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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-12
Joins RCAF

JOINS NSAf
JAMES GROVE, former pho
tographer for the Monitor Lead
er. has entered the Royal Cana
dian Air Force as an aviation
cadet, and is taking basic train
ing for the flight crew, near
Toronto.
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TWO Mt CLEMENS
MEN in service who receive the
Monitor-Leader daily are Jess
Robinson, stationed at Camp
Claiborne, La. and Earl Robin
son, at Great Lakes Naval Train
ing school, Ill. They are sons Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Robinson Of
McKishire avenue.
Promoted
SECONT LIEUT.. William H.
Nunneley has been promoted 10
the rank of first lieutenant, at
Sedalia Air Base, Mo, according
TO word received here by his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Bert V.
Nunneley.
Entertain Nephew
MIR. AND MRS. HENRY La
CROIX, Croker boulevard, are
entertaining their nephew Dale
-LaForest, Seamans mate, third
class, who has completed his bas-
ic training at Great Lakes Naval
Training station and has a nine
day furlough. He will visit his
parents MIR. and Mrs. Albert La
Forest in Boyne City before re-
turning TO Great Lakes.
Here Visiting
TECH. SERGT. and Mrs. Carl
Mumaugh, Jr, (Mae Charben-
eau of Randolph Field, Tex. are
spending 10 days with the lat
ter's parents, MIR. and Mrs. Ell
mer Charbeneau, 1872 North
Walnut avenue. They were hon
or guests Wednesday evening,
when Mr.. and Mrs. John Son.
nenburg, IL Grand avenue, en-
tertained group of friends.
Sergt. Mumaugh leaves today TO
return to his post, while Mrs.
Mumaugh will remain for a few
weeks visit here.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-12

WALTER KANDT of 394 Cass
avenue, who celebrated his
birthday anniversary Thursday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-12
OMEashioued Rouauet
X Mkh the Goors X

EDITORS NOTE: For reasons Of Sc
curity and because OF lack Of space, full
addresses of those in the arm.d forces
cannot be printed In this column.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
FAT SAivAGE--AGAIN

The least successful of all salvage
campaigns has been that for waste fat
from households. At present we are rum
ming some 100000 pounds month be-
hind schedule.
This fat is needed to make explosives.
One pound of bacon and chicken drip
pings will make a pound and a half of
gunpowder to fill shells used by Flying
Fortress gunners to repel German and
japanese attack planes. One pound of
drippings from pork roast or the suet
from beef will provide explosive to fire
four 37-mm anti-aircraft shells.
We could mention other uses for ex-
plosives in war. But why should we?
Everybody knows how war depends upon
explosives. 1t isn't ignorance that makes
waste fat salvage failure It isn't lack
OF patriotism. What is it? Lethargy?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
Moscow Meeting
TO Shorten War

at Moscow, as soon as the docu
mentS are signed.
His statement was hailed by those
following the conference as prob
ably signalling agreements to pro-
vide.
/. Coordination of Anglo o-Ameci-
can military strategy with that OF
the Soviet Union.
2. The terms and conditions to be
given Germany and its satellites
when faced with the inevitable sur
render of the enemy.
3. A joint policy to be pursued in
Poland. Jugoslavia and other liber-
ated nations
Military experts who favor closer
coordination among the three pow
ers to time all operations SO as to
strike the great blow at the right
moment concede that the Russians,
now holding the initiative against
Germany in the east, are almost
compelled to set any time table for
Joint operations.
u. S. Secretary of State Cordcll
Hull and British Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden presumably gave So
Wet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo-
tov complete details on second front
decisions reached at the Quebec
conference between Mr. Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Winston Chur-
chill.
The information doubtless would
serve the Russians in timing their
moves against Germany Conversely,
anything Molotov told Hull and
Eden about Soviet plans would help
the western powers time their oper-
ations.
The president hailed the confer
ence as tremendous success and
said it .refuteS the predictions of
cynicS who thought the talks would
be clouded by suspicion and accom-
plish little. The conferees, he said.
had one objective-the elimination
OF war-and talked things out quiet
t. and in 100. per cent individual
relationships.
Asked if it brought nearer a
meeting between Stain, Churchill
and himself, he said he did not
know any more than he did two
weeks ago. The president and Chur-
chill are most anxious to meet with
Stain and the current meetings
generally are understood to be an
effort to clear the way for big
three" conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
DANGERS OF ALLIANCE
IL. A. Tines

