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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Drug Store Closes,
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27507 Princeton, In this yilta0A
uses a telephone; booth = .
drug store he'll keep o. 90
peeled to make sure no go -
the store,
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day night while Culloe1oo 49,
phoning from Al's Drug s1ooa
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Old Crowd Ready
for Celebration
Old Timers Awoit
Thursday Outing

Thursday marks the 64th an
niversary of the Old Crowd of
Mount Clemens, and the tradi-
tional assembly at the County
Building and outing down the
Clinton River will continue I'M
interrupted despite the incon-
veniences Of wartime condi-
tons.
Invitations In the old-fash-
Toned style to which the Crowd
has become accustomed were
distributed this week by vet
eral secretary Trufant T. (Tom)
Shoemaker, and the elaborate
printing job was set up by
member Tai Lee, who set the
type for the original Old Crowd
invitation printed in August
1880.
Promptly at 8 a. m, Thurs
day, treasurer Art Donaldson
will take his place at the Coun-
ty Building to collect member
ship fees and distribute the priz-
ed Old Crowd ribbons which are
See OLD CROwD-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Sudden Storm
ki|IsFarnler
High Winds Rip
Electric Lines

A terrific summer wind and
rainstorm, accompanied by thun-
der and lightning, caused AZ
least one death, destroyed Q
house, and brought down cleo
trical power wires over Macomb
county in a storm that broke
about six o'clock yesterday.
The death attributed to yes
terday's storm was that of Au-
gust Gerand, a farmer of Ray
township, who was operating a
two-h orse fertilizer spreader
when lightning, striking close
by, frightened the team, caus-
ing them to bolt and run.
Gerand was thrown off the
vehicle as it approached a con-
crete strip extending from the
barn. He struck his head
See STORM-Page 6
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
j. S.Heavies
Rip ForIl,osa's
Main Ports
Bombers Stob
within 200 Miles
Of Philippines
BY J. B. KRUGER

BY the Associated Press War Editor
Formosa, anchor on Japan's
inner water routes and only 200
miles north of the Philippines,
has been attacked by US. hea-
Wy bombers based on China,
Gen. Joseph Stilwells head
quarters announced today.
The raid, directed at one of
the islands main ports, compile
mented heavy aerial blows
which have virtually neutraliz-
ed Halmahera Island at the SOU
thern and opposite end of the
Philippines. Docks AZ Takao
were hit and three ffeighters
were sunk in the narrow water
way between Formosa and the
China coast.
RAID VOLCANO ISLES
Land-based heavy bombers
stabbed again at Two Jima in
the Volcano Islands some 900
miles from Japan, said radio
Tokyo. Twenty-Five Liberators
attacked the japanese Fortress
yesterday and were engaged by
Fighters, the unconfirmed enc
my report declared. Two bomb
ers were downed, it added.
Halmahera, big Japanese-held
islam. lying between Allied
forces on New Guinea and the
Southern Philippines, has been
effectively neutralized under a
rain of air-borne explosives.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
mu que today said:
THE flexibility of this great
base is now gone. The enemy's
airfields at Halmahera and at
contiguous intermediate bases
are practically neutralized, his
maritime forces largely inter-
dicted and his ground troops
See PACIFIC-Page 6
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Gen. Patton Makes
Brilliant Showing

vealed that 1t. Gen. Omar N.
Bradley is the overall COM
mander of the newly-formed
18th U. S. Army group and 1t.
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges has
taken Bradley's former place as
commander of the American
First Army. The First and Third
armies are included in the 18th
u. S. Army group.
Eisenhower said that Patton
had been on the marching wing
of the American spearhead driv-
ing to envelope the German
Seventh Army in Normandy.
The Supreme Commander add
ed that that was where Patton
belonged.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

designations have been re-
ceived from Jane Howard, the
daughter of Rainie DOC" How
ard of this city, and Merle
Dehls, who will remain in Cali
fornia to teach in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Marjorie Olds, Mrs. Jane
Bradley and Helene Langthorne
have also handed in their resig :.
nations.
Pupils who have not previ-
yously enrolled In the public
schools may do so on Aug. %,
%, or 80. Public High school
enrolment is expected to be
somewhat lower this year than
in previous years due to heavy
labor demands.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Worker Killed

