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OPERETTA MAY 5

Save the date of May 5 to attend the school operetta, "Rumpel-Stilts-
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WANTED

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MISCELLANEOUS

GUARANTEED Realistic Perma-
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LOST AND FOUND

LOST - Slanted lense sun glasses with correction. Reward. Phone Green $50
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22
New York Children
Top Bond Statesmen
Average Is S63.40
for Each Student

NEW YORK - (U.P) - When
the auditors added up receipts
for 13 months ended July 30.
1914, they found that New York
state school children had bought
Sll1,l76,59735 worth of war
bonds and stamps, an average
investment of $63.40 for each
child, TO lead the nations school
youth in backing the war effort.
Mrs. Marion NJ. Miller, deputy
,manager in charGe of schools for
the War Finance Committee Of
New York, claims this total is
S59,000,000 above that of any
other state.
New York City students alone
accounted for more than S64,-
600, 600 of the state total. New
Jersey school youngsters bought
that state into second place
nationally with total purchases
of $51, 980,625.35.
The treasury Department,
bidding for greater sales in
Americas schoolroomS, will
award Schools at War" flag
to all schools in which 80 per
cent or more students buy bonds
or stamps regularly. These
schools also will receive full-size
copies of the Bill of Rights.
Tieing stamp sales TO the cur
rent shortage of Christmas
trimmings, the treasury has DIS
tributed among local women
chairmcn Of war finance Il
Christmas gift and tree-trimmIns
pattern book which contain in
structions for making simple
Cardboaxd-and paper novelties,
each Of which requires at least
one war stamp in its decorative
theme.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22
J HEADACHE
MOVIE HEADACHE
Star is Encased in Hollow Statue

HOLLYWOOD - U.D - The
problem was to make a hollow
plaster statue of Ingrid Berg
man that would fit her so tightly
that'she would seem TO have be-
come a statue.
It was for a scene in the Sal
vador Dali-designed dream Sc
quence in Vanguard's Spell
bound" The studio called on
Earl Ray, longtime expert in
providing plaster objects known
in the film industry as breaka-
ways.
1t was difficult enough 10 con-
ceiVe such a statue. But TO add to
the dilemma the plaster had TO
be thin enough TO break into
thousands of pieces when Miss
Bergman counted three and
drew a deep breath.
For Photographic purposes it
was necessary to make the full
body of the statue in one piece,
including the train of the Gree
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22

hard candy, half a pound of SUI
gar, two ounces of coffee, bis
cults, liver paste, five packages
of cigarets.
Some $4,000 of these cartons
are now packed every day at
four centers in Brooklyn, New
York, Philadelphia and st. Lou
is, the Army furnishing the food,
Red Cross volunteers doing the
packing. The Germans have
permitted the Red Cross TO
stockpile these packages, at all
camps where Americans are
held. Generally speaking, a Is
weeks reserve is kept on hand.
Warehouses in which these car
tons are stored are under double
lock-one key being held by
German, the other by an Amer
lean soldier who is designated
as spokesman for all the Yanks
in each camp.
Right now, the Red Cross IS
special Christmas car
tons into all German camps for
These were packed
last August but are something
right from home, including even
a collection of photographs Of
city, town and coun-
try scenes for the boys to swap
among themselves. The food
contents would make a good list
for any Christmas stocking -
canned butter, figs, dates, tur-
key, plum pudding, ham, cheese,
tea, bouillon, candy, nuts, chew
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22

ian robe worn by Miss Bergman
A faceless head was a separate
operation.
Ray and six men worked five
weeks experimenting with this
statue and duplicates for re-
hearsal purposes.
The original m d el was
achieved by sprinkling layers of
thin, wet plaster on a duplicate
Grecian robe worn by Miss
Bergman's st n d in, Betty
Brooks.
Miss Brooks stood motionless
for the nearly two hours re-
quired for the repeated sprink-
lings and dryings.
The master cast was made
from this form. But then the
trouble began. The same meticu-
lous sprinkling of individual lay
ers of plaster was necessary.
Sometimes the plaster was too
thin and ran down into the folds.
Then again it was too thick and
didn't spread at all.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22
Marine MarkSmen
End Gator Scare
Charleston Alligator
Hunt Is Successful

