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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-21

are receiving congratulations on
daughter, Nancy Elizabeth,
born at Harper hospital the paN
week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-21

+ Mrs. Harry Spiekhout was
hostess to the pinochle club at
her home Tuesday evening.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Strauch
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-21

Lieut.. and Mrs. Clarence Bal
LANCER and daughter of Kansas
City visited at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. William Heinemann
Jr. Sunday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-21

Mrs. Lester Ostler of Detroit
spent Tuesday in New Balti-
more.
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Word was received the past
week that Pvt. John Pankrants,
who was a prisoner of war since
December is now on his way
home.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Fuerst
we're hosts on Fathers Day to
dr. and Mrs. John FuerSt of
Detroit and Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Heinemann.
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S 1/c Charles Miller Of Great
Lakes spent a 72-hour leave at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Miller.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
lid Floyed by U. S. Stote
Water Treaty Witnesses

WASHINGTON, Jan. q. CUP> =
The senate foreign relations COM
mite concluded testimony of state
department witnesses and other
proponents of the U. S.-Mexican
water treaty this week and pre-
pared to hear opposition witnesses
from California Monday.
First witness Monday will be Sen.
Hiram Johnson, (Rl, California,
1who says all previous witnesses
have testified sin favor of Mexico" +"
He will be followed by Sen.
Sheridan Downey, Cd, California,
Gov. Earl Warren, State Attorney
General Robert Kenny and repres-
entatives of Los Angeles, San Diego,
and the Imperial, Palo Verde and
Coachella Valley irrigation districts.
COMMENDS ARIZONA
Charles A. Carson, last witness
to appear for treaty proponents
yesterday, said that the Colorado
River commission of Arizona and
Gov. Sidney P. Osborn are in favor
of the treaty because it puts an
"all-time limit" on the amount of
water to be allocated to Mexico an
nually from the Colorado river.
He charged that the Imperial r.
rigation district of California alone
of all American interests would
benefit if the senate failed to ratify
the treaty.
He maintained that the corpora
ton, through q Mexican subsidiary,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
Navy Recommends
Braw|ey Eastside
As 0ut.of.bounds

Navy inspectors Saturday recon-
mended that eating establishments
in the eastside district of Brawley
be declared out of bounds for men
and women in uniform.
Inspectors worked in Brawley this
week, checking over sanitation fac
ilities, ice boxes, and other equip
ment in Brawley cafes and hotels
The recommendations of the in
spectors must be submitted to elev-
enth naval district officers. The
final decision will come from head
quarters of the district.
This survey is part of county
wide inspection of eating establish
ments, an inspection during which
several eating places in Ell Centre
were declared out of bounds until
they cleaned up sufficiently to meet
requirements.
Civilians may patronize the places
if they wish but men and women in
uniform must eat elsewhere if the
final order comes through from
headquarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
Unemployed May
Get EarInarked
Surplus Money
New Legislation to
Pay Relief DOles
Tossed in Hopper

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan.
81 (UP)-New state unem-
ployment relief legislation
which would earmark all sur
plus state money after next
July for relief purposes was pre-
pared for introduction in the legis-
lature today as hundreds of bills
were being introduced in both
houses.
The relief legislation was pre-
pared as the lawmakers worked to-
ward a deaoline of 3 p. m. after
which they were to start a five
week recess which will be high
lighted by public hearings on state
health insurance proposals.
STATE SUPERVISED
The bills in the relief series would
set up machinery for paying "doles"
TO unemployed persons by the coun-
ties under strict supervision of the
state social welfare department.
An immediate appropriation of
$50.000,000 to the state relief fund
would be made by one bill by As
semblyman Gardiner johnson, (R),
Berkeley, and under another by
Assemblyman Albert c. Wollenberg,
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
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jap Resistance
Slows Americans

