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Evening star., 1942-06-04
Vichy Denounces Britain
For Paris Bombinqs
ey the Associated Press.

ES the Associated Press.
VICHY, Unoccupied France, June
4.-The Vichy government last
night noted singular coincidence"
between recent British bombings Of
Paris suburbs and a wave of anti
German outbreaks in the occupied
zone.
The secretary Of state for infor-
nation, Paul Marion, read q state
ment to the press charging that the
British raids on these suburbs were
contrary to ''the laws of war" and
that they were intended to divert
attention from defeats in both
hemispheres."
Noting the coincidence" between
the bombings and the disturbances
in the occupied zone, Marion said,
"Such customs no longer pertain
to the laws of war, but to the prac-
tice of collective and private mur-
der"
In the same category as the raids
around Paris the government listed
the bombings of Brest, Boulogne,
LIE Havre, Dunkerque, Rouen and
Lorient.
The statement concluded, "The
French government denounces these
crimes and will not forget them"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Newspaper

Continued from Page One
first included publications, but
they were later exempted.
FACED CHOICE
On newspaper, explaining it,
increased price to its readers,
said:
THE cost Of producing a
newspaper is much more than
the subscriber is asked to pay.
The difference is made up by
advertising. But, with a decline
in advertising, due to govern
ment restrictions on many COM
modities, and with increased
production costs, we were faced
with the choice Of lowering the
quality of our paper or increas-
ing the price. We have chosen
the latter, which we believe will
meet with the reasoned approx
al of our subscribers"
Among the higher cost items
noted by publishers was that of
motor route delivery, with ra-
tioning of gasoline and tires add
ing to the problem, increased
delivery costs were C o m m o n
during the year.
In larger cities, where single
copy sales are a major part of
circulations, higher wholesale
prices to newsstands and other
dealers were found fairly gen
eral
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
18th Congress
Appropriations
Set New Record

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 Up
- Financial highlights of the
nth Congress!
Appropriations-S58, 900, O0O,.
600 in 1941; 1000, 100000 in
1912, as contrasted with $46,-
OOO,O00,000 in 1917 10, tn G
World War period, and with ST.
90O,000,000 for 1924-25, lowest
two-year total since then.
Contract authorizations So
500.000,000 in 194l and $I9,-
000,000,000 in 1912 most of il
for naval vessels and for the
Merchant Marine.
Taxes - Added 1888 ,0O0,-
600 in new revenue in l941, of
which 81, 144, 100000 came from
boosted individual levies, the
balance from increased corpora
ton assessments; this year, add
ed another $6,881 900, 900. Dur
ing the two years, dropped ex-
emptions from $1,000 to $3.50
to $500; for married couples,
from $4,000 to $500 to 81, 200.
Added a five per cent victory
tax, effective Jan. /.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Psychiatric Board
10 Quiz Slayer

LANSING, Dec. Is Up A
three-member psychiatric board
prepared today TO examine Har-
land Nevins, %, u determine
the sanity of the confessed slay-
er of his SO J year old married
sweetheart, Mrs. Ellen Pitt,
mother of four children.
Prosecutor Victor c. Anderson
said Nevins would be committed
to the State Hospital at Ionia if
found insane, or brought immed-
lately before Circuit Judge Lee
land w. Carr for examination on
first degree murder charge if
found sane.
Nevins waived examination in
Municipal Court here yesterday
after confessing to State Police
Monday night that he shot and
killed Mrs. Pitt in her trailer
home on November FL during a
quarrel over a "broken date" A
sanity test is required by law
preliminary to murder trials in
Michigan.
Nevins, who buried his victim
in crude grave b h n d his
shack home week after the
shooting. was arrested follow
ing a tip by his wife, Bertha,
who said she was aware of his
relationship with Mrs. Pitt. The
Nevins are parents of four chill
dren.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Army. Output
Control Vital
Donser Of Losing
War is Cited

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is Up
- Robert F. Patterson, Under
secretary of War, said today re-
moval of the production of mill
tary weapons and supplies from
control of the armed force.
might result in losing the war
and described as fantastic" re.
ports that the Army was seek.
ing control of the nations civil
ian economy.
In statement to the Truman
Committee investigating the ma
tional defense program, Patter-
son said the supply of munitions
was a continuous process from
drafting board to scrap pile
and with the armed forces be-
ing the only ones who knew
what was n G d d and when,
were the only ones competent
to direct this production.
On the other hand, he said,
Army and Navy supply services
have never been closely con-
cerned with development and
production Of raw materials, and
control of the supply of such
materials lis properly placed in
civilian agency, the War Pro-
duction Board"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Call 10 Service Set
for j. ). Students 4

