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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-30
DAZZLING THRUST SHEARS OFF RUHR
Hodges Scores
Swiftesi Gains
Of The War
British Plunge
East TO SeoI-On
Greet Germon Ports

BY WILLIAM Il. RYAN
Associated Press War EditsP
Boldly slicing off the war.
vital industrial Ruhr from the
east. tanks of 1t. Gen. Courtney
H. Rodges' First Army plunged
north today in the swiftest I'd.
vance Of the war, their pace -
swift that contact with head
quarters in the rear was lost.
The enemy indicated that this
was correlated with a push east
in one area.
The German high command
said one column reached Bad
Wildungen, 100 miles southwest
of Berlin. BY last official report
the northbound vanguards were
1876 miles west-southwest Of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-30

Berlin and IS from q juncture
with the eastward driving 2lst
Army group.
STORM FORWARD
AS the British plunged ahead
on routes which could lead to Z
seal-off of great German North
Sea ports, the U. S. Eighth Air
force sent 1,400 heavy bombers
and 900 fighters, the largest sim
gle concentration this year,
against those ports - Bremen
Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven.
The attack was aimed at cutting
off sea-borne supplies for the
Germans in the north.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-30

q Good Amercon Those who receive such toos en-
wear them proudly ys
Cooperating with them in the eooer spirit d7T
See D-Day-Pags
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-30

LONDON, March 30-(R]-
Tanks of Marshall Feodor I.
TOlbukhin's Third Ukrainian
Army invaded Austria today,
Moscow dispatches said, and
the German High Command
announced that the Russians
had completely occupied DAN
zig, great Baltic port where
the curtain was raised %
World War III.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-30
Tags Will Identify Those Who Cast Votes
ELECT MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS MONDAY
Good Citizenship
Plans Complete

On Monday Mount Clemens Good Citizens will be marked
apart from those who lust too lazy to vote"
The Get Vote sponsored by the American
Legion, VFW OAR and League Of Women will get
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27

In Australia, when situation
similar to that now impending in the
United States develops, the unions
and employers affected by it or hav-
ing knowledge of it are required by
law to refer the matter to the COM
monwealth arbitration court.
THIS is a permanent federal insti-
l. tuition, with complete authority
to decide issues between industries
and unions when the interests of
more than one state are involved
If the issue is confined to any one
state, state arbitration court has
jurisdiction and complete authority.
Thus, labor disputes in Australia
rarely reach the stage of strikes and
lockouts, of force, and violence, of
what employers and unions and gov
ernment and the general public have
come to regard and reject as Jungle
law"
1t is COMPULSORY arbitration,
and there has been NINETY NINE
PER CENT ACCEPTANCE of the
decisions made under it.
And Australia has retained this
system under a LABOR GOVERN
MENT, which surely attests its use
fulness from the standpoint of labor
interest and advantage.
Why do not the AMERICAN
people adopt peaceful and enlight-
ened and impartial system of eco
nomic adjudication, as the people of
Australia have senSibly done; and
thus assure America of prosperous
and productive economic life, as has
been done in Australia?
Compulsory arbitration, under
permanent authority having the wis
dom and impartiality and integrity
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, would be the best solution of
our grave labor situation, fair and
dignified solution.
It's probably the ONLY solution
of this grave situation capable of
sparing America the ordeal of eco
nomic warfare now looming SO
darkly on the horizon.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27
RALPH STARR,
Mound Road,
Warren, Mich.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
DEGARDLESS of the magnifi-
IL cent gesture involved in the
raising of the S150000 fund for
a soldiers memorial in Alma,
Mich, l cannot help but believe
that you feel the same as / do
that the gesture is extremely
futile toward the repayment of
the debts we owe TO those who
have paid and will continue to
pay for the victory so dearly
won--I speak of the disabled,
the widows and orphans.
The pictorial page of The
Detroit Times Of Aug. 26, graph
ically illustrates the duty l have
in mind. and is the inspiration
for my idea. -<t-#\
Alma'S city council. I under
stand, is going to be responsible
for the upkeep of the proposed
memorial, but wouldn't il be a
lot nicer TO help that disabled
vet or widow have the home
they cherish and at no added
expense.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27
The Labor Crisis

