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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-30
syEpNEspAx- JULY 80, ls4r
Iexas. Soeony Properties
Under Protective Custody
Dritish- Owned Shenshsi Bank
Reported pjekstsd By Jsps


~ awaited further actions
against them since, they pointed
out, any moves taken BY the
japanese controlled Nanking
government could meet with no
United States and british retail
iation. Marking has no foreign
holdings.-
The Swallow branch Of the
British-owned Hongb ong Shang-
hal b . n X, the largest Ia the
Orient was reported picketed by
Japanese In semi-mintary uni
IA JA rs EXPLAIN
All c hin z Sc and japanese
throughout the occ ipied areas
have been forbidden already to
do business with nationals Of the
freezing powers except by OFF,
cial permission.
japanese authorities had sew
eral explanations for the latest
actions:
In closing the oil companies
and In seixing stocks In one place
y officials said there wer- rum
'Ofs the owners plannec to dyna-
mite the doaks.
In other preventive q ctio n
they said It was necessary to
protect foreigners fr o. the
wrath Of the Chinese population
aroused by the freezing Of their
funds"
Oil company Officials denied
the dynamite rumors % ridicu-
,lous.
Lest the japanese move toSde-
lay her indefinitely, the Amer
lean freighter Done Nata left q
cargo Of bristles, feathers, en-
broidery and other Chinese
products destined for the United
States on the docks and sailed
almost empy from Shanghai for
Manila.
JAPs RETALIATE
While the japanese retaliated
against American freezing or
ders, q convoy Of Is naval ships
arrived with troops at Saigon
for occupation Of bases In Indo-
China-cause Of the strain in
British-American and Japanese
relations.
In Bangkok the Thailand gov
eminent reaffirmed IL intention
to continue strictest neutrality
and denied that any power had
put military or economic pres
sure upon It.
q pa n ere neWspapars had
limited that Thailand mixht be
treated q Indo- China ~ Jaoan
moved her forcee, Suutiv9Srd.
sn)gc1. c0QeGf4 ~ ne w.
IN .alrsady HID a. "a Thar md
tc join the New Aslatic order in
return for Indo ! Chinese Terri
tory
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-30
Lions b Outline
powwow Plans


OTinal plans for the fourth an
nual Lions Club. Powwow to be
held Thursday, August Z 1t
Hillcrest will be laid tomorrow
noon when the club holds it,
regular weekly meeting at Cor
don's Grill.
Proceeds from the Powwow
will be used to further the clubs
eye conservation work. Tickets,
priced 1t % each, may be
purchased from members.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-30
Discuss State
poAttspsst1ie
Supervisors, Stets
0ffieen Meet Teddy

OThe possibility of using State
tax lands for the proposed new
State Police post in Macomh
County was to be discussed this
afternoon a. the Industrial and
Public Relations committee 81
the Board Of Supervisors met
with Sergt. Leslie Maycock, act
ing head of the State police In
the Detroit district.
A report on the legality Of
the county purchasing q site for
the post was expected from the
Prosecutors office.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-30

ent time. practically al Of the
North county open drains empty
into the Clinton River or IT. TIL
butaries, which flow In to Laks
st. Clair.
A similar situation exists In
the South end Of the county. but
resumed operation Of the dir
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-30

oThe State Corporation and
Securities Commission reported
at Lansing today that the Mount
Clemens Machine and Tool
company has been granted per-
mission to issue, common stock
valued at $1,000.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-30
ATTEND CONVENTION

= Prosecutor Ivan A. Johnston
and Assistant Prosecutor How
ard r. Carroll left this morn
ing for Mackinac Island where
they will attend the annual
Michigan Prosecutors Associa-
ton convention for the remand
er Of the week.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-30
DekolleIs Ask 4
Sl!ogelo Damages
Mesas clssSss,s Msa
(ogpod r. Sojt Heso

oroenl e S9o.ooo danssosG are
eslsod ~ Lawrsacs Wehmol1t
an4 ~ ON, Lawrence, r.. 6
DetrolA Al sepo9ale suits Aled IL,
Circuit Cont yesterday. III
ae1ioo SLOWS a. q a euoo-
mGool9 opel6one no1r 1o.1Ole
49, Jun,e "a. n Whieh Donolo
y. 1H11oee 1Gount ClqnonS.
allso1lly eFeshsd Into IL wsh-
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Woman Found Dead
On Vacant LOT in
Southwest Section
Victim Believed Slain
Elsewhere Sometime
During Lost Night

