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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
SHORES HAS EXCITING MEETING
Battle of the Tavern
ST. CLAIR SHORES

ST. CLAIR SHORES - "Nev,
er a Dull Moment, legend of
the ST. Clair Shores Village
Commission, was we'll eXempli-
fled at Tuesday evenings meet
ing when officials and custom
ers, surfeited with the now worn
subjects of Lake Pollution and
Club Licensing opened up a
brand new Svenue of argument,
The Battle of the Beer Garden.
Although not playing to as
large crowds as other commits
sion offerings of the summer
schedule, the latest tangled opus
drew a well-filled house and
critics regard il as good Box Of
flee if il can only survive until
the Oct. 3 engagement Of the
vilSC> solons.
The play has a sparkling plot,
or several of them and its theme
is woven around the social lives
Of drinking-class people.
Starring is Fred DeMerse, who
for some time has operated a
beer and liquor emporium at
289l1 jefferson avenue, near
L'Anse, north of the 11-Mile
road. The establishment Is ro-
mantically named, The Blue
Goose.
Some time ago, DeMerSe dis
cussed selling the place (plus
the valued licenSe) to a Mr..
Schumann, a dairy farmer of
Gratiot Township, and, accord
ing to the synopsis read between
acts Tuesday evening, accepted
Schumann's cash deposit.
At a still later date in the
story, one Art Johnson (former-
ly of Masonic and Harper) en-
gagged in negotiations with Mr.,
DeMerse and handed over 500
in coin of the realm as deposit
on the BLUE Goose" sale. Art
said he was represented legally
by Attorney George A. Francis.
The plot thickened about this
stage of the negotiations.
STRANGE QUIRK
Village Attorney George A.
Francis, representing attorney
George A. Francis and his client
Johnson approached the Village
Commission and requested APP
prevail of the license transfer
from DeMerse to Johnson. The
Commission, according to the
script, approved same.
Forthwith the tempo of action
was stepped up. Schumann hied
himself to Judge Alton H. Noes
Circuit Court and successfully
sought decree establishing his
prior claim to the tavern deal,
and the court decree was tri-
umphantly waved in front of
the Shores solons at their re-
hearsal Tuesday.
Attractive choruses a d d d
much to the comedy of errors.
"Are You The Village At
torney, Or Just Lawyer Max
ing Dough-" was the theme
song of one chorus, including
several attractive women, who
addressed themselves to Fran
els on the opening night.
"Commission Spare That Tav-
ern, Touch Not Single Stein,
was the refrain sung by others,
but it was not clear who were
loath to lose one of their three
taverns, or Jealous members of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Ethel Dahl

ROSEVILLE - Miss Ethel
Dahl, %, of 27312 Demerick
road, died suddenly Thursday
morning at st. Joseph's Hospital.
Miss Dahl graduated from
Burton High school, and was a
lifelong resident of RoSeville.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21

Ice cream is 10 to 20 per cent
butterfat.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
Non-leather Shoes
Will Be Ration Free
WASHINGTON. Sept. 21-iP

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2l-tR
-Non-leather shoes made with
rubber soles will become ration
free next Monday, the Office of
Price Administration announced
today, while shoes containing
leather remain on the rationed
list, regardless of whether the
soles are made of rubber.
Non-rationed shoes include
those with uppers of canvas or
other fabrics. Heretofore these
shoes could not have rubber
soleS. The easing of the rubber
supply situation, OPA said,
made the change possible.
Ice cream is 10 TO 20 per cent
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
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Notes
Barbara F. MacLachlan
BACK IN ROUTINE

BACK IN ROUTINE
With three days of school al
ready completed students and
teachers alike are getting back
into the swing of things again.
Today,s announcements in
form us that any one in Junior
or Senior High wishing TO Join
the band should go 10 room l3
where more information will be
supplied.
CAUTION
All new and old students are
asked not TO pay the piano in
the auditorium. Also, only stage
crew members are to turn on
the lights backstage.
CHEERLEADERS
Students who are interested
in cheer leading at the coming
foot ball games met last night
for try outs.
MIRROR STAFF
AT a meeting of the Mirror
staff members Wednesday after
noon, Mr.. Frank Kissel, advisor,
announced that Isabel Millar
will retain her last years posi-
ton as Editor-in-Chief of the
paper, as will Jeanette Buck
ley, associate editor. This years
staff will be composed only of
those students who show their
real interest in the paper
through prompt and efficient
reporting. An early edition of
the Mirror will be forthcoming.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
MISC Dates
Maryland
Complete Schedule
is Announced

