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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-29
Pfc. Ralph Richey
Wounded in Action
Disabled After
Crossing Rhine

Pfc. Ralph j. Richey, age %,
of Mount Clemens, was wound
ed in action with Hodges First
Army after crossing the Rhine
into innermost Germany, his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Richey, Sr., Ill New street,
have been informed.
Exact date of the wounding
was not stated in the soldiers
letter to his parents, in which
he assured them his condition
was good and that he had been
evacuated to France.
Born in Mount Clemens and
educated at the Lincoln and
Mount Clemens High schools,
Pfc. Richey has been overseas
for 18 months, serving with a
mechanical cavalry unit. He
first went into action in Nor
mandy in July, 1914.
His brother, Kenneth NJ, age
20, is now at Great Lakes Naval
Training Station.
Pts. Richey's brother-in-law,
Pvt. Andy Donaldson, USING,
was recently wounded on Two
Jima. He is the husband of the
former Evelyn Richey.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-29
Maj. Gen. |. D. Clay
10 Help Rule Nazis
Nomed TO Direct
Civilion Affoiss

WASHINGTON, March 90
PD-Maj. Gen. Lucius d. Clay,
who has been with the Office
of War Mobilization and Recon-
version, was designated today to
take charge of civil affairs In
Germany when that country Is
occupied.
President Roosevelt made the
announcement.
The appointment, the White
House said, was by Gen. George
c. Marshall, Army Chief of
Staff.
Clay will be deputy to Gen.
Dwight d. Eisenhower, the an
nouncement asserted, "to have
charge of civil affairs when Gen
eral Eisenhower, as supreme
commander, assumes control un-
der the arrangement agreed upon
for the occupation of Germany"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-29
Pit. Jerome
Luebbers
Dies in Action

CENTER LINE - Pvt. Jerome
H. Luebbers, age "a. of Center
Line, died a hero's death with the
Third Army pushing through
Luxembourg on Jan. "a, his fam
lily has been informed. The young
infantryman was previously re-
ported missing on that date, but
War Department notification has
now confirmed his death, al
though complete details have not
been made available.
Pvt. Luebbers was the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. August Luebbers,
of 7176 11-Mile road. Their only
other child, Cpl. lone Luebbers,
%, has been with the Women's
Army Corps 10 months in At
RIGA and eight months in Italy,
where she is now stationed. To
date she has only been informed
that her brother is still miss
ing in action.
He was married in Nov. 1912
to Geneva Johson, of Royal Oak,
who with their one-year-old son,
Tmmy, survives.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-29
Harrison Youths
Facing Court
in Burglaries

Two Harrison Township youths
alleged to have participated in
three nighttime burglaries and
later forged business checks ia
ken from one place are now
awaiting an appearance in Cir
cult Court on felony charges.
while a third member of their
gang, age l6, is held in the Ju-
venile Detention Home, Detroit.
The trio was rounded up by
Chief Deputy Cornelius Guide
nau, Jr., and Richard DeKete-
laere. The principal defendants,
who have entered innocent pleas,
are: James X. Smith, %, of 1885
Shoreline Drive, and Arthur c.
johnson, 20, of the same address.
The 16-year-old boy has no home
address.
According to Deputy DeKete-
laere, the men are alleged to
have broken into the Mount
Clemens Coal & Dock offices,
at 5000 North River road, on
March 20, where they obtained
a number of blank checks used
by the company for payroll pur-
poses. The checks were filled in
by the trio, DeKetelaere claims,
for amounts of $35, $25 and SIS.
After the case was closed the
company declined to prosecute,
the officer said.
Also charged against the trio
is the burglary of the Floyd
Lewis gas station, SO Croker
boulevard, Mount Clemens, on
March Is, where DeKetelaere
said the defendants admitted
taking four re-capped tires and
selling them for So each in De-
troit, but denied taking the %
tires Lewis claimed he lost.
Deputies said the third case
listed against the defendants is
the theft of a pin-ball machine
from Wimpey's restaurant, South
Gratiot at the Common road. The
machine was smashed open and
dumped in a field on the 12-Mile
road, Roseville. The damaged
parts were recovered.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-29
AssQssinQfe
Aachen;s Mayor