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16-tP
-Orde calling into service
college students who are mem
bers Of the Army's enlisted re-
serve corps probably will be
issued shortly after the first OF
the year, a war department
spokesman declared Tuesday.
Spokesman at the navy de-
partment and marine corps
headquarters said that no in
formation was available regard
ing similar orders affecting
those branches,
No prediction was made as
to the date the Army's enlisted
reserves would be required to
report.
Members of basic reserve Off
Ger training corps who are not
members of the enlisted reserve
are subject to induction, the war
department said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Parole Board
Releases Man
Negro Figured in
killins in 1880

LANSING, Dec. 16 - R -
The State Parole Board said to-
day Il has ordered the release
December % of Joe Stevenson,
ST. year old Kalamazoo Negro,
whose revolver IL years ago
brought death on Christmas Eve
to q 10 year old Watervliet
youth who stopped to watch a
street alteration.
The board said Stevenson,
who has been promised job in
an Albion factory, has served
almost IL years of 25 to 30
year sentence for second degree
murder. The warden of the state
prison of southern Michigan rec
commended him for special good
time, making him eligible for
parole, it said.
The board record said Stew
enson and q comrade, Joseph
chatham, of South Bend, kid
mapped Louis Cohen and Mary
Kimball in South Bend and fore
ed them to drive at guns point
to Watervliet. Stopping there to
get gasoline, Cohen fled, call
ing for help. When a crowd gath
cred, the report said, Stevenson
ran from their car shooting, A
bullet fatally wounded Victor
Moser, q bystander. Stevenson
was captured by deputy sheriffs
after a four hour chase across
snowy fields.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
John W. Matz
Dies Suddenly
Rites Saturday
from Dwelling

Funeral services will be held
Saturday afternoon for John w.
Matz, So, of 1870 Hall Road,
well known Macomb Township
farmer, who died suddenly this
morning in an ambulance while
en- route to st. Joseph's hospital
after suffering a heart attack.
He had been i'll for some time
prior to the fatal seizure.
The deceased was born in
Clinton Township, and had re-
sided all his life in the Mount
Clemens area. He was a mem
Der of Emanuel Lutheran church
of Waldenburg and was a vot-
ing member of the church. He
was the son of the late Karl and
Elizabeth Matz.
Surviving, besides the wife,
Amanda, are four daughters,
Mrs. Dorothy Rohrbeck, of Ma
comb Township, Mrs. Florence
Redluske, of Clinton Township,
Eleanor, at home, and Gladys, at
home; and two sons, Alvin and
Clarence, both at home.
Two sisters, Mrs. Caroline
Zoeplitz, of Mount Clemens,
Mrs. Carl Burk, of Utica, and a
granddaughter, also survive.
Rites will be held Saturday at
1870 p. m. from the Hall Road
residence, and at 2 p. m. from
the church. Burial will be in
Clinton Grove Cemetery, with
the Rev. George Sebald, offic-
iatipg, and the d. N. Cooley Flu
neral home in charge of ar
rangements.
The body will lie in state at
the home after l p. m. Thursday
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Us. Private
Out tn Beat
Works Record

WITH UNITED ST A T e s
FORCES IN ALGERIA, Nov. IS
-(DELAYED) Up - Private
William M. Harris, 33, of Tellico
Plains, Tenn, came out of the
brief Algerian campaign a hero
in the eyes of the officer he
serves constantly, but Harris,
who knows Sergt. Alvin York
back in Tennessee, just wants to
get on with killing Germans and
bust York's record.
Private Harris is orderly to
Lieut.. Col. John w. Bowen Of
Huntsville, Ala.
Harris saved me at least
twice." Col. Bowen said. Hes
marvellous with a gun and does
not know the meaning of fear"
Harris was a bit scornful.
1T wasn't bad" he said.
what I really want is to kill me
some Germans. l know Sergt.
York back in Tennessee and I
want to bust his record in the
other war"
york won the Congressional
medal of honor for capturing 1872
Germans in the last World War. }
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Newsboys
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
and Stamps, the Goodfellows
this year have abandoned all
money making stunts save the
newspaper sale.
Cartons of cigarettes sent to
Mount Clemens men in service
have further dep ted the treas
ury.
The parade will form prompt
ly at 1890 pm. Saturday in
front of the John r. Murphy
hotel. The Old Newsies will
march down Gratiot to the post
office, then return on Gratiot
to Walnut and back to the no.
tel.
Members of the Mount Glenn
ems High school band who are
without Saturday employment
will lead the parade, director
Samuel Y. Barbako If promised
Goodfellow officials Frank e.
Jeanette and D. A. Arnsby.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Bomber Crashes;
] Believed Dead
Dig SnIP ouTnS
in St. Louis Accident

