The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-19

that he would be named TO posi-
tion high in defense councils, pos
sibly being nominated defense CO.
ordinator.
LONDON-INS- Five German
fighter planes we're shot down off
the south coast OF England today.
bringing the bag for the past "a
hours to six.
NEWARK, Del. ms - Mrs.
Ethel Webb. %; her fiveyear-old
son Clarence and another infant
only a few months old we're beaten
TO death To-Day In their farm home
at Glasgow near Newark, police re-
ported. The mother, wife OF Clar-
ence Webb, was found in a first
floor bedroom, Clarence in an ad-
joining room and the baby in a
Crib. State police asserted they were
looking for q suspect.
BOSToN-INS-Cu and bruised
about the face in a highway acct
dent which resulted from a blow
out of a worn front tire, Franklin
d. Roosevelt, Jr., was expected to
be released from Massachusetts
General Hospital today. ~
WASHINGTON-INS-The Ameri.
can Red Cross today appealed to
all nurses qualified for military
service to register with the or
ganization. Miss Mary Beard, ma
tional director OF the American
Red Cross Nursing Service, re-
ported a greatly increased require
ment for nurses for the Army and
Navy.
VICHY-INS The japanese
Minister TO Vichy today paid a
courtesy call on Marshal Petain,
head OF the French state.
SAN JUAN. p. Rms Fol-
lowers OF the Free French" move
ment favor immediate acquisition
by the United States of French
possessions in the Western Hemis-
phere, Jacques Soutrelle. personal
representative OF Gen. Charles de
Gaulle, said today.
PARIS-INS-(Nia Berlin)-The
Paris press broke out today with
new editorial attacks on President
Roosevelt. American help for Eng
land and the activities OFT. S. Am
bassador William D. Leahy.
WASHINGTON-INS- The OF
fce of Production Management TO.
day issued new order temporarily
earmarking for national defense
virtually the entire supply OF
nickel in this country. Under Il
previous order some nickel was al
located to civilian industries.
NEW YORK-INS-A German
radio broadcast picked up by NBC
said today that a large synagogue
in Marseilles, France, had been
blown up over the week end. The
German announcer said the rea-
son may have been "subversive ac-
tivities on the part OF Jews in the
French City"
FARMINGDALE. N. Y.-INS-
Waving their summer vacations
'in the interest OF national de-
Tense" 200 employees of the Re-
public Aviation Corporation today
agreed to work through their
tomary holiday period.
VICHY, Franoe-AP- Germany
has agreed to return Immediately
approximately 100000 French pris-
oners of war as one of the first re-
suits OF German-French negota-
tons the French announced Of
ficially today.
DENVER-AP- Discovery OF a
large crater near the base OF south
ern Colorado's Sangre de Cristo
Mountains has revived memories
of a meteor which flashed across
the sky AZ years ago.
WICHITA. Kas-AP-A $100..
600 expenditure to care for re-
ligious needs Of soldiers in Amer
ica's expanding Army is proposed
in the projected 100000 annual
budget OF the Northern Baptist
convention.
PHILADELPHIA For the
second time in the nations his
tory a member OF the federal iu.
dietary was summoned to trial to-
day % a. m. E,S.T) on criminal
Eases. He is Judge J. Warren
Davis, retired, OF the L. s. Third
Circuit Court OF Appeals, who with
Morgan S. Kaufman, Scranton. Pa,
attorney and William S. Fox, bank
rupt movie magnate, was indicted
on March zs by a federal grand
jury on a charge of conspiracy TO
obstruct justice and defraud tho
United States. Fox pleaded guilty
and is awaiting sentence.
BoSTON-AP- The 70 year old
barkentine Bear. flagship of the
prematurely ended U. S. Antarctic
expedition. prepared today for new
adventures as a defense vessel.
Shipfitters swarmed aboard the
rugged old square rigger a few
hours after she locked at the Army
base at the end of a voyage from
the Antarctic. On her deck when
she arrived we're % explorers, in.
@ Guiding IL Of 2s evacuated in a
makeshift airplane from the expe.
dition's ice locked east base. The
Navy would not disclose the ma