The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-30
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OKLAHOMA CITY-INS- The
Oklahoma state senate today pre-
pared to investigate Communist ac-
tivities in the state. as we'll as any
Mani or Fascist organizations found
TO be operating. The inquiry will be
carried on by the senate's commit
tee on privileges and elections. and
was authorized by the full body.
LONDON-INS-Loss Of Dutch
submarine in the course OF Allied
war operations was announced to-
day at the London headquarters OF
the Royal Netherlands Navy.
TUCSON, Ariz. -INS-Lieut. Jo-
seph A. Neil, Jr., OF Chattanooga,
Tenn. was dead today. and Leroy
Tempest, OF Fairfld. Wash. was In
critical condition, Army authorities
reported. as the result of a plane
crash. The men were in training
plane and the motor went dead as
they flew over the desert Is miles
from Tucson. The plane crashed into
q giant cactus.
CHICAGO-INS-A bitter verbal
exchange between union and COM
pany officials today complicated the
efforts Of a federal conciliator to
start negotiations for the settle
ment OF a CLIO strike against the
International Harvester Company's
tractor works in Chicago. The
strike, begun yesterday by the Clio
Farm Equipment Workers Organic
ing Committee, threw $500 en-
ployes out OF work and halted pro-
duction at the plant on several mil
lion dollars worth OF tractors for
the L. S. Army.
MOBILE, Ala.-INS-The FIVE
day-old clio strike against the Ala
bama Drydocks and Shipbuilding
Company appeared deadlocked to-
day following refusal Of the COM
pany TO agree to wage increases for
its 3.400 striking employees, or to
a preferential shop.
BERLIN-AP- Authorized for
eign office sources expressed as
constituent and concern today over
the failure OF French Chief of State
Philippe Petain and his former
Foreign Minister Pierre Laval to
get together more closely than
indicated by their recent talk. They
observed that a question is justi-
fed as to whether the French-Ger-
man rapprochement, as envisaged
in the meeting between Adolf H t.
Ter and Marshal Petain, is to be ac-
lively pursued.
ROME-UP- All imported food
stuffs including spaghetti, bread,
rice, sugar and oil will be ration
ed throughout Libya effective Sat
urGay, dispatch from Tripoi said
today.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-UP- DR..
Herman Frederick Erben, medical
officer OF the scuttled Graf Specs
supply ship and a shadowy interna-
tional figure for 20 years, today
was in danger Of deportation. Fed
eral Judge Martin !. Welsh We'd
nesday revoked his American cit
izenship because he had not re-
sided in the United States for five
years, or in San Francisco for six
months, before he filed his petit
ton for naturalization on Aug. /,
1880.
NEW DELHI. India-UP- The
Fakir of Ipi, who for more than 20
years has fomented tribal uprisings
on the Northwest Frontier. was re-
ported today to be in contact with
German agents in Afghanistan.
SAN FRANCISCO-INS- Act
ing on instructions from Berlin, the
German consulate in San Francisco
will not fly the Swastlka flag TO-
day, although the date marks the
eighth anniversary of Hitler's rise
to power.
NEW YORK-INS- a nation
al defense measure. the Army has
plans today for the construction of
airplane landing fields along main
highways, making possible quick
transfers of troops and ornaments
from trucks to planes. or vice versa
with practically no loss of time.
ROME ms Field Marshal
Pietro Badogilo, who resigned re-
Gently as chief of the Italian gem
eral staff, is i'll and confined to
his bed, it was reported in Rome
today.
BUDAPEST. Hungary -AP-
Premier County Pal Teleky eulo-
gized the late Foreign Minister
Istvan Csaky as a statesman vital
ly instrumental in regaining ter
ritory for Hungary in a funeral
Grafton in parliament today. The
heafse carrying the body OF Csa-
ky, who died Monday. was follow
ed by Regent Admiral Nicholas
Horthy, government leaders and
the nobility through streets deck.
ed with black flags.
NEW IORK-AP- Snow man
tied New York City experienced
its coolest temperature OF the
winter today when the mercury
dipped to 81 degrees at 3:15 a.
m, E. S. T.
BARCELONA. Spain -AP -
Jose Maria Sert, we'll known
Spanish painter, has been engag-