The nude body of Mrs. Gladys
Young, %, colored, 632 Second street
S.W., was found early today in q
vacant lot behind the home of hel
sister. Mrs. Wilhemina McClennon
lib D street S.W.
The cause of her death had not
been determined. Police said she
apparently had been murdered
Marks leading to the spot where she
was found, they added. indicated she
had been killed elsewhere and that
her body had been brought there
and dumped.
Mrs. McClennon said her sister
had been married, but had separated
from her husband, Frank Young
about year ago and had been liv-
ing since then with her father, Will
liam Green. She could give no lea
son why the woman would have
been murdered.
Detectives assigned to the case
found the marks of an automobile
in an alley adjoining the vacant
lot, but no other clues.
DR.. Christopher j. Murphy, depu-
ty coroner, examined the body be-
fore it was moved to the District
Morgue and said the woman ap-
parently had been dead for six or
eight hours. Mrs. McClennon re-
ported she had heard dogs in the
neighborhood barking loudly around
l am, but had not noticed any
other disturbance.
The body was found around $50
am. by Joseph H. Ridgley, ITO Ca
nal street S.W., who was passing
through the lot. 1t was identified
by Mrs. McClennon.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
BY GODFREY ANDERSON,
English Journalist.

WITH THE r. A. F. IN THE
WESTERN DESERT, Egypt, July 2
Oelaye0 The German Luftwaffe
took its first severe beating at the
hands of new American-madeT Toma-
hawk fighters when attempting to
attack British warships north of
Bardia at dawn Monday.
The Tomahawks sailed into a
large formation of Junkers 81 dive
bombers escorted by fighters and
claimed half dozen scalpS after
a sharp engagement.
Two of the -bombers fell lin
flames to the guns of a young Aus
tralian who before the war was a
champion quarter-mile hurdler.
A Scottish pilot, winner of the
Distinguished Flying Cross, sent an
other into the sea. This flyer, who
Evening star., 1941-07-04
s. Reach Shore Safely
As Cruise Boat Sinks
BY the Associated Press.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. July A.
An excursion boat sank at the mouth
of the st. Johns River near here
today, but the At passengers and
crew of six reached shore safely
after spending more than an hour
in the water.
Capt. Elton Baitry said his cruise
boat, the Ruby Lee. apparently
sprang starboard plank" shortly
after the party left the pier at
Mayport. for an all-day cruise on
the Snapper Banks.
The Al men. women and children
and Capt. Baitry and his crew of
five took to the heavy surf at the
point where the st. Johns River
flows into the Atlantic Ocean. All
had life belts or clung to life RATS.
Some of the passengers managed
to reach the jetties which line both
sides of the wide channel, but most
OF them tossed in the surf for more
than an hour before they were
picked up by another cruise boat
and small shrimp fishing craft.
Capt. Baitry said there was no
panic and none of the passengers
was hurt.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Late Bulletin

NAIROBI, Kenya, July 4 (P.-
Gen. Gazzera, supreme COM
mander of the remaining Italian
forces in Ethiopia, is sending
ENJOYS to the British to arrange
the surrender of all Italian troops
in the province of Gala Sidamo,
the British announced officially
today.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Tech High Teacher
Hurt in Auto Crash

Mrs. Alene Frazier. a teacher at
Mckinley High School, and her
daughter, Marianne, were seriously
injured yesterday in an automobile
collision near Fargo, N. Oak. the
Associated Press reported today.
Both were taken to st. Johns Hos
pital. Fargo.
Mrs. Frazier and her daughter left
Washington Saturday to drive to
their family home in Malta, Mont,
1t was learned. They made their
home at 805l Parkside lane NV.
until year ago, when they moved
to Summit place NV, friends said.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Big Hamburg Raid Damage
Reported by Refuqee

NEW YORK, July P).-Dagobert
Elias, Jewish refugee from Ham,
burg, Germany, declared last night
that Royal Air Force bombers had
caused heavy damage in that city
and that as result its residents had
little enthusiasm for war.
Elias arrived on the Portuguese
vessel Corte Real and said the
r. A. F. had bombed Hamburg on
an average of three times a week.
British bombers, he said. arrived
over the city at precisely l O'Clock
In the morning and 9 o'clock at
night
Deaths in Hamburg, as a result of
R. A. F. attacks, Elias said, had
been much greater than the Ger
mans admit. On several nights
recently the deaths were between
200 and 300 in one nights raid"
Elias explained that he and his
wife were among SO refugees sent
to Lisbon from Hamburg a month
ago under a German guard. The
other refugees, he said, were waiting
in Lisbon for transportation.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
U. S.-Mode Tomohowk Fighters Severely Beat
Luftwoffe, Dive Bombing British Worships

