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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
STARS ARE BEING BORN

There are more people breaking
into show business today than ever
before in the history of the foot
lights or the galloping tintypes.
AL Pearce, the Elmer Blurt of
screen and radio, Is our authority
on the great pilgrimage of volun-
teer "parlor entertainers" to the
USO camp show circuit. You would
be surprised, he said, how many
People with no professional theatre
cal background sue denly have be-
come great entertainers at camp
shows for the armed forces.
I've noticed it." he said, ION
every show I've played in. In every
group you will find two or three
talented people who before the war
were strictly parlor entertainers" !"
Like Virginia Craig, Pearce said.
Before the war Virginia lived
with her husband and child in Los
Angeles. Her hobby was singing,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
Benefit Dances
For Building
Fund

MEXICALI, May 1.-Two dances
were given this weekend in Mexi-
cali by various organizations, the
proceeds from both affairs going
to the building fund for the Mexi-
cali church.
Saturday night Orquidea club
sponsored a formal dance in the
patio of the Palacio with 100 guests
attending. An eight piece orchestra
supplied the music, dancing lasting
until three in the morning.
Edelmira Roma zazueta is presi-
dent Of the club and Lupe Noriega,
its secretary.
Sunday afternoon in the Casino
the women of the church sponsored
a tea dance, some 200 guests en-
joying this affair.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
Big UsO Dance
On Saturday

USO Junior hostcsses are making
plans for a gala dance Saturday
night of this week, May 6, at 8
O'Clock in the Veterans hall, Ell
Centro, with all service men and
women in the valley invited to at
tend. =. e..
Wives of enlisted men are well
come to attend also but they must
secure their wives cards at the
canteen, presenting their cards for
admission. Only girls with the
USO junior hostess temporary cards
will be admitted, these cards going
to the ones taking the, USO course.
An imported orchestra will play
for the affair and the various COM
mitteeS have all sorts of interesting
plans to make this dance one of
the incest to be held in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
Former Resident
Married in Waco

Mr.. and Mrs. Lonnie J. Horton
of Costa Mesa, formerly of Ell Gen.
tro. have announced the recent
marriage of their daughter. Betty
Lea. to 1t. Harold M. Rapstad, us.
Army air corps. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. M. II RapStad of Ballantinc,
Montana
The wedding was solemnizcd in
the post chapel at Blackland Army
airfield, Waco, Texas. Lieutenant
and Mrs. Rapstad are making their
home at Waco where Lieutenant
RapStad is an instructor in the
army air corps.
Mrs. Rapstad was popular stu
dent at Central Union high school
playing prominent part in stu
dent affairs. She. was graduated
in 1912 from Central.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
SHOES

w Ration book 3, airplane stamps
and 2, good indefinitely for one
pair rationed shoes each.
MEAT, BUTTER, CHEESE, OILS
Book 4, red stamps A8, B8, C8,
D8, E8, F8, G8, H8, J8, K8, L8, Ms,
N8, P8, Q8, leach good for 10 points
valid indefinitely.
Salvaged fat, good for four cents
and two meat ration points per
pound.
SUGAR
Book 4, stamps No. 80 and 81
(marked sugar. good indefinitely for
five pounds each. Special stamp
No. 40 (marked sugar. good through
February %, l945, good for five
pounds.
GASOLINE
Coupon IL. A book, good through
June 81.
CANNED GOODS
Ration book 4, blue stamps A8,
B8, CO, D8, E3, F8, G8, H8, J8,
K8, L8, NIB, N8, P8. Q8 (each good
for 10 points,. valid indefinitely.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
Annual Dinner
Of Tuberculosis
Association

Annual meeting of the Imperial
county tuberculosis and Health as
sociation, dinner party, program
and election of officers, will take
place On Tuesday night, 1880 o'clock
at the California hotel.
Keith Nets, Holtville, president,
will preside at the meeting and
will present DR.. E. w. Hayes OF
Monrovia, noted tuberculosis auth
ority, as guest speaker.
Annual reports and the election
of officers will be featured at the
business meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
Replaces So|ois+
On Program

Mrs. Eugene Waterman will be
soloist at Tuesdays May breakfast
at the Methodist church, replacing
Mrs. William Walters, who with
her husband and baby was called
east Sunday by the serious illness
of Sergeant Walters mother.
The program will be given by
Lois Martin, soprano; Mrs. Water
man, contralto, with Mrs. j. D.
FOSS. pianist. Mrs. Robert Tackett
will be presented on the program
also in a piano group.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
APPENDICITIS DEATHS DROP

