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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
Crap Tables
Go Begging
After RAID
Want a crap table?

Want a crap table?
Police Chief Harvey Cham
pine, of st. Clair Shores, has
two heavy, highly ornate To-
foot ones conveniently covered
with green felt that may, or
may not, recently have muffled
the sounds of clicking dice.
The Chief can't find any
claimants but he is still trying
This afternoon he plans to in
terview the owners of the Club
Mario, 1922 E. Jefferson ave.
nue., to see If they can shed any
light on how the gambling ap-
purtenances happened to find
their way into an upstairs room
of the club building.
However, the Chief made no
formal report Cat least to the
press) when he acquired the ia
bles Tuesday afternoon. 1t was
only as the result of prodding
that he happened to confirm
rumors concerning the strange.
ly timed raid" at $40 p. m
(the club does not open until
6 p. n.y.
1--WE didn't find any custo-
mers in the place. the Chief
explained, land in fact the care.
taker who was on duty didn't
know how the tables happened
TO be there, who owned them or
If they had been used for illegal
See TABLES-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
Deny New Trial
for Man Under
Life Sentence

A motion to set aside the life
sentence imposed on him by
Circuit Judge James E. Spier in
1912 was denied Forrest Wall,
Thursday. by Circuit Judge AL
ton II. Noe.
Wall, now in the Michigan
State Prison at Jackson, was
convicted of a morals offense
against a minor Warren town
ship boy in 1912 and sentenced
on the basis of a secondary in.
formation, filed at that time by
Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held, in
which. it was charged that Wall
had a record of three prior fel.
ony convictions.
In his action seeking a new
trial the prisoner had stated
that he was convicted as a nom
existent felony and that judg.
ment and sentence should be va
Gated.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

oner huts plus several Japanese
buildings for officers, enlisted
men and transient troops. Other
buildings contained tanks and
vehicles.
SURROUND STOCKADE
Mucci put his forces on either
side of the stockade TO blockade
the road during the action. He
deployed larger force of Rang
ers near the road farther south
and force of guerrillas farther
north.
With these in position the res
cue force crept from a river
thicket onto field making a
direct approach to. the prison
Just before 7 p. m. That was
the darkest hour of the night.
A platoon led by 1st 1t. John
F. Murphy of Springfield, Mass,
a former Notre Dame football
player, crawled up the road to
the southeast corner of the pris-
on. Some of Murphy's men got
within a few feet of the lookout
tower undecided.
First 1t. William j. O'Con-
nell. GA Isabella ST. Boston,
Mass, commanded squad COW
ering the road in front of the
prison and another which was
to open the gate.
Rangers under Capt. James c.
Fisher, (6738 Flairemore) Phil
adelphia: Capt. Robert w. Price,
(226 Maiden Lane) Seattle, and
lst 1t. Melville Schmidt, (2406
Joseph ST. New Orleans. COM
pleted enlightenment Of the first.
First 1t. John Dove Of Holly
wood, Calf, an Alamo scout.
See RESCUE-Page s
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
MobLeader,17
Gets Long Tern,
Youth Must
Serve $40 Yeors

VAN DYKE - State Police
roundup this week Of five youths
as members of one of the best
organized theft gangs in South
Macomb was merely the open
ing phase of an important case
Sergt. Stanley Carlson revealed
today, in announcing that an ad-
ditional half-dozen boys are now
being sought to complete the
case.
Two OF the first five arrested
were given sentences by Circuit
Judge Alton H.. Noe Thursday
Both are Detroiters.
Robert Walls, II, was sentenc-
ed to three TO 10 years in the
Ionia Reformatory. He was de-
scribed as the leader of the
gang.
Ralph Daily, II, was placed on
probation for two years.
In comforting sentence. Judge
Noe pointed out that Walls past
record had been bad; that he had
impeded police investigation OF
the cases, and showed poor CO.
operation in efforts to rehabili-
tate himself. The court told
Walls THAT with good behavior
his minimum 36-month sentence
can be reduced at Ionic to ~
months.
Daily, the court said. was q
fit subject for probation and he
urged the youth to cooperate
fully with State Police and the
Probation Department. Daily's
See SENTENCES-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
THEY WANT TO FIGHT JAPS AGAIN
Grim Memories GOad Bataan Survivors

how the japanese guards tried
to lure the Yanks to the fence
with offers Of candy and tobac.
CO. Inasmuch as the prisoners
we're not allowed within q GER
tain distance of the fence, to APP
proach it invited being shot or
whipped.
Tech. Sgt. Harold j. Glass,
Long Beach. Calf. said minor
attractions were punished by
crowding as many ~ 20 Of the
accused in q small cell where
they were forced to stand up for
IL hours. When night came.
they could squat down IL there
See BRUTALlTY-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
By FRED HAMPSON

