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The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

Yyery nature. It would tend to ia
Yor the Republican party. and as
such would be partisan legisla
tion. Hence, Il has no place on
an agenda reserved for problems
OF importance 10 the people of
the state as a whole. regardless OF
their place OF residence or politics. :"
Leaders OF the Republican party
had urged Kelly to include the re-
districtinE question in the ses-
sion's agenda. It was described as
means to elect another Republi-
can congressman from Michigan.
Four Major Bills
Prodded by its leaders TO get
through this week, the special ses-
sion OF the legislature convenes
again tonight with at least four
major appropriation bills facing a
possible vote.
Warned that legislative chief
tains hoped to end the session by
Friday to forestall attempts OF
city mayors and county supervis-
ors 20 form a city-aid bloc, some
administration supporters saw In
the appropriation bills the first
test OF whether Governor Kelly
will be able TO. push his program
through the two chambers.
In the house $3.300.000 build
ing program bill for the University
OF Michigan waited vote, with
bills providing $4,000. 900 for Mich.
igan State College and $5.700.000
for mental hospital construction a
lap behind but in position to be
voted on tonight also II the house
leaders make good their promise
OF speed. -......
The senate finance committee.
slower than the house ways and
means committee, scheduled a late
afternoon meeting in an attempt
TO report bills for action on the
floor tonight. and the $3.200.000
supplemental school aid bill. amend
ed to provide the same sum for the
second year OF the biennium also
was close to a vote.
Hand Strengthened
The administrations hand In op-
posing local governments demands
for one-sixth OF the sales tax was
strengthened Saturday when Clark
l.. Brody, executive secretary Of
the Michigan State Farm Bureau,
reminded Kelly the bureaus an.
nual meeting had voted that mo
part OF the surplus OF the general
fund OF the state should be return
ed to local units OF government"
Brody said the farm bureau con-
tended the surplus should be used
to meet the accumulated need of
state institutions, to discharge the
states responsibilities to return
ing ex-servicemen and to meet ex.
penses when receipts will be less. :"
Brody declared the farm bureau
opinion was an accurate" express
sion OF rural opinion because it was
voted by delegates chosen by more
than 10000 farmers in so counties.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
Cussing Parrot
Out on Parole

Medford Ore, Feb. 1l-AP- A
Biak Island parrot, whose cussing
in GI csmpsign-style landed the
bird In Jail. has reformed and is
on parole TO the city fire depart.
ment.
Neighbors OF Army 1t. Hugh Col
lins. who owned "Snafu" the parrot,
protested against Snafu's swear.
ing and the Pacific veteran gave
him up to the city jail.
His jailers reported Snafu was a
regular attendant at Sabbath ser.
vices and now is singing bits OF
hymns.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
Delays ciassIfestIon

Classification, scheduled today
for studeuts entering the College
for the new term was delayed near
ly two hours by the blaze and re-
sultant smoke.
President John Munson stated
that the building was insured. and
that the damage would very likely
be repaired rather than the entire
building reple ced
Fire Chief Dignan was investi.
eating the blaze today. hut indicat.
ed that he believed it TO he acct.
dental. II was expected that the
state fire marshall's Office will also
investigate the fire, since the build.
ing is state owned.
The closet is normally use TO
store waste paper, an employe of
the College said today. but claimed
that he had persona taken all
paper out Friday.
Flames penetrated several OF the
lockers in the burned out locker
room, destroying the gymnasium
clothes OF some Of the college men.
'lhNh w NOllblOn
The auto.hre truck collision was
late Saturday evening at the corner
of Washington ST. and Michigan
Ave, when the trucks were en-
route 10 blaze on Jefferson Ave.
The car was being driven by Fred
W. Ellsworth. 1890 Carpenter Rd.
The city truck received minor dam.
ages To the right front fender; the
car, more serious damage to the
right side.
The fire was at the home OF Aion.
20 Talbert, 6l5 jefferson Ave. at
1880 p. m. 1t had a good start be.
fore being reported aud the rear
part OF the house and the roof were
badly damaged. The blaze started
around stove pipe in the second
floor.
In an effort to escape the blaze
Mrs. ,Talbert fell down the stairs
landing in a china cupboard and
receiving seYere facial lacerations
She was admitted to Boyer Hos
pital for treatment and was re-
leased from the hospital immedi-
ately.
Shots from Is and 3Z caliber
shells. exploded in the fire and
made fighting precarious for the
hremen. The shells apparently were
kept in boxes near where gun
was standing in the hallway.
Basement Fire
Early Saturday afternoon, the
city fire company was called to the
basement OF Elwood Knox, Jr.,
where a fire had caught around the
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
Kelly Rejects
Wayne Change

