The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-21
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SAN JUAN, P. RIMS Two
Germans and one Italian we're
still being grilled today at San
Juan for possession of suspicious
equipment forbidden to enemy
aliens following sweeping raids by
FBI agents. assisted by police and
intelligence officers or the Army
and Navy.
RIO DE JANEIRO-INS- Step
ping up the tempo OF their drives
against Axis espionage activities,
Brazilian authorities today an
nounced the arrest of Japanese
army officer posing as a dentist
and three men believed TO be Nazi
spies. The bogus dentist, Habiro
Habicara, was found TO be ia
ranese general and spy, receiving
large amounts of money from the
Nippon government for his propa-'
ganda work, according to police at
Curitiba, where he was arrested.
SANTIAGO, Cuba--lNS-French
sailors were included in the crew
OF an Axis submarine which tor
pedoed the s. s. Olga off Nuevi'
tas. Cuba, Arthur Wilder, third
officer on the sunken vessel, de-
clared today on arriving at San
tiago with 80 members OF his
crew. The crew was rescued
few hours after the sinking March
IL.
Observation-Disclosures La
Toilette (Prog.-Wis) proposed to-
day that the government arbitrarily
assign to small business concerns
the major share OF necessary war
time civilian production to offset
in part their lack OF military supply
contracts. Charging that big busl-
ness was "entrenched" in the WPB,
satisfied that some representatives
OF large firms here were taking ad-
vantage OF conditions TO 'liquidate'
competition.
WASHINGTON 49, APP Federal
Reserve Board officials were report
ed authoritatively today TO be con-
sidering restrictions on open charge
accounts. At present the bo'rd re
stricts only installment credit trans
actions.
= LANSING NATURALIZATION,
an arsenal OF democracy will in
ventory the things it has done and
still must do 10 protect itself from
the perils of war at an Industrial
protection institute in Detroit Mar.
rs to 2S. The State Defense Council,
sponsoring the statewide meeting
announced 1t expects Dean James
NJ. Lands. U. S. director OF civilian
defense. TO attend the meeting and
participate in the discussions.
WASHINGTON-AP- Mrs. EN-
ma Guffey Miller, Pennsylvania
Democratic national committee
woman and longtime advocate for
equal rights. protested today be-
cause the highest rank in the pro-
posed Women's Auxiliary Army
Corps would be- only that Of ma
ior. THE bill calls for 10000
women, and it is planned to only
give a major as tops" said Mrs.
Miller. "Why, If there were tina.
many men in a corps, they would
have at least one major-general and
several colonies.
FLINT. Mich.-UP- An out
break OF sickness among workers
at the Chevrolet plant here was re-
ported declining today after fore
ing some sections TO shut down
temporarily. Health department
officials said they had not yet been
able TO trace the cause of the sick
ness, but declared they were con-
WINGED il was not inside the plant.
Approximately 100 cases were re-
ported, none serious.
SAN FRANCISCO-UP- Japa-
nese propagandists, less adept than
their Nazi teachers, got their wires
crossed today in reporting the
death" OF Manuel Quezon, presi-
dent OF the Philippines common
wealth. The Tokyo radio, alleging
that Quezon had died on the
Island OF Cebu. which is controlled
by merican-Filipino forces, said
he had succumbed after cough
ing up blood" thus seeking to CAPT
talize on the well known fact that
Quezons lungs are frail. But a
little later it embellished its story
by saying that Quezon had been
"the victim OF blood purge con-
Quoted by Gen. Douglas Macarthur
before he left the Philippines. II
said Macarthur had wanted Que
zon to leave with him but Quezon
refused.
WASHINGTON-AP - To aid
rural electric cooperatives in the
war effort and to assist in other
problems, the National Rural Elec-
trio Cooperative Association was
organized here yesterday Among
incorporators and directors was
Dolph Fl. Wolf OF Portland, Mich.
LANSING-AP--A proposal that
$4,000 be allocated from the states
s5.000.000 war fund TO repairs to
the buildings OF the Michigan State
Fair Grounds has been rejected by
Governor Van Wagner. Budget
Director Leo J. Nowicki said today.
WASHINGTON-INS-Sen. Gil.
lette (D) Ia said today he will