south of Leyte in the southern
Philippines)
GUNS RAKE FIELDS
Japanese artillery and mortar fire
turned the Clark fieldstrips tempo
rarily into a no-man's land and
American vanguards were pulled
back slightly while guns anG planes
worked over the enemy emplace-
ments in the hills to the west.
American medium tanks in con-
siderable numbers also were REIN
forcing the southern spearhead
pointed toward Manila. Recon-
naissance patrols had penetrated as
far south as Angeles, some 40 miles
northwest of Manila and four miles
south of the main Clark fielG air
center.
DELAYING ACTION
The japanese were not expected
to make more than a delaying stand
in the Clark field area. They were
believed attempting 10 gain time
to establish defenses farther to the
southeast, presumably at the San
Fernando river or at Calumpit, the
latter only 25 miles from Manila.
Troops of the 40th division comb
ing the hills west and northwest
of Clark Field already have cap
tured a number of Japanese guns
and machine-gun nests by-passed
in the rapid advance south Of the
Bamban river.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
Political Boss
:Pendergost Dies

'em and we vote EN-" He succeed
ed to the first ward leadership when
his brother, James, died and extend
&C his control over the entire city
and sometimes over the state.
Short, heavy bodied and paunchy,
Pendergast was the picture of the
typical political boss and made gov
ernors and senators at will. His
outstanding political protege is Vice
President Truman whom Pender-
CAST backed from 1922 when he ran
for judge in Jackson county, Mis-
souri,, until his candidacy for the
senate in 1886.
Pendergast's downfall came in
1889 when he was indicated for in
come tax evasion. He had received
$315, 900 from an insurance COM
pany which had defrauded policy
holders of 80 per cent of $9,500, Zoo
in impounded premiums, and ha6
not reported the amount in his in
come tax return.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
'wLB Chairman
Sees Collapse
IN Ward Ruling
Davis Claims Right of
Seizure Must Be Held
Or Plans Will Fail

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.
(UP) = Chairman William
H. Davis of the war labor
board said today that the
WLB will collapse unless the Chi
cago court decision denying the
Presidents right to seize Montgom-
cry Ward & Co. is reversed or un-
less congress makes WLB ORDERS
effective on everybody.
Davis issued a brief statement
on the action of federal court, which
held invalid the seizure of Ward
properties in seven cities for de-
fiance of WLB orders to grant
maintenance of union membership
and wage increases.
."If the decision is not reversed or
congress does not take appropriate
action to make the war labor boards
orders of settlement effective on
everybody, the whole plan of peace
full settlement of wartime labor
disputes will collapse" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28

Ward case which seemed certain
to be carried to the U S. supreme
court. U. S. District Attorney j.
Albert Vol, representing the gov
ernment at the reading of the deci-
sion, said Judge Sullivan's ruling
"unc oubtedly will be appealed"
Following brief recess, Judge
Sullivan granted stay of proceed
ings after the judgment, intended
TO maintain the status quo of the
army's occupation of the Ward
properties until after the govern
ment's plea is appealed.
The Judge oenied Woll's request
for a new trial, but in granting the
district attorneys request for stay,
ne said:
''The situation will not be dis
turbed. There is a possibility my
decision can be wrong"
Woll said the appeal would be
taken first to the circuit court of
appeals and then to supreme court
if necessary. F
Stuart Ball, attorney, for the COM
pany said we cannot physically
eject the army" He said, however.
he might appeal to the President
to orcer the army operators from
the plants.
The judge said he arrived at his
conclusion with considerable re-
luctance" since loyalty to ''our coun-
try and our fighting forces should
influence disputants in such labor
controversies" but he added:
IF the disputants are not willing
to obey the recommendations of the
War Labor Board, which are ad-
mittedly only advisory, then con-
gress alone is the only branch of
the government which can compel
them to do so. 1t is the Guty of
Continued on Page 6, Col. u
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BPS Range Over Tokyo
Four Hours, Hit Saigon

