The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-12-16
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THE WEATHER; Wednesday
Cloudy. Cooler

WASHINGTON-AP-The Sen
ate Banking Committee csllet
upon former President Herber
Hoover today 70 make recommends
tons on price control legislation
based upon his World War exper
fence as food administrator.
CHUNGKING-AP- Generalissi
mo Chang KalShek warned the
central executive committee OF the
kuomintaug today TO take an Eek
ceptionally grave view of its duty
TO the country and friendly Ma
tons and that any slackening OF
China's war efforts now might
mean national extinction.
NEW YORk-AP-The estate OF
Count Leo NikolayeYich Tolstoy
the Russian author, was left m
ruins by the Germans in their re-
treat from Yasnaya Polyapa, near
Tula. the British radio quoted "A
Moscow broadcast today.
NEW YORK-AP-The Joint Of
fees Of the Free American and
Deutscher Weckruf and Beobach-
ter the German American bund and
the German-American Business
League have been seized by the
L. 5 Treasury Department
NEW NORK-AP - Blackout
cloth for curtains has become such
an item on every woman's Christ
mas shopping list that department
stores have set up special count
ers to handle the demand, and from
one of them comes a report OF a
new nigh in ambiguity. Black
out cloth, one customer ordered,
with flowers"
LONDON-AP-Reuters said to-
day a Nichy telegram from Berlin
announced that a German subma-
line had ;orpedoed and sunk
British cruiser off Alexandria,
Egypt.
LONDON AP-A secret debate
on the war situation will be held
soon in the House of Commons.
1t was announced officially today.
NlCHN. Unoccupied Frauce-AP
All except the smallest French
factories are to shut down from
December Il mul January { be-
cause Of shortage of coal aud raw
materials, a French announcement
said today
ST. CHARLES, Ill.-AP-Mayor
l. g. Langum and the city council
last night directed the city treas
urer TO use the city's reserve fund
to buy 100000 worth of United |
States defense bonds. The council |
voted unanimously to use the funds
for the purpose.
CHICAGO-AP--Chicagos first
free ambulance service and mo.
bile operating room, equipped for
catastroph - SD. an e-s-~--.--'-
went into operation today as q
war and health measure.
Ro-iE-ofiicisl Radio Received
by AP)--rhe Italian high command |
today Acknowledged Raj raids |
against the ports of laramie, Italy, |
Bengasi, Libya Augusta, Sicily, |
and areas around Brindisi, on the
lower Adriatic.
WASHINGTON-1NS -- Spurred
by the revelation that so-called de
tense brokers had made profits as
high as "a per cent, special House
and Senate. committees today
pressed their Investigations into eN'
cessive defense costs.
WASHINGTON-INS-More than
100 ALL union leaders met in Wash
lngton today on the eve Of President
Roosevelts mo strike" conference
10 approve a fiyepoint federation
plan for elimination OF walkouts in
defense industries so that Japan
will be made 10 pay in full meas
ure" for its "treacherous attack
on the United States.
WASHINGTON ms Responsi-
bic quarters in Washington today
disclosed that the United States
intends to renew its efforts to per-
suade Brazil to cancel the Italian
Tati Airline that operates between
Italy and that South American re
public. The American government
has long regarded the Lati Airline
as the most direct and dangerous
espionage link between the Euro
pean AXIS powers and the Western
Hemisphere.
WASHINGTON INS-The pow
erful Military Committee OF House
and Senate today sped action on
bin. drafting 10000 more mef
- but e1empting from active service
Youths under 2l, as leaders predict
cd final passage of the measure THU
week The House Committee sp
proved a bill calling for registration
of all males between IS and 81 bu
a and prepared to ask House yot'
tomorrow.
MELBOURNE. Australia - AP -
The Australian var cabinet decreet
today that children and all wome'
except those required for essentia
services must he removed frou
Darwin. northern Australian port
as soon as possible.
SAN FRANCISCO - AP - Sa
Frauciscaus are paying more o
going hungry for fish and crabs, a
though adjacent waters swarm wit
edible sea life. The Navy has r.
- t-ahcrr-.n na.Aacen thrnng