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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
Normal Net
Squad Wins

The Michigan Normal tennis
team scored their hrst victory OF
the season as they soundly trounc
ed the University OF Detroit squad
81 Friday.
The Hurons captured every
match except the No. 4 singles. win
ming all the rest of the singles in
straight sets.
In the doubles matches the re-
suits were much closer as both
went three sets before the locals
finally emerged victorious. -
The summary:
No. singles Babbish On de.
feated Taylor (UD). Ga, 81
No. . singles-Lepisto On de
feated Kliber (UD). so, So,
No 3 singles-lellin (N) defeat.
ed Lidig CUD). go, 6-3.
No. singles-Nalenti (UD) de-
feated Greig (N). Ga, c..
No ) singles-Cooi IN defeated
Smilka (CD), 81, sc.
No. / doubles-Babbish and
Lepisto On defeated Taylor and
Killer (UD), 6-3. As. Ca
No. 2 douhles-Yellin and Greig
On defeated Casey and Velenti
(UD), 81, 2-6. 81.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
Rene Labelle, Pierre De Ceane
Win Tag Match Wrestling Bout

Ypsilsntl fans got their first view
OF wrestling's newest innyation-
the Australian team tag match-Fri.
day night IN UAW-ClO Local so
Hall as Frenchmeu Rene La Belle
and Pierre De Geane put the shack
les to Dale Hsddock ard Steve
Nenoff Ford Bomber plant protec.
ton guard and Bulgarian strong
man espectively.
In the tag match. both members
Of team must be pinned TO consti.
tute fall. One member OF each
team stands outside the ring hold
ing onto a piece OF rope fastened
to the corner post. In order for the
one outside the ring to get in the
ring and start wrestling, he must
be tagged by his partner from the
ring while he is still holding the
ropo.
After rs minutes in which Haddock
and Nenoff were continually booed
by the crowd for foul tactics, De
Geane pinned Nenoff after series
of body slams, head throws and
grasshopper kicks.
La Belle. using the grasshopper
kick TO its full advantage, pinned
Haddock after three minutes with a
cross body pin following a full Mel
son to end the first fall.
Tnere was slight delay between
falls as a cut under La Bellies chin
necessitated several stitches.
Nenoff and De Geane squared off
at the start 4 the second fall aud
De Geaue continually had his Oh.
ponent in trouble by using the scis-
scrs 10 their best advantage.
At this point Iaddoock replaced
Nenotf and La Belle replaced De
Geane. Haddock applied the stran.
gle hold which Referee Verne Clark
succeeded in breaking. Hsddock
then tied La Belle in the ropes and
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
Sports Roundup

l-Ns-The patriotism Conference
reflected today IN the lst3 football schedule adopted by Conference
athletic directors sacrificed receipts plan
with Big Ten
Evanston IL week schedule from IL 81 evolved
X 1890
Aqua cante MeHieoNsThe borders 2sh racing season opens
Calente attractions
handicap
slated but them
Little handicap Meadows
IlNS-The Universities Michigan and Illinois
the Big outdoor which
conference title winter claimed u
grabbed 50 quale de-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
Second Win
This Season

For the second time this season
the Lincoln baseball team defeated
Belleyille In a game which tea.
tnred excellent pitching. 10.
fowler, the Railsplitter ace. best.
ed wojicki OF Bellevue on the
mound as he struck out II men aud
did not allow a Belleyille player to
reach third base. He gave his op.
bonents but three hits which we're
scattered through three separate in.
nlngs.
Lincoln could do little with the
offerings OF Wojeekl but Tailed once
in the sixth inning to sew up the
game After Campbell had struck
out, fowler singled 10 center. lie
stole second and took third on A
passed ball. He remained there as
X. Bobicz fouled out on an al
tempted squeeze play but Won his
own ball game as he scored when
Thompson singled TO left
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
Ne,Cs From Whitaker

annual session OF the Michigan
Conference. Mrs Roland c. Lam.
kir is the lay delegate to represent
the local church. and will be In at
tendance all week.
Ronnie Lamkip Is very M.
Pvt. Roy Cheeyer Is now station
ed in III Paso. Tex, where he is
training in the Medical Air Corps.
Mrs. w, Bodley returned home
from Dexter where she helped with
funeral arrangements for her sis.
ter, Mrs Mary Fittler. who pass
I'd away Saturday evening. Mrs.
Fittler was buried In Childs Gene
terry Tuesday afternoon.
Sunday guests OF MIR. and Mrs.
Thomas buckingham were Mr., AM
Mrs Leo Hammerscbmldt and Ber.
nard buckingham, Detroit; Mrs.
Emma Nugent and son James, and
his daughter Ypsilanti Mr. and
Mrs Walter Ehlenbery and mother
Mrs Agnes buckingham, all OF
Lansing
Mr.. and Mrs clifford Sutherland.
Detroit. were Sunday visitors oi
Mr. and Mrs. Walter fowler. Mr.,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
NEW HEAD AT CUSTER

