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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
Report Hitler
Suffering from
Nervous Collapse

WASHINGTON. March ~
(P)-The State Department has
received unconfirmed reports
that Adolf Hitler is suffering
from a complete breakdown, act
ing Secretary of State Welles
said today.
Welles did not imply that the
department was attaching much
importance to them. He merely
asserted, in answer TO press con-
ference questions, that the de-
partment had received uncon-
firmed reports similar to those
published about Hitler in the
newspapers Of various countries
recently.
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Yanks, British
epuIse Nazis
Air Forces Maui
Enemy Positions
ny YVES GALLAGHER

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, March 12-
RJ-Allied bombers and fight
ers began softening Field Mar
shall Erwin Rommers troop po-
sitions and supply lines in the
Mareth area yesterday as British
and American ground forces
beat off three attacks by Col.
Gen. Jurgen Won Arnim in North
Tunisia, it was announced today.
Axis infantry and artillery
struck again and again at Brit
ish defenses near Tamera, seven
miles west of Sedjenane in the
north, but each time the enemy
was driven back with consider
able losses, field accounts said.
Military observers agre d
that Won Arnim's only object In
pressing the attacks was to keep
the First Army occupied.
Western desert air forces
started the pounding of the
Mareth Lire with a raid by RA.F'
Boston bombers while the series
OF Axis attacks in both southern
and northern Tunisia came to a
halt without any significant
gain.
At the same time United
States bombers and fighters
struck again at Axis sea lanes
and the Allies reported the de-
struction of IL more Axis planes.
Seven Allied aircraft were list
. ed as missing.
There was not late report by
noon today of Rommels attack
In the Ksar Rhilane zone 40
miles southwest of the Mareth
Line, but authorities said it was
a small-scale action carried out
by 80 armored cars and was be-
lieved to be making little prog
ress. They regarded it as de-
fensive measure against long
range raids.
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The slight, blond officer said
his outfit had been isolated IL
days in the foothills of the
Owen Stanley Mountains and
had been given up for lost. A
part of the 32nd Red Arrow"
Division, he said many of the
men engaged in the skirmishes
were natives of Michigan.
IL recall one day Pvt. Grin
sutton, Grand Rapids ma
chine-gunner, put his gun aside
and started to take a nap. He
was just doing off when a Jap
ran from behind a tree, bayonet
outstretched ready for the kill.
Sutton rolled over, grabbed his
pack in one hand and slung it
into the Jap's belly. 1t was only
a minute before Sutton had that
See WOUNDED-Pase J
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Refugees Tell
of Terror in
Martinique

CASTRIES, SAINT LUCIA,
B. w. l., March 12-(R-Condi-
tions on the island of Martinique
are described as 'too terrible"
by George Lardaux, a former
citizen of the French possession
who has just reached here with
his wife and eight-month- old
Lardaux said he and his fam
lily fled Martinique chiefly be-
cause of the infant, for whom it
was impossible to obtain ade-
quate food. They sailed at night
across the 24-mile Martinique
channel to reach here.
Many have come here recently
from Neutrality-suspicious. in fish
ing canoes-to ecape from what
See MARTINIQUE-Page 2
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Hess Denies Desire to Return
TO HifLer;s Nazi Germany
Reveal DetoiIs Of Fomous
Prisoners Arrival in Enelond

Hess flight to Britain were told
for the fire time in Roof Over
Britain" the official story of
Britain's anti-aircraft defenses,
published today. Hess is now
prisoner of war.
Hess plane, a Messerschmitt
10, was sighted circling over
searchlight post several miles
from Glasgow at 11:07 pm.
The pilot (Hess) switched off
the engine and made a shallow
dive straight at the post. The
men on the ground believed at
first they we're being dive
bombed, but then saw a para
chute stream out. The plane
crashed $50 yards away and
burst into flames.
Two anti-aircraft signalmen
found the parachutist with an
injured ankle, sitting in an arm
chair in farmers house. He
extended his hands to show they
were empty and said:
All, British soldiers no
guns, no bombs"
He first told them his name
was alfred Horn" After a
pause he added: Il have a very
important message for the Duke
Of Hamilton" He said he had
met the Duke at the Olympic
games in Berlin.
In his pockets he had two n.y.
podermic syringes. phial OF
See HESS-Page 3
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BY CHARLES MARENTETTE

