The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-08

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Los ANGELES -AP- This was
one OF Red Skeletons buster days.
The radio redhead had two i'm
portant dates, one to marry Miss
Maureen Davis, % year old movie
actress, the other with a surgeon
who was to remove his tonslls.
WASHINGTON. D. GINS
American casualties in World
War n rose to s23,632 today.
Secretary Of War Stimson re-
ported that latest reported
Army casualties totslled 1884,
922 while latest Navy Depart
ment compilations show eo,71o
killed, wounded, prisoners or
missing in action.
Washington- ms 49, President
Roosevelt returned to the White
House today after a four-day rest
al his Hudson Valley home near
HYDE Park. n. Y. and immediate
~ went into q conference with
congressional leaders on current
legislation,
WITH L. S. THIRD ARMN-lNS
Scores of German prisoners taken
during the last few days have in
sisted that Field Marshal Karl Won
Rundstedt has been succeeded by
Gen. Walther Won Model as com
mander in the west. American Of
tccrs revealed todar.
LONDONLINS-Admiral Kobay-
ashi, who resigned from Premier
Kuniaki Koisos cabinet to form
new party, reported today that the
Japanese mainland has now vir-
tually been turned into a battle
field. His remarks we're broadcast
by the Japanese news agency.
MEXICO TY-INS-Argentina
will be invited today by the Inter
American Conference of foreign
ministers TO accept the resolutions
approved by the conference in
what is interpreted as a move 10
open the way for her attendance
at the World Security Conference
in san Francisco.
STOCKHOLM-TNS-All Stock
holm newspapers except the after
noon publication Aftonbladet to-
day ignored a report circulated by
the newly-formed New Free Ger
man Press Service claiming that
Adolf Hitler on February "a had
told a secret cabinet meeting that
Germany had lost the war through
the biggest treason in history.
COTTON PLANT. Ark. --AP-
Thirteen soldiers on flood duty
were rescued early today after
their assault craft capsized in the
swift currents of the White River
but between y and II others were
still listed as missing.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-AP- At
least one person was burned to
death and a dozen others were
hospitalized with burns, some ser
ious, in a fire which swept through
the war-crowded three-story. Cum
berland hotel here early today.
ROME -AP- Premier Iyanhoe
, Bonomt apparently has weathered
the crisis that developed from es-
cape OF Gen. Mario Roatta and a
subsequent protest riot before the
yoyal palace. The cabinet, sitting
in extraordinary session, affirmed
confidence late yesterday in the
premier after he had promised
swift Fascist purge.
WASHINGTON-AP - Capitol
Hill foreign policy makers caution
ed Comdr. Harold f. Stassen to-
day to soft.pedal his advocacy of a
acknowledgement higher level
world government. Acting Chair
man George (D-Ga.) OF the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee said
he fears the raising of "Controversi-
al issues" might do great hurt TO
the immediate peace detectives
Governor Stassen so ably cham
pions.'
MOSCOW AP 49, The Soviet
Union observed International Wom-
ems Day by paying tribute today
TO Russian women for their ire
mendous contributions TO the war
effort.
VANCOUVER. b. C.-INS-Two
men were known to be dead and
seven others still were missing to-
day as officials waited for the
freighter Greenhill Park to cool
and permit closer inspection OF its
scorched and twisted holds. The
hulk of the 10,000-ton cargo ship,
which was wracked by a series OF
ammunition explosions Tuesday,
was beached in the outer harbor
and all traffic kept away in the