The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-11-08
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THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Continued Cold

CHICAGO-INS- Congressional
action was sought today to break
the deadlock caused by the rejec-
ton by Fred NJ. Vinson, economic
. sterilization director. OF Petro-
leum Administrator Harold l..
lckes' demand for an oil price in
crease 70 refill the nations dwindl-
ing stocks for wartime use. The
demand for congressional action
was made by B. L. Majewski, mem
Der Of the petroleum industry COM
mittee and chairman of the mar
keting committee for district 2.
Petroleum Administration for War.
M0SCOW-INS- The authorlta-
tive Moscow weekly. War and
Working Glasses, predicted today
that Czechoslovak President Ed
Guard Benes soon will sign a mu-
tual assistant treaty with the So
Wet Union similar to the Anglo
Soviet pact.
PHILADELPHIA ms - The
Board OF County Prison Inspectors
will meet today TO investigate the
suicide of Steve Jankoyic. convict
ed kidnaper and robber, who died
OF a bullet wound in the, hospital at
Mayamensing Prison in Philadel-
phia. Prison officials disclosed
last night that the gun, a .32-cali-
Der six-shot Automatic. was Snug
gled into the institution by some
unidentified person. A supply OF
ammunition was also found under
the pillow OF Jankovic's hospital
bed.
LONDON-INS- The German
propaganda agency DNB reported
today in a Tokyo dispatch that ia
pan has asked the Spanish embas-
sy in Washington to protest to
the U. s. Government over alleged
mistreatment of japanese prison
ers and internees in the United
States. A spokesman for the
Japanese information ministry was
quoted in a warning that Japan
will take appropriate counter
measures should the statements OF
repatriated Japanese prove true"
N-INS-Berlin, Vienna
and a number OF German Ruhr
and Rhineland towns were report
ed today to have been declared
closed areas, with special per-
mits required before nonresidents
can enter them. The report was
circulated by Reuters News Agsn'
cy in a dispatch from Stockholm
quoting the official German Ga
zette.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
Australian women wgfted at Bris,
bane Airport from early this morn
ing to CATCH glimpse Of screen
star Gary Cooper. WHO arrived this
afterr IN with Actresses Una Mer'
ke. and Phyllis Brooks and Accor'
zionist Andry Aracri.
CAIRO-INS-A special com
munique today revealed that Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Turkish Foreign Minis
ter human Menemenjoglu are con
Quoting their Cairo discussion" in
the spirit OF friendship and ALL
ance which binds the two coun-
tries.
HOLLYWOOD-INS - Actress
Susan Peters and Coast Guardsman
Richard Quine, former actor. were
on their honeymoon today follow
ing their Sunday marriage in the
picturesque Westwood Community
Church. After their fve-day
honeymoon Quine will return TO
his station in San Francisco.
NEW YORK-Rumanians had ar
appeal today from exiled kins
Carol to overthrow the government
OF "the traitor" Marshal Ion Anton
escu and join the Allied war against
Germany. In a bid to regain his
crown. Carol issued an announce
ment from Mexico City through a
New York publicity firm charging
the Nazi-dominated Antonescu gov
eminent with dragging Rumanis
into a profitless war against the
will OF its people.
NEW YORK-lNS-Two OF Hen
~ J. Kaiser's West Coast ship
Yards today were revealed to have
broken even Kaiser production rec
ords by turning out 80 Liberty ships
and four aircraft carriers last
month.
NEW YORK-INS-The will o;
Ben Bernie. the old Maestro OF
stage. screen and radio will be filed
today for probate. Bernie was re
ported to have left most OF his con
siderable fortune to his widow, Dor
othy Wesley Bernie and his son
Pvt. Jason Bernie. The exact
amount of the estate was not indi
Gated but the will contains requests
totalling s20s,O00.
TULE LAKE. Cal.-INS- Fed
eral and state Investigations of the
riots at the Tule Lake Jap segre-
CATION center got under way to-
day with Dies Congressional Com
mittee representatives and a State
Senate Committee probing separ.
ate phases OF the camps tumul.
tuous outbreaks.
TRINIDAD, Colo. ms Discov'
cry OF a $50 foot tunnel through
which former Nazl soldiers and
sailors might have escaped in
wholesale numbers brought FIJI
agents back to the much-publicized