EAST LANSING, Sept. 21-
Up The Michigan State Col
lege football team will play two
games with the University of
Maryland this season, Athletic
Director Ralph H. Young an
nounced Wednesday.
The scheduling of night
game with Maryland October 20
at College Park, Md, completes
the seven-game schedule for the
Spartans' return to intercollegi-
ate football after a one-year in
terlude. The two teams will
play at East Lansing November
IL.
The new date made il nee
essary to postpone to October
81 the Wayne University game,
scheduled for October 81 at Uni
versity of Detroit S a d i u m,
Young said. This game also
will be played at night.
The two night games will be
the first since 1910 that the
Spartans have played un d er
lights. The only other night
game was in 1890. Young said
the. arrangement would be a
novelty for the team, but should
be no handicap"
The complete schedule:
Sept. 30 - Scranton Univer-
sity at East Lansing.
Oct. 7 - University of Ken
lucky at Lexington.
Oct. Ia - Kansas State Col
lege at East Lansing.
Oct, 81 - Wayne University
at Detroit.
Nov. 4 - University of Mis-
souri, at Columbia, Mo.
Nov. 1l-University OF Mary
land at East Lansing.
New York States first state
game farm was established in
1908 at Sherburne, Chenango
county, and is now the Oldest
continuously operated game
Harvest Of next winters crop
Of Florida oranges and grape
fruit is expected to start early;
the present crop is month
ahead Of last years in maturity.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-21
'O,oOO,ooo TONS DUET

500, 100000 TONS dust
A Kansas dust storm Of No.
1884 IL estimated to have moved
900. 600. 900 tons Of soil. aud
some of II was deposited "a
ships 200 miles out In the At
lantic.
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POISONOUS APPLES

Tropical Americas manchi-
neel tree bears poisonous apples,
the blistering, milky juice of
which is as strong as carbolic
acid.
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Constantine BrO1Vn

have been resting after having suffered
severe punishment In Russia are said to
be included in 1t.
At present the greatest handicap Of the
Nazi commanders appears to be the lack
Of an adequate aviation to prevent our
own airmen from interfering with the
quick transport Of troops from the north.
Whether the Nazis really are 20 short Of
aviation that they cannot put In combat
more than . few fighting squadrons or
arc planning . surprise will be seen In
the next few days.
It also Is considered possible that diu-
sionS Of the 10th Army are being rushed
into action to allow the orderly with
drawal OF the seven divisions in the
south.
From the military view Rome Is of little
value to the Nazis. From tho view of
morale 1t Is important. Tho German
general stan has organized powerful de-
fense lines on the Po River where they
believe they can hold out indefinitely
with a relatively small force.
Their strategy has been to make US
pay dearly for every mile Of ground.
They hoped to succeed In this operation
of attrition and when we finally reached
Rome the price we would have paid
would offset the advantages gained.
II the surprise landing Of last week
develops according to plan and forces
the Nazis to abandon Rome the German
strategic plan will be upset. The Nazi
high command will do its utmost to
stalemate the operation and important
battles are expected to take place next
week If the 10th Army can be rushed to
the scene before more reinforcements
and supplies are landed to support our
invading columns
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Russians North Salient
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