CHARLESTON, S. c. -UR)-
Marines stationed at the Charles
ton Navy Yard now have enough
alligator hide to make at least
couple of good suitcases, and
they're no longer afraid 10 60
swimming.
That's because a Marine cap
tain, two master gunnery ser-
geants and a civilian police lieu
tenant went hunting down by
the building ways on the banks
Of the Copper river here.
Officials wondered if the men
under their command were suf-
tering Authorizations when the
rumor persisted that there was
an alligator in the vicinity.
Divers, fearing the animal, re-
fused to go near the water.
So Capt. Lawrence w. Smith,
Of the Marine Guard company,
Master Gunnery Sergeants w.
A. Bray, Americas, Ga, and w.
M. Bennett, Erwin, Tenn, and
Police Lieutenant John Price
gathered UP 30-calibre rifles and
took to the building ways.
There they sat and waited.
Then they sighted the reptile
Tuning through the muddy
water. Price and the gunnery
sefgeants cut loose with vollcy
large enough to exterminate
several Japanese--but the gator
paid them no heed. 1t finally
took 10 shots, four Of them
direct hits, to dispose of him.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22
From Dulag to Stalag Route
of US War Prisoners of Nazis
BY PETER EDISON

When an American soldier is
captured by the Germans, he
Is taken first to a place called
q Dulag, condensation of the
German words Durch Lager,
which is going through .
camp. II is an interrogation CEN
ter and no man stays in a Dulag
long.
But the international Red
Cross swings into action as soon
as an American service man ar
riyes at a Dulag,o and even be-
fore his next Of kin may be not
flied that he has been taken
prisoner. From the Red Cross
the man will get two packages
First is a capture kit contain
ing heavy pajamas, towel, soap,
sweater, gloves, socks, razor, Vi
tamin pills, pipe and tobacco
shoe laces, comb, chewing gum
and a carton of cigarets. The
whole thing comes packed in
fiber suit case, weighs about 10
pounds and is valued at approx
imately. Sl3. Fifty thousand CT
these capture kits have been do
mated by the Red Cross. They
are packed by volunteers in Phil
adelphia-many of them rela-
tives of Americans held prisoner
overseas.
The second package is an IL
pound food carton which he
will thereafter receive every
week to supplement the insult
ficient German prison camp
diet. The German diet is only
about 1900 calories day, and
the Red Cross package of $4,000
Galleries supplies an extra 1000
Galleries day.
VOLUNTEERS PACK KITS
In a typical carton will be
prunes, milk powder, oleo, jam,
cheese, two cans of meat, fish,
two bars of soap, Vitamin {
tablets, bar chocolate, chocolate
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22
COLLECTORS

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 22-(P)
Two men who said they were
city employees came around to
collect a dog tax from Mrs. Alice
Trebelcott.
They told her the tax was S.
but that for her, S4 would do.
Mrs. Trebelcott later called po-
lice and learned dog licenses
never cost more than So - and
that they're never peddled from
door TO door.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22