Lansing, Feb LAP Governor Kelly rejected today
request that he permit the special session of the egs
ature to submit to the voters constitutional amendment
to redistrct Wayne County.
Kelly said he had determined to inject partisan
questions into the special session and
asserted:
1T is not question whether this proposal is sound in
its conception and would have beneficial result. BY its
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
Butter Procures
Coveted Rooms

Austin, Mimi, Feb. 1i-AP-But.
ter worked as a fine salve for bank
er George Reppesaved and cafe
owner George Kokalaris during q
tip TO Florida.
When hotel clerks said. mo
room. the travellers casually men
toned the 80 pounds OF butter they
had brought with them, adding.
we might spare a Bit.
The Minnesotans reported butter
was the open sesame" in every
hotel visited.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
White House Reveals Steel
Settlement Formula Coming
Cardinal Designate Mooney
EnrOute to Rome For Rites

Shannon, Fire. Feb. tt-Areh-
bishops Edward Mooney OF Detroit
and Samuel A. striteh OF Chicago,
en- route to Vatican City to receive
their appointments az Cardinals,
landed at this airport at to:35 a.
m. EST. today. Prime Minister
canon de Valera escorted the pre-
Iates to the airport office for q
luncheon.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
Flashes of
Late News

SAN FRANCISCO-lNS - Gen.
Walter Kruger, back In the United
States after three years of leading
the famed sixth Army through the
Pacific, planned today to retire In
several months. Kruger arrived
in San Francisco Sunday aboaro
the battleship New Jersey, and was
greeted with a l7-gun salute from
Fort Mason guns.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
U. s. WEATHER FORECAST

Lower Michigan-Cloudy tonight
with snow flurries In east portion.
Tuesday partly cloudy and colder
with snow flurries near Lake Erie.
Highest temperature yesterday.
rs: lowest. 49, Highest tempera.
ture one year ago today, 35; lowest,
25. Highest temperature this date
in last 73 years. 81 in 1882; lowest.
10 in 1855.
The sun sets today at $50 p. m.
and rises Tuesday at 7:33 a. m.
The moon rises today at 1:20 D. m.
and sets Tuesday at SOP a. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
Re-sssembie

The cardinals parties hastily re-
assembled at the field shortly
after 6:45 p. m. (EST) and were
aboard by 7:10. Within few
minutes they were aloft and head
ed for Rome.
The public consistory Feb. 81
will be preceded by a secret con-
sistory Feb. 1S and another private
consistory Feb. %.
The rites-steeped in the tradi-
tion of the Catholic Church-will
involve Bestowal Of the symbolic
marks OF the cardinaliste on the
two prelates. These include the
red hat" and sapphire ring.
Two other American cardinal
designates-Francis Joseph SPELL
man of New York and John Joseph
Glennon of st. Louis-together
with Archbishop Thomas Tien Of
Tsingtao, China - left today by
plane from New York for the cerc-
monies which viii see 80 prelates
raised TO the rank Of cardinal.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
AUCTION CALENDAR

SATURDAY. FEB. 16-t2:oo o..
clock. 5 miles West OF Ypsilsnti
or S miles Southeast OF Ann Ar
Dor. or mile west OF Ypsilanti
Air Port at 1895 PIstt Road on
place known as John Fiegel
Farm. A. 2. Day, Prop. Ben
simons, Clerk. Guy =. Thompson,
Auetioneer. adv.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
Mystery Shot in
Home Investigated

State police today were inyestl-
eating gun shot at the home ~
Carl Gundrum. 1861 Packard Rd.
about midnight. Sunday. Mr. Guud-
rum old police he heard a shot
downstairs in the house lie invest.
igated. but found no one. Police
found an empty IS caliber shell on
the floor near the base Of the stair
way. The shot had hit mo the
ceiling Police we're attempting To
locate The bullet. which fell be,
tween the partition walls.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

