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Eyewifness Teils How Jap Base at RabaulWas Pulverized
BY FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN
N»w York Timri Correspondent
ABOARD A BOMBER Over Rabaul, Oct. 12
(Delayed) Far below us ships are bursting into
flames or leaving white wakes as they circle frantic
ally. A pall of black and pinkish gray smoke dims
the wide area of airfields and installations where
waves of United States medium bombers strafed
earlier.
A big salvo of 1000-pound bombs has lifted a
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CLOUDS OF BONDERS CRUSH RABAUL
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Border Reopened
LONDON, Oct. 14 (/P)
The German-controlled Pari*
radio said today that the ltal
ian-SwiM frontier, which was
closetl following Benito Mus
solini's fall and the subsequent
Italian capitulation, has now
been re-opened.
Recall General
STOCKHOLM. Oct. 14 <JF)
The Bern newspaper La Suis
se said today that Field Marshal
General Albert Kesselring has
been recalled as commander of
German forces in southern Italy
after a dispute with Marshal
Erwin Rommel, come* «»»der in
Northern Italy.
Reich Reinforced
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, Oct. 14 (/P) Ger
man fighter planes which once
operated from a chain of IS air
fields in the Foggta area of
Italy sent back to Ger
many to help defend the Reich
against allied heavy bombers, a
Polish mechanic who was im
pressed into the German air
force said today.
Cabinet Men Quit
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 14
(C* The government of Gen.
Pedro Ramirez has accepted the
resignations of three cabinet
members, all regarded as favor
ing a break with the axis. An
official announcement last night
said unity of the government
would not be affected by the re
signations.
Allies in Charge
SOUTH PACIFIC HEAD
QUARTERS, Oct. IS (Delay
ed) (A*) Adm. William F.
Halsey, announcing that allied
forces are in complete domina
tion of Kolombangara and Vella
Lavella islands in the Solomons,
said today the Japanese are
showing an increasing reluctance
to stand and fight along their
outer defense lines.
New ‘Protector’
LONDON, Oct. 14 OP)
Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was
succeeded by Gestapo chief
Heinrich Himmler as German
minister of interior, arrived in
Prague today to take over his
new post as "protector" of the
Bohemia-Moravia area in old
Csechoslovakia, the Berlin ra
dio announced.
Raid Axis Island
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 14 UP)
Middle east raiders swung
their Aegean offensive to the
Island of Gavdos (Goxso), a
small island 22 miles south of
Crete, where they bombed the
barracks at Ambelo the British
announced today.
Key Road Center
LONDON, Oct. 14 (/P)
The German-controlled Vichy
radio said today that allied forc
es in Italy had reached Vinchia
turo, key road center 10 miles
north of San Croce, capture of
which was announced 7esterday
by allied headquarters.
Monitor feaiivr
Nazis Bolster
Lines Before
Flaming Kiev
Sanguinary Battle
Rages as Red Army
Presses Attack
LONDON, Oct. 14 (.P) _
Fresh divisions of German
troops wore being rushed to
Kiev by the German High Com
mand in an effort to fend off
the Russian drive against the
flaming city long enough to
evacuate Nazi troops and equip
ment, a Reuters dispatch from
Moscow said today
The dispatch asserted that
fighting about the Ukrainian
capital is the bloodiest since the
battles for Orel and Belo»orod
last su % .uLicr
With the capitulation of Kiev
apparently inevitable, the fall
of three other major German
defense bases on the Russian
front Melitopol, Zaporozhe
and Gomel also appeared im
minent as Red Army forces tore
new gaps in wavering Nazi de
fenses.
A Soviet communique broad
cast from Moscow said Russian
troops already were fighting in
the streets of Melitopol, and
were battling the Germans on
the outskirts of the other three.
Capture of all four cities would
jeopardize the whole German
position in Russia and might
force a gigantic withdrawal of
the Nazi armies to secondary de
fense lines many miles to the
west.
BREAD LINES
Soviet troops, breaching for
midable German defenses in the
south Ukraine, forced the Mo
lochna River and surged into
the very center of Melitopol in
the face of desperate resistance
on the part of the defenders,
the Soviet bulletin said.
Death Driver
Is Questioned
Girl, 16, Fatally
Injured on M-97
A motorist who struck and
fatally injured 16-year-old Dor
othy McLean, of 23879 M-97,
after dragging her body more
than 50 feet on M-97 and Nine
Mile road Wednesday night, was
being questioned by Assistant
Prosecutor Fred Van Fletercn
today.
Frank O. Aton, of 13949 Ste
vens, East Detroit, was arrested
following the accident.
According to the Warren
Township police, Aton struck
the girl, dragged her 50 feet,
then skidded 150 feet and land
ed in a ditch. He told police that
he was blinded by the lights of
a car going south on M-97, be
fore crashing into the ditch but
Sec FATALITY—Page 2
Lieut. Paul Warren
Seriously Injured
The Royal Canadian Air
Force, in Ottawa, last night an
nounced that Flight Lieut. Paul
Sidney Warren, whose mother,
Mrs. Joseph Warren, lives at 412
Cass Ave., Mount Clemens, is
dangerously ill as a result of in
juries.
large vessel from the water, covering it with spray
and smoke. Docks ore being blasted from exist
ence.
j
Black puffs of ack-ack appear fruitlessly far
off from us. Yellow gun flashes from a warship
break along her whole length.