Il underestimated the speed of
my dive he said, land the Hun
seemed to be rushing up at me at
dizzy speed. I thought its all up
and pulled back the stick with both
hands. Then I blacked out.
When I came around, I was
climbing again and the Messer-
schmitt was going down with his
engine afire. I must have missed
him by just few feet"
There was one propaganda film
that won't be shown in Rome. The
Italians sent out a Cant 1007 plane
to get pictures of Savoia 79's torpe-
doing British ships. One of the
Savoias got damaged The Cant
crashed, killing four of its crew. The
war correspondents stepped ashore
from rubber dinghy at Sidi Barrani
without their film.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Fierce Tank Battle Reds in Retreat

BERLIN. July 4 tP).-AdOlf Hit
ler's legionS thrusting toward Mos
COW have crossed the formidable
obstacle of the Berezina River at
several places, the German high
command declared today.
The Red Army is in retreat and Is
being pursued relentlessly on the
whole eastern front, despite difficult
road conditions, the war bulletin as
serted.
Heavy losses are being inflicted on
the retreating Russians, it said, by
German air attacks deep into the
Soviet interior.
North of the Berezina River front
and also on a short, direct line
toward Moscow, the high command
said German forces had reached the
border between Sovietized Latvia
and Russia proper.
Approaching Stain Line.
The German Army and its allies
in the war against Russia now are
approaching the major line of
Soviet defenses-the so-called Stain
line-the Germans reported.
They said this prepared defense
system, running all the way from
the Ukraine to the Gulf of Finland,
stretches northWard along the
Dnestr River, then through Zhit-
omir to the Dnepr River, then to
Vitebsk and Pskov and then east
ward to Lake Peipus and the Gulf
of Finland along the eastern bor-
der of Estonia.
(The German radio-heard to-
day in New York-declared that
Red Army forces had failed in
an attempt to break through
Nazi encirclement in the Minsk
area and that 10000 Russians
were captured.
tThe broadcast, heard by Co.
lumbla Broadcasting System, also
reported German progress on the
Baltic front, including capture
OF "a great number of Bolshevist
air fields which had been con-
structed only recently and had
the most modern equipment"
cone German unit" it said,
(See BERLIN, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Reds Halt Plane Carrying
British Group 10 Moscow
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Turkey, July 3 de-
layed).-A Soviet Russian plane
carrying eight British military and
diplomatic representatives left An
kara for Moscow today, but re-
turned some time later on wire
lessed instructions from the Russian
government.
The plane had accommodations
for 20 passengers. Its return pre-
somably was ordered so it might
await other passengers.
The mission arrived from Cairo
last night. It's members were not
identified, but the British Embassy
said they included several officers
below the rank of colonel.
The Russian and British Ambas-
sadors to Turkey, Sergei Vino
gradov and Sir Hughe Knatchbull-
Hugessen, conferred regarding Rus
sian-British interests in the Near
East.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Policeman Missing;
Drowning Feared

Harbor police today searched the
Georgetown Channel area for Po-
liceman James Fippin. 80. of 60z8
Lee boulevard, Arlington, Va, feared
drowned while canoeing yesterday
afternoon.
Police reported that Mr.. F1ppin,
father of 15-month-o baby, told
his wife about noon yesterday that
he was going to pay some bills and
then would take a brief canoe ride.
He rented canoe at Warmers boat
house at Georgetown at 3:15 pm.
1t was learned. but failed to return
home last night or to report for duty
at eighth precinct station at s
o'clock this morning. His automo-
bile was found parked near the boat
house.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
British Raiders
Dive 10 SO Feet
Above Bremen
Big Factory Hit by
Bombs in Daylight,
London Reports
BY the AsSociat ted Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. July 4.-Big British
bombers, diving so feet over the
roof tops of Bremen in broad day
light. scored direct hits on a large
factory in the water front area of
the German port and shipbuilding
city, the Air Ministry reported today.
The r. A. F. gave Bremen only a
short breathing spell after the night
shift of British raiders had left it.
The morning attack there preceded
sweep across the Channel this
afternoon in new offensive against
Nazi-occupied France. as the R. A.
F. kept intact its string of day and
night air blows.
Besides unloading their explosives
from so feet over the big factory,
the Air Ministry said heavy Blen-
helm bombers attacked a freight
yard and railroad junction north
west of Bremen and machine gunned
planes on an airfield
idhCs NSpOi ttu N1iSSlIIS.
Five bombers and four fighters
were said to be missing from the
foray over France, but the Air Min
istry said nine German fighters
were destroyed
Five other British bombers also
were missing from the assault on
Bremen in which a bombardment
and machine-gun attack also was
made on barracks and gun positions
on the island of Norderney off the
German coast.
The daylight assault followed a
night raid in which the Air Min
istry said Essen, site of the Krupp
works. was a main target and fires
were started there and elsewhere in
the Ruhr Valley.
Raiders Keep Light.
With visibility better than in re-
cent days, the day raiders few high,
apparently headed for the invasion
coast area between Boulogne and
Dieppe.
The port of Bremen and indus
trial quarters at Bremerhaven also
were said to have felt the weight
of British night attacks in North
western Germany.
The Air Ministry said the R.
A. F. lost seven planes in the raid,
the twenty-third assault on Ger
man targets in the past 25 nights.
There were no reports of roc
turnal German aerial activity over
the British Isles.
Evening star., 1941-07-04

