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Pacific
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Continued From Page One
during the past week, were
throwing everything into an at
tempt to reach Port Moresby,
vital post in Australia's outer
defenSes.
Attacking at both ends of the
r-flung Pacific battle theater,
American filters scored bomb
and torpedo hits on two enemy
cruisers off Choiseul Island, 200
miles north of Guadalcanal in
the Solemons, and pounded Jap
anese shipping and troops in the
Aleutian Islands, the Navy an
nounced.
Pacific fleet headquarters said
u. S. Army planes attacked
Japan's chief base in the Aleu-
tians at KiSka Harbor on Tues
day, sinking two enemy mine
SweepcrS and damaging three
submarines, three big cargo
ships and several smaller
craft.
In addition, the raiders killed
or wounded an estimated 500
Japanese troops, shot down six
planes and set fire to warehouses
and supply dumps.
REPULSE JAPS
In the Solomon Islands, Amer
lean Marines were reported to
have beat down third Japan
csc attempt TO regain the prize
Guadalcanal air base. The Navy
said the intensity of the fight
ing had diminished, with Ma
rine patrols securing the inte-
rior of the island for surviving
Japanese bands.
British columns were believed
continuing their Week-old ad-
vance upon Tananarive, capital
Of French Madagascar Island in
the Indian Ocean pending an
agreement on armistice terms.
A French communique an
Inouncing Gov.-Gen. Armand
/ Annct's ovcrtureS for peace said
French resistance continued ir
the interim, with 1.-The battle still
raging as violently as before ,
However, other reports SAID
d. the French Colonials were offer
Ing only token resistance to the
British, who opened their cam
paign at dawn last Thursday ir
a move to eliminate Madagascar
as a base for Axis submarine:
preying on Allied supply lane:
to India, China and the Middle
East.
No developments were report
cd in connection with state.
ment attributed yesterday to
Gen. Shunroku Hata, Japan:
commander in chief in China
declaring that East Asia i:
about to take an important steT
in cooperation with the Euro
pean war.
However, Japan named Masa
yuki TAM, first secretary of thu
Japanese embassy in Washington
in 1927, as her new foreign min
istcr.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
NaZiS Erase
4 SIaV Towns

LONDON. Sept. II - Up -
A Reuters dispatch from Istan-
bull today quoted Belgrade re-
ports that the Germans had
shot all male inhabitants of
four Yugoslav villages and sent
the women and children to con-
centration camps in reprisal for
the blowing up of German
military train.
The train, carrying troops and
war supplies, was blown up by
Serbian irregulars on Sept. 10,
it was stated, and many young
officers on their way to rein
force Marshal Rommels Africa
corps were killed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
Historic Role
Continued From Page One


In the South Pacific in March,
the Yorktown men got bag Of
ten ships sunk and five damaged
in raid 'on New Guinea, at
Salamaua and Lac, but one
scout plane was lost The de
vastating raid on Tulagi in the
Solomons May 4, in which the
kill was nine, possibly IL ships,
found the Yorktown men in &C
ton. The wraith-like York
town moved into the Coral Sea
action, getting in on the kill of
the big Japanese carrier Ryuka-
ku and other war ships.
FAMOUS CREW
Go get en- Lieut.. f. Scott
McCuskey of Stuttgart, Ark,
work, getting a bag of seven Jap
whose thrilling story. of fighter
planes, is known throughout the
orld, was a Yorktown fighter.
Another was George Henry Gay,
Of Houston, Tex, torpedo plane
pilot, whose thrilling eyewitness
story was the first to flash
around the world from the Mid
way battle.
The full log Of the Yorktown
no doubt will remain a Naval
secret until after the war, but its
officers and men know full we'll
that it lived up TO its historic
name.
The Yorktown was commits
stoned September 30. 1887, as
flagship of the aircraft squad
rons of the battlefield.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
Remer

Mrs, Elmer Luth, of Mount
Clemens: Mrs. Donald Schmidt,
of Mount Clemens; and the fol-
lowing grandchildren: Richard
Baxter, Nancy Zoe Luth, Maui
veto Anne Schmidt, and Dom
aid K. Schmidt.
Burial will be in the family
lot at Clinton Grove Cemetery,
following a Christian Science
Service at the funeral home.
The body may be viewed at the
funeral home after 700 p. m.
tonight.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
Stanton Infants
Funeral Held Iodav

