The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-12-10

Stark, chief Of naval opera
tlons.
acknowledgements with
out pay was imposed on warden
and deputy warden Of the State
Prison OF Southern Michigan fol-
lowing the state corrections COM
missions investigation OF charges
OF improper administration.
NEW YoRk-lNs- AmerI-
can Telephone a Telegraph
stock broke SAYS to s132.75
share on the first block Of 1000
shares offered In the New York
Stock Exchange tocay.
BOGOTA, Colombia-AP- The
Colombian house of representatives
approved today by a vote of So to
20 a bill granting the government
emergency powers 1t had requested
to meet the international situation.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass -AP - A
Harvard University linguist said
today Japan has at least one advan-
tage over the United States the
ability of vast number of her mill
tary officers to speak English while
only a handful OF United States
Army and Navy men understand
Japanese.
observation-disclosures troops
have been blasted from Tikhvin,
ITO miles east of Leningrad, in
Today battle which cost them 1000
dead, and have suffered new revers-
es before Moscow. the Russians
claimed officially today.
= LONDON AP--A German SPY
was executed this morning at
Wandsworth Prison. the home Of
flee announced today.
ROMEr-AP-The Italian high
command announced today that an
Italian ship with 1000 British pris-
oners aboard had been -torpedosd-
CHICAGO-UP-The Railway Elk
press Agency early today accepted
the wage recommendations of Pres
ident Roosevelt's emergency fact
finding board and averted nation
wide strike scheduled for 10 a. m.
BERLlN-UP-A German official
news agency dispatch from Copen.
hagen said today the 1,549-ton
steamship Paula, former Danish yes
sci flying the Panamanian flag.
was sunk between Iceland and
Greenland with the loss of her crew
of Is. The ship was said to have
been taken over by the United
States and named the Montana.
LONDON ms A German Sc
eret agen, Karel Richard Richter,
20. was executed in Wandsworth
Jail today.
NEW YORK-AP-The Japanese
foreign office was formally notified
today that the Swiss legation would |
look after United States interests
in Japan while the Argentine en-
bassy would protect British inter
ests. the Japanese radio announced |
today.
GANSING-AP-The State Board |
OF Tax Administration, imposing |
the sales tax on purchases for con- |
tractors which hitherto have been |
exempt. disclosed today 1t would at
tempt to collect about $2,500,000 |
from the Federal Government on |
retroactive Interpretation OF the
act The money represents the tax
on materials for defense construc-
ton, he said.
LANSING-AP-The State Con-
servation Commission has agreed |
to sponsor jointly with the Federal
Geological Survey q s16.o00-a-year
survey Of Michigan water levels,
particularly aimed at saving the
falling levels OF many inland lakes.
LONDON-AP- The Russians
now claim air superiority over the
entire Soviet-German battlefront.
particularly In the Moscow area, o
British authority said today. Rus
sian tanks have been doing particu-
larry well on the Moscow sector"
British source said, declaring they
have proved more effective than
German machines in the snow be-
cause Of broader treads.
WASHINGTON - AP - Argen-
tina's agreement with Chile to fort
fly the Straits OF Magellan at the
bottom Of the New World throws
bar across the only remaining open
sea route linking the Axis powers.
LONDON AP The possibility
that Japan has developed a new
and far more powerful aerial tor
pedo than had been In use before
was suggested here todsy by the
work OF her airmen against ships
at Pearl Harbor and off Malaga.
LONDON-AP-A British author
fly declsred today that "ail bases
and facilities we cen afford will be
available Tor our allies" IN the Pa
cific. Discussing the naval situstinn
IN the Pacific, he stigmstized the
Japsnese as - bunch Of pirates
whose Technique IN openinV hostili-
ties IN the Nazi msnner assured
su-nrise and. temporary advan-
tsse. !