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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-07

WASHINGTON, Dec. z Up
- UnderSecretary of War Pat
terson said today that in the
fighting on the western front
I'VE are suffering severe casual
ties and are facing the grim pros
pect of more TO come"
He made the statement i'm a
weekly war review which dis
closed that on this third ami
versary of Pearl Harbor United
States battle casualties amount
to 552,0l8.
Patterson said Army casual
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-07
DEPUTIES PROBE MARKET THEFT
IS 900 Rdfion Points Stolen

definite clues have been I'M
earthed in the case so far the
fact that the hole through which
the thieves had gained entry was
but IL inches in diameter indi-
Gated strongly the possibility
that a youth or youths we're inn
plicated.
A prior Van Dyke theft Of
ration stamps had been reported
earlier in the year and a similar
means Of entry had been en-
ployed, Kaltenbach pointed out
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-07

VAN DYKE - Thieves who
looted a Warren township super
market and made off with IS,
900 red (meaD ration points be-
sides a portable radio and SITS
in cash today were the object Of
an intensive search by Macomb
county sheriff'S officers.
The ration points were stolen
from the A & w market, 20934
Van Dyke avenue, on the night
CT Nov. 20, Chief Deputy Sheriff
Thomas Kaltenbach revealed to-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-07
Tank Columns
But 81 Miles
from key(iiy
Americans Tighten
Grip Across
Soor River
BY JAMES Nj. LONG

PARIS, Dec. = up Amer
lean tanks drove within three
and half miles of scared Saar.
brucken today in plunge to the
outskirts of Forbach, French
rail town and outpost of the
Siegfried line.
Artillery of the same Third
Army bombarded the little
Pittsburgh of the coal and iron
region for the eighth consecu-
tive day, while Infantry was
cleaning the Germans from the
last streets of Sarregue-mines,
French border town southeast OF
the Saar capital. Street fighting
continued in Saarlautern. Sec
ond city of the Saar.
The Americans extended their
grip on the west bank of the
multiple-crossed Saar river to
% miles.
PREPARE DEFENSE
On the static Roer river front !
the Cologne plain for the sec@
ond successive night was bright
with strings of German ground
lights, suggesting that the enc
my was working intensively to
prepare defenses on the Erft
river in anticipation of a forced
withdrawal from the swift and
swollen Roer.
Along the Roer, the American
First and Ninth armies were
no closer than 33 miles from
the ravaged metropolis on the
Rhine. Nowhere had the Roer
been crossed, but the GIs were
up TO its banks on a wide front.
Action flared up again on the
northern part of the First Army
front. 1t. Gen. Courtney II.
Hodges troops, who cleared In
den several days ago. struck Z
mile and half toward pier.
about midway between the Roer
river citadels of Julich and Du.
rem. Patrols reached piers OUT
skirts.
North in Holland, German
Patrols crossed the mass north
of Venlo but the British beat
them back in every effort to
probe their lines.
US. Seventh Army troops
captured Ostheim, five miles
moth of Geimar, last city in Ger-
man hands in Alsace. The foe
district. His men and trucks
choked the Rhine bridge at
nearby Breisbach.
With virtually all Saaregue-
mines cleared, the Germans fled
northward toward the Saarland
in a gauntlet of artillery fire.
They blew five bridges behind
them.
In the open country gap be-
tween the Eifel mountains and
the Haguenau Forest opposite
the Palatinate, the Germans
stiffened. They held out logged.
ly in Hagenaw (l9,500) to pro-
tect ammunition and fuel
dumps. They tried to retain
Mertzwiller, six miles north
west of Haguenau, with strong
artillery defense-600 rounds in
an hour.
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
commander of the 18th Army
See GERMANY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-07

American troops overseas
will Of course be pleased to know
that business and industry have
oversubscribed their quota"
Schwartz told the assembled Gal
lantS, but you and l know that
See BONDS-Page 2
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From Pearl Horbor
to Leyfe Invasion

Dec. 7, l94l - Upwards of
800 Japanese carrier based
planes wreaked havoc among
warshipS at Pearl Harbor,
aircraft at Hickam Field and
killed or wounded more than
5000 men.
Guam fell in less than a
week. Wake was lost Dec. "a.
Dec. 7, 1912 - On Guadal-
canal, southernmost Solo
mons. u. S. Marines who in
See PEARL HARBOR-P-3
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CD Groups
Aid Disabled
WorVeterans

Seven communities in Macomb
County are responding generous
ly to the call of the Civilian De-
Tense Volunteer Office which is
raising funds through parties de-
signed to make Christmas as
happy as possible for disabled
veterans in Percy Jones Hospi.
tai, Battle Creek.
The project is being directed
by Mrs. George ~MoSeman and
Mrs. Edward Roe who appeal to
the public to respond 100 per
cent for the sake of veterans of
Pacific and European Theatres
of war whose sacrifices can new
er be repaid.
Of immediate interest to
Mount Clemens district are two
games parties planned for Dec.
IL in Harrison Township Hall,
and Dec. IA at Grace Parish
House. Both commence at 8 p.
m.
Twenty-four games will be
played at Harrison hall. A door
prize, -take-all and other
cash awards will be made. Town
ship merchants are donating TO
the party.
Other CD parties yet TO be
held will be in ST. Clair Shores,
Dec. Is at South Lake High
School at 8 p. m. Dagmar DIAL
licr will direct this program. At
Roseville Mrs. Harold Wilson is
arranging party and in East
Detroit Mrs. Helen Cross is plan
ming CD dance at East Detroit
High School. Dates have not yet
been set FOR the latter events.
Uticans rallied to help the CD
Hospital Fund with a Tag Day
last week, directed by Mrs.
Leonard Morrison, which added
SLABS 10 the yule gift treasury
In Clinton Township, Wednes-
day evening, Mrs. A. Carter and
Mrs. p. Boring, of Selfridge
Homes, sponsored very sue
ceSSful party, the proceeds Of
which have not yet been fully
tabulated.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-07

day. He said the burglars had
gained entry by chopping Shole
in the roof and lowering them
selves TO the interior of the
store. He said that the ration
points and cash as we'll as the
radio were taken from a small
balcony office in the business
establishment.
Kaltenbach said that while no
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-07

Open every evening till 9 PM.
Priehs Mercantile-Adv.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-07

Open every evening till 3 PM.
Priehs Mercantile-Adv.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-07

See TRIAL-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11

Approximately 500 cadets In
the Michigan Wing Of the Civil
ian Air Patrol will attend an air
base camp at Selfridge Field
during July, August and Septem-
Der.
The first class will start its
course July Is. Each class will
be two weeks in duration, during
which the cadets will be temper
arily stationed at Selfridge Field
and subject to military regula-
tons and customs of the serv-
ice.
The program is the Michigan
part of a nationwide program
Of the AAF to provide supervised
instruction and orientation In
military education to members of
the CAP Air Cadet Corps, and
Selfridge Field is believed to be
the first installation to get the
course into operation.
Designed by Major Charles II.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
Beatrice 5nay
Succeeds Davis
Rotion Clerks Health
Forces Retirement

Miss Beatrice Shay has sue
ceeded Olin A. Davis as chief
clerk of Macomb County War
Price e. Rationing Board No.
3350-1, Paul w. Mckee, ration
board chairman announced fol-
lowing Friday evenings formal
meeting of the board.
Davis. who had resigned due
to i'll health will resume per-
sonal management of his Mount
Clemens business, the Standard
Office & Supply company. fol-
lowing period of rest. He had
served as chief clerk of the
board since 1912 and was cited
by board members for an un-
usually efficient and capable
handling of the boards compli-
Gated affairs.
At Friday nights board meet
ing Davis was presented with
gifts by members of the ration
board, the Women's Volunteer
Office of Civilian Defense and
by fellow employees of the board.
Miss Shay has been identified
with rationing since its incep-
ton in Macomb county and.
throughout the greater portion
of that period, held the position
of senior clerk.
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III Mocomb War Casualties
Revealed in Monitor SURVEY

of others who may fall within
the limits of the lists.
II you know of soldier, sail
or, marine or coast guardsman
who is either dead, wounded,
missing or a prisoner as the re-
suit of war service kindly sub
nit his name to the Monitor
Leader news-room for checking
against the established list. II Is
the desire of the editor that the
list include not only actual bat
tie casualties but those who
were wounded or killed as the
direct result of their service;
whether at home or abroad.
Such names Of the county's
heroic men in uniform should
be mailed to:
Editorial Department
THE MONITOR-LEADER
Mount Clemens. Mich.
See CASUALTlES-Page 6
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
Reach Accord
al Conference
in Washington
Long TroubIous
Problem Finally
is Dissolved

WASHINGTON, July II -
(P) - President Roosevelt an
nounced today that he is accept
ing the French National Com
mittee headed by General
Charles De Gaulle as the author
ity for civil administration of
liberated France.
Mr.. Roosevelt's new attitude
toward the committee, the chief
executive made clear at his news
conference, results from the
talks which he had last Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday with
De Gaulle. i.
There is no change, the Presi-
dent said, in the policy of this
government in, not recognizing
the French committee as a pro-
visional government.
In its capacity of ode facto
authority" the committee will
be under the general supervision
of General Dwight D. Eisenhow-
err, allied supreme commander.
Eisenhower will have the de-
cision on when city or town
or department can be released
from military administration
and turned over to the commit
tee.
The President used the term
de facto authority" in describ-
ing the committees role pending
the time that the French peo-
pie have an opportunity to
choose government for them
selves.
DE facto authority" simply
means that the committee will
In fact exercise the authority of
an administrator and-will be
recognized as exercising it, but
from the United States point of
view it will not be diplomatical-
ly and politically a government.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11

The names of Ill Macomb
county casualties of the present
conflict, plus those of IA prison
ers of war, today were included
in the first known compilation
of the county's personnel losses
to be made since the outbreak
Of hostilities.
The grim report, based upon
stories carried by the Monitor
Leader since Dec. Z, 1941, is ad-
mittedly incomplete but. so far
as has been possible to do SO,
care has been exercised in in
Guiding the names of the publi-
cized dead, missing, wounded
and captives.
Assembled by news-writers Of
the publications editorial staff
the names are available for
checking upon the part of the in
terested public and the newspa-
per earnestly solicits the names
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
j. !. Warships
on the prowI
Jops Report Big
Force OF Tinion

NEW YORK, July II -(P)-
The japanese radio said today
that "a very powerful enemy
fleet consisting of two aircraft
carriers and more than 80 cruis-
ers and destroyers are plying
the waters northwest of Tinian
Island" in the Marianas.
u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
July IL --(P)- American ships
and planes struck fresh blows at
Guam and Rota over the week
end, bringing complete neutral
ization of the Marianas - or
perhaps, new invasion operations
"a step nearer today.
Guam and Rota are less than
$50 miles south of Saipan, which
has been captured by American
Marines and soldiers.
Light cruisers and destroyers
S elled Guam Saturday for the
second time since Japan took the
island Dec. IL, 1941.
A Pearl Harbor communique
said the Saturday Smelling dam
aged japanese defense positions,
buildings and small craft along
the beaches.
Planes of a fast carrier task
group, Drawing heavy anti-air-
craft fire, attacked both Guam
and Rota Sunday with bombs,
rockets and machinegun fire.
One carrier plane was lost. but
destroyer rescued the crew.
The Americans who sliced
neatly through the Marianas by
taking Saipan hunted down the
few remaining Japanese snipers
and stragglers at large on that
island. Belated enemy civilians
also were trickling in to sur
render.
Meanwhile. Liberators from
Central and Southwest Pacific
bases collaborated upon attacks
upon the principal Japanese
bases in the Carolines-at Truk,
Palau, zap and Woleai.
Enemy planes took off from
Truk and Palau to avoid de-
struction on the ground. Only
See PACIFIC-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
How Public
Received the
18th Term Bid
BY the Associated Press

Wendell l.. Willkie, unsuc-
cessful Republican candidate for
President against Mr.. Roosevelt
in 1910; us that news?"
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of
New York; II am very happy 70
hear it but frankly I cannot pre-
tend to be surprised and that
goes for the nomination, too"
Paul E. Fitzpatrick of Buff
falo.. N. Y, newly elected New
York State Democratic chair
man: THAT is very good news
to this country"
James w. Gerard. former am
bassador to Germany: II ex-
pected he would accept the nom.
ination and I am gratified that
ii now seems assured he will. !
See REACTION-Page 6
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
500 CAP Cadets to Train
at SeIfridee Field Base

