The Ypsilanti daily press., 1943-08-05

wage anu oNy W
the government In the manufae-
ture Of aluminium castings for
airplanes.
LONDON-UP-Prime Minister
Churchill presided at a meeting OF
the Pacific War Council at 10 Down
, ing Street yesterday, Afternoon
statement from the prime minis
ter's residence said today.
CAIRO-INS-Roy Air Force
fighter planes in an attack on enc
my shipping in the Aegean Sea
blew off the stern of an Axis YES
sci near Ikaria Island and left it
in a sinking condition, the Middle
East Air Command reported today.
LONDON-INS-A Madrid dis
patch to the London Evening News
said today that Reichsmarsbal Her
mann Goering recently visited
Rome and sought without success
to have King Victor Emmanuel
and Premier Badoglio send Mus
solini to Germany.
LONDON-INS - The Italian
News Agency Stefani, according to
Reuter-, today carried a dispatch
from Bucharest asserting that lOl
American airmen killed as a result
OF the raid on the Ploesti oil fields
had been buried with full military
honors by German and Romanian
troops.
NEW YORK-INS- The New
York Democratic state committee
will meet in New York City Aug.
"a, in a move that is believed by
some to be aimed at forcing an cleo
ton to fill the vacancy left by the
death Of Lieut.. Gov. Thomas Wal
lace.
CHICAGO-INS- Bette Davis,
motion picture actress, today
sought damages against the New
York Central Railroad and the Pull
man Company for the loss OF
trunk which she said contained ap-
parel she valued in access OF $l,9OO.
She charged in a suit filed in cir
cult court that the defendants were
responsible for the loss of the trunk
which she said disappeared in
Chicago March u, 1912. while she
was enoute from New York to
Hollywood.
OSWEGo. n. Y.-INS - Rep.
Francis D. Culkin, (R) of n. Y, died
last night at his home following
an illness believed to have been
n rare tropical disease. Culkin.
who was 6S, had been member Oh
Congress since 1928.
RIO DE JANEIRO-INS-United
States Ambassador Jefferson CAM
cry today announced a new agree
meat between Washington and the
brazilian government increasing
gold transactions between the two
countries to 5000 100000 annually.
An agreement signed in July OF
1912 limited such transactions to
s1O0,00O,00o.
WASHINGTON -AP- Republ-
can congressman dissatisfied with
President Roosevelt's plans for
the economic rehabilitation Of re-
turning soldiers are considering
legislation under which war vet
Grams would be absorbed by pri-
vate business.
WASHINGTON-AP-An under
current OF talk about possible dam
age suits against the government
for seizing the coal mines during
the recent strikes brought from In
terror Secretary Ickes today a
warning that the government might
charge the operators for running
the mines.
WASHINGTON - AP 49, Congress
sional tax leaders today were re-
ported ready to sidetrack consid-
GRAFTON OF new and higher war
time tax bill until 80 .Iouse Ways
and Means Committee has exam
ined proposed changes in the sys-
tenn OF renegotiating war con-
tracts. The committee had set
Sept for starting work on a new
tax bill. but indications now are
that It probably will take up the
renegotiation issue first.
NAMPA. IdaAo-AP-A $4,000
900 sugar factory. one year old. will
stand idle this fall because of gov
ernment reductions in sugar-beet
acreage. Earl Marsig, area agricul-
tural agent for the Amalgamated
Sugar Company, said.
NEW YORK-AP-The National
Broadcasting Company quoted a
dispatch today from its Stockholm
correspondent. David Anderson. as
saying that Sweden had cancelled
an agreement with Berlin permit
ting German troop transit through
that country.
LONDON-AP-The German-con-
trolled Paris radio said today that
because of the increase in sabotage
throughout the Balkans Nazi auth.
critics have invoked the death
penalty for persons found guilty.
The broadcast was recorded here
by the Associated Press.
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