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discovery Of a brief case con-
tanning a bottle of nitro-glycer-
inc and a loaded revolver in adj
dition TO complete collection OF
safecracking tools was made
Sunday by 14-year-old Joseph
Boyer, of 3l084 Utica road,
Clinton township. who was
playing near a creek at l3 Mile
road and M-97 along with his
two brothers. John, 8, and
Ralph, Z years old.
PLANT EQUIPMENT
Under Sheriff Harley Ensign,
and Deputies Thomas II. Kalten-
bach and Cornelius Gudenau,
Jr., returned the brief case TO
where il had been concealed,
being careful 10 first remove
the highly dangerous bottle of
explosive.
Staked out in the driveway of
a nearby residence, they waited
four hours before a black car
drew up 10 the spot, and man
furtively recovered the burglar
tool container. With their head
lights BACKED out, the deputies
followed the car until they were
able to head il off,
HAIL OF BULLETS
Covering the men with re-
-pelpers- and suh=machine guns.
Ensign, Gudenau, and Kalten-
bach ordered them out of the
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and by one nephew. Funeral
services will be held for her
Friday morning in Sheboygan,
Wis.
The body is at the Hubbard
Funeral Chapel where it will re-
main until 10 a. m. Wednesday.
Prayers will be said at 8 o'clock
tonight.
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great Roadway in this region ap-
proximately 70 miles below
Pskov it appeared evident that
German positions around Pskov
cannot long be held, dispatches
said.
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John E. Merrill, chapter chair
man.
Robert I. Winslow, local bus
inessman drafted into service in
a number of patriotic drives,
will head the Red Cross effort
in this city.
Communities and townships
throughout the county have al
ready organized their efforts in
the War Fund drive.
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coast, and set ooff an explosion
and a large fire on the docks.
Others ranging along the Yugo-
slav coast set two schooners
afire south of Split, and hit a
200-foot ship at Dubrovnik.
Coastal airforce Spitfires shot
up five troop trains in the Met
kovic area south of Split, caus-
ing heavy casualties among the
enemy troops, freighter on the
Yugoslav coast.
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Neff. whose great grandfath-
er subdivided section of Crosse
Pointe in 1857, where Neff road
now stands, is keen enthusi-
asst for the Clinton River and
a supporter of any plans to clear
and improve it. He feels that
residents of this area, used to the
river since childhood, fail TO APP
preciate its attractions and adj
vantages, which would be priz-
ed by other communities offer
ing no boating facilities. A long
range program for clearing and
beautifying the river, he be-
lieves, would pay big dividends
in scenic beauty and increased
valuation of property through
out the area.
He recalls the fact that ex-
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eminent bonds, cash and real
estate.
For many years Macs Place,
35 Park avenue, ran virtually
without interruption until, in
1941, adverse newspaper pub
licity forced her to close down.
She is believed, however, TO
have operated clandestinely
since that time in the immedi-
ate vicinity of her former re-
sort. At an earlier date Mae had
conducted house of ill-repute
on South River road in Harri-
son township.
NEW YORK FOUNDING
Macs origin is cloaked by the
same veil of mystery which she
successfully drew around her
self since she first arrived in
Mt. Clemens in 1914. She was a
New York City founding. left at
the door of an orphange on
Oct. 7, 1880. when but few
days old Five years later she
was adopted by Wisconsin
family who provided her with a
good background at their home
in the northern part Of that
state. Married to Harry Collins
while still a girl Mae was left a
widow prior to coming to Mount
Clemens where she almost at
once set up, and has since con-
Quoted, a series of disorderly
houses.
Known. at least by name, to
almost every Macomb county
resident and to hundreds more
in Detroit, Mae McKenna en-
joyed, as we'll, the acquaintance
ship of many persons high in
state, county and municipal life.
Her home, at 1875 N. Broadway,
- wholly separated from her
vice enterprises is believed
to have been the gathering place
for distinguished visitors in
search of relaxation. a word of
advice from Macs quick tongue
and cool drink on a hot sum-
mer's day.
LOYAL TO CODE
Among her associates and her
widespread acquaintance h / p
Mae was known as straight
shooter" within the limits of the
code by which she lived and
died.
She had been seriously Ill for
five months prior to her death.
From late September. 1943, she
was confined to st. Joseph's
hospital until she returned to
her residence on New Years
Day. She was forced to 60 back
to the hospital again less than
two weeks ago, however, when
her condition an acute heart
ailment-became grave.
FIRMLY ESTABLISHED
So firmly established was
Mae in her sordid enterprises
that when. in 1941, the Daily
Monitor assaulted public officials
for permitting her to run di-
rectly across the street from the
USO clubhouse, she appeared
genuinely affronted and wrote a
singing rebuke to the editor
demanding space wherein to tell
her side of the story"
In that letter she asserted that
she was known as "aunty" to
more Mount Clemens children
than was any real aunt in the
city; and she set forth her nu-
merous charities on behalf of
the community's unfortunate.
Always a good spender Mae
had friends in all walks of life,
and many unfortunate indivi-
duals and organizations whom
she financed have long expressed
admiration for her character
despite the sordid nature of her
business.
Mae is survived by two bro
theirs by adoption, by two nieces
RnRP
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Meeting Deferred

