The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-08

MAO1lNG lO4N-OI IllNe AA'
ministrator Leon Henderson said
today that under the East Coast
gasoline rationing program non
essential motorists probably Will
be limited TO two TO three gallons
OF gasoline weekly, probably near
er two.
LONDON Up Dutch Nazi
leaders in Holland today were re-
porting sending their wives and
children TO safer areas TO escape
the fury" of Dutch citizens, rs OF
whom have been sentenced 10
death in the past week by German
occupation authorities.
HAVANA up The Havana
radio station emo broadcast to-
day that an unidentified United
States merchant vessel has been
torpedoed and sunk Is miles off
Baracoa in Oriente province, east
ern Cuba. The report said 50
survivors have been landed near
Baracoa.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.-rNS-The
Swedish liner Drottingholm today
was en- route TO Lisbon carrying
94S Axis diplomats, newspapermen
ana members OF their families who
will be exchanged for a group OF
Americans and Latin-Americans
who were interned in Europe al
ter outbreak OF war.
NEW YORK ms Congress
today was called upon TO suspend
the 40 hour work week by the
Chamber OF Commerce OF the state
of New York. The organization
adopted a resolution which urged
Congress to put As hour week
in effect because 1.-The retention
OF the 40 hour week. with penalty
overtime. jeopardizes the success
OF the war effort"
LONDON-INS- Plans are un-
derway in Jerusalem for total
mobilization" OF Jewish men and
women of Palestine for Army
service and defense and war
work, the London Daily Telegraph
said today. Leading Jewish or
ganizations are now discussing de-
tails of the plan in Jerusalem, the
dispatch said.
NEW YORK-INS-The Wright
Aeronautical Corporation has de-
veloped new manufacturing tech
nique for the mass output of forged
cylinder heads fer aircraft engines
which is designed TO give American
planes greater speed, load, range
and ceiling than combat planes now
enjoy, IL was announced today.
LONDON-INS-The Vichy gov
eminent of France is removing
gold reserves totalling nearly ST..
10000 900 from the Island of Mar
Unique because of fear that tho
United States may occupy that
Caribbean possession. the Daily
Sketch claimed today in its column
entitled Inside Information"
HOLLYWOOD ms - Screen
actress Ann Southern had divorce
today from Roger Pryor on her tes-
timony that Pryor's flying worried
me so | couldn't sleep at night.
RIO DE JANEIRO-INS-Thrce
ships carrying 400-odd Axis sub
iects were 10 leave Rio de Jsneiro
belatedly today for Lisbon, Portu-
gal, but the German and Italian
ambassadors TO Brazil were not
aboard German Ambassador Curt
Pruefer and Italian Envoy Ugo Solo
won permission 10 remain in Brazil
until the last group of Axis diplo-
mats and nationals leave for
Europe, causing speculation among
Brazilian authorities on whether
tie two men feared punishment in
their homelands.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in
quest into the murder of Mrs Rose
Whitmore, 54-year-old wealthy wi
dow found bludgeoned to death in
her bungalow. will be held today.
Meanwhile police awaited arrival
OF fingerprints of Grover Cleveland
Dahlbender, drug salesman, from
the War Department in Washing
ton for comparison with IA latent
prints discovered in the bungalow
and on the auto jack handle with
which Mrs. Witmore was slain.
TOkYO-(By Official Japanese
Wireless)-INS-The Tokyo news
paper Asahi Shimbun asserted to-
day that Our next task is the &C.
cupation ofCeylon while operations
10 isolate Australia continue"
NICHY-lNS-The official Journ-
al today published a decree APP
pointing Darquier de Pellepoix as
commissioner for Jewish questions
In place Of Xavier Vallat.
RUNNING, China-UP-A com.
munique of the American Volunteer
Group said today that Pilot Ben c.
Fosheo Of Red Level. Ala. had
been killed in action with the Fly
ing Tigers at Paoshan May 4. Pi-
lot Jed Liedburn of Amarillo, Tex,
was killed accidentally during a
training flight here May 2.