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ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS Impartial Coverage of All Local Nows 83rd Year, No. 137 MASSED AIR FLEETS RIP SALAMAUA Scorching Air Raids Stagger Dazed Italy Haavy, Medium Bombers Punch Home Allied Force BY NOLAND NORGAAKD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 27 —(/P) United States heavy and me dium bombers in strong force renewed their a>sault on the Italian peninsula yesterday with a set of scorching attacks on key airdromes. Fly in g Fortresses smashed the Capua airfields and Marauders raided the aerial in stallations at Grazzanise. Large numbers of dispersed planes on the target fields were hit and 15 enemy fighters were destroyed in stiff running bat tles. Enemy planes shot down in the 24-hour cycle up to this morning totaled 19. Allied Head quarters announced. JAM CAPITAL Air travelers from Italy ar riving in Madrid today estimat ed that Rome now contains at least 500,000 more Italians than it did before the Allies landed in Sicily, and said the number is daily increasing. Parks, public squares and plazas are filled nightly with people unable to obtain lodg ings and sleeping in the open, the travelers reported. So far this civilian “maroh on Rome” from the provinces has be*n peaceful. It probably was See ITALY—Page 3 late ★ ★ ★ bulletins Invasion Jitters LONDON, Aug. 27 (>T) The German oversea* radio said today that “information avail able from the Central Mediter ranean does not ndicate immi nent invasion of the Italian mainland by the Allies.” The broadcast, recorded by the As sociated Press, added that “ac cording to present observations Allied shipping in the Central Mediterranean cannot be de scribed as particularly inten sive.” Food Rrserves LONDON, Aug. 27 < Pt Food Minister Lord Woolton told a meeting at Bolton today that he was building up reserves lab elled “food for attack." For this reason, he said, he had on in tentions of increasing England's food rations at present. Mural Saved LONDON, Aug. 27 {JPt A Reuters dispatch from Swit zerland today said the renowned mural, “The Last Supper,” of Leonardo Da Vinci escaped dam age in recent RAF raids on Mi lan, but the walls of the Santa Marie Delle Grazie church where it is housed were report ed near collapse. Jajce Captured LONDON, Aug. 27 (/Pi The Yugoslav Mar Ministry an nounced today that partisans had recaptured Jajce, 40 miles west of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and destroyed a German chlor ine gas factory there for the sec ond time in a year. Hall New Chief CHUNGKING, Au|. 27 —</F> A Chinese Army spokesman today hailed the appointment of Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mount batten, new' Allied supreme commander in southeast Asia, as meaning that “measures plan ned for the destruction of Japan are being implemented.” Plane Crashes RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 27 iP)— Fifteen persons were kill ed, three others were Injured and three are missing in the crash of a passenger plane in Rio De Janeiro harbor today. Monitor aSt SJpaiirr Ist Lady Crosses Pacific AUCKLAND. N Z.. Aug 27 (Ah—Mrs. Franklin D Roose velt arrived today in this pro vincial capital, completing the longest journey of the many she has made since entering the White House in 1933. (Mrs. Roosevelt's mode of travel was not disclosed in this dispatch from Auckland, which is approximately 6.500 miles by air from the nearest point on the west coast of the United See FIRST LADY—Page 3 Swedes Voice Sharp Protest Sinking of Ships Prompts Action STOCKHOLM. Aug 27 OTh The Swedish foreign office announced today that a protest to the German government was being drafted, shortly after a communique stated two German minesweepers had sunk two Swedish fishing boats without warning. The latest protest, the second in 10 days demanding that Ger many halt her attacks on Swed ish commercial and military in terests. will be presented short ly, it was said. The 12 crew members aboard the two boats were presumed to have been lost in the atack on five Swedish craft in interna tional waters oft the northwest coast of Denmark two days ago. The incident followed a for mal protest Aug. 18. against the firing upon a Swedish naval tor pedo boat and air force plane by German gunners aboard a Nor wegian freighter off the Swedish coast Aug. 6. A communique said an inves tigation has been launched by the navy