Funeral services were held
this afternoon at 200 p. m. from
the LaCroix e. Groesbeck Flu
neral establishment for Dorothy
Stanton, 10 months, who died
at the home of her parents Sep
tember Is.
The parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Stanton, reside at 33084
Utica road, Fraser. Burial was
IN the Fraser Cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
City 10 Aid
Civic Chorus
Appropriotes $500
for Enterprise

The annual $500 appropria-
ton TO help finance the Civic
Chorus was voted by the City
Commission last night.
In urging a favorable vote
Mayor Donald r. Westendorf
termed the chorus very aes-
thetic" and a "recreational en-
deavor for those artistically in
clined." A. J. Pickman appear
cd before the commission on
behalf of the chorus accompan-
led by Mrs. c. II. r. Mckenzie,
president.
Pickman said the chorus has
not yet named a successor to last
years director, Pvt. c h r S
Bernard McGhec.
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Salvage
Continued From Page One

front Of the county building con-
tinued to attract interested spec
tators. The articles on display
include the two Civil War can
non, a French IS, the bell from
the old court house clock.
Selfridge Field sentries will
march in front Of the county
building tomorrow and an Ar
my Jeep and other mechanical
equipment will be on display
there.
At Seliridge, the drive for
scrap moved into high today as
officers and enlisted men comb
ed their quarters.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
Car In River May
Solve Old Mystery
Police Seek Link TO
Doctors Disappearance

MANISTEE, Mich, Sept. II
R- The discovery of parts OF
an automobile in the bed of the
Manistee River may lead to the
solution of a 13-ycar-old mys-
terry, Police Chief Roy Hebner
said today.
United States eng IN e s
dredging the river brought up
the auto parts, and studies were
to be made to determine II they
came from the car of the late
DIR. Alvin Liston, who disap-
peared in 1929.
DR.. Liston, a Mason county
veterinarian, left his home Jan.
/, 1929, ostensibly to make calls
in Manistee and never returned.
Some time later a body was re-
covered from the river but was
never satisfactorily identified.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
Include Regular Courses
in Nidht School Here

In addition to the courses in
pre-flight aviation, review math-
ematics and the sciences, the
regular courses will be offered
this year to night school stu
dents, Principal Monte McFar-
lane said today.
McFarlane said that the num-
Der of courses offered will be
determined by the number of
enrollments taken during the
registration period on Sept. %,
% and 30. Glasses, which will be
held each Monday and Wednes-
day from 7:30 to $50 at the
high school, will get underway
early in October.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
Mystery-Raft
Found ON Coast

NEW YORK. Sept. l7.-(P)-
The eastern defense command
announced today that a small
raft had been found along the
Atlantic coast of Long Island
last night and that a shot was
fired in an unsuccessful attempt
TO halt a prowler.
An army beach patrol, togeth-
er with police and Coast Guard,
later searched the vicinity but
discovered nothing unusual"
The announcement said the in
cident occurred at about 10 p.
m. eastern war time.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
Utica Youths
Admit Girls
CHARGES

Harold Zimmerman, l8, of
9483 High, near Utica, and his
brother, Raymond, II, today
pleaded guilty to taking in
decent liberties with nine
year-old Utica girl upon arraign-
ment today before Circuit Judge
James f. Spier.
The two were jailed in default
of 81 500 bond each to await
sentencing set for next Thurs
day at 10 a. m. Chief Assistant
Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held ap-
peared for the state.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
Pre-FIiSht
Course Offered
to PUPILS

A pre-flight course in aviation
will be offered TO senior and
junior boys at the Mount Glenn
ems High school this fall, Prin-
cipal Monte McFarlane said to-
day.
McFarlane revealed that more
than 100 boys attended a meet
ing yesterday at which the
course was described. Herman
Beck, science teacher, will be
the teacher.
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Heroes
Continued From Page One


