The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-28
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NEW YORK-INS-The United
States had a plea today from DR..
II. II. Kung. finance minister OF
the Chungking government and
vice president of the executive
Yuang. for large postwar aid in
the economic development of Chi
ma. Speaking at a dinner in his
honor In New York. attended by
1900 business and public officials
OF both countries. he said postwar
China would be IAN open market
with abundant possibilities.
WASHINGTON - ms - The
mass sedition trial ended its four
teenth week today with Justice
Edward c. Eicher ordering court re-
cessed until Monday to examine
alleged letters outlining plans Ito
alter the course OF American his
tory in the next two to four years"
WASHINGTON - ms - The
Army and the Navy went into &C
ton today to curb their first sol
dier-sailor vote headache and fore
stall. IL possible, a bad case OF
national migraine on election day.
Word that scores OF federal war
ballots had been prematurely re-
ceived and invalidated in Califor-
MIA, bringing a food OF inquiries
into the u. S. War Ballot Commits
sion, caused issuance Of new in
structions emphasizing that the
ballots may not be distributed or
cast before Oct. ?.
HOLLYWOOD-INS - Actress
Bettejane Greer had an uncontest-
ed divorce today from crooner
Rudy Vallee. former Coast Guard
band leader. awarded after she
testified that Vallee "told me
was stupid and had the mind of
child" "He told me I was beaut-
full but dumb" she testified. 81
love Rudy so very much and tried
80 hard to make go of our mar
rige, but 1t was no USE"
HOLLYWOOD-INS - Tamara
Toumanova, Russian actress. and
Casey Robinson, Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer writer and former academy
award winner, will be married at
the Russian Orthodox Church Sun
day, it was learned today.
DETROIT-AP- Aided by the
coast guards new "firebug', jat-pro-
PEELED boat with the latest equip
ment for fighting waterfront fires,
firemen extinguished a blaze at
the Detroit & Cleveland Naviga-
tion Co. docks here last night be-
fore it spread to nearby ware
house. Fire Marshal Edward w.
Hall estimated damage at $4,000.
The warehouse and its merchan-
disc were valued at 100000.
A U. S. MILITARY CEMETERY
NEAR LACAMBE, France-AP-A
white wooden cross with dog
tag" for Identification marks the
grave OF Bede Irwin. Associated
Press photographer, in this GENE
terry Just off the main Bayeaux-
Carentan Highway. Final tribute
was paid by newspaper colleagues
and army officers in a special
graveside memorial service yester-
day, when Irwin would have been
"a years old. He was killed Tues
day by a bomb fragment from an
American marauder.
BOGOTA, Colombia-AP- Col.
Diogenes Gil has been convicted
as the leader OF an abortive revolt
July 10 during which President AL
fonso Lopez and several OF his
cabinet ministers were held pris-
oner, and has been sentenced to
10 years imprisonment the gov
eminent press office announced to.
day. Convicted with Gil, the an
nouncement stated, were Lit. Col.
Luis Agudelo and Maj. Jose FL
gueroa, who were sentenced to
eight and seven years imprison-
meHL IespeCliNtiys AL thlVC WV
stripped OF their military rank.
BATTLE CREEK. Mich.-AP-
James Mason, 30, sought by state
police in connection with the shoot
ing of Mrs. Jane Nicholas and
Mrs. Mary Schaaf, shot himself
in the attic of his stepson's home
here last night as police were
about to arrest him. He died at
midnight in the Community Hos
pital.
WASHINGTON - ms - Rep.
Randolph CD w. Va, labelling syn
thetic gasoline as must" after
the war, warned today this nations
fuel supply must be bolstered to
meet demands of greatly expand
ed private aircraft operations.
BUENOS AIRES-AP- Several
thousand persons, voicing approx
al OF the governments foreign pol
icy with shouts of "Argentines yes,
Yankees no. participated last night
in an orderly demonstration dur
ing which a nose bomb exploded
in front of the building occupied
H., tho powsnanar Ia NaciOn