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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-02
FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH
]. n. Smucker, Pastor

$50 a. m. Church school, with class
es for everyone. Come and study
Gods Word.
1920 a m. Morning worship service.
DR.. j. H. Langenwalter, former in
structor in Blufton College will
preach.
6:30 The intermediate Christian En-
deavor.
7:30 The Junior Christian Endeavor.
1880 p. m. Evening worship. DR.. J.
H. Langenwalter will speak. Acts l.
10 will be the basis of the two services
with DR.. Langenwalter. Bring your
Bibles with you.
Thursday:
Both choirs will rehearse at 7:15.
Bible Study and Prayer meeting at
8:15 Come and share the blessings of
this hour. This service will conclude
the series of studies of Acts 1-10 by
Rev. Paul Shelly.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Chinese Re-Take
Key RaiIhead

CHUNGKING, Dec. 8-(P)-
Chinese field dispatches report
cd today that counterattacking
Chinese troops have recaptured
Tushan, important railroad town
IS miles southeast Of Kweiyang
IN Kweichow province.
There was no immediate con-
firmation from the Chinese High
Command, but earlier a special
communique announced that
Chinese troops had whitfield
down Japanese forces fleeing
southwark from Sanho, 81 miles
northeast of TuShan.
This war bulletin said the
Chinese, had pushed on II miles
after recapturing Sanho Thurs
day. Fleeing japanese troops
we're reported intercepted north
east of Lipo, 80 miles southeast
of Kwejyang, which is the CAPT.
tai of Kweichow and a Burma
road strongpoint.
The Chinese had expressed
hope that their counterassaults
See CHINA-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
CIVIC CHORUS PRESENTATION
|Yu|e Concert Set for Sunday

Selections from Handel 5
Messiah, Horizons Mother Goose
Suite and a special two-piano
arrangement of the Bach-Maier
"Siciliene" will delight Mount
Clemens music lovers Sunday al
the Methodist Church, where
they will be part of a program
presented by the Civic Chorus
under the direction of Lois V.
Harper, elementary music super
visor of public schools.
The concert will start at 43O
.. m, and all friends and patrons
o. the Chorus are invited TO be
present. The church building
has been provided through
courtesy of Rev. Alfred Landon.
Not only will Miss Harper
direct the Chorus in her inSpir-
ing manner we'll demonstrated
in past concerts, but she will also
offer a melodious organ back
ground 10 the dual piano music
Of Mrs. Delmar Wright, accom-
PIANIST and Mrs. Robert Eastman,
guest accompanist in the Bach
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Rocket Ship
No. II Rips Beach

ABOARD a ROCKET SHIP
AT ORMOC, LEYTE, Philip
pines, Dec. 7 -(Dclaycd) Up
Rocket Ship II, as lethal a
weapon for her size as any in
Uncle Sans Navy, pointed her
Stubby green prov toward the
japanese ashore and shook vio-
lently as streams Of rcd flame
swept back along both sides.
There was a crashing swish
unlike anything you ever heard
before as over two score rockets
flashed toward the beach. Here
was war at its dcadliest - for
the japanese.
Twelve times this little craft
shuddered as salvo after salvo
lcaped from their green steel
launchers. Twelve times streams
Of fire swept backward And
ashore an ammunition dump OK
ploded with a solid sheet Of
flame.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
GaIIants
Sale Of Bonds
Still Lack 100000
Of Reaching Goal

Mount Clemens Gallants of
the Sixth War Loan drive, Striv-
ing to add an. additional $4OO,-
600 in individual bond sales be-
fore Dec. 16, today went about
their patriotic task with vigor
and enthusiasm, inspired by
n SSages given them by two
overseas veterans at yesterday S
bond rally in the Medea ball
room.
They listed two stirring , ac-
counts of action, courage and
sacrifice-the blood, sweat and
tears" of War-given them by
Capt. Alex Restich, Is, veter-
an flier of 81 combat missions
IN the Mediterranean, and Sergt.
John Stymelski, 26, a hero of
Bataan who recently escaped aft
or two years and six months in
Japanese hands.
See BONDS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Collect Paper
i'm City Sunday

A two months accumulation
of wastepaper in this city, suf-
ficient to make many thousands
of cartons for the armed forces,
will be collected in the reSiden-
tial areas on Sunday commenc-
ing at 10 a. m, and in the bust
ness district Monday, unless
heavy snowfalls interfere, sal
wage officials announced today.
Boy Scouts will meet city
trucks at all precinct schools at
10 a. m, and will help load and
unload them as on previous
drives. Householders are asked
10 bundle their papers and mag
azines securely and keep them
covered or sheltered against
rain.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
GRASS SKIRTS AND NATIVE CHIEFS
A Pacific InferIude

