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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-03
Finance Head
Denies Bribery
Stote Graft Case
is Continued

MASON, Mich, Aug. 3 Up
Abraham Cooper, president Of
the Union Investment Company
of Detroit, is to complete today
his testimony denying charges
of the prosecution in the legis-
lative graft trial that he headed
conspiracy to corrupt the
writing of Michigan laws.
Tomorrow, the defense in the
Circuit Court trial expects to
rest its case with the testimony
of another of the five Finance
Company Defendants, Samuel
N. Hopkins, vice president of
Coper's company. Also on trial
are II members of the 1889 leg
islature.
Cooper Wednesday challeng-
ed testimony of the prosecu-
tons chief witnesses that he
and other finance company de-
PENDANTS employ e d M j or
Charles F. Hemans, a lobbyist,
to bride the legislative respond
ents.
Il certainly would not do a
thing like that" he asserted.
He contended that the first he
ever heard of bribing legislators
TO influence their votes on bills
affecting the interests of finance
companies was when he was
asked about it by the grand
jury which caused his arrest.
He said Hemans was employed
to perform honorable" tasks
only.
Cooper attacked the testi-
mony of Ralph w. Smith, Niles
Finance and Small Loan Com
pany operator, who as a States
witness declared that Cooper
and a group of associates raised
a fund for bribing legislators
and that he (Smith) contributed
TO the fund
He said Smith has testified
to lot of things that aren't
true" and told the Court and
jury that Smith was the man
who first proposed lobbying to
affect the form of certain leg
islation in 1889.
- Il have learned he had an
Interior motive" Cooper testi-
fled, asserting Smith had misre-
presented his own interest in
small loan and finance legisla-
ton to enlist the assistance of
the finance group. He said
Smith was interested in keep
ing "a high rate of interest on
small loans" rather than in the
fate of the finance companies.
Kim Sigler, special prosecutor
accused Cooper of trying to
put the blame on someone else
for everything" Cooper said
this was mot So"
Sfgler confronted Cooper with
a transcript Of his grand jury
testimony declaring Mark S.
Young of Detroit, one of the fl
nance company defendants, at
tended a meeting at which He
mans was hired as a
lob byis after Cooper tes-
titled that neither Young nor
Hopkins attended that meeting
Cooper said his memory was
refreshed" and that Young and
Hopkins were absent from that
meeting.
The special prosecutor prod
ded Cooper for an explanation
of what Hemans was TO do TO
earn his fee of $4,000 il bribery
was not among his duties.
Cooper described his rise from
Chief Clerk of wholesale dry
goods company 10 become presi-
dent Of finance-small loan-in-
surance firm capitalized at more
than S2,000,000 and which, he
/ said, with lis subsidiaries, earns
about 100000 annually.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-03

We simply blasted the JapS to
hell out of there and up into
the trees.-Rcad Adml. Richard
w. Connolly at Guam.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
0PA TO Request Five
District Deferments

Robert K. Thompson, District
OPA director, said last night that
draft deferments will be sought for
five pre-Pearl Harbor fathers be-
tween the ages of Is and 81 at the
District office.
A survey Of pre-Pearl Harbor
fathers within the age group was
completed at the District Office yes
terday in accordance with the re-
cent order pertaining to Govern
ment employees issued by Selective
Service headquarters The informa-
ton will be forwarded to the re-
gional Office in New York, which has
until January Is to turn over re-
quests for occupational deferments
to draft boards.
Mr.. Thompson said deferments
will be asked for himself, as District
director; John L. Laskey, District
enforcement attorney; Charles K.
Davies, acting rationing executive;
Sherwood Dodge, acting price ex-
Iecutive, and Simeon Bluh, restau-
rant specialist. Two others who
would be eligible for deferment I'M
der the classification of division
heads or specialized investigators
asked that deferment requests be
waived in their cases, Mr.. Thompson
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

