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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-03

FREDERICK BRETMEYER. JR
Finance Commissioner
Carried:
Yea Bruneel. Longstsff. Breitmeyer,
and DuBay.
Nay: None
Commissioners DuBsy- Breitmeyer NOV
ed that the several applications for ~
rious licenses be approved.
Carried;
and DuBsy.
Nay: None.
Commissioners Brunee l-Breitmeyer
moved that the several building spplica-
tions be granted subject 10 the approval
OF the City Engineer.
Yea Bruneel. Longstsff, Breitmeyer.
and DuBay.
Nay. None.
Commissioners Brunee -Breitmeyer
offered the following resolution and It's
adoption
WHEREAS. 1t has pleased Divine Prov
idence TO take from among us our dis
tinguished fellow citizen, Arthur G.. HIM,
who after a distinguished career depart
ed this life on July %. l943; and
WHEREAS, For long period of time
said Arthur C. HIM has been one OF the
leaders of this community, taking a
prominent part In the civic affairs and
serving with distinction a: City Com
missioner for four successive terms. from
1913 10 le<l, in which capacity as Com
missioner of Streets, Parks and Bculc-
wards, ne rendered distinguished and
valuable services TO the public. institute
ing the carrying on of many improve
ments for the benefit of the citizens of
the City of Mount Clemens: and
WHEREAS. Said Arthur C.. HIM like
wise was prominent in county affairs,
having served as under-sherin for the
County OF Macomb for a period OF sew
cral years, In which capacity he render
ed distinguished and valuable services
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-03

Afc. Agnes Powers played with
many New York show bands,
and Sgt. YVonne Bennington
was with the Philadelphia Wo-
mems Symphony.
WONDERFUL BRASS"
I've have wonderful brass
section" says Band Leader Mar
ierie Pickett of Mason City,
Iowa, which is unusual for wo-
men. And Sgt. Pickett is an un-
usual woman, herself A former
bassoonist and percuSsionist with
both the Mason City Band and
Women's Symphony Orchestra,
she's one of the few women TO
have been sent 20 the band
masters school at Fort Myer,
Va.
Any complaints from your
neighbors about the noise?" I
asked, and they let out a whoop:
HAVE WEI ---------
The main trouble, It seems, is
waking the other WACs long
before the s o'clock cannon.
And that's enough TO make
anyone loathe you" they chuck
led
We don't really do it on pur-
pose, but to be in the groove
by the time we have to play
reveille, we've got to get out at
$50 a. m. and parade up and
down the street to wake our
selves up and get the bugs out
of the band"
In spite of no KIP, the band
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-03
Mt Clemens
Commission
Proceedings

July %. l943
Commission Chambers
State OF Michigan
City Of Mt Clemens. IS
a. regular meeting of the City Com
mission OF the City OF Mount Clemens
held on the above date, there were pres
ent Mayor Westendorf and Commission
erS Bruneel, Longstaf, Breitmeyer, and
DuBay.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
Commissioners DuBsy Breitmeyer NOV
ed that the petition presented for the
closing OF the alley between High and
Clair Streets be referred 10 the City Al
tornev and City Engineer 10 report at
the next meeting.
Carried:
Yea Bruneel, Longstsn, Breitmeyer.
and DuBay.
NAY. None.
Commissioners Iongstaff- DuBay moved
that the report of the Finance Commis-
sioner be accepted, and the Mayor and
Clerk be, and they hereby are suthoriz-
ed and directed TO issue warrants against
the several funds therein named as fol-
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Senator Byrd Objects
To Examiners Unit
In Civil Service
=, Bill Authorizing Group:
Threatened by Criticism
Of Its Brood Powers

Legislation providing statutory
authority for the Board of Legal
Examiners in the Civil Service Com
mittee ran into opposition yester-
day before Senate subcommittee
when Senator Byrd, Democrat, of
Virginia charged the board with
having more power than the COM
mission itself.
Stating that the bill would make
the board the master" and the Civil
Service Commission the servant" /"
Senator Byrd said the board ap-
parently would be authorized to
pass on the legal eligibility of nearly
1000 lawyers in Government service.
The bill, which passed the House
in March, provided statutory au-
thority for the board. Without this
authority, it was said, no Federal
funds may be expended on the board
after the end Of this fiscal year
Wednesday.
Characterizing the board, which
was set up by an executive order, as
rather queer looking animal, -
Attorney General Biddle told the
committee the board should be given
legislative authority.
When Senator Byrd indicated his
objection, Mr.. Biddle suggested an
amendment which would provide
that the board operate subject to
the approval of the Civil Service
Evening star., 1943-06-27

