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Press Search
for Utica Boy
Believed Lost
on Conoe Trip

gedy apparently had
struck the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Flickinger in Utica again
today as police continued their
efforts to recover the bodies of
the couples son, Harry, a IT,
year-old u. of M. freshman, and
Margaret Kcrshmer, l8, from
Barton Pond near Ann Arbor,
where the pair are believed to
have drowned Saturday.
Several years ago an Older
son, Walter, Jr.. was found dead
in a drain pipe near his par
ents' home of wounds inflicted
by an old gun. The gun appar-
emily went off as the boy climb
ed into the pipe and his body
was not recovered for days.
Harry Flickinger and his COM
panion, girl Army employe OF
Charleston, w. Va, left on a
canoe trip Saturday on the
Huron River. The overturned
canoe was discovered the fol-
lowing day.
The parents learned OF the
tragedy when they came TO Ann
Arbor Sunday to visit their son
and learned he was missing.
They stood on the shore while
Washtenaw County sheriffs
deputies dragged the two-mile
square pond.
Flickinger, who entered the
See UTICA MsAN-Page e
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BRITISH TRAP $4,000 ON CAP bon
Throat Wounds
Indicate Murder
Mrs. Violet Nonnemaker
Denies Part in Crime

While Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held Police Chief Arthur
RossO today prObed the possibility that Dannie
Lyons rcibIy drowned the Clinton River continued
question Violet NOnnemakcr old
kidnapping warrant since May connection with the boys
mysterious disappearance
Mrs. Nonnemaker surrendered Detroit police Nc
Clelan station $3.50 m. Monday
Danns body found the behind Ill RatbOne
half miles from his parents home 94 Macomb street.
Mrs Betty Georgiad, 3d. who urged the exWAAC to
render told Held today that she
maker daily from April 26 until April 30 when the
left Wildwood N j. to visit the mother her sailor
friend. Dannie disappeared April 20.
VOUCHES FOR FRIEND
I'm convinced Violet knows nothing the disappearance
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Select Three
Best Essays
Red Cross Contest
Winners Revealed

Winning essays in the recent
contest sponsored by Junior
Red Cross are announced today
by Mrs. Ralph Ware. county
Junior Red Cross chairman.
Harry Schott, sixth grader at
Trinity Lutheran school. Mount
Clemens. won the contest for
fifth and sixth graders on the
subject Of the history of Red
Cross.
Joan DcKlcrk. eighth grader
at Greater Gratiot school in
Erin township, won the contest
for seventh anG eighth graders
with an essay on the same SUBJ
ject.
Dorothy Peck a senior at War
rem High school is winner in
the high school contest AS
signed the subject, What Red
Cross Means to You she chang
ed her title to The Red Badge
of Courage
Harry's essay is printed in to-
days Monitor-Leader, and the
other winning essays Will APP
pear in early issues.
Alexander Macomb Chapter
Of Daughters of the American
Revolution is presenting a Red
Cross flag TO each winner, who
in turn VIII present it TO his
school Presentation will be
made Friday by Mrs. Hugh
Nealc. county vice-ch1irman in
See ESSAYS-Pagc .
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Col. CoIman
Is Returned
10 5e|fridge
Dual Inquiries
Go Ahead in
Air Bose Scandal

Col. William T. Colman, ex-
commandant of Selfridge Field,
returned to the scene of his for
mer command this morning, I'M
der guard, as the central figure
in sweeping Congressional and
military investigations into al
legged Irregularities at the big
Army Air Base.
Relieved of his command last
Wednesday following the shoot
ing of a 25-year-old Negro pri-
vate, Col. Colman had been held
at Percy Jones General Hospital,
Battle Creek, until today. He is
now in confinement, under
guard, at Selfridge Field Col.
William B. Wight, now COM
handing officer of the Post, an
nounced today.
The dual probes of the shoot
ing of Pvt. Richard McRae also
embraced what Rep. Paul w.
Shafcr, member of the House
Military Affairs Committee, has
described as shocking reports
concerning purchase of favors
from Selfridge officers and sur
prisingly rapid promotions of
wealthy Detroiters. Also listed
for investigation by Shafer and
his Investigators were real es-
estate transfers involving Sell
fridge officers and wide va
ricty of other rumors and re-
ports.
STRANGE INCIDENT
One specific target Of Rep
Skaters ire was the mysteri'
Ously swift manner in which
Staff Sergt. Myron Collins, for
merly of Selfridge Field and re-
turned here for questioning, was
granted a furlough by Lieut.
See SELFRIDGE-Page z
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Victory Prelude

