The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-20
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THE WEATHER: Sunday:
Cloudy, Warmer


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"
DES MONIES. Ia.-AP- Twelve
Des Moines manufacturers have
agreed to pool their resources and
cooperate in obtaining and filling
defense orders as an answer to
the growing threat or what they
called "priorities unemployment.
Their action grew out of a Cham
Der of Commerce sponsored clinic.
CANBERRA, Australia-AP-Ar-
rival in Australia of the first
shipment of American made ma
chine guns for the use of Austral-
ian troops wos announced today by
Army Minister Percy Spender.
SHANGHAI - AP - Japanese
army and navy units were de-
clared in Japanese commune
today to have captured several
strategic points on the southeast
ern shore of Tungting Lake, &C.
cupied Sintsiang and cut the Han
kow-Canton railway 20 miles south
of Sintsiang.
BERLlN-AP- German combat
planes sank 10000 ton merchant
ship and a 7,00e ton tanker in at
lacks on a British convoy off the
east coast of England during the
night, authorized sources announ-
ced today.
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.
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.
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.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Ris-
TO Ryti submitted a bill to parlia-
ment today to authorize the govern.
ment TO confiscate all foreign prop
erty in Finland.
LONDON-INS-The Paris radio
today announced the execution of
u more French hostages in reprisal
for attacks on Germans in occupied
France.
BERLiN-AP-A United States
of Europe was enyisioned today as
an outcome of the present war by
Vaino Tanner, Finnish trade minis
ter, who is visiting Germany at the
invitation of the Reich's govern
ment.
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.
WASHINGTON-AP-Use of ra-
do, sound trucks, posters, news.
papers and other publicizng meth
eds for recruiting youths into the
Civilian Conservation Corps and
the National Youth Administrator
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-
ply for such work"
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.
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