The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-19

MEM 1ORk-lNS-Thre stran-
GERS who took extreme measures
TO assure themselves OF plenty OF
vitamin d were the object Of a po-
lice manhunt today. They hiiacked
q truck loaded with 29l crates OF
oranges after taking the driver
blindfolded. for a four-hour ride
and dumping him out in Yonkers.
The truck was found hours later
empty.
NEW YORK-JNS-Rear Adm.
Adolphus Andrews, commander OF
the eastern sea frontier, said today
he would oppose Mayor f. II. La
Guardia's fight to lessen New
York's wartime dimout. Adm. And
rews insisted the dimout was still
necessary to protect offshore ship
ping from being silhouetted against
a sky glow and thus becoming easy
prey for submarines.
NEW YORK-lNS-Pro post
war termination of rs billion dol
lars worth OF contracts with the
government, to hasten speedy con-
version OF war plants TO peacetime
production, was urged today by
Wilfred Sykes, president OF the
Inland Steel Company.
HOLLYWOOD INS-Mrs. Mel
lie Bergen, II, mother Of actor Ed
gar Bergen, was reported in a
serious condition" today at Cali
fornia Lutheran Hospital following
a major operation.
GOTEBORG, Sweden-UP- The
first exchange OF prisoners of war
between the Allies and Germany
was being made at this Swedish
port today as 4,340 sick and wound
ed Allied soldiers. including Il
Americans, prepared to board ship
for home. An announcement by
the Swedish Red Cross. which took
charge OF The exchange after the
initial agreement had been reached
between Great Britain and Ger
many through the Swiss govern
ment. said the transfer will be
completed this week.
Observation-Disclosures. Rey.
holds CD n. C., warned today that
cigarette rationing lis just around
the corner" due to increased ship
, ments Of tobacco abroad through
lend-lease operations and a short
tobacco crop at home. Everything
points right now to the probability
that major brands Of cigarettes will
be rationed,' the tobacco-state sen
ator declared.
WASHINGTON-INS- The ef
/ Fort to have the Senate adopt a
resolution stating Americas inter
national postwar attitude may be
abandoned IL leaders find that heat
ed and lengthy Senate debate Ia
certain. This developed today as
the Foreign Relations Committee
met in closed session to hear, spon
sors OF the Observation-Disclosures
4 resolution for an international pc
lice force demand that teeth" be
put in the Connally resolution.
WASEINGTON-Ul9- Secretary
OF Treasury Henry Morgenthau
Jr., is In Algiers on tour Of battle
fronts to discuss money matters
with the commanders of the United
D Nations forces. He also undoubted
: ly will discuss fiscal affairs Will
government officials OF the various
nations visited.
INDIANA, Pa.-INS-Police and
Williamsport Airport authorize:
today were investigating a plane
crash near Indiana. Pa. in which
4 Margaret Bartholomew, widely
: known Cincinnati aviatrix, was kill
ed. According to state police, the
plane crashed yesterday on the
farm OF John H. Smith, 10 miles
west of Indiana, and was a mass
OF flames before anyone coulC
reach it.
, NEW YORK-INS-Funeral ser
vices will be Wednesday for Tho
mas G. Trenchard, former football
star of Princeton University ant
All-America end at the turn o
the century. Sixty1nine, he wa
stricken by a heart attack
wASHINGTON-INS - Hous'
y members convene tomorrow morn
ing in an unusual informal session
in the auditorium Of the library o
Congress to hear Gen. George {
Marshall give them an "off-the-reC
ord" report on tie war.
DENVER-INS-The new mira
Gle drug" penicillln. today CAV
" hope to physicians at the Denye
General Hospital that 12-year-ol
Genean Smith would recover
Genean, who was near death fror
malignant bone disease, was re
ported to be showing signs OF in
provement as the new drug bega
to take effect.
y LAS VEGAS. N. M.-INS-Tw
OF six German prisoners OF wa
we're in custody today after an CT
cape from the War Department
camp near Trinidad. Colo. I'll
prisoners captured were Arm
Corp. Herman Loescher. 81, an
Army Corp. Heinrich Haider 81.
KANKAKEE. Ill.-INS-Author
ties endeavored today to persuad
about 365 employees at the Kank'
kee State Hospital. who struck b
cause OF payless paydays. to retur
TO work. The institution house
1000 mental p tents and has a
employment list Of about 700. Fiv
-. hun red and sixty-fI - employe
struck originally. but Rex Gowle
suneryisinR male nurse and stat