davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Arlington Price Board
To Close tuesday
To Advance Records
Official Says Appeal
Appointments Will Be
Made by Mail Only

The Arlington County War Price
and Rationing Board will be closed
from Tuesday until further notice
In order that files may be brought
up to date and reports made to
Richmond, it was announced yester-
day by Mrs. Grace Gaumnitz, exec
utive secretary.
Appeal appointments will continue
to be made by mail only and appeal
hearings will be conducted on
Wednesday and Friday nights of
this week, she said.
In the meantime, Board Chair
man j. Maynard Magruder said
that all "B" parts of the tire serial
records will be returned to passen-
ger-car owners within the week.
Mr.. Magruder requested that driv-
ers have their tires inspected as
soon as possible following receipt
OF this form. In this way, he said,
a last minute "pile-up" on the jan
uary 81 deadline will be avoided.
Persons whose tires are considered
retreadable by tire inspector
must make immediate application
for retread certificate, Mr.. Ma
gruder warned. Driving tires past
the retreadable stage is considered
abuse and tires will not be granted
by the board to persons who have
delayed the retreading of a tire
until the basic carcass is destroyed,
ne said.
Officials also advised car owners
that their gasoline applications
must be on file with the board be-
fore they can be eligible for tires.
Applicants who recently moved to
the county should write their former
board asking that transfer be made.
Following are 10 new county in
spection stations which have been
added to those formerly announced:
Miller's Service, 1906 Wilson bou-
levard; P. H. Irwin ESQ, 3299 Wilson
boulevard; F. A. Hagger ESQ, 1902
Columbia pike; Malcolm ESQ, 3Ol
South Glebe road: Arlington-Fair-
fax Bus Co., 1905 North Glebe road;
Arnold Bus Co., North Randolph
street and Wilson boulevard: w. R.
Manning TeXaco, North Garfield
street and Wilson boulevard; j. L..
Manning Texaco, 313S Washington
boulevard; j. @. Splitter, 1874 South
Glebe road; ]. H. Bernd, 5614 North
Eighth road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Mrs. Grove 10 Direc'
Alexandra Council
OF Social Agencies
Mrs. Withee Resigns
To Accept Similar
Post in Buffalo, N. Y.

Appointment of Mrs. Elsa Butler
Grove as executive secretary Of the
Alexandria Council of Social Agen-
cies has been announced by D. c.
Book, president of the organization.
Mrs. Grove succeeds Mrs. Clara
Withee who has resigned to accept
position with the Council of Social
Agencies in Buffalo, N. Y.
The new secretary will assume her
duties on January II, coming from
New York City where she has been
working at Teachers College Of
Columbia University and in the
social service department of one Of
the large city hospitals.
A graduate of Vassar College, Mrs.
Grove was decorated by the French
Red Cross for work at Verdun dur
ing the last war and also by the
Estonian government for her part
in the child welfare program under
Herbert Hoover.
Mrs. Withee, who has been serv-
ing as executive secretary for both
the Council of Social Agencies and
the Community Chest, has an
nounced that the agencies have de-
cided to work separately and a new
executive secretary will be appointed
for the Community Chest Officials
of both organizations feel it will
serve the community better if the
Chest takes over the financial part
of the work with its secretary man.
aging the annual campaign and
leaves the council free to handle
the social service work alone.
The Budget Committee of the
Community Chest has announced
that the sum of $4,000 was raised
in the recent drive for s66,500 and
in distributing the funds the COM
mittee has decided to cut all the
participating agencies. including the
USO, per cent of the amount
allotted. and to give the full sum
of 1881 SO to the War Fund agen-
cies as planned.
William Illch, chairman of the
recent drive, has been designated to
make the War Fund ALLEGATIONS, and
Albert V. Bryan, vice chairman will
carry out the contract with the USO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