MELBOURNE, May IL - Up
w. Prime Minister John Curtin,
in a message of congratulations
to President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill today
on the North African victory,
said: 1--WE pray this campaign,
which proved the superiority of
the United Nations, will be the
prelude to complete and speedy
victory against all our enemies"
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County Pay
Raise 0k'd
Made Retroactive
to April IS

Blanket pay raises of $40 per
month retroactive to April ~45
we're granted to county employees
Monday by the Board Of Super
visors.
Only exception was Under
sheriff Harley Ensign whose pay
was upped 5000 yearly to $4,000.
The boost lifted uniform and
plainclothes deputies to $3.50
and included besides classified
employees county maintenance
employees. radio workers, county
nurse, friend of the court, coun-
ty farm workers, the clerk of the
contagious department and the
social welfare collector.
The raise will up the county
payroll a total of $4,000 an
nually.
Other measures passed were.
See PAY-Page 2
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Hilnlnllcr Unhurt

NEW YORK, May IL - (P) -
CHS recorded. a Moscow broad
cast today which said Heinrich
Himmler, German GeStapO
chief, was fired upon by two
men during his recent visit to
Zagret, CrOtia. He escaped
without injury" il said. Hmm
Ter was in Zagreb to see DIR.
Ante PaveIic, puppet president
of the axis satellite state.
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Attack Convoy

LONDON, May 11-(P)-The
Berlin radio reported today that
Allied planes attacked a Ger
man convoy yesterday after
noon off the coast OF Norway
but said the ships escaped dam
age and shot down three of the
raiders. The broadcast was re-
corded by Reuters.
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late X X X
bulletins
End at Hand

ALLIED HEADQUART + II S
IN NORTH AFRICA, May IL
R)-Arm0red columns of the
British First Army moving
rapidly along coastal roads on
both sides of Can Bon found
many German-set fires today
and indications that the Ger
mans were preparing for whole
sale surrender.
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County Clerks Denied
Extra Compensation

LANSING, May IL - (P) -
Attorney General Herbert j.
Rushton informed Prosecutor
James j. Dunn of Battle Greek
today that a county clerk is not
entitled under the law to extra
compensation as clerk of a
county tax ALLEGATION board, and
that there is 40 authority for
granting the clerk additional
pay for such work.
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LONDON, May II = Rl =
Lieut.. Gen. Jacob l.. Devers,
new commander Of the u. S.
army in the European theater.
has pledged TO carry out his
predecessors policy Of cooperat-
ing with the Raj in massed
bombing attacks on Axis-0ccu-
pied Europe,
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NaZi Shock Troops
a Broken Rabble'
Enemy Forces Surrender
in Droves Along Cap Bon
BY ROGER GREENE

Axis troops caught death reported surrenderinx
by the thousands the British lt
haps $4,000 German Italian soldiers Bon
Peninsula in Tunisa today front
"A fate worse than Dunkerque
Africa Corps"
Reuters British News Agency dispatch said
aly announced that resistance
last major Axis fOOhOld colapsing.
ITS all over There isn't going to be Axis
an Allied General told the Associated Press.
DESPERATE RETREAT
DE Associated
FAMED shock troops had become
ther lives into the rocky hills of the
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LONDON, May 11-tR1-An-
eta, Netherlands agency, said to-
day that German occupation
authoriti0 had executed &c
more Dutch patriots for foment-
ing strikes and sabotage.
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LONDON, May 11-tR1-Ger-
man air raiders bombed and
strafed an East Anglican coastal
town this morning, causing cas-
ualties and demolishing a num-
Der of houses.
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Mine Kills IL

