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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-11
Leaves after Visit


LIEUT.. THOMAS DRABEK
left yesterday after a few days
visit here as the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Walters and Mrs.
Robert Younger. Lieut.. Drabek
has just been graduated from the
adjutant generals school at Fort
Washington, Md, and will be
stationed there. He is a cousin
of Lieut.. Younger, now on serv-
ice overseas.
In Cleveland
JOSEPH M. YDE, apprentice
seaman in the U. S. Coast Guard,
is stationed at Cleveland, o. His
parents are Mr.. and Mrs. Roger
Yde, 271 Cass avenue.
Word From North Africa
MIR. AND MRS. WILLIAM
EATON, South avenue, have re-
ceived word from their son
Lloyd Eaton seaman first class,
USNR, who is in North Africa
On arriving there he heard his
name called and turning saw
Duane VanHollenbeck, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. j. VanHollen-
beck, Smith street. The boys
were neighbors at home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-11
Home on Furlouoh

JACK SIERENS, seaman Sec
ond class, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John SierenS, As South Walnut
street, arrived home last evening
for an eight day furlough. He
will return to Great Lakes, H.,
for aviation ordnance training
next week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-11
Service Set

HOLY COMMUNION which
was to have taken place last
Sunday in the Emmanuel Luth-
eran church in Waldenburg
was postponed on account of
weather conditions. The com
munion will be celebrated this
coming Sunday, Feb. IA.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-11
X WkA the Goors

EDITORS NOTE For reasons OF Sc
Guilty and because Of lack OF space.
full addresses of those In service can
not be printed in this column.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
STAND ON BORDER
Isy DON CASWELL

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS. Australia, Jan. q.
oUFl-Japanese pockets of resis-
tance in the Sanananda area OF
Papuan New Guinea are rapidly
dissolving beneath savage blows OF
American and Australian troops,
pressing ahead too fast to count
the bodies Of the fallen foe. Gen.
Douglas Macarthur said in his COM
munique today.
The japanese pocket northwest
CT The seaWard end of the Sananan-
da village, and Tarakena village is
the scene of heavy fighting. Many
Japanese we're killed trying to crash
free On Tuesday night.
IL Chird pocket, approximately 700
yards inland, has been forced back
from Sanananda trail-leaving the
trail in Allied hands except at one
spot $500 yards inland where the
final pocket is being further diIid-
ed into small remnants.
Harold Guard United FrcsS staff
correspondent at the front, reported
that the japanese forces apparently
received focd lrem barges which
landed ON the cast side Of Sanan-
anda ro.lt Tuesday night.
Guard said American troops arc
attacking the strongest Japanese
position, between GiruWa and Tara
kena village, from the east while
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
RY HENRY SUAPIRO

MOSCOW, Jan. 81. - CUP)-Red
|brmies closed in on five key Nazi-
held cities between the Ukraine and
fhe North Caucasus today.
Their spearheads were within 79
miles of Kharkov, 30 miles of Ros-
Eoy, 80 miles of Voroshilovgrad, Dc
nets Basin industrial center, 18
|niles of Salsk railroad junction and
|i8 miles of Armovir, where the
|Baku-R -Rosotv oil railroad joins with
fhat to the Maikop oil fields and
Tuapse, oil port on the Black Sea.
Today's noon communique re-
.vealed that in a ferocious three
~ battle for Proletarskaya, 20
lInles east-northeast of Salsk on
fhe Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk railroad,
the Russians smashed the famous
German SIS troop combat regiment
Germany" and remnants of other
he&imentS concentrated there, be-
- Manych, with big artillery,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Jungle Fighters
Cleaning Up Foe

the Australians hit 1t from the west
WHARVES BOMBED
A single B-24 Liberator bomber
raided the airdrome and wharVes
at Madang, approximately l4o miles
northwest Of Lac, on wednesday
morning. the headquarters said
while another Libcrator bombed
vharves at Finschhafen, approXi-
mately So miles northeast OF Lac
Tuesday afternoon.
BPS Mitchell medium bombers
raidcd supply installations at Lac
wednesday morning, leaving large
fires. after q Liberator, on armed
reconnaissance, had bombed the
area Cn Tuesday afternoon.
Rcaufightcrs strafed the kumlSa
river coastal area on wednesday
morning.
A single LibcratO. Strafed ana
beached three japanese bargeS OF,
Cape Holman at the tip OF Will
launlcz peninsula on the north side
of Ncw Britain Tuesday afternoon
while another Libcrator bombed
Gasmata ardrOnC, Gil the south
coast OF New Britain, wednesday
morning.
A third Libcrator raidcd the Jap
ancsc airdrome at Cape Gloucester
on New Britain, on wednesday ana
Thursday and made three direct hts
on an anti-aircraft position, de-
StrOVing it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21

