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The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-02-27
By Associated Press) )


 WASHINGTON. D. c. - Presi- dent Roosevelt said in a worldwide radio address Monday night that America has been compelled To yield ground to it's enemies. but added that with constantly increasing produc- tion the Allies will take the often siye soon and drive on 10 victory.
 We and the other United Ma tions, committed to destruction of militarism in Japan and Germany, are daily increasing our strength. Soon we-and noa our enemies will have the offensive. We-not they-will win the final battles And we-not they-will make the final peace
 Despite the cruelty long distances involved the President disclosed that large numbers of planes manned by American pilots are now in daily contact with the enemy in the south west Pacific. He also said thousands of American troops are in the same zone. He explained how it is pos sible to fly the large bombing planes from the United States to the south western Pacific. but told how ships carrying crated fighter planes and light bombers-both necessary as adjuncts to big bomber operation can make only four round trips year between the far off battla zones and the United States
 Goal Will Be Reached
 The President disclosed that the prodigiously high production goals established two months ago will bel attained, and such a production goal-he repeatedly emphasized-is the key to victory.
 MT. Roosevelt's speech was his third major address since the coun- try entered the war December 2. Among his listeners were the Wash ington birthday diners-about 60 democratic party gatherings through out the country.
 Discussing the war strategy only in very broad terms, he attributed Japanese successes so far to com- mand in the air. The Japs, he said, had the initial advantage because their small fighter planes could be flown to the scene of combat while those of the United States must be crated and shipped over vast dis tances.
 lie said the war with Japan has not changed the strategy long plan ned for just such a war - delaying battles. He said it was recognized long before the war that if war did come to the Philippines, it would be possible only to retire to Bataan peninsula and there fight a delaying battle. He said such a strategy would be plain to any one looking at map and seeing how Japs have bases dotted throughout the region,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-02-27
President Reports To Nation About
 War Situation

particularly in the Jap-mandated islands between Hawaii and the Philippines. These bases were built by Japan contrary to her written ob- legations, but they are there They do not show on many maps. But they effectively would prevent a |. S. fleet from sending aid to the Philippines even if the Japs never had struck at Pearl Harbor
 While nothing has changed this strategy, he did say that General MacArthur.s magnificent defense has been more sustained and more costly To the enemy than had been hoped
 Japs Lose Most Planes
 In this war of attriti0n against the Japs, the United States and it's allies are taking a terrific toll of the enemy Even including the losses at Pearl Harbor, he said, we have destroyed considerably more Japanese planes than they nave des- troyed of ours
 The President was unsparing in eastigating the "rumor mongers and poison peddlers in our midst" who among other things. spread stories that losses at Pearl Harbor were far beyond realty As for plane losses there-whieh the rumor mongers have said was 1000-the President said the Japs do not know how many they destroyed and he won't tell them. But he then said their total plane losses exceed those of the Un- tied States-including all lost at Pearl Harbor. As for the death toll at Pearl Harbor. another item he said has been exaggerated by the story tellers, he fixed it at 2340 killed, 946 wounded Of all the bat tleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines at Pearl Harbor, only three were put permanently out of commission, he said. Many of the vessels of the Pacific fleet were not even there at the time. Of those hit, some were hit only slightly. Some have rejoined the fleet. Some are still being repaired.
 3 High Purposes
 The President laid down three high purposes for Americans at home:
 CD We shall not stop work for a single day-if any dispute arises we shall keep on working while the dispute is solved by mediation, con- ciliation or arbitration until the war is won"
 C2) We shall not demand spec ial gains or special privileges or ad- Yantages for any one group or oc- cupation."
 (3) We shall give Up conyen- fences and modify the routine of our lives if our country asks us to do so. We shall do it cheerfully, re- membering that the common enemy
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seeks 10 destroy every home and every freedom in every part of our land.
 He said. Our special task is pro- duction = uninterrupted production. I emphasize that word uninterrup- ted Our first job is 10 build mp production until the United States has overwhelming superiority. If We lose this war t will be gener- ations or even centuries before es- sential freedoms can be restored but we can lose only if production is not kept up.
 He said that the American may have to give up not only pleasures. goods and associations with those he loves, but life itself
 He pointed out that in the past the very fate Of London and Moscow themselves have al times been uu- certain, but never was il questioned even then that the people of England and the people of Russia would con tinue to fight He said we all salute the superb Russian army" on its tWenty-fourth anniversary. He paid tribute to the Dutch and che Chin ese.
 For America he said. never before in history have We had so little time to do so much.
 Keep Them From Alaska
 Our job now he declared, "is to fight al distances. Until the flow of supplies gives Us superiority. we must strike wherever the enemy is, He said this strategy is to keep the war as far from our shores as pos sible.
 If, now. the government yielded to the wishes of those who would have the fleet come home to guard [. s. shores in a last-ditch defense, then aid to the other United Nations would be halted If. for example. aid to China and the southwestern Pa cific were halted, il would play into the enemy's hand. for the object of the Nazis and the Japanese is to sep arate Britain. Russia. the United States and China-cut them off divide and conquer
 If America were cut off from the
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other Pacific allies, then Che laps would be free to approach South and Central America aand North Amer lea. including Alaska Too. Japan would be free to spread in tbe other direction - westward And if aid were cut off from the Red sea area. that would help the Nazis to over run Turkey. Africa and then west Afriea-and that would put them close to South America. If the sup ply line across the north Atlantic were cut. then Russia couldn't be supplied.
 Thus, he pointed out. this is a worldwide War touching every continent every ocean. And it is all one war
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DO SEATTLE