MOSCOW, July CP.-The Red
Army declared today that the Ger
mans had been checked in their
three main offensives into Soviet
territory by a defensive blitzkrieg, in
one phase of which 160 German
tanks were reported destroyed by a
combination of artillery fire and the
Russians own tank assaults.
The high command illustrated the
ferocity of the battle Of tanks with
a story of victory won by a Junior
lieutenant who vanquished five Ger
man tanks that had closed in on his
machine.
He smashed four of the five with
his tank cannon, communlque
said, and then, in desperate effort,
he thrust his machine at the limit OF
its speed into the remaining tank
smashing it. Whether the junior
lieutenant lived to accept the tribute
of the high command was not known
Teamwork of infantry, artillery
and tank forces was represented in
the story of an infantry company
that located German machine-gun
positions and tank concentration
near a village identified only as * u
Shellfire reduced the machine-gun
positions, the communique said, and
''our tanks effected a lightning as
sault on the enemy"
The battle resulted in destruction
of $50 German tanks and many
guns" said the communique.
New Positions Claimed.
The Red Army claimed the win
ming of new fighting positions in the
north, counteraction of an offensive
against the Ukraine in the south
and heavy defeat" of the Ger
mans in the battle of the Berezina
Apparently the Berezina offensive,
direct threat to Moscow, was al
ternating between heavy blows al
Borlsov, some 40 miles northeast OF
Minsk on the Moscow road, and Bo-
bruisk, 80 miles southeast of Minsk
Both towns are on the river which
was no great obstacle to Napoleon on
(See MOSCOW, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-07-04
n r. A. F. Air Raiders
FeIIed, Germans Soy

BERLIN. July (P).-British raids
against Germany and German
occupied territory yesterday cost the
R. A. F. 81 planes against only two
German planes missing. the high
command declared today.
The communique said II raiders
were downed in attempted British
daylight attacks on the Channel
coast and 10 in night raids on
Western and Northwestern Ger
many, in which it acknowledged
only ''unimportant damages" to war
industries at Bremen.
The Luftwaffe, meanwhile, was
said to have struck day and night
against the English south coast and
to have sunk two patrol boats and
damaged large merchant ship
near Lands End, at the western en-
trance to the English Channel.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Stars and Stripes
Flown by Britons in
Fourth Observance
Hotels and Newspapers
Also Mark Americas
independence Day
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 4.-The Stars ard
Stripes f1uttered widely over the
United Kingdom today as Britons
honored the United States on In
dependence Day.
American flags few from prin-
cipal railway terminals, hotels and
other buildings, and American pa
triotic music was played through
loudspeakers at this citys Water
loo and Victoria Stations.
Many Britons kept the United
States Embassy telephones busy
asking about the holiday.
Many of them, I'm afraid
thought it was Thanksgiving Day
but didn't seem embarrassed when
told what we were celebrating" an
Embassy attache said.
Winant Cites Flag as Symbol.
Ambassador John q. Winant, ad-
dressing the American Society in
London at a luncneon, said the
American flag "symbolizes the uni
versal idea that lives within our
land and beyond our frontiers and
the ideal that reaches out to all
human kind.
God bless America"
The Ambassador made no men
ton of the war.
Mr.. Winant earlier attended the
unveiling of a tablet in bomb-bat-
tered St. Paul's Cathedral honor
ing Flight 1t. William L. Fiske,
first Americau-born R. A. F. pilot
to die in the war.
1t. Fiske crashed in flames Sep
tember Is, eight days after the
start of the battle of Britain.
Hotels strove for American dishes,
but, hard put by rationing, couldn't
do much.
One place advertised: 'Philadel-
phia pepperpot, chicken g'mbo,
corned beef hash, corn on the cob
and Boston beans"
The American Eagle Club can
teen in the heart of London planned
dance tonight, featuring United
States music only.
Papers Observe Fourth.
Morning newspapers devoted
much space to independence Day.
The Daily Express carried United
States flag in the upper right-hand
corner of the front page. Its lead
editorial stressed the Importance of
the spirit of independence this year.
The Daily Sketch printed pictures
of President Roosevelt, Wendell
Willkie, Ambassador Winant and
scenes of United States prepared
ness activity.
In an editorial the Daily Herald
said:
THE faith proclaimed in Phila-
(See LONDON, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-07-04

