The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-20

put tue pluuueIlnS OF france.
NEW YORK-INS- Allied air
craft operating from the oft-bomb-
ed island of Malta have destroyed
|, or damaged 80 locomotives in
southern Italy and Sicily since the
first of the year, according TO a
London radio broadcast picked up
today by CHS.
NEW YORK-INS- The first of
a series of public conferences on
vital postwar American economic
\ problems will be opened this week
by New York University through
the Institute on Postwar Recon-
struction, 1t was announced today.
NEW YORK ms A fresh
contingent of Canadian troops has
arrived in Great Britain ito rein
\ force various armed services The
London radio disclosed today In a
broadcast recorded by CHS.
NEW YORK ms American
and Filipino guerilla forces still
are valiantly resisting the Japs in
the mountains of northern Luzon,
Tokyo broadcast recorded by
I CHS disclosed today. Although
more than year has passed since
Gen. Douglas Macarthur left the
fortress island of Corregidor in
Manila Bay. Tokyo reported that
american and Filipino bandits
who once haunted the northern Lu
ION have almost been wiped out,
except approximately 100 who have
} fled into the mountain districts"
LUBBOCK, Tex ms - The
first grand opera singer to enlist
as cadet and complete the Army
Air Force pilot training. William
Hess, of Huntington, y. Y. lead
ing tenor of the Philadelphia
Opera Co. last season, today re-
ceived his wings and second lieut.
enant's commission.
NEW YORK Inns - Germany
has protested to Tokyo over free
passage of Russian ships bound
for Siberia with American war
supplies, the British radio report
ed today in a broadcast recorded
by CHS. The japanese attitude re-
mains unchanged in spite of the
protest, added the broadcast
which was directed TO Europe.
WASHINGTON -AP Tires on
farm tractors and implements
must be recapped hereafter with
reclaimed rubber If in condition
y for recapping. The office of Price
Administration ordered this
change and modified previous ar
rangements by which rear wheel
tractor tires did not have to be
1ecapped but could be replaced by
new tires Implement tires for.
merly could be recapped with a
4 material made largely OF crude
rubber.
BALTIMORE --AP - The sue
cessful use of sulfanilamide, one
OF the sulfa drugs. in the control
and elimination of raumatic fever
has been reported by doctors
Helen b. Taussig and Caroline A.
4, Chandler in a John Hopkins Hos
pital bulletin.
NEW YORK ms - Recent
reports that the German fleet is
massing in Norwegian waters were
started in Stockholm by German
sources, CHS report of a Lon
don radio broadcast revealed TO-
b.. day. The broadcast added that
1.-The British home fleet is eager
and ready to deal with any group
OF surface vessels the Germans
dare to send out"
NEW YORk-INS 49, Anthony
Eden, British foreign secretary,
was to meet Mayor F. II. LaGuardia
at City Hall today. Arriving in
, New York last night in company
of Loud Halifax, British ambassa-
dor to the United States, the diplo-
mat began a tour OF the country to
help prepare for postwar collab-
Grafton among the United Nations.
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUAR-
\ TIERS IN AUSTRALIA ms -
Three American airmen, killed IN
acton. today resolved posthumous
awards for gallantry. They are
Lieut.. Jerome simpson, Iva. s. c.,
Capt. Donald STROLLER OF Denver,
Lieut.. Jean Jackson Of Tulsa, Okla.
MOSCOW AP-"Desert Vic
4 tory" the film story of the British
Eighth Army's Victories over the
German Africa Corps in Egypt and
ldbya which Prime Minister Chur-
chill sent to Premier Joseph Stain.
has been received here and given
special showing.
ST-AP-Twenty prison
> ers escaped from Londonderry Pris-
on early today through tunnel
dug under the prison wall In the
biggest jail-break in the history OF
No. thern Ireland.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica-AP -
Vice President Henry Wallace OF
:. the United states was to conclude
Y his three-day visit to Costa Rica
today with an alrplane tour OF bana-
ma and coffee plantations and in
spection o. a model dairy farm on
the slopes OF lrazu volcano.
LANSING-AP- Under power
ful pressure the house OF represen-
tatives beat its deadline and adopt
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