The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-09
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]. THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Cloudy, Colder

NEW YoRK-INS-Fritz Kreis-
Ter was signed to a contract today
calling for five appearances next
summer over the National Broad
Asting Company network. The
wtrld famous violinist who for
years has refused 10 perform for
the radio will appear on the "rele-
phone Hour" and according to re-
liable reports will receive 5000
for each concert.
FRANKFORT. Ky.-lNS-A pro-
t,36Asal TO hang framed copies OF the
Ten Commandments in every pub
lie school in Kentucky stood reject
ed today by the state house OF rep
resentatiyes. Before being sent
back to committee. the proposal
was amended to include the Lords
Prayer. II finally met defeat when
another amendment called for in
Hklusion of the tenets OF Moham-
M. danism. Buddhism, and all 9TH
er religions.
HOLLYWOOD ms - Ethel
Waters, negro blues singer. was
singing the blues to the tune OF
$4,000 cash and $4,000 worth OF
jewelry missing today. That. she
k<xs titled in super Tor court, was the
amount taken from her when she
left the money and gems locked in
a trunk when she made a trip TO
San Francisco recently. They were
gone when she returned. Archie
Savage was charged with theft OF
the money and gems.
LONDON-INS- Princess Maria
Alexandria, OF Hesse, was reported
today to have been killed during
one OF the recent Allied air raids
on Frankfort. the German chemi-
cal city. The Daily Express. in n
Stockholm dispatch. said she was
serving as an air raid worker when
f'lled'
LONDON-INS- Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden revealed to the
House OF Commons today that Rus
sia's good offices had been sought,
and obtained, in connection with
| forwarding relief supplies and mail
to British prisoners in Japanese
LANDS. representations with re-
{Spect to inspection OF Jap prison
camps, however, was made through
the British protecting power and
the International Red Cross. Eden
added.
PHILADELPHIA-AP-A new lie.
gal code giving the Pennsylvania
sSealth department absolute con-
trol' over Pennsylvanians known
to or believed to have infectious
venereal disease was proposed to-
day by Or. John II. Stokes, national
ly known syphilologist.
STOCKHOLM Premier lon
Antonescu OF Rumania has declared
Apilitary law in the province OF
I1ransistria, which Rumania ac-
quired during the Axis invasion of
Russia and which no wis threat
ened by the advancing Russian. ar
mics, Berlin dispatches to Swedish
newspapers said today.
WASHINGTON-AP- Three for
per federal officials were under
fubpoena today to tell a congress
sional committee what part they
had il any. in the sale OF New York
radio station WMCA to a former
assistant secretary of commerce. A
subpoena for Edward Noble, as
sistant to Harry Hopkins when the
latter was commerce secretary,
viii be issued within the next few
6ays. f. L. Carey, counsel for the
House Committee investigating the
Federal communication Commits
sion (RCC). announced,
WASHINGTON AP-The Me-
chanics Educational Society OF
america (MESA), after a hearing
kn labor grievances before the War
Labor Board (WLB), today had the
warning from the WLB that no con.
sideration would be given to their
complaints II their once-postponed
strike is continued.
WASHINGTON-AP - Opposi-
tion to the creation of a Jewish
etate in Palestine because IL
would wed politics with religion,
WAS voiced today by Leasing Ros-
enwald. president of the American
Council for Judaism.
LANSING-AP-A bill continu-
Ing $50,000,000 in state financial
aid to schools rode through the
Senate Tuesday with administra-
lion forces silencing what educa-
tors asserted was an attempted
'raid" on local school funds by
pther governmental units.
PHILADELPHIA-AP- The life
of 13-monthJold Anna Bradley,
critically i'll Of rare disease, hung
the balance today while physi-
clans searched the country for
scarce serum which they say is
her only hope. The child is suffer
ing from pneumococcic and infuen-
kal meningitis, for which serum
was developed only a year ago.
ANSING-AP-An adult educa-
tion program. to be launched i'm
mediately, and calling for a $1,000
boo appropriation will be put in to
bill form today at a meeting OF
Dr.. Eugene B. Elliott with chair
nan of the house and senate edu-
patton committees. house ways and
means committee, and senate fin
lnce committee.