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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-02-24
COMMITTEE CONFERS
ON RATE MENACE

The Rat determination Commit
Tee OF the Alfred District council
held NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tues
day noon at Lucy Thurman
branch YW1 A. Chaired nv chas
Daly principal % Miller High
school The committee discussed
best methods of combating the
RAJ menace and how 20 bring at
tention o. The people Of district
committees 70 the mos, offec-
tive measures of determination
OF those dangerous pests.
Meeting with Mr. Daily were,
Frances Moss in,estieaioF 81
fred district; Jane watson. l.de.
io-dependcnt Chll,lfer and Floyd
Cofcr Board OF Education.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Patronage
at Beach
Increases

With beach attendance 20 far
this season more than 5000
persons, Department of Recre-
alton officials today pushed eff
forts to arrange bus service be-
tween the city and beach, in an
effort to accommodate a heavy
rush of patrons during the ap-
preaching August peak.
Inability of the Fuller & Pei
tier bus concern to undertake
the extra service was the first
setback in the project. The mat
ter is now being studied by De-
'troit officials of the Greyhound
Bus Lines, who have been con-
tacted by Charles F. Schaffer, in
charge of the Mount Clemens
district. Schaffer hopes for a
favorable response.
The bus company has been
asked for an hourly schedule
from / to 8 p. m, on days when
weather conditions are satisfac-
tory for beach attendance. The
final trip would pick up pass
engers leaving the beach which
closes nightly about that time.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
AIDS SOUTH MACONB; PENALTIES MI. CLEMENS
Tax Plan Rejection HighIighfs

value Of home in order to be
near their work;
90 That the county treasury
benefits more from a 100000
tactory-even if its tax rate is
moderate-than il ever did from
the 1000 acres of vacant land
that previously marked its site;
90 That higher tax collections
in Warren. Lake and Erin Town
ships help share the tax burden
of Mount Clemens, Romeo and
Richmond even { h ough the
South Macomb tax is lower per
81, 900 than in northern COM
niunities;
(5) That South Macomb Is
willing to help finance Mount
Clemens own problems (such
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20

as flood control of the Clinton
River) IL Mount Clemens will
show a fair attitude in respect
10 southern townships tax as
sessments.
These were the salient express
sions of South Macomb commun-
ity representatives in the two.
hours debate which preceded q
17-8 rejection of the Equaiiza-
ton Committee report which
would have required Warren
and Lake Townships principal
ly) to pay heavier county tax.
Speakers for South Macomb's
side of the picture were: Super.
visors Earl Tallmsn, Warren
Township; Adrian A. Linsemann,
Lake Township. and Charles A.
Retzlaff, East Detroit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Johnston Nav
Be Candidate
As Lieut.. Gov.

State Senator Ivan A. John
ston today declined to confirm
or deny persistent out-state re.
ports that he will be a COP
candidate for the lieutenant.
governorship of Michigan at the
1916 State primary elections.
Johnston, a resident of Mount
Clemens, and a practising attor-
ney, is now serving his second
term as member of the State
Senate. Immediately prior to as
Stunning his law-making func-
tons Johnston served for four
years as prosecutor Of Macomb
county.
The senator said that he has
been assured of substantial sup
port by "a number of state
groups and he is seriously con-
sidering entry into the state con-
test but has not yet definitely
made up his mind.
Vernon j. Brown, present
lieutenant governor, has already
announced that he will not seek
reelection but will, instead, be
candidate for the governor
ship which Harry Kelly has
stated he will relinquish with
out a contest.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20

Lindsey, Mount Clemens asses
sor, indicated today that he will
not call another committee
meeting unless instructed to do
so by the mayor and city COM
mission.
The city's threat to ask a
State Tax Commission hearing
on Macomb County equalization
is no idle one, Lindsey asserted.
He said Attorney Hugh H. Neale
was drawing up the legal re-
quest today and it will be filed.
The Mount Clemens assessor,
leader in the fight to force
South Macomb communities to
bear a more equitable share of
hte county tax burden, MAIN
tanned his stand against the SUI
pervisors' action in declaring
every governmental unit equal
lied as assessed"
Under this plan. Lindsey
maintains, Mount Clemens is
penalized exactly $4,000 and
other areas which have MAIN
tanned their valuations on a fair
level will also pay a larger
share, proportionately, than low
assessed Warren, and Lake
Townships.
Lindsey said he has. confer
red with Mayor Albert A.
Wagner and Commissioner Guy
Verkler, both supervisors present
at Thursdays board session, to
determine whether a special
meeting of the City Commission
will be called early next week
See APPEALs-Page s
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Find No Fraud
in School Vote
Prosecutor Rules
Evidence insufficient

Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held
ruled today that, on the basis OF
evidence submitted, there wa.
no fraud in the June II War.
rem Township District No.
school elections.
The prosecutors opinion, in
the form of a letter addressed
to Harold Julian, president OF
the Macomb County CIO Coun-
Gil, was in answer to allegations
made by Julian and Sam Gu
beta, Michigan PAC director,
that widespread violations OF
election laws were apparent.
Cubeta and Julian have, in
addition to charging illegal
registrations and the presence
of unqualified persons in voting
booths, claimed that they have,
subsequently, been the targets
of telephoned threats OF vio-
lence.
Held, in a lengthy letter deal
ing individually with the COM
plants turned over to him by
Sheriff Harley Ensign, cited his
conclusion that - in general:
1.-THE twelve alleged irregular
tiles, except the seven affidavits
furnished, are merely self-serv-
ing statements, signed by no
one, backed up by no proof, and
without any definite reference as
to person or persons, or time and
place of any alleged violation,
and neither have any witnesses
names been offered to substan-
tiate the allegations, and, there
fore, for the reasons above
stated, there is insufficient evil
dence upon which to base
valid and legal complaint"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20

and myself will 60 down there
and do it ourselves" a reference
to the plotted killing of Senator
Warren G.. Hooper of Albion.
Abramowitz concluded his di-
rect testimony with a statement
that after two unsuccessful
trips to Albion to kill Hooper,
he asked Harry Fleisher IF there
would be any more chances"
Then, he said, Fleischer remark
ed that he and Mike Selik, an
other defendant, might take
over the task themselves.
DEADLY DEADLINE
Abramowitz wound up his tes-
timony Thursday with a state
ment that the slayers Of Hoop
er had a deadline to meet if they
were to earn $4,000 (for silenc-
ing Of the Albion legislator, a
witness before the Carr grand
jury.)
Abramowitz, who once de-
scribed himself as "a rat but not
a stool pigeon" told a 14-person
jury Thursday that three Of the
four defendants - Harry Fleish-
er, Sam Fleisher and Mike Sell
TX - told him at different times
there is a time limit on it. It is
Thursday"
He quoted them as saying 1t
had to be done by then or Hoop
er would appear before the
grand jury and then it would be
too late.
The witness did not say what
Thursday was meant. Hooper
was shot to death Thursday,
Jan. II.
UNDERGOES GRILLING
Abramowitz took the witness
stand at noon yesterday and
was expected to occupy the
stand throughout most of today.
Abramowitz, Thursday, linked
Sam Fleisher to the states case
more closely than had any 9TH
er states witness.
See PLOT-Page 6
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
World Peace
and Prosperity
Americas Goal
President Speoks
at Symbolic Flag
Roisins in Berlin
BY DANIEL DE LUCE

POTSDAM, July ~ - A) -
President Truman, speaking at
a symbolic flagraising over con-
quered Berlin, said today the
United States wanted not one
piece of territory, but peace
and prosperity for the world as
a whole"
The speech had great signifi-
canoe against its background of
the Big Three Conference where
the President is joining Britain
and Russia in helping to settle
European boundary and other
problems.
1--WE are raising this flag in
the name of the people of the
United States, who are looking
forward to a better world, a
peaceful world, in which all the
people will have an opportunity
of enjoying peace and oppor-
tunity Of enjoying peace and op-
portunity," Mr.. Truman said.
HISTORIC BANNER
The Stars and Stripes raised
over the United States Group
Council headquarters-in the
former headquarters of Germa-
ny's air defense-Was the flag
that flew over the capitol in
Washington the day the United
States entered the war against
the Axis. 1t flew over Algiers
when that city was Gen. Eisen-
hower's headquarters and over
Rome when the first Axis capl-
tai was captured. 1t is destined
to be raised over Tokyo.
Let's not forget that we are
fighting for peace and for the
welfare of mankind" Mr.. Tru-
man told the troops lined up
for the ceremony. I'VE are not
fighting for conquest.
See BIG-3-Page 6
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20

