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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-02
Real Estate Deal

Philip Basinger, residing south of
Bluffton on the Dixie highway has
purchased the residence property on
East Kibler street belonging to the
late John J. Badertscher. Price
S2,250. The property was offered
for sale by Dan r. Tripplehorn, ad-
ministrator. The transaction does
not include a vacant lot adjoining
the property.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-02
TURBINE READY
FOR OPERATION
BY next week
Second Unit is Installed at
Municipal Plant Here
Wednesday
Await Final Inspection and
Checkup; Dismantle Old
Equipment

With installation completed, the re-
Gently purchased 1880 XIV turbo-
generator will be in operation at the
Bluffton municipal electric light and
waterworks plant next week, it was
stated by John w. Swisher, superin-
tendent in charge.
Only final checkup and approval of
an engineer from the Westinghouse
company of Pittsburgh, manufacturer
of the equipment is required to place
the unit in regular operation on the
line.
An engineer from the Westing-
house company is expected here next
Monday for final inspection which will
require two or three days, after which
it will be ready for operation as the
second of battery of two turbo-gen
orator units at the plant.
The turbine and condenser install
lations were completed the first week
in June and the time since then has
been required for final pipe connec-
tionS.
Sell Old Engine
One of the old Skinner 800 XIV
engines was sold to the Pet Milk in
terests in ST. Louis, Mo-, whose engi-
neers were here the first of the week
dismantling the unit and generator
preparatory to shipping it to one of
their plants.
The other Skinner 800 XIV engine
and generator located near the door
facing Harmon road, will be used as
an emergency unit, Swisher said.
AS an auxiliary, the Skinner unit
can be paralleled with the turbine if
the peak load should ne near the 750
XIV capacity of present turbo gener-
ator. Test runs have proven this en-
tirely feasible, Swisher stated.
Operating Efficiency
It makes for greater generating
efficiency to have several units of diff
ferent sizes available for the produc-
tion of electrical power, it was pointed
out. If the generator is too large the
machine runs under its capacity and
economy is lost because more steam
per XIV is required.
Plant engineers must anticipate the
peak load and provide sufficient pow
er to meet the peak. If only one
large generator of sufficient size to
meet the peak were used the expense
of operation would be unnecessarily
large on days like Sunday, when the
load is very light.
The power load in Bluffton has in
creased sharply in the past several
years. Increased installation of cleo
trio ranges and refrigerators in Bluff
ton rensidences together with the
stepped up industrial tempo have
combined to create an unanticipated
need for electric energy.
Industrial Power
The largest consumers Of current
in Bluffton are the Triplett Electrical
Instrument Co., The Bluffton Stone
Co. and The Page Dairy Co. The
hammer mills in local milling compan-
les are large users of power also, il
was stated.
With the recently purchased 1850
XIV turbo-generating unit, the pres
ent 750 turbo- generator and the 30C
XIV Skinner engine, the plant has
adequate facilities in both boiler
| CONTINUED ON page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-02
Woman On Visit
Injured n Fail

Mrs. E. c. Althaus of this place
is in the Aultman hospital at Can
ton as the result of a fractured left
leg between the knee and hip. She
was injured in fall while visiting
at the home of her daughter Mrs.
A. Nj. Rickert in Canton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-02
Enlists In Navy

Gerald Swank, operator of North
Main street barber shop has enlisted
in the navy, it was announced the
first of the week. Swank expects to
be called to active service July 27.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-02
MOVE TO ILLINOIS

Mrs. D. E. Daley and family
moved the first of the week from
their farm south of town on the
Dixie highway to Decatur, ILL.,, where
Mr.. Daley is employed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-02
Rank Advanced

