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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Leonard Lauds
Defense Effort
Outlying Areas
Ahead of Detroit

LANSING, May 26-(P)--
Capt. Don Leonard, commander
of the Civilian Protective Serv-
ices for Michigan, went to bat
for cities in the metropolitan
defense area outside Detroit
Monday. challenging contautiops
that they have Jagged N pre-
pairing for possible emergency.
The area embraces Oakland,
Macomb and Wayne counties.
Replying to criticism express
ed by Glenn c. Richards, assoc
late Detroit defense coordinator,
in a letter to the state admins
trative board, Leonard wrote:
''As a matter of fact, most of
the cities around Detroit have
completed organization an d
training of protective services
we'll in advance of Detroit, and
have resented the insinuation
that they are behind schedule.
Auxiliary firemen, police
men, wardens and other protec-
tive services are ready to func-
ton now in the municipalities
surrounding Detroit"
While the three counties Of
ficials were getting together on
selection of the location for the
control center, Leonard said, ar
rangements were made for the
state police to fulfill its func-
tons for the time being.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
VitoI u. S. War Mission
Arrives in Great Britain
Army and Navy Air Chiefs
Nap Plans with British Commanders

Immediately to check details of
the United States air prepare
ton thus far.
ALL-OUT ATTACK
The typial unofficial British
reaction was that the mission
foreshadowed a supreme air Of
fensive against the Axis in Eu-
rope. It's arrival conceded with
authoritative reports of such
preparations and with growing
clamor for more direct action
against Hitler.
1t was indicated that with the
heads of two branches of Unit
ed States flying forces on the
spot it would be possible to ar
rive at decisions without refer
ence to Washington, greatly
speeding VI American war
preparations in the European
war theater.
Among the officers accom-
panying General Arnold and
Admiral Towers were Major
General Dwight d. Eisenhower,
head of the operations division
of the war department general
staff, and Major General Mark
See MISSION-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26

LONDON, May 26-(P)-A
United States war mission,
headed by the Army and Navy
air chiefs and called one of the
most important yet sent to
Britain, has arrived and gone
into action with no loss of time,
it was disclosed today.
The two leaders were Lieut.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, head of
the Army air forces, and Rear
Admiral John H. Towers, chief
of naval aeronautics.
Their purpose is to confer
with the British in talks be-
lieved designed to coordinate
strategy for master blow
against Germany.
Within two hours after step
ping from a train that brought
them here yesterday from the
landing place of a plane which
flew them across the Atlantic,
Arnold was arranging meetings
with the chiefs of Britain's
fighting forces.
He assumed personal charge
Of United States air operation
plans, taking over prepared
office in American military
headquarters. His aides started
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26

comb County Board of Super
visors, Lanphar outlined the i'm
mediate possibilities of what the
district may be called upon
to endure at any time and the
facts that il must face.
Salient facts cited by the
speaker were that the three
counties of the district repre-
sent, industrially, 30 per cent Of
the entire American war effort
great deal larger percentage
than that of any similar section
Of the country. Citing the fact
that Major General Ralph
Royce traversed 1000 miles in
his flight from Australia to sue
cessfully raid the Philippines
with his American bombers.
CENTRAL TARGET
Lanphar pointed out that this
area is only 1000 miles from
the invasion coast OF France,
that it is only 5000 miles from
Alaska, and only 1850 miles
from Hudson Bay. He declared
that, IL our production in this
area has been stepped up to 4
point to surpass the efforts Of
the Axis countries, it will be q
great temptation to the Axis
See DEfENSE-Rage 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Sugar for Canning
Made Available
Housewives Nay Apply
at Clerks Office

Housewives wishing to obtain
extra sugar for canning or max
ing preserves may apply at the
county rationing office on the
second floor, county building,
Ration Chief Guy l.. Brown said
today.
Those applying will receive
one pound of sugar per annum
for preserves, jams and jellies
and one pound per each four
quarts of finished can fruit,
they intend to make, Brown
said.
Brown said the housewives
must bring with them the war
ration book of every member OF
the family, an inventory of the
number of quarts canned last
year and the number of quarts
they have on hand now.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Two Men Die
asExpIosion
Rocks Fattory
Fisher War PIont
Scene Of Heavy
Morning BIost