This is the greatest blow yet struck anywhere
in the Pacific, with hundreds of planes, heavy
bombers, medium bombers and swarms of fighters
pounding the harbor, airfields and gun installa
Fleeing Nazis Skip Blow-Up
SlpF, ,« 1-gWjy
(U. S. Army Signal Corps Radio-Telephoto from NEA)
FROM A WAIST-DEEP HOLE, Pvt. James J. Edwards passes an
unexploded charge of German-planted TNT to Lieut. Keith G.
Gladlelter. both of the engineers, at a bridge near Benevento, Italy.
The fleeing Nazis didn’t have time to set it off.
Attorney General Brands
Vice Evidence as ‘Hearsay’
New State Investigation of
Law-Enforcement Underway
State officials today were in
vestigating renewed charges by
the Methodist Men's Club, of St.
Clair Shores that "protected’’
vice and gambling are permit
ted in Macomb county.
The officials promised far
reaching action "if the reports
are proved to be founded upon
fact ’’
At the same time Attorney
General Herbert Rushton re
leased portions of a confidential
report submitted by a special in
vestigator last summer pointing
out that, prior to July 31, 11
commercialized gambling re
sorts and nine houses of prosti
tution w’ere operating, in Ma
comb county. Five of the prosti
tution resorts were identified as
being in the city of Mount Clem
ens where, the report also de
clared, there were six gambling
places and four blind pigs.
HEARSAY EVIDENCE
Rushton, in revealing the con
tents of a special report pre
pared by Joseph Manderano, a
THEY PIP RIGHT WELL
Treasury Reveals List of Those Making Over $75,000
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 —(/P)
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau today made
public a list of 71 officers and
employes of Michigan corpora
tions who received corporation
compensation in excess of $75 -
000 for personal services for the
calendar year 1941 or fiscal
years ending in 1942.
The list, published in accord
ance with a provision of the in
ternal revenue code, shows
amounts paid by reporting cor
porations in the form of salary,
commission, bonus or other com
pensation for personal services.
Topping the list was Charles
E. Wilson, president of the Gen
eral Motors Corporation, with a
total of $276,433.94.
Following him was the late
Edsel B. Ford, president of the
Ford Motor Cos., with $234,-
MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943
special investigator, cited that
it constituted a general criticism
of law'-enforcement in Macomb
county but was based solely on
"hearsay" and contained no
names or specific accusations.
See PROBE—Page 2
Colman Case
Studied by
Army Board
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14
Secretary of War Stimson
said today that William T. Col
man, former commandant of Sel
fridge Field, Mich., who was
convicted by a court martial last
month, had appeared before a
reclassification board appointed
to determine whether he should
be removed from the active list
of the Army.
Stimson said the board had
See COLMAN—Page 2
757.13, and Charles E. Sorenson,
a vice-president and director of
the Ford Cos., with $220,004 96.
SOME OVER $200,000
Six others in the $200,000 dol
lar bracket were H. F. Vickers,
of Vickers, Inc., $212,433.61; Al
bert Bradley, of General Motors
Corp., $208,643.30; Charles F.
Kettering, of General Motors,
$200,717.50; Donaldson Brown,
of General Motors, $200,706.00;
John Thomas Smith, of General
Motors, $200,802.25, and Alfred
P. Sloan, Jr., of General Motors,
$200,550.00.
Following is the list as report
ed by Secretary Morgenthau:
Lee Anderson Advertising
Agency: Lee Anderson, $99,000.
Bohn Aluminum and Brass
Corp.: Charles B. Bohn, $134,-
052.67; P. A. Markey, $114,-
$72 66.
Mocomb County'i Oldest New»popcr
tions at this north end of New Britain island, which
is the anchor of the Japanese position in the south
west Pacific and South Pacific. General Douglas
MacArthur had scraped together and had repaired
for this effort every Liberator, Flying Fortress,
Mitchell and Boston he could lay hands on for this
powerful assault. Some RAF Beauforts were em
ployed for special attack.
Before many squadrons of Liberators arrived
over the target mediums, large Mitchells, with a
Navy Reveals
Loss of Two
Destroyers
Buck and Bristol
Sent to Bottom
Off Salerno
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—(/P)
—Loss of two America , destroy
ers in the Medditerranean was
reported today by .he Navy in
a communique which also told
of an unsuccessful Japanese
bombing raid on A tu island in
the Aleutians.
The destroyers, the Buck and
Bristol, both sank as a result
of underwater explosions, the
Navy said.
The Buck, a 1.500-ton ship.
w r ent dowm off Salerno October
9 and the Bristol, a 1.700-ton
vessel, was sunk yesterday.
The Navy said casualty de
tails had not been received and
that next of kin * all casualties
will be notified immediately up
on receipt of information.
The bombing raid on Attu,
taken from the Japanese late in
May, was the first carried out
since American occupation of
that little island on the tip of
the Aleutians chain.
