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WHAT'S YOUR BATTING Az
|ERAGE IN THIS SPORTS QUIZ?

|WHAIS xOOR OAA INV nv
ERAGE IN THIS SPORTS QUIZ?
Here's a column on sports that
NAV prove just the thing for that
law spring-fever that may be
|IoIIing through your veins these
bright languid mornings. If you're
4 sports fan, you should be able
to come up with a pretty good av-
erage on these questions that
we've posed for you this week.
There are ten Of 'em. Counting
fen for each one right, let's see
how you do. (The correct answers
are printed later On).
1. What former all-American
football player for an Eastern
university, gave up a ten thous-
and dollar a year contract with a
professional football team to en-
list with the Army as buck pri-
vate at twenty-one bucks per
month?
2. What Jewish runner cracked
the 4:1O marker in July, 1871?
3. Who is the outstanding Jew
ish performer in a ''CORRIDA" ?
4. A year after he was called
'Baseball's Number one Draft
Dodger" he received a plaque for
his services to the game. What's
his name?
s. Who is considered the great
est professional quarterback the
"dOugh" game has ever known?
(We're throwing in a couple of
easy ones at this point)
6. Who was the last Jewish
lightweight champion?
Z. Did q Jewish boxer ever
hold a heavyweight title?
8. Who was Ruth Aarons?
(The last two are really tough)
8. Jesse SObel once ran up a
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JEWS IN
SPORTS
AMsVIan'nA

water polo score of: 181, 100, 289,
IS, 81, in eight games?
10. Barry Wood, star of the
Hit Parade for Lucky Strikes was
best known because of: swimming.
football, soccer, track while at
Yale University?
NOW CHECK YOUR ANSWERS
l. Dave SmuckIer, aIl-American
fulIback at Temple University was
signed for a three year contract
at ten grand per annum with the
Philadelphia Eagles. Dave chuck
ed that and went to the Army 81
don't want to become a football
bum," he said. All this was
eighteen months before Pearl
HarbOr, and when we went to war,
Dave was top ranking Sergeant.
2. Phil Leibowitz, University
of Iowa miller, ran the greatest
outdoor mile of the 1912 track
season. His time was 4:O8. Phil
is now with the Army Air Corps.
8. Sid Franklin, Brooklyn born
matadOr is the outstanding bull
fighter in a "cOrrida"-which is
the Spanish term for the arena
where the bouts are held.
4. Hank Greenberg was called
a draft dodger wnen he returned
from vacation trip to Hawaii in
1941. This came about because
his draft board was a little hay
wire and premature. "I'll go
when my number is called" said
the former bambino and go he did
in May, 1941. He was released
from the Army in November 1941
and re-enlisted again on December
For this action he was given
a plaque by the New York Base
ball Writers Association.
s. Sid Luckman, quarterback
of the Chicago Bears, has been
called the greatest" in the game
by his boss and coach, George
HaIas.
6. Barney Ross was the last
Jewish lightweight champion.
Z. Two Hebrew gentlemen will
serve as correct answers to this
one. Daniel Mendoza, once known
as the "Star of ZiOn", held the
title way back in 1870; in modern
times-Maxie Baer, the LivermOre
Larruper, held the crown for one
year.
8. Ruth Aarons was the worlds
champion ping pong player. She
was kicked out of the A. A. U. be-
cause of paid" exhibition at the
Rainbow Room in New York City.
8. Jesse SObel scored 289 points
the highest total ever scored in
water polo records. This was
made in games against the
stiffest competition. SObel was
shooting for the mark of 181,
scored by Joe Ruddy of the Navy.
SObeI played for City College and
made this score in 1881.
10. Barry Wood was once
known as Joe Rappaport. Under
his real name he was the mainstay
of the Yale swimming team. Up
on graduation, when he entered
the entertainment field, he chose
as a pseudonym and stage name,
the nonicker of one of Harvards
greatest football players.
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THEY GOT THE BLAME

