The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-06-01

Sallons OF milk daily by New ork
and New England processing plants
VILE consumers in the metropoli-
tan area faced a milkless day to-
morrow. With processing plants
loaded to the hilt" and unable TO
convert the milk into cheese. but.
ter and powdered milk, factories
were dumping skinned milk into
sewers. One firm at Roscoe re-
ported that ii had to dump out
500 cans daily because OF manpow-
er and transportation shortages.
HOLLYWOQp-INS- Could be
that Uncle Sam Is going to start
midget battalion. Billy Curtis, 81
year-old movie midget who is
three-feet seven-inches tall-was
ordered TO report to his Hollywood
draft board today for physical
examination.
LONDON ms How panic
stricken Japanese anti-aircraft gun
ners shot down their own pursuit
planes during the American bomb
ing OF Tokyo was described today
by q 22 year old Polish girl who
was In Tokyo at the time. She is
Pvt. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, who
arrived in England on an evacuee
exchange ship last fall and has
since Joined the Polish ATS.
WASHINGTON Inns - Slight
lowering OF the physical require
ments OF inductees by the Navy
today was expected to delay for a
short time the drafting OF faith.
ers. Mai. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
National Selective Service direc.
tor, had announced that induction
OF married men with children
would start in August. The Nays
action is expected TO delay the
fathers draft call for about a
month or so.
NEW YORK ms Scarcely
an hour before her Army husband
was TO return to his post at Wash
ington, Mrs. Janet Snowden Gill.
attractive oil heiress, plunged to
her death from her 18th floor suite
at the swank Savoy Plaza hotel
The nude body of the rs year old
heiress landed on a third story
roof extension. Her husband,
Capt. William Sherman Gill ayoke
from nap to find her missing.
BUENOS AIRES -AP- Senator
Robustiano Patron Costas, admin
istration candidate for president
in the September elections, will
make his campaign on a platform
recommending continuation of
President Ramon S. Castillos pol
Icy OF prudent neutrality.
LONDON -AP- The Belgian
news agency said today that eight
Belgians have been executed by
German occupation authorities on
charges OF secretly organizing for
attacks on Nazi sympsthizers and
10 sabotage Nazi military activi-
ties.
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico-AP-
The United States Army announc.
ed yesterday consolidation of its
eastern Caribbean posts under a
new antilles department which
will supersede the former Puerto
Rico department OF the Trinidad
command.
MOSCOW-AP- Soviet Russia
has elevated two Of her fleet com
ndaru - nj ~
1t was announced today. The new
admirals are Vladimir Trubutz.
commander OF the Baltic fleet, and
Ivan Yumashev, commander of
the far eastern fleet.
BERN-AP- The Berlin news
paper Voelkischer Beobachter re-
ported yesterday that DR.. William
Filderman. president of the union
OF Rumanian Jews, had been sent
70 a concentration camp in Ru-
mania.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS aboteurs
have cut German production OF
war weapons in the occupied coun-
tries at least % per cent, Allied
government sources estimated to-
day. They said underground re-
ports indicated the saboteurs had
destroyed possibly 100000 worth
OF Mari machinery and equipment
and had forced the Germans to use
at least 100000 supervisors to
guard against their activity.
LONDON-UP-Iucreased activ-
ity In Spanish Monarchist circles
has led to suggestions that the
movement to restore the Bourbon
throne in Spain may be accelerat-
ing. Long a subject OF wide specu-
lstion, the effort to have Don Juan,
heir apparent. installed as King OF
Spain has taken on new signifi.
canoe since SPANS leader. Fran
cisco Franco. carried out such
moves as resuming memorial serv-
ices for the late Alfonso.
LONDON-UP-The largest con.
centration OF Allied shipping at CT.
braltar since the start of the war
1C4 transports. tankers and supply
sLips-was reported at anchor to-
day as a German broadcast specu-
lated that the Allies may invade
Europe this month, perhaps on
June %.