The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-01

for his outfit, a medical unit
originally tied to the 32nd
RED Arrow Division, claims
more combat that any other
US unit.
AROUND THE CITY - The
pinball machines did swift
fadeout after Wagner and
Oehmke publicly banned them.
=. They're still arguing the
LOCALITIES of 21-year-old drink
ing cards, with Prosecutor Bill
Held asserting this law uncon-
stitutional and telling the inn
keepers to skip it. John E,
Merrill, your Red Cross chair
man for several years, is now
Social Welfare Commissioner,
succeeding Charlie McNaughton.
DR.. Joseph LaRiviere fin
ally succeeded in getting into
uniform, after being released
from the Army as an essential
professional man. He's now 1t.
q. g. US. Navy. Cpl.
Bonnie Levine spent 36 months
in the armed forces, 81 of them
in North Africa and Italy, and
is now out with IS points. and
losfin' at home. Just made it,"
says Bonnie. Health Off
Ger w. j. Kane, M. D.. has warn
ed folks against possible out
break of polio again this sum-
mer, because national figures
show an increase.
Selfridge Fields Brig. Gen.
Joseph p. Sullivan, Gen.
Clark's top aide over there in
Italy for years, has a string of
ribbons, including the French
CrOix de Guerre and the
latest is the Brazilian War
medal, conferred in Rome for
service to that nations forces
overseas.
WE SALUTE - Cpl. Robert
M. Johnson, of Memphis. a med
ical corpsman, who braved a
Jap banzai charge on Two to adj
first aid TO night
fighter squadron killed and mu-
tilated by Jap grenades and
bayonets. He worked more than
an hour without protection un-
der intense fire. 1t. Paul
II. Duckert ("Duke's' boy),
USAAF pilot, who was shot
down over Germany and is
credited with saving his crew
and leading them back safely
into France. And Silver
Stars went to Pvt. Kenneth
Trombley, 8 Moross, for saving
six companions under heavy ma
chine gun fire and Pfc.
Edgar c. Smith, 20, of 40 Beyne
street, for bravery in action at
Luzon. A SMHS boy, Ed saw
lots of action in II months Pa
cific service and won a Purple
Heart in the P.I
They tell us that Selfridge
men all around the world are
planning 4 big reunion here
exactly one year from the day
Japan folds up. and that
will really bring the old crowd
together, including chaps who
left here as lieutenants and
are now generals.
MEMORIAL RITES - AT
Utica Sunday for Pfc. Harold
w. Papist, q, who met a hero's
death in a valient armored We
hicle action at Mulhausen,
Germany, April 7. At East
Detroit Sunday for S. Sgt. Cir
thel r. Morrison, IS, killed IN
action over Germany on his
18th mission. At East De-
troit for Siberian Pvt. Jack
USING, of the 5th,
who was fatally wounded on
Two Jima March 81. And
a thought in passing for Pfc.
George F. Chappelle, Memphis.
killed during an act of heroism
in entering Germany, and now
awarded the Silver Star postum
HERE AND THERE IT. Sgt.
Marlatt 1--WE call him
Bid is homing after
three years in the Pacific.
1t. James F. Pingel, 90 Lincoln,
has joined the AAF Red Raiders
in the Philippines. His
brother, Major John, is in Ger
many. S. Sgt. Frederick r.
Ryskamp, So South Walnut, has
received an Hon. Dis, after As
from Selfridge to the
Pacific theater. T.
Sgt. Vincent A. Rabine is relax
ing in England after % missions
Col. (Judge) Jim Spier is
in the US after Is months with
the ATC in India. After
Is months aboard a CG cutter
in the Atlantic and Mediterran-
can, 1t. 0g) Jerome Balas is
on duty i'm New York Civ.