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Evening star., 1944-01-20
Tammany Insurgents Plan
Court Test if Necessary

Py the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Oppo-
nents of Michael J. Kennedy plan
not only to remove him as Tam
many Hall leader Saturday but will,
If necessary, apply for Supreme
Court order Monday to restrain
him from continuing to discharge
the duties of leader.
This was announced yesterday by
spokesmen for the anti-Kennedy
bloc after the Tammany chief had
said he would not attend the Sat-
urday Executive Committee session,
called by the insurgents, and termed
1t illegal.
The call for the meeting was is
sued by Edward v. Loughlin, 14th
Assembly District leader mentioned
as possible success If Mr.. Ken
nedy is deposed. Mr.. Loughlin said
a majority of the committee men,
bers had requested the meeting.
Mr.. Kennedy, through Repre-
sentative Fay, committee chairman.
has called session for January %
to permit ANY leader or leaders
desirous of affecting a change in
the leadership Of our organization
a full opportunity to express their
views"
Evening star., 1944-01-20
'Cotholic Economic Group
Will Meet Here SUNDAY

The second annual convention OF
the Catholic Economic Association
will be held Sunday at the Willard
Hotel.
Speakers for the convention,
which will open at 1:30 pm, include
M. Joseph Meehah, War Production
Board, who will speak on The Eco
nomic Dimensions of the Postwar
Adjustment: the Rev. Robert
Shannon, Christian Brothers Col
lege, ST. Louis, THE Industry
Council as an Instrument of Recon-
struction"; Alice E. Bourneuf, Fed
eral Reserve Board, Monetary In
stitutions In the Postwar World"
James Twohy, Federal Home Loan
Bank Administration, The Econo-
mists Opportunities and Resonsi-
bilities"; the Rev. DR.. Thomas F..
Divine, dean of the school of busi-
ness administration, Marquette Uni
versity, Milwaukee, Wis, and Msgr.
John A. Ryan, National Catholic
Welfare Conference, honorary presi-
dent. 1t was stated enormously in
Tuesdays Star that the convention
would be held Monday.
Evening star., 1944-01-20

people will eventually turn again to
10 strong centralized government
We might Is well face 1t; that ia
what they viii demand. It may be
five years from now; It may be 10
years hence, but it will happen.
vital Factors Enumerated.
What then? Will the American
people be so fortunate to find an
other man as great, as democratic
minded, as Franklin d. Roosevelt to
lead them through the crisis? Or
will the man on the horse the
man with the iron fist,' seize con-
trol?"
The committee he is appointing
Speaker Rayburn said, will draw into
one common pool information on
these vital postwar factors:
l. Conversion speeds, unemploy-
ment and rate Of unemployment.
2. ALLEGATION of materials; selec-
ton of categories to which critical
materials should go first.
3. Public works, Federal, State
and local.
4. New fields Of enterprise; the
speed at which they can be put
in operation. and their labor -ab-
sorbing quotient.
Foreign Trade Resumption.
S. Resumption of foreign trade;
the possibility of new world mar
kets: coordination with the re-
habilitation efforts of the United
Nations.
g. The release of surplus war
commodities by the Government;
the channeling of their sale to mini
mize the economic impact, while
protecting the public interest.
T. Examination OF Federal statutes
to learn which will retard and which
will aid successful postwar CONVEX
sion.
In a speech last night Henry j.
Kaiser urged cities to draft plans
for building superhighways, schools
and hospitals and rebuilding streets
and slums when the war ends.
He also envisioned vast under
ground parking facilities to meet
the needs of possible 100 per cent
increase in urban auto travel.
Evening star., 1944-01-20

Havana. where She accompanied her
|husband, Alfred de MarignS, who
was ordered to leave the Bahamas
after his aequittal Of : charge Of
numbering Nancy'S father, Sir Harry
Cakes.
She sought to have some part Of
the $4,000. 900 to 100000 be-
lqueathed her by her father released
by the Exchange Control Committee
SO she could transfer 1t to Cuba for
medical and living expenses. She
suffers from q jaw infection result
ing from near-fatal attack Of
typheid fever while on q Mexican
honeymoon.
Mrs. de Marigny, who spent q
small fortune in behalf of her hus-
band during his fight for life before
jury, IS pleading single-handedly
for use Of some part of her fortune.
Sir Harry directed in his will that
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Il New Members Named
10 Committee 10 Save Jews

