The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-18

eral prison lot MS part III UNI
lion dollar stock fraud. Leach was
arrested as he stepped through the
gates Of san Quentin Prison Mon
day.
SAN FRANCISCO Up The
tI7,5OO,0O0 liner. America, OF the
United States line. may be put
into regular service between New
York and San Francisco. Kenneth
D. Dawson, Pacific Coast manager,
said today.
BERLIN-AP- Sixty thousand
buildings were destroyed and~lSO,-
900 damaged during Frances brief
war with Germany, Paris trans
portation Minister Berthelot de-
clared in a radio address reported
by DNB today.
KEY WEST, Fla-AP-The for
mer Betty Compton blamed James
]. Walkers public life today for
breaking up. their marriage. She
charged extreme cruelty in a di
vorce suit against the dapper one
time mayor OF New York.
BISMARCK, n. DAP North
Dakota may build a home for the
states only quadruplets-the three
sons and daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Nick Brown of Leonard. Senator
J. L. Flat of Ransom announced
last night that bill will be intro
duced soon in the legislature ask
ing for an appropriation OF $25,OOO
to construct a combined nursery
and home for the children.
&c. TOKYO-AP--The foreign Of
flee announced today that Kaname
Wakasugi, chief adviser to Admir-
al Kichisaguro Nomura, new am
basssdor to the United States, bad
been raised to the rank OF envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipo-
Tertiary.
LONDON -AP-A 1000 ton Ger
man merchant vessel used by the
Italians as supply ship has been
sunk in the central Mediterranean,
the admiralty reported today.
BATAVIA, Netherlands East In
dies-AP- All but two ports in
British north Borneo unofficially
were reported closed to Japanese
shipping today as tension contin-
ued at high pitch in the Pacific.
WASHfNGTON-UP Govern
ment officials prepared a survey Of
food supplies today in event Presi-
dent Roosevelt decides to make the
United States the larder as well as
the arsenal OF democracies.
RoME-UP-- Announcing that
the second group of the Army class
OF 1921 would be called to the
colors Feb. q and rs. the ministry
ct war made IL known today that
university students would no long
er be given a postponement Of SER
vice until they had concluded their
studies.
CHUNGKTNG. China-INS- AS
sorting that a red ball has been
hung up over the southern Pecific,
The Cungking newspaper Central
Daily News predicted today that
Japan will launch her anticipated
drive to the South simultaneously
with a German spring offensive.
LONDON-INS- Germany has
established a "heligoland of the
Black Sea-" a base for U-Boats
which might prove important in
possible Balkan hostilities, the Lon
don Daily Telegraph claimed today.
The paper said pocket U-boats'
weighing about $50 tons and car
rying crews of % men will operate
from the new Nazi base. which
was said to be situated inland on
the Danube River.
SHANGHAI - ms Japanese
military authorities today began
rounding up hunlreIs OF Chinese
civilians in Japanese-occupied
Shanghai for work of an unan-
nounced nature. Reliable sources,
however, said the Chinese press
ganss" were working on fortified
tions in the Woosung region and
also along a defensive line lead
ing TO KashiAe
ROME-INS- Slight improve
ment during the last "a hours in
the condition Of former King Al
fonso of Spain was announced by
his physicians today. The eX-mon-
arch is gravely i'll Of nervous and
heart .ailment
VICHY, France-AP-vies Pre-
mier Admiral Jean Darlan left Vichy
by automobile today for Paris
where he was expected to confer
again with former Vice Premier
Pierre Laval and Otto Abetz. Ger
man representative in occupied
France.
LONDON P-The ministry Of
home security announced today
1902 civilians we're killed and 2.012
injured by air raids in Great Brit.
ain during January.
BERN. Switzerland -AP- The
Swiss Federal Council announced
today receipt Of a note from Britain
which expressed deep regret" and
an agreement to pay for damages
done by bombs dropped recently on
Basel and Zurich.
CHICAGO UP-The executive
council OF the American Federation
OF Teachers said today that a refer
endum OF its 10000 members would
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