The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-13

TOKYO AP- The Japan 81
cabinet approved at an ext aordi
nary meeting today sweeping
, new tax program which VIII be
submitted TO the special session OF
the diet (parl.amenU conyenine
Saturday.
BERLIN ms Leon Lind
berg, United States engineer
in Soviet Russia, was executed
by Soviet authorities in Stalino
when he refused to leave the
city shcrtly before its capture
BY German troops. German au-
thorities announced today. Lind
berg was shot in company With
1873 Russians, il was declared,
when they refused to eVacuate
the city and flee eastward to
the Ural Mountains.
LONDON-AP- Reuters said a
Rene radio broadcast reported to-
day that Helsinki had been raided
by air three times within "a hours.
LIE VIGAN, Unoccupied France
-AP-A brief case containing
papers General Charles Huntziger
was bringing back from North
Africa was found intact today be
side the wreckage of the plane in
which he and seven others were
killed yesterday.
PARIS Occupied Erance-AP-
The death Of General D'Amade. 81,
former French resident general
} of Morocco, was announced today.
LOS ANGELES-AP- Southern
California WPA Administrator H.
Russell Amory said 70 WPA work
ers will arrive Friday from New
Mexico to undergo intensive train
ing for employment in southern
California defense industries.
NEW YORk-INS-Mas execu,
tion OF $4,000 Jews by Romanian
troops in the captured Russian
Black Sea port of odessa Oct, %
was reported today in a British
radio broadcast heard by NBC.
NEW YORK-INS-Mayor F. H.
LaGuardia today ordered police to
make q detailed report on the
death of Abe Kid Twist" Relies,
the squat, pudgy informer of the
Brooklyn murder syndicate, who
tumbled to his death from the
80 story window Of a Coney Island
hotel room Tuesday in an attempt
TO escape from custody as a ma
terial witness.
SALT LAKE CITY, ltah--INS--
A spark caused by friction while
the huge craft was being refueled
was blamed today for the destruc.
tion by fire OF an Army bomber
at the Fort Douglas air base Loss
was reported at 100000.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF Presi-
dent Manuel Quezon and his Ma
tionalist party in the Philippine
commemorative national election
was made Overwhelmingly today as
late returns came in from Tues
days balloting
WINNIPEG, Man.-INS- Royal
Canadian Air Force headquarters
announced today that the training
period for pilots in the common
wealth air training plan has been
extended to rs weeks from the pres
oh
fectiye with the classes now be
I ing formed.
NEW YORK-INS- Greek
consulate today announced that
King George IL Of Greece, now IN
London, will arrive in the United
States late in November and VIII
confer in Washington with Presi-
l dent Roosevelt.
SINGAPORE-INS- The Singa-
pore Herald reported today that
Japanese residents have been
ordered TO cyacuate Kuantan on
the east coast of Malaga within
two weeks
= EDWARDS, IlL-INS - While
= state and local officers were kept
from the premises. Federal Bureau
of Investigation agents from
Springfield today studied wreckage
of two buildings OF the Western
Powder Company plant which We e
destroyed by explosions yesterday,
killing four employees.
= NEW IORK-GP-New York
new city council OF 20 members in
cludes a Communist, the first ever
elected to an important public of
flee in The Unitei Sta es, a negro,
the first elected to the council since
II was organized in 1887. and three
/. women. the completed vote tabula
uon revealed today.
WOODSTOCK, Vt.-AP-Charg.
ing "wiltul deserion," newspaper
columnist Dorothy Thompson has
filed suit for diyo.ee from Sinclair
Lewis, novelist aud playwright.
HEI SINSKI. Finland-AP- The
Finnish press published map and
: explanatory text today purporing
10 show in detail the scope OF Rus
sian prepare ions for a re-invasion
OF Finland.
TOKYO-AP-The Japanese liner
Tatuta Maru will arrive at Yoke.
hama tomorrow with 535 J1panese
svacuees from the United States