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shorter communications lines
and there is evidence that they
are making good use Of this as
set, despite the heavy toll taken
by the British Navy and the
American and British air forces
off the coasts of Italy, Tunisia
and Libya. Gallagher reports
that Hitler is sending some of his
best filters and ground fighters
into Tunisia and giving every
sign that he means TO fight with
all the resources he can spare
from his commitments else
where, particularly in Russia, to
retain a foothold in Africa. As
long as he does that the dreaded
Allied invasion of Europe from
the South probably can be post
poned.
Assurance that American pre-
parations are proceeding stead
lily is contained in the announce
ment that the United States
Fifth army has been activated,
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Tire Checkups
Must be Made
BY Jan. 3lst

Motorists, throughout Ma
comb county were reminded to-
day by the Office of Price Ad-
ministration that the deadline
for the first tire inspection -
Jan. Sis approaching more
rapidly than most car drivers
seem to realize.
Only q small percentage OF
the county's motorists have
driven their cars into official
OPA tire inspection stations to
date, according to Paul w. Nc.
Kee, chairman Of the local war
price and rationing board.
AT that rate, there's going to
be a terrific pile-up at the in
spection stations late this month
unless motorists take immediate
steps to comply with the COM
pulsory tire check-up before the
last minute" he said.
The inspection Is part Of the
national mileage rationing pro-
gram designed to save rubber
and preserve essential transpor-
See CHECKUPS-Page :
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Truck Owners
FACE Dead|ine
Must Obtoin Gas
Certificates by Feb. ]

Speedy cooperation upon the
part of truck operators if they
are to receive Certificates of
War Necessity emitting them to
gasoline, prior to the Feb. !
deadline, was urged today by
Leslie w. Patterson, district
manager Of the Office of De-
Tense Transportation on a visit
to Mount Clemens.
"Eighty-isx per cent of the
applications for War Necessity
Certificates received previously
by the ODT were found TO be in
complete or in error" Patterson
stated. 1--WE realize that truck
owners must have gasoline to
conduct their businesses but il
will mean gap in their activi-
ties if they do not promptly
comply with regulations. Emer-
gency orders for gasoline will
not be issued after Jan. 81"
Patterson said that all farmers
operating trucks should make
proper application for certifi-
Gates through Cassius w. Thor
ington of the Macomb County
Farm Transportation Commit
tee, Clio Monitor-Leader build
ing, Mount Clemens. All other
truck operators must direct
their applications to the ODT at
610 Boulevard Building, Wood
ward at Grand River, Detroit.
Patterson stated that it would
not be necessary for applicants
to visit either the Monitor
Leader building or the Boule-
ward building to obtain forms
for corrected application. These
See CERTIFfCATES-Page 2
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Russians Engulf
Five More Towns
Flood-Tide of Disaster
Confronts Nazis in Russia

in the sector "west of Stain
grad" - new designation -
and announced:
I'm fighting for height, our
troops occupied several dozen
more enemy trenches. The enc
my left more than 200 dead on
the battlefield and prisoners and
war material were captured"
1t is in the Don-Volga corri-
dor Immediately west of Stain
grad that survivors of the Ger
man siege army have been lock-
ed in a steel ring for several
weeks, cut off by the sweep of
Col. Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin' s
forces across the middle Don
steppes toward Rostov.
A series of bulletins from Red
See RUSSIA-Page Z
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US0 Director
Now on Job
Bernard Monaghan
RepIoces Okeefe

Bernard T. Monaghan, 30,
new director Of the USO Club,
IS East Broadway, who arrived
in Mount Clemens yesterday
with Mrs. Monaghan. today was
already at WORK in his new job.
Monaghan comes to the local
USO Club from the Waukegan
(Ill) Club, near the U. S. Naval
Training Station at Great Lakes,
where he has held a similar po-
sition for the past year.
A long standing interest In
boys and men drew him into
USO work, which he entered in
the maneuvers field in the
Carolinas before going TO Wau-
kegan. A graduate Of Lacrosse
Teachers College, Lacrosse
Wis, he took graduate work al
the University of Iowa to fiji
See USO-Page 2
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BY GLENN BABB

