The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-22

workers walked out in a dispute
over pay for the two-day victory
holiday OF August Is and 16.
PARIS Inns The newspa-
per Combat reported today
that the cabinets Of both Le-
banon and Syria had resigned.
The dispatch from Beirut said
that the Lebanese ministers re-
signed when the antI-Freneh
constitutional party withdrew
its members.
HADDON HEIGHTS, n. Jap
A burly. 200-pound ex.paratroop
er was cap. Ired late last night and
charged with murder in the Staying
OF pretty 23-year-old waitress.
Howard Aud. 25-year-old medically
discharged ex.sergeant was being
questioned early today in the Of
fees Of County Prosecutor Gene r.
Mariana.
MOSCOW - APP Soviet dis
patches reported today that Red
army troops had taken more than
250,000 prisoners In the Japanese
owned southern hall OF Sakhalin
Island and were. rapidly completing
occupation.
ROME -AP- Stars and Stripes.
U. S. Army newspaper, published
a report today that Mayor Fiorel-
10 II. LaGuardla OF New York City.
might be named ambassador to
Italy. replacing Alexander Kirk.
Embassy sources said that to their
knowledge no such change was
contemplated and added that there
was no indication that Kirk was
preparing to leave.
LONDON -AP- Geneva, home
OF the League of Nations. appears
TO be winning favor among diplo-
mats in London as a possible site
for permanent headquarters of the
United Nations Security Organiza-
ton.
CHUNGKING -AP- Japanese
red tape delaying 1t. Gen. Jona-
than M. Wainwright's departure
from Manchuria. where he has been
a prisoner Of war. apparently was
cut today by Soviet authorities. A
message from an American airborne
humanitarian team at Mukden
quoted Russian officers as saying
last night that a B-24 Liberator
was en- route to Hsian, 100 miles to
the northeast, to fetch Wainwright,
who has been a prisoner there
with seven Americans and rs
other Allied nations.
WASHINGTON-AP-The Army
is banning overseas shipment OF
enlisted men with rs or more dis
charge points. At the same time,
II was learned that the War De-
par:ment soon will direct all
branches OF the Army to cut below
81 the age limit for overseas duty.
BEECHWOOD, Md.-AP- Tired
farmers and miners, digging at n
landslide blocking an abandoned
mine entrance, continued efforts
today to free four cows trapped in
the shaft since Sunday. Shifts of
men have worked by lantern and
carbon lamp hauling out wheel.
barrow loads OF rock and attempt
ing to erect roof supports against
recurrent rock fall. Women forti-
fy them with soup. coffee and sand
witches.
CLEVELAND -AP- The decade
old dream OF a $9OO,00O,O0O rail-
road empire embracing the Chesa-
peake & Ohio, Nickel Plate, Pere
Marquette and Wheeling & Lake
Erie systems was a step nearer
realization today after c. & o. di.
rectors voted to submit a merger
proposal to directors OF the other
roads.
NEW YORK-AP-The gallant
fighting men OF the Both old Hick. |
DRY Division, heroes OF the Battle
OF the Bulge, were back on Amer.
lean soil today after 10 months OF
bitter warfare. The young, comba..
hardened veterans lined the rails
and crowded the portfolios OF the
great gray liner Queen Mary as she
nosed into New York harbor late
last night beneath full moon.
NEW YORK INS-A plea that
Canada's uranium deposits be ad-
ministered for the good OF interna.
tional peace was made .oday by NJ.
]. Coldwell. parliamentary leader
o. the Canadian Cooperative Com.
monwealth Federation.
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