AT SIXTH RANGER CAMP
NEAR CABANATUAN, Luzon,
Jan. 81 - (Delayed) -'(AP) -
Put 1t. Col. Henry Mucci's Sixth
Rangers with Rogers Rangers.
Put 'em with Jeb Stuart's cav
airy. Put 'em with Aliens Green
Mountain boys. After what hap
pened last night that is where
they belong.
They went 35 miles through
the Japanese lines. They cross
ed a road teeming with Japanese
traffic. They surrounded a pris-
on stockade that was alive with
guards. They did it in dead Sc
crecy. Not a man was spotted.
VIOLENT ATTACK
They struck like Thor's ham,
mer at 7 P. NJ. and at 1903 p. M.
they had killed every japanese
in the fearsome Cabanatuan pris-
on stockade. BY 7:05 P. M. they
had whisked the first lot of 513
prisoners, carrying a hundred
stretcher cases pickaback, across
the road onto field of re-
treat. Not many minutes later
the Rangers were as gone as
though they had never been
there.
This shadowy jab, timed
without a flaw and executed
without flicker of pause. paid
off incredibly. 1t liberated the
entire roster of prisoners, dis
organized the enemy beyond
possibility of pursuit, killed 70
japanese outside and probably
that many more inside the
building, and destroyed four
tanks.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
BY FRED HAMPSON

EVACUATION HOSPITAL,
LUZON. Philippines, Feb. 2 -
lP - They want their health
back. They want to see their
folks. Then they want TO come
back and fight the japanese.
Those are the prevailing sem
timents of the 486 Americans
and more than a score of Allied
prisoners who were rescued by
picked band of fighting men
Tuesday night from a stockade
near Cabanatuan.
They have bitter memories Of
capitulation at Bataan AMI
Corregidor. Many had 10 under
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
AZ Graduates
Gel Diplomas
MCHS Mid-Term
Ceremony Held

Forty-six Mount Clemens high
school graduates last night re-
ceived diplomas from the hands
of L. Wade Fast. superintendent
of the public school system. in
formal commencement exercises
held in the school auditorium.
The graduates were told the
Importance of discipline in the
building of an American tradi-
ton by the Rev. DR.. Herbert
Beecher Hudnut. of the Wood
ward Presbyterian church, De-
troit.
DIR. Hudnut. an ex artillery
officer of the First World War,
pointed out to the graduating
class that by discipline he was
not thinking in terms of forced
control of individuals but, rath-
err, of self-imposed restrictions.
There are" he said, certain
mandatory things that you must
calmly decide you cannot af-
ford to do and others that you
must do"
"No one" the commencement
speaker said" can just drift
through life getting by and ar
rive either at material or spir-
itual success. 1t is vital" he con-
tinued. "that you young people
who have thus far led sheltered
lives now begin to plan and
guard your own thoughts and
actions"
Enjoyment of life. however.
is likewise necessary" DR.. Hud-
nut said. "and the man or wom-
an who does not laugh and does
not enjoy the company of his or
her fellows is missing much of
the pleasures to which every hui
man being is entitled"
The speaker warned the grad
yates against fascist minded per
sons who, he, said, "are to be
found in every town and hamlet
of the nation"
See GRADUATION-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

or mixed gas is used. The order
was accompanied by an appeal
to householders, schools and in
situations to conserve gas.
Precipitated by prolonged cold
weather, the emergency action
affects Pennsylvania. Ohio, West
Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Ken
lucky and parts of Maryland and
Virginia, and Washington, D. c.,
as well as Michigan.
The ban applies to the use of
natural or mixed gas for cook
ing. heating or any other pur-
pose.
1t does not apply where strict
ly artificial gas is used. but for
bids the use of artificial gas
See GAS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
MUST BLOT OUT GERMAN ARMY
Only One Road to Peace

oners of war who had come
straight from battle.
stress the private nature of
my talk not because American
authorities would have objected
to anything they might have
heard had they remained with
me. On the contrary, my impress
sions jibed with those of army
authorities, with whom I COM
pared notes. But ! believed the
prisoners might talk more free
ly II I spoke to them In Ger
See PEACE-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
He Has Real Reason
to Praise Rescuers

