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Plan StreamHning
of Government

Simplification and figurative
streamlining Of the villages adj
ministrative affairs is promised
by the newly-elected officials of
st. Clair Shores. according to
Robert E. Harrison, who will
succeed Adrian LingCmann as
village president on Jan. /.
Declaring that, there will be
no wholesale replacement Of viii
lage department heads" Harri-
son stated today that sincere at
tempt will be made to institute
Efficient and economical admin
istrative methods.
PROTECT RESIDENTS
Harrison felt certain that the
new administrative officers
would re-affirm their stand upon
non-eXploitation Of ST, Clair
Shores water front facilities by
outside interests. - The allusion
See SHORES-Page 2
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bodies of hundreds of enemy
dead and the wreckage of Nazi
tanks, armored cars, trucks and
field guns scattered over miles
Of field and woodland.
Sharing equally in the victory
over the enemy striking force
were American doughboys, tanks
and artillery teamed in perfect
coordination with Allied air
power.
The airmen gave us wonder
full support" said one American
tank commander, who personally
Knocked out four tanks during
the engagement. Those planes
helped us get 19 of our enemy
tanks. And some British ty-
phoons which pitched in with us
did a particularly fine job. They
knocked off seven out of a
column of eight German tanks
coming UP behind Us and trying
-
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Tvo Killed in Wreck
ofDetroitBoundTrain

away the last bit of steel trap
ping him.
Engineer o. F. Hayward, So,
Sylvania, O., was dead when his
body was lifted, shortly after
midnight. from the twisted cab
of the overturned New York
Central locomotive.
Locomotive and tender rolled
over into a gully after striking
an automobile stalled on the
Buffalo tr c c t crossing. Five
coaches and the baggage car left
the tracks and a passenger said
the rails were twisted like a
bunch Of junk"
Treated at hospitals for in
juries were:
George Frische, Toledo, rail
way express employe, severe
burns.
Mrs. BERTHE Rainey, Cleveland,
O.. bruises and shock.
Cosmo Tohazcuk, Bedford,
Mass.
AS rescuers with torches work
See WRECK-Page 2
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WHO WILL WIN 1915 TITLE?
Many Gifts Await First Baby

youngster will come into this
world pennilesS, so for that rea-
son they are opening an account
for him with a brand new five
dollar bill.
The first baby of l945 will be
furnished a layette of five dol
lars in value, by the Kresge's
stores. The items in the layette
are TO be chosen by the mother.
NO FEEDING PROBLEM
Feeding the baby his milk and
orange juice will prove no pro-
blem TO the mother of the first
arrival as Bannow's Drug Co., Is
to furnish six nursing bottles.
six genuine rubber nipples, and
See BABY-Paye 2
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MOSCOW. Dec. % - up -
Russian forces cracked the first
of three inner defense rings of
the encircled Nazi garrison at
Budapest today while the Aus
trian bound Red Army 20 the
north stepped up its drive along
both sides of the Danube River.
About ATTACK
The Red forces made an all
out bid to win strategic control
of the Hungarian capital in a
matter of days, if not hours, as
fanatical Nazi troops in the hilly
district of Buda and the popu.
lous flatlands of Pest gave
ground under a score of assaults
by Russian combat teams of
tommy-gunners, tanks and self
propelled guns.
The enemy was hurled out Of
IL eastern suburbs of the city
yesterday by the hard-driving
Soviets.
A battle Of even greater mill
tary Importance ragged on the APP
proaches to the Danubian COM
munications center of Komarom,
which is less than IS miles
southeast of Vienna and within
SO miles of Bradshaw.
CONVERGE ON CITY
Two columns from Marshal
Feodor Tt blu k h / ms third
Ukrainian army group converg-
ed on the city from the east and
See RED ARMY-Page 3
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To the first baby born in
Mount Clemens following the
ringing In of the New Year will
go many useful gifts provided
through the generosity of the
city's merchants.
The variety of practical arti-
Giles is reinforced with the OPP
ening of a savings account,
which If allowed TO remain TO
the baby's name, and draw COM
pound interest, would afford
handsome income when he or
she becomes of age.
LAYETTE
The Federal Savings an d
Loan Association of Mount
Clemens is MAKING sure that no
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No Mail Delivery

