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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
BY PETER EDISON

FORT BLISS, Texas TWEEN
~ some mile from FL Paso on
what is known as the Camp Hue
co firing range of the big Fort
Bliss military reservation. the
Army nti-Aircraft Artillery
Training Forces put on what are
perhaps the most spectacular
Fourth of July fireworks eXhi-
bitions ever seen. whenever they
conduct night firing practise.
There are batteries of giant
.searohlights TO pick up the tar
gets in the clear night air, and
from eight different firing posi-.
tions. batteries Of every known
anti-aircraft weapon send up
magnificent showers OF tracer
bullets TO arc across the sky and,
sometimes, hit the radio con-
trolled. miniature plane which is
the target When direct hit is
scored and the little yellow
winged red fuselaged pllotless
target plane is disabled. para
chute is released and the model
plane floats gently TO earth,
where lis works may be picked
up and Salvaged.
Among the guns in the firing
are the 30 and so caliber ma
e. inc guns, 37mm. and the new
4Omm. American Bofors anti
aircraft guns, and finally the
big Comm. anti aircraft batter
les with their complicated range
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
. SO THEY SAY

| am determined TO try the
voluntary method and do every
thing in my power in all sim
cerity 10 make the voluntary
method work Manpower Di-
rector Paul V McNutt.
The curse Of God will bring
about the fall Of those clviliza-
tons and violent orders which
deny corporal Liberties. - Vati-
can statement.
Our goal is the triumph OF de-
mocracy, which cannot be
achieved without the complete
destruction of the military and
political power Of totaitarian-
ism. 49, Italian American Labor
Council.
II you send five fortresses
against one target. the chances
are that all five Will be knocked
down. But send $50 against the
same target. and it is likely that
our losses will still be only five.
and with luck, even less.-Capt.
William Southworth Jr., son OF
ST Louis Cardinals manager.
The people of China and India
are now forced TO the conviction
that we are not fighting for
freedom as a principle of human
life. but TO maintain ourselves
with the British in position OF
superiority Pearl s Buck. au-
thor and Far East authority.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
. BARBS

Paving on the installment
plan makes months seem shorter
and years longer.
Best in the long run, Is an
admirable slogan. except Tor the
hosiery manufacturer.
In wartime. an idle rumor IN
,he mouth OF ANYBODY should re-
man that way
a fortune awaits the tlrst
Alaskan TO invent DlupDer
tire.
With now summer styles now
in full swing father is having
his annual fit
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

English orphanage for scene
in Jane Eyre One of the more
fortunate waits brought her a
crust of bread I've brought YOU
some bread the girls line read,
but there wasn't any butter
Director Edward Stevenson cut
out the reference 10 butter for
fear the scene would leave the
audience laughing For the
first time in his screen career.
Lon CLANCY Jr winds up a
good guy in Universal's Co
bra Woman And even gets the
girl-screen newcomer Lois Col
lIer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

There's a deal brewing for
Leon Enrol TO play his dual
roles Of Lord Epping and Uncle
Matt on a pew radio show
Greta Carlo, who is anxious 70
return 10 the screen, has been
looking a. her old pictures. hop
ing 10 interest VI G. NJ IN a re-
make of one Of them.
In new Leon SchlcslnGer
"Nlcrrie Melodie' c o m Q d y. a
monster spider chaScs little fly
throughout the picture. Corner
ed in the last scene, the fly
pleads No-not now. This IS
meatleSs Flyday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

kfALISM
KANSAS CITY. kas. Test Pr
lot Jack A Snodgrass showed
visiting neWspapermen what
happen when a Mitchell bomber
makes a crash landlng-al-
though that WASH what he had
in mind when he went up.
Unable to get his landing gear
down after three and one half
hours. he decided there was
nothing to do but make belly
landing He skidded neatly
across the field just As the escort
d tour was looking it over.
HEROINE
BOISE, Idaho-A girl truck
driver saved Milton II Pyndus,
warrant officer at Gowen Field.
The wing commander didn I
like Pyndus haircut - and or
dered something done about il
forthwith Barber shops were
closed, so Miss Marva Warran a
barber before she took up truck
ing, offered her services.
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo
The flames from his burning
fighter plane and the thrill OF z
life saving parachute leap were
secondary to Lieut.. John r
Richards of Tacoma. Wash
What he wanted was that shoe
lost on the way down. He finally
found il about 70 feet from the
wrecked plane.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
THIS is WHERE WE CAME IN

