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The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15
Minesweepers
Clear Entrance
10 Manila Bay
Tokyo indicates
v. S. Convoy Poised
to Storm Corresidor
By the Associated Press


More than 20 American mine
sweepers swept an entrance 10
Manila Bay Tuesday under
cover of a naval and air bOm-
bardment, the Japanese Domei
News Agency reported today in
an unconfirmed dispatch saying
"some ten enemy transports
were believed to be following
for a sea-borne thrust at
Manila"
The .Domei dispatch, recorded
by the Federal Communications
Commission, said IL u. S. war
ships engaged in an artillery
duel with Corregidors remain
ing big guns while the mine
sweepcrs went to work on the
channel lying between the rock
like fortress and Bataan.
SHELL ISLAND
"About $40 Tuesday morning
an enemy fleet, comprised OF
two batleships, four cruisers and
five destroyers, opened up a
barrage of fire against Corregi-
dor, coupled with heavy attacks
from enemy aircraft" DOmei
said. "Our shore batteries on
Corregidor promptly returned
the fire with a furious gun duel
ensuing between our fortresses
and the invading surface craft.
Toward evening the same
day, 20 enemy minesweepers
invaded the narrow strip Oh
See LUZON-Page 8
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New Hospital
Partially Open
Tronsfer Patients
from Maternity

The new Mount Clemens Gen.
eral Hospital at 1874 Macomb
street is officially opened, DR..
Campbell A. Ward. chief OF
staff, announced today.
Patients have been moved
from the Mount Clemens Mater
nifty Hospital, which is now clos
ed, and installed in the second
floor maternity section. The new
hospitals surgical section will
open in about a week, while
work on the exterior of the 65-
bed and bassinet hospital will
continue.
The staff of Mount Clemens
General Hospital includes II
doctors from Mount Clemens
and surrounding communities,
and full complement of nurses.
office assistants and other help.
First baby born in the newly
opened hospital was son, Rich
ard Louis, born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter L. Brandt, 20 Englewood
avenue. Richard will receive a
gift of SIS war bond from
the hospital.
The Eastern Michigan Osteo-
pathic Association will meet at
the new hospital tonight at z
o'clock. with DR.. Thomas Kerns
of Utica in charge of program
arrangements. Stanley Peltier,
Mount Clemens chemist and bac-
See OPENlNG-Page 3
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Polio Drive
Nets $4,000
1914 TotoIs
Are Doubled

Complete success of the Ma.
comb county drive for the re.
lief of infantile paralysis was
announced today by +. Scott
Burke. chairman.
With S8,856 already collected.
Burke predicts that the final
figure will reach $4,000, an.
proximately double the amount
Of last years drive total.
Quotas throughout the county
just about doubled Burke's es-
Inmates for the various com.
munities reveal.
Mount Clemens, $1,000; East
Detroit, $4,000: Roseville, $500:
Van Dyke. $500; Center Line.
5000; Warren. $500. st. Clair
Shores, l.1OO: Utica, $500:
Washington. sl42: Disco, 500:
Romeo, $40O; Armada, S75:
Richmond. 1888; Lenox, $l2o:
New Haven, $45; New Balti.
more. $205; Fraser, 500; M.
comb and Davis. $23; Seifridre.
sl45o: M e m phis. $2s: ana
schools. $500.
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BOfCNlennllDerS
Vote 20 ID 23
for N1aIna3er

The probability that the Mount
Clemens Board Of Commerce
will take "a positive and ag-
gressive" stand in favor of the
City Manager form of municipal
government appeared enhanced
today with the revelation that
IS per cent of the organization
members polled on the question
are firmly in favor of the pro-
posed change.
In bulletin released Monday
by the B OF c office here il was
pointed out that of SO members
responding to questionnaire
on the matter OF inStituting the
city manager form of govern
See h OF C-Page 8
The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15
Cold Wave
SweepsTOward
the Midwest
BY the Associated Press

