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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
Axis Nationals
to Quit Mexico

by Associated tTeSSl
Mexico City, Sept. 20-AP-Ihe
Mexican government, considering
adoption of bill providing severe
penalties for fifth-column activity,
was said by authorized circles to-
day to be notifying many German,
Italian and other European tour
lists they would have to leave Mex
ico
Times OF departure depend upon
the expiration dates Of six months
visiting permits. Most OF these
already have expired. II was re-
ported. and visas will not be ex-
tended.
-Four bills intended to tighten
restrictions against totalitarian
agencies in Argentina were an
nounced by the Argentine congress
sional committee investigating sub
versive activity. There was a
fresh anti-German street demon
stration in Buenos AiresD
Authorized circles said several
hundred Germans and italians we're
affected by the Mexican action, in
terpreted as a precaution against
the possible presence of agitators.
Old established residents and po-
litical refugees. the newspaper
Excelsior said. will not be forced to
leave.
The official pressure was report
ed soon after an announcement
that President Manuel Avila Ca
rnacho had asked Congress TO adopt
Immediately a bill providing prison
sentences ranging from six to Is
years for espionage and from three
to six years for spreading propa
gsnda or melting the public TO
favor any foreign power.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

Crowds roamed Ypsilahti streets
Friday afternoon and evening in
search Of Treasure Hunt prizes and
Misplaced Item Contest articles
provided In the Retailers Fall
Festival and Defense Rally Week"
The warm evening brought many
10 the business section TO shop and
attend the entertainment az the
city market, s Washington ST.
The John F. Barnhlll Memorial
Band played concert az $50. and
vaudeville acts including iuggler.
roller skating couple and bicycling
team proved entertaining 20 the
big audience gathered before the
specially constructed platform.
Mrs. Robert Taylor played piano
accompaniment for the numbers.
Street Commissioner Ernest Mad
dux vas IN charge Of erection OF
the wooden platform.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
Business Streets Crowded
For Fall Festival Program

Board OF Commerce Secretary
Paul Ungrodt presided at the mic
rophone and introduced Bert Har.
rison, retail committee chairman.
Fred Weinmann, Jr.. entertain.
ment chairman; and William D.
Stevens. fall festival program
chairman.
Today judges are viewing the ma
tional defense window displays TO
which merchants have given con
siderable time and thought.
l.. 4. Seamans Norris G. Wiltse
and Miss Ethel McCrickett are the
judges
As the final feature OF the Re
tailers' Fall Festival and Defense
Rally Week Roosevelt High
School Boy Scout Troop ] Wander
lnz Minstrels VIII entertain on city
streets from to $50 tonight
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
Russiia's Stand in Ukraine
in GroWing Peril; Germans
Rush Toward RiUer Basin
Swastika Hoisted
in City of Kiev
by Nazis
Both Capitals Have
Air Raid Alarms
During Night :


Russias stand in the rich
Ukraine was in extreme and grow
ing peril today.
German reports said tho Nazis~
were marrying the Russians BY
land and by dive bomber in a pell
nell rush toward the industrislly-
important Donets River basin and
its chief city. Kharkov.
The Russians indirectly admit
ted the gravity OF their position
with an official report that partic-
ularly-fierce fighting was in prog
ress at Kiev. Ukraine capital over
which the Germans Friday declared
they had hoisted-1he. Swastika.
With the 18th week Of the Ger
man Russian invasion ending to-
day. the front shapes up roughly
as follows:
!. In the northwest. the Germans
are hammering at Leningrad with
increased pressure but the Rus
slams show no signs Of diminishing
their fierce defense.
2. In the center, the Russians
are carrying out counterattacks d.
rected al regaining Smolensk but
the Germans attach little impor-
lance to these assaults.
5. In the southwest, the Ger
mans claim to have entered Kiey
and captured the railway junction
city Of Poltava. 80 miles west of
KharRov, chief city of the Donets
basin
The Germans also declared they
had trapped four Russian armies,
estimated in Berlin as at least
100000 men and perhaps many
more, east Of Kiev and said they
were annihilating them.
Raids on Capitals
Both the German and Russian
capitals had AFRAID alarms dur
/ ing the night
The Germans said British bomb
ers attempted to attack Berlin but
were kept off by anti-aircraft guns.
One raiding plane was reported
shot down.
The Russians said one German
plane succeeded IN bombing Mos
coy but no damage vas caused.
The Nazis have acknowledged
. British raids on varl3Hs-cities IN
I AaFt Germany and admitted that
explosive and incondiary bombs
dropped IN residential quarters re-
suited in number Of dead and
wounded among the civilian po7-
ulation.
Trouble In Paris
Trouble for the Germans broke
out anew in occupied Paris Ten
men set fire 10 a garage which
the German army had requisitioned.
and escaped.
The latest incident followed by
a few hours the execution OF two
Communists by Nazi firing squad
for antiGerhan demonstrations
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
10 nRAw NEW PANEL