ing gum and tobacco. Each
package has one game-chesS,
checkers, cribbage, bridge or
gin rummy sets-alSo for swap
ping. The value of this Christ
mas carton is put at about So.
The regular weekly carton IS
valued at about 1915.
One of the German precau-
lions is to puncture all food tins
as soon as they are issued, TO
prevent boarding and use in es-
cape. There are, in addition,
medical and sewing kits given
to the men when first captured,
and for men hospitalized, there
are other extras. .u,..
From a Dulag, the American
captive Will be moved to a per-
manent base camp-a Stalag. or
Stamm Lager, a Stalag Luft for
air force men, an .Oflag for of
Ulcers, Lazarette or SpitaI
which is hospital camp. In all,
there are in Germany some AZ
principal camps, so to rs sec
ondary camps and several hun
ored work Centers.
All these camps are inspected
three ways: BY the Swiss gov
eminent in accordance with the
Geneva convention, by the in
ternatlonal Red Cross, which
furnishes medical supplies, food.
clothes and special welfare mes
sages land by the War Prisoner
Aid Committee of the Interna-
tional YMCA which looks after
social welfare, games, books,
amusementS, study courses. One
Of the VS. great achievements
was to bring lumber from Swe-
den to build a stage for amuse-
ment centers at the big camps.
TAKE COURSES
The prisoners can take adj
vantage Of the Armed Forces
Institute Correspondence school
courses, conducted out of Madi-
son, Wisconsin.
One of the Red Cross special
services is the preparation of
news bulletins and camp news
papers. They run four to five
pages of general sports, politics
and home news, plus local camp
news. Some of the editorials are
hot. One burn-up job was an
open letter to American work
men going on strike, telling
them that If they didn't like
conditions at home to come on
over and live IN the prison,
camps awhile.
Officers and non-coms don't
have TO work, but the enlisted
men do. Officers are paid by the
German government amounts
not to exceed the pay for equal
rank in the German army, but
this pay is not deducted from
the u S. Army pay held in
trust during captivity. A private
gets no allowance, but if he
works he gets the equivalent of
70 pfennings, or about % cents
a day. Non-coms get about sew
en- and half marks a month, or
SO. and can volunteer for work.
All pay is in canteen script, but
there is nothing in the German
canteens to buy except razor
blades and watery beer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22
Yonks in Pacific Fear
HomefoIks Too CompIocent

pan nearly three years after the
war started at Pearl Harbor.
America is not yet in position to
put Japan and its important sat-
elites, Manchuria and Korea,
under sustained attack.
One problem which Pacific
commanders have had to face
has been the necessity for send
ing most men, materials and
planes to the European theater,
first on the list to be cleaned
up, while they were assigned to
stop the Japanese advance and
start beating him back as best
they could with what supplies
could be spared for the job. In
the early days of the war, this
sometimes meant that jobs we're
undertaken literally on shoe
string"
Now, with men, material and
particularly planes to be divert
ed to the Pacific with conclus-
ion of the war in Europe. the
problem of bases to support them
arises. The difficulty with the
islands in most cases is that, they
don furnish sufficient land mass
to support large air bases in suf-
flclent number to permit mass
bombing.
NEED VAST PREPARATION
This undoubtedly is at least
part of the basis for the strategy
which has been announced by
Admiral Nimitz - to drive for
the coast of China. Exploitation
Of landings there would permit
establishment of bases of suf-
ficient size to support mass
bombingS and eventual invasion
of Japan, If that is necessary.
But a landing in China will
require vast preparation, not the
least Of which are the securing
or naturalization of other bases
in the Pacific still in japanese
hands and the diversion of large
numbers of men, ships and
planes from Europe and produc-
ton of vast amounts of new ma
terial. Then, when landing in
China is effected, it must be ex-
plotted to bring under Allied
control a sufficient part Of the
country to support air and pos
sibly invasion assaults Of a size
necessary to bring Japan to her
knees.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22

Dried statues crumbled when
lifted from the cast because they
were too thin. Others refused to
break under tests because they
were too substantial. Final in
dignity came when the first per-
feet specimen, drying in the sun,
was broken into bits by small
board blown by a vagrant gust
of wind.
The perfect statue that Ray
finally achieved was three-SiX-
teenths of an inch thick. From
then on he had TIE secret, and it
was simple to complete % other
statues Of Miss Berman.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22
A WOMAN'S PREROGATIyE

BRISTOL, Conn, Nov. 22--
- Assistant Prosecutor Joseph
NJ. Donovan told the city court
that 22-year-old woman,
charged with pilfering a dress
from department store, had
been arrested when she brought
the garment back 10 the store
and asked that it be exchanged
for another that would fit her.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22

About $4,000 short tons of
cork were imported during the
first quartersof 1914, as compar-
ed with a net consumption of
about $4,000 short tons during
the same period.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22

Today there are about 5000
civilian airports in the United
States.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22
BY FRANK TREMAINE
1 niicd Press Staff Correspondent
PACIFIC F Il EFT HEAD.

