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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13

fronts of Europe. am sure the
American people will see to it
that the high principles for
which our President fought and
died will live on.
Michigan war workers are
more than grieved on the pass
ing of great president. In their
grief they take time to praise
and thank God that great
president, Franklin d e a n o
Roosevelt, is followed by an
other great man who will con-
tinue to lead the nation in the
ultimate victory and the peace
to follow"
THOMAS E. DEWEY
Governor and Mrs. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York Tin a tele-
gram to Mrs. RoosevelD -
please accept our deepest SYM
pathy in your great loss which
will be shared by every Ameri-
can and mOurned by all the
freedom loving people of the en-
tire world"
r. J. Thomas, President of the
u n il e d Automobile Workers
(CIO)-"Labor. the plain people
of America and the world, will
feel greatest the sudden tragic
death of our greatest president.
No president since Lincoln has
served his nation and his people
so we'll.
1T is incumbent upon all who
would truly honor the memory
of Franklin D. Roosevelt to car
ry on without compromise the
fight for the great principles of
social justice and world amity
for which he struggled through
out his life"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
HONOR FALLEN HERO
Hands Reach Across the Sea

UTICA-Mrs. August Rugen.
stein who lost his life in service,
has recently received a letter
from Elva Collins, founder and
president. Of the LIST New South
Wales Wives and Fiancees of
United States Servicemen Club.
The letter is dated January
81, 1945, "Windermere" 245
Avoca St., Randwick, Sidney,
New South Wales, Australia,
and Miss Collins writes:
IL am sending you q Red
Poppy that came off the grave
of your son, Arthur, on Christ
mas Day.
II placed one on every grave
and then next day took them
off to send to you people" Miss
Collins tells of the members Of
the club and herself attending
the service memorial at u. S.
RQckHQQd cemetery American
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
Both Soldier
Sons Killed
in Action

The stark tragedy Of war
struck for the second time with
in four months today at the
home of Alex Zielke, of zoos
Little road, widowed father of
two sons who have both made
the supreme sacrifice for their
country.
Pfc. Frederick G.. Zielke, %
year old member of an armored
force squadron, was killed in
action somewhere in Germany
on March %, his father was Of
ficially informed today.
Frederick's only brother, 49,
year old Pvt. Robert Zielke, an
infantryman, lost his life in
combat during the great push
through Luxembourg on Dec.
80, 1914.
The young soldiers mother
died one year ago.
Both are graduates of Mount
Glenn MS high school and had
spent their lifetimes in the
Clinton township-Mount Glenn
ems area.
Other than their father, him
self a veteran of the First World
War, the only survivors are two
sisters: Betty, whose husband
Pvt. Robert Harvey is in action
overseas, and Shirley, IL years
of age.
The grief stricken father Is
employed in a Detroit war plant.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
All Michigan
Reflects FDR's
High Standing
All Closes Are
Represented in
Words Of Proise
(By the Associated Press

u
Michigan's industrial, labor
and religious leaders joined with
spokesman for both major poll
teal parties today in paying
tribute to President Roosevelt.
Governor Kelly said the late
president "would want us, in
this hour of grief, to redouble
our efforts for that victory and
the worldwide peace that he
gave himself so unstintingly to
bring about"
1.-THE people of Michigan and
the freedom loving people of the
world are stunned" the govern
or declared, las our President
and Communicating Chief is TAX
en- from us at q time when our
armed forces are so successfully
advancing toward victory"
VANDENBERG
Senator Vandenberg, Michi-
gan Republican, said the Presi-
dent Leaves an imperishable
imprint on the history of Amer
lea and the world. Those who
disagree with him have always
recognized his amazing genius in
behalf of his always vigorous
ideals"
Other comment included:
Murray D. Van Wagner, for
mer Democratic governor -
Our greatest American has
given his life for American free
dom, just as much as our Amer
lean men and women have sacri-
feed their lives in the fox holes
of the Pacific and the battle
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
Patton Slabs
10 Outskirts
Of Leipzig
Goebbels Admits
War Connot Lost
Much Longer
BY JAMES M. LONG