NEW YORK, May l. (UP)-The
death rate from appendicitis was
cut in half during the past four
years in addition to a 80 per cent
drop during the decade between
1880 and 1870 among Industrial
policy holders, insurance company
statisticians reported. "The extra
ordinary change is largely due to
the prevention of complications of
the disease, and more recently TO
the use of sulfa drugs in the surgi-
cal treatments Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. statisticians said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01

Pearce started emceeing a vari-
ETY. show and was doing French
comedy character for laughs. An
other gent on the show was doing
a BOBBY salesman. But the latter
got such a kick out of Pearee's
French character that he talked
Pearce into exchanging roles. Writ
er Jack Hasty dreamed up the
name, Elmer Blurt, and Pearce has
been blurting ever since.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
ENDS COURTESY ON RISE

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May /.
CUP)-Mrs. Anna Demon, crossing
off her 28th year of service as chief
switchboard operator at one of the
hotels here, has assured interview
ers that people are much more
courteous now than before the war
Mrs. Demon has handled approx
mately 100000 calls during her
term of service, and is In charge of
II assistant operators.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
Three Honored
At Dinner

In compliment to Mrs. w. c..
Costello. Mrs. Leo Magee and Mrs.
w. J. Strickland, three hostesses,
Mrs. Stanley BigeloW, Mrs. William
Fox, Mrs. Nathan Carpenter, enter
tanned at dinner Saturday night.
The party took place at the Fox
home where pretty flowers made
an attractive setting for the affair
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-01
TRAFFIC TICKET COMES
vu0AHE

DETROIT, May l. CUP)-Harry
P. Van After. who prints the traffic
violation tickets that Detroit police
hand out, was given one of his own
calling cards the other day. ITS
Il very pretty ticket" Van After
remarked to the arresting officer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28

similar to that in Warren town.
ship recently branded illegal by
Prosecutor Held.
The test case resulted when
the Automobile Club of Michi-
gan, Of which Schwanger is q
member, appealed the case to
circuit court.
In reversing the conviction of
the lower court Judge Webster
cited the fact that there Is MOTH
ing in the Michigan constitution
or laws which, gives . township
the right to pass its own traffic
ordinances. Traffic enforcement
in unincorporated communities
is the prerogative Of the state
and must be prosecuted under
state warrants authorized by
prosecuting attorneys, the court
held.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
LAUNCH PROBE OF DISASTERS
II LOST in Sinkinqs

CLEVELAND, April 28-(R)
- An inquiry into the Lake
Erie collision which took the
lives of at least 10 seaman and
left two others unaccounted for
will be opened today by a Coast
Guard investigating board, Com
mander Earl B. Hull, supervis-
ing Inspector of the Merchant
Marine. reported.
Involved in the disaster were
the ore carrier James II. Reed,
operated by Pickands, Mather
and Co., for the Interlake Steam
ship Co. of Cleveland, which
sank within five minutes after a
head-on collision early yester-
day morning with the steamer
Ashcroft Of the Canadian Steam
ship Lines IS miles north of
Ashtabula, o.
Four men and a woman cook
drowned at the scene while five
other seamen later died of in
juries and exposure aboard the
Ashcroft which stood by for
rescue work.
TWO FROM STATE
Two Michigan men lost their
lives in the collision. They we're
Firemen Leonard Wisniewski,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28

8l6 Sable ST., Alpena, who died
of injuries and exposure aboard
the Ashcroft, and Fireman
George F. Grignon, 4745 Avery,
Detroit, who drowned at the
scene.
Other crew members of the
sunken Reed from Michigan in
cluded Vernon Haxton and An
drew Loppenen, both of Detroit;
Marlen p. Godshalk of Three
Rivers; Wilbert Tayra, Hubbell;
and Doyle Rogers and John p.
Laucks of Ann Arbor
The Ashcroft, a huge hole in
her bow about four feet above
the water line, arrived at Ash
tabula harbor with % surviv-
ors from the Reed.
Among the survivors were
Capt. Bert Brightstone of Chi
cago and Wheelsman Fred L.
Preston of Superior, Wis. T. F.
Zealand, marine superintendent
for the Interlake Steamship Co.,
said the two men gave this &C.
count of the collision and their
rescue:
Captain Brightstone was
aroused a few minutes before
See SHIPS-Page 5
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Axe WieIder
Found Insane
knieck Committed
to Ionic Prison

