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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-10-15
Russia


hoped TO stall the Russian ad-
vance westward and 10 prevent
the entrapment of garrisons in
the Crimea, believed 10 number
more than 100000 troops. There
was no confirmation of the dam 5
destruction from Moscow and it
was not known whether the Rus
SLAMS would be able 10 transport
their armies across the newly
flooded terrain 10 close the Cri-
mean escape corridors.
Meanwhile Mehtopol, SIS miles
10 the south, had been isolated
by other Soviet columns and its
fall was expected hourly, the
Russian communique indicated.
DUAL THREAT
Threat of a double pronged
Russian offensive hung over the
Crimea. The Red Army was
pouring masses of men and tanks
into the Dnieper flatlands, just
hor-h of the Sea OF Azov both
above and below Melitopol 9th
ca SO let forces were reported
converging on the western tip
of the Taman Peninsula in the
Caucasus, preparatory TO launch
ing powerful amphibious at
tack on the Crimea, across the
two-milewide Kerch Strait
There was no indication, how
ever, that the German 18th Ar
my Incorporating TO withdraw
from its precarious position in
the Crimea. On the contrary, the
Germans apparently intended TO
try TO hold the peninsula at all
costs.
The threat to the Crimea was
not the only disaster facing the
battered German armies. Far to
the north, a Russian communi-
que said, Red Army tank corps
have forced a new breach in
the German lines above embat-
tied Kiev and have smashed
three Nazi divisions on the west
bank of the Dnieper in fighting
on both planks of the Ukrain-
ian capital.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-10-15
State Liquor Commission
Closes SkopskY Tavern

UTICA-The liquor license
of the William Skropsky tavern
has been ordered suspended for
five days by the State Liquor
Control Commission, state troop
ers of the Romeo detachment
said today.
The penalty, imposed Thurs
day for alleged sale Of liquor TO
Detroit minors on July II, will
be effective Oct. 25, the COM
mission ruled
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Japs


bombers and fighters swarmed
over Bougainville in the north
ern Solomons the day prior 10
Rabauls blitz. While blowing up
gun positions and spreading fires
around the big Kahili airdrome
and sinking two large enemy
cargo ships in Buka Passage,
these raiders downed IL out OF
Is Japanese interceptors with
out the loss OF plane.
On Sunday, il was reported
previously, 81 Japanese planes
were shot down in the same sec
tor, with the American losses
totalling three.
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War Fund
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War Fund being approximately
that of the National Red Gross
The citizens Of Mount Clemens
and East Detroit are assured that
no further solicitation will be
made until the Red Cross drive
in the spring and the coun-
", state and nation will be re-
lieved OF solicitation by each of
the seventeen organizations
which have combined their re-
quirements in one drive.
Charles V. Titus Of Mount
Clemens is acting as Macomb
County Representative Of the
Michigan United War Fund Inc.
and is assisting in the organiza-
ton of the several communities
and townships throughout the
county.
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tee. John w. Vice, will contact
the business men with the re-
quest that they close their plac-
es on October %.
Karl Brink, and Arnold Ull-
rich will be truck despGtchers
on collection day. Other MEM
bers of the salvage committee
are Larry Marks and A. d. Brew
er.
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Newspaper (ameraman
Reports 10 Fort Custer