y SAMES w. LON0 =
PARIS, April Is - R The
Germans said today that Amer.
lean tanks had bypassed Merse-
burg and were fighting Nazi re-
serves in Halle, Is miles from
Leipzig, and were approaching
the lower Elbe river at Witten-:
berge in a great maneuver OUT
thanking Hamburg and the
whole Denmark peninsula.
Merseburg is on the Saale. q
tributary of the Elbe, Is miles
due west of Leipzig. Halle Lies
just north of Merseburg. Both
cities were in the path Of thu
American First Army, last re-
ported % miles from LEIPZIG
nearly "a hours ago. :
The American Third Army on
the southwest approaches Storm
ed to within ID miles of Leipzig,
fought into the streets Of jena
and came within 81 miles OF
bisecting Germany in q thrust
t. the Czechoslovak border. :
HINT NAZI REVOLT :
Wittenberge is 20 miles north.
west of Berlin and so north of
Magdeburg, near which the
Ninth Army first reached and
crossed the Elbe. The Germans
said Elbe bridges were blown at
Wittenberge and Tangermuende.
Wittenberge lies IS miles south
east of both Hamburg and Luss
beck. German ports on either
side of Schleswig- Holstein. t.
which Denmark is attached. - :
Third army battle dispatches
suggested revolt in the Ger
man air force. :
THE war cannot last much
longer Nazi propaganda min
lister Joseph Goebbels said
gloomily. I'VE have sunk very
low"
The British continued the
siege of Bremen and fought
slowly up the last so miles
toward Hamburg" Germany's
greatest port and second largest
city.
BRITISH ROLL FORWARD
The Canadians crashed into
the Dutch city of Anthem &C.,.
000) where hopes Of m earlier
Allied victory were killed last
fall with the defeat of the brit.
ish first parachute division.
Huge streams of German ".
hicles were spotted moving
southwestward from the Linz
area into the Bavarian redoubt.
1t. Gen. George s. Patton's
Third Army advanced at viii
with no artillery. mortar or IN.
ti-tank fire and sighting only
two German planes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13

I'VE have known for a very
long time the part which Roose-
welt played in preparing this
war in intensifying it to an al
most unimaginable degree with
the result that now masses Of
material are employed against
humanity" DNB said.
THE cold and incorruptible
hand of fate has checkmated
one of the principal figures IF
the great political events of our
times, thus ending a life which
has brought untold disaster to
the world and through whose
destructive character his own
country. misled rather than led
by this ambitious statesman,
was TO no lesser extent steered
toward catastrophe"
A Tokyo government spokes-
man, Sadeo Iguchi, asserted the
Roosevelt policy had plunged
the United States into the war
and added:
1T may we'll be that with his
death American war policy will
be reconsidered and revised"
CA Tokyo broadcast heard by
the FEC said that no Japanese
"harbors any fond hopes for a
sudden drop in the fighting pow
err of America" because of the
Presidents death).
The German Agency DNB OBJ
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
ANECDOTES OF PERSONAL LIFE
The Human Side. That the Public Missed
ANECDOTES

WASHINGTON, April Is -
up - Here is the human side
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
the side the public missed.
These anecdotes are the per-
sonal recollections of the five
Associated Press reporters who
worked 'the Roosevelt beat" -
Kirk L. Simpson. Douglas b.
Cornell. d. Harold Oliver and
Howard Flieger, who covered
the White House, and Elton C..
Fay who followed Mr.. Roose-
welt from the New York COVER
norship to Washington:
Mr.. Roosevelt was a gifted
story teller and loved good
Joke even when 1t was on
himself.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13

section, for the u. S. servicemen
who have passed on. Among the
graves she placed sprig OF
rosemary on that of Rugenstein.
To quote Miss Collins MY
members and myself are making
regular attendance on the
American graves every month,
so l want you to understand we
g.rls are looking after your
sons grave. Also you must know
that you sons grave is in a we'll
kept cemetery. The sexton,
Samuel r. White, is really doing
a fine job the way he looks after
the graves. Cheerio until l write
you again soon."
Mrs. Rugenstein has been
greatly comforted by the letters
from Miss Collins and corre-
spends with her regularly. Her
two other sons are slso in serv-
ice.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
BY the Associated Press


