The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-18

the appointment.
WASHINGTON State
Department today is planning to
send Samuel Reber, its trouble
p Ahooter on French affairs. to North
Africa. Reber, who is assistant
chief of the division of European
affairs, will assist American Min
lister Robert Murphy in Algiers III
handling non-military matters IN
French Africa.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO-
day is devising a rationing program
TO provide a fair share OF scarce
foods to diners in the nation
thousands OF restaurants. hotels
and boarding houses. The new
order, which will become enectlNe
along with the point rationing pro
gram sometime in March or April
applies to coffee, sugar and process
! ed foods and is intended TO insure
the same consideration for diners
away from home as the ratlonnS
regulations afford for those eating
at homes
BUENOS AIRES-INS-Alberto
GUAM, Uruguay's foreign minister
stopped off in Buenos Aires today
en- route to Washington. where ne
will confer with State Department
and other Federal government OF
icials. He revealed that he plan
ned to arrange immediate resump-
ton of diplomatic relations between
Uruguay and the Soviet Union.
MIDLAND, Tex.-INS-A board
| OF officers was appointed today TO
investigate a plane crash at Abil-
enc, Tex, in which three Midland
AAF Bombardier School airmen
were killed. The dead were iden-
tilted as First Lieut.. Walter F. Hut
man, "a. Selma, Ala; Aviation Ca
Diet George Francis Griffin. "a, Chi
cago, and Aviation Cadet Eldon
> Chesley Hemingway, Jr., Detroit.
CHICAGO-INS-Th arrest OF
many more liquor tax evaders was
promised today by f. c. Yellowley'
federal administrator OF the alco-
hol tax unit who announced the
seizure OF more than 800 persons
and 100000 worth of taxable IL
| quors in a series of raids.
RIO DE JANEIRo-INS- More
than 1000 workers were trekking
toward the Amazon rubber belt
from Brazil today, trail blazers for
the $4,000 laborers expected to hike
TO the Amazon before June. Start
ing simultaneously from various
points throughout Brazil. the blue
uniformed, fully-equipped pioneers
left Sunday on the first lap of
foot journey expected to take 10
days.
CAIRO,N Y.--lNS-The local "a.
tioning board has turned thumbs
down" on an appeal for tires in
life and death matter. It was dis
, closed today. Joseph Francel. state
electrician, who acts as executioner
at Sing Sing Prison. applied for
tires for his car in order to meet
his official engagements. The board
refused the tires on the grounds
that Francel could make the trips
by bus and train.
NEW YORK-INS-A navy tu-
neral was to be arranged today for
Lee Ping Quan, retired Navy COOK
who served as chef for eight years
aboard the presidential yacht May
flower. Guam. 60. a native OF Can.
ton, China. died Saturday at Belle
vue Hospital. As chef aboard the
Mayflower. Guam served Presidents
, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoov.
err.
NEW YORK-AP-Langley and
Homer Collyer, the recluse brothers
of Harlem who ayerted eviction
from their boarded brownstone
house last Nov. IS by paying off the
mortgage at the last moment, are
in trouble again-this time with the
Office OF Internal Revenue over
Homer's income tax. The collectors
office says that Homer. the blind
and paralyZed older brother. stopped
paying an income tax in 1881 and
now owes the government $1,000
plus interest. A legal advertisement
has been prepared. it was said, stat
ing that the house will be sold at
public auction Feb. for non-pay-
ment of taxes.
WASHINGTON-AP-If the war
should end tomorrow. says Under
secretary Daniel w. Bell, the Treas
ury has enough money in its gener-
al fund TO redeem nearly half Of the
approximately $4,000, 100000 In war
savings bonds now outstanding.
Should additional funds be needed.
he adds, the Treasury could borrow
them.
PITTSBURGH-lNS- More thaa
score of persons. including near
~ a dozen children, were injured
today when two street cars crash
ed head-on and burned in suburban
Pittsburgh. The children. bound
for st. AIMS School in nearby Cas-.
tie Shannon, we're among those
cut by glass, witnesses said. Four
OF the passengers were reported
seriously injured.
DETROIT The strangulation
murder of Mrs. Sybilla McGrath. 26
year-old mother of six young girls.
remained unsoived today although
Police Inspector John o. Whitman
said he had uncovered new evi-
dence which might bring a break
in the case" Police. meanwhile.
continued to hold Melvin Childress.
26-year-old friend of the family
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