AS boy in Mount Clemens,
Giles Hubbard played cops and
robbers like any other American
kid ADs often sat on the rivers
bank at his fathers home and
dreamed of adventure on the
seven seas: such magic as any
boy finds in Stevenson's TREAS
ure Island, with swashbuck-
ling mariners and native chief
tainS as the colorful dream char
acters.
Today, Capt. Giles Hubbard,
OF the United States Corps of En-
gincers, has realized those boy
hood dreams. even though it did
take a cruel and bloody war TO
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
New Warrant
Faces Lobbyist
in Graft Probe
Benton Horbor
Sports Promoter
Again Accused

LANSING, Dec. 8 - LP) -
The Carr grand jury today re-
indicted Floyd Fitzsimmons,
Benton Harbor lobbyist, charg-
ing him with offering a $500
bride to former State Rep Gail
Handy, Eau Claire Republican,
in the 194l session of the lcGis-
lature to influence his vote on a
bill regulating horse racing and
pari-mutuel betting.
The grand jury Saturday had
i n d ct ed Fitzsimmons with
Frank D. Mckay, Grand Rapids
politician, and State Rep. Will
liam Green, Hillman Republi-
can, on a charge of conspiracy
to corrupt the 1913 legislature
in connection with similar bill.
but today's warrant named Fitz-
simmons as the only defendant.
STIFF PENALTY
Special Prosecutor Kim Sigler
said the charge was based on evil
dence that Fitzsimmons had of
fered the bride in the chamber
of the House Of Representatives.
He said the offense of offer
ing a bride to a public official
is a felony punishable by four
years imprisonment. The con-
spiracy charge carries a maxi
mum Of five years in prison.
The 194l racing bill, like that
of 1943, sought to give the state
greater share Of horse racing
revenues and TO require install
lation of a special type of me-
See GRAFT-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Quake Tidal Wave Hit Japan:
Homes Inundated Foe Admits

a tidal wave inundated houses.
The Domei dispatch, inter-
copied by the Federal communi-
cations commission said:
The seismic center Of the
earthquake which hit the Tokyo
district yesterday afternoon was
in the sea Of EnShu.
The districts affected by the
earthquake include Hamamatsu,
Shizuoka, Nagano and their vi
entities, where some damage
was caused TO dwellings.
"In zuoka prefecture
(rouGhly rs miles southwest of
Tokyo) tidal waves caused some
houses TO be inundated. while in
Nagoya damage was slight, with
only window panes being brok-
en-.
In general, the damage was
slight with practically no dam
age caused TO our production
facilities" Domei said.
No mention was made of dam
age sustained by shipping. This
may we'll have been heavy.
An earlier broadcast by radio
Tokyo said that "a landslide on
a minor scale and the crumbling
Of cottages took place over a
limited area"
DomeiS Identification Of the
cities in which there was damage
indicated that the tremor had eff
fected not only the southeastern
coastal area but also had run in
a northcrnly diagonal to the city
Of Nagano on the west coast of
HonShu.
In addition to Nagano, the cit
les Of Shizuoka and Hamamatsu
on the southeast coast had suf-
fered some damage, according
TO Domci, which added that in
Nagoya of Japan's major
citics-"damage was slight with
only window panes being brok-
en-"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Jeanette Calls
NeWSbOyS Meet

An important pre-Christmas
meeting and election of officers
of the Goodfellow-Old Newsboys
will take place at the John r.
Murphy Hotel at us p. m,
Tuesday, it was announced to-
day by Goodfellows president
Frank f. Jeanette.
Election Of officers will be
held at that time and plans for
the newspaper sale and other
details of the 1914 program will
be completed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Surprise Yank
Landings Trap
Enemy Forces
l3-Ship Jop
Convoy Sent
to the Bottom
BY ELDON OTTENHEIMER