By its rejection Thursday Of
the annual Equalization Com
mittee report, the county Board
of Supervisors benefited the in
dustrial areas of South Macomb,
particularly Warren Township,
and, by its action. lent sub
stance to that districts claim
that:
(D Rapid industrialization OF
Warren Township Is q real bene-
fit to the county at large, and
deserving Of sympathy. II not
subsidy, in the matter Of taxa.
ton;
(2) That real estate initiation
has been unavoidably brought
about by well-paid war workers
willing to pay double the actual
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Se|fridge Field
Crash Boats
Hunt End Filler
Fighter Planes
Collide Over
Anchor Boy

Two fighter planes based 1t
Selfridge- Field collided in mid
air IA miles northeast of Mount
Clemens at 1890 a. m, today,
killing one pilot instantly. The
second flier is missing.
Both pilots involved were
members of the Free French
forces in training at Selfridge,
army officials reported, but
names were withheld.
The first plane crashed i'm
mediately and the pilot presum-
ably remained in it.
The second plane, badly dam
aged in the collision, was kept
in operation for a short period
while the pilot made an attempt
TO return. to Selfridge Field. &Jn-
successful in his efforts, he was
forced" to bail out over Anchor
Bay and was seen descending.
His plane crashed into eight
feet of water four miles out,
about 10 miles from the scene
of the collision.
Selfridge crash boats immedi-
ately raced to the scene and up
to 2 p. m, we're still searching
without success for the second
pilot.
An official Board Of Injury
into the crash has been appointed
and further details will await
the completion of their investi-
cation.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Jops
Still Hiding.
On Okinowo
BY ROBERT GEIGER

OKINAWA, July 20 - R-
An estimated 10000 japanese
troops are hiding in Northern
Okinawa's rugged mountains.
the Army estimated today, a
month after the island was cap
tured.
The Nipponese are being
hunted down and killed at an
average of so daily, it was an
nounced at headquarters of 1t.
Gen. John r. Hodge, comman-
der of the oath Army Corps.
The announcement followed
by a few hours the first Japa-
nese aerial attack on the island
See OKINAWA-Page s
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Expect Full Tin
Collection
in City Tuesday

BY midnight Monday, every
home in Mount Clemens should
have supply of processed tin
cans at the curb for Tuesday
important collection, was the
message issued to householders
today by Charles v. Titus, Sal
vage-For- victory chairman.
COLLECTION of processed cans
will Start early Tuesday, with
Street Commissioner Guy Verk-
Ter in charge of the pickup.
The urgency Of the current
appeal cannot be stressed too
highly, government officials
point out. The stepped-up tenn
20 of Yank aerial and island
warfare in the Pacific has placed
tin in a category even more criti-
cal than ever before. Any posi-
bility of war plant recover
sion on a general scale is ham,
pered by lack Of tin.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
142 County
Injured Get
Benefits

A study just completed for
publication by the Michigan De-
partment of Labor and Industry
revealed that $28, 1876 was paid
in compensation benefits to 142
injury cases entitled to work.
mems compensation in Macomb
County during the last six
months of 1914.
The state reports lists the
various occupational hazards.
During this period, the state
distributed $4,193,5 $50 to 17,490
compensation cases in Michigan.
A study of the entire survey,
issued by chairman Betty w.
Allie of the Workmen's Com
pensation Commission, reveals
that throughout the state. The
number of cases decreased 16
percent in Agriculture while de-
creasing ID percent in Furniture
and Finished Lumber Products
and Is percent in Lumber and
See BENEFTTS-Page So
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Prints Snare
Escaped Fe|on
Sheriff Nobs Man
Sought q Years

A routine check of fingerprints
by Sheriff Harley Ensign today
led to the arrest Of Roseville
man, sought for % years as a
fugitive from the Arkansas state
prison at Tucker, Ark.
The man, Thomas Bailey, alias
Joseph Hill, SO years Of age, had
been serving a 10 year sent
ence on a charge of assault with
intent to kill at the time of his
escape from the penitentiary
farm, July II, 1922.
The sheriff, who uncovered
Hills identity as the result of
his arrest here several weeks
ago on a drunk and disorderly
charge, under the name OF Bailey
took the man into custody last
night. Deputy Sheriff Robert
Bronson accompanied the Sheriff
on the investigation.
Arkansas authorities, notified
of Hills arrest today, said that
they would come north to ex-
tradict him Immediately.
Ensign said that the recaptur-
ed prisoner was reluctant to dis
cuss the nature of his arrest in
Arkansas but admitted that il
followed q shooting. scrape for
which both he and his mother
had been convicted.
A methodical check of finger.
printed Macomb county prison.
ers against FBl files resulted ir
the discovery of Bailey's true
identity, Ensign said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Boost Rental
ON Sheriff'S
Suh.StatiOm

