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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-11
Pedestrian
Dies in Crash
Six Others Hurt
Over Weekend

An l8-year-old Center Line
pedestrian was killed and a
least six persons were injured
including three pedestrians, ir
traffic accidents on Macomt
county highways over the week
end.
Charles Givilt, of 5297 1C
Mile road, died at Saratoga Hos
pital, Detroit, at 8;35 am. to-
day, seven hours after he was
struck.
The injured:
George Dulaney. Is, Alb Gar
dendale avenue, Ferndale.
Roy Adams. Sc, 1886 IL Mile
road, Roseville.
Roy Card. Sc, 1920 Scheurer
road, New Haven.
Elsie Card, 81, same address.
Leonard Malay, 90, Detroit.
Nick Schroudt, 33, PISS Flor
al avenue, Armada.
Givilt and Dulaney were at
tempting to cross Van Dyke ave-
nue. at Rivard street in Warren
township at 1853 a. m. today
when they were struck by car
driven by Mrs Esther F. Swiez-
kowski, "a, $3.50 Emily street,
Detroit.
Both men were rushed 10
Saratoga hospital where Givilt
failed to regain consciousness,
His injuries were diagnosed as
possible fractured skull and in
ternal injuries.
Mrs. Swiezkowski, a singer at
the 10th Century Bar, Maxwell
at Van Dyke, said the two men
darted out from behind park
ed car as she and Mrs. Elizabeth
Richards, of 1925 Evanston av-
enue, Detroit, were driving
south on Van Dyke.
She was questioned by Assist
ant Prosecutor Fred Van Fleter-
an and released.
Adams, also a pedestrian, was
walking east on II Mile road IN
Roseville when he was struck
from behind by a car driven by
James Krause, %, of l643l IL
Mile road. Adams was taken to
St. Joseph's hospital with leg in
juries at $50 a. m. today.
Card and his wife were hurt
ut 2:25 p. m. Sunday when
Cards car and one driven by
Harry Sakowski, 10, $40 Ha-
gen road, New Haven, collided
At the intersection of Hagen and
Schuerer roads in Chesterfield
township. The Cards were taken
TO st. Joseph's hospital, where
Mrs. Card was treated for bro
ken collar bone.
Malay was rushed to st. Jo-
seph's after a car in which he
was riding with Hal v. Smith,
II, Detroit, hit a utility pole on
Cratiot avenue near Euclid ave-
nue. in Mount Clemens at 3:42 a.
m. Sunday. Smith said he hit
the pole to avoid collision with
= car crossing Gratiot at Euclid
A fourth pedestrian was in
jured at 8 p. m. Saturday when
Schroudt was hit by car driv-
en- by Louis Dratta, so, OF the
.Crydeman road, Armada, on the
Armada Ridge road, one-half
mile east Of Armada. Romeo
State Troopers rushed the in
jured man to the offices of DR..
A. B. Bower in Armada and
then to st. Joseph's hospital.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-11
Women's Swimming, Gym
Closes Meet Tonight

Women's swimming and GYM
nastics classes will be held to-
night at Mount Clemens High
school, the Department of Rec
reation announced today. The
classes start at z D. m.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-11
Johnston Receivers
from Attack of Flu

State Senator Ivan A. john
ston, who has been confined to
his home by severe attack OF
influenza, returned to Lansing
today, his condition improved.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-11
Killings
Continued from Pare l.

