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COPYRIGHT 1844 BT THE CHICAGO TEIBDNE.l VOLUME CIII. NO. IS nr 1 III wu llfi Massiue RA. Raid Blasts Berlin BUSINESS MEN TELL HOW FUR COAT ASSASSIN FLED 21 of Bombers HOW HAPPY COULD I BE WITH EITHER, WERE T'OTHER DEAR CHARMER AWAY! Bolivian Coup Bred by U. Says Senator Downed, Nazi SPARKS LINKS HOPKINS LETTER DIRECTTO ICKES HE ISN'T Pistol Used to Kill Radio Claims OBJECTING HE REALLY THINKS US A GOOD THING.

HE 0NLT THINKS THEY NEWS OF DEATH ENDS INTERVIEW WITH DAUGHTER Diplomat's Wife Is Found. i -V- -v BY JOHNSON KANADY. IChieaca Tribune Press Service Washington, D. Jan. 20.

Sen. Butler Neb. charged today War Summaries SHOULD N'T COME" SO CLOSE between' em. LONDON K. A.

F. night raiders HE CANT CmZH HIS BREMH 1 til VU I hammer Berlin. Page 1. that failure of the New Deal version of a good BY GLADYS PRIDDY. Pictures on page 2 and back pag.) GUINEA HDQ.

Allies sink 3 Jap Chalk pale from grief and loss of Mrs. Adele Born Williams, wealthy neighbor policy ships, down S3 planes. rage 1. Suspects Trickery by Secretary. wife of Frank Starr Williams, an attache of the state department In LONDON Beds trap Nazi forces to produce good will was a con sleep, Mrs.

Patricia Goodbody, 28 years old. sat in her apartment in the Churchill hotel, 1255 North State street, last night and retold on Leningrad front. rage 7. Washington, died last night In St. Luke's hospital of a bullet wound tributing cause to the recent LONDON Rome reports new al the tragic events leading up to the lied raid on suburbs.

rage 8. dieted, under strange circum change of govern fatal shooting of her mother, Mrs stances, by a mysterious woman as ment in Bolivia. LONDON, Jan. 21 Friday W. Adele Born Williams, and the at sassin In Mrs, Williams' apartment Butler hurled Royal air force night bombers ham tempt to shoot the daughter in the the Drake hotel Wednesday the charge at an Drake hotel Wednesday evening.

night. Sen. Butler. late last year a 1 sts who made him the Only an occasional gesture belied mered Berlin last night, it was officially announced today. In the 11th massive attack since the aerial campaign against the German capital Members of Mrs.

Williams' family. 1 Mrs. Goodbody's quiet poise and con Including her former husband. Edgar R. Born of M.

Born Co clothiers, who had been in almost troled voice as she said she wanted to tell what she could recall of ac began Nov. 18. target of repeated attacks because he charged then that the administration operated a 6 billion dollar boondoggle in Latin America with The German radio said 21 bomb companying her mother to the lat Washington. D. Jan.

20 Special 1. Nelson Sparks, author of One Man endell Willkie." charged today that Secretary of the Interior Ickea was Instrumental in making it possible for him to obtain the celebrated Hopkins letter for publication in the book. "My book contained a true copy of a letter which I believe was actually sent by Hopkins to Lee," Sparks said. His reference was to Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt confidante, and Dr. Umphrey Lee, president of Southern Methodist university in Texas.

"It was made available to me by Ickes thru Briggs George Briggs, ers were shot down, but this was constant attendance for 24 hours, were temporarily absent when ter's eighth floor suite in the Drake not confirmed from allied quarters. little future benefit to this country or to the nations cf Central and Wednesday to prepare to go out to death came. "It was just a matter of time." dinner. Find Suite Unlocked. Canadians Take rart.

The attack, In which a heavy force South America. Butler produced a new list of expenditures, commitments, and ex said Dr. Thomas J. Coogan of the Drake hotel in announcing Mrs. Williams' death.

