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lance traileFs for the last eight
DAYS. ended this afternoon.
Following two unsuccessful at
tempts TO induce the plants 1900
employees TO return to their jobs,
union officers finally persuaded
them TO return at a mass meeting
IN Briggs Local Hall. 10490 Mack,
today. The strikers are members
Of Local SO, UAW-CIO.
The strikers agreed to go back
TO work only after they had been
served with a War Labor Board
order to resume production.
500 IN FIRST SHIFT
Five hundred workers are to
report on the afternoon shift and
500 on the day turn tomorrow
morning. Ed Purdy, local presi-
dent, said union officers would
start negotiations with manage
uDent over grievances Immediately.
Progress OF the negotiations are
10 be reported TO the WLB within
4s hours, according to the direc-
tive.
The strikers charged the COM
pany with being too severe in
disciplining employees.
Another strike settled today
was that of the New Haven
Foundry Co., where 100 employees
struck Dec. z, closing the plant.
THEY VOTE TO RETURN
The employees voted at a mass
meeting TO return after repre-
sentatives of the army, War
Labor Board and u. S. concili-
alton service went 10 New Haven
yesterday 20 bring those re-
sponsible for the walkout to De-
troit for a conference.
Strikes, however. halted pro-
duction in two other Detroit war
plants today.
Two hundred welders at the
Cadillac factory refused TO work
this morning after u fellow en-
ployes were sent home last night
for three days for smoking on the
job. The department was closed
slowing down production of vital
war material.
At the Briggs Outer Drive plant
~ OF ~ inspectors in the bal
turret division again went or
strike today in protest over the
conpany's refusal 10 allow an in.
spector a break in" period. A
company spokesman said the
break in" period is prohibited ir
contract drawn by the union
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the world for the next century.
Victory might be won before
then. Or il might take longer.
II is possible that the fourth
year of war Will find the Stars
and Stripes floating over some
parts Of the japanese main Is
lands.
Ills certain that before the= end
or the year Japan'S war Industry
viii be badly battered by air at
tackS, its factory cities scared
and blaCkened by fire its civilians
feeling the full horrible impact OF
heavy aerial bombardment.
If Japan were an ordinary
enemy. one might expect that
when her fleets are sunk and ncr
planes driven from the air the
japanese would surrender. But on
the record al Saipan TdraWa.
Palau and a score OF other islands
we have no reason 20 believe the
Japs will do anything other than
fight t6-the- last fffatf.
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Japs Expected
TOLaSf 6 Years
By CLARK LEE

SAIPAN Dec IA (INS)After three years of in the
Pacific many informed persons looking forward TO at least
three more years Of combat before Japan completely
will unable
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-15
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-15
Yanks Extend
Gain on Roer
Make 7-MiIe Advance
Along Western Bank

PARIS, Dec. il QNS)-The
American First Army, slamming
forward in powerful drive
against the enemy's crumplinG
Roer River defense line, gained two
more miles of German soil today
and won a tight grip on a u to
15-mile strip along the west bank
Of that swollen stream.
1t. Gen. Hodges men now hold
the Roer bank from Maria-Weiler
to Linnich, Gen. Eisenhower
spokesman announced.
The American Third Army
driving into the westwall near the
Saar River, inched ahead in
ferocious combat, its gains held
20 a minimum by incessant Nazi
counteraSsaultS.
RIVER UP s FEET
The First Army ran into diff
ficulties also when forw d
elements reported the Roer River
rose three feet overnight.
The First Army, however, main
tanned the tempo OF It's attack
below the river and, east of kes-
ternich, carved out another $500
yard advance. -------,--.-, sr.
Troops OF the 35th Infantry OF
the Third Army, defying heavy
mortar and artillery fire, effected
n new crossing of the Blies River
10 score q new penetration into
Germany proper between Blies-
bruck and HabkiFeheH,
MANY SHIPPERS
The Germans employed num-
erous snipers in addition 10 carry
ing out widespread demolitions in
an effort to halt the Seventh
Army advance at SeltZ.
But Gen. Patch'S troops edged
relentlessly toward the Reich
border on a 35-mile front.
A new German attempt to re-
cross the Rhine behind the lines
az Thinau, south of Strasbourg,
was broken UP by the Americans.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-15

