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The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29
Pastor Wood
 Is Killed In
 Plane Crash

Pastor H. b. Wood, superinteu- of the Seventh Day Adventist church in Alaska, was killed at Ka- saan bay, Salt Chuck. at 12:57 Sat urday afternoon when his plane crashed in landing.
 The plane, a three-Dlace Fair child, which Pastor Wood had flown approximately 30,0O0 miles in Alaska mission work during the past three years, erasued into about 30 feet of water a few hundred feet offshore after the pilot. a veteran airman and navigator, apparently suffered a heaIt attack as he came in to land.
 Griffin. Eric Lindenman and other employees of nearby Griffen' 8 camp saw the plane fall off to the left, then dive into the water. It leveled off once as though Mr. Wood had regained control. but fell into the water hitting on the left wing and pontoon. then nosing over.
 Pastor Wood had been in good health, although very tired from overwork lately. He recently com pleted a long flight to western AL aska, and visited Wrangell on his way back to his headquarters in Juneau. Pastor Wood was 54 years of age.
 Survivors include Mr Woods wife in Juneau, his mother, Mrs L. Woods of San Luis Obispo, Calif.; daughters Mrs G. Lee Stagg of Ketchikan; Wanda Smith and Vir- ginia House, of Eugene, Oregon: sister, Mrs. c. R. Easter, of Cali fornia, and brothers. Fay Woods and Quinton Woods. Funeral serv- ices were to be held this weekend in Ketchikan.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29
MADE FOR POST
 WAR REC0NVERSI0P

In a press conference last week, WIPE Acting Chairman J. A. Krug declared Our plans are promised on going ahead full blast with war production as long as there is need for war production. and at the same time have enough feasibility so that We can swing our resources into peaeetime production, produc- tion of civilian goods. when the military situation permits Under PR 25 We have the mechanics and the flexibility to deal with local situations as they develop between now and the time of those very large cutbaeks that will come when Germany collapses."
 In a move to expedite reconver- sion under the spot plan" the War Production Boards Require ments Committee allotted 100000 tons of carbon steel and 25,0OO tons of alloy steel for distribution to manufacturers Of civilian goods during the fourth quarter of this year.
 Use of more aluminium in all types of production was urged by WIPE officials. The output of alu-I minum today, due to wartime facil-0 ities expansion, remains many times greater than peacetime production, despite recent curtailment
 In preparation for X-Day, WIPE. has established a policy to permit gold mining firms to obtain such materials and equipment as will enable them to rehabilitate proper-I ties and machinery and make the mines available for immediate oper-I ltion when controls are relaxed.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29

the largest manufacturers of avla- tiou fuels in the world The com- pIetion Of this expanded govern ment-owned project will further i'm crease their aviation fuel capacity by a substantial amount.
 The company's Richmond refiu- cry war production has won its employees a fourth Army-Nayy E award.
 Standard is supplying loo per cent of the aviation gasoline and lubricant requirements of the Boe- ing Aircraft company at Seattle production headquarters of the new B-29 superforuess bombers.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29
MAINTENANCE OF
 HAYNES ROAD URGED

Wilbur Webster, secretary of the Alaska Arterial Highway associa- Gion, writes from Juneau, asking publication of a letter written by Walter R. Farmer. Webster says while in Seattle he found enthusi- astic support from Foster McGovern and Jack Underwood and others for the support of the Haines roadway from Haines to Fairbanks and for the Delegate Dimond bill in Con gress to get the Federal Highway act extended to Alaska.
 The following extracts are taken from the Farmer letter:
 Before being reinstated in the army a short time ago, I operated a
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29

There are 2.5OO species of spOnges.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29
SALVATION ARMY
 OFFICIAL HERE
 FROM PETERSBURG

It. Albert Longden of the Sal VatiOn Army in Petersburg, arrived on the North Sea for a brief visit with officials of the organization here.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29

store door at a great saving in shipping time and price.
 The construction of a road to Seward would also prove detrimen- tal 10 the railroad.
 Getting back to Haiues, tourists could ship their cars via boat to that point for a very small sum in peace time. After all. we are inter esled in having people spend money in Alaska, not Canada.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29

Give to the National War Fund
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29
ARMY-NAVY E AWARDED EMPLOYEES
 OF STANDARD OF CAL.

