The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-21

b ty salon. already have been sum
moned TO appear at the inquest
and a similar summons was await.
ing Nine. Marguerite Pick, a mod
iste, who police said had made
gowns for the wealthy socialite for
many years.
LOS ANGELES-INS-A soaked
and shivering Los Angeles. hit by
its worst winter storm since two
inches OF snow fell in January.
1882, looked forward today to still
more rain or hail. Two inches Of
,1hail which fell Sunday whitened
the streets and gave the appear
ance of bleak wintry scene as al
tomobiles cut ruts through ths
frozen rain. In "a hours 4.S0 in
ches OF rain were recorded.
ST. LOUI5-INS-Five prison
4 ers who escaped from the st. Louis
city jail after overpowering a
guard and saving bars from a
fourth-fioor window with crude
hacksaws still were at large today.
The men escaped last night after
one of the prisoners overpowered
the 63-year old guard in the corri-
dor, pushed him against the bars
! of a cell and took the cell key
while a second prisoner held the
guard.
WASHINGTON-INS- Sen. Bur-
nett MaybanR I'D S. c.. planned TO
introduce a resolution in the Sen
ate today calling for an investiga-
ton OF the decline 4 cotton con-
! sumption which he labeled as
alarming. Maybank's action was
made as government officials pre-
dicted cotton consumption for the
1894 production year would drop
about one million bales below the
previous year.
ALBUQUERQUE ms Two
b German prisoners OF war recap
tured just short of a successful es
cape to Mexico we're scheduled for
return today to Camp Hale, Colo,
while federal authorities prepared
to prosecute the first American SOL
der charged with treason In World
War II. The soldier, Pfc. Dale Ma
pie, %, San Diego, Cal, faced the
= death penalty II convicted on either
OF two federal charges: desertion
from his wartime post of duty al
Camp Hale and aiding in the prison.
ers' break for liberty.
WASHINGTON ms Rear Ad.
miral Allan q. Kirk one of the
Nays outstanding experts in am
> phibious warfare, was In command
today OF the United States Naval
forces which will participate in the
forthcoming invasion OF Europe.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass-INS - The
body Of Charles f. Bedaux, inter
national industrial expert who com.
mitted suicide at Miami, Fla, was
b en- route to Cambridge today for
funeral services. The intimate
friend OF the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor will be buried with Chris
tian Science service from the Wa
terman Funeral Home In Boston,
with cremation at Mt Auburn Gem
etery.
- WASHINGTON Ms Attorney
General Francis Biddle announced
today that decentralization pro-
ceedings have been instituted
against Isidor Condo Fernandez. a
member Of the Spanish Felange IN
Puerto Rico.
STOCKHOLM-UP 49, Swedish
;, press reports said today that for
mer Finnish Premier Julio K. Paas-
ikivi was expected to return to
Helsinki within a few days to re-
port on what progress he has made
in extending peace feelers to Rus
STA.
! LONDON UP Maj. Jimmy
, Stewart, former motion picture act.
or, led his Liberator squadron in
yesterdays American daylight raid
over Germany. He said CT his re-
turn that there was nothing on the
mission worthy of.reporting.
BAINBRIDGE, Ca ms The
cambridge Army Air Field today
= announced that End 1t. Thomas
Russell Gigler, 90, OF Arnold. Pa.
flying Instructor, and Aviation Ca
Diet Robert J. Kramer. 26 of SYRIA
cuse, Ny, were killed in the
crash Of their training plane.
CHICAGO-INS-Gerald L. K.
. Smith, national director Of the Am
erican First Party. said today he
had sent telegram to Vice Pres.
dent Henry Wallace challenging
him to a public debate on the fol.
lowing question: Resolved: That
we can meet the problems OF Post.
war America without any sugges-
tons OF philosophical help from
!, Communist Russia"
ROME, n. Y.,-1NS-T search
for the missing B24 bomber, Get
away Gertie." continued today
through the Rome area. The big
Liberator has been missing since
Friday with a crew OF eight men.
The ship left Westover Field.
Mass. that day. and residents OF
Watertown. near Rome. reported
the roar OF a big plane that morn
Ing, followed by an explosion.
BOSTON - ms - ex-governor
Joseph B. Ely OF Massachusetts
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