The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-16


act Of 1e41. Part has already
been built. The highway will
link the Ford Bomber plant TO
the Detroit area and will cost
stz,ooo,ooo. Including the
rights Of way. II 10 to extend
rs and one half miles from the
end of Chase Rd. near Hannah
road to the. River Rouge plant
and will have no cross trafffe
or railroad crossings.
MEXICO CITY Special
government agents arrested AL
berto Barradas Lagunes, ~. today
in the Mexican Gulf Port of Vera
cruz and accused him of trying 10
arrange a fuel oil supply for sub
marines IN the Gulf of Mexico.
DENVER AP-Rudolph Fab.
3s-yearoid former Denver school
teacher. today had been acquitted
of sedition charges, one of the first
American citizens to be accused
OF such activities in the present
war.
CAIRO. Egypt -AP- Frank A.
Henry, United States Consul for
three and a half years at Malta.
arrived here today with his wife
and daughter from that bomb
SCARED British Island to await u
new assignment. The Malta con-
sulate has been closed. He said 1t
was on one of three unchanged
buildings on a street where more
than 80 had been destroyed by
Axis attacks.
STOCKHOLM - ms - Thirty
prominent Norwegians of the town
of Sarpsborg were forced to
march through the streets with
scrubbing brushes and remove
anti-Quisling slogans that had
been painted on walls, an Oslo
dispatch reported today. Nazi
gestapo agents took photographs
of the scenes and they later ap-
peared in the Quisling press.
TORONTO ms A worlds
box office record for benefit
theater performance was claimed
here today as receipts for the
opening night OF Herbert Wilcox's
celebrity parade were counted.
The performance In the Victoria
Theater drew S97 800 for the single
showing. All Of the money will
be added to the fund sponsored
by Air Marshall william Bishop,
outstanding Canadian ace of the
first World War. for the Air Cadet
League.
NEW YORK-INS-- DR.. Curtis
Hamilton Muncie. who gained In
ternational fame by his method
of treating deafness through finer
surgery. today faced possible 25
year Jail term and $4,000 fine.
after pleading guilty to charge
of defrauding the government OF
$I59,2S1 In income taxes.
PHILADELPHIA ms Fines
totaling $122.075 had been assessed
today against the American Waxed
Paper Association, "a paper manu-
facturers and 20 of their officials.
following the defendants pleas Of
no defense TO charges of violating
the Sherman Antitrust Act.
WASHINGTON - UP = Sen.
Ralph o. Brewster, (R.) Me- said
today the Navy has abandoned
plans TO build five 10000 ton
super battleships authorized by
Congress and will expand its air
craft carrier program instead. Il
understand that the Navy has
stopped work on the five super
dreadnaughts," he told the Unit
ed Press.
CHUNGKING - UP - Chinese
troops still hold an so mile middle
section Of the Chekiang-kiangsi
railway between Yingtun and
Shanghai. but 10000 japanese are
closing in from the east and west
in a huge Pincers movement,
military spokesman said today.
LONDON-INS- The Evening
Standard reported today in dis
patch from Stockholm that $4,000
Jews at wilma had been executed
between May and May 20 by
German controlled Lithuanian po-
lice.
LONDON-INS- Spanish For
-eisn-M Minister Ramon Serrano
Suner was reported by the Swiss
radio today to have met Italian
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano at Livorso for important
conferences.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-lNS-
Bent on finding work for 100000
garment workers who were forced
into idleness by priorities and war
dislocations. hundreds OF garment
plants today we're asked to pool
their manufacturing facilities as
a campaign was launched to obtain
larger government war orders
CAIRO up The British today
acknowledged the loss OF FL GAIA
ia, most advanced point OF their
Libyan desert defense line, after
"a magnificent fight by our troops"
who eluded an Axis trap and fell
back for do.or-die defense OF Tob-
ruk.
LONDON-UP-Radio Moscow,
quoting adyices from Lisbon and
Ankara. said today that Germany
was secretly constructing subma-
rine bases at the French West ART
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