current season. broadcast over the
Blue Network, Mr.. Willkie said such
a doctrine that the American peo-
pie are always sick and that they
are not robust individuals" mus be
repudiated.
For the tests that we face in the
coming year will require not only
healthy bodies but vigorous minds
and stalwart spirits" Mr.. Willkie
said. This year will be our tough
year.
Fears Postwar Mockery.
Unless internal collapse comes
soon in Germany, our casualty lists
will be long, heart-breakingly long
Unless our leaders exercise more
fortnight and courageous leader
ship in world affairs than they have
heretofore done, we may see our
selves Knocked by the bright slogans
for which we have fought.
Unless clearer thinking is ap-
piled to the problems of our home
front, we will continue to be rent
with internal discord which will
inevitably lengthen the fighting.
Unless more imagination and I'M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

planes I have ever seen on one mis-
SION"
Forty-two German fighters were
shot down during the 80O-mile
round trip on which the bombers
were accompanied by American
fighter planes.
A belated report reaching Stock
holm from Stettin said that Ger
man Baltic port had been crippled
with shipping paralyzed by the
RATS Wednesday night attack.
A number of Swedish ships sched-
uled to sail for Stettin were re-
routed to Danzig because the har-
Dor was blockaded, apparently by
disabled vessels, Stockholm shipping
circles said.
The Swedish foreign office an
nounced that the Swedish consulate
near the harbor had been de-
strOyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
THE SUNDAY STAR Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, JANUARY ,, 1914

derstanding are given to the trans
ference Of our economy from war
time to peacetime operation We may
find our economic and social system
In complete confusion when the
fighting Is over. It will be . tough
year."
Disease" Is Uncurcd.
Mr. Willkie said, mo doctor, even
with the palliatives and drugs of
an all-wise, all-powerful govern
ment can save us from the respon-
sibility that is rightfully ours add
ing that such actions as seizures of
factories, mines and railroads were
drugs prescribed by the doctors
when the case became too painful"
He said the disease remained be-
cause 1t was "a disease of the doc
tors" and would be cured only "by
attacking its fundamental cause
maladministration."
Mr.. Willkie said that "all of the
confusion in our domestic economy
is perfect illustration of the fallacy
of one-man government in a de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Raids
Continued From First Page J

bombers, hitting Western Germany
for the seventh consecutive time
kept the offensive rolling last night
after heavy American bombers
struck powerful blow at South
western Germany during daylight
yesterday.
American Air Force headquarters
did not name yesterdays targets
but both the German high COM
mand and reports reaching Sweden
said that Ludwigshafen, home of
the I, G. Farben poison gas COM
ponent works, and the industrial
city of Mannheim, across the river
were damaged heavily.
The Stockholm newspaper Nor
gon Tidningen said that Ludwig
shafen now looks completely fiat
tened out" as result of the pound
ing from hundreds OF American
bombers.
AZ Nazis Downed.
The daylight formations were de-
scribed by one United States pilot
as the largest number of American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Roosevelt 5 Parable
|0f Nation 5 Doctors
|Assailed by WiI|kie
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-Wendell l..
Willkie today assailed President
Roosevelt's doctor -the-war''
statement, however, facetiously adj
vanced, as an "insidious doctrine
that would make moral hypochon-
driacs of us all If we accepted it,
The 1910 Republican standard
bearer referred to the Presidents
press conference in which he spoke
OF the Nation as the patient and
the New Deal as the doctor, and in
which he said that the patient, now
cured of its former ailment, should
be considered In the hands of doc
tor win-the- war"
Addressing the sixth opera victory
rally OF the Metropolitan Opera S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

