The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-25

u'SpdlCu " the newspaper Las
bladet today to be active in the
Rome area. The unconfirmed re
port said that the paratroops. aided
by Italian partisans. had preached
three important bridges.
SCRANTON. Pains - Two
seryicemen. their heads swathed
i'll phoney bandages TO evoke FEM
mime sympathy, were held in Scran-
ton today for military authorities.
Terry Hart, Jr., 81, a soldier, and
Alton Finney, is. a sailor. both
absent without leave" from Plain.
field, n. j., we're picked up by
policeman who had become suspi-
cious OF their lavish disadvantages.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.-INS-Th
arrest OF George Garth, AZ, OF New
York, accused of participating in a
$3.50, 600 lottery swindle. was an
nounced today by federal agents.
He had been hunted more than two
years. Garth was one OF SS per.
sons and a corporation indicted
Nov. 10. 1871, by a federal grand
jury in New York on charges OF
fraudulent use of the mails.
CHlCAGO-INS- The permit
system on hog marketing at the
Chicago stockyards was pro-
nounced successful today after its
first test. Total arrivals of 10000
yesterday we're the smallest for
Monday in six weeks and broader
buying of all classes OF hogs re-
suited in the best clearance in q
month.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF the
rapidly diminishing group identi-
fled with the colorful old West was
gone today. The ashes Of Albert
Parker Houghton, one.time star OF
Buffalo Bill Cody's famed Wild
West show, were strewn among the
cedars Of a Chicago cemetery. He
died at a home for retired show
people where he had spent his last
five years. He was Sc.
CHICAGO-lNS- The roster OF
"meanest persons" was swelled to-
day when the Red Cross packing
center in Chicago reported that
thieves had stolen nine cases OF
cigarets intended for American
war prisoners. The cigarets we're
valued at 5000.
SYRACUSE, y. Y.-INS- From
five TO eight men, passengers on a
vestbound New York Central Rail
road train, were injured early to-
day when the passenger train side.
swiped a derailed freight car at
Jordan's station, 20 miles west Of
Syracuse.
NEW NORTHWESTERN subsi.
diaries OF U. S. Steel Corporation
engaged in fabrication and other
work asked the clio United Steel
Workers OF America today to ar
range Immediately for collective
bargaining conferences. The
union, on Dec. 4, had asked the
subsidiaries to reopen their labor
agreements, but the companies at
that time suggested postponement
pending negotiations between the
union and five steel-producing
subsidiaries which last week
sought NWLB rulings on certain
issues not negotiable with the
union.
OSSINING, y. Y. ms Sing
Sing prison officials announced to-
day the death of Meyer Luckman.
central figure OF the celebrated
1885 Staying OF Samuel Druckman
in Brooklyn case which touched
off investigations involving Brook.
Ign political figures. Luckman
died OF a heart ailment after a
years illness.
NEW YORK-INS-The Moore.
Mccormack Steamship Line today
assailed as unjust and unwarrant-
ed" federal indictment charging
It and several OF its officials with
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment in connection with the deliv-
cry OF lend.lease materials TO Rus
STA. The true bill charged the de-
PENDANTS with conspiring to solicit
and accept rebates in negotiating
for the furnishing OF port facilities
on the West Coast for shipments
Of the war goods and with making
false statements to the govern.
ment.
WASHINGTON ms Rep.
Ensle CD Calf. announced today
that President Roosevelt will be /
called on soon to endorse resolu- |
tions proposed by Pacific Coast |
delegation to subdue disloyal Japa- |
nese in American relocation cen
tiers. A committee composed Of |
congressman from the Pacific /
Coast, has before It three resolu- |
tons, Engle said.
CHICAGO-UP-Police open an. /
other deposit box belonging 20 /
Mrs. Adele Born Williams, SIS. wife .
OF a Washington diplomat. today. |
in search OF a motive for the STAY. /
ing OF the wealthy socialite in her
room at the Drake Hotel. Coroner
a. L. Brodie revealed that a small
jewelry box. which Mrs. Williams
usually took with her when she
left her Washington home. stu 1
was missing. More than $4,000 in
other jewelry was found in two
other deposi. boxes which Mrs
Williams rented only a few hours
before her death.
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