The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-23

brother OF King George VI. Kent
who has been making an extensive
tour OF Canadian defense estsb-
y lishments, will arrive here short
ly after p. N TO be house guests
for the remainder OF the week end
OF the President and Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt.
LOS ANGELES-AP- It is cost
4 ing two southern California air
craft manufacturers from half a
million dollars a year to nearly
eight times that much to build air
planes for the government, they
told a United States Senate Com
mittee investigating the national
defense program. On the Army
new giant four.motored bomber
Wehe Biz, Douglas Aircraft Corp
has written off loss of s2,570,l22
Donald W. Douglas, president ties
titled.
VICHY. France-AP- The lives
OF thousands OF Frenchmen under
arrest in occupied France were
a, put in pawn by German military
y authorities today to halt acts OF
violence against members OF the
Nazi army of occupation. Announ'
cling that a member OF the German
army had been assassinated in
a,-ta Thf4rcdaU Cnnnf-a1 Firm 81
Won Schaumburg issued an order
chasing all those under arrest as
a hostages. ''In case of a new Grim.
Ninal attack" the order said, "a
number of hostages corresponding
to the gravity of the act commit
ted will be shot"
TEHERAN, Iran-AP-Irarl.. an
ticipating a showdown on British
Russian demands for expulsion OF
-, German technicians from the coun'
try, has cancelled leaves for 1912
newly graduated army officers and
has ordered them to the frontiers
for active duty with 10000 troops
or guard there.
WASHINGTON = AP = Dutch
Jews are forbidden to eat Kosher
& meat as decreed by their religion
y under one of the many anti-Jew
fish ordCI promulgated by Nazl au
thorities in the conquered Neither
lands, according to authoritative
reports just received in diplomatic
quarters here.
MEXICO CITY-AP-The Mexi
D can government has ordered Is
leo closed by September / and has
called home all Mexican consuls in
German occupied portions OF Eu
rope. The foreign office order was
accompanied by bluntly worded
statement by President Manuel
Avila Camacho that his govern
Ament docs not recognize. nor fol
any motive can recognize, the state
of things created in Europe by
violence"
BERLIN -AP- Three Soviet
transports sailing from an undis
closed Finnish harbor, have been
sunk by mines, DNB reported to
4 day. The agency said Soviet de
stroyers and patrol boats in the
eastern Baltic were driven off IN
an artillery skirmish with light
German naval forces.
LONDON-AP-. In a move &c
strengthen economic sanctions
against Japan, the Board of Trade
D today prohibited the export. Of
goods without license to China
the japanese Pacific Islands and
Macao, Portuguese colony on the
Chinese mainland.
MANILA-AP-sA japanese exc
dus from the Philippines due te
= war fears and inconvenience;
Y caused by the freezing Of credits
continued today as l60 men, women
and children sailed for Shanghai
aboard the steamer Khaidinh.
LONDON-AP- Count Edward
Raczynski. Polish ambassador il
IlO0uODs was dppOlhACu dNtlAlS "
. lish foreign minister in Gen. Wlad
yslaw Sikorski's cablnet-in-exile to
day to succeed NJ. A. Zaleski, who
resigned in a disagreement ovel
the pact with Soviet Russia.
HARRISBURG. Pa. AP -
Pennsylvania employment ser
vice, striving TO obtain jobs for tbs
unemployed, found today 1t could
y MT get enough clerks for its owr
ONCE. Uncle Sans higher sal
aries for clerical help-and de
Tense work-has provided competi
ton the commonwealth is unable {
meet, said Melvin Jacobs, secretary
of the board Of review for the ser
vice.
STNGAPORE-AP a message
arriving today from Chungking
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek pre-
dicted the conflict with Japar
would end next year and thanked
Malaya's 100000 Chinese for
help which enabled me to carry OF
the war for so long.
BERLIN-AP-D NB reported TO
day from Zagreo that Italy hat
informed the Croatian government
the entire east coast OF the Adria
tic from Fiume to Montenegro wa!
being put in a state OF military
readiness.
PHILADELPHIA-AP- Failur,
OF a second federal jury to reacl
a verdict on government charge,