The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18

and Blackshirt militiamen, are
beginning to abandon the vital
port OF Bardia In the llbysn
desert, according to word re-
eeiVed In Cairo today.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -AP-
The newspaper Vreme said today
Germany Is planning TO take over
the French owned Dor copper
mines in eastern Yugoslavia-the
largest producers in Europe. The
newspaper said German banking in
terests would absorb the majority
of shares now held by the Kirabesu
bank in Paris.
MONTREAL-AP-An explosion
started fire ruined the homes of
10 families in near zero weather
here early today, injuring five
persons.
CHTCAGO-UP- Frank II. Sny-
der, 81, was held for questioning
by immigration authorities today
after he told police he had deserted
his post as a captain in the Cana
dian Royal Air Force Aug. IS.
BECkLEY, w. Va. Up In
spectors equipped with oxygen
masks entered the No. coal
mine tipple OF the Raleigh Coal
and Coke Corporation today to re-
pair damage and restore proper
ventilation preparatory to an Of
fetal investigation into the explo-
sion which took seven lives Tues
day.
BOMBAY. India-AP-The gov
eminent of India was reported to-
day to have decided to support
plans advanced by Walchand Hira-
chand, Bombay industrialist, for
construction Of an aircraft factory
, at Bangalore and a shipyard at
Nizagapatam, in Madras Province.
BOMBAY, lndia-AP-M ohandas
K. Gandhi. Indian nationalist leader.
proclaimed a Christmas truce from
Dec. % to Jan. today in the Con-
gress party's campaign against In
dian participation in the war.
N NEW RK-AP-Awards total
ing $4,000 await metal workers for
the best suggestions to aid In
speeding the American Industrial
defense program. Establishment of
the awards was announced Tuesday
night by c. Donald Dallas, presi-
dent of Revere Copper and Brass.
Inc. who said II was a direct reply
IN nafanaa Noi,,p,ioeiouar Uvifliar,
s. Knudsen's recent assertion that
defense production was tagging.
LONDON-AP - The Exchange
Telegraph Company british news
agency reported from Dublin to-
day that Premier canon de Valera
OF Fire had entered a Dublin nurs-
ing home for few days medical
observation.
WASHINGTON-UP- The Fed
eral Trade Commission today issu-
ed complaint against five corpora
tions operating sardine canning
plants in Maine charging violation
| OF the brokerage provisions OF the
Robinson-P atman Act. The COM
plant named Royal River Packing
Corp, Yarmouth, Me-; Belfast Pack
ing Company. Belfast; North Lubec
Manufacturing e. Canning Com
pany. North Lubec; Union Sardine
Company, Lubec: and Booth Fish
cries Corporation. Chicago, which
operates through main subsidiary,
Booth Fisheries Sardine Company,
Lubec, Me.
MONTREAL. Que.-UP-A three
story tenament building was wreck
ed early today by an oil stove ex.
plosion and fire spread to an adj
joining building. where two per-
sons were killed and four injured
SOUTH BEND, Ind.-UP- The
| Rev. Thomas A. Steiner. provincial
OF the Congregation OF Holy Cross,
announced today the Rev. Christie
pher ]. O'Toole had been named
president of Holy Cross College,
Washington, d. c.
BUCHAREST, Rumania-UP -
Gen. Ion Antonescu. premier, pro
hibited the export of 20 important
food products today.
LONDON ->INS 49, British avia-
tion circles commented enthusiast
tically today on the new British
"whtlwin'd" fighter plane whose
existence was revealed Tuesday
by Lord Beaverbrook, minister
Of aircraft production. While de-
tails were kept secret, experts
claimed the plane is one of the
worlds fastest fighters and is ex-
pected to become even more fam
Gus than the hurricane and spit
fire fighters in the near future.
ROME -AP- The first pun
ishment OF Italians for listening
to a British news broadcast was
reported today from Padua,
where the proprietor Of a bar was
sentenced to month in jail and
fined 500 lire (sbout $3.50
WASHINGTON up - Presi-
dent Roosevelt's veto OF the Wal
ter-Logan bill, which would sub
ject the rulings OF quasi judicial
federal agencies to court review,
Is expected to reach the House to-
day.
ST. CHARLES. Na.-UP-Three
private airplanes loaded with hand
grenades roar low over the noun
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