The Detroit News. describing
President Roosevelt "as truly d
war casualty as any man who
stepped into a whitening fire at
Two or the beaches of Anzio or
Normandy" proposed editorially
today that Congress "vote him
posthumously the highest award
for valor in its gift, the Medal Of
Honor"
The News editorial added.
HE is the first American of
whom 1t may be said without
qualification that he was world
leader. In war, as in domestic
planning, he sensed the newt
able from afar. :. He was ahead
of public opinion, as Congress
was behind it. The full fruits
of his mastery political planning
with other leaders begin only
now to be recognized"
Other Michigan newspaper
editorial comment on the PreSi-
dents death included:
DETROIT FREE PRESS-He
saw, with clarity of vision
given few men, the armageddon
which the human race was about
to enter. He rose to the real
glory of his mastery of politics
to prepare the American people
for what he knew was ahead. 1t
is our belief that history will
record this as his gre e S t
achievement. Like Lincoln,
he died in the hour Of worldly
triumphs. Out of the worlds
grief, and in reverence to his
magnificent fighting soul, there
may come a deeper realization
of the great world ideals for
which he stood than IL he had
remained, d worn and weary
warrior broken in battle as was
that other war President Wood
row Wilson.
MT. CLEMENS MONITOR.
LEADER - He has taken his
place alongside the Titans of
history. A stunned nation which
cannot yet begin to assess the full
impact of his loss must and will
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13

unite behind President Harry S.
Truman in making certain that
the final victory and peace al
most within Mr.. Roosevelt's
grasp shall not be dissipated.
A nation in tears can look foe
ward with certainty to a bright
and assured future; even as it
mourns its illustrous dead.
ADRIAN TIE L E G r A NJ -
Franklin Roosevelt served his
people and humanity earnestly
and well. He wore himself out
in that service. He gave his life
to the nation as really as though
he had died in battle. America
admires him, honors him, grieves
for him. His name will live for
ever in the history of the Repuo-
lie.
PONTIAC DAILY PRESS -
That his name will rank high
among those of our greatest
Presidents his most ardent adj
mirers and severest critics even
tually will agree. Franklin D.
Roosevelt had greatness because
he was the product OF great
times and because he was able
to meet the most vital of the
exacting demands of those times.
BENTON HARBOR N E w S.
PALLADIUM - The nation has
lost its first President in time OF
war. X X Because the chief ex-
ecutive came to the end of life
at a turning point in the worlds
destiny which he has so largely
shaped in the past two decades,
his death is certain to have pro-
found effects throughout the
world. X Now is the time when
we must all stand steadfast and
calm and give full play to the
attributes that have made this
nation strong and great.
JACKSON CITIZEN-PATRIOT
No tragedy in our times has
so deeply stirred the universal
soul. Nor has humanity suffer-
ed a greater loss within living
memory. The passing OF the
President in the midst OF our
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13

At one news conference he
went into a discussion on infla-
ton, relating how friend COM
planned about paying high
price for strawberries out of sea-
son.
Months later he started talk
ing about initiation again and
told the same story. only this
time the friend had bought as
paragus.
He laughed with reporters
when one of them asked II this
was the same man who got stuck
for the strawberries.
Well. he said. il was a good
story and was true.
The whole worh knows him
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
Michigan Editors Unanimous
in Eulogizing Dead Leader

greatest war will be looked upon
by millions as a disaster. II
would be idle to say such feel.
ings are groundless. But COM
fort and confidence may be
drawn from the fact that the
struggle with our enemies is al.
most won. And it is certain his
associates here and in Europe
are equipped to carry on to a
victorious conclusion. History
will rank him with Washington
and Lincoln.
ANN ARBOR NEWS - The
people of the nation whose
armed might, made possible by
its productive capacity, has been
primarily responsible for turn.
ing the tide in the struggle be-
ng waged against the forces OF
evil should especially feel deer
gratitude in their hearts today
for the dynamic leadership OF
the man who had the vision tc
foresee the need for prepared.
ness before the striking of the
first blows. Mr.. Roosevelt acted
in sufficient time to avert what
easily might have beeen a ma.
tional disaster.
SAULT STE. MARIE EVE.
MING NEWS-The people of the
world have lost champion who
has given his life to the cause oil
humanity. Roosevelt will &C
down in history as a great Presi.
dent who saw clearly the prin.
ciples that are necessary for uni.
versal peace. America has lost
only the man, not the ideal he
has given it.
GRAND RAPIDS HERALD -
Whatever may be the policies d
any of us, whatever may be our
personal opinions regarding the
policies or activities of Frank.
lin D. Roosevelt, we all without
exception bow our heads in sor-
row and in reverence to the
elected leader of the American
people, to one of the leaders Of
the world his death at thi:
time is an all but irreparable
loss to the world.
GRAND RAPIDS PRESS -
There can be no doubt that
Franklin D. Roosevelt was one
of the great forces, one of the
most moving personalities of the
ages. Saddened as the nation i,
by his death, there is neverthe.
less no reason for despair as we
look to the future. Mr.. Truman
made an excellent record as .
United States Senator, is popu.
lar in Congress and wise in the
avs of politics. And the mer
who worked with the President
in the winning of the war-men
like Eisenhower, Marshall, Mac.
Arthur, King and Nimitz-are
still with us to lead on to vic.
tory.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
Prisoner Dies
Of Head Injury
Autopsy Rsvsols
Cerebrol Coneussion

