The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-30

broadcast heard by NBC.
PORTLAND, Ore, ms APP
proximately $50 Japanese merch-
ants in Portland faced loss of var
ious businesses today as the result
OF action by the city council. The
council voted to deny a petition
o! the Japanese nationals asking
that they be permitted to remain
in business as hotel operators,
grocers, clerks, tailors and other
occupations In which they have
been engaged since coming to
Portland.
DUBLIN ms The dali or
parliament of Fire today defeated
by a vote Of II to 20 a motion an
nulling an emergency order which
gives military courts the right to
accept statements in the absence
OF persons making them. The mo-
ton, proposed by the labor group,
was defeated as Irish Free State
officials warned Fire was never
confronted by a greater peril than
the present operations OF the Irish
Republican Army.
NEW YORK ms Presence
of Axis submarines off the Allan.
tic Coast was given official recog-
milton for the first time today by
war-risk insurance underwriters.
Rates were boosted but the insur-
81 k1t 81 H.
any coastwise ship would reach
its destination.
STOCKHOLM ms Reports
reaching here from Oslo said TO
day that many Norwegian ports
have been protected by mines and
defense forces placed on alert,
presumably to guard against pos
sible- invasion. The Norwegian
provincial newspapers warned that
many harbors have been closed
and coastlines barred by Nazi
naval measures, 1t was said. while
Bergen papers asserted that ships
passing nearby Selbjoernsfjord
were being stopped by German
naval units.
LONDON - AP- The United
= States embassy announced today
that arrangements were being made
to allow Americans in Allied forces
TO transfer to u S. armed services.
LONDON-AP-Five OF the new
German Dornier 217 bombers pub
licized as being able to carry bombs
10 the United States have been de-
stroyed thus far this year in night
raids on Britain, the air ministry
said today.
LAKE WORTH, Flap A
father today awaited presentation
OF Americas highest war award for
his only son killed in battle
SANDY the boy who never quit
anything he started" The wars
first congressional medal of honor
vas posthumously awarded yestef-
day to Second Lieutenant Alexan-
der Ramsey Nininger. Jr., FOR con-
spicuous gallantry and intrepldlty
above and beyond the call OF duty"
in the Philippines.
BATAVIA, n. E. I-AP-Japan-
csc planes shot down passenger
plane OF the Royal Netherlands In
dies airline today. killing two pas
sengers and three members OF the
crew, the news agency Aneta an.
nounced.
PHILADELPHIA-AP-Two dra-
matte narrow escapes punctuated
the homeward flight of William G.
Bullitt, and George II. Earle, L. S.
minister to Bulgaria, Earle revealed
today. Arriving at his suburban
home here from a New York land
ing. the former Pennsylvania COVER
nor told how twice engines of the
plane caught file in mid-air.
PHILADELPHIA-INS 49, Uncle
Sam today was pledged free use of
the facilities and personnel of the
American Society OF Heating and
Ventilating Engineers for the dura-
ton of the war.
CHUNGKING- ms - Chinese
forces in southern Kwangtung prov
ince are continuing counter-attacks
against Japanese troops on both
banks of the East River, the Chi.
nese military communique said to-
day. Fighting was termed fierce
on the outskirts OF Poklo where
Japanese losses we're reported
heavy.
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal.-INS-
Louis c. Wiswer. II, pioneer thea
trical producer. was listed a sui
eide by police today after he was
found in his Beverly Hills apart
ment, shot through the heart.
Neutrality-suspicious. stu
do seads today we're expected to
turn thumbs down on a proposal to
move the S125.000.000 motion pic
ture business TO Arizona
WASHlNGTON-AP-An invest
cation OF 230 steel companies has
turned up some serious cases" Of
priorities violations. a War Produc-
ton Board official said today. and
action to correct and possibly
punish them will taken soon.
NEW YORK-INS -Woring on
the theory that clothing and other
Vital commodities in addition Ia
sugar. tires and automobiles will be
rationed. Mayor F. n. LaGuardia in
dicatei today that New York ration.
ing boards viii be enlarged to in
olude representatives. Of labor and