The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-21

transeontinental highways, rail-
roads and communication lines.
No lives have been reported
lost but thousands were home
less.
NEW YORK INS-There is mo
chance Tor any Nazi feelings u
thrive in Chile Juan Pradenls,
Chilean minister of labor, said to-
day following his arrival in the
United States.
RoME-UP-Senito Musso-
I'M today received Walther
Funk, German minister OF eco
= Monies, at Venice Palace. The
meeting was attended by tia
Ian Foreign Minister Count
Galeaz.o Ciano and Raffaello
Riccardi, italian currency and
foreign exchanges minister.
NEW YORk-INS-The 5.462-ton
British freighter Empire Crossbill
has been torpedoed in the North
Atlantic, New York marine circles
reported today. The vessel, sold %
the British by the United States
Maritime Commission, was last re-
ported leaving Philadelphia for Eng
land on Aug. 20.
GARY, d.-INS-Frank Crider,
subdistrict director of the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee.
Go, asserted today that formation
Of an allegedly rebel" group OF
unionists at the Carnegie-lllinois
steel Corporations Gary mills
would not affect the SWOC's drive
for leo per cent membership among
Carnegie-Illinois workers.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. ms - \.
strike Of more than $4,000 miners
at four birmingham mines was ex-
pected to spread to all captive and
commercial mines in the state to-
day with the possibility that
total of $4,000 Alabama miners may
be affected.
SAN JOSE. Costa Rica-INS -
Aerial and ground rescue parties
searched today for a T. A. C. a.
passenger plane listed as missing
after taking of from Port Limon
on a scheduled 45-minute flight TO
San Jose.
SAN FRANCISCO-lNS-Richard
J. Dick" Jose. so. well known ten
or singer OF th'ry. gray-f.s..era who
first intre3 so appeared fr'SilYer
Threads Amo directed her emp dead
today. Jose. % Barker" Avail,
England, appeared on the stage
and in concert halls throughout
the United States for 40 years.
TOKYO-INS-Conversations be-
tween Japan and the United States
in Washington have not been brok-
en- off completely. spokesman for
the new Japanese government of
Premier Gen. Hideki TOTO an.
nounced today.
NEW The L. S. S.
Bristol, sister ship OF the torpe-
doed Kearny. will slide down the
ways at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
tomorrow, Navy officials announced
today.
NEW YORK-INS- United
States Federal District Court today
reserved decision on the plea of the
1roquois Indian Confederacy that
the government has no power TO
draft Indians for army service.
LONDON -AP-Dr. Herman Lie
herman, II, minister Of justice in
the Polish goyernment-in-exile cab.
met OF Premier General Wladys
law Sikorski, died here today.
MADRID APP Generalissimo
Francisco Franco. seeking TO crush
Spanish black markets, decreed to.
da, that dealers in bootleg food
stuffs aud other essentials would
be tried in military courts upon
charges OF rebellion and would be
liable to execution upon conviction
TOKYO-AP-Pr Premier General
Eiki Toio's cabinet in its firstreg
ular meeting heard reports today
from Foreign Minister Shigenon
Togo on the foreign reaction 10 the
cabinet change. The United States
Great Britain. Germany and Italy
were among the nations whose re-
action was given on the basis of
reports from Japanese diplomats.
BERLIN AP-German submar.
ines have sunk seven freighters to-
falling $500 tons in an attack on
convoy in the North Atlantic
bringing TO 9S.200 tons the total
amount Of shipping space destroyed
by undersea raiders 10 the past
three days. an authorized source
said today.
LONDON-AP-An authoritative
source said today $4,000 men from
all parts Of the British Empire were
prisoners of war in enemy hands.
MOSCOW-AP-While the Red
Army fought back against German
forces hammering az the approach
o. to Moscow. scientific and artis-
tic circles IN the capital met last
night in the State Museum TO cele-
brate the S00th anniversary OF the
birth Of literature OF the Soviet
Republic Of Azerbaijan. Tass re-
ported today.
LONDON-AP-A Moscow radio
announcement today said three fac.
tory workers had been sentenced to
death for spreading panic and
looting" and a number OF others
had been sent TO prison by a milf
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