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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-11
Obituary
JUDITH ANN HOFFHEINS

Judith Ann Hoffheins, seven-day
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward L. Hoffheins, Of Lutz, Fla,
former Wyandotte residents, died
at a Tampa, Fla, hospital on No
vember 81.
Beside her parents, she is sur
vived by brother. Gerald A; and
sister. Terry Lee. Her grandpar-
ents are Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Kins-
man of Lutz, Fla, and Mr., and Mrs.
E. G. HoffheinS of Wyandotte.
Funeral services were conducted
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-11
ENTERTAIN AT
KITCHEN SHOWER

Mrs. Neil Boughner, of Trenton
and Mrs. Harold B. Browne of Bir-
mingham. were co-hostesSes at a
kitchen shower Tuesday night hon.
oring Mrs. Ronald Morris Jones
MARY Browne).
The party was held at MIS-
Boughner's home. Following an eve
ming of games, coffee was served
with Mrs. Lawrence E. Midworth
Of Detroit, formerly of Trenton, and
Mrs. Walter Picard presiding. A
Christmas green arrangement sup
ported by white tapers in six
branched candelabra composed the
centerpiece.
Among the guests were Mrs
Ralph w. Ridge, Mrs. Hugh R. Sui
Ivan, Mrs. Don Hall, Mrs. NJ. r
Schmidt, Mrs. Herman j. Eichen-
hofer. Mrs. r. B. Robertson and her
daughter, Mrs. Robert B. Buhr, Mrs
James Lucier, Mrs. Mark v. Yost
Mrs. Crosby Wyman, Mrs. William
c. Green and Mrs. Lyman John
SON, of Wyandotte.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-11
SPORT BOWL RECREATION
VICTORY LEAGUES

VICTORY LEAGUES
Barney's Cocktail Bar .......... Is
LetWin Mfg. Co. ............... 81
Wyandotte Dairy ............. IS
Fit-Rite Shoe Co. .............. SO
Fitzgerald Realty No. 2 ........ 50
Farmers Grinding Co. ........ 80
Anderson Brass ............... 81
Gallagher Rec. .............. 2e
Down River Penn Club ........ 2S
Fitzgerald Realty No. / ........ II
Nicholson T. and D. ............ Is
Schmitt Construction .......... Is
Down River Penn Club No. 2 .. Is
Superior Flower Shop .......... IL
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-11
Trenton
News
HOME FROM OVERSEAS

Lieut.. F. z. Lewellyn, Jr., USN.R.
Is home on 2l-day leave from the
Mediterranean theater Of war where
he has been serving for the past
Is months.
Lieut.. Lewellyn arrived last We'd
neSday from Washington, D. c.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-11

Enriched flour should be used in
recipes in proportions the same as
for pre-war recipes. Enrichment us
ually consists Of small amounts OF
iron and vitamin B-l.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-11

AT CATALAN DRUG STORES
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Two Navy Bombers
Hit Paramushiro
Believed Feeling Out
Defenses in New Area

Flying out from the Aleutian Is
lands, two Navy bombers pounded
Japanese installations on Paramu-
shiro in the North Pacific Kuriles
the Navy announced today.
The raid on the vicinity of the
enemy's largest base in the North
Pacific the night of February %
was the tenth since last July 10. Re-
suits were not observed, possibly due
to the heavy weather which ordi-
narily shrouds that region.
The Navy reported that no enemy
planes were encountered and both
American planes returned safely.
The attack was aimed at the
southeastern coast of Paramushiro
which is just south of the Russian
Kamchatka Peninsula and the
northernmost of the chain, of islands
in which the japanese homeland Is
located.
The fact that the attacking force
consisted only of two planes indi-
Gated the Navy may have been
merely feeling out the enemy in
stallations on this part of the
island. This is the first time the
southeast coast has been under
bombardment. Once before, on jan
uary 81, group of planes attacked
the southern coast and all of the
other bombings have been on the
established naval and air base on
the northern coast of Paramushiro
The nearest Aleutian base to
Paramushiro is on Attu, which is
725 statute miles away.
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Reds Report Killing
10000 Nazis Trapped
In Dnieper Bend
Main Soviet Forces
Press Westward From
Ukroine to BoItic
MAP on Pace.
MAP on Pdge.A-5.)
BY the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, Feb. 4.-Systematic
determination by the Red armies
|of 10 encircled German divisions
in the upper Dnieper bend was
well under way today, the army
newspaper Red Star said, while
the main Soviet forces continued
to forge westward from the
Ukraine to the Baltic.
The midnight communique indi-
Gated nearly 10000 of the trapped
Germans already were killed.
The situation west of Cherkasy
where nine infantry and one tank
divisions have been trapped by a
great five-day offensive, presented
"the same picture as Stalingrad,'
Maj. Pavel Orender said in a Red
Star dispatch.
Thousands Of German units have
become fgroups of wanderers" with
in the ring which the troops OF
Gems. Nikolai Vatutin and Ivan S
Konev are tightening around them
Maj. Orender asserted.
The Germans were said to be in
an exhausted condition, although
dispatches said nothing of their sur
rendering in any large numbers
Generally the Nazis were trying to
congregate on the banks of swollen
streams and in sWamps,
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Loborer Admits
Stealing Ton Of
u. S. Waste Paper

