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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-20

Doveli to spread havoc among
Japanese landing forces.
I'VE sighted the japanese at
1925 a.m.," said 1t. William
Nick Carter of Coushatta, La,
Catalina pilot.
The night was beautiful, the
moonlight exceptionally bright.
Within a half hour after sight
ing, both forces started firing,
with the enemy trying to break
off the engagement by revers-
ing his course.
The Japs headed back up the
slot Coward Bougsinville), zig
gagging violently. The leading
ship had been hit and heavy
smoke spread for miles. I'm
quite sure il wasn't screen as
it continued over the ocean for
miles.
Twenty minutes after the
start of the battle, our torpedo
planes came up. There was
ack-ack (anti-aircraft fire) from
both sides. The planes on each
side ignored one another. going
after the ships. We tailed the
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Tighten Grip
on Sea Lanes
10 Mainland
Sewage Aerial
Blows Shutter
City Of Foggia
BY REHMAN MORN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 20 -
up - U. S. Naval forces have
seized the islands of Lipari and
Stromboli TO control the sea
area between Sicily and lower
Italy, headquarters announced
today, as allied air and sea pow
er tore great new gaps in Italy's
vital railway system.
Stupendous air assaults shat
tered the industrial and rail-
way city of Foggia, across the
peninsula from Naples and 20
miles inland from the Adriatic
sea, in one of the heaviest raids
of the Mediterranean war. Fort
resses. LiberatorS, Wellingtons
and their escorts knocked down
"a enemy fighters in battles
there.
Occupation of. volcanic Lipari
and Stromboli Tuesday morning
put the entire Aeolian island
group in allied hands. Stromboli
is only 81 miles from Cape Vati-
cano on the Italian mainland,
and Lipari is 35 miles northwest
of Messina in Sicily.
British warships teamed with
air power in the hammer blows
to disrupt Italy's rail system -
a key of Italian defense - by
pumping tons of shells into Sea-
lea, on the west coast of the
Calabrian peninsula.
Wave upon wave Of heavy
British and American bombers
n n + ting upon Foggia
struck industrial ard communi-
lions areas in saturation raids
typical of attacks that wrecked
very important targets in Sic
lily.
u. S. Liberators from the mid
die east joined in the day and
night attacks on the city, 160
miles southeast of Rome.
Medium bombers blasted at
Sapri and Salerno, south of Ma
Piles, covering railroad yards
with interlacing patterns OF
bombs and fighter-bombers went
after the important communica-
tions point at Catanzaro, on the
sole of Italy's boot.
They shot down five more
axis fighters, and destruction Of
still another during the night
brought the allied bag for the
period to 40.
Seventeen allied planes were
lost during all activities.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-20
Poles Poised
10 Strike Foe
Two Tough Armies
Ready to Attack

LONDON. Aug. 20 - (R -
Two tough Polish armies bear
ing equipment supplied by the
United States and Britain and
containing powerful artillery
and parachute units are set to
spring against the Axis in Europe
when the signal for the allied
invasion is given.
The Polish government-in-
exile here, disclosing the exist
ence of these forces yesterday,
said their nucleus was formed
by survivors Of the Polish army
which nearly was wiped out
when the Nazis stormed through
Poland in September, 1889.
In that bitter ampaign, the
government said, the Poles lost
902, 095 men in killed, wounded
and missing.
Lieut.. Gen. Wladyslaw And
ers, 51-year-old hero of the bat
tie of Poland, who was wounded
three times, is in command Of
one of the armies, consisting Of
some 10000 men based In the
middle east. The other force.
with undisclosed thousands Of
men eager to drive back into the
continent, is stationed in Britain.
ii was said.
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King Speaks
10 Si(iIians
Assures People
of Reunion

