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2 Men Killed Hooper,
Mystery Witness Says
Nazis Fleeing
Belgium as
Allies Push On
Attempt to Destroy
Germans Retreating
to Siegfried Shelter
PARIS, Jan. 13 (INS)-Three
Allied armies hammered deepening
Hedge* tonight into the entire 80-
mile perimeter of the collapsing
Ardennes bulge while a fourth
army renewed an offensive drive
on Orman territory toward which
Nazi column* were fleeing from
Belgium under torrents of bombs
and shells.
Seeking to catch and destroy
the bulk of Field Marshal Von
Rundstedt's depleted division* be
fore they can reach the shelter of
the Siegfried Line outpost*, the
U. S First and Third #nd the
British Second armies hurled thetr
full strength into an all-out con
vergent push from the north,
south and west.
BILGE \V.%IRT NARROW ED
The First Army extended it«
front eastward to a width
of 30 miles, flinging its battle
tried 30th "Old Hickory" division
into a smashing new attack on the
noitheast corner of the shrunken
bulge and thrusting other spear
head* to within a mile of the
enemy'* last major escape road.
First Army formations swept
down to within four miles of
Jlouffalizo. nen e-center of the
Hdvnle remaining German position
HI Belgium, reached within point
blank artillrry range of the-vital
Houffalize-St Vith road, and ad
vanced neaily a mile from the
north toward St. Vith. The latter
junction forms the northeastern
backstop of the Nazi salient and
l« located only four mile* fiom
the Reich frontier.
NAZI FLANK HIT
The waist of Ihr bulge, which
now whb reduced to 40 per cent
of it* maximum kizc. was nar
rowed to seven miles as the
V. S. Third Army, driving north
toward a meeting with the First,
punched out gains of three miles
east of Ba.stogne and two and a
half miles west of that city.
The fresh southward onslaught
of the First Army * 30th division,
launched at dawn Saturday on a
(Continued on Page Eight)
Huge Air Armada
Blasts Mandalay
LONDON. Jan 13 (INSI The
biggest concentration of heavy
hotiber* ever assembled in the
Rurrfla-India theater blasted Man
dalay at midday today Router s
reported tonight from Bengal.
Bombers Over Japan
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UP!
—Tokyo radio reported today that
three B-29 Superfortress bomber*
had flow-n over central Japan this
afternoon without dropping any
bomb*.
License Plate-Eating Dog
*isaved From Death Cell
SPRINGFIELD. HU Jan. 13
fUPI—Bobo, a mongrel dog with
an appetite for automobile license
plates, was saved from the death
cell of the city dog pound today.
Bobo had been sentenced to die
hy dngcatcher John Gallagher
who found him guilty of eating
the soybean-compound state li
cense plate* off a ntimhei of auto
mobiles.
Gallagher said hr caught Bobo
In the act. But after he announced
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Yank A irmen
Sink Jap Ships
Near Saigon
87 Mi. to Manila
for U. S. Forces
GEN. Mac A RTH U RS HQ
LUZON, Sunday, Jan. 14 (UP)
U. S Sixth Army tank* and in
fantry'. advancing eight miles
against light Japane-e resistance,
have driven 20 miles into north
western Luzon and reached the
Agno River line near the town of
Bayamhang, 87 mile-- northwest
of Manila it was announced today.
To the northwest, two other
column* of Lt. Gen Krueger*
western army, driving down both
I bank* of the Agno. along its
northward course into Lingayen
.Gulf, hammered out gains of four
to eight miles along parallel high
way* and extended the Ameucan
line* 10 to 20 miles into Luzon on
a 16-mile front.
MINK 50 VESSELS
U. S. warplanes, halting pos
sibly another Japanese attempt to
ru*h reinforcements into Luzon
sank 50 coastal vessels Wednes.
day near the port of Vigan. 9b
miles north of thp Lingayen Gulf
beachhead Thursday, naval units
sunk or damaged 4b vessels near
San Fernando, 65 miles south of
Vigan.
Gen. Mar Arthurs daily war
bulletin said that the Americans
were moving forward swiftly in
their drive down the Luzon cen
tral plain* and that "the enemy is
as vet either unable or unwili.*g
to seriously challenge our offen
sive"
RESISTANCE ON FLANK
•
The only Japanese resistance
was being met by troops on the
east flank of the beachltead in the
: hills northwest of Pozorrubio, 10
miles east of San Fabian.
