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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-08-17
IN NORM

The ordnance branch's policy on
these wrecking companies is that if
they don't have a casualty now and
then, or collect a few shrapnel
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-08-17

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Instructions 1876 contain step-by-step direc.
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Evening star., 1944-05-17
demanded by several members.

demanded by several members.
Members also moved to recommend
that meetings of the Parks and
Planning Commission be made pub
lie and that notice of these meet
ings be advertised
Reelection of last years officers
for the coming year were: Owen B
French, president; Capt. M. G. Cook
U. S. NJ, first vice president; Mrs. S.
M. Moore, jr.. second vice president;
Miss Florence Eastman, recording
secretary: Mrs. George Hates, cor
responding secretary. New officers
are: Mrs. Waldron Faulkner, treas
urer, and Joseph A. Roney Fedora
ton delegate. the other delegate to
be elected by the president of the
association.
The meeting, which was held at
the parish hall of st. Adams Church
Wisconsin and Massachusetts, ave-
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Citizens Unit Asked 10 Aid
Drive 10 Buy Library Site

The Cathedral Heights Cleveland
Park Citizens Association recon-
mended last night that Library
Fund Committee be appointed to
support the Connecticut Avenue
Citizens Association drive to raise
$50, 900 for the purchase OF branch
library site.
Mr.. Douglas Clark ana Mrs. w. w.
Coblentz, both members Of the Con-
necticut avenue association, and
guests at last nights meeting sought
the members support on the project.
The association also voted their
approval of an adequate fund for
rat control in the District. Imme-
date action on the resolution was
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Cob Galloway Singer
Held for Druft Evasion

Edward Hartman, "A, colored 1916
Seventh street NV, a singer ap-
pearing with Cab Calloways band
at the Howard Theater. $40 T street
NV, was arraigned yesterday before
United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage on charges of fall
Evening star., 1944-05-17
! ing to report for induction at Plaila-

ing to report for induction ut Phila-
delphia.
According to the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. Hartman failed to
report for induction January 7. Ar
rested yesterday at his nome. he was
held in $500 bond. and the case con-
sinued until today
, FBI agents said Commissioner
Turnage today probably would allow
Hartman to go to Fort Myer imme-
distely for a physica! examination
and then dismiss the charges.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
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special formula preparations
for suPer-sensitWe skins

Because opt to moke your problem skin even
in need Of pomperne Kathleen Mary QuinIon COM
pounds three friendly preparations Follow your three
familiar bose steps letting the preparations do the
extro work" that helps your oee keep summer-rodont
your heed in the cIouds First Speco Formula Cleansing
Cream $780, 81 TO- $3.50 -. followed by Specio Formula
Lotion $50, S240 $3.50 then, while you dreom the
summer night owoy Special Formula EmoIent (S3 80,
S. l0) oil prices including 20qo tox.
w6I--Toit1es Ais First
Evening star., 1944-05-17

nues NV, was presided over by
Owen B. French. president.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Invite Public
toInsiitute
Returned Seobee
to Lecture

The public has been invited
by County School Superintend-
ent Will l.. Lee to attend the
principal feature Of tomorrow S
Teachers Institute at Mount
Clemens High School auditor
ium-an illustrated lecture on
the South Pacific Island of Bora
Bora, by Henry M. Hedges, re-
Gently attached to a Sea Bees
naval construction battalion.
The lecture, which comprises
the second half of full-day in
stitute to be attended by close to
800 teachers, will start at 1870 p.
m, in the auditorium. There is
no charge for admission.
Hedges was senior civil en-
gineer attached to the first con-
struction battalion on the island,
where he and his wife were the
only white persons, until Amer
lean sailors arrived. His motion
pictures of South Pacific scenes
are in natural colors.
Forums on subjects Of the reg
ular school curriculum, in addi-
ton to behaviorism, health, juv-
emile problems, finances. radio,
and technical subjects will be
See TEACHERS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Construction
Boom Seem in
East Detroit