BATTLE CREEK, M l c H.,
March l2-(R-"God and the
NEEDLES" were thanked solemnly
today by q serious-faced 22-year-
old infantry lieutenant who lived
through the hell of New Guinea
battles by virtue of what Army
medical officers term lone of
those miracles" and, his left eye
shot out, continues to praise the
civilians who supply blood plas-
ma and Army nurses who hover
over war casualties in the jun
giles.
He is Lieut.. Burnham L. Pet
ers Of Menominee, Wis, one of
275 war casualties of the Pacific
area who arrived at Percy Jones
General hospital here from San
Francisco early Wednesday.
A victim of one of the "impos-
sible' war injuries, Peters was
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FDR 0 poses
RunlI Tax Plan
Would Reduce
Treasury Return

WASHINGTON, March IL -
up President Roosevelt said
today that the next tax return to
the Government this year would
BE- less under the so-called Ruml
skip-a-year plan than without it.
The chief executive indicated
to press conference his opposi-
ton to the Ruml idea of abating
tax obligation to get on a pay
asyou 60 basis.
The fact is, he said. and fig
ures prove it, than persons, es-
pecially in the higher brackets,
would save : great deal of mon
ey in taxes through the Ruml
system. That, he said. seems to
be pretty we'll established.
Now, in England, Mr.. Roose-
welt remarked, the more money
people have, the more they have
to contribute to the Government.
He said he thought he did not
need to bring out more than that
simple fact.
But how would it work." q
reporter inquired.
It does work, the chief execu-
tive replied, and he said he had
Treasury figures TO prove it.
But you have no objection to
pay-as-you-go, you just object to
the forgiveness" he was asked.
Mr.. Roosevelt gave no direct
answer. remarking only that his
questioner was getting into deep
water. The high tax payer, he
said, would pay less under the
Rrml plan.
Informed that Boards e y
Ruml, author Of the plan, had
taken the opposite view in testi-
mony on Capitol Hill, Mr.. Roose-
welt said il wasn't question Of
the view but one of taking fig
.ures on somebody's tax return.
There is only one answer, he
said, and it is a matter of math-
ematics.
To a question as to whether
the figures are available, the
President said the Treasury had
sent him some on different
brackets, starting at $4,000 and
going up to that containing the
10 richest men in the country.
Y said names could not be re-
leased, but he had no objection
See TAX-Page 2
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Super-1,0o0
Plane Raids
are Predicted

WASHINGTON. March IL -
Up Super 1000 plane raids
on Germany and occupied Eu-
rope will be stepped up when
we get the planes says Air
Commodore n. N. Thornton,
British Air Attache, because
"the bigger the raid the smaller
er the percentage of casual
ties"
Supplementing the report
made to the House CT Commons
showing the Raj had wrecked
1000 German war factories and
driven more than million
Germans from ruined homes,
Thornton told a press confer
See SUPER-RAIDS-Page 3
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2 Pounds Per
Week Will Be
Average Quota
Cheese, Butter
Likewise to Be
Restricted
BY IRVING PERLMETER

WASHINGTON. March IL -
R - Beef. pork, lamb and NUT
ton will be rationed at an aver
age of about two pounds q week
for some consumption starting
Monday. March 20. Rationing OF
butter, cheese, other edible fats
and oils and canned fish will
start at the same time.
Through this iong-expected
action, the Government hopes
to even up the civilian supplies,
which have been curtailed by
huge diversions to the armed
forces and lend-lease. Local
shortages are expected to disap-
pear quickly.
Harold B. Rowe, In charge Of
food rationing, at the Office OF
Price Administration, said the
allotments will be proportionate-
ly more generous than the linn
its put earlier this month on
canned,S frozen and dry fruits
and vegetables.
AMPLE RATION ~
THE meat ration" he said.
probably will be more than
many low income families will
be able to afford, although les
than the average purchases Of
middle or high income families"
In the light Of existing ration
in GO ograms. the new plan will
bring restrictions to the LARGEST
part of the typical Americas
diet. Still unrationed on the has
is of today's announcement, will
be milk. cereals, fresh fruits and
vegetables, bakery goods, and
numerous specialties such Is rel
ishes.
From the customer viewpoint,
the unrationed oasis of food will
be the restaurant or other pub
lie eating place. These places
will be rationed on their sup
plies. but will not collect eou.
pons.
Details Of the program were
announced partly last night by
Secretary Of Agriculture Claude
r. Wickard and partly this
See RATIONING-Pags 3
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so brave in caring for the fellows
that they don't even get under
cover in bombing raid"
Lieut.. Osborne r. Vos of Hol-
land, Mich, who received Is
shrapnel wounds in the legs and
abdomen when a Jap mortar
she'll exploded within a few feet
Of his position in New Guinea,
echoed Peters praise.
1t was Vos who led a platoon
down a New Guinea trail in
the damp dusk of Nov. Is. found
his little group surrounded on
three sides by Jap infantrymen,
and fought two-hour battle he
described as quite scramble"
before retreating. Vos unit,
counting one dead and only two
wounded, left more than rs
deed Jsps in the jungle. he
said.
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American Wounded From New Guinea Describe Junqle War