"They Got The Blame" by Ken
meth M. Gould, just published by
the Association Press Of the Y. M.
c. A., New York, 1912, comes to
us perfectly timed-in the midst
of a total war in which we are
not only being called upon to
fight planes, tanks and battle
ships but also equally advanced
propaganda techniques, conferred
around scapegoats, red-herrings
and smoke screens.
1--WE have seen how the dicta-
tors have worked up unreasOning
prejudice against innocent scape-
goats to provide an outlet for the
grievances of their peoples-griev-
ances due mostly to the dictators
themselves" writes Elmer Davis,
the well-known radio commenta-
tor, in the foreword of his book,
"but, if the blame can be divert
ed, that very resentment neIpS the
dictators stay in power"
Gould traces the history of the
scapegoat from biblical times to
the present, treating the persecu-
ton of Christians by those great
Roman ancestors of Mussolini,
the persecution of Jews by Catho-
lies in Spain, the persecution of
Catholics by Protestants, the per-
secutions of Freemasons by Cath
olics, the Salem witch hunts, the
"Know Nothing" movement a.
gainst Catholics, the Nazi move
ment against Jews, the present
day anti-foreign attitudes border
ing on knownothingism.
High points of the books sum-
nation call attention to the un-
democratic character of hatred of
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BETWEEN THE
BOOK ENDS
BY
William /. BOxerman
Of Miami, Fla.
WHAT AMERICA THINKS

Here, between the covers of a
single book, ('What America
Thinks" What America Thinks,
Inc, Chicago, $7.5O) are gathered
the editorial and cartoon opinion
of Americas newspapers-a COM
pendulum of Notwithstanding events
from August 1, 1888 to December
81, 1910.
That fateful two-and-a-half-
year period marked a transition
in American thought from a pol
icy of peace to one of preparation
for war.
In these forceful cartoons, the
public opinion of America is mir
rored- cartoons reprinted with
the various publishers permission
cartoons by Shoemaker, Marcus,
J. N. Darling, RUDE Goldberg, Joe
Cassel, Jack Patton, Fitzpatrick,
Hungerford, Knott and scores of
others More than 1000 car
toons from the nations chief
pages of newspaper opinion here.
Bolstering the cartoons and
tracing the mood of American
opinion-often predicting events
far in the future-are 800 edi-
torials.
The Munich affair opened the
book Greece concludes it 4.
Between the two are the march
into Prague, the Nazi prepara-
tons to invade Poland, the Nazi
luftwaffe strafing Polish fields
and burning Warsaw, Russia
fighting Finland, Denmark and
Norway taken under Nazi pro
tective" wing, war in the lowlands,
Italy's declaration of war follow
ing the collapse of France.
what America Thinks" should
be in the home Of every American
as a constant reminder Of the evil
we are fighting so that we cannot
possibly be duped by propaganda
lists into becoming unknowing
Quislings In What America
Thinks" we suddenly realize fully
how well-planned Hitler's whole
military program was i. We
recognize how all those mouthings
about protecting minorities" and
his blaming the Jews for every
thing and anything was more than
a scheme to throw a smoke-screen
over his imperialistic intentions.
We see how Hitler has been do
ing the same thing in this coun-
try-through men in some cases
hailed before the American courts
as Nazi agents, propagandists,
spies and saboteurs.
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Alert Young
Coast Guard
Traps Spies

WASHINGTON, July 16-(P)
1t was a 21-year-old coast
guardsman who set the FIJI on
a successful hunt for eight Nazi
saboteurs after their landing on
the American coast from SUBJ
marines.
Spotting the fog-veiled arriv-
al of one group on Long Island
John c. Cullen, seaman second
class, outwitted them with pre-.
tended acceptance of a bride and
then spread the alarm which
brought discovery of the Nazis
and their hidden supplies.
The coast guards official mar
rative of Cullen's night encount-
er was told by the office of war
information yesterday as the
Nazis, on trial for their lives,
were confronted with "a very
long statement" made by one
of them to their captors.
EYE DASCH
While the prisoner whose
statement was read to the mill
tary commission was not iden-
titled, there has been specula-
ton that it was George John
Dasch, only one of the eight who
is represented by a special de-
tense counsel.
Meantime, Vice Admiral r. r.
Waesche, coast guard command
ant, promoted Cullen to cox,
swain and commended him for
his alertness which led to sfrest
of the remaining four NazH who,
in another submarine landing,
reached the Florida coSst.
The coast guard related that
Cullen stumbled upon the Nazi
arrival from a submarine off
Amagansett Beach, Long Island,
shortly after he left his station
for a midnight patrol along a
foggy six-miie beat.
WADE ASHORE?
He made out two men in bath
ing suits and one in civilian
clothes. They failed to answer
his queries, he said, until he
reached for a flashlight which
they apparently thought was a
gun.
Then, Cullen said, 0ne of them
Sec SPIES-Pase 2
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vithy Protests
j. ). Relations
with DeGau!Ie
Nozi-Dominoted
French Government
Hits at Rebels

