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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-29
Channel Heat Scars
to 100 Degrees as
Nazis Await D-Day

LONDON. May 29-tP)-Ger-
man broadcastS reflected in
creased tension IN Marshal Won
Rundstedts entire invas o n
front facing this troop-p packed
over the CLASSY Strait of Dover
island today as. temperature!
reached an unofficial 100 de-
grees shortly before noon.
Nazi commentators asserted
that Gen. Eisenhower had miss
cd one favorable invasion date
when the tides and weather
we're perfect and cried out:
Germany would prefer for the
invasion 10 come today rather
than tomorrow.
That suggested that enemy
defenses at least once already
had been brought to a nerve.
wracking peak of alertness,
only 10 find that Hitlers COM
mand had guessed wrong.
at Is no longer a secret that
the British have already missed
one invasion date The German
transocean agency said, quoting
foreign office spokesman
DNB. the official enemy news
agency, said there can be no
doubt that the original date fix
ed for invasion has passed but
there are so many symptoms
and speculations in connection
with the next date that Ger
many cannot possible be taken
by surprise"
The Swiss newspaper, Ga
zette De Lausanne, gave a new
clue to the defense problem OF
See wEATHER-Pase 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-29
Scour Woods
6rEscaped
Cop Killer

MARQUETTE, Mich, May %
-tP)-A widespread search
throughout the Upper Peninsula
was continued today for Alfred
A. A'Hearn, 42-year old convict
who escaped from the Northern
Michigan prison dairy farm Sat
urday after serving 20 years of
a life term for the murder of a
policeman during bank holdup
in Detroit.
Warden Ralph Benson said
A'Hearn jimmed the door of a
steel locker to obtain a .38 cali
Der revolver and is "doubly dan
gerous' because he "has nothing
to lose" A $50 reward has been
offered by prison officials.
See ESCAPE-Page 2
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Soldier Vote Only Topic
for legislative Session

HERSHEY. Pa, May 29-(R
Governor Harry F. Kelly of
Michigan, said today a special
session of the Michigan legisla-
ture. called for June 10, proba-
bly, will be limited to soldier
vote legislation.
Kelly. attending the national
conference of Governors. told
a reporter:
AT the present time. the only
thing being considered Is the
soldier ballot.~
He declined to comment on
whether there was . possibility
of other subjects being included
later in the call.
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British and German names.
Shells gave little signs passing
overhead and mortar explosions
grunted in the distance.
An American tank, its gun
pointed mutely at the sunset sky
and the crash helmets Of its
long dead crew stamped flat in
the cratered road, marked the
approach TO Aprilia, four others
were rusting further on.
THE FACTORY
To the British Ameri n
troops who first captured April
ia in January and lost it the last
time on Feb. 5, il always was
known as The Factory" clus-
tered in an area Of one Ameri-
can city block. with high brick
church and four story buildings
in the center, il resembled an
industrial plant in outline. A
tall tower once rose beside il.
Battered by hundreds OF
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-29
Boy, 4, Killed
by Automobile
Prosecutor Probes
Troeie Accident

A four-year-old boy, playing
at the roadside outside his house
on the Glenwood road, was in
stantly killed Saturday after
noon when struck by a car driv-
en- by 17-year-old youth who
made efforts to avoid the boy
and two young companions, ac-
cording to official reports.
The dead child is Robert
Richard Schleicher, who would
have been five on July 4, the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Schleicher, 1892 Glenwood.
He was struck by car driven
west on Glenwood at 3:45 .. m.
Saturday by Max Moritz, of
1880 Glenwood. The child was
dead when Mrs. Schleicher rush
ed out and carried him into the
house.
COULDN'T AVOID CHILD
Questioned by Assistant Pros
ecutor Fred Van Fleteran, Nor
itz claimed he saw three boys
playing by the roadside and
sounded his horn when rs feet
away. He said he was driving at
Is miles an hour. He was re-
leased pending further study of
the case, and ordered not 10
drive until a determination is
made. IlN
A report by sheriff's deputies
uoted Moritz as stating that an
other car was approaching his
as he neared the Schleicher
house. and just as he came near
the children, one boy (later
identified as RoberD ran sever
al PAGES into the road and waved
his hand as though to throw
something at the car-although
he held nothing in his hand.
Moritz said he swerved his
car away from the child and
almost brushed the car APP
See ACCIDENT-Page 2
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Admiral Asks
Public Trial
Legislation to Extend
Time for Hearing

