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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10
~ o r I q Y
BIDS ron GARBAGE

The city OF Ypsllanti will receive
bids for the collection and disposal
of the city garbage In the following
manner:
For the term commencing July J..
is44 and ending July !. i9f5. accord
ing 20 Specifications on file in the
City Clerks office
Sealed bids 70 be on file IN the
city Clerks office not later than
Monday. May rs. 1s4. at 80 o.
clock .. m. and 70 be opened A. meet
Ing o. the Council following.
Further: the Common Council re-
serves the right TO reject any or all
bids.
SIGNED.
". { HOLMES.
Adv. 5fo5 CITY CLERK
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10
Ypsilanf Briefs
Attend Rites

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Holmes
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Tucker and
Miss Shirley Louise Tucker attend.
ed the funeral OF John Tucker. Ill.
their grandfather. at Greenyille,
Monday. Mr.. Tucker. who died at
the age OF Sc was a lifelong rest.
dent Of G-eenyille and one OF its
founders.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10

Detroit. Mich. May lO-AP-
CATTLE. Salable receipts ZOO.
Broad demand existed for better
slaughter steers and yearliugs,
most good bringing Sl5.00l5.5o. o.
strong prices. Common and medium
grades sold freely at sll0U.lt50.
COWS were firm. but spoty Com.
mon and medium beef grades
cashed at S925-l2 90. Canncrs and
cutters were especially active a.
S1.0o-N75. Trading I'm bulls dragged
AT mostly 25c lower levels SAUSAGE
bulls hulked Lat S9OOll.e0. teA
good heaY!es sll.25 and a few beef
bulls al $3.50. Replacement cattle
were scarce. steady
CALVES Good and choice bulked
at Sl6.Se-l7oos comman and medi
m S1c.o0l5 90 and ,ulis mostly
SN0n-l0OO
HOGS. Prices show little change
Good and choice e00270 10. hogs
continue to move slowly az the
$3.50 'loor" o. support price. on
Monday. the War Food Admiuistra-
ton announced that effective VITA
Monday. May L.. this floor" or
support price would be extended to,
the 10000 lb. hogs. Hence. after
next Monday. all hogs scaling $50
2tn lbs. will be supported az the
Sl3.e0 level Detroit basis ON to-
days market hogs sold as follow
eoo-250 lbs, $3.50: 270.S3u lbs.
$l2o0-le c5. $50 400 lbs. Sll 90.
lli5: 10000 lbs. s12.7o13Oo. 1860.
$50 lbs, Sllf512.5O. liol59 lbs
Slo.Id-l loo. good and choice sows.
Slo.25-l0.i5; stays. S900.9.50
SHEEP A load otmostly choice
No-lh. native lambs with 40. and
. pelts brought $500. fully steady
and others sold accordingly. Good
and choice 80. pcltcd lambs
brought $lio0-li.50: but bulk com.
mon 10 good mixed lots with No .
and 3 pclts ranged from $ll no.
l3.i5. Culls sold from $1,000 down.
sheen were sscarce. STEADY \ few
fat shorn ewes ranged up to $3.50,
with culls at $3.50 $50.
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In the Sick Room

Mr. and Mrs John Hall were In
NpSilanli Monday for luncheon and
n chat win friends. ca route from
Detroit to Ana Arbor whore Mr..
Hall was to undergo sinus opera
ton today In ST. Joscph's Mercy
HoSpital.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10

ATHENS, Ga.--AP-Mlss Moin,
Michael who originated Poppy
Day" in 1918 as a memorial to the
war dead. died in a hospital early
today after an illness of several
months.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10
Rseruitlnn MaNes

Alene hasten. recruiting officer.
second class. is in the women's
reading room OF Charles McKenny
Hall today 10 interview young WON
en- interested in joining the
WAVES: she will be there until 3
p m. tonight.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10

Vegetables
BEETS Topped. bu.. No. |. 800
$50.
BROCCOLI No. |. $3.50
TURNlPS Topped. bu. 90c 81 %
RUTABAGAS-No. /. bu., $l-l.25.
CELERY C-ABBAGE No. /. bu
$l.50-200.
CABBAGE No. !. hu. 81 00-I25.
RED CABBAGE-(5O lbsD S2.35.
CARROTS-Topped. No. bu..
81 $4,000.
CAULIFLOWBR Blu. No. I. s2-3
ONlONS-Dry. No. medium (ceil
ingl so lbs. $3.50.
PARSNIPS--So. /. S3.00-3.50.
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taurants will be inspected today
and will be notified OF their status.
All the rest have been approved.
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Ordered Closed

