The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-19
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KANSAS CITY-INS-Four per-
sons we're known to be dead and
ak additional bodies were believed
buried today in the smoking ruins
OF a grain elevator OF the Larabee
flour mills in North Kansas City.
Twenty others of SIS employees in
the elevator at the time OF the
blast late yesterday were injured,
five OF them seriously.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-INS- Cap
tain Wolfgang Hermann He'll
fritsch. German army officer who
escaped from a prisoner OF war
camp at Crossville, Tenn. last Oc-
tober, was in custody OF Federal
Bureau OF Investigation authorities
today. The captain was found
working under an assumed name
at large farm several miles out
side Lexington, Ky. according to
II. K. Moss, special agent in charge
OF the FBI office in Louisville.
NEW YoRK-INS-A reward Of
$500 was posted by Mayor F. H..
LaGuardia today TO curb yandal-
ism against church property, par
ticularly the daubing Of Soviet
= symbols on Catholic churches. The
mayor directed the police to take
stringent measures against culprit
desecrating church property. The
action followed discovery OF crude
hammer and sickle designs on ST.
Patricks Cathedral, and daubs on
the Church OF the Ascension and
the Church OF ST. John the Evan
gelist.
BUFFALO-INS- The Econom-
les League OF Buffalo was prevent
ed today from using a ballroom
in the Memorial Auditorium where
the Rev. Gerald L. X. Smith OF
Detroit and Rep. Clare Hoffman
OF Michigan were scheduled to
speak next Monday. The league
applied to the supreme court TO
compel the city to rent the ball
room for the meeting, but Justice
Parton Swift ruled that Buffalo Of
ficials legally could refuse a rent
al permit.
LOS ANGELES UP-Transfer
Executive Lee Van Belden fumed
in more or less silence today await.
ing his inning in court to deny his
wife's charges that he got so nerv-
Gus he tried to shoot her with a
spoon, went around ''a-kissin' AMI
a-huggin' another woman-and
looked like big monkey in the
nude" He was frequently in the
nude, she said in her separate
maintenance claims, but seldom at
home.
Observation-Disclosures
OF Charlie Chaplin's innocence of
paternity, he and six other defend
ants will be arraigned Monday on
charges OF interfering with the
civil rights OF red-haired Joan Ber-
ry, who charged Chaplin with being
the father OF her daughter, until a
blood test proved her wrong.
WASHINGTON UP-The war
Production Board had the assur-
ance OF penicillin producers today
!. that soon the wonder drugs"
healing magic will be available in
sufficient quantity to meet all
military and civilian requirements.
Output OF the precious white pow.
der has expanded so speedily that
American and Canadian firms pro-
ducing penicillin reported at a.
meeting OF WIPES penicillin pro-
ducers industry advisory commit
tee they will be able to fulfill all
needs by mid-1944.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -
Gen. Pedro Pablo Ramirez, who
seized the Argentine presidency In
the Army revolution of last June
may resign tomorrow and turn the
) office over to Chief Justice Nicolas
Repetto OF the Supreme Court,
Buenos Aires reports said today.
The political situation in the Ar.
gentine capital remained extreme
ly confused and momentous events
may be imminent, these reports
said.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.-INS-Inves.
tgation was launched today into
the crash Of a four -engined NAVY
patrol bomber which plowed into
a naval barracks on the Coronado
Strand, killing six men and injur-
ing so. Names of the victims were
being withheld pending notifica-
ton OF their next of kin.
LOS ANGELES ms Capt
Mildred A. McCafee, national COM
mander of the Waves and peace
time president of Wellesley Col
lege, today held an honorary de-
gree of doctor of laws, conferred
in ceremonies at Occidental Col
8 lese.
LOS ANGELES-INS- Funeral
services were being arranged to-
day for Arthur II. Kudner, So,
head of a New York advertising
firm. He died yesterday OF pneu-
monia. Kudner, former newspap-
erman in Detroit and New York.
won renown during the last World
War for writing advertisements for
the Liberty Loan and the Red
Gross. His home was at Queens
town, Md.
LOS ANGELES-INS- Los An.
geles County was celebrating its
oath birthday today. The county
WAS founded in 1Shn uhila thn Tar.