The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-12

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BELFAST, Northern lreland-AP
DR.. James Little. member OF par
lament for County Down. declared
at a political meeting today that
Germans have been getting oil for
submarines from the west coast OF
Fire Qreland).
BOMBAY, India-AP - Indian
Congress (NationalisD leaders
meeting here today forecast inau-
guration Of an individual civil dis
obedience" campaign as a result
OF the refusal OF Lord Linlithgow,
viceroy of India, to permit Mo-
handas X. Gandhi to preach anti
war propaganda.
LONDON-AP-Informed Brit
fish sources disclosed today that
Spanish authorities, acting under
German pressure, had prevented
Premier Hubert Pierlot and Foreign
Minister PaulHenri Spaak OF the
exiled Belgian government from
continuing on their way to Eng
land.
SANTA BARBARA. Calif.-AP-
Lucille Fairbanks, actress-niece or
the late Douglas Fairbanks, and
screen writer owen Crump will
be married in nearby Montecito
this afternoon. Mary Pickford will
give a reception for them at her
Hollywood home, Picklair, tonight.
EVANSVILLE, Ark.-AP - A
sneezing attack that started Oct.
3 and then subsidized with a treat
ment of garlic, came back to Jul
anita Loitis. and made her much
weaker today Last night she was
sneezing seven or eight times
minute. She began sneezing Thurs
day after IS hours surcease and
the frequency stepped up through
the day.
JACKSONVILLE. Flap -
Longshoremen rushed loading Of
two Greek freighters with scrap
iron for Japan early today in face
. OF a new city ordinance against 1t
and an. appeal to, President Roose-
welt to halt them. The freighters
Anna NJ Goulandris and Evi LII
, vanos sought TO stow their cargo
{ and sail before the midnight Tues
day deadline on scrap shipment
from this country.
NEW YORK-AP-A score OF
young men students of Union Theo-
logical Seminary made known to-
day their intentions not to comply
/. in any way with the Selective
Service Act. At the same time,
Col. Arthur V. McDermott. New
York selective service director, an
nounced machinery had been set
up to round up ans draft eyaders.
BERLIN-AP-Four Danzig men
were beheaded today for high trea-
, son. The peoples court ruled that
the four-Karl Hoffman, Erich
Schultz, Will Tosch and Herman
Chill-belonged before the war to
an organization outside the Reich
timed at undermining the efficien-
cy OF the German armed forces
through sabotage and overthrowing
the Reich's constitution.
ROME UP British planes,
bombing Benghazi. Italy's big North
African base, inflicted consider
able" damage to a number OF civil
ian dwellings" and to the cathedral,
a high command communique said
today.
). LES VERRIERES, Franco-Swiss
Observation-Disclosures reaching
here from Alsace Lorraine report
ed today the Nazis are "GermaniZ-
ing the region by roofing up thou
sands OF French families and re-
placing them with Germans from
as far away as the Baltic States.
The dispossessed Frenchmen, most
l-of them middle class lawyers, ply
sicians and merchants. are being
dumped into the lap OF the Vichy
government, these sources said.
ROME APP Italian planes
bombed British troop positions in
Egypt while the British struck back
at Italian bases at Sid Barrani,
I Bardia and Bengazi in Libya. tae
Italian high command reported to-
day
ADMINISTRATIONS open
trucks bearing German flags and
packed with German soldiers car
rying bayonetted rifles passed
through Bucharest streets at noon
stoday.
NEW YORK-AP-The German
radio broadcast dispatch from
Vichy today that King Leopold III
of Belgium had been restored to the
order Of the French Legion Of
Honor
= LONDON APP Five thousand
members Of the Pioneer Corps (mil-
itary labor) and "a large number Of
unemployed will be put to work
Monday clearing the debris from
bonn London.
BERLIN AP-A German torpe-
do boat fotilla was reported today
\ to have sailed out Of a continental
port and fought sea engagement
off the Isle of Wight with British
light naval forces.
STOCKHOLM. Sweden-AP- A
government spokesman said today
that so far as was known in Stock
. holm Swedens order for 100 war.
Aplanes from the United States still
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