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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-08
CHAPTER III


"Comfortable?" inquired the
air hostess, bending over Judith
and smiling pleasantly.
ooh, yes" she answered
cheerfully, even though she felt
depressed at the moment.
May get you something?"
Coffee or fruit juice?"
Nothing, thank you. Judith
had missed her lunch but she
was no conscious of hunger; her
mind was too busy with other
thoughts.
The pretty girl turned to the
man across the aisle and repeat
ed her questions. Judith started
at the sound of his voice. He
spoke with a heavy accent,
gruffly. as if he resented being
bothered. When the hostess
passed on, he looked at Judith.
She smiled, and for moment it
seemed he would not return her
erecting. Then he grin n d.
breaking the stern expression
Of his face. But his eyes did not
smile, only his mouth. Judith
had heard of cold-blooded peo-
pie and now, she was sure, she
had met one.
ssYou like flying7" he asked,
and his voice made her think of
someone with q mouth full OF
Wsaoh.
\ II think Il is the only way to
,enryeI,' = Gl,e answered. She de-
49, X Ire man thought she
49, sasy 70 talk to. then she
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-08
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR
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, wouldn't be taking too great a
risk in speaking to Burke later
and warning him to watch out
for this fellow.
After moment the man in
the seat in front OF her crancd
his neck to look at her. She
tried the same winsome smile
on him and it worked.
Everybody on this plane will
believe I'm an easy pickup. she
told herself. But so much the
better" She instantly averted
her eyes and looked out the win
dow.
AS the miles flew swiftly by,
Judith thought over the situa-
ton.
"Those men watching Tom
know about the plans he is car
rying. The blond one is a for
gineer. and the one TO fear. |
don't know about the heavy
man in front of me. He may be
just a curious passenger.
She opened her purse and felt
the small automatic there. Then
her hand came in contact with
a tiny package. She pulled il out
TO have a look and her eyes wild
ened.
aye fishes" she thought
"Helen's sleeping medicine she
had me buy for her this morn
ing" She lifted her eyes and
looked at the back of the man s
head in front of her.
eff he should make trouble
and ] got the chance. | could
put him to sleep with this" She
smiled at her childish plan and
d. opped the package back in her
purse. She was supposed TO be
an intelligent investigator. not a
silly girl.
She turned again to stare at
Toms seat and as she did, he
t,,rNnI HE hooI and ClanNGd
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-08
BY BLANCHE ROBERTS

TINE STORY: Judith Kingsley IL
secretary 70 the president Of an air
plane factory. Her employer Is send
Ing her 70 the faetory's west coast
Branch 10 investigate = leak" in the
erganir alton. Boarding west
bound plane judith sees Tom Burke,
whom she loves and with whom she
has quarreled. Tom In also bound for
the west coast factory with plans
for q new bomber. Before the plane
leaves Judith sees two men watching
Tom intently.
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ranean base at Toulon was harboring the
battle cruisers Strassbourg and Dunker-
que, four heavy cruisers, three light
cruisers, 10 destroyers and probably
score of submarines. Joined outright
with Italian naval units with all operat-
ing under strategical direction of Ber-
lin. these ships would turn the Mediter-
ranean naval balance badly against
Britain; operated only for convoy serv-
ice-for supplies that almost surely
would reach Axis consumers-they like
wise could have material effect in turn
ing the tide of that part of today's war.
Not yet, however, has there been an
overt act by Vichy in the direction of
open hostilities with the British although
Laval in confessing his "obsession" for
rapprochement with NaI Germany told
the unhappy French people Monday of
his unbounded and unqualified hatred
for all things English. $751;.
From pro-Axis but anti-Laval Admiral
Darlan on the following day came an
equivocal declaration of intent as COM
mander in chief of all Frances armed
forces to defend the empire" The ma
ture of this defense and against whom it
will be directed were not indicated.
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ALLIES GIRD FOR AXIS MEDITERRANEAN DRIVE
Break Through Would Be Critical Blow at United Nations

tramp steamers will be mustered into
service to rush across the Atlantic all
that our ally needs.
The prospective cooperation of the
French fleet with the Axis is a worry for
our naval commanders in this connec-
ton. The French can put into action
Immediately at least 36 f1rst-class units
ranging from the battleship Dunkerque
to ocean going submarines.
The presence of the Na1 feet in the
Atlantic, together with the prospects of
full cooperation of the French Navy
with the Italians in the Mediterranean.
will compel the British and United States
naval forces to concentrate their utmost
effort in that area. The German Navy
is not large in numbers, but it has ter
rife striking force because of the speed
and gun power Of its units.
The United Nations nayies are superior
to those of the Axis in total tonnage, but
while British and American naval squad
rons are dispersed over a wide area,
fighting defensive actions, the German,
French and Italian fleets are concen-
trated in a comparatively small area in
which they have superior striking power.
Unless the air and naval power OF the
Axis in and around Europe is equaled,
the forthcoming Nazi offensive may cause
serious misgivings among the Allied ma
tiOnS.
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On the Russian Front