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. (UP) -
B-29 Superfortresses kindled fires
that ragged uncontrolled for at least
four hours in Tokyo business dis
tricts today and, 28OO miles to the
southwest, bombed the Saigon
Cholon area of French Indo-C China
for the first time.
Almost simultaneously with war
department announcements that the
B-29s had hit the main Japanese
island of Honshu and enemy-oc-
cupied Indo-China, Tokyo conceded
that the targets were the capital
itself and the Saigon -Cholon area.
ADMIT HUGE FIRES
A Japanese imperial headquarters
communique said 70 Superfortresses
dropped demolition and incendiary
bombs on Tokyo between and 3
PM. (Tokyo Time), causing fires
that were not brought under con-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 81.
(UP)-Thomas J. Pendergast, the
former boss of the Kansas City po-
litical machine who backed Vice
President Harry S. Truman in his
successful candidacy for the U. S.
senate in 1888, cied last night at
the age of 70.
Death came to the former boss
of the Kansas City wards just three
months before his five-year pro-
bationary period from federal
prison sentence for income tax
evasion would have ended.
A heart ailment, aggravated by
a combination of lesser ills, had
forced him to enter Mencrah hos
pital four days ago. He had been
in failing health for a month and
his weight had dropped from $50
pounds to $50. Services will be
Monday.
Pene ergast's motto was I'VE feed
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
100 Assemble
For Bureau Meet

WESTMCRLAND, Jan. 27.-A to-
tai of 100 Farm Bureau and home
department members from southern
California assembled in Westmor-
land Saturday for the official ses-
sions of region No. l.
Hottest discussions of the COM
modify meetings during the morn
ing took place in the livestock group
where % men wrestled with the
wartime restrictions, OPA ceilings
without floors, and government reg
ulations as to the price the military
may pay for beef.
Nothing definite was done about
the problem except arrange for
packing house and OPA officials to
meet at the next regional meeting
in March at Award in Riverside
county and see if that will help.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28

troll until dusk-some four hours
later
Damage was caused at several
places, the communique said, but
mo damage was sustained by i'm
portant industrial plants" Another
Tokyo broadcast said most of the
bombs fell in business districts.
SEVENTH RAID
The war department announce
ment said the Marianas- based B-20s
hit industrial targets" on Honshu.
It was the seventh raid of the war
on Tokyo and the first since Janu-
ary 8.
In the India-based attack on
French Indo-China, the Japanese
controlled radio at Saigon said,
some material damage was caused
in the twin cities of Saigon and
Cholon in the southern part of the
colony.
Twenty dead and 200 wounded
has been counted in Cholon alone,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
Coyotes Triple.
County Starts
Poison CAMPAIGN

