The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-03
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THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Continued Mild
WASHINGTON ms - Rep.
Boren (D) Okla. announced today
that some 30 congressman are pre-
pairing a memo calling on President
- Roosevelt TO change his ruling that
members OF Congress cannot join
the armed forces. Borden, acting
Chairman OF the group OF represen-
tatiyes, disclosed that the con
gressmen, made up of both Demo
Gratis and Republicans, are hold
ing a series Of meetings to discuss
the situation.
WASHINGTON ms 49, Chair
man Paul V. McNutt OF the War
Manpower Commission announced
today that the VINO in coopera-
ton with the canning industry
plans to recruit 100000 workers
this year TO make sure that all
\ available food is processed for
: military and ciyiial use.
WASHINGTON-INS- A report
on the war will be given the ma
ton by its high military and naval
leaders tonight at the American
Legion dinner rendered by Nation
al Commander Warren II. Atherton
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rotary OF Navy Knox and members
OF Congress.
LONDON=INS-A Greek infor,
nation department statement re-
ported today in a Cairo dispatch
to the Daily Herald said that Bull
garians had massacred 10000
= Greeks In western Thrace and east
ern Macedonia.
ANKARA, Feb. Sins Turk
ish authorities announced today
that 995 persons were killed ana
1854 were injured in the devastat
ing earthquake which shook all
Turkey last Tuesday. A total of
~ 800 houses were destroyed and
81 damaged, according to reports
so far.
NEW YORK-INS- The New
York Journal-AmerIcan, World. !
Telegram. Post. Sun and Brooklyn |
Eagle announced jointly today that |
z publication on Lipcoln's Birthday, !
RFeb. u, and Washingtons birth
day, Feb. %, would be suspended |
as q paper conservation measure.
LONDON-INS-The diplomatic |
writer OF the London Daily Ex- |
press said today that Sir Archibald /
Clark Kerr, British ambassador TO /
:. Moscow, will send to the foreign |
office full report on political de-
Velopments in the Soviet Union. |
NEW YORK-AP-The Office of
War Information said today that |
the Swiss newspaper Gazette De |
Lausanne had reported the depor-
tation OF Michel Clemenceau, son |
sof the French world war premier,
Georges Clemenceau, from France
Dy the Germans.
MOSCOW -AP-ee The Moscow
radio kept the Russian people in
formed today OF the progress Of the
L. S. invasion of the Marshall Is |
lands, devoting a portion of It's |
Aregular news program to details /
~ the latest American successes |
and the losses inflicted upon the
Japanese.
NEW YORK-UP-United Ser
vice Organizations clubhouses
throughout the nation will be open
to the public for the first time this
hweek end when the USO cele-
brates its third anniversary. 1t is
expected that approximately 2.O00,-
900 civilians will visit the 1000
clubs in this hemisphere.
CHICAGO -AP- Another SER
ious disease, gas gangrene, has
been cured by penicillin in the
y lrst trial OF the drug on a human
case, physicians reported today.
After failure OF all other measures,
including serums, sulfonamides and
amputation, the drug obtained
from mold cured a severe case OF
gas infection in a seven year old
girl in California.
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MOSCOW-AP-A. e. Korneich.
uk, vice commissar OF foreign af-
fairs and husband of Wanda Vas
silevskaya, president OF the Union
OF Polish Patriots, has been re-
lieved Of his official duties at his
own request, the Soviet press said
to-day.
WASHINGTON 49, AP-Adminis.
tration senators spurned as "mean.
ingless" today a proposal by Re
publicans and southern Democrats
to substitute state for federal bal
lots this November in states which
get them ready for mailing to the
armed forces in time.
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q WASHINGTON-AP-Officialsof
the War Production Board (WPB)
warned today that-American- indus.
try will have TO go easy on the use
OF tin for several years after the
war They said the tin supply is
critical, will remain tight till wars
.end and after. and that none of Il
Will be available for civilian use In
'1944 except in essential lines like !
cans for food.
WASHINGTON - UP -\The