The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-09

news agency DNB circulated a re-
port today that Paris was bombed
again this morning.
SHORTCOMINGS - Former
Premier Benito Mussolini has been
removed to the Island OF La Mad.
dalena off Sardinia to foil any at.
tempt to rescue him. the Stock
holm sewspaper Dagens Nyheter re-
ported from Zurich today.
NEW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
that a puppet Italian government
headed by Roberto Farinacci. form
err secretary of the Fascist party,
had overthrow King Victor En-
manuel and Is attempting to keep
Italy in the war was reported to-
day by an Exchange Telegraph
correspondent at Allied headquart-
ers in North Africa.
LONDON-lNS-The Algiers ra
do reported today. according to
the Exchange Telegraph Company,
that Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower.
Allied supreme commander in the
Mediterranean, flew to Italy Sun
day and met Italian Premier Mar
shall Pietro Badoglio for last-mln-
ute discussions concerning ltaly's
unconditional surrender.
LIMA. Peru APP - President
Manuel Prado cabled congratula-
lions to President Roosevelt and
King George vi of Great Britain
last night on the Italian surrender
and the Chamber OF Deputies
passed a motion congratulating the
heads of the Allied Nations.
LONDON-AP-Col Elliott Roos-
evelt whose Photographic recon-
naissance unit with the Northwest
African air forces helped lay the
groundwork for the invasion Of
Sicily. has arrived in London on a
secret mission, it was disclosed
today.
LONDON AP-ltaly's surrender
Is expected to mean freedom for APP
proximately 1000 Americans and
10000 British and Canadian troops
and civilians now held as Italian
prisoners Of war.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from
La Linea today reported that four
American destroyers had passed
through the Strait OF Gibraltar last
night and continued eastward into
the Mediterranean at top speed af-
ter brief exchange of signals with
Gibraltar.
NEW YORK-AP-Th Danish
Kaluborg radio today announced q
Nazi decree authorizing the confis-
cation OF Danish lands and build
ings for the use OF the German
Army Of Occupation, the Office OF
War Information reported.
NEW YORK Up John lie
Clair, Al, former history instruc
tor In New York colleges, will be
sentenced September 90 on charges
he acted as a secret propaganda
agent for the japanese during n
three year period before Pearl
Harbor.
TRENTON. N. J.-UP-The 800
inmates of New Jersey state pri-
son today displayed a national SER
vice pennant they received from
the government in recognition Of
their war efforts.
WASHINGTON-UP- Secretary
OF State Cordell Hull yesterday
announced that William Phillips.
the Presidents personal represen.
tative at New Delhi. India has
been ordered to London temper.
-arily for an assignment connected
with the War Department. Hull
said that the assignment had no
connection with the assignment at
New Delhi. Phillips will continue
to be the Presidents personal rep
resentative.
PHILADELPHIA-CP- The T..
S. Maritime Commission reported
today that war plants throughout
the nation employing 500 or less
workers had been allotted contracts
totaling more than s5,000.000 dur
ing the months of July and August.
NEW YORK-INS-Th stock
market opened mixed today with
the mild selling on Italy's surrenl
er appearing to have run its course.
Trading was moderately active.
but the opening Of the third War
Loan drive tended to limit sales
somewhat.
Los ANGELES-INS-Charging
cruelty. Mrs Drusilla Dunn Gabel-
lini Todd, New York and Los An
geles socialite. today sought .
divorce from James Norman Todd.
former New York jeweler now an
Army private.