The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-15


Tokyo without the $4,000 barrel
cargo Of oil for which she came.
The export control administration
issued a license for the cargo
but the japanese were unable to
withdraw the necessary funds from
the Federal Reserve bank to pay
for It.
VICHY, UnoccuSied France-AP
Tea rooms we're ordered today
TO remove sandwiches and other
tidbits from their display windows.
Police officials explained such dis
plays make people hungry.
TOKYO-AP-Eiji Amau, for
mer Japanese ambassador to
Rome. was appointed today to the
post of vice minister of foreign af-
fairs. Amau is known as the
father of The Amau Statement"
enunciating a hands-off China
policy, given out in 1885 when
Great Britain sent a financial
mission to China headed by Sir
Frederick Leith-Ross.
TOKYO-AP-Osaka and Kobe,
two important ports on the south
east coast, were struck by a typ
hoon today. causing considera BILE
damage and suspension of tele-
phone and telegraph services with
Tokyo.
TOKYO-AP-Koh Ishii. govern.
ment spokesman, said today the
condition Of Vice Premier Baron
kiichiro Hiranuma, shot in the
jaw and chest by an assassin yes
terday, was not serious.
BEIRUT. Lebanon-AP Gen.
Charles de Gaulle issued a decree
today appointing Gen. Paul lie Gen.
tilhomme commander-in-chief OF the
Free French forces In Africa. lie
Gentilhomme led the De Gaullist
troops which helped take Damascus.
Syria, in the recent British-Free
French invasion of the Levant states
although his arm was broken when
an aerial bomb exploded near him
early in the campaign.
S1TKA, Alaska-AP-A roaring
o5-foot wall of rock, loosed by a pre-
mature explosion. resulted in the
deaths Of six workmen at a quarry
for the big L. s. Naval Air Base on
Japonski Island in Sitka Harbor.
NEW Y0RK-INS-An earth.
quake Of strong intensity" was re-
corded early today on the Fordham
University seismograph, the first
shock at Ell a. m. (EDT) and the
'scond seven minutes later. The
temblnr was estimated to have oc-
cErre 4 1850 miles from New York
with no direction indicated.
LONDON-UP-President Roose
welt and Prime Minister Winston
Churchill. in a joint message to
Josef Stain, will announce the i'm
pending dispatch of important Unit
ed States and British missions to
Moscow to tdiscuss long term aid
to Russia, diplomatic quarters re-
ported today.
BERLIN UP-British planes at
tempted to raid Berlin last night
but were turned back by Ahti-air.
craft defenses and eight of the at
lacking planes were shot down,
communique said today.
SINGAPORE-INS-For the third
time since the Far Eastern crises
arose. powerful naval. military. and
air reinforcements arrived IN Singa.
pore today from Australia. Appar-
emily dispatched soon after the Jap
anese moved into southern French
1ndo-China, the reinforcements ar
rived just as the Japanese reported
ly took up positions on the border
between lndo-China and Thailand.
ATLANTA. Gains Authori.
ties today launched a search for
seven prisoners who fled Georgia's
Little Alcatraz," the state prison
farm at Dallas, Ga, as the latest
development in an investigation OF
conditions in the Georgia chain
gang system, which disclosed the
death of a prisoner in tiny sweat
hut"
Observation-Disclosures
that two British newspapermen
were present at the high seas meet
ing of President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill. while the
American press was barred. brought
"a storm Of criticism today from
journalist members Of Congress.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES what
the management termed another
unauthorized strike" at the Briggs
Manufacturing Company, $500
workers we're sent home today from
two Briggs plants and the Plymouth
division OF Chrysler Corporation.
BOWLING GREEN. o.ZINs-The
three-day strike OF ALL workers al
the huge tomato catsup plant Of
the H. J. Heinz Co.. was settled
today after sll-night negotiations.
AUSTIN. Tex.-INS - Blaming
certain dog-in-the-manger oil COM
panies' for virtual failure OF the
plan to donate a days production
OF Texas oil to Britain. Railroad
Commissioner Jerry Sadler an
nounced today that public ceremon-
les for the proposed gift had been
postponed" No future date was
set.