WITH THE US. FRS T
ARMY, March % up The
assassination of Aachen's Allied
appointed mayor was carried
out by three German parachut-
lists in uniform, it was disclosed
today.
Striking gangster-f h o n
Sunday night, they shot and
killed the mayor, Franz Open
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-29

hof, Al, and then escaped. Op.
penhof was the first mayor 20 b
appointed in a major occupied
German city by the Allies. He
death was announced yesterday.
Military investigators said
they had been unable to deter
mine an exact motive, but Il
was recalled that Hitler often
has threatened retaliati n
against any Germans cooperat-
ing with the Allies and there
were some who believed this
might be the first manifestation
of that threat.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-29
One Brother Killed:
Second IS Wounded

Mrs. Sabo explained that her
family considered it privilege
to serve their adopted land
where her children had been
reared surrounded by great OPP
portunities. She also explained
that every saving that could be
wrung from their sugar beet
fields was being put into war
bonds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-29
Ocean Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge,
which is the only one ever auth
orized to be built across the
outer mouth of a major ocean
harbor, cost approximately $685.
100000
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-29

The marriage rate in Ger
many during the war has been
less than in any of the English
speaking Allied countries.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01
CTS Assured Full Value
of Pay Anywhere on Globe

of goods, to the disorganization
of civilian transportation and
distribution facilities and to the
neral economic disruption
which follows enemy occupation
and military operations.
Under these conditions it has
been recognized by the Army
that uncontrolled spending by
our soldiers (Which would be
intensified il they obtained
their francs at black market
rates) would tend to aggravate
the inflationary situation in
France. Efforts have been made,
therefore, with considerable sue
cess, to encourage odr soldiers to
send back to the United States as
much money as possible out of
the pay which they draw. and to
discourage expenditures by them
in French stores and restau-
rants -"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1-R-
The War Department gave assur-
ance today that American SOL
diers in France were paid the
full amount" allowed them by
law, either in United States cur
rency or its equivalent in French
francs.
Rep. Anderson (R-Calif) had
forwarded a complaint from a
constituent that exchange rates
allowed by the Army paymas-
tiers were beating" American
troops out of their modest earn
ings."
The complaint stated the ex-
change rate recognized by the
Army, through agreement with
the French government, allowed
about one-fifth as many francs
to the dollar as American troops
could get on the open market.
Brigadier General Edward w.
Smith. deputy chief of the war
department liaison and legisla-
tive division, replied to Ander-
son:
~. S. troops no matter where
located are paid the full amount
approved by the Congress in
u. S. dollars or equivalent
thereof in legal tender local cur
rency
IF our soldiers were paid in
France in dollar currency, they
would be placed in a position of
either obtaining francs for local
expenditures at the official rate
(Which facility is made avail
able to US. military personnel
through Army disbursing Off
cers) or Of procuring francs
brough black market channels
which would be in violation of
the law in France.
"The prevailing high prices
of certain goods in French mar
kets = are considered to be
due primarily to local shortages
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

Miss Marjorie Kinch, who at
tends Adrian College, spent from
Wednesday to Sunday with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
kinch.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01
Farmers Warned
to Seek Mew
LiueHh0ods

EAST LANSING, Feb. Up
A warning that millions of
farmers must find other liveli-
hood means in this country after
the war if they are to have good
economic opportunities was pre-
sented Wednesday to a Farmers
Week audience.
Noble Clark, associate director
of the Wisconsin experiment sta
ton and chairman of the land
grand college committee, on post
war agricultural police, made the
statement in an address to the
assembly at Michigan State Col
lege.
He asserted rural jewellers
should not be expected to be
content with subsistence agri-
culture or dependent on govern
ment subsidy.
He proposed a policy of "fa-
cilitating not opposing, the nor
NAL flow" of farm folk to city
life, but said he hoped for an in
creased number of part-time
farmers and urban citizens living
in the country.
The peacetime market is not
likely to absorb our greatly in
creased supply of agricultural
products he said. "A two-price
system has been proposed for
disposal Of surplus products, but
any careful analysis will newt
ably show that such a system
will not solve the problem.
Full urban employment with
corresponding strong demand
for farm products is our best
hope for good prices for what
our farmers produce.
He warned farmers not to "be
fooled by the specifically at
tractive plans of propping up
prices for particular commodi-
ties above the level the market
otherwise would pay. They can
not in peace time have freedom
to produce as they please if they
ask the government to maintain
prices above the normal mar
ket."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01
Expels Gas From
Stomach Bowels