BELFAST, Northern ireland,
May IL - Up - A mine flOated
ashore and exploded near the
west coast village of Donegal
today, killing II men and in
juring four.
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Tin Pickup
on Wednesday

City trucks will pick up
salvaged tin cans from al
schools in the city early
Wednesday morning, Mrs.
Paul W. Mckee, salvage com-
mittee chairman, said to-day.
Salvage officials urged al
householders 10 see ths1 -
1cumulations Of Elm reach ~
collection points BY "a ~
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mamet, on the southern shore,
and also sent spearheads plung.
ing into the heart of Axis last
stand defenses.
The towns Or Soliman, Grom-
balia and Mcneil Bou Zelfa have
now been taken over by British
infantry" allied headquarters
announced.
See AFRICA-Page ,
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LONDON. Nav IL (P)

LONDON. May IL - (P) -
A French cOmmunique broad
cast from Algiers tonight said
German forces in the Tag
hOuan Mountains west of Cap
Bon had asked for armistice
terms. The cOmmunique said
the French commander had
demanded unconditional sur
render and that all war ma
terial be handed over - in
accordance with the Casa
blanca formula.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED PRESS

Imported Coverose
Of All LoeoI News
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
SAVINGS:
BankrolIs E1pand

People in the United States added
81, 300, 0O0,0 1000 to their cash and bank
deposits in the first quarter of 1943,
after paying the largest tax bill in
history, the Securities and Exchange
commission reported in quarterly
examination of the national volume
of savings.
In addition to cash and deposits,
individuals added $4,000, 100000 to
their holdings Of government bonds;
$500, 100000 to their equity in insur-
ance; and paid off $500, 900 Of
debt other than mortgages.
The commission reported likewise
that corporations other than banks
had added $3,050, 100000 to their
cash and deposits in the first quar-
ter of 1943. This was by far the
largest increase in history.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
RUSSIANS:
Reds Press Hard

Even as former Ambassador JOS
eph E. Davies was engaged in con-
ferences with Russ Premier Joseph
Stain in furtherance of his second
and historic mission to Moscow, Red
armies were reported by the Ger
mans to have launched major at
tacks on four points along a 1,100-
mile section of the Eastern front
from the Volkhov sector to the Ku-
ban valley in the Caucasus.
In the Caucasus campaign Red
army troops shattered two Nazi at
tacks, according to a Soviet report,
and blasted IA boatloads of Nazis at
tempting to retreat over the Kuban
river.
In the vicinity of Novorossisk, last
remaining Axis bridgehead in the
Caucasus, Russian forces continued
their pressure, breaking up Nazi
tank assaults and Tightening their Of
fensive ring around the key city.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
CLOTHES:
May AvOid Rati0ning

Rationing of clothing and otnes
textiles may be avoided as result
Of plans worked out between Off.
Gals Of the War Production board
and retail clothing dealers, it was
announced in Washington.
Under the new plan the WPB will
make possible increased production
of more essential types of clothing
and textiles. At the same time re-
tailers have promised to revise GER
tain practices and develop new
methods designed to relieve pres
sure on the industry.
1--WE believe we can avoid clothes
rationing and other textiles this win
ter and perhaps indefinitely, if we
get adequate support from the pub
lic," said an official statement.
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CRABS: For the first time in his
tory the giant king crab Of the Ber-
ing sea will be canned commercially
by Americans, Secretary Of the In
terror Harold L. Ickes announced.
GASOLINE: No extra gasoline
will be available for vacation trips
this year, according to an OPA rul-
ing. Holders of B and c cards must
not use them for holiday trips, the
ruling stated.
PEACE: DR.. Eduard Benes,
Czechoslovakian president, ex-
pressed the belief that the European
war will be over within a year. in
an address here. He said the peace
conference should not be held until
a provisional peace is made and the
war with Japan is ended.
JAPS: Japanese air strength in
New Britain has been practically
doubled in the last five months, &C.
cording to Col. Frederic H. Smith,
commander Of the Buna air task
force. Colonel Smith, home on fur
Tough, reported that the enemy now
has roughly two to one superiority.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03

