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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-08
Shorts and Shells

Bill Voisele who p comes for the 0ants lost SEQ
on tips opposing botters that i'll be murder they Try TO
bnt aooinst him this YEAR Bill has been drilling oil win
ter al Ninety Six c. fielding bunts tapped out by his wife
and lost eight Of his 228 pounds in workout chasing
balls that 90 owoy from him down half mile hillside
What manager Mel or probably would like to know is can
Mrs. hit ball and 90 to her left for gounder
Vince BoryIo Note Danes i yeor-old basketball
center who broke all Irish scoring records this will be
indicted into Navy Eos Chicago, Ind, tomorrow
. Larry luhrs Penn States unbeoten heavyweight boxer
who the intercollegiate title at New London
Conn this week plose lenses lho the ING
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-08

lie ROll, MdrCn D. M -
Benton H Dor, undefeated
challenger TO Saginaw Arthur
Hill for the lower Michigan
Glass A high school basketball
crown, wades into l945 state
tournament play tonight at
Kalamazoo, colliding with Kala-
mazoo Central, 1914 runner-up,
in the highlight Of 35-game re-
gional tourney slate at Is CEN
terS-
Benton Har Dor, rated by
many experts as the team to
beat for the title, will be shoot
ing for its 18th successive win
of the year and its third over
Central.
In another Class A headliner
Flint northern, four-time state
champion, engages l. n n
Eastern at Lansing for the right
to enter a Saturday clash with
the winner of Fridays Saginaw
Arthur Hill-OWosSo duel.
Survivors Of the 80 regional
Journeys in four classes adj
vance to the quarter-final
round of title. play March Is at
sites yet to be determined.
Semi-finals are sc h e d u e d
March Is and finals March IL
at East Lansing.
Nineteen former state cham
pions and 20 of last years re-
gional winners still are in the
race for l945 titles. Others were
eliminated last week in district
play at as centers.
Among the dozen 1914 district
champs which failed TO survive
the first tournament round
this season are two defending
state champions Marshall in
Glass B and Benton Harbor St.
John in Class d.
Besides Saginaw Arthur Hill,
which as Glass A quintet was
required to face no district
play, only lower NJ j c h 6 n
champion remaining in the re-
peat picture is Lansing St.
Mary, Glass c titlist, which sees
its first regional tourney action
Friday.
Headliners Of limited Class B
scheduled tonight send Grand
Haven, siX-time state champ,
against Greenville at Grand
Rapids and Albion, upset victor
over Marshall last week, against
Charlotte at Albion.
The top Glass { tourney APP
pears to be at Kalamazoo, where
Constantine, 17-game Winnie r,
tackles Berrien Springs tonight
and Kalamazoo st, Augustine,
four-time former state champ,
engages Bangor tomorrow. Win
ners meet Saturday.
Considerable strength also is
packed into the st. Joseph Glass
d meet, where Bridgman, three
time winner, meets White Pig
con tonight and Stevensville,
four-time champ, engages Gov
ert. -s--
Other first rate Glass A
battles on the Thursday card
send Holland against Muskegon
Heights at Muskegon, Saginaw
against Flint Central at Saginaw
and Grand Rapids Catholic
against Ottawa Hills at Grand
Rapids.
In Class A tits at Ferndale
last night Port Huron handed
Hazel Park its fourth defeat in
Is starts, 80 to %, Pontia
spilled Crosse Pointe, as to "a,
and Royal Oak edged Mount
Clemens, 81 to 81.
Wyandotte nosed out Lincoln
Park, % to 20, in one Of a pair
of Glass A games at Dearborn,
and in the other Dearborn Ford
son scored an easy SO to Is tri-
umph over Dear orn Ford
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-08
Royal Oak
Eliminates
NC by 1881
Port Huron Wins
Over hozel Park
in Gloss A Opener

Games at Ferndale in Class
A competition last night
brought defeat for Mount
Clemens; victory for Port HUI
ron and a loss for Crosse
POinte to Pontiac 45-34. In
Class { games at Pontiac,
Lakevicw of st. Clair Shores,
former district champ, emerg-
ed victorious over Oxford,
27-25, and in Class ID New
Haver trOunced Detroit COun-
try Day School 1926.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-08
Not Quite Clear