VICHY, July 16-(P)-The
Vichy government officially pro-
tested today to Washington
against assignment of military
representatives to Gen. Charles
De Gaulle, declaring this CON
stitutes an attack on the SOW
ereignty of France"
An authorized source declared
it was "inadmissible" that the
American government, (which is
maintaining normal relations
with the French government, al
so maintain relations with reb-
ell force"
THE United States and Brig.
Gen. Charles L. Bolte had been
assigned to consult in London
with the national committee of
the fighting French headed by
De Gaulle ION all matters relat-
ing to the conduct of the war;"
STRENGTHEN AID
(The announcement and an ac-
companying m m or n d m
stressed that the purpose was to
strengthen military aid to fight
iEg French, and did not refer to
the controversy over diplomatic
recognition, which the United
Staten has not given the De
Gaulle organization).
The protest was announced
pending publication of tn e
French stand concerning French
warships informed at Alexand-
ria. The latter was understood
to reject all proposals to move
the ships elsewhere than to
French territory, on the grounds
that to do SO would not con-
form with French German arm
istice terms.
(The state department an
nounced in Washington two days
ago that Vichy had already re-
jected two proposals by Presi-
dent Roosevelt for removal OF
See PROTEST-Page 2
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Brandenug Most Recent Candidates Announce
Availability Nomination; Dead]ne but Five Days Away


George A. Francis, IS, Of st.
Clair Shores. today announced
his candidacy, on the Republic
can ticket, for the office c. state
representative from Macomb
county.
Francis, who has lived in ST.
Clair Shores for FL years, has
been a practising attorney since
his admission to the bar in May,
1885. During that period he has
served seven years rs corpora
ton counsel for the Village Of
st. Clair Shores and has served
one term as circuit court COM
missioner.
Long active in county Repub-
klican circles Francis has also
exhibited q deep interest m civ
ic and public benefit enterprises.
He is an associate member Of
See FRANClS-Pags 8
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Nazis Widen
Russian Gains
Dual Drives
Smosh Forward

Associated Pres. War Editor

BY. CLYDE A. FARNSWORVH
Associated Press War Editor
A German foothold some 20
miles inside the northern Cau-
casus and another on the north
ernmost rim were officially con-
coded today by the Russians
while the bloody struggle for
Voronexh on the north flank Of
the enemy's menacing bulge
along the Don river attained q
new degree of ferocity.
WIN CONTROL
Since launching their latest
about effort in Russia on June
%, the Germans have won ef-
fective control of an additional
$4,000 square miles of Russian
territory somewhat more
than the area of West Virginia
although not all Russian forces
therein have been mopped up.
Pressing behind two spear
heads eastward from this bulge,
the Germans threaten to crash
on through to the Stalingrad
elbow of the Volga river, less
than 200 miles away, effectively
splitting the Caucasus and cas-
ing the way for direct penetra-
tions of the oil-bearing region
farther south.
These were the implications of
the Russian communique admit
ting loss of Boguchar, just out
side the North Caucasian Terri
tory and Millerovo, rs miles
farther south and inside the ter
ritory, on the direct line of rail
communications between Mos
COW and Rostov.
The North Caucasus is one of
Russia's principal agricultural
regions.
SWEEPS FORWARD
If repeated Axis reports are
correct, the German advance
through Boguchar has carried
we'll beyond to the southeast.
These advices last located the
point of this spearhead at Mi
gulinsk, 100 miles northwest OF
Stalingrad, industrial capital OF
the lower Volga.
The Russians have acknow-
lodged fighting southeast of Bo-
guchar and in reporting loss OF
See RUSSIA--Page 2
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Sekidee Field
Men TO Ride
Park Wagon

$50 climb on the wagon and
we'll all take a ride"
That old refrain of the horse
and buggy days may be chanted,
if anyone remembers the words
the tune doesn't matter -
when a throng of Selfridge
Field soldiers ride from the
local Army post to the USO club
aboard the last, old park wagon
that carried passengers across
Belle Isle bridge from the De-
troit mainland to the island
thirty odd years ago.
The vehicle will be drawn by
two 1000 pound purebred Bel
gian horses driven by the owner
See SELFRIDGE-Pa4e 2
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Brandenbur3

Carl B. Brandenburg, IS year
old Macomb county treasurer,
today entered the political arena
for another term in that office.
Brandenburg, long active
Democratic leader, is a native Of
Macomb county and has served
as county treasurer since Jan. i,
1895. Prior to that time he had
served as deputy treasurer for
two years and, for IA years, &C.
cupied the post of bookkeeper
for the Hhbarth & Schott Lum-
Der company, Mount Clemens.
In voicing his candidacy
Brandenburg assured the voters
that he will continue his present
policy of prompt, efficient ser
vice to the public and the safe
guarding of the public monies.
He pointed also to the efficiency
|. See BRANDENBURG-Pags 3
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Confirm Shift
Of Nazi Forces
Frones Used az
Troinins Ground

