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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27

said he could find no evidence of
a "softening" of Government
buying in the textile field. He
said this situation existed des-
pite a record production last
year of 1872 billion yards of all
kinds Of cloth-30 per cent
above 1871. Lend-lease purchas-
es of cloth goods, he told the re-
tailers, are increasing and fur
Their demands are expected. He
predicted present inventories
will have been depleted by
Christmas unless civilian allot-
ments are increased.
Decker said that wooden mills
are two to three months behind
on deliveries because Of lack of
machinery to manufacture more
goods for civilians and because
of the manpoWer shortage. He
urged retailers to impose their
own system Of allocating goods
to consumers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Would Limit
Clothing Sales
to Men and Bows

CHICAGO, May 81 - (P) -
Retailers of mems and boys
wearing apparel should limit
sales 10 customers and take
steps 10 avert panic" buying
TO avoid rationing Of clothes, be-
lieve heads of two large mems
wear manufacturers.
Unless the retailers adopt
such a policy the situation may
provoke rationing.' They were
told yesterday at a meeting of
the Chicago Mems and Boy s
Wear Market by Harold Mittel-
stadt, president of Wilson Broth
ers, and Alfred Decker, Board
chairman Of Alfred Decker &
Cohn.
The retail merchants from Is
midwest states also were told
by the two clothing company
executives that labor and ma
chinery shortages rather than
any decreases in raw materials
would affect deliveries by manu-
facturers this year. Mittelstadt
said an increasing number of
women textile workers are leav-
ing the industry to seek higher
wages in other war work.
Commenting on the labor
shortage and the heavy govern
ment purchases of textiles, he
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Initiation
Continued from Page One

avoid the ruinous results of in
flation.'
Saying the national debt at
the end of World War | approx
mated S27.000,000, 900. including
Sll ,000,000.000 lent TO Allies,
Engel added:
I'VE are talking glibly about
national debt which we are told
will reach. or may exceed $780,
100000. The war is costing
us many times what it is costing
England or Russia, and when it
is over We will be burdened with
the greatest national debt in the
history Of the world. The tragic
part is that the people them
selves can not understand just
what a 800 billion dollar nation
al debt will mean.
If the average individual
knew just what the debt meant,
his demand for economy both in
and outside the war effort. his
insistence upon obtaining value
received for his tax dollar
would be irresistible upon the
executive and legislative branch
es Of the government
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Victims
Back in Homes
Reshope Summer
Food Progrom
Nv the Associated Press

Farm families in many parts
of the six-state midwest flood
zone, evacuated after rising wa
tiers from scores Of rivers threat
ened their lives. were returning
TO their er-damaged homes
and inundated lands today TO be-
gin to reshape their summer
program Of food production.
The eyacuees in many OF the
flooded areas returned to their
homes as the danger Of further
rising waters passed, but thou
sands of others remained in
refugee shelters, IN ostly in
southern Illinois and eastern
Missouri. More than 100, 900
persons were driven from their
homes by the floods.
Other thousands in commune
ties along the Mississippi and
Illinois rivers still were plagued
by the disorderly conduct of the
two surging streams. The situa-
ton in many river towns, al
though somewhat improved. re-
manned critical, said Amy engri-
neers
AS the farmers in many areas
surveyed the damage TO their
crops and property from the
first flood in the mid-continent
area since 1887. an emergency
conference Of federal officials
and representatives. OF the six
states affected by the flood OPP
ened in ST. Louis. The meeting,
called by War Food Administra-
tor Chester c. Davis, was to map
plans for the prompt restoration
of farm production in the 3,651,-
600 acres of water-covered land
in Illinois, Missouri, Indiana,
Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkan-
sas. Crop and property damage
has been estimated in the mil
lions of dollars.
Although conditions along the
Mississippi south Of St. Louis
still held the attention of sol
diers and engineers, the big
river continued TO drop at the
Missouri metropolis, touching
37.7 feet last night, a drop Of Z
Of a foot in "a hours.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Italy
Continued from Page One