ably Feb. "a
Crosse y "A m nee by Fred
Walker, Detroit attorney repre-
senting FitZsimmons, Handy
said he reported the Incident at
the time 90 members of the
committee and that the follow
ing July he was called 10 the
office ATTY. Gen. Rushton.
"RushtOn asked me about the
incident and described IL IN
detail" the witness testified.
present in Rushton's office
were Assistant Attorney Gen.
erals Ben Cole and Glenn Dunn.
Il returned home and heard
nothing more from them. They
did nothing about it,"
He said he voted 10 report the
bill. and voted for il when IT was
passed The measure was kille-
later in the Senate.
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The Detroit Times. Dec. "a. /

II told him. was not inter-
ested In that kind of money. l
meant by that I would not take
bride money. l told him that
IL the bill had merit II would
be reported out"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-15
TOLD 1T TO RUSHTON

Special Prosecutor Kim Sigler
brought out that the alleged Offer
took place Feb. 20. 1871. and thai
the measure was reported favor
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
US. TANKS CRuMPLE HITLER LINE
AZ Raj Officers Killed Attempting to Flee Germany
$500 Planes Resume
BIifz of Nozi-Europe

LONDON, May 10 (P) -
American Fortresses and Liber-
ators and Fighter escorts, deS-
cribed officially as strong
force and probably numbering
up TO 1900 planes, resumed the
Allied aerial offensive after a
five day lapse today and struck
al targets in the Berlin and
Brunswick areas.
The attack, coming less than
"a hours after Gen. Henry H.
Arnold, chief Of u s Army Air
Forces, had declared Germany
had not yet seen the full weight
Of Allied air power. precipitated
a running air battle right across
Germany to the sky over the
German capital, German broad
casts indicated.
The ensuing bombardment-
the US. strategic air forces
10th attack on the Nazi hub and
the third on the capital this
month-was so heavy that il
disrupted German news broad
casts.
From the Raj and the US.
AAF Berlin has taken about
$4,000 tons Of bombs up today
Channel observers said the
parade Of aircraft setting out for
the continent today was the
biggest seen during the war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Violent Red
Drives Loom
Bursts Of Action
Herald Big Push

LONDON, May 10 - (P) -
Bursts of action on two sectors
Of the long Eastern front we're
announced by the Russians to-
day as reports from both Mos
COW and Berlin continued 10
dwell on the theme that renew
al Of battle on a grand scale
was close at hand.
The Russians announced cap
ture of height Of consider
able importance southeast OF
StaniSlawow. in old Poland, and
the Staying Of 500 Germans who
attempted a counterattack in the
Lower Dncstr region northwest
Of TiraSpol.
These actions were recounted
in Soviet communique. broad
cast from Moscow and recorded
by the Soviet Monitor The
height, unidentified, apparently
was in the { 1rpathian foothills.
Fighting also occurred south
east Of Vi.cbsk. White Russian
citadel and in an unnamed sec
tor where Red Army troops
beat off several attacks and
wiped out two companies the
bulletin said. II declared. how
ever, there were no important
changes on the front yesterday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Cruelty Case
Is Postponed
Fother of II
Free on Bond

Preliminary examination OF
FRANK Buckley, 43, Warren
Township father charged with
cruelty towards his children
was adjourned until June 2, a
10 a. m, by Justice Donald j
Parent today on request Of
Buckley'S attorney, Art L. Will
lard. of Detroit, who claimed
pressure Of court business in
Wayne County.
Wizards request to the court
was not opposed by Prosecutor
Wilbur F. Held, who said ne
appreciated Wizards inability
TO confer with his client, due
TO heavy court program, and
would be satisfied If the hear
ing goes ahead without further
delay June 2.
Prior to court opening, Buck
ley. neatly dressed in a business
suit, sat with his wife, Frances,
81, in the court room. They
convcrsed only briefly at in
tervalS.
Four neighborS, three wom-
en- and a man, subpoenaed by
Held as state witnesses, also
waited in the court room, in
See DELAY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Truck Strike
IsAverted
Detroit Receivers
from Labor Rows

