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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
Mother Asks GoDer1n1ent To Spare Conuicted Son

The cablegram through which Mrs. Hulten seeks to save her only child from the gallows read as fol- lows:
 Please answer the prayer of a mother, MT. Secretary. and save my sons life. Karl always was good boy before this awful war began. In school he was a fine student with many friends. He never caused me one minute of worry until he be- came soldier two years ago.
 q do not believe he can be who'll ly guilty of the charges that have ben made. feel as only a mother can that there must have been ex- tenuating circumstances. He Is far from home now and has no friends to comfort him, MT. Secretary. Won't you please use the simple power that you have to keep my heart from breaking?
 Please, MT. Secretary, spare my sons life.
 ('tsigned) Mrs. signe M. Hulten."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
50 Jop-Yonk Ships TongIe
By FRANK TREMAINE

Pearl Harbor, Jan. 26-(UP)- Uncondrmed Chinese reports said today that 50 American and Japa- nese ships battled for nine hours in the East China Sea within 300 miles of Shanghai Tuesday in the biggest naval engagement since last October.
 Japanese forces broke off the bat tie at noon and fled toward their homeland, some $50 miles to the northeast, the Chinese army news paper Sac Tang Pao at Chungking said.
 The newspaper said the engage ment began at a. m. (China time) off Yungkia CWenchoW) and Ping yang. on the China coast some 250 miles south of Shanghai and 20C miles north of Formosa. Gunfire was audible at Pingyang. it added.
 Pacific fleet headquarters made no comment on the report, but units of Admiral William F HalSey'S Third Fleet launched carrier planes against Okinawa, ATS miles east of I ullBhld, lG HUI w fore the supposed engagement.
 There have been no official re- ports on the whereabouts of the Third Fleet since the OkinaWa raid During Third Fleet attacks on the FormoSa area Sunday,-major Amer ican possibly battleshir or an aircraft carrier-Was damaged
 It was the first time since the early days of the Pacific war that American warships have been re- ported in the ast China Sea- which is bounded on the north by Korea and Japan, on the west by China, on the south by Formosa and on the east by the Ryukyu Islands.
 American warships have not tan gled with Japanese naval units in strength since the seond battle of the Philippines last October, wher the Third and Seventh Fleets smashed three Japanese task forces off Leyte.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
GoebbeIs Paints Gloomy Picture

London, Jan. 26--(UP)-Nazi ia" dio propagandists trying to rally tha Germans for stand against tho Russians told them today that their last chance was at hand.
 This is our last chance, and we shall see that the enemy will no4 get his way" commentator said in talk on the German home serv. ice radio. "The road to Siberia iN harder and longer than all ouf present suffering"
 He recalled what Frederick the Grat told one of his doubtful min- !sterS-"if misfortune should befau us, bear it in high spirits added, "that is all ] can say to you"
 The official press and rNdlo line set by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels painted a gloomy picture of Germany, deserted by her Allies at the critical hour of tho war, fighting alone to save ctvil~ ization" from 3olshevism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
Albany Buffalo Sub-Zero;
 Break Promised Tonight

close to zero.
 The weather forecast promised 6 break in the cold this evening, but the highest temperature forecast in the Metropolitan New York area was 25, which would not relieve the ice and snow condition.
 States included in the embargo, were Indiana, lower Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland Delaware. New Jersey, and portions of Virginia and West Virginia. The order forbade any freighting to any of these areas, and banned all trat- fife except war goods within the areas. The Railroad Association ex- presesd the hope traffic conditions would clear by Monday. Dealers said fruit and vegetable shortages would be acute by Tuesday, accom- panied by a scarcity of eggs and beef.
 Tn Buffalo 300 furloughed soldiers worked to clear congested railroad yards
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
M'ArthurFIooded With We'll Wishes

