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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
36 Orphan
Girls Die
i'm Blaze

CAVAN, Fire, Feb. "a -(P)-
Thirty-six orphan girls, ranging
in age from four to 10, were
burned to death in a fire that
destroyed the Cavan Province
Orphanage early today.
The institution housed 81.
The blaze began in a laundry
and spread quickly, trapping the
children in dormitory. One
section of the building collapsed
and the bodies were buried in
the debris.
Up until noon today 10 bodies
had been recovered.
Soldiers helped Cavan and
Dundalk firemen carry the ma
jority of the children to safety.
Some were taken down ladders
hoisted against the burn n 6
building.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
u. s., British
Force Germans
Into Mountains
Bombers Smosh
Roods Used
for Withdrawal
Bv YVES GALLAGHER

ALLIED HeAOQUARTER
IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. "a
Jap American ond Brit.
ish forces, otter q bitter three
doy bottle, have hurled Mar.
shall Erwin RommeI's fIoodtide
Of ornor back into the noun
toms Of the kosserine gop in
central Tunisio under q hoil
Of bursting bombs from hun.
dreds Of planes.
The German chieftain is in
full retreat. field reports said to-
day. after his tanks had surged
to within three miles of Thala,
key road junction to the upper
plains of Kremansa, and his bat
tered armor was reported at
tempting to make a stand only
three miles from the mouth OF
the twisting gap from which he
sailed for his Attempts to crack
the Allied front in Tunisia.
RETREATS IA MILES
t. (Ronamel> thus had been forced
to drop back at least IA miles
from the highwater mark Of his
advance. Thala is Is miles
north of Kasserine. The KAISER
inc Pass is five or six miles long
and is northwest of Kasserine).
An Allied headquarters COM
munique said the backwash Of
the Rommel thrust began early
yesterday after American and
British forces had successfully
stood off his attacks during three
days of heavy fighting.
Our infantry and armored
See RETREAT-Page z
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Public Invited
10 Program '||'
Red Cross OfficoI
Principal Speaker

The public today was invited
to attend a lecture tomorrow
night in the high school audi
forum by Carl H. Myers, veter-
an American Red Cross official
just returned from Is months in
the Orient.
The program will start at 8:l5
p. m.
The varied program Will in
clude several old-time favorites
to be sung by the Kiwans quar-
tet composed of c. II. r. Mac
Kenzic, II. Spencer Roys, Henry
Tryloff and Harold West in ad-
dition to stunts by Al Hameis-
ter.
of Myers assignments
while in the Orient was the
evacuation last May Of millions
of dollars worth of Red Cross
supplies over the Burma Road
into China Just ahead of the in
vading Chinese.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
County Republicans
10 Honor Judge Reid
PIon Bouquet for
Evening Of March IS

Feting the recent unanimous
nomination of Circuit Judge
Neil E. Reid, as a candidate for
election to the Michigan Su-
preme Court, Macomb county
Republicans will attend q BAN
quet on the evening of March
Is in his honor.
William Tegeder, chairman of
the Macomb County Republican
Committee, in announcing plans
to honor Judge Reid, said that
Hugh Neale would serve as mas
ter of ceremonies and that
prominent speaker, yet to be ar
ranged for, will highlight the
program.
The banquet will be held at
the Methodist church in Mount
Clemens at 7 p. m, Tegeder said.
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of the funds for such "decoy SOL
diers and dummy guns" Or it
might be a separate measure in
itself.
HE'S A DUCK HUNTER
For the War Departments ex-
PLANTATION that the use of dummy
gun emplacements to confuse
enemy agents was standard mill
tary strategy failed to ease the
mind of Cooley-an old duck
hunter, himself.
"When / place out decoys, I
expect to attract ducks" he told
the House yesterday in disclos-
ing his discoveries. And when
/ place out decoy soldiers and
decoy guns. l would expect to at
tract enemy planes"
I'm high heavens, why have
they been placed over our
head?" He asked his colleagues
as they considered a billion dol
lar Naval shore construction bill,
which he said caustically he
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Gen. R0MMEL'S LEcI0NS RETREAT
UNDER HAIL OF BURSTING BOMBS
Adverse
R!ulinsHits
County

