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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
FINANCIAL RELIEF is SOUGHT
Congress to Investigate Counys ToxFree War Plants

Hundreds of smaller war fac
tories throughout the en- r e
county, including Mount Glenn
ems, are filled with costly ma
chinery bearing plates Property
of the Defense Plant Corpora
ton, An fundamentally of the
u n tie d States Government
These tags, Lindsey and Ben
nett point out, free this machin-
cry from assessment for person
al taxes. The county's appeal,
which will be studied by a Con-
gressional sub = committee asks
that such property be subjected
TO the same personal taxes as
other machinery. owned private
ly. but used similarly by private
corporations making profits.
No estimate is available Of the
amount of personal taxes involv-
cd in this phase of the county's
claim. Ii might approach the
See TAXES-Pagc ]
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Townships
Traffic Code
Is Abandoned

VAN DYKE - Warren town
ships controversial traffic ord
nance, target of repeated at
lacks concerning its legality,
was shelved today on instruc-
tons of the township board as
the community's police officers
began, under state law, applica-
ton to the prosecuting attorney
for all warrants concerning law
violations handled by them.
For the past three years traf-
fic warrants have been issued by
Warren township justice courts
without referral to the prosecut-
ing attorney.
The shift in enforcement pol
icy means that the township is
now clearly complying with
provisions of the state law and
has, temporarily at least, aband-
oned the ordinance which Prose
cutting Attorney Wilbur F. Held
See TRAFFIC-Page 2
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Northern Light Bugs
Defy Radio Solution

The northern lights" created
queer radio disturbances lst 1t
Richard +. Flechsig, 25. couldn't
combat but except for that phe-
nomenon he was able, as Com
munications Officer at a Green
land air base, TO keep all the
radios in perfect working order.
The lieutenant is now at the
AAF Redistribution Station in
Atlantic City, where he will re-
ceive a new assignment, using
his skill as radio specialist to
the greatest advantage of the
Army Air Forces. He is the hus-
band of Mrs. Lcona A. Flechsig
and the son of Police Chief and
Mrs. Elmer G. Flechsig, who
live at 8077 Harding avenue,
Center Line.
when the aurora borealls
spread cross the Arctic sky,
Flechsig said, there was always
a complete radio blackout and
there was nothing we could do
about it. 1t was my job to see
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16

hearing in Mount Clemens by
a Congressional subcommittee
on the matter of billing Uncle
Sam for tax-free defense plants.
EXPECT QUICK ACTION
Wolcott said that he had been
assured by Chairman Peterson,
of the Public Lands Committee
of Congress that a lull in the
Washington legislative mill is
expected within two or three
weeks at which time a sub-com-
mittee will be free to hold a
local hearing.
Principal targets of tax-seek-
ing Maconb County solons are
the Chrysler tank arsenal and
the Westinghouse (Hudson) nav
al ordnance plant both valued
at between $50, 900, 900 and S40.-
100000 and on which Macomb
County has lost several hundred
thousand dollars in the past
three years because the huge
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Sewage Disposal
Plant Contemplated
city's lons-Ronse Plan
BEGINS to Take Shope

Plans for a 100000 sewage
disposal plant for Mount Glenn
ems - a project long demanded
by the state - took shape at
last nights City Commission
meeting, when officials were
authorized to approach the state
for financial aid on preliminary
plans.
Under recent state legislation,
a fund was created to allow mu-
inequalities one-half of prelim-
mary survey and planning costs
involved in postwar projects.
The preliminary survey for
the large sewage disposal pro-
ject, it is estimated, would
cost $4,000. City Attorney Bert
v. Nunneley and City Engineer
Ernest l.. Pettingill were in
structed to ask the state for So
600 aid from the fund and pro-
coed with basic surveys and
specifications.
The complete plans for such
See DISPOSAL-Page 2
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that the radios in our planes al
ways worked but when the
lights were on, l fell down on
the job
That was the only time,
though, the lieutenant was baf-
fled by a radio problem. In ad-
dition to his ground work, he
also flew as radio technical OBJ
server for his outfit, the First
Squadron.
Flechsig said his squadron did
everything possible to bring
men out OF the Arctic wastes if
they had cracked up, but that
often it was a hopeless and al
most futile task.
"One time was on a search
mission" he declared, and as
we flew over the Greenland ice
cap l secured the snow and ice
with binoculars hoping TO pick
out the wreckage for which we
were hunting. Finally we spott-
ed the crashed plane. We could
not land, so we radiocd back to
the base and a dog team was
sent out. II took "a days to get
TO the spot. Every man on the
crew of the wrecked plane was
dead and they were all buried
right where they had died.
Sometimes we managed TO
bring men out alive" he added,
but often they were dead by
thu time we got there. We al
ways did what we could"
Flechsig served as a radio in
structor at Scot. Field, ILL.,, for
two years and for a time at
Truax Field. Madison, Wis, be-
fore becoming a Communica-
tons Cadet and receiving his
See GREENLAND-Page 2
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Detroit Doefor-Spy Gets Is Year Term In Prison
0bSteiri(ian
Sentenced for
Part in Plot
Six Others Await
Penalties in
Bixorre Conspiracy

