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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
Seek Fire Bug
in Wake Of
Fatal Blaze
Score Injured;
OnieioIs Cite
Ineendiorism
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2

SAN FRANCISCO, March %
--@- Twenty-one -persons
were known dead and a score of
injured were in hospitals after
q blaze which Fire Chief Albert
j. Sullivan said undoubtedly
must have been of incendiary
origin" swept through the New
Amsterdam Hotel early today.
The three-story frame struc-
ture housed about 100 tenants
in its ~ rooms, firemen said
after talking to some of those
who escaped. Most of the ten
ants are shipyard and war in
dustry workers, police said.
The operator of the hotel,
woman, had not been located
several hours after the blaze
spread so quickly through the
two upper stories that police
men at the Southern District
Station, half block away, said
the entire building was in
flames when they rushed to the
street as the alarm was turned
in.
The fire broke out "too sud-
denly and swept through the no.
tel too quickly to have been of
ordinary origin" Fire Chief Sui
Ivan said.
Three other fires Of unknown
origin had been reported within
q radius of five blocks of the
hotel earlier on the night
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
7 Ordinances
Due for Action
Curfew, Censorship
Nay be Imposed

Two ordinances designed by
eivics group to regulate theatre
film and ban children from the
streets late at night, will be
placed before the City Commits
sion for action Wednesday night.
The so-called "curfew" and
film censorship" ordinances
have been under preparation for
several weeks.
Under the theatre regulations,
movie houses would be licensed,
and the quality of their films
decreed by q Public Relations
Director, whose judgment would
be guided by the list of movies
approved by the Detroit police
censor. The theatre would also
be forbidden to display immoral
or suggestive advertising, or Of
fer gifts or inducements such as
4 bank night" Children under
IL, when unaccompanied by re-
sponsible adults, would be re-
fused admission after 1880 pm,
under terms of the ordinance.
The curfew would affect chill
dren under the age of IA, who
could not be abroad after 10
pm, nightly (10:30 pm, Fri
days and Saturdays without
adult guardianship. The ordi-
nance provides punishment for
parents who permit their chill
dren to violate the code.
At q recent commission meet
ing, Mayor Donald r. Weston
dorf indicated he will recon-
mend that the two ordinances be
studied for q week or two, and
fully publicized, rather than
rushed through for immediate
passage, ~ emergency ordi-
nances are.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
Allied and jap
Columns Press
Fierte|y Ahead
StiIiweii's Forces
Tighten Net About
Jungle Trop
BY J. B. KRUGER
ASs0ciated Prssa Wap EAlA>,

BY J. B. KRUGER
Associated Press War Editor
The war in Burma's jungles
drew nearer to showdown TO-
day, with japanese and Allied
forces pressing determined, sep
arate offensives toward import.
ant supply facilities of their en-
envy.
NipponeSe troops revi lived
their threat to Imphal Is miles
inside the border of India. The
enemy here was fiercely attack
ing Allied forces in the Ukhrul
area 80 miles above Imphal.
This position also put the Japs-
nese about the same distance
from kohima, toward which,
the Southeast Asia Command
reported, the enemy was push
ing another spearhead.
Kohima lies across the Maya
hills from the Assam rail line
which helps supplies the Allies
in Northern Burma.
CLOSE TRAP
American and Chinese fight.
ers under 1t. Gen. Joseph Still
wells CO mmand meanwhile
squeezed the enemy tighter into
trap near Myitkyina, main
japanese strongpoint north Of
the Burma Road. The other side
of the trap consisted Of Amesi-
can and Chinese marauders UNI
der Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill.
The enemy was caught between
Shaduzup, held by Merrill and
Hkawnglaw Hka (river), con-
trolled by Stilwell. four miles
north.
The important Myitkyina base
was still about "A miles out Of
Allied reach, but behind the
Japanese at that base was q
third Allied force composed Of
British Air Commands.
On a third Burma front -
south of Imphal-Allied troops
wiped out many japanese and
one of their roadblocks ut It'd.
dim.
In the water reaches Of the
Pacific the war took clearer 70.
Gus: The Japanese took ever.
See BURMA-Page Z
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
Trailer Camp
Ban Extended
But 0rdinones
Now Covers Problems