The time was 7:43 of Canadian bombers participated, added to approximately 15,680 tons They found the suite unlocked and within minutes the reason be tensions of credit by this nation for Latin American countries for the came tragically apparent when of bombs previously dropped on the German capital in 10 major assaults p. 25 hours after the mysterious shooting. middle aged gunwoman stepped years 1942, 1943, and 1944, totaling which have laid waste more than from concealment and fired two $6,396,760,504. Dies with Bullet in Brain. Mrs.

Williams had been shot in half the city. shots at Mrs. Goodbody. The young A continental radio blackout last woman ducked. Then the Intruder New List Authenticated.

Then, anticipating a renewal of fired two shots at Mrs. Williams, 54, night indicated a strong force of bombers was out, possibly hitting the head, and the fatal bullet remained lodged in the skulL Paralysis quickly set In, and an operation was barred. Surgeons said it prob wounding her in the head. more than one target. The first an the blistering denials he ran into with his report last year.

Sen. Butler announced his new list had It was a halting recital except nouncement of the Berlin raid came for one dramatic moment when the petite, black garbed young woman from the German radio. been documented and authenticated by James A. Councilor Wash This was the 105th raid of the war thrust forward her right army as if pointing a weapon and exclaimed in assistant to Ickes, together with the promise that the original would be made available within a short time thereafter," the author asserted. Suggests Political Trickery.

Sparks suggested that Ickes was motivated by a desire to expose Hopkins and that the present ramifications of the political puzzle of the year involve "trickery" indulged in to cover Ickes' tracks in this intrigue. Other important developments of the day in the bizarre case included: 1. Sparks disclosure that Briggs transmitted to him instructions ington certified public accountants. against Berlin and the German radio indicated the attacking force a half sob: "I can't remember any Waving his new list of certified had an ideal night to carry out the thing about that woman except that figures in the direction of Sen. Mc- Tribune Features assault.

Predict Relief gun!" Kellar Tenn.j, who acted as Airmen Sink front man for the New Deal in at Mrs. Goodbody's stepfather, Frank Raid Expected, Say Nazis. Describing the blow as a terror ably would have been futile, anyway. Mrs. Williams death capped a day of swiftly moving developments.

Chief of these were the finding on a service stairs landing in the hotel of the gun used in the shooting, and the discovery of two new witnesses, both business men. who had heard the shots, and had seen the assassin, a fur clad woman, fleeing from the direction of Mrs. Williams eighth floor apartment. Their stories confirmed the story originally told by Mrs. Williams' daughter, Mrs.

Patricia Goodbody, who herself had Starr Williams, state department at tacking Butler's report last year, Butler said: for'Hardship' tache, sat with her and her sister, raid." the German broadcast said: Miss Elizabeth Born, as they re In the light of this certificate of In view of the weather, German 3 Jap Ships; Bag 33 Planes viewed Wednesday's happenings. the public accountant, I submit that those administration statements are Fuel Oil Cases Meets Mother at Beauty Shop. authorities had expected major bomber formations would make an attack and as a result the anti-air Crossword Page 24 Dick 6 Editorials Page 12 Friend of the Yanks' Page IS Gasoline Alley Page 17 Gumps Page 22 Harold Teen 14 Inquiring Camera Girl. 25 Little Orphan Annie Page 18 Moon Mullins. Page 21 Neighbors rage 11 Obituaries 14 proof of the administration's du from Ickes on what he should say about the letter to a grand jury and assurances that the secretary Arising late, Mrs.

Goodbody said she had lunched with friends and craft defenses were effective to the plicity." BY ORVILLE DWYER. fullest extent from the Ventures Held Inexcusable. then gone to the dressmaker's for fitting. She went from there to would back him up. Alamo Reference Explained.

