The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-29

timber and range lands, ranch
homes, outbuildings, stock, sum
mer cabins, and threatened several
communities in Marin County di.
rectly north OF San Francisco. No
casualties have been reported.
LONDON ms A Reuters
Singapore dispatch said Brit
ish Indian troops landed today
at Batavia, Java, where lndo-
neslan groups are In revolt.
The occupation troops were un-
der command OF Lieut.. Gen.
Sir Philip christIson who yes
terday was appointed Allied
commander Of the Dutch East
indies.
DETROIT-AP--J. Russell Gnau,
associated with the Ford Motor
Company in various executive ca
pacities for approximately a quar-
ter century, resigned today. He
long had been a close associate of
Harry II. Bennett who was reliev.
ed Thursday night OF his duties
as personnel manager OF the Ford
Company.
oTTAWA-AP - Demands
for cancellation OF war time
concessions 20 international
Highway Forwarders, Ltd, to
carry materials In bond In Am
eriesn trucks between Detroit
and Buffalo. using Canadian
highways, will be given the i'm
mediate attention Of the cab
met council.
TOKYO AP 49, Domei News
Agency. said today that Japan's
army and navy general stan will
he abolished effective Sept. so.
General Macarthur some time ago
dissolved the Japanese imperial
headquarters.
WASHINGTON. ID. c. - Presi.
dent Truman may name four sen
ators and at least two House mem.
bers to the forthcoming inter-Amer.
lean conference at Rio de Janerio.
The meeting Is scheduled for Octo-
Der 20 to translate the act of cha
pultepec into a treaty but there
may be a postponement due TO
troubled conditions in Argentina.
PEARL HARB0R-AP - Adm.
William F. Halsey. who chased ia
pans navy all overland off-the
Pacific with a vigor and tenacity
THAT won him the nickname Of 1.-THE
Bull. has asked TO be retired at
So. I'm an old man,let the young
fellows take over" the craving
famed skipper OF the Third Fleet
announced.
WASHTNGTON-AP - Genera
Jonathan NJ. Wainwright, hero Of
Bataan liberated recently from the
japanese, Is to head the Eastern
Defense Command of the United
States
MANTLA-AP-A approximately 81
per cent OF all Navy personnel in
the Philippine sea frontier will be
sent home by Jan. /. Vice Adm
James l.. Kaufman said today.
NARSARSSUAK Greenland-UF
Huge icebergs Off the east coast
Of Greenland today menaced a L
3. Army transport returning i
soldiers from the Arctic radio
weather outpost where they haC
been marooned eight months
Swept by winds and tide, the ice
bergs we're rapidly closing th'
main passage from SkjoldungeI
Fjord, where the soldiers boarded
the transport Belle Isle.
TOKYO-AP- The U. S. SiXti
Infantry Division will be draw
from Luzon and substituted for thu
s6th division in cath Army Corpi
forces designated to occupy Korea
General MacArthur's headquarter
announced today. The 96th, now II
the Philippines, will be trans
ferred to the Sixth Army, which II
occupying southern Japan.
DETROIT-AP-- Men between
the ages OF II and &c may now en-
list in the Marine Corps for eithe
three or four year periods, Capt
Robert L. Gibson, officer in charg'
of Michigan recruiting, announce,
today. Heretofore only four-yea
enlistments had been accepted.
TOKYO-AP-Allied headqual
ters today authorized the Japanes
government to send eight smal
coastal defense ships to evacuat
$4,000 military personnel from tn
islands OF Tsushima and Xxi, be
tween Kyushu and Korea. The jar
snese ships, now at the Kyushu ma
lval base OF Sasebo. will return tn
men TO Fukuoka, on Kyushu.
U. S. WEATHER FORECAST
Lower Michigan-Fair north an
central and partly cloudy extrem
kouth tonight and Sunday. Code
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