The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-15

active service. mel IellIcAhcua
/ was forced by the fact that he re-
fused to ride TO fires on a truck
but pursued the dangerous habit o.
running ahead OF the fire engine.
NEW YoRK-INS-A slim. at:
tractiye. l26-pound ex.WAC, Virgil
MIA Zieroroth, was one OF New
, York's first ice-women today and
she credited her training in the
Army with her ability to hoist 100
pound chunks of ice with ease.
LITTLE ROCK, Atkins A
tornado which struck in Arkansas
last night caused one death and in
Jured several persons in addition
10 doing a small amount =. dam
age. State police reported today
that John Saylor. So, operator of
store in Oil Trough, was killed
when the twister demolished his
store.
CHICAGO ms Jack Guzik,
b9, Cook County gambling car.
} who disappeared Thursday morn
ported to be kidnapping, returned
TO his home last night, II was
learned today. He denied he had
been kidnapped.
WASHINGTON-UP- A strong
appeal for postwar solidarity
? among the nations OF the western
hemisphere and for an information.
al organization based on the same
passionate devotion to human lib
erty and national independence"
that now binds most OF those ma
tions together was voiced last
night by Secretary OF State Cordell
! Hull.
WASHINGTGON-UP- Admiral
Ernest ]. King, accusing the Japan
csc OF lack Of cooperation" in
staging a major sea battle with
the United States Navy, said to-
day that powerful new blows would
be delivered during the next few
} months against Japanese bases,
and against the Japanese fleet il
IL can be found.
FORT WAYNE, Ind.-INS- A
Gary, Ind, food supply firm and
its president were under federal
indictment today for alleged black
market sugar sales. Named in in.
y dictments returned by Fort
Wayne federal grand jury were
the Indiana wholesale food supply
Co. and Maurice Hanover, presi-
dent OF the firm.
CHICAGO-INS- Ensign Frank
Allen Richardson, %, flyer, was
killed when his plane fell in Lake
p Michigan, the Glenview Naval Air
Station announced today. Richard.
sons plane plunged into the water
and disappeared with him when he
failed in an attempted landing on
the lake plane carrier u. s. S.
Sable yesterday.
Whitesburg, ky.-INS-Final ar
Ruments were scheduled TODAY In
the murder trial Of John Banks. ae.
cused OF the robbery. murder Of
Pearl Bowling. 81 year old rural
mail carrier OF Bull Creek, Ky.
Banks allegedly beat the aged mail
carrier after robbing him of 500
and then buried him alive. Bowl
ing was taken from the grave I'M
conscious but died shortly after.
ward. The defendant who has
pleaded self defense was the last
witness TO take the stand yester.
day.
LONDON-INS - Nazi forcas
along the Britanny Coast of France
were held on the alert against in
Naslon for three hours Wednesday
night when the Germans feared an
Allied landing was about to take
place, a Madrid dispatch to the
London Daily Mail said today.
NEW YORK-INS-Frank Szy-
chulda, is, was held by adolescen!s
court today for admitted extortion.
an idea he said he got from read
Ing comic books. His fayorite
comic book, said Szychulda, was
one called Crime Does Not Pay.
NEW YORk-INS-Staf Sergt.
Elmer Truax, who is on his way
home on l0,000-mile journey from
the South Pacific to be near his
fatally stricken infant daughter.
was ironically threatened with an.
other handicap today when the hos1
pital where the child is being treat
ed was put under quarantine for
measles.
TRENTON, n. J-INS-The New
Jersey supreme court held today
that an applicant for a civil SER
Ivice job is not disqualified IL he
refuses to salute tn United States
flag. The court further ruled that
the New Jersey legislature does
not have the authority to enact a
flew requiring salute 10 the flag
(which thus controls the mind of
an individual
LONDON-INS- A Dublin an
Inouncement said that air service
between the capital of Fire and
liverpool. England. would be sus.
pended today until further notice.
Meanwhile il was reported that
Iseveye cuts in passenger train ser.
Ivices in Ireland were expected TO
result from Britain's ban on coal
exports. Passenger trains may
Ihave TO cease running between
IDu in and Cork and other large
renters three or four days out OF
fach week. II was said