Stephen Knieck, 35-year-old
Van Dyke war worker, charged
with making a murderous axe
attack upon his wife, Frances,
on April IL, was committed to
the Ionia State Prison for the
Criminal Insane today by Cir
cult Judge Alton II. Noe in Mt.
Clemens.
Knieck, whom a sanity COM
mission termed mentally un-
balanced, had been held in the
Macomb county Jail since the
date of the offense when his 80.
year-old wife sufferd multiple
deep decorations about the head,
neck and shoulders.
The savage attack, following
domestic quarrel, took place
early in. the morning in the
knieck family home, 1928 Aud
rey street, in Warren township,
as the couples two children,
Six-year-old Gloria, and Steph-
en-, Jr., two months, slept peace
fully in an upstairs room. Evil
IDENTIFY suffering regret after he
had attempted to kill his wife
knieck then wrapped her head
in a towel, bundled her into his
car and rushed her to Levine
Memorial hospital where his ar
rest took place.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
COURT UPSETS ORDINANCE
Lack rattle Powers

In the first known court case
substantiating an opinion of the
encouragement and that fire.
quently expressed by Macomb
Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held
Judge Arthur Webster, of the
Wayne Circuit Court, on Thurs
day denied the right of a town.
ship to enact and enforce traf-
fic regulations.
A Macomb county driver. Pc
ter S. Schwanger, of 2l5l6
Broadway street. St. Clair
Shores, served as the guinea
pig" in the case when he appeal
ed from a conviction for speed
ing before Justice of the Peace
Arthur II. Jones of Gratiot
township. Schwanger had been
fined S35 by the justice court
on warrant stemming from the
townships traffic ordinance;
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
Probe Of Ward
Seizure Looms
Congress Sets
Committee Motion

WASHINGTON, April % -
GA resolution proposing an
investigation Of the govern
ment's seizure of Montgomery.
Ward and Company's plant -
Chicago was pushed through
the powerful rules committee
of the House today and sent to
the floor for consideration.
Representatives Cox (D-Ga)
and Smith (D-Va). co-author Of
the Smith Connally act for han
ding labor disputes joined with
Republican committee members
to obtain right-of-way for con-
sideration Of Dewey's resolution.
Rep. Dewey (R-Ill), author Of
the resolution, appeared a. the
first witness before the commit
tee, declaring the seizure "is q
highhanded and I'm American
procedure"
AhS iCSoidtlOu WOuiQ SSt-OV
special committee of Congress
to investigate the Ward seizure.
The rules committee opened
the hearing over the objection q
its chairman, Rep. SABBATH a.
I'D. :
II am not informed on IL
character of the labor dispute In
M o n tg ON cry Wsrd's,y MD
Dewey, but there u an orderly
procedure for handling such
disputes. What want 10 akind
out ID whether there b any saa-
thority for the action that hno
been taken there. I have ho1
messages from all parts q ~
country saying thank soodnoGB
we have q Congress 10 -:
after our right" ~,
SABBATH asked Il "those -
See wARD-Sagl .
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
Scout Exhibit
to Open at
77:30 Tonight

Sixten Macomb District Scout
troops and three Cub packs -
representing almost every COM
munity north of the l4-Mile
road-will join in colorful pa
geantry to display their proves
at this evenings Scout-O-Rama,
outstanding public event of the
Scouting year.
The affair commences at 7:30
p. m, at Mount Clemens High
School, and special appeal has
been made for fathers and sons
to attend the enjoyable show.
which is modelled on the style of
circus, with events on the pro-
gram at all times.
FEATURE EVENT
The Grand Entry, featuring
marching formations of Sciuts
with massed colors, and public
rendition of the Oath of Atteg.
lance, will be the opening fea-
ture and one worth observing.
1t will be following by dem
onstartions of first aid, signal
ing, camping, pioneering, drill,
physical development and other
Scout attainments, with clown
acts in between to add hum
orous touch.
An interesting display of
Scout handicraft will be given
in the east hall of the school.
Merit awards will be made to
individual Scouts and also to
troops.
Purpose of the annual affair
is expressly not TO raise money,
District President Guy l.. Verk-
Ter points out, but to provide an
outlet for public display of the
See SCOUTS-Page 2
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Brief Illness
Takes Life Of
Old Warrior
Intestinal Upset
Proves FotoI;
Nation Nouns