S'NSiOA NlOeCu
At the present time three restau.
rants which have not received Ii.
eenses have been notified by the
county health department TO close
not later than today. One has OF
applied for a permit. Twelve res
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10
Youth In Custody

TVuKH N OUstOuy
A fitteen-year-old youth. arrest.
ed by police Tuesday evening when
he was found lettering near the
intersection OF Cross and Hamilton
SITS, was held overnight In deten-
ton headquarters and released to
the custody OF his parents this
morning after questioning.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10
Released to Parents

hcicasSu 10 FdTcnts
Three Detroit juveniles, appre.
hended by police Tuesday in Sa,.ce
when they were found to be run
Always from their homes, were held
In county detention quarters over.
night, and released to their parents
custody this morning.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10
Daily Market Report

PoTAToEs-No. /. 100 lbs. $3.50.
800.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10
Equipment Placed

Equipment Placed
Portable picnic tables and bench
es have been distributed in the city
parks this week.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-10
Detroit Cash Grain

WHEAT No. >. $l70as
.OATS-N) ?. white. S0.Slc
MATING BARLEY range. SIft
l.52. barley needles. sl.26.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-29
HOSPITALS HERE
ARE GIVEN FUNDS
James Walker Receives
$7,O5l From The Duke
Endowment Trustees

According to information re-
ceived here last night, Duke En-
dowment trustees appropriated
S674, 379.43 to 81 hospitals and 40
orphan homes in the Carolinas at
their meeting yesterday. The list
included an appropriation of ST.
O51 to the James Walker Memorial
Hospital and s3,8O7 to the Com
na11nity hospital, Wilmington.
Announcement of the action from
the endowment offices said the
appropriations were made on the
basis of the institutions charity
work in 1943.
Other hospitals receiving funds
in this vicinity were: Columbus
County, Whiteville, S1,223; Coco
Shepherd, New Bern, $2,179 ano
Thompson Memorial, Lumberton
$4O1.
The largest appropriations were
granted to Duke, Durham, $51 ,657;
City, Winston-Salem, $28, 800 anc
Baptist, Winston-Salem, S26, 8S9.
No orphan homes in this vicinity
received appropriations.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-29
MAYOR TO ATTEND
JOB CONFERENCE

Mayor Bruce B. Cameron, OF
Wilmington, will attend meet
ing in Raleigh Thursday at which
chief executives of IL North Caro-
lima war plant cities will confer
with Governor ]. M. Broughton
on creation of community "Stay-
o -The-Job'' committees, urged
recently by M a jor General
Frederick E. Uhl, of the Fourth
Service Command, it was an
nounced late yesterday.
Being unavailable for comment.
it is not known whether or not
City Manager A. c. Nichols will
attend the conference.
Fourth Service Command Head
quarters said Broughton's confer
ence would be the first of seven
state meetings by representatives
of labor management and the
public.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-29
E. G. AUXILIARY
SET-UP TO START

An intensive training program
for Approximately 100 members of
the Cape Fear division Of til e
Coast Guard Auxiliary who are in
the Coast Guaru Temporary Re-
serve when or active duty, will
be started Saturday morning,
Lieut.. Tom E. Murrell (CGR(T,
commander OF the division, an
nounced today.
Plans for the program have been
under way for sometime and def
mite schedules were mailed to the
members yesterday.
According to the arrangement,
the men will serve as crew mem
bers on Coast Guard patrol craft
in the nearby sounds and Cape
Fear river, under the supervision
of regular Coast Guardsmen. One
boat will be operated daily on the
inland waterway. from Topsail In
let to Little River, with the Tenn
porary Reservist serving 24-hou1
tours of duty. The patrol will start
at 8 am. Two craft will be oper'
ated daily on the river, on general
harbor duty, on 12-hour tours Of
duty, starting at pm.
The type of instruction to be OF
fered is considered highly prac
teal and will deal with all phases
OF operation of small craft. The
regular Coast Guard personnel will
be in charge.
In order to discuss the new duty
and "iron OUT any misunderstood
ing. a supper meeting for al
members of the division will b.
held Friday night at Z o'clock a
Lieut.. Murren's fishing lodge, 10
Gated one and cne-half miles be
yond Scots Hill, on the INLAND
waterway. Because of the impor
Continued on Page Two; Col. 8
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RELIEF
TRAINS CUT OUT