Williams, Selfridge Field ground
training officer, to provide basic
military training, Authorization
with weapons, physical training
and basic instruction in aeronau-
tical subjects, the course will
prepare cadets for aviation ca
reers in the future. All of them
just below the minimum age of
an AAF aviation cadet, most of
the enlisted personnel is made
up of men who have done some
flying, and some of them are
pilots.
Officers and enlisted person
mel of the base staff will serve
as instructors, but each class of
$50 will be divided into five
flights with a commanding Of
ficer and senior non-commission-
ed officer in c barge of each
flight. The AAF will furnish
quarters and facilities, but eth
See c A Page 6
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Burst Through
Nazi Defenses
Near 81. 10
British-Conodion
. Forces Continue
Impressive Coins
By IVES GALLAGHER

BY IVES GALLAGHER
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, July 11-P-Ameri-
can troops bursting forward in
a new offensive slugged today to
a point within two miles of St.
Lo, junction-Bast of Central
Normandy, and ripped through
Nazi defenses in two sectors far
Their west on their flaming 40
mile front.
In Eastern Normandy, Brit
ish-Canadian forces struc X
ahead a mile across the Orne
river east of Caen against the
Germans making a fierce stand
in the suburb of Vaucelles, and
occupied the west bank of the
Orne on a four mile stretch from
Caen's outskirts.
u. S. troops and tanks, ad-
vancing under a pulverizing ar
tillery barrage, gained from two
to three miles in the drive on ST.
Lo, and other doughboys farth-
er northwest also pounded for
ward, Selling four towns in a
few hours.
One of these columns striking
south from Carentan captured
La Maugerie and La Roserie
four miles from Periers, and
other hi ting west from the Wire
river seized Haunt Verney and
lie Mesnilangot three miles be-
yond fallen st. Jean De Daye.
Spearheads of Lt.-Gen. Omar
N. Bradley's American First
Army, jumping off under the
screen of a pulverizing artillery
barrage, reached the outskirts
of Luzerne and Mesnil-Roxelin,
just north of the road junction
in the heart of Normandy.
The attack was coordinated
from the north and northeast of
st. Lo, fall of that city of $4,000
See FRANCE-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
Bond Drive
Is Extended
City Still Short;
Deficit $289, 900

Official extension of the Fifth
War Loan drive until the end of
July this week gave Mount
Clemens an opportunity to re-
trieve its honor and raise the
S289,000 current deficit in the
drive for a S1,557,000 local
quota.
Martin G.. Schwartz, local
bond chairman, reported that
stimulated sales during the past
weekend added considerably to
the total bond purchases, but
left the city short $4,000 on its
goal for bonds other than E
Series, and shore $ll7,00 on Z
Series sales.
To date the city has attained
See BONDS-Page 8
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C|aude(ottre|I
Dies in A(ii0n
Young Mount Clemens
SoiIor, Is, Killed

Claude Clarence Cottrell, Jr.,
18-year-old Harrison township
Fireman, first class, U.S.N. r..
has been killed in action, his
grandmother, Mrs. Clarence Cot.
trell, of $50 E. Broadway, was
officially informed today by the
Navy Department.
The young sailor, who had
been in uniform since April,
1913, had last written to his
grandparents May %, of this
year, and was at that time on
duty in the Southwest Pacific
theater of war. His father, also
in the Navy, is now on foreign
service.
The latest Macomb county
man to pay the supreme sacri-
flee during World War No. 2, is
survived by his mother, now
Mrs. Pauline Anderson, of Hub
bard avenue, Mount Clemens,
by a sister, Betty Cottrell, of
New York City, and by his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Cottrell, with whom
he had made his home since he
was two years of age. He had
attended Harrison School No. 2
and was widely known through
out the county among youths of
his own age. His grandmother
believes that he may have been
on submarine service at the
time ne met his death.
No information concerning
the time and manner of the
young sailors death was re-
vealed in the Navy Department
telegram expressing sympathy
and pride in his having lost his
life in the service of his coun-
try.
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day in st. Clair Shores where
the question of city incorpora-
ton has been famed to white
hot heat by opposing groups.
In Mount Clemns, aside from
the countrywide interest in sher.
iff and circuit court contests, the
principal attraction appeared to
be the selection of a nine man
charter revision committee. Ten
candidates have entered their
names in the contest.
Clinton township voters, in
addition to county and state is
sues, must decide whether or not
they favor establishment, at the
community expense, of town
ship fire department.
The always attractive office
of Macomb county sheriff found
the greatest number of contend
ers nervously cycling the polling
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
YANkS CLEAvE GAP IN NAzI line
Light Voting
MQrksPrimury

four-way race for nomination as
sheriff. Republican aspirants to
the right to wear the sheriff S
badge are: F. Scott Burke, Har-
ry w. V. Lumley, Robert C..
Havel, and Elmer Logic.
In the somewhat more digni-
fled but, perhaps even more i'm
portant, race for non-partisan
nomination as circuit judge the
incumbent, Judge Alton H. Noe,
found three opponents in the
race. They are: Ray H. Callens,
Earle M. French and Howard r.
Carroll.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
Let Dog Run;
Faces TrioI
in }. P. Court

In the first case of its kind
In years, and sequel to the
recent public warning regarding
the state dog quarantine, a To-
cal dog owner is awaiting court
trial on charge of allowing
dogs to run at large.
The defendant, Joseph L. Nys,
OF 303 Croker boulevard, was
arraigned before Justice Frank
E. Jeanette Monday on a city
ordinance charge that he cal
See DOG-Page 2
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Nation Chief
Makes Formal
Statement
Brooks Long Silence
on Plons in Letter
to Demo Choirmon

WASHINGTON, July tn
- President Roosevelt said to-
day he will accept Democratic
denomination and serve q fourth
term IL elected.
The President made his inten.
tions public in q letter to DEM.
ocratic National Chairman Ham
negan who informed him suffi-
cient delegates were pledged for
his denomination at the Demo
cratic convention which opens
in Chicago next week.
The President said he would
prefer to 1G1iye hut 81 win ac-
cept and serve IA this office e
am 80 ordered by the COM
mander-in-chief Of rs al - IL
sovereign people Of the United
States"
The President sprang the news
of his political intentions on 4
news conference this morning
when q reporter asked him II ha
had anything to say about the
convention.
A GOOD GUESS
Grinning. the President NJ
piled that the reporter was only
guessing and said this time
he was right.
Getting quickly to the CORES
pondence before him the Pres
ident read Hannegan's Letter
saying denomination Is assured
and replied:
eff the convention should car
ry this out, and nominate me for
the presidency, I shall accept
II the people elect me, I win
serve"
The President said. however,
that he would not ''run'' for n
election in the accepted political
sense "but II the people COM
mand me to continue In this a.
flee and in this war. I have q
little right to withdraw q Tho
soldier has to leave his post n
the line"
With that statement the Pres
ident was referring to his war
See PRESIDENT-Page 3
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Local Soldiers
Are Wounded

Two Macomb County sold
diers have been reported by the
War Department as having been
wounded in the Mediterranean
area. They are:
Pvt. Amiel Anseeuw. Van
Dyke, husband of Mrs. Marga-
set Anseeuw.\
Pvt. Harold Orrell, st. Clair
Shores, son of Claude Orrell.
No additional information is
obtainable at the present
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11

booths. In Democratic ranks I'm
dersheriff Harley Ensign, seek.
ing to succeed his present chief
must outdistance Richard Max
well, Paul Schram, Roy Deising
John Childers, Edward Fritz,
and L. w. VanMeter if he is to
confront the winner in the COP
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
Telephone 1851
for Primary
Election Score

Election returns will be avail
able at the Monitor-Leader Of
flee as rapidly as they are tabu-
lated tonight and Wednesday
morning.
Due to the lack of in
terest in the primaries, traceable
to a large extent to pressure OF
war activities, the outdoor score
board on election returns will
not be maintained as in prior
years.
The interested public is well
come, however, to telephone
1851, after nine o'clock in the
evening, for returns on all con-
tests as they are received in the
news-room Of the newspaper.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11
Election
Extra

An Extra" edition Of
the Monitor-Leader, COW
ering county election re-
turns, will be available
on the streets of Mount
Clemens at, or about
noon, on Wednesday.
Due to the apparent
lukewarm interest of the
voters i'm the primaries,
however. no genera
house delivery Of the
election extra will be
attempted.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-11

City Clerk Joseph H. Mat
thews, after making :. survey
Of all precincts early this aft
ernOon, predicted a "very
light" vote of 1900 to $500,
or approximately Is per cent
of the city registration.