The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-11

vast problems Of defense and AID
TO Britain today. and relaxed in the
quiet of his country home.
JEFFERSON CITY APP The
general assembly voted early today
TO keep Forrest c. Donnell out OF
the governors chair and to set up
machinery for a searching invest
igation of last Noyember's guber-
Material eleition.
NEW YORK - QNs) - No
street in all Italy is named wis
Mussolini" in honor of the fascist
dictator. a British radio announc-
err said today IN a broadcast
picked up in New York by CHS.
He explained: Via Mussolini,
which means Mussolini street, al
so means away with Mussolini,
and that was deemed too danger
Gus a precedent"
DUNKIRK. n. Y.-1NS-Fire OF
undetermined origin swept he Lake
Shoe Seed Plant here early today
with an estimated loss OF 100000.
TOKYO ms Charging that 1t
is too late to improve the strained
relations between Japan and the
United States, the Japanese Army
Journal, Kokumin Shimbun, today
urged cancellation OF the appoint
ment of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomu-
"a as ambassador to Washington.
INDIANAPOLIS-AP-D. c. Ste
phenson, who once ruled Indiana
politics from the Grand Dragon
throne of the Ku Klux Khan, must
remain longer in the prison where
he has spent Is years for murder.
The state clemency commission
which considered his petition for
parole told Governor NJ. Clifford
Townsend that Stephenson has not
served sufficient time to merit Glenn
ency. The governor, concurring, re-
jected the petition last night.
NEW YORK-AP- The United
States Golf Association, at its an
nual meeting today, reported a
financial surplus of $S4,500.S0 and
submitted for reelection the entire
slate Of officers who served in 1910.
ROME-UP-Italy suffered 49,
379 casualties in the Greek-Italian
war between its start, Oct. 2S, and
Dec. 81, 1t was said officially to-
day. The casualties included .2,053
Italians killed, 6,462 wounded and
1875 missing and IS Albanians
killed, SO wounded and los miss
ing.
NEW YORK-AP-Three giant
bombers destined for England were
threatened Friday night in blaze
aboard the British freighter Black
Heron that destroyed other war
materials and Red Cross supplies.
The planes were unchanged.
ROCKFORD, Ill.-AP-The morn
ing bottle Of milk was missing to-
day from the doorsteps Of Rock
fords $4,000 residents because OF
a strike OF milk wagon drivers
PASADENA, Calif.-AP-Dr C..
W. Potapenko said today he has
developed a generator which can
produce electric pulses Of extreme
~ short duration-down to nearly
one-millionth OF a second. at has
many possible uses in radio" said
the California Institute of Techno-
logy physicist.
MIAMI, Fla.-AP- An oxygen
FLASK, weighing less than eight
pounds designed to supply pilots
with oxygen-rich air up to alti-
tudes of $4,000 to 10000 feet, was
exhibited today at Miami's annual
mid.winter air show.
NEW YORK-AP-The settle
ment of threatened strike of 200
workers in the Ranger Aircraft En-
cheering division of the Fairchlld
Airplane and Engine Corporation
at Farmlngdale, y. Y, was an
nounced today by John r. owens,
labor relations assistant of the
National Defense Commission.
HONGKONG-AP- More than
800 Japanese soldiers were killed
or injured and a quantity of war
supplies destroyed when a Japanese
troop train struck C. Chinese mine
on the Pelping- Hankow railroad in
north Hupeh province, the Chinese
Central News Agency reported to-
day.
DETROIT-AP-Plans OF the Ma
tional Defense Commission for
speeding up volume production Uf
bomber types OF aircraft moved 4
step nearer realization today with
Chrysler Corporation tentatively
agreeing to produce parts and sub
assemblies for the Martin B-26 me-
dunn bomber.
LONDON-AP-Half OF Britain's
"36's"-men born between July l
and Dec. 81. 1904-and 20-year-olds
born between Nov. 10 and Dec.
81. 1920, a total OF about 10000.
registered for military service to-
day.
WASHINGTON AP - lncom.
plete reports showing that s21.746,-
AIS was spent in the recent ma
tional elections were described N
Senate circles today as evidence
that the Hatch politics act would
have to be frightened considerably
n future campaign costs are 10
be substantially reduced.
DETROIT-AP-- Robot planes,
controlled by radio from another
airplane or from the ground, are
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