The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-24
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NEW YORK -AP- The big
towns slOO,OOO.OOO entertainment
business today was preparing TO
enjoy-eysn il briefly-a reprieye
granted them by Mayor F. II, La
Guardia from the Cinderella cur
few ordered for midnight Monday
The mayor. returning after two
days Of conferences in Washing
ton, said yesterday he would await
specific orders and "all the people
operating may continue the status
quo until | make an official an
nouncement in New York City
WASHINGTON-AP- The types
of planes now employed in carrier
service has been increased TO five
with the addition of the fast and
versatile chance Vought COrsair
fighter plane, the Navy disclosed.
BUENOS AIRES-INS- Rumors
OF an imminent change in the Ar
gentine government were branded
as false today by sources close TO
the government The rumors have
been spread by elements hostile
to Argentina who want to create
bad atmosphere during the
inter-Amrican conference at Mex
leo City, these sources said.
LONDON-INS- The death of
Alexei Tolstoy. GO year old Rus
sian author. was announced by the
Moscow radio today. Tolstoy,
distant relative OF Count Leo Toll
stoy, the great nineteenth century
novelist, has been called by many
critics Soviet Russia's greatest
contemporary writer.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.-INS-Only
Governor Ben Laney's signature
was needed today to make legal
two bills designed to prevent Ar
kansas negroes from voting in
the Democratic primaries for state.
county and township offices. Gov
ernor Laney has indicated he would
sign the bills which were pushed
by Democratic leaders to ci-cum-
vent the United States Supreme
Court decision on negroes voting
in primaries.
LOS ANGELES-INS-First Of
ficiai protests to the national mid
night curfew on entertainments
which goes into effect next week
was voiced today in southern Cal
ifornia by the CLIO United Auto
Workers. Charles w Steese, JAW
international representative, de-
clared that 80 many of our peo-
pie are swing shutters and use the
hours after midnight for their only
4 entertainment and since there is
no coal saving possible here, we
feel that Southern California should
not be included in War Mobillzer
James F. Byrnes' order"
LONDON ms A plea for
clemency has been cabled to King
George by the wife and mother of
Pvt. Karl Gustav Hutton, L. s..
paratrooper condemned TO death
for the shooting of an English taxi
driver, the London Daily Mirror
reported today. The Boston sol.
der has been sentenced to hang
March following conviction with
his companion, Mrs. Elizabeth
Jones, IS year old London strip
teaser, for the murder OF George
-Chin) Heath, the cab driver.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cen
carlos Romulo, resident commits.
sioner Of the Philippines, is search.
ing liberated Luzon anxiously today
Tor the wife and four children he
mas not seen for three years. Rom.
ulo, his cheek marked by a shrap.
mel scar sustained in the early DAYS
OF the Philippine liberation. has ap.
parently not yet located his fam.
lIy, according to reports in Wash.
ington.
WASHINGTON INS-The Jus-
tice Department disclosed today
that an appeal has been carried
directly to Secretary OF State Stet
tinius to admit the "black-listed"
swedish industrialist Axel Wenner.
Gren into the United States. The
appeal was made by Robert Wat.
son. Washington lawyer who res
tered with the Justice Department
Feb. II IS agent for Wenner-Gren.
in connection with his application
for a temporary visa to visit the
United States
WASHINGTON-AP-The beIat-
ed rush of pro-Allied countries to
declare war on the Axis is regard
ed here as conforming with deci-
sions reached at Yalta to simplify
the task OF establishing a lasting
peace. This is particularly true
in the case of Turkey. it was said.
since Washington officials now feel
that Turkey should be qualified for
some voice in future United. Ma
lions meetings as contrasted with
such countries as Spain and Argen.
tina.
PARIS-AP-Two members of a
sang of nine negro soldiers were
killed and two military police were
wounded in a raid on the gangs
headquarters that broke up what
was described by officials today
as one Of the biggest ration rackets
in the European theater OF opera
lions.
WASHINGTON - Capitol Hills