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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-19
Gen. StiIIwen
is Appointed
by (hungking
Chions koi Shek
Acts TO Coordinate
Aid to British

WASHINGTON. March Ia
(R-The war department an
nounced today that Lieutenant
General Joseph w. Stilwell of
the United States Army had
been put in command of the
fifth and sixth Chinese armies
operating with British forces de-
tending Burma against the Japa-
nese.
The action was taken by Gen.
eralissimo Chang Kai-Shek of
China, a brief communique said.
General Stilwell went to
China a few weeks ago and
served initially as Chiang's chief
of staff.
The communique, No. Isl,
covering reports received until
10 am, today, eastern war time,
said:
81. Burma.
"Generalissimo ChiarS Kai-
Shek has placed Lieutenant Gen.
eral Joseph w. Stilwell, United
States Army, in command of the
fifth and sixth Chinese armies,
. operating in conjunction with
the British forces in Burma.
-. There il nothing to report
from other areas"
Military officials express be-
lief General ftilwelIs appoint
ment represented the first time
that an American Army officer
had been given command of q
major body of Chinese troops.
although American sdventurers
have commanded Chinese.
Stilwell. q native Of Palatka,
Fla, and 50 years old today, was
promoted to lieutenant general
last month.
A 1904 graduate of the mill
tary academy, he holds the dis
tinguished service medal for
service in France In the First
World War during the st. Mihiel
offensive.
He has had wide experience in
China, beginning with q four
year period as a language stu
dent in 1923. He served with
the 18th Infantry at Tientsih in
1926-29 and again was in China
in 1929 as military attache at
Peiping.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-19
5ugar,R!ation
Outlined
stets Clarifies
Confusing Points

LANSING, March 19-(R-
The state rationing administra.
ton today offered a confused
consuming public its "best an
swers" to questions concerning
procedures and other things In
volved in the task bf .fstionine
sugar. Nv ~
spoZesmen Fconceded they are
confused. Themselves, on many
points.
Here, in question and answer
form, are presented the "best
answers" the administration can
give to some of the most fire.
quently heard and unanswered
questions:
HOW III GOES 2
@. When will rationing
start?
A. This is problematical
Tentatively, April has been
scheduled for registration of su-
gar consumers.
@. Can a housewife or some
other responsible member of a
household register for the entire
family and servants, and can one
responsible member of the
household buy sugar for all, pre-
senting to the grocer rationing
booklets for each member?
A. Yes.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-19
Remodslins Permit
Gronted Williom PoImer

William H. Palmer was grant
ed a permit to remodel house
on the west side of Broadway.
by the City Commission last
night. The work will cost $500.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-19
late X X X
bulletins
New Draft Tentatively Set

WASHINGTON Morch l9-t4o-The next seleetive serv-
ice registration offcos sold today has been set tentotve
for ote in the spring early summer" Awaiting to be
rolled Of and 9 yeors DID, those between IS and
g. They not lobe to compulsory military service.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-19
Raj Raids Axis Shipping

CAIRO March lo-A0-The Raj announced today that
planes hod stooed successful ottock on
enemy shipping the Central Mediterranean on Tuesdoy
night setting noerehont ship fire and scoring hit
on a loroer vessel
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-19
Two More Ships Torpedoed

WASHINGTON March l9-Q@o-The Navy announced to-
doy that Yueosovon feohter the Tepco bod been tope-
doed off the Atomic coot and that Jorge Norwegian
chant vessel otherwise unidentified hod been topedoed off
the southeast United Stotes coast.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-19
Hitler Calls Back Generals

BERN Swtzerond, Morch lo-p1-Neory oil the Ger
man officers including Field Morsho Wolther Bouch
son. left the o,y otter the drive ooonst Moscow oiIed
lost foil have eoed book by Adolf Hitler help pon
the spring copoien the Berlin correspondent Of the Bose
Notiono Zeituno reported todoy
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-19
t1o5. Killed by cuerrilIas

news Dispatches reported od tot IS persons hod
killed in guerrilla fighting in the souheron port Of
Axis occupied Segbio ~
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-19

