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TOWNSEND
Items of Personal and Social Inter-
est Cleaned About NeiQhbOrhOod

Items OF Personal and Social Inter-
est Cleaned About NsiQhbOrhOod
Townsend, Jan. g. Miss Myrtle
Carton, of Chester Pa, spent the
Christmas holidays with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Carton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Layman of
Wilmington, were dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold R. Outten re-
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. ]. Downing, of
Edgemoor Terrace, were Christmas
Eve visitors of her parents, w. G.
Money and wife.
Word has been received from
Private ]. A, Lyman that he has
been transferred from Reno, Ne
vada, to the State of Washington.
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return.
NOTICE

Dead or disabled horses, cows
and mules removed FREE OF
charge by calling DOVER, 749 Fl
10. No animals removed unless cal
is made Immediately and no al
imals dying from a contagious dis
ease will be removed.
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lust nfo
Daughter Sands
of 70
Kidneys etbads and a
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ark, N. ].
Miss Bartilla Evans, of George
town, is the guest of Miss Lizzie
Hall.
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Floating just beneath the coveted
Army-Navy sc" pennant on the
high stats atop the Edward G. Budd
Manufacturing Co. plants in Phila-
delphia flies the Minute Man" flag
of the United States Treasury De-
partment-evidence that more than
80 per cent of Budd employees are
buying war bonds and paying for
them out of their pay checks. Photo
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shows the presentation of the Treas.
ury flag by Alfred H. Williams,
president of the Philadelphia Fed.
eral Reserve Bank, to Edward G.
Budd and William Fleming, repre-.
senting Budd employees. At the left
is Paul Zens, company treasurer.
Next to him is Mr.. Fleming and at
the right, Mr.. Budd and Mr.
Williams.
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GENERALS SALUTE AT
GRAVES IN CASA
BLANCA - Moior Cen
erul Patton. Commander
OF the U. S. Forces in
West Africa. and Cen
eral Nogues third and
fourth from leftl. French
Chief at Morocco. salute
of the groves Of Ameri-
can and French soldiers.
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Tasty Lamb StelD
Fruit Salad
Whole Wheat Rolls
Brown Betty
Milk
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PURCHASED Meat Allotment ~ r

(Beef soup
bone-un-
restricted)
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Says County
Roads Worst
in Michigan

EAST DETROIT - Declaring
that "Macomb County roads are
the worst in the state" Stephen
Henderson, city clerk of East
Detroit, today reported that a
resolution had been passed by
TIE city council on Monday ask
ing the Macomb County Board
of Supervisors TO consider the
appointment of a county road
engineer-manager.
Henderson explained that not
only the roads in East Detroit
and its vicinity we're badly in
need OF repair and rebuilding,
but that the same condition ex-
listed throughol the county.
The roads in this county are
the worst roads in the state" he
said.
Though nothing was officially
recorded, the council suggested
that Leon Lux. be appointed to
the new office. He had previous
ly served in the capacity of coun-
~ road engineer-manager up un-
til four years ago, when the Of
flee was dropped.
The next meeting OF the Board
OF Supervisors will be held on
Jan. 10.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Girl and Boy
Bandits Sought
Three Girls Robbed
on Auto Ride

Sheriffs deputies today are
attempting to trace the identi-
ties Of three youths and two
girls who reputedly robbed
three Ypsilanti girls near the
Gratiot avenue-Quinn road in
tersection last night after the
victims had accepted ride
with them.
The victimized girls were
waiting for a bus at Eight Mile
road and Gratiot avenue about
$50 last night, enroute to visit
relatives here, when a car with
three boys and two girls in it
pulled up nearby and offered
them a ride.
Before reaching the city, how
ever, the car was stopped at
the corner of Quinn road and
South Gratiot avenue in the vi
cinity of the gravel pits, and
with the aid of their two girl
companions, the young men for
chilly took a total OF over $40
from the girls, then fled, the
girls told sheriffs deputies.
A description of the car was
given as either that of a 1887
Plymouth or Dodge automobile.
It's license number was with
held by the sheriff's depart
ment, which is taking immedi-
ate action on the case,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Call off Rail Strike:
Sink3NQzi Warships:
Bomb Rome Airports
Germans Distort Story;
Indicate Rome Blasted

the hangers, buildings and dis
persal areas of the airfield at
Ciampino, south of Rome, and
accurately blasted the Centocel-
10 Airdrome east of th7 city.
Allied planes based in England
also began winging into action
again after a Christmas lull.
Twin-engined Mosquito bomb
erS struck at western Germany
last night and typhoon bomb
ers hit the "rocket-gun coast
northern France, Both missions
were carried out without loss.
In addition fighters swept over
enemy territory in daylight, de-
stroying a German plane and
losing one of their own.
The raid on the airfields out
side Rome was the ninth report
ed in the area of the Italian cap
ital although Rome itself has not
been bombed by the Allies since
August.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Governor Would
Shift
Pick Fleet Chief
Allies Plunge
Near Rabaul
BY The Associated Press