The news from North Africa
is likely to make demands on the
American readers patience dus-
ing the next few weeks or even
months. The hopes for a speedy
expulsion of the Axis from Afri-
ca, kindled in many breasts by
the brilliant early success OF the
American British landings in
Morocco and Algeria and the 81
multaneous triumph of the Brit
ish Eighth army over Rommel,
now are shown clearly to have
outrun the military possibilities.
Obviously we are just entering a
period of preparation which re-
quires gigantic exertions on both
arms of the United Nations
great African Pincers before de-
cisive blows can be struck
again.
Even were the Allies ready
for delivery Of what they hope
with much justification--will be
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Dr.. G.W.Caruer;
?
Son ofSaues,
Passes Awqy

TUSKEGEE, Ala, Jan. 8 -
Up DR.. George Washington
Carver, a son of Negro slaves,
died at his home at Tuskegee In
stitute last night, leaving his
mark on the South's agricultur-
al economy.
Despite his humble beginning,
he became one of the nation S
greatest scientists in the field of
agricultural chemistry, discover
ing countless uses for native
grown products and developing
them for commercial utilization.
DR.. Carver never knew the
date of his birth on a farm at
Diamond Grove, Mo-, but he be-
lieved it ia be about 1864. His
father died when Carver was a
baby. Carver and his mother
See DIR. CARVER-Page 2
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the coup de grace to the enemy
in Africa, the weather presents
obstacles that ma ypersist until
the winter is nearyl spent. Yves
,Galagher's able and illuminating
dispatch of yesterday, summar-
ling his conclusions after a q
100-mile tour of the front, dis
closes that rain and mud prob
ably will immobilize the Amer
lean and British tanks forces in
Tunisia until late February. I'm
til then the prospective battle
fields will be covered with muck
that will make even the lightest
tanks helpless.
LONG ROAD AHEAD
For perhaps two more months,
then, the battle of reinforcement
and supply must continue to &C.
cupy first place in the African
campaigns. Time will not neces-
sarily be on the side of the Al
lies. for the Germans and Ital-
ians have the advantage Of much
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BY ROGER ID. GREENE
ASxoeiated Press War Editor


RusSia's armies q ckened the
flood tide of German disaster in
the Caucasus and middle Don to-
day, engulfing at least six vital
new cities and towns, and there
were indications that final
drive had begun TO annihllate
the remnants of % Nazi divisions
trapped before Stalingrad.
Soviet dispatches said the Ger
man army was in full retreat in
the Caucasus. blowing up bridg-
es and mining roaC; in deSper-
ate attempt TO delay the onrush-
ing Soviets.
Reuters, British news agency
estimated that more than half a
million of Hitler's finest troops
were in headlong withdrawal be-
fore the twin Russian offensives
in the Caucasus and middle Don
Hitler's high command ack'
NOW lcQSeu tlldt tilc iNSp o. ''''~s
were pressing the initiative, de-
claring tersely:
He avy defensive fighting
continued with undated fury
in the Don area"
WIN WIDE AREA
Dispatches to Red Star, thu
Russian army newspaper, re
ported that the entire Caucasu!
province of Setia, lying between
Ordzhonikidze and Nalchik, hac
been won back under the Rec
banner by Soviet troops driving
along the west bank of the Ter
elk river.
The Russian drive northwarc
from recaptured Nalchik wa'
described as sweeping ahead or
a wide front, overrunning large
number Of towns.
For the first time, Russian
headquarters reported a battle
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|SIayinss
Revive
Memories

Although Macomb County was
once favorite dumping ground
for victims Of gangster warfare,
Detroit hoodlums had never be-
fore deposited mutilated bodies
of their enemies in Mount Glenn
ems until Tuesday.
At least Arthur I. Rosso,
chief Of police here for 81 years,
could not recall today a discov-
cry similar to the grisly one
m a d e yesterday by Anthony
Gabler, of 16l South Broadway,
when he found two Hamtramck
men battered to death in a car
which had been parked in front
Of his home since Sunday night.
Even the rest of the county
h a gone five years without
turning up a single gangster VIC
tim although in the prohibition
days it was not uncommon to
find murdered toughs in the
bitches in the area.
Although the curious quickly
surrounded the death car. yes
terday, few downtown shoppers
looked up when a wrecker tow
ed the car, containing the latest
CHASTITY find to a downtown ga
rage where they were unloaded
by Coroner Howard v. Groes-
heck Jr and HE assistants A
hearse and half dozen cars
containing state, local and De-
troit police and sheriffs depu-
ties followed.
AS soon as the Daily Monitor
Leader brought first news OF
Gabler's find a scant half
hour later police telephones
See MEMORIES-Page 2
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Howard Again
Heads Realtors

