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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09
CaroIs-Cifts
at MeetInq

THE WESLEYAN LEAGUE
OF the Methodist church met last
evening with Mrs. Sidney Tink-
Ter with thirty-five members
and six guests. The Christmas
meeting was presided over by
Mrs. Gladys Sweeney. Devotions
were led by Mrs. James Jackson,
The program was given by
Mrs. Lucille Stewart. she gave a
variety OF Christmas selections
and her topic was The Spirit of
Christmas" The group sang
Christmas carols, led by Mrs.
Earl Dittrich, accompanied on
the piano by Mrs. Glen Lewark.
A small Christmas tree CEN
tered the table at which the ex-
change of gifts took place. The
committee consisted OF Mrs.
Macy Watkins, chairman, Mrs.
Ralph Clark, Sarah Hermann,
Christine Niemann, Mrs. r. E.
Howard and Mrs. Rufus Reitzel.
DONALD PARENT, chairman
OF the Citizens Navy committee,
has called meeting OF the
committee for Friday, Deem
Der 10, Room 2, Post Office
building at $50 o'clock.
MRS. ESTHER DOVE (for-
merly Esther Eschenburg) is
convalescing from an operation
at Deaconess Hospital in Detroit.
She is ut home at 235 North ave-
nue..
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09
Xmas Dance
for Service Men

A CHRISTMAS DANCE and
party for service men is being
planned by the girls of the
Michigan Bell Telephone Com
pany 1t will be held at the
Broadway USO on December 81
at 8 o'clock. Selfridge Field
orchestra Will furnish the music.
Gifts will be given to all
service men attending the
dance. The hostesses of the USO
are invited. Elizabeth Duckwitz,
general chairman will be assist
ed by jeanette Lafferty. Mrs. T.
Yates and Virginia Peltier are in
charge of the gifts.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09
Silver Lining
Circle Meets

THE SILVER LINING CIR
Gle Of the King $ Daughters met
at the home OF Mrs. Russell Glas-
gov on Miller street last eve
ming Guests were Mrs A. W
FATHER, Mrs John l.. Arthur and
Mrs Anthony Eckhout
The meeting was opened by
the first vicc-prcSidcnt Mrs.
Clarence Wilson Bridge was
PLAYED and prizes were won by;
Mrs Eric j Ryser, Mrs. Clarence
Wilson and Mrs A w FATHER.
The next meeting Will be held
ON December 81. at 8 clock at
the home OF Mrs. Duane Dunk
lee on Huron street, IT will be
their Christmas party and an
exchange of gifts will take place.
MIR. AND MRS. PAUL SIZE.
VERT entertained al a dinner
Monday evening in honor OF Pvt.
Edward Pringnitz. of Camp
Banding, Florida, and his wife,
of Carson City
THE WHITE SHRINE OF
JERUSALEM, MaComb County
No. 48, will meet on Friday, De-
cember 10. at 7.45 o'clock at the
Masonic Temple; preceded by a
pot-luck at $50 o'clock All
members are asked to bring a
twenty-five cent Christmas gift
for exchange after the meeting.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09
Methodist Church Scene
Of Joyous YuLe Event

Is, Gaines. Joshua Fit de Battle
OF JcrIco by Gsul {. II r..
Mackenzie. SoloISt. Jesus on de
Water Side. hy ASchenbrenncr,
and Listen 20 de Lambs, by
Dcu. Elizabeth Miller, soloiSt.
Cello solos. Air for The G. String
hy Bach ChanSon Village and
GaNot,e boy Pepper Margaret J.
Klc.huizcn. OffcrtorN ReVe
AngcIquc by RubcnStein, piano
and organ
The Christmas carols chosen
for the program are Carol Of
the Bells. by LcontovIch, A, J,
PiCkmau VIII sing the Kings
role 4n. Good KING WcnccSlas,
am old English air. while Ray
mond Riley vii, sing the part OF
tho Page Lullabye on Christmas
Eve. by Christensen, Elizabeth
Darling S0iolst. with the chorus
hummunC a counter melody. In
the emotional. Great is JchONah,
by Schubert, Mrs G II r Mac
Kcnzie VIII sing the solo and
obligato parts. also with chorus
accompaniment.
Following these numbers the
chorus and audience will JON in
a few traditional Christmas car
ols, including Hank the Herald
Angels Sing and Silent Night As
climax 10 the concert the Choir
Us viii sing the great HailcluJah
Chorus, from HandclS Messiah.
No admission viii be charged
but q silver collection viii be
taken 20 cover expenses.
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Large Attendance at
Die Nnson P. T. A. Meeting

