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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12
Sgt. Alfred Rinke
Awarded Medal
Warren Aerial Gunner
Receives Air Medal

WARREN-As one of % next
of kin OF Michigan AAF heroes.
Mrs: Edith r. Rinke, Of 1880
Hoover road. Warren. received
her sons medals Saturday, from
1t. Col. William L Bruch, dur
ing ceremonies conducted at Sell
fridge Field.
Mrs. Rinkc's son, T Sgt. Al
fred P. Rinke, %. was awarded
the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf
clusters, "for exceptionally mer-
itorious achievement, while par
ticipating in Is separate bomber
combat missions over enemy oc-
cupicd Continental Europe" He
has been overseas since Septem-
Der Of 1913. and has been a
prisoner Of war in Germany
since April of this year. Rinke
had previously received the Air
Medal with two Oak Leaf clust-
crS, making this his second SIM
liar award. He has also received
the Purple Heart for a shoulder
wound rece ived while on a
bombing mission.
An engineer gunner. Rinke
has been in military service over
26 months. Before going into
service he worked at the War
rem Cooperative club. He at
tended ST. Clements High School
in Center Line.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12
CTS to Wear Green, Weather
Tested Uniforms in ItoIy

Brig. Gen. Joseph P. Sullivan,
Of Mount Clemens, Quarter
master to Lieut.. Gen. Mark w.
Clark's Fifth ARMY in Italy, is
supervising daily tests on new
green winter uniforms to oe
worn by CTS fighting in the
rugged Apprentices.
The uniforms, scientifically
designed and field-tested will
make the American soldier the
best dressed fighting man in the
world.
It is the opinion Of one War
Department official that the win
ter uniform is The most care
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12
Bible Student
Speaks Here
To Describe Work
Among Servieemen

Rev. J. M. Falkenbcrg, the
Ohio Field Executive of The
Bible Meditation League, now
in Mount Clemens, will appear
in scores of churches Of all de-
nominations throughout the Mid
west, during his present speak
ing tour.
The Bible Meditation League
is the largest organization of its
kind in America. Every month
it supplies vast quantities of
Bibles, New TcStamcnts, Scrip
ture portions, Bible study out
lines, tracts and pamphlets to
hundreds Of ChaplainS all over
the globe. It's material is to be
found on every battlefront of
the world. from the Aleutians to
"inSidc Germany and from Ice
land to Saipan,
Rev. FalkenberG, as the Ohio
Field Executive, is in close con-
tact with chaplalnS all over the
world. Their requests for mate
rial come daily to the National
Headquarters of the Bible Medi-
tation League in Columbus. o.
Rev. Falkenbcrg will bring the
details of this work in a message
to the members and friends of
the Gospel Tabernacle of Mount
Clemens, "a Clair avenue, on
Wednesday at 7;45 p. IN,
At the close Of the message by
Mr.. Falkcnberg, he will show
thrilling motion pictures Of the
Allied Invasion of Normandy and
also a reel Of pictures of some
of the Bible Meditation League
work.
Rev. L. DeShayes is the pastor
of the church.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12
Gen. Sullivan Tests Superb Equipment for Yank<s

fetal tabulation fell less than
one-fourth of one per cent short
of perfect.
The non-profit cooperative as
ISOLATION of newspapers accomp-
lished the feat despite the great
est vote in the states history,
complicated by the slowing pro-
cess of tabulating absentee SOL
der ballots. Blunders by Off
cial election crews, notably in
Wayne county, so slowed the of
fetal election machinery that the
canvass which provided the
check on accuracy of up figures
was not completed until yester-
day.
The official canvass gave Pres
ident Roosevelt l,fB6,899 votes,
and Thomas f. Dewey 1,O84,4 23.
The up had recorded l,l03,755
for Roosevelt, l,082,646 for
Dewey.
The margin of difference be-
tween official and (P)- unofficial
returns was l285 thousandths of
one per cent on the Roosevelt
vote, 164 thouSandths on the
Dewey vote, or a little less than
one fourth of one per cent in
comparison of the total vote:
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12
MINOR BLAZE