Bogart talking: 1t is your re-
porter's fond and firm conviction
that fan magazine interviews can
never be complete unless the stars
also tell what they'!2 thinking
when they answer those inane
questions sort OF interviews a la
Strange InterluGe." So we got to
thinking this over with Humphrey
Bogart with the following results
@. understand. Mr.. Bogart, that
you love birds?
Bogart: Oh, yes, indeed, I have
always heen a great devotee of
cur fine little feathered friends
Inner Bogart: If you only knew
The only think that saved those
little pestS in our back yard from
mass destruction the other morn
ing was that my wife had re-
moved the buckshot from my
shotgunD
@. Do you watch very closely
the reviews of .'our performances
ty the newspaper critics?
Bogart: OF course. Constructive
criticism is the most helpful as
sistance that an actor can get.
Inner Bogart: I hate critics.
@. In your newest picture, Casa
blanca you get away from gang
sters for the first time in some sc
pictures. Just how do you fee,
about it?
Bogart: We'll. l always felt that
ciaying gangsters conveyed an i'm
! portant message to the public be-
cause they always showed thai
Criilc simply does not pay. I was
delighted to appear in Casa.
blanca" because of the significant
war theme. dinner Bogart: My
telling you that crime doesn't pay
is really Taught made a small
fortune for me. AS for Casa
blanca" do I look like a guy who'd
say no" to those roi:eantic clinches
with Ingrid Bergman?D
O. What do you regard as the
most important thing an actor
must have?
Bogart: Well, first of all he must
have a dee-rooted feeling about
the role ne is playing; he must
believe in it and live the part
Inner Bogart: The big thing, pal
Is contract. Once you have that
the rest is comparatively simple }
G. What is your best means OF
relaxation?
Bogart: Golf. 1t gives me ample
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21

dercd the French to dcmilitarize
the Marcth line when Franco fell.
and the Eighth Army probably could
outflank il, as the Nazis themselves
had demonstrated in the case OF
the Maginot line
Some London observers believed
that part Of the Afrika Korps al
ready had reached the Mareth line
and was trying to get it into shape
for a stand.
RRITISH MOVE UP
In Tunisia. British armored forces
were moving up near Pont Du
F'ahs for an important battle that
hinged directly on the .Afrika
Korps' retreat.
The Germans, driving down the
road that runs southwest of Pont
Du Fahs with tanks. had advanced
seven miles. Pont Du Fahs is 35
miles southwest of Tunis.
The purpose of the Axis attack
was to enlarge the belt through
which the Afrika Korps could re-
t.eat into upper Tunisa. The sue
cess or failure of tins naneuver
vas still in the balance, dispatches
from Tunisia said, and if the Bri-
tlsh should suddenly drive south
east to Pont Du Fah5, the advanc-
ed Germans would be cut off in a
long narrow valley, and their coas-
al line of supply imperiled.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21

LONDON. Jan. 81. - tUPl-Ger-
man daylight aerial raiders return
ed to the attack on southeast Eng
land today while rescue squads
worked in relays still seeking addi-
tional survivors of upwards of 100
small children and their teachers
buried in the ruins of an elemen-
tarr schOoi liaCtened yesterday by
Il dive bombing plane.
British fighter planes were wait
ing for the Germans as the second
day of daylight raids started, and
one German fighter plane was shot
Gown quickly off the southeast
coast
Forty-eight were known dead, so
were wounded and 20 still were
missing in the school bombing.
During the night six more chill
dren, their bodies crushed. were
taken out of the ruins OF the school
but all died on the way to hospital
or SoCn after they arrived.
TEACHERS KILLED
Among the known dead were five
of the eight teachers in the schools
Junior section which vas hit.
About Is bodies we're believed to
remain in the ruins today.
While authorities moved TO inveS-
tigate charges the air raid sirens
did not sound until after the school
was bombed, and that barrage bal
looms did not rise. Sir William Da-
wilson, conservative, told Home Sc
curity Minister Herbert Morrison
in the House of Commons today
that many air raid shelters were
locked.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21

