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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-02
Mrs. Junke
Hostess

ONE GUEST and % members
were present at the regular
meeting of the Trinity Young
Women's League meeting Fri
day evening at the home of Mrs.
Wilfred Junke on Dickinson ave-
nue.. Mrs. Walter Schwan and
Ellen SchWan assisted the host
eSs.
The work on the scrap books
and stuffed toys was continued.
These articles are TO be donated
to the Institute for the Deaf in
Detroit.
The next meeting will take
place May 18th at the home of
Mrs. Lawrence Doerflinger, 81
South Highland avenue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-02
Young Womens Club Holds Moher-Daughte Banquet Monday
National Honor
Society Initiation

A FORM l. INITIATION
CEREMONY for the twenty
three newly elected members of
the National Honor Society will
be held tomorrow evening al 3
o'clock in the High School Aud
itorium. a reception in the Cafe
terra will follow the initiation,
for the Neophytes and their par
ents.
Alumni members Of the So
ciety are invited 10 attend and
are asked TO call 877l II they
plan TO do so.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-02

Community singing was led by
Evelyn Schonschack.
Mrs. Edwin Sharland was
general chairman Of the COM
mittee. She was assisted by
Mrs Robert Allen. Mrs. Alfred
Henk. Mrs. Malcolm p Moore.
Mrs. Merle 81. Aubin, and Mrs.
Dale Williams
At the clubs next meeting,
which will be held May 18th,
there will be an election of OIL
ficers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-02
Births at st. Joseph S


MR.. AND MRS. HAROLD F.
NICHOLSON, 1i9 Grand ave
nue., a son, Kenneth James,
April 81.
MR.. AND MRS. FLOYD ALL
DREDGE, Fraser, daughter,
Karen Lee, April %.
MR.. AND MRS. FRANCIS
w. Mccarthy, Algonac, daugh-
ter, Mary Lynn, April %.
S &c AND MRS. HAROLD
T. CARROLL, Van Dyke, a
daughter, Kathleen June, April
30.
MR.. AND MRS. JOHN H.
LUBBERS. Van Dyke, daugh-
ter, Judy Jean. April %.
MR.. AND MRS. RAYMOND
J. HARDER, 156 Washington
street, a daughter, Elaine Bcr-
nice, April 80.
MIR. AND MRS. EMIL II.
MARTIN, Utica, a son. April 80.
MR.. AND MRS. JOSEPH l..
COLO, st. Clair Shores, a
daughter, May l.
MR.. AND MRS. EDWARD c.
JARVIS, Warren, a son, May !.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-02
With the Colors

son of Mr.. and Mrs. George Rich,
246 North avenue, is home on
Today furlough from the u.
s. Marine Air Base at KinSton,
n. c.
ROBERT SCHNEIDER, S &C
has completed his "boot" train
ing at Camp Bennion, Farragut,
Idaho, and is now spending a
Today furlough with his wife
and children, who reside at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Blonde of Meade, parents of
Mrs. SCHNEIDER.
DAVID c. ELLISON, Route 7,
of u. S. Nlvy, has been advanc-
ed TO the rating o. Fireman &c
(machinist mate) upon complet-
ing his recruit training at the
u. S. Naval Training Station at
Great Lakes, Illinois.
LIEUT.. WILLIAM JAMES,
signal corps, and Mrs. James
and infant son are the guests of
Lieut.. James mother, Mrs.
Mary James, Belleview avenue.
They will return to New York
City this week.
APPRENTICE SEAMAN Rom
aid M. Ochsenbein. has arrived
at the u. S. Naval Training Sta
ton at Great Lakes, ILL.,, Tor his
basic training.
CORP. RUDOLPH A. Mikus-
ka, observed his birthday ami
versary yesterday, somewhere
in Italy.
IRA M. DUBAY, recently
was promoted from Corp. TO
Sergt. at the Prisoner OF War
Camp in Opelike, Ala. Sergt.
Dubay is stationed there in the
Ordnance department as a clerk.
CORP. WILMER l.. MEL
DRUM, has been promoted to
tie rank of Sergt. He is an as
sistant squad leader with an in
fantry unit of the 5th Army in
Italy.
IND. LIEUT.. THOMAS j..
Dluge, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George G. Dluge, l1-4th street,
has just completed flying
training course of the B-26 Ma
ra'der Bomber pilot school of
the Army Air Forces Training
Command, at Dodge City Army
Air Field, Kansas.
LIEUT. GERTRUDE ZELL-
MER, of the 18th General Hos
pital Unit, u. S. Army Nurses
Corps, recently received a pro-
motion from End to lst Lieut.
She is stationed somewhere in
Italy, and has been overseas
since July, 1943. Lieut.. Zellmer,
is the daughter of julius Zell-
mer, % Smith st.
BETTY JEAN BELLMAN has
returned from Los Angeles,
California, where she visited
Chief Specialist Walter Bellman
and Mrs. Bellman.
TABLE DECORATIONS will
be on the program of the local
branch of the Farm and Garden
Association at the meeting to be
held Monday afternoon, May 8,
at the USO Club on Broadway,
at 2:l5 o'clock. Colored slides
will be shown and quiz held
afterward. The Fostoria COM
pany is sending the slides.
HARRY V. ODLE, Belleview
avenue, returned Sunday from a
business trip to points in Iowa
and Nebraska.
MRS. FLOYD HODGINS. of
143 North Wilson boulevard, re-
turned home Saturday from
Grace Hospital. Detroit, where
she had undergone a major op-
Grafton.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-02
Young Womens Group
Plan May Banquet

