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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21
John StaIkers Move TO Whittier

THE JOHN STALKERS have moved from their home
Lake Shore road Crosse Ponte the Whittier apart
for the winter.
The John Huetmans of Oxford road Crosse Pointe
enjoying their baby daughter Grace Caroline
born September 10.
The babys is the former Grace Marie Carter
Col Joseph p Sullivan paid another of his surprise
weekend visits to Mrs Sullivan at her apartment
In
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21

Mailer and William p. Cooney
Jr.
Judge and Mrs. John p. Seal
le', parent of the bridegroom
elect, gave a dinner at the De-
troit Athletic Club 10 celebrate
Jacks birthday and the APP
preaching marriage.
Three Comic Pages every day
In Daily Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21

Wall be al the altar
Margaret Lauer will be her sisters maid of honor
Ann Brown sister Of the bridegroom elect will
be a bridesmaid
nuptia high will be chsnted at IL 80
In ST Pauls Church Lake Shore road Crosse Poine
En+erfan for Paul Hoffman
PAUL HOFFMAN of Birmingham who has joined the
army.
And leaves October 4..is receiving much attention.
from his friends.
The ]. Francis Lynns Saturday entertained at
cocktails. in his honor.
Saturday the E. ]. Andersons Of Orchard Lake
A Hoad, will give dinner for him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21
Miss tauer TO Wed Bill Brown

center of the tea table. was
a blue ship. -.
With sails of red cello
phane E. and white flowers
at its base. -.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
See sEvAsTOPOL-Daxes.,
Tool Plant
tn Locate
i'm Warren

Macomb county is to have an
other new industry, one that's
growing like weed" with
plans complete for the construc-
ton of a new building for the
Saw Way Tool and Machining
company, now located on Joseph
Campau avenue in Detroit, at
Toepfer and Eight Mile roads,
about halfway between Mound
and Ryan roads.
The structure will be 1872 feet
long by 40 feet wide, of cement
block with stucco facing.
The cost will be whatever 1t
takes, we've got to have this
new building right now or as
soon as we can get it," the man.
agement said in indicating that
no expense would be spared to
rush completion.
The company employs $50
men today and will probably add
few more, officials said. 1t is
working 100 per cent on defense
work.
Established for a number of
years the concern had already
built one new addition and is
still cramped for space in its
Detroit location, the fact that
dictated a move out into Warren
township.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
SevasfopoTs
Lines Crack
Savage Axis Thrusts
Force Russians Back

gagements all along the 1000
mile front from the Ukraine TO
the far north on the anniversary
of Adolf Hitler's fateful plunge
into this nation, but Russian at
tention was centered on the
roaring battle in the Crimea,
now in its 18th day. The Ger
mans first laid siege to Sevasto-
pol Nov. 7, l94l, but the cur
rent offensive there started
June S.
1t was Officially admitted that
the enemy had succeeded in
driving a wedge into the Rus
sian defenses at Sevastopol. The
location of this German salient
was not given, but the Germans
were pressing strongly for both
north and south of the Black SEA
base.
Front dispatches said that sew
en- axis divisions, about 100000
men, already had been wiped out
in the wild hand-to-hand fight
ing. the sustained .illery bar
RACES and the ceaseless attacks
and counter-attacks. These &C
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
About German Attack
Caused Tobruk's Surrender
Hord-Pressed British Fought
Axis Sworms in Hopeless Bottle

when the British ran into a
desert ambush.
1t was presumed here that
most of the unused stores of
equipment at the port were de-
stroyed before the surrender.
Some useable British tanks were
known to have been inside the
defense lines.
The German occupation of To-
bruk gives them the use of its
harbor as supply base from
which to prepare their expected
drive against the Egyptian from
tier.
The capitulation of Tobruk
had seemed inevitable for the
past two days.
The British loss OF troops in
such numbers, many of them
non-fighting or technical per-
sonnet was regarded as serious,
but ii was said here that the loss
of position did not mean the end
of the desert war.
Lieut.. Gen. Neil M. Richie al
ready has fortified this import
an. gateway to Egypt and pre-
p red for defense of the whole
Egyptian-Libyan border.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Methodist
Pastors are
Transferred