PACIFIC + l. E E T HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor -
(UP)-Amcrican fighting men in
the Pacific, battling nation
which many authorities believe
to be the most dangerous enemy
this country ever faced, looked
obviously to Europe and fear
fully to the United States to-
day, hoping that their nation
will not let them down now
that half the war is over.
They believe the Pacific half
still may be the toughest.
The fear that American would
feel the war is over once Ger
many was defeated long has
been in the minds of men in the
Pacific. Those in command be-
lieve that high military and civ
ilian authorities know that every
effort must be thrown into the
fight against Japan, but they
fear that letdown may be felt
among civilians which will lead
TO pressure for rehabilitation
dF'EiAAY~and machines 1gaNrsyrap-
idly than is compatible with
plans for complete defeat of ia
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-22
FACE FANATICAL FOE

MCn VINO nave tOuSnt Japan
know they face a tough, fanati-
cal foe whose toughness and
fanatiCiSm extend right down
through the civilian population.
Most Of them, although they
hope they are wrong, feel that
estimates made by people at
home that Japan will collapse
six months after Germany are
too optimistic.
1t. Gen. Millar F. Harmon,
commander of the neWly-estab-
lished Army Air Forces. Pacific
Ocean Area, who commanded
Army forces ~ the South Paci-
fic area for the two hard, Bit
ter years it took us to fight our
way through the Solomon Is
lands, recently expressed an
opinion held widely among Pa
cific personnel when he said:
1--WE must count on more than
a year of hard fighting ahead
before the end will be in sight
He (the Japanese) is a
tough, dangerous foe Up
to now, we have not come to
grips with the enemy's main
strength. We have engaged only
his heavily fortified outposts.
There is no shadow Of doubt
that we have the winning team,
but the big game is yet to be
played"
STILL LACK LARGE BASES
Today, the United States, with
the biggest Navy in the history
Of the world and the most ex-
pert amphibious fighters war has
ever produced, still is fighting
on the outer approaches TO ia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Civil War Spreads
 To Northern Greece

some two weeks ago. Piraeus is the main port for Athens, five miles to the northeast, and the bottleneck through which most supplies for the capital pass.
 Harold MacMillan, British resi- dent minister for the Mediterranean area, returned to Athens yesterday after a visit to Allied Headquarters in Rome, where he conferred with Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alex ander on Greek and Italian prob lens.
 GA London Daily Herald dispatch from Athens said Gen. Nicholas Plastiras, one time strong man" of Greece who recently returned to Athens from exile, had declined an offer of the regency rendered by King George through the Prime Minister George Papandreou)
 Appointment of a regent would clear the way for the formation of a new government, considered an important prerequisite for settle ment of the civil war)
 (Another Athens dispatch quoted Papandreou as praising British in- tervention in behalf of the un- armed government representing the great majority of the country against an armed minority bent on imposing Nazi-like tyranny,)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
By JAMES E. ROPER ~