EAST DETROIT - Crushed
by heavy clay which buried
him when a ditch wall collapsed,
a 58-year-old Van Dyke laborer
was killed here at 4:30 p. m,
Monday.
The victim was Charles Haul
er, of 8040 Continental, Van
Dyke.
Hauser was working on a city
water main project in front Of
22063 Saxony, East Detroit,
when the accident took place.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Rickenbacker
to Testify
Here Thursday

Capt. Eddie v. Rickenbacker,
famous ace of World War No. l,
and survivor of an epic crash
landing in mid-Pacific during
the present conflict, will be one
Of the experts appearing on the
witness stand before Circuit
Judge Alton H. Noe Thursday
morning during the hearing Of
testimony concerning the City
of Detroits condemnation suit
embracing a mile-square tract #
land in Warren township.
The case, designed TO provide
Detroit with site for a post
war airport development, is be-
ing fought by residents of the
affected area.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

Nearly 1000 Mount Clemens
youngsters of elementary and
high school ages will trudge
back to public and parcchial
schools when they open the first
week in September.
Parochial school students will
enroll at st. Louis and st.
Mary's on Thursday, Sept. q,
while public school pupils will
open their books one day earl
Ter.
The combined teaching staffs
Of Mount Clemens parochial
schools now number ~. st.
Mary's High school Is one Of IS
accredited schools in the De-
troit archdiocese. Actual re-
sumption Of classes will be pre-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

"North Of Condo the village
Of Proussy was taken and our
troops ore approaching St.
Denis De Mere" q heodquor-
tiers eommunique said. Furth-
or west Allied troops advanced
to within a mile of Vassy and
southeast Of Wire an advance Of
a mile has brought US to point
about one mile from Tinche-
bray.
"Other units advancing south
of Wire are moving along the
Gathemo Tincherray roa d
against moderate resistance.
Troops pushing eastwards from
Mortain have reached Ger.
"Along the southern bound
airy of the pocket our columns
moving from the Barenton area
are approaching Domfront and
units which reached Ranes are
encountering increasing resist
ance.
BITTER FIGHTING
"In Brittany fighting Is still
in progress at st. Malo where
the situation remains unchanged
and at Dinard where we have
made advances towards the
port. At Brest and Lorient there
is nothing new to report.
Throughout the third conse-
cutive day of clear weather mas
sive formations of all types of
Allied aircraft hammered at
erman forces in the Normandy
pocket and attacked airfields,
bridges and communication tar
gets from western. Germany to
Bordeaux virtually without OPP
position.
Seven enemy strongpoints
See TRAP-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
No Relief Sighted
from Heat Wave
Temperature Scars
Throughout Stote

No relief from the heat for
Michigan residents was sighted
today by the Detroit weather
bureau, as it surveyed Associ-
ated Press reports of high tenn
peratures throughout the state
following Mondays storm.
No decided change in tenn
perature and possible scattered
thundershowers was the fore
cast for Lower Michigan.
Thermometers in the Detroit
area hit 90 degrees Monday in
the 26th day of the 90-degree
heat wave. Owosso listed an
official 107 recording, as crops
suffered severely.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

