The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-02-04

| Late News
ELK MOUNTAIN. Wyo.-AP-A
weary party OF blizzard-battered
searchers prepared today to work
its way up the treacherous, ice.
encTusted side OF Elk Mountain in
an effort TO recover the body OF a
soldier-last of the u victims who
were killed when a United Airlines
transport crashed into the peak
Thursday.
LONDON-AP 49, Sir Maurice
Drummond Peterson. veteran Brit.
ish career diplomat now serving as
ambassador TO Turkey, has been
named ambassador to Moscow TO
succeed Sir Archibald Clark Kerr.
Clark Kerr, now on a special mis-.
sion TO lndonesia, will become am.
bassador to the United States this
spring.
MANILA-AP-Lt. Gen. Masa-
haru Homma, commander OF Japa-
nese forces which overran the
Philippines, probably will be call
ed Tuesday as witness in his
war crimes trial, 1t. Robert Pelz
OF New York City, assistant de-
tense attorney, said today.
CHICAGO-AP-A police arson
squad today was investigating a
series OF Sunday fires in the Con
gress Hotel, historic Michigan Ave.
showplace, which brought death TO
one man and injuries to ~ per
sons. Frank j. Van Hoesen, 80,
Rochester, n. Y. paint and wall.
paper executive, suffocated during
a FIRE which started at $3.50 a. m.
and burned through "a htth and
sixth floor rooms.
NUERNBERG-AP - Heinrich
Himmler tried to hush up the story
OF three years OF murderous medic
al experiments on Jews and Cath
Ollie priests at Dachau by having
his former sweetheart and her
mad doctor husband shot to
death Just before American troops
took the camp, Allied investigators
have established.
BERN. Switzerland --AP - A
sharp, brief earth tremor awakened
residents OF Bern, Biel and Luzern
st5:10 a. m. Nl:10 D. m. EST Sun.
day. today but no damage was re.
ported. Switzerland has been eX-
periencing quakes for more than
week.
WASHINGTON-AP- Big drug
companies held top spots on list
OF tax refunds hled with Congress
today by the Treasury Department.
Four OF them were among the six
corporations and individuals who
received refunds I'm excess Of ST.
100000 each during the fiscal year
ended last June 80.
NEW YORK-AP-Pa Ameri
can Always said today one OF its
Constellation planes had set new
transatlantic commercial flight
record of ~ nor = and Ave minutes
flying 5,400 miles from LaGuardis
Field to Hurn, England, with two
stops en- route. The previous rec
ord for he trip was II hours. two
minutes. set Jan. I by a Pan Amer
imam clipper plane.
TOKYO-INS-More than FIVE
centuries OF Japanese imperial rule
were challenged today by humble
Nagoya shopkeeper who arrived
in Tokyo to press his claims that
he is the rightful emperor OF ia
pan. Challenging the throne OF
the Son OF Heaven is 56-year-o old
Hiromichi KumaZawa, former
Buddhist leader. Kumazawa main
talns he is the nineteenth direct
descent OF Emperor Gokameyama
who reigned 554 years ago
LONDON-INS - The London
Daily Mail political writer said TO
day the British cabinet was "un
doubtedly perturbed" over the
possibility the L. S. Congress might
not approve the proposed four bill
lion dollar loan TO Britain. The
article said that should the loan be
turned down the labor ministers
know they will have TO face not
only serious economic conseduen
ces hut equally important political
decisions
TOKYO-AP 49, Mrs. Douglas
Macarthur was offered the honor
airy presidency today OF the new
Japan women's political party
Leaders OF the party. announcing
the OFFER, said IL was made "tC
work for world peace. There was
no immediate comment from tbs
supreme Allied commanders wife
on the offer.
HOLLYWOOD-INS- Dan TOP
ping. millionaire from whom skat
ing star Sonia Henie is slated &c
get a divorce in Chicago next Fri
day, will he married again before
the month Is out. Kay Sutton
Weaver. former Aim actress is tC
he the wealthy sportsmans mex
bride. The marriage will take
place in Florida later in the month
LONDON-UP-The British sub
marine Universal was reported
sinking In the Irish Sea six miles
west of Bishop Rock today In
7O.mile gale. The Universal, =
54O-ton submarine OF the Roya
Nays 1896 program, was enroutt
tn Newport from Londonderry