The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-12

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expectations of Washington of.
fleials, George Gordon Patton,
economist OF the New York
Coffee and Sugar Exchange re-
Vealed today. He said " the
April rate is maintained a mil
lion tons Of raw sugar can be
brought from Hawaii this year
or twice as much as Washing
ton authorities expected.
MOSCOW AP-The Soviet ln-
formation Bureau declared today
that a big munitions works in the
German city of Munich recently had
been blown up and attributed the
reported blast to rising resentment
of the German people to the Grim
inal Hitlerite clique"
LOS ANGELES-AP- The Los
Angeles board of education has no
titled lis teachers they will not be
employed after June 30, because of
a declining school enrolment and
the boards plans TO increase de-
tense training.
LOS ANGELES-AP-The Oliver
Hazard Perry, first cargo ship built
comparatively by rival shipyards, is
ready for wartime sevice. Built by
the California Shipbuilding Corp.
the steamer was outfitted at the
Consolidated Steel Corporations
yards.
FORT SMITH. Ark.-APNAn ex-
plosion at the Peerless Coal Com
pany mine at nearby Excelsior, III
which five miners were killed and
two others seriously injured, appar-
entity was caused by gas or dust, w.
H. Lewis. mining company presl-
dent, said today.
LONDON-AP-The Star pub
lished a Vichy news agency report
Quoting Bucharest sources today
which declared that new type OK
German land mine had caused the
Russians enormously to believe the
Nazis had used poison gas on tue
eastern front.
VICHY, France-UP - Paris
newspapers reported today that the
small passenger ship Albatross, re-
turning to the French mainland
from Oleron Island off La Rochelle,
struck a mine and sank with its
80 passengers and crewmen..
LONDON-INS-Three Of ten
Italian prisoners of war, who es-
capped from a Midlands prison camp
wearing wigs. makeup and costumes
stolen from the camp theater, were
recaptured today by officers and
home guardsmen. Search was
pushed for the seven still at large.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Petain,
Frances chief Of state, returned 10
Vichy this morning from the Ri
viera, cutting short a vacation for
reasons OF ''imperious concern,
the Paris radio said today.
SYDNEY, Australia-AP- The
commonwealth Coal Commission
applied national security regula-
tions today to LAT miners, making
them liable for service in the army
or labor corps, for staying away
from work.
WASHINGTON-INS- A plant
IS underconstruction today near
Charleston, w. Va. which soon will
be turning out a rubber substitute
material discovered by DR.. Glenn
/. Castro, Spencer. W. Va. dentist.
In a conference with reporters, the
dentist said that a tire retreaded
with the compound ran 10000 miles
and that one-third of the tread re-
manned when the tire was removed.
In addition to retreading the ma
terial can be used for making an
entire casing, Casio said.
WASHINGTON ms - Sen.
Clyde NJ. Reed (R) kans., today
proposed sharp increases in de-
murrage rates and penalties to free
more railroad freight cars for war
transportation. Under present rate
scales. consignees of freight ship
ments are penalized two dollars a
day for each day over two a freight
car remains unloaded.
NEW YORK-INS-Nat Bal
lenberg, 80. prosperous furniture
salesman, confessed, police said to-
day. to the strangle-murder OF his
bride of II months in a sudden
burst of anger. Police said Ballen-
berg surrendered after walking the
streets considering suicide after
he strangled his 26-year-old wife,
Ruth in the bedroom of their apart
ment in the Washington Heights
section of Manhattan.
DENVER-INS- Charles Boett-
cher II. member of a prominent
Colorado family and central figure
in a sensational KIDNAPPING case
nine years ago, announced today
he had been commissioned a first
lieutenant in the Army Air Corps
and would leave at once for Miami
Beach. Fla. to take special train.
ing.
GEORGETOWN, British Guiana
--INS-Plans for improvement of
radio broadcasting facilities in
British Guiana we're taking form
today following announcement
that the British government had
provided grant Of s39,2iO for
the purpose.
RIO DE JANEIRO-INS-Three
japanese subjects who had been
working for Brazilian police as