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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-20
General Gives
First Official
Word Of Thrust
Macarthur Settlement
Reveols Seizure Of
lsyte CoostIins

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10
(P)-Following Is the text Of the
communique issued today by
Gen. Douglas Macarthur from
his headquarters In the Philip
pines as II was broadcast by the
Melbourne radio and recorded
by the Federal Communications
Commission:
In a major amphibious opera
ton we have seized the eastern
coast Of Leyte Island in the Phil
ippines 900 miles north Of Mo-
rotai and $500 miles from Milne
Bay from whence our offensive
started nearly 16 months ago.
This point of entry in the Wis
ayas is midway between Luxon
ond Mindanao and at one stroke
splits in two the Japanese forces
in the Philippines. The enemy's
anticipation of attack in Min
danao caused him to be caught
unawares in Leyte and beach,
heads In the Tacloban area were
secured with small casualties.
The landing was preceded by
heavy naval and air lombard
ments which were devastating in
effect. Our ground troops are
rapidly extending their positions
and supplies and heavy equip
ment are already flowing ashore
in great volume.
The trops comprise elements
of the 9Th United States Army,
to which are attached units from
the Central Pacific with sup
porting elements. The naval
forces consist of the Seventh
United States Fleet, the Aus
tralian Squadron and support
ing elements of the Third Unit
ed States Fleet.
Air support was given by
Navy carrier forces, the Far East
Air Force and the Royal Aus
tralian Air Force.
See MacARTHUR-Page I
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-20
EVEN FALA WINS A VOTE
Students Favor Roosevelt

II Mount Clemens high school
students can be assumed to truly
reflect the preferences of their
parents-and those Of the COM
munity at large-this city can,
as of today, be safely chalked up
in the Roosevelt column.
In a political opinion poll just
completed by the staff of the
high schools student paper, The
Mirror" the president was &C
corded Sc per cent Of the vote
or 464 to the 362 ballots cast in
favor of Thomas Z. Dewey.
Fala, Mr.. Roosevelt's Scottie,
received one Of the total of 827
votes cast.
In according the Republican
nominee but - per cent Of the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-20

vote the students, apparently ig-
nored the sentiments Of their
high school principal Monte Nc
Farlane, one-time roomer in the
Dewey home at Owosso and for
mer athletic instructor to the
hard-hitting COP nominee.
McFarlane, who has remained
circumspectly aloof from the
campaign itself. is understood to
be an ardent personal Dewey ad-
mirer as a result of his close as
ISOLATION with the candidate.
Wendell L. Willkie carried
Mount Clemens In the Nov. 5,
1910, elections by . margin Of
44o votes although Maeomb
county as . whole gave Mr..
Roosevelt q slight majority.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-20
Soldiers Son
Fatally Scalded

Severe burns over his entire
body caused when he fell into
a wash-tub of hot water today
caused the death of Jan Charles
Banner, age two years, whose
father, Louis, is on active serv-
ice with the armed forces in New
Guinea.
A breakdown in the water
heater at the Herbert Whidden
home, 1874 Croker boulevard,
was an indirect cause of the ia
tally. The child's mother had
drawn a tub of hot water pre-
paratory to washing clothes and
See TRAGEDY-Page 2
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Van Dyke Boy, "A,
Reported Missing

VAN DYKE - The Sheriffs
Warren Township office re-
ceived a report that l4-year-old
L. J. Williamson, son of Mrs.
Ruth Williamson of 1923 Lozier
street, Van Dyke, has been miss
ing from his home since Oct. 10.
He was described as being
five feet and eleven inches in
height, having brown hair, blue
eyes, and weighing $50 pounds.
When last seen he was wearing
a gray stripe shirt, blue overalls,
black cap.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-20
Massive Yank
Ahatk Splits
Jap Garrison
Survivors Of
Botoan. cosrssidos
lond with Cosnsnandoa