EAST DETROIT - This COM
munity,s answer to the wartime
housing shortage was being de-
livered this week by Snorting
bulldozers and grooming steam
shovels, as they excavated long
vacant subdivisions for a duplex
housing project alued at 1884,
900 and a single house program
valued at $4,000.
The $618,000 worth Of current
home construction now at the
excavation stage, compliments
an approximate 100000 recent
ly spent on l25 single homes.
now finished in the Tuscany
Lambrecht district.
Although no official informa-
ton is available, it is under
stood that other equally Large
housing projects are being map
ped.
The long vacant subdivision
on Brittany, between Stephens
and Nine Mile road, is now q
scene Of busy action. Thirty large
excavations have already been
made for that many SO. 400 brick
veneer duplex dwellings.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
GoVerness Takes Stand
in lonerQan Trial

NEW YORK, March 23-(P
VIGOROUSLY lingering a pair of
spectacles, y-haired, soft
spoken governess told at Wayne
Lonergan's murder trial today
how she slept undisturbed
throughout the night that the
RCAF aircraftman's heiress wife
was battered and strangled in a
room not far from her.
The governess, Miss Elizabeth
Black, testified also how Marine
Capt. Peter Elser broke in door
and discovered the body of Pa
tricia Lonergan in bed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23

ST. CLAIR SHORES-If the
assessed valuation of the fabu-
lous Edsel B. Ford estate, on
Lake st. Clair, is not promptly
slashed to an equitable basis
this community's taxpayers may
find the extensive acreage COM
pletely removed from the tax
rolls though sale as, and CONVEX
sion TO, tax-free public insti-
tuition.
This stark fact became abund-
antly clear today through analy-
sis Of the present tax load, its
vital part in the maintenance of
public schools and the radically
different valuation which stems
from the half-million dollar sell
ing price, at which the Ford
property is now offered, i'm con-
trast to the assessed valuation of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Juvenile Court
Aide Appointed

For the first time in the his
tory of the Macomb County Pro-
bate Court, full-time case
worker in charge of girls prob
lens today assumed her duties,
under the direction of Judge
Joseph V. Trombly.
The new appointee, whose SAL
airy is provided from state funds
recent legislation is Mrs. Edith
Smoot, of 2O855 Paloma, St.
Clair Shores.
Mrs. Smoot, widow of the late
Thomas Smoot, has served al
most IL year in social service
work under Relief Administra-
tor Issac A. Hartung. She is
noted for her expertness in this
field, and is thoroughly familiar
with many city and county cases
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Red 5pearnead
Rolls Forward
Vanguard But IS
Miles from Prut

LONDON, March % - R -
Spear >cads of the Red Army
have driven to within Is miles
of the Prut river border of Ru-
mania below the fallen German
Bastion of Mogilev Podolski.
Moscow dispatches indicated to-
day, and Berlin reported the
opening of new Soviet Often
sive from the Tarnopol-Provsku-
row sector apparently aimed at
trapping large Nazi forces in the
Vinnitsa area.
An increased threat to Ru-
mania developed Marshal Ivan
S. Konev's second Ukrainian
army widened its Dniester river
bridgehead below Mogilev Polol-
ski in a smashing drive which
the Russians said carried the
town of Nadushita, ID miles
north Of the important rail
junction of Byeltsi and 20 miles
west of the Dniester river.
Other Soviet forces mean.
while, Moscow announced. cap
tured Yarishev and Kurilovtsky.
Murovanny. respectively 10 and
"a miles northwest Of MosiIevs
Podolski. while Marshal 0reo~
DRY X. Zhukov's first ukfatnion5
army continued its slow -
steady push southwest Of xsUn-f
enets toward the large indu1txloe
center of Lwow. Moro 49,
900 Germans wert killU Y
many prisoners and much M a
captured in u single battle II
this area, a Soviet bvllella -
serted. 10 rs
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Grim Struggle
RACES in Italy
Fifth Army RepuIses
German OnsIou9hts
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, March % up Fifth
Army forces doggedly flung
back German attacks yesterday
on their Casino positions while
in the air war Allied bombers
struck sharply at enemy supply
lines in northern Italy, Allied
headquarters announced today.
In the southern section Of the
town Of Casino, New Zealand
ers still were engaging the en-
envy at close quarters. Allied ar
tillery knocked out German
tank emplaced in one wrecked
building, raising to five the
total destroyed in the week of
fighting for possession of the
town.
Westward along The lower
slopes of monastery hill Allied
forces kept up their attacks
along north south Axis. The
Germans counte attacked
against Hill 1913, key height
just northwest of the town early
yesterday, but were thrown
back, leaving 80 prisoners in
Allied hands.
The Germans also lunged for
ward in two strong attacks in a
new sector - near Monte Cas-
tellone, three miles northwest
broke up and repulsed their for
Of Casino, but French troops
broke up and repulScd their for
nations with artillery fire.
Rail lines in northern Italy
were hit heavily yesterday and
last might, both heavy and light
er bombcrs participating.
American Flying Fortresses
and Liberatorh hit Verona and
Bologna, on the route south
from the Bremen Pass, as we'll
as Rimini. important junction
point on the Adriatic midway
between Venice and Ancona.
Padua, west Of Venice. was at
tackled by night flying RAJ
Liberators and Wellingtons.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
ParatrOOper Held
i'm Death of Axis
SynpathiZer

