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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-11

Visitors at church last Sunday
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
Thrifty Buyers Make 1t Point to Shop the C|assfieds
Carries Bullet in Broin
18 Years and Still Lives
Clevelond Man Victim Of 'Unlooded' Revolver
Accident in 1926; Unconscious for % Dogs

CLEVELAND - W.P) - For
Is years Joe Celikovich has
lived with a bullet in his brain.
Today the 29-year old Cleve-
lander lies in a hospital cot par
TALLY paralyzed and refusing to
talk because il increases the
painful pressure in his head.
Celikovich was the victim of
a so-called "unloaded" revolver
He was playing in the rear of
his West Side home with a Is
year-old friend when the two
boys found an old rusted revolt
yer. The other youngster
thought the gun was harmless
so he aimed it directly at Joe's
head and pulled the trigger.
The bullet tore through Joe's
forehead and lodged in his brain,
where it has been ever since, de-
spite two operations.
He was unconscious for %
days after the shooting and doc
tors said then that he wouldn't
live-in fact. they said he
couldn't; twas impossible.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

But Joe did live and still is
holding on to a thin thread Of
life. He has frequent relapses
and numerous headaches. The
two operations helped relieve
partially the continuing growing
pressure on his brain. His left
side became paralyzed almost
Immediately, but he still man.
aged 10 get around.
Neighbors describe him as
pleasant and a happy young
man."
DR.. Charles T. Dolezal, super
intendent of the Cleveland City
Hospital, examined Joe recently
when he collapsed into his pres
ent coma and said that "any
new operation will in all prob!
ability make him worse"
URGE OPERATION
Joe's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Steve Celikovich, disagree. They
mink another operation Will
help their son-"maybe cure
him"
But DR.. Delezai said further
exploration in a brain, twice
tempered with. will do more
harm than good"
Joe Celikovich," he asserted.
"can live a long, long time
with that bullet in his brain-or
he could die suddenly tomorrow.
II is difficult to ascertain. We
don't know whether his present
coma is due to symptoms result
ing from pressure by the bullet
or from injuries received during
the previous operations"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

ALL BEDBUGs. reaches. moths des
troyed In six hours: guaranteed. Ma
comb Fumisst Service. $500 s. Riv.
er road. corner Longview. Mt Glenn
ems. Phone 844l. G
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

BOX SPRINGS and mattress for SIN
gle bed and folding bed. 7 Queen ST.
AZ
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

DR.. PETER vLADEFT
CHIROPRACTOR
Palmer Graduate
x-Ray-Sunlight-Infr Red. etc.
In Practise 81 Years In City
san Macomb st. Phone Mt Clemens
500i or 1883 C
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

OUR MOVING equipment II the best
Special care taken Of your furniture
and upholstered goods In storage. such
az moth proofins and wrapping rugs
and cushions. City Transfer Co.. 90
Broadway. Mt. Clemens. Phone 1851
Service to and from Detroit daily. G
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

GIRL FOR general office work; stea.
dy job. now and after the war. Apply
in person. J. r. Mcmahon Coal CO.,
325 North avenue. Aei
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Helm wonted-Femole

LIBRARIAN wanted: part-ume: for
school of nursing. Phone 255l, nursing
office. Am
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

vULCANIZING Tires vuicanixed:
rubber boots vulcanixed. Dog harnesses
made TO order. Reynolds. IS Washing
ton, Mt Clemens. Phone SCOT. q
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
livestoek-Fov Sole is

EIGHT WEEK old pigs: several
farm gates; 900 gallon water tank;
thrasher type and ia squares OF Inset
brick siding; new. 3oi5 Trombley, off
Steward road, New Baltimore. AIS
THREE HoLSTEIN heifers for sale.
429l Crooked road. miles north, =.
mile west of Meade. AIS
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
Business Property For Sale FL

PEOPLE-Don't miss this opportun-
| ity; big rooming house: all furnished: :
| also old established shoe repair shop;
very reasonable. SAINTS Real Estate,
Mt Clemens 65l5. Aes
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
Goroees For Rent

DOUBLE GARAGE for rent on
Dickinson. Can be used for storage or
anything else. Teoos. Phone S322. IF
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

