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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26
BY JAMES MARROW

WASHINGTON, Dec. Pep
- Key congressman put this
first on the new Congress work
sheet: A national, compulsory,
pcacetime service bill for all the
American youth.
Expect them TO start on it fast
in 1945.
Such a measure would re-
quire young men-at some age
between II and 25-to devote
perhaps one year of their lives
to a training program laid down
for them by the Government.
1t would involve about l,000,-
600 young men every year be-
cause about that many reach ID
yearly. 1t would cost plenty of
money maybe billions. For most
it would mean an interruption
in their education or occupation.
There is support for compul-
sorry service and there is opposi-
ton TO any kind of compulsory
service at all. But what kind Of
service? There are three chief
suggestions:
/. Purely military training.
This is what the Army and
Navy chiefs want. They say it's
necessary and that with without
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26

go back sometime for you can't
see all there is to see in a few
days.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26

says, lis more like city back
in the States than any I've seen
over here yet, The only differ
enCe is that 'Multo Buono' stuff.
but you'll even have 10 say that
of Rome. The guides on the
tours through the city could
speak good English though. and
they gave us a pretty good des-
cription Of the different things
as we went along"
I'VE went through Vatican
City and saw the Pope. l shook
hands with him ard kissed his
ring. He spoke few words TO
each Of us and asked me what
state l was from. l had a rosary
I'd bought in town and he bless
ed il for me-"
est. Peters Cathedral in the
Vatican was the most beautiful
thing l saw, but l also enjoyed
seeing the Coliseum, the Pan
theon, CatacombS, and the other
ruins Of Ancient Rome which
we used TO study about in
school" John says he'd like to
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26
Bank Elections
Tuesday, Jan. 9

Mount Clemens banks will
hold their annual meetings at
bank offices here on Tuesday,
Jan. Q.
Election OF officers and dir
cctors will be the principal item
Of business, in addition to rou-
tine matters of bank procedure.
Mount Clemens Savings Bank
stockholders will meet at 10 a.
m, according 70 announcement
authorized by George A. Hodson,
cashier and executive vice preSi-
dent.
Stockholders of the First Ma
tional Bank in Mount Clemens
will convene at $50 p. m, for
their business meeting, accord
ing To Charles r. Walters, CASH
Ter and viCe-president.
William f. Koehler is presi-
dent of the Mount Clemens bank
and Henry Amccl is president OF
the First National.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26
Murder
Continued From Page One

chel King, in the foundry town,
and arrested by Patrolman AL
bert Wright of Mount Clemens
and New Haven officers.
According to Chief Rosso
Mack readily confessed the as
sault that led to Smiths death.
He said that Smith, an odd jobs
worker, owed him so cents for
some plumbing work he had
helped him with. He told the
Mount Clemens police chief that
when he had sought to collect
the money Smith had refused TO
give it to him and that he then
hit Smith over the head with a
club.
Both Smith and Mack are col
ored, Prosecutor Held said.
Coroner Howard V. Groes-
beck, Jr., said following a post
norton examination to d a y,
that Smiths death had resulted
from a skull fracture caused by
a blunt instrument.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26
Cook Company
Wins 18th Award
for Service

The Cook Paint and Varnish
Plant in North Kansas City and
its employees have received the
fourth Army-Navy Award from
the Navy Department in apprec-
iation of its continued outstand-
ing production Of vital war mat
erials. They were Informed of
this award by Admiral c. c.
Bloch, Chairman, Navy Board
for Production Awards who said,
This additional honor which
you have won indicates your
determination to supply our
fighting forces with the materi-
ais needed to bring the war to
successful conclusion"
In February, 1943, the Cook
Paint and Varnish Plant was
presented the Army Navy Award
for the production of paint and
other protective finishes for
Army and Navy equipment. In
November, 1913, the Army-Navy
e. was renewed for meritori-
Gus service on the production
front. In June, 1944,\the award
was again earned by the employ
eeS and management Of the North
Kansas City Plant.
The fourth honor, with the
congratulation of the the Navy
Department to each and every
employee of the Cook Paint and
Varnish Plant, has again been
won. Now, the Plant is eligible
10 fly the Army-Navy e" flag
with three white stars, denot-
ing the three renewals of this
production award.
Cooks paint and special fin
ishcs, j II u d ing camouflage
paints, are used on many kinds
Of military equipment; such as
airplanes, gliders, ships, jeepS,
tanks, ammunition boxes, food
containers, etc, etc, by the
Army, Navy, Maritime Commits
sion, and many of their contrac-
tors.
The local Cook Paint and Var
nish Company Store is located
at % New Street. The manager
Of this branch store is Robert
A. Weber.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26

il the continued security of our
national life and institutions can
no longer be assured"
?. Some military training cou-
Piled with other activities -
like vocational, citizenship and
education training TO round
out the years work. This sug-
gcstion is endorsed by President
Roosevelt who still is pretty
vague on the whole subject.
3. No military training but a
year of special studies or ODY
building activities like camping
or outdoor work. Some cduca-
tors favor this.
The main fight-it seems now
will be on No. !, the program
Of purely military training. The
Army says:
There will be no place in
sound, universal military train
ing for activities that are non
essential to the tasks Of prepar-
ing our young men for combat"
They say this training should
take no less than one year. That
is the opinion of our military
leaders who are supposed TO
know what is necessary for our
country's protection.
Now it will be up TO the peo-
people and, through the people,
their CongreSs-to agree or dis
agree with military thinking.
Our future may depend on the
outcome Of the fight shaping up
in Congress.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26
SHAKES HANDS WITH POPE
SpendsLeuveinRome

WITH A ON. LAUNDRY
COMPANY OF THE ADRIA-
TIC DEPOT, AAFSC/MTO, It.
aly.-Sergeant John A. McIner-
ney, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ber-
nard Mclnerney Of 268 North
avenue in Mount Clemens, re-
Gently spent few days leave in
Rome.
The Sergeant has been over
seas with a mobile laundry
company since May of l943,
having seen more than a years
service in North Africa before
moving to Italy. Rome" he
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26
Wife Admits
Torso Murder
Husbands Body
Found in Cor

DETROIT. Dec. 20 - 2. -
Police officials probing the slay
ing Of Charles Houston. Swear
old war veteran. AGAIN question:
cd his wife Nina, Christmas
day and Assistant Prosecutor
Harold Helper disclosed he
would seek a frs, degree muir
der warrant against the woman
today.
Mrs. HouSdcn. 33. was apprc-
hendcd by Toledo. O. police
Saturday night while driving a
car containing the d.smcmbcrcd
body of HouSdCn.
Helper quoted Mrs. Housdcn
as admitting she Stranded her
cstranged husband i'm her subur-
ban Highland Park homo Mon
day night. and asserted she told
him she dlSmcmbcrcd the body
two DAYS later. He declared she
put the body i'm her car. intend
ing TO drive TO 5, Louis and
dispose of il. but hCr car dcvci-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26
Four 'Redbird' Coaches
DeroiIed Near Detroit

DETROIT, Dec. 26 - up -
Four coaches Of the Pennsylvan-
ia railroads "Red-Bird' train
were derailed at suburban Allen
Park Monday, but no passengers
were injured.
Railroad spokesman said the
derailment apparently w 5
caused by a split switch. The
train was bound from Chicago
to Detroit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26
Type and Length Of Compulsory Military Training?

Postwar advance Of rural cleo
trification, with the wide use Of
electric water systems, should
open a vast market for plumbing
and heating equipment in rural
areas.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-26
Congress Expected to Act
on Issue Early in 1915

EDITORS NOTE; This II the
first Of series on a subject which
may affect our whole future, IndI-
Vidually and as natiOn,D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Senate Group Extend,
Period for Veterans
10 Seek Former Jobs
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee today voted a favorable re-
port on the House bill giving dis
charged servicemen 80 instead of 40
days in which to apply for reinstate-
ment to their former civilian jobs
under. the Selective Service Act.
The committee also approved
unanimously bill which still awaits
action by both houses to continue
Gen. George G. Marshall, Chief of
Staff, in active service beyond the
retirement age of "a, which he will
reach December 81. The bill would
keep him on active duty until six
months after hostiities cease.
The veterans Unemployment bill
also provides that if a serviceman
requires disqualification at the time
of his release, and such treatment
does not continue for more than
year, he would have 80 days fol-
lowing the end of that year in which
to apply for his old job.
A third bill approved by the SEN
ate group would continue until six
months after the war the temporary
post Of Undersecretary of War, held
by Robert P Patterson.
On recommendation of Col. Fran
els v. Keesling, jr., legislative off,
Ger Of Selective Service, the Sem
ators made several amendments In
the veterans unemployment bill
which it is believed the House will
accept. One change makes certain
that the extension of time will ap-
ply to men covered either by the
draft law or the National Guard
bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
By Crew Decorated
For Air Survey Of Tokyo
BY the Associated Press.


SAIPAN, Nov. 10 Delayed The
entire crew of the Tokyo Rose, first
Super Fortress to fly over Tokyo, was
decorated today for its daring recon-
Nuisance mission November /.
In the first decoration ceremony
Of the goth Army Air Forces 21st
Bomber Command, Brig. Gen. Hay
wood S. Hansell presented the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross to the pilot,
Capt. Ralph D. Steakley, Jefferson,
Ohio; the Oak Leaf Cluster to an
Air Medal to Navigator 1t. Cludek
Stambaugh, San Antonio, Tex, and
Air Medals to nine other crewmen.
The accompanying citation said
"the crew returned with photographs
of enemy terrain and installations
hitherto unobtainable, and with
weather observations and other
technical information, thereby max
ing a major contribution to the sue
cess of the war against Japan"
Before the ceremony, Tokyo Rose
twice had returned for further
pictures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
owl Reports Shortage
lin Home. Heating Fuels

The Office of War Information
said last night that coal, oil and
wood supplies for home heating will
remain tight for the next several
months"
In general, the agency said, house
holders will have approximately 10
per cent less of preferred coal and
coke than they would burn in
normal times.
I'm areas where alternative fuel
can be obtained, consumers will be
able to use these to supplement their
supply of scarce fuels" Owl con-
tinued.
But those without any other
source of solid fuels, such as in the
Southeastern States, will find it
necessary to conserve at least 10
per cent of the coal they normally
consume"
The shortage of coal was attributed
principally to shrinking man
power" in the mines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
n, 500 Copies Of Stor's Carols
Given Out for Men in Service

More, than 1850 copies OF The
Evening Star Selection OF Christmas
Carols have been given out by The
Star since they were first offered
Tuesday for mailing to seryicemen
in camps on the war fronts.
Twenty-Five churches obtained
copies to mail to servicemen in their
congregations. George Washington S
church, the Pohick Church, was one
of those requesting copies.
The United States Chamber Of
Commerce requested As copies "for
distribution to the men from our or
ganization who are with the armed
forces"
The Stars publication of the
Christmas carols resulted from a
request of a young man from Wash
ington serving as an Army Medical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
AFL Will Hear Talks
On International Unions
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 24.-The
Saith annual convention of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor reconvened
today after the Thanksgiving .hoh-
day and planned to observe Inter-
national day.
Chester Bowles, head of the Office
of Price Administration, was listed
as the principal speaker at ses-
sion dedicated to the problems of
the International Labor Organiza-
ton.
Edward j. Phelan, acting head of
the ITO; John Brown and Arthur
Horner, British representative, were
to discuss the Hos problems and
bring greetings from their organ
tzations.
Luigi Antonini, recently returned
from an extended visit in Italy, was
scheduled to talk on the italian
labor union situation, and many
controversial subjects were to be
brought to the convention floor by
committee reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Three Inmates Wounded
In Rome Prison Outbreak
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, Nov. 24.-Several hundred
Italian civil prisoners were holding
out today in a cellblock of q the
Regina Coeli Prison after disorders
yesterday in which guards wounded
three prisoners and firemen put out
a blaze started by the inmates.
Prison authorities cut off their
food. A.
There have been daily disturb
ances at the prison for the last five
days. Allied officials adopted a
"hands-o policy.
The prisoners chief complaint
now seems to be that they have been
held without trial since June 4, some
of them for offenses punishable by
no more than three months i'm
prisonment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Patton INDICATED
On Free Press Policy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UBACH. Germany, Nov. 24-Lt.
Gen. George S. Patton's policy of
free press" has been indicated
with the fall of Metz.
Last September the commander
of the American Sd Army, after
comforting with Gems. Eisenhower
and Marshall, ordered the name of
every division, every unit and every
commander on his front be released
every day for publication.
1t meant that If a certain division
took city, correspondents could
say. for instance, that the 18th
Regiment from the 18th Division,
commanded by John Doe, had done
the job.
Conservative commanders pre-
dicted dire results, but Gen. Pat
tons theory was that the men doing
the fighting liked to read what their
division had accomplished. He be-
lieved gains in morale more than
offset the fact that the Germans
learned which unit was where. Gen.
Patton maintained the enemy &C
quired that knowledge anyway
within II hours after a battle starts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24

Corpsman In the Southwest Pacific
for the words and music OF the
familiar carols to sing to wounded
men.
The Nays chaplain Office has
sent 5000 copies of the carols to
the chaplains in the Pacific. The
General Commission on Army and
Navy Chaplains, a church organiza-
ton, has sent 5000 of them to both
Army and Navy chaplains in the
camps and all the theaters of war.
In addition, $500 have been given
out at The Stars business counter.
The carols are still available. Pub
lished on a sheet of ordinary news
print-four on each side in stand
ard sheet music size-they can be
mailed at letter postage rate of 8
cents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Overdue Swedish Ship
Feared Sunk in Baltic
BY the Associated Press.


STOCKHOLM, Nov. 24.-The 563-
ton Swedish passenger ship Hansa
was hours overdue at the Baltic
Island of Gotland today, and Swed-
ish military aircraft reported sight
ing debris, bodies and lifeboat
with apparent survivors Is miles
from Gotland.
Disappearance of the ship in good
weather recalled the recent German
proclamation that shipping in the
Baltic and the Gulf of Bothnia was
liable to be sunk without warning.
The Swedish newspaper Aftontid-
ningen speculated that the ship,
carrying more than a score of pas
sengers and ~ crew members, was
sunk either by a mine or a tor
pedo."
The Hansa left Stockholm Thurs
day night for visby Reports in
Stockholm said a number of those
aboard were Swedish soldiers on
leave. The route was outside the
area prescribed in the German proc
Iamation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Wounded DC. Marine
Tells Of Accuracy Of
Japanese SheIIfire

By Sergt. James F. Moser, jr.,
OF $40 South Main ST., Culpeper,
Va, a Marine Corps combat
correspondent, no1p on military
leaDe from The Stars editorial
stat.
SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH
PACIFIC Delayed Respect for
the accuracy of japanese artillery
and mortar fire has been learned by
many marines in this Pacific war.
Just ask Pfc. Thomas j. Fox, %. of
1854 New Hampshire avenue NV.
Washington, D. c.
Recuperating in a Navy hospital
here from wounds received on
Guam, Pvt. Fox said: Those Japs
sure can shell straight. We were
moving up to relieve another outfit
August 7 when sniper fire pinned
us down along a road. We spotted
a road block and called for tanks.
That's just what the Japs wanted.
GAS we lay there, they opened up
with IT'S. The first shell killed
two men not more than -four feet
behind me. caught a piece of the
second and another man was hit
five feet away on my left. Another
shell killed two more men that I
know of.
Real He'll Lying There"
ut was real hell lying there, TAX
ing those big shells. I moved over
to help the man who was hit to
the left of me. He saw me coming
and yelled: Don't move, they're
going to shell hell out of us!' I
kept moving, though.
eve lay there for about 20 min
utes after the barrage had lifted
until a platoon sergeant came up
and gave us first aid. Then he went
after a corpsman."
Mr.. Fox is the son of Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph G. Fox of Roseland, N. j..
His wife, Harriet, lives at the Wash
ington address. A brother, Ensign
Joseph c. Fox, jr., is in the Navy
overseas.
Enlisted in March, 1913.
Before enlisting in the Marine
Corps, in March, 1943, Pvt. Fox was
for Is months Washington repre-
sentative of the Harold H. Clapp
Co., a baby food concern, of Roch-
ester, N. Y. Prior to that time he
had worked out of Washington for
two years as Southern division |
manager for the Wheatena Corp. |
Of Railway, N. j.
Pvt Fox attended st. Benedict's
Preparatory School in Newark, N. j.,
where he played football and base
ball. He took basic training at
Paris Island, S. C. Overseas in
July. 1913, he served with the I'd
Marine Raider Battalion at Bou-
granville and Enirau.
This hospital life isn't so bad"
he asserted.
Pvt. Fox will be going back to duty
soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Reds 4ih Army lakes
so Points in Drive on
Vital Czech Rail Town
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Nov. 24.-The Rus
sian 4th Ukranian Army was on
the move again today In Eastern
Czechoslovakia after a four-week
fighting lull.
Moscow announced last night the
fresh drive by Marshal Ivan Pc
trov's forces already had ground out
gains up to 16 miles on a 25-mile
front west of Ungvar, Carpaths-
Ukraine city which fell October 81.
The thrust. apparently aimed at
the big highway and rail hub of
Kassa (Kosice),, has overrun 80
populated places as well as CSAP
Coop, railway junction Is miles
south of Ungvar.
Kassa lies about As miles north
northwest of the Hungarian COM
munications center, Miskolc, itself
threatened from the south and east
by units of Marshal Rodion Y. Ma
linovsky's I'd Ukranian Army sweep
ing through Hungary.
While Marshal Petrov's troops
WClC iCdIlilllS oObl dllISs ~ bl1iCo
northwest of Ungvar, Marshal Ma
inovsky's army units recaptured
Tokaj at the lower end of an ap-
proximately 55-mile active front
between those two points.
In yesterdays fighting Soviet
troops also smashed due west of
Ungvar is miles to Budkovce. The
railway station of Bacska, miles
west of Csap, also fell.
The Russian communique re-
ported capture of more than 1900
German and Hungarian prisoners
north and northwest of Csap and
$500 in two days of battle in
Hungary. Moscow said the total
taken since November in Hungary
now stands at 14,470.
The Russians announcement of
the recapture of Tokaj in North
eastern Hungary came day after
the Germans said they had evacu-
ated the famous wine town. Moscow
said Tarcal, 3 miles west of Tokaj
and Is miles east of Miskolc, was
taken during the day.
Front dispatches reported a cold
autumn rain falling along the 85-
mile front stretching northeast from
Budapest, turning roads into rivers
of mud.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Wodehouse Case May GET
Airing in British House
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 24.-The P. G.
Wodehouse case may be aired in
the House of Commons.
Several members of Parliament
are preparing questions in an effort
to get the government to clarity
tt : position of the 63-year- Brit
ish novelist who was detained by
the French.
Reports from Paris, the London
Daily Mail said, had given the
whole affair an unnecessary atrnos-
phere of mystery"
The newspaper raised these ques-
tions-'What was the object of the
arrest? If the British govern
ment was not consulted in advance,
why was a British citizen arrested
by the French?"
In Paris the police judiciare an
lnounced yesterday that Wodehouse
had been released after spending
three nights in a police station, but
it was disclosed later he was still
detained.
1t was understood the authorities
had agreed not to press charges that
Wodehouse had aided the Germans
by broadcasts from Germany in 1941.
His release was withheld pending
arrangements for his residence un-
der surveillance not less than 100
kilometers (62 niles from Paris.
Insure your future security by
buying War Bonds and hanging on
to them!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Mrs. Morgenthou Gains
At Doctors Hospital

The condition of Mrs. Henry
Morgenthau, jr., wife of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, was improving
today, her physician, DR.. Benjamin
Leonard, reported. Mrs. Morgen-
THAI has been in Doctors Hospital
several days.
DR.. Leonard said Mrs. Morgen-
thaus illness was not serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senate: ...-
Continues debate, on flood control
bill.
Commerce Subcommittee hears
further testimony on st. Lawrence
seaway and power project ..
Military Affairs Committee hears
Undersecretary of War Patterson on
unemployment legislation.
House:
Debates highway fund bill.
Ways and Means Committee con-
siders freeze on social security pay
roll tax.