The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-06-05

Pleu FnlIppIncsI WAS reported
by the Manila radio to have
been wounded today by re-
VolVsr shot fired by a would
be assassin.
CHUNGKING-AP-The Chinese
press, jubilant over the formation
OF French government in Algiers,
called on the Allies today to recog-
niZe the French committee as a de
facto French government and open
relations with It.
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico-AP-
Hearings in the Bell congressional
committee investigation OF Puerto
Ricsn affairs were recessed today
until next week. Senate President
Luis Munoz Marin told the COM
mittee yesterday the island would
abandon government experiments
TO build up industry il they proved
failures.
LANSlNG-AP-An opinion OF
the attorney general today directed
state hospitals to deduct from the
salaries OF persons teaching within
the institutions the statutory con-
tributions required under the
Teachers Retirement Fund Act.
NEW DELHI, India-AP-Stor-
age warehouses in Akyab and river
shipping In the Maungdaw-Buthe-
dsung area OF western Burma were
bombed by Raj planes yesterday,
British communique announced
today.
LONDON-AP-The Algiers ra.
do said in a broadcast recorded
by the Associated Press today that
Gen. Auguste Nogues, French com.
mander in Morocco, has offered his
resignation TO the newly-constitut-
ed French Committee for Liberia
ton and has addressed long mes
sage of farewell to the people OF
Morocco
LANSrNG-AP-Dr. II. Allen
Meyer state health commissioner,
asserted today he had been "misin-
formed when he charged that dis
eased Jamaica negroes were being
imported TO work on Michigan
farms. Yesterdays he said 80 per
cent OF the ,450 negroes recently
shipped to this state had venereal
disease, and criticized provisions
which had been made for their
care. IL was misinformed by my
representatives" Moye- said. II
now learn that the physical condi-
ton of these negroes has been
passed by the United states Public
Health Service before they left
Jamaica and by Army physicians
when they reached this country"
WASHINGTON-UP-Rep. L. s.
Guyer. R., Kans, died at the Naval
Hospital at nearby Bethesda, Md,
at 5:23 a. m today. He was ad-
mitted TO the hospital several days
ago suffering from complications
OF several diseases.
An EAO y IN n DisN-N
PORT-INS-Six passengers and
crew members OF more than ~
aboard a big freighter sunk in the
North Atlantic were landed here
today. After an explosion ripped
open the engine room, two lifeboats
were thrown overheard and az
aboard escaped. All members OF
the crew and passenger list were
picked up by a fishing schooner
AID brought safely to port.
NEW YORK-INS-New York
ers could be assured today that
they would now get the milk they
had been lacking for the past week,
when the milk drivers union agreed
10 comply with an Office of De-
Tense transportation order cutting
milk deliveries to every other day.
Driverse had protested that the
skipa-day plan, proposed by the
ODT to conserve gas and rubber,
would throw many OF their mem
hers out OF work and had refused
10 carry more than their usual
days supplies.
NEW ORLEANS-INS- Fines
OF $1,000 and $500 were levied
against a New Orleans physician
and his son. respectively, today Tor
violating the Selectiye Service law.
The defendants, DR.. r. ]. Mainegra.
SO, and his son. Cyril NJ. Mainegra,
20 we're also given suspended pris-
on sentences.
CHICAGO-INS-The possibility
OF spending 10 years in prison TO-,
seeking TO evade Army service
through posing falsely as minis
ter drew closer today to William b.
Wernecke. a former leader OF the
German-American Bund and friend
OF Herbert Hans Haupt. executed
Nazi saboteur. Wernecke was COO
victed BY a Federal Court jury Fri
day on two counts OF an indictment
charging draft evasion. He faces
maximum sentence Of five years in
prison on each count.
DETROIT-INS-Fo the third
consecutive day. war production AZ
the Packard Motor Car Company
remained at standstill as strikers
continued to ignore pleas OF union
and government officials to return
10 work. The strike. which began
Thursday. is over employment and
upgrading of three negro workers
on the final assembly line.
LONDON-INS-Capt. Clark Ga
gle Of the United States Air Force