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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-12

much to do about guarding the
representatives of the peepul"
with wooden guns and a host of
other previous circumstance cal
culated to move to compassion the
most stony-hearted.
Any one of the foregoing condi-
tions would furnish material for
many columns full of righteous
wrath, however. :.
MRS. KNIGHT WINS DIVORCE
I have here before me a most
lamentable news story entitled,
"Mrs. Knight Wins Divorce"
This small item was buried, as
is most news of consequence, deep
in the paper next to an article en-
titled "Willkie Plans to Run
Again" (Who is Willkie?")
| do not know Mrs. Knight, or,
for that matter, Mr.. Knight. She
might be a shrew or an angel; he
may be a drunkard or a model of
perfection; but it isn't important
that we know these details. This
is what is important = Insofar as
can be ascertained, Mrs. Knight
was granted her divorce because
her husband stood on his head in
full dress in the Metropolitan
Operas lobby much to the amaze
ment of the high-hatted stuffed
shirts who frequent this "citadel of
culture"
PIONEERING SPIRIT
Mr.. Knight was blessed with the
spirit of the pioneers.
Mr.. knight feared not the ridi-
cule of the multitude.
Mr.. knight thumbed his nose at
culture.
Mr.. Knight belongs to that army
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Irish Outlaws
Make Getaway
Chief Of Stoff
Among Fusitives

BELFAST, Northern Ireland,
Jan. IS - R - Hugh Matter,
alleged chief of staff of the out
lawed Irish Republican army,
escaped today with three other
members of the organization
from Belfast prison, where he
was serving a 15-year sentence
for treason.
1t was not Immediately dis
closed how tie break was effect
ed, but it was assumell the
prisoners had received outside
help.
Their flight was discovered,
prison officials said, when
guards made their regular
rounds of the cells this morn
ing and found them empty.
Patrols were posted immedi-
ately on all roads leading out
of Belfast and a close watch
was kept on tie Fire border.
Prison authorities did not
identify Matters companions,
describing them me ely as less
err lights" OF the IRA.
Matter. Is, began his sent
ence last Nov. 26.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
William Wood
Passes Away
Rites Sunday
From the Home

William Wood, 70, of "A Fer
rim place, long an active member
of First Presbyterian church,
died at 6 a. m. today at local
hospital following lingering
illness.
He came to Mount Clemens
20 years ago from East Liver
pool, O. and was an employee of
the old Mount Clemens Daily
Leader until i'll health forced his
retirement.
Mr.. Wood was a member of
the Philathea Class of the Pres
byterian church.
Besides his wife, the former
Jennie Common he is survived
by one son, Rev. Charles Wood,
Of Pueblo, Colo; one sister, Mrs.
George Hall, of Cincinnati; two
grandchildren and two brothers.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday at 2:30 p. m. from the
residence with Rev. Joseph l..
Kennedy officiating. Burial will
be in Lakeview Cemetery at
East Liverpool
Duncan B. Hubbard is in
charge of arrangements.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Clothing Theft
Ring Shattered
Two Men, One
Woman Convicted

DETROIT, Jan. Is - (R) -
The FBI closed the books today
on a cross-country clothes steal
ing ring with the conviction in
Federal Court of two men and
two women.
A jury yesterday returned
guilty verdicts against Mrs. WV
ian Sanchez, "a: Manuel Garcia,
40, and Miss Betty Bradovich,
80, all of Detroit, and Dominic
Fognini of Chicago.
All were charged with trans
porting stolen goods across state
lines. Federal agents said $780,
600 in clothes had been stolen
from stores in as states and sold
from a headquarters" here.
Mrs. Sanchez husband, Ray
mond, IS, pleaded guilty at the
start of the trial. Judge Frank A.
Picard deferred sentences.
Three alleged associates ar
rested and tried in nj o Mt a n a
were sent to prison for ten
years.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Name Pearson
Draft Leader
Chosen 10 Succeed
Late Col. Rosserons