LANSING, Feb. "a - (P) -
The Supreme Court Tuesday
held tax revenues supporting the
Huron-Clinton metropolitan au-
thority should be based on the
real property valuations deter
mined by the State Board of
Equalization, instead of valu-
atoms determined by local as
SCISSORS, a financial victory for
Wayne County over the other
four embraced in the authority.
The agency was created by
statute to foster recrcational and
parkway development in Liv-
ingston, Wayne, Macomb, Oak
land and Washtenaw counties,
with power to levy taxes to fl
See RULING-Page 2
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Former Trucker
Seeks City Post
Harold loxen Cites
His Qualifications

Harold Lozen, SO, of 22O Riv-
erside Drive, in announcing his
candidacy for the Mount Glenn
ems city commission, said today
that he has the experience suited
to proper administration of city
affairs.
A native Of Mount Clemens,
Lozen has engaged in the truck
ing business for Is years he
says, pointing out that during
that period he spent portions of
IL years doing city work.
He has recently suspended his
trucking operations and is now
engaged in defense work.
MY experience-should be
worth something to Mr.. and Mrs.
Voter" Lozen said today, land,
if l receive the necessary sup
port at the polls / will devote
myself intellectually to the
public's best interests"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Expect Visit

LONDON, Feb. "a - (PJ -
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
told the House OF Commons to-
day that 1--WE have some reason
to believe and every reason to
hope" that Madame Chang Kai-
shek will visit England before
returning to China. The wife of
the Chinese generalissimO is at
present visiting in the United
States.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

hoped wouldn't provide cash
for painted ships, upon painted
oceans-or for wooden guns
Cooley also was curious as to
why his unsanctioned rooftop
ramble drew no sentry's chal-
lenge or rifle fire. He said "a
dozen" entrances to the build
ing we're left unguarded, even
late at night when Congressman
must produce their credentials TO
enter the front door.
USE FRONT DOOR
IL suppose that they think all
the saboteurs are going in the
front door," said he.
Representative Bender. Ohio
Republican. and Henry Griffin,
Associated Press photographer,
confirmed Cooley's story with a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
5000 Ration
Books Issued
Job Holt Done.
Fost Predicts

With an estimated 5000 copies
of War Ration Book No. 2 al
ready issued at Mount Clemens
High school on Monday and
Tues day, Superintendent L.
Wade Fast predicted today "the
registration job is about half
DONE
He said registration hours at
the high school today and to-
morrow will be from l to S p. m.
and from Z to 8 p. m, adding
that few householders appear to
register from $3.50 to 5 and from
6 to 9.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
One Dead, Four Hurt
in War Plant Accident

KALAMAZOO, Mich, Feb. "a
up - One man was fatally
burned and four others suffered
first. second and third degree
burns in Kalamazoo's most Sc
rious wartime industrial acct
dent Tuesday night. A heavy
ladle of molten metal spilled on
the men as they we're at work at
the Centrifugal Steel Casting
Company.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

trip to the rooftop and pictures
of the dummy guns and gunners,
which look so realistic that they
have sent many a shiver up the
spines of Capitol sightseers.
Meanwhile, slightly cautious
Congressman took a closer look
today at the sentries who guard
the Capitol grounds-and per-
haps relaxed a bit to note that
their rifles and bayonets looked
very busineSSlike.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Claim Sinkings

BERLIN, Feb. "a - P) - A
German High Command COM
munique asserted today that a
group OF German submarines in
an attack on a strongly-protect-
ed convoy in the Atlantic sank
II ships totalling 100000 tons
and in addition torpedoed three
steamers. The date of the at
tack was not given and there
was no confirmation of il from
Allied sources.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
sAbSenteeiSnl Up'

