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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
British Unfold
Liberal Plan
Of Government
London Stresses Need
for lndion Leaders to
Work Out Pottern

LONDON, June ii - (P -
The British government, in a
sweeping New Deal" for India,
proposed today a new executive
council which would be almost
entirely Indian and, in the
words Of Viceroy Lord Wavell,
represent q definite advance
on the road to self-government."
At the same time that the Sec
rotary of state for India, l.. S.
Amery, unfolded the statement
of policy to Parliament, Lord
Wavell announced in a radio
broadcast from New Delhi that
orders had been given for the
release of members of the work.
Ing committee of the Indian all
Congress party still in detention.
CANDLE RELEASED
Mohandas K. Gandhi, spirit
ual leader of the party, was re-
leased May S, 1914, after Fl
months detention.
The British governments
White Paper emphasized that its
main position remained as it
was-that the working out of
India's constitutional system is
. task which can only be car
ried through by the Indian peo-
pie themselves"
But they (the British gov
ernment) are willing to make
possible some step forward dur
ing the interim period If the
leaders of the principal Indian
parties are prepared to agree to
their suggestions and to cooper
ate in the successful conclusion
of the war against japan as well
as the reconstruction of India
which must follow the final vic
tory"
NATIVE MAJORITY
This is not an attempt to i'm
pose a constitutional settlement,
Wavell explained in his broad
cast. Il - propose with full
support of his majesty's govern
m4nt to invite the Indian lead
ers to take counsel with
me with a view of formation of
q new executive council more
See INDIA@Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
Defiant Ration
Chief Is Fired
Gvoeers' Assn
Official Diseharssd

DETROIT. Jnns-l4-Ht -
The Office Of Price Admins
tration today discharged IS
chairman of its Board No. 8 in
Lansing Willis r. Keasey, secre-
tary-treasurer of the Michigan
Retail Grocers and Meat Deal
ers' Association. The association
has urged independent grocers
to disregard OPA ceiling prices
on produce after July / unless
OPA Acts on its protests against
methods used In computing the
ceilings.
Patrick v. McNarmara, acting
District Director of OPA, noti-
fled Keasey in .a~ telegram that
you are dismissed and dis
charged" He requested Keasey
to deliver any property held in
his capacity as a ration board
official to Charles A. Brown,
Board Supervisor.
McNamara's telegram contin-
ued:
INIMICAL TO OFFICE
"You have publicly, person.
ally and as secretary-treasurer
of your association, taken q po-
sition inimical to your govern.
mental offices as chairman OF
Board Three of the Office Of
Price Administration, and your
further continuance in the office
of chairman or as q member Of
said board is detrimental to the
aims and purposes of the OPA
and to our efforts to maintain
rationing and price controls and
to prevent and restrain infla-
ton"
Keasey took q leading part IN
a meeting of Retail Grocers and
Meat dealers at Jackson Tues
See OPA-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
$50 SEAMEN LOSE LIVES
Sea War Costs u. s. 1854 Ships

said the 1854 vessels lost flying
the United States flag aggre-
gated 6,277,077 lightweight
tons. They fell prey TO subma-
rines, enemy mines or planes
and wartime navigation haz-
ards from Sept. /, 1899, to last
May 8.
NEW SHIPS
Far outweighins this were
deliveries of 5,,016 ships total
ine 48, 647, 900 deadweight tons,
built in the three years, 1912
43-44.
Commission Chairman Emory
s. Land did not minimize the
severity of the Axis toll. how
ever. saying the sinkinss we're
accompanied by heavy loss Of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
Mayor IS Doubtful
Of Racket Clean.Up

Since Mount Clemens police
appear to be having difficulty
in identifying promoters of the
numbers-racket, Mayor Albert
A. Wagner may submit a list of
suspects for their consideration.
That development in Wag-
ner's persistent drive to abolish
what he termed "a vicious sys-
tenn" became apparent at
Wednesday nights commission
meeting.
Wagner raised the question
when he expressed personal
doubt that too great an effort
has been made to bring the
higher-ups to justice.
II noticed in the newspaper, |"
the mayor pointed out, that one
numbers racket salesman had
been arrested and fined. I also
saw the same man busily en-
gagged on the streets the follow
See GAMBLING-Page )
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
WagnerPFoPosesL 0ng-Range Cit
Is IS IS IS
PLEDGE new DEAL TO INDIA
Flag Day
Observed

