The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-28


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NEW YORK-INS - Roberto
Lanas Vallecilla, 80, until his ar
rest an employe of the Office OF
the Corrdinator of Inter-American
Affairs, today pleaded Innocent to
charges OF espionage. Vallecilla
a native OF South America. is
charged with being a German spy
before the entry OF the L. S. into
the war.
CHICAGO-INS - The Jones
Commercial School today offered a
secretarial charm" course on the
theory that greater understand
ing OF human relations will help
10 avoid lost jobs. personal feuds
divorces and ruined regulations.
SPRINGFIELD, ll.-INS-Eight
hundred and twelve rural schools
and three city schools in Illinois
will not open for the fall term be-
cause OF reduced enrollments aud
the dearth of teachers, Vernon L.
Nickel, state superintendent of
schools, announced today The
school closings will be spread over
SIS out of the states 102 counties.
INDIANAPOLIS - APP - What
was described as the first public
test of synthetic tires began on the
INDIANAPOLIS speedway today when
an ersatz-tired automobile started
500 mile cruise around the ia.
nous oval at a steady speed OF So
miles an hour.
RUSHVILLE, Ind - APP 49, A
months sojourn here, during which
Wendell l.. Willkie; conferred with
scores OF Republican leaders from
all parts OF the nation, ended today
as the titular head OF the COP.
started back to New York.
SAN FRANCISCO-AP- Amer.
tea now can produce a super-gas
that will boost airplane engine
power so per cent. The gas can
be blended with the usual 10000
tame aircraft gasoline to increase
power somewhat, but engines must
be made over before they can use
the new fuel undiluted.
LONDON -AP- The German
radio broadcast a report from To
kyo today quoting an official ia
panese government announcement
that % Allied warships and trans
port vessels had been sunk during
the past 70 days. The broadcast
was recorded by the Associated
Press. There was no Allied confir-
nation.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand
1NS-Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is
the first woman to be seen for
ten months by many Americans
stationed in the Pacific Islands.
That disclosure was made today
at a news conference in yelling
ton. by Americas first lady her
self.
NEWARK ms Strikes OF
Brewster Aeronautical Corp, work
ers gained 500 more sympathizers
today as employees of the Newark
plant voted to petition the Nation
al Labor Relations Board for DER
mission to strike in 80 days. This
vote followed similar action by
5000 workers of the Brewster Long
Island plant earlier this week.
WASHINGTON-AP- Terms for
increased use OF the one growing
supply OF labor-prisoner OF war
for non-war jobs have been worked
out by the War Department and
{ War Manpower Commission
(WMC) with the stipulation that
the reservoir may be tapped only
where efforts to recruit other labor
prove unavailing. With a mounting
number Of requests for prisoner
labor in lumber cutting, pulp and
paper industry work and farming,
It was suggested authoritatively
that many prisoners could perform
these Jobs. The Army has reported
there are around 100000 prisoners
in this country.
LA PAZ, carbohydrates
Enrique PenarandSs nine-man
cabinet resigned in a body last
night as a barrage Of criticism was
aimed at them in the Chamber OF
Deputies over suppression OF
strike in the Catavi tin mines last
December.
NEW YORK-AP-Alice, the 81
year-old Indian elephant which
left a Coney Island midway and
became queen OF the Bronx lao
elephant house, is dead. Believed
the Oldest elephant in captivity,
Queen Alice suffered rheumatism in
her right hind leg and yesterday,
for the second time in a week, was
found lying helplessly In her stall.
While Dick Richards. her keeper,
sadly stroked the head Of his friend
for al years, DR.. Goss administered
an o-erdose OF anesthetic.
LISBON-AP-Dr. Antonio de
oliyeira Salazar, Portuguese pre-
mier, conferred yesterday with the
German minister. Baron Hoynin-
gen-Huene, who called at Sanbento
Palace.
INTERNATIONALLY pledge
by War Food Administrator Marvin
Jones that food prices would be
ss,pnortad hv layal high enough