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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Heart Attack
prove5FataI
Women Succumbs
in DentoI Choir

Coroner William c. Sperlich
today absolved DR.. Carl Gus
sin, 32-year-old Warren town
ship dentist, of all blanzc in
connection with the death last
night of Mrs. Lula Ponder, 81
year-old mother three.
A post norton performed by
Drs. Russell E. Lynch, of Cen
ter Line, and M. M. Wilde, of
Warren, revealed that Mrs,
Ponders died of a heart attack
at 8:55 p. m. yesterday less than
two hours after she entered DR..
Gussin's dental chair to have
two upper molars extracted.
DR.. Gussin's office is located at
2O719 Van Dyke.
Coroner Sperlich said Mrs.
Ponder became slightly i'll aft
er DR.. Gussin gave her shot
of novocaine. After drinking a
glass of water, however, she In
sisted she had recovered so DR..
Gussin administered a second
shot.
The woman collapsed while
her 35-year-old husband, Will
liam, looked on. DR.. Lawrence
Bachman, whose Of f. ces are
across the hall, was summoned
to give the stricken woman
adrenaline.
When the stimu,ant had no
apparent effect, Warren town
ship firemen rus h ed to the
scene with an inhalator. Eff
forts to revive her failed and
she died without resaining con-
seriousness.
Both Ponder, 4 defense work
err, and DR.. Gussin were still
shocked by the tragedy. DR..
Gussin, who has maintained his
present office for five years,
could recall no similar tragedy.
Dentists agree that death due
to gas is not uncommon. They
decided that a combination OF
fear and weak heart can be
blamed for the tragedy.
The Ponders live at 22648
Piper, Warren township. Their
three children are Donald, aged
5, Gary, 3, and James, two
months. Three sisters and three
brothers also survive.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at 2 p. m. from the
Sperlich Chapel in Center Line
with Rev. John Mundell OF
Royal Oak. officiating. Burial
will be in White Chapel Me-
mortal Park Cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Jap Fleet
Masses off
Australia
BY DON CASWELL
United Press Staff Correspondent

MELBOURNE, May 13-(UP)
"A japanese invasion fleet IS
reassembling at island bases
northeast of Australia, awaiting
heavy naval reinforcements for
a new offensive thrust, dispatch
es from Allied advanced bases
indicated today.
Warships and transports were
reported at these bases. The
main striking force had been
scattered by the American-Aus-
tralian naval victory in the Coral
Sea but it was believed to be
virtually intact, insofar as key
units went. 1t was apparently
only awaiting reinforcements to
strike new blow which many
believed would give Australia,
and the United States and Allied
forces their supreme test.
Activities of Japanese ships,
reported by American and Aus
tralian reconnaissance p q n e 8,
and of the Japanese air force
based at Rabaul in the Bismarck
Islands and Lac on the north
New Guinea coast, indicated that
enemy reinforcements were ar
irving steadily.
For the first time since the
battle OF the Coral Sea started
May 4, bad weather interrupted
the offensive activity Of Gen.
Douglas MacArthurs mir force
yesterday.
However, II was understood
that limited reconnaissance work
was continued and the Uuitod
Nations command and The uAjeo1
States South Pacific naval oo1G1-
mand would receive tlss usuAl
reports of enemy warship. 6an0-
port, tanker and supply eAlp
movements.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
40 to Give
Blood for
Wounded

Macomb county's secon d
blood-donor program, designed
to provide plasma for transfus-
ions to sorely wounded United
States soldiers, sailors and ma
rines will get underway at 1890
Thursday noon Mrs. John Kant
ner, chairman of the Red Cross
Blood Donor committee reveal
ed today.
In contrast 10 the two day
program held in January when
we'll over 200 Macomb county
residents G &C h contributed a
full pint of blood toward the
accumulation of the Army-Na-
Wy blood bank the Red Cross
Mobile Clinic will make but a
one-day collection this time.
One hundred and ten pints of
blood are TO be procured to-
morrow when the clinic opens
in the basement OF the First
Methodist church.
See DONORS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
May Relax
Drain Curbs
Rulings Nay
EnobIe Projects