Flag Day was observed
quietly in Mount Clemens to-
day with retail establish
ments and homes flying the
Stars and Stripes In tribute
to the men and women serv-
ing with the armed forces.
Although there are no formal
services listed for today off,
Gals Of the War Bond drive
urged people to show their
patriotism by b . G king the
Mighty Seventh and buying
more bonds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
Wastepaper Drive
Sci for Saturday

Mount Clemens last waste
paper drive until Sept. 20 was
announced today by Ralph Ran
dolph, chairman of the Boy
Scout salvage-for-victory CON-
mittee. The collection will take
place Saturday and an appeal
has been made to householders
to make an extra effort to add to
the paper tonnage.
Paper will be collected by all
Mount Clemens Scout troops
working with the city Street De-
See PAPER-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
Seek Early
Senate O. <.
Of Peace Pact
By EARNEST B. VACCARO

WASHINGTON, June 14-(R
President Truman wants to
take with him an early Big
Three meeting the Senate's
signed and sealed approved Of
the San Francisco conference.
This presidential hope was re-
vealed today by Senator George
See SENATE-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
PATTERN OF HISTORY
Urges Army Service

Richmond, Va, News Leader
said:
S"The examination of Americai
military history makes clear
$50 (that) the old cycle of dis
armament, negligence and frenz-
led preparation for war has cost
our nation UNREASONABLE billions
of dollars and hundreds of
thousands of lives"
See DRAFT-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14

WASHINGTON, June l4-(R
- Editor historian Doug a S
SoutlSll Freeman said today
compulsory military service,
properly administered, has prov
ed to be the surest, most Demo-
cratic and most economic system
of essential national defense"
In testimony prepared for the
House postwar military policy
committee, the editor Of the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
Jap Premier
Rallies People
for Grim Stand
Screening Suicide
Units Routed bv
Yonk invaders
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN


Virtually acknowledging the
impending fall of Okinawa,
Premier Kantaro Suzuki of Ja-
pan today told his countrymen
preparations were complete
and perfect" for defense of the
home islands against an expect
ed American invasion.
Japanese press and radio dis
patches, as broadcast by Tokyo
and recorded by the FEC, gave
prominence to the premier'S
press conference stat e m e MT
which included an indication
that an Army of $500, 900 to
100000 was being massed to
repel any invasion attempt.
AS the premier spoke, several
t h ousa n d Nipponese soldiers
were squeezed tighter into q
shrinking 13-square-mile pocket
on Okinawa and Dyak Aborigi-
mes, using poison darts, aided
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14
TOKYO WRITES OFF 0kINAWA AS LOST
|ge CitYImprovementPIan
Cites Serious Need
for Specific Study

Machinery for postwar planning and
Clemens put into motion
whose proposal for the immediate appointment
planning commission with the praise approval the
entire city commission.
Mayor Wagner told the governing Clemens
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14

Domei reports "scorese" Of
United States Liheratars and
Flying FertTesses had reached
Manila from Europe and that
American "air supremacy" n
the Ryukyu island cabin was
being consolidated" with
frantic" speed In the wake
Of Okinawa land successes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-14

Australians fighting to free their
home island of Borneo.
A banzai charge by 500
screaming Nipponese was ami.
hilated by U. S. Seventh Infan.
trymen crumbling the eastern
anchor Of the enemy's suicide
line, as Marines of the Sixth
Marine Division completed the
job of wiping out the japanese
Naha pocket.
AUSSIES TAKE BASES
Australians reconquering Bors
neo put one airfield into use.
See PACIFIC-Page :
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
IA MORE YOUTHS
 NAVAL RECRUITS

The recruiting of 17-year-olo youths in the Navy maintained its steady pace this past week with fourteen more enlistments being ef- fected. it was announced this morn ing by Chief Charles Brougham, re- cruiter in charge of the local navy recruiting office.
 Boys from Waterbury are: Joseph A. Paolino, 129 Academy avenue; Arthur L. Stotts, II SouthWick ave- nue; William T. Loftus; 8l East wood avenue; William Sims, 794 North Main street; Paul E. Du- maine, 236 Cherry street; John T. Slick, 51 West Porter street, Francis P. McGrath. 132 Morse avenue, and Canio Possidento, 9 Clinton ave- nue.
 Also Richard B. Thompson, 1855 Buckingham street, Oakville; Theo- dore A. Melyan, 72 Prospect street, Naugatuck; George A. Robertson, North street, Wolcott; and Charles Karlonas, 16 Kearney street, Terry vile.
 Richard F. Bidwell, Taft School. WatertoWn, and William E. Judd, 46 Sycamore lane, Waterbury, were en- listed as Seamen 1-c Radio techni- clans, as result of passing the Eddy radio test.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Soviet Press HoiIs
 Bic Three Verdicts