All but special delivery mail
service will be suspended over
the holiday weekend, Postmaster
John c. Bannow said today.
No deliveries will be made on
Sunday or Monday but the lob
by of the post office building
will remain open for the con-
venience of box holders from 2
p. m. TO S p. m. on each of those
two days. =
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DETROIT, Dec. % - PD -
Two persons died today in" the
derailment of all but one coach
of a Detroit bound passenger
train that ripped up a block OF
right of-way in suburban Tren-
ton. At least three were injured.
Pinned beneath the tender,
Fireman Ray Harmon, SO, To-
ledo, O., directed rescue at
tempts for six hours but died at
$50 a. m. just as workers cut
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Conscience Gift

LANSING, Dec. 90 - up -
The State Welfare Department
today reported it had received
a S193 conscience gift from
the children Of former re-
cipient of Old Age assistance,
and that the money was being
turned over TO the State Cen
era Fund.
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to break through TO relieve their
friends in the Celles pocket"
COMBAT STORY
Striding up and down before a
log fire in the booklined library
of house which he had convert
ed into command post, the
stocky, bald little commander
told the story OF the battle.
I'VE reached the front after
rolling a hundred miles over
night across country we had
never seen before" he said.
I'VE didn't even have time to
assemble and plan our opera
ton. Some of our reconnais-
sance men were shot up by the
Germans while doing "a little
road checking.
HOW 1T BEGAN
THE Germans were moving
UP fast and there wasn't any
See BATJLEFIELDyPage 3
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Mews Review of ~

Two solid pages of Macomb
county news-pictures and a half
page of items covering happen
ings in the area during 1914 ap-
pear in todays edition of the
Monitor-Leader. The pictures
are on pages 10 and II. The re-
view Of incidents appears on
paup s.
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Lost Papers
Dim Sailors
Holiday Joy

The JOY of a 19-year-old Rich
mond, Mich, sailor - home for
the holidays after eight months
sea duty in the South Pacific -
was dimmed today by the loss of
his wallet containing his Coast
Guard leave pass, Identification
See SAILOR-Page 9
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offensive had been kicked into
reverse by American forces
which slammed into all three
sides of his extended bulge, with
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's
Third Army sensationally chang
ing its front and advancing 20
miles into het German flank In
six days.
DELAY SAAR PUSH
The situation was not an un-
mixed success, however, for Pat
toms shift of front brought his
own offensive along the Saar 70
a stop, and obliged the Ameri-
cans to give up their hard-won
bridgehead across the Saar at
Dillingen, where they had brok-
See PATTON-Page 3
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laps Report
Attacks On
i. ). Convoy
Claim Sinking
Of Six Ships
Near Philippines
Bv LEONARD MILIMAN

The Japanese high command
today reported a big, heavily
guarded convoy of American
transports moving westward
through inland Philippine waters
and claimed six were sunk in a
tWo-day attack.
Unconfirmed Tokyo broad
casts recently have reported
seemingly endless movement OF
u. S. transport conveys in and
around the Philippines. If only
part of them were true it would
mean Gen Douglas Macarthur
troops were being heavily rein
forced for their next amphlbious
operation.
Today's enemy communique
said the convoy consisted of 80
transports escorted by more
than 20 warships. Japanese
planes, the report said, attacked
Wednesday and Thursday as 1t
moved through Mindanao Sea
from Surigao Strait south OF
Lcyte Island, perhaps headed for
Mindoro within $50 miles of
Manila.
DENY MINDORO RAIDS
Tokyo radio claimed Nippon
csc air assaults on Mindoro were
continuing But General Mac
Arthur said there was no trace
Of air, naval or land activity af-
ter u. S. PIT boats and planes
routed a Japanese task force
that erratically shelled the air.
drome and lost three destroyers.
New major naval-air battles
can be expected to develop soon
in the western Pacific said Vice
Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, on his
way back from six weeks Vaca-
ton to resume command of the
fast carrier forces he has led in
devastating raids.
He said the Japanese "have
reached the point where they'll
throw everything in the fight.
think in another year we should
have their navy pretty we'll
cleaned up"
STAB AT SAIPAN
The Nipponese continued TO
throw bombers - in diminishing
numbers - at the Saipan Super
See JAPS-Page 2
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Patton Cuts
Deeply Into
Nazi Corridor
Americans Smosh
Forward 10 Miles
in Sewage Rush

