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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Woman Loses
Cash
Con Artists Gyp
LocoI Resident

City police .oday soug h I
three men who yesterday work
ed a variation of an old conf
dence game on Mrs. Freda Spo-
Ian of 70 South avenue.
Police Sergt. Eugene Smith
said two men approached Mrs.
Spolan in front of the Mount
Clemens Savings Bank build
ing, saying they sought a GER
tain rabbi. When she was UNI
able to help they said they
wished to sell several diamonds
At this stage a third man
happened by. He described him
self as one Friedman, a jewel
err. Friedman appraised the dia-
monds at 1000 and offered the
two men $500 for them.
Friedman gave the pair 500
for security and offered 20 share
profits from the deal with Mrs.
Spolan if she would put up ad-
ditional collateral.
Whereupon Mrs. Spolan gave
the pair a full carat diamond
ring, a wedding ring, a dinner
ring containing 80 diamonds
and 500 in cash.
Friedman promised TO share
the profits at his iewelry store.
Smith today is seeking both
Friedman and his store.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
$50 CiviIion-Defense
to Graduate
Copt. Leonard TO Be Principal
Speaker; Public Invited

Three hundred and fifty Mount
Clemens Civilian Defense work
ers Monday night will be hon
ored when Mayor Donald r,
WeStendorf hands out individual
certificates Of accomplishment
marking completion of training
courses in fire, police and raid
warden fields.
The public, invited TO attend
the ceremonies, at 8 pm. IN the
Mount Clemens high school au-
ditorium. will hear a stirring adj
dress by Capt Don. S. Leonard
of the Michigan State Police who
personally toured bomb-torn
London last year, and will wit
ness motion pictures of actual
war and bombing scenes.
Glenn Richards assistant met
rorolitan area coordinator of CT
william Defense and Henry Reese,
associate coordinator, will be
present for the occasion as will
representatives from Selfridge
Field.
Circuit Judge James K. Spier
will preside at the graduation
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09

Climaxing brilliant five
year career as director OF the
A Cappella Choir and Combin-
ed Glee Clubs, Charles Bernard
McGhee last night bowed out to
the acclaim of a highly appre-
ciative audience Of 1850.
After "A May Night of Mu-
sic" ended with the patriotic
Ballad for Americans" Nc
Chez was five times called back
by an audience that refused to
go home. II was indeed a fit
ting tribute because in June
McGhce will join some branch
of the armed forces.
McGhee's mother, Mrs. Burt
d. McGhee, arrived in time
from Denver, Colorado, to
hear her sons farewell concert.
She had not previously watched
him direct.
SURPASS RECORD
Fired by the occasion, the
Choir and Glee Clubs surpassed
any and all of their previous
performances. Once the curtain
fell, tho 200 members of the
two groups gave their director
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Sugar Signing
Due
Registration Count
Expected for Monday

County Ration Chief Guy l..
Brown was hopeful today that
completed registration totals for
the first rationing of food by
stamps will be available in time
for publication in the Daily Mon
itor- Leader on Monday.
Many of tn e county's 103
school districts have failed TO re-
port their totals, Brown said.
At the same time he revealed
that persons who failed to reg
lister this week can sign up at
his office, second floor, county
building, anytime after Thurs
day, May 81. Registrations aft
er that date will be accepted
from $50 to 1870 am. and from
100 to 4 pm.
Wholesalers, retailers and the
like who failed to register may
sign up now at Browns office.
The same hours will prevail.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
They Knew
the Right
Numbers!