Cost of police protection In
Warren Township jumped SIS
per Ronth Thursday after the
county Board of Supervisors
agreed to pay $45 a month rent
for the use of the sheriffs SUBJ
station in Van Dyke.
The building, owned by John
South, of Van Dyke. has been
rented for $40 q month, and
South notified the board that
as Of July Is the rent would be
$45.
The sheriffs committee In re
commenting the payment said
that South had agreed to main
tain the building attached to the
sheriffs Warren Township force
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
JAW CHIEF VOICES INTENT
Predict Strike Wave

tending the UAW-CIO's execu-
tive board melting here.
The board reaffirmed the
unions no-strike pledge without
modification for the duration of
the war, turning downa proposal
for . second membership refer
endum. Thomas said the vote
was 500 TO 500, on the basis Of
paid-up members represented by
the board members.
Earlier this year the general
membership reaffirmed tn e
pledge in q referendum.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
TeIIerMute
On Charge Of
bonk Theft

DETROIT, July 20 -(AP) -
Ann Marie Rzepecki. 80, former
teller at the Peoples State Bank
in Hamtramck, stood mute to-
day to a charge of embezzling
$16,832 from the account of a
customer over a four-year Pc
Rod.
Arraigned before U. S. Com
missioner George M. Read, Miss
Rzepecki was released on 1000
bond with examination set for
Aug. 6.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
MINNEAPOLIS, July 10

MINNEAPOLIS, July 20-(R
President r. J. Thomas Of the
United Automobile Workers
(CIO) says that victory In Japan
will be q signal for the union to
start authorizing strikes.
There will be . lot Of them"
Thomas said. /" We will author
lie strikes in every plant~ where
q present grievance continues
to exist"
The union chief made his
statement 70 reporters while At
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Probe Sailors Death

WASHINGTON, July 20 -tR
- Three attendants at st. Eliz-
abeth's Hospital for m n ia
cases were held by police today
pending action by the coroner
after the death of q sailor pa
tient.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20

Deufh-P/of HoodIun1
Faces Defense Fire
By JACK I. GREEN

their guns Abramowitz, the states witness thu
murder conspiracy trial. today after he testified that
Flesher defendants told him II think Mike Se
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
Civ Serious About Threat
Of Tax E Equalization Plea

Despite appeal made by the chairman and
county Of Supervisors asking that the
Equalization Committee meet reconsider its annual report
rejected yesterday committee chairman Harold
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Hart-SymanoskieDo Dog!
Steal Trials Show;
'Symhart Scores

Black and white settlers Jointly
owned by Attorney Ringgold Hart
and Frank Symanoskie stole the
show In the shooting dog stakes OF
the 33d annual field trials of. the
National Capital Field Trial Club
over the Frank Wilson farm at Lay
Hill, Md, yesterday.
Top award, the Thomas Baldwin
Trophy, went to the Hart-Symanos-
kie entry, Syrnhart, and the pair
also had the third place winner,
Hart's Frank, setter of the same
color and conformation.
The featured shooting dog stakes
climaxed two big days of activity
when 81 dogs saw action in the top
event of its kind In the area.
E. F. Herring of Bethesda also
took two awards with his white and
liver pointers in the Derby and
all-age groups when Sandy's Shore
was given third in the derby and
Plowden's Shoals Frank got third
in the all-age.
Top prize in the derby went to a
white and orange pointer, Bess,
owned by L. E. Lennon of Alexandria
and the runnerup was another white
and organe pointer, Runabout,
owned by Pete Milling of Washing
ton.
Kings JEFF, liver and white
pointer owned by P. G. King of
Bethesda, captured first money in
the all-age while the second place
trophy went to Peerless McDougal,
a black and white setter owned by
l.. L. Stevens of Falmouth, Va.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Coast Guard 0utsaiIs
Middies, 1O8 10 73