ing oil their landings olons Q
broad section OF Meditevren-
con beech around Toulon.
A special eommuniqus Q few
hours after the blow was struck
said beaches elons q consider
able length Of the Riviera had
been seized by mid-morning &C
cording to schedule with scarce
~ any ground opposition and no
air opposition.
One Of the greatest air borne
combat forces ever assembled
paved the way for the assault
and likewise carried out opera
tions successfully far inland.
500 SHIP ARMADA
The great stab into the "un-
derbelly Of Europe" bringing
the battle for France to full
fury, was backed by more than
800 ships-one of the biggest
fleets ever to churn the waters
of the Mediterranean and by
great air power.
The troops swarmed ashore
with the avowed purpose of
linking their Mediterranean the
alter with their front west of
Paris where the Allies apparent
ly were on the point Of scoring
a great victory which might
speedily result in the liberation
of most or all of France.
THE Army of France is in be-
ing again, fighting on its own
sell for the liberation of its
country with all its traditions of
victory behind it. Remember
1913" was the ringing declara-
ton Of the commander-in in chief
of the invasion force, Gen. Sir
Henry Maitland Wilson.
STRIKE AT DAWN
Striking after sunrise, seven
waves Of infantry splashed
ashore in the first two hours and
seized their initial detectives
with great rapidity at many
places along a 125-mile stretch
of the Riviera between the great
port Of Carseille and Nice.
Enemy defenses had been pull
verified by five straight days of
a powerful air offensive.
Shortly before dawn a large
air-borne combat force descend
ed into the rugged hills which
rise from the coastline and went
into a grapple with the German
defenders for possession of key
communication points and COM
handing vantage points.
Scarcely a shot was fired at
the big transport planes and
gliders. First returning pilots of
the massive fighter plane screen
which covered the invasion sail
not an enemy plane opposed the
early operations.
American, British. French,
Canadian, Netherlands, Polish,
Greek and Belgian warships
covered the swarms o. landing
craft.
The prodigious effort, involv-
ing hundreds of thousands of
men and mountains of supplies
and equipment, was not far
from the mouth of the Rhone
See INvASION-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Acute Truck
Tire Shortage
Needs Of Army
Must Come First

Large truck tire requirements
of the invasion forces must come
first.
That was the gist of a state
ment made today by Frank j..
Wilcox, chairman of the truck
tire panel for the entire county
and member of the new 13-man
panel rationing that commodity
throughout the ID Southeastern
Michigan counties, including
Wayne, that comprise the De-
troit OPA District.
Wilcox statement followed a
cat Of approximately 80 per cent
in quotas allotted ration boards
for truck tires in sizes 8.25 and
larger.
"The needs OF the invasion
forces for the larger truck tire,
which, of necessity must come
first, have reduced the available
quantity almost to the vanish
ing point" Wilcox pointed out.
Tires can only be granted in
extremely unusual cases where
there is a vital need to continue
transport Of commodities highly
essential to the war effort or
civilian economy.
MANY trucks not falling in
these categories will have to be
laid up for lack OF needed tires"
he concluded, in pointing out
that all owners are warned to
use q maximum of care against
overlooking and should recap
at once when needed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
BREAK STRANGE SILENCE
Nuzis Admit LANDING

LONDON, Aug. IS R- A
German communique said Al.
lied troops had landed on q To-
mile section of the South French
coast between Toulon n d
Cannes during early morning
hours today and that our coast
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Plan W asie Paper
Pickup on Aug. II
Titus Announces
Citywide Project

A city-wide collection of
waste paper will take place Sun
day, Aug. q, it was announced
today by Charles v. Titus,
chairman of the Mount Glenn
ems Salvage-For-Victory pro-
gram.
Inability to obtain manpower
to help with a week day collec-
ton, and the shortage of trucks
during the working week neces-
states the Sunday pickup, Tit
us points out.
Boy Scout troops are expected
to cooperate as in previous sal
wage drives.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

al defense is engaged in . fight
with the enemy landing troops. "
The announcement followed
strange silence Of several
hours and tacitly admitted the
invading American. French and
British amphibious forces had
secured a footing.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Russians Open
New 0nsIauQIli
Strike Toward
Prussion Border
BY DANIEL DE LUCE

ny OANA6L u AUO8 RI.
MOSCOW, Aug. Is ~ :
Russian forces started attnchtn9
freshly dug German ontxumG.
'ments today In front of GrajoWo
two miles south Of tn -
Prussian border. aftas Co.
the steel and concrete ~
around Osowiec and winnine j
bridgehead across the HioAG1p
river.
Gen. G. F. Zakharov tliroSe
the full offensive might Ct ~
second White Russian Army
group against the GermanS' -
tempts to reorganize their 1ro11r
tier line just below the MaslsG.
ian Lakes.
A laundering bombardment
See RUSSIA-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

coded with q Pontifical High
Mass in Blessed Sacrament Ca
thedral, Detroit, on Sept. 8.
L. Wade Fast, Superintendent
of Mount Clemens Pu bile
schools. reports that full teach
ing staff has been contracted in
spite of an apparent scarcity Of
teachers.
New High school teachers in
clude Gerald E. Watson, who
will teach chemistry and math-
ematics, and Richard Edwards,
who will assist in the, boys
physical education department.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Special Meeting Of Diet

