The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-20


stripes has brayed the challenge
Of Nazi bombers and submarines
by sailing through the eastern
Mediterranean into Alexandria
bringing war materials to rein
force Britains North African
armies. =
DETROIT Inns In the
wake OF an explosion OF an
Ammonia cylinder which ripped
wall at the sharples Chem
Iesls, Inc. plant, Lawrence
Nugent, 10, was dead, and
Lawrence Bollard, rs, was
treated for shock today at Wy
andotte General hospital
Approximately so other work
ers were in the plant at the
time.
RICHMOND. Calif-AP- Nor
mai production was resumed to-
day at the Richmond shipyard
No !. with the return OF 1000
workers who walked off the job
Wednesday night.
DETRolT-INs The De-
troit Times said today in
special dispatch from Chicago
that William Taylor, interna-
tionsl UAW.cIo representa-
.s.x rhfAf
business agent for the union
in its dealings with the Ford
Motor Company. The paper
quoted r, ]. Thomas, union
president, as saying that Taylor
has been promoted" to the
aircraft division of the union.
SAN FRANCISCO --AP- Con-
trary to rumors, there was no sab
otage in Honolulu on Dec. 7. when
the Japanese attacked Pearl Har-
Dor. and there has been none since,
Chief OF Police w A. Gabrielson
OF Honolulu declared today in q
cablegram to Congress.
WASHINGTON-INS-P President
Roosevelt today waited an air mail
reply from George P. McNear. Jr.,
president OF the strike-bound To
ledo. Peoria and Western Railroad,
TO the White House demand that
the road Immediately submit i;s
wage controversy to the National
War Labor Board for arbitration.
ATLANTA Ga.-INS-A small
46-year-old housewife was held in
Jail today as the confessed perpe-
traitor OF Atlanta's strange trunk
Staying. The woman, Mrs. Minnie
Lee Griffin. confessed to Chief Of
Detectives j. A. McKibben that
she killed pretty Mrs. Mildred Sey-
mour Williams. 22-year-old shoe
store clerk. by beating her over the
head and then concealing her body
in an old-fashioned detachable auto
mobile trunk in the basement OF
the Griffin home. She gave as rea-
son for her act the belief Mrs. Will
liams was attempting TO steal the
love Of her daughters husband.
CANBERRA, Australia -AP-
Prime Minister John Curtin. refer
ring to a Washington communique
announcing that % Japanese ships
had been sunk or damaged in wat
ers north OF Australia, said the
figures represented a series OF &C
tions during the past 10 days and
not a single encounter.
ANKARA. Turkey -AP- Ger
man Ambassador Franz Won Pap
en-, apparently in poor health. was
en- route to Adolf Hitler's head.
quarters on the eastern front to-
day TO report to his chief.
UNIONTOWN, Pap Fay
cite County housing authority Of
ficials cudgled their brains today
over what to do about a Sc year
old widow, living alone with her
ten dogs. whose refusal to move
from her barn like home is hold
ing up excavation for a 100000
defense housing project.
SEASIDE, Ore.-AP- Seasides
beach was carpeted today with
myriad iellyfish. A band Of deep
blue, more than 100 yards across
at some points, stretched along the
coast for several miles 1t was
the heaviest OF such stranded mi
grations ever seen here.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
suggestion from Washington that
it may be advisable n curtail milk
deliveries to every other day TO
conserve tires and dairy equipment,
Peter Hoban, vice president OF a
Chicago milk wagon drivers union,
declared today: Cows give milk
seven days a week and milk should
be delivered seven days a week"
WILLAMSPORT. Pa. - ms -
The marriage OF Staff Sgt. Joseph
L. Lockard, 19year-old Pearl Har.
Dor hero. to Pauline E. Seidel. 20.
has left his home town OF Williams
port bit surprised today. With
the eyes OF the nation watching
his every move following his return
from Hawaii where his warning OF
approaching Jap planes on Dec. 7
went unheeded. Lockard and his
schoolgirl sweetheart quietly
slipped Off TO Winchester Va.
March 10 and were married in the
Evangelical Reformed Church. The
brides parents announced the
elopement today.
Los ANGELES ms One hun
dred japanese, the first OF some
10000 enemy aliens and American
born Jananese evacuatel from the