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Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
Liquor Board
Fights Court
In Club Case
BY Rhys JONES

LANSING. Aug. 9--The State
Liquor Control Commission today
planned a showdown fight against
a ruling by Circuit Court Judge
George r. Murphy which would
strip the commission Of power and
nullIfy virtually al Of It's penalties
and liC - revocauonS since May
The ruling by the Wayne County
court threw out the commission s
motion TO dismiss a suit brought
by the PcnobsCot Club IN Detroit.
The club IS seeking 10 prevent
the commission from enforcing a
siX-month suspension order.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
Judge Mdher Called
In Traffic Court Quiz

Circuit Judge Thomas F. Maher
was summoned as a witness today
in Circuit Judge George B. Muir.
phys grand jury investigation Of
traffic court irregularities.
Maher was traffic court Judge
until his elevation to the circuit
bench last January.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
TrHni 0n On Air

President mans
radio report to the ma
ton tonight on the Big
Three Conference at
POtsdam may be heard
in Detroit over WJR,
CKLW, w WI and
WXYZ. The broadcast
Ms scheduled for 10 p. m,
Detroit time.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

1850 Fourth: her q year old
Judy. and John Mar
tin. 9, son of Mrs. Priscilla Mar
tin Of 1850 Fourth, were injured
while standing at the side of the
building when the explosion oc-
CURED. Priscilla Martin, 3, who
was standing beside her brother,
John, was unharned.
The vicinity of the blast was
covered with broken glass from
windows in the laboratory, the
EvanS-Winter-Hebb, Inc. printing
firm at 8l8 w. Hancock, and q
ID story apartment building st
1850 Fourth.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

The Tokyo radio said that sharp
fighting is IN progress m al areas.
Of Manchuria invaded by Russian
forces.
The japanese broadcast said
that Soviet army units broke
across the eastern border Of Man
chura at several points along a
line running from south OF Hun
chun. IN HeilungkIang Province 10
Iulou in klrin Province. near the
NladlVoStok area
(The London radio reported
today. according 60 an ms dis
patch. that the Soviet com
manderS In the Far East would
include "SOme Of the famous
marshals who led Russia TO VIC
tory against the NaZiS." The
broadcast said that many of
these commanders - including
Marshal Gregory Zhukov 49,
''won fame during the battles
against Japan on the Man
Churian border, seven years
ago.
Soviet planes began attacking
Hailan. Harbin and Kirin in Man
Churia and Rashin and Gcnzan IN
northern Korea. Tokyo said.
The puppct Manchukuo govern
ment called an extraordinary
meeting of the state courrE for
9 m.
THE government proclaimed
the defense of the entire nation
against the Soviet army's I'M
paralleled INVASION" Tokyo said,
land took steps for giving inn
mediate full play TO the nations
Continued on Page ,. Col. p
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
2 Women. 2 Children
Hurt Inn Lab Blast

blast last night in the Research Laboratories of Bendx
Aviation Corp 1859 Fourth shook the neghborhood blocks
and injured and children who for
glass at Receiving Hospital.
Fire department squad police said that
tory carving highly confidential Governmental work for
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
CASE HINGES ON PLEA

The entire case hinges on
whether the liquor commission
IN asking the Legislature TO give
II help, made itself impotent in
the matter Of holding hearings
and assessing penalties.
The Legislature amended the
control law 10 provide for APP
polntment OF board OF three
hearing examiners 10 serve six
year terms
This board now threatens 30
take over the authority Of the
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
QUALIFICATION SEEN

Obviously the PcnobScot suit
is based on the following word.
IN the law.
"In all instances when a IL
cenSe is to be suspended or re-
voked. the commission shall
cause a complaint 10 he filed
with said board tof hearing
eNaminers), whereupOn said
board shall conduct q hearing,
limited TO facts, laws, rules and
regulations Of the commission
as specified in said complaint"
That seemS TO be the ioker.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
HAD PASSED LIMIT

"These increases were allowed
previously even though the
Little Steel formula freezes in
creases at Is per cent" Kenney
said THE board just couldn't
put through another l0-cent in
crease so the boys went on
strike"
Although Detroit workers are
demanding an increase Of 35
cents an hour and their demands
have been certified to the War
Labor Board. the local walkout is
strictly a sympathy strike. Ed
mund T. Sergott. labor consultant
TO the union. and Kenney agreed.
Detroit workers now receive
about S205 an hour. Kenny said.
The Saginaw workers wanted
their wages raised from Sl.S0 TO
81 80 an hour.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
1T POINTS To LAW

