The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-25


Byrd 10Y Va, today called for
the resignation Of Secretary
Of Labor Perkins as he charged
In the Senate that the only
woman cabinet member has
failed to settle defense indus
try strikes, and has become
a "bottleneek" In the defense
program.
DUBUQUE, La.-UP-Marion L.
Taylor, 3S, who posed as a re-
cruiting offcer in taking 35 boys
from an Iowa reform school %
enlist them in the Army, was SEN
fenced yesterday to three years
In prison on charges Of imperso-
mating a federal oficer.
WASHINGTON-INS- Federal
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son today, in effect, ordered cop
per prices frozen at IL cents a
pound for the metal and Is cents
a pound for copper ingot.
LONDON-INS- General Wis
count Gort, hero of the evacuation
at Dunkerque, today was appoint
ed governor and commsnder-in-
chief Of Gibraltar.
WASHINGTON-UP- Defense
Housing Coordinator Charles F.
Palmer today asked Works Admin
istrator John NJ. Carmody to con-
struct homes for $50 defense work
ers in the Akron, o., area where
employment has sharply increased
as a result of the defense pro-
gram.
MANILA, P. Up Captain
James Roosevelt, son of President
Roosevelt, arriving today by Clip
per plane from Honolulu. said the
guess that he was bound for Chung
king, capital of nationalist China,
was "a very good one.
WASHINGTON-AP-Coal avail.
able at Great Lakes ports is suffi-
Gent for about two round trips for
the Great Lakes fleet, according
10 A. T. Wood. president of the
Lake Carriers Association of Cleve-
land.
NEW YORk-AP - John c.
Stafford OF the Rockford. ILL.,, Star,
was elected president of the Ma
tional Newspaper Promotion Asso-
citation at its 18th annual conven-
ton held in conjunction with ses-
sions of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association. Other Off
GERS elected included Jacques A.
Caldwell, Of the Port Huron, Mich,
Times-Herald, treasurer.
HERON BAY. Ont.-tCanadian
Press) -the last four of % German
prisoners OF war who escaped from
q northwestern Ontario camp last
Saturday were captured early to-
day on a train as it pulled out
from this village.
WASHINGTON-AP-Cork insu-
lation manufacturers have assured
the Office OF Production Manage
ment OF cooperation in an attempt
10 curtail use of cork board for
roof insulation during the remain
der OF 1871.
WASHINGTON-AP-Emil Lud-
wig, noted Germsn-born writer,
went TO work at the Treasury to-
day to help boost the defense saw
ings campaign. Ludwig. who volun
teered his services without pay.
will speak and write particularly to
German-Americans.
WASHINGTON --AP The
g. Justice Department today began
searching its records on nearly
100000 aliens TO determine how
many might be subject TO depor-
tation for illegal entry or other
law violations. The task, expected
10 require NEARLY two months. is
part Of the job OF building up
master file by means OF which the
department will be able TO supply
important data on the foreign
population at a moments notice.
CLEVELAND --AP- Private
Frank II. Sallot. 90, a pattern
maker whose skill is. considered
essential to national defense
work, will shortly be discharged
from the army to 90 back to
work. Major Carl G. VAIL. State
Draft Mobilization officer, said
1t was the first case of its kind in
Ohio.
LONDON APP The admiralty
announced today that the Adria-
tic and Aegean Seas and a large
part OF the eastern Mediterranean
we're dangerous to shipping"
TCNIS, Tunisia. - AP -
Official sources said today timely
arrival of gasoline and oil per
mitted to reach French North
Africa through the British block
ade, would enable the colony to
harvest a bumper crop Of grain.
SAN DIEGO. Calf. -AP-G Gov
ernment-authorized wage incress-
as went to some 5000 building
craftsmen today, ending a brief
partial interruption in the Nays
defense housing program.
WASHINGTON AP-A Senate
Investigating Committee called on
defense contractors today TO list
and explain fees or commissions
paid to any person in obtaining
cost-plus -fixed-fee contracts from
the Army and Navy.
BOGOTA. Columbia-AP-Three