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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-04-30

Premier Mussolini was said to
have ''fred' several home defense
leaders and to have called a con-
ference Of the remainder.
AS to Hitler, some circles saw
in the Laval coup a hope on the
part of Hitler that if forced to make
an unfavorable peace on account of
the failure in Russia, he would be
better off with Laval as mediator.
1t was possible that the German
people were greatly uplifted by the
prospect of getting armed help from
France, particularly the fleet, but
many believed it dubious that the
Germans were very happy about the
war, with thousands of tons of
bombs falling about their ears, and
thousands of wounded and dead
pouring back from the Red frontier.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-04-30

Washington: Lease-lend aid to
Russia in March was 212 times that
of February, the White House re-
vealed. The President said, how
ever, that this fact had not con-
vinced him that second front on
the continent should not be opened
another broad hint that an inva-
sion by American-British forces was
Sin the cards."
Washington: Joseph B. Eastman,
director of the Office of Transpor-
tation, had advanced a plan where
by many states would lift their high
way traffic regulations to speed the
traffic in munitions over the roads.
These rules in many cases were i'm
peding the war effort, he said.
Vichy: Germans had ordered re-
prisals for the alleged hurting of
hand grenades by disgruntled
Frenchmen against Nazi headquar-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-04-30

tiers at Arras. A curfew was ordered
pending further decision as to what
the punishment was to be.
New York: A Berlin broadcast
quoted Japanese paper as admit
ting that the Japs rated their foes
as follows: Americans, toughest:
Chinese, next; Russians, next.
Cambridge, Mass: The bantam
battalions'' of the U. S. army come
from Massachusetts, an officer OF
the surgeon generals office admit.
ted. This state provides the army's
shortest average man, he said.
New York: The report on the
Normandie, that the disaster had
been the result of gross careless
ness, had been closely followed by
the breaking out of third fire on
the wrecked and overturned vessel.
tReleased by Western Newspaper Union.)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-04-30
CORRECIDOR:
Valiant Fight

Hurting nine-inch shells from their
heaviest guns, the Japanese pound
ed beleaguered Corregidor in their
most furious assault since the war
began.
From new positions on Bataan Pc
ninsula and on the south shore of
Manila bay, enemy guns poured
deadly cross fire into the island for
tress. War department communi-
ques described the barrage as Gin
tense and severe"
On the Island of Panay, enemy
troops made further landings on the
southwest coast near San Jose, but
in the northern part of the island
near Lambanao the enemy was halt
ed at least temporarily by sharp.
counterattacks.
Cebu, however, had fallen, losses
had mounted far in excess of $4,000,
and the island of Panay, though put
ting up a stiff resistance, had been
successfully invaded by a large
Japanese force, estimated at $4,000.
Americans had been able to keep
up communicat tons between the is
lands by radio, and it was General
Wainwright, reporting direct from
Corregidor, who was able to report
the fall of Cebu, and the fact that the
American-Filipino troops were still
resisting beyond the city, which was
in flames.
It showed that the battle of the
Philippines was not over.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-04-30

Gen. Marshall Harry Hopkins
An army corps for British Commands.
and that IT want to be judged not by
what I proclaim but by what hap
pens," and the fact that the next
thing was the bombing of Tokyo
these three things were taken to
mean that the tide of war had
turned, and the great American OF.
fensive was really under way.
Marshall had paid a glowing trib-
ute to the fighters on Bataan, saying
that they had set a glorious example
for the rest of the army. He also
had reviewed the troops, had looked
over the hospitals, and had ex-
pressed himself as tremendously
pleased with the equipment and the
morale of the troops.
Fighting news was being looked
for, and the American public, after
the Tokyo incident, was not going
to be satisfied with less.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-04-30

were believed to be increasingly
large when Marshau's statement
about IAN army corps" referring to
the Ireland troops was given out.
This was cheering news to many
who expected an about assault on
Australia.
People said that if we had that
sort of strength in Ireland, what
must we have in Australia? For
it had generally been accepted that
that would be our main theater of
war in the immediate future.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-04-30
BOMBING:
Jap Cities Suffer