LANSING Jan. IS - R) -
Governor Kelly today announc-
ed selection of Col. Leroy Pear
son, new adjutant general of
Michigan. as state selective serv-
ice director, succeeding the late
Col. z. M. Rosecrans, who also
held both offices.
Kelly said he appointed Col.
Pearson acting selective service
director pending confirmation by
President Roosevelt.
A statement by Kelly said:
81 have transmitted TO Wash
ington my recommendation that
Col. Leroy Pearson, whom ! ap-
pointed Wednesday as adjutant
general of Michigan to succeed
the late Col. E. M. Rosecrans,
also be director of state selec-
tive service, a dual function
that was likewise carried on by
the late adjutant general.
81 have notified Washington
that / have asked Col. Pearson
to act in that capacity pending
confirmation of his apr intment
by the president
Col. Pearson, who won hero's
decorations in World War l with
Michigan's famed 32nd Division,
formerly was state quartermast-
er general since 1919.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Prank Results
in Explosions
Protection Rocket
at School Smashed

Principal Monte McFarlane
today suspended three Mount
Clemens High school boys for
the part they played in selling
protection cards" to smaller
students.
McFarlane said the three will
be allowed TO take final exams
at the end of the current semes-
ter, but cannot attend classes in
the meantime. He said they
may be re-admitted to the school
when the second semester starts
if one or both parents guaran-
tees their behavior and if they
pass the examinations.
The principal said he could
find only one instance in which
a smaller boy paid for the pro-
lection card he received. He
said the lone card went for Is
cents, the others being given
away.
The escapade eliminated in .
fight in a downtown pool room
involving one of the trio and a
boy who refused to take out a
card. The youth who spurned
the card suffered a cut beneath
the eye that required three stit-
ches to close before the pair was
separated.
The racket started only three
days after the battered bodies
of Leo Grombolski and Stephen
Goldyga, Hamtramck hoodlums,
were found in a car parked two
blocks from the police station.
McFarlane believes the STAY
ing responsible for the card
racket" which, he said, started
as a childish prank before it got
out of hand.
Because of the ages of the
boys involved. their names are
withheld by The Daily Monitor
Leader.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Seeks $4,000
from Utility
Consumers Power
Named in Suits

Suits asking a total of $35 900
from Consumers Power COM
pany were filed in circuit court
today by Frank Bidigare. of
21728 Pleasant avenue, st. Clair
Shores, his wife, Melva, and his
son, Frederick, in which the
three charge they are suffering
from toxic encephalitis because
the company failed to repair a
lIaky gas connection in front
of their home.
Husband and wife each ask
$4,000 while $4,000 is sought
for Frederick, minor, by his
father as next friend.
The bills of particulars all
claim that a fire resulted in the
home last March 7 because gas
escaped into the basement and
first floor of the home due to
company negligence.
All three claim they are still
seriously i'll as the result Of the
escaping gas. They charge the
company was frequently noti-
fled of the leak and that at
tempts to fix it proved fruitless.
The connection was described
as "deteriorated, loose and de-
fective."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Actress Ends
Wild Spree
i'm Jail Cell

SANTA MONICA. Calf, Jan.
Is -(R- A prisoner. with six
months to serve, is the newest
and only current role of blonde
screen actress Frances Farmer,
who won her first movie part
six years ago through a popu-
larity contest.
After carefully removing Miss
Farmers shoes Ito minimize her
kicking), matrons carried her
off to a cell yesterday, but not
before Miss Farmer, her tresses
bedraggled an d her clothing
awry, had climaxed a wild "a
hours with recriminations, blows
and screams.
Within Q days span Miss
Farmer had:
/. Received 100 days for vio-
lating probation granted in q re-
cent drunk driving case.
2. Embarrassed a detect v e
and a policewoman by bursting
sparsely attired, from her hotel
bathroom when the Off Ger 8
grew impatient to serve their
bench warrant.
3. Lost her role In q film
Frank King Is directing.
4. Admitting fighting in Hol-
lywood hotel earlier in the
week.
S. Floored a matron, bruised
an officer, and suffered some
rufflement on her own part
when refused use of a telephone
(the occasion of the de-shoeing)
after she had been sentenced.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Ray Center

