The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-12-19


sources that the United States
and the Martinique govern
ment apparently had reached
satisfactory naval agreement.
Admiral Horne went TO Mar
Unique, department. sources
said, TO discuss naval arrange
ments with Admiral Georges
Robert, Vichy high commits
sioner Of the French Antilles.
BOWMANNILLE, Ont.-AP -
Lieut.. Ulrichs Steinhilper. 23-year-
old German flier who was frustrated
in a flight by locomotive from the
Bowmauville internment camp Nov
"a. vas hunted as a fugitive again
today. Steinhilper escaped Wednes-
day night. He was believed to have
cut a hole in the nine-foot-high
fence around the camp.
CHUNGKING, China-AP- The
japanese garrison at Kuo TEX,
about four miles north Of Chin
Chun on the Cantou-Kowloon rail-
way, was almost wiped out by Chi
nese forces last Tuesday, a Chinese
communique reported today.
BERN, Switzerland-AP- The
Stockholm correspondent of the
Basel National Zeitung reported to-
day that police Of occupied Norway
had been compelled by activity
against the Germ n-sponsored Nor
wegian government to tighten bor-
der restrictions.
WASHINGTON-AP-The Com
merce Department said today Ger
many's industrial backbone has
been weakened by the calling up
OF reserve troops to bolster the
war machine on the Russian front.
HAVANA-AP - The Cuban
House of Representative early to-
day approved by a vote of l6S to
10 a measure declaring a state Of
national emergency. The measure
had originated in the Senate.
TOKYO-(Oficial Broadcast rec
orded by AP)-For the first time
in the history of the diet, the Jap
anese government has decided 20
submit both supplementary bud
get and the 1912 ordinary budget
simultaneously to the 18th regular
session which will convene Dec. "a.
TOKYO-(OMcial Broadcast rec
oTded by AP)-Rear Admiral Kiyo-
shi Hara, former chief OF the naval
arsenal of Sasebo. was appointed
today president of the newly-creat-
ed board Of maritime affairs. The
board will have exclusive control
over shipping activities during the
war.
LONDON -AP-- The Berlin
radio said today that Sir Mark
Young. governor and commander
in-chief of Hongkong, had escaped
from the colony to an unknown
destination.
HOLLYWOOD -AP- Married
folk in Hawaii are going to stay
that way-at least until the war
is over. A Honolulu broadcast re-
corded here by NBC said the ter.
ritorial courts had reconvened but
decreed that no divorce trials will
be heard for the duration.
MADRID -AP- The Spanish
government announced today
Spain was a acknowledgement in the
Pacific war between Japan and
the United States, Britain and
the United States, Britain and
other powers.
NEW YORK -AP- Answering
call for men in white. the nations
medical schools have evolved a
plan to lop a year off the usual
four year course, to provide more
physicians for Americas war time
needs
SANDUSKY. O.-AP- At least
two men were known today to have
been injured in an explosion at
the INT producing Plum Brook
ordnance plant near here Austin
James. %, Of Oberlin. and Louis
Harlan, 81. of Sandusky. were
brought to Providence Hospital
shortly after the blast had sent
ambulances racing toward the s40.-
100000 works.
LANSING-AP-Mass purchases
by a Wisconsin lumber company
boosted land sales in a recent up
per peninsula series to the highes.
point this year the state conser.
walton department reported today
VTNCENNES. Ind. -AP- The
clio Ttility Workers Organizing
Committee called strike for mid
night tonight at the $4,000 kilo
watt electric generating plant sup
plying power 10 southwestern In.
diana coal mines and the Burns
City naval ammunition depot.
NEW YORK ms The Boy
Scouts Of America counted among
their most generous Christmas
presents today a $1,000 acre ranch
in New Mexico and a s5.000.00
skyscraper in Tulsa. Oklahoma
Waite Phillips. wealthy Tulsa oil
man made tho gifts 10 the scouts
for the Advancement and devel
opment OF the program Of scout.
ing."
MANlLA-lNS- Twelve more
American refugees from LeRaspi.
where jap landing parties have
gained a precarious foothold. today
brou~ht eyewitness reports Of