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Evening star., 1944-02-03

GEN MARSHALL WITH INVASION MISUNDERSTANDING the
7h Infantry Division veterans of the Au campaign
engaged in the Marshall Islands invasion drive
right Maj Gen. Charles H. Corett commander of the 7th
Dvision Gen George Marshall Chief Of Staff and It.
Robert c. Richardson, jr commanding officer of the Army
forces in the Central Pacific Place photo
not given by the War Dpartmen-A 2 Photo from Army
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
u. s. Creates
Zone Revenue
Office Here

On a personal visit to the To-
cal Internal Revenue office here
Saturday, Giles Kavanaugh,
Collector of Internal Revenue
for Michigan, announced that
due to a doubled volume of
business in this area in the past
two years, the office here has
been elevated to the status of a
major zone office.
A full-time secretary is being
appointed to keep the office
open throughout the day, and a
fourth deputy collector, to aug
ment the present staff of John
Herr, Walter l.. Denning and
Albert l.. Marlatt, may be
named shortly, Kavanaugh said.
The office is under the di-
rection of James R. Doyle, divi-
sion chief, of Pontiac, represent
ing Macomb, Oakland and st.
Clair Counties.
On his official visit here, Col
lector Kavanaugh was accom-
panied by Gerald Evans, assist
ant collector; Harry Fremont,
chief field director; Doyle, and
Walter Sharrit, of Pontiac, as
sistant to Division Chief Doyle.
Principal discussion among
Internal Revenue officials was
the forthcoming April Is dead
line for filing of 1914 income
tax estimates, a date originally
set at March Is but postponed
by Federal orders.
1t was pointed out that gen.
orally speaking, estimates must
be filed by single persons max
ing $4,000 annually, or more,
and married persons crossing
$500. Estimates must also
be filed by those making in
excess of $100 from sources
other than salaries or wages af-
fected by withholding taxes.
The 1914 income estimate
forms are simple, department
officials point out. Forms have
been mailed to all those who es-
timated their 1913 tax, and 9TH
ers needing forms may obtain
them at the local office, AZ
South Gratiot. Any person need
ing help in making estimates is
invited to call at the office.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Airport Suit
Dismissed;
Detroit Warned

The City of Detroit on Mon
day was cautioned by the State
Supreme Court that it has le-
gal right to establish proposed
municipal airport in Macomb
County, but that it may be or
dered later to close or curtail
the airport as a public nuisance.
The decision was another
chapter in a long Detroit battle
to acquire a major airport site.
The proposed site is mile
square area in Warren town.
ship, Macomb County. bounded
by Eight and Nine Mile roads
and Dequindre and Ryan roads,
adjacent to several schools.
The court upheld a lower
court decision dismissing the
plea of Warren Township School
District No. that the airport
would be nuisance because
of noise, lights and vibrations.
Airports in themselves are not
See AIkPORT-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
GIANT HOWITZER PROVED
Makes Bad Medicine

The big projectile is shot out
of the gun by a separate charge
weighing SO pounds which is
rammed in behind the shell.
There are other guns-both AL
lied and German-on this front
which out-range the 240-mm,
but they do not have its accur-
acy, artillery men say.
One of the biggest achieve
ments of the 240 so far was the
destruction of a narrow but vi
tai bridge at Ponte Corvo. AL
lied bombers had tried for
weeks to demolish the bridge,
but failed to knock il out and
several planes were lost in the
attempts.
So the 240's went to work on
See HOWITZER-Page .
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Appeal Is Voiced
for Blood Donors

Mrs. Walter Fenton, chairman
of the Macomb County Blood
Bank clinic of the American
Red Cross, today issued an ur-
gent appeal for registrations for
the two-day clinic set for the
Methodist church in Mount
Clemens April l9 and 20.
A total of 500 registrations
are required, Mrs. Fenton said,
in pointing to the fact that New
HaTen and Meade donors have
already volunteered to contrib
ute 200 pints on one of the two
days. Mount Clemens regis
trants must fill up the differ
ence," Mrs. Fenton said in ex-
pressing the hope that tele
phoned appointments will be
made promptly.
Registrations can be made by
telephoning either Mrs. Fenton,
at Mount Clemens 2973 or Mrs.
Carl Schimmel at Mount Glenn
ems 5256.
The blood bank will be held
Wednesday, April 10, between
the hours of 1890 spd 400 p.
m, and on Thursday April 20,
between the hours of 3 and
1880 p. m. The NeE Haven
Meade registrsnts will contrib
ute their blood on Thursday, the
10th, Mrs. Fenton said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Heroic Mother
Badly Burned
But Reseues Two
Small Children

