The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-29
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TOKYo-By omcial Japanese
Wireless)-INS- The steamship
Italian Count is scheduled to leave
Shanghai today with $50 Ameri-
cans who are being exchanged for
Japanese nationals, the semi-ot-
fcial japanese Domei News Agen'
cy said.
BOSTON ms - Alexander
Woolcott, radio town crier. news
paper man, author. and actor. to-
day was reported resting satisfac'
torily" at the Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital after undergoing a gall
bladder operation.
FORT HANCOCK, n. J.-INS
Army headquarters at Fort Han
cock in charge OF harbor defense OF
Sandy Hook. today requested that
the public stay of bathing beaches
along the New Jersey coast after
dark. Sailors and members of the
coast guard are patrolling the
beaches constantly. IL was said.
WASHINGTON-INS - A two
and ons-half cents per gallon in
crease in the price of gasoline went
into effect along the eastern sea
board today, but few dealers had
any gasoline upon which TO impose
the higher charge. Described as
the worst situation since rationing
started in midway. 80 per cent OF
the $4,000 dealers from Maine TO
Florida were reported TO be COM
pletely out of gasoline.
PHILADELPHIA INS-A mas
ter's report on the two-year-old will
contest involving between $4,000
COO and S40,000,000 of the Breyer
ice cream fortune will be filed with
in the next week. it was reported
today. Claimants are the sisters
OF the late Henry w. Breyer-Min.
ME Breyer Cade and Emma A. Cess
Ter. They allege that their brother
fraudulently represented their late
mothers interest in the ice cream
company.
LONDON lNS-Lord Halifax,
British ambassador TO the United
States, soon will return to England,
1t was learned today at the foreign
office.
LoNDON-INS-The Nazi.held
submarine base at St. Nazaire,
France, was bombed during the
night by the Royal Air Force, it was
announced today.
WASHINGTON-INS-The Army
today is preparing to enroll 10000
additional doctors by the first Of
next year. This means that the
medical men must be recruited at
the rate of more than 100 per day
II the goal is 10 be reached.
STOCKHOLM. Sweden-AP- In
the second anti-Nazi riot within a
week in Sweden, more than 1000
persons broke up an attempt to
hold a Nazi meeting yesterday in
Rsettvik $50 miles northeast OF
Stockholm.
BERN, Switzerland-AP- King
Leopold OF the Belgians has re-
fused to consider a German invita-
tion to closer collaboration. a
Stockholm dispatch to the Basel
National Zeitung said today.
SAN FRANCISCO -AP- Loss
OF an Australian destroyer in one
OF two convoy actions which fired
the central Mediterranean June IS
was announced by the Melbourne
radio today in a broadcast CHS
recorded here.
SANTIAGO. Chile-AP-A strong
earthquake was felt at 1875 a. m.
(2:35 a. m. Eastern War Time) to-
day in Santiago. Communications
were interrupted and electric serv-
ice was cut.
LONDON-AP-A spokesman of
the Greek government-in-exile said
today that So Greeks had been
shot in Crete on charges OF sabo-
tage by the Germans, who are re-
ported putting thousands Of air
borne troops on the island and
building many airdromes.
SHANGHAI From Japanese
Broadcasts) -AP- Carrying key
North and South American citi-
zens. the Italian liner Conte Verde
sailed today for Lourenco Mar
ques, Portuguese East Africa, in
the first repatriation Of the war
from the Far East.
MILWAUKEE-INS 49, Frank r
Zeidler. 80. brother OF Mayor Carl
F. Zeidler, of Milwaukee, was the
Socialist party's candidate for gov
ernor Of Wisconsin today. He was
chosen at the closing session Of the
party's two-day state convention in
Milwaukee.
CHICAGO-INS- most OF
ftu fun and roisterin0 abandoned for