WASHINGTON, March 28-R-
The Office of Defense Transpor-
tation (ODT, declaring the travel
emergency has passed, today de-
clined to approve the operation be-
yond March 81 of a daily special
northbound train out of Florida.
The decision not to extend the
service was particularly warrant
ed, ODT said, ''in the light Of
heavy freight traffic and shortage
of freight power and personnel on
many OF the lines involved"
The Florida West Coast-Atlantic
Coast Line and the Seaboard Rail
way were each authorized o n
March l to run one extra-day
coach train daily for northbound
service only. The latter road
abandoned its special service two
weeks ago, declaring: Apparent
ly we have taken out all the people
who want this type of accommo-
dations."
ODT reiterated that demand for
Pullman services and de luxe
coach reservations m i n as
heavy as ever.
The Florida East Coast-Atlantie
Coast Line special train has trans
ported an average of 430 passeng
ers daily since the emergency ser
vice was inaugurated.
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RED CROSS DRIVE
Will. END TODAY
s54,G76.93 Collected By
Workers Toward Local
Coal OF $4,000

A total of $54, e76.S3 was. report
ed at Red Cross campaign head
quarters last night. which repre-
sented division reports up until II
noon yesterday.
The first report from the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company
showed a total of $4,000 collected
from the workers.
Today is the last day of the
drive. and divisional chairmen End
c0-chairmen are reminded to make
their reports to campaign head
quarters in the Tide Water build
ing before 5 o'clock this afternoon.
Officials disclosed last night that
81. 323.07 remains to be reported
in order for Wilmington to reach
lis quota of $4,000.
A divisional report is given at
the end Of this report.
Winners of the Red Cross Win
dow Display contest were an
nounced last night by the commit
lee Of judges.
First place was awarded TO the
Wilmington Furniture company fol
their Prisoner of War display.
Second place went to the Pende1
Furniture company, which had dis
played 25 Red Cross boxes, Whlcf
were addressed to all parts OF thf
world.
Third place was awarded to thf
La Mode shop, for their dlspla!
Continued on Page Three; Col. a
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-29
OPA SOUNDS OUT
RATI0NINC HEADS

RALEIGH, March % Theodore
S. johnson, Raleigh district OPA
director, said yesterday that chair
man of all local War Price and
Ratioing boards have been writ
ten personal letters by Price Ad-
ministrator Chester Bowles asking
them for frank expression of opin-
ior about the service that OPA is
giving the public.
johnson said eastern North Car
DINA board chaEmen were asked
to- tell just what criticisms they
have of the OPA program, to Of
Ter suggestions for improving the
operation of the OPA, and to state
frankly their opinion of the opera
lions at the loca) board level.
'.OPA wants to Know what the
man on the War Price and Ration
ing Board is thinking, how the pub
lie is being served, and wants to
improve the OPA in every way
possible johnson declared.
'At the same time" he said,
"to further the understanding Of
local price and rationing problems
two board chairnen and two CHIEF
clerks will be picked in the At
lanta region to go to Washington
and present first-hand the prob
lens of the OPA and the loca
War Price and Kationing Boards.
I'm other words,'' johnson con
Guided, 1--WE want to know JUS
what suggestions a member of the
local board might want to make
to his own congressman, for ex
ample, about suggestions for i'm
proving O PA. The OPA is ole
enough now to really be able t.
serve the public fully and well OF
pcice control and rationing. We
want to know the problems ane
ways Of best taking care of them
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JAPS CONTINUE
BURMA ATTACKS
Efforts To Clear Invader
Said To Be Satisfactory
In Communique