Rainie H o war d, of Mount
Clemens, last night was reflect
ed to a second term as president
of the Macomb County Board of
Realtors during the course of the
annual business meeting of the
organization held at the Hotel
Medea.
Other officers elected were:
William Russell, of Richmond,
vice-president; and Fred Rohl-
man, of ST. Clair Shores, secre-
tary, treasurer.
Members of the board will at
tend meetings of the Detroit
Red Estate Beard Jan. %.
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ALI d HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 6 -
(Pc - British troops, attacking
Is miles west Of Mateur, have
driven the enemy from strategic
hills and are now hopping up
In the first activity on the nor
thern Tunisian front in some
time, an official spokesman an
n0unced today.
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Richard kepseI
is First Baby;
Wins Many Gifts

Richard Harry Kepsel, born
ut Tbs I'm. New Years Day, to-
day was declared official win
ner Of the 1913 Baby Derby, and
his young parents are eagerly
awaiting delivery of list OF
prizes, gifts from Mount Glenn
ems merchants sponsors of the
contest to find the first baby
of the year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Fred
Kepsel of 210 Shoemaker road
are the parents of black-haired
Richard, who weighed eight
See BABY-Page 2
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Dakar Firm

ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan. 6 -
(P) - An authoritative source
said today that political compli-
cations following the death Of
Admiral Jean Darlan.had made
no change In the Admiral's
pledge to use the French fleet at
Dakar with the United States
and British nAvies and had caus-
ed no slackening Of pro- Allied
French military effort.
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holsters People

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 - Up
The Rome radio disclosed today
that King VittOrio Emanuele has
just completed a mOrale-booster
tour of Sicily, where he expert
enced an air raid alarm at Pa
lermo, and the broadcast said his
reception by the public proved
Italians still were mistaken by
British and American air bonn
bardment.
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Dewey ON Job

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. s Up
- Thomas E. Dewey, the first
Republican governor to address
q New York Legislature in 20
years, called today for increased
State participation in the war
and two measures to relieve tax
payers burdened by Its cost.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 Up
- The Navy reported today that
4 United States task force OF
surface units had successfully
bombarded" the japanese air
field at Munda, New Georgia Is
land In the SoI0mOns.
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10 Axis Ships
Left in Flames
by Big Planes
Only One Allied
PIons Lost; Six
Jops are Shot. Down
BY the Associated Press

Allied heavy bombers were
officially credited today with
sinking or damaging 10 enemy
ships in Rabaul Harbor, New
Britain, on the heels of an Aus
tralian warning that Japan was
massing a new war fleet in the
Southwest Pacific.
1t was the sixth raid in 10
days on the big japanese base
at Rabaul, which lies 600 miles
Northwest of American-defend-
ed Guadalcanal Island in the
Solomons and 800 miles North
east of Cape York, Australia.
United Nations headquarters
said $4,000 tons of shipping suf-
fered under the newest blows of
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's far
ranging bombers, with eight YES
sells left in flames or sinking,
ninth struck by direct hit with
a l,000-pound bomb, and a tenth
probably destroyed.
Only one Allied bomber was
lost, while six japanese planes
were shot down out of flight
of two dozen that tried to inter-
cept the attack, it was announce
ed.
RANGE SOUTH PACIFIC
Other Allied bombers virtual
ly spread-eagled the vast arc of
Japanese held islands North Of
Australia, attacking the New
Guinea bases of Lac, Salamaua
and Madang; Gasmata airdrome
in New Britain, and Timor Is
land.
A United Nations commun-
ique also reported aerial at
tacks on the last-stand Japanese
garrison at Sanananda Point,
North of Buna, as tank-led Am
erican and Australian troops
closed in on the enemy along the
Papuaf Beach in New Guinea.
The widespread Allied attacks
followed a statement yesterday
by. a high Australian govern
ment official, who declined to be
See PACIFIC-Page 2
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Honor Hero