Three ministers who have
served Methodist congregations
in the country were transferred
to other pastorates, it was an
nounced Sunday following the
closing session of the annual
meeting of the Detroit Metho-
dist conference at Flint.
Rev. w. Paul Nicholas, pas
tor of Utica Methodist since
1896, has been named minister
of the Holmes Memorial church,
Detroit. Rev. Fred MUMMY. now
of Chelsea Methodist, will re-
place him.
Rev. II. A. Manahan. now of
Iron Mountain Methodist, re-
places Rev. James Lees at Ro-
meo. Rev. Lees has been trans
ferred to Central church, Yale.
Rev. w. II. Tirrell has been
I. ansferred from the Methodist
church at Armada and Meade to
Kingston. The name of his sue
cessor is not Immediately avail
able.
County ministers returned to
their present charges are: DR..
Dunning Idle. First Methodist,
Mount Clemens; Rev. H. H. Che
See PASTORS-PaGe Z
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
County Moves
10 Classify
All Employees
Boost Deputy
Sheriffs' Pay
TO $4,000 Annually

The Macomb county board of
supervisors meeting to equalize
taxes this morning saw no
chance of getting that job done
today and turned its attention to
the matter of equalizing salaries
of county employees, making a
chance appeal to the state
tax commission to secure the
one half mill boost in tax rate
denied them by the county tax
ALLEGATION board and adopted a
resolution to hike the pay of
deputy sheriffs to $4,000 annual
ly by vote of "a yeas and three
nays.
Any prospect that tax equal
ization would be completed to-
day was definitely out when SUI
pervisor Earl Tallman, of War
rem township said that it will
take him at least a week to get
his valuations complete in that
rapidly developing area and 9TH
er supervisors can use the adj
ditional time to advantage.
Sherwood Bennett, county con-
troller, declared that the fact
that the session will have to be
See SUPERVlSORS-Page Z
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Surprise Alert
Planned Here
But 24-Hours
Notice Planned

Plans for Macomb county's
first semi-surprise blackout were
complete today as residents and
afraid workers awaited the alb
breviated notice which will sig
nal the alert"
Whereas in previous tests
several days warning have been
given residents this weeks test
will be ordered on b 24-hours
notice.
In charge of the general pro-
lection of the county will be
Sheriff Jacob Theut, designated
under the state act covering
blackouts as the county COM
mander. Theut's plans for the
blackout are just what they have
been before.
In Mount Clemens proper
plans are complete for a real
mobilization of all Civilian De-
Tense agencies that would norm
ally operate during an air raid.
Incidents will be created to be
See BLACKOUT-Page 2
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BY HARRY CROCKETT

WITH THE BRITISH FORCES
AT HALFAYA PASS, June 21-
(Delayed)-(P)-Tobruk fell TO
Axis assault late yesterday when
the defenders of the hard-press-
ed British bastion in Eastern
Libya formally surrendered.
First reports indicated that some
thousands of British were taken
prisoner.
An about Axis thrust from
the East pierced the heretofore
impregnable perimeter Of the
British defenses at the port IN
three places yesterday, tearing
open a wide gap, while the ltal-
ians shelled Tobruk from the
South and West.
A British attempt to counter
attack with armored columns
from the South during the day
failed when the British clashed
with Field Marshal Gen. Erwin
Rommels 2lst Panzer Division.
No further details were avail
able Immediately on the last two
days of terrific fighting.
Tobruk's fate was presaged by
the heavy tank lasses of June Is,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22

nounced in Ottawa that an en-
envy submarine, presumably Jap
aneSe, had Shelled the Dominion
government radio station at Es-
tevan Point, Vancouver Island,
Saturday night. The submarine
pumped shells at the station for
about half am hour but failed to
do any damage.
While the number of ships &C
tually in Kiska Harbor may
h ave been small, observers
pointed out that presence of a
cruiser might indicate that a
force of destroyers and auxili-
aries was somewhere in the vi
cinity.
The communique said opera
tons in the Aleutians "contin-
ued to be restricted by consid-
erations of weather and great
distances"
within the last few days,
however" it added, "the wealth
er was sufficiently clear at times
to permit some restricted air op-
erations against X isk a where
tents and minor temporary struc-
lures were observed to have been
set up on land"
The Navy reported on June IL
that a small enemy force had
landed on Attu, barren, rocky
islet marking the westernmost
tip of the Aleutian chain. At that
time the presence of enemy ships
at Kiska was noted, but they
were reported shortly afterward
to have been driven away.
Kiska, formerly used as ma
Wy coaling sts ton, is about 275
miles east of Attu. About 20
miles long, it is sparsely inhab-
tied by Indians and a few white
traders.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Rails
10 Build Ships
so Tons OF Steel
Shipped to Eeorss