rummage sale in the Matthews
building, North Broadway, May
IS.
Evening star., 1944-04-20
Montgomery Wards S Stand
AssaiIed by Stockho|der
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 20.-A stock
holder in Montgomery Ward g.
Co. told other shareholders yester-
day that "our interests as citizens
in the Nations victory" were
Threatened by the management's
inexcusable defiance of the National
War Labor Board"
Frank w. Mccullough, Chicago
attorney who said he owns 100
shares of Ward stock, declared in a
letter to stockholders that the man
agement's defiance" was the action
which caused the stoppage" of work
at Wards.
The CIO United Mail Order,
Warehouse and Retail Employees
Union went on strike at Wards
April IL.
Mr.. McCullough's letter declared
that "if successful in junking the
NWLB, this attempt could engulf
America in wave of stoppages in
other industries that would be dis
astrous on the eve of Americas s
greatest military venture"
He urged stockholders to write
their views to Sewell Avery, chair
man of the company's board, or
attend in person or by proxy the
April % meeting of stockholders.
Evening star., 1944-04-20

port plane, operated by q civilian
contract air crew was. shot down
accidentally by British carrier
operated fighter planes protecting
an Allied convoy. Six men were
lost.
In addition, it was reported by
Gen. Douglas Macarthur that late
in March, three PIT boats were ac-
cidentally bombed by land-based
planes In the Southwest Pacific, In
two separate attacks.
Replying to a published report
that the Army had lost 81 planes
and nearly 400 men at Catania, in
addition to the % planes and 410
men lost OF Celia, the department
yesterday issued this brief state
ment:
while the War Department nor
mally does not discuss operations in
a British area, 1t may be said in this
instance the United States loss. In
the Catania operation on the night
OF July 1914, as taken from ofiicia.
records, was 10 transport planes
and A officers and men missing, Of
which so per cent were estimated al
having beer, caused by friendly anti.
Iaircraft fire."
The Associated Press In Lon
don yesterday quoted an Ameri-
can Air Forces ofIicer who was
engaged in the Sicilian cam
paign as saying that the Allies
lost eight or nine planes from
all causes last July IA and that
the evidence indicated the planes
Evening star., 1944-04-20
Munpower
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important airplanes and landing
craft.
In one factory which had 113 men
IN the 22-to-26 age group, only three
OF Sc requests for deferments were
granted. Another shop had 50 men
under 26 and asked for % defer
ments. 1t received eight. In another
instance eight requested deferments,
all were turned down.
WPB eliminated so per cent of the
foundries in the selection of those
which should receive preferential
draft treatment for their young men
At least half of the men under 26
In the remaining 20 per cent of the
foundries were eliminated in the in
ltlal stage of consideration for de-
ferment.
In number of steel-drop forging
plants, there were 1,055 in the 22-to-
26 group. Deferments were request
ed for $50. A total of 1865 obtained
Endorsement of procurement officers.
Selective service directors have
turned down lis of the requests to
date.
Chemical Industries.
WPB officials said that the vital
chemical industries were encount-
er1ng similar experiences. For ex-
ample, there were 300 men under 26
engaged in the manufacture of
penicillin. Requests were made to
State directors for deferment of 100
Of these. A total of 10 deferments
were granted. and officials said these
were not properly allocated.
Officials said that in most in
stances where deferments were
granted they were not given to men
considered most important In the
plant from production standpoint.
Most of the draft trouble appar-
emily Is being encountered by the
war program under the immediate
control Of the WPB. Officials super
vising such programs as synthetic |
rubber, production Of coal and radar |
reported that their requests for de-
ferments were being granted by
State directors nearly ~ given.
Evening star., 1944-04-20

attorney said, "he will die in pris-
on"
Evening star., 1944-04-20
Bases
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bases in Newfoundland and Ber-
muda are gifts-generously given
and gladly received. The other bases
mentioned have been acquired IN
exchange for so of our overage de-
stroyers.'
The subcommittee report, filed
with Chairman Vinson of the full
committee, made these additional
suggestions:
l. The most cordial relations"
worked out with Brazil should be
extended militarily to as many
South American nations as possible
A surplus of shipping after the war
should be made available to these
friendly nations rather than permit
deterioration or scrapping.
2. A new study of the entire Car
1bbean sector should be undertaken
by the Navy now because require
ments there have been substantially
altered.
Would Aid Navies.
3. The Latin American countries
should be encouraged to send candi-
dates to the Naval Academy at An
napolis as another step toward
building up their navies for the mu-
tual hemisphere defense.
The report was critical of facilities
In Puerto Rico, stating that Roose-
welt Roads there is IAN unjustifiable
project" The committee said the
roads constitute one of the world S
largest craving docks with all sup
porting features" but that there was
no work to justify its construc-
ton"
More use of Guantanamo Bay in
Cuba should be made by the Navy,
the committee stated, also urging
that Trinidad facilities be enlarged
Evening star., 1944-04-20
|o.Month News Delay
On Parairoop Loss
Defended by Stimson
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hazards incident to a complex bat
tie situation, and simply want to
remind you that never before in
history have we been compelled to
deal with the complications we are
faced with today In modern war
fare"
Davis Hopes All Is Told.
At a separate press conference
Mr.. Davis said:
I'VE cannot say that every in
stance where men have been shot
down by our men has been re-
ported, but we hope that everything
of sufficient relative consequence to
be news has now been told"
Mr.. Davis said the lengthy delay
did not mean any change In the
war news policy announced last
Saturday under which theater COM
manders were ordered to give
prompt release Of any news not
harmful to security. When COM
mander does withhold news he must
submit the facts to Washington 50
the owl and Army and Navy OH
cials may review them and make the
final decision.
II have discussed this incident
with Maj. Gen. Alexander D. Surles,
director of public relations OF the
War Department" Mr.. Davis de-
clared, "and am convinced that had
the report been received after the
new policy was formulated it would
have been handled in accordance
with that policy"
Data Buried in Reports.
"As it was, information about this
episode, which was regrettable de-
tail Of large and successful oper-
alton, was received at the War De-
partment months ago in operational
reports chiefly devoted to other
matters, from which the Army was
able to dig out the precise facts
only after several hours work. ..
Gen. Surles and I hope and be-
lieve that the War Department has
now caught up with all such Incl
dents from the past. Hereafter. If
news is withheld, it will be only be-
cause the owl as well as the mill
tary authorities are convinced that
its release must be delayed for valid
considerations Of security"
Mr.. Davis said that it would be
quite impossible to make a full re-
porting of every incident in which
one or two men were killed by their
supporting fire-"in every war some
people get out In front and are shot
by their own men,"
To date, the announced losses
from accidental shooting down of
American planes totals 473 men and
"a aircraft.
Other Mishaps Listed.
The Gila and Cantania episodes
were the two major incidents in a
chain OF accidents which include:
February 22-13 men killed, As
wounded in the accidental shelling
of three landing boats by an Amer
ican destroyer in a landing assault
on Parry Island in Eniwetok Atoll
in the Marshall Islands. RE
stricted visibility" and difficult
conditions OF navigation" were
blamed.
March 31-an American trans
Evening star., 1944-04-20

