The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-26
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i LdlC NCWS /
CHICAG0-INS-A definition OF
an antique was supplied today in
an amendment to OPA price regu.
lations. II set forth: IAN item is an
antique II It is more than rs years
nold. tends to increase rather than
decrease in value because OF its
age, and is commonly known and
dealt in as an antique by the trade"
sTocKHoLM-AP - Field
Marshal Gen. Guenther Won
> kluge, commander Of the Ger
man armies on the western
front, has been killed, the news
paper Dagens Nyheter said to-
day on the basis Of information
received from Germany. (The
report lacked confirmation In
either Axis or Allied quarters).
NEW YORK-INS-With only a
few clews to aid them New York
detectives today sought to identity
the blonde young woman found
murdered yesterday morning near
the entrance TO the Hayden Planet.
arium off Central Park. The victim.
who had been strangled, was about
, twenty-six years old, weighed
about 1876 pounds and was we'll
dressed in a tan camels hair coat,
blue wool dress. flesh colored
stockings and dark blue shoes.
BERN, Swltzeriand-AP- A
dispatch from the Swlss-ltallan
border today said Marshal lon
: Antonescu, deposed Romanlan
premier, had been assasslnated
during the coup d'etat that
placed Romanla In the Allied
camp.
NEW YORK-INS-A prediction
that Germany will be knocked out
. of the war within matter OF
weeks" was made today by Charles
A. Davila, former Romanian minis
ter to the United States. Davila,
who resigned his diplomatic post
in Washington in 1887 in protest
over King Carols Modification"
OF Romania, Is now U. S. represent
alive OF Juliu MANU-, one OF the min
| listers in King Michaers new gov
eminent.
LONDON-lNS - Seventy
British csrrier-based planes
have attacked the German bat
tleshlp Won Tlrpitz In Norwe-
alan waters for the second time
within "a hours, according to
Stockholm dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Telegraph today.
LONDON-INS-T re-birth or
Paris was under way today as the
historic heart Of the French nation
shook itself free from the last
shackles of Nazi occupation. Isolat-
ed German snipers and small col
laborationist resistance groups |
were being mopped up in the JOY
Gus city OF light following the re-
ported surrender of the German
commander in Paris to the French
and American liberating forces.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Re-
publicans planned to make
public today recommendations for
insuring full production after the
war to forestall industrial disloca-
ton during the reconversion period. |
Rep. Knutsen (R) Mimi, ranking |
minority member OF the House |
Ways and Means Committee, said |
a report would be submitted con-
tanning constructive recommends
lions for obviating protracted and |
costly lull in production during
the changeover from war to peace.
NEW YORK-AP- Withdrawal
of a $250,000 libel suit against Rob
ert F. Cutler of Cuffern, n. Y,
former executive secretary OF the
good government committee OF the
goth congressional district, was an
nounced by Rep. Hamilton Fish,
Jr., (R.NY.) last night. Fish said
he withdrew the suit because OF
statement by Cutler that the lat
ter had not sanctioned political
advertisement containing the pur-
ported libel.
NEW YORK-AP- Headed by
Edward r. Stettinius, Undersecre-
tary OF State, about 80 delegates to
the Dumbarton Oaks conference on
postwar security arrived last night
from Washington, ID. c.. for week
end visit. Other State Department
officials accompanied the party.
DENVER-AP-- Norman Tho
mas, Socialist candidate for presi-
dent. criticized the Dumbarton
Oaks conference in a speech last
eight. He declared the conference
was called ito work out plan for
enforcing a peace before the peo-
pies OF the world are told what I
sort of peace is to be enforced"
SAN FRANCISCO-AP - Direc-
tors of the Golden Gate Bridge
want St0S.50 from the Army in tolls
assertedly run up in driving Italian
pr'soners over the span in Army
trucks on sightseeing tours. John
McNabb. attorney for the bridge |