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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25
Drinking-(ard
Controversy
Flares Anew
Liquor Commission
Tries to Curb
Service to Minors

Macomb County drinking es-
Establishments today found them
selves between the devil and the
deep blue sea, in respect to orders
of the Liquor Control Commits
sion that licensees abide by the
1913 law requiring the carrying
and displaying of Liquor Pur-
chase Identification cards by
drink purchasers between the
ages of 81 and Is.
Applicants desiring to obtain
the cards, at 81 each, are in
formed at the County Clerks Of
flee that 1--WE are not issuing
any"
Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held,
who in January, 1914, issued an
opinion declaring the Liquor
Purchase Identification law UNI
constitutional, discrimina y
and smacking of class legislation,
today admitted that he has adj
vised Clerk Brown that his opin-
ion still stands.
In fact, to "accentuate the
positive" Held added:
you can also say that !
think it's nonsensical to pay 81
to get a nonsensical card which
merely records the fact-unno-
torized, by the way-that YOU
have said you're FL years old;
whereas a certified birth certifi-
cate, or a Circuit Court order
establishing your age, cannot be
accepted by a liquor licensee.'
The "devil and the deep blue
sea" problem without identify
ing either authority as the
"devir') arises with licensees
See CARDS-Page 2
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More Persons Eligible
for FLIGHTS 10 Europe

NEW YORK, May 25-(P)-
Pan American World Anyways
said today it was checking a
waiting list" of $500 names to
determine whether applicants
now are eligible for clipper trips
TO Europe.
Two types of passage have
recently become available" the
company said, national inter-
ests' trips by businessmen and a
limited number of non-priority
seats on the trips TO Lisbon,
Portugal"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25
Di(iaior's
Custer Sought
y(on,nlittee
Ask 'Breok'
with Madrid ond
LovoI's Return
By TOM OCHILTREE
Associated Press staff Writer

The French Foreign Affairs
Committee recommended today
that Gen. De Gaulle's govern
ment break relations with Spain
and that France propose to other
Allied governments that means
be taken to force the resignation
of Generallissimo Franc iSco
Franco.
The recommendation of the
committee, composed of men,
bers of the French assembly,
termed the Spanish regime a
menace to world democracy.
Among points of difference be-
tween Paris and Madrid has
been SPANS delay in turning
over to France Pierre Laval,
former chief of the Vichy gov
eminent.
Gen. Karl Oberg, form e r
chief of all German SIS and pO-
lice activities in occ upie d
France, was arrested by Ameri-
can troops in the area of Kitz-
busel, Germany.
GRIM REPUTATION
Known to the French as "the
butcher of Paris" Oberg was
captured at a hideout atop a
mountain which took three
hours to climb.
Further light was thrown on
the German plan for conquest
with the transcribing of steno-
graphic notes the Nazis tried un-
successfully to destroy. The
notes, brought to Berchtesgaden
from Berlin, openly belied the
Nazis' excuse that they had
started the war because of
Polish provocations.
The most spectacular find was
Adolf Hitler's private report to
German division commanders
made just before the Ardennes
offensive of Dec. Is.
Hitler said he planned the
crushing of Czechoslovakia and
Poland. He also declared that
Germany was "superlatively
prepared" for war and that psy-
chologically she could not af-
ford to waste" the Nazi-
schooled fanaticism among the
See EUROPE-Page 2
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percentages Of dwellings have
no running water.
In spite of natural gasoline ex-
pansion, rural Identification,
ETC.. in Macomb County, As per
cent of all urban homes and 1872
per cent in the rural area are
still cooking with wood.
The statistics of this import
ant metropolitan area county
were provided to the Mount
Clemens Board Of Commerce by
the Division of Small Business.
us. Department Of Commerce.
1943 FIGURES
Most important figure Is the
estimate Of population in 1913,
See POST-WAR-Page 3
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picking machines up Cor in some
cases just knocking them down
and hiding them under conven-
lent bars and tables) ever since
Police Commissioner Oehmke
yesterday needed Mayor Albert
A. Wagner's week-old warning
that slot and pin ball machines
must be eliminated.
In sudden burst of activity
yesterday, following Wagner's
charge of the previous evening
that gambling is flourishing
within a stones throw of the po-
lice station" officers likewise
rounded up surprised numbers
racket solicitor as he went about
his accustomed duties on Ora
tiot avenue. The man, Earl
Touscany, As, of 100 Jones
street, paid a 500 fine, plus
costs. when arraigned Thursday
before Justice of the Peace
Frank E. Jeanette on a charge
of engaging in an illegal occu-
patton. He was likewise placed
on probation for six months.
Police Chief Arthur l. Rosso
said that Touscany had been ar
rested on a similar charge July
Z, 1910, and at that time was as
sessed $50 fine, plus costs.
To what extent Oehmke's
warning of yesterday that he
will breakdown on church or
See GAMBLING-Page 2
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MACOMB OFFERS POSTWAR BONANZA
Enormous Buying Boom Certain
Macomb County's 481 square