NEW DELHI, March % Up -
Efforts of British troops to clear
japanese invasion columns from
the Tiddim Imphal road south OF
the communications center of I'm
phal in India continue satisfactor-
ily," Admiral Lord Louis Mount
batten's headquarters announced
today.
However, another japanese force
pushing into India through the
Somra Hills was making deter
mined attacks in the vicinity OF
Ukhrul, 80 miles northeast of I'm
phal, with hard fighting in pro-
gress. Japanese pressure h e
was increasing, an Allied com.
munique said.
"a Japanese broadcast sa &
''mopping-up" operations were in
progress against remnants Of three
brigades of American and British
airborne troops who landed March
sc in the vicinity of Katha fal
behind Japanese lines. An Allied
communique several days ago sale
this force. which threatened to cut
the Japanese railroad supply line
between Mandalay and Myitkyina
was being supported by planes
A third Japanese column thrust
ing toward Imphal from the south
east appeared to have been haltet
just inside the India border. To
days communique said a Japanes,
attack was thrown back in tina
area and that Allied troops captur
ed one position.
Aforementioned Chinese troop
in northern Burma stormed AM
captured the village of Hkawr
glawyang in the Mogaung Valley
and in the same vicinity America
troops of 1t. Gen. Joseph W. Sti
well used bayonets and grenade
to wipe out Japanese suicid
squads between the Hkawnglay
Kha river and Shaduzup.
ALI e d operations progress
sed near the western coast on tn
Arakan front, today's communiqu
said. with the japanese sufferin
heavy casualties in abortive cour
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30 PLANES DESTRO.
ESQ To 500 Heavy u. S.
Bombers Rain Explosives
On French Targets

LONDON, March %. - (P -
Striking in a campaign Of mount
ing intensity against bases from
which the Luftwaffe defends Eu-
rope, $50 to 500 U. S. heavy bonn
bers rained explosives and incen.
diaries on four airfields in north.
ern France today.
Heavily-escorted formations OF
Flying Fortresses slapped at
Chartres, 40 miles southwest OF
Paris: Chateaudun, 80 miles far
Their southwest; Reims, 80 miles
northeast, and Dion, 100 miles
southeast of Paris.
AS yesterday, when nine French
airdromes were attacked by be
tween $50 and 1000 big bombers,
the German air force seemed te
be sulking on the ground, leav
ing the defense to thinly-scatter
ed batteries of antiaircraft guns
One pilot in the flight to Reims
said he didn't see single enemy
pursuit.
"Unable to bring the Luftwaffe
to battle" said the U. S. com
munique announcing today's raids
the American escort fighters "at
tackled enemy planes on the ground
destroying 30, including many
bonbers and three fighters were
missing.
Thus in two days the Eighth All
Force has splintered II key en-
/ envy airdromes and destroyed a
least Y Nazi craft on the groune
at an expenditure of eight bonn
bers and 10 fighters.
AS an indication of the Luft
waffe's declining strength, OF
March 10 when the Eighth Al.
Force destroyed 81 planes in thu
air during raids upon Augsburg
Friedrichsnafen and other targets
the Nazis knocked down 43 U. S
bombers and 10 fighters.
It was the 22nd major Amer
lean operation of the month.
In two-day campaign whjcl
has taken the four-engined plane
almost to the Spanish border, al
estimated 5000 tons of bombs ha
been dropped by 1000 to 1,5OO hea
Wy bombers. Today's bomber
we~e covered by an equal numbe
Of Thunderbolt and Mustang fight
ers, anxious to repeat their fea
of yesterday of wrecking 80 er
envy planes
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GARRISON IS CRUSHED
Other Forces Strike Swift.
ly Across Flat Steppes
Toward Odessa

LONDON, Wednesday, March 20
In The Red army yesterday
crushed the German garrison Of
Nikolaev, former Soviet Black Sea
fleet base at the mouth OF the Bug,
and in a surprise night crossing
60 miles upstream joined othe2
Russian forces striking swiftly
southwark across the flat steppes
on 175-mile front toward Odessa.
rs miles away, Moscow announced
today.
In Rumania, other Red army
units were assalilting the key rail
city Of Iasi, the Berlin RADIO said,
but Moscow has not confirmed this
report. If true. it would be the first
Soviet smash INTO Axis territory.
Another German broadcast late
last night indicated Russian troops
had encircled Kovel in the east.
central part of old Poland, saying
Nazi troops there were being sup
piled by air. KovePs ITO miles
from Warsq and IS miles from the
1899 German-Russian demarcation
line on the Polish Bug River.
Premier-Ma shall Stain announce
ed the fall Of Nlkolaev, which the
Germans had held for two and one
half years and a midnight bulle-
tin told of the night crossing of the
Bug, the capture OF Domanevka,
II miles north of Odessa, and 40
other localities on the opposite side
of the river.
The Russian threat to Odessa
was especially acute, Moscow said,
because in Bessarabia far to the
west Soviet units were within eight
miles of the Odessa-Tiraspol-Iasi
railroad - the last main German
supply or escape artery.
Niko1aev, which sticks out on a
spit of land into the Bug River
and therefore is surrounded by Wa
ter on three sides fell after several
days of fierce fighting in which
the remnants of the German gar
rison where hurled into the Bug
River to drown or be moved
down by machinc-gun fire, Moscow
said.
The Germans had been ordered
to hold it Eat all COSTS" and to
take it the Russians had to storm
through a formidable mass OF
trenches, barbed-wire and mine
fields laid out on the eastern side
Of the city, the bulletin said. After
that was done there We're "a hours
of intense street fighting before the
Germans were wiped out Or sur
rendered.
The Russians were declared to
have seized 176 towns and villages
in six sectors during the day.
. In the southeastern part Of old
t Poland the Russians drove to with.
: in 40 miles of Czecho-Slovakia with
the capture of Gvozdets, district
5 center of the Stanislav region only
II miles northeast of Kolomea or
: the Czernowitz Lwow railway
:, That represented 10 mile
: CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. II
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BUTLER IS HEARD
IN CHAPLIN CASE