Yesterday's air activities from been fired upon by the gunwoman. Official abandonment of the "let 'em freeze edict of Joel Dean, chief of fuel oil rationing of the office of Butler attacked many of the New ADVANCED ALLIED NEW GUINEA, Jan. 21 IFriday (). Allied airmen downed 33 Japanese planes and sank three enemy sup-dIv shiDs totaling 10.000 tons in Britain were on a small scale. Except for several theories, includ Deal ventures in the Latin Amer A.

F. planes attacked enemy ship ing one that the murder was a re- icas as inexcusable and demoraliz Radio programs Page 16 2. An explanation by Sen. Langer IR, N. the first given, that the mystery word "Alamo," deleted ping off Norway, setting fire to one enge shooting." police admittedly price administration, was expected momentarily late yesterday with a Religious Page 16 ing." No one knows the actual size merchant craft.

No planes were Smilin Jack rage 22 relaxation of fuel oil ration reguh from the copy of the letter made lost. were baffled. All they know is that the slayer was gray haired, about 50 years old, and wore a black Persian of our Latin American "boondog gle," he said. tions'to provide additional supplies public, was code to mean an admin Smitty rage IS Terry rage 22 Coastal Guns Duel Again. for actual "hardship" cases.

There is boondoggling in Latin istration move to back Dr. Lee for beauty parlor on Michigan avenue opposite the Drake hotel. "Mother met me there about a quarter to 5," she said. "I was thru at 6, and we walked back to the Drake and stopped by the desk for the key. When we reached mother's suite, we found the door unlocked, and mother was sure she had locked If She said her mother had lunched with friends that day and played cards In the afternoon.

Miss Eliza British coastal guns which sank Winnie Winkle rage IS lamb coat, and flowers or red trimming in her hair or hat. blows ranging from Wewak, New Guinea, to Rcbaul, New Britain, Gen. MacArthur's headquarters reported today. The heaviest raid was on the airdromes, supply dumps and anti-aircraft positions at Wewak and neighboring Boram. Fifty Liberator heavy bombers hit Boram with 133 tons America," he asserted.

"There is the senate seat of Sen. Connally a large Nazi vessel near cap uns Nez, France, early Thursday opened This was good news to several thousand Chicago area families who either are out of oil or expect to be a vast amount of it. There is boon ID, 3. Ickes was detected In three fire on German shipping in Dover doggling in enterprises which the New Deal has sought to cover up Baltimore Figure Sought. However, they pursued their in-estlgation along many lines.

Dur before their next coupons become contradictions of his own state strait last night for the second time valid 18 days hence. under the cloak of war within 15 hours. of explosives, without interception Wasteful spending, Butler said, is ments, one of which was in an at tempt to smear Chlcagoans in con rection with the letter. The first shelling, aimed at a con The relief for the sufferers was expected to come in the form of an Wednesday. Many grounded planes 3 Die, 2 Hurt After Taking Car in Holdup beth Born hadn't seen her mother wrecking neighborliness between Latin American nations and this ing the night police asked BaltW more, Md police to investigate th whereabouts of an elderly woman whose name has been mentioned occasionally In the Inquiry.

voy trying to slip out of a French channel port, brought retaliation immediate validation of the- No. 4 were reported destroyed. Escorting at alL She is a saleswoman and Sparks, former mayor of Akron, fighters shot down 12 planes and period coupons, which under pres- from Gerrnan long range guns. The was at work. country.

made his charges at a press con ent wasmngton omce oi price aa- duel continued soasmodically for Lights and shadows caught by Pointing to the Bolivian revolu probably two more from the 50 to 60 Japanese interceptors that rose to ference in the capitol during which he detailed the manner in which he Police also were trying to estab ministration orders would not be tion as proof of this he the pearls of her earrings and neck valid until Feb; 8. almost three hours, sending residents of the Dover area to basement shelters. said: challenge the attackers over Wewak. The allies lost three planes. lish the identity of a woman, wearing a black coat, and a flowered hat.

who was seen dining In the Camel lace heightened Mrs. Goodbody's brunette beauty as she sat trying obtained the letter which he published in his book as part of his Report Current In Capital. If there was any place In Latin Among the planes which bombed Reports that this move was Im to remember what happened next. The shots last night also were be case that the Roosevelt administra America where our good neighbor policy as currently practiced should minent were current both In Wash- lia room of the Drake Wednesday afternoon. lieved directed against channel ship- The middle aged gun woman wore Wewak was that on which Sgt.

