The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-29
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RIO DE JANEIRo-INS-Loss of
the 4.663-ton Brazilian freighter
Campos by submarine action was
announced officially today. The
Campos was torpedoed and sunk
Oct. % five hours out OF the port
OF Santos. Out OF the crew Of 81,
forty-four were saved. one was
known dead and ~ still are missing
and believed lost.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-INS-For-
mer President Herbert Hoover
lashed out anew today at postwar
military alliances, and insisted that
IL the United States is to realize
its one great interest in this var
lasting peace-it must avoid inter
national tieups and return its full
sovereignty and independence.
WASHLNGTON-INS-OPA Gen.
eral Manager Chester Bowles. It
was learned authoritatiyely today,
is seeking a "hard-boiled" attorney
TO head his legal division and take
command OF a new. broad OPA
drive to crack down on big black
market operators. Bowles, recent
ly promoted by President Roose-
p welt to head OPA. will initiate
new enforcement plan to make 1t
tough for big-time black market
rings instead OF Shaping" the
little man who has violated OPA
rulings by mistake.
LUBBOCK ,TeX.-INS-A suave,
well-dressed ex-convict bank robber
arrested in Galveston, Tex. was
grilled by Texas Rangers and other
peace enforcement officers today
in the bedroom murders OF DR.. and
Mrs. Roy Hunt in their Littlefield,
Tex. home. He is James c. Thomas.
49, who was out on parole from
Huntsville Penitentiary where he
was sentenced to serve five years
on a charge of assault with intent
10 commit murder.
NEW YORK-INS - Haggard
and jittery, George Z. Browne. the
ex-labor leader, was scheduled to
take the stand today for another
round Of questions in the federal
trial OF eight former pals accused
OF eXtorting $l,000,000 from motion
picture companies. Browne, suffer
ing from a case OF DTS in re-
verse;" collapsed yesterday while
testifying for the government. A
federal agent explained that his
Jail enforced abstinence from alco-
holic beverages, caused the reverse
DTS"
PoUGHKEEPSIE, n. Y.-INS-A
dark-complexioned youth who was
seen in the neighborhood OF Vas
sar Hospital shortly after attrac.
tive Lucille Z. Lawrence, 10 year
old Army nurse cadet, was murder
ed, was the object of an intensive
police search today. A Poughkeep-
sic resident told police that he saw
the youth near the hospital around
midnight Tuesday, soon after he
young girl was found in an ad-
jacent lot, with the head crushed
beyond recognition.
HOLLYWOOD-INS-AlanL add,
10 months in the Army Air Force,
was back in Hollywood today with
medical discharge. The young
actor, who zoomed to stardom in
This Gun for Hire" shortly be-
fore he went into the services, has
been seriously i'll OF chronic sto-
mach disorder complicated by in.
. fluenZa.
NEW ORLEANS-INS-A boom
for L. S. Sen. Harry Flood Byrd
OF Virginia as candidate for the
Democratic Presidential nomina-
ton was launched today in New
Orleans. The Byrd-for-President
Organization announced IT would
conduct a drive in behalf of the
Virginia senator throughout the
South.
NASSAU, Bahamas-INS- Be
cause she was present at party at
Count Alfred de Marigny't home
the night Sir Harry Cakes was
mysteriously slain. blonde Betty
Roberts. a stunning-looking Nassau
girl. today finds herself an import
ant figure in the celebrated de
Marigny murder trial.
wASHINGTON-INS- Mariner
s. Eccles, chairman Of the Federal
Reserve Board. and Harold d.
Smith, director OF the budget. were
called before the House Ways and
Means Committee today for testi
mony on the financial condition OF
the government and the nation.
WASHINGTON-INS- Diploma
tic advices reaching Washington
indicated today that German morale
on the home front is now weaker
than at any time since the out
break of World War II. The ter.
rife destructive effect of the Anglo
American aerial offensive the gen.
eral retreat in Russia. and the col
lapse OF Italy are reported to have
brought the German people to a
state OF despair bordering in some
respects on that which prevailed
in 1918.
NEW YORK ms Brooklyn
County Judge Peter J. Brancato
was a much wiser man today in the
field OF higher learning. The jur-
list was surprised considerably yes
terday when Is tight-lipped youths
all wearing pork-pie hats-walk'