Sheriff Harley Ensign today.
declared complete his investiea-
ton into the circumstances sur.
rounding the death Of . 3S-year.
old Romeo garage mechanic who
was fatally injured early Thurs
day morning while being held
ir the Macomb county Jail pend
ing arraignment on q drunk and
disorderly charge. /.
The sheriff said that q eoro.
bral conclusion. revealed By an
autopsy performed Thursday
night at st. Joseph's hospital
had undoubtedly resulted from
the victim - Paul Pitman - ~.
peatedly striking his hse4
against his cell bars or bunk
while In q drunken frenzy.
The prisoner. arrested We1s
nerday afternoon b. vfllno4
Marshal Fred Haldeman, q -
meo, was unhurt 1t the lGno ~
was ANpked In Mount Cjouooo
so far As Jail officers know.
Pitmsn YVES found q I: Z. -
Thursday lying n . pool 9
blood In his cell ofeoR 49,
prisoners he'd at1Eneeo1 oonDc1
attention 70 Ne p11kk - ~
rushed 70 Ne he1o11al ~ 1
the shori1 ~ ~
regain eou6c1oco y
SIS p. n. ~ Il 4
Jr., nd that 4 ~
thai the mans in1uo
ell. {nolcteA. al b
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
116 Enemy
Aircraft Shot
Out. Of Skies
One u. s. Worship
Others Domosed
OF okinowo
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN

BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor
American forces broke up q
powerful Japanese air offensive
by shooting down 116 enemy
planes off Okinawa yesterday
and in an offensive of their own
landed on Bohol, the last major
island in the Philippines to be
reinvaded.
One American destroyer was
sunk and several other ships
damaged in the day long air
battle off Okinawa, 325 miles
from Japan. Nippon's suicide pi-
lots conferred the attack - their
second disastrous attempt within
a week - on the invasion fleet
and supply dumps on the west
coast of the island where Yanks
unloaded 1000 tons of material
in the first ten days of the inva-
sion.
Jar OLAAV1O
A Japanese communique claim
ed eight U. S. ships were sunk
and II damaged.
Breaking the six months Of
fetal American silence on ia
pans highly publicized suicide
corps, Fleet Adm. Chester w.
Nimitz said they have met with
only negligible success" They
have sunk a number of destroy
ers and damaged some major
fleet units, but no battleship,
fast carrier or cruiser has been
sunk.
Nimitz identified four more
divisions in action on Okinawa,
ali units of the Tenth Army. The
Sixth and First Marine Divi-
sions continued their lightly op-
posed northward advance. Ele-
ments of the veteran 9th mid
westerly and 96th New York;
Divisions apparently are dead
locked with the 7th Division
against powerful Nipponese de-
fcnses on southern Okinawa.
A Japanese communique as
serted that in ten days $500
Americans have been killed or
wounded, and 1875 armored units
and 70 planes knocked out.
OVERRUN ISLAND
In the Central Philippines the
American division invaded Bohol
Island, routed a small enemy gar
rison near Tagbilaran and push
ed rapidly inland to join guer-
rillas who control most of the
island.
Other Yanks frightened a trap
on southern Luzon. The 18th Air
borne Division swept 80 miles
down the east coast highway to
Calauag. The l58th Regimental
combat team drove five miles
northwest from the Legaspi area
to Camalig, los air miles SOUTH
east of Calauag.
The Navy announced the loss
of landing craft in the Philip
pines and the submarine Scamp,
the 42nd undersea craft listed as
lost.
Less than half a dozen small
Japanese ships were hit by Phil
ippine bombers patrolling the
China coast sea lanes, which Gen.
Douglas Macarthur reported
were virtually deserted.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
Selfridge Adds
FIGHTER Training

