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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-28
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Death Case
Bound Over
Attorneys Neor
Blows as Porent
Concludes Hearing

In an atmosphere CHI rged
with potential violence G.. Boyd
Macpherson, reputedly wealthy
oil refinery executive, this morn
ing was bound over to circuit
court for trial almost a full two
years after his car Is said to
have run down and fatally in
jured a war worker father Of
six children.
Justice of the Peace Donald
]. Parent ruled that the accused
man must face a higher court,
shortly before noon today, and
released him, under $500 bond,
pending that appearance. Spe-
officially the oil man is charged
with leaving the scene OF a fatal
accident.
Highlight of today's develop
ments in a case already studded
with bitter charges, . multiple
city of warrants and strange
reluctance upon the part of some
witnesses to testify, was found
In a threatened fistic clash be-
tween Ray H. Callens, attorney
for the dead mans widow. and
Larry E. Davidow, bellicose
counsel for MACPHERSON.
BURLY AIDE
Davidow, apparently, was only
saved from being slapped
down in the courtroom through
the interference of Irving G.
Little. self-appointed bodyguard,
who trumpe d his role as
proxy for the menaced man.
Little is one of MacPherson's
employees.
Justice Parent quickly re-
stored order with an admonition
to all three - Callens, DavidoW
and Little - to go out on the
street if you want to fight. You
can't do it in this courtroom"
The incident arose when Da-
widow opened a verbal attack
on Callens, who had been sit
ting quietly in the courtroom.
He charged that Callens was at
tempting to influence the course
of a civil action against Mac
Pherson through his presence.
COURTROOM SCUFFLE
Callens, former Macomb
county probate judge, immedi-
ately rose to his feet and ad-
vanced threateningly toward
Davidow demanding that you
take that back or I'll make you
do so. - For a moment he and
the Detroiter pushed each other
about the courtroom but the
scuffle swiftly was dissolved by
the court even as Little loudly
announced his willingness to
DO Davidow's fighting for
him."
Justice Parent, himself the
target OF a bitter attack by Dav-
idow and co-defense counsel,
Hugh +. Neale, in July of this
year, wasted no time in ordering
Macpherson held for trial upon
the completion of testimony.
% MONTHS OLD
The case, stemming from the
death of Joseph Baldwin at the
corner of Orchard and Van
Dyke avenues, Oct. %, l943, has
been featured by a Discrimination
upon the part of Prosecutor Will
bur F. Held to reopen the case
after 1t had once been dismissed
due to a'technicality, the myster-
ious dismissal of q second war
rant and the issuance of yet a
third warrant on May IL, l945,
without the prosecutors approx
al.
At one stage of the proceedings
Neale and Davidow hurled
charges at both Parent and Cal
lens implying that they had ent-
cred into q Conspiracy" to fur
Their civil claims against Mac
Pherson. They tried to prove,
See OIL MAN-Page 6
CyIRTAINS LAvJNDEREn q
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-28
Marines May
be Minute Mem

WASHINGTON. Sept. 28-tR)
Plans for use Of United States
Marines as Minute Men" in the
international organiza I on to
maintain peace. we're disclosed
today by Gen. A. A. Vande-
grift.
Testifying in support of a
postwar Marine force of 100,-
600 enlisted and $500 officer
personnel. the Marine command
ant told the House Navel Com
mittee:
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-28
Mt. Clemens
Clocks Go Back
at I a. m. Sunday

All clocks in Macomb County
will be turned back one hour at
2 o'clock Sunday, Sept. 80 when
the county returns TO Eastern
Time.
During the war emergency
Mount Clemens and the county
have been operating on Eastern
War Time so that the working
day would be longer and TO con-
serve fuel.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-28

Washington reports 1t press
time indicated that Secretary
of Labor Schwellenbach,
alarmed ut reports that "all
military operations are In
jeopardy, may consider dras-
ic action against the dead
locked oil industry.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-28