NEW YORK. Aug. Is - up
Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso
has called a special session OF
the japanese Diet for Sept. 5.
the Tokyo radio said this morn
ing quoting an official Board
Of Information announcement.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

Describes
Landings
BY KENNETH DIXON

ON A BIS NIT c H E L L
BOMBER OVER SOUTHERN
FRANCE, Aug. Is -(R- So
far as l could see from a height
of 1000 feet above the beaches
where the Allies SIN a s h d
ashore less than an hour ago
no major fighting had yet de-
veloped.
AS far as 20 miles inland
complete lack of any sign of
See EYE-WITNESS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

VAN DYKE - Five persons
involved in q brawl at the Cas-
sino Bar. on Van Dyke avenue
pleaded guilty before Justice
Frank z. Jeanette on Monday
90 charges of drunkenness and
disorderly conduct.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
BY HOWARD S. COWAN


A SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDITION
AIRY FORCE COMMAND POST
IN NORMANDY, Aug. Is -
(P)- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow-
err announced today that 1t.
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.. "Old
Blood and Cuts" of the Tunis-
ian and Sicilian campaigns, is
leading the American Third
Army which has driven rough
shod over the Germans in low
err Normandy and Brittany.
Since Aug. 1 the Third Ar
my had effected the cutoff OF
the Breton Peninsula and help
ed close a trap on the German
Seventh Army with a spectacu-
lar sweep northward from lie
Mans.
A French division of armor
under Brig. Gen. Jacques Lee
Clerc, who joined the Allies
from Lake Chad in Africa, Is
fighting with Patton.
The announcement Of Patton S
command came after it was re-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
ALLIES STORM ASHORE
IN S0UThE RN France
Nuzi Escape.
Door Slammed

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED ExPEDI-
TIokARY FORCE, Aug IS LAP The Ameu'
can. eIinched control Of the German escape roads
70 the south todoy by capturing la Ferte Mace be-
tween Domfront and Rones.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Overrun Broad
Riviera Sector
~ EDWARD KENNEDY

ROME, Aug. 15-tAP)- The Army Of FrsHea
and great force Of bottle hardened Americans end
British struck Hitler fourth major front tooy,
invading southern Fronee and successfully eompjot.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

WANTED TO BUY = Home
or 2-3-4 family apartment. Gus
Kaufman, lilo New street.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-07-27
COuntians Visit
Rogers Memorial

Mrs. "Dick" Diamond, who is in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her hus-
band, 1t. Diamond, writes: when
Dick and / visited the Will Rogers
Memorial at Claremore, Oklahoma,
yesterday, we noticed that Gladys
Best MRS. Lawrence) of Gathers
burg had registered there the pre-
vious day-small worldl. We like
Oklahoma, but will be glad to be
seeing home" Mrs. Best, who was
visiting her mother, Mrs. Thorn
hill, in Claremont, returned home
Friday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-07-27
COUNTY WHISKEY
RATION is DOUBLED

Beginning August 1 county
residents who for several months
have been limited to the purchase
of one bottle of whiskey a month
at the Montgomery County dispen-
saries will have their ration
doubled.
Beryl R. English, manager of
the Liquor Control Board, who
told of the change, said that due
to the scarcity of Scotch, sales
would be. held to one bottle per
month. Large purchases made re-
Gently, the manager stated, should
afford residents sufficient whiskey
for several months on the two bot
ties per month basis. There is no
shortage of brandies, cordials,
runs or wine.
To purchase at any of the
county's dispensaries in Rockville,
Silver Spring or Bethesda persons
making the purchase must present
their ration books.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-07-27
Vacation School
Program Friday