The commission points Ia the
following section Of the law aS
one that irrevocably protects Its
authority
The commission shall have
right and power To suspend or
revoke. and any commissioner
designated by the chairman
shall. upon due notice and
proper hearing, have the right
and power 10 suspend or revoke
any license"
However, does another section
OF the amendment, nullify the
foregoingS
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
TRY TO REACH KELLY

Ne one seems 10 know why
Coy Kelly has not appointed the
hearing board Efforts were be-
m made to reach him at Gaylord
today tC get the answer. The
commission insists it still wants
a hearing board, and is ready TO
test the law IN the highest courts.
Charles Martin, legal adviser 10
the commissions said today the
commission never intended 10 re-
lnqWsh any Of its rights TO origi-
nate and hold hearings.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

DIR. . C. IOoLE. DENTIST
no " Lafayette. a. Michigan, opp. CITY
Hal Hours 90 Tel CA assa - Ady.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
Pattern Men
Shut utDOwn6O
Detroit Shops

The bomber building program
for the United States air forces
was threatened today as 800 De-
troit patternmakers went on
strike closing so major Detroit
shops.
A statewide strike involving
from l 20 Oto $50 0paternmakers
and Is shops was reported early
today, but Ernest J. Ross, business
agent for the Detroit Pattern
Makers Association, said the re-
port was premature.
THE statewide strike may
not develop until late this after
noon or some item tomorrow or
the next day." Ross said
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
HIS B.29 PROGRAM

Meanwhile, il was revealed that
about Is per cent Of patterns for
building B-29s and other bombers
are made in Detroit. Officials of
the air forces have been in com
munication with the union and
have advised Cancellation agencies
that the strike Will badly cripple
the bomber program If it con-
tinues.
The Detroit walkout is the first
in series of strikes 10 be staged
in protest OF a War Labor Board
ruling that denied a l0-cent an
hour wage increase to Saginaw
workers. Both the companies and
the unions involved had signed a
Form 10. The form is issued when
both the employer and he employe
agree TO set wage increase.
Frank Kenney, labor conSultant
for the Michigan Pattern Manu-
featuring Association, said the
WLB rejected the Form 10 as
Saginaw patternmakers already
have received increases up 10 2S
Der cent.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
GREATER RUIN, DEATH

Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-23
Hockett Firm
Makes $1,000
Contribution

Largest single donation ever
made to the Red Cross in Ma
comb County was received at
the Mount Clemens offices today
for the current War Fund.
1t was a check for So 200 from
the management of the Hackett
Brass Foundry, st. Clair Shores,
included among $4,000 sent in
by Shores Red Cross chairman
Peter Jenema.
The war plant management,
residents of Detroit, gave their
donation to James Murray, of
st. Clair Shores, one of their
employees, who turned it in to
solicitor Mrs. Claude Wilson.
The donation inh944, handled in
a similar manner, amounted to
$4,000.
The next largest individual
gift in the 1945 campaign to date
has been $500.
1t was announced today by
chairman Bert T. Will, of New
Haven that the villages 81 900
quota has already been surpass-
ed by $84.64.
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5|eep.5trike
Closes Plant
1000 Idle in
Continental WoIkout

DETROIT, March 25-(P)-
The plant of the Continental
Motors Corporation in East JEFF
ferson avenue was closed today
following a strike of approx
mately 1000 workers. A COM
pany spokesman said the strike
began after a foreman dis
charged two men he said he
found asleep on their jobs.
An officer of Local $50, Unit
ed Automobile Workers (CIO),
of which the workers are mem
bers, asserted that a number of
employees had protested to the
union that they were unable to
enter the factory.
Police reported that about 20
pickets patrolled the gates today
and that workers were not at
tempting to cross the lines.
A one-day strikes at the Ora
ham Paige Motors Corps. plant
ended today with the return to
work of 365 welders and as
semblers in the amphibious tank
department. The strike followed
the discharge of an employe in
volved in a dispute with a SUI
pervisor over time allowance
for washing up periods.
At the Continents plant
which produces aircraft engines
and engine parts company Of
ficials and UAW-CIO representa-
tives met this morning to seek
to end the stoppage.
A union spokesman said he ex-
pected a quick settlement of the
dispute and orders for the en-
ployes to return to work.
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Mead Committee
May Resume
Detroit Inquiry

