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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-26
Elderly Pair Offered
ESIaceim $OIGIierHEOme

brighter The plight of tho family
was called 10 their attention by a
story I'M The Detroit Times.
Today their case was 10 be
presented 20 the soldiers relief
cOunditte and Whalen said. they
were offered a haven for the rest
ot thcir lives at the Michig0h Sol
dlcrS Home az Grand Rapids.
There be- said they could lead
normal proud lives together.
John Shanahan OF the sheriff s
patrol Who discussed this plan 20
the couple said Kennedy Is agree
able hui Mrs Kennedy demurrcd
al breaking up their home.
Order War stamps delivered
to your home by your Detroit
Times carrier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-26

Perfect under slaoks, sports
or work clothes! Rayon and
cotton knit jersey back and
front .rayon elastic
sides. For a neat appearance
az all times-it's "Chsrmode
Hollywood"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-26

Crisp Spring styles for added suit inter-
est! Fine sheers, cottons, rayon jerseys
and rayon crepes. Refreshing details.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03
GUARANTEE

Double the OF all ingredients back, If you don't
think your Swans Down Easy" Cake is better than
any similar cake you've baked with any other -four!
The makers of Swans Down give you this guar
antee because Swans Down has made supremely hne
cakes for 50 years. Today more women choose Swans
Down than all other packaeed cake hours together.
Evening star., 1944-01-02

with this situation, the United States, as
well as the rest of the world, may pay
dreadful penalty.
Yellow fever is one great threat. A plane
might carry the disease from Africa to India
which has mosquitoes, but has never had
yellow fever There are only $4,000 doctors
for 10000, 900 people. most of whom live in
unscreened huts. All that is wanting to touch
Evening star., 1944-01-02

u THIRD WORLD WAR is on the way. It
A begins the day hostilities cease.
= - This is the war On disease. The
stakes, IN terms of human life, potentially
dwarf the casualties of the present conflict.
1t is imperative that we take immediate
steps to face this threatening situation. A
famine will stay bottled up in far-of China;
but plane can whisk epidemic disease over
the whole earth. We have had international
food conferences. We are courting greater
disaster by not having = functioning
health organization ready to fight disease
ON a worldwide scale.
This isn't scare story. 1t is cold appraisal
of a situation we will face any time now. At
the moment of Nazi collapse history's great
est migration of people begins. Then the dis
ease problem is with US. If we are laggard -
as we have been - in making plans to cope
Evening star., 1944-01-02
by j. D. Rafcun

off conflagration is a single infected mos
quito or single human being in early stages
of the disease. The ensuing destruction could
make the present war look like a street.
corner brawl.
Typhus is the second great threat to the
postwar world. Had Hitler made conscious
effort to prepare the ground in Europe for
the spread of typhus he couldn't have done
Evening star., 1944-01-02
WORLD WAR II AGAINST DISEASE!

a better job. Typhus - not to be confused
with typhoid fever - has killed more human
beings than any other disease. It is spread
by the body lice which are always present
when people lack fuel for home heating In
an effort to keep warm. people wear all the
clothes they own - and lice move in. Under
nourished populations are the happy hunting
ground of the typhus louise.
The Naxis courted this disaster by shifting
large populations from typhus to non-typhus
areas. The international Labor Office esti-
mates that 3O0O0, 600 people have thus been
moved As consequence, typhus cropped
up in places where it hasn't been seen for
decades - well-scrubbed countries like Hol-
land, Belgium France.
Death May - Next Dees
MALARIA is the third postwar menace. It
is the great killer of the warm, damp places
of the earth - the No. l disease problem
of the tropics 1t strikes an estimated 3OO,-
100000 people year, killing perhaps 4,OOO,-
600. At one time the United States had ma
laria in every state east of the Rockies,
except Maine, New Hampshire and Yer
mont. BY screening, draining and spraying
we at least succeeded in driving the disease
south of the Ohio. But it can come back.
The anopheline mosquitoes, which spread
malaria. are all over the country. ALI they
need to start outbreaks is blood ridden with
malaria parasites Unless great precautions
are taken, this might be provided by our
troops returning from the tropics.
Together, these three soourges represent
the main disease threat to the postwar world.
They could cause economic disruption, whole
sale death and terror comparable only to that
engendered by the plaques of the Middle
Ages. In the past we have taken oomplacent
attitude toward such diseases. They always
seemed to strike somewhere else - China,
India or Africa. The airplane can give US
rude awakening. If we heard that vast feet
of enemy planes was only eight hours from
our shores we would feel cause for alarm.
But yellow fever in South America is that
near Malaria, after the war. will be even
closer It may be next door - in the blood
of the soldier just home from New Guinea.
fyphus: Ready - Spring
WHAT weapons can we use to fight these
things? Let's look at this trilogy of destroyers
in little more detail.
Typhus is the most fascinating of the lot
because of its sheer destructiveness body
louise bites man sick with the disease and
passes it on to second man. Then the disas-
trous chain is started, and death follows
swiftly - for 20 to 20 per cent of those
stricken.
Last winter there crept through the rigid
German censorship stories of typhus in Eur
ope, of epidemics in the Eastland," of whole
towns being quarantined; of sporadic out
breaks in widely y-scattered areas.
The situation is even more ominous today.
Typhus has curious lag effect. This spotted
death SINNERS in war-torn populations, then
breaks with full fury in the chaos that follows
Evening star., 1944-01-02
EunoPEN

