The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-11


cipally OF cash. Attorney James W.
Breen estimated Wednesday when
he filed an inventory report in'pro-
bate court. Pending probate OF the
estate, a widows award OF $1,000 0O
TO Mrs. Mary Wyse Thompson was
approved by Assistant Probate
Judge Thaddeus V. Adesko.
2 NASHINGTON-AP-The War
Labor Board (WLB) Shipbuilding
Commission today granted a s5.l0
weekly pay increase TO experienced
guards at the Atlantic and 'Simp-
son yards Of the Bethlehem Steel
Company, East Boston. Mass. ana
authorized them TO cross picket
lii es in the event OF strikes.
WASHINGTON ms The
chairmen Of the House and Senate
committees Investigating the gov
ernment's seizure Of Montgomery
Ward & Co, said today that release
OF the mail order firm from federal
rule will have no effect on their in.
ouiries.
WASHINGTON ms Bolivar
Pagan. resident commissioner OF
Puerto Rico, declared today that
Gov, Rex Tugwell is imposed" on
Puerto Rico and termed him "the
only blot in the relations OF the
United States with the island.
ROCHESTER. Minn.-INS-Phy
s%icians al the Mayo Clinic said to-
day that Harry Hopkins. adviser to
President Roosevelt, may be able
TO return to his Washington duties
after IN additional rest period. Hop
kins, SO, left Rochester yesterday
f.. his home. He underwent an abb
dominal operation in the clinic
March 20. In 1887. he underwent an
operation in the clinic for removal
Of a stomach ulcer.
NEW YORK-INS-Dr. Hjalmar
Mace. Nazi puppet leader OF Esto-
MIA, was reported by the German
radio today to have left for Berlin.
The broadcast, emanating from the
controlled station at Turf in Estonia
was heard by L. s. government
monitors.
WASHINGTON INS-State De.
partment officials acknowledged to-
day that Ambassador Avra NJ. War
rem has been sent to Bolivia as a
step toward extending recognition
10 that country, thus ending a five
months old controversy in the Pan
American family.
STELLARTON. y. S.-AP-Two
men trapped for more than IS
hours by a mass OF fallen coal in a
shaft here were rescued uninjured
early today. The men. John Mil
lie. 81, Of nearby New Gleason and
Charles Fraser. 81, of S~tellarton.
were trapped while working as
"brushers" at the 1000 foot level
OF the Acadia Coal Company pit.
LONDON -AP- Trafalgar
Square was lit up briefly last night
more brightly than it has been
since the war began in 1889. A
huge haystack hut, built in the
shadow OF the Nelson monument as
a recruiting headquarters for farm
workers, mysteriously caught fire
and burned down.
ST. LOUIS-AP- Two days after
Centenary Methodist Church re-
ported finding a $1,000 bill in count.
ing its collection plate offerings.
-. Johns Methodist Church Off.
Gals said they had received one
90. The second was in an e~nvelope
inscribed For st. Johns Endow.
ment Fund
LONDON-AP The limited
States has increased pressure or
Portugal to halt steel-hardening
wolfram exports to Germany, in i'm.
patient reaction to Premier Anto.
MO Salazar's delaying tactics and
efforts 10 compromise, it was re.
ported today.
LONDON APP An American.
sponsored plan for international
civilian postwar aviation control
based on the four freedoms of the
air-the right to fly, to land. to
discharge passengers, mail and car.
60 n TO pick them up anywhere
IN the world-has been accepted by
Great Britain as the basis for fl.
ture discussion.
ABERDEEN. Scotland APP
Birth OF a son to the ~26-year.old
widow Of Mai. Gen. Orde Charles
"mgate, leader of the "Wingate
raiders of Burma. was announced
today. Wingate was killed in a
pane crash in Burma last March
p.
MEXICO CITY-INS-The 18th
criminal court Of Mexico TODAY was
considering a petition by jacques
Mornard, convicted of Staying Ieo;,
Tt1tsky, that his 2O-year prison
sentence he reduced. Mornard 9
attorney. Octavio Medellin Ostos,
argued that the Staying OF the
Bolshevik leader was not homicide.
BUFFALO, n. Y.-INS-Avia-
tiqp experts we're studying today
the performance OF a %helicopter
which, for the FIRST time In Ameri-
can a~eronautical history. had been
flown indoors. Test Pilot Floyd
C~rlson flew the helicopter. pro-
duct OF the Bell Aircraft Corp. He
took of vertically, rose 20 feet
and Unanswered the craft around
the New York Guard Armory in
Buffalo for FIVE minutes.