No Auxiliary police meeting
will be held this week, it was
announced today by Capt. Har-
old Krauseneck, who declared
that meeting announcement
will be made at a later date.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Arnold
Hints
Trouble
Tells of New,
Powerful
Aerial Craft

NEW YORK, Feb. Is (UP)-The
United States has perfected new
planes as startling and unusual as
jet-propulsion plane, Gen. Henry
H. Arnold, chief of the army air
forces, said, but for reasons of
military security" he declined to
discuss details.
Our airplanes of this year and
next" he said, "are improving in
range, fire-power, speed and bomb
load. We have other ships. equally
startling, but how soon they will be
ready for combat I do not choose
to say.
Arnold, speaking before the AM
erican Arbitration Association, said
the emphasis in American airplane
factories today is on heavy bomb
ers to intensity the air war on
Germany and the Japanese.
+, He said that American aircraft
plants will turn out 10000 planes
this year, with a total tonnage go
per cent greater than in 1912.
During 1943,' he said, I'VE drop
ped 10 times as much bomb tom
mage as in 1912. We can look for
ward to larger ')omber formations
and more missions in all theaterS
of war"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
CounciInlen Hit
bowron in
Utility Strike

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18 CUP)-
Two city councilmen, bitterly at
tacking Mayor Fletcher Bowron,
Friday voiced unqualified support
of wtge increase demands of 2098
striking municipal water and pow
er department employees.
Councilman John Baumgartner
described Mayor Bowron as a "tcol
o fprivate interests" in speech
before a mass meeting of strikers
at the AFL Central Labor Temple
auditorium.
"Bowron's last three appoint
ments to the water and power COM
mission have been dictated by
chamber of commerce interests
vested interests opposing municipal
power and organized labor" Baum
gartner said.
G.. Vernon Bennett, chairman Of
the city councils water and power
committee, said the mayors OBJ
jections to granting the strikers
request for SIS month pay boost
were "a lot of bunk"
E. H. Taylor, business agent Y.
the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, said the strik-
ers were willing to accept media
ton and would want II. A.. Van
Norman, general manager Of the
department. to represent them in
wage negotiations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Conferees Scan
Compromises
On Soldier Vote
NEA TelephOtO.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 CUP)-
A meeting of senate house con-
ferees Friday produced three pro-
posals for compromise path cut
of the complicated tangle over the
soldier vote bill.
Senator Tom Connally, D., Tex,
suggested that candidates for state
office be printed on the federal
war ballot fern.
Representative Harris Ellsworth,
r., Ore, suggested that the bill be
divided into two separate parts, one
urging state action along the lines
of the Eastland- -McC Cellan- McKellar
bill passed by the senate last
December, and the other authoriz-
ing a supplemental federal ballot
for soldiers who could not get the
state ballet.
Chairman Theodore F.. Green, D.,
r. l., of the senate privileges and
elections committee, offered an en-
tirely new bill, which includes all
states rights provisions Of the
Eastland bill, retains the federal
war ballot commission proposed in
the original GreenLucas bill, and
gives the same priority to both
state and federal ballots.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Groups Consider
Farm Equipment

International Harvester company
representatives from Arizona and
California met with Charles Small,
secretary of the USDA war board,
Friday morning to discuss the farm
machinery rationing program in
this area.
Shortages of various implements
and equipment were considered and
study made of this county's
method of ALLEGATION and issuance
If purchase certificates.
Attending were l.. A. Stapley,
HC distributor from Phoenix; j.
r. Childers, company representa-
tive from Phoenix l.. E. Hall. as
sistant manager from Los Angeles;
Carl Teeter, assistant state chair
man of the USDA in Arizona, and
Max Crendorf, Imperial county
INC distributor.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
SubSidv v
Veto
Upheld
House Action
Kills Act;
Vote 22b-I5I

