The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-22

newspaper career selling papers
on a Chicago street corner, died
Monday after a long illness.
WASHINGTON--lNS- The
Treasury Issued a formal de-
=. NAL today Of published reports
that Secretary Morgenthau had
suffered heart attack and
would quit his cabinet post.
according to Charles p. Shaef-
fer, Treasury Department press
relations director, Morgenthau
has not suffered heart attack
and is not considering resign
= ing.
TRENTON, y. J.-INS-A petit
ton placing Gov. Thomas e.
Dewey's name on the New Jersey
May l6 primary ballot was be-
lieved nullified today by the pass
age of a bill in the New Jersey
legislature eliminating printed
- names OF presidential candidates.
CHICAGO-INS-A dispute over
safety measures was blamed today
for a walkout of die sinkers at the
Chicago Dodge plant of the Chrys-
Ter Corp, biggest war plant in
the Chicago area.
- OSSINING, n. Y.-INS - Mrs.
Helen Fowler, Sc, is in the Sing
Sing Prison death house today.
awaiting execution for the staying
of a gasoline station owner in Ran
sonville, y. Y. Mrs. Fowler,
brought to Sing Sing with George
knight, accused of the same kill
ing. is the first woman to be in
tAthe death house since 1886 when
Mrs. Frances Creighton was cleo
trocuted.
NEW YORK-INS-Epochal lat
ties fought by the Russian Army
against the Nazi hordes drew my
stinted praise today from top rank
ing officers of the United States,
SBritish and Chinese armies who
marked the 26th anniversary of
the Soviet forces. Congratulatory
messages were received at the din
ner of the National Council Of
American-Soviet friendship from
Gems. George c. Marshall, Dwight
D. Eisenhower, John J. Pershing
and Lieut.. Gen. Mark w. Clark.
NEW YORK-INS-Th Nazi-
controlled Vichy radio has told
residents OF the channel port of
Cherbourg and the adjacent Can
ton of Octeville. if their presence
is mot essential" to evacuate their
homes voluntarily, the L. S. For
eign Broadcast Intelligence Ser
6ce reported today.
NEW YORK-INS-Pier Laval.
puppet premier of Vichy France,
complained loudly today that the
French people refuse TO under
stand" his policies, calling for
complete collaboration with Ger
/ Snany, and asserted that an Allied
Invasion will mean only misery Cor
the land. The Paris radio, operat-
ing under Nazi censorship, and
the DNB (German) propaganda
agency, both summarized LavaPs
allegations in dispatches heard by
the L. S. Foreign Broadcast Ser
vice and L. S government mont
Hprs. respectively.
LONDON ms Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill disclosed TO-
day that he had requested stricter
censorship OF "alarmist reports"
on fighting in the Anzio-Nettuno
beachhead below Rome, but he alb
solved war correspondents in the
Rl5a from any blame. The blame,
khe prime minister told the House
pf Commons. lay with Algiers and
Naples. not with newsmen at the
scene of action.
LONDON-INS The Daily
Sketch said today that former King
Carol, OF Romania, has grown tired
81 his exile in Mexico and Is seek
ing permissio.! OF the Argentine
government to spend six months
In Buenos Aires.
TON-AP-Joseph P. Ken
& hedy. former ambassador to the
4 court OF st. James. has been invit
by President Roosevelt to serve
his cabinet as Secretary Of Com.
III nerce, the Boston Herald said TO-
lay.
+ MAZATLAN, Mekico-AP- Two
u american tourists died in a blaze
4 gunfire at the masquerade ball
Mazatlan's famed annual carni-
~ yesterday when a tall. masked
ssBssin killed the governor OF Sin
loa state with a bullet through
he neck and escaped amid a wild
all OF pistol shots. The dead Amer
.ans were identified by L. S. Con
ll Stewart McMillin as Walter
Cotchett, Jr.. 2s. L. S. Army
ying instructor. a native OF Los
Ageles stationed at Tucson, Ariz.
pd Reuben Brooks brother OF tho
farmer Pictures Agency manager
Mexico City.
LONDON-AP-The Berlin radio
Id today that a very strong earth
ake shocked portions OF western
aatolia in Turkey during the
ht