VAN DYKE - A 31-year-old
Van Dyke mother is in Saratoga
Hospital in serious condition
from burns suffered Monday
when she clasped her two infant
children in her arms and fled
from their burning home.
The children, David, five, and
Henry Proefke, three, suffered
only superficial burns and were
released after. treatment. Their
mother. Mrs. Ruth Proefke, 81,
was badly burned about the
face and back.
The trio was sleeping at 8
a. m, at 1903 Packard, east of
Van Dyke, when a fuel oil stove
in the kitchen of their four-room
one-story home became over
heated.
The cracking of flames and
intense heat as their bedroom
furniture caught fire aroused
the mother and children. Their
nightclothes caught fire as the
mother rushed her children
from the. house.
The father, Alvin, "a, had left
for work at the time, and son,
Alvin, Jr., eight had gone to
school,
Warren Township Fire De-
See FIRE-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
San Salvador
Revolt Crushed

SAN SALVADOR, Ell Saliva
dor, April 4 - (P-A revolu-
tionary movement against the
government of President Gen.
Maximiliano Ernandez Marti-
nez broke out Sunday but was
put down Immediately, it was
announced today.
Quiet prevails in the capital
of this republic and the inhabi-
tants are going about their us
ual occupations. Electric light
service which had been inter-
rupted has been restored.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Many Civilian
Jobs Are Open
at Selfridge

SELFRIDGE FIELD-An i'm
mediate and urgent need for
technical and clerical civilian
workers at Selfridge Field was
announced today by Col. Will
liam L. Boyd, Base Commander.
The appeal offer an oppor-
tunity to persons residing with
in Is mile radius of the reser-
walton to find desirable employ
ment for the duration of the
war. Applications may be made
at the Civilian Personnel Of
flee on the field
Together with the annual SAL
aries offered, including regular
compensation plus overtime pay
for eight hours each week, the
types of employees needed are:
Aircraft mechanice, S2,260;
sheet metal workers, S2,260;
store keepers, 81 $50; stenogra-
pliers and typists, Sl,560; car
penters, $4,000; electricians,
S2,850; auto mechanics, $4,000;
truck drivers, S2,050.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Daring 3-Way
Strike Scores
Against Foe
Knox Reveals
Polou But One
Of Three Torsets
Nv the Associated Press

American warShips penetrat-
ing deep into japanese territory
IN their attack on Palau in the
extreme western Carolines also
his Woleai to the east and zap
to the northeast, sinking all
Japanese ships caught at anchor
age, Secretary of Navy Knox an
nounced in Washington today.
It was the first disclosure that
Woleai and zap were included
In the naval attack which be-
gan March 80.
Secretary said there was
no way to estimate the number
Of japanese ships caught in the
anchorages, but in addition to
these one Jap warship was sunk
near Palau and two near Wo-
leaf. He did not say what type
warships they were.
Reports indicate, the Secre-
tary told his press conference,
that the strike continued through
April /. Our airplane losses were
eight fighters, IL bombers and
eight torpedo bombers. Original
reports did not indicate any
Manage to American warships.
Radio Tokyo quoting an I'm
perial Headquarters commune
que claimed Nipponese airmen
had intercepted an American
task force south of the Caro-
lines last Wednesday, sinking
two cruisers, heavily damaging
two battleships, an aircraft car
rier, and other vessels downing
30 American planes.
DOUBTS JAP CLAIMS
Knox gave no credence to the
Japanese claims.
Further Japanese reverses
were disclosed by the Navy De-
partment reporting destruction
of IA more Japanese vessels by
American submarines, bringing
to 667 the number of enemy
craft destroyed or damaged by
underseas boats. The new bag
included two medium tankers,
4, medium cargo vessels and one
small cargo vessel.
Woleai has a good anchorage
and zap has been used princi-
See PACIFIC-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Dem Delegates
Are Named
Convention
Endorses FDR