HAND -TO-HAND
Russian storm troops led by the
guards broke into the town ana the
railroad station yesterday. Ihey
routed the Germans in street flght-
ing. the communique said, and
threw the remnants beyond the
Manych
In another sector the guards at
once drove ahead. occupied two m
habited places, captured an artil-
lery battery and nine machine
guns and took prisoners.
In overnight fighting the Rus
slams took nearly 1900 prisoners by
specific claim. including a batta-
lion of 1000 Hungarians who with
their Officers GoWned arms and sur
rendered, in addition to many tax
en- in local fighting.
REGIMENT SURRENDERS
The midnight communique had
announced the capture of more
than 10000 prisoners yesterday, in
cluding 5000 in one group and an
entire German artillery regiment,
perhaps 1900 men, in another.
Cne giant Red army pincers
claw, last reported rs miles from
Kharkov, industrial capital of the
Ukraine and fourth city of Russia,
vas believed to be advancing
steadily.
The Russians were reported
within 65 miles of Rostov from the
north and only about so miles away
Cn the southeast.
1t was indicated that Lieut.. Gen.
Rodion Y. MalinoWSkys army ad-
on Salsk, which reached a
point 18 miles from that railroad
jraction yesterday, was now ma
tcrially nearer after having cross
ed the Manych.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
BY WILLIAM Il. DICKINSON

LONDON Jan. 2l-fUP> i he
Eighth Army strcamed up the ap-
breaches 10 Tripoli today. and the
Shreds Of the Afrika KOrps retreat
cd at top speed toward Tunisia,
under an unending hail of bombs
and machine gun bullets from Bri-
tish and American planes.
Powerful British tank and infan-
.}y units probably were in sight
OF Tripoli, the Axis one remaining
base in Tripolitania, and once a pri-
ates' nest which United States
Marines and ships cleaned cut.
communique said HONS, 62 miles
from Tripoli, on the costal road,
and Tarhuna, 40 miles to the
southeast, were captured sometime
yesterday.
LAST NATURAL BARRIER
Tarhuna is in the midst of the
Nefoussa hills, the last natural
positions before Tripoli in which
the Germans and Italians could
make q stand. II seemed apparent
now that Tripoli would fail 10 the
Eighth Army. with little or no
fight.
The triumphant British force was
II close contact Eltn the retreat
ing enemy, the comnunique said,
ana Allied planes, roaring out
ahead continued their blasting Of
Tripoii and the retreating columns
Of Axis transport bevond
Dispatches from Tripolitania had
described frightful confusion among
Axis transport west Of Tripoli, with
ckplodinG and flaming VeMcleS
blocking the road and causing con-
fusion among the Germans and
Italians.
Allied heavy bombers gave Castcl
Benito airport, 10 miles south OF
1ripoli, and targets in Tripoll itself
another heavy pounding Oh Tues
day night,
Two enemy suppl ships were at
tackled off the Tunieian coast by
torpedo planes. Cno EleW up he
fore the attackers and the other
was badly damaged. Another Bri-
tlSh plane damaged a third ship IL
the same area, and fourth ship
was torpedoed yesterday in tie
Aegean Sea.
That made 18 ships that Allied
sea and air iJrceS mad Sunk or
damaged in the Mediterranean bat
tie area in the last few days. Fiji
teen were sunk.
Three Allied planes we're missing
from all operations under the mid
die eastern command.
Authentic Allied reports said the
Germans We're fleeing from Tripoli
SC fast that they drove their motor
vehicles at night with lights on full.
The road Of retreat to TuniSia
was scene of terrible destruction
and death. Allied planes screamed
down upon the packed Axis trans
port, bombing and mach;nc-Gun-
ming. vehicles were exploding as
ECmbs and tracer bullets hit tAcm,
jamming traffic. Returning pilots
said the roads were q "strcfcr'a
paradise
London observers did rot Believe
the Axis would make much of an
attempt, if a.ly, 10 defend Tlipoli.
They were convinced Marshal
Erwin Rommcl lad decided to
abandon the city--he really had no
choicc-and that the n2Cst the
Eighth Army would encounter
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Reds Close i'm on Five
Kew Nuzi-HeId Bostions