LONDON, July 16-(R-A
British military commentator
confirmed today Russian reports
that German divisions recently
withdrawn from occupied France
had arrived on the Eastern front,
but he said there had ben no re-
duction in the regular Nazi gar
rison holding Western Europe
against invasion.
"The Germans form and train
division in France and then
send them to whatever front Is
required" the commentator de-
clared, adding that the troops
sent to Russia were from this
category only.
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Carl BBIol1'eye'
5uetu'nbs 10
fong Illness
Newspaper Man..
Long Active Here,
Dies in Ann Arbor

Carl Blomeyer. advertising
manager of The Daily Monitor
Leader and for many years an
outstanding figure in Macomb
county's business and civic de-
velopment, died at 7:45 last
night in the University of Michi-
gan Hospital, Ann Arbor, fol-
lowing a protracted illness.
Mr.. Blomeyer was born July
20, 1896 in Richmond, Ind. He
first came to Mount Clemens In
1929 to join the advertising
staff of The Nellis Newspapers,
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BIG us. b0MbERS BLAST bENGASI
Stimson Warns Of Eventual Draft Of Boys Is to II
Blood Donors
Are Sought in
Third Call

EAST DETROlT-Macomb
county's "blood bank" an un.
dertaking of the Red Cross,
will be open for blood donors
at the Methodist Church II
Mount Clemens on M0ndSy,
July 81, Mrs. John kantter,
of East Detroit, announced to-
day. Doctors and nurse3 from
Detroit will be on hfnd to
conduct the tests, Mr(. Kant
ner said. Anyone wishing to
offer blood may fall Mrs.
Kantner at Rosevillk 1927 or
the Mount Clemensi RED Gross
headquarters, phi bne 1854.
Macomb's quota 100 pints
of blood, which Fill be used
for servicemen.
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Wage Control
Bill peeled
FDR Expected
to Act Soon

WASHINGTON, July Is -
(P - Threatened with a partial
collapse of the price control
system, the administration was
reported today to be preparing
a request for new legislation
built around some form Of wage
sterilization.
President Roosevelt has dis
cussed the situation with con-
gressional leaders several times
in recent weeks. Informed con-
gressmen who declined quotation
by name said the President was
about ready to make known the
remedial steps he and price con-
See WAGE CONTROL-Page 2
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later transferring to the old
Daily Leader where he occupied
the post of Advertising Manager
until August Of 1871 when he
took a similar position with
The Daily Monitor, retaining
that post when the two daily
newspapers were merged In
February of this year.
WAR VETERAN
Prior to coming to Mount
Clemens Mr.. Blomeyer, who
served throughout the first
World War in the u. S. Navy,
had spent several years a. q
travelling representative for q
farm machinery manufactures
and, subsequently, together with
a comrade Of war days, James
McKenna, purchased, and serv-
See BLOMEYER-Page 3
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Young Married
Men MayA Also
Expect
Both Groups
Needed in All
Major Wars, He Soys

WASHINGTON, July 16-tR)
Secretary of War Stimson ex-
pressed his belief today that
young married men and youths
of ID to 20 would have to be
drafted for the armed forces be-
fore victory over the Axis is
won.
Asked at his press conference
whether the war department
still believed these men would
be needed for the army, Stimson
replied that 1--WE have never had
great war in which we did
not find it necessary to call up
both these classes"
He reminded reporters that
some young married men al
ready were being drafted under
the selective service law, and
said also he believed it would
be necessary eventually to low.
er the draft age to 10.
However," he said, "young
men in that group should not
feel it necessary to alter their
plans for the immediate future. "
Congress recently adopted a
selective service policy to defer
as long as possible the induction
of married men of draft age
maintaining ia mily relation
ships. Stimson's belief that
eventually they would be needed
indicated that the war depart
ment regarded the postponement
of their active service as tenn
porary, indefinite one.
The war secretary had no re-
ports to supply on the progress
of fighting in the various COM
bat zones. In the Aleutians,
where the japanese have landed
on some of the outer islands,
reconnaissance is extremely diff
ficult, Stimson reiterated and he
said information had been made
public as rapidly as it was re-
ceived.
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Howard r. Carroll, for 4
years an assistant prosecutor on
the staff Of Prosecuting Attor.
ney Ivan A. Johnston, today an
nounced that he will seek the
Republican nomination as men,
Der of the state house Of repre-
sentatives at the Sept. Is pri-
mary elections.
Carroll, who holds doctor Of
laws degree from the Detroit
College of Law. has lived in Ma
comb county for IL years. For
the first six years Of his resi-
dence here he served on the fac
ulty Of South Lake high school
In st. Clair Shores, entering pri-
vate practise in 1897.
Following establishment of law
offices in Van Dyke in 1887 Car
roll sought. and attained, cleo
See CARROLL-Page .
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Blast Fatal
to Four in