Allied troops rolled on to-
ward prime detectives in rain
swept New Britain and in the
jungles of New Guinea in fast
mounting twin drives to strad-
die the japanese defense system
for the Bismarck Archipelago.
American Marines propelling
the New Britain arm of the Of
fensive beat off four en- m y
counterattacks, expanded their
beachhead per.mcter and ad-
vanced two muddy miles 10
within one and one-half miles of
the Cape Gloucester airdrome
on the northwest coast.
Australian troops, on the New
Guinea side, swept forward on
the coast of the Huon Peninsula
and inland, seized a key enemy
roint in the Ramu Valley IS
See RABAUL-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
LOCAL SAILOR WINS SPURS
Air Guns to l6-Mchers

Joseph B. Allen, of i64 South
Walnut street, and after a re-
cent visit here is now attend
ing an advanced gunnery school
in Washington, d. c. Recently
he toured the country defense
plants in company with another
South Pacific veteran, giving
patriotic talks, demonstrating
ordnance equipment and selling
war bonds.
SHIP LOST
The trip was in the nature OF
a vacation granted by the navy
TO the two men, after they lost
their destroyer, the u. S. S.
Gwin. in a fierce land and sea
engagement in the Kula Gulf.
Roy's shsrpshooting among
the local blsckbirds - about
the time he was attending Grant
School here before going TO
See SAILOR-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Steel Output
Scars Upward
Workers Return
to War Plants

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 29-(P)
Steel production climbed back
toward normal today after a
work stoppage by more than
10000 workers while the CLOS
United Steel Workers union con-
tinued negotiations for new con-
tracts.
Over the nine states affected
by work tie-ups which began
with expiration of contracts on
Christmas Eve, workers return
ed TO their Jobs with the start of
regular shifts or in accordance
with operating coalitions.
President Philip Murray OF
the union maintained his silence
on the controversy, estimated by
the American Iron and Steel In
stitute to have cost the industry
about 1880 tons of steel pro-
duction. He participated. how
ever, in contract negotiations be-
tween a union committee and
subsidiaries of the U. S. Steel
corporation.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Life in Cell
Faces Boy
If Convicted

Robert Robinson. a l7-year-
old Harbor Springs, Mich,
youth who has been convicted
of three felonies, and has al
ready served time in prison, is
behind bars today in lieu of
81, 500 bond, after he stood mute
this morning IN his arraign-
ment before Justice Frank Z.
Jeanette, charged with unlaw-
fully driving away an automo-
bile. His examination was set
for Jan. 4.
The boy was arrested by Pa
trolmen William Burke and AL
voy Depue of the RoSeville po-
lice on Dec. 10, 1870 a. m, when
they discovered him going
through the glove compartment
of an automobile.
They questioned him, and
while explaining 10 the officers
that the car was owned by his
father, he suddenly started up
the motor and sped away. He
didn't get very far, though, and
was nabbed by the police after
he ran the car into a ditch at
the side of the road.
Robinson had been living in
Roseville only a few days, in
which time he was working for
His first conviction was for
unlawfully driving away an au-
tomobile, for which he was
placed on two years probation.
He was given five years proba-
ton a while afterwards on a
forgery charge, and on his third
offense, found guilty of a car
theft, he was waived from pro-
bate court TO circuit court,
where he was handed a six
month prison sentence in Au-
gust, 1912, and served until
February of this year in En-
met county jail.
II found guilty on the pre-
sent charge, his fourth offense,
the l7-year-old boy will face a
sentence Of life Imprisonment
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29

