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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
John e. Stock

NEW HAVEN - John C..
Stock, of 5000 North Main
street, died TO-DAY after a 10
month illness. Pending funeral
arrangements, his body will be
at the Will funeral home.
He is survived by his wife,
Irene; one son, 1t. Merrill F.,
with the Y. S. Army; four bro
theirs, and two sisters.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07

daughter. and a son. Ebert
Bryant. of Mount Clemens.
Services will be conducted at
1890 a. m, Friday, at the
Church of God and Christ, 80
Kibbee street. with Elder Stew
enson officiating.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07

DELTA, Utah, March = ~
The Army flier who clipped
the head off a COW with his
plane propeller near here two
weeks ago has been recommends
ed for court martial by IN
Army Investigating Board.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
MAG SALE SUCCESS

MCHS went over the top In
their magazine sales campaign
with a total of S2,032.0O. Miss
Anderson's room won the BAN
quett while Miss Purcell's junior
high class made enough points
to win a theatre party.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07

The manufacture of iewelry
requires more gold than does
any other purpose in normal
times.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
Frank Jean

Funeral services Will be held
Thursday for Frank Jean, age
81 years. of Washington. Mich.
who died Monday evening at
ST. Joseph Hospital following an
illness.
Mr. Jean was a native of Gin
ton Township. and spent his
earlier life farming in Macomb
Township, until 1905 when he
moved to Washington and be-
came established in carpentry
work and building. He was the
son of the late Robert and Cath
crime Jean, we'll known Clinton
Township residents.
His wife. Mrs. Annette Stew
ems Jean, died July IS, 1910.
Surviving is sister, Mrs. Jen-
ME Russell. Of Detroit, and a
brother, Robert w. Jean, well
known Detroit florist.
The funeral will take place
Thursday at 2 p. m, with serv-
ices at the Hubbard Funeral
Chapel. Burial will be in Clinton
Grove Cemetery. with Macomb
Lodge No "a, F. & A. NJ. Of
Davis, officiating at the grave.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
Mrs. s. IL. TubbS

Services for Mrs. Sarah z.
Tubbs, 81, of 1851 Marine City
highway, who died Saturday,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
SEEK OLD CARDS

Any old Christmas cards ly-
around your house will come
into use for the children at the
Sigma Gamma Hospital. The
Girl Reserves are collecting
them in a box in the front cor
ridor
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
|MountCkmens
High School