ST LOUlS-The National AS
ISOLATION of credit men held
their convention in ST Louis in
1903 the year OF the great
flood. Delegates were days late
in arriving and many Of them
had 70 complete the trip by river
steamer.
So they waited 40 years before
coming back 10 the river me-
tropolis-and w n a t happens?
The surrounding area is mum.
dated in the worst flood IN loo
wears.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
By the Associated Press
WAR DEPARTMENT

WASHINGTON A group OF
Army officers studying the
japanese language still are argu-
irg whether this passage In the
textbook dealt with grammar or
baseball.
I'VE have now reached a point
where we may enquire more
fully into the structure OF the
verb. We have already spoken
Of the second base In all there
are five bases, one for each OF
the voWels."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

finding and fire direction appa-
ratus which will keep a number
of guns on the target, firing
them automatically and leaving
for t. gun crew only the work
NJ rploadinp
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM r. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

One of the most weird results
i'm the 4 Vanderbilt Tournament
occurred on the hand shown to-
day. Harry j. Fishbein held the
West cards. playing with Harold
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

tncm automatically ana leaving
for t. gun crew only the work
Of reloading.
CUNNING IN THE DARK
All this antl-alrcraft training
is concluded with night firing. i'm
which the crews must perform
every operation without the aid
of light SO familiar must they
be with their guns that they can
service the gun in pitch darkness
and without the aid Of even an
occasion a flashllght beam,
which might give away their po-
sltionS while putting the guns in
readiness for firing.
Where the searchlights 90
through their drill in picking up
night bombcrS, 40 of the big
lamps, ranging five feet and
more IN diameter, throw their
beams 10 miles into the night
sky. AS the lights may be wide
~ spaced over several miles of
ground, when this spectacle is
viewed from a distance, it gives
the impression of a tremendous
Japanese flag pattern, the rays
OF hight converglng in binding
glare on the tiny plane caught IN
the center Of this web of light.
The beams then extend up and
beyond, seeming to reach half
way to the zenith, and filling "A
huge sector OF the horizon with "A
light display that moves as the
plane moves, rivaling the show
OF an Aurora Borealis.
Then, when YOU face about to
watch the antl-aircraft firing,
there is an equally spectacular
show Other searChllghtS have
caught the targets TO be fired on.
Now it is a luminous sock
toWed across the sky behind a
plane that is plloted Next 1t
Will be one Of these model pilot
less planes. weighing only l25
pounds and with only a l3 foot
wing spread. launched from a
catapult, powered by mlnia-
ture gasoline engine, controlled
entirely from the ground by
radio.
COMMENCE FIRE"
II climbs 1000 feet or more,
and then, when il has reached q
height at which It's small dlmen
sionS give the proportions OF A
larger plane at greater altitude,
the commence fire command
is given and all hell breaks out
as the 100 or more guns open
up, the red traccrS strcaking up
in little balls Of fire, explosive
shells bursting all around the
target. the destroying shells
that miss going thousands OF
yards. miles beyond the target
TO burn out in futillty a target
may be hit in matter of MIN
, utes, or it may take hall an noun
or more TO bring IL down.
All such firing IS al slow tar
gets. more or less directly over
head. To simulate the 400-mllc
an-hour plane streaklng across
the front, big rockets are free
: from one side and IN front OF the
= firing line. A mere white streat
, across the horizon, like a shoot
ing star, they're gone IN les!
: than minute and of course tn'
cunners never know whether
5 they hit il or not. But II al
7 good practise in this gaudlcSt o
7 all Roman candle. skyrocket
: pinWhcel, star she'll. floWcrpo'
fireworks pieces ever set oil 10
a county, state or world iair.
All the rattlcSnakcs and COY
otes in the area have long sine
!, no away from there
Evening star., 1943-11-09
BY MARION WADE DOYLE.