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1e
(UP) = The House Friday
sustained President Roose-
velt's veto of anti-subsidy
legislation.
The House action killed the bill
which the chief executive had as.
serted would destroy the stabiliza-
ton program" boost food prices
seven per cent, and force wage in
creaSes.
The house vote was 226 in favor
of overriding the veto and ISL in
favor of sustaining. A vote of 252
would have been required to pass
the bill by a two-thirds majority
over the veto.
A Senate vote will not be neces
sary, inasmuch as it requires a two
thirds vote of both houses to over
ride a veto.
NO DEBATE
The House acted without debate
Immediately after a special mes
sage in which the President set
forth his arguments against the
bill.
The House action meant that the
Commodity Credit Corp, which
pays some of the food subsidies, is
technically dead. The anti-subsidy
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
CuIifornions Rap
NeWWRA Set-up

. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. UP)-
President Roo!evelt's transfer of
the war relocation authority to the
interior department met a cool re-
sponse Friday from western con-
gressmen who led the long attack
on the agency with demands for the
custer of Director Dillon S. Myer
Many members of the 81 repre-
sentatives from California, Oregon
and Washington who petitioned the
president for Myers dismissal, said
the transfer was simply an attempt
to place WRA in a position where
it would be more difficult to fix
responsibility for its action.
Under the transfer, Myer con-
tinues as head of the organization,
directly under Secretary of Interior
Harold l.. Ickes. Myers organiza-
ton remains intact
THE only result of the transfer
is that it seems to have added one
more portfolio to Mr.. Ickes' all
ready bulging briefcase," said Rep
resentative Clare Engle Dem.,
CalifD. go .r 'ts.-
1T doesn't seem to mean any,
thing and it doesn't satisfy us, )"
said Engle, whose district includes
the turbulent Tule Lake, Calf,
WRA camp.
The placing of WRA under the
jurisdiction of the interior depart
ment will not affect it's administra-
ton if its policies are not changed"
Representative Harry epard
(Dem., Calif.) commented.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Berlin Admits
Loss of Key

LONDON, Feb. 18 (UP) - The
German army Friday acknowledged d
the loss of Staraya Russa. turntable
base of the northern front below
Lake linen, in smashing reverse
closely following the capture OF
killing of $1,000 Nazi troops en-
circled in the Ukraine.
The Berlin radio reported that
Staraya Russa and its bristling
system of hedgehog Notifications,
one of the most formidable on the
eastern front, had been evacuated
in major retreat described
characteristically as shortening
CT the 'front.'"
At the same time the Nazi propa-
gandists, seeking to ease the blow
of the Ukrainian disaster, denied a
Soviet announcement that the Ger
man army trapped west of Cher
kasi had been annihilated.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18

ace was mot so sure of himself"
IS the No. Democratic candidate
his year. Mr.. Roosevelt chuckled.
Then, as an afterthought. re-
,orter popped up to ask the presi-
lent to whom was he referring
when he said, at 1t again.
The president assured the news
papermen that he was referring
only to reporters and their per-
sistent efforts to smoke him out OH
1914 political plans.
Incidentally, Mr.. Roosevelt
scheduled li1c-leon conference
Friday with Wallace, who returned
to Washington -rom western tour
Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Red Cross Draws Criticism
Of butuun Relief GROUP

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Feb. l8.
(UP)-Dr. v. H. Spensley, founder
of the Bataan relief organization
whose son died In Japanese prison
camp, Friday blamed the American
Red Cross definite lack of CO.
operation with Japan" for the delay
in delivering relief supplies to
American prisoners held by the
Nipponese.
Such lack of cooperation does
not exist between Japan and the
English and Canadian Red Cross,
Spensley SAID, Following his return
from Washington where he was
elected president of the federated
organizations for Bataan relief.
STAY PILED UP
Russia has been delivering i'm
mense supplies of food and medi-
cine to British and Canadian pris-
oners for months, he said, but sup
plies destined for our boys are piled
up at Vladivostok."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. (UP)-
The American Red Cross said Fri
day that it has spared and will
continue to spare no effort to ef-
feet Japan's full compliance with
the prisoners -of-war convention
and to establish a regular route for
shipment of supplies to prisoners of
war and interneees in the Far
East"
The statement was in reply to a
charge by DR.. v. H. Spensley of
Albuuerque, N, NJ, founder of the
Bataan relief organization, tn a t
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Roosevelt Jokes
Off Fourth Term

