The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-22


lied armies. Consider carefully
before you listen to General Eisen-
hover" said Philippe Henriot,
Vichy information minister, in
broadcast in direct answer TO Essen
bower's radio statement OF Satur-
day. The Allied invasion is
Ssamble and its success is a very
open question"
ONDON-AP- Thousands
Of passengers missed their
trains at London stations to-
day. with blackboards announe-
ing that many schedules had
i, been cancelled without warn
, ing.
MOSCOW-AP-Alexel, 81 year
old metropolitan OF Leningrsd and
Noygorod, has become acting pat
riarch OF all Russia. taking the
place of the late Holy Patriarch
Sergei, who died earlier this month.
. Alexei's appointment was made by
y he Holy Synod OF the Russian Or
thodox Church which, it was an
nounced yesterday, had accept.
ed and fulfilled the last will and
testament" Of Sergei. who asked
that AleXei be named. AleXei's
formal election as patriarch ap-
, peared virtually certain.
CHUNGKlNG Inns Prob
able destruction Of four Jap
ships by American llberator
bombers which attacked a Jap
convoy was disclosed today by
Lieut.. Gen. Joseph Stlwei's
headquarters.
J WASHINGTON-AP- The Unit
ed States-now the owner of the
worlds largest navy-has leased
almost 1,400 naval craft to the
British under lend-lease.
loNDoN-lNS-Sensationai
developments are expected
4 shortly in Bulgaria. where the
government is repeatedly de-
batting a German note amount
ing to an ultimatum, Reuters
News Agency said today in
Geneva dispatch.
WASHINGTON-AP- Senators
Investigating the paper shortage
. looked to Chairman Donald NJ. Mel
son OF the War Production Board
(WPB) today TO supply a new for
mula for ths-allocatipn OF scarce
supplies among book. magazine and
newspaper publishers.
WASHINGTON -AP- Justice
Edward c. Eicher overruled today
) all defense motions for a mistrial
I'm the mass setition conspiracy
case which moved into It's sixth
week. Attorneys for several OF
the 20 defendants had commended
the opening statement of Prose
cutor o. John Royce was inflama-
tory and designed to poison the
minds OF the jury" but Eicher said
} he had read the transcript care
fully over the week end and con.
cluded that it did not transcend
permissible bounds"
BEVERLY HILLS. Calif.-AP-
Actress Paulette Goddard chose a
garden as the background for a.
simple ceremony yesterday In
(which she was married to Capt.
Burgess Meredith, former actor
now with the Army Air Forces.
DENVER -AP- Senator Hol-
man Of oregon says the money
spent by my opponents was chief
ly responsible for his defeat last
Friday at the finish OF a bitterly.
contested Republican primary cam
paign.
GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea-INS-
Many American made products
either sold to Japan before Pearl
Harbor or captured in the Philip
pines are turning up on Wakde
Island today. Among the Amer.
lean made materials are planes
made OF aluminium; Wright Air.
craft engines; browning so caliber
machine guns with Japanese mark.
ings, Goodrich tires. lefthand drive
Ford trucks and numerous cases
OF bottles labeled philadelphia
> whisky.
DETROIT --AP- Twenty oil
tank cars and box car uncoupled
from the center OF 100 car Mich
igan Central freight train this
morning, jumped the track and
we're scattered over the Wyoming
Avenue crossing in Dearborn.
Traffic over the 7 track crossing
was halted for two hours. Fuel
oil pouring out OF the tank cars
was channeled through a hastily
dug ditch.
CHCNGkING -AP- Chinese
troops concentrating the Ia
panese wedge into Honan Province
along the Peiping Hankow railroad
were reported today to have re.
captured three towns, but private
advices said the enemy was bring.
ing up reinforcements both al Can.
ton and Hankow, possibly for an.
other offensive.
LANSING --AP- Circuit Judge
Leland W Carr today adjourned
the hearing Of defendants in the
second legislative graft conspir.
acy warrant TO May % on motion
OF special Prosecutor Kim Sirler
70 allow further time for effnrtr