Faced with uncertainty at the
time they met in respect to DEM
ocratic leadership in the state
gubernatorial race, Macomb
County Democrats at their
Spring convention Friday were
forced to withhold the usual en-
dorsement accorded prospective
state candidates, but unani-
mously endorsed Franklin De-
lano Roosevelt for reelection to
presidential office.
The convention was attended
by a crowd estimated at APP
proximately $50, many undoubt-
eddy attracted by the more con-
genial atmosphere of Ingleside
Inn, as compared to the austere
County Building halls where
such conventions have been held
for many years. Some dele
gates groups arranged to have
dinner prior to the meeting and
refreshments were enjoyed af-
forwards.
County Democratic Chairman
Earl Miller, of East Detroit, pre-
sided at the affair which result
ed in election of 26 delegates
and alternates to the state con-
vention at the Book Cadillac
Hotel April IA.
Albert A. Wagner, secretary
of the county party, recorded
the meeting, with William Ry-
an, East Detroit, assisting after
Wagner was called away on
business.
The delegates, all chosen at
large, and uninstructed as far
as the state convention is con-
cerned, are
Earl Miller, Vincent Romano,
Ray Miller, Stephen Schaefer,
William Romano, Ada Moore,
Hubert Rice, Stanley Barron,
Earl Tallman, Frank Ruggero,
See DEMOS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Head|ess Body
Poses Major
Crime Puzzle
Investigators
Hompered by Lock
of identification

The finding of a headless, dis
membered body Sunday night in
the muddy watercourse of the
Clinton River two miles north
west of Utica may be recorded
in the county's annals of UNI
solved crimes, unless more en-
couraging results than those at
tanned in an autopsy Monday
are forthcoming.
Expert medical and criminal
investigators after spending two
hours examining the remains
were unable to hazard a guess
as to sex or color of the person,
although they indicated that it
may be the body of a female
nearly six feet tall. Laboratory
tests of samples taken to the
State Crime Laboratory may
make this finding more def
mite later this week.
EXPERTS BAFFLED
DR.. Lemoyne Snyder, noted
medico-legal expert, and DR.. c.
w. Muehlberger, director of the
state crime laboratory, conduct
ed the autopsy, in conjunction
with DR.. v. w. Wolfson, of Mt.
Clemens.
Theories that the corpse had
been covered with lime were
discounted by scientific inves-
tigators when analysis showed
the substance which appeared
like lime was clay-lake forma-
ton.
No indication of amputation
in respect to the missing head
and both arms was given at the
autopsy. No bullet slugs, wound
marks or fracture indications
were found to give clue to the
cause of death. Internal struc-
lures of the body were not pres
ent.
DR.. Snyder estimated that
death had taken place lat least
year ago" leaving State
Police investigators to answer
the battling question as to how
the body remained undiscovered
in a somewhat public place for
See BODY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
1t. Col. Spier
Arrives Home
From Fur-Eost

Lieut.. Col. James E. Spier,
who has been on active duty in
the India China theater of war
for the past IL months arrived
home this morning enroute to
Ann Arbor on a military mis-
sion.
Colonel Spier (who is Ma
comb County circuit court judge
in civil life) expects to continue
on his way to Ann Arbor early
on Wednesday but hopes to
spend five days in Mount Glenn
ems next week before returning
to his headquarters in India.
The Mount Clemens judge,
whose wife and two sons had
visited him last week in Wash
ington, d. c., was accompanied
See COL. SPIER-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Bucharest Hii
$780, -
First Time by
Air Squadrons
Raid Coordinoted
with Big Russion
Drive into Bolkons
BY RICHARD McMURRAY


American heavy bombers at
tackled the Rumanian capital of
Bucharest for the first time to.
day and the British by night -
saulted Budapest in Hungary In
twin blows behind the Germanss
wavering Balkan front, rapidly
being pushed back by s,rging
Russian armies.
Flying Fortresses and LibeF.
ators attacked lin considerable
strength" with an escort Of
fighters. Although it was the
first U. S. attack Of the war on
Bucharest, Americ n planes
flew near the capital last year
on their way to the crippling
blow at the Ploesti oil refineI.
les. some rs miles to the north.
Soviet advances II miles into
Eumania and to the very portals
of the expanded Hungarian Dor.
der have tangled the communi.
cations of routed German arm
les of the South 50 thoroughly
that their main supply line has
been pushed back behind the
Carpathians. That line runs
through the Hungarian capital
and last night the rail center q
Budapest was cratered anew By
heavy and medium bombers, Il
fiery sequence to the first mas.
sive American assault in day.
light yesterday.
Steel works, arms factories
and the tracks were battered
last night; five great fires were
kindled; one large explosion
was set off. The US. bomberS
yesterday had struck the rail
center. an aircraft components
factory, an airfield, q refinery,
barracks and other targets. The
Americans destroyed "a Ger.
man planes and lost Is in oper-
atoms in Hungary, italy and
Yugoslavia.
Russian troops across the Prut
river were within eight miles Of
the rail center of Iasi (Jassy)
which lies 100 miles north Of
the Danube Delta.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
THE SHERIFF