Americas spring tonic had been
the sensational report, from Japa-
nese sources, it was true, but I'M
denied in Allied circles and hence
accepted, that American planes,
probably carrier-based, had wreaked
havoc and destruction on Tokyo and
three other great Nipponese centers,
including vital Kobe.
Some of the angles of the Jap
broadcasts had been efforts to gain
information as to the source of the
attack which apparently had been
as much of surprise to Japan and
as much of mystery as had been
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Attempting to pierce the veil of
censorship and silence in Allied cir
cles, observers tried to figure the
strength and source Of the raids, and
most of them believed it had been
from two U. S. carriers, and might
have comprised as many as 100
navy bombing planes.
The Japs claimed that nine were
shot down. The Japs told of huge
fires being started, and 20 hours
after the raids had admitted, in their
own broadcasts, that the fires in
Tokyo had not been completely
quenched.
From this the American magma
ton was able to gather a picture
Of huge blazes roaring through the
c1ose-packed, .firnsy wood and paper
houses of Tokyo's suburbs, the after
math of five hours of bombing.
Simultaneous raids on four cities
widely spaced geographically could
hardly, they had pointed out, have
been carried out from a single car
rser.
II the raids had been by land
planes, observers had said, the gov
eminent would not have kept ST.
zence, as raids by American planes
based in Australia, with sub-base
in the Philippines, upon Jap hold
ings there had been promptly re-
ported to US. and later by the Japs.
A few doubted, because of Allied
silence, that the raids had occurred
at all, but these were in the tre-
mendous minority, compared with
those who had accepted the Jap re-
ports of their own disaster, and had
preened themselves joyously over
the Arrangement of Pearl Harbor and
Bataan.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-04-30
UNREST:
On Increase

AS the Allied pressure increased,
there were renewed dispatches that
all was far from well within the
Axis itself.
Not only were the Japs jittery
over the bombing Of their own main
land, but the Italians were said to
be much upset.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-04-30

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of this newspaper.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Air-War
Continued from Page II

NCOntlnued from rage IL
coast. The magnitude of the Of
fensive was indicated by the air
ministry's acknowledgment that
IL Raj bombers were lost.
Vichy reported that Raj
planes also "stormed" Paris in
a Commute pamphlet raid,
warning that they would return
to bomb French factories work
ing for Hitler's military machine.
The Nazi high command said
German night raiders attacked
Dover on the southeast English
coast, inflicting great damage"
to military installations.
Sc PLANES USED
Soviet dispatches reported that
sc German planes raided the
Arctic circle port of Murmansk,
key Soviet base for the arrival
of United States war supplies,
and that more than 100 planes.
raiders and defenders, battled
over the city at one time. Eleven
German planes were reported
shot down.
In London. Prime Minister
Churchill told a Conservative
Party meeting:
II cannot offer my guarantee
that we are at the end of our
misfortunes. 1t would be fool
ish for us not to be prepared for
further heavy blows.
But just as last year 1
warned you that we could not
have successes uncheckered by
reverses, so now in 1912 we need
not expect TO have reverses un-
relieved by successes.
The Allies cannot lose this
war except through our own
fault or our own failure to use
our combined, overwhelming
strength and to use our multi
Ply MS OPROA L u a Will
present themselves to U.S."
WINTER BREAKS
On the Soviet front, Hitler's
headquarters reported that the
long Russian winter was break
ing amid a continuing thaw"
and declared that tank led Red
Army attacks in the Donets
River Basin collapsed in bitter
hand to hand fighting with
German-Rumanian troops.
Elsewhere on the front, the
High Command said enemy
attacks were repealed partly in
hard fighting"
lass, the Soviet news agen-
cy, reported heavy fighting on
the Kalinin Front. betw cen
l. eni ngrad and Smolensk,
where the Russians have been
S lowly closing a death trap
around the German 18th Army
in tho Staraya Russo sector.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Blast
Continued from Page II

