The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-07-24

SAN FRANCISCO-INS- James
A. Boyd, the 59-year-old self-term.
ed booze fighter has admitted
that his confession" TO Staying
New York Labor Leader R. Norman
Redwood was Just a hoax, authori-
ties disclosed today. mo, l didn't
do It'll owned up TO the murder
10 get a free ride home to New
Jersey" Boyd told San Francisco
and New Jersey investigators.
LONDON-lNS-A large contin-
gent of American sailors, the first
seen in the British capital during
the present war, arrived in London
today on leave.
WASHINGTON -AP- Laun.
dries must continue the same low.
price services they offered last
March or face action as viola.
tors OF price regulations. Price Ad-
ministrator Leon Henderson de.
clared today.
TUCSON, AriZ.-AP-Gen. Ro-
man Yocupicio. former governor
OF Sonora, who has been receiving
treatment for a rheumatic ailment
in a Tucson hospital since June
26, will be taken to San Francisco
Saturday. His physician said he
would enter the University of Cal
Ifornia Hospital. Yocupicio's con-
dition was reported serious but
not critical.
DETROIT -AP- General Mo-
tors Corporation disclosed today
with War Department approval
that the new Army tank plant
built by its Fisher Body division
hos been completed and is rolling
out the all-welded Ma type of
land dreadnaught in train load
quantities Lines of freight cars
loaded with tanks wrapped in pro-
tective covering now leave the
plant on a special track almost
daily, the announcement said.
OAKLAND. Cal-INS-- The AL
amedo County grand jury was to
convene today TO consider testi-
mony against Leslie B. Gireth. the
wealthy Glendale, Cal. jew eler
who confessed to the auto court
"lovenest Staying OF his clandes-
tine sweetheart, pretty 81 year old
Dorena Hammer.
WASHINGTON-INS-Th Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation today
was investigating the deroiling
OF three cars of Richmond, Fred
erieksburg & Potomac Railroad
train at Accotink, Va, Is miles
south Of Washington, which re-
suited in the injury of IS per-
sons, nine seriously.
LONDON ms Sergt. John
Frederick Barrick. pilot in the
Royal Canadian Air Force. has
been awarded the distinguished
flying medal for courage in action
in Burma the air ministry an
nounced today.
NEWARK, y. J.-INS-F. B. !.
agents last night and early today
raided the homes OF % German
and one Italian alien. in Hudson
and Bergen Counties and in south
New Jersey. E. +. Conroy, direc-
tor of the F. B. is Newark Office,
said that an undisclosed number OF
arrests were made in continual
ton OF the series of raids aimed
A. known Axis sympathizers.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-INS- Har-
yard University announced today
he appointment OF Henry S.
Dyer, OF Allegheny College, Mead
vile. Pa. as assistant dean Of
Harvard College IN charge of ad-
ministration Of national and fresh
nan scholarships.
SAN DIEGO. Cal.-UP- Army
authorities today checked results OF
their first large scale test OF man
made fog. designed TO obliterate en-
tire cities from the air For nearly
two hours last night, the west side
OF San Diego was covered by thick
layer OF white chemical smoke sent
up from hundreds of flame pots
spotted throughout vital areas.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-UP-Private
Prescott Freese bennett, who ran
a newspaper clipping service In
Washington before his induction
into the Army less than a month
ago. was the first man in Amer
icas armed forces to be indicted
for subversive activity since Pearl
Harbor, the War Department said
today.
CHICAGO-INS-Mrs. Eiizabe tn
Dilling. anti-Communist crusader
and author Of THE Red Network,
prepared today to fight transfer TO
Washington. -. c., for trial on the
charge OF conspiring to injure the
morale of the armed forces of the
United States She was among the
IS persons indicted by a federal
grand jury in Washington for al
legged seditious activities. She was
free today on bond OF $4,000.
STOCkHOLM-INS-The Swed-
ish government officially charged
today that Russian planes last
night bombed ICELAND Island in the
Baltic Sea. a protest will be sent
20 Moscow.