LANSING, May 26-(P)-At
least two men were killed and
three seriously injured in an ex-
plosion which shattered part of
the Fisher Body Corporation
plant here today.
The dead were identified as:
Wallace F. Irish, As, Grand
Ledge.
Roy II. Anderson, 20, Lansing.
Guar d prevented neWsmen
from gaining access to the plant
which is engaged in war materi-
al production. The Lansing fire
department sent four engines to
the scene and a fire resulting
from the explosion soon was I'M
der control.
A plant official said one end
of buildir 3 was pretty badly
damaged" but that he did not
know the cause or how many
men were working in the sec
ton.
The explosion occurred at ap-
proximately 8:25 am, and was
heard Throughout the west side of
the city.
The injured men were not i'm
mediately identified.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
CIoudIess Summer Skies
Add to Air Raid Menace
StreomIinins Of County
Defense Program is Effected

The prospect of Axis planes
hitting the DETROIT metropolitan
area within a few weeks if the
weather continues to improve
was discussed in all seriousness
by Melvin F. Lanphar, newly
appointed district commander
of that territory for civilian de-
Tense purposes at session Of
Civilian Defense heads held in
the county building yesterday
afternoon.
Lanphar's appointment as
commander of District No. l.,
Civilian Defense Corps, of Sher-
if Jacob Theut as the comman-
der of Macomb county for the
same organization, and the
meeting yesterday were all part
of a campaign, long urged by
Harold Lindsey, Mount Clemens
coordinator, to Streamline the
defense program to provide for
the efficient protection of the
citizenry. industries and mill
tary establishments of the three
counties of Oakland, Wayne and
Macomb.
OUTLINES MENACE
Speaking at the request Of
Harold Lindsey, chairman of the
Defense committee of the Ma
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
B|a(kout Trial
Opens Today
Man Charged With
Violating Ordinance

Trial of Fred Heidi, 1O3 Lin
coin avenue, on a charge of vio-
lating the state law covering
blackouts, was the latest devel-
opment today in the campaign
to make blackout tests 100 per
cent effective in this area.
Heidi, charged by Air War
den Russell Miller, and his sub
ordinate air warden, Mrs. M
R. Little with having refused to
extinguish the lights in his
home during Sundays blackout,
going about his front lawn with
a flashlight during the period
and finally setting dog on the
wardens, pleaded not guilty
when arraigned in Justice Don
aid Parents court this morning
and is to stand trial this after
noon.
Meantime other less fragrant
violations had been reported to
Harold Lindsey, local coordin-
ator Of Civilian Defense Corps.
Wardens said that basement
light had been left burning in
the Maranatha Chapel on North
Avenue; lights had been left
burning in the house at 8 Les
lie street, listed in the directory
as occupied by Charles E. Ebert;
and an oil burner in the plant of
the Macomb County Road Com
mission is said to have reflect
ed out to the street.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26

DETROIT, May 26-(P) A
federal court jury of six men
and six women found Republi-
can n a t onal committeeman
Frank d. Mckay and seven CO.
defendants innocent of four
counts of mail fraud today.
Their verdict came just twelve
weeks from the opening of Nc
Kay's re-trial. The original pro-
ceedings ended in a jury dis
agreement last July.
The re-trial jury deliberated
only three and a half hours.
Acquitted with Mckay, So
year-old Grand Rapids politician
who served as state treasurer
from 1925 to 1880, were:
Former m ayor William H.
McKeighan of Flint.
Fred G.. Ehrmann of Grand
Haven, twice secretary of the
Michigan Liquor Control Com
mission, having served during
both administration of the late
governor Frank D. Fitzgerald.
John II. Marolf, of Iron Mount
ain, secretary to the late Isaiah
LeeboVe.
Fisher l.. Layton, Flint drug
gist and politician, former head
of the Layton Sales Co., liquor
sales agency.
Earl j. Williams, of Detroit
and Windsor, Ont, associate in
another liquor sales agency de.
scrioed in the governments In
dictment as a dummy front for
liquor graft collections.
Charles Letter and Isadore
Schwartz, both of Detroit.
Mckay, active for years in Re-
publican politics - local, state
and national-and, as national
committeeman, supporter of
Wendell l.. Willkie in the Re-
publican n t o nal convention,
was the first to thank the Jury
foreman, Mrs. Leah Wilson of
Oxford, Mich.
Close behind him were Nc
Keighan, five times Flint's may
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
vithy, Berlin
Deal CIoaked
by 5ubierfuge
Noxis to 'Proetise'
Aboord Ships
Reports Say