Only 900 psrssWs live wAs This islsRd esaWsWss
2.97@50i q. w. NE size d me y. ovt thsy
ksvs messed every sbls-bedisd wen. sle~ssds eeAss
Ussssd kstieWs svesps. - sspsl ne Jsp iavedess.
Evening star., 1942-02-26
were paid by viereck. . registered
German agent.
pnr~asaufat tiva Epich At Hrst 1oafdlv

were paid by viereck, . registered
German agent.
Representative Fish at first loudly
protested Hills innocence and de-
clared he was behind him 100 per
cent" BY the time Hill came up
for trial, however, Mr.. Fish was pip
ing exceedingly low. He did not
appear to testify in Hills behalf
and when he was forced to the wit
ness stand during the trial Of Vie
reck last week, Mr.. Fish admitted
that he had known that Hill was
a private contractor, sending out
speeches, mailing them, employing
women on the outside"
Hill previously had testified that
he was first introduced to Viereck
by Mr.. Fish himself, who specifically
instructed him to mail out speech,
made and franked by the late Sen
ator Ernest Lundeen but written by
Viereck, to Representative Fish's
private mailing list. Faced with
these statements by Hill, Mr.. Fish
neither denied nor affirmed either
of them. He said he just couldn't
remember. He admitted he was in
timately acquainted with Viereck
and had talked with him frequently.
Hill Takes Further Step.
Hill, since he was convicted and
sentenced to a prison term OF two
to six years, has turned States s
evidence. He admits now that he
falsified when he said he didn't
know bennett or Viereck: the fact
being tnat he worked for them.
Hill reached very close to his old
boss when he said that Mr.. Fish
introduced him to Viereck. And on
Wednesday, Hill went still another
step by declaring that former Rep
resentative John j. O'Connor OF
New York, who has appeared both
as attorney to Fish and defense
counsel FOR Hill, had advised him
(HilD not to tell Government au-
thorities the truth about his asso-
citation with Viereck.
Hill earlier had charged that Mr..
Evening star., 1942-02-26
New York Republicans
"a -
Prepare 10 Eliminate
Fish in Primary
Loves Being Groomed
To Enter Race in
Presidents District
By lay HAYDEN.

- New York Republicans are pre-
pairing to dump Representative
Hamilton Fish overheard, before his
Hudson Valley neighbor, President
Roosevelt. gets chance at him.
Wendell L.. Willkie for some
months past has made no secret of
his intention to concentrate upon
Mr.. Fish as a horrible example Of
Republican congressional wrong
headedness with respect to war is
sues. And it now is reported that
Thomas E. Dewey, the prospective
Republican nominee for Governor of
New York, likewise has decided that
Mr.. Fish is altogether too much of
load for the party to carry
The man currently being groomed
to oppose Mr.. Fish in the Repub-
lican primary is Lewis E. Lawes,
former warden of Sing Sing Prison.
Fish Political Symbol.
Mr.. Fish's Importance as a poll
tical symbol is accentuated by the
fact that he represents President
Roosevelt's home district. The two
HIc COUllGIy SQulIc cS ia GIlc duJOlIlllS
counties of Putnam and Dutchess.
In earlier years Mr.. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Fish were close friends, but from
the time when Mr.. Roosevelt re-
turned to politics as candidate for
Governor of New York in 1923 they
have been at each other hammer
and tongs in every election.
Mr.. Fish has specialized in ques-
tioning the personal actions of
members of the Roosevelt family,
and the Roosevelts have countered
by doing their level best to beat
Mr.. Fish each time he has faced
the voters in the past II years.
Before the war issue arose Repre-
sentative Fish had all the best Of
this conflict. He invariably carried
his district by top-heavy majorities,
while the strongly Republican home
folks just as definitely have refused
to go for Mr. Roosevelt.
In 1910, however, Mr.. Fish slipped.
Evening star., 1942-02-26

He was reelected by . majority
of only s,976, while Mr.. Willkie was
carrying the district by z5,l09.
And subsequent developments have
convinced New York Republican
wheel horses that Representative
Fish's number this year definitely
is up.
Talking Self Into More"
Ham Fish never misses an op-
portunity to make speech and
never makes a speech without miss
ing an opportunity" one Of his
colleagues once said, and Mr.. Fishs
present dilemma Strikingly confirms
this characterization. His trouble
was serious enough to begin with,
but for six months past he has
been talking himself steadily deeper
into the mire.
Mr.. Fish's present involvement
began last September when mail
bags, filled with congressionally
franked isolationist speeches, turned
up in his custody, following
the summoning of one Prescott
bennett to testify before District
of Columbia grand jury, called to
investigate activities OF alleged
Nazi agents. The mail bags, it was
subsequently disclosed, had been
hauled away from the offices OF
two organizations, headed by Den
nett-the Make Europe Pay" and
Islands for War Debts" Commit
tees-in a Government truck sent
for them by George Hill, one Of
Representative Fish's secretaries.
In a speech. to the House on Sep
tember %, Mr.. Fish branded the
whole transaction as the product
of a contemplate, dastardly and
lying" plot to smear him politically.
He denied any knowledge whatever.
either as to how the franked
speeches got to Dennett's office, or
why they were so hastily taken
away. The secretary, Hill. he said,
had sent the truck to get only 500 OF
Representative Fish's own speeches,
which by some means unknown had
gotten into Dennett's hands. The
other speeches, hauled to his office,
Mr.. Fish said Hill had refused to
accept. but the truck driver i'm
properly placed several bags Of them
in front of Mr.. Fish's locked bin IN
the House basement.
Plot Begins to Thicken.
The plot really began to thicken
when Secretary Hill was indicted
for perjury, promised on his denial
that he had had relations with
either bennett or George Sylvester
Viereck. Evidence was produced to
show that bennett and Hill both
Evening star., 1942-02-26
Posses Hunt Pocifkt
In Mojove Desert
By the Associated'Press

