The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-17
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THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Light Orizzle


NEW YORK-INS- Eighty five
cash gifts totalling sS5l.36s17 have
been made to Columbia University.
DR. Nicholas Murray Butler, pres
ident. announced today. The
money will be used largely TO IL
nance research in medicine, chem
istry and allied sciences. as we'll
as to support scholarly work in
other fields such as international
administration, social problems and
languages.
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA
-lNS-ln a dramatic two hour
ceremony 250 American airmen
were decorated for bravery by Mai.
Gen. George c. Kenney, it was dis
closed today. Many Of them re-
ceived more than one award. A
total of 3S5 decorations were dis
tributed. The outstanding indi-
Vidual of the group was Lieut.. Col.
Richard Carmichael of Austin,
Tex, and Olean, n. Y. who was
awarded the distinguished service
Cross, the distinguished flying
cross and the silver starry,
CHICAGO--INS - The mother
and father of the executed Na7i
saboteur. Herbert Haupt, mis- aunt
and uncle and two friends, mist
stand trial in federal court Oct rs
en- treason charges, District Attor-
noy j. Albert VOLTS Office announc.
cd today.
DALLAS, Texas.-INS-Army Of
ficials today we're investigating the
crash OF a medium bomber near
the Dallas-Tarrant County boundary
which killed six soldiers.
MINER, lll.-INS-T c. Hostel.
rier, veteran principal OF MINER
Township High School, today faced
hearing on charges he beat a Is
year-old student, Miss Kathryn
Hunteman. Free on $500 bond, the
principal will be given a hearing
Wednesday on assault and battery
charges filed ry Mrs. Minnie Hunte-
man, the girls mother.
MEXICO CITY-INS - Mexico
prepared TODAY 10 apply universal
military CONSUMPTION to form an
army OF 100000 men. Legislation
providing compulsory service for
men from IS 10 40 was introduced
in the Senate Friday by Senator
joaquin Padilla, following confer
ences with Foreign Minister Eze-
quiel Padilla.
PRESTON, d-AP-Capt.
Randolph Churchill, who charged
September 2 that pre-war leaders
OF his fathers conservative party
had tended to serve an acquisitiye
and selfish minority was upheld
last night by the local Conserva-
tive Association. The association
gave him a 32-to-1l vote OF conf
dence as Conservative member of
Parliament and, at the same time,
asked Capt. f. c. Cobb. senior
member for the same constituency.
to resign Captain Cobb had stat
ed that he would not be candi-
date in the next general election
il Captain Churchill also ran.
WENATCHEE. Wash.-AP-An
emergency army of white collar
workers, women and students
marched into the vast apple orch
ards Of the Wenatchee and Yaki-
ma districts this week end to help
save a crop valued in the millions.
WASHINGTON - AP 49, Circus
es and carnivals had a go ahead"
from the government today to con
tinue TO operate until Dec. l. but
their fate next year remained UNI
determined.
HAVANA-AP-Cuba establish
cd diplomatic relations with Mos.
COW today for the first time since
the czarist days of Imperial Rus
STA, and thus became the only Lat
in American nation to have formal
relations with the Soviet union.
NEW DELHI -AP-- Gen. Sir
Claude j. f. Auchinleck. former
commander of the British eighth
army in North Africa. has arrived
in New Delhi, it was announced
today.
CAMDEN, n. J.-INS- Another
vital unit Of Uncle Sans powerful
fleet-the aircraft carrier U.S.S.
Princeton-will be launched tomor-
row at the New York Shipbuilding
Corporation yard.
WASHINGTON-INS-Th Unit
States government, ii was learned
today. has been informed by the
French National Committee that an
overwhelming majority Of the peo-
pie Of France are eagerly awaiting
the opportunity to rise against the
Germans the moment a second
front Is established in western
Europe. This information has been
conveyed to Acting Secretary OF
State Sumner Welles by Andre
Philip. commissioner for the Inter
Tor and Labor on Gen. Charles De
Gaulles French National Commit
tee.
LONDON Up Germany has
started to put pressure on the
Nichy French government to force
It into the war on the Axis side II
the Allins' affack Erench AfriCa