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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
Defense Staff
Chiefs Named
Capt. Leonard
Lists Appointees

LANSING, June 10 - (Pl -
Capt. Donald S. Leonard, state
commander of the Citizens De-
tense Corps, today announced
appointment of staff officers for
the First Corps district embrac-
ing Oakland, M comb and
Wayne counties.
The officers, who will serve
under Melvin Lanphar, recently
appointed by Governor Van
Wagner as district commander
are:
Alexander A. Thompson, chief
of the Detroit Fire Department
as chief of the district fire divis-
ion; Floyd Baker, chief of the
Highland Park Fire Department,
deputy district chief; Frank Ath-
erton, deputy chief air raid war
den of Detroit as district chief
of the warden division with Milo
McLintock, exec u tive of the
Oakland county defense council
as his deputy.
Leroy Smith, engineer-man-
ager of the Wayne County Road
Commission, as district chief of
emergency public works with
John Mccarthy of the Detroit
district of the Highway Depart
ment as his deputy; DR.. Grover
Penberthy of Harper hospital,
Detroit, district chief of emer-
gency medical services with DR..
Bruce Douglas, Detroit Health
Commissioner, and DR.. John
Law, assistant superintendent of
See STAFF-page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
Beach Bus Service
Begins on Monday

Regular service between the
City News Depot at Macomb
street and Broadway TO the
municipal bathing beach at
Lakeside will be inaugurated
Monday at 1925 am, it was
announced today by Fuller and
Peltier, bus operators.
The daily schedule that will
be operated when weather per-
mits pleasant bathing is given as
follows: lakebound 1925 am,
1926 pm. and hourly to the last
bus at 5:35 pm. and city bound,
leave beach at 1850 am, 1880
pm. and hourly TO the last bus
at $50 pm.
The buses will not be operated
on rainy or cod days when
beach patronage would be slim
and is designed purely for beach
service, it was pointed out.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
New Jap Planes
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

ALLIED HEADQU ARTERS,
Australia, June 19-(P)-Japa-
nese filters were reported by an
Air Force spokesman today to
be using two new type planes in
the southwest Pacific--a light
ened zero fighter and cannon
bearing medium bOmber-and
lOOsing their explosives even less
accurately than they did over
the Philippines.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
Torpedoed, Adrift 6 Days
Visitor Tells His Story
Bob Crowley, Visiting Relatives
in City, Recounts Adventures

A Is year old Michigan boy
who survived the torpedoing of
his merchant ship in the CARR
bean on May 10, saw German
U-Boat officer administer first
aid to the freighter's wounded
and then drifted six days in an
open boat, today calmly recount
cd his adventures as he sat on
the porch of the Glen A. Mar
shall residence, l02 Michigan
avenue, in Mount Clemens.
The narrator was Robert
Bob" Crowley, 25, a native of
Sault Ste. Marie, and former
Port Huron Schoolboy and high
school student.
LURKING DEATH
A swift-moving story by Crow
ley pointed out how the crew of
the merchantmen on which he
had shipped was 200 miles off
the Atlantic coast when the first
fateful sign of lurking death APP
peared before its eyes May 10th,
when a periscope was sighted
off the Starboard bow.
The young sailor told how, at
first, the submerSible was be-
lieved to be a friendly craft but
how, later in the day, il launch
ed death-dealing torpedoes at
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
SecOnd-FrOnt

LONDON, June 10 --- U.P) -.
Britons, gravely anxious over
news that the British army in
Libya had been forced back to
the Egyptian frontier, looked to-
ward Washington today in the
hope that talks between Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Min
lister Winston Churchill would
provide a sorely needed second
front.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
Nationals Sail

WASHINGTON, June l9-(P)
The Swedish motorship Grip
shoIm sailed from Few York
last night with 1897 Japanese
and Thai nationals from the
Western Hemisphere to exchange
in neutral territory for Ameri-
can officials and newspapermen
who have been interned in Asia.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
Hears Speeches

MOSCOW, June 10 - UD -
Naotaka SatO, the new japanese
ambassador, sat for three hours
in the diplomatic gallery Of the
kremlin Hall of Sessions yester-
day and listened to foreign COM
missar Viacheslav MolOtov and
other speakers praise the United
States and Great Britain and
promise complete Allied vic
tory over the Axis.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
Ready