moving cautiously through the
New Guinea jungles with troops
of the famed 32nd Division after
% days of action when a Jap
sniper fired a bullet directly in
to his left eve. The bullet cours-
ed down into Peters skull and
lodged near the base Of the
brain.
LAUDS MEDICS
In a field hospital. the eye
was removed and days later at
Port Moresby Army Medical Of
ficers removed the bullet.
That's when l first thanked
God and the needless he said
today. But for the two of
them, I shouldn't be here. And,
believe me, those sulfa drugs
and blood plasma are worth a
million to the guys out there.
The same goes for those little
Army nurses who have become
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turn, it was announced officially
today.
The loss of ii bombers on the
mission indicated that a sizeable
force took part in the assault. A
large part of Stuttgart's popula-
ton of a half-million is employ
ed in precision engineering
which is vital to Gerrhahy's war
effort in the air and on the
ground, an official statement
said.
Only a few hours after the
British bombers streamed back
across the English Channel. Ger
man raiders in a sunrise attack
scared over London's suburbs,
dropping bombs in at least one
area and machine cunning trains
and other targets.
STRAFE SUBURBS
Two waves of raiders - IL
planes in each-flew up the
Thames Estuary and five planes
sped out of the sun over a Lon
don suburb, firing cannon and
machine-guns and spilling their
bombs.
Five of the German planes
were reported shot down. The
German losses in a light foray
thus were nearly half as large as
the British loss of IL planes in a
full-scale attack on Stuttgart.
The Berlin radio announcer
See RAF-Page 2
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Savage Battle
RACES for Key
Russian City
Invaders Abandon
Vyozmo After Blowing
VitoI City Aport
BY ROGER GREENE
Associated Press War Editor

Adolf Hitler's invasion armies
were reported to have aban-
doned the key city of Vyazma,
1870 miles west of Moscow, while
in the south the bloody third
battle for Kharkov reached a
critical stage today as the Ger
mans threw in masses of fresh
reserves and gained new ground.
The German high command
said Nazi troops were already
fighting in the streets of Khar-
kov, the Soviet Pittsburgh"
which Red army forces recap
tured Feb. 16.
Frontline dispatches said the
Russians were bleeding the en-
envy white, but conceded that
the defenders were outnum-
bered by German reserves.
BLOW TOWN OFF MAP
On the central front, Berlin
broadcast said, German troops
evacuated wanna according
to plan" after virtually blowing
the town of 10000 population
off the map.
,Vyazma was the Laet major
defense barrier on the road to
Hitler's old central front head
quarters at Smolensk, 100 miles
to the west. With its fall, the
Russians now have strong flank
protection for assaults on the
German bases at Orel, ITS miles
southeast of WANNA, and Bry-
ansk, 1870 miles south.
DNB, the German news agen-
cy, pictured Vyazma as a scene
of bomb and fire blackened ruin
after the withdrawal of Nazi
troops, but said the ancient ca
thedral-once the headquarters
of Napoleon was spared.
German demolition squa d S
blew up the waterworks, rail
installations, airdromes and the
motor road, the Germans said,
and then Nazi planes dropped
hundreds of incendiary and ex-
plosive bombs upon the city"
While the Red armies pursued
the Nazis along the WANNA
Smolensk highway - the route
of Napoleon's disastrous retreat
from Moscow in 1912 other
Soviet columns driving toward
Smolensk from newly-recap-
tured Belly were reported to
have seized Is towns and viii
lagos and killed more than 600
Germans.
Smolensk is 80 miles south
west of Belly.
In the struggle for Kharkov,
approximately $4,000 fresh
German troops were reported
storming against the steel CEN
ter from two sides, and the Rus
slams declared the enemy was
trying at all costs to break
through to the city"
In its midday communique,
Soviet headquarters announced:
South of arkov, our
troops repealed fierce enemy at
tacks.
West of Kharkov, strong
enemy tank and infantry forces
stormed our positions. At the
cost of heavy loses. the enemy
succeeded in pressing back our
units"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
New Economy
Up 10 CONGRESS
Postwar issues
Cited by President

