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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04
COP Governors
Renew Blasts
at New Deal

ST. LOUIS, Aug. a. P -
The Is Republican Governors,
asserting that they had achieved
unity of though" with Presi-
dental candidate Thomas E.
Dewey, charged today that the
asserted failure of President
Roosevelt to exchange views
with State executives had pro-
duced costly misundestand-
ings" in the past.
Summing up two days of con-
ferenceS on what Dewey has
called AREAS of friction" be-
tween the States and the FEEDER
al government, the COP COVER
nors asserted it was their inten-
ton to work closely with Dewey
if he becomes president.
Calling for postwar simplica-
ton and reduction of taxes, the
Governors conference said in
other conclusions that the State
and National governments must
create "clear-cut labor and in
dustrial policies" must develop
coordinated social welfare serv-
ices and should work together
in the use and control of war
resources.
In their general conclusions
the governors charged that
there had been "a constant
grasping for power on the part
of the Federal government
They said that only through CO.
operation and sympathetic un-
derstanding" could this nations
system of government be made
to work.
For the past ten years, en-
tire regions Of our country have
been without representation in
the Cabinet or administrative
agencies of the Federal govern
ment. During that period the
governors of the states have new
er once been invited to ex-
change views with the Pres
dent of the United States. Both
of these conditions have produc-
ed costly misunderstanding and
can and must be remedied."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04
King George Declares
Nazi Leqions 0utfouqht

LONDON, Aug. 4-(P1-King
George vi declared last night
the Germans have been "out-
generated and out Tough" in
Italy.
In a message to Gen. Henry
Maitland Wilson, commander-in-
chief of the Mediterranean thea
ter, the King added:
This brilliant campaign has
added much to the glories Of the
British and h Dominions and the
Allied Armies"
The King returned to Britain
by air yesterday after Today
tour of the Battlefields in Italy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04
'Test.Tube' Babies May
Result from E Experiments

these eggs was a byproduct. One
woman yielded 13 eggs. The
Harvard scientists worked six
years before they were able sue
cesfully to initiate the first steps
in conception.
One of the early difficulties
was keeping the human eggs
alive long enough. Numerous
techniques were tried. One that
worked we'll was keeping them
in serum taken from the mother
herself.
Another problem was how
long the male sperms had to be
in contact with the egg or its
Immediately surrounding tissues
before fertilization occurred. In
the successful cases, this con-
tact lasted about one hour.
During that time the micro
scope showed the sperms in
great activity. clustering around
the ovum, and making their way
through layers of tissue that nor
mally enclose the human egg.
After fertilization, the first
cleavage of the egg into two
tissue cells, took place in from
40 to As hours. This cleavage is
the first step in development OF
a living body. 1t is the begin
ming of formation of the billions
of tissue cells which finally form
a complete individual. This
dividing of cells is not the only
process in growth, but it is one
of the principal ones.
Along with the increase n
number of tissue cells. goes the
appearance from time to time
of many different kinds of It's
sue cells, which ultimately form
the widely varied tissues ano
structures Of the human body.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04

LONDON, Aug. 4 - P -
Adolf Hitler, who has accused
certain German army elements
of attempting TO Stay him, is
employing mass promotions OF
SIS leaders to higher military
rank in an apparent move to
tighten Nazi party control over
the Wehrmacht, German broad
casts have disclosed.
In addition, Gen. Baron Rit-
ter Won Hengel, commander of
mountain troops and a Nazi
party member, has been ap-
pointed "Chief Nazi Political
Commissar" in the army. said
reports carried yesterday by
DNB, German news agency.
The political commissars' di-
vision was organized last Spring
for Nazi indoctrination of the
Army in preparation for a last
ditch fight.
DNB said Hitler made some
promotions Aug. mot the nor
NAL promotion date in the Ger
man army or in Nazi party for
nations. Most of them were for
Nazi' SIS men and included the
rank of colonel general for JOS
eph Dietrich, former command
er in chief of Hitler's personal
bodyguard and now commander
of the Hitler SIS division in
Normandy.
Also appointed a colonel gen.
eral was Paul Hausser, COM
.mander of the German Seventh
Army in Normandy and second
in command to the ailing Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Gen. Karl Oberg, Gestapo
chief in Paris, was promoted
from lieutenant general to full
general, five SIS major generals
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04
By HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE


NEW YORK, Aug. 4 - The
first artificial fertilization of
human ova, or eggs, in a glass
test tube. entirely outside the
bodies of the mothers and faith
ers, was announced today in the
Journal Science.
Although this Is technically
the first actual step in test tube
babies which for years have
been rumored in laboratories,
the experiments indicate abb
solutely no way to produce bab-
les artificially.
They are a medical study OF
the very first steps of human
conception. Two of these human
eggs divided, each into two
cells, and a third divided furth-
er into three cells.
These early steps are impos-
sible to observe in life. The test
tube technique makes them Wis
ible for the first time. Every
thing in this study was done
under the eye of a microscope,
with Photographic attachments
which made permanent records.
One special purpose OF the
study was to get information on
the rather battling problem of
human sterility.
The work is reported by John
Rock and Miriam F. Menkin of
the Department Of Gynecology,
Harvard Medical School. and the
Fertility Clinic Laboratory
Free Hospital for w o m n
Brookline, Mass.
The human ova were obtained
from women in their thirties,
during surgical operations in
which finding and recovery OF
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04
Moss Promotions of SIS
DESIGNED to Curb Junkers

were made lieutenant generals
three brigadiers were promoted
to major general, and IL officers
were advanced to full generals
"a British broadcast to Ger
many reported by Owl said
Field Marshal Erwin Won Wit
zleben, who stormed the Mag
mot line in 1910, played an inn
portant part in the revolt
against Hitler July 20. The
broadcast quoted speech by a
Nazi district leader, who not
only accused Witzleben but as
serted the plotting army gener-
ais had made contact with the
Soviet-sponsored free Germany
National committee in Mos
cow
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04
Stubborn Foe
Still Fights
i'm RenneS

UNDERNEATH AN AMERI-
CAN TANK NEAR RENNES
Brittany, Aug. 8 Delayed
! up - Everybody thinks the
American Army is in Rennes to.
day except a strong circle OF
homeopathic Germans.
They are surrounded but are
too stubborn to know when they
are licked.
And as a result, the ancient
city of Rennes at $50 this after
noon is still military layer
cake with a core of 10000 ner-
vous populace doubly envelop-
ed by a circle of suicide" Ger
man squads who in turn are sur
rounded by a great American
armored and infantry ring
Secretary of War Stimson in
Washington has announ
Rennes' fall).
The first Yank units thrust to
the outskirts of the city itself
last night, but were forced to
pull back temporarily because
this former capital of Brittany
still was defended by an enthus-
iastic perimeter of German
troops who haven't yet been
convinced they are in a hopeless
trap.
That is why I'm lying under
this Sherman tank and John
MacVane, MIC correspondent,
and 1t. Jim Rugg, of Renondo
Beach, Calf, are stretched out
in a nearby ditch.
We are with the most advanc-
ed tank units more than two
miles from Rennes, and we are
horizontal rather than vertical
because the Nazis have just
thrown over three cracking air
bursts with their double pur-
pose 88-millimeter guns from
their stronghold in a tiny village
just on the northeast outskirts
of Rennes which Is one of the
keys to the control Of all OF
Brittany and the Brest PENN
sula.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04
Romeo

