The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-17


Ernest Beyin, who holds almost alb
solute power over the ives Of Brit
aims working men and women, de-
clared today that registration OF
women for the labor draft would
apply equally to drawing rooms
and laundry rooms.
DETROIT - ms - Hank
Greenbers has been placed in
Glass IA by his Detroit draft
board 4, was announced today
despite receipt Of a report
from a Florida draft board
doctor who examined him and
declared him unfit for military
service. Hanks case, II was
announced by Ben o. Shop
herd, chairman Of his draft
board. will be referred to a
medical advisory board.
NEW YORK ms - The Coast
Guard cutters Bibb and Modoc
today were reported by U. S. Coast
Guard officials to be searching the
sea 600 miles east OF Jacksonville,
Fla. for a vessel believed to be
the 2,5l2-top Brazilian fleighter
Mahukona, which sent out a dis
tress signal on Saturday.
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal.-lNS
Ill only a week, Mrs. Mar
auerite Roach. wife Of Hal
Roach. film producer, died to-
day Of pneumonia. Her hus-
band and two children, Hal
Roach, Jr., q, and Margaret,
10. were at her bedside. Mrs.
Roach was stricken last week
shortly after returning from
Honolulu vacation.
PALO ALTO. Calif.-AP- Princess
Stephanie Hohenlohe, native Of
Hungary. and her son, Franz. have
volunteered for active service with
the Free French under General
Charles de Gaulle ito prove our
loyalty to the forces of democracy.
The government has been seeking
TO deport her.
CHICAGO-lNS- An eXplo-
sion of undetermined origin.
followed by fire which spread
so rapidly three alarms had to
be sounded, today caused an
estimated 100000 damage to
one story freight transfer
depot on the edge Of the chiea-
go River.
NfCHY. France -AP- Former
Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicho-
las Titulescu was reported today
grayely i'll at a hotel in Cannes.
CAIRO-INS- The port Of
Berbera in British Somaliland,
captured by Italian troops at
the outset Of hostilities in
taken by the British Army,
Navy and Air Force, IL was Of
fieialIy announced In Cairo to-
day.
TOKTO-AP-The Cabinet in
formation bureau announced today
that the Peruvian government had
informed Tokyo it was prepared
TO pay 100000 soles (about $16.000).
as partial indemnity for anti.Jap-
snese riots last year in Peru.
WASHINGTON APP Living
costs rose one tenth OF one per
cent between mid-January and
, mid-February to zoos per cent
Of average costs in 1858, Secre-
tary Perkins said today.
TOKYO-AP 49, The manufac-
ture OF gasoline from sardines
was announced today by the Jap
anese High Frequency Industry
Company after lengthy expert
ments.
BERLIN-AP - Informed Ger
mans declared today that Nali
planes torpedoed two British bat
ueships OF Crete yesterday.
MENICO CITY-AP-Outraged
Mexican bullfght fans anxiously
awaited today the governments Of
fetal verdict on the latest failure
Of their erstwhile' idol, Matador
Lorenzo Cara. II the government
agrees with the peers Of the 10000
fans who saw him fail to dominate
two bulls yesterday, the sad and
furnished Eel MaGnihco" may be
fined up to $1,000 and shorn OF his
contract calling for $500 a per
Torrance.
ROME-INS-Th British gov
eminent has issued a warning that
any bombing attacks on Athens
will draw speedy reprisals in the
forming OF bombing attacks on an
cient Rome, International News
Service was informed by . reliable
source today.
ISTANBUL. Turkey-UP- r..
liable informants said today that
nearly all British troops landed AZ
Piraeus, the port OF Athens, had
been transported to Elonika ard
other key points by railroad.
LONDON-AP-L loyd's reported
today that British, allied and neut-
ial shipping losses in the first rs
months OF the war were nearly s.
O0O. 600 tons-700.O00 tons more
than in the first TWO and a half
years Of the World War
ROME -AP-The chronological
Oh.crNafnrv AZ PrafO reported today