LONDON. Aug. 90 - LP) -
King Vittorio Emanuele told
Sicilians in a proclamation
broadcast by the Rome radio to-
day that the present isolation of
Sicily from the rest of Italy
will not last for long" and he
made no mention of continued
prosecution of the war.
"a later broadcast by Rome
radio indicated the king was try
ing 10 forestall separatist
movement rather than TO imply
that peace was in the offing.
Quoting the the newspaper
II Messaggero, il said rumors
had reached Italy that the ST.
cilians were trying to set up
their own government; declared
that at the present moment
separatism is crime against
the mother country" Sicilians
have long been at best luke
warm toward having mainland
Italians as their chiefs of state }
The broadcast of the unbellig-
erent proclamation awas record
cd by the Associated Press.
The king opened his message
by recalling that Premier Pietro
Badoglio and former Premier
Vittori' Emanuele Orlando pre-
viously had addressed the Ital-
ian people.
II have lived with you this
terrible moment" he continued.
See KING-Page 5
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Explosion
Traps Eight
3 Others Decd;
10 Injured

KEARNY. N. J.. Aug. 20--(P'
A mass of rubble hid the fate
today of at least eight persons
believed buried in the ruins of a
three-story brick and concrete
building at the Congoleum-
Marin, Inc, plant after an explo-
sion and fire which left three
dead and 10 others injured, eight
critically.
Fire Chief Charles Burnett of
wark said steamshovels
would be used in the search of
the blackened, smoking heaps of
debris.
The blast late yesterday aft
ernoon rocked l0-mile area IN
the heart of war-busy northern
new Jersey and broke windows
in homes and stores within "a
mile radius of the sprawling
hnoleum products plant on the
banks of the Passaic river.
Fire which sprouted out from
the blasted No. II building
wrecked two other structures
before the flames were brought
under control last night.
"The building just blew sky
ward in cloud of wreckage
and then fell back to the earth
in pieces" was one of workers
description of the blast.
A spokesman for the COM
pany, which is headed by ". S.
Senator Albert w. Hawkes. (R-
ND as chairman of the board of
directors, said a check of work
ers homes indicated that eight
persons were missing but other
sources indicated the toll might
rise much higher.
Fire Chief Charles Burnett of
Newark said the explosion was
caused by dust from cork and
linoleum. He described the force
of the blast as more terrific
than dynamite"
The public relations officer of
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Jury'o Cover
Expanded Field
Moy Reoeh into
High Pieces

LANSING. Aug 20 - Up -
Attorney General Herbert j.
Rushton declared today his pc
tition for grand jury investiga-
ton of the legislature would be
sufficiently broad to allow the
inquiry to reach into high
places and that some embar-
RAISING fingers might be pointed.
He emphasized he did not
contemplate any general inquiry
into state government, but that
there was some reason TO believe
that the search for evidence to
prove or disprove rumors that
legislators have been paid and
offered brides might lead afield
TO some degree.
Already, he said, "three or
four" members of the legisla-
tors have given him statements
concerning improper use of mon
ely to influence the legislature.
Rushton said il might be
Monday before he completed his
petition for presentation TO Cir
cult Judge Leland w. Carr,
whose duty it would be TO deter
mine whether the document was
sufficient to warrant calling of
the inquisition. The attorney
general has no power to call a
grand jury, this being a duty re-
served to the courts.
See PROBE-Page 5
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Enemy's Dutch,
French Bases
Also Attacked
WhirIwind Attacks
Sweep Across
Grim Continent

LONDON, Aug. 20 - up -
Fast British mosquito bombers
again attacked targets in Ber-
lin last night while fl tiers
struck at airfields and railway
targets on the continent, it was
announced today.
The night raids o | ! o w d
blows by Allied planes, includ-
! American Flying Fortresses,
at four of Germans most inn
portant air bases in Holland and
France yesterday. A joint Brit
ish = American communique dis
closed so enemy aircraft were
shot down yesterday.
Intruders last night attacked
railway and airfield targets in
France and Belgium.
VlisSingen (Flushing) and Gill
ze-Rijen in Holland were bat
tered by American Flying For
tresses late yesterday afternoon
and "a enemy fighters were shot
down by the big bombers and
their escorts of U. S. and Allied
Thunderbolts and Spitfires, the
communique said.
The FortresSes accounted Tor
IS enemy fighters and their eS-
corts knocked down Is, the bull
letin declared. Good bombing
results were reported on both
targets. Four bombers mad two
fighters were lost, in these raids,
but the pilot of one was saved.
u. s. Marauders n d Raj
Mitchells earlier in the day had
blasted Nazi airfields at Polk
and Amiens Glissy in France.
The Americans spearheaded the
thrusts, with the British planes
following with a second pound
ing of the airfields at Polk.
WHIRLWIND BLOWS
Typhoons and Spitfires OF the
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BY DOUGLAS b. CORNELL