Detroit. Sept 20-lNS-A new
panel Of coo names will be drawn
Tuesday when proceedings are re-
sumed IN the circuit court trial
Of former Mayor Richard w Read
ing and 81 others charged with con-
spiracy ia connection with the
numbers and policy games, II was
announced today. When the case
started. attorneys indicated It
would take at least a week to pick
a fury.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
Machinists Seeking
Pay Increases
in San Diego


San Diego, Calf, Sept. 20-AP-
A wage dispute threatened today
to halt production at Consolidated
Aircraft Corps great San Diego
bomber-building plant
ALL machinists announced they
were prepared to strike for a blan-
ket 10 cents. an hour pay increase,
twice what the company is offering.
The question was referred to the
National Mediation Board, and
George c. Castleman, international
vice president of the Machinists
Union, petitioned Sidney Hillman
co-director OF the once of Produc-
ton management, and John Steel
man, chief federal labor concilia-
tor, to bring the matter to sn=int.
mediate hearing.
THE membership wants to strike
to obtain its demands Castlsman
said, but because defense orders
are involved we are eXertlng every
effort to avert a walkout."
Some 23,3OO workers. $4,000 Of
them unionists, would be affected
by a strike. Castleman said. So
would Consolidated s750.000.000
in contracts for land and sea bomb
ing planes to equip the fighting
forces of the United States, Great
Britain. Canada. Australia and the
Netherlands.
Base pay at the San Diego plant
is now 55 cents an hour. This the
company offers to increase imme-
diately to so cents, with automa.
tic fve-cent raises every four weeks
to top minimum Of IS cents after
IL weeks employment.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
TO PREPARE BUILDING PLANS

Traverse City, Sept. 20-AP -
Michigan schools we're urged Fri
day by DR.. Eugene B. Elliott. state
superintendent Of public instruc-
ton. TO prepare long-rsnge building
plans 10 be placed In a public
works reservoir for possible use
after the war years. Dr. Elliott
spoke before the annual confer
Sncs OF city school superintendents.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
GRANT CONDITIONAL

Adrian. Sept. 20-Adrian College
has received a conditional grant
of $4,000 from the Kresge Foun-
dation in Detroit. The grant will
be given on the condition that the
college raise s22.500 to supplement
the Kresge money. The funds will
be used to remodel and improve
Adrian College buildings.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
Notice of City
Labor Dispute
Sent to Board
Regional Director
Starts Action

Regional Union Director Law
ence Blythe has filed notice OF its
intent TO call general strike. OF
Ypsilanti municipal employees.
MIR. Blythe. regional director OF
the state. county and municipal
workers union. charged the city
had failed TO meet union demands
on wages. hours and working condi.
tions.
Blythe said workers in the gas
and water departments will be call
ed out. but not those In the lpsi-
lanu City Hospital.
Following is a copy OF his letter
to the State Labor Mediation
Board:
We hereby notify you OF the
existence OF a labor dispute be
tween Local a69 OF the State Coun.
ty and Municipal Workers OF Ameri-
ca. Go. and the City of lpsilauti.
Michigan, This dispute exists be-
cause Of the failure OF the City Of
Ypsilanti to satisfactorily meet the
demands of the Local 269. $. c. NJ.
". A., ClO regarding wages. hours.
and working conditions.
This strike notice covers all
departments OF the City OF Ypsi-
lanti including the gas and water
departments, with the exception OF
the Ypsilanti City Hospital.
1T Is to be understood that
while this notice is given in pur-
suance OF the provisions OF Act
l76. Public Acts OF 1889, we are
waving none OF our rights, and
We hereby expressly reserve all
objections TO the constitutionality,
validity, or applicability OF each
and all OF the provisions OF said
act"
The letter is dated September
is.
City Faces Legal Barriers
City officials state that increased
wage demands have been under
consideration several weeks. while
they have tried to determine how
requests can be granted The diff
fculty, according TO report OF the
city attorney at the last council
meeting, is that the city has no
legal right TO comply with such
requests. This report was based
upon an opinion handed down by
the attorney general.
City Engineer T. Fred Older
stated that the question Of wages
and hours has been under advise
ment for some time and that efforts
are being made to find a way to
make temporary adjustments that
will be satisfactory TIL the proper
city procedure can be determined
Some changes have been made and
more are anticipated as soon as
legal barriers can be removed 10
permit them. he said.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
LOCAL UNITS seNEEIrrgo