Luzon Island, Philippines, Jan. 26 -(UP)--Today Is the 65th birthday of Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
 It also Is the birthday of It. Gen, Walter Krueger, commander of the Sixth Army whose forces are rolling across Luzon. Krueger was born in Flatow, Germany Jan. 26 1881.
 It was just another day in the busy life of the J. s. Commander in the Southwest Pacific and his hard fighting general.
 No celebration was planned. In- stead, MacArthur plunged into the usual routine of conferences anc paper work that frequently keeps him at his desk far into the night.
 If anything, he may be a little buster than usual, acknowledging the messages of greeting that d. ready have started to come in from over the world,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
By United Press

Sub-zero weather continued today along the eastern seaboard and widespread fuel and food shortages threatened New York city and up state areas because of what the As sociatlon of American Railroads described as one of the worst trans portation crises in history
 An embargo announced by the Office of Defense Transportation on all freight shipments, except war goods, moving to and from and within the eastern states area was extended through the weekend to facilitate clearing of traffic
 In New England areas and north ern sections of New York, schools were closed and transportation lines were virtually frozen to a stand still. Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse recorded thermometer lows that broke records held fol three generations. In New YorE city, the tempertaure remained
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
Alsace Offensive Of Nazis Blunted
Ry BOYD ID. LEWIS

Paris, Jan 26 - (U.P0 - Amer ican armies blunted the Nazi offen- sive in northern Alsace today, seized another five square miles of Ger many west of Cologne and, accord ing to Berlin report. struck out from the former Ardennes Bulge in a new assault along 30 to 35-mile front.
 The 102nd Infantry Division of the Ninth Army added another five square miles to the American line along the west bank of the Roer river 27 miles due west of Cologne with an unopposed advance across the Wurm river just north of Lin- nich before dawn.
 The advance resulted in the cap ture of Brachelen, two miles north west of Linnich and 10 miles inside Germany. Patrols reported the Ger mans had pulled out of the area under cover of darkness last night.
 The British Second Army also en- larged the Allied springboard for the next phase of the advance into the German Rhineland with 2,000 yard advance that engulfed six more Nazi villages six to 12 miles north west of Linnich.
 The British forces reached the Wurm along two-mile stretch and erased all of the German bridge head west of the Roer with the eX- ception of 'Ie strip less than a mile deep. Grebben, Huloven, Dremmen, Horst. Norm and Hoven were cap tured and Q front dispatch said the German lines were "sagging at a quickening tempo
 A German DNB dispatch broad cast by Berlin said Unsupported American columns attacked yester- day morning on a wide front stretching from point southeast of Malmedy in eastern Belgium to the junction of the Sure and Gun rivers In central Luxembourg, but did not make clear immediately the scale of the assault
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
BY ROBERT MUSEL

London, January 26. = (UP) - Russian arm%ed columns were reported Strik- ing into the PoliSh-German border area little more than 90 miles east of Berlin today as other Red Army Forces to the south preached the NaziS' main defensive line along the Oder river.
 The German TranSocean News Agency said two Rus sian flying columns were in- tercepted and destroyed" after they had swung past the Polish fortress city of Poznan and driven almost to the border of Germany'S Brandenburg province.
 At the same time, Berlin said 3 third armored spearhead lunged 55 miles north of Poznan to the area of German Schneidemuhl, 95 miles southeast of the Baltic seaport ok Stettin.
 The German high command ad~ mitted that Russian armored forces l had by-pasSed Poznan on both sides [ and speaerd westward toward the 1 border while assault troops were storming the last big Polish de- fense bastion on the road to Berlin.
 The closest approach to Berlin | apparently was made by a flanks ing force that swept around the northern side of PoZnan to reach the border near the German town of Driesen, 94 miles from the NaZi capital, B miles northwest of PoA nan.
 The second breakthrough camg near the Polish border town ot zbaszyn, 42 miles east-southeast of Poznan and 97 miles from Berliru
 At Zbaszyn, the Soviets were only 58 miles cast of Frankfurt-on- Oder, the last defensive outpost before Berlin.
 There was no immediate confir~ nation of the German reports from Moscow, but late Soviet dis- i patches said Russian troops were storming into the eastern outskirts of poznan while strong armored formations we're looping past the city on the north and south.
 An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Moscow said large Soviet mos l bile columns were striking for Frankfurt. leaving their supporting ! elements to clear out the NaN gar. rison at Poznan.
 The sudden breakthrough to the ! Nazi frontier at the center Of th9 long eastern front came as Red army divisions in Silesia ripped through a half-dozen breaches in the Oder river line on the SouthA eastern road to the NaM capital.
 All-Or- Nothing Gamble
 Enemy reports disclosed that the Nazi high command was throwing probably it's last reserves of aiY power into the battle in an all-or- nothing gamble to turn back thA Red army invaders.
 Berlin revealed that perhaps 5000 fighters and bombers which tho Luftwaffe had been hoarding to meet the Anglo-American air forces spring offensive in the west were
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
Two-Way Squeeze On Germany Near
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By EDWARD V. ROBERTS

