The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-22
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WASHINGTON -AP- Between
$4,000 and 10000 Alaska seal skins
will be taken this summer from
the Pribilof islands where the
United States government owns the
largest seal herd in the world.
Interior Secretary Ickes said to-
day that last year the record num-
Der OF ll7,OOO skins were taken
10 make up for 1912, when no skins
were obtained because OF military
operations near the islands in the
Boring Sea off Alaska.
WASHINGTON-AP- Hjalmar
Procope. Finnish minister whose
activities were said by the State
Department TO be against the vel
fare OF the United States, is on his
way home. The department,
which ordered the departure, dis
closed last night the mere fact that
he and two legation counselors
had gone; it withheld information
OF the route. Procope's wife, who
ia expecting a third child shortly,
remained behind with their chill
dren.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
Allied Expeditionary Force-AP-
American Mustang fighters wrote
a new page in aerial history yes
terday, it was disclosed officially
today, by flying all the way from
Britain TO bases in Russia as es-
cort for L. S. heavy bombers which
carried out the first shuttle attack
on Berlin.
LONDON-AP- Marshal Tito's
partisans have wiped out about
500 OF Milan Nedic's Chetniks in
fierce fighting in eastern Bosnia.
communique broadcast from
Tito's headquarters in Yugoslayia
declared today. The bulletin said
the Germans were bringing up re-
Inducements in the Ogulin and
like sectors, but asserted the Nazis
had not as yet made any progress
against the partisan forces.
ROME-AP-King Peter OF Yu-
goslavia and his Prime Minister
Ivan Subasic conferred with the
Allied high command in Italy to-
day concerning the military situa-
ton in Yugoslavia and later were
expected to tour the Italian front
as guests of Gen. Sir Harold Alex
snder.
LONDON-AP- Polish authori.
ties in London quoted the Polish
underground radio today as say
ing that the Germans are exhuming
and burning the bodies of 5000
Russian war prisoners whom they
allegedly killed in cold blood late
in 1941 near Konieczow in South
Poland.
FIFTH ARMY HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Italy-AP-Casualties In
flicted upon the Germans during
the past Al days OF the Allied of
fensiVe in Italy were estimated
unofficially today to total between
$4,000 and 100000 killed, wounded
and captured.
IRUN. Spain-AP-German and
Nichy forces have set up a guillo-
tine in the town of OAK, approx
mately so miles north of the
French-Spanish border, to execute
French patriots captured in South
western France, advices received
ton was given by Belgian employees
OF the German general headQuar-
tiers for Southwestern France at
Mont-de-Narsan and was confirmed
by French refugees who crossed
the frontier and by two foreign
laborers who are working for the
Germans in the OAK region.
LONDON-AP-Leslie Hore-B Bel.
isha, secretary OF war in the Cham
berlain cabinet, was married to
day to Cynthia Elliot. of London.
a former British canteen worker
only recently who was repatriated
after being a prisoner OF war In
Germany for more than three
years. She was captured in France
while operating a travelling can
teen for French troops.
WASHINGTON - APP - With
Bond sales TO individuals in the
Fifth war Loan at IS per cent of
Quota, War Finance Director Ted
r. Gamble warned the nation to-
day against oyerconhdence in the
drive. The tremendous surge Of
= sales that some people expected as
an immediate result of the inva-
sion has not happened" he said in
r letter to state war finance chair
men calling for intensified sales
effort"
WASHINGTON-AP - Immedi-
ate scheduling OF civilian manufac-
ture to take up the slack from inn
pending cutbacks in war produc-
tion was proposed today in a FIVE
point reconversion program offer
ed by the United Automobile Work
ers (CIO).
NEW YORK-INS-An air search
Of the northern Maine and New