TWO HORSES; year, 1900 ID: z
year 400 ID; $50 yards manure.
26539 Schoenherr road. near IL Mile
AZ,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

EXPERIENCED woman for clean
ing. 1921 North Gratiot. Phone 1894. A27
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
V-Mail Goes Through

There is real danger that overseas mail
may be rationed. We are sending "a 000 900
letters a week to our men on the fighting
fronts and simply haven't enough cargo space
for this. Very often there has 10 be choice
between sending bags Of mail or plasma. 1t
is unfair for us to force this choice on the
United States Postal Service.
The solution to this important problem is
an easy one Use V-mail. Forty-nine letters
sent the V-mail way occupy the same space
as one letter sent in the ordinary way If
you haven't been availng yourself Of this
convenience it is time to start. If you don't
know how to use it ask about it in your
post office where you can also get V-mail
paper There is no mystery about it. 1t is
simple. Furthermore, V-mail letters always
reach their destination. Letters mailed in any
other way are far less certain ZOO 1000 900 "
mail letters have been delivered and not cae
has been lost!
We all know that letters from home are
the greatest comfort that the men have. We
cannot risk cheating them out of any part
Of the happiness they get in this way. II
is patriotic to use V-mail
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
Simplified Taxes

Announcement that provisions OF s1mpll-
fled income tax plan as worked out by the
House Committee on Ways and Means will
be disclosed today naturally inspires hope that
the sweat and tears and all but blood shed
nv nanv million Americans for some weeks
preceding yesterday in computing their taxes
are to be a thing Of the past.
The actual process of computing and col
lecting income tax, as proposed by the com
mittee is carefully concealed, but on the
strength of former statements it seems likely
that persons whose incomes do not top S50Ot
will not have to make any returns at all
that the job will be done by payroll deduc
tons without fuss or furore at the source Of
earning, and when the tax year is up there
rows.
We can but hope that the forecast is borne
out in fact, and that when the bill emoody
ing the provisions limited above reaches the
floor it will receive prompt Congressional ap
proval-and not be vetoed.
At the same time it is only fair to note
that the relief to be offered tax payers will
impose added duties upon the bookkeeping
and auditing departments of firms and thai
employees in these essential branches OF busl
ness and industry will have difficult time
keeping up with the additional work thus
thrust upon them. In fairness, employers
should be permitted to deduct the salaries
of additional help they probably will have to
take on for this job from their own income
taxes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
S0ldier-VOte Bill

the opinion OF governors on the soldiers vote
measure approved by Congress- But it is not
to be taken for granted that he will act in
accordance to the majority opinion thus OBJ
tanned. The Chief Executive has given repeat
ed proof, particularly during this third term,
that it is his own opinion rather than that
OF any group that he follows in making his
decisions. His veto Of the last tax bill is a
fair example Of his attitude.
There is some reason to think that Mr.
Roosevelt is chiefly concerned with having
the armed services exercise the franchise for
a presidential candidate; that he cares little
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
Driving at intersections

A driver who made the turn at Water and
Market streets fast enough to strike woman
down has been sentenced to sixty days on
the county farm.
1t is to be hoped that the incident has
been widely publicized for the benefit Of other
drivers predisposed to disregard the rights
Of pedestrians, and encourages them to mend
their ways.
The Wilmington traffic code gives pedes-
TRANS at intersections right Of way over We
hicular traffic, provided, OF course, they are
crossing on the green light at signal-serviced
intersections and do not venture into the street
in the path Of oncomng vehicles.
That is the law. But it is not the universal
practice of drivers. Despite all that has been
said in these columns since the traffic code
was last revised, many drivers persist in
sezing the right Of way over persons afoot
al intersections and literally pillow their way
between groups of persons afoot. Only the
intervention Of kindly providence can be
credited with preventing more collisions be-
tween vehicles and pedestrians.
tence for violations, these indifferent drivers
will take heed Of their driving at intersec-
tons The court acted wisely in making an
Example of the driver at Water and Market.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
They'll Try Again