Mrs Myrtle Everett. Of Anchor age. wife of aa former mining part ner of Rudolph Koch. well known NrangeIl man who was injured in | iaII at Wrangeu Mil twoweeksago. was a Seattle bound passenger out ei Srauseu this week
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SINGER SEWING MACHINES

Singer Vacuum Cleaners. Maytag Washing Machines, Ironite Ironers. Maytag I10-yolt AC light plants. Terms $500 down s50Q monthly J. II. Anderson. Box 10l. Juneau Alaska. Distributor. 38-tf
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
Occupied Lands
Pay Crushing
Price for Food

NEW BALTIMORE-If you're
inclined to complain about ra-
tioning and high prices, consider
the plight of downtrodden resi-
dents of Occupied Belgium as
revealed in a letter written to
Mrs. Vernon Allard.
Imagine if you can that knit
ting wool for baby clothes costs
818 francs a pound. Seems inn
possible, but it's true. A ton of
coal costs 1000 francs. about
$66.
Here are q few other prices:
Eggs, 10 francs each, 33 cents;
butter, 1877 francs per pound,
S4.25; fats, 1875 francs per
pound $3.50; meat, 68 francs a
pound, $2.25; coffee, 400 francs
a pound, $3.50; flour, As francs,
$3.50; onions, ID francs pound,
so cents.
Bread - and what bread
now selling at Am francs a
loaf, $1.40."
Mrs. Allard explains what 80
francs made a dollar before the
war and adds: Let's not grum-
BILE folks! Let's buy bonds and
smile"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
Art Students
Aid Halloween

Students Of the art depart
ment at Mount Clemens High
school, under the direction of
Miss Anna Hood, will provide
the school placards for the an
nual Halloween celebration TO
be held here, and the Owls Club
will come through again with re-
freshments. Russell Babe is
chairman of the refreshments
committee which will distribute
candy.
Indications are today that all
civic organizations who have
aided in making this event one
of the outstanding city programs
of the year, are continuing in the
same spirit this year. The Ro-
tary Club is providing the S.
prize for the winner of the
creased pole climbing event, one
of the highlights of the contests
to be held following the colorful
parade that will start off the pro-
gram next Friday night.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
vithy Sounds
DakarWarninq
Soys Fronee Will
Defend Positions