Macomb County's All square
miles of market, embracing a
civilian population of 1879, 195,
may have a Sl22, 100000 annual
buying income at present, ac-
cording to Uncle Sans latest
data, but its tremendous post
war potentialities for business
expansion are best illustrated
by frank, official statistics of
the things Macomb County peo-
pie lack.
In somewhat primitive fash
ion, As per cent of the urban
homes and 70.6 per cent of farm
homes have no interior toilets.
On the basis of four persons to
the family, this would indicate
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25
LESS CANDY, PASTRY?
Drastic Sugar Slash

the amount originally set aside.
Chairman Anderson (D-N.M.)
of the House Food Committee
said that in April alone, when
use was supposed to be 10000
tons under the corresponding
month in 1914, consumption
actually ran $4,000 tons ahead
of last year. This resulted in 4
deficit of more than 100000
tons.
The withdrawal from sugar
stockpiles came about, Anderson
said, because OPA ration boards
issued allotments in excess of the
supply set aside for civilian con-
sumption.
The over-draft must be made
See SUGAR-Page )
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25
Connie Bennett
Seeks Divorce

LOS ANGELES, May 25-(P
- Alleging extre m e mental
cruelty, actress Constance Ben
nett has sued for a divorce from
her fourth husband, Gilbert Ro-
land.
The couple was married four
years ago and separated last
September. They have two child
rem.
Miss Benefits other husbands
were Chester Moorhead, the late
Phillip Plant and the Ma-quise
dc la Falaise de la Coudraye,
Gloria Swanson's third husband.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25
II. William Gasow
Back from Two lima

1t. William Gasow, son of
Mrs. Ellen Gasow and the late
William Gasow, of the South
River road, and a veteran of Ma
rine combat in several Pacific
engagements, is visiting h S
wife, the former Elizabeth
Reese, and MIR. and Mrs. AL
Gasow in Mount Clemens this
weekend.
1t. Gasow is recovering from
arm, hip and leg wounds suf-
fered on Two Jima and for which
he was invaiided out of the Pa
cific area after surviving two
weeks of the bitter fighting for
that ~ nd. He is being hospital
lied in Chicago. His brother.
Robert Gasow, USMC, is in the
Pacific.
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WASHINGTON, May 25-(R

WASHINGTON, May 25-(R
"A congressional food investi-
gator said today OPA is plan
ming a drastic curtailment of in
dustrial sugar which will cut
manufacturers to half their 1914
supply, or less.
The new reduction will be an
nounced for the third quarter Of
the year, effective July /, said
this law-maker who asked not to
be named.
Sugar is rationed to industrial
users = bakers, candy makers
and the like-in quarterly al
lotments.
The new cut became necessary
because civilian sugar consump-
ton early this year far exceeded
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25
Dr.. LeRiviere
Becomes
Navy Officer

DR.. Joseph LeRiviere of 1872
South Gratiot, will assume his
duties as assistant surgeon in the
Navy Monday at Great Lakes
Naval hospital. The young doc
tor who had his offices on the
seventh floor of the Monitor
Leader building has been COM
missioned a lieutenant Gunior
grade).
Enlisting in March, Lieut..
q. g. lie Riviere received his
orders on May IA and has been
spending a few weeks with his
parents in Burlington, VT.
Although Lieut.. lie Riviere was
previously in the Army Medical
Corps, he was given an honor
able discharge in July, 1912 and
has made repeated attempts to
get back into the service. His
demands were refused however
because of his essential occupa-
ton but with the return of two
doctors here he has been allowed
to enlist.
Lieut.. LeRiviere, whose wife
and two children live in Mount
Clemens, is graduate of Yer
mont University and informed at
the Providence Hospital in De-
troit.
He was given farewell parties
by DR.. and Mrs. H. j. Portenga,
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Swan, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Commins of Crosse
Pointe Woods and DR.. Austin
Heine, who gave him a stag par
ty.
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new 500 plane RAID STUNS TOKYO
How Destroyer Survived Six Jap Suicide Attack
Output
Program

