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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
Mad Officer
Murders Three
Lieutenant Kills
Two Girls, Policemen
RIVERSIDE, Calf, March

!, RIVERSIDE, Calf, March 7
-(P)-Two girls and a police
sn were slain and five other
persons were wounded yester-
day at nearby Camp ANA by a
31-year-old Army officer be-
fore police bullets injured the
assailant, the camp commander
reported. A military board of
inquiry is seeking to establish
the motive for the shootings.
Killed when End 1t. Beaufort
G. Swancutt, of La Crosse, Wis,
suddenly cut loose with As
caliber army automatic Sunday
night, said Col. Earle r. Sarles,
camp commander, were:
Miss Dorothy Douglas, 10, Of
Long Beach, Calf.
Miss Lourdine Livermore, 10,
likewise of Long Beach.
Arthur B. Simpson, "a, a Riv-
erside police radio patrolman.
The camp commander and
witnesses thus described the af-
fray:
Swancutt, his close friend,
End 1t. Harry j. Light, and the
two girls were sitting in the
Camp ANA Officers Club about
See SHOOTINGS-Page 2
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Traffic Code
Under Attack
Warren Dodsss
Ordinance Expose

VAN DYKE Still Keeling
under the effects of a blistering
attack Friday by the Detroit
Automobile Club, Warren town.
ships traffic law structure suf.
fered a new, self-administered
body blow Saturday afternoon
when Justice of the Peace
James l.. Ryan hurriedly dis
missed a drunk driving charge
against a Ferndale motorist In
the face of defense counsel's
warning that validity Of the
whole Warren traffic ordinance
would be assaulted il the case
was permitted to 60 to trial.
Central figure in the latest
traffic code development was
John Taylor, 38 years of age, Of
545 Gardendale avenue. Fern.
dale, whose attorney, State Sem
ator Ivan A. Johnston, had an
nounced we'll in advance that he
would attack the Warren town.
ship ordinance under which his
client was arrested. il and when
Taylor had been charged with
the case was called by Ryan.
drunk driving in the wake, Of Z
traffic fatality on the night Of
Dec. IA, l943. in which George
Cassidy, 40, of 1888 Eight Mile
road was killed as he and two
See TRAFFIC-Page 8
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In the opinion OF a wounded
English-speaking stalwart OF
Hitler's famed Afrika Korps,
graduate OF the University Of
Hamburg, the one factor which
disrupted the Nazi's plans for
swift conquest Of Europe was
Lend Lease.
The Germans studied opinion
was given to Pfc. Donald B.
Thomson, local veteran Of active
service in two world wars, while
attending his duties in an army
general hospital somewhere in
North Africa early in 1913 after
the Rommel army had been
routed.
The master minds OF the mas
ter race had blue-printed their
bloody program of enslavement
with the inclusion of every pro-
position. including Americas
possible entry into the war-but
had never imagined that such q
comprehensive and eminently
effective plan rs Lend Lease
would be devised to flood Eur.
ope's sorely pressed nations with
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
Rotion Clerk
Held in Sole
ofGos Stamps

b. LANSING, March 7 - R -
Police Chief John F. O'Brien
said today that a u. S. Secret
Service agent and local detect
ives broke into the home of Mrs.
Dorothy Martin, chief clerk of
the West Side ration board, and
caught her in the act of selling
gasoline ration stamps to a Gus
toner.
He said she was caught as she
sold 800 sheets of &C" stamps
for $500 in cash.
He said she threw the money
under a table as the police broke
into her home and refused to
answer questions concerning it.
O'Brien said the raiders con-
fiscated 992 sh cts of "B"
t a mps, $50 sheets of &C"
See CLERK-Page 2
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Shores Reiundinq
Saves $31,S57.35
Premium Paid Above
Por on $4,000 Issue

ST. CLAIR SHORES-Keep-
ing pace with the rising market,
which has been reflected in the
increased returns on most Ma
comb county bond issues within
the past two years, School Dis
trict No. 2, Lake township, has
disposed of S405, 900 in 1914 re-
funding certificates at par-plus
a cash premium of Sl02.
The district concerned has an
enrolment of $50 pupils and op-
crates a grade school in addition
to Lakeview high school, here.
The issue, dated March l.,
1914, reflects an average inter-
est rate of 2.958 per cent.
Matthew Carey, refunding
agent for the district. said today
See BONDS-Page 2
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gets at Trappes, France, Is miles
southwest of Paris, and mosquito
bombers darted against targets
in northwest Germany, all with
out loss.
More than $50 American
bombers hurled over 1000 tons
Of bombs upon burning Berlin,
and in the swirling aerial bat
ties all the way from the Dutch
coast to the capital gunners of
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
bagged SO enemy planes while
Fighter escorts shot down 80.
1t was the second highest sin
gle days score in victories for
the U. S. Air forces. The rec
ord still is the 307 German
planes downed during the
Schweinfurt and Regensburg
raids last Aug ID.
But the bombers suffered
record loss. Sixty-eight of the
big craft and IL Fighter planes
plunged down. About 700 high
ly-trained airmen were lost.
The Air Ministry said first re-
See BERLIN-Page 2
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it was announced today by Mar
garet Kleinhuizen, co director
of music.
A first cellist in the school
orchestra, Evelyn Riley, sem
ior, will play the "Tarantella'
by w. n. Squire, tone picture
of the wild dance of native
who is bitten by deadly taran-
tula spider. Miss Riley is also
organist at the local Baptist
church.
Robert Mckenzie, also sem
Tor, who has four and half
years of band experience under
his belt will display his tech
nical skill in the trumpet solo
"Fantasie Brilliante' by Arban.
He first began study on his in
strument in 1898. and has earn
See CONCERT-Page 2
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Subs harass
Jap Shipping
Yonks Occupy
Mojuro AtoII

WASHINGTON, March 7 -
R- Admiral Chester w. MINI
itz, commander-in chief of the
Pacific fleet, reported today on
his return to Washington for a
series of conferences that %
American forces have occupied
the Majuro Atoll in the Mar
shall Islands and CD our SUBJ
marines may deliver the killing
blow in the Pacific.
u. S. troops encountered no
opposition when they invaded
Majuro, once a German supply
base, the 59-year-old, white
haired Admiral told a news con-
ference. They found no Japa-
nese on the Atoll, he said, add
ing that the little island will
provide American forces with a
good anchorage and advance po-
sition in the mid-Pacific Mar
shalls.
Nimitz declined any discus
sion of the Uses to which the
new base might be put. Majuro
was a German Naval base and
repair station before World War
/. Whether Japan, to which the
Marshalls were inundated, de-
veloped any kind of establish
ment on Majuro Is not known.
AS for the work of our sub
the Pacific commander
said they "are taking such a
See PACIFIC-Page 2
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Larry(uyIer
Is MISSING
Lost on Roid
Over Germany

Staff Sergt. Larry M. Cuyler,
age %, popular member of the
Mount Clemens younger genera
ton, Is listed as missing by the
Army Air Forces since he failed
to return from a bombing raid
over Germany Feb. FL.
Mrs. Esther F. Cuyler, Larry's
mother, was notified by the War
Department today that her son
is missing. Word as to whether
or not he was imprisoned or
possibly injured, is avail e d
through international Red Cross
channels.
Larry Cuyler. whose brother.
Ralph, is also with the armed
forces, attended local schools
and was employed at the Bath
City Garage before entering the
services. For some time he has
been attached to anti aircraft
gunnery groups in England, and
although he had several times
expressed desire to go over
with the bombers", he had not
informed his family of such a
transfer. The War Department
telegram definitely stated that
Sergt. Cuyler was missing after
action over Germany Feb. 81.
Mrs. Cuyler, a widow, is en-
ployed by the Macomb County
Social Welfare Department.
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Cruiser Penelope
Sent 10 Bottom

LONDON, March 7--(P)-The
Admiralty announced today the
loss of the famed cruiser Pc
nelope, which became known as
INNS Pepperpot' after she was
Scared by 1000 shell fragment
holes in the Battle of Malta.
No details were given as 10
when or how she was sunk.
The Penelope survived IA
days Of bombing in Malta S
grand harbor during the height
of the Axis campaign against the
Mediterranean Island bastion.
On the way TO Gibraltar she
underwent three more days of
attack. during which IL torpe-
does and 5000 tons of bombs
were aimed at her by German
and Italian planes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
Hint Break
in Jury Probe
n Respondents
ore Bound-Ovev
.rno,o by Hillcres,
BY G. MILTON KELLY

LANSING, March = (P -
Circuit Judge Leland w. Cars
Grand Jury investigation Of
State government swung back
into action today. on completion
of the examination of % re-
spondents whom Judge Carr
yesterday ruled must stand trial
in Circuit Court on charges of
conspiring to corrupt the Legis-
lature through bribery.
There were hints that another
"break" In the investigation
might not be very far away.
A fog of battling questions,
the answers concealed by grand
jury secrecy rules-a secrecy
which the testimony indicated
See GRAFT-Page 2
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Chicago before the end of Feb
ruary, were credited to the
home areas Of the purchasers.
Clark publicly expressed
thanks to the community chair
men, leaders, businessmen,
bankers. school children and ev-
eryone who contributed some
investment to the grand total.
A total of $4,000, 1850 in E
bonds were sold, exceeding the
E bond quota by $105,156.50.
The s3,477,326.50 quota for
all other bonds was exceeded
by 81, 176,326.50, Clark re-
ported.
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| zoo. 900 MORE FACE DRAFT PRIOR TO JULY /:
68 us. B0MBERS, 176 NAZI FIGHTERS D0WNED;
YANKS TAKE MAJUR0; SUBS RIP JAP SHIPPING
Counfy's Once Staggering Debt
on New Building Is Discharged
Prefenfious
Structure IS
Now in Clear

Born of controversy in a
critical period of financial
stress, and finally completed de-
spite innumerable problems and
objections, the Macomb County
Building has entered its 18th
year Of occupancy free of in
debtedness, it was proudly re-
ported to the Board of Supervis-
ors by Controller Sherwood j.
Bennett at their latest meeting
The county owes only $1310
of the approximate 1854, 900 cost
of the building-the small
amount being due sub-contrac.
tor who apparently went out of
business during the depression.
and to whom payment cannot be
made.
Initiated with a gloomy pros
pect, the story Of the construc-
ton of the County Building-es-
pecially its paid-in-fall con-
clusion-is probably the proud
est chapter in county history.
COST $603,625
In the first place, actual cost
OF the building to Macomb
County (apart from about $780,
600 in Federal funds) was $685..
625.73.' This was on a cash bas-
is, paid for by a one-mill tax
first spread in 1927 by far
sighted Board of Supervisors In
practically every case of public
building construction elsewhere,
bonds have been issued, bring
ing the cost to about l IL times
the actual cost of construction.
In other words, the building
SHOULD have cost more than
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07

Seeking a quota Of $4,396, 900
in the recent Fourth War Loan
Drive, Macomb County exceed
ed this mark by 81 ,281 ,483, with
a total sale of all bonds amount
ing to $5,677 ,483.
Announcement to this effect
was made today by Ralph w.
Clark, county chairman, after
receiving final figures from the
u. S. Treasury Department and
the Federal Reserve Bank, Chi
cago.
All factory bond investments
allocated to Macomb County,
and all bonds cleared through
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total OF $5677,483 SOLD
Mocomb County Bond Quote Exceeded by 70 Per Cent

Harold Stillwell; East Detroit,
Earl Miller; Fraser, Rev. Lynn
B. Tschudy; Lenox, A. F. Lind
Ike; Memphis. Omar Henderson;
Mount Clemens, Chris w. Kon-
stanzer; New Baltimore, Edgar
j. Lanstra; New Haven, Russell
Kendrick; Richmond, A. +.
Lindke; Romeo, Earl Heap;
Roseville, j. Russell LaBarge;
st. Clair Shores, Emerson Bell
more; Utica, Z. o. Gildart and
E. A. Schwarzkoff; Van Dyke,
Joseph S. Stanley: Warren. John
c. Busch. Jr., and Washington.
Grover Powell.
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Every community in Macomb
County exceeded its overall
quota for combined sale OF E
and other bonds.
In addition to Charles r. Wal
tiers, First National Bank officer.
in Mount Clemens, who served
as county banking chairman.
and A. d. Brewer, who repre-
scented Federal Loan e. Savings
Associations. the following COM
munity chairmen were specific
ally praised by Clark for their
part in the drive:
Armada. Bob Beck; Baseline,
George p. Siaskris; Center Line,
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S42 laps; ia Yanks
AN ADVANCED SOUTH pa

AN ADVANCED SOUTH PA
CIFIC AIR BASE, March 7 =
up - South Pacific air forces
have destroyed 842 Japanese
planes since the air battle to re-
duce Rabaul, New Britain, be-
gan last Dec. II, Vice Adm. Au-
brey w. Fitch. commander of
Allied air forces in the South
Pacific, said today.
American losses during the
same period were liza.
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Paul ). Hint
Heads B. Of T..
WoItzer is V-P;
Walters Treasurer

Paul S. Hirt, local attorney, at
noon today was elected president
of the Mount Clemens Board of
Commerce, succeeding John H.
Nunneley who has been at the
local organizations helm for the
past year.
Hugo Walter, Jr., was named
See b. OF C.-Page 2
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Arrest Patriots

NEW YORK, March = Up
The German-controlled Paris
home radio declared in a broad
cast today that "a French patri-
OTIS were arrested in the 48-hour
period ending last night on the
charges of terrorist activities"
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Shades Of Brig Young

SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. p
(P-A federal grand jury had
indicted 20 persons in 10 true
bills involving polygamous prac-
tees, government attorneys said
today.
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LONDON, March 7 -(R
- The Rome radio said waves
of four engine bOmbers at
tackled Rome today. "Forma.
ton of four-engined aircraft
in successive waves dropped
bombs on inhabited districts
of the City of Rome" the
broadcast said.
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photos Of the two featur-
ed soloists appear on Page 3 Of
tOday's edition of the Monitor
Leader.)
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Savage Duel
Above Berlin
Proves Costly
American Airmen
Blost Heart Of
Enemy's CopitoI
BY RICHARD r. KASISCHKE

BY RICHARD r. KASISCHKE
LONDON, March 7-R-
The great American air fleets
smashing Berlin Monday knock
ed 176 Nazi planes from the sky,
but lost SO four-engined bomb
ers in one of the greatest plane
battles of the war, u. S. Army
headquarters disclosed today.
Raj night bombers kept the
attack rolling, with heavy
blow last night on railway tar
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Two SoIoists
to Feature
H. S.Concert

Two soloists will be featured
at the Dedicatory Concert to be
given Thursday in the Mount
Clemens high school auditorium,
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VET OF TWO WARS HOME
Lend.Lease Wins Battles

arms, munitions and food. r
Even though willing to fufn.
See THOMSON-Page 3
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Impartial cevsssSs
Of All loeel News
Evening star., 1944-12-31

like him, because my wife and used to root
for him at the Criterion Theater on Broad
way. We rooted for hira in dozens of pictures
he has made IS - and we hoped he would
get the heroine and the white cottage, but
he never did. He was playing second leads
then and second leads never get anything but
a weak check from the studio.
We left the bar and went to table and
began sinking our choppers into some very
excellent food. We had some of the roast beef
l had seen going BY snothered with delicious
sauce, and little green peas and lyonnaise
potatoes. While we were eating someone
sent over two large portions of birth
day cake from nearby table.
1t seemed shame to keep interrupting
this meal to ask Bowman lot of darned-fool
questions about himself, but that is what
you're supposed to do on an interview:
Swell roast beef You come from Ohio,
don't you?"
Yeah, Cincinnati. Dad was in the real
estate business there. Have some more pota-
toes? Went to Law School at the University
of Cincinnati. All the graduates knew were
starving to death at the time, so decided to
quit and become an actor. My dad thought
Evening star., 1944-12-31

dressed movie stars and expensive tourists.
A beautiful slice of roast beef went by on
silver cart, and it made me think of our mess
sergeant, Chubby Dennison.
Lee Bowman came in and said hello, and
everybody in the restaurant seemed to be
looking at him and smiling at him. There were
other movie stars in the place. but Lee had
just hit the jackpot in picture with Jean
Arthur, THE Impatient Years" A year ago,
Mr. Bowman might have walked into Mr..
Romanoff's tepee and attracted as much
attention as private stepping into chow
line.
A well-known agent came by and began to
sing to Mr. Bowman. "You were great Lee,
simply wonderful. Fine performance. Fine!
And how is Rita?" He was referring to Rita
Hayworth, who just finished picture with
Lee called Tonight and Every Night
Agents! Agents! Agents!
VERY good job, Lee. Wonderful, wonder
full" The agent skipped off to shake hands
with Herbert Marshall and Chester Morris.
agents" Lee Bowman said. Agents"
He grnned at me and grinned back. A
nice guy, thought. 1t sort of pleased me to
Evening star., 1944-12-31

This Co. b corporal may be
eating X rations by now. But
oh, the memory of that lunch
with Lee Bowman in Hollywood
Remember Corporal Sher? He wangled q three
day pass, went TO Hollyarood and got three inter-
rie,cs for THIS WEEK Magazine Here's No. 3.
MIKE RoMANOFF's. that fancy-schmancy
lvl eatery in Beverly Hills, is world far
removed from this barracks on this night.
This is strange and very special night, be-
cause at dawn Company B and CPL Sher are
being shipped.
And, on this night, while my underwear is
drying and with the music of crap game in
my ears. am trying to write a story about
Lee Bowman, an actor who is now a very
hot commodity in Hollywood.
mention Mike Romanoff's because that
is where my interview with Mr.. Bowman took
place. The actor arrived while was nursing
a cold beer and thinking about how nice it
would be to stay at the bar for couple of
years, with nothing to do but look at we'll
Evening star., 1944-12-31

my mother.
I wrote down a note saying that Lee was
about six feet tall, weighed about IFS pounds.
had hazel eyes, nice grin and brown hair.
Then I took bite of salad that was too large
and reminded myself that was not in the
mess hall and it shouldn't happen again.
We got back to talking about actors
agents. II think have had more agents than
anyone in Hollywood" Lee said. Every time
| took salary cut or lost job, my agent
at the time would tell me that it was the best
thing that could happen to my career. Now
they would say, we can really 60 to work for
YOU. Think of your career. What is money,
after all? This is great break for you.
Lee made face The waiter came over and
wanted to know if anything was wrong. We
both laughed like hell. Agents" Lee said.
even now they're running my digestion
Hes Mething Of the Sest
ALTHOUGH, in the movies, Lee has played a
series of roles depicting gay. worldly. wise
cracking fellow. he is nothing of the sort. He
has never lived in the Village. hunted wild
boar on the African veldt, or slipped an Alex
ander in boulevard cafe on the Rue de la
Paix. He is a sane young man of some %
years, who has wife and two kids. He likes
to play tennis, golf and sleep on the lawn.
Lee came to Hollywood in 1896 to play
second or third lead in "Internes Can't Take
Money" He kept working fairly steadily.
finally tapped the feminine hearts in the
Columbia picture, Cover Girl" He's now
under contract to that studio and they are
stuffing him into pictures as fast as the screen
writers can think them up. His fan mail has
quadrupled since he is now the guy who
gets the gal in the final clincheroo.
We had now reached the dessert the gift
cake from the nearby table. We were full.
Look, Corporal" Lee said, you are in
uniform and nobody will dare whisper around
Hollywood that you are an ungrateful cur if
you do not eat the gift. Leave it lie."
What are you going to do?"
He sighed. II gotta eat il" he said.
sat there and watched him bravely eat
that cake tried to take his mind off the
task by asking about his wife and, as he
stuffed the cake down. he told me about how
he met her on tennis court and she beat the
pants off him in hot game of singles, where
upon he fell madly in love with her
Cot the Evil Eye
IT WAS torture watching him eat that cake,
and l guess should have eaten my piece,
because the party who sent it over slipped
me the evil eye a couple of times
wish had that cake tonight, that lovely,
fluffy cake with the creamy frosting We are
on the alert, and am ravenously hungry
A few minutes ago, stopped writing and
turned to my buddy, CPL Hugh CHM of Los
Angeles. Cpl. CHM is sewing on stripes and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-12
Against
No. l-Musclc Men ~ Model


AAES. they're here again
Not all of them of course Some of the
4 hoodlumS who tcroriZcd the IhlrucS reside
permanently, we hope, in Atlanta, Leavcnworth
and AlcatraZ But those who managed 10 escape
with short sentences or 10 get paroled too quickly
from long ones are responding to the call OF
wartime scarcity as they did TO that of peace.
time prohibtion-with hijaclings, gun battles and
LCath.
But with variations.
The thugs of Gang Era ! were concerned with
only one article Of merchandise. The new thug
gerry muscles i'm" On everything which is rationCd
or in which there is temporary shortage
The chance for new rackctS is, therefore, viz
tuallv unlimited. The result is am allOVer con.
tinually changing, kaleidoscope crime picture,
beside which the gangster situation Of the early
Thirtics was as simple the simplest quiz
program.
Variations in method, too.
The manpower shortage frequently enables
crooks TO bypass the old-fashioned hijaCkng
operation OF prohibition days
For example transportation companies are so
desperate for help that if calls the
phone applies for job, references, in some in
stances, are not asked or given.
The new driver takes out the waiting truck
II never comes back. Neither does he At least
the load sometimes tidy $4,000 or $4,000
worth of -ratiened merchandise - doesn't come
-haCk because, long before suspicion rs aroused,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-12

old result, al over again: The FBI got them.
So active have these hiiacking gangs become
kind of rationed or scarce commodities ride with
fear in their hearts.
They never know when some nervous hand
is going to pull trigger and send a slug of lead
tearing into their hides or when some ruthless
hand is going TO gag them and bind them and
throw them into ditch to die.