With peace will come perils: Germs brought from
plague-zdden lands faSt, globe-girdling planes.
TO protect nation must beat disease At lis
source. Here's how the plans Of battle being laid
by j. .. Ra3clin
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
No Opposition
Yet Apparent
I'm City Election

The possibility that no city
Primary Election will be held on
Monday, March 6, as scheduled,
appeared evident at an early
hour this afternoon, when no
aspirant to office other than in
cumbent candidates had filed
The deadline was set at 4:3O
p. M, and candidates had up to
that time to file.
AS it stood at press time,
Frank E. Jeanette, justice of
the peace; Commissioners Fred
Breitmeyer and Edward j. Du-
Bay, and Constable John w. Mil
Ter were candidates to succeed
themselves without opposition.
Only slight interest in the city
election has been evinced by
voters so far, according to
voters registrations. Approx
mately 100 persons have regis
tered to vote. in the proportion
ate order Of: Cd new citizens,
(2) new residents, and CD per-
sons changing precinct address
es within the city. This registra-
ton is normal, and even light"
City Clerk Joseph H. Matthews
states. The final registration
deadline is IL noon tomorrow.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
vitebsk
10 Russians
Berlin Admits
Evacuation

LONDON, Feb. Is - (P) -
German troops have evacuated
the great White Russian strong
hold of Vitebsk and are falling
back toward the old Polish
frontier 20 miles TO the west,
Berlin announced today.
The announcement followed
closely a Moscow communique
declaring that Russian troops
had taken Rogachev, German
bastion $50 miles south of Wit
ebsk, important junction of
four trunk railways and under
siege by Red Army troops since
last November, was evacuated
only after bitter fighting. An
earlier Berlin broadcast had ac-
knowledged the Evacuation"
of Rogachev.
Fighting became particularly
bitter at the two focal points of
Rogachev and Vitebsk," Trans
ocean said. 1T was quite evil
dent that the Soviet command
was aiming at breakthroughs
here and was sparing no sacri-
fices in order to achieve them.
Nevertheless German troops
See RUSSIA-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Car Owners Warned
Of tuesday Deadline

Thousands OF Macomb county
motorists are going TO be caught
without 1914 license plates il
they do not apply at once at the
Mount Clemens office Of Secre-
tary Of State, l66 South Gratiot
avenue. Franklin w. Schmidt,
manager. warned today as he
pointed to the midnight deadline
on Tuesday, Feb. 20.
I'm order to accommodate
last minute purchasers we will
keep our office open from $50
a. m. until 9 pm. from now until
the deadline. Schmidt said. He
estimated that over 5000 car
owners in the Mount Clemens
area are still without 1914
plates.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
FDR ReIaxes
In SetIusion
Tokss SoreIy
Needed Rest

WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL
PARTY, Febs rs (P) - Presi-
dent Roosevelt, slow to shake off
effects Of 4 recent attack of in
fluenza, Is getting a measure of
rest and relaxation away from
politically stormy Washington.
He 10 isolated personally from
representatives Of the press.
But 1t would be inaccurate to
say that he Is isolated also from
the repercussions of his veto of
the second wartime tax bill since
special facilities permit him al
most instant communication
with the White House.
The Chief Executive himself
had disclosed that he was out of
town when he urged Senate Ma.
jority Leader Barley not to re-
resign in protest against the tax
bill veto. No official explanation
OF his absence has been forth
coming.
Mr.. Roosevelt. however, con-
tracted influenza shortly after
Christmas and the case was Sc
we're enough to drop his weight
10 pounds. His personal physi-
clan, Vice-Admiral Ross T. Nc
lntire, had been urging him to
get out of the Capital, to take il
easy for a time and regain his
strength.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Tokyo Halls
$500 Dead
in MorshoIIs