WASHINGTON, March IL -
(P - President Roosevelt said
today that it is squarely up to
Congress whether the nation
would have great postwar de-
lay in providing jobs for men
leaving the armed services and
war industries.
The chief executive, talking at
his Press conference, did not 60
into any of the broad recon-
mendations for postwar pro-
grams drawn up by the national
resources planning board and
submitted to Congress Wednes-
day.
But he did say, in response to
questions, that the burden and
responsibility for contin u e i
planning rests entirely in Con-
gress-nowhere else.
The House has infused to vote
funds for continuing the work of
the planning board, but the Sem
ate has taken no final action
on the issue.
Mr.. Roosevelt said that the
Board has listed about $1,000
100000 worth of public works to
take up unemployment which
would affect a great many peo-
pie upon rehabilitation and
closing of war plants.
1t is all very well for Congress
to pass legislation, he asserted,
but you don't start human be-
ingS to work on a project by
passing an appropriation. You
have to have engineering and
specifications completed before
hand, he remarked.
Thus far, Mr.. Roosevelt said,
only about 81 900, 900, 900 in pro-
jects have been approved and
specifications for them drafted,
and these projects would not en-
ploy a great many people.
1t is squarely up to Congress,
the President declared, whether
we are going to have a great hia-
tus, whether there will be Jobs
or.y on paper or jobs ready to
start.
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Gestapo Makes
Mass Arrests.
Thousands Of French
Held by Nozi Police
BY JOHN A. PARIS

United Press stair Correspondent
LONDON, March 12- W.H =
Gestapo agents and Vichy po-
lice have arrested hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of French
men and women in a desperate
attempt to stamp out sabotage
and guerrilla raids, European
reports said today, and Allied
observers feared that another
slaughter of hostages might be
imminent.
Upwards of 600 Germ a n
troops have been killed in
France in less than a week in
train wrecks, street fighting and
terrorist attacks touched off by
Vichy-Nazi attemps to round up
100000 Frenchmen for slave
labor in Germany.
WIDE DRAGNETS
The Vichy radio itself an
nounced that French police were
carrying out a large-scale
roundup of "so-called terror
lists" in southeastern France.
One police inspector was
wounded in attempting to make
an arrest, the broadcast said.
From Madrid came a report
that hundreds of persons had
been seized in Paris alone in
connection with the ATTEMPT
Tuesday to assassinate Marcel
Deaf, arch collaborationist and
close associate of Pierre Laval
Both men and women were
caught in the police net and all
were being held until they could
prove their whereabouts at the
time of the attempt, the dispatch
Said.
Vichy police also were said to
See GASTAPO-Page 3
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LONDON, March IL - (H) -
Soldier guards said they asked
Rudolf Hess, former No. 2 depu-
ty to Adolf Hitler, soon after he
parachuted to earth in Scotland
May 10, 1941, if he would like
to return to Germany and Hess
shouted:
mo, no, no, no."
This and other details of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
Low-LeveI Raid
baiterS kiska
y. S. Pilots Smosh
at For North Bose

WASHINGTON, March II -
(P) - American bombers and
fighters blasted japanese gun
positions ana buildings on Kiska
island in the Aleutians, the Navy
announced today, in . violent,
low level attack against the,
Japanese outpost last Wednes-
day.
The Kiska raid was one Of the
heaviest delivered by the Aleu-
tians air command in several
weeks. although the japanese
base has been repeatedly pound
ed whenever weather permitted.
1t has been the target Of 0v0
reported raids 50 far this month,
counting the two actions dis.
closed in today's communiQue.
Others may have been conduct
ed yesterday.
Authorities said the damage
to batteries and buildings when
the heavy and medium bombers
went over Kiska 1t low altitu0e
undoubtedly was severe and that
the Japanese would have much
work to do il they were 70 -
store their defenses 70 the 10e.
mer level Of effectiveness.
Their anti-aircraft fire paEt1-
cularly has given Amefieo4
filters much trouble - TIE -,
and while relatively ~ ponNoD
were lost over K6o4 lQc1 i
craft which returned g.
was virtually riddlod -
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4AT A UNITED STATES
BOMBER STATION SOME
WHERE IN ENGLAND, March
12-(PD-United States heavy
bOmbers with Allied Spitfire
escort scared off German
fighters for the second time in
q week today and bombed
railroad yards and oil stores
at Rouen, IS miles inland
the coast of France.
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Laundry Sub-StstooA q y
and carry. Nsrnfnotea G !
ern EleetSie, - n. ogoolsos
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b|otk-buSters
Rip Stuttgart
in Savage Raid
British Air Armodo
Strews Destruction,
Deoth Across Reich

