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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
Clinton SEEKING
War Fund Aides
Township Objective
Is Set at $500

Volunteers are sought to sup
port the Clinton Township Red
Cross War Fund drive, according
to township chairman Mrs. A. M.
Carter, of IS Garden Drive, Self
ridge Homes, who has under
taken the task of reaching a
$4,000 township objective.
The drive officially COM
mences Wednesday, and persons
wishing to volunteer are urged
to contact Mrs. Carter at the
township office, phone 2258, or
at her home, phone 2335.
The following group from
Selfridge Homes is now canvas
sing their own residential sec
ton for the War Fund:
Mrs. Delmar Sheets, Mrs.
Edna Job, Mrs. Agnes MacCar-
oil, Mrs. Paul Boring, Mrs. Ed
ward McCreary, Mrs. Edward
Wernet, Mrs. Ben Lipson and
Mrs. Leonora Witherow.
The Quinn road district will
be covered by Mrs. Prince
Drewry, Mrs. Oliver D. Ed
wards, Mrs. James Gordon, Mrs.
T. Hall and Mrs. c. T. Beck.
The Walnut street community
will be canvassed by Mrs. Harry
Williams; the Charbenau district
by Mrs. Mable Clapper, and Mrs.
Anne Curran will handle the
South Gratiot to Harper area.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
Lillian Kraft

Funeral services for Mrs. Lii
liam Kraft, SO, of 10000 Schoen-
herr road, Warren township,
who died Sunday at st. Joseph
hospital following a prolonged
illness, will be held Thursday at
9 a. m. from the family home
and at $40 a. m. from Sacred
Heart church, in Roseville. The
Rev. FIR. p. j. McSherry will
conduct the final services.
Mrs. Kraft is survived by her
husband, John j. Kraft, by two
children, Robert Melvin and
John Charles, by her mother,
Mrs. Josephine Siwka. by thtee
sisters, Mrs. Helen Drogosz, Mrs.
Mary Kunish and Mrs. Eleanor
Prohm and by four brothers,
Edmund Siwka, William Siwka,
Leo Siwka and Isadore Siwka.
The Roy j. Raul Funeral
home Is in charge of arrange
ments.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
WASHINGTON-The Garden

WASHINGTON-The Garden
Club will meet with Mrs. Alice
Bennett at her home in Utica for
regular meeting Tuesday,
March 7.
Mrs. Margaret Paffhausen, of
Bellview, spent last Thursday
with her mother, Mrs. Mary Bel
and sister, Mrs. Ray Pierson.
Mrs. Matte Hovey of Royal
Oak was the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Myrta La Chance through
last week.
Mrs. Mary Meitzner. Of Van
Dyke road, south Utica, was the
guest of former girl friend and
schoolmaster, Mrs. j. r. Brom-
ley on Saturday.
Mrs. Charles Schocke has
been i'll with influenza and con-
fined to her home for a few
days.
Mrs. Hattie Edwards wa S
called to Evansville, Ind, re-
Gently by the illness of her sis
ter, Mrs. Addie X. Youngs, 81,
who died Feb. IL following a
stroke suffered a week previ-
ously. Mrs. Edwards will return
home after a few days visit with
relatives there and at Louisville,
Ky.
Mrs. Enos Steiner of West
street underwent a major opera
ton at ST.. Joseph hospital, Pom
tiac. Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Hardy will
be hosts TO a meeting of the
Washington Farmers Club on
Thursday, March Q, instead of
Wednesday at their home on
Shelby road. Pot luck dinner
will be served at 1890, with a
business meeting and program
following.
Mrs. c. j. Thomas Of Flint
spent Sunday with her father,
Ed Gass.
Mrs. j. w. Bureau and Mrs. l.
Jeffrey of Detroit spent day
last week with their mother,
Mrs. Minnie Hartley. r.
Mrs. Annette Munger Heller
ich, 81. wife of the late James
Helferich, died recently at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Lulu
Hartley, Detroit.
Funeral services were held al
Hamilton funeral home Wedncs-
day. She was the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Munger OF
Shelby township and lived mos,
of her life on a farm on Marine
City road, east Of Van Dyke
road. Surviving are several sons
and daughters, grandchildren
and one brother, Arthur, age 90
Ivan Ware SK2/C of the US
Navy located at Norfalk, Va, Is
spending a furlough with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Floyc
Ware.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
Emma DeLair

