The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-22


Admiral David W. Bagley, comman'
der OF the western sea frontier, was
on record today with prediction
that the defeat OF Japan is newt
able and her fleet may eventually
be scuttled to preserve the quaint
myth OF its inyincibility.'
CINCINNATI. GINS George
L. Lawson. Al, who surrendered in
the knockout drop girl death ii
ST. Louis, was being held in Ham.
ilton County jail today upon his
failure 10 raise $4,000 bond on a
federal theft indictment. Lawson's
trial is scheduled for May l. He is
under indictment involving the
theft and transportation OF $4,000
in clothing from Lebanon, o.
LINCOLN, Nebr.-INS - The
death of Captain William NJ. Henry,
much-decorated pilot OF the South
Pacific war zone, killed in a trans
port crash in Colorado yesterday.
was charged today to extremely
stormy weather. The captain was
killed when his plane, CTS twin
engined transport, crashed near
Limon, Colo, about so miles from
Colorado Springs. There were no
passengers in the plane.
NEWARK, n. J.-INS- Warren
County farmers who forced the de
parture OF five japanese evacuees
assigned TO work on a Great Mead
ows, y. j., farm were attacked to-
day in a unanimous resolution
passed by the S7th Newark annual
conference OF the Methodist
Church.
Robert NJ. Robson, III, officially
became a multimillionaire today.
The boy, now in care OF his aunt,
Mrs. w. w. Ross, who is with her
husband at the naval air station
at Alameda, Cal, will receive So
696,332, minus tax deductions. as
the sole heir of his fathers estate,
according to an inheritance tax re-
turn filed in county court
NEW YORK-INS-A new 1900
ton super destroyer today honored
the memory Of Admiral Henry A.
Wiley, father OF the L. S. Merchant
Marine Cadet Corps. Launched at
the Bethlehem Steel Cos Staten
Island yard, the ship was chris
tened by Mrs. Elisabeth Wiley Robb
of Boston. Mass, daughter OF the
late admiral.
NEW YORK-INS-- James II.
. r. Cromwell had denied today that
he ever asked his heiress wife.
Doris Duke Cromwell. for any
money in settlement of their mar.
riage disagreement. Cromwell, in
preparation for final settlement Of
his limited divorce decree against
the former Doris Duke. declared
he vas most anxious TO publicly
refute charges made against him
In Mrs Cromwell's Reno divorce ac.
ton last December.
M9nrl0
newspaper Arriba predicted today
that the second front assault
against western Europe will be
carried out tonight or tomorrow
morning. Setting the period be-
tween ten o'clock tonight and
eight O'Clock tomorrow morning
as the time Gen. Dwight D.. Essen.
hower's. troops will storm a beach,
head, the' paper explained that
tides in the Chanpel and North
Sea then are most favorable to
military and naval operations.
LONDON-lNS- London's worst
transportation tie-up in seven years
ended early today when striking
bus drivers returned to work on
their leaders recommendation The
strike. in which some 1000 driy.
ers quit work in protest against
their new summer. schedules, nee.
essitated pressing into emergency
service British Army trucks to
-Hefp handle thousands of commut.
ing war workers. II also brought
the report that the government
would impose the recently enacted
anti-strike law against the STRIKE
leaders.
MENlCO CITY-AP-The IRONY
OF fate, A. heart attack prevented
Or. r. y. Wilson, University of
michigan heart specialist. from de.
llNering an address on heart all
ments at the new Cardiological In
stitute here yesterday. HIS illness
forced MN to remain in his hotel.
BARI, ltaly-(Delayed)-AP -
Three-tfths of Yugoslavia has
been freed from German control
and normal activities are being re-
sumed as quickly as possible the
P7v. Waldo Zechevich. minister OF
the Interior for the Partisan PRO
visional government. said TODAY in
an interview.
STOCKHOLM-AP-- Adolf Hit.
ler's newspaper. Voelkischer Beo.
bachter, bluntly warned the Ger.
man home front today that it will
be confronted this summer or even
this spring by the hardest and
bloodiest battles of history. This
summer may be the last bloody
war summer" 1t went on.
v. S. WEATHER FORECAST
Lower Michigan Cloudy. rain
south portion tonight and Sunday.
Little temperature change.
Highest temperature yesterday,
So: lowest last night. ~.