Imperial county's coyote popula-
ton, which has tripled in the last
three years, will be thinned out dur
ing a countrywide poison campaign
started Saturday.
Albert A. Traub, supervisor in this
area for the federal bureau Of preda-
tory animal control. is working on
a contract his department holds
with the state bureau and Imperial
county.
"All residents of Imperial county
are asked to keep their dogs penned
or tied in the next two months
while we are using poison to get
rid of the coyotes which are taking
great numbers of chickens, sheep,
and turkeys" Traub said Saturday.
1.-The financial loss to growers has
been great and in these days of
meat shortages" he continued, I'VE
must protect the meat and poultry
supplies"
Control of predatory animals dur
ing the last three years has been
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
Roosevelt Acted
Without Power
In Army Order
Ruling Seen TO Have Far-Reaching
Effect on Labor. War-Powers Acts.
WLB Recommendations Only Advisory
- By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN -
United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, JAM 27. (UP)-Federal District Judge Phil
p L. Sullivan declared today that President Roosevelt
without authority to take possession of the plants and ac
tiles of Montgomery Ward and company
In ruling with far-reachng effect the chief
utves wartime powers and the Smith Connaly labor dis
pues act Judge Sullivan denied the governments petition
for inunctions restraining the company from interfering
with army operation of the 6 Ward plants in cities
The plants seized December % because the company
refused to comply with War Labor Board order.
The judge also denied the government declaratory
Judgment by which had sought to affirm its legal right
to take over the Ward properties.
The decision expected to be the last in the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
Wallace
Dissent
Mounts
Committee Refusal
RFC Divorcemen+,
Said Reputation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.
(UP)-Jubilant- senate con-
servatives estimated today
that they could reject the
nomination of Henry A. Wal
lace to be secretary of commerce by
3 to vote if it is impossible
promptly to separate government
lending authority from that depart
ment. Some of them believe they
can lick him under any Circumstance
es and will try to do SO.
Half dozen times in the history
of the republic has the senate re-
jected presidential nomination to
a cabinet post. But the senate COM
merce committee yesterday voted ID
to S. againit President Roosevelt s
nomination of Wallace to be COM
merce secretary. The committee
voted 15@to- 4 for the George bill to
separate from the department the
multi-bilion dollar lending agencies
which have been attached to it dur
ing the secretalyship CT Jesse H
Jones.
VOTES SIGNIFICANT
These votes add up to a signifi-
cant repudiation of Wallace and a
challenge to the left wing of the
New Deal-Democratic party to seek
an early showdown on fourth-term
Roosevelt policies. Conservative sen-
ate Democrats regard Wallace as
Sidney Hillman's man, the prospec-
tive 1948 presidential choice of the
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
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the broadcast, recorded by FEC,
said.
INDO- CHINA AREA
Though the Saigon radio did not
identify the bombers specifically as
B-29s, Saigon lies beyond the practi-
cal range of other land-based bomb
ers. The war department announce
ment of the attack said military
installations" were attacked in In
do China.
Saigon ranks with Hong Kong
as one of the two largest naval
bases on the China coast. Carrier
planes of Adm. William F. Halsey's
Third fleet sank Al Japanese ships
and damaged % others in attacks on
Saigon, Camranh Bay and Quin-
hon harbor, all In Indo-China,
January IL.
Today's raid on Indo- China was
the first by the goth bomber COM
mand under its new commander,
Brig. Gen. Roger M. .Ramey.
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II Nuziis
Fu Il
Back
Third Army Gains
Advances as Four
Armies Get Set

PARIS, Jan. 27. (UP) =
The American Third army
struck forward more than
three miles on a 20 mile front
today, spearing to the Ger
man border in the final mopup of
the Ardennes salient as Marshal
Karl Won Rundstect's forces fell
back along a broad stretch between
Holland and the Saar.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's forces
reached the Our river, the bound
ary between Luxembourg and Ger
many, four miles northwest of by
passed Clervaux in general close
in through the border area between
points seven miles south of st. With
and five miles north of Diekirch.
TO RESUME PUSH
Supreme headquarters reports and
front dispatches said the Germans
now were engaged in large scale
withdrawal before the combined
blows of the American Third, First,
and Ninth armies and the British
Second army, which were wheeling
into positions from which they could
resume the Allied offensive inter-
rupted on December Is by the Ger
man counterdrive.
The overall picture of the western
front was brighter than it had been
since the pre-Christmas onslaught
by the Germans. The initiative was
reported in Allied hancs everywhere,
including northern Alsace where a
threatening Nazi offensive against
the U. S. Seventh army had been
broken north of Strasbourg.
1t. Gen. William H. Simpson S
Continued on Page 6, Col. u
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p AMBlINe
NEpoRTER
A Bitter Lesson

I'm going up to Los Angeles and
will need scmc money, Dad" Hope
Moore said to her paternal parent,
Mayor P. L. Mooreef Ell Centro.
Take this $50 over to the bank
and put it in my checking account,
will your"
Mcole agreed to do the errand
with neatness and dispatch. He
trotted over to the bank, took out
Hopes derosit book, and handed
over The money. That night when
he reached hcme, he handed Hope
her deposit book.
WHY, Dad" she said, ''you put
that $50 gave you in my savings
account. told you to put it in my
checking account"
"Oh, WELL" said Moore, "just
transfer it from your savings ac-
count to your checking account"
mo, Dad" said Hope firmly, "trot
down to the bank and put $50 in my
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
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this country allocate 100000 acre
feet of fresh water to Mexico and
all the return flow of the river
(about 100000 acre feet of seepage
water.)
He maintained that return flow
might be regarded by Mexico as
all the water crossing the interna-
tional boundary-including the nat
ural flow.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28

