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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-23
battaIaureate
Service Sci
Rev. London to
Preach Sermon

Baccalaureate services for Al
m m bers of Mount Clemens
High schools first mid year
graduation class will be held to-
morrow at 8 p. m. at First Meth
dist church.
Rev. Alfred p. Landon. pastor
of First Methodist, will preach
the sermon. Rev. Joseph l.. Ken
nedy, pastor of First Presbyter-
ian; Rev. G.. A. Merifield, rector
of Grace Episcopal, and Rev.
Harold Hayward, pastor of Gill
bert Memorial Baptist, will par
ticipate in the service.
Appropriate music has been
selected including hymns, organ
music by Lois Harper and the
beautiful THE Lord Bless You
and Keep You" by the A Cap
pella Choir.
Other Commencement activi-
ties will be held in the high
school auditorium. They include
Glass Day on Monday. the Jun
ior-Senior Dance on Wednesday
and graduation itself on Thurs
day.
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JAPs Whitfield DOWN
u. S. Marine Sees End to Resistance on Guadalcanal

Henderson airfield, built by
the Japanese and seized by the
Marines early in the fighting,
has been enlarged so that it can
be used by the heaviest and fast
est bombers, Fuller reported.
Although Fuller said the
Guadalcanal Marines had no
trouble unloading supply ships,
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the
House Naval Affairs Committee
said last night that he intended
to investigate a published report
that the Marines had to unload
their own supplies because a
merchant ship crew refused to
work on Sunday. claiming it
would violate union rules.
SHIP CREW QUIT
The Akron, Ohio. Beacon
Journal in a copyrighted story
said that six veterans of Quad.
alcanal, visiting in Akron, re-
ported the ship crew worked
two hours en- Saturday and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-23
Reds Capture
RaiICenter
Disperse Fresh
Germon Forces

MOSCOW. Jan. % - (P) -
Soviet troops, smashing through
the German defense lines along
the Manych waterway, have cap
tured the railroad center and air
base of Salsk, 100 miles south
east of Rostov, and dispersed
fresh German forces which for
a time threatened to slow the
Russian advance in southwest
ern sectors, dispatches from the
front said today.
The German defenses before
Salsk failed to halt the Red
Army any more than had the
rear guard actions of Axis units
in the Central Caucasus, it was
reported, and the Russian ad-
vance now was said to be pro-
ceeding in both of those major
sectors at a breath-taking pace.
Red Army drives have carried
to within 10 miles of the inn
portant Uk-ainian city of Vor-
oshilovgrad, drives aimed at re-
ducing its worth as q transporta-
ton center and also at thanking
Kharkov 20 the north.
The Red Army also reported
that it took Konstantinovskaya,
on the north bank Of the Don
river rs miles northeast of Ros-
TOW and only a short distance
east of where the Donets river
flows into he Don.
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1900 men in land fighting
since the battle of the Solomons
began six months ago. And of
the remaining force, he said,
probably 1000 10 1000 are
stragglers.
Before Fuller gave his &C.
count, the Navy reported that
American troops were advanc-
ing against japanese positions
in some sectors and units of the
enemy forces were being elimi-
mated.
Fuller, q soft-voiced Virginian
who commanded a Guadalcanal
battalion before the Army NOV
ed in to relieve the Marines, es.
timated the original Jap forces,
plus reinforcements. totaled 49,
900. Before he left the island
Jan. 1, he said, 1000 were killed
and 5000 others died of wounds.
Since then, he noted, the Navy
had reported an additional I ,032
killed, leaving fewer than 1000
there now.
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Fuel Coupon 4
Good Feb. !
OPA Advances
Effective Date

