The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-03-20
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CHICAGO-lNS - Chicagoans
we're one hour andlO inutes near
er New York-by flying time--to-
day following a new flying marx
SET by a TWA Constellation plane.
TWA announced Tuesday night
that its regular Lake Michigan
flight left New York at 1880 p.
IN. (ESTl and landed at ChlcaRe
Municipal Airport two hours and
20 minutes later.
LONDON-INS - The London
Daily Mails Mukden Correspon.
dent charged today that peace
agreements between Chinese Com
munist and Nationalist forces are
being ignored on a wide scale in
Manchuria.
TIRANA-INS - The Albanian
governments official newspaper
"Bashkimi" 'categorically denied
today that Greek warships have
shelled the Albanian coast.
MOSCOW-INS-Red Star. So
Wet Army newspaper promised
the Russian people today that
their armed forces would always
be as strong as any other couu-
try's I'm respect to the newest
kinds OF armament" The paper
said one task OF the Soviet Unions
new fve-year plan was TO raise the
potentialities OF Russias defense
forces.
NEW -'ORK-INS-U Union Of
fcials announced a strike today
OF 5000 workers in FIVE Phelps
Dodge Copper Mines and refining
plants in Arizona and New Mexico.
LONDON-INS-- The Warsaw
radio today announced concIu-
sion OF a 20.year Pollsh.Yugoslav
friendship and mutual assistance
treaty rejecting wartime changes
undergone by both countries lin
the realms OF foreign home poll
cy".
TOKYO-INS- Allied officials
said today that trials OF major
Japanes3 war crimes suspects will
start about the first OF May. II
Nrag aotd that {ntarpot{npaI nroea
cution attorneys will announce
the indictr :ents against Toto ana
other war leaders about April but
the trials will be delayed a month
to permit defense counsel to pre-
pare their cases.
WASHlNGTON-INS-A govern.
ment spokesman disclosed today
that top industrialists forced Sec
retary OF Commerce Wallace to au-
init he was wrong when he said last
November that the auto industry
could raise w~ges Is per cent with
out increasing prices. Members OF
the powerful but little-publicized
Business Advisory Council OF the
Commerce Department we're re-
sponsible for Wallace's change or
heart.
ROME-AP 49, Official returns
today from 7O3 of the 1883 Italian
communes which elected municipal
councilmen last Sunday showed
that right and center groups had
won maiorities in 3l9 places
against 3i6 for the leftists. 1nde-
pendents and local groups win IS
places.
HALlFAX-AP-The 43,000-ton
French. liner lie De France went
back TO her peacetime business as
a passenger ship today She sailed
from Halifax on her first postwar
commercial voyage.
WASHINGTON-AP- Congress
heard today that no officer in the
L. S. Army or Navy, except second
lieutenants and ensigns. has had
a raise in base pay in the last 3S
years. This testimony came from
Col. Russell Akers, Jr, of the
peasonnel division OF the War De.
partment general stan. who appear
ed before Senate Military Sub
committee at the opening hearing
on n bill to increase compensa-
tion for the armed services.
TOKYO-AP-M More than 10000
japanese soldiers are hiding IN
jungles on Pacific islands, still
unaware that the war has ended,
the newspaper Asahi said today. IL
based its estimate on stories
brought home by recently repa-
triated soldiers.
HAMILTON FIELD, Cal.-INS-
Little hope was held out today for
any survivors OF the crash OF a
B-29 Superfortress which struck a
mountain ridge south OF San Fran
cisco while on a flight from Hawaii
TO California.
CHICAGO-AP-Six OF the coun.
try's major east-west railroads
have announced plans for daily
coast TO coast sleeping car service,
r new accommodation to the travel
ing public which will disepnse with
change Of trains.
FORT WORTH. Tex.-AP-- 1t.
Gen. James II. Doolittle, who mas
accepted an appointment 10 head
Secretary OF War Paterson's board
to study officer-enllsted men rela.
tions, said today the board would
begin work in Washington March
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