THE labor situation in the United
l. States, already darkened by
strikes in many key industries af
fecting hundreds of thousands of
workers, is made increasingly omi
nous by the threat of more strikes
and even more widespread unem-
ployment.
This is a matter of grave concern
to everybody in the United States.
It is not the special problem of
labor and management alone, but of
the government which is responsible
for orderly conduct of the nations
affairs, and of the general public
which suffers from deprival of essen
tial goods and services.
With the war over, the nation has
been looking forward to an era of
peace and prosperity.
Obviously, this expectation is not
to be realized if we have merely been
launched into another KIND of war
which is the sober reality of the
impending situation.
ONCE more it is advisable and
" necessary to repeat what has
been said many times before-that
the civilized and intelligent and in
dustrious and ambitious American
people ought to be able to create and
agree upon and use some BETTER
system of economic adjudication
than that which relies upon the in
struments of force and violence to
achieve decisions and enforce them.
There would be no excuse for the
American people to be content with
the Jungle law" of force and vio-
lence if no better system existed, for
in that event the reasonable and en-
lightened American people should be
sufficiently astute to DEVISE
better system.
But better system DOES exist.
The Australian Commonwealth
has it, and has been living under it
for many years, and is steadily i'm
proving upon it, and has benefited
enormously by it.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27
soldier and sailor. They are hOmeward bound
take care of them.'-Cen. Douglas Macarthur.
Invasion of China Urged
by FDR. Writer Charles
BY KENT HUNTER
Detroit Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 - President
w Franklin d. Roosevelt wanted to
invade China some time before Nov. IA,
1941, and was dissuaded only by the pleas
of the u. S. army and navy staffs that
we were unprepared
That charge is made by John T. Flynn,
correspondent, magazine writer and inde-
pendent publisher in his pamphlet, "The
Final Secret of Pearl Harbor," recently
sent to all members of Congress and par
ticularly to the members of the joint COM
mittee investigating that military and
naval disaster to American arms. Of the
November, 1941, period, Flynn writes
THE Japanese high command began
to move their war machine into position.
Their plans were made. They had to have
the great Dutch islands. That meant they
had to paralyze Britain.
That, in turn, meant they had to
strike crushing blow at the United
States before she could throw her weight
into the struggle.
And that blow against the United
States was obvious. This country's naval
strength-all the battleships which were
the core of her Pacific sea strength-were
tied up at Pearl Harbor
IsINHE great ships were there like ducks
Il on a pond, waiting for the hunter to
shoot. So far as the Japanese plan was
concerned, everything depended on the
United States leaving the ships there as
rich target for the Jap gunners :. the
Japanese sent Kurusu to Washington to
join NOmura. But by that time the die
was cast"
Meantime, Flynn says, the British
government had made use of an American
key to the Japanese code and handed over
to Our state department various inter-
cepted messages between the Japanese
nome government and various foreign
representatives. Flynn saws:
Roosevelt could now know what the
Japs were saying among themselves. Nov.
a Roosevelt knew the Japs would yield
no more as he had the intercepted mes
sage. Further compromise impossible
"On Nov. another Intercepted mes
sage said, Signing Of any u. S..Japanese
agreement must be completed BY Nou.
Is Nov. another intercepted dispatch
notified Nomura that Kurusu was coming
and that this was the Last hope of the
negotiations.
Therefore, Roosevelt knew on Nov.
that the japanese were playing their last
card; that they would make no further
concession and he knew also the very date
set for actiOn-NOv. 25.
SGTHEN, on Nov. % the British inter
Il cepted message extending the
deadline to Nov. 20. 1t added: This time
Ue mean business. Deadline absolutely
cannot be changed. After that things
automatically begin to happen
All this information was i'm the hands
of Hull and Roosevelt. Nothing that could
happen could surprise them - save un-
doubtedly the point of the first assault.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

Davis. NJ C william and
Tucker, could you identify
the team for which they
play?
i-True or false: (a) The u. S.
flag unfurled over the u S.
embassy in Tokyo recently
was the flag that flew over
the Capitol in Washington
on the day of Pearl Har-
hor. Cb) The l.. S. Merchant
Marine -Aeadcrry AT Kings
Point. Long Island. is only
a wartime institution.
To which much quoted
American can we attribute
the following Fish and viSi-
tors smell in three days ?"
The Vardas Valley is in: (a)
YugoSlavia, (b) Brazil; Co
Canada.
can you make water
bowl without heating it2-
S What effect did the trial
atomic bomb have on the
sand in the desert in New
Mexico?
ANSWERS on Opposite Page
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27
TO THE EDITOR:
III. a. r.