THE DICKINSON p. T. A..
held its regular meeting last
evening i'm the third grade room
OF the Dickinson school. The
room was sttractively decorated
in keeping with the Christmas
season. A short business meeting
was held.
Miss Winifred Everill, grade
school supervisor. was the speak
er. Her topic was Our Children
in Today's World and Tomor-
rows Aftermath" She told of
our responsibilities TO our chill
dren during the war; also gave
the results of an interesting To-
cal survey, which was made OF
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09
Mission Society
Christmas Party

THE MISSION SOCIETY OF
Zion Evangelical church held
meeting al the parish house on
Wednesday afternoon. After the
short business meeting the group
met i'm the church dining room
for a Christmas party. Each
member was presented with a
gift. A guild pin presentation
was made 70 the outgoing and
in going presidents.
A donation OF $500 was
made 10 tho Salvation Army and
S. 90 20 the Council Of Churches
ChaplainS Fund OF Detroit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09

CHARLES KLEIN. SIR OF -
Grove Park. IS patient IN the
Detroit Marine hospital
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Civic Chorus to Present Christmas Program Sunday Afternoon
Philathea-Ha harmony
Christmas Party

ON MONDAY EVENING the
Junior Philathea and Harmony
class of the Gilbert Memorial
Baptist church held a Christmas
party at the home of Mrs Ray
mond Simms, Clinton River
road. The hostess was assisted by
Mrs. Worthy MCGEE.
Games were played and prizes
won by: Mildred o. Kelly, Helen
Legett, Shirley Streu and Betty
Boyer. There was also an ex-
change of gifts.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09
lou, Generation,
Navy Mothers Club
Hold Formal Installation

Luther Kilby. Mrs. Vail Ellis and
Mrs John Allen, auditors; Mrs.
Albert Tremlett, Mrs. James Ed
wards and Mrs. William Russell,
trustees.
The tables were effectively
decorated with arrangements Of
yellow chrysanthemums in crys-
tai bowls with white candles in
crystal holders. Officers wore
corSages Of blue and gold, the
Navy colors.
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the first seven grades. II includ-
ed the amount of spending
money each child is allowed;
the working mothers; children
attending Sunday school; chill
dren attending movies; what
children do with their leisure
time and what home RESPONSE
bilities our children have.
The third grade mothers were
in charge of refreshments which
were served from a table laid
with lovely white linen cloth.
conferred with poinSettas and red
tapers. Mrs. William Lloyd was
the chairman. Sixty people were
present.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-06

Gen. McCroskey came here from
Mitchell Field, Long Island. where
as commanding general of the 55th
AAA Brigade, ne was engaged in
the practical study Of combined
antlaircraft, Air Corps, and Sig
nal Corps defense, under the
supervision Of the First Air Force.
In 1912 Gen. McCroskey, then a
colonel, was assigned to New York
City to plan and command the
antiaircraft defense OF this nations
greatest metropolis He was an
pointed brigadier general in June.
1912, and assigned to Camp Ste
wart, Georgia, where he organized
the 55th Brigade
The new commanding general
entered the service in 1917, after
graduating from Washington State
College. An early ana firm adva.
cate of the development of antiair-
craft artillery, he has had much
experience in that field.
He was member Of the Coast
Artillery Board at Fort Monroe.
Va, in 1882 When the Army was
reorganized in that year, he was
assigned to the Antiaircraft ArtiI.
lery Command at Richmond. In
1888 he was assigned to the chief
of Coast Artille1y's Office in the
material section.
Under the supervision of Brig.
Gen James B. Crawford, then
Camp Davis commander, Gen. Nc.
Croskey was member of group
OF officers. selected the site for
the camp and planned it's construc-
ton and development. He was the
camps executive officer from
February to December, 1941.
Two tours Of foreign duty were
in Panama from 1921 to 1924 and
in Hawaii from 1929 to 1892. A ma
tive of Colfax, Wash, the general
is married and has one daughter.
His family resides in Garden City
Long Island. New York.
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hesults OF Teheran
Conference Will Be
Announced TODAY

