The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-01

sador to the puppet government OF
Jose P. Laurel, last reported in ia
pan.
WASHINGTON AP-Convinced
that Japan still screens bomb tar
gets with Allied prisoners. the State
Department today awaited confir-
nation OF Tokyo radio report that
Americans died in the bombing OF
Kawasah July 26. The Depart
ment disclosed last night that It
had requested verification by the
Swiss government and Information
al Red Cross.
JERUSALEM-AP- Arab party
leaders open their own conference.
on Palestine affairs today at Am
man. capital OF Transjordan, stimuli
taneously with the converting OF the
Zionist world conference In London.
LONDON-AP-A two-day con-
ference OF the provincial governors
OF India with Viceroy Lord Wavell
began today in New Delhi, said a
New Delhi broadcast recorded by
the Associated Press.
LONDON-AP- A campaign To
have Britain's new Labor govern
ment take "active steps to estab-
lish women's rights to equality with
men" was given added impetus to-
day by a mass meeting attended by
more than 1000 women. including
several members OF Parliament.
NEW YORK AP "a Tammany
Hall candidates for nine contested
district leaderships swept to vic
tory in Tuesdays primary election,
unofficial tabulations showed early
today. No city.wide Offices were
contested in the primary. William
ODwyer was nominated without
opposition as the Democratic
American Labor Party candidate for
mayor, and Judge Jonah J. Gold
stein. a Democrat with COP back
ing, became the Republican nomi.
nee.
MANILA-AP-Army and Navy
divers retrieving $500 900 in Phil
ippines government silver sunk in
Manila Bay in 1912 to keep It from
the japanese are finding It in scat
tered piles rather than neatly pack
ed in boxes as they expected. The
crates deteriorated In their three
years in the bay and broke open.
the salvage oficer disclosed today.
BUENOS. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
at plans to draft" Vice President
Juan Peron for the Argentine presi.
dence, faculty heads OF six uni
versities Joined Tuesday night in
demanding a swift return to consti.
tutional government.
LONDoN-AP - Lord HalifaS.
British ambassador to the United
States, arrived in London today
amid speculation as to whether he
will continue at his post in Wash
ington under the new Labor gov
eminent.
LONDON-UP - The British |
Communist Party's executive COM
mittee pledged today its support to
Britain's new Labor government. |
The Communist group said that It |
gave its "wholehearted support to |
the Labor government in bringing |
the war against Japan to an early |
victory and in carrying out great |
social changes and policy OF inter. |
national cooperation for which the |
people voted with such decision and |
confidence"
WASHINGTON UP - Senate
Democratic Leader Alban w Bark
ley planned to send the Senate |
home for summer recess today with |
a warning that 1t faces a heavy |
agenda Of reconversion and post
war employment legislation when
It comes back in October. The |
House already has recessed until |
Oct. 8. The Senate was ready to
put aside its work until the same |
time after more or less routine
session today.
CHUNGKING-UP-Lt. Gen. AL. |
bert c. Wedemeyer's headquarters
announced today that the 10Th |
United States Airforce is being |
shifted to China from the India
Burma theater and will be com. |
manded by 1t Gen. George Z,
Stratemeyer.
MILWAUKEE-INS-- A minis.
ter's charge that the play Chicken
Every Sunday" is "sensuous and |
immoral" resulted in an emergen.
cy meeting Of suburban Shore
woods school board today to con-
boards involvement was occasion
ed by the fact that this play and |
others, presented by a stock CON-
pany, the Port Players, haze as
their Impoverished theater the
Sherwood High School auditorium.
WASHINGTON-INS = Danny
wilkins, aged Is, was smiling to-
day, but he still wonders how ne
survived his swim" for three
quarters Of a mile through the rag
ing, muddy torrents OF q sewer into |
the Eastern Branch River. Danny
was swept into the sewer by a flash
food Tuesday night during a heavy
downpour which broke Washing
tons 5s-year-old rainfall record |
for the month OF July.
U. 8. WEATHER FORECAST
Lower Mechanically cloudy
tonight and Thursday. Showers
apA fhnrdargNary,.a rask ra~tt1,