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Evening star., 1942-10-25
Gen. DooIittIe's Letter
To Spotz's Parents Revealed

LEBO, Kans., Oct. "a Rl.-Brig
Gen. James H. Doolittle notified the
parents of Sergt. Harold Spatz last
May % that the 21-year-old Air
Forces mechanic might have been
taken prisoner by the Japanese
| after the United States bomber raid
on Toxic.
Gen. Doolittle wrote to Robert
Spatz, Lebo filling station operator,
requesting the letter be kept in
the strictest confidence as the in
formation is of military signifi-
cance." He said:
Dear Mr. Spatz:
Il am extremely sorry to have to
bring you bad news. 1t is not, how
ever, absolutely reliable.
The latest information we are
able to get is that your son landed
near Japanese-occupied territory
and that two of the crew members
are missing and three have been
taken prisoner by the Japanese.
I'VE are unable to definitely au-
thenticate this report, and are also
unable to determine which of the
crew members are missing and which
captured.
"An attempt is being made today
through the American Red Cross to
obtain more definite information. AS
fast as we can obtain more definite
information, you may depend on my
passing 1t on to you.
II am sincerely sorry that I am
obliged to give you such an unfortu-
nate report.
II do want to point out, how
ever, that your son comported him
self with conspicuous bravery and
distinction. He was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for gal
lantry in action and also was
decorated by the Chinese govern
ment.
Il am proud to have served with
Harold and hope that I may have
the opportunity to serve with him
again soon.
Very sincerely yours,
-. H. DOOLITTLE, &
Brigadier General, y. S. Army" /"
The elder Spatz said he had re-
ceived no further word from his
son other than q War Department
notification that the boy was miss
ing. No attempt has been made to
communicate with him.
Il didn't think it'd do much
good" hs said.
Evening star., 1942-10-25

Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From Noon Yesterday to Noon Today
Highest. 60 per cent, at $40 am
Lowest. 81 per cent, at 2:30 pm.
WASHINGTON; Oct. "a H1.-Weather
fan for the "a hours ending PM in
the principal cotton-growing areas and
Evening star., 1942-10-25
Bitter COP Primary.

Mr.. Hawkes. won the nomination
for Senator in a bitterly contested
primary. While there were six cam
didates, his principal opponent was
Gill Robb Wilson, State aviation di-
rector, a veteran of the last war
Mr.. Wilson had strong support, but
little money. Before the end of the
primary campaign many of the lead
ers who had been for him drifted
away to Mr.. Hawkes., who finally
won by about 5000 votes.
Senator Smathers has, charged Mr.
Hawkes. with buying the nomination.
He took the matter to the Senatorial
Campaign Investigation Committee,
headed by Senator Mcfarland. DEM
ocrat Of Arizona. If the committee
has done anything about the
charges, it is not known here.
The threat of senatorial investi-
cation, however, may play an impor-
tant part in the wind-up of the
campaign. Money--and I do not
mean chicken feed--has its part in
New Jersey elections and has had
for years. If the money bags are
frightened OF 1t may have an effect
Evening star., 1942-10-25
Commuters Ballots
May Decide Senate
Race in New Jersey
Smothers, Incumbent,
Fights Bitter Bottle
With COPS Hawkes.

Mr.. lincoln iss=taking a pre-
election suing around the ycoun-
try. This is another in a series
OF articles on election prospects.
Evening star., 1942-10-25
Weather Report

District of Columba-Not quite cold. Gentle winds
Virginia-Not quite SO cold
Maryland-Somewhat warmer in western portions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Cars Deliver
Ration Forms
Registration Sheets
Sent over County

Two cars and four men are
sweeping around the county to-
day to deliver supplies for the
sugar rationing registration for
the grocery and food trade, il
was announced by County Clerk
Guy Brown, chairman of the
nj m b County Rationing
Board.
They will drop the supplies at
all county high schools in readi-
ness for the registration that be-
gins tomorrow.
One car, donated for the pur-
pose, by the Macomb County
Board of Road Commissioners,
and carrying Don Lozen and
Guy Brown, Jr., is covering the
north end Of the county and an
other donated by Sheriff Jacob
Theut and carrying Deputy
Sheriff Harold Engelman and
Keith Brown is covering the
south end of the county.
These supplies will make pos
sible the trade registration Tues
day and Wednesday.
Following that, the same cars
will pick up surplus supplies
Thursday and return them 10 the
county clerks office W h e r e
tradesmen must apply for regis
tration after Wednesday night.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Deiroiter Mute
on Drunk Driving
Triol is Set
for Moy z