DETROIT. March Is -tP-
Federal Judge Edward j. Moi
net today sentenced DR.. Fred w.
Thomas, Detroit obstetrician
convicted of conspiracy to vio-
late the wartime Espionage Act,
to Is years in federal prison.
DR.. Thomas, one of eight per-
sons indicted on charges of es-
pionage conspiracy, was convict
ed two weeks ago by a Federal
Court jury. Six pleaded guilty
and are awaiting sentencing.
Charges against the eighth, Ber-
trand Stuart Hoffman. a Mer-
chant Marine seaman. were dis
missed at his trial on the ground
that he was mentally incapable
of understanding the charge.
The physician was accused OF
supplying espionage information
on war production and troop
movements and ingredients for
the manufacture of invisible ink
to Miss Grace Buchanan Dineen,
described by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation as the leader Of
the espionage ring
NAZI SYMPATHIZER
81 haven't the slightest doubt"
Judge Monet told DR.. Thomas,
'but what your sympathies are
with the Nazis in Germany. Your
friends and associates are men
this court knows are very friend
ly toward the German ideals.
This is tragic for you and
your family. but you should have
thought of that"
When the judge asked the
physician if he had anything to
say, DR.. Thomas answered in q
firm voice. Your Honor. I am
not guilty" He remained COM
posed when he was sentenced.
giving no sign of emotion.
ASKS REVIEW
His attorney, Walter Nelson,
said he would prepare an appeal
from the sentence and again
would ask for a review of the
trial. His petition for a new
See THOMAS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Draft Board
Plea Denied
Sheriff Won't
Release Suspect

A flat refusal today faced Of
ficials of Draft Board No. l in
Port Huron, following their re-
quest that Sheriff Jacob F.
Theut release a member of a
recently captured trio of sus-
pected safecrackers, so that he
could report for induction in
the U. S. armed forces.
According to the Port Huron
draft board, Joseph Murray, Is,
OF Isl Adelaide, Detroit, who is
being held for possessing burg
lar tools, was classified la on
= Feb. ID, and was supposed to re-
port for his preinduction physi-
cal examination today.
Murray is in custody of shcr.
ifs deputies along with Fred
"Blackie" Zanger, AZ, and How
ard Bierbauer, AZ, after their
sensational arrest two weeks
ago when they were found with
a kit of safecracking tools in
their car.
Their examination before JUS
tice Frank E. Jeanette will,
come up Tuesday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
u. !. Joins Britain
in Appeal 10 Firms
Warn kozi Ties leod
to National Disoster

WASHINGTON. March 10
Up The United States joined
Great Britain in a direct appeal
to the Finnish people today TO
end what President Roosevelt
termed this hateful partner
ship" in war with Nazi Germany.
A formal presidential state
ment was issued at the White
House after Britain had urged
the Firms to accept Soviet Rus
sia's armisticc terms or court
national disaster" This appar-
ent last-minute effort TO pre-
vent complete collapse of Russo
Finnish peace negotiations, said
in the Presidents name:
1T has always seemed odd to
me and TO the people of the
United States to find Finland a
partner of Nazi Germany, fight
ing side by side with the sworn
enemies of our civilization.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16