DETROIT, May 25-(P-Am-
erica's automobile industry sped
plans today for its gradual re-
turn to car making, strictly a
low-gear proposition for the
time being.
After more than three years of
total effort in the war, the indus
try rsd the War Production
Boards authority to produce
100000 passenger cars this year.
The WPB granted the authori-
cation yesterday but stipulated
that the industry must find its
own materials in the free mar
ket' and that no materials pri-
ority would be given.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25
Sheriff and Bride
Return to City

Sheriff Harley Ensign We
back at his desk In the county
Jail building today following Z
three week honeymoon along ~
Atlantic seaboard. "
He Is the first Macomb eooh1v
sheriff to bring Z bride 10 49,
Clemens and viii mako HE ~ =
at 90 Jones street. Tha NsnGt -
normally occupied b. ~ sso
and his family On ~ $780,
floor Of the jail buildlpg WIN ~
remodeled to aceou1nodn1o ~
men prisoners ana nvuaflao, g
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25

Despite Grin,
Loss Of Men
Guns BIoxe
Defence of
Jop PIones
FLAGSHIP OFF OKINAWA,

FLAGSHIP OFF OKINAWA,
April 18 delayed by Censor
ship - (Pl - The gallant little
destroyer Laffey took everything
the japanese could throw at her
from the air for two hours and
survived.
Six suicide planes hit her
the engines of three were recov-
cred on her fantail. Two bombs
hit her and two more scored
damaging near misses.
Thirty one members of the
Laffey'S crew were killed and so
others wounded.
Whit her guns going until the
last enemy plane disappeared,
the Laffey shot down at least
eight japanese planes and saw
one friendly plane crash nearby
after chasing another Japanese
CIdlt lIltO lle Scd.
NEVER ABANDON SHIP
"Ill neve. abandon ship as
long as gun will fire." the
Laffey' skipper, Comdr. Fred
erick Julian Becton, of Hot
Springs, Ark, declared. He kept
his promise.
The destroyer's communica-
tons officer, 1t. Frank Manson,
"a, Tahlequah, Okla, related the
epic battle of two days ago at
news conference today.
THE first Japanese plane ia
ken under fire dropped bomb
which missed and shortly after
ward was shot down by another
ship" Manson related.
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that $500 city jewellers and 49,
$50 rural residents get along
without the frills of indoor
plumbing.
JUST SATURDAY
Also handicapped are dwell
ers in 493 per cent of the urban
homes and 70.8 Of the rural resi-
dences, who can't do any bath
tub singing on Friday and Sat-
urday nights. They have no
tubs, the government statistics
show.
Pump handles on wells at
tached % 33 per cent of urban
homes and 58.6 farm homes beat
a merry tune all day long. These
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25
How HilrlnlIer
Cheated Moose
Gestopo Chieftoin
Commits Suicide

BRITISH SECOND ARMY
HEADQUARTERS. May Is -
(F - Second Army officials
still are undecided today wheth-
err to hold funeral for Gestapo
Chief Heinrich Himmler in the
presence of German military
and civilian bigwigs who are In
Allied hands.
Thiryt-six hours after the sui.
eide death by poison of the IS
chief his body still lay on the
bare floor of a Lueneburg villa.
1t will be placed in a coffin to.
day.
1t was generally suspected
that the former Nazi foreign
minister, Joachim Won Ribben-
trop. the only high Nazi not yet
captured or reported dead, was
somewhere in the British sector
in northwest Germany. How
ever, considering the numbers OF
refugees on the move through
out the countryside, consider
able time could elapse before his
capture. VI
HIDDEN IN MOUTH
Himmler took his life Wednes-
day night by crushing a tiny
glass vial of poison between his
teeth as British medical of.
ficer was examining him.
He was wearing only q pair
OF socks. His clothing had been
stripped from him in a previous
examination.
Number one on the list Of
See H1MMLER-Page 3
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Mechanical Bandits
Do Swift Fddeouf

Mechanical gambling devices have disappeared in Mount
Clemens between days
There aren't reports the basle of concations but
somehow, got around distributors been
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-25