KNOXVILLE. Tenn, March
23-(P)-Acting homicide Off
Ger Elmer Dyke said today 20
year-old paratrooper was under
charge of murder after admit
ting striking and fatally injuring
a construction worker who, he
claimed, expressed wish the
Axis would win the war.
Dyke said George liner, who
has brother in Jap hands, told
him that he struck Hobert Rick
or. 81, on the jaw after the lat
ter said he hoped Japan and
Germany would win the war
because United States victory
and Withholding taxes were too
high"
liner said that a younger
brother of his had been captured
by the Japs in the fall Of the
Philippines.
Kicker was found unconscious
on Gay street Feb, 8 and died
several hours later.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
u. ). Casualties
SET al 1922
Army: 1858
Navy: AZ. 099

WASHINGTON. March %
Up Battle casualties Of Amer
lean Army and Navy forces since
the start Of the war stand al
1922.
Secretary OF War Stimson said
today that Army casualties -
dead, wounded, missing and pris-
oners-amounted to 126,193 up
to March Z. The Nays casual
ties-Navy, Marines and Coast
Guard-are 42,099.
Since American forces landed
in italy last September 8, Slim
son said, the casualties total &c.
058. This was an increase Of q
287 since Stimson said on March
2 that American casualties were
36,771, noting that those figures
necessarily were two or three
weeks behind.
The casualties in Italy were
as follows: Killed 5,749; wound
ed 23,035; missing 1924.
The 126,193 Army casualties
since the start of the war were
divided as follows: Killed 81
1877: wounded 50,363; missing
26,747; prisoners 27,346.
OF the wounded, Stimson said.
26,459 have been returned to
duty. Of the prisoners. 1,674
have been reported by the en-
envy to have died of disease in
prison camps. Stimson said most
of these deaths occurred in jap
anese-occupied territory and
that the total undoubtedly was
larger than the figures reported.
The Nays casualties are as
follows: Killed 1887; wounded
10,754; missing, g,036; prisoners
of war 4.422.
The total Naval casualties OF
42,099 are divided as follows:
Navy 27,790; Marines 1884;
Coast Guard ass.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Invaders Cut
Path Toward
RaiIway(enter
Allied Heodquorters
Reveals Smashing
Enemy Penetration

NEW DELHI. March 23-(R)
Japanese columns invading
India now threaten Imphal, key
road center in Manipur, from
the south and east, it was dis
closed today when Allied head
quarters told of an enemy force
which has driven more than 80
miles up the lower Manipur riv-
err valley from Tiddim in the
Chin Hills area.
The headquarters statement
said the column was 80 miles
from Imphal on the west side Of
Logtak Lake south of the city.
This report of a second inva-
sion Of India within "a hours by
the japanese ran counter to
previous reports of activity in
the Tiddinl area, where earlier
announcements indicated the
enemy was confined within the
Burma borders.
Yesterdays report said an AL
lied force had been dispatched
to deal with Japanese out
thanking units north of Tiddim,"
but gave no hint that the enemy
had slammed 80 miles into India
from the south as we'll as from
the east in the vicinity Of
Thaungdut on the Upper Chind-
win river.
The Eastern Japanese inva-
sion force was also reported
about 80 miles away from I'm
phal.
The rice paddles of the I'M
phal plain would be readily
adaptable for airstrips, if the
japanese have the planes avail
able TO use them.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Censorship
Discussed
Theotve Curbs
Due for Passage

