The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-05
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WASHINGTON INS-President
Philip Murray of the clio withdrew
the organization request today for
formal representation at the Inter
national Labor Organization con-
yention in Philadelphia April %.
WASHINGTON ms Speaker
Sam Rayburn's vice presidential
stock doomed today in the wake OF
repercussions over the Supreme
Court decision voiding the Demo
cratic white primary" in Texas.
This was reported in congressional
circles today as more than one
member OF Congress said the high
court ruling may result in Texas
deserving President Roosevelt in a
fourth term candidacy.
LONDON-INS- Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden. replying to
question regarding a U. S. State
Department charge that British au'
thorlties disclosed information
which 1t had been agreed should
not be revealed denied today that
there existed any official" leak.
BARI, Italy-AP-The Yugoslav
National Committee OF Liberation
has asked banks in Washington,
London, Rio de Janeiro and Ankara
to cease paying out funds deposited
In those institutions by the Yugo-
slav National Bank. Radio Avnoja,
a Yugoslav partisan station, report
ed today. These funds were said 10
total one billion dollars.
LONDON AP The wave OF
strikes which is seriously threaten
ing British industry as the time for
the western invasion approaches
spread today through the Belfast
shipyards. where hundreds of work
ers quit in. a dispute centering
about shipyard engineers and air
craft factory workers who had pre-
viously stopped work.
WASHINGTON APP Congress
took a look today into the curtail-
ment of domestic hemp production
after hearing complaints that COM
mercial pressure has forced aban-
donment Of a number OF processing
plants.
NEW YORK-AP-M Mrs. Lucille
Burton, mother of slain Patricia
Lonergau, plans to seek custody Of
her grandson, Wayne william, p
months old, regardless of any
moves by his father, Wayne Loner-
gan, now awaiting sentence for sec
ond degree murder. the New York
Daily News said today. Mrs. Bur
ton was quoted by the News in
copyrighted story as saying: Il
have taken no legal steps as yet
but certainly want and intend to
have Billy
SALEM, Ore.-AP-Oregon's 10
votes in the Republican national
convention will go to Wendell Will
kie and j $ II votes in the Demo
cratic National Convention to Pres
ident Roosevelt. Willkie and Roos-
eyelt won the pledges Of the states
delegates by default as the Tuesday
deadline passed with no other pres
idapua candidates filed for the
May 10 primary.
ANKARA-(Delayed)- AP-The
semi-official Turkish newspaper
illus characterized today as highly
reassuring Soviet Foreign Commits
sar Vyacheslav Molotoy's statement
that Russia had sent her troops into
Rumania purely for military reas-
ons and not with territorial expan.
sion in mind.
NEW YORK AP-Charles A.
Lindbergh has received yellow fe-
Yer immunization injections. such
as given persons going overseas. at
Marine Hospital here but available
sources declined to say whether the
aviator was planning a trip outside
tho country. Lindbergh. whose i'm
mediate whereabouts were not dis
closed. visited the hospital Mon
day. Navy and hospital authorities
had no comment and officials of
the Ford Motor Company. his EN-
pioyer, said they knew nothing of
his plans.
BETHLEHEM, Pa.-AP-Chem-
istry students at Lehigh UNIVERSE
y have built "ration-free" auto
mobile. The engine uses charcoal.
prof. Charles Stops says air is
passed through a hot charcoal bed,
producing carbon monoXide, which
is fed into the cylinders. The car
makes 10 miles an hour.
LONDON-AP - The German
controlled Paris radio said last
night that although Pope Plus XII
has restricted the number of his
audiences the Pontiff's health is
excellent and he pursues his ac-
tiyities normally"
CHICAGO-AP- The 1874 con-
vention OF Rotary International
will be a streamlined affair. Sche-
duled for May IS to % in Chicago.
attendance to the convention viii
be limited to 200 executives rep
resenting by proxy the $500 Ro-
tary Clubs in more than 50 coun-
tries, President Charles Wheeler
announc d.
WASHINGTON-AP- Midwest
ern senators called another confer
ence with government officials to-
day to try to unscramble the egg