The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-03


for government purchases OF farm
products.
SAN FRANCISCO --AP- The
bay cities metal trades council
compiled tonight with a request
from the national defense media
ton board and asked all its men
TO return to work at the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding Company. The coun-
ellis action, however, will not end
the AFL machinists' strike against
Bethlehem.
NICHY, Unoccupied France-AP
A council of ministers was held
today with Gen. Maxine Weygand,
Frances North African commander
and expert on Syrian defense, at.
tending. Vice Premier Admiral
Jean Darlan. with whom Weygand
was expected to confer today was
absent, however.
LONDON-AP- Rashid ALI AL
Gallant, fugitive anti-British prem
Ter OF lraq, arrived last night at
Teheran. capital Of Iran (Persia)
a Reuters British news agency
dispatch from that city said today.
Rashid ALI, who seized control of
the lraq government in April, fled
= from Baghdad last week before
British troops entered the city.
WASHINGTON APP -Presi-
dent Roosevelt returned TO the
capital today to meet Ambassador
John G. Winant and the prob
lens OF getting weapons Of war in.
TO the hands OF the British swift
ly and in ever-increasing volume
With an up-to-the-minute confiden-
tial report from Winant on Bri.
fish needs, intentions and opin,
ions, some authorities suggested
Mn Roosevelt may be in a posi-.
ton to make decisions bringing
into play the tremendous power he
has now under his proclamation
OF an unlimited emergency.
L
Automobile Workers (CIO) began
a series OF meetings today to vote
on ratification OF a new contract
with Chrysler Corp. providing
wage increases and bonuses total
ing upwards of s15,O00,0O0 for
10000 Chrysler employees.
BUFFALO, n. Y. -AP- With
the nations electric power indus.
try expanding to meet the chal-
lenges of defense production, IAN
allegation OF power shortage is
unwarranted, c. W. Kellogg,
president 'of the Edison Electric
institute, declared today.
LONDON -AP- The last $50
Italians of the 10th Colonial bat
talon in the Soddu area of Ethio-
pia have been captured, authorita-
tive British reports said today.
ISTANBUL, Turkey -AP- All
foreign oil companies are remov-
ing their headquarters from Istan.
bull TO Konya in the interior, ii
was learned today.
SHANGHAI --AP - Lieut.. Col.
Kunio Akiyama, official spokes-
man for the Japanese army in
China, declared today 36,1S4 Chin
ese were killed and 10000 captur-
ed in recent fighting along the
Yellow River in Shansi province.
He said Japanese forces we're con-
tinuing hopping up in the area.
TOKYO AP-- Vital foodstutfs
from Japan and Japanese-occupied
China have been flowing into Ger
many via the trans-Siberian rail
road at the rate of 1900 tons
daily in recent months, reliable
sources declared today.
BERLdN-INS- Former Kaiser
Wilhelm OF Germany, who has been
suffering at Doom from an intestin-
al disorder. was reported progress
ing favorably today.
LONDON-INS-A ringing decla-
ration that Britain stands unbeat-
en-" and would spurn any sugges.
tons OF a negotiated peace was
voiced today by Clement r. Attlee,
lord privy seal in Prime Minister
Winston Churchill's war cabinet.
BERLIN APP Authorized Ger.
mans categorically denied today
reports OF the death OF German Ad-
mirsl Bohn and said stories current
abroad regarding him we're untrue.
WORLAND, Wyo.--UP- Towns
folk. CARRIED in ten-gallon hats and
wearing six-shooters, greeted 500
delegates Of the seth annual Wyom-
ing Stock Growers Convention to-
day. A pioneer parade. SO Years OF
Progress, touched off the days
program.