The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-24

the motive for killing his wife,
Lillian, IS, and her maid, Miss Edna
Sibilski. 2s, in the livingroom OF
his English manor home in fash
ionable Northwest Evanston.
ANKARA- delayed - AP -
Hundreds OF carloads OF equipment
from dismantled French and Bel
gian petroleum refineries are being
moved through Rumania en- route
TO the North Caucasus, where the
Germans have captured the outer
ring Of Russia's rich Caucasian oil
fields. reports from the Balkans
said today.
HUNTINGTON PARK, Calf -
APP Miss Coral Houston, Method
ist missionary who has returned
from China aboard the exchange
ship Gripsholm, declared that four
and possibly five crewmen of a
United States bomber who landed
In occupied China after the bomb
ing of Tokyo were captured by
Japanese.
BOMBAY-AP-Of Official quarters
declared today there was no founda-
ton for German radio reports OF
the death of Mrs. Gandhi, wife OF
midas imprisoned Nationalist lead
err. (The German broadcast. heard |
yesterday in London, gave no de-
tails and did not say how the report
OF Mrs Gandhi's death had been
receiyed).
DETROIT-UP-Th automotiye |
Industry reached the halfway mark /
OF its giant var production effort /
today Just two years after Lieut.. !
Gen. William S. Knudsen asked it /
10 help aircraft manufacturers with !
the nations first big bomber pro |
gram. The former passenger ar |
builders are grinding out arma- |
ment for Americas fighting forces |
at the rate Of $1,000, 900 daily, a /
production volume already 50 per |
cent greater than peak peacetime |
output of automobiles and trucks |
CANDY CITY, COlo.-AP-A man |
who said a powerful sadistic urge /
had cursed him since childhood /.
was executed last night for the /
murder of a school girl who was /,
fiendishly tortured. attacked and |
shot. Donald II. Fearn, 26-year old /
Pueblo railroad worker. died in the /
statep rison gas chamber for the /
April % slayng of pretty Alice /
Porter, Is, p high school student.
WASHINGTON-AP - DESPITE F
some local shortages Of coffee. the I
stocks OF the nations fayorite /.
breakfast beverage are at least nor /
NAL and perhaps above, informed |
government sources said today. On |
an unofficial and anonymous basis, |
these officials attributed the short.
ages, not caused by boarding and
overbuying, to the War Produc- +
ton Boards y per cent cut in the
amount available to consumers .
step prompted by uncertainties Of
shipping,
WASHINGTON-AP- Chairman /.
w liz tltI - MUM. , VI illt senate
Interstate Commerce Committee. I
today denounced as "antistrike' a
bill 10 lift the ban against record /.
ed music, but warned that unless .
thed ispute was settled soon the
American Federation of Musicians T.
would be subjected to an inyestiga- /.
tion.
WASHINGTON-AP-Shlps EN-
ersed today as the sole armament
category in which the country's war /
plants were certain to meet-and ]
probably surpass-the 1912 blue .
print for victory" goal announced
by President Roosevelt last Janu.
airy. The Presidents disclosure f.
that the production program was
being revised to turn out fewer .
warplanes and tanks, and more of t
other, harder hitting weapons, oc- f
casiOned no stir in War Production T.
Board circles where the fact has
been accepted that shifting strate- T
gic needs have nccessitated some
major shifts in production EN-.
phasis.
HEADQUARTERS ALASKA DE. /
TENSE COMMAND-AP - Crew .
members OF a combat aircraft. who .
have earned tier 15-day leaves the .
hard way with a score OF flights .
over Japanese-held Kiska Island .
were on the way today 10 some
scattered from Beltou. Tex. TO /
Brooklyn. The crews approximate .
ly 30 trips over kiska gives it the .
combat lead iot It's squadron and .
possibly for al units on the Alas. .
kan front Fourteen times the nine .
men OF this heavy bomber relaxed /
after the bombs away" signal ind. {
Gated their mission for a trim was .
over. On other trips either the T
weather or ether causes stopped .
the plane or &c was on photo mis-. F
sions only.
DETROlT-lNS The much dis.
oussed debate between Circuit +
Court judge Homer T.. Ferguson
Detroit. who is seeking the L.. S. F.
Senatorship now held 10y Prentiss
VI. Brown will take place az 1880 F.
p. m. tomorrow over radio station .
WJR, IL was announced today.
DETROlT-INS Charged with.
throwing acid on eight persons i'm
a bar. Allen Campbell. o. was held .
under $500 bond today after
pleading not guilty to the Charge. /