The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-19

ambassador to Berlin.
DETROIT -AP- A five
alarm fire that brought out
), most OF the equipment on the
the West Side Of the city
broke out In the factory Of
the Motor City Paper Tube &C.
at 6 a. m. today, endangerIna
apartments, stores and a thea
ter In the same building. One
fireman, George Kemp, was
hospitalized when he suffered
a wrenehed back while try
inc to open a steel door into
a first floor garage.
LONDON -AP- Josef Grohe,
AZ year old high officer OF Hitler's
elite guard, has been named Reich
commissioner OF the occupied ter
ritories OF Belgium and northern
France, a DNB broadcast said to-
day, and Infantry Gen. Grade has
been given military command OF
the Reich.
LONDON -AP- Allied troops
have captured $4,000 Germans and
buried 5000 more In Normandy.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
told a press conference at his
headquarters in France today.
CHICAGO-INS- Happy Days
Are Here Again" which IL years
ago ushered in the Democratic en-
dorsement Of repeal of the eighth
teenth amendment, changed today
to How Dry / Am. Not even a
short beer greeted the 1,l79 dele
gates, the alternates and the
thousands OF enthusiastic Demo
cratic we'll wishers who gathered
in the Chicago Stadium today.
Beer and whiskey were banned
officially, and the decision. as far
as dry throated delegates could
discern, came straight from their
national chairman, Robert e. Han
negan.
counterfeit gas coupons OF the SER
tally numbered issue have been
discovered in western Pennsylvan.
j ia, the Office OF Price Administra-
ton announced today. The coun-
terfeit B-3 printed with the Cleve-
land OPA region designation was
picked up recently by an OPA in
vestigator.
NEW YORK-AP- The British
radio, In a broadcast reported by
;. u. S. government monitors, quot
ed Stockholm reports today as say
ing that the Germans have tried
to contact the Russian government
for the conclusion of a separate
peace" The Droadcasts said the
attempt failed completely"
HOLLYWOOD - ms - Susan
\ Hayward, red-headed Paramount
~actress, confirmed today that she
and Jess Barker, Columbia actor.
will be married this week end
either IN Hollywood or Las Vegas.
New. Miss Hayward and Baker
met when both were entertaining
servicemen at the Hollywood Can.
teen.
LOS ANGELES-AP-A strike OF
AFL culinary workers that has
kept eating and drinking places
at the Ambassador Hotel closed
since June 20 has ended. Workers
agreed yesterday to let the War
Labor Board settle dispute with
MANAGEMENT over a union shop
agreement.
DALHERT, Texas --AP- The
Rock Island Railroads westbound
Golden State limited plunged off
the tracks seven miles east of here
without injuring passenger.
Twelve coaches and sleeping cars
fof the train left the rails late last
night after the locomotive and two
cars had cleared a split rail.
CHICAGO-AP-John F. Nolan.
90, Ohio delegate at large TO the
Democratic convention, died early
today in the Walther Memorial
Hospital OF burns and shock, suf-
y fered when he stepped into a bath
tub OF scalding hot water in his
room at the LaSalle Hotel. Nolan
is a Steubenyille, o., attorney.
CHUNGKING-AP-Counter- at
lacking Chinese have cracked the
Japanese ring around the Canton.
Hankow railway city of Hengyang,
p and have reached points from two
TO three and one-half miles from
the city, where they can hear the
gunfire OF relief forces, the high
command announced tonight.
SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy, Ceylon,
h APPALLED, troops, battling to
clear the last Japanese invaders
from the Indian frontier region.
have driven the enemy back 80
miles from Imphal in the Palel sec
tor, communique from Southeast
Asia Command headquarters an
nounced today.
n AU. S. BOMBER BASE in Eng
: land-AP-Lt.-Col. James Stewart,
the film star, has been awarded the
Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distin-
guished Flying Cross for extraordi-
nary achievement while serving as
air commander OF heavy lombard
ment formations raiding enemy-oc-
cupied territory.
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