The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-09


NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.-AP-
William Red" Hill. Jr., slight, 80
year old souvenir shop operator
rode through the Niagara Rapids
in a barrel yesterday to fulfill a
pledge taken at his fathers death
bed three years ago. and today
faced the threat OF police action
as a result of his exploit. Hill.
who foiled efforts OF the Niagara
Parks commission police to pre-
vent the trip, contented himself
meanwhile with the knowledge that
he had set a new record in max
ing the bouncing. swirling seven
mile ride in two hours.
LONDON --AP- The London
Daily Mail said today the principal
British shipyards have received
government permission to resume
building ships for private owners
and that they have enough orders
on hand TO keep them busy for
years.
Observation-Disclosures her
new skipper pledging her to the
task OF avenging her namesake
lost In the battle OF Leyte Gulf last
October. the mighty aircraft car
rier Princeton slid down the ways
Sunday into the Delaware River.
SAIPAN-AP- "Dauntless Dot
tie, the Superfortress that led the
first B-29 strike against Tokyo and
for SO missions carried without
faltering the high spirit OF her
name, has been lost In the Pacific,
earring to their deaths 10 OF the
IL men aboard.
WASHINGTON-AP - Legisla.
ton to establish a bureau. OF SCI
entine research was introduced in
the Senate today by Senator Full
bright DARK.
PARIS-AP-Brig. Gen. Edward
o. Belts, acting director OF the
legal branch of the U. S. Group
Control Council, said last night in
a broadcast that 81 spies and war
criminals were convicted by U. S.
military commissions and execut-
ed before We Day.
ROME-AP-An investigation by
the Associated Press indicated to-
day almost beyond doubt that Jo-
seph Morton, 34-year-old AP war
correspondent, was executed by the
Germans on Jan. "a, 1945, after his
capture in Slovakia. Morton, whose
enterprise and daring won for him
a distinguished career as a war re-
porter in the Mediterranean area,
had accompanied a mission OF II
Americans and British who went
to assist Sloyak patriots in a re-
volt last fall. The entire group
was taken prisoner at Banska By
strica in Central Slovakia, 125
miles north OF Budapest, and APP
parently nearly all were killed.
LONDON-AP- YugoslaV Pre-
mier Marshal Tito said in a Bel
grade broadcast Sunday that Greek
forces were firing machineguns
across the Greek.Yugoslav border
in an attempt ito provoke us" and
that thousands OF Macedonians had
fled northern Greece to Yugoslavia
TO escape a Greek reign OF terror
RIO DE JANEIRO-AP - The
3,l50.ton Brazilian cruiser Bahia
has been lost in a midAtlantic ex-
plosion probably with heavy vasual.
ties among its complement OF 3S3
men, the navy announced today.
United States units searched for
survivors. A number OF men we're
reported picked up. The cause
OF the explosion has not been de.
termined.
WASHINGTON INS-A House
Naval Affairs Subcommittee will
leave today on a 25,000-mile trip to
the Pacific war theater to study
postwar retention Of island bases
The group will be accompanied by
three members OF the House Com
mittee OF the Merchant Marine and
Fisheries as we'll as a member OF
the House Appropriation Commit.
tee.
MADRID-INS-Spanish authori.