France has taken q first de-.
finite step toward turning the
French fleet over to Adolf Hit
Ter, London advices indicated
today, amid reports Of new
Italian demands for primal
French territorial possessions
including Tunisia, Nice and Corr
Sica.
BY agreement between Vichy
and Berlin, it was said, German
sailors will be permitted to '.fA-
miliarize" themselves with IL
operation of French warShips %
a move foreshadowins Ma4
seizure of Frances still powoCs
full naval forces.
Meanwhile. Britain's former
war secretary, Leslie HoresUoA
lisha, asserted that the succo61
full establishment Of seco4
front in Europe might end IT.
war this year.
STERN STRUGGLE
While Britons clamored 46c
direct action. Hore- Belisha d.
clared:
"A stern struggle II In prp~
gress around Kharkov.
I'VE have promised to intoFs
vene to relieve cur 1usulun u;
ly. The psychological mo1nessS
may come, beyond which -
must not delay if our action II
to turn the scale"
On the fighting front, SoviQ1
headquarters reported that mt
ler's mechanical armies ware
suffering heavy losses In tnn1o
and men in an attempt to flSnk
the Russians in the 15-day-ollt
battle of Kharkov.
The Russians declared taaey
had repulsed 4 violent German
surprise attack led by $50 tanko
in the Izyum-Barvenkova $50
tor, 80 miles south of Kharku
while Marshal Semeon Tfmn-
shenko's main armies pressed
See FLEET-Rage 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
High School
Pupils Vote
for Officers

Candidates for class offices,
the student council and the jun
ior civic league at Mount Glenn
ems High school ended their
campaigns today as $50 register
ed voters cast their ballots on
voting machines donated by the
city.
Major interest focused on the
race for senior class .,fesident
NJ for Junior Civic League
mayor. Dick Bannow, unop-
See ELECTION-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Plan Memorial
Day Parade
MOTOR Ingram
to be Speaker

The Selfridge Field BanA
and two squadrons of troops
will lead the traditional Mam-
orial Day parade through citr
streets Saturday, Parade Mr..
shall Guy Griffith revealed today.
The parade win move froGn
the fire hall down Market stroee
to Second street, thence to
Croker and Macomb to the
Public Library where Mai. Will
liam Ingram, of Selfridge Field,
will deliver the Memorial U0y
address.
The parade will halt at ~
Macomb street bridge where &
volley will be fired by . squad
from Selfridge. flowers st1own
on the water, 4 prayer of6apod
by Rev. FIR. A. M. HuttinE O.
st. Peters Catholic church, md
taps sounded. Il
At the library, the invoeatjcA
will be asked by Rev. Dunntn6
Idle, pastor Of First MethodigA
church. Following the coco.
mony, graves Of soldier d.a4
will be visited at Clinton Crow
and st. Peters Catholic Gene.
terry.
The Memorial Day comnleeeo
headed by Mayor Donald !,
Westendorf completed pogDnH
plans yesterday. They rovea)14
that the Mount Clemens ~
school band and the Xxx
Twelve Drum and UuQ1e CeQ4
will also parade.
Westendorf was e1eoon 1
eral chairman md 0Eoo)A 4f,
named mo1shal. 1ADo1 lnonC
as aides are: ChaR3oo 0o
bert Wallsce ana s
Schwarck, of Os1cae l
post. WV. and Chor1ee 49,
Charles Mikslait, Lea 11ou
Edward c. DevxteeA e
Ollrich poet. Amoe31qn t. 4
The parade viii IorA 60 a !
~, Griffith saia tedQQs,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
No New Rubber

