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hand-in-hand with three Yanks, being led 1 after a conference somewhere in France.
U. 5. Losses
Jump 52,594
WASHINGTON. Jan IS (INS)
of War Stimson today
announced that American losses
on the Ardennes front
to Jan. 7. the peak of the Ger
man breakthrough, were slightly
under 40.000
Of this number approximately
IR.OOO are reported missing. The
majority are presumed to be pris
oners of war.
Stimson added that the war
department has “definite informa
tion that approximately 10.000
Germans have been captured,
while German casualties in killed
and wounded are estimate! at
50.000. making a total of 90.000
For the entire American front
(First, Third, Seventh and Ninth
armies) for the *amv period,
Stimson said, the casualties total
4.083 killed 27,645 'wounded and
20.866 missing, making a total of
52,594.
.7 Sons Listed
Ax Casual! i«\s
CALUMET. Jan 1.3 Within
tw'o days, Batiste Costa wa - in
formed that three of his sons
were listed as battle 'casualties.
His twin sons. Lavrencr and
Anion. 21. were reported missing
in action in Belgium just ,i day
after he had received word-that
his oldest son. Peter. -.'B. had been
wounded in Levte
Coal Piles Dwindle.
Ilealors Swamped
Coal i« reported to have gone]
the way of cigarets. gasoline ar 1
other scam 1 articles in wartime
I)etrolt within the last wc< k The
story is going the rounds:
“Call up such and such a
dealer and tell ’em you know
Joe Doakes. and you’ll get coal.”
Coal piles were low Saturday,
and some dealers had nothing to
5 P.M. FLASHES
HILL WOULD DEPORT JAP ALIENS
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 (INS) —Rep. Mott (R) of
Oregon, today introduced legislation to deport Japanese
alien* within six months after the war ends with Japan.
4.000 APPLY FOR NURSES’ JOBS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (INS) —The American Red
Oo*« announced today that its nurse recruitment com
mittee in 35 large cities had received 4.000 applications
tor enlistment in the first five days following President
Roosevelt’s recommendations to draft them.
2 KILLERS DIE IN OREGON GAS CELL
SALEM, Ore.. Jan. 15 (I P) —Two convicted killers
died today in Oregon’s first double lethal gas execution.
Henry Merten, 32, and Walter Wilson, 35, died for the
holdup slaving of Ralph Dahlen, 27, July 22, 1043.
RICKENBACKKK RESCUER DIES AFTER CRASH
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.. Jan. 15 (UP) Conidr
William F. Eadie. 31. who was instrumental in the rescue
of ( apt. Eddie Rickenhaeker from a life raft in the Pacific
in 1012, died lasi Monday somewhere in the Pacific fol
lowing an air accident, according to word received here.
PORTER APPROVED BY SENATE COMMITTEE
W ASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UP) —The Senate Inter
state Commerce committee today approved the nomination
of Paul Porter as chairman of the Federal Communi
cations Commission. Porter, former Democratic national
committee publicity chief, will till the unexpired term of
Janies Lawrence Fly.
CHINESE CAPTURE SIIWELI VALLEY TOW N
MYITKYINA, Burma. Jan. 15 (UP)—The Chinese
30th Division, driving hack along the old Burma road,
todav captured the town of Namhkan in the Shvveli River
valley hlxmi! 28 air miles southwest of the Bunnu-Chiiia
border town of Wanting.
Inffer. CnlN to some dealers
I brought one offer of 'possibly in a
week" when immediate delivery
was sought. Another reported ho
iWiis two weeks behind on emer
gency orders alone and still
r ' '‘her throe weeks.
The phones of larger companies
were swamped for hours at a
stretch.
New V-Bomb Raids
Kill Many British
LONDON, Jan. 15 <UP) Ger
man V-bomb* have killed score*
of British in reccmt raid*, the
ministry of Home Security con
firmed today* No spccificJigurcs
were given. In December, how
ever. the V-fcnmbs killed 367 and
injured 847, bringing the 1944
total to 8.465 dead and 21.984 in
jured.