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a tip
- Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins, in an opinion laid be-
fore Congress today, said that
absenteeism among factory
workers lis going up," but said
discharge of offending workers,
while punishment, Is mot neces-
sarily correction"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Splendid Concert Raises
81, 600 for Uniform Fund

pills rest from their outstanding
ly successful band and orches-
ira concert in the auditorium
last night.
Playing &c packed auditor
ium, the pupils proved that
there is a wealth of musical
talent among them, and brought
new laurels for tfcir teacher
and director, Samuel Y. Barba-
koff. Another $1,000 j. needed
to assure purchase of the uni
forms.
More than 1900 persons
damned the auditorium, causing
the sale of tickets to be cut off
Is minutes before curtain time
when the SRO sign was hung
out.
The strains Of the Star Spang-
led Banner opened the program
at Is seconds before 8 o'clock -
an innovation in itself - to pre-
face an evening of music for
every taste.
TRAINING GROUPS
A remarkable demonstration
of accomplishment was evidenc-
cd by the training groups in both
band and orchestra, which open
ed the program. Most of these
students first began study of in
strumental music only four
months ago, yet their presenta-
tons were well-integrated and
unsteady really worthwhile.
The training band of 56 hit a
peak in the closing March. The
See CONCERT-Page 2
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Seeks Mandate

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-(P)
- Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard asked Congress today
for a "cIcar mandate "immedi-
ately" to proceed with his an
nOunced 1943 farm production
program along lines intended to
raise farm income without rails
ing prices to consumers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Will Construct $4,000
Building in County

The War Department award
cd to the Atkin Fordson Com
pany of Detroit contract un-
der $4,000 for construction of
temporary frame buildings in
Macomb County. The work will
be directed by the Detroit Army
Engineers office. No further de-
tails were disclosed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Churchill Better

LONDON, Feb. "a - (H) -
Prime Minister Churchill, who
has been kept to his bed by acute
catarrh, was reported well Oh
the way to recovery today. His
temperature was normal and he
was said to have had q good
night.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

MOSCOW, Feb. "a R -
The Red Army smashed deeper
today into the northern Ukraine
northwest Of kharkov where the
capture Of Sunny, Lebedin and
Akhtyrka fashioned 4 Soviet
bludgeon aimed at Kiev and the
important railway junction of
Konotop.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
NaZiS Lack Oil?

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a Up
- Belief that Germany's smash
ing setback in Russia could be
attributed to the lack of oil to
keep its hard-striking motorized
divisions moving was advanced
today by Bruce X. Brown, assist
ant deputy petroleum admins
traitor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Next Sugar Ration
Slightly Reduced

WASHINGTON. Feb. "a Up,
- A slight reduction in the next
sugar ration will cntitle each
person to five pounds for the
l1-week period beginning March
Is. This compares with the for
mer basic ration of one half
pound per person per week.
Stamp No. IL good for three
pounds, becomes invalid March
Is.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

Hundreds Of Macomb county
motorists face the possibility of
being without gasoline after
March l. Olin Davis, chief clerk
for the Macomb War Price and
Ration Board, predicted today
after only 5000 of 10000 auto
owners had applied for new sup
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Drivers License Bureau
10 Close on Thursday

The drivers license bureau on
the 18th floor of the county
building will be closed all day
Thursday, it was announced to-
day. Those desiring licenses may
obtain them that day at the
Romeo State Police post.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Ask Shoe Limit

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-(P)
Price Administrator Prentiss
NJ. Brown asked stores today to
limit the sale of nOn-ratiOned
shoes to one pair to a customer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
Warns Germany

LONDON, Feb. 24-(P)-The
House of Commons cheered
Deputy Prime Minister Clement
r. Attlee's reiteration today of
Britain's determination to re-
taliate promptly against any use
Of poison gas by Germany.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
BY MARY E. TAYLOR

DAILY Mopitor- Leader Staff Writer)
More than $1,000 today was
in the fund for uniforms for the
Mount Clemens High school
band, as ITS instrumental pu-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

Re-elect Tom Longstaff for City
Commissioner. He deserves an
other term. Vote for him March
]. ADV.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

City Commission needs new
blood. Angelo Fisher should be
nominated. Vote for hin1AMarch
1. ADV.
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late X X X
bulletins


WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-(P)
Farmers were authorized to-
day to get gasoline ratiOns for
their tractors and other non
highway equipment for six
months at a time, instead Of the
present three months basis.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. "a