MCHS classes and groups and the
writer urges all pupils and faculty
members to advise her Of uems
which may interest the reading pub.
lie. II II your column.
PLAN CONCERT
A Dedicatory Concert will be
given Thursday evening in the
auditorium by the MCHS band
and orchestra under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Jerry Liston and
Miss Margaret Kleinhuizen. The
evenings program will feature
solos by Evelyn Riley and Bob
Mckenzie and music by the Bud
dies Dance Band. AS the pro-
ceeds will help pay for band uni
forms the ctudent body should
get behind the concert and bring
in enough money to get the uni
forms completely paid for.
VISIT NEWS PLANT
Mr.. Frank Kissels journal
ism class will visit the Detroit
News newspaper building We'd
nesday afternoon to see how a
big city paper is run. The stu
dents will leave at noon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27
SuperfortressesS Strike
 Twin Blows At Japs
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southeast of Tokyo, would be eX- banded considerably, enabling the Fist Bomber Command to operate on a larger scale than the 20th Command in China and India.
 Additional SuperfortreSses al- ready have arrived at Saipan since the initial raid Friday and sup plies can be brought more easily by sea to Saipan than to the inland bases of the 20th Command.
 The program for the lombard ment of Japan was laid out on a strategic pattern similar to Euro pean operations against Germany, Harmon said. Though he acknow- ledged that the size of the attacks would not equal in number of planes or bomb tonnage those against the Reich until additional bases have been seized close enough to permit Liberatofs and Flying FortreSseS to operate.
 Before we get through, how ever," he said, i've will approach the scale of European operations because our objectives are concen- trated in a smaller area and there fore will not require as many planes and bombs to neutralize them.
 "Thousand-pla raids are a possibility, but I hope the war will be over before then"
 After hours of silence on the Bangkok raid, the Tokyo radio said 40 superfortresses attacked the Thailand capital. The broadcast claimed one was shot down.
 Tokyo reported blind bombing of the outskirts of Bangkok and said some damage was suffered.
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14OIll 4 dSC 4J destroyed and evacuated its big air base at Manning in southern Kwangsi Province last Monday to escape advancing Japanese troops.
 The base was the seventh to be destroyed by the 14th Air Force since the Japanese began their southward smash last June. How ever, the fact that Liberators still were attacking enemy shipping 1n the South China Sea indicated that other bases were within range ot Japanese shipping lanes.
 The New Blows The new blows from China, the Southwest Pacific and the Central Pacifir cut deeply into Japan's already dwindling Navy and Mer- chant Marine at time when she needs every vessel she can lay her hands on to maintan her far-flung empire and supply and reinforce threatened garrisons in the Philip pines.
 The loss of the cruiser and de- stroyer at Luzon was particularly severe blow to the Japanese Navy, already badly crippled from the sec ond battle of the Philippine Sea.
 The cruiser, of the six-inch-gun Kumano class, previously had been damaged by American planes and finally was sent to the bottom near Santa Cruz, 75 miles north of Ma nila. The destroyer was not tdenti- fled.
 Four ships believed to have been small, fast transports were over had by carer planes at Marnduque, south of Luzon, and sunk. Other vessels sunk in the carrier-based at- tack comprised nine cargo vessels, two luggers and a small tanker.
 Four cargo ships and an oiler were damaged, Nimitz's communi- que said.
 The carrier planes fought through a screen of enemy fighters to reach their targets and shot down 29 air. craft in combat. Thirty-lve more were destroyed on the ground, while another eight were downed by Ad- miral William F. Halsey's third fleet anti-aircraft guns.
 Some of the carrier planes strafed and fired seven tank cars and 8 convoy of 150 trucks south Of Manila.
 Land-baSed planes of the Central Pacific command, meantime, con- tinued their round of attacks on the Bonin Islands, 750 miles south east of Japan. Navy search planes started large fires among radio in- stallations at Chichi Friday and also bombed Hara and Mulko, while Marine Mitchells attacked shipping and harbors elsewhere in the Archi- peligo. A ship was hit at Chichi.
 MacArthur's daily communque added to the toll of enemy shipping with 8 report that his land-based planes had sunk three troop-laden transports of Cebu in the Philip pines, scored near misses on 6,000- ton transport and damaged two small freighters and three, coastal vessels west of the Philippines and off Borneo, and destroyed 6,000- ton freighter in the Moluccas.
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Radio Tokyo said drizzling rain and low-llanging clouds prevented the several formations of B-29s from accurate bombing of import ant targets" with the result that only slight damage" was caused to '.ron-military facilities"
 The Japanese Domei Agency said that the raiders began arriving over Tokyo and the surrounding area nhortly after D. m. (midnight ewt and were intercepted in aerial com bat by Japanese fighters.
 Some superfortresSes were said to have attempted to raid other areas in the Kanto and Chebu districts, the names applied respectively to seven prefectures including Tokyo in eastern Honshu and 10 perfec- lures in Western Honshu.
 A subsequent Japanese imperial headquarters communique said only about 40 superfortresses participat- ed in the hour-long raid on Tokyo .'and its environs" Damage was slight and none was caused to 1m- portant facilities" the communique said.
 Jap Claims
 Another communique claimed that long-range Japanese planes set fire to several B-29s in an attack on the superfortress base at Saipan last night.
 EGG Monitors said Tokyo do- meStic broadcastS and Domei wire less tranSmissionS were interrupted several times for brief periods. At 3:O5 P. M, the Tokyo home radio went of the air for three minutes and upon resuming, the announcer said electrical trouble" had caused the break.
 Tokyo made no immediate claim that any of the SuperfortreSses had been shot down. Two were lost in Fridays attack, but the 12-man crew of one was rescued by de- stroyer 140 miles north of Saipan after spening 1912 hours on two life rafts.
 The Japanese radio did not men, tion the attack on Bangkok, which lies at the head of the Gulf of Siam and is an important supply port for operations in South China and Burma.
 It was the first time that the 2Oth Bomber Command has at- tackled Thailand, though pre- viouSly it had raided Manchuria, Sumatra, Singapore and Formosa in addition to the Japanese home island of Kyushu.
 The Tokyo raid underlined warn- ings of Gen. H. H. Arnold, com- mander of the 20th Air Force, and Harmon, deputy commander. that the Superfortresses were embarked on an all-out offensive designed to soften Japan for invasion and would hit the capital with increas- ing frequency and weight with each succeeding month.
 Larger Raids
 Harmon told the United Press that facilities for handling the huge B-29s at Saipan, 1850 miles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27

