The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-13
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post the o3-year-old FORMER solu4ei
has held since 1885. Fotich was re-
garded here as a supporter OF Gen.
Draja Mihailoyic, who has been &C
cused by Marshal Tito's partisaps
OF collaboration with Germany.
NEW YORK-AP-Gert Hans
won Gontard, 81. German-born
grandson Of the late Adolphus
Busch, ST. Louis brewer. and three
other men stood acquitted today OF
charges of conspiracy TO evade the
Selective Service act. A federal
court jury OF 10 men and two wom-
en-, which had heard trial testimony
since May 2, found the defendants
innocent last night after deliberat-
ing ~ hours and nine minutes.
BOISE, Idaho-AP-Idaho voters
select at a primary election today
their nominees for state. congress
sional, judicial and county offices.
HOLLYWOOD -AP-Louis B.
Mayer and his wife were to have
celebrated their 10th wedding an
niversary tomorrow, but instead the
motion picture studio which he
heads has announced their separa-
ton. Mayer. So, who for 20 years
has directed Neutrality-suspicious.,
is one of the nations highest sal.
aried executives. For several years
his salary exceeded 500, 900 annual
ly, and last year he reported an
income OF more than 100000. The
announcement said no divorce
plans have been made. Mayer mar
ried Margaret Shenberg OF Boston
when she was IS.
HOLLYWOOD - AP-Director-
producer Gregory Ratoff. AZ, who
rose from call boy in a theater OF
his native Russia to one OF the
film capitals top executives, has
announced that he and his actress
wife, Eugene Leontovich, have sep
arated.
LONDON-AP-- Belgian author.
tiles in London said today they
had learned that the Germans had
moved King Leopold from Brus-
sells TO Germany as a security meas
ure. Since the Allied landings in
Normandy, they said, Leopold has
been confined to his palace under
heavy German guard on the ground
that he was technically comman-
der-in-chief OF the Belgian army
and therefore a potential rallying
point for Belgian residence.
LONDON-AP-The German.con.
trolled Paris radio declared today
that because OF the exemplary at.
titude OF the Marscelle population
during recent events" Adolph Hitler
mad decided to free a large number
OF French prisoners of war whose
homes are in that city. The prison.
ers will bo permitted to return
home shortly, said the broadcast.
LONDON-AP-The Moscow ra.
do said today that the U. s. vice
President Henry A. Wallace, speak
ing in Novosibirsk. had declared
his hope for a better future was
considerably increased" by seeing
the splendid efficiency with which
Siberia has been organized dur
ing the past Is years"
OSCOW-AP-A Russian Tass
news agency dispatch from Zurich,
Switzerland, today quoted neutral
arrivals from Germany" as saying
that books. pamphlets. and pictures
of the Atlantic wall" have disap-
peared from German bookshops and
newsstands since the Allied in
vasion OF Normandy They were
reported to have been withdrawn
from circulation on instructions of
the propaganda ministry"
BOSTON-lNS-An unidentified
man was burned to death and seven
other men were burned or injured
today in a five-alarm fire which
swept a plant building occupied by
several factories. Fire Chief Sam
uel ]. Pope said damage from the
blaze, which burned with a fury
that melted machinery and des-
troyed great quantities OF stock,
would reach s1,500,000.
NEW YORK-INS-Ger COL
onies in New Jersey and New
York were being canvassed today
by federal agents as they widened'
the search for Emanuel Kalytka
German prisoner OF war who escap-
ed early Sunday from Halloran
General Hospital on Staten Island.
More than 200 policemen and SOL
,diers we're taking part in the hunt.
4 MIAMI, Fla.-INS-Octavio Bull
hoes. chief economic research ad-
visor to the Brazilian finance
ministry. arrived by clipper plane
today enrcute to attend the inter
national monetary conference.
opening in New Hampshire next
month.
WASHINGTON ms - Con-
gressional investigation OF the
large spread" in food prices be-
tween the farmer and the dinner
table was slated for quick action
today after a years delay which
Rep. SABBATH (D) ILL.,, termed "un-
fortunate. SABBATH. chairman OF
the House Rules Sommittee. ex-
planned that Congress a year ago
granted the House Agriculture
Committee $4,000 to carry on the
probe Of high consumer food costs.
WASHINGTON-AP-- The Civil
Aeronautics Administration has
announced presidential approval
for proceeding with construction Of
81 airports, including one at Pells-
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