Subzero temperatures appear
ed on the weather map today in
North Dakota and Maine as a
substantial snowfall spread over
parts of Minnesota and Northern
Wisconsin.
Minot, N. d., reported low
of 4 below zero. The cold air
entering Weste ern Minnesota
dropped the mercury to IL to
Is there, with the prospect of
zero to 10 below Zero in Mime
sofa tonight.
Chicago forecasters said the
cold weather would cover the
entire midwest by Saturday
morning, predicting a low of S
above then for Chicago. They
said it was likely to move east
ward over the week END in mod
Grated form.
Six to eight inches of wet
snow fell in North Central Min
nesota today and there was
snow, sleet or rain over the rest
of the state. Several inches of
snow was deposited in Northern
Wisconsin, although in South
ern Wisconsin there was rain.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15

Counsel for Blossom Heath
Inc, seeking in Macomb County
Circuit Court to force st. Clair
Shores to issue license for an
inter-racial club, today wove
their plan of evidence around
two principal contentious:
CD That president Robert E.
Harrison, of st. Clair Shores,
Gas commissioner showed rae
ial prejudice when he penned an
article in a neighborhood publi-
cation condemning the efforts
of exploiters attempting to use
our community for an ill-con-
sidered inter-raCial Nexperi j.
ment';
(2) That jefferson avenue
property adjacent to Blossom
Heath includes well-publicized
night clubs, garages, hot-doe
stands, trailer camps and other
assorted business, rather than
the plush residences which the
Village Commission contends
would be deprecated by re-
opening of Blossom Heath.
REVEAL WORKINGS
While vigorously opposing
these contentions--including the
showing that all but one of the
commercial establishments are
in the business zone counsel
for the village concentrated on
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u. s. Asked
fO Check


A new, official tabulation of
Macomb county's population
will soon be available if the
u. S. Census Bureau acts fav-
orably upon a unanimous rec
ommendation that a new count
of the residents be undertaken
at once.
The last Federal census, taken
in 1910, showed a total of but
1O7, ,428 persons resident in Ma
comb county. On the basis IF
ration book applications it was
estimated a year ago that the
war-swollen district has scared
to point in excess of $4,000.
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StilnlSOn Cites
Casualty Totals

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15-(HD
- Army ground forces on the
Western Front lost 394,874 men
from D-Day last June TO Feb
ruary /.
In reporting this today Secre-
tary of War Stimson said that
63,41O were killed, 273.997
wounded and 57,467 missing.
This report reflected an increase
in casualties on the Western
Front of 61.962 in January, in
Guiding 8,848 kille d. Al, 1,325
wounded and 11,789 missing.
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tive ottituds in respect %
furnishing Fsdsrol finen.
eioI aid.
The county hos obout
$500. 900 ovoilobls for
building purposes.
The hospitol cost. COM
puted on q bed basis,
would be obout $1,000
per bed 100 beds), in
eIudins seneroI furnish
nishinss ond equipment.
but exclusive Of medieels
operating room ond lob
orotory supplies.
DESIGN COMPLETE
U n der contract with
See H0SPlTAL-Poss Z
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SAVAGE STREET BATTLES
Trapped Japs BayOncl FilipinOS

crosswise i'm a healthy hop, skip
and jump, by a good sized man.
The main streets are Gale Real
and Gale Arzobispo. Along
Reai and the streets radiating
from it are scores and scores of
Filipino and Chinese shops and
restaurants.
On Arzobispo is the palace C.
the Catholic Archbishop of the
Manila diocese.
The walls of Intramuros are
SO thick-10 and IL feet at some
spots-that grassy plots and
flower gardens abounded on top
of them in pre-war days.
Normally there were many
See BRUTALITY-Pase 2
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ems attorney. happened TO sign
a ruling covering the road conf
missions position on the mat
ter.
Members of the supervisors
road committee, who on Feb. 3
had met with the road board
and refused TO concur i'm Nun
neley's appointment as counsel
for the commission. expressed
astonishment that the board had,
in the face of their objections,
installed him I'm office. On that
See PUZZLES-Page 3
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Pose Menace
10 The Entire
Ruhr Valley
Smosh Through
Germon Defenses
to the Rhine