and that the Swedish legation in Berlin has been ask ed to learn from the Germans whether any of the 12 men re ported to have been on the sunk en boats were rescued While the government await* See SWEDEN—Page 3 New Baltimore Dahlia Festival Opens Sept. 18 Mayor Harold C. Engelman of New Baltimore will be chairman of the Third Annual Dahlia Fes tival, to be held in New Balti more September 18 and 19. A meeting will be held at 7 .10 tomorrow- night at the New Baltimore City hall to make definite plans and arrangements for the fest ; ve occasion, which annually draw thousands of visitors to see outstanding dis plays of flowers. Committees will be appointed at the meet ing. A weekly garden show will be held in connection with the festival. Nick Koenig revealed today, and exhibits from Mount Clemens will be a part of the show. County C-D Council to Meet on Wednesday A meeting of the Macomb County Civilian Defense Coun cil is scheduled for Wednesday, September 1, at 2 p m. in the County building, Sherwood J. Bennett, chairman, announced today. The two main issues to be discussed Wednesday will be ap pointment of a County C. D. C. commander, and a Chairman for the Neighborhood war clubs, Bennett revealed. Faculty Short But one Teacher With school in Mount Clem ens beginning Wednesday, Sep tember 8. Superintendent L. Wade Fast revealed today that there is only one berth unfilled —physical education instructor for boys. The list of teachers for the coming year, which contains several new names, will be an nounced next week, Fast said. Reds (rush Nazis; Sweep Steadily Ahead Sharp German Blows Fail to Cut into Salient MOSCOW, Aug. 27 <JP) German troops have struck at the flanks of Russian forces ad vancing through the Ukraine in an unsuccessul effort to check the Rod Army’s progress west of Kharkov, it was announced today. A front line dispatch to the Army newspaper Red Star said the enemy concentrated infan try and tanks along the sides of salients which the Russians had driven into their lines and launched a number of stiff coun ter-attacks. The Rod Army repulsed the attacks, the dispatch said and continued the reckless advance which yesterday covered an other three and a half miles. (A German communique, broadcast by Berlin and record ed by the Associated Press, said Russian troops supported by tanks and planes attacked south and west of Kharkov yesterday but were repulsed with the loss of more than 100 tanks. FLANK ATTACK (The Germans said their troops made a thrust against the flank of Red Army forces at tacking on the Mius front, re pelling the Russians and inflict ing heavy losses, and halted Soviet attacks near Izyum with a series of counter blows. (A Russian attack southwest and west of Orel did not succeed in fchievmg a breakthrough ‘despite the employment of ex traordinarily strong air forces,” the Nazi bulletin said. It added that altogether 218 Russian tanks were destroyed in yester day's fighting.) In addition to yesterday’s three and a half mile westward advance which the Russians made in the Kharkov region to ward the Nazis' Dnieper River defenses, Soviet forces were dis closed to have struck due south in anew flanking maneuver. 600 KILLED The southward column of Gen. Ivan S. Konevy's Steppe army, pounding toward the Key rail junction of Lozovaya. killed some 600 of the enemy and de stroyed or disabled 22 enemy tanks, the Soviet communique said. Fighting was reported heavy. Thus, the. Steppe army was moving into position to put ever increasing pressure against the flanks of the German lines reaching eastward into the Don ets River basin. In the Donets basin itself, the Moscow war bulletin said, the southwest army group command ed by Gen. Rodion Y. Malinov sky absorbed frequent Axis counterattacks south of Izyum and southwest of Voroshilov grad. killing 2.000 of the enemy and destroying 48 tanks. Whole trainloads of ammunition and other booty were captured in rapid lunges. WIPE OUT FOE Yesterday's advances by Gen. Konev's troops west of Kharkov wiped out 800 enemy rear guards. routed two battalions and captured several villages. Numerous enemy counterattacks were beaten down. The communique gave no in- See RUSSIA—Page 3 COPENHAGEN IN TURMOIL Rioting, Sabotage Sweep Across Occupied Denmark STOCKKHOLM, Aug. 27—(/Pi —Denmark’s “peoples revolt” against German occupation soared to new heights today as the Danish government and Nazi authorities reached a stalemate in