The German high command ad-
mittec that the Red army had
smashed into Brandenburg province
and had reached the Cora river line
angling back within 78 miles Of Ber-
lin.
Marshal Stain issued an order
of the day addressed jointly to Mar
shall Konstantin X. RolOssovsky and
Gen. Ivan d. Cherniakhovsky an
nouncing that their armies had
crumpled the Notifications of SOUTH
eastern East Prussia in concerted
pushes from the east and south.
Troops of the second and third
White Russian fronts have COM
pleted the break-through of long,
term, deeply staggered, enemy de-
fesnses in the area of the Masurian
lakes, considered by the Germans
from the time OF the first World
war as an impregnable system OF
defenses," Stalin's orcer said.
NINE FORTS GRABBED
They captured Barten, Drengfurt,
Rasternburg, Rhein, Nikolaiken,
Rudszanny, Puppen, Babinten and
Theerwisch, a cluster of strategic
towns skirting the Masurian lakes
area on the west and north. They
lie 48 to IS miles southeast of Konis-
berg. s.t
A Berlin communique reporting
Russian gains from end to end of
the shifting eastern front indicated
that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
CONTINUED on Page 6, Col. ~
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as "a and 2B.
Leitch said he did not know how
many men in the "a and 2B classi-
fications would be neeced TO meet
the February draft call.
Earlier Leitch announced that
California's monthly draft quota
had been virtually doubled since
November and "all available men
will be required to fill" future
monthly quotas. He disclosed that
only about 1000 men Is aud 70 have
been continued on Industrial de-
ferments less than year ago,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
Men Under 80
To Fill Quotas

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 27. CUP)-
Ninety per cent OF CALIFORNIA; Feb
ruary draft quota must be filled
by men under 80 years of age. Col.
Kenneth Leitch, state draft direc-
tor, reiterated today.
Il have relayed to local draft
boards the instructions received
from Washington early in January
that the army and navy need men
under 80 to meet the February draft
call" Leitch said. I'VE have also
been instructed to consider calling
previously deferred men classifised
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. q. (UP)
= Stiffening japanese resistance
slowed the American drive on Ma
Mia barely 4c airline miles north
of the Philippines capital tocay as
field dispatches said the enemy had
started shelling the recaptured air
base at Clark field.
CA Tokyo broadcast recorded by
the FEC said Japanese submarines
had torpedoed and heavily damaged
two American transports and sea-
plane tender in the Mindanao sea
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
WEATHER FORECAST

Variable high cloudiness over
the week end but days will be
generally sunny. Slightly higher
daytime temperatures with maxi
mum around 10 degrees. Cool
nights with lowest temperatures
81 to 80 degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28

the Compania de Tierras Y Aguas
de La Baja California, has a con-
tract with the Mexican government
to deliver 100000 acre-feet a year
to Mexican Users. The treaty allo-
Gates only 100000 acre feet to
Mexico.
NO COMPROMISE
He said he did not favor a COM
promise proposal by Downey that
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
Three Armies
CrumPIinS Nozi
Defense Forts
Berlin Admits Soviet SteamroIler
FORCES Gains From End-+o-End Of
Shifting Eastern Front Along Reich

LONDON, Jan. 81. UP)-Two Russian armies crashed
through the deeply staggered defenss of the historic
Masran lakes East Prussia today and nine
major towns drive clearing the for quick cleanup
German troops trapped in the otterng province
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28
WEATHER

Maximum Friday &C, minimum Saturday SO; S am
Saturday Al, humidity 80; noon Saturday So, hu-
midity IL; pm. Friday 61 humidity So.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28

L. A. HAY--No. barley hay $36 "a $29; No. oat
hay, SIG a S37; u. S. No. l alfalfa ungraded, $29
q S31; u. S. No. alfalfa, green, g. leafy, $27
@ $29; No. 2 S24 a S25.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-28

(Total Cash. Checks and Drafts Sent
Through The Two Fl Centre Banks)