ious fighting in the Kuban Val
miles from the Latvian frontier
"a front which has been com
paratively idle for months. The
Germans said they had restored
their positions.
Intensive Russian Scouting ac-
tivity in the Staraya Russo re-
gion. 285 miles northwest of
Moscow and lao miles south Of
Leningrad. reported by the Ger
mans, also seemed TO presagc
an awakening of the long Rus
sian battle lines.
ley bridgehead around Novoros-
sisk, where the Germans clung
grimly to their last foothold in
the Caucasus throughout the
winters battles. and the Ger
mans said the Red Army was in
action far to the north.
An indication of the scale of
the fighting in the Caucasus
was the Russian announcement
that 81 German planes had been
shot down in air battle north
east of Novorossisk as the Red
Army beat back two battalions
of Germans storming Russian
positions. The German reports
gave the impression that even
heavier fighting was TO be ex-
pected in this area and claimed
that SO Russian planes were shot
down yesterday.
The most interesting German
report was the radio announce
ment that the Russians had fore
ed the main Nazi defenses south
west of Velikie Luki, only 80
miles from { G Latvian frontier.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Ford
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
malady aggravated by undulant
fever.
He was the only child Of Henry
Ford, founder of the vast indus
trial empire, and although only
40 years old at the time of his
death, the younger Ford had
been president Of the firm for "a
years. His father is 70.
The younger Ford's heirs are
the widow, three sons, Henry,
Benson and William, all of
whom are in the armed services,
and a daughter, Josephine. His
mother also survives.
Still unannounced is success
sor TO the younger Ford, his ia
Their not having held a title for
many years. The Board Of Direc-
tors consisting Of the elder Ford,
his grandsons, Henry and Ben
son, and Charles Sorensen, vice
president, are expected to meet
soon TO name a successor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27

but said its common practise in
most townships. " He said that,
as a result Of several trips to
Washington. d. c., and TO Chi
cago in 1912 he had been able TO
obtain federal grants exceeding
S2.633.000 in connection with
water and sewer installations
and felt the money was well
spent.
AS the matter stands now.
since the boards Tuesday night
display Of brokenfield run
ming. that phase of the budget
has been rescinded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Opera
Continued from Page One

replace Mary 10 Burgess, &C
companist, who has been i'll, and
with Jean Nunneley and Ann
McWcthy will assist the chorus
es at the piano.
A string trio including Ann
Jean Walton. Evelyn Riley and
Mrs. Wright will play during in
tcrmissions, and a small orches-
ira is also scheduled to appear
Miss Harper has been assisted
in the weeks OF preparation by 4
committee Of Macomb school
teachers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Reporter
Continued from Page One

their son, John, eight months.
expect to make their home with
Mrs. Racine's mother, Mrs. Har-
ry Hanson, at Odebolt. Iowa
during Lieut.. Racine's period Of
war service.
LEAVES STAFF
Lieut.. Racine leaves the staff
of the Monitor-Leader on Satur-
day and expects to drive his
family TO Mrs. Racines former
home in Iowa early next week
He will return to Mount Glenn
ems prior 10 reporting for active
service.
EIGHTH IN UNIFORM
In answering the nations call
Lieut.. Racine becomes the
eighth member of the Monitor
Leader staff to don the uniforms
Of the fighting forces since the
war begon.
The others are: Capt. Larry v.
Pidgeon, wounded during the
Philippines campaign; Aviation
Cadet John Clifford. killed in
the crash of an Army bomber;
Sergt. Elmer Devantier, u. S.
Army Armored Forces Capt. Lee
Roy II. Sample, Tank Destroyer
Forces; Pfc. Charles Jacobs,
now in England; Seaman Rich
ard Jones, u. S. Coast Guard;
and 2nd Lieut.. Wayne w. Adair,
now stationed at Fort Benning
Ga.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Veteran
Continued from Page One

1t was on Sept. %, 1863, dur
ing the battle of Chickamauga
that he was taken prisoner. AT
ter that he served Ia months as
a Civil War prison camp, first at
Richmond and Danville, later at
Andersonville, Ga. He returned
TO his regiment Jan. 81, 1865
and was mustered out at Nash
Vile, Tenn, on June 26 OF the
same year.
His only grandchild. Mrs Ar
thur r. Corey and his only great
grandchild, Bette Jane Widrig,
live in Mount Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Gardens


an ordinance protecting Victory
Gardeners from vandals.
City Attorney Bert Y. Nun
neley pointed out that present
laws amply protect the garden
ers. THE biggest problem is to
catch the thieves" Nurncley
commented.
Mayor Donald r. Westendorf
then suggested the reward idea
which was enthusiastically re-
ceived. 1t was decided to post
signs in gar d en- warning
thieves.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Five of the bombers in the lat.

