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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-04
Venereal Disease Is
War Health Problem
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patients at the boards venereal
disease clinics in Milford, Dover
and Smyrna last year. Sussex coun-
ty had AIS patients in the clinics in
Seaford. Frankford, Georgetown,
Lewes and Rehoboth.
Production depends on healthy
men and women and it is every
workers duty to his country, his
family, and himself, to keep in
sound health-just as it is every
soldiers duty to do So" says DIR.
Cameron.
He points out that venereal dis
ease is not acquired in the shop or
factory by the worker, nor do SER
vice men acquire it in camp or on
shipboard. 1t is passed on in COM
munities where workers or men OF
the armed forces spend their OFF,
duty hours. Hence it is the COM
munity that is needed to aid in the
work of eradication of syphilis and
gonorrhea. Army, Navy, and indus
try are depending upon this COM
munity assistance through aroused
public opinion.
Public Health Nurse and
VD Control
Last year the staff nurses of the
State Board of Health made 3,647
visits in an effort to see that all
known cases of syphilis or gonor-
rhea were being treated either by
a private doctor or at State
Board of Health clinic. Some of
the visits were for the purpose of
explaining the importance of hav-
ing a blood test if one had been in
contact with another person who
had the disease. This blood test
would show if one had caught
syphilis and needed treatment.
Syphilis Treatment /
Syphilis is generally treated /
with injections of arsenical and /
bismuth drugs given once or twice
week for at least year. The
patient need not stop work during
treatment.
Syphilis in Mothers
An infected mother may give
syphilis to her unborn child. If
untreated she may have a miscar-
riage or still-birth, or if the baby
is born alive. it will probably be
sickly, and may become blind, in
sane. or suffer in other serious
ways.
part of a health examination early
Every woman who expects a
baby should have a blood test as
in pregnancy. Delaware law re-
quires every physician attending
an expectant mother to see that
she has a blood test. If an infected
mother starts treatment before the
fifth month and continues through
out pregnancy. these tragedies can
be prevented.
Untreated syphilis in anyone may
result in insanity. paralysis. blind
ness. OF heart disease but prompt
treatment may halt the disease and
prevent these results.
Only an experienced doctor should
use the necessary drugs.
The Milford clinic is open on
Tuesday at II o'clock in the morn
ing at Ill West Third street.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-04
CANNON

Lieut.. Edw. Cannon, of Brandy
wine Shoals, is on a furlough and
is visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Cannon.
Norman Burton, Of Perryville,
visited his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Burton, on Saturday.
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Greenwood Soldier
Killed In Italy
Continued from First Psgel

In addition to his parents, Pri-
vate Smith is survived by a bro
ther. Private Clarence Smith, now
in Army training in California; a
sister, Mrs. Jane Smith of near
Wilmington; brother, Charles
Smith of Laurel, and a brother and
sister, George and Hazel, residing
at Greenwood.
Private Wiberg is in an Army
hospital in Italy. according to a
letter he sent relatives, dated Jan
uary Is.
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n 0 7 IC E

The annual stockholders meeting
of the Milford Building and Loan
Association will be held at the As
sociation offices on Tuesday, Feb.
16, 1914, at o'clock.
2-4-2t H. PAUL FENNIMORE.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-04
BLIND MAN
LOST WITHOUT
"SEETNG-EYE"D DOG

When someone in your family.
comes down with a cold. you'd be
as lost as a blind man without his
''seeing-eye" dOg-if the products
in your favorite drug store had no
names. You wouldn't be able to
get what you wanted! Names are
your guides to reliable. result-get-
ting products. The name Vicks
VapoRub is your guide to the best
known home remedy for relieving
miseries of colds. Ask for it by its
trademarks.
VICKS VAPORUB
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-04

WAR BONDS will buy a stake il
your country'S future.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-04

WAR BONDS will bring our fighting
,.- men back home sooner. -
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-30
Cooled Off!
CURBSTONE BEER SERVICE
LEADS PEDDLER TO
COURT