School authorities are going to
put red light on the Patterson
School chimney and hope that no
planes from Boiling Field will drop
on the structure before they get q
new permanent school built else
where in the area, 1t was announced d
today.
The long standing problem of the
safety hazard to the 600 children
studying at the school, located with
ia 1000 feet OF heavily used run
way at Boiling Field, vas settled
toaay by the Building and Grounds
Committee of the Board of Educa-
ton.
On motion of C. Melvin Sharpe
the committee acted for the board
in deciding to abandon the tempo
rary eight-room Patterson. School
building as soon as a site three
blocks away at South Capitol street
and Darlington place can be pur-
chased and a new permanent build
ing erected.
The request for a red light to be
placed on the chimney of the Pat
terson School, Nichols avenue and
Chesapeake street S.W., came from
1t. Col. Harold L. Jones, represent
ing Boiling Field authorities. He
said the chimney was a particular
hazard for flyers at night and that
Evening star., 1943-11-09
ChennauIt's Flyers
Sink Five Jap Ships
Destroyer, a Other Craft
Blasted at Annoy Port
By the Associated Press.


CHUNGKING, Nov. e-Mai. Gen
Claire L. Chennault's Sky Dragons
supporting Chinese troops on the
Burma front, sank a Japanese de-
stroyer and four other vessels in the
former treaty port of Annoy Sunday
and blasted the Japanese airdrome
at klungShan on Hainan Island YES
terday to destroy four parked planes
and damage many others, United
States communicates announced to-
day
The raid on Kiungshan Airdrome
evidently caught the Japanese nap
ping, as no opposition was reported
Direct hits were scored on two
hangers and bombs were dropped
on an enemy freighter spotted by
the Mitchells on their homeward
fight.
Sundays raid on Annoy Harbor
was staged at low level through
heavy anti-aircraft and machine
gun fire.
Annoy is on a Chinese island of
tie same name nearly opposite the
center of FormoSa.
The communique also announced
that fighter bombers, supporting
Chinese ground operations on the
Salween front, had scored near
misses on a strategically valuable
bridge.
The raids were carried out without
loss.
Evening star., 1943-11-09
Red Light Will Be Installed
On School Near BoIIinq Field

a warning signal on it would be
helpful.
The Boiling Field authorities al
ways warn people coming to live in
the entire area about the field, Col
Jones said While they do not rec
ommend elimination of construction
in the area, he said, they like to
discourage as much new building as
they can. They are particularly
anxious to have the Patterson
School abandoned, Col. Jones added,
because of the public guardianship
involved in massing of school chill
dren there.
Col. Joseph T. Arthur, jr., Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner, agreed
with Col Jones that the hazard
is not great enough at present to
warrant immediate abandonment OF
the Patterson School.
"It is better to have a school with
minor hazard than no school al
ALL" he declared.
In the course of the discussion
Col. Jones estimated that the chance
Of a plane falling on the building
is "one in 1000" He emphasized
however, that the position of the
school on the hill overlooking
Boiling Field makes a very shagr
angle for pilots using the runway
estimated to bear about 20 per cent
OF the fields total trafic.
Evening star., 1943-11-09
Commissioners Ask
Victory for War Fund
On Armistice Day
Jennings Issues Appeal
For Remaining IS Pct.
Of Campaign Goal

The District Commissioners
issued a proclamation today urg-
ing Washingtonians to make
Armistice Day Victory Day by
contributing to the Community
War Fund.
No better way can be devised
to observe Armistice day this year
than a rededication of the entire
city to a victorious conclusion of
the Community War Fund cam
paign,' the proclamation said.
Contributions to the $4,000. 900
drive have passed S4,100, ,O00-85 per
cent of quota. Coleman Jennings
campaign chairman, wants to collect
the remaining Is per cent at report
meetings, at 1890 pm. tomorrow
and Friday, at the United States
Chamber of Commerce.
The proclamation. signed by Com
missioners Young. Kutz and Mason
urged citizens to give serious
thought to the basic Importance
of the Community War Fund. The
uiANI AiSiCoCo 11o dSCllSlCS, ltpl
Senting aid to servicemen, to fam
lilies at home and to the United
! Nations.
Those who have given already
the Commissioners suggested, might
we'll decide to give more to the fund
Text of Proclamation.
The text of the proclamation fol-
lows:
Whereas no better way can be
devised to observe Armistice Day
| this year than a rededication OF the
entire city to victorious conclusion
of the Community War Fund cam
paign,
Whereas President Roosevelt has
said, A share in the war fund is q
share ir winning the war He has
also urged that on Armistice Day
the American people devote them.
selves Fundamentally and with re-
neWed fervor to every task that will
contribute to the winning of the
war;
Whereas it is therefore appropri-
ate that the three great objectives
of the Community War Fund eff.
fort; service to our men in uniform
help for our stricken Allies: ano
(See WAR FUND, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1943-11-09
Maj Radio Base Off Greenland
DESTROYED; 2 Prisoners Taken