(COntlnueo from rage ID
tual murders took place in De-
troit. AT the same time the sher-
if pointed out that Grombelski
and MS wife Mary had sought
admittance TO the Sam Bern
stein gambling resort, 1878 E.
Eight Mile road early last Sun
day morning during the course
of a raid by sheriffs officers.
Grombelski and his wife, who
were then unknown TO the sher-
if, were turned away as prob
ably casual patrons attempting
TO gain admittance. Grombelski,
reputedly, had been active in
holding up and shaking down
various illegal establishments
principally in Wayne county.
PAPERS ARE PISTOLS
On Tuesday, the day the bod
les were discovered in Mount
Clemens. Prosecutor Wilbur F.
Held revealed today, Mrs. Grom-
belski, who had visited the La
Croix e. Groesbeck mortuary to
identify her husbands body.
walked out of the funeral
parlors to gas station To-
Gated at Cass and South ave-
nues where she made a tel
ephone call to her husbands sis
ter in Detroit. Her end of the
conversation, repeatedly consist
ed of: ITS Leo and Chep al
right. Better take those papers
out of the top dresser drawer. y
Informed of the conversation
by a Mount Clemens newspaper
reporter, Held on Saturday fore
ed Mrs. Grombelski to admit
that she had made such a call.
Under questioning she finally
confessed that the papers she
had referred to were actually a
pistol belonging to her dead
husband. The gun was turned
over to Detroit police on Satur-
day.
CHANGES HIS MIND
While one of Grombelski's
erstwhile cell-mates in the To-
ledo Jail, Eddie (The Cab Driv-
err Popularski, still in custody,
had stated that he would like to
view Leo's body before burial,
he had sudden change of heart
when State Police officers on
Friday visited him and obtained
permission from Ohio authori-
ties to bring him to Detroit.
Taking an adamant position,
Popularski, whom Detroit and
Macomb County officers would
have liked to question concern
ing Grombelskis background,
said:
I'D like to remember Leo as
last l saw him"
Officers intimated that fear of
reprisal at te hands of Detroit
gangsters may have caused Ed
die The Cab Driver to decide
that discretion was the better
part of valor and that he might
be safer behind the bars of his
cell than in the custody of Of
ficers on Detroit streets.
Meanwhile Macomb county,
Mount Clemens and Detroit Off
GERS today were pressing their
investigations without respite
in the hope that some as yet un-
turned bit of evidence may sup
ply not only the clue to the act
ual killers but prove sufficient
TO insure their conviction.
Supporting his statement that
he believes the murders were
perpetrated in Detroit Sheriff
Theut pointed out.
The reason for dumping the
victims of gang killings either
in Mount Clemens or elsewhere
in Macomb county is clear. 1t is
done deliberately to confuse the
issue of jurisdiction when and
If the guilty men are ever
brought to trial. It's an old gang
ster's trick and it has frequently
proved to be effective"
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Fourth Term Test Primary
Staged in Georgia County
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DONALSONVILLE, Ca, Nov. 80
Rural Seminole County in the
southwest corner of Georgia, which
voted overwhelmingly for President
Roosevelt for second and thirc
term, will learn today what its citi-
zens think of fourth term.
The county Democratic Executive
Committee again Is sponsoring its
presidential primary. There are
about 1900 qualified voters. The
ballot is only sentiment tester, and
has no binding effect.
AS soon as the committee decided
to hold the primary, the Roosevelt
Committee" headed by Ellison
Dunn, broke out Roosevelt TO,
fourth term" automobile stickers
and Mr.. Dunn predicted President
Roosevelt again would win over
whelmingly
The ballot reads:
If you favor a fourth term fo1
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
vote for fourth term. If you op-
pose his reelection vote agains,
fourth term. Strike out the one fol
which you do not wish to vote.
If Roosevelt Is not your choice fol
the Presidency, write below the
name of your choice.
In the 1910 primary President
Roosevelt got BAL of the 1868 votes
In 1896 he got 661 of 781 votes.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