A plea of guilty to a charge of
stealing ton of Government waste
paper was entered by one of two
colored men arraigned today before
United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage, following their ar
rest yesterday by Justice Depart
ment agents.
George Williams, 81, of 23O P
street NV, laborer employed by
the War Production Board at the
Social Security Building, admitted
selling 1000 pounds of paper, part
of a load he was ordered to deliver
to the Penn Paper Co., 1916 Ecking-
ton place NE, yesterday He was
held IN $1,000 bail for action of the
grand jury.
The other man, Allan Rowe, Is,
OF 1887 Fourth street NV, driver of
a truck hired. to haul the paper to
the company's plant, pleaded not
guilty to the charge of larceny Of
Government property and was held
in $500 bail.
/ FBI agents said the men sold the
paper to a local junk dealer for $25.
Evening star., 1944-02-04

The cruiser Omaha, commanded
by Capt. Charles D. Letter, Miami,
Fla, and the destroyer Jouett, skip
pered by Comdr. John G. Parham,
jr., Tuscaloosa, Ala, accounted for
the second of the three enemy craft.
- A lookout in the Omahas foretop
and the pilot of her scouting plane
sighted the 6,O62-ton Rio Grande
almost simultaneously.
Racing in, the Omaha and Jouett
were drawing near the Rio Grande
when she burst into smoke and
flames. Demolition charges, the
Navy said, had been placed and
fired by the ships crew. Again the
American warships turned their g.
inch and 5-inch guns on the vessel
and she soon sank. 81
The Omaha -Jouett team ioined
again in sinking the 7,320-ton Bur
genland. AS they sped in for at
tack, internal explosion Of demoli-
ton charges rocked that enemy ship
and again destruction was COM
pleted by shellfire.
1t was recalled that the Omaha
captured the German motor ship
(See BLOCKADE RUNNERS A-a1
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Steering Committee
Names McCarrdn 10
Head Judiciary Unit
Appointment Of Successor
On District Board
Likely Tomorrow

The Democratic Steering Com
mittee today named Senator Nc
Carran of Nevada to succeed the late
Senator Van Nvs OF Indiana as
chairman of the important Judiciary
Committee. The Steering Commit
tee probably will meet tomorrow to
decide on Senator McCarran's sue
cessor as head of the District Com
mittee.
Leaders polled the Steering Com
mittee today to settle the judiciary
post because of the rush of business
awaiting in that committee.
Earlier, Senator Reynolds, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina, took the
floor in the Senate to praise the
service rendered to Washington BY
Senator McCarran.
Pointing out that Senator McCar-
rem succeeded him as chairman of
the District Committee, Senator
Reynolds declared the Nevadan "ac-
Au4OtCu AlAAlOCA WAtlI ouN1A SdGlS1 az.
ton to the people of the District"
that when they learned he was in
line for another assignment many
of them protested and wanted him
to continue as District chairman.
Senator Reynolds said he could
understand that desire in view of
the diligence with which Senator
McCarren served on the District
lCommittee.
Senator Reynolds added that at
is no reflection on any member of
this body who may aspire to the
post" to call attention to the words
of praise that have been spoken
locally for Senator McCarran's serv-
ice. The North Carolinian placed
In the record editorials from several
local newspapers on Senator Nc
Carran'S service.
Senator Bilbo, Democrat, of Mis-
sissippi has said he would accept
the District Craftsmanship If it is
offered him by the Steering Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1944-02-04
u. S. Worships Sink 3 Nozi Blockode-Runners
Sneuking Through Atlantic With Jap Goods