The Daily Vacation Bible School
in the Rockville Baptist Church
will conclude on Friday evening,
July 20, with commencement exer-
cises at 7.30 p. M, in the Church
auditorium. Forty children have
attended the sessions.
Bible lessons, hand work, and a
play period constituted the daily
program, which was directed by
the Rev. H. o. Cooper. Miss Cath
leen McBain, Miss Blanche Ray,
and Mrs. Herbert Cooper were the
teachers, and Mrs. Elmer Hutch
inson, Miss Fraley, Miss Marie
Coffey and Miss Montaine Gallo
way have assisted.
The program on Friday evening
will feature the Bible work and
songs that the children have learn
ed. The hand work will be on dis
play in the Sunday School rooms
down stairs. A social hour will
follow.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-07-27
New Recreation
Features Planned
For Local Center
Tournament Picnic To Be
Held In Washington Grove
August IL

New features planned for the
Rockville Recreation Center, now
in it's fourth week of operation, in
clude woodcraft, book construction
and tournament picnic.
Mr.. Clifford Balm, woodcraft
specialist, will be at the elemental
ry school each Wednesday morn
ing to instruct boys and girls in
various types of woodwork.
A course in book construction
will begin on August l at the ele-
mentary school. Finished products
will be bound and will prove USE
full as diaries, recipe books, ad-
dress books, etc. Since the ma
terials for such project are ex-
pensive and must be ordered be-
fore August 1, those planning to
take the book-making course are
urged to telephone Rockville 81
and give their names in advance.
Such notice should be given by
8 p. m. Friday, July %.
An upper county picnic and
sports tournament is scheduled for
August IL, at which time Rock
vile will meet Gaithersburg and
Washington Grove in softball,
ping pong, and badminton. The
meet is to be held at the Washing
ton Grove center in the afternoon
and evening of August IL. Adults
of the community, as we'll as the
children, are urged to attend the
tournament and bring their bas-
ket suppers.
Mrs. Mollie Waters Christie, di-
rector of the Rockville Center, also
announces the appointment of Miss
Jean Thompson as assistant direc-
tor to succeed Mrs. Lourine Stew
ems who resigned last week.
The program operates daily from
from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. in the ele-
mentary school at which time chill
dren from 5 years of age to ~
may attend. From 8 p. m. to 5
each day the gymnasium is open
and activities are also scheduled
there on Monday, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings from to 10
p. m. Adults are cordially invited
to come to the gym on these even
ings for pingpong, badminton, soft
ball and Switchboard.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-07-27
Gaithersburg Public Library To Be
ReOpened Monday, July 31st

help. Right up to the moment
that we closed, some time back,
the teen-age crowd were our best
patrons, and they kept on dropp-
ing in hopefully, even though they
had become accustomed to the fact
that there Just wasn't anything
new, as they said. Now there is
something new!
among the books that will
grace our shelves when the library
is again opened are the best-sellers
Strange Fruit, Here Is Your
War, Leave Her to Heaven, 4
Never Left Home, Presidential
Agent, The Robe, "A Bell for
Adano', and many others of recent
best-seller fame, or just of that
good, solid enjoyment type that
are always favorites. We hope, in
the coming months, to do some
thing solid for the youngsters,
too-and we would particularly
appreciate their helpful sugges-
tions.
Before we forget - we have
good reason to believe, after read
ing over the CORY, mystifying, and
thoroughly chilling titles, that we
have a Mystery Section second to
none! SO, whether you read mys-
teries as a means Of escape, or as
a hobby, come up to the library,
and we'll probably have just what
you. want.
Neither must we forget that
the Rockville Library has been
most generous in it's contribution
toward the people Of Gaithersburg
in allowing US to have, for a limit
ed time, a number Of very good
titles. These are returned and
others secured, for a very nominal
sum, and we wish to bow with
gratitude in the direction of our
sister library in Rockville"