Fire early this morning did
slight damage to a wall near the
furnace at the Mount Clemens
Recreation at 40 Croker boule-
ward, according to city police
reports. The small blaze was
caused from an overheated furn-
ace pipe.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12
AP Election
TobuIotion
Almost Exact

LANSING, Dec. 12-P)-Do-
ing in a matter of hours what
the states cumbersome election
machinery required five weeks
to do in tabulating the president
ial vote in the November II cleo
ton, the Associated Press unof-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12

master item ever issued" De
signed by a staff of textile eX-
perts, the outer covering re
quired a special cloth known aS
"five-harness sateen," compll-
Gated weave which, until recent
developments by American man
ufacturers, had never been made
by mass-production methods.
Every item issued TO Fifth Army
troops has been in actual use in
quantities of half-a-million or
more in Alaska and the Aleu-
tians, with mountain troops in
various theatres, and particular
~ in the Wisconsin maneuvers
of l943, where the average tenn
perature for three weeks was
zero.
DIFFICULT PROBLEM
Clothing is not as simple as
it sounds" pointed out Major
Robert II. Bates of Exeter, New
Hampshire, veteran explorer and
advisor on winter clothing to
the Quartermaster General in
Washington. The average CT
thinks he wants a waterproof
Uniform for rainy, winter wealth
er-but he doesn't! If we gave
him one, he would be dissolved
in sweat by the middle of his
first hike. The new clothing pro-
vides air spaces, which keep him
warm, let him perspire freely.
and keep him dry in all but the
longest and heaviest rains-and
we're giving him special treat
ment for those"
The outstanding illustration Of
a waterproof garment is the Gil
raincoat, which every soldier in
the world thinks leaks badly.
II is explained, this raincoat
does not leak. The perspiration
Of marching troops condenses on
the inside of their raincoats and
vets them almost as much as the
rain would itself. Troops are
amazed by this statement, but II
is true. Their soaked shirts are
the result of perspiration-the
penalty they pay for the priv
lege of wearing an absolutely
waterproof raincoat. Recently,
Fifth Army quartermaster of
ficials rigidly examined 800 SAL
vaged raincoats. They couldn t
find one that leaked.
ROOMIER JACKET
The jacket of the basic uni
form is longer and roomier, with
larger pockets and a close col
lar that can be folded four ways.
a fly front hides all buttons the
CTS have already figured out
they can no longer be 'gigged
for not being 'buttoned upD, and
drawstring at the waist keeps
cold air out, regardless of the
clothing combination underneath.
Under this outer jacket, the
soldier will wear brown, wool
field jacket. which replaces the
present Blouse for both OF
ficers and enlisted men for both
combat and dress wear.
Underneath this field jacket
he may wear his standard Cd
wool shirt and undershirt and
the new, brown, medium-WeigAt
sweater, which buttons TO the
neck. This sweater has already
proved the most popular piece
of clothing yet issued to Fifth
Army troops.
The new, all-year trousers In
this basic outer suit will be worn
in summer in place Of the pre-
sent khaki pants, and over the
present obs in winter as a
windproof, water repellant COW
ering.
Two new caps are being is
sued in the same grey, olive
green material: detachable
hood which buttons onto the
field jacket and which may be
drawn snugly around the face
with a string, and a "motorman
style" field cap with visor and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
Executive URGES
Repair Of
Old Liberty Bell

CLEVELAND. Oct. 10. tUP)-lhc
crack in the famed Liberty Bel,
which pealed out American indie
rendence in l776, should be welded
so that it can ring out in full tone
on V-Day. the Lincoln Electric Co
of Cleveland urged here.
The historic bell, housed in Phlla-
delphia's independence Hall where
Americas founding fathers wrote
the Declaration of independence.
has not sounded note since 1888
when a large crack weakened its
copper and tin structure.
The suggestion to repair the bell
was made in a letter to Congress
man Sam Rayburn speaker OF the
house of representatives in Wash
ington, by w. J. Conley, conSultlnp
engineer for the company.
"a study indicated that full tone
can be restored to the Liberty Bel
by arc Welding" Conley said The
lcng-hushed symbol of liberty
could again proclaim m liberty
throughout the land on V-Day by
the miracle of radio
Conley urged Congress to appoint
a special committee of experts IRON
the American Welding Society tc
take appropriate action" to fix the
bell which is IL feet in circumier-
ence at it's base and weighs more
than a ton
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
caPEoI elk
--by-
Peter Ec'son

