The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-09
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THE WEATHER: Tuesday:
Rain, Cooler

WASHINGTON-AP-A nation
wide survey showed today $780,.
600 idle workers enrolled and rea-
dy for jobs in defense industries.
CHUNGKING. China-AP-Chi-
nese military circles denied today
French report that Chinese
troops had crossed the frontier into
French Indo-China. They declared
=. the report was Japanese-inspired.
NEW YORK ms Police to-
day combed the fourth floor fur
nished room of Mary Martinez, "a,
a waitress, for some clue to the
slayer who strangled her with one
of her own sheer silk stockings
and left her body lying upon the
bed.
BELGRADE -INS -Yugoslav-
ian authorities took stern meas
ures against Communist agitators
the Belgrade suburb OF Koschutn-
jak during which police and Red
demonstrators exchanged shots.
, Two demonstrators were killed
and three wounded and five police
officers were wounded.
MOSCOW-UP- Japanese en-
bassy sources said today that
Shigenori Togo, Japanese ambassa-
dor to Russia, had been called
home to Tokyo and would leave
soon.
HYDE PARK. n. Y UP -
President Roosey cit confers today
with Myron C. Taylor. his person
al envoy to the Vatican. presumab-
ly to receive message from Pope
Plus XII on the fading prospects
for peace.
STOCKHOLM = UP - Kyosti
Kallio, peasant-born president of
Finland, was in satisfactory"
condition under doctors care over
the weekend, reports from Hell
sinki said. Kallio suffered heart
. attack late in August. His physi-
clans said he had rallied and was
recovering.
LONDON up - The great
London dockland fire still belch-
ed smoke and flames today. SO
hours after German bombs start
ed it at. dusk Saturday.
BUCHAREST, Rumania up
All religious seets In RHmania -ex.
cept those recognized by the state
were ordered suppressed today.
These suppressed included the
American Baptist organization.
LONDON up King George
VI spent three hours today in
London's east end and southeast
sections, inspecting damage inflict-
ed by the German bombers.
BUENOS AIRES Up The
Argentine government today press
ed its search for 10 quarterback
officers of the scuttied German
pocket battleship Admiral Graf
Spec who escaped ffem detention
on Martin Garcia Island in the
La Plata River Estuary.
NEW YORK up - General
sessions Judge Jacob Gould Schur-
man today refused defense Attor-
ney Martin w. Littletons appeal
that the case against George Sea-
lise, former head of the building
service employees international
union, be dismissed because of
publication last week of an alleged
deathbed deposition of Matthew
Taylor, head of the elevator oper-
ators and starters union in Chica-
go.
ROME Up Virginia Gayda
who often voices the views of Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini said today
that Great Britain still was able
to resist the axis attack and sug-
gested that the war may be of
long duration.
WASHINGTON - UP - The
agriculture department today re-
ported that the condition of the
cotton crop as of Sept. l was "A
per cent of normal with an indicat-
ed total production of 12,772,O0O
bales.
LAGRANGE. Ga.-AP-Officials
pushed an investigation today into
the lynching of an 1S-year-old ne
gro. who, they said, was taken
from the LaGrange jail by six
masked white men. Police Chief
J. E. Mathews said the negro, Aus
tin Galloway, was arrested Satur-
day on a charge of an attempted
attack on a white woman.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-AP-Four
convicts. one OF them reported
wounded and desperate, remainedN