Hail the curbStone beer bar!
1t is not unusual for citizens
TO note roadside pop corn stands
or mobile ice cream dispensers.
but now comes the latest: Beer.
iced or un-iced, delivered to your
door
Luther Gable, sc, an employee
at the Grand Trunk freight de-
pot, was picked up at 6 o'clock
last evening in Shadyside Park
by city poll after residents of
that area had complained that
unlicensed beer sales we're being
made at the park.
In the back seat Of Luther's
car police found a wash tub
filled with cracked ice and four
cases of the country's best amber
brew.
The ambitious salesman was
held overnight for investigation.
He gave his address as 48 Lin
coin avenue, Mount Clemens.
Arrested by Patrolman Raymond
Titus, the enterprising vendor
pleaded guilty to engaging in an
illegal occupation when arraign-
ed before Justice of the Peace
Frank +. Jeanette at noon to-
day. He was fined SIS and costs.
p. s: He was charging rs
cents per bottle on ice or 30
cents "as il comes"
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Lindsey Takes
RotaryGaveI
New President
Assumes Helm

One Of the most successful
years in the quarter-century
history Of the local Rotary Club
was formally closed Thursday
when President Oscar Watz
turned the presidents badge Of
office and gavel over to Harold
Lindsey, city assessor, who be-
comes president July /.
The ceremonies, accompanied
by congratulations TO Watt for
his leadership of the club. took
place at the regular noon lunch
con meeting at the Medca Grill.
District vernon James
Dickson, of Detroit, made a for
NAL presentation OF the Rotary
International award for out
standing club service - an
award recently announced 49,
and congratulated local Rotar-
ians on their well-rounded pro-
gram of civic. charitable and pa
triotic activities.
A roundup of reports by COM
mittee chairman, outlining pro-
gress during the year was made.
Sherwood j. Bennett report
ed that attendance averaged SO
per cent during the year, with
See ROTARY-Page ,
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Defeatists Executed
in Killers Reich
Modrid Report Cites
Widespread Restraints

MADRID, June 80 - (P) -
Travellers wing from the
Reich declare defeatists and per-
sons refusing 10 work in bombed
areas of Germany are being ex-
ecuted in considerable numbers.
One person. whose position
made official Nazi records avail
able 10 him, said that between
June 8 and June Is a total of
TAI Germans and foreign work
ers were put to death in the
Munich region. about 500 in the
Essen area and about 1900 in
the Cologne district.
OF Ter informants, although
unable to give accurate eSti-
mates. said these figures did
not appear TO be exaggerated
All agreed that only a fraction
Of those executed were reported
in the German press.
The travellers said employers
throughout Germany complains
ed they we're unable TO keep
skilled German labor at work
because of the fear of bombing
and that many have deserted"
into the German army as volun-
teers. considering that safer than
remaining in the bombed areas.
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BY IVES GALLAGHER

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITION AIRY
FORCE, June 80 - (4D - Ad-
vance elements of two British
columns driving around Caen
in opposite directions were
within IL miles of completely
encircling the inland French
port today as the Germans
threw large armored forces
against the Odon river bridge
head in unsuccessful flank at
tackS.
From newly captured Mar
celet, Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Mont
gomerys troops struck due west
toward Caen in a thrust that
menaced one of the city's main
airfields. AT last reports Allied
troops were only half a mile
from this field.
Thus far the Allies have taken
only one important airfield in
the bridgehead- that at Maui
pertuS near Cherbourg.
In the American sector to the
west, 1t. Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley's troops made a series Of
small attacks southwark toward
the important road junction of
ST. Lo in an effort to straighten
their lines. The doughboys also
were beating down dwindling
resistance on the Cap De La
Hague, at the northwestern tip
Of the Cherbourg peninsula.
The Supreme Command an
nounced, meanwhile, that Com
modore William Sullivan, one
of the foremost salvage experts
in the American Navy, has been
put TO work to bring Cher
bourg's docking facilities back
into operation. He worked at
Pearl Harbor, cleared Casablan-
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Flaming Battle
for Hengyang
ReathesCIimax
Tokyo Radio
Claims Second
City Overrun
BY J. Il. KRUGER