~, WASHINGTON, Dec. 5-tR-
r tne World will hear at 1 p. m,
10 Las'ern War Time Monday an
s S,'ltial version of what Presi-
~ .' roosevelt, Prime Minist-
NJ Churchill ant Premier
alShal Stain decided in their
r O'hentous conference at Tehe-
ran, in ancient Iran
to Inc official report of the con-
then. ""e puDnc
ihe Moscow .adic broke the
he"s that the conference had
o osen held, in broadcast pick
Sup 20 up IN London Friday night,
s a time in a week that
AN and English press
n nau radio were beaten to the
Jews ae by premature disclosures
sa. Reuters, British news
rTssehc!, flashed the Roosevelt
Ilanaaarchill-Chiang conference
ss week and stirred up a con-
a'ersy that hasn't died down
Gnos Inc Rerters story, date
pa' u Lisbon, was withheld from
IN sh papers but distributed
IN other countries.
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This army of Premier Pietro
Badoglio, which retired into the
Gran Sasso and Morione mountains
just south OF the Pescara valley,
has been steadily reinforced dur.
ing the past north By youths es-
Gaping from German controlled
areas of Italy.
An Argentine citizen who arrived
here from Italy only last week said
some estimates elace the Abruzzi
mountain forces at $1,000, of whom
about $4,000 are armed, and said
they were preparing for action
against the Nazi rear guard.
According to reports from the
border and this neutral informant.
the force includes at least 10000
soldiers VIII, were in Italy's regu-
lar army prior to th;. arnistice.
They have been living on reduced
rations and have been conserving
their ammunition for just such an
opportunity to strike at the Ger
mans as is now presented by the
Eighth Arny's Sangro river
through.
Most of the newcomers, either
former soldiers Or youths escap-
ing the German anG Fascist mobi-
lization since the armistice brought
their guns. or have been armed
from stores controlled by regular
army units.
Some reports say tina italian
forces have already made guerril-
la-type staps at the retreating Ger
mans, and TO have cut the trans
peninsular Rcme-Pescara railroad.
which is now the Germans only
east-west line south of Anchona.
The Argentine, who asked that
his name be withheld because of
possible reprisals against men,
bers of his family still in italy.
said the Mans in central Italy, par
ticularly the Rome a, ca, are now
"acting as if they are on the eve
of hurried departure from the
midst OF a people they hate and
who hate them"
He said that when the Germans
seize goods belonging to Italian
citizens they hand cut slips of
paper falsely promising. "Pagara
Badoglio, '-Badoglio will pay.
"A squad OF Germans under the
command OF lieutenant laWked
into the largest store in Tivoli and
in my presence ordered the clerks
to pile tneif truck full of rationed
foodstuff and many luxury foods"
the Argentine said.
'They gave the excited proprie-
tor merely slip of paper before
they drove off. He showed it to
everybody, including me, and it
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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PETER PROTESTS
new GOVERNMENT
Formation OF Council
Within Yugoslavia Bit
terly Attacked

CAIRO, Dec. 5. P) - King
Peter of the Lugoslav government
in-exile violently protested today
the formation of a rump govern
ment-the council of national lib
eration-ins1de Yugoslavia by Gen.
Josip Broz (Tito) and DR.. Ivan Ri
bar. 81
RibaI heads the new runp gov
eminent. and Tito was made a
field marshal and chairman of a
new committee for national de-
tense.
Formation of the government
was announced yesterday by the
Free Yugoslav radio, mouthpiece
Of the pro-Russian partisan move
ment, which said 140 delegates had
created a parliament and govern
ing body for the areas already
wrested from the Germans.
The Allies, including Russia,
have recognized King Peters ex-
lied government which has head
quarters here. The provisional re-
girne inside Yugoslavia was es-
tablished in opposition to it.
King Peter in a formal state
rnent declared this was "a move
ment of terroristic violence that
it was non-representative, and
tended further to incite ''interne-
cine struggles" in the Nazi-ridden
country alres d. divided by the
faud between Tito and Gen. DraJa
Mihailovic.
The Yugoslav exile government
announcement said the rump gov
da from abroad. to whose success
eminent RESULTED from propagan-
unfortunately certain Allied instl-
tutions contributed great deal.
Tito's partisans have had con-
siderable Soviet support and it IS
known that the hammer and SICKLE
insignia is frequently seen In par
tisan mountain hideouts.
This latest Yugoslav headache
was disclosed at a time when CAIRO
and other newspapers were full OF
reports from Moscow and other
sources Of a big harmony meeting
of President Roosevelt, Prime Min
lister Churchill and Premier Mar
shol Stain.
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WEATHER

FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA: Increasing cIoudi-
ness Monday. Tuesday cloudy with rain
beginning west portion late Monday
afternoon. Continued mild becoming cold
er in west portion Tuesday afternoon.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. s. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1870 p. m, yesterday.
Temperature
80 am, 81, 1880 am, 40, 1870 pm, IS,
7::0 pm, S.
Maximum s., Minimum Al, Mean So,
Normal 81.
Humidity
1870 am 81, 80 am. SO, / 30 pm, A.
7'a0 pm, IS.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending Z: 80 pm,
Dol inches.
Total since the first of the month.
COL inches.
Tides For To-day
From the Tide Tables published by
u. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wiln ington -------------- SOFA
Mssonboro Inlet -----. 3:O3a e.23s
3:06p 9:43p
Sunrise, 7:04a, Sunset, sos D, Moon.
rise, 2:09p, Moonset, 1:41a.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayette.
VILE $50 feet.
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Action ToDelay Subsidy
Vote Is Gaining Ground

themselves what stand they ought
OF providing or denying authority
for payments which Price Admin
istrator Chester Bowles has said
must be made to keep food costs
down and to prevent initiation.
There are indications this effort
to split the Bipartisan bloc op-
posing subsidies was making some
slight Roadway, out ample evidence
is available that most republicans
would fight any delay in vote on
the bill.
Senator Aiken (R-VT) said he
and others of like views would not
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
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WASHINGTON, Dec. s. R An
administration move to delay a
Senate showdown OH food subsi-
dies for 60 days while it submits
the issue to Democratic caucus
appeared tc be gaining some
ground.
With a bipartisan majority lined
up behind a House approved bill
which would halt subsidies Jan. l.,
leaders appealed to Democratic
colleagues to side with them for a
postponement of a Senate vote un-
til February, at leas..
Their argument is that all of
the Senate Democrats could meet
in the meantime and decide among
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Senator Defends Action
In Junking Vote Measure

Senate leadership. They threw
out a bill for a Federal absentee
voting plan and substituted state
supervision.
Guffey called it an 'unholy al
lance which would deprive the
armed forces Of their right to
vote and for this Senator Moore
(R-Okla) called him "the verlest
demagogue."
Moore said in a statement that
tho Administrations bill laid the
basis "for the most gigantic vote
stealing in history and ne defend
ed the Democrats who voted with
(Continued on Page Ihree; Coi' I"
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PLANES DESTROY
6 NAA u BOATS
German Underseas Craft
Attempting To Attack
Atlantic Convoy

LONDON, Dec. 5-tR-Six Ger
man submarines were destroyed
in the Atlantic in eight days by
U. S. Naval and Raj coastal
command planes smashing a re-
newed outbreak Of U-boat war
fare, the Air Ministry announced
today.
In all, Is attacks were made on
Nazi 'U-boat wolf packs seeking
to attack three Atlantic conveys
recently, a communique declared,
and one Raj Liberator was lost.
The conveys were brought safe
~ to port, and so intense was the
battle against two large U-boat
packs that not a single torpedo
was fired against the merchant.
men.
Only bad weather saved the u
boats from further losses, the Air
Ministry said.
Three of the subs fell victim on
the sixth day, all being sent down
by Liberators' depth--bornbs.
y In each of the six. confirmed
sinkings, wreckage and bodies
were seen afterward on the surf.
ace, and a total of 80 to 80 survi-
vors were seen following some OF
the successful attacks. Results
were not observed in the other
nine attacks.
The victories were not speci-
fled among U. S. and Raj air
men.
On the first of the eight days,
the communique said. three sub
marines were attacked by planes
from Iceland. No U-boats we're
seen near the conveys themselves.
but they were found by aircraft
sweeping the approaches.
On the second day. Hudsons and
Ventures of the American Navy
swept the neighborhood near tie
conveys, and a Hudson made one
attack, with unobserved results.
Later a Ventura straddled a sur
faced U-boat with depth charges.
and it sank by the bows, with
30 survivors left in the water,
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
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IL BO.4BERS LOST
Other Fighters Make Of
fensive Sweeps Over
German Territory