How about reading book? book by
perwoman, formerly head of the Berlin Of
flee of the Chicago Tribune. According to Ger.
many VIII Try 1t Again (Which seems tc
have drawn cheers from all quarters) we'd
better make pretty sure about Germany, I'm.
less we want them landing at Atlantic City
and Palm Beach some time around 1865.
Miss Schultz thinks we're still dreamy eyed
about the Germans. She says that our Ger.
man enemies have succeeded in camouflag g.
ing the real facts and forces which led to
the Second World War;" and is convinced
that they have already started work on World
War III.
She furnishes disquietingly convincing proof
that as far back as October 1910 the German
General Staff, foreseeing the possibility OF
failure, were making plans to convert defeat
into victory, exactly as they did-and Miss
Schultz makes this clear, too-n 1919.
Miss Schultz believes that these prepare
tons for the next war will meet with the CO.
operation Of most Of the German populace
that "Nazism will retain a great appeal for
the Germans, even in defeat Hence, at the
first sign Of weakness on our part, she is
convinced, they will try it again. For weak.
ness read appeasement nonsensical talk
about the good Germany" suggestions that
our main enemy is Japan, and any indca
ton Of disunity among the United Nations
ITO be fooled once is tragic" writes Miss
Schultz. ITO be fooled twice is unforgivable -
That makes sense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17

about votes for state or lesser candidates
If he pursues his customary course, the sur.
vey he is now making among state COVER
nors will have little effect upon his action
on the BILL That is to say, if the major
ity of governors stand out for state ballots
in addition to presidential ballots and he is
still determined in his own mind to have
q. esidential ballots only, he will veto the bill.
His rugged individualism'' is becoming more
pronounced as he continues in the White
House.
There is a danger in the soldier-vote stu
alton which must not be overlooked. While
surveys and controversies continue there is
increasing possibility that the armed forces
will get no vote at all
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17

| not to sell to the Italians at all,
because our soldiers willingly pay
higher prices than the natives. But
the other day another Italian wom-
an stopped in from of this vendor
and gathered up an apronful OF
apples. Then she started to pay
for them. The vendor woman I'M
fortunately quoted her the soldier
price. The prospective customer
looked at her moment, and then
in a rage threw all the apples right
in her face.
Note to postal clerk Henry Ros-
ner of Pittsburgh got your mes
sage. Thanks lot.
Several weeks ago Sergt. Bill
Maudin, t h e army cartoonist,
bought a pair of rubber panties
in Naples and sent them home to
Phoenix for his six-months- ba-
by.
His wife apparently spread the
word, for since then Bill has had
about 20 requests from young
mothers in America wanting rub
Der pants for their babies. Appar-
emily this article is extinct back
nome
Bill is in a spot, and has had to
declare rubber panties extinct over
here too.
Sherman Montrose is the boss OF
all the civilian photographers over
here. He works for NEA Service
and has covered the Solomons, the
Aleutians and Italy, which makes
him one of the most veteran Of
correspondents in this war.
Monty has one piece of equip.
ment which everybody would like
to steal. It's pure eider-down
sleeping bag. It's just thin en-.
velope which you crawl into. and
is so wonderfully warm you don't
need anything else except shelter
half to keep the rain off.
Monty had it made back in the
days when eider-down was still,
available. 1t cost $50. He packs il
into little drawst-ing bag, anc
carries it in his hand the way {
woman carries shopping bag.
The Red Cross asked me the
other day to speak on a trans-At
. lantic broadcast in connection with
its 5000, 100000 drive.
. But since public speaking is no
!. one Of my most glittering talents
and since the whole program would
probably collapse if 1 tried to make
speech about il. we compromised
and I promised to write few
lines.
So here they are. I've seen the
Red Cross operate in Ireland, Eng
land, Africa, Sicily and Italy, anc
I'm very much for it. Its task is
tremendous and it does a great
good.
You won't be making any mis-
take if you fork over little dough
for the Red Cross, Why, even
am going to donate a mite.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
Can't Wait for Peace