Five of the bombers In the lat
ter attack were destroyed, Slim.
son said, and seven others which
were damaged were last seen
smoking and losing altitude as
they disappeared in a cloud
bank. The remaining four bomb.
ers fled. The Army lost two
fighters, but one of the pilots
was rescued.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
HARDWOOD NEWSPRINT

In Australia. hardwood Is
being used for newsprint for the
first time in paper-making his
tory. About 10000 tons of news
print is ! eing manufactured an
nually from a variety of eucalyp-
tuS.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Attu
Continued from PAGE One

cessful attack on no surface
vessels. The sc cond attack,
he added, was m a de by
l6 twin-engine bombers. which
were intercepted by 6 Army
lightning fighters and forced to
Jettison their bombs.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
Expenses
Continued from Page One

airy is $4,000; Wiegand's, 81 800
and LawSon's Sl.500.
II is illegal for any toNpship
or county official TO- accept a
raise during the period of Of
flee for which he has been elect
ed Unreasonable or unltemized
expense accounts are similar
is beyond the Law.
In 1912 Tallman drew 81 200
as travel expense, Wiegand ac-
cepted $3.50; and Lawson re-
ceived $500 None. according to
records available in the town
ship offices. were paid upon pre-
Sentation of itemized expense
accounts
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27

The northwest had the driest
growing season on record during
1891.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27

Prosecuting Attorney Will
bur +. Held revealed today
that he has already began an
investigation Of Warren town
ship expense allowances, with
particular reference to those
paid in 1912. He said that if
any illegal appropriation or
expenditure Of public funds is
involved prosecution will fol-
low.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-27
DEFENDS EXPENDITURE

Tallman today frankly admit
ted the penSe vouchers
drawn by himself and other
township officers during 1912
The Valley settler., 1943-01-22


Continued from page II
that brought this eb out, the F.U.
week II has already been changed
and an eight cow standard set.
This will still not answer the bill
and before the question is settled
liobly reported that President
Patton yields lot cf Influence
with the liberal elements in charge
! Of the Government and We b 1--we
| that he should receive the full
support Of the small farmers Of the
Nat ion, as he seems to be the only
| person who has the couroae md the
! obility to fteht for the Common
parden VARIETY cf Farmer tn the at
Evening star., 1943-01-20

Adolf, Benito and Hirohito-the
three blind mice. Make them run
with War bonds.
Evening star., 1943-01-20
Red Advance Beyond Komensk
Needed to Cut Rostov Artery
Germans Must Make Stand Along Donetz
Or Retire to Old Winter Line, Asserts Expert

