The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-09


fire when he struck match.
Observation-Disclosures
ton today Of heavy explosion
In the pump room Of the S. S.
Galla at her dock here Friday
night revealed no signs Of sab
otage. Firemen said the explo-
sion apparently was caused by
spark lentlng a gas pc eket.
Men we're working with aeety-
lene torches In the pump room
when the explosion occurred.
Fifteen were taken to hospitals
for treatment OF burns.
WASHINGTON ms - Rep.
Compton White (D) Idaho, demand
ed today that the House Military
Affairs Committee Immediately In
vestigate charges that the Army is
'criminally burning carloads OF low
test gasoline" Charges that the
Army has for months dumped out
and burned gasoline under the re-
quired standard for high-octane at
Gowen Field. Idaho and proba5-
ly all other bases" were made by
Boise, Idaho, grade-school principal
in letter to the Idaho COMPRESSION
al delegation.
CHICAGO-INS- An exploding
generator was blamed today for
the fire which caused so passengers
to stampede from an elevated rail-
way car last night burning and in
juring eight persons. The car was
part OF an Evanston bound ex-
press.
NEW YORK-INS-After he de-
MED charges OF conspiring to snug
gle drugs from the Bahama Islands
to New York, Basil Mckinney, 81
year-old legislator OF the Bahama
Islands Of Andres, today was free
on $4,000 bail.
NEW YORK-INS Another
duel between the War Labor Board
and Sewell w. Avery appeared in
prospect today when the United
States Gypsum Company, Of which
Avery Is chairman Of the board, re-
fused to sign a union contract ord
cred by the regional WLB. The
contract would incorporate main
tenance of union membership,
check-oif of union dues and COM
pulsory arbitration of disputes. The
union involved in the complaint Is
Local 1895 Of the UNIV.
Observation-Disclosures 40
subpoenas were being drawn up
today by a Dies Subcommittee pre-
liminary to the launching OF q
House investigation Sept. 25 into
alleged communistic tie-ups be-
tween the CLIO Political Action
Committee and government work
ers.
TONOPAH, Nev.-AP-- Second
1t. Forrest l.. Carl, "a, son OF Mrs.
Bessie A. Carl, Brutus, Mich, was
one OF three officers who with four
enlisted men were killed Friday
when their B-24 bomber crashed
while attempting an emergency
landing five miles north of Tono-
psh Air Field.
NEW YORK-AP- Despite the
jibes of the Rome edition OF the
Army's Stars and Stripes that New
Workers still hold air raid alerts,"
Col. Edward Thomas, state director
OF civilian protection, declared to-
day the blackout here this week
was held by Army orders and we
have to comply with them"
RIVERHEAD, N. Y.-AP- The
daughter of bishop and descend
ant of two presidents was held in
the Suffolk County Jail today
charged with stealing jewelry from
friends at Westhampton Beach and
Easthampton. Mrs. Job Taylor End,
whose husband, an attorney. Is
now in service overseas, was held
without bail on charges OF stealing
jewelry valued at $4,000 from
homes OF friends. Her ancestors
include Presidents William Henry
Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.
Her father WAS the late Rev. DR..
Frederick Lincoln Flinchbaugh of
Cincinnati, Wilkes-Barre and Phi
ladelphia.
ROME-AP-The 51.000-ton liner
Rex, onetime queen of the Italian
merchant fleet and an Atlantic rec
ord holder, lay burning. in the
northern Adriatic Sea of Trieste
today. after a blistering attack by
rocket-firing Beaufghters.
NEW YORK-AP-Mrs. Angela
Alvarez, 20, was booked today as
a material witness in the death OF
Mrs. Phyllis Newmark, whose
strangled and leaten body was
found in shrubbery near the Hay
den planetarium last Aug. rs.
WASHINGTON-AP- Secretary
OF Commerce Jesse Jones disclosed
today that individual income pay
ments for July amounted TO sl2,-
s92,000.000. an increase of nine per
cent over the figure for the same
month OF 1913.
v. s. WEATHER FORECAST
Lower Michigan-Partly cloudy
tonight and Sunday. Warmer to-
} night, and scattered showers Sum-
day and in north portion. tonight.
Highest temperature yesterday,