Under the proposed theatre
ordinance in Mount Clemens,
scheduled for passage at next
weeks City Commission meet
ing, films approved by the we'll
established police censorship Of
flee in Detroit, will be approved
here, it has been tentatively
agreed by officials and repre-
scntatives of theatre and civic
groups
Reporting to the City Com
mission last night on progress
of the film censorship and cur
few ordinances, City Attorney
Bert v. Nunneley said it had
been more or less agreed" be-
tween the groups in a meeting
Tuesd ay in his office, that
movies approved in Detroi
would be acceptable here.
The conference was attended
by Walter Lehner, Robert H.
Beal and others of the civic
groups; the local theatre man.
agement and its attorney, Doug
las Ball; an official of the Las
key film distributing agency,
Detroit; Lieut.. Snyder, Detroit
police censor, and an official of
the Detroit Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs.
II was also agreed that chill
dren under the age of IL years
will not be admitted TO local
movies after 1880 p. m, unless
&C M panied by respon-
'sible adults.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Swim-CIoss
Popularity
Swumps Vet

The determination of one man
that he will do his share to COM
bat juvenile delinquency, has
brought recreation and disci-
pline into the lives of hundreds
of local youths, who are accord
ingly less likely to become de-
linquents than those untouched
by this individuals guidance.
This one-man blitzkrieg on
juvenile delinquency - Arthur
Jenkins, post commander of the
American Legion-would not be
See BOYS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
1900 US. PLANES SMASH AT REICH
Churchill
to Speak
on Sunday
BY JUDSON O'QUINN

LONDON, March % - (P) -
Prime Minister Churchill will
address the nation Sunday - his
first broadcast since his winter
illness - amid a rising clamor
on both sides of the Atlantic for
Qualification of the Allied war
aims.
The speech, scheduled for 9
p. m. "a p. m. EWT), is awaited
here as possible key to the po-
sition which Britain may take on
the multiple problems expected
to come up for discussion at the
forthcoming conferences in Lon
don between u. S. Under-Secre-
tary OF State Edward r. Stet-
tinius, Jr., and the British For
eign Office.
There has been speculation
abroad that these conferences
might be followed by another
meeting between Churchill and
President Roosevelt.
Growing demands in the
House of Commons and the
United States for detailed
statement on Allied war and
post war plans, as we'll as for
See CHURCHILL-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Massive Raid
Follows Heavy
British Attack
Greet Sky Fleets
Cory Destruction
to Maxi Centers
By GLADWIN HILL

LONDON, March % - (R -
Striking the second day in a
row in the wake of a 1000 plane
Raj night raid aimed chiefly at
Frankfurt, approximately 1900
American bombers and fighters
bombarded the German Air
Force on its home bases in west
ern Germany today.
The American raiding force,
which included upwards of 500
Fortresses and Liberators,
bombed the Brunswick district,
the aircraft park at Werl, 40
miles east Of Essen, Achmer air
force station in Oldenburg to the
south and the German bomber
base at Handorf, a u. S. Army
Air force announcement said.
VIOLENT DUELS
The German Air force, which
avoided battle when 600 or
more Fortresses and LiberatorS
blasted Berlin in daylight yes
terday, apparently rose to the
bait of the bold attack today for
the German radio said violent"
air combats were fought with
the extraordinary large numbers
of Fighters which accompanied
the bombers.
The first reports Of the day
light aerial invasion came from
the ermans who said in their
broadcasts that bombers, pre-
sumably American Fortresses
and Liberators, were following
up their big attack on Berlin
yesterday with blows at the
western, central and northwest
ern Reich.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23

still bring substantial funds into
the tax Golfers; but sales agents
to whom she has turned over
the property for disposal point
to the practical impossibility OF
selling at that figure a property
encumbered with annual taxa
ton approximating one-fIfth OF
its entire purchase price.
HEAVY TAXES
At present the Ford estate
pays about SIS, 900 in real estate
taxes each year To Lake town.
ship, as well as S7,223 in village
taxes i'm addition TO another S29,-
600 which reaches the tax cof-
fers Of the village OF Crosse
Pointc Shores.
OF its Lake township real
estate taxes $4,000 is paid Iii.
rcctly on that portion of the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Death Rides Nth You
on One WqyHght
Reporter Sends Reader Along
With Men Who Survive