the story, widely told and believed
in the American fleet. of the Jap
admiral who decided during a gale
that carrier piicts should have such
heavy weather experience. So he
ordered the whole carrier group to
take off in the teeth of the roaring
storms. Not one of them ever re-
turned to the ship.
Few of the combat trainees" de-
parting for Guadalcanal these days
ever get back to their bases. We'd
nesday's casualties we're about 90
per cent; No air force in history
ever took that kind of shellacking
You would not believe 1t If you
had not seen good deal of it, as
I did, and checked the whole of it
in talks with individual pilots and
their commanders. I had a long
discussion about it in that foxhole
the other night with Coils. Pugh
and Moore and Maj. John Condor
of Three Rivers, Mich.
After one of the disastrous Russell
sweeps I heard the Japs Short
waving from TOXIC, claiming to have
shot down SO Americans that day
and. lost only Japs. The actual
score was the other way around.
asked Col. Pugh what effect it would
have on Jap pilots based in the
Solomons, some of whom presumably
have short-wave sets and some Of
whom presumably understand Eng
lish. He agreed 1t should have a
deleterious effect on even the Orien-
tai psychology to hear from Toxic
that you had just won tremendous
victory when you knew perfectly
well that you had not.
Figures Declared Accurate.
But Col. Pugh secuted any sug-
gestion that our own figures could
be too optimistic. There was no
possibility, he said, that our figures
were much off. I had found air
intelligence willing to concede a
small margin Of error, but Coils.
Pugh and Moore and Maj. Condor
who are closer to the picture than
anybody else ON this island-in-
sisted that the first scores, the ones
that usually make the headlines,
Evening star., 1943-06-27
BY B. ]. McoUAID,

roreign CoTrespondent OF The Star and
Chicago Daily News.
GUADALCANAL, June 10 De-
laye6 Col. L. S. Sam. Moore.
U. s. NJ. c.. of Newton, Mass, stood
outside his tent and looked up at
the rays of the nearly full moon Al
tering through the jungle foliage.
1t was true bombers moon, with
no cloud In its way.
IF the Japs don't come down to-
night" he said, judiciously, they're
a pack of towards"
Ten minutes later the colonel and
and 1t. Col. Ed L. Pugh Of Chevy
Chase, Md, were In fox hole as Jap
motors droned overhead. For that
evening the Japs were proving that
they were no towards.
That is all they have proved in
the last fortnight Of attempted in
tensive air raids In the Guadal-
canal area. Nightly, the first week
was here. they sent down bombers
on missions. Guadalcanal is a big
island and where the bombs land
nobody knows. The closest to come
to the particular camp at which
this correspondent is billeted were
2 miles off, out in the jungle-a stick
of four.
Warning Signal Delayed.
That was the night that we did
not get the word" and the camp
siren sounded a few seconds before
the bombs dropped. We woke up
in time to hear the explosions and
then turned over in our sacks and
went back to sleep, not bothering to
go to the fox holes.
But If they do not hit anything
at night, neither do they lose many
bombers. Anti-aircraft keeps them
up, but seldom brings them down,
and our night fighters, so far, have
been little effective.
In the daytime it is a different
story. The authorities of this island
are just as puzzled as readers back
home must be by the suicidal eager
mes OF the Japs to come down here
and get slaughtered. Wednesdays
staggering setback was only the cli-
max. Prior to that, they had sent
down series of fighter sweeps to
the Russells and were butchered at
almost the same dozen-to-one rate.
There was at least a grain OF sense
to Wednesdays attempt because
there were few good shipping tar
gets, but the Russell sweeps seem
inexplicable by any sane standard
of warfare.
The explanation, which seems
fantastic but widely entertained by
our own air authorities, is that the
Japs launched their recent series of
mass attacks In the Solomons pri-
marily for the purpose of pilot
training. There is good reason to
suspect that the Japs have been
forced, by lack of instructors and
equipment, to abandon the inter-
mediate stages of pilot training.
Their pilots get a handful Of hours
in elementary planes, then switch
Immediately to combat types. 1t is
indeed rare when an American pilot
goes into an air battle with less than
800 hours to his credit.
Combat Considered Training"
Incredible as it SENS, the idea that
the Japs considered combat as
training" is no more fantastic than
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Beveridge 10 Speak Here
In United Nations Lecture