DETROIT, May l9-(P)-De-
troit emerged today from its
most serious labor crisis of the
war although still facing a con-
siderable task in restoring COM
plete peace.
With a general strike Of AS
600 AFL truck drivers averted
at the 18th hour, the attempt to
solve an AFL-CIO jurisdictional
row linked with the idleness OF
nearly 10000 war workers was
continued.
Heads Of the AFL Transfers
Union called off their general
strike last night at the behest of
the regional War Labor Board
in an emergency hearing over
the jurisdictional dispute at two
softdrink bottling plants.
Ten thousand long distance
drivers were even then on
strike, Union officials said, but
they were subsequently ordered
back TO work.
The Transfers Joint Council
charging the Clio with trying to
break" the Transfers union,
called the general strike yester-
day afternoon. The unions are
fighting for control
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Jops Rush Reinforcements
to Stem Chinese Offensive

Chinese have made their swift
est progress toward their objec-
tive Of Tengchung; 81 Tatangt-
zu. where Japanese guarding
the main trail 10 Tengchung
continued 10 offer determined
resistance although virtually en-.
circled; go Pingka, where the
Chinese yesterday beat off a
series Of counterattacks from
the north and northwest and
forced the Japs TO withdraw.
Brig. Gen. Frank (Pinky)
Dorm, American "Y-Force" chief
of staff. was warm in his praise
of Chinese wits operating in
the northernmost of these areas.
The l.. S. 14th Air Force yes
terday morning ran several
strafing and dive bombing mis-
sions for the Chinese
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Maj. BIomberq
Awarded DIE
Lowyer is Cited
for Skill, Volor

Trained in the dignified art
OF the courtroom, man who
was an attorney two short years
ago in Mount Clemens has just
been cited as IAN airman of ac-
complishment and skill &.
GOODNESS and bravery re-
sourcefulness and untiring en-
ergy."
He is Major Alfred A. Blom-
berg, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
A. Blomberg, Of Route 3, Mount
Clemens, whose citation by
commanding officers of his
bomber group has won him the
Distinguished Flying Cross,
which he will wear beside his
Air Medal with three Oak Leaf
clusters, and other decorations.
The official citation reads:
For extraordinary achieve
ment while serving as a Pilot
OF B-26 airplane on rs bonn
bardment missions over enemy
occupied Continental Europe.
Major Blomberg's unflinching
devotion to duty and laudable
GOODNESS under fire despite ad-
verse weather conditions and
heavily defended enemy posi-
tions stamp him as an airman of
accomplishment and skill. His
resourcefulness and untiring en-
ergy are symbolic of the highest
traditions of the United States
Army
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Dr.. p. VIadeff
in Race for
Representative

DR.. Peter Vladeff, d. c., a
resident of Mount Clemens for
the past % years, has ANNOUNCE
ed his candidacy for nomination
as State Representative of the
First Legislative District of Ma
comb County, on the Republican
ticket.
The first district comprises
the area north of the i4-Mile
road, including Mount Clemens.
DR.. Vladeff, age so, is a grad
uate of Mount Clemens High
School; attended Wooster Col
lege, Ohio; the engineering
school of Akron University, and
was later graduated from the
Palmer College. Davenport, Ia.
He bases his plea to the vot-
ers on a two-point PLATFORM:
The passage OF well-framed
legislation TO rehabilitatc re-
turned soldiers and sailors after
the war. with a state-paid bon-
us il possible, and full promo
ton of the CliDton-Huron Park
way development. as a benefit
to health, an aid TO employment
and a support for real estate
valuations.
DR. Vladeff points out that he
See vLADEFF-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Eden Dis(Ioses
Tragic Result
Of Escape Try
IA of rs Who
Made Brock
Still at Loree

