The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-20


ma, stepped briskly frol his silver
C-54 transport plane at Shanghai's
Kisngwan Airheld this afternoon,
ready 10 begin his admittedly diffi-
cult MISUNDERSTANDING peace
and unity to China. The 66year-
old chief OF stan was met by 1t.
Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer, U. s.
commander in China. and Walter
Robertson, acting L. S, minister TO
Chungking.
HEIDELBERG, Germany
AP-Gen. george S. Patton, Jr.,
recovering from injuries re-
csived in an automobile scel-
dent, spent an uncomfortable
night as a result Of excessive
bronchial seeretlons," the Mid
day Medical Bulletin said today.
ROME-AP Edda Mussolini
Ciano daughter of Benito Musso-
lini and widow OF County Galeazzo
Ciano, Fascist foreign minister, has
been sentenced by al Italian prov
. incia, commission 20 two years
confinement for her efforts in be-
half OF Fascism, dispatch from
Messina, TO the newspaper II Tenn
po said today.
LULA, Ga.-AP-Workmen to-
day cleared wreckage from South
ern Railway tracks near White Sui
phur, Ga, where a freight train
crashed into the rear OF the rail-
roads passenger train. the Pied.
mont Limited, and killed three per-
sons.
BATAVIA-AP-B British artillery
pounded trouble spots in northwest
ern Bandoeng for an hour today, as
fighting which has already cost
British and Indian troops almost
1900 casualties continued in In.
donesia. Meanwhile, Neither
lands navy communique announced
the first naval action In the Java
distut bances-the capture OF what
was described as a cotton motor
shin The communique said the
ship was seized Dec. II after she
fred on Dutch landing party from
the destroyed Kortenaer.
TIENTSTN -AP- Six heavily
bearded Marines, who said they
had been the guests under armed
guard-of Chinese Communists for
SO days and once clashed with rifle.
firing soldiers in a frustrated es-
cape, returned yesterday to their
posts at this Marine headquarters.
Mai. Gen. Keller F.. Hockey, COM
mander OF the Third Marine Amphi-
bieHs- Force. heard their story first
hand from 1t. Robert A. Holbrook,
Three Rivers, Tex.
MANILA -AP--- A second death
march" in the precipitous noun
tains OF northern Luzon. in which
exhausted and emaciated American
prisoners OF war were pushed over
cliffs. was charged today against
japanese 1t. Gen. Masaharu HON.
ma. More than 100 sick prisoners
were made TO act as pack animals"
for hauling Japanese arms and sup
plies into the rugged country 10
fight gIerrillas.- said the formal
charges against the former COM
mander in the Philippines.
PHILADELPHIA -AP-- Phila-
delphia's disease-infected pigeons,
r-condemned to death by city ordi
nance, had their day in court-and
lost. Common Pleas Court Judge
Joseph L. Kun upheld a city law
committing the pigeons to death
by gas and said II was a criminal
offense to feed them.
j WASHINGTON -AP-- Acquit-
ted on one charge, Navy Capt.
Charles B. McVay Sd waited today
for the unhurried routine OF court
martial procedure TO run its course
on second count. Both grew out
OF the loss of his ship, the heavy
cruiser Indianapolis. last July. Az
Ter slightly more than two hours
yesterday, the mill
tary tribunal found not proved
a charge OF culpable inefficiency.
But the court announced no report
on the Nays contention that Nc
Way was negligent.
SAN FRANCISCO -AP- Social
! tie Annie Irene Mansfield, charged
with the Staying Of nurse Vada Mar.
tin, supposed love rival, was con-
victed OF manslaughter by a SUI
perior court jury which deliberat.
ed 4 hours and 50 minutes. Next
Wednesday the same jury OF six
men and six women, who sat
through the three and a half week
Lcourt battle, will again convent to
determine IL the IS year old San
Francisco matron was sane when
she shot the pretty, SO year old Bal
timore nurse last Oct. 4.
U. S. WEATHER FORECAST
Lower Michigan-Mostly cloudy
). with occasional light snow and con-
~tinued cold, tonight and Friday.
Upper Mostly cloudy
with occasional light snow tonight.
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