Milton A. Zells, 3472 Brightwood ave in gton and Chicago. In the capital ping and again brought a quick re- a black Persian lamb coat and had Twenty minutes after five men, one armed with a revolver, held up Clarence Hunter, 6347 South Kenneth avenue, at 31st street and Pulaski road last night and robbed him of $80 and his automobile, the car, containing five men, crashed In addition, the police said they tion favors the nomination of Willkie by the Republicans. The letter forecast Willkie's renomination in 1944 and asked what had been done nue. Chicago, is tail gunner.

Zells it was said the New Deal political ply from enemy guns at Cap Gris a touch of red at her neck or in reported seeing square hits scored, strategists close to President Roose-1 Nez. hpr hat. said Mrs. Goodbody, re expected to search the entire guest registry of the Drake a veritable, international Who's Who. velt were displeased by Deans iterating what she had told police.

Down 21 at Kabaul. have produced neighborly results, Bolivia is the place." After summing up Bolivia's value as a supplier of tin, tungsten, and other war materials, he continued: "But something else was produced. In spite of the outpourings statements that consumers who had FLIES In the Alamo matter Letter Denied by All. into a tree in Willow Springs. After the shooting, Mrs.

Goodbody Mitchell medium bombers with The death of Mrs. Williams, chang One of the five occupants was Inadvertently run out of oij were remembered calling for help. OVER FORBIDDEN The letter has been denied by killed outright. Two others died Improvident" and that there would ing her case to murder, spurred police to more intensive efforts to Room Suddenly Fills. very one whose name has been later In Little Company of Mary fighter escort bombed and strafed To-bera airdrome, one of three fields guarding Rabaul.

downing 21 enemy interceptors against a loss of two of the raiding planes. CITYPAYS PRICE "A man with glasses came in and be no "mass rescue" even If there must be suffering. Dean is on leave find her slayer. The police depart (Continued on page 6. column 1J hospital.

Both survivors were un connected with it. Hopkins denied writing it. Dr. Lee said he never patted me on the shoulder and said NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 20 ment Is doing Its bst to solve this crime," said Commissioner Allman conscious.

You. poor dear, and then the little as a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago. Five crew members of an Ameri The accident occurred In Keene A 5,000 ton Japanese ammunition lady from across the hall called me received it. The justice department denounced It as a forgery. Ickes can transport plane have flown over THE WEATHER Meantime a case of suffering in avenue, a quarter ot a mne soum ricture Gunwoman aa Cunning; By the gunwoman's very actions.

and said 'Sit down," she said. ship received a direct hit and blew up and a 2,000 ton freighter also the sacred capital of Lhasa, "For of Archer avenue in Willow Springs. kept asking for someone to get help. FRIDAY. JANUART 21.

1944. police pictured her as perhaps a denied any connection with it. Hopkins asked for the grand jury investigation which has been in progress was sunk when navy Catalina patrol bidden City of Tibet, and lived to tell about it. They were told by and I guess the man must have the Chicago area came to light in the plight of a young soldier's small family, that of 'Mrs. Lois Spencer, 840 South Clifton avenue.

Park Other motorists told Willow Springs county highway police that the car, little cunning, a little savage, and Sunrise, 8:13. Sunset. 6:62. Moonrise, rniioH someone because the room planes caught a small convoy off Lorengau, on the northeast coast Tibetans that their plane was the 4 a. m.

Venue I the morning star, for several days. traveling 75 miles an hour, skidded was suddenly full of people." Mara. Saturn, and Jupiter are nieht lu probably a little mute. It was significant, detectives said, that she I'ttered no word, no cry, as she opened fire on her defenseless vic only one ever to fly over the coun "It is a forgery," Sparks said of Admiralty Island, Tuesday night. minaries.