WASHINGTON, May 29-(Pl
Accompanied by demand
from Rear Admiral Husband +.
kimmel- for an open trial
soon, legislation allowing more
time for court martial action
against the men in command at
earl Harbor when the Japanese
struck moved swiftly forward in
both houses today.
The House rules committee
approved a measure extending
for one year from June the
time in which the proceedings
might start and directing" that
See PEARL HARBOR-Page 2
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Fifth Storms
Four German
Strongho|ds
Three Of l8 Nozi
Divisions Destroyed
by Allied Offensive
By SID FEEDER

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
NAPLES, May % - up - Fifth
Army troops stormed toward
four Rome line strongholds
against fierce resistance today,
thrusting one wedge within II
miles of the eternal city.
Headquarters declared three
of ID German divisions engaged
in battle had been virtually de-
stroyed in the broad offensive
launched May IL. with more
than $4,000 prisoners taken.
Overwhelming Aprilia. once
bitterly contested beachhead
fortress, the Fifth punched
North within mile of Com
poleone-the closest penetration
toward Rome. To the East the
Fifth Army advanced within
1000 yards of Valmontone, on
the shell-torn Via Sasilina, des-
pite flame-throwing German
counterassaults.
SHELL ESCAPE ROUTE
/ Steady Artillery fire was
pumped onto the Via Casilina,
main escape route for eight
German divisions being forced
back on the front to the South
east.
In between on the Campole-
one-Valmantone line, other for
ces fought in the outskirts OF
Velletri on the Appian way. and
closed upon Lanuvia. four miles
Southwest, where the Alban
hills begin to rise from the Pom
tine plain.
Despite several sharp Ger
man counterattacks, the Ameri-
cans are advancing slowly in
the direction of Rome" A battle
front dispatch from Associated
See ITALY-Page 2
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BY DANIEL DE LUCE

APRILIA, Italy, May % -
(Delayed)-(P)-The red stone
Christ looks down from April
las ruined church tonight on
fresh blood spilled at this ghast-
ly milestone on the Allied road
TO Rome.
The dust and stencil Of Cord
tie are drifting away after a
crashing German bombardment.
and Corp. William Sweeney Of
Liverpool, England. who fought
at Ell Alsmein in North Africa,
has just carried a wounded
tommy out of the rubble.
Aprilia was in German hands
last night. II was a no mans
land this morning. At 3 p. m. il
fell to the British when Major
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-29
CycHst Strikes Car,
is Run Over by
Passing Machine

Thrown from his motorcycle
when il struck car turning at
an intersection, 22-year- old
local man early Saturday morn
ing was run over by secon |
car as he lay helpless on the
Pavement before removal to
hospital.
See CYCLIST-Page 2
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Is MILES FROM ROME

Ironically this model village
of Fascism, which has changed
hands five times since the Anz-
10 beachhead was established
and has cost the lives Of thou
sands of Allied and German
soldiers, was occupied without a
hand 10 hand struggle.
Eighteen miles away lies
Rome. and our offensive is roll
ing onward.
reached Aprilia across two
miles Of flat open fields, thick
with red peoples and ripening
grain, by hugging the bottom of
drainage bitches where crude
wooden crosses bore American,
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Evening star., 1944-08-13
Jubilee Celebration
Encourages Contest

The Cincinnati Symphony Or
chestra announces a Nation wide
competition among American COM
posers for the writing of Jubilee
Overture for full orchestra to cele-
brate the 50th anniversary of the
Cincinnati orchestra which takes
place during-the coming season of
1944-5.
/ A prize of a $1,000 War Bond will
be awarded to the composer of the
best work submitted. Eugene Coos
sens. conductor of the Cincinnati
orchestra, Pierre MonteuX. conduc-
tor of the San Francisco Symphony
Orchestra, and Deems Taylor will be
the judges.
The competition is open to all
American citizens. The overture
which preferably should be of a
festival character, should have a
duration of 10 to Is minutes, neither
more nor less 1t must be a new
work written especially for the oc-
casion of the Cincinnati Symphony's
50th anniversary.
Full scores should be sent to j. M.
OKane, manager of the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra, SIG Gwynne
Building, Cincinnati 2, Ohio, and
must arrive there on or before Oc-
tober IS. Each score should be
marked with pseudonym. The
composers name and address will be
disclosed only after the judges
have agreed on the prize winning
work, which will be given its first
performance in Cincinnati in De-
cember.
All scores will be returned to their
authors and will remain their prop
erty with the exception of the prize
winning work.
Evening star., 1944-08-13
American Soprano
In Formal Recital