When Roy J. Allen was lit
tie more than five years old his
father bought him his first weap-
on, a small BIB gun. After sharp
ening his craftsmanship on this
puny weapon, to the discomfort
of neighborhood blackbirds and
alley cats, Roy graduated at the
age of 10 TO a high-powered air.
rifle Workmanship became his
hobby, and as a youth in his
teens he soon became an expert
with shotgun and deer rifle.
All of which leads up TO the
fact that Roy is now an acting
Chief Petty Officer in the u. S.
Navy and in action against the
Japs has fired every piece of
naval ordnance from 20 NM
anti aircraft guns to the giant
16-fnch smokestacks Of a big
battleship.
Roy is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29

LONDON, Dec. % - up -
Allied medium bombers pep
pered airfields near Rome yes
terday and Nazi propagandists
sought today to picture the OPP
Grafton as an attack on the cap
ital itself.
A communique from Allied
headquarter- at Algier- confirm
ed the bombings today. Earlier
enemy radio stations were on
the air with wild-eyed dcscrip-
tons of how heavy bombs
shattered the outskirts OF Rome,
causing damage and casualties in
residential quarters.
The Paris radio broadcast that
bombs fell on Garbatella about
la miles east Of the Vatican
City and close enough for the
Pope 10 see the raid.
The official report from AL
lied headquarters howeve said
that the bombers had attacked
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Adm. Ramsay
Invasion Aide
Briton Selected
for lnvosion Job

LONDON, Dec. % - Up -
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay
today was designated Naval
Commander Chief under Gen.
Dwight d. Eisenhower, supreme
commander of con front
forces. Air MARSHAL T. w. Leigh
Mallory was mated Command
er-in-Chief for Air.
The announcement said the
appointments were made fol-
lowing conversations between
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill.
Ramsay, formerly second in
command in the Mediterranean
un der Admiral Sir Andrew
Browne Cunningham, is so. has
been in the Royal Navy since
1898 and had been on naval mis-
Sions around the world He COM
manded H NJ. S. Broke in the
Dover Patrol during the last
war.
Trafford L. Leigh Mallory
has been head of fighter COM
mand of the Raj. He command
ed the air force which covered
the Rieppe raid in the summer
of 1912. He is 56 years old.
With these appointments Gen.
Eisenhower's invasion staff is
complete with the exception Of
the announcement of the Amer
lean ground force commander.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
cry has been designated COM
mander of British ground forces.
These appointments followed
the announcement by Pr 5ident
Roosevelt in Washington last
night that Mai. Gen. James II
Doolittle, leader of the attack on
Tokyo, would m m n d the
Ei.hth Air Force in Great Brit
ain.
The President also named 1t
Gen. Ira C. Eaker. present COM
mander Of the Eighth Air Force,
10 command all Allied air units
See INNASION-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
British Fleet
Strikes Again
Three Destroyers,
Blockade Runner Sunk

LONDON, Dec. 29-lP)- A
brilliant new victory in the
British Nays campaign 10 de-
Stroy the last effective strength
of the German Navy resulting
in the sinking f three destroy
ers in the Bay of Biscay and
Gripping of others-was an
nounced today.
A joint admiralty and air
ministry communique telling of
these blows in southern waters
off the coast of France followed
by only a few hours publication
of the full story Of the sinking
of the German battleship
Scharnhorst in the cold Arctic.
Full details of the Biscay &C
ton are yet 10 be told but it
plainly was a large scale enter
prise and one which perhaps is
still continuing Other details
are awaited" the communique
said.
In the same area an AXIS
blockade runner was sent TO the
bottom by coastal command
planes.
Nothing was said of any Brit
iSh loss.
This new squirt of British Ma
val fire-fire which already has
dealt Gripping if not a mortal
wound 10 German capital ship
poWer-brought 10 al least AZ
the number of German destroy
ers and torpedo boats known
sunk since the start of the war.
This total is exclusive Of ships
known to have been hit and
probab bly, lost.
The first announcement did
not say when the action had
taken place. 1t was assumed
from the wording OF the COM
munique that the German Naval
vessels may have been escort
ing an enemy convoy through
the Bay of Biscay, which lies
west. of France and due north
of Spain.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Noe En1erges
As Possible
Circuit Judge
Appointment
is Expected
MomentoriIy

