The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-01

excess OF his legal prison SEN
tenee, was freed today after
hearing before Circuit Judge
George w. Sample on a writ
OF habeas corpus In which he
appealed for his release from
the State Prison OF Southern
Michigan. Pyle's attorney
claimed Pyle was sentenced for
armed robbery. although he
pleaded guilty to armed jail
delivery, for which the maxi
mum sentence is seven years.
NEW YORK-INS-The Office
OF War Information announced to-
day that Eugene Ormandy con-
ductor of the Philadelphia Orches-
ira, will serve this summer as
musical ambassador to Australia
and Allied TROOPS Stationed there.
He will receive no pay.
NEW YORK-INS- Wendell l..
Nillkie disclosed today that he
will leave New York Friday for
a speechmaking tour of seven
western states where he has been
urged TO enter COP presidential
preferential primary races.
CHICAGO-INS- Mrs. Martin
Midda of Cleveland came to Chica-
go today for a reunion with her
adopted daughter, Marilyn, Il, and
10 try to persuade her to return
to the comfortable home from
which she disappeared Nov. :.
a wide search for the girl ended
with the discovery that she had
been working for a transportation
firm in Chicago since Dec. 9, un-
der the name of Lynne Melvin.
NEW YORK-INS- The show
will go on tonight as usual in 50
legitimate theaters in New York
White Way district as a result Of
a last.minute agreement between
the owners and Local OF the
Theatrical Protective Union.
NEW NOTWITHSTANDING
Henry ]. Kaiser announced today
that Howard Hughes, 'round-the-
world flier and Kaiser's associate
in the production Of huge plywood
flying boats, has offered to post
100000 to guarantee that the
cargo carriers wo- Id be flying this
year.
WAsHINGToN/UP- Promin-
ent Senate DeE<Ocrats believed to-
day that Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney,
D., Wyo.. will succeed Sen. Joseph
c. Guffey, D., Pa. as chairman OF
their senatorial campaign commit
tee. O'Mahoney. said he was "de-
cidedly not a candidate" but de-
clined to say whether he would re-
fuse the job if it were offered to
him.
NEW YORK-INS-Si hundred
orthodox rabbis and 200 delegates
TO the National Conference OF Or
thodox Jewry for Palestine called
upon 1.-THE free world today to help
establish a Jewish commonwealth
in Palestine. The manifesto. direct
ed particularly to the United States
and Britain, asked abrogation Of
the 1889 British white paper bar
ring Jewish immigration to Pales-
tine after April OF this year.
CHICAGO-INS -A record break
ing total of 1,0S2,000,000 pounds OF
pork were produced in the nations
federally inspected meat packing
plants in January. the American
Meat Institute reported today The
huge pork production topped De
Gember's output by four per cent
and was So per cent above the total
for January a year ago, despite
manpower shortage.
NEW YORK2INS - Engineers
who have converted the British
Isles into huge offensive base for
air raids against German-occupied
Europe were revealed today to have
constructed runways equal TO a 80.
foot road 5000 miles long at Raj
stations alone.
CHICAGO INS-Plans for a
postwar highway building program
calling for expenditure Of Is bill
lion dollars within a few years
were discussed to-day as the Amer
lean Road Builders Association op-
ened a three-day national conyen.
ton in Chicago. -
LOS ANGELES-INS- Results
OF strike votes in four Los Angeles
war plants were being tabulated
today by National Labor Relations
Board officials. Employees a; The
Lacy Manufacturing CO., South
west Welding and Manufacturing
Co, southwestern Engineering Co..
and the National Tank and Manu-
featuring Co., took a strike vote
yesterday.
WASHINGTON-AP- Issuance
OF interim fuel oil ration coupons
to householders whose ration tick.
cts have been lost or stolen was
authorized today by the office Of
Price Administration (OPA
WASHING TON-AP- Daniel J.
Tobin. one OF the foremost Amer
lean Federation OF Labor directors
TO direct AFL collaboration with
Soviet trade unions. Is ready to re-
examine his position. and p-oposes
that the government send a labor
representative to Russia to make
a study.
CHICAGO-UP- Police today
held two women. one Of them an
emploNe OF the Drake Hntel for