The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-14
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WASHINGTON INS-The So
cial Security Board agreed today to
seek revision OF the old-age payroll!
tax system. The promise was given
by Chairman A. j. Altmeyer and
other board members TO Sen. Arth-
ur II. Vandenberg (R) Mich. who
is seeking cancellation OF sched-
uled one and a half billion dollar
increase in the old-age pay ron
taxes on Jan. ].
NDON-AP-Eire has in
formed Britain II can give no
assurance against granting
asylum to political refugees
from Axis countries. Prime
Minister canon Devaiera, re-
plying to Allied Representa-
tons seeking to bar enemy war
criminals from all neutral coun-
tries, took the stand his. eoun-
try would accept such fugitlves
should Justice, charity or the
honor Of the nation" so re-
quire.
LONDON-INS-Scotland Yards
ace sleuth today sought to solve
the mystery death of attractive
Winnie Evans, a London WAAF,
whose. outraged body was discov.
cred a few hours after she had at
tended a dance at an American
Army camp. Chief Inspector Jack
Grenno, who in many ways is the
personification of the mythical
Sherlock Holmes, was called in to
investigate the case after it had
been described as the clueless
crime"
MISUNDERSTANDING all
negro employees at the Packard
Motor Car Co. plant here we're
absent from their Jobs today,
company spokesman reported.
but all departments continued
to operate at least temporarily.
No estimate Of the number Of
workers involved in the walk
out, which starte at midnight,
was available. The plant en-
ploys a total of approximately
$4,000 workers.
WASHINGTON-INS-Plans for
liquidating the office Of coordinator
OF Inter-American Affairs, which
was set up in 1910 as a wartime
agency. were disclosed in detail
today by Nelson A. Rockefeller,
head OF that agency, who said,
THE good neighbor policy is not
being abandoned, but we are liquid
ating the wartime activities Of this
office, and consolidating the gains
that have been made"
TTSBURGH-AP - Four
persons were killed and SO
were injured when two street
cars eollided in heavy fog at )
nearby MunhalI this morning.
Five police cars and three am
balances rushed the injured to
two hospitals. The dead were
identified as the motorman OF
one car and three passengers.
NEW YORK-INS - One OF
Broadway's best known figures.
Benjamin Lewis, 81, brother and
partner OF Nate Lewis, haberdash-
er, was found dead today in his
penthouse apartment which had
been burglarized. Lewis wife, Mar
celia, discovered her husbands
body sprawled across the bed. fully
clothed. He had been under treat
ment for heart disease and the
medical examiner said he apparent
ly had died OF a heart attack but
ordered an autopsy.
NEW YORK ms - Actress
Ethel Barrymore responded today
to penicillin treatments in a New
York hospital where she is suffer
ing from influenza. A bulletin is.
sued by her physician said her tenn
perature was 101, her pulse 10 and
her respiration %. There were no
pulmonary complications and her
chest congestion was improving.
NEW BRUNSWICK, n. J.-lNS
Passengers aboard a Pennsylva
MIA Railroad flyer, including Secre-
tary of the Interior Harold l..
Ickes, were uninjured but three
bystanders we're nursing minor
bruises today after one car side
swiped the New Brunswick station
platform while passing through at
60-mile clip.
AURORA, lll.-INS-The pub
lished story of 7-year-old Patricia
Attaway. who is suffering from
Emphatic leukemia, a deadly dis.
ease that destroys the red corpus
cles OF the blood, resulted today in
more than 300 offers OF blood for
transfusions.
WASHINGTON lNS-The Agri-
culture Department predicted today
that the end OF the European war
will mean virtually no change in
present civilian food supplies
"since non-civilian requirements
will continue to take substantial
portion OF the total food supplies
throughout 1945.'
NEW YORK-AP-An Army gen.