The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-07
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CHUNGKING ms Former
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang
Chung Sui. secretary general OF
the supreme national defense
council told International News
Service today that Wendell VIII
kie's announcements had great
ly encouraged the people Of China.
BELlAiRE, o.-lNS-Twen-
ty-two carloads Of oetane gaso-
line we're destroyed today by a
spectacular fire which broke
out after a Baltimore & Ohio
freight train piled up outside
nearby Neffs. No one was in
reG. Drums in which gasoline
was stored exploded intermlt-
tently, shooting up flames
which could be seen 30 miles
away. Firemen believed the
blaze started with an explo-
sion, but were unable to dete-
mine whether the explosion
caused several Of the cars TO
leave the track or whether the
cars left the track first.
LONDON-lNS-The Stockholm
newspaper Afton-Tidningen, Reu-
tiers news agency said today. print
ed reports that Americans at Hell
sinki. capital of Finland. had
packed their belongs ready to
travel. These reports were inter
preted by the newspaper as ap-
parently meaning that the United
States intends to break off diplo-
matte relations with Finland.
LONDON - ms - Yugoslav
circles in London stated today that
so Serbians were shot by German
authorities at Semun, near Bel
grade, in mid-September after an
ailplane hangar had been destroy
ed by an explosion.
LONDON-INS- Sir Archibald
Sinclair. Brtains secretary OF
state for air, disclosed in the
House of Commons today that the
Royal Air Force had lost 1852
bombers over Germany and north
err Europe in the nine months
ending Sept. so
NEW YORK-INS-One month
nursing" course for mechanics II
the city's repair shops to learn how
to baby along existing equipmen
was ordered today by Mayor f. II
LaGuardia. In ordering supervisors
foremen and assistant foremen tC
take the repair shop nursing
course, LaGuardia said that all cars
and trucks must be kept in the bes
possible repair. He predicted th'
city probably would revert to usin!
horses if the war lasts five years.
ST. ANDREWS. n. BINS -
Royal Air Force Sgt Tom r. Hutch
ings, q. OF Peterborough. England
today was sentenced by Justice c
ID. Richards to death by hanging
The sentence was imposed few
minutes after jury found tn,
young pilot guilty Of staying prett,
Bernice Corners. 10. whom he hat
taken to a dance on Dead Man
Harbor Road. Blacksharbor, New
Brunswick, last June ).
WASHINGTON-INS- The Nav,
Department announced today tina
small British merchant vesse
was torpedoeed and sunk by al
enemy submarine about the middl
of August In the Caribbean arei
and that survivors have been land
ed at an East Coast port.
WASHINGTON AP - Discon
tinuance Of gold mining was ex
pected today 10 be ordered by thu
War Production Baard diver
the miners ant some equipment t
the non-ferrous mines producing
more urgently needed metals TO
the war effort.
SOMEWHERE in New Guinea
Delayed -AP-The L. s. Army
silver star was pinned upon thu
Pajamas of Associated Press Cor
respondent Vern Haugland by Gen
eral Douglas Macarthur today il
an unprecedented recognition o
civilian courage Pausing on I
visit to the New Guinea war front
General Macarthur made tn,
award at the hospital tent wher'
Haugland is recovering from ex
haustion and fever after 40 day
of fighting his way out of tn,
mountainous Jungle into which h
parachuted from a storm-spen
bomber Aug. :
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. ms Z
new tire re-cappins process whicl
it is claimed will give motorist
more than $4,000 miles of driving
was disclosed today by the Bostol
Woven Hose & Rubber Company.
7i-year-old firm that never mad
an automobile tire before. Onl.
ScraD rubber s. reuuired under tn