in the Atlantic several months ago
and the destroyer Somers.
In each case the German crews
attempted to scuttle their ships, but
the vessels actually were sunk by
shellf1re from the cruiser and de-
stroyers.
First surface contact was made by
the Somers, which ran down the
6,528-ton Weserland in the darkness
Of early morning, identifying the
vessel as an enemy. The Somers
shppered by Comdr. William C.
Hughes, Oklahoma City, immedi-
ately opened fire with her main
battery Of 5-inch guns.
The initial salvo battered directly
into the German ship and the crew
hastened to abandon it, but before
they leaped over the side or into
their life RATS they made plans to
scuttle the ship.
Violent internal explosions blasted
the Weserland, but she remained
afloat. Shells from the Somers'
guns completed the job of sending
the blockade runner to the bottom,
Many of her crew were picked up
when daylight came.
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Lodge Resigns Seat in Senate;
Assigned Overseas by Army
SoItonstoI| Mentioned
As Successor for Term
Expiring in 1949
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., Repub-
lican, resigned today as Senator
from Massachusetts, in order to
return to active service as an
Army officer.
In letter addressed to the Sem
ate's presiding officer and read by a
clerk the 4l-year-old Senator, who
holds Reserve commission as a
major. said he felt that in view of
impending 'large-scale ground fight
! ing" and his age, he could best serve
his country as "a combat soldier
overseas"
Accordingly, he wrote: II hereby
resign from the United States Sen
ate"
Given Overseas Assignment.
The War Department said Senator
Lodge had been restored to his tenn
porary rank Of major In the Reserves
and given an overseas assignment
There was no elaboration.
Senator Lodge himself did not ap-
pear in the Senate and his secretary
Maxwell Rabb. said he had already
donned uniform and would make
his resignation effective immedi-
ately. He will not sit again as Sena-
tor, Mr.. Rabb said.
Appointment of a successor rests
in the hands, Of Gov. Leverett Sal
tonstall, Republican. Gov. SaIton-
stall himself has been mentioned
as likely appointee to the vacancy.
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Record Days Sales
Add S2,800,000 10
District Bond Drive
individual Purchases Sou
As Firms Pass Quote;
1862 of Goal Reached

The Districts War Bond total
for the Fourth War Loan cam
paign today shot up to $68, ,000,-
900, or 71.6 per cent of the over
all quota, after a record days
sales of $4,000 worth of bonds
to individuals was recorded yes
terday.
Altogether, s4,90o,0oo was added
to the Districts totals in a report
from the Fifth Federal Reserve
Bank Of Richmond, Va. This in
cluded $2,100,0OO sold to corpora
tions-enough to send sales for the
big customers" we'll over the top.
Total for the corporations is now
$500, 900 or 104 per cent of the
quota.
The amount of individual pur-
chases recorded yesterday is 5000, 900
above the next highest figure for
one-day sales in this category. It is
still 100000 short, however, of the
daily average which campaign Off
cials yesterday said must be met to
(See WAR BONDS page A-120
Evening star., 1944-02-04
BY the Associated Press.


Three German blockade run
ners laden with war materials
from Japanese-held Pacific ports
have been sunk by an American
cruiser and two destroyers in the
South Atlantic, the Navy an
nounced today.
The Navy said the holds of the
enemy ships were filled to capacity
with thousands of tons of rubber,
tins, fats and strategic ores. Some
OF those materials, particularly hun
dreds of tone of baled rubber, were
salvaged and many prisoners were
taken.
Seeking to sneak through the
American blockade, the three ships
the Burgenland, Rio Grande and
Weserland-were sighted and sunk
within a 48-hour period early in
January" the Navy said.
The blockade runners were chased
down by the cruiser Omaha, which
already had one blockade runner to
It's credit; the destroyer Jouett,
which bagged German submarine
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Spain Repeats Intent
10 Stand by Policy o.
Strict Neutrality
Cabinets Way Prepared
By Editorials AssoiIine
British High Pressure
BY the Associated Press

