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j. Casualties
Soar Sharply
284,S38 Reported
in Lotest TotoI

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 -
Up Rejecting the period of
heaviest fighting in northern
France, total Army casualties
jumped to 284,838 on Aug. ID,
an increase of 23,249 over those
reported just a week earlier.
Coupled with Navy casualties
of 1888, the latest overall fig
ures for the armed services is
343,191, compared with 317,846
a week ago. All figures are on
the basis of those officially re-
ported to next of kin and repre-
sent lag of three weeks or
more behind action in the field.
Undersecretary Of War Pat
terson said in Southern France
Army casualties for the invasion
which began Aug. Is up to Au-
gust "a were 1,247 killed and
missing, and 5000 wounded. Be-
cause these casualties occurred
after Aug. Is they are not in
cluded in the overall figure of
that date.
As of August Is, Patterson
said Army casualties were as
follows:
53,101 killed, 142,686 wound
ed, 44,643 missing and 44,408
prisoners. Of the total wound
ed, 60,314 have been returned
to duty.
Comparable Army figures rs
Of Aug. 6 were: 1880 killed,
1881 wounded, 42,956 miss
ing and 1892 prisoners.
The Navy casualty total of
58,353, with comparisons for the
preceding week; killed 1854
and 23,135; missing 9,652 and
9,593; wounded 20,701 and 49,.
063; prisoners 4,466 and 4, 466.
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taste and was the accepted rule
of the day.
POT BOILING
But let us 60 back to 1910
when Macomb County was ex-
periencing another of its politi-
cal campaigns and the pot was
boiling over with candidates;
each DESTROYS oil receiving the
nod of approval which meant .
plurality Of votes.
In that year the Republicans
had 10 candidates i'm the field at
primary election time. The DEM
ocrats three, Prohibition Party
10, and National Progressive
Party eight. The Bull Moose
Party made its debut later.
William N. Miller. no relation
to the present county treasurer,
See POLTTICS-Page Q
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Board Decides
10 Postpone
Fall Opening
Stote Extends Area
in Which Schools
Delay Term

Public schools in Mount Glenn
ems will not open until Sept. ID.
That announcement of the
Mount Clemens board of educa-
ton decision in regard to the
closing of schools was made this
afternoon by Supt. of Schools
L.. Wade Fast after special
meeting of the board had been
called to consider the serious
ness of the poliomyelitis epidem-
ic.
The action was taken after a
thorough study of the situation
had been made by board men,
berS.
ALARMING UPSURGE
The State Board of Health re-
leased figures today showing
that, as of Wednesday, there
were 393 cases of infantile par
alysis in the state, EOS in De-
troit.
The total for the week in De-
troit is AZ, compared to 38 the
week previous. Eight cases have
occurred in Macomb county
since Jan. /.
The Mount Clemens board of
education in taking action to
keep school doors closed, is con-
forming to expressed wishes of
the State Department of Public
Instruction and State Board OF
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hazi Hofdes
Flee Toward
Faiher|and
Anslo-Ameriean
StsomrollsT Movss
Ahsod Unchecked

BY JAMES M. LONG
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Aug. SIR -British
tanks captured Amiens and
smashed across the Somme river
today in a lightning 00rmile
drive in AZ hours that found the
Germans in full flight back %
the Reich before four onrushing
Allied Armies.
The British raced with Ameri-
can columns which ovsiran
Laon and stabbed on north mesD
than two miles to within -
miles of Belgium with such -
wildering speed that they over
whelmed three trainloGdG *
German soldiers trying -
escape. I.
The speed OF the advance. vir-
tually uncontested along Z $50
mile arc at the Somme and ap-
preaching the Meuse river, In
Dictated that the Germans had
given up the last pretense q =
rearguard stand and were In
open flight through Belgium
back to the imperiled homeland
BLAST NAZI HOPES
The Somme itself had been
considered . natural barrier
along which the enemy might
try to fashion some sort % = y
stand. but the capture Of the city
Of Amiens, which straddles tn
river. blasted this possibility.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
declared that now thu Allio1
campaign to liberate northern
France was at least five days
ahead of ,hedule. and Il ~
peared that the Germans wogu
not trying "a, sidetraek e.
With the Canadians mOpninn
up the big river port q RnI1on,
Is miles inland from Oterpo.
and the British Is miles Inland
from Abbeville It Amiens. half
See FRANCE--Page .
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VAN DYKE - The grief
stricken parents of Florence Oh
ter, missing since July 10. to-
day pinned their hopes Of bring
ing her safely home on trip to
Coldwater, Mich. they expect TO
undertake this week.
According to Patrolman Wal
ter O'Bee. of the Warren town.
ship police department, the 16-
year-old girl has been located
in Coldwatcr and, as a convert
of a tent tabernacle. has been
accompanying the pastor and
his workers on a tour through
many cities since she left home
almost two months ago.
SECOND LETTER
O'Bee said that Mrs. Otter.
who with her husband William,
lives at 23823 Stewart avenue,
had already made one unsuc-
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Ger at the Oscoda Army Air
Field testified that the flier was
leader of a group Of three type
PAT planes which had been as
signed to an altitude formation
flight" at not lower than the
5000 foot level.
Capt. Edmond D. Griffin, who
See 1T. WASSING-Page 2
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800 Warren Servieemen
AppIv Tor Ballots

VAN DYKE - Township
Clerk William Lawson stated to-
day that upwards of 800 appl:-
cations had been received by
mis- office for absentee ballots
from servicemen. The deadline
for overseas applications is now
passed and only servicemen in
the country map apply and re-
ccive q full national. state and
county election ballot.
After Oct. 1. however. only
national candidates may be
voted upon by late applicants.
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in the small craft when he heard
the military planes approaching.
Lieut.. Wassing is charged with
violations of both the 93rd and
96th Articles of War.
Lieut.. Wassing's superior Off
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Montgomery Now
Field Marshal

LONDON, Aug. 31-tP-
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
cry was elevated tonight to the
rank Of Field Marshal. effective
tomorrow. sThe War Office an
nounced that King George vi
had approved the promotion of
the hero of FL Alemein who now
directs British armies in north
ern France.
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City BoIsfers
Kings Daughters
Health Fund

A 500 contribution was
granted to the Kings Daughters
from out of the city health funds
by the City Commission at their
weekly meeting held in the
county building Wednesd a y
evening. The amount donated is
in anticipation of their conven-
ton scheduled for Mount Glenn
ems at a later date.
See CITY-Page 2
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Triangle
Staying
PrObel

ADRIAN, Mich, Aug. 81 -
R-- Mrs. Imogene Gittus was
shot fatally in her home at
Ridgeway. last night, and Pros
ecutor l.. j. Hammond said to-
day her husband Lennie, 38,
confessed he killed her after a
quarrel over her attentions TO
a fellow worker in a Tecumseh
war plant where she had been
employed.
Hammond said a murder war
See PROBE-Page 4
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Poles Ottnpy
porf Of pesaro
Gothic Line
Anchor Topples

ROME, Aug. 81 m -1h6
Adriatic port Of Pesaro. On @
the eastern anchors Of thu 0ozS
mans Gothic line. has fallen -
Polish troops, and Allied 1oCc6G
now are In contact with s(Soag
enemy positions further inlan1
after storming ACROSS the NJ
lila river on q broad front, Il ~
announced today.
Pesaro fell only after = hit1up
fight in which both infantry M
armor participated. The d.
mans counterattacked 6oEor14
yesterday after the poloo -
invested part o. y66 co. ~
Ses rTALY-RAgo 3
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Ex-King's Wife
Operated on i'm
n. Y. HOSPITAL

NEW YORK. Aug. 31--(P)-
The Duchess of Windsor under
went successfully an operation
for appendicitis at Roosevelt
hospital today, DR.. Joe r.
Clemmons, medical director. an
nounced. A.,-
The operation was performed
by DR.. Henry Cave of New
York. and was witnessed by DR..
See DUCHESS-Page 2
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1000 in City
with Half Year
License Plates

An estimated 1000 motorists
in and around Mount Clemens
will have to purchase license
plates If they expect to continue
driving their cars, so stated
Frank Schmidt, manager of the
Mount Clemens branch of the
Michigan Department Of State,
today.
The deadline on the expira-
See LICENSES-Page 2
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From the witness stand this
morning Aspirant Jean st. Jean,
Major Carl w. Payne, Capt. Ed
ward T. Griffin, Jr., LIST. Lieuts.
Milford D. Nelson and Robert
Decker as we'll as End. Lieut.. D.
D. Williams related incidents on
the day of the accident.
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Health. Both agencies have is
sued pleas to the same effect.
CLOSING GENERAL
Practically all schools in the
south end of Macomb county
will be closed due to their prox-
unity to the apparent center of
the polio outbreak. These in
See SCHOOLS-Page 2
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Public school football prac-
tise will be delayed until the
opening Of schools, Sept. IL.
Teachers, however, will re-
port on the originally sched-
uled dat. of Sept. s.
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class now and fighting hard. I
can tell by the things left UNI
said in his letters that he is 60
ing through some tough times. /
want to help bring him home by
freeing another man for action
at the front. That's why I've
joined the Marines"
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Burglary Trio
Found Guilty
Jurors Bring in
Verdict Todoy

Fred (Blackie) Zanger, How
ard Bierbauer and Joseph Muir
ray, were found guilty of the IL
legal possession Of burglary
tools this afternoon by a Ma
comb county circuit court jury
after less than three hours de-
liberation.
The trio, all of whom have
prior criminal records, heard
Circuit Judge Archie D. Nc
Donald charge the jurors at IL
a. m. The jury deliberated for
one hour before lunch and re-
sumed its scrutiny of the testi-
mony at l p. m.
HAIL OF BULLETS
The case, which has attracted
wide attention due to the sensa-
tional circumstances surround.
ing the suspects capture in a
blaze Of machine gun fire last
Feb. q, brought eight prosecu-
ton and one defense witness 20
the stand.
Murray, himself accused. took
the stand on Wednesday and re-
See TRIO-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-27
Truck Gasoline
lssuances Set
for June 1879

Third quarter gasoline issu-
ances for truck drivers have
been set for Wednesday and
Thursday, June % and 80. at
the st. Mary's high school gym
nasium on Market street. Off
Gals of Macomb County War
Price e. Rationing Board No. so,
Mount Clemens. announced to-
day.
The same system of Civilian
Defense volunteer service that
proved so successful during the
second quarterly issuances will
be utilized with the prediction
that all Of those who properly
apply will be handed their coup
ons and be disposed of within a
matter of minutes.
The gymnasium will be open
from 10 a. m. on each of the
two days specified. Applicants
must present current ODT certi-
ficates and certificates of regis
tration showing license plate
numbers.
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Sale of small denomination
war bonds in Mount Clemens -
although stimulated by the pur-
chase of $4,000 worth at the
weekend war bond rally is
tagging, City Chairman Martin
G.. Schwartz announced today, as
he issued strong plea to the
IMAM in the street to hasten his
purchases.
Sale Of E Series bonds has
now reached the total of S242,-
600 towards the goal of S475,-
900; little more than so per
cent.
Sale of other series bonds,
most for corporations and in
vestment firms, has reached the
commendable total of 70 per cent
of the quota, or SSH 900 of sl,-
070,000, Schwartz points out.
Macomb County's Board of
Supervisors Monday voted to
purchase S500,000 worth of
6-7ths of one-per-cent bonds,
shortterm bond, and G.. Hale
Brake, State Treasurer, an
nounced today that in behalf of
Macomb county he has purchas-
ed S526.000 worth of similar
bonds. The city's credit" share
of such transactions is estimated
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Monkeyshines
Upset Village
Jock ond Jennie
Still Separated

ROSEVILLE-This far-from-
notorious community, which for
years has depended on Bill Har-
per and WPA sewer grants for
headlines, is now threatening TO
become more famous than did
Dayton, Tenn, some years ago,
all because of a lot Of monkey
business.
1t all started last Saturday
when Mrs. Inez Finlayson, pet
fancier and Doberman dog rails
er, turned her talents to the
raising of two monkeys; valu-
able 18-months-old r h su S
specimens, purchased from
Detroit dealer.
Everything would undoubted-
ly have been all right, and the
community would have been
denied the best show in years,
if the monkeys had been run-of-
the-mill Joe Mendis interested
only in peanuts and play.
JOCK FLEES
But Jock and Jennie were
sWeethearts, and when Floyd
See MONKEYS Page 2
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Paymaster Is Held
As Drunk Driver
Detroit Executive Narrowly
Escaped Beotins. Police Soy

CENTER LINE - Percival
Russell Cole. described by Po-
lice Chief Elmer Flechsig as
paymaster for a large Detroit
war plant, was at liberty on
$l25 bond today pending trial
July IL before Justice Of the
Peace Guy l.. Frost on drunk
driving charges.
According to Chief Flechsig,
whose officers arrested the So
year old Detroiter at / am. Sun
day, just after his machine had
collided head-on with one driv-
en- north on Van Dyke avenue
by % year old Mount Clemens
man, Cole narrowly escaped
summary justice at the hands of
indignant motorists who said
that his car had endangered
them as he drove south along
the left hand side of the high
way.
The Center Line police chief
said that Cole proved extremely
See PAYMASTER-Page 2
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Troopers Recover
Farm Implements
Troctor, Horrows Found
at V-Gorden Site

CENTER LINE-State Police
this week clamped down heavily
on the industrious efforts of
three Utica young men who
sought to aid the food produS-
ton effort and establish a giant
Victory Garden. with the help
of $4,000 worth of equipment
they Systematically looted from
farms in Macomb, ST. CLAIR.
Sanilac and Tuscola County.
Two of the men: Eugene E.
Manuel, 18. of 1928 Sycamore,
and Joseph r. DeDuc, II, of
5640 Van Dyke, Utica, have
been turned over 10 State Police
of Sandusky Post. for prosecu-
ton on theft of their prize loot,
a $1,000 tractor from Charles b.
Nemeth. Jr., Route /, Decker.
The third youth. not yet II. is
held at Detroit Juvenile Deten-
ton Home, and Macomb County
Probate Court will be asked to
waive jurisdiction in his case so
that ne may be turned over TO
Sandusky, according TO Sgt.
Stanley Carlson. of Center Line
Post.
Manuel was arrested by Carl
son and Troopers William Ward
and Frank Sepanik Monday as
he drove the $1,000 tractor at
See IMPLEMENTS-Page 2
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poison-CaII
Artist IS Held
Youth, IS, Admits
TeIephoning Women

A 15-year old Mount Clemens
school boy who admitted Mon
day to Prosecutor Wilbur F.
Held that he had made series
of obscene, anonymous tele-
phone calls to a girl clerk in a
downtown business establish
ment was scheduled to appear
before Judge Joseph V. from
bly, in Macomb county juvenile
court today.
The boy, Prosecutor Held
said, confessed to placing the
poison calls" only after pro-
tracted questioning, but denied
having made others in a series Of
widespread calls that have
plagued Mount Clemens women
during recent weeks.
The youth was taken into Gus
tody by Mount Clemens police
after the girl clerk had succeed
ed in holding him in converse
ton while the call was checked
over a second line into the-of
flee. She had been the target of
a number of telephone calls from
the same youth which began last
Thursday and extended through
Friday and Saturday. On his
first call to her Monday morn
ing, however, he was nabbed
by the quick-acting city police
rough the equally-quick
thinking cooperation of the girl
herself.
The names of those involved
are withheld by the Monitor
Leader: The girls because of the
nature of the case; the suspects
because of his extreme youth.
The probable charge, using
See CALLS-Page 2
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Big U. 5. Guns
Blast Capital
ofmarianaS
Shotterins Attoek
Nay Already Hove
Resulted in Capture
BY J. b. KRUGER
Associated Press War Editor

Garapan, first japanese capt.
tai city to feel the SCATTERING
weight of U. S. land artillery.
is crumbling under attacks of
American Marine and infantry
troops who invaded Saipan only
13 days ago.
The speed of the ssaul t
against this capital of the Mari
anas Islands indicated the city,
as of today, may be in Allied
hands.
Tokyo radio, ] u m p n & two
days ahead of the latest account
ing from Adm. Chester w. MINI
itz, reported a 170-plane raid
against Guam, southernmost of
the Marianas, on Monday. This
fairly large fleet inflicted no
damage, Tokyo said in its bland
way, but Is Allied planes were
downed. No Allied report con-
firmed the claims.
SCATTERING SALVOS
AP Correspondent William
Worden told of weak enemy
resistance to the terrific bonn
bardnseift which softened Cara
pan for the foot-soldier attack.
Admiral Nimitz followed with
a report which said Americans
already were scurrying through
the southern part of the town,
which accommodates a popula-
ton of 10000.
Nimitz' forces made secure the
southern half of the island with
the capture of Mt Tapotchau and
Kagman peninsula. The $50
foot peak lying east of Garapan
permits artillery domination of
the whole island Kagman PENN
sula sewed up control of Magi-
cienne Bay. chief Saipan anchor
age in which y. S. small boats
already are shutting across. The
Japanese were too busy with the
land foe TO bother the boats.
While fighting in China, In
See PACIFIC-Page 2
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Fairgrounds
Enroll 700
on First Day

Enrolment Monday and to-
day of close to 700 boys and girls
at six city summer Fairgrounds,
and the organization of games,
h o b b les S, entertainment and
handcraft classes this week
marked the 10th Fairgrounds
season of the Department of
Recreation.
Lincoln, Dickinson and Grant
schools led in registrations up
to Tuesday. Griffith Field, DON
aldson and Wilson were tagging
slightly, but were expected to
pickup considerable enrollments
before the week END.
Children may enroll any day
See CHILDREN-Page 2
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AZ CaIIed.Up
by Board No. |
Will Don Uniforms
in Detroit July 5

Forty-two registrants of Ma
comb County Selective Service
Board No. ! will report to the
Broadway USO at $50 a. m.
July 5 for induction into the
armed forces. They will leave
for the induction station at 1880.
Those being called are:
Robert H. Talent, John l.
Rose, William H. Whitney, Jr.,
Charles Sheets, Jr., Fred &.
Fox, Thomas H. Connors, John
Gretz, Dale H. Schmitz. William
J. Coward, Milton c. Richards,
Gerald E. Adams.
Raymond A. Forth, Burrell
F. Miller, John Dikin, Charles
j. Kurzawa, Richard r. Bald
win, Robert L. Monroe, Jacob
S. Schang, Raymond w. PAUL.,
Charles l.. LaCroix, Bernard f
Fountain, Albertus NJ. Custer.
Richard r. Bannow, Roy
Champion, Henry c. Walsh, Jr.,
James E. Young, Charles l..
Lowry. Clarence A. Marecki,
Fred S. Kargula, Chester B.
Maikoski, Clarence A. Priehs,
Thomas A. Drulia, William
Dueweke, Jr.
Charles A. Crisher. Donald
G.. Martus, James G.. Sarah,
Walter A. Polowek, Danied d.
Dulong, Daniel J. Casey, John.
ny c. Sparks, Fred H. Schafer,
Lionel E. Burns.
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WILLkIE CRITICAL
Program Weak?

NEW YORK, June 81 - lP)
Wendell l.. Willkie assailing
proposals he said were under
consideration by the Republican
National Convention platform
builders in Chicago described
them in a statement last night
as promising no international
organization: no effective force
for the suppression of agrees
sion and no peaceful world"
Adoption of the proposals,
said the Republican 1910 stand.
ard bearer would mean "anoth-
er world war fought in vain:
and the youth of America once
more betrayed"
In the first statement on pol
itics ne had made since his
withdrawal from the race for
the Republican presidential
nomination last April. willkie
demanded the immediate crea.
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and has engaged in actions
against the Nazis through raids
over Regensburg, Germany,
Austria, Romania. and Hungary
as we'll as supply lines in north
ern Italy.
1t. Kohler graduated from
Mount Clemens high school in
1884 and later attended Wayne
University, Detroit, where ne
majored in mathematics. His
brother, Carl. is an Aviation Ca
Diet, stationed in Texas, while
one sister, Martha. lives at
home. A second sister, Mrs.
Gertrude McMullen, makes her
home in Detroit.
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Library to Close
on Wednesdays

The Mount Clemens Public
library. Macomb street at North
avenue. will be closed on We'd
nesdays throughout July and
August, Miss Anne Croker. Ii
brarian. said today.
During the week OF July 2
the library will be closed on
both Tuesday July ~ and on
Wednesday, she pointed out.
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Fugitive May
he Picked Up
This Afternoon

Sheriffs department deputies
expected momentarily today to
apprehend the fourth member OF
a four-man gang charged with
attacking two Detroit women
war workers in a combined at
tack and robbery case. The
fourth man is to be released by
the Navy today and will be i'm
mediately picked up.
Two other members stood
mute and have been remanded
to Jail in default of $4,000 bond
on each of two charges. They are
Anthony Gallo, 10, 5000 Mont
clair. Detroit. and Andrew Con-
te. 10, 1888 11-Mile road, Rose
vile.
A fourth member has been re-
leased temporarily.
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Memphis Fire Hall
Goes Up in Flames
Loss Estimoted at
$4,000; Cause Unknown

MEMPHIS-June 81 Up
A fire that required no great
exenditure Of gasoline but a
great deal of water to quench,
early this morning destroyed
the entire fire-fighting equip
ment of this village, leaving
only the bare brick walls OF the
fire hall. The loss, estimated by
Chief Merle Clark, is $4,000
the origin of which is "un-
known"
The Richmond fire depart
ment today provided the Mem
phis fire-fighting lads with suf-
ficient hose to protect the viii
lags against further conflagra
tons. The fire was first noticed
by a passing motorist.