The Ypsilanti daily press., 1943-07-24

dropped.
y DETRoIT-INS - Defying an ul-
timatum by Detroits common
council to return TO work Monday
or be fired, $500 striking Dep. rt-
ment of Public Works employees to-
day voiced determination TO con
time their walkout until a settle
ment OF their requests is granted.
NEW NOTWITHSTANDING press
dispatches reported today to the
Office of War Information com
planned that Italy had been left
TO bear the brunt OF the huge
conflict in Sicily "all by herself
with the aid of only limited Ger
man forces" and warned ltaly's
%wo Axis partners Germany and
Japan, that their fate vi closely
linked with that OF Sicily.
CINCINNATI. o. ms Con
gresham Clarence J. Brown (R)
Ohio, today promised broadcasters
that Congress would rewrite the
Accommodations act. under which
Tle L. s. Supreme Court. by a
SO decision. upheld the authority
OF the Federal Communications
Commission to regulate network
contracts with member stations.
CHICAGO-UP- The Congress
o. Industrial Organizations sought
~ political alignment with New
'feal supporters in the American
Federation of Labor today, while
John l.. Lewis and his miners were
seeking entrance into the AFL un-
der sponsorship of its anti-adminis-
tration elements
CLEVELAND ms. S. Nc
&-arrens. vice president and gen
eral manager of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, today was reported
in slightly improved" condition,
recovering from bullet wounds in
flicted by Herbert l.. Kobrak. who
then killed himself. Kobrak re-
ported to have been seeking fl
- pancial backing from the "A year
old newspaper man. was a former
manager OF a foreign language
newspaper publishing firm.
PITTSBURGH ms Federal
grand jury action" on Monday
was promised by United States
attorneys today as the taking of
a estimony in the governments in
E%estigation of western Pennsyl-
vania's bituminous coal strikes was
concluded after a week and a half
OF secret hearings.
CHICAGO ms - Chlcagoans
who like. a second cup OF coffee
with their meals and who have
e5een without It for months had
their morale boosted today on dis
coyery that the extra cup has re-
turned. Most eating places in down,
town Chicago. it was revealed to-
day. have begun allowing the sec
oud cup Of coffee.
NASSAU. Bahamas s-lNS-Nancy
N<Oakes Marigny. whose husband is
Aeld on a char ge of numbering hef
multi.millionaire father, today was
prepared to go before the Marigny
Jury herself In an interview. the
l9.year-old daughter of Sir Harry
Oakes, who was found murdered in
his palatial Nassau home on July 5,
Asaid she was aware that wife's
testimony would be a lightweight
defense for her husband, Count
Alfred de Mirigny.
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-UP-Mrs.
Kathryn Holloway. A. today was
free Of murder charges in connec-
lion with the staying Of her hus-
band, David \. Holloway, whom
$she vas accused OF beating to
uoath with the handle Of a feather
dustcr. \ Montgomery County
circuit court deliberated but two
hours before turning in a verdict
of mot guilty last night.
WASHINGTON-INS Washing
ton today waited to see whether the
@Halian government would declare
Rome an open city after President
Roosevelt defended bombing OF the
Italian capital by American planes
As necessary to save the lives of
Allied soldiers. Mr.. Roosevelt eX-
pressed hope that Rome would be
declared an open city and placed
A-esponsibility for the aerial bonn
bardment squarely on the Italian
government for falling to declare
the city open.
LONDON-INS-The air cores
pondeut for the Logdon Daily Her
aid today reported that the Ger.
mans have reinforced their western
NEuropean fighter strength with a
considerable number of new Mes
serschmitts.
WASHINGTON-lNS-The pos.
sIbiity was seen today that the
Soyiets are bidding the German
army leaders to overthrow Adolf
Hitler. form a new national govern
q meut and seek a peace with Russia
that will save Germany from I'M
conditional surrender and total dis.
armament This was the latest in
terpretltion which authoritative
sources IN Washington placed on
the manifesto issued by the new
soviet sponsored Free Fermany Ma
utianal Committee In Moscow,
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