Indeed the southwestern route may be
already closed to them. The Russians
are reported within two miles of Kras-
nogvardeisk, where the outer belt rail-
road joins the southwestern mainline
and other Russian elements appear to
be approaching the mainline south Of
this junction point. Two miles Is only
about $500 yards, which Is comfort
able range even for the light Russian
siedge-drawn field guns.
1t seems likely therefore that the Ger
mans are already dependent on the
south trunk line alone. This is the we'll
known -Vitebsk railway
which used to be the main lateral line of
communication behind the old German
defensive front in Russia. Regarded in
the light of an escape route from the
Chudovo salient, the Russians have sew
eral chances of preventing the Germans
from using this line. They might take
Tosno, or some other point on the outer
belt line between Tosno and the juno
ton with the southern main line. They
may come straight south from Leningrad
and take the junction itself. Or they
might move cross-country and cut the
south line somewhere between this juno
ton and the next point at which a con-
Meeting railroad joins it. That point is
Betetskaya, and Russian forces driving
west from Novgorod already are reported
within 20 miles of the town.
+ X
A Russian success at any one of the
points named would mean that the Ger
man trOonS in the salient co,1ld m
longer be supplied or reinforced, nor
could they be withdrawn In any other
way than by cross-country flight. This
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try about peace aims. Questions like
the one, What shall we do with a
defeated Germany" are debated on
the air, in public forums and in count
less newspaper and magazine articles
and books. Yet the whole discussion
has ghostly quality. For the broad
framework of the peace must have been
set at Teheran, If Teheran had any
meaning. In that case discussion is all
but futile.
However, since every one concerned
about the future must attempt to pen
citrate this darkness, well-informed and
responsible people think they have
found out from sources close to the
highest sources" what the plans are,
These plans are discussed as though
they were actualities, in newspaper Of
fees and among groups Of public-spir-
tied citizens. And there is apprehension
that we may suddenly have a peace
sprung on us, which may not have the
support Of public opinion in America,
when we all have time, soberly to re-
fleet upon the probable consequences Of
such peace.
One of the runners now abroad has
the advantage Of exactitude. According
to this Mr.. Stain, Mr.. Churchill and
Mr.. Roosevelt agreed to a division OF
Germany into i've separate and inde-
pendent states. These would be a great
ly reduced Prussia, including Braden-
burg. those parts Of Pommerania and
Silesia not going to Poland and Neck
lenburg, with the capital Berlin. The
other four to be occupied by Anglo
American troops would be Hansa, the
North Sea districts plus Hanover;
Rhinelands, Rhenish Prussia, Saar and
Westphalia; Central Germany COM
posed Of Saxonia, Thuringia and North
ern Bavaria, and Southern, South Bava-
ria, Wurttemberg and Baden.
4 y
In this proposal there is even sup
posed to be, from the western side, a
thought Of clemency. The division Of
the Reich would, it is presumed remove
any future menace from Germany and
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coming, at the Presidents suggestion,
the first salaried chairman the COM
mittee has had.
Even the most naive and unsophisti-
Gated person will perceive that If there
were any doubt In his mind about his
nomination and acceptance, Mr.. Roose-
welt would not have pried Mr.. Hannegan
out Of a weu-paid Job in which he was
happy and thrust him into another
which he was. not seeking. No one can
miss the meaning Of that.
AS to the resolution there are two
things to be said. One is that 1t was
presented by White House supporter,
and adopted by controlled body COM
posed of practical politicians who never
make fights on principle, but whose first
consideration always is what is best for
"our local situation"
Conspicuous among these were those
three noble exponents of the true, the
good and the beautiful" the Hon. Frank
Hague of New Jersey, the Hon. Eddie
Kelly Of Chicago and the Hon. Eddie
Flynn of Brooklyn. There was no roll
call on the resolution but the lack of
protest was due not so much to unity Of
thought on the subject as to the obvious
futility Of opposition.
The day following the committee ac-
ton similar fourth-term resolution
was adopted at New York meeting of
the C1O, of which organization Mrs.
Roosevelt is member and with which
Mr. Roosevelt has had a hard and fast
political alliance for many years.
\
Considering the relations Of Mr..
Roosevelt and the CIO, it is a question
as to whether he has received more
favors than he has bestowed The total
Of each classification is impressive. Ger
tainly the CIO leaders will never find
President to suit their taste as well as
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last would mean not only the abandon
ment of their equipment and their sick
and wounded, but also it probably would
mean that they would be cut to pieces
by the Russian pursuit. The winter
mobility Of the Russian troops is much
better than anything the Germans have
been able to attain.
On the whole, therefore, the Russian
chances for inflicting at least . minor
disaster on the Wehrmacht are rather
bright in the area south and southeast
OF Leningrad. It looks very much as
though the Germans had held their rail-
way-blocking positions too long. In fact
there has been q tendency to hang on
too long notable in almost all German
strategy since Stalingrad
This tendency is almost certainly DO
htical in origin but German soldiers
have to pay very heavy price to permit
their political bosses to indulge them
selves in these military illusions. It Is
quite possible that another installment
on this price Is about to be exacted at
Leningrad and yet another In Southern
Italy. Some times one wonders how long
the German Army and its leaders will 60
on paying the piper of Berchtesgaden
without taking into its own hands the
right to call the tune.
(Copyrisht 1914, New York Tribune, Ine)
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Dorothy Thompson