a - LII O1Ns
/ WOULD like TO place 10 YOU
Il small gripe from a returned
veteran, meaning myself. / am
q 19 years old, will be 20 in a
couple of months.
Here is the gripe:
! care for a glass of beer or a
little drink of whisky once in
awhile and so do other veterans
my age, but when we 60 10 bar
they ask us our age and when
we tell them they refuse to
serve us.
This country Surc- rs going 10
the dogs when q man fights for
his freedom and then comes
home TO be boosted out of a bar
because he isn't q.
/ was old enough at 1S TO 60
across but now that l am back
IN one piece. thank God the
owners of bars look upon me as
a kid yet.
am not speaking alone for
myself. but the rest of the boys
my age that feel the same way
as / do.
Would you please consider
this and give it little space
in your paper?
/ thank you,
DIsGUsTED RETURNED
VETERAN, AGE 10.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TO THE EDITOR

TO THE EDITOR:
THROUGHOUT the past sew
Il eral years the Detroit Ord
nance Districts function has
been one of procurement and
supply Of everything that
shoots, is shot or rolls which
has. been manufactured in the
lower peninsula of Michigan.
Constant "bottlenecks" made
the achievement of our policy
sometimes difficult.
II either an appeal or an
eXhortation was needed we en-
listed the aid of the press. The
earnest, whole-hearted Coop
Grafton given by you and the
members of your staff quickly
remedied the situation.
There were several instances
when information had to be
withheld temporarily for Sc
curity reasons and national
protection. In these instances
we were always confident that
1t would not be disclosed.
Your adherence TO the volun-
tary code of wartime practices
for the American press has been
exemplary.
Few people realize the tre-
mendous work load that fell on
the shoulders of the working
press. It's probable that you
and men on your staff such as
Jim Trainor, Siler Freeman and
John Mcclellan will never re-
ceive the reward you deserve
for the work done during this
war. No amount of pay nor
public tribute can lessen the
headaches and tribulations that
you have experienced. but you
should have a deep satisfaction
in knowing that you did a diff
cult job well and that you really
gave your utmost.
/ want you and the members
Of your organization 10 know
that l am deeply appreciative
and grateful for the co-opera-
tion and assistance that you
have given us. -
A. Il. QUINTON JR.,
Brigadicr General, u. 8. a.,
Detroit Ordnance District
Chief.
TO THE EDITOR:
I HAVE read of J a pa n csc
atrocities with q great deal
Of horror and disgust. Yours
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27

A recent, somewhat astonish-
ing fact came 10 light 10 me as
took a rather hurried survey
of the activity, commercially
and industrially of your terri
tory, and my 25 years experience
make me certain that | can
show the good people of Alma
how they can contribute TO a
LIVING memorial 10 the extent
of close to $4,000 per month,
and without the usual soliciting
and charity methods.
AS grocer Jodey Nabers so
aptly put IL, IT'S the kind of a
memorial most any soldier
would want"
As to my compcnsation-the
divine privilege of serving those
who paid so dearly. and a
chance 10 help cultivate the
seed planted in Blytheville. Ark,
and say little dinner thrown
IN to support the human side.
III. a. r
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27

"After being dissuaded from the Chi
nese invasion project and seeing the pos
ture of affairs i'm Japan the President
decided to bring matters to head.
He did not know where the Japanese
would launch their attack. 1t might be on
Singapore or some Dutch or British island.
"In that case he had committed himself
though no one knew ito join the
British in the war on Japan. But that
was not an ideal arrangement. His OppO-
nents could still insist the United States
was not attacked.
GIIE WAS apprehensive about the
Il political implications. He had just
won a battle to junk the Neutrality Act,
but it was by very narrow majority.
What was needed was an outright attack
on an American possession.
Roosevelt decided, therefore, to issue
an ultimatum to the Japanese of such
character that America could not possibly
be excluded from the coming attack. lie
had been discussing ii since mid-NOyem-
ber.
Then. on Nov. 26, Secretary Hull did
issue an ultimatum to the Japanese. Now
he denies ii was an ultimatum. But he
cannot escape this charge. Nor can the
president escape the fact that when it was
proposed, Gen. Marshall and Adm. Stark
said:
"'FOR GODS SAKE, DON'T SEND
1T. WE ARE NOT READY
Here is what happened.
NOV. 25, Knox, Hull, Marshall and
Stark met and went to the presidents
office. Hull showed plan for three
months truce to be given to the Japanese.
Stimson said 1t was so drastic the Japan
csc would re iect but apparently the
group approved it.
Hull said he didn't know whether he
would offer it or kick the whoie thing
oUer.' The next day Huh offered the
Japanese very different plaza 1O-point
plan. 1t demanded that the Japanese get
out of China, get out of Indo- China and
repudiate their treaty with the Axis. The
Japanese took this as an ultimatun.
EON THAT day-Nov. G. Stimson
" telephOned Hull. Stimson wrote i'm
his diary: He (HulD told me he had
broken the Dhole thing off. As he put
it, haUe washed my hands of it arid
it is in the hands of you and Knox, the
army and the naUy.' The next day Stim-
son told the British ambassador the same
thing.
Gen. Marshall and Adm. Stark pre-
pared joint memorandum TO the presi-
dent urging him to send no ultimatum
because we were not prepared. 1t did not
reach the president until the 28th, but
the lack of readiness was well known. Are
we supposed to believe that the COM
mander-in-chief alone was ignorant of this
fact? When Hull handed the ultimatum
to the Japanese he and Roosevelt knew it
was all over. They sat down and waited
for things to happen"
(Article three of this series tomorrow
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27