Sir William Beveridge, author of
the Beveridge postwar social Sc
curity report for Great Britain, will
be the principal speaker at an open
air meeting the night of July 5 at
the Sylvan Theater, held under aus
pices of the United Nations Lee
ture Series.
Included in the panel Of speakers
to follow Sir Williams talk are
Senator Murray, Democrat, of Mon
tana; Representative Dingell, DEM
ocrat, of Michigan, and Chairman
Arthur j. Altmeyer of the Social
Security Board. Mr.. Dingell is CO.
author, with Senator Murray and
Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New
York, of a bill to expand social
security.
In event of rain, the lecture will
be held In the Departmental Audi
toriura.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Col. Pugh Fomous
As MARYLAND Athlete

1t. Col. Pugh, Al, son of Mrs. z. L.
Pugh, ST., 4 Rosemary lane, Chevy
Chase, Nd, has been in the Marine
Corps since 1927. Before being sent
overseas last January he had been
stationed in San Diego, Calf, for
nearly three years.
He Is graduate Of the University
OF Maryland in the class of 1925,
going to the College Park institu-
tion from Tech High of. this city.
He was one Of Maryland's topnotch
athletes, being a member of the
noted Old Line eleven of 1923 which
defeated Penn and outplayed Yale's
Eastern championship team of that
year, only to lose, 16 to IA. He cap
tanned the 1924 eleven and the fol-
lowing spring was leader of the
track team, on which he was q star
quarter-miler and hurdler.
A brother. Capt. Michael Pugh, is
with the Army AIR Forces in Miami
Beach, Fla. Another brother, Char
lie Pugh, also . great athlete at
Maryland, was killed In a plane
crash at Hagerstown. Nd, 10 years
ago. He was an Army flyer.
1t. Col Pugh's wife, Mrs. Mary H.
Pugh, lives in California.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

Commission" instead Of Sin con-
sultation" with the commission.
Haste urged in the passage of the
bill .arose from a congressional re-
ausal te~Appropriate fsifthsr~funds
Jor the board until statutory au-
shortly was also given by the Senate.
In making available 0,ooo for
operation of the board for the cur
gent -1al year, House mana gsrss
In asfeeing, did so "withsthet under
standing that such authorization is
not to be regarded as giving perma-
nent status to this activity and that
appropriations for future years will
be dependent upon passage by Con-
gress OF substantive law authoriz-
ing a Board OF Legal Examiners. I"
The Senate group, subcommittee
OF the Senate Civil Service Com
mittee, will resume hearings tomor-
row.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Five Killed In Crash
OF 1axicab and Truck
By the Associated prees

By the Associated Press.
CREWE, VA, June 26.-Ffve per-
sons died here today In the wreck
age Of taxicab and lumber truck
which crashed head-on and burst
into flames.
c. L. Jennings, a local under
taker, said the collision occurred
just after the cab pulled out from
a parking area at an inn at East
Crewe on to Route 460. He identi-
fed the dead as:
Norman Hunter, Lynehburg, the
lumber truck driver.
Hugh johnson Main, Roanoke
driver OF the cab, which was from
Blackstone.
Leslie Hamilton Daniel, 80; Charles
Lawson Jeter, %, and Mrs. Ollie
Flowers Boisseau, "A, cab passengers
all of Crewe.
Mr.. Jennings said he believed the
victims were dead before the flames
enveloped the vehicles.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Forias Sees No Basis
For Collision CHARGES
In Elk Hills Deal
STANDARD Oil Contract
Ruised Issue of Public
Policy, Interior Aide Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Undersecretary OF Interior
Abe Fortas maintained yester-
day that there is absolutely no
basis in facts before us for sus-
picions or charges of 'collusion or
improper influence" In the now
Cancelled contract between the
Navy and Standard Oil Co. of
California for joint development
Of the Elk Hills petroleum re-
serve.
In a letter to the House Public
Lands Committee, now investigating
details of the contract and its abro-
CATION. Mr.. Fcrtas wrote that "the
sole issues are of law, business and
public policy" He said, however,
that the contract was against the
interests of the United States and
raised "a serious question of busi-
ness judgment"
Terms Of the Contract.
Under terms of the contract, he
said Standard would have had "an
exclusive right to the entire output
of the field in perpetuity," with
other oil companies "precluded from
this extensive supply of high grade
crude which is especially valuable
for aviation gasoline and for lubri-
eating oils"
"At the same time" he continued,
"since the available sources Of crude
oil on the West Coast are declining
at a rapid rate, the control OF Elk
Hills reserve by Standard may make
Standard an even more important
factor than 1t is now, in fixing the
prices Of refined products which the
Navy must buy. This control by
Standard over one Of the few re-
naming known West Coast oil re-
serves raises a serious question of
public policy"
1t was Mr.. Fortas who challenged
the contract after 1t was submitted
to him by Secretary of the Navy
Knox, via Secretary of the Interior
Ickes. 1t was then referred to the
President, who sent 1t to the Justice
Department which held it illegal.
Monopoly Question Raised.
Meanwhile, Assistant ATTORNEY
General Norman Littell, continued
his explanation of the contract,
From Representative Outland, DEM
ocrat- California, came the declara-
ton that the General Tenor" of
the committees investigation has
been an implication that the ar
rangements were made to give
Standard monopoly" over the Elk
Hills Oil.
He raised the question of whether
1t might not be "in the best in
terests of the United States" to have
a monopoly If the purpose was to
conserve oil in the ground, rather
than leave the fields In the hands
of several companies.
b Mr.. Littell responded that there
were circumstances under which
monopoly might prove desirable, but
added IF monopoly of this kind
Is created, then the Government
ought. TO create 1t and operate it,
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Roosevelt Is Thanked
By SfaIin for Praise
OF Russian People
Conditions Greeted for
Final Defeat Of Enemy,
Premier's Message Soys
BY the Associated Press.