QUEBEC, Aug. 20 - (P) -
The Quebec war conference.
driving forward TO advance the
zero hour for invasion of the
European continent, produced
today strong, official indica-
ton that tremendous new oper-
atoms against Japan also are
in the making.
Brenden Bracken, British min
lister of information, supplied
it. He was the fist higl .parti-
cipant in the war cou ellis to
give any inkling OF what was
going on behind the guarded
portals Of Quebec's citadel,
where President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill are
mapping strategy which may
settle the fate of the world,
These plans" Bracken told
a press conference last night,
ARE to bomb and bomb and
ruthlessly destroy, in every way
available to us, the people re-
sponsible for creating this war"
His words were sufficiently
inclusive to embrace not only
the foe in Europe but also Jap
an, and he underscored them
by declaring that ITS all one
war"
SEES LONG WAR
Il think the war is going very
we'll indeed" the British cab
met member asserted, "but it
will last a long time and be a
very hard war.
when we have rounded up
Mr.. Hitler, the whole might of
the British empire will be given
over to the task of dealing with
the japanese, who are ruth
less. savage people.
I'VE will not lay down our
arms until we have completely
conquered Japan. The war won't
be over until Japan has reaped
the price of her treachery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-20
UIIrith Heads
the Old Crowd
Old Timers Hold
Colo Celebration

Francis G.. Ullrich is the new
ly elected president of the "Old
Crowd, whose 63rd reunion
was held at DenmarSh yester-
day. The new vice president is
Stanley Cady, with T. T. Shoe
maker serving again as Secre-
tary, and Arthur Donaldson
again the treasurer. Harry New
ton will be Chaplain; Albert
Glefke, fish locator; Tony Keils,
custodian of the bass drum; and
bandmaster, Fred Schock.
On the executive committee
are John Schelling, John Fred
erick. Gus Klockow, George
Smith, Sr., Harry Miller, Russell
OuBay, John Madou and Irwin
w. Egle.
NEW MEMBERS
Four new members were TAX
en- in by the club yesterday due
to four vacancies. (The mem
bership is restricted to 240.)
New members are William G..
Miller; Carl II. Glefke; John j.
Madou, Jr., and Otto K. Bart
ley.
Yesterdays celebration was
pronounced huge success by
all who attended. At the brief
meeting held for election of Of
fieers, tribute was paid to
the twelve members of the "Old
Crowd" who are now in the
Armed Services, and their
names were read by Secretary
T. T. Shoemaker.
A telegram was received yes
terday from Lieut.. q. g. Harry
Taylor in Miami, Florida, wish
ing the Old Crowd a successful
reunion.
The day was highlighted by
good food, and plenty Of it-plus
a program of entertainment by
Detroit radio stars. Approx
mately 100 attended the reun-
ion. which began at $50 in the
morning and lasted until $50
last night, when Aud Lang Syne
was sung at the John R. Muir
ply hotel.
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News i'm English
STOCKHOLM, AUG. 20

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 20 - (F)
- The Finnish information bu-
reau announced today in Helsin-
XII without explanation that
news broadcasts in English
beamed to America and Britain
would be increased while those
In the German, Italian, French
and Hungarian languages would
be discontinued.
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Say Children
Wrecked Train
Fireman Killed
in DeroiIment

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, Aug.
20-(P)-The curiosity of three
small boys, two of them five
years old and one six, was
blamed today for the derailment
here Thursday of the New York
Central's Wolverine passenger
train and the death OF its fire
man.
Police Inspector Albert F.
Scheiern said he was convinced
the wreck was caused by stones
the boys told him they placed on
See WRECK-Page 5
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Lure of Fishing
Ends in Tragedy
for & Year Old