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-(R
Fuel oil consumers in 80 east
ern and midwestern states,
where the oil Is rationed, can
start using their No. 4 coupons q
week earlier than originally
scheduled.
The Office of Price Admins
tration last night advanced the
effective date to aid household
ers whose supplies are running
short and assist the oil industry
with delivery problems.
The coupons will. be valid r'eb.
2 in Zone A, the northern states
(including Michigan); January
81 in Zone B, the next tier: Jan.
q in Zone c, embracing Mary
land, Virginia and the District
of Columbia; and Jan. 80 in Zone
D, comprising southern states
where rationing is IL effect.
AS an additional aid to oil
consumers in Michigan and all
or part of IL other Middle West
ern states hit by abnormally
cold weather. the OPA announc-
ed that coupons will continue to
be worth IL gallons each on the
household coupons and ITO gall
Ions on the commercial or insti-
tutional card.
When rationing started these
coupons were worth, in the mid
west area, 10 and 100 gallons,
but their value was increased
effective with period 3.
A return to the 10 and 100
gallon values in Kentucky and
the southern counties of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and
Kansas was announced last night
by OPA. In these areas. OPA
said. "the winter has been mild
er than normal.
No announcement was made
of the value of No. 4 coupons in
the II Eastern states and the dis
trict of Columbia where coupons
now are worth 8 gallons to
households and 80 gallons to
commercial and institutional es-
adjustments.
Announcing continuation Of
the increased ration in Michigan
and IL other states, OPA said,
There has been a bitter winter,
See FUEL OIL-Page :
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then quit until Monday.
Fuller reported that all ships,
even those manned by Merchant
seaman, were unloaded by the
soldiers, sailors or Marines, "as
a matter of routine"
Vinson said he intended 10
discuss the Akron report with
Navy officials, have them ascer-
tain who gave it to the newspa-
per and possibly have the six
brought to Washington to appear
before an investigating commit
tee.
Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich) like
wise referred to the Akron re-
port IN announcing he would in
troduce resolution Monday de-
claring it the wish of Congress
that the commander-in-chief,
Army, Navy and Department of
Justice take "all necessary steps
to end interference with the pro-
duction. fabrication and trans
portation Of all things needed by
Tire armed forces"
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WASHINGTON, Jan. % -(R)
"A veteran Marine officers re-
port that Japanese troops on
Guadalcanal have been whitfield
down from $4,000 to fewer than
1000 and the Nays announce
ment that American troops are
"mopping up" pockets of enemy
resistance emphasized today the
possibility that the campaign
there may soon be VIGOROUSLY
concluded.
Lieut.. Col. Lewis B. Fuller,
wounded seven times last Nov.
8 during an assault that drove
the foe from the eastern end of
the strategic island, believes the
Nipponese could be wiped out in
10 days with q full-scale often
sive.
He expressed that opinion at a
press conference yesterday but
explained that he didn't know
what were the plans Of the COM
handing general there. He esti-
mated the japanese have lost
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-23
Berlin Admits
Of Vital
African City
churehilI's Pledge
Of 1910 All
But Complete
BY ALFRED E. WALL

IL hAE NEIL Es w ALL
LONDON, Jan. 23-(R-The
conquering British Eighth Army
wrested Tripoli from the Axis
today and the conquest Of Prem
Ter Mussolini's African empire,
which Prime Minister Churchill
pledged in 1910 would be torn
to shreds and tatters". was all
but complete.
Rear guards left behind by
Marshal Erwin Rommel to slew
the pursuit of his main forces
into Tunisia were overwhelmed
and the British took possession
of the burning city at 5 .. m, Of
ficials announced in Cairo.
The Italian High command
communique broadcast later by
the Rome radio said Axis troops
evacuated the city and moved
westward last night after fierce
fighting. 1t said motorized ele-
ments battled yesterday South
of the city, around which .
wing Of the Eighth Army was
swung to speed the chase.
ADMIT LOSS
Berlin likewise officially &C.
knoWledged the loss Of Tripoli.
British War SECRETARY Sir
James Grigg, skipping the end
ing mop-up Of the Western
reaches of Libya, said that the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-23
Nazi Raiders
Ma(|line-Gun
British VILLAGE
Raj Concentrates
on industrial
Ruhr VoIIey

