The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-26
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THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Snow, Colder

Snow, Colder ]
WASHINGTON ms The ex-
element caused by Democratic
Senate Leader Barkley's break
with President Roosevelt tapered
off today but hard-boiled observ-
ers questioned whether the recon-
Citation between them will endure
future legislative clashes.
WASHINGTON-INS-Sen. Wi
ley (R) Wis. disclosed today he
will launch a floor fight to secure
passage OF his bill promoting the
late Col. William Mitchell, father
of L. 5. Army Air Power, TO the
permanent rank OF major general.
LISBON-INS- American ma
tionals being repatriated through
Lisbon as prisoners OF war from
Germany began a weeks rest at
the luxury hotel Estoril today be-
fore boarding the liner Gripsholm
for their homeward voyage. In
all some 277 internees were TAX
en- to the Estoril including United
States and Latin-American dipio-
mats, newspapermen and Red
Cross officials.
NEW YORK-INS-The U. S. S.
Z Bennington, $1,000 ton Essex class
aircraft carrier, the first carrier
TO be built in its entirety at the
New York Navy yard, was to be
launched today. with Artemus l..
Gates, assistant secretary OF the
Navy for air, as the speaker at
the ceremony.
LONDON-INS- The German
DNB agency claimed today that AL
lied planes violated Swedish neu-
trality" during the night. Anti
aircraft guns went into action when
the planes appeared over Swedish
territory. said the dispatch.
WILMINGTON, Cal.-INS - a
Liberty freighter named for the
late Ida NJ. Tarbell, journalist, au-
thur and editor, was being outhtted
today at the yards of the California
Shipbuilding Corporation. II was
the 333rd vessel launched by Cal
ship.
PALO ALTO, Cal.-lNS- Fu-
neral arrangements were made to-
day for Rear Admiral Charles Con
way Hartigan, 60, brother-in-law OF
,, the well-known writer, Kathleen
Norris. He died in Palo Alto Fri
day from a heart ailment.
VALPARAISO, Ind ms -
Wayne Lehman, so, Cairo, O., truck
driver. was exonerated Of blame to-
day following a highway collision
in which two men in second truck
were trapped in their cab and burn
ed to death. The victims were
Herbert C. Jones, 40, Alband, Ind,
and Melvin Ruth, so, Red Key, Ind.
y LONDON-INS-A Tokyo dis
patch to the German overseas
agency reported today that a bit
ter battle has been raging for
days" between the Japanes garri-
son on Guam, i'll miles southwest
of the Mariana Island of Saipan,
and an attacking U. s. Naval For
nation.
MOSCOW-INS-Prayda, official
organ OF the Russian Communist
party, published an article yester'
day asserting that the American
publisher. William Randolph Hearst
was attempting to destroy the ALI
ance OF the Soviet Union, Britain
and the United States.
PITTSFIELD. Mass.-lNS-The
trial OF John F. Noxon, Jr.. A.. &C
cused OF "electrocuting" his six.
month-old subnormal son will be
resumed Monday in superior court
which has heard three witnesses
thus far. The baby, which the state
charges Noxon. lawyer. killed mot
D only with deliberate malice afore-
thought but with extreme atrocity, y
had facial characteristics suggest.
ing mongolism and also exhibited
signs OF retarded brain develop
ment. DR.. George P. Hunt testi
fled.
NEW YORK-INS-Frank Drury
is. sullen and defiant, faced a
charge OF homicide today in the
death of his pal. Henry Peterson
II whom Drury insisted was killed
accidentally by a bullet fired from
a 500 mail order rifle. Drury who
frequently displayed a fiery tenn
per while he was questioned by the
police. was held for grand jury &C
ton after he told the story OF the
shooting and how he hid his chum' :
body in a closet in Drury's house
for two weeks.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.-AP-Char
lie Chaplin's attorney filed demur
rer today to indictments charging
the actor with Mann Act violations
- on the ground that the federal law
was intended TO prevent CONNER
cial vice and traffic in women. and
not to govern private acts. The at
torney. Jerry Giesler. also filed a
motion to quash the indictments
charging that women we're discrim.
mated against in not having been
permitted TO serve on the federal
grand jury which returned them.
NEW YORK AP-Soviet Esto
nj. organ OF the central committee
OF the Communist party OF Estonia
and OF the supreme soviet OF the
Estonlan soviet socialist republic
has resumed publication latter an
interruption OF so months" Moscow
radin said TO-DAY The hrnadca a