The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-17


ROME-AP- Diplomatic reports
today said Ken Harada, Japanese
ambassador to the Holy See, had
expressed Japan's readiness for
peace" on certain conditions at an
audience with Pope Plus Saturday.
Confirmation OF the reports was
lacking as all such conversations
with the pontiff are confidential,
but usually well-informed persons
with close Vatican contacts insist
ed that Harada had so expressed
himself
LANSING-AP- Attorney Gen
eral Herbert j. Rushton announced
today he is not a candidate for re-
nomination. Rushton, the first
man since Alex j. Groesbeck to
hold the office twice, said he would
support John r. Dethmers of Hol-
land, the Republican state chair
man, for nomination to succeed
him at the COP. state convention
in Grand Rapids.
ST. LOUIS-INS-Charles Ed
wards Crews, 17.year-old grocery
clerk OF Baltimore, Md, was held
today for Tennessee authorities on
his reported confession he shot to
death a man who gave him a ride,
then stole the mans automobile.
The youths confession to Missouri
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cd a body found July l on high
way in Roane County, about 35
miles from Knoxville, Tenn, as that
OF Otis Madison Sykes, As, of Burl-
ington, N. G.
MELBOURNE ms A Java
nese who was liberated when AL
lied forces recently took an island
OF the Netherlands New Guinea
coast reported today that Japanese
authorities Of a forced labor camp
on the island had beheaded num-
Der OF his compatriots for stealing
q chicken to supplement- their star
walton diet at the camp.
HOLLYWOOD UP - Singing
star Jeanette Macdonald, her right
eye swollen and discolored from a
midnight battle with L 14-year-oid
bell-boy, today declined to press
charges against the assailant when
she learned he was the sole sup
port of his blind mother. Miss Mac
Donald said the youth ambushed
her in the bedroom of her Santa
Barbara Hotel cottage Saturday
and tried to throw a blanket over
her head. She said he hit her in
the eye and when she screamed,
he escaped.
HARTFORD, Conn.-INS- The
death toll of the Ringing Brothers
and Barnum and Bailey Circuit fire
reached 1863 today with the death
Of Rosalyn Kruh, %, of West Hart
ford. While 10 persons remain
ed under treatment for burns and
other injuries received in the fire,
the circus train pulled out OF Hart
ford on route to its winter head
quarters In Florida.
DARBY, Pa.-INS-A locomotive,
caboose and three box cars were
damaged today when a north bound
freight train on the Pennsylvania
Railroads main New York-Wash.
ington tracks crashed into the rear
of a standing freight train In Oar
by. Traffic on thee of the lines
four tracks were blocked for two
hours and full traffic was not ex-
pected to be resumed until later
in the morning, pending the repair
Of overhead wires.
PITTSBURGH-INS- Additional
cases reported over the week enc
today brought to 43 the total num-
Der OF persons known TO be suffer
ing from infantile paralysis in the
Pittsburgh area. All but IL OF
the cases are within the city.
PITTSBURGH-lNS- The Cafe
Owners Guild reported today that
more than 100000 in War Bonds
was sold last night at its Jam
boree", which had been bitterly OPP
posed by the anti-Saloon League
OF the Pittsburgh District.
MOSCOW-AP - The German
army finally marched through Mos
COW today-as prisoners. Thou
sands upan thousands captured In
the Red Army offensive moved
through the capital on foot while
being transferred from rail stations
on their long way back TO the east
In all, $500 trudged YEARLY
through the streets.
U. s. WEATHER FORECAST
Lower Michigan-Partly cloudy
with scattered showers and thun.
dershowers tonight and Tuesday.
warmer tonight.
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