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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-21
Ro(kensuess
Rites Thursday
Deoth CIoims
Theresa Rockensuess

Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon for Mrs
Theresa M. Rockensuess, 70, of
1870 South Gratiot, the last
member of a family of l3 chill
dren born to the late Mr.. and
Mrs. William Radde. Mrs. Rock
ensuess died early this morn
ing. Among the survivors are
10 of Mrs. Rockensuess' chill
dren, Of whom she had ID.
Surviving, besides the hus-
band, George c., with whom the
deceased celebrated her fifty
fourth wedding anniversary
November 10, are the following
sons and daughters: William, of
Detroit; Arthur c., of Wyan-
dotte, George p, of Mount Glenn
ems, Arnold F., of Mount Glenn
ems, Macomb County deputy
drain commissioner; Mrs. Fred
Cousins, of Detroit, Mrs. Cliff
ford Lanphier, of Mount Glenn
ems, Elmer j., of Detroit, Mrs.
Adolph Wade, of Mount Glenn
ems, Mrs. Bernard A. Croskey,
of Detroit, and Mrs. Vern Abb
bolt, of BEDFORD. Sixteen grand
children and one great-grand-
child also survive.
Mr.. and Mrs. RockensueSs
moved TO Mount Clemens two
years ago after retiring from
their farm near here, residing
with their daughter, Mrs. Ian
phier, in Mount Clemens.
Funeral services will be held
at 100 p m. Thursday from the
home, and at 200 p. m. from the
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran
church, with the Rev. Wilfred
Junke officiating. Burial will
be in the family lot in the Gin
ton Grove Cemetery with the
D. N. Cooley Funeral home in
charge of arrangements.
The body may be viewed after
900 p. m. tonight at the funeral
home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-21
Lid Comes Off
Eastern Gas
Ban Is Lifted
AtMidnisht

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-(P
The lid on gasoline sales was
off today after the most motor
less weekend the Eastern sea-
born had known since the horse
and buggy days.
The ban against none-com-
mercial sales in II Eastern
states which went into effect
Friday noon because of an acute
shortage due to military needs
was lifted at midnight last night.
The Office of Price Admins
tration, however, cut the value
of B and c coupons from four to
three gallons each. The A cou-
pons continue on a three gallon
basis.
Price Administrator Leon
Henderson estimated this would
result in a net saving of about
$4,000 barrels day.
Economic Director James F.
Byrnes arranged to canvass the
whole situation, as it affects fuel
oil as we'll as gasoline, at a
meeting today with Henderson,
Petroleum Administrator Ickes
and Transportation Director JOS
eph B. Eastman.
Chairman Donald M. Nelson
of the War Production Board
warned, meanwhile, that in the
future "the mobility of consum-
ers will be greatly restricted
both of necessity and by con-
sumner choice"
Travel by automobile is due
for restriction much more dras-
tic than that obtaining today
Nelson said in a letter to- Chair.
man Murray (D-Mont) of the
Senate small business commit
tee.
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Russia

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front, and the communique said
500 Germans were killed in a
bitter fight for strongly forti-
fled German position in one Sec
tor.
In the Stalingrad area, too,
there was heavy fighting, with
the Germans communicating
viciously both northwest and
southwest of the city and the
Russians stubbornly protecting
their gains and pressing for
more.
The midday communicate
said that Soviet airmen destroy
ed 20 enemy planes in a raid on
German airdrome and shot
down three more in air fights.
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Fraud
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charged the defendants "secrets
ly Installed" behind sliding
panels under test ia b les,
mechanisms that enabled the
passing of inferior or defective
materials.
In addition to the company,
the justice department said de-
PENDANTS named in the indict-
ments were Thor S. Johnson,
general manager of all Ana
conda mills; Frank E. Hart,
manager of the Marion plant;
Chalmer Bishop, chief company
inspector at Marion; and Frank
Kunkle, assistant chief inspector
at Marion.
Tom c. Clark, chief of the
justice departments war fraud
unit, told newspapermen that
Russia had complaint that prac-
tically so per cent Of the wire
manufactured by this company
and shipped to Russia was de-
fective.
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Yanks