CURTAINS LAUNDERED
NORMINGTON'S Phone 2sel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

that word yourself?"
 Right this minute" said Walter, "and it goes in the column to- morrow" Ct did).
 That clears up one thing" said Hedda, Nov I know you write your own column"
 Paula Stone, ace commentator, is a girl with an eye to the future. What time she's been able to spare from radio the past two and one half years has been invested in master ing Spanish with a private teacher. Now, accomplished in that tongue, she's turned her attentions to Rus sian. Not as easy as the former, J she says, but I hope to conduct a radio interview in Russian before the year is out" People acquainted with Miss Stones perseverance, are betting that she will.
 Screen stars Laraine Day, Wal ter Brennan, and Tom Drake play the leading roles in the LUX Radio Theater" adaptation of Kentucky" 20th Century-Fox horse-racing saga over OBS tonight WABC-CBS, 9:00- 10:0O p. Inf.
 Brennan recreates his original screen role in the story of the Blue Grass States colorful and exciting racing history and it's famous Derby
 A search for the person who has experienced the most embar- rassing moment" will be conducted by Art Linkletter, master of -infor- malitieS, on Columbia's House Party" the week of May 28-June l (WABC-CBS, 4:00-4:25 p. m., Mon- day through Friday. Winner will be presented with a voucher for a post war electric dish-washer on the Friday, June l, broadcast.
 Tuesday, May 29. Linkletter in- vites members from the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard to make a talking letter. for parents back home.
 Wednesday, May 30. Wisconsin, the Badger State, will be saluted by House Party" participants.
 Thursday. May 31. musical de- tective game, an etiquette test, and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Duce's Daughter, Once Europe's "Fatal Woman, Is Shriveled Wreck Torn Between Dead Loves
Effort to Save Husbands Life Did Not Succeed

the King didn't wish our departure. Ciano consented to stay because the King assured him through Ba- doglio of royal protection. Of course, all of them lied. I believe firmly that Badoglio and the King were conspiring with the Fascist people in an undercover way to get rid of my husband"
 Many refugees in Switzerland are living in luxury. Dino Allieri, former Fascist ambassador to Berlin and one-time Minister of Propaganda; Count Volpi, former Minister of Finance; Badoglio's daughter-in- law. These and others like them live in the most elegant hotels in Switz- erland and scandalize the natives with their profligate spending and champagne drinking. This has em- barrassed the government, which admitted them on condition that they must behave with dignity.
 But Edda, once so gay, never appears in public. She sits ir her sanitorium and worries about how to be loyal at the same time to her two loves: her late husband and the now dead father who or dered her husbands death.
 OEDIPUS COMPLEX
 "If there ever was an Oedipus complex, Edda Ciano has it," hel physician told me. Never was a daughter more in love with hel father than she was with him And this is at the base of all hel nervousness, unhappiness, hysteric; and collapSeS. She is torn between father and husband. Being loyal tc one means being disloyal to the oth- CT. And in spite of the record which speaks so clearly against Mussolini Edda cannot give up her father"
 In fact, only a few days before I talked with Edda she had de- clined to answer her fathers message begging her pardon fol not having saved her husband Mussolini had ignored Edda's plea for Ciano's life. Then, toc late, he sent monk with a let ter that Edda refused to open When III Duce sent the monk back again, Edda read the note but made no reply. Mussolini's thirc attempt was just before my visit and it, too, Edda ignored But she had nervous breakdown ir April, 1945, shortly before hel fathers violent death
 When inquired whether Mus solini had asked her to intervene for his admission into Switzerland she shook her head and began tc cry. It is my feeling that she was not so much saying No" as declin- ing to discuss the matter at all.
 My father was very tired" she volunteered, land knew that the Axis had lost. Only few weeks after my husbands death he him. self wanted to retire. He told the Nazis that there was no use going on. But the Nazis forced him te continue"
 NEWT. CTANN,c DIARIES
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here than ever before and will dic- tate entertainment fashions when they resume civilian life.
 Arlene Harris, Human Chatter box of the Al Pearce Show, has turned radio writer. Arlene is put ting the finishing touches on sample script featuring a new char acter-a spoiled brat child actress which may soon be heard on the Pearce program. Miss Harris will portray the role of the moppet
 Army chaplains who have re- turned from action for refresher courses before going under fire again in the Pacific theater of war, new chaplains in basic training and faculty members will be interviewed by Parks Johnson and Warren Hull on Vox Pop at the Army Chaplain School, Fort Devens, Mass, this evening at p. m., over CBS.
 The history of this war has many chapters on the herolSm of military clergymen, who have moved into battle with American troops, un- armed, save for the Sword of the Spirit Which Is the Word of God"
 Radios handsome American te- nor, James Melton, will sing the program that was cancelled May 7th for a special VIE Day concert, when he returns to the Telephone Hour this evening The Telephone Hour is broadcast Mondays on NEG at goo p. m.
 The music of many nations will be featured on this program includ- ing the works of Irish, English, Russian, American, Italian and French composers. They will be performed by two-American-born artists. MT. Melton and Donald Voorhees,, Telephone Hour conduc- tor.
 In the final broadcast for the season, Sherlock Holmes steps out of his usual territory to attend a command performance of the bal
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in affairs of state, and that her hus- band, even as foreign minister, was puppet who had to do what he was told.
 When Edda entered Switzerland in company of Marchese Pucci, a friend of Cianos from Florence, newspapermen noticed that she seemed unusually fat. From this they concluded, and published, that she was bearing a child of Pucci's.
 The truth, as she told it to me, is that she had concealed on her person a series of diaries kept by Count Ciano since 1889, which her husband had sent to her by Pucci.
 The children were sent on ahead, on December 12, 1943. She declined to leave Italy because she hoped to help Ciano in connection with his summary trial for treason. When the hearings began she was living in an undisclosed village near the Swiss border. A few hours later Puc-
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let in Russia and solves the mys- tery of "The Dance of Death" to- night from 8:30 to g p. m., over WOR-Mutual
 Circumstantial evidence piles up to tangle Holmes as the sleuth is confronted by three ballerinas and a murder plot.
 Basil Rathbone plays the role of Holmes and Nigel Bruce is pr. Watson in ''The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which will return to WOR-Mutual on September 3.
 Walter WincheI has coined a new word to describe Hedda Hop- per's wacky headgear. He calls 1t her "sillinery.'
 Hedda and Winchell were swap ping gossip over lunch (both have air shows as well as newspaper columns), when Walter looked at Hedda's hat and asked: Where do you get all your sillinery?'
 Hedda laughed. Did you coin
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an imagination game will be high lighted on the program.
 Pianists Con Maffie and Eugene Le Pique provide the music for House Party.
 He's here again-that lovable old Supper Club" fixture, Jimmy Savo. Americas Little Man" is back tonight with a new ragbag of mirth that's just what the cus- toners ordered. Jimmy has been called the "only man in America who could sound funny with the telephone book as a script" and we premise that his latest conglomara- tion of mirth will live up to the wonderful standards that have made Americas greatest pantonlimist one of the nations best loved radio comedians. Singing star Perry Como will be on hand too to handle the vocal honors with Ted Steele and his orchestra providing the musi- cal backdrop.
 Tt All Comes to Me Now" de-
 