Fortnight, colorful Big Jake"
Theut, present Democratic sher-
iff, could probably, if he de.
sired, stay on for another two
year term at No. / Broadway.
However, he told the voters two
years ago that If reelected then
he would rot seek a third term
and he is sticking by his guns.
Il wanted to be sheriff. am.
I've enjoyed it immensely but
now / want to 60 back to look
ing after my private affairs. I
appreciate the confidence the
people have shown in me but I
will retire Jan. l, 1945." That's
the way the Big Fellow put 1t
today; and he seems to mean it.
All of which indicates a SIAM
bang fight for the right to the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Mercy Drive
Is Extended
Red Cross Quote
Not Yet Attoinod

Still short of its $135. 100
overall quota, the Macomb
c ,unty Red Cross War Fund
drive has been extended for tn
balance of this week, Chapter
Chairman John E. Merrill ~
nounced today, in an effort -
give district leaders and cam
vassers an opportunity to reach
their quotas before the dead-
line.
Mount Clemens and several
north and west Macomb COM
munities have reached and ~.
ceeded their quotas, MeFTill
said. Totals for most South 1av
comb districts are indefinitoS
but indicate the various goals
have not been reached, hs said.
Merrill asked canvasserS -
clear up their prospect lists, and
urged that persons who hsvU
not BEEN personally contaetoa
(yet who appreciate the ~
Cross appeaD mail their douar
tons to the Chapter Offlce, ~
Clemens, or telephone their ~
cal chairman. Receipts win -
sent out Immediately. MersM
said. ~ ::
In stressing the ned ~ -
lie support, the county eD1o
man sketched The trom1C4 X
growth in the Hou,e -
case load Of the 1laeo(nb co t
ty chapter - apart s hDO
camp and foreian u6svloo 81
done for the sSme4 1Dpo v q "
In Feb, lol3, ~
Service case led 1169 &
families. In Hob.s 1o1Q
grown to ~ ao6
See RkD Ceooo
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
1874 Britons Killed;
40,657 Americans Lost

LONDON, April 4 - Up -
British Empire casualties in the
first four years of war were
667,159, including l58,741 kill
ed, Prime Minister Churchill
announced in Commons today.
He listed 1929 wounded,
49, 04 missing, and 270,995 pris-
oners of war during the 48
months.
(American Army and Navy
casualties at latest announce
ments were 173, 239 in about q
months of war, including 40,657
killed, 64,C98 wounded, 36,321
missing, and 32,163 prisoners OF
war. The u. S. figures included
Army casualties up through last
March 49,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
THEUT WON'T PLAY
votersA!pprove
Charter Change
All Incumbent
Officers Reelected

Two hundred and ninety eight
of Mount Clemens 6,917 regis
tered voters yesterday decided
the fate of the city's charter re-
vision program when 203 of
them registered yes" votes at
the municipal elections to the
43 votes scored against the meas
ure.
In what City Clerk Joseph
Matthews described as lone of
the lightest votes on record" a
handful of registered voters
went to the polls. expressed their
approval Of the charter measure
and reelected four unopposed
city officials.
The vote:
FOR COMMISSIONER
Breitmeyer .......... 257 !
Dubay ............. 236
FOR JUSTICE COURT JUDGE
Jeanette .......... 266
FOR CONSTABLE
Miller ............. 243
Center Line and East Detroit
voters likewise returned all in
cumbent officials to office for
another term although, with the
c. ception of Mayor Russell Is
blister, of Center Line, each of
the candidates faced opposition
at the polls.
In East Detroit incumbent city
councilmen Theodore Sherman
(425) and William H. Ryan
(430) won over Harry w. Nc
MILAN (419) and Cornelius Gu
deneau (376). Walter hummer,
incumbent constable. defeated
Anthony Molner by a count of
TO 28l.
In Center Line Russell Isbis-
ter. without opposition scored
366 votes t. win a second term
at that city's helm while Alex
Schoenherr (258) and Joseph
Henk (259l incumbent members
of the city commission won cas-
lily over Albert Duffil (18D and
George Collins U75).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04

the comedians former protege,
to New York City in 1912 for
allegedly immoral purposes, and
the second is based on her re-
turn journey TO Los Angeles,
Conviction on both counts
would involve a maximum PEN
atty of $4,000 fine and 10 years
Imprisonment.
Judge O'Connor instructed
the jury that IL should find
Chaplin guilty II IL decides he
caused Miss Berry's interstate
transportation for immoral purs
poses or aided in such transpor-
tation with that intent.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
BY EDWARD KENNEDY