ST. CLAIR SHORES-Recent
adoption of a st. Clair Shores
village ordinance re strictine
hotels and rooming places and
requiring a license for such plac.
requiring license for such
places, coupled with Circuit
Court action Monday in contin-
uing q restraining injunction
against the Moonlight Tourist
Camp, 217l5 Harper, has elimi.
mated the promiscuous over.
night cabin nuisance for al
time. Village Attorney George
Francis said this week.
Circuit Judge Alton H. Noe
in court continued the injune.
ton imposed eight weeks ago on
Paul Schram mad Remi Lagae.
See CAMP-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
Pupil, "A, Strikes
Teacher with Fist

A 14-year-old youth was sus-
pended from Mount Clemens
high school today by Principal
Monte McFarlane, who this aft
ernoon will sign petition in
Probate court charging assault
on a public school teacher.
According 10 McFarlane, the
boy was asked by his teacher to
change his seat in a classroom.
On his refusal to do SO, the
teacher, Mrs. Marion Richards,
of 40 Riverside Drive, Mount
See PUPIL-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
|Nozis Shell
S.HospitoI;
Five Killed

NAPLES, March % - Up
Five soldiers were killed and IL
wounded Sunday when some 80
German shells fell in an Ameri-
can hospital area on the Anzio
Beachhead, 1t was learned to-
day.
The five soldiers all were pa
tients.
Stars and Stripes said that
the casualties brought to 33 the
number of American hospital
patients killed by shells and
bombs on the Beachhead, and
that IA have been wounded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
False Alarms
Precede
the Big Push
By JOHN NJ. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON, March %
(P)-The invasion filters are
just beginning.
From here on there will be
false alarms, feints and dress
rehearsals" by the Anglo Ameri-
can High Command and phony
reports and rumors put out by
the Germans. This will con-
tinue until the smartest decept-
ionists on both sides of the Eng
lish Channel have exhausted
their bags of tricks in the great
See INVASION-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28

To anyone who questions
whether en- in the armed forces
are interested solely in war ac-
tivities, and don't care whether
they vote or not, County Clerk
Guy l.. Brown will set them
straight by showing some $50
applications for fall election ball
lots already received from Ma
comb County men in uniform.
The ballot requests are sent
from army camps to tie Secre-
tary of States office, and then
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
SOLDIERS VOTE.CONSCIOUS
$50 Ask for Ballots

forwarded to individual coun-
ties throughout the state. Ma
comb County's pile Of applica-
tions is being enlarged daily,
and Brown states that . special
mailing list will be made up
shortly to aid soldiers wishing
to vote in the fall.
Rugged American indepen-
dence is expressed In the appli-
cation blanks filled in by SOL
diers. Two types of blanks, sp.
See YOTES-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28

LONDON, March 28-(P-
The Berlin radio said today
that Russian troops had at
tempted to storm the town Of
Iasi, indicating that the Red
Army had crossed the Prut
river border of Rumania.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
DR.. o. e. Fluemer
Seriously Ill

The condition Of DR.. Oswald
G. Fluemer, well known Mount
Clemens physician, was report
ed Is serious ut st. Joseph's
Hospital today.
DR.. Fluemer was removed
from his home to the hospital
shortly before midnight Monday
when he suffered q sudden COL
lapse. DR.. A. A. Thompson is at
tending.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
Russian Guns
Menace Capital
Of butovina
Straightforward
Attack Rolls
On Unchecked
BY HENRY C. CASSIDY

MOSCOW, March % -R)-
Russian troops have driven to
within two and one-haf miles
of Czernowitz, capital of the
pre-war Rumanian province of
Bucovina, field dispatches de-
clared today, while further to
the south they have captured
the Prut River town of Skuly-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28
Il Killed i'm Mysterious Frisco Hotel Fire
oof-Suifers
7errorize Area
Officers Seek to Link
Brawl Death to hoodlums

A number of injury cases af-
ter beatings have been officially
linked with the youthful bands,
Investigators state, and five or
See HOODLUMS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28

George Hart, a bottle collec-
tor, came upon the body shortly
after 8 am. 1t lay face up, about
100 yards north of Warren ave-
See MURDER-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28

DRY ONIONS ..... ; lbs. &c
H. A. Smith Warehouse Mkt.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28

Impartial cevessss
Of All Local News
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-11
Norman Thomas on PAC
And HiIImon...

