The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-19


broadcast today. two days after
the mystery" death of Field
Marshal Walther Won Reichenau
and amid swelling rumors OF
German army purge. that Field
Marshal Walther Won Brauchitsch
had undergone an operation which
would keep him from action for
a long time.
DETROIT up Edsel Ford,
president OF the Ford Motor Co..
today was reported to be recover
ing normally after a stomach op-
Grafton at Henry Ford Hospital.
Hospital physicians said Ford had
passed the critical stage In his
recovery but that he would be con-
fined to his bed for several weeks
to avoid complications,
BERNE-INS- Field Marshal
General wilhelm Keitel, chief II
the German high command, will ar
rive in Budapest January 20 Tor
visit of several days, the Hungar-
ian telegraphic agency reported to-
day. The visit was described as
answering a visit OF Hungarian
G. T. Vrable, and Pvt. L. Pagan.
MOSCOW-INS-The Red army
newspaper Red Star said today
that men and women armed with
pitch forks and axes" from nearby
forests helped Red army troops
throw the NaEis out OF the village
of Efimovo.
VICHY, Unoccupied France-AP
Fifteen alleged Communists were
sentenced to prison today in Douai,
in the occupied zone, two OF them
to hard labor for life and l3 others
to total Of 40 years in jail, includ-
ing 80 years at hard labor. 1t was
reported today.
BERLIN - (Official broadcast
recorded by AP)-Nazi bombers
were reported today by the Ger
man high command to have at
tackled British convoy in the Gulf
OF Sirte off the Libyan coast and
badly damaged several large mer-
chant ships.
SACRAMENTO, Calf. -AP-
The California legislature sent to
the governor today a bill giving
San Francisco authority to trans
fer title to Treasure Island to the
Navy Department for use as d
permanent base.
LONDON AP- A British-Ethi-
opiGn agreement was completed
today IN London providing for res
toration of full sovereignty to
Halle Selsssie and for assistance
10 his reclaimed kingdom designed
10 place 1t cu 4 sound economic
basis.
WASHINGTON --AP-- Friends
OF Wendell L. Willkie said today
tho 1871 Republican presidential
nominee apparently had decided to
decline official position with the
gov eminent because he wished to
preserve his private capacity as
citizen and be free to utter CON
structive criticism OF the admins
tration's war effort.
AN EAST COAST CANADIAN,
PORT-AP- Survivors OF a Pan
amanian freighter. torpedoed
somewhere in the western Allan
tic, asserted on their arrival yes
terday that enemy submarines
were almost as thick as catfish
In the waters where they were
attacked.
ROME-(Oficial Broadcast Re-
corded by AP)-Rumania and Tue.
key have signed a new commercial
treaty providing for an annual ex'
change OF goods valued at l2,0OO,'
600 Turkish lire, Stefani News
Agency reported today from An
kara.
LONDON-AP- Philip Joseph
Ward, 31.year-old anti-aircraft gun
ner who went on a three-hour
homicidal shooting rampage
through suburban streets last Nov
IL, was found unfit today to plead
TO a triple murder charge. The
Brixton Prison medical officer said
Ward was suffering from paranoi'
dal schizophrenia and had been
certified as insane 10 years ago.
BOMBAY, India-AP-The gov
eminent OF India today froze all
Philippine assets in India because
the lawful government is not
operating in the Philippines"
VICHY, Unoccup.ed France-AP
Ernest Vilgrain, a member oil
the Clemenceau cabinet who won
fame In France during the first
World War as a fighter against the
high cost OF living, is DEAD, II was
announced today.
LONDON AP - Government
critics today demanded an immedi
ate parliamentary debate on BrI
tain's reverses in the Far East
In the face OF Prime Minister
Churchills intention to delay the
war strategy statement possibly a
week.
SALT LAKE CITY-AP-Head
quarters OF the Ninth Corps Arel
OF the L. S. Army and those OF the
communications zone OF the west
ern theater OF operations today