dAC ~
the scene from Philadelphia.
CHILDREN HURT
Fourteen children in grade
school half mile from the scene
were injured slightly by flying
glass from broken windows.
Only two were detained in an
Easton Hospital, however. To-
gether with Sc classmates the
children marched calmly from
the building under the supervi-
sion of two teachers, who gave
first aid to the injured in the
school yard.
PATHETIC SCENE
Wives and relatives of the
WOrkerS-sOme crying; others
Observation-Disclosures into a plant
building not far from the quarry
to await Identification of the
mangled bodies.
Major Earl M. Henry of the
Pennsylvania State police said
Is tons of dynamite had been
assembled in the quarry for a
major blasting operation that
was to have blown away one en-
tire side of the quarry.
Many building and homes in
the area were damaged.
c.. c. Bachman, timekeeper
for the company, said prepara-
tons were being made for a
major blast and that 10 20 x
men normally were used in such
an operation.
He said all men in or around
the quarry were either killed or
injured.
The plant, located approxi-
mately five miles north of Eas-
ton, employees about 200 work
ers. No plant buildings are near
the quarry, however, Bachnan
said.
GIANT CHARGE
Several hundred pounds Of
dynamite were being placed in
the quarry.
Pilots of two airplanes which
file wover the quarry said upon
their return TO the Easton air.
port that they saw truck, tina,
had been parked near the quarry
tossed heller and SHELTER.
All available emergency ambu.
lances and doctors were rushed
to the scene from Easton and
Philipsburg, NJ, across the
Delaware River from Easton.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Coast Patrol
Cutter Sunk
Navy Announces
Loss of Acocio

WASHINGTON, MARCH 26
-(P)-The Navy announced to-
day that the coast guard cutter
Acacia was recently sheIled and
sunk in the Caribbean area, pre-
sumably by an enemy subma-
rine, and that all aboard esti-
mated at 80 or 35, were rescued.
The cutter $ described in
a communique reporting the
sinking as "a small unarmed
ship of the tender class which
was used to provide services to
aids to NAVIGATION"
ONCE LIGHT TENDER
She had been in the light
house service as a lighthouse
tender prior to being taken into
the coast guard in 1880
Built in 1919, she displaced
,130 tons and was 172 feet long
with a 32-foot beam.
The cutter became the 22nd
ship in naval service to be an
nounced as lost since the tor
pedo sinking of the destroyer
Reuben James last fall. She is
the 18th ship announced as de-
stroyed by enemy action, the
five others having been &C.
counted for by storm, demolition
or collision.
SHELLED, SUNK
The Navy com mum | c u e
No. SO:
Caribbean area:-The u. S.
coast guard cutter Acaci; was
shelled and sunk, presumably
by an enemy submarine in the
Caribbean area in March. The
Acacia was small, unarmed
ship of the tender class which
was used to provide services to
aids to navigation.
"All personnel aboard the
Acacia were rescued and there
were no casualties.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
RosevilIe Man Heads
Salvage Committee
Announce Appointment
of Russell loBoree

County Civilian Defense Chief
Malcolm E. Trombley today
named Russell E. LaBarge,
prominent Roseville attorney, to
head the county salvage COM
mittee.
Trombley named Arth III r
Wendt, of East Detroit, Glenn
Wolf, of Center Line, Ray Kelly,
of Washington and Mrs. Paul w.
Mckee, of Mount Clemens, to
serve with LaBarge.
The committee will launch a
campaign designed to salvage
materials vital to the war cause.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Time and Supply VitoI
@ MocArthur's Strategy
United Motions Moving Up
Vast Reinforcements, Munitions
United Nations Moving v

The great problem now fac
ing the Allies in preparation for
this offensive, Strategists said,
is still one of time and sup
plies-the problem of getting
enough fully equipped troops in
action before the enemy can
consolidate his territorial con-
quests, or exploit his booty of
raw materials for arms produc-
ton purposes.
The formidable character of
the United Nations task cannot
be overemphasized, these au-
thorities stressed, but they noted
with guarded satisfaction that il
was being attacked energetically
from all angles throughout the
farflung Pacific theatre. Among
the most important evidences of
progress, they listed the follow
ing:
VITAL FACTORS
/. The increasing flow of sup
plies TO General Douglas Mac
Arthur's command. This already
has enabled his forces, in COOP
GRAFTON with the Navy, to deal
neutrality-suspicious. Gripping
blows to one great Japanese in
vasion threat massing off New
Guinea, and to prepare for
whatever subsequent thrust may
be loosed against Australia it.
self.
2. The accelerated prepare
tions for the defense of India,
inc uding the recently-an-
nounced Washington decision to
send a supply mission there.
With the loss of the Burma
road, India becam. tn. chief
route for moving munitions to
China so that her defenders
now guard not only Britain's
wealthiest colony but also
China's lifeline.
In this connection, strategists
deplored the loss of the Anda-
man Islands in the Bay of Ben
gal to the japanese, as an
nounced yesterday in New
Delhi. The Islands command the
approaches to Calcutta. most
convenient port of entry for
China-bound shipments, and
the islands loss was viewed here
as meaning that supplies now
must be moved through other
ports, probably those on the
Arabian Sea, and thence over
longer land routes to China.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Filters
CONTINUED from Page u