AS the Associated Press tele-
type machines in this newspa-
per's OFFICES on Thursday start
ed pounding out line by line the
epic story Of the rescue of 486
ragged and emaeiated Bataan
heroes from Jap entombment,
one of their buddies stood by
with mixed emotions and eager
ly absorbed every word of the
account.
His face alternately glowed
and turned grim, as his spirits
rose in salute to the rescuers
and his comrades and dipped to
the depths of vengeance against
the Japs' inhumanities.
His only expressed regret
was:
HIS ONLY REGRET
II would have given every
thing to have been among those
raiders with a Tommy gun in
my hands
The very interested observer
was Tech. Sgt. John Stymelski,
81, one of the "old line 3lst
Infantry, U. S. Army, whose
thinned and weakened lines on
the beaches of Bataan honorably
surrendered to a dishonorable
foe in May 1912.
General Douglas MacArthur's
announcement of the rescue at
Cabantuan had special signifi-
canoe for Johnnie" He spent
two years and six months in
Jap concentration camps and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
Clinton Candidate
for J.p Wiihdraws

A change In the lineup, Of
primary election candidates in
Clinton Township was brought
about today with the withdraw.
al of William Green, Democrat,
from the justice of the peace
race.
Names of two candidates on
the township slate were incor.
rectly reported in Thursdays
paper. The correct names and
offices are: John A Schrade.
tRep), for clerk, and Lyester
Terry DEM t0r treasurer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
Error in Fire Ballot
Prompts New Shelby Vote

Because a technical error in
the wording of a ballot on which
the taxpayers Of Shelby town.
ship had previously voted in
favor of buying fire protection
equipment. petitions to put the
issue before the voters again at
the April 2 election are being
circulated today.
Albert G. Barke. chairman.
said petitions have been placed
in township stores for the con-
venience of voters.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

DARING PRECISION FEATURED RAID
Jap Guards Wiped Out in Three Minutes

march, They took only what
weapon sthey could carry. On
Jan. so they rendezvouzed with
Filipino guerrilla band which
was to assist them.
The road ran directly past the
prison camp which contained a
stockade circled with barbed
wire, guard towers and machine
guns. 1t also contained the pris-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

WASHINGTON, Feb. Up
Amusement places in the ten
Eastern and Central states in
Guiding Michigan were ordered
abruptly TO turn off all gas jets
at 4 p. M, Eastern War Time)
today il they use natural or mix
ed gas.
The ban, which does not apply
to purely artificial gas, will re-
main in effect until 4 p. m. Mon
day or until further notice, )"
Theaters, moving pi tur G
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

go the death march" from Ba-
taan. For nearly three years as
prisoners of the japanese. they
subsisted largely on rice diet
Yes, many would like to fight
again.
Their memories goad them.
CITE BRUTALITY
"The Japs always liked TO
slap us and sometimes they d
give us pretty stiff beating"
recalled Pvt. Travis w. Flowers,
Of Scranton, N. c., an aviation
engineer captured on Corregi-
dor.
Another prison er recalled
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

Fighting on the way back
ran the number of Japanese
dead up TO 523.)
Colonel Mucci, of Bridgeport,
Conn, and Denver, Colo, told
how they did it today.
Filipinos furnished the news
of and pinpointed the stockade.
Early Jan. % Rangers slipped
through the lines and began their
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
Cpl. Anthony lengyeI
Missing In Europe

Cpl. Anthony Lengyel of
Mount Clemens is listed ds
wounded in the official war de-
partment casualties released to-
day. He was serving in the Eur
opean theater of operations. His
wife. Mrs. Viola D. Lengyel.
lives at l01 Hubbard avenue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
BY DESMOND ARNSBY