Trial of Michael Sokol, 40, OF
2754 Ha'lick avenue, Detroit, or
a charge of drunken driving was
set for May 2, in Justice Donald
Parents court when he was ar
raigned before that same justice
this morning.
He was picked up early Sun
day morning by Trooper Frank
Sepanik, of the Romeo State
Police post as he was driving his
car down MISC. He was re-
manded to jai. TO await trial or
the posting Of a $50 bond that he
was unable 10 furnish today
When arraigned he stood mute
had a plea of innocent entered
and the trial date set.
Thomas Fink, Al, of Utica
r. 3, who was found by Trooper
Farrell Babcock, of the Romeo
post, sleeping under a tree after
driving his car into the ditch, on
the River road in Sterlinl, town
ship, had his drivers license re-
voked for one year and is to be
sentenced Tuesday. He was ar
raigncd in Justice Parents court
this morning, He provided a S25
personal bond to assure his
presence in court at that time.
He pleaded guilty as charged.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Drains
Continued from Page -

Continued from Page II
the McKishine drain in Clinton
township that vas % provide
badly needed relief for several
hundred families. The project is
1921 feet in length with its
largest pipe being Is inches in
diameter. Bids were asked upon
the contract for building it, but
only one was received and it
was rejected.
Now any advertising for new
bids must be held in allegiance
pending the nod of the WPB.
MUST COOPERATE
Declaring that the cou n y
drain department will cooperate
100 per cent with the WPB and
the MaComb county petitioners
for drains by working out any
eXpedients that may make pos
sible the construction of drains
without curtailing the flow of
essential supplies into the war
e f f ort, RoCkensuess explained
what some of those eXpedients
are.
The McKishine drain project,
for instance, was specified to be
done in vitrified pipe. Being m
artificial clay product that type
of pipe is not in urgent demand
for war purposes. Neither is un-
reinforced concrete pipe which
can be obtained in diameters up
TO "a inches. Above that dia-
meter all concrete pipe must be
reinforced. Below that diameter
whether the pipe is reinforced
or not is purely operational.
The chief place where the
drain department would be hit
from the standpoint of hold-up
due to the use of essential war
materials would be in the mat
ter Of copper-stecl culverts, or
{ eel tubes with a copper base un-
der the steel TO protect steel from
water IN the drains, in pure iron
CulvcrtS. where are seldom if
ever used in this county, and in
manhole and catch basin covers.
Where bridges are necessary
over county drains that are new
construction, steel in their con-
struCtion would make their COM
plction very problematical at
this time, the deputy drain COM
missioner indicated,
However, he said { hat the
drain department conCeivably
might use wooden spans over
drainage district, wooden man
hole and catch basin covers and
specify vitrified or unreinforced
concrete pipe where possible.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
High Twelve
Hears Coa(h
Carleton Warden
Principal Speaker

Forty five members Of the
High Twelve club heard Garlic
ton Wordcn, coach at Lake Shore
high school, ST Clair Shores,
plead for more physical educa-
ton for American high school
youths, at the regular weekly
luncheon Of the local group held
in the Masonic clubrooms today.
Following the talk, in which
w or d n Predicted compulsory
physical education under federal
sponsorship, the High Twelve
members witnessed demonstra-
tions of acrobatic roller skating
by five Lake Shore high stu
dents and of acrobatic tumbling
by two others,
II arvey Devantier was in
charge Of the meeting and Ken
Walton presided as chairman.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
5eIiridge Men Enjoy
Detroit Ball Game

Between 235 an $50 Selfridge
soldiers in % cars and trucks
journeyed to Detroit and back
under convoy of MaComb sher-
ifs, Roseville, East Detroit and
Detroit police departments 10
see the ball game at Briggs sta
dunn Sunday afternoon, leav-
ing at IL o'clock and returning
about $50 p. m.
At the ball park the trucks
and cars were parked nearby
and the men found their way
into seats provided fr service
men free Of charge through the
courtesy of the Detroit Base
ball club.
The party was headed by
Lieutenant William Rice.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Vitlory Garden Drive
(hairmen Appointed

The county Victory Garden
drive began to swing definitely
into stride with the appoint
ment of three local chairmen by
Mrs. Walter Tiffin, county
chairman for the garden drive.
Those named are Mrs. Bruce
Collins, Utica; Mrs. II. d. Swift
er, Disco, and Mrs. c. E. Eisen,
Washington.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Bike Rack Adorns
Gratiot Avenue

