The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-07
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MATRIMONIAL Secretary
Wiokard said today the Agricul-
ture Department was prepared 10
make food available 10 Great Brit
ain without delay should that kind
OF help be included under the lend
lease program.
WASHINGTON-AP- The Sen
ate Campaign Investigating Com
mittee, reporting that the major
parties had spent at lease S22 ,0OO,-
coo during the 1910 presidential
contest. recommended today that
Congress fix rigid limits on polit-
ical funds and tighten up other fed
eral election laws.
JUNEAU. Alaska-AP- Listed
as the first Of his race TO be induct-
ed into the nations armed forces.
all Eskimo will be included in an
Alaskan National Guard Company
TO be organized at Nome tonight.
LONDON ms The London
Daily Telegraph reported from
Moscow today that Soviet NUM-
lions Commissar Sergiev has been
dismissed after being warned he
would be removed unless his work
improved the paner said he was
replaced by former Assistant Com
missar Goremikin
SEATTLE -AP- Tonight viii be
blackout hight in Seattle the first
such wartime test ina major Amer
lean city.
HONGKONG - AP - japanese
troops who landed along the
Kwangtung Coast have seized vast
quantities OF material. including
gasoline. salt and rice, japanese
reports said today.
MEXICO CITY-AP- The gov
eminent operated National Rail
ways of Mexico will start paying
monthly installments of 100000
pesos (about $2i0,000l at once on
an accumulated operating deficit
estimated at 100000 pesos (about
$2.600,00 il was announced Off
cially today.
HARTFORD, Conn.-AP- For
mer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Frank
Hayes began a ten to Is year term
in state prison today, his convic-
ton OF conspiring TO defraud Wat
erbury Of more than $l,000,000 dur
ing his five term regime as mayor
OF that city affirmed by the Con
necticut supreme court.
CHAMPAIGN. nl.-AP-No less
than $500 American men want TO
help Vera Hruba, Czechoslovakian
skating star, avoid deportation-by
marrying her. That many pro
posals, the pretty 10 year old skat-
or said today. were received after
the press publicizcd her plight. She
is threatened with deportation be
cause her passport as an entertain
er has expired.
WASHINGTON-AP-The Treas
ury calculated today it will make
about $9S.sS profit on ever,
400 in income tax paid by some
$4,000, 900 Americans currently
struggling over their returns.
LONDON --AP- Camille Hugs
mans, former speaker OF the Bel
oil 81 a nj nr Of
mended today that Belgium ask
to be admitted TO the British Com
monwealth of Nations.
TOkEO-AP-- The cabinet in
formation bureau announced today
that considerable progress to
ward settlement of Thailand-lndo
China peace conference was made
today during conferences attended
by Foreign Minister Iosuke Mat
suoka and leaders of the two del
ega tions.
SPLIT. Yugoslavia-AP- Eight
persons were arrested here today
and charged with being involved
in a plot to dynamite German and
Italian ships plying between Yu
soslayia and Italy.
WASHINGTON -AP- Defense
officials sought some method TODAY
OF assuring essential industries al
adequate supply of nickel and there
were predictions in some quarter
that a system of mandatory priori
ties might be imposed on the metal
NICHl. France-AP-- Chief OF
State Marshal Petain. General
Mavime Weygand and United
States Ambassador Admiral VII
lam d. Lcahy attended memorial
services here today for former
King Alfonso Mi of Spain. who
died recently in Rome.
LISBON, Portugal --AP-- The
66tton Portuguese freighter Ourem
fogndered Off the Iceland coast dur
int q violent gale. the Portuguese
cons vi at Reykajavik reported to
day. The crew of 179 was rescued
KRAKOW Poland. Via Berlin)
-AP-Otto Waechter. Nazi COVER
nor OF the Krakow district OF oc
cuoied Poland. today ordered segre
cation Of Krakow Jewi and crea
ton OF a Jewish section in the
city completed by Mar. 20.