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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
Taylor Case
Testimony is
Taken Today

Testifying in the examination
Of John Taylor, 38-year-old
Ferndale motorist who is charg-
ed with negligent homicide, DR..
Robert Rosen, Wayne county
deputy coroner today told JUS
tice Frank E. Jeanette that the
death of George Cassidy, 40,
who succumbed from internal
injuries following an auto acct
dent on Eight Mile road, was
due to "a violent external
blow, according to evidence
gathered in an autopsy he per-
formed on the victim.
With DR.. Rosen's statements
on record, Justice Jeanette ad-
journed the case until April Z.
Previous evidence by DR.
John F. DeYonker, Jr.. brought
out that Taylor was in an in
toxicated condition when exam
ined by the Warren physician
following the fatal crash on Dec.
II, 1913. Also injured in the
mishaps was 10-year old Frank
lin Juntti, who was helping Cas-
sidy push q car into his roadside
garage. The boy suffered a
broken leg.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
MOTHER is HELD
Identify Abandoned Boby

ANN ARBOR. Mich, March
17-(P- A 23-year-old war
worker mother, who abandoned
her infant son "a hours after its
birth at st. Jeseph's Mercy hos
pital, March 5, today was charg-
ed with neglect, an action which
Prosecutor Francis w. Kam-
man said would permit adoption
Of the child.
Kamman said a secret war
rant was filed In Probate Court
after the woman, a Detroit resi-
dent, admitted she had aban-
doned the child to conceal un-
faithfulness to her husband, a
soldier who has been overseas
10 months.
She and her husband have
one child. the prosecutor said.
He said the woman named a
married man with whom she
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
Outflow IRA
Chief Still
Refuses Food

BELFAST, Northern Ireland,
March II - R - Hugh Nc
Ateer, 29-year-old .chieftain of
the outlawed Irish Republican
Army who was sentenced to IS
years Imprisonment on a treason
conviction two years ago, today
entered the oath day of a hun
ger strike to death" begun after
rejection Of his request that he
be given the status of a political
prisoner.
McAteer has lost about 10
poundS since he began his strike,
prison officials said, but has
been drinking large quantities of
water and has shown no great
signs of weakness. The status of
political prisoner would entitle
him to certain privileges he is
now denied - including better
food and living conditions.
McAteer was convicted in
November, 1912, escaped from
the Belfast Jail in January, 1943,
and was at liberty for 10 months.
His hunger strike Is the longest
in this country since Terence
insolvency, lord mayor of Cork,
tasted "a days to his death dur
ing the Irish Rebellion in 1920.
Twelve other prisoners in the
Jail have Joined McAteer In re-
jecting all food, and hunger
strikes also have spread to Lon
donderry, where it was disclosed
100 prisoners have refused to
eat since Tuesday. The warden
there said the prisoners are cat
tempting to get prison work con-
ditions changed"
One of the strikers in the Bel
fast Jail was taken to a hospital
today in advanced stage of
emaciation.
In London, William Lowry,
Ulster Minister of Home Affairs,
declined in the House of Com
mons to allow immediate rela-
tives to see any of the hunger
See I.R.A.-Page Z
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Foriresses
Rip Vienna
Fly Over Alps
to Bomb forget

LONDON, March 1904
strong force of U. S. Fortresses
and Liberators bombed the VII
emma area today, flying across
the Alps from bases in Italy and
administering to German-h e ! d
territory its third heavy bonn
bardment in "a hours.
The operation against the old
Austrian capital, with an air
craft factory the reported tar
get, came after the American
Air Force had shot down las
planes in Thursdays attacks
against Ulm and Friedrichshafen
in Southern Germany.
The Vienna-bound bombers
met no fighter opposition and
Little anti-aircraft fire. AT the
same time, B-26 Marauders at
tackled the rail center. at Creil.
north of Paris.
The Raj used its new 1000
bomb in last nights attack
against the Michelin tire factory
at Clermont-Ferrand, 80 miles
southwest of Vichy. German
transport in France and the rail
yards at Amiens, a major cog In
Hitler's anti-invasion machinery.
also were hit by small but
heavily loa d e d bombardment
fleets.
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IFS German
Planes kO'd
-inSinsIe Day
(USAAT photo from NEA)