For weeks past there has been general
assumption that frustrated Adolf was
mixing medicine for a grand offensive
against Russia's Red armies when the
paralyzing Soviet SHOWS had gone.
For 10 months now, the Nazi steam
roller has been baked in its expected
triumph over Bolshevik defense that
bent deeply but never broke before
Leningrad, Moscow and the Caucasus
and for nearly half that period has kept
the invading forces clinging YEARLY and
desperately 10 retain something of earlier
advantages.
Now as deep slush and mud replace
frozen SHOWS. there is question indeed
as to which army will be choosing the
time and place for the next phase of
this conflict of collosi.
From its l66, 900 900 OF population. Rus.
sia's store of man power is well known.
On Thursday, there came
Mossed stories from Kuibyshev that
Armies Nazi hopes of matching this
pressure Of men have led to
the diversion of 80 per cent of German
fighting strength to the Red front.
Speaking fluently on the subject of Nazi
resources in men, Soviet Vice Commissar
of Foreign Affairs S. A. Lozovsky told
press conference that 300 600 German
reserves had been called into uniform
for hasty mobilization. Included, he
said, were 100000 men drawn from vital
industries, 100000 more from subjugated
countries and 100000 youthful Nazs-
members of the II and lS year old
classes.
OF actual fighting on this front during
the past week, Russ sources reported
heaviest Nazi pressure from the air.
but claimed to have downed 89l German
flyers in four week span as compared
with Red losses of 23s planes; for six
weeks Russian bag approached $500.
In the Leningrad sector, recapture of
II German fortified points were claimed
by Bolsheviks, while two deep sanents
were reported driven in Finnish lines in
Karelia. West of Moscow the Reds
claimed their artillery within range of
Smolensk. key city on historic route by
which Napoleon advanced on and re-
treated from Moscow.
Conflicting claims came out of the
south as Kuibyshev claimed capture of
important Crimean outposts of Ger
mans, but Berlin countered by assertion
Of Red defeats in the DonetS Basin.
That strategists of United Nations
fully appreciate value and Importance
OF maintaining Russian front-perhaps
even dealing fatal blow to Nazi arms
in that theater-has been made clear
by recent word and deed. American
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Burmo-Indion Front