SELFRIDGE FIELD - Col.
Bradford A Shaw, Base Com
mander, today announced the
addition of fighter plane train
ing for this Army Air Base, q
unit of the First Air Force, with
the transfer of a Fighter Train
ing Unit from Oscoda Army Air
Field to this field.
The fighter plane training will
be in addition to the program of
medium bombardment training
now being carried out here.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13

Followingt he lead of De-
trOit's Chamber of Commerce,
A ID. Brewer, secretary of
Mount Clemens Board of
Commerce, announced early
this afternoon that local bus
mess esta blishments will close
from 3 to 5 o'clock Saturday
afternoon, during the time Of
President Roosevelt's funeral
services in Washington.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
Suspend LIQUOR Sales

All liquor sales in Michigan
must be suspended between the
hours Of 4 p. m. and 6 p. m. on
Saturday during the presidents
funeral. Charles Parrish. state
liquor control enforcement chief,
decreed today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13

served that Truman is not
Roosevelt and the change of
Presidency may have important
repercussions upon the war it.
self"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13

as Fala. 49,
But to Mr.. Roosevelt the world
famous little black Scotty was
simply "the pup"
The risky pooch was con-
stantl. underfoot wherever the
President happened to be. But
he always scampered at thess
words from Mr.. Roosevelt:
Get down, pup"
The public missed the only
nickname President Franklin b.
Roosevelt had.
To the entire White H6uoo
staff - some Of the membero
came to Washington with him
from Albany. N. Y. - the chief
See ANECDOTES-PaSe ! =
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
Berlin and Tokyo
ASSail Roosevelt
(By the Associated Press

The German DNB dispatch reported today by the
Federal Communications Commission, bitterly characterized
President Roosevelt nothing but dictator world incen-
diary No. X X chief criminal"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13

The whole works knows him
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-04
terson Field.

terson Field.
Sgt. Fulton is a graduate of Stiv-
ers High School and is known
throughout the State of Ohio for
his football and basketball abilities.
He also attended Alabama State
Teachers College in Montgomery,
Alabama. He has been awarded the
"Good Conduct Medal and the
Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-04

Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Pearson
received letter from DR.. Day that
promised special arrangements to
procure sufficient number Of Ne
gro patients for Negro students of
physical therapy.
The two Negro applicants re-
ported the discrimination to the
Chicago Civil Liberties committee.
They said they applied for admis-
sion to the physical therapy course
in January, 1914, and three months
later were advised by Miss Gertrude
Beard, dean of the physical therapy
department that 1--WE can not offer
you a place in our course"
Miss Beard referred them to the
Richmond Professional institute in
Richmond, Va, a jimcrow school
offering physical therapy training
to Negroes. The two women re-
ceived no satisfactory replies to
their many letters to various de-
partment heads at Northwestern
until they wrote Franklin Bliss
Snyder, Northwestern university
president.
DR.. Days letter, explaining the
university's policy and position,
followed. The Chicago Civil Liber-
ties committee has written Presi-
dent Snyder asking that he over
rule the position taken by the med
ical school, Ira Latimer, executive
secretary, revealed, but Snyder has
not replied.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-04
SGT. JAMES FU[T0N NOW
in new CALEDONIA

WITH u. S. ARMY FORCES IN
NE WCALEDONIA, May 4-Ser-
geant James E. Fulton, son of Mrs.
Sarah Fulton Of 131 Horace Street,
has recently completed nineteen
months overseas service, perform
ing the duties as assistant to the
first sergeant, mail orderly and also
a member of his company public re-
lations staff.
Sgt. Fulton was indicted at Fort
Thomas, Kentucky, in December,
1912. He was transferred to Fort
Warren, Wyoming, there he re-
ceived his basic and technical train
ing and upon completion was trans
ferred to a Port Battalion unit in
Charleston, South Carolina. In
August, 1943, Sgt. Fulton was sent
overseas to the sub-tropical island
Of New Caledonia. Prior to his in
duction into the Armed Forces he
was employed as a checker by Pat