The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-22
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DETROlT-INS-U. s. Attorney
General John {. Lehr said today
he has recommended to Washing
ton authorities that the charge OF
haTboiing an enemy prisoner
AGAINST Max stephan. a natural
lied American citizen of German
birth. be changed TO treason, which
is punishable with death.
GENERAL MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia up
Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghorm-
ley. United States Navy, of Port
land. Ore. has been ordered TO
New Zealand TO organize a Joint
United States-New Zealand naval
command which will be outside
the zone commanded by Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, it was learned
today.
WASHlNGTON-AP-A Ration
wide CENSUS of high school and
college students available for farm
work during vacations was start
ci today under orders OF the new
war manpower commission head
ed by Paul V. McNutt.
LONDON Up The Evening
Standard said today in a dispatch
f.cm New York that Sir Dudley
Pound. chief of the British naval
staff. had accompanied Gen.
George c. Marshall, chief OF staff
OF the American Army. and Harry
Hopkins, confidential aide OF Pres
iGent Roosevelt. back to Wash
ington. and they were believed TO
be discussing the battle of the
Atlantic.
NTCHY. France up Lieut..
Gen. Ernst Schaumburg. deputy
German military governor OF oc-
cupicd France, announced today
a great number" of Communist
attacks on German troops, includ-
inc one soldier killed yesterday.
NEW YORK ms The Prime
Minister oil lndiaa Puhjab has
called tor holy war against Japah
the B.itish radio said today in l
b o3dcast heard by CHS. The BIC
also reported that demonstrations
had taken place in Bombay, during
which pictures of Adolf Hitler and
Premier Hideki TOTO of Japan were
burned.
HONOLULU - ms Honolulu's
harbor and the entire adjacent dis
trict extending back several blocks
from the CONNIE cial waterfront
were listed as a restricted area to-
day under proclamation by the mill
taly governor of Hawaii.
LONDON ms - A suggestion
that a protest be registered with
Japan through the Vatican concern.
ing hQrbarouG treatment % captuued
Britons was discarded today BY a
high official of the British govern
ment The spokesman said that
such a protest against i'll treatment
OF British prisoners at Hong Kong
and Singapore would not serve
useful purpose. He pointed out that
presentations previously had
been made through a neutral power
and the International Red Cross.
LONDON-lNS-S Substantial mod |
illedtion OF the British governments
plan for drastic fuel rationing ap-
peared likely today in the wake OF |
violent objections by certain mem |
bers OF parliament to the proposals |
p outlined by Hugh Dalton, presi- |
dent OF the board of trade.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland-AP
Police uncovered an arsenal in
the school at Derryclone. County
Antrim. and Principal Hugh Pat.
rick McConville was held in the |
Belfast Jail today In raid made |
Immediately after pupils had been |
dismissed for the day yesterday the !
officers found IS rifleq. nine re-
Volvers. hand grenades. signaling |
pistols and 1000 rounds of ammuni. |
ton.
BERN. Switzerland-AP- The |
Nichy government is endeavoring
to win reprieye for 20 hostages |
held by the Germans in St. Naz. /
ARE because some OF TIT towns. |
folk Cooperated with the British |