The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-24
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THE WEATHER: Tonight;
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showers, Cooler
WASHINGTON ms Under
secretary OF War Robert Patter-
son has given his assurance that
the Army will not send military
farmers" TO work in the agricul-
tural areas. it was disclosed to-
day by Rep. Martin (R) Iowa.
WASHINGTON ms Six
hundred thousand msehinists
have voted to quit the Ameri-
can Federation OF Labor on
June I, II was learned today as
the ALL considered John L.
Lewis application for readris-
sion Of his $4,000 United Mine
Workers. The executive coun-
ell Of the international Asso-
citation Of maehinists voted
unanimously to get out Of the
ALL after a five year eontro-
versy with the parent body
over Jurisdiction dispute
with the Carpenters Union.
AKRON, o. ms With one
strike ended by vote OF the union,
unauthorized work stoppages
spread to another sector of Akron's
rubber industry today, throwing
an estimated total OF $1,000 work
ers into idleness.
FORT DEVENS, Mass Up
Ten carloads OF wounded Ameri-
can soldiers. men who helped drive
the Axis out OF Tunisia only a few
weeks ago, were under treatment
today at the Army's Lowell Gen.
eral Hospital. 1000 miles from
the battlefield. Testifying TO the
Army's speed and efficiency. they
arrived at Fort Devens aboard
hospital train after % hour trip
from an eastern port. Doctors and
nurses attended them as they lay
in double hunks in the hospital
cars.
PHILADELPHIA - UP = The
United Labor Committee, repre-
senting more than 10000 CLIO.
and AT. of l.. unionists yesterday
voted to bar Communists and Fas.
cists from holding office in the
organization.
WASHINGTON-UP- Secretary
OF the Treasury Henry Morgenthau,
Jr.. today appealed to the average
worker earning less than
$4,000 a year-to avert a compul-
sorry savings plan by buying war
bonds voluntarily with their idle
funds. His statement came in
report on the recently completed
second war loan drive, "Ameri-
cans greatest war loan,' during
which Americans .oyersubscribed
the 3,OOO,OOO,OoO goal by buying
$1S,5OO, 100000 worth of bonds.
LONDON up The London
Daily Mail said today that Italy
has modified 100000 men
probably a larger army than that
with which she entered the war -
TO meet the Imminent threat of an
Allied invasion. New drafts have
more than replaced the large loss
es suffered by the army in Tunisia
and elsewhere in North Africa,
the newspaper said.
WASHINGTON-UP-The War
Labor Board today considers an
appeal by the southern coal oper-
ators for a new public hearing in
their bituminous coal dispute with
John l.. Lewis. The boards panel
report indicates, the southern OPP
orators said, that the WLB intends
TO accede TO Lewis demands de-
spite the governments anti-infla-
ton order.
CHUNGKING-UP- A heavily
reinforced Japanese army pushed
westward through Hupen province
today, threatening the Chinese
forts guarding Chungking in a
drive that appeared likely to de-
yelop. at any moment. into full
scale offensive. Chinese forces
prepared for decisive battles in
western Hupen along the Yang
TIE River. 200 to 800 miles east Of
China's wartime capital
CHICAGO-INS-lt may violate
two long-standing traditions of the
profession, but Illinois BARRIERS to-
day were urged % to abstain from
loquacity commonly, through per-
haps enormously. attributed 10
them and (2) not to take tips. The
recommendations were made by the
United Master BARRIERS OF Illinois
in convention in Chicago.
LONDON-INS - Negotiations
being carried on with Japan by
Britain and the United States for
the mutual repatriation OF interned
national are making favorable
progress" a Japanese information
bureau spokesman said today. He
was quoted by the Tokyo radio in
q broadcast heard by Reuters.
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo
INS-A board of Army officers to-
day investigated the crack OF "a
four-motored Army bomber from
Peterson Field in which six per-
sons, including three Army nurses,
were killed. The nurses were fly
ing on an orientation flight in pre-
paration for duty in the care OF
wounded soldiers, who now COM
monty are evacuated from battle
areas by transport aircraft.