LONDON, Dec. 5.-(P)-
Americans and British air
might turned from its me-
thodical destruction of Ger
man cities today to deliver a
smashing blow against enc
my t arg e t S in O coupled
France.
u. S. heavy and medium
bombers and fighters took a
leading part in the daylight
bombardment assaults which
cost the Eighth Air Force II
heavy bombers against the
destruction of II Nazi fight
ers. The crews of two of the
wrecked bombers are safe.
Targets Not known
Today was the first time in more
than two months that the Fort
resses have concentrated on tar
gets in France. The last time was
Sept. Is. when they hit a Nazi
tighter repair base near Rheims.
The target stoday were not i'm
mediately specified.
Thunderbolt and Liehtnino fiol,t.
er planes supported the Flying
Fortresses, the Eighth Air Force
announced, while Raj, Canadian
and Allied fighters provided COW
er for U. S. Marauders and Raj
fighter bombers attacking mill
tary detectives in northern
France.
Other fighters made offensive
sweeps over Nazi territory. One
fighter was lost during the days
operations.
Mine Laying
The daylight assaults were a
sequel to Mosquito attacks on tar
gets in western Germany last night
and mine laying activities by
other Raj planes. One plane was
lost by the minelayers.
Allied war planes now are al
most continuously over Europe.
and last week not "a hours pass
ed without bombs falling on Ger
man SOIL
The weakening of the German
air force even in purely defensive
operations was demonstrated
clearly last week by its inability
to defend Leipzig when British
heavy bombers tented at Berlin
Friday night and then banked to
smother Leijzig with 1900 tons
Of bombs.
Leipzig Unprotected
Nazi fighters were packed over
Berlin and there were not enough
left to protect Leipzig when the
bombers suddenly changed their
course and plastered the vital in
dustrial and railway center, vir-
tually unopposed in the air. Fires
ragged uncontrolled in Leipzig yes
terday, indicating much of its air
raid protection services had been
transferred to Berlin during the
two weeks the capital was smash
ed by five heavy Raj assaults.
Another evidence of inability of
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GERMANS 7HROWlNORE TROOPS
INTO FIERCE ITALIAN FIGHT;
RED DRIVE MENACES MOGlLEV
Roosevelt And Churchill
Reported Meeting Inonu
Turkish President And Two Big Allied Iead.
ers Have Conference Regarding Nations
Entry Into War, NaM News Agency SAYS

LONDON, DEC. 5.-CP,-A Ger.
man news agency said today that
the Turkish president, Ismet mo
nu, conferred with President Roos-
evelt and Prime Minister Chur-
chill in Cairo yesterday after the
momentous Iran meeting Of the
heads of the American and Brit
ish governments with Premier
Marshal Stain.
In broadcast quoting dispatch
es from Ankara, the Mai news
agency Transocean, which previ-
ously had reported Inonu journey
ing to Cairo for the meeting, said
a communique was not expected
before Wednesday or Thursday,
latter the return of the Turkish
statesman
The Berlin radio also reported
that Ernir Mapsur. son of King Ibn
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BY HAROLD STREETER
Associated Press Staff Writer

AASSONA~sCu 1CoS otdIl NV11tC1
The second al%niy ersary tomor-
row Of the Japanese sneak attack
on Pearl Harbox comes as mill
tary forces of tie United States
are deployed along broken battle
line of 5000 miles from the Aleu-
tians to New Guinea. At the closest
point, they stand 1000 statute miles
from Tokyo.
That is in the Aleutians, dor
mant sector.
Dipping southwark, Midway is
land, the most advanced position
west of Hawaii, is 2,5A5 miles from
the heart of Nippon.
Sklrting around the enemy-oc-
cupied Marshalls to the Gilberts,
where Marines paid high price
last month to achieve victory,
those newly-won islands are rough
ly $500 miles from Tokyo.
A little closer but still more than
5000 miles distant is the most ad-
vanced American position on
Bougainville in the northern Solo
mons. So too is the jungle front line
OF Gen. Douglas MacArthur-in this
case held by Austrahans-on the
auon peninsula of . northeastern
New Guinea.
These are great reaches, most of
them Watery, many of them dotted
with strong, Intervening fortifica-
tons. They are distances which
are easy to lose sight of during
the scanning of such war reports
as those OF the past week:
from the Central Pacific - The
alr1leld on hard-won Tarawa in the