About that time late arrival, Henry Armstrong was
ooed upon for few words before his departure for over
seas USO tour along With Kenny Washington and other noted
negro athletes = wondered in here in the middle OF
discussion Of ecornq Hank remarked I've had some bad
decisions ouonst like thot against Chester Slider out
in Oakland where beot him every round broke his leg and
st lost the decision I've often wondered how those things
we're scored" Thot broke up the meeting
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Truman Strike
Bill Plea Likely

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is tINS)
High administration circles in
dicated today that President Tru-
man may appeal directly 10 the
nation in an effor, to force action
on his requested strike control
legislation
The President may make a
radio address on the whole sub
ject OF labor-management prob
lens and the strikes that arc
now seriously threatening the ma
tons reconversion program.
The House labor committee fol-
low,d action of the Senate group
and voted TO continue hearings On
the Presidents labor proposal
after Congress conveneS in jan
uary.
The committee voted 10 TO 7
against a motion which would
have ended hearings on Mr.. Tru-
mans efforts TO solve labor prob
lens through fact-finding boards.
The House group voted unani-
mously to reopen hearings when
Congress convenes. and 10 broaden
the hearings to cover the entire
labor management problem.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

When Patrolman Perry Capo-
rosso joined the force after fight
ing the wars, they didn't tell him
what 10 do if a horse tried 10 fol-
low him into a restaurant for a
cup of coffee.
1t was very, very cold in the
early morning Saturday az Red.
ford and Grand River. The officer
was faithfully trying doors and
ringing call boxes. But somehow
he had feeling that he was not
alone.
Whirlng suddenly. he saw the
horSe-not quite a horse, just a
gaingly colt. about six weeks old,
1t frisked about in the snow, then
came up and nuzzled Caporosso's
pockets.
"Scrsm," said CaporoSSo.
"you'll be run In sS a juvenile
delinquent"
And the policeman continued on
his beat. pretending not 10 notice.
He stopped at an all.night res
taurant at 2226 Grand River for
a cup of coffee.
The cold whinnied agreeably and
tried 10 push through the door
ahead OF him.
"Get that thing out of here"
the counterman yelled. 81 lose
enough dough on horses as Il is"
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
French Franco
Rupture Near

PARIS. Dec. Is QNS)-The
French announced tonight they
had asked the United States and
Britain for three-rower talks on
the possibility OF breaking diplo-
matte relations with Generaliss mo
Francisco Francois Spanish gov
ernment.
I'VE don't want 20 act by our
selves In recognizing the new
Spanish republican government,
a spokesman said.
after a break with Franco
we would have 10 see what the
luBm uIvlIIa pun sSlvlS pslIul
10 do about recognizing a new
regime, and what government
all three want to recognize"
The spokesman's remarks made
II clear that a French rupture
with Madrid was now regarded as
virtually certain, and that the
chief question IN French minds
was what regime 10 recognize
later.
The French already had an
nounced they were permitting in
dividual members OF Premier Jose
Girafs Spanish Republican exile
government 10 enter France.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
j. .P|ansC|ose
.CheCkonBuiIder

WASHINGTON, Dec, Is (AP)
- Reconversion Director Snyder
today was studying a plan de-
signed 10 assure that purchasers
Of new homes get their moneys
worth.
The plan. applicable 10 dwell
lngs built under the governments
new housing program, has been
submitted by officials working out
details of a regulation which will
restore building materials TO a
prlorities system.
Tho regulation. 10 Aaut into
effect next week on orders from
President Truman, earmarks 80
per cent of all building supplies
for houses or apartments costing
$1,000 or less a unit.
The plan presented 10 Snyder
by trc national housing agency,
civilian production administration
and -OPA Provides-fof a-chcck of
builders specifications when they
apply for help in getting ma
terialS.
II II were found that the builder
planned to sell the house at a
price out of line with cost, his
application fol materials prior
ny would be denied.
In cases aof assistance granted,
there also would be a later check
to determine whether the house
was sold at a price reasonably
close to that specified before con-
StrJction.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Mother Denies
Killing Infant

