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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
Admiral Lea|hy
Reaches vithy
New Ambassador
Arrives in Storm

oVICHY, France, Jan. 6 - up
= Admiral William D. Leahy,
new U. S. ambassador to France
who arrived here last night by
rail despite one of the worst
snow storms in years, is expected
to present his credentials to
Chief of State Petain tomorrow
or Wednesday.
He was greeted on his arrival
by . police guard which usually
turns out only for Petain.
The new envoy and his wife
retired at once to a villa belong
ing to the wealthy American,
Frank j. Gould. The villa has
been set aside by the French
government as the embassy res
idence.
So severe was the storm in
which Leahy arrived that at least
IL persons were reported killed
by the cold weather in the Au-
vergne district alone.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
-Four 70 Injured
When CaIs Collide

oFour persons escaped serious
injuries when two cars skidded
into bitches early Sunday morn
ing.
The first naishap happened a
River road, near Utica, q 1908
am. when Wallace Heldt II,
Route one, Utica. ran his CIR
into q ditch and srnashed into .
pole, according to Z deputies,
report. With him IN tn CIR
were Earl Kraft, 10, and 1lmer
Marquart, II. both Of Utica. All
were reported unhurt.
Two hours later Jesse Jones,
30, Mount Clemens, alleeed1y
left Quinn road 1t 0ratiot and
hurtled into = ditch. She wa
taken 10 st. Joseph's hospital
and treatment for minor injur-,
les. Anna johnson and Morris
Fuzzy were passengers In the
car.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
INVESTIGATORS Seek Cause Of Fatal Transporf

OSAN DIEGO. Calf. Jan. g.
R-Civil and naval officials,
poking through the scattered
wreckage Of q $4,000 navy
transport plane, asserted today
that had the ship been flying
20 feet higher it would have
cleared the rugged Mother Grun-
dy range and reached its des-
tination only 20 miles away with
all IL occupants safe.
The navy arranged for an Of.
fetal investigation of the crash
that killed everybody aboard,
including four who had escaped
death only last Thursday in .
Texas bomber mishap.
Civilian aviation Observers
generally blamed weather con-
ditions.
A low ceiling and dense for
made flying conditions hazard
Gus In the area, some IS miles
southeast Of here, and reports Of
neighboring rsnchers led q BE-
lief the pilot might have gotten
of his radio beam.
Residents of the Simpson
ranch two miles from White
mountain, the crash scene, said
they heard q plane being "g,n-
ned" to gain altitude q few mo-
ments before they heard an ex-
plosion, and this brought the
observation that q pilot on his
beam, believing himself over San
Diego because Of . zone Of So
lence, might have started down,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

Unlike many Of his prede-
cessors whose gold, diamond
studded badges blinded all
and sundry. Big Jake Theut
wears only the modest shield
used BY his deputies. This,
despite the fact that Jake
could wear = . p . r-sised
badge without stepping out Of
character.
One local lad resents Selfridge
Field competition for the favors
Of q certain pert gal. He planned
to throw his bi-focals at the
offender until he learned that
the rival Ii q machine gun ex-
pert. Now he's considering
feathers at 200 PAGES.
One Schanher Drug store
huddle yesterday included
Keno and Sarah Jane Ken
nedy, daughters Of ParDon Joe
Kennedy, Bill Marlatt, Bill
Devantier and the Rambler.
Sarah Jane leaves tsday for
Wooster, which Il . college
located In Ohio, I believe, and
not the sound one makes af-
ter eating . hot dog 1t mid.
night.
Deputy County Clerk Maurice
Daily happens by. He was AK
ing to return his son Jack, and
his daughter, Charlotte, to the
University Of Michigan where
Jack IL 4 senior and Charlotte
q freshman. We can remember
when we were enjoying the four
year loaf at the same institu-
ton. \
Wade Fast's instrumental
bureau worked overtime dur
Ing the Christmas holidays.
Most Of the brides, however,
will continue b be Miss So
and % % the schoolchildren
''irregardless."
We bowled three lines yester-
day at . local emporium with
Harry Odle, the reformed news
paper man. While bowling, we
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
Employer Aid
10 Draft Seen
Study Shows SeIeetees
Will be Protected

