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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
Recital
Draws Praise

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The Catholic Youth Center, st.
Paul, was filled to capacity last
Thursday mig hit; the audience
thrilled with the performance of
Geraldine Lawhorn, famed blind
and deaf dramatic reader, in a re-
cital sponsored by the Credjafawn
Club.
The program was considered by
some "the most unusual and en-
joyable because of it's rareness ever
presented in the Twin Cities" We
Music Lovers, written by Miss Law
horn; the 121 Psalm and Christ, My
Refuge by Mary Baker G. Eddy
were most noteworthy of her read
ings. The CUBA Dance" a piano
solo, added to the phenomenal
achievements Of this 24-year-old
girl who was robbed by illness of
her hearing and sight, early in
childhood.
Miss Lawhorn, whose dog, Blon-
die, was trained in the Twin Cities,
attracted the attention of national
ly known musicians when she ap-
peared on the USO Swing Parade
Concert Program last Sunday af-
ternoon at the Nicollet Hotel, Min
neapolis. Glenn Gray, Fats Waller,
the Military Band from the Naval
Base at World Chamberlain Field,
and Ozie Dial were among the par
Elephants.
Other Twin City public appear
ances were made by the artist on
the Darragh Aldrich program over
radio station WCCO November 5;
Rev. E. Randall's Church of the Air
on WLOL Sunday morning; the
Country Church at Hopkins, Mimi,
Sunday morning; radio station
WTCN November 5. She visited
Cab Galloway and his company at
the Orpheum theatre, stayed
through and enjoyed an entire per-
Torrance.
Mrs. Michael D. Zimmerman, ac-
tive in Minneapolis civic affairs,
made the initial contact responsible
for the public appearances of Miss
Lawhorn.
Patrons at the recital were:
Messrs. and Mines. J. W. Crump,
S. E. Ware, Earl S. Weber, D. M.
Johnson, Roy Hatchett, Ben S.
Merrill, George Mundell, Benjamin
Taylor, Frank Thurston, A. Nc
Watt; Mines. Ruth Bloom, E. G..
Charleston, A. W. Clark, Alberta
Davis, Rose Davis, John Ellis, ST.,
Ollie Gum, William A. Hanna,
Addie Jackson, Letitia Kerr, Effie
King, George Lee, Susie Luckie,
Lille Miree, James Murphy, Carrie
Powell, Manley Rhodes, ST., Jose
Sherwood, Caroline Vassar, Fran
ces Peoples, N. Jones; Messrs. Cor
nelius Benner, Lunn Benton, Rufus
Boyd, Raymond W. Cannon, Robert
L. Crump, M. A. Finney, Charles
Jones, A. W. Jordan, William Kelly,
A. ]. Lewis, Manley Rhodes, Jr.,
Emil Schaeffer, DR.. W. D. Brown,
Frank Branson, N. N. Smith;
Misses Alice Brill, Edith Brill, Hat
tie Light, Estelle Luckie, Pearl
Martin, Jessie Oden, Bessie Powell,
Pauline Thurston, Helen Thurston.
Leah Minor and Elizabeth Moore.
Hello, Folks:
SORORITY MEETS
Eta Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, met on Saturday, Novem-
Der 7, with Sorors Rachel James
and Elizabeth McCracken as hos
tesses. Soror Eva Baxter, former
member, was guest and spoke brief
ly on the activities of the New Jer-
sey Chapter with which she has
become associated. Congratulations
were extended to Soror Ethel M.
Williams on her new appointment
at Twin Cities Ordnance Plant.
Members present were Sorors jean
nette Dorsey, Frances Brown, Eliz-
abeth McCracken, Allie Ballenger,
Shirlee Thomson, Wanda Owens,
Rachel James, Millicent Burgess,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Action Urged
on Warren
Sewer Bids

Milton p, Adams, secretary of
the state stream control commits
sion, said today he has asked
Governor Van Wagner to re-
new efforts TO obtain clearance
from Washington for correction
of sewage disposal hazards in the
area surrounding and including
Warren township, Macomb
county.
Although federal authorities
agreed to underwrite installation
of interceptor sewers to serve
that area and relieve a menace to
public health, Adams said, bids
for the project twice were re-
jected as too high, and since
then the project has failed to
qualify as eligible for so-called
critical" construction materials.
Sewage from the area, which
embraces Warren township, the
village o Warren, Roseville,
Center Line, East Detroit and ST.
Clair Shores, pol.utes Lake ST.
Clair, Adams reported.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Mexico Expected to Declare
War on Axis Merit Thursday

