The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-25
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THE WEATHER.: Saturday;
Cloudy, Colder

THE WEATHER: Saturday:
Cloudy Colder
LISBON, Portugal-AP- Joseph |
P. Kennedy. United States ambas-
sador TO England, was among Fl
passengers who left by trans-Atlan-
tic plane this morning for New
York Kennedy said he planned |
10 90 to Washington Immediately
after his arrival, provided Presi-
dent Roosevelt was at the capital.
AUBURN, ME.-AP-An unidsn-
tihed woman was killed, IL persons
were rescued over aerial ladders
from the fifth and sixth floor win
dows and about 90 other guests fled
today as a before-dawn fire destroy
ed the Hotel Whitehall.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-AP- James
Buckner Brown. ~, a small town
boy who came to the city and in
26 spectacular years built himself
a S50,000,000 Kentucky financial
empire. is dead. Brown, who in
his day was a bank president. po-
litician. sportsman and newspa.
per publisher, died after a Satur-
day heart attack. He never reco'.
cred.
WASHINGTON-AP-A federal
grand jury is investigating the &C
tivities of Manfred Zapp and the
"Transocean News Service. which
Justice Department officials said
he headed. Attorney General Jack
son said Thursday that the jury
was directed to investigate posi-
BILE violations of the federal agents
REGISTRATION act OF 1898" by Zapp,
the agency and others whom he
did not name.
WASHINGTON-AP - Senator
Vannuys (D-lnd), who supported
REVISION of the Neutrality Act to
permit the cash and carry" sale
of arms. said today he would OPP
pose proposals to extend credit to
Great Britain for the purchase of
military supplies in this country.
NEW ORLEANS-AP-The Mis-
sissippi River Commission today
studied a proposal to build a dam
near the mouth Of the mighty
stream to prevent salty water from |
backing up to New Orleans and pol
luting the city's water supply.
LA JUNTA, Colo.-AP-Jesse c. |
Carson, 81. grandson of Indian |
Scout Kit Carson, who was arrans-
ing to go to Finland when the |
Russo-Finnish war ended, has vol |
unteered for immediate selective |
military service.
VALLEJO, Calf APP - Mare
Island Navy Yard, one of the West |
Coasts most important naval cen
tiers. will ignore Navy Day Sunday.
Rear Admiral David w. Bagley,
commandant. said all of the yards
$4,000 employees would be too busy
with national defense program &C
tvities.
'f PALO ALTO, Calf. up The
Stanford University Klystron La
boratory will be moved immediat-
ely to Garden City, N. Y, 1t was
announced today by r. e. Gill
. more, president OF the Sperry Gy-
Toscope Co.. licensee and distribu-
Dor OF the Klystron--a device for
~ To- 81 - t.
waves. Gilmore said the national
defense program had caused such
cxpansion in his country's re-
search activities in developing
new aircraft instruments that fac
ilities here were inadequate.
VICHY, France Inns - May
nard B. Barnes, American charge
daffaires in Paris, was seized by
German soldiers FOR speaking
English" and was held for two
hours last Monday, according to
reports reaching here today from
the former French capitak
SAN FRANCISCO up - The
Soviet tanker Batumi locked here
Thursday night from Vladivostok
with $S.000.000 in gold bullion
consigned to the United States
mint. The shipment brought the
six weeks total Of Russian gold
exported to the United States to
$23,0O0,O00. The Batumi will
leave with a cargo of $4,000 bar
rels of oil.
CAIRO up Fifty Italian
soldiers were killed and 400 others
wounded In a clash between Ita-I
liam and British border patrols in
the Anglo.Egyptian Sudan, Bril-
fish military headquarters said to-
day They said there were no Bri-
tish casualties.
ROME Up Resumption OF
the Italian offensive against Egypt
- is imminent the newspaper II Te-
we're asserted today.
CHUNGKING-UP- Forty two
Japanese planes heavily bombed
the already devastated downtown
section OF Chungking. Generalissi-
mo Chang Kai-Shek's capital, to-
day.