LONDON, March II -(R-
The American Air Force chop
ped another big segment out of
Adolf Hitlers efensiv e
air force, shooting down 125
enemy planes, including black
painted night fighters which
were sent up to ward off heavy
daylight onslaught on Ulm and
Friedrickshafen In sou h n
Germany yesterday, u. S. COM
munique announced today.
Fortress and Liberator gun
ners accounted for 48 of the en-
envy single and twin : engined
aircraft which swirled about
the American formations, a stra-
tegic air force announcement
said, while the fighters shot
down II. Twelve American
fighting planes were lost, while
~ Of the bombers failed to re-
turn.
Raj FOLLOWS
The smash at southern Ger
man targets was followed last
night by small but heavily
freighted bombardment fleets of
the Raj which struck again at
German transport in France,
pounding the Michelin tire fac
tory at Clermont Ferrand, 80
miles southwest of Vichy and
the rail yards at Amiens, both
master cogs in Hitler's anti-in-
vasion machinery.
Not plane was lost in this
second successive night opera
ton of the RATS heavy bomb
ers which hit q peak stride We'd
nesday night when more than
1000 of the four -engined Brit
See SKY-DUEL-Page 2
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All But Tiny Corner of Casino
Now in Hands of Yonk Forces
Nv RICHARD G. MASSOCK

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, March II -(P)- Fifth
Army forces have now fought
their way through bomb demol-
ished Casino to its southwestern
outskirts and have captured sew
eral prominent heights over
looking the ruined town, Allied
Headquarters announced today.
New Zea a n d troops who
plunged into the rubble i'm
mediately after Wednesdays
2,500-ton aerial bombardment
encountered strong resistance
from Germans fighting back
from the ruins but finally drove
them from all except one corner
of the town.
From that point strategic
Route 6, via Casilina, leads into
the Liri Valley and on to Rome.
HOLD ABBEY
The Germans still were occu-
plying the ruins of ancient
Monte Casino Abbey overlook
ing the town and from there
were directing artillery and
mortar fire on Allied positions
in the valley.
The Germans were reported
fighting hard to retain their hill
positions west and northwest of
the town where, the communi-
que said, Allied forces also were
making progress.
simultaneously with an
nouncement of the second con-
secutive night raid on Sofia, cap
itaI Of Bulgaria, it was an
nounced officially that the Raj
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17

CANBERRA, Australia, Mar.
17-(R-"I shall return to the
Philippines" Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur said today, repeating the
pledge he made when he landed
in Australia two years ago from
embattled Corregidor.
At q dinner concentrating
his second anniversary as SUI
preme Allied commander in the
South Pacific, Macarthur said:
Nothing is more certain than
our ultimate reconquest and
liberation from the enemy of
those and adjacent islands. One
of the greatest offensives of the
war will at the appropriate time
be launched for that purpose.
with Gods help. it should be
decisive not only of redemption
but of Japanese isolation from
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
Little Steel
Code Is Upheld
Administration Won't
Break Wage Ceilings

WASHINGTON, March II -
Up A high government Off.
cial said today the administra-
ton will not break the Little
Steel" formula by executive &C.
ton and II there is any lifting
OF wage ceilings Congress will
have to assume the responsible.
ity.
This determination, reached
in the highest quarters, would
preclude any favorable action
by the War Labor Board (WLB)
on a pending request by the
Clio United Steelworkers to car
ry q plea for a 17-cent hourly
wage increase before President
Roosevelt. The granting of any
part OF this increase admittedly
would break the formula.
In line with this decision
WLB Chairman William H. Da.
Wis Is expected to appear before
the Senate Banking Committee
next week on a bill to extend
the life of the Sterilization Ac,
and oppose fatty any change in
the wage ceilings.
The administration's attitude
was described as this:
II wants the authority. under
which Congress directed tina,
wages and prices be stabilized a,
Sept. Is, 1912, levels, continued
unchanged.
II does not want the Little
Steel formula written into the
INV, but Is determined to keen
that formula in effect unless
Congress itself takes the initia-
tive in raising the wage ceilings.
II does not believe that Con-
gress will yield to union press
ure for upward revision of the
See wAGES-Page 3
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biunder Fatal
10 410 YankS
Shot Down by
Mistoks of Sicily