United States troops already are in
India and more will come"
Uttered by Louis johnson, United
States Minister to India, these words
symbolic this Governments determina-
ton to fight this war on all fronts-to
sacrifice nothing that can be saved and
to strike the enemy wherever he is.
In the weeks to come, the enemy very
likely will be in India. On Friday the
enemy, the Japs, had pushed their way
within 100 miles of Mandalay, principal
inland city of Burma, from which west
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previously had been probed in these hit
and-run tactics as the British command
feels out soft spots in enemy defenSes-
establishes conditions which may en-
courage more extensive invasion at
tempts at future date.
To match these worrisome swift thrusts
from Britain, Nazi officials already have
repeatedly been forced to divert several
divisions of German troops to French
occupation duties and to increase polio
ing provisions where native populations
are suspected of cooperating in the
ready have taken place in numerous
French communities, with scores or even
hundreds of French civilians being killed
or imprisoned on suspicion of sympathiz-
ing with or aiding the British.
Taking command of Nazi operations
in this tortured portion of France last
week was Marshal Gen. Karl Won Run
stedt, veteran parachute tactician, whose
presence in the western sector led to
speculation that the belated German ef-
fort to invade England may now be in
the making. ' '.,' '''a. .''
Whatever may be shaping up in that
theater, Britain's air fighters definitely
were carrying the offensive to the enemy
in these recent days and weeks. German
industrial cities and occupied ports being
under fire several times in this past week.
And even more ominous from Axis
points of view were reports last week
that American attack planes, to be flown
by American pilots and under the Amer
lean insignia, already are being ferried
to British operational bases, with their
employment in continental raids ex-
pected in the near future.
Soon at airdromes all over Britain
there will be gathered the force of planes
that will make this country the worlds
greatest air base" London boasted with
what appears to be prophetic truth
fulneSs.
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Once more the eyes of American
British strategy-framers are turned to-
ward Europe as they weigh the results
of the most recent comprehensive ex-
animation of the possibilities of an Allied
offensive in that theater of war.
The United States Army Chief of Staff,
Gen. George C. Marshall, and President
Roosevelt's trusted counsellor, Harry L.
Hopkins, spent 10 days in the British
Isles surveying the situation, and going
carefully into ell angles of prospective
Allied offensive this year, at the special
request. it is said of Prime Minister
Churchill who has been overwhelmed
the last few weeks with demands from
Russia and his own people to establish
a Western European front They also
analyzed carefully the dangerous situa-
ton in the Near East,
Numerous reports, many Of them in
spired, that we are on the verge of
large scale offensive on the continent OF
Europe are based on the theory that we
will win the war only by taking the
offensive. 1t is a sound theory. If the
lapsing internally, and prepare merely
to parry Nazi-Japanese blows, they may
have to wait many years before the war
is ended.
But competent observers do not dare
predict a real offensive in Europe this
year. For the time being the most the
Allies can do is adopt an offensive
lightning raids by the Commands on
the long line from Norway to the French
Spanish border and heavy air attacks all
over Europe.
Nazi Attack Thought Imminent.
Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean the
United Nations high command expects
Nazi attack on a line from Libya to
Syria and Palestine almost any week
now. Since last February there have
been definite indications that this would
occur this spring. Troops and new ma
terials have flowed in a never-ending
stream over German and Italian railways
and autostraGes in the last few weeks
Invasion barges and small submarines
have been located by the Allied intel
ligence services in the Greek and Italian
islands of the Aegean Sea. A noticeable
concentration Of air forces has been re-
ported in Sicily and in Southern Italy
as well as in Crete. Finally, Marshal
Petain's surrender to Berlin and the
formation of an "all-Axis" government
in France assure henceforth the safety
of Nazi lines of communication with
Libya.
In spite of reports based either on
wiShful thinking or Pierre Laval's propa-
ganda. that the French feet will not
Join the Nazis in the forthcoming cam
paign, there Is little reason to doubt that
Frances men of war will turn their guns
on their former allies and friends as
soon as Berlin gives the signal.
However great personal antagonism
may exist between Premier Laval and
Admiral Darlan, the new chief of all
Frances armed forces, both men have
too much at stake to moderate the policy
of full cooperation with the Reich.
Darlan may see less personal advantage
in cooperation with the NaZis than his
new chief, but ne knows that Laval viii
not hesitate to apply the Nazi purge sys-
TEN if he opposes his schemes. Hence,
Darlan will not risk his head on a cause
which he has considered lost since Pearl
Harbor. Singapore and Java.
Darlan and Laval have some opinions
in common. They believe their cooper
alton with the Reich will assure France
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u. S. MAY CLIP INFLUENCE OF RADIO PRIEST
Moves to Bor His Magazine Permanently From Mails

DETROIT-Federal moves to halt
distribution of the weekly magazine So
cial Justice may result in further mar
rowing of the sphere of public influence
OF the Rev. Charles E. Coughhn. Royal
Oak. Mich, radio crusader who once
numbered his followers by the millions
The priest of the Shrine of the Little
Flower has assumed personal RESPONSE
bllity for control OF the magazine. It's
policies and its contents. Before this
week he had since the summer OF l940
diSavowed responsibility for what might
appear in the publication.
When Postmaster General Walker 10
days ago denied uSt OF the mails to an
issue of Social Justice because Of alleged
seditiouS statements, Father Coughlin
quickly offered to so to Washington TO
defend the magazine.
A hearing on whether TO bar the maga-
zine from the mails permanently is
scheduled for May in Washington.
Only Forum to Be Grand Jury.
Father Coughlin, however is not likely
70 be heard publicly al that time de-
Tending the magazine he founded in
1886. Attorney General Biddle said a
special District Of Columbia grand jury
would be the only forum open 10 the
priest.
Mr.. Biddle said the publication re
produces IN this country the lines OF the
enemy propaganda and added that the
grand jury would receive evidence OF
any tie-up with the Axis"
Father Coughlln has stated that Social
Justice is owned by his parents. Thomas
J. and Amelia Coughlin. E. Perrin
Schwartz is editor and Cora Quinlan
secretary treasurer.
Catholic and non-Catholic sources
alike have made frequent attacks on
the magazines editorial policy. charging
since the United States entered the war
that II has been anti-BritiSh, anti
Roosevelt snd-JeviSh anti Communist
and oostrucuonlst. Before Pearl Harbor
II was one OF the Nations leading
tsolationlSt organs
The criticism OF Social Justice has
been q continuation OF attacks and accu-
sations made against Father Coughlin
himself during the days when. on a Ma
tlonwioe radio network, he advocated
political. social and economic reforms.
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Americas Twentieth Week of War
H36th Week OF World War NJ
Rv John e.. Henry.

