The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-09

worker. all oil flttsOuIgn, were el
route to Canada to enlist in the
Air Corps.
LONDON - ms 49, The London
Dalily Express reported from Stock
holm today that Dr.. Julio Passikivi
former Finnish minister to Moscow
returned TO Helsinki after visiting
the Swedish capital.
TOKYO (By Official Japanese
Wireless) -INS-Police today in
vestigated a mysterious, three-hour
fire that destroyed one wing of the
Japanese foreign office and one
and a half acres of an adjoining
compound. Documents in the for
eign Office were saved. officials
said.
LONDON-INS - The British
government named one of its most
distinguished military men, Major
General D. M. W. Beak, to take
command of the strategic Mediter-
ranean base OF Malta today, evil
IDENTIFY in the belief that an about
Axis attack on the island is near.
LONDON-INS-Prime Minister
John NJ. Andrews OF northern Ire
land, accompanied by Cabinet Sec
rotary Richard Gransden, arrived
in London today. 1t was under.
- stood they had been summoned
hastily for consultations with Brit.
ish cabinet ministers.
RALEIGH, n. C.-AP-Fred Err.
win Beal. former Communist who
organized the bloody Gastonia tex
tile strike Of 1929, has been pa
rolled after serving nearly four
years OF his original sentence of
from II to 25 years.
BAGHDAD, iraq-(Delayed) -
AP-Rashid Ali AL Gaiani and five
OF his associates in the brief Iraai
night against the British last spring
were sentenced to death today in
absentia by an Iraqi court martial.
NEW YORK-AP-With former
Prussian Interior Minister Albert
c. GrEesinski at the helm. a
group Of free Germans has been
formed here with the announced
intention of organizing free Ger.
mans throughout the world to helm
destroy Nazism.
WASHINGTON-AP - Six of
every ten whisky stills in America
were under orders today to quit
making rye and bourbon and turn
grain mash into ethyl alcohol for
conversion into smokeless powder
and other war goods.
TOKYO (Oticial Broadcast Re-
corded by AP)-The 2,25O.ton lana.
nese freighter Unkai Marui has
been torpedoed and damaged by an
enemy submarine of the LEU Shi.
chlto, a Japanese communique said
today.
LANSING-AP Ray K. Holland
Ann Arbor chief engineer of the
state public service commission,
has submitted his resignation eff.
fective as soon as conyenient"
he informed the commission the
engineering firm with which he
was affiliated required his serv
ices Tor certain national defense
contracts.
HARRISBURG. Pa.-AP- More
than 100000 10 cent defense saw.
lngs stamps have been sold in
pennsylvania by newspaper car.
rier boys, the Pennsylvania News
paper Publishers Association re-
ported today.
Los ANGELES -AP- Threat
OF strike des .gned to tie I'D street
cars and buses used by nearly l.
OOO'OUO angelenos daily was re.
moved just before last midnight's
deadline by Intervention of John
X. Steelman, director Of the U. s
Cancellation service.
SALT LAKE CITY-AP- West
ern cattlemen Joined today with
midwestern farmers in opposing
President Roosevelt's views on a
price control bill, after drafting an
out-of-the ordinary resolution call.
ing for alignment Of the measure
with Secretary OF Agriculture
Wickard's "food-for-freedom" pro
gram.
WATERBURY. Conn.-AP-The
toremen's club at the Chase Metal
Company. working three shifts a
day, six days a week on war or
ders, decided that an annual ban.
quet would take too much time
Tor production.
NlCHY, Unoccupied France-AP
Reports from Alglers today said
freak cold weather on the African
plateau had cut communications I'm
many places and piled IN snow
drifts. Nichy was deep in snow as
the cold wave spreading from east
ern Europe hit France.
LONDoN-AP-- Appointment of
MAJ. Gen. Daniel VI. w. Beak. So
TO command British troops on Nal
ta' Mediterranean base. was an
nounced through the war office TO
day. He succeeds Mai. Gen. San
ford J. p. Scobell. SO.
LONDON-INS-- Gen. Wladis.
law Sikorski. premier OF the exiled
Polish government who visited
Russia TO organize an army Of
Poles living in Soviet territory, ex-
pressed confidence today that the
Red army can drive the German
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