The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-08
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THE WEATHER.: Tonight;
Cloudy Mild

! Cloudy, Mild
NASHINGTON-INS 49, Early
restoration Of the government.
operated anthracite mines to pri-
Nate ownership was expected to-
day 10 result from the War Labor
Boards condition approval OF a
wage contract providing eighty
thousand hard coal miners with a
pay increase OF 70 cents a day
over their 1918 wage scale.
LoNOON-lNS- Hieh-rsnk-
ing German officers, deserving
their men, are being eVaeuat-
ed from the Skala trap in the
Carpathian foothills by big
Nszi transport planes, Reut-
er's reported today in a Mos
COW dispatch. Soviet fighters,
said the dispatch, have shot
down many OF the transports.
WASHINGTON-INS-The War
Labor Board granted a standard
voluntary union. security clause
today to the Illinois Telephone
Traffic Union, an affiliate OF the
National Federation of Telephone
Workers. in its contract with the
Illinois Bell Telephone Co. Chica-
30.
TRENTON. y. J.-UP-Six hun
dred and fifty acres OF pineland
we're burned over Friday in At
lantic. ocean. Camden and Glou-
cester counties in the first forest
fires OF the spring season, lie Roy
Fales. state fire warden, reported
today.
MEXICO CITY-UP- Striking
employees Of the Mexicana Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company,
subsidiary OF the \. T. & T.. re-
turned TO work late yesterday after
signing an agreement with
president-appointed administrator,
which granted them a Is per cent
pay increase. retroactive to March
!. They went on strike March Is
for 80 per cent raise.
JERSEY CITY, n. J.-UP- A
Blk weeks old baby. son OF Cpl. Jo-
seph Costa, ST., burned to death
in his carriage Friday In a fire
believed started by lighted
match carelessly tossed from the
window OF a tenement building.
ANZIO BEACHHEAD, Italy -
JI-Jewish Passover services
were held on the beachhead last
night in a long ward tent in the
American hospital area. The SER
vices were conducted by Capt. Nit
chel Saco, Central Falls, R. l., q
dentist.
NEW YORK-INS- Plans for
an international airline linking
with Europe were
revealed today by V. S. Bennett OF
st. Johns, Mid, an executive with
the Shell OH Co.. Of Newfoundland.
Bennett said the project would
he financed initially by American,
British. Canadian and Newfound'
land capital.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.-INS-The
dismissal of Rev. Emerson Sch
wenk, fired when he objected TO
hanging OF a service flag next TO
the pulpit OF the First Universal
ist Church OF which he was pastor.
is final the board of trustees said
today. DR.. Schwenk was dismiss
ed two weeks ago and will deliy-
er his final sermon tomorrow.
MOSCOW ms The Soviet
Tass news agency, quoting a dis
patch to the Stockholm newspaper
Aftontidningen reported today that
5000 Hungarian troops have de-
serted and gone over to partisan
forces organized by Marshal JOS
ip (Tito) Broz.
LONDON-INS-- Tokyo circles
connected with the japanese high
command are convinced that Jap
an must face a big" Allied often
sive in the Pacific before the end
of summer, the German radio said
today in dispatch from the Mop.
ponese capital.
NEW ORLEANS-UP- Richard
Bienvenu, 33 year old broommaker,
was able TO see his fellow work.
ers for the first time today fol
lowing a delicate eye operation
in which the damaged cornea of
his left eye was replaced by the
cornea from the eye of woman
he didn't even know. The right
eye of Mrs f. L. Johnson. Of Mar
zero. La. sightless since childhood,
provided the good cornea, and the
operation was performed a week
ago
WASiIlNGTON-UP- Members
OF the Senate Post office Commit
tee in Washington today backed
Republican Committee
Member Clyde NJ. Reed Of Kansas
in his determination to find out
who made the mail of Miss Vivien
kellems, 46 year old Connecticut
manufacturer. available to a con
gresham and a columnist
LONDON Up Two 'teen-age
members Of the armed guard on