thus enable us to be more lenient In re.
spect of NaA criminals and reparations.
have reason to discuss this in ear
nest. For If any sfch idea has crossed
the minds Of the arbiters Of Europes
destiny, fear they will find the results
to be quite other than they think.
1t requires far more than short COL
un1n to develop the prospects Of the con-
sequences Of such peace, and I shall
have to take it up again. But I well
come this "rumor," since 1t confronts
the public with plan" that can be
discussed. That division has at least
been contemplated Is well known to
every one.
The objections-all Of which need am
plifying-to this idea are the following:
There will be no popular support
anywhere in non-Nad Germany for this
plan. 1t will be opposed by every demo-
cratic force. 1t will have to rest on
Quisling governments, motivated by
personal considerations Of power and
resting on Anglo-American and Rus
sian bayonets.
@1t will therefore be impossible to
establish democratic popular govern
ments. These separate regimes will
have to maintain themselves by force
and suppress all free speech and free
discussion
st will conserve and re-create Ger
man supernationalism and lead to un-
derground movements, guerrilla warfare
and constant intrigues
1T would demand complete unity
amongst the Allies for very long pe.
nod. Actually 1t would hold in itself
the germs Of serious dissension between
Russia and the Anglo-American powers.
5-f, moreover, none Of these things
should happen; II by some unimaginable
miracle the program would work, It
would almost certainly make Germany
the master Of Europe and revive the
old Holy Roman Empire Of the German
nation"
In future columns I intend 10 discuss
every one Of these five points.
Relessed by ths Ds1 Syndicate. rne)
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question of his position.
AS plainly as any words he could have
used, they say that, war or no war, VIC
tory before the convention or after the
election, he wants another four years in
the White House and is going to use
every bit of power he has to insure get
ting them. Nothing could be clearer.
This was an announcement; to call it
draft" is to be wholly gullible
For one thing, the Hannegan selection
Is completely revealing. AS far back as
any one can recall, it has been the rec
ognized and invariable privilege of the
presidential nominee of each party to
pick his own chairman. This is rule
that has never been broken. Nor will it
be broken this time.
All Mr.. Roosevelt has done is to ex-
ercise the prerogative in advance Of the
convention nomination instead of later.
It, was he who picked Mr.. Hannegan,
prevailed upon him to relinquish the
Treasury position he had given him and
take over the management of his
fourth-term campaign, presumably be-
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are. II Is most remarkable that not a
single responsible editor In the country
can tell himself-to say nothing Of the
country-what we hope to achieve for
Europe in general and in Germany In
particular, by victory.
When Hitler and Japan attacked, their
aims were clear-the establishment of
German and Japanese domination over
Eurasia. As long as we were on the de-
fensive, 1t was unnecessary to have any
other aim than survival But with vari-
Gus announcements from official sources
that we may possibly expect total VIC
tory In the European theater Of war this
year, the question Of what our victory
will mean begins to concern every
thoughtful person. In the last war we
had from the beginning clear picture
OF what we were fighting for. But In
this war we do not know
Yet we must presume that the peace
aims were set in Teheran. But seven
weeks later we do not know what was
agreed upon. We have the strange
phenomenon Of "a peoples war" fought
ostensibly for peoples peace" that
nobody can describe.
At the same time We have an i'm
mense discussion going on in the coun-
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OF communication from Rome to the
beaches.
On the other hand, the Germans are
operating from interior lines and hope
to be able to exploit this advantage to
the fullest in bringing up sufIicient forces
to push us back to the beaches.
So far the Allies have met only slight
opposition from small Nazi detachments
which had been assigned to watch the
coast. 1t seems that the Germans, real
1zing that there were no large harbors
where Allied transports could put In to
support major landing operation. did
not think 1t possible that their opponents
would take q risk which might end In
defeat. They may have expected some
commando raids but nothing more,
Hence only isolated detachments, mostly
large-size patrols, were maintained in
the area within 80 or 10 miles to the
south Of Rome.
When 1t was obvious that the Allied
force was substantial one, troops from
the north Of Rome Immediately were
started toward the new invasion point,
The movements of these troops is handi.
capped somewhat by the fact that before
our landings the Rome railways were
disrupted by Allied air attacks. Whether
the attacks on the railways and the
present assaults on the roads leading
from Rome to the south will prevent the
timely arrival of whole German army
remains to be seen. On this depends the
success Of the Allied operation.
Marshal Kesselring is reported to have
ordered the whole German 10th Army to
the south. The 10th Army was kept as
general reserve on the northern ap-
proaches to Rome Some units which
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Frank K. Kent

Mr.. Roosevelt does. Their support for
q fourth term has always been assured.
1t, with that Of the national committee,
Is the sum, to date, Of the draft"
There viii be other resolutions and
calls. !" Of course, but these are funda-
mental and both were engineered by
White House aides. The one unsolicited,
uninspired, spontaneous "call" Is one
which the administration managers do
not mention and would like, to have for.
gotten. 1t was from Mr.. Earl Browder.
head Of the Communist party, who came
out long ago-even before Senators
Gufiy and Pepper-demanding fourth
term for Mr.. Roosevelt.
Add all this up and there can exist
no doubt at all of Mr.. Roosevelt's inten-
tions. He is no longer a mystery man.
On the contrary, he is out in the open
after his nomination just as much as
Mr.. Willkie is after his. There, Of
course, will be more talk of the draft"
and from the stooges there will be de-
mands that he yield" and what Is
said and done along this line from now
on will be sheer pretense and humbug.
No one questions now that he will be
nominated. The only question now is
Can he be elected?" AS to that there
are. of course, two sides. Too many un-
certainties are ahead for anybodys
forecast to be worth much. One thing
upon which most politicians and OBJ
servers agree is that harder fight lies
ahead for Mr.. Roosevelt than he had
four years ago. If there were no other
reasons the inevitable accumulation Of
resentments' insures that. A second
thing is that Republican House OF
Representatives and a hostile Senate
are practical certainty. To a good
many that is a particularly strong argu-
ment against fourth term, because it
means an almost complete paralysis Of
administration. At least, 1t always has.