! It is probably true that some structures
occupied as homes would be tenantless but
for Wilmingtons oversize wartime popula'
ton. But the present housing situation does
sponsibility to keep them in repair. Nor does
it free the city from obligation to force re.
luctant owners to make repairs In their pres
ent state Of dilapitation at least $50 buildings
that do not deserve to be called houses con-
stitute not only grave fire hazard but a
peril to the lives of the unfortunate tenants
who inhabit them.
A sightseeing trip conducted by the city
building inspector Gilbert F. Morton, for the
enlightenment of Star-News reporter, re.
vealed novels no sef-respecting farmer would
use to house his hogs, some Of them &C.
cupied by as many as thirty-six persons. They
exist almost in the heart Of the city. They
are without indoor plumbing or even septic
tanks They are menaces to the health OF
the city.
Yet there they are, falling to pieces. 1t
will not do to say improvements must await
postwar planning. These faults ought to be
corrected now. If the only way to provide
housing for the tenants OF these places is to
open housing projects to them, this step should
be taken. Whatever change is necessary in
rules regarding occupancy Of housing pro-
jects out to be permitted by the proper
authorities, presumably in Washington. No
rule which compels families to live in filth
while good quarters are available deserves to
exist No federal housing administration which
condones conditions such as are known to
exist here with units in its projects unoc-
cupied merits public respect or considera-
ton.
Any major slum clearance and building pro-
gram for Wilmington may be carried over
into the postwar period. In the meantime it
is the city's clear duty to use its full in
fluence and apply its greatest pressure to
correct the deplorable conditions Mr. Morton
uncovered on his personally conducted tour
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
An Empty Victory

The War Labor Boards rejection Of the
American Federation of Labor demands that
the little steel'' formula be done awav with
and that President Roosevelt modify wage
ceilings realistically in consideration of the
advancing costs Of living, is good dea
like closing the barn door after the horse
has gone.
The little steel' formula which provides
that wages shall not exceed Is per cent O.
the levels in effect on January /, l941, wen
with the wind long time ago.
It was a pretty theory that John L. Levi.
knocked higher than a cooked hat when h,
beat the administration in the coal mine wage
fight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
School Course Changes

H. M. Roland county superintendent OF
schools. told the kiwanis club on Wednesday
that the Board of Education, the teaching
staff and his department devoting much
time to a study of changes in school courses
designed to fit pupils for adult work. The
idea is to provide every available facility for
high school boys and girls who have decided
what line Of work or profession they intend
to follow, that the groundwork may be thor
ough and complete before graduation.
There has been no more constructive effort
than this undertaken in public education. IT
represents tremendous advance from the
days when the aim Of high schools was to
lay the foundation for college courses in the
arts and sciences. and trades were consid-
cred something apart, to be acquired through
long apprenticeship.
The war effort and the establishment OF
trades courses in connection with the New
Hanover High school, attended in three years
oy some $4,000 persons fmany adult has
shown the Board Of Education that there is
an actual need for this kind Of training in
The schools And the attendance of some 1000
other persons upon courses conducted to de-
velop special skills Of great variety during
the same period Of time is additional proof
that strictly scholastic training is not enough
The brave new world we all hope is to
emerge from this war will need brave new
type of worker whether in the professions
or trades. business and industry. The
schools will perform brave new task by
preparing the youth Of the land to take over
the responsibility for national existence, each
boy and girl in the way he and she is bes
fitted by nature and inclination to accom-
plish most New Hanover school authorities
are on the right track.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
.pailyPrayer
FOR SUBMISSION AND Cpo,,

o Christ, our Lord, our 1a.s.'
our Light, our Life, we huc~6i,
seech Thee to hear and ar., pe'
the unspoken players Of our ne.aa
We do not know how to ask Tsss
but we do know that Thou c c:se
meet every unuttered need NJ a ~.
lives. We simply kneeI 5et w
Thee as suppliants, ertre o.o'e
Thee to bestoW upon US n7or a,''-
Thine all-sufficient Self Saw "
from all sef-centeredness "
smallness in these testing 4irs a.'
May our personalities and our sosS
ice expand with the growing no e,r
OF the war. Tinge all our en5n.
ance and our striving with III. W.,
of Thine own sacrifice. Helm u, ~
help Thee speed victory for g "
right and peace for all rsrkir -.e
Amen.-W. T. E. '''O'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
Bv ERNIE PYLE