Lansing. Mich. Sept GINS
Auditor General Vernon j. Brown
reported today that OF every tax
dollar paid to the state OF Michi.
gan 50 cents IS returned to local
governing units in some form
or grant or aid.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
ORDERS REIMBURSEMENT

Lansing, Mich, Sept 20-1NS-
The state public service commits.
sion today had ordered a readjust-
ment Of Michigan Consolidated
Gas Co. rates extending the $780,
600 decrease in net revenue made
last November. The commission
rejected the company's plea for a
s1.000.00O increase in rate repre-
sentatiyes.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
ENROLMENT DECREASES

Albion. Sept with N
enrolment Of rs students. a de-
crease OF 81 from last year classes
began Friday at Albion College.
The drop was attributed 10 seler-
tive service and defense Job oppot
tunities.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
INIuRIEs PROVE EATAI

Big Rapids. Sept. 20-AP-Wil.
liam Berry. Sl-year-old farmer Of
near Mecosta. died Friday Of in
juries suffered two weeks ago in
an automobile accident.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
Today in 1916
tBy Associated Preso

CBy Associated Press)
French repulse violent German
counterattacks north OF Somme
near Bouchavesner and Priez farm.
WANTED: Man and wife 10 run
roadside market. Everett Wizard
1908 W. Michigan Phone 1872
Adv. 900
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
Congress Today

BY Associated Press)
Senate and House in recess
FRIDAY
Senate In recess.
House heard miscellaneol
speechcs.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

WAsHINGToN-AP-Ac congress
sional committee IS going on an
airplane trip from New England to
California next week TO investigate
complaints about defense housing
units built under a $500. 900. 900 fed.
eral appropriation. Among other
things. the committee has heard
that some units lack screened porch.
es for the family wash.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

LONDON-INS-The Paris radio
today announced the execution OF
. u more French hostages in reprisal
for attacks on Germans in occupied
TranGa
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

Observation-Disclosures d.
Fuller. Philadelphia, president OF
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, says that despite de-
Tense officials assurances TO the
contrary. the evidence certainly
indicates that free enterprise is in
real danger and it is our job to
fight"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

BERLlN-AP-A United States
OF Europe was enyisioned today as
an outcome of the present war by
Naino Tanner. Finnish trade minis
ter, who is visiting Germany at the
invitation of the Reich's govern
ment.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

Observation-Disclosures Ris-
to Ryti submitted bill to parlia-
ment today to authorize the govern.
ment to confiscate all foreign prop
erty in Finland.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

SINGAPORE ms British
authorities at Singapore granted
clearance papers to the Japanese
steamer Hankone Maru today after
OBTAINING the vessel temporarily.
Authorities said the ship was held
in port pending definite assurances
from Japan that British ships will
be given equal facilities" to eva
cuate Britons from Japanese-coD-
trolled territories. One hundred
Japanese subjects are awaiting
passage home aboard the steamer.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

WASHINGTON-AP - Senator
LaFollette (Prog. -Wis.) served no.
tice today that the foreign poll
cies espoused by President Roose-
welt and Wendell l.. Willkie would
face a vigorous attack in the 1912
congressional elections. Charging
that the President had broken his
pledges to the American people by
ordering the Navy into a shoot
ing war. the Wisconsin senator
called upon all those who are OPP
posed to entering this war to
mobolize for the political battles
which lie just ahead.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

HAZLETON. Pa.-AP-Defying
John l.. Lewis powerful United
Mine Workers Of America. leaders
OF 10000 hard coal miners who
stopped work in protest against in
creased union dues aid assessments
announced today they would start
spreading the revolt next week
throughout the entire rich anthra.
cite region OF Pennsylvania.
Los ANGELES-UP- Scenario
Writer Ernest G. Booth was held
on gun charge today while police
continued their investigation OF the
Staying OF wealthy Mrs. Florence
Stricken. Booth, a paroled convict.
was freed yesterday on a writ Of
habeas corpus after police had held
him since Sunday on suspicion Of
murder.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