Thus prayed 63-year-old
Utica mother hour after hour
yesterday as she thumbed her
well-worn Bible at the 9lst
Psalm, taking comfort under
His Wings
AS she read with pounding
heart, her ears were attuned to
radio broadcasts from 3 am,
until afternoon. They told of 5l3
men liberated from a Japanese
camp. No names had been re-
vealed.
So Mrs. Meta Rick, mother of
an American boy in Jap hands,
turned.to the solace of the Good
Book. while alone in her home
while her husband, Fred, was
away on business.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER
(Chief Of the Former Associated Press
Bureau IN Beriin)


Bureau IN Beriin)
WITH THE AM E RIG A N
ARMY ON THE WESTERN
FRONT, Feb. 2 - up - Peace
with Germany. according to all
present indications, can be has
tened only by the disintegration
of the German army and the
piece-meal surrender of progress
sively large units. Formal tender
of q peace offer by Germany
seems quite unlikely.
My conviction in this respect
was strengthened after l had an
opportunity today to talk pri-
yately to q whole cage" Of pris-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
Utica Mothers Prayers
Answered by US. Raiders

He that dIceUcH in the
secret place OF the Most High
SHAH abide IN the Shddo,0 Of
the Almighty.
II UiH say o. the LORD He is
mn refuge and mn fortress.
Ny God ~ Him WiH l trust
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
Russians Mass
orFinaI Lap
10 Berlin
Germon Resistance
Stiffens As Threot
to CopitoI Grows

Associated Press War Editor

Strong Russian armored van.
guards have attempted to storm
across the Oder in the Kustrin
area about 40 miles east Of Ber-
lin, German broadcast said
today, and other Nazi reports
indicated patrols already may
have crossed that last water bar
rier before the Reich capital.
Driving up TO or near the Oder
line on 90-mile front, the Rus
slams ran into a hard shell Of
German armor but pressed on
ward. BY enemy accounts they
were jabbing Nazi defenses from
80 to 40 miles from the capital,
where fires ragged after . pre-
dawn Allied air assault. The
German communique said the
Russians were checked every.
where except in East Prussia,
but clamped a news blackout on
the Kustrin sector.
In the West American and.
French troops cleared 80 miles
of the Rhine's left bank south Of
Strasbourg. and in the center Of
the front u. S. First and Third
Armies took a half dozen ham.
lets deeper inside the Siegfried
Line.
YANKS ADVANCE
French and Americans battled
into Colmar, important road
center 40 miles south Of Stras.
bourg and one Of the last biz
German pockets in France. The
Paris radio said the city Wa
captured. The Allies laid siego
to the Neufbrisach bridge across
the Rhine from positions . mile
away, threatening to lop OFF ono
Of the few remaining escape
routes for the pocketed Naxis.
Both German and Russian n.
ports indicated the critical phase
Of the great Soviet winter @.
fensive was near. Moscow CALI
ed for Nazi surrender TO avert
impending catastrophe" and
Berlin vowed "the bloodiest das-
appointment" for the Red Army
before the capital.
The Red Army now was IN
side Germany in Silesia. Bran.
denburg and Pomerania On q
375-mile front.
Marshal Zhukov, on the sec-
ond anniversary Of the day he
accepted German surrender at
Stalingrad, had come 1900
miles from that historic battle
arena to the Oder river, north.
west of Kustrin. Hitler's own
newspaper, Voelkischer Bso-
bachter, said Russian units had
crossed the Oder just east Of
Berlin. and Nazi propaganda
broadcast said Zhukov had
moved strong forces along the
Oder on both sides Of Frankfurt,
80 miles from the capital.
CRASH DEFENSES
Official Russian reports last
night placed xhu)ecv IA Durinss-
hof. 10 miles from Eustrin, one
Of the last strongholds barring
the road to Berlin. and 50 miles
Of Berlin.
The Reich capital, pictured In
Stockholm reports as crammod
with panic-stricken refugees,
Vas blasted last night BY large
formations of Allied heavy
which also rained ex- I
plosiYes ON vital communities
lions at Mainz. Siegen and Lud- \
~igshafen.
Many pillboxes in the vaunt. Z
I'd Siegfried Line fell 70 Amor.
can forces, and much Of ~ Z
Westwall appeared to have ~ =
:ome q virtual no-man's lnndt 4
'ome Of its defenses llehtlI Y
,eld by inferior troopa sema "
&;
Many German divisions seoIn X
ID to have disappeoro1 60 NJ
)letoly- Only g. AZ
'ision was net aloGn l
risd linz. and only cooou
illery fire was enooun1o1
ield dispatch said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

working in the rice fields. He
knew Cabantuan and Davao and
4; the long list of names of the
rescued came over the press
wire, Stymelski's memory flash
ed back to the days he'll never
forget.
SPOTS FRIEND
First there was "GIBBON-
lst 1t. Beverly, Mars l.,
Mich"
Boy, oh boy!" Stymelski
yelled. Swell 1t Gibbon was
See SURVIVOR-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