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26.-Frank
Bussell. IS, and eligible for Army
induction, wrote his parents II just
couldn't shoot some enemy strang-
er" and disappeared into the Mojave
Desert.
George c. Bussell told the story
as he asked police to help find his
son. Posses were sent into the des-
ert, with a map on which Frank
designated the, place he said he'd
leave his car.
1--WE been trying to fight 1t out,
but just had to take this final step"
Frank wrote in q letter postmarked
Palmdale, Calf.
II just couldn't shoot some enemy
stranger that I had never seen be-
fore. and toward whom I have no
hatred whatever"
Evening star., 1942-02-26
Court in Dublin Dooms
3 Who Slew Salesman
lv A.. A..ocI.t.d pr...

BY the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, Feb. 26-A military
court sentenced three men to be
shot today for the murder OF
Michael Devereux, a gasoline sales
man, whose body was found on Tip
perary Mountain September IL, l941,
II months after he had disappeared
The case won widespread interest
because of its alleged connection
with renewed activities of the Irish
Republican Army
The three condemned men were
George Plant, Michael Walsh and
Patrick Davern. A fourth defend
ant. Joseph O'Connor, was acquit-
ted. He was rearrested on leaving
court, but there was no immediate
announcement of a new charge.
Evening star., 1942-02-26
Metal Work Class 70 Open
Monday in ArIinqton

Ry Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON, Va, Feb. 26.-Or-
ganization Of C. 10-week national
defense class In general metal work.
beginning at 7 pm. Monday at
Westinghouse High School, was
announced today by Fletcher Kemp,
Of Arlington County
schools.
The class will meet from 7 to 10
Evening star., 1942-02-26
pm. Monday through Friday. with

pm. Monday through Friday. with
instruction by Louis Hamm. head of
the vocational department in Ar
lington. Young men out Of school
and ranging in age from II to Is
years will be eligible.
MIR. Kemp said candidates for
the course would have to register
with the Virginia Employment Serv-
ice, 1918 North Washington boule-
ward, Arlington, prior to Monday
night and bring a certificate from
the employment service to the OPEN
ing class session.
The course is sponsored by the
Evening star., 1942-02-26

Federal Government and supervised
by Arlington school officials. 1t will
include elementary and mechanical
drawing, patterns and cold metal
cutting, shaping, fitting, riveting
and soldering.
Evening star., 1942-02-26
MEMS FINE OVERCOATS

ss5 jaeger English overeoot. Size a. grey. $3.50
so Burberry English overeoot. Size 46- S7200
Evening star., 1942-02-26
Leather Goods Boom

Girls buying wallets for soldiers
and soldiers responding with gloves
and handbags have caused a boom
in the leathercraft industry Of Aus
tralia, and factories cannot obtain
sufficient labor to fill orders.
Evening star., 1942-02-26
Native ToIents Recoonized

London officials say that in the
afraid shelter the born leaders,
regardness of income or station in
life, gradually came to the front and
by popular acclamation became the
AFRAID wardens.
Evening star., 1942-02-26

o'Connor did not adequately defend
him, his intimation seeming to be
that Mr.. O'Connor was primarily
interested in protecting some one
higher up.
Evening star., 1942-02-26
MEMS TOPCOATS