Appearance of patriotic red,
white and blue bicycle rack in
front of the Schunke jewelry
store on the Gratiot avenue
sidewalk on the west side of that
thoroughfare prompted specula-
ton Sunday as TO how long 1t
may ha. before the Sity may he
gin TO be ornamented with old
fashioned hitch-racks for horses.
So far as known the Schunke
rack Is the third to appear in
the downtown district.
The other two are in front OF
the Priehs Mercantile company
on Macomb street and of the
Western Union office on Cass
avenue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27

channel and back from the direc-
ton Of Boulogne,
British air power was coming
as close as it could to opening up
a second European front while
the Germans still daliicd, with
a great diversion of their air
power, on the Russian front.
In his Reichstag speech on
Sunday, Adolf Hitler dropped a
hint of expectancy that the war
would go into another winter:
".. In the coming winter,
wherever it finds us, German
railways will be better able to
meet their tasks than in the last
winter"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Speed Zone
Continued from Page /,

All OF the mishaps are blam-
ed on speed by the sheriffs Ac-
cident Prevention Bureau. Aft
er leaving the northern limits
of Roseville on the straightway
stretch to Mount Clemens ana
the Mount Clemens limits for
the Southbound race into Rose
Vile, the average motorist trav-
yelling TO and from Detroit tries
to emulate Barney Oldfield.
During the day when traffic
is reasonably heavy and on Sun
days up until about seven or
eight o'clock in the evening,
when traffic is also thick, the
motorists are compelled 10 for
get about that impulse to break
all speed records but the min
ute traffic Stacks off, that sec
ton of Gratiot avenue becomes
a veritable race course, the bu-
reau points out.
Furthermore there is nothing
to check the mad career of the
wantonly reckless driver after
he leaves Roseville or Mount
Clemens until he whirls into the
lower speed zones of either of
those two communities. At the
l4-Mile road and Gratiot there
is a flasher light that is more
honorcd by [ h e indifference
that is paid to it than 1t is in
the observance of the caution
for which it begs.
That spot is an especially
dangerous one, being only a
few yards north of where Lit
tie Mack road dumps its traffic
onto Gratiot or gets its traffic
southbound from Gratiot.
Glenn II. Bright, proprietor Of
an oil station at l4-Mile and
Gratiot roads has seen two ia
talities and any number of ac-
cidents and claims that the av-
erage speed along there seems
to be about 80 miles per hour.
He claims the red flasher that
was at the intersection aoes
about as much good as shout
ing at the wind to quit blow
ing. He believes that a regula-
ton traffic signal should be in
stalled at the crossing, he de-
clared Sunday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Colonial Hole!
Will Open May |
HosteIry Moy Not
Close Next Winter

Max Elkin, manager Of the
Colonial Hotel, said today he
will on May ! reopen the no.
tel closed since last fall,
Elkin predicts a prosperous
season and indicated he will
keep the hotel open throughout
the winter.
He said the Poinciana hotel
he has operated in Miami Beach,
Fla. had been taken over by the
government for Air Corps hous-
ing. The one-ycar old Cadillac
hotel has been leased in Miami
Beach with his brother, Joe, act
ing as manager.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Soldier Thanks
Cookie Donors
New Baltimore Mayor
Remembers Boy in Army

A box Of homemade cookies,
that cheered his buddies and
himself no end and fired them
with enthusiasm TO whip the
JapS, prompted an appreciativc
letter from Private Milo Mel
drum, son Of City Superintend-
ent Andrew Meldrum, of New
Baltimore, TO Harold Engelman,
mayor Of that lakeside COM
munity.
The cookies were sent by the
Engelman's 10 the private, sta
toned at q California camp.
After expressing his appreCi-
alton of the gift, Meldrum wrote:
About the little, yellow Japs,
well lick them all right, and IT
won't be with our tongue. This
time they'll really get what S
coming TO them and some be-
sides. ] have been through
some tough days, but the tough
er they come the better l like
EN-. Thank the Lord my march
ing days are over, we don't have
10 walk but once every two
weeks. The rest Of the time all
we have TO do is ride"
Meldrum IS in mechanical
cavalry and he loves jeeps.
Before enlisting in the Army
he was an attendant at the
Roundhill oil station in New
Baltimore.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Romeo Troopers Recover
Two Stolen Automobiles