BRICK. LUMBER, doors. windows,
plumbing and light fixtures. all 9th
er kinds OF material while wrecklng
building. 3S4 +. Michigan, Cor.
Grove. Arrow wrecking Co. adv
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
Top Personnel
Changes
Near

Washington. Feb. 1l-AP-Ths
White House said officially for the
first time today that changes are
in prospect in top administration
personnel and indicated announce
ment OF formula for settling the
steel strike was imminent
Press Secretary Charles q. Ross
told news conference, in reply
TO questions. that personnel chang
es ARE in prospect, but he de-
clined TO elaborate.
At the same time. Ross said
When and II steel settlement
Is announced, there will he a full
explanation. Of all the mathematics
entering into It."
Ross said the announcement
would come from the White House.
Asked whether such an announce
ment was not already prepared, he
merely smiled.
As 10 whether there would be a
formal announcement today. Ross
said he did not know but he re-
peated that changes in personnel
are in prospect
Out on Strike
In the meantime Philadelphia
street cars, buses aud subway
trains means OF transportation
for 5000, 1000 dai'y-were notion
less today as 1856 employees OF the
Philadelphia Transportation Com
pany went on strike.
The transit workers belong to
the ClO Transport Workers Union
and seek a pay raise OF 25 cents
an hour and other benefits. The
company offered a 19-cent Increase,
With l.037 taXicabs the only pub
lie vehicles left on the streets,
emergency systems were improvis-
ed to get essential workers to
their jobs, and some employers re-
served hotel rooms for their staffs.
Navy buses assembled to take
$4,000 civilian and service per-
sonnel TO the Philadelphia Navy
base and other installations. The
| ClO organized motor pool to
| transport hospital workers, fed-
ersl employees and other essential
workers. Suburban railroads sched.
uled more frequent trips.
Settlement Near
At New York. settlement Of the
strike that has tied up harbor ship
ping and caused n fuel shortage
even more severe than during the
war appeared near.
Arbitration was agreed upon by
the New York Tugboat Owners
Association and leaders of the
United Marine Division Of the AL.
International Longshoremenls As.
sociation as means of ending
the dispute.
Not Favorable
Prospects did not seem favorable
for ending the stoppagc Of $4,000
ClO United Auto Workers at Gen-
eral Motors Corp. plants. A dis
rute between GM and employees Of
D
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

Checkerboard Inn closed for re-
modelling. Watch :or date OF open.
ing. adv.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

TOKNO-lNS - The scheduled
transfer OF two stan members OF
the Pacific edition OF the Army
newspaper Stars and Stripes was
postponed today ON orders rs.
sued by General MacArthur's Head
quarters. The postponement came
after the editorial stan of the paper
charged the two men were ordered
10 an Okinawa replacement depot
as an outgrowth of Army attempts
TO ''muzzle" the paper.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

gan at $50 a. m. (EST) today
when the big plane took OF from
Gander after a brief stop and head
ed on TO Shannon.
To Land Tonight
The craft was due TO land at
Rome early tonight (about 5 p. m.
EST) with Archbishop Mooney
scheduled to go Immediately to his
headquarters in the Colombian EN-
bassy in the Vatican City. Arch
bishop Stritch is to stay at Cole
gio Ssncta Maria Del Lago.
Airline officials said the delay
was due to defect In a tiny steel
sleeve in the hydraulic booster sys.
TEN OF the planes rudder mechan.
ism. They said the repairs were
made only as a precautionary meas
ure as the trouble would not have
affected the planes flight.
Archbishops Mooney and Stritch,
who were already aboard with their
parties when announcement OF the
fight delay was made, took 1t in
stride and returned to the Mooney
residence for dinner.
The prelates and priests spent
most OF the afternoon reading,
while spare parts were flown here
from Newark. They arrived short
ly after S p. m. (EST) and within
a few minutes the plane was At for
service again.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

had formed a natural flue for the
blaze. Firemen we're hampered
by the maze OF small rooms. halls
and doorways in that portion OF the
building. Dense smoke also added
hazard to the work
Three units from the department
were finally sent TO the blaze. but
two hose lines we're sufficient.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

WANTED STENOGRAPHER for
hospital record room. permanent
position. Write Box Al, c O Press.
ad0
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

WASHINGTON-AP- A respon.
sible government official said today
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney plans to
recruit several thousand more Pol.
ish civilians to help solve the L. s.
Army's manpower problem in Ger
many.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11
Settlement Near