The 9lst Psalm, her favorite,
added courage to her Christian
faith. She admits she wept be-
tween readings, but they were
tears Of JOY and thankfulness-
if not for herself, at least for
the other mothers this day
would make happy.
AT 100 o'clock came a knock
See PRAYER-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
Gas Used in Entertainment
Spots Banned for Y Hours

houses, right clubs, bars and
other entertainment places in
Washington, D. c., were cover
ed by the edict as well as those
in the affected parts of the ten
states. The test of application
of the ban is whether natural
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02
Latest Luzon
Invasion Cuts
Japanese Lines
Yonks Sweep into
Undefended Jungle
Below Monilo
BY LEONARD MILLlMAN
Associated Press War Editor

Associated Press War Editor
A second unopposed Ameri-
can invasion of Luzon Island
sent three motorized Yank col
umns converging on Manila Bay
today, with still no sign OF or
Ranized japanese resistance.
The Eleventh Airborne Dr.
vision made the latest landing
Wednesday, Is miles south OF
Manila Bay, without firing a
shot, it was intended only as
armed reconnaissance but Maj.
Gen. ]. M. Swing turned the
amphibious operation into a full
scale invasion after no opposl-
ton developed.
DRIVE INLAND
The force pressed inland from
the Batangas coast to cut off
outflanked japanese concentra-
tions in the south and drive on
the Cavite Naval Base, 80 miles
to the northeast, and Manila.
Armored spearheads Of the
Sixth Army are 20 miles north
of Manila. Sixth and Eighth
units are rolling across the base
of the Bataan Peninsula toward
q junction.
japanese broadcasts admitted
the situation in the Philippines
has taken a further serious
turn"
Superfort pilots from India
reported they had destroyed the
huge floating drydock at the
Singapore Naval Base in one of
the gratest mass BIO attacks
ever made, all bombers re-
turned.
STRAFE FORMOSA
Philippines based bombers
and fighter maintained "a
hours sweeps over Formosa.
Formosa guards the China Coast
where Japanese huriedly are
preparing against an American
invasion. China still furnishes
the only bright spot in Japan's
war.
Increasing concern Of Tokyo
was demonstrated in an un-
precedented offer to improve
the lot of prisoners and inter-
nees If there is anything Japan
can do" The offer was proba-
bly, a reaction to the mass
prison break on LuZon Island in
which 513 prisoners of war
were freed by American Rang
ers and Filipino guerrillas.
On the northern Luzon Is
land battlefronts japanese
force was trapped on road be-
tween two American columns
and completely destroyed"
Gen. Douglas Macarthur dis
closed that two victorious di-
visions from Leyte-the 32nd
and the First (Dismounted)
Cavalry-are now fighting on
Luzon.
The Navy announced the loss
of the minesweepers Hovey and
Palmer and a landing ship in
Philippines waters. Uncon-
firmed Tokyo claims asserted
three American ships had been
sunk off the West Coast Of the
United States.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -
(P)-Michigan was eliminat-
ed today from the temporary
gas embargo.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-02

See PRAYER-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-05
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= J 9 8 6 3

was played by Adam Meredith,
is a nice example of a beautiful
coup.
You win the opening diamond
lead, lead a trump to the queen,
ruff the four of clubs, another
heart to the ace, ruff the seven
of clubs, and at this point, you
must lead the five of spades and
finesse dummy's eight spot. Now
you ruff a diamond This leaves
you with the king and ten OF
trump so you 60 over to the
dummy with the queen Of
spades and now lead the ace,
king and queen of clubs. If East
ruffs, you over ruff. If he does
mt, you discard, all your spades,
then play a diamond. East must
ruff. You over ruff with the ten
and pick up his jack with the
king. DR.. Stern did point out
that if West had jumped in with
the nine of spades, he would
have killed one of the declarer's
much needed entries into dunn
my.