WASHINGTON, May 26 Up
The Senate Committee inves-
tigating the war program today
criticized the administration
handling of the stOckpile, syn
thetic and scrap rubber pro-
grams and warned that there
would be no new rubber for pri-
vate civilian use for three years.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
John vincek, 8,
Painfully Injured
Sehoolboy Struck
by Cor at Noon

John Vincek, eight years old,
of 4 Factory street, was painful
ly injured at ITO pm. today
when he apparently ran into the
side of a car driven on South
Gratiot at Robertson by Chester
Robinson, 20, of 101 New.
Police Sergt. Stanley Camp
bell said the boy was running
across Gratiot on his way to
Grant school where he is a stu
dent. Robinson is to make a
statement at the prosecutor Of
flee this afternoon.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
New Raid Wardens Glass
10 Open on Thursday

A new class for air raid war
dens will be started Thursday
at 1870 p. m. in Room 1872 at
the Mount Clemens high school,
it was announced today by Law
renee Oehmke, chief air raid
warden for Mount Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Desperate Fight

CHUNGKING, May 26-UP)
Violent battles ragged today in
the outskirts of Kinwha, 1855
miles southwest of Shanghai.
Numerically superior japanese
forces were hurting reinforce
ments into their drive to crush
all Chinese resistance in the
Province OF Chekiang of which
Kinwha is the capital.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
France Bombed

VICHY, May 26 -(P-Paris
newspapers said today that
fighter escorted British bomb
e% had bombed st. Omer, in
occupied France just behind the
Dover Strait coast, killing six
persons and wOunding eight. 1t
was not clear whether the at
tack occurred last night or the
night before. The raiders ap-
parently were unsCathed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Rich War Loot

TOKYO From Japan e
BrOadcasts), May &c - (P) -
Domei declared today Japanese
bOmbers heavily damaged mil
itary establishments of Heng-
yang in the campaign against
China yesterday and that the
invaders of Burma had seized
rich war loot along the IRA
waddy River.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Confirm SINKING

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,
May 26-(P)-The sinking of a
German submarine by United
States patrol p anes off the
northeast Brazilian coast near
the city of Aracaty last Saturday
afternoon was absolutely" con-
firmed today by a high score.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26

Heavy Blast Wrecks LANSING War Production Plant
late X X X
| bulletins
1000 Japs Die

CHUNGKING, May 26-(P)-
The Japanese have lost 5000
men in vain attempts to storm
the Chekiang provisional capital
of Kinwha from three sides, the
Chinese announced tonight, but
a spokesman said 1.-The situation
is still very grave and the COM
ing week will witness even fierc-
er battles"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26

Fred Dell. of Cities Service,
told city police Monday that
$l1.70 worth of oil was stolen
from the company warehouse,
377 North Gratiot, sometime
over the weekend.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Battle Monsoons

MELBOURNE, May 26-UP)
United States and Australian
planes flew through monsoon
storms and fought off Japanese
fighter planes to continue their
persistent offensive and bomb
the enemy's two big northeast
eEn invasion bases yesterday, it
was announced today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Ship Bombed

Rim (FrOm German
BrOadcasts), May 26 - (P) -
Light German warplanes Grip
pied mediums merchant
ship off the British southeast
coast with direct hits and left
her listing heavily yesterday,
DNB said today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
JAP Dromes Hit

ALLIED HEADQUART f s,
Australia, May rs Up Al
lied bOmbers shot their way
through interrogation squadrons
TO blast again yesterday at Jap
anese airdrOmes at RabauI, New
Britain, and Lac, New Guinea,
ii was announced officially to-
day.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
Nazis Halted

MOSCOW, May rs -UP)-
Russian tanks, guns, planes and
troops hurled bac kthe attacks
of massed German armored and
motorized forces today along a
blazing % mile battle from {
south of KharkOv.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26
ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED PRESS

Impartial Coverose
of All Locol News
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-26

Immediately to check details of
the United States air prepare
ton thus far.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-02-13