When eonstipation's gas way down in the bowels
Peter Fahrney's Apen krauter. This time
tested stomachic tonic medicine -compounded
q IL OF Natures own medicinal roots. herbs
and botan,cals-usually brings happy relief.
comforts the stomach and aida cloRged up,
suggah bowels 70 expel waste matter. 6eaf al
all It reduces bloated. gassy feeling due To de-
iayed elimination. For soothing relief from
functional constipations intermittent bowel
gas attacks. get ALPEN KRAUTER today
uom any Fahrney agency. such ~:
swan Pharmacy Bannow Drug Co.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01
Notes

UTICA-Mrs. Sidney OdgorS
will be hostess 10 the Utica
Tuesday Club at her home, 7Ql5
Canal road, Tuesday afternoon,
Feb. 9th. al $50 p m. Mrs. Rus
sell Gierman is program leader
and the topic for the day will
be From Horse Car to Helicop-
ter"
Papers will be as follows:
Transportation: Past. Present
and Future, Mrs. Leroy Tyack
Detroit's Waterfront Dream,
Mrs. L. r. Hirth. A book review
will be given by Mrs. Arthur n
Chapoton. For roll call the
members will name an unusual
means of transportation.
Mrs. Ed, Jacobs. of Detroit.
has been at the home of Mrs
Alice MeSsmore a part Of the
week assisting in the care Of
Mrs. Messmore Mrs MeSsmore,
who has been an invalid for the
past few years due TO fall,
has not been as we'll recently.
Sunday guests in the home of
Mayor and Mrs Matthew j
Rettmiller were their daughters,
Cadet Nurse Julia Rettmiller, Of
Harper Hospital, Detroit; Nurse
Margaret Rettmiller and Mr.
and Mrs. A. Voydanoff, and
family, of Pontiac.
Arthur N. Chapoton was con-
fined TO his home by illness a
few days of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry F. Gage
and daughter, Nancy were the
guests of Mrs. F. d. Forrest in
Walkerville, Ont, Sunday. Miss
Gage, Seaman &c, OF the
WAVES was home from Cleve-
tand,1 o.. on weekend leave.
Honoring her friend, Seaman
&c Nancy Gage. Of Cleveland
Margaret Ann Hirth entertain
ed at her home, 1884 Summers
street, Utica, Saturday evening
Ann Louise Swanson, of Mich!-
gan State College was among
the guests. Games were played
and lunch served TO round out
delightful evening. Miss Hirth
has accepted a position as cafe
terra manager at Western High
School. Detroit, and will assume
her new duties Monday. She
served in a similar position in
Washington. D. c., last year.
Henry Chapoton, young son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur N
Chapoton, who underwent an
appendectomy at St Joseph hos
pital, Mount Clemens. 10 days
ago, was brought to his home in
Utica Saturday and is conva-
lescing nicely
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

order was announced, Fitz saw
his chance. He quit his job and
told his draft board TO "come
and get me-" 1t did.
Today his name leads the list
of Martin county men certified
for pre-induction examinations
next week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

Guests Sunday evening of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Schroeder were
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Schroeder
and son of Rochester.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01
New Haven WSCS Planning
Fother and Son Banquet

NEW HAVEN - The annual
Father and Son banquet sponsor
cd by the w. S. c. S. of the
Methodist church will be held
Wednesday evening Feb. 7 at the
church at $50 o'clock.
The guest speaker will be
Chaplain l.. r. Evans of the
556th Service Group AT Sell
fridge Field. The Rev. Carl +.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Kesner
were Saturday evening dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton
Tucker in Mount Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01
Richmond