transmitter separately located, de-
fensive machine gun emplacements
and food caches. A small supply
ship anchored in the harbor had
telephone communication with all
principal shore points.
THE Sledge Patrol group which
discovered the base" reads the
Navy's account of the expedition
was attacked by the Germans, but
managed to report it's discovery
Two of its members were taken
prisoner by the Germans and a
third, Eli Knudsen, was shot and
killed.
THE Nazis then sent a force
against a small hunting and wealth.
er station we'll above the Arctic
Circle, which was manned only by
a handful of Danes armed with
hunting rifles and some pistols. As
the Germans attacked with machine
guns in the darkness of the long
winter night, most of the Danes
escaped.
THE lieutenant in command OF
the German Greenland expedition
(see GREENLAND, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1943-11-09
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.

A German radio and weather base
on an island off the coast of Green
land has been destroyed and two
German prisoners taken by Amer
lean forces. the Navy Department
announced today. The cutters
Northland and North Star have
just returned with a report of COM
pletion of their mission which was
carried out during August and Sep
tember.
The German base, according tc
the Navy's account of the operation
was discovered early this year by
the United States Army Sledge
Patrol, a force of Danish hunters
who constantly patrol the unin-
habited coast of Greenland. The
patrol was organized in the summer
of 194l for the Army by Rear Ad-
miral Ed H. Smith, Coast Guard
of Winchester, Mass, who now is in
command of the Greenland Naval
Patrol
The installations at the base in
cluded radio station. powerhouse
emergency generator and radio
Evening star., 1943-11-09
.Windstorms Smash
Areas in Maryland;
ID. {. Rain Sets Recor'
Snow Forecast Cancelled,
But Section Is Due
For Colder Weather
TWO KILLED. IA HURT in traffic
accidents during storm. Page AS
Pictures on Pace b.,

A tornado narrowly missed
Washington last night as il
swept through nearby Maryland
demolishing one house, slicine
another in two and ripping off q
filling station roof. The District
experienced the worst November
rainstorm in its history.
Several hours earlier another
windstorm of tornado velocity struck
Washington Grove, Md, overturning
two garages, uprooting power lines
and smashing windows.
At Bridgeport, Md. Army officials
reported one of six soldiers trapped
by fash flood at Toms Greek at
the height of the storm, still was
missing today. The others were res
cued after standing waist deep ir
the swirling waters for five hours
cllnging to tree. They straved
from the main body of their outfit
while on night maneuvers.
Washington. meanwhile, braced
itself for near freezing blast OF
real winter weather tonight, but an
earlier forecast of light snow flurriee
this afternoon was Cancelled by the
Weather Bureau forecaster.
Record Rainfall Here.
Last nights storm gave the cit,
a ecord-breaking 80 inches of rain
the highest November drenching the
Capital ever has experienced. The
storm was accompanied by a freak
electrical disturbance, which ap.
peared to be centered near Fairfax
Va.
A l2-room house near Forestville
road, about mile from ForeStville
Md, and almost at the gates of the
Army's Camp Springs air base, wa.
almost completely flattened by the
tornado. 1t had been occupied unit
last Friday by J. H. Shiflette, hi
Evening star., 1943-11-09
Berlin Says laps Sunk
; Allied BottIeships
BY the Associated Press.
5y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 9 (P).-The Berlin
radio quoted japanese dispatches 80
day as saying three Allied battle
ships, two cruisers, three destroy
ers and four transports had been
sunk by japanese warships and
planes in attacks on convoy south
OF Bougainville beginning yesterday
morning.
There was no Allied confirmation
of the claim.
The broadcast, recorded by the
Associated Press, said that one bat
tleship, three cruisers and three
cruisers or large destroyers" were
claimed to have been damaged Sc
riously.
Evening star., 1943-11-09
Senators AssaiI Cost
OF Federal Operation
OF Capital Garage
Question ACCESSIBILITY
Of Continuing Storage
And Service Plan
BY ]. A. OLEARY.

