The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-02-05

ton, Lord Beaverbrook.
MADRID-AP-To "reguiartse"
SPANS. debt 10 Italy for war ma
terial furnished curing the civil
war, Generalissimo Franco today
ordered transferred to Rome 5000
100000 lire (normalIy about $3.50,
600, 900 in Spanish treasury bonds.
NEW YORk-AP - A 40-year
low in rate OF yenereal disease
in the Navy is reported by Rear
Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, Navy
surgeon general, with seven per
cent fewer cases last year than
in 1910.
CHICAGO-AP-Myra Donnelley.
12.year-old daughter of the socially
prominent Elliott Donnelleys, was
found dead in a bathtub early to-
day, victim of an accidental shock
which Coroner J. l.. Taylor said
was caused by portable radio fall
ing into the water.
CHICAGO-INS- A total o.
1857 200 troops were carried aboard
assigned sleeping cars in America
during l941 without disrupting civil
ian passenger service. the Pullman
Company announced today.
WASHINGTON-INS Mayris
CLANCY. dancer and protege of Mrs
Franklin d. Roosevelt, has been ap
pointed to $4,000 post in the Office
of Civilian Defense. it was an
nounced by OCD officials today.
Miss CLANCY. a frequent visitor at
the White House, will be in charge
OF children's activities in the physi-
cal fitness division.
NEW YORK-INS-T The right OF
a japanese company to defend it
self against a suit brought in the
New York state courts was upheld
today by Supreme Court Justice
Carroll q. Walter. He granted an ap-
plication on behalf of Mitsui & Co,
Ltd, for stay of all proceedings in
a suit for $4,000 by the Murray Oil
Products Company, Inc.
CHICAGO-INS- Chicago had
the highest number of enlistments
in the Marine Corps of any city in
the nation in January. 1t. Col. c. L.
Fordney. in charge of the Chicago
Marine Corps recruiting office. re-
ported today.
CAlRO-UP-King Farouk put
the government in the hands OF
political leaders favoring the coun-
try's alliance with Britain today,
ending three days OF political I'M
certainty after the resignation OF
Premier Hussein Sirry Pasha.
MELBOURNE-UP - American
nurses and wounded troops arriv-
ing from the Philippines at an
Australian port revealed today that
japanese planes attacked their
hospital ship nine times.
BUENOS AIRES-UP- Argen-
tina's Dies committee" asked Gen.
Osvaldo Cordeiro de Faria, COVER
nor OF the Brazilian state OF Rio
Grande Do Sui, today for detail
ed report on Germans, Italians and
japanese who have moved to Ar
gentina since Dec. 7, the date ia
pan attacked the United States.
BOSTON-UP-A four.alarm fire
caused more than $4,000 damage to
large wooden warehouse near
Boston Navy Yard today but "a
brick wall prevented the flames
from reaching large stores of VIOLA
tile and inflammable chemicals in
the same structure.
NEW YORK ms - Sergeant
Henry (Hank) Greenberg, former
Detroit Tigers baseball star and
Ambassador Laurence A. Stein
hardt, American ambassador TO
Turkey today held the annual oita /
tions OF honor award d by the /
young mems Hebrew Association.
NEW YoRK-lNS-The British
radio reported today in a broad. |
cast heard by NBC that Berlin |
has announced the death OF an
other Nazi general. BIC gave his |
name only as General Geitner and |
said he had died of wounds re-
ceived on the Russian front.
NEW YORK ms The old
tombs prison. which for nearly
~ years housed some OF the ma
tons most notorious criminals
will be converted into a firemen's
training school. it was revealed
today. Since It was abandoned as
a prison last November when a
new criminal courts building was
opened It has been standing idle
SEATTLE -AP- Federal Blu.
reau of Investigation headquarters
announced the are Of Is Japan
csc aliens on Bainbrid ye Island
yesterday and the seizure OF a
quantity OF explosives and FIRE
arms.
CAPETOWN. Union Of South
Africa-AP - Wire-cutting cabo-
tours caused serious disruption OF
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