fought in France with the squadron
of the New Zealand ace, the late
Cobber Kane, has the expression of
schoolboy and his hobby is COL
lecting butterflies. Yet he downed
three Germans and damaged others
in France and later escaped from a
Luxembourg internment camp to re-
join his squadron.
Throughout the day, the Germans
continued to attack British naval
units in waves.
A South African Hurricane squad
ron drove off one attack, forcing two
Junkers down to sea. The last wave
came over at sunset Dive bomberS
and fighters in stepped-up forma-
ton.
A young pilot from Johannesburg
who nearly collided with his victim,
a Messerschmitt ITO, gave this
accounts
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Bill TO Allow Bigger Loads
For Oil Tankers Signed
}. q Staff Correspondent of The Star

Nv a oIdI1 Correspondent OF The star.
HYDE PARK, July 4.-President
Roosevelt today signed legislation
amending existing law so as to per-
NIT the Secretary of Commerce,
during the present emergency, to
establish or mark load lines on
coastwise vessels which will not be
above the actual line of safety, but
which will give a lesser free board
Qess of the ship above water than
the load line rules now in operation.
The main objective of the legisla-
ton is to permit oil tankers to carry
larger quantities of oil than they can
under the present law.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Rain MayPut0ff
Celebration Set
For Tonight
Fireworks Display
To Be Tomorrow
IfWeuther Is Bad

Rain today cast a damper over
the clty's celebration of Independ-
ence Day and threatened to destroy
the elaborate climax of the days
events. the program tonight at the
Monument Grounds.
Although the committee arrang-
ing the evening celebration held off
its decision, Fred A. Smith, celebra-
ton chairman, said he was afraid
the program would have to be post
poned until tomorrow evening.
Attorney General Jackson. who
was scheduled to deliver the princi-
pal address, will broadcast his mes
sage over Station VOL and the
Mutual network at 8:15 pm, even
II the program is not held.
II the program, which includes a
mammoth fireworks display is post
poned, it will be given in its entirety
except for Attorney General Jack
sons appearance, at Ills pm. tomor-
row. Mr.. Jackson's speech, in case
of postponement, will be transcribed
and broadcast during the program.
DcClSiOn Due al pm.
Radio announcements of the de-
cision of the Celebrations Commit
tee were to be made at 2 pm. The
program was postponed last year
because of rain.
For the Nation, the high point Of
the independence Day celebration
was to be the address of President
Roosevelt at pm calling on the
country for "a grand rededication"
to liberty.
Although nearby beach resorts
were crowded, those who remained
here had cool day for their holi-
day. The weatherman had predicted
mostly cloudy skies with occasional
showers this afternoon anG tonight.
The days high was not expected to
go above rs degrees. Tomorrow and
Sunday will be fair and warmer.
Police station phones rang fire.
quently with complaints from cit
izens that fireworks were being shot
off in their neighborhoods. Before
noon, about so complaints had come
in. Two precinct stations, Nos. 7 and
II, each reported about IS COM
plants and one man was arrested in
the first precinct.
Motorists May Hear President.
Orders went to all police officers
| to refrain from arresting motorists
blocking traffic at pm. Signed by
Supt. of Police Ernest w. Brown, the
order stated.
commissioner Hazen requests that
at 4 pm. for a period of two min
utes all motorists stop wherever
they may be during the speech of the
President of the United States and
swear allegiance to the flag of the
United States and that no motorist
be arrested for blocking traffic"
The President will speak from his
private study in the new Franklin D.
Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. N.
Y, and his words will be carried to
the Nation over all ma jor radio net
works. All citizens have been urged
by Mayor La Guardia's Office of Ci-
william Defense to follow the Presi-
dent in renewed pledge of loyalty
| to the United States.
Takoma Park Has Celebration.
First of the days celebrations was
a four-oivision parade in Takoma
Park, led by E. A. Greeley. wearing
the dress of Uncle Sam. Pageants.
(See FOURTH, Page A-4O