroads and the unions.
PATERSON. y. J.-lNS- Three
hundred wildcat strikers faced dis
missal unless they return to their
posts in the magnesium foundry
of plant No. 3 Of the Wright Aero
nautical Corporation at Fair Lawn,
n. J.
BOGOTA, y. J.-INS--The Gair
Bogota Corrugated and Fiber Box
Corporation. which had been en-
gagged in war work, was closed to-
day. following a wa1kout Of the
plants $50 employees.
LANSING --AP- Harold Roy,
who has served Is l.2 years of
life term for an offense against a
IS year old girl. received a parole
Tuesday from the State Prison OF
Southern Michigan.
LONDON-AP-The Paris radio
broadcast a report today from La
Linea, Spain, which asserted that
Q big Allied convoy had sailed
from Gibraltar. comprising among
other ships 20 transports loaded
with landing barges and armored
vehicles.
BOSTON-INS-- Juvenile delin.
quency in Massachusetts is up 81
per cent because of a chain of So
cial problems created by the war,
Charles X. Brightbill. regional rec
reation director of the Office OF De-
Tense Health and Welfare, disclosed
today.
DETROlT-INS- Finding that
food prices in many Detroit stores
have risen as much as 10 per cent