The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-14
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SOUTH BEND. Ind.-INs - A
Wiz Navy trainee who was said 10
have confessed setting seven OF
pine recent fires at the University
Of Notre Dame will be sent to a
na al hospital for examination.
Capt. ]. Richard Barry. command
ant Of the Universitys naval
schools, announced today.
lANSlNG-UP- Judge le-
land W. Carr today appointed
Kim Sigler, Battle Creek, as
special prosecutor for the
grand jury investigating iegis-
latiVe graft. Carr said Slger
will start work with the grand
Jury Immediately, at a salary
Of 500 per diem.
CHARACTERISTIC possibility
hrose today that when Arnold :.
kirkeby bought the 3,0O0-room
Stevens Hotel, the worlds largest.
he bought everything appertaining
10 the hotel-except its name. The
original Stevens Hotel Corporation,
which owned the hotel before il
WAS taken over by the Army which
later sold the huge structure 10
kirkeby. filed suit in L. S. Circuit
Court seeking to restrain the Ave
nue Hotel Co., and Kirkeby. It's
president, from further use of the
name.
ATLANTIC CITY. y. J.-INS -
Funeral services were arranged to-
hay for II. Alvin Hunsicker, 20,
president OF the Hotel Mems Asso-
ciation in Atlantic City for the past
~ years, who died last night.
WASHINGTON-INS-Sen Har.
ley Kilgore CD w. Va. chairman
pr an Elections Sub ommittee. said
Today a decision on the LANCER
resolution for an Investigation OF
charges that Wendell l.. Willkie's
forces bought the 1910 Republican
presidential nomination will be
made soon after Jan. l.
WASHINGTON-INS- Revision
pr food price ceilings was in pros.
beet today as a Senate Banking and
currency Subcommittee strived to
t,,
battle over rollback subsidies 10
bold the line on living costs. Init
nation that OPA ceilings might
have to be revised came from Ma
ority Leader Barley, a member
pr the subcommittee which was
banned yesterday TO bring in a re-
port by tomorrow at least.
CHICAGO-INS-Sale OF the 81
tory Palmolive Building in Chica-
30 by the Colgate almolive-P eet
company Of Jersey City, y. j., was
announced today. The purchaser
Eas the 9l9 Corporation. made up
u a group OF Chicagoans headed
by Waller S. Ross of Ross. Browne
Fleming, realtors. The price was
pot disclosed.
NEW ORK-INS-George Gail
whur. president Of the Gallownur
hemical Corp, announced today
lat his company plans to hire
per cent more employees from
ischarged servicemen as its own
olution for the postwar unem.
loyment problem.
LONDON ms Adolf Hitler
vas reported today to have sum
;oned Admiral Karl Doenitz. COM
1ander-in-chief Of the German
avy, to a conference on the Nazi
ubmarine situation.
LONDON-INS-The great Ger
ian fighter plane screen that has
cen thrown into European skies
gainst Allied bombers was de-
Jared today TO be nothing more
ban "shop-window" force. The
ondon Daily Mail said there was
trong evidence that the Germans
ave no reserves behind this
brce. Wrecks OF enemy fighter
lanes recently destroyed were
bund on examination to be viz
lally brand new planes delivered
rom the factories only four or
We weeks before they were used
b battle.
CHICAGO-INS John J. VII
Eams. Chicago gambling house op-
rator. and his two co-defendant
Employees, Anthony de Lordo and
ohm Enright. we're free today OF
charge OF numbering Martin (Son-
yboy) Quirk. south Side gambling
gar. A criminal court jury OF nine
women and three men returned
erdct OF not guilty late last night
fter four and one-half hours DELHI
Eration.
SAN FRANCISCO-INS.-Charg
IS that socialite Captain Lindsay
Toward pictured his wife as a
common prostitute" hung in the
r today as the second session OF
curt martial proceedings against
Toward opened at the Preside of
Ban Francisco. Howard is being
ried on charges OF conduct unbe
|oming an officer and gentleman.
rhe charges arise from a civil liti.
kation between Howard and his ex.
wife. Anita Zabula Howard, who Is
|uing the captain for $4,000 in
back alimony.