United Press War Correspondent
 Athens, Dec. 9 - UP.O - Re- ports circulated today that the civil war had spread to northern Greece and that left wing ELIAS forces had captured eight villages from the rghtist EDES followers of Gen. eral Napoleon Zervas.
 Northern Greece was reported Seething with unrest, accentuated by an inf1iltration of hot-blooded ele- ments from Bulgaria and Albania.
 Open warfare between the ELIAS and EDES factions threatened or already had begun. Reliable inform ation reaching British sources here said the ELIAS men, clearing eight villages of EDES sympathizers, were moving toward the Dhriskis Ridge, 8 dominating height east of loan nina, site of EDES headquarters.
 Other ELIAS forces were reported maSsing along the border territory, and zervaS sources claimed that the ELIAS men had attacked the EDES near the town of Arta, 40 miles south of Ioannina.
 The reports said that 300 Bulgar- ians who were supposed to be de- serters from the Bulgarian army had been counted in the area north east of Salonika, big port in north eastern Greece.
 A number of Albanians were re- ported moving through ELIAS terri tory toward zones controlled by zervas followers in Epirus.
 Coincident with the mounting un- rest, German broadcasts were re- ported to have began a propaganda campaign to free Macedonia.
 The Greek government was de- scribed as fearful that Bulgarians and Albanians were planning some kind of coup to split Macedonia from Greece.
 Quoting information from Saloni- ka, the official Hellenic News Agen- cy claimed that "open persecution" prevailed in Phlorina and Kasto- ria, near the Albanian and Yugo- slav frontiers. It said a Bulgarian had been appointed prefect of Phlo- rira and had said in a speech that MacedonianS of Bulgarian extrac- tion must adhere to Communism in order to obtain autonomy for Ma cedonia.
 On the Athens front" British troops and tanks crossed PiraeuS Harbor in assault craft, landed on the northern rim, and drove inland, bringing the entire port area under British control.
 The landing in the former ELIAS stronghold was carried out virtual ly without opposition, but resistance stiffened several hundred yards in- land and fighting still was going on at noon.
 Left-wing ELIAS troops seized the northern part of the harbor with its main docks and warehouses in the early stages of the civil war
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Third Army Loses Hold
Ccontinued from Page 1)

also appeared to have been aband- oned, suggesting that the Nazis were becoming doubtful of the drives ultimate success.
 At the same time, German news papers began publishing warnings that several thousand Allied bom- bers'' may shortly be thrown against the attacking Nazi columns mad that American resistance has stiff fened in Belgium with the arrival of fresh reserves.
 One Swedish account relayed to the London Daily Express quoted German spokesman as saying that the drive against Luxembourg, pre- viously regarded as perhaps the focal point ofq the offensive, was mot in the same strength as the one between Trier and Monschau."
 The NaI propagandists, who last Sunday were boasting that '+the next few days will be decisive" told Swedish correspondents last night that mo decision can be ex- pected before next week"
 Unconf1rmed reports said the Germans were believed to have as many as 25 divisions engaged in the western offensive or in reserve to exploit a breakthrough, and that additional troops are being rushed in from the Baltic states for an attack On the Allied forces flank ing the American First Army.
 German spokesmen earlier claim ed their troops had broken across the important American supply road between Liege and Bastogne- Arlon and that 4 62 mile breach had been torn in the First Armw line, through which Nazi tanks are striking for the Mouse river.
 German communiques also claim ed that heavy losses had been in- hicted On the American Army-a claim denied by First Army spokes- men at the front. The Nazis said 10000 American have been captured since the start of the offensive last Saturday and that more than 1000 tanks have been destroyed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

(Continued from Page D sprawling MitSubishi aircraft works. Nagoya, a city of 1.4o0. 900, lies on the south coast of Honshu, 165 miles vets of Tokyo.
 The attack fitted in with the gen. eral pattern of other recent Super fortress raids from bases in both Saipan and China on Japanese air craft plants. They were designed to knock out the sourc eof the enemy's air replacementS while carrier and smaller land- based bombers destroy his air forces in the field.
 Only yesterday, China-based B-29s blasted an aircraft plant at Mukden, in Japanese-dominated Manchuria. Forty-eight hours earlier, they hit a plane plant at Omura, on the southernmoSt Jap anese home island of Kyushu.
 The B-29s ran into strong Jap anese fighter opposition over Muk- den and two were lost. However, IS enemy planes were destroyed, seven probably dstroyed and II others damaged.
 Superfortresses from Saipan last attacked Nagoya December IS. The first raid on Nagoya occurred De- cember 13.
 Army Liberators of the Pacific strategic air force bombed airstrip installations on Two in the Volcano Islands Tuesday for the 18th consec- 1ltiYe day in an attemDt to neutral ize bases from which the Japanese attack Saipan and intercept Japan bound Superfortresses.