Word received by George T.
Smith, Macomb county drain
commissioner, from Washington
via James E. Wilson, regional
director for the War Production
Board, is to the effect that many
county drain construction and
maintenance projects that have
been held up owing to an ear
lier ruling of the national board
may be pushed forward now, il
was announced today by Arnold
f. Rockensuess, deputy drain
commissioner.
According to the earlier rul-
ing no work the value of which
would be in excess of $4,000
could be undertaken without the
formal approval of the War
Production Board. Furthermore,
the national board was to be
notified of any projects that
were to be undertaken.
Now, according to the new
ruling just received the county
drain commissioner may proceed
with any maintenance work
without the the approval of the
war board and may go ahead
with new construction of which
the value of the Individual pro-
ject does not exceed $4,000 and
in which no so-called critical
materials" are to be used. In
the event of the necessity to use
critical materials or materials
needed in the war effort, or in
the construction of new projects
the value of which is TO be more
than $4,000, the drain commits
sioner must petition the War
Production Board for priorities
covering the materials required
and for the approval of the more
expensive project.
The new ruling, Rockensuess
said, will permit the drain de-
partment to go ahead with a
number of small drainage pro-
jects mostly in the south end OF
the county and will permit the
maintenance work of the de-
partment to be carried on as
usual.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
BY THOMAS r. HAWKINS

BERN, Switzerland, May l3
-(P)-An explanation of the
German foreign office, as quoted
here by the Neue Zuecher Zeit-
ung, indicated today that Ger
many's surprise weapon IN
the Kerch offensive probably is
new type shell which deton-
ates with such intensity as to
deafen and immobolize persons
over a wide area and which
generates gas as byproduct.
The Germans have announc-
cd that they would not use gas
as weapon Of attack but this
version indicated that they may
consider gas freed in the burst
ing of high explosive shells q
different matter.
NOT BATTLE MATERIAL'
The German foreign office
explanation as quoted by the
Swiss paper said naturally
there are poisonous gases which
escape when modern explosives
are detonated, but that does not
mean chemical battle material. y
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13

terday, hoping TO reach some of
the men alive. A half-mile sec
ton of the mine was wrecked.
Three bodies were brought
out within five hours after the
explosion, and groups of 10 and
four were hauled to the sur
face this mrning.
Fourteen bodies had been
found and rescue crews, working
in shifts throughout the night,
pushed through deadly fumes
and debris in an effort to reach
80 more who were entombed.
Seventy others narrowly es-
capped death when the blast let
60 at 2:20 pm. (EWT) in the
No. 3 mine of the Christopher
Coal company. At work in an
area near the blast scene, they
managed to flee and only 25
were made i'll by the fumes.
l. -. L. vi lililil, ~. -. Dui ca "a
of Mines engineer, said ITO
more would have been in the
mine if coal cars which were
to have carried them inside had
not been Is minutes late.
1t was not Immediately de-
termined what caused the ex-
plosion-West Virginia's most
disastrous since January, 1910
when 81 were killed at BARLEY
in the southern part Of the
state.
Frank Christopher, president
of the company, and N. P
Rhinehart, chief of the state de-
partment of mines, said the big
operation which employs 45C
men had been rock-dusted Sun
day and inspected Monday.
Hundreds of spectators, in.
Guiding grief-stricken relatives
of the entombed men and state
university students from Nor
gantown, four miles away, gath
cred around the pit mouth. A
company of the neWly-organized
West Virginia state guard pat
rolled the area.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13

LONDON, May 10 up -
Reuters said today that Japa-
nese column was moving north
ward from the Chinese city of
Lungling in an attempt to strike
from the west at PaOshan, a
Burma road city between the
upper reaches Of the SaIween
and Mekong about 125 miles
from the Burmese frontier.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Jewish Agency Chief
on Radio Thursday
Dr.. Choim Weixmonn
Broodcosts at $50

In the first radio address he
has ever made in America, DR..
Chain Weizmann, President Of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
will be heard in a nationwide
broadcast on behalf of the Unit
ed Jewish Appeal for Refugees,
Overseas Needs and Palestine,
over the National Broadcasting
Company (Red) network, Thurs
day at $50 p. m. (EWT).
The Jewish statesman, just
arrived from Britain by Clipper,
will speak on the subject "On
See RADIO-Page 2
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Nazis Routed