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 13.-The
Coast Guard Academy won a clear
cut victory over Navy in the sixth
semiannual dual sailing regatta held
on the choppy Severn today, 1os to
73 points.
With each school racing four
teams in 14-foot Internationals sup
piled by the Navy, the New London
sailors took f1rsts in each of the
four races. Navy's best showing
was In the third race when Mercon
Booth, fleet captain, placed second.
High-scoring sailor for the day
was the Coast Guards Alfred Tat
man, whose home Is Norfolk, Va.
He accounted for 80 of Coast
Guards points. In the third race,
Tatman broke a rudder Just at the
finish and was unable to bring the
crippled dinghy across the finish
line. At the time he was in second
place. Under an intercollegiate
Yacht Racing Association wartime
breakdown" rule, Tatman got cred
it for that position along with Booth.
Peter jefferson, a second class
man, was Navy's high scorer with
20 points. Second Classman D. w.
Smith and his crew were pulled out
Of the river by rescue boat in the
first race when their dinghy filled
with water. Rescuers arrived Just
as the boat went over on her side.
The fleet raced triangular course
In a fresh northwest wind.
This marks Coast Guards sixth
win over Navy, which has won twice
In the last six years.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Bowie, Using Wife, F.,
Putter, Takes Title

Buddy Bowie borrowed his wife's
putter and won his third consecu.
tive Columbia Country Club goli
championship yesterday. The tai
youngster, hitting the ball a coun-
try mile in the wind, said he had
had trouble putting the keen greens
and needed lighter putter, so he
borrowed his wife's club.
He holed a 15-foot putt for 9
birdie 3 on the 17th to lick Martin
F. Mccarthy, perennial runnerup ir
Columbia championships, by 2 and
l, thwarting a comeback bid by
Mccarthy, who had won the 18th to
reduce the defending champs lead
to one hole.
The golf wasn't good, but In the
high wind Of yesterday 1t was ex-
cusable. Bowie won the 7th and 9th
holes to turn up, and was 2 up
playing the 18th, which Mccarthy
won with a par when Bowie missed
the green with his second shot and
blew 4-footer for a half. They
halved the short 18th, and Bowie
canned a 15-footer for bird to win
the 17th and the match.
Other flights were won as follows
Second-John S. Daniels defeated
Freeman N. Stricklin 5 and 4; third
It. r. Edmonston defeated ]. B
Schoff 4 and 8: fourth-G. L. Bream
beat o. U. Singer on the 10Th hole
fifth-T. A. Butts defeated w. c.
Geleng. up; sixth-Elmer Flather
defeated M. A. Keogh 2 and l.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Poodle Nellie Bly, Named Best
In Doc Show at Alexandra

best st. Bernard went to Mrs. K.
Stars Parkrun Barrie and win
ner,s bitch to Dalakay Kennels
Lay Deanne of Dalakay.
Mrs. j. X. Porter's American Ace
Jeep was best of breed in Boston
terriers, one of the largest entries
in the show, and DR.. Elvin repeated
his best of breed win and second
in the group with his bulldog ch.
Elyinars Falstone Torpedo Seafern
Harum Scarum.
Mrs. r. M. Milmotte's miniature
poodle again was winners bitch,
which must see her about finished
for the title.
One Of the most interesting fea-
lures of the show was the judging
of the children's handling classes,
with Mrs. Ira Eaker awarding the
ribbons to the boys and Mrs. Jouett
Shouse to the girls, with Mrs. Alice
Longworth on hand to pass out the
trophies and boxes of candy. Among
the winners was Mary Montfort Of
Washington.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Home Town sGreefinu
|ConsoIesCubs' Grimm
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press. .-. =--...----.---
UNION, Mo-, Oct. 13.-The van
pushed came home to a victor's
welcome today as his fellow-Mis-
sourians opened their hearts to
Charley Grimm, head man Of the
National League champion Chicago
Cubs.
jolly Cholly, once again his jovial
self after . hectic week Of disap-
pointing baseball, pranced down the
main street on his own horse to the
approving cheers Of several thou
sand citizens in a parade headed
by the high school band and featur-
ing the Union Saddle Club.
Following the parade, headline
event of Charley Grimm day." the
Chamber Of Commerce presented
the Chicago manager, who lives on
a nearby farm in the winter, with a
set of sterling silver for himself and
his wife.
Grimm, short on words for one
OF the few times in his career, told
the jammed Memorial Auditorium
crowd. I'm sure glad to be home
again. hope that I can find q
first-rate ball player around here to
take back with me next year"