vantage in the fact that the ground
south of the river is generally much
higher than that to the north, and
1t Seems likely that heavy fighting
along this line will develop, for if
the Russians do succeed in taking
Likhaya or bringing the junction
under effective fire the whole of
the German armies beyond the Don
are then dependent on one single
line of railway, that through Tag
anrog to Rostov, a much inferior
line in grade and capacity to the
line through Likhaya Junction.
Hence If the Germans are ever
going to make a determined stand
to defend their vital communica-
tions lines the place for them to
do 1t is along the Donetz, and the
time is now.
There are, of course, two other
possibilities which may be consid-
cred, but which should not as vet
be counted upon. The first is that
the Germans may have decided to
abandon Rostov and withdraw to
their old winter line, Kharkov-
Stalino-Taganrog, as being the best
they can do under the circum-
stances.
In this case they may be count
ing on withdrawing their Cauca-
sian and tranS-Don forces by way
of the Kerch Peninsula or perhaps
holding a small part of the west
ern section Of the North Caucasian
area and supplying their troops
there via Kerch and through the
ports Of the Sea of Azov. This
would represent German attempt
to hang on to the Maikop oil fields.
Grand we should count on this
still less-the morale of the Ger
man troops may be giving way under
the multiple strains to which they
are being subjected-the loss OF the
Stalingrad army, the constant Rus
sian gains, the loss of confidence
in their own high command. the
onset Of second terrible Russian
winter and the knowledge that
they are on the defensive with all
their high hopes of victory at an
end.
l would not mention such a pos
sibility even now were 1t not for
the fact that Rossosh, Millerovo
and the Kamensk railway station
fell on three successive days, which
at least suggests either a planned
withdrawal or a sudden sag in fight
ing quality. Probably the test both
of German intentions and of Ger
man fighting power will come when
we see with what determination
and success the line of the Donetz
is defended against the coming Rus
sian blows.
Copyright, 1943. New York Tribune inc
Evening star., 1943-01-20
Inside Story of Gen. CIork's
African Rendezvous Is Told
Jacques Lemoigre- DebreuiI Revealed as
Chief Pre-Invosion Conspirotor Among French

ing rifles, they took up their posts.
At signal from M. Lemaigre- -Du-
breuil they seized the Algiers tele-
graph and telephone exchange and
the radio station. In these spots
they found employees wearing arm
bands, too. Every man with an
armband was friend.
With the cooperation of Gen.
Mast they took recalcitrant officers
of the garrison under arrest.
Admiral Darlan was staying at
the Governors summer palace. At
2 o'clock in the morning Mr.. Muir
ply hurried to tell him the Amer
leans were landing and to ask his
support. Mr.. Murphy went to the
admiral's bedroom. He was there
when M Lemaigre-Dub Grew"
arrived to arrest the Vichy leader.
M. Lemaigre-Dubreuil had kept Mr..
Murphy and the whole American
angle out of the picture with his
crew." and they also arrested Mr..
Murphy.
Mr.. Murphy was under arrest, as
a matter of fact, when 1t. Gen.
Dwight D. Else wer's troops
started to land, and until word could
reach M. Lemaigre- -Dubreuil of this
confusion. When Admiral Darlan
was released with Mr.. Murphy, he
offered his services to Gen. Eisen-
hover.
Generals at Rabat.
While this was going on, Gen.
Mast's closest collaboration, Gen.
Emile Bethouart, was at Rabat with
a group of M. Lemaigre- -Dubreuils S
crew" This seaport is between
Casablanca and the Strait of Gibral-
tar. Gen. Auguste Nogues, Gov
ernor General of Morocco, was there.
Gen. Bethouart told him the Amer
leans were landing at Algiers and
Casablanca, and called on him to
surrender at once.
Gen. Nogues telephoned the COM
mandant at Casablanca to confirm
the presence of the American expe-
dition. This was 3 o'clock in the
morning.
AS our landing had been delayed.
no ships or men were visible.
There is no landing operation
here" the commandant told the
Governor General, you are being
duped."
Gen. Nogues pormptly arrested
Gen. Bethouart as he stood in his
office and confined him in the Rabat
garrison prison, charging him with
treason. Then he rounded up as
many OF M. Lemaigre- -Dubreuil's
crew" as he could find in Rabat.
On assuming authority, Admiral
Darlan directed the release of Gen.
Bethouart. NJ Lemaigre- -DubreuiI
disbanded his Grew"
Energetic and valiant M. Le-
maigre-Dubreuil is now chief civilian
adviser on the staff of Gen. Giraud,
Evening star., 1943-01-20
Beet Farmers Threat
Poses SUGAR Problem
By the Associated Press.