PARIS, Feb. 15-(F-Canad-
ians fought through flood wa.
ters to the west bank Of the
Rhine opposite Emmerich today
and swung slowly along the
northern end of the Rhine val.
ley in drive behind the Siegs
fried Line threatening to outs
flank the Ruhr munitions indus
tries.
The 20-mile Kleve front was
the only active one in the west.
On its south flank. British EN-
pire troops crushed q series OF
violent German counterattacks
and pressed close to the key de.
tense bastions of Goch and Cal.
car.
More and more Germans were
drawn into the semi-aquatic
battle which steadily was turn-
ing the German flank in the
north.
Barrages from hundreds upon
See WEST FRONT-Page 3
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German Spies
10 Be Hanged
MiIitory Commission
Verdict to be Reviewed

NEW YORK, Feb. l5-(P)-
A review of the death sentence
imposed on William Curtis
Colepaugh and Err c h Gimpel
will follow as part of established
procedure in the spy trial just
concluded by seven-man mill
tary commission.
The commission found the
two men guilty yesterday and
sentenced them to death by
hanging.
Maj Gen. Thomas A. Terry,
commanding general of the
Second Service Command, Will
review the findings and send
them to Washington for inspec-
ton by a board of review. Then
the commissions decision will
go TO President Roosevelt.
The commission, h o d j n &
hearings as both judge and jury
since Feb. s, on historic Gov
ernors Island, dellberated less
than three hours.
The men were adjudged
guilty on all three counts. they
violated the law of war by Sc
cretly landing behind our de-
fense lines from submarine:
they acted as spies and they con-
Spired to commit espionage and
sabotage.
Taciturn. German born Gin
pei, 35, heard the verdict with
out any outward emotion and
later told the ON m SIS on
through his counsel he thought
he had received "a most fair
and impartial trial"
The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15

Moeomb County's Boord
Of Supervisors on Wednes-
doy looked to future hos
pitoIixotion Of county po-
tients, when pIons. speei-
fieotions ond orchiteet's
drowinss Of the proposed
$500. 900 hospitoI, with q
100. bed eopoeitx were
placed before them by Su-
pervisor Eorl ToIlmon,
ehoirmon Of the building
committee.
ToIImon outlined the
entire project. describing
in detoiI the one story
hospitoI Of modern design
TO be constructed as soon
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Reds Punch 0ul
Major Gains
Post New Threot
to Nozi CopitoI

LONDON, Feb. Is (P) -
Marshal Ivan S. Konev was dis
closed by Moscow dispatches
today to have reached Goerlitz.
on the Neisse river only SO
miles east of Dresden, and an
,inconfirmed French broadcast
reported linkup of his right
wing with the First White Rus
sian Army menacing Berlin.
Huge fleets of British ani
American planes blasted key
Nazi targets in paths of the
Russian advance. Dresden and
Chemnitz, railway and manufac-
turing center, were hit.
While the main forces of
konev's First Ukraine Army
bore down on Dresden, the
French Telegraph Agency said
the junction of his forces with
the First White Russian spear
heads of Marshal Gregory Zhu-
kov was reported without con.
firmation to have been made in
the region of Gutenberg, 83
miles southeast of Berlin.
Pravda first announced Kon-
ev's thrust to the Neisse, the
last major water barrier before
Dresden. Its correspondent said
whole groups of German towns
had been captured, by-passed or
sealed off in a spectacular 22-
mile advance.
The speed of the drive indi-
Gated Nazi resistance in that
sector was crumbling.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15

State Police Of the Center Linz
detachment today were investi>
eating circumstances sufroand.
ing the stripping and burning 6
a 1898 Chevrolet coach found @
Auburn road, between Moun1
and Ryan. at Z .. m. todoy.
Two wheels and tivoo Wo.os
removed and the car ceuncnoGn1s
ly burned when polis . 11 4.
Records list the 1ieenos ~
sued to Lizzie JUDI 1q4t =
Jarvis. Hazel Park. who e
have been unable e.
Troopers suspect III q
have been stolen and o>cn|
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ROAD BOARD VS.. SUPERVISORS
Cite Double Puzzles

