The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-24

Judge Fred 7. Miles and was
the maximum that could be
melted out under the law.
LONDON AP Bad weather
Thursday prevented any major
Royal Air force operations over
Germany Thursday night, inform.
cd sources reported today.
WASHINGTON, o. GINS
President Roosevelt disclosed
today that he had made a selee-
ton for the Supreme Court
vacancy TO be created by re-
tirement Feb. Of Associate
Justice James c. Metropolis
but he added no announcement
would be made of that choice
for long, long time. Fact that
the chief executive said II
would be weeks, weeks,
weeks before the announce
ment OF the new justice was
made led to speculation that his
choice was Sen. James 5yrnes
(D) S. c.
LONDON-AP- The Cheshire
Cheese-once the favorite eating
place OF DR.. Samuel Johnson
more recently a mecca for Ameri'
can tourists-was destroyed by
fire Thursday. Cause OF the blaze
was undetermined.
DETROIT, Mieh.-UP-C. M.
kaltwasser was appointed gen.
eral manager OF the Stlnson
Aircraft division Of the Vultee
Aircraft, Inc, at Wayne plant
according to an announcement
made today by r. W. MiIlar,
president Of Vultee.
VICHY, France -AP -Havas,
French news agency, reported to-
day the official journal would pub
lish a new law creating a ma
tional council for France and
naming its members. Observers
believed the council would be part
OF a new consultative assembly
for France, plans for which were
announced in December by Chief
OF State Philippe Petain.
SAN PEDRO, Cal.-INS1 Rear
Admiral Russell Wilson, unit
Thursday in command OF battleship
division one. United States Navy,
today was preparing to leave for
Annapolis to become superintend'
ent of the United States Naval AGA
deny.
BERLIN-INS Authoritative
German quarters indicated today
that the Reich will be satisfied and
consider the case closed when two
American sailors who tore down a
swastika banner from the German
consulate in San Francisco are
turned over to court martial. They
said that so far official verification
had not yet reached Berlin OF dis
patches from San Francisco stat
ing the sailors were given suspend
ed sentences of 80 days each since
they probably faced additional
Navy charges.
VATICAN CITY-INS-- Bishop
Robert f. Lucey Of Amarillo to-
day was appointed archbishop OF
San Antonio, Tex.
NEW YORK-INS-Plans for i'm
mediate construction of a $1,000
900 aircraft plant at Hatboro, Pa,
about Is miles from Philadelphia.
TO speed up fulfillment Of its Sl25.-
100000 in war and defense orders
was announced here today by the
Brewster Aeronautical Corporation.
HORTA, Azores Islands-UP-
Wendell l.. Willkie, on his way TO
London, took off in Il clipper plane
for Lisbon at S:35 a. M. today
(5:35 a. ID. EST.
WASHINGTON-UP- Hugues
lie Calais, Luxemburg's minister
to the United States, said Thurs
day night that German officials
and gestapo German secret po-
lice) agents are exerting moral
and economic" pressure on his
countrymen to sign documents ad-
yocating a union Of Germany and
Luxembourg.
LONDON-INS- Exchange Tele-
graph british news agency. to-
day quoted Greek soldiers as say
ing they found Italian soldiers in
Albania tied to guns to keep them
from running away. while some
infantrymen were compelled to
keep their positions by machine
guns aimed at their backs.
LONDON ms The British
submarine Pathian sank heavily
laden 1000 ton Italian supply ship
south of Italy the Admiralty an
nounced today. The ship presum-
ably was carrying supplies to the
Fascist Army in Libya.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. today
carried no accounts of Col. Charles
A. Lindgergh's testimony in Wash
ington Thursday. Although a full
report on his statements was car
lied by Stefani. the official ltal-
ian news agency, later it,was killed
and newspapers were forbidden to
publish IT,
CHELSEA. Mass ms Major
General Henry n. Arnold. Deputy
Chief Of the Army Air Corps. TO-
day disclosed that the aim Of the
Army and Navy was combined
force Of 10000 combat airplanes.
BERNE. Switzer and-lNS-Ger.
many has made a formal demand