Associated Fress war Editor
Tokyo radio today pictured
the flaming battle for Hengyang
as at its climax and claimed
that another important Chinese
city near the China coast had
been overpowered in a hither-
TO unmentioned campaign.
The China campaign with its
dire threat TO Allied air plans
move dto a showdown while the
American investment of north
ern Saipan Island settled into
slow, bitter struggle in rugged
terrain. American Marines and
infantry soldiers surged north
ward of Mt Tapotchau at the
islands center and cautiously
probed through wrecked Cara
pan, Saipans capital city.
REVEAL CAPTURE
The Japanese radio said
Lishui (Cluchow) in Chekiang
Province, which fronts on the
East China Sea, had been re-
miles northeast of Hengyang,
duced June 26. Lishui, some 400
is but 90 miles from the coast
and has been mentioned by the
japanese as the site Of an Amer
lean air base. The broadcast said
it was an important base for the
Chinese also.
Coupled with yesterday s
disclosure the l4th U. S. Air
Force base at Hengyang had
been captured, the Lishui claim
revealed more Of Japan's great
haste TO prevent establishment
of full-scale air power in
China, particularly near the
coast. Maj. Gen. Claire Chen
nault previously has revealed
the existence of Allied bases in
the sector east Of the HankoW-
Canton railway, down which the
japanese are now driving.
Tokyo said the Lishui drive
started June 10 and is contin-
uing. In the first Is days. it
added, 1891 Chinese were
killed.
Americans digging out enemy
troops on Saipan overwhelmed
a pocket Of Nips cornered on
Nafutan Peninsula far behind
the main fighting line bisecting
the island.
The air forces Of Adm. Nimitz
See PACIFIC-Page 5
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Sewage Rate
Climax al Hand
Stote Prepared to
Institute Suits

Warren Townships decision
as to whether or not it will APP
prove the rates for water users
in the Lakeshore Interceptor
drainage district of South Ma
comb, was awaited today, fol-
lowing a meeting set for p. m.
Four other South Macomb
communities have agreed on
the rates set by Drain Commits
sioner William c. Harper, and
Warren Township has significd
its approval of the residential
rates, but withheld approval of
industrial charges.
Representatives Of Warren
Township industries were ex-
pected to voice their stand at
this afternoons meeting.
The meeting is actually a race
against time with threatened
state suit against the drainage
district, charging it with pollut-
ing Lake st. Clair with made
quately treated sewage from the
Nine Mile drain. The state SET
Thursday as its final deadline
for agreement between the com
munities regarding the rates, a
decision which would automat-
ically provide for re-operation
of the interceptor.
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Sgt. W. Q. Reetz
Decorated for
Raids on Nazis

Three Michigan soldiers of
the air, among them a Mount
Clemens boy, have been cited
by their commanding officer for
exceptionally meri toriou {
achievement in accomplishing
with distiction heavy lombard
ment missions against enemy
occupied Europe
The local boy is Technical
Sergeant William o. Reetz, 81.
top turret gunner Of a Flying
Fortress group out Of an Eighth
AAF Bomber Station, some
where in England" Sgt. Ree.z
is the son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Reetz. 1910 Stephens Blvd,
an apprentice tool maker before
entering the Army, and a form
or student at Lake Shore High
School.
The other flyers receiving CT
tations are Staff Sergeant Leo
Kaminski, of Flint. and Staff
Sergeant John II. Gage. of De-
troit, All three participated in
See SGT. REETZ-Page 2
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Yanks 0verrun
Jap.He;d Peak
Third Attack
Wins Key Position

A FORWARD COMMAND
POST, Saipan, June 81 - de-
layed)-,P) via Navy Radio)-
Twice American Marines tried
to conquer Hill 500, a gnarled
volcanic peak looking down on
Southern Saipan. and twice they
were thrown back. The third
time they won, despite the hail
of Japanese fire launched from
the crags, gullies and shrub. COW
cred slope.
Today the battle of Hill 500
Is regarded as a turning point
m the battle for Saipan. With
out II IN American hands the
drive from the beachhead would
have been exceedingly costly.
The 500-foot precipice, it is
apparent now. formed an in
tregal part of the Japanese de-
Tense for Southern Saipan. It
overlookS and commands both
Maglcienne Bay and Aslito air.
field (now renamed Isel e v
Field for an American hero.)
Its capture made possible the
current onslaught against Mt.
Tapotchau.
Shippers still creep through
the dense underbrush and hide
behind volcanic rock. We learn
ed that in a visit to the front
yesterday when rifle bullet
See MARINES-Page 2
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Jock Back
i'm Cage
at Last

ROSEVILLE - After five
days of glorious freedom, during
which he learned that little boys
with stones and slingshots can
be cruel, the Finl"ysons' pet
monkey, Jock, today was back
in his cage, catching up on his
eating with a big helping of
carrots, lettuce, cabbage and
tomatoes - but no bananas!
(The precious banana stock
ran low during the days when
bananas were used to lure
Jock from his perch in a
neighboring elm tree.)
During the last few days the
victim of stone-t throwing Boys,
Jock was rescued" from his
freedom Thursday at $50 p. m,
by the Roseville Fire Depart
See MONKEY Page 2
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Wife Who Stabbed Hubby's
Girl Friend Gets Probation