Associated Press War Editsr
More than $4,000 Japanese
soldiers faced destruction in the
Philippines today because an at
lacking American Amphibious
force beat reinforcing Japan
csc convoy into Nipponese-held
Ormoc Harbor on Leyte's west
coast. The Japanese force Of Is
ships, including seven destroyers
and an estimated 1000 troops,
was completely destroyed.
Japanese pilots, fighting with
tenacity, but carelessly, were
shot out of the skies like flies
by American fighter planes. Dap.
anese losses were 81 fighters
and bombers compared to five
Yank planes - the pilots Of
which were rescued.
TWO U. s. SHIPS LOST
A United States destroyer and
destroyer-transport were sunk
by American guns after they
had been disabled by japanese
planes.
In coordinated attack with
B24 Liberators, Lighting fighters
and warships. B29 Superfort-
resses hit Two Jima in the Bonins
yesterday, it was announced by
the Navy today. Shore install
lations were bombarded by the
surface ships while the planes
worked over them from above.
Tokyo also said American B.
29's were on the prowl over
their capital for the second sue.
cesive day. They dropped no
bombs, the japanese said.
WIPE OUT CHUTISTS
Gen. Douglas Macarthur to-
day confirmed that Japanesa
paratroopers had landed near
San Pablo, Leyte, but said that
all 200 had been killed after
doing some damage.
Troops of the 77th American
division, veterans of the Guam
invasion. spearheaded the Or.
moe attack. Their surprise move
severed the strong Yamashita
defense line. They landed three
miles south of the Port Of Ormoc
losses"
The forces Of Japanese Lieut..
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita are
now caught in two traps.
South of Ormoc one japanese
force is snarled in q six-mile
area between the advancing 77th
division and 7th division.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Charter Group
Nears Decision

City Charter Revision Com
miSsioners, who have been
studying an improved form of
government for Mount Clemens
since their election in July, this
week completed the first phase
of their survey when they an
nouncd themselves ready to vote
on the preferred system for
this city.
The vote will be binding only
on themselves and will serve as
guide TO revision Of the char
ter itself, the second phase OF
their study. When the entire
commission program is COM
pleted, it will have to be sub
See CHARTER-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08

Maier Offertory arrangement.
The complete program for
Sunday is as follows:
1. Selections from The Mes
siah", Handel.
A. And the Glory of the
Lord, Chorus.
B. There were Shepherds
Abiding in the Field, And
Lo, The Angel Of the Lord
came upon them, "And the
Angel said unto them, And
Suddenly there was with the
Angel, Mrs. c. II. r. Mac
Kenzie.
c. Glory to God, Chorus.
d. He Shall Feed His Flock"
Come Unto Him, Mrs. Ralph
Cuyler.
f. For Unto Us a Child is
Born, Chorus.
OFFERTORY
"Siciliene", Bach-Maier, Mrs.
Eastman and Mrs. Wright.
III. Mother Goose Suite, Horton.
See CONCERT-Page 2
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Charge Fitzsimmons Offered $500 Bride for Vote
PATTON RIPS GAP IN S|EGFR|ED LINE
Greek Terrorisfs
Blamed forOufbredk

at his challengers a demand for
a vote Of confidence in his gov
eminent.
Rising before the House OF
Commons after the spokesman
Of a laborite faction completed
a bliStering attack on British
actions in Greece, Churchill as
serted:
Here is a pretty direct issue
upon which the House will have
to pronounce before we sepa-
rate this evening"
Churchill declared he would
deal with the whole of this
question Of our intervention in
Europe where we have to inter-
vene by dealing with other
countries besides Greece"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Planes, Ships
Maui Bonins
B-29's Drop
Record Bomb Load

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -GPy
A sizeable task force OF BIO S
dropped record load OF
bombs" on Two lima, in the Jap
anese Bonin-Volcano Islands
yesterday.
The strike was in coordina-
ton with attacks by Navy sur
face ships and other aircraft in
an obvious effort 10 neutrallze
the air fields in the volcano Is
lands from which the Japanese
have launched raids on Saipan.
The Japanese base is $50 miles
north of the SupcrtortreSs base
at Saipan.
Informally, the Goth A r
Force announcement explained
that the record load of bombs
meant that it was the biggest
tonnage per plane dropped so
far by any B29 on any raid.
Bombing was done through
heavy clouds without interfer-
cnce from either Japanese Fight
crs or anti-aircrait, 1t was an
nounced.
The text of Goth Air Force
communique No. so:
"A sizcablc task force Of Sup
crfortrcSscs from Brig. Gen. II.
S. Hanscll's 2lSt bomber COM
mand today struck heavily at
Japanese military installations
on the island Of Two Jima.
The BIOS dropped a record
See BONINS-Pagf .
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Athens Fighting
Drops Sharply

ATHENS, Dec. 8 - tAP) -
Fighting continued on much
reduced scale in Athens today
as Greek Leftist resistance faded
before British patrols spreading
out from the center of the city
in a steady rain.
Shippers were reported giving
considerable trouble in some
residential quarters. however,
and occasional bullets still whip
ped over the former royal pal
ace in Constitution Square,
where Greek civil police were
holding rooftop positions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08