(COntlnued from rage ID
Air Corps in May, 1941, is now
Deputy Supreme Commander of
Allied forces in the Pacific under
Gen. Douglas Macarthur. He
was commanding officer at Sell
fridge Field in 1888.
Brig.-Gen. George, former
executive officer of the Sixth
Wing at Selfridge, and widely
known to Mount Clemens resi-
dents through his long service in
the area is now an Air-Aide to
Generals Macarthur and Brett
in Australia.
PERSONAL VALOR
LIST. Lieut.. Wagner, early in
the Philippine war, won nation
wide publicity and acclaim for
his daring single-handed raids
against Rising Sun fighter and
bomber squadrons. He is Of
ficially credited with having
shot down two japanese planes
and the destruction of at least
IL more on the ground during the
early weeks of the war. He was
stationed at Selfridge Field from
July 1888 to Oct. 1910.
End. Lieut.. Sanders, who was
stationed at Selfridge from Nov.
1923 to Feb. 1899, has been cit
ed by Gen. Macarthur for shoot
ing down a japanese fighter
plane.
TRAINING JUSTIFIED
Down through the years count
less vigorous young men have
come to Mount Clemens, served
their separate tours of duty at
Selfridge and gone out to learn
more of the art of war. Today
they are justifying the many
years Of training which was
theirs and, in their wake, hun
dreds more are filing through
the imposing portals of the Sell
fridge Base where they, too, will
polish off their earlier training
preparatory to putting it to grim
practise in defense of the ma
ton whose uniform they wear. !
Generals Brett and George
and Lieutenants Wagner and
Sanders have earned and capt
ured the admiration Of Ameri-
cans everywhere.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Green
Issue WARNING
See Lobor Act
as War Peril

WASHINGTON, March 90
R-William Green, president
of the American Federation of
Labor, and Philip Murray, CLIO
chief, jointly advised Congress
today against passing labor Leg
islation which might start an
"undeclared war among our
selves" and divide the Nation in
to groups fighting each other.
In statements prepared for
presentation before the House
Naval committee, they assailed
a bill to suspend the closed shop
and extra pay for overtime in
war plants and said 1t was die
tated by labor's enemies.
II charge that the sponsors and
supporters of this bill are now
against President Roosevelt and
against the workers of America
who believe in the policies of his
administration" said Green in
his statement.
Murray declared the naval
committee had the responsibility
of correcting misinformation
that has been sponsored and fos-
tered by anti-labor groups .
and of rebuking once and for all
those in public life and in private
life who are attempting to dis
rupt and divide our nation into
groups"
The American Federation of
Labor head told the committee
that 1--WE cannot afford in the
Nations crisis to take time out
to fight another and undeclared
war among ourselves here in
America"
Said Murray:
This is not the time for any
patriotic American citizen to
malign or spread misinforma-
ton about labor or to divide this
nation into groups fighting each
other instead of our common
Axis enemies"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Milk Strike
Trial Near End
Women Chorsed
with Assault

Closing argument will be
heard this afternoon by a jury
sitting before Circuit Judge
Neil E. Reid at the trial of Mary
Touscink, $50 Lindsey road,
Lenox township, on charges of
felonious assault growing of the
milk strike staged last Decem-
Der by the United Dairy
Farmers.
Taking the witness stand in
her own behalf yesterday after
noon, Mrs. Touscink denied she
hit Trooper Patrick Detzler of
the Rockford State Police post
over the head with a rock dur
ing a fight Dec. 8 outside the
milk depot in Richmond.
Both Prosecutor Ivan A.
Johnston and Edward A. Jacob,
counsel for Mrs. Touscink, rest
ed their cases before the noon re-
cess.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Senate ok's
500 Lock Job

WASHINGTON, March 26
-(P-A $9,300,000 appropri-
atoms for construction of the
new lock and auxiliary works
at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
on the st. Marys River was
approved by the Senate with
out debate yesterday. The ap-
preparation was q bill for CT
vii functions Of the War De-
partment. The bill now goes
back to the House, where a
smaller total for all functions
had been previously approx
ed.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
BY JOHN M. HlGHTOwER