ALLIED HEADQUARts1
IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 6 Il -
For leading an attack Oh a
strongly fortified position, Ser
geant Boyd Lincoln of Hersey,
Mich, was awarded a Distin-
guished Service Cross postum
ously yesterday by G enera
Douglas Macarthur.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-(P)
Elmer Davis, director of war
information spoke out today
against over-optimism about an
early end to the war and
stressed particularly the Con
tinuing serious submarine men,
ace.
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Blame Ratkeis
for Gruesonle
Find in City
Detroit Underworld
Scene OF Intense
Police Hunt

Police agencies In the metro
politan area today joined hands
in an intensive search for hood
u" believed responsible for tn,
- ler-style deaths of two
/. ramck men whose brutality
battered bodies were found
Tuesday afternoon stuffed into
an abandoned car parked less
than two blocks from the Mount
Clemens police station.
Suspicious because q frost COW
cred car in front of his home 1t
16l South Broadway had not
been moved for two days, Anth-
ony Gabler called police. Peer
ing inside, police found the
blood-stained, frozen bodies Of
two men who had lain there un-
detected since $50 pm. Sunday.
BOTH IDENTIFIED
The victims were identified
by 430 pm. as: ~
ID Leo Grombolski, a., Of
1924 Miller, free on $4,000 bond
since New Years Eve to await
trial in Toledo Jan. IL for the
part police say he played in the
$14.500 robbery Of the Krantx
Brewery in Toledo on June s,
and
(2) Stephen Goldyga, ~, 231S
Greyling, a bartender employed
at Welcome Inn on Six Mile
road in Detroit.
The bodies we're crammed be-
tween the front and rear seats
of a car owned by Goldyga and
were covered by a Dec. 80 copy
of Detroit newspaper. The
car. l941 Ford coach, had been
sold to Goldyga nine months
ago by Guanatono Some, 81.
1896 Hawthorne, Detroit, in
whose name it Is still registered
on police records.
SKULLS FRACTURED
Following an autopsy per-
formed by DR., William Sib-
rams, of East Detroit, and DR..
Joseph LaRiviere. of Mount
Clemens, Coroner Howard ".
Groesbeck, Jr., said both men
died of fractured skulls. Grom-
bolski, in particular. was brutal
ly beaten. one side Of his face
being crushed, and Goldygl slS1-
fered in addition q broken 1eft
arm, injured, possil ly. when ~
attempted to defend himself. u
Experienced detectives saG
the blows were inflicted eth
by an ak or by some blunt II
strument. THE men, police reo61
on. were likely caught unAWarQe
and beaten to death by assoif
ants advancing froT behind.
Groesbeck ordered tk6 60
tents of the mems stomachs -
alyzed on the theory they may
have been drugged prior 10 III
attack.
GHOST HOUSE
A weird note was addo6 q
the Staying when police tuRn1l
a fly leaf from . cheap mannn1n(
in the glove compartmoo "a
the car bearing this 11o
There's . Ghost In thu 11uEt =
ed Mans House." n to1quG
number was written "a 49,
leaf, but polics kspt ~ ~
. secret. ~. mi
A kitchen knils Win = GO
inch blade was also fuun1 u
compartment, but Il -
been used In the slayino 20
been cleaned. A box c.
See hGURDERS-rnO6 sSss
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Dens i'm Control

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-P)
BY the slimmest margin In a
decade Democrats kept control
Of the House and returned Sam
Rayburn, OF Texas, to the speak
ership today In organizing the
18th Congress for President
Roosevelt's report tomorrow on
4 year Of war and the way to
victory.
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Ship Output

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -(P)
-Four new ships day are slid
ing down the ways in American
yards and by May, says Presi-
dent Roosevelt, the number will
be increased to five.
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4. LawVsace leVlol
Of Harvard Doa6

BOSTON. Jan. g. ~
Lawrence Lowell, 81
emeritus Of Harv1ra 1
died today at hls - ~
The aged edueo1of. &
sided over the degtln1ot
three eenfurieg-Go4 T.
for three 6oco1 ~
short illness.
His family
funeral SsEvtcp
at the Harvard
in Cambgides Z
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COMB GANGLAND FOR KILLERS OF TWO
late X X X
bulletins


PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Jan.
6-(R-Lieut. Chester w. MINI
itz, Jr., 81, q submarine officer
with the Pacific Fleet, today
wore a silver star presented to
h m by Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz, commander in-chief in
the Pacific.
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EARLIER REGULATION