uation he plans to employ num-
Der of women in clerical capacities,
who may work on either an 8-hour
or 4-hour day.
Employment of women as car
riers, he said, is being considered,
as service in the residential areas
of the community has been cut
to one delivery a day The busi-
ness section still has delivery twice
a day.
If the situation can be relieved
through employment of more wom-
en- in the Office, Mr.. Cullum said
he hoped to De able to resume the
twice-a-day delivery service to
homes.
Persons desiring employment are
asked to apply at the post Office
during business hours, beginning to-
morrow.
The new acting postmaster also
announced he is open to any sug-
gestions for improvement of the
service in Silver Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
| Military Flares
Sent Up in Fun
ALARM Baltimore
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 2. Many
Baltimoreans thought the war had
hit home when two military flares,
supported by parachutes. lighted the
skies early today as they slowly
f1oated to earth.
Police stations were swamped by
phone calls from excited citizens.
In mid-afternoon another flare
was seen, this one appearing Just
as an airplane passed over the city.
Again excited citizens asked what
1t was all about.
Police soon found out-and ar
rested James G. Durand, a shipyard
worker, on charge of having dis
charged the flares.
He told Magistrate John w. Prinz
he didn't dream the gift of flare
pistol and three flares would get
him into trouble. They were pre-
sented him by a trio of British
pilots three years ago after the
American freighter on which he was
second officer. had rescued them In
the Caribbean.
He was fined $6.45.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Winchester Couples Son
Twins Air Forces Medal
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Jan. O.
Sergt. James Geanious, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Pete Geanious, this city,
has been awarded United States
Army Air Forces medal for his part
in the sinking of an enemy subma-
rine somewhere of the Atlantic
coast, according to word received
by his parents.
The information came from Coils.
j. B. Bevans and Robert C. Jones,
who disclosed also that Sergt. Gean-
ious had returned to active duty,
after three months hospital treat
ment for deafness following a bomb
defamation. The soldier was bonn
barber Of his plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Roturiuns Will Hear
Col. Brooke Lee Tuesday

1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee, newly ap-
pointed member of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, will talk on Planning
for Postwar Improvement" at the
weekly luncheon meeting of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Rotary Club
Tuesday. Col. Lee will be introduced
by DR.. Floyd Carter. program chair
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Producers to Discuss
Food for Armed Forces
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Jan. 2.-Plans
for producing more dairy products
and other foods for our armed forces
will be discussed at the annual
meeting at Frederick Thursday OF
the stockholders Of the Frederick
Production Credit Association, 1t was
announced today by the president,
Thomas G. Darby.
The meeting will be held in the
Frederick Armory and luncheon win
be served at noon In Calvary Meth
OdiSt Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Learn Son Is Prisoner

WINCHESTER, Va, Jan. 1.-THE
Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Richard
Hagerstown, Md, told relatives here
yesterday they had been advised
by the War Department that their
son, 1t. Burton Richard, Army Air
Forces, is prisoner of the Japa-
nese in the Philippines. He had
been on duty in that area about a
year before the Pearl Harbor at
tack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Car Thefts Hold Up

BALTIMORE, Jan. R.-Gas
and tire rationing had plenty of
effect on 1912 motorists but little
on auto thieves. Baltimore police
records show that 3,040 cars were
stolen in the city last year, only Is
less than the all-time high set in
1941,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Winchester Buys Part
or HoIIingsworth Tract
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Jan. Am
order entered in Corporation Court
today has confirmed purchase by
this city of nearly So acres Of the
original Abram Hollingsworth es-
tate, designed to afford additional
protection for the main source of the
municipal water supply. The con-
sideration was $500.
Included in the sale was the his
toric Abrams Delight" limestone
Colonial manor house, which prob
ably will be preserved as shrine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

and carrier help
to carry on the
mail service ef-
fciently.
Mr.. Cullum
said the Office
c a n m a k e a
number of i'm
mediate tempo
rary appoint
ments, as the
civil service ros-
ter has been de-
pleted and many
employees have
gone into mill
tary service. To
relieve the sit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

serve as acting Mayor until the
council elects successor to Mayor
Link from among its members. A
member Of the council said last
night a special meeting to elect
Mayor Links successor would prob
ably be held this week.
In addition to his widow, surviv-
ing Mr.. Link are son, Curtis c..
Link, IA, student at Mount Rain
Ter High School, and a daughter,
Anna Marie, 10, an employe OF a
Hyattsville real estate firm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Peabody Celebration Set

BALTIMORE, Jan. 2 (P.-The
Peabody Conservatory of Music will
celebrate its 18th anniversary on
founders day, February IL. Olin
Downes, music critic, will speak. and
Ernest Hutchinson, former faculty
member, will give a piano recital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