The name of Alton II Noe, AZ
year-old Mount Clemens attor-
ney, today was injected into the
as yet undecided battle for APP
pointment 10 the Macomb
county circuit judgeship which
will be vacated by the Hon. Neil
Z. Reid on Jan ! when he as
cends the Michigan Supreme
Court bench.
The hitherto most prominent
possibilities, Prosecutor Wilbur
F. Held and Christian F. Matth-
eWs, while by no means count
ed out of the running, were be-
lieved dangerously deadlocked
with a distinct probability exist
ing that Noe may receive the
appointment.
The appointment, which must
be made by Gov. Harry F. Kelly,
is expected momentaril. but,
thus far. the states chief eX-
ecutive has refrained from any
intimation as TO who his choice
will be.
Both Held and Matthews are
conceded 10 have mustered al
most equal support and, until
today appeared to have the best
chances of appointment unless a
compromise candidate were 10
be brought forward Noe, how
ever. is believed able TO draw
support from both groups.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Canadians
Take 0rtona
Smosh Forward
Against Germons

ALLIED HEADQUART ERS,
Algiers, Dec. % Up Canad-
ian troops, who captured Ortona
in the most violent house-to-
house battle of the Mediterran-
can campaign, smashed north
along the coast in snow and sleet
today toward Rome's Adriatic
port Of Pescara.
The Allied communique an
nounced that the eight-day. bit
ter struggle for Ortona is over"
Medium bombers b o m b e d
"airfields near Rome" the COM
munique declared, pounding
hangers. buildings and disper-
sal areas at Ciampino, south OF
Rome. and accurately" blast
ing Centocelle, east of the Ital-
ian capital.
FULL SCALE ATTACK
On the Fifth Army front, the
Germans launched a full-scale
attack down the eastern coast on
the town of Ponte Di Garigliano,
near the mouth of the Garigliano
River, where a battle was still in
progress.
The violent battle for the port
of Ortona ended yesterday with
the town in ruins. The Germans
are retreating north along the
coast with the Canadians in pur-
suit.
"Airfields near Rome were
detectives OF our medium bomb
.ers," the communique said.
"a German broadcast record
ed in London said that Rome
was bombed at noon yesterday.
and the Nazi controlled Paris
radio asserted that Allied
bombs" fell near st. Peters Bas-
See ITALY-Pase .
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29

Unless a last-mlnute rush de-
velops al the County Clerk 5 Of
flee where state drinking per-
mits are being issued, young
men and women between the
ages of p and 25 viii either
confine themselves 10 sof I
drinks after the midnight hour
Dec. 81, or Will illegally order
intoXicants without producing
the required identification and
permit.
These conclusions are sup
ported by the fact that only 50
drinking permits, legally re-
quired after Jan !, have been
issued 50 far at the only author
lied issuance place, the office
of County Clerk Guy l.. Brown.
THOUSANDS OF PATRONS
Any estimate to the number
of 81 to 25-year-old persons
who regularly patronize drink
ing places in this county would
run into the thousands. On the
night Of Dec. 81, when every
dancing establishment, cocktail
bar and beer garden is usually
packed with patrons, the num-
Der Of such patrons Will def
nitely be up in the thousands.
A special state permit will al
low drinking places to remain
open until 4 am. New Years
Day, but after midnight, the
law requires persons between
the ages of p and % TO show
the new state permits when
asking for an intoxicating drink.
The number of young men
and women who have appeared
at County Clerk Browns office
with 81, a personal photograph
GA by Ia, and satisfactory
evidence Of their ages, has
been remarkably small, office
attaches admit. 1t may be in
creased before New Years Eve,
but definitely will not APP
preach the potential of several
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Move Would
Speed Vote
Kelly Proposes
? Two Month Advance

LANSING, Dec. % up -
Governor Kelly proposed today
that the general statewide prim-
airy election in 1914 be moved
forward from September Il TO
July IL to provide more time
for service men 10 vote in the
November 7 general election.
Kelly summoned the Michigan
Election Study commission TO
meet with him today 10 consid-
er his plan for insuring a sol
der vote and 10 bring forward
any other method which might
be feasible.
II can see of no way the Serv-
ice men can exercise their right
TO vote unless the time of the
primary is changed, Kelly said,
pointing that present election
statutes permit only 55 days 10
elapse between the primary and
the general election. His pro-
poSal would allow ll8 days 10
distribute and collect the ballots
OF service men in all theaters Of
war.
The Governor said: Il realize
there are arguments against d
so-called hot weather primary
but | believe this is the most
practical solution. We can I
have our cake and cat IL, too. If
we want the soldiers TO vote we
must make some readJust-
mentS.'
In order 10 carry out July
IL primary, Kelly said. nomi-
mating petitions would have to
be filed May 10 instead of July
l8. County political conven-
tons then would have TO be
held between July IL and July
20.
Kelly proposed that the state
political conventions be held 95
days before the election instead
of 81, staging them by August
/ instead OF by October /. He
recommended that instead of al
lowing 35 days for the State
Central committees of political
parties 10 certify the nomina-
tons of the State conventions,
that they be required 10 make
the certification within "a hours
OF the close of the conventions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Russians Storm
Rail functions
New Offensive
Coins in Power

