The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-05


others were sentenced to prison
terms Of 10 TO Is years and four
more. including three women, were
acquitted.
TOKYO ms - Premier Hideki
TOTO conferred with the japanese
privy council today, explaining the
"firm attitude of his government
in the Pacific crisis. The premier
met the group OF elder statesmen
shortly after the Japan Times Ad-
vertiser, foreign office organ,
warned that the North Pacific
states are tottering .perilously on
the brink Of war;"
SEATTTE-KP- The Japanese
liner Mikawa Maru sailed last night
with what may be the last travel
b ers to leave the Pacific Coast for
Japan until the troubled internation-
al situation in the Far East is re-
lieyed. The former n. Y. h. liner,
chartered by the japanese govern
ment for the exchange OF nationals
e with Canada and the United States.
carried $50 passengers from Seattle
and 146 previously taken aboard al
Vancouver. 3. C. It arrived Sunday
with a load OF Americans.
BATAVIA, Netherlands East In
dies-AP-Export of high octane
gasoline TO Portuguese Timor was
prohibited today by Hubertus J.
Van Nook, director OF the econom-
les department.
LONDON ms A Reuters
BRITISH dispatch today quoted
the Polish telegraph agency as
stating famine has assumed ter
rifying proportions in Poland, now
completely under German rule.
The account said there have been
many deaths from starvation and
that the sharp early winter is &C
centuating the misery of the PEG
pie.
SAN FRANCISCO-INS- Dis
coyery Of the bodies Of three army
airmen. killed in plane crashes, |
left only one pilot and his plane
unaccounted for today in the SER
les of air mishaps caused by bad !
weather in northern California
which have taken a known toll of /
II aviators and IL Army planes !
since Oct "a The body Of Lieut. |
NJ. H Walker of Salt Lake City, |
was found in the crushed wreck |
age Of the BIZ bomber which |
broke apart in mid air over the |
high Sierra Sunday. The bodies |
of Lieut. Robert Agnew OF Don
aids. S c., and Pvt. Dan Fisk of |
Willows, Cal. former University |
OF San Francisco football star, /
were found in the wreckage of
their army training plane below a !
hill three miles north Of Niles.
CAIRO. Egypt-AP-Two meat /,
less days a week have been order
ed for Egypt unter martial law 10
which, without imports to coun /
terbalancc increased cousumrtion. I
has showed signs of depletion.
BUENOS AIRES--AP- The Ar
gentine government ordered today |
the conversion Of nearly $500 000.- /
coo pesos 81 .16l .000. 000l worth |
Of bonds forming huge part of /
the internal debt from obligations 1
bearing five and four and one half /
per cent interest to four per cent |
bonds.
SAN FRANCISCO Up There /
will be no shortage Of small change /
for the eastern Christmas trade. |
The biggest shipment OF coins ever /
made from 'be san Franchsco mint |
was en- route to the Atlantic coast !
today. II included pennies nickels. |
dimes. quarters and half dollars. but /
Mint superintendent Peter J. Hag. /
gerty declined 10 reveal the amount ]
LONDON Up A stream of 1
huge transport planes was report |
cd today to be rushing reinforce |
ments OF Russian ski troops from
the Jral mountains up 10 the Mos.
COW defeat where q climactic Ger /
man offensive pounded forward f.
against a breach In Russian lines
near Mozhaisk, 50 miles west OF
the capital.
CHlCAGO-UP-A special fact !
finding boards report, clmaxing |
three months Of negotiations and
hearings on railway labors wage
demands. goes TO President Roose- /
welt today. The report was believed |
TO recommend wage Increases com |
promising man cement offers with !
union demands for payroll boosts 4,
ranging from 30 to Il per cent