When a letter addressed to
Steve Henderson. East Detroit
city clerk, was read before the
Macomb county board of super
visors on Wednesday it raised
two controversial issues:
/. - Whether the Macomb
county road commission can be
forced to pay for Lakeshore in
terceptor treatment of waste
waters flowing off county roads,
and;
2. How il happens that
John IL. Nunneley, Mount Glenn
The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15
EX.Bartcmder
Held as FOrScr

Burt Curtis, 81, who was en-
ployed as a bartender in a Mt.
Clemens tavern for four weeks
last November. is i'm Macomb
county Jail. after pleading gull
ty TO passing half dozen bad
checks with local merchants
and several more out in the
county during his brief resi-
dence here.
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Shores President TeStifieS
i'm Blossom Heath HearinS

bringing out further the inner
workings ofethe Negro corpora
tion and club.
They sought TO show that the
normal profit of a club business
was not the only objective of
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City Manager
Feature Page 3

The fourth in series OF
articles covering PRO" and
Con" arguments on the ques-
ton OF establishing a cityman-
sger form of government in
Mount Clemens appears on page
8 of today's edition Of the
Monitor-Leader.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15
By RAY CRONIN

By MAJ CnONlN
Chief Of the former Associated
Press Manila Bureau
Intramuros, the ancient Span
ish walled city of Manila, with
its narrow streets and its teem-
ing population, may be the final
battlefield in the bloody fight
for the Philippines capital.
Slowly but surely, the Japan
ese suicide troops left in Manila
to ravage the city are being
backed into the intramuros.
The famous walled city, It's
heavy stone ramparts rising
some IS feet above ground level.
dates back TO the days when
Spain ruled the Philippines,
The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15

Spanish remnants were corner
ed there in 1898 and it was with
in the high walls that they fin
ally surrendered. Atop the ram
part at the southeast corner of
Intramuros, facing Manila Ho-
tel. is the spot where the Am
erican flag first went up in the
metropolis.
THICKLY POPULATED
Intramuros is one of the most
thickly populated sections OF
Manila - populated mainly by
Filipinos and Chinese. Its mar
row streets can be covered
- n
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Nagoya Hit
byMassed U.s..
Superforfs
Big Bombers
Ronse Across
Jop Homeland
BY the Associated Press

Sixty American SuperfOrtreSS-
es raided the important manu-
featuring city of Nagoya on the
Japanese home island of Hon
shu today a japanese imperial
communique said.
Domei News Agency reporting
the communique in a broadcast
intercepted by the Federal Com
munications Commission, said
the B-29s also struck at places
in Mie Prefecture across Atsuta
Bay from Nagoya.
Earlier the u. S. Goth Air
Force announced that Marianas-
based B-29s had carried out
daylight raid on industrial in
stallations on Honshu.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15-(P)
--Superfortresses of the 20th
Air Force attacked industrial
targets on the Japanese home
islands of Honshu today.
The mission was flown by a
force of B-29s from Maj. Gen.
Curtis E. Lemay's 21st Bomber
Command in the Marianas.
A brief war bulletin from Gen.
H. H. Arnold, commanding gen.
eral of the goth Air Force, gave
no additional details.
Earlier, the Tokyo reported
that lone Superfortresses bomb
ed the Tokyo-Yokohama metro
politan area and the Nagano
district last night and early
today and returned later in
reconnaissance flights.
Today's strike was the fourth
by B-29s since Saturday. An
See B-29'tPage 8
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MRS. MARGARET kLElNHUl-
ZEN SIMPSON is director of the
Mount. Clemens High School or
chcstra which will present a
concert jointly with the band at
the high school auditorium to-
night at 8:l5 p m. Mrs. Simp-
son and Miss Alice Vance. band
director. have arranged varied
program and a large crowd is
expected. Tickets are available
at the door.
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the corporatin. but that opera
tions might in the future expand
beyond the legal sphere. Coun-
sci for the club asserted that
even if plans for "illcgal opera
tons were shown (Which they
were noe such a theory could
not form basis for rejection of
the license application.
Circuit Judge Paul r. Cash, of
Alma, Mich, visiting jurist, is
presiding in the case, into which
voluminOus testimony is being
admitted due TO the possibility
of Supreme Court appeal by
either side.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-02-15

On the opening day. Tuesday,
between 40 and 80 spectators
filled most seats in the court
room, evenly divided by the
seating plan into persons OF
both races. Wednesday the at
tendance fluctuated between Is
to 30. Today, an even dozen
persons occupied the spectators
seats. the division remaining
equal.
IDENTIFY PROPERTY
Much of today's testimony was
taken up with Harrison's idcn-
tification of property adjoining
Blossom Heath. mostly operating
See LICENSE-Page 8
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RALPH E. BEAUFATT for
harrison Twp. Clerk ADV.
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Barrages from hundreds upon
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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-05-07
MAYFLOWER GUEST
MEETING THURSDAY

The MayflOWer Circle of the
Kings Daughters entertained their
members and guests Thursday e.
vening at the home of Miss Hattie
Hamilton, S. Maple st. Mrs. Julia
Roley, the leader, gave the well
come to members and guests. The
City Union president, Fern Ber-
ger, responded. Mrs. Blanca Ham
ilton had charge of the devotions.
Mrs. Roley gave the topic,
Mother Gets Back on the Job"
Loretta ShankS, program chair
man, presented the program on
Mothers Day Jean Ann Shanks
gave piano solo. Mrs. Clay John
son sang a solo, 'Tll Wear A Flow
err For You, Mother. Corsages of
Violets and ilies-of-the-valley were
pinned on each one present.
All of. the county and city union
officers were present. They are;
Mrs. John DeVoss, Mrs. II. H
Kettler, Mrs. Milo Myers, Fern
Berger, Mrs. Olive Southard Mel,
lie Taylor, Clara 10 Westlake, Mrs
Ruth Moss and Mrs. Laura Weld,
mon.
During the social hour Mrs. Her,
bert Rutan, sang and accompanied
herself on the guitar. Refresh,
ments were served by the Calen,
dar committee.
III IL IL
SUNDAY VISITOS
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Pittman
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ellenburgel
and daughter, S K &c Frances
Ellenburger of Columbus, were
Sunday evening visitors of Mr.. anc
Mrs. VIM. Miefert and family, N
Court St
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BROADWAY
NEWS ITEMS
BY MRS. DONNA MILLER

Edward Wolford who has been
stationed in Texas for the past
year is spending a furlough with
relatives and friends in Broadway.
He has been in the Army over
four years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wheelen
spent Sunday at the home of
Everett DiSbennett and family,
near SomerSville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper Yoeman
and son, were Saturday supper
guests at the Carl Shirk home.
Mr.. and Mrs. George SanderSon
were afternoon callers.
Mrs. Ilene GaskinS and son,
Ronnie, spent last week in Can
ton visiting relatives.
Word has been received of the
birth of a son to Mr.. and Mrs,
Ivan Wilcox, of Columbus. The
mother was the former Virginia
Landon and the baby has been
named Dennie Lee. They also have
a daughter, Mary Lou, aged four.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hoover, of
near Raymond, spent Sunday with
Mrs. Lydia Waters.
Mrs. Clara FalSom, of Peoria,
spent Saturday night with Mrs,
Ruth Graham and children and
attended church Sunday morning.
Mr.. John Price was also a dinner
guest.
Mrs. Mary Nelson entertained
with a birthday dinner, Thursday,
for her mother, Mrs. Bertha Dint-
aman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Coins and
children spent Sunday with Flor
cnce Howard and children, OF
Raymond. Tom ROosa, of Piqua
was also a dinner guest.
Little Judy and Virgil Coins
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with their grandparents, Mr.. anC
Mrs. O. L. Gray.
Mrs. Mae Calm entertained
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parents and relatives.

