The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-08-07
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THE WEATHER; Tonight:
Warmer, Rains

II
] Warmer, Rains
LONDON-INS- Reuters news
agency today reported from Stock
holm a Scandinavian telegraph
bureau dispatch from Ankara stat
ing that Laurence A. Steinhardt,
American ambassador TO Turkey.
was en- route to Moscow 10 attend
big second front conference ex-
pected to open in Moscow shortly.
NORWALK, Conn.-INS- Amos
r. E. Pinchot. New York lawyer
and brother Of Clifford Pinchot,
former governor of Pennsylvania,
was in serious condition at the
Norwalk hospital today following
injuries sustained last Tuesday.
Pinchot, who is 6S, has been in
i'll health for some time and was
under a nurses care when he was
found hurt in the bathroom at
tho home Of his. uncle, William p.
Emo in nearby Westport.
SAN FRANCISCO-lNS-Major
Alexander De Seversky, former
Russian war ace. advocated today
construction OF great air battle
ships" which could fly nonstop
from San Francisco to Japan and
return. He declared: we should
start Immediately building $50 ton
bombers that would be veritable
"battleships' and capable of fly
ing with thousands Of tons of TINT
to Japan and back"
.DUBLIN-AP-Teresa last re-
naming girl among the Legion
quintuplets who were born last
week in County Sligo, died today
leaving her brother. Thomas. the
sole survivor. Two other girls died
soon after birth. while a boy, Jo-
seph, died Sunday in Dublin Hos
pital.
NEW YORK-AP-The death OF
Valdemar Poulsen, IS. Danish CO.
inventor of a wireless telephony
system and discoverer OF the Poul-
sen arcs and waves on which his
method of autobiography was
based. was announced here yester-
day by the National American Den
mark Association.
BOGOTA, Colombia-AP-Dr. Al
fonso Lopez Pumerajo, president of
Colombia from 1894 to 1888 returns
TO the office today for a second
term. A banker turned social re-
former. Lopez came~back only last
week from a 26-day visit TO United
States during which he conferred
with President Roosevelt.
CLEVELAND ms Instruct
ing $500 telephone operators main
tenance and repairmen to return
TO work, the Ohio Federation of
Telephone Workers Union (inde-
pendenD today ended a two day
strike by effecting a procedure
agreement setting Aug. Il as the
scheduled date for the hearing of
the National War Labor Board
panel.
LOS ANGELES ms Twenty
d three youths who allegedly partici-
pated in fatal Mexican gang
fight last Sunday were under in
dictment today for murder. Held
in jail without bail, they were
accused of beating Jose Diaz, %,
to death at a party. All .23 also
were indicted on two counts of
assault with a deadly weapon.
DAYTON. Gins II was Lieu
tenant Colonel Elliott Roosevelt
today instead OF Major Roosevelt.
The son Of the President took the
oath as a Northumberland from
a hospital bed at Wright Field. He
is confined with knee injury suf-
fered, Army officials said, at an
other air field
BATON ROUGE. La.-UP- Exc
BUTTONS Of two men today were
postponed by Gov. Sam Jones until
the L. s. Supreme Court rules on
legality Of the new state law re-
Quiring fulfillment OF death SEN
fences by electrocution. A convicted
murderer. Clayton Guillory of Lake
Charles. and Willie Larkin OF Mad
ison Parish, under death sentence
were given stays.
WASHINGTON-UP-The Navy
announced today that Lieut.. Eliza
beth B. Crandall, SO. of San Fran
cisco. has been named dean OF wom-
en- at the Nays officer and officer
candidate training school for the
Women's Reserve at Smith Col
lege. Northampton, Mass. Miss
Crandall, who will report for duty
Aug. Il. was assistant dean at LIE
land Stanford University.
DENVER Up Gov Ralph l..
Carr announced today plans to
give vocational training to be-
tween 1900 and $1,000 aged or
physically unfit Colorado residents
as means OF creating a reserve
labor supply. He designated Sc
vocational training service schools
to give instructions to persons
over SO or incapacitated by physi-
cal defects.
SAN FRANCGSCO-UP-The San
Francisco ordnance district report
ed today that no evidence of sabo-
tage was found in the $4,000 fire
which swept through a three-story
building in the magnesium pow
der plant of the Pacific Coast Chem
ical and Processing plant near