1t took him all day yesterday
to make the fishing pole, but
when he was through, six-year-
old Anthony Robert Lyle was
quite proud Of it. He then paint
ed the pole, and without waiting
for il to dry, went out at $50
last evening 10 try it out. Some
time later a small dead body
with tell-tale paint on its hands
was found by Don Beldon, of
4251 Dequindre road, in an open
drain on II 1-2 Mile road.
Anthony, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Lyle, of 1888 Dequindre
road, had apparently slipped off
See BOY-Page 5
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Needs Guards

DETROIT, Aug. 20 - Up -
CIO dairy workers resumed a
protective guard today at the
Johnson Milk Co. headquarters
in Hamtramck, scene of fight
with ALL pickets earlier this
week, after reports last night
that women employees in II dis
tributing depots OF the company
were threatened with violence.
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1000 JAPS JOIN ANCESTORS

OF carrying several hundred men.
Possibly some Japanese reached
shore as the cove is suitable for
landing, but not in any great
number.
SCATTER FLOTILLA
The japanese approached In
single file but spread out as our
naval forces appeared and open
ed fire. There were four enemy
destroyers.
Immediately after the first
shot was fired, the first Japa-
nese ship. larger than the rest,
was enveloped in pillows of
smoke.
Outstanding during the half
hour engagement was the use of
our Marine-flown torpedo bomb
ers which gave the Japanese a
working over after our Navy
turned on the barges entering
Doveli Bay.
Our Catalina flying boats. act
ing as scouts, were fired upon
over Doveli Bay by Japanese
barges. The Catalinas signaled
our ships, which then entered
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Selfridge
Field WAACS
Become WAC

The Army oath was to be ad.
ministered at $50 this afternoon
TO members OF the WAAC Post
Headquarters detachment at
Selfridge Field by Col. William
l.. Boyd, commahdant.
The girl-soldiers, thus trans
ferring from the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps become full
fledged members of the Army
under the designation Women's
Army Corp.
The local WAC detachment,
See WAC-Page 5
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Fatal Plane Crash
Probed by Officers

Authorities this afternoon
were investigating the crash Of
an airplane at IL a. m. today ir
in which the pilot was fatally
injured near the intersection Of
Moravian Drive and Utica road
Identity of the dead pilot wa:
not Immediately revealed pend
ing completion of the investiga
ton.
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Charge Upheld

NEW YORK, Aug. 20-tP)-
The United States Circuit Court
Of Appeals upheld unanimously
today the conviction of Anthony
Cramer, -, German-born York
Vile mechanic, for treason in
aiding two Of the eight Naxi
saboteurs landed by subms line
in the United States in June,
1912. Cramer was sentenced
last Dec. 2 to IS years In prison,
and fined $4,000.
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LONDON, Aug. 20-(Pl-A
Reuters dispatch from Stock
holm quoted advices from Bern
today as saying that communica-
tions between Italy and Switzer-
land had been put under Ger
mn military control.
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Ration ViOIatOrS

DETROIT, Aug. 20 - up -
Eight Southern Michigan firms
were directed by the Office Of
Price Administration today to
appear next week at ration sus-
pension hearings scheduled as a
result Of alleged violations.
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NEW DELHI, Aug. 20-tP)-
Royal Air Force Mohawks in a
bombing sweep along the Chin
dwin river in Burma yesterday
blasted the Japanese held town
of Mawlaik, north Of Kalane, a
British communique said today.
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Naval Strength

WASHINGTON, Aug. Pop
The Navy reported today that
total personnel strength of the
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard is 2,248,400. instead OF o.
666,500 as recently announced.
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Lower Rate

DENVER, Aug. 20 - Up -
Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, u.
s. Army surgeon general, de-
clared yesterday that the death
rate of u. s. soldiers in evacua-
ton hospitals behind the front
lines is averaging from ga to
ga per cent compared with
1719 per cent in the last war.
H credited the decrease chiefly
to blood plasma.
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u. s. File ET SEXES ITALIAN ISLAND:
late X X X
bulletins
Ship Disabled

CLEVELAND, Aug. 20-[P)
The passenger steamer East
ern States, bound from Detroit
to Buffalo with approximately
500 passengers and crew, today
was disabled by engine trouble
about as miles northeast OF
Cleveland Harbor.
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Mission Arrives