There are no evening: atari. 1 Miss Born, who, like Mrs. Good off the road. Police found a revolver and I was not aware of it since 1 have try. CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Fair today and body, was attired in simple dibck Night patrol planes operating off Manam Island, near Hansa bay on But It was a rough party.

They tim. And, they added, she fired tomorrow; 'warmer today, hirh 46. low black jack in the car and identified crepe, tried to prompt her sister got lost and bailed out when their at such close range that the Cam Ridge, whose husband, Richard, was drafted about three weeks ago, and her children, Richard Jr, 8 years old, and Sandra, 4. Neighbor Takes Her In. Mrs.

Spencer moved yesterday from her own cold home into that the northeast coast of NeW Guinea, it by the license plates as the one 30; winds 25 to 30 mile today; eon tinued mild tomorrow, hish 42. The two women brightened a little from her gun seared Mrs. Williams gasoline was exhausted. Then they stolen from Hunter. sank a 3,000 ton ship.

for a moment when they dwelt, on U.LINOIS: Fair today and tomorrow face and left hand, as her first shot The dead were tentatively identi Australian troops moving up the spent more than a month getting back to India on mules and afoot the afternoon hospital report that had slightly seared the hand cf fied as Walter Gron, 21 years old, their mother's condition seemed Im warmer today, fresh to Strom winds continued mild tomorrow. TrTMI'ERATCRES IN CniCAGO. For -1 hours ended 3 a. Jan. SI I Huon peninsula coast.

New Guinea, toward the American invasion force over the wintry Himalayan ranges Mrs. Williams' daughter, Mrs, Goodbody. 5017 South Kildare avenue; Eugene had complete confidence in its genuineness at all times since I received it Dec. 21. 1343, because ol circumstances under which I re-received It from Briggs, and thru Eriggs from Ickes." Sparks said it was on the evening prior to his appearance before the grand jury on Jan.

14 that he met Briggs. Told to Tell Facts. proved, altho she had not regained Among the five crewmen was Pvt, ot Mrs. Glover M. Young, a neighbor who offered to take her in.

Mrs. Spencer had been refused additional John H. Huffman of Straughn, Ind consciousness. around Saidor continued mopping up Japanese stragglers in the Sio area 3 a. "Hill a.

.331 1 p. .33 4 a. Koon 331 8 p.m. ...32 6a.m... .24 1p.m..

..33 9p.m. ...31 Interview Interrupted. fuel oil last Friday by ration and also captured more enemy equip Tero, 17, of 3941. South California avenue, -and Joseph Szklankowski, 4900 South Kedvale avenue. The injured were tentatively identified as Edmund J.

Polejewski, 23, of 4922 Soulh Karlov avenue, and Howard 8 a. .21 2 p. .33 10 p. .31 In almost childlike obedience board whose hands were tied by ment. 7.

3 p. m. ...34 lip. .31 Mrs. Goodbody bowed her head and 8a.m 21 4 p.

3 Midn 31 Prof. Dean's refusal to allow such Ten enemy barges were destroyed fif- cm nil white face was set in help. or damaged in allied strafing sweeps "He told me," Sparks related. concentration. I have taken a letter from our "that the secretary had suggested Brinker, 4955 South Kedvale avenue.

Other newsa of motor fatalities is on page If Other members of the family TOMORROW IN COLOR PERSONAL BATTLE FLAGS OF THE JAPS family physician, Dr. Benjamin Sar that if they the grand jury were firm in their conviction that a.m....23 Rp.m...38 li.n 33 10a.m.. ..28 6 p.m. 2 a. 31 Hieh.

tLow. Far St hours ended 7:30 p. Jan. SO: Mean temperature. 30 decrees; normal, 22; excess tinea Jan.