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 16-(R-An
army bomber, believed to have
carried seven men to their
deaths, crashed and burned last
night few minutes after taking
off from Lambert-St. Louis air
port.
Maj. Ralph w. Page, COM
handing officer of the Army Air
Force service command, said
nine men were aboard the plane
but their names would be with
held until members of families
had been notified.
Two men, said by eyewitness
ses to have escaped from the
burning wreckage. were taken to
a hospital.
One witness said the plane
grazed the roof of a barn before
it nosed to the ground and skid
ded into a farmhouse which was
destroyed by fire.
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Russia
Continued from Page One

OsAHuSu AAOhh d6C OhC
front were described as roughly
100 miles west of Kalinin in the
Velikie Luki region. IPravda, the
Communist party organ, said
that despite violent counterat-
tacks several basic German de-
Tense points in the minefields
west of Rzhev had been captur-
ed.
The Axis attacks were de-
scribed as evidently the strong
est they have been able to mus
ter since the beginning of the
Russians winter offensive Nov
10 but the dispatches declared
there was still no sign that they
had succeeded in shattering the
encircling ring in which they
were caught before Stalingrad.
Some German advanced units
in the fresh counteroffensive
were even forced to retreat, the
Russians reported, but others
were managing to hold ground
until reserves could be brought
up.
The Russian pace on other
parts of the long winter front
was slow-moving but crushing,
and in the territory west OF
Rzhev soldiers of the Red Army
slogged into two more villages
after violent battle.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Romeo Negro
Gets Stiff Term
Sent to Jackson
for IVA to 22k Ysors

James Sharpe, 35 year old
Romeo Negro, today was serving
TN to 22h year sentence in
Jackson Prison after he pleaded
guilty to secondary information
before Circuit Judge James z.
Spier yesterday.
Earlier, Sharpe had pleaded
guilty to a breaking and enter
ing charge after jury had heard
the case for more than two
hours.
The sentence was mandatory
because Sharpe admitted he had
been sentenced from Macomb
County in 1892 on q breaking
and entering charge.
He entered the home OF Frank
Pavlik, 200 East st. Clair street,
Romeo, on Sept. and looted it
of clothes.
Assistant Prosecutor Herman
L. Brys presented the states
case.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Revenue Agents Pour
THROUGH Income Returns

DETROIT, Dec. Is - (P -
WI clerks today sorted
thr ! h some 10000 letters
containing checks from taxpay-
ers for the fourth installment on
their income taxes, Giles Kava-
nagh, u. S. Collector of Internal
Revenue here, said today no
penalty would be assessed
against payments received be-
fore Jan. /.
The fourth installment was
due Tuesday. Kavanagh said he
expected very few delinquents
this year.
Delinquents are assessed a 6
per cent penalty on the amount
Of tax still owed, he said, and an
additional 25 per cent is levied
if revenue agents are forced to
seek out the delinquent.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Missing Army Plane
Sought in Alaska
Col. Dovis, Eight
Other Men Missing

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec.
16-(P)- Search continued to-
oay for Col. Everett S. Davis and
eight other officers and enlisted
men whose plane has been miss
ing since an army flight Nov. %,
the Alaska defense command re-
ported.
Col. Davis was one of the first
officers to come to Alaska to
establish the air force here.
Others listed as missing on the
flight were Lieut.. George w.
Hinton, Lieut.. James N. Noone,
Sgt. Herbert w. Ale, Corp. Will
liam Capuptkian, Corp. Arthur
w. Plum, Pfc. Wallace l.. Ander-
son, Pfc. H. Bomberg and Pri-
vate A. 0. Jensen. Their home
addresses were not given.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Island a Haven
from Transport