DETROIT. March 23-(R-
Members of the Senate War IN
vestigation Committee probably
will return here within the next
fortnight TO resume the inquiry
into production and manpower
utilization.
Members Of the subcommittee
which held a four-day hearing
here earlier this month conferred
in Washington yesterday with
George Romney. managing dir
ector of the automotive council
for war production, and George
Meader. committee nsel.
Meader with a staff of assistants
has been continuing the investi-
CATION into factory output and
manpower utilization in the De-
troit area.
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New Liquor
Ration System
Starts April /

LANSING, March % (R -
The Liquor Control Commission
announced today it will insti-
tute a new liquor rationing sys-
tenn starting April / and that
on that date all present liquor
permit cards to individuals, ex-
cept military permit cards, will
become void.
The covers of war ration book
No. 4 will be stamped with a
rubber stamp which will inn
pose on the book a three-inch
square containing the numbers
one to SO, inclusive. Smaller
rubber stamps will be used to
block out an x each numeral,
which will represent one ration
unit.
Out of state ration books will
not be honored for liquor pur-
chases unless the holder can
establish six months residence in
Michigan, the announcement
said. No person may use the ra-
ton book of another to obtain
liquor under the rules, except
ing that a husband or wife may
use the book of the other.
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LOIS HARPER DIRECTS 'CRUCIFIXION
Sacred Concert Set for Sunday

A sacred concert, "The Cru
cifixion," will be presented
Sunday at 4 pm. in Zion Evan
gelical church by members of
the Mount Clemens Civic chorus
under the direction of Lois Har-
per, Elementary public school
music supervisor.
The cantata will be sung by
mixed chorus with Tracy Silves-
ter singing the tenor solo and
Glen Lewark the bass solo. Solo
parts for voices in the choir will
be those of Robert Wilmarth and
A. j. Pickman.
The complete program to be
presented is as follows:
"And. They Came to a Place
Named Gethsemane," tenor solo,
Tracy Sylvester.
"Could Ye Not Watch" Glen
Lewark, Tracy Sylvester, Cho-
rus.
Filing Wide the Gates" Al
Hameister and chorus.
He Made Himself of No
Reputation Glen Lewark.
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Russians Roll
Steadily Ahead
Press Attoek on
8O-MiIe Front
BY RICHARD KASISCHKE

y u MIAMI AhoA0OHA6
LONDON, March % - up -
Marshal Ivan Konev's new Sile-
sian offensive rolled forward
along an 80-mile front today to-
ward the inner mountain fort
ress of Germany where Adolf
Hitler's SIS men have been re-
ported making preparations for
a final stand.
With swift tank led rushes,
Konev's First Ukrainian Army
group threatened five large Sc
lesian cities Frankenstein,
Neisse, Ziegenehals. Loebschultx
and Ratibor - in the Moravian
Mountains and already was re-
ported fighting in one of them
and in the suburbs of another.
On the Berlin front the Ger
man High Command announced
that Marshal Gregory Zhukov
attacked from the flanks Of his
Oder bridgehead at Kuestrin, 80
miles east of Berlin. with strong
tank and infantry forces.
The Germans declared that
the attack was smothered In q
storm of German fire and IS
Soviet tanks were destroyed, but
Stockholm reports, and an Amer
lean broadcast from Moscow de-
clared. a full scale assault on
Hitler's capital was Immediately
at hand.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-23
Girl Scouts
Enthusiastic
AboutProgran1
Youngsters Lineup
Friends in Order to
Collect Vote Tags

Three hundred and fifty
Mount Clemens Girl Scouts to-
day were enthusiastically pre-
pairing to gather Voting Tags on
April 3 as part of their Amer
icanization training in coordina-
ton with the first test of the
city's Get-Out-the Vote pro-
gram.
Girls from nine to II today
were reported preparing lists of
friends and acquaintance whom
they can contact in advance to
make certain that they not only
vote but that they save their
tags for them as interest in the
total of $112.50 in cash prizes
offered by the Monitor-Leader
scared sharply.
Typical of the reaction of the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-23

