The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-17
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THE WEATHER.: Friday:
] Cloudy, Showers ]
LONDON-AP- Harry Hopkins,
supervisor Of the lend-lease pro-
gram, arrived today at a northern
British air base after flying the
Atlantic in an American plane.
MILAN, Tenn.-AP- Shells are
due TO start rolling off the assem-
bly, line OF the Army's new $20,-
100000 munitions plant here Aug.
lO-only six months after construc-
tion started.
HOLLYWOOD-AP- The goth
Century-Fox studio has just sold
Russia three feature productions in
its first such deal with the Soviet
government. Irving Mas. OF the
studios foreign department. dis
closed the sale yesterday. He told
company sales meeting that war
beleaguered nations are hungry for
entertainment and the people
swarm TO theaters to fill this need.
BENDIX, n. j. -AP- Police
used tear gas in an attempt to dis
perse a crowd of 1000 men and
women who gathered at the gates
OK the Air Associates, Inc, plant to-
day as the day shift was TO be-
kfUnuyit kot
several men were injured when
revolyers were brought into ac-
ton.
ROME-AP- Italian air bonn
bardments OF British air bases on
the island of Malta and in Egypt
were reported today by the high
command. 1t credited an Italian
submarine in the Atlantic with
sinking an sO0-ton oil tanker.
TOKlO-AP- The newspaper
Asahi. in a dispatch from Moscow.
said today the Japanese govern
ment had protested to Soviet Rus
STA over certain phases of the
mining of waters in the vicinity
OF Japan.
LONDON-AP-An authoritative
source said today inquiry had been
made 70 Japan a month ago and
that the British government had
received a categorical denial from
the Japanese that they are put
ting pressure on the Vichy govern
ment for surrender of naval and
air bases in French Indo-China.
LONDON-AP- The Raj put
out OF action II Axis ships OF be-
tween 10000 and 100000 tons in a
daylight raid yesterday, the air
ministry reported today.
SAN FRANCISO-UP-A Jury OF
10 men and two women tentatively
was selected today to try Sam
Darcy, once Communist candidate
for governor OF California, on
charges of perjury growing out of
his registration as a voter In 1884.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. ms
Sonia Henie, Norwegian figure
skating star, today was to take her
oath as an American citizen. Miss
Henie, who is married TO Dan Top
ping. Jr., millionaire sportsman,
applied for American citizenship
last February.
WASHINGTON-UP- Chairman
Carl Vinson ID. Ca of the House
Naval Affairs Committee, suggest
ed today that Japanese nationals
in Hawaii may be segregated, IL
such a step is necessary to protect
the Pearl Harbor naval base
against sabotage. He made the
suggestionrin connection with con-
sideration OF the administration
proposal for a $100,000,000 con-
struction program of bases in the
Pacific, from the Philippes TO Alas
ka.
CHICAGO-INS - Extradition
proceedings were expected to be
started promptly today for the re-
moval OF William d. Sahm, 80, to
l4dhNd0ltlg a. hntA HC ldCt5
charges of having embezzled $S07,-
900 from the Northern Bank and
Trust Company. Police who pr
rested him in Chicago hotel room
yesterday quoted him as admitting
thefts of 100000 from the bank
over an eight-year period.
NEW YORK -lNS-The L. s
naval transport West Point, car
Iying approximately 500 ousted
German and Italian consular repre-
sentatives and propagandists, to-
day was reported several hundred
miles at sea en- route to Lisbon.
NEW YORK ms Charging
that the National Labor Relations
Board had "gummed up" the West
Coast labor situation, Harry
Bridges. president OF the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen's Union and California
director of the CLIO, today warned
that Longshoremen's strike soon
may be called in Pacific ports.
BERLIN-INS- United States
consular officials returning home
will leave Frankfort tonight en-
route to the Spanish border.
SACRAMENTO-AP-Tall. grey
ing Juanita the duchess" Spinelli
has won a second 30 day reprieve
The So year old woman leader of
an underworld mob was granted
further clemency by Gov. gilbert
J.. Olson after he conferred with
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