The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-21

ted States must go all-out in its
defense effort and there is no
room for excuses or complacency
in these crucial times Secretary
of Commerce Jesse H. Jones stat
ed today in speech prepared for
delivery at an Associated Press
luncheon, forerunner to the an
nual meeting of the American
Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton beginning tomorrow.
PITTSBURGH ms Chair
man Ernest T. Weir Of the Ma
tional Steel Corporation suggest
ed today that the steel industry
mark time on the matter of gov
eminent "price-freezing" through
the current second quarter and
"let the facts speak for themsel-
yes"
PORT ARTHUR, Ont.-lNS -
Eighteen of the rs German prison
ers OF war who escaped from
northwestern Ontario interment
camp on Friday night have been
Tecaptured, it was reported today.
Capture of the remaining 10 Nazis,
all airmen. who escaped by tun-
neling under the lamp grounds, was
expected by police within "a hours.
LONDON-INS-The British sub
marine Tetrarch sank a heavily
laden enemy tanker en- route 20
Tripoli, chief rear base for the
Axis eastward drive toward Suez,
the British admiralty announced
today.
PASADENA, Cal.-UP - Mrs.
Fannie +. Morrison, 81, noted phi
knthropist of Pasadena and Yves
ton, Mass, is dead after long i'll
ness. Her philanthropies here had
included $4,000 to the Pasadena
Community Playhouse, Humane
Society shelter. and flower show
building.
MANILA-AP-A single engined
attack plane, disabled by mid
air collision. crashed near Clark
Field. Fort Stotsenburg, today, kill
ing Pvt. Franklin J. Labonte. OBJ
server with the second observation
fquadr1n. Second Lieut.. Raymond
A. Sloan parachuted TO safety.
VICHY. France-AP- Reports
reaching Vichy today from the Ger
man-occupied zone of France said
French warships had "Fecaptured'
the 4,279-ton French freighter Fort
de France from the British off Gil
braltar and brought her TO Casa
blanca, French Morocco, a week
ago today.
BERLIN-AP-A dispatch from
Adolf Hitler's headquarters on the
Balkan front reported today that a
memorial tablet taken from Sara
jevo. concentrating the assassi-
nation OF Austrian Archduke Franz
Ferdinand June 26, 1914. was turn
ed over to Hitler yesterday by one
OF the first German soldiers 20
enter the Yugoslav city.
NICHY, France-AP-The news
paper lie Journal reported today an
agreement with German authori-
ties would permit $4,000 French
refugees in unoccupied France to
return home to German-occupied
territory. 1t said the first train
loads were expected to cross the
demarcation line May 10.
SHANGHAI-AP- Responsible
quarters acquainted with travel
conditions on the trans-Siberian
railway said today the line was
closed to foreign passengers until
May during the annual spring
maneuvers OF the Red army in the
Far East.
MADRlD-AP-Do Dolores Ibarruri,
known as La Pasionaria". former
Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez Del
Nayo and former Spanish Ambas-
sador TO France Luis Araquistain
Queuedo were deprived of their
Spanish nationality today by
political responsibilities tribunal
and exiled for Is years.
DEAb a NdIlO AdIQl0dl
Kaspar. 20. archbishop of Prague
and primate OF Bohemia died to.
day after a long illness in his
Prague palace.
LONDON-AP-A daughter was
born today at Dude. Cornwall. %
the former Althea Dawes OF Chica-
20. Wife Of sub-Lieutenant Colin
Stamp. youngest son of the late
Lord and Lady Stamp. who we're
killed by bomb last Wednesday
o. PHILADELPHIA ms Spurr-
ed on by the national defense
emergency. L. S. Army engineers
today have completed approx
mately 10 per cent Of their task of
dredging a 40-foot 1O0-mile Della
ware River channel from Phila-
delphia to Delaware Bay.
ACTON. Mass. INs-FBI
agents joined local police today
IN seeking cause or an explosion
and fire which did $4,000 damage
st the American Cyanamid &
Chemical Company plant which
has been working at top speed TO
fill national defense orders.
INTERNATIONALLY Chairman
Norman II. Davis OF the American
Red Cross called today for great
ly increased" annual roll call to
meet the increased demands placed
on the organization by the vast
mobilization of Amerfca'a defense