I I yl 4 12, £fr igm 1 WEATHER Partly Cloudy and Colder witU Possible Snow Flurries VOL. LV, No. 57 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JAN. 13, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS U.S, C RRIER PL E s SI K 25 JAP SHIPS * * * * * * * * * * * Germans Drop Resistance in Ardennes Salient 4- I Three Allied Armies Are In Hot Pursuit Third Army Cuts Nazi Lines East of Bastogne By The Associated Press PARIS, Jan. 12-The Germans dropped all organized resistance in the western Ardennes salient today, headed east toward the Reich across the snowfields, and three Allied Ar- mies in hot pursuit plowed along be- hind them in three and four-mile ad- vances. As the tide of battle ebbed here, it rose abruptly in northeastern France, but doughboys were healing a breach in the old Maginot Line and had driven the enemy from all but the south edge of Rittershoffen, a village eight miles south of the Reich border north of Strasbourg. Skilled Reversals With skill born of similar reversals on the Russian front, the Germans withdrew from their extended posi- tions in Belgium without stranding sizeable forces, although Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army suc- ceeded in cutting to ribbons their troops boxed east of Bastogne. The U. S. First Army struck three miles south from LaRoche, at the northwest corner, overrunning a number of abandoned villages. The British Second Army moving four miles in from the west joined up with the U. S. Third Army near the fallen southwest cornerstone city of St. Hubert, lopping off the west- ernmost seven miles of the Ardennes. Roadblocks and Minefields Here the three armies racing across 100 square miles of abandoned terri- tory had to contend primarily with roadblocks and minefields, but far- ther east the Germans were stiffen- ing against First Army surges against the northern shoulder. The northern shoulder must be his stand, von Rundstedt was ac- round and pull out his forces for fresh blows somewhere else. Already Americans are two and a half miles from his main escape route. .rWhere the Germans will elect to stand was a question. Vincent openis SAE Session Summarizing recent developments in research on heat flow in pistons, Prof. Edward T. Vincent of the mech- anical engineering department open- ed a discussion yesterday at the fourth session of the 1945 Annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers held at the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. Other University professors who will address church and community groups this week are Dr. Ralph M. Patterson, associate professor of psychiatry, who will speak on "As-, suming Mental Health in Children" at a meeting of the Adult Study group at 10 a. in. tomorrow at the First Unitarian church, and Prof. Harold M. Dorr of the poli- tical science department, will a- dress community councils, a PTA organization, and service clubs in the Upper Peninsula from Monday through Thursday. CAMPUS EVENTS Today 19th Century text books through are on display at Uni- Jan. 19 versity Elementary School Library. Today "No Greater Love," Rus- sian film, to be shown at 8 p. m. in Rackham building. Today Union membership dance from 9 p. m. to midnight in the Rainbow Room at the Union. Today Wrestling-Michigan vs. Northwestern - at 3:15 p. m. at the Sports Build- ing. Todav Basketball-Michigan vs. MUSSOLINI REVIEW FASCIST--Caption for the German photo above, supplied by a Swedish agencly, says it shows Benito Mussolini (center) reviewing F ascist military units in Milan. I Berlin Reports Red Winter Drive Begun Southern Poland Push Is Termed "Biggest' By The Associated Press LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 13-Ber- lin reports said last night that the long-awaited Russian winter offen- sive in southern Poland, "The big- gest of all time," had begun at dawn yesterday on a broad front west of the Vistula River bridgehead town of Baranow, 120 miles below Warsaw, and had penetrated German lines amid "extremely violent fighting." The new push came as Moscow an- nounced that Soviet shock troops had hurled the remnants of the German garrison at Budapest into a five- square-mile pocket in the heart of the Hungarian capital. Hungarian Patriots Fight A midnight Soviet bulletin also said that Hungarian patriots had ris- en, and were firing on the Germans from cellars, rooftops and street bar- ricades. In retaliation, the Germans are blowing up houses and public buildings without warning and "thou- sands of civilians are perishing in the ruins," Moscow said. A late report from Berlin to the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter described the Russian Polish offensive as the greatest yet launched. The Russians are attacking "with 500 heavy guns, two air fleets, several tank armies and innumerable infantry divisions," it said. Aimed Kielce, Krakow The drive apparently was aimed at Kielce and Krakow, last major strongholds protecting German Sile- sia. - Greek Hostilities To Cease Monday ATHENS, Jan. 12-(AP)-Hostilities between British troops and ELAS left-wing guerrillas will cease at 1 a. m. Monday under truce terms made public today, but the ELAS refused to surrender thousands of Greek civil- ian hostages. State Police Are Investigating Clies o W. G Hooper's Death By The Associated Press LANSING, Mich., Jan. 12-Investigating officials said tonight they were convinced State Senator Warren G. Hooper, key witness in Grand Jury graft cases, was shot and killed by a iperson who was driving Hooper's car at the time. Jackson County Prosecutor Murl Ater, Capt. Williamn Hansen and Detective Lieut. Lyle Morse of State Police announced this conclusion after they had taken statements at Jackson from those who found !Hooper's body in the smouldering right front seat of his car on a lonely stretch of highway near Springport, Mich., late Thursday. Luzon Drive Penetrates 12 Miles Inland U.S. Sixth Encounters Stronger Resistance By The Associated Press GEN. MAC ARTHURS EAD- QUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 13, Satur- day-Sixth Army invaders of Luzon have penetrated inland 12 miles from their Lingayen Gulf beach- heads. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an- nounced today. This represented a gain of three miles in one day. The Yanks have seized the ter- minals of four major highways leading to Manila as well as more than ten miles of the only railroad from Lingayen Gulf down to flat valley to the Philippine capital. Increasing contact with the enemy was noted in MadArthur's communi- que, indicating that U.S. forward elements were entering zones of en- emy concentrations. The important city of San Carlos, where five main highways intersect, was captured. It is in the center of the valley at the deepest point of penetration. Malasiqui, another high- way junction to the east, also was captured, both on Thursday. American naval units sank or dam- aged 46 small freighters and coastal vessels attempting to unload at San Fernando, in Lingayen Gulf above the most northerly Yank beachhead. Sharp fighting was reported along the Manaooag-Pozorrubio road on the east flank, where MacArthur yes- terday reported first appreciable con- tact with the enemy. American warplanes, harassing enemy attempts to rush reinforce- ments northward, ripped airfields, communications and troop columns from Lingayen south to Batangas, below Manila. Other planes cooperating with guerrillas blocked strategic defiles for enemy troop movements. "Our advance south from Lngayen Gulf continues unchecked," said Gen- eral MacArthur in his communique. "On the west flank our troops brushedtahead of small enemy groups near Umanday. Our columns in the center reached San Carlos and Mal- asqui, 12 miles from the coast. In the east sector sharp fighting oc- curred along the Manaoag-Pozor- rubio road and in the hills. "Increasing enemy contacts indi- cate our forward units are entering a zone of enemy concentration." MacArthur said American planes "continued to dominate the sky." Heavy bombers cratered runways and destroyed a number of parked planes at Grace Park airdrome in the Manila area. Many locomo- tives and 40 freight cars were de- stroyed in fresh attacks on rolling stock virtually the length of Luzon. Low-level strafing attacks wrecked enemy motor columns, destroying more than 200 vehicles and five tanks. Footprints In Snow Only footprints in the snow near the car, they pointed out, indicated some one had left the driver's seat after the machine skidded off the pavement, and had walked around the front of it to reach the road. Whether the slayer then was picked up by an accomplice, walked away from the scene or hitchhiked a ride, the officers declined to speculate. Three Possibilities Movements of Hooper from thej time he left the state capital here shortly after 4 p. m. eastern war time until his body, three close-range bullet wounds in the head, was found about three miles north of Spring- port, apparently could not be traced. Capt. Hansen pointed to three pos- sibilities: that Hooper's killer was a passenger known to him but unsus- pected, whom he picked up either in Lansing or Eaton Rapids as he drove towards his home; that the slayer was a hitch-hiker who