MADRID, Feb. 4.-The Span
ish cabinet, it's way prepared by
a host of editorials accusing the
British of trying to high-pres-
sure Spain into abandoning her
neutrality, reafflrmed this coun-
try's position of "strict neutral
ity' last night after a special
meeting, at which it reviewed
the international situation.
The cabinet, meeting at the urgent
call of Generalissimo Francisco
Franco, also announced it had
studied means of making this neu-
trality respected and that it planned
to make all foreigners in Spain as
well as Spanish nationalists con-
form.
THE government is prepared to
submit to no pressure under any
circumstances whatever against its
right to maintain firmly such posi-
ton of neutrality" the communique
said. Every country is obliged to
respect this attitude as an act of in
disputable sovereignty"
(The Spanish reaffirmation Of
neutrality provoked speculation
in London as to whether Franco
had made a deal with Germany
to obtain oil which the Allies now
are withholding. The United
States took the lead in this eco
nomic move.
Recent British press attacks
on Franco were given strength
yesterday by Parliamentary Sec
retary Dingle M. Foot's disclosure
of German penetration in Span
ish industry. The Laborite Week.
ly Tribune limited that British
leaders have further steps in
Evening star., 1944-02-04
WechsIer Nominated
For New Justice Post

Herbert Wechsler, special assist
ant to the Attorney General since
1910, today was nominated by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to be Assistant At
torney General, succeeding Hugh B.
Cox. Mr.. WechSler took leave in
1910 from a law professorship at
Columbia University. He was named
to argue cases in the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Wechsler was graduated from
Columbia in 1881 and served the
following year as law clerk to JUS
tice Stone. He also was assistant
State attorney general from 1888 to
1910. He is a member of the Su-
preme Court Advisory Committee
on Rules Of Criminal Procedure.
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Jap Defenders
On nkwaja|ein
Weakening
Amazingly Light
American Toll
Is Reported
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES PACIFIC
FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl
Harbor, Feb. 4-Fighting men,
tanks and guns, pouring ashore
to annihilate the dwindling
forces of japanese defenders, ap-
peared today to be on the verge
|of conquering all Kwajalein,
largest atoll in the Marshalls, as
japanese resistance began to
crumble on that core of the
enemy defense system.
AS the momentous invasion moved
through its fifth day, preliminary
reports told of amazingly light
American losses during the achieve
ment of strong entering wedge
into mid-Pacific positions Japan has
held for Is years.
Rear Admiral Richmond K
Turner, commander of the amphibi-
GUS operations-as he was last No.
vember during the bloody invest
ment Of the Gilberts-said losses
were far under what had been
expected.
1880 Japs Wiped Out.
United States 7th Division rein
forcements and mechanized equip
ment in great force moved against
tottering japanese resistance at the
south end of the atoll where 1850
of an estimated garrison OF 1000
had been wiped out by Wednesday
night.
American casualties were placed
at 27 dead. 9 missing and 100
wounded.
The north end of the atoll, with
the airdrome at Roi and the ada
cent repair and dispersal base of
Namur, was entirely in the hands
OF 4th Division Marines. Roi was
quickly overrun Tuesday and the
slaughter of bitter-end defenders
of Namur was announced yesterday.
Preliminary estimates of American
losses at Roi and Namur were less
than 100 killed and 400 wounded.
(On this basis, it seemed un-
likely that the full report would
show marine losses anything
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Federal Ballot
Ban Defeated in
Senate, 46.42
Coalition Substitute
Barred Use Unless
States FoiIed to Act
BULLETIN,

Administration forces rallied
in the Senate today to defeat,
46 to AZ, the coalition substi-
tute to prohibit sending Of
Federal ballots to any service
men at home or abroad, unless
their States fail to make a
suitable ballot available by
June l. This leaves in the
Senate bill the Danaher COM
promise giving all members
OF the armed forces overseas
a Federal ballot, with State
ballots going to soldiers in
this country, unless they can
not get a State ballot.
Evening star., 1944-02-04
President Undergoes
Operation to Remove
Growth on Head

President Roosevelt told his
news conference today that he
has just undergone an opera
ton.
A growth, which he described
as a Wen, was removed from the
back of his head by surgeons at
the Naval Hospital a couple Of
days ago, he explained. The
treatment required a local an
aesthetic.
The President said he had had
the growth for about 20 years.
Asked If he was permitted to
smoke in violation of a hospital
rule while the operation was in
progress he said no, but that he
yelled for a cigarette as soon as
it was over.
Evening star., 1944-02-04
japanese Claim Hits
On Allied Cruiser

By the Associated Press.
The Toxic radio said today thai
japanese air units scored severa
direct hits on an Allied cruiser yes.
terday of Mono Island in the Sol.
onions group, heavily damaging the
vessel. .... ts4
The enemy report was not con.
firmed by Allied sources.
Evening star., 1944-02-04
President Signs Bill
For 500 10 $500
Mustering-0ut Pay
Bill Called Important
First Step in Program
For DemobiIizotion