A front dispatch said the
American east flank along the
Lingayen Gulf had been extended
six miles north from San Fabian
to the town of Rabon. widening
the beachhead to 26 miles from
Rabon, south and west of Labra
dor.
At Rabon. the Americans were
flve miles west of the big Japa
nese air base and supply depot of
Rosario, which was pounded by
units of Vice Adm. Kinkaid’s
Seventh Fleet
20,000 Children Set
As Man’s Possibility
LONDON. Jan 13 (INS> The
definite possibility that one man
could father 20,0(jn children in one
year was reported today in the
British Medical Journal.
The figure was setjn a report
on artificial insemination written
by British doctor* and quoting
details of cases during the last
flve years.
more than 150 pleas from persons
wanting to take the mongrel into
their home*.
Then Chaplain Raymond O'Con
nor identified Bobo a« the miss
ing mascot of the St. Joseph's
Home for the Aged. Gallaghci re
leased Bobo on probation
O’Connor said he feared their
was not room enough in Spt ing
field for Bobo and tho>r tasty li
cense plates, so he arianged to
send him to Arkansas.
There, he hopes. Bobo will not
Ibi subject to temptatio^
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Mighty Offensive
Blocks Luzon Aid
PEARL HARBOR. Jail. 13
) INS i- Heavy loss of life among
15,000 to 20.000 Jajwmese troops
jammed aboard six transports in
Saigon Harbor was believed today
to have been inflicted when the
ships were sunk Thursday by U S.
Third Fleet carrier planes in the
opening blows of a mighty offen
sive sweep still in progress.
The transports, evidently as
signed to rush reinforcements to
invaded Luzon, were among 38
enemy vessels wrecked by Adm
Halsey's airmen as part ol a far
flung sea-and-air campaign in
which Tokyo *aid a -trong British
naval task ton e now was partic
ipating.
PACKED ABOARD
The Japanese troops, it ua«
learned, were tightly packed in
aboard the half dozen transports
sent to the bottom of the Indio-
Chma harbor by showers of
American bombs before they had
a chance to set sail for the
Philippines
Meanwhile. Adm. Nimitz an
nounced that Japanese installa
tions on and near Paramushuu in
the Kuriles were hit by land bfi*ed
fighters of the Eleventh Army Air
Force on Jan. 10 and 11
As Halsey s airmen continued to
sweep an approximate 250-nule
long stretch of the South China
Sea in the third da-y of their
attack, the Jap operated Singa
pore radio reported that a task
force of the British eastern fleet
had plunged into the widespread
campaign revolving around the
Philippine* battle.
AREA Not defined
The exact area in which the
British naval formations purport
edly were ojx»rating in co-ordi
nation with the U. S Pacific Fleet
was not defined in the enemy
broadcast. But Berlin relayed a
Tokyo dispatch saytng the partici
pating British task force consisted
of two battleships, one aircraft
earner and several cruisers and
destroyers.
DEADLY BOMBS
Tn addition to the tj;oop trans
ports smashed by Halsey’s carrier
men in the first day of their dorj>-
c*t westward penetration over
.lap-held area', the deadly Ameri
can bombs also sent a light
cruiser, several destroyer* or de
stroyer escorts and other vessels
to the bottom.
At least 39 Jap planes were
sent spinning to their doom
Latest reports indicated none of
the Third Fleet’s ships had suf
fered damage or casualties.
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Soviets Blast
37-Mile Hole
Past Vistula
Set Front Aflame,
Approach Gateway
to German Silesia
LONDON. Jan 13 (UP)—A
Red army offensive launched lrorr
the Sandomierz bridgehead wc-t
of the Vistula ha* blasted a 37-
mile breach in the (German de
fenses of Poland and carried for
ward 25 mile* through more than
300 localities to within 41 miles of
Krakow, gateway to German Si
lesia.
Marshal Stalin issued a special
order of the day announcing the
offensive in Poland, which Nazi
broadcast* described a* the first
ol at least three which set the
eastern front aflame from the
Baltir to the Danube
Marshal Konevs First Ukiain
tan Army mounted the offensive
Friday on a 25-mile front west of
Sandomierz where the Red Army
held its only bridgehead across
the Vistula.
ADVANCE 25 MILES
In two days of violent fighting
Konev’s troofrs and tanks ad
vanced 25 miles and expanded
their breach in the German lines
to .37 miles, Stalin's order of the
day reported from Moscow.