MOSCOW, June l9 - U.P -
Hundreds of women, who joined
the Russian army and were in
tensively trained under fire, were
ready to enter the battle Of Sc
vastopOl today.
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Big Air Base

SAN FRANCISCO, June 80
(P)-A $4,000 airdrome, per-
fectly camoufIaged against en-
envy raiders, already is i'm use by
the Allied air forces in the bush
country of Australia, the Mel
bourne radio said last night.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
TObruk Menaced

LONDON, June 10 - UD --
Britain's army in North Africa
may be compelled to abandon
Tobruk, its fortress on the Libya
coast 80 miles from the frontier,
a British military commentators
said today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
Hold Positions

CAIRO, June 19-(PD-Gener-
al headquarters announced today
the BIRTHS hwere holding strong
positions on the Libyan-Egypt-
ian frontier and in the Tobruk
area, 80 miles TO the west.
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EncircleD,1ent

BERLIN From German
BrOadcasts), June 19-tP)-The
German and Italian North Afri-
can armies have completed the
enlightenment Of TObruk and laid
siege to that strategic Libyan
port, German military quarters
announce dtoday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
Summer Vacation Begins
ior (iiy's Pupils

Glasses In all Mount ClemGgio
public schools suspended todo4
for the summer vacation un1fJS
Sept 8.
All students excepting gradn-
ating seniors received final
grades this morning.
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Chinese Claim Japs Poised for Blow at Siberia
ate X X X
bulletins


LONDON, June 10 - U.R) -
British planes heavily bombed
the important railroad junction
at Chaulnes Sur Disc, 20 miles
north of Paris, during the night
and damaged switches and sheds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
Prime Minister
SpansAtIantie
forDis(ussion
Second Front
Believed Bosjs
for Conference


LONDON, June 10 - LP -
One of the main purposes Of
Prime Minister ChurchilIs cur
rent visit to United States, is be-
lleved in some quarters to be
enlistment of additional United
States help in holding the Mid
Ole East against expected Ger
man thrusts from Libya toward
Egypt and from the Russian
Ukraine into the Caucasus.
The extreme gravity of the
LibyanEgyptian situation was
viewed today by competent
sources as likely to postpone UNI
I'll 1913 any really big united
nations land offensive in west
ern Europe, although commando
raids may be increased.
HIT-RUN RAIDS
The hit-and-run raids would
meet the clamor for a second
European front now-somethinp
which the British man-in-the-
street hopes will result from
Churchills newest Washington
visit.
Strategists know that Egypt
must be held if the Allies are
to bar Hitler from the Middle
L '7tern oil fields and they know
that it is the main bastion
against Nazi union with the jap
anese somewhere east of Suex
for sharing of the riches of
the Indies and a cutting of Allied
supply lines to southern Russia.
The presence of American
Army bombers and other war
equipment in this theater proves
PRESIDENT Roosevelt's regard for
the Importance of Egypt and the
Suez Canal, just as the successes
OF the Axis Libyan Commander
Marshal Rommel, prove that the
present forces in the Middle
East still are not enough for
safety.
VARIED THREAT
From a purely military stand
point Rommels success means.
l. The British may have to
divert some troops and thus
leave the country adjacent to
oll-rich lraq open to Nazi air.
rne 1nvasion-just at a time
when there are increasing re-
ports of German glider exercis-
es In the region of Crete.
2. The Germans probably will
start heavy bombing raids on
Alexandra, Naval base key to
Z eastern Mediterranean.
3, If the Axis can draw awav
British air and naval strength
the AXIS might try to invade
Malta to ease the Italian German
supply route from Italy to Afri-
ca.
4. Rommel can be expected to
open a big land offensive toward
Egypt. Alexandria and Suez
when and if he can remove the
Iobruk thorn from the Axis
Libyan flank.
To forestall all these and to
secure the southern supply route
to Russia, informed sources said
That Churchill would like to
have more American tanks.
planes and ships in the Mediter-
ranean even if il means-as IL
probably does mean, because
of allied personnel
and material is limited by ship
ping space-a delay in invasion
Of Europe.
ASPECTS
Important political aspects al
70 were pointed out. From
he domestic standpoint. il
British reverses in the Middle
East continue, the Churchill
government might find itself in
The same disfavor as after the
'all of Singapore.
In addition. il was said, the
Prime Minister must consider
See CHURCHILL-Page :
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JuIyis5et
as Probable
Time Of Attack
Million Jops
Mossed for Blow
Chungkins Says
BY the Associated Press

