The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-04


tells as central government and
Yunsnese troops battled.
WAsHlNGToN-lNS- Gen.
X. Il. Arnold, chief Of the Army
Air Forces, has Informed Con-
areSs than an air force OF 400.
900 to 1000 men Is needed for
the future protection Of the
United States. The force would
be composed OF 20 combat
groups stationed at strategic
bases In the United States and
overseas.
PARIS -AP- The treason trial
OF Pierre Laval started in tumult
today when defense attorneys tried
TO resign In protest to what they
called the illegal" pre.trial exam
ination OF the former Vichy pre-
mier. Laval himself started an up
roar with an opening declaration:
Il am a patriot and will prove It,"
BURBANK. Calif.-AP-A new
Esst-to-West transcontinental speed
flying record Of Z hours. 5S minutes
has been established by a Lock
heed Csc Constellation Transport
plane. The old mark for the 2,355-
mile course, from Miami, Fla, to
Burbank, was 10 hours. 10 minutes.
BERLIN-AP-Gen. Eisenhow-
er's military government speeded
today the drafting OF drastic new
law which would wipe out all Nazi
ownership and Nazi control of Ger
man business in the L. S. occupa-
tion zone. In effect, the decree
would mako II unlawful for any
person who was at any time
member of the Nazi party or its az
filiate organizations to own, con-
troll or supervise any business en-
terprise or possess an interest
therein.
Observation-Disclosures OF
fresh vegetables and fruits drawn
from German civilian stocks for
displaced persons in the American
zone OF Germany were reduced
drastically last night by the Ameri-
can Military Government. Fresh
food permits for camps housing
refugees and slave laborers" were
cancelled on grounds that civilian
stocks in Germany were growing
dangerously low for the coming
winter
WASHINGTON--UP--- Sen. Ed.
win c. Johnson. d.. Colo.- said to-
day he would favor sending L. s.
troops TO Palestine to prevent pos
sible Arab uprisings resulting from
a step-up in Jewish immigration.
Johnson, who has called on the
British repeatedly to allow more
Jews into Palestine, said dispatch
ing OF American soldiers there to
insure order was in keeping with
this ceuntry's plans for interna-
tional security.
MANILA-AP-Lt. Gen. Masa-
haru Homma, who commanded Jap
anese forces during the infamous
march OF death from Bataan. will
he arraigned as a war criminal in
the near future. Col. Alva Carpen-
ter, chief OF General MacArthur's
: war crimes branch, said . today.
Homma's arraignment will follow
shortly after that OF Gen. Tomoyuki
Yamashita, now scheduled for next
Monday.
LISBON-INS-U s. Secretary
OF the Interior Harold lckes was
enroute home today from London
by way of the Azores. The plane
bearing the American cabinet mem
her will stop at Santa Maria, In
the Azores, after taking of from
Lisbon. lckes was in London in
his capacity as oil administrator
and concluded an oil agreement
with the British.
WASHINGTON-lNS Secre.
tary OF State Byrnes was expected
TO arrive in Washington late to-
day from the London Council OF
Foreign Ministers which broke up
in deadlock. Byrnes, who left
London by plane Wednesday, will
confer with President Truman and
then probably make a report 70
House and Senate foreign affairs
leaders.
MEXICO CITY-lNS-The Unit
ed Nations charter drawn up at
San Francisco had the approval
today OF the Mexican senate which
voted to adopt the message after
second reading Senator Celesti-
no Gasca, in commenting on the
action, said that the contents NJ
the charter should be more fully
publicized since the Mexican peo-
pie themselves are the ones obi
Eated 10 carry out the provisions
OF the charter"
U. s. WEATHER FORECAST
Lower Michigan a. Fair and
Warmer tonight. Friday partly
cloudy and mild with a few widely
scattered showers.
Highest temperature yesterday.
40: lowest, 80.
Highest temperature one year
ago today. 50; lowest. ~.
Highest temperature this date in
last 73 years. SO in 1922; lowest,
SO in 1895.
The sun sets today at 6:Oo and