Ambush Revealed
By RAY GUARDIN'
JACKSON, Jan. 15 —Witnesses in the investigation into the cold blooded murder of State
Senator Warren G. Hooper have been threatened on the telephone with death, Special
Prosecutor Kim Sigler revealed today.
At the same time Sigler disclosed that additional witnesses reported seeing the maroon
murder car lying in wait to ambush Senator Hooper as early as two hours before he was
215 Divisions
Reds, Nazis
In Big Battle
LONDON. Jan. 15 (UP)
One of thv greatest battles
of the war raged today along
a virtually unbroken front
from Lithuania to Yugo
slavia, with possibly 250.000
Russians and Germans locked
in at least nine closely
synchronized struggles.
“Bitter fighting has flared up
«*n the entire front,’** the Gei
man high command reported.
RKDS ROLL WESTWARD
The Russians already were call
ing their great winter offensive
the march to IScrlin. Nazi mili
tary’ spokesmen warned that the
Red army "intends to end the
u ar "
So far Moscow had confirmed
only Marshal Konev's push across
-outh-centrM Poland, aimed at
the great Nazi defense bastion of
Krakow and the rich industries of
German Silesia.
Nazi propagandists said the
Soviets had flung 115 divisions
plus more than 15 tank corps,
into four fronts alone, while a
I’nited Press dispatch from Mos
cow figured German strength in
Poland a» 100 divisions
OFFENSIVE (.ROWS
On the single new front rejjortcd
hv Moscow'. Soviet dispatches said
the Germans had Ixcn unable to
'rally and the Russians were roll
iing weestward at a clip which
[threatened to split the Nazi armies
1 in Poland
A Moscow dispatch said Ko
nevs offensive was expanding so
rapidly that it war impossible to
tell whether the Red marshal’s
[ultimate objective was Germany
itself, the capture of Krakow, the
seizure of the Katowice steel and
coal basin oi flanking of Warsaw
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Circled
PARIS Jan. 13 (UP' Ameri
can tanks and infantry stormed
the near defenses of Houffalize
tuday and a disf»atch from Lt.
Gen Hodges’ headquarters fore
cast the early capture of the Bel
gian base which once was at the
center of the collapsed Ardennes
salient
Houffalize wav invested on all
sides and assault forces of the
h irst and Third Armies were clos
ing in for the kill, with one spear
head driving down the main high
way from Liege to within a mile
and a half of the key transport
center.
RESISTANCE STIFF
A few miles to the northwest,
outriders of the First and Third
Armies met for the first junction
of Hodge*' and Lt Gen. Pat ton's
troops since the first phase of
the German offensive which split
the Twelfth Army Group wide
open
United Press correspondent
John McDermott reported from
Hodges' headquarters that iwo
First Army columns were shoul
dering in toward HoufTalize
against stiff German resistance.
By early afternoon one had
struck down the trunk highway
from the north almost to the out
skirts of the town. Hnd McDer
mott said that "there is a good
possibility it will fall soon ’’
YANKS DRIVEN Ot'T
The German garrison, ringed
b\ American troops and armor,
was fighting desperately, and
fragmentary units wore trying to
filtin* through the V. S. lines and
escape over the thinly guarded
back roads to the east. ,
Hodges’ artillery was shellack
ing the German transports mill
ing around in the battle zone and
generally falling hack to the shel
ter of the Siegfried defenses.
Detroit 31, Mich., Tuesday, Jan. 16, 1945
Turner Gels
Life Term in
Joyce Killing i
Robert William Turner, 20.
confessed bludgeon-slayer of
Joyce Raulson. 14. today was
sentenced to life in Jackson
prison by Circuit Judge Vin
cent M. Brennan.
The youth stared silently
as Judge Brennan sentenced
him. The slaying occurred on
a city dump last March 27. In
answer to a question by the
judge, Turner replied he had
nothing to say before sentence
was pronounced.
REPORTS READ
Judge Brennan read portions of
the \outh's confession from the
probation report. Then he ordered
a copy of the probation and psy
chiatric reports sent to Jackson
so Turner can receive psychiatric
treatment while serving his sen
tence.