NEW YORK, Feb. 25-(P-
The Tokyo radio today quoted
japanese imperial headquarters
as saying that $500 Japanese -
including 4,500 members of
army and navy garrisons and
1000 civilian workers had
died gallant deaths" at "Kwa-
jalein and Luott Island in the
American conquest of those
Japanese-held positions in the
Marshalls.
The broadcast, reported by the
u. S. Foreign Broadcast Intelli-
gence Service, said the Japanese
had died in a final charge on
Feb. 6 after death -defying
fight of about one week" against
what it termed enemy forces
overwhelmingly super in
number"
The Domei News Agency gave
the size of the Japanese garri-
sons at 4,500-a figure not men,
toned in the communique.
Following is the text of the
broadcast communique:
Imperial army and navy gar
rison units at Kwajalein and
Luott conducted fierce counter
attacks against a large enemy
Fee TOKYO-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Fleet Roves
the Pocific
UnmoIested
BY MORRIE LANDSBERG

Associated Press war Edit0r
American naval forces, prowl-
ing the Pacific without chal-
lenge, were disclosed today to
have carried out new forays to
sustain the brilliant record of
assaults on Japanese island bas-
es and shipping.
The famed little Beaver"
squadron swept enemy shipping
lanes far north of the Solomons
Tuesday in what was termed the
most daring surface raid ever
attempted in South Pacific wa
tiers.
A Japanese destroyer or mine
layer and two cargo ships were
sunk along with four barges
loaded with nearly 1000 hippo
nese. 70 of whom were picked
up. Kavieng. New ireland. came
in for its second Naval Smelling
and the big guns were turned on
Duke of York island of Rabaul
to complete the no-loss mission.
I'VE are tightening the block
ade of the enemy's Bismarck
bases" General Douglas MacAr-
thur said in announcing the Ma
val action, land we now domi-
nate sea lanes to the North Due
ito effective naturalization of
See PACIFIC-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Schedule Pct. {
in Paper Pickup
Precinct 3 Also
10 Be Covered

Mount Clemens on Saturday
will conclude its citywide waste
paper collection by precincts,
when Precinct s, in the Dickin-
son avenue-Crocker boulevard
area, will be covered by city
trucks.
August Klockow, assistant
city street superintendent, said
today that pick-ups will also be
made in Precinct 5 (Mullett-
Park avenue area) il any papers
are placed at the curb.
Local Boy Scouts who have
backed the drive by aiding in
collections will assemble early
Saturday and report at the pre-
cinct, which surrounds Dickin-
son School. Girl Scouts have
contributed much to the salvage
effort by distributing handbills
from door TO door.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Poles Refuse
Curzon Line
Tell Eden Boundary
is Unacceptable

LONDON, Feb. 25-(P)-The
Polish government-in-exile was
reported to have sent to Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden a re-
fusal to accept the Curzon line
as a future Polish Russian from
tier and to have expressed dis
pleasure at Prime Minister
Churchill's support of the Soviet
demands.
The semi-official Polish news
paper Dziennik Polski, which
said yesterday the Curzon line
was not acceptable, intimated
that the Soviet-Polish dispute
had reached an impasse and
that marked differences had
arisen between the British and
See POLES-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Raj 5quadrons
5tourge Nazi
Plane Industry
Messed Fleets
Attack from Homeland
and from ItoIy
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR

LONDON. Feb. Is - (P) -
The Raj last night took up
the two-way scourge of the Ger
man aircraft industry. flying l.
900 bombers from Britain to
Schweinfurt and other forma-
tions from Italy TO Steyr, after
the y. S. Air Force hit the same
targets in simultaneous daylight
blows from both the western
and southern bases.
Today great fleets of daylight
bombers crossed the channel to
carry the battle into its sixth
consecutive day.
The RATS night-riding bomb
ers were guided to both targets
by the flaming wreckage left
only a few hours before by the
American daylight raiders. The
British bombs added still furth-
er DANA age to Schweinfurt's
sprawling ball bearing plants
and to the German aircraft fac
tory at Steyr, in old Russia.
u. S. headquarters announced
that the powerful American air
fleet which flew from the west
an dsouah yesterday shot down
l56 Nazi planes. Eighth Air
Eorre hor,,harS doxupoJ- "a Nozi
planes during their attacks on
Schweinfurt and fighter plane
factories at Gotha while their
accompanying fighters account
ed for 81 others in terrific air
battles. Bombers of the 18th Air
Force attacking Steyr bagged SO
Nazi fighters.
The Britain based American
forcse lost al bombers and 10
See RAF-Page 2
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reef encircling the 40-mile- wide
lagoon.
The plane of 1t. Cmdr. Don
aid B. Ingerslew, %, of Tren-
ton, N. j., got in the first blow.
The bomb hit-wham," said
1t. Comdr. William G.. Privette.
of Chapel Hill, N. c., who with
1ngerslew and Harrison just
have returned to Pearl Harbor
from the Truk operation.
pieces flew and the cruisers
Ack Ack guns quit blinkin'
right then. Everything was quiet
and peaceful. The polish off was
that we had battlewagons (bat-
tleships) coming. Our fighters
spotted some salvos for them
See TRUk-Page Q
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Senate Moves
Rapidly 10
Override FDR
kotionoI Tox Bill
Soors to All Time
High Of AZ Billions
BY FRANCIS J. KELLY

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is -
up - A determined Senate
teamed up with the House to-
day to override President Roose-
welt and enact a $2,315,200 900
tax increase bill over his caustic
veto.
The Presidents veto message
spanked a congressional revolt
which from the very start left
no doubt as to the final outcome
of the second wartime tax meas
ure, which Mr.. Roosevelt called
inadequate.
Senator Barkley's dramatic
resignation as Senate Demo-
cratic leader yesterday only fur
nished visual proof of a seeming
ly inevitable break between the
White House and Capitol Hill.
The Senate Democrats promptly
demonstrated a new independ-
ence by unanimously re-electing
the genial, ruddy-faced Ken
tuckian to the position.
The House used votes, not
words, to make plain its dis
pleasure over the tax veto. DEM
ocratS joined Republicans in
rolling up a 200 to IS vote to
override the veto yesterday. The
Senate followed suit today.
Barkley helped clear the at
mosphere by dispatching a let
ter of friendship to President
Roosevelt last night, but even
the generally concilatory tone
of his missive did not complete
ly bridge the gaping breach be-
tween the executive and legisla-
tive branches of the government.
Barley made it clear that in the
future there must be cooperation
both ways.
Although expressing the deep
est desire for continuation Of
the additionally cordial rela-
tons between the two, Barley
declared:
'In this great crisis Of our
nations history we must all
seek some common ground upon
which we can meet and have
confidence in one another. That
applies to all branches of gov
eminent. If we cannot trust one
another in this tragic period of
the history of our nation and of
the world, how can the people
trust us?"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Thomas Guilty
on Spy Count
Jury Recommends
Lenieney for Doctor

DETROIT, Feb. Is - (R) -
DR.. Fred w. Thomas was confin-
ed to Wayne County Jail today
pending outcome of an appeal
from his conviction by a feder-
al court jury on a charge of con-
spiracy to commit espionage.
His attorney, Walter M. Nell
son, has three days in which to
file motion for new trial,
which he said would be his next
step.
The jury deliberated FL Ia
hours before returning ver-
dict late Thursday of guilty with
Recommendation of leniency.
Judge Edward j. Monet has not
fixed the date of sentence.
The government had not ask
ed for imposition of the death
penalty, and Mrs. Effie l. Kerby-
son, jury foreman, told the court
I'VE strongly recommend lem
iency." The maximum impris-
onment term allowable under
the wartime espionage act would
be 80 years.
Mrs. Kerbyson was the second
foreman selected by the jurors,
who heard the case over a period
of more than four weeks. The
first was Lewis F. bayfield,,
retired clergyman.
The verdict closed the govern
ments case against eight alleged
espionage conspirators indicted
here last fall with a record of
one conviction. and six pleas of
guilty, while charges against
Bertrand Stuart Hoffman, a
former merchant seaman, were
dismissed on mental grounds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
BY ELMONT WAITE

