The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-16
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THE WEATHER: Tuesday;
Partly Cloudy:

ALBUQUERQUE, y. Nap
Rep. John J. Dempsey preserved a
precarious margin over Sen. Dennis
Chavez today as their bitterly waged
race for the Democratic senatorial
nomination neared a final count.
With the vote yet to be reported
from many northern Spanish-Amer-
lean county precincts, predominant
ly favorable to New Mexico born
Dennis Chavez, 1853 of the states
GA voting divisions in Saturdays
primary gave Dempsey 42,554, Cha
yez 40,Sll.
KENVIL. n. J,-INS- Various
agencies today pushed their separ-
ate Investigations of the explosions
OF the Hercules Powder Company
plant here which killed AZ persons
and injured 100 while the Dies Com
mittee planned TO resume hearings
at Newark tomorrow. Sheriff Den
ton ]. Quick OF Sussex County and
is deputies raided Camp Nordland,
maintained by the German-Amer'
lean Bund near here, but were I'M
able to find rosters of the member
ship. A 20 automatic rifle equipped
with a telescope sight and stacks
of Bund literature were confiscated.
VICHY -INS - Two French
steamers enroute TO Marsellles
with demobilized troops from
North Africa were sunk when
they struck mines off the coast Of
-Sardiaia,-it- WAS Officially reveal
ed today. Except for three sold
iers who were drowned, all the
passengers and crew were report
ed saved.
LONDON -AP Curiosity led
10 the killing and wounding OF
several civilians near a town In
Kent Sunday, the air ministry re-
ported in a special bulletin today.
The civilians, who had watched
a German Dornier bomber crash
after being hit by anti-aricraft
guns, rushed up to collect souy-
enirs. "They either did not KNOW
or forgot that a crashed bomber
may contain unexploded bombs"
the ministry said. Zone OF the
bombs went off.
LERMONT-FERRAND, France,
ms Fifty Americans and
fleet of ambulances and trucks
loaded with medical supplies pre-
pared to leave here today for the
German-occupied zone OF France
TO aid French war prisoners, DR..
Alexis Carrel. famous scientist,
and one of the sponsors OF the
American mercy caravan, -caplea-
the United States asking for fur
Their. medical supplies.
ST. JOHNS, n FMS The
u. S. S. st. Louis steamed into
st. Johns Harbm today bearing
American naval experts who VIII
inspect sites for air and naval
bases in New Foundland. Rear
Admiral ]. W. Greenslade headed
the group OF American naval tech
nicians.
iCHICAGO-UP-Sen. Charles L.
McNary. r.. Ore. Republican vice
presidential nominee, will make
the first of six campaign speeches
at Aurora, ILL.,, next Saturday,
state headquarters announced to-
day.
CHICAGO-UP- Police pulled
Albert Adelizzi, a 49year-old bar
Der, from clothes closet in his
cousins home today and accused
him OF fatally shooting June Dog
gett, IS, in the presence of her
mother. Mrs. Hessie Doggett, the
girls mother, told Capt. Charles
McGurn she hal slapped Adelizzi
Sunday night and ordered him to
quit seeing June because of the
discrepancy in their ages.
NEW YORK-INS- A quarrel
over the date for their wedding
was blamed today for the murder
and suicide which left Miss Flor
ence Tucker, 81, a nurse, and
J ames Bacon, seaman attached
to the Norfolk Naval Hospital at
Portsmouth, Va. dead within "a
hours OF the time they became
engaged.
LONDON-AP-The forthcoming
marriage of David Niven, British
Aim star, to Miss Primula Rollo,
daughter of Flight Lieutenant
william .Rollo and Lady Kathleen
Rollo. was announced today. The
wedding is to take place shortly.
MELBOURNE, Australia-AP-
Prime Minister Robert &. Menzies
predicted in a speech today that
Germany would open peace Ct-
fensive within a fortnight to top
off the nerve-shattering effect Of
the incessant bombing OF London
and England. The prime minister
said he felt sure Britain would re-
fuse to make peace until the
evils the Nazis have built up have
been purged away.
HONGKONG-AP- Chinese dis
patches said today that 5000 Chi
nese have died In the last month
In a cholera epidemic which is
sweeping the coastal regions Of
Fulkien Province. Foochow was
among the cities affected by the
outbreak.