The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-16

Algiers radio today as stating
that the French army in North Az
RIGA now numbers 100000 men.
Il think | win be able to take
100000 OF these men over to
France" Gen. Giraud said.
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico-INS
Enemy submarines are disguls-
ing themselves as sailboats to
throw Allied ships off their guard.
the commander Of a United States
coast guard cutter revealed today.
. cos COB, Conn. Inns High
Army and Navy officials and civic
dignitaries will gather beside
humble garage today to award the
Army-Navy "E', the nations high
est industrial award. TO the dia-
mond hill machine shop, one OF
the country's smallest manufac-
turing plants.
WASHINGTON-INS-- Official
sources in Washington today dis
closed that Great Britain has
agreed to a 10 cent per pound
reduction in the discriminatory
tariff rate on American tobacco
exports to the United Kingdom
The reduction applies to the tariff
duty which American exporters
have to pay in excess Of the
preferential rate enjoyed by the
British empire nations.
NEW YORK ms Another
government move 10 break the
deadlock in the soft coal wage
negotiations was expected to be
made today by DR.. John r. Steel
man, director Of the U. S. con
citation service. The govern
ments proposal was for the mine
operators to guarantee the. miners
a six day week for So week per
Tod with the miners receiving time
and half after working a So hour
week. This proposal would in
crease the miners earning $2.25 a
day, it was estimated although ii
would not change the existing
wage scale.
RENO, New. Up Colonel"
Henry Louis Klute. prominent San
Francisco importer, was held in
the Washoe County Jail today for
return to San Francisco on charg-
es OF failing to register as a Ger
man agent.
LOS ANGELES Up A red
haired beauty whose nude body
was found in a parked pie truck
was identified today as thrice mar
ried Margaret Kelly. %, who
came here as a bride eight months
ago from Milwaukee. j. d. Kelly.
a bookkeeper. identified his wife
after police traced her home ad.
dress through laundry marks.
HOLLYWOOD Up Blonde
Janet Blair, dancing and singing
star. will marry pianistsoldier
Lew Bush sometime in the near
future, she said today. Miss Blair.
who rose to fame in "My Sister
Eileen" displayed her engagement
ring but said the wedding date
has not been set, depending upon
her film assignments and Bush's
military leaves.
WASHINGTON-INS- Revamp-
ing its out dated wage policy be-
cause of President Roosevelts
sterilization order the War Lab
or Board today prepared to take
1900 undecided requests for pay
increases to the White House for
final and definite settlement.
MOSCOW-UP-The official So
Wet news agency Tass charged to-
day that the Germans. rather than
the Russians. slaughtered Polish
war prisoners in the Smolensk
area.
LONDON ms Benito Mus
solini has proclaimed Sicily, Sar-
DINA and smaller neighboring Ital-
ian islands in the Mediterranean
Optional areas" the German ra-
do asserted. today. The decree
was signed by II Duce as "su-
preme commander OF Italian arm
ed forces on all fronts,' the broad
cast said.
WASHINGTON - ms 49, John
Nance Garner. former vice presi-
dent of the United States. was
honored today with tie unveiling
OF a marble bust OF the famous
Texan in the Senate wing of the
Capitol building.
PORTLAND, Ore. ms The
conflicting story OF a young Ok
lshoma shipyard workers wife
who said she strangled her Il
months old daughter under the
influence of a strange power"
was investigated today by police.
Mrs. Evelyn Lovelady. %, who
came with her husband three
weeks ago from Cement. Okla.
said she garrotted her daughter,
Leona Frances, last Nov. with
a piece OF string. She later de-
MED the confession.
ALBANY. Ore. -UP-The prose
cution played its trump card to-
day, demanding that three con-
LESSONS allegedly made by Rob