A little variation on the older
types of confidence game took
Ora Goodman, wayside S tore
proprietor, of SOC N. Gratiot
avenue, in Chesterfield town
ship, for $50 Friday evening.
The play began when man
stepped into the Goodman estab-
lishment and wanted to leave
a punchboard there for the price
of rs cents.
Goodman said he didn't want
it, but the kindly stranger said
he'd just leave it there for the
JOY of it, and Goodman could
see no harm in that.
That, however, was at about
4:30 or 5 o'clock and by eight
o'clock the wayside merchant
had definitely changed his mind.
1t was all because three men
entered his place and began
playing the punchboard and bet
ting on it. AS a schill or come
on they first lost $40, then they
started betting SIS and $40 at a
crack and doubling. They won
with the same dismal regularity
that Goodman lost.
In the wind-up, they pointed
out that he owed them S139.
Goodman didn't have that
much cash he could spare but
he was a good sport.
He rendered the men $50 in
cash and wrote them a check for
See CON GAME-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Couple Hurt When
Auto Leaves Road
John VondenEynde's
Condition is 'Foir'

John VandenEynde, Is, of
208 Cas- avenue, and his wife,
Dorothy, 20, were injured at 10
pm. last night when a car in
which they were riding with
Joe 10th, same address, failed
TO negotiate a curve on South
River road near the Southeastern
Sugar company'S plant.
VandenEynde's condition was
reported as only fair today
by st. JoSeph's hospital attaches
while his wife escaped w I h
minor injuries. 10th was not
hurt.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
laps RepuIsed
AS Tiians Of
the Sea Collide
American Fleet
Smoshes jap
lnvosion Thrust
BY c. YATES MCDANIEL

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, May 9 - up An
nouncing categorically the ba-
sic outline of a clear-cut naval
victory in the greatest sea fight
of the war, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur declared today that
American losses in repulsing
the proud invasion armada ia
pan sent into the Coral Sea
had been relatively light, and
branded Tokyo's claims of dam
age fatty as false and fantas-
tic.
In successive communicates
Macarthur declared:
1.-The great naval and air
battle off the northeast coast
Of Australia has temporarily
ceased
2-"Our naval forces
fought with admirable courage
and tenacity and the enemy has
been repulsed.
Sour attacks will con-
tinue.
1.-The enemy version Of the
battling is entirely fic-
tional and has no semblance to
true communique of fact
5-"His claims o. damage in
flicted on our naval forces are
fantastic.
6-"Our losses compared
with his own are relatively
light. The only reason they
have not been published at the
present time T. because they
would reveal to him informa-
ton of value"
OFFICIAL SCn.RE
With United States war;
ships and bombers hot on the
heels of the shell-marked Japa-
nese sea force, this was the
score already announced Of
ficially:
Japanese ships sunk: IL
An aircraft carrier. q heavy
cruiser. a light cruiser, two de-
strOyers, four gunboats, and
two cargo or transport ships:
japanese shi( damaged: g.
An aircraft cxrrier, q heavy
cruiser. a lirht cruiser, = s.oee
ton seanlane tender and two
TRANSPORT or supply ships.
(The second aircraft carrier
may also have been sunk, on
the basis Of unofficial reports).
The only announced Ameri-
can losses have been three
planes.
The japanese imperial head
quarters claim which MacAr-
thur declared must be regard
ed in the light of propaganda"
was boosted in Tokyo earlier
today to seven ships sunk or
damaged and 80 planes shot
down.
The Japanese claimed they
had sunk U. S. aircraft car
rier of the Yorktown type: q
". S. aircraft carrier of the
Saratoga type. u. S. battle
ship of the California class, and
a destroyer Tokyo reported as
damaged British battleship
See BATTLE-Page 2
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Raj batterS
German porfs
Grand Sweep
Loshes Reich

LONDON, May 9-(P)-Big
British bombers pressed home
attacks from 400 to 800 foot
levels last night to leave in
flames the German aircraft
works at Warnemuende, Baltic
port for Rostock, in heavy night
operations which cost 10 planes,
the air ministry reported today.
The low level attacks were
made in the face of intense de-
Tense" by the Germans of tar
get which the British declared TO
be Of highest Importance in their
See RAF-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
II. Col. DAME! Casey
Will be Banquet Speaker

SELFRIDGE FIELD Mich.
May 9-Lt. Col. Daniel Casey,
Quartermaster Corps. base quar-
termaster at Selfridge Field, will
be the speaker at a banquet Sat-
urday night, May 8, in Detroit
honoring Lawrence LeFavour,
who will leave Detroit soon TO
join the army signal corps.
Sponsored by LeFsvUur's 1el.
low members Of the Fgr0ue
Club, the banquet will b q !
pm. at the DETROIT Yacht Cluo.
Col. Casey Is a World War vet
eran and was reserve Officer
for 20 years before called back
to active duty.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
VanDykeB0y
founded by
Pistol Shot
A piano solo was punctuated