Twelve new members have been
named to the Washington Commit
tee to Save Jewish People Of Europe
1T was announced today.
They include: Ellsworth c. Alvord
Clarence A. Aspinwall, Walter j
Cummings, jr., Col. and Mrs. M. Rob-
ert Guggenheim, James Patten, DR.
Leo s. Rowe, James A. Mclaughlin
Mrs. Dorothy Smith Gruening, VIII
bur J. LaRoe, jr., John Saul, and
Miss Meredith Howard.
Headed by Secretary of the In
terror Ickes, honorary chairman, and
George Maurice Morris, chairman
the committee is rallying nation
wide, ondenominational support OF
a pending Congressional resolution
authorizing the President to estab-
lish a commission to review the
problem of saving the surviving
Jewish people in Europe. The Sen
ate resolution was introduced by
Senator Gillette, Democrat of Iowa
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Nancy De Marigny
To Sell furnishings

By the Associated Press.
NASSAU, Bahamas. Jan. 20.-
Nancy Oakes de Marigny. inheritos
OF full share Of her fathers gold
mine millions, offered her household
furnishings for sale ut auction yes
terday and refused to pay 4 few
cents on postage-due letters because
the Bahamas government has tied
up her funds.
Il can't afford It," she said at the
post ONCE, where Christmas greet
ings were held for approximately 81
cents postage shortage.
Mrs. de Marigny came here from
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Rayburn 10 Appoint
Committee 10 Draft
Prosperity Laws
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20.--Admonish-
ing that "if we bungle the postwar
Job" some people will renew de-
mands for Capitalization Of Govern
ment, Speaker Rayburn announced
to the Conference of Mayors today
he would appoint next week a BIZ
partisan committee of the House to
frame legislation for a peacetime
prosperity.
The Speaker. mentioned promi-
nently by his Democratic colleagues
for the party's vice presidential
nomination, declared:
If we allow the specter of de-
preston to rise once more. then the
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Iowa Navy School Head III

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Jan. 20 (P.-
Capt. David c. Hanrahan, COM
mandant of the Iowa Navy Preflight
School here, is i'll with pneumonia,
the Navy public relations ofiice an
nounced here last night.
Evening star., 1944-01-20
THE EVENING STAR, Warrington, q. 80. A-l3
lANuAAY

she Be given . minimum q 81 900
monthly, but even this amount Is
entangled In exchange regulations.
Now 10, her fortune is held In trust
until she reaches the age of 30.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
Claim Nozis
Steered Coup
in Bolivia

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay,
Jan. 20 (R) "A secret confer
ence at Buenos Aires in the
home of Count Karl Won Lux
burg, former German minister
to Argentina, was said here to-
day to have preceded the Dec.
20 revolution in Bolivia.
The authority for his report,
whose identity must remain Sc
cret, said that information on
the conference came through at
least two different diplomatic
channels.
Bolivian revolutionary lead
ers were in contact with Argen-
tine Nationalist at this meeting,
these informants sa:a, and Vic
tor Paz Estensboro, finance min
lister in the new Bolivian regime
of President Major Gualberto
Villarroel, was reported to have
received some millions OF Ar
gentine pesos"
The informants said this data
was included in information ex-
changed between 18 American
republic in connection with the
question whether recognition
should be accorded to the Vilar-
roel regime.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
Grating Ex-Mayor
Enters Prison Cell

JACKSON, Mich, Jan. 20
(P)-Richard w. Reading, for
mer Detroit mayor convicted of
conspiracy TO protect gambling
in Detroit, surrendered today at
Southern Michigan Prison TO be-
gin serving a sentence Of four TO
five years.
Reading, who was driven to
the prison by his son, Clare. was
given prison number 57l78. He
will be confined 10 quarantine
for 80 days. regular prison
procedure. before receiving a
prison assignment.
He told Charles Watson, rec
ord clerk, he has been in poor
health and under the care of q
physician.
While Reading and his son
were enroute to Jackson, Sher-
ifs deputies, acting on a COM
mitment order issued by the
Supreme Court, were searching
for him. Supreme Court orders
also we're issued in the cases
of IL others convicted of graft
conspiracy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
STUDENTS SCORE HIGH
Sabotage
Turns Out
to Be Myth :

Rufus Stone, 10, of ST. Louis.
Mo, who surrendered on Mon
day to M;comb county officers
and tolJ a fantastic tale of hav-
ing fled a Federal prison farm
where he was serving Is year
term for sabotage, today was
revealed as a. fugitive from the
Maryland House of Correction
where he was serving six months
for the much less dramatic crime
of simple assault.
The youth, who gave himself
-up at the office of Police Chief
Hubert Champine, in New Ha-
ven, said his conscience both
erfed him and that he felt he
should serve the balance of his
term. 1t took two days of hur-
ried search through prison rec
ords by Sheriff Jacob F. Theut
and the Federal Bureau of In
See FUGITIVE-Page 2
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Grounded
HlSH-FlYlNG CABBIG
MUST HOOF-TT
FOR YEAR