PARIS, Dec. 29-(P-Amer-
lean armored blows on the nose
of Field Marshal Won Rundstedt's
offensive have beaten his most
advanced spearheads back more
than 10 miles and chased them
across the narrow Lessee and
Homme rivers into Rochefort.
Field dispatches, reporting this
development up to Thursday
morning, said the Won Rundstedt
escape gap at the same time was
cut to less than II miles north
of Bastogne.
Won Rundstedt's December
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Russians Knife
Into The Heart
Of Budapest
Feroeity Of
Fighting Equois
Thot Of StoIinsrod

LONDON, Dec. % - (49 -
The Russians are fighting in the
"hcart of Budapest" the German
High Command announced today
as house-to- house battles for the
Hungarian capital reached a fury
unequaled on the Eastern front
since Stalingrad.
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Comments on the Germans
western front counter often.
sive were reported today from
both Berlin and London.
The Berlin radio quoted q
spokesman as saying: .'The
days of the blitzkrieg In The
lS39-40 style have passed.
Won Rundstedt's gains II the
new offensive have been lard
come by. Today we musk Soek
to apply different standards.s
Optimism scared again In 1en-
don. The Reuters military
commentator declared: "von
Rundstedt may DO On the
verge OF major disaster. His
position in his corridor n
worse than was thought"
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ICY CALM REPLACES CLASH OF ARMOR AND OF MEN
Cold Fog Shrouds the Dead on Meuse Battlefield

TO break through TO relieve their
friends in the Celles pocket"
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LBERAT0RS HIT
INVASION COAST
Military installations On
French Coast Are Blast
ed Again

LONDON. Feb. g. R-Four-en-
gined Am eri can Liberators
charged across the Channel today
and smashed again at the mill
tary installations the Nazis have
built to hold their grip on the IL
vasien coast of northern France.
Military detectives in the Pas
de Calais area-the so-called rock
et-gun coast-were again the tar
get and U. S. Army communi-
que announced that mo enemy
fighter opposition but considerable
flax was encountered.
Two of the Liberators failed to
return.
The first indication of possible
Raj night raid on Germany to-
night came from the Frankfurt ra.
dio which twice broadcast this
message: Enemy aircraft have
been reported crossing northwest
Eifel (the mountains between the
Moselle river and the Ruhrl in
the direction of our warning area. u
Significantly it was the fifth time
in six days the Liberators have
operated, indicating their growing
strength in this theater and the
increasingly important part they
may play in the invasion of Eu.
rope.
The heavyweights bombed the
Pas-de-Calais coast last Friday
a record 800-plane raid on Frank
without loss, Joined Fortresses fol-
furt Saturday, went out with them
again Sunday to attack Brunswick
and Hanover and returned tc
Pas-de-Calais Monday for another
without-loss raid.
Evidence of Allied air superiori
ty over the invasion COAST was
given again today by initial re-
ports from returning crews who
termed it another quiet mission
The Luftwaffe must be going
out of business" cracked one pi
lot, 1t. George H. Lymburn Of
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TREASURY R0WNS
ON TAX PROPOSAL

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. Up -
A proposal in Congress that the
government compute 1943 income
taxes for some 30. 0OO,0 900 small tax
payers ran into immediate opposi-
ton today from the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau which said it didn't
have and couldn't get enough peo-
pie to do the job.
The suggestion was offered by
Rep. Robertson D-Va) .as the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee began hunting ways to sinpli-
fy federal tax statutes.
He proposed that taxpayers with
incomes below $4,000 in 1913, who
elect to file form 104O-A, the short
form tax return based on average
exemptions, be permitted to report
only gross income, credit for de-
pendents, family status and victory
tax exemption. The Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau would do all the arith-
metic and notify the taxpayers OF
their correct liability.
Such filing would be considered,
under Robertson's proposal, as the
tax return required by law to be
mailed to the collector by this COM
ing March Is.
No remittance need accompany
the return under Robertson's plan,
but upon notice from the collector
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. ~
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WORKERS NEEDED
AT NC. SHIPYARD