Koiso's bland pledge ignored
the loss of another Philippine
island Guimaras, the 9th to
be invaded by American assault
forces - new Australian am
phibious advance in the Solo
mons and feverish defense pre-
parations in Japan itself.
TRIPLE GOALS
Japan's new China offensive
stemmed from the Hankow area.
It appeared to have three-feld
purpose raiding the wheat
crop of southern Honan and
northern Hupeh provinces,
knocking out u. S. air bases,
and strengthening Nippon's
west wall" along the Chengh-
See CHINA-Page 2
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the organ and Mrs. Robert East
man will play the piano for the
dual accompaniment.
Offertory.
Selections by Emory Weiss,
guest violinist-Mrs. Weiss, ac-
companist.
And as Moses Lifted up the
Serpent" Elizabeth Miller.
God So Loved the World
Chorus.
Jesus said: Father, Forgive
them'," Tracy Sylvester, chorus
$50 Thou Liftest Thy Divine
Petition" Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. r.
Mackenzie.
And One of the Malefactors.
Glen Lewark, Robert Will
marth, A. j. Pickman.
II Adore Thee"-(The Adora-
ton of the Crucified,), Mrs
Fred Endres, Mrs. Helen How
ell. Wallace willard, Robert
Willmarth.
when Jesus Therefore Saw
His Mother" Tracy Sylvester,
See CONCERT-Page 2
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PA TONS PER MINUTE
Death from the Sky

Berlin itself unquestionably has
made the way easier for the
doughboys, as Gen. Eisenhower
has declared.
DEADLY BLOWS
During the past 10 days of
this greatest air blitz in history
the industrial Ruhr Valley and
the vast rolling Rhine plain
been Systematically isolated
from the rest Of the Reich and
deprived of rail and highway
movement necessary to resist q
full-scale ground assault. AS the
great bombardment reaches its
apex its chief significances lies
in the tremendous disorganizing
See GRIM TOLL-Page 3
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LONDON, March % Up -
Continuous day and night bomb
ing of Germany at the rate of
274 tons of explosive an hour is
turning the Reich into chaos in
preparation for a knockout blow
from the ground.
Since the big aerial offensive
started three weeks ago, Allied
bombers have hit Germany with
more than twice the tonnage of
bombs dropped on England since
the start of the war.
The terrific devastation is al
most beyond comprehension,
but the relentless failing Of
every type Of military objective
from the smallest crossroads to
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-23
Epidemic Over;
Schools ReOpen

ARMADA - More than $50
grade and high school pupils
who have enjoyed mandatory
vacation from studies during Tho
past week due to a mild scarlet
fever outbreak, will be back at
their books Monday, health Of.
ficer Ms. O. A. Ellis said today
after comforting with Dr.. a. ".
Bower. of Armada, who treatod
the -four or five" spldomie
cases.
One room IN the Aemo1a
schools lower syndDg woU
closed last week ~ ~,
cases were found. - ~
said. and the entiro nko<
from kindergarten 70 l1oh Dn1o
was shat down Aondays
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-23
Seek Action
on Cratiot
Widening Plan

Alarmed that the final phase
of Gratiot avenue roug h
Mount Clemens may be shelved
indefinitely, and possibly abon-
doned, a quasi : official Mount
Clemens delegation will journey
to Lansing Monday to plead the
city's case with Highway Com
missioner Charles M. Ziegler.
Refusal of the Right of Way
Division of the Highway Depart
Sc, GRATIOT-Page 2
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Blood Bank
Donors Still
SOre1y Needed

Many more registrations are
needed for the Red Cross
Blood Bank to be held In the
basement Of the Methodist
Church on March % and -,
Mrs. Walter Fenton, chair
man, announced today. More
than $50 registrations are
needed TO insure Mount Glenn
ems contribution to the pro-
ject. Donors are urged 70 call
Mrs. Fenton, 1918, or Mrs.
Carl Schimmel, Sass, TO make
their appointments. Hours On
March % will be from 3 70
7:30p. m, and On Thufsday,
March 20, from 1880 % 3
p. m. Call now 70 make your
appointment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-23

The legislation extends the
1910 Selective Service Act and
its implementing amendments
until May Is, 1916, or until the
end of the war, whichever comes
first. Should the war not be
over by May Is, 1946, an addi-
tional extension would have to
be approved by Congress. How
ever, should it end on all fronts
before then, the draft law could
expire.
OPPOSITION FADES
Opposition to unrestricted ex-
tension of the law dissolved in
the face of figures showing a
need for more than 405, 900 in
See DRAFT ACT-Pape 8
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British PIones Moul
Robot Bomb Centers