CHELSEA. Mass. Dec IS (UP)
Mrs. Rose Carlan, %. who
aroused the nations sympathy for
Is days with a growing lie that
her baby son was kidnapped.
pleaded innocent today to a muir
der charge filed after the child
was found dead in a china closet
in the Carlan flat.
Al the request OF Cornelius ].
Duggan. police prosecutor, Dis
-trict Judge John w. Mcleod or
dered the shaken mother held
without bail and directed that she
be transferred TO the Boston Psy-
chopathic Hospital for 10 days
observation. The case was COLI
tinued TO Dec "a.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
NJ Arthur Bars
Shinto Teaching

TOKYO, Dec. 16 tAP) - Gen.
Macarthur today ordered state
shintoism abolished in Japan 10
destroy the compulsory religious
ideology which his staff asserted
led the nation into war and de-
feat.
With the expressed aim of free
ing people from direct or indirect
compulsIon' 10 believe in manu-
featured "ohgion, the a HE d
directive laid down a program Of
broad revision calling tor:
Withdrawal Of all govern
ment control and support Of
state shinto-'the way Of the
gods.
. -PurGinC OF milltarlstic and
ultranationahStic iccology from
doctrine Of the cult which
breaches ancestor worship and
dcfes the emperor
= Removal ot shinto teach
ingS from schools
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
DIRECTIVES CONFUSE

The defense OF Short and KIM
mel Is built on Identical grounds
Washington failed TO convey
the certainty OF war TO the COM
manders in Hawaii when II be-
came known in the capital, but
instead sent contradictory direc-
tlves which could only blind and
confuse them.
These are the principal points
in Kimmel's story:
lin a memorandum to Chief
L Of Naval Operations Harold
r. Stark on May 26, 194l, Kim
mel wrote from Pearl Harbor
that III should be made a car
dinal principle that the COM
mander of The Pacific Fleet
(KimmeD should be imme-
diately informed OF all i'm
portant developments as they
occurred by the quickest means
possible -
- Communications X m m
- received from Washington,
even while the attacking Japa--
nese carrier force was on the
way. named only the Philip
pines. Thailand and Malaga as
the possible region OF hostile
act.
O-Kimmel was informed that
- Stark and Gen. Marshall
had sent a memorandum 10
President Roosevelt asking that
the japanese be kept from war
by diplomatic fineSse until the
United States had time TO pre-
pare.
d-kimmel was not informed
~ when Secretary of State
Hull violated the Stark.Mar-
shall advice on Nov. 26, 194l,
by dispatching a note to Tokyo
which Washing ten military men
considered an ultimatum.
S-Kimmel was not told that
- an airplane carrier force
had detached itself from known
japanese fleet units and had
escaped American naval intel
ligence observation by estab-
fishing radio silence.
c-The navy board of inquiry
u has returned secret find
ings which contradict its pub
lie reports and place almost the
entire blame on Washington
SuperlorS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Wayward Colt Finds Friend
In sympathetic Policeman

The colt remained outside, with
his muzzle against window while
Caporosso gulped his hot coffee.
There's no use calling "A scout
car" unused the officer. II know
what they'll think II I tell them
a horse is following me around"
The counterman suggested they
put the colt in a dog pen back Of
the place. So they did.
Unless the owner turns up in
the next two years, il looks AS
though the mounted division viii
have a new recruit.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Foes Of Greek Govt
Plan Demonstrations

ATHENS, Dec. Is (AP)-The
Communist party and the leftist
EAM arc reported planning simul-
taneous mass meetings and DEM
onstrations against the govern
ment of Premier Sophoulis
tomorrow in Athens and the
provinces.
Sophoulis reported that meas
ures had been taken TO maintain
order and that police had been
standing by since 9 a. m. today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
LITTLE HOPE SEEN

There appeared 10 be little hope
of settlement in the GM strike As
both company and union nego-
tistors prepared 10 90 10 Wash
lngton Wednesday for the first
meeting with President Truman S
fact-fnding committee.
When General Motors and the
CAW-CIO sit down at the con-
ference table in Washington, c, L.
Wilson, GM president, and p. J.
Thomas, UAW.CIO president, will
meet for the first time since the
strike was called on Nov 81.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Kinnme| Defense
Story Revealed
BY RAY RICHARDS
Detroit Time, washinrton Bureas