Moscow, February 13. - (UP) - Secretary of State Edward R. Stet- tinius, Jr., paid flying visit to Moscow today, possibly to imple- ment the big three decisions which were hailed by the Soviet Press with D.perlatives never before employed.
 Unprecedented mass meetings were called in cities and towns all over Russia at which the Big Three decisions were announced, cheered and discussed
 That procedure drove home to every Russian citizen the epoch making nature of the Crimean con- ference.
 2 TWo-thirds of the space in the Soviet press was devoted to the con- ference. including two photographs displayed eight-columns wide, show ing the conferees.
 Izvestia, the Soviet government organ, flat1y called the Crimean conference "the greatest modern po- litical event."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
7-kon Panel Hearing Spy

New YOrK, FeD. 15 - NU.PD - William c. Colepaugh, who admit ted that he found nothing but dis illusionmes1t in Germany where he went to join the German army, con- tinued testifying today in his trial on espionage charges.
 Colepaugh, American born, told the seven-man military commission conducting his secret trial that things were no so good' in Ger many. He knew the minute he ar rived in Saarbrucken last year, he said, that I had made a mistake"
 Part of his disillusionment came from observing German workers, Colepaugh said. ''The taxes were high and the average worker had nothing for his work" he said.
 Colepaugh, on trial with German born Erich Gimpel with whom he said he was landed on the Maine coast, denied that he ever consider ed himself German spy.
 However, he admitted that he had been trained in the use of explosives and taught a code at a German espionage school before he return ed to America.
 But all the time he attended the school, Colepaugh said, he felt that the Germans were suspicious of him and suspected him of being an American agent. When he learned he was being sent to the United States he sa1d he made up his mind that he would be able to get away"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Racial Story Causes Storm

Williamsburg, Va. Feb. 13-CUP) The William and Mary College faculty met today to decide the fate of Flat Hat" Campus Weekly, and its editor whose editorial on racial equality resulted in the publica- tion'S suspension.
 Marilyn Kaemmerle, 22-year- old coed editor from Jackson, Mich, said college president John E. Pom fert had given her two choices. The first, she said, would permit the newspaper to resume under faculty supervision if Miss Kaemmerle re- signs as editor.
 Under the second choice, she said, 8 vote would be taken among the five junior editors, and if they vot- ed to have Miss Kaemmerle stay. the newspaper would be permanent ly suspended.
 One thousand students voted at mass meeting that they would rather do without Flat Hat" than have 1t published under faculty censorship.
 The editorial which started the furore suggested that Negroes be permitted to attend William and Mary, join the same clubs, be our roommates Marry among us."
 Miss Kaemmerle described the stormy reaction to her editorial as g general misinterpretation. She said the suggestions were meant for the future, and were merely plan of what could be done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
LATE REALTY NEWS

The following real estate deeds have been filed in the office of Town Clerk Mary c. Kilmartin:
 Warranty Deeds A. & D., Inc, to Mary Santaguida and Leo Santaguida, property on Moran street.
 Samuel Berger to Nicholas Hak- roS, property on Chestnut avenue. Mary E. Blakely to Roland Sicard, property on Willow street. A. & D., Inc, to Mark L. Hedges, property on Moran street.
 Quit Claim Deeds John Turek to Sophie Cicio, prop erty on Elizabeth street.
 Francesca Allibrio to Lena Musco Allibrio, property on Highland ave- nue.
 Mortgage Deed
 A. & D. Inc, to the Manchester Trust company. property on Myrna avenue, $5,2O0.
 A. & D., Inc, to the Manchester Trust company, property on Myrna avenue, $5,200.
 H' cG A', 4AAS. CO VAlC MdAANiACooCl Trust company, property on Myrna avenue, $5,200.
 Nicholas Makros to Samuel Ber- ger, property on Chestnut avenue, $2OOO.
 Robert F. Betts and Evelyn F. Betts to Clifford A. Jones and Edna Jones, property on Homestead ave- nue, $1,000.
 Release of Mortgage Waterbury Savings bank to Cas- ton Raymond Parisi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
RED CROSS PLAN
 G|FTSFOR VETS
Chests Containing Useful Articles to Be Sent to
 Hospitals, Camps