II your friends In Jail and needs
Bail, phone l577, John Mitchell.
ADV.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Little Army Private,
Girl, 18, Garry Off
Ski Meet Crowns
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, April %
Two pint-sized Denverites today are
proof you don't have to be all muscle
and 6 feet tall to be a champion
skier.
The pair. Pfc. Barney Mclean and
Barbara Kidder, neither of them
more than 5 feet six, took top honors
in the three-day Alta ski meet which
ended yesterday and which attracted
more than a score of experts from
throughout North America.
1t was Barney's second win. He
took the meet in 1912. The Army
private was here on leave from the
Army Air Force Arctic Training
Command, Alaskan division, at Ed
monton. Canada, where he instructs
flyers in how to save themselves
when downed in the snowy wastes.
With first in the giant slalom,
second in the downhill and third
in the tight shalom, Barney had an
aggregate score of 294.10.
Pierre Jalbert, Canadian champion
who was accompanied to the Alta
Basin in the Wasatch Mountains by
Fritz Loosli, foremost exponent of
parallel skiing and head coach at
Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, wound
up in third place with a tie for
second in the giant slalom and
fourths in the other events. His
score was 287.40.
The comely 18-year-old Miss Kid
der, University of Denver coed,
tipped through the gates of the
grand slalom for a first and the
tight slalom for second, but tied for
eighth in the downhill run. Her
flrst-place total was 1856 48. 1t was
her first national championship.
Rhoda and Rhona Wurtele, Can
ada's top skiing and swimming
stars from Westmont, Quebec, were
right behind Miss Kidder in the
meet tally with 28514 and 1884,
respectively. In fourth place was
Paula Kann of North Conway,
N. H., with 268.31.
Fourth in the mems division went
to Charles Blum of the New York
Norseman Ski Club, f1rst-place win
ner in the downhill run.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Battered Leafs Whip
Wings for Cup and
Gain Poi Of Cash
By the Associated Press.


DETROIT. April ga tired but
happy Toronto Maple Leaf hockey
club, which finished third in the reg
ular National Hockey League race
only to wade through to its third
Stanley Cup playoff championship
in IA years by beating the Detroit
Red Wings, headed back for Toronto
today with the coveted trophy, and
healthy pot of cash.
The Leafs, badly beaten physically
but hanging to dogged determina-
ton to capture the big prize, did it
the hard way last night by grabbing
the seventh and deciding game of
the playof finals, to /, before A.
800 fanS-largest crowd ever to wit
ness hockey game in Detroit S
Olympia.
Six Of the Toronto players had
been under medical care for the
last week-Ted Kennedy with a
shoulder injury, Reg Hamilton with
strained muscle, Gus Bodnar with
a bad knee, Dave Schriner with a
charley horse. Mel Hill with a leg
injury and Nick Metz with a bad
leg that kept him out of four games
of the finals.
But the Leafs didn't have the ap-
pearance of "cripples" in winning
the payof game.
They jumped out front after less
than 6 minutes of play on Hills
eight-foot rebounder and protected
the one-goal margin with rare care
for more than 40 minutes.
When Murray Armstrong, De-
troit center pumped the tying goal
into an unguarded net at 8:l8 of
the final period after Frank Nc
Cool had dived out to save on Bill
Hollett, the Leafs came right back
to get in front again-and stay
there.
Less than minutes after De-
trolt had tied it up Toronto united
it on Walter Pratt's 3-foot rebound
while the Red Wings had sgd Howe
in the penalty box for high stick
ing.
Detroit had another chance for
2 minutes from the finish when
the Leafs lost defenseman Elwyn
Morris for hooking Howe, but the
Leaf defense frightened and it was
all over.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Bunnockburn Teens as Novy
Takes Over; Burroge to Serve

Andy Black, s4-12-72: Ed Warner,
94-22-72; Mrs. Ruth Mothers
head. 97-25-72, and ]. Walker,
94-22-72.
Other scores: Second. Dick Moth.
ershead, 80-4-76, and Fritz VIII
liams, S4-8-76; third, A. Scott,
ll0-35-75; Bill Mullins, Sill
rs; Ray Lawrenson, 95-20-75: A.P.
Sasscer. 98-23-75, and l.. A. Ward,
92-l7-75.
At Kenwood. Roger Peacock, In
dian Spring star, and DIR. Joseph
Kendrick, club champ, defeated
Kenwood Pro George Diffenbaugh
and Don Dudley. up in an in
formal match. Peacock was top
man with a neat "a.
A womens blind bogey at Prince
Georges found Joan Langridge the
winner with 110-l5195. Edna Kin
idler was second with 115-25-e0.
In the mems brackets, Sergt. J. v.
Morgan, 87-l5-72; Hyman Gold
stein, 88-16-E2, and Sam Mar
kowitz, 90-18-72, tied for the
money.
A Manor blind bogey wound up
with P. M. Gnagi. 83-8-75. and j.
P. Spalding, 83-S-75, splitting the
cash. Tied for second place were:
j. r. Meyer, 87-6j81; H. G. Pitt,
81-0-81: w. H. Peterson, S5-4-
81; M. NJ. Sloan, 101-20-S1, and
H. A. Strong, 101-20-81.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Sweeney Is Underdoe
For First Time in
F acing Manfredo

