The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
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WASHINGTON-AP- The JUS
tice Department today announced
the indictment of former minister
who. the department said, had
been instructed TO establish him
self in this country as a contact
for German spies. The indict-
ments. returned at Newark, n. j.,
charged Carl Emil Ludwig Krep-
per. OF Newark, with violating the
sabotage, censorship and foreign
agents statutes
CHlCAGO-AP-one person
was killed and ~ others were
injured, two seriously, Tuesday
night in an explosion ana FIRE
that destroyed t0o-story bust
ness and residentts building on
the South Side. Fire officials
said the blastsWas believed to
have resulted from ignited gas
in the basement. The explo-
sion pushed out two sides Of
the brick structure. shattered
window panes several feet
away and Jared buildings
within a two-block radius.
.. BUFFALO, n. Y.-INS-A strike
OF 1900 workers at the Wickwire
Spencer Steel Company plant in
Buffalo continued today after a
lengthy conference between man
agement and Union officials failed
to produce an agreement.
PARIS-INS' - Newspapers in
Paris reported today that a single
German plane had dropped Nazi
parachutists in the center of
France. Some of the German para
troops were said to have been cap
tured.
PORTLAND, Ore.-INS - Sew
eral thousand cigarette smokers in
Oregon and Washington were dis
tressed today over train wreck at
Gold Greek. Mont. For something
like 100000 cigarettes burned
up in the wreck.
LONDON ms - The News
Chronicle today quoted rumor
published in the Stockholm Alton
bladet that a new attempt had been
made against the life OF Adolf
Hitler. The Stockhold paper said
the rumor was based on a mys-
FERROUS fire at Plessheim Castle in
Bavaria where Hitler was known
TO have lived for some time and
believed to have made his head
quarters
PHlLADELPHIA-INS- Harry X.
Thaw, 73-yearolo former playboy
whose madcap esCapades startled
the country at the turn of the cen
fury, was reported II be recovering
today from a stroke which affected
his right side slightly. \ spokes-
man at his home revealed that
Thaw became i'll several weeks ago
but has made a remarkable recoy.
cry" in the last few days.
HAVANA, Cuba-AP- Twenty
two members of the Cuban Con-
gress presented to the government.
Tuesday night a resolution urging
that it break relations with Spain
on the ground the Franco regime
is 'undemocratic'.
BARI, Italy-AP- Members Of
the L. S. House Military Affairs
Committee were enroute home to-
day by plane after 25-day tour
Of the battleironts Rep. Clare
Boothe Luce W-Conn) who had
been suffering from ear trouble in
duced by air travel-remained be-
hind. She said she might spend
Christmas with the frontline troops.
LONDON-AP - Pledging the
support OF his organization for an
honesty" in news between ma
tions" program, Christopher Chan
Cellor, general manager OF Reuters.
asserted today that a worldwide
system of free news agencies
would do much to make permanent
the coming peace.
BATON ROUGE, La.-AP-The
tempestuous case of the Louisiana
state University coed who wrote
and distributed a leaflet on kissing
and sex seemed headed today for
review by Gov. James II. Davis.
Several hundred students. demand
ing the reinstatement of the comcly
coed. 1S-year-old Gloria Jeanne
Heller. marched on the governors
mansion Tuesday night after sug-
gestions were made at a student
mass meeting to appeal to higher
authority-the governor
LONDON-AP- Mai. Francis
Yeats. Brown. IS. British author,
soldier and airman died yesterday.
His books included Bengal Lane
err Golden Horn Dogs Of War
and Lancer at Large" one Of the
most widely travelled of modern
writer's. he once lived among the
natives of India to study their re-
ligion and politics.
LONDON AP- Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden told the House
of Commons today that recent
Japanese successes in China con.
stituted a grave menace" to tina:
country and that Everything in
the power Of the Allies will be