The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-08-21
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THE WEATHER.: Tonlshti
Continued Warm


MADRID-lNS- Generalissimo
Francisco Franco OF Spain, speak
ing today befOre an assemblage OF
workers at Vigo. declared that
peace is but an accident and this
is the time to prepare for a new
struggle" Then he said TO his
listeners: at would be OF no use
10 have a strong army and power
full industries If hearts falter be-
fore the destinies OF our nation.
MACON, Ga.-INS-Military and
city police today searched for an
unidentified negro soldier who shot
and fatally wounded City Police
man j. G. Fayors and seriously
wounded Sgt. NJ. W, Whitmire, a
military policeman OF Camp Wheel
er, near Macon. The negro soldier
escaped after the shooting which oc-
Cured last night at the Macon bus
station.
HAVANA-INS- Cuba was In
mourning today for eight seamen
who lost their lives in the sinking
of two Cuban vessels by Axis sub
marines. Thousands Of citizens
marched in the funeral procession
Thursday in the most impressive
demonstration in the history Of
the country.
LONDON-lNS-- Italian troops
have burned the village OF Sodraz-
hitsa and slaughtered the 1900 in
habitants, according to a Moscow
dispatch today to Reuters News
Agency. All residents of the viii
lage were shot or persisted in the
flames, the dispatch stated.
LONDON-AP- Princess Mar
garet Rose, younger daughter Of
King George VI and Queen Eliza
beth, marked her 18th birthday to-
day at a royal wartime home some
where in the country. No special
celebration was planned.
ton of OCD insignia in connection
with any printed matter for polite
al purposes was prohibited today
by James NJ. Lands, director of
the Office of Civilian Defense.
FREEHOLD, n. JAP Frank
J. Johnson, Sing Sing parolee, was
held today awaiting grand jury ac,
ton on a charge OF numbering his
former employe. Mrs. Elizabeth
Satterthwaite, So. who surprised
him as he fled after robbing her
farm home near Allentown. 81
knew she recognized me, so l
thought had 10 do away with
her State Police Corporal Ed.
ward NettermGn quoted the jobless,
S2-year-old Jersey City steelwork-
err.
CHUNGKING-AP- An official
Chinese military report today said
Chinese forces had captured
Kwangfeng, which the Japanese
had developed into one of their
most powerful strongholds in XII
angst Province.
NICHY. Unoccupied France-AP
Paris police announced today that
Madeleine LarZin. Frenchwoman
condemned 20 death last month as
instigator OF food riot, had es-
capped Montparnasse station
while being transferred to Rennes
Prison. A police sergeant in whose
custody she was being transferred
was arrested as an accomplice to
the escape.
CHUNGKING- APP - General
Chang En-to. a divisions command.
er on the southern Shantung front.
was ordered arrested today by the
national military council on
charges that he attempted 10 de-
sert with all his troops and or
eanize his own "antiJapanese
shock army"
SANDS POINT, n. Y. ms
The 80 odd room mansion of Mar
garet Emerson, widow OF the late
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was al
most total loss today as the re.
suit OF a fire which swept the
structure from cellar to roof. Dam.
age was estimated in excess of
100000.
LONDON -lNS-A Berne dis
patch to Reuters news agency said
today that hundreds of persons
had begun fleeing from Belgium,
Holland and France to Switzer-
land because of expectations that
full scale invasion may follow
the Dieppe commando raid.
RIO DE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF another Axis submarine off the
Brazilian coast-the third reported
destroyed in those waters this week
was credited unoffciaily today to
United States warplanes operating
from somewhere in Brazil.
PEORIA. Hap George P.
McNesr. Jr, president of the Short
Line Toledo. Peoria and Western
Railroad was under federal indict-
ment a second time today on
charges growing out Of a strike
which resulted in government seiz.
IRE of the road last spring. Found
innocent on another charge by a
federal court jury last April, Nc
Near Yesterday was accused OF