OPASADENA, Calf, Jan. g.
Up California Institute of
Technology disclosed today that
draftees for military service in
most cases will receive special
consideration from employers,
and in some instances will be
paid bonuses.
The Caltech survey, made un-
der direction of the noted his
torian, DR.. William B. Munro,
covered 282 firms operating in
the Los Angeles area, Sc of
them national in scope.
All of the nationally operat-
ing organizations have formu-
lated policies regarding en-
ployes called into defense, the
survey said, but such is the case
in only ISL of the. local COM
panies.
Generally speaking, the re-
port continued, employees of ma
tion-wide firms will fare the
best. In 80 of them, bonuses or
extra compensation will be
awarded. Some will pay lump
sums amounting to from two to
eight weeks of the conscript's
regular salary. One will provide
a lump sum aggregating IS per
cent of the workers annual
earnings. Another will make up
the entire difference between
army and the workers pay, to a
maximum of $500 q year.
Ten local firms reported in
ability to guarantee that jobs of
drafted employees would be open
when they return, and. one said
the worker would have neither
job nor seniority. In most in
stances, seniority will be kept
in force, and 81 firms said the
period of military service will
be added to that of company
service.
Group insurance policies, the
survey showed, are offering q
general problem. But Is of the
companies operating nationally
and 81 locally have decided to
pay premiums and maintain
other credits during leaves of
absence. One difficulty, it de-
veloped, is the possibility that
higher mortality rates among
those conscripted might raise
the rates of those at home. The
survey quotes one insurance ex-
ecutive:
1T is not generally felt that
there will be any excess NOR
tality due to peacetine military
training -.
Entrants into military train
ing must pass rigid physical ex-
aminations and the gen eral
health conditions of the military
trainees are expected to be bet
ter than those Of industrial
workers"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

years, parted newsmen's at
tempts to draw him out on the
"agenda," saying he preferred ia
answer the questions in the in
quiry which he asked Wheeler to
initiate.
He said, in response to a ques-
ton, that he had not shipped any
Mexican oil to Germany since
the war started.
Davis letter to Wheeler quot
ed q statement accredited to Sen.
Lee (D-Okla) in which Lee was
reported to have said, "the re-
cord of this man Davis shows
conclusively the great financial
stake he has in q complete Nazi
victory in the European war.
Much of the gasoline sending
showers of fiery death into the
defenseless heart of London vas
sold to the German government
by this man Davis In the months
before the war started, but his
traffic in this German-bound oil
happily has been interrupted by
the British blockade. Davis was
attempting 70 promote q 'phony'
peace through the White House
to pull Nazi Germany's chestnuts
out of the fire."
Davis, describing himself as a
patriotic American who served
as q volunteer with the American
Expeditionary Force during the
World War;" declared In his let
ter that "these reports are utterly
false, 20 ridiculous that ! would
not take the trouble to deny
them, II It were not for the fact
that they are being circulated IN
such trying times, when the en-
tire world L. uneasy"
Davis h the executive head OF
w. r. Davis, Inc, and otter ~
filiated companies with Offices In
New York and Houston, Tex. A
native Of Mostgomery. Ala, b
b married md has two sons.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
Oil Man Asks Investigation
of Anti American Charles

anew YORK, Jan. 6-R-
William Rhodes Davis, the inter-
national oil operator who was
reported recently to have
brought a German "agenda" for
peace to the United States in
1899 has requested a Congress
sional investigation of "inferen-
ces that am engaged in any &C.
tivity inimical to the best in
terest of my country"
"While have had dealings
with foreign governments, 1 have
kept the u. s. Department of
State fully informed of these ac-
tivities," he said in q letter to
Sen. Wheeler (D-Mont) which
he made public yesterday.
The impeccably- dressed, rud-
dy-faced oil man, at q press con-
ference in his offices, denied he
was q hacker of the no foreign
war committee, but said he fav-
ored "all these organizations that
have the same idea Of world tran
guilty that I have"
The committees chairman,
Verne Marshall, recently declar-
ed Davis met'official indifference
in attempting to present a Nazi
offer to negotiate an Honorable
and Just" peace with the Allies.
In his letter of Wheeler, Davis
said that some of the allegations
made against him "have been the
workings Of q studied and care
fully-planned publicity campaign
instigated by financial and COM
petitive interests to besmirch my
character and ruin my business
enterprises"
Wheeler is q leader Of the $50
lationist bloc In Congress and
heads q subcommittee recently
formed 70 investignte Interior
enees in The nation's defense pro-
Uram.
Davis, who he's been sctivs in
~ - business 1oe % q bic q
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
Melo Basketball
Coach Not Yet
Appointed

oDirector Of Athletics Ernest ].
Buckholx said that he has not yet
had time TO appoint . success
sor 70 Moore q basketball coach.
He said he will announces his
decision following . con1orenco
with Superintendent of 9choo1s
L. W. Fast. ,ss
Fast said that . substitute vim
I'LL Moore's position - Hnelidh
teacher.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

