The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-27

To-Day rejected QendnQ py Iue
labor party that the cabinet resign.
As a result OF this decision, the
Menzies government will remain
in office.
MORRISTOWN. N. J.-AP-The
Morris County grand Jury has in
dicted Frank Erickson, New York
bookmaker, in the stabbing OF Mil
ton F. Untermeyer. New York
stock broker, at the latter's Ken
melon home, May 25. Indicted with
him were Miss La Junta White
and Mrs. Mary Lucas Crawford,
both of New York.
NEW YORK-INS- George q.
Harvey, president of the Borough
OF Queens, today threatened to
throw ESQ tons of aluminium pots
and pans "in the creek" unless fed
eral officials collect the 20-foot pile
of houseware which was contribut-
ed in the government drive a.
month ago.
NEW YORK Up Columbia
Broadcasting System today heard
the British Broadcasting Company
quote the Moscow radio that Col.
Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd Won Rund-
stedt, commander in chief OF Ger
man armies in the Ukraine, had
been killed.
PARIS, German-Occupied France
-AP-French police, proceeding
systematically house by house, to-
day blocked off large section of
the fourth reimbursement (ward)
workers district around city hall
and took into custody num-
Der of Jews and Communists.
HOLLYWOOD@INS - A six
pound 11-ounce son was born To-
day TO Virginia Bruce, screen &C.
tress. and ]. Walter Ruben, film
executive. Attendants at Good
Samaritan Hospital reported that
mother and son are doing we'll. The
actress has daughter. Susan, nine,
by her hrst husband. the late John
Gilbert, film actor.
NEW YORK-INS-Th retail
prices OF dresses will shoot up 20
per cent In the near future-des-
pite the establishment OF price cell
ings on cotton and rayon by the
federal government Norris
Kolchian, executive director of the
Affiliated Dress Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION, said today. A price rise,
he said, is compulsory" because
the cost of materials and labor have
gone up.
WINNIPEG ms - Western
Canada's twin epidemics of infan-
tile paralysis and sleeping sickness
continued to gain today, with a
total of 740 infantie paralysis
cases and $40 sleeping sickness
cases now reported.
-----D ETROIT-lNS Government
Post ONCE clerks, with a member
ship of $4,000, desire to steer cleat
OF relationship with any union, it
was asserted today at the clerks
biennial convention. John j. Bar
rett, chief OF the United National
Association Of Post Office Clerks
declared "the government service
is no place for a union"
FORT CUSTER, Mich.-1NS -
Corporal Henry Greenberg. the
former Detroit Tiger smuggling star.
had his automobile taken away
from him today for 80 days follow.
ing a hearing on a charge that he
was speeding through the Army
post at AZ miles an hour shortly
after midnight. Greenberg, dry
ing his own convertible coupe, was
stopped by a military police scout
car patroling the area and seeking
to enforce the 25-mile-an hour speed
limit.
INSTRUMENTATION
Ambassador kichisaburo Nomura
today requested and was granted
an appointment with Secretary Of
State Cordell Hull His action led
TO the belief that he may be plan
ming to make the diplomatic repre-
sensations which Toxic dispatches
said were being lodged in Washing
ton against shipments Of American
war supplies TO Russia via Vladivos-
tok.
NICHY-UP-Mar Minister Gen.
Charles Huntziger today shifted
command OF French troops in North
Africa. naming Gen. de Lattre de
Tassigny commander in chief of
forces in Tunisia. succeeding Gen.
Audst who was recalled to France
to command at Toulouse.
M0SCOW-U2-A Tass news
agency dispatch from Istanbul today
quoted authoritative Bulgarian
quarters as reporting that the Ger
mans we're planning to sink several
Turkish ships and blame Soviet sub
marines in an effort TO worsen Eus-
sian-Iurkish relations.
WASHINGTON-UP-LieutC Col.
Thomas A. Austin. Jr.. infantry. to-
day was assigned TO duty as military
attache at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Col Austin was relieved from duty
At the San Antonio. Tex. high
schools and from temporar. duty
as student at the infantry school,