Prospects did not seem favorable
for ending the stoppagc OF $4,000
ClO United Auto Workers At CEN
eral Motors Corp. plants. A dis
pute between GM and employees Of
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See CIO-Pase S
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

BUENOS AIRES-AP-A special
train carrying Col. Juan ID. Peron
on his campaign :or the presidency
OF Argentina was derailed between
Rosario and Buenos Aires yesterday
but Peron escaped injury. The train
was delayed for nine hours.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

s. CAIRO-AP-Police raided the
plants of the Wafdist (NationalisD
newspapers Al Misri and Al Wafd
ell Misri today and seized editions
carrying stories concerning turbul-
ent anti-British demonstrations by
students over the week end in
which one person was slain and
nearly 100 injured.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

LONDON-AP-Two Arab states
Iraq and Saudi Arabia. served notice
today that they would fight to the
last against New York as United
Nations headquarters, objecting to
some political influences" there.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

WASHlNGTON-AP - Winston
Churchill today postponed his re-
turn to sunny Florida until tomor'
row and settled down in the snow.
clad British embassy TO rest and
talk with the Earl of Halifax, his
old friend and retiring British am
bassador to the United States. The
embassy said that the former prime
minister had no definite plans for
the day and no conference schedul-
ed.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

NEW YORK-lNS-Pierre j.
Huss. international News Service
foreign correspondent. said today
that there is no hunger in the
American-occupied zone OF Ger
many and no indication OF possible
famine. Huss. who returned to
this country Sunday on the Queen
Mary, said he saw no evidence OF
under.nourishment though the
Germans are more interested in
food than they are IN politics.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

LOS ANGELES ms - Lou
Fromm, 81. drummer in Harry
James Band. was under arrest to-
day on a narcotics charge. Police
said they confiscated 4S bindles Of
heroin and three hypodermic nee
dies In his Hollywood apartment.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

BOSTON-lNS-Doctors at Chill.
dren's Hospital prepared today
to receive an Ohio baby who has
no vein connecting one lung to his
heart. "Corkey" Emch, two-year
old son of Marine Pvt. and Mrs.
Joseph Emch. is being flown here
with his parents from their home
in Toledo with funds raised by
neighbors and civic organizations
in their home city.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OF major film companies expressed
fear today OF a general walkout OF
film handlers which would cause
the shutdown OF Detroit's theaters,
Edward Loye. head OF the United
Artists film corporation office, said
the walkout would include all
types Of film handlers including
projectionists
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-11

WASHINGTON-UP- The Conf
munist movement is growing in
Latin America and is especially
thriving in Cuba, according to a
report from the island available to-
day. The report was written by
William Il. Foster, head man of tho
American Communist party. He
has just returned from attending
the third national assembly OF the
Cuban Peoples Socialist party in
Havana. That is the official style
OF the Communist party OF Cuba.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-13
TWO KILLED WHEN
STRUCK BY AUTOS
Drivers Are Being Held By
Police Awaiting Further
Investigation

Two traffic deaths in Southeast
ern North Carolina were report
ed as the weekend began.
Mrs. Cora Belle Carlisle, age Is,
of Autryville, was killed when hit
by an automobile as she attempt
ed to cross the road after alight-
ing from a Queen City bus, headed
west, on the Clinton-Fayettevllle
highway near Hayne early Friday
night.
Matte Carlyle, aged Lumberton
Negroes, was killed almost instant
ly the same night when she was
struck by a truck operated by, Al
phonso Steele, of Maxton, at the
intersections of highways 301 and
"a, west of Lumber river, accord
ing to police officials of Lumber
ton.
The automobile which struck
Mrs. Carlisle was driven by Jake
Taylor, 17-year-old N ashvill e
youth. The car skidded about 135
feet and turned over three times
before landing in an upright posi-
ton across a ditch, according to a
police report.
Taylor received only slight in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-13
Allies 0keh
Peace Treaty
For Hungary
u.s.. Plan To Slice Repara.
lions Payment Is Voted
Down, 12To2
FINLAND NEXT
Conference Votes To Free
Hungarian Section OF
The Danube River
BY LOUIS NEvIN

