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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
WIDELY Divergent VIEWS
Roll Election Drums

ing. vice chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee. Ew-
ing explained at Malone, N. Y.
that "a new President, such as
Mr.. Dewey" would be handicap
ped in making an important
decision by lack Of background
knowledge, whereas Mr.. Roose-
welt could make the decision
without any waste Of precious
time"
While Dewey aprepared for a
San Francisco speech tonight
(lO:30 p. NJ, EWT over NBC)
on his plans for giving Washing
ton "the most complete house
cleaning in history" there were
repercussions from two of his
recent statements.
William H. Davis, chairman
of the War Labor Board, dis
putting Dewey's charge that the
WLB has stalled on settling
cases. said, in Washington that
See POLITICS-Page 8
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Massive Drive
Menates Nazi
Baltic Port
Veteran Russion
Troops Plunge
Forward Swiftly

MOSCOW, Sept. 81 - tP -
Marshal Leonid A. Govorov's
Red Army veterans of Lenin-
grad, having destroyed the
northern anchorage of the Ger
man Baltic Line in a massive
sweep across Estonia, raced for
ward today in double barreled
drive for the enemy escape port
Of Tallinn.
One wing of Govorov's forces
thrusting west from Narva has
captured Rahlka. less than IS
miles east of Tallinn. Russian
war bulletin disclosed last
night, and presumably was even
closer today. Govorov's second
wing was spearing north from
Tartu. (London estimated this
force was less than so miles from
Tallinn on the southeast)
Moscow's guns Numbered a
salute to Govorov for his four
days gains ranging from 81 to
~ miles, wiping out formidable
German defenses between Lake
Peipus and the Finnish Gulf.
Seeking to trap or annihilate
any German troops from Fin
land who may reach Estonia,
Govorov turned the enemy's
flank and sent his troops rush.
ing through the center of the
little northern country like a
tidal wave.
Govorov's northern troops, fol-
lowing the Narva-Tallinn rail
way. were within artillery range
Of the key rail town of Rak-
we're, and closing in on Tapa, i'm
portant rail junction only As
miles southeast of Tallinn.
Meanwhile on the approaches
to the Latvian port of Riga Gen.
Ivan c. Bagramian's columns
captured an additional 100 set
Elements from fanatically re-
sisting foe, and again hurled
back tank and infantry attacks
See RUSSIA-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
ExpIodes Myth
Of Sugar Hoard
at Local Plant

Contrary to an irresponsible"
claim made by letter writer TO
a Detroit newspaper recently.
the Franklin County Sugar
Company's warehouses in Mount
Clemens are not "bulging with
sugar" manager Chase Kearl re-
vealed today in a public state
mcnt.
kearl comments as follows:
Il should like TO say very
emphatically TO our trade and TO
the public generally that there
is no sugar stored at our plant
in Mount Clemens. The plant
did not operate in 1913, and the
last sugar manufactured from
the 1912 sugar beet crop was
sold on the 31st day of August.
1943. II has not been, and will
never be. the policy of the
Franklin County Sugar Company
to hoard sugar when il is need
ed by the public for table use,
or more particularly, for use in
preserving food crops that might
otherwise be lost.
In this connection. | desire 10
See SUGAR-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Mrs. Ford Pays
) Million Tax
Moeomb Treasurer
Receives Huge Check

William G. Miller, Macomb
county treasurer, held q three
million dollar check in his
hands this morning and, for
once, his accustomed compla-
cency, was slightly ruffled.
1t was-by long odds the
largest check ever to pass
through his office in all the his
tory Of Macomb county.
The check represents a par
tial determination of the Michi-
gan State Inheritance tax, au-
thorized earlier in the day by
Probate Judge Joseph v. from
bly,, and was signed by Mrs. Ele-
amor Clay Ford, executrix for
the estate of Edsel B. Ford,
president of the Ford Motor
Company, who died May 26,
l943.
In approving payment Judge
Trombly pointed out, in answer
to press inquiries. that the "par-
tial determination is based upon
family requests by Mr.. Ford.
The outcome will depend upon
final determination of the value
of the stock Of the Ford Motor
Company"
Listed in the Ford estate, but
as yet unapparised, are:
1,153,809 Glass "a" shares in
the Ford Motor Company, Of
Delaware.
59,411 Glass "B" shares In the
same corporation.
Appraisals on other Ford Mo-
tor Company holdings are:
l8,947 Glass "A" shares in the
Ford Motor Company, Ltd, OF
See CHECK-Page 8
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Alfred A. BIomberq
Gains Lt.-(oIoneIcy
Mount Clemens Lawyer
Proves Battle Copoeity

