The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-23
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PORTLAND. Ore.-INS- The
Nebraska pig won by Gov. Earl
Smell in the third war loan cam
palgn may turn out to be a white
elephant. The pig went to the
Portland zoo when Smell discover
ed that he didn't have enough meat
points to accept it from Nebraska's
Gov. Dwight Griswold. who lost
his bond-buying bet with Smell.
HOLLYWOOD-INS- Mrs. Syl-
VIC Thalberg Weingarten. sister
OF the late Irving Thalberg. Aim ex-
ecutiye. won a divorce today from
Lawrence a. larry Weingarten,
screen producer. She charged her
husband embarrassed her by going
to sleep on couch or in his room
when they had house guests.
HOLLYWOOD ms - Blonde
Bonnie Edwards Manville, fifth
wife of Tommy Manville who came
TO Hollywood year ago after
their divorce to seek a motion pic
ture career, confirmed today her
coming ma riage with A. K. Bar.
bee Of Los Angeles.
NEW YORK-INS-Army Off.
Gals today probed the air crash in
which Lieut. Col. John Victor Wal.
len OF 2055 North New Hampshire
Street, Los Angeles, Calf. com.
mandant OF the Suffolk Airbase al
Westhampton. L. l., lost his life
yesterday.
CHICAGO-INS-The first Chi.
cago firm and the second in the re-
gion to pay penalties for unauth-
orized wage increases went today
TO the American Brush Corp,
which employees SO persons. The
Regional War Labor Board impos-
ed sanctions of s5,723 against the
company for paying wage increases
totaling 1896 between Oct
and Dec. I.
NEW ORLEANS-INS- Union.
Department OF Labor and company
representatives today renewed eff
forts to mediate a strike which
Iparalyzed operations of one OF the
largest ship yards on the Gulf
Coast. the Todd Drydocks, Inc. Of
New Orleans. The work stoppage.
described as unauthorized. involv-
ed $500 members OF the industrial
Union OF Marine and Shipbuildng
WOrEaro - NTn
WASHINGTON - ms - The
State Department was in receipt
today of an apology from the Pro
Nazi Falangist party OF Spain for
the Invasion and dissertation OF
he American consulate at Valen-
cia last Saturday. The invasion
was committed by two members
of the Falango party.
NEW YORK ms II will be
Christmas behind barbed wire and
not tinsel. for them, but American
prisoners in Nazi-dominated lands
will know that their homeland has
not forgotten them. Through the
efforts OF the YMCA, II was dis
closed today, American boys WHO
have been captured by the Ger
mans each will receive a gift pack
hge from the war prisoners aid di.
vision of that organization.
NEW YORK-INS- Modern sci
ence. bridging the gap between the
bomb battered land whence it orig
mated. will carry the dulcet strains
of "Stille Nacht. Heilige Nacht"
from New York to war-weary Ger
many. Helen Traubel. Metropolitan
Operas leading Wagnerian star.
will sing It over shortwaye radio d.
rectly into the homes OF Hitler's
slaves.
CHICAGO-INS-Loss OF con-
seriousness in a disaster is a merci-
full blackout for the victim and
tends to lessen the likelihood OF
later mental and nervous disturb
ances, 1t was declared today on the
basis of interviews with survivors
of Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire.
Trhe study OF the night club disaster
in which 49l persons died and many
more were seriously injured. was
made by DR.. Alexandra Adler OF
Boston who presented her conclu-
sions in the Journal OF the Amer
lean Medical Association.
WITH THE FIFTH AIR FORCE,
New Guinea-lNS-There's no rest
for the weary on New Britain-not
4 they are unfortunate enough to
be lineal descendants Of Honorable
Hirohlto. Again today. for the 25th
consecutive day most of the strik-
ing elements Of 1t. Gen. George c.
Kenney's fifth air force attacked
targets in southern New Britain as
the tempo of the unprecedented Pa
cific air blitz continued without re-
spite.
PHILADELPHIA--INS The
Quaker City. third largest munich
pality in the nation. was cut off the
country's civilian airline map to-
day. as the War Aviation Board
ordered the Philadelphia Munici-
pal Airport closed to all traffic last
midnight. The action. according to
The Civil Aeronautics Association.
WAS taken because. the proximity
of military equipment" makes it
no longer safe for commercial fly
Ing.