Fort Custer. May i5-Friday the
War Department announced that
Col. Ralph Wiltamuth. newly.ap-
pointed head of the provost mar
shall generals training center. has
also assumed the post command
at Fort Custer. replacing Col.
George T. Shank. II was the third
time in three weeks that the com.
mand at Fort Custer had changed
hands. Before being relieved, Col.
Shank announced that he had
named Mai. Edwin c. Reynolds. a
native OF Jackson, as executive OF
fcer, and Maj. Charles X. Schultz
former Kalamazoo bank receiver,
as director OF personnel at the fort.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
NATIONAL LEAGUE


Fridays Results
New York 5. Chicago 2.
Pittsburgh 5. Brooklyn p
Boston 4, St Louis 3 90 inn
ingsl.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia, wealth
nr
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15

Mrs Eugene smith had her ton
sis removed Thursday at Boyer
Hospital Npsilanti.
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Strawe called
on friends in Dundee. Sunday
Farrell Williams. Memphis.
Tenn, and Steve Bobicz visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Leon Jones Satur-
day evening
Rev. Otto C.. Kneehtel Of the
Ferndale Evangelical Church, and
Rev ". r Boettcher OF the local
church. left for Battle Greek Tues.
day morning to attend the 10Th
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
FOR BLUE STAR MOTHERS

Whitaker. Mich, May Is a
unique Mothers Day service was
held at the Evangelical Church,
sunday morning. when the Blue
star Mothers received special rec
ognition by being presented with
service bars and the Boy Scouts
In uniform served as ushers. There
we're several special numbers. and
the pastors sermon was a message
honoring all good mothers
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15

Todsy's Games
Chicago at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at Boston.
Pittsburgh at New York.
st. Louis at Philadelphia.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
CHURCH CONFERENCE AT ENt

Battle Creek, May 15-All three
district superintendents OF the
Michigan Evangelical Church have
been returned to their Jobs by
the Seventy.nlnth' Annual state
Conference OF the Denomination.
They are the Rev. p. s. Faust,
Kalamazoo, Western District; Rev.
W. II. Watson, Detroit District,
and Rev. William Koteskey, Bay
City District. Rev. Fred W. Kim
Flint, was elected conference sec
rotary A debt reduction OF s65, 900
on Michigan churches during the
past year was announced. The
conference ends Sunday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
TO HOLD 5LAcKoUT

Lansing, May l5-May 90 eight
central Michigan counties will hold
practice blackout, Capt Donald S
Leonard. director Of Civilian De
tense. announced Friday. Lansing
and Jackson are the principal cities
in the area, composed OF Clinton,
Shiawassee, Eaton, Ingham, Liv.
ingston, Jackson, Hinsdale and
Lenawee Counties.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15

rested near Grand rapids April IS.
Deputy sheriff Arnold Pigorsh said
his arraignment followed confes-
sion and quick retraction last week
OF the murder OF a Kansas City
filling station proprietor, Pigorsh
said Doland made the murder con
fession to get back TO Missouri.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
HOW THEY STAND
AMERICAN LEAGUE

'Games behlnd leader.
Fridays Results
Philadelphia I, Detroit s (l2 inr
ingsl.
Chicagot3, New York 0.
Washington 3. Cleveland |.
Boston at st. Louis, weather.
Today's Games
Washington at Detroit.
New York at st. Louis.
Philadelphia at Cleveland.
Boston at Chicago, night.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15
JUDGE SENTENCES YOUTH

Grand Rapids. May l5-Circuit
Judge William B. Brown sentenced
James Doland. l7.year-old Missouri
Reformatory fugitive. to three-and-
a-half to four years in prison. Do
Ian. charged with larceny OF s27
from a farmer employer, was ar.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-15

fowler and Campbell
Belleville -Wojecki and Van Bub
Ter.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
Ally Planes Strafe
Three-Ship Convoy
In South Pacific

