The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-01

TO sabotage.
BOSTON, ms - Fldella II
BRAND, 16.year-elo college stu
dent, was stabbed to dsath to-
day on a lagoon beside the
Charles River basin by Harry
Adams, a 45-year.od man who
alleeedly admitted he tried to
attack her. The fatal stabbinu
occurred while two armed po-
s lieemen tried unsueeessfully to
reach the side Of the struggling
girl.
LONDON-INS - Britain has
agreed TO certain proposals" on
behalf Of Australian defense, DR.
Herbert V. Evatt. Australia's minis.
ter Of external affairs said today.
Dr. Evatt, who has been in Bri.
tain for a series of conferences,
made the statement in a farewell
message on the eye OF his return
to Australia.
CHICAGO-INS - The U. 8.
Nays Glenview air base was UNI
yelled for reports today as il
prepared for a summer-long expan-
sion push which will make it one
of the largest training centers OF
its kind in the nation
WASHINGTON ms The
Nays casualty list of World War
II was boosted today to more th v
$500 when the Navy Department.
made public a list of 2,3l7 namesz.k
including 81 dead. "a wounded and
2,199 missing. Captain Kenneth
Mortimer Hoehel, As, Washington,
D. c., who is reported as missing,
is the ranking naval officer listed.
BALTIMORE, Md-INS - Two
more American freighters today
were added to the toll taken by
German submarines as 81 survivors
of the vessels told how the boats
were torpedoed, and sunk in the
Caribbean with the loss OF three
lives. Several seamen from one
of the ships said they were ,rfpret-
~ sure" that the skipper of the
German sub which sunk their chaft
was Baron Edgar Won Speigel, who
formerly served as Nazi consul
general for the Gulf Coast.
NEW DELHI, India-AP-Mar-
tial law was proclaimed today in
the area OF Sind in the Bombay
presidency as a result of disorders
among the natives.
WASHINGTON-AP-The deci-
sion of Senator Bilbo (D-Miss) to
postpone a test vote on a bill TO
prohibit possession and sale OF
alcoholic beverages in or near
Army and Navy posts today sig
nailed a lull in Senate activities
Instead OF calling up the contro-
versial measure tomorrow or Tues
day, as originally planned, Bilbo
and his colleagues decided to call
a public hearing June 22-an in
formal forum to which Henry Ford
and other private citizens have
been invited.
WASHINGTON-AP-The labor
mobilization program of the War
Manpower Commission became eff
fective today, establishing an EN-
phatic policy for military defer
ment of irreplaceable craftsmen
and setting up a system of priori-
ties to make certain that urgent
production needs get first call on
available skilled workers.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. than
300 brigadier generals. colonies
and officers of lesser rank are sche.
duled for compulsory retirement
on June 80 because of age but most
of them will be ordered to active
duty again on the following day,
il was learned today. These Of
ficers. mostly colonies. must be re-
tired under the provisions OF a
law enacted on June Is. 1910.
HOLLYWOOD-INS - Simple
funeral services were being plan
ned for tomorrow for the 60-year
old actor. John Barrymore. who for
more than three decades had been
a reignng favorite Of the stage and
screen. Last rites will be con.
Quoted in the tiny chapel Of Calvary
Cemetery with only IS of the &C
tors closest friends in attendance
Following the requiem mass, the
actors body will be laid to rest in
the Barrymore crypt beside his
sister.in-law, the late Mrs. Lionel
Barrymore.
NEW YORK-INS-An autopsy
was to be conducted today 20 de-
termine the cause of death OF So
cially prominent Samuel Gilman
Ordway. So. secretary.treasurer of
the International Telephone and
Telegraph Corporation. whose bo-
DIV was found Sunday in a partly
fiied bathtub.
NICHY-UP-Ofcials planned
today 10 bring the leaders Of 4
dissident group to trial quickly
in hope OF checking a new wave OF
unrest sweeping Paris Two po-
fcemen were killed in a food rio.
i'm the GermanOccupied former
Capitalo a hotel keeper was slain
because he had reported several
Frenehmen to the gestapo- and two
persons we're killed by the explo-
sion OF suitcase bomb" planted
near the central police headquar.
ters.