Emma Beldan, a distinguished
young American soprano and for
mer member of the Philadelphia
Opera Company, will give a recital
in the East Garden Court of the
National Gallery of Art, at 8 p. M,
this evening. She will be accom-
panied by Miksa Merson, resident
Washington pianist.
Miss Beldan has sung widely
throughout the country and in ad-
dition to her roles with the Phila-
delphia Opera Company, has ap-
peared in many productions of the
Juilliard School in New York and
at the Berkshire Music Center. Her
program will consist of two arias
from Mozarts Marriage of Figaro"
"Porgi Amor" and Dove Sono,'
'Dich Teure Halle" from Wagner's
"Tannhauser" and three groups OF
songs by Torelli, Mozart, Scarlatti,
Paisello, Rossini, Brahms, Roger,
Marx, Poldowski, Ravel Debussy.
Dunhill, Bax, Howe, Hageman and
Bridge
Evening star., 1944-08-13
lnLocal Music Circles

Open air concerts, by the United
States Navy Band under 1t. Char
les Brendler, will be held tomorrow
at the east front of the Capitol,
7 pm, and Tuesday at the Sylvan
T'heater, Monument Grounds, 8p.m.
Leonard B. Smith, cornet soloist.
and William Boyd, xylophonist. will
be featured on the Monday program,
while eight trumpeters, Musicians
Short, Smith, Finlay, Parlante,
Geisler, Jackson, Stevens and Lewis,
will perform an ensembles for these
instruments on Tuesday.
Helen Turley, teacher Of voice,
26O0 Pawhatan avenue, Arlington,
Va, entertained the Washington
Alumnae Group of Sigma Alpha
1ota, National Honorary Musical
Sorority last Saturday. The guest
OF honor was Lucille Pierce, Province
secretary.
Bonnie Cubertson, resident So
prano, sang the role of Gilda in
Verdi's "Rigoletto" at the Com
munity Theater, Eighty ninth street,
New York City, recently.
E. Bradley Clay, an ex-aerial gun
ner who received a medical dis
charge from the AAF a few
months ago, is now forming an "all
veteran dance band. Before enter
ing the air force Mr.. Clay, who is
we'll known in Washington and
throughout the South as Col. Clay,
had two orchestras, the Kentucky
Colonies" and the Five Men of
Note" He is member of the Dis
abled American Veterans and the
American Legion. The members who
have already joined the new or
ganization have served on all the
fronts of World War II.
Evening star., 1944-08-13
Air Forces Band
In First Concert
|At Water Gate

The Army Air Forces Band, under
the direction Of Capt. George s.
Howard, will give the first Of four
concerts at the Water Gate tonight
at $50 p. m. This series will be
presented under the auspices of the
Treasury Department to help spur
the sale of War Bonds.
Soloists on tonight's program will
be Sergt. Glenn Darwin, baritone;
Tech. SefEt. Gordon Pulls, from
bone, and Pfc. James WILDER, clar-
met. who will play his own COM
position, Clarinet Impromptu.
Pfc. WILDER was formerly soloist
with the Cincinnati Symphony.
Sergt. Pulls, who was the first from
bonist of the Philadelphia Orches-
ira. will be heard in Arthur Pryor's
Love Enchantment." The aria, I'll
Evening star., 1944-08-13

Lacerato Spirito" from Verdi's
Simon Boccanegra," will be sung by
Sergt Darwin, member of the Met
ropolitan Opera before entering the
service. He will be heard also in
Porters Begin the Beguine."
The program, which will open
with Lang's Salute to the Allies"
and close with Gershwin's "Rhap-
sody in Blue" will feature Morton
Gould's ''Pavanne," Rimsky-K -Korsa-
koff's "Scheherazade" and the FL
male of Tschaikowsky's Symphony
No. f." Sousa"s Stars and Stripes
Forever" the Air Corps Song" by
Crawford in a special arrangement
by Corpl. Will Bethel, formerly staff
arranger for Lucky Strike Hit Pa
rade, medley of five popular airs
and AT the Gremlin Ball" by Hill,
featuring a 10O-piece swing band,
will be the remaining numbers.
Evening star., 1944-08-13
VFW to Question
Women as Members