ELLWOoD CITY. Pa.-AP-lg.
noring the barking guns of three
bandits fleeing in an auto after
a 1880 bank robbery, two police
officers and drug store clerk shot
two OF them TO death and wounded
the other one during a spectacular
chase through this western Penn
sylvania town.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

NEW YORK-A tropical storm
raging over the South Atlantic
Ocean was centered at / a. m.
EST about 400 miles east OF the
Florida coast, and was moving
eastward about IA miles an hour.
an advisory issued by the Weather
Bureau said today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

WASHINGTON-AP-Use of ra.
do, sound trucks, posters, news.
papers and other publicizing meth
eds for recruiting youths into the
Civilian Conservation Corps and
the National Youth Administration
was forbidden today by Paul V.
McNutt, Federal Security admins
traitor. Moreover. the administra-
tor put his foot down on the two
youth agencies raiding each others
rolls, limiting enrolment in either
organization to those eligible
youth who without solicitation ap-
nlv for such work"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -
The Institute of Medical Research
in Cape Town announced today
that the influenza germ has been
isolated for the first time in his
tory. A vaccine soon will be pre-
pared.
Evening star., 1941-07-22

performers. That
does n OF mean
they must be
prof e s S / onal.
Rather it urges
merely that they
have been sue
cesSful b e f or e
audiences other
than those COM
posed of friends.
Friends are sup
posed to confuse
artists. or am
bilious artists, as
to their actual
ability. Perform
anceS he fore
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Tiny Margie
Makes Tunes
In Big Way
Cute Hindu Girl
Gains Fame as
Arranger
BY GLADWIN HILL,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW 1olNh.
Margie Gibson is a cute, little.
dark-skinned HinGu girl only feet
10 and SO pounds, and you'd guess
for a long time before you hit on
her vocation:
She writes and arranges music
you hear from some of the biggest
bands in the land, Benny Goodman,
Count Basic, Harry James and a
lot of others. She's the new princess
of Tin Pan Alley.
Arranging is one of the most vital
parts of the music business. When
you say, Gee, that's a swell band"
you really mean, Gee, that's a
swell arrangement" because the
best band in the world can play
the best song in the world, and if
the arrangement is corny the whole
thing seems corny. Songs like Be
gin the Beguine," The Music Goes
Round and Round" and Marie"
languished for years until some
body wrote sock arrangements.
That being the case, here's how
| good Marie is: For years one OF
the top arrangers has been Fletch-
er Henderson, who besides leading
his own band has arranged music
for other bands, notably Benny
Goodman. Well, Margie has just
sold lot of arrangements to
Fletcher Henderson.
She's a Hindu from. of all places,
Asbury Park, N. J. Her grandmoth-
er was a jewelers. daughter in Cal
cutta and fell in love with a shep-
herd Being of different castles,
they had to get out. They went to
Central America, and he became
an engineer on the Panama Canal
and was killed in construction work.
Margie started playing the piano
when she was 5, and by the time
she got to public school in Neptune,
N. j., and Monmouth Junior Col
lege was the idol of her classmates
because she could bang out hot
jazz.
I'm strictly on the jive side" she
says.
A couple of years ago an ar
ranger named Bill Grey discovered
Margie and along with Mamie Sacks
Columbia record executive, gave
her a few pointers. The first thing
they, she or anybody knew, she
was busting into one of Benny
Goodman's rehearsale to show him
her work-and he liked it.
He's recorded her originals, Let
the Doorknob Hitcha" and Take
IT.; Harry James has done her
original Answer Man" and Count
Basic her Beau Brummel," along
with her arrangements of ANA
pola' and "Perfidia." For Hen
derson, who's just organizing new
band, she's cooked up an item
called These Things You Left Me"
and new arrangements OF other
popular numbers which you'll
doubtless be hearing soon.
Her ambition is to lead her own
band male. and strictly a jump
band'D, against which she is learning
the saxophone-out of book.
Take it, Margie!
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showina