After more than ID months al
most continuous combat duty in
the European theatre of war,
Major Alfred A. Blomberg. for
mer Mount Clemens attorney
has been promoted TO the rank
of Lieutenant Colonel at the age
of Is years.
Announcement of the, promo
ton of the young veteran -
young in years but we'll eXper-
fenced in the grim realities of
war-came this week from the
Ninth Air Force Command.
Col. Blomberg is squadron
commander of BIG Martin Mar
auders which have run up top
notch records in the European
conflict. For months prior to
D-Day (June g. Blomberg s
See COL. BLOMBERG-Pagc 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Seek Clothing
for Homeless
Victims of War
Need Warm Apparel

Europe's homeless facing the
coming winter with scanty
clothing and shelter this week
were assured that in Mount
Clemens at least the clothing
in their behalf by the
United Nations Relief and Re-
Mobilization administration IS
being warmly received.
: The rank and file of Mount
Clemens families, spearheaded
by women's groups and church
organizations, are making plans
for generous donation of
used but disable" clothing to
the nationwide appeal for Is
million tons of mems, women's
and children's clothing.
The need is acut and untold
suffering can be averted by gen.
crosby which will actually cost
Americans nothing.
The drive in Mount Clemens,
being directed by co-chairmen
Mrs. Harry c. Malbin and Mrs.
Alfred A. Thompson, is inter
UNCONVENTIONAL in every respect.
1t is backed by the churches.
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish.
The clothing collection will
be from Sunday. Sept. "a, to
Saturday, Sept. 80.
First event Of the local effort
Will be Bundle Tea at the
Broadway USO Friday Sept. 80
from l to 5 p. m. A bundle of
clean, substantial clothing no
shoes or evening clothes will
admit anyone.
Further arrangements will be
announced in the Monitor-Lead-
or prior to this event.
Pastors of st. Louis and st.
Peters Catholic church, re-
spending to an appeal of Arch
bishop Edward Mooney, last
Sunday made strong pleas for
cooperation in the UNRRA drive
for clothing. Complete church
organizations have been formed
to back the Catholic effort.
Walter Dubay was named
See CLOTHING-Page 2
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Possession
Not All
Required

After waiting more than four
months for possession Of home
they had purchased - and in
the meantime farming out"
their children and themselves in
four different locations - Mr..
and Mrs. Roy A. Roberts this
week upset the axiom that pos
session is nine points of the law.
Insensed at repeated legal de-
lays which halted occupation of
the house they paid $500 for
on April %, the EARNED out"
Roberts family defied possible
court action. injunctions and
deputy sheriffs and marched in
on the Charles B. Rogers fam
lily which had refused to bulge
from the house at III Clinton
street.
Teh Roberts took over two
rooms and for 48 hours the two
disputant families both held the
fort. Today, the tension had
dropped. Rogers and his family
have left and are making ar
rangements to remove their fur
niture.
During the four months and
% days that the Rogers family
occupied the Clinton street resi-
dence after Roberts sought pos
session, Roy and Mary E. Rob-
erts lived in widely separated
homes as paying boarders in AL
gonac and Roseville, while
Jeanne, 16, and June, IA, lived
in Marine City, and Joseph, age
seven. lived on a farm near st.
Clair, Mich.
See HOUSE-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
British Tanks,
Yank 'Chuiisis
Hold CrossinQ
Allied Troops
Stream Forward
in Holland
By JAMES M. LONG


