The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-13
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LONDON -AP-, The death Of /
Edouard Herriot. three times pre-
mier OF France. was announced to-
day by the German agency DNB. !
The Berlin broadcast gave no de- /
tails. The 70 year old French lib I
eral and champion Of parliamen-
tAry government previously had !
been reported from time TO time !
TO be dead, in sanatoriums or |
in concentration camps.
WASHINGTON-AP- Albanian |
guerrillas have formed a national !
committee and asked the Allies for |
military aid, looking towards even
tual recognition as a government. |
Until recently, German occupied 4
Albania had a puppet government |
under Nazi control. but the guerril- !
las have now begun TO fight more |
actively and the puppet govern !
ment has fallen.
SANTA FEE, n. M.-AP-A spe-
cial New Mexico legislature yes
terday complettl enactment OF a
law to permit electors absent with
the armed forces TO vote for Pres
ident, Vice President and members
OF Congress. State supreme court
decisions have ruled out absentee
balloting on state officials.
MARIANA FIELD, Ariz. -AP-
Second 1t. Howard E. Stittsworth,
81, Wakefield, Kans., flying instruc-
tor went before court martial today
charged with murder in the auto
pane collision death Of a civilian
June 22. Stittsworth is accused
of plotting the plane which swoop-
ed low over Highway SO. striking
an automobile with it's wing and
decapitating the driver, Earl w.
Hepple OF Los Angeles. The plane
continued in flight, later landing
at Luke Field, Far Phoenix, where
Stittsworth Is stationed. !?
Health officers in southern
states took new steps yesterday
to prevent spread of an infantile
paralysis outbreak conferred IN
North Carolina where go cases
and Is deaths have been reported.
In Kentucky eight reported new
cases brought the states total TO
129, with four deaths.
NEW YORK -AP- A request
that the Federal Communications
Commission investigate deletion by
radio station WMCA Of portions
Of speech given by State Senator
Frederic r. Coudert (Rep) was
before FEC Chairman James L. Fly
today. Edward T. Mccartney, ma.
tional commander OF the Catholic
War Veterans, asked in a tele.
gram to fly yesterday that the FEC
hold hearings here to investigate
the deplorable action"
NEW YORK-AP-Mrs. Betty
Compton Knappen, 81, wife OF Theo-
dore T. Knappen, an engineer and
previously the wife Of former
Mayor James ]. Walker OF New
York, died last night. Knappen
said the one-time musical comedy
star had been i'll since the birth Of
a son last January 10.
LONDON-AP Anna Louise
Strong, American author of sew
eral books dealing with Russia, has
arrived in Moscow with presents
from America for several cultural
bodies and institutes, the Moscow
radio said today.
LONDON-AP 1t. Eugene
Zweigert, who as one OF Germany's
leading air aces claimed he had
downed So Allied planes, has been
killed on the western front. the
German radio announced today.
NEW YORK-AP-The Japanese
munitions ministry headed by Pre-
mier Gen. Hideki TOTO, has order
ed the production of "air defense
FIRE engines" speeded up ahead OF
schedule because of "the acute
situation that has developed" the
Tokyo radio said in a domestic
broadcast reported today by L. S.
Government monitors.
WASHINGTON APP - Sheep.
herders may now get pound and
n half OF sugar each month in ad.
dition to the usual ration. So rul-
ing today, OPA explained that
herders use unusually large
amounts OF cereals since they lack
kitchen facilities in the outdoors
and thus require more sugar than
they are able to get with ration
stamps.
ISBON-AP-A group OF 434
British subjects due here tomorrow
by train from internment in Ger
many will be exchanged for SINH
lar number OF Germans who have
arrived from Africa aboard the
Drottningholm. Other Germans
brought here on the vessel will re-
main in the country until a Sec
ond group OF Britishers arrives
July 10.
ST. LOUIS. Mo.-CP-Tn deli
cate three-hour operation surgeons
at City Hospital today had re-
stored a 19-year-old girl war plant
inEpectors scalp, torn completely