The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-02

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heavy Swiss antiaircraft fire.
LONDON-AP- Prime Minister
Churchill declared today in a state
ment TO the bomber command that
air supremacy is being gradually
and painfully wrested from Ger
many.
WASHINGTON -AP-Adminis-
tration economists made a Labor
Day prediction today that the Ma
tional Defense program. with con.
scription included. would cut I'M
employment in half by next July l.
reducing the number Of jobless from
o 100000 to 100000. q.
WASHINGTON Congress
sional leaders today appeared aim.
ing at a stepped-up legislative tenn
po for the next few weeks, with the
unannounced hope Of getting Con.
gress to adjourn and go home some
time this month. Some confirma.
ton Of this came from Senator
Herring, (D-la). who said leaders
were pressing for action on i'm.
portant national defense and tax
legislation so that all of US can
go home for a while"
GRACE. Idaho-AP-Fou small
children were dead today after fire
leveled the four room frame home
in which they slept. They appar- /
emily were not eFen awakened by
the fire said their grand uncle,
Deputy Sheriff Andrew Adams.
They We're Ray Adams. e. Oar. 5.
Fern, 3, and Elzina Arlene, IL
children Of Mr. and Mrs Hyrum r.
Adams.
DENVER, Colo. William
Green, president Of the American
Federation of Labor, took issue
today with the recent proposal OF
John l.. Lewis. CIO chief, that
third political party be formed
with the ranks of labor as It's
nucleus. Formation of such a third
party, Green declared. would $50
ate the balance Of power now
held by labor. Green also reveal
ed himself opposed 70 conscrip-
tim except when voluntary en-
lisNment has failed.
- CAAIDEN N. j. -AP South
western New Jersey counted at
least four dead, hundreds homeless !
and property damage of well over
million dollars today in the wake |
OF torrential rains that outskirt-
ed a hurricane moving off the !
Atlantic seaboard.
LONDON --AP - Archbishop |
Of Canterbury broadcast an appeal /.
here to~the United States for "all |
the strength of your moral and /
spiritual support" in the struggle /
in which he said that Britain is /
defending Christian civilization. /
BOSTON -AP- Atlantic Sea
board cities from Cape Hatteras
to Boston took precautions here /
for fear that the tropic-born hurri !
cane moving north asterly. 100 /
miles CffshOre might sweep in. I
Gale warning We're posted from /
the Virginia Capes TO Nantucket /
as the fringe of the hurricane T.
touched North Carolina, Virginia,
and Southern New Jersey points. f.
DETROIT. Mich. -Four per-
y sens were dead and seven others /
injured as a result OF three acct (
dents Sunday The dead were
Patrclman Russell D. Parker, 40. /
Garfield Station; Leslie Fassett. 4 +,
son Of Patrolmau Truman Fassett. /
Bpthune station. Mrs. Alice Weary, I
3G. Wyandotte; and Andrew I
Pasan. 40, Detroit.
JACKSON -= Two County Jail /
inmates were held in solitary con I
finenent to-day as Sheriff Howard /
Purdy revealed that they had at (
lacked Turnkey Robert Cowan I'm 1
an unsuccessful jailbreak attempt. /
Perry Gleason, 23, awaiting trial /
for robbery armed. and Mervin /
Young. IS. charged with automo- /
bile larceny were the attackers.
MIAMI -AP- Pan-American /
Arrays strato-cHpper Comet was I
speeding southwark from Miami 7
today TO inaueurate three-day {
service to Rio de Janeiro.
CHATTANOOGA-INS- Presi |
dent Roosevelt came into the Ten /
nessee valley region today TO de- /
liver two Labor Day speeches His /
secretary, Stephen r. Early, is ord .
cred to make public inquiry as to I
how Republican Presidential Nomi I
nee Wendell Willkie ohbined a 4
COPY OF a government report from 4
which he quoted as he hammSTed I
al the President over the week .
end 10 declare himself on the con
scripuon bi amendment which /
would permit the Chief Executive /
10 take over private industry for I
national defense purposes.in peace I
time
WASHINGTON-AP- Secretary +
~ Oh Navy Frank Knox plans 10 i
start Tuesday 20 fly 20 Hawaii and I
back. approx mately 10000 miles. /
20 ioin tho fleet In. maneuvers at .
Sea and inspect West Coast and