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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17
Americans Are Storming
Legtorn, Big Italy Port
Thanking Movement
Also Is Under Way
To East of Center

Rome, July l7-(AP)-Am
erican troops stOrmcd relentless
ly ON Legborn today after cap
turing the dominating height Of
Monte Magglore, and pu5hiDe
on up the Italian west coast to
the edge of Nontcnero, only four
miles from the heart Of the big
port.
Simultaneously other American
force slammed forward i'm fhe Jra
valley fa Within i've and oncahaif
mile. at fuo NCuo river in d broad
fIanEJ0@ mos crUcnt we'll east of Lce-
born and Pisa.
The newest gain brought The
tltth army up against strong Gen
man defensive positions and
fierce lighting RACED all alone the
front. with the fnfmy launching
sharp counter attacks.
An official announcement sad
troops nt the fifth army. which were
credited with capturing Po4Hlhonst
over the ~v-ccE-end. had driven back
one heavy CountcrattaCk and were
holdlHe THEN positions.
II was the first indication from an
Allied ounce that the Germans 5tU
were fighting for possession Of Pos
gjbousl, although the Na2ls twice had
claimed rcCapturc of Tie road juno
ton town since il first vas entered
hv tho French on Ba>tile day The
heaviest German counter thrust came
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17

Raleigh, July 11.-(APD-
Sixteen ncW cases OF 1n1antlif
y raIySi> were reported to the
state Department of Health to-
day, bringing the total in the
STATE since June to 31S.
Most of the cases are conren-
trated in the Piedmont and Up
per Piedmont areas.
New cases:
ilamance /. AShe ,, Burke s.,
Caldwell 2, CataWba |, Lincoln
, McckIenburg ,, Polk |, Ruth-
erford | and Yadkin |.
No additional deaths were re-
ported, the number remalhiiS>
at fourteen.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17
Six Points
Farm Plan
Presented

Chicago. July If (AP) Six
point constituting a statement of
policy nf the National Association Of
Commit toners. Secretaries and Di-
reCtorS al Agriculture were outlined
today before the platform committee
of the Democratic National ConVen-
ton by Agriculture Commissioner w.
Kerr Scott, Of North Carolina.
Designated to act as the aSSocia-
tion'S spokesman. Scott listed hese
oolnts.
/. Agriculture must be considered
Is an essential wal industry aud civ
en- equal status with other wa m
duStrleS in securing labor and ma
ttrIal pftorlticS.
2. The parity concept is iunda-
mental and basic to a sound cCono-
ny.
3. The maintenance of parity prices
as a wartime minimum based on a
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17
jap Claims Leave
Is Only Very Few
Planes in Pacific

New York, July l1.-lNP)-t
japanese announcement asserted
t"daN that 1850 planes. inClud-
ing eleven R~29 SupcrfortrcSSes.
were destroyed or damaged in
sumo against Japanc/e losses of
$50 craft. The enemy claim, re
corded by OWL, said seven SUI
pctInrtrcs>re were shot down
and three heavily damaged III
northern KNuShu. Another was
reported damag.1 IN China.
The assertions WCrc far ai,cld
at the facts as reported from
American CnnmuliuuCs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17
A
SECOND

Supreme Headquarters, Allied En-
pedItlonary Force, July 17.-(AP)-
The United States second infantry,
the "lndlan Head division. in Nor
mandy is commanded by Major Cen
eral Walter Robertson, headquarters
announced tonight,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17
Tropic Storm
Heading Out
In Atlantic

Wilmington, July II.-fAIo-
A !rorlcai storm of hurricane We
Iocj,y Nhir' has threatened the
North taIniina-lrGInia roast Tor
North Carolina Virginia coast tor
Their out IN the Atlantic Ocean
early today.
The storm Warning service At MI
ami. Florida, in j > am. advisory
SAID the storm, conferred abou 1o'
mule, off tho Carolina coast. appar-
entity began moving slowly II
norfhcastWard direction.
The service warned. however, thai
IC,ntiDucd on Pare ThrecA
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17
WEAEfsER

FOR NORTH AEDfIMA
Fan aud partly cloudy aud
rather hot tonight aud Tuesday
with slightly higher temperatures
IN east portion thi. afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17

