The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-20

WASHINGTON ms - Lieut..
Edward H. OHare. 2s-year-old naval
/. flier who shot down six OF nine Jap
anese planes in one battle over
the Pacific. today rested in seclu-
sion in the home OF friends in near
by Alexandra. Va
SHANNON. m.-lNS-A 12-year-
old lad who confessed that he
killed farm couple who for two
S. years had given him a home and all
its comforts was held in jai! today
while authorities awaited a decision
on what action 10 take against him.
Calmly the bright.eyed boy. Will
liam Billy Geiseman. told police
that he shot his benefactors. Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Krugjohann, al
their farm four miles from Shannon
Saturday Teloading a single shot
rifle several times as he hid from
their view in the house and barn.
!, .BUENOS AIRES-AP-Ten per-
sons were reported today TO have
been killed and others we're in-
jured when a huge sulphur refin-
ing boiler exploded at La CASUAL.
dad (The Hazard) sulphur mines
in the Andean province OF Los
Andes
MOBILE, Ala.-AP-Three new
vessels, a l0000-ton freighter and
two minesweepers rested in the
water today at the huge Chickasaw
yards OF the Gulf Shipbuilding Cor
poration. The minesweapers, the
L. s. S. Tumult and the L. S. S.
Velocity, were launched simultan-
eously yesterday shortly after the
cargo ship. The Falkland, slipped
down the ways.
WASHINGTON-AP - A new
miniature of the Sea otter soon will
undergo tank tests which may de-
termine whether the small. easily.
built cargo boat Of radical design
. goes into mass product on as the
answer TO Axis submarine sinkings
or is discarded as impractical
Commander Hamilton V Bryan OF
the Navy, who nurscd two previous
Sea Offers into existence from his
original idea OF "sardine can with
an cupboard motor, said today thar
a new model was being prepared
for early tests.
WILLEMSTAD Curacao-AP -
An enemy submarine proving
within $50 miles OF the Panama
Canal fired a number OF shells at
important oil installations at Bullen
Bay on this island before dawn
Sunday but an official announce
ment said all the projectiles miss.
ed.
WASHINGTON-AP- Asserting
that food and other prices have
been rising too rapidly, Senator
TAFT tR-Qhio) said today that the
time has come to fix price ceilings
on all raw materials, including
!, basic agricultural prices" Taft,
who cooperated with Price Admin
istrator Leon Henderson and Dem
ocratic congressional leaders in
drafting the present wartime price
control act. said in an interview
that instead OF fixing retail price
controls should be applied on raw
materials. because most farm pro-
, ducts now are at levels that would
permit this"
WASHINGTON - Up - Gen.
George G. Marshall, Army chief Of
STAFF, is expected 10 begin import
ant conferences on war strategy
today with President Roosevelt
and other high military leaders. He
4 and Harry L. Hopkins returned
from a confidential mission to Lon
don Yesterday. Hopkins remained
in New York temporarily but Mar
shall and the four British repre-
sentatives who repeatedly accom-.
panied him flew immediately-to
Washington.
LONDON ms The once
prosperous city OF Szemao is de.
serted, blackened shell following
a series OF destructive earthquake
shocks. u was reported today in
a Reuters dispatch from Chung
king.
WASHINGTON-lNS-Dr Maui
rice Parmelee, economist on the
Board OF Economic Warfare who
was attacked by the Dies Com
Iattee for his nudsm writings,
today promised a fight for rein
statement to the BEW after dis
closing that he was released four
days ago.
!.
BERLIN From German Broad.
casts -AP-A special announce
nent from Adolf Hitler's head
quarters declared today that IS
enemy ships totaling $4,000 tons
had been sunk in the Caribbean
Sea and in the Atlantic off the
American coast.
LONDON-AP- Lieut.. Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., assumed official
duties with the L. s naval
forces in Britain today lie wore
campaign ribbon with a star
which he said was the result OF
action in the North Atlantic, but
he said he was unable to reveal
the nature OF the action.