LONDON, Dec. 8 - (PD -
Prime Minister Churchill said
tod-v the British had acted in
Greece to keep gangsters out Of
power and had interviewed in
Italy because they did not trust
Count Carlo Sforza.
In heated House of Commons
debate, Churchill denied his
government had broken any
Joint agreements with the United
States on Italy, and flung back
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Big Guns Maui
Smoking City
Of Saarbru(ken
Infontry Broaden
Hold Across the
Soar Valley
By JAMES NJ. LONG

PARIS, Dec. 8-(P9-Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton, Jr., hammer
ed home his attack today mile
and half into the Siegfried
Line and eight miles deep in
Germany's Saar Valley while his
Third Army Long Toms and
HoWitzers ripped to pieces its
capital of Saarbrucken from
three miles or so away.
The campaign was a month old
today and already had invali-
dated the rich coal region which
supplies the German Army with
ten per cent of its iron and steel.
Infantry broadcncd their foot
hold across the Saar, merging
three original crossings into two
strong bridgcheads at Saarlaut-
crn and Dillingen along stretch
where the whole East bank Is
built solidly with one little war
industry steel town after anoth-
er. A cavalry squadron extend
ed its lines inside Forbach' Gl,-
5000, French rail town 3 Il
miles southwest of Saarbrucken.
FATE OF AACHEN
Saarbrucken, Saar capital of
1876, 900, was suffering the fate
of the ghost city of Aachen. For
the ninth consecutive day, Third
Army loss and 1855 deluged its
forests of factory chimneys with
high explosives.
Texans Of the Goth Infantry
penetrated the Siegfried line
most deeply, three miles north
of Saarlautern. The defense
zone, however, is thick.
Already the great blast fur
naces of Dillingcn, Volklingen,
Neunkirchcn and-moSt of all
of SaarbruckCn, now are as
good as useless TO Germany.
They drew their iron ore almost
entirely from French Lorraine,
which now is virtually COM
plete in Allied hands.
There were continued evil
dences of German withdrawal
on both vital flanks, along the
Upper Rhine and the middle
Roer opposite Cologne.
To the north, the Germans
again cloaked their movements
on the East bank Of the Roer
with smokescreens on the US.
9th Army Front. First Army pa
trolls pushed to the bank of the
flooded Roer beyond the Hurt
gen Forest village of Bergstein,
FIGHTERS GROUNDED
The weather was so bad that
night fighters were grounded.
The typical pillbox encount-
cred in the Siegfrled line along
the Western fringes of Dillingen
and 10 the north is manned by
a dozen men. One is machine
gunner, firing from within thick
concrete walls. Rlflemen and
bazooka crews fire from trench
es outside the pillDox and retir-
ed to its shelter only during ar
tillery Smelling.
These pillboxes are placed to
give the enemy interlocking
fields of fire. They have to be
taken largely in darkness.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08

British
u. s. Aces
By the Associated Press

Major Richard /. Bong, %, OF
Poplar, Wis, now ranks first
among all British and Ameri-
can air aces of World War H.,
but the Russians claim title to
the Ace of aces of this war.
Bong, who knocked down his
9th and 38th japanese planes
in a fierce air battle over Leyte
in the Philippines, has outdis-
tanced the leading Raj con-
tender, Wing Commander j.. E
See ACE-Page 2
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BY The Associated Press

Radio Tokyo admitted today
that the earthquake yesterday
caused a tidal wave which COW
cred houses with water, started
a landslide and damaged build
ingS.
After almost a day Of denialS
Of major damage, the Japanese
News Agency Domei admitted
that Tokyo was shaken and that
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Pearl Harbo1 Raid
in Reverse MARKS Dee. ]

". S. TENTH AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS, MYTTKY.
INA, Burma, Dec. 2 - Delay.
ed) - up = The Fighting Crow
Squadron based in Burma had .
revenge Pearl Harbor party
all its own today, dropping 20
tons of bombs in q l0-hour
shuttle raid on the japanese
supply base Of Male, Is miles
north of Mandalay.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Churchill
HeckIes
HeckIers

