The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-07

Gertrude Lawrence, Ilka Chase.
Judith Anderson and Peggy Wood
DETROIT ms - Formsr
Mayor Richard W. Reading
was sentenced to four TO rive
years today by Circuit Court
Judge Earl C. Pugsley on
charges he eonspired to OBJ
struet justice.
NEW YORk-lNS - Former
King Carol Of Rumania has accept
ed leadership Of the Free Rumania
committee for the triumph OF de-
mocracy, Leon Fischer. president
OF the committee with heaGquar.-
ers in New York said today
HAVANA ms President
Roosevelt's message to Congress in
which he promised that the United
States will carry the war to the
Axis was hailed in Cuba today.
The concensus was that the pro-
duction figures outlined by the
President were overwhelming.
JUAREZ, Mex.-INS- Authori-
ties disclosed today the arrest Of
Alois Schill Hepp. 40, as an as
serted German Gestapo agent.
Brig. Gen. j. j. Quinones, com
mander of the Juarez military ga
rison, said Hepp was seized in
Chihuahua, Mex, and transferred
TO the Juarez garrison.
SAN FRANCISCO-INS-A new
group of evacuees from Honolulu
presenting a far happier appear
ance than the manned and wound
ed who arrived during the recent
holidays. told guardedly today of
their experiences in the Japanese
sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Dec.
Z. There were few casualties
among them and no stretcher cases.
They arrived Tuesday in San Fran
cisco on several sh ps, the number
of which 1t was not permitted 10
disclose.
NEW YORK ms - Clever
G " ~ NchI4S du dHld6G VI
the war to promote crooked securi-
ty deals, Attorney General John !.
Bennett warned today. Bennett |
said he anticipated new field of |
swindling based on elaborate |
schemes for growing domestic rub
Der or making substitutes for rub
ber".
BERNE, Switzerland-INS-"Ex-
traordinary winter weather" ami |
rowing bands OF bandits are pre-
venting German military action In |
the Near East. tie German news |
paper Frankfurter Zeitung said TO- |
day. Blaming the cold weather for |
preventing military action. the |
Zeitung added that rowing bands
OF bandits likewise interfere with |
transport in many regions.
ToKYo-tBy Of1cial Japanese
Wireless)-INS - japanese i'm.
perial headquarters conceded to-
day that Nipponese submarine
was sunk in the Pacific area and
that enemy aircraft Slightly dam
aged" a cruiser on Jan. 4.
SYDNEY ms A "scorched |
earth" policy. designed to prevent
Netherlands East Indies oil and |
industrial resources from falling
into Japanese hands now is being
prepared by Dutch East Indies
authorities, Hubertus ]. Van Nook.
temporary cabinet minister of the |
MEL, said on arrival here today.
CHUNGKING- ms - Asserting
that British authorities at Hong
Kong failed to use the crown col
ony's Chinese population against |
the Jap invaders, the newspaper ]
Takungpao today urged the unit |
ed anti-axis powers to permit Chi |
nese nationals overseas fuller par
ticipation in the war.
STOCKHOLM Up A Berlin
dispatch to the newspaper Social |
Demokraten said today that Ger
man military circles had disclosed |
that the Germans in Russia had
not yet reached their winter line"
and doubted whether such a line
could be established at all in
view Of the continued Russian Of
fersive.
WASHINGTON-UP- The SEN
ate Foreign Relations Committee
meets in secret session today to re-
ceive the first OF weekly confiden-
tial reports on progress of the
war-information to include latest
developments on the diplomatic.
military, naval and economic
fronts. z.-
WASHINGTON-UP-- Congress
today receives President Roose-
velts first war budget. calling for
the expenditure OF $4,000 900
in the next fiscal year for the fight
against Hitler and foreshadowing
taxes higher than most average
citizens ever have thought about.
LONDON AP-- Acute concern
over repeated losses Of airdromes
by British Empire torces-Kuantan
in Mal9ya was the latest--was indi-
Gated by questions on airdrome de-
Tense directed at the government
today as parliament prepared to re-
convene after the Christmas recess.
WASHINGTON-AP- Rum was
singled out today as the first war
casualty OF the hard liquor group.
An OPM order prohibited the use OF
molasses in making rum or other
spirituous drinks after January Is.
The edict affects not only the con