Medal with three Oak Leaf
Clusters.
This other fellow is Tech.
Sergeant Eugene j. Shadick of
Pearson, WiS.=He has the Air
Medal and two Oak Leaf Clust-
See SHOT-DOWN-Page 7
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
Seek Release

DETROIT, March % -tR-
Neil c. McMath, Detroit manu-
facturer, declined to comment
today when informed that Ken
meth E. Buck, serving a prison
term as the kidnaper IL years
ago of his daughter, Peggy, eas
seeking a pardon ~
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23

EDITORS NOTE: Charles +.
Marentette, author Of the follow
ing story. is widely known in Ma
comb county and for several years
served as reporter for Mount
Clemens newspapers. lie Is now
staff writer fer-the Associated
Press.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
RE-ASSESSMENT ADVOCATED
Lake Township Nav Lose All Ford Estote Tax Monies

estate which is offered for sale
at the half-million dollar figure.
Those taxes, plus heavy personal
property levies, form the back
log of financial support for Lake
School district No. 3.
WOULD RETAIN $4,000
On the basis of the advertised
sale price of 100000. Ford
taxes paid into Lake township
and ST. Clair Shores therefore
would be cut from the present
estimated $4,000 annually 10
$4,000; with, however. no i'm
mediate change apparent in the
personal tax levy of Sl7,0O
which would leave the total
township-village return for the
present at about the $4,000
level.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
FACTUAL STORY

FACIU AL SIOR1
1t isn't going to be pleasant
all of it. But it's what they
went through; you should be
able to take it.
Meet 1t. Russell o. Philpit OF
Detroit. His mother, Mrs. Lydia
Smith, lives up in Sandusky.
He's a tall, blond 26-year-old
who worked as an accountant
after he left the University Of
Detroit in 1887. A few of the
ribbons on his chest mean he
holds the Distinguished Flying
Cross, the Purple Heart, the Air
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23
By CHARLES MARENTETTE

BATTLE CREEK, Mich,
March 23-(P)-So you've won
dered how it feels to be shot
down over Germany?
You've sat in your front room
with the latest news of big raids
glazing at you from the news
papers and haFe wondered what
it was like, haven't you? And
you've wondered what you
would do if you were there.
Well, here's your chance.
We're going to introduce you
to a couple of guys who'll take
you over Germany at five or SIX
miles high and, while your plane
burns and breaks up around you
there in the sky, drop you right
into the middle of lot of Nazis.
These two are among the few
who have returned to tell about
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23

81 1877 900 from which Lake
township and the Village Of st.
Clair Shores have long reaped
rich benefits.
MAY BECOME REST HOME
The recent recommendation of
the Parks Committee of the
Wayne county board Of super
visors that the Ford estate be
purchased for use as conva-
descent home (Which would be
utterly free of taxation) high
lighted the drcar prospect for
this community's treasury II
swift, clcar-cut reductions in as
sessmepts are not forthcoming.
Mrs. Ford has expressed pref
crence for sale OF the property 10
a private owner which, at half
million dollar valuation, would
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-23

Impartial covsrsss
Of All leesI News
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-26

doing. from the foxholes of the South
PaeiheI e-the vineyards OF Italy. from
naval clashes in the Far East 10 the de-
las.4tias- heHsb.ass Ell Germany Every
one who has been stirred by the magnf.
cent achievements Of our Allies will want
90 see in actual pictures the heroic de-
tense of Stallngrad, the British campaign
IN Africa, the guerrilla fighting in Russia,
\ uF0StzvrT, Greece. China Valiant cam
crlmen died under fire IN making this
astounding Photographic record Mlracu-
lous shots were made IN the heat OF battle
In every major naval. land and aerial
eneagement-by American. British, Rus.
sian, French, Italian. and even German
cameramen. 10 all. over 1000 eXttaor.
binary pictures are packed into these two
mammoth volumes
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-26
Never Before Has Such a Graphic
Record Been Mode of Any War!
AL HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

THIS PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
unequaed Tor scope, authenticity, and power hold YOU
CENTRALIZED You will be startled by photo after phoeac seemingly
thrilling a~einsPrng, horng, astounding han the last
The whole story OF the passes before YOU pictures ohroncay
arranged with captions ha tell the complete soustrrng drama
Many clear and interesting included help follow the
OF the any particular Peod With these books you
will have only hrshand this SCATTERING the
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