An appeal is being prompted by the local Red Cross for assistance through donations and other means in preparing Chests to be sent to servicemen's hospitals and camps in this country and overseas.
 At a meeting yesterday it was de- cided to appeal for donations to fill these chests with such articles as playing cards, chess sets, checkers, and-balls, tennis-balls, harmonicas and other small musical instruments and like articles.
 Appeals are being made to the Boy Scouts or any person familiar with handicraft work to make these chests of lumber, which must be screwed together and glued in parts. Specifications for these chests call for their being inches in width, IT inches long and 10 and one-half inches high. They must be fitted with a cover and secured with haSps.
 Persons interested in constructing such boxes may notify the local chapter of the Red Cross.
 Purpos of the plan is to provide recreational material to the men E2 hospitals and camps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13

City Controller Cornelius F. Ma loney was advised today that the federal government had increased it's allotment of funds for local Child Care facilities to $33, 900. This represents an approximate $7000 ir- crease over funds previously allotted to Waterbury for this type of serv- ice.
 The additional allotment will al- low the city to operate the proposed new center at the St. Johns Parish House with the aid of funds distri- buted among municipalities under the Lanham Act.
 The amended offer will shortly be submitted to city officials for their approval. For proper execution 1t must be adopted by the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor must be authorized to sign an agreement be- tween the city and the federal gov- ernment.
 As yet the new center at St. Johns has not been opened, due to inability on the part of the local Child Care Committee to secure trained person. nel to man 1t. When such help has been assured the committee plans to make renovations at the parish hall which would allow day care for school age children now being taken care of at the Kingsbury Center on Prospect street. Transfer of these school-age children from Kingsbury in turn will allow this center to ac- commodate some thirty or forty children now on its waiting list and in the pre-school category.
 Controller Maloney pointed out that the federal grant in no way assures the city of receiving $33, ,OO0 from the federal government. Actu- ally the city receives an amount from the EVA in proportion to ex- penditures for 8 given period of time. Under the present system the Controller acquisitions funds every three months on the basis of prior expenditures and estimates for the period in question. The federal gov-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
EX-MEDICO GETS ACTION ON-B29
 JAPANESE RAIDS
By McQUOWN WRIGHT United Press Staff Photographer

United Press Stah Photographer
 Twentieth Bomber Command HQ.. Somewhere in India-CUP)-After giving up a commission as a Sur- geon in the Army Medical Corps, Mai. James w. Schonlau, 2Oth Bomber Command pilot, and his B. 2o crew already have performed 10 major and five minor operations on the Japanese.
 Called to active duty in June, 1941, from a residency in surgery at the Shreveport (La.) Charity hospital, the 3O-year-old medico was commis- stoned a first lieutenant in the med ical corps and assigned to McD1ll Field, Florida, with the air corps.
 "There was too much paper work which anybody can do," Maj. Schon- lau explained, "and no surgery"
 Becomes Air Cadet
 By what the major called "a bit of luck" as at that time medical corps officers supposedly could not transfer, he enlisted as an aviation cadet and was graduated from Kelly Field in February, 1942. However, the shift meant a drop to rank Of second lieutenant.
 The net results of this change ot "professions" is that Maj. Schonlau his last promotion came in June has bombed the Japanese 10 times four of which have been over their homeland. And his ship has been officially credited with destroying five Japanese fighters on the Yawa- ta mission-and all without a scratch to the crew. His record of ships shot down is only equaled by one other B-29 at present writing.
 By leaving the medical corps Maj Schonlau becomes one of the few medical men who are pilots.
 Even after he had been commits stoned as a pilot and undergone Fly ing Fortress training it looked like 1t would be the same old story much paper work, little flying, and no surgery. The major also was engaged in the extensive tests which were made befo~e the big planes were sent into combat.
 Asks for Combat Duty
 He asked for assignment to a squadron and was assigned in Mo- vember, 1943. He came overseas in April.
 With the possible exception of the Yawata raid Maj. Schonlau remem- bers one trip near Atlanta, Ga. as the most hectic. Flying B-17 with two passengers his engines caught fire. In fact one of them dropped off. But the passengers refused to jump. So, lacking the engine, he brought the plane down safely
 T have slight prejudice against passengers" he reported.
 Maj. Schonlau said that after his present tour of duty he believed that he might get an assignment to hospital as a surgeon-which would be welcome. After the war he plans to take another years res idency in a hospital to continue his profession.
 His mother, Mrs. w. J. Farber, lives at 1922 2d St., New Orleans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
OPEN HOUSE WAS
 HELD SUNDAY
Mr., Mrs. Samuel Nichols Observed 5Oth Wedding
 Anniversary
PROSPECT Mrs. Edmond MOrin, COrre- spOndent-TelephOne 5-O857