PARIS, Sunday, Oct. 10. -(PH
The peace conference completed
;ts work on the Hungarian peace
treaty early today after rejecting
f1e plea for the United States for a
sIOO, 900. 900 reduction in the amount
Of separations that Nation must
nav Russia, Czechoslovakia and
Yugoslavla.
In the course of completing its
deliberations on the last of the
treaties fol the Balkan satellites
ot Germany, the conference voted
10 free the Hungarian section of
tbe Danube to commerce of all
Nations, as it had done earlier in
f,e Romanian and Bulgarian trea-
lies,
After recess today, the confer
ence will convene tomorrow. under
the Craftsmanship of President
George Bidault of France, to finish
its work on the treaty with Fin
land.
The delegates voted II to two
with seven %abstentioas to allow
fae three slav Nations 5000, 0O0,-
geo. Only Canada joined the United
States. Australia. Belgium, Brazil,
Greece. Norway New Zealand and
tha Netherlands abstained.
Willard Thorp, u. S. State de-
partnent economic expert, appea-
linz for the reduction in order to
Ike ep Hungary fr m
economic disintegration," spoke
lust before the delegates OF the
q N:tions began to vote on final
APPROVAL of the Hungarian treaty,
fourth and next to last treaty to be
pass upon by the conference.
In slightly more than IS minutes
after tonight's session opened the
delegates approved all the political
articles in the treaty, including one
directing Hungary to negotiate with
Czechoslovakla on the return OF
2ON 600 Hungarians on Czech soil,
and another granting Czecho-
slovakia three towns in a bridge
he-d across the Danube to permit
= D--o
Military clauses limiting Hun
gary's armed forces to $1,000 men
for the Army, an a%irforce OF ~
combat and 20 transport planes with
a manpower of 5000 were adopted
without discussion.
A member of the secretarlat an
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-13
TIRED SEAMEN WIN
GRUELLINC BATTLE
American Dies In 36-Hour
Fight Against Raging
Flames In Atlantic

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 12- P) -
Weary crewmen aboard the $780,
ton Swedish motorship Kristina
Thorden won today a gruelling &c.
hour battle in the mid-Atlantic
against flames that swept the YES
sci and killed four persons, includ-
ing Cmdr. Walter Leroy Heiberg,
so, former U. S. Naval attache in
Stockholm, a message to the ship
owners here said.
Heiberg was buried at sea at the
request of his wife, who also was
aboard, the message added. Eight
other American passengers on the
ship, including Mrs. Heiberg, es-
capped without severe injuries.
The others who lost their lives
we're listed by the Swedish news
exchange as J. G. Erickson, %,
Visa, Finland, a student; Paul
Kempaainin, 81, Ct Finland, and an
unidentified Swedish businessman.
Four American passengers slight
ly injured were reported transfer
red to the Norwegian Atlantic lin
er Stavngerfjord, which is heading
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-13
Specially Trained Force OF
Officers To Press
New Campaign

WASHINGTON, Oct. - up -
The OPA tonight launched a ma
tionwide breakdown on builders
or others who violate ceiling price
and veterans preference -egula-
tons of the housing program,
promising criminal prosecutions"
where necessary.
A specially trained force of OPA
agents will take the field Monday
to press the drive in cooperation
with more than 55o. local OPA rent
offices.
The announcement came as Sena-
tor Wiley R-Wis) of the Senate
Judiciary committee released cor
respondence with Attorney Gener-
al Clark and Price Administrator
Porter questioning the right of
OPA agents to carry arms and
make arrests.
Wiley wrote the officials last
month that there is some ques-
ton as to the presnt legal authori-
ty for actions of the OPA enforce
ment staff and demanded to know
under what law they were acting.
Porter cited statute which he
said gives the agents the power to
make arrests and added that 'the
right to carry weapons for defense
necessarily flows from that power.
Clark promised his reply later.
In the housing enforcement drive,
Porter's statement said that the
maximum voluntary compliance"
is sought but that ceases requiring
crimina. prosecution will be certi-
fled to the attorney generals Of
flee"
Reporting that a substantial
number of complaints of Violations
already had been received, an OPA
official told a reporter the drive
will be OPA's first step in taking
over enforcement duties recently
delegated to it by the Nationa.
Housing Agency.
1--WE do not have a flood of COM
plaints,' he said. But we have
had a substantial number, especial
ly in certain. ereas. This campaign
is intended rot only to check up on
complaints already received. but
to establish a permanent safeguard
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