George Latrouno, 20-year-old
taxi driver of 2720 Union Lake
road, Harrison township, will
not be able TO drive his cab
again for at least one year -
and he has five days in the
county jail to think that over.
Arrested early Wednesday
morning by Police Lieut.. Har-
vey Hammond and Sgt. Stanley
Campbell who almost had their
scout car wrecked when they at
tempted to stop him, Latrouno
pleaded guilty to drunk driving
yesterday afternoon before JUS
tice Donald j. Parent, who, in
addition TO the five-day jail sem
tence, fined him $50 and costs,
and revoked his drivers license
for one year. He was driving
his own car at the time of his
arrest.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
Fast Work
YOUTH NABBED WITH
TRUCK LOAD OF
OVERAllS

A half-hour after he had
stolen a truck load OF overalls
in Detroit 16-year old boy was
taken into custody by Mount
Clemens police officers yester-
day and turned over to Detroit
detectives.
Spotted on Gratiot avenue
here by w. +. Adams, an en-
ployee of the Central Overall
Company, owners Of the truck,
the youth was arrested by Mount
Clemens police and the stolen
truck impounded for return to
the Detroit manufacturing con-
Germ.
The truck, loaded with over
$500 worth of new overalls, was
s.olen from in front of the over
all firms offices when the driver
parked it there momentarily.
The youth told Mount Glenn
ems police that he had merely
borrowed" the truck to go skat-
ing on Lake st. Clair. He said
he hadn't realized that it was
loaded at the time.
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REFUSES TO ANSWER
FBI Director Mum

forbidden from discussing
questions of this type"
Carey insisted the committee
should have the Presidential di-
receive.
Chairman Lea (D-CaliD said,
81 take it no one impugns the
motives of the witness. .
The President, however, could
not by blanket order exempt a
witness from testifying before
the committee.
Rep. Hart (D-NJ), member of
the committee, said there was
something bit nebulous"
about Hoover's saying he was
told not to testify.
1.-THE committee is entitled to
the particular instructions under
which the witness seeks i'm
munity from answering ques-
tons" he asserted.
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advancinY forces had enYeloped
the villages Of Argento, Tufo
and Suio. the capture OF Ils.o
carrying the thrust across the
Appian Way ancient road to
Rome - and within a mile and
a half of Minturno itself. A bat
tie was reported raging for Min
turno.
German opposition was re-
ported severe along the front
of at least seven miles where
the British began their drive
with a night attack Monday,
YANKS ADVANCE
In the area north of Casino,
now under fire of American ar
tillery, Yank patrols again cross
ed the Rapido River to probe out
German defenses there. Still
farther inland French troops of
the Fifth Army made contact
with the enemy, but no details
were announced.
The British crossing of the
Garigliano, the first action on
this sector in two months, was
achieved under cover of a smoke
screen, and was supported by an
amphibious operation in which
some troops were moved by sea
to a point on the Tyrrhenian
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
Horse Dealer
Case Adjourned

Justice court trials in three
cruelty to animals cases pend
ing against George Rivard, 10,
Warren Township horse dealer,
will be held in this city on
Jan. 81.
Rivard appeared before JUS
tice of the Peace Donald j. Par
ent in the latest case Wednes-
day and his attorney asked for
the weeks delay for study Of
the cases. Rivard is also named
in warrant before Justice
Frank E. Jeanette.
Complaints have been made
by the Michigan Humane So
ciety claiming that horses had
been so neglected at farm used
by Rivard that several died and
others were in an extremely
weakened condition.
Dates of the complaints
against Rivard are Dec. 20, Jan.
l. and Jan. IL. Sheriff Jacob F.
Theut's deputies investigated the
complaints and arrested Rivard.
The horses involved in the
See CRUELTY-Page .
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THANKFUL FOR PRAYERS
Joe Herr Escapes Death i'm Sky

