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Evening star., 1943-03-28
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Judges, Agents
Confer in City
Joseph V. TrombIy
Host TO Visitors

Probate Judge Joseph V.
Trombly was host yesterday
from 2 o'clock until 10 in the
evening to probate judges of
six counties, composing the
Seventh Congressional District,
at conference between judges
and county agents of this dis
trict.
DR.. Dean, medical director of
the Michigan Crippled Children
Commission. along with DR..
Hutchison, Medical Coordinator
for the district attended the
conference with references TO
the handling of afflicted and
crippled children. Senator Ivan
A. Johnston and State Represen-
tative Howard R. Carroll also
attended, with view TO legis-
lative viewpoints. Every county
in the 7th Congressional Dis
trict was represented.
The Medical director, DR..
Dean, pointed out that for this
twelve months of l943, the Com
mission will have served,
through the cooperation of the
probate judges, 10000 cases in
the state of Michigan. DR.. Dean
also pointed out the fact that it
See JUDGES-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Smokes Coupon Appears
for Last Time Today

The Free Smokes for Serv-
icemen" coupon which has al
ready been published twice this
week in the Monitor-Leader APP
pears for the last time on the
back page of today's edition and
Goodfellows officers urge that
prompt submission of proper
names and addresses be made at
once so that no Mount Clemens
soldier, sailor or marine may be
overlooked.
The opportunity will not be
presented again this season.
Thus far hundreds of coupons
have been entered but many
more servicemen are entitled to
the Christmas gift. Goodfellows
point out. in stressing the need
for speed and care in entering
the names of men entitled to
sweeping gift plan.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Thief in Khaki
Steals Rings
Three Diomond
Sets Missing

A daring jewel thief, dressed
in regulation army uniform, is
today the object Of a search be-
ing made by the city police. after
he stole three sets of diamond
rings, valued at over $500, from
Jewelry store owned by Ray
mond (. Boyer, at AZ North
Gratiot avenue, at 10 o'clock
Thursday morning.
Approached by Shirley La
Pointe, clerk, when he entered
the store, the man said that he
was waiting TO meet someone.
He stayed in the establishment
for about Is minutes, during
which time he was seen leaning
against counter near the front
of the store. He then informed
the clerk that he was leaving.
1t was not until the thief had
gone out into the street, that
Miss LaPointe noticed that the
door of the jewel showcase,
where the soldier had been
standing, was partly open, with
See RINGS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
False Alarms
Plague City
Authorities Warn
Of Stiff Penalties

With full one third OF all
recent fire-callS in Mount Glenn
ems revealed as false alarms
city authorities today issued a
stern warning TO the individ-
uals responsible, pointed to the
S25 rewards available in each
case and requested the general
public 10 report instances of
such law violations.
Safety Commissioner Thomas
G.. Longstaff and Fire Chief c.
Edward Willert joined in r"int-
ing out the serious nature of the
offenses and revealed that Is of
all 20 odd alarms turned in
since May / have been false.
Quite aside from the expense
TO the city, the officials pointed
out, the waste of tires, gasoline,
war necessary time of volun-
teers and the hazards of un-
necessary fire-runs with mas
sive equipment the false calls
are wholly illegal and perpetrst-
ors can be, and will be prose
cuted when apprehended.
Most of the false calls have
been turned in between 9 p. m.
and 2 a. m. leading official to
suspect that thoughtless cele-
orators or youths who do not
realize the seriousness of their
See FALSE ALARM-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Fall Blamed
for Tragedy
Mother Of Slapped
Body is Cleared

Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held to-
day ended his investigation into
the death of 16-month old Flea
nor Marshall, who died early
Thursday, just IL hours after
her 23-year old mother had
slapped her in an effort to stop
her from crying"
The death is definitely trace
able 10 a fall from a davenport
Immediately before the child
was slapped" Held said, in re-
leasing the mother. Mrs. Mar
garet Marshall from all onus in
the case.
The fact that the child had
suffered a severe fall was first
uncovered by Deputy Sheriff
Hubert Rice as he questioned the
young mothers sister, wi h
whom she made her home.
Held said that the autopsy
surgeons had agreed with him
that the injuries discovered-a
blood clot at the base of the
skull-could easily have result
ed from such a fall as the aunt
described.
Il had never slapped Eleanor
before, Mrs Marshall said in
referring to cher now dead L.
months old baby, "but she had
been crying great deal lately
and l thought light slap on the
face might snap her out of it.
| really didn't strike her hard. "
SELF-POSSESSED
The mother, who gave prompt
replies TO the avalanche of cues
tons hurled at her, gave every
indication of telling a straight
forward story.
Eleanor fell from her chair
couple of weeks ago" she re-
lated" and struck her face on
the floor. ! had noticed that she
cried much more frequently
since then and that her face APP
peared more tender than usual.
| can't see how the slight tap
gave her Wednesday would have
effected her at all"
The baby lapsed into uncon-
sciousness Wednesday afternoon
following the slapping and died
See BABY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Pastor Loses
Gas Ration
PenoIixed for
Using Wrong Coupons