IL. A. 111neS)
In his address again urging transl-
ton period after the end of fighting be-
fore any attempt is made to draw up a
definite peace treaty or establish perma-
nent institutions for outlawing war, for
mer President Herbert Hoover at Kan
sas City last night made several strong
points, particularly when he warned
against too much reliance on treaties of
alliance.
Such treaties, he well points out last
no longer than the ties of common inter
est which produce them in the first place
and are, in fact, no stronger. We are ac-
tually waging war today in as close asso-
citation with the other United Nations as
if we were bound by formal treaty to do
so. Certainly formal treaty with Great
Britain would give neither nation a more
complete identity of purpose than now
exists To all intents and purposes, the
resources of the two nations have been
put into common pool from which either
draws at need.
There is force also in his argument that
alliances tend to generate fear IN the eX-
cluded nations. If the United States and
Britain, for example, entered into COM
mon citizenship arrangement, Mr.. Hoover
believes the nations speaking other lam
SudSSS NCulu Iedh llilo llC u ldhSCiilCiiI
an intention of the English-speaking to
dominate the world by force, and would
tend to form counteralliance leading to
another war Here, perhaps, Mr.. Hoover
argues somewhat against himself since if
his argument that alliances are not bind
ing holds good, how can they generate
fear? If the present verbal agreements
with Great Britain do not generate fear,
why should formal statement of them
do so?
However, the conflict is not complete;
some people may be affected by one as
pect, some by another.
Mr. Hoover's main argument, that we
must not be in too much of a hurry in
an effort to set up permanent peace ma
chinery, is, however, worth pondering.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
Mencken Rises to
Defend LANGUAGE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 CUP)-
Fl. L. Mencken, noted American
author, has risen up in his wrath
TO defend language used by Chaucer,
Shakespeare, and the great writer's
Of this country - including II. l..
Mencken.
Testifying at a post office de-
partment hearing on whether ES-
quire magazine should lose its Sec
ond class mailing privilege because
of "obscenity," Mcncken said he
saw nothing indecent in the maya
zines use Of words like sporting
house" and "bawdy house
IF you assume that such an
establishment exists, it has to
have some kind of a name, and
that name is 'bawdy house." he
declared.
The author of THE American
Language also objected vehement
~ when postoffice counsel Calvin
Hassell pointed an accusing finger
at Fanny" "Backside" and Be
hind"
Behind was taught to me as
boy i'm the nursery" he said. Fan
NY is euphemism used by school
children. It is very old in English
and probably was named after some
woman.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
ALL IN THE VIEWPOINT

The Allies have been handicapped
from the beginning and still are by the
fact that they approach war with certain
humanitarian reservations They decline
to be the first to act like savages They
refuse, often, even to prepare to repay
savagery with savagery when, in the long
run, such tactics would make for earlier
peace.
Thus the British declined a rocket
glider bomb in 1888, year before the
invasion of Poland, because its use would
have involved indiscriminate destruction
The Germans had no such compunctions.
They are using such weapon, But we
do not even have it ready now.
If we lost the war, we might wonder
whether such decency was worth while
Winning it, we can be proud of our hu-
manenesS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
CURE FOR CCMPLACENCY
WatSonville RegiSter-Pa Paiaronian)

Jacksonville Register-Pai iaromam
Gen. George Marshall, L. S. army chief
of staff, and Secretary of War Henry
Stimson recently appeared before mem
bers of congress behind closed doors and
gave them ''straight-from-the-Shoul-
der account Of the progress of the war
thus far and of what lies ahead.
As a result of this meeting, congress
men obtained realistic view of the pres
ent global struggle and are demanding
that more information be released to the
public to offset the over-optimistic attl-
tude of most Americans.
What the general and the secretary OF
war told the lawmakers brought home,
the realization that the public has been
consistently fed good news and that little
attempt has been made to give out facts
that would convince Mr.. and Mrs. Amerl-
ca that a tremendous struggle lies yet
ahead.
Not long ago Elmer Davis, head of
owl, took his case directly to the presi-
dent demanding that his organization be
allowed to give out pictures showing war
at its worst to disseminate newS-bad as
well as good-at the earliest moment
consistent with military necessity.
As a result few pictures of American
dead have been published, and there has
been some speeding up of reports of bat
ties But in the main, little or nothing
has been done by military officials to
remove the rose-colored glasses from
the public eye in regard to war news
The American people are capable of
rising to great heights in defense of their
country just as much as are the British
and the Russians and the Chinese. But
it is most unfair to the people to show
them little but the bright side of the stu
alton and then expect them to maintain
a whitehead tempo in the war effort.
After all, the people have a real interest
in this war. Let them have the truth.
They can take it!
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
S64-QUESHON AGAIN