shal's Office with arranging to admit
only a "hand-picked press" This
the marshal and his assistant denied
hotly.
The trouble arose after 4 pm.
yesterday during a brief recess of
court. When the recess was over
deputy marshals would not readmit
the newspaper men and women,
numbering nearly 80, who have been
attending preliminaries of the trial
since the case was called Monday.
"Star Chamber" Charged.
Several veniremen were ushered
IN, but left Immediately, and it
was learned that Justice Eicher had
adjourned court for the day with
out filling the jury box with a
tentative panel, as he had planned.
This was due, it was reported
later, to protests by defense at
torneys against what they termed
the judges reversal of his promise
to conflne the long trial to the hours
between 10 am. and 4 pm. four
days g. week.
A number Of the lawyers pointed
out to newspapermen that they had
been appointed by the court to de-
fend accused persons without means
and had somehow to keep their law
ofhces going during the months
which the trial is expected to last.
Shouts of "star chamber proceed
ings" and Moscow trial" were heard
during the post-adjournment gath
ering in the courtroom, and tenn
pers f1ared all over the room.
Mr.. Latimer, acting as spokesman
for the defense attorneys, said he
had been informed the marshal had
instructions to exclude the press.
That's absolutely untrue" Mar
shal Colpoys retorted. 1.-THE only
question raised was whether we
could admit all Of them while the
room was crowded with jurors"
(which ones will be admitted?"
Mr.. Latimer demanded.
Just the New Deal press?" an
other voice questioned.
A score Of angry voices Joined In
the verbal fray simultaneously, and
the meeting ended in a stalemate.
Evening star., 1944-04-20
King Peter Pledges Future
On Broad Minded State
By the Associs ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 20.--Young King
Peter pledged his future today to
giving Yugoslavia q democracy and
a federal state Of all Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes--a broadminded state
as desired by the majorities Of my
people"
The platform on which he win
stand In his bid to return to his
country as monarch, the most de-
tailed he has yet outlined, was pre-
sented In his speech to the Anglo
American Press Club of Paris, meet
ing in London.
He emphasized his country's
friendly relations with Britain, the
United States and Russia, noting
particularly that the Yugoslays had
lived in brotherhood with the Rus
sian people and 1t Is our sincere wish
to establish those relations on q
permanent and more intimate
basis" -
Evening star., 1944-04-20
Nomination Of LauderdaIe
To Be Considered Today

The nomination Of James w.
Lauderdale, an assistant to Cor
poration Counsel Richmond B.
Keech, to be peoples counsel before
the Public Utilities Commission is
scheduled fol. action this afternoon
by the Senate District Committee.
Chairman Bilbo called a meeting
of the full committee for 2 pm.
when he found a quorum of men,
bers would be in the city. Approval
of the nomination has been FORE
cast.
The committee also may consider
several bills recently approved by
the House, including the one to ban
construction Of an apartment house
on the southwest corner of Six
teenth and Shepherd streets NV.
Evening star., 1944-04-20
Bancroft Record Aids
Schools 10 Collect
b,71O Lbs. Of Paper

Aided by the largest collection
turned in so far by Bancroft School.
schools In the third district of The
Evening Star-PTA Salvage for Vic
tory program yesterday collected
55,7l0 pounds of newspapers and
magazines to push. the total for
the campaign to 4,300, ,359 pounds.
Bancroft's yield was 10,18l pounds,
which was better than 81 pounds a
pupil. This brings Bancroft's total
to more than $4,000 pounds and the
per capita to 1859 pounds.
At an assembly this morning the
students received Salvage for Vic
tory pennant, awarded to all
schools reaching 100 pounds per
capita. Members of the various
classroom salvage committees ex-
planned the organization which has
brought 100 per cent cooperation
In the work. Every child in the
school plays some part in Ban
croft's program. After receiving the
banner Bancroft pledged to con-
tfaue as long as the need for paper
continues.
Other Large Collections.
Other large collections Yesterday
were made by Raymond which will
receive Salvage for Victory banner
tomorrow morning and which yes
terday reported 2,87o pounds; Van
Ness. with 2,313 pounds; Woodbridge,
with $500 pounds; Terrell, with
3,6o7 pounds; Gage, with 1852
pounds; Petworth. with 1880
pounds, and Mcfarland, with $3.50
pounds.
Payments for March collection by
schools in the fourth district were
as follows:
Deal, $15s.s0; Hearst, sl46. 10;
Hardy, $113,79; Montgomery, $106s3;
Lafayette, $104.12: Murch, $85.48;
Mann, $71.35; Key, $79.4o; Stevens,
$64.07; Addison, $61.18; Stoddert,
$53.92; Curtis Hyde, $46.33; Eaton,
$2584; Phillips Wormley, $23 SO;
Corcoran, $19.71: Grant, $12.72;
Oyster, $9.22; Reno, 1921, and st.
Augustines, 1886.
Sacred Heart to Join Drive.
Sacred Heart School will join the
drive next week, with collection on
the Wednesday schedule. Sacred
Heart was among the better pro-
ducers In the original campaign.
Collections tomorrow In the fifth
district, together with the leaders,
are as follows:
Evening star., 1944-04-20
|7O% Of Producers
| Back $40 Settlement
lin Portal Pay Dispute
By the Associated Press.