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb.
25-tR- First eyewitness &C
counts of the bold two-day at
tack Feb. 1917 on Japan's Ma
val base of Truk disclosed that
United States battleships moved
in close enough to blast an enc
my cruiser TO the ocean bottom.
Naval officers who participat-
ed in the thunderbolt stroke,
which obviously surprised and
stunned the japanese, also made
these pertinent disclosures:
japanese air opposition was
considerably weaker than had
been expected.
Anti.aircraft fire came large
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
WARSHIPS FLED
How U. S. Botteshps Moved In for the XIII at Truk

ly from cruisers, rather than
from Japan's Wanted ground
defenses at that Caroline Islands
bastion.
LONE DRYDOCK
Although Truk, its fortifica-
tons yelled for years from visi-
tors, was reputed to be an ex-
tensive self-sustaining Naval
base, only one floating drydock.
was observed.
japanese warships, instead of
moving out to challenge the
powerful American task force,
tried to flee north.
THE general impression I
had was that those Japs were
ferry pilots TAXI ng planes
through and got caught with
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25

their pants down." said Lieut.
Commander Harry W. Harrison,
33, of Miami Beach. Fla. fight
er squadron commander who
was aboard one of the aircraft
carriers in the Truk operation.
All they did was fly around
and let us shoot them. They pro-
badly never expected to have a
fight at Truk."
A total of 2O1 japanese planes
were reported shot down in the
attack by hundreds of carrier
planes.
FOE FLEES
The enemy cruiser. one of be-
tween 10 and rs ships sunk at
Truk, fled with three other war.
ships through north pass of the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Protest High
Sewage Rate
Four Communities
Enter Objections
(NEA Telephoto)

Following a four-hour session
of the county Drain Committee
and representatives of all South
Macomb communities yester-
day, to study sewage disposal
costs presented by Drain Com
missioner William c. Harper, it
was recommended that Macomb
County enter a legal protest to
Wayne County regarding lex.
horbitant" rates charged for
sewage treatment from Warren
Township, Warren, Center Line,
East Detroit and st. Clair
Shores.
Instead of an annual cost of
approximately $4,000 for sew
age treatment, as originally fig
ured by engineers on the basis
of an estimated 81 million gal
Ions daily, Harper told the as
sembled municipal representa-
tives and supervisors that the
minimum cost will be S66,250.
and may run as high as 100000
per year.
A recent survey and tests
conducted by the drain commits
sioner revealed that the normal
flow is 80 million gallons a day,
and this amount would jump
to five or six million gallons
during storm periods.
The Wayne County Disposal
Plant charge. agreed upon in
contract made two years ago by
former Drain Commissioner
George T. Smith, is SAB per mil
lion gallons. Harper recon-
mended that Macomb County
ask a reduction to at least S34.
on the basis of various costs be
estimated.
He urged that attorneys rep
resenting the county and each
municipality petition for a rate
See PROTEST-Pase 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
Palace Coup
Results in
New UpheavaI
President Romivex
Succeeded by
Vice-President

MONTEVIDEO. Feb. Is -
R- Vice-President Gen. Ed
elmiro j. Farrell took over the
reins of Argentina's nine
months-old military government
today after Gen. Pedro Ramirez
had vacated the presidency in .
sudden political upheaval re-
garded here as another palace
coup.
Full significance Of the up
heaval was not Immediately ap-
parent in Montivedeo, rs strict
censorship was clamped down in
Buenos Aires before any details
could be transmitted abroad.
There seemed no question,
however, that the situation was
the direct result of shoulder
ing opposition within Ramirex'
cabinet which was famed into
flame when he decided to break
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-25
relations with the Axis powers
Jan. 26.
EFFECT UNKNOWN

Jan. 26.
EFFECT UNKNOWN
1t remained to be seen what
effect Farrell's assumption q
the presidency would have up
on Argentine foreign relations,
but it was noted here that he il
an intimate friend of Col. Juan
Domingo Peron, Secretary Of
Labor and Welfare, who ire
quently has been mentioned q
the handspring of the reaction
airy "Gou" or "ColonelS'
Group"
This organization was credit
ed only last week with forcing
the resignation of Foreign Min
lister Alberto Gilbert - one Of
its original members - after he
had been reported in favor Of .
declaration of war against Ger.
many.
The change In the presidency
apparently was accomplished
without bloodshed or violence,
although there were reports that
military forces had been very
active"
The action of Ramirez in step
See REvOLT-Page .