About so tons of scrap rail
from the old Croker boulevard
ca lines has been shipped %
the shipbuilding plant Of the
Great Lakes Engineering Works
at Ecorse and another 40 tons
remains to be shipped, City En-
gineer E. l.. Pettingill declared
this morning.
The steel will be fabricated
into plates and other parts Of
giant lake freighters that are
under construction in tho Ecorse
yard.
WPA forces that have beGn
working on Croker have
pushed salvaging of rail from
Cass avenue from the raihood
tracks west as far rs Rose stroot
the city engineer pointed out.
The nature of the work &C tn
outer end of Cass avenue II IL
same as it was on Croekar
boulevard but east of the tracks
it will have to be dug out from
under an asphalt surface. ~
pointed out.
The steel thus far unshipped
from Croker boulevard u b.
ing left as a barricade until the
holes from which II has ben
taken have been refilled with
concrete, the city engineer saiA.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
BY HENRY c. CASSIDY

MOSCOW, June 22-(P)-Se-
vaStopol defenders dropped back
from the north and south fort
reSSes guarding the Crimean
naval base today before enor-
nous German pressure, exerted
ceaselessly despite the navy
casualties, estimated at 100, 1000,
which Axis forces have suffered
in less than three weeks.
A fresh Nazi wedged was
forced in the Notifications to
the north where the enemy
massed huge force of infantry,
artillery and tanks, press &C
counts said.
In the south, where the Rus
slams had dropped back to the
central lines, a furious battle
was reported under way for a
hill dominating the sector.
OPENS SECOND YEAR
Today marked the start Of the
second year of the war for the
Soviet. AS the battle for the last
remaining bit of Crimea entered
its climactic stage. German YES
sells appeared off Sevastopoi,
dispatches from the beleaguered
city said.
Sporadic fighting was report
ed continuing on the Kharkou
front, 400 miles to the north.
The Germans were said to be
attempting to restore lines in q
sector where they previously
had lost four Ukrainian villages
but the attack of two companies
ere reported repulsed.
PENETRATE DEFENSES
The Germans besieging Sc
vastopol already were lodged in
the outer defense lines.
The fate of the historic Cri-
mean fortress appeared to be in
the balance as the second year
of the costly German campaign
in Soviet Russia opened, but
Russia's peasant president
Michael Kalinin. found cause to
assure his people that "the end
of Hitlerism is inevitable"
SCATTERED FIGHTING
There were scattered local en-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
FDR, Churchill
Renew Talks
Grand Strotesy
Believed at Stoke

WASHINGTON, June 22-tP
Vital conferences between
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Ct\rchill were describ-
ed today by the White House as
progressing day and night in
very satisfactory way" and it
was disclosed that the two Unit
ed Nations leaders expected to
issue a joint statement later on.
They are comforting together
and also with military, naval
and air experts of both coun-
tries.
This much was revealed by
Presidential Secretary Stephan
Early. But he had nothing to
add on specific details of the
conferences, such as whether
Mr.. Roosevelt and the Prime
Minister were focusing their at
tention primarily on the ques-
ton OF opening a second fighting
front in Europe or on possible
steps TO stave off an even more
decisive defeat at the hands Of
the Axis armies in North Africa.
The statement from Early that
Conferences still were continu-
ing was the first word that the
secret deliberations of the Presi-
dent and Churchill since the lat
ter arrived in this country
Thursday.
Il can say simply this" Early
told reporters. The conferences
arc continuing in a very orderly
and a very satisfactory way.
Neither the Prime Minister nor
the President feels they have
reached a point in their talks
where any public statements
can be made. As soon as that
See STRATEGY-Page Z
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
u. ), Canadian
Shores Target
Of Guniire
Slight Domose
Reported After
Dual Attacks