In an open letter to Sidney EiIman, S. P. presidential candidate
Norman Thomas called the CLIO Political Action Committee (PAC) "a
company union in politics :. its tactics have delayed rather than ad-
yanced intelligent labor action in the political field" Thomas assaled
the attacks On PAC made by the Republican IS unfair, and defended
abor participation in politics, but told Hillman he has become zone of
ne motley crew of bosses who control that extraordinary cong1omera-
ion of northern city political machines and southern bourbons, known
rs the Democratic Party"
The Socialist leader termed Harry Truman a "protege of the con
Vt oossP endergast" He deplored the influence of the Communists in
PAC, because they have NJ principles except a desire for power" The
PAC, he commented, is less advanced than the AFL political committee
IN lat me ALL crosses party lines to endorse its friends while the
AZ endorses only Democrats, including some reactiona1-es. Inc PAC
undemocrauc-Its meetings do not formulate policy but execute
plans dictated by Hillman. While contributions are voluntary" CIO
members feel that lit would be unhealthy" not to support PAC.
Norman Thomas criticized the CLIO cynism that leads to printing a
picture OF the Chicago massacre of 1887, where workers were victims
of Mayor Kenys police, as if it had happened under a Republican Ad-
ministration"
Inc PRESIDENT, with your approval is preparing the way for future
va by underwriting. the Balkanization of Europe and the main
tenance of the French, Dutch, and British Empires" the Socialist can
jidate declares.
You nave a rare opportunity to start effective organization of the
workers. Q n O some new political realignment based on prn-
elpes Youcould have helped pave the way for an American equivalent
TO that promising organization of all progressves, backed by the most
enhghtened sections u. the farmers and industrial workers, the Cana
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation" The New Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-11
Us Dewey Pooling
Anybody"

We placed quotation marks around the title of this editorial be-
cause We swiped it from IN exchange.
And or answer is Eyes and no"
Dewey isn't fooing anybody who believes him when he says that
the workers of America have been hog-ted and shanjacketed in a
manner to a degree first noted in nations that make no claim to being
democraces He isn't fooing anybody when he says that workers
must go, hand in hand, to bureaucrats in Washington for favors.
But Dewey is fooling whoever believes that things will be different
under Dewey. =
We wish w could make every American understand that whether
a Democrat or a Republican occupies the White House next year there
will be no letup on the controls that have been imposed upon us all.
The fact is that the capitalist economy can't function at all as a
free institution. 1t has been preserved by the controls that Roosevelt
and the Democrats set up. 1t will continue to be preserved in the same
way = if at all - n 10 matter who is to preserve it.
new controls. With us it is WHO is to do the controlling :. and WHY?
If the American people organize to plan and control economic pro-
ceSSeS -.
And if the purpose of such controls is social welfare instead of
private profit
Then controls over things will result in a greater and a higher
freedom for the people.
If, however, political representatives of the owning class continue
TO do the controlling -.
And if the purpose of such controls is to exploit workers for the
profit of a super class -.
Then people, Is well as things, will have to submit to the controls
about which Dewey talks.
Dewey is fooling people when he talks as though people could
possibly be free under a postwar class economy.
And so is MISUNDERSTANDING Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-11
LocoIism in Social
Insurance

Approval of social security comes late, very late, from the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States. But at least the principle of pro-
viding "a minimum layer of basic protection against the major eco
nomic hazards of life" has now been endorsed by the nations leading
businessmen. The Chamber proposes extension of social insurance to
groups not now covered, and privately financed medical benefits, with
public action if that fails.
Given acceptance of the security principle, the question of state or
federal sponsorship becomes largely one of mechanics. Which form of
administration will best attain the goal? The Chamber, still honing
for a dead past, demands that state and local governments I'll the pro
gram. 1t demands, in other words, unequal rather than uniform bene-
fits; competition among the states to keep benefits at minimum levels;
a repetition in social insurance of our unsuccessful attempt to estab-
fish minimum wages by states.
The national economy is not built along state lines and social
security will be i'll adapted to its function if forced into n artificial
mold. AS economic hazards are national rather than local, the means Of
dealing with them must be national. One insurance system for one
people is the goal. - The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-11
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

