The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-11

Maliskey, New Baltimore. won
his Purple Heart at Okinawa.
The other day someone slap
ped Earl Dutch" Pletier on G
the back and said: Hey. fell
Ter. why aren't you in the
army" Dutch" just said:
"Uncle Sa m didn't have
enough uniforms" =. He
didn't bother to explain he
just returned from four years
and three months service, with
a medical discharge.
CONGRATULATIONS - Pfc
Donald B. Paul on his 28th birth
Gay in Germany, and his fourth
wedding date Thursday :. Cpl
Kenneth Strassburg, who is %
in the Philippines Marshall
L. Brown, Jr.. USN, who marked
his 23rd birthday by keeping
'em flying in the Pacific :. .
Pvt. and Mrs. Fred Hackstock
on their first child, a son
Major and Mrs. Robert E. Daw-
son, AAF CORNER Jeanette
Riley on the birth of a daughter,
Donna Lee, at Clearwater, Fla
Little Shirley Ann Thur
man marked her third birthday
without her dad, Sgt. Werner
Thurman, in the Philippines . +.
and Ronald Mellish blew out
three candles without dads big
blow, for NJ. Sgt. William Mel
lish is busy in Burma with the
AAF.
Gov. Harry Kelly has prom
ised to auction a fancy-bred
heifer at William c. Schools
Washington farm Saturday for
benefit of the American Red
Cross. Last year Schools big
sale disposed of 100000 worth
of valuable stock.
WE SALUTE-Pfc. John Rit-
ter, % South Highland, cited for
great work in locating hidden
laps in the Philippines so artil-
lery could wipe them out &.
Pfc. George j. Miller, IS Mullet
street, BAR-man and scout, who
did some swell house-to-housc
work against the Japs in an in
fantry advance in Negros d.
s. Sgt. Jim Daner, 18th AAF in
the Philippines has another Air
Medal oak leaf after 33 combat
strikes. Robert j. Smith, 2l2
Euclid, a tank man, has the
Bronze Star most for great work
in rescuing wounded buddies at
Bastogne. S. Sgt. George Dan
iels, 81 Market street, was home
for his sisters wedding, with the
third oak leaf on his Air Medal
He's a tail-gunner on a BIZ out
of England S. Sgt. George
W. PARROT, % Englewood, home
on leave after 35 missions, has
an Air Medal with three clusters
and four battle stars Lit.
Harry Fuller. USNR, is still hos
pitalized after those burns and
injuries suffered on the high
seas a couple of years ago.
Remember Rev. Harold Hay
ward (Baptist of NJ cunt
Clemens. He's Capt. Hayward,
chaplain at Hammond Hos
pital, Modesto, Calf. Has two
sons, Richard and Frank in
the service, and he himself is
a veteran of the British
Army's MesOpOtamia forces of
World War l.
HONORABLE MENTION -
Sgt. Russell H. Allen. Ballard
road, is active with the AAF
Bits in England Earl Fl.
Leibzeit, USN, is home after 20
months Pacific duty En-
sign Frank Hufstedler, USN Air
Corps, is now in Brazil, and his
brother. Bill is with the navy in
the Pacific :. Lit. John Ullrich
is off again on Pacific sea duty
l.. Sgt. Frederick Fox, Ormsoy
street, is on Okinawa with the
Marines Sgt. Frederick Sahr.
overseas Is months, is in the
Philippines. Lit. Vincent r.
Forton, New Baltimore won
Bronze Star in the Pr. .S.Sgt.
Edgar r. Leach, AAF, son of
Mrs. Doak Geren, Is home from
Italy after three years in that
area. Marine Cpl. Samuel
Y. Barbakoff (MCHS) is at Cor
pus Christi awaiting orders
Herbert Rondo, NM &c met
his brother Sgt. Nelson, AAF, in
England, and also Nelson's Eng
lish wife Joe Rondo, F &c is
home at the Herb Rondo's after
II months service on several