The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-23

! Late News |
The WEATHER: Thursday;
Fair, Cooler
SHANGHAI -AP - Most OF
che wives and the children OF
United States naval and marine
personnel in China will sail for
home Nov. 10 aboard the Ameri-
can liners Monterey and Mariposa.
VcHY, France ms -
Frances entire Mediterranean
fleet has returned to the naval
base at Toulon, II was disclosed
authoritatlvely today.
MADRID-AP - Heinrich Him
.mler,- head of the German police,
flew today by special plane for
Barcelona, where he is to be a
guest tonight at a dinner given
by the mayor. He plans to leave
for Germany Thursday.
TOKYO A P Japan notified
the United States, Great Britain
and Soviet Russia today that she
was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES a year
hence-an agreement for protec-
ton OF fur bearing seals, the
foreign office announced.
ALEXANDRIA. Egypt --AP -
Italian planes attacked British
warships at the Alexandria naval
base before dawn today, but auth
critics said they failed to score
any hits.
NEW YORK Betty Klempa.
q blonde, 19-y sar-old housemaid,
confessed slayer of her mistress;
Mrs. Leah Rubin. 3S, in a quarrel
over the quality of her house work,
awaited arraignment in the Bronx
today on a homicide charge.
WASHINGTON -AP - A board
composed of members of the de-
Tense commission was empowered
today to require manufacturers
when necessary, TO give govern
ment defense contracts prior over
other bids.
VATICAN CITY UP-All papal
audiences will be suspended during
the week beginning Nov. "a while
Pope Plus XII. cardinals and other
Vatican prelates devote themselves
TO spiritual exercises, it was an.
nounced today.
WASHINGTON UP-The gov.
eminent continued it's efforts to
bolster army and navy transport
and auxiliary fleets today by nego-
tiating for the purchase of the SIS.
President Roosevelt of the United
States Lines. The War Department
confirmed that the vessel was being
sought for use as an army transport
after announcement in Bermuda
that it had been 'requisitioned by
the government and soon would be
withdrawn from the New York
Bermuda service.
PHILADELPHIA P-The his
toric goldfish bowl used in the 1917
draft lottery was packed at hide
pendence Hall today for transporta-
tion to Washington where it will
be used in next Tuesdays conscrip-
tion drawing.
LONDON - INS-The free"
French news agency a. E. F. cir
culated a dispatch today claiming
that Germany is planning to move
against the Ukraine in the USSR.
The agency asserted its information
was received from two reliable
sources"
ANKARA-INS- A strong earth
quake was reported to have rocked
Smyrna, Turkey. early today The
population stampeded in panic to
surrounding fields and spent the
night in the open air. according TO
advices reaching Ankara which
said many casualties were feared.
LANSING-AP- Industrial and
labor union leaders will meet in his
Office Thursday, Governor Dickin-
son said Tuesday, in an effort to
arrange for swift settlement of la
Dor disputes involving nationst
defense industries. The date for
the conference was changed from
Friday because. the governor said,
some OF the persons invited to at
tend planned to discuss defense in |
dustries Friday in Detroit with |
William S Knudsen, national de- |
tense administrator.
ROME-AP-Gen. Ion Antones- |
Gu. Rumania's chief of state, has |
accepted invitation of Premier /
Mussolini to visit Rome and is ex-
pected to come early in November, |
an authoritative source said to. |
day. as evidence Of Rumania's at
tachment to the Axis.
T0ND0N-7AAtn-4I3e Belgian Prime
Minister Hubert Pierlot and For |
eign Minister Paul Henri Spaak |
arrived in London today to as
sumo direction Of the Belgian gov
eminent which has been set up in .
the British capital. The ministers |
arrived by plane from Liscon. TO |
which they escaped after the fall |
of France.