A piano solo was punctuated
with a pistol shot Friday after
noon and Boyce bennington, Is
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
James bennington, of 8415
Orchard avenue, Van Dyke,
postponed swim to recuperate
from a sight flesh wound in
Saratoga hospital, Detroit.
The pistol was bel in the
hands of Donald Humphrey, Is,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Marion
Humphrey, of 7545 Yacht ave-
nue., Base Line, who, with Car
roll Cannon, of about the same
age, was waiting for Boyce to
show up at the Humphrey home
so the three could 60 swimming
To while away the time Carroll
was playing the piano and DON
aid was inspecting the .38 cali
bre, police special pistol that he
had found lying upon his faith
er's bureau. He was toying
with the hammer of the weapon
as Boyce entered, the pistol
discharged and Boyce ran from
the house with bullet hole
through his left side.
Hearing the shot and seeing
Boyce run from the house, a
neighbor, Andrew Moore, of
1855 Yacht avenue, rushed the
wounded lad to Saratoga Gener-
al hospital, Detroit, where his
condition was said TO be good
today.
See BOY-Pagc .
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Ships Torpedoed

!. WASHINGTON, May 9 Up
- The Navy announced today
the tOrpedoing, in the Gulf OF
Mexico, of two merchant YES
sells. 1t said one was medium
sized United States ship and
the other a small vessel of Hon
duran registry.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Gable Mothers

MELBOURNE, Australia, May
9-(UP)- Thousands of Amer
lean soldiers crowded cable Of
fees today to send Mothers
Day messages home. There were
so many that communications
companies, who had d fte d
every operator, censor and clerk
available into service, feared
that even messages filed as early
as the middle Of the week would
be late in arriving.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Program Slowed

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, May
9--UP)-Officials of the New
port News Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company and Navy
Department representatives said
today that shortages of mater
falls were holding up the pro-
duction of ships.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
End Messages

LONDON, May 9 - (P) -
Colonel BrittOn," chief an
nouncer in Britain's big radio
counter propaganda campaign,
told his "V" audience last night
he was suspending temporarily
his once week messages of
encouragement and advice TO
listeners in Axis-Occupied cOun-
tries.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Search Sound

McCHORD FIELD, Wash, May
9-UP)- Army crash boats
scare n d an arm of Puget
Sound near Ketron Island to-
day for the bodies of three Of
ficers no apparently died
when their bOmb ng plane
crashed into the water on a rou-
fine training flight.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09

ADVANCED ALLIED BASE,
Australia. May g. P1 United
States victory in the great sea
battle off northeast Australia
ended temporarily at least the
japanese invasion threats to the
island continent, American-gar-
risoned New Caledonia and Port
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Marines Train

LONDON, May 0 Up Sc
lected members of the United
States Marine Corps are now at
a training camp for Commands,
studying the tactics of Britain's
toughest fighting men, IL was
announced today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Troops Retreat

NEW DELHI, May 3 Up
"A continued withdrawal of Brit
ish forces in Central Burma
"has been carried out success
fully" without contact with the
Japanese, a communique said
today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Send Mission

WASHINGTON, May 8 --(UP)
--- IT, United States is sending
4 special mission 40 the ! zion
a. South >irica 20 study dcvc'-
cpmen. of vast resources for
the United Nations war effort,
It was disclosed today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
ALLIES SCORE MAJOR SEA VICTORY
late X X X
bulletins
Carrier Sunk

TOKYO (From J a pa n e
BrOadcasts), May 8 Up I'M
.perial headquarters announced
today that "smail-sized" Jap
anese aircraft carrier converted
from a tanker" had been sunk
in the Coral Sea naval battle
and acknowledged the loss OF
81 planes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Leaders Talk?