CENTER LINE - Funeral
services for Mrs. Emma DeLair,
78, Of 8105 Central avenue, Gen.
ter Line, who died at her home
Monday, will be held at 8 a. m.
Thursday from st. Clements
church, with burial in Holy
Sepulchre cemetery, Sperlich
funeral home in charge Of ar
rangements.
A widow of the late Gilbert
DeLair, she is survived by her
children, John, Roy, Mrs. Emma
Phaneuf, Mrs. Edward Hill, Mrs.
Lester Marx, Mrs. Leo Phaneuf,
and Mrs. Otto Hampel.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
Obituaries

Clayton, N. Y, and had worked
in a Detroit spark plug factory
for more than rs years. He re-
sided at 8l5 Glenwood road,
south of Mount Clemens.
Besides his widow, Anna, Mr..
Calhoun is survived by two chill
dren, Mrs. Merlin Ballor, and
Louise, at home.
The services were conducted
by the Rev. George A. Meri-
field. of Grace Episcopal church.
Burial was in Clinton Grove
cemetery, under direction Of
LaCroix Il Groesbeck.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29

II he would give her q
nickel, she could buy . whole
package of gum, chew one
stick vigorously, and by press
ing IL on the end of . stick
could retrieve the lost penny.
The idea sounded all right,
especially when the child Of
fered the businessman . stick
of gum as his dividend In the
matter. He left the nickel with
her the doesn't chew gum
himself,) and went on his
way. -.
Later he told us: "You know,
I'm still wondering about that
penny :"
2 ICE-COVERED S T r E E T S
made walking difficult a few
days ago, and Ludwig Gruenau-
er watched an elderly man try
ing to navigate the cross-walk
between the First National and
Bannows. The man could scarce
ly make it, so Gruenauer step
ped forward and took his arm,
helping him to the dry sidewalk.
The man thanked him, and then
asked for one more favor D.. Z.
would he please direct him to
the office of Ludwig Gruenauer,
to get his income tax fixed up!
First county lawyer in serv-
ice to ply his profession while
In uniform on leave, Is Lieut..
Ed. Jacob, of Romeo, who re-
Gently came here on a brief
visit by plane from the Pan
anna Canal Zone. Ed, IS
pounds lighter, trim and fit
as-a-fiddle, appeared before
Judge AL. Noe In navy uni
form the other day and won
a decree for his plaintiff in a
title clearance suit. Lots of
athletics, including tennis be-
fore breakfast, is Lieut.. ia
cob's advice to bay-window-
ed businessmen.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
Crawford Infant

Services for jeanette Lor-
raine Crawford, 10 day old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin
Crawford, of 4946 First street,
New Haven, who died Saturday,
were held Monday from the Will
funeral home, with burial in
New Baltimore, Rev. Harold
Iske officiating.
Besides her parents, she Is sur
vived by her smaternal grand
parents, Mrs. Nora Crawford,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Howe.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
George Moore

Funeral services for George
Moore, So, of No. 2 Barbara ST.,
Mount Clemens, were held at 2
D. m. today from the Turner
Chapel with burial in Lincoln
cemetery.
Mr.. Moore Is survived by his
widow, Annie. and had lived in
the city for 18 years. The Dun
can B. Hubbard chapel was in
charge of arrangements.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
Schun Divorce Decree
Granted In Local Court

A. divorce decree on the
grounds of non-support was
granted Friday afternoon in
Circuit Court to Mrs. Ida Mary
Schutt from Frederick Schutt,
of this city. Judge Alton H. Noe
entered the decree. M
The suit, brought by Mrs.
Schutt. was uncontested. 1t was
stipulated that $50 a month be
contributed by the defendant to
the support of q minor child.
until she becomes ID.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
KIWANIS CLUB members