MEXICO CITY, May 23-P-
Mexico lacked only the formal
ity Of apparently certain con-
gressional approval today to be-
come full-fledged ally in the
war against the Axis.
Her decision was made rapid
~ last night as wave of public
fury swept the country over the
news that Axis submarines had
sunk the second Mexican mer-
chant ship within eight days.
Even while awaiting President
Manuel Avila, Camacho's for
NAL proclamation Of war, the
first in Mexico's history, the Re-
public put precautionary mea-
sures against Axis aliens quiet
ly into force and took its first
military steps.
SPECIAL SESSION
A special session of the full
cabinet announced after three
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23

Serious

WASHINGTON, May 23-(P)
President Roosevelt said last
night that the shipping situation
was serious but that the submar-
Inc menace was being solved.
I'VE have been, we still are,
confronted with serious short
age of ships to carry the essen
tlals of war; he said in a Mari
time Day statement. "Submar-
ines of the Axis aggressors have
taken heavy toll.
But that problem, like others
confronting us, is being solved.
Our ships are going through and
will continue to 60 through in
growing numbers"
When the shipbuilding pro-
gram was launched little more
than a year ago, the president
said, there were those who
doubted the country's ability to
carry it out.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Chinese
Invaders

Chinese headquarters report
ed today that Generalissimo Chi
'ang Kai-shek's~ q rmies had
slaughtered more than hall Of q
sea-borne japanese vast o n
force at one point on China's
east coast and repulsed $4,000
other enemy troops attempting
to land under the guns of 10
warships near Foochow, capital
of Fukien province.
Survivors of the first Japa-
nese force, who gained a foot
hold Wednesday on Chuanshih
Island at the mouth of the Min
River in Fukien province, were
said to have fled to their ships,
abandoning huge quantities of
equipment.
While the threat to Foochow
appeared to have been dimin-
ished, other Japanese columns
driving into neighboring Cheki-
ang province were reported ad-
vancing rapidly on Kinhwa.
Kinhwa is the provisional cap
ital Of Chekiang province and a
gateway to China's interior.
Chinese dispatches acknowl-
edged that the invaders were at
lacking Iwu, 80 miles northeast
of Kinhwa, after 15-mile ad-
vance in "a hours.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Tax Paw
Vote Set

WASHINGTON, May 23-(R)
Treasury and Congressional
tax experts sought today to pave
the way for the House Ways and
Means committee to vote
quickly Monday on a pay-as-you-
60 income tax collection program
by excluding casual and domes-
tic labor.
The StatisticianS were instruct
ed by the committee to bring in
recommendation eliminating
from the withholding scheme
those classes of workers, such as
servants and farm hands-about
whom many of the members
have been concerned.
Many have commended that a
payroll deduction as part-pay-
ment of income taxes would
work well in the case of white
collar workers on salary or fac
tory workers whose income
could be tabulated, but many
complications would arise with
maids and occasional farm lab
orers paid perhaps by the day.
The Treasury has recommend
ed that 10 per cent of a persons
taxable income and of dividends
and interest be withheld at the
source to facilitate individual
income tax collections and to
hep combat initiation.
The income of a single man
above $11 a week would be sub
ject to the 10 per cent with
holding. A married man with
one dependent would be subject
to the same rate on income above
$146 a month. All deductions
would be used as an offset to
the normal tax bill due each
March Is.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
35 New Car
Sales OK'd
in County

At a session that opened at z
pm. and closed at IL pm. yes
terday, the Macomb county ra-
tioning board granted as -appli-
cations for new cars and 40 re-
capped tires for defense work
ers, it was announced today by
County Clerk Guy L. Brown,
chairman.
The county clerk also urged
that persons who have not yet
registered for sugar rationing or
whose ration books are already
depleted or exhausted apply
mornings for registration or for
new books. They may also Sc
cure any information regarding
rationing at that time.
While registrations and new
books will be handled during the
afternoon, the county clerk
pointed out that the rush for
them during the afternoons has
unduly taxed his small staff and
that he would greatly prefer to
have those who are able to do
SO to apply at his office morn
ings.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23

hours deliberation that Con-
gress would be called in special
session ito authorize the Presi-
dent to declare the existence of
a state of war"
Congress must be convened
within 10 days, but next Thurs
day was set tentatively for the
session and there were indica-
lions that the aroused publ,
might insist on a meeting still
earlier, possibly next Monday or
Tuesday.
The governments statement
clearly defined the reasons that
swept Mexico toward war-the
Axis sinking of the Mexican
tanker Potrero Del Llano off
Florida, its refusal to accept a
protest of that sinking and then
its sinking Wednesday of the
tanker Faja De Orc. all within
eight days.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23

