The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-10
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FORT WAYNE, Ind.-AP-Sign-
ing OF a contract today remained
the last step in the settlement OF
a strike which began Dec. 81 at
the International Harvester Com
pany's truck works. Arnold ]. At
wood of Detroit, regional director
of the CLIO United Automobile
Workers Union. said that the
JAW strikers would be back on
the job Monday.
WASHINGTON-AP-A govern
ment expert on nutrition endorsed
today the plan OF the British-Amer-
lean Ambulance Corps to send Wit
amin candy" tablets to British
children. Dr.. Russell NJ. Wilder,
chairman OF the committee on food
and nutrition OF the national re-
search council. said that the vita
min tablets represented an eX-
cellent idea" TO meet emergency
conditions in England.
FARMINGDALE, n. Y. -AP-
John Owens. representative OF the
national defense commission, re-
ported little or no progress to-
Gay in efforts to avert a strike
which would halt production on 81
100000 worth of government air
plane engine orders.
WEYMOUTH. Mass.-AP- Pit
cairn Islanders. hard hit themselves
by the war in Europe, have offered
haven to child refugees from
bomb-torn Britain on their lonely
Pacific Isle which sheltered the
mutineers Of the bounty l5l years
ago.
CHICAGO-INS- City officials
today investigated causes OF a
sidewalk cavein which hurtled
three women into a II foot pit,
killing one and injuring two others
as they were crushed under heavy
slabs of stone. Killed was Mrs.
Sarah Ernest, AZ, and the other vic
tins, who were critically hurt,
were Mrs Louise Edelman, 81. and
Mrs. Pauline Rome. 80.
LONDON ms The London
Daily Express reported from Lis
bon today that former King Carol
of Rumania has threatened to go
on a hunger strike If he fails TO
obtain immediate permission to
leave Spain. Carol is now in exile
III Spain with his companion, Nine.
Magda Lupescu.
LONDON-INS- The staggering
total of more than 500 Methodist
churches have been destroyed or
damaged during German air raids
against Britain, authorities reveal
ed today. This figure includes
more than 200 Methodist Churches
hit by bombs in London alone.
LONDON-AP-Har Hopkins,
special representative of President
Roosevelt went to work quickly
today. After eating a rationed
breakfast in his h9tel room. he
went to the United States Embassy
preliminary to conferences with
Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden and Lord
Halifax, bassador-designate to
Washington.
BERN, witzerland-AP-An air
raid alarm was sounded in Bern
at l:20 p. m. (6:20 a. m. EST to-
day.
PHILADELPHIA-INS-- Twenty
World War submarines, berthed
for the past score of years in the
back channel Of the Philadelphia
Navy yard, are joining the Atlantic
fleet at Norfold as fast as they can
be refitted, spokesman at the
yard disclosed today
WASHINGTON-INS- The Red
Cross today revealed that it is es-
tablishing an American stated hos
pital in England to provide a source
of capable instructors who will re-
turn to this country to train Amer
leans IN the handling Of casualties
and diseases Of war.
DETROIT-INS-As precaution
against possible sabotage in the
national defense program. Wayne
County Sheriff Andrew c. Baird
has deputized several hundred of
Detroits industrial plant guards,
he announced today. Baird said the
plan was worked out in coopera-
ton with the Army, Navy and FBI.
LEWISBURG, Pa.-INS-Howard
c. Hopson, former head Of the bill
lion dollar Associated Gas and
Electric System, was in Northeast
ern Federal Penitentiary, Lewis
burg, today, to begin a five-year
prison term for what federal pros
ecutors called "one of the largest
frauds ever perpetrated. COM
prising thefts totaling nearly $2O,-
100000.
BALTIMORE lNS-The 43-year-
old father of two children. Wilson
Knott of Baltimore. was hanged in
the state penitentiary today for
criminal assault on a high school
girl last August.
LOS ANGELES ms - One
death near Bakersfield, an estimat-
ed $4,000 worth of damage TO pro-
perty in Santa Barbara County and
devastating winds and ra over a
wide area we're on record today
as more rains approached south
ern California.
WASHINGTON ms - Presi-
dent Roosevelt today announced