The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-17
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RIO DE JANEIRO-AP-A plan
to supply L. S. Armed Forces with
a million sacks OF coffee by direct
shipment from Brazil was reported
under consideration today by the
convention OF government dele
gates and growers and dealers of
BraZil's eight coffee producing
states. The plan was said to be de
signed to relieve demands on the
L. S. civilian supply.
YWOOD-AP- Movie pro-
Queer Cevil B. De Mile has made
the first of series OF gifts he plans
for the University of Southern
California toward a memorial thea
ter and library on the campus.
President Rufus 3. Won KleinSmid
said the playhouse is to be named
the DE Mile Theater" in recogni-
ton OF the rs years OF continuous
service TO the drama OF America
by the De Miles. starting with
Henry c. and Beatrice, parents Of
Cecil and William G. De Mile.
CHUi -GKING- AP - Chinese
newspapers today hailed the L. S.
carrier plane attacks on the Japa'
nese mainland and the lombard
ment OF Two lima with the ma
jority taking the view the Ameri-
cans would occupy the BONN and
Volcano Islands before attempting
landing on Japan proper.
NEW YORK-AP-Julia Pearl
Davis Steele, OF Hopewell. Va,
19-year old WAC whom the FBI
says has been AW.O.L. since Sept.
/ is under arrest. charged with H.
legally receiving allotment checks
from two Of thee service men she
married.
BUENOS RES-AP-Informed
quarters said today that the Argen-
tine government, acting in response
TO complaints from diplomatic
quarters abroad, has ordered FL
Pampero, pro-Axis daily, and Cabil-
do, its milder Nationalist counter
part. to cease publication perman-
emily.
NEW YORK-AP-After a two
day stoppage caused by lack Of
newsprint, three daily newspapers
in Naples will resume publication
today with allied stock rushed from
Rome. I. was reported in a dispatch
to the ONCE OF War Information.
STOCKHOLM AP - Henry
Johansen, husband of Opera Sing
err Kristen Flagstad, has been ar
rested in Norway, the German-con-
trolled Swedish Telegraphic Blu
reau reported today from Oslo. No
reason was given or the arrest
Johansen has been chairman of the
board OF directors of both the
Grand and Bristol Hotels in Oslo
WASHINGTON-AP- Standard
ization OF artificial limbs provided
TO disabled veterans Is now being
sought. A meeting OF manufactur-
ers with the Army, Navy and Vet
Grams Administration, Is underway
In chicago.
JONDON-AP-At total OF 800 600
French women are among prison
ers of war and deportees in Ger
many. the Paris radio estimated to-
day in announcing that a special
reception camp had been set UP to
receive women repatriated after
Germany's defeat.
WASHINGTON-AP- Insurance
OF improvement loans by the Fed
eral Housing Administration is
paving its own way. FILA reported
today. The percentage Of defaults
on all title ! loans for repairs and
improvements Is at its lowest
point. 1.SS per cent at the latest
reporting. said FILA Commissioner
Abner II. Ferguson.
MINNEAPOLIS. MINI. ms
Members Of the American Fedora
ton of Musicians today were ex-
pected TO return TO studios OF RS
do station KSTP following the
signing OF a contract ending
lengthy labor dispute.
CHICAGO-INS- The Method
ist Commission on World Peace
moved today to mobilize members
of Methodist Churches throughout
the nation in seeking postpone
ment of congressional action on
postwar CONSUMPTION until after the
war.
LANCASTER. PAPA pass
enger train crashed into a derailed
mail and express train at Leaman
Place, / miles east of here. today
bat no one was injured seriously,
the Pennsylvania Railroad public
relations Office reported.
NEW Observation-Disclosures in.
dustrialists were urged today by
Lieut.. Gen. Taikichi Tada, director
general of the Japanese Science
Mobilization Association, to antici-
pate possible loss of occupied
southern regions and develop syn
thetic substitutes for oil and other
imports in order to make the Jap
anese home islands "self-suflicient
in vital war resources"
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U. s. WEATHER FORECAST
Lower Partly cloudy
and cold. with few snow flurries
tonight and Sunday.
Highest temperature yesterday,
81; lowest 20.
Highest temperature one year
ago today. 43: lowest 20.
Highest temperature this date in