Donivan Berry was advanced to
the rank of Tech. Sgt. in the Medi-
cal Corps at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex,
where he has been in training.
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Yonk Tank Forces Happy
After Brush with RommeI
Heroism and Humor Mark Reaction
of yubont American Troops
of JubiIont American Troops

from the desert scene of their
successful. combat with AIis ar
NOR.
The men were particularly en-
thusiastic in their praise of Pvt.
William o. Kern of Bellville,
Ill. During the heat of a great
tank battle, they said, Kern risk
ed his life to save his lieutenant,
Allen Anderson of Phoenix,
Ariz., who had suffered a pain
full but not critical wound and
somehow had fallen to the
ground from his General Grant.
Seeing his commander in dis
tress and in direct line of enemy
shell and machine-gun fire,
Kern jumped out of the tank
and dragged him to safety.
The story was related by Pri-
vate Harold Frank, a loader of
a General Grant big gun who
halls from New York's Bronx.
He saw it happen.
boy oh boy, did l load that
gun that first night" Frank ex-
claimed of his part in three days
of fighting.
1--WE put them in and shot
them out just as fast as humanity
possible for hours without a stop
and we got at least one Jerry
and hit another that l know off,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Rupture of U.S.. Relations
with Laval France Looms
Washington shorpIy Rejects viehy
Protest Against Rousn Air Roids

(Vichy reported 30 civilians
killed and 1870 injured).
In rejecting the protest and
assuring Laval that the attacks
would continue, A m a n
Charge D'Affaires S. Pinkney
Tuck drew no distinction be-
tween occupied and unoccupied
France, stating simply that mil
itary plants operated by or for
Germany and other German mil
itary properties in France will
be bombed at every opportunity
in the future"
Tuck emphasized that Ameri-
cans have no desire to see
Frenchmen suffer any more than
can be avoided, "since they have
already suffered to an incalcul-
able extent under German occu-
patton, but he left no doubt that
attacks on German detectives
would be continued regardless of
protests.
While the bluntness of the
American rejection caused new
speculation as TO possible
break with Vichy. there was no
indication that the State De-
See vICHY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Hitler Hur|s
New Divisions
al Sta|ingrad
FrenziedIy Strives
for K.o.; But Red
Defenses Hold Fast
By ROGER ID. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor

Reichs Fuehrer Adolf Hitler,
frenziedly driving his armies to
capture Stalingrad, threw fresh
masses of men and armor into
the bloody assault toCay, but the
Russians declared they were
holding firmly on all sides of the
imperilled Volga metropolis.
German filed headquarters as
serted in broad terms that tank
led Nazi troops had stormed and
captured dominating heights"
in the fortified zone west of
Stalingrad after stubborn fight
ing.
On Stalingrad' s southern flank,
the Russians said Red army NOR
tar batteri-s and riflemen killed
$50 Axis troops in beating off
four successive assaults support
ed by massed planes.
Soviet accounts said Axis
planes we're SO thick they were
literally hanging over our
front line and bombing our po-
sitions," but the Russians waited
them out and then charged to
drive off the Axis ground forces.
Front-line dispatches said
Nazi tanks and infantry, attack
ing under an 1.rnbrcila ofs..,vG
bombers, deepened narrow
wedge in the city's western de-
lenses yesterday.
FALL BACK
After a violent engagement,
our troops retreated to new
defense line" Soviet headquar-
ters said.
Then, amid bitter all-night
fighting, the Red armies stiffened
and at midday today the Soviet
command indicated there had
been no further Withdrawals.
Nevertheless, the situation
was described as particularly
complicated" Immediately west
See WAR-page 6
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Hulk
Is lowed 10
Atlantic Port
1900 Rescued
as Flones Wreck
Greet Steomer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-B
The naval transport Wake
field, formerly the liner Man.
haitian, was severely damaged by
fire at sea September 8, the
navy announced today, but more
than 1900 passengers and crew
members were removed without
loss of life.
The charred hulk of the a..
000-ton ship, one time queen Of
the United States Merchant
Fleet, has now been saIvaged
and towed to an Atlantic port, Z
navy statment said.
SEVERAL INJURED
Adding that preliminary Ne
ports indicate that all the passen-
gers and crew were safe" the
navy said several were injured.
The fire was described a BE-
ing of Undetermined origin"
1t broke out ON one deck level
and spread swiftly throughout
the ten-year-old, $4,000, 900
slip.
It soon became necessary %
remove the more than one thou
sand passengers, many Of whom
were civilians, the others pre-
sumably being men in the naval
service, the navy related.
In addition 10 tn. o. thnaa-,
sand there were, according ~
the vessels normal complement
six hundred to seven hundred
officers and crewmen aboard.
commanded by Commander Har.
old Gardner Bradbury, Of Port
Angeles, Washington, q Coast
Guard officer.
WARSHIP SCREEN
The navy said the rescue was
brought about in q thrilling man-
ner by warships protecting the
convoy in which the Wake8ield
was travelling to an east coast
port.
A cruiser maneuvered its bow
alongside the. stern of the trane-
port and a destroyer placed ITSELF
along the side. At these close
quarters the passengers. were
transferred rapidly from tn
blazing ex-liner.
The crew remained aboard Ia
See FRE-Pags :
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
SeIfridge Homes School
transportation UnsoIved
Tenonts Of Housing Project Hope
for Neor Future Solution