A COMMUNioUE from Supreme Headquarters announces that the whole
L. S. Army from St Lo to the sea is on the move. Our troops pushed
south for gains up to three miles and captured ST. Germain-Sur-Ay,
Jessay's harbor. Unable to advance frontalIy against ST. 10 Closeup
lower 1nap), American forces dccpened their lines o the south and
overran La Barre de Senily, two miles east of the city. Four of the
nine roads leading into ST. 10 are now controlled by the Yanks. Another
thrust by American units carried to the outskirts OF lie Mesnl Durani,
three and c-haf miles northwest of the CITY, JOterNqtL0nnia
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17
Soutii,'s Demands Placed
Before Democratic Chiefs
Federal Meddling
Must Cease, Under
Assurance Sought

Chicago. July II. - lAP)-
DiNic'S widely hcraIdcd de
mandS for greater voice in Sc
lccting presidential nominees
and less of what it calls Fed
eraI interference with State
handling of racial questions had
their first prc-cOnventiOn test
today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-17

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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Berlin Mau|ed
by Heavies
100 Bombers
Plaster Reich

LONDON, Oct. g (P) -
A fleet Of more than 1900
American heavy bombers at
tackled an airplane engine plant
in Berlin and numerous other
industrial detectives and air.
dromes in Germany today.
., Strong forces of British heavy
bombers dumped a profusion of
two-ton bombs and more than
$4,000 incendiaries last night
on Saarbrucken, major rail
center and arsenal in the Sieg-
fried Line behind Metz. Enemy
broadcasts said it was a terror
raid.
Besides the aircraft engine
plant in Berlin, the Flying Fort
resses and Liberators bombed a
tank assembly plant, a military
depot and an ordnance depot.
Other detectives were:
The Rhenania and Ebane oil
refineries at Harburg, six miles
south of Hamburg.
An aircraft engine plant and
ordnance station at the port Of
Hamburg.
Airdromes at Stargard, Neu-
brandenburg n d Wensendorf,
all near Hamburg.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Kelly Refutes
Dem Charges
Says BoIIot Expose
in Menominee Folse
BY G. MILTON KELLY

~
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich, Oct.
6-(P- Governor Kelly said
today that an investigation con-
Quoted at his orders into Demo-
cratic campaign charges that a
township clerk in Menominee
County enclosed Republic a n
campaign literature with soldier
vote ballots absolved the clerk
of any violation of State or
Federal law.
Arthur A. Koscinski, Demo-
cratic nominee for secretary of
state. had alleged in a campaign
speech that Republican litera-
ture was forwarded with SOL
diers ballots to a Menominee
county soldier serving in Eng
land. Koscinski had identified
Halls Nelson, clerk of Spaulding
township in Menominee county
as the source of literature.
Kelly said today he has re-
ceived telephone call from
Prosecutor Michael j. Anuta Of
Menominee county advising him
that "his investigation disclosed
there was no violation of State
or Federal election laws. He
states that the township clerk
sent instruction ballots and a
personal letter giving his views
See KELLY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Girls Body Found
on Capital Golf Course

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -(P)
- BY means of a high school
class ring, police today tenta-
lively identified the body of a
girl found on a Potomac River
golf course as Dorothy Berrum,
II, of Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Detective Chief Robert j. Bar
rett said the girls father told
him she came to Washington last
June TO work for the ordnance
division of the War Department
after her graduation from high
school there.
Wearing bobby socks and a
red coat with large white but
tons, the girl had been CARROT
ed with her own snood. Evidence
Of rape, officers said, was found
in cursory examination. Tram
pied grass at the scene indicated
she had fought her assailant Bit
terly.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Flash Flood
Caused by
Record Rain

A "flash flood" which inun-
dated city and country highways
early Thursday evening and
broke all recent records as far
as rainfall is concerned, caused
more inconvenience than dam
age, a survey showed today.
Although most Mount Glenn
ems streets were flooded from
curb to curb, until sewers as
simulated the record-breaking
flow of water, no accidents or
unusual mishaps due to the rain
fall were reported.
Large excavations being made
for the Roseville master-sewage
system were rapidly filled with
rainwater, but after few hours
of pumping today it was found
See FLOOD-Page 6
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Polio Fund Benefits
i'm County Reviewed

