The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-18

Confirmed
LONDON ms - London
newspapers predicted today
that Gen. Sir Archibald p.
Wavell soon would be appoint
ed to supreme command" COW
erina India and the Indian
Ocean, responsible for eoor-
dinating sea, land and air &C
tivities, and responsible TO the
war cabinet alone.
LANSING -AP- An attorney
general opinion declared today
that mentally defective persons
who are not patients in state in
situations, may be sterilized I'M
der the terms of state law, the
same as those in hospitals. The
opinion was requested by Probate
Judge Maurice f. Trip OF Adrian.
LANSING AP-Litigation which
had frozen the status of thousands
OF state jobs was dissolved yester-
udl ny inc SUPP tiit NSui u DNN
the justices did not decide the is
sue which caused the dispute to
arise. The court dismissed a pc
tition for an injunction which
would have forced the civil serv-
fee commission TO permit $500
employees who had no previous
civil service status to be blank
eted" into their jobs. i
SAN FRANCISCO -AP- The
Chronicle said today Quentin Rey-
nolds, war correspondent, and Nir-
ginia Pine. film actress, would be
married in New York March 26,
with Wendell L. Willkie as best
man.
WAsHINGTON-INS-Ac ompro-
mise proposal that wages be frozen
on cost of living basis gained
strength in Congress today as advo-
Gates OF suspending the 4o-hour
work week continued to press for
passage OF this bill despite out
spoken opposition OF President
Roosevelt.
DUBLIN-INS- Fires defense
officials were spurred TO greater
activity today following st. Pat
ricks Day address by President
canon de Valera. promising more
than a token defense" II the ma
ton Is attacked.
WASHINGTON ms Senate
Finance Committee members said
today that the rapid increase in
war costs may require Congress to
boost the proposed s9,000,000000
tax program TO much higher figure
TO safeguard the nations finances.
RIO DE JANEfRO-INS- Reports
that a suburban area OF Rio De
Janeiro was a "hotbed OF Nazi con-
spiracy" were being investigated by
authorities today.
WASHINGTON AP-The high
command soon will begin issuing
authoritative general reviews OF the
military situation. The innovation
was announced yesterday at the o.
flee OF Facts and Figures in a
statement Of the governments war
time information policy.
WELLESLEY. Mass.-INS-Mme.
Chang Kai-Shek. wife OF the Chi.
nese generalissimo. held honorary
membership today in the Phi Beta
Kappa Chapter at Wellesley Col
lege, her alma mater. Her election
vas announced at chapel exercises
when is undergraduates were chos-
en- for the scholastic society.
WASHINGTON-AP-Donald NJ
NJ Nelson has given America new
promise to knock down all inter
ference to war production. whether
from management haggling or union
slowups. In a broadcast message
10 the nation the war production
chief said that the country's
factories already were turning on,
war goods in large volume and that
plane production had gone up more
than 80 per cent since Dec. 7.
WASHINGTON-AP-The House
approves the creation OF Women's
Army Auxiliary Corps OF volunteers
TO give American women the same
chance as their British sisters for
military service. The chamber
backed the plan by roll call vote
OF 249 to Sc and sent along to the
Senate legislation which would set
UP a corps with a maximum strength
OF 10000 women between the ages
OF 81 and IS for behind-the-lines
service with the armed forces.
LONDON-INS- The Neither.
lands government in London has
arranged for the purchase Of ad-
ditional new and second hand
ships to replace the losses OF her
large merchant marine fleet. the
Netherlands information bureau
announced today. The second
hand ships It was explained, will
be made available from part of
the fleet taken over by Britain
from the United States"
TULSA. Okla ms BY the
narrowest possible margin J.
Nelson Taylor reporter on the
Tulsa World. today had been de
fcated in his attempt to gain the
Democratic nomination fof police
and fire commissioner in Tulsas
city primary election.