WASHINGTON, March II
(P) - The War Department has
confirmed the loss of 40 Amer
lean paratroopers in action over
Sicily when Allied ground and
Naval Anti-aircraft gunners
mistook % U. S. transport
planes and enemy ships and
joined with enemy artillery In
shooting them down.
The story was first disclosed
by Sergeant Jack Foisie, q cor
respondent for the Army's over
seas newspaper, Stars an d
Stripes, during an address on
Wednesday in San Francisco.
Military censorship had kept Sc
cret the action, which occurred
more than eight months ago. on
the night of uly-l0-11. 1943.
During a press conference
War Secretary Stimson told
questioners that incidents of
this nature had occurred during
the war but that he was unable
to give details of the particular
case and that he did mot recog-
nize the figures" used by Foisie
In an official announcement
later, however, the Army, dis
closing that the planes were
part of flight in which $500
troops of the 82nd Airborne Di.
vision were flown into the Celia
area. said:
THE mission was one OF rein
forcement designed to DROP
See MISTAKE-Page 3
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Burma Lines
0utf|anked;
bombsRipTruk
MocArthurs Forces
Sworn Ashore on
Main Admiralty IsIond
BY RICHARD c. BERGHOLZ
Associated Press War Editor


Three smashing Allied often
sives-an airborne landing be-
hind japanese lines in northern
Burma, the first land-based
bomber raid on Truk In the
Central Pacific. and the inva-
sion of Manus Island In the Bis
marck Sea- gave Japan reason
for the filters today.
For the first reported time in
the Burma war, Allied airborne
troops landed successfully be-
hind crumbling Japanese de-
lenses in the Hukawng Valley.
1t. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell's
forces there are seeking to clear
q supply route through north
ern Burma to China.
WRITING ON WALL
Truk, Japan's mightiest base
in the Eastern Caroline Islands,
Is marked for continued air as
sault after land based Seventh
air force Liberator bombers
Wednesday night blasted air.
oromes, supply and munition
dumps and Naval installations
without loss.
Nearest and most logical
American base from which the
heavy bombers took off Is Emf
wetok Atoll In the Western Mar
shall Islands. Truk was bombed
Feb. 16 and II by carrier-based
planes.
In the Southwest Pacific.
when Gen. Douglas Macarthur
celebrated his second arfniver.
sary as supreme Allied COM
mander, American troops swept
ashore on Manus Island, larg-
est In the Admiralty group,
Wednesday and by nightfall
were within a half mile of i'm
portant Lorengau airdrome.
The battle-tested Americans
suffered only minor casualties
in the landing but met strong
prepared defenses near the air
drome.
The invasion was sprung from
See JAPS-Page 2
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Three Buenos Aires
0uadrupIets Die

BUENOS AIRES. March II
(P)-A 38-year-old Argentine
woman gave birth yesterday in
Buenos Aires suburban hospital
to bankruptcies, three OF whom
died after a few hours.
The multiple birth occurred
while verification still was be-
ing sought for the previously
reported birth of quintuplets to
a well-to-do Argentine rancher
and his wife.
A baby girl, weighing about
two pounds, was the only sur
vivor of the quads-two boys
and two girls-born to Sonora
Cello Giachino De Angiulli.
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CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
Macarthur Renews Pledge

her southern conquests and OF
Chinese restoration of Pacific
Ocean communications.
Country Party Leader Fadden
drew the biggest laugh, joined
in by Macarthur, when he
greeted the general as fellow
Queenslander" and said that
while he hoped Macarthur
would return to peaceful retire
ment, he hoped he would not set
tie in Darling Downs (Fadden's
electorate) because my task Il
heavy and the opportunities are
limited to hold that seat Tin
Parliament
II want as little competition In
the United States as q candidate
for the Republican presidential
nomination but he has not said
he would seek or accept it,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
;HOCKS FRIENDS
Hold Suspect in Murder
Of Detroit Waiehman

DETROIT. March II Up -
A Negro identified by Detec-
tive-Lieut. Lester Charpenning
and Sgt. Joseph Kollar Of the
Homicide squad as Joseph Blake
was arrested today and held for
investigation in connection with
the Staying of Julius Sczepanski,
56-year-old night Waterman.
Sczepanski, badly beaten and
shot through the head was found
in the office OF the Viviano
Bros. Macaroni Co. Plant.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
Lonely Irish
Fete Saint
in Solitude
BY DESMOND ARNSBY

When an editor suspected Of
Scottish descent sends a Dublin
born reporter abroad in a COM
munity originally settled by
Frenchmen and old German
stock, to dig up story on ST.
Patrick's Day, the problem al
most assumes international as
poets.
Divil a bit of Old Erin could
man find in a town where
Gaelic is a foreign tongue, and
where French and old German
Cor reasonable fac sim lilies
thereof) are commonly heard.
A quick survey of the main
streets revealed nary a sprig of
shamrock, a golden harp or a
See ST. PATRICK-Page 2
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Dies Orders Probe
Of Waller WincheII