itv agreements within its preVlcW,
it would in fact be prepared to
tackle the problems of cartels-
viewed by many students OF inter
national affairs as one of the great
est threats against maintaining
world peace
The machinery with which the
charter proposes to handle these
questions centers in the General
Assembly of all the nations. The
assembly would name 18 nations
whose representatives would make
I'D an Economic and Social Coun-
ell. It's members would serve fer
three-year terms. The council, IN
turn. would set up an economic
commission. a social commission,
and possibly others covering specl1lc
fields such as transportation or
communication. In each commission
would be a permanent staft OF e%-
merits. Under the social commission
might come such existing organl1a-
tions as the International LABOR
Office and sanitation and health
control The job of the Courcll
would be to tie them all together
in one bundle.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
A PITIFUL SPECTACLE
(Santa Monica OutloOk)

1t is peculiar spectacle when the pres
ident of TIE United States is compelled
to write letter to Gar PetrillO and his
musicians union asking that the union
recede from its efforts to unionize all
musical record-making and lifting its
ban against the record-making cOmpan
les.
The War Labor board refuses to suS-
tain Gar Petrilo in the strike and refer
red the matter to the President. Appar-
entity all the President could do was to
humbly ask the union to please stop at
tacking the companies.
If the companies had been found to be
at fault, the President could have order
ed the Army to seize their property and
operate it without regard to the welfare
of those who had invested their money
in these enterprises. But when the union
is found at fault all the President will
do is to say please and the union can
answer as it sees fit without fear Of any
punishment.
This is humiliating condition. 1t puts
the President of the United States in a
pitiful position. We regret to see Mr..
Roosevelt forced into such a course even
though his own policies are chiefly re-
sponsible for it.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
By CONGRESSMAN John Phillips

Miscellaneous impressions, written
on the boat: The choice OF return
ing by boat was my own. l could
have come back by plane, thanks to
the Navy, and several times /
wished I had flown, during the days
I sat around the hotel waiting for
definite notice when the boat would
sail. and from which port. Now |
would not take anything for the eX-
perience.
That is the way it is in war. You
know that you are booked; you hope
that yCu know which boat you are
taking: YOU don't know for sure the
sailing day, and several ports are
used. This is particularly important
with certain boats, for it is only now
that l can say that the six of us
who left England at the same time
came back on the boat on which
the prime minister and his party
went tC Quebec and back.
The boats have been stripped for
war use. The niceties are gone and
all space is utilized for troops and
for cargo. We had almost 700
wounded on board. 1t has been a
comfortable trip and a coed sea.
l wanted a rest before getting home
| have long since discovered that |
can rest at sea level and under
conditions where there are no tele-
phones and papers and radios; for
a short time anyway
The four weeks in England and
France were extremely interesting,
but l shall be glad tC be home. 1t Is
hard for an American to accustom
himself to some of the English con-
ditionS. the unheated houses. the
leisurely tempo which takes days TO
do what we would do in a short
time. Yet it was the established
habits CT centuries which made 1t
impossible for Hitler to conquer
England in the early days of the
war.
1 have wondered what my last
two columns looked like by the time
they got to the papers. I spoke i'll
one of them CT a trip two OF the
congressman made to Dover. | SAID
that they got off at the station and
looked around the town, and when
they got back to take the train, the
station wasn't there. A bomb had
hit it. The censor took that one out
Now that the Allies have captured
Calais, I can put it III again. Dates
are all cut out; when | wanted my
secretary to make a reservation
from Washington to California, /
told her tc ask the plane to stop at
Palm Springs on Columbus Day
There are little things in the Eng
lish life which amuSe the English
as much as they do us. Westminster
Hall is the oldest building OF the
House of Parliament. Some OF the
carved oak beams are now being
replaced. or were, at the outbreak
of war, after 400 years. Sc the build
er went back to the came oak forest
from which 400 years before, the
oak had come for the original
beams. and got the same kind and
quality. It's nothing to see a firm
which has been doing business sew
eral hundred years. 1t reminds me
of the stCry of the American sales
man who was trying 70 make con-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
Assessed Value
OF County Ser
Ollt By Officials