LONDON, Jan. z3-(P-For
the second successive night Bril-
fish bombers were reported to-
day to have stabbed during the
night at western Germany,
which embraces the great indus
trial Ruhr valley and such inn
portant centers as Dusseldorf,
Essen, Duisburg, Cologne and
Frankfurt.
First news of the raid came
from the Berlin radio, which said
scattered bombings had caused
civilian casualties and some
property damage.
The Raj had been ove- Ger
many on IL previous nights this
month, including the heavy at
tacks on Berlin last Saturday
and Sunday.
German planes struck back
by bombing several places in
northeastern and southern Eng
land last night, but the raids
were not on a heavy scale and
while damage was done casual
ties were reported light.
A number of German raiders,
gliding in above the clouds,
bombed and machine gunned q
village in south ENGLAND this
morning, causing considerable
damage. There were casualties,
including some killed, it was re-
ported.
Yesterday swarms of British,
American and Allied planes
made extensive sweeps over
northern France and Belgium,
ranging from Client to the Cher
bourg peninsula. Seven German
fighters were reported destroy
ed while four Allied bombers
and six fighters were listed as
missing.
Targets included oil installa-
tons at Terneuzen near Client,
and German airfields in the vi
cinity of Maupertus, Abbeville,
st. Omer and Cherbourg.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-23
Bond Sales
Top 100000
WorpIons Drive
Moves Forward

A total of 100000 in n e
bonds-for-warplane campaign is
announced today by Harry NAL
bin, chairman of the Board of
Commerce sponsored drive.
Reports from every issuing
agency and from all cooperating
clubs and organizations in the
city indicate that the drive is
going forward with a splendid
patriotic spirit.
Mount Clemens must raise
S238,000 in bond sales by next
Saturday night, in order to sat-
isfy a January bond quota of
S163,000, and to pure h e
enough more, $4,000, to pay for
a fighter plane to be named
"City of Mount Clemens.
The schools are doing a splen-
did business in the sale of
stamps, in an effort to get stamp
books completed and converted
into bonds to aid in the drive,
Malbin said.
The steering committee of the
drive held a meeting with rep
resentatives of more than 20 or
CARNATIONS in the city, in the
Board of Commerce office yes
terday afternoon. Malbin presid-
ed, and Mrs. Paul S. Hirt and
Ralph Clark, who are respect
lively in charge of women's and
mems clubs participation in the
drive, addressed the gathering.
A direct outgrowth of tn e
meeting occurred last evening,
when st. Peters National Coun-
Gil of Catholic Women held a
committee meeting to set up
plans for raising their individual
contribution of $4,000 for the
drive. Further details appear
elsewhere in this issue.
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Rickenbacker Depicts
Hell Hole 0fPdcifc'
No Absences There,
He Tells War Workers

He told in detail the story Of
his Pacific mission last October
climaxed by crash in mid =.
ocean and his rescue along with
a group of others after being
adrift for 81 days in a life raft.
1T is imagination, individual
ity, self reliance and initiative
that are going to win this war
for America. not only on the
field of battle but on the home
'front.'" he said.
HITS RECOMMENDATION
Bear in mind that when this
war is over, there will be more
rugged indivIdualists come back
to America from the four cor
ners of the world than we ever
had at any one time in our his
SEE RICKENBACHER-Page 2
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Fred IhieIk Funeral
Will be Held Monday

Funeral services wi be held
at 2 p. m. Monday at the Hub
bard Chapel for Fred A. Thielk,
rs, who dropped dead yesterday
morning while shoveling snow
at his home at 1853 Croker bou-
levard. Death was caused by a
heart attack induced by over
exertion, according to Coroner
Howard V. Groesbeck, Jr.
The Rev. Alfred Landoy of the
First Methodist Church will Of
ficiate at the rites. Pallbarers
will be Harrison township Off
Gals. Mr.. Thick was a member
of the Harrison township Board
of Review. Interment will be in
Clinton Grove cemetery.
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Transport Plane
Missing With
10 on Board

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. %
R-Search was made by sea
and air today for sign of naval
transport plane with 10 persons
aboard which vanished in fog
and storm near San Francisco
on a flight from Pearl Harbor.
Identity of the men on the
plane has not been disclosed.
The Navy said merely that the
:our-engined seaplane. operating
for the Naval Transport service,
carried q crew Of nine and ten
naval officer passengers.
The plane already was more
than "a hours overdue when the
Navy announced yesterday that
it was missing.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-23
BY DAVID ]. WILKIE

