The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-20

failed to affect Japanese economies,
Finance Minister Masatsune Ogura
said today. Addressing the Tokyo
Bankers Club, Ogura urged Japan's
economic and business circles to be
prepared for increasing difficulties
in the future with the interna-
tional situation growing tenser and
tenser".
WINNIPEG, Man.-INS-He Health
authorities admitted today that
Manitoba's infantile paralysis ana
sleeping sickness epidemics are
reaching alarming proportions"
fnfantile paralysis cases climbed
to SIS in the province today. while
102 cases Of sleeping sickness were
reported.
ROME-UP Two ships were
sunk and another was damaged
seriously when German dive bomb
ers attacked a British naval forma-
ton off Tobruk, Libya, the Italian
high command said today. Its com
munique said Italian infantrymef
captured number of survivors who
succeeded in reaching the coast
In armed launches.
CANBERRA, Australia up
Prime Minister Robert Gordon Men
zies, opening an emergency ses-
sion of parliament on the far east
ern situation, warned Japan to
keep hands off Thailand, Singapore
and Malaga. Australia would not
hesitate to fight Japan II Singa.
pore or Malaga were menaced, he
said.
VICHY, France -AP- Wide
spread cases of toadstool poison
German occupied zone OF France,
including 20 deaths in the past As
hours, The use of mushrooms as
food has greatly increased through
out France as a result of efforts
TO supplement rationed foods.
ANKARA, Turkey-AP- After
almost two months of war, Soviet
Russia and Finland still are quib-
bling over exchange of diplomatic
representatives and only today IL
women of Finnish group confined
in railroad cars north of the Rus
sian-Turkish border were released.
Still held by the Russians are 20
Firms, including the minister to
Moscow.
CHARLOTTETOWN. Prince Ed
ward Island-AP-Two Charlotte
town men-Frederick Phillips. 90,
and Earl Lund, 29-were executed
today in the first double hanging
in the islands history and its first
execution in SO years. They were
convicted Of beating 70 year old
Peter J. Trinor to death in his
store here last Jan. 80.
SHANGHAI up Kumataro
Honda, Japanese amba ssador TO
the Marking regime which pur-
ports to Administer Japanese oc-
cupied territory in China, said to-
Gay that he planned to consolidate
various Japanese sponsored organ
izations in occupied territory to
trim expense and eliminate juris
dictional complications.
MANILA, P. up The Mac.
icnalista party, of which President
Manuel Quezon is head. adopted
unanimously at its convention to-
day a resolution approving the.
eight point plan outlined by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill.
ROME-UP- A messaggero dis
patch from Zagreb, in the Croat
area OF Jugoslavia. said today that
100 persons had been arrested at
Zagreb for violating curfew laws"
and that % of them had been sent
to concentration camps.
LONDON-UP-Royal Air Force
pilots dropped two metal legs yes
terday for Wing Commander Doug
las s. Bader. legless pilot who is
a German prisoner. The Raj ig-
nored a German offer Of immun-
i'y TO any pilot flying legs to
Bader. The legs were dropped
from a combat flight.
MEXICO CITY-UP-The COVER.
nor of San Luis Potosi. Gen. Rey-
maid Perez Gallardo. was ousted to-
day by the permanent congress
sional commission on the recon-.
mendation OF President Manuel
Avila Camacho. who also declared
state OF alarm in the district be-
cause Of fighting between rival DO.
litical groups.
MANlLA-UP-Henry F. Grady.
personal representative Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. arrived here by
Clipper today to study the prob
lem OF obtaining increased supplies
OF strategic raw materials for
American needs and OF transport.
ing them 10 the United States.
NEW YORK-UP-Mass picket
ing again disrupted traffic in the
crowded 34th St. shopping district
today as 500 members Of the Unit
ed Department Store Employees Uu-
ion demonstrated in front OF Gin
bel Brothers department store.