Two automobiles stolen Satur-
day night were recovered Sun
day 10y troopers from the Romeo
state police.
A 1899 Plymouth taken from
Almont was recovered in Romeo
and a Dodge owned by Ed Beh-
rendt, Of the Romeo hotel, was
recovered on the Webster road
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Salvage
Continued from Page II

in the war effort. Every person
in Mount Clemens is being urg.
ed 10 look through their atticS
and easements, in their back
yards and about their houses for
materials such as rubber, SCRAP
metals, rags and papers which
can be used in furthering the
nations victory drive.
HIGH SCHOOLERS AID
.asYhese miN ha piled a. Nv
curbs-on front porches IL the
weather is threatening-and col
lected by the city trucks with
high school boys helping in the
loading. A recruiting drive for
boys to aid in the campaign
was started today by George
Longale, Mayor of the Civic
League at city high.
If il is impossible TO collect
the salvage, materials from the
front porch or curbing, boys will
help householders In removing
articles from the house, il re-
quested.
AS an incentive TO the recruit
ing drive, Robert Peltier, man
ager of the Macomb Theatre, has
promised a pasS-good on any
day for any show - TO that
theater for every boy aiding in
the collection. The drive on Sat
urday will follow a Lick-the-
Axis parade on Friday evening,
May l, which will feature a
Number of big army tanks from
he Chrysler Tank Arsenal.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Inspector
Continued from Page II


complaints of unsanitary Condi-
tons outgrowing from the i'm
proper disposal of garbage and
other refuse and in every way
to see to it that the sanitary
condition of the city is to p s
throughout.
This will relieve the city
health officer of a burden that
ne has been ilf-equlpped TO han
die - especially for the money
that there was in it.
SPECIFIC EXAMPLE
II will also eliminate, the
health officer hopes, such a sit
ustion as was brought TO his at
tention some time ago by a dis
gruntled employc of local res
taurant that made a practise of
gathering up used paper napkins
from the places Of diners, chuck
ing them into wastebasket
and subsequently using them as
dishtowels to cut the laundry
bill. The health officer himself
put an abrupt end to that prac-
tise.
AS sealer of weig hts and
measures the new appointee will
safeguard the pu b ic against
short weight and short measure
in local food establishments and
other supply houses.
His task will not be exactly
spare time job" it was indi-
Gated.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
HiqhIond Park Mon Hurt
i'm Two Cor Collision

Julius Balazs, 80, Of Highland
Park was slightly injured Sun
day near Romeo when a car in
which he was riding with Sam
uel Bartha, 30, Highland Park,
was involved in an accident with
one driven by Rutherford Cragi,
81, Almont.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Lick The Axis Week
Committee 10 Meet

A meeting Of the Lick The
Axis parade committee will be
held this afternoon at 400 at
the Board Of Commerce office
in Walnut street to receive en-
tries Of units TO march in the
big procession here May /.
Just prior TO that session, at
4 p. m, the Civilian Defense
Committee will meet in the of
flee Of the 2ity clerk to see
which Of the various Civilian
Defense workers will be in the
parade with each of the several
units that are planning to march.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Harry 0IIrieh Post
Plans Important Meeting

An important meeting of the
Harry Ollrich post No. 4. Amer
lean Legion will be held this
evening at 8 p. m. in the Lee
gion clubrooms in North Ora
tiot avenue, il was announced
today by A djutant Carl o.
Brink.
The members will d scuss
plans for the collection of scrap
metal and also for the Lick-The-
Axis parade.
All members are urged to at.
tend.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Arthur HIM Takes
Over Fair Haven Inn

Former City Commissioner
Arthur HIM, long identified
with the selling game will
launch a new venture this sum-
mer in taking over the B. B.
Inn at the bridge on M-29 at
Fair Haven
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Graduation
Continued from Page ~

NOUHtIHUtu ITUIH Tdgt II
ton, air raid Wardens; Chief
George Theut, auxiliary firemen;
and Chief Elmer Flechsig, auxil-
larry policemen.
Bernard Kalahar, co-ordina-
tor of the Civilian Defense Coun-
Gil in Center Line, will preside
as master of ceremonies.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Attack
Continued from Page u