ZEN MacARTHUR'S Fl D.
QUARTERS, Australia, April g.
CUPD-Allied planes strafed three
ship Japanese convoy off Kavieng
yesterday and scored near-misses
with bombs on a destroyer in the
Solomon sea, Communiquc said
today
A destroyer and two cargo YES
sells were in the convoy sighted
northwest of Kavieng, the New Ire
land japanese base where a larger
convoy was dispersed in a three
night attack ending last Sunday.
The Flying FortresseS which made
the latest attack ran off intercept-
ing planes.
The attack on the destroyer was
made Tuesday by a Beaufort bomb
er on reconnaissance near the coast
of Bcugainville.
Elsewhere in the Southwest Pa
cific area, planes under Gen. Doug
las MacArthur'S command kept up
their haraSsinG attacks on Japanese
bases
New attacks were made on the
north and east New Guinea coasts,
which have been under an aerial
siege for more than two weeks,
while other planes ranged as far as
New Britain to the north and the
islands off the Dutch New Guinea
coast in the south.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08

IN The Allied gains. Strong forces
of light bomberS and fighter bomb
crS smashed at enemy positions and
transport columns all day Wednes-
das. destroying many vehicles and
shooting down nine Stuka dive
bombcrs attempting to attack Allied
forces. The railroad yards at TuniS
also were smashed and set afire.
In all, ID Axis planes were shot
down Wednesday, compared to one
Allied plane lost in the blasting OF
tho enemy throughout the Tunisian
front. Additional reports showed
five more enemy planes were de-
Stroycd ON Tuesday than were orig
inally reported.
Total Axis prisoners taken in the
battle for TuniSia now is approach
ing 10000. including 5000 taken in
the Wadi Akarit fighting and $50
more taken yesterday b" Anderson's
army in an advance of four to five
miles along the Mcdje2 Ell Bah
front.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08

Wet high command in its Wednes-
day midnight communicate report
ed that the enemy finally had
abandoned his offensive after suf-
fering heavy losses.
Soviet artillery and mortars paved
the way for the successful Russian
attack by destroying three enemy
dugouts, eight trucks loaded with
troops and one mortar battery and
dispensing a troop concentration
yesterday.
ALL QUIET
On the Smolensk front, all was
quiet except for artillery exchanges
today following a sudden Soviet
thrust yesterday that resulted in
the capture of two villages north
east of the Axis bastion. the first
captured in this sector in nearly
a week.
Three enemy detachments launch
ed new attack against a Rus
sian-held height on the Volkhov
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
Naval Officer to
Visit in Valley

Offering Imperial county men of
draft age an opportunity TO receive
petty officer rating in the navy.
1t. Willis B. Hayes, Jr., of the navy
reserve civil engineering corps will
be at the FL Centre recruiting sta
ton April IA.
He was particularly anxious to
confer with men who have had con-
siderable experience in construction
and kindred fields. carpenters,
plumbers. electricians, heavy equip
ment operators and artisans of 9TH
er types are eligible for application
for voluntary induction into the
naYy's construction battalion. Rec
ommendation by 1t. Hayes will be
The first step toward the petty Of
ficer goal FOR Imperial county men
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
British RepuIse
New Jap Assault

positions in Burma had not chang
ed in the "a hours since the British
retired northWard up the Mayu
peninsula to forestall a japanese
flank attack.
The new infantry attack occur
REQ Wednesday while British air
craft, bombing japanese positions
in central and eastern Burma, sup
ported the ground troops which are
expected to pull out of the Burma
area before the annual rains begin
next month.
MacArthur's planes continued an
aerial blockade Of the new Guinea
north and east coast line which
the japanese have tried futilelv
to reinforce several times in recent
weeks.
a Chinese cOmmunIque said Jap
anese attacks in Chekiang and
north Hupeh provinces was re-
pulsed with heavy enemy losses in
recent fighting. Fighting was in
progress at new Japanese cross
ing of the Yangtzc in the central
China area but the situation was
not clear.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
Allies Join Honds
On 'Funision Soil

a junction about Is miles cast of
Ell Guettar. The British had Just
broken through at Wadi Akarit.
north of Gabes.
At the hour the British and
American advance patrols we're
meeting. the tremendous effect of
their junction was beginning to
make itself felt in the climatic
phase of the battle for TuniSia. The
Allied line across Africa from the
Red sea to Casablanca had been
forged and only the TuniSian tip
remained to be cleared OF the
enemy.
Tic junction was the second ma
ior objective which Montgomery
set ont to achieve on that moonlit
night Of October %. when he hurl-
ed the Eighth Army against the
Germans at FL Alamein in Egypt.
He Is still pursuing his first major
of the Axis
armies in Africa-but nov he has
and French forces to
help him.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08