The terse phrase "there are no"
atheists in foX-holes' applies
with equal intensity of feeling to
the cockpits of crippled fighter
planes looming toward destruc-
ton in the South Pacific, in the
opinion of Lieut.. q. g. Joseph
Herr, u. S. Navy, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Herr, 22102 Clay
street, st. Clair Shores.
Lieut.. Herr, on active duty in
the Southwest Pacific theater of
war since July, 1943, narrowly
escaped with his life and suffer-
ed minor injuries when his plane
was shot down few weeks ago.
To his thankful parents he wrote
81 know that the prayers of you
folks back home saved my life
and the lives of countless of my
fellow filters. Please tell every
one you know to pray for the
safety of everyone he or she may
know in the services. 1t helps a
lot"
The 24-year old ST. Clair
Shores officer was commissioned
an ensign in the Nays Flying
Arm just one year ago following
ground and flight school train
ing at Miami, Fla, and Atlanta,
Ga. Since that time he has been
attached 10 a FLAT top" in the
Pacific. He hasn't,
attempted to, nor can he, reveal
details of his colorful expert
ences since going into combat
but he has informed his parents
that he was "dunked" in action
against the Japanese and that
1--WE have knocked down a salts
factory number Of Zeros'.
Lieut.. Joe's brother, John, Jr.,
q, is a Naval Air Cadet, and ex-
poets TO win his gold flying wings
in March. He has been in the
Navy since May, 1941, and has
held, progressively, the ratings
See BROTHERS-Page 2
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OPA to Probe
Short Drinks

DETROIT, Jan. 90 (P) -
A. d. Reugsegger. district office
of Price Administration enforce
ment attorney, said today the
Michigan liquor control COM
mission, federal alcohol tax unit
and the OPA would combine
forces to investigate reports that
bars were evading price regula-
tons by servinb short drinks.
He said there have been many
complaints that Detroit drinking
places not only were serving wa
tered liquor but we're giving
short measure in whisky glasses
at the old prices.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-(R)-
j. Edgar Hoover. director of the
Federal Bureau Of Investiga-
ton, today declined before a
House committee investigating
the fe eral communications
commission to answer questions
relating to internal security.
He said President Roosevelt
had directed him not to answer
such questions.
Committee Counsel Eugene
L. Carey, questioning Hoover
abou. a case involving Alfonso
Lombiazi, a broadcaster in Bos-
ton, asked, did you ever rec
ommend that Lombiazi be put
off the air?"
Hoover replied that, while he
did not desire 10 interfere with
the committees work, he was
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
Three Enemy
Freighters Are
Sent 10 Bottom
Joponese Air Force
Shows Sudden Stiff
Defense Powers
BY MORRIE LANDSBERG
Associated Press War Editor

American precision bombers
sent three and probably five
more Japanese ships to the
graveyard of Rabaul Harbor in
the most damaging of series of
Allied raids on enemy island
bases in the Pacific.
More than 200 American and
japanese planes fought it out
over the New Britain Japanese
bastion Monday, and the raid
ers came away with the convic-
ton that the Nipponese air.
force is not deteriorating as
some recent statements may
have indicated.
Solomons-based torpedo and
divebombers, flying in at mast
head height. hit eight Of IL mer-
chant ships at Rabaul with 1000
and 1000 pound bombs, sinking
three and probably two others.
The Japanese lost ID to 33
planes. Twelve American air
craft failed to return.
1400-MlLE FLIGHT ~
On the same day, Navy bomb
ers struck at Kusaie, one of the
Caroline group with at least
three good harbors, in an at
tack that possibly foreshadoW-
cd an aerial campaign against
the enemy's No. island defense
line. Kusaie is 700 miles west
of the American-Won Gilberts
and 700 miles east of Truk, an
Choir base of the Carolines.
Army bomberS renewed their
raids on the Japanese-held Mar
shalls in the Central Pacific,
striking again in Mill Atoll. Ra-
dio Tokyo reported a second at
tack on Mill yesterday in which
1t said one of IL American
bombers was shot down.
Although apparently there
was no interception over Mill
and Kusaie, the heavy fighter
strength the japanese showed
at Rabaul led General MacAr-
thurs spokesman to comment
See PACIFIC-Page 2 4
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COMPLETE MCHS STUDIES
80 Graduate Jan. ~

liver the sermon, while the
Cappella Choir will ron6m
1.-THE Lords Prayer" The 49,
lie is invited TO attend ~
service. y
Glass night exercises for 90
class, which precedes g
mencement ceremonies ~ 60
days, will be held Tuesday q
o'clock in the high school 60
torium, when those utton
will hear an address b.
class president, Daniel Duck
Both Victor Potoroka, -
valedictorian, end Ada -
salutatorian. viii slso sUook
the exerciseD. ~ .peoGsom &
cludes Q mlnGepG1 ekit, I'd
reading Of - 60 hlgoosy &
the class VII.
Music for The occas1oQ M
supplied by The high e.
band. 49,.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
BY HENRY c. CASSIDY

