The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-15
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PHILADELPHIA-AP- A new
welded stainless steel cargo plane,
the Conestoga, is in full production
at the Edward G. Budd manufac-
turing company plant. the Navy
announced today. The two engine,
6S foot aircraft with an upsweep
sfter-body giving it the appearance
OF a flying whale. is the first
plane in which welded stainless
steel has been used TO a large eX'
tent, the Navy said.
HARRISBURG; Pa.-AP-Attor-
ney General James II. Duff said
today that the commonwealth Of
Pennsylvania will file a sun most
any time now to collect in taxes
$24,0O0.000 OF the sS0,O00,00O Phil:
adelphia Tsnuff fortune OF Mrs
Henrietta Schafer Garrett for
tune claimed by thousands OF per-
sons. Duff said that Ii no heirs
are proved, the balance will be
escheated.'
CONGRATULATIONS WACs
in Britain celebrated the second
anniversary Of the founding of their
organization by parading in Lon.
don yesterday, and additional cere-
monies were planned today.
NEW YORK-AP-State Chair
man Israel Amter says CommuE-
lists would support President Roose-
velt' for reelection "as the surest
way TO bring together all forces
for winning the war In his key
note address at the New York state
Communist convention Amter also
declared yesterday that Gov. Thorn
as f. Dewey clearly shows his
ethical and moral unfitness. his
intellectual inadequacy and his po-
litical responsibility as a presi.
Dental candidate.
NEW YORK-AP-An appeal for
the establishment of temporary
rescue camps in the United States
10 give helpless victims OF Nazi
frightfulness some chance of sur
Niyal,' has been made to President
Roosevelt by the emergency com
mittee TO save the Jewish people
of Europe
NEW YORK -AP-- The New
YORK Times, i'll London dispatch,
today quoted Stanislaw Mikolajcz.
yk, Polish prime minister, as say
ing he was not worried about re-.
ports that Russia intended to ere.
ate a rival regime in Poland. be-
cause such a move would be frus-
trated by the strength and loyalty
OF his underground organization.
NEW YORk-AP-A ZOO ton
super-destroyer bearing the name
oe the late Commander John !
Shea, whose letter TO his son Jack
le' won national acclaim, will slide
down the ways at the Bethlehem
Steel Company Staten Island ship
yard, May 20, Mrs. John ]. Shea.
OF Arlington, Mass, widow of the
commander, will sponsor the ship
and John Richard Jackie" Shea,
now six years old, will attend.
W ASHlNGTON-AP-The Inter
state Commerce Commission ruled
today that an order suspending
railroad freight rate increases
should remain IL effect until Jan.
I, 1915.
WASHINGTON-AP - All re.
strictions on rice shipments to the
various states an all set.aside re-
Quirements on rice for the armed
services and lend-lease were lift
ed today to be effective through
July 81.
WASHINGTON-lNS-The Sen.
ate is expected to uphold its his
toric rule OF unlimited debate TO.
day by defeating a motion to-close
argument on the House-approyed
anti-poll tax bill The move for
cloture, which is rarely exercised
IN the Senate, was made by -
senators in an effort TO break
threatened flibuster by southern
senators and bring the measure 10
p a decision.
BROOK, lnd.-AP-George AIDE,
IS, Indiana author and humorist.
was reported in very grave CON
dition Sunday night after suffering
from two heart attacks within 81
hous. j. ID. Rathbun. who has man
aged AIDE properties for the last
% years. said AIDE had been in a
coma since Saturday night AIDE
has been i'll since June, 1913, when
he suffered a stroke.
CHICAGO-INS- Sidney Hill
man, president OF the Amalgamat-
ed Clothing Workers of America
CCIO), said today as the organiza.
ton opened its biennial convention
in Chicago that the delegates IN
doubtedly will endorse President
Roosevelt for a fourth term.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia-INS -
Between 10 and l2 Canadian air
men were missing today after their
planes failed to return to base
from routine training flights. The
three Arson trainers originally
left from base on Prince Edward
Island.
MISUNDERSTANDING scenes
from "The Uninvited' flickered by
on the Paramount Theater screen
en- armed. masked man slipped into