Members OF a Senate judiciary
Subcommittee today questioned
the advisability and economy oi
the Governments effort to oper-
ate a central car storage ano
servicing plan by leasing the
Capital Garage on New York
avenue.
After Senators had questioned him
at length on the unit cost of ths
project thus far. Ernest Hall, execu-
tive officer of the Federal Works
Agency. said if the agency finds il
cant render the service cheaper than
the departments can get it elsewhere
it ought not to continue the project
Il doubt if you have any business
being in it at all" observed Chair
man Murdoch of the subcommittee
The subcommittee met to consider
the bill of Senator Byrd, Democrat
of Virginia, to require the Budget
Bureau to establish a central poo
from which all departments woulc
call cars when necessary, and to fl
new penalties for the use of Gov.
ernment vehicles for unofficial pur.
poses.
Cost High. Says Mcfarland.
Senator Mcfarland, Democrat, o1
Arizona, described the unit cost OF
operating the Capital Garage as
high" after Mr.. Hall had testified
that it amounts to s25 month pei
car for storage. on the basis of 28(
cars now using it, plus SITS month
for service.
Mr.. Hall contended that in any
new venture. the cost is high at the
start. Emphasizing that depart
ments are not compelled to use the
garage, Mr.. Hall said the cost OF
storage will be S12 month when the
expected total of 52l cars are stored
there
The executive officer testified the
Budget Bureau asked the FWA tc
inaugurate a central storage ano
service project, after a survey of the
dead mileage" driven in getting
Government cars to and from theil
former storage points. Mr.. Hall SAID
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Federal
Works administrator, was reluctant
to undertake it at first, believing il
would be a headache" as an operat-
ing problem.
After the witness revealed Gen
Fleming and the Budget Bureau
are working on legislation for sub
mission to Congress to cover the
car-servicing plan, Senator Murdoch
observed
Congress, as usual, comes into
the picture after the project i.
under way, and probably will bt
asked to authorize it,"
That has been the practice, ane
is wrong practice" said Senator
Revercomb, Republican, of Wes
Virginia.
Use of Garage Voluntary.
After Mr.. Hall had emphasized
that use of the Capital Garage il
voluntary with the departments
Senator Revercomb asked: IF yol
had legislation making use of ths
garage compulsory by Government
departments you would have youl
(See GARAGE. Page A-6)
Evening star., 1943-11-09
18th Army at Nozi Winter Line
Foe BoIsters Mignono Defenses
British Cut Smile Swoth to Sonero
As Germans Mass for Counteruttuck

assault could be launched, dis
persing the enemy.
German prisoners reported unani-
mouSly that the Nazi command
planned to dig in for the winter on
line anchored in the west along
the Garigliano River and Aurunci
Mountains, through the mountains
near Mignano-where United States
troops already have won footholds-
and across the Apennines to the
Sangro River.
The 5th and 9th Armies already
are ramming against this line in
most sectors.
Slashing along the Adriatic coast
al sector, the 9Th Army captured
Torlno di Sangro, 4 miles northwest
of captured Casalbordino, and Pa
glieta less than miles from the
river. The speed of this drive OBJ
vlously caught the Nazis off balance.
Farther inland. British, Canadian
and Indian troops punched through
tSee ITALY. Page A-l6)
Evening star., 1943-11-09
Police on Beats
Warned Against
Idle TuIkino

No more "how's tricks. Mac" for
the policemen on the beat!
That's what Assistant Superln-
tendent of Police Harvey G. Gala
han instructed policemen today.
Inspector Callahan said COM
plants have been received that
police are wasting a lot of their
time while on duty by engaging in
idle conversation with citizens"
Warning of disciplinary meas
ures,' Inspector Callahan quoted
section 10 of chapter Is of the
police manual:
When on patrol duty they
(policemen) must not walk or talk
with citizens, or with each other
when they meet on the confines of
their beats, unless it is for the
purpose of communicating or re-
ceiving information, pertaining to
the Police Department, and then
they shall be as brief as possible. 4"