The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-14
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NEW YORK-AP- Republican
National Chairman Herbert Brown
ell, Jr, says an assertion by Dem
ocratic National Chairman Robert
Z. Hannegan that apparently there
Is a whispering campaign" regard
ing President Roosevelt's health
is "unfounded" and some more of
Hsnnegan's Shennanigans."
NEW YORK-AP- Registration
of New York City voters for the
presidential election today fell be-
hind the 1910 total for the first
time since polls opened on Mon
day. A tabulation of the city's
five boroughs showed a total OF
2,419,861 registrations. In 1910 for
the five day period the registra-
tion was 2,554,929.
WASHINGTON -AP- Applica-
lions for insured mortgage loans
on existing dwellings set a five
year record in the July-August-
September quarter, the Federal
Housing Administration reported
today. The 20,SOO applications
represented loans totalling more
than $10O,0O0,O00.
WASHINGTON -AP- Director
Herbert H. Lehman OF the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration said today that a
mission will be sent to Czechoslo-
vakia to frame detailed plans for
UNRRA services there.
SALINAS, Calf. -AP- After
four weeks OF listening to testi-
mony and argument, a Jury Of
eight women and four men today
was faced with the task OF decid-
Ing whether Mrs. Frances Andrews
killed Jay Lovett. The 81 year
old Carmel Valley woman stands
charged with having shot the 10
year old member of neighboring
farm family to death on the night
OF July Is in a fit of jealous rage.
LOS ANGELES-AP- Treasury
Secretary Henry Morgenthau said
today that the vast wartime In
crease in the public debt has been
accomplished at an average inter
est rate of only l "a per cent.
compared with 4 Ia per cent in
World War |. THE resulting in
terest saving approximates four
billion dollars a year." he said In
an address prepared for delivery
at a war bond rally.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
pressed a widening search today
Tor man In Army uniform, wanted
for questioning in the Staying of
Georgette Bauerdorf, 20, whose half
clad body was found Thursday in
the overlooking bathtub of her
home. The hunt was instituted yes
terday after a post norton exam
,ination disclosed she had been at.
tackled and strangled and a friend
reported she had been "cut in" on
repeatedly by jitterbugging sol
der at the Hollywood Canteen the
previous night.
Los ANGELES -AP-Rolf Nc.
Pherson, the son who succeeds
Aimee Semple Mcpherson in the
presidency of Angelus Temple, is
chief beneficiary under the will
of the evangelist, whose death in
Oakland, Calf, Sept. 81 was as
cribed by cororner's jury to an
accidental overdose OF sleeping
tablets.
Los ANGELES-AP-Hot trum.
peter Harry James has reached an
agreement over alimony with his
former wife, Louise Tobin James.
PARIS-AP-A milling, excited
crowd of Parisians waited hours
last night to see their first new
American films since 1910. The
program, which featured Deanna
Durbin in 1T Started With Eve"
attracted few American soldiers,
for the film was advertised under
a French title. But the French
crowd lined up in long queues on
the dark boulevard.
HAVANA-AP- The National
Observatory reported early today
that a tropical disturbance" of
moderate intensity in the Carib-
bean Sea threatened the south
coast of Cuba from Cameguey prov
ince westward. The midnight ad-
visory said its movement was un-
certain but there was no danger to
Cuba before noon today.
NEW YORK-AP-The British
radio broadcast a message today
from the international Union of
Mine Workers urging German
miners Ito demonstrate your sol.
idarity with foreign workers and
Join their fight against Nazi ty-
.ranny." The broadcast, recorded
Wy the owl, asked the German
mine workers to prevent the flood
ing Of mines and destruction OF
equipment.
ROME-AP- Vincenzo Azzolini.
former governor of the Bank OF
Italy, accused of turning over 120