The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-10

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NORWALK, Conn. -INS-Eliza-
beth Hooker. one of three women
hell cat" test pilots employed by
Grammar Aircraft returned TO
work today putting the fast Navy
fighter planes through their mi
tial flights undisturbed over her
first near tragedy In nearly fiji
teen years OF flying. Miss Hooker
was forced TO bail out yesterday
when the hell cat fighter plane she
was testing caught fire.
NEW YORK-INS- Maximum
ceiling prices of all Pennsylvania
anthracite coal will be reduced is
cents a ton for householders and
10 cents a ton for industrial users,
under an order announced by the
regional OPA office effective to-
morrow.
CHUNGKING-AP-Gen. Ii Chin
Yu, commander in chief of China's
36th group army, was killed in &C
ton May 81 near Loning in Honan
Province, it was disclosed official
ly today.
NEW YORK -AP- Describing
the Supreme Court decision sub
jecting insurance companies to fed
eral antitrust laws as "encroach-
ment upon state sovereignty" Gov
John W. Bricker Of Ohio suggests
that Congress enact corrective
legislation now" The candidate
for the Republican presidential
nomination said In talk broadcast
by NBC last night: ut has been
evident for some time that the
New Deal bureaucrats were cast
ing covetous glances at the huge
pool of assets accumulated by
the insurance companies....'
ANA, Calif-AR-A blanket de-
NAL, by Capt. Morrison ]. Wilkin-
son, Jr. to charges of bigamy, lar
ceny, and lewd and lasciyious con-
duct against several women was in
the record OF an Army general
court martial today. The suave,
2S year old flying officers insist
ence that he at no time used force
in concentrating or attempting re-
lations with the women who have
testified against him was chal-
lenged today. however, as the trial
judge advocate. Maj. James D. Gar
ibaldi put him through a rigid
cross-examination.
LOS ANGELES-AP-The ship
board marriage of Actress Joan
Blondell and Dick Powell, screen
singer and actor, was on the d.
vorce court shoals today, her COM
plant charging cruelty. Her at
torney said an agreement will give
her custody of their children, Ellen,
5, and Norman, 9. The actress mar.
ried Powell on the liner Santa
Paula en- route to New York In
1886.
ROME --AP-- Prime Minister
Peter Fraser OF New Zealand has
arrived in Rome, the first head of
any United Nations government to
come since the city's capture BY
the Allies.
WASHINGTON-AP- Fire of
undetermined origin swept a rec.
lamation warehouse at Fort Myer.
Va, early this morning, razing the
block-long building and DESTROYING
quantities Of uniforms and salvag.
ed material.
SPARROWS POINT, Md.-TNs
The L. S. S. Dauphin, first of a
new series of auxiliary transport
attack ships being built for the
Navy at the Bethlehem-Sparrows
Point shipyard, slid down the WAYS
here today. The ship was sponsor
ed by Miss Carolyn ("Betty") Con.
way. pretty 19-year-old daughter
of Capt. Granville Conway, deputy
administrator Of the War Shipping
Administration and a resident Of
Staten Island.
WASHINGTON-INS With
special combat pay for Americas
doughboys apparently assured, an
attempt was underway today in
Congress to broaden pending legis-
lation to include other Army
groups. THE boys who WELD the
grenades and bayonets deserve the
raise said Sen. Chandler CD
Ky, "but so do the boys in the
tanks and elsewhere who are at
grips with the enemy for their
danger is just as real"
WASHINGTON-INS- Admins.
tration leaders today planned a
battle in the House to reverse Sem
ate action in approving amend
ments to the price control act
which are branded inflationary by
OPA. The Senate passed a bill
last night extending the law for
IS months, to Dec 81, 1915. But
IL added amendments condemned
both by President Roosevelt and
OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles..
WASHINGTON AP- Senate
passage OF the OPA extension bill
embodying the hotly-debated Bank
head cotto amendment brought
a prompt drive by southern legis-
lators today TO push a duplicate
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