The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-24


four wartime Christmases.
WASHINGDN-AP -- About
100000 soldiers. sailors and Ma.
rines will spend their first peace
time Christmas either at sea or. in
!, foreign lands. The Army and Navy
counted noses today and came up
with this estimate.
PHILADELPHIA-AP-The Cir
minello bankruptcies think Santa
Claus is "all rect though at first
look they gave the white -whisker.
ed gentleman the cold shoulder.
The quads. one-year-old last Nov
/ were visited by gift-bearing ST.
Nick for picture taking purposes
last week.
CHILLICOTHE, o. AP- A pi-
lotless. crewless. twin-engine Army
transport plane crashed in an open
field IL miles west OF here last
, nigh. after soaring haphazardly for
some 300 miles on a four-hour phan-
tom flight. unguided through the
wintry night. The plane, a CA
type. was abandoned about $3.50 p.
NJ. CCST) over Dwight Nebr.. after
its crew lost control because OF
heavy cling conditions. and flew for
four tense hours while Air Force
officials at the Lincoln, (Nebr)
Army Air Field pondered where it
was and where 1t Nigh. come down.
JERU SALEM-AP- British mill
tarites have arranged for as many
service men and women as possible
20 witness the Christmas cere-
monies in Bethlehem on this-the
A FIRST peace-time celebration OF the
birth OF the Prince OF Peace in six
years.
FORT LEE, n. J.-1NS st was
Christmas honeymoon today for
Conrad Nagel, screen and radio ac-
tor, and Lynn Merrick, blonde Hol.
lywood starlet The couple were
married Friday in the Fort Lee
municipal building. '!agel gave his
age as IS and Miss Merrick. a ma.
tive OF Dallas, Tex, said she was %.
TOKYO-INS-The Kyodo News
Agency reported today that Japs.
nese soldiers have enlisted-unof.
fcially-with both Nationalist and
, Communist forces in China's unde-
clared civil war.
CHICAGO-INS -- The hammer
staying OF a Chinese laundryman
confronted police today with Chi
cago's 18th murder tn month Po-
lice identified the latest victim as
Sam Wing, 81, Chinese laundry
man. A neighbor. Marco Matteazzi
told police he saw Wings attacker,
another Chinese. heat the laundry.
man to death with a hammer and
then escape
TOKYO-INS -- Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's Headquarters an
nounced toda. that the Japanese
J; government Will be allowed to buy
more than one million gallons OF
Diesel fuel and one million and a
quarter gallons OF kerosene in the
first three months OF next year.
KYOTO. Japan-INS-An inves-
tigation was being conducted today
into a fire which cost the lives OF
y II American officers and men early
Sunday when a Jap-built barracks
was burned to the ground on Shi.
koSu Island.
DETROIT-AP-A train auto
crash on Jim DAILY Rd. Saturday
wiped out a family OF four. The
dead are Cornelius ]. Martin. 30. OF
Dearborn; his wife Frances. 90,
their daughter Marilyn, six, and son
Robert. one. Their car. with a
Christmas tree tied to the side. was
struck by an east bound New York
Central Railroad train at crossing
In suburban lnkster.
IS-INS-Official announce
ment of a new rate of exchange for
a devaluated franc was expected
by the government today. II was
learned that cabinet members had
decided TO deyaluate the franc at a
special meeting last night but the
ministers refused 10 divulse the
exact rate at which II will be peg.
, sed.
DETROIT -AP-The CiO United
Auto Workers took advantage of a
Christmas holiday truce % pre-
pare new data today for renewal
later this week OF its 80 per cent
wage increase demands on auto |
manufacturers. Picket lines around |
nearly 100 General Motors Corp. |
plants throughout the nation are
due to he abandoned temporarily 20 !
allow the strikers manning them a
holiday with their families.
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