LOS ANGELES, March 28.-RE
Charlie Chaplin's butler testified at
the comedians Mann Act trial to-
day that Chaplin admitted having
had sexual Intercourse with Joan
Berry in New York.
The grazing fortyish butler, Ed
ward CLANCY. was a prosecution
witness at the actors trial on
charges of transporting 24-year-old
Joan to New York in 1912 for I'M
moral purposes
His testimony, given at the close
of the government direct case,
corroborated that of Miss Berry.
Chaplin's attorney, Jerry Glesler,
said in his opening statement that
the actor would deny there was
any act of sexual intercourse in
New York.
After the government rested,
Giesler moved tor directed Yer.
dict of acquittol: on the ground
that the prosecution testimony was
insufficient fol a conviction and
that Miss Berry had repeatedly &c
quested a trip to New York.
Chaney's testimony followed a
brief resumption of Miss Berry
cross examine ton during whicf
she denied ind gnantly that she hao
demanded a $4,000 cash settle
ment from the actor on the grounc
that he was the father of he.
child
Giesler asked Miss Berry the
question about her alleged $l5o'
600 demand or Chaplin after NJ
had succeeded in gaining cour
| non+;pued M, PAGE Three: Col. III
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Army reported, Germany Set out
to treble fighter production. By
July 1 production was up so per
cent and the AhF and RAF-which
up to then had devoted their prin-
cipal attention to the submarine
industry-began systematic cam
paign against aircraft factories.
BY Sept. 1, the bomber offensive
had cut monthly production of sin
gle engine German fighters to ap-
proximately three-fourths of the
July l level. In all of 1943, the
Army reported the bomber attacks
prevented production of an esti-
mated $500 fighter planes.
''New plants which were con.
stantly thrown into operation pro-
vided replacement capacity, not
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-29
MERGER OF ARMED
FORCES PROPOSED
Committee OF q Solons
Named To Study Post
War Military Needs

WASHINGTON, March 28.-F-
A committee of % members OF
Congress was established with a
5000 fund today to study the
postwar military needs of the Unit
ed States, now bristling with the
greatest arsenal in history.
AS the House adopted the plan,
Rep. Fish R.-N.Y.) called for
peacetine maintenance of IN
greatest navy and airforce in the
world as a club over incipient ag.
gressors.
He recommended that the com.
mittee look into the ACCESSIBILITY Of
merging all the armed forces into
the comprehensive department Of
national defense.
Fish spoke in behalf of the reso'
luton introduced by Rep. Wads.
worth (R.-N.Y.). The group is tc
consist of seven members each
from the military and naval at
fairs COMMITTEES and nine from the
House at large with Representa-
tive Woodruff (D.-Va.) as chair
man.
In the discussion preceding thu
unanimous voice vote for the study
group, Chairman SABBATH D.-1ll.) O.
the Rules Commute urged thai
i. study disposal of SURPRISES.
I'm not satisfied with the way
surplus property is being disposed
Of" he cautioned. '"The govern
ment is losing millions by reck
less disposition of surplus proper
ty no longer needed by the Wal
and Navy Departments"
Fish depressed to the subject o:
the Atlantic Charter when Rep
Mundt (R.-S.D.) urged passage o:
his plan for a committee to study
peace terms. The New Yorker sale
it wasn't feasible to take up wha
was the function of the executive
department, then declared that i
wouldn't do any good until "w'
find out Russia's and Great Brit
aims war and peace aims"