IN ITALY, -by wireless)-Ita-
liam trains are running again, and
they have some electric trains out
Of Naples that are as modern as
ours at home.
But no transportation here is
back to prewar proportions, and
everything is packed with masses
of humanity. People ride on top OF
the cars and hang all over the
sides.
The funniest thing about this to
me is that whenever a train ap-
breaches a tunnel it stops in order
to let the hangers on get off, SO
they won't be raked off by the
tunnel walls.
One of the items on the Naples
market these days is American Ar
my Grafton. Where the black mar
ket gets them I don't know, but a
can of c. ration meat-and-vegeta-
BILE hash sells for Is cents.
An Italian housewife whom !
know slightly bought three cans OF
C-rataion hash the other day. But
when she got home she discovered
she had been hoodwinked, for the
cans were filled with sand.
Some smart oprator had simply
gathered up a batch of empty cans
and lids, put sand in the cans, and
then neatly crimped the lid back
on.
At the entrance to one air field
which 1 visit occasionally, a rag
ged Italian woman sits on the
ground selling apples, hazelnuts
and English walnuts to the sol
diers.
These roadside merchants prefer
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
Scaffolding Removed
From Courthouse Clock

Wilmingtonians were relieved
Thursday morning to lookward up
ward and find that the veil has
been removed from the face OF
the courthouse clock.
The half-a-centruy old timepiece
has been hidden for several weeks
by scaffolding erected by repair
men working on the cornices and
roofing of the tower.
The edge Of the clock has been
painted, and the woodwork sur.
rounding has been painted fur.
nishing contrast to the remainder
of the woodwork on the building.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-17
Interpreting
The War
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

!
New and grave portents of Nazi
disaster in southern Russia calcu.
lated to turn the German retreat
to the Dniester into an utter rout
come in with every war bulletin
from Moscow to divert Anglo
American attention from the wal
scene in Italy.
There is growing evidence that
the wide Russian break through
across the central Bug River line
may have thrown the whole Nazi
retirement badly out of gear. A
Red army torrent is pouring
through a 60-mile-Wide gap in the
Bug line despite adverse weather
conditions and powerful Nazi de-
lenses. 1t has again cut the Odessa
Warsaw railroad and threatens a
new and vaster entrapment of Ger
man armies before the lesser Rus
sian moose in the Ingulets triangle
far to the southeast is pulled tight
to throttle Nazi elements in divi-
sion strength hopelessly caught in
its grip.
The central Bug break-through
as depicted from Moscow is the
gravest incident to date for the
Germans in this final phase Of the
battle of the Ukraine. Russian
spear heads driving southwestward
from the trans-Bug bulge are less
than 80 miles from the Dniester
River, once the Russian-Rum anian
boundary.
At Lyakhovo, just south of the
initial Russian smash across the
flooded Bug, Red forces are in
striking distance of Slobodka juno
ton on the now tWice-cut Odessa
Warsaw rail trunk. Its capture
would snap the single track east
west rail connection with Rumania
far in rear of the German col
lapsing right flank in the Ukraine.
The Russians found ample evil
dence west of the Bug that it had
heen prepared for die-hard Nazi
stand! The terrain was studded
with pill boxes and gun emplace-
ments and striped with wire en-
tanglements.
The ease with which the Rus
SLAMS went through indicates grow
ing confusion and dismay in Nazi
ranks. Hitler's troops have not on
ly been outnumbered and out :
fought on every battlefield since
Stalingrad. his generals have been
outguessed.
There is obvious peril of a great
err Nazi military disaster than Stall
ingrad taking shape now to war
rant Moscow press reports that the
whole central sector of the enemy
line in the south is ''in state
of collapse" 1t foretells early Rus.
sian entry into Bessarabia.
Bessarabia was the price of Ru-
manian alignment with the now
toppling Fascist war Axis Moscow
makes it wholly plain it is still
Russian soil in Russian eyes and
that the Russian invasion OF Ru'
mania will start only when the
Pruth River is reached.
Even now in the trans-Bug bulge
Russian forces are sweeping over
ground that would afford bomber
take-offs less than 300 miles flight
from Ploesti and it's oil pipe ane
refining installations. Even close,
are the Rumanian oil fields, on the
east flank of the Carpathian Noun
tains.
A shift in Russian air technique
to strategic blows at Rumaniar
rail and road hubs and, above all
at Rumanian oil targets is to be
expected.