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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
BY HARRY T. MONTGOMERY

OTTAWA, Dec. l - up -
Canada's CONSUMPTION crisis
cooled off today as discipline
was declared restored among re-
bellious draftee troops on the
West Coast and an appeal for
calm went out TO the people of
Quebec from one of their fore
most anti-conscriptionist lead
ers.
In Quebec, however, it was
announced last night that the
Provincial govern m ent had
adopted an order-in-council ask
ing the Federal government ito
respect and fulfill its solemn en-
gagements and sacred pledges
against CONSUMPTION for overseas
service"
The order. forwarded TO
Prime Minister w. l.. MscKen-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01

of RoSeville, the state Fire Mar
Shal's Office and Prosecutor
Wilbur F. Held are these:
u-Ten mysterious fires broke
u out in three homes and four
garages on Packard avenue be-
tween Halloween and Nov. 6.
SD-Liee- detector tests given
- three witnesses have failed
TO produce convincing evidence
of the origin of the fires.
ga dangerous fire bug is
" loose in the community.
Today Prosecutor Held and
the Roseville officials planned
to query a key-witness who,
they hope, may be able to throw
new light upon the origin of
the fires. The name of the wit
ness was withheld by the Off
GERS pending the outcome of the
conference. Only known fact
concerning the individual is
that it is a woman who resides
in or near the area where the
strange conflagrations have
been reported.
The series of blazes began on
Halloween with a fire-run to the
home of Mrs. Edda Leach, 25l55
Packard avenue. The freight
erS, however, had hardly re-
turned 10 their station after ex-
tinguishing the flames when a
repeat-call from the same ad-
dress was recorded.
Thereafter, in quick succession
and with a mystifying variety
of repeat-calls, the department
answered eight more fire-calls
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01

were killed. The plane was IN
radio contact with Lockheed Air
Terminal, Burbank, shortly be-
fore the crash.
Some of the injured passen-
gers told reporters that the
plane lost altitude, began to jerk
and then crashed. after scraplng
along tree tops.
- The officials said that at first
1t was reported seven military
personnel on the plane were
killed in addition to the crew
members but that the pilot, and
co-pilot, because Of their uni
forms, were enormously reported
as military personnel.
TWA officials said the two
crew members killed were Capt.
j. p. Snowden, Burbank, Calf,
and First Officer T. l.. Bamberg-
err, Alameda, Calf. The plane
hostess, Donna Mari, of Burbank,
was taken to a hospital with a
leg fracture and other injuries.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Suicidal
FANATlCAL } APPS | OS E
$4,000 SOLDIERS
OFF lEYTE
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor

japanese commanders ruth
lessly sacrificing thousands Of
men and dozens of ships in an
effort to halt American recon
quest Of the Philippines gam
bled and lost another convoy TO
dive-bombing American fight
ers which have wiped out AZ
ships and $4,000 soldiers trying
to reach Leyte in seven conveys
The latest one-sided air-sea
battle in the Central Philippines
shooting gallery cost the hippo
nese four transports heavily
loaded with men" definitely
sunk, spilling 5000 into the sea
A medium sized freighter and
a destroyer were left in flames
by American filters releasing
their bombs al. masthead height.
The action occurred Thursday
in an engagement extending the
length OF the Central Philip
pine seas.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Ho|dup Gang
Asks New Trial
4 Lifers File
Notice Of Appeal

Four men convicted OF the
armed robbery of a Sterling
township tavern on Aug. 8, 1888,
and who are now serving life
terms at the Southern Michigan
State Prison, at Jackson, today
filed notice of appeal for new
trials with the Macomb county
circuit court.
The four, Forest Huff, Welton
Huff, Peter Wojdan and Leon
Coplipski, were sentenced to
spend the balance of their lives
in prison early in 1889 by the
then Circuit Judge Neil K. Reid,
of Mount Clemens, now justice
of the Michigan Supreme Court.
The men were found guilty of
having robbed a cafe known as
Farmer Jim's Ranch, located at
1905 Schoenherr road. Accord
ing to testimony offered in their
trials the men lined the patrons
up against the wall and robbed
them of watches, rings and cur
rency valued at more than ST.
900. They made their getaway
in a hail of rifle fire from gun
in the hands of James McMur-
ply, proprietor Of the tavern.
Notice of appeal for new trials
was filed with the court by Ar
thur willard, Warren township
attorney. Each of the four has
now served over five years in
prison for the offense.
The motion for new trials
frankly set forth that, if such are
granted d, the defendants are
hopeful that they may receive
lesser sentence
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
CENTERS ON linden
Even Free.Play
Pinball Games
Ruled Illegal