 Ever since Eddie Marr, the de- mon pitchman, joined the Kay Ky ser radio gang, heard Wednesdays on the NEG College of Musical Knowledge" he has been getting letters from people who write &C., cusingly along these lines:
 Aren't you the man who sold me that phony gold fountain pen Cor that snake oil liniment) seven years ago?"
 Marr confesses that may be he did, too! He was once real-life pitchman.
 Edith Oliver is the only person in America to have witnessed every broadcast of Take It Or Leave It" since it started on the air six years ago. Edith is the girl who digs up | the questions and answers on the CBS Sunday night series and al- ways has front row seat for each airing. This is so that she can signal Phil Baker, the quizmaster, If a question or answer is ever in doubt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

shiped unreasoningly, and love for her late husband, victim of her fathers vengeance.
 Before the Fascist debacle, over a period of years, it was common knowledge that Ciano had many mistresses and that he lived with one of them as late as the Spring of 1943 in specially built apart ment at the Porta San Sebastiano corner of the Via Appia. Edda, for her part, was known to have had several lovers, including the son of Hungarian Regent Horthy and one of Goering's adjutants. Now, however, she appears to have a consuming post-morten love for the Count.
 She reads every newspaper she can lay her hands on, and has frequent fits of despair when she finds herself "unjustly" criticized. It is her firm contention that she never had knowledge of or interest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