LONDON. Dec. 29-,Pl-Six
days after his troops regained
the offensive, Gen Nikolai Va
tutin's forces today were storm
ing the outer defenSes of Zhito-
mir and KoroStcn. strategic
junction points on the Lenin-
grad-Odessa railway, 80 miles
west of the Ukrainian capital Of
kiev.
Front dispatches placed one
spearhead of Natutin's first
Ukraine army within 10 miles
of Zhitomir after sweeping
through Korostishev and Smo-
lovka. Heavy Soviet field guns,
planted less than 20 miles away,
were softening the city's defense
works.
Other advance units smashed
weakening enemy lines and
captured Zlobichi, five miles
southeast of Korosten, an d
Bekhi, an equal distance to the
northeast.
Thus, in the first week Of his
new winter offensive, Vatutin
has recaptured approximately
half the territory which Mar
shall Fritz Won Mannstein took
during his abortive five-week
tank drive in the Kiev bulge.
Important towns retaken in
clude Radomysl and Brusilov.
WOULD NULLIFY FOE
Reoccupation of Zhitomir and
korosten, apparently just a mat
ter of days, would nullify al
most all the enemy's gains
achieved during his costly coun-
ter-offensive.
The Red Army scored on two
other important sectors of the
long front, according to the
See RUSSIA-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
BY ID. HAROLD OLIVER
WASHINGTON, Dec.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-(P)
President Roosevelt, having
rushed aside as "picayune' a di-
rect question whether he would
run for fourth term, was on
record today as favoring an ex-
banded economy and as against
economic and military isolation
ism after the war.
In allegorical and alliterative
terms, he told his news confer
ence yesterday he favored
scrapping the term New Deal
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Tieup Menace
Is Removed
Government Action
HoIts DeodIy Peril

WASHINGTON. Dec. 29--(R
Secretary of War Stimson an
nounced today that heads of the
three remaining operating
unions had agreed to call off
strike which had been set for
tomorrow.
The three union chiefs issued
joint statement with 1t. Gen.
Brehon Somervell after a con-
ference in the latter's office.
They were David B. Robertson
of the Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen,
H. w. Fraser Of the Order of
Railway Conductors, and 7. c.
c h n of the Switchmen's
Union of North America.
FORCED ACTION
The three unions represent
approximately 100000 railway
employees whose decision TO
strike at 6 am. tomorrow
caused President Roosevelt to
order the nations railroads
taken over by the Army Mon
day night.
The brief announcement, read
by Maj. Gen. Alexander Surles,
head Of the War Department
Public Relations Bureau, fol-
lows:
THE Secretary of War an
nounced that there will be no
railroad strike. Representatives
of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors, the Brotherhood of
Locomotive firemen and en-
ginemen, and the SWitchmen's
Union of North America today
assured G. eral Somervell
that they and the organizations
they represent will take no ac-
ton which might imperil the
successful prosecution of the
war, and that they will immedi-
ately cancel the strike order"
Both StimSon and Somervell
said that as far as they we're
concerned there ould be no
arbitration Of wages while the
roads are under their control. II
remained in their discretion
whether captulation of the three
brotherhoods would be on a CO.
operative or forced basis.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29
Nalis Boast Improved
Fighter Planes

LONDON, Dec. 29-tP-The
German radio claimed today
that the newest Messerschmitt
Fighter-Bomber's speed and
maneuverabiiity equals the
worlds fastest fighters and that
1t would be followed by a new,
equally improved divebomber.
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bring the matter up at all, but
he enumerated about 30 New
Deal laws and policies and chal-
lenged his critics 10 say which
of them they wo2d ignore if
the patient got the internal
sickness again. The New York
Herald-Tribune's Washing o n
Bureau Chief, Bert Andrews,
thereupon asked:
Does that all add up to a
fourth term declaration"
Laughter swept the Presi-
See FDR-Page 2