1, 67 degrees. Precipitation, trace: deficiency since Jan. 1, 1.18 Inches. Highest wind Telocity. 17 miles per hour.

Relative humidity, 7:30 a. 01 per cent; proved that the letter was a forg Mrs. Williams did not have any get, to the board," Mrs. Spencer said. "The employes have told me they could do nothing until the ery, I should tell where and how enemies.

I got the letter. Briggs also said Ad justment of Army's Pay I mpossible, Britain Asserts IChicaao Tribune Press Service. Mrs. Goodbody was about to tell along the coasts of New Britain, near Rein bay and Arawe, on the north and south side of the island, respectively. Raid Three Marshall Isles.

PEARL HARBOR, T. Jan. 20 (V-Bombers and fighters of the American 7th army air force made four attacks on Japanese shore installations, air fields, and shipping members meet. They hope by that the secretary would back me up. how she telephoned her father.

time to have permission to help, Death of Mrs. Williams threw into deep gloom' her. husband, her former husband, and her two daughters, Mrs. Goodbody and Miss Elizabeth Born, the latter twice wed and twice divorced. The daughters live with their father In tfc Churchill hotel, 1255 North Stat street.

All expressed bewilderment over the shooting. Husband Is Mystified. With tears in his eyes, Mr. W1U liams told Coror.er A. L.

Brodie and other interviewers last night that he knew of no reason why any one would wish to kill his wife. "Sh had absolutely no enemies," he said. "She was perlAps the most generous person I have ever known, and kind. I don't know who could have wanted revenge on her." The interview was given In part in St. Luke's hospital and in Coroner Brodie's office.

With Mr. WuV liams was his brother, Keith, a contractor of Vicksburg, Miss, who happened to be in Chicago at the time of the shooting. Coroner Brodie said "If it is not genuine, it consti Edgar Born, to -tell him of the tracedy when Mr. Williams was Another Doolittle First; LONDON, Jan. 20.

Deputy Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee today turned down a demand in the house 1:30 p. 61 per cent; 7:30 p. 61 per cent. Official weather report pas 23.1 called from the room.

Within a few seconds he was Flew in Raid on Rome tutes one of the most contemptible examples of double dealing 1 have ever encountered, certainly by Briggs. and. I believe, also by Ickes. "The only explanation I can conceive Is that they have been forced back. The Interview ended.

Mrs, ot commons that British army pay be reviewed and brought into Corpus Tex Jan. 20 W). in the Marshall Islands Jan. IS and Williams was dead. Personal battle flags captured from Japs in the South Pacific and brought back by War Correspondent Robert Cromie will be reproduced in full color in tomorrow's Chicago Tribune.

For a new slant on the customs of America's enemy in the far east, be sure to see this full-color presentation tomorrow. 19, rounding out two weeks of daily closer relation with the wages of Maj. Gen. James Doolittle, who led Tata! aweraaa mmt pmid circafattai DECEMBER. 1943 lunges against atolls north of the the first raid on Tokio, also partici Britain Announces Loss industrial workers and the pay rates of American and dominion troops.

He said disparities in the pated In the first allied air raid on of the Destroyer Tynedale DAILY Rome last July 19, It was disclosed army pay of the allied forces arose 905,000 tonight by Col. Leroy A. Rainey. LONDON, Jan. 20 (JP).

Loss from varying living standards in mil af American held Gilbert Islands. Four American planes were lost in the new raids, said the announcement at Pacific fleet headquarters. These were shot down by anti-aircraft fire. The atolls hit were Jaluit, Mili, and Jabor. to indulge in trickery for the sake of covering up Ickes" tracks on his activities in exposing a fellow member of the administration's Inner circle, Hopkins, against whom, I Continued on page 10, column X-l the British destroyer Tynedale was the various countries.

It is impos Rainey, who. recently returned from the Mediterranean theater, piloted announced tonight. The admiralty THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE sible to adjust them all to each gave no details. the plane in which Doolittle rode. other, he asserted..