had been "planted" to intercept Hooper; and that the Senator was followed by an assailant who overhauled his car at the spot, an eighth of a mile from the nearest dwelling, where it skid- ded from the pavement. State police received a report from Ben Wright, a farmer living at Rives junction, that he had seen a car containing three men traveling at a high rate of speed about 15 miles south of the place where Hooper's car was found, about 15 or 20 minutes before the discovery of the body. Wright said his curiosity was arous- ed by the speed of the car and the actions of the men in it, notably one in the back seat who stared at him as the car sped in a direction away from the death car. i Fleet Continues -To Hit 4 Convoys 12 Transports, Several Destroyers Bagged, Adm. Nimitz Announced By The Associated Press U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan. 12. -Carrier planes of the U.S. Third Fleet are continuing to attack four enemy convoys off French Indo-China, after sinking 25 ships, including a cruiser, several destroyers and 12 loaded transports, the first day of the assault yesterday. Hundreds of American carrier planes of Aden. William F. Halsey's Third Fleet, whose armada so far has suffered no damage, are ripping into four Nipponese convoys which were beig organized to send against Gen. Douglas MacArthur's invasion scene on Luzon. The bag of 38 ships was achieved yesterday. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an-T nounced the sinkings and damage to 13 other enemy ships in a com. munique today. Tonight in a second communique he disclosed as additional details that the ships sunk included six enemy transports at Saigon and at least six more transports at Guinhon harbor, 250 miles to the northeast. These transports were being amas- sed for a countersmash at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's invasion scene at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon in the Philippines, less than 1,000 miles west of Saigon. Transports Loaded The fact the transports were load- ed meant heavy loss of soldiers. Fleet Adm. Nimitz, in his first communique on the decisiveaaction 1,000 miles west of Manila, also an- nounced the destruction of the new Japanese super-battleship, the '45,- 000-ton Musashi by air attack last Oct. 25 in the second battle of the Philippines Sea, has been confirmed. The admiral disclosed also that the Musashi's sister ship, the Yamato, was damaged by bombs in the Oct. 24 action. These two vessels were the two most powerful battleships in the Japanese navy. The four Japanese convoys inter- cepted by Admn. William F. Halsey's audacious thrust across the South China Sea apparently were organiz- ing into an expedition for reinforce- ment of Luzon from the French Indo- China port of Saigon and Camranh [ Bay.! Convoys Slashed Halsey's airmen sank one Katori class light cruiser and several de- stroyers and destroyer escorts guard- ing the convoys. While the convoys were being slashed, Halsey's fliers also swept inland Indo-China air bases from Saigon 250 miles northeast to Guin- hon harbor. Thirty-nine planes were destroyed. Halsey seemed to have achieved almost complete surprise. Fully 18 Japanese planes were seen airborne over Saigon, Indo-China's first com- mercial port and a Japanese base since shortly after the fall of France in 1940. American Hellcat and Corsair fight- ers shot down ten of the feeble 18- plane force protecting Saigon. WAR AT A GLANCE By The Associated Press PACIFIC FRONT--25 Jap ships sunk, 13 damaged in great naval-air battle off French Indo China now in second day. Sixth Army penetrates 12 miles from Lingayen gulf beach- heads on Luzon. WESTERN FRONT - Germans cease all organized resistance on Ar- dennes salient sector-Three Allied armies in hot pursuit. RUSSIAN FRONT-Berlin reports long awaited Russian winter offen- sive in Poland commencing. Reds take more.of Budapest. GREECE: Hostilities scheduled to cease Monday. Workers Will Be Channeled By New Controls WASHIGTON Jan 12 State Republicans Rlack Judge Carr GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 12.- -UP)-Michigan Republicans Friday unanimously went on record back- ing Judge Carr's Grand Jury investi- gation and favoring appropriation of further funds to bring the investi- gation to a successful conclusion. This action was taken at the end of the annual state convention here at which informal discussion among delegates dwelt more upon the slay- ing of Sen. Warren G. Hooper last light than on the issues at hand. JAG School To Hold Formal Exercises Today Formal commencement exercises for members of Ninth Officer Can- didate and 20th Officer classes of the JAG School, graduated yesterday aft- ernoon, will be held at 10 a. m. to- day in Rm. 100, Hutchins Hall. Maj.