(Continued from Page D center of the German line, storm ing and taking the railway town of Humenne after a fighting, IS mile advance down 8 narrow mountain valley from the Snia area.
 The fall of Humenne, seven- way rail and highway junction 21 miles south of the Polish frontier, put the Soviets astride the trans Slovakian railway connecting E'rzemsyl in Poland with Budapest, Myslina, 21s miles west of Humenne and 28 miles due east of Presov, also was taken in the Red Army advance and at last reports Pet rov'S men were pushing swiftly westward.
 MichalOVce Falls
 A dozen miles south of Humenne, another Soviet Spearhead advanced four miles to capture Michalovce, 29 miles east of KasSa, the seventh city of pre-war CzechoSlovakia.
 Capture of PreSov and Kassa would sever the Tarnow-Budapest railway across eastern Slovakia. For more than 100 miles to the west there are no other rail lines con- meeting Poland and Hungary.
 North of Humenne, Petrov,s forces captured H0rbolrcabynas seven miles south of the Polish border. while al the southern end 0e the 4th Army
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Tanks Tighten Battle
 Arc Around Duren
(Continued from Page 1.)

German civilians and troops have completed a huge series of world war one type trenches along the Roer river, the main German de- fense line west of the Rhine on the First and Ninth Army fronts.
 A double line of trench has been dug on the east bank of the 75-foot wide Roer, while a great arc of trenches extend east from the river toward the Fortress City of Duren, already largely in ruins from air bombardment.
 The First Army's Fourth Infan- try Division, winch fought through the Hurtgen fores5 and emerged onto the Cologne plain some five miles southwest of Duren last Sat- urday, rested on the eastern fringe of the woodlands ending a new as- Sault.
 Fighting in the forest was de- scribed as baout the costliest of the entrie war, with daily gains mea- sured in scores of yards. One ser- geant told United Press front cor- respondent that it was "aS rough as D-Day and St. To put together. " Front Widened
 Elements of Patton's 90th Division widened the Third Army front in- 1 side the Saar Basin east and southeast of the Luxembourg bor- der to 20 miles with their advance to Kerprichemmersdorf.
 Other Third Army units cracked one of the strongest segments of the Maginot Line, in which the Germans had reversed the guns to meet the American advance, with the capture of 10 forts in the St. Avoid area.
 St. Avoid itself, 25 miles east ot Metz, was brought under siege by the 319th and 80th regiments with advances through the Longeville forest to one mile north of St Avoid, mile and half northeast a mile west and a mile south.
 The northern column was within four miles of the German border.
 Supreme Headquarters reported that Fort Sommy and Fort St Blaize were among the Maginot strongholds captured. Fort Marival was abandoned by the enemy headquarters said.
 Forts Seized
 Dispatches aid the 80th Infantry division completed the rupture o1 the St. Avoid sector of the line in an hour and 25 minutes and listed | LIort O1Iotrn Virta Fort I,allOre- fang, Fort Bambiderstroff, Fort Bambesch and three Einseline forts as the others seized.
 On the Seventh Army front, the 1O3rd Division cleared the Vosges crests and pushed intothe western outskirts of Vile, eight and a half miles west of Selestat. The 103rd Division advanced to Ste. Croix, 10 miles southwest of Selestat and three miles beyond the Vosges hump"
 A Supreme Headquarters spokes- man said the Seventh Army was meeting Stiffening enemy resistance both north and south of Stras- bourg as the Germans Strove to cover their retreat from the Rhine
 However, front dispatches re- ported that Gen. Jacques LeClerc's French 2nd Armored Division fighting with the Seventh Army had overrun 12 or more strong forts in an advance south from Strasbourg despite destruction of bridge at Graffenstaden, four miles | below StraSbOurg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27