President Roosevelt announced
today he has signed the muster
ing-out pay bill for war veterans,
but described the measure as no
more than an important first
step" in the demobilization proc
ess. The act provides a gradu-
ated payment from S100 to $500,
depending on the length of serv-
ice.
The President recalled in state
ment that this legislation was only
a part of a program he previously
has urged on Congress which would
provide. among other things, un-
employment compensation to sup
plemert the mustering-out pay if
needed and funds for education.
Represents Compromise.
A compromise between Senate an,
House legislation, the mustering-ou
pay law limits the maximum sum o
$500 to seryicemen and women VIII,
have served overseas or in Alaska.
Payments of 5000 are provided fol
those serving so days or more in the
United States and slOO for those
serving less than 60 days in this
country.
All receiving no more than 5000 a
month base pay are eligible to the
mastering benefits.
This allows payments to captain.
OF less than II years service and ex.
cludes majors and higher officer.
from the benefits.
Those eligible to the $500 will re.
ceive 500 at the time of fina
discharge and sl00 a month for thu
succeeding two months. The s2O(
payment will be made in two euua
monthly installments. Those en-.
titled to Sl00 will get the ful
amount on final discharge.
Those already discharged have
two years within which to make ap,
plications. The war and Navy De.
partments are allowed one month tc
make such payments after approva
of applications.
Those Denied Benefits.
Specifically denied benefits are
those eligible to retirement pay
those discharged to take civilian
jobs, those dishonorably discharged
and the following:
l. Any member of the armed force
whose total period of service has
been as a student detailed for train
ing under the Army specialized
training program, the Army All
Forces college training program and
other similar Navy, Marine Corps OF
Coast Guard programs.
2. Any member of the armed
forces for any active service per.
formed prior to the date of his dis.
charge for the purpose of entering
the naval military or Coast Guarc
academies or whose sole service has
been as a cadet at one of these
academies.
Cost Put at $4,000. 900, 600.
Senator johnson, Democrat, o.
Colorado, estimated the cost of the
program at $4,000, 100000. He sale
total discharges have been running
between 10000 and 5000 monthly
There have been estimates that
$3.50 900 900 will be needed for imme-
diate cases.
Mr.. Roosevelt, in his statement
today, referred to the mustering-out
pay bill as "a step in the compre-
hensive program that I recon-
mended on July %, 1943, and again
on October q, 1943, and November
%, 1943, for the special protection of
the members of the armed forces. u
1T will ease" he continued, 'sthe
Evening star., 1944-02-04
| Jap Radio Describes
| MorshoHs Invasion
As a Big Gamble
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Break-
ing a 24-hour silence with re-
gard to developments in the
Marshall Islands, the Toxic
radio today characterized the
American invasion as "a big
gamble" but failed to give any
details on the progress of the
operations.
THE Americans have to risk
it in order not to nullify the
costly adventure in the Gill
berts," said the broadcast, which
was recorded by United States
Government monitors,
Evening star., 1944-02-04
Reds Surge Forward
AIonq ] 1,2OO-MiIe Front

LONDON, Feb. 4 R.-Russia S
mighty military machine surged for
ward with new vigor along a flaming
200 mile front today, with new
power drives in the Ukraine and
Evening star., 1944-02-04

comparable With the casualties
of approximately 5000 suffered
in capturing the air base of
Tarawa in the Gilberts, costliest
battle in marine history.)
Bulk of Islands Now Held.
The bulk of Kwajalein's more
than 80 islets now are in American
hands.
The only remaining enemy oppo-
sition of consequence appeared to
be on Kwajalein Island, at the
northern end of the atoll. There,
where an airfield and deep anchor
age are the prizes, Army troops
which landed Tuesday pushed the
japanese against the northeastern
part of the island.
I'VE have landed (more) troops
and mechanical equipment in. force
and are proceeding with the an
inhalation of the enemy" Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz's communique
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Evening star., 1944-02-04

The Boston Post said today it had
learned authoritatively that Gov
Saltonstall will resign his post and
that 1t. Gov. Horace T. Cahill will
succeed him.
The Post article added that Mr..
(See LODGE, Page A-12.)
Evening star., 1944-02-04

(See WAR BONDS, Page AID
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Bulk of Islands Now Held,

(See PACIFIC, Page A-120
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(See MUSTERING OUT. Page Al
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SERVICE VOTE, Page AID
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(See ITALY, Page A-12D
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tSee LODGE. Page AID
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Continued on Page A-4,