The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-11
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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIoNARY
FORCE, Paris -AP- American
Third Army troops continued their
advance in the Metz-Nancy sector
in France yesterday against light
10 moderate resistance" Allied
headquarters announced today.
LOS ANGELES-APz Mrs. Mary
Lavinia Spreckels, who is seeking
$1,000 monthly alimony from John
d. Spreckels Ill, sugar heir, has
won part OF that amount temper
arily. Superior Judge Stanley
Mosk ordered Spreckels to pay his
estranged wife $i75 monthly pend
ing trial of her separate mainten-
apce suit. She estimated his in
come at 100000 a year.
LONDON -AP- The Germans
claimed last night that once the
process of exact aiming is COM
pleted" their We shakespeare
rocket would make Antwerp use
less as a supply port to the Allies
and that front lines also would be
targets. There has been no Off
cial report that this latest Nazi
weapon is being used against Allied
positions on the western front.
WASHINGTON -AP- The ros-
ter of Latin American states recog-
nizing the Soviet Union may be
enlarged to include Bolivia, Chile,
Ecuador, Brazil and Honduras. On
the eve OF world security talks in
which they expect to participate,
Bolivia has started negotiations
with the Soviet embassy in Wash.
ington and Chile has expressed a
desire to reestablish diplomatic
ties with Moscow. The others are
considering such a step.
WASHINGTON --AP- The Ag-
riculture Department predicted to-
day 1916 meat production will be
2,OO0,O00,000 pounds or about eight
per cent less than this year due to
livestock liquidation. In forecast
further a lower level of produc-
ton in 1916.
Observation-Disclosures
dor Mehmet Munir Ertegun Of Tur-
key, dean OF the Washington diplo
matte corps, died early today. Sixty
one years old, he suffered a heart
attack IL days ago and since had
been under the care of physicians
at the embassy.
ROMAGNE, France-AP- Mem
orial services for $4,000 American
dead who were buried in the
Meuse-Argonne Cemetery rs years
ago were resumed at II a. m. to-
day for the first time since Armis-
tice Day of 1889.
CHICAGO AP-A 15-year-old
high school boy airplane enthusiast
died last night while he was test
ing his home made oxygen mask,
; fashioned after those used by high
altitude flyers. The youth. Roland
+. Lambert, Jr., was found suffo-
Gated.
n 81
radio announced today that Julio
Paasikivi, veteran peace envoy and
friendly to Soviet Russia, had ac-
copied the premiership in a new
Finnish government. He succeeds
Erhu Castren, whose government
has been criticized for its handling
OF the Russo-Finnish armistice
problems.
WASHINGTON-AP- There is
no good reason for an acute ciga-
ret shortage at this time, says Tho
mas /. Emerson, enforcement chief
of the Office OF Price Administra-
ton. Emerson attributes the pres
ent cigarette shortage to two pos
sible causes: an increase in smok-
ing and boarding by the public.
RENO, Nev.-AP-Doris Duke
Cromwell, the tobacco heiress, fur
nished the wines, liquors and flow
ers for the United States embassy
in Ottawa when her husband was
minister to Canada, but refused to
pay the other expenses there, her
business agent testified in a di-
vorce proceeding set to continue
Monday before Judge William Nc
knight.
NEW YORK-AP-Ethel Barry
more missed the first New York
appearance OF her 50-year stage
career Friday night when, i'll with
grippe. she was ordered to bed by
her physician. The performance
OF "Embezzled Heaven, in which
she is appearing, was cancelled
III since last Sunday, the actress
had a 1913 degree temperature Fri
day, DR.. Louis r, Kaufman. her ply
stefan, informed the Theater Guild
which is presenting the play.
LONDON-AP-Lt. Gen. George
s. Patton, Jr., whose third Army
troops now are engaged in an often
sive on both sides of the fortress
city OF Metz, observed his 59th
hirthdav anniversary TODAY