WASHINGTON. Dec. 15-The
Pearl Harbor story which Adm.
Kimmel is scheduled to tell the
congressional hearing was re-
vealed for the first time today.
had been suppressed for four
years on one administration pre-
test or another while Kimmel and
Gen. Short shouldered the blame
for the disaster.
II was found in statements by
Kimmel scattered through volu-
minous secret transcripts Of army
and navy boards of inquiry, and
in confidential statements taken
from Kimmel this year by spe-
cial investigator for Navy Secre-
taTy ForreStal.
Short is expected to tell essen
tally the same story at the con-
gressional hearings
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Navy Too shrewd for Army
Own Pearl Quiz
Upsets Generals
BY JOHN I. FLYNN

Written Especial, for IN, Hearst Nssspapsp
WASHINGTON. Dec. l5-With
the exception of Adm. Richard
son, the navy had not yet been
heard from before the Pearl Har-
Dor inquisitors until the navy de-
partment, operating from the out
side. pulled a fast one on the
press and public,
The navy civilians. like their
army colleagues, are interested in
saving their own skins, no matter
how many generals and admirals
they have TO ruin And the gen.
erals, at least, have been helping
them do this very obediently.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Conquerors Home

NEW YORK. Dec. Is GNS)-
Members of the 36th Infantry
division, a Texas outfit which won
the war with occasional assist
ance from their allies, Russia,
Britain and the United States.
landed in New York today with
tales of f-how they captured Ger.
man Field Marshal von Runo.
Stedt
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Won Wieeand on Franco:
Spain Resisting
DeCaulle Pattern
BY KARL II. Won WIEGAND
Dean of American War Correspondents
wrIll.n I.pr,,,I, Ior H,.ra N,s,p.ptr,

ABOARD SPANISH MOTORSHIP MAGAL-
LANES AT LISBON PORTUGAL, Dec 15-Ihe
turn of events in Spain may be more dependent
upon external developments in Europe than upon
internal political and economic conditions within
Spain
France, citadel of the conservative middle
classes and the nation of the small savings, has
fallen under the influence and power of communism
and socialism under the maneuvering Of Gen.
Charles de Gaule.
That is sinister omen to the Spanish property
owning strata.
Diplomatic reports from Paris and more particularly
reports from banking industrial and commercial circles in
France received in Madrid hint strongly that the Com
munist Socialist confscatory natupazatonis government
in France chared in the assembly and approved by
De Gaue has opened the Of the French middle class
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Dr.. Sanders Heads
0piomeirist Society

Or. L. J. Sanders. Saturday was
the new president OF the Wayne
County Society Of Optometrists.
Othsr officers elected AT Friday
nights meeting In the Book k-Cadil-
lae were: DR.. Alex ParadzinSki,
first vice president; Or. f. c.
Siiverthorn. second vice president,
and Or. Sherman Harding, secrc.
taYy.treasurer
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Tokyo Police Seek
Right 10 Garry Arms

TOKYO. Dec. Is GNS)-
Tokyo's current crime wave o.
hCially was brought 10 the A.
tention Of Gen Macarthur today
when the japanese police asked
permission 10 carry pistols and
tear gas.
p Peliee -reHtrnded tfrat they
needed arms 10 control ganEs
which have been blamed for more
than 50 murders since Japan
surrender
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Ship Captain Slain,
5 Of Crew Arrested

LYNBROOK, n. Y, Dec. IS
CAP Mrs. Jane Thompson Fifth
ian, wife of merchant marine Capt.
Austin Fithian. 30. said today she
had been informed her husband
had been shot and killed and that
five members of his crew were
being held in naval custody al
Msnus. Admiralty Islands, in con-
nection with the death
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
SUPPLIED BY WALSH

To make it stick better Sena-
tor Barkley said the reports had
been supplied through the cour-
tesy of Senator Walsh. anti
Roosevelt Democrat and head of
the Senate naval affairs COM
mittee.
Here is how il was worked.
Many months ago, Senator Walsh
had asked the navy 10 provide him
with digest of the testimony of
the naval court OF inquiry. He
suggested il be done by some Of.
ficer of unquestioned standing and
rank. Suddenly. on Friday, these
two bulky volumes popped into
the senator's office AS a courtesy,
he turned them over TO Senator
Barkley.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
PULLS SWIFT TRICK