ism among the gallant ships
crew while she was fighting her
last battle and dying.
Another:
One after the other, three
anti-aircraft gunners we're shot
out Of the same gun seat The
fourth man took his place as
calmly as though it had been a
drill
Another:
Capt. Elliott Buckmaster, the
Yorktown S commanding officer,
swan from a crowded raft to a
whale boat towing an injured
Negro mess attendant, then
swan back to the raft.
Several hundred of the York
towns crew. tanned, muscular
young men eager for new battle
stations, recently moved into
Treasure Island to await orders.
All are proud Of their ship, which
they say has done more than
any ship in the Navy
A survey has shown that A.
100000 of the 16,500,000 in
habitants of Mexico are either
full-blooded Indians or have
part Indian blood.
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Europe
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continued FROM rage One
only comment on the struggle,
but dispatches reaching Swift
erland quoted the German prop
Uganda ministry as saying Hit
Ter would issue special an
nouncement today. This seemed
TO indicate that the Fuehrer ex-
pccted the swift collapse of
Stalingrad.
SUCCESSFUL DEFENSE
At midday, after bitter fight
ing throughout the night, the
Russian High Command stressed
successful defensive actions and
declared that at least some of
the German assault forces had
been repulsed or wiped out.
But others held their gains,
Selling houses and firing from
atticS and cellars. Overhead,
clouds of Nazi Stukas and high
level bombers raine death and
flaming destruction on the alrea-
Gy ravaged city.
AS Stalingrad's peril increas-
ed, Britain delivered another
city smashing attack on the in
dustrial heart of Germany be-
fore dawn today, with an ar
mazda of perhaps 800 Raj
bombers attacking Ruhr Valley
var foundries.
"A very strong force left
great fires raging in the valley,
the British Air Ministry said. in
the tenth night assault on the
Reich this month.
Thirty-nine Raj bombers
we're acknowledged missing.
The fires were not so con-
centrated as in the ,000-bomb-
er raid on Cologne, but they
covered a wider area" said an
American pilot serving with the
Canadian air force.
NIGHT RAIDS
D-7B, the German News Agen-
cy, said German night raiders
attacked Colchester, which it de-
scribed as "a military district
headquarters, So miles north
east of London, and an English
east coast port.
On the Soviet front, the Rus
sian Command indicated that
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's
armies were holding on the
southwest and western ap-
proaches to Stalingrad as Won
Book shifted his greatest pres
sure to the northwest.
Soviet anti-tank gunners and
troops hurting hand grenades
and incendiary bottles were de-
clared to have beaten back at
least one thrust in the northwest
suburbs by tank-led German
riflemen
The enemy automatic rifle
men were surrounded and wiped
out the Red Army's mid day
communiquc said.
In another action, individual
groups of enemy tanks drove
wedges into our defenses, but
they were wiped out in the hea-
Wy fighting that ensued," an
earlier communique said.
Overshadowed by the gigantic
struggle for Stalingrad, heavy
fighting ragged at other key
points along the whole front
from Leningrad to the Central
Caucasus.
Dispatches to Red Star, the
Soviet Army newspaper, said
counter attacking Russian troops
killed 5000 Germans in the Sin
yavino sector Of the Volkhov
river front southeast of Lenin-
grad, while on the Central Mos
cow front the Russian captured
a German fortified position and
killed 900 Nazis.
Another 500 Germans were
reported killed in a two-day bat
/ tie in the VoroneZh sector, mid
way between Stalingrad and
! Moscow.
Deep in the Caucasus, the Rus
SLAMS reported they had knocked
o. 30 tanks Of an 80-tank as
sault east of Mozdok, where the
/ Germans are driving toward the
Grozny oil fields and the Cas-
plan Sea, and recaptured a tact
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-17
DisoFderIy Chorse Admitted in Court

Otto Peltier, 81 Macomb, will
be sentenced tomorrow at o a.
m. after he pleaded guilty to
drunk and disorderly charge to-
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day before Justice Donald ].
Parent. Peltier was in his cups
last night when arrested in a To-
cal bowling alley.
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Salaries
Continued From Page One

