The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-31

and were fined $1,000 each.
Two defendants, August klap-
profit and Matthias Keller, were
fined an additional $1,000.
NORTH WEYMOUTH, Mass. -
1NS-Three children OF Mr.. and
Mrs. James Gould were burned to
death today when fire trapped them
In the bedroom of their home. The
parents were badly burned attempt
ing to rescue the children. Richard,
five. Janet, four. and James, three.
HAVANA-UP - Unidenti-
fled men, armed with a machine
gun, today shot and killed Ber-
nardo Garcia Menendez, des-
cribed as a collector for Gu
ban radio station.
NEW YORK-INS-- The U. S.
Army is the nations greatest tea
consumer. according to statistics
today from the Tea Bureau. Uncle
Sans soldiers consume about a
pound of tea per man annually as
compared with three-quarters of A
pound average for civilians, &C
cording to the bureau.
LONDON-INS-- The American
Eagle fighter squadron-all-Amer-
lean unit of the RA.F.-has com
pleted its final training and now
is In active service guarding Bri-
tain, 1t was announced in London
today Composed entirely of Amer
lean aviators. the squadron is com
msnded by squadron leader VEG.
Taylor. S5 year old Kansas air
man.
NEW YORK-AP-The Navy De-
partment plans to double ship
building facilities Of the Brooklyn
Navy Ward. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia
says, by building at a cost of approx
imately S15.000,000 two new dry
docks. each big enough to permit
construction of 45,000-ton battle
ships.
Observation-Disclosures
alive Joseph E. Martins decision to
resign as chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee brought
signs today Of a wide-open fight
which may have vital bearing on
Wendell L. WILKES future status
in the party.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-AP - An
agreement to end a strike at the
Martinolich Boat Co., where work
on five Navy vessels had been halt
ed. was reached early today.
WASHINGTON-AP-A recon-
mendation that 40 cents an hour be
established as the minimum wage
for employees manufacturing drugs,
medicines and toilet preparations
was submitted today to Col. Philip
B. Fleming, wage-hour administra-
tor.
WASHINGTON-UP- Supreme
Court Justice James c. McReynolds,
the last of the conservative" judg-
es who ruled against so much early
New Deal legislation, retired today.
This afternoon he ended &c years
OF service Oh the high bench and
will 60 on the list of retired JUS
tees. His $4,000 year salary con-
tinues.
BERLIN range Ger
man warplaues were reported by
the Nazi high command today to
have sunk the 500 ton merchant
ship Austvard $50 miles off Bone
gal, Ireland, and another. smaller
vessel near the mouth of the Hum
Der River on the English east coast.
MOSCOW-AP- laurent Ber-
ia, commissar OF domestic affairs,
was appointed general commissar
OF state security of Soviet Russia
today.
MONTGOMERY -AP-Eleventh
hour action by Associate Justice
Felix Frankfurter in Washington
and an executive reprieve here
saved two Birmingham negroes
from electrocution at Kilby prison
early today. Joe Vernon and L. c.
Bell, convicted OF the robbery STAY
ing of Bennie Montgomery, filling
station attendant. had been pre-
pared for execution when Warden
Earl Wilson received word shortly
before midnight that stay of exc
cution had been granted.
BERLIN-AP- Authorized sour
ces reiterated emphatically today
that Adolf Hitler referred only TO
ships reaching the English combat
zone when he spoke Thursday Of
torpedoing vessels at sight.
BRIDGEPORT. Conn.-INS- A
jury of six women and SIX men to-
day received the case Of Joseph
Spell. negro chauffeur-butler,
charged with assaulting his socially
prominent employer. Mrs. John K.
Strubing. Jr. Judge Carl Foster
placed the case in the jury's hands
Immediately following completion Of
his charge this morning and the
jurors retired for their delibera-
lions.
NEW YORK-UP - Two new
shipbui,ding drydocks planned for
the Brooklyn Navy Yard here prob
ably will be large enough TO cradle
super-battleships OF $4,000 or $4,000
tons, it was reported today.
WASHINGTON-UP-A propos.
al to train young girls as small die
makers has been advanced by Tn.
dersecretary OF War Robert p
Patterson TO relieve a serious bot