State Teachers college, Lowell Mass.
 Thursday-Bob Strong, Air Trans port Command, Nashville, Tenn.
 Friday-To be selected, 1ndepend- ence, Mo.
 saturday-Will Osborne, North rup Aviation, Los Angeles, Calf.
 Wounded seamen enjoy the quips of Bob Hawk and receive thousands of free cigarettes from him when Thanks to the Tanks" airs over CBS tonight at 7:30 p. m. The smokes go to the convalescents at the U. s. Naval hospital, Dublin, Georgia, and the U. s. Naval hos pital, Puget Sound, Washington Musically, the program features Dolly Dawn singing My Baby Says Yes" with Peter Van Steeden's orchestra.
 The atmosphere promises to be very clever and witty on 1nforma- ton Please, tonight when Beatrice Lillie and Clifton Webb will be guest experts" on the program.
 Beatrice Lillie, popular comme- dienne recently starred in Billy Roses Seven Lively Arts" plans to return to England in the near future. Actor Clifton Webb, Of Laura fame, is going to the coast shortly to do the movie adaptation of "Razor's Edge"
 Information Please is heard at 9:30 Monday evenings over NEG.
 Phil Spitalny, maestro of the all- girl Hour of Charm" on NEG Sun day nights, has just returned to New York from a tour Of 10 key cities and predicts that in-the-flesh entertainment is going to blossom again during the postwar era. He bases his opinion on his troupes s tour, which was 50 successful that he has been signed to make a sln- liar swing in the nations arenas the huge auditoriums which pre- viously preseIted spectacles such as ice shows and rodeos. Spitalny says that the service men have been seeing more in-the-flesh en- tertainment overseas and in camps
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH EDDA MUSSOLINI- IN EXILE: BY CURT RIESS
Eddo MussoIini Faces Uncertain Future in Exile

Before Benito Mussolini, fleeing toward Switzerland, was killed by Italian partisans, Curt RiesS, NEA international correspondent, had a series of conversations with his daughter, Edda Ciano, in her un- publicized retreat in little Swiss town. They talked about Musso- lini, about her late husband-ex- ecuted by order of her father and about their parts in World War II. This and a second story now are released from restrictions imposed at that time by Countess Ciano.
 By CURT RIESS
 Copyright, 1945, NEA Service, Inc.) Paris, May 28.-There no longer is any glamor about Edda MuSsolini, the woman who used to be called the femme fatale" of Europe. The daughter of Mussolini and widow of the Fascist foreign minister, Count Ciano, who was shot as a traitor by order of his own father in-law after Il Duce had been kicked out of the Italian dictatorship, is broken in spirit.
 UNDER CONSTANT CARE
 Her once proud carriage seems almost shrunken, her attractive though never beautiful face aged far beyond its 35 years. The Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano is wreck of her imposing self.
 Under a plebian assumed name, she is living in a sanatorium in little Swiss mountain village not far from Lake Geneva, under continual care of a psychiatrist, pledged to the Swiss government not to give interviews or receive publicity.
 Her children are living with friends, and now speak pure Swiss German. They visit her occa- sionally. was present on one such occasion. It was obvious that she misses them greatly, but recognizes the individuality of having them stay at the sanatorium.
 In a series of informal talks over several days I found Edda torn between love of her late father, whom she apparently wor-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
BOARD MAY ACT
 ON APPOINTMENT

Appointment of a vice-principal for Wilby high school is expected to be made next Monday night at a regular meeting of the Board of Education, but selection from list of nine candidates is said to be still open.
 Ambrose Egan has been reported for the past several weeks as lead- ing in the race, but the teach CTS committee of the board is re- ported to be still considering other candidates.
 A dark horse" candidate, Cros- by high school teacher, has gained prominence in the race, and his candidacy is reported to be seri- ously under consideration. A we'll known teacher, he may win out as. a compromise" appointee, some sources predict,
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ci arrived with the diaries and a message from Ciano:
 PUBLISH DIARIES"
 q wish that you immediately go to Switzerland. know am lost and you can't help me. My last wish is that you publish these diaries. They will tell the world about the entire guilt of the Nazis and of many of cur Fascists, and that they must be blamed for bringing about the war against which struggled in vain,' D
 Edda and Pucci entered SWitz- erland with much difficulty that same evening. After glancing through the diaries and determining their content, the Countess sent Pucci back to Italy with instruc- tions to tell the Fascists, and per- haps her father and Nazi higher ups, that she would return the dia- ries if Ciano were permitted to go to Switzerland. Otherwise, she warned, she would publish the com- promising documents.
 When Pucci passed on her mes sage he was seized by the Ges- tapo, and she was informed that he would be killed unless she turned over the diaries. This failed to move her. Pucci was tortured horribly, but eventually he escaped and returned to Switz- erland, broken man. By that time Ciano already was dead.
 Whether wilfully or otherwise, Edda refuses to recognize openly that it was her father who de- liberately doomed her husband. She planes Marshal Badoglio and the King.
 'They all betrayed him (Ciano) After the fall of my father" she says, my husband demanded from Badoglio passports for himself and his family. Badoglio declared that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
FAMILY SERVES NOTICE