Palace-'Thev Met in Bombay"
Rosalind Russell and Gable in 4
lusty and comic adventure yarn ::
II am, LOS, 3:15, $40, 7:30 and
$40 pm.
Keith's-"The Reluctant Dragon, "
through Disneyland with Robert
Benchley: 11:15 am, l, $50, 4:35,
6:25, BIS and 10 pm.
Earle-"The Bride Came c. o. D., !"
comedy with Betty Davis and Jimmy
Cagney: IL am, lao, 4:30, tbs and
1905 pm. Stage shows: 1850, 3:35,
6:25 and s:10 pm.
Capitol - Moon Over Miami"
technicolor musical with Betty Gra-
BILE: II am, lao, 4:25, ITO and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: l, $40, 6:25
and 9:l0 pm.
Mutiny of the Elsinore," ="
Jack London excitement on q three
master: 11:40 am. lao, 3:25. $50,
ITO and 8:55 pm. Magic in Music, -
1905 pm.
Metropolitan THE Plainsman, I"
wild Bill Cooper meets Calamity
Jane" Arthur: 1875 am, 2:05, 4:35,
7:05 and 9:35 pm.
COlumbia-"Billy the Kid" Rob-
ert Taylor makes the wild West
wilder: 11:25 am, 1:25, $50, $50,
7:30 and 9:35 pm.
In the Country.
Roadside-"Insured at Lloyd's,"
melodrama on the high seas: $50
pm.
Cross Roads Private Lives
| which are not so private: $40 pm
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Local Talent Gets Chance
To Aid Defense Effort
Washington Dancers and Singers
Are Called for Shows to Be Sent
To Entertain at Nearby Camps
By JAY CARMODY.

Where all will end knows Heaven but local talent has its chance
skill the
the National Defense
Within
Evening star., 1941-07-22

erably before Saturday, With Cliff
ford Miller, Room 500 District
Building Mr.. Miller's office will be
open for that purpose from 8 am.
to pm. daily.
After registration. the singer,
dancer, instrumentalist, or comedy
dncluding acrobatic) team, faces the
opportunity of becoming the star,
nucleus, or otherwise. of a typical
unit vaudeville show. The difference
between that show and the profess
sional one is that it will be booked
into surrounding camps instead OF
theaters. Another difference is that
1t will be expected to work on a
volunteer basis, serving a great and
worthy need.
The opportunity it presents, how
ever is obviously greater than that
Immediately visible.
Once the talent and the commit
tee, later the service mems audience,
get together there is no telling
where it may lead.
The first step is registration at
Room 500. District Building.
Scene of the first additions set for
Saturday night, remains to be
chosen. 1t will be announced in
this page. and the drama pages of
other local newspapers, on Friday.
How to comeback in Hollywood in
the intelligent words of Marsha
Hunt, who always is referred to as
the "semilocal" girl because her
grandmother and several other
relatives live here.
The road to oblivion in Holly
wood is paved with bad roles, and
l was on four-lane highway where
the going was fast Five years ago
it started.-EdD Before 1 knew it,
1 was playing bit parts in pictures
that never should have been made.
Still l wanted to act, and had
decided to try tour in stock. In
fact, was in New York completing
arrangements when Metro offered
me screen test for picture called
These Glamour Girls. That was
the break 1 had waited for all those
months-those years in fact"
The test was a success. Marsha
received the role of a tragic Young
society girl. 1t meant change from
the insipid ingenue role to a dra-
matte one, corking opportunity to
present new facade to HOLLYWOOD,
Fortunately for Marsha, HOLLYWOOD
was smart enough to see the diff
terence, to detect the ability which
Miss Hunt had for a part which
really required acting ability.
When the time came to cast
Pride and Prejudice" it remem-
bered her. That was another nice
piece Of acting. The Penalty" was
one more. And then came Miss
Hunts chance to play a really fine
acting part in Blossoms in the
Dust" the Greer Carson Walter
Pldgeon picture which comes to the
Palace after They Met in Bombay"
That role settled it. After the
bad came the good and now Marsha
is on her way.
The five years were not happy. as
she looks back upon them But they
were worth their unhappiness.
"Sergt. York" which local critics
are seeing in New York today as a
prelude to its opening here at the
Earle July 81, will not be generally
released until 1912. To the clamor
from other cities. Warner Bros, is
turning a deaf ear.
After the gala premier at the
Earle, the picture will be shown
also at the Ambassador, beginning
August /.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Films Flip to Sports Page
For New Crop of Heroes
Harmon and Conn Scripts Shooting;
Goldwyn May Do Gehrig's Story
With Gary Cooper in Star Role
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
In the Vacation Absence of Sheilah Graham


producers
ties It's been before of cou remember
Bobby
have they reached the field sports
heroes huge handful rs
Michigan