The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-23


er was flying the British flag
and was manned by a British
crew. Previously the ship sail
ed under the Panama flag, the
report said.
CLEVELAND - AP-The Coast
Guard reported six men were
drowned early today when the
Great Lakes Towing Co.'S tug
"America,' out OF Toledo. capsized
while working TO free the steamer
B. T. Jones. aground on Windmill
Point in the Detroit River.
ONOON-lNS-Gre Bril-
tain today again flstly rejected
the possibility Of negotiations
with Germany or ltaly-on
peace or any other subject. The
governments attitude was re-
affirmed by Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden after bitter de-
bate In which Laborltes called
upon Britain to send an espe-
dictionary force to the aid OF
Soviet Russia Immediately.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska-UP- Lu-
ellie Wright, a government Indian
Service nurse formerly OF Minnea-
polls, today was taken to temper
airy station at Moose Creek, on the
upper reaches OF the Tanana River,
after she had been found wandering
IN a blizzard by an Eskimo search
ing party.
Observation-Disclosures
tary Of War Stimson today con-
tradlcted testimony given dur
ing the espionage trials In New
York that the famed American
Norden bomb sight had fallen
into German hands. 81 have no
reason to believe that the Nor
den sight has reached the Ger
mans" the Secretary told
press conference.
TOKYO-AP-The Ministry OF
Commerce and Industry said today
It had decided TO establish "the
Industrial Development Corpora
ton" to speed production in key
industries by financing the utiliza-
tion of idle factories and expanding
existing plants in defense indus
tries.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland-(Delayed)
--AP-Prime Minister Hermann
Jonasson and his coalition cabinet
of four resigned today because Of
a disagreement over policy toward
war-engendered rise In living
costs in neutral Iceland.
WASHINGTON AP-- Govern
ment employees totaled t,444,9S5 at
the end OF August. an increase Of
1926 over July, the Civil Service
Commission reported today.
BERLIN-AP-The execution OF
q Frenchman, Hubert Tuffery. for
possession OF forbidden weapons,
was reported by the Paris Zeitung
today. The Bruesseler zeitung said
two Belgians, Leon Challier and Ar
rnand Furaud. were sentenced to
death by a German court martial
for enabling a British flier to es-
cape from occupied territory.
HOLLYWOOD ms 49, Jeanne
Williams O'Hara, former New York
showgirl known as Eonia Karlo1,
today held a divorce from Henry
Clieve. we'll known artist, On
grounds Of cruelty. She told the
court they parted in April. 1889,
after four years of married life.
Neutrality-suspicious. Ac-
tress Rosalind Russell and Freddy
Brisson, actors agent, will be mar
ried in a private ceremony Satur-
day, it was learned today.
TOKYO-INS-A sharply word
ed warning that Japan will mot
hesitate TO fight the United States
in defense OF the Nipponese peo-
pie and their interests was pub
lished today by the Japan Times
Advertiser, organ Of the Tokyo for
eign office.
ATLANTA, Ga.-lNS-The plant
OF the Bona Allen Company, larg-
est leather manufacturers in the
South, remained closed at Buford.
Ga. today following action of 200
workers in refusing to return 20
their jobs after lunch yesterday in
what was described by union lead
ers as a spontaneous movement
among employees to aid their COM