The Ypsilanti daily press., 1944-04-11
Flashes Of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Thunder Squalls

Thunder Squalls
LITTLE ROCK. Ark-INS- An
informal opinion by the state at
torney generals office held today
that the recent L. 5. supreme
court decision that negroes can
vote in the Texas primaries also
applies in Arkansas.
CHICAGO ms Union Off
cials predicted today a large vote
fayoring a strike against the Hin
ois Bell Telephone Company in
referendum to be conducted Fri
day by the National Labor Rela-
tions Board under the Smith-Con-
nally Act
SANTA ANA. Cal.-INS - Mrs.
Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, %.
daughter.in-law of the President
was in receipt of a police citation
today for speeding Police said
that Mrs. Roosevelt. wife of It.
Col. James Roosevelt, was travel
ing so miles per hour in 25 mile
zone.
HOLLYWOOD-INS-A munici.
raj court judge put the bite" on
Film Star Wallace Beery to the
tune OF $3.50 today. Beery was or
dered to pay the sum TO Bennett
Fairchild, 10. delivery boy who
sued the actor for $1,000. charging
that Beery's dog bit him in the
leg.
HOLLYWOOD ms - Muriel
Morris. sweater girl" model. said
today that the man for whom she
Tilted Comedian Red Shelton is
a wealthy business man in Mexico
City. She declined TO give mis-
name, but said she met him during
a recent vacation trip TO the South
ern Republic.
DES MONIES, Ia.-lNS-A quar-
rel over a divorce action was be-
lieved today to have preceded the
gunshot deaths Of WAC Pvt. Byrl
Babcock, A. and her husband, Roy,
both OF Biggs, Cal They were
found shot 10 death in Des
Moines hotel room last night. A.
E. Shaw, Polk County coroner,
said Babcock apparently killed his
wife and then shot himself.
y. Blakeslee's fighter group, whose
pilots include top-ranking ace Capt.
Don Gentle OF Piqua, Ohio, was
credited today with the record
breaking destruction of 405 enemy
planes. A recheck of headquarters
figures, which yesterday had listed
403 Nazi planes on the groups
list, showed that two others also
have been destroyed by Blakeslee's
men. OF the 4O5 planes destroyed,
105 were bagged on the ground ana
800 in the air.
OMAHA. Neb.-UP-With Wen
dell l.. Willkie out Of the race for
the Republican presidential nomi-
nation, 1t. Comdr Harold L. Stas-
sen had an opportunity today TO
PICK up 10 delegates to the COP
National Convention in the Ne
braska preferential primary. Two
full states of delegates were enter
ed on the Republican ticket, one
pledged TO vote for the former gov
ernor OF Minnesota on the first bal
lot only, and the other pledged TO
fayorite son Gov. Dwight Griswold
PEARL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
al Thomas c. Hart, former comman.
der in chief of the t. s. Asiat!c
Fleet. has arrived at Pacific Fleet
headquarters Of Admiral Chester ".
17Nimitz, overall commander Of Pa
cific ocean area forces. There was
no official comment concerning Ad-
miral Hart's presence at Pearl Har-
Dor. but observers deemed 1t sig
nificant in the light OF his thorough
knowledge of the Pacific and Chi
mas seas.
WASHINGTON-INS -- Social
security benefits for farmers, hired
hands and other agricultural work
ers was advocated today by Agri-
culture Secretary Claude A. Wick
ard as a postwar move TO bolster
social conditions on American
farms. Wickard explained that So
cial security operations fail TO in
clude farm workers. He maintained.
however, that farmers should have
adequate old age protection on a
par with city and industrial work
ers.
WASHINGTON-UP - Govern
ment officials today assured the
public that it need not fear vita
min A famine despite the fact that
the catch of the soupfin shark.
principal source of concentrated
vitamin a, is running 20 per cent
below that Of last year. Experts
in the tish and wildlife service
said experiments were under way
to discover new sources of the i'm
portant vitamin. One of the prin-
cipal guinea pigs" now under in
vestiEation was said 10 be the
Florida Jewish. found off the
southeastern L. S. Coast.
WASHINGTON-UP-The Unit.
ed States will discuss petroleum
problems with Russia. the exiled
government Of the Netherlands and
oil-producing Latin-American ma
tions upon conclusion Of the forth