front southeast of beningrad. but
were thrown back to their initial
positions by Soviet counter-attack.
One hundred enemy dead were
counted on the battlefield.
Rifle and machine-gun fire dis
persed an attacking German force
on the Sevsk front northwest of
Kursk before the enemy reached
the Soviet front lines. killing at
least 100 officers and men, the
midday communique said. Red
air force planes destroyed 10
trucks loaded with war supplies.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08

in central Tunlsia, especially near
MaknaSs" and farther north near
OuSseltia, and hard fighting will
be necessary to drive them out.
There still was no sign that Rom
mel's veteran Afrika KorpS was
cracking up despite the long and
battering series OF defeats they have
suffered at the hands of Gen. Sir
Bernard Montgomery Eighth army
since the original break-through at
FL Alamein. Usually leaving Ital-
ians and small number of Ger
mans behind, the Afrika Korps has
retreated in good order most of the
time and appeared still to be main
tanning much Of it's fighting punch.
NEW POSITIONS
Radio Berlin, quoting a German
communique, said that on the
southern Tunisian front. Axis troops
took up new positions according to
plan after stubbcrnly resisting Brit
iSh attacks
The war in the air over TuniSia
continued to play an important part
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
Bolivia Now at
War with Axis

IA PAZ, Bolivia. April s.
tUP)-BOlivia went TO war
against the Axis today under a
special presidential decree or
derine mobilization and setting
up the national defense cOun-
Gil as a permanent body.
President Enrique Penaranda
del Castillo signed the decree
last night. declaring the ma
ton at war OF the side of the
United Nations.
Bolivia'g action resulted i'm
reports that other South Amer
lean nations, notably Peru and
Cniie. might follow hcr soon.
Bolivia and Brazil are the only
South American countries for
maliy to enter the war, al
though most others have brok-
en- relations with the Axis.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
Russians Take initiative
Along lzyum Battlefront

MOSCOW, April Sup - The
Red army, wrestling the initiative
from the apparently exhausted
Germans south of Izum, seized sew
eral favorable positions today to
widen the Soviet bridgehead on the
south bank of the Donets river.
AT least 200 German troops were
killed and four guns, nine machine
guns, on trench mortar and two
enemy truckloads Of supplies were
destroyed in the Russian advance,
the Soviet midday communique re-
ported. Four German planes which
sought to attack the Red army
troops were shot down by Soviet
DilOtS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
BOTH ARE VETERANS

On that night in October when
Montgomery struck. many of the
Americans who are now fighting
with the Eighth Army were shuf-
fling nervously on the decks of big
troop transports-not knowing their
destination was Africa Today, the
Americans. too. are veterans of
hard-fought battles.
No enemy opposition marred the
final junction of the American and
British forces. The Germans who
had been holding the area only a
few hours before, now were in
flight to the north under con-
slant rain of bombs and bullets
from Allied planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08

WITH UNITED STATES ARMY
EAST or Ell GUETTAR. Tunisia,
April 7 - Delayed - CUP)-Six
American jeeps creeping cautious
ly along a black macadam road this
afternoon met three British Eighth
Army armored cars. stained with
the dust of a 2000-mile offensive
across North Africa.
The Americans and the British
paused for a moment beside the
67-kilometer road market on the
road from GabeS 10 GafSa. Then
there was a burst of shouts from
dust -parched throats and the Al
lied soldiers who had come from
opposite shores Of Africa leaped
from their vehicles.
HANDS SHAKEN
Hands Scared by the hard sands
of Tripolitania claSped hands that
were grimy with the red dirt of
the Tunisian hills. Then the
Americans and Britons grabbed one
another. pounded one another on
the back and shouted congratula-
tions.
That was the junction Of the
British Eighth Army. which had
fought its way from Ell Alamein,
with the Americans in TuniSia.
Formality was brief at the meet
ing of the armies that had at last
run the desert fox, Nazi Marshal
Erwin Rommel across Africa and
into a trap
The patrols lined up and officers
greeted each other formally Pho
tographs we're taken. But the boys
could not restrain their JOY and
were soon humping each other
CAME THROUGH BATTLE
The Americans from the Second |
Army Corps under Gen. George S.
Patton, Jr., had Just come through /
one of their toughest battles near
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08

to eventually try to fall back on
Sfax and then on SouSse. where
the terrain would be most favorable
for q last -ditCh battle in coniunc-
ton with Axis forces of Gen. Jureen
Won Arnim in the north. But Rom
mel also was expected to continue
strong rear guard operations.
There Is ono position, called Wadi
Dreia, about seven miles north Of
the Wadi hkarit from which Rom
mel was driven on Tuesday. but it
was not known whether a stand was
being attempted there. Axis forces.
however. still hold formidable hill
positions guarding the coastal plain
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
Japs Warn People
OF U.S.. Bombinu
BY UNITED PRESS

japanese military leaders are is
suing continual warnings TO their
people that the United States is
getting ready TO bomb their land.
the Office of War Information said
Thursday.
The warnings are being broad
cast with increasing frequency as
the April II anniversary of the
bombing raid sn Japan led by Mai.
Gen. James II Doolittle nears.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
BACKACHE? ?
Try Hot Towels and
A Brisk Oil Ruh-Ionishk

