The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-17


large hydrogen storage tank which
injured % persons.
NEW ms Several per.
sons received minor injuries today
when boiler in a three story
building on Columbus avenue near
Broadway at 63rd street.
LONDON-lNS-Colonel Charles
Henry Barth of the General Staff
Corps has been assigned chief of
staff OF the United States Army in
the European theater o. operations,
1t was officially announced today.
CHICAGO-INS- The crash of
a medium twin motored Army
bomber at the Municipal Airport
in which the pilot and four other
fliers escaped injury was under in
yestigation today by board of ex-
amining officers. Occupants OF
the plane were First Lieut.. Ray.
Il, y.
pilot; Staff Sergts. Cramer and
J. c. McCaughey. both of Chicago
Staff Sergt. r. l.. Boyd, Chelsea,
Mass. and PFC NJ. B. Owen, kla-
math Falls, Ore.
STOCKHOLM - ms A left
Z handed bid for peace with Amer
lea and Britain is being fostered
by Virginia Gayda, prominent Ital-
ian publicist. the newspaper It'd
niSen's Rome correspondent re
ported today. Gayda's first open
appeal for compromise peace
with the United States and Brit
: ain was made editor tally yesterday,
was said. Russia was not IN
cluded in the peace bid since in
true Axis style the supposed threat
of Bolsheyism was pointed up by
Gayda.
DALLAS. Toxins Associate
Justice Frank Murphy of the Unit
ed States Supreme Court had "a
very restful night" il was stated
today at private hospital in Dal-
las to which he was removed after
collapsing of nervous exhaustion"
while en- route to Washington
from San Francisco by plane.
!, WASHINGTON-INS-The fight
, for higher farm prices will move
ahead again next week. perhaps
Monday, when legislative right-of-
way for the pace bill will be asked
of the House Rules Committee.
This is the bill that requires in
olusion of farm labor costs in the
parity prices.
WASHINGTON co. ms - Engi-
neering clean break with the
military critics of his regime, WPB
Chairman Donald NJ Nelson emery
ed today with unified civilian con
troll over all phases Of the nations
war production program. In a
move which drew stiff protest
from the armed forces but won i'm
mediate congressional endorsement.
Nelson welded his once divided
agency into a single production
unit operating under the direction
OF Charles E. Wilson. former pres
ident of General Electric.
WASHINGTON-INS- A defin.
ite improvement in China's atti-
tude toward the United Nations
CT
as the national capital prepared
TO receive a formal visit from Mad
anne Chang Kai-Shek, Wife of the
Chinese generalissimo. China
famed first lady is expected to ar
\ rive in Washington late today.
CHEYENNE. Wyo.-lNS - A
famous old landmark, the metropo-
Titan Hotel where Buffalo Bill,
Calamity Jane Bill Hickok and 9TH
er characters of the early West
made their headquarters, will be
torn down, it was announced to-
q day. one Of Cheyenne's first ho-
I tells. the Metropolitan was built in
1870.
CHICAGO-INS- The Burling.
ton Railroad in 1912 carried the
largest amount of freight in its 90
year history, rejecting the heavy
traffic caused by the war, Presi-
dent Ralph Budd reported today.
NEW YORK-INS-Omcials of
Henry J. Kaiser's West Coast ship.
yards still sought today the New
York City labor market. Kaiser
personnel men came to New York
Feb. ) to hire 5000 electricitians,
helpers and trainees. Yesterday
they said they had found only SO.
y CANBERRA. Australia-AP -
Prime .aistcr John ,"sliu ap.
pealc3 today to Australia's PEG.
pie to join celebrations next Tues
day on the 25th anniversary of the
creation of Russia's Red army.
Observation-Disclosures boycott
OF Illegal markets in meat is
urged by Thomas T. Wilson. one
of the packing industry's leaders.
who says that black markets in
meat are growing into an extreme
ly serious matter for the entire
industry and public and threaten.
ing adequate supplies for the ma.
tons armed forces and Allies.
' LONDON-AP-Foreign Score
tary Anthony Eden told the Aouse
nf comp,ouc toIay tbat tho nrf4f.I