The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-17

MOSCOW-UP - The COM
munist party organ Pravds es-
ploded a bombshell in Allied
diplomatic quarters today by
publishing a Cairo dispatch
which said 1.-TWO leading Brit
lsh personalities" recently met
German Foreign Minister Joa-
chin Won Ribbentrop TO discuss
"terms OF a separate peace
with Germany" Unless the
rumor is denied Immediately
and conVineinely, IL Is not cal
culated TO increase the conf
denee Of the average Soviet
citizen toward Britain.
HONOLULU lNS-The United
States and the world at large was
given fuller realization today OF
the contribution OF the State OF
Texas to the armed forces OF Amer
lea through the announcement OF
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz that
more than 100000 boys. from the
Lone Star State now are in serv-
ice.
CHICAGO INS-"The first OF
a series of re-trials for six Chicago
ans convicted OF treason nearly
year and a half ago was called to-
day before Federal Judge John p.
Barnes. The defendant was Walter
Otto Froehling. uncle of the execut-
ed American born Nazi saboteur,
Herbert Haupt.
BERN, Switzerland-AP - TIL e
Milan Catholic newspaper Italia,
received at the Italian border, re-
ported today that seven anti-Fas-
cists had been executed at Savona.
Among them were the noted attor-
ney, Renato Wiullermin, leader Of
the Catholic Popular Party before
the dictatorship and secret organ
izer OF the anti-Fascist Christian
Democratic party.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. A..
acknowledgements upon some
French participation IN new as.
saults upon Europe has been
reached by Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Gen. Charles de
Gaulle at a most cordial" confer
ence at Marrakech. Morocco, 1t was
announced over the week end.
WASHINGTON - AP-Southern
governors and congressional repre-
sentatives today mapped a joint dec
laration for freight rate equality
with the industrial East in a move
to open up a new economic era"
for the South. Gov. Prentice Cooper
OF Tennessee, chairman of the
Southern Governors Conference
which Is seeking rate parity in
cases now before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, said a unit.
ed stand would be made at din.
ner conference tonight.
NEW YORK-AP-The Hungar.
ian radio said today 1t had been an
nounced Officially that Sofia con.
tinues to be the seat OF the Bulgar-
ian government"
LONDON-AP-Lt. Gen. Omar
NJ. Bradley, who took over as the
commander Of the American Second
Army Corps in Tunisia succeeding
1t. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., is
the senior commander OF American
ground forces in the United King
dom, 1t was disclosed today.
MIAMI, Fla.-AP-The American
Federation of Labor executive coun-
Gil opens a two-week winter meet
ing today with major attention like.
. ~ TO be given to the cutback and
reconversion unemployment prob
j lens, the nine-months-old applica-
ton OF the United Mine Workers OF
America for readmission, and wage
and price controls.
CANBERRA, Australia AP -
. Representatives Of Australia and
New Zealand opened their confer
ence here today to deal with mutual
. problems arising from the war and
to plan safeguards against repeti.
ton Of aggression in the Pacific.
ORLANDO. Flap Brazilian
4 filters care potentially as good pilots
as those Of the United States. who
have no superiors." according TO
American officers who are guiding
Brazil's first contingent OF fighting
airmen through combat training at
the Army Air Forces tactical cen
ter here.
SEATTLE, Wash.-AJ-A strike
OF 5000 foundry workers in 70 Pa.
cific Northwest war plants has been
called for a. m. tomorrow. and the
Regional War Labor Board sought
advice from Washington today as
to how a paralyzing tie-up could be
avoided.
WASHINGTON AP- Children
will get larger amounts OF rationed
foods IN school meals. the Office OF
Price Administration (OPA) said
today in announcing revised ration
allowances for schools serving
meals meeting certain complete nu.
tritional standards set by the Food
Distribution Administration.
LEXINGTON. Mass.-AP - A
young womans mumbled story led
to the discovery OF the bodies OF
two men and a girl IN an automo-
bile on an isolated woods road of
the Concord turnpike early today.
The woman told authorities simply
that there was car with bodies in
It near a white fence by the Con.
cord turnpike. and then collapsed.
She was taken to Cambridge City
i Hospital where doctors reported
both her legs we're frozen. Cam.
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