High Chinese quarters declar-
ed today that Japan had massed
nearly 100000 troops in Man
churia and said new advices in
dlcated that the japanese plan
ned to strike at Russian Siberia
some time in July.
Neutral observers, however,
expressed b ellie that Japan
would not risk taking on a new
enemy until Adolf Hitler had
started his long-delayed grand
offensive against Russia - and
until she was sure that the Ger
man push was succeeding.
Russian and Japan have a
five-year neutrality and friend
ship pact, signed April 10, 1941.
which so far has been observed
amid warnings by Moscow and
Tokyo to each other against vi
OlatiOnS.
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his ship finally breaking it COM
pletcly in two.
He told how the survivors. In
an open boat, were ordered
along side the U-Boat and cas-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19
CITE STRATEGY


High quarters in Chungking.
Chinese wartime capital, said
the Japanese general staff pre-
ferred to postpone further thrusts
into the south seas in favor of
strategy affecting territory near
er Japan.
The japanese want TO estab-
liSh a security zone" it was
said, against the hour when Am
erlcan war production would be
translated into a full-scale often
slve against Japan.
With this in mind, the Chinese
said, Japan has two principal OBJ
Jectives - Hawaii and Siberia
But the great American victory
in the battle of Midway frustrat-
ed any Japanese plan for an al.
tack on Hawaii, and Japan there
fore was expected to turn against
Siberia.
On the China fighting front,
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek' s
Chinese armies doggedly fought
against a dozen or more Japa-
nese invasion columns, chiefly in
the eastern and southern pro-
vinceS.
In the battle of Australia, an
Allied spokesman said the Japa-
nese were using two new type
planes - a lighter zero fighter
and a cannon-equipped medium
bomber-and he added the en-
envy was bombing with even
less accuracy than in the Phil
lippines.
BLAST MORESBY
Gen. Doug a MacArthur's
headquarters said l8 heavy Jap
anese bombers escorted by fight
ers again attacked the Allied
outpost at Port Moresby. New
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Hudson Strike
Short-Lived
Workers Return
to Ordnance Jobs

DETROIT. june 10 - (F1 --
Normal production was restored
at the Hudson Naval Ordnance
Arsenal today, Navy spokes-
man said soon after United Au-
tomobile Workers (CIO) offic-
ials appealed to day-shift work
CT to end a stoppage attributed
to the employment of Negroes
on machines white men former
ly operated.
Production is 100 per cent,
Capt. A. S. Witherspoon, Chi
inspector of ordnance at the Ar
senal, said after JAW officials
had ended another brief stop
page affecting one building,
Richard T. Frankenst n,
JAW regional and one of the
officials who appealed to the
m N to resume their jobs, said
employees complied at once ex-
cept in one building. This group,
about 100 men, went back to
their machines after further dis
cussion, he said.
Capt. Wotherspoon declared,
howe 'er, that the huge plant
was Staggering to its feet"
The bulk of the men are
nr'ying with the request of
union officials that they go back
to work" he added.
The plant - shut down COM
pletely by yesterdays stoppage
- employs thousands.
Informed of today's walkout,
r. j. Thomas, UAW-CIO presi-
dent said:
IF these men don't get TO
work, l will pull the charter of
the local union and reorganize
it."
President r. J. Thomas of the
union, who was flown here in
navy plane from Washington,
announced with co-officials of
the UAW-CIO that instigators
of a work stoppage yesterday
would be sought out and pen
allied to the full extent of our
rules"
Several tho sand day shift
workers were involved in the
stoppage, which Thomas called
unauthorized and fragrant
violation" of the section of the
union constitution forbidding
racial discrimination. Thomas
o tered the men to return TO
work or face expulsion from the
union.
DEMAND RESUMPTION
Meanwhile Secretary Of the
Navy Knox had demanded i'm
mediate resumption Of work in
a telegram TO Cap A. S. Woth-
in charge of the plant,
and said the situation warrant
ed the assumption that the men
who quit work were "disloyal
and subject to immediate dis
Capt. Wotherspoon said white
Iyprkars had nr,taStaJ tho nro
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-19