DETROIT, Dec. 3 - (F, -
The Pontiac Office of Price Adj
ministration hearing panel to-
day ordered a 90-day suspension
of all gasoline rations of the
Rev. Leland L. Marion, minister
of the Christian Temple there,
who was accused of misuse Of
gasoline coupons.
Marion declared he would re-
sist the order TO surrender ration
books for his fleet of three au-
tomobiles, and woulS appeal the
decision to district OPA Off
cial here.
The Pontiac panel acted after
receiving word from A. d. Rueg-
segger, enforcement attorney for
See PASTOR-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Al Raj Planes
Lost in Grim
Sky Battles
Chorred City Again
Reels Under Heavy
Allied Onslaught
BY RICHARD McMURRAY
Associated Press War Editor

The Raj bombed Berlin Gin
great strength" last night show
ering upwards of l 900 long tons
Of explosives on the charred
capital during violent battle in
the flame-tinted skies which
lasted an hour and a half. The
British lost Al planes.
The American Fifth Army
launched new offensive in CEN
trail Italy, carving out hard won
gains in the Calabritto area as
the British Eighth army ground
forward beyond the shattered
German Sangro line, capturing
Castel Frentano, 18 miles below
the Adriatic port of Pescara
where transverse highway
leads 10 Rome.
REDS ADVANCE
Russian armies drove within
six miles of the important rail
center of Znamenka in the Dnie-
per Bend and captured 80 more
towns in fresh advances North
west of Gomel in the snow and
slush and rain of White Russia.
Berlin reported a great new
Russian drive toward Orsha and
Minsk along the road from
Smolensk and said Nazi lines
were twice pierced. The tank
battle for the Kiev bulge ragged
in official silence.
President Roosevelt, Marshal
Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill were meeting in the
Middle East (neutral and enemy
radios said in Persia mapping
Germany's final collapse, chair
man Tom Connally of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations committee
said, adding:
THE armies of Russia will be
strengthened, her campaign will
be buttressed and fortified"
Berlin said tn, meeting would
end today and predicted a COM
munique before night. London
expected an ultimatur to the
Reich, promising the Germans
a chance TO choose democratic
form of government Some
See BERLIN-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Stephens Heads
Masonic Order
InstoIIotion Set
for December IS

The Mount Clemens F. & A.
NJ. No. 8 held election of Off
GERS Wednesday evening at the
\ dsonic Clubrooms. The follow
ing were elected: John Stephens,
Worshipful Master, Thomas M.
Place, Senior Warden, Dearl
Morrison, Junior Warden. Fred
erick T. Schutt, Treasurer, FL
mer Luth, Secretary, Clarence
Perry, Senior Deacon, Eric Len
ming. Junior Deacon, Harry r.
Wolff, Tiler.
A public installation of new
officers will take place on Dec.
1880 o'clock in the Masonic
Club Rooms.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
SeIfridge Field Civilian
Employees Win Recognition
Embems, Gosh to be Awarded
OF Ceremonies Next Wednesday

Civilian employees of the AAF
will have their inning at Self
ridge Field Wednesday, Dec. 8,
when $50 of them receive En-
blem Awards for Civilian Serv-
ice.
At the same ceremony fou'
Selfridge civilian employees will
receive cash awards for their
idea for victory. suggestions SUBJ
mitted for saving time, money
and effort.
The Emblem Award for Civil
ian Service is a blue service rib
bon with white stripes, bearing
the AAF insignia, designed to be
worn over the heart and author
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
BY +. ID. BALL