official status of Imperial coun-
tvs asses SCd valuations and indebt-
Cdness was gwen in an official
statement released Thursday from
the office of TIE state controller.
Land valuations total $l8,998,337
and Improvements on land carry an
assessed valuation of $9,279,146 as
assessed by county officials. The
value cf personal property and the
amount of money was assessed by
the county at $j,239,725, lcsS $600,252
reDresented by the property exempt
from taxation. The total county
assessment subject to the local tax
rate was S33,916,956.
The assessment made by the state
beard of equalization showed $685.
$50. the value of improvements on
land as S2.873 $50, the value of
personal property and tie amount
of money as 50 943,460. The state
total assessment subject to local
tax rates was $G,216970.
imperial ctunty's rates of taxation
on each SlOG was $2.15 fer both rural
and urban areas.
The grand tctal of property sub
icct to local tax rates was S4o, ,l33'-
G2G.
Solvent credits assessed by the
county totaled $1308,6l8 while the
state board of equalization assessed
none of them.
Funded debt of the county was
s985. 900 CT the total county indept-
CdncSS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
VOTING AS PART OF
SCHOOL TRAINING
Sacramento Bee)

At the suggestion of County Clerk c.
{. LaRue. the city board of education has
authorized a short educational program
on voting in the public schools of Sacra-
mento on election day, November Z.
Voting booths will be located in the lob
bieS of the school buildings and pupils
will be instructed in the mechanical pro-
cedure of casting ballots.
This. it is hoped, viii stimulate vote
consciousness ON the part of young Amer
leans.
The plan is an excellent one.
With somewhat less than half of the
citizens likely to cast ballots at the forth
coming critical national election. anything
which would bestir the people to the dut
les of American citizenship is a good
thing.
The instruction should be expanded
and made compulsory for all pupils.
Responsibility of citizenship should be
the fourth K, and in many respects 1t is
no less important than the traditional
three Rs.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
COMMUNISTS HAVEN'T
DROPPED ROOSEVELT

Candidate ROOsevelt's announcement Of
communists and fascists in his recent
White House speech in which he mildly
warned such groups that he did not court
their support. has failed to register with
Browder and others of his ilk. They
haven't done any renouncing. On the
other hand they have increased their ef-
forts toward the fourth term.
Current with the Roosevelt disclaim-
ers. was speech delievered by the Pres
ident-paroled BroWder before throng
of more than $4,000 shouting Communists
in New York in which the Red leader
said Reelection of Roosevelt absolutely
is necessary to OUR aims. Mighty cheers
greeted his declarations.
Further evidence that the "bruShing
off" process didn't take is this statement
made bv the three-time candidate of the
Communist party for vice-president:
"Basically. the policies of President
Roosevelt are those we have fought for
Our duty is to see that he is again elect
ed"
So forward has become the demands
of the BrowderS for RooSevelt'S reelec-
ton that there has developed a tremend-
Gus unheaval in the CIO questioning Sid
new Hillmans tactics and his communiS-
tic beliefs. From individual views of
members of the Union. the uneaSlneSs
has grown into out-and-out statements
and resolutions issued by many unions in
regular sessions. They begin to see what
the PAC under Hilman is doing to their
union in the way Of bringing it into dis
repute where it has maintained reputa-
ton for carrying on for the benefit OF
workers A sample of such statements
and resolutions is found in this language
emanating from d New York state ClO
unit: THE political action committee Is
communist-contrOlled and Is using the
CIO labor unions :. for front political
organization and have thereby brought
much discredit to the general labor move
ment
When the New Deal fourth term candi-
date renounced the Communists, he was
in effect, renouncing every member OF the
CIO if that organization, as body. is
supporting Hillman's PAC and more so
because Hillman and BrOWder are work
ing hand-in-hand for the reelection OF
Roosevelt.
But that is not the situation. ClO men,
bers are discovering that they either must
carry that brand or assert themselves
and repudiate the PAC. They naturally
choose the latter. They want simply
their guaranteed liberty under the con-
stitution and are not ready to be bound
and sold as voters by Hillman. BroWder
or anyone else.
When the President "cut loose from
Hillman. BroWder ct al he was dong one
thing. but when he finds that in the same
utterance he was branding several hun
dred thousand sincere union workers as
communists, he discovers himself in deep
water. He can't shake the communist
leaders off even if he meant to. but he
has awakened the CIO members to the
spot PAC has placed them on.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
FOR BIDS FOR IHE
PURCHASE OF TAX DECIDED
PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that bic S
for the purchase from the City OF
ri Ccntro of the tax decided proper
ty hereinafter described will be re-
Ccived at the office Of the City
Clerk Of the City CT Ell Centre at
the CITY Hall in said City up to and
unsil 500 O'Clock pm. of the 27th
day of October, 1914, and sale bids
VIII be opened and considered by
the City Council of the City OF Ell
Centro at the next succeeding meet
ing, or at such Subsequent meeting
to which such consideration may
Re continued. The City reserves the
right to reject any and all bics.
Said property is described as fol-
lows:
Lot 49, Block 46, Townsite, City
Of FL Centre,
Lot y, Block 27 Second Addi-
ton, City OF FL Centre.
Lots 25 & 26, Block 2, Fairfield
Addition, City OF FL Centro.
Lot 10, Block Alb, Townsite,
City OF Ell Centro.
Lot s, Block 20, ToWnSite, City
of El Centro.
IRWIN MAUPIN,
City Clerk of the City Of
El Centre.
DATED: October 18, 1914.
NO. IL fOlO
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
ONE-COMMODITY AGREE
MENTS RULE IN PAST