LONDON, May 10 - (PO -
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
disclosed today AZ Raj officers
had been shot by Germans after
a mass escape from a war pris-
on camp near Dresden on March
25.
Seventy six officers partici-
pated in the break, Eden told
the House Of Commons, Fifteen
were reported captured alive,
and IA still at large.
Some were shot resisting ar
rest and some in the course Of
new escape attempt after they
were captured, Eden said
1t was the first such episode
Of the war.
The government is profound
~ shocked by this news and
have urgently requested the
protecting power Switzerland.
through which notification Of
the deaths came 10 the relatives
and the Air Ministry to de-
mand from the German govern
ment full and immediate re-
port of the circumstance in
which these men met their
deaths, and an explanation Of
its failure to report the facts
at once 10 the protecting pow
err Eden said.
The men were members Of the
RAJ Dominion Allied" air
forces. the customary terminol-
oGy embracing the RCAF. RAFF.
RNZAF and OF h CT national
groups in the Raj like the Poles,
the Dutch and the Norwegians.
AS far as is known there were
no Americans involved, although
Eden did not say so specifically.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Yonks Who Took Formio
Unowed by Nozi Artillery

FORMIA, Italy, May l9-,P,
- Retreating Nazis threw all
the fire power they had against
onrushing Americans who cap
tured Formia-a Tyrrhenian
seaport believed to be the coastal
anchor Of the Adolf Hitler line
but they could not even slow
the doughboys down.
Germans loaded the route
with obstacles from Scauri.
three and a half miles 10 the
cast, all the way along coastal
highway No. 7 TO the western
most corner of Formia.
There were fortified pillbox.
es, deep ougouts, mines by the
hundreds on land and in the wa
tiers off shore and snipers spit
ting death from every house. To
keep things hopping. long range
artillery crunched in from the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19

powerhouSe at Gaeta every lit
tie while, covering every yard.
Gaeta is getting II back from
our guns now.
Huge piles of supplies and
war materials were left by Ger
mans in their hurried evacua-
ton of the town. Nearly 200
prisoners were taken, but most
of these were snipers. The Ger.
mans expended comparatively
few men here.
In one building alone | count.
ed $50 cases of ammunition.
nearby | saw mortars still set
up ready TO fire. indicating just
how fast the Germans got out
of town.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Woman Grocer
Sent 10 Jail
4 Months, $500 Fine
Block Market Penalty

DETl.OIT, May 10 - (4) --
Weeping at the courts rebukcs,
Mrs. Helen Gale Howe Wright
was sentenced today 10 four
months in the Detroit House OF
Correction annd fined $500 for
violating Office o. Price Admin
istration regulations at her
Crosse Pointe Market.
Federal Judge Frank A. Pr
card declared in passing sent
ence that Mrs. Wright, several Of
whose socially prominent pat
rons were penalized by the OPA,
had sold hamburger for 81 a
pound and otherwise profitcd
from wartime rationing.
you admittedly operated a
black market in the most fash
ionable 7 els lborhood in MiChi-
gan, perhaps in the country, do
ing it openly and brazenly,'
Judge Picard said. IF you we're
right, I would have sent you TO
jail for as long term as /
could
Judge Picard mentioned medi-
cal reports indicating that Mrs.
Wright was in need Of institu-
tional care. He described the
defendant as foxy, emotional
and borderline case" She is cur
rently awaiting sentence on a
shopllfting charge.
Mrs. Wright pleaded guilty
last March s TO an 1l-count in
dictment charging that she sold
processed foods and meats above
ceiling prices and often without
taking ration points. Ration
books of a number Of her Gus
toners were suspended by the
OPA.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Comedy Scores
Hit; Plays
Again Tonight

Over 1900 enthusiastic per
sons last night witnessed the
premier Of Hit the Deck scin-
tillating Mount Clemens high
school musical comedy, which
will be presented again this eve
ming at 8 o'clock in the school
auditorium.
With 95 participants the COM
edy drew repeated bursts OF
spontaneous laughter with a
well-rounded plot including
See COMEDY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Dogs Must
Be Tied Up

A warning that the annual
summer dog quarantine, i'm
posed by state law, is about to
commence, was issued by city
law enforcement and health au-
thorities today.
Dog owners are required I'M
der the law TO keep their ami
mails on leash at all times. or
under proper control on their
own property. After June l dogs
running al large Viii be inn
pounded.
The move is designed 10 pre-
vent spread OF any rabies in
lection which might develop,
and IS also conducive TO better
health on the part Of dogs.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Theft Suspect
Bound-Over