KIWANIS CLUB members
take their practise of using first
names pretty seriously. They're
Hank and Herb" and BUS
ter to each other, and, as you
probably know, each wears a
big button during luncheon with
this nickname in big letters on
1t, 1t promotes a comradely spir-
it. This jolly fraternity is now
threatened with disruption just
as though Mister" had sneak
ed in. Newest member, Capt. E.
l.. Osborn, of the Salvation
Army, caused no end of confus-
ion when he explained 10 club
officers that he has no first
names whatever, being just
plain "E. L." The informality
of KiwaniS is thereby threaten
ed.
Speaking of the current Red
Cross War Fund drive, Chap
ter Chairman John +. Merrill
tells us true story of two To-
cal lads in the armed forces
who missed a Chicago train
connection a day or so before
Christmas, and received per-
mission to head for Mount
Clemens for Christmas, and
report later. But they had no
money. Red Cross people in
Chicago telephOned here and
the financial o. X. was soon
given. The two boys had
Christmas dinner with their
families. Now they're over
seas.
ART ROESE delved around in
some old papers at home the 9TH
er day and unearthed a CHESS
(Detroit restaurant and cafe
menu dated May "a, 1907, which
will bring nostagalic memories
to local gourmets who patron
lied this fashionable place in
those days. We glanced at it
long enough to notice Boiled
Roast Beef, sauce Raifort Csc"
Stuffed Young Goose,
Apple Sauce 35c" Ten
derloin of Beef, with Mush-
rooms 35c" and decided
such menu is too tantalizing to
publish these days.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
4s -Nm the sOay
Ry D. A.
BY D. A.

kneeine before the grating outside downtown the
other day little girl about eight years Old The child
peene neny into the dark space below the grating and
from her worried look concluded she had lost
precious criticize In TO the businessnons kindly
question: the girl explained she her way buy penny
stick Of eu and had dropped her penny the erotins It
dark down there and the questoner couldn't
thing but he listened synpathetcay while the girl disclosed
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
Duo,id Calhoun

Funeral services were held at
2 p. m, today for David Cal
houn, aged Sc years, a resident
of the Mount Clemens area for
more than 20 years, who died
at st. Joseph Hospital Friday
evening following an illness Of
several months.
Mr.. Calhoun was a native OF
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-29
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For the Great American
HELLDIVER


Urgent and secret was the request to
Chrysler Corporation to get ready to build
these vital wing sections for the newest,
biggest and fastest Of Navy dive bombers
the great Helldiver.
Secretly designed to carry heavy loads
at fast diving speeds, each wing section
contained several thousand parts.
Engineers, tool designers, production
experts of Chrysler Corporation went
promptly to work. The drawings were
made; tools and fixtures designed and
installed for the day when the final "Go
Ahead signal would come.
The Go Ahead came in q hurry. Since
April '43 these great Helldiver wing sec.
tions have moved down their guarded
production lines much as automobiles did
in former years, their thousands Of pre-.
cision parts assembled, and the wing Sec
tiOns completed.
The HelIdivers have recently been fully
tested and proven in South Pacific battle;
reports Of their action fulfill the strong
claims made for them; and their wings,
we are proud TO say, carry their double
bomb loads at fast diving speeds.
These Helldiver wing sections are but one
Of many war-production assignments In
which Chrysler Corporation applies ito
experience and capacity in precision engi-
neering and quantity manufacturing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-20
BRITISH PUSHED
BACK AT FAENZA
Savage Nazi Counterat.
tack Forces Eighth's
Withdrawal

ROME, Dec. 19.-tRHA savage
counterattack mounted by the Ger
mans in an effort to hold their
positions on the west bank of the
Lamone rive. northeast of Faenza
against a British thanking drive
has forced the Eighth Army troops
to fall back to the northern edge
of the town.
Allied headquarters disclosed
the action tonight.
The grim. tank-supported Nazi
defense appeared to indicate the
Germans were having trouble ex
Treating their forces from a nine
mile wide salient between Faenza
and the important road center Bag
nacavallo.
The enemy has concentrated
much artillery as well as tanks
and infantry in the bulge.
The main Eighth Army thanking
move struck northward FIR o m
Faenza, but the armored counter
thrust forced the British to draw
back to the railway tracks skirt
ing the northern sector of the town,
the capture of which the Allied
command announced Sunday.
The counterattack afforded the
Germans only momentary relief,
however, as another Allied flank
ing move was developing six miles
west of FaenZa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-20

LONDON, Dec. 49, R The
Japanese forced more than $4,000
white prisoners to labor under
worse-than-slavery conditions to
speed through the Tailand-Burma
railway and road and then left a
monument to $4,000 men who died
along the way, the British War Of
flee charged today.
Citing cases of extreme brutal
ty, of sick men carried to work on
stretchers. men forced to labor
naked in insect-ridden jungles, the
War Office declared there also
were cases of torture an dkilling.
1t added:
1.-THE japanese themselves erect
ed memorial at Tamakan to ap-
proximately $4,000 men who had
died on the railway. OF these less
than 1000 were Japanese, the re-
mainder b cling represented as
English, Australian. and Dutch"
War Secretary Sir James Grigg
opened the subject in Commons
with an oral statement that 1.-The
strongest possible protest. had
been made against past conditions
existing in Burma and Siam (Thai-
land." The number of white pris-
oners employed was probably
much higher" than $4,000, he said.
although he added it was difficult
to speak with certainty.
"In addition" Grigg asserted,
many thousands of Asiatics were
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-20
so, 900 White Men Forced
Jap WarHghwqy