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-tP)
--(P)-A British military mis-
sion containing officers of the
land. sea and air services has
arrived here for consultations
regarded as laying the ground
work for future Y. S.-British op-
erations against Japan.
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Japs Remembered
in Quebec Talks
Powerful New Blows in
Pacific Hinted by Briton

Every ounce OF strength
we've got we intend to use
against Japan"
He gave a hint, too, that the
strength probabl.- would be
See WAR PLANS-Page )
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impartial Coverose
Of All LoeoI News
Evening star., 1943-05-08
Norgoord
Continued From First Paee.)

armored force we'll south of the
British path of advance In the
vicinity OF Bir Meherga.
Speed Disrupts Germans.
There appeared little doubt also
that the speed of the attack seri-
ously disrupted German plans for
an orderly withdrawal toward Cap
Bon and the beaches from which a
"Dunkirk' might be attempted.
For the first time in recent weeks
Allied air forces found plenty of
good targets on roads in the rapidly
dwindling Axis foothold in Africa.
Transports speeding eastward were
attacked throughout the day and
mission after mission landed to re-
port the destruction of vehicles.
In the words of staff officer, the
air support was terrific, indeed
more than we could have asked"
Increasing hundreds of prisoners
were being rounded up and herded
back to the rear as the British pur-
sued the fleeing foe.
From some of them came reports
that picked German reinforcements
had been flown to Tunisia from
Sicily as late as three days ago
ample evidence, in the view of OBJ
servers here, that the German COM
mand had slight warning of the
tremendous assault.
Evening star., 1943-05-08
Gable Shoots Movies
From Fortress on Raid
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 8.-The hands of
Capt. Clark Gable, Hollywood star
now with the United States Air
Forces, nearly froze while he was
shooting movies from a Flying Fort
ress during raid Tuesday over
Antwerp, members of his unit said
today.
During the attack-his first
Gable wore leather gloves under his
electrically heated ones, and this
kept the warmth from his hands,
Contrary to earlier reports, the
plane was not damaged. The crew
members said a German 2o-milli-
meter shell smashed through it's
nose, but none of the men was seri-
ously injured.
The actor, a gunnery captain. rode
IN the radio compartment. Crew.
men said he shot pictures through
the planes roof hatch and bomb
bay doors and probably got a good
picture of an escorting Spitfire hur-
Ting down in flames.
Evening star., 1943-05-08
Rent Control Changes
Spur 10 Ownership,
Urged by Realtors
National Boord Asks
OPA to Rescind
Down-Poyment Rule
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO May 8.-The Board of
Directors of the National Associa-
ton of Real Estate Boards today
recommended changes in Federal
rent control encouragement of home
ownership as an ti-inf1ationary
measure and early arrangements for
disposal of surplus Federal proper
ties during and after the war.
The proposals, outlined in the
associations statement on policies,
were announced after conference
on wartime real estate problems.
Declaring that the association s
previous recommendations for al
terations in the administration of
rent control had been rejected, the
statement said, I'VE pledge that
this association will continue to
press these demands upon both the
administration, OPA and upon the
Congress"
The statement said that rents
have been held rigidly to 'prewar
levels while other prices have beer
permitted to advance" and millions
Of small property owners whom we
represent feel deep sense of in
justice"
Rent control revisions recon-
mended included the resembling by
OPA of the one-third down pay
ment and 90-day stay clauses re-
lating to property purchases; locaI
participation in the administration
and "a fair administrative attitude
to property owners on the part OF
the OPA."
Evening star., 1943-05-08
Swedish Track Star Eager
To Aid u. 5. War Relief
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, May s.-Gunder
Haegg, famed Swedish middle-dis-
tance runner, who is waiting here
for transportation to the United
States, today expressed his eager
ness to compete in American meets
for war relief purposes.
Il am ready to run," said Haegg,
especially if it helps war invalids
or other victims of the war"
He denied published reports that
he was unwilling, as a neutral, to
run in meets put on for war relief
purposes.
There were indications that the
runner might leave tonight on the
first leg of his trip.
In New York. Dan Ferris. secre-
tary- treasurer of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union, has said that all ben
ef1ts from meets in which Haegg
competes would go to the Air Forces
Aid Society,"