parents and relatives.
Before leaving to return TO duty,
F1/c and Mrs. Dwight South were
overnight visitors of MIR. and Mrs.
William Freshwater, of Marion.
Little Judy and Jerry South
spent Thursday with their grand
mother, Mrs. Marie South.
Mrs. Frances Steele and son, and
Mrs. CalDonna South and child
rem were shoppers in Marysville
Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles Steele, Broadway,
called on Mrs. Francis Steele and
son, Ronnie.
James Ebright, who has served
three years overseas in the Army,
arrived home recently on a 45-day
furlough. His father formerly lived
here, but recently moved in with
his other son and family, of Plain
City. Jimmy visited some of his
friends in this community last Fri
day.
Mrs. George Weaver, of Magnet
ic Springs, underwent an appendi-
citis operation in the Grant hos
pital last Saturday. She is getting
along nicely. Mrs. Weaver is a cou-
sin of Mrs. Warren South and a
sister of Harlan Steele.
Mrs. Faye Gibson, of MarysVille,
spent Monday with Mr.. and Mrs.
James Murphy l.
Mrs. Lawrence Andrews, of Del
aware, called on Mrs. Warren L,
South and children Thursday e.
vening.
Mr.. andr Mrs. Russell Come
were callers in MarySville Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Griffen Millieon
are remodeling their home.
Mrs. Frances Steele and Mrs
Warren South spent Thursday in
Columbus. During the time they
spent there, they shopped at La
zaruS and Observation-Disclosures. Lat
er in the day they visited Mrs
Sterling Schneider, son, Tommy
and daughter, Jacqualene.
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the Get-together club at her home,
Monday evening, The program was
in charge of Mrs. Cora Losey and
Mrs. Donna Miller. Homemade
cookies were sent by the club to
the patients of Ft. Hayes General
hospital, Columbus.
Mr. Dan Truitt and grand
daughter, Joella Hunt, spent the
weekend in Mansfield, visiting
Joe Snyder, formerly of Broadway.
Mrs. Maxine Miller and son,
Keith, and Mrs. jeanne Predmore
spent Thursday evening with Mrs.
Donna Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forest Fogle were
supper guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Chester Schertzer,
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Cunning
ham and daughter, Evelyn, Mr.,
and Mrs. Ernest CoOnS and son,
r. l.. CoonS and Mrs. Donna Mill
er attended a birthday surprise
supper for Mr.. Dwight Cunning
ham, of near New Dover, Friday
night. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lowe
and daughter, Wanda Sue, were
also guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Coakley re-
CeiVed word from their son, Neil,
who was injured on New Guinea,
saying that he is in the hospital
at Great Lakes now.
Your Correspondent received a
letter from her husband, who is
attached to the Custer Division of
the 5th Army in Italy. Here is the
letter in part.
Il am fine and enjoying the
valley of the Pc, after seeing
mountains, for so long. have been
busy as we have captured count.
less prisoners, ranging in ages
from II to so.
Il wish l could tell you how
these people of the valley act
where we get into their different
areas. l sure got plenty of hugs
and hand shakes from the young
and old alike. They are tickled tc
death to see us, after getting
such terrible treatment from the
Germans who were here before US
OF course some of them cry. They
have fresh eggs and bread anC
vino wine to give to everyone
which is one way of showing then
! thanks. l won't get to write very
often for a while because we viii
be moving on, but don't worry a.
it is nearly over, now"
Pvt. Lester Cline, who is stat
ioned at Camp Atterbury, Ind.
spent the weekend with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Cline.
Little R. l.. CoonS received {
letter from his uncle, l.. B. Goff
saying that he had bought him ;
foot ball for a birthday present
while on Guadacanal l.. B. is ;
Torpedoman on a P. T. boat nov
somewhere in the central Pacific