fused and the death rate amongst
them was almost certainly much
heavier than amongst the white
men"
Conditions have improved, he
said, and are much better in the
rear camps. He declared, howev.
er, that in building the railway
and road, the Japanese proceeded
with all speed and regardless Of
conditions under which the pris.
oners worked and of the cost OF
human life"
The War Office then took over
with a form supplementary
statement. It said all the prison
ers had been forced to travel
from Singapore to Thailand in
metal cattle trucks - so damned
together for five days and nights
that they could not lie down and
could sleep only by leaning against
piles of materials or one another.
The men then had to march up
t. so miles through disease-infect-
ed jungles. Their thirst was such,
the War Office said, that they
drank from muddy puddles, and
at the end of each march were
so exhausted they fell to the soggy
ground, covering their heads with
whatever they could as protection
against the mosquitoes.
The prisoners slept 200 to each
Continued on Pare Five: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-20

at newly invaded MlndorO yet has
been encountered in twin battles
for the Central Philippines.
Headquarters announced today
that General Sosaki Suzuki's had
quarters town of Valencia and its
airfield were captured Monday on
west Leyte by 77th Division troops
which have moved eight miles
north above Ornoc.
Meanwhile, dismounted First
Cavalry Division troops driving
south from the direction of Carl
CARA bay have seized Lonoy, six
miles north of Valencia, and in so
doing have cut to the rear of forces
pinned down by another south
bound element, the U. S. 32nd Di-
vision.
The enemy troops caught be-
tween the First Cavalry and the
32nd are believed to comprise the
largest organized Nipponese force
still in action on Leyte.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur said
today the 77th was rolling up
remnants of the Yamashita Line. :"
Over a week ago when the 77th
made the amphibio landing near
Ormoc which led to quick capture
of that port, the Yamashita line
extended roughly for some 81
miles from the Palcnas river Is
miles south of Ormoc to a point
about an equal distance north OF
Ormoc. Since then. the Yamashita
Line has been wiped out south of
Ormoc and cut into segments to
the north. The enemy's 26th Divis-
ion was shattered in the south; his
35th Division IS suffering the sams
fate in the north.
The captured airfield near Va
lencia had been used as an emer-
gency strip by the enemy. This
probably was the first time the
Yanks under Macarthur ever won
an airfield which would be put to
immediate use by their own sup
porting planes.
Suzuki apparently moved his
headquarters from Valencia when
things became too hot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-20
REYNOLDS URGES
DEFINITION OF
u. S. WAR AIMS

WASHINGTON, Dec. l9.-l1-
Senator Reynolds D-NCf declared
in his final Senate speech today
that unless United States war aims
are clearly defined, see no hope
that the present degeneration into
chaos can be arrested
The Military Affairs Committee
Chairman, who did not seek elec'
ton, described himself as ''noi'.
hierventionist,' and contended
here was mo such thing as an
american iSolationist.
There never was but one coun-
ny in the world that was purely
NoatlOnist, and that was our NOR
lal enemy of today, Japan.
Ii We had ever been isolation
Isl, We never would have encollr'
aged trade with all the countries
0l the Worlo. as we did year in and
Year out, and in a long series OF
Years. actually expended more
money IN endeavoring to create
.taae than the trade produced for
ae manufacturers of this colu'-
Try
We must BRING the tragic truth
VI me present state of internat1on'
affairs out into he light" lie
90llnued IF we are honest with
ourselves We must admit that the
Dumoarton Oaks agreement. "a
4eI than being a long step for
Va, saId' IN truth set the world back
10 ears
america, he said, has Ito all III
mp'S and purposes turned her back
W me smaller nations of Europe
ms most crucial hour of his
W.T." WY "hen the prestige Of America
"U!o bring some semblance o.
,ariy, We see our colleagues con-
, ,%aalns their gains In powe'
a. americans We're told, he said
~'' they were fighting for the
-VH'lhued on Page Seven; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-20
WRITER STRESSES
LOCAL AIR ROUTE
Paul Nelson Emphasizes
City's Plans For
Future