William T. Cross. of 2l8 Eu-
cid avenue. a former Detroit
newspaper cameraman left for
Fort Custer today where he Is
enrolled in the Signal Corps,
Officer Candidate School.
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Army and they went ashore in
British naval landing craft.
Their position was not given ex-
actly, but probably was 80 TO
60 airline miles below Rome.
The Germans. panicked by the
loss of Zaporozhe, said they
again destroyed the great SllO,-
900, 00C Dnieper rive. dam which
lies but five miles northwest
of the fallen bastion. The Rus
slams had spent five years build
ing the dam and they blew 1t up
in an hour during the retreat
from the Ukraine. Berlin said
it had been patched.
Flying Fortresses, based in
the Mediterranean, tangled the
rail junction of TERM, so miles
north of Rome, cutting for the
moment the main German sup
ply and reinforcement route TO
battle in the south.
Other Fortresses, based on
Britain, had raided the south
central German industrial center
Of Schweinfurt yesterday, pay
ing their heaviest price of the
war 10 the Nazis. Sixty big
bombers and two escorting
Thunderbolts were lost. For GER
tain, they shot down l04 Ger
man fighters and possibly l49.
One crewmSp said there ought
10 be ball bearings rolling all
over Germany" for the forts
had made a shambles of three
German roller and ball bearing
plants, sprawled over 72 acres.
The G. er m n acknowledged
considerable damage and said
1913 US. planes had been de-
stroyed
The enemy. however, had
worse torture coming. Washing
ton announced that the new
B-29 omber, besides which the
Fortresses and Liberators look
like dwarfs, was in production
and that some already had been
delivered 10 the army. The SUI
per plane has a vastly greater
bomb load, range and fire
power.
BY implication, the Germans
admitted serious plight in the
Balkans by appointing Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel Com
mander of operations in Yugo-
slavia. Tito's partissns claimed
the recapture of Crkvenica and
Kraljevica in hand to-h a n d
fighting They also said they
seized Zivnica. center of Bos-
Man timber industries. They
claimed TO have destroyed a long
railway bridge and wrecked
two military trains.
Allied bombers ranged up the
Adrlatic coast 10 shatter the
Italian railroad north of Pes
cara They attacked communica-
tons near Formia and elsewhere
and flew into the Aegean Sea
10 bomb the Argos Airdrofne,
causing extensive damage among
q parked planes.
Turkish reports said the Ger
mans had reoccupied the Do
decanese Island of Symi, 20
miles north of Rhodes.
Though the German position
around the formidable" Vol
turno appeared precarious, the
enemy was full of fight and
C o u n e r-attacking violently.
Hard cores of resistance were
encountered near Capua and
near Caizzo. in the corner
formed by the northward sweep
Of the Volturno.
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In the time of Queen Eliza
beth Of England, men often
wrote a bill of fare in their wills.
These specified the foods to be
served at the feast following
their funerals.
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Two presidents Of the United
States. Jackson and Hayes, were
born posthumously.
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Raleigh is the fifth largest city
in North Carolina.
Evening star., 1943-11-14
Occupied by the President

During the administration of President
Polk the Rodgers home was occupied by
the President while repairs were being
made to the White House.
The Tayloe house, the first building
north of the alley on Madison place, was
erected by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, and
had as occupants Admiral Paulding,
Vice President Garret A. Hobart, Senator
Marcus A. Hanna, Senator Don Cameron
and was the birthplace of Lilly Ham
Evening star., 1943-11-14

urer. j. r. Eastman; trustees, C. E.
Dutton, D. L. Huntington and S. H.
Kaufman.
The clubs presidents from the be-
ginning have been: John w. Powell,
Spencer F. Baird, James C. yelling,
John w. Powell, Garrick Mallery, Ed
ward M. Gallaudet, William Hardness,
Robert Fletcher, John S. Billings, Henry
c. Yarrow, Clarence E. Dutton, Joseph
K. McCammon, John M. Browne, John
R. Eastman, G.. Brown Goode, Grove
K. Gilbert, j. Rush Marshall, Swan M.
Burnett, Henry Gannett, Charles D.
Walcott, Bernard R. Green, John R.
Proctor Rufus H. Thayer, George M.
Sternberg, Joseph c. Hornblower, Otto
H. Tittman. Richard Rathbun, Simon
Newcomb, William H. Holmes, Clifford
Pinchot, Leland o. Howard, Harvey w.
Wiley, Herbert Putnam, Charles E. Mum
roe, Frederick V. Coville, Hugh M.
Smith, Frank w. Clarke, Arthur P.
Davis, David White, George R. Putnam,
John c. Hoyt, Gilbert H. Grosvenor,
Lyman J. Briggs, Charles L. Marlatt,
SAAoii 10 y. I1diiL1lI, NGOlSc OIlS n,
George K. Burgess, Wendell P. Stafford,
Vernon L. Kellogg, Charles G. Abbot,
William Charles White, John H. Hanna.
Arthur L. Day, Frederick G. Cottrell,
: Charles P. Neill, William j. Humphreys,
j. Wilmer Latimer, Alexander Wetmore,
Leason H. Adams, William Mcclellan.
Louis A. Simon and Albert w. Atwood.
The present president is John E. Graf.
Next Tuesday evening the club will
celepbrate its 65th anniversary with a
dinner at the headquarters in Madison
Place, when Robert Lincoln OBrien will
act as POSTMASTER and several addresses
will be delivered, one by Clifford Pin
chot, former Governor of Pennsylvania,
followed by Henry Grafton Doyle, dean
OF Columbian College, George Washing
ton University. President Graf will pre-
side.
The Madison House, where is the clubs
home, was built in 1920 by Richard
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Spencer F. Baird, secretary
of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion (187S-1S87), who serDed
the first full term as president
of the Cosmos Club.
distinguished scholars, statesmen ana
heroes Of our own and other countrieA
have passed IT'S portals to do her hon.
age, and it is now fittingly owned and
eupasd1ke Cosmos cuE wU0Sihay
well regard tteir possession with pride.
pleasure an6.sssa4sodros u inspiration,
as their own8ship certainly is cause Of
"a 6oltion and c6ngratdixtfr,s
from an her Surviving relatives"
Z In religion. Mrs. Madison originaiiy
belonged to the Friends, but after the
death of President Madison and when
she returned to Washington, she was
baptized at st. Johns Episcopal Church.
at Sixteenth and H streets NV, and
here she was confirmed by Bishop Wit.
tlngham and became a communicant of
this church. When she died at her
Madison place home her funeral took
place from Old st. Johns. Her last
words are said to hive been: There is
nothing in this world worth caring for"
or, as the ecclesiastes would put it: IT
have seen all the works that are under
the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and
vexation Of spirit"
Evening star., 1943-11-14
BY E. V. w. Jones.
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

