The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-04

a'AeNNAN Abuag hdu no JAPANESE
representatives. Sanji Abb, sole
japanese member. has submitted
his resignation to Gov. Ingram
Stainback.
LONDON-INS-Reuter's report.
ed from Stockholm today a.. dis
patch from Madrid in which it was
asserted that IS Allied merchant
vessels and three troop transports
have been assembled at Gibraltar
and are ready to leave in "a gi-
gantic convoy.
LONDON-lNS- Persistent dis.
patches from the Axis frontier re-
port that Premier Benito Mussolini
OF Italy is seriously i'll, the LoA-
don Daily Express said today. Al
Duce, who has been reported at
various intervals as suffering from
grave illness, was said TO be at
his country home near Rome.
NEW YORK-INS-The destroy
err, U.S.S. Kimberly, was launched
today in the shipyards of the Beth
lehem Steel Co. on Staten Island.
Miss Elsie Kimberly of Bonita.
Cal, daughter OF the late Rear
Admiral Lewis Ashfleld Kimberly
for whom the destroyer was named,
was the sponsor.
OSSINlNG, n. Y.-INS- Four.
teen mission priests. including nine
from the Maryknoll Seminary here
who had been interned at Stanley
Prison in Hong Kong by the Japa.
nese have been freed ands are now
IN kweilin, it was learned today.
NEW K-INS-Funera ser.
vices We're to be arranged today
for DR.. William n. C. Carlton.
author and librarian. He was SO
years old and for the last two years
had been connected with the Brit.
lsh Library of Information. DR..
Carlton was former librarian Of
the Newberry Library in Chicago
and the Williams College Library
In Williamstown, Mass.
PEORIA, ll.-INS-Norman f
GlDbs or Peoria was recorded to-
day as the youngest American cas-.
ualty so far in the second World
War. His mother. Mrs. Rachel e.
Gibbs, revealed after receiving no.
tlce from the Navy that he had
been killed in action in the Solo.
mons last December, that he was
only 8 years old.
WASHINGTON-AP- BeardsIev
Ruml, chairman OF the New YORK
Federal Reserve Bank, presents 10
Congress today his case for all.
out forgiveness OF 1912 individual
income taxes in order TO put the
nations 100000 taxpayers on a
pay-asyou-go basis.
Los ANGELES -AP- Enrol
Flynn's lawyer today resumes his
argument for the actors acquittal
after charging that the two teen
age girls who accuse Flynn OF sta
tutory offenses had themselves ad
mitted acts for which they could
be prosecuted. and thus had found
II expedient to testify for the state.
BERN, Switzerland --AP- The
Swiss Telegraph agency reported
from Vichy last night that the
death penalty was being threaten
ed in France in an attempt to
stem black market activities which
have mushroomed steadily.
CASPER, Wyo, ms All six
crew members OF bombing plane
from the Casper Army air base
were killed when the bomber
crashed yesterday afternoon near
Bogue, Kans., air base officers an
nounced today. The plane was on
a routine training flight. Names
OF the victims were withheld. pend.
ing notification of next-of-kin.
HOLLYWOOD-INS-Lana Tur-
ner, sweater grip of motion pic
lures, was scheduled to make a
personal appearance in superior
court today to seek annulment OF
her seven month marriage TO Ste
phen Crane, tobacco fortune heir.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-INS-
Walter Robert Avery. 81, doomed
10 die before a firing squad behind
the walls OF the Utah State Prison
d. sunrise tomorrow. today sat in
his cell and denounced capital
punishment as cruelty and re-
venge". He was scheduled to be
executed for the murder of lloyd
l.. Gates, an Ogden. Utah, police
officer, on Feb. II, l941.
WAsHINGTON-AP-Fairer dis
tribution OF meat among stores
within a few weeks was predicted
today by officials Of the Office OF
Price Administration. They eX'
pressed confidence that this would
result from the pronunciation OF
their new standardized retail meat
prices.
J CHUNGKING-AP-Dr. J.. $
Woo. a graduate OF Harvard Medical
School in 1918. has been named
secretary-general and director OF
the medical relief corps of a com
pletely recognized Chinese Re-
Cross, it was announced today.
BUENOS AIRES - AP-Diplo-
matte quarters cast about today for
the reasons which impelled the
Spanish government to instruct It's
embassies in Rio de Janeiro and
Santiago 10 DENY last night that