and other papers make a great
deal of it for while, then for
get all about il. The same
pattern was followed after the
end of the European phase of
the war.
The big question: What arc
we going to do about it? To
date, other than a few small
murderers in Germany, none
has been tried. Why? Why
the delay? Are we protecting
some one? Are we afraid of
embarrassing some of our
allies? Or possibly ourselves ?
Or are we waiting for the pub
lie TO forget and cool off as in
the last war?
AS / sec it, this issue is COM
parable with rats and vermin.
The public ignores them until
a plague arises or until il is
brought to their attention. It's
got to be hammered into the
American people, this genera
ton and the next.
But for the present the point
is Justice TO the war Grim
inals, German and japanese
alike, regardless of who is en-
barrasSed.
IN ~
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27
Brain Game

ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27
knowledge Test
BY DIR. sABRA CONNOLLY

by Dh. SABlNA CONNOLL1
1-One Of these men was not
inagurated President of Us.
in the twentieth century:
(a) William Taft, fb) Theo-
dore Roosevelt, (c) William
Mckinley
What nation can claim credit
for first regarding the sun as
the center Of the planetary
system "a Germany r-1
Poland: Co China.
3-The most famous John
Brown In L. s. history was
born in; tal TorrIngtOn.
Conn; tb) Sacramento. Cal
tc) Detroit Mich.
4-Sponges come from ts) the
sea; tb) mines, tc) sheep.
5-The Hawaiian Islands Ca)
we're purchased from Dcn-
mark; fbl were acquired be-
cause Of victory in the Span
iSh-A erican War. lCJ
io'Tfr y ). voluntarily.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27

In these lines about old age,
see If YOU can fill the blanks:
tat Grow old along with
me The ....iS Yet TO be. "
Browning, tb) Il have lived
long enough, my way of life
j. fall'n into the scar, the
yellow ....,' Shakespeare:
tcl Fat. fair, and.
Scott. tdl Il love everything
that, old old friends. old
times. old manners. old
hooks DID,. Goldsmith,
'cJ Has leaf also shall not
....t Bible.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27

tAnNWerS on Opposite Fage)
Brain Game
j What is the name Of tho
largest aircraft carrier. of
any navy, now in commits
SIGU7
2 VINO was the English actor
who played opposite Merle
Oboron IN the movie "Wuth-
Cring Heights
3-If the starting backheld Of
a certain football team was
announced as Blanchard,
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-27

TO THE EDITOR;
I HAVE read of J pa n Q Q
i atrocities with q great deal
Of horror and disgust. Yours
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-27
CON ERENCEI CLOSES
,Japs Surrendering In Large Numbers On Okinawa

GUAM, June 27-(PD -Emerg- ing from caves, canefields and burshy valleys, scores of Japan csc, carrying surrender leaflets, gave themselves up to the Ameri- can Tenth army troops yesterday.
 The days total of prisoners, hundreds of Nipponese being cap tured at rifle point or driven from caves with grenades, was eight hundred.
 Two Yank patrols continued the mopup of southern Okinawa.
 A number of Japanese planes were over the Okinawa area Mon day night, but did no damage. A few bombs were dropped. The communique said twelve of the raiders were destroyed by anti aircraft fire and combat air pa trols.
 Contradictory reports came from the Japanese radio; one say ing an Allied invasion had been attempted on an unidentified is- land midway between Okinawa and the Nipponese home islands; another, speculating the possibil- ity of such a move, was picked up by London and New York. An other report predicted the inva- sion of Amami or some other is- land in that area. Amami is two hundred miles from Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's home is- lands.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-27
RussianExpedition To Excavate In Siberia

