The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-19

heit DNB, orncial German news
agency said today.
NEW YORK-AP- The British
Broadcasting Corporation today
quoted a news agency dispatch
from Ankara, Turkey. as saying
that martial law in lstanbul and
other Turkish coastal regions "a 20
be continued for another six
months"
LOS ANGELES-AP-The Meth
srlands East Indies will fight to
the last man" IL japan resorts TO
military means to enforce her trade
demands, says DR.. ]. r. Van der
Schrieck, attache OF the Neither
lands legation in London.
CANBERRA. Australia-AP -
Army Minister Percy G. Spender
told the house of representatives
today that 5000 British, Australian
and New Zealand troops were pri-
soners in Greece.
LONDON-AP- Reuters Brit
fish news agency reported today
from Stockholm that the Swedish
parliament has appropriated the
equivalent Of 100000 for defense
purposes. Most OF the money, the
agency said, would be expended on
planes and anti-aircraft defenses.
LONDON-AP-A Belgian news
agency report said here today that
$4,000 workers in German-occu-
pied Belgium wers striking for ad-
ditional rations and rs per cent
wage increase. The strike started
among Liege miners and street
railway employees and has spread
TO textile workers at Verviers, the
agency said.
LONDON-AP- Commons will
be asked at its next session to ap-
prove expenditure OF an additional
$4,000, 100000 to meet war and
other expenses during the year
ending March 81. 1912, a white
paper announced today.
NEW YORK-AP-Prince Ludo-
vic Pignatelli, So year old Spanish
nobleman said to have engaged in
166 duels, has lost one in federal
court. With William NJ. Gibson,
As, a publishers associate the
prince was convicted of trying to
extort $4,000 from Prince Guido
Pignatelli, his cousin, and the lat
ter's wife, Princess Henrietta Hart
ford, Pignatelli, chain store heiress.
WASHINGTON - APP - Execu-
tives of American companies who
direct over two thirds of the
worlds oil production met here
today at the emergency call OF the
government to grapple with the
problem of easing a predicted oil
scarcity in the East.
SHANGHAI -AP- Passengers
arriving today aboard the Presi-
dent Coolidge from Hongkong re-
ported seeing an estimated 100
japanese battleships, cruisers. air
craft carriers, destroyers, submar-
ines and supply ships moving slow
~ southwark in the Formosan
Straits off Annoy.
LISBON. Portugal-AP- Portu-
guese irritation with the United
States has become generally vocal
in the wake of President Roose-
velt's action in freezing this coun-
try's assets in the United States.
With banks and exchange agencies
refusing to buy dollar checks or
notes at any price pending a clari-
fication of the Presidents action,
Portuguese circles freely express
ed the opinion that as they put it,
Washington was going out of its
way to slap one of the few remain
ing European neutrals disposed to
be friendly with the Anglo-Saxon
nations.
LONDON-UP- Prime Minister
Winston Churchill has decided to
hold a secret parliamentary de-
bate on the shipping situation be-
cause the battle OF the Atlantic
continues to be the most serious
aspect of Britain's war effort, it
was said authoritatively today.
SUMMIT, n. J.-INS-The town
Of Summit is without mayor
today. Mayor Guido F. Forster,
a lieutenant commander in TIVE nav
al reserve, was called up for active
service as navigating officer OF the
liner Munargo, which has been
converted into a naval auxiliary
vessel.
LANSING, Mich.-INS- Determ-
ined TO make expenditures fit the
estimated s103.000,O00 annual re-
ceipts. Gov. Murray d. Van Wag-
oner today wrestled with the state
budget. The executive said that
already he has Topped s2.0OO,00O
from the legislative allowance for
the fiscal year starting July l
and that he has found means to
slice S1.500,000 from the second
year total. Van Wagner said he
would make details OF the cuts
public sometime this week.
NEW YORK-INS- A $4,000
contribution TO the United States
Service Organizations has been re.
ceived from the International Lad.
ies Garment Workers Union, Thorn
as E. Dewey. national campaign
chairman Of the U.S.O., announced
today.
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