The offensive opened under
cover of a artillery
bombardment, but bad weather
prevented the Red air force from
supporting it.
The original break-through w«v
only 25 miles wide, but subse
quent fighting broadened it an
other 12 miles. Stalin reported
"The decisive factor in break
ing through the enemy defenses
was the powerful and well-organ
ized artillery attar k." Stalin
*aid.
AMONG TOWNS 0\ ER-RL’N
Among the larger of the 300
towns and villages over-run by the
Russians were Wislica. 37 miles
northeast of Krakow; Shmielik. 19
mdps south of Kieloe: Busko. 41
miles northeast of Krakow : Stop
nica. .32 mile* southeast ol Kieloe
and Szydlow, 25 mile* southwest
of Kieloe.
Indicative of the weight of the
offensive, Stalin paid tribute to in
fantry under 1.3 generals, artillery
under eight generals, tanks under
three generals, sapper* under one
general and signal corps under one
general.
Regular Beach Trains
Escape ODT Ban
PHILADELPHIA Jan. 13
(INS) Pennsylvania Railroad of
ficial* in Ptntadrtphta rmd today
that the carrier’s year-round
schedules to beach resorts prob
ably wTiliTa not be materially af
fected by the ODT ban on seasonal
train service to vacation areas.
Only extra trains and sections
added during summer week-ends
will be subject to the cancellation
order, the spokesman said
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Bv I RANK MORRIS. Detroit Times Staff Correspondent
JACKSON, Jan. 13—A mystery -witness saw the assassins of State Senator Warren G. Hooper
within seconds after he was murdered on snow-swept M-99, Special Grand Jury Prosecutor Kim Sigler
revealed Saturday.
Sigler said his informant, a motorist, told of seeing one man standing by the front door of
Hooper’s car*, which held a slumped figure on the front seat, while another man waited in a maroon
sedan. The sedan was across the path of the senator’s car, which was on the shoulder of the road on
A Killing for Pay?
IF THE cold-blooded assassination of State Sena
tor Warren (J. Hooper was the work of hood
lums hired and paid to obstruct justice, the people
of this state have been affronted by a crime un
equalled in its history.
Time and again in the last year, the citizens
of Michigan have been shocked by the evidence of
graft and corruption in lofty places, but the stag
gering boldness of this murder calls for swift and
thorough investigation to determine whether the
assassination was the work of desperate political
conspirators.
* • *
TK THIS is true, the actual killers, guilty and
* stained with blood as they are, must indeed be
regarded as small fry compared to the men who
would plot and pay for the brutal death of one
who held a high position of public trust.
It is not likely that the decent citizens of
Michigan will be satisfied until the whole and com
plete truth of this crime is established and the
murderers brought to justice.
No law enforcement agency should rest,
nor any man who respects the law be content,
until this stain is removed from the record.
The guilty cannot escape, nor any power of
evil prevail* against the people’s determination to
punish such malefactors and destroy for good
their malevolent powers.
Japs Warn Soviet
Against War
Forecast Showdown
on Neutrality Pact
NEW YORK. Jan I*s HNS) —
Japanese propagandists, in a veiled
warning to Ru»ia. declared to
night that ihe Russians ’would
have "everything to loso and noth
ing to gain” by joining the war
against japan
The Japanese Domei news
agency, jittery about Russian in
tentions in the Far Ka-i asserted
that Anglo-American diplomaes
would seek to create a r.ft be
tween Japan and Russia ’ in the
coming weeks
Marshal Stalin ‘‘will be com*,
polled to show his hand in res|jrct
to the Pacific War before April
next." the agency declared, re
ferring to the imminent April
deadWno for termination of the
Russo-Japtmese neutrality pact.
The War Fronts
LUZON Yanks advance S
miles nearer Manila. (Page
1.)
RUSSIA Stalin announces
opening of new offensive
In Poland. (Page 1.1
CHINA SEA Halsey's fleet
sinks six transports carry
ing 15.000 to 20.000 Jap
troops, i Page 1. 1
FRANCE Three Allied
armies hatter shrinking
Belgian bulge: fourth ad
l vancea inside Reich.—Page ,
1.)
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Quake Strikes
Main Jap Isle
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan 13
(UP* The Japanese Domei
agency said a "slight earthquake
•-hook central Honshu the main
Japanese home island, at 3:55
a. m (Tokyo time) Saturday.'
damaging houses.