LONDON, June 27- R A Russian archaeological expedition from Leningrad is now enroute to the Chukotka peninsula in Si- beria just opposite Alaska to do excavation work which is expect ed to "clarify many questions in connection with the population of North America"
 The Moscow radio said it has long been the theory that prehis- toric North Americans migrated from the Asiatic mainland across a land-bridge which has since vanished into the Boring Sea.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-27

MANILA, June 27-<P)-Liqui- dation of the last Japanese strong hold in Cagayan Valley in north ern Luzon island in the Philip pines is near. The Nipponese are compressed into a twenty-mile corridor between the American columns.
 Gen. Macarthur said today the Japanese are pinched between Mai. Gen. Beightler's Thirty-Sev- enth Infantry push down the river and from the south the Eleventh Airborne clements advanced up the valley.
 The Thirty-Seventh swept through Tuguegargo, the capital of Cagayan province Monday, to
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-27
Tanks Invade Kurne Island Near Okinawa

GUAM, June 27- R Tokyo reported Allied invasion forces are fighting their way onto Kume island, fifty miles west of Okin- ava and predicted that American assault forces may land on the China coast preparatory to invad- ing Japan.
 In an unconfirmed report of the invasion, Tokyo said "heavy fighting was now in progress" and described the action as a "fresh landing" in the central Ryukus is- lands where Americans are devel- oping new bases to hit the enemy homeland.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-27
TWO TANK ARMIES COMPRESS TAPS IN CACAYAN VALLEY

find that the Japanese, who won control of the city from the hard pressed Filipino guerrillas were already in flight into the hills to the east.
 A Headquarters spokesman es- timated that of the twenty thou sand Japanese still fighting on northern Luzon that fully half of them are east of the national high way leading to Aparri, with the rugged unexplored Sierra Madre range at their backs.
 Allied air activity Sunday con- tinued to be concentrated on Balik- papan, the last rich Borneo oil dis trict in Japanese hands. Bombers
 Continued on Page Five)
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-27
Joe Bill Sentenced To Hang On
 September 7th

SEATTLE, June 27 - R - Nome-born Joe Bill, B, Eskimo was sentenced to be hanged in states prison on September 2, for the rape staying of Irma Irene McGough, 5, may God have mercy on your soul," concluded Judge Clay Allen.
 Bill was impassive as he heard the death sentence pronounced.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-27
Superforts Blast Large Jap Oil Refinery

GUAM, June 27-P) Nearly fifty Superfortresses struck the Utsube river oil refinery, Japan's principal producer of aviation gasoline in a precision demolition attack at midnight last night. The raid followed a half day of the greatest Superfortress demolition pinpointnig of Honshu industries in which nearly five hundred Su- perfortresses blasted ten targets with three thousand tons of bombs.
 The Utsube refinery near Yok- kaichi, eighteen miles southwest of Nagoya on Ilse Bya, since the destruction of fuel centers of To- kuyama and Otake on May tenth, the Utsube plant was the enemy's largest remaining producer of avi- ation gasoline.
 The city of Yokkaichi was heav- fly damaged in a fire raid on June eighteenth.
 Search Mariners of the Fleet Wing One sank a medium freight CT transport in the Yellow Sea and two luggers south of Kyushu Tuesday.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-27
President Pleads
 For World Charter To Be Live Thing

SAN FRANCISCO, June 27- Truman sent the weary authors of the new world charter homeward, the world around, with the stern admonition eff we should falter in our will to use it, millions now living will surely die"
 Addressing the glittering closing session of the world security con- ference, President Truman pound ed repeatedly on the theme that the drafting of the charter was only the first step.
 Gesticulating, he declared s'the world must now use it." "The time for action is now, let us therefore, each in his own nation, according to its own way, seek the immediate approval of this charter and make it a living thing. I shall send this charter to the United States Senate at once. Pm sure the overwhelming sentiment of the people of my country and their representatives in the Sen ate favor the immediate ratifica- tion."
 The President was interrupted frequently by the applause of the delegates of all of the fifty United Nations.