NEW ORLEANS, May 23-tP)
Joachim Johansen, Vineland,
". j., first mate Of Honduran
cargo vessel shelled and aban-
doned in the Gulf OF Mexico,
boarded the submarine which at
tackled his ship and reviled the
commander for injustice
The attack-ninth since SUBJ
marines started operating in the
Outlook place May Is. One
crewman was killed in the she'll
ing, and two officers and two
other crewmen injured. All
others were picked up from life
boats by fishing vessel. The
Navy announced the incident
yesterday.
The submarine, ship crewman
said, was apparently of Italian
design but manned by Germans.
The ship sighted the submar-
inc about four miles distant in
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23

more modern quarters which
for many years housed the old
Daily Leader. The Monitor
Leader now enjoys exclusive
membership in the Associated
Press and an exclusive fran
chise with the United Press
thus providing its readers with
the worlds two top wire news
services. The South Macomb
News is Michigan's larges. paid
circulation weekly and the only
weekly newspaper in the state
enjoying the news services of
United Press.
With substantially the same
personnel as that which direct
ed and produced The Daily
Monitor, plus more than sever
al of the Leaders former staff
See NEWSPAPER-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Tax Sale
Will Open
OH Monday

In contrast to the 1888 tax sale
which continued for months, thu
sale opening Monday on tho
ninth floor, county building. win
last only three days. County
Treasurer Carl B. Brandenburn
said today.
These properties viii 60 to tar
sale: % Parcels on which tn
fifth payment of the first 70.
year plan Is delinquent and al
parcels on which the seventh
payment Of the first l0-year plan
is delinquent. Properties with
unpaid taxes for 1892 and prior
years are on the first plAr: nm.
paid taxes for 1888, 1884 and
1895 are on the second plan.
The schedule follows:
Monday: All townships sE-
cepting Warren and Washington.
Tuesday: Townships of War.
rem and Washington and all cit.
les.
Wednesday: All villages.
The parcels will be sold for
the amount of taxes due with
former owners given preferenoA
Former owners may redeem my
time within the next year ~
paying q one per cent per usan0
penalty. There is no such thino
as competitive bidding.
Parcels on which there r No
bid will revert to the state. Sale
hours are from 9 am. until uooa
and from ! to 4 pm. Lynn WhAl.
en- is the auctioneer.
The Daily Monitor-Lead 60
roneously stated yesterday t1aa
the sale would Be hald On sum
day and that sale books axe opeo
to public inspection.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23

ID Drill
for Raid

For the first time in its history
Macomb county Sunday will
have total, wartime blackout
in preparation for possible bomb
ing raids over the Detroit indus
trial area and Selfridge Field.
All traffic signals, street lights
and hospitals will be BACKED out
this time in addition to all lights
in houses, hotels, business places
and elsewhere.
The sirena sounding the air
raid alarm will commence blow
ing at 9:58 p. m. and blow for
two minutes. When they cease
every light in the county will
have been extinglsished, if the
test is to be 100 per cent success
full.
AERIAL SURVEY
During the period of the black
out, civil air patrol plane will
take off from Hartung field in
Roseville to observe the effect
iveness Of the all-county black
out.
The medical division of the
Civilian Defense will participate
in the blackout for the first time,
when t h e r ambulances will
make test runs with hooded
lights, it was announced.
Chiefs Of the various civilian
defense units will. rush to the
county control center when the
alert or preliminary warning is
received and their staffs will 60
to their appointed posts the min
ute the alarm sounds.
'FDM = the last blackout COM
munications between various
posts in the county and the con-
troll post were hampered by
busy" telephone lines and dur
ing the test tomorrow night, all
citizens are requested to re-
frain from the use of their tele-
phones except in some serious
emergency, to aid in the effect
iveneSs of the test.
BAR TRAFFIC
Traffic throughout the county
will come to a standstill with the
sounding of the alarm.
Only emergency cars will be
permitted to operate and all
pedestrians will get off the
streets and under shelter for the
period of the simulated raid.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23