London, Jan. 26 - GU .P) - Re- ports from New York that General Dwight D. Eisenhower has eStab- lished contact" with Marshal Sta lin would seem If correct - to indicate that the time is approach ing for the final two-Way squeeze on Germany.
 There was no confirmation here of the report which was broadcast by Merrill Mueller, NEG Core spondent who has just returned to New York from supreme Allied headquarters.
 Boyd Lewis, United Press War Correspondent at SHEAF, reported that the Allies were in an excel lent position to resume the offensive against Germany but "SHAEF cor respondents are not being given any statement concerning the dispatch broadcast from New York
 Lewis reported that it would seem obvious to military observers that if the final blow against Ger many is to be, as Prime Minister Churchill said, coordinated blow from east and west one ally must tell the other what he plans to do. On the other hand the Russian of- fensive was surprise here.'
 It was recalled here that ElSen- hover said at his press conference the day before D-Day that the Rus . sians were familiar with the overall Allied plan and that closer coor- dination e. i'd be expected when the campaign progresses. At that time it was indicated the Russians prob ably did not know the exact details Of the proposed Normandy invasion.
 High Allied sources said then that liaison had been effected through government channels rather than direct military liaison Eisenhower emphasized thta operational coor-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
Japan War Theme Of Big 3 Farley
By PHIL AULT

London, Jan. 26-(UP)-Diplo- matic quarters said today that Pres ident Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill will discuss the war against Japan with Premier Stalin at the impending Big Three" con- ference despite Russia's present neu- trality in the Far Eastern struggle.
 GA Swiss broadcast recorded by CBS quoted unofficial London sources Thursday as saying that members of Churchill1S staff for the conference already may be on the way to the meeting place)
 Informants said Stalin would be given a thorough review of Allied progress in the Pacific and Burma. Soviet military leaders in turn may offer their suggestions, 1t was said.
 There has been widespread unoffi- cial speculation in diplomatic and military circles that Russia may join the Allies against Japan after Vic- tory over Germany. Japanese broad casts have betrayed uneasineSS over the possibility that Russia may eXer- else her right to terminate the Sov- iet-Japanese friendship pact next April.
 If not denounced in April, the pact would be renewed automatic ally for another five years.
 The main topic of discussion for the three statesmen however, Ob- viously will be Germany. They are expected to complete plans for the final joint assaults to drive the Reich into unconditional surrender and to seek agreement upon meth ods for destroying utterly her power to wage future wars.
 Many military experts ill London l believed that Russia will be unable to reach Berlin in her present offen- sive and must await final east west assault in the spring to finish the var.
 If the Russians do reach Berlir before the western Allies cross th( Rhine, much of the present plar for postwar Germany will have tc be changed. some eXcellently-in- i formed observers close to the con- ferenceS contend.
 American and British delegates will carry with them details of ar appraisal by Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hover of the military situation in the west and his recommendations for hammering home final victory. American and British armies were reported in the midst of tremen- dous build-up of supplies similar to that in which the Russians engaged for five months on the Polish front before launching their present of | fenSiVe
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
Tanks Annex Clark Field, .Stotsenburq
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