The Standard Oil company an nounces that the construction of a hew 10O-oetane plant at their Richmond refinery is progressing rapidly. and that the two main units will be completed in Septem- Der and October. The final unit. the towering Thermofor Catalytic structure. will be complet- ed by mid-Noyember.
 Standard of California is one of
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-29
NOTICE

Dr. R. N. Hester. eye, ear. nose and throat specialize, expects to be in Wrangell for a few days the last week in September He will be at Wrangell hotel Make your appoint ments early. adv
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Attempted
Attack Nets
Stiff Term

Pvt. Thomas B. Wells, of Bon
ham, Tex, convicted by gen
eral court martial at Selfridge
Field on charges of attempted
rape, today was under sentence
Of two years confinement at
hard labor, forfeiture of all pay
and allowances and dishonor-
able discharge, Col. Bradford A.
Shaw, commanding officer, an
nounced this morning.
The offense, which occurred
Sept. 16, was against a 24-year-
old woman, the wife Of a serv-
iceman on overseas duty, police
reports reveal.
The soldier was trapped by
loss of crystal from his watch
and his army cap during the
scuffle with his intended victim.
He fled when the young woman
screamed attracting the atten-
ton of neighbors, officers said.
The case will automatically
be reviewed by higher military
authorities, Col. Shaw indicated.
Nicholas Salowitch, of Detroit,
served as civilian counsel for
the accused soldier while Capt.
Kenneth w. Crawford, of Self
See SENTENCE-Page 8
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Spanish Revolt
Is Reported
Fighting Flares
in Northern Spain

LONDON, Oct. 5-(P) - The
de Gaulle sponsored Toulouse
radio said early today that
guerrilla fighting has broken
out in northern Spain and that
the French-Spanish frontier at
Andorra had been closed by
Spanish authorities.
The broadcast, heard in Lon
don by the ministry of informa-
ton, did not elaborate on the
factions engaged in the fighting.
Meanwhile the Madrid radio
quoted the Falangist newspaper
Arriba as declaring that Spain
could mot look with indiffer-
ence" on the political situation
in southern France, where it said
"a minefield of politics" devel-
oped after the areas liberation
from German occupation.
The situation, which reported
ly worries the Spanish govern
ment, is regarded by American
officials as more fantastic than
critical.
BY and large these officials
See SPAIN-Page 8
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
$4,000 Idle
10 Return 10
Work Today
VitoI War Plant
Production to be
Resumed Swiftly

DETROIT, Oct. S tP) -
Approximately 5000 mainten-
ance workers whose strike action
yesterday tied up or impaired
war production in 33 Detroit
area plants voted today to re-
turn to work on afternoon shifts,
according to United Automobile
Workers (CIO) spokesman.
The action was announced fol-
lowing meeting of officials of
the executive board of the UAW-
ClO and representatives of local
unions making up the maintcn-
ance, construction and power
house council, UAW-CIO).
The strike, which had begun
to spread again this morning,
had made more than $4,000
workers idle through plant
closings and assembly line inter-
ruptions.
Most seriously impaired by
the strike was the production of
aircraft sub-assemblies, aviation
engines, anti-aircraft guns, tank
and truck parts and other war
materiel.
The vote favoring or opposing
a return to work was not an
nounced. Principal speaker at
this mornings brief meeting was
Walter p. Reuther, international
See STRIKE-Page 8
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Subs Destroy
II Jap Ships
Strike Hard at
Nip Supply Lines

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 - tP'
- American submarines, ripping
Japanese supply lines, have de-
stroyed another IL enemy YES
sells, including three war craft,
the Navy announced today.
The fighting craft included a
destroyer, an escort vessel and a
seaplane tender. all of which
may have been trying to protect
Japanese conveys from Amer
lean underwater attacks.
Also included in the latest bag
of the submersibles were 6 car
go ships and a large tanker from
the rapidly dwindling Japanese
fleet of fuel-carrying craft.
Also destroyed was a cable
ship, indicating that the SUBJ
marines may have been engaged
in breaking or preventing re-
pair of enemy communication
lines.
The newly-reported sinkings
raise to 924 the number of Jap
anese vessels Of all types sunk,
probably sunk or damaged by
submarine action. They include
772 enemy craft definitely de-
stroyed, 81 probably sunk and
lis damaged. Of the ships de-
stroyed 81 are combatant craft Of
the japanese navy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
'proWIer' Released
After QUESTIONING

