The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-26


day had been awarded the
Army's Air medal and three
oak clusters for &c bombing
sorties over enemy territory,
his parents disclosed.
NEWARK. y. J.-INS-A total
OF 5000 fully-laden freight cars,
standing idle on the New Jersey
short from Bayonne to Weekhaw-
Ken. today precipitated' an appeal
by the War Manpower Commission
tor 5000 "husky volunteers to help
unload the badly needed military
supplies.
NEW YORK-INS-Pl Plans for sal
wage of a B-24 LibeTator bonnie
which crashed last night near Mon
nachie, n. j., were under way to-
day, the Army announced. Names
OF the fourmotored bomber's nine
man crew. none of whom was serl-
ously injured, were not announced
by Army authorities.
MADRID-UP - Premier Mar
shall Pietro Badoglio OF Italy has
moved his deposed predecessor,
Benito Mussolini for a third time
10 forestdll any German attempt to
free him, reports reaching Madrid
by way Of France said today. Mus
solini now is being held at a private
villa in Tuscany north OF Rome
following his removal from the
Ponziane Islands, off Naples, where
he was lodged in prison he him
So . had built.
WASHINGTON-UP- The Of
fee of Price Administration today
investigated charges that British
tobacco companies are forcing a
deterioration in the quality OF
American cigarettes by skim
ming this countrys crop of
premium quality tobacco. Both
domestic and foreign tobacco buy
ers will meet today with Meredith
Kohlberg, chief of OPA's tobacco
division, to discuss the situation.
LONDON ms - The Swiss
newspaper Die Tat declared today
that negotiations between Italy and
Britain for an armistice had been
speeded up by the arrival in Lisbon
OF Count Dino Grandi. former am
bassador to Britain. British and
Italian delegations have been re-
ported meeting in Lisbon during
the. past few days. but there has
been no confirmation of the report
from any official source.
CHICAGO--INS- The gallant fight
of 19-year-old Marie Barker against
n rare blood disease in which the
red cells are destroyed was ended
today. Marie died at st. Luke's
Hospital where she had lain six
weeks Her physician, DR.. n. F.
Fisher, had given her sulfa drugs
and 10 transfusions in the desper-
ate effort to save her life.
GOSHEN. n. y ms - Rep.
Hamilton Fish (R) of New York,
today proposed that the Republican
party draft Gen. Douglas MacArth-
ur as its 1914 presidential candi-
date. Fish, who represents Presi-
dent Roosevelt's home district in
Congress. said: 81 am in favor OF
drafting Gen. Douglas Macarthur
as the Republican candidate for
president and commander-in-chiet
Of our armed forces on a win-the-
war platform and on a one-term
plank as opposed to a fourth term
and military dictatorship"
LONDON-AP-Tokyo reported
today in a broadcast recorded by
the Associated Press that about
1900 Americans and Chileans will
be included in the second exchange
OF American and Japanese nation
ais.
NASHVILLE. Tenn.-AP-Work-
ers in the Nashville airplane plant
of Consolidated Vultee, Inc, who
walked out Tuesday and Wednes-
day following dispute over ap-
pointment OF two supervisors in
one department. headed back to
their Jobs today under an agree
ment to submit their differences TO
arbitration.
TOPEKA, Kas.-AP - Kansas
will levy no general-fund property
tax next year-the first omission
its S2-year history. As a result.
its taxpayers will save s9,203.27O,
tax commission experts figured.
Gov. Andrew +. Schoeppel said the
cut resulted from bullying state
revenues.
acknowledgements by
strict secrecy. Judge Leland w.
Carr called for first testimony to-
day IN his onf-tqenI sand jury in
vestigation OF 80 legislature. Al
torney General if,SJert J. Rushton.
at whose petition the inquiry was
called to dig into rumors that
: brides we're paid and offered to
legislators in the 1899, 1941 and
1913 sessions, and that some law
makers solicited graft said he
would have his witnesses ready.
AMI would personally conduct the
questioning.
NEW YORK-AP-Tommy Man.
VILE said today that he had call
ed 1t quits with his seventh wife,
the former Macie Marie Sunny
Ainsworth whom he married yester-
day, and that he would seek an
annulment. He said the breakup
occurred last night, seven hours
and As minutes after the wedding
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