CENTER LINE - Mrs. Carrie
Baird, 81, night shift inspector
in war plant, today was plac-
&c on two years probation by
Circuit Judge Alton II. Noe for
stabbing a blond woman she
found her husband embracing
in their family automobile at 3
a. m. Thursday when she return
ed Unexpectedly from her job.
The sentence was imposed aft
er Mrs. Baird, an attractive bru-
net, pleaded guilty to charge of
felonious assault.
She had previously confessed
to Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held and
State Troopers Frank Sepanik
and Clifford Goodnuff that in a
moment of hysteria and rage she
whipped out knife and slashed
blond Mrs. Theresa Randolph,
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Blossom Heath
Writ Denied
Court Rejects Plea
to Force LICENSING

A petition seeking a writ of
mandamus to force the village
of st. Clair Shores to issue club,
soft-drink and dancing licenses
TO the owners of Blossom Heath,
Inc, 24800 f. Jefferson avenue,
was rejected today by Circuit
Judge Alton II. Noe in Mount
Clemens.
The court action was filed by
Ernest Goodman, attorney for
the Negro owners of the once
widely known night-spot who
purchased it from administra-
tors of the William Mcintosh
estate for $40 900 three weeks
ago.
The petition required the
village officials TO show cause
why the circuit court should
not issue writ of mandamus
forcing issuance Of the required
licenses and the establishment
of water services TO the ornate
club house.
The legal move on behalf OF
the owners had been anticipated
by st. Clair Shores authorities
ever since their refusal to grant
the licenses sought by the new
owners at regular commission
meeting held in that village or
the night of June 20.
The municipal authorities
had cited extension of reslden-
tial zoning districts and the ex-
pressed wishes of the residents
as the basis for refusing the ap.
plications.
The owners Of the club told
members of the ST. Clair Shores
Commission that they anticipat-
See CLUB-Page 2
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BY FRANK KISSELL

II the City of Mount Clemens
has its way there will be no
dearth of muscle-building,
health giving, vitamin packed
foods for its residents.
This fact seemed abundantly
clear today when City Engineer
Ernest l.. Pettingill and Supt. of
Streets and Parks, August Gus"
Klockow, told TO Monitor
Leader reporter about the num-
Der of applications for city vic
tory gardens and the acreage un-
der cultivation.
Engineer Pettingill estimated
that at least 900 applications
had been received by his office
for garden plots. 95 were under
productive cultivation. That
means there will be plenty IF
carrots, tomatoes, potatoes,
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Break Follows
Alliance
With Germany
Two Yeor Long
Effort to Avoid
Break CoIIoPses

WASHINGTON, June 30-(R
The United States today broke
relations with Finland because
of the new close alliance be-
tween the government of that
nation and Nazi Germany.
The action was announced
with the release of note from
Secretary of State Hull TO Alex
ander Thesleff, Charge DAT
flares of the Finnish legation
here.
The break marks the end Of
many efforts over period Of
more than two years by the
United States government TO
make peace between Finland
and Russia.
CITE LONG PATIENCE
Hull'S note reflected the long
and persistent attitude of
friendship on the part of the
United States toward Finland,
saying that further relations be-
tween the government of the
United S.stes and the govern
mo, of Finland are now impos-
Sible."
The note, which was delivered
TO Thesleff by George T. Sum-
merlin, special assistant to Sc
cretary Of State Hull. also en-
phasized that the military oper-
atoms of Finland shave a direct
bearing on the success of the
Allied effort TO defeat Ger
many.
The note opened with a quota
ton OF the announcement made
by the Finnish government last
Tuesday in which it was stated
that German Foreign Minister
Ven Ribbentrop had been in
See FINLAND-Page 2
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Boy Admits
Killing Pol,
Buryin9 Body

