The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-29
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MEXICO CITY-INS- President
Manuel Ayila Camacho has drawn
up a decree establishing censorship
OF mails and communications to
take effect December l, 1t was dis
closed today. 1t was indicated that
the decree would be based on cen
sorship regulations now in effect
in the United States.
HAVANA-INS Primary schools
which have been closed throughout
Cuba since the outbreak OF an cpl
demic OF infantile paralysis will be
reopened November 3, the minister
OF education announced today. The
epidemic is regarded as under con-
troll. Only 81 cases are currently
listed as against peak figure OF
107. Havana Is now entirely free
of the disease.
LONDON-INS-More than $50
fires ragged in Milan following the
recent daylight raid on the north
Italian metropolis, according to
dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from somewhere in Europe" The
death list was 5000 according to
estimates OF a traveller reaching
Budapest from Italy, the dispatch
said.
LONDON-lNS- Typhus has
been discovered among Russian war
prisoners in camps in Germany,
Finland and NORWAY, it was re-
ported today in Stockholm dispatch
es to Reuters. The dispatch said
the International Red Cross had
reported to its Geneva office that
900 cases OF typhus had been dis
covered in Germany alone.
WASHINGTON - ms - Com
menting on published reports that
Archibald MacLeish has resigned
from the Office of War Informa-
tion, Owl Chief Elmer Davis to
day said that II "MacLeish has re-
signed | don't know it," IL know
he has been eager to get back to
his library, but as far as | know
he is going to continue with us,
Davis added.
PEKIN, Hl-INS-- Thirty-one
school children and six adults were
called as witnesses today in the
trial of T. c. Hostettler, principal
OF the MINER High School, who IS
charged with assault and battery
on 15-year-old Kathryn Huntemaun,
one of his pupils, Oct. Is.
PALO ALTO, Cal-INS-1mpor-
tation of foreign labor, employ
ment OF war prisoners and more
women and greater use Of high
school boys was urged today by a
former adviser to the German gov
eminent as means of alleviating
farm labor shortages.
WASHINGTON-INS Charg-
ing that the u. S. Maritime Com
mission has "fashly dissipsted and
misused" public funds. Sen. George
Aiken (R) Vt. today demanded
sweeping congressional investiga-
tion to determinew neither com.
plete shakeup OF the commission
should be ordered.
SAN FRANCISCO-AP-Alberto
NJ. Champions, resident manager of
the exclusive Hotel Del Coronado.
Calf, and three other men have
been ordered from the western de
Tense area as potentially danger
Gus to the nations security.
CHUNGKING, China-AP- An
American air attack on the ia
psnese sirdrome at Lashio Burma
in which the runway was damaged
and hits were scored on a small
hangar, dispersal area and an
anti-aircraft battery was announc-
ed tody by Lieut.. Gen. Joseph W.
Stilwells headquarters.
CAIRO-AP- A live anti-tank
shell eight inches long and two
inches in diameter was removed
from the chest OF Gunner Louis
Rsdlmeyer OF Hertfordshire, Eng
land. in a surgery tent behind the
FL Alamein line Sunday.
LOS ANGELES -AP-Mrs. John
W. Sherman. known for nearly 40
years on stage and screen as
Brenda Fowler. is dead. The &C
tress. whose last outstanding NOV
lie appearance was opposite the late
viii Rogers in Judge Priest in
1894. died Tuesday night after
brief Illness.
LONDON-AP- The Paris radio
predicted today that Corde4 Hun
would be sent to Moscow soon as
United States ambassador to Rus
STA and that Sumner Welles would
succeed him as Secretary of State.
MOLINE, Ill.-INS-Lester Steif- /
ferman. 35-year-old factory work
er. has confessed that he fatally |
beat and strangled his wife, Irene. .
20. and his lOyear-old son. Eu- F.
gene. Sheriff Fred Swanson OF Hen T.
nv County announced today.
WINNIPEG. Man.-lNS-Under F.
a reciprocal agreement with Unit f.
ed States military authorities, de-
tachments of Canadian paratroop-
ers were enroute today for train /
ing al Fort Benning. Ga. Similar |