Ex-Governor Talmadge of Geor-
gia evidently has some difficulty
in pronouncing such names as Sid
ney Hillman, James Loeb, Jr., and
Reinhold Niebuhr. In his weekly
newspaper, the Statesman ("Editor
The People; Associate Editor
Eugene T~almadge''), he lists the
members of the National Citizens
Political Action Committee, and
after each nom English name puts
a question such as Can you pro
nounce the above name and tell
where he is FROM" After DR.. Me
buhr's Enthusiastically German name
ne says, Il wish that I had a Rus
sian dictionary
By heck department: That old
scd-buster Louis Bromfield, the
food expert, is listed as a featured
speaker at the annual convention
of the Ohio State Realtors this
week. The announcement says his
1,500-acre farm is organized as
a cooperative in which the employ
ers share profits" The thing is OBJ
viously a typographical error, but
it's the kind that could happen
only to a Republican.
A pool of $4,000 citizens by the
Wichita, Kansas, Beacon showed
that three out of every five cid not
know the name of either candidate
for the Vice-Presidency.
Don't worry too much about the
familiar cry that corporate taxes
should be r~educed.in order to per-
nit accumulation of capital for
postwar production. The monthly
business letter of the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York says,
ON general, corporations have ex-
perienced an ~appreciable increase
in working capital during the
war;" which should serve to re-
duce the demands for investment
funds on the one hand and add to
the supply of funds seeking in
vestment on the other" q
Festung Europa: We do not
share ~the/racist views of Lord Van
s~ittart, but evidently the editor of
the Hamburger Fremdenblatt does.
Thus: IF they defeat us without
killing us all, they will only breed
a new generation of German fana-
tics-millions of boys of the Horst
Vessel type. 1t is quite clear that
u enemies want to destroy the
German idea of National Social
ism, but they will eve be able to
destroy it if they let any Germans
live"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-11
Let's Not Make This Big Blunder!
Peace-Time Compulsory Military Training Is Not Necessar,
Having Licked Hitler, We Shouldn't EMBRACE His Doctrin

An attempt is being made to stampede Congress into adopting peace
time compulsory military service. In other words, at the very hour
when we are about to destroy Hitler and the Japs, we are asked to
adopt a policy dear to the hearts If all totahtarian dictators.
LABOR can discuss this issue with great freedom, because this
paper has always advocated adequate preparedness. But we want the
KIND of preparedness which will make it impossible for foreign foes to
set their feet 0 n u soil, but will also make it possible for us to pre-
serve democracy, which after all, is most precious inheritance.
We have the most powerful fleet in the world. LABOR believes it
should be kept at that standard. We have a overwhelming air force.
most powerful air force in the world, and an army made up of we'll
attack is. That's plain commons sense.
incidentally, that is the position taken by the Railway Labor Ex-
ecutives' Association, as expressed at it's last meeting in Washington.
The American Federation of Labor is in substantial agreement.
Advocates of peace-time compulsory military service argue that
this war revealed that millions of our young men were unfit for military
service-some because they were illterate, some because of physical
defects. Military training, they insist, would remedy all this.
That is not a convincing argument. Give the American worker
adequate wages and he will see that his boys and girls get the food and
care needed to develop them physically and he will give them rop
educational opportunities.
Peace time compulsory military training is a substitute for q
wen-fined pay envelope every Saturday night.
Instead of urging peace-hme compulsory military training service
for u own country, we should insist that the evil thing be abolished in
all countries. Down through the centuries, CONSUMPTION of men for
military purposes has been the surest weapon of tyrants who wished
to wage war, because CONSUMPTION always gave them a army, ready
made, whenever they wished to use il.
In fighting autocracy, the most democratic of nations have some
times been compelled to resort to CONSUMPTION, but now that w have
autocracy flat on its back, w e should shun the things that have made
autocracy possible. Labor, Washington, Z. c.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-11
A Matter Of Wonder!

