The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-06-07
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THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Continued cooler

LONDON-UP-The London Dai.
ly Telegraph published aerial pic.
lures today showing that the Ger.
mans had dynamited a path three
and a half miles long and 100 feet
wide across the center of the
Hague, TO be use as a second de-
Tense line a mile and a half be-
hind the Dutch coastal defenses.
The newspaper estimated that l00,-
600 persons were made homeless.
WASHINGT0N-UP- American
war plants produced IS per cent
more heavy bombers in April than
in March, War Production Board
Chairman Donald NJ. Nelson report
ed today. The overall increase OF
seven per cent in munitions pro-
, duetion in April exceeded expecta-
tins, Nelson said He added that
by the end of 1913 the monthly
rate of increase in munitions pro-
ductlon will have TO be tapered Off
considerably.
LONDON Ms After an un-
syentful voyage across the Allan
tic another large contingent of
American troops today IS station
ed in barracks in the placid Eng
lish countryside. awaiting the day
when they will join British. Cana
dian and other United Nations
comrades in the coming invasion
of Europe.
LOS ANGELES-INS- Military
police today held two youthful
Army priyates for questioning in
connection with the murder Of
Wilma Carnes Wilson, 81, red
haired Divorce. author and one
time actress. The nude body OF
Mrs. Wilson was found in the
} blood spattered bedroom of her
cottage at nearby Hermosa Beach.
Police said she had been brutally
beaten on the head and chest. Liz
nor bottles were strewn about the
premises. police said. Held for
investigation was Pvt. Michael
Strignano. %. attached to coast
artillery company. 4 companion.
Pvt. Charles J. Mokos. was in Gus
tody as a material witness.
HOLLYWOOD ms Charlie
Chaplin-the little man whose bag.
BY clothes, grotesque shoes and
bamboo cane became Hollywood
film version OF tramp-today be.
D gan mapping his legal denial to
charges that he is the father OF
former protege's unborn child. The
81 year old pantomime funnyman
man and producer conferred for
the first time with his attorney,
Lloyd Wright, about filing an an.
swer to the accusations OF Joan
Berry, %. who was under contract
10 Chaplain until last fan.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - ms 49,
Twenty deaths in two separate az.
cidents involving soldiers over
the week end today brought TO Al
the number of fatalities in the
first seven weeks OF the current
second Army maneuvers. Eighteen
soldiers were killed-an eight were
injured when truck carrying
troops crashed through a bridge
and plunged % feet to a railroad
track below.
CHICAGO-INS-A call to or.
gained American medicine to
. adopt a revolutionary policy OF
:, meeting some forms OF socialized
medicine more than half way was
sounded today by DR.. Fred W.
Rankin in his presidential address
before the house OF delegates OF
the American Medical Association
here. Speaking TO hundreds Of dele
gates Of the worlds largest and
!, most thoroughly organized medical
association, holding its most criti.
cal wartime annual session. DR..
Rankin, noted physician OF Lexing-
ton, Ky. said: I'VE must face the
tremendously forceful social-eco-
nomic trends which are intimately
involved and deeply concerned with
the nations medical problems.
S-INS-Genera Charles
de Gaulle told mass meeting OF
his followers yesterday that the
instinct OF the French people
guides them to a fourth republic
France does not ask to be liberated
by others, even by her best friends
she does not want gifts he said
I'VE intead to win liberty our.
selves with the aid OF others"
MOSCOW-INS- The Moscow
radio broadcast a rumor today that
the famous st. Gothard railway tun-
mel running beneath the Alps and
connecting Switzerland with Italy
mas been damaged by an explosion.
BERN ELEY, Cal-INS - New
promises of doom for Hirohito and
his satellites echoed in Brekeley
today. where Admiral Chester W.
Eimitz. commander in chief OF the
L. s. Pacific fleet revealed that he
had come TO the American main.
, land to participate in a military
conference. the results of which
will not be solicitous for Hirohito".
FAYETTEVILLE. Atkins =
FBT Chief ]. Edgar Hoover and