General MacArthur's Headquar- terS, Luzon. Jan. 26-(UP) = The 40th California division, with Clark Fields dozen airStripS and adjacent fort StotSenburg firmly in it's hands, rushed on to the south today within 40 miles or less of Ma nila and 20 miles of Manila Bay
 CA Tokyo broadcast recorded by the EGG said today that the Amer ican command appeared to be plan ming new developments in the Lu- Zon war situation with the massing of fresh troops" The broadcast called attention to increased num- Der of ships in the waters south of Luzon and an intensification of air attacks on the Manila area, includ- ing Corrigidor Island in Manila Bay)
 The division was expected to make rapid progress without maj or battle at least as far as Calum- pit on the Pampanga River, "A miles southeast of Clark Field and 26 miles northwest of Manila.
 The San Fernando River, half way between Clark Field and Ca lumpit, offers possible enemy de- fense line, but there were no indi- cations of any large Japanese fore es there and the fixed defenses were not too strong. Destruction oi bridges across the San Fernando may slow the advance, however.
 It appeared more likely that the Japanese would make their stand if at all, at Calumpit, within easy striking distance of Manila. Am erican planes destroyed Japanese concentration of troops and vehi- cles at Calumpit soon after the in Continued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
Dems Fear DoubIe-Cross

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 25. (UP)-- The General Assembly held it's flrSt non-controversia Friday of the 1945 session today with agreement on re- newal of the governors war emer- gency powers, and the method or filling the United States Senate va cancy apparently still far distant.
 Although Republicans and Demo- crats admitted they wanted to avoid a special election to pick tempo rary successor to the late Sen. Fran cis T. Maloney, Democras were wary of allowing Republican Gov. Ray mond E. Baldwin to make a direct appointment.
 AS the matter now stands, Demo- crats insist that member Of their party identified by name" by the governor, be chosen for the Con- vressional post before they will agree Io legislative action tgoive the chief executive this apponitive power.
 Gov. Baldwin refuses to pledge himself to any one candidate, or party, and politically declared he would pick a candidate whom he nelleVeQ DcoO-ouAVC0 AOA oAAS jOS'
 Unless the Democrats take the governors word that he will not double -cross them, special elec- lion appeared unavoidable.
 On the war powers renewal, Dem- ocrats controlling the senate threw I'D A road block in persisting in their determination to deprive the gover- nor of authority to suspend laws in- terfering with the war eort while the legislature is in session. This authority must be renewed by Feb or laws already suspended VII oo back on the statute books.
 The house has approved renewal hill, but in the senate three bills were brought in to cover as many sus' nended laws until the legislature ad' iolrns. Then. the Democrats wer' willing that the suspension power be restored.
 As the bills went before the senate judiciary committee for hearing lat' Yesterday. House Republican Speak CT F, Lea Marsh, Old Lyme, charged inc hearing violated the joint rule' agreement and that it did not re- fleet well on either the legislatur' or the joint committee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
Mrs. Plungis' Plight Night Of Murder Told
 By Peter Stokna, Dad
BY ANNE ZEMAITIS