In a five to three decision
Thursday, the state supreme
court held that a pinball ma
chine is a gambling device even
if only free plays are awarded
10 lucky players.
The court refused to issue an
injunction sought by Guy Oats
man to prevent Port Huron and
st. Clair County law enforce
ment officials from seizing 90
such machines in that county.
The controlling opinion, writ
ten by Justice Neil E. Reid, Of
Mount Clemens, declared that
even an opportunity to have .
free play constituted a thing Of
value" as a prize and was. suf-
ficient TO bar the machines.
The opinion said the fact there
was no proof cash awards were
given did not remove the gamb-
ling character of the machines.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Vita|WafWokk
Held Up By
Labor Disputes
Three Factories
Feel lmpoct Of
Strike-Wove

DETROIT, Dec. l - (H) -
Spokesman for three companies
whose war plants have been hit
by strikes reported the situation
unchanged today as more than
10000 workers remained idle.
The Briggs Manufacturing
Company's Mack avenue plant,
employing $500 on all shifts,
was closed by a walkout yester-
day, day after operations ceas-
ed at the Graham Paige Motors
Corp. plant. A strike affecting
pro d NC o n of Superfortress
parts in the aircraft engine ai-
vision of Chrysler Corporation s
Dodge main plant also continued
into the third day.
A company spokesman attrib-
uted the Briggs dispute to the
reassignment of foremen to pro-
duction jobs because of employ
ment cutbacks, maintaining the
change had been made in con-
Torrance with its contract with
Local 212, United Automobile
Workers (CIO). Jess Ferrazza,
president of the local, contend
ed the reassigned foremen had
been given plant-wide seniority
rather than departmental sem
iority provided for in the con-
tract.
More than 5000 workers were
affected by the Graham-Paige
stoppage. The walkout followed
the discharge of % weldcrs who
the company said had stopped
work on the grounds that sem
iority rights were being violated
See STRIKES-Page 8
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WIlOlIunnil
DORSEY HALL B A TT | {
DESCRIBED BY
WITNESS

LOS ANGELES, Dec. / Up
Somebody almost whacked off
the end of screen actor Jon Hall S
nose but the question still before
the jury trying the Tommy Dor
seys and Allen Smiley for felon-
ious assault is one of those
"Whodunnit" mysteries.
Hall doesn't know. He doesn't
know whether somebody at that
now famous Aug. 5 party in the
bandleader's apartment used a
knife, a beer bottle. or what.
But something happened to
joins nose. 1t is encased in pur-
pie cellulose guarding the hand
iwork of a plastic surgeon who
See DORSEY-Page 2
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Propose Huge
Airport Grants
Over Two Millions
Sought in County

7. In recommendations made TO
Congress this week for postwar
airport planning in Michigan,
the Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration is urging appropriation of
S2,134,000 70 five or more air
port locations in Macomb Coun-
ty.
The proposals, according TO an
Associated Press dispatch, envis-
ion the expenditure of S22, l83,-
600 in Michigan for preparation
of land, paving, lighting, radio
and miscellaneous airport items,
The list includes the following
Macomb County allotments:
Mount Clemens: one project,
$64, 900; second project, no esti-
mate given;
Center Line: 81 100000;
Richmond: $4,000;
Utica: $4,000;
Fraser: $3O5, 900.
Although exact details regard
ing the planning and background
of the proposed airport scheme
are not known to many county
officials, it is recalled that p. K.
McW,ethy, chairman of the Ma
comb County Planning Commits
sion several months ago was
named by Floyd w. Rosso, sup
crvisors' chairman, as county
representative on Governor Kel-
ly's state postwar airport study
group.
This survey commission turn
cd results of its work over TO the
Civil Aeronautics AdminiStra-
ton, and the Macomb County
projects, it is presumed, include
their recommendations for this
area.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
'RoUkD-cLocK RAIDS LOOM
Bad News for Tokyo

