The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-22

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last Aug. 16 they filed petition
to adopt Claudette.
LONDON -AP- Elinor Glyn.
novelist and author of Three
Weeks" and other books which
reached the peak OF their popular
ity in the late 1920's, was reported
today to be critically i'll in a Lon
don nursing home where she has
been under treatment for three
weeks. She will be 70 next month.
DENVER -AP- Flames that
have roared through a 1,600foot
mountain railroad tunnel for two
full days blocked all efforts today
to reach the bodies of two firemen
believed to have persisted in the
gas filled bore. Timbers still
blazed in the tunnel q miles west
OF Denver today, although the fire
was brought under control last
night, said A. l.. Johnson. general
superintendent OF the Denver &
Salt Lake Railway.
NEW oRLEANS--AP- Felix Es-
trada GRANTEES, Guatemala's consul
general here, said today his coun-
try had purchased $2,000,000 in
war bonds during the third war
loan drive. Guatemala is the first
Latin American country to make
a loan of this magnitude as a tok-
en- Of loyal cooperation in our eff
forts toward victory of the United
Nations in its present struggle"
the consul general said.
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. -AP-
Thirty eight year old Buck Wesley,
Hornersville, No. school teacher
who picks cotton in his spare
time, is the 1913 national cotton
picking champion The stocky
Wesley won the title on a Delta
farm near here by putting together
121 pounds in two hours.
SEATTLE-AP- The Army was
served with a federal court order
today to evacuate a Seattle ware
house or be prepared to pay dam
ages for holding it in violation of
judicial mandate. Judge John c.
Bowen signed the order after
day and night hearing.
LANSING-AP-A final survey
OF departmental deficits resulting
from a 1851 900 pay raise for
state employees was planned today
by the state budget department
before Governor Kelly is called
upon to decide whether the lit
tie legislature must be called upon
TO provide state agencies with
more cash.
LONDON-AP-. The Berlin ra-
do reported today that Wilhelm
Kube. commissioner general for
White Ruthenia,' had been assas-
sinated last night in Minsk. Maps
fail to show white Ruthenia" and
II was assumed here the Germans
White Russia, of which Minsk is
the capital
NEW YORK-INS-The U. s.
faces a serious rubber shortage,
John l.. Collyer. president of the
b. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., warned
today. No longer plagued by raw
material shortages, Collyer said
that today lack of manpower and
production facilities have pro-
duced a new crisis. A serious
breakdown In the nations rubber
born transportation Is threatened
unless corrective measures are
taken, the rubber expert declared.
NEW YORK-INS-Kate Smith
YEARLY completed IS hours OF con-
tinuous bond selling at . a. m. to-
day when the popular radio star
had sold almost 81 million dollars
worth of war bonds.
ROCK SPRINGS. Wyo.-INs-
The Sweetland Coal mine near
Rock Springs was closed today by
a fire of undetermined origin that
destroyed the tipple Damage was
estimated at $4,000.
SAN FRANCISCO-INS- Funer.
al rites were being arranged to-
day for Mrs. Jennie ]. Kearns.
widow OF Thomas Kearns. one-time
L. S. senator from Utah and own.
er OF the Salt Lake Tribune and
Telegram Newspapers. She died
in San Francisco hospital yester.
day.