PHIL ADELPHI Feb. 81
Up A family Of three ON
Philadelphia's main line de-
clared 1902 excess cans Of
food in its application Tor
War Ration Book No. 3, ra-
tioning officials reported to-
day. All the y eight point
coupons Of the three books
were removed, leaving . fetal
of 4,430 eight-pointers - -
taken from subsequent ratioa
books. James Beighle, princi-
pal at the school where TIE
family registered, estimated
that the current rate Of meath.
~ coupon use. Il would take
the family more than II years
to supply the coupons remain
ing to be deducted.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

TECH. SERGT. Alidoor Baert-
socn. 50, formerly of Selfridge
Field, was killed in action some
where in the European area on
an unreported date, the War De-
partment notified his wife. An
ma. of AZ Dorothea street, on
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

For the convenience Of it,
readers, The Daily Monitor
Leader again prints . Reproduce
ton of the consumer declaration
which each applicant must bring
with him to register. To speed
the job, the declaration should
be field out at home. II ap-I
pears on page 2.
In addition. each applicant
must bring each War Unttea
Book for each person ~ Whom
he II applying for Be- !;
The reeigtTutton G.
Other county rne3 q
His6 sdhoel totay -
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

lmportiol Coveross
OF All loeol News
Evening star., 1943-02-14
BY LISBETH SOLLING.

Maj. Ruth Cheney Streeter, di-
rector of the new Marine Corps
Women's Reserve and a Boston
blood, who now holds down a
paid job for the first time in her
Al years, met the press with ven-
geance yesterday First she was
guest of the American Society Of
Newspaper Editors at a Willard
Hotel luncheon, then she held con-
ference with the working press in
the Navy Department..
At the press conference, Mai.
Streeter was escorted by Brig. Gen.
L. w. T. Waller, jr., director of the
Marine Corps Reserve, and Brig.
Gen. Robert L. Denig, Division of
Public Relations.
Flanking her were three women
Marine officers: Capt. Anne A.
Lentz, wife of Brig. Gen. job. Lentz,
U. S. A; Capt. Charlotte D.
Cover of Kankakee. Ill, Phi. D. and
anthropologist, who was captured by
| the japanese in China and later was
exchanged as prisoner of war, and
1t. Louise Stewart of Villa Nova, Pa,
graduate of Wellesley College and
former associate editor of the
Ladies Home Journal, now public
relations officer.
Mrs. Streeter is a tall, attractive
woman with firm chin, soft wavy
hair and easy cordiality of manner.
She wears no lipstick. This was her
NJ ~,
and it looked trim and smart. The
skirt and single-breasted suit Jacket
are of forest green serge; shirt and
tie are regulation sand colored, and
the peaked cap is of the same green
fabric with the Marine bronze device
and red cord tied in front. The
only piece of Marine Corps fam
boyance is a fire-red scarf worn
around the neck with the great-coat.
0e.s Announces Goals.
MAI. Streeter announced the i'm
mediate recruitment goal of / 900
officers and 1900 enlisted personnel.
Some 5000 women Marines eventu-
ally may do aviation ground work.
To help establish the corps, the
Navy Department has permitted 20
WAVES officers to be discharged
from their service branch and enter
the Marine Corps.
The first members of the Marine
Corps Women's Reserve will make
up class of rs officer candidates to
enter the WAVES training school at
northampton, Mass, March 6. and
$50 enlisted personnel to enter Hun
ter College in New York City March
IL. Asked why the women are to
be called Marines and not q nick
name like WAACS, WAVES or
SPARS, Mrs. Streeter said:
we thought the name Marines
pretty distinctive in itself and we
didn't find any nickname we con-
sidered suitable
The Women's Reserve had experi-
enced considerable difficulty obtain
ing material for uniforms. When
the present supply of 5000 yards of
l2-ounce serge is used up, a green
er l3-ounce serge will be used.
summer uniforms are still being de-
signed. There will be no dress uni
1orms in blue "for the duration" be-
cause OF fabric shortages.
Mrs. Streeters husband, Thomas
w. Streeter, is retired lawyer and
banker. The couple has two sons
IN the Navy, one in the Army, and
daughter, Lillian, attending fin
ishing school in New York. Mrs.
Streeter holds an air pilots license,
but sold her plane last year for lack
Of gasoline priority.
About her home in fashionable
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Five From Nearby States
Reported Missing in Action

Four Virginians and one Mary
lander are among 110 American SOL
dlers from 35 States who are missing
IN action in the African, South Pa
clflc and Southwest Pacific areas, the
War Department disclosed yester-
day.
Pvt. Ernest F.. Shrewsbury brother
OF Mrs. Mary Johnson of Baldwin,
Md, is missing in the South Pacific.
Two Virginians missing from the
Southwest Pacific are Pvt. James T.
De Witt son of Mrs. Eunice E. De
Witt of Cooper Hill, and Sergt. John
F. Ratlif, son of Mrs. Eta Ratliff
Of Vansant.
Two other Virginians are missing
after African operations. They are
Staff Sergt. Ohio C. Hundley of CAL
lands, whose mother is Mrs. Annie
Wright Hundley, and Technical
Sergt. Alfred E. Montgomery of Rose
Hill. His next in kin was given az
Elondous Montgomery of Rose Hill.
Presumed to be prisoners of war.
the ITO named include 7 officers and
D enlisted men missing in Africa,
4 officers and II enlisted men miss
ing in the South Pacific, and IA off,
GERS and 50 enlisted men missing in
the Southwest Pacific.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Moormon Will Tighten Links
In District Rotioning Setup
New Chief Promises
Innovations und
Improvements

A promise that loose links" in
the Districts rationing organiza-
tior would be frightened up "as time
goes on was made yesterday bv
Heath C. Norman, as he took up
his duties as chief rationing officer
for the District.
Mr.. Norman, whose appoint
ment was announced Friday by
Robert K. Thompson, District OPA
director refused to be more specific
in defining these loose links" but
he said he did not believe any ma
jor changes were needed in the
District system.
He also declared there would be
some innovations and improve
ments" in the setup within the next
few weeks. Chief of these, he said,
would be plan to provide for
closer cooperation among the Dis
trict and nearby communities in ad-
mlnistering rationing programs.
We are going to try to achieve
more uniformity in the methods
used by the various rationing boards
included in the Metropolitan Area ."
he said. 1--WE hope to do this by
meeting with representatives of
boards in Prince Georges and Mont
gomery Counties in Maryland and
Arlington and Fairfax Counties and
Alexandria in Virginia. Such meet
lngs will be held several times a
mCnth."
Capitalization Plan Dropped.
Mr.. Norman, who has been as
soclated with the national and re-
glonal offices of OPA since Nav
le4l. said the proposal to combine
the operations of all the boards in
the area into a centralized organiza
ton definitely had been abandoned
nevertheless, the need for closer
COORDINATION among the rationine
authorities here and in nearby COM
mun1ties still exists" he said.
Inc new rationing chief said he
was agreeably surprised to find the
10 area rationing boards in the Dis
trlct were functioHng efficiently,
Il visited three boards at random
on Friday he explained, land I
discovered that, despite the flood of
mall that comes in. they all are
getting their replies out on a three
DAY basis. It takes the national
office about three weeks to answer
a letter"
Mr.. Norman said he does not
contemplate making any changes in
personnel at the present time, ex-
cept to add to his staff if he nos
slbly can. He pointed out that the
entire rationing system in the Dis
trlct was working short-handed.
Mr.. Moorman joined national OpA
as a steel consultant. In November
l94l, he became executive assistant
TO the regional director of Region
z, and served in that post until
his appointment as rationing chief
here. His duties as regional officer
comprised liason work between locaI
offices in the District, Maryland ano
Delaware, the regional Office in New
York and the national OPA.
1t was during this time that Mr.
Norman became associated with
Mr.. Thompson. who was executive
assistant to OPA Leon Henderson
before he became District OPA di-
rector.
Mr.. Norman was born in Roa-
noke, Va, and came to the District
in 1907. He was educated in public
schools here, and from 1919 to 1926