Uncle Sam an be a generous Uncle and n one can assail the
Oncles generosity toward big business so far IS postwar planning is
concerned. Everything is being done to see that business continues in
n orderly fashion to help economic recovery from any postw war
affects.
uncle Sam also passed the CT bill of rights, which will give
veterans all they need after the war to e that they r properly fitted
back into normal life.
But the men and women who make business possible, who kept the
sololers sailors and airnen supplied with everything they needed
to help win the war-these men and women are neglected, kicked
about and totally ignored.
The only bill before congress for the benefit of the common man
the bill which would give the home front soldier equal rights with the
Dig business and the returning veteran, was the KiIgore bill, and how
that bill was destroyed by a handful of wilIful congressman is already
too we'll known to be worthy of more mention.
Funny the diggers get the dirty end-aIways--The Progressive
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-11
VOL. xxx.
PAGING NTEA !

SEE a N. Y. Times news item co-ops in Brazil:
"A new cooperative law provides for the compulsory liquidation
Of company stores and the substitution of consumers co-ops The Coon
'aw grants full exemtion from all stamp, income, and property taxes
reduction IN transport charges and legal fees, and shortterm exemp-
ton o Federal taxes. To obviate failures, a cooperative credit fund
Of 15 million is being set up (by the govt. Revenue from co-ops taxes
and private deposits will be added to the initial capital
We ire somewhat dubious about that kind of paternaIsm building
sound, healthy co-operatives Contrary to the transformation peddled
by enemies, we in the U. S. Cooperative movement have never
asked o. special favors. All we want is a fair chance to show, in equal
competition, the excellence of u form of business. But neither will
we knuckle under to discriminatory legislation, such as Tie current
effort to get co-ops non-existent profits" taxed.
so go south, young Natl Tax Equality ASH, go SOUTH There Ben
McCabe and the other coop enemies could really yell about govern
mental favorism to co-operatives-The Cooperative Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-11

"Bill' Evjue, editor of the Cap
itol Times of Madison, Wis, gen
orally knows what he is talking
about. In a recent radio address,
he charged that the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers, is flirt-
ing with the leaders of "women'S
organizations" in Wisconsin and is
presumably doing the same thing
IN other parts of the country.
The idea is that panel discus
sions" viii be arranged and the N.
A. M. will explain its Economics
to the ladies without anyone from
the outside - such as leaders of
farm and labor organizations -
interrupting the debate.
Evjue points out that a similar
arrangement was made by the N.
a. M. with the Wisconsin Educa-
tional Association, made up Of
teachers and supervisory officials
in the schools of the state.
The N. A. M. spends more than a
million dollars a year on that kind
of propaganda. It's all very clever
and very vicious. In the long ago,
the N. A. M. spent most of its mo
ney fixing legislators, state and
federal. Now it seeks to attain its
detectives by poisoning public
thinking.-LABOR.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-11
IN NEXT ELECTION,
BRITISH LABOR PARTY
WILL FACE CRISIS

LONDON, Eng. - When Hitler
takes a nose-dive, there may be a
general election in England. 1t
should have been held long ago.
No Parliament is supposed to hold
on for more than five years. This
Parliament, controlled by the Con-
servatives, has extended its own
life from time to time. That kind
of thing can be done in England
because this country hasn't any
thing like Uncle Sans written
Constitution.
If Churchill DEGREES a general
election, what will the Labor Party
do? That question is being de-
bated wherever politically minded
citizens get together. For the
greater part of this war, the Labor
Party has been part of the coalition
government and several of it's lead
ers occupy high positions in the
cabinet, including Minister of La
Dor.
Left to themselves, these leaders
would probably be content to rock
along as members of a coalition
government, but most of the mem
bers of the party don't see it that
way. They take the position that
the Labor Party must fight as an
independent party or sacrifice
practically all its influence.
Those leaders who are members
of the coalition government reply
that it is all very we'll to talk that