AL the world boiling with poen
anticipation
know parallel
ihavnot 70 mention the vco
Suspicion and false Of the military
itself element strategy O
But certain signs certain geographical considerations
compudon
the year In which Germany profit
if military
which 1t feedprnary OIL
industrial potenta should accomplishments
within reach OF the Axis the which
OF all Asia checked profit
establish rule which might defy dodgng
lighting
fronts literally
Arctic along
East and into India The possible
opening Of Western
hoies either northern
Evening star., 1942-04-26
On the Home Front

President Roosevelt and Production
Chief Donald M Nelson agreed during
this week that American war production
is over the hump" but Budget Director
Harold D. Smith, administration spokes-
man, Immediately disclosed there would
be no letup when he said spending for
this fiscal year will be speeded to s2s,-
900, 900 ,000 and for the next fiscal period
to $40 700 ,000, ,oO0-increases of two and
IA billions, respectively, over earlier pro-
grams.
In the White House, 1t. Comdr. Ed
ward H CButch) OrHare received the
Congressional Medal Of Honor for shoot
ing down six Nip planes-his promotion
from lieutenant coming simultaneously.
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tions hooked together in an independent
network. Gradually the number of out
lets rose to 26, then to At, blanketing the
Nation
In 1882 he campaigned for the elec-
ton of Franklin D Roosevelt. When the
banking collapse of 1888 occurred,
Father Coughlins persuasive voice car
ried its appeal for monetary reform, to
drive the money changers from the tenn
pile"
He organized his National Union for
Social Justice in 1884 and became active
in the national political scene. Aban-
doning his advocacy of the New Deal,
he became one of its bittereSt critics.
His program proposed abolishment of
the Federal Reserve System, favored ma
tional ownership and control of public
utilities, recognized labor's right to Or
ganize, advocated simplihed government
and urged increased taxation for the
wealthy, less taxes for the poor.
During the heat of the 1886 campaign
Father Coughlin in a speech at Cleve-
land called President Roosevelt a great
betrayer and liar" Rebuked by the au-
thoritative Vatican newspaper OSServa
tore Romano. he later apologized, saying
he referred to Candidate Roosevelt" and
not to the President of the United
States.
Diocesan Changes Followed
Within three months after the elec-
ton came the death of the Most Rev.
Michael J. Gallagher, Bishop of the
Catholic Diocese of Detroit and vigorous
defender of Father Coughlin's right to
criticize. The church established an
archdiocese in the Detroit area under
Archbishop Edward Mooney.
Father Coughlins first utterance on
public questions after that event-a
statement that President Roosevelt
showed personal stupidity" in appoint
ing Justice Hugo Black to the United
States Supreme Court-brought him into
conflict with Archbishop Mooney, who
said the priest had used unfortunate
words"
When Father Coughlin failed to OBJ
tain approval of a proposed reply to the
Archbishop, he Cancelled a projected
series OF radio addresses.
An attorney for the priest said 1T was
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Mediterranean Sector

