The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-25

mately two weeks.
ST. JOHNS, n. FMS Garry
ing hundreds OF American soldiers
TO garrison the new United States
Navy and air base in New Found
land, the Army troop transport
Edmund Alexander was scheduled
TO arrive here today from New
York.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. fires
that were visible for so miles, Roy
al Air Force bombers carried out
smashing new attacks on Italo-G eT-
man bases in Sicily during the
past "a hours, it was announced
today.
HOLLYWOOD AP- An indie
pendent arbitration board has de-
cided Actress Carole Lombard
was justified in discharging My
ron SelZnick as her agent last
July ! but she must pay him S27,-
500 in commissions for service s
prior to his discharge. The board
was composed of members of the
Artists Managers Association, re-
presenting Selznick, and the
Screen Actors Guild for Miss LON
bard, who is Mrs. Clark Gable.
SAN FRANCISCO -AP - A
$4,000 cargo of scrap iron. loaded
for shipment TO Japan in 1887 and
ptr -, D.. -
since, will go into the national
defense hopper. 1t is the cargo Of
the Kwang Yuan, freighter which
has seen ship fights, mutiny,
seizure and several new owners
in recent years.
WASHINGTON ZAP - Secre-
tary Perkins reported today that
living costs in the larger cities
increased six-tenths Of one per
cent between Nov. 10 and Dec. Is,
1870.
MELROSE, Mass. -AP - A
hitcn-hiker who fired five shots,
twice wounding a motorist who
refused him a ride, eluded search
ing police today. The end OF Gle
ment Richardson's right finger
was torn off by one pistol shot,
and another lodged in his left
forearm when he refused the
mans thumbed appeal Friday
night on lonely road.
% ROME-UP- German planes
|. attacked a British naval lorna.
tion in the central Mediterranean
Fridy afternoon and, according to
first reports, struck a British
heavy cruiser on the stern with a
heavy caliber bomb, a high com.
mand communique asserted to-
day.
) ROME INS-The Italian gov.
eminent announced today that
prices for merchandise, services
and rents will be fixed and FRO
zen" for duration of the war. In
addition, 1t was stated that ra'
lions of spaghetti in southern
Italy and rice and corn in north
ern Italy will be increased.
FLINT, Mich.-UP-Buick's re-
tail delivers for the second 10 day
leIiod of tlI= month we're 7,34l
ants, an sh tine high for the PEE:
iod, Genera Sales Manager w. F.
Hufstader announced today.
ATHENS, Greece-UP- Picked
Italian Alpini troops have been
massed for counter offensive
against Koritza, the former Italian
north base in Albania which the
Greeks captared Nov. %, in the
first month of the war, il was re-
ported today.
BERLIN-UP-An official news
agency dispatch from Bucharest re
ported today that Cen Ion Anton
escu, premier, received Baron Man
fred Won Killinger, the new Ger
man ambassador, Friday afternoon
WASHINGTON-AP - Speedy
Senate action was expected TODAY
4 on the House-appro, ed $3.50. 600
emergency ship building program
designed to provide zoo steel cargo
vessels for the American mercan-
tile fleet.
WASHlNGTON-AP - Neville
Butler. newly-appointed minister
from Britain. said today that the
/ Libyan campaign, including the
capture OF Bardia and $4,000 Italian
prisoners, cost the Australians
who bore the brunt OF the attack,
81 officers and 2j5 enlisted men. Of
whom no more tina II were actual
ly killed or died OF wounds"
ROME-AP-The 7,00O,ton Brit
|. fish auxiliary ruiser Eumaeus
LOADED with troops" has been
sunk in the Atlantic by an Italian
submarine. the Italian high com
mand reported to-day, after a
sharp fight
WASHINGTON -AP A new
move to revive he annual citizens
} military ira ming camps was report
ed today TO have met with firm
w al Dcfdl tlANiA oPPVcltloH. zen
eral George c. Marshall. chief oil
stan. was said TO have told advo
Gates OF the summer training sys
TEN that while the Army was IN
der pressure 10 expand quickly
nothing would be undertaken that
, was not OF compelling importance
BELGRADE. Yueoslayia-AP-
Col. William j. Donovan, unofficial