Payment
Assured

The State Department of Re-
venue reported today that il
will mail to Macomb county
municipal governments I
weeks checks totaling $37,135,
representing their two-third' s
share of the intangible tax.
Based on the estimate that the
distribution will amount to
34a cents per capita, the Mount
Clemens share will approximate
$5,375.
Distribution totals by COM
munities are not yet available,
state officials said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
NAILS HURL RESERVES INTO BATTLE
First Total BIack<out Scheduled for 10 P M Sunday
Reveals
ReVerSeS


German field marshal redor
Won Book was reported throw
ing masses of air-borne troops
into the bloody 12-day battle Of
kharkov today, and for the first
time the Russians acknowledged
reverses on the southern flank
despite toll of Is, 900 Germans
killed there in three days.
A bulletin from Adolf Hitlcr'o
field headquarters m a d Q the
familiar claim that the Russian
mass attacks on Kharkov, tia
Soviet Pittsburgh" had COLLAGE
ed completely.
The Nazi command said thu
Russian offensive started May II
with 20 infantry divisions (per-
haps 100000 troops>, three cav
airy divisions and IS armored
brigades.
Suffering the heaviest blood
and material losses, the enemy
was completely broken up" the
communique said.
THE German counter-attack,
which started May Is, led into
the rear of the strongest enemy
group and has cut through this
line of supplies"
(This apparently referred To
Won Books thanking thrust %
miles below Kharkov.l
For two days now, German,
Rumanian and H u n E arian
troops, backed by strong formA-
tons of the German air force.
have been making counter-at-
tackS on the whole front Of tn
hitherto defensive battle"
Berlin military quarters mia
the battle now was assumipg
gigantic proportions and da-
clared that Won Books armies
had shifted to the offensive.
Now extensive German oper-
ations are in progress" theso
quarters said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Chic Garb
for WAAC

WASHINGTON, May 23-P
Members of the Women's Ar
my Auxiliary Corps will be chic
in khaki.
The war department has pick
ed the uniforms, and aside from
silks and satins there's quite a
variety of materials.
For summer there's khaki cot
ton twill and gabardine. For
winter there's olive drab covert
cloth.
The hosiery will be cotton and
rayon, but no one in the depart
ment had a word to say about
the undertakings, either summer
or winter.
A WAAC officer in the win
tertime will wear single
breasted four-button dark olive
drab jacket of covert cloth and
81 panel flared skirt of light
or dark olive drab. A covert cap
will have a semi-stiff crown, a
visor and a cloth chin 81 ap.
Regular army KHAKI. will be
the summer color and the uni
forms will be of cotton twill and
gabardine for the officers and
eight-ounce water repellent
twill for the ratings, or enlisted
personnel.
Summer headgear will be of
khaki cotton twill with a six sec
ton, unlined crown an. stitched
brim.
Each member of the corps al
so will get a doub!e-breasted
overcoat, a utility coat with re-
movable wooden lining, light
weight raincoat with hood, n
shirt with reversible collar and
a necktie.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Monitor-Leader Now
in Larger Quarters
Newspaper Moves Into
Former Price BuiIdinq

In a move designed to take
full advantage of the facilities
of the two newspapers which
preceded it and to provide a
more central location for the
convenience of the reading pub
lie The Daily Monitor-Leader
today is moving into new quar-
ters in the Monitor-Leader
building formerly the Price
building) at the intersection of
CaSs avenue and Walnut street.
The newspaper is being pub
lished for the last time today at
140 Macomb street where for
we'll over six years its predeces-
sors, The Daily Monitor and the
Advertiser Monitor, were pro-
duced. Effective Monday all
editorial, advertising, business
and mechanical functions will
center on the second floor of the
Monitor-Leader building.
WELL EQUIPPED
Extensive remodeling and re-
decorating have made the
newspapers new location one
of the finest in Michigan. In
announcing the move officials
of the Macomb Publishing Com
pany, owners of the Monitor
Leader and Of the South Ma
comb News. pointed out that 1t
is their desire to continue IA
render the best possible service
to the public and that they feel
such can best be achieved in the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
late X X X
bulletins
Probe Vice

PONTIAC, May 23--(PJ--Ar-
rest of Sergt. Nelson X. Webb
and patrOlman James X. Berling
of the vice squad Of the Pontiac
police department and of Myron
ID. Franks and his wife, Opal
Franks, alleged prOprietOrs Of
the notorious Fisher Hotel pad
locked a year ago as q public
nuisance, were ordered today by
Municipal Judge Charles r.
Webster who Is in charge Of a
one man grand jury probe of
vice conditions in Pontiac.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Defense Corps
Urges Public
Cooperation