Mrs. Glenn Kirkum entertain
ed about forty ladies Saturday
v n at miscellaneous
shower in honor of Miss Ber-
Meta Vigneron who will become
the bride of Mark Kirkum on
Saturday morning Jan. 16.
The diversion for the evening
was Instant Bunco." First prize
was awarded to Mrs. Sadie Reh-
fus; second, Miss Francis Kul-
ku; third, Mrs. Grace Skinner;
house prize, Miss Thresa De-
mick; consolation, Mrs. Elsie
Orris. A buffet luncheon was
served at midnight. The BRIDE
elect received a grand assort-
ment of pretty and useful gifts.
The wedding reception will be
held on Saturday evening at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Vigneron at New Baltimore.
Mrs. Stanley Card has been
suffering with a felon on her
finger.
Herbert Neiman and daugh-
ters called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Burkhart at New Balti-
more Sunday.
Funeral services were held
from the Will Funeral home
Tuesday for Mrs. Bertha Kir-
KUN, IS, of New Baltimore, a
former resident Of this vicinity
for AZ years. Death was due to
a heart attack. Survivors in
clude the husband, Giles; four
sons, Frank, William. Floyd and
Glenn; four daughters, Anna
Barney, Ida Milligan, Carrie
hatcher and Belle Steinbrink;
% grandchildren and % great
grandchildren; also a sister, Mrs.
Lena Gillett of Chesterfield and
a brother, Fred Mass of Mount
Clemens.
Rev. Carroll Brodbeck of ONO
Lutheran Church conducted the
services. Burial was in New Ha-
ven Cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Card
has been making frequent trips
TO Mount Clemens to the st. Jo-
seph's hospital where the for
mer's mother is a patient. She
was injured Sunday in an auto
accident near her home.
The Ray Center School and
the Ridge SC hool Booster
Club" presented beautiful floral
pieces for Mrs. Bertha Kirkum,
which was greatly appreciated
by the friends and relatives.
Mrs. Anna Barney and fam
lily of Bancroft spent the week
end here to attend the funeral
of her mother.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Japs
Continued from Page One

which was taken by observers
as an indication that Japanese
air strength in this theater had
been seriously impaired by loss
es suffered in their desperate re-
Enforcement attempt.
At least 1873 enemy planes had
been reported shot down or dam
aged while trying to protect the
convoy from Allied aerial at
tacks and General Macarthur
himself described the japanese
losses as serious blow.
Allied planes also bombed the
Japanese bases at Madang and
Finschhafen in northeastern New
Guinea, ranged across the Solo
mon Sea to attack the airdrome
at Gasmata, New Britain, and
blasted enemy positions in tt
NOR.
Bad weather continued TO de-
lay land operations on the Pa
puan peninsula but Allied head
quarters said American and
Australian troops were slowly
closing in on the remnants of a
japanese force encircled on
Sanananda Point.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Health ConsuIiani
Addresses Rotary
Club Moves to Aid
Bonds-for-Plone Drive

DR.. A. j. Campbell. maternal
health consultant for the state
health service. was guest speak
er at yesterdays Rotary Club
meeting.
c. Harry Malbin described
the plan whereby city residents
are urged to buy 100000 worth
of war bonds needed to buy a
pursuit ship to be known as
City of Mount Clemens"
President Arch N. Richards
appointed George Hargreaves,
Bert Nunneley and Theodore
DeGroot to head the Rotary
committee aiding the drive,
Richards announced that DR..
George F. Moore has completed
IA years of continuous attend
ance of Rotary meetings.
Ralph Bowsman. of Troy, o.,
was a Rotary guest. Others
were j. M. Kaspner, of Piqua,
O.; v. Jones, of Detroit; DR.. j.
M. Croman, Jr., and Lieuts. Tor
genson and Fields from Self
ridge Field.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
M Union
Houses Troops
Luxurious Mems
Lounge Converted

