The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-01

Mar expenditures mad risen 10
Ll1,000,000 currently S44,00O,Oo0)
daily compared with a L7.0O0,0OO
daily peak during the World War.
MASKlNONGE, Quebec -AP-I
One person was killed and 40 were
injured last night when the diner
OF a MontrealQuebec express train
jumped the track near Maskinongc.
plunging one car upside down into
the nearly.dry bed of the Maskin-
onge River and piling W two
others on the bank. j. A. Cou-
ture Of Montreal, a trainman, was
killed.
NEW YORK-AP- The Amer
lean public has given more than
$SO000,0Q0 In cash to war-rel.ef or
ganizations since the beginning of
the war, Valentine +. Macy, Jr.,
Of the National Information Bureau
reported today Gifts in kind
amounted to $l1,0O0OO0 addition
al, making total OF $9l,0O0,0OO
for war-relief,' he said.
PITTSBURGH - APP - Pitts
burgh's eight largest hotels crowd
I'd WITH more tnan 3,500 guests
we're virtually closed today as a
strike of 2,400 AFL service work
ers remanding IS to 20 per cent in
creases in pay.
NEW YORK-INS-A broadcast
by radio station XEQQ in Mexico
City heard by CHS said today that
starting at a. m. all air communi-
cations throughout Mexico were be
ing suspended because of the cy-
clone.
LONDON-INS-A Reuters dis
patch from Vichy said today that
an "American-owned" steamer of
Panamanian registry identified as
the Cesar, formerly a -panish-Ye
sci, had been sunk off the coast of
Ireland. British admiralty officials
said nothing is known regarding
the reported incident.
CONWAY. y. H.-UP-An ex-
convict was hunted through the
East today as a kidnapping sus-
pect' in connection with the search
for fye-year-old Pamela Holling-
worth who vanished Sunday from i
White Mountain picnic grove.
BUENOS AIRES-AP-Th Ar.
gentine congress adjourned for sew
en- months early today without rati.
flying a $1l0000,000 United States
loan proposed to finance acting
President Ramon Castillo's econom-
&c program. Castillo said he would
not summon special session, de-
spite demands made by the Radical
tli5eraD party. which holds a ma
1ority IN the Chamber OF Deputies.
TOkYO-UP-Scores II not hun
dreds Of lives were feared lost to-
day when a typhoon, accompanied
by torrential rain, swept in from
the Guam area of the Pacific and
struck southwestern Japan IN full
force.
ISTANBUL. Turkey UP-Trust- |
worthy informants arrived from Ru-
mania asserted today that Gen
Ion Autonescu had relinquished
command Of all Rumanian troops
outside Rumanian territory on the
eastern front and had named him
self defense minister, relinquishing
the prime ministry In favor Of Mi
chail Antonescu.
WASHlNGTON-INS - President
Roosevelt. by proclamation. today
gave the Portland Pipeline Com
pany. the right OF eminent domain
Tor construction Of a pipeline from
q point near South Portland. Me. |
northeast across Meme, New
Hampshire. and Vermont to a point |
on the international boundary in the |
vicinity Of North Troy. Vt There it |
will connect with a line extending |
through the province Of Quebec to
Montreal.
HIGH RIVER. .-lNS-Re- /.
ports that the Duke of Windsor's |
300-acre Alberta Ranch may soon
be sold excited this little cattle |
town today but drew no comment |
from the ranch house ten miles |
away where the Duke and his /
American-born Duchess are in the |
second day OF a ten-day vacation. |
PITTSBURGH ms Pitts. ,
burghs eight major hotels were
crippled today by strike Of some 1
24OO ALL service workers who |
walked. out AZ midnight enforcing /
demands for wage increases OF |
from 10 TO 20 per cent.
SANDUSKY. O-GNS-Six hun .
bred and fifty AFL Office workers. /
truck drivers and iron workers dt I
the S32.000001 Plum Brook Army /.
Ordnance plant struck today for in .
creased wages.
CHUNGKING Up 4 govern. |
ment. spokesman claimed today /.
that Chang he. capital Of Human
province still was in Chinese hands /.
and reported that an encirclinz
movement by Chinese troops IN the /
northern part of the province had /
been successful.