The war production board
last Nov. 30 directed half of the
then available cold storage but
ter stocks in 35 cities frozen for
government needs. The directive
See BUTTER-Page 3
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Curb Civilian
Buffer Supply
Armed Forces to
Get 80 Per Cent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-(P)
Americas armed forces and
her allies are going to get 80 per
cent of the nations monthly pro-
duction of creamery butter and
virtually all of the canned cit
rus juices.
The new government order,
effective Feb. !, is expected to
set aside about $4,000, 900
pounds of butter this year for
war requirements, leaving about
1,190,O0O,O0O poun~5 for civil
ians.
Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard said last night that the cur
tailment will permit civilians
about 10 pounds of butter each
in 1943 as compared with an
estimated per capita consump-
ton of 16 pounds last year.
In reserving production Of all
citrus juices, expect unconcen-
trated grapefruit juices, for war
needs, Wickard declared his or
der will not materially affect
civilian supplies. Large quaint
tiles o. fresh citrus juices, he
explained, are available to civil
ians as the orange and lemon
crops are large and the grape
fruit and tangerine crops. now
being harvested, are expected to
kn-af-ro~~eA aizA
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lmportiol Coverose
Of All loeol News
The sub., 1943-12-09
E1peditors Enjoy Good Wiu Party At Cinderella Ian

A-partying we would go, a-party- ing we did go, hi-ho the merry-o, -- partying we did go! It seems every one l have approached of late has either just been or is going to a party, and considering the fact that not one-half of E. B.'S social life make the Sub, it's our opinion we have quite the social bee hive" and with just little more buzzing in the right direction, more of the highlights of the week would make headlines.
 Now to continue with the news and to ask the Main Yard expe- ditors that yours truly be for given for not getting to the press in time for the last issue of the Sub, the story on their recent par ty. Instead of starting with Twas the Night Before Christmas" we can sing with more gusto, After the Ball Was Over" because it is then one stands in need of little 'pick-me-up and if there's any doubt on that score, ask anyone who has been to a real honest-to- goodness The" party such as the one the expeditors had. A good will party they called it, Cinderella Inn the place, steak and lobster the menu and their very good boss, Worth Wright Foster, Jr., their guest of the evening. With a little
The sub., 1943-12-09

spiritual uplifting" the evening got under way and people who are in the know said it was tops from start to finish and if anyone knows they should" l repeat that my friends, they should. We don't like to tell tales out of school, of course, but friend of mine told me that he got it from a friend of friend of someone who was there-bod- ily-and he said the evening slipped by ~ith only few slight casualties, one miraculous escape from decapitation, rather steep taxi bill, and an informative doc tors bill. Informative we say, be- cause due to the shortage of alarm clocks, one man we know spends three dollars for a choice bit of information dished out by an M. D.
 So as this is written in fun, like wise
 The party sure was fun And not to be outdone
 These expeditorS, eight,
 Will long recall the date.
 I have the names in hand, Foster, Casey, Knapp, Cochran, Fenner, Mccoy, Cation and Hadley, Ask the question, but far from
 sadly,
 How long do we have to wait Before we can set another date?"
The sub., 1943-12-09
Girls Give Mrs. June
 Menge Farewell Dinner

A farewell dinner was rendered Mrs. June Menge at Colonial Inn on Tuesday, November 23d, by members of the Purchasing De- partment. June, who has worked at E. B. since February of this year, is returning to her home in St. Paul, Minnesota Her husband, a member of the Coast Guard and until recently stationed at Fort Trumbull, is being transferred to radio school in Atlantic City.
 June, the reserved type, was we'll liked by her associates and her pleasing personality has made a host of friends here who are go- ing to miss her. but who wish her happiness and success ir all she does. She was presented a fare- well gift of bag, gloves, and a corsage of roses by her office as- sociates. Following the dinner at the Inn, the group adjourned to the home of Mildred Jackson where games were played.
 Those participating in the eve- ning's entertainment voted it one of the most pleasant evenings spent in long time.
 Attending were - Ava Franzen, Marian Christensen, Doris Thur Der, Eleanor Newbury, Mildred Jackson; Minnie Emmett, Virginia N n an, Dorothy Mackenzie, Julia Parker and the guest of hon. or, June Menge.