GENER IL MasA111Uns1
HEADQUARTERS. RAi1lpp1ne1b
Oct. 2e-Gen. Deagias lGa&AR.
thur landed powerful invaalsa
forces today In the hsart @ -
Philippines, splitting Il hnlg
Japan's defenses b int arool1.
pelago and fulfilling q view mnoo
more than two years age Int
"I --AaM Se:xyZ.1rrs
The ground forces, PIT asAeee
In Leyte gulf frem . hnge oon-
voy under terrific naval -
air bombardment, quickiy so1n
three strong beachheadb 616&ls.
IL miles Of Leyts 11lands 80
coast. y Sss M
- GsfnsssAsss-witaz-1 lrsIup
were every able-bodied S,arvivoe'
of corregidor and Ses1i6 O.
mena. successor 70 the lata 49,
uel Quezon a pre6dent g H.
Philippine Commonwealth.
While men and supplies pour.
ed in to meet IN estimated III. :
600 japanese In the Philippians
under Field Marshal Juichi -.
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Two Are Injured
in Auto Accident

Two persons were injured ear
ly this morning when an auto
mobile driven north on South
avenue, struck a parked car.
Donald z. Merkle, %, of Isl
Elizabeth street, the driver, suf-
fered chest injuries, according
to city police reports, and Jean
Preston, "a, of 336 Maria street
received injuries to the face and
body. Both were taken to St.
Joseph's Hospital, where thy
were reported Inf good condition.
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Dewey Renews
Fight Tonight


EN- ROUTE WITH DEWEY
TO PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20-(F
The Presidential campaign
appeared to have reached the
free-for-all stage today aS>Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey prepared a
new attack in Pittsburgh
speech tonight on what he has
called President Roosevelt's
lone man government" and the
President readied an answer.
Scheduled to arrive at Pitts
burgh at noon, the Republican
Presidential nominee made last
hour revisions of an address
See DEWEY-Page 2
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257, 500, 100000 made in 1913
and will compare with 243, $780,
900, 900 in 1912.
OVERSEAS SHIPMENTS
Besides this, total overseas
shipments of tax-free cigarettes
to the armed forces will be about
SO, 900, 100000 in 1914, against
80, 900, 100000 in 1913 and ap-
pro X mately 5000, 000,000 in
1912.
Although there will be almost
as many cigarettes produced for
domestic use this year, so-called
popular brands will be scarcer
because soldiers and sailors over
seas have first call.
Still more tobacco is earmark-
See SMOKER-Page 2
Ct>~x NADDnVV
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The National War Fund and
M cunt Clemens Community
Chest drives are already under
way in this city for total goal
of $4,000.
The Advance Gifts Committee,
under William T. Kelly and Bert
v. NunneleY has already launch
ed the appeal, and the general
public's participation will be
sought starting Wednesday.
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MAC ARTHUR RETURNS TO PHILIPPINES
Filipinos
Hear Call
to Battle
BY the Associated Press

II have returned" General
Douglas Macarthur told the
Filipino people in a broadcast
today calling upon them to rise
and strike" the japanese.
Here is the text of his broad
cast over the "Voice of Free
dom" radio, as reported by the
Office of War Information:
LIBERTY ASSURED
People Of the Philippines;
have returned. BY the grace of
Almighty God our forces stand
again on Philippine soil-soil
See REVOLT-Paxe
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CHANG ELATED

CHUNGKING, Oct. 20 Up
President Chang Kai-Shek
applauded tonight the United
States invasion of the Philip
pines and said il would encour-
age China in "the complete de-
feat of Japan in the shortest
possible time"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-20
Tough Opposition

NEW YORK, Oct. - - N
American network peel hrea4-
cast recorded BY MIC 1lroee
from Leyte Island 1t neea -
day (EWT) said the "eHr trooDo
are having . tough time ana aeo
being subjected to heavy noe.
tar and artillery fire. sDu1
then no one expected tAiD - ~
an easy operation" tAe breo1-
caster added. The breadsaa1oe
told Of Gen. Douglas lGneAxtnr
ur's landing. He said IL 0Gaos.
al ~ saying II viii stay fse -
duration now
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This quick Of the
fishes American forces only ITS
southeast Of Mantle
AZ the
Dineset southern Desen
-
o the gulf for the forces
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ls ond today striking smuto nousy three
beoehes
Psnsono on The southern tip Of Leyte.
front,s and holt ond approximately
mile
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-20

BILL HELD, Prosecutor
Reflect Him for End Term
ADV.
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Eyewitness Describes Yank Drive Into The Island


