The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-07-02

LONDON ms The Rome
radio, according TO the Exchange
Telegraph Company. today broad
2 cast a dispatch from Ankara re-
porting that martial law had been
declared throughout Egypt.
WASHINGTON up A
large v. S. merchant vessel
has been torpedoed of the At
lantie Coast, the Navy an
nouneed today. Survivors
have been landed at an East
Coast port.
CHlCAGO-lNS- Launched six
weeks ahead of schedule, the Chi
cago built sea going tug, Port
Fulton" was being rushed TO com
pletion today for service under
the direction OF the L. S. Maritime
Commission. The new ship, fifth
of its type constructed by the Cal
umet Shipyards and Dry, Dock
Company, was christened by Miss
Elizabeth Anne Spofford daughter
of w. L. Spofford, Maritime Com
mission director for the Great
Lakes area.
E0NBok-tP-P Prime Min
lister Winston Churchill said
today that Britain Is passing
through "times OF mortal
peril" AT any moment"
he said, I'VE may receive news
OF grave Importance"
DENVER-INS- Illiteracy pre-
vents 100000 adult persons
from participating in the war ef-
fort, John W. Studebaker, L. s.
Commissioner of Education. de-
clared today. In an address be-
fore the Department of Adult Ed
ucation of the National Educa-
tion Association, Studebaker
called for an intense campaign
to wipe out illiteracy from the
armed forces.
HAVANA ms Registration
of -Cuba's manpower for military
service. which will begin August
] will enroll 1,197, 900 of the ages
from Is 10 so, it was estimated
today OF this total it was expect
ed that $4,000 would be avail
able for active service.
HERSHEY. Pa.-INS-Resident:
ofthis chocolate.manufacturing com
munity today boasted per capita
average of five pounds salvage rub
Der as their contribution toward
victory. Salvage collectors reported
that 1880 pounds of rubber were
turned in at filling stations. Hersh
ey's population is $500.
CHICAGO-INS-With 10000 new
recruits enrolled in the Navy in the
Chicago area since June ! drive
was launched today to obtain an
other 10000 in July.
JERSEY CITY. n. J.-lNS- As
anxious friends and relatives today
again prepared to take up vigil al
the entrance to the pier, 500 Amer
lean and alien refugees detained
aboard the Swedish liner. Drott
ningholm which locked here Tues
day. were trying to make the best
OF bad situation. Food stocks
aboard the vessel were reported
running low and it was believed the
ship would have to be restocked be
fore FBI agents, immigration Off
Gals and Army and Navy intelli.
gence officers cleared the passen
gers for landing.
AN EAST COAST PORT-UP-
Blazing amidships. a large Amer
ican merchant ship slid to the
bottom II hours after it was
struck by a torpedo off the East
Coast in broad daylight on June
2S. survivors reported today. An
other vessel at the scene OF at
tack effected a rescue in a mat
ter OF minutes. survivors said, and
brought the entire crew Of so
men to shore within two hours.
The survivors said six man Navy
gun crew aboard had no chance to
fire at the attacker, which was not
seen by any of the crewmen.-
LONDON Up Private ad.
vices disclosed today that Adolf
Hitler plans to smash the resis-
lance Of Hollands vast under
ground army by deporting $780,
600 Dutchmen between is and SIS
nearly the entire reproductive
male population-to European
Russia
BUFFALO, n. Y. Up King
Peter II. Jugoslavia' IS year old
Monarch, arrived from Detroit to-
day to continue his inspection Of
war plants before going to New
York for a five day stay. He taS
scheduled to 90 to New York and
entrain July for Ottawa, Canada.
MEXICO CITY-UP-A supreme
court decision returning to the
Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey two properties taken over
by the government four years ago
might reopen the entire question
OF appropriation, oil circles said
today.
WASHINGTON-UP- The War
Department made public today
the names Of Ill American sailors
and marines held prisoner by the
japanese at Shanghai The list
includes three officers and IL
enlisted men of the Navy and IL