walk or ride with their par
ents.
Selfridge Field spokesman
pointed out that bus service was
withdrawn because no Selfridge
personnel or families of person
mel live on the project.
Superintendent of Schools L.
Vide Fast said that the school
district probably will be unable
to buy a bus. He said that most
of the 100 children involved
would 60 I Clemens school.
Sc en- tenths of mile away, or
TO Lincoln. a mile away.
A Tenants League meeting TO
discuss the situation last night
failed to provide q solution.
Mrs. A. M. Carter. president Of
the women's club, said she left
the meeting after civilian en-
ployes of Selfridge, constituting
the bulk of the populations at the
project. and wives of former
Selfridge men argued over who
was responsible for the situation.
Mrs. Carter. w. lose husband
is stationed at Panama. charged
today that war widows" whose
See PUPnS-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
US. SeiZeS
Scrap Pile
i'm Oakland

DETROIT, Sept. 9 - (P) -
Acting under a requisition order
of the War Production Board,
salvage officials today seized an
estimated SO tons of scrap from
the farm of Ora Benjamin, near
Walled Lake, Mich, northwest
of Detroit.
WPB officials said it was the
first time since passage Of the
War Emergency Act that such
action had been taken against a
farmer, although material has
been seized from a scrapyard.
John D. McGillis, executive
secretary of the Michigan State
Salvage Committee who in COM
See SCRAP-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09

While thousands of Macomb
county children returned to
school today, residents of Self
ridge Homes still fumed because
their children lack transporta-
ton to nearby Mount Clemens
schools.
Unable to secure the use of
Selfridge Field bus which
carried the children last year,
the parents today pondered four
possible solutions to the prob
lem.
1. The Mount Clemens pub
lie school system would provide
bus.
2. Winburn McPhail. housing
director. may contract with a
private bus company.
g.. 7 &C old Sugar Bush road
school, now rot used because
Of the Selfridge Field expansion.
could be moved onto the prof.
ect.
4. The children could either
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Auto DeraiIs
Freight Train
SeIfridge Soldier
Dies in Crosh

Private Charles j. Rehkemp,
26, was killed and two other
Selfridge Field soldiers were in
jured at '4:5O a. m. today when
their auto collided with a Grand
Trunk freight train at the Hall
road crossing.
Railroad workmen labored un-
til 1870 to clear the tracks Of
wreckage after the force of the
impact derailed two box cars.
Pvt. Rehkemp was dead on
admittance to Base hospital, Sell
fridge. Injured were Tech. Sergt.
John White, %, of Christopher,
ILL.,, who suffered minor injur-
les, and Pvt. Wayne A. Brown,
of Atlanta, Mich, seriously
hurt. Both are at Base hospital.
After terming the crossing
zone of the most dangerous in
the state" Sheriff Jacob F.
Theut moved swiftly to provide
See CRASH-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Sports Editor
Goes on Leave
Brown in Texos;
King Fills In

John p. King of Romeo, to-
day took over the duties OF j.
Dennis Brown, Daily Monitor
Leader sports editor for the du-
ration of a leave of absence
Brown has taken to visit rela-
tives and attend to personal az
fairs in Texas.
Business matters. prompting
Browns leave of absence, may
cause him to be away from
Mount Clemens for some time,
he revealed in leaving the city
Friday night with Mrs. Brown,
erroute first to his home in
Iowa and, later to Mrs. Browns
in Texas.
King, who for three years
was employed both on the old
Advertiser Monitor and on the
South Macomb News is thor
oughly acquainted in all Sec
See SPORTS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
BY WADE WERNER