LONDON, Dec. 8-(PD-Win-
ston Churchill, one Of history S
greatest orators, obviously en-
joycd himself today in his for
eign policy speech, heckling his
hccklers, swapping oral punches
and splicing solemn declarations
with touches of humor.
Only once did he seem angry
See CHURCHILL-Page 2
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transform them TO flesh and
blood.
He writes home describing q
real visit TO a real Pacific island,
complete with grand old chief;
graSS-skirted dancers; warriors
in war paint and feasting which
only man of stout physique
could endure.
HEARTY FEASTING
For breakfast we had chick
en- croquets, a small wild pig,
more fish, corn flakes, pineap-
pie fried in butter, coffee and
See HUBBARD-Page Q
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He, was answering laborite
demands that he give assurances
British troops would not be used
to disarm friends of democ-
racy."
Cheers - and some counter
cheers in the clearly divided
See COMMONS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Russo Americon Club
Denies Auers Custer

HOLLYWOOD, Dec 8 -- OPl -
The Russian American Club OF
Los Angeles says MiSCha Aucr,
Russian born film comic, was
not 'ousted from the organiza-
ton because of political differ
ences, as ne had asserted, but
only deprived of his office as
vice president.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-08
Deny Reports Sponish
Government Hos Quit

PARIS, Dec. 8 - up The
Spanish envoy categorically de-
MED reports published in the
Paris newspaper Liberation that
all or some members of the gov.
Iernment of Generalissimo Fran
co had resigned.
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HALLMARK Cards Imprinted
2i-Hour Service - 25 for $3.50
Standard Office, 81 MacOrrh 81,
ADV.
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LONDON, Dec. 8 - (F) -
The House of Commons gave
the Churchill government
vote of confidence today.
The vote was 279 to 80.
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Open every evening till 9 PM
Priehs Mercantile-Adv.
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Open every evening till 9 PM.
Priehs Mercantile-Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-06
Home Ru|eGoes
On Fall Ballot

The people OF Wayne County
achieved their first goal in the
current movement TO obtain a
charter form of government to-
day with an announcement by the
Citizens Committee on Home
Rule that the required number Of
intiatory petitions had been re-
ceived.
Thus. the home rule amend
ment is assured Of getting on the
November ballot.
The committee announced that
10000 signatures are ready for
filing with the secretary of state,
approximately 10 per cent more
than the $4,000 required.
More than 1000 persons. work
ing in every county of the state
obtained the signatures.
The committee announced that
its next step would be campaign
in outstate counties 10 educate
voters 10 the advantages of home
rule in Wayne County for all the
people in Michigan The move
ment is designed 10 stneamline
and modernize the county's arch
aic and outworn governmental
Setup
-Nhec ma Yos Last RaY q Rond'-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-06
Sedition Trial
Lawyer Barred

WASHINGTON, July 6 ms
Chief Justice Eicher barred one
defense attorney from further
participation in the governments
mass sedition trial, and declined
TO allow another TO withdraw
from the case on his own volition.
James J. Laughlin. the dismissed
lawyer, had requested the justice S
impeachment, charging in petit
ton to Speaker of the House Ray
burn, that Eicher used his office
for political purposes"
At the same time, the justice
ordered that Attorney Henry H.
Klein, absent and reported by his
client, Eugene Sanctuary, to feel
that he cannot conduct an ade-
quate defense under the courts
rulings" to be present in court
today
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-06
Honest Cash
Boy, 10. Finds Purse;
He's $50 Richer

Ten-year-old Leonard Dunn of
1863 Aubin. East Windsor, today
has cold cash to prove 10 his play
mates that honesty IS the best
policy.
Returning from fishing. Leon
ard was sitting on the back seat
of a Windsor bus. diSconsolately
holding three small perch, when
he saw a wallet on the seat. In
it was S252.
He took it home 10 his father,
who called the owner identified
from papers in the wallet.
When Murray Saithorne Of 1882
Elrose called 10 pick up the wal
let he gave Leonard $50.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-06
Gravel PIT Suit
Won by State

The sovereign right Of the state
over city ordinances prohibiting
nuisances was termed outrageous
today by Circuit Judge O'Hara
who was forced. 10 deny an injunc-
ton restraining the highway de-
partment from digging gravel a.
Pembroke and Meyers
The state can move buildings
on Woodward avenue and pros
pect for gravel" Judge O'Hara
said. "If there were any legal
way To stop this outrage,
would do 80 Immediately hut,
under the law, l am powerless
tn act"
The suit was brought by resi-
dents ri the neighborhood who
= declared the gravel PIT ..aF-tiF,-
slightly hole. a nuisance. mos
quito breeder and a menace 10 the
safety OF children
The state argued that itS SOW
efeign right was superior 10 that
~ the city. that the contract with
the property owners was Legal
and the gravel was essential for
the Willow Run Express Highway