ANN ARBOR. Mich, Jan. Is
-lP)-A large section of the
University of Michigans lux
luXious mems union has been
verted into a military barracks
for hard studying soldiers, mill
tary officers disclosed today.
The soldiers are members Of
one Of the army's specialized
training schools - of which
there will be others on the cam
pus in the near future-and
they have been housed in the
union for several days.
Announcement of their pres
ence was authorized today by
Col. William A. Canoe, head of
the University's military SCI
ence department, and Lieut..
George Spence, commander of
the company, now that organi-
zation of the unit is completed" y
The union has been the leis-
ure-hour headquarters for many
generations of campus men, and
its hotel facilities are among
the finest in Michigan. During
the first World War, even before
the building was completed, it
houses at SA,TC. enrollees.
On active duty and wearing
regulation khaki, the soldiers
study. eat, and sleep in the one
building Drab-olive hunks have
been moved into hotel rooms
and private Ching rooms have
been converted into mess halls
and study chambers. The SOL
diers have swimming pool,
ballroom, library, and billiard
room at their disposal.
The Army has not taken over
the entire union building. Reg
ular residents and university
students still are housed there.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Legislators
Rush Proposal
First Legislation
Reaches House

LANSING, Jan. IS - (P) -
With the hope of getting il on
the April 5 election ballot, the
first legislation to be acted up
on by legislative )mmittee
reached the floor of the House
of Representatives today.
The committee on revision of
the constitution reported out
with recommendation it pass, a
joint resolution proposing TO
amend the constitution by for
bidding judicial officials to use
the Gin u m b e n t. designation
with their name on the ballot
when seeking reelection.
Rep. LOOMS K. Preston, Re-
publican, ST. Joseph, chairman
of the committee, said the de-
partment of state had ruled that
the legislature must act by Feb
ruary 5 on any measure it plan
ned TO place ca the spring bal
lot.
That is what we are aiming
for with this proposal he said,
and | think we can make it.
One of the controversies of
the l941 legislative session was
revived in the Senate by intro
duction of bills to repeal all Sun
day hunting laws imposed by or
a. the request of Michigan coun-
ties. The bills were introduced
by Senator Ben Carpenter, Re-
publican, Harrison.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Jos. Broug|hnel
Passes Away
Funeral Services
Set for Saturday

Services will be held at the
D. N. Cooley Funeral Home at 2
pm. tomorrow for Joseph
Boughner, sc, who died yester-
day afternoon at lis Court
street, where he had been
making his home.
Mr.. Boughner, son OF the late
John and Anna Boughner, had
lived in Mount Clemens for the
past year. Prior to coming here
he had been employed for Is
years as purchasing manager at
the Herman Kiefer hospital,
Detroit.
Surviving are one son, Wal
ter, of Detroit; brother, Hen
ry, OF Rochester, Mich, and
three grandchildren.
The Rev. Turner of New Bal.
timore will officate at the final
rites. Burial will be in Summit
Hill cemetery, Fraser.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Demo Leaders
Gel Together
Will Name Dote
for Stots PorIey

LANSING, Jan. IS - (R) -
The Democratic party called its
forces together here today for its
first public gathering since the
November election swept full
slate of Republican candidates
into office and tumbled Demo-
Gratis out of high office.
Democratic county chairmen
from over the state were invited
to sit with the Democratic state
central committee, which will
fix the time and place of the
party's state convention. Chair
man Charles S. Porritt already
has dickered for use of the Cass
Technical High school auditor
ium on February 20, a week aft
er the Republican convention,
and principal interest lay in
what, if anything. the defeated
former Governor Murray D. Van
Wagner might : . about his
own plans. Van Wagner is
scheduled to attend, Porritt said.
His closest friends said there
was no more than "the very
slimmest outside chance" that
Van Wagner would allow him
self to be drafted for the office
of state highway commissioner,
which he held before becoming
governor.
He has been in. Detroit for
several days, and was reported
to have conferred with influen-
tial Wayne county Democrats on
that subject. He already has
said he wants to enter private
business and retire from an act
i've mart in politicS
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Raider
Continued from Page One

err, in turtle-necked sweat
called Where is your captain?"
He went down with the
ship" one of the sailors lied to
save the captain from a grilling.
who's that fellow with the
gold Braid" shouted the Nazi.
The steward"
What are you doing. kidding
me, buddy" yelled the German.
They asked him about his ia
miliarity with the slang.
Il know New York. I was
there in 38. How's everything
in the old town."
He took their word about the
captain. sent over medicine and
cigarets and took his submarine
on its way. Lee said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Reckless Driver Gets
50 Day Jail Sentence