S45 $50 Brown Tweed Topeoos Sizes "a, 40 q REQ
uor, 20 short, 80 long s345o
S45 ColoruI Imported Isle Of Man Hand Topeoots
Sizes IS, g. 38 40 ~ reouIor, SO short ---- S3450
SIS imported Block ond 6roy Hernsbone Topeoot SIZE
81 Bolmocoon model $3.50
50 Iona o.-- --- $3.50
10 SIS imported Honis Tweed Topeoots Practically oil
sizes from IS to 46 also shorts ond longs; oil shodes
S4Ss0
SIS IMPORTED JOHN SHANNON BROWN TWEED
TOPCoATS roeon model sizes 81 eouior 40 long, $3.50
SIS Reversible Tweed Topeoots Sizes S., +0 a. a.
reouor. 81 short, 38 short, 42 short $3.50
n SIS cemel Hair Topeoots Noturo nnY ond oxford;
sizes S. 39 "A eouIor 36 short, 39 Snort 42 short 50
long, 40 long, 42 long, a long $500
S65 Oxford Make Oxford Grey DB Medium weight
Topeoot for dress or business size 37---------S495o
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Rambling Reporter

Continued from rage O1e)
his wife. He noticed a great pile
OF mail stacked up ready for mail
ing Being an accommodating soul,
DR.. Hurst Gathered up the mail and
took il t. the rort ofIlCc. later
going back to the employment of
flee after his wife.
While he sat in the Huret car
waiting for his wife to icin him.
DR.. Hurst noticed that there was
considerable excitement in the en-
ployment office. Mrs. Hurst was
giving the place a ransacking. She
opened every drawer in every cup
''oard. She searched on shelves and
Hug out waste paper baskets. She
hunted over the f'cor like a pointer
in search of game.
She was muttering Wher she
Joined him in the car. The gist Of
the muttering was that someone had
;tolen the sweet corn given her b.
I friend.
Bright and early the next morn
ing, a postman left a great stack
Of mail at the employment office.
In it was an envelope stuffed with
, dozen ears of sweet corn which Dr.
Hurst had carefully mailed the
night before.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Treasury Bill to
Tax Incomes Goes
To Senate Group

Continued from Page One)
ular income tax as high as it could
go without imposing excessive hard
ships OIL debtors. and then using the
spendings tax TO get the rest of
the income tax money that was
needed"
Statements last night by Paul
ard Secretary of the Treasury Hen
ry Morgenthau. jr, shed further
light on the Administrations stand
on the tax situation.
Paul placed the treasury une-
quivocally in opposition to the Ruml
pay -as-you-go" system of income
tax collection. The plan, proposed
by Beardsley Ruml, chairman Of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, TO put taxpayers on q current
basis, was said by Paul to be OBJ
jectionable for three reasons: l. 1t
is too complicated; 2. 1t would not,
in fact, put taxpayers on a current
basis; 3. 1t would forgive" a years
tax liability with the greatest ben
Gift going to persons with the big
gest income.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
kdzis Enter 4th
Year Of Conflict
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
skillful camouflage or by fleeing. y
There was no amplification Of the
reference to "skillful camouflaging'
or any suggestion of the possibility
that some of the Allied aviators
had not descended involuntarily.
FIGHT FOR LIFE
The German people are fighting
for their very life" Hitler said in
his appeal. which will start or
ganized Nazi squads out to seek
voluntary" contributions of any
thing from money to Woolen under
clothing.
In a battle of the giants unpar-
allelled in history, German troops
this year have enormously extended
the European peoples living space.
Thus the attempts OF Roosevelt,
Churchill and Stalin-who pretend
10 seek the happiness of humanity
but who bring only famine TO Euro
pean nations-can be considered a
Iinal failure.
1T is the task of the front and
German workers in the rear TO de-
stroy more than the hopes Of the
international hyenas who pursue
gold alone ard of the void Bolshe-
visit beasts
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
World War lin
Fourth Year Now

attack on japanese military concen-
trations in north Burma with an
other raid on Myitkyina, the third
in about 10 days.
In the western desert of Egypt
there was heavy fighting as British
forces braced against a new attack
by Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika
corps. The chief battle was on in
the southern sector while in the
center the Imperials rocked back an
attempted italian attack.
There have been repeated hints
frcm London that the desert battle
may prove only the opening phase
of vast endeavor to place the
whole of Africa, including the French
possession of Dakar and Tunisia
firmly into Allied hands.
Or the Russian front the battle
for Stalingrad ragged on.
The pace of the Nazi advance had
been slowed by the fierceSt kind of
Soviet counterattacks. AT some
points these counterattacks were
regaining lost ground and Moscow
dispatches cited one in particular
in which Russian troops had re-
crossed the Don northwest of Stall
ingrad and smashed a deep wedge
into positions held by italian troops.
There was new action on the Len
ingrad front and Moscow said black
Sea fleet units had baked a Nazi
landing attempt on the north Cau-
casus coast. Berlin claimed Ruman-
ian troops had captured Anapa, 80
miles northwest of Novorossisk.
The Germans claimed new breach
es in Russian lines south of Stalin-
grad but were silent on the new
desert fighting in Egypt.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Alaska Highway
Open December