LONDON, Dec. s. up The
London Star said today a Roose-
Welt Stalin-Churchill conference
in the middle east has drawn up
a final give in or die ultima
tum to Germany.
Stain is at war parley; meet
ing with Churchill and Roose-
welt; give in or die to Germany,
was the way the afternoon news
paper headlined the article.
Earlier. Chairman Tom Con-
nally of the U. S. Senate Foreign
Relations committee had de
clared in Fort Worth, Texas,
that another great conference
is taking place in the middle
east among the three United
Nations leaders, and described
the meeting as "of paramount
significance"
ct h e Churchill, Roosevelt,
Stain meeting, about which
there has been so much specula-
ton, has taken place. the Lon
don Star said.
THE three statesmen are now
comforting somewhere in the
middle east. Some reports, Axis
and neutral, say the meeting
place is Teheran; other say it is
Tabriz, in the Russian military
zone of northern Persia.
The first definite news of this
new conference was given to the
world by Connally in a radio ad-
dress from Fort Worth"
Official Washington and Lon
don maintained a discreet ST.
lence, while continental radios
told the world that President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Chur-
chill and Premier Joseph Stain
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Lost Over Berlin

LONDON, Dec. 3--tP)-Three
war correspondents failed TO re-
turn from last nights great Raj
raid over Berlin--Lowell Ben
nett of International News Serv-
ice, Norman Stockton OF the
Sydney australia Sun, and
another whose name was with
held temporarily.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03

political affiiiation. F" Dombrow.
ski is a Detroit Democrat, Nu-
gent a Republican.
Dombrowski is under sentence
of 3 n to Is years in prison for
giving false testimony to the
grand jury.
Nugent said he would ask the
judiciary committee Of the
House to cooperate with Attor-
ney General Herbert j. Rushton
in determining the procedure IL
be employed in declaring vacant
the seat of a member, asserting
he knew of no precent for his
contemplated action The con-
See BRiBERY-Pagc 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03

lied by the AAF Headquarters
for presentation to civilians who
have served satisfactorily for at
least six months prior to Nov.
/, l943. Col. William l.. Boyd.
Base Commander, will make the
official presentation TO Kenneth
l.. HARDWOOD, 80 Roosevelt drive.
Mt. Clemens, Mich. superintend-
ent Of shops at the Goth Sub-De-
pot. representing the $50 en-
ploy es. Major Lamar M. Wood,
Civilian Personnel Officer, will
read the names of recipients as
the ribbons are distributed. The
usual daily Retreat ceremony
See CIvILIANS-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Utica Appeals
for Donors

UTICA - An urgent appeal to
the patriotic citizens of Utica is
being made by the Red Cross for
the Blood Bank Drive on Deem
Der 10.
The Detroit Mobile Unit will
be at the Utica High School on
December ID from 1870 until
$50 o'clock, also the Macomb
County canteen from Mount
Clemens. Makes your appoint
ment early by dialing Mrs. Har-
~ Russell, Utica 3151, or Mrs.
Earl Sipperly, Utica 5681.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Maniac Caught
Inside Grounds
al White House
Secret Service
Reveals How Plot
Wos Fooled Month Ago

DETROIT, Dec. - up -
William A. Carlson, supervisor
of Secret Service Agents in the
Michigan-O district, said to-
day agents last month thwarted
a plan by a mentally deranged
Pontiac, Mich, man TO assasSi-
nate Presidenr-RooSevelt.
The man, Walter Best, 49,
year-old former worker in Pom
tiac and Detroit factories, was
adjudged insane Nov. %, ten
days after his arrest, Carlson
said. and is in Gallinger Hos
pital, Washington. awaiting re-
moval TO Michigan mental
hospital.
Best's wife informed Oakland
County authorities of her hus-
bands plan, Carlson said, after
receiving a letter from his dis
closing his intention Ito get rid
of Roosevelt and relating how
the President had left Washing
ton and that he would wait for
his return.
Best described how he got
inside the military guard at the
White House while soldiers we're
busy unloading tru~k. and that
he was deliberatfag wnetifr TO
steal soldiers gun on the
ground nearby when he was dis
covered" Carlson said.
Best was said 10 have told
Secret Service Agents that Il
had electrodes running through
my brain, and they told me TO
get rid Of Roosevelt " A gun
was found in a Washington Ho-
tel, agents said.
Carlson said that Best, a ma
tive Of Nelson. Wis. has bro
Their serving in the United States
Army in Italy. After coming TO
Michigan in 1923. Carlson said,
Best was variously employed as
farm hand, rodman, coremak-
er, magazine salesman and res
taurant counterman. He is the
father of two small children.
Best lived at 33 Howard
street, Pontiac.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Reminiscent

JACKSON, Dec. 3-tF1-The
rum running period OF 20 years
ago was recalled here with the
arraignment in municipal court
Thursday afternoon of Edward
Foster, 5426 Maybury Grand,
and Fred Ray and Floyd Nor
mon, both of ISIS Vermont
street, all of Detroit, on a charge
OF illegal possession and trans
portation OF liquor. Their ex-
aminations were set for Dec. 10.
A 16-year-old boy with them
was released.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
War POWWOW

