The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-02-02


New York City were tentatively
assessed for the fiscal year 1928
today at sl6.11GS22,97l. Joseph
Lilly, president of the Tax Com.
mission, announced. This is a re-
duction OF Sf5,Sl4255 from the final
figures OF ls4l-42.
SPOKANE. Wash UP A
truck, loaded with "bundles for
Congress" under the sponsor
ship OF the playful Spokane Ath-
Ietie Round Table will leave Tor
Washington tomorrow to be de-
liVered to Congressman who
voted pensions for themselves.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. S.
Taylor, So, known to radio audi
ences from coast TO coast as The
Voice of Experience. was dead to-
day. He collapsed OF heart attack
while taking a walk and. although
rushed TO a hospital anC given heart
stimulants, he never regained cons
ciousness.
AN EASTERN CANADIAN
PORT-INS- Thirty two surviv-
ors OF British freighter torpedo
ed by an enemy submarine were
recuperating in this port today.
Official announcement OF the loss
of the vessel was made last night.
Ten members of the crew were
lost In the attack. six of whom
were killed outright and four dying
from wounds.
SEATTLE, Wash.-lNS- The
effect Of an Independent welders
strike at six Puget Sound ship
yards was reduced by replace
ments today from ALL unions.
Meanwhile leaders of the 1900
striking members OF the indepen-
dent welders, cutters and helpers
union renewed their plea for gov
eminent Intervention.
CHICAGO-INS- Five hundred
members of the German-American
Club in Chicago were on record to-
day with pledge of continued sup
port to the United States and
President Roosevelt in the nations
war effort.
NEW YORK-INS- A British
radio broadcast heard by both CHS
and NBC today said ~ United
States diplomats and other Amer
leans had arrived in Lisbon from
Rumania, including James w. Ben
ton. United States charge daft
flares at Bucharest.
CALCUTTA ms Six hun
dred American, British and Indian
civilian exacuees including women
and children arrived aboard two
ships at Calcutta from Singapore
today.
BAGHDAD. Iraq-AP-Paul Kna-
benshue, United States minister to
Iraq since 1882, died yesterday Of
tetanus following a minor operation
The 59-year-old envoy figured in
the news during the Iraq outbreak
last May when he sheltered some
500 Britons at the American lega-
ton. defylng threats by Rashid Ali
Al Gailanfs insurgents to bomb the
British wherever they are found.
DETROIT-UP-The Ku Klux
Khan today faced the choice OF a
legal battle with Henry Ford or re-
moving from circulation anti-Sem-
itic literature in association with
his name. The warning was incor
porated in a letter from I. A. Cap
izzi, counsel for Ford. to ]. A. Cole
scott, imperial wizard of the Khan
II followed a statement of Ford's
Jan - in which he condemned
anti-Semitism,
VICHY, Unoccupied France-AP
The newspaper Parissoir said
today 40 residents OF the village
of lie Bel near Paris had been
indicted for pillaging because they
ate food stocks left behind in lock
ed freight cars by the French army
during its retreat in 1910.
L0NDON-AP-In a ceremony
held in a 18th century oslo fortress
and guarded by native Norwegian
storm troopers, Nazi Gestapo
agents and German soldiers, Ma
jor Vidkun Quisling became Ger
many's puppet premier for Norway
Sunday.
MOSCOW-AP-An official Rus.
sian announcement. broadcast by
the Moscow radio. said today that
General Drisen. described as com
mander Of the 62nd Germany army
corps. had been killed.
GRANDBY. Colo ms Grandby
residents welcomed today the new
designation OF U. S. Highway "a
which In the future Is to be known
as the Douglas Macarthur Highway
in honor Of the defender OF the
Philippines.
NEW YORK-INS Swiss radio
broadcast heard by CHS said today
that ayalanches in France have
wrecked the Paris-Rome Railway
and torn down houses and that rail
roads IN Serbia have been halted
for lack of coal.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Stefsnie HohenlOhe. Teputed friend
OF Hitler. was reported today suf-
fering from a temporary paralytic
condition. Baroness Marie Szepessy,
mother OF the princess revealed her
dauuhfer's illness and attrfhutpd Al