= atlantis TO q generous public,
the Old Newsboys- dfeaoW
association will carry . a, go -
balance forward 70 nd them Il
their 1041 campaign 1or AlndRs
Treasurer John Sierens report
ed today.
Expenditures totals1 q. 1oo.oo
and receipts, iAefudin4 Is
$0o3 50 balance nom 1eoos
amounted 70 $3,7o0.01. The ~
port IL in striking contract -
the Goodfellow's financial Pie
ture during the depression dny9
when the association often co>n14
not meet IL bills.
Sierens' report follows: -
penditures - KrOlik co0npo1U
for pants, saloshes and al,osss
$1.O1O.41; Angelfa companys
S4.0S; Michigan Bell Telep9qne
company, SALT; l1illsr -
company, 4l.29: MiGh1C1n -
curitlss commissio6s & 49,
ing, 9l4.3s: Paints = "
q Cady, 4l.e7; NewSUGC =
@1S.lo; Loclks, 4l.7o; 80 =
Carriage. o10.1D: c.
nuts, &ol.oo; 8. = I -
pany. $7so.Te; - ~.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
Vile Arrested; Mals
Obtains Divorce Deuee

oCharging that HE wife. Revs,
had been arrested IN . raid. Earl
D. butcher, Of ilaSrison town.
ship, was srnnted . divorce by
Circuit Judge James Z. Spier
this morning.
The butchers were married
in January Of 1913 and separated
In 1924.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
British Soldiers Turn
Tables on italian Coptors
Help Destroyer Capture Prison
Ship on Which They Were Held

The British troops described
as apparently the only ones the
Italians ever captured" were
being taken in the schooner to
Tobruk, Libya, 'for sh ow
pieces" the Australian COM
mander asserted.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
Traffic Toll
Sci al Seven
Stote Accidents
Take Grisly Toll
By TIE Assoeialed Pres


oMichigan's list of weekend
traffic fatalities today Monday
included at least seven persons.
DETROIT R Leslie Will
liams of Inkster and Mario N.
johnson, Is, of Ann Arbor, were
killed Sunday night and five per-
sons were seriously injured in .
collision between a tractor-trail-
err loaded with cattle and an
automobile. The accident occur
red at the intersection of Dix
road and Outer Drive in SUBJ
urban Melvindale.
George Rockelman, 81, an
Eloise hospital patient, was kill
ed Sunday night when he stepped
into the path of an automobile
driven by Harold r. Boyd, 35, Of
Dearborn.
Eugene Boissoneault, 80, Of
Detroit, died Sunday night after
being pinned beneath the wreck
age of his automobile in an acct
dent five miles east Of Blissfield.
THREE RIVERS-(R-Thir-
teen-year-old Dale Gage, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Gage, was
killed Sunday and three other
persons were injured when q
Pennsylvania passenger train
struck an automobile at the
Broadway street crossing here.
Condition Of Louis Hartman, 80,
driver Of the automobile, was re-
ported critical.
The Pennsylvania train was
rerouted over the Michigan Gen.
trail tracks here because Of Z
wreck at Mendon.
MONROE - R - Hughie
Smith, So. of Alamo, Tenn, was
killed Sunday when struck by
an unidentified motorist on Tele-
graph Road, two miles north Of
here.
HOWELL-(P-Lyle Morgan,
II, of Deerfield Township, Liv-
ingstone County, was killed In
m automobile-truck collision
Saturday night is miles north
east of here.
CADlLLAC-<R)-Mrs. Elm
ira Campbell. 80, of Traverse
City, died Sunday Of injuries
received Christmas Day when
the automobile In which she was
riding crashed into q tree on Us
131 at the Manistee River bridge.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
kovy's Mercy Sliip
into Mountain; III I'll
offieiol investigates lesaehsd
in Woke Of Disosasoue tll1ht