Pleading guilty to reckless
driving, William frank, 81, Of
1877 North Wilson boulevard, to-
day was sentenced TO 30 days in
the county Jail by Justice Frank
z. Jeanette when he failed to
pay the alternative $50 fine.
frank was arrested at l:57 a.
m. today by Patrolman Russell
Girard who said franks car was
weaving from one side Of Ora
tiot avenue TO the other. BY the
time he was arrested, frank had
piloted the car onto a Mullett
street sidewalk.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Time
Continued from Page One


gress TO provide for a standard
time, nationwide. overriding
conflicting states and local law"
NOT STATE PROBLEM
He said that Congress, having
ordered that war time" contin-
ue for the duration as q measure
designed through daylight saw
ing to conserve 500,000,000 kilo-
watts of power year, 1t must
be concluded that the field of
such Legislation is closed TO the
states and that an act of state
Legislature which purported 10
alter the Congressional deter
mination would violate the Con-
stitution of the United States
The object is apparent,
Rushton continued, that it is to
prevent a dual standard of time
in the country during war. If
there is a conflict between the
state and Federal law, the latter,
being an exercise of the war
power of Congress must pre-
vail"
Declaring 1.-The entire Ameri-
can economy is in process of be-
ing converted to a war economy
for the limited duration Of the
war;" Rushton said "all consid-
erations of local convenience
must yield and that familiar IL
Illustrations of this are found in
the regulation of local prices,
rents and rationing.
BLOCKS LEGISLATURE
The opinion comes at a time
when the Legislature was plan
ming to speed enactment OF a
measure intended TO exempt the
state from war time TO meet the
demand of rural and some indus
trial areas which contended that
daylight saving plan imposed
hardship on them and was de-
feating its own purpose of fur
thering the war effort.
Unless the city of Detroit de-
cides to enter further evidence
opposing the exemption bill at
hearing Monday afternoon, the
House State Affairs committee
had announced it would release
an exemption bill at that time
and expected to come to vote
the following day under suspen-
sion of rules to speed it on its
way.
Senate forces who claimed an
ample majority to back them
had declared they also were set
to pass the bill in the minimum
time possible.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
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floor and furniture.
Then he prepared a breakfast
OF eggs and toast and sat down
on the bloody bed beside the
two dead women to eat it, The
axe or Ratchet with which the
women were killed has not been
found by police.
In addition to the killings,
there have been numerous sex
crimes in the neighborhood in
recent months, Blaine said.
Mrs. Green, secretary for
law firm, was the wife of an
Army corporal, Jack Green, sta
toned at Camp Wolters, Tex.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
Russia
Continued from Pare One

gains in three major sectors, Bri-
tain's smashing new air often
sive turned from Germany to
Nazi-occupied France, hitting
the German U-boat nest at Lor-
lent on the French Atlantic coast.
Two Raj bombers were listed
as missing.
The British Air Ministry said
Lorient was heavily attacked"
last night in the RATS fourth
successive night raid If the week.
Previous assaults were directed
at Germany's war foundries in
the Ruhr, including the giant
Krupp Armament works at Es-
sen.
Other developments in the glo-
bal war saw quickening action In
Southern Tunisia, new Raj
blows against Japanese-conquer-
ed Burma, and surprise Allied
laid on the Japanese in north
east New Guinea in which 116
enemy troops were killed.
Car weights in the future may
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15
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local residents and the S244 81
realized from its sale swelled
the funds available for Civil
ian Defense purposes, Mrs. Paul
w. Mckee, chairman o. the sal
wage group, revealed today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15

GETS 80 DAYS
Walter E. Schulwitz, Al, of II
Rathbone street, today started
serving 80 = day Jail sentence
imposed by Justice Donald J..
Parent after Schulwitz pleaded
guilty to a disorderly charge.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15

Since the beginning of 1912
the number of automobile me-
chanics has been reduced by so
per cent.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-15

Car weights in the future may
be reduced to one-half.