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 - up
Rupture of United States re-
lations with Vichy loomed again
today on the diplomatic horizon.
This time it was Vichy's pro-
test against American air raids
over occupied France, and the
United States sharp rejection of
that protest, which revived talk
of an imminent break.
The protest, delivered person
ally to the American Charge D.
Affaires in Vichy by pro-Axis
Chief of Government Pierre La
val, was Immediately" rejected,
the state department disclosed
last night, and Laval was mott
fled the bombing of German mil
itary plants in France would
continue.
Laval protested specifically
against recent bombings of Lee
Havre and Rouen both in the
occupied zone in which he said
there were numerous casualties.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Haig n Prisoner

LONDON, Sept. 8 (P) -
Earl Haig, "a, son of the Brit
ish World War commander, Is .
prisoner of war in Italy. il was
officially announced today. He
had been reported missing in
the Middle East last month.
Haig became a second lieuten-
ant in the Scots Greys In Au-
gust, 1889.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Detroit Men
Take Option
on Buildings
PIon 400 Man
Force to Produce
War Machinery

Plans for near future con-
ersion of the Donaldson Broth
ers foundry, Broadway at
Clinton streets, to war ,produc-
ton with probable employment
of 400 workers were forecast
this morning by Walter Kings
ley, vice-president of the Uhler
Manufacturing company, with
announcement that he, and his
associates, have taken an option
on the large structure and its
equipment.
Kingsley. who says that he
has already converted three
large units OF war production
this year, is also in charge of
the Rondo Machine Shop prop
erty which his firm purchased
for war production July 81.
The manufacturer stated that
actual change-over of the plant
to war production may begin
within from 10 to 80 days. He
pointed out that he has contact
ed so so-called garage and
basement" shops in Detroit
whose owners have been un-
able to obtain production
through lack Of equipment. He
will, he said, centralize such
equipment in the Donaldson
building and be able to organize
quantity output. He stated that
he expects to form a new cor
poration to handle the produc-
ton.
Associated with Kingsley in
the venture is Charles Snider,
of Detroit.
The Donaldson plant has
stood idle for the past nine
months but, throughout the IS
years of its operation, it con-
stitued one of the city's out
standing industries employing,
in its heyday, 125 workmen in
producing farm equipment, car
riages and wagons.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Charles Jacobs
10 Join Co|ors
Fifth Monitor
employee Signs Up


years a member of the mechan-
ical staff of the Daily Monitor
Leader, tomorrow will enter the
u. S. Army for active war
service.
In joining the armed forces
Jacobs becomes the fifth men,
Der of the newspapers staff to
enter the armed services.
! First of the Daily Monitor
leaders personnel to enter the
service was Capt. Larry v.
Pidgeon, wounded in the Phil
ippines and now convalescent at
Fort Dix hospital; Flying
Cadet John Clifford, killed on
active duty; 1st Lieut.. Leroy
Sample, now serving with tank
destroyer units at Fort Smith;
and Elmer Devantier, attached
to the Armored Forces.
Wayne Adair, Jr., who will re-
port at Fort Custer later in the
month, will become the sixth
Daily Monitor-Lcader employee
to see wartime service.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
MCHS Plans
Dual Graduation

For the first time in the his
tory of Mount Clemens High
S C h o i, commencement exer-
cises will be held twice yearly,
t h Board of Education voted
Yesterday.
Traditional exercises have al
ways een-held- in dune. To &C.
commodate mid-year graduates,
many of whom will 60 directly
to the army, to work or to col
leges, commencement will also
be held in February.
In past years February grad
yates have waited until June
for their diplo mas.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
100 Arrested

BERLIN From Germ a n
Broadcasts), Sept. 8 R -
One hundred persons were ar
rested following an explosion
yesterday in the railway station
at GaprOvO. Bulgaria, a DNB
dispatch from Sofia said today.
The bodies Of four persons have
been recovered from the wreck
age.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Recess Commons