Financial relief for Macomb
County at large, and particular
ly Warren Township and its
school districts in the heavily
populated defense plant area, in
the form of payments by the
Federal Government of assess
ments on hitherto tax-free de-
Tense plants loomed closer this
week following an announce
ment by Congressman Jesse p.
Wo,cott that a government hear
ing on this taxation subject will
be held in Mount Clemens short
ly.
Wolcott notified Harold Lind
sey, Mount Clemens, chairman
of the county supervisors De-
Tense Committee, and County
Controller Sherwood j. Bennett,
secretary - both strong advo-
Gates of Federal aid in the South
Maeomb tax picture = that he
had been promised an early
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
1000 Heavy
Raj bombers
Rip Stuttgart
Yonks Wing Out
in Force on Heels
of British Smash
BY GLADWIN HILL

LONDON, March Is - Up -
Bearing down on southern Ger
many in great strength, u. S.
heavy bombers struck another
hard blow today in quick Sc
quence to a record night attack
by the Raj which hit Stuttgart,
Munich and other targets with
moe than 1000 four-engined
bombers carrying over 1850
tons of bombs.
1t was the us. strategic air
forces second aerial INVASION of
Germany in as many days.
First detailed accounts of the
smash came from the German
radio which said widespread
falls Of snow and close cloud
caused great difficulties in get
ting fighters off the ground to
meet the onslaught.
CITE AIR BATTLES
Nevertheless, the German re-
ports said, fierce aid battles
took place along the bombers'
course over eastern France and
western German provinces.
Similar radio accounts yester-
day, however, dwindled off into
emphasis on the cloudy weather
and it developed that only a
small defensive force was able
to meet the challenge when the
Americans bombed the aircraft
production center of Brunswick
with a loss Of three heavy
planes.
Today's sally was officially
described as in great strength, l"
in contrast to yesterday S
medium force whose fighters
shot down SO Of these enemy
fighters. The bombers yesterday
claimed none.
Stuttgart received the main
shock of the RATS weight.
AT the same tife that this i'm
See RAF-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Road Engineer
Charges Custer
Soys Job Abolition
Violates Vet Act

Karl o. Brink, mysteriouSly
shifted on Jan. 3 from the status
of a $3,720 per year county
road engineer to that of con
sulting engineer'-at but $1,000
per year-will appear at a hear
ing before Prosecutor Wilbur F.
Held on Tuesday, at 2 pm. in
a move designed to determine
whether he has been unfairly
deprived of his employment.
Brink, who for 10 years has
been an femploye of the Macomb
County Road Commission,
charges in a petition filed with
the prosecutor that arbitrary
abolition of the job of road en-
gineer, and his appointment at
the greatly reduced salary as a
consulting engineer, was not a
move in good faith" upon the
part of the road commission. He
states, likewise, that the mancu-
ver-unreported until now by
the Road COMMISSIONERS de-
signed to remove him from his
established employment or
cause him to leave.
An honorably discharged vet
Gran of the us. Navy, Brink had
held the post of county road en-
gineer for two years at the time
of his appointment as a CON
sulting engineer" He bases his
application for a hearing before
the prosecutor upon alleged vio-
lation of the Veterans Prefer
ance Act on the part Of road
commissioners who, he charges,
used the consulting engineer
appointment as a subterfuge TO
get rid of him.
Brink is represented in the
case by the law firm of Nealc &
Hirt. Road Commissioners have
See JOB-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
JAW 10 Shun
Ford Outlaws
50 Indefinitely
Suspended from Jobs