Ullricn Saturday indicated that
such was the case.
He tod Brys, Ensign and De-
Ketelaere he trussed himself UP
in the basement in an attempt 10
avert suspicion. When Ensign
showed him the crowbar he had
found in the basement, however
Bates readily confessed.
Deputy Sheriffs Thomas Kali
tenbach and Arthur Swain were
active with Ensign and DeKet-
elaere in the investigation lead
ing TO the confession.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Raj
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page II
great plaps-buildtnE ceTser, was
followed up by another daylight
sweep over the northern part of
captive France.
Airdromes at Mardyck, near
Ca ais, and lie Touquet, once a
famous French beach resort, near
Boulogne, were bombed and
stated at low level. One Of the
returning fighter pilots reported
sighting four German anti-air-
craft ships on the homeward
trip. He left two II them sfire.
REPRISAL RAID
The German high command
reported a rcprisal raid last
night, in which the English re-
sort town of Bath was bombed
with powerful effect" and the
sinking of a patrol boat in wa
tiers around Iceland"
Before noon, great bomber
fighter formations Of the Raj
had winged across the English
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27

Four tents, each valued at SIS,
and a quantity of tools were
stolen Saturday night from
Boy Scout Camp in Ray town
ship, Sergt. Edgar Welsch, of the
Romeo State Police post, said to-
daY.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
REPRISAL RAID
While the Raj cracked the

While the Raj cracked the
whip over western Europe
there were signs today that
on the eastern front Russia
had launched upon an often
sive to knock Finland out of
the war and Outflank the
Germans on their main north
ern anchors about Leningrad
and southwark.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27

sent the same disastrous situa-
ton" TO the brave men fighting
our battles today in all parts of
the world.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
X OF p MEETING

The third rank will be exem-
plified tonight by members of
Franz Kuhn lodge, Knights of
Pythias, it was announced today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
Bowling
Scores

DETROIT TRAVELLING LEAGUE
BOWL-O-DROME
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-07-15

S. T. Augusta, Mich. July ID
Mr.. and Mrs. Ormund Minick and
sons, Willis. Mrs. Albert Elka and
daughter Doris, William Zinow, De-
troit. and Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Oelka and daughter Normaiean at
tended the accordion concert al
Ann Arbor Tuesday evening. Mer-
Ign Minick participated in the pro-
gram.
Twelve members OF the Albert
Elka family attended the 18th Elka
reunion at Prospect Park. Ypsilan'
ii, Sunday. A cooperative chicken
dinner was served at noon. Games
were played.
Frank Krejci and sisters, Annie
and Mary, and brother Walter, Calf
fornia, spent Sunday with their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Novsk and Mr. and Mrs. John Pabl-
max. Detroit
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hoeft and
daughter Bara bara and brother,
Robert Dugas. Detroit. visited their
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Dugas and family, Mon
day evening They visited Mr.. and
Mrs. z, Notar.
Mr. and Mrs Fred Schechter
and son Willard were Sunday din
ner guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald
Roberts. Ypsilanti.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vogler en-
tertained Sunday evening at lunch.
con, Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Cox, Platt;
Mrs. Mary Vogler, Sidney and
Marie Lambert. Ypslanti; Mrs, Jo-
sephine Cox, Mrs. Rose Spyers and
William Cox. The occasion was in
honor OF their daughter, Jean Lor-
rsine's eighth birthday.
Mrs. George Radok, Milan. spent
Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Elka.
Pvt. Walter Krejci, OF the Army
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-07-15
Campus Events
Rural Education Progress
to be Shown in Conference

dining rooms Of Charles Mckenny
Hall. The address will be given by
DR.. Eugene B. Elliott, state super
intendent OF public instruction, and
will be entitled. Progress in Rural
Education in Michigan During 1871
and 1912.
Julius Haab, Washtenaw County
Commissioner OF Schools, VIII pre-
side at the afternoon session OF the
conference. There will be forum
discussion, What the Rural Teach
or Can DO to Improve Institutional
Procedures in Rural Schools. Rur-
al school teachers participating
will be: Mrs. Esther Green, jack
son County; Mrs. Edna Holman,
Oakland County, Miss Gertrude
Matthews, Lenawee County; Mrs.
isabelle MattseH4 Branch County;
Miss Thelms Rhaneuf, Genesee
County and Miss Margaret Shad-
bolt, Shiawassee County. Follow
Ing the forum. Prof. Haydn Morgan.
head OF the Music Department OF
the Michigan State Normal College,
will speak on the subject, Enrich
ing Rural School Progress Through
Music. A motion picture, Mod
ern Michigan Rural School, will be
shown by X. L. Utter, who photo
graphed the picture The hnal ad'
dress will be given by Mr.. Watson.
| who will use as his topic, Planning
for the Emerging Problems OF Rur-
al America.