More than all the Others together,
there u for y0w ONE soldier sclbO
MUST come back. And who does NOT
ask herself When?. HOsC? ... Is he
s0fe3. What can do to help3
For many soldiers and sailors wives, the
WAC is the answer to a special need.
Many women are finding in service to their
country a common bond of bright purpose
and shared experience - the feeling that
they are backing up their fighting men.
You who are left behind are not left
out! Your courage, energy and ability are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Silver Spring Postmaster
Appeals for Clerks, Carriers

Dyke Cullum, newly appointed
acting postmaster of the Silver
Spring Post Office, yesterday issued
an appeal for additional clerical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Il q S1hzz15 M&<

needed by the U. S. Army. Women in the
WAAC are doing many noncombatant
duties vital to complex modern war. Your
contribution, whether skilled or unskilled,
will release soldier for combat.
And if you are receiving wife's allot-
ment from soldier, sailor or marine now,
you will continue to receive it when you
join the WAAC-your WAC pay alone
ranges from $50 to $l38 month, the same
as enlisted men in the Army.
The offensive is on - every soldier is
needed at the front. Your enrolment in
the WAAC will help now - when your
country needs you most
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
big Price
JAP FLEET PAYS
HEAVILY FOR
DARING

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS, Nov, 5
tPl - Japan's Navy, lured
more and more within range of
American ships guns and bomb
ers by threatened loss of the
Solomons, already has paid the
price of IA warships sunk or
damaged this week without get
ting closer than 40 miles to the
L. s. Marine beachhead on Bou-
gainVille.
An enemy cruiser and four
destroyers were sunk, two cruis-
ers and two destroyers damaged
out Of a task force Of IL which
tried 10 sneak down from Ra-
baul through darkness and
binding rain early Tuesday and
shell the Marines al Empress
Augusta Bay.
Forty miles out, United States
fighting ships shattered that at
tempt and, after a two-hour run
ming battle, sent the remnants
fleeing toward Rabaui Even
then. the enemy warships were
not safe.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Finnish Surrender
Reported Imminent
Conflicting Reports
Obscure True Status

STOCKHOLM. Nov. 5-Pl-
S : o X h | m newspapers pub
lished conflicting reports today
about Finland'S status in the
war--one saying she was pre-
pairing TO sue for peace with
Soviet Russia, and another de-
nying it.
The social DemOkraten assert
ed the Finnish government had
instructed its former minister TO
Russia, Juhu Paasikivi, TO be
ready to proceed to Moscow -
Presumably 10 discuss negotia-
tons for a separate peace.
On the other hand, the Alton
bladet's Helsinki correspondent
said a high official Of the Fin
niSh foreign office denied the
report. Aftonbladet quoted the
$ p k m n as guaranteeing
that the social Demokraten story
was absolutely false"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Seref. Dekay
Dies in Attion
Missing Soldiers
Death Confirmed

Mrs Mary Ann DcKav has
been informed that her husband,
Technical sergeant Robert De
Kay, AAF, was killed in action
August II. Previously she had
been informed by the War de-
par;ment that Sgt DcKay was
missing in action. He IS sur
vived by his wife and one-yesr
old daughter. Patricia Ann, and
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs Rich
ard DeKay. 100 ID Clinton
street, Mount Clemens.
Sgt. DeKay, % years old, died
while participating in his 18th
air raid as a radio operator and
gunner on Flying Fortress. He
was on combat duty in the Euro
pean theater Of war.
Born i'm 1919 i'm Lansing, Sgt
DeKay came to Mount Clemens
in 1884 with his family and
was graduated from Mount
Clemens high school in 1887. He
was prominent in high school
athletics for which he was
awarded several medals. En-
rolled in the high schools bust
ness course he finished at 10
years Of age and was afterwards
See CASUALTY-Page ?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Allies Map
China Drive
Bod News for Jops
Promised by FDR