LONDON, May 10 UP) --
IN exchange telegraph ."o@"" r
dispatch said today that the
Russians had routed the Ger
man $500 infantry regiment
and other units of the 358th in
fantry spring reserve division in
an unspecified sector and were
continuing an advance after
capturing vital positio
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Accident Victims
Condition Unchanged

The condition of four soldiers
and two civilians, badly injured
IL an accident Monday that
claimed the life of Lewis New
mayer, AZ, Detroit, remained
unchanged today.
A fifth soldier was released
from Base hospital, Selfridge
Field, yesterday
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13

CHUNGKING, May l3-(UP)
The routed japanese invaders
of southwest China joined sew
craI thousand reinfOrcements
north of Lashio today and pre-
pared another frontal assault
against hinese stronghOlds
along the banks of the Salween
river near the Chinese frontier.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Radio Issue

WASHINGTON, May 13 -
CUP-Satisfactory controls over
two radio stations at Martinique
and GuadeIoupe were said today
today to be important items in
negotiations now being con-
Quoted between the United
States and French colonial au-
thOrities in the Caribbean.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Service Mems Pay
Raise Approved
House Sends Amended
Bill Back to Senote
Bill Beck to Senote

WASHINGTON, May 13-(P)
Approving base pay sched-
ule of $50 a month for buck pri-
Yates and apprentice seamen,
the House passed and sent back
to the Senate today the amend
ed pay adjustment bill for all
branches of the armed services.
A table of the proposed pay
raises appears on page 2 OF to-
days issue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Hitler Demands Showdown on Vchy Collaboration
late X X X
bulletins
Vichy Replies

LONDON, May I3 - CPD -
The Vichy radio was heard to-
day brOadcasting n report that
the Vichy Government had sent
a note to Washington concern
ing the status of Martinique,
French Island in the West In
dies. This note was described
as a reply to one from the Unit
ed States.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Apathy Fades

WASHINGTON, May 13 -
(UP) - Undersecretary of War
Robert =. Patterson said today
that apathy-an invisible bar
rier to maximum arms produc-
tion-is being dissolved by the
war departments industrial
morale campaign.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
$500 Killed

MOSCOW, May 13-UP)-
The Red army has killed at
least $500 of the Germans at
lacking on the narrow Kerch
peninsula, while SIN h j n e
scores of enemy tanks and dive
bombers, front dispatches indi-
Gated today
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Trap Chinese?

TOKYO CFrom J lap AN e s C
Broadcasts)-May 13-- Up --
Domei said today that Japanese
troops had trapped all Chinese
forces in northeast Burma by
dynamiting Salween river
bridge
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13

temporarily to stupefy large
numbers of combatants.
The Zurich newspaper cor
respondent said the Germans
claimed their new weapon had
taken the Russians by surprise.
Regardless of various e W
weapons being employed by the
Germans, including new types
of bombers and fighters, for
See SURPRISE-Page z
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Nozi Surprise Weapon
Nav Involve Shock, Cos
Advance Theory Of She'll Thot
ImmobIizes, Deofens, Spouts Cos

Foreign military experts here
concluded that the shells prob
ably were an improved version
of those reported to have been
used in the Belgian campaign,
the chief effect Of which was
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Broken

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA,
May 13-(UP)-AIl communi-
cations with the Philippines
have now been severed, a
spokesman at Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's general beadquar-
ters said toitay.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
WASHINGTON, May Is d.

WASHINGTON, May l3 --
Up American military au-
thorities today indicated that
there was a remarkable SINH
larity between the "nerve
gas" the Germans are report
eddy using against the Rus
SLAMS and the "gas" Of Goeb-
bels' propaganda machine.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Appeals to Labor

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA,
May l3- (P) Prime Minister
John Curtin called upon groups
of striking coal miners today to
return to work tomorrow or
face governmental action and
said "the government shall
4 stand or fall by the issue"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Civic Chorus Concert Slated
for Wednesday, May 9th
Community Sing to Feature
Second Port Of Program

beth Ullrich and Robert Will
marth.
Mrs. John K. Ullrich will &C
company the Concert.
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7 IVN orc % UT oUDVtuIDV
WOULD DISCARD ITALY


