The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-09

what their duties would be.
LONDON iNS-Mysterious
arrival in England Of a Ger
man officer under eireum-
stances similar to that OF depu-
ty Nazi leader Rudolph Hess
who paraehuted into Scotland
was disclosed in London today.
The officer was Identified only
as Captain KIause". Cues
tions will be asked in the House
OF Commons tomorrow regard
ing the method and purpose Of
his visit. He is said - have
made a statement to British
military authorities.
NORTH GRANVILLE. y. Y.-AP
"A suicide verdict was issued Sun
day night in the death OF Leon
Fraser, 56-year-old international
banker and lawyer, who was found
with a bullet wound in his head at
his home. He died on the way to
a hospital.
NEW HORk-AP-Documentary
proof that Manila was destroyed
and its inhabitants slain by the
Japanese army on direct orders
from Tokyo will be submitted 10
Congress on April II, Brig. Gen.
Carlos z. Romulo said here Sun
day.
MEXICO CITY-AP-The War
Department announced today that
squadron of the Mexican air
force, numbering approximately
900 men, had left Pacific port for
active duty in the war zone. Next
co is the second Latin-American
nation to send troops overseas.
Brazilian troops now are fighting
in Italy.
PARIS-AP - A gust Cardinal
Hlond, Gi-year-old primate of Po-
land who has vigorously accused
the Nazis of perpetrating atrocities
against Polish priests. has been
liberated by American Ninth Army
troops from convent near Pader-
born. where he had been held Wy
the gestapo for II months.
LONDON-AP-Bel that Eng
land is now relatively safe from
further flying bomb attacks was
expressed Sunday by an official Of
the home security ministry coin
cidently with the disclosure that
SASS persons had been killed and
25.101 seriously injured since the
N.weapon attacks began last June.
COMO, Miss.-AP-MaJ. Gen Hans
Won Schubert, a German veteran Of
two world wars, was buried yester-
day in alien soil with all the pomp
-~- lrfs~ca.ytf~e ~compatriots and tire
American Army could give. Gen.
Won Schubert died last Wednesday
of a hrain ailment in Kennedy Hos
pital In Memphis. His body had
lain in state in the prison stockade
at the German POW. camp here.
Los ANGELES-AP- Neither
Charlie Chaplin nor Joan Berry, his
former protege, were to be present
today as testimony started in the
retrial of red-haired Joan's suit 10
establish the movie actor and pro-
Queer as the father of her 1S-
months-old daughter, Carol Ann.
\ Jury of II women and one man
has been seated to hear the case.
SAN FRANCISCO-AP- Rear
Adm. Jutaro Takahashi, 6I-year-od
member OF the japanese diet, died
Sunday, the Japanese Domei news
agency reported today in broad
cast recorded by the Federal Com
munications Commission. He was
the 124th Japanese admiral TO die
since last May.
SAN FRANCISCO-AP - Her
decks TANNED with wide-eyed chill
dren and oldsters, big coast guard
transport slipped alongside Navy
pier here Sunday bringing home
more than 500 civilians, most of
whom had been through three
years of Imprisonment under the
Japanese in the Philippines. It was
the largest group Of liberated
Americans to be returned TO this
country.
WASHINGTON ms Demand
ing that the Stars and Stripes never
be lowered from Mount Suribachi
at Two lima, Rep. George al. Ma
hon U) Tex. proposed today that
legislation be enacted TO provide
for permanent possession OF cap
tured key Jap islands.
WASHINGTON-AP-The Army
is adhering to its policy Of waiting
until We Day to determine the
value of the point credits upon
which soldiers will be discharged.
Inquiries at the War Department,
made in light OF the approaching
victory in Europe, brought the ex-
PLANTATION today that until formal
German resistance ceases and the
size Of the occupation army can
he determined 1t will be impossible