Tokyo's radio, which has
slared heated threats at Yank
pilots, meanwhile kept the SUBJ
ject of the raids uppermost in its
broadcasts.
A speaker, Kichizo Karashi-
ma, last night broadcast to Nip
ponese soldiers at the fronts
that I'VE citizens Of Tokyo firm
ly pledge that we will hold out
to the end without letting you
down."
At Saipan. Vern Haugland,
Associated Press war CORES
pendent, substantiated japanese
reports that the night raid was
lengthy. He quoted filters as say
ing they swung over Tokyo Ell
Their singly or in groups for at
least three hours.
Regarding the experimental
See TOKY0-Page 5
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
BY the Associated Press

The future possibility of
round the-clock air assaults on
Tokyo was implied by pilots of
Superfortresses VINO reported on
their return TO Salpan after the
first experimental night raid
that:
The big bombers ranged over
Japan's sprawling metropolis
for at least three hours.
Precision instruments enab-
led the raiders 10 hit war in
dustries despite obscur | n G
clouds.
Anti-aircraft fire was light.
The raid Thursday night
(Tokyo time) was almost equal
in success 10 either of the two
previous daylight assaults al
though the raiding force was
much smaller.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
James R. limerick
Wounded in Action

Technician Fifth Class James
r. limerick, age 20, of Mount
Clemens, was seriously wounded
Nov. 10 while fighting in the
South Pacific with an infantry
unit, his family has been in
formed by the War Department.
limerick is the son of George
and the late, Mrs. limerick, and
formerly lived in Utica. He has
been overseas almost two years
and during that time was twice
hospitalized for malaria. A bro
Their. Percy limerick. was killed
in action earlier this year.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Corrcsidor Survivor
Visits Sister Here
Photo by Hillerest

sense Of that abused word.
He is Tech. Sergt. John Sty-
melSki, 26-year-old rifleman of
veteran American unit which
participated in that magnificent
last stand at Corregidor; one OF
the men who, fighting with
empty stomachs and dwindllng
ammunition looked in vain with
bloodshot eyes across the Pacific
for the relief that never came,
He was one of that band OF
weary, staggering, limping men
who surrendered to Jap brutal
ity: who endured the march into
hell and suffered living death
in japanese slavery for two
years and six months.
He was one of the infinitesi-
NAL few who lived through 1t
and escaped.
Scrgt. Stymelski has emerged
from a nightmare of horror into
the sunshine that is home:
America. He is back to the i'm
measurable thrill Of firesides
and loved ones; roast beef din
ners, fragrant tobacco, movies
and ice cold beer.
And from the men OF Bataan
and Corregidor, who must not be
Americas forgotten men, ne
brings one message:
81 was one of the last rifle
men left on the beaches Of
See SURVIVOR-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Los Angeles
Bound Plane
Falls 10 Earth
Is Injured Rushed
TO Hospitals
on West Coost

LOS ANGELES, Dec 1-(P)
Seven were killed and l6 in
jured when a Transcontinental
and Western Airlines passenger
plane en- route from San Fran
cisco crashed in a heavy fog as
it was nearing its destination at
Burbank early today. The plane
carried 20 passengers and three
crew members.
City Manager Walter Cooper
OF San Diego was among the
dead and Mayor Harley Knox
of the same city was severely
injured. The pilot and co-pilot
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Central Figure
inTeaPOtDoIlle
Scandal Dies

Ell PASO, Texas, Dec. l -
(P) - Albert B. Fall, 83, secre-
tary of the interior under the
Harding administration, died
here yesterday.
He was one of the central fig
ures in the Teapot Dome scandal
in the l920's.
Fall had been i'll for years.
He had been confined here in
William Beaumont General Hos
pital from 1885 TO 1888, and in
Hotl Dieu, Catholic hospital
where he died at $50 p. m.
eastern War Time) yesterday,
since 1912.
His physician, DR.. John Nor
riSon, was the only person at
his bedside when death came.
Fall was born in Frankfort,
Ky. He was prospector, ranch
hand, school teacher and attor-
ney at Las Cruces, N. M. He
was appointed secretary OF the
interior by President Harding
and executed leases TO public
oil lands which led TO prison
and loss of his wealth.
He granted a lease TO Harry
+. Sinclair on the oil reserve al
Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Inves-
legations followed, the lease was
invalidated, Fall was termed a
"faithless public officer" by
Justice Butler of the u. S. SUI
preme Court.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01