Submarine Smelling of lonely
Vancouver Island in Canada's
British Columbia q n d gunfire
upon the Oregon coast from m
unid entitled craft lurking Off
shore today brought war to the
doorstep of an alert and exc
pectant Pacific northwest.
The two attacks, at points
separated by several hundred
miles, came almost exactly -
hours apart. Official reports in
Dictated that no casualties and
little damage were suffered at
either spot.
First target was q Dominica
government radio station ut Este
van Point, on the western coast
Of Vancouver Island. The shall
ing there began at 1888 pm.
Pacific War Time) Saturday
and continued for a half-hour.
WINDOWS BROKEN
The shells landed on the
beach or on the rocks well b.
You'd the building, said L1oolka
Gen. Kerneth Sn,4rt, cosn1
er-ih-chief Of Canadian w.
coast 6efenses. "A few windoS11t
in the radio office were hroloa
by the con :ussion."
Then, at 1870 o'clock lat
night, residents from Seaaida. .;
the ocean to Astoria on thu CQ
umbia river, at the northwest
tip of Oregon, were awakano4
by the sound Of gunfire and tn
whine of speeding missiles.
"Six to nine shells landed IN
the area north of Seaside" tn
army said in q commun1Quo
from western defense headquart.
ers at San Francisco. "apparen4-
ly from an unidentified cr11e
offshore. Firing lasted Is min
See RAIDERS-P1go 4
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Trio Killed
i'm Powder
Plant Blast

UNIONTOWN, Pa, June o.
P)-Three men were killed and
two injured today by an explos-
ion which wrecked a unit of the
Liberty Powder Plant near this
southwestern Pennsylvania coal
mining center.
The plant is a division of the
DIN Corporation.
Officials said the blast occur
red in one building. Other build
ings of the company's property
were unchanged.
The dead were Thomas Cray
ton of Lemont, and Regis Owens
and Joseph Skies, both of Dun
bar. The injured were Francis
M. Owens of Lemont, and Rob-
ert Conway of Connellsville.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
80 Tons
of Rubber
.SaIvaSed

With so tons of old rubber al
ready collected, county petro-
leum industry leaders today
pressed their drive in an attempt
to avert the threat of gasoline
rationing.
One and one-half tons was
contributed by youngsters at
tending the free matinee Satur-
day at the East Detroit and Rose
Vile theatres owned by Jeff Will
liamS.
Williams offered the free
show to all youngsters con-
tributing some item of old rub
Der. One youngster offered his
dads new rubber boots while
another logged in so feet of gar
den hose, also reasonably new.
Both were admitted, but the hose
and boots were returned.
River and lake boat owners
continued to aid the drive. Old
tires that heretofore had served
as bumpers along the dock are
being contributed daily and
sacks of sawdust substituted.
Charles Meldrum, who has
been collecting the tires from
boatmen, this morning turned in
1913 tires weighing 1880 pounds.
Smitty's service topped in
dividual stations by contributing
a ton of rubber.
County Chairman Russ Muir
ply repeated today that old
rubber may be turned in at any
of the county's estimated 1000
service stations.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Five Injured
in Accidents
Motorcycle Crosh
Injuries Girl, Man

At least five persons were in
jured over the weekend in traf-
fic accidents on Macomb county
highways.
The injured:
Wilma Mylas, %, of Highland
Park.
Dells Horning, %, Detroit.
Joseph Green, 48, 24274
Roosevelt, East Detroit.
John Wierth, 33, SASS Nathan
Hale, Center Line.
Dorothy Jones, Is, Detroit.
Miss Mylas and Horning were
hurt at BIS p. m. Sunday when
the motorcycle on which they
were riding was struck by car
driven on Grand avenue at
Washington in Mount Clemens,
by Carl Loose, %, of 9 Ahrens.
Loose was ticketed for leaving
the scene of an accident by Pa
trolmen Alb Wright and Richard
Stobber when he failed to stop.
He told the patrolmen he failed
to stop because he was excited.
No formal charge will be
lodged against him, police said,
until the full extent of injuries
suffered by the pair can be de-
termined. st. Joseph's hospital
said neither is seriously injured.
Green and Wierth were hurt
at $40 D. m. Saturday when
Green's car left the highway on
Gratiot avenue, one-quarter mile
south of Patton in Chesterfield.
Green is still at ST Joseph's hos
See CRASHES-Page 2
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Priest, Minister
Executed by Nazis

LONDON, June % - (H) -
A Roman Catholic priest and a
Protestant parson and his wife
faced a firing squad in recent
Prague reprisals because fund
amentally the Nazis have con-
tempt for the church." President
Eduard Benes of the Czechoslo-
yak government in exile said
today.
Tam sure none of them knew
anything about the assailants of
Reinhard Heydrich (slain No. 2
man in the Gestapo)," said Be-
mes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Plead Guilty

