The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-20

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VICHY, France -AP - All
main food items will be rationed
in both the occupied and unoccup-
led zones OF France beginning
Sept. 23 under severe new res
trictions announced here today.
NEW YORK-AP-Two former
big shots in Brooklyn's kill-for-
cash syndicate must pay with their
lives for strangling a small-time
bookmaker soaking his body with
gasoline and putting torch to it.
They are Harry pittsburgh PhiD
Strauss, 80, and Martin (Buggsy)
Goldstein, "a. convicted by jury
of the contract Staying OF Irving
Feinstein on Sept. 4, 1889.
MEXICO CITY-INS-Informal
overtures, designed to lead to the
resumption of diplomatic relations
between Mexico and Great Britain.
will be made to Prime Minister
Winston Churchill. it was learned
authoritatively today.
NEW YORK-INS- New York
City Commissioner of Sanitation
William F. Carey. noted civil en-
gineer and one of the most bril-
liant members of Mayor LaGuar-
dia's cabinet. has been granted a
temporary leave of absence to SUI
pervise cantonment construction
in the federal defense program.
TORONTO. Ont.-INS- A Nor
wegian air corps formed with a
nucleus OF army and navy pilots
who escaped after the Nazis invad-
ed Norway is forming here for
training under Bernt Balchen. it
was disclosed today. Canadian
and U. S. volunteers are expected
to swell its number to 900.
NEW K-1NS-With Mayor
F. II. LaGuardia Of New York City
presiding, national defense" was
a dominating topic today at the
1910 United States conference OF
mayors. Present were more than
200 mayors of cities from coast
to coast-and also from Canada.
TEZIUTLAN, Mexico up -
Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho, who
is scheduled to become President
Dec. /, said in an Interview at
his farm today that his govern.
ment would cooperate in all
ways possible to keep the horrors
of war away from the Americas. "
LONDON-INS- Authoritative
British quarters today confirmed
that important conversations
are proceeding in Washington re-
garding Anglo-American defense
cooperation in the Pacific Ocean.
ROME-INS- A formal agree
ment binding Germany, Italy and
Spain in a pact aimed at eventual
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the British Elm
pire will be signed in Berlin short
ly, it was learned today. The fact
will represent the chief result of
German Foreign Minister Joachim
von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome.
BUENOS AIRES up - There
are 120,160 unemployed on relief
n, Argentina, DR.. Pallet Lastra,
head Of the labor department Of
the ministry of interior, reported.
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay-UP-
Presid emit Alfredo Baldomir, II
was reported today soon viii Jr-
der the construction Of q military,
commercial and civil airport 10
miles from Montevideo as part of
the new national defense program.
The airport is expected TO cost
100000.
LENOX, Mass. up The bat
tered body of Miss Madeline
Clark, 44-year-old choir singer,
was recovered from Farnham re.
servoir today and police dragge
the waters and searched nearby
woods for trace Of the man last
seen with her. Medical Examiner
George S. Wickham reported that
Miss Clark's skull had been crush
ed and that she had been slain.
WASHINGTON up - Demo-
cratic Vice Presidential Candidate
Henry A. Wallace leaves Sunday
on a 17-day, 1000 mile speaking
tour that will follow by only o
week the general route Of the pre-
sent campaign trip of Republican
Presidential Nominee Wendell L.
Willkie.
BELFAST. Ireland-UP- Irish
Republican army raiders. armed
with revolvers and sub-machine
guns, made a series Of sensation
al raids on banks and post offices
throughout Belfast today and en-
gagged in gun duels with police
and guards.
CHICAGO-UP- William Bioff.
union leader OF 10000 Hollywood
movie technicians, was released
from Cook County Jail today upon
completion OF a six months term
imposed IS years ago on a pander-
ing charge.
LONDON TNS-Re- .ue work.
ers dug into twisted wreckage OF a
big North London air raid shelter
today seeking additional victims OF
a German bomb which scored a di.
rect hit on the escape hatch. Many
dead and injured already have been
carried from the ruins, but faint