DETROIT, March 10 (P) -
Faced with the possibility of
further suspensions of its mem
bers from their jobs at the Ford
Motor Co., Rouge Plant, Local
600 of the United Automobile
Workers (CIO) today announc-
ed, through its officials, that it
would offer mo defense" for
those found responsible for yes
terday's blockade at the plant
gates.
The indefinite suspension of
so employees was announced late
last night, following a series of
rapid-fire developments grow
ing out of the blockade.
POLICE AFRAID?
First, the company appealed
to Governor Harry F. Kelly for
State Police protection at the
plant, claiming that police in
suburban Dearborn, where the
plant is located, were either
unwilling or fearful" to remove
the blockade.
r. j. Thomas, president of
the UAW-CIO, termed the APP
peal an "hysterical cry" which
was 'infiammatory and highly
prejudicial to the maintaining
of smooth relations between
worker and employer at the
plant"
Mayor Orville Hubbard of
Dearborn declared the compa-
ny's accusation was false and
cock-eyed' and retorted that "if
the company hasn't the talent or
the ability to get along decently
and peacefully with its employ
es it should not attempt to raise
smokescreen by blaming the
Dearborn police for its trou-
bles.'
Both Thomas and w. T. Grant,
See FORD-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
ORDINANCE DRAFTED 49,
Film Censorship Is Planned

basis OF samples furnished by
the Michigan Municipal League.
The Theatre Ordinance Is ale
most an exact copy Of one used
in Royal Oak for more than .
decade.
FAVOR ORDINANCE
Speakers for the ordinances at
last nights meeting included
Walter ]. Lehner, leader Of tho
civic group; Robert y. Heal.
Miss Florence +. pafoui 4loo
Margaret Z. MeCaI1 lxA Aogsy
Malbin, Miss Loa Grpc - ~
w. Hameistef. AtyG11G t(nr
las Ball rspfeSentsA ~ l1G
interests and asked , Wo6k5o
See CURDS-Psge :
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Explosives Hit
Jap Defenses
500 Tons Dropped
in Aerial Field Doy
By RICHARD c. BERGHOLZ
A~xoriatsA press War Editop


A 350-mile segment of Japan's
southwest Pacific defense line
was ripped with 500-ton
smash, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
communicated today, while
American filters in the Central
Pacific picked out new target
-Oroluk atoll-in the eastern
Carolines.
From Wewak, New Guinea, on
the west to Bougainville, Solo
mon Islands, on the East, SOUTH
west Pacific airmen had q field
day, blasting bomb-cratered
Japanese supply bases, starting
fires and destroying vital ground
installations.
For the fourth straight day,
Wewak, main enemy supply and
air base in northern New
Guinea, was pounded by Allied
See PACIFIC-Page 2
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Two new city ordinances de-
signed to keep children off the
streets at night time, and regu-
late theatres in regard to type
of films, advertising displays
and attendance inducements
we're favorably regarded by the
City Commission last night, and
are scheduled to be adopted at
next weeks meeting.
They were planned and pre-
scntcd by a civic group COM
posed of representatives Of var
ious clubs and churches, whose
work was lauded by the Com
mission at a recent meeting. City
Attorney Bert V. Nunneley con-
structed the ordinances on the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Savage Aerial
Attack PAGES
Yank Advance
Tonk-led American
Columns Fight Way
into Ruined BOSTON
BY JOSEPH MORTON

1
ON A HILLTOP OVERLOOK
ING CASINO, March Is - R)
Bombers of the u. S. 18th and
18th Air Forces pushed long
way toward the goal of perfect
air support today when they
laid the most intense aerial bar
rage of all time against mile
square, enemy held Casino,
keystone in the German defense
of central Italy.
Seeking only to attain one
simple goal - to batter the
German garrison and gun posi-
tions to bits the filters ran
through their performance from
overture to final curtain as if
they had been playing just such
q dramatic role every day.
The first bombers showed up
right on schedule at $50 a. m.
Other formations followed at
regular intervals throughout the
morning and into the afternoon.
TANKS ENTER TOWN
At exactly lbs p. m, while
A-36 fighter-bombers were
working over the southern or
least-damaged portion of the
town, the first American tanks
entered the northern outskirts.
From a hill 5000 yards away
from the doomed stronghold, !
watched the electrifying spec
tacle until the airmen called 1t
q day and the ground forces
took over.
On a rooftop nearby 1t. Gen.
Mark Clark, 1t. Gen. Ira c.
Eaker and Maj. Gen. John K.
Cannon kept an eye on the OPP
Grafton. At other vantage points
were nearly a dozen addition
British and American generals
including Gen. Sir Harold Alex
ander,' Allied commander in
chief in Italy.
SEE EARLY FALL
Their remarks left no doubt
that they felt Casino, thorn
in the Fifth Army's side for
nearly two months, would be
securely in Allied hands before
another dawn.
1t was precisely noon when
the last of the heavy and me-
dunn bombers completed theri
task of dumping more than l.
400 tons of bombs into the city
and the heavy artillery took
over. A furious barrage that last
ed nearly three hours cleaned up
what was left.
At mid afternoon the heart
Of Casino was nothing but a
pile of smoking ruins. In the
same manner, the Germans es-
cape route was Systematically
hammered.
AS one general put it:
1T is impossible to see how
there could be a living thing
left there"
In the warm sunshine which
chased away the ground haze in
plenty of time to afford the
first bombers good view of
their objective, soldiers of more
than a dozen United Nations
drank in the big show. They
See CASSINO-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Parents Join
in Cub Pack
Movement