Delegates from the District of
Columbia Department, Veterans of
Foreign Wars Of the United States,
to the national convention at Chi
cago, Ill, August 2l-24, will 60 un-
instructed regarding the question
of admitting women to the organi-
zation.
This question was discussed at a
meeting of the Council of Admin
lstratlon last week at the District
Building with Department Comdr.
L. H. Neville Thompson presiding.
Howard Fisk, veteran employment
officer for the District of Columbia
and S. E. Chadwick, field officer
in charge of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars service unit, spoke.
Fred c. Stello, past department
commander; Leon B. Lambert and
Mckinley w. Kreigh were elected
delegates from Internal Revenue
Post to the national convention
Everett E. Neal. Hampton D. Percy
and John j. Saunders are alternates
At the last meeting of Equality
Waller Reed Post the following were
elected to membership: 1t. Col.
Dwight Garrison, Robert Louis
Bacon, L. M. Allen, Frank Beasley,
w. E. Brown. E. H. Dun, H. H.
Green, c. E. Johnson, Thomas L,
Mattingly, R. E. Moryks, L. S. Over
ton, DR.. Perkins, M. L. Sexton.
Thomas ]. Sullivan and Robert
Wittemore.
Meetings this week are: Monday
Front Line Post, 713 D street NV.
Wednesday-Maj Gen. Clarence R.
Edwards Post, Weightman School,
Twenty-third and M sts. NV:
United States Naval Gun Post, 1918
Good Hope road Sc; McKimmie
Catterton Police and Fire, 7l3 D
street NV. Thursday-Potomac
Post, 1918 Rhode Island avenue
NE. Friday-All American Post,
Thomas Circle Club, 1926 Massa-
rhllSatfc ovoono N Wy
Evening star., 1944-08-13

NUNS If you want large flowers.
The disbudding is needed to keep
some varieties from drawing too
heavily on the plants strength. One
or two flowers per stem is enough to
leave.
As sweet corn is harvested chop
the green stalks up into small pieces
and put them on the compost pile.
In this way the corn-ear worm, the
European corn borer and other dis
eases are kept at a minimum. If
allowed to stand in the garden until
spring they will offer the natural
overvintering place for these pests
and diseases.
Keep the seedlings in the seed bed
growing strongly so that they will
be big and strong by the time trans
planting comes-early September.
This relates to keeping weeds and
grass removed and transplanting as
soon as the true leaves have formed.
X
Fruit growers normally stop
spraying or busting peach trees as
the fruit begins to ripen. However,
unless the trees have been carefully
protected from the "brown-rot"
there may be serious losses of fruit
as it ripens. For this reason it may
pay to continue busting with sulphur
until the crop is fully ripened. The
sulphur will wash off easily and is
poisonous. 1t may even help
to keep the Japanese beetles from
attacking the ripening fruit. II it
does not, add little lime.
1t is common practice when trans
planting Oriental poppies to cut off
pieces of the roots to be used in
growing new plants. These pieces
are set in a furrow so that the top
OF each piece is an inch below the
surface. Be sure to plant them
right side up. They should make
blooming-size plants within two
years. Another way to secure new
plants is to dig the old plant. cut
ting of the roots and leaving them
undisturbed. However, in this
method the crowns of the root
pieces are usually rather deep in
the ground for good growth, par
tlcularly on our heavy clay soils.
Keep the new shoots of climbing
roses tied up. The long canes
swaying in the wind are oftentimes
injured and disease enters the
wounds. 1t is very annoying to run
into a long cane, scratching the
skin or tearing the clothes. Use
raf11a, soft twine or strong strips of
cloth. The green raffia is the neat
est In appearance.
1t is good garden practice to clean
up all decayed fruit from beneath
the peach trees to destroy the in
sects and disease germs that they
may contain.
Keep the spent flowers removed
from ANNALS and perennials to pro-
long their Towering season. Many
of them cease to function once seed
Is permitted to form.
Evening star., 1944-08-13
Recital at Cathedral