WASHINGTON. Feb. IS. (UP)-
President Roosevelt's batting aver
age in knocking down inquiries
about his fourth-term plans con-
tinued perfect Friday in the face of
renewed press and radio confer
ence pitching.
A questioner today told the presi-
dent, THE vice-president says you
will be elected in 1944-Do you think
he is very good prophet?"
At it again, the president said
with laugh. Then he told the re-
porters to keep on going, that it
was all right and always good for a
laugh.
The questioner added that Wal
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Two jap Evacuees
Draw Jail Terms

Two other Japanese internees,
Sasaki Kazuson, SO, charged with
possessing a still at the center and
Asaicki Imai, 33, acucsed of pos
sessing food stolen from a govern
ment warehouse, will enter pleas
Tuesday, Wallace Shepard, their
attorney, announced.
The sentences on Shimamura,
Sato and Ihida. were less than a
maximum of three years imprison-
ment and $4,000 fines allowed by
the Federal statute prohibiting pos
session of non-tax paid liquor.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
BY UNITED PRESS

BY UNITED PRESS
The japanese radio reported
Friday that American forces had
landed on Truk and that fierce
fighting" was going on, with me-
chanized forces involved, but mill
.ary secrecy shrouded the actual
progress of the assault on the heart
of Japanese power in the Pacific.
1t was known definitely only
that hundreds of carrier planes
from a great United States naval
task force had struck at Truk, its
military installations, airfields, and
whatever part of the Japanese fleet,
was sheltered there.
Tokyo broadcasts were not ex.
nlicit. and sought perhaps to give
the impression that the Americans
had tried to establish a beachhead
so that later the Japanese could
claim an invasion was repulsed. j..
AWAIT TIME
Domei, official news agency, be-
Titled the attack as not the real
thing" and called it not much more
| than strong reconnaissance. In
the same broadcast, Domei said,
"the main force of our invincible
navy is biding its time until the
very end,' possible hint that the
enemy fleet is unwilling to meet
the challenge.
London newspapers quoted a
Japanese communique Friday as
saying that American troops have
landed on Truk, Japans Pearl
Harbor," under cover of a terrific
air assault by carrier based
planes.
japanese troops Immediately
engaged the enemy" the London
version of the communique said
Fierce fighting is now going or
between our forces and the enemy"
HEAVY ATTACKS
A London broadcast heard by
Obs said the communique reported
American attacks against Truk
from the air and with strong mo-
torized forces" The broadcast did
not clarity the reference to "ms
torized forces"
Though London newspapers p.,e
banner headlines on the landing
story, the only Tokyo communique
on the Truk assault reported by
American listening posts told of
continuing air attacks-now in
their second day and fierce
fighting.
U. S. Pacific fleet headquarters
at Pearl Harbor revealed in So
word communique Thursday that
powerful naval task forces" had
begun an attack on Truk Wednes-
day dawn (Thursday, Tokyo time)
Continued on page 6. col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Allies
Score
In ItoIy
Heavy Blows
Stop Nazis
On Two Fronts
ALLIE d HEADQUAR-

A LII | E d HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Naples, Feb. 18 (UP)
= American and British
troops, supported and COW
cred by hundreds of warplanes
have smashed back every German
assault on their beachhead below
Rome, it was disclosed Friday, as
the massed guns of American
forces on the main 5th army front
opened a thunderous pre-attack
barrange on Nazi positions in the
hills above Casino.
AS the second battle of the Anzio
beachhead roared into its third
day, the German onslaught showed
no signs of slackening. The wearied
Nazis, battered necessarily by a
storm of bombs and shells, threw
themselves again and again at the
Allied lines, needless of their
swiftly losses.
ALL-OUT ATTACK
After 8 hours of the bitterest
fighting of the Italian campaign
the German attack unfolded as an
all-out blow to split the Anglo
American lines along the Aprilla-
Anzio road and break the beach,
head in two.
Meanwhile, it appeared that
American troops had resumed their
offensive on the main 5th army
front at Casino and were striking
in full strength to break open the
NaZi southern front and join forces
with the embattled defenders OF
the beachhead.
Unitd Press War Correspondent
James E. Roper reported from the
Casino front that American ar
tillery, "as thick as trees" ripped
the German Notifications on Mount
Casino with a murderous barrage
that sent shells screaming against
the enemy at the rate of nearly
five second.
From eleven o'clock Thursday
until the early morning hours Fri
day the big field guns set the
Rapido valley aflame with some
$4,000 shells.
AT the height of the barrage
Roper said, the American shells
Continued on page 6, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
0PA Sues Winery
For S178.430