The S64 question is back to Mr.. Roose-
welt again for the fourth time-"What
to do with the coal strikers?"
The War Labor Board, which for sever
al months has attempted to work out
wage settlement amicable to the miners
and coal companies and yet cut to mini
mum any inflationary trend, has sent
the whole mix-up to the White House
once again.
John L. Lewis, bushy-haired Moses of
the United Mine Workers, has indicated
that the WLB proposal of a 32-cent-a
day pay increase would not be considered
adequate.
At the time of this writing only about
10000 men are absent from the coal pits
in wildcat" strikes but there is every
indication that a general strike of half
a million or so soft coal miners and sew
eral thousands of hard coal diggers is
imminent.
Three times before the President has
had the ball. But it was only Mr. Lewis
influence that brought the miners back
to their jobs.
Appeals to patriotism. caiolng, threat
ening and other methods adopted by the
president got exactly nowhere. An anti
strike law was passed but the lack of
teeth" in the measure made it ineffec-
tive.
In all probability the government will
again take over the mines. The miners
will work then, and at pay loss. But
they will not work for the private owners
unless a contract with large wage in
crease is granted has been signed. The
presidents own anti-inflation decree pre-
vents any such contract.
Here are possible solutions: O
Retain federal management of the mines.
.t,,,Ar OF tl-n
law which will effectively put halt to
work stoppages in all war production.
(3) Grant the desired pay increases and
allow private owners to again take over
the mines
Whatever is done should be done with
the miners case should be done decisivels.
Action should be taken which will settle
the issue once and for all. The constant
striking and returning to work is not only
harmful to war production but also to
morale of servicemen and civilians.
It's up to you Mr. President
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31

ton of the war and postwar prob
lems-already have been reached
but are not yet ready for signature.
They will be made public, probably
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
Ex-MiIkman Hero
Of Tank Battle
On Italian Front
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

WITH AMERICAN TANK FORC-
ES ON THE FIFTH ARMY FRONT,
Oct. %. CUP)-An ex-milkman who
popped in and out of his tlirret
like a -in-the-box to direct
his tanks guns under steady
stream of enemy fire was the hero
of a tank battle today in which Ia
German Mark " tanks were routed
and an Allied infantry unit saved
from almost certain destruction.
The one-time milkman, Pvt.
Thomas J. Spruill, Battle Greek,
Mich, took over the double job of
gunner and observer when the enc
my tanks suddenly appeared on
the battlefield while the sergeant
commander of his General Shet-
man tank, the "Old Bloodhound -
was busy reporting to nearby
command post.
WATCHED BATTLE
/ watched the battle from tank
position in the front lines. A driv-
ing rain had cut down visibility to
a minimum and the enemy armor
attempted to sneak through to cut
down advanced Allied infantrymen
who were trJing to clear out a
machine gun nest just ahead.
Spruill and the other three men,
bers of his short-handed tank crew
jumped into the "Old Bloodhound
and went into action with the rest
of their unit, without waiting for
the sergeant.
When the battle ended a few min
uteS later, five of the enemy tanks
had been knocked out, one by "old
Bloodhound" and the rest we're
fleeing back to their lines.
Spruill emerged sweating and
putting from his turret and report
ed that he had spent most of the
time popping up to spot the enemy
tanks and then dropping back into
the tank TO fire his guns.
Another Sherman tank, The
Bouncer", went into action with its
full five-man complement and
knocked out two Mark Tvs. "The
Bouncer" was just about to get its
third enemy tank when a German
shell hit the tractor tread and blew
up the tank, without injuring any
of the crew.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
Editorials and Comment

Whatever it is, how about getting that
fat to the butcher?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
1000 Frenchmen
Are Under Arrest