CT CApl COSCo III =
prise when informed by reporter
OF his latest honor, another in a
line OF family tradition extending
back through more than 100 years
OF Naval service by four generations.
The admirals father, Admiral
Charles j. Badger, was in command
of the gun factory at the Navy Yard
when his son was born. A member
of the Naval Academy Glass of 1873,
the Admiral's father became COM
mander in chief of the United States
Fleet in 1914. Leaving this post in
1916, his father then became head
of the General Board of the Navy
Department through a special act
OF Congress. He retired in 1922.
Service Chapter Shines.
His grandfather, Commodore Os-
car c. Badger, was in the first class
to graduate from the Naval Acad-
envy in 1845. This chapter in the
family history included war against
the Tripoli pirates, and wound re-
ceived while serving with Admiral
Farragut during the Civil War.
The admiral's great-grandfathe
Commodore Charles e. Johnston,
began his Navy career in 1903, and
was killed while participating in a
landing party against natives in the
South Seas.
In addition to naval service on
the Badger side of the family, Ad-
miral Badger inherited from his
mother a relationship to Admiral
Oliver Hazard Perry and Com
modore Stephen Champlln, who was
Admiral Perry's flag captain at the
battle of Lake Erie in 1914.
Three United States destroyers
af1oat today bear the Badger name,
Admiral Badger says. They include
the U. S. S. Charles j. Badger, named
after Admiral Badgers father; the
U. S, S. Oscar c. Badger, named
after his grandfather, apd the U. S.
S. George E. Badger, for his uncle,
who was secretary of the Navy in
164l.
Admiral Badger grew up in Wash
ington and attended Western High
School and Friends School. After
graduation from the Naval Academy
in 1911, he was member of a land
ing party at Vera Cruz, for which he
won the Congressional Medal of
Honor.
Cited in Last War.
During the last war he was cited
for antisubmarine duty, also receiv-
ing the Navy Cross for commanding
numerous ships.
In 194l Admiral Badger became
captain of the newly commissioned
battleship U. S. S. North Carolina.
He was promoted to rear admiral in
April. 1912, to serve as commander
OF destroyers. In the Atlantic Fleet.
Becoming Assistant Chief Of Opera
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

tons in 1943 he attended the At
lantic Charter Conference and the
meetings at Quebec and Cairo.
Admiral and Mrs. Badger have
two daughters, Isabelle, the wife OF
1t. John P. Schroeder, now serving
at sea, and Jane. The admiral said
he is hoping for sea duty soon.
The Navy also announced the
Legion of Merit award for Rear Ad-
mlral John Downes of Jamestown
R. l., who retired January as COM
mandant of the 9Th Naval District
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Mrs. Sawyer Reelected
By Girl Scout Council

Mrs. Raymond Sawyer was re-
elected commissioner last week al
the Arlington County Girl Scout
Councils annual election. Mrs. Will
liam O. Fraser, Mrs. Carl B. Gerber
and Mrs. Art Brown were elected
deputy commissioners; Mrs. Lewis
Weld, reelected secretary, and Mis-.
Matoaka Stribling reelected treas
urer.
The annual dinner meeting of the
council will be held January "a at
the Community Methodist Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

OF Merit for his
services as as
sistant chief of
naval operations.
He Is Rear Ad-
miral Oscar G.
Badger, of 1914
Connecticut ave-
nue. NV, whose
naval career be-
gan with his ap-
pointnent to the
Naval Academy
by P EST d e n t
Theodore Roose-
welt.
Admiral Badg-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Miss Ruth Cue to Speak

Mrs. Ruth Cue, elementary school
supervisor Of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Board of Education, will speak at
8 pm. Tuesday at the meeting OF
Ethe Parent-T Teacher Association OF
Somerset School. R
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Admiral Badger Adds
Honor 10 lIIusfrious
Tradition Of Family

A man who was born 81 years
ago in a Washington Navy Yard
home last night learned that the
Navy had awarded him the Legion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

Imocracy, no matter how brilliant
and no matter how well meaning 1t
may be"
Discussing the recent four power
conferences, he said they were
brought about by the weight Of pub
lie opinion, adding that 'the people
must now assert their opinion clearly
to bring about those political, eco
nomic and moral understandings
which alone can make real the great
principles for which we fight"
The Turkish government has
taken over a factory and will make
Evening star., 1944-09-11

