The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-29
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NEW YORK lNS-The Rev,
William T. Cummings, the Army
chaplain on Bataan credited with
originating the expression, 'Thele
are no atheists in foxholes.' was
reported missing today by the
Mary-Knoll Fathers. Father Cum.
mings, who continued 10 lead Ba-
taan heroes in prayer during a Jap
air raid although he was wounded
by flying shrapnel, was last known
10 be aboard an enemy transport
bound for Japan. The ship was one
OF three sunk by an American sub
marine last December
ZURICH-lNS - Residents OF
Hamburg, bomb-stricken German
port, are specializing in air raid
shelters as to whether the first
Allied troops arriving there will be
Russian or American or British, ac'
cording to the Geneva newspaper,
La Suissee. An interview with
2 woman refugee recently arrived
from Hamburg, discloses that cleo
tricity in the port is so scarce
that housewives possessing such
luXuries have been forbidden to use
vacuum cleaners OF other electrical
appliances.
WASHINGTON-INS- The Of
flee Of Price Administration an,
nounced today that all infants lea
Their shoes will be placed on the ra-
lion list beginning May l in a
move designed to increase tn
supply of larger sizes. OPA said
the action will bring sizes 0 TO
under rationing and increase the
production of sizes Az to s, which
have been rationed.
MINNEAPOLIS - ms - Sister
Elizabeth Kenny proposed today an
immediate investigation Of her
methods OF infantile paralysis treat
mcnt right in Minneapolis, the site
of her Kenny Institute. She asked
Rep. Donald l.. O'Toole CD OF New
York Surgeon Geenral Thomas
-PaffaH of the Public Health SerN-
ice and a proposed congressional
investigating committee to come
and "see for themselves what she
is accomplishing in the restoration
of infantile paralysis victims.
LONDON-INS - Hitler's own
newspaper, the Noelkischer Beo-
bachter, has admitted, according to
a dispatch to the London Evening
News today, that unless the Allied
armies in western Germany are
stopped in the next few weeks the
war is lost.
WITH THE L. 6. FIRST ARMY
-AP-The assassination OF Aach-
en's Allied-appointed mayor was
carried out by three German para
chutists in uniform. it was dis
closed today. Striking gangster-
fashion Sunday night, they shot
and killed the mayor Franz open
hof, Al. and then escaped.
MEXICO CITY-AP-The toll OF
fatalities resulting from a COLI
sion here Tuesday night between
a crowded bus and a Diesel loco
motive mounted to 20 today with
the deaths OF three more bus pass
engers.
LONDON-AP -- sponsibility
for feeding hungry Europe was de-
hated in the House of Commons
Yesterday. with some members init
mating that the United States
should increase it's effort in that d.
rection. One member raised the
question OF whether German pri'
soners taken by the Americans
we're getting seven or eight
tines as much food as French
civilians. Another protested that
Britons could not be expected to
wear their belts any tighter than
the Americans.
WASHINGTON -AP-- The wea'
Their has fruit growers and govern
ment food officials sitting on pins
and needles over prospects for
this years fruit crop. Under the
influence of unusually warm wealth
or the past two weeks, fruit trees
are in full bloom as far north as
Kansas. southern Missouri, and
along the Ohio River Valley. Fruit
buds are swelling as far nortaward
as Michigan.
PARIS --AP- A mass meeting
Of representatives of powerful
French labor movements and lib
eral parties ended yesterday with
demand for immediate rupture Of
diplomatic and economic relations
with Generalissimo Frances Span
fish government by all the United
Nations.
WASHINGTON -AP- Joseph
Dunbar Medley was indicted today
for the first degree murder OF Mrs
Nancy Boyer on March 6.
PARIS-AP- With the entrance
OF Argentina into the war against
the Axis, the French government
has moved to take control of
French merchant ships tied up at
Buenos Aires to carry sorely need