BY the AssCciated Press.
LONDON, Sunday, June 27.--
Premier Stain Of Russia thanked
President Roosevelt for his high
estimation of the determination
and bravery of the Soviet people"
in special message broadcast by
the Moscow radio early today and
said that conditions have been
created for the final defeat of
the common enemy.
''The sooner we strike our Joint
united blows against the enemy
from the east and from the west"
the sooner final victory will come,
said Stalin's message, recorded here
by the Soviet monitor.
Stalin's statement was in reply
to a message which President
Roosevelt sent to the Premier last
Tuesday ON the second anniversary
Of the German attack on Russia.
Mr.. Roosevelt told Stain at that
time chat the same spirit of unity
and sacrifice necessary for ultimate
victory will animate us In ap-
preaching the challenging tasks of
peace"
The text of Stains special mes
sage:
II thank you for your high esti-
nation of the determination and
bravery of the Soviet people and
their armed forces in their struggle
against the Hitlerite invaders.
"As the result of two years Of
struggle on the part of the Soviet
Union against Hitlerite Germany
and Its vassals and of the serious
blows inflicted by the Allies ON the
italian and German armies In North
Africa, conditions have been Gre
ated for the final defeat Of the COM
mon enemy.
Victory will come all the sooner,
OF this l have no doubt, the sooner
we strike our joint united blows
against the enemy from the east
and from the west"
Stain sent similar message to
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek and
a joint one to Gems. Charles de
Gaulle and Henri Giraud.
Eduard Benes, president of the
provisional government of Czecho-
slovakia, was sent message signed
by President Michael Kalinin and
Jaul Henri Spaak, Belgian premier
in-exile, received one signed by For
eign Commissar Vyacheslaw Mol
otov.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
House Doe 10 Pass
SD. {. Bills Tomorrow
All Have Been Approved
BY Commissioners

Tomorrow is scheduled as District
day in the House. Five measures
are expected to be passed without
opposition, cleaning up the District
calendar before the recess.
The bills include: Reinstatement
OF William F. Fey, formerly a mem
Der of the Metropolitan police force
so he can resign to accept a Govern
ment position.
The so-called baby broker bill.
sponsored by Chairman Randolph
of the District Committee, covering
adoption of children. A similar
measure previously passed the
House but was pigeonholed in the
Senate.
A revised blackout bin which al
lows S25,0 of the Districts allo-
cation from the Lanham Fund to
be used for non-protective activi4
ties, such as victory gardens and to
provide supplies for volunteer home
defense organizations.
The bill, which has passed the
Senate covering the sale requiring
oOfCA O14I llOI &C l1lCdtyt- d&
such.
A bill to permit burial In Scot
tish Rite Temple, Sixteenth and r
streets NV, of two persons. 1t is
intended specifically to permit the
burial here of John H. Cowles,
grand commander. He was in
charge when the temple was built
Records show the temple is pat
termed after one in the Orient and
the tradition is that the man who
built the temple should be buried
there.
The Commissioners have appro<ed
all five of these measures and Chair
man Randolph has informed House
Leader Mccormack that they are
non-controversial and can be passed
within half an hour.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Jap Results in GuodolconoI Raids Described
AS Nothing but Proof They Aren't Cowords