Ten Japanese bombers flew
high over Massacre Bay at a
great height, the Na y r< orted.
Their bombs were dropped with
out causing damage.
• • •
Reveal Menace
SEATTLE. Oct. 14—Mil
itary authorities have permitted
publication of a long-withheld
report on the fears of a Japanese
invasion of the Pacific North
west immediately after Pearl
Harbor, when “there was very
little here in the way of Naval
ships and aircraft to oppose such
an invasion attempt.”
The Post-Intelligencer, in pub
lishing the story last night, said
that its use at the time might
have precipitated a panic among
the civilian population, as well
as giving valuable military in
formation to the enemy.
"The truth is that until the
battle of Midway there was
nothing between the people of
the North Pacific coast and the
Japanese but a thin line of off
shore patrol boats and army
forces,” said the paper.
Burroughs Adding Machine
Cos.: Standish Backus. $85,200,
A. J. Doughty, $80,200.
Chrysler Corp.: B. E. Hutch
inson. $90,900; K. T. Keller,
$100,950; F. M. Zeder, $85,450.
Evans Products Cos.: E S. Ev
ans, $100,304.29.
Ex-Cello-O Corp.: Phil Huber,
$154,900.
Ford Motor Cos.: B. J. Craig,
$116,081 54; Edsel B. Ford,
$234,757.13; P. E. Martin, $82,-
983.12; Charles E. Sorenson.
$220,004.96; A. M. Wibcl, slOl,-
050.60.
G-M INCOMES
General Motors Corp.: Thomas
P. Archer, $79,398.20; Elmer G.
Biechler, $79,134.96; Albert
Bradley, $208,643.30; Ernest R.
Breech, $77,153.97; Donaldson
Brown, $200,706; Marvin E.
Coyle, $187,662 25; Harlow H.
sth Army Cracks
Volturno Line
Americans, British Storm
Barrier on Road to Rome
By NOLAND NORGAARD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
ALGIERS. Oct. 14—vP) —British
and American troops of Lt. Gen.
Mark W. Clark’s Fifth Army
cracked the strong German lines
along the Volturno river in a
fierce night attack early yester
day and have established several
armor-reinforced bridge heads
across that most formidable ob
stacle in the path to Rome. Al
lied headquarters announced to
day.
Gen. Clark struck at a time
to frSk"e advantage of favorable
weqther when dry ground al
lowed deployment of his forces
and after a terrific artillery bar
rage had softened the enemy’s
defense positions on the north
bank.
Engineers bridged the Vol
turno to get American tanks
across the stream, which for
days had been virtually impas
sable because of high water.
FIERCE BATTLE RAGES
But the Germans had rushed
fresh contingent south from
the Rome area in recent days to
meet an expected attack, and as
Great Salvage
Drive Planned
. \
Business Places
to Close Half-Day
Business men will be asked to
close their places of business
during the afternoon of October
28. in Mount Clemens and three
surrounding townships in order
to help in the salvage drive
scheduled for that day, Wallace
Gerlach, chairman, said today.
Participating in the drive be
sides Mount Clemens are Clin
ton, Harrison, and the southern
part of Macomb Township.
The business men who comply
with the request made by the
salvage committee will aid in
the collection of the salvage.
Business men are co-operating
splendidly,” Gerlach said.
Thirty trucks named by busi
ness men and school pupils will
See SALVAGE—Page 2
Curtice, $147,770.25; Nicholas
Dreystadt, $86,205.93; Harley J
Earl $96,762.75; Ronald K. Ev
ans. $105,114.21; Alfred J. Fish
er, $101,358.75; Edward F. Fish
er, $144,760.50; Lawrence P.
Fisher, $152.330 25; William A.
Fisher, $93,845; Richard H.
Grant, $152,244.25; Graeme K.
Howard, $80,452.50; Ormond E.
Hunt, $199,594; Charles F. Ket
tering, $200,717.50; Harry J.
Klinger, $101,505.75; Frederick
C. Krocgcr, $94,084.71; Bayard
D. Kunkle, $91,550 45; Charles
L. McCuen, $116,906.46; James
D. Mooney, $145,579 25; Alfred
P. Sloan, Jr., $200,550; John
Thomas Smith, $200,602.25;
Charles E. Witherald, $94,-
903 25; Charles E. Wilson, $276,-
433 94.
General Motors Sales Corp.:
See INCOMES—Page 2
heavy fighter escort, had strafed airfields and gun
positions at a perilously low level. Brightly burn
ing planes, particularly around the edge of one
leading airfield within our vision, bear witness to
the fact that scores of enemy planes were destroy
ed on the ground.
Now we are drilling over our target, the harbor,
in banked echelon. The American emblem is
See EYEWITNESS—Page 2
the British and Americans
clawed their way up the steep
banks fierce fighting raged up
See ITALY—Page 2
Italy's (rimes
Not Forgotten
War Declaration
Not Convincing
LONDON, Oct. 14 </P)
Italy’s former misdeeds remain
ed strongly alive today despite
the Badoglio government's dec
laration of war against Germany
and most unofficial quarters ap
peared to have adopted an at
titude of wait-and-see.
The Daily Mail