AT THE FIFTH ARMY
FRONT, Italy. March 30-(De-
layed)-(R-The 240-millimet.
er Howitzer, biggest American
field gun yet used in this war,
has proved its worth on the
Italian front, after so days of
shooting at bridges, guns and
other targets far behind the
German lines, artillery officers
say.
This is the only front on
which this weapon has been in
combat as yet. 1t fires q high ex-
plosive shell which measures
about 10 inches in diameter and
three feet in length, weighs
about $50 pounds and costs $3.50
at mass production rates.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
Mother Of Two
vanishes Here
Missing Women
Mystery Probed

The disappearance of a 49,
year-old woman resident of the
Clinton riverfront, who left her
home and sleeping children in
the early morning hours of Sat-
urday and vanished without a
single clue, is being investigat-
ed by the Sheriffs department.
Fear that her body may be
found in the river has been ex-
pressed by the woman's hus-
band, James Rake, in a report
to the sheriff, and by neighbors
who have searched the swampy
vicinity of the Rake residence
ut SOAP Meywood, which is on a
canal adjoining Jefferson near
South River road.
Sheriffs deputies dragged the
canal in the vicinity of a dock
20 feet from the Rake home
Saturday, after the woman's
husband reported her missing
on his return from work at z a.
m. Neighbors have made par
tial search of swampy. weed
covered land in the vicinity.
Rake, a Packard war plant
employe, told deputies that he
found the front door wide open
on his return from work Satur-
day, but the glass storm door
had blown closed. A snowfall
which. commenced at 4 a. m, re-
vealed no footprints, indicating
Mrs. Rake left before that time.
Neighbors, who had obserS ed
Mrs. Rake in the house around
2 o'clock Saturday. distinctly
See MlSSING-Page .
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
JURY GETS CHAPLIN CASE
Weigh Charles Fate

LOS ANGELES. April 4-(R)
"A Federal court jury of seven
women and five men retired at
HOP a. m. (PWT) today to con-
slider its verdict in Charlie
Chaplin's Mann Act trial.
Under its instructions as Civ
en- by ". S. District Judge j.
F. T. OConnor. any one of
four verdicts was possible:
Guilty on both of two counts,
guilty on the first and innocent
on the second; innocent on the
first and guilty on the second,
and innocent on both.
The first count. involves the
transportation of Jean Berry,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
YANKS RAID CAPITAL OF RUkANIA
YOUTH TELLS CRUESONIE TALE
Admits Girls Murder

where close to the road and told
her:
"'You had better keep quiet
or I'll fix you
HIT WITH ROCK
She jumped out and started
to run. / ran after her and grab
See CONFESSION-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04
POLITICAL SERIES BEGINS TODAY
Who Will be the Next Sheriff?

EDITORS NOTE: Despite hur-
ried wartime activities interest In
the forthcoming primaries and gen.
erai elections appears today 10 be
on a par with that Of ether years.
II anything the necessity fer care
in the selection Of competent pub
lie officials may have been accen-
tuated by emergency conditions. In
any event, as . public service, the
Monitcr-Leader today begins . SEE
ries of brief articles dealing with
probable entries in the approach
ing Macomb county election con.
esf<
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04

DETROIT, April 4 - (P -
Prosecutor William E. Bowling
said today he would ask for a
first degree murder warrant
against Richard Vincent, 23-
year-old gas station attendant,
who Sheriff Andrew c. Baird
announced had confessed the
March q Staying of Joyce Raul
ston, IA.
The Raulston girls body was
found on a city dump four
days after she had been report
ed missing from her home.
Baird and Russell c. Gregory,
chief of county detectives.
quoted Vincent as telling them
the Staying followed a quarrel
in his automobile after Joyce
said my girl friend was no
good"
He said he first met the girl
at a gasoline station adjoining a
west side tourist camp where
she had spent the weekend.
Her body, beaten and stabbed,
was found on the dump on the
morning Of March %.
Sheriff Baird and Detective
Gregory quoted Vincent as say
ing:
She first got angry with me
for talking about my girl. l
drove up to the dump, some
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-04

place he has held on the Demo
slate.
Headliners among the probable
prospects discernible today are