Bs the Associated Press.
Government food authorities to-
day faced the threat of a new short
age of sugar.
Farmers who produce upward of
35 per cent of current domestic
supplies have warned the Agricul-
ture Department that unless the
price OF sugar beets is raised they
will shift to other crops, particularly
potatoes, dry beans and peas and
vegetables. The latter crops are
largely interchangeable with beets.
To encourage greater production,
the department announced Satur-
day that it would pay farmers
special incentive payments on pota-
toes and beans. Supplies of these
foods will have to be increased,
officials said. If rationing is to be
averted.
Sugar beet growers said these in
centive payments made 1t more
profitable to grow potatoes and
beans than the sugar crop. They
asked the department to increase
beet prices or to offer similar in
centives to them.
Sugar beet professors claim they
cannot pay more for beets because
the prices they receive for refined
sugar Is flxed by Government price
ceilings.
Evening star., 1943-01-20
By MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.


The Importance of the Russian
entry into Kamensk lies very large
ly in the influence which this will
have on the German communica-
tions, provided the Russians can
stay there and exploit their ad-
vantage.
Kamensk lies on the Donetz
River just north of the vital rail-
way junction of Likhaya. 1t forms,
so to speak, the shield Of Likhaya
against attack from the north, COM
manding the principal crossing of
the Donetz in this region. Both
Kamensk and Likhaya are on the
main line of the Moscow-Voronezh-
Rostov railway.
Just north of Likhaya Station the
east-west railway to Stalingrad
branches off to the eastward This
line is almost all in Russian hands.
More important, just south of Lik-
haya Station the Moscow-Kharkov-
Donetz Basin line joins the Moscow
Voronezh line, and from that point
south to Rostov the two are COM
bined, forming the main rail artery
entering Rostov from the north.
This railroad, Likhaya- -Rostov. is
by far the most important artery
of German rail communications in
this part of Russia. Over it passes
most of the reinforcements and
supplies for the German troops in
Rostov itself, in the Caucasus and
on the railway southwest of Stain
grad.
Likhaya Station is about Is miles
from Kamensk, and the point
where the two lines join, south of
Likhaya Station, is about 20 miles
from Kamensk. These distances
are now of great Importance, for
the moment when the junction
point south Of Likhaya comes I'M
der effective Russian artillery fire
is a somber moment for the Ger
man armies beyond that point.
Twenty miles is near the upper
limit of range of the heaviest rail-
way guns, but these would hardly
be placed in the extreme front line,
so that the Russians must gain a
few miles in order to begin firing
on the junction even with pieces
of this caliber. But such long
range shelling is not necessarily
highly effective.
The rate of fire is slow, and
neither the Russians nor any other
army has such guns in large num-
bers. The American 8-inch rail-
way gun has an extreme effective
rage of about 1918 miles, and the
Russians have pieces of correspond
ing type. But probably effective
Introduction of the railway juno
ton cannot be brought about until
the Russians have pushed far
enough ahead to bring it under the
fire of the ordinary 6-inch army
artillery G55-mm. high power),
which has an effective range of
1912 miles; this because large num-
bers of guns firing fairly continu-
ously for some time will be needed
to make demolition complete and
to prevent repairs being carried out
to sufficient extent to dam the
flow of traffic through the junction.
Every mile that the Russians can
gain south of Kamensk is therefore
of great strategic value.
The Russian Army has reached
the Donetz on q broad front of
perhaps 30 miles. from Mityakin-
skaya southeastward through Ka-
mensk to Krasno- -Donetzkaya. So
far there are no reports of the
Russians having crossed the river
except at Kamensk itself, but that
they are preparing to do so cannot
be doubted.
The Germans have a terrain ad-
Evening star., 1943-01-20


necessary driving" This includes
driving to and from work and the
places your work takes you-to do es-
sential shopping, attend meetings, re-
ligious services, visit easily accessible
restaurants, and to meet similar trans
portation needs. In short, with emer-
gency-minded motorists, the situation
stands practically as it did before. To
keep your car in condition for essential
driving, drive in regularly at the near
est Call Carl Service Center. A regular
Call Carl inspection and adjustment
will enable you to get full power out of
your gas. Place your car in safe hands
at Brightwood, Northeast, Anacostia,
Downtown or the new Call Carl Mid
town M Street Branch. For 24-hour
road service Call Carl. District PITS,
Washington's Little Detroit