ROMEO-Mr. and Mrs. II
Dale Palmer attended Com
mencement Exercises for med
ical students at the University
of Michigan Saturday, their son,
H. Dale, Jr., being member OF
the class. On Sunday the Palm
er family left for their summer
home at Interlochen, where they
will spend four weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Squier,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Voyle Robert
son and son, Allen, were Sun
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Wolfe at Dexter, Mich.
Mrs. Howard Ostrander and
daughter, Joan, and Charles
Hosner are guests this week OF
Miss Margaret Johnson of Mus
kegon.
Alice Stephan, Y sc, station
ed at Washington, D. c., is
spending a weeks leave with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert Stephan.
William and Robert Rex OF
Scarsdale, New York, are
spending a month with Mrs. Ro-
bert Greenshields.
The Misses Gloria and Bev-
erly Marentette of Battle Creek
are spending this week in the
home of their grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Lee j. Wilbur.
Mrs. George H. Clayton and
niece, Shirley Ann Clayton of
Montreal, Quebec, are guests in
the home of Mrs. Clayton's SON.
in-law and daughter, DR.. and
Mrs. A. NJ. Crawford.
Mrs. Anton Patti and little
son, Joey, are visiting her bro
Their and sister-in-l law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip Stone, or Lansing.
Miss Frances Griffin was a
weekend guest Of Mrs. Robert
Browner Of Detroit.
Frederick P. Smith arrived
home last week after spending
10 months at st. Petersburg,
Fla.
Mrs. Stanley Palmer has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Berkshire in
Petersburg, KY, for week.
Mrs. Donald B. Chubb spent a
few days this week as the guest
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar B. Svang,
at Akron, Ohio.
Miss Paula Deegan Is visiting
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs,
B. J. Cunningham, at Ubly,
Mich, and her brothers, Joe and
Peter, are visiting their paternal
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
E. Deegan, at Palms, Mich.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04
Graft Hearinq
in Final Phase
Arguments TO Court
Alone Remain

MASON, MlCH., Aug. 4-lHJ
The legislative graft trial en-
tered its closing phase today,
with the presentation of testi-
mony concluded and the oppos-
/ ing lawyers preparing their
closing arguments to the Circuit
Jury which is hearing the long
drawn trial of the % defendants.
On trial are five officials of
finance companies, accused of
paying brides totaling more than
$4,000 to II members of the
1899 Legislature who also are
defendants, in a conspiracy to
corrupt the shaping of laws af-
fecting the finance mems bus
mess. Selection of the jury to
hear the case started June IL,
and the trial has continued since.
This afternoon was set aside
for the hearing of motions to
strike from the trial record tes-
timony and exhibits to which
the defense attorneys object.
DISMISS JURY
Trial Judge John Simpson
last night dismissed the jury
until Monday morning, declar-
ing he would hear these motions
in the jurors absence.
Kim Sigler, special prosecu-
tor, is to have the first inning
when the arguments start Mon
day morning. He will be fol-
lowed successfully by 10 law
yers for the defense, each plead
ing for acquittal of the clients
he represents. Sigler also will
have the final voice in argu-
ments, but whether he will de-
liver the closing statement per-
sonally or turn this task over
to County Prosecutor Victor C..
Anderson was not disclosed.
The attorneys agreed that 1t
probably would be the after
noon of Friday, August IA, be-
fore they finish their speeches
and the Judge completes his
charge to the jury, explaining
possible verdicts at which it
might arrive.
Two jurors then will be drop
ped from the panel by lot, and
the jury then will retire to ar
rive at a verdict. The case was
heard by IA jurors.
DENIES CONSPIRACY
Samuel N. Hopkins, vice-pres-
ident of the Union Investment
Company of Detroit, was. the
last defendant to testify in his
own behalf. He denied any part
in any conspiracy, or that he
had anything to do with lobby
ing in the Legislature.
Hopkins testified his only con-
nection with the case was, in the
absence of Abraham Cooper,
president Of the company and a
defendant, to approve the is
suance of checks for $500 as
part of the company's contri-
button to a fund the prosecution
alleges was used to bride Legis-
lators. He said he knew nothing
about the fund, or purposes for
which it was to be expended,
adding that he was only a jun
ior vice-president Of the COM
pany.
The windup OF testimony
came a day ahead of schedule,
when the questioning of Hop
kins proved to be only brief.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04
Temperance Meeting
Set for AUGUST ]

A general meeting under the
auspices of the Mount Clemens
Council Of Churches in the in
terest of the temperance move
ment will be held Monday, Au-
gust 7 at 1880 p. m. in the Mount
Clemens Presbyterian church,
according to Rev. j. l.. Kenne-
dy, president of the Council of
Churches. The public is invited.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-04

This attack eased off late yester-
day Afternoon after a blanket Of
low clouds lifted from Dover
Strait and gave anti-aircraft
gunners better shooting at the
missiles.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-06
TOP OF THE MORNING
The main barrier between the human soul
and Christ is simply pride.
DR.. EGBERT SMITH.
They Protect You