A l9-year-old Mount Clemens
veteran of one of the great naval
battles of history that of the
Coral Sea, sat a shade Sheepishly
in the midst of his family this
morning and told of the last
hours of the Navy airplane car
rier, Lexington, victim of "a
mercy killing" by torpedoes
from friendly vessels.
She had been flame-swept and
blasted by streaming gasoline
from ruptured pipes and explo-
sions of bombs, fuel oil fumes
and other stores below decks.
The young veteran was Rob
ert Mcdonald Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Mcdonald, of ID
Smith street, who enlisted in the
Navy at Detroit, March 5, l94l,
and joined the crew of the car
rier at west port in September
Of the same year.
SEVERAL RAIDS
On active service from the
minute the report Of the Pearl
Harbor raid was flashed to the
Lexington, then on patrol in the
Pacific young Mcdonald partici-
pated in number of raids in the
New Guinea sector of the south
west Pacific before he saw the
vessel that he called home" tor
pedoed as a charred and black
ened wreck following the Coral
Sea engagement.
Part of fleet composed Of
deStroyerS, cruisers and another
carrier, the Lexington made
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Impartial Coverose
of All locol News
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Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-03-06
Don't Write, Don't Telegraph, Just Don't
Sincerely yours.

One of citizens handed letter Just five minutes
before drew similar from own P O. box But
for the fact that headed Luck of London it
identical with dozens of others that have received
the past headed Luck of Flanders, Luck of this and
that In fact have filed many of them that we have
had to empty waste baskets too often.
Returning to the serious side of chain leers-we have
found little sympathy for the writers of these absurdtes
in the past and find less in this time of paper
shortages and congesed mail service TIE believe that the
continuation of such chain could bring good fortune or
luck is betrayal of mental level comparable that of
darkest Europe. To continue such chain letter today
would only help to bog down the mails waste paper and
add to the general confusion In fact enemy agents wishing
to sabotage and delay could find very few better means
than to start large number of these chain letters There
fore it to ignore completely the receipt of the
and if possible report the writer to the Post Office
Department for prosecution under existing postal laws
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-03-06
Ciuil Service News

Motor transport has assumed
such vital role in defense activity
that the United States Civil Ser
vice Commission has announced
an examination for instructors in
over ten branches of the automo-
tive industry. The instructors are
needed by the Quartermaster
Corps of the War Department.
Salaries range from $4,000 to
$4,000 a year. There is excellent
opportunity for advancement, since
the policy of the Quartermastei
Corps will be to fill higher posi-
tions by promotion from lewar-
grades whenever possible.
Instructors will conduct classes
iii the following branches: auto
motive parts; automotive electrl-
cal and carburation; body finish
ing and upholstery; automotlve
machinist; tire recapping and Sec
tlonal repair; fender, body, ana
radiator, Diesel engines; Internal
combustion engines; motorcycles;
blacksmith and welding; and gen
eral. They will plan the courses
in these subjects, and prepare ana
revise text and related instruc-
tional material.
Certain background education or
experience is required, such as
study in a college or Diesel engine
school or experience as journey
man mechanic Experience as m
structor of organized classes IN
one of the optional branches is
also prescribed. Certain experience
of a supervisory nature acquired
m the automotive industry may
be substituted for part, and IN
some cases all, of the instructional
experience. For the higher posi-
tions ($3,8OO and $4,6OO) the
supervisory experience need not
have been directly connected with
the automotive industry. No writ
ten test will be given. The age linn
it is 60 years. Applications will be
accepted until further notice.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-03-06
Lo! The LowZy Employee

Last week the shouting down in Congress of a
proposal to suspend the 40hour working week in private
industry for the duration At this writing this blessing of
the working has still been untampered within
private industry However, this week did the
tanty of eighthour day, sxday week being placed
Government employees not by Congress- but through the
arbitrary decisions of bureau and department heads while
Congress turned polite head.
There is not Government employee would not work
his heart out in the effort lay down his life in
defense of his country Why should these public servants
the backbone of the effort be treated working
outcas without voice protect their rights? The morale
of workers not aided by continual protection
of the in the mills without like protection for them
selves.
Throughout history the public employee has
been football the meat of many political campaign held
for unjust criticism He is the first to be cut in salary
in bad times, the last to receive He is
sdered human being the who pays his salary.
If we may borrow few lines from famous scribes
of the past and change them around Do not suffer the
ills the rest of the human race? Do not bleed
when cut? Do not have prdes and shames?
Do not have joys and sorrows? Do not have
loves and hates? Do not in small measure, resemble
human being?" Then why must always be "Firs in
Ito have hours of labor increased without compen-
saton) first in peace Ito have salaries cut and last in
the hearts of our countrymen at all hmes?"
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-03-06
Community Church