LONDON. March % - (R -
Raj and Australian Spitfire pi-
lots made four attacks yesterday
on German V-weapon launching
sites in the Netherlands, setting
off huge explosions which flung
debris into the air high above
the. raiders.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-23
Bars Comply
Fully With
Closing Order
Police Agree to
Report VioIotors
to Federal Agents

Mount Clemens bowe d
meekly today TO the but half
disclosed pressure Of Federal
eurfew regulations and. as .
result, found itself finolly in
step with the war emergency
proorom.
The eity's defence had
melted miraculously in the face
Of War Manpower Commission
announcements that 1--WE are
moving in on Mount Clemens"
and a series Of fortnight confer
ences between VINO investiga-
tors, the mayor, the safety COM
missioner and the chief Of po-
lice.
PROMISE COOPERATION
The Federal men didn't mince
any words. They let it be
known that there are teeth in
the curfew edict and that they
expect local police officials to
cooperate in seeing that bars
close promptly at IL midnight,
Eastern War Time. They receiv-
ed prompt assurances from
Commissioner Thomas G. Long
staff and Police Chief Arthur l.
Rosso that all violations of the
curfew would be reported
promptly by the Mount Glenn
ems department.
BLUNT STATEMENTS
At Wednesday nights COM
mission meeting City Attorney
Bert v. Nunneley had advised
Chief Rosso and Clerk Joseph
II. Matthews to tell VINO Of
ficials Ito jump in the lake" if
they sought information as to
the identity of Mount Clemens
curfew violators. He had, fur
Their, advised a delegation Of
tavern keepers that he knew of
no law to support the VINO
curfew regulation and suggest
ed that 80 far as I know there
is nothing to prevent you gen.
tlemen returning to your places
of business. turning your clocks
back an hour and then remain
ing open until those clocks say
twelve"
MOVE SWIFTLY
Nunneley's sensational state
ments brought swift action, not
words. from the - VINO. On
Thursday night military police
attachments, under the Sell
fridge Field Provost Marshal,
patrolled all of the city's bars
with instructions to Dust all
soldiers and sailors found In
drinking places after the EWT
curfew, at midnight. o. K.
Fjetlund, deputy VINO director
for Michigan, had warned that
If bars persisted in violating the
regulation, MP's might desig-
nate all such establishments off
limits" for service personnel at
all hours.
But Thursday nights compli-
ance in the city was virtually
100 per cent complete. One bar
that had openly violated the
Federal edict closed its doors as
early as 11:15. Another fragrant
violator turned off the lights at
midnight and all other down.
town taverns began ushering
See CURFEW-Page 2
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ID troo ps of
Brownies, g to
10Y; Intermed-
iates, 90 to 14);
and Seniors, GA
to ~ is the fol-
lowing comment
by unit leaders:
M r. s. A NJ
DREW WOOD
ARSKI, Troop
No. 2: my girls
are enthusiastic
about the pro-
gram and are
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Synthetic
JdpBredsf
BY the Associated Press
NJ I'M AyCvCrN Me- -

SAN FRANCISCO, March %
Up BY now the little man
of Japan, fleeing his incendiary-
scorched cities by the millions,
must be thoroughly perplexed.
Today he was told by his war
leaders - in broadcasts inter-
copied by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission that;
Japan is prepared to take an
See JAP HOPES-Pag5 8
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lence: front reporters were
cramped by security regulations.

cramped by security regulations.
Far to the south in the closing
battle Of the Saarland and Pal.
atinate which has cost the Ger
mans more than 100000 prison.
ers alone, the Third Army cap
tured Main (pop.: $4,000, cap
ital of Hesse, and the fortified
road center of Landau (14,350).
CAPTURE NEUWIED
Between these fronts, the First
Army troops east of the Rhine
captured the factory city Of
Neuwied (20,320), on the Rhine
eight miles northwest Of Cob
LEM, and widened its front ia
See BRITISH-Page 3
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$4,000 Jops Launch Heavy
Assault Against Chinese
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
(AssCciated Press War Editor)


Sixty thousand tank Japanese
Central China today Kunaki
promised to launch IAN offensive toward the of
Jima, Saipan and Guadalcana."