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

marching nome, 100. .
Then our happiness will be
complete.
Released from German POW
camps were 1t. Col. Melvin Nc
Nickle, twin brother of Col.
Marvin, now of Washington, D.
c. and his camp mates. 1t. War
rem Tryloff and T. Sgt. Guy L.
IIGabby) Brown; 1t. Harvey J.
Kohler; 1t. Adolph Kroner; S.
Sgt. Gordon M. Slocum; 1t.
Francis A. Hellner; Cpl. Lorne
Martell, and Pies Robert Peters
and Ira E. Heath, all of Mount
Clemens, and Pfc. Wayne Teller,
of Roseville.
They haven't told their tales
of hardship yet, but our kid
brother, Flight Sgt. John Arms
by, RCAF, told us enough in his
first letter after three years and
eight months of Nazi treatment.
Navigator on a Halifax bomb
err, he was shot down over Ham,
burg. When the Allies pressed
forward to East Prussia, he and
his chums started forced march
of 400 miles towards Bremen in
the pre- Christmas icy cold
without footwear or food. They
lived on frozen potatoes stolen
from the fields, and were for
hidden the Red Cross parcels
which could have been made
available. Writing from an
English hospital now he
doesn't say much about soft
peace for Germany
Thomas Hanley, W.T.. nc,
native of Warren and long a
resident of Armada, won't
forget an episode in his As
months service with the U. S.
Navy. He was one of the
salvage party that braved 1870
degrees of heat, escaping
steam. poisonous fumes and
exploding ammunition to
descend deep into the bowels
Of the battered aircraft car
rier Franklin and start her
engines turning. for the
most famous salvage job in
history. 80 miles from
the coastline Of Japan.
Macomb County's 48l square
miles and population of 1879, 195,
with an annual buying income
of 1922, 100000 will have
lots to do with its money after
the war. A government survey
shows that IS per cent of the ur-
ban homes and 70.6 per cent of
farm homes are without the
luxury of indoor toilets or
about $4,000 people getting
along without the frills of in
door plumbing. And the figures
for bath tubs, running water and
gas and electric cooking are just
as impressive. Lots of sales
manship and installation work
in the offing for you fellows.
The Recreation Department
Fairgrounds will open June
Is, at Grant, Griffith, Wilson,
Donaldson, Dickinson and
Lincoln with 4 we'll
experienced staff, including
10 Of the former staff of IA.
The Municipal Beach
opening is delayed, pending
repairs of wintertime damage
caused by high water.
Mount Clemens High School
has won the highest rating in
the North Central schools
area, which embraces 20
states and 3,033 schools, &C
cording to your old friend,
Principal Monte McFarlane.
DR.. Charlie Rivard, st. Clair
Shores, with the medics in
Italy for two years, is now
Major c. l.. Rivard and
in doing so has fulfilled the
wish of his deceased mother,
who wanted Charlie to reach
his majority, just as did his
Observation-Disclosures, Ma
jor Jacques Campau, after the
War of 1912.
AROUND THE COUNTY -
An oil explosion in their home
near Pontiac wiped out Mr.. and
Mrs. James Hunt and their three
children (the entire family for
merly residents of Washington,
Mich. Three Shores kid
dies, William Geatches, 6; Bar.
bara Geatches, 4, and Edward
Kravitz, 5. were seriously burn
ed in blast after they played
with bottles found outside a
gunsmiths shop. The containers
held explosive acids. Some
200, workers are still idle at
New Haven Foundry after a
weeks dispute over q bonus for
iron pourers. East Detroit
crs are eying q proposed $780,
900 civic recreation center.
Clinton Township has set up
a volunteer fire-fightinR organi-
cation, well-equipped with new
equipment. War Bond
sales. we're sorry 10 report. are