The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-27
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SYDNEY, Australia-INS- The
Liverview Observatory today regis
tered a tremendous earthquake
with its epicenter in the Licobar
Islands, a group OF 10 British
owned isles east OF the Bay OF
Bengal.
ToKYO-INS-An official Jap
anese government spokesman said
today that shipment OF war ma
terials to Russia by the United
States would place Japan in an
extremely embarrassing position.
NEW YORK ms Martin
Agronsky. NBC correspondent in
Ankara. reported today that the
Rumanian government and the dip
lomatic corps at Bucharest have
departed from the Rumanian cap
ital to avoid Russian air raids.
NEW YORK-AP- Domei, au-
thoritative, Japanese news agency,
reported in a broadcast from Tokyo
today that some 500 japanese have
booked passage on steamers leav-
ing the Philippine islands within
the next month.
CAIRO-INS- British and Free
French forces in Syria today in
= creased extent of their penetra-
tion north and west of Damascus,
the high command announced.
Local activity was reported in cen
trail and coastal sectors.
PHILADELPHIA-AP- Captain
Romano Tomicich of the Italian
freighter Belvedere accepts full
blame for sabotaging of his ship
here last March. On trial in L. S.
District Court on charges OF sabo-
tage. Tomicich identified a written
order he gave to his chief engi-
neer. The government charges the
order resulted in the ship being
put out of commission while docked
at Philadelphia pier.
NEW YORk-AP-- The British
radio quoted a Free Dutch news
paper, fri Nederland, today as
saying a German munitions dump
had been blown up at AmersfcoTt,
in central Holland, and more than
100 terrific explosions shattered
windows and roofs as far away as
six miles.
WILMINGTON, Del. .AF -
The jurisdiction ard .owers Of
the Securities and Exchange /
Commission ARE challenged by a
giant Gtp.ty in a federal court |
case called for argument lat 10 |
a. m. EST here today. Also in
VOWED is the fundamental question I
o. states rights.
HELSINkI-INS- Marshal Her /
mann Wilhelm Goering of Germany |
today was awarded Finland's high |
est decoratiol-th grand cross OF I
the Finnish white rose with chain. |
The honor was awarded by Pres
ident Risto Ryti.
NEW YORK II p Former Pres (
ident Herbert Hoover today SEIZED. 4
uled nationwide broadcast for |
Sunday night from Chicago on I
Americas situation in the Euro
pean war.
NEW YORK UP-Kermit Roos. I
evelt, son of the late President /
Theodore Roosevelt, was getting |
re-acquainted with his wife and |
three children today after two
years Of service with the British ,
army in Britain. Norway and the !
Middle East. Arriving by airplane |
from Halifax, Nova Scotia, late |
yesterday, he revealed that he still |
is in the service OF the British |
government but ION furlough' at |
present. He had resigned his com
mission as a major in the British !
army in May because of sickness.
HYDE PARK, n. Y.-INS-U. s. !
arms shipments to the Irish repub-
lie, President Roosevelt declared .
today, would Lave TO be contingent
ton fairly definite assurances that
Erie is prepared TO defend herself |
against German attack.
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NEW YORK-INS-Tw u. S.
Army flyers were reported to have
been injured today when an attack
ship from the eighth pursuit group
crashed in a marsh short dist
snce from Michel Field. First re-
ports were that the ship was ablaze
when it spira'ed downward into
the marsh.
GAINESVILLE. O.-INS- A sus- |
pect held foc questioning in the I
June 16 murder OF Jessie Strien.
OF Washington, d. c., War Depart
ment stenogrdpher, was cleared to-
day OF any connection with the
crime. A Washington detective /
who came to question the man
said the suspect left there more
than a month ago. He was held I
by GAINESVILLE police after talking
too much about the killing.
LOS ANGEL ES-UP-Three per- /
sons. two OF them women, were I
killed early today when fire swept |
the Burton Arms Apartment Hotel. |
Almost a dozen we're burned, three |
seriously. The charred body OF |
Miss Alma Vosbeck was found in /
n corridor Mrs 3 GoldbphR her |