The affected area was identified
a* the Chubu district, which
stretches north to south acros*
Honshu at a point west and south
of Tokyo.
"Tr»nsjM»rtation facilities sus
tained no damage whatever."
Domei suid in a broadcast rec
orded by FCC monitors.
Ex-ANPA Manager Dies
MIAMI. Jan..l3 (UP(—Lincoln
B. Palmer. 79. for 35 years gen
eral manager of the American
Newspaper Publisher* Association
died in his sleep here early today
after a brief illness
73-Year-Old Man Crosses
U. S. to Admit 1905 Murder
FAIRMONT. W Va . Jan. 13
(UP( Benjamin Franklin Male,
73, today completed his cross
country journey to answer 40-
year-old murder charges and an
nounced that he was hungry.
Male’s first words, when he
met by Chief Deputy Sheriff Har
mon Van Gilder and L. G. Boggs,
editor of the Fairmont West Vir
ginian. were:
**\\ ell. here I am—thr wild
man from the west.”
Ne\i. the short. white haired
We«t Virginian asked for a piece
of pie and »omr chieken lie was
served two ham and cheese sand
wiches, a piece of Apple pie And a
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Sigler refused to identify the sex of the witness,
even avoiding the use of “he” or “she” in discussing
this phase of the case. He said:
“We have a witness* who at exactly 1:30 p. m*
(5:30 p. m. Detroit time), was driving north on
M-99. As this witness came around the curve,
some distance south of the Hooper car, the witness
noted the car off the highway on a shoulder.
“A maroon sedan, of an unknown make, was
parked in front of Hooper’s car, crosswise, form
ing a T. This indicates the maroon car forced
Hooper’s car off the road. .
Sees Maroon Car Back Up, Park
"As the witness drove slowly along and ap*
proached the scene, the maroon car backed up
across to the right of the road, faced south and
parked on the other side parallel to thd pavement.
“The driver waited there as the witness drove by.
The witness will be able to identify the driver .
“The witness also noted a second man standing on
the driver’s side of Hooper’s car. The car door was open.
There was a figure slumped down on the seat. The man
standing in the open door is certainly the one who left thi
footprints in the snow.
Tells of Man Entering Maroon Car
After the witness drove some distance away, the
witness observed in the rear mirror the man standing at
Hooper’s car cross the highway and get into the maroon
car. which then headed south.”
Asked if the witness had noted a gun in the hand of tba
man standing near the Hooper car, Sigler replied:
“I am not prepared to answer that question.”
When he greeted reporters, Sigler was cheery and rfr*
marked:
“I am pleased to report we have made considerable .
progress toward solving the crime. This witness is re
liable, but for obvious reasons the name can't be disclosed.
There are other persons to be interviewed who we think J
may have important information.”
Sigler likewise refused to divulge whether the witneai
had jotted down the license number of the maroon aut/>
mobile. The only thing he would say concerning the
automobile was “it is of a 1940 or 1941 make; not a Ford,
and a large car.”
Sigler said he was not ready to
give the licence number of the
suspected murder car or descrip
tions of the two men observed at
the scene.
TEST FINGERPRINTS
He -iid however, that finger
prints found in the interior of
Hoopci * (nr near the* left door
compared with iboaa
or file in the . ate police system.
An easily noticeable scratch on
one of the fenders of thp senator's
car convinced investigators it had
cup of col fee w hen he arrived at
the jail.
He will not be locked up. Van
Gilder said, hut will be given “the
run of the jail/’
Male has admitted that in 1905
he killed Walter O. Smith, a
crippled school teacher, in a fight
because Smith punished his 9-
year-old son. Cecil, and sent him
home from school with “blood
running down the bagk of his
shoes ’
Because Smith was a cripple
and Malr thought he would not
receive a fair trial, Male fled to
Oregon and became Andrew Jack
son Pritchard.* •<
FINAL
been nudged pnto the shoulder at
the road by his assassins.
STARE AT WITNESS
Discussing the ability of sh«
witness to identify the occupants
of the maroon car, Sigler said
they stared at the witness in*
tently as he drove by slowly and
he had a good look at them. . _
Feeling certain the murder w**
the work of professionals who
used a stolen car. Detroit polic*
Saturday were on the lookout for
four maroon-colored autos stole*
heredh the last three weeks.
The position of the maroon car
convinced Sigler that Hboper had
left Lansing alone and that he waA
(Continued on Pago Eight)
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