The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-14


NlCHY-INS-A crow sold for
ten francs on the open market to-
day. 4 squirrel fetched IL francs
and hawk brought To- That con.
veys some idea of the food situa
ton in France-a desperate. plight
which grows worse daily.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.-INS-A strike
vote will be taken today among
workers OF the Ryan Aeronautical
Company Of San Diego. engaged in
the production of military training
planes for the U. S. army and navy
and for foreign governments.
SEATTLE AP Contend ng
that white men ruined their hunt
ing and fishing grounds in Alaska.
the Haida and Thilinget Indian
tribes are asking the United. States
government to pay them S20,000.-
600.
ROME-AP-The wholesale price
OF potatoes will be increased pro-
gressive.y in the next four months
to a maximum of 20 lire (about
$500 10 pounds for ordinary
quality by the end of May, under
regulations announced today.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-AP-Po-
lice searched today for two armed
trusty convicts. who, Detective Ser
geant II. r. Barrett reported, es-
capped from the Tucker Prison
Farm. He listed the convicts as
Humbert j. Rhodes and Homer
Watson, both serving 81 years from
, Pulaski County. Rhodes was con-
victed of robbery and Watson of
burglary.
SAN DIEGO, Calf AP -
Charges OF labor profiteering" and
hiding behind national defense"
were exchanged today after the
Ryan Aeronautical Company and
the Clio United Automobile Work
ers broke off labor contract nego-
tiations and the union considered
a strike vote.
BATAVIA, Java, Netherlani Is
East lndies-AP Netherlands
East Indies authorities have de-
manded that Japan present iron
cad guarantees that Indies com.
modities for which she is nego-
tiating will not be trans-shipped TO
Germany. reliable sources said 20
day.
TOKYO-AP-"lncreased delica.
cy of United States-Japanese rela-
tons was reported by one Tokyo
newspaper today to have prompted
a four-hour conference OF Premier
Prince Fumimaro Konoye with top
ranking army and navy of1cials.
The cabinet information bureau
said. however The nature OF the
meeting last night could not be
disclosed but that it was not re.
garded as unusually important"
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay-AP -
Foreign Minister Alberto Guaui
said today he would protest to the
British minister if an investiga-
ton showed that a British naval
patrol had vic ated Urueuayan wat
ers in twice intercepting the French
freighter Mendoza off this port.
WASHINGTON-AP - Civilian
Conservation Corps officials gave a
cool reception today to the Ameri.
can Youth Commissions recon-
mendation that CCC-U. S. Army
connections be severed. The com.
mission. headed by owen d..
Young. honorary chairman OF Gen
eral Electric's board of directors,
proposed in a recent formal state
ment that army reserve officers
commanding CCC camps be re-
placed by civilians and that the
CCC. under this new direction. as
sumo previous War Department re-
sonsibilites in its behalf.
SAN FRANCISCO-UP-Austra.
liza soon may be linked with the
United States by two air routes.
Capt. p. G.. Taylor OF Sydney. pilot
associate of the late Sir Charles
Kingford.Smith said today One
would be operated by an American
firm, the other by an Australian
company Capt. Taylor is in the
United States on a secret mission
for the Australian commonwealth
in connection with the American
aviation industry.
LONDON--INS - The London
Daily Sketch today asserted that
Premier Mussolini, according to
neutral sources in Rome. Is I'M
der a doctors care following a re.
currence OF an old gastric all.
ment. This news. said the Sketch
has been suppressed in Italy.
NEW YORK-INS - Although
badly battered by one Of the Nor.h
Atlantic's worst storms OF the win.
ter. two American freighters. the
8. S. West Kebar and the SIS. Ohio.
a sister ship. were proceeding to
port today under their own power.
LONDON ms Gen. Maxine
Weygand. commander OF the French
armies In north Africa. will fly to
Nichy soon for talks with Marshal
Henri Petain and other high gov
eminent officials. the Daily Mall
said today. Weygand's return frJ Al
Morocco. said the Mail. presumably
was prompted by pressure on Vichy
by Otto Abetz. Chancellor Hitler's
agent In Paris.
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