The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-14

| Late News |.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala AP-- A
number OF PISS fighter planes
have been converted at the Bech-
tel-McCone Corporation plant here
into high-speed reconnaissance air.
craft, the company reported today.
MELBOURNE, Aus.-AP-Deaths
Of five more Japanese admirals
was announced by the Japanese
news agency Domei in a broadcast
recorded today by the Australian
Department of Information. The
deaths raised the total OF Nippon,
csc admirals who have died since
May TO 10.
GRAFTON, w. Va-AP- Two
dozen persons. marooned on a
stalled railroad train for "a hours
during West Virginia's worst bliz- /
Zard, were safe at their firesides
today none the worse for their eX-
perience. The Baltimore and Ohio
passenger train was forced to stop
by snow. and trees on the tracks
Tuesday morning, 40 miles out OF
Charleston. There it remained until
a relief train arrived yesterday
morning. 1t finally crawled into
Grafton early last evening.
DETROIT-INS- United Auto
mobile Workers locals prepared to-
day to aid 500 strikers Of four
Montgomery Ward stores as hope
for decisive action in the dispute
rested on meeting of the National
War Labor Board in Washington.
Four leaders of the United Retail,
Wholesale and Department Store
Workers. Clio, and representative
of the company are to appear be-
fore the WLB.
ALBANY, y. Y.--INS-The Ford
Motor Co.. and three employees of
it's plant at Green Island. n. Y,
were under grand jury indictment
today, charged with having locked
three employees two hours pay be-
cause they took time off to vote on
Nov. Z.
ATHENS British military
authorities imposed drastic cur
few in Athens today as rebellious
Elias left-wing militiamen contin-
ued their offensive action against
Greek government units and the
British, launching two determined
attacks before dawn.
NEW. YORK-AP 80 Souvenir
shells, grenades and other project
lies sent home from battlefields
may be enemy BOBBY traps, the
Navy warned today in listing a
series of explosion accidents inyolv-
ing supposed buds. Third Naval
District Ordnance officers urged
that ordnance souvenirs be turned
over to police.
.LONDON-AP-King George vi !
celebrated his 49th birthday to-
day without benefit of pomp and
ceremony. The King planned to
spend the day quietly, working as
usual on state business.
WASHINGTON-AP- Emergen-
cy increases in railroad passenger
rates will continue for another |
year but the carriers have been |
turned down in a request for high |
er freight rates. The Interstate |
Commerce Commission extended |
the suspension of emergency rail |
road freight rate increases until |
Jan. /, 1916.
CHICAGO-AP-A single injec- |
ton of penicillin X, a new variety |
of the drug, has cured gonorrhea in
Ga out of 6S patients, physicians |
announced today This was dis
closed in the Journal of the Anne l.
can Medical Association. which also |
reported other penicillin successes .
the cure of two cases of agranu- |
locytosis (absence of white blood .
cells). prevention OF pus-produc
ing infections following surgical |
removal of the lung, and a new
solution which increases the con-
centration of penicillin in the
blood.
CHICAGO-AP- Wheat broke |
as much as two cents bushel I'M
der an avalanche of selling at the |
opening of futures trading today. |
Most other grains reacted in SYM
pathy with the wheat market, but
losses were held to fractions.
Traders attributed the early break
in wheat to bearish reaction to a
two-price plan offered by Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Claude Vic
kard which would guarantee farm
ers parity only for wheat raised
on allotted acreage.
MAASTRICHT, Holland -AP-
Romances between liberated Dutch
girls and liberating u. S. soldiers
are dramatically discouraged in
Limburg province, without re.
Election upon either. Homes,
churches. schools, newspapers and
the military government have
joined in the quiet campaign.
LES VAGAS, Nev.-AP-A move
ment to have Nevada secede from
the union if IAN insufferable set
of government regulations" were
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