MyStified state, county and
municipal authorities tod y
probed deeper into a strange Sc
ries Of household fires that, for
more than week, terrified
residents of the $4,000 block on
Packard avenue in Roseville
and that has resulted, so far, in
a puzzling and contradictory
maze of clues.
Only solid facts confronting
Police Chief Walter Kimmerly
and Fire Chief Harold FlechSig,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
BY DESMOND ARNSBY

1t has been said that the only
real heroes of this war are the
men who will never come home.
With sincere respect to those
who have consecrated the ma
tons cause with their lives, we
are proud to report that a hero
has come home; a hero in every
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
TO, 600 Made Idle by Detroit War Plant Strike
SEVEN KILLED IN CRASH OF A|RL|NE|
Fire-BuSs Identity Yelled
i'm MI ystery: Hunt Continues

at the homes of Samuel Lippert,
25l20 Packard and of Elmo
Brown, 25l47 Packard, as we'll
as at garages at the rear of the
three residences. Most severe
damage was that at the Lippert
home where losses were esti-
mated at 81 400.
In some cases Prosecutor Held
said today, housewives would
hardly step from their dwellings
when looking back - they
See FIRE-BUG-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
REVOLT IS QUELLED
Draft Crisis COOIS

zie King, declared the Quebec
action reflected 1.-The opinion Of
the immense majority" of the
Provinces population.
Here in Ottawa Parliament
continued debate on Kings mo-
ton for confidence on his new
policy Of partial CONSUMPTION.
1t now appeared a vote would
not be taken until early next
week.
Mai. Gen. G.. r. Pearkes, chief
of the Pacific Command, re-
turned TO Vancouver yesterday
after visits 10 draftee Army
camps at Prince George and
Terrace. British Columbia, and
See CANADA-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Yanks Smash
Re|eni|ess|y
Toward Rhine
Americans Hack
Out Hord-Won
Coins in Germany
BY WILLIAM l.. RYAN

- sSSo w - AsSAS~S
Two American armies which
smashed through one battered
German village after another
hammered today on a 2O-mile
front along the Roer river at ap-
proaches to three key cities bar
ring the way to the Rhineland.
The fighting was described as
just as bloody and relentless as
that of the Argonne forest in the
last war. American planes
dashed furiously at German
troops concentrations, supply
lines and transport in support
of the ground forces.
Ninth Army doughboys who
drove through the charred vii.
lagos of Lindern, Flossdorf and
Roerdorf hurled Nazis back
across the Roer below Julich,
and placed Linnich, another key
Roer City, under $50, as the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Japs Now Gel Seven
Cioarets Each Day
By the Associated Press

The japanese now may buy
seven cigarets a day instead Of
six.
Nippon's Finance Ministry an
nounced the change today in a
domestic broadcast picked up by
the Federal Communications
Commission.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01

First Army to the South pounded
at the approaches to Duren, 20
miles southwest Of Cologne.
CENTERS ON linden
Fighting on the First Army
front centered at linden, astride
a road leading to Duren. six
miles to the southeast. The Ger
mans blew up two bridges over
the indie River, even as their
own troops continued to fight
before them. More than 5000
See YANKS-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01

(NO Michigan residents
were listed among the dead
and injured.)
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01

WITH u. S. SEVENTH
ARMY, Dec. 1 - up - The
Fifteenth Corps of the u. s.
Seventh Army broke through
the Germans main defenses
in the woods southwest Of
Haguenau today and battled
in the western outskirts Of
that strategic supply center.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01

Open every evening till 3 PM.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-11
NEW CAGE RULE NOW
 ppopOsED
Unlimited Substiiuiions Is Favored d-WouId Be
 Help 10 Players
By FRANK ECK AP Features Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.--Nat Hol- man, now in his 18th season as coach of City Colleges basketball tsarn, says there's nothing wrong with the game today but thinks a rule favoring unlimited substitu- tions" would do a lot for the boys playing on the collegiate courts.
 Tine game is much tougher than when ! played with the Celtics, says the genial mentor whose Bea- yer teams have won PFC games while losing 92 until this season.
 Eliminating the center jump has made it tough for the players. I would like to see the powers that be get together before the war ends and change the substitution rule. I'm in favor of unlimited substi- tutions.
 Now don't get me wrong l don't want to change the charac- ter of the game; it has speed today and that's what the fans want. I would just like to see that some of the strain on the players is eased bit"
 Nat has only six or seven capable men on his squad and there are many other coaches throughout the country in the same boat. But as the rules stand now, player may re-enter the game only twice.
 Why you would see even better basketball if restrictions on sub- stitutions were lifted Think what it would mean to rest one of your stars for a minute or two"
 Nat is of the opinion that many other coaches feel the same way about the rule but are hesitant to make the suggestion.
 The Professor should know There aren't many basketball courts in the country that he has missed dur ing his career as player and coach.
 Nat started out as a soccer coach but after two years of the sport he swung to basketball. AS member of the old New York Whirlwinds he
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-11
'. W. LINEUP
 HARD HIT BY
 NAVY RULES