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May
9-UP)-- Usually reliable ad-
'vices from Berlin said toda y
that Field Marshal Hermann
Goering, Nazi No. 2, WAS in
France comforting with Pierre
Laval and Marshal Henri Phil
ippe Petain.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09

exercises The committee in
charge Of arrangements Is COM
posed Of: Larry Blades, chair
man; John McPhail, Stanley
Campbell, l.. Wade Fast, Judge
Spier, and Lawrence Oehmke.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
School Official
Faces Custer
Shores Board
Hears Charge

Frank A. Dixon, superintend-
ent of schools at Lake Shore
High school, st. Clair Shores,
for the last nine years, today
was faced with custer demands
as the result of his alleged tam
pering with the scholastic record
of his daughter, Barbara, in or
der to make her eligible for a
college scholarship.
The charges were brought to
light today by two members of
the Board of Education, District
No. l Of st. Clair Shores, fol-
lowing a special meeting of the
full board he'd Thursday night.
The complainants are Harold F.
Reinhardt, secretary of the
board, and John G.. Reimer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
Donahue New
eputies Chief
Succeeds kondt
at Officers Helm

Deputy sheriffs and special
deputy sheriffs gathered Friday
night at Priehs Garage to hold
their annual meeting and named
Harold Donahue, of st. Clair
Shores, as their president; Bert
Hazen, Of Warren township as
vice president; Kenneth Lam
bert, Center Line, as secretary
and Charles Blazer, of Van
Dyke, as treasurer.
Directors named by the Off
GERS, in addition to the above are
Thomas Ka.tenbach, Edward Ca
hill and Richard Deketelaere,
all of Mount Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-09
SUCCEEDS KANDT

Donahue succeeds l. o n
Kandt, deputy sheriff, who pre-
sided at his first and only meet
ing last night. At the time of
his election as president of the
deputy sheriff's club Kandt was
a special deputy and when he be-
came a regular paid deputy, he
was disqua flied for an office in
the club. The policy is to limit
See DONAHUE-Page 2
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RAISED MARKS

According to Reinhardt, Dix
on raised 10 of his daughter S
grades SO that she could become
eligible for a college scholarship
provided by the Student Aid
Foundation of Michigan. Rein
hardt claims he has in his pos
session a photostatic copy of
the report Dixon sent the Stu
dent Aid Foundation concerning
the girls revised record. Dix
on's daughter is a senior at Lake
Shore High.
Reinhardt said two teachers
See OUSTER-Page 2
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED PRESS

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See BOY-Pagc 2
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-14
y. v. DAY,
Alpena, Mich.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
IN MY job as an insurance
Il agent, I've noticed lot Of
vacant store rooms. WHY
couldn't these be converted into
living quarters and thus ease the
rent problem?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-14

age who have been able TO get
commissions with amazing IA
eility and without previous mill
tary or naval experience and who
are ensconced in posts that call
for none of the physical pertcc-
ton and activity required OF
men in the field.
They represent a waste Of
combat material. We say they
should be replaced by men
whose bones may creak a little
and who may give the appear
ancc OF wearing watcrmclonS
under their vests, but whose
noodles are still okay.
If age does not initiate
against the high commanders
OF our fighting forces, such as
Admiral King at 60, General
Marshall at I'll and nearly all
the other big guns of the two
branches of the service In their
deep 1iftie> or past sixty, il GER
tanly should be no knock 10
able men for the places now
Cluttcrcd up by comparatively
youthful gentlemen whose chief
talent seems 10 be in knowing
the right people TO dig up APP
polntmcntS.
Copyripht. 1912. hy King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-14
Proposed Draft Of Labor
First Step to Slavery
BY HUGH s. JOHNSON