The North Carolina Shipbuilding
company, with payroll now a
little over 5000, is "shorthanded"
and would like to employ a consid-
cradle number of additional work.
ers, but is having great difficulty
in finding them, Richard L. Bur-
nett, employment manager OF the
yard, told the Kiwanis club We'd
nesday.
The shipyard now has two men
on the road trying to hire men at
various points in North Carolina,
Mr.. Burnett said. They are finding
the competition very heavy, be-
cause the Bethlehem yards, the
Norfolk and Newport News yards,
the civil service commission, and
a variety of pirate employers in
Guiding even the Henry j. Kaiser
shipyards have labor agents in
North Carolina.
IF one OF our men hires five
men a week, he is doing pretty
WE'LL" Mr.. Burnett said.
But total employment here is fa-
in excess of this weekly figure,
he indicated.
One principal factor in employ
ment of new men is that they must
come from the non-essention occu-
pations, he said. Transfers are con-
trolled by the War Manpower Co.
mission, and this Mr.. Burnett
found advantageous, since it cur
tails CT eliminates indiscriminate
Cont nued IN Pare Three. CoI II
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Fifth a Is Knocking
At The~ates OF Casino
Doughboys Penetrate To Edge Of Long
Sought City - Tanks Supporting Infantry

manning the enemy's defenses to
delay the Americans as long as
possible, the doughboys of the Fifth
Army first entered the northern
half of the old Italian barracks
near the town - barracks which
had been a bulwark of the Nazi
Gustav Line-and, covered by the
fire of our tanks, took number
of prisoners.
Then, at 1880 am, Major War
rem Chapman messaged back to
his battalion command post over
the field telephone that the troops
were only 1000 yards from the
edge of town.
'Our troops now are at the out
skirts of Casino" reported the
Nevada City (Calif.) director OF
the infantry attack. I'VE are being
temporarily held up by a tank,
but are now maneuvering to take
it out of the way. And we have
troops moving forward to work out
on these snipers. They've been CIV
ing us some trouble"
Good going" came back Cap
tain w. O. Carter OF Montgomery,
Ala, Chapman, executive officer,
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DIPLOMATIC MOVE
BY REDS HAILED
Soviet Union Believed To
Have Scored Strategic
Success

MOSCOW, Feb. 2.-tR-The So
Wet Union is regarded as having
scored a great strategic success
in diplomacy, matching some of
the Red army's best efforts in
strategy, by deciding to grant a
new measure of autonomy in for
eign relations to its 16 constituent
republics.
It is felt by some diplomatists
here that the Russians have scored
brilliantly, no matter what the I'M
mediate developments may be.
CA Reuters dispatch from Mos
COW said a decree had been issued
putting the new plan into force.)
The new status of the 16 Soviet
republics is expected to give Mos
COW great bargaining power in for
eign relations, and it. is believed
the Russians will seek to realize
as much as legally possible from
the reconstruction period.
Gin London it was suggested
that MOSCOW, by announcing ao-
tonomy in foreign affairs for Es-
tonia, Latvia and Lithuania along
with the other constituent Soviet
republics, was making an effort to
solve the problem embodied in the
provisions of the Atlantic Charter
STIMULATING freedom of action and
decision for small nations. The So
Wet governments of these three
Baltic states have not been formal
ly recognized by the United States
and Great BritainO
If the usual policy is followed,
foreign nations should be informed
shortly of the new development
in the foreign policy of the Soviet
fcont;nued on Page Seven; Col. s.
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Montgomery Sees
Wars End In ~

A SOUTHEAST ENGLAND
TOWN, Feb. 2.-tR-Gen. Sir Der
nard L. Montgomery told his
troops today that they could finish
the war in Europe this year land
we will"
II want you men to know" said
the commander of British ground
forces in the i,'vastion command,
'that I never put an army into
battle until 1 am quite certain it
is going to be a good show. We
won't have any question of failure.
If there is an question we won't
'This war began long while
ago. I am getting fed up with the
thing. I think it nearly time we
finished it. We could not see at
the beginning how it would end.
That is not SO today. Definitely
not
To-day we can see how this bust
ness is going to end. The only
thing we cannot see is exactly
when. But I would say we must
make a great effort to finish it off
this year. We can do so-and we
will. You and I will see this thing
through together
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BY HAL BOYLE