One of their main objectives is
10 prove that no winds message
"a Jap secret weather forecast
predicting war with us and Brit
ain-was ever received by the
army or navy.
II was on this theme that the
navy pulled a swift trick. As a re-
suit newspapers all over the
country broke out with headlines
and stories styled winds message
never received.
Senator Barklcy gave TO the
press associations two bulky vol
umes, They purported TO be a
narrative statement of evidence
of the navy Pearl Harbor inves-
legations
AS the navy's testimony and
its top secret report had not been
made available yet. the newsmen
thought they had something hot,
Someone was at hand to point 10
the pages dealing with the winds
message. And there, sure enough,
was the proof that the message
never had been received.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Ohio Fugitive Ready
To Finish His Term

CHICAGO. Dec Is CUP) -
Lester Wallace today vas ready
10 90 back 10 Ohio 10 serve out his
prison sentence for stealing a calf.
He escaped in 1882 from the San
dusky, O., state farm
He came 10 Chicago and lived
a model life.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Children Entertained

More than 100 children of wsr1.
bers OF tho Wc>l Detroit Corr
-mGnity Club were entertained ~
a Christmas -parlA II the old -SlL--
enScn home IN Rouge Park SAT-
urday afternoon.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Hunt for Thief DELAYS
Unloading Of GI Ship

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Is tAP)
Release of approximately 1000
soldiers from the army transport
Yarmouth was held up for an
hour yesterday. while authorities
staged a futile search for S1S5
stolen from three civilian women
passengers.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
IGN Strikers
Ask British Aid

The UAW-CIO has asked the
British labor government to bring
pressure on the General Motors
Corp. in the strike for higher pay.
Pointing out that Britain's pres
ent government is heavy inves-
tor in GM stock. r. ]. Thomas.
president OF the UAW, Saturday
sent a message to Prime Minister
Clement Attlee asking for sup
port.
Thomas said he had been in
formed the British government
owned $4,000 shares of GM
common stock and $500 shares
OF Briggs Manufacturing Co.
common stock.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
80 Hrs. at Phone
Wife Shps Sleep WAITING
Australian Call

PASSAIC. y J., Dec Is (UP)-
Mrs. Dolly Walkowitz, waiting an
call from her husband IN
Brisbane. Australia. spent 30
hours at her telephone. eating all
her meals there and passing up
all sleep The three minute call
was finally completed.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Elected TO Export Bank

WASHlNGTON. Dec. IS tUP)
The Senate has approved the
nomination OF Lynn y. Stambaugh
Of North Dakota 20 the board of
directors OF the ESport.Import
Bank.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Jaw Cash Drops
Sl50,0O0 Month
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that a general Tightening up would
be necessary if the UAW-CIO was
to avoid bankruptcy.
He estimated that total assets
of the union now amount 10
.S4, 100000, of which S3,000,000 is
in local unien treasures.
$3.50 SPLIT
The proposed increase in dues,
Adde's explained, would be split
between the international union
and the local union on a $3.50
basis, Is cents going to the local
and 25 TO the international.
Under the unions constitution
the international receives 40 cents
out of each dues dollar and the
local union retains 60 cents
He said that the fact the union
had a no-strike pledge during the
war helped to build up strike
funds in local union treasures. In
addition, he said. virtually every
local was assessing its members
81 TO IS a month for the interna-
tional strike fund.
The audit of the books, which
was conducted by w. U. Ayling,
certified public accountant, was
for the period between June !,
1914, and May 81. l945.
TAKE S6.662,8l9
II showed that total income for
the year amounted 10 So 662 81?
a monthly average of $3.50. .239
Expenditures for the same period
totaled $6,53S,566 or a monthly
average of 1850
Largest expenditure was So
352, 289 for organizing and serV-
cling local unions. Cost Of office
help and other administrative eX-
penses was 81 ,663. 935.
Adde's said the international
union now had $40 employees. OF
this number $50 are organizers
! lreferred- -tn-h the membership ?
as "porkchopers9 and 100 office
workers.
In its heyday when il boasted
the largest membership OF any
union in the world, the interna-
tional employed as high as SOC
organizers. Adde's said.