WARRINGTON. Nov. 4 - tPl
Pres dent Roose Welt an
nounced today that the United
States. Great Britain. and China,
had reached a complete agree
ment for new military opera
tons in the Chinese theater and
that il would mean bad news
for me japanese.
The President disclosed al a
prcsS-radio conference that the
greene nt had just been
reached az an extremely success
ful conference at Chungking
among General SGlWell. Chen
ault and Somevvell for the Unit
cd States. Lord Louis MONT
ba,ten, new British commander
.n-chief in the southeast Asia
area. and GenerahSS.mo Chang
Kai- Shek and his Chinese mill
tary advisers.
He said the agreement was
mostly on operational ques-
tions and that il concerned the
methods for handling what he
called the continental campaign
in the far east.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Juveniles 10 Have
Recreation Program
City's Winter Sports
Season Opens Monday

The curtain rises next Mon
day night on another program Of
recreation activities,
sponored by III, Department Of
Recreation. In addition 10 serv-
ing adults, this years program
will be aimed al juveniles pro-
viding them with a program of
their own.
Each Monday night there will
be women's swimming and GYM
nastics at Mount Clemens high
school, On the same night there
will be an archery class, open to
all persons, including juveniles.
The archery class will be in
structed by Elroy Richter. form
or Wisconsin instructor who is
now living in this city. How
long the class will run will be
determined by tic interest
shown.
The archery class and women's
swimming and gym sessions will
See RECREATI0N-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Heavy Toll
NEARLY 3 MILLION
GERMANS LOST
IN RUSSIA

MOSCOW, Nov. 5 - W -
The Russians held virtually
every foot of land east of the
Dnieper today from It's mouth
below Kherson and along lis
65O-mile course through the
heart Of the Ukraine north TO
Gomel as the prize Of their sum
mer campaign, which they said
bled the Germans OF 100000
casualties,
Swift sweeps over the Black
Sea sands of the southern
Ukraine brought the Cossacks
10 the river banks opposite
Kherson, SIS miles northwest of
the sealed off Crimea.
Official maps published to-
day showed the Russians in pos
session of all the east side Of
the Dnieper from Gomel TO
Zaporozhe in the bend. South
of Zaporozhe, the only Ger
man holdings east of the Dniep-
er are limited 10 the Crimea, a
thin strip So miles long opposite
Nikopol. and minute bit OF
land in the Dnieper delta due
south of Kherson.
Moscow said nothing Of the
Crimea. but the Berlin radio
said German troops we're en-
gagged in heavy fighting on
See RUSSIA-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Campaign Hits
S12,050 Total
on Fifth Day
Women's Division
Collects S2,523,26
in First Nights Work

A total of sl2,O5O.26 has al
ready been accumulated in Mt.
Clemens combined Community
CheSt-War Fund drive, John
Nunneley, chairman, announced
today.
With less than 81, 1000 10 go in
the campaign which opened on
Monday Nunneley lauded. IN
particular, the activities of the
Women'S Volunteer Division.
headed by Mrs. A. A. Thomp-
son, which last night began the
difficult task of canvassing
every home in the city. The
first nights returns from the
Womens group showed dona-
tons Of S2,523 IS, Nunneley
said
The chairman pointed out that
See WAR FUND-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
ETERNAL CITY DOOMED?
Nozis Mine Rome

BARI, Southern Italy, Nov. 3
Observation-Disclosures ar
irving here from Rome today
said that city has been heavily
mined and quoted the Germans
as saying they will do to Rome
what they did to Naples, " Eter-
nal City or no Eternal City"
Nazi engineers are mining all
large buildings. There are tons
of explosives under every Min
istry and all large hotels,
bridges and the main aqueducts
have been mined.
The refugees said the Ger
mans proposed 10 destroy all
Italian government records in
order TO leave a chaotic situa-
ton for those who come in to
administer the country.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Grim Missing
Report Ends
i'm Happiness

It's safe bet that the most
thankful, and the hsppiest wom-
an in Utica today is Mrs. Mary
Luptak of 1869 Mount Clemens
road After believing for over a
month that her nephew. Cpl.
Martin L. Uliicny was lost in
action. she received a second
wire from the War Department
on Monday, informing her that
Cpl Ullicny was safe and now
stationed at an Army base in
this country.
II was on September Is that
Mrs. Luptak first received word
from the War Department that
See SAFE-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05