Au Victory Brings T. S Nearer Tokyo Floods Menace Crops

Whether the new ALLEGATION would
result in lowering Of point values
for canned goods was not known.
Officials said this would depend on
the size of the 1943 fruit and vege-
table pack.
Greatest reduction among canned
vegetables needed by the military
was for carrots. Next greatest was
for beets, then tomatoes and corn.
Only slight probability Of increases
in civilian ALLEGATIONS of citrus juices
loomed, since military demand for
these products remains about the
same as last year.
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GAS CRISIS:
Middle Vest Nest?

AS the gasoline supply crisis
mounted along the Atlantic sea-
board, Price Administrator Prentiss
M. Brown decreed a complete ban
on pleasure driving in II eastern
states, part of another and in the
District Of Columbia.
The states affected by the ruling
were Maine, New Hampshire, YER
mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York, New Jer-
sey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Mary
land and Virginia. In addition eight
eastern counties in West Virginia
were affected.
Previously the OPA had sought to
curb nonessential driving through
voluntary ''honor system"
That additional restrictions doomed
ahead was indicated by Petroleum
Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who
said that the East would have to
cut its gasoline consumption still
further and that new restrictions
may be put into effect in the Middle
West so that some gasoline may be
diverted from there to the seaboard
area.
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EUROPE:
Air Blasts Continue

In the wake of ebbing flood waters
that had swept disastrously through
Germany's industrial Ruhr valleys
from the Elder and Moehne dams,
shattered by Raj bombs, American
Flying Fortresses inflicted further
punishment on the Nazis in attacks
on submarine and shipbuilding
yards at Kiel and Flensburg, 40
miles away.
Air Force communicates said the
unescorted bombers had left both
targets in flames and shot down
many enemy fighter planes that had
tried to ward them off.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
FOOD CONFERENCE:
Postwar Goals Outlined

Continuance of food rationing aft
err the war, the creation Of global
agricultural commission and the as
surance that the people of the world
will be better fed in the postwar
period were among goals agreed
upon by delegates representing the
'big four" of the United Nations-the
United States, Great Britain, China
and Soviet misunderstanding the
food conference at Hot Springs, Va.
In addition the delegates were
said to be in agreement on declara-
tons advocating continued agricul-
tural expansion throughout the pc
riod of postwar relief, on state
ment favoring the reduction of world
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
WAR SPENDING:
Characterization Near

The nations outlay for war ex-
penditures was boosted to quarter
of a trillion dollars when the house
passed a $29, 1853, 687, 1913 naval supply
bill without dissenting vote.
The big navy measure carried
$4,000, 100000 for the construction Of
new ships and 81, SOC, 100000 for avia-
ton. Representative O'Hara of Min
nesota said the new funds would
boost to about $3.50, 1000, 900, 900 the
amount appropriated or authorized
for the war up to the present time.
With the navy's needs provided
for, President Roosevelt next moved
to obtain appropriations for the
army for 1914. His appropriation
request for the army was ST., $685.
499, 7O0-or nearly two and a half
times the navy total. Included in
this figure was a request for an ap-
preparation of $40, 425, $50, 500 for the
army plus use of $12,472, 913, 200 Of
unused funds from the 1913 military
budget.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
CHURCHILL:
Hitler First: J0ps Next