A. +. PROtO.
confessed that he had known since
the spring Of 1943 that an attempt
was to be made on Hitlers life.
Wirmer was violently opposed to
Hitler and National Socialist Ger
many and continually pressed Goer-
deler to speed up the action" Trans
ocean asserted.
Zu Stolz was said to have made
frequent trips to Germany for the
purpose of discussing German mill
tary secrets with enemies of Ger
many" and all seven of the accused
were declared to have had "connec-
tions with foreign powers since 1912"
Count Helldorf was described as
liaison man between DR.. Goerdeler's
political group and the military fac
ton led by Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck,
one of the generals reported to have
paid the death penalty or completely
in the plot. Helldorf, as head of the
Berlin police, directed many of the
repressive actions against the Jews
in the early days of the Hitler
regime.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Youth, 18, Held on Charge
Of Shooting Brother, IS

Arthur L. Shifflett, 10, Little Falls
road, Mclean, Va, was being held
by Fairfax County police today on
charge of shooting his 15-year- -old
brother. John Otis Shiffett, in the
leg with a .38-caliber pistol yes
terday.
Police said John and his cousin
Clarence Shifflett, had gone into
nearby woods with Johns two sisters
l8 and 13, and quoted them as say
ing they were going ito see the
world"
Arthur, who told police he had
been threatened by John and Clar-
ence, said he had been carrying the
pistol for protection and fired it to
scare his brother after being sent
to bring him home.
The bullet was removed from the
injured boys leg at Georgetown
Hospital.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
AviIa Camacho Speeds Aid
To Flooded Mexican Areas
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 11-Presi-
dent Manuel Avila Camacho today
took steps to relieve suffering in
f1ood-stricken areas throughout
Mexico, particularly at Parral, Chi
huahua, where the bodies of AS
victims were reported to have been
recovered. Another 100 persons
were listed as missing
The President authorized DR..
Gustavo Baz, secretary of public
health, to fly aid to Parral, impor-
tant gold and silver mining town 200
miles from the United States border.
Trains were marooned after rains
drenched nearly all the nation. A
train from Mexico City bound for
Ciudad JaureZ, United States border
point, with more than 100 paSsen-
gers, was stranded at TorTeon be-
cause of Washouts between that
point and Jimenez. Another bound
for the capital from Ciudad Jaurez
returned after going as far as
Escalon station, Chihuahua.
Floods devastated large area in
Western Mexico. Thousands are
homeless, and Is lives were reported
lost in Colima and Jalisco States.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
$3.50 Award Given
For Suggestion by
Navy Emp|oye

