The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20


on the road to recovery, her physi-
clan said today.
LONDON-AP- Indications fill
tered out OF Germany today that
Heinrich Himmler Is so busy taking
Hitler's place he has found IL nee
, essary to bring up new No. =
NaZi. He is DIR. Ernst Kaltenbrun-
ner, who succeeded "Hangman
Reinhard Heydrich as chief OF the
super-Gestapo.
PARIS-AP- Gen. Charles De
Gaulle, in his second radio FIRE
side chat" TO the French people,
promised last night that France
within eight months would develop
great new army and navy.
LONDON-AP-A Dakota ambu-
lance transport plane carrying
wounded American soldiers from
the western front to Britain crash
ed on a bleak hillside in Southern
England last night, killing at least
49,
BEUSSELS-AP- Unofficial re-
ports that Premier Pierlot might
request Gen. Eisenhower to set up
a temporary protective govern
ment" for Belgium were heard to-
day after a tumultuous demonstra-
ton by an estimated $4,000 march.
ers, shouting for the resignation Of
the Pierlot government.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES persons,
three men and four women, died to-
day in an extra alarm fire in three
story South Side apartment build
ing from which about SO tenants
were rescued by fremen. Six suf-
located or burned TO death in the
blaze and a woman was fatally in
jured in a leap from the second
floor. A fireman also was injured
in a fall during attempts to subdue
the James
BENTON HARBOR, Mich.-AP
Nearly three million gallons OF
gasoline and 5000 tons OF coal were
unloaded in the Twin City port over
the week end in spite OF the late
ness of the navigation season.
CHICAGO-INS-Bailey Stanton,
n Chicago lawyer who collects
paintings as a hobby. figured today
he might have a find" in a paint
ing of Lafayette which he picked
up for 1927 lust to dress up my
Office. A friend, Maurice Gold
blatt. art director Of the University
of Notre Dame Galleries, walked
into Stanton's Office, spotted the
painting and identified 1t as prob
ably the work OF John Trumbull
and worth possibly $4,000 or more.
CHICAGO-UP-Lockheed Air
craft Corporation today announced
a postwar airplane specifically de-
signed to provide low-cost, short
haul air transport for general do
nestle use. Robert K. Cross, H1ck.
heed president. said the new plane,
named the Saturn rs. would bring
flying to Main Street and that two
feeder line operators have already
placed orders for the plane. sub
ject to Civil Aeronautic Board ap-
proval Of their route applications.
NEW RK-INS-Santa Claus
flew north today with Christmas
gifts for Air Transport Command
men in Iceland-in the person OF
Capt. Harold II. Borden, Jewish cir
cult chaplain for the North Atlantic
division. Capt. Gordon left La
Guardia Field with a planeload Of
presents provided by the Minnea-
polls Chamber Of Commerce.
CHUNGKING-AP-The Chinese
High Command intimated tonight
that two Japanese columns boring
into Kwangsi Province from the
north and east had formed a juno
ton west of Liuchow, completing
a direct link across China from
Hongkong TO Manchuria and trap
ping any Chinese troops caught in
a pocket southwest of Liuchow.
WASHINGTON AP-The War
Department turned thumbs down to.
day on a request of Representative
Hebert (D-La) that pre-war faith
ers in the Army not be assigned 10
combat duty.
LONDON-AP- Crown Prince
Olav OF Norway said today the Nor
wegian province OF Finnmark,
burned and laid waste by Germans
in full retreat from the Russians,
may be uninhabitable for years to
come" Thousands of men, women
and children have been sent wan
dering over snowbound roads in
zero temperatures, Olav said, and
invalids and young children are dy'
ing by the wayside.
RIO DE JANElR0- lNS-For-
mer King Carol OF Romania. &C
companied by Nine. Magda Lupes-
Gu. two aides-de-camp, two automo-
biles two diamond-studded crowns,
forty trunks, 81 handbags and six
dogs. arrived at Rio de Janeiro
aboard the Argentine liner Rio Tun-
uyan today.
ROME-INS- Pope Plus XII held
lengthy audience today with Ger
man Ambassador to the Vatican
Weizsacker. who was said to have
informed the Pontiff OF the latest
developments inside Germany. One
topic OF Weizsacker's report to the
Pope, Il was said. was the mysteri.
Gus and widely discussed matter OF
Adolf HItler's health.