The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-03
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THE WEATHER Tonight;
Little change
ALGIERS-lNS- The condition
Richard Tregaskis, Information
News Service war correspond
Mt who was wounded on the Fifth
army front in Italy, today was re
orted considerably improved.
NEW YORK ms Japan is
hipping large numbers Of her
sounded soldiers TO hospitals in
ianila. possibly TO keep from the
apanese people the extent OF her
YSar casualties a veteran executive
the Red Cross who returned on
he Gripsholm said today. On
host days there are three or four
hp hospital ships in Manila Bay
I the same time" Charles H.
forster. OF san Francisco. revealed
Forster was head OF the Philippines
led Cross for 20 years.
HOLLYWOOD ms Actress
Veronica Lake today had an UNI
contested divorce from her Army
husband. Mai. John S. Detiel. for
mer Hollywood art director. An
account OF domestic quarrels over
her film work and bond selling
tours was told the court before the
divorce was granted.
PEARL HARBOR ms Loss
OF life aboard the Liscome
Bay. only American warship sunk
in the Gilbert Islands invasion. was
officially described as heavy" to-
day by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
The commander-in-chief OF the Pa
cific fleet. in disclosing deaths
aboard the United States escort
carrier, also indicated that the
Allied offensive against the Japan
ese-mandated Marshall Islands was
being stepped up.
LONDON ms War Cores
pondent Lowell Bennett OF Inter
national News Service today was
Officially reported missing by the
British Air Ministry when the
bomber in which he was flying
failed TO return from the large
scale assault upon Berlin.
CHICAGO-lNS- A Navy board
pf inquiry today investigated the
mid-air collision OF two primary
training planes and the result
ing crash which took four lives al
the naval air station at Glenview
yesterday Killed were 1t. J.G)
Edmund ]. Wegner, 25, OF Cuda-
by. Wis, instructor; Aviation Ca
Diet John Albert Waterman, %, of
Elkhart, Ind; Ensign Edward Stan
ley Gardner, 80. OF Paughkeepsie.
n. Y, instructor. and Aviation Ca
Oct Kazimierz Puchalski, %, of
Northampton. Mass.
LONDON-INS- The first re-
port OF widespread unrest in Bull
saria was contained today in a
Budapest radio report that 400
Bulgarian partisans were shot and
200 more thrown into dungeons af-
ter the Bulgarian army drove them
from their mountain hideout.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific-INS-A smash
fng night aerial blow against ia
panese convoy off New Ireland, in
which a large enemy transport
loaded with troops was sent
straight to the bottom and several
pther vessels were badly damaged.
was reported today by Gen. Doug
las Macarthur.
LONDON ms Report that
Russian troops are expected to ar
Rive soon in Italy was printed to-
hay by the Daily Sketch in a dis
patch from Berne. The Swiss re
port said the Allies were plan
ming to open a Balkan offensive
with the Russians who are ex-
rected TO arrive shortly in Italy"
E'her9 has been no official confir
nation OF the Swiss dispatch.
NEW YORK-INS- There will
be more Tarawas" before the
Japs are driven from the Pacific.
the commander OF the Marine
Corps. Lieutenant Gen. Alexander
A. Vandegrift, predicted today.
There will be more Guadalcanals.
more Bougainvilles, and-yet, let
us be honest-probably more Tar
awas." said Gen. Vandegrift in
warning OF the bloody fighting
ahead.
WASHINGTON-AP-Expressing
doubt that any Democrat can win
the presidency in 1914, Democratic
Senator Wheeler of Montana pre-
dicted today that President Roose-
welt will rot be a candidate for re-
election next year regardless OF the
state OF the war.
WASHINGTON APP - Czech
President Edward Benes may act
as med ator between the Poles and
the Russians. who are not on dip
lomatic speaking terms, at the
Observation-Disclosures confer
ences. That suggestion cropped up
in responsible quarters here today
as the Red Army's advance toward
the Polish frontier made the prob
em OF severed relations between
Poland and Russia increasingly
acute.
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