They painted the following
word picture of Rome today:
The city has been mapped,
with squads assigned TO dis
tricts TO search every building.
including private h m e $, for
machinery, works OF art, jewell
ry, silverware. even automobiles
and tires and anything else that
might be of value 10 the Italians
or the Allies.
The Germans have not enter
ed Vatican City, but have posted
guards at its gates and pass on
all who enter or leave.
Rome's food supply is ex-
tremely serious, for the Ger
mans are regularly requisition-
ing a large part Of what produce
is reaching the city.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Goal Output
Climbs Slowly
WLB Approval
is Expected
Bv Joseph A. LOTUS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-lP)
Coal production continued its
slow recovery from a three-day
strike today with the War Labor
Board reported ready to assent
10 the wage agreement worked
out by John l.. Lewis and the
government fuels boss, Harold
lckoS.
The board was ready 20 vote
late yesterday but adjourned
overnight when a question arose
over the practical application Of
the hourly rates 10 men who are
paid by the ton or other piece
work basis.
II was understood the vote
probably would have been II
for approval with one public
member dissenting Conserva-
See COAL-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Nine Youths
Proudly Wear
Cadet Buttons

Nine Mount Clemens youths
arc today wearing small, round
blue on their lapels Each pin
has a tiny pair Of silver wings
in its center. It's an emblem the
boys are mighty proud TO exhib-
it for it's the Aviation Cadets
insignia.
These boys have successfully
passed their screen test tag
assigned to the stiff mental test
given by the Army air forces,
they have passed thorough
physical examination, and were
sworn into the Army air force.
Their status is that of an AVA
See CADETS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
JuSOsIaVe Gain

LONDON, Nov. 5 - (P) -
Yugoslav Partisan forces rein
forced by constantly increas-
ing number of recruits, have
captured a stronghold from the
Germans in Montenegro, have
put the Nazis to rout in another
clash and are cutting surviving
remnants of some enemy col
umns to pieces, communique
of the Yugoslav Liberation Ar
my announced today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Count Faces
Questioning
Ookes' Cose
Interest Soors
BY T.. V. W. JONES

NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 5
p Alfred de Marigny stood
up in a packed Bahamas Su-
preme Court chamber today to
face a relentless -examina-
ton from Crown attorneys who
have accused HIM of the muir
der Of wealthy Sir Harry Cakes.
He denied yesterday that he
beat and burned his aged faith
cr-in-law to death last July, of
fering the alibi that he was at
home in bed at the time of the
attack.
A throng swept into the court
room when II was opened al 9
a. m. an hour before court
time. Many had waited since 7
a. m for seats.
Chief Justice Sir Oscar Bed
See TRIAL-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
ON Harmon
Missing Again
Former Michigan Grid Star
Lost on Mission i'm China

Last TO hear from Harmon
was his football coach. II. O.
Fritz Crisler, who said the
All-America halfback of 1899
and 1910 had written in a let
ter dated oct IL that the Japa-
nese pilots were inferior 10 the
Nazi filters.
Tommy wrote that he was in
one Of two American planes
jumped by Il Zcros and that
they got two while the rest
fled" CriSler said
Both Crisler and Harmon's
See HARMON-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Peace Bid?

STOCKHOLM, Nov. , IL
The newspaper Social Demo
kraten said today the Finnish
government had instructed Juhu
Paasikivi. former Minister to
Russia, To be ready to go to
Moscow - presumably TO dis
cuss negotiations for a separate
peace.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Steel StOppaSc

BUFFALO, y. ", Nov. D
[P)- War production of steel
at the Republic Steel Corpora
tons Buffalo plant was halted
for the second time within three
months today, company OIL
cial asserted, as an unauthoriz-
ed work stoppage left 1900 men
idle.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
Herds MOIeSied

PORTLAND. Ore, Nov. ) -
Up - Marauding COYOTES are
taking 20 per cent of all live
stock in six western states and
carrying the threat of rabies
epidemic as bad as the disast-
rous outbreak in 1915, SAYS Paul
c. Quick, regional supervisor
of the L. s. Fish and Wildliie
Service.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-05
BY EDWARD KENNEDY

Allied HEADQUA ART Z K ) i,
ALGIERS, Nov. 5 --lPl-- Nov
ing with hard, swift punches
deeper into central Italy over
the collapsed Massico Trlgno
River defense line, Allied Fifth
and Eighth armies advanced in
all sectors, Allied headquarters
said today.
The fall Of Venafro, one OF
the two inland highway centers
which held the line together,
was believed imminent.
(The BIC correspondent in
Algicrs said American troops