AS a corporal, he's getting $50
month now from the U. D.
Army.
Top compensation received by
an officer of a Michigan cor
poration was the $685. O6.25
paid by General Motors to its
president. Charles f. Wilson. OF
this amount 100000 represent
ed salary and $l40, 544 90 bonus.
In addition was $500 listed as
commission and S15,362.25 as
other compensation.
MICHIGAN LIST
Michigan concerns reported
the following total compensation
of their officials:
EX-Cel-O Corporation - Phil
Huber $135,277 As.
Lee Anderson Advertising Co.
Lee Anderson $4,000.
Bohn Aluminium & Brass
Corp.-Chas. b. Bohn $685.
843 .05; p. A Marley SlO6, 863.-
.05.
Burroughs Adding Machine
Co.-Standish Backus, S85, $50;
A. j. Doughty S80.150.
Chrysler Corp.-W. p. Chrys-
Ter, Sl25.758; K. T. Keller,
SlOO,7O B. Z. Hutchinson, $780,
800; Fred NJ. Zeder, S85, $50.
Detroit Edison Co. Alex
Dow, $50, SEQ,
Ford Motor Cop. E. Mar
tin, Sl78,25894; c. E. Sorenson,
S177.OO4.94; Edsel B. Ford,
S144,6l9.64 b j. Craig, Sl09,-
466.36; A. M Wibel, $50, 95l .O6.
General Motors Corp. -
Charles E. Wilson, S256, 506.26;
Charles F. Kettering, S248,9 44;
Donaldson Brown. S248 ,682; Al
bert Bradley, $248, 680.25; John
T. Smith. S248,68O rs; Marvin f.
Coyle, S219,l23.75; Williams S.
Knudsen, S219,055 25; Ormond
Z. Hunt, S211,5l4.62; Alfred p.
Sloan, Jr., S200.500; Richard II.
Grant, $198,982; Lawrence p.
Fisher, 6,398; James ID.
Mooney, $l92 ,604; Harlow II.
Curtice, $173,O46; Edward F.
Fisher, S17O, 3O8.50; Harry j.
Klinger, S1l9,782.50; Ronald X.
Evans. $119,087..75; Charles E.
Wetherald, 18,46l.42; Charles
l.. McCuen, S117,95785; Alfred
j. Fisher, S1O9, 5675O; Bayard
d. Kunkle, $108,55O.07; Harley
j. Earl, Sl06,792.41; Elmer G..
Biechler, S96,839; William A.
Fisher, S96,63O.75; Graeme X.
Howard, sos, 885.25; James M.
Crawford, 500, 500; Frederick G.
Kroeger, sol, 52824; Nicholas
Dreystadt, S88, 443; Thomas p.
Archer, S86,281.75; Meyer l..
Prentiss, s84,872.75; Ernest r.
Breech, $50, 596.l0; Floyd o.
Tanner, S81,237.
General Motors Sales Corp
William E. Holler, S133,236.75.
Gibson Refrigerator Coo.
J. Gibson, 100000.
Great Lakes Steel Corp
George r. Fink, S122,500
j. l.. Hudson Co.-Oscar Web
Der, S162,24l 66; r. II. Weber,
17,4O8.33; j. B. Weber, S91,-
241.66.
S. S. Kresge Cor. r. Will
liams, s89,25o; c. B. futile,
S89,25O.
Metal Moulding Corp.-C. P.
Chamberlin. S97.215l824
Nash Kelvinator Corp. -
George w. Mason, S225, 2O9.O7;
w. F. Armstrong, S124,999.99;
E. r. Pierce, S107,l44.97.
National Bank of Detroit
Walter S. McLucas. 87,375.
National Electric Welding Ma
chimes Co.-Julius r. Brueck-
ner, S81, 134.O8.
Packard Motor Car Con-.
M. Gilman, S75,270.
Finished Mason Co. - Robert
Ellis, S167 1860.
Senior Investment Corp. -
Fred. j. Fisher. S144 900.
Universal Credit Corp.-Er-
nest. Kanzler, 100000.
N. A. Woodwork Con-. A.
Woodwork, SLAB ,667.64.
Yellow Truck q Coach Man
ufacturing Co.-Irving B. Bah
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-09

NoU CAN'T GET by with a Janu-
L airy powder in the summer
timel Not if you want 70 look your
beSt-not if you want to look inter-
esting, a little exciting
For winter powder covers the
fresh, warm tones of your summer
skin like a mask! Winter powder
can make your summer skin look
drab and sallow-evenalittleanem
SO change to Lady Esther Face
Powder Blended new and differ
ent way, LADY Esther shades are
richer, more beautiful. They dram
aase your summer skin, bring out
its rich new coloring.
Lady Esther Face Powder isn't
just mixed in the usual way. It's
No.gn by TWIN HURRICANES, and
its texture is much smoother, much
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-09
One Way TO Send Cakes
To Our Boys in Comp

set out handy while she put her
cake in the middle of an over
size mailing box.
Around the cake she packed
the light, fluffy, grains Of pop
corn, tied up the box, entrusted
it 10 the mails and waited TO see
what would happen to her home
made scheme.
In a few days, back came a
letter from her soldier son en-
Enthusiastically complimtnting her
for the ingenuity she had shown.
Not only had the cake arrived
in perfect condition, he wrote,
but the popcorn in which it was
packed was another welcome
delicacy for him and his pals.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-09