injuries while rescuing William
Mohrhoff, 81, Bergenfeld, N. j., anc
Nathan Tichler, &c. Brooklyn, who
were repairing the leaking tank.
Mr.. Mohrhof and Mr.. Tichlel
were trapped, police said, when fire
enveloped the platform. Mr.. Hillel
dragged them to safety. Mr.. Mohr.
hoff, suffering from severe burns
was on the serious list at st. Vim.
cents Hospital. Mr.. Tichler re.
ceived only minor injuries.
Twenty-Five of the injured were
taken to hospitals, where seven were
reported in critical condition Othel
injured workers were treated at tht
plant.
Approximately 1000 persons, many
of them women, were working ir
the block-long plant when the BIAS
occurred. There was no panic a:
most of the employees filed out ir
orderly fashion after an evacuation
order was sounded.
A half dozen hydrogen tanks
were on the loading platform, police
reported, and about 125 more pilec
on two trucks parked nearby but
Fire Commissioner Patrick Walsh
said he believed only the leaking
tank blew up He said the explo.
sion was caused by the escaping gas
Widespread alarm was caused il
the area for a short time and air.
raid wardenS joined police ir
handling the crowds. Every win.
dow in the plant was blown out ano
steel window frames bent. Ma.
chinery was blown from a nearby
building by the conclusion,
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Two Killed, 80 Hurt
In Hydrogen Blast
AT New York Plant
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3O.-Twc
persons, including a 28-year-old
guard who rescued two men,
were injured fatally and 80 OF
more SWing-shift workers were
hurt early today in the explosion
Of a leaking hydrogen tank in a
lower West Side war plant.
The guard, Robert Hitler, Brook
lyn, on duty near a loading platform
where the hydrogen was stored, died
in Beekman Hospital several hours
after the blast The second victim
Antonio Gangarello, Brooklyn, died
later in the same hospital.
The blast occurred about 1890
am. at the Western Electric Co..
rocking the neighborhood and
shattering windows in buildings in
a l0-block radius which includes
Greenwich Village The detona-
ton was felt in several New Jersey
communities across the Hudson
River.
The War Department, Federal
Bureau Of Investigation, police and
fire departments launched unmedi-
ate Investigations.
Police said Mr.. Hitler received his
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Ceilings Seen Forcing
Lumber Mills 10 Quit
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov 3O.-Ben
May of Mobile, spokesman for the
Alabama lumber industry, told the
House Special Committee on Small
Business here that unless there is
a change in the price ceilings on
timber soon, many small lumber
mills must close"
The big mills can survive be-
cause they grow their own timber"
Mr.. May said. I'VE smaller op-
orators have to buy it on the mar
ket."
Representative Patman, Demo-
crat, of Texas heads the committee,
which opened two-day hearing on
the Southern pine industry here
Monday. The group is gathering in
formation from leading lumbermen,
who came here from all over the
South to present their ideas toward
stimulating production.
r. L. Smith of Charlotte, N. c.,
who said he spoke for 100 lumber
mills i'm his home State, told the
committee that shipyards and the
draft have taken 30 per cent of our
skilled labor"
Mr.. Smith said draft deferment
for lumber workers is absolutely
necessary if production is to be
maintained.
Representatives, besides Mr.. Pat
man, who were present at the hear
| ing, were J. w. Robinson of Utah,
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,
Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, Leo
nard w. Hall Of New York, Walter
c. Ploeser of Missouri and william
H. Stevenson of Wisconsin.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Army Lists Names
OF Is Nurses Missino
On Flight 10 Italy
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The War Department announced
yesterday that l3 Army nurses and
II soldiers, all passengers on an
Army transport flying from North
Africa to Italy, have been missing
since November 8.
(Allied headquarters at Algiers
reported earlier that the plane
overshot its destination in bad
weather and the last word from
the craft was received while it pre-
sumably was over the Adriatic.)
The passengers were:
Second Its. Gertrude G. Dawson
Vandergrift, Pa; Agnes A. Jensen,
Stanwood, Mich: Pauleen j. Kama
BILE, Richland Center, Wis; Ann E.
Kopcso, Hammond, La; Wilma D.
Lytle, Butler, KY; Ava A. Maness,
Paris, KY; Ann Markowitz. Chicago;
Frances Nelson. Princeton. w. Va;
Helen Porter. Hanksville, Utah; Eu-
genie H. Rutkowski. Detroit; Elna
Schwant, Winner, S. OAK; Lillian
J. Tacina, Hamtramck, Mich, and
Lois E. Watson, Oaklawn, Ill.
The soldiers, all technicians third
grade, were:
Lawrence o. Aboott, Newaygo
Mich; Charles J. Adams, Niles
Mich; Paul G. Allen, Greenville
KY: Robert A. Cranson, New Haven
N. Y; James P. Cruise, Brockton,
Mass; Raymond E. Ebers, Steele
vile, Ill; William J. Eldridge, Ell
bridge, KY; Gordon H. MacKinnon
Los Angeles; Robert E. Owen, Wal
den, N. Y; Harold L. Hayes, In
dianola, Iowa; John P. Wolf. Gid
den, Wis, and Charles F. Zeiber
Rea ding, Pa.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
PoIiceman's AssaiIant
EIudes City-Wide Hunt

Police continued their search TO-
day for the colored man who fired
three shots at Pvt. James G. Beach
of the twelfth precinct and struck
him on the head during a struggle
early yesterday near Keene School
Rock Creek Church road and Riggs
road NE.
The struggle between the police
man and his assailant developed
when Pvt Beach sought to question
the man after seeing him run from
behind Safeway grocery store at
Riggs road and North Capitol street
Pvt. Beach, who received treatment
yesterday at the police and fire
clinic, will continue on duty.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Bulgarian Commission
En- Route to Ankuru
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
1STANBUL, Nov. 30.-A three
man Bulgarian political commission
arrived here yesterday en- route tc
Ankara and one of the members was
reported to have said Bulgaria was
seeking a way out of the war.
Recent Allied aerial lombard
ments have convinced the Bulgars
that the Allies are in position to
inflict any kind Of punishment on
the country they desire, the COM
mission member was said to have
told friend here.
Precisely what the commission
hopes to accomplish in Turkey is
not clear. but it may try to ascertain
what help Bulgaria could expect if
she tried to break with the Axis.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Combat Troops Deny
Wanting 10 See Berlin
Before Home Towns
BY RELMAN NORM,
Associated Press War Correspondent