VICHY, Oct. % - P)-- The
'richy governments warning to
the people of Dakar that new
mcnaces ring out against you"
should hold the attention and
ar use the vigilance of all
Frenchmen, an authorized source
said today.
ats gravity is to be under
scored" this informant said of
the message read over the Dakar
radio yesterday by Admiral Jean
Darlan, chief of Vichy's armed
forces, in the name of Chief of
State Petain.
The Vichy source said Petain's
promise that france had not and
would not "fail in her word"
was "a solemn assertion which
Was to be heard by the entire
world"
Recalling the Marshals asser-
ton that any attack upon Dakar
wou:,,l meet with the same resist
ance that greeted the thwarted
De Gaullist- British expedition in
1910, the authorized source said
France would fight mot only for
her honor but to maintain her
positions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
All Transports
Safe in PORT
Gen. Eisenhower
Spikes Maxi Claim

Lonodn, Oct. % - up -
Lieut.. Gen. Dwight d. Eisen-
hover, commander of u. S.
Army forces in the European
theater, denied German claims
of the sinking of u. S. troop
transports yesterday, describing
them as completely unbound
ed"
"At the end of September" he
said, 1.-The Axis spread and later
repeated stories TO the effect that
several large ocean-going liners
heavily laden with American
troops had been torpedoed.
These claims are completely I'M
founded and are merely another
example of the untrustworthi-
ness of Axis reports.
"This information has been
withheld until every American
soldier that was on the Atlantic
at the time of the German an
nouncement was landed safely in
the united kingdom and we
could assure ourselves of the
complete falsity of the German
claims.
"The Navies, whose task it is
to escort our continuous troop
movements into this theater,
have been and are daily accord
ing magnificent protection "a
fact which every soldier in our
Army clearly appreciates and
gratefully acknowledges"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
Allies Undaunted
by Jap Threats
British Radio Warns
JOBS Of Determination

NEW DELHI, INDIA, Oct. %
-R-The Japanese announce
ment of inteptions to court-mar-
tial American "bomb-Japan" pill
OTIS brought an immediate Japan
csc language broadcast from the
British in India today asserting
that mo threats of this sort will
have the slightest effect on Al
lied war strategy nor will Allied
pilots take any notice of Terror
list methods"
The broadcast demanded that
the Japanese supply the location
of schools and hospitals so they
can be avoided by bomber crews.
1t recalled that Japan had
bombed China's cities relentless
ly and that the Japanese had re-
quested the evacuation of Nan.
king preparatory to bombing Of
the now-occupied capital Of
China.
"On this analogy" the broad
cast continued, "the Allies now
have every right, because of the
Japanese example, to demand
the evacuation of all civilians
from Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya,
Kobe and other big cities.
eff any stay behind and are
killed by Allied bombs, the fault
would be theirs alone. This, at
least, is the reasoning of the jap
anese army and navy ministries. y
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
Christmas
Boxes

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE
to be thousands of miles from
home and not get a Christ
mas box
w, know no mother would
fail to send her son in service
a Christmas box. But what
of those boys who have no
mothers to pack the box?
The Navy Mothers Club
stands ready to perform this
service for men of the Navy,
Coast Guard and Marines.
All they nee is the complete
address of the service man.
Their plan was announced
some time ego, but they have
only six names to date. There
mus: be more men in these
services who will lack a
Christmas hox, but unless
these names and addresses are
sent in b. Saturday, the club
members cannot get them
mailed by Nov. /, to comply
with regula' SO the men
receive them by Christmas.
If you know such a man
please contact Mrs. Frank
Peltier of IS South avenue,
president of thu club, or call
1857 or 1891. Names and
addresses may also be left at
the Monitor-Leader office. Do
it by Saturday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
Army, State Officials
10 Discuss LIQUOR

Army officer; and officials of
the Michigan Liquor Control
Commission are to meet with
liquor licensees to discuss prob
lens of control arc und Army
c ~1ps at the Tassie Tavern, $3.50
Jefferson avenue, Mt. Clemens,
at 2 pm. Thursday, Oct. 20.
Lieut.. Edgar Jones, provost
marshal, a MEDICAL officer, Com
missioner Felix H. H. Flynn and
Enforcement Director Charles A.
Parrish of the Commission are
to be among the speakers Spen-
Ger Fullerton, field representa-
tive of the Federal Security Ag-
ency, has also been invited to
speak.
The sanitation program of the
Commission will be among the
topics discusset..
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
SET Riiesfor
Local Man,72
Homer Reynolds
Dies Thursday