4 low to safely send that
cake to the boys in SER
vice is a problem faced
every day by some mother, sis
ter, cousin or aunt.
The trick Of getting fresh
cakes to far-off places all in one
piece puzzled Mrs. w. II. Robin
son of Greybull, Wyoming, too,
but she, being a resourceful in
dividual, worked it out carefully
after a little study Of the prob
lem.
First she baked her cake.
Then. while il was cooling. she
got out her corn pepper and
made several patches Of the
fluffy, white stuff, which she
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-09
BY Mrs.
Christine Frederick,
The Distinguished Authority
on Household Efficiency.

turn over the entire holder as
easily as Tipping a flapjack.
This prevents the need or danger
of breaking the cooked fish as
il is pulled off the usual grid.
Then. no barbecue cookery
would be complete without its
skeWers "a method of out
door cookery familiar 20 nomad
shepherds for centuries. The
modern housewife buys the solid
lamb from the leg, marinates IL
overnight in oil, onions, garlic
and spices 20 taste. then skewers
it alone, or with alternating rings
of ripe tomato, eggplant, onions
or mushrooms.
1t should be clear, by now,
that one secret or trick Of meat
cookery Of this type is 70 mari
nate the portioned pieces over
night or longer in a spicy sauce,
and in an oil mixture which
tenders the meat, at the same
time providing the necessary
grease or fat with which it may
be cooked.
Try this on your next barbecue
steaks: Have dealer pound them
well; lay in bowl with thinly-cut
onions. a Glove OF garlic, and
peppercorns, but never salt; add
a tablespoon of oil between the
steaks, and heap them up in
the bowl. Set in refrigerator for
a day or longer.
Then, when your guests are
hungry, your barbecue fire just
at it's glowing ebb, lift up each
steak from its spicy marinade
and broil, with no other fat
added.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-09
TRY That Backyard Barbecue
HNNEHATS cooking ?"
Y" Anything m ~
w be, If it's in a

Y" Anything m ny
w be, If it's in a
backyard barbecue "a mos I
popular outdoor sport this sea-
son, 10 be played on the home
lot by the stay-at-home family
and guests.
The trend towards outdoor
cooking and eating has been
growing for the past few years
by leaps and bounds. Cookbooks
on the technique of handling
skillet and grid have been
sprouting-up like mushrooms
after rain, and dependable direc-
tons have been widely printed on
How 20 build the outdoors fire
place"-or How to make a
wheelbarrow serving table" to-
gether with a host Of similar
ideas appealing 10 the skill Of
the home "handy-man."
Thus. bigger and better bar
becues" are the order Of the
day; and now the home-maker
and hostess, too, are pitching in
and learning 10 make a recrea-
ton and a real festivity of this
so-simple and informal mode of
eating.
And, with so many more Of
us staying at home and liking il,
the barbecue type Of meal makes
a genuine challenge 70 bring nov
city. competition, new types OF
dishes into the usual home menu.
For many Of the barbecue
trails originated in the ranch
house or "chuck-wagon" of the
Far West, or have evolved from
old tribal ways Of roasting the
kill" over wood Goals, near
where the bag" was taken; or
from nomad Indians or shepherds
who cooked, ate. and moved on
ward. To all these are we, their
m o q er n descendants, greatly
Indebted.
Our fine National and State
outdoor Fairgrounds have set
the pattern for the simplest type
Of outdoor fireplace: large cob
bles or boulders so grouped that
any metal grill or CRATE may be
placed on them at a foot eleva-
tion from the ground, and with
some protecting "windbreak" at
the rear 10 enable the cook 10
get draught without too much
smoke.
Their form is legion, and any
'handy-man" can build one, and
a good, dependable one at that.
in an afternoon, once the raw
materials are assembled. Brick
is still easier 20 handle, and
often one may buy sufficient
used" brick, for a few cents, to
put up a small backyard job.