NAPLES, Nov. 30-A recent edi-
torial in the service newspaper Stars
and Stripes, which asserted that
American soldiers wanted to see
Berlin before they saw their home
towns again, has drawn a furry of
angry correspondence from combat
troops, one of whom inquired snap
PLY, who in hell elected you to
voice the opinion of the veteran?"
The editorial discussed the ques-
ton of rotation of American combat
troops and home leave for men who
have been in action, first brought up
by a Senate subcommittee which
visited the Mediterranean theater
several months ago. The letters re-
celved from soldiers in response to
the editorial indicated the writer's
felt the troops should have furloughs
in America after serving in the line
for a certain period.
Letters Eager for Shift.
The paper printed two full columns
OF the letters, unanimous in senti-
ment. Sample statements expressed
in them were:
Il contend that you can't leave
combat troops in the line indefinitely
and expect the same good work as
when they started. When a
rear echelon Johnny says these boys
don't want to 60 home and that
they don't need a rest, I think of
that old saying, war has no fury like
that of a noncompatant."
Il have yet to see piece of ground
taken by the Stars and Stripes. I
have yet to see Stars and Stripes
cemetery. -" When you say you
don t want to go home, why don
you say you are speaking solely for
the staff of the paper?"
Genuinely Hate Japs.
The letters illustrated two facts
about the American soldier in this
theater which have been increasing
ly evident-he believes the Army is
big enough now to rotate divisions
without loss of efficiency and. with
some marked exceptions, he regards
the war against Germany as a job,
not a crusade.
The doughboy, however, does have
a genuine hatred for the Japanese
1t is a fact that I know, from
having talked with hundreds of SOL
diers, that these same men would
fight emotionally and without any
thought of home leave if they had
Japanese troops In front of them
instead Of Germans. The excep-
tions are those troops who have
learned hatred of the Germans in
the same way as the British and
Russians have learned it-by having
lost people who were close to them
Although 5th Army commanders
have been well aware of these Senti-
ments and small units are con-
tinually being pulled out of line
and sent to the rear for a rest.
that isn't what the average soldier
wants. He believes there are plenty
of troops, in America and else
where, TO take his place for a while.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
'Soviet-Czech Accord
May Ask Poland 10
Help Barricade Nazis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 3O.-A Soviet
Czech pact opening the door to
Poland to join in barricade against
Germany's "drang mach osten"
(drive to the easD for the next 20
years is expected to be signed in
Moscow in the next few days by
Edouard Benes, President of the pro-
visional Czech government.
The pact, negotiations for which
were concluded some time ago. will
be a corrollary Of bigger pronounce
ments expected to come out of a
meeting OF President Roosevelt,
Premier Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill.
Disclaiming in effect any Soviet
intention to bolshevize the smaller
European countries, the pact is un-
derstood to have a protocol whicn
says it can be joined by any of the
neighbors of Czechoslovakia or Rus
sia which are not allied with Ger
many. Poland virtually is the only
country falling definitely into this
category.
The pact, which obviously has
been given at least unofficial a.
proval of both the United States and
Britain, is expected to pledge a fin
lsh fight against Nazi Germany and
provide for reconstruction of Eurore
on a basis Of nonintervention with
the internal affairs of the nations
involved.
For the first time in diplomatic
history, it was learned, the treaty
will quote the words "drang mach
osten' in the original German. The
pact will make no mention of terri
torial boundaries, since the United
States and Britain have insisted
that boundary discussions be post
poned until the war ends and since
Russia has never recognized the
Munich concessions to GERMANY.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