AN ATLANTIC NAVAL AIR STA
TION.-Remember the swap with Brit
ain of destroyers for bases? Let's bring
the story up to date here, at one of the
bases obtained.
This base is in the Bahamas at site
that permits its planes to perform long
range patrols, escort conveys, keep
watch over possible submarine hangouts
and help protect important sea high
ways such as the old Bahama passage
WindWard passage of the Straits of
Florida.
The setting is idyllic. The station
rests on the side of a coral ridge which
rises from bay so blue that only an
artist could duplicate the colors. Gleam-
ing white beaches line much of the
shore. The island is lush with Carib-
bean growth.
1t is healthy island. It. E. L. Rober-
son of Tarboro, N. c., medical officer, is
authority for the statement that only
the very young and very old die here.
Even the common cold-"cat fever"
natives call it's rarity
But the naval aviators, station officers
and enlisted men would swap all the
beauty and health for a more active
base.
Not Much Excitement
Occasionally a plane returns to the
base with its bombs gone, and one man
wears a purple heart decoration for
wounds received in a clash with a sub
marine. Such excitement is purchased
by hundreds of hours and thousands of
miles of routine patroling and escorting.
They are men without women, for this
is an overseas base despite its proxim-
ity to Florida. Wives of most married
officers and men are at Miami, where
they visit as often as possible, perhaps
three times year. A village near the
base has population of 500 Negroes
and half dozen whites, including three
white girls whose parents forbid them
to make dates. :
The men chuckle over the one visit
by a United Service Organizations
show. They had advanced visions of
beautiful showgirls, hot music. and fash
ing legs. In spotless white uniforms, they
met the plane to greet the entertainers.
A Negro vaudeville troup alghted
"They were good entertainers" the
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mobiles which navigated the road near
est the principal village. Only those
who had been off the island had seen
ice, electric lights, paved roads or
machinery.
There was little need for money,
Families were made self sufficient by
fishing and pothole farming-each pot
hole in the rocky surface of the land
planted to sweet potatoes, or a banana
palm, or avocado or mango tree. Mar
row cracks in the rock are planted to
corn. so that farm has an odd, helter-
skelter appearance. Only rice and cloth
were needed from the outside world.
When the Navy Came
Then a boat brought two naval Of
hcers. Other boats followed with strange
machinery that pushed the earth
around, rocks and ALL A monster that
was fed boulders and gave back crushed
rock went to work. Concrete mixers
stirred
project" but such strange things were
going on that much of their time was
spent in open-mouthed wonder. Then
came airplanes and many sailors, which
caused no excitement because they had
seen planes in flight and it was known
that the United States had many thou
sands of fighting men.
Many natives have not yet seen tho
naval air station. The island is a long
one, and they do not venture so far
from home.
That's why a trip home for Wesley
becomes momentous, island-wide oc-
casion. Wesley is Negro employe Of
the officers club, native of a village far
up the island. When his father died,
the Navy provided truck to take him
to the funeral. Since then he has made
other trips to look after his property.
Natives know that the day after Wes-
ley goes home, the truck or jeep will
return. So they turn out, hundreds
strong, scattered along the miserable
lane that serves as a highway.
They want to see the motor vehicle
with their own eyes. Many are content
merely to look, but some want the first
ride of their lives. Fifty yards Ii
enough, then. they step down, shouting
with excitement, and others step aboard.
Dan1 Boone couldn't have maryeled
more had . jeep or truck bounced along
. frontier trail Of his day.
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WuoHTtyLOH OLuO 6uztO1Hg,
site of the Belasco Theater on
Madison place.
it is so nearly correct that it is we'll
worth repeating here. The sketch, in
part, follows:
The Cosmos Club originated in the
year 1878, and arose from strong con-
viction on the part of the members of
athe Philosophical Society of this city
that a FURTHER development of the social
SIDE OF their natures than the regular
meetings of the society allowed would
sbe both pleasant and useful . It was
staefsfore concluded to establish reg
uiar social club, where there would be no
formal exercises nor any papers read,
but where the members could meet
each other socially.
AT first the club was composed ex-
clusively of members of the Philosoph-
ical Society. 1t was organized under the
title of the Cosmos Club, and a charter
was procured. This instrument pro-
vlded that candidates for admission as
members should be interested in science,
literature or art, and these qualifications
are still in force. The original mem
bers numbered 80, and the limit of
membership was fixed at $50, which
limit has now been nearly reached. At
the present time, in addition to those
representing literature and art, the
membership includes about all the
prominent scientific men in the city, and
it is said that there are more men of
distinction in science in this city than
in any other in the country.
'The several bureaus of the Govern
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Civilian Rifle Courses

