The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-01

W LILA MSPORI, "a. Al
A Pennsylvania railroad freight
train early today hurled a stalled
truck onto an adjoining track %
miles east of here, derailing a
passenger train locomotive and
killing three of its occupants.
LISBON, Portugal -AP- Six
teen survivors of the S.433-ton
British freighter Holmside were
landed here today by the Portu-
guese freighter Saudades, which
picked them up from raft in the
Atlantic Ocean off the. Cape Verde
Islands.
HONGKONG - kP Domei,
japanese news agency. reported
from Swallow today that the Jap
anese military command there
had proclaimed the complete cut
ting off OF human and material J
traffic between Japanese-occupied !
and unoccupied areas" in the !
eastern part of Kwantung Pro !
vince of China.
LISBON, Portugal --AP- Sir |
Ronald Ian Campbell successor
to Sir Gerald Campbell as British |
minister to Washington. took off |
by clipper today for New York. !
Sir Gerald has been named propa-
ganda chief for Britain in the |
United States.
MEXICO CITY. -AP-Presi- |
dent Manuel Ayila Camacho issued |
orders today sharply restricting |
public demonstrations by the |
powerful Sinarquistas, semi-mili-
tary movement which government |
spokesman have branded as Nail,
Fascist.
WASHINGTON, -AP- Strikes
during June caused 1,375.00O man.
days Of idleness throughout the |
country, a preliminary report to
Secretary OF Labor Perkins indi-
Gated today. The figure represen.
ted a SO per cent reduction com
pared with May.
BOMBAY, India. -AP-Private
cars will be allowed sufficient
gasoline for 200 miles of travel a
month under rationing effective
August Is. the government Of In
dia announced.
LONDON, -AP-W. Averell
Hartman, co-ordinator OF the L.
S. Aid.to-Britain program, has left
England by plane for the United
States to report to President
Roosevelt.
TOKYO, -AP- The japanese
Finance Ministry announced today
conclusion of an agreement be-
tween Japan and Thailand rnder
which Japan gained "a credit of
10,000,000 bahts for purchases in
Thailand. (The baht is not quoted
In the foreign exchange market
but has a nominal value OF about
36 cents).
NEW YORK -INS-The United
States naval transport West Point
was scheduled to arrive in New
York today bearing American con-
suls expelled from Germany and
Italy and other Axis-dominated
countries after President Roosevelt
ordered consular representatives
of those countries from the United !
States.
Los ANGELES-UP- American
aircraft factories produced nearly
$4,000 military planes in the first
year of intensified national defense |
effort, a survey by the Aeronautical
Chamber Of Commerce revealed to- {
day.
NORTH TROY, Vt.-AP-Cana. {
dian and United States sections Of I
a yet-incompleted 236-mile pipeline
intended to relieve an oil tanker
shortage were welded together at
the international border today in
a colorful ceremony attended by ,
officials OF both nations.
WASHINGTON ms = Chair.
man James L. Fly Of the Federal /,
NOAIllllHElODs lO-
day ordered its legal department ,
10 take steps to enforce subpoenas !
against two witnesses for the
American Newspaper Publishers
Association who failed to appear
at a hearing into ownership OF ra.
dio stations by newspapers.
WASHINGTON-INS Presi. Q
dent Roosevelt today disclosed
plans international situation per.
mitting-for a cruise up the New !
England coast beginning early next
week. Although the President was
somewhat indefinite, he recalled
that his s6-year-old mother. Mrs.
Sara Delano Roosevelt. is now at
the family home at Campobello. n.
B., just over the Canadian line :
from Eastport. Maine. 4
WASHINGTON-INS-Sen Scott n
Lucas CD H.. today announced 5
that President Roosevelt has ap- a
proved a project calling for the con. a
struetion Of a $4,000. 900 she'll .
bomb loading plant to be located in i
the vicinity Of Crab Orchard Lake, 7
Ill"