But the end is not so far away
the German newspaper added.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Svenska Dagbladet said the Will
helmstrasse spokesman declared the
German capital was prepared for
more heavy bombings. The spokes-
man then contended that Premier
Stain had agreed to attend a con-
ference with President Roosevelt
land Prime Minister Churchill only
If Britain could provide evidence
of a wrecked Berlin.
The big question being asked In
Germany today, according to the
Swedish correspondent, is Can Hit
Ter continue the war without Ber-
lin?"
The Germans maintain that the
German dictator said the answer is
Yes" and they recall how the Nazis
rallied after the destruction of Ham
burg.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Hearing Due Friday
In A. & P. Antitrust Suit
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Nov. 30.-Federal Judge
William H. Atwell has set Friday to
hear motions by the New York Great
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and IL
subsidiaries for amendment of the
Governments antitrust indictment
against the firm and for bills of par
ticulars.
The A. & P. asked that Judge At
well strike from the indictment al
legedly prejudicial and inf1ammatory
statements as suggested in the deci-
sion of the United States Circuit
Court Of Appeals, which reversed
Judge Atwell's dismissal Of the in
dictment last February.
The company is charged with con-
spiracy in restraint of trade in vio-
lation of the Sherman Antitrust Act
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Rare Liquor Collection
Is Placed on Sale
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Nov. 30.-Sale OF
400 cases of rare wines, whiskies and
cognacs. part of the estate of the
late Mrs. Henry F. Walters Of Balti-
more, started here yesterday, with
receipts totaling $4,000.
Greig. Lawrence & Hoyt, Ltd.
which bought the collection from
the estate, expect total sales to ex-
ceed 100000. Sons of the rarer
items, including a bottle of cognac
dating back to 1888. were placed on
display today at the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel,
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Rumors of Peace Ridiculous
German Foreign Office Says
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 3O.-A Ger
man Foreign Office spokesman
asked to comment on rumors of
German peace proposals and nego-
tiations with the Allies, declared
They are absolutely ridiculous
the Berlin correspondent of Dagens
Nyheter reported today.
The German newspaper Muench-
ner Neueste Nachrichten, mean
while, declared editorially that the
end of the war Is not 50 far away
but the final stages will be terrible. y
The Bern correspondent Of the
Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet
said the Munich newspaper had
made the observation in discussing
the fifth winter of the war.
Everyone hopes this is the last
winter of the war, but we must
expect that the last round of the
war will be more furious than ever
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Qualify Of German
Weapons Declining,
Ordnance Men Saw
By the Associated Press.

by VIC AsSOCldleQ fIeSS.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND
Md, Nov. 30-The decreasing quail
ity of German materiel tells the
story of the steadily increasing
weight of Allied bombing raids on
the Reich's industrial centers, Army
ordnance officers said today
Likewise, some deterioration in
the quality of japanese equipment
although in a much lesser degree
shows the effects of the naval attack
on Nippon's lifelines, the cargo ships
which carry vital materials to Japa-
nese factories.
Those are just parts of the story
which the ordnance officers pieced
together at the Nations largest
proving ground for military equip
ment.
Generally speaking, the ordnance
officers agreed that both German
and japanese equipment is either
equaled or surpassed in every case
by American materiel of war.
Japs Called Third Rate.
The officers who study captured
guns, tanks, half-tracks and other
vehicles are quick to say that the
Germans are master craftsmen and
that their equipment shows it.
The Japs and Italians are called
third rate" and Col. George G.
Eddy, chief Of the research center,
asserted that not a single Jap
weapon can be said to be truly
japanese.
They are far behind the rest of
the world in both research and de-
velopment," Col. Eddy commented.
Nevertheless, said Col. Jarrett
while the quality of German equip
ment has shown deterioration, Allied
soldiers unlucky enough to be hit
are just as dead-or just as sorely
wounded-as if it were high quality
Col. Jarrett, formerly member
of an ordnance intelligence team
which found and sent to the United
States for study equipment cap
tured in North Africa, was one of
the officers who explained the work.
ings of foreign weapons at a special
display.
Shells Show Effect of Bombings.
The display and demonstration Of
enemy ordnance ranged from sub
machine guns and rifles to the big
German 150-millimeter siege how
itzer used at Stalingrad.
In addition, there were Panzer III
and Panzer w tanks-better known
as Mark III and Mark w, half
tracks, troop carriers and prime
movers" the vehicles used to drag
big guns around.
Col. Jarrett said German shells, in
particular, showed the effects of AL
lied bombings Of industrial centers
and the shortage of critical materials
in the Third Reich.
More evidence is found in the ply
wood rifle stock which has been used
by Germany since late 1910. These
are approximately l pound heavier
than the regulation walnut, prime
considera ton in Army ordnance S
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