Later, after he had been taken
to his cell to await transportation
to prison. Turner collapsed, weep
ing and sobbing.
lie asked photographers present
to "say good-by to all my friends
for me I won't he seeing them
for a long, long time "
RELATIVES IN COURT
j Tn court were the youth's
ifather. Bert Turner. 2439 S. Ed
sel: his brother. Raymond, and
one ot his sisters Mrs. Lucille
Romines
Curious spectators jammed
the courtroom and sheriff's depu
ties were on hand to prevent
Turner from attempting to take
his life. Twice before Turner had
tried to kill himself.
Joyce, a runaway problem
child, was beaten and stabbed to
ideath on the dump at W. Warren
and Ann Arbor Trail. Richard
Vincent. 23. confessed the crime
several days later and then re
pudiated it.
2 Jap Admirals Die
NEW YORK. Jan 13 (INS)—
Announcement by the Yokosuka
naval station reported the deaths
of Vice Adm. Sadamiehi Kajioka
and Rear Adm Minrgoro Kame
yama. the Jap Domei agency said
today.
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shot to death.
The prosecutor refused to identify the
witnesses threatened, but said they have
been given full police protection. He stated
that some of the ttmeats were made from
long distance points, but would not state
whether they were from outside Michigan.
Some of these threats were received, he said,
as late as this morning. The calls, he stated, were
made by “various voices.”
The new witness, or witnesses, Sigler said, saw
the maroon car, he is convinced was the murder
car, parked on a side road off M-99, one and one
half miles south of Eaton Rapids, six miles from
the murder scene, at 2:30 p. m. Thursday.
Hooper was killed at 4:30 p. m.
The car remained parked there for one-half hour, during
which the two occupants were seen working at its rear.
Believe License Plates Changed
Sigler said he was of the opinion they were changing the
license plates.
Leaving this dead end road, the car was then driven to M-99
where it was parked on the w’est side of the road for 45 minutes.
The men in the car seen on the side road, the prosecutor stated,
fit descriptions given by two other witnesses.
Asked what warning the threats conveyed, Sigler refused to
elaborate, but said the witnesses were told:
“You'd* better keep your mouth shut.”
State police were checking phone records in an effort to trace
the calls.
Stunned by the challenge to law and order by the murder.
Gov. Kelly in Lansing today prepared to ask the Legislature to
osier the largest reward in Michigan’s history for information
leading to the capture of the killers.
A figure as high as $25,000 was
being discussed, one state official
said.
Meanwhile, convinced that
Hooper was murdered because of
a sensational graft story he told
[the Lansing grand jury. Special
Prosecutor Kim Sigler today
reached into the Chicago and
Detroit underworlds for clues.
L The governor said he had ad
vised Vernon J. Brown, the lieu
tenant governor and the attorney
general's office to press for legis
| lative appropriation of the re
, ward money immediately.
“I am conferring with lawr
enforcing officials as tu their
opinion in regard to the aize
of the reward.” the governor
said. “The reward, in my opinion,
slipulil receive but one teat of
its adequacy. It should he Mif
ficient to Induce those who
hate information to make that
information known.”
SIO,OOO SOUGHT
Senator Ben Carpender of Hill
man has already announced he
will ask the Legislature to pro
vide a SIO,OOO reward.
I Sigler reported progress, in
jeluding discovery of a second wit
ness who saw the maroon sedan
used by the two killers, at the
scene of the carefully planned
late Thursday.
The latest witness to enter the
case, a Jackson businessman, told
of aeeing a maroon Chevrolet
sedan parked near the murder
scene when he drove past between
4.30 p. m. The sedan was
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heading In the direction followed
by Hooper.
This witness said he saw no
one in or around the car, but
did not doubt the possibility that
one or more men were crouched
down in it. The parked car was
the only one in sight at the time.
Police also were investigating
a report that three men In a
maroon Packard stopped for re
pairs at a Jackson gasoline sta
tion the night of the murder.
Investigators still clung to tha
belief that the fire in the front
seat of Hooper’s car was caused
by a lighted cigaret in his hand
at the time he was slain. Labora
tory examination of his clothing
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THE WEATHER
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to cloudy tonight
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lowest tonight
about 20.