DETROIT, Jan. % - (A') "A
picture of American soldiers
fighting in the hell holes of the
Pacific" in dug-outs filled with
mud and water, men working in
jumpers without shoes or socks"
and subsisting at times for many
days on iron ratons, was left
with Detroit area war workers
today by Captain Eddie Ricken-
hacker.
The hero of two World Wars,
pleading for a greater effort on
the production front. addressed
a meeting Of the Detroit section
of the Society of Automotive
Engineers and said bluntly that
the soldiers in the field were not
absenting themselves from their
tasks when the spirit moved
them.
His address was broadcast to
Michigan's war production belt
by six Detroit radio stations.
Thanking Rickenbacker at the
speakers table were a score or
more of Detroit's leading in
dustrialists, including Henry
and Edsel Ford, Charles E. Will
son, president of General Motors
Corporation, K. T. Keller, head
of the Chrysler Corporation;
Charles E. kettering Of General
Motors, and others.
IF you could only understand
what our boys are doing in these
hell-holes throughout the Pacific
and the burning sands of Africa,
that your way of life may be
preserved" Rickenbacker said,
You would not worry about
eight hours & day, overtime or
double time for Saturdays and
holidays"
MUST DO MORE
None Of U.s." he said, "is do
ing so much that we cannot do
MORE"
The prepared address ended a
day in which the famed Ameri-
can flier visited number of
armament factories in the De-
troit area, spoke to workers in
each plant and christened the
latest giant four-engined bomber
to come off the crowded produc-
ton lines at the Ford Willow
Run factory.
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Snow. Colder Likely Tonight

Additional snow was promised
for tonight by the weatherman
who said thermometers would
tumble at the same time.
Snow bound rural residents
can take some solace, however,
from the fact the temperature
was six below in 1890.
Roseville police t o d a y held
weather conditions responsible
for injuries sustained at 2:45 a.
m. by Genevieve Meyer, 20. 1904
Oak Park, and William Gray, II,
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Fraser Plans
Honor Roll
Village to Honor
Men in Service

FRASER - An honor ron
board for servicement Of this
community will be erected tn the
near future by the Faithful
Workers Circle Of Kings Daush-
tiers, il was announced today By
Mrs. John Graham.
The sign will be erected near
the State Bank Of Fraser =
soon rs the names Of Ill Fraser
servicemen are obtained.
Mrs. Graham asks the coop
Grafton of parents, relatives 81
friends of servicemen. They aro
urged to turn in names TO hoe
at her home at 33260 Klein eve.
nue., Fraser.
The sign has been completed
except for printing Of the namaA
which will be done BY Carl
Roberts. II was constructed ~
Leonard Meisel with lumboe
furnished by the StephooD
Lumber company.
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25835 Hoffmeyer, both Rose
Vile.
The young people were struck
from behind as they walked
north on Gratiot avenue near the
airport by a car driven by Ralph
Miller. AS, of 9345 Bessmore,
Detroit. He told police heavy
snow forced him into the CEN
ter of the highway where, po-
lice said, the boy and girl were
walking. They are in Saratoga
hospital w here Gray suffers
from a broken arm and leg.
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ReVisiOnS Likely

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-(P)
Additional revisions in the es-
tablished methods of marketing
ana distributing food appeared
imminent today as the govern
ment pressed q search for new
economies In converting farm
raw materials into products for
the consumer.
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fall of Tripoli completes the
destruction Of the Italian empire
in Africa"
Both the Russian and Brit
ish armies have had their dark
days of retreats" he said. For
both we believe the tide IL now
firmly turned"
In the destruction Of the 1tal-
ian empire the British have
had the ungrudging help from
American supplies and Ameri.
can air forces in the latest stage,
but nevertheless 1t has been
See TRIPOLI-Page 3
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British Bombers Stab Again at Western Germany
Idfek X X
bulletins


LONDON, Jan. 20 - (R) -
Mourning the loss of Tripoli, the
Rome Radio said today that
1.-The great struggle which Italy
has been waging for % months
In North Africa Is coming to an
end" In a broadcast recorded
by the Associated Press the Fas-
cist announcer admitted tn e
Italians had suffered enormous
losses In the desert campaign
and attributed the Axis retreat
to the British Eighth Army's SUI.
peri0rity In men and equipment.
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Probe Report

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 Up
- Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) of
the House Naval Committee said
today he would appoint a spec
ial subcommittee Tuesday to in
vestigate q published report that
union merchant seamen refused
to unload q ship at Guadalcanal
because II was Sunday.
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WASHINGTON. Ian. n /.