rate of approximately $500 a
month. Costs in one case have
scared to $1,545.57 since March.
There are now IL active cases
being aided, eight of them new
ones, and an additional dozen
cases is expected in the next few
weeks as an aftermath of the
polio epidemic.
REFLECT OFFICERS
The organizations officers
were reelected to another term
of service at last nights meeting.
They are: Albert A. (Bert)
Wagner, chairman; Martin G..
Schwartz, vice-chairman; Hugh
H. Neale, secretary, and George
bankers, easurer. Jack
Flaacke, county chairman of the
1914 finance drive which
topped other years by nearly
three times - Mrs. Joseph M.
Croman Jr., women's county
chairman, and Robert I. Wins
low, Mount Clemens, chairman
were honored at the meeting.
Wagner lauded their fund
raising work which, because it
was record-breaking, furnished
much needed financial assistance
during the polio epidemic.
CASH BALANCE
The chapters cash on hand at
the present date is So, 439.66,
and with the expected addition
of a dozen more polio cases, the
demands on this balance cannot
be estimated because case treat
ments range from $40 to $500,
depending on the severity of the
polio attack and the equipment
and treatment needed.
Chapter officials at their
meeting last night were present
ed with the complete report of
county campaign chairman
Flaacke, in which he outlined
the outstanding contributions of
all communities in the 1914
drive, and also a complete audit
of bankers books, made by G..
Donald Smith, CPA,, in which
praise is bestowed for the COM
plete and we'll set-forth account
ing.
Further details Of these two
reports, and of new cases under
taken by the chapter, will be
published shortly.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06

IMPORTANT MEETING SET FOR WEDNESDAY
Supervisors to Fill Three Jobs

Appointment Of two members
of the Macomb county Road
Commission, of one member of
the Social Welfare Board and
approval of a new budget which
is expected 10 include pay ad-
juStments for many, If not all,
county employees will consume
the major interest Of members
of the Board of Supervisors
when they meet Wednesday
afternoon on the ninth floor of
the County Building in Mount
Clemens.
From all present indications
William Malow, former Sterling
township supervisor, himself an
experienced road builder. has
the inside track for appointment
TO a full six year term on the
county road board succeeding
Harry w. V. Lumley, incumbent.
Another road appointment, to
fill out the two years remaining
of the uneXpired term of the
late Joel K. Frost, must likewise
be made by the supervisors.
So far as is now known Isaac
A. Hartung is the only candidate
TO succeed himself TO three
year term on the Macomp Coun-
ty Social Welfare Board.
In the matter Of budget APP
proval the supervisors will, in
all probability, have before
them requests from both cleo
tive officials and regular en-
ployes for consideration of in
creased pay schedules. What, if
any, action the supervisors may
be apt to take on such requests
has not yet been revealed.
The appointment of the road
commission members is slated to
come before the board at 2 pm.
on Wednesday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06

At their annual election meet
ing held here last night officers
of the Macomb County Chap
ter, National Infantile Paralysis
Foundation surveyed the S.
353.71 spent on polio cases in
this county in the past four
years-including So, 1888 spent
recently-and reached the con-
clusion that an appeal for addi-
tional funds may have to be
made to the national chapter.
Polio sufferers are being aid
ed by the county chapter at the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Yanks Stab Anew
al Jap Oil Center
BY SPENCER DAVIS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
New Guinea, Oct. 6 -(P)- Gen.
Douglas Macarthur disclosed to-
day that a second crippling blow
was dealt Japan's big source of
aviation gasoline and lubricat-
ing oil at Balikpapan Tuesday
by Liberator bombcrs. seven Of
which were lost in fierce sky
battles with 40 Zeros.
At least 10 and perhaps "a
of the enemy planes were shot
down during a battle of more
than an hour over the Borneo
base while 40 tons of concen-
trated explosives touched off
huge blasts among refineries
and storage tanks.
A spokesman said the fierce
air opposition plus intense anti
aircraft fire plainly indicated
how important the enemy re-
CARDS preservation Of installa-
tons which supply IS per cent
OF the gasoline and oil used by
Nippon's war machine.
The loss Of seven Liberators
was the largest number for a
single raid yet announced by this
headquarters.
Three Liberators were lost
while downing seven Zeros in
the first mass raid on Balikpa-
pan last Saturday.
Tokyo Radio said yesterday
See PACIFIC-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Bloody Battle
BIazes Behind
.5iegfried Line
Germons Fight
Desperately to
Stem Yonk Advance
BY JAMES NJ. LONG


LONDON, Oct. 6 - tR -
First Army soldiers, jumping off
to the fifth day of attack In
their wedge in the Siegfried Line
at Ubach, ran into a storm Of
heavy armored counterattacks
today and had to fall back at
two places.
The Germans, acknowledging
their Siegfried defenses had been
preached, threw their first size
able armored forces with hum
dreds of guns and infantry into
their assaults in fierce determine
alton to block the road to the
Rhine. The Americans had to fall
back from Beggendorf. . mile
east of Ubach and three-to-four
miles inside Germany.
SECOND REVERSE
Under the pressure the Amer
leans also were forced off the
top of a pillbox ridge q mile
and a half south of Ubach and
a mile east of Herbach.
But they held on TO the lower
slopes. and Allied airpower.
given clear skies for the first
time since the wedge battle
started, flew at the chance to
deal devastating blows or enemy
armor.
Around Beggendorf 1t. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges tanks en-
gagged in heavy fighting with
enemy armor. South o. Ubach
doughboys commanded by 1t.
Col. William G. Cox of Brewton,
Ala. fought savagely to stem
DESPERATE FIGHTING
The heaviest engagement was
on heights overlooking Herbach,
which the infantry stormed yes
terday, knocking the enemy out
of pillboxes, The summit of these
heights commands the terrain
south of Ubach. Doughboys
fought their way to the top
late yesterday. At z a. m. the
G ermans counterattacked In
force. Infantry. supported by
tanks, came out Of the mists to
the southeast.
The first Nazi surge drove the
doughboys from the heights and
gave the Germans control Of
seven" of the pillboxes which
they had lost. but on the side
of the ridge, Cox and his men
held fast.
Then the sun burned off the
mists, the first bright clear day
in weeks developed and our
planes roared in.
The first flight arrived at .
a. m. and lanced out against
enemy armor and infantry. This
was one of the closest air sup
port missions yet flown. The ar
tillery dropped smoke shells 10
outline the enemy salient and
the planes hit their targets right
on the nose.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
5th Hammers
Forward On
Italian Front

ROME, Oct. 6 - up Amer
lean Fifth Army troops ham,
mered out gains up to three
miles yesterday over the rain
begged, mountainous terrain on
the approaches to the Pc Valley.
They captured the road juno
ton of Loiano, less than IA
miles south of Bologna on the
main road from Florence, AL
lied headquarters announced
today.
The Nazis threw reinforce
ments of experienced Austrian
and German Alpine troops into
the central sector adjacent to
the highway and Embossed
fierce artillery barrages. But on
both sides of the road the Allies
pushed ahead against the stiff
See ITALY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Would Make
Nozis Aid
Victims

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6-(P)-
A plan to keep German industry
and labor producing after the
war as they have under Hitler,
but turning over excess output
TO the Allies as reparations, was
advanced today by Senator Reed
(R-kans).
This would not be asking the
impossible of the German peo-
pie" Reed told reporters, only
what Hitler required of them.
And you would make the indus
trial organization of Germany
available for reparations in kind,
not in money"
For ten years, he said, Hitler
has kept the Germans on a GER
tain basis of hours worked per
week-a required number, not
an optional one. and, by means
Of controlled prices and rations,
he said Hitler had kept the
people on fixed standard of
living.
Why not continue that in
definitely" he asked.
Reed classified as SILLY" a
program advocated by Treasury
Secretary Morgenthau calling
for elimination of German in
duStrial power and conversion
of the country into a pastoral
land.
Germany is the most highly
industrialized country in con-
tinental Europe, he said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Russians Slab
Into Streets
Of Capital
Violent Street ,
Fighting Reported
in YueosIov City
BY DANIEL DE LUCE

MOSCOW, Oct. 6 - (P, -
Russian and Yugoslav troops
fought the Germans in the out
skirts of Belgrade today and
front dispatches indicated pa
trolls had crossed to the south
bank of the Danube from cap
tured Pancevo, less than nine
miles from the capital.
Marshal Tito was reported
near the front and it was bellev-
ed troops Of his Army of nation
al liberation would be the first
formally to enter the fortified
old city of $4,000. The range
of hills at whose northwest cor
ner Belgrade is located is ideal
for Red Army infiltration tao
tics.
Pravda said other Allied slav-
ic troops had reached the vicin-
ity of Ms, 1870 miles southeast
of Belgrade, where the Bel
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Bel
grade-Sofia railroads meet.
In Northern Yugoslavia along
the Tisza river, other Russian
troops were less than 80 miles
across flat Hungarian frontier
country from the second largest
Hungarian city, Szeged, imper-
lied frontally from Romania as
we'll.
Thirty-five miles due south OF
Belgrade, Yugoslav units were
locked in bitter battle with the
Germans for the village of To-
pola, home Of Karageorge -
BLACK George"-who beat the
Turks a century ago and found
ed the royal dynasty from
which King Peter descended.
Except for reporting patrol
activity, Moscow communicates
remained silent about any ac-
ton elsewhere on the eastern
front. Berlin has reported begin
ming of a new Russian offensive
in western Lithuania and in
vasion of the Baltic island of
Saare).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
British Thrust
Into Greece
.GainsHeadway
Boy Of Corinth
SeoIed or from
Germon invaders

ROME, Oct. G. up Allied
land forces of the Adriatic have
sealed off the entrance to the
Gulf of Corinth in their Greek
invasion by capturing the forti-
fled Port of Rion, Allied head
quarters announced today. Off
cial Greek reports indicated that
more than half the Poelponnesus
was securely in the hands OF
British troops and Greek pat
riots.
Greek Premier George Pa
pandreou said in statement
that a minister of his cabinet
had visited Tripolis where "se-
curity battalions' - Gree k
fighting on the side of the Ger
mans - had Surrendered to
British officers without any Skin
mish."
Tripolis, in the east central
Peloponnesus, is 60 miles south
east of capture Patrai on the
Gulf of Corinth and rs miles
southwest of Athens.
Rion was overwhelmed in an
eastward advance along the Gulf
of Corinth from Patrai.
The Greek announcement also
said the government member,
landing from the Island of Ky
thera, off Greece's south coast,
also had visited Kalamai and
Tripolis was virtually free of
Germans.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Prince Dies Suddenly

NEW YORK, Oct. g. up -
The Nazi-controlled Dan i S h
home radio said today that
Prince Gustav, fifth child of
King Christian y of Denmark,
had died suddenly of heart at
tack last night at IL p. m.
The broadcast, reported by
the Federal Communications
Commission, said the Prince,
born March 4, 1887, had died
after some days of illness"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
UTICA SCENE OF CEREMONY
DedicdfeN New

and stated that the present mem
berShip of Utica Lodge was 156,
but what was lacking in num-
bers was made up in friendlin-
eSS.
The first lodge of Masons was
chartered in Utica on Jan. 10,
1885, the speaker said meet
ingS being held in different halls
until Past Master August n.
Hahn fixed lodge rooms over
his store building on Main
street. But times change and
last year the members Of the
Congregational church made u
possible for Utica Lodge to pur-
See TEMPLE-Page .
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Strikers Still
Hamper Production

DETROIT. Oct. 6-(R-The
strike of maintenance workers
in Detroit area war plants, called
off at a union meeting yester-
day. continued to hamper pro-
duction today as q Packard
Motor Car company spokesman
reported that 1000 maintenance
men had not yet returned to
their jobs.
The spokesman said several
thousand" production workers
engaged on Rolls Royce aircraft
and Packard marine engines had
been sent home and that others
may be forced into idlenese.
The management, he said. had
no knowledge Of the newest dis
pute, but added that the mainte.
nance workers had been meeting
with union officials throughout
the morning. 6l
There was no immediate COM
ment from the United Automo-
bile Workers (CIO) with whien
the maintenance, construetton
and powerhouse coupcil, ropeos
See STR1KE--Pago 3
FRED NICHOLSON
FOR PROSECI1TnR 49,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
STEERS CONQUEST MAD yAPS
Dead Black Dragon Chief Lives

100 fanatical secret societies
which were instrumental in pre-
cipitating the Pacific war. He
supposedly had retired, but the
personal power he created
through that 43-year-old organi-
cation continued.
RULED EMPIRE
Ths, power, based on ruth
lessness, made him known
abroad as Japan's unofficial
emperor" But Toyama slipped
into the twilight of his fabulous
career as an heroic Robin Hood
to the japanese. Legend gilded
him as a man who distributed
largesSe TO the poor, an esthete
too tender to kill mosquitoes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06

UTICA - Featured by the
presence of all members of the
official family Of the Grand
Lodge of Michigan Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, Utica Masonic
Temple was dedicated Wednes-
day night in a colorful and inn
prcssive ceremony.
Opening with banquet serv-
ed by members of the Eastern
Star in the high school gymna-
SUM TO $50 MaSonS, their wives
and guests, a short program fol-
lowed, with Sam Beauchamp,
secretary Of the local Lodge. as
Master Of ceremonies. Beau
champ welcomed the company
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-06
Name Officer
in Arson Plot

DETROIT, Oct. 6 Patrol
man Samuel Boehm, AZ, at
tached to the Fort-Green pre-
cinct for 19 years, today was
suspended by police depart
ment heads after two men
testified he paid them SIS to
burn down three vacan
houses in a white neighbor-
hood after Negroes had ar
ranged to move into the dis
trict. After SO hours ques-
tiOning, the informers told au-
thorities Boehm gave them
the money in a tavern.