City police closely investigat.
ing all cases of prowling OIL
lettering by suspicious charac.
ters, last night arrested (and
later releasedD a 81 year old
man living west of Mount Glenn
ems, after he had been caught
prowling around a North ave-
nue. district house.
The man was in the house
when officers arrived but they
traced him and questioned him
and woman he was accompany
ing. He admitted looking through
the windows of the woman's
house but both he and she con-
WINGED police that the pair had
had quarrel and that his win
dow-peeping tactics were an ef-
fort to ascertain whether he
should call on her or not.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Pvt. w. Starkey
is MISSING

Pfc. William Starkey, 81.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Starkey, 1920 Miller
road, Clinton township, has
been missing in action some
wherein Italy since Sept. IA, his
parents we're advised today by
the War Department.
Pvt. Starkey, who will have
been in military service for a
full year on Saturday, has been
overseas for seven months.
The missing soldiers wife,
Shirley, makes her home in Fra
ser. He had attended school both
in Fraser and Mount Clemens
and was employed by the De-
See PVT. STARKEY-Page 2
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-Nozis Work
FrenziedIy
to Hide Loot

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5-(P)-
German embassies in neutral
countries we're reported today to
be LOADED down. with gold, Sc
curities and currency with large
staffs working full time to put
the stuff-including loot from
occupied countries - un d I
cover.
Some of the tricks used by
German leaders to conceal their
financial resources were dis
closed after the State Depart
ment announced that the United
States and Britain have asked
neutrals to deny the enemy pro-
lection for his loot.
Other governments w h i C h
took part in the United Nations
monetary conference at Breton
Woods, N. H., last July are ex-
pected soon to put similar pres
sure on the neutral group, which
includes Switzerland, Argentina,
Sweden, Spain and Portugal.
Washington sources said:
That the German ruling clique
is sailing away assets not only
for its personal salvation but as
a war chest to keep under
ground organizations going after
the war.
That in concealing funds, the
Germans are extending their
power in foreign industry. They
are cleverly cloaking this con
troll and il will be hard to trace.
See LOOT-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Kelly Presses
5tate(anlpaign
Governor Cites
Institution Coins

SAULT STE. MARIE, Oct. s.
R)-Governor Kelly moved on
today to Traverse City for the
windup of 1,500-mile northern
Michigan tour in his own behalf
as Republican candidate for re-
election.
At rally here last night the
governor asserted his administra-
ton was responsible for ending
"haphazard and inadequate pol
icies under which, he said, state
hospitals for the insane and 9TH
er state institutions fell into dis
repair and became fire traps.
The people of Michigan can
thank Providence" he declared,
that we have escaped tragedy
at some of our state institutions,
hat thousands of our unfortun-
ates who must be confined be-
hind locked doors have not been
hopelessly and helplessly trapped
in burning buildings.
I'VE are putting an end to this
menace. We are putting an end
to gambling with the lives of
state wards"
His speech was a continuation
of his accounting to the elector-
ate of accomplishments in his
first term which he contends en-
title him to a second one. He
said work is under way to elm
mate the fire hazards he men
toned.
u. S. Senator Homer Ferguson
See KELLY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Chesterfield Plans
Hunt Permit Cards
To Issue Posters,
Cards on Saturday

On Saturday from 8 a. m. to
8 pm, the Chesterfield Town
ship Hunting Club will issue
hunting posters and cards to all
township taxpayers making APP
plication.
The plan is a continuation of
the successful effort made to
control hunting conditions in the
township several years ago, and
most township residents have ex-
pressed great satisfaction in it..
Adolph Veryser, supervisor
OF the township, is president OF
the hunting club and will per-
sonally supervise issuance of
the posters and cards. Only
township taxpayers need apply.
Full information regarding the
purposes of the project will be
given at the township offices.
The Township Hall is located
at North Gratiot and the Gene
terry road.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
u. !. bombers
Rake Borneo
Stab ViciousIy
at Oil Centers
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN

Associated ITess war T-uloi
Tokyo Radio indicated today
that Allied bombers are wasting
no time in their long distance
campaign to knock out the vital
oil producing center at Balikpa-
pan, Borneo.
A Domei News A n C y
broadcast reported 40 four-en-
gined bombcrs struck Tuesday
in the second mass raid at Bal
ikpapan. Sixty Liberators struck
the first heavy blow three days
previously. Only yesterday Mac
Arthur promised this important
source Of Nipponese oil and avi-
alton gasoline would be pound
ed into uselessness, "drastically
and immediately curtailing ia
pans ability to fight in the air
or on the sea.
Heavy shipping losses have al
ready reduced Nippon's ability
See PACIFIC-Page 8
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lighting.
Sledgehammer blows rained
on the Nazis on all fronts. Brit
ish troops invaded western
Greece by air and sea; and the
Russians threatened to take Bel
grade in Yugoslavia in matter
OF hours. In the north, Berlin re-
ported, a new great offensive
was mounted in Lithuania, and
the Russians, 100000 strong, in
vaded the big Estonian island OF
Saare in an attempt to block the
seward escape Of Germans in
the besieged Latvian capital OF
Riga.
VIOLENT DEFENSE
U. S. Third Army troops on
the central sector of the Western
front, facing violent opposition,
made their first penetration of
tunnel Notifications at Fort
Driant before Metz. They were
routing Germans from dGgin
See GERMANY-Page 8
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BY EDDY GILMORE

TALLINN, Estonia, Oct. 5 -
(Py- Eighteen miles from this
capital is what the Russians
polnt.to as evidence of the Nazis
most recent mass horror-the
Klooga Labor Camp. There, the
Russians say, $1,000 Jews, Rus
slams and Estonians were muir
dered methodically.
This camp was located in the
timber and cement country,
where prisoners shaved to pro-
duce vital material for the Nazi
war machine.
People in the vicinity told
correspondents this story:
The Germans killed off the
prisoners wholesale when they
learned the Red Army was COM
ing and retreat was in prospect.
Two DAY SLAUGHTER
1t was Sept. 1.-two days be-
fore the Germans pulled out of
Tallinn. They announced the
prisoners would be moved, al
ways a bad sign in Nazi camp.
The first group of 800 was
marched into the woods, order
ed to saw up piles of logs into
pieces, and were marched into
a field in groups of about so,
carrying the logs. They were
forced to make a raft-like foun-
dation, and then to lie down on
it. The Germans shot them all.
A second group formed an
other layer on top of the first
and were shot. When there
were six or seven layers Of dead,
gasoline was poured over all of
them and a torch was applied.
This is what the people told
us-and then we went up to see.
CHARRED CORPSES
In a little green field about
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05

the Germans recently were said
to have three divisions on the
Greek mainland as well % other
elements evacuated from Crete
and the Aegean Islands.
NAILS READY TO FLEE
All these have been reported
ready to flee northward on Z
moments notice to escape the
jaws of great trap closing N
on the whole Balkans with RUS
slams advancing from the East
and Allied forces with patriot
support striking from the west
The landing forces were 49,
lieved to be Of small size conn
pared with the major invasions
of Africa. Sicily. Italy and
France.
In Albania the Allied forces
were attempting to cut enemy
communications around the port
of Sarande, supply base for the
German garrison Of the strongly
defended island Of Corfu (Ker.
kyra.)
British parachute tropos
struck the first blow in Greece.
They quickly seized an airfield
on the Peloponnesus from which
spitfires were operating befors
the landings from the sea began.
Air transport planes carried in
other troops. BY Tuesday night
the invaders were entering Pa-
trai, city Of $1,000 on the
northern shore Of the Pelopon-
nesus 112 miles west Of Athens.
JOYOUS WELCOME
The parachute troops and sea-
borne units were given . joyful
welcome by the Greek natives
who in more than two years OF
stern German rule have suffered
severely from food shortages.
The Allies already have pro-
missed essential foods and medi-
cal supplies to the country.
which for six months in 1904
fought an attacking Italian army
to a standstill and might have
pushed it into the sea but for !
German drive across the Balk.
ans.
Lending support to the invad.
ers, Mustangs from the US.
18th Air Force swarmed over
the kalamaki, Tatoi and Elevsis
airdromes in the Athens area.
destroying several grounded en-
envy planes but meeting no air
opposition.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05

