The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-04

WASHINGTON-INS- The SEN
ate Foreign Relations Committee to
day recommends declaration OF war
on Rumania, Hungary and Bulga-
ria, but Senate leaders regard the
action against the Hitler satellites
as so routine that Senate vote may
be postponed until tomorrow.
SAN JUAN, P. R.-INS-Gasoline
sales were halted throughout Puer-
TO Rico today. Only medical and
dairy services and government
agencies were exempt from the ban.
DR.. Antonio Fernos Isern, chief OF
the supply and food commission,
said the island had anly a 24-hour
gasoline supply on hand,
BALBOA. c. Z.-INS-All Amer
ican forces guarding the Panama
Canal have been held at their
posts in state of alert since
Tuesday noon. "a hours before
the Japanese bombed Dutch Har-
Dor. Alaska, United States Army
headquarters disclosed today.
BUENOS AIRES ms The
German government has admitted
that a German submarine torped-
oed the Argentine steamer Victoria
near New York. according to the
newspaper La Razon. The Argen-
tine flag was confused with that
of Honduras. the German state
ment said. The Victoria reached
New York Harbor after the attack.
MEXICO CITY ms Mexico
was on a total war basis today
and the army was lin its place"
to defend the country against Axis
aggression. President Manuel
Avila Camacho gave this assur-
ance to the nation as he warned
dissident elements that any unpa-
triotic actions would be severely
dealt with.
LONDON ms The German
announcer Of the Stavanger, Nor
way, radio complained today that
thousands of Norwegians contin-
ued to listen to British broadcasts
land acted on British suggestions"
Norwegians refuse to attend show
ings of Nazi films or listen to
Nazi lectures, the announcer de-
clared.
RIO DE JANEIRO-INS-Forty
six survivors of the torpedoed
British freighter Charlesbury have
been landed at Recife, Brazil by
an American warship. it was re
ported today. The freighter was
sunk 300 miles off the Brazilian
coast. Two members of the crew
are missing.
LONDON-INS- The Nazi Ges.
tapo (secret police) has executed
approximately 100000 persons in
Europe since the outbreak of the
war, the Moscow radio declared to-
day according to Reuters. The
wholesale executions include 1,542
within Germany, the Moscow re-
port said.
VERA CRUZ. Mexico-UP- The
Mexican navy has seized the yacht
Southern Cross. which belonged to
the blacklisted Swedish hancier
and industralistA Axel Wenner-
Gren, it was reliably reported to-
day.
LONDON-UP-Rei Commits
sioner Arthur Seyss. Inquart has is
sued a new decree broadening the
scope OF Netherlands death SEN
fences TO include persons found
guilty Of melting anti-German &C.
tivities, reliable neutral sources he
ported today.
OTTAWA. Ont.-UP - Canada
will extend coupan rationing, now
used only to restrict gasoline con.
sumption, to sugar. Donald Gordon,
chairman OF the wartime prices and
trade board, announced today. He
intimated that coupon rationing
may be extended later to tea and
coffee.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF the
heaviest--if not the heaviest-pris-
-oners ever lodged in a federal penal
institution was confined today to
the Womens Reformatory at Al.
derson W. Va. Justice Department
officials said that 555-pound Anna
Craig. bedridden negress. was
sentenced to a two-year term for a
liquor law violation by Federal
Judge Sidney c. Mize al Biloxi.
Miss, after a two-year delay in her
trial because Of inability to find
means OF getting her TO court.
INDIANAPoLIS-UP- A wage
dispute which has kept 1000 In
diana coal miners idle for more
than a week remained deadlocked
today after the United Mine Work
ers Union (CIO) rejected a pro
posal for arbitration.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -UP-The
g. American Legion notified its posts
today that the organization's
streamllned 1912 convention will be
held at Kansas City. Mo, Sept. 10.
81.
PARLIAMENTARY The Ed.
ward G. Budd Company soon will
begin work on the construction OF
9eo stainless steel cargo planes.
company spokesman disclosed to-
day. He said parts will be made al
the firms Philadelphia plant. which
Is now retooling. and the planes will
be assembled in a Sl2 100000 plant
now under cOnstruC non.