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Evening star., 1942-11-15

The first step toward planting colony
In Africa was carried forward by Samuel
j. Mills and Rev. DR.. Burgess Money
to pay the expense of the expedition, we
are told, was borrowed, "and the loan
repaid from funds rasied by Gen. Mercer
and Rev. William Meade, afterward
Bishop Meade, of Virginia"
In an early sketch Of this most notable
undertaking we are told:
"They sailed November Is, 1877 Mills
remarking to one of his associates in
these movements, as he was about to
embark, This is the most important en-
terprise in which I have ever been en-
gagged Arriving in England in Deem
ber, they were courteously received by
his royal highness the Duke of Glou-
cester, patron and president, and by the
other officers of the African Institution.
Mr. Wilberforce introduced them to Lord
Bathurst, secretary Of state for the
colonies, who gave them letters to the
Governor and other officers at Sierra
Leone, directing them to aid the ex-
plorers in their explorations.
Having touched at the Gambia, they
arrived at Sierra Leone March %, 1918.
Evening star., 1942-11-15
African Front Recalls Early American Colony in Liberia
BY John Clagett Proctor.

The landing Of American troops in
Africa and the opening of second
front on that continent brings to mind
the colony of Liberia settled more than
a century ago by The American Society
for Colonizing the Free People of Color
OF the United States"
This society was largely formed and
sponsored by the people of the District
OF Columbia and was regularly organ
lied here on December 81, 1916, when
meeting was held for the purpose in
Davis Hall and at which time Thomas
Dougherty, esq, was appointed secre-
tary At this meeting it was intended
to elect Judge Bushrod Washington as
chairman, but due to that gentlemans
illness, Henry Clay occupied that office
and upon assuming the chair held out
encouragement for the undertaking.
Francis Scott Key, author of THE
Star Spangled Banner" who was present
also, favored the proposition, as did
Evening star., 1942-11-15

public table, and this included wines. A
nights lodging was Is cents. It became
the Metropolitan in 1851. It's site, now a
terminal bus station, Is on the north side
OF Pennsylvania avenue between Sixth
and Seventh streets, near Sixth.
At the meeting held January 1, 1877,
Bushrod Washington Of Virginia was
chosen president. with IL vice presidents
from nine States, including Georgia,
Kentucky and Massachusetts,, and DR..
William Thornton, architect of the orig
inal Capitol, was made a member of the
Board of Managers.
On January "a, 1s4s, "The American
Colonization Society'-the name it
seems to have taken sometime subse-
quent to 18l6-celebrated its 3lst ami
versary in the hall of the House OF
Representatives, with Henry Clay, presi-
dent Of the society, presiding, and of
interest was the report of the secretary,
which was read and which said, in part:
"Thirty-one years ago the American
Colonization Society was organized; Is
years ago the first emigrants landed on
Cape Misssurado to seek home for
themselves and their children: six
months ago the citizens of the Colony
organized the Republic of Liberia and
announced their independence to the
world; and tonight we meet to celebrate,
as it were, the first anniversary of that
infant nation.
The report recounts the events which
seem to render it desirable that Liberia
should become independent and comes to
the conclusion that the citizens possess
suficient intelligence and virtue to con-
duct their own public affairs with honor
and advantage. A constitution, which
does them, as the trainers of it, great
honor, was adopted by the vote of the
people in September, last, and the new
government has fairly gone into opera
ton. Having had the good sense to
copy after the most magnificent form
OF government which the world has ever
seen, we may hope that they will con-
tinue TO increase in virtue and intelli-
gence, advance in population, wealth and
commerce, and remain prosperous,
tranquil, and well-governed republic. and
ultimately give political character to the
whole of Africa"
The presidents of the society, beside
Judge Washington. have been James
Madison, fourth President of the United
States; Henry Clay, and John H. B. La
trobe, who was still serving in 1885. In
1899, the office of president seems to have
been vacant. J. Ormond Wilson was
serving as secretary and James L. Norris
as treasurer, with the executive commit
tee consisting of Rev. Bryan Sunderland,
DID,, chairman; Judge Charles c. Knott,
Mr.. Norris, William w. Godding, MD;
Rev. A. j. Huntington, DID,; Mr.. Wilson,
and Rev. Alexander Mackay-Smith, DID.