their discussions on how to halt the riots and sabotage. One hundred and twenty per sons were reported arrested by Danish police yesterday as they broke up. with the aid of Ger man soldiers, a riot in the Raadhuspladsen in the center of Copenhagen. An undetermined number of persons were reported to have been injured. SECOND DAY It was the second successive day that large crowds had dem onstrated in the Raadhusplad- Macomb County's Oldest Newspaper MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1943 Noose May End Careers of Four Spies IllkJtß (NEA Telepho^ SEIZED BY FBI AGENTS in Detroit In connection with the smashing of a spy ring are Countess Marianna von Moltke, left, wife of a Wayne University language professor, and Mrs. Emma Leonhardt, whose home is believed to have been a spy trysting place. The countess has four sons, two born in Germany, one reportedly a German soldier. Parade to Mark War Loan Drive SPECTACULAR MILITARY EXHIBITION IS PLANNED Plans were being rieveloped in Mount Clemens today for a spectacular parade and military exhibition which will officially inaugurate this community’s Third War Loan campaign starting next month. A skeleton program was ar ranged yesterday when several committee chairmen met at the Board of Commerce headquar ters to discuss the impending Black Nightmare Confronts Japs Admiral States SAN FRANCISCO. Aug 27 UP) —Japan, with its face-losing withdrawal from the Aleutians, is seeing its projected conquest of America turning from golden dream to black nightmare, vice Adm. John W. Greenslade. com mandant of the twelfth Naval district, declared today, in an address prepared for a Common wealth club luncheon. Already United States planes are making preliminary scouting and bombing runs over the ene my base of Paramushiro in the Kurile islands north of Japan. Admiral Greenslade said, adding that Paramushiro could become Nippon's Sicily. Japan's industry and trans-l port, he said, ‘‘geared up sufficiently to cope with the losses and, simultaneously, maintain some sort of balance with our gams in materiel and force.’ sen, while sabotage, general strikes and clashes between dancs and German soldiers con tinued throughout Denmark. Saboteurs were said to have caused damage estimated at 1,500,000 Danish crowns when they exploded bombs in the Lauritz Knudson electrical ap pliance works in Copenhagen. (Before the German occupation the Danish crown was equiva lent to about 20 cents in Ameri can money.) Meanwhile residents of Hels ingborg in Sweden reported they had heard terrific explo sions across the narrow three mile stretch of water at Hels inggor in Denmark. EXTEND STRIKES Swedish advices said strikes ■'■■■ , I B:;J I n ■ mm ** '■ I " ' jlp M i :'L* •, t wSIMUrJP - ” i war funds drive—the largest yet undertaken by the nation. The parade and military dis play w'ill take place in the down town area on Saturday, Sept. 11, starting at 3 p m. The program being arranged will last for five or six hours. The day will be known as ‘‘Attack Day,’ sig nalling the start of a campaign to raise $542,500 in Mount Clemens alone and $4,386,000 in Macomb county. General chairman of the “At tack Day” program is Angelo Fisher, whose appointment was announced by Ralph Clark, chairman of war bond sales in Mount Clemens. ARMY TO COOPERATE Fisher asserted yesterday that Colonel William L. Boyd. Self ridge Field commandant, had promised full cooperation on All organizations desiring to participate in the Bond Drive parade today were urged to notify A. D. Brewer, at the Board of Commerce; tele phone 6501. the part of the local army base to help make the program a complete success, and to get the Third War Loan drive underway locally. It is planned to have all or ganizations in Mount Clemens represented in a gigantic parade, detail* of which remain to be worked out. Later in the day, Mount Clemens and Macomb county residents will have an opportunity to inspect various See PARADE—Page 3 bv workers extended to the cities of Vordingborg and Vi- 1 borg, where the populations; joined those of other cities in protesting against the lack of discipline by German soldiers. The Danes accused many sol diers of attacking without prov ocation and hurling hand gren ades into crowds of persons who refused to disperse when or dered. Danish and German authori ties have been conferring all week of the revolt, which start ed on Aug. 18, and the Nazi ambassador to Denmark