The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-14

Jay. Inc weapon was uesCIlDcu
by the agency as almost childish
ly simple to make" There was no
onicial comment on the report.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gren-
willie Ewes, 65. portrait painter and
Official artist for the British Expe-
dictionary force since 1910, died to-
day at Middleton in Teesdale.
ROME -AP - Adelchi Serena,
secretary OF the Fascist party,
warned today that Italians gruInb-
ling about wartime conditions
would receive the same treatment
as profiteers.
ROME -AP Stefani, Italian
! news agency, reported today that
the Malta radio when warning is
landers OF the approach OF Italian
planes announces: Italian bandits
are approaching Sing Sing" Such
"impudence," the agency said,
only serves to increase the fight
ing spirit OF Italian filters.
LONDON AP- For the third
straight night British bombers
dashed at Germany's industrial
Ruhr valley last night and struck
again at Brest, where the Nazi
battleships Scharnhorst and Gnei-
senau as we'll as a 10,000-ton cruz
err are berthed, authoritative
sources reported today.
4 SAN FRANCISCO APP Pan
American Always Philippine
clipper arrived from the Orient
Friday to complete the 5o0th
crossing of the north Pacific since
air service was inauSurated in
1888.
HONOLULU -AP - A con-
tract was signed last night be-
tween the Five Companies, organi-
cation OF contractors engaged in
defense construction, and the AFL
plumbers union which figured in
\ labor demonstration May Is.
ROME -AP Gibralter was
bombed Thursday night by Italian
planes, the Fascist high command
reported today.
PHILADELPHIA APP - Five
members of the Venezuelan oil
tanker Coronis crew were injured
Nearly today by an explosion aboard
1.-THE vessel at the Gulf Refining
Companys Schuylkill River pier.
The 3-164-ton ship, registered out Of
Maracaibo, Venezuela, and operated
by the Meme Grand Oil Company,
locked yesterday and was unload
ing crude oil at the time Of the
blast.
LONDON-AP-J. c. EIDE. par
1iamentary secretary of the board
of education. said today that de-
spite destruction OF many school
buildings by German air raiders,
full-time education was available TO
s65 per cent of elementary school
children as Of April I.
HOLLYWOOD ms Formal
announcement of the engagement
of Screen Actress Priscilla Lane
to John Barry, Victorville, Cal,
newspaper publisher, will be made
today at family party in the
Lane home.
EVANSVILLE. Ind. ms -
1.-THE 1900 employees of the Briggs
Manufacturing Factory in Evans
willie were informed today they
will receive the S-cents-per-hour
wage increase recently granted to
Briggs employees in Detroit, re-
troactive TO June 1. The raise.
81 company officials said. will in
3crease the plants payroll to $500
weekly.
BOSTON ms John Roose-
welt. youngest son OF the Presi-
dent, prepared to report Monday
for active service as an ensign
with the Navy. He will report to
3Harvard business school, for a
>course in the Navy Supply Corps
School.
NEW YORK -AP- A play with
q new climax every night-taken
directly from the headline OF the
hour-promises to scatter broken
Ixprecedents along Broadway in the
/coming theater season. To give
his production OF Oliver Graml-
ing's history OF the Associated
Press fitting ending, Ocar Ser
lin plans to adapt the final cpl
sode each night from the most
important news bulletin issued
during the day by the news SER
Nice.
NEW YORK-INS-A new con-
tingent OF Canadian airmen has
Just arrived in London, according
10 a British radio broadcast picked
np in New York today by MIC.
The fliers we're welcomed by the
London. populace. the broadcast
aid, and later received by the
Queen.
WASHINGTON-INS- The Ad-
ministration today was reported to
be speeding preparation of drastic
price control legislation as one
means OF curing labor unrest by
putting the brakes on rising cost OF
living, as congressional groups
bought stiff anti-strike measures.