u 4 HEINZ =. CASSlDx
MOSCOW, Jan. 20 - (R-
Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Len
ingrad offensive, rolling across
fields wet with a January thaw,
today threatened with encircle-
ment great German siege,
army of perhaps $50, 900 men,
dug into a vast honeycomb o.
defenses to hold the eastern tipI
of Nazi lines which formerly
embraced the landward ap-I
proacheS of the city Of Peter the
Great.
The Northern Red Arlhyj
grabbed the bulk of the speciaI.I
ly designed long-range guns]
which had hurled steel and
death and destruction into The.
former Czarist capital of Russia
for more than two years ot|
siege.
The troops Joined forces att
er striking out in two powerful
prongs south of Leningrad and
from Oranienbaum, the Soviet
bridgehead on the Gulf of Fin-I
land to the west of the city.
CLOSE GAP
(This juncture, closing q sev.|
en- mile gap between the two
spearheads, either trapped Ger
mans who had held . narrow
stretch of the Gulf of Finland
coast just west of Leningrad. or]
drove them out.)
AT the same time q thru
thirst just north of Lake linen.
100 miles southeast of Leni6s]
grad, had virtually isolated thol
German base city Of Novogorotls
(The German communiQuol
announced that Nazi forces had
evacuated Novogorod.)
The Red Army units, which
carried through one Of the best
maneuvers of the war, drove to]
within ID miles of the East
West railway from Tallin in the
Baltic state of Estonia to Volog..
da, a junction on the Moscow:
Leningrad line.
Except for one highway this
railway was the only communi-
cation line available to the Ger
mans holding the German sale
ent reaching TO within q few
miles of Lake Ladoga, east Of
Leningrad.
Troops on the Leningrad
front under Gen. Leonid A.
Govorov, veteran Of the battl0!
of Moscow. blasted . hole ~
miles wide southwest Of Lenin@,
grad and advanced from sevo1ns
and one-half to IL miles In r.
gaining some Of Russia's most
historic ground from the invo0s'
e"s, a Soviet war bulletin a.
nounced. s.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
Lobor-Union
Tactics Are
Investigated

DETROIT. Jan. 20 - (P) -
Prosecutor William E. Bowling
said today his investigation in
to reported attempts by ALL
teamsters to coerce retail flor
lists into union membership has
been broadned to include SINH
lar charges by undertakers,
grocers. poultry dealers and
other retail businesses.
Bowling said he had arrang-
ed TO confer today with Bert
Brennan, teamsters union Of
fetal.
Involved in the inquiry are
owners of self-operated bust
nesses who operate their own
delivery service and who have
reported TO Bowling that the
transfers have insisted that at
least one member of the fam
lily join the union.
Bowling said the union ac-
coded Wednesday TO his request
for removal of a picket line
from a Hamilton avenue under
See RACKET-Page
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is. Thomas
Speaks Tonight
New Frontiers
Topic of Lecture

With ticket sales tagging
slightly. teachers and pupils of
Mount Clemens high school to-
day are making a last-minute
effort to bolster attendance at
tonight's lecture. which will
feature DR.. James Shelby Thorn
as who, on the subject. New
Frontiers for Smart People /,
will discuss the world Of tomor-
row as he believes it will be.
AS soon as the war is done
with. and all war industries are
See LECTURE-Page z
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Bond Reports
are Optimistic
Workers Plunge Into
Vital Home Front Effort

stamps, Supt. L. Wade Fast re-
ported. The high school topped
the list with S10,965, with Lin
coin second with a purchase of
81 ,95030. Other school purchas-
es were: Clemens, S76.70; Dick
inson, S346.20; Donal d n,
10000; Grant, S433.65: Ma
comb, $685., and w Is n,
S710.85.
However, County Chairman
Clark emphasizes that great
surge of generosity must take
place TO attain the Mount Glenn
ems goal of Sl.276. 600-as COM
See BONDS-Page 2
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35CaI|ed Up
for phYsitals
Boovd No. !
Lists Drotees

Thirty-five registrants OF Ma
comb Draft Board No. /, today
were slated to appear for pre-
induction physical exams in De-
troit on Friday, as the first levy
so called under new Selective
Service procedure.
After these registrants take
their examination at the lnduc-
ton Station they will be noti-
fled at that time whether or
not they are acceptable to the
Armed Forces of the United
See DRAFT-Page 3
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Claim HelgOland
Evacuation

LONDON, Jan. 20-(P)-The
Berlin radio said today that all
civilians have been evacuated
from Helgoland. the Germans
great North Seat Island fortress
of World War which they
were generally believed to have
refortified later in defiance of
The Versailles Treaty.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
King Receives
Gen. Eisenhower

LONDON. Jan. 20 = R -
Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower and
Air Chief Marshall Trafford L.
Leigh-Mallory, his invasion air
commander, were received In
audience by King George a,
Buckingham palace today.