The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-29
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YWOOD-INS- over tired
and threatened with anemia, Anne
Shirley. Hollywood film star. to-
day was ordered to take a complete
rest for at least two months after
finishing her current assignment.
The actress. who began her screen
career % years ago as a child
performer was stricken last week
while working at the R-KO stu
dos in the picture, Farewell, My
Lovely
TOLEDO, DAP Mass trans
portation in this city of 100000 re-
manned at standstill today after
ALL street car and bus drivers
rejected an arbitration proposal
and voted TO continue their walk
out. City Manager George NJ.
Schoonmaker reported the private
ly owned Community Traction Co.
had approved a proposal for a
three man board OF arbitration but
that the union membership de-
clined acceptance.
WASHINGTON-AP- President
Roosevelt today had before him
petitions, said TO bear $4,000 sig
natures, declaring his continuance
in office as mandatory They
|, were delivered at the White House
yesterday by Hodges Mason, vice
president OF the Detroit and Wayn,
County (Mich.) council OF the CIO.
and E. ]. Cunningham Of the coun-
ellis executive board.
LANSING-AP- State officers
will be manned only by skeleton
staffs July 8. the executive office
announced today in a directive
suggesting that office workers
whose jobs ARE not actually es-
sential to the conduct of necessary
state business" be given the day
off to take advantage OF the long
Fourth Of July week end Officers
will be open as usual July II. the
announcement said, because under
Michigan laws primary election
days are not legal holidays.
LONDON -AP- The British
foreign office disclosed today that
lend-lease agreement had been
signed with the Polish government
in-exile covering military supplies
and facilities which the Poles have
used to equip their forces in the
United Kingdom, the Middle East,
and Italy. The agreement is ret
roactive to the date original mil
itary credit was granted to the
Poles.
LONDON-AP- The Vichy ra-
do acknowledged today that in
vestigators had run UP against a
blank wall in attempts to find the
slayers Of Philippe Henriot. Vichy
minister of propaganda, who was
assassinated Tuesday night in
Paris by Is or 20 armed men. The
broadcast said the assassins had
\ escaped by automobile without
leaving a clue to their identity.
ERIE PROVING GROUNDS, La
carne, O.-AP-- Capable OF out.
reaching the highest flying bomb
ers, a new anti-aircraft giant is
being used by the United States
Army to clear the skies OF enemy
planes. Army ordnance experts
at this Lake Erie testing grounds
today took the wraps from the 800
millimeter anti-aircraft cannon,
bigger by far than any other SINH
lar armament known.
MADRID-AP-The latest Ger.
/, man propaganda for distribution in
neutral countries hints obliquely
that the Nazis may resort to the
use OF poison gas to combat the
Allied invasion Of France. Pamph.
let's have been received here bear
ing the title Against Invasion by
North American Beetles" and point
ing out that beetles can be com.
!. batted by chemical means"
CHICAGO AP-Members OF the
National Young Republicans Fed.
Grafton, urged by Senator Joseph
Ball OF Minnesota to keep their or.
ganization alive, voted last night to
hold national convention in
Springfield, H.. during the first
in September.
FARGO, Y. D.-AP-Gerald p.
Nye, Republican L. S. senator from
North Dakota since 1925, seeking
denomination, today continued to
overtake the lead held by his anti
isolationist opponent, Lynn L.
Stambaugh, former national Amer
?, lean Legion commander. Belated
returns from outlying precincts in
North Dakota's Tuesday primary
helped Nye reduce the margin held
by Stambaugh from the start OF
tabulations.
LOS ANGELES-AP - Orson
Welles' manager. Jackson Leigh
VI ton, has testified that although the
actor earned $4,000 last year he
wound IN with loss OF s65,00O be-
cause of theatrical and other ven
lures. Welles is making $4,000 a
month but his net is only $1,000,
Leighton testified yesterday in
superior court Wells former wife,
Mrs. Virginia Lederer, Is asking
\ that he be required to increase sup
: port payments for their six-year-
old daughter from s133 to $3.50 q
month and that he set up a $780,
900 trust fund for the child.
LOS ANGELES-AP- Film Ac-
tor Joe L. Brown presented the
colors last night to officers OF the
- newly-instituted Don z. Brown