The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-16

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LONDON APP - Metropolitan
sergei, IS, spiritual leader OF ap-
proximately l0OO00'00O orthodox
Russian christians. died Monday
OF a brain hemorrhage, a Tass
News Agency report from Moscow
said. Funeral services will be held
r usday The Metropolitan had
served as acting head OF the Rus
sian Orthodox Church for more
than a decade when il was without
a formal leader.
ISTANBUI -AP- Premier
Marshal lon Antoneseu Of Ro-
mania was reported today to
have warned Adolf Hitler that
n more German reinforce
ments were not forthcoming
Immediately Romania would
consider herself free" 10 nego-
tate a separate armistiee with
the Allies.
BOGOTA. COMMUNICATIONS
ical circles expressed belief today
that President Alfonso Lopez
might insist upon retiring from
Office although the Colombian Sen
sto declined last night TO accept
his resignation. There was no Of
fetal indication, however, OF the
course Lopez would pursue.
LONDON-AP-Pictures OF Brit
ism transports and landing craft
massed at British bases were pub
lished Monday by London news
papers. under captions which said
the vessels were ready for the
invasion call
LONDON-AP-As the result OF
a government warning that passen-
ger train service ma ybe curtaii-
ed as much as so per cent without
notice at any time during the sum-
mer, the British Labor party has
DO tponed indefinitely it's annual
conference, which was to have been
held in London the week end or
Whit-Sunday, May %.
LONDON APP - 1t. Gibson
Fahnestock. Jr, OF a prominent
New York family, who was an Raj
bomber pilot before transferring
10 the t. s. Army Air Forces, is
now known to be a prisoner OF war,
it was announced today.
WASHINGTON-AP- The Mer-
chant Marine lost one OF its most
colorful shippers in the death at
Sc OF Capt. Levi J. Plesner, so.
OF New OrleanL, disclosed today
by the War Shipping Administra-
ton.
NEW YORK-INS-The death
OF Joseph Donahue, go, director OF
railroad transportation, routing
and shipping for the Ringing Broth
ers-Barnum & Bailey Circus, was
announced today.
OTTAWA-lNS - DR.. Herbert
Bruce, Progressive member Of the
Canadian parliament from Toronto,
Ont, stood reprimanded today for
asking II columnist Walter Win
-chell had been paid by the Cana.
dian Government TO publiciZe the
Canadian war effort IN a recent
column. Defense Minister Leigh
toa Ralston said Bruce should
hang his head in shame for max
ing the query.
MIDDLETOWN, May Tins
Counsel for Fowler Mccormick. In
ternational Harvester executive,
we're prepared today to give him a
report on their examination OF
court.approved adoption papers
granting custody of his sisters two
adopted children to DR.. Frances
NJ. Clarke, of Durham.
LONDON-AP- Giovanni Ansal.
do. an Italian commentator on the
Axis-controlled Rome radio and a
former director of the late Count
Galeazzo Ciano's newspaper. Tele-
grafo of Livorno, has been put in
a concentration comp on charges
that he was spreading subversive
propaganda in his weekly reviews,
said the German radio today in a
broadcast recorded by the British
ministry OF information.
ANKARA, Turkey -AP- A con-
siderable number OF arrests have
been made quietly throughout Tur-
key in an effort to break up the
allegedly Nazi.financed Gray
Wolf Society, which authorities
claim has been stirring up trouble
among students and others.
BARCELONA-AP- Spanish and
Allied authorities began arriving
in this Mediterranean port today
for tomorrow's exchange OF approx
imately 900 British and American
prisoners OF war and about 70O
Germans in the second such trans.
fer on Spanish soil.
WASHINGTON-UP- The fed
eral government today continued
its two-way maneuver TO cut off,