The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-13
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LONDON-INS-Henry and Ed
sci Ford today announced a gift
OF 10000 pounds (about $780,.
000) to Britain 90 aid the victims
OF future German air raids. The
American automobile manufac-
turers plan to build $50 trucks
which will be held at key points
in readiness to rush food to blitz-
ed areas.
TOKYO -AP-American mo-
tion picture companies were no.
titled today that after Septemb Der
l the distribution and showing
OF American and British films
would be prohibited in Korea.
Los ANGELES APP - DR..
Charles F. AIKEN, II. British born
founder of All Souls Church, died
Tuesday. Or. AIKEN came to the
United States in 1907 from Penn
broke Chapel, Liverpool. England.
and subsequently held pastorates
in New York, Kansas City, San
Francisco and Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON ms Prssi-
dent Roosevelt today issued an
executive order revoking designa-
tion Of Grand Rapids, Mich. as
customs port of entry. The order
was issued on the recommendation
OF Secretary Of the Treasury
Morgenthau.
WASHINGTON ms Treas
ury balance Aug. IL: $2.6s0.204.-
6S4.40; internal revenue $751;
S979l0.3S; customs receipts $13,-
159,959.76; receipts $794,0o5, s32;
expenditures $2,237,692,33o.
WASHINGTON ms Presi-
dent Roosevelt today signed a bill
permitting Secretary OF Navy Knox
to set up a special plain clothes
force to combat threats OF espi-
onage and sabotage in naval shore
establishments. The measure also
permits appointment OF a $500
a year civilian to head the new spe-
cial protective force, and author
ICES expenditure of s1,000,000 an
nually to maintain 1t.
WASHINGTON-UP-The White
House today issued an executive
order suspending the eight hour
day for mechanics and laborers EN-.
ployed by the War Department
on construction OF air fields, troop
housing units, Notifications and
similar public works projects.
NEW YORK-INS- Food prices
IN Britain have not risen nearly
as rapidly as have those in the
United States, Sir Otto Neimyer,
director OF the Bank of England,
said today following his arrival
by Dixie Clipper Sir Otto esti.
mated that prices in England are
up possibly 20 per cent"
NEW YORK-INS- Hugh G.
Grant, American minister to Thai
land, will return home shortly to
resign, the Tokyo radio. picked
up In New York by CHS. reported
today from Bangkok. Grant. the
Tokyo broadcast said, will be sue
ceeded by Francis B. Sayre. now
high commissioner in the Philip
pines.
LONDON-UP- A Russian war
communique asserted today that
the whole OF Rumania had been
cut off from railroad communica-
ton to the sea and that the main
Rumanian oil pipe line to the sea-
coast had been severed by Rus
sia's destruction Of a bridge across
the Danube at Cerna Voda, 80
miles east of Bucharest.
NEW YORK-AP- The British
radio quoted today this summa-
tion of the French situation by
Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express:
"Darlan has become Frances
fuehrer and Petrain his linden
burg.
LONDON -AP- Dame Sidney
Browne. noted British nurse who
served during campaigns in Egypt
and the Sudan before the turn of
the century. and in the Boer and
World Wars, died today in Chelt-
enham. She was 81 years old.
-
HELSINKI, and-AP-News-
papers announced today that Fin
lands second billion-markka bond
issue for reconstruction of areas
devastated in the 1939-40 war with
Soviet Russia had been subscrib-
ed within a span of three months
Subscriptions. the press said dou-
bled in rate after the outbreak of
the current war.
BERLIN-AP- Authorized Ger
man sources charged today that GER
tain American groups which for
long time have cast covetous eyes
on Martinique may seize upon
French Chief of State Petain's
speech as an excuse to satisfy their
lust" for that West Indian island.
DETRoIT-CP-A final check
was to be made today to determine
the cause of the explosion aboard
the Canadian oil tanker Transfer
last Friday which resulted in the
deaths OF two passengers and loss
OF cargo of 100000 gallons of high
test QasOiinp