WASHINGTON, Jan. - -
R- Secretary Of State Hall
said today that the fall Of
Tripoli to the British consti.
tuted one Of the most over.
whelming, outstanding and
important victories Of the war.
This government and the peo-
pie of the United States Re-
joice In the achievements Ct
the British Eighth Army In
capturing the North African
city from the Axis forces,
Hull asserted.
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OTTAWA, Jan. 23-(R-The
strike which has halted prOduc-
ton In three Canadian Steel GEN.
tiers for more than a week ap-
parently was ended today after
further conferences between the
government and union officials.
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Trial Ends in AequihaI

MT. PLEASANT. Mich, Jan.
23-(R- Isabella County's first
murder trial in 35 years ended
in acquittal of the defendant
yesterday.
An all-male jury. celebrating
three hours, found w. +. Liv-
ingstone, SO, innoce of .
charge of murder in the fatal
stabbing of Cletus Host in .
street fight last October.
Livingstone testified that he
acted in self-defense.
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LIMA. Jan. % -(R- Res
cue parties plunged into the rug
ged mountains Of southern Peru
today In search Of . Pan-Amer-
lean Grace Always transport
missing en- route from santiago
70 Lima with Is persons aboard.
Including two British diplomats,
two yeomen Of the United States
Navy, An American civilian and
three American esswmsn.
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MIAMI, Fla, Jan. p ~
Pvt. Michael Nicely Bryan,
charged with escaping from q
Miami Beach Army stockade
concealed In . car driven by
novelist Ursula Parrot, was sem
fenced to one years imprison-
ment, Major J. w. McRoberts,
Judge Advocate Of the Miami
Beach Air Forces Technical
Training Command announced
today.
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ALLIE d HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 23-(R)-
Allied troops have smashed the
last organized japanese resist
ance 1t Sanananda Point after
wiping out more than 725 of the
enemy, thus virtually ending the
Papuan campaign which began
six months ago when the Japan
ese landed at Coma, General
MacArthur's headquarters an
nounced today.
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TeSt.VOte Near

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-P)
"A Senatorial controversy over
the qualifications of Edward j.
Flynn, minister-designate to
Australia, appeared today to be
nearing 4 test-vote as the for
eign relations committee sought
to wind up public hearings with
testimony from Mayor F. H. La
Guardia Of New York City.
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Cutter Lost

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 Up
- The presumed loss Of the
Coast Guard cutter Natsek
which has been overdue in the
North Atlantic for several weeks
with an estimated crew of 80
aboard was announced today by
the Navy.
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CLEVELAND, Jan. 23-R-
Regional OPA Administrator
Birkett M. Williams told a con-
ference of district managers here
yesterday that the OPA Is con.
templating . decentralization
plan for Michigan.
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Score Hui h (Issh
d Detroit Street. Ca15

DETROIT. Jan. 1o(n
score Of persons SUFFERED r.
injuries WHEN two Uo~
street cars came toos1hog 1
rear-end collision . : :. -
day.. NJ
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lmpertiel covsress
OF All loeel News
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breath, it would be termed,
misnomer and there would be no
penalty. In this case, however,
East realized tina. he had made
a mistake and then corrected it
by bidding three hearts.
This under the old laws auto
matically bars his partner for
one round of bidding. Naturally
the opponents would rot be kind
enough to reopen the auction,
and the final contract would be
three hearts.
Under the new laws, East will
be protected even against him
self. In other words, if the OPP
ponents treat it as misnomer,
the the bid will stand at three
hearts with no penalty. II they
treat it as an insufficient bid,
both the two-heart and three
heart bids are void and East
can now bid anything he wish
eS.
If he bids three hearts, he will
bar his partner for one round.
Any other bid will bar his part
ner from further participation in
the auction. The natural thing
for East to do would be to jump
the bid to four hearts, which can
easily be made.