Phiippnes),
BY SCHEDtER
MAC ARTHUR At LEYTE Philippines Oct 20 - tAP)
wohps knitted
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FRED NICHOLSON
FOR PROSECUTOR Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26

Dear Judge Please let me with
draw this information. Mr.. BlinSton
is not a criminal. suppose l am as
much at fault as he. l should never
have started all this business"
So the charge was dismissed and
they kissed in the corridor of the
courthouse and Blinston said he was
going to buy an engagement ring
bigger than the one he threw into the
river in his haste and anger.
Such shenanigans are not in the
convention Of Dantesque sublimity.
But neither was the behavior of Err
nest Dowson, English lyric poet of the
'90s. DowSon gave his heart to a
barmaid in a foreign quarter of Lon
dor and to her wrote most of his love
poems. including the now well-known
and singing lines of "Cynara":
Last night, ah yesternight, betwixt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
ithel(00l(

Edith Perkins. But she wasn't inter
ested. In 1910 his unwanted atten-
tons became SO persistent that her
family had him arrested for disturb
ing the peace and he was sentenced
to 80 days in Jail to cool his ardor.
Shortly after his release, Miller
pitched a tent on a plot of ground
near Edith's home, put a dog collar
around his neck, padlocked 1t and
chained himself to a sycamore tree.
After two days, the police arrived
and took him to jail. There he went
on hunger strike, saying he wouldn't
eat unless Edith brought him food
prepared with her own hands. She
didn't and he was whisked off to
hospital for observation and food.
The romance of MoZellecita Stapp,
Ziegfeld showgirl and descendant OF
a noble Castilian family. and Prescott
Van Wyck, playboy heir of Colonial
forebearS, was merry mixup for IL
years of constant confusion.
They were in love, all right, but
every time they decided to get mar
ried something happened. Once, in
Paris everything was arranged, but
Van Wyck wandered across the Medi-
terranean to Africa to buy horse
somebody had told him about. An
other time, they both missed the train
to a certain church and when they
arrived the doors we're locked. On
third occasion, they were about to go
ahead with the ceremony when
Mexican shot himself. And after they
finally did get married at Elkton, Md,
in 1888, his family asked annulment
on the ground he didn't know what
he was doing and was irresponsible.
Mrs. Hazel CaruSo, of Syracuse,
N. Y, had a quarrel with her husband
back in 1887 and, without taking time
to cool off, promptly sued for divorce.
After the action was filed she had
a change of heart. So she decided
to WOO his sympathy and love.
Her method was to go to the police
and tell them she had been attacked
by two men while attending tavern
and, to make her story look good,
to say they had stolen $3.50 from
the cash register. Actually, she con-
fessed later, she took the money -
but only to get her husband back
1t was a drastic measure - but it
worked. The CarusoS resumed
squeezing the same tube of tooth
paste and a starry-eyed judge dis
missed larceny charge against her.
All of which proves what? That
love is the sweetest, sublimest and
sometimes the Screwiest emotion in
the entire animal kingdom.
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ging at his heart. So he dropped
around to the grocery at closing time.
Lets make it all up and go and
get married" he begged Ruth.
NO" she said, "it's all off"
They walked along toward her
home, he saying yes and she saying
no, and as they passed a vacant lot
he swept her into his arms. She told
him to be careful, that there was
poison ivy nearby. The admonition
a mistake, for 1t gave Blinston
AIdea He forthwith, released Ruth,
grabbed up some of the weed and
rubbed Ii on her face, neck and arms.
When Ruth's body erupted in itch
ing blisters, she swore out warrant
for Blinston's arrest on a charge of
assault. He was put under bail, but
when the time arrived for a hearing
Ruth, in the tradition of lovers,
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VII DhhAN1 r. - -
there's no telling
what the manifesto
ton Is apt TO be.
II might be rap
ture, such as Bea.
trice inspired In
Dante, great Italian
poet of the Middle
Ages. who was so
enchanted that he
haunted street cor.
ners merely for a
glimpse OF her as
she passed. Or II
Zscht be caprice,
S as seized Row
Tan d Blinston at
Yonkers, ~. Y. who
recently smeared
his sweetheart's
face and arms with
poison ivy.
Blinston Is % and
an ex.paratrooper.
He met Ruth Toep-
fer, II, a clerk In
a Yonkers grocery,
soon after his dis
charge from the
Army and they fell
In love. He slipped
an engagement ring
on her finger and
they were talking
about the wedding
date when the little
satans of discord
threatened to spoil
their romance.
Ruth returned his
rim &. Bin S I o n
walked off in a huff
and, somewhat inn
providently, w en- I
and to G d I h @
token OF his be-
trothal into a river.
A few days later,
however, Blinston
felt that old tug
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her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow,
Cynara! thy breath
was shed
Upon my soul between
the kisses and the
wine;
And I was desolate and
sick of an old pas.
sion,
Yea, / was deSolate
and bowed my head.
I have been faithful TO
thee, Cynara! in my
fashion,"
Dowson sat at table
with his cherished one
in her mothers restau-
rant and recited these
and other verses. For
two years she listened
TO him, night after
night. Then she ran
off and married the
waiter. Dowson was
broken-hearted. In his
grief, he drank him.
self to death in a great
hurry at the age OF 80.
Harold Hulen, 80, an
insurance S a | @ s man,
had a better idea. In
1887, after he h a d
asked Florence Hurl-
but, 20, for two years
whether she would
marry him, he took d.
rect action. He chained
himself to a radiator
outside the door of her
apartment in Excelsior
Sprin & s, Mo-, and
vow ed he wouldn't
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IT'S CRAZY, what love does
and goes on doing. 1t sends
shivers UP the spine and
spins the head. pounds the
pulse and flips the heart into
jitterbug 1--WE. It's been going
on since prehistoric times and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26