Eight British warships, including two
battleships, steamed grinly through
Gibraltar's narrow straits on Tuesday
Acknowledging eastward.
Their entrance into the Mediter-
ranean-Mare Nostrum in MusSolini's
dreams-dramatized the prospect that
the second major theater of this sum-
mer's war in the Eastern world probably
will take in this whole inland ocean,
plus wide sweep of Northern Africa
and Asia Minor.
The prize, in addition to strategic po-
sition in any of the sectors named, would
be Asia Minors oil-perhaps easier to
Axis hands than that defended so saw
agely by Russia in her Caucasus.
For the task, Axis forces have been
strengthened materially in recent weeks
.... in Libya with. that portion of
Middle the projected offensive ex-
E,s, :, pected to consist of an all-out
offensive against Egypt and
the Suez. Week after week, with an
incessancy not matched elsewhere in this
entire war, German-Italian flyers have
pounded at, Malta, British island sentry
sthwart the sea lane from Italy to
Libya. In conquered Greece and Crete.
invasion barges and parachute units
have been concentrated for their launch
ing against British-dominated Syria and
Iraq. Against Turkey, only neutral
caught in this new pineers, diplomatic
pressures continue.
But there was reason beyond these for
appearance of a new British battlefeet
in waters which already have proven too
dangerous for free movement of British
shipping; namely, the danger of Frances
remaining men of war being turned
fully or in dangerous part to Axis pur-
poses
With Vichy's puppet government of
Laval now dancing to strings pulled in
Berlin some variation of this danger is
justifably feared
At latest. reports, Frances Mediter-
Evening star., 1942-04-26

supplies for weeks have been flowing in
ever-increaSing amounts-most recent
official reports rejecting $50 per cent
increase in March over February. And
with the R. A. F. striking harder each
night as heavier and longer-range bomb
ers carry this war to German territory,
British pilots have pounded several times
at Nszi-controlled Baltic ports of Lue-
beck and Rostock-supply heads for
German efforts to carry aid directly
TO Finnish forces.
Since Russia's Arctic ports of Muir
msnsk and Archangel are important TO
maintenance of supply lines, any con-
tribution to relieving pressure on Soviet
strength in northern sector is Of COM
pounded value.
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Brandt
Continued From Page BID

hour, have warned the Roosevelt admin
istration, saying to leave British affairs
in the hands of British and that the
United States will do well to mind her
own business. Such a warning, which
we'll reflects an anti Roosevelt sentiment,
gives one an impression of being too
late
Italy to Latin America, March 81
The Governor of North Carolina was
quoted as saying that "a very grave peril
threatens the United States and meas
ures taken TO meet the submarine danger
have been completely ineffective in most
cases" The Rome radio commented:
The people of North Carolina are ask
ing why Roosevelt pushed the United
States into war when the country was
unprepared to defend itself"
To combat this Axis propaganda the
American Government, through the Of
flee of Inter American Affairs, headed
by Nelson A. Rockefeller, and the once
of the Co-ordinator of Information,
headed by Col william ]. Donovan, has
almost continuous and up-to-the- minute
SIlOTI-WdNC UtOduCdSJo W GdIul lCl4Cdt
Europe, Africa and Asia Often the
American broadcasters, all able linguists,
are able to reply within an hour or two on
specific points raised by the Axis stations.
The Donovan organization also broad
casts directly to Germany from a high
powered station in England Many of
these broadcasts, to make them timely,
are cabled to London by transcription
methods. One of Col Donovan's top
broadcasters to Germany is Douglas
Miller, formerly American Commercial
Attache in Berlin, who had a wide ac-
quaintanceship among high Nazi officials.
Mr.. Miller's technique is to ask pointed
questions of the German officials, QUOT
ing their past and present statements.
Mr.. Miller, of course, broadcasts in
German.
Radio is potent weapon in the war
and some of the most effective ammuni-
ton is found in the statements Of citi-
zens who give comfort, real or fancied.
TO the enemy.
Evening star., 1942-04-26

ward drive at India probably will de-
velop.
Fighting against time and the i'm
mobilizing spring rains. the Japs may
still meet their first reverse in this
Burma campaign, however, as Chinese
reinforcements pour southwark to join
their American commander, Yankee fly
ing forces, and British divisions which
bore the early brunt of this Burma de-
fense.
Although Jap advances continued in
part of this sector as the week drew near
an end, Chinese forces had recaptured
the important oil center Of Yenangyaung
and rescued 1000 entrapped British
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In Western Europe

might choose to initiate major action in
Britain or in France itself has loomed
as possibility out of small developments
of this past week.
In the dark hours of Wednesday
morning, Britain's black-faced Com
mandos made tn cir
Commondo third sortie against the
Sorties French mainland-land-
ing near Boulogne, driv-
ing German coastal defense units out
of their positions and spending two
hours in destruction and reconnaissance.
ST. Nazaire and Bruneval, near LIE Havre,