The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-23

who appears at the polls April
: will be given . special tag
to wear and Girl Scouts
will pick 'em UP at homes the
next day just to see how
many persons appreciate the
privilege that Americans ut
Bastogne and Two Jima Gas
well as at Bunker Hill and
Valley Forge) fought for.
Within sound of Patton's
Third Army's thunder as 1t
poured into Germany, an East
Detroit officer and his East De-
troit nurse bride were wed re-
Gently in a priests quiet study
in Luxembourg, when they OBJ
tanned a short leave from field
hospital duties. They were: 1t.
Eleanor Rowe, ANC, and Capt.
Richard j. Meinsinger who
met in Iceland, and continued
their courtship to England and
through France, while the bride
carried an heirloom veil and a
white bridal gown in her bed
roll. She also carried orchids
and Lord only knows
where she dug them up in de-
vastated Europe.
Now they tell us the story
of how a brave man died-Lt.
Wilbert Weier, &c, we'll
known local softball player, of
Elizabeth street. Plotting his
BIG over Northern Italy, he
realized that flax had SO
wrecked the ship that he could
never land it, and things were
getting worse fast. He regain
ed control with great effort
and held her level till four
crew members bailed out to
safety then, to quote the
official report ian ex-
plosipn disintegrated the
bomber.
Seaman nc William T. Ellis,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Vail Ellis, is
home, partially paralyzed from
being damned in his navy gun
while in action in the Pacific.
Courageously he's starting
workshop in the basement Of his
home, 3643 Moran boulevard,
near the waterworks to
make toys and things and
maybe earn a few bucks and
later finish his Schooling at
MCHS.
1t. Malcolm E. (Mac) from
bley writes from the midwest
Pacific to report reading Sher-
iff Harley Ensign's and Ell
more Testers names in a CT
publication, and 1--WE blush)
mentions his enjoyment of this
column. Says his health is ex-
cellent and with the grace of
God and an extravagently
deep foxhole / intend to make
every effort to keep 1t that
way" "Mac" wonders
why he hasn't run into Major
Leroy Sample who we
last heard from when crashing
through Metz. He concludes:
Better get back to tending
this war business. II I neglect
1t for a minute 1t boys down,
and then Admiral Nimitz
pouts and won't talk to me-"
AROUND THE CITY-First
National Bank footings, S4,345,-
600 five years ago, have hit $10.-
100000 Burglars ignored
several thousand bucks in War
Bonds and other valuables and
took $3.50 cash from the law Of
flee desk of Sen. Ivan Johnston
in our building the other night.
A score or two of blood
donors rushed to aid two-year-
old Lynn Hockin, kidney disease
victim, and he's holding his own.
Wallace Schonschack, the
Lawrence Tibet of Our Town,
has taken on the greatest role of
his brilliant musical career.
He'll sing the leading (baritone)
lead in Elijah" at a big Detroit
church Palm Sunday.
AROUND THE COUNTY -
Wounded on Two Jima, a Shores
leatherneck, Pfc. Robert j. AL
len, writes that a Hawaiian hos
pital is HEAVEN, with white
robed American nurses, ice
cream, radio music, chocolate
milk and movie shows added
These lads have learned to laugh
again, after the bloody slaughter
they survived: II laughed sc
hard my jaws and stomach
ache, he wrote Irma Jean
and Paul Moore. in RoseVille