"I'm Not Gong to Church To-
day" will be the subject upon
which Reverend Wilmer P. john
ston will preach next Sunday
morning at IL a. m. at the Com
munity Church.
The Church School will meet
at 9:30 a. m. with classes for all
The school is equipped with
corps of teachers but due to the
ever changing conditions of Green
belt and the increasing number OF
those who have to work on Sun
day the Sunday School is in need
of teachers. Anyone willing to
teach in the Sunday School
should notify Elmo Reno.
The Young Peoples Societies
will meet at the usual time, z
p. M, in their respective rooms
in the Community Building.
The religious and social welfare
Committee will meet Sunday at
p. m. with Reverend and Mrs.
Wilmer P. Johnston at their resi-
dence at 1914 Edmonston Road.
A full attendance is requested as
plans Tor Easter muSC De mace dl
this time.
At 8 p. m. Wednesday the reg
ular Mid-Week meeting will Da
held for all those who wish to be-
come better acquainted with the
members and friends of the Com
munity Church. After a short
religious service there will be a
src hall hour. This Wednesday,
II tHosa living on Southway are
i'vitc1 as special guest of the
Church.
The members of the Guild and
their husbands are to be the
special representatives for the
church on this occasion.
The Choir will meet tonight
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Neblett,
&c Southway.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-03-06
*Greenbelt Cooperative Nursery School.

The Greene Cooperative School, housed
of IA Parkway opened
teacher Mrs Charlotte Wagner being replaced
Ruth eergot when school March H. Nursery School
opened originally with two daily
zaton will morning class only Hours from to 80
A. M the
dollars and from three to five
The school by
all children
Howell offices president and be filled
monthly
each month school
attend extended parents
The aims and of the Greenbet Cooperative Nursery
School
the Nursery School shall be to provide under skilled guidance
child
activity and social adjustments education and
operation between home school,"
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-03-06
"Dear F. S. H."
Dear F. S. A.:


Don't mind us-we just live here.
from time to time, have raised lot hell and we
know that occasionally have caused you embarrassment
by some of our actions
tenants are always critical of their landlords and
nave done our share of gripping That's what happens
landlords you know, hope you don't mind much
All In ALL you have been pretty decent u.s. providing
with these houses in the first place. and then building the
swimming pool the ball fields 1.-The picnic grounds helping
us plant gardens and everything We have kicked
some of the regulations and do sympathy
with the rental policy, and kind of about the
way the housing being handled we are backing
you up just the especially when southern "demo-
cats in Congress begin taking pot-shots at you
When Senator Byrd starts protesting that poll taxes
were paid with F. S. A. funds and Representative Tarver
labels Greenbet fantastic idea know what they
aiming at and we don't agree with them.
We regret that you did follow suggestion that
rents here be adjusted to incomes of the tenants
sliding scale. This would have placed you in stronger
position to meet Congressional criticism. However, you
set policy and that is that Any possible increase
receipts from Greenbet is out; lot of neghbors
out too. But the whole think you pretty good
We just live here, and don't count much perhaps but we
thought maybe you would like to know how feel about
this +
Sincerely yours
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-03-06
One Year Ago
(From the Cooperator of March

(From the Cooperator of March
Z, 1941)
The Coop Board asks increase
in maximum observation-disclosures
discuss income limits for residents
Open forum meets in spring
Airport shifts forestry service
Maryland students invade Green-
belt in quiz blitz-Co-op pays
1886 cash dividend, guesser wins
by nose-Home Owners Coop
makes national news-Co-op dis
crimination-Braden makes sur
veys of housing problems for
U. S. Defense Commission-Co-op
trains for national defense-Near-
by riding academy opens-Hospi-
tai Auxiliary holds st. Patrick
Day supper-Nazi aggression al
fects coop movement.