Marvin r. Walters, 406 Linden
lane. Falls Church, Va, associate
technical adviser in the Bureau of
Ordnance, was awarded $3.50 for a
suggestion whose estimated savings
to the Government for the first year
will be S390,000, the Potomac River
Naval Command announced today.
Thirty-two other Navy Department
and Navy Yard employees also le-
Gently received awards for sugges-
tions.
Mr.. Walters award was for the
"ellmlnation of lre-control device"
which will reduce the cost, improve
the efficiency and simplify fire.
control equipment. Mr.. Walters,
whose home is in Charlottesville
Va, has been recommended for an
additional award.
Olen l.. Miller, 702 Yuma street
Sc, employed in the Washington
Navy Yard, received SlO0 for his
suggestion of "a universal core box
machine in woodworking opera
tionS. This will improve manufac-
turing methods, increase production
and materially reduce costs.
Other employees to receive awards
are:
Bureau of Yards and Docks-Mrs.
Dorothy L. Gilmour, 172l kilborne
place NV. S25.
Bureau of Aeronautics-Margu
rite Harris, 1868 Euclid street NV,
$40, Viola E. Cooke, 2S42 Twenty
eighth street NV. $40 and Lydia
M Hammack, 1920 Seventeenth
street NV, S25.
Executive Office of the Secretary
Henry P. Alexander, 3100 Connecti-
cut avenue NV. SIS.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Frank Cardinale 408 G street Sc,
$25; Elva M. Hallenbeck. 1914 Sew
enteenth street NV. $50; Mary K
Kanley, 1887 South Stafford street
b., Arlington, Va. $40; Eunice E.
Hibbs, 1922 Lee boulevard. Falls
Church, Va. $40; Elwyn A. Hines,
1916 North Wayne street, Arlington,
Va, S25; Marian Hutchison, 5044
Nebraska avenue NV, SIS, and Bea-
trice " Strand, 1892 N street NV,
$40.
Bureau of Ordnance-Joseph B.
Moore, 1905 North Evergreen avenue,
Arlington, S25.
Office of Chief of Naval Opera
tions-Marion L. Toohey, 1852 Hall
place NV, sl00.
Headquarters, United States Ma
rine Corps-Hattie D. Wolf, Bill
North Thomas street. Arlington, $50
Navy Yard-Luther H. Mills, 3l9
Ninth street Sc. $40; Amado c.
Tanael, 720 E street NE, $50; Edgar
B. Green, 1920 Twelfth street NE.
$50; Christian G. Forney, Arlington,
$40; Henry w. Donoghue, 6208
Forty-second avenue. Hyattsville,
Md, s25; Anthony Costone, 44O4
Fortieth street, Brentwood, Md,
$40; Robert L. Porter COG Four Mile
road, Alexandria, Va, S75; F. w.
Arrant, I'LL East Capitol street, $75;
Albert M. Syeles, 1906 Quarles
street NE. S25; Vera c. Bailey, 4425
Third street NV. $50; Frank J.
Adams. 7l64 Livingston road Sc,
s25; George A. Kelly, Baltimore,
S25; Lewis Witt, 1901 Sixth street
South, Arlington, Va, $40; j. Wood
row Milstead, Bryans road. Md,
$50 Edward M CARROT. 3545 Hol-
mead place NV. S25. and Roe F.
Anderson, 238' Thirty-eighth street
Sc, $40,
Evening star., 1944-09-11
LOST.