those fundamental principles O. marks
manshlp which would apply with equal
force to whatever kind of gun a man
might find in his hands after he put
on a uniform. We did not want to teach
lot of technicalities which man would
have to forget about when he found
himself on an Army, Navy or Marine
Corps range.
This standardization of instruction
methods and establishment of definite
quaIlflcatlons which man must meet
in order to be certified as a civilian small
arms instructor are definite steps for
ward and the program should be con-
tlnued and expanded after the war"
God preserve us from these Ameri-
cans. They kill us like animals with
their rifles wrote German officer to
his fraulein somewhere in the Father
land, during the Chateau Thierry action
in 1918. Marines found the letter on
the body of the German officer, who
died with an American bullet through
his body.
That is the kind of shooting Amer
leans must learn (and quickly. They
can learn how to get going on their
military shooting before they don uni
form by this Star-sponsored National
Rifle Association program for pre-
induction rifle work.
Army statistics show that high per-
centage of inductees never handled a
firearm before. That is the situation
the NRA wants to change. Once they
are in uniform the military takes over.
But while they are civilians they can
do something about it. with the War
Departments okay.
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devoted to rifle promotion work the
association has had made available by
the Munitions Control Board and the
War Production Board equipment of
guns and ammunition for the NRA's
training program up to the limit of what
could be spared without interfering with
the Nations maximum military effort.
The NRA, having demonstrated its wish
TO cooperate to the fullest extent with
the military authorities, has the conf
dence OF men in the Ordnance Depart
ment OF the Army. That confidence had
resulted up to the end of August in dis
tribution of 81 100000 rounds of .22-cali-
ber ammunition to the NRA units con-
Quoting small-arms firing schools in the
pre-induction program. If you have tried
TO buy .22-caliber ammunition you will
know what this means. To the civilian
without military use for the ammuni-
ton 1T is almost unobtainable.
But the NRA has no. part in training
OF servlcemen after they don uniform.
That is strictly military function, and
the NRA believes the Army, Navy and
Marine Corps can train their own spe-
cialists better than it could do. The
Marines, particularly specialize on rifle
training. Each marine is put through
three-week course of rifle work during
his boot" training period.
Says c. B. Lister, secretary of the
NRA: "The approved small-arms firing
school program was based on the idea
that the Army, Navy and Marine Corps
could train their own specialists much
better than we could hope to. do. The
thing we could do was to teach men
Evening star., 1943-11-14