changed her mind.
She sat down and
wrote the judge:
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Reyes
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page one
sired. | need your help badly;
time is so short. You may Sc
cure the signatures Of the same
people as on the one YOU return
to me. it is for different OF
flee. bat it would be better
where you can, to get as many
new ones as possible, and please
relate to the signers the reason
for this procedure and the ne
cessity for it, and that 1t is a
lust in case petition
RECALLS RUMORS
Keyes' reference to what he
called the governor S attempted
purge" related to reports that
Governor Kelly and his advisers
planned to enter a strong candr-
date for Lieutenant Governor
in the primaries in an attempt
TO rid themselves of KeyeS. who
has been a frequent diSSenter
from administration policies and
who has attacked the governor
in public.
The same of State Senator
James r. Milliken, Traverse
City Republican, has been most
prominently mentioned as the
administration candidate t or
Lieutenant Governor, but there
has been no official recognition
of the plan.
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Parrot
Confined from Page One)

(COntlnled from rage One)
tered a few fancy cuss-words.
lThe official prop mans report
said 1t insisted on swearing too
loudly and too consistently. Put
such a parrot on the high school
stage and he might be apt TO
show off with a few redhot
Nulgarltles.
The next parrot. which was
practically cast for the role, is
shown in the accompanying pic
ture with Bessie Hill. who plays
the role Of "Lavinia" in Hit the
Deck. Everything was set even
10 publicity pictures, until Pol
ly' (who fortunately knows no
cuSs words spoiled her first ap-
pearance by Cd moulting all
her beautiful breast feathers,
and % taking piece out of
BcSSle'S hand with her sharp
beak.
AT this stage Of the game, Mrs.
Elmer Slocum Wright, director
of the school choral group, be-
came furious, and up to press
time was muttering 10 herself
in the Railways.
This reporter, who has re-
served the good news till last,
believes ne has saved the day.
On a tip that another parrot was
available in town, he telephoned
Rev. and Mrs Joseph Grosa, of
Gilbert Memorial Bapt t
Church. CAT least one wouldn't
have TO ask whether the parrot
knew any cuss words, he fig
ured, being a ministers parrot
LORETTA Is A LADY
Yes, the students are welcome
10 use Loretta the 28-yearold
GroSa parrot, imported by a
GroSa relatives from Costa RIGA.
Loretta" doesn't know what a
cuSs- word sounds like - they
must have kept her away from
the crews compartments on the
way Overland she likes to
pose. She can speak lot of
words, but they're all nice ones
(unless she learns fast from the
stage crew at the SCHOOL,
SO maybe there'll be parrot
in Hit the Deck" and Mrs.
Wright can stop biting her nails.
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Fire
Continued from Page One)

