The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-20
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THE WEATHER.: Tonight;
Warmer

WdfHGE
CHARLESTON. 8. c. ms -
Two new destroyers, the Bell and
the Stevens. will slide down the
ways Wednesday at the Charleston
Navy yard, government officials
announced today. The speedsters
OF Uncle Sans Navy gained their
names from strapped world war
v ssels which we're named in honor
OF the late Rear Admiral Henry
Bell and the late Commodore Hold
up Stevens.
REDWOOD CHI, CALI. ms
Fred W. Skeen, 81. a former Ten
nesseean. was IN jail in san Fran
cisco today. charged with child
stealing in connection with a
honeymoon" he spent with a 10
year.old Redwood City school girl.
The child's mother. Mrs. P. Dets-
charch. Redwood City, brought the
charges after Skeen and the girl
returned 10 San Francisco.
MELBOURNE ms Vice Ad-
miral c. Z. l.. Helfrich, former com
mander of the Netherlands East
Indies fleet. vas revealed today -
be working in close cooperation
with United Nations commands bas-
ed at Columbo. Ceylon. Admiral
Helfrich's whereabouts had not
been disclosed since he was sent
on a special mission shortly be-
fore the Japanese occupation Of the
Dutch East Indies.
VANCOUVER, B. c. -INS-The
plea of the British Columbia Box
Company that it granted wage in
creases to keep employees from
going TO better paying Jobs was TO
no avail today. The firm was fined
500 for raising wages in violation
OF Canada's wage ceiling law.
INSTITUTIONAL An anti
submarine base and an aviation
training center will be establish
ed in Cuba by the United States
War Department under terms of
an agreement reached at Havana,
the State Department has an
nounced.
EAST LANSING, Mich -AP-
Nine hundred youthful citizens"
went TO the polls here today to
elect a governor and complete
slate for the model government of
the fifth annual Wolverine Boys
State.
TOKYO (From Japanese Broad
casts)-AP-More than 5000 sci
entific books which were shipped
from the United States to Chung
king and confiscated by Japanese
forces in September. 1910. while
in transit through French Indo-
China, will be distributed TO col
leges and Libraries in Japan,
Domei reported today.
LANSING -AP- The war Is
making a change in the habits of
Michigan drinkers-and will make
even more before fall. II was in
dicated today. Gin virtually will
vanish from Michigan shelves by
August, il was said, while spirit
blends OF whiskeys soon will be
scarce and battled beer has be-
come the center Of priority trou-
bles.
ROME (From Italian Broad
casts)-AP-The capture of i'm
portant depots of war material"
and several hundred prisoners in
successful Axis thrusts in Libya,
backed by armored units, was re-
ported today by the Italian high
command.
WASHINGTON-UP- Pennsyl-
vania Electric Co, Johnstown, Pa
has applied to the Federal Power
Commission for authorization to
acquire all the Utility assets and
facilities Of the Keystone Public
Service Co., Oil City. Pa.
ANKARRA-UP-United States
Army Air Corps planes devastated
the great Plosti oil fields OF Ru-
mania in their raid of June u, re-
liable informants said today. Neu-
trail sources quoted the Rumanian
legation here as admitting that
fires burned for two days after the
raid and that the whole region was
obscured by smoke.
WASHINGTON ms Sen.
James NJ. Mead tD) New York,
member of the Truman Committee
which has investigated methods OF
checking Axis U-buats said today
there is a possibility that subma-
rines have been serviced in the
western hemisphere. Oficials genAI
orally as~'e. however that the
German AID Italian submarines
have come from European bases
and returned TO them, he added.
LONDON-INS-The death SEN
tence pronounced last October by
a Nazi court on Gen. Alois Elias,
former premier of Bohemia-Mora-
via has finally been carried out,
the Prague radio reported today ae-
-cnrding 10 Reuters dispatch The
announcement did not say when
the execution took place and there
was o explanatio of the long delay.
HARTFORD. Conn.-INS- DR..
Otto Willumeit, the self-styled Chi
cage German-American Bund lead
er. today faced a 20-year federal
prison term after he pleaded gull.