When the days work is done, millions Of
people seek the sanctuary of their homes
Home is the one place where the strife and
turmoil of war can be temporarily shut Out
each evening. 1t is a haven Of security.
The public may not generally realize it.
but the protection of homes as well as fac
tories against fire, is an important phase Of
the fire insurance business. Fire prevention
engineers, trained and maintained by thei,
insurance companies, inspect cities and towns
map fire hazards, check water supply, fire
fighting equipment, and help local authori
ties in many other ways. In the Underwrit
ers' laboratories scientists test building ma
terials, wiring radios, irons, vacuum clean
ers; literally thousands of items, any one Of
which may carry a potential threat of fire
or explosion.
Fire prevention activities of the fire insur
ance companies have saved hundreds Of mil
lions of dollars worth of property and thou
san3s of lives, and have drastically reduced
the cost of insurance. In the last 30 years
both the rate of fire loss and the average
cost OF lire insurance nave Deen cut more
than 40 per cent.
While government planners talk in astro
nonlical terms of greater security for the hu.
man race it is interesting to note the prog.
ress of single industry toward making Sc
curity a reality. One would not have to look
very hard to find plenty of other enterprises
which, in the course of their existence, have
made this country a better place in which
to live.
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Air Force Terms

For the benefit of the man in the back row
who reads about groups of U. S. Army
Air Force bombers flying "sorties' or mis-
sions'' and wonders what they mean, here
is a glossary of operational terms furnished
by the European theater of operations of the
U. S. Army:
Flight-Three or more aircraft.
Squadron-Two or more flights.
Group-Three or more squadrons.
Wing-Three Or more groups.
Division-Compositon unlimited, depending
on the number Of wings available to be as
signed to it.
Air Force-Also unlimited.
Mission-Ordered operation against the en-
envy such as dropping bombs, strafing ground
troops and ships, dropping parachute troops
flying diversions omissions intended to draw
the enemy away from the main objective)
taking photographs, etc.
Sortie-Accomplished by a single air craft
when on an ordered operation it enters an
area where the eneny's defense usually is
active or on mission in the course of which
the plane is subject to enemy attack.
If reconnaissance plane flies over enemy
held territory it accomplishes sortie. A thou
sand sorties could mean one operation by
1000 planes, two operations by 500 planes
each-or one plane making 1000 trips.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-06
Disturbing Symptoms

Perhaps there is wry sort Of comfort in
reading Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's
statement in the House of Commons that the
United States is not debating Britain's foreign
policy. With all the talk Of our lack Of an
aggressive and detailed program Of foreign
relations, it will seem odd to many Arneri-
cans that Mr.. Eden's questioner ever enter
tanned such a notion.
But the knowledge that the same doubts
exist on both sides Of the Atlantic is some
what discouraging. The fact that citizens and
legislators of both Britain and America seem
to be suffering from mutual distrust and
thwarted nationalsm reemphasizes the need
of a clearer declaration Of intent by both
governments. Even in war, the citizens have
the urge and the right to know what the
scoF is.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-06
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Press War Analyst

L
A eliminating Nazi disaster is
taking shape in southwestern Rus
STA around Odessa. Coupled with
the probable fate of German and
satellite forces isolated in the Cri-
mea it could prove more crush
ing defeat than Stalingrad.
There are no authentic figures
on the number of Axis troops
caught in either of the made-in-
Moscow traps. The best guess in
Moscow and London is that 200,-
COO have been herded into the
Odessa pocket with their last d.
rect westward escape or supply
route cut by Russian capture of
Razdelnaya junction, 40 miles up
the Warsaw.Odessa railroad. Half
as many may still be in the Rus
sian by-passed Crimea. It is doubt
full that any substantial number
can be rescued from either Rus
sian moose. Some probably are
trickling into Rumania over the
Odessa-Galati rail-and-ferry sys-
tenn. Some from both Odessa and
the Crimea may be fleeing by sea
at night along the coast and some
few selected personnel may be fly
ing out. Fer the mass of Axis
troops pinned against the Black
Sea, however, there seems only the
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With Ernie Pyle

cidentally, has a funny little super
stition. It seems that on the very
first shell they ever fired when
they hit Africa, in 1912, they chalk
ed a message - the kind you've
seen in photographs - saying
Christmas Greetings to Hitler, "
and all put tfaei1 names on it.
They sent the shell over, and
Immediately the Germans sent one
back which exploded so close to
the gun-pit it wounded Z of the IL
men who had chalked their names
en- the American shell. From that
day to this, that crew won't chalk
anything on shell.
One day an army photographer
came around to take some pictures
of this gun crew firing. He asked
them to chalk one of those Hitler
messages on the shell.
The crew obliged and he took
the picutre But what the photo
grapher doesn't know is that the
shell was never fired. Afte- the
photographer left, they carried it
up the hillside, dug a hole and
buried it.
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Alas, Poor Dobbin

