The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-12

OF a IA year old negro boy for the
Staying OF a white girl has been
filed by the South Carolina chapter
OF the National Association for ad-
vancement OF Colored People.
The boy, George Junius Stinney OF
Alcolu is sentenced to- die Friday.
He was convicted Of the Staying
of one OF two girls. IL and 5 years
old, who were beaten to death with
a railroad spike.
NEW YORK-AP- Louis (Babe)
Silver, 20, today was held under a
charge OF homicide in connection
with the fatal shooting OF Jake
1.-THE Mayor Finkel. bookmaker
and ex-convict. Finkel, who police
say was a bookmaker since he was
paroled five years ago after be-
ing sent TO prison in 1885 as a
safecracker, was found dead yes
terday in front OF the Embassy
Club in Brooklyn with a bullet in
his head.
WASHINGTON-AP-A tug OIL
war over new price control legis-
lation menaced plans for a Con-
gress recess and took top position
today on a docket OF must" meas
ures awaiting disposition before
the Republican National Conven-
ton June IS. The revolt against the
Office OF Price Administration gain
ed strength as the House began its
fourth day OF debate on a bill to
extend the price control act which
expires Jrne 30.
WASHINGTON-AP- Senators
investigating censorship leaks to-
day renewed an effortto force By
ron Price, director OF censorship,
to hand over intercepts of CORES
pondence between Miss Vivien
Kellems, Connecticut war contrac-
tor, and a German count in Buenos
Aires. At a heated session Of d
Senate Post Office subcommittee
Saturday, Price declined to give the
committee the original papers with.
out a subpoena, and the senators
request for a State Department
official to turn over copies like
wise was rejected.
WASHINGTON-AP A mio-
summer meeting at Washington of
American, British, Russian and
Chinese representative to discuss
- fak L.
security organization apparently Is
in the making. The State Depart
ment repeatedly has received III
formal assurance that Britain and
China are ready to talk business
on implementing the Moscow pact
and a Russian acceptance is ex-
pected as soon as 1t can be clear
ed through diplomatic channels.
Andrei A. Gromyko, the Russian
Ambassador, Is returning to Mos
COW and officials here expect him
to report on the matter there.
SANTA ANA, Calif.-AP-- The
courtmartial OF Capt. Morrison J.
Wilkinson, Jr., on charges of NOR
ais offenses against four women,
entered it's second week today with
the 2s-year-old flier reiterating I'M
der cross-examination HIS denials
that he used force on any OF tae
compliments.
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-AP -
Honeymooning at an undisclose6
retreat today are the former Bar
bara Douglas, daughter of plane
builder Donald w. Douglas, and
1t. william Bruce Arnold. son Of
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief OF the
Army Air Forces.
WASHINGTON-AP-ODT d.
rector J. Monroe Johnson said today
that IL war workers as a group have
the IDEAS charged by the Amer
lean Automobile Association-that
they can wilfully waste cars and
tires, they should be disabused Of
it Johnson's comment was
prompted by a report in which the
association president. Thomas P.
Henry, OF Detroit, said that war
workers generally are reckless, fast
drivers, with a supreme indiffer-
ence to car conservation.
LOS ANGELES AP-A distinct
earthquake, of about one second >
duration, swayed Los Angeles at
4:17 a. m, Pacific war time, today,
following by half an hour a sharp
shock felt in Laguna Beach, Pasa
dena and numerous portions OF Los
Angeles County.
WASHINGTON-AP- After VIC
tory, says the Senate's special post
war planning committee, business
and industry In the United States
must employ eight to ten million
more people than have ever been
employed before In peace time.
NEW YORK-AP- Formation OF
Bendix Helicopter Inc. was an
nounced yesterday with Vincent
Bendix as president. The company
is not affiliated with the Bendix
Aviation Corp. 1t was emphasized.
The company, an outgrowth OF He'll
copters, Inc, which was organized
by Bendix in 1913, currently is en-
cheering three models: a two-pas.
senger helicopter with top speed of
100 miles an hour. a 10-passenger
ship and 20-passenger type.
CHICAGO AP-Wheat futures
were firm in early trading today
with some OF the demand coming
from commission houses and shorts
following Saturdays heavy liquida-