DETROIT, June 81 CR) --
Six of the eight defendants in a
lottery case resulting from one
of the indictments returned by
Circuit Judge Homer Ferguson's
m g-graft grand jury
pleaded guilty today and Circuit
Judge Earl G. Pugsley fined
each of them $1,000.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Of Tobruk
|n,periIswhoIe
War Strategy
Germon Africo Corps
Smoshes Anew at
Beoten British
By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH
Associated Press War Editor

Associated Press War Editor
With TCbruk and virtually all
Eastern Libya regained and
with the British Eighth Army
beaten, leaving thousands of its
number in the Tobruk trap, the
Axis African corps rolled east
ward today against Egypt, i'm
periling the entire position Of
the United Nations in the mid
die east.
An enemy column evidently
feeling out the weakened Brit
ish line along the Egyptian from
tier clashed with British mobile
units a few miles from the Dor
der, the British reported, and
Rome boa st d that Italian
German troops were marching
against Egypt.
Trying to block further rein
forcement of the already supe-
rior African corps under Mar
shall Rommel, the Raj dashed
desparatel at Rommel's forward
concentration points, landing
fields, and land and sea trans
port.
HIT BIG SHIPS
Torpedo planes hit two large
enemy supply ships, firing one,
and struck an escort vessel, in
convoy south of Cape Bon,
Tunisia, on the Sicily-Libya sea
route, the RAJ reported.
Among other actions the Raj
successfully attacked lars e
numbers of enemy transport We
hicles on the Sidi Azeitz landing
ground" the communique said.
British and Axis mobile col
umns already had clashed yes
terday near Sid Azeiz, IL miles
northwest of the Libyan-Egyp-
tan border stronghold, Fort
Capuzzo.
The Axis own heavy air
forces leaped the British frontier
positions to strike at defense
communications along the Egyp-
tan coast between Sid Bar
rani and Fuka.
The white flag that fluttered
out Sunday morning over To-
bruk's barricades as final, mute
concession that a superior Axis
force had reconquered Libya
See EGYPT-Page 2
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Naval Action

LONDON, June % - U.R -
British and German ligt, naval
units were believed in action In
the Dover Strait early today
while British airplanes were
raiding enemy occupied terri
tory planes and German planes
bombed southampton and other
points on the south coast. -.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Slhanher Describes
Trip THROUGH India

Frank Schanher, Mount Glenn
ems globe trotting druggist, de-
scribed a trip he made two years
ago to India when he appeared
before High Twelve members as
guest speaker this noon. Hugh
" Whiting was in charge Of the
program.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Secret Visit

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, June 22- up - A
high Dutch army officer who Is
the leader of guerrillas carrying
or the fight against the Japa-
nese In the Netherlands East In
dies made a secret visit to Aus
tralia and then returned to his
command, a special Netherlands
East Indies communique said to-
day.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22

MOSCOW, June 81 U.R) -
Russia entered its second year
of war today, acknowledging
that German siege forces had
driven 4 wedge into the defenses
of SevastopOl, where Soviet
troops had fallen back to inter
mediate positions"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Cites Plane Loss

ALEXANDRIA, June 12-(P
Commander Thanos Spanides
of a Greek submarine raider
famed for exploits against the
Axis reported today after his re-
turn to port that THE Nazis
seem to have lots of aircraft on
Crete and in Greece"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Destroy Ships

BERLIN, From G e r m n
Broadcasts), June % R - A
German motor torpedo boat flo
tilla attacked a formation OF
small coastal craft and freight
ers fleeing from TObruk yester-
day morning and completely
destroyed it, the German high
command declared today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-22
Jap Invaders
Inch Forward
AIeutian Drive Swings
200 Miles Nearer Alaska

WASHINGTON, June 22-(P)
- Under cover of fog and thick
weather, Japanese landing forces
have inched along the Aleutian
island chair toward Alaska and
now are establishing themselves
at Kiska, which is only 585 miles
from the United States Navy
base at Dutch HarLor.
This was disclosed in a COM
munique yesterday that told of
the bombing of "a small force"
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Desert Fight

CAIRO, June 22-UP)-British
mobile forces yesterday estab-
lished contact with an enemy
column at Sidi Azeiz, IL miles
north of Fort CapuzzO on the
Egyptian frontier, middle
eastern command communique
said today.
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WASHINGTON, June 22-(P
Declaring Adolf Hitler's plans
for world conquest have been
frustrated" by Russia's heroic
resistance, Secretary OF State
Hull has promised the Soviet
Union an ever widening stream"
of war supplies.