The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-17

HOLLYWOOD-lNS Uni
eersal Pictures today announc-
ed the approation Of the Iarg-
est advertising budget in its
history for the 1943-44 season.
Recognizing the medium Of
newspaper advertising as the
"most forcefuI", Universal dis
closed that s65o,ooo is 10 be
spent for the EXPLOITATION Of
four bia-budeet productions .,s
alone.
NEW YORK-lNS-A Moscow
radio broadcast re. orted today that
Polish patriots tried. sentenced ard
executed Kurt Hoffman. Nazi slave
labor recruiting director in War
saw. Another Polish Quisling. the
municipal transit director, also was
reported put to death. The Mos
COW broadcast. in the Polish Ian
guage was licked up by the FEC.
WASHlNGToN-lNs A
naval spokesman today flatIy
denied Axis charges that
American forces have used poi
son gas in their attack on
Japanese on Attu Island in the
AIeutans. ENEMY Claims
that the United States forces
in the Aleutians have used gas
are absolutely untrue" the
spokesman said.
NEW YORK -INS-The Rev. DR..
S. Taggart steele. Jr., vicar of the
Church OF the Intercession. i'll re-
sign August to accept the rector
ship OF st. Luke's Episcopal Church
in Germantown, Pa.
! UNITED NATIONS HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN AUSTRALIA-INS-Wis-
consins No. / fighter pilot, popular
Lieut.. Richard Bong, today was
named by Lieut.. Gen. George [.
keLney as the leading ace among
American pilots in New Guinea.
Bong is officially credited with 10
victories over Japanese warplan>s.
LONDON ms Marshal Clio
vanni Messe, erstwhile command
er.in-chief of Italian forces in Tu-
nisia. arrived in England by air
today. accompanied by other high
ranking Italian prisoners.
wASHINGTON--iNS--- Definite
Senate action on anti-third and
fourth term resolutions today ap-
peared in prospect as Sen. E. H.
Moore (R) Okla. joined in moves
by other members to limit presi-
Dental tenure.
WASHINGTON-INS-- The Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation today
held belief that a newly trained
class of German saboteurs soon
will try to enter The United
States. Belief that more grad
yates from the Berlin school for
saboteurs. from which came the
eight Nazis who were landed on
American shores last summer,
would be unleashed against this
country was expressed in a warn
ing by ]. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief
WASHINGTON - ms - OPA
Chief Prentiss NJ. Brown today de-
clared that additional mileage for
vacation travel cannot be permit
ted this summer because the ex-
ira use of rubber throughout the
nation, and gasoline in the East,
could not be justified.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-INS-Wil-
liam Andrew Johnson, thought to
have been the last surviving slave
OF a president. was dead today in
Knoxville. Named for President
Andrew Johnson, he was born in
slavery near the Greenville, Tenn,
home of the former chief eXecu-
tive. His mother, Dolly. was
purchased by President Johnson
when she was IA years old. Her
son was 10 years old when the
former president died.
LOS ANGE, LES ms The
much publicized Beebe case. which
led to a grand jury investigation
OF alleged police brutality and the
indictment of Policeman Compton
c. Dixon. reaches a climax today
in superior court. Dixon, charged
with trampling to death Stanley
Beebe. a city prisoner. goes or
trial before Superior Judge Gle
ment d. Nye. He faces a sentence
II convicted, of five years to life
in the penitentiary.
WASHINGTON--INS-The Sen
ate Finance Committee today OPEN
hearings on extension OF the recip
rocal trade treaty act with Repub
licans seeking an agreement on
major restrictive amendment. Sec
rotary OF state Cordell Hull, origin
ator OF the plan OF lowering tariff
and promoting international trade
has 10 make an appeal for a three
year extension without a singh
change.
WASHTNGTON-INS-- Sen. Ber
nett Champ Clark CD toda.
planned to carry 10 the Senate hi
fight to block promotion of thre
star rank of aj.-Gen. Ben Lear o
yoo-hoo fame on the ground tina
lear drove a cousin OF Sen. Harr
s. Truman ID, also Of Mo, out o
the army.
CHICAGO-tNS- Some 1900
permanent guests in Chicago hotel
were resigned today to the nece'
sity OF making their own be. an