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Akyab would give the Allies
an advanced base $50 miles by
bomber from Rangoon, and
within hitting range of japanese
supply routes across Burma to
the Yunnan front, back door to
China.
On the Buna Front in New
Guinea, an Allied communique
described the enemy's casualties
as heavy, and said the japanese
commander, Lieut.. Gen. Toma-
tore Horii, sis reported to have
been killed in action"
Tanks and Infantry were said
to be closing in with a general
assault on the invaders weaken
ed foothold at Buna Mission.
This was the first reference to
tanks on the Buna Front, and
field dispatches identified them
as light American-made General
Stuarts, manned by Australians.
"The enemy's position is de-
teriorating," the Allied COM
munique declared.
Buna Mission is one of the last
two centers of japanese resist
ance in the Buna area after the
capture of Buna village, Coma,
and of the Cape Endaiadere re-
gion by Australian troops last
Friday. The other japanese
pocket is at nearby Cape Sanan-
anda.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-21

According to estimates, $4,000
hamburgers are eaten each day
in Chicago, Ill.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-21

| ported less than so miles from
Akyab yesterday after having
come approximately 40 miles
through swamps and jungles
without making contact with the
Japanese.
Fighter planes ranged ahead
of the British columns TO shoot
up enemy buildings and installa-
tons near Akyab and to bomb
the Toungoo airdrome $50 miles
southeast of that port.
The Japanese reported six Al
lied planes bombed Rangoon,
main Burmese port far TO the
South, and the Chinese said the
japanese had made new
thrust from Burma into China S
southern province of Yunnan.
Informed quarters said the
push toward Akyab by Gen. Sir
Archibald p. Wavell's troops
was not a major effort to recapt-
ure Burma, but could be viewed
as the start of piecemeal strategy
toward that goal. There was no
estimate of the number of Brit
ish troops, re-equipped and
trained in offensive maneuvers,
taking part in the campaign.
BY taking Akyab, the Allies
would have an air base only $50
miles from Rangoon-itself an
objective if the Burma road is 20
be reopened to aid China-and
would shorten the existing Al
lied air route to China. The Jap
anese at Akyab are only $40 air
miles from Calcutta.
Some quarters viewed the Ak
yah thrust as designed to upset
any Japanese plans to smash
from northern Burma and Yum
nan province farther north into
China.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-21
Local Pilot
in Africa
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 10
(P - (Delayed) - Capt n
Charles E. Wilson,> of Mount
Clemens, Mich, and Lieut.. E. F.
Humphrey, of Flint, Mich, were
among 70 airmen to receive
awards here today from Major
General James II. Doolittle for
outstanding performances in the
North African campaign.
(Selfridge Field records show
a Charles f. Wilson, a Second
Lieutenant in the Air Corps Re-
serve, who was formerly sta
toned there. He was transferred
to Fort Wayne September 8,
1941. His record here did not
indicate whether or not he is the
same flyer who has been hon.
ored.)
Capt. Wilson was cited for
"meritorious achievement while
participating in aerial flights in
the RECON of Oran from Nov. 8
to H." Lieut.. Humphrey, the
pilot of a P-38 spotted a B-26
rash-landing and sh w d
"quick presence of mind and
sound judgment" by marking
the spot and guiding a rescue
plane.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-21
Expect Crisis
for Users
HousehoIders Nay
Rush the GrowIer

DETROIT, Dec. Fl - Up A
wartime version of rush the
growler" -meaning fuel oil, not
the can of beer from yesterdays
corner saloon-is in prospect for
Detroit this winter.
An OPA official, deadly seri-
Gus, was responsible today for
this prediction of what might
come, made in the light of over
night developments.
Hundreds of Detroit homes de-
pendent on fuel oil faced a crisis
because of severe cold and
transportation shortage which
has gained such proportions that
even the Army has expressed
concern for its effect on war
production.
M. j. Vierling, OPA fuel ra-
tioning administrator for Mich
igan, said he foresaw a time
when the home owner would be
hiking off to the nearby gasoline
filling station with can in hand
to fill 'er up for his oil burner.
That way, the home owner
could get enough to tide him
over until his regular supply
truck could reach his house.
Although this was not in i'm
mediate prospect, Vierling said
it we'll could happen in the flu
ture.
Zero temperatures Sund y
had resulted in terrific demands
on companies supplying fuel oil
to homes. They were helpless to
meet them all.
Vierling asked oil companies
TO establish $50 separate outlets
for the public and said he ex-
pected that an additional 500
would be set up in coming
weeks.
Even gasoline stations and
facilities Will be used to supple
ment the supply" he said.
In one hospital 10 patients
were covered with extra blank
cts and their heads wrapped
with scarfs for seven hours Sun
day in protection against the
cold. Through an oversight the
hospital had failed to order its
fuel oil ration and was caught
short. Finally an emergency
supply was obtained.
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Africa