Werner Best Went to Berlin several dava ago to report on the situ ation. It waa reported that Best would not return to Denmark and that Gen. Hermann von 1 | DETROIT, Aug. 27 UP) A federal grand jury convening Se,jt. 7 will be requested to re turn indictments charging es pionage against four alleged members of a Detroit spy ring, U. S Attorney John C Lehr an nounced. The death penalty is possible under the espionage act. Wearing a merchant marine uniform, one of the four. Bert rand Stuart Hoffman, 27, was ' returned here from Brooklyn last night for arraignment before J. Stanley Hurd, U. S. Com missioner. He was arrested by the Fed eral B ireau of Investigation aboard a ship and brought here under a $50,000 removal bond, not having opposed removal. The others arrested here and held under the espionage act are Mi Grace Buchanan-Dincen, ’ 34, Mrs. Theresa Behrens, 44, and Dr. Fred William Thomas. 44. Each ls held under $50,000 bond. Two other women, whose names the FBI will not disclose, are held as enemy aliens. ‘ One thing we know,” John : S. Bugas, special agent in charge of the FBI office here, said, Yank Raiders Rip Hongkong Jap-Held Island Raked by Fliers BY J. REILLY O’SULLIVAN HEADQUARTERS OF THE U. S. 14TH AIR FORCE, Aug. 2fi —. (Delayed) —(A*)— Major Gen. Cia.re L. Chennault’s me dium bombers delivered a dou ble blow on Japanese shipping at Hongkong yesteday, scoring direct hits on two big enemy transports tied up at the Kow , loon docks and starting a num ber of fires in the dock area. All the American planes re turned safely from the forays. On the morning mission, Mit chel bombers under the com mand of Lieut. Col. Morris Tar ber of Lewistown, Mont., placed heavy demolition bombs on tFic deck of a 500-foot vessel which was seen to burst into flames. See HONGKONG—Page 3 Teachers Meet on Day Prior to Opening Announcement of the program for the rural teachers’ institute to be held in the County Build ing on Tuesday, September 7, was made today by County Com missioner of Schools W'ill L. Lee. > The institute, which will be gin at 10 a. m. Wednesday, is for the purpose of organization of the year's work and announce ment of plans. The annual meet ing of the Macomb County Rural Teachers’ Association will be held in the morning session from 10 o’clock until 11 a. m. The afternoon sessioq will be from 1 p. m. until 3 o'clock, and Dr, Lawrence J. Tidrick, assist ant superintendent of public in struction and director of certifi cation will speak at 1 p. m. Dr. Harvey L Turner, president of Hillsdale College, will address the institute at 2 p. m. Hannecken, commander of the German occupation army, would institute some form of military rule in a further attempt to pre serve order. It was understood here that Danish government leaders told the Germans that the Danes would make no further conces sions. They have already refused to allow the Germans to try persons accused of sabotage. Already short of manpower, the Germans are reported to be hesitating about taking over full control as they have in other oc cupied countries, because it would require more troops, and most of them now stationed in Denmark must be constantly on the alert against a possible Al lied invasion. “Hoffman joined the merchant marine for the specific purpose of obtaining information on ship j movements and to learn what i he could of the movement of troops.” He also revealed that Dr. j Thomas turned over valuable in- j formation a day before the ar rest of Miss Buchanan-Dineen. | Bugas pointed out that the element of treason enters in the espionage cases in that aid and comfort were given the enemy, but he explained that under a tre Lson indictment it is neces- i sary to have two witnesses to; each overt art. “Therefore, espionage is eas ier to prove than treason.” Airport Case Is Appealed Supreme Court to Get Issue A claim of appeal u'as filed in the Macomb County Clerk's office today by Carl J. Thrun, attorney for Warren Township Shod Board No. 7, and 63 prop erty owners, giving a notice of appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court on the decision of Circuit Judge Fred W. George, of Port Huron. August 16, dismissing injunctive action against the city of Detroit. Thrun and two other attorneys tried unsuccessfully in circuit court to get an injunction halt i ing Detroit's attempt to condemn a mile square site in Warren township, bounded by Dequin dre. Ryan, Eight and Nine Mile roads. A