War to the death on Japan, but
defeat Of Hitler first was the recipe
for complete United Nations victory
prescribed by Prime Minister Wins
ton Churchill in his historic speech
before congress.
Answering congressional critics
who predicted that Britain would
leave the burden of defeating Japan
to America, Mr.. Churchill pledged
the empire to war side by side with
the United States while there is still
breath in our bodies and while blood
flows through our veins" He prom
ised, further, that British air power
will join with American to bomb Jap
cities and war industries, adding:
''In ashes they must surely lie be-
fore peace comes to the world"
He defended present United Ma
tons strategy founded on the judg-
ment of President Roosevelt, him.
self and their military advisers that
"while defeat of Japan would not
mean the defeat of Germany, the de-
feat of Germany would infallibly
mean the ruin of Japan"
Greater aid for both China and
Russia were promised by Churchill.
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CASUALTIES: Axis losses in Tu-
nisia totaled 1924, 900 according to es-
Inmates of the Allied high command.
The losses included 267 1000 prison
ers, 10000 killed and q 900 wounded.
BOMBERS: Production schedules
at Henry Ford's Willow Run bomber
plant in Detroit are being exceeded,
Edward L. Cushman, local director
of the War Manpower commission,
reported.
YOUTH: More than 1,442, 1861 boys
and girls in England and Wales be-
tween the ages of 16 and IS have
registered under the government
youth plan, designed to encourage
young people to best fit themselves
to assist in the war program, Brit
ish government spokesman an
nounced.
BURROUGHS: A 14-day furlough
for army selectees from the time
they are indicted until they report
to any army camp has become eff
fective, the war department an
nounced All newly drafted men will
automatically be given the leave.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
FLOODS:
Peril Farm, Output

Ruined crops, inundated cities,
damaged homes and casualties from
droWnings resulted from the disas-
trous food that started in Midwest
ern farm states and spilled south
from rivers and streams flowing into
the Mississippi river.
AS emergency crews and troops
had toiled to check the rise of flood
waters and hold down damage from
breaks in Mississippi river levees
protecting rich farm lands and war
plants, weather bureau officials at
tributed the flood to unprecedented
May rains.
In Illinois alone the continuous
rains had destroyed 100000 acres of
corn, wheat and oats. Other states
reporting serious crop destruction
were: Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas,
Kansas and Oklahoma. The flood
losses represented critical threat
to the nations epochal wartime food
production crusade. The damage
resulted not only from crops already
in, but from serious delays in plant
ing corn and other vital cereal
crops.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
AFL TO LEWIS:
Come Back Home

Unpredictable John l.. Lewis
knocked at the, door of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor carrying in
his hand an application for the re-
admission of his United Mine Work
ers. Just eight years before he had
torn the parent union asunder in the
greatest labor schism in history.
That the door would be opened
wide to the Grant Mine Workers
was evident from ALL President
William Green's announc ement that
the federation's executive council
was considering Lewis application
In an orderly and sympathetic
way" Green said he personally
welcomed the miners and reminded
the public that for seven or eight
years he had said the latch string
was out and he wanted the miners
''to come back home"
What effect Lewis move would
have on the present peace negotia-
tons between the AFL and the CLIO
which Lewis founded and later quit,
was not Immediately evident. One
publicly stated reason for Lewis
action was his contention that la
Dor will need united front to avoid
being crushed in the postwar world.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Bigger Output ahead

Production of farm machinery in
1914 at an estimated rate of 80 per
cent of the average annual output
in the 1940-41 period, and unlimited
production of repair parts was ap-
proved by the War Production
board.
Release of the official order await
ed completion of a farm-to-farm
check being made by the War Food
administration to determine specific
machinery items needed by 100000
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tariffs and on educational measures
to promote better nutritional goals.
Although no binding agreements
linked the delegates, Paul H. APP
pleby, undersecretary of agriculture
and acting chairman of the Ameri-
can delegation, said that represen-
tatives Of A governments attending
the conference had come forward
with offers of cooperation.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03

farmers, Paul Henry, head of
the WAS production equipment
branch, revealed.
Concentration of the farm equip
ment industry previously ordered in
a WPB directive, is to be eliminat-
ed. Donald Nelson, WPB chairman,
announced that concentration is a
dead duck" Thus large farm equip
ment manufacturers whose sales are
over $10,000,000 are permitted to
come back into production.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-03
CANNED FOODS:
More for Civilians

Civilian supplies of canned fruits
and vegetables will be increased by
approximately $4,000, 900 cases from
the 1913 pack because Of reduced
military demands for these conmod-
tiles, the War Food administration
announced.
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EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts, and not necessarily OF
this newspaper.
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