The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-06-18


bodies OF IS crew members and pas
sensers missing after the Brazilian
aSteamer Moacir exploded and sank
yesterday near Marajo Island, at
the mouth of the Amazon River.
Forty-fiye passengers and crew
members were rescued immediate.
ly after the ship went down.
NEW YORK -INS-A 17-year-old
youth convicted Of first degree muir.
xfer heard his life described as mot
worth preserving by the judge
who will deliver his sentence. Find
ing John Scheer guilty OF murder
the jury recommended he be given
life sentence. Judge James e.
Wallace. indicated he would follow
the jury's suggestion. but comment.
:, ed that he didn't follow the iury's
2ogie." Scheer was found guilty In
killing Herbert Holtz. "a, film eX-
change employe, during an attempt
ed robbery.
WASHINGTON up Termina.
ton of the Nays Elk Hills. Calf,
oil reserve contract with the Stand
lard Oil Company of California will
lot deter full investigation
started by the House Public Lands
Committee, it was indicated to-
day Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox announced last night that
the company had agreed to ter
inmate a contract which earlier
in the day was described by AS.
1Astant Attorney General Norman
Littell as illegal and invalid. Sen.
William LANCER. R. n. D., has de-
nounced the contract as give
away and described 1t as remin-
iscent Of the Teapot Dome scan
dial OF the Harding administration.
PITTSBURGH - ms APPROX
~ ately $50 workers employed in
the sheet mill division Of the new
Kensington plant of the Aluminium
Company OF America remained on
strike today in protest against a
company bonus plan which the
workers termed TOO low"
PITTSBURGH ms The War
Seabor Board today joined with
company officials IN demanding
that $50 striking employees at the
nearby Tarentum plant OF the
Braeburn Alloy Steel Corporation
return 10 work before cOnsidera
ton is given to applications for
pay rise.
Y WASHINGTON ms 1t cost
eigh,-tenths OF one per cent more
10 live in America 5 cities in the
month ended May 10 than il did
the month before. Secretary Of La
Dor Frances Perkins revealed TO.
day. The gradual rise in living eH-
penses brought the cost OF living
ntndex TO PAL per cent above Janu-
larry. 1941. the base date for wage
raises under the Little Steel for
mula.
LANSING-AP- Charles Figy,
state commissioner Of agriculture,
reported today a personal survey
OF produce on public markets in De
m roit and vicinity indicated prices
We're about double what they were
year ago, while supplies we're
about 80 per cent less.
BEAUMONT. Tex.-AP-A mill.
tarv court of inquiry to fix respon-
sibility for race riots dismissed
nearly 40 OF more than 200 prison
Aers in a nightlong session last
night. and early today the court
was still in session.
LANSING-AP-Charles N. Zieg
Ter. state highway commissioner,
said today Ralph II. Swan, Port
Huron newspaper man, has been
chosen to head his department.
Aaublic relations staff, succeeding
&c W. Lucas, who has resigned.
.. WASHINGTON AP - Mrs.
franklin D. Roosevelt is reported
planning to tour South America
this summer. Although there has
been no official announcement oil
1.-The proposed trip sources which
cannot be identified said today that
details are taking shape.
CHI-NGKING- AP 80 Chinese
troops. credited with killing or
wounding 10000 japanese in push.
ing the invaders back from the
Human rice bowl, were reported
=. today to have completed the encir-
Vehement of Owchihkow. 90 miles
southeast Of the Japanese base al
Iehang.
STOCKHOLM-AP-AP-A Der.
lin dispatch TO the Stockholm news
psper Dagens Nyheter reported
today that the Germans are rapid
Nv completing demolition OF the
SMaginot Line in France to make
more land available for cultivation.
NEW YORk-UP - Reginald
Bathurst Birch. s., artist and IL
illustrator. died yesterday after an
illness OF two years Birch was
best known 70. his illustration Of
AFrances Hodgson Burnetts Little
Lord Faunteroy"
DETROIT-UP-Annie Laurine
Dodge. 26. a summer resort tele-
phone operator who inherited 81
100000 upon the edath of her first
husband. Daniel c. Dodge, was to
he married for the third time To-
aday 10 Capt John W. Van Malta.
Jr.. Of the Army ordnance depa.t
ment