LISBON, Oct. 30 (UP)-Reports
from France said today that more
than 1000 Frenchmen had been ar
rested in the past 10 days in efforts
to curb sabotage and Terrorism.
Fierre Layals police and German
military guards were reported
struggling TO crush uprisings in
such widely separated cities as Tou-
louise. Bordeaux, Dijon, Rennes,
Poitiers, Lille, Grenoble, and Lyon.
one Of the fayorite maneuvers of
the Saboteurs, the reports said, was
the disruption of food distribution
by raids on ration offices. Coupons
taken in such raids repeatedly were
used TO feed members OF the
French underground.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31

LONDON, Oct, 80 up Dutch
authorities today made public 4
letter smuggled out of Germany
which purported to show that Ger
man military leaders were planning
to Dust Hitler and start peace nego-
tiations with the Allies.
The letter, which Dutch spokes-
men said was believed to be au-
thentic. indicated that Field Mar
shal Wilhelm Keitel, commander
in-chief of all German armed
forces, was heading the conspiracy
which intends to set up a military
dictatorship and take Germany out
Of the war Immediately.
The Dutch spokesman turned
over to the press copies of letter
supposed to have been written by
Eric Koch, Gauleiter and oberpresi-
dent of KoenigSberg, Prussia, in
which The army men were accused
of conspiring against Hitler and
the Nazi regime.
The letter began with the words
the Fuehrer is in danger and
went on to say that reaction wants
to eliminate the Fuehrer and sub
ject the reich to a military dicta-
torship which. against the nations
will would Immediately start peace
negotiations.
REFUSES TO ACT
The Fuehrer in his magnanimity
has refused to start to take drastic
steps against the traitors in order
not to rob the orny of its leader
in these critical foUrs,' the letter
added, in an apparent reference
to Keitel as the instigator of the
conspiracy.
Report Immediately to the near
est party office, police or SIS ELITE
Guards every suspicious occur
renee, every runor, every clored
slanderous statement about tho
Fuehrer," Koch advised the un-
identified recipient of the letter.
The letter accused "Prussian'
groups of spreading rumors that
Hitlers health was failing and that
he no longer was able to carry on
He who wants to rob us of oui
Fuehrer plunges us into civil war,
it said in tacit warning that the
Nazi party will fight any attempted
military coup.
I'VE stand by our Fuehrer, ito
whom we have sworn loyalty"
The letter asserted that Hitler
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31

WASHINGTON. Oct. 80. (UP)-
Observers confidently predicted to-
day that the tri-patite conference
Of foreign ministers at Moscow will
result i'll far-reaching agreements
on policy likely to shorten the war
in Europe and save thousands Of
Allied lives.
President Roosevelt disclosed yes
terday that certain agreements-he
indicated the cover both prosecu-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
Citizenship Class
To Reuin Tuesday

The usual citizenship class Tor
foreign born residents who wish to-
become naturalized citizens of the
United States will begin at night
school in Ell Centro next Tuesday
night.
Glasses vii. he held from p M.
to 9 p. m. every Tuesday ana IhcTS-
day night in room No. ii III the hlgh
school auditorium.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
CONSULTATION MACHINERY
RESULT OF CONFERENCE?

LONDON, Oct. 80. up
London newspapers spcculated
today that one Of the main de-
cisions reached at the tri-power
conference of foreign ministers
at Moscow was to establish ma
chinery for permanent consulta-
ton among the United States,
Britain and Russia.
a permanent organization for
such consultation may be set
up in London, several news
paperS said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
ANTI-RAT WAR

LONDON, Oct. 30.-(UP)-The
First National antirat campaign
ever opened in Britain will begin
soon in London-where the menace
is alarming-and extend through
out the country, with women lead
ing the battle.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
CON PR ACy?

cannot be broken and that the
German people "Want victory at
whatever cost"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-05

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-R-The
Administration. seeking crush
ing defeat for the Wheeler bill to
stop drafting pre-war fathers, pic
tured expanding Navy needs to-
day as meaning that next year
these men may be called on
heavily for service.
Senator Hill of Alabama, the
Democratic whip, opening the for
NAL Senate attack on a Dill oy
Senator Wheeler D-Mont) TO post
pone father inductions until 'anu-
ary l, told auestioners: 49,.
II don't think there IS a rea-
sonable hope that the navy $
needs can be met without tas e:s
additional fathers during the lfs'
six months of 1914.
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FOE TAKES AREA
ON COO ISLAND
erm ans Wrest Strong
points From British In
Dodecanese War