The first definite effort on the
part of Macomb District Boy
Scout Council to launch a Cub
Pack movement in this city, as
a concrete answer to juvenile
delinquency, will take place
Tuesday evening at Macomb
School, when Supreme Court
Justice Neil E. Reid, council
member, will head local Scout
delegation in addressing par
ents of Donaldson, Wilson and
Lincoln schools.
The delegation will include
See PARENTS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Gas Station Operator
Reprimanded BY 0pA

Joseph Hagen, proprietor of a
gasoline station located at l59
N. Gratiot avenue, Mount Glenn
ems, was reprimanded Tuesday
in Detroit by OPA Hearing
Commissioner Dennis L. Dun
lazy for having accepted unen-
dorscd gas rationing coupons.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Fost, New koxi PIones
Oppose u. S. Roiders

LONDON. March Is - tP) -
Some of the American filters re-
turning from today's heavy at
tack against Southern German
targets told of seeing forma-
ton of new four-engined Ger
man fighters with twin-finned
tails.
The filters described the planes
as extremely fast.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Rays Corner

Probably the Babylonians would
have failed to win their freedom
if they had not gained foreign sup
port. AS it was, they were helped
by an army from Media.
Media was in the northern part
of Persia, or Iran. It's people we're
called Medes.
The Medes had been attacked by
Assyria and had been forced to pay
tribute. Now they sent an army
across a great range of mountains
to attack Nineveh.
In 612 BIB, Nineveh fell before
the attack of the Medes. With sup
port from the revolving Babylo-
mans, and from Scythia, the Medes
smashed the whole empire of As
syria to pieces. Babylonia became
free country again.
Nineveh was destroyed, and we
are told that the Assyrian King died
in the fire which swept through his
palace.
Today there is no such city as
Nineveh-except in memory and in
two large mounds in which remains
of it have been found. During the
past 80 years great deal of dig
ging has been done in the mounds,
which are across the Tigris from
the modern city of Mosul Parts of
the walls of Nineveh have been laid
bare, and many clay tablets have
been discovered.
Evening star., 1944-04-16

School. Tenth and Franklin streets
NE, 8 pm.
Lincoln Park Eastern High
School, Seventeenth and East Capi.
tol streets, 8 pm
observation-disclosures Library, Up.
shur street and Georgia avenue
NV, 8 pm.
Wednesday.
Chevy Chase Lafayette School
Broad Branch road and Northamp-
ton street NV, 8 pm.
Citizens Forum of Columbia
Heights--Powell Junior High School
Lamont street and Hiatt place NV.
pm.
Friendship-Janney School, Abe
marie street and Wisconsin avenue
NV, 8 pm.
Sixteenth Street Highlands
BrightWood School, Fourteenth and
Nicholson streets NV, 8 pm.
Friday.
Glover Park-Benjamin Stoddert
School, Fortieth and Calvert streets
NV, 8:15 pm.
Saturday.
Federation - American Iepior
Hall, 2437 Fifteenth street NV, 6:4.
pm.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Prizes for Best
|COntributiOns

The Junior Star awards as many
as five prizes of 81 each for the best
contribution published each week
Boys and girls of high school age
and under are invited to compete
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whatever form he deems advisable
regardless of whether it is awarded
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will be issued to writer's who, in the
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