LONDON, Sept. 21-(P)-
British armor and American
parachute troops have captured
the Nijmegen bridge across the
main branch of the Rhine in
Holland, saving the important
span from German destruction
and paving the way into Ger
many.
Today the Allied forces swung
across the bridge toward Arm
hem, where surrounded sky
troops had been battling grimly
for control of the last river
crossings before Germany. Ger
man broadcasts tonight said the
cutoff airborne forces had been
relieved by troops of the Brit
ish Second Army. The Germans
claimed-with no Allied con-
firmation-that 1900 of the
British First Airborne Division
had been captured.
The Germans scraped up
large part of their remaining ar
NOR and hurled it into battle
along the Moselle, 200 miles to
the south. There the u. S. Third
Army was engaged in its great
est series of tank battles since
the invasion of France.
Fighting through rugged hills
and forests northeast Of Nancy,
veteran American tankmen de-
stroyed los Nazi tanks, field dis
patches stated, as the Germans
struggled desperately to save at
least their upper Rhine lire.
Americans in other sectors
brought the total to at least 1874
enemy tanks destroyed.
Despite the foreclosures OF
the German effort, however,
French troops of the Third Army
drove close to Film, five miles
north of Bacarrat and 20 miles
southeast of Nancy.
American Flying Fortresses
and Liberators flew to bomb
Coblenz and Mainz, central
Rhine distribution points behind
the front as the fighting nared
to a decisive stage with the AL
lied armies a month ahead Of
their timetable.
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By the Associated Press

Thomas +. Dewey swung into
California today in bid for its
25 electoral votes, while the
Presidential race warmed up
otherwise with CD a Republican
saving that President Roosevelt
will have TO start campaigning
hard and (2) a Democrat con-
tending that election of Dewey
would prolong the war.
1.-THE fourth terms promoters"
Rep. Dirksen (R-IlD said in a
radio talk from Washington,
"have been seized with fear and
trembling"
Therefore, Dirksen said, Mr..
Roosevelt is planning to make
10 campaign speeches. He has
announced but two, one Satur-
day night and another Oct. 5.
PROLONG WAR?
The man who said Dewey's
election would actually pro-
long the war was Oscar r. Ew-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Would Liberalize
School Elections
League Of Voters
Requests Changes

A request for liberalization Of
school election procedure here
was forwarded today to William
I. Kelly, president of the Mount
Clemens school board, by the
League of Women Voters.
Mrs. Robert G.. Silbar, presi-
dent of the league, said that the
organizations membership had
instructed her TO request that
the school board, in the. future,
maintain voting hours from 3
p. m. to 7 p. m, and that, be-
cause Of the difficulty in ascer-
tanning the merits of candidates
at the last minute, when nomi-
mated from the floor, filing of
nominating petitions Is days
prior TO such elections be re-
CURED.
Following is the full text OF
the Leagues letter to Kelly:
AT a meeting Of the League
of Women Voters on Septem-
Der 10. was requested TO write
See SCHOOLS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Fugitive Escapes
Bullets Of Officers
Van Dyke Man
EIudes Posse

VAN DYKE - A convicted
criminal who escaped twice in
one night from Warren Town
ship police officers, once as they
questioned him and the second
time as they sighted him hitch.
hiking, is being sought through
out Macomb County today.
Lieut.. Alfred Maletta and Of
ficers Walter O'Bee and Vincent
Romano accosted the man at
ll:4O p. m. Wednesday at Van
See FUGITIVE-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Enemy Loses
7,645 Men in
Vain Defense
Americans Now
in Complete
Control Of Ansour
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor

At least three Of the Japanese
inundated Palau Islands are Sc
curely held by American inva-
sion forces today.
Capture of a fourth. Pclcliu,
was imminent. Soldiers and ma
rines have taken Angaur. south.
ernmost of the Palau group;
Ngarmoked, south Of Peleliu;
and an unnamed island off Pei
eliu's northeast coast.
THE enemy resistance is bit
, ter, but slow progress is being
made" in the sixth day of fight.
ing on Peleliu. Adm. Chester w.
Nimitz announced Yesterday.
Marines had killed 7,645 Japa-
nese, or three fourths of the de-
Tending garrison.
reporting action on the sew
enth day, Webley Edwards said
in a Blue Network broadcast that
all but small strip on the
northeast coast had been takepl
Six hundred miles east OF
Palau, so Liberators made the
second successive heavy land
based strike at Davao, principal
city of Mindanao, southernmost
of the Philippines. Fires were
left blazing at the airdrome.
barracks and supply depot. Bad
weather was about the only OBJ
stacle the Liberators encounter
ed.
Nor did the japanese throw
UP any noteworthy opposition 10
a recent British carrier raid on
Sigli. railway maintenance point
on northwestern Sumatra, AS
ISOLATED Press war correspond
ent Charles Crunch reported in
a delayed dispatch. He said lack
of japanese opposition might re-
suit in the British fleet stormins
down Malacca Strait and leu
Trailing or Selling two Nippon
csc naval bases on the way TO
Singapore.
Significant of allied power was
navy announcement that
strafing Hellcat fighters had re-
Gently sunk three japanese de-
stroyers in the western Pacific
with machine gun fire.
A Tokyo broadcast said Japan
faces a cold winter with pro-
duction of firewood and char
coal for industrial and domes-
tic purposes falling off because
of labor and transport shortages.
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pfc. Bernard Bole, Jr.
Wounded in Action