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. l8 (UP)
The Office of Price Administra-
ton Friday filed a treble damage
suit amounting to Sl78,430.85 in U.
S. Federal District court against
the Samuel Sebastiani Wineries,
Inc, of Sonoma, Calf, for viola
ton of price ceilings. George A.
Faraday, OPA enforcement at
torney, said the winery has charged
7 cents per gallon over the ceiling
price in all carload lots of sweet
wines.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Yank Filters Hit
In Iindo.China

NEW DELHI. Feb. Is CUP)-
British ground forces supported by
Raj -bombers and fighters,
have made further progress in
breaking out of japanese trap in
the Arakan sector of western Bur-
ma, a communique disclosed Fri
day.
Indian troops battling to clear
the japanese from the east end of
the Ngakyedauk pass leading across
the Mayu range, inflicted heavy
casualties.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18
Attack on Truk
Hit at Nest
Of Jap warships
PEARL HARBIR. Feb. l8. n

PEARL HARBIR, Feb. 18. (UP)
One of the greatest carrier task
forces ever assembled in any ocean
was believed Friday to have blasted
a trail of sinking ships, wrecked
planes and devastated shore installa-
tions through Truk, Japan's Pearl
Harbor," in a mighty assault only
little more than 1000 miles south
of Tokyo.
The task force resumed radio si-
lence after flashing word that it
had begun the assault Wednesday
dawn, but Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz' announcement that "sev-
eral hundred" -bombers, tor
pedo boinbers and fighters were
participating was taken as a cer-
tain indication tnat heavy damage
was inflicted on Japan's biggest
base outside home waters.
TAKE PHOTOS
Reconnaissance photographs TAX
en- by two marine Liberator bombers
on Feb. in the first Allied flight
ever made over Truk showed at
least 25 warships, including two
aircraft carriers. numerous lighter
warships, and supply ships, in the
huge lagoon.
Though Nimitz' commurique re-
ferred only to the commencement
of the attack, there was no con-
firmation that it continued for
more than one day at the longest
1t also was doubted here that the
bombing and strafing raids were
supplemented by any naval bom-
bardment, since such action would
bring the task force dangerously
close to coastal batteries.
SPECULATION ON ATTACK
The assault touched off specula-
ton as to whether an attempt to
seize Truk was contemplated, but
there was no information here, Of
ficial or otherwise, as to whether
the raid was a prelude to invasion
The huge American task force
under Adm. Raymond A. Spruance,
under whose command Kwajalein
atoll in the MarshallS was wrested
from the Japanese nearly two
weeks ago. penetrated 5000 miles
west of Pearl Harbor into the heart
of Japan's inundated Caroline is
lands for the attack
1t carried the war to a base ia
pan long has considered impregna-
BILE, 2,100 miles east of Manila and
$40 miles west OF the nearest Amer
lean base at newly conquered
Kwajalein.
Carrier task forces normally ap-
proach within 100 miles and often
much closer before launching their
planes. Their targets at Truk lay
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18

The American Red Cross said
that shipments to Russia were ef-
fected in cooperation with the
British and Canadian organizations
and that Spensley's statement that
British and Canadian supplies had
reached their destination was COM
pletely erroneous"
Thus far the Japanese have re-
fused to make the necessary ar
rangements for transhipping the
supplies from Vladivostok.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-18

SACRAMENTO. Feb. l8 CUP)-
Three japanese internees from the
Tule Lake segregation center Fri
day pleaded guilty in federal dis
trict court to charges Of possessing
liquor at. the center and were SEN
fenced to serve one year in the
county Jail.
Judge Martin I. Welsh imposed
the sentences on Hungiro Shima-
mura, AZ, former Washington farm
er, MasayoShi Sato, So. formerly of
Loomis, Calf, and Yoshisuki linda,
SO, another California farmer.