WASHINGTON, March 90
R)-The broad outline of the Of
fensive operations which sooner
or later will carry the war to
Japan is beg ming TO take
shape here in reports from the
vast Pacific-Asiatic battle area
telling of increasing Allied ac-
tivity IN India and Australia and
of American naval actions far
west of Hawaii.
It indicates, in the opinion of
military and naval strategists,
that when the big push finally
comes it will lash out from four
main quarters-China, India,
Australia and Hawaii-with the
objective of putting SO much
pressure on Japan at so many
points simultaneously that her
scattered and divided forces will
be unable to resist effectively.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
$S35 Is Pledged
10 Salvation Army
Workers Hope to
Rseeh $1,000 Cool

Pledges and cash contribu-
tons today totaled $685. OF the
$4,000 volunteer workers hope
to raise for the Salvation Ar
my, Drive Lea der Clarence
Barck said today.
Henry Frendt, of the Mount
Clemens Hardware, was the
first worker to report back. He
obtained q contribution from
each of the prospects given him.
Meanwhile, workers today
continued their solicitations I'm
the hope the campaign can be
completed by late tomorrow.
The Salvation Army budget
this year calls for the expendi-
ture of $4,000. all to be used in
support Of the Citadel. Army
officials will raise $4,000 Of
this total themselves.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
4 Boys, lie Cream
Thieves, Arrested

Four boys, aged 8, 9. 10 and
IL were arrested last night by
Patrolman Ray Titus for steal
ing ice cream from the Detroit
Creamery company plant at 1T
Broadway.
The boys admitted to police
that they had burglarized the
place three times previously.
They will be turned over to
juvenile authorities.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Broad Outline Of Allied War-PIans Now Take Form
Pledge
(Continued from Page ~

NOVMsAss0V0 AAVssA eoS ~
Army officers will participate
next week.
After these meetings-which
will fill In the details of the
plans roughed out by MacAr-
thur and Curtin today-it IL ex-
pected that the names of the
men c h o e n to command the
Australian armed forces under
Macarthur will be announced.
Appointment of Australians to
these posts will enable the Aus
tralian forces to preserve their
own identity while permitting
supreme authority to rest in
MacArthur's hands.
Macarthur came here by au-
tomobile from his headquarters
somewhere in Australia"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
City Trucks 10 Aid
Paper Collection
Commission Gives
Choivmon Assurance

City Commission members
last night assured E. H. Meyers,
representing Mrs. Paul Mckee,
city chairman of the Salvage
Committee, that city trucks will
be available on Saturdays for
the collection Of waste paper by
Boy Scouts.
Meyers pointed out the Scout
campaign has been stymied for
lack of transportation. He also
said that brown paper bags and
wrapping paper are especially
needed and urged cooperation of
housewives.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Traffic
Continued from Page II

NSOHtIuuCu AIOm dSC ~
8:45 am. today, Is minutes after
most of the workers reached the
building, plenty of park in g
spaces were available around the
building. Ordinarily. not a sin
gle space is available at that
hour.
Only five cars were parked on
the west side of Gratiot from
Macomb to Cass at 9 am. Usu-
ally, at that time, that many cars
are double-parked in the area.
While stating his department
is undermined, Rosso warned
that the drive is mo flash in the
pan" He said Longstaff will
ask for at least two more police
men after the election is over"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
She Wouldn't Live
with Him; Divorce Asked

Charging that his wife, Leona, I
refused to live with him, Elmer
Indo, of Van Dyke, Wednesday
filed suit for divorce in circuit
court.
The couple married Dec. 2,
1899 and separated Jan. 4, 1912.
Indo asks custody Of his child,
aged two.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Missing Utica Boys
Found in Bay County

Two teen aged Utica boys,
missing since Tuesday from their
homes, were located today by
Bay County sheriffs deputies.
They are Michael Twork, 10,
of $50 Ryan, and Chester Koch
an, Is, of 1854 Garden. Their
parents were told to come for
them.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Detroit Mewsman
Talks TO Lions

Ray Aver, of the Detroit
News, told a variety of inter
esting stories about the state O.
Michigan when he appeared this
noon before members CT the
Mount Clemens Lions Club at
the Medea Hotel.
Mayor Donald r. Westendorf
was a guest.