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and CCC boys aided - ~
en-ho0r task q coTfyn
victims. wrapped II nq
down the m0untnlme
sagebrush 10 feet hi1h - q
The big plane. ekror(
naval air station -
three members y y fS !
quiry appointed @ v
the Texas accident. an6 I7
survivors OF that uaslc I d
hap. Il. us u ~ ;.sa It
The four had NJ 81 = 1IE y q
safety when their b 1'r
ing ferried from -
sacola. Ma. bv $50 s
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their live. Is ride rist l,Iol y
and ian6 - slhfn v IIar. - y,
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

Respectfully submitted.
Henry Q. chopoton,
Treasurer Production Fund
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

HOWELL-(R-Lyle Morgan,
II, of Deerfield Township, Liv-
ingstone County, was killed In
m automobile-truck collision
Saturday night Is miles north
east of here.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

. Michigan's list of weekend
traffic fatalities today Monday
at least seven persons.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

MONROE - R - Hughie
Smith, So. of Alamo, Tenn, was
killed Sunday when struck by
an unidentified motorist on Tele-
graph Road, two miles north Of
here.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-25
British Bomb
Adds Abdba
Irt.rr.tlor.l New. s,ryte. Cain,

ALDEN. Arabia, Feb. 25. A
damaging, long-distance British
bombing raid against Adds Ababa,
capital of Italian-occupied Abys-
sinia. was announced today in
Alden, Britain's south Arabian
naval base.
British bonbers that were be-
lieved TO have covered round-trip
distances of more than 900 miles
were declared to have wrought
'extensive damage" to the huge
Adds Ababa airdrefne. one of the
biggest in all Africa, and to several
buildings in the Abyssinian capital.
Proceeding northwest of Adds
A hi ba. the British squadrons
bombed and machine gunned Ital-
ian transport columns in the
Dessye-Alomata area. where the
Fascists are retreating before Brit
ish and native attacks.
Adds Ababa lies about 425 air
miles west of Alden. which is
Britain's bastion guarding the
entrance to the Red Sea from the
Indian Ocean.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-25
Boy CYllist Killed
When Hit by Truck

The death OF Joseph Kasterson.
10. seventh grade pupil at Webster
School. after being injured by an
automobile near his home at $50
Twenty-fourth street, brought the
city's traffic death toll to al. On
this date last year there bad been
As traffic fatalities.
Joseph was riding his bicycle
when struck by a truck driven by
Lyle B. Whitaker, rs, of 923
Marcy street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-25
NAZI DOMINATION

Had France been sufficiently
free from German domination to
conduct fight for Indo-China 5
defense. authoritative government
tai sources pointed out. more than
100 planes now rotting at French
Martinique could have been
shipped TO the colony.
Authoritative sources indicated
that the state department had so
Informed French Ambassador
Henry Haye at various times
while Martinique has been under
virtual blockade, first by British
and later by American naval
forces.
This government was at all
times willing to have the planes
shipped 10 the Indo-Chinese au-
thorities, il was said, but the
Vichy governments reaction made
plain TO authorize here that
Germany would not allow VIchy
permission to authorize the trans
fer.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-25
TALKS OF FUTURE

Seldom has any one found Joo
so eager 10 talk, and he found 9
ready listener as he unburdened
himself. He switched 10 talk OF
his future and went on:
81 want TO do something for
my people. something for colored
folks in the big cities. That big
ranch I bought up In Michigan
is the first step. II is % miles
from Detroit and 10 miles from
Pontiac, where so many colored
folks work in the auto plants.
I'm putting in Sl50,OOO 1S-
hole. golf course. There will he
more than 100 cabins. big
hotel, riding horses, tennis
courts. swimming pool, games
and outdoor sports. The whole
plan will cost nearly 100000.
Work is going ahead every
Gay. My present schedule is
based on completing II In five
years. When l retire from the
ring intend to spend the rest
of my life there"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-25
ITALY TELLS OF RAIDS

ROME. Feb. 25.-dNS)-Br
.ish attacks upon the Italian Al
cazar of Libya." at Jarabub. were
repulsed and collapsed in the face
of fierce resistance. il was claimed
today by the high command.
italian and German aircraft
attacked British positions in North
Africa. il was added. the Italians
effectively bombing British posi-
tons near Kufra while the German
planes bombed the Libysn coast.
q In the Aegean Sea area. italian
troops attacked the British in the
Sudan. west Of Ziluasi. and forced
them TO retreat, the communiquc
stated.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-25
Attack Repu|sed,
Greeks Report
international, New. s.ry,e. oas,.