Local railbirds never thought they
would see the day when youne
Frank Sweeney went into a fight or
the short end of the betting odds
but it probably will happen to-
morrow night in Turner's Arena
when Sweeney takes on Nick Man.
fredo In one Of three top eight
FOUNDERS.
In the process OF his extensive
build-up. Sweeney has gone to the
post at prohibitive wagering prices
In fact, when he first fought Man.
fredo, the price was to l on the
18-year-old Southeast slugger. And
gamblers hair turned gray under
the ring lights as Manfredo very
nearly scored at knockout and the
best Frank could do was to take a
decision over the firing Baltimorean
Best price the bettor could finc
today in local books was to 5 or
Manfredo. Elsewhere, odds as high
as 9 to 5 were quoted on Nick, while
only one source mentioned ever
money. A quotation of 2 to l thai
Sweeney wouldn't score a KO alst
was offered.
The middleweight bout shares at.
tention with two other eights in
which Billy Banks goes in agains
Billy Morris in a lightweight due
and Frankie Wills meets Al johnson
in welterweight number.
Wills, who at one time claimed
the District championship in his
weight class, has made some rash
statements, but the widest was
uttered today as he wound up train.
ing for the johnson test. Wills says
he wants a shot at Rocky Graziano
a bout slightly on the suicidal side
for Frankie against a Graziano who
now is taking on middleweights.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Mats Unable to Build Up Punch,
Fortunate to Get 500 Break

, .374 reputation he built with the
Brewers. Binks is clouting at 1885,
pace. But nobody else is near him
Maybe the long batting drill given
the Mats today will be of help as
they resume activities tomorrow
Then a three-game series with Bos-
tons Red Sox will get under way
at Griffith Stadium The Boston
band has yet to break into the win
column. Perhaps they are more in
the Mats class.
Mats Strike New Low.
Washington walloping-if it may
be called handicapped to a new
low in the three-set with New Yorks
Yankees just ended. In it, the Mats
smacked the ball for only 1872. A
mere dozen hits sprang from their
bats in the three games and a new
low was struck yesterday as they
took a 5-to-3 beating while garner
ing only three hits.
1t was a poor spectacle the Mats
provided for the 1864 attending the
first Sunday engagement of the sea-
son here. They couldn't do any,
thing worth while against Hank
Borowy, big right-hander, nor could
they handle the ball properly in
pinches. As result. four of the
five runs made by the Yankees were
unearned. Neither of the pair reg
lstered by the Mats was earned, how
ever.
Dutch Leonard, Marino Pieretti
and Mickey Haefner did the pitch
ing against the Yanks, with Leonard
giving up 10 hits and all the runs
in his six innings and Pieretti yield
ing a wasted triple after two were
out in the eighth, his second and
last round on the hill. Leonard did
pretty well except when he had two
out in an inning. Eight of the hits
off him were made under such con-
ditions.
Game Lost at Outset.
The game was lost by the Mats
in the opening round after the
usually reliable Joe Kuhel picked
up roller from Russ Derry and
threw wildly over the head OF
Leonard. covering first. Two were
out, but that was all the opening
the Yankees needed.
Johnny Lindell singled, Nick Et-
tens double sent over two runs
then single by Joe Buzas sent in
another.
Again in the fifth. two were gone
when Lindell doubled. After ar
intentional pass to Etten, a one
baser by Buzas scored Lindell ano
Etten counted when Harlond Cliff,
let Don Savage's drive go through
for an error.
Savage blazed the way to the two
Nat runs in the sixth when with one
out he threw wildly after picking
up George Cases bunt. George
Myatt doubled Case to the plate
then single by Binks put over the
games last run.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
BY JOHN b. KELLER

With week of the season be-
hind them, the Mats are showing a
500 mark-and the way they
haven't been hitting that's a good
break
Skipper Os Bluege's charges
looked none too good at bat in their
string of exhibitions, but never so
bad as they have since the season
got under way. They went out
swinging in their opening game in
Philadelphia to get IS hits off five
of the Athletics pitchers, but they
promptly topped in the next five
encounters.
AS result, they are showing an
average of only .213 for their six
games. But for George Binks, the
portside puncher bought from Mil
waukee late last season, the Mats
would have no batting average at
all, it appears Hitting beyond that