front, they took Budgovce, .16 miles west of Ungvar, and Leles, eight miles west of Cop and only IT miles east of the Hungarian from tier.
 Meanwhile, Marshal Rodion Y Malonovsky's 2nd Ukrainian army locked in a hammer-and-tongs bat tie with German and Hungarian troops on the northeastern ap- breaches to Budapest, after cap- turing the bristling stronghold o1 Hatvan, p miles from the capital
 FerociOus Fighting
 Berlin and Moscow reported fero- cious fighting several miles west ot Hatvan where the Nazis were struggling to hold the railway junc- ton of Aszod and prevent a Rus sian break-thorugh to the Danube north of Budapest.
 At the same time, the Germans admitted that Soviet shock troops had broken into the streets of Eger 58 miles northeast of Budapest, and Miskolc, 81 miles above the capital The Nazis also asserted that thou sands of Red Army troops were moving up on Budapest from the southwest across there firm Dan- ube river bridgeheads far below the city.
 GA Moscow broadcast picked up by BEG Monitors called on the citizens of Budapest to save their city from destruction by the Nazis and claimed that street fighting had begun in the capitaD
 Moscow remained silent on the fighting in western Latvia, but Ser lin propagandists said the Germans had halted big offensive by some 100000 Russian troops after split ting the main Soviet forces lnsO small groups.
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borS bill.
 Aiken said floor control was "only incidental" to the fight in the Senate.
 Real Issue
 ''The real issue" he said, ''is whether we are going to conserve the remaining natural resources of the nation for the 12,000,0OO men in service and their descendants, or whether we are going to turn them over to 8 small group of private utilities. That is what we are real ly fighting about in the Senate this time"
 Following passage of the flood control and rivers and harborS bills providing the latter is taken up this session-the Senate must also vote on the second war powers eX- tension, on a crop insurance bill passed last week by the House, on the Social Security Tax freeze, and possibly on proposed amendment to the constitution guaranteeing equal rights to men and women.
 Committees also are busy. The war Investigating committee is checking on both the cigarette shortage and a reported rift in the Department of Justice. It has cal- led upon Attorney General Francis Riddle and Assistant Attorney Gen. eral Norman H. Littell to present briefs of particulars against each other as the basis for a committee decision on Q possible fall-sgale in- vestigntiom ek xAttels resignation representatives of tobacco firms are to be called to Capitol Hill to tes- tily on the cigarette shortage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27

mention the rate of interest a War Bond brings. Nor does it speak of the good things which await those wise enough to ac- quire as many War Bonds as possible out of current war earn ings. That's the voice of your conscience.
 Conscience rekindles memo ries of dear ones on far away battlefields. Conscience asks you to lend what is needed and stirs you to new endeavor to honor the sacrifice of men from your home and from this community on the fighting fronts.
 Each of us must keep lending as long as fellow Americans keep dying for our liberty. Is lending your government mini mum amount of $75 to buy a Bond which natures at $100 ten years hence. asking too much?
 THE EDITOR.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27

(Continued from Page D ly $150,00O yearly from the collec- tion of old-age assistance taxes as based on no delinquencies. How ever, it is anticipated that goodly share of the $194,176 will be collect ed in addition this coming term.
 Under state statute once a war rant has been issued to any delin- quent taxpayer a total of $11 will have to be paid by the individual. This results from the original pay ment of $3 plus the $1 lien placed on delinquent payment plus the $7 warrant fee.
 Procedure to be used will be based on issuance of notice to the de- linquent by the office of the city tax collector Humbert Mangini fol- lowed by a personal notice by city sheriff Clayton Briotti to be fol- lowed by the issuance of the war rant by the office of city corpora tion counsel, Maurice T. Healey.
 The old-age assistance tax is or- dinarily due on February of each year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27
US. Bombers Keep Up BIitz
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ing plants and other industries.
 The air ministry, announcing the Munich raid, said objectiveS in west ern Germany also were bombed. and night bombers hit German air fields well behind the enemy lines. One plane was missing from all the oper- ationS.
 The night bombing followed a daylight attack by more than HOO American flying fortresses and liber- ators on a big oil refinery at Mis- burg near Hanover, rail viaduct near Bielefeld, rail yards at Hamm and other targets in northwest Ger many.
 Mosquito bombers of the tactical air force attacked 31 German trains last night on a broad front around Rot Erdam, Dusseldorf, Venlo, Mun- ster and Osnabruck. They also hit IA barges, three factory buildings, canal bridge, anti-aircraft positions and scores of motor vehicles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27