TO TURN wartime man power
Il problems of the Unit G d
States over 10 a board domi-
mated by Mr.. Hillman, would be
10 deliver the male population
Of the United States, organized
or unorganized. military or nom
military, over not merely to or
gained labor but to one of the
warning factions of organized
labor.
If Mr.. Hillman is to have the
exclusive say as 10 what indi-
viduals a factory can employ.
whether il is engaged in war
work or not, what chance has a
man 10 get job anywhere, if
he + not a member of a union?
We already know that, in
many cases. he can't get a job
in war work now without pay
ing charges that are sometimes
eXorbitant for a union card and
the privilege Of working.
~
IF LOCAL boards. wi h on I
Il either political or union bias,
are no longer 10 say. without
the consent of Mr.. Hllman's
board. what individuals can best
be spared 10 march with the
colorS. we shall have turned the
recruitment Of the army also
over 10 organized labor.
There are many grounds Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-14
Desk Jobs for Overage Men
Urged to Free Fighting Youths
BY DAMON RUNYON

and should not be criticized for
rendering the only service per-
mitted them, there are others
who could undoubtedly qualify in
every way for the combat dlvi-
Sions.
HOWEVER, the dictates Of
H fashion will fix them II
will not be long before II Will be
extremely questionable in this
country for young gentlemen OBJ
viOuSly Of service age and phys
iCal qualifications To be in civil
ian clothes and holding govern
ment jobs under the gulse of
service.
The rising tide Of resentment
among fathers and mothers
whose sons are serving the flag
Will take care Of these chaps.
pUT our concern here is moro
- with those OF field service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-14

defermcnt from the draft beside
occupational status.
Mr.. Hillman has long urged
that the fact of labor leader
ship shall be a sufficient cause
for dcfermcnt.
He finally put that over.
If he gets away with the new
one, union membership may
soon become necessary for de-
ferment even of a man with
dependents.
1t could be a draft for the
unions and not for the govern
mcnt.
THE direct draft Of labor
Il forcing a man to take a Job
where and when and for what
ever employer may be selected
by Mr.. Hillman comes close to
the Supreme Courts definition
of slavery under our Constitu-
tlon-enlOfceu employment IOr
a private master not IN punish
ment for crime.
Drafting for military service
of a man who could work and
won't c"work or fightD is a
different matter.
In the latter case the service
is in discharge of an obligation
of citizenship, and, if a man
can't show reasons for eXcuS-
ing him. he has no kick if he
is taken.
Let's at least keep the re-
cruitment of our military and
naval forces where il has been
above rCprOaCh.
Distributed 10y King Features synd.. Inc.
Reproduction in whole or IN part
strictly prohibited
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-14

NO MAN Of field service age
~ and physical qualifications
should be given a desk job IN
either branch of the service un-
less it be shown that he is Pc
Culiarly essential to that job and
is, in fact, Indispensable.
Instead. the desk jobs and all
other tasks that do not require
the physical qualifications Of
field service should be given 10
men beyond middle age. There
arc thousands of such men in the
United States who are painting
to serve and whose service would
be Of incStimable value to the
government but who are barred
by their years or physical in
eligibility from the army and
the navy.
There arc many lawyers and
other professional men in their
fifties and sixties who are hale
and hearty maybe for ordinary
purposes and would be glad to
take over duties that are now
assigned 10 much younger men.
II stands TO reason that the
older men with their greater
experience and calmcr judgment
would give the army and the
navy A higher grade Of service
than the young fellows. who
could then be assigned 10 the
field service where youth be-
longs.
TllIS would also relieve situ-
Il alton IN Washington and
elsewhere that is commencing TO
attract public attention and
must sooner or later become en-
barraSSing TO the administration.
Hundreds Of characters in
officer uniforms whose person.
atty and background make il
rather odd that they should
command such garb and rank
are daShinC about the nation $
capital holding jobs that should
III Il'i'N ~ lll'll W I'N~ bRItllOtt
If they should be held at all.
But since we have only the
highest respect for any man who
cnrollS in the service. we viii as
sumo that these gentlemen are
holding the Jobs because they
were assigned TO them by due
process and had no alternative
than 10 accept. and We VIII also
assume that they would be de-
lighted TO bc relieved and sent TO
scenes Of real action.
We aSpcrSc no mans courage
and we arc prepared 10 believe
that the gentlemen find their
1ob> irkSnme. hence they will un-
doubtcdly applaud our Sugges-
ton
There arc also i'm Washington
and elsewhere many civilians of
field service age holding Jobs
that should be- occupied by the
type OF older men we have in
mind and while some of the civil
ian> were rejected by the army
or the navy FOR physical reasons