The automobile people have found time, in
the midst of turning out jeeps for the armed
forces, to sound out representative group
of American farmers on important post
war question. How did they feel, the Jeep
makers wanted to know, about this wartime
product as a peacetime farming aid?
The result of the poll was an overWhelm'
ing vote of confidence for the biz buggy
More than that, it developed that our farm
cure-all since Chief Thunderblrds Wlzaro
Snake Oil for Man or Beast. They are look
ing to a rosy future when this sturdy, snup
nosed vehicle will supply the motive power
for blowing, seeding cultivatlng and harvest
ing: for running silo filters, buzz saws, threSh
ing and milking machines; for doing STUMP
pulling, tree spraying haying and a dozer
other agricultural Jobs Some of the more
fanciful envisioned it as a serviceable com
panion on hunting and fishing trips.
Well the farmer certainly knows his needs
and his business If he wants to kiss the
horse goodby (and the mule along with it,
it's probably none of our affair." Yet the
thought fills some of the more sentimental
among us with an understandable melancholy
and with certain foreboding that might as
well be expressed here.
TIL. farmer understands, we hope, that with
the horses departure he is going to be lef
with his mechanical monsters, to master them
or be mastered by them. There will be none
of the warm intimacy-and warner exasper
ation-that exists between a man and his draf
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animal The farmer will get no calm and
dignified gratitude from his jeep when he
feeds it thankful of gas There will not be
that intimate sense of working together. AT
the end of a hot summer day the farmer
will not have the feeling that servant and
co-worker, tired as he and much more pa
tient, knows that it's supper time, too, and
will give the Job a little extra something to
finish it quickly.
In the day of the jeep and the new agro-
economy, it's going to be just man against
the weeds, the bugs and the elements-man
with one less helper. It's going to be awfully
efficient But we bet that there will be times
when the farmer will feel little bit lonely.
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choice between death and surren.

choice between death and surren-
der.
Those escaping in any case, will
leave behind them everything but
weapons they can carry by hand.
They will have little value until
rested. reorg aniz d and re-
equipped even if their morale is
unbroken. Yet they are all that
is left of at least three once pow
erful German armies that stood
on the Volga and deep in the eau
casus last winter and have since
known nothing but defeat and re-
treat.
Russian capture Of Razdelnaya
junction did more than virtually
snap shut the Odessa trap. It put
the right flank Of the Third Ukrain-
ian Army in a position to drive
westward at the Tiraspol crossing
of the Dniester to junction in
Bessarabia with the left wing of
the Second Ukrainian Army that
has forged across the Prut into
Rumania. 1t could strike south
westward at the crucial Galati-Si-
ret pivot Of the Nazi Carpathian
Danube defense line in Rumania
to match the second Ukrainian
push down the Iasi-Calat; railroad.
The only remaining Nazi escape
route from Odessa is the minor
railroad from the city to the east
shore of the Dniester estuary
where a connecting ferry crosses
the wide sea arm to Cetatea-Alba
to link with arothez: rail route.
That line runs well northward be-
fore it swings west to reach Gala
ii. It is menaced by potential
Russian drive via Tiraspol to cut
Odessa off completely from the
west. The only other rail connec-
ton west of the Dniester estuary
is dead~end to the Danube.
It is still uncertain, however,
whether Russian plans call for a
mopping-up C m p i g n against
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Odessa and the C-imea or bv.,,
ing them temporarily to exns" a,
the invasion OF Rumania bv ~ Nv
combined S cond and Tbia.
Ukrainian armies. 'o
Recapture of Odessa would !.
celebrated in Moscow with boon.
ing guns. But there are obyinn .
good arguments for wallinp il ~,
and by passing it to redouble W.
width and impact of the Rusoins
drive into Rumania. '''