II o6C ~ the way for swift VILE settlement of pending industry-wide cases af- fecting electrical, textile, meat-pack- ing, aluminium, automobile and rub Der workers. Steel wages serve as a barometer for other industries.
 The boards denial of the steel workers request for a general in- cease was formal ratification of a previously announced decision. Also turned down were union requests for a guaranteed annual wage, sick leave, elimination of geographical wage differentials, increased learn ers' rate and group insurance. On the issue of sick leave and insurance, the VILE said it would approve any reasonable" plan agreed to by the union and the companies.
 In connection with the annual wage, the board said it was recom- merding to President Roosevelt that he appoint a special, independent committee to study the question as it pertained to all American work CTS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27
.AIexonder Promoted

London, Nov. 27-(UP)-Sir Hal old R. I. G. Alexander becam Britain's Eighth and youngest fliele marshall today coincident with his appointment to succeed Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson as supreme Allied commander in the Mediter- ranean theater.
 A series of military appointments announced by the British governor after consultation with Washington elevated the 52-year-old Alexander to the rank of field marshal "su- pernumerary to the establishment" " effeceive from last June 4, the date on which the Allied armies captur- ed Rome.
 Alexander, an Irish guardSmau who fought with the First British Expeditionary Force in France in 1939-4O and was one of the last men to leave the beach at Bunker que, becomes senior to Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, whose appointment as a field marshal became effective on Sept. l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27

was made for a woman member, with the result that La Luce's first job in London was to go house. hunting.
 Congressman Matthew J. Merritt D., New York, who acted as Spokes- man for the group, denied, however, that they had failed to provide for Mrs. Luce.
 ''She got the best accommoda- tions,' he said.
 Reason for Mission
 Merritt and J. Parnell Thomas, R., New Jersey, told a press con- ference that their 17-man delega- tion had been sent over by the house military affairs committee to find out if there was any truth to the reported shortages of shells and cigarettes in this theater.
 we haven't found out yet if there is a shell shortage" Merritt said. Asked whether he doubted Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's assertion that the shortage did exist, Merritt retorted that i've haven seen Eisen- hover yet"
 Thomas said if shell shortage actually is found to exist ''the blame can be laid on the doorstep of the labor baronS who condone strikes.
 Asked by 8 British reporter to name some of the "'labor barons' Thomas replied that he included Sidney Hillman and Harry Bridges in that category.
 On the cigarette situation, the congressman promised to make every effort to find out whether "black market had anything to do with the scarcity of smokes for the CTS.
 The committee, the first congress sional delegation to make an official visit to the fighting fronts, is ex- pected to remain in the United Kingdom for several days, after which it will go to the continent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27
FDR Accepts Resignation
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Hull several times at the hospital, the most recent occasion being yes- terday. It was believed the final decision was made then.
 He said the resignation had been submitted and accepted formally; but that he did not think the ex- change of letters would be pub lished because they were more or less in the nature of personal cor respondence.
 He said twice during the confer ence that Hull would keep in very close touch with hirn-the presi- dent-and that through this close contact, they would continue to ex- change ideas about foreign policy. However, he added that he did not plan to give Hull any sheepskin- any commission as an office-holder.
 Hull will be in and around Wash ington for a long time to come, the president said, and will help carry on development and advocacy of the United Nations plan aimed towar da permanent peace - at least, peace during the lifetime ot the present population.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27

Continued from Page D torial comment but merely said that Hope had received 89 per cent or the balloting in this category. Mil ion Berle and Eddie Cantor also were listed by the magazine readers in the same category.
 The balloting, the magazine sald, re vealed that Fibber, McGee ana Molly rated as "the radio comedians who most consistently respect Chrs- tian marian principles" ,"
 Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Eo- gar Bergen also were menuoneo favorably.