SEATTLE, Dec. Is - (R -
A convenient island, plenty OF
cargo nets and the absence OF
fire were the fortunate factors
that saved almost 1000 cool
headed soldiers aboard the
mine-sunk liner, President Cool
idge.
That was the observation OF
Chris Herstrom, 44-year-old
Chief Refrigerator engineer,
who survived the sinking and
got home in time for Christmas
The Navy said Saturday only
four men lost their lives in the
sinking.
The finest bunch I've ever
SEEM" Herstrom described the
soldiers. Cool as ice cubes. II
there'd been any panic there'd
certainly have been a lot more
lives lost. We went down in SIS
minutes. That isn't much time
to clear a ship like that.
THE cargo nets were the real
life saver. They were thrown
over both sides as soon as we
started to sink, and hundreds OF
men were able to Chamber down
them at the same time.
1--WE were so close to shore
that we didn't have to think
about finding any other ship; we
just headed straight for the is
land. l can't tell you its name,
because that hasn't been an
nounced officially yet" (The
Navy said the ship was operating
in the Solomons area.)
Herstrom said he never saw
anybody but our own people"
on the island.
"Of course, we'd lost every
thing we had and we didn't have
any food. But we were so
lucky to be alive that we weren't
bothered, and there were enough
coconuts to keep us from going
hungry.
1T rained all the first night.
We stayed out in the open under
the coconut trees.
THE next day, though, we
went to an army camp and got
some coffee and stew, which
tasted pretty good. Then 10 of
us caught an airplane to another
island-but l can't tell you the
name of that either-and the
next thing we were on our way
home"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Lure Of Islands
Is Tropical Tale
Romontie Dromo
Now at Moeomb

Lure of the Islands," Mono
grams romantic drama which
opened an engagement at the
Macomb theatre last night, quail
flies as an unusually entertain
ing motion picture. II is a film
which literally has every
thing"
The voluptuous Margie Hart,
"a m Gus as the first lady OF
American burlesque, makes her
screen debut in the starring role,
and in her sarong Is a most at
tractive figure as a half caste
girl of the South Seas. Miss Hart
sings, and dances a modified
hula, and as the story progresses
becomes the center of a dramatic
series of events. She is entirely
successful in her first picture.
The film is filled with the
charm and color of the South
Pacific. There is the picturesque
palm studded island; the singing
and dancing of the native Poly
nesians; the colorful, carefree
life of the islanders, which fl
nally changes abruptly when an
F. B. I. agent discovers that the
commandment of the local post Is
in league with the Japs, and the
shadow of war falls over the
community. The story works up
to a pitch of tremendous excite
ment, and its climax is stark
thrilling drama. Through it all
runs the love story Of the agen,
and the luscious Miss Hart.
"Klondike Fury" starring Ed
mund Lowe is also on the dou-
BILE feature bill.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Capt. PfdgeOn
Shows Slow
| Improvement

Capt. Larry v. Pidgeon, for
mer Daily Monitor-Leader re-
porter, and a casualty of the u.
S. Army's ill-starred defense Of
the Philippine Islands, has been
transferred to a military hos
pital at White Sulphur Springs,
w. Virginia, from Fort Dix,
N. j.
Capt. Pidgeon, who with other
casualties was saved from Jap
anese Imprisonment in a dime
thriller like dash from besieged
Manila to Sydney, Australia,
aboard a tiny Red Cross ship,
reports that he is improving
steadily.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Send One Jones', !
Johnsons 10 Field
Mechanics Provide
Clerical Headache

Seven graduates Of an air
plane mechanics course have ar
rived at Selfridge Field from a
California base. Six were NAM
ed johnson and the seventh
Jones.
"You can imagine the mix
ups" said a soldier detailed to
Base Personnel Office. He and
his fellow clerical employees
still are shaking their heads in
the confusion dealt them by the
whimsy of some office at Head
quarters, Los Angeles Area,
Fourth District, AAF Technical
Training Command, Santa Mon
lea, Cal.
All six Johnsons and the lone
Jones are assigned to the same
squadron at Selfridge Field. To-
gether with their home address
es and induction dates, the ar
j lNdlS WSlSs
Pvt. Edwin H. Johnson, Route
I, Box 237, Fallon, New, May
%, 1912; Pvt. Francis II. John
son, Route 1, Erie, Colo, June IL,
1912; Pvt. Jock w. Johnson, gen.
eral delivery, Minturn, Colo,
June 10, 1912; Pvt. Jerald E.
Johnson, general d efivery,
Youngs, Cal, May Is, 1912; Pvt.
Marion w. johnson, Route /,
Duncan, Okla, June S, 1912;
Pvt. Russell E. Johnson, 1923
South LOOMS boulevard, Chica-
60, Ill.,, Feb. "a, 1912; Pvt.
Charlie L. Jones, Socorro, New
Mexico, May 10, 1912.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Two Survive
Plane Wreck
II Killed as
AirIiner Cvoshes