LONDON, Sept. 9-(P)-NOt-
withstanding the complaint Of
Capt. Alec StratfOrd Cunning
ham-Reid that Parliament was
being reduced to a farce" to
which a "full-blOOded Church
lillian dictatorship" would be
preferable, the House of Com
mons today accepted the govern
ment's motion for a recess after
the present series of sittings
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Tax Approved

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9-R
The Senate Finance committee
stood committed today to min
imum of S7,675,000,00O in new
taxes - about S1,O25,0OO,OOO
short of the Treasury's gOal-as
a result of its vote to adopt q
5 per cent victory" levy on all
individual earnings in excess III
S624 a year.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09

LONDON, Sept. 9-(R)-Maj.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander
in-chief of United States Army
Air forces in the European thea
ter, awarded the distinguished
Service Cross today to Edward
T. Sconiers, rs, of De Funiak
Springs, Fla, and promoted him
from second to first lieutenant
for extraordinary her0ism dur
ing a fortress battle with w
1905 over the North Sea-"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Mrs. John l. Lewis
Dies in Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -
(P) - Mrs. John L. Lewis, wife
of the president of the United
Mine Workers of America, died
early today after a long illness.
She leaves a son, John L.
Lewis, Jr., a medical student,
and a daughter, Kathryn, who
is secretary-treasurer Of District
so of the United Mine Workers,
besides her husband. The family
lives in nearby Alexandria, Va.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09

pei prevideHt use of rubber and
other critical materials.
NEED COUPONS
Under an arrangement be-
tween ODT and the Office Ad-
ministration, coupons authoriz-
ing purchase of gasoline, tires
and tubes will be issued only to
operators presenting certificates.
An ODT official who refused to
See CURB-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Survivors
Tell Grim
Stories

AN EAST COAST PoHTs
Sept. 9-(RNSurvivors Of II
burned transport Wakefield g.
day gave grim, first-hand d.
scriptions of 20 minutes a
drama and heroism aboard tn
flame-swept ship far out 1t -
last Thursday night.
The passengers included civil
ian war workers relieved q
duty at . northern base. m
survivors here said they had
boarded the transport at . Euro
pean port. All agreed that IL
Navy personnel Of 4 deotroyor
and cruiser making The rescuoo
and Of the transport Displayed
exceptional bravery In carrying
out their work swiftly and calm-
ly. Ak.
Robert Crabtree, Of Pawtue.
ket, r. l., said the fire appeared
to spread In two or three MI
utes from one end of the txnnS-
port to the other. With him "
his home was Sven Gothet e
Cambridge, Mass, who lot IN
his belongings In the fire.
1T doesn't seem poBjb1e TINT
one fire could have sprood -
fast" Crabtree said, "but ! -
sure there were no shells q ~.
pedoes fired at IN. 4
Most Of the men were G
deck and made no atempt - =
back to save their be1o9G1
The fellows on the forward Z
with me had kind u . -
feeling when We heard q
er on the bridge a. 4 u e.
zines beneath - hod boon Z
ed. That was The dEDt ~ N
about tn maoasine.
See ou1yyv041
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
Record Quake

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 -(P)-
A severe earthquake, 1000 miles
from New York in an inspect
fled direction, was recorded last
night by the FOrdham Univer-
sity seismograph. The shocks
were timed at 9:35.24 p. m.
(EWT) and 9:54.31 p. m.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
jams ON Defensive

CHUNGKING, Sept. 9-R)-
The Chinese High Command
said today that fighting contin-
ued in the suburbs of the air
base town of Kinhwa and near
by Lanchi in Chekiang Prov
ince, where japanese garrisOns
are on the defensive.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09

LONDON, Sept. . R -
British bOmbers in their sixth
night raid on Germany out Of
eight nights this month struck
in strong force last night at
Frankfurt, the Air Ministry an
n0unced today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-09
BY HARRY CROCKETT

CAIRO, Sept. 9. up Tales
of heroism and humor were re-
lated by United States tank
commanders and C-ews today
just after they had returned