The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-01
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. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS en-
bloyes OF the Honolulu Rapid Tran
it Company returned TO work to-
ay after accepting a compromise
ettisment proposed BY the com
pany. The 2S-day walkout ended
yhen members OF the Street Elec-
ric Railway Employees Union
! AT OF u voted 265 TO Is in favor
4 81 the compromise, Daniel p. Lopes,
ocal union president reported.
i WASHINGTON-AP - Ernest
Il 3evin, England's minister OF la
Dor, told American workers today
/ hat Britain is organizing industry
and labor not only to withstand
Nazi invasion attempt but also
to make the great offensive to
iefeat Hitler.
HONOLULU-AP- Federal Of
Il icials armed with grand jury in
a iictments today put the alien own-
ership Of fishing sampans in this
important United States naval cen
u ter under the legal microscope.
The federal grand jury yesterday
Indicted "a persons most Of them
Japanese, and three fishing COM
& panies, accusing them OF conspira-
+ cy TO violate laws governing the
striction OF the sampans.
ATHENS-UP Two persons
were killed, five we're injured and
houses collapsed today when an
earthquake shook Larissa, chief
city between Athens and Salonika.
ATLANTA, Ga-INS-Capt Ed
4 die Rickenbacker and two others,
Il injured in an Eastern Airlines lux
ury liner crash which killed seven
THURSDAY, remained in serious or
a critical condition today A blood
tranfusion was administered early
n today in an attempt to save At
4 torney c. NJ. Tappen Of Long Is
land, y. Y. II. A. Littledale is
paralyzed from the hips down.
TOKYO-INS- Japans war Of
. flee suddenly reshuffled the mil
. itary high command today. The
q shakeup OF high ranking military
Il personnel involved rs officers.
i LONDON -AP- Seagull eggs
are to be teamed up with break
fast bacon in England. The min
istry OF agriculture and fisheries
has just completed a seagull cen
4 sus and had made arrangements to
have eggs collected and marHeleu
during the spring laying season.
PASADENA. Calf -AP- Ira
4 Dodge Hale, so, who developed the
honey dew melon is dead here.
PASADENA, Calif-AP A Nazi
s. flag. hoisted to the peak of the
Pasadena College flag pole, was
Il destroyed by a throng of cheering
students who watched Orville Sea
go climb 60 feet to remove it. j.
d. Diesenroth, business manager of
the college. operated by the Naz-
arene Church, expressed belief the
flag was run up by prankster.
WASHfNGTON-AP- The fed
eral power commission declared in
statement yesterday that five
utility firms operating in the Pa
cific Northwest spent upwards of
S1.O00,000 for political purposes.
Further, the statement asserted,
i a 81
were charged to the cost Of con-
sumer service.
WASHINGTON Chairman
Dies (D-TeX) Of the House Commit
tee investigating un-American ac-
tivities said today that records of
4 American Peace Mobilization. Inc.
had been subpoenaed for a hear
. ing Tuesday. We want to know"
Dies said. where they are getting
their funds, and We want to know
something Of their membership"
ATHENS ms Wreckage OF
al east 26, and possibly 35 Italian
N warplanes, was strewn over a
southern Albanian battle sector
today as authorities in Athens
hailed the greatest single aerial
4 victory of the Italo-Greek war.
LONDON ms German Big
Berthas" on the French coast fir
ed across the straits Of Dover this
morning but caused no damage
or casualties.
BERLIN ms Strong r. A.
r. bomber units during the night
attempted to drop mines in river
mouths along the German coast
and also dropped few bombs on
coastal areas, Berlin authorities
said today. They declared no
damage has been reported so far.
LONDON ms - The sleek
and modern 900-ton Escort De-
stroyer Exmoor was sunk in the
North Sea by a swarm of German
E-boats, but only after an attack
on a British convoy had been
beaten off, the admiralty an
nounced today.
WASHINGTON ---. UP The
House last night passed and sent
to the Senate a bill authorizing
marketing quotas for peanuts
produced for food. The quotas are
similar TO those now authorized
for cotton, wheat, corn, rice and
tobacco.
PATERSON, y. J. 49, 1NS-The
gift of $4,000 employees and friends
OF the Wright Aeronautical Corp.
two 1900 h. p. Wright Cyclone air
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