The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-02
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LISBON-UP - Portugal has
taken steps TO build up military
resources in view Of international
developments, Premier Antonio de
Oliveira Salazar SAID To-Day. While
Salazar specifically denied there
was any prospect that Portugal
would enter the war, he said the
international situation was such
that nations without Cohesion and
strength of mind would perish even
without fighting"
LONDON-UP - Lord Louis
Mountbatten, ewly-appointed su-
preme commander OF Allied forces
in southeastern Asia, arrived in
London from the United States to.
day and went Immediately to COM
bined operations headquarters.
Previous to his appointment to the
Asiatic post, Mountbatten was
chief of combined operations,
whose most famed units were the
commandos.
LONDON-UP- Prince Cyrille,
brother OF the late King Boris III
OF Bulgaria, has been selected as
one of three regents to act during
the minority of six-year-old King
Simeon II. radio Berlin said to-
Dt.sn rurilla
was chosen unanimously by Pre-
mier Bogdan FiloY and other Bull
garian leaders.
MADRID-UP- Luigi Cardinal
Maglione, papal secretary OF state,
was reported by reliable sources
today to have informed Premier
Marshal Pietro Badoglio OF Italy
thlt the Vatican was concerned
over the continued presence Of Ger
mans in Rome.
KINGSTON. Military
authorities disclosed today they had
completed a roundup Of 10 prison
ers who escaped from an intern
ment camp at Fort Henry last
Thursday. The last three OF the
group, Wilhelm Joesting. Ernst
Muench, and Heinz Writ, were cap
tured at Clayton. n. Y.
NEW YORK-UP - Authorities
said today there probably was no
connection between the stabbing OF
Ettore Manfredi, 61-year-old anti
Fascist newspaper worker, and the
unsolyed Staying Of his former CO.
worker, Carlo Tresca, who was shot
last spring by an unknown assail-
ant. Manfredi was stabbed in the
neck last night while en- route to
a political meeting and was report
ed in critical condition at Bellevue
Hospital. ~
BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y.-lNS
A group of Girl Scouts, headed |
by 10 year old Betty Lou Norris, OF |
Brooklyn, today was credited with
making one of the most important |
archaeological finds in the Hudson
Valley. While on a hiking trip, |
the youngsters stumbled upon an
early Indian rock shelter which, |
according to William Fl. Carr, d.
rector of the Bear Mountain Trail |
side Museum. dates back more |
than 500 years.
GRANITE CITY. Ill. ms
Three hundred war workers who |
walked out on strike at the Gran
tie City Steel Company today faced
a possible change in their draft
status. w. F. Smith. chairman of
the Granite City draft board. said
the board would meet tonight to
consider the strike and had invit-
ed union leaders to attend the
meeting.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. reaching
Madrid said German occupation au-
thorities in France had arrested all
night employees of the Morbihan
Railway Station in Brittany on
charges of stealing merchandise
and packages off trains. The line
through MoCbihan skirts the coast
and is reported completely devoted
to coastal defenses.
LONDON AP 49, Rene Mayer
commissioner of communications
and merchant marine of the French
Committee OF Natioral Liberation,
limited lasN night that the former
liner Normandie NAV be returned
10 the French flag. The liner, now
the L. S. S. Lafayette. was Quilted
by fire in New York and is now
being righte ,-MaxeT declined to
elaborate, how lever, after throwing
out hfs hint.
NEW YORK-AP-Louis Kronen-
berger, acting president OF the New
York Drama Critics Circle and
drama critic OF the newspaper PM
and Time Magazine. has been
barred by theatrical producers Lee
and ]. J. Shubert from their thea.
ters. Mark Schubart, PMS drama
editor. said he interviewed Lee
Schubert yesterday and the pro-
Queer issued a formal statement
declaring: I'VE do rot care to have
your representative come to our
theaters because in many cases you
are unfair. unjust and cruel in your
reviews, and particularly in your
daily listing OF plays"
SHORTCOMINGS - German
occupation authorities in Denmark
were reported today to be trying
vainly to form a new puppet gov
eminent to take the place OF the