The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-18

Chimney sent veteran war cores
bondent Alton Smalley. -, of the
st. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer
Press TO the hospital as a casualty.
After an operation to remove the
hrge fragment. which hit him in
he elbow, Smalley's condition was
Reported good
SAN ANTONIO, Tex APP --
Death In air battle in the Philip
bines stilled hopes Maj. Thomas b.
Mcclure, Jr.. had of coming home
o the wife of the nations leading
ctive air ace. 1t. Cen. George c.
kenney, commanding Allied Air
Forces in the Pacific, revealed Me
iuire had been shot down and kill
ed on Jan. I. Mrs. Mcclure as yet
has received no official War De
bartment notification.
WASHINGTON-AP-- War eX-
benditures in 1914 totaled S91174.-
Dos. 900, an increase of II per cent
Ebyer 1913, the War Production
Board reported today. This brought
war expenditures since July l,
$40, to S244,5OO, 100000.
4 CAIRO-AP-Eliahou Bet Souri,
nd Eliahou Hakim were sentenced
TO death today for the ASSESSING
ion OF Lord Moyne, British resi-
dent minister in the Middle East.
CHICAGO AP President
Roosevelt today had a request from
Board Chairman Sewell l.. Avery
Ibt Montgomery Ward and Company
Mat he order the Army, which
eized somo of the firms proper
lies, not to enforce certain War
Labor Board directiyes pending
tourt decision in the case. In
Telegram to the President yester-
hay. Avery reiterated his conten-
lion that the Army's seizure of
company properties in seven cities.
Upon Mr.. Roosevelt's Dec. IS ord
+ er, was illegal and that Wards has
Z been singled out for unequal treat
ment"
WASHINGTON-AP 49, Report
Iing that many soldiers are bitter
because they are kept too long in
battle, Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R-
kconnD called today for a fixed
limit on the time a man is required
No serve under fire without relief.
lin statement prepared for the
House on her recent tour OF war
Zones, the blond congresswoman
declared that, for example, the
54th division in Italy has had over
BOO actual combat days.
\
LOS ANGELES-AP- Philhar-
monte Auditorium, staid haven OF
Bach Beethoven and Brahms. We'd
|nesday night rocked to barrelhouse,
boogie woogie and the blues in a
Swing concert featuring some of
| the most noted names in popular
music. The capacity audience rep
Resented a Cross-section Of Los An
geles society. ranging from society
swells and Hollywood stars in the
$3.50 seats to the less affluent
swing devotees In the gallery.
PARIS-AP- Death sentences
have been imposed on FIVE Ameri-
can soldiers following their con-
Eviction on charges OF desertion and
selling stolen Army gasoline to the
Paris black market, according to
the Army newspaper Stars and
Stripes. Two other soldiers were
sentenced to life Imprisonment. a
third was given 10 years and four
were acquitted the paper said.
LONDNN-AP Prime Minister
Churchill said today that Amer.
lean armies have done almost all
the fighting" and "haye lost GO to
so men for every one Of ours" on
the western front since the Ger.
mans launched their bitter counter
offensive Dec. l6. This is the
greatest American battle OF the war
and will be regarded. | think, as an
ever famous American victory
Churchill told Commons.
U. S. WEATHER FORECAST
Lower Michiga Cloudy tonight
EsriJau With Euht