The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-27

constitute the seventh age -roup
10 sign up since the government
launched compulsory registration
last April.
LONDON ms 49, Twenty
"well-known Communists" were
shot In Brussels yesterday,
Reuters agency dispatch said
today.
ROME. -AP- The Italian
high command acknowledged 10
day new Raj raids on the Sicil
ian port Of Palermo and the Lib
yan harbors Of Tripoli and Ben
gssi but said they cost the Bri
tish four planes.
TOKYO, -AP- The British
consulate at Yokohama reported
today that the sailing Of the
steamship Anhui, which is to re
move about $40 British subjects
from Japan, had been delayed
by customs authorities because
of alleged Irregularities in the
luggage OF an Indian passenger.
READING, Mass.-INSr- With
the skull crushed, apparently by
a heavy blow during a fight, the
body OF boatswain's mate, second
class, Sic II Kuchera, 80, United
States Navy, of Rushville, Neb,
today was studied by Medical EX-
n 81 1nna1
state and naval officials opened an
investigation into the staying.
WASHINGTON - UP The
Weather Bureau announced today
that the Jacksonville bureau re-
ported in a $3.50 a. m. (EST), ad-
visory that no reports had been re-
ceiyed on a tropical hurricane in
the Caribbean but that II probably
was some $50 miles east OF the
Nicaraguan coast at 1870 a. m.
(EST.
NEW YORK-AP-Clocks will
be turned back TO Standard Time
tonight in most OF the sections Of
the nation which have been on Day
light Time With but few excep-
tions Daylight Saving Time vii
end officially in 40 per cent OF the
nation-in which some 100000
persons reside-at a. NJ. Sunday
morning.
CHUNGKING-AP A Chinese
army spokesman asserted today
l.
hands and declared Japanese
claims to have entered that Human
province capital we're a pure fabri-
cation.
WASHINGTON APP - Senator
Nye (R-ND) challenged the Admin
istration today to a Senate show
down on the question OF continuing
an Interstate Commerce Subcom-
mittee investigation OF alleged pro-
paganda in the movies Nye, cO-au
thor with Senator Clark (D-Mo) Of
a resolution calling for a formal
inquiry. told reporters that state
ments made by Senator Mcfarland
(D-ArizD at a tumultuous commit
tee session yesterday indicated the
Administration would make AN or
ganized attack" on the inquiry in
the Senate next week.
YAKIMA. Carry.
Ing pistol IN shoulder holster,
John Soto was arrested at Kenne
wick early today and confessed. Pc
lice Chief VI II. Kershaw said, that
he If1IoI thv., ct
gon farm to rob them "and because
they found out who | was" The
young man about 25. added in his
signed confession that he would
have shot two neighbors had he not
used his ammunition putting six
shots into one Of his victims.
WASHINGTON AP-The basis
. for repayment under the first big
lendlease agreement since the war
aid act was passed last March has
been forwarded to the British gov
eminent bur House members who
were told about # said today they
were still unaware OF its terms.
TOKYO-AP-Domei reported
today the 7.SS0-ton French cruiser
Lamotte-Picquet flagship OF the
Nichy governments Far Eastern
squadron. had sailed for Saigon,
lndo-China from Osaka. where she
lad been under repair since Sep
TENDER -.
FLINT. Mich. -AP-Dr George
Hays. city health officer, announces
he will begin an investigation OF
food prices in Flint. which he said
are higher than food costs in cities
OF comparable size.
WASHINGTON - TNS-Repre-
sentlng the forging OF two more
links in the economic blockade of
the Axis powers. the United States
government. Il was learned on high
authority today. is about 10 conclude
new agreements with Peru and Bo-
livis for the purchase Of additional
surplus metal products from them.
DETROIT - ms - Michigan's
Young Republicans. meeting in con
vention in Detroit. today nominated
State Rep. Robert y Sawyer. Mon
roe for president Of the organiza.
ton and Ralph Swan. Port Huron.
as national committeeman.
WAsHINGTON-AP-The Ger.
man foreign office informed the
State Department today that II had
no information concerning the Nazi
rafda- Tar,esi. or fha fate ~ two