ATHENS, Feb. 25.-Italian in
fantry charges against Greek
positions in the Devoli and Voyusha
valleys on the Albanian battle
front were repulsed repeatedly
with heavy losses to the Fascists.
military dispatches reach n G
Athens stated today.
Artillery batteries were reported
extremely active in this area,
while on the Ostravitza mountain
range the Greeks captured several
important heights dominating
Italian advanced positions.
British planes bombed Fascist
posts and trenches in the Shkumbi
valley and at the towns OF
Elbasan, Lin and Pogradec. where,
according to latest advices, Italian
reinforcements have been gather
ing for the past week
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-25
Hank S
Defiant
CONTINUED from Page One)

tSOHtinucu from rage One
ask to be placed in Class II, the
occupational defermen class;
Shepherd has said Greenberg did
not ask deferment; and Norton
has announced anything Smith
says is all right with me-"
Meanwhile, in Chicago, Joe
Louis, worlds heavyweight boxing
champion, said that he expected
to be drafted within go days. He
added that he was ready and
would not request deferment
Smith said his board would meet
today after which il would have a
statement on the Greenbere
case. He said he couldn't answer
as to whether this Statement
would include an opportunity to
inspect Greenbergs QUESTIONABLE
answers.
Major Culligan explained that
in event local draft boards refuse
information to any citizen an
appeal may be taken first to the
district board and then to the
governor to order them TO obey
regulations" Finally, an appeal
may be taken to Washington, he
said.
Senator Prentiss Brown OF
Michigan linked the Greenberg
case with that of James Stewart,
movie actor.
He said:
The thing that strikes the
average man rs strange and
wrong Is that movie actors like
Jim Stewart can be deferred
while men without influence or
who occupy less spectacular po-
sifions are put In Class 1. 1 my
self can't understand why Stew
art should have been deferred"
Inquiry al selectlve service hea l.
quarters concerning the Stewart
case brought the information that
he had been classified as available
for limited service because he is
10 pounds underweight and had
not asked deferment. He quoted
as saying he had asked TO be
called for duty as soon as possible.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-25
ChdrgeRedu(ed
Graft Jury Told
CONTINUED from Page One)
totaling $25 on the disorderly
persons charge
BASIS OF CHARGE


1t is the prosecutions conten'
ton that Defendants Duncan c
McCrea. then prosecutor, ano
Thomas c. Wilcox, who was
sheriff, used their positions &c
protect" the Pointe handbooks
and that the establishments were
tipped off in advance of raids.
In support of that contention
Special Prosecutor Chester p
O'Hara has paraded a number OF
witnesses to the stand Some OF
them and their testimony:
James f. Buckley, who said he
was a betting ticket writer for
German at 9S5 harrington road;
Before that raid on March
25, 1899. we were told to get
out OF the place. After the
grand jury started we tried to
run once. We ran half day
and then the grand jury raiders
came out"
George Holman. admitted black
Jack dealer for German in the
handbook at 9S5 harrington road
81 saw Detective Pat COnlon
and Lieut.. George Wallace Of
the Crosse Pointe Park force
tdefendants) playing the horses
where I worked"
Ambrose Burke, admitted bet
ting ticket writer at 1901 East
jefferson for four or five years
II was employed by Chism.
He told me the day of the raid
that we were closing early
Visiting Judge Earl c. Pugsley
and a jury is hearing the case
which is scheduled to go into Wy.
andotte aspects of the alleged con-
spiracy after the Crosse Pointe
phase is completed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-25
American Planes
Barred From
Indo-China
International New. serv,e. wir.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.-The
United States is permitting no
American planes to 60 to Indo-
China to bolster that French
colony's fight against Thailand,
it was learned authoritatively
today.
The disclosure of this govern
ment's policy followed reports that
the-Frcncrr chief of state. Mar
shall Petain. had requested Ameri-
can Ambassador Leahy to secure
the transfer of American planes,
if possible, from the Philip
pines to Indo-China.
This government was disclosed
to have taken the position that
no planes of use to the United
States, Britain. or the Neither
lands Indies in the Orient could be
transferred TO Indo-China.