Funeral services will be held
from the d. N. Cooley Funeral
Home, 40 South Gratiot, at 2
p. m. Saturday. for Homer Reyn-
olds, 72, who died yesterday
morning at Ionia Sanitarium.
Born in Illinois, the deceased
came to Mount Clemens when
he was "a years of age, and then
settled on a farm in Macomb
Township, where he lived with
his daughter, Mrs. Wilfred Bah
bitt, until failing health COM
PEELED him to enter the sani-
tarium at Ionia five years ago.
Surviving are two sons, Lloyd,
of Rock Island, Illinois, and Lee
roy, a member of the u. S. Ar
my, stationed in North Carolina.
Also surviving, besides Mrs
Rabbit, are two other daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Dreimiller, and Mrs.
Adrian Bishop, both of Mount
Clemens, and IL grandchildren.
Burial will be in the family
lot in Clinton Grove Cemetery,
with the Rev. p. Atkinson, of the
Mount Clemens Fundamental
Baptist church, officiating.
The body may be viewed after
TOO p. m. tonight at the flu
neral home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
Would Strengthen Bars
AGAINST Labor Piracy

WASHINGTON, Oct. % Up
- Seeking to strengthen the
bars against labor piracy, the
War Labor Board has forbidden
an employer to hire workers for
pay higher than the established
rate for the job at his plant.
WLB ruled yesterday that hir-
ing an employee for more money
than was paid workers of SINH
lar skill and productive ability
in the plant amounted to wage
increase within the meaning of
the Presidents wage stabiliza-
ton order and would require ac-
ton of the board.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
Fraser Child vieIiln
Of PROLONGED Illness

FRASER Dorothy Arbitter,
IL 1-2 month-old daughter a
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Arhittsr.
died late Wednesday at the home
Of her parents at 32270 Church
road following an illness dating
from birth.
Besides her parents, she is sur
vived by her paternal grand
mother, Mrs. Emma Arbitter.
and her maternal grandfather.
Edwin Wehner.
Funeral services were held al
2 p. m. today from the home
with Rev. v. Bentley, pastor OF
Utica Methodist church, offici-
ating. Burial was in White Cha
pei Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Rotary Governor
Addresses Club

Special meetings at which
parents of service men are
guests were advocated yesterday
by Alex E. Moore, of Wayne, dis
trict governor of Rotary, in a
speech he made before local Ro-
tarians at the Medea Hotel.
Moore explained the Rotary
governors letter in an interest
ing and instructive address.
Guests included DR.. Thomas
Kern, Utica; John Carls, Rose
vile; Henri German, Crosse
Pointe; Fred Cromie; DR.. j. M.
Croman, Jr. and Rev. FIR. Leo
Roberge, pastor of st. Peters
Catholic church.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
DeaI|I g.
EIeaIlef
Visitor Sevjekep
at Nsphssv's HesIle

Miss Eleanor rortou, a.
Detroit, died last night . ~
home Of her nephew. Win q!
Jobse. 40 Dickinson. whsgs ~
had been visiting Soe ssvss
days. %l
Miss Forton was born ~
Chesterfield township and b.
made her home with hss nsphG0
from time to time. !
Surviving are &hree sistet
Mrs. Ida Blay, Mrs. Bert 1Gooeo
and Mrs. Frank In Mont1onk
all Of Mount Clemens. -
Prayer win be said tonie1,t 81
eight o'clock at the LsCro1x y
Groesbeck Funeral Home. So
ices win b held Saturday c4
$50 q. m. from the funeral h0g1
and 1t 10 from st. Louis Co19&
Ollie church with burial 81 ~
family lot in st. MAry's C1<
Ollie Cemetery n New 1a1te
more.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
No Needed
in Buying
for Soldiers
WASHINGTON. Oct. % q

WASHINGTON. Oct. % - R
- Gift kits containing shaving
cream or toothpaste can be pur-
chased for friends or relatives in
the armed forces without turn
ing in old tubes.
The war production board
said that to max sure the kits
60 to servicemen, however, the
gift boxes must be delivered or
mailed by the rchant.
To be eligible for this err
emption. the kit mus contain
sufficient other articles SO that
the shaving cream or toothpaste
does not exceed rs per cent of
the value of the kit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
OLD STORY