ball and handball court. A baseball
diamond lies just over the ridge. Movies
are shown every night. Swimming and
sailing are encouraged. Expensive fish,
ing equipment, donated by Florida
sportsmen, and google fishing gear are
available. The skipper assigns a boat
anytime a fishing party is made up.
Before the Navy came, the 1000 ma
tlves of the island lived in complacent
isolation. Twice a month a mail boat
brought supplies from Nassau and occa-
sionally native sloop sailed to the
colonial capital.
few natives had seen the two auto
Evening star., 1943-11-14

mersley, who in after life became the
Dowager Duchess Of Marlboro. It was
until recently part of the holdings in
this block OF the Cosmos Club. It's orig
inal owner, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, was
the first president of the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants. the ONCE he held
until his death, in 1868, and which is now
occupied by Theodore w. Noyes.
The two intervening houses which for
merly stood between the Tayloe house
and the Dolly Madison house, at the
corner, were once occupied by William
Window. Secretary of the Treasury, and
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll They, also,
were later owned by the Cosmos Club.
The Cosmos Club
The Cosmos Club is one of the most
exclusive organizations of the Nations
Capital, certainly one Of its best known
scientific clubs. Its initial meeting,
which was rather an informal one, was
held on November 49, 1873, at the home
of Maj. John w. Powell, 910 M street
NV. Maj. Powell was Union veteran
Of the Civil War, in which he lost an
arm, and at the time of the forming OF
the club was serving as chief the second
division of the Geological Survey Of the
Territories, with Offices at 500 Seventh
street.
A further meeting is said to have been
held on December 13, in the Medical
Museum, Surgeon Generals Office, 511
Tenth street, well known as the Ford
Theater Building, where President
Lincoln was assassinated, and here Mai.
Powell was elected president OF the club.
However, he held this Office but a short
time, for in one month, on January 13,
1879, Prof. Spencer F. Baird, secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution, was
elected for the full term of one year.
Eight years after the forming of this
scientific association, The Star, on
November 13, 1886, published an ac-
count OF the club, and though it may
not be without errors, yet in substance
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Early uiew OF the Dolly Madison House, home of the Cosmos
Club since 1886. - ~ ~

On August %, 1923, President Madi-
son bought the house at Madison place
and H street. At the time Of her hus-
bands death, in 1886, Mrs. Madison is
said to have been too poor to come to
Washington and occupy it and for
time she rented it successively to Attor-
ney General Crittenden, to William c.
Preston of South Carolina and to James
Roosevelt. She came to Washington in
1887 and resided on this corner until her
death on July IL, 1849
Lafayette Square must have been
quite rural in the late '3Os when Mrs.
Madison returned to this city. Indeed,
we can assume that this distinguished
lady was then the proud owner of a
cow. and that old sooky had the habit
OF straying away, to the annoyance of
her neighbors, for upon one occasion
when its owner was absent from the city
the COW, then being in the custody of
John Sioussat, we find Mrs. Madison
writing to him. saying:
Il am truly sorry, my good friend, that
the COW should behave so badly, but still
hope that she will return to the kind
protection OF your family-if she has
failed, however, to do so until this time
and you think it best, you will advertise
her as your own"
Queen Dolly
Mrs. Madison was often mentioned as
Queen Dolly, and as such she remained
until the last of her days, for at her
home, 1t Is said, "she was constantly
surrounded by the most distinguished
men of letters, statesmen, noble women
and especially military and naval heroes,
dispensing q generous hospitality, greet
ing all withsloving and cordial warmth,
while none sever entered her presence
without being enthused with the spirit
of national and historic patriotism. The
attendance upon her receptions and
levees, upon her birthday anniversary
celebration and upon our national holi-
dayf3sinti iax5lGn1f the nStsma
distant White House
: Mary scae9nx,aee. AmaA. perhaps best
known foF her writings duringathe civtl
Wak; fEiay of.Ntress.s5l
"Dtnins The eAnkliistration of hef i1ts-'
band she was openly declared the most
popular person in the United States and
now after the lapse of generations, after
hosts Of women, bright, beautiful and
admired, have lived, reigned, died and
are forgotten, Dolly Madison seems to
abide today in Washington living and
beloved presence. The house in which
her old age was spent and from which
she passed to heaven is every day
pointed out to the stranger as her
abode. Her face abides with us as a
friend. while her words and deeds are
constantly recalled as authority, un-
questioned and benign . ="
Writes her nephew, j. Madison Cults,
in 1898: