The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30

| Late News |
NEW YoRk-AP- The holiday
week end death toll, attributed oy
police to poison alcohol, rose TO
IA today and ten other persons
we're reported to be suffering from
Nlcoholic poisoning.
A LIBERATOR BASE ~ BRIT.
AIN-AP-Lt. Col. BERN (. Lay.
Jr.. OF Washington, d. c., who
wrote the movie Il Wanted Wings"
has been shot down while leading
a Liberator group in recent raid
on Europe.
MELBOURNE, Australia -AP--
Australian soldiers today placed
wreaths on graves Of American sol.
dlers in a Memorial Day ceremony
az Springyale Cemetery, resting
place OF So Americans who died in
Australians defense.
NEW YORK-AP-Bomb dispos.
al squads sped to Brooklyn when
a metal object-believed to be d
bomb-fell from an unidentified air
plane and imbedded itself in a side.
walk. Police roped off the area.
The object, which was about the
size and shape OF duck egg. turn
ed out to be a piece of radio
equipment.
LONDON -AP- The German.
controlled Paris radio broadcast
a report today that Pope Plus XII
mas written Bishop Count Konrad
Won Preysing-Lichtenegg.Moos of
Rerlin expressing sympathy in con.
nection with the damage caused TO
the German capital by Allied bomb.
ers.
NEW fORK-AP-Here is how
the Navy, in booklet titled
SHARK Sense, tells its aviators
who are downed in the ocean to
protect themselves from sharks:
swim out OF the line OF his
charge grab a pectoral fin as he
goes by and ride with him as long
as you can hold your breath" BY
the time the person so doing is out
OF breath the shark may lose his
viclousness,' the booklet says hope.
fully.
PORTLAND. Ore.-AP - AFT,
and ClO union leaders were AZ odds
today over the question of whether
Idle Pacific Northwest lumber
workers. which they now estimate
! at nearly 10000, should return TO
thelr jobs as demanded by the Ma.
tlonal War Labor Board before IL
Will reconsider wage increase de-
mands. Their united front against
the NWLB in suppt-t of the unau-
lhorized walkouts that have shut
down more than 100 lumber opera
tons with an estimated daily pro-
duction OF 14.000.0O board feet Of
lumber and 10000, 900 board feet
OF logs was broken last night when
the Northwestern Council of the
AFL and Sawmill Workers Union
called upon all idle men to return
TO work at once.
DUBLlN-AP-Eire voted TODAY
In national election TO settle
domestic row in which the coun-
trys neutrality was not an issue.
and 1t was generally believed Prime
Minister cannon de Valera's gov
eminent would be returned with a
slight overall majority.
WASHINGTON-INS-OPA Ad-
ministrator Chester Bowles declar-
! ed today that the growth OF the
gasoline black market has been
checked by a vigorous five-month
campaign that netted 1900 arrests.
200 convictions and seizure of
seven Illicit presses.
WASHINGTON AP-A battle /.
for the Craftsmanship OF the Repub. |
lican Platform Committee showed 4
signs Of developing today with fac
tions lining up behind All NJ. Ian. /.
don. the 1885 presidential nominee. /
Senator Robert Taft OF Ohio and /
Senator Warren Austin OF Yer. /
mont.
HARRISBURG, Pa.-AP-Gover- |
nor Harry F. Kelly (R) of Michigan /
said today that Congress must con.
slider legislation on the problem OF |
recovering industry from war to
peace-time pursuits as second only .
10 legislation necessary to winning
the war. 1T is Michigans plea and /
hope the plea OF all other states |
Ihat this whole reconversion prob. .
lem be dealt with expeditlously and
cQnclusiyely,' he said in prepared
opening remarks as he presided at
an executive session on reconver.
SION at the governors conference. /
QUITO, Ecuador-AP-Dr. Car.
los Arroyo del Rio was a refugee
IN the L. S. Embassy here TODAY
aiter reslgning the Ecuadorean
presidency under pressure of revo.
Iutlonists who seized power in Quay.
aquil and invited former President
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra to return
from MS exile in Colombia. Ecuado.
rean troops, using tanks and
packed by members OF the Alianza
democratic Democratic Allianca1 |
group, gained control Of Guayaoujl
main commercial city and Pacific
port, after 10-hour battle yester.
DAY in which more than 40 persons
were reported killed and ON -