Hitler was reported ready to
betray Italy and Spain, who de-
m d territorial concessions
from France, in return for a
satisfactory arrangement with
Laval.
But there was increasing
doubt that Laval could deliver
Not only were patriots increas-
ingly active in sabotage work
and attacks on Germans in oc-
cupied territory, but popular
resistance mounted.
A United Press Vichy dis
patch disclosed that at Lorient,
one of Frances biggest ports
and naval bases, lying on the
See FRANCE-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
S|ave.Labor
DEGREES Irk
All France
Berlin Reported
Demanding Action;
Nay Betroy Italy
BY NED RUSSELL
United Press staff Correspondent


LONDON, May 10 (UP) -
Adolf Hitler has demanded a
showdown on ViChy-German
collaboration and Vichy cabi-
net meeting today may mark
turn in relations, diplomatic
quarters reported.
Mounting resistance TO Ger
man rule by French patriots,
Germany's desperate need of
man power and Vichy's embar-
easements regarding Madagas-
car and Martinique combined
to make the French situation
explosive, it was said, and the
ability of Pierre Laval TO pur-
sue his collaborationist policies
might soon be tested.
German military authorities
at Paris promulgated a slave
labor decree under which they
imposed minimum hours of
work on all men and women in
industries working directly or
indirectly on German war or
derS.
FEW EXCEPTIONS
AS French factories not work.
ing for the Germans can get no
raw materials, !. apparently all
french inu.E y occupied ter
ritory Is affc ted.
German military authorities
in local areas are TO fix hours of
labor, and will have power to
impose harsh penalties on vio-
lators.
1t is prescribed that all work
ers must actually work the full
number of hours fixed, and en-
ployers must report to the Ger
mans the number and trades Of
workers rendered free" be-
cause increased hours make it
possible for fewer men and
women to keep production to
schedule
That meant, apparently, that
the freed workers would be
put on the lists of skilled work
ers to be deported to Germany
as communists" when German
authorities impress hostages
into slavery in revenge for pat
riot acts Of sabotage
WOULD DISCARD ITALY
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED PRESS

,lmportiol Coyerose
OF All loeoI News
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11

May l through Nav 81, 1912.
Are you with me?
WILLIAM II. STOCKWELI.,
2026 National Bank Bldg.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11
New Technocracy Looms
As Threat TO Democracy
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES
THERE is a brand new threat

THERE is a brand new threat
TO our institutions looming
up on our home soil.
1t is revamped democracy,
run this time with a pile Of
mysterious cash in its pockets.
It's chief dervish is Howard
Scott. who has been described
as tall. gaunt and gimlet-eyed."
Technocracy now has a uni
form-a disarming gray. The
technocracks have specially
invented salute. Tech" spends
real thousands on advertise
ments. Its program means. in a
word, the reducing of all Ameri-
cans TO robots.
It's god is the machine
figures. moulds, patterns, regi-
mented minds and the wholesale
confiscation transcription" the
teehneeraeks call IL OF all
property and man power "for
the duration" so they say. But
that is only the "come-on," the
decoy.
They have a queer looking
Symbol called the monad,
which means a Simple organ
ISM" the ultimate unit of be-
ing'-that is. totalitarian one,
ness, a mismash ideal even lower
than that which dominates the
Nazi ant-heap.
CANADA has outlawed tech
~ nocracy and all technocracks
as "SubverSive force dedicated
10 the overthrow OF govern
mcnt.
This Fascist minded move
ment on our soil has six maya
zines. Their sucker-hooker is
revealed on pages ii and Is OF
their pamphlet. America Must
Show the Way" 1t is work.
days Of four hours each and
retiring" at the age OF as. Its
form Of government is called
'technate."
SOUNDS "srrewv", ca lid
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11
HARRY J. WARDEN,
1896 LIllibridge avenue
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
EOR the past several years
1 Detroit has been subjected
10 a series of black eyes" in
the newspapers OF the country
most Of them deserved, but all
OF them over-publicized or over
emphasized.
Strikes. rotten eggs and now
race riots in this area have
made the people in other cities
consider Detroit as chiefly a
city of violence. unrest and un-
Americanism. The time has
come to present the other side
Of Detroit-Ato show our city in
its proper light-not by explain
ing or CLOSING over the events
Of the past, but by bold affirma-
tive action of a constructive ma
ture.
The real Detroit has all the
best characteristics Oft h q
American tradition. The real
Detroit is progressive, dynamic,
imaginative and successful. De-
troit deserves a better break in
the national press.
II occurred to me today that
Detroit has an opportunity this
. spring to make such a break for
itself. have in mind the pro-
claiming OF so-called Victory
Month" Let us pledge ourselves
for the month OF May, 1912. to
attain a civic record Of war
production without a single man
or woman in the city on strike
for a single day or any part Of
the day during the entire
month. The aim will be 10 settle
all present or pending differ
ences before May l. and to con-
tinue 100 per cent war produc-
ton without interruption for the
following 81 days of the month.
To be a success, Victory
Month" must not be a campaign
promoted by any one group or
faction. II must be the unani-
nous and enthusiastic act of the
citizens ri Detroit--recard leSs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11
TO THE EDITOR:

To The Editor:
!'HERE must be more tires
- ruined in our alleys in one
day than in all your downtown
parking lots in one whole year.
! am a taxpayer and have
mad the police out dozens Of
times on account of the neigh
hors throwing junk and trash in
the alley, especially glass jars
and bottles.
A short time ago I wrote a
letter TO our mayor, drawing
his attention TO the fact that we
couldn't buy any more tires and
something should be done about
the condition of our alleys.
What did he do? He sent a
man out to investigate the COM
plant and he told me the city
couldn't keep an inspector in the
alley every day Of the week. and
tina, is all that was done about il.
So our alley is just as bad
today as ever. In fact, ! think
it's worse
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Letters to the Editor

reach Japan and Berlin in the
history of the war TO this date.
We can all rest assured that
the Toxic broadcasters will not
pubhcize Detroit's Victory
Month of May. 1942-but to the
people of our own country. it
should prove 10 be an inspirs ton
and an indication that Detroit
is thoroughly sound, thoroughly
American. The country needs
healthy demonstration like this
from dynamic Detroit this
spring.
/ propose that the citizens Of
Detroit campaign for and carry
out Victory Month" from
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11

OF their age, wealth, color, creed
or type of work.
1t must be demonstration
not by capital or by labor-but
by AMERICANS who are citi-
Zens of one of the greatest
cities of the country.
The result of a completely
successful Victory Month" car
ried on in this area will be TO
give a vitalizing "shot in the
arm" to the work Of converting
all our industries into war pro-
duction. 1t will speed up the war
program right in the heart OF
the arsenal OF democracy and
will be one Of the most dis
heartening pieces OF news TO
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11

nazism and communism when
first spawned.
1t might interest us all 10 find
out whose money is behind this
incipient army" of techno-
cracks. The Dies committee
ought to look into it.
There may be nothing about
it. II may just be another slice
OF political baloney. In which
case no one will suffer. Then,
again
Americans, look behind YOU!
There are plots and coups hatch
ing on our soil.
VERY few Of the current war
books contain a new idea.
Those that are not mere con-
densations Of newspaper articles
are something between crackpot
prophecies and strings of bewil-
dered questions that no one can
answer.
But / think that Hawthorne
Daniel in his North America:
Wheel Of the Future" (Scrib-
ners). although somewhat in the
nature of prophecy. has some
thing based on solid logic-I
mean the kind OF logic that is
going to stand up under the
impact Of the whirling events
ahead.
The basis OF Mr.. Daniels
vision is:
1.-THE North American CONT.
nent IL the new fulcrum upon
which trade and politics must
rest for an indefinite period.
The British Isles have chiefly an
artificial Importance now. The
true center Of the British en-
plre ~ Canada. The Pacific IL
the sea Of the future and some
80 per cent of the British empire
IL actually IN the Pacific area.
An examination Of the resources
OF the world indicates the SUI
.preme economic, political and
military advantages Of our con-
tinent, especially In the direc-
ts~. 80 60 ps.sAen
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