Don't fly off the handle and Jump 10
sesry conclusions that your kidneys are
out OF order quite likely they are all
right. II IN doubt ask your doctor.
fou are probably doing strenuous work
using certain muscles for the first time in
many day and about oil you need is some
sound comnon-sense edVice.
Tonight GET bottle OF Moone's Erner-
cid Oh nj the drug store. At bedtime ep-
ply q good hot towel thot as you can
beG ltl 10 open the pores Keep II on and
hot for about five minutes. Dry thorough.
" and apply little OF the OIL rubbing
well IN with . good massage I'll il dis
sppeagS Cover up sno 10 10 sleep. In ths
nao4nirg. toT good measure. another oil sp-
plies,ion htrf no hot towel. You'll be
suszed and delighted at the blessed re-
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Thousands OF bottles are sold each
sesf fof tired. aching feet and legs. You
ear set tmeessc Oh ct eny drug store
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
By UNITED PRESS

Hard fighting continued in Bur
ma today after British troops forced
back z new japanese infantry as
sault in the Indin region with
point blank artillery fire.
A new Delhi communique said
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
USE MANY TROOPS

The Germans hurled thousands of
troops and scores OF tanks against
the Soviet bridgehead south of
Izum during the past week in a
vain effort to drive the Russians
back across the DonetS but the So
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
GETS HENS, KIDS

NETN HENS, KIDS
LOS ANGEL ES, April 8.-tUP)-
Mrs. Virginia Critchfield today had
custody of IL laying hens and her
three children after receiving n di-
vorce decree from the husband she
charged keeping love tryst for six
months with an unidentified Jane
Doe"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-08
British
Chase AfriE<a Korps

+ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. North
Africa. April s. up British
first army has gained much
ground in northern TuniSia while
American and French forces-Sup-
ported by Overwhelming air Supe-
riority-. Joined the Eighth army in
relentless pursuit of Marshal Rom
mels battered forces in the south.
Gen Dwight y. EiSenhower's
comnlunilue today disclosed that
the First army had swung over to
the attack along an eight to l0-mile
front in the Medjez El Bah area in
an attempt to turn the enemY'5
northern flank as part of the Allied
nutcracker offensive to squeeze the
Axis into the sea.
TERRIFIC BARRAGE
A terrific artillery barrage. similar
to the 500-gun bombardment laid
down by the Eighth army in the
south. paved the way for the First
army's attack. launched at $3.50 am
Wednesday approximately AZ miles
south of Bizerte and 36 miles west
southwest OF TuniS.
Official reports said the troops
under Lieut.. Gen. Kenneth A. N
Anderson gained their first objec-
tiyes on schedule and captured
man. prisoners.
Eisenhower formally COnPratulat-
ed Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, COM
manding the Tuniian ground forces,
on the British Eighth army's break
through at the GabeS gap and said
that the Allies were nov in posi-
ton to exact the maximum FROM
the enemy
EMMY WTTHDE.WS
The Eighth army break-through
in a night attack and its junction
on Wednesday with the Americans
fighting under Gen. George S. Pat
ton. jr in the area east of Ell
Guett2r resulted in a general enc
my withdrawal in that zone except
for pockets of resistance in strong
hill positions. The Allies took many
prisoners, who comprised about five
or six Italians to one German.
Actual junction of the Allied
forces occurred about IS miles east
of FL Guettar and south of Djebel
Chemsi on the road from Gafsa to
Gabes. Patrols we're the first to
greet each other as the enemy fled
northward under heavy air attack
b.. the United air forces of the
Allies
The simultaneous advance by
Anderson's army in the north and
/ aggressive operations along the CEN
tral Tunisian front indicated deter
mined efforts to catch Rommel
somewhere along the -Tunisian
coastal plain i'll battle to destroy
the enemy, as outlined last week by
Eisenhower.
LAST DITCH STAND
The NaZi marshal was expected