The plight of Mrs. Ste phanie Plungis at 10:30 the night of November l was de- scribed in Superior Court to- day by two men who said they saw her struggle with Francis Zukauskas near the policeman's Alder Sure 0 t home, but did not realize the seriousness of the incident.
 Peter Stokna of Poplar place and his father, Joseph Stokna, of Alder Street, be- lieved to be among the last persons to see Mrs. Plungis alive, gave a vivid picture of a frightened, bleeding woman whom they ran into by chance that night.
 Surprise Witness
 Shortly before the lunch recess was taken at 12:45 the state called surprise witness, Domenic Ro- vaSio of 180 Alder street, who said he observed from his home part Of what went on and what was said Dn Alder street that night. Rovaslo had not been mentioned by investi- gators in preliminary reports of the ease, and 1t is believed he may sup ply some of the missing details an eager public is waiting to hear.
 The two men were called as witt nesses as the state continued to present It's case of premeditated murder against the former super numerary policeman at the crim- lnal. session of the court
 On questioning by States Attor- ney William B. Fitzgerald, Peter 5tokna said he was taking his father home in his car about 10:30 the night of Nov. 1 when he noted a car zig tagging in the opposite direction on Alder street.
 "I$ gave me the impression some pne behind the wheel was drunk, be said.
 As the car approached closer he saw 8 man and a woman were on the front seat, and the woman was driving, he said. The man was be- side her, but he was facing the woman, the witness disclosed.
 The lighGs of the approaching car were out but as the headlights Of his own car hit the windshield, he could see the man wa striking the woman. Stokna said.
 q saw him strike three or four blows to her head" Stokna declared.
 Heard Scream
 Continuing, he stated, T heard a woman scream for help. l stopped my car and went to the other car which also stopped. The woman got out of the car and said Please drive me home" Her hair was stained and damp. he said.
 T said l wouldn't take her home in her car, that I'd drive in my car, Stokna testified.
 He stated he did not know Mrs Plungis, but recognized Zukauskas, who was wearing his uniform.
 He asked, Whats the matter Frank, haven't you any sense and then Mrs. (Edna) Zukauskas came out of the house, the witness con tinued.
 Mrs. Zukauskas asked Stokna what he was doing to her husband
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
FoIse Affidavit Charged To Ickes

Chicago, Jan. 26.-(UP)-Secre- tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes was accused today of evading pay ment of more than $8,500 in real estate taxes in l943 and 1914 by filing a false affidavit of rent re- ceived from 8 Loop business build- ing which he owns.
 Cook County Assessor John s. Clark said an investigation by his office showed that Ickes had listed rental from the building at $24,0O0 in 1943. whereas the actual amount was $61, $50, and had specified that the five-story structure had only three stories.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
By FRED HOFFMAN Dpyright l945, By United Press)

Boston, Jan. 26 - (U.P0 - A heartbroken Boston mother has ap- pealed to the British government to spare the life of her soldier-son, Private Karl G. Hulten. p, who has ben sentenced to be hanged in Lon don for the robbery-murder or a London taxicab driver, the United Press learne dtoday.
 In cablegram, gray-haired Mrs. Signe M. Hulten implored British Home Secretary Herbert Morrison to answer the prayer of mother and grant some form of clemency to the convicted American para trooper.
 Both Hulten and his co-defendant l8-year- strip-tease dancer EliS- abeth Jones, already have an- nounced they will appeal the man. datory death sentences imposed on them early this week for shooting Taxi Driver George Heath.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
PAPEE MEETS POPE

Vatican City, Jan. 26-(UP)- ope Plus granted a private audience today to Casimir Papee, ambassador of the Polish government in London to the Holy See.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
RUSSIANS 94 MILES EAST OF BERLIN
Armored Troops Attack Polish Border Area As Others Rip Oder Lines
BULLETIN

London, Jan. 26.-CUP)-Mar- shal StaIin announced today that the Red army had captured the East PruSsian strOnghOlds of Tapiau, Allenburg, NOrdenburg and LOetZen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26

American 14th Corps has reached Clark Field, 48 miles northwest of Manila. At least one, and probably more of the II air- strips are said to be in American possession, without major battle' Map shows wheret he 43rd Divi- sion continues to reduce enemy de- lenses around Rosario, gateway to the summer capital at BaguiO.
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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24
Brother Gives Bride

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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24
Weekend
ROnnanCes
Times Pnoto
BY THE CHAPERON

AN IMPORTANT engage
~ ment and an equally i'm
portant wedding highlight this
Sundays social calendar.
Mr.. and, Mrs. Kean l.. Cronin
of Windsor, formerly of Detroit,
are announcing the engagement
of their daughter. Loretta SUI
Zanne, 10 1t Verlynne Vincent
Violin. USAMC, son of DR.. and
Mrs. Henri Porter Violin of Len
noX. s. -.
Miss Cronin is a granddaugh-
ter Of George Bader of Detroit.
The news OF the betrothal
was told at a party Saturday
afternoon at the Cronin resi-
dence. Mrs. Violin came on from
her home for the occasion and
Mrs. Frank +. Braddock of Tor
onto. sister of the bride-elect.
was also here.