RICHMOND - Relatives and
friends gathered in the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Wieman,
Main street, this village on Sat.
urday evening to observe the
63rd birthday anniversary of Mr..
Wieman. Cards were enjoyed
with prizes going to Michael
Cramer, Martin Kaufman and
Mrs. John Evans. A lunch was
served by the hostess. Guests
were present from Detroit,
Armada, New Haven, Richmond
and Lenox.
Mrs. William Schneider enter
tanned the members of the Twin
Town Euchre Club in her home
on Gleason avenue. Honors were
won by Mrs. Jacob Kramer, Mrs.
Michael Gramer and Mrs. Jonn
Schwartz. Refreshments were
served by the hostess. Mrs. Fred
Gramzow will entertain the
members in her home on Tues
day evening, Feb. 6.
The members of the euchre
club were entertained in the
home of Walter and Martha
Pluckhanm the past week.
Honors were won by Mrs. Carl
Kingsbury, Mrs. Lindsay Newell
and Mrs. Fred Scholeff, August
Teska, Michael Gramer and Fred
Schoeleff. Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Gundlach will entertain the
members in their home in
Richmond township on Feb. 8.
Mrs. Waldo Herman and Miss
Mabel Winke1 are in charge of
the drive for funds for the Sal
walton Army in this village.
The men and ladies of ST.
Augustine's Catholic Church are
again sponsoring their annual
Pre- Lchten Ham and Egg Supper
10 be held in the school auditor
ium this year on Sunday, Feb.
IL. Serving of meals will begin
at p. m. and continue until 8
.. m. There will be other attrac-
tons in the hall during the after
noon.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01
HE WHO WAITS

FAIRMONT, MIMI, Feb.-(P)
Earl Fitz took three swings at
enlistment in the armed forces
and, after striking out on each
occasion, turned back to his JOB
to wait out the war.
When the "work of fight
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

Domestic air express totalcd
8l1.850 shipments in the first
half Of 1914, compared with
721,176 shipments in the SINH
lar 1913 period, an increase Of
12.5 per cent
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

Federal-aid highway con-
struction started in 1910 ap-
proximated- IL, 900 miles annu-
ally, while 1913 construction
totaled approxima tely 72O
miles.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

The number of school buses
in the US. was reduced from
93,398 in 194l to 1860 in 1914
as part of the wartime motor
vehicle conservation program.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

Oswald will act as POSTMASTER.
Harry Lefurgey will give the
toast to the sons and Lyle Melk-
erSon will respond with the toast
TO the fathers. Group singing
will be led by Rev. Oswald ac-
companicd by Ralph Chapman
at the piano.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-01

One out of every four cars In
use Jan. /, 1914, was 10 years
old or older.
Evening star., 1945-06-27
Foolish Promises
By Raym ond M oley

The Wagner Murray so-called "full
employment" bill, now before the Senate,
pretends to provide the means to deal
with situation which no human being
has been able to figure out. 1t proposes
to have the President stabilize business
cycles by means which are 50 little
understood that an application of them
may aggravate the disease. The sponsors
of the bill are like doctors who suggest
treatment for disease, whose nature is
we'll known, by treatment which they
do not know how to control. In short,
We know the symptoms of imitation and
we know the symptoms of defiation. but
We do not know that the correctives
suggested by the sponsors of the bill are
not likely to cause disastrous reactions
The bill is definite about the appli-
cation of inflationary methods to in
duce business activity of sort and in
crease employment But it also proposes
to apply reverse English, through presi-
Dental action. In case Of imitation. The
general nature Of the controls to be
used are mentioned. They are, Federal
policies with reference to banking and
currency, monopoly and competition,
wages and working conditions. taxation.
social security and such other matters
as may directly or indirectly affect the
level of non-Federal investment and
expenditure Elsewhere, the bill men,
tions public works.
4 +
The generaf idea seems to be that
when more imitation is needed, certain
economic levers will be turned in one
direction. and when more deflation is
needed, the same levers will be turned
in the opposite direction.
This suggests the procedure Of per-
son who is greenhorn at the game
of billiards. He knows that II he cues
the ball on one side he will produce
certain general effects. and If he cues
it on the other side. other effects will
be produced-a technique known as
English" But the invariable experience
of beginners is that they are too liberal
with their English. 1t is only after they
watch Hoppe or some other master of
Evening star., 1945-06-27