In cooperation with the ma
tion-wide Back-to-School cam
paign the Macomb County Bu-
reau OF social Aid, which ad-
ministers Aid TO Dependent
Children benefits under h c
Social Security program, today
stressed the need for children 10
continue their education rather
than to take advantage Of SEEM
ingly attractive short-time en-
ployment.
Mrs. Mary Garman, supervisor
OF the Macomb county depart
ment, pointed out today that, in
conformity with national regu-
lations, school children Of fami.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
YANkS PLUNGE THROUGH WEST Wall
General Bor
Nazi Captive

LONDON, Oct. s. up -
1t. Gen. Tadeusz Tomorrow
ski (Bor), newly appointed
cOmmander-in-chief of Polish
military forces was captured
i'm the battle of Warsaw, the
Polish government in exile
announced tonight. A Polish
government spokesman de-
clared that the capture of
Gen. KomOrowski gave the
Gle" to the rival, Soviet
sponsored Polish National
Committee of Liberation,
which asserted that the gen.
eral stayed away from the
ravaged capital after order
ing the futile uprising.
Berlin announced earlier
that Komorowski and his
entire staff had been taken
prisoner.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Social Agency Stresses
Need for Youth Education

lies qualifying for aid under the
ADO program are covered in
family budgets until they are
10 years of age. She said that
even though otherwise needy
children under that age limit
have gone TO work they can still
return to school and will be
placed back on the family bud
get until they are 18.
The Social Aid executive
pointed out the increasing need
for proper education of children
in postwar years IL they are to
successfully compete with their
fellows.
See EDUCATION-Page 8
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In addition to the camp site
itself the donor gave the organ
ization a $500 check intended
as the nucleus for camp fund
that will eventually provide the
necessary buildings for the girls
to obtain maximum use from the
property.
The five acre plot will be
used for hiking trips, a variety
OF day-camp activities, skating,
tobogganing and a long list of
woodcraft and .the-' Girl Scout
programs. members Of the Girl
Scout council said following
Mondays meeting at which the
See CAMP-PaSe 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
New Five Acre Camp Site
Presented to Girl Scouts

A beautiful five acre tract Of
land, with more than 700 feet
of frontage on the Clinton river,
just one mile from downtown
Mount Clemens, today was in
the permanent possession of the
Girl Scout council due TO the
generosity Of Albert c. Gasow,
of $685. South River road.
The tract. which Mrs. Pierson
X. McWethy, Girl Scout COM
missioner, said would be utiliz-
cd as a year-'round recreation
place for girls, is located off
Cass avenue between Little road
and the Cass avenue bridge,
west Of Mount Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Cite Insulting Satire
on Thomas {. Dewey

BOSTON, Oct, 5-lP0-The
Massachuse is Women's Political
club today demanded that the
city of Boston and Symphony
Hall management forbid the
showing Of The +. d. r. Victory
Band Wagon a musical revue.
which the organizations presi-
dent said "insultingly" satirized
Thomas E. Dewey.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
GermonHorrorCun1p
Found in EsfoniQ

rs feet from the road and a half
mile from the camp a mass of
charred corpses was lying amid
a few hundred pounds of ashes.
Most of the corpses were about
half burned. There were men,
women and children. | saw the
See HORROR-Page 8
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Auxiliary Firemen
Will Meet Toniqht

A special drill and meeting of
the Mount Clemens Auxiliary
Fire Department Of the Civilian
Defense organization will take
place at their headquarters in
Shadyside Park at 7;30 p. m,
today.
Bert Lozen, captain, urges a
good attendance. A social Pc
Rod will follow the routine in
structional period.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Savage Battles
Rage Near Aachen
By WILLIAM l.. RYAN

ASSOCIATED War
baed desperately today against powerful
which threatened to crumble the entire west wall
infantry supplies poured
the mile wide It. Gen Courtney H. Hodges
deeper into Germany.
fighting mounted hourly in bitterness
rolled through its fourth day. and that the Ger
had concentrated much artillery single
admitted
he had been widcned east of Ubach.
British infantry attacked six mile Dutch front
the Njmegen corridor gaining mile in heavy
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
FDR on Air
at 10 Tonight
nv the Associated Press

President Roosevelt comes up
for another political round to-
night in a nationwide broadcast
from the White House-simed
especially at Democratic parry
workers on whom he is depend
ing to get out the vote for him.
The speech is set for 10 p. m
eastern war time (CBS and
MutuaD.