The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-02
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THE WEATHER.; Sunday:
Fair, Warm
LONDON-INS-All army leaves
have been suspended throushout
Turkey. the London Daily Tele'
graph reported from Ankara today.
ROME-INS-Through Mgr. Va
lerio Valeri. apostolic nuncio 10
France, Pope Plus XII is participn-
ing in negotiations between the
Vichy government and the AXIS
powers 10 alleviate the sufferings
OF 100000 prisoners, 1t was re-
vealed today.
SHANGHAI-AP-The Evening
Post said today that Japanese
military authorities had detained
one Portuguese, one German and
two Italian coastal steamers at
Shanghai and confscated their ca
goes OF silk and cotton, valued al
an estimated $4,000.
NEW YORK-AP-Howard c.
Hopson. former head OF the Asso-
ciated Gas and Electric Utilities
system. has entered the Neurolo-
gical Institute OF New York. Hop
son, who is scheduled to go on trial
In federal court Wednesday on
mail fraud and conspiracy charges,
had been under observation for 80
day in Bellevue Hospital.
ROME-AP-An Italian Column
in East Africa. overcoming enc
my resistance" occupied the
heights OF the Sciusceib Mountains
near Kassala. Anglo-Egyptian Su-
dan, dominating the Sudanese
plain, the Italian high command
reported today.
SINGAPORE - AP Kitsuji
Ksshiwabara, Japanese newspaper
reporter, was sentenced today to
two months Imprisonment after
pleading guilty to charges OF re-
ceiving and recording information
on the movements of British troops
and planes. He denied, however.
that he relayed such information
to a japanese press attache.
BERN, Switzerland-AP- For
eign bombing planes crossed Swift.
zerland and headed south across
the Swiss Alps early this morning
and returned later over the route
taken on many occasions by Brit
ish fliers in attacks on northern
Italy.
LOS ANGELES-AP-By making
one metal part fit several kinds OF
airplanes, the American aircraft In
dustry has taken long step toward
speedier production and lowered
costs In the air rearmament drive
Engineer John T. Thompson said
today.
BURBANK, Calf. - P - G. T
Baker, president OF National Air
Lines, Jacksonville, Fla, took off al
1903 a. m. (PST) today in a new
Lockheed Lodestar on a speed
flight to Jacksonville which be
hoped would set Pacific-AtlantiC
coast record of nine and one-hali
hours.
LANSING APP State Budget
Director Gus T. Hartman said to
day he has rejected the request OF
the state military establishment
that he recommend appropriations
OF more than SS.50O,O0O for the con
struction of new armories and mil
itary buildings in Michigan in the
next biennium.
WASHINGTON AP - Reports
filed with tAe House clerk showed
today that the Democratic and Re-
publican national committees each
had spent more than 100000 since
June !.
TOKYO AP-Ichizo Kobayashi
special Japanese envoy to the Dutch
East Indies. asserted today on his
return here from batavia Java,
that certain understanding had
been reached in discussions by
which Japan seeks 70 obtain East
Indian oil. He added. however, that
there was no final conclusion.
FAST LANSING. Mich..- AP -
New automobile models for 1882
may be held in allegiance" by man
ufacturers If the tooling equipment
that would be used to make them
is needed in national defense, Will
Der NJ. Brucker. state defense adj
ministrator. said Friday.
MANILA. P. |. ms - A ST.
100000 fire destroyed three So
lid business blocks in the city of
Cabanatuan in the province Of
Nueva Eciva today. The fire, one
of the worst in the Philippine Is
lands, started in a restaurant own
ed by a Japanese who was ques-
toned by police and later re-
leased.
NEW YORK -INS The way
was clear today for Sunday
stage shows in New York. Mem'
bers of Actors Equity Associa-
ton, by a to vote, agreed to
accept regular rates OF pay for
working Sundays. thereby remov-
ing the chief barrier confronting
the staging Of Sunday proGuc-
tons.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-UP-
COY Ilnvd q Stark late EridaN