The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-05
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THE WEATHER.: Tonight:
Colder, Snow

LoNDON-INS- Stockholm cir
eles said today they had received
confirmation OF reports that Hitler
|Vismissed AZ Mari generals be-
cause OF disagreement on eastern
front strategy" Among those
"purged". according to a Swedish
dispatch to the London Daily Mail,
vert Field Marshal Ludwig Won
Book, former commander OF Nazi
forces in central Russia; and Gen.
1Fanz Won Halder of the German
supreme command.
CHICAGO-INS-Except for last
minute Intervention. q strike az
fecting 1000 wo ;ers that will tie
up production in Ch,cago's so gray
forge iron foundries appeared GER
tain today. Members OF the Inter-
Irrational Moulders and Foundry
Workers Union, AFL, voted to
walk out at midnight tomorrow az
ter refusal by the Regional War
Labor Board to approve a wage
agreement submitted by Local 233
of the union and the Chicago Foun-
dryman's Association.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark ms -
Democratic leaders OF seven south
ern states today urged the coming
national convention TO nominate
q conservative party member, pre-
20 hIu 90 he ut
presidency. The leaders, in their
resolution asking for a vice presi-
Dental candidate from the South,
also comm ended highly the pers-
onal leadership Of President Roose-
welt.
HOLLYWOOD-INS-The Mo-
ton Picture Alliance for the Pres
ervation OF American Ideals, formed
at a meeting OF rs film industry
)pSeaders, pledged itself today to
"fight any effort to divert the 10y
atty of the screen from the free
America that gave 1t birth" Elect
ed president OF the alliance at its
organizational meeting was Sam
Wood producer-director Of For
Whom the Bell Tolls"
III PHILADELPHlA-INS - Police
today termed the deaths Of Edward
Hagan, Sr., and his 35-year-old es-
tranged wife, Beatrice, as murder
and suicide. Mrs. Hagan had been
living with her mother. Mrs. Mar
garet Started in North Philadelphia
oippa har astranoam from har
husband last March. The two 'wom-
Ven and Mrs. Hagan's sistre, Mrs.
en- and Mrs. Hagan's sister, Mrs.
kitchen of their home when Hagan
repeatedly entered from a rear
door. Muttering Lets CO." he
pulled a 3S-calibre pistol from his
pocket and shot his wife. He then
fired a bullet through his right
temple, ending his life.
DETROIT-INS-Te thousand
men in 10 Detroit war plants were
idle today as the Mechanics Educa-
tional Society OF America continued
its general strike, despite ''back-to-
work" orders OF the Navy Depart
ment and the National War Labor
Board. A total Of $4,000 were idle
Nm, Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland.
according to an estimate by Mat
thew Smith. secretary OF the MESA.
Union officials predicted $1,000 EN-
ployes in Michigan and Ohio would
be idle by nightfall..
COLUMBUS, GINS A triple
pronged attack on freedom OF
speech and OF the press Is being
conducted by the New Deal Admin
istration. Gov. John w. Bricker OF
Ohio charged today. Bricker. a can
didate for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination, told the Ohio News
paper Associations annual banquet
that the Administration was using
|. federal propaganda, unnecessary
censorship and Administration at
lacks on MISUNDERSTANDING news
papers and radio stations to destroy
the public's faith in their sources
OF information.
LOS ANGELES-INS- Warning
against slipping into American
\ Fascism,' Henry Agard Wallace,
WIG VI lhC OhilVh
States, today took a broadside
crack at what he called "the big
three-big business, big labor and
big agriculture Speaking in ian
unofficial capacity" on a tour OF
the West which he said has mo
political significance" the Vice
Vice President particularly laud-
ed organized labor's part in win
ming the war.
NEW YORK ms A nattily
dressed ex-convict whose police
record dates back to 1915 was
questioned today by police in con-
nection with the $4,000 payroll
, .holdup at the West Side Iron
Works yesterday7one of two spec
tacular stickups within eight
hours. Edward Gaffney. A, was
picked up by detectives literally
swarming all over the neighbor-
hood in search OF the six men who,
armed with submachine guns, a
sawed-off shotgun and pistol,
staged yesterdays daring robbery
and escaped amid a hail OF bullets.
He denied any connection with
the crime, but was booked on
yagrancy charge anyhow. He Is