The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-20

NEW ORLEANS, La.-INs- A
33-year-old welder OF the Chicago
Bridge and Iron Company in New
Orleans was under indictment to-
day, charged with sabotaging war
materials. The true bill. signed by
Assistant District Attorney John
Mckay, charged c. o. Judice with
making defective war material when
working on a floating drydock
March IS. He was charged specifi.
cally with failing to fix four Welding
rods in their proper place and COW
ering them with metal.
NEW YORK-INS-May F. II.
LaGuardia's vision OF New York
as the fashion center OF the world
was a step nearer realization tod
day. Yesterday, the mayor named
committee OF Al to prepare plans
for the postwar construction OF
huge and elaborate fashion center
around which he hopes the city's
enormous garment manufacturing
industry will rally. The group, head
ed by former Governor Alfred f.
Smith. will hold its first meeting
next Monday.
NEW YORK INS-Delivery OF
more than a dozen New York news
papers was threatened with disrup-
ton today following the calling OF
a wildcat" strike by members OF
the Newspaper and Mailers' Union
employed by Independent dstrib-
utors. Those publications having
their own delivery services were
not affected.
HOLLYWOOD-INS - Rudy Val
lee. the band leader, is going to be
married after the war 10 a blonde
beauty he met in a magazine. The
bride-tob be is Betty Jane Greer, IS.
who is under contract to Producer
Howard Hughes but who has not
yet appeared in pictures. They ad-
mitted their engagement today, but
said that the marriage would not
be until the end OF the war.
LANSING-AP-As state air raid
control center, described as the
first in the nation, was placed form
ally in operation Thursday by Capt.
Donald S. Leonard, state director OF
civilian defesse.
STOCKHOLM-AP-The Finnish
information bureau announced to-
day in Helsinki without explanation
that news broadcasts in English
80 nj nr3k as,
would be increased while those in
the German, Italian, French and
Hungarian languages would be dis
continued.
MELBOURNE, Australia-AP-
Sir William Irvine, former premier
OF the state OF Victoria, died today
at the age OF So.
LONDON-AP - Paul Juseph
Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda
chief, promised the German people
today a new secret weapon may
soon give them relief from Allied
air raids. The new weapon
against aerial war imposed upon
us by the enemy is under con-
struction," he wrote in his weekly
article in the propaganda publica.
ton Das Reich. DAY and night
innumerable busy hands are en-
gagged in its completion"
GRANTS PASS, Ore AP =
Three hundred Mexican hop pick
ers were stricken with food poison
ing yesterday after eating lunch
in the fields near here. Dr.. NJ. E.
Corthell, who attended some Ct
the victims, said he believed bac-
terial action in scrambled eggs,
part of the lunches put up for
the laborers by the War Food Ad- |
ministration, was the cause Of
the illnesses.
NEW YORK-AP-Discovery of !
three chemicals which damage |
malignant cancer without doing |
equal harm to healthy tissues was |
announced today in the annual re-
port of Memorial Hospital. one OF |
the worlds leading cancer insti- |
tutes. The difference Is slight. not |
enough to make any of the three |
useful for human beings. Never |
theless the discovery Is OF tremen- |
-dous importance for it is a definite !
proof Of the possibility that a drug !
can damage cancer more than other |
tissues.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS in !
North Africa-INS- The Italian |
islands OF Lipari and tromboli. |
north OF Sicily, have surrendered !
TO the Allies, an official announce
ment revealed today. Lipari is IL |
miles north of Patti and Stromboli |
40 miles northwest of Messina in |
the Tyrrhenian Sea.
HOLIYWOOD-INS- Police to- |
day set Monday for an inquest into /
the murder OF Violet Van Somerin, /
SO, former secretary to British |
coincidence Oracle Fields. who was |
shot to death while she slept in her |
Hollywood =. apartment. The con- /
fessed killer. Gaetano Falciani. 35, |
a former gardener at Miss Fields |
Hollywood estate. was treated by
physicians for pistol wounds self /.
inflicted after he fired two bullets |
into Miss Van Somerin's head