almost always require upward re-
vision in our favor. Additional fig
ures, he explained come In from
pilots who get shot down after
shooting couple OF Japs and must
await rescue before turning in their
reports.
TT is no haphazard procedure. -
Col. Moore said. "A shootdown can
only be claimed by the pilot who
accomplishes it, or by his wingman,
who sees him do 1t. If either of
them attests that a plane burst into
flames and fell out of control--not
Just smoking, mind you, but in
f1ames-or that it was seen to hit
the ground or water in such a way
that the pilot must have been
killed, then, and only then, do we
allow score"
After talking with many indiyi-
dual pilots, am convinced that
they never exaggerate Intentionally
You could not talk with these grim
jawed, clear-eyed young Americans
and listen to their sober, undra-
matte accounts without knowing
how utterly sincere they are. Per-
haps there are . negligible number
of cases where two pilots shoot at
the same Zero and In the confusion
OF battle each thinks himself the
executioner. But offsetting this Is
the meticulousness with which q
pilot will claim half a Zero" giving
credit to some one else for an assist
ALI of which leaves unsolved the
mystery OF the recent Jap tactics in
this Solomons air war. They have
not done any daylight raiding since
Wednesday, but that is not enough
evidence to justify the conclusion
that they are less "eager beavers
than formerly. However, their fail
ure to come down last night, for the
first time In a week, was peculiar
1t was full bomber's moon, but all
we heard all night long was the sky
filling roar of our own bombers
heading north by the dozen to plas-
ter Jap bases.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Commissioners Call
Public Hearing on
Liquor Credit Edicf
Meeting Set for July 8
VIII Weigh Opposition
To Proposed Restriction

Representatives of the OPA as
well as the general public and all
persons holding licenses from the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
have been invited to attend hear
ing before the Commissioners at 10
am. July 8 on a no-eredit rule for
deals between beverage wholesalers
and retailers.
Decision to call such a hearing,
which will be held in the District
Building Board Room, was reached
by the Commissioners after spokes-
men for the Washington Restaurant
Association and the Washington
Hotel Association and some retail
dealers. had protested against the
cash rule adopted May 10 to be-
come effective July 10.
Directors have maintained the
no-credit rule would foster monop-
oily" and tend to increase the retail
price to the consuming public. Ger
tain District officials Yesterday de-
MED this would result.
They insisted the old DELAYED
payment plan amounted, in effect, to
something approaching a tied
house" condition since, for quantity
purchases, the retailer has been
given cheaper price by the whole
saler. They argued further that
the cash on delivery" rule was in
tended to eliminate hidden dis
counts and that wholesalers should
give open discounts for cash pay
ments.
OPA spokesmen have indicated
they would insist that cash pay
ment rule would be in violation of
the price-control program unless it
was accompanied by a decrease in
prices between the wholesaler and
the retailer. The Commissioners
have argued that if the OPA has
objections to the new rule it should
file them.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Three Corn Refineries
Close Despite U. 5.
Seizure OF Stocks
Similar Action Expected
At Other Plants Unless
Supply Is Found
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 26.-Two more
large corn processing plants closed
today because of q shortage of
grain and industry representatives
said still others would shut down
unless more corn became available
than the amounts involved in Gov-
eminent requisitioning.
The latest closure was of the
Clinton Co. syrup and refining plant
at Clinton, Iowa, where 1000 en-
ployes normally handle about 10 900
bushels Of corn daily.
American Maize Products Co.
confirmed that its only plant, at
Roby, Ind, unit equal In size to
that at Clinton, would halt opera
tions at midnight.
The factory of the Corn Products
Refining Co. at Pekin, Ill, suspend
ed earlier this week.
Another to Close.
Morris Sayre, executive vice presi-
dent of Corn Products, said the
company also would stop its Kan
sas City operations by the middle
OF next week unless corn became
Evening star., 1943-06-27
D. c. Man Elected Head
Of Aviution Writers

Wayne w. Parrish, editor and
publisher of American Aviation
Magazine and American Aviation
Daily, 1877 F street NV, was elect
ed president Of the Aviation Writ
ers Association yesterday in New
York.
He succeeds Sloan Taylor, aviation
editor Of the New York Daily News
and formerly member of the staff
OF the New York Herald Tribune.
Mr.. Parrish is a three-time winner
OF the aviation writer's award.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
81 D. c. Men 10 Begin
Army Duty Tomorrow

Eighty-two District men now on
furlough sfter induction into the
Army, Navy or Marine Corps will
report for active duty in their re-
spective services tomorrow.
Included in the group are 54 men
for the Army; 26 for the Navy and
two for the Marine Corps. The men
reporting 10 the Army were inducted
on June IA while those reporting to
the Navy and Marine Corps were
indicted June 81. The list follows: