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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-18
Ripley Freaks
At Edgewa+er

THE FLYING VALENTINES,
quartet of daredevil aerial stars.
highlight the free entertainment
program at Edgewater Park.
The Valentines, a troupe which
has won favor with audiences
throughout the United States and
the continent, feature breath
taking mid-air stunts and high
flying leaps.
Featured. too. at Edgewater,
are the Ripley Believe 1t or Not
Freaks. an aggregation of the
worlds most amazing freaks.
Included in the show are the
mule-faced woman and the man
with the revolving head. Edge
water Park offers II rides, count
less amusements and ample sports
facilities for the entire family.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-18
Betnine Beauty to Wed

MARY GANLY (she was in
M-G-Ms Bathing Beauty'O and
Jack Hopkins (of March Field
will get married as soon as they
can find a house. Hopkins used
to 90 with Linda Darnell before
she married Pow Marley.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-18
Their Romance Ends

IT'S ALL over between Grace
Mcdonald and Marine 1t. Ralph
Greene, her sutton for many
months.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
MASSIVE RAID COSTS Raj 96 PLANES
laps Take
Cifyii in
Chin Hills
BY PRESTON GROVER

NEW DELHI, March 81 -
R- British forces have sur
rendered Tiddim, their forward
base in the Chin Hills of Bur-
ma, 100 miles below Imphal,
Gen. Sir Claude J. Auchinleck,
British commander in India, told
the Indian legislature today.
The disclosure was made al
most simultaneously with the
announcement in a communique
from Admiral Lord Louis Mount
batten that japanese jungle par
ties spread over front of near
J.. 200 miles were persistently
probing deeper into eastern In
dia's defenses and had penetrat-
ed into the main communica-
tons of the vital Manipur Plain.
Auchinleck declared, however,
that Imphal itself was strongly
defended and declared sue h
penetration was not likely to be
of major importance
At the same time he announc-
ed that British forces fighting
their way north from Tiddim
through Japanese road blocks
had joined other British forces
which fought their way south
ward along the road from I'M
phal.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
Deferred!
HUSKY WORKER, 81,
EXEMPTED FROM
SERVICE

There's one apparently physi-
cally fit, single, draft-age work
er, among the l3,000-odd regis
trants listed with Macomb
County Draft Board No. /, who
won't have to don the nations
uniform during the existing
emergency. But selective serv-
ice officials won't tell you why;
in fact, pointing to the secret
nature of their records, they re-
fuse fatty even to discuss the
case.
Here, however, is what is re-
ported to have happened one
day earlier this week:
A burly registrant (said to
weigh ITO pounds) appeared at
draft board headquarters in a
highly nervous state following
receipt of orders to report for
pre-induction examination at
the Detroit Selective Service
Center.
After much fumbling around
the almost hysterical registrant
finally gave draft authorities to
understand that he was not ply
sically fit and would prefer to
take an examination here rather
than in Detroit. They, the story
goes, told the potential draftees
that such would be highly irreg-
ular and that appearance on the
specified date would be expect
ed.
Two days later, however,
astounded selective service Of
ficials here received a physi-
clans report on the person in
See DEFERRED-Page 2
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Charter Issue
Up on onday
Liaht Vote Seen;
Condidotes Unopposed

City officials today made
strong appeal to voters OF this
city to express themselves at
Mondays general election on
the question of whether or not
Mount Clemens will continue to
be governed under a 30-year-
old City Charter.
Mayor Donald r. Westendorf
and Commissioners Frederick
Breitmeyer, Edward j. DuBay,
Thomas G.. Longstaff and Henry
Bruneel unanimously expressed
favor of the proposal to revise
the city's charter, on which vot-
err will cast Yes or No vote
Monday.
Apart from eliminating the
obsolete balloting arrangements,
Rapid Railway franchises and
other long -disused features of
the 1914 Charter, its revision
would allow for inclusion of an
approved Civil Service system
for all city employees, except
principal officials, it is pointed
out.
However, emphasis is placed
See ELECTION-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
Speed Truck.GaS
Ration PROGRAM

Forty men and women Civil
ian Defense volunteers, up to
noon today, had processed ap-
proximately $500 truck-gaso-
line applications here since
Thursday morning in what Ra-
ton officials termed a "marve-
lous piece of work"
The volunteers, handling the
war-necessary rationing pro-
gram at st. Mary's high school
gymnasium yesterday and to-
day, have speeded the under
taking with a clean efficiency
that resulted in a minimum Of
delay for applicants, observers
said.
The truck-gasoline issuance
program, under a radically diff
ferent processing method than
that employed in the past, made
1t possible for truck-ga appli-
cants to obtain their rations
without having to 60 10 Detroit
ODT headquarters. An official
of the ODT, however, was on
hand Thursday and Friday here
to advise applicants faced with
unusual problems. The local
program ends at 400 p. m. to-
day.
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wholly inadequate" in provid-
ing Service men and women an
opportunity to ballot.
The Chief Executive sent a
message to Capitol Hill an
nouncing his intention to let the
controverted measure become
law at Midnight tonight.
In it, he appealed to the states
to cooperate in making the Bill
as fully effective as its defec-
tive provisions will allow"
The measure would let serv-
Ice men and women overseas
vote with Federal ballots but
only If they had applied for
State ballots by September /
and did not receive them by
October /. On addition, the gov
ernors of their states would
have to certify that the ballots
were authorized by State law.
He asked that the measure
which he was allowing to be-
come law be amended so as to
permit all persons in uniform
VINO have not received State
ballots by an appropriate date,
regardless of whether they have
applied formally for them, to
use the Federal ballot without
prior express authorization by
the states.
IF the states do not accept
the Federal ballot" Mr.. Roose-
welt declared, that will be
their responsibility. Under his
bill, that responsibility is shared
by the Congress-"
Earlier Senator O'Mahoney
(D-Wyo), chairman of the Dem
ocratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee had predicted that
relatively few men overseas
would get to vote in November.
Most Congressional leaders had
anticipated the Presidents ac-
ton in letting the Bill become
law without his signature.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
New Message
Skaters Hope
for Air.Gunner

Hope for the survival of Staff
Sergt. Darrell E. Moran, 81
year-old Mount Clemens aerial
gunner, shot down on a raid
over Germany on March 3,
was virtually shattered today
when his sister, Mrs. Beatrice
l.. Berdell, received an official
message that he had been killed
in action"
Earlier Mrs. Berdell had re-
ceived a message from the War
Department stating merely that
Sergt. Moran was reported
missing"
The young airman had made
his home with his sister and her
husband, Fred Berdell, since
childhood and was widely
known in Mount Clemens where
he graduated from the public
high school in 1899. He enlisted
in the Army Jan. 81, l943.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31

TO run. warned or inc NV'eT-
lean ormodo's approach, it
fled.
The Palou ottoek overshad-
owed other Pacific war devel-
opments, which included q
double attack on Truk itself
by heavy American bombers.
For the first time Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's land-based four.
engine bombers laid their ex-
plosives on the choice targets in
the Truk group.
They struck last Tuesday (U.
S. time), destroying 40 planes on
the ground and five to 20 in the
air. Then on Wednesday night
Liberators from the central Pa
cific 7th Air Force, under Adm.
Nimitz, followed up with a Sec
ond heavy blow. In addition,
southwest Pacific bombers, also
under MacArthur's command,
attacked Woleai, an atoll $50
miles west of Truk.
Gen. MacArthur's headquar-
tiers pointed out that the raids
plainly proved that henceforth
coral-girt Truk was within range
of his big bombers based in the
south Pacific.
Palau has been called Japan's
Singapore. 1t was built to with
stand a siege and is administra-
tive headquarters for the $500
islands of the Caroline group.
The Allies hit hard at the Jap
anese elsewhere. At Hollandia
on Dutch New Guinea, Liberia
tors set great fires, destroyed
108 planes on the ground and
shot down 10 interceptors out
of 40 which rose to the chal-
lenge.
The enemy has built up Hol-
landia as an air base since the
progressive destruction of its
power to Wewak to the east.
Wewak caught IS tons of bombs
and Rabaul, the mauled New
Britain base, received 90.
In their only current note
See FLEET-Page 2
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Germans Gain
Near Casino
Occupy Two New
Positions on Hill

ALLIED HEADQUART Z r s.
NAPLES, March 81 -(R- AL.
lied Headquarters announced to-
day that IS casualties resulted
when German aerial bombs fell
in an Anzio beachhead hospital
area at dusk Wednesday, but
the announcement said the ex-
plosives apparently were not
deliberately aimed.
Allied fighters took to the air
when seven German raiders ap-
peared and forced them to Jet
tison their bombs, headquarters
said.
The enemy's dusk attack fol-
lowed an attack by more than
so German planes against beaeh-
head shipping targets during ~
afternoon. but IL was announo-
ed that anti-aircraft fire DOWN
ed eight while air patrols -
stroyed ut least two, and -.
entire force was driven OF -
fore hitting any targets.
Ground activity elsewtoUD
along the Italian battle llnoo 800,
mered down to patrol skisu1G
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
23 MCHS Pupils Elected
to National Honor Society
FoeuIty Members Make Selections;
l8 Girls. Five Boys Win Honors

The annual election of mem.
bers 10 the National Honor So
ciety was completed this week
at Mount Clemens High School
with % pupils honored.
All candidates are required
to be in the upper third of their
class. Final elections we're
made by the faculty on the
basis of superior scholarship,
qualities of trustworthy leader
ship, exemplary character, and
a spirit of unselfish service. The
following students are the new
ly elected members for this year:
January Graduates: Charlotte
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situated.
The RATS announced loss,
which controsted to German
claims Of having inflicted the
greatest detect of the war on
the British dir force with the
shooting down Of |32 four
engined bombers, was incurred
in the 18th heavy bomber oper-
alton in March by the British
sky fleet.
SOFIA BLASTED
The largest group of heavy
bombers ever to strike a target
from the Mediterranean raided
Sofia in Bulgaria yesterday.
The attack on Nuremberg was
carried out while British in
truders ranged over the con-
tinent shooting up airfields in
France, the Low Countries and
small force of German raiders
was giving London its first alert
in three nights.
The official description Of the
Nuremberg raid as in very great
strength" suggested that in the
neighborhood of 2,240 short tons
of bombs had fallen on the city.
The heaviest previous load for
that target was 1850 tons on
Aug. 81, 1913.
The city is one Of the most
important railway and indus
trial centers of the southern Ger
many. 1t is the site of such war
plants as the NJ. A. N. Diesel
See RAF-Page 2
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Public 10 Use
Broadway U50
Accredited Civic
Groups Welcome

Offering Of the well-furnish-
ed Broadwa, USO building for
use by civic organizations two
nights a week until further no.
tice, was announced today by
Gerald P. Hackett, new director
of the Broadway unit, simultan-
eously with the USO Councils
announcement of Hackett's ap-
pointment.
The spacious building. con-
tanning a dance hall, seating for
400 persons, a stage, public adj
dress system and kitchen and
other facilities will be available
to responsible groups approved
first by Director Hackett and
also by the USO Council. Or
CARNATIONS making application
should be prepared to submit
their complete plans for approx
al to Hackett.
The club has for some time
been available to organized and
supervised civic activities dur
ing the day time, but this is the
first offer Of evening use.
The subject has been much
discussed by small local organ
ifizations, and the USO offer is
expected to be eagerly accepted.
Hackett, who has now assum-
ed his duties at the club, IS a
graduate of Marquette Univer-
sity, and was transferred to
Mount Clemens from the Baton
Rouge Ua.) USO, where he had
wide experience in public ac-
Invites.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31

Barr. Paula Englund. Willagene
Hotchkiss, Florence Ullrich.
Grade 12A: Phyllis Hetfield,
Gerald Kabel. Anna Kish, Grace
Klumfoot. Marjorie Likens, Dor
othy Menke, Erma Muckenhirn,
Stuart Pigman. Evelyn Riley,
Lawrence Schott, Paul Tripod,
James Ullrich.
Grade lob: jeanette Buckley,
Barbara MacLachlan, Ann Jean
Walton.
Grade liza: June Bennett,
Mary 10 Burgess, Jerry Cont,
Norma Meter.
announcement of the formal
initiation will be made later.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31

DETROIT, March 31-(R-
Detectives seeking to solve the
knife-slaying of Joyce Raulston,
Ia, centered intensive question
ing efforts today on a 44-year-
old landscape gardener who was
taken into custody at his home
this morning.
Prosecutor William E. Dowl-
ing, who assumed charge of the
investigation of the killing, said
the man held denied any know
ledge of the Staying, but that
detectives had obtained informa-
ton which placed him in the
vicinity Of the Raulston girls
death.
Bowling said the man, q Ne
gro described as usually wearing
flashy sport clothes, was re-
ported to have left a West War.
rem avenue restaurant about II
p. m. Monday. At 8 a. m. Tues
day the body of Joyce, bearing
signs of beating and with stab
wounds puncturing both lungs,
was found on a city dump sew
eral blocks distant.
Detroit police said the man
held has a record of arrests dat.
ing to 1924 when he was sent
enced for burglary and larceny
in Illinois.
His automobile was impound-
ed. and police planned to COM
pare its tires with plaster casts
of tire tracks taken from the
dump where the Staying occur
red.
Bowling said he was question
ing man and women, not prev
iously identified with the case,
and later would enter the ques-
tioning Of the gardener.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31

Tears welled in Chaplin's eyes
and he dabbed at them with a
handkerchief as he related yes
terday that the 24-year-old Miss
Berry, armed with pistol, came
to his Beverly Hills home one
night and said; "I'm going to
kill YOU"
Earlier, he vigorously refuted
Miss Berry's previous claim that
they had been intimate, both in
the film actors suite at New
York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
October, 1912, and following
her return to California.
These claims by her are the
basis Of the governments two
See CHAPLlN-Page ;
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
Poor Bill!
BIG BILL THE BUILDER
SHOCKS CHICAGO
AGAIN!

CHICAGO, March 31-(P-
Agents from the offices of state
treasurer and attorney general
and Attorney James w. Breen
went to the vault of a loop bank
yesterday to open two of the
five safety deposit boxes owned
by the late William Hale (Big
Bill) Thompson, thrice mayor of
Chicago.
In Probate court a few days
ago Breen, who was Thompson's
attorney, had stated that the
former mayor had left about
$4,000. He said will had
been made. Thompson's widow
being named principal benefic-
larry, but no will was immediate
ly found.
When Breen and the state Of
ficials loosened the latches of
the safety boxes, bills of many
denominations-large and small
popped forth like a jack-in-
the box and fell to the floor
about the feet of Breen and the
state agents.
Thre were bills of $1,000 de-
nominations, of $500. and of
$l0O. Breen and the agents
counted the contents of the two
boxes and Breen announced
there was 81 ,466, $50 in currency
and stocks and securities estim-
ated to be worth $4,000. In
cluded in the currency, some of
which was packaged with rub
Der bands and some stuffed in
loosely, were gold certificates
amounting TO $4,000.
No will was found but Breen
suggested 1t might be in one of
three other safety boxes which
will be opened next week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
Essay Writers
10 Be Honored
VFW Contest Draws
l55 Entries

Selected from 155 entries In
the VIEW Auxiliary's annual es-
say contest IL particularly we'll
written compositions will be
submitted to the judges next
week for determination of the
highest ranking award winners
Of 1914.
From the II essays, deemed by
Miss Jane Howard and Robert
Beal, high school faculty men,
bers, as the best submitted from
the entire school system, the
judges will designate first, Sec
ond and third place winners.
The VIEW Auxiliary, 1894, of
Oskar Andreas Post, Mount
Clemens, will present, SIS, $40
and S. cash awards and medals
to the top-ranking student trio,
at banquet scheduled for April
IL at the Hotel Medea.
Unity for Peace" is the
theme of the Contest.
Present, besides auxiliary
members, at the banquet will be
Miss Clyda Tranmier, chairman
Of the WV Auxiliary's state
essay committee, and Miss Mary
Smith, state auxiliary depart
ment commander.
Mrs. o. D. Kimberlin, chair
man Of the Mount Clemens aux
iliary's Americanism Committee.
will present the awards on be-
half Of the organization. The es-
say winning first place will be
entered In the statewide con.
test and, II successful there, will
In turn be considered for nation.
al honors.
Serving as final judges for the
See CONTEST-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
Expect Chaplin to Resume
testimony in Own Defense
Whits-Hoired comedion Slated
to Take Sfond Again Today

LOS ANGELES, March 81 -
R White-haired Charlie
Chaplin was recalled to the wit
ness stand today to enact one of
the most dramatic roles of his
long, colorful career - further
denial of government charges he
transported his former protege,
Joan Berry, to New York and
back for immoral purposes.
The 54-year-old comedians
first day on the stand was eli
NAKED by one big moment that
rivaled in tenseness that Of Miss
Berry's final day of testimony
last Friday when she neared
collapse as the defense introduc.
ed some Of her letters to him.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
Red Protocol
5taggers Jap
Fish Industry
Tokyo to Surrender
Oil and Coal
Rights in SokohoIin
BY EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW, March 81 - up -
The japanese government re-
ceived today a staggering blow
from the west when the Soviet
government announced it had
signed protocol under which
Tokyo agreed to surrender her
oil and coal leases on northern
Sakahalin island in the Pacific.
The Russians contracted to
furnish Japan with $4,000 tons
of oil a year for five years be-
ginning after the war.
The Soviet Union also will
pay Japan 100000 rubles
(about $S50,000) under terms
of the protocol signed yesterday.
Japan promised to hand over to
Russia all property, including
equipment, material and food,
which belongs to Japanese con-
cessionaries in northern SAX
hahn.
Japan owns the southern half
of Sakhalin island and Russia
owns the north half. The oil and
coal leases originally ran until
1870.
Only last night, the Russians
announced renewal of an agree
ment granting Japan fishing
privileges in Far Eastern waters
for five more years. The fish
cries pact renewal is based in
the 1941 neutrality treaty under
which Russia and Japan have
remained at peace.
The pact has been under ne
gotiation since Dec. 81, when
the 1913 agreement expired.
Last years agreement also was
signed in March after prolong-
See OIL DEAL-Page 3
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Pulverizing. Blow
Rocks Nuremberg
Heaviest Air Toll Of War
Exaeted by Maxi Defenders
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR

LONDON, March 81 - tAP) - A great orn1ado Of Raj
bonbes numbering probably than 900 smashed the
southern German transport center and Naz congress city of
Nuremberg and other points in the Reich Lost night at cost
of 90 planes the heaviest toll taken Of Allied air
fleet in single operation.
The record loss announced just the entire German
network with the exception OF Vienna in old Austria shut
down this morning shortly otter the warning that enemy
planes approaching
The first German Mornings said the Daylight roders were
Hessen Nassau Province Prussia which Frankfurt
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
. asie Paper Drive

Bundles of newspapers, mag
azines and scrap paper will be
collected in Precinct / (South
Gratiot area) Saturday COM
mencing at 10 a. M, by city
trucks and Boy Scouts of Troop
II, under Scoutmaster Ernest
Minor. Full public cooperation
is urged by salvage officials,
due to the urgent need of ma
terial for military carton man.
ufacture.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
County Dems
Convene Tonight

Approximately 200 persons
are expected to attend the Ma
comb County Democratic con-
vention tonight at the Detroit
Creamery compsny's Ingleside
farm, it was revealed today by
County Chairman Earl Miller,
who will preside over the affair.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
Palau Shattered
in Daring Raid
American Task Force Sails
AudaciousIy Past Truk
BY ]. B. KRUGER
ASSOCIATED Press War EditOr)

formidable segment Of the worlds most powerful novy
sailed oudocousy and nvneY post opans fortress OF ruk
two DAYS AGO to sondboo Poou another enemy boston within
900 miles of the conquered Philippines
Poou is Its land miles west Of ruk Whot has been
happening to it in he intervening days under the pound
ina Of strono Pacific fleet forces ADM Chester W. MINI
z out IT, was revealed His communque yesterday merely
said: "Our ottooks continue
The Joponese fleet thus virtually invited to out and
oh against this invasion deep into its Pacific empire chose
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-31
Vote Bill to Become Law
Without FDR's Signature
President Terms Act Inadequate
But Permits II to Become Effective

WASHINGTON, March 81 -
Up President Roosevelt mott
fled Congress today he was let
ting the Service Vote Bill be-
come law without his signature
even though he considered it
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