.
Approximately 10 per cent of the
soft coal operators are expected to
ask the War Labor Board for per-
mission to pay miners an agreed
sum of $40 a man for retroactive
underground travel pay and end the
greater part Of q wrangle which has
continued for months.
That was the prospect today
despite yesterdays tart exchanges in
a three-way conference of Secretary
of the Interior Ickes, who has been
chief operator of the mines since
last November 3; United Mine
Workers Chief John L. Lewis, and
Edward r. Burke, president of the
Southern Coal Operators Associa-
ton. Mr.. Burke's association mem
bers are not involved in the agree
ment since the Southern operators
have taken the travel pay issue into
court, and Mr.. Lewis has served no.
tice that the UNIV will not settle
with this group for $40, but intends
to demand what the miners con-
slider to be the full legal obligation.
Urges Prompt Payment.
Mr.. Ickes said he has told the
operators they should, as a matter
of equity, make the payment
promptly. but that he is powerless
to order payment because the IL
ability covers a period Of non-Gov-
ernment operation. Many operators
have signified their willingness to
make the payment.
During yesterdays conference,
Mr.. Ickes asserted:
"We must get on with our busi-
ness of production of coal to meet
this Nations needs. Even if we do
our best, we shall be short. If bull
headedness, unrestrained exercise Of
lurid vocabularies or greed and over
reaching, on any side Of the table,
interfere with the production OF
coal, I tell all of you that you can
expect little sympathy and no help
from me-"
MIR. Ickes took issue with inpn-
cations in a recent Lewis statement
that Mr.. Ickes had guaranteed pay
ment of the $40 and could order
payment. Mr.. Lewis, it was re-
ported, was indignant at Mr.. Ickes'
outburst and later Interior Depart
ment press representatives sought to
prevent publication of that para
graph in the transcript of Mr..
1ckes remarks.
Ickes Challenges Burke.
At another stage of the conference
Mr.. Burke attempted to read into the
record a statement on the coal dis
pute and his presence at the hear
ing was challenged by Mr.. Ickes,
who remarked, II don't want to
hear you"
Mr.. Burke, told by Mr.. Ickes that
the Secretary had not invited him
to the conference, replied that DR..
c. j. Potter, Mr.. Ickes' deputy adj
ministrator of mines, had invited
him Mr.. Burke took no other part
in the conference and the state
ment, denying that legal liability
existed for payment of the under
ground travel pay, was not read.
Evening star., 1944-04-20
Sedition
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attorney said, "he will die in pris-
on"
Lost 10 Pounds in Jail.
A defendant, Ellis o. Jones, who
is his own lawyer, interposed: 1--WE
already lost 10 pounds in the D. G.
Jail and will need an. undertaken
If I stay there much longer"
With the morning session taken
up with preliminary matters, JUS
tice Eicher took a luncheon recess
at 1885 amid an uproar of defense
attorneys still seeking to be heard.
Selection Of the jury was slated to
begin this afternoon.
The defense lawyers staged an in
formal protest meeting in the
courtroom after adjournment Of
court late yesterday, exchanging
bitter words with United States
Marshal John B. Colpoys and his
chief deputy, Michael Kearney. The
attorneys, echoing complaints they
had made IN open court,
assailed the limitations Of the small
courtroom and charged the mar
Evening star., 1944-04-20

were lost over Sicily and not
over the. sea.
The officer said the report that
the Americans had lost 81 planes
In the July IA operation was
untrue. He said that 1t was pos
sible that some Of these might
have been fred on In the dark
ness by Allied ground forces.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17

spectators. The squad from Wilber-
force, the State University for
colored students, has challenged
Bluffton many times in past years
and the appearance of this unbeaten
fiashy team is awaited with interest
Between halves the crowd will be
entertained by Ralph S. Marshall,
former Allen county Sheriff, present
ing pistol and rifle shooting ex-
hibition. Marshall, rated as an
International master marksman, will
demonstrate his skill as contribu-
ton to the program of the Bluffton
Community Sportsmen's Club.
Holder of several world records,
many trophies and medals from
shooting matches, both gallery and
outdoor, Marshall competed in and
won a place on the three man team
which was sent to Germany by the
United States in the last Olympics.
In 1889 he made the highest civil
liam average in the United States.
In 1910 Marshall was picked as
number one man on the five man
team sent to Mexico City, Mexico, to
represent the United States in the
International Matches. He has won
each of the following-The United
States cups for Slow Fire; Rapid
Fire, Pocket Model, intermediate,
and also the U. S. American Legion
Cup. These matches We're nation