LONDON, March IL - P)-
The Raj paid its eighth night
visit of March to Germany last
night, pounding the important
industrial and communications
center of Stuttgart in southwes.
Germany in q strong attack from
which IL bombers did not re-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-13
By OREN ARNOLD

cent n beloved brother on an ar
plane carrier somewhere near
Australia. And except for Jimmy
Cnrr, Bho really hadn't maze my
friends lately, either. Llfe hnd
been too rushed, duties too stern,
And gho had hnd only four hours
HleeD IN 80 hours III strain ana
hurry, She managed 10 get q lnSi
Without further recognition inc
reception committee that brought
her had dibpcrGod
In tho TAXI, going toward the
nIrpOrt ngnIn, HhC wished she
might nt lcnat Bco Jimmy, She
wanted 10 nll him " Vns oil right,
Everything was oil right, even II
nc - n h0 did feel u necessary to
demoto her IN effect, Even II nc
didn't quite have the SOW. vol lhe
nerve, or something r- TO toll nor
face 10 face, Perhaps he wanted
10 spare her any embarrassment
SurcA that's ~, Jimmy
wouldn't want 10 hurt anybody,
Better lust send u HIRncd Army
order, formal and oil, Ito -' nc
couldn't .- couldn't have known
that Lorraine would put on u
crazy net with gun
JuStifylng Jimmy Carr, Bho Whh
almost IN tears, n would b. good 70
nv again, Ahn hoped the pilot was
nil ready and waiting They would
be- buck IN Elmlrn before too long
Maybe she could sleep n little en-
route, then 20 t0 bed ana forget the
whole thing. But no, No, bh0 would
never really forget this experience
Not II she lived billion years,
Tho nirplnnr pilot turned out
10 bC h0moly, friendly Ed Bryan
who had often tOwcd APtBy In II
8aIlplnnc,
"ihB is n heck Of n note, Mics
Friday" nd drnWlod hh speech,
"Y0u reckon everything oknyp"
That 6urprl6Gd Pat little,
"Surcly, 3d." she said "lt'B nll
right" Che tried wGnkly 10 be
iocctioub about II. "C'cSt Ia
guCrre"
~ guess 10, nut II wasn't oil
Iust regular, I'm talking about
my gc0Otln over here with tllht
Btunrt dame, and such"
what do you mean, Edp Reg
ulnr2"
well | tell you n ] hadn't
known Shc and the captain wnE
engaged you seo, tho order came
10 mo by relny0d telephone, there
IN Elmira, N brought II 10 mo
She B0id We had 10 hurry, She's
on tho heId herself, you know;
and they're engaged"
"YeB, OF course, 3D."
"And when We landed here, she
disappeared and Bnld Bhe Wns gO-
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Ing right over 10 got The order
signed and OiilGlnl, But haven't
seen her agaln,"
"Oh, sec, Well, US 0kay, I'D
Sure Ia too bud " run you around
tho country this way, Just hauling
girls, ! could have R0n0 back on
the bun or train, seems 10 mo, too,
But, Nd, here's tho signed order
MisS Stuart gave N TO mo-"
well -u we'll, oil right then, n
You're roady, va better head back
for home"
They took OF easily And the
night night eastward 10 Glmrn
again WIN unOVOntfll But oil tho
while, Ed Bryan VIVA thinking,
worrying,
When thoy had landed, both
dead tired now, hc asked Pat 10
let him BoG that signed order,
When hO Ind read II through he
studied " oven more In detail,
standing there near the hangar
with Pat
"ill MO you 10 your home bG.
cause VS. no late MlsS Put" no
snId, "but first did Captain Carr
tell you he aimed 10 do thlSP"
mo No no didn't But I'm
sure"
"IIo never told you hC aimed
10 put MIBs stuart In your placer
Looks like he would have men.
toned II, or left some word"
Pat stood NJ for Jimmy,
"II0 took OH In n terrible hurry,
I'd Miss Stuart VIM unnVOldably
delayed back nj Elmlrn, and there
Ind 10 b0 woman passenger 10
saye embarrassment oil around
Don't you Soe2"
Tho pilot didn't HnSWcr nj once,
To Ind opened his flying jackct
and taken another Army order
out, Under ~ light there on the
landing fl0ld, no studied first ono
paper than tho other,
II amt right bright, Miss Pat,
but you know I'm yours and Cap
tain CnrrB friend, md well, 10
toll you tho truth, ] used 10 DO u
policeman. Detective bureau work
q little, down In Atlanta, Ga"
but, I'D what -" Pat WaS
nStoniBhed,
II got another Army paper here
that Captain Carr signed, About
something else. But saw him
sign that ofe. And IL amt tho
same wiring that tho other one H..
Miss Pat, this .TOder Miss Stuart
gave you Is forged"
Cva % CaallauAaA,