LONDON. Oct. 4. -(P)- Striking
in strength by sea and air, Ger
man forces have Wrested several
strongpoints from the British on
the island of Coo in the Italian
Dodecanese, the Allies acknowledge
ed today, but in Yugoslavia deter
mined pair. armies heavily en-
gagged the Nazis on a long, irreg-
ular front.
The counters sault upon Coo, %
miles long and the second largest
island of the Dodecanese lying
near Turkey, was a minor but
measurable setback in the Allied
campaign in the Aegean, and the
Middle East command announc-
ed that 1.-The fighting continues. y
A strong air armada punished
German invasion boats all day
when the landings began,
and big bombers including Liber-
ators and Halifaxes winged out to
bomb the airfields at Calato on
Rhodes I'd Heraklion in Crete to
weaken Nazi air support of their
island drive.
A Berlin broadcast asserted that
all military installations had been
seized on Coo, and that the British
garrison was taken by surprise.
Coo was recovered September q
by British parachute troops and
sea-borne forces along with Lero
in the Dodecanese and the Greek
islends of Samos to the north.
The Yugoslavs, eager to speed
the day of liberation, battled the
Nazis on a front from northeastern
Italy in the frontier region $50
miles down the coast of Yugosla-
via, broadening their Judgement
i. the lower section of their home
land and tearing up German port
/r.-t:.,,oJ ~, Donn Two. Col d\
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War Ration Book Four, which
will last two years, will be issued
to the 10000 New Hanover resi-
dents at a registration to be held
at the New Hanover schools Octo-
Der 20 and October 80, it was an
nounced by the War Rationlng
board Monday.
Until this time new BOOK mas
been issued every four or five
months wah an approximate cost
of 81, 800, 0oO for the printing ana
distribution of each. Each DOCK
has been issued in different
somewhat form, but this book Will
revert to the form used for book
No. 2.
To cut the cost of the book the
size .of each stamp has been re-
duced so that each stamp is the
same size as the small ones used
first in book No. 3. The book con-
tains 6 pages of point" stamps
-48 stamps on a page. OF these
SO are printed in each of the colors
red. blue and green. The green
stamps will be used on an interim
basis in connection with the blue
processed stamps, much like the
brown stamps are now used.
In addition to the point stamps
there are 90 unit stamps printed
in black ink. The word Spare
appears on y of these stamps.
which can be used if additional
ration currency is needed for any
of the programs; IL are designat'
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Tu1lOfUncertain Length
ADDears On BattlefrOntS

swiftly against Nazi lear-guard re-
sistance, probing for indications of
the line along which the enemy
proposes to make his next formida-
BILE stand after his skillful evacu-
alton of all the southern and south
central portion of the peninsula.
In Russia Red forces are ap-
parently thrusting at the narrow
sector the Germans still hold east
of the Dnieper between Orsha and
Loev. That east bank footing COW
ers the vital crossings Of t h e
Dnieper above the marshes of the
Pripet on the west bank. 1t forms
an outpost protection for this most
vulnerable and dangerous central
segment of the Dnieper defense
line and it appears possible that
heavy Nazi forces have been
thrown in here to hold the Russians
at arms length from the river.
The railroad running literally to
the west bank, feeding the whole
German Dnieper central front, lies
within field gun range of the high
est east bank all the way from
Orsha to Zhlobin, a distance of
nearly 100 miles. The Sozh rivep,
rising southeast of Or S h a and
roughly paralleling t h e Dnieper
southwark until it flows into the
larger stream at Loev, affords
possible Nazi outer defense line
for the Dnieper front in that criti-
cal sector. There has been no indi-
cation that the Russians have yet
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. g.
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Expanding Navy Needs Stressed In Move
To Defeat Fathers Deferment Measure

900 fathers will be needed during
the rest of 1913.
Apparently counting upon final
disposition of the father-draft
question by Wednesday, Majority
Leader Barley announced the
postponement from 2 p. M, We'd
nesday until noon Thursday OF the
scheduled executive session at
which the Senate is to receive a
confidential report from the five
senators who recently completed
tour of the World War fronts.
Barley explained the postpone
ment was deci ed upon so as not
to interrupt the business of the
Senate