The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-21

caused a halt in war production
today. A - per cent pay dineren-
ual between men and women re-
portedly precipitated the strike.
ATLANTIC CITY. n. J.-lNS-
Mrs. Minnie Leopold rs. mother OF
Radio Comedian Ed Wynn, was
dead today at her Atlantic City
home after a lengthy illness. Her
husband, Joseph, a Philadelphia
millinery manufacturer, died in
1924. At her bedside last night
when she passed away we're the
famed radio comedian and his
brother. Leon Leopold, manager OF
a Philadelphia theater.
LONDON-UP- Diplomatic OBJ
servers said today that Russia
probably will politely but firmly
reject the United States offer TO
mediate the Russian.P Polish dis
pute. Sources well-versed in So
Wet policy emphasized. however,
that the Russian rejection OF Sec
rotary OF State Cordell Hulls offer
would be based entirely on the So.
Wet objection to the present Polish
government-in-exila.
WASHINGTON-INS- A group
of House Republicans launched a
full-scale attack today on pending
legislation authorizing IN 10 one
billion, $50 million dollars for
American financial participation in
the United Nations Relief and Re-
hablitation Administration. As
the House prepared for a second
day OF bitter debate on the issue,
Reps. Rogers (R) Mass. and Schif-
fler (R) W. Va. both members of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, disclosed they would offer
restrictive amendments % the bill.
WASHINGTON-INS The niece
of Gerd Rundstedt. the Nazi gener
al who led the invasion into Po-
land, purchased $4,000 worth OF
war bonds today to held America
defeat Germany. She is Mrs. T. }.
O'Mara, wife of Capt. Pat" o..
Mara, liaison officer of the Ma
rine Air Corps, who doesn't think
the world will be fit to live in
until total victory is won over Ger
many where her father and gen
erations before him were born.
FORT DEVENS, Mass. ms
An indefinite continuance for fur
Their investigation and sanity tests
was allowed today in the court
martial OF Pvt. Eugene Ericsson,
So, of Huntington, W. Va, who is
charged with the fatal stabbing OF
Pvt. Clarence ]. McWilliams, 81,
of Spokane, Wash. Army prose
cutors charged at the arraignment
yesterday that Ericsson inflicted
the stab wounds last Saturday
night. Both were members Of the
same military police company.
ON-INS-Premier Hideki
Toto warned the Japanese diet to-
day that the nation must be pre-
pared for difficulties that Twill be-
come more and more severe" There
is only a hairs BREADTH" he said.
between final victory and defeat,
according to the Domei agency.
NEW K-INS-Richard Ire
casks, International News Service
foreign correspondent and author
OF the famed "Guadalcanal Diary"
is heralded as a .'conquering hero"
in the February issue OF Coronet
Magazine, published today.
RENO - INS-William Wood
burn, attorney for tobacco heiress
Doris Duke. answered the "a gallon
question today Replying to queries
concerning where the richest girl,
in the world obtained gasoline for
an auto trip from Reno to Santa
Barbar. Cal, and back, LOO miles,
WOODBURY. said the fuel came from
the heiress' secretary.
EDGEWATER. y. J-INS-Unit-
ed Automobile Workers (CIO) local
union chiefs, conferred in Detroit
today on the question OF staging a
strike al the Ford Motor Company's
Edgewater plant because one man
allegedly had been working too
fast. Key figure in the dispute
which threatens to make 1900 per-
sons idle is John Elvin, OF Edge
water, who was suspended by the
union Tuesday because, he de
clared. he has been testing trucks
at the rate Of "a a day-twice the
number tested by other test drlv-
ers.
LONDON-INS-Lowell Bennett.
23year.old war correspondent OF In.
ternational News Service who failed
TO return from a Flying Fortress
raid on Berlin in which he partici.
pated as an observer, is sate-a
prisoner OF war in Germany.
FORT WAYNE. Ind. Up
Helene Barry. cousin OF John G.
Winant. United States Ambassa-
dor to England. will be married to
Pvt. Ralph E. Grimes on Saturday
afternoon in the chapel at Baer
Field Army Air Base. Both Miss
Barry and Grimes are from Staten
Island. y. Y.
NEW YORK Up Nora. an
eight months old German shepherd
dog. received the John P. Haines
medal of the American Society for
the prevention OF cruelty to ami
mails last night for saving the life
of Coast Guardsman Evans f.
Mitchell. 1s Of Chicago. a lone
coast guard who had tainted at
the waters edge.