The Citizens Defense Corps
appeals to the people of Mount
Clemens and this area TO make
the test blackout 100 percent
successful.
Lets set record and not
have a single complaint and pro-
secution grow out of this test, +"
See COOPERATION-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Lash Sub Base

LONDON, May 23-(P0- st.
Nazaire, the Nazi submarine nest
on the French coast, again was
the target of British bombers
last night, the air ministry an
nOunced today. 1t said all the
planes returned from the attack
and from mine-sowing in enemy
waters.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Plan
Opposed
WASHINGTON, May 23-(4D

oANs way 90 w
- Declaring that Americans
won't be pushed around" Sena-
tor Prentiss M. Brown, Michigan
Democrat, has protested to the
Office of Price Administration
against gasoline rationing in the
Middle West.
Brown said his protest was
based on the ground that OPA
had failed to show a need exist
ed for rationing and added he
would continue to oppose any
such move until he was convinc-
ed otherwise.
"When we wrote the price
control BILL" said Brown, who
was one of the authors, we
thought we had placed safe
guards against their clamping
down without saying word. We
provided for a statement of rea-
sons for the rationirg.
But there is no excuse for ra-
tioning gasoline in the Middle
West under present conditions.
If there's a question of conserv-
ing rubber, why don't they just
use the 100000 new cars that
are available? The secondhand
car market ought first to be ex-
hausted, too.
'It certainly is not right to
clamp right down and drive peo-
pie off the streets by rationing
city like Detroit, which has no
subways or railroad rapid trans
portation. Detroit is motor city
and it was built on that princi-
ple.'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Captain of 7orpedoed Ship
Boards UBoat, RemIes Mazis

mid afternoon. The submersible
gave chase. and after about an
hour overhauled the ship and
opened fire with a light gun and
machine guns.
Harry Schlesipger of New Or
leans, radio operator of the ship,
flashed calls for help repeatedly
during the chase and attack,
which ended when the ships cap
tain ordered the ship abandoned.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Enroute Home

LISBON. May, 23-(P)-Di-
plOmats, correspondents a d
other civilians of western hemi-
sphere nations recently exchang-
ed for Axis internees were
among 875 persons homeward-
found today aboard the Swedish
American liner Drottningholm.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Exert Pressure

LONDON, May 23-(P)--Ger-
man and Rumanian forces have
been exerting strong pressure for
the past "a hours against Rus
sian positions along the Tagan-
rog -ROstOv railway on the north
shore of the sea of AzOv, Reu-
ters dispatches "from the Ger
man frontier" reported today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Invaders Flee

CHUNGKING, May 23-(P)-
More than half the Japanese in
vasion force which gained a foot
hold Wednesday on Chuanshih
Island at the mouth of the Min
river in Fukien province has
been wiped out, and the surviv-
ors have fled to their ships.
abandoning large quantities of
equipment, the Chinese an
nounced officially today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Ration Registering
Opportunity Given

Persons who failed to regis
ter for the first rationing OF food
by stamps from May At may
now sign up at the county ration
office on the second floor, coun-
ty building.
Because of the afternoon rush,
County Ration Chief Guy L.
Brown urges that as many as
possible register in the morning.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Soldier Hero
Given Medal

Sergt. Russell E. Robbins, who
rescued Cadet Morris Hallott
from a burning airplane at Sell
fridge Field on June IL. 1041,
yesterday was awarded the sol
dier's medal by the War Depart
ment in recognition of his hero
ism.
Lieut.. B. e. Pierson burned to
death in the same accident.
Sergt. Robbins was one of six
enlisted men honored.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
Down 7 Planes

BERLIN (FrOm G e m a n
BrOadcasts), May 23-(PJ-Mili-
tary authorities said today Ger
man fighters operating on the
Libyan front shot seven planes
from a British pursuit formation
yesterday without loss to them
selves. Light German bOmbers
raided Malta's air fields again
and hits were observed on hang
ars, DNB reported.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-23
81 Men Rejected
at Detroit Center

Sixty four men from Draft
Board No. / who failed to pass
the u. S. Army physical exam
nation Thursday were rejected
at the Detroit induction station,
Chief Clerk Chef Kroner learn
ed today.