The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-19
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MEXICO CITY AP - A senate
esolution promulgated today au.
lorizes Pre- ident Manuel Avila
alnacho to permit United States
arplanes TO fly over or TO land,
Mexican territory.
NEW YORK. lNS-Nation-
wide stoppase Of work In the
soft coal industry was aVerted
today when John /. Lewis,
president OF the CLOS United
Mine Workers, announced that
the International Policy Com
mittee Of the union had agreed
TO permit 10000 OF the
eountry's 100000 bituminous
coal miners to continue work
in the 16 states outside the
Appalachian region after
March 81, whether or not a
new contract with mine
owners has been negotiated.
NICHY Franc,-AP- Twenty
i've Jewish judges and attorneys
eneral were retired under anti
emitic laws today as Minister OF
ustice Joseph Barthelemy an
ounced tar reaching shakeup Of
he French judiciary.
MANILA-AP Three Philippine
onstabulary soldiers and five
loro outlaws were killed in bat
10 fought shortly after daybreak
"a the Tayungan jungle, according
10 meager news dispatches from
olo Island in the Sulu archipelago.
ROME -AP- An unidentified
american newspaperman and a
British football star named Basin
Eere reported today injured in the
rash of a British bomber shot
&own by Italian fighters over Al.
Pan.a Mar. Is.
BAY SHORE, y. Y.-AP- The
British freighter Student Prince II
tuuCk a sand bar a half-mile OIL
Fire Island today and was broken
n half by heavy seas shortly al
er its captain and crew of eight
we're rescued by coast guardsmen.
4 WASHINGTON-AP-- Congress
boon will be asked to sanction de-
Eelopment OF the St. Lawrence
Waterway in cooperation with
| anada. President Roosevelt dis
Ilosed to his pres conference that
he authority will be sought in the
form of a bill, requiring only a
Simple majority OF both houses for
passage, rather than treaty,
which requires confirmation OF two.
birds OF the Senate. In 1854 the
Senate rejected such a treaty by
|Note or IS to 40
ALGERCIRAS, Spain Up &C.,
Hundreds of the engineers who
|Pnilt Germany's Siegfried line have
been busy for months in this strate.
slc area adjacent TO Britain's great
Fortress of Gibraltar.
BATAVIA. Netherlands East In.
dies-AP-The United States 10
day was reported increasing It's
stan of naval experts in the Far
East and the South Pacific. -
BERLIN-AP - Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering. as head
of Germany second four-year plan.
today ordered Reorganization of the
nations coal industry TO intensity
production.
ROME-AP-Bad weather. mark.
ed by high winds and heavy fogs,
has forced the Fascist air force to
curtail attacks upon Greek posi-
tons in Albania, Stefani (oficial
Italian news agency said today.
LONDON 49, ms - limiting
stronglylat sabotage. an exchange
telegraph (Brtish) dispatch from
said today that the
flames which swept the $4,000.
O00 German luxury liner Bremen
totally destroyed the vessel
NfCHY ms chief Of State
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain will
address the French nation by ra-
do az 5.l5 p M today (9:15 a.
m ESD it was announced. lie
viii speak from Grenoble. where
he is taking a brief vacation.
BEELIN--INS- An Official Of
the United States embassy in Der.
lin conferred with German foreign
office authorities today regarding
Richard Hottelet American news
paper correspondent who was ar
rested by Gestapo AGENTS. Hottie
let is being held under suspicion
Of espionage on behalf Of an enc
my power.
MENICO CITY ms - 4 con-
C. snuati1n camp for Nazi agents
and suJycrsiye communists will be
established at Perote in the State
Of Vera Cruz. Interior Minister
Aleman said today.
BlRNI\GA. Eng. ms -- The
late Prime Minister Neville Cham
Itr.ain Ipft a gross estate Of ST.
poo pounds ($336,00O at present
rates.. il was announced today
Three thousand pounds went TO
his niece Miss Valerie Cole and
The ~rcmainder to his widow, son
and daughter.
WASHINGTON -hP-- The ma
iiuual defense advisory commits
sion today suggested state legis- /
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