Marion Hutchinson. fellow of the
American Guild of Organists, will
play recital on the Great Organ
at Washington Cathedral Tuesday
in the summer series of Cathedral
Twilight Hours.
The recital is at 7:30 D. m. and
there will be tour through the
Cathedral at $50 pm. Miss Hutch
inson was formerly dean of the
Minnesota Chapter of the American
Guild. Her program will comprise
compositions of Bach, Vidor and an
American group.
Evening star., 1944-08-13

the soil particles run together and
consequently the small seedlings are
unable to push through unless the
surface is kept well cultivated.
This lack of humus is, in most
cases, the difference between a good
garden soil, one that Is resistent to
crusting and holds moisture, and a
poor one. While most people think Of
humus in terms of manure, there are
other ways of supplying it to the
soil. The growing of green manures
Is, perhaps, the cheapest source of
humus. There are other advantages
in growing your own. Many Victory
gardener wonders where all of the
weeds come from, forgetting that
the manure spread on the soil is
very likely the source.
OF the several crops used as a
green manure in this area, many
gardeners favor the crimson clover.
There Is little doubt but that its
fibrous root system as well as bushy
top supplies much vegetable matter
to the soil. In addition, it is a
legume. If the seed are innoculated
before planting, 1t will add nitrogen
to the soil.
The one drawback. il 1t has one
is the need for sowing the seed in
the late August to
Observation-Disclosures our soils are
frequently dry. Farmers say the
proper time to SOW crimson clover is
between showers. In the small yard
this is no problem for the soil can be
kept moist if showers are lacking.
The soil should be we'll cultivated
between the rows Of vegetables or
flowers before seeding The crimson
clover is scattered at the rate of one
half pound per 1000 square feet of
ground. Rake the seed into the
soil 1t should be covered at least
one-quarter inch deep. The GRIM
son clover comes up in the fall and
lives over winter, acting as cover
crop and preventing erosion. In
the spring, it makes rapid growth
and should be turned under in late
April or early May when to 10
inches tall. 1t is hardly feasible to
SOW this clover on that part of the
garden where the early spring vege-
table crops are to be planted.
For sowing in the late fall, gar
deners commonly use q mixture of
rye and vetch. If seeding is delayed
until late October, these crops may
not make much of a fall growth,
although If Abruzzi rye Is used it
will make SUFFICIENT growth to pre-
vent washing.
+ X
Some gardeners have been wait
ing for good rain before starting
their fall gardens. The rain of Au-
gust was ample to soak any soil
that had been kept well cultivated.
Seeding should not be further de-
layed or there will not be time
enough for the crops to mature, ex-
cept in the more protected parts of
the city. Turnips and fall peas
should be planted now.
If the grapes were not bagged be-
fore now they may still be pro-
tected by covering the vines with
mosquito netting. This Is to keep
the bees and wasps from attacking
the ripening fruit. If left unpro-
tected these bugs sting the ripe
berries and suck the sweet juices,
spelling the punches. Bagging is
the best practice. although it may
be difficult to obtain the 2 or s.
pound-size bags needed.
X
It is time to begin disbudding the
hardy chrYSanthe-
Evening star., 1944-08-13
With the Bridge Players
By Frank B. Lord.

to set UP the hearts by knocking out
the ace as he would be most likely
to do, he would be lost should East
hold that card and return the
five of spades through Souths Jack.
But 1t must be remembered that
South held up once on the spades.
hoping that the second lead would
exhaust East's hand of that suit.
This play would have been success
full but for the cleverness Of East.
So this seems to be the solution
When West leads the 10 of spades,
which South wins with the Jack,
East discards the ace Of hearts.
Thus when South leads the king
and queen of hearts his next heart
lead must put West in with the Jack
and enable him to cash his two re-
naming spades and set the contract
one trick. Had East not made that
discard South would 60 to dummy
twice and come through the hearts.
forcing the ace on the second lead
OF the suit and another lead would
prevent West from ever getting in
with the suit for he was helpless
In diamonds and clubs.
1t is not often that such a plav
is seen, but it was necessary to set
the contract. j. ]. G..'s young lady
must have been bit psychic.
Leaders in the pair game of the
Federal Bridge League we're: North
and South. George Kathan, presi-
dent Of the league. and Miller Rob-
erts. first; Col. E. B. Gray and Mrs.
Katharine Tidball, second; Miss
Pairs Keener and r. H. Higgins
third, and Mrs. Mildred Linderman
and Mrs. w. H. Gorton, fourth:
East and West, Frank Garner and
r. Aukshun, first; o. r. Mathews
and r. E. Park, second; Mrs. F.,
Norman and Mrs. Kitty BOYLE,
third, and C. A. Lyons and Frank
B. Lord. fourth.
In the Washington Bridge League s
pair game last week Mrs. Kathleen
McNutt and Mrs. Broaschan were
first, Mr.. and Mrs. Salvatoral, sec
ond, and Mr.. and Mrs. Curt Beck,
third,