-Gen. Myron C. Cramer, Judge Advocate General of the U. S. Army, will deliver the baccalaureate address and will present diplomas to the 109 graduates. Lt. Col. Reg- inald Miller, Commandant of the JAG Schooland Dr. E. Blythe Sta- son, Dean of the Law School, will also address the men, who took their oath as officers in the U. S._ Army yesterday on the Law Club parade ground. Lt. Hardy Decorated At yesterday's ceremonies, Lt. James I. Hardy, a member of the graduating Ninth Officer Candidate class, was presented with the Silver Star by Gen. Cramer for "gallantry in action and disregard for personal safety" while subjecting himself to heavy enemy fire as a member of a wire-repair team in Normandy last July. Held Banquet A banquet was held last night at -.. ,-- -, Vt.--.1 1.. - -.. . ~--ed I ANNAPOLIS GRADUATE: Capt. Michaux Appointed New Campus Naval Commandant r -i SPOILS OF WAR: Foreign Currency Collected By Michigan Men Is Displayed, Foreign currency collected in all theatres of war by 11 former Michi- gan men and one Ann Arbor man will be on display today through Jan. 20 in the window of Wahr's Book store on South State St. Bob Steeb has mounted bills which have been sent in the form of bills and coins to T. Hawley Tapping and Robert O. Morgan of the Alumni As- sociation from time to time through- out the wvar. Short Snorter Shown A short snorter belonging to Col. Robert B. Hall, of the geography de- partment, who has recently returned to Ann Arbor, and is now on in- active duty, contains 15 bills from all parts of the globe. A distinctive note added by him for the display 'tl.. hc a ,lt ,m nntlct.r P. il mother, wife, or sweetheart contain- ing stitches which have been made 454th Bomb Group; First Lt. Fred Weist, '39 SM; Ens. Don L. Nixon, '40, BAd. '40-'41; Second Lt. Edward Czak, '42; First Lt. Stan Welley '41; Capt. Walter Stebens, '40; and Lt. James I. Clark, '39A. Others contributing are Maj. Wil- liam Kelly, '38; Lt. John Sharemet, '42; '38Ed, BAd. '42; Capt. Charles G. Barndt, '35; Lt. James Hyde, '35; D. D. 'Red' Duryea; and Fred Benz, of Ann Arbor. Foreign Bank Notes Notes which are on display are marked with the phrases Afrique Occidentale Francaise, Banque de I'Afrique Occidentale, Banque de tronn e mis on France. Emnire Che- WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 - (R) --- Drastic new controls to channel workers from "less essential" firms into war production were revealed to- night, capping these other manpow- er developments: 1. CIO President Philip Murray told a news conference the way to meet manpower problems is not leg- islation, but a conference of govern- ment, labor, industry and agriculture to plan smooth distribution of work. He favored taking the problem out of "the congressional mess it is 'in and returning it to the people where it belongs." 2. AFL and Railroad Brotherhood leaders, after a joint conference, said they had evidence "of flagrant wast- age of manpower and money by Fed- eral government agencies and by private industries engaged in war production." 3. Lt. Gen. William S. Knudsen, the Army's plane production boss, told the House Military Committee it would be better to apply criminal penalties-fines or imprisonment-to men who won't take war jobs, rather than to induct them into menial tasks in the army. He favored na- tional service legislation for all men between 18 and 60. The War Manpower Commission dispatched to its regional directors a plan for a nation-wide inventory of less essential firms. It calls for employment "ceilings" for those with eight or more workers, and empow- ers are directors to apply ceilings to those with less than eight. This would put strict limits on the number of people a firm may hire. The commission's plan amounts to a dragnet for any surplus manpower which then could be shifted to criti- cal war plants. Redman Will Speak At SRA Luncheon Cooperative housing will be the subject of an address to be deliv- ered by the Rev. Edward H. Redman of the Unitarian Church at the Stu- dent Reli-rins Assoiation's weekly Capt. Woodson V. Michaux, U. S.I N. will replace Capt. Richard E. Cas- sidy as commandant of all Naval units on campus, it was announced yesterday. rnf P z-iri m xvar ngerrvadto ranean Sea, the Balkan states, and the Orient. Before the war, he was navigating officer of a battleship, which was on patrol duty in the far northern waters of the Atlantic. He was made ..«,.ev 7 , rn r = _ YY Y 1 Y9*'