The third member Of a trio
Of Detroiters W h o allegcdly
broke into Van Dyke defense
plant and stole blank checks and
check writing machine, was
arraigned before Justice Don
aid J Parent today, and bound
over TO Circuit Court when he
waived examination through his
attorney.
He is Joseph Young, 10, of
1888 Quinn. Detroit, who alleG-
edly was the third man who es-
capped after Detroit police arrest
cd two men siphoning gasoline
from a car two weeks ago. The
two arrested have recently been
bound over to Circuit Court and
await trial assignment.
Deputy Sheriff Hubert Rice
said that police theorized that
Young was the escapee at that
time. Rice said Young surrend-
errd to Detroit police for Ma
comb County officers, when he
learned he was the object Of
statewide search.
A charge Of breaking and en-
tcring at nighttime was made
against Young today, but no de-
NAL Of the charge was made by
Youngs attorney. Bond Of ST.
900 was allowed, but not fur
nished.
Young, a native Detroiter. told
the court he completed his tenth
grade in a Detroit school, and
is now employed at assembly
line work in a Detroit war plant.
The three Detroiters are Spe-
officially charged with burglary
of the Perfect Surface Plate
firm, Nine Mile west az Van
Dyke. Police allege they produc-
ed and cashed more than $500
worth of checks after the bur-
glary.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19

WITH THE CHINESE EX-
PEDITIONARY FORCE ON
THE SALWEEN FRONT, May
18 - (Delayed) - up - The
Japanese were reported today
to be bringing up reinforcements
to meet the first full-scale
Chinese offensive of the war as
fighting flared in four main sec
tors of the new front west of
the Salween River. Casualties
were heavy on both sides.
From north to south, the
scenes of the most bitter con-
flict were:
(D In the area between
Chaitou on the Shweli River
and Mamien Pass, where the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Channel Smooth
Visibility Fair

LONDON. Nav 19-lPl
- Dover Strait was sunny
and warm today. with WIS.,
Utility fair and the sea
smooth.
The wind was variable
and light from the east and
southeast and the baromet-
er was steady and unchang-
ed. During last night the
temperature droppe Ia
near freezing.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19

While the American "heav-
les were smashing at Berlin
and Brunswick, small forma-
tions of Allied expeditionary
Air Force and RAF Mosquitoes,
Typhoons and Fighter bombers
attacked unspecified detectives
in Northern France this morn.
ing, taking advantage of clear
skies to press home the attack.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, May
10 - Up - Another lightning
stab in Gen. Douglas MacArth-
ur's accelerated Philippines
bound offensive today gave the
Allies virtual possession of stra-
tegic Waldo Island, potential
base for:
/. Throwing a fighter plane
umbrella for bombers over all
the rest of Japanese held north
western New Guinea;
2. Battering Halmahera, en-
envy island guardian between
Macarthur and the Philippines,
to which he has avowed to re-
turn;
3. Pounding Palau, Japanese
naval stronghold along the Caro-
lines approaching to the Phil
ippines
4. Increasing bomber blows
against the Netherlands East
Indies.
MacArthur's latest leap-frog-
ging tactics, covered by air and
naval bombardment, gave him
most of Wakde Island and a
quickly widened beachhead on
the adjacent Dutch New Guinea
mainland within 36 hours, to-
days communique disclosed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Find Fortune
in Coffee Pot
at Marquette

MARQUETTE, Mich. May 10
-.P'-Baffled over a hoard Of
gold certificates believed to be
worth more than S34 900 found
buried in a coffce-pot near here
yesterday, local officials today
awaited the arrival Of Federal
authorities to help solve the
mystery.
A group Of laborcrs cXCaVat
ing in the rear of a roadside
See GOLD-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19
Daring Sweep
by Surface
Force Hinted
Bombers BIost
Greet Naval Base
at Soeroboio

NEW YORK, May 10 - up
- The Tokyo radio said today
that SOerabaja, one of Japan's
key bases In the Netherlands
East Indies, had been raided
twice by Allied bOmberS on
3 the morning of May II and IL
and the Japanese account sug-
gested that Allied naval and
air task forces from India
were carrying out another Of
their bold sweeps, this time
In conjunction with L. S. Pa
cific forces.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-19

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