The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-09
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SHANGHAI up The Domei
news agency. in a dispatch from
Tsinan, China, quoted Japanese
army officials as saying that the
Japanese had engaged Chinese
Communists 266 times In Shan
tung province during July. The
dispatch said $4,000 Communists
were involved.
LONDON ms Reuters (Bri-
tish) news agency today quoted
\ Jerusalem and Moscow reports
that an open revolt was raging in
Yugoslavia. Resistance of the
Serbs In Yugoslayia, Reuters said.
Is increasing in violence every
day, and occupation authorities
are masters only OF the larger
towns.
SAN FRANCISCO - ms -
/ Overseas telephone communica-
lions between the Pacific Coast
and Japan remained uninterrup-
ted today despite a Nazi radio re-
port that phone communication
had been severed.
HOLLYWOOD - ms The
death Of Jack Budlong. 2s-year-
/ cid multi-millionaire who played
bit roles in the movies Just for
he 90, 80 If.t1
cidental today by the coroner's Of
flee following an inquest. Bud
long, heir to a 100000 automo-
bile fortune. was injured fatally
when he fell on a saber during
1.-The filming of a battle scene.
PENSACOLA, Fla. -AP-Two
ensigns at the Pensacola Naval
Air Station. convicted OF involun-
tary manslaughter at a court-mar-
tial. are under prison sentences
for their airplane's decapitation
of Mrs. Robert Phillips. Paul c.
Brown OF Chicago, pilot of the
plane on routine training flight.
was sentenced Friday to "a
months. His passenger Joseph C.
Thompson of Healdsburg, Calf,
received a 12-month sentence.
They also were convicted. under
approval of President Roosevelt
and Secretary OF the Navy Knox,
on charges of conduct to the pre-
/ JUDGE OF good order and discip-
line, and of carelessly endanger-
ing the lives of others.
ALEXANDRIA --AP- Claim
Ing freedom of action in the Medi-
terranean, the Royal Navy and
the Raj have conveyed huge
quantities of war materials to
the middle east for the next for
ward drive" it was announced
last night.
ROME -AP- British troops,
seeking to encircle several Axis
outposts in the Tobruk area of
Libya Thursday night were beat
en- back with losses. the Fascist
high command said today.
Los ANGELES-AP- Martha
Raye, screen comedienne, plunged
$50 feet down a canyon In her
automobile last night, but escaped
with only q sprained ankle. Neal
Lang, her husband, said the ac-
jtress expected to return to work
at her studio Monday.
EVANSVILLE, Wis.-AP- After
q NarfnnaiOn ranfarad nm tnt
tional issues, voters in Wisconsin's
first congressional district nom-
mated two opponents of the Roose-
welt foreign policies to bid for a
congressional vacancy. They are
Attorney Lawrence H. Smith, Re-
publican, former Wisconsin Amer
lean Legion commander. and State
Senator Kenneth Greenquist, Prog
ressive, both Of Racine.
WASHINGTON-AP- President
Roosevelt spent most OF yesterday
working on official papers, the
Navy Department announced in a
dispatch from the presidential
yacht Potomac.
LONDON-AP- Canadian Navy
Minister Angus Macdonald arrived
in Britain today after trans.At-
lantic bomber flight and boarded
another plane for London. He was
accompanied by Rear Admiral
Percy Nelles, chief of naval staff,
and Capt. F. L. Houghton, direc-
tor Of naval plans.
DALLAS-AP- Discarded silk
stockings may play a part in the
national defense program. Mrs.
William Bacon OF Dallas, chair
man of the Texas Federated Wom-
ems Clubs state Industrial COM
mittee, is planning a statewide
collection of old stockings to be
turned over to the government.
SHANGHAI = Interna-
tionai settlement police today de-
tanned Samuel Titlebaum of
Chicago, assistant United States
Marshal attached to the United
States Court OF China, but did
not Immediately disclose the rea-
son. United States District At
torney leighton Shields refused
to discuss the matter pending an