Prospect, Feb. 13 - MT. and Mrs. Samuel Nichols held Open House" Sunday at their home on the Wa terbury road, in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. The guests of honor were presented a purse, several gifts and flowers. Luncheon was served. MT. and Mrs, Nichols were married, February 12, 1895 at the home of the bride in Prospect by the late Rev. Clark Duvall of the Advent church.
 Mrs. Nichols is native of Pros pect and has been tax collector for the past several years. She is de- voted member and chaplin of the Prospect Grang.
 MT. Nichols is wll-known in Wa terbury having delivered milk there for several years he has spent the past few years forming.
 Guests who attended the anniver- sary were: Rev. John F. McTeague, Rev. Daryl Williams, Barbara Clark Josephine Clark, Claribel Clark, MT. and Mrs. A. Schoeck, Charles J. Mccarthy, George Cowdell, Mrs. Lucia Cowdell, George Nolan, j.. Russell Putnam, Elizabeth Nolan, Marguerite J. Morin.
 Mrs. Lillian Miller, Margaret J. Andrews, Edward J. Andrews, Mabel Hotchkiss, Ruth Hotchkiss, MT. and Mrs. Girourd, Mrs. A. L. Kelly MT. and Mrs. Frank c. Wright, Sylvia Plumb, Ann Plumb, MT. Joseph Membrino, Mrs. Vining, MT. and Mrs. Berkeley Cooper and children Linda and David Ruby Berger, Fred Berger, Harriet Berger, MT. and Mrs. Carl Garfield, MT. and Mrs. Victor Boardman, Clarence Pierpont, MT. and Mrs. Henry Krell, Raymond Chandler, Ruth Chandler, Betty and Shirley Chandler, Harold Pierpont, Sara E. Pierpont, Sylvia Pierpont, Violet Pierpont, Gertrude Clark, Richard Pierpont, Clifford Clark, Alfred Clark, Mae Clark, Roger AL len. Susan Cachoila, MT. and Mrs. Ava Cinq-Mars, Roy and Clark Cinq-Mars, Dorothy Parry, AlmonZa Orr, Mrs. Florence Cooley, MT. and Mrs. Carl Geary and daughter June, Merit Walters, MT. and Mrs. Harold Terry, MT. and Mrs. Charles Hodges, MT. and Mrs. Wm. Davis, Miss Ella Allen, Bernice Buys, MT. and Mrs. Jack Bird, MT. and Mrs. Harry Tal- madge, Albert T. Allen, MT. Frank Plumb, Florence Plumb, Carrie H Wallace, Alice D. Putnam, c. P, Wallace, Josephine Stieler, Hazel M Peet, Donald Peet. Howard Peet Clara Toscano, Emile Toscano, Flor ence Fournier, Donna Lee Fournier Edmond J. Morin, Edmond Morin Jr., Robert Morin, Harry Stieler Nellie and Ruth Cowdell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Del Costono Spy Says Rep. Coffee

Washington, Feb. 13 - (U.P) - Representative John M. Coffee, D., Wash, today demanded the swift arrest and punishment of Jose Del Castano, Spanish consul general in Manila, as an Axis war criminal.
 ''The charge" Coffee said. lis murder"
 In a speech prepared for the house Coffee portrayed the Spaniard as a spy, fifth-colmunist and Axis agent responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans in the Phil1 ippines.
 "As long as he is allowed to move freely about Manila, as long as he can send messages by coded cables and by coded phone calls to the Spanish terminal of the Berlin Tokyo-Madrid Axis-for just that long will the American dead on Ba- taan go unavenged and the living in Manila remain menaced." Coffee said.