The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-18
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Z THE WEATHER: Tonight:
! Warmer
LONDON-INS-A Marseilles dis
patch TO the Geneva. Switzerland.
newspaper Tribune de Geneve re-
ported today that the Axis has pro-
claimed the entire Riviera coast,
aincluding Nice and Cannes, a for
hidden zone"
LoNooN-lNS-The House
OF Commons today went into
secret session TO permit For
elgn Secretary Anthony Eden
10 make a statement which IL
is lnadVlsable to make public"
LONDON-INS - Secretary OF
State for War James Grigg dis
closed in the House OF Commons
today that approximately 10000
German and Italian prisoners now
are in British hands. The total in.
cludes about 1895 Germans and
541T75 Italians, he said.
y
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
In North Afriea-lNS- Huge
fires leaped high over the port
OF Alphero on the western
coast Of Sardinia today after
daredevil Wellington bombers
rocked the city with tons Of ex-
plosives and incendiaries.
PEORIA, Ill.-AP-Six firemen
were injured late last night and
early today when a fire and ser.
les OF five explosions OF unde-
termined origin destroyed three
buildings and damaged two others
in Peoria's central business dis
.Arict. Damage was estimated un-
10 be more than 100000.
WASHINGToN-lNS - The
Navy disclosed today that
American troops on Attn have
executed a pincers movement
against the Japs and are hold
ing their own against stiff enc
|. my machine gun resistance.
TULSA, Okla.-AP-M Mas. Ella
B. Howard, 44-year-old divorce.
pleaded innocent at her arraign-
ment on a charge OF manslaughter
in the hotel-room Staying of the
vile OF a wealthy Tulsa oil man
March %. In a brief hearing her al
Ttorney. Walter Scott OF Fort Worth,
entered the plea. District Judge
Oras A. Shaw continued her $4,000
bond.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif-AP-
Montagu Love, who deserted mis-
first job as British newspaper il
illustrator to become a character &C
fxor OF stage and screen. is dead
after an eventiul theatrical career.
The 63year-old actor died at his
home last night after a short i'll.
ness, leaving a widow. former act
ress Marjorie Hollis, and a step
daughter, Mrs. Carol Doherty.
b. PHILADELPHIA 49, AP Mrs.
AOlga Schueller, SO. German-born
American citizen and mother OF a
L. S. Navy seaman, gets a hear
ing next Monday on her appeal
from an Army order directing her
TO leave the Eastern Defense Com
mand.
LONDON-AP - Sir Archibald
\ Sinclair, air minister, was asked in
Commons today by Capt. l.. ID. Gam
mans whether there was any agree.
ment, explicit or tacit," that Rome
would not be bombed. An answer
is expected later in the week.
WASHINGTON-AP-The Office
OF Price Administration ruled to-
ss1ay that seeing eye" guide dogs
for blind persons may eat rationed
meat when horse meat is not avail
able.
MATRIMONIAL The self
sought reorganization OF the far
employment practice committee. a
= government unit charged with COM
batting racial and religious discrim.
ination. appeared imminent today.
The committee. in a statement,
said It had been Officially" ad-
vlsed that new chairman had been
appointed and that the reorganlza-
ton will be effected Immediately
upon his assumption of the chair
emanship.'
CHICAGO-INS - The socially
brilliant marriage which united the
Saltonstall and Moyius clans OF
Boston's Back Bay area with Chi
Cages Potter Palmer family II
years ago hit the rocks today with
filing Of divorce suit by Mrs. Pot
wGer Palmer III against her husband,
now a Navy lieutenant. The former
Rose Saltonstall Moyius charged
desertion and said she did not know
the present whereabouts Of her
husband.
NEW YORK-INS-Hu oil
skilled and unskilled workers for
IWest Coast shipyards were sough;
in New York today through the u,
s. Employment Services. Mrs
Anna NJ. Rosenberg. regional direc
tor Of the War Manpower Commits
sion said the workers we're needed
for Navy yards at Puget Sound
' shington and Mare Island. Work
ers for the West Coast yards will
e~be selected carefully, Mrs. Rosen