BILLFOLD, brown leather, lost in Kresse' S
Gen e aPa PR lH1 raa Store 9TH and Penna' ave
ii RRACELEf, Ch 2t9s gold link. in Silver Springs;
reward IRWIN, Carroll Springs Inn, Forest
Glen. Md SH. 9740.
SSAGELEr HsafIIE Az AUS w 2. m MRS $ G, BANKS
BROOCH, yellow gold, amethyst in center,
3 pearls at bottom, | at top; lost in street.
car between Florida ave; and Decatur st.
NV could have been lost on street at
transfer point, Florida and Georgia aves.
NV. Reward. Address 1222 Decatur st.
ME 9RRs6 gr os5 GE; ~ o1I ir,on s,.,on xos..
Extra No. 3l93, with FL 9 Extra lens No
E.Y. 1404 Weston master exposure meter
No, ss4954, with accessories. in brown
reward reWard VIZ Write SSa Box ga. N2N Star. ri'"eS' ''0
CASE saleSman's. black, containing sam
pies of wallets, muffiers, order book with
COLLIE. female. black and white, answers
srayed 50 from m oeeTook dfve dfa eqs ex
andria, Va. Reward. Temple 6155.
DOG, part fox terrier, black with white
18th and H StS ne: answers to name OF
Jackie" Reward. Ii. 1878.
GOLD BRACELET, with 5 opals and 1C
oVerseas Call VA. $500, Ext. .c 5as. in the he
MORNINGS, or WA. 1888 afternoon and
KEYcAsE' slack, with approx. 10 keys,
about 1880. Finder please return 10
No; . Police Precinct. Reward.
dropped off truck, in Georeetown Monday
morning. Reward. Call 1l2S Conn. ave
NEsHAN G. .HINTL1AN, EX. 1912.
OXFORDS, lady's. brown, new. in Rich's
shoe box, lost on Chevy Chase bus o. Safe
way store in the $500 block of Conn. ave
Reward. WO. 3739.
PARASOL, black, with pair rubbers, on Mt
pissss leave at Capital transit CO. 'lDor or
PERSIAN CAT, yellow, near Railway Ex.
press. ne; sentiment attached Reward
7 ,SSne pfaSS nStty sS nssEs Ada%s 954
gator case, near bicycle place, tourist camp
Reward. DI. 1914.
PUPPY, male, black and white, 8 weeks old
plain leather collar long ears and short
RING, mans, lion head. small diamond
in nose, ] stone lost out of eye: lost in
vicinity of Union Station, Post Office OF
eoIored taxieab, between ! and Sunday
SLIPPER, right, black .-eyelet tie, Storm
Health label inside. Reward for return
TOY Fox TERRIER. female, white with
Hospital Nurses Quarters OIL. 800 IS See &c
Stolp for reward.
WATCH, gold Elgin, white face, initials
e. v. E. and c. w. s. on back; probably
WALLET. at Wa ashington Sanitarium, Ia
koma Park. Sunday; cash and operator S
permit, Reward. MA: o633. no; ,3974
H3RSfCE1fliSh wR,e Ell Wa setter male black and
LosT--Real French rhinestone bowknot
pm. FRIDAY between 9 and 1890 am. be-
tween home and D. c. Terminal on wis
Sqs from East west HishWay to SI B. c. or l,ne Sn
Wisconsin 2l36.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
High Foscists' Property
Confiscuted in Italy
BY the Associated Press.


ROME, Sept. 11.-Conflscation of
the property of Count Dino Grandi
Roberto Farinacci and Achille
Starace has been ordered by the
Italian high commission on Fascist
graft.
At the same time, Senator Amedeo
Giannini, former president of the
commission on economic accord
with Germany, was arrested on Or
ders of the high commission for
punishment of Fascist crimes.
Grandi is the former Ambassador
to London and eX-president of the
Chamber of FaSces and Guilds
Farinacci and Starace are former
secretaries of the Fascist party and
Starace is former chief of staff oi
the Fascist militia.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Western Front
Continued From First Page.)
Sd Army Front Expanding.

reached by American advanced ele-
mentS.
Sd Army Front Expanding.
The American Sd Army front still
was expanding along the Moselle
River under a supreme headquar-
ters' news blackout which blanketed
the forward position of these troops.
The Germans, however, were Re-
ported battling perhaps hardest here
OF any place on the front in a
desperate attempt to keep American
armor from the Saar and the Rhine
The communique announced that
1t. Gen. George S. PattonS troops
had fought their way into the north
ern part of Liverdun on the Moselle
5 miles northwest of Nancy and the
Americans apparently had closed ur
to the river on the whole front from
there north to between Metz and
the southern border of Luxembourg
Meanwhile the last sizeable coastal
pocket west of Antwerp shrank
steadily under an Allied assault.
va ~ c III e licdUQ udTleTS
spokesman in an Absie broad
cast recorded by CHS reported
that Allied forces in France and
Belgium have killed, wounded
or taken prisoner a total of
100000 Germans since the Allied
landings in Normandy
The British finally won Gent. 80
miles southwest of Antwerp and 20
miles south OF the mouth of the
Schelde. The Poles drove close to
the southern edge of Brugge to the
west and Canadians took Zeebrugge,
German U-boat base to the north
west, without a fight.
Pocket Cut Down.
The pocket below the Schelde thus
was cut down to a strip about so
miles long and only Is to 20 miles
wide. and into this sack and a few
coastal ports was compressed all
that remained of 10000 Germans
once estimated caught in the area.
The tenacity of German suicide
garrisons in Dunkerque, Calais.