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Evening star., 1942-11-01
Nuns Plunge in Icy Lake
To Rescue Drowning Boy

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31.-Three
nuns from the Mother House OF the
Medical Sisters Mission saved a 12-
year-old boy from drowning today
in Is feet of icy water
Diving in their gray habits, Sisters
Winifred, Francesca and Elizabeth
brought Alfred Magrisi to shore
after hearing cries of a playmate
with whom he had been fishing in a
lake on the nuns estate in north
eastern Philadelphia.
The nuns then helped Dr. Francis
Dumont revive the unconscious boy
Evening star., 1942-11-01
Oregon Society to Meet

The Oregon State Society of
Washington will hold its first fall
meeting at 8 pm. Tuesday at the
home of Miss Pherne Miller, 1882
Sixteenth street NV. Herman
Kerhli, president of the society, will
confer with other officials concern
ing the dinner proposed for Febru-
ary IA, anniversary of Oregon's ad-
mission to the Union.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-16
State Vote

Continued From Page OneJ
Pst in modern Michigan history
nade so by the lack of contests at
he head OF the tickets and candi.
Rates who had fights on their
bands complaining they never had
|een such a disinterested public.
Cheir story was the same through
Put-the public 10 whom they
cooked for jobs was much more
Interested in how the war went.
han in what went on in the po-
|itical arena
The Republicans have drawn
their ticket to specifications. They
laid they wanted men at the top
b no would he popular, proved
tote getters in populous Wayne
county. to tangle with the power
Iul alliance of Van Wagner and
Senator Brown. which Is bulwark-
pd by the politically potent state
highway department Kelly has
Drawn powerful votes in his two
tuccessful campaigns for his pres
Int office OF secretary of state.
Ferguson, whose grand jury made
bis name a by-word, polled the
highest vote OF all Of the success
ul candidates for the Wayne cir
tuit bench last year.
Ferguson, SO, has practiced law
N Detroit since 1913 and has been
Wayne circuit Judge since 1929.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-16
BsEleYs Marketl
Staying

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T. Gallagher who wrung the admis-
sion OF the crimes from the youth.
iul fiend Haight, who is to be
charged with kidnapping and murd.
er. told In detail how he had bound
both children hand and foot and
gagged them after getting them
into the car
Then, parking the car in a lonely
spot he crim'nally assaulted both.
He attempted to dispose OF Mar.
garet first by throwing her body
from the ca as Il sped over
bridge on heavily Travelled Route %.
But the body hit the pavement and
he had TO go back and throw II off
the bridge
With the older girl still bound
and gagged and lying on the floor
of the station wagon, he drove some
~ miles through populated towns
10 . remote section OF North Castle.
There. according 10 the story he
told Gallagher, Haight took the
girls inert fern and placed her
head beneath rear wheel Of the
automobile aud drove hack and
forth over II
llaieht then placed the body back
in the automobile and drove 10 the
reservoir
The glare Of the searchlights at
tracted more than thousand per.
sons to the scene OF the search All
Of them were unaware that the
perpetrator OF the CHASTITY murders
was in their midst. heavily guarded
by police.
Slayer cslious
The CallOusncss Of the SLAYER was
illustrated by his casual reference
TO the fact that after killing both
girls and disposlng OF their bodies.
he drove to a Stamford restaurant.
had hearty meal and then return.
ed TO his home and had a good
nights sleep
In addition 10 confessing the
murders. Hsight readily admitted
that he had stolen the station wa.
gon In Stamford and abandoned H.
in that town after returning Mon
day night He also admitted tina,
he had accosted a woman on
New York Connecticut highway AZ.
ter forcing her~car OF the road. He
was frightened away. however.
when he saw the woman had
large dog in the car.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-16
Boys Pelt Passing
Cars With Melons

Two local motorists and Ypsilanti
policemen were unable 10 locate
boys who Tuesday night threw
melons AZ cars az they drove past
on w. Michigan Ave.
One melon struck the car Of Fred
Steiner. 40 y Huron st, and
might have caused injury 10 an in
FAINT being held by Mrs Steiner
had not the window been rolled up.
Mr. Steiner and another motorist.
Gilbert Summers, 1859 Elder St.
searched the area, hut corn field
and other cover provided paca
for the culprits TO hide.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-16
Mrs. Alice Woodruff

Friends have received word OF the
death OF Mrs. Alice Barnaby
Woodruff. widow Of the late Charles
NJ. Woodruff in Glendale, Cal She
was the mother OF Mary Gertrude,
Wilfred j.. Fred and John Wood.
run. all OF Detroit Funeral ser
vices were today in the Little
Church Of the Flowers. Glendale.
Her husband was the son OF Charles
Woodruff who for so years pub
lished the Ypsilanti Sentinel and
for years served on the city board
OF education and for whom the
Woodruff School was named. The
son was long attorney FOR tho
Park Davis Co in Detroit
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-16
In The Sick Room

Mrs Helen Ramsey. % Water
81. is recovering satisfactorily at
present at Boyer Hospital follow
ng an sppendectomy Sunday
Walter Horner. who was injured
n the bomber plant a week ago is
n Ford Hospital. Detroit His pei
tic bone was broken and his spine
injured
Mrs J Lynn Houck returned
Tuesday from Albion whore she
Mas called a week ago by the seri.
BUS illness OF her mother, Mrs l..
b Cool, whose condition is still
critical Mrs. cool has often visit
I'd in Npsilan,i