WASHINGTON, April %
(R)-Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox. 20, died at 1:08
p. m. E. w. T., today at his
Washington home from a heart
attack.
The Navy Secretary became
ill last week.
The death of the Secretary
was announced to the Navy
throughout the world by acting
Secretary of the Navy James v.
Forrestal.
Knox was stricken with "a
gaStro-intestinal upset" while
attending the funeral in Man
chester. N. Y, last week of ]. A.
Muehling, his business partner
for the last 40 years. He re-
turned to his office Tuesday
morning but about two hours
later became i'll and went to his
home. The Secretary suffered
severe heart attack as he pre-
pared to go to bed Tuesday az
ternoon.
SILENT TRIBUTE
Forrestal. in announcing the
death over the Nays loud
speaker system, asked all de-
partment employees, many Of
whom were at lunch in cafe
terias, to pause in their activi-
ties in respect to Knox.
Knox had been in the Cabin
ct since July IL, 1910. Presi-
dent Roosevelt summoned him
to serve, as France fell, in the
critical month Of June 1910 1t
the same time he asked Henry
l.. Stimson to become Secretary
of War. Both men were Repub-
lican leaders, Knox having been
his party's vice-presidential
nominee in 1896.
EVE OF ATTACK
His death on the eve of the
European invasion prevented
the rounding out of an official
career that began with the de-
feated Allied forces of the world
falling back across the channel
into England, spanned four
years of slow recovery made
possible by Americas entrance
into the war and came finally
to the apparent verge of the last
great phase before victory.
Knox never doubted that the
United States and its Allies
would be victorious if they
See KNOX-Page 2
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BY GLADWIN HILL

LONDON, April 28-lP) -
American heavy and medium
bomberS blasted Nazi air bases
over a wide area in France to-
day on the heels of 3,500-ton
Raj bomb assault by night on
Friendrichsaven and railyards
in France and Belgium.
The blows carried into the
14th straight day the grinding
pre-invasion air offensive that
has hurled $4,000 tons of eXplo-
sives on Europe since April Is.
UP to $50 Flying Fortresses-
winging out after record day
light pounding of continental
targets ThurSday-bombed the
Avord airdrome 100 miles south
of Paris, while medium Marau-
ders hit another field in North
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
baarck Succeeds
Oehsenbein as
Shop Foreman

Ronald M. Ochsenbein, for the
past three years foreman of the
Monitor-Leader mechanical de-
partment, has enlisted in the ".
S. Navy. Donald Baarck, for
eight years an employee of the
newspaper, has succeeded him
at the helm of the composing
room staff.
Ochsenbein, who has already
reported at the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station, is 81
years of age. His wife and the
couples two small sons will
make their home in Bedding,
Mich, during his term of serv-
ice.
Baarck, who resides at 100
Colonial Cour.., Mount Clemens,
is native Of the city. is mar
ried and has three children.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
ChiIders Make,
Bid as Sheriff
Seeks Democratic
Nod in July

In his spare time after 10
hour night shift at a Detroit
war plant and outside of his
church activities, John l.. Chill
ders, 43. of 83 South avenue,
Mount Clemens, this week an
nounced he will run for nomina-
ton for the office of sheriff on
the Democratic ticket.
Childers filed the necessary
petitions at the County Clerk S
office Thursday.
The new candidate, who has
never before sought office in
this county or his native Ten
nessee, states he is unaffiliated
with any official party group,
organization or individuals. II
don't even know any politicians
or party members" he said in
making his announcement.
See CANDlDATE-Page 5
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
Find Victim
Himself a Thuq
Police Blame
Double Cross