SEATTLE. Feb. ll.--A Navy rul- ing knocked the University oI Washington basketball veterans out of tonight's basketball game witn Washington State leaving the load to the freshman dominated civilian team.
 Coach Hec Edmundson lost last years Husky letterman Al Aklns. The ruling was made by the lead of the Navy training program, that the only week nights the Navy trainees cap play will be on alter nate Fridays, the first and third or every month.
 The veterans are expected to be oa deck for the Saturday game. but that will probably be the last of the season, as the others are sched- uled to fall on Monday or Tuesday CT on the road, which the trainees were ruled out previously.
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AMERICAN LEGION ESSAY CONTEST TO
 BE CONDUCTED SOON

An essay contest, open to the sev- cnth and eighth grades and the Ugh school, will soon be sponsored here by the American Legion. A group of judges, composed of six faculty members, will determine the best five essays submitted, and turn them over to the sponsors for the final judging.
 Subject for the essays will be, ioneer Patterns for the Nation cf Tomorrow" and the themes are limited to 500 words.
 The American Legion officials E-re will submit the local winning e ay to the National Headquarters, cstmarked not later than midnight, May l, 1944.
 Awards to the department win ners will be set of World Book Encyclopedias, consisting of Is vol- tunes and gaide.
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once dropped in 28 out of 30 fouis that was in the days when one player on each club was permitted to do all the foul shooting--to beat the Celtics who hired him the Iol- lowing season.
 Nat. an assistant professor in the CCNY department of hygiene, loves balance on his teams and usually has five men on the floor who make it interesting for the opposition. Five times Nat has seen his teams miss perfect season record by one game
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-11
VETERAN COACH 5TAGG IGNORED;
 AWARDED TROPHY

STOCKTON, Calf, Feb. 1.-The National Football Writers Associa- tion trophy has been presented to veteran coach Alonzo A. Stagg of the College of the Pacific.
 The trophy is given annually to the person who contributes the most to football during the year.
 Last year, when the award was inaugurated, the trophy was pre- sented to It. Comdr. Tom Hamilton of the Navy for his efforts in de- veloping the Navy's football pro- gram.
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SONS OF NORWAY

Meets Saturday pm. Odd Eel lows Hall.
 JULIA RYAN adv. Secretary.
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TURN your old gold into value cash or trade ct Nueget Shop.
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MISCELLANEOUS

GUARANTEED Realistic Perma- nent, s6.5o. Paper Curls. $l up. Lola Beauty Shop. Phone POI 3s5 Decker Way. Effective June IS.
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 FURNISHED Room for gentleman in private home. Blue l65. 2 and 3 ROOM furnished cabins, oil stoves. 5l3A Willoughby. 4 ROOM furnished house, oil heat Phone Blue PTS after pm. PETERSON HOUSE on Third and Dixon, partly furnished, Inquire Juneau Paint Store. FOR RENT-Fur. Apts Easily kept warm. Winter rates $15 month Lights, water, Dishes. Also bath and use of Electric Washer and Wringer in Laundry room. Sea- view Apts.
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SAM BYRD E
 WINNER OF PRO
 AMATEUR EvENT

SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 11.-Sam Byrd, former Yankee baseballer, is double winner of the pro-amateur event preceding the Texas Open. Byrd played with three amateurs and fired a 68. and the two anna teur partners sliced seven strokes eff for the best ball total of 61. Byrd will collect $12250.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-11
JOE l 0Uls SOON GOING
 ACR0SS SEA

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. = The Army today announced that heavy weight champion Joe Louis will Rave soon for a series of boxing exhibitions to appear with troops overseas and the war theatres in operation