OLD STORY
LARAMIE, WYO.-J. S. Hun
ter knew what the government
had in mind when it started
talking of rubber conservation.
He has driven 100000 miles in
the last six years-and he is just
starting on a new set of tires.
The first set was recapped at
$4,000 miles. They went 81, 900
before he needed new ones.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
Probe 1heiiS
From Gas Station

City police today probed the
theft early Thursday of 81 and
two boxes Of spark plugs from
the Hi Speed Station on South
Gratiot at Harrington. George
Beaujean, tn e attendant, told
police that entrance was gained
through a broken rear window.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23

showed that rs per cent of them
participated in intercollegiate or
advanced intramural athletics in
college. Thirty-five per cent of
them won letters.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23

DoN-Y ever argus with Gr,ndns
Hoskins about American histsgy
unless yoa knew what yss'fs tan
ing about Because whsa Cranans
states . fset. 4 really = . fssG
The other day ~ eoe - talking
about George Washinstsa who
besides being . great general. was
. public surveyor. . suceess6ul
farmer, and . wise statesman.
~And hs made mighty god bssR.
too" says Grandma.
That was news - nsee q -
~You can - his privats recipe
for beer right n tie New York
Public Library" Grandma Hes
kins tails a. "ln his ewn hand
writing, ct that"
And thea sAs epened . q Nv
WasAingtea m tAeoo sthseD who
founded Anegjse bellevsd = beee
and nedoratisn. Tel - abeut va
Ian Penn who ~ - OWn beeW.
cry dewn b Psa1sy1sanla. - =
rasl Putaan !. eanus1 A6ans 6
Massachusetts, ana Janao Ogle.
tAerps e csseyia.
Beer Grandma goes q, sAas
grown up with IL sountxy because
it's . symbol q goea 1sllswIAiD
and mederat3eQ." .Ls
Way haek Is 179o, - III ~
James Madden stood - = -
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
TIRE, WHEEL STOLEN

Clarence Meitzner, 1853 Crock
er, reported to city police at 8
a. m. today that a tire, tube and
wheel assembly was stolen last
night from his car parked in a
garage behind his home. An ex-
ira tube also is missing, he said.
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WON LETTERS

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. %
-(R- A survey of some 1900
apprentice Sc m n at Notre
Danes Midshipmen's School,
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Smoke deprives London OF 800
hours of sunshine every year in
normal times.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28
Monday, December 26, 1919

might raoned Often food Look the we'll especially
that filthy unshaven fellow walking And don't think for minute
that he wouldn't prefer be Detroit with yO coffee
a day. yom sugar. yo 65degree home yo job and Acard
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28

Sit back in soft chair resent Christmas without all the things
you wanted and look these pictures that show how American troops
are living in Guinea what they others like them had do
Chsmasand what they'll have to do New Years There's
atonng in the front lines often meat butter that
The Phoenix index., 1942-08-22
Search Is On
For Race Tenor;
WantedFor0pera
Harnmerstein Finds
= They Are "A Rarity
Most Are Baritones
By DOLORES CALVIN

= NEW YORK-"I'm searching the
country for a colored tenor" were
the words of Oscar Hammersteln
II, as he was pacing the alley of
the 44th Street Theatre. did you
ever realize how rare they are?"
complained the music maestro.
Most male colored singers are
baritones. A lot of others have
freak, high voices but aren't equip
ped for strainght roles. I've got to
have somebody for the lead in Car
men Jones"
Carmen Jones" is Hammerstein's
modernized version of the Bizet
opera, Carmen" Max Gordon pro-
duce it. 1t isn't a swing version
The setting is just transferred to
a Southern defense plant. The music
will be in original operatic form.
Carmen Jones" is scheduled to
debut on Broadway in the next
couple of weeks, and the colored
tenor who gets that leading role
shall be made for life, so far as
Oscar Hammerstein II is concerned
The 44th st. Theatre, 224 W a ST.
will house the opera.