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North Africa said Allied patrols
had captured Italians from
Tripoli who were trying to link
up with Gen. Walther HEIR
ing's Tunisian forces and added
that there were indications that
part of the Italian garrison OF
Tripoli also was moving by sea
to Tunisia.
The Daily Mail, in dispatch
from Madrid, said it was re-
ported from Vichy that the
Germans were planning large
scale attempt to reinforce the
Tunisian forces with convoy OF
$50 French ships massed in
French ports for the risky
crossing.
The presence OF Pierre Laval
Vichy chief of government, al
the Friday and Saturday confer
ence with Hitler and Count
Galeazzo Ciano, Italian foreign
minister, unofficial quarter:
pointed out, may be linked with
some such Axis plan.
Observers coupled report:
that the Axis was prepared tc
use in North Africa even the
weapons and men needed on the
Russian front with the state
ment of an Allied spokesman ir
Algiers that 1--WE have a lot OF
long, hard fighting ahead Of
u.s."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-21
Roof Domose Results
From Minor BIoxe

Fire caused small damage to
the roof of The Atchison House,
at 100 South Gratiot, at 12:48 p.
m. Sunday.
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Accidents
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nicked the rear fender of the
police car and then hit Buby,
throwing him between the two
parked cars. The Glade car then
hit Buby's car and careened up
the road $50 feet before stop
ping, the troopers said. Frost on
the windshield obscured Glade's
view Rymel said.
Questioned last night by Chief
Assistant Prosecutor Wilbur F.
Held, Lieut.. Glade declined to
make a statement until he con-
suits his commanding officer. A
charge will likely be lodged
against him as soon as the Army
completes its own investigation,
Held said. He indicated action is
likely by Wednesday.
Buby, Detroit war p n t
worker, rented room at $50
ST. Jean during the week. He
ltdNCS WllS, live SoiIo diiN WV
daughters, all of Brown city.
Coroner Howard V. Groes-
beck, Jr., said Buby died of a
broken neck.
The Lambert boy was struck
by a hit-run driver as he rode
his bicycle north on Harper near
Martin in st. Clair Shores at
11:17 p. m. Saturday. He was
treated for scalp wound and
released from st. Joseph's hos
pital.
Shores police are seeking the
driver of a 1897 Ford as the
culprit.
Mrs. Calvert was bruised at
8:l5 p. m. Saturday when struck
by a car driven by Joy Clippert,
lOO35 10 Mile road, Utica, as
she crossed Walnut street at Ma
comb in Mount Clemens.
The impact broke her glasses.
She was taken to her home by
city police.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-21
British Smash
Into Burma
Jep Bombsrs
Raid Coleutto

NEW DELHI. INDIA. Dec. 81
-(R-British troops plodding
steadily through difficult jungles
were reported nearly half way
to the strategic Burmese port OF
Akyab today, but as yet the
japanese had offered no resist
ance beyond an aerial attack on
Calcutta last night.
A British communique said
that only few widely dispersed
bombs fell in the Calcutta area
and characterized casualties and
damage as light. No military in
stallations were hit, the bulletin
added.
The British troops pushing
southwark along the eastern side
of the Bay of Bengal were re-
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Stores

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Gated. He pointed out that the
closing of stores on the day
following Christmas is entirely
a voluntary action upon the part
of individual stores and is in no
sense a group action upon the
part of the board or its mem
bers as a unit.
Many of the stores closing
this Saturday will announce
their intentions through plac-
ards in their windows or
through advertisement in The
Daily Monitor-Leader," Brewer
said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-21
Woman Suffers Broken
Ankle in Fall on Ice

Mrs. Henrietta Stout, 35, OF
1888 Jefferson, broke her ankle
Saturday when she fell while
crossing Market at North Wal
nut. Police rushed her to st. Jo-
seph's hospital for treatment.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Friendship House
Offers -Four PLAYS

-Four plays comprising a little
theater night" will be presented to-
night at 7:30 in the Friendship
Settlement House as part of a cam
paign to raise funds for the pur-
chase of a station wago'. for the
organization.
Included will be an Easter pageant
featuring the children of the Day
Home. under the direction of Miss
Florence Hockett and Miss Eleanor
Griffith, instructors; Elmer" a
one-act play given by the Pierette
Drama Club of girls aged between
10 and IL years, directed by Miss
Phyllis Messner; kangaroo Court
at a Girls Camp" by the Curtain
Ringers, under Miss Anna j. Smith,
and Crossroads" played by girls
of the 12-16-year age group.
Youngsters participating include
Marilyn Murray, Joan Weston, De-
lores Dixon, Gloria Newman, Mary
Hardisty, May Bobbitt, Helen Daley,
Janet Lange, Barbara Keeler, Do
lores Kobosky, Frances Erbeck, Mary
Rita Gallagher, Ruth Kestner, Betty
Neuglebauer, Teresa Santaiti, Mar
garet Thompson, Betty Wagner,
Dorothy King, Carolyn Lange, Flea
nor Evans, Mae Rollins, Mary
O'Donnel, Shirley North, Doris
Fogle. Dorothy Bond, Norma Grimes,
Gertrude Dibenedetto and PanSy,
the dog.
Evening star., 1942-03-24