NEW DELHI, Dec. 3-(P9-
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat-
ten, Allied commander in South
east Asia. returned TO India from
the Middle East tri-power con-
ference today and held an inn
mediate conference on his mill
tary commanders.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
AFL Disturbed

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-tP)
AL President William Green
asserted last night that what he
termed disturbing rumors =.
of a Soviet plan to enslave a
million German workers for
forced labor in Russia" bore the
"earmarks OF German propa-
ganda."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Dombrowski Faces Custer
in Graft Probe Case
Speaker Of House soys He
Will Institute Proceedings

LANSING, Dec. 8 MD -
Speaker Howard Nugent of the
House OF Representatives said
today he would move to have
Rep. Stanley j. Dombrowski
ousted from the legislature in its
winter special session, as a re-
suit of the legislators plea of
guilty of perjury.
Il will take the same attitude
in the case of any member of the
House who is convicted as a re-
suit of the current grand Jury
investigation of the legislature
being conducted by Circuit
Judge Leland w. Carr" Nugent
announced, regardless of his
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Lost Story
omReporter
Lost on Raid

Lowell Bennett Of International
News service was missing today
with two other war correspondents
who flew with the Raj on last
nights Berlin attack. Bennett. rep
resentinE the combined American
press. wrote this story before the
takeon. delivering IL To repre-
sentative 81 the British Ministry
of Information for use II he did not
returnl.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Need Subsidies

WASHINGTON, Dec. : - (4)
Mayor Fiorello II. LaGuardia
OF New York argued zealously
for continuation of food subsi-
dies before the Senate Banking
committee today, asserting that
without them the perils of infla-
ton wouio increase and esery
city in this country might go
broke"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Standing Army

NEW YORK, Dec. 3-tP)--
The United States may maintain
a standing armed force of $780,
900 men at the close of the war.
Donald H. Davenport, chief Of
the employment outlook branch
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
told the Society for the Advance
ment of Management today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Guy Brown, Jr., Awarded
Good Conduit Medal

Tech. Sgt Guy L. Brown, Jr.,
son of County Clerk and Mrs.
Guy l.. Brown, Sc Moross ave.
nue., has been awarded the Good
Conduct Medal for exemplary
service as soldier in the
Eighth Air Force Heavy Bonn
bardment Group, static n e d
somewhere in England.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
City Af1aIne

LONDON. Dec. 3 up Re
ports from Berlin through neu-
trail channels today told of wide
spread fires started by incendi-
airy bombs of the phosphorus
type which the Raj dropped on
its raid.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
B and e. Gas
Renewal Delays
Cause Confusion

Unnecessary delays in the re-
newal of supplemental gasoline
B and c books and a large vol
ume OF needless correspondence
is being caused by the failure of
the public TO use the proper
See GAS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03

late X X X
bulletins
No Short Cut

CANBERRA, Dec. 3 (P -
Final victory in the Pacific must
wait on events in Europe and
there is no short cut to victory,
Prime Minister John Curtin said
today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
Jail CRATER

DETROIT, Dec. -fPD--Re-
corder's court Judge John J..
Maher today sentenced Samuel
Karoll, president Of the Sta
Pocket Trouser Manufacturing
company to two to four years in
State prison for bribery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
GHe-Up OrDie
Seen AS Theme
London Press Reports
BIG Three UItimatum

were in Iran drawing up an ulti-
matum calling upon Germany to
surrender under pain of being
bombed to destruction.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03
BY LOWELL BENNETT
Representing the Combined American
Press

Press
A BRITISH BOMBER STA
TON IN THE MIDLANDS,
Thursday, Dec. ? - Berlin is 60
ing to be attacked again tonight
by hundreds of four engined
bombers which will avalanche
down tons of explosives and in
cendiaries into the Nazi heart
and capital.
1t may be one OF the most con-
See REP0RTER-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03

STUDENT PRODUCTION of Arsenic and Old Lace the
fesonal version of which currently playing the
in Detroit will be presented in the Mount Clemens High
auditorium Dec and 10 this class
Miller righ who has previously
student director of the while Stuart
who had experience in last the romantic
similar role Mortimer"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-03

Imported Coveross
OF All Local News
Evening star., 1943-01-23

creasing its service TO the public
and hence enabling it more ade-
Quately to fulfill its postwar obli-
cations.