A B TALON COMMAND
POST AT THE EDGE OF CAS-
SINO, Feb. g. LR American
Doughboys penetrated to the out
skirts of Casino, key bulwark of
the Casino corridor to Rome, be-
fore noon today and reinforc
rushed up Immediately to wipe out
the last German snipers hidden in
the hills and streets of this stub
bornly held town.
Infantryme some of whom had
been fighting Tor more than 20
hours without rest-had to wade
through heavy enemy tank, artil-
lery, mortar and small arms fire
to smash their way to the outskirts
of this historic town, most of whose
16 900 population fled before the
siege began almost three weeks
ago.
American tanks supported the
infantry advance and dueled with
German tank and anti-tank de-
lenses at the northern limits of
Casino, through which passes one
of Italy's most important North
south arteries - Highway No. 6,
leading straight to Rome. Stymied
by German "sacrificial squads"
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GEN. VANDERBILT
WILL VISIT BASE

NEW RIVER, Feb. 2.-R-Lieut.
Cen. Alexander A. Vandegrift will
arrive by plane at Camp Le1eune
here Friday morning for his first
inspection of the base as comman-
dant of the Marine Corps, Major
General Henry L. LarseH, U. 5.
M. c., commanding general OF the
camp announced today.
He said Gen. Vandegrift was
scheduled to remain here tour
DAYS. 1t will be Gen. Vandegrl1t S
first visit to Camp Leieune SINCE
he left with the First Marine u
vision in the spring of 1912 to drive
the Japs from the Solomon ISLANDS.
He took command of the DIVISION
when the camp consisted OF Htlle
more than a tented area. 1t mas
since grown into the corps largest
all-purpose base. :.
The commandment tour OF IN,
snection which will take in all
nhases of the training program.
here, will be highlighted by ms
address to all officers stationed al
the camp graduation exercises
for officer candidates of the "o,
MEMS reserve and a parade anc
review by women marines. From
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
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WILLKIE URGES
TAX RATE BOOST
Says Higher Levies Will
Increase Chances Of
Victory

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-tR-Wen-
dell L. Willkie urged tonight that
taxes be boosted now beyond any
limit that we have hitherto ina
gined possible" in orde.. to prevent
a national debt which he said
would ieopardize the very things
for which we fight.
II know that in the opinion OF
Congress, as evidence by the bill
on which the Senate and House
conference committee has agreed,
the eight billion dollar Treasury
proposal is too high" he said in
an address prepared foc the first
of a series of meetings arranged
by the New York Times on home
front problems. eff we are to be
realistic, it is far too low.
eff We are to be realistic, we
should aim to raise in additional
taxes more than double the pro-
posal."
When peace comes. Willkie said,
taxes must be ''minimized rather
than maximized" in order to stu
late the flow of goods, the taking
of risks and the creation of mil
hons of jobs.
1--WE must solve the postwar tax
problem" he said, mot by i'm.
posing the biggest possible rates
on our income, but by creating
the biggest possible income on
which to impose relatively modest
rates"
Willkie blamed Congress and the
administration Tor "a state of con-
fusion" of tax legislation.
There is an old political adage:
Vote for every appropriation; vote
against every tax measure" he
said. THAT is dubious counsel ir
ordinary times. It is fatal in these
times.
Whatever the political risk the
political leader is not worth his
salt who shirks the responsibility
of presenting war time necessities
to the people. We have been follow
ing a fiscal primrose path. 1t will
not lead to solution of our prob
lemb. 1t is time for us to face up
Willkie said that the Treasury
program to raise an additional ter
billion, six hundred million dollars
was not realistic and also was mis-
leading because it included a pro
vision to refund two billion, sever
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
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Threats Of Disaster Are Stalking
Nazis In Russia, laps In Pacific

Indicated Russian crossing Of
the Estonian-Russian border on
the Narva isthmus to invest Narva
itself means the northern escape
route has been definitely sealed
off. Yet there are Nazi troops still
deep in the shriveling Volkhov
bulge 100 miles east of Narva.
The converging jaws of Russian
trap are swiftly clamping shut on
them. A similar steel ring was
riveted about the German "army
of the dead'' at Stalingrad.
Southeast of Nafva, focal point
on the sea flank, a prong Of the
Russian Leningrad army has been
driven to the vicinity of Lake Sam
no. Only a 40 mile gap, threaded
by the Leningrad-Psokov railway
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81