ways came up with . start when
they ran into Trimble. One morn
ing, in . hotel an old friend Of
Rogers looked up from his coffee to
see Trimble at an adjoining table
and promptly fainted.s
Look-alike impersonators of IA
nous people can't pick UP enough
movie work for three square meals
day-but they get lot Of fun out
Of life.
News in nibbleS: Half the pictures
on Hollywood lots are limping around
principals laid up with colds and
flu. George Raft, Ida 4upino, Ann
Sheridan, Claudette Colbert and
Hedy Lamar are stars most seri-
ously hit by the germ Fred Mac
Murray has gone into the storage
business. His firm, Polar Pantries,
Inc, will furnish frigid locker space
for storing garden produce >. Least
publicized major picture in town Is
"Somewhere I'll Find YOU" the set
of which remains closed out OF re-
spect for Clark Gable, its star. M
GIN publicists can't even get on the
stage. They're beginning to wonder
what effect this exclusion will have
on the B. o.
John Carradine's lifelong dream
Is on its way to realization. He'll
do q Shakespearean play, Richard
Ill.," In New York, beginning Sep
tember 30 Amusing is the man
ner in which Kay Aldridge finally
won the serial queen lead in "Perils
of Nyoka" Kay and four other girls
had taken bathing suit, screen tests,
ETC., but Republic executives couldn't
decide. So, the five girls were taken
down to the studios back lot, where
they shinnied up trees and swung
from limbs. Kay won by mile
Warmers are worried about Brenda
Marshall's sudden loss of weight.
She has been ordered on q diet, to
gain at least 10 pounds.
Day after Ruth Hussey returned
from Kansas City, where she said
good-by to her fiance, Lincoln
Fogarty, leaving to join the Navy,
an ironic assignment greeted her.
For is takes" in Pierre Of the
Plains" she stood in . fancy wedding
dress repeating the line. well, folks,
the weddings OIL" Diana Barry
more's introduction to movies will be
anything but glamorous. She'll wear
braids, horn-rimmed specs and
braces on her teeth In Love and
Kisses" Deanna Durbin turned
down the part Overheard on the
set of THE Hard Way: Joan Les
lie to Ida Lupino-"I certainly wish
I could act as well as you, Ida" Miss
Lupino to Miss Leslie-"You GER
tainly can, Joan-only not in this
picture"
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Evening star., 1942-03-24

AIMS role in THE Man Who Came
to Dinner" was that of a giddy, vain
stage actress. 1t also called for
considerable acting. What with
Bette Davis, Monty Woolley, Regi-
nald Gardiner, Jimmy Durante and
others in the cast, Ann had to de-
liver to hold her own. Deliver she
did.
A Budget Balancer.
Another entirely different char
acterization marked AIMS next pic
ture, "Juke Girl" In this she was
a good-natured toughy, who gained
q precarious living by taking cuts
on any drinks she could get the boys
to buy her. Once more she delivered,
without benefit Of leg appeal.
At this writing she is doing more
Of the same in The Shadow of
Their Wings" the story Of the boys
In the aircraft factories, in which
she plays a down-to-earth house.
wife, intent on balancing the budget
and keeping a marriage intact.
Legs or no legs, Ann Sheridan
continues to hand in creditable work
before the cameras. She would be
the first to laugh if you called her
q great artist. She would rather be
known as a good trouper, one who
takes the parts as they come-and
does her best with them.
Evening star., 1942-03-24