John DiRusso, 27-year-old De-
troiter who told deputy sheriffs
strange tale of being beaten by
thugs in a Polish park near Uti-
ca Thursday morning after be-
ing taken for a ride, was un-
der investigation himself today,
after he and two friends had
started to take another man for a
similar rough ride.
Indications that DiRusso
dreamed up" the story he told
Deputies Leon Kandt and Frank
Ballor Thursday, and that he
himself is fit subject for police
investigation, were given by
Diet. 1t. James Whetmore, of
Detroit police, according to an
Associated Press dispatch.
Detroit officers nabbed Di-
Russo and two companions In a
car last night as they seized a
fourth man and prepared to ad-
minister beating to him.
DiRusso, Detective Whetmore
said, suffered his Macomb
County beating in a manner
far different from the innocent
bystander" theme he used in his
story to deputies here. The De-
troiter, the officer said, had
given two companions the "dou-
bic cross in deal involving
S375.
When found near Utica early
Thursday morning, DiRusso told
deputies that two strange men
met him in a beer garden and
offered TO drive him to a night
spot for entertainment. He said
he had left 81 800 of his firms
money at home. and believed
they sought this money when
they beat him. He said he was
a clerk in tool and die plant.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
Pet. 5 Wastepaper
Collection Saturday

Wastepaper, properly bundled
and deposited at the curb, will
be collected by Boy Scouts of
Troop II, Knights of Columbus.
in Precinct 5 Saturday.
Scouts will meet city trucks
at the Clemens School at 10 a.
m. Due to the large area to be
covered, scouts will be unable
to enter homes TO help house
holders collect and bundle pa
per.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28

flag, taken from Zengo's body
on a Marshall Islands battle
field, is a souvenir in a local
home.
The other phrases drawn on
the flag by warrior Zengo's
proud townsfolk when he left
for war, You Certainly Should
Be Able to Vanquish the Enc
N.Y." and I'VE Pray for Faith in
Your Chivalry and For Ever
lasting Victory'-especially the
latter-ring hollow now.
Only one painted japanese
message is significant. 1t reads:
do Your Best"
LUCK RUNS OUT
Zengo did his best, but hard
hitting United States Marines
on the Marshalls were too
quick for him." according TO
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
Priest Tells
ofCoptivity

The greatness of the Chin
csc people, their deep wisdom
and firm nationalism was des-
cribed to local Rotarians and
their guests at luncheon Thurs
day by Catholic missionary
priest repatriated from Man.
chukuo, who at the same time
depicted the rigors and cruelties
of Jap internment camps and
expressed a conviction that the
Japanese as a nation will never
be Christianized.
The speaker was Rev. FIR. AL
bert Murphy, now of St. Ste
phan's parish, Port Huron, and
See PRIEST-Page 2
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Murmur Final Amen
10 Prince OF Church

BOSTON, April 28-(P)-The
Archdiocese of Boston and
Catholics from distant parts of
the world today murmured a
final amen" to the earthly ca
reer of William Cardinal o.
Connell.
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Merci/ess Hail
Sweeps Europe
Yanks Swarm to Attack on
Heels Of British Raids

ern France, and Lightning fight
erS shot up a third.
No further details of the raids
were disclosed Immediately.
In "a hours alone, more than
See AIR WARFARE 2
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Expert Sees Invasion
Between Mdy2 dnd77

LONDON, April % --P)-
Masses of Allied invasion ves-
sells, assembling in the harbors
of western England, were at
tackled by German bombers last
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
Young Marine Sends
Home Battle Trophy

Pfc. Paul Strumpfer Jr., 81, To-
cal Marine, who unwrapped the
from the dead Jap and
See TROPHY-Page 5
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The Japanese flag will be
displayed in the second floor
office of The MOnitor-Leader
for public inspection until
Wednesday. through courtesy
of the Strumpfer family.
Japanese script on ii Is inter-
preted in English on attached
pIacards.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28

night, Berlin dispatches by way
of Stockholm said today.
Nazis and neutrals, continu-
ing a guessing game that began
several weeks ago, said the in
vasion might be less than two
weeks away, and Berlin dis
patches to Stockholm said great
quantities of Allied shipping
were gathered in the Channel
ports of southeastern England
as we'll as western England.
Aneta, Dutch News Agency,
said German authorities in Hol-
land were preparing to blast the
great dykes which guard the
entrance to the Zuider Zee and
flood huge area containing the
populous cities of Rotterdam
and Amsterdam.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28

The tender faith expressed by
Chikdaka Zengo's sweetheart,
Yaeko, when she wrote her mes
sage you Are Bound to Win"
on the japanese warriors battle
flag is a mockery today, for the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-28
FEARED NAZI COUP

Two Swedes, the first to reach
Sweden from Denmark since the
Germans clamped tight control
on travel Jetween the two coun-
tries last Monday, said the Danes
at first thought the Germans
See INVASION-Page 2
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Impartial Coverass i.
Of All loeoI News