WASHINGTON. March II -
(P) - Ordering an investigation
Of radio comment by Walter
Winchell, the Dies committee
today issued a subpoena on the
Blue Network to produce all
scripts and recordings Of the
Winchell broadcasts for the last
two years.
Chairman Dies (D-Tex) OF
the committee set up by the
House TO investigate un-Ameri-
can activities, currently is en-
gagged in a controversy with
Winchell over the latter's Sun
day-night breakfasts.
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has sent formation of four
motored Halifaxes into the
Mediterranean theater to oper-
ate with the strategic air force
here. Mediums and formations
of the Halifaxes blasted Sofia
railway targets last night with
thousands of incendiary and high
explosive bombs.
SKATER RUINS
Fifth Army artillery poured
streams of shells late yesterday
into the Nazi-occupied ruins of
the Benedectine Abbey atop
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
Two From City
Are Missing
Guy Brown, Jr. and
}. Coddineton Listed

Two Mount Clemens men
were today reported missing In
action in the European and
Mediterranean theaters of war.
They are:
Tech. Sergt. Guy L. Brown,
Jr., of the 9Th Bomber Com
mand, stationed in England, and
John b. Coddington, teehni-
clan 5th grade, with the A.A.F.
in the Italian campaign.
The report of the missing"
status of Sergt. Brown Is as yet
unofficial pending receipt of
War Department or Red Cross
messages. 1t was transmitted to
the family by a local man, now
a Marauder pilot, who visited
Browns base March 8 and was
informed he had failed to re-
turn from a bombing mission.
WIFE AND SON
The Coddington report was
officially received from the War
Department by his wife. Ellen
and son, Jack Raymond. of 2914
Hillger, Detroit, formerly of this
city, and Coddington's sister,
Mrs. Robert Kepsel, of Mount
Clemens. Coddington, age 81,
has been missing since Jan. 30,
after going through the Sicilian
and other campaigns. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Coddington, and grew up in this
city. He was formerly an at
tendant at Frank Dupreys gas
station, North Gratiot and Jones
street.
SHOCKS FRIENDS
The unofficial report that
Sergt. Guy "Gabby' Brown Is
missing brought shock to his
parents, County Clerk and Mrs
Guy l.. Brown, his family and
widespread acquaintance.
He is Is years old and wa:
See CASUALTIES-Page Q
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had been a ride-sharer AZ the
father of the abandoned infant.
Identity of the woman was
established yesterday through .
Bay City resident she had given
as a reference when she entered
the hospital a few hours before
the child's birth.
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leader Who Shot pupn
Released from JalI

MT. PLEASANT, March II -
R = Hearing in justice court @
q felonious assault eAorOo
against william L0oGns ~
Shepherd High School tnoo1loe&
tor, has been postponed - ~
3 because Of the 6e6e6GD 04G
physical condition.
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Drunk Driving CHARGE

A second offender on a drunk
driving charge, James F. Hag-
erty, Al, of 1165 Chicago road,
Warren township today waived
examination before Justice
Frank E. Jeanette, and was
bound-over to circuit court. He
is being held in lieu of q $500
bond.
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Monastery Hill in support Of the
ground troops climbing slowly
upward against blazing enemy
enemy guns. Allied smoke shells
spread a heavy pail around the
hilltop, hiding activities in the
valley from German observa-
ton.
Writing from Just outside Cas-
sine last night, Associated Press
War Correspondent Lynn Helm
erling said:
1.-THE astonishing thing about
See CASSINO-Pags :
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BY RICHARD McMURRAY
Associated Press War Editor

Associated Press War Editor
The British News Agency
Reuters said today that the Rus
slams had reached the Dniester
river at several points and that
the Germans were streaming
into Bessarabla at Mogilev Po-
dolski.
The Dniester was a boundary
between Russia and Rumania
before the war. Mogilev Podol-
ski is one of three major Dnies-
ter crossings into Bessarabia,
and it lies so miles southwest
of besieged Vinnitsa and ESQ
miles northeast Of the Ploesti
oil fields. There was no confir-
nation from Moscow, where the
latest communique at midnight
placed forward Russians rs
miles from the great stream.
British heavy and medium
bombers crossed the Adriatic
and showered thousands Of in
cendiaries on the Bulgarian cap
ital Of Sofia for the second sue
cessive night.
The docks Of Leghorn and
shipping off West Italy were at
tackled.
Yet other Raj planes based
on Britain struck the Michelin
Ruber Tire Factory at Cler-
mont-Ferrand, 80 miles south
west of Vichy; the railroad
yards at Amiens; and inspect
fled targets In western Germany
all without loss.
The Russians cut the Odessa
Lwow railroad again, this time
at Yapnyarka, As miles south
west of Vinnitsa. The Red Army
was within Is miles Of Bessa-
rabia and the Dniester River be-
hind which Marshal Won Mann
stein was trying to extricate
See RUSS1A-Page 2
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Red Avalanche
GrindS Ahead
10 DnieSier
Broken Nazi
Columns Retreat
Across Frontier
BULLETIN

LONDON, March IL - up
- The Red Army has captur-
ed DubnO, Marshal Stain an
nounced tonight.
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impaired Covsssss
Of All loeol News
The union times., 1944-07-22
Country Watches
 Middletown Plan
Post-War Planning Council May Show Way In Gearing Local Problems Into National Scene-Central
 Labor Council And Unions Active

Planning hits the common man whose century this is, in his home town and in his factory. That's why national planning won't get very fal until 1t is meshed into local plan ming.
 In Middletown, Conn.,, they un derstand that. MiddietOwn in set ting up postwar planning council, isn't proposing to solve all its own problems. But given ma. tiOnal prosperity, this town of 3O,OOO plans to have its own share
 Because Middletown's experience may help your town. we detail its plan. Mayor Cubeta set the ball roll ing last December when he called together the towns leading citizens and that includes labor, of course. The executive committee included Jo- seph Hagel, secretary of the Central Labor Union (AFL), along with manufacturrs, bankers and folks from the federal war agencies, Wesleyan University, the womens voters league and the city's newspaper. Committees WClC SCt up IO ulS Oul lIlc IdClS OH which to base recommendations for Middletown's life and living.
 Naturally Anthony J. PandoIfo of the Carpenters Union (AFL) is on the construction committee; George Beaumont (CIO) and Hjal- mar E. Anderson GAEL on employ ment statistics committee; Frank Carta of the AFL Textile Workers Union and Anderson are on the in- dustrial committee; while Anderson also serves on the veterans rehabi- litation committee.
 Labor should have greater repre- sentation than it has in the Middle town council if the most is to be got ten out of this type of planning. Nevertheless Middletown is pointing the way to other communities. Its postwar planning Council can't as- sure prosperity all by itself, but it can help as part of national plan ming effort.
The union times., 1944-07-22
Patterson Says
 Every American Soldier Knows It
''We Will Continue To Give Our Troops Everything
 They Need"

Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, disclOs- ing that Allied fire superior ity over the Germans was all most four to one, declared this week that this is "a tribute to American industry, both management and labor"
 'sThe war production record has been good," he said at a War De partment press conference, "and we have right to count on our re- quirements being met for the fu- ture. We will continue to give our troops these enormous quantities of metal and explosives to throw at our enemies, both on the continent and in the Pacific
 The Under Secretary said that for every bomb, shell or bullet thrown at us by the Germans we will soon be giving them back -four.
 "The importance of that fact can not be overestimated, he said. "As every soldier knows, it is fre-power that wins wars. Fire power is the killing end of the business.
 Our hre-pOwer superiority brings encouragement to our troops. Nothing is SO heartening to soldiers as to be backed up by SUI perior artillery fire and superior air, cover. And nothing will be as disheartening to the Germans as to see themselves so heavily out matched in fre-pOwer on the field of battle.'
The union times., 1944-07-22
When Man
 Not A Union Man?

LOS ANGELES--George Meany, former plumber, now engaged in sec retarial work.
 Philp Murray, former mineworker and member of the National Red Cross.
 Sounds funny, doesn't it? But that's the way the Hearst Herald Express here listed the secretaries of the AFL and CIO councils when it had to in- clude their names in a story about founders of veterans service cen- ter.
 Sec.-Treas. w. J. Bassett of the Central Labor Council was modestly identified by Hearst as simply of the War Chest" Sec. Philip M. Connolly of the Industrial Union Council to Hearst is simply board member, Community Welfare Federation. D That way the unions don't have to be given any credit with veterans.