Thrusting southwark, Russian
pincer claws were within 25 miles
/ Of VoroshiloVgrad in the rich Do
nets Basin mining and industrial
area from the east % miles from
the north.
West Of Stalingrad city, where
the Russians are liquidating the re-
nainder of % trapped German di-
visions, Red army unit during the
night stormed and Captured a
strongly fortified defense point
killing 80 Germans and taking 90
prisoners, the noon communique
said They captured seven tanks,
13 guns, 80 machine guns, two ra-
dio transmitters and other spoils.
On the southwestern front north
of Rostov the Russians claimed sew
eral additional inhabited places
during the night.
!.1ATERIALS TAKEN
In capturing KamenSk 80 miles
north of RoStoy on his southwest
ern front, the Russians took three
trains loaded with motor trucks.
war material and food dumps and
many parked trucks and othea'
Spoils
The noon cCmmunique said of the
situation on the south Voronezh
front where the Russians threat
oned Kharkov, that rings were be-
ing tightened around encircled di-
visions.
One Russian unit killed more
than 200 Axis troops during the
night on the south-Voronezh front,
the noon communiqUa said, and
took 360 prisoners along with a
tank, four anti-tank guns, 60 war
material carts and other material.
1t was in another sector of this
front that an entire Hungarian
battalion laid down its arms.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Command Chances
On Guadalcanal

WASHINGT -. Jan. 21.-UP1-
The Navy announced today that
Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch of
the us. Army has taken over cCm-
mand CT the American forces on
Guadalcanal.
Patch relieved Mai. Gen AleXan-
der A. VenderSrift, who commanded
the Marines who landed in the Sol
onions on August T.
The Navy said the Marines have
been operating jointly with Army
troops in the Solomons area for
several months. but now most of
the Marines have been replaced by
Army personnel
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
IILOT KILLED IN
CRASH INTO GULF

TAMPA. Fla. Jan. 21--(UPl--.
Second Lieut.. Lawrence Gross, %,
Los Angeles Cal. Was killed yes
terday when his fighter plane
crashed into the Gulf of Mexico
rear Sarasota, Fla. The driver of
a coast guard rescue truck also was
fatally injured when the vehicle
overturned. military authorities re-
ported today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21

WOulQ De rear guard dcUlOn.
RCMMEL CONFERS
Dispatches from Algers said Rom
mel was in Tunisia, conferring
with Col. Gen. Hans Ainim. COM
nander of Axis forces in TuniSia.
Parts of Tripoli, particularly its
port installations, were burning
fiercely from repeated poundings
by Allied neayy bombers. The Allies
were determined that the Axis
would not eyacuate the Afrika
Korps from it by sea.
Further to forestall this posi-
bility Allied naval units were
roaming the Mediterranean. The
Germans radio Paris broadcast to-
Gag thlt an important E,@itish
naval unit had arrived al Gibraltar
to reinforce already strong naval
units. The Admiralty announced
yesterday that Il Axis ships had
been sunk in the Mediterranean. l3
by an Allied force C Gen de-
stroyers.
STAND ON BORDER
Most observers expected the re-
treating Afrika KorpS to try to
make stand at the Mareth line
along the Tunisian border. But
the Germans and Italians would
he confronted in such an endeavor
by two difficulties. They had or
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Children Perish
I'm German Raid

Among these who could not Get
into shelters. he said. were chill
dren at a second school whom
teachers uShered them into the
street.
Only the smallest children in
the elementary school were involv-
ed They we're assembled in a first
floor at lunch With their teachers.
while the older pupils lunched at
home.
FLOORS CRASH DOWN
Excavation squads had to be
called out tC reach the room, now
Just a pile of debris, including the
splinterS of school desks. from the
three floors above Which had crash
ed il on it.
Among the volunteers who work.
cd throughout the night, refusing
relief was thc rather of one buried
child.
-Four air raid alarms were sound
ed as the workers dug through the
night. Each time flares and shaded
lamps were put out, but the squads
continued digging and hauling out
debris by the light of the moon.
Berlin sac German bombing
planes attacked targets on the south
coast du~ing the night and also
penetrated the London area and
dropped high explosives and incen-
diaries"
This mornings plane and the two
downed last night brought the "a
hour total of enemy planes destroy
ed to l6 out of q small force.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
HOLLYWOOD
BY ERSkINE JOHNSON

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deed if it were not for the 18th
hole
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
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fcolds-coughing, phlegm, irrita-
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21

ALSO, FOR HEAD
COLD ''SninlcS"
melt a spoonful
of VaI,oRuto in
hot water. hen
have the child
breathe i'm the
stcaminG vapors.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Eighth Army i'm Sight Of
TripoIi as RommeI FIeeS

would be rear guard action.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21