Alaska. revealed today that the
Alaska highway will be completed
Dec. /.
The highway is now about half
completed he said. and by Christ
mas time supplies for Alaskan out
posts will be rolling over the new
route.
Chandler revealed that the most
thrilling" incident on the 10000
mile inspection ship was when a
naval vessel aboard which the sub
committee was travelling was "chsl-
lenged" by another ship.
The commander of the naval YES
sell pecred anxiously through the
log at the tiny glimmeringS of light
off in the distance and shouted in
| to the ships telephone:
Answer quickly, and be sure you
answer correctly!'
Aye, aye, sir" came back through
the earphones from the signalman
above.
Immediately a few shafts of light
shot out from a giant electric Ian
/ tern above, and several seconds later
came the answer to proceed
The commander wiped perspira-
ton from his forehead and turned
to the two dungareed United States
/
senators beside him.
IF hc hadn't answered quickly
and given the right n S W r,
we would have been locking for
/ place to hide, he said.
He explained to Chandler and
Sen. Rufus c. Holman, r., Ore,
that American naval vessels, when
On patrol duty, challenge all ships
discovered, and that if a proper
answer is not forthcoming within
a given length of time, the chal-
longing vessel opens fire without
question.
The trip, authorized by the sem
ate, convinced Chandler, Holman,
and Sens. Mon C. Wallgren, D.,
Wash, and Harold H. Burton, r.,
o. that alaska must be recog-
nized as key to this war;" Chand-
ler said
Chandler said he has been called
to confer with President Roosevelt
either today or tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
OutfumbIes laps

Continued from Page One)
said. Il have had enough. They
promised use we would be sent
home after few weeks in the labor
battalion. That was two years ago.
We were sent from island to island.
always working and always promised
that when this job was done, we
would be sent home.
The shelling Friday morning was
terrible. I thought I was dead.
Please sheet me and end my suf-
ferings.' He was i'll from malaria,
but an American surgeon said he
would recover.
Both military and labor prisoners
were surprised at their treatment
by the Americans.
I'VE had all believed" said one.
that the Americans would be un-
kind and mean to u.s. We did not
expect this treatment"
Some of the japanese marines at
Guadalcanal and Tulagi apparently
had seen service in the attacks on
Wake island. Americans found
U. S. mar:ae iegging in one Japa-
nese camp, identical to those issued
at Wake. In another camp was
found a U. S. marine dress uniform.
in exceilent condition, its buttons
polished as if it were being kept as
a priced trophy.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
TO HOSPITAL

An hour after they arrived, Stur-
geon and Snellen had delivered the
baby, completed the post-birth oper-
alton, bathed him, wrapped him in
a blanket and had him on his way
to st. Josephs hospital.
The officers were directed in
their obstetrical operation by DR..
E. A. Lcavell, health officer of JEFF
fe-son county, who transmitted his
instructions 90 miles by telephone.
DR.. Leavell delivered his instruc-
tions to the Rev. George A. Saffrin,
a Catholic priest, who relayed them
to the policemen working over the
seven-pound boy.
The police were called by neigh
Dor who had heard the cries Of Mrs
Helen Vittitoe, Sc, wife of a grocer
Mrs. Vittitce had been unable to
reach her own physician, DR.. d. A
Bates, who had answered another
call, when she felt the first pangs
of labor.
She started to give birth to the
boy and died so minutes before
Sturgeon and Snellen arrived at
the small home in Black Mud Lane
Mrs Vittitoe's cix other children
were aeleep.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Meat|ess Days in
Sight for Nation
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
committee, announced that the COM
mittee had prepared it's final rec
concentrations for a national meat
conservation program.
GROUPS REPORT
After six weeks of study. Wickard
said the committee had aScertained:
l. That the meat supply is the
largest on record.
2. That total demand is also the
largest on record
3. That the total demand adds
up to more than the total supply
270C0,0OO,000 pounds of demand;
44,000000,000 pounds of supply.
Thus, the problem is working out
program by which the fighting
men and their allies get their mini
mum requirements and the balance
S equitably distributed among civil
ans.
We ought TO manage the supply
50 that the housewife who can't
get to the store until afternoon won't
De forced TO do without" Wickard
jaid; SO that everyone has a chance
o buy his fair share of the total.
Also We want to see that the sup
ply is divided evenly throughout
he year. That is. if civilians eat
Unlimited amounts of meat during
he heavy marketing season this
week there may be serious civilian
hortages next spring ard sum-
ner