Pfc. Bernard Bolle, Jr., has
been seriously wounded in &C.
ton in France, his parents, who
reside at 96l2 Ahrens street,
were advised today by the War
Department.
Pvt. Bolle, who is 26 years
of age, had been in the army for
three years and had been over
seas for three months. Prior to
his entry into the armed services
he had been employed in De-
troit factory. He was wounded
on Aug. %, the official telegram
informed his parents.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
(hina's Plight
Alarms Allies
Block Future
Faces Nation

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2l-(P)
- China's future role in the
war against Japan is a subject
of increasing concern for mill
tary and diplomatic officials
here.
The big question is whether
the American drive across the
Central Poetic - even though
it is months ahead of old sched-
uled - can open a supply route
to free China while it is still
free and still organized for eff
fective resistance to Japan.
For this reason Pacific STRAIT
See CHINA-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Tin Can Pickup
is Announced

Collection Of processed tin
cans will take place in Mount
Clemens next Wednesday.
Cans properly prepare d
should be deposited at the vari-
Gus city public schools in re-
ceptacles after noon on Tuesday.
Cleaning, opening of both
ends and flattening is necessary
to give the cans value for de-
timing.
School children are asked to
aid the war effort by carrying
their neighbors' tin contribu-
tons to the school Tuesday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Heavies Pound
Nazi Defenses
Sieefried Line
Arteries MouIed

LONDON, Sept. 81 - (P) -
American planes bombed rail
yards supplying the Siegfried
line at Mainz and Coblenz today,
struck an oil plant on the Rhine
at Ludwigshafen and supported
Allied aircraft in the continuing
airborne invasion of Holland" a
u. S. Eighth Air Force commun-
ique said.
A thousand or more heavy
bombers and fighters were en-
ployed.
Medium forces Of more than
400 Flying Fortresses and Lib
orators bombed usually at
See AIR Wharfage 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
The Mlacomb County Elec.

The Macomb County Flee.
ton Commission, meeting this
morning in the offices Of its
chairman, Probate Judge Jo-
seph v. Tr0mbly, has adopted
the position that all censored
soldiers and sailors ballots
will be accepted as bona fide
in the Nov. Z elections. "It
was our collective opinion.
County Clerk Guy L. Brown,
who with Treasures william
G. Miller in addition 10 Trem-
bly, constitute the commissaen
said. "that any censored bal
lots which may be repegted
result from anfauiliarity up-
on the part Of eensoriAg EN-
GERS with the proper peoeoG.
ure. We are convinced that -
deliberate violation was h.
tended" he said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Rosso Warns Of Danger
10 Child Cyclists

Police Chief Arthur l. Rosso
today appealed to cyclists to ex-
ercise particular care on the
streets now that the re-opening
of schools have brought an in
crease in the number of young
sters pcdaling their way to
classes.
Citing a recent instance in
which, he said, young girl had
been seriously injured through
no fault of the automobile driv-
er concerned, the chief stressed
the fact that cyclists as well as
automobile drivers must obey
all stop-street signs and lights.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
VAN DYKE STILL In AIR
On Again. off Again

the Is to 9 vote favoring such
an election, taken Tuesday, was
not adequate to pass the meas
urc. A majority of all of the 80
supervisors, not just of those
voting, is required under the
law, Rosso pointed out.
Confusion resulting from the
supervisors Interpretation of q
ruling given them by Prosecutor
Wilbur F. Held on Tuesday ap-
See VAN DYKE-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21

Floyd w. RoSso. chairman Of
the Macomb County Board of
Supervisors. today called spe-
cial meeting of that body for 2
p. m. Monday TO reconsider &C
ton taken Tuesday authorizing
a special election in Warren
township Nov. to decide the
fate of the proposed new City
of Van Dyke.
The chairman's action follow
cd in the wake Of discovery that
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21

Red Army Races to Cut off Nazi Escape
California
Welcomes
Dewey

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 81
- (P) - Greeted at the railroad
station by Gov. Earl Warren,
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey opened
his presidential campaign in
California today by meeting To-
cal Republican officials in re-
ception at an Oakland hotel pri-
or to his speech here tonight.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Censored voies
Investigated
Probe Faulty
Army. Novy Hondlins

EAST DETROIT-Four out Of
total of so general election bal
lots already received here from
men on overseas duty have ap-
parently been opened by mile
tary and naval censors. Stephen
Henderson city clerk, revealed
today.
Henderson said that OF the
four ballot-envelopes in question
two had been re-sealed with
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21

censor's tape while tho Other
two bore the official ce1Gpgso
stamp. He said that one w0o
from an East Detroit sni0ce O.
duty in the Pacific tnG91gn e
war while the remaining )nGot
See CENSORED-p1oo q =
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-16
ARE WOMEN LISTENERS INTELLIGENT?

like real ife that holds so many listeners? They
must know that nothing really bad is going to
q happen to the heroine-or the hero-and that
life as II really goes along can be hard in spots
where the soap operas" have everything turn
out right
1t is when these daily serials come on that you
begin to lose faith in the intelligence of the
American women. Although she handles the
affairs of her house with ease, shops and keeps
her meat points all tailed, puts out sparkling
wash and has good dinner on the table when
evening comes-you still wonder about her gray
matter. She is evidently the paradox that men
have insisted she is all of these years.
II these programs were the only ones that were
directed toward the feminine listener during the
morning and afternoon you might overlook them
But there are Others just as bad and just as hard
to swallow. Take the commercials for instance.
Mealy -mouthed announcers warn her that if she
doesn't use Glow-Glow Face Powder her life will
be one long series Of quarrels with her husband
II she doesn't switch Immediately to Lily White
Soap Flakes, who knows what horrible things
the future may hold for her-since she has red
rough hands!
Mixed with these dire warnings are the singing
commercials, which ought to drive people into a
state OF frenzy rather than to the corner grocery
store TO buy the advertised product. They are
filled with rhymes like snap" and sap -
"crackle' and "cackle" but the women listen to
them-and buy them. Writers may moan that
these commercials are blot on the air, but they
60 on because they have.power to move women
to exchange their money for whatever it is the
poet" was talking about
Maybe there is some other explanation to the
problem Of the daily programs on the radio
rather than the one al which ] have arrived
Perhaps women don't like them, and the spon-
sors have just not found out yet how they feel
about the whole thing This may be-but have
ID, 7 -
BIT more good, hard, common sense. I'm inclined
TO believe that these programs would disappear
and take their place along with hoop skirts and
spinning wheels in the land of the forgotten.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-16
THE WEEKLY DIGEST
What Can Be Done About Hollywood?

that win sell. This may b IN
extreme generalization. but one
important executive Of the movie
industry himself has said:
We are in the game 70 make
money. not to make friends or enc
mics. We produce whatever Il pays
to produce. regardless Of color or
creed Of the subjects. In order 70
realize adequate profits on . pro.
duction distribution must be nation.
wide. It does not suface that TIE
East, West and North accept Negro
pictures, and the South refuses to
accept pictures wherein Negroes
are starred.
And the South does insist upon
the color line upon the SCREEN.
There have been southern associa-
tions against social equality" ON
the screen. Some Of these. Ike the
Southern Film Association. 10 20
far as to object 70 all-Negro films
like Hallelujah since Negroes are
the stars in them.
The strategy of those working
for better treatment Of the Negro,
accordingly, must be worked out
in terms Of the pront motive Of
the industry. Hollywood will re-
spond to the proper prenurss just
like everything else does