! mortar and tank forces.
Evening star., 1943-05-22
Parents Urged 10 Guide
Children 10 Curb Crime

The Importance of child guidance
in the home was stressed last night
by Capt. Archie M. Winfree of No. 7
police precinct in a talk on juvenile
delinquency before the Glover Park
Citizens Association.
Parents, Capt. Winfree said. point
to the schools, churches and clubs
to guide their children, but he said
that when looking into the work of
these groups it was found that guild
ance should also be in the home. He
reported lis cases of children being
involved in crime since the begin
ming OF the year in the Glover Park
area, where there are 1850 children.
This Is an increase in delinquency
over last year, Capt. Winfree said.
Jesse Coen, secretary of the aSso-
citation, was elected chairman of the
Civilian Defense Committee of the
area. 1t was announced that COM
mittee will confer with the man
agement of the Calvert Theater
about placing plaque in the lobby
to honor the men and women of the
area now in the armed services.
1t was voted to permit the Execu-
tive Committee to meet during the
summer to take care of association
business. 1t. Leo T. Robbins of the
Coast Guard showed two motion pic
lures, Ice Patrol and Tahoe
The meeting, held in the Stoddert
School, was presided over by James
S. McMullen, president.
Evening star., 1943-05-22
Nature and History .
Walks Scheduled
Park Service Aides to
Guide Groups Tomorrow

Nature lovers and persons inter-
ested in the history of the Washing
ton area are invited by the National
Park Service to participate tomor-
row in several organized outdoor in
structive sessions under it's direction
A bird walk through the Soldiers
Home grounds will be conducted by
parks naturalists from to $50 am
The starting point is at Park road
and Park place NV.
Rock Creek Park will be the scene
OF 4-mile nature hike from to 5
pm. A scenic trail traversing the
hilltops and affording views of the
stream below will be followed. The
meeting place will be Sixteenth
street and Colorado avenue NV.
Al the same hour, a walk will be
conducted along the towpath of the
picturesque Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal. beginning at carstop No. 33
on the Cabin John carline near Glen
Echo.
T. Sutton Jet, chief of the ma
tional memorials and historic sites
of the park service. will conduct a
history walk" dealing with the C. g.
o. Canal, at 2:30 pm. at Chain
Bridge. Participants will walk over
the canal towpath to Shaffer's Lock
at Glen Echo, a distance of approx
mately miles The return trip may
be made by streetcar.
Evening star., 1943-05-22
National Baptist
Lists Programs
For Next Week
DR.. Cove G. Johnson,
DR.. W. Dewey Moore
Will Preach

Dr. Cove G. johnson, pastor of
National Baptist Memorial Church,
will preach at II am. tomorrow on
"A God-fearing People"
DR.. w. Dewey Moore, missionary
OF this church to Rome. will preach
on The Breadth of the Love of
Christ at 8 pm.
In the Bible school at $40 am,
D.. and Mrs. John Scroggie OF Lon,
don will address the mems and
womens groups.
The deacons will meet at 7::3o
pm. Tuesday.
The Bible School Board will meet
Thursday with dinner at pm. A
Sunday school clinic will be held,
with the following faculty: For all
teachers Of the Bible school. the
Rev. James P. Rodgers: for the su-
perintendents, the Rev. Harlan
Stenger; for all Bible class presi-
dents, DR.. Gaye L. McGlothlen;
for associate superintendents, vice
presidents and group captains, the
Rev. Luther Holcomb; for secre-
taries and treasurers, Mrs. Clifford
Carter; for stewardship and class
ministries vice presidents, Mrs. Gaye
L. McGlothlen; for fellowship vice
presidents and reporters, Miss
Martha Dorroh.
Prayer service will be held at 8
pm. Thursday, The subject will be
Prayer for Our Country"
Evening star., 1943-05-22
Howard u. Religion School
To Hold Institute

The first Institute of Religion
under the auspices of the School of
Religion OF Howard University will
be held on the university campus
from June to IL, DR.. William S.
Nelson, dean of the School of Re-
ligion, announced today.
The purpose Of the institute is to
stimulate the study by scholars in
the field of religion Of the bearing of
religion on current critical prob,
lens, according to Dean Nelson.
The Christian Imperative and
Race Relations will be the subject
OF the first institute. Present rela-
tons between the white and Negro
races in America and what has been
done in the field OF race relations
will be discussed.
Results of the conference are ex-
pected to be published in periodical
or book form,