ST. JOSEPH, Mich, June 30
-(P)- Lee Johnson, l4-year-
old Niles boy has admitted, ac-
cording to Sheriff AL Hastings
and Prosecutor Karl lick of
Berrien county, that he shot and
killed his playmate, Clair Blan-
ia, l3, in Niles late last Satur-
day afternoon and buried his
body in a shallow grave ncar
the scene of the shooting.
The Johnson boy, officers re-
ported today after questioning
him, insisted that the killing
was accidental, that he was
shooting at crows with 90 cal
iber rifle when he hit his COM
panion.
An inquest and autopsy were
ordered by Prosecutor lick and
will be held in Niles tonight.
Officers quoted the Johnson
boy, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
johnson, 1880 Michigan street,
Miles, as saying the shooting &C.
CURED at about 800 feet ouside
the Niles city limits near 18th
street and the end of Superior
street. Sheriff Hastings quoted
the boy as saying that when the
Blanta boy, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Blanta, 1928 Taft street,
fell, he became panicky, tossed
his rifle into some bushes and
fled. Later officers said, the
johnson boy told them he fe-
turned to the scene, dragged the
body so or 20 feet, scooped out
shallow grave into which he
placed the body and covered Il
with earth.
The Blanta boy was reported
See KILLING-Page s
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10, in car outside the Randolph
trailer home. All parties are
neighbors in the General Grant
Trailer Camp, 11-Mile near Van
Dyke.
Mrs. Baird said she had been
suspicious of her husbands &C.
tons lately. since he had quit his
welder' job because of threat
ened chest ailment, and after ar
irving at work on the midnight
shift Wednesday, she stayed only
an hour and was home in her
trailer by / a. m. She noticed
the family car missing, and also
her husband.
At 3 a. m, Baird and Mrs.
Randolph drove up to the Ran
dolph trailer and Mrs. Baird
said she decided to investigate.
3 See STABBING-Page 2
ROR HAXEI
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farming!
STATE POL | CE HE A [
URGES CARE IN
DRIVING

LANSING, June 80 - AZ -
Oscar G.. Olander, State Police
Commissioner, today urged mo-
florists to put victory first over
the Fourth by driving in such
a way to conserve vehicles and
prevent traffic accidents.
He warned that vioiators OF
driving regulations who en-
danger lives and property would
be subject to strict enforcement
action because waste caused by
such accidents cannot be af-
forded now when lives of men
See DRIVERS-Page 2
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Ring Of Steel
Closes About
Nazi Garrison
Fost-Movine
Russions Spring
Across Berezino

MOSCOW, June 30 - up -
Red Army units in force plunged
today into the Berezina River
northeast of Minsk, while engi'
neers of two Soviet armies hur'
ried pontoons into place for mass
crossings of the last natural OBJ
stacle before the White Russian
capital.
Field dispatches said the first
units met stiff fire from strong
German forces on the west bank
and from artillery positions west
Of the river. but there were nc
indications that the retreatlnp
Nazis would be able TO make a
stand here.
Although the fighting was
sharp. the gateway to Minsk ap'
peared open.
Great sWarms Of Stormoviks
Yaks and medium bombers kept
up a round-the-clock aerial Of
fonsivc against the whitening
Wchrmacht.
The Russians said II Nazi
planes we're downcd in "a hours
LONDON, June 80 - Mos
COW dispatches said today the
Red Army had begun direct
assault on the White Russian
capital of Minsk. moving up in
a semi-circle east of the city in
the climax to a week-!ong Of
fensive that shared thousands OF
Nazi troops in swift encircling
movements, then ground them
to bits
Premier Stain, announcing
the fall of Bobruisk, last Ger
man stronghold on the Father
land Line" said five German d.
visions we're liquidated there,
with $4,000 killed and $4,000
captured. A special Moscow
communicate said $4,000 Ger
mans were killed and $4,000
captured in the fighting earlier
around Vitebsk, making a total
of 10000 killed or captured in
those two sectors alone.
Stain disclosed also the re-
capture of the Karelian Soviet
See RUSSIA-Page 2
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Ford Gets 1915
Year Term in
Mistake-KiIIinq

ROSEVILLE - Luther Ford
35-year-old Detroit Negro, was
sentenced to 10 to Is years i'm
prisonmcnt today on manslaugh-
ter charges stemming from the
fatal shooting of his wife, Alice,
o1 June IL.
Ford was sentenced by CIRCUIT
Judge Alton II. Noe after the
original charge of murder TO
See FORD-Page 2
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Minesweeper Lost
Off East Coast

BOSTON. June 30 - tPl -
A coastal mineswcepcr was sunk
in collision with a destroyer es-
cort vessel off Cuttyhunk last
night and two officers and five
crew members Of the former are
missing, the Navy announced to-
day
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British Trap Snaps
Closer Around Coen

ca and Oran harborS and was
one of the directors of the Ma
piles operation.
In the drive TO encirclc Caen,
forward British elements fought
in the Esquay sector, southwest
See FRANCE-Page )
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Shift Publication
Dates Next Week

Due to July Fourth, a national
holiday, falling on Tuesday. The
Mon or Leader publication
dates next week will be Monday
Thursday and Friday.