CINCINNATI, July 16-R)-
Four men died, q fifth was In
jured critically and . dozen
others suffered minor hurts
shortly before midnight when
gasoline from . shearod-od
pump exploded and ripped walls
from 4 three-story brick ri -;
car agency In downtown Cinea'
natl.
Among the dead was POLES
Sergt: Carl lille. 80. who wa
summoned e the scene BY . re-
port Of gas fumes in ga
rage"
Scene of the blast was the
Hodge drive-it-urseH agency at
Sill Sycamore street, two blocks
from Central Fountain Square.
Fire Marshal Louis Schraffen-
berger listed the dead. besides
Sergeant Hille. @ Albert Bass,
"a, of Cincinnati. . customer;
John Rehe. 40, of suburban Nor
wood, q Hodge company book
keeper, and q man identified by
company owner Herman H.
Hodge as Perry Fell. IN attend
ant.
Those hurt were, In the main,
victims of glass and debris scat
tered over . three-block radius.
Fire Chief Barney ]. Houston
said an agency parkins-attsnd-
ant probably set off the blAs4
when, after backing . car into Z
gasline pump, he threw an cleo
trio switch in IN effort to stay
the flow Of fuel. The current
arced and fumes ignited, Hous-
ton speculated.
Hodge said the building con-
tanned 40 trucks and automo-
biles.
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Still Hot

CHUNGKING, July 16-R)-
Chungking's heat wave entered
its tenth day today with no relief
in sight and scarcity of water
caused by power plant repairs
aggravating the discomfort OF
the population.
Sweating coolies did a good
business in muddy water carried
by bucket from the Yangtze.
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-
Germans Give
Ground Under
British Fire
Allied Air Forces
Smosh Steadily
at Axis Boses

CAIRO, July 16-fR-Heavy
bombers Of the United Stateo
army air forces made . daylleht
attack on the Axis base of Hen.
gasi, Libya, yesterday, starting
. large dock fire.
The bombing was one phaoo
Of the continuing battle q ~
western desert, In which RAP.
and allied airmen attacked Don-
easi and Tobruk. both far 49,
Of the fighting zone. and attack
ed the Axis armies '.in 1ogeo''
at the front.
On the ground the German-
italian forces of (Garshal EdWin
Rommsl were rspoEtsd 70 ~ ~
ing ground on tho eentxal xxuk
west Of n Alamein, but nj
ish headquarters aclEnowlodGSd
that Germans had aehfoVod
some gains In The coastal 80
and partially succeedod~ - ~
establishing themselves g III
"a Eisa.
Az the result a. a sttnos.
launched before dawn - ; ~ Y \
British troopeT - lpg ii 7 y
u etaAxnI j , ~ v
60ol11Q aks.t - ~
r1dl4 SoUeH c. y -
AognmuniQus Said pej10n o.
were taken The bulIG 80 49, sss
8kLKvk H1E10UDB q ~ 81
The assault Appos1ngIy 49,
launched % relieVo pressure 6&
Australian forces holdinG ~
cently.won positions @ Tel II
Eisa-the "fIill az JesuI- +
evidently was 1t least poxe =
successful, for the ccmnaSniQS1g
announced that Imperial troo66
continued - hold high grue1nd
Enemy forces which sacceaa-
ed in occupying positions q IL
Fl Elsa Tuesday night woeo|
heavily bombarded III day 49,
See E0YrT-ease 3 81
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Red Successes

MOSCOW, July 16-(P)-Red
navy filters attached to the Baltic
fleet have destroyed three Axis
gunboats, q patrol boat and an
armed transport and damaged
eight patrol boats, two gunboats
and q torpedo boat, the Moscow
radio announced today.
The period of the operations
was not stated.
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Secret Station

MAZATLAN, Mexico, July 16
-R-Federal troops searching
for a mysterious radio station
spreading Axis propaganda from
this Pacific Coast region arrest
ed q japanese and German
near here yesterday and were
reported unofficially to have
seized a radio transmitter.