Selma, O. CUP)-Look out Wash1 ington, D. c. MT. and Mrs. Clovis Dillon have three daughters in ths Selma High school. Gwenda has been elected president of the fresh man class. Norma has ben elected president of the junior class. Bonnie has been elected president of the senior class. Their father is presi- dent of the school board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

A TRIBUTE TO OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT CTo the Memory of Franklin Delano RooSevelO What? death and the graves eternal darkness For champion of truth and right? Who dares to predict his soul has perished Like the breath of a faltering candle-lght? What though his voice may be hushed forever? Those who still live must heed the call. His masterly plans, wisely handled, Shall lead to all tyrants speedy fall
 God governs human destiny
 This Hateful hour was meant to be- He loved and was loved by peaceful nations Discord he tried to Shun; Undaunted he stood for law and justice In the face of the foeman's tank or gun And when the peace of the world was threatened, Our sacred rights having been aSsa1led, He vowed to extermnate evil forces, Till the blessed tenets of Christ prevailed
 But death which could not claim his soul
 Forbid his seeing the final goal. With trust in his God and faith in people, How soon he mobized industry! He worked as the rest and never faltered In his aim to make his neighbors free. He hoped for a world free of all aggression, Without any self-styled master He promised equality, too, and succour For the worlds long, -fettered populace.
 Good knew his task earth was done.
 When the militant foe on the run. Eumanity's Moses, stalwart leader Your devotion transcends all human praise" Your worth shall endure through time and distance Like the cloud by day and the night ablaze. Yours, the unconquered will the vision; Yours, the prayer for a peaceful world! God willing your wish shall be soon accomplished, The conquering banner of love unfurled.
 Farewell, comrade and president Yours be the rest-of-death God-sent.
 DR. V. A. AvAKIAN,
 Chattanooga, Tennessee,
 May 25, 1s45
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By BILL HARRINGTON

George Olsen and his music lead of the Victory Parade of Spot light Bands, heard Monday through Saturday at 9:30 p. m., over WATR and the American Broadcasting Company in the schedule for the week beginning tonight. Bands and points of origination follow:
 Monday-George Olsen, Air Trans port Command, Romulus, Mich.
 Tuesday-Jan Garber, Bruns Gen. eral hospital, Santa Fe, N. M.
 Wednesday-Jerry Wald, Lowell
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

Sen Edward P. Egan received a round-robin let ter from all members of the Senate signed at the Senate banquet held at The Hotel Bond Thursday night The letter was immediately forwarded by mes senger St Francis Hospital where Senator Egan had been confined for checkup. The letter urged his get- ting well. Silver platters presenated to each Of the Senators at the banq uet who in turn presented large silver serving platter with all the senators names inscribed to It. Gov Wilbert E. Snow. Sen. Patrick Wallace treasurer and secretary of the annual at fair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

Ever stand in Exchange Place about P. M on any weekday afternoon and observe the Homecoming of the morning shift of the U. s. Time Corporation on special busses from Middebury? The crowd of women young girl employees reminds of mission week or
 Sunday congregation from the Church of the Immacu late Conception after Mass. The Green literally crowded for few brief minutes And writing of the Green the Park Department is making heroic efforts to remove traces of VIE night when exuberant crowds tramped and killed growing grass The "dead" spots will soon be revitaized When VI comes, who cares what happens? In view of the poultry famine in Con- necitcut someone should suggest decmating the ever growing flock of pigeons that futter about the ctys beautiful greensward. We still maintain that there are two schools of widely radical thought whether the pigeons pets and should be encouraged to remain as guests There is little difference in the 'socal status" of pigeons and starlngs Some day "inquir ing reporter" should conduct survey among the daily occupants of the benches and report this little ques ton And visitors to nearby churches and guests of the Elton should be included in the survey to determine the question of popularity