Before the war, trade agreements
were usually made between only
two nations, or when mere nations
entered into a foreign commerce
regulation agreement the subject
covered was usually confined to the
production and marketing Of one
commodity.
There were, fer instance, the in
ternational agreements on coffee,
euear. wheat. wool, tea, rubber tin
and beet. Some of these are still
operative, though shipping disrup-
tions have made normally regulated
trade impossible But it is contem-
plated that if the United Nations
organization fer international eco
nomic cooperation could bring the
activities of all these one-commod-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
'lRise 10 Renrdr

ncction in England for tea, 10 pc
exported to the United States fie
couldn't understand the reluctance
TO sign & contract Finally one ol
the partners said, somewhat hesi-
tatingly. well, you know, we didn
have such good luck with our export
trade to the States; the last time
we sent over a shipment OF tea.
they threw it into Boston harbor.
That's England. This war will
leave us some problems between the
two nations, because CT our diifef-
ing views on important world situa-
tions. Let's hope the several mil
lion GI.'s who have been there Will
do a good diplomatic job towards
mutual understanding.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
ONE FAMlLYS
WAR SACRIFICE
pasadena Star-NewS)

Americans all over this broad land
must have responded sympathetically to
the relief and Joy that came to Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvin Borgstrom of Thatcher, Utah,
when informed that the last of five sons
given by them to their countryS service
in war was to be returned to them, hon
orably discharged from the Marines.
A technical view of it would have been
that Private Boyd Borgstrom was no diff
ferent from any other man IN the ranks
and should carry on to the end of the war.
Fortunately, the human equation was
considered. Three of the Borkstroms'
boys have been killed in action, and one
is missing.
In special order 1t. Gen. Vandegrift,
United States Marine corps commandant,
directed that the fifth and last of the
Borgstrom boys be given his honorable
discharge and sent home to his parents.
1t is the kind of thing that an American
likes to think is characteristic of the
United States
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-19
RING MAN AT NIGHT

NEW YORK, Oct, 10. CUP,
Daytime, Antdrc Indian Gooez Oh
havana, Cuba, does O.K.-heS a
war worker at the Irving Subway
Grating Go. making steel mesh cat
walks for Uncle Sans Navy. But
at night hes different fellow
always out for The K.O. AS pro-
rcssion9l boxer with 81 major fights
in his string, nc has beaten Such
club midGleWeightS as: Jerry t1orel-
10. Tony Ferraro and Mike PlSkln.