IheSe I n e Jay Sar"ooS.
most faithful of the bard's disciples
do not undertake to demonstrate,
or even indicate a feeling, that
Macbeth" is the play that Ham
let" is. They accept it quite obvi-
ously for what it is, plain murder
in the most sumptuous of settings.
That is quite enough to make 1t
something you will never forget,
may count yourself in error, or loss,
for not seeing. 1t seethes with vio-
lence, madness and vengeance, a
passionate brew that probably would
surprise even the weird sisters II
they could see it from seat out
front.
In playing Macbeth Mr.. Evans
has no such noble material to work
on as he had in Hamlet" Macbeth
Is Just a man with bloody hands,
pursued by the twin demons of
ambition and Lady Macbeth. He
kills gracious and beloved king
and lives to occupy a throne on
which he is but craven subject to
remorse and fear. 1t is different
material but Mr. Evans Is just as
much at home in it, an actor as
sure Of voice and gesture in the
characters murderous drive as he
was in the anguished hesitation of
Hamlet. Physically he may not be
Evening star., 1942-03-24

up to your conception of the mighty
general who feared only his own
conscience, but that will be only in
case you are scholar who has
spent decades measuring Shake
speare's heroes, or reading their
measurements in musty tones.
II *
Matching Mr.. Evans performance
step for step in this revelation of
human baseness among the presum-
edly gifted Is Miss Anderson's por-
trait of Lady Macbeth. Their scenes
together represent acting at its most
eloquent. Whatever their imme-
diate deed, the plot of gentle Dun
cans death, the performance of the
hideous act. or the terrible after
math in which hands and daggers
drip, they are a man and woman in
love- Not all the foulness of their
deed can conceal that, nor rob their
story of the element of tragedy that
despoiled love implies.
1t is this poignant sense Of two
who loved much, gambled more, and
lost which is conveyed by Miss An
derson's matchless playing Of the
sleep-walking scene. The baseness
of their crime Is lost In the anguish
which she conveys in this haunting
passage which merely fine actress
might miss or an ordinary one turn
into comedy.
Miss Webster. the director, and
her principal players have dared all
through the 10 scenes OF the play to
let its storms rage as Shakespeare
willed, to play 1t for all its excite
ment and its grandeur. They have
not hesitated, whatever surprise it
might cause you, to resort to sound
effects which are as modern as the
microphone, a mixture Of witchcraft
and the laboratory which curiously
enough is not greatly disturbing and
heightens the effect of the cauldron
episode.
1t is undoubtedly a facet of their
determination to make Shakespeare
enjoyable based logically upon the
assumption that nine out of ten
playgoers will accept 1t In the spirit
1t is offered.
Lesser roles in this Macbeth" are
played with the same bravura quail
ity that marks the portraits Of the
principals. Every man, Of woman. is
allowed his say with all the elo-
quence he. can muster and Miss
Webster's direction has mustered a
deal of eloquence throughout. There
Is excellence generally through the
cast. most especially in Harry Irvine
as the kindly King Duncan, Herbert
Rudley as the avenging Macduff,
Ralph Clanton as Duncan's son
Malcolm, Viola Keats in her brief
scene as Lady Macduff and Stats
Cotsworth as the foully betrayed
Banquo.
The settings and lighting by Sam
uel Leve are an unforgettable ele-
ment of this Macbeth" whose Co.'S
tunes by Lemuel Ayers also con-
tribute vastly to its grandeur as a
spectacle of violence set to that
verbal music that was lost with
Shakespeare.
1t all leaves you with the convic-
ton that Macbeth" Is the best
crime play Of 1912, or any other
year you can name.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"Macbeth," with Maui
rice Evans: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
CapitOI-"The Shanghai Gesture"
Sinking Miss Terney in China: II
am, 1:45, 4:30, tbs and 10. Stage
shows: l, 3:45, $50 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Woman of the Year" 4"
the Hepburn-Tracy comedy success:
HAS am, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05 and $50
pm.
Earle-"Dangerously They Live"
John Garfield VS.. the Nazis: 10 am,
1920, 2:50, $40, 7:45 and 1905 pm.
Stage shows: 11:35 am, 2, 4:30,
6:55 and 9:20 pm.
Keith's-"Fantasia," Mr.. Disney's
greatest achievement: 11:55 am,
1:55, 3:55, 5:55,. 7:55 and 9:55 pm.
Little-"Mayerling," proving that
true love never dies: II am, 12:45.
2:30, AIS, sos, 7:55 and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan - Louisiana Pur-
chase" film version of the stage
play, lavish and in color: 11:10
am, lis, 800, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:40
pm.
Palace-"To Be or Not to Be-"
Carole Lombard's last gay fling:
10:45 a.p., 1855, sos, Sis, tbs and
9:40 pm.
Pix-"Musical Story" from Rus
sia: 2:50. Sis, TAO and 1910 pm.
Trans-Lux ~ News and shorts:
Continuous from 10 am.