The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21

Franklin ID. Roosevelt declared to-
day. She made that statement after |
placing a wreath on the tomb OF ,
Simon Bolivar, the South American !
liberator. and after attending din |
ner in her honor given by Presi' !
dent Medina.
WASHINGTON -AP- Senators
protesting against playing sec
ond fiddle" to James Caesar Pet
rillo, American Federation OF MI
sicians president, sought today TO
devise a new legislative baton with
which to direct the future course
OF music over the nations air
waves. Chairman Clark (D-Ida-
ho) OF an Interstate Commerce
Subcommittee investigating Pet
rlllo's refusal TO permit the broad
casting OF high school music, told
reporters; Congress is in no
mood to permit the president of
the American Federation Of Must
clans to continue TO ban non-com-
mercial broadcasts OF school music
over the networks il It can find
means to stop him"
NEW YORK-AP-The De Witt
Clinton. for more than two dec
AIDES a Hudson River day line ex-
cursion boat, is off TO the wars
again as a troop transport. The
320-foot vessel has been overhauled
and her wooden decks replaced by
steel superstructure. During the
last war the ship carried thous-
ands OF troops to France without
a single mishap.
NEW YORK -AP- Raymond
Massey, Canadian born stage and
screen actor, becomes q United
States citizen today when he re-
ceives his final papers at the i'm
migration and naturalization office.
Massey, probably best known for
his portrayal OF Lincoln in ABE
Lincoln in Illinois," served as
major in the Canadian army for
year until placed on the inactive
list last year because of Ill health.
WASHlNGTON-AP- Chairman
Reynolds ONO called the SEN
ate Military Committee together
today to consider legislation which
would ban for the duration of the
war any advance in permanent
rank for officers above colonel.
PASSA1C. n. J.-AP-The toll of
known dead stood at 10 today in
the plunge of an interurban bus
from an Recovered bridge into the
IS foot deep channel of the Pas
sale River Six passengers res
cued from the submerged vehicle
and one rescue worker were re-
ported in good condition at hos
pitfalls today.
WASHINGT0N-AP- Chairman
Doughton (D-NC) OF the House
Ways and Means Committee said
today that more than $4,000, 900 Of
the 50,00O,000 taxpayers will have
to estimate their 1874 income and
pay portion OF the tax on it by
April 10, and that there is little
hope OF any last minute, legisla-
tive respite.
WASHINGTON AP-A predic-
ton that the Senate would approve
his proposal. to tighten COMPRESSION
al control over operations OF the
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
came from Senator Mcclellan ID
TENN today in the face OF deter
mined opposition of some southern
senator's.
LONDON 49, AP-In preparation
for the forthcoming invasion OF
Western Europe, the British have
banned non-residents from a 10
mile deep belt extending along
more than 700 miles of England's
southern and eastern coastline as
we'll as from the great naval base
at the Firth OF Forth. The restric-
ton will become effective April l.
WASHINGTON-AP-T The Farm
Department issued a pessimistic re-
port today on prospective food
paintings and there we're indica-
tons that, as result. there would
be a review OF the entire agricultur-
al production picture. particularly
of government labor, prices and
machinery policies.
STOCKHOLM-AP - The Fin
nish government announced today
that It had rejected Soviet Russia's
conditions for an armistice but de-
clared that It still was trying to
establish peace between the two
nations.
LOS ANGELES AP-A sound.
PROCEED, modernistic courtroom in
the big stream-lined federal build
ing was the setting in which
Charles Chaplin. the sober-faced
film comedian and producer, was
summoned for trial today on
charges that he twice violated the
Mann Act in 1912.
LONDON-AP-A secret Hungar.
fan radio station broadcast call to
the nation today for general resist
ance to German armed forces occu-
plying war-weary hungary as neu-
trail dispatches told Of fighting
along the frontiers and between
minority groups in many parts Of
the country.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, British
West Indies -AP-Representatives
OF American and British colonies in
the Caribbean assembled here to-
day for the first session OF confer
ence described by Charles Taussig,