The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-05

4-lu naval ulslIlCt ana operating
base at san Francisco. He sue
ceeds Rear Admiral Arthur J.
Hepburn who has been ordered TO
report to Secretary OF Navy Frank
Knox for special duty.
WASHINGTON-UP- Secretary
OF Interior Harold L. lckes today
announced that $1,000 acres in
North Central Oregon. originally
withdrawn for irrigation purposes
will be leased for grazing.
NEW YORK Ms In one Of
the greatest displays of military
might ever witnessed in New
York, 10000 soldiers and mem
bers of veteran and patriotic or
carnations will march today in
the annual Army Day parade on
Fifth Avenue.
NEW YORK ms Mrs. Billy
Rose-the former Eleanor Holm.
glamorous swimming star was
resting comfortably today follow
ing an emergency appendectomy.
NEW YORK AP- Thomas
Conroy must pay with his life for
the death of l0-year-old Gene
We've Connolly. Convicted by a
Bronx county court jury, the 80
year-old janitor will be electro
cuted at Sing Sing prison on a
date to be set Monday.
MADRID. Spain -AP-Spanish
authorities imposed rigid santa
tion measures today in an effort
10 stem an outbreak of typhus
which has stricken at least zoo
persons in Madrid and taken at
least 40 lives
WASHINGTON - AP- Tho
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
reported today that 107,144 ur-
ban home mortgages amounting 10
1926, ,00O. were recorded dur
ing February, compared with
109.6S9 mortgages aggregating
$780, $4,000 during January and
94,654 mortgages for $255,62S,0 900
during February Of last year.
ROME - AP- Enrique Ruiz
Guinazu, Argentine am bassador
TO the Vatican, said today he ex-
pected to depart for Washington
about April 20 en- route to Buen-
os Aires to assume the post Of
foreign minister to which he was
named last month.
Los ANGELES - APP J.R.
II. NJ. Van Der Schrieck, Neither
lands diplomatic courier, sailed
for Honolulu last night en- route
10 the Netherlands East Indies on
a special mission.
LONDON AP The air minis
try declared today that sticks of
heavy bombs straddled the Ger
man battleships Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau in a British attack Oh
Brest last night.
NICHY. France -AP- General
Henri DeRtz. high commissioner
or French-mandated Syria and Lee
banon accepted the designations Of
the Lebanese republics President
Emile EDDIE and Secretary Of State
Abdallah Bey Hum in Beirut last
night as a general strike-there
continued.
CAIRO, Egypt -AP- Reuters
tBrltlshJ news agency reported TO-
day the British had occupied Adu-
va, Ethiopia.
PHILADELPHIA -AP- Judge
George Bowen Parry holds that
husband has no claim on his
wife's- engagement and wedding
rings. Parry ordered Joseph Vein.
traub TO return the rings TO his
wife, Mrs Jessie Weintraub. who
contended her husband took them
without her consent when they
separated last September.
BERLIN-AP-Nazi submarines
sank an additional 4S,50O tons OF
shipping in a renewed attack upon
convoy from which 10 ships to.
falling $4,000 tons, previously were
reported sunk, the Germans an.
nounced today.
SHANGHAI-AP- French naval
authorities today arTesrCd K. tgaf-
prominent member OF tie local
French cnmmnnily.- charged with
assisting French soldiers. sailors,
seamen and local police in escaping
TO join General Charles DeGaulles'
Free French
LONDON -AP-xr MiecisIas de
Rutkowski, IS, honorary attache of
-tAe-PollSh Embassy in London died
today. He was financial agent FOR
the Russian government in the
United States from 1884 to 1908.
LONDON AP-- The transport
ministry announced today forma.
lion Of a new transport council
which the ministry said it hoped
would make the British transport
system "a lively machine that will
be equal to the heaviest tasks that
may be laid upon it in the months
10 come
ALEXANDRIA. Egypt APP -
Nine hundred Italian naval officers
and sailors rescued from Fascist
cruisers and destroyers sunk in the
battle OF Cape Matapan last week
were transported TO internment
camps in the interior today.
SHANGHAI-AP-Ch Chinese sourc.
es reported today that bombs tossed
into two motion picture houses in