hearing on Detroit's suit to condemn the property will be gin on Monday at 9 30 before Judge George i . Mount Clemens. Rev. Eva Speaks at Rotary Meeting Minister Discusses Revolutionary Women Rev. Sidney D Eva. former minister of the Mount Clemens Methodist Church discussed “Women of the Revolutionary War Period.” yesterday at the the Rotary Club at the Medea Hotel. Oscar Watz was In charge of the meeting and he introduced the speaker. Guest* at the luncheon included Barney Kala har, of Center Line; M. H. Bak er, of Loraine, Ohio; Paul Mab ley of Richmond; Dr. D. B. Wiley, of Utica. Others were Lieut. Jim Fast, guest of his father, L. Wade Fast; Albert Lindsey, of New ark, New Jersey, guest of his son, Harold Lindsey; Otto Nic kel. guest of Sherwood Bennett; and Rev. Alfred Landon, guest of Stan Worthington. On Duty fl lUH I I «®eHpi^ *' < t; ’ B Jfl Btjß -Photo by Honk FIRST LIEUTENANT ROBERT BANNOW, 31, son of Postmas ter and Mrs. John Bannow, who left by plane Tuesday for Kees lei Field, at Biloxi. Mississippi, where he has a temporary ap pointment with the Medical Corps. His wife. Grace, lives at t 164 Market street. WEATHER_REPORT COOLER TEMPERATURE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY Monitor-Leader Office MONITOR-LEADER BLDO. Casa at Walnut Key Jap Base Shattered by Heavy Attack 100 Big Bombers Scoffer Destruction Over Pacific Base BY WILLIAM F. BONI ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 27—</P)—Allied heavy and medium bombers, flying in greater force than ever before in the southwest Pacific sent 180 tons of bombs crashing on Sala maua’s supply base at Hansas Bay, New Guinea Thursday. Al lied headquarters announced to day. Lt. Gen, George C. Kenney’s fifth airforce sent nearly 100 Liberators, Flying Fortresses and Mitchells, escorted by fight ers into the attack from low alti tude and succeeded in sinking a wreighter, wrecking 45 barges, exploding ammunition dumps and destroying ground installa tions. While American and Austral ian ground forces, within one mile of Salamaua's airdrome at one point, tightened their pres sure on the Japanese, the same bristling bomber formations which devastated Wewak in con secutive raids last week turned their attention to the Hansa Bay area. Nearly 100 U. S. Flying Fort resses, Liberators and Mitchells, escorted by fighters, set off tre mendous explosions, sank a 6.- 000-ton freighter, wrecked 45 I barges and destroyed ground in stallations. On tba right flank of the Al lies' 750-mile offensive arc, dis patches said the siege-bound Japanese garrison at Bairoko Harbor on New Georgia Island was beginning to wilt under the steady pounding of American field guns and the pressure of slowly advancing U. S infantry men. Meanwhile, Tokyo had reason j to keep a nervous eye on Wash ington today as Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Brit- I ain's famed commando chief and new Allied supreme commander in southeast Asia, conferred with U. S. military leaders to chart a British - American- Chinese I ‘ squeeze play” against Japan. See PACIFIC—Page 3 19 Germans Escape Prison Four Rocopturod in Canada KINGSTON. Ont., Aug 27 I (A*) Nineteen German prison ers of war escaped last night from the Fort Henry Prison 1 Camp and early today military district headquarters in King ston announced that four had ! been recaptured. Headquarters said the men i escaped between 9 and 9:30 p. m., but declared no details could be given until after an in vestigation. They disclosed, however, that a routine check was being made of the prisoners when a report came through from police that a man believed to be an escaped prisoner had been apprehended at Dead Man's Bay, a mile and one-half from the camp. The check was quickly com pleted and it was discovered 19 men were missing. A second man subsequently was picked up by police in the Dead Man’s Bay area and two more were captured by a private of the Provost Corps at the Bar riefield army training camp. The search was being contin ued over a wide area today. It was believed some of the men might try to reach islands dot ting the St. Lawrence or cross into the United States, and a close watch was being kept on both the river and the border. The break was the second largest from a war prison camp in Canada. Twenty-eight men es caped from a northwestern On tario camp In April, 1941. Two were shot and killed and others wounded before all were round ed up. FIVE CENTS