the game that they realize how delicately
small is the area OF center which will
produce results and how many other
factors are involved than merely hitting
the ball in a certain direction with
plenty Of English.
In late 1886 and early 1887, things
began to move very fast. The grim
threat of prosperity spread over the
land. President Roosevelt was alarmed
and he threw on all the brakes he knew.
At first, it seemed that the controls
were ineffective and then, in late 1887,
they all took effect at once. 1t took
a war to get us under way again Pres
ident Roosevelt revealed the excessive
zeal Of the green billiard player.
The trouble is that there are no
Hopes in this economic game. No one
knows how to apply governmental
brakes with sufficient skill to control
things with the nicely suggested by the
Wagner-Murray plan. Government can,
within limits, induce imitation, but q
simple reversal of its stimulants cannot
keep It in control. ~
All the controls suggested by the
full employment" bill. Interestingly
enough, are already available to the
President but the bill would seem to
make their use compulsory.
1t may be well for the sponsors of the
Wagner Murray bill to study what is
going on now a while before they
recommend wholesale application of
methods that are so little known. The
Government, in its efforts to prevent
imitation here and now, is making
genuine test of its ability to plan. We
shall have real measure of the capacity
of government to control the economy
in the working out of its limitations on
the stock and real estate markets and on
the prices Of consumer goods. When
that experience has been completed and
thoroughly digested. it is time to plan
for peacetime controls. Certainly it
is no service to the people of the
country to promise continuous and full
employment when so little is known Of
the mechanisnns involved
Evening star., 1945-06-27
The Charter

Inc DaSlc argument IN behalf OF
the United Nations Security Char
ter was set forth in a few words last
night by President Truman. IF we
had had this Charter a few years
ago. he said. land, above all, the
will to use it, millions now dead
would be alive. If we should falter
in the future in our will to use 1t,
millions now living will surely die"
This is the undeniable, compel
ling fact which overrides all of the
arguments that the Charter goes
too far, or that it does not go far
enough. With all of its imperfec-
tions, its compromises and its eva
sions, this document, now signed by
the representatives of so nations,
provides the machinery which can
be used to prevent another war.
1t should be emphasized, of
course, that neither the finest Ian
guage nor the best organizational
structure can serve of themselves
as a barrier to war. The words and
the machinery must be implemented
by a firm and continuing deter
mination on the part of men to
make them serve the purpose for
which they were intended. Fur
thermore, as the President pointed
out, this Charter is by no means a
final, finished product. 1t is merely
first step, and it is of the greatest
Importance that "all our thinking
and all our actions be based on the
realization that it is in fact only a
first step" We must avoid the
fatal error of assuming that the
bare existence of Charter and a
security organization will prove to
be adequate safeguards against
war. Experience will reveal the i'm
perfections in this plan, and the
people of the world must be alert
to recognize and correct them in &C
cordance with the methods pre-
Scribed by the Charter itself. But
even when this has been done, there
will be no real security in the plan
or in the organization alone.
AS some one has said, peace must
be waged in the same sense that we
wage war. There can be no peace
without constant effort and sacri-
flee and grim resolve to have peace.
At the moment this is the mood of
the country. Because this Charter
is so fully supported by public
opinion, and because the people are
now so fully awake to the horrors
of war, there is hardly a doubt that
the San Francisco Charter will be
ratified without undue delay by our
own Senate and by most if not all of
the other participating nations.
This time there will be no in
transigent minority to stand in the
way of our joining in the attempt at
collective security. But we will yet
have to face the hazards of inertia
and indifference and selfishness and
stupidity which reduced the League
of Nations to futility. The critical
test of this new plan is not before
us now, but it will come five, ten or
twenty years hence. 1t is then that
we must not falter in our will to use
it unless millions now living are to
5ip