Wilmington cannot afford to stay
off the air map now being charted
for the postwar era by leading air.
lines and Governmental agencies,
Paul Nelson, of Washington, D. c.,
representative of the Aeronautical
Chamber of Commerce of Ameri.
ca, stated last night in an inter-
view before speech to Rotarians
of three cities in the Cape Fear
Country Club.
In his only North Carolina ap-
pearance in a 40-state tour. the
32-year old veteran ueWsnaa, well
known to radio listeners as former
commentator on Henry Jord's
Watch the World Go By told
dinner meeting Of the Rotary clubs
of Wilmington. Tabor City and
Whiteville that Americas key to
future peace and prosperity was
air power.
He emphasized the importance
of a virile aircraft industry sup
ported by lively air commerce as
of prime necessity to mil sary air
readiness.
Introduced by Walter j. Cartier
at a dinner session unde-' direction
of H. A. Marks and arranged by
Eugene Edwards. the former Asso-
ciated Press man and Blue Net
work editor threw mild bomb.
shell into the audience by stating
that the Germans. hard pressed a.
they are, have outdistanced us IN
the newest field of air-assault, that
(Confinued on Pare Five. Col ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-20

the conference revolved about
these key subjects:
Poland - A reporter said the
Washington Evening Star had a
headline yesterday saying the
United States opposes the parti-
ton Of Polan dand the Washing
ton Times-Herald had a headline
saying this country supports the
partition. (Which do you pre-
fer?' the reporter asked. He much
preferred the Star to the other
paper, the President replied, add
ing that he did not say other news
paper because there was a dis
tinction between decent paper
and another kind of paper.
editor Frank Waldrop OF the
Times-Herald, asked later if he
wished to comment, told reporters
he did not.)
Greece-A reporter told him
British Labor Minister Ernest
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-20
ELIAS STORM JAIL,
LIBERATE CAPTIVE
NAZI COLLABORATION

ATHENS, Dec. 49, Up ELIAS
troops fortified the Averoff prison
tonight after strong mortar and
grenade attack by the LeftWing
militia had forced the British gar
rison and Greek gendarmes and
wardens to evacuate the institu-
ton.
A widespread hunt was launched
by the British, Greek and undoubt-
eddy by the ELAS-militia of the
Leftwing Fam political party-for
Jean Rails, gushing premier of
Greece during the German occu-
patton, who escaped during h e
fighting for the prison.
In addition to Rails, it was es-
timated 205 men and 80 women
prisoners fled, out of the ATS per-
sons held at Averoff. Most of the
prisoners were awaiting trial on
political charges.
The ELIAS attack trapped h e
British garrison and 115 Greek
gendarmes and 149 wardens in the
prison. A communique from h e
headquarters of 1t. Gen. R. M.
Scobie, Bri ii s'h commander in
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-20
Special to the Star

WITH THE FIRST u. S. ARMY
I'm GERMANY, Dec. 19.-Antiair'
craft gunners of the First U. S.
Army, many of whom trained at
Camp Davis, are making the skies
over Germany deadly for planes
of the Luftwaffe.
Records show that since D-Day
more than 500 German planes
have crashed under fire from First
Army antiaircraft artillery.
Effectiveness of antiaircraft de-
lenses have made it possible for
American forces to concentrate
their air power on offensive
sweeps, eliminating to a large ex'
tent defensive patrols against enc
my planes.
When the invasion was planned
more antiaircraft was included
than in any other operation in his
tory. If there had not been de-
laws. more would have landed or
D-Day than had existed in the en-
tire Army few years ago.
Antiaircraft gunners prov q
their versatility in the bitter fight
ing on the beaches. Landing under
heavy enemy fire, the" fought cir
way to their positions, turning
their guns against pillboxes, gun
positions and troops.
One battalion shot down a Ger
man plane so soon after landing,
that the pilot, who parachuted to
safety. was sent back to England
in the same landing craft that had
brought the battalion to France.
During the fighting at Cher
bourg, four men of an "A bat
talon killed three n d captured
1872 German soldiers. These men.
cpl. Jack M. King, of Leechburg,
Pa; rs Thomas R. Havilland.
Lutherville, Md; T-5 Edward F.
Bolles, Jr. Pittsburgh; and Pfc.
Carl L. Godwin, Dunn, N. c., sur
prised a German night patrol and
laid down such heavy fire with
their machine guns that the Ger
mans sent out word that they