FAIRFIELD, Utah. Dec. 16 -
up - A doughty 23year-old
leatherneck frightened his safety
belt and rode out Western Air
lines transport crash that killed
II and left a second survivor
battling for his life today.
Lieut.. A. F. Gardner of Alex
ander, N. Y, and the U. S. Ma
rine Corps smiled through a
scratched, bruised face from his
hospital bed at Lehi as he said:
Il nearly froze to death, but I
am lucky to be here"
A. j. Mallett of Springfield,
Ark, the only other person
aboard to escape death when the
big ship toppled into a stretch
of sagebrush desert about SIS
miles south of Salt Lake City
yesterday, was much more seri-
ously hurt than the Marine.
FOUR WOMEN DIE
Four women including Stew
ardess Cleo Booth of Los Ange-
les, two military officers, eight
other men passengers and three
crew members died in the crash,
some of them lingerlingly as
Lieut.. Gardner told of lawful
screaming and groaning" in the
smashed cabin.
The pilot apparently was gro
ping for the emergency landing
field at Fairfield, four miles
from the crash spot, as the ship
was pointed northward. 1t had
failed to report by radio after
taking off for Los Angeles.
Two of the victims were w. o.
Hart, 81, co-publisher of the Or
ange, Calf, Daily News since
1908, who had attended a loan
company directors meeting in
Salt Lake City, and Donald E.
Cummings, AZ, of Denver, head
of the Industrial Hygiene De-
partment of the University of
Colorado.
LIST OF DEAD
The women passengers were
Mrs. Leona Resell, Salt Lake
City; Mrs. Carolyn Weersing,
Glendale, Calf, and Mrs.
George Skylstead, Las Vegas,
Nevada.
The others killed were Lieut..
Thomas A. Baldwin of the U. S.
Navy, Kellogg, Iowa; Second
Lieut.. Hugh E. McCrea, of the
U. S. Army Air Corps, believed
to be from La Grange, ILL.,; Pilot
Edward j. Loeffler, Glendale,
Calf; Co-pilot j. Clifton Lee,
Burbank, Calf; Douglas Soule,
st. Petersburg, Fla, co-pilot-
trainee; Knight Bennett, Glen
dale; Fred Lewis, Los Angeles;
Guy Talbot Jr., Great Falls,
Mont, airlines traffic manager;
j. r. Bratt, Salt Lake City; r.
H. Huffman, Omaha, and Rich
ard w. James, Salt Lake City.
Gardner suffered a fractured
right leg and shoulder injuries
but fearful that gasoline fed
flames might break out any mo-
ment, he dragged himself clear
of the ship. However, it did not
burn.
The Marine shivered through
the bitter night of the Cedar
Valley desert before rescuers
reached the lonely spot nearly
IL hours later.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Navy Pays for Warships
with War Bond Campaign

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Dec.
16 - (P) - The Navy is pay
ing for its own battleships.
War bonds purchases by en-
ployes and personnel will total
more than S100,000,0O0 in 1912,
the Navy War Bond coordinary,
Capt. Gerald Bubank, reports.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16

More than 5000 varieties of
soy beans have been imported
to the United States from the
Orient.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16

The United States consumed
1898 ,099 cases of grapefruit
juice during 1910.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Bomber
Continued from Page One

Schwartz, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1t. Sink was riding as pas
senger.
The injured crew member in
Guided Sgt. Harwell Clements,
Detroit, small cut over left eye,
treated at hospital and released.
The plane grazed the roof of a
barn before it nosed to the
ground, burst into flames and set
fire to the farm house Of MIR.
and Mrs. Reginald Grouse.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16

Goldfish are merely a domes-
ticated variety of Chinese carp.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16

Chicago's Field Museum has
more than 1000, 900 worth Of
plate glass protecting its exhib-
its.