of Macomb Corners. Inc family
was asleep and Mrs. Schwartz
was awakened by the smell of
smoke and noise of cracking
wood. The kitchen was ablaze
when she routed other members
Of the family from bed.
Schwartz and neighbors or
gained a bucket brigade and
managed TO save surrounding
buildings. They also removed a
quantity of furniture from the
doomed house.
In both The Oaks and the
Schwartz fires, Deputy Sheriffs
Leon Kandt and Frank Ballor,
on road patrol at the time, ar
rived at the scene a few min
uteS after the fires started, and
helped remove furniture from
the buildings before entry was
impossible.
VISIBLE FOR MILES
The Butler road fire was viSi-
BILE for many miles around, and
cars from all parts Of the coun-
~ parked at the scene. From
the outset, CATER some furni-
ture had been saved, the ten
ants, deputies and spectators
were poWerleSs 10 do anything
but watch while the valuable
property crumbled in flames
that leaped hundreds of feet in
the air.
Three floors of furniture, and
full basement we'll equipped,
were destroyed (The large attic
of the two-story house was fur
nlShedD
The building, which for Is
years was one of Macomb Coun-
tvs so-called bright spots be-
came a rendezvous during the
height of the Prohibition era,
ana on many occasions was
raided by State Police and also
by deputy sheriffs of successive
administrations. Finally, about
five years ago. public clamor
developed against this and var
ious other establishments in the
area, and the Prosecutor Of
flee instituted Circuit Court
paddock proceedings which re-
suited in the place being banned
for use as other than a private
residence. Since that time, ten
ants have occupied the large
dwelling and used the surround
ing land for crop raising.
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Spain
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Continued from Page One)
more than 40 tons monthly may
be sent.
3. Allie d designated Axis
agents are to be expelled from
Spain, Spanish Morocco and
Tangler.
4. The German consulate and
other Axis agencies in Tangier
are TO be closed.
5. Five of seven Italian mer-
chant ships now informed by
Spain are TO be released immedi-
ately; disposition of the two
others and of Italian warships
in Spanish waters is TO be sub
mltted to arbitration.
6. All Spanish forces have
already been withdrawn from
the Russian front.
7. The A ng o-American oil
embargo on Spain is TO be lifted
Immediately, with resumption
of old quotas of $4,000 tons of
bulk oil from the Caribbean
monthly for metropolitan Spain,
$4,000 for the colonies, and
$4,000 tons Of packaged petrol
cum products from the United
States.
The official announcement,
made jointly with a statement
by British Foreign Minister An
thony Eden in the House of
Commons, indicated that Ger
many is unlikely to receive
more than allotted wolfram
supplies for two or three months
befor Allied military opera
tons dam up shipments COM
pletely.
The State Department said
that the settled quota equals
roughly 10 per cent of what the
Germans would have obtained
this year under their agreement
with Spain and about a OF the
wolfram the Germans already
hold.
AT highest speed production,
1t was estimated, 1t takes at least
four months TO transform the
raw ore into armor- piercing
shells and tough metals.
The aim of the Anglo Ameri-
can negotiations with Spain, as
with other European neutrals,
was TO block as completely as
possible Germany's supply to
strategic metals needed for Nazi
invasion defenses.
The United States wanted to
hold out for a flat embargo,
such as Spain imposed during
the three months that the discus
Sions dragged on, but the British
urged the compromise.
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Safety
(Continued from Pare One)

A1Untinutu ii'hi ~ '"'
Chief Harold LanStra, st.
Clair Shores;
Police Commissioner Verne
Lumex. Of Warren Township,
Chief William Wcyburn, OF
Utica.
Each police department sub
scribed TO the state drive and
vas represented at the Michigan
State Safety Commission con-
vention in Lansing last month
when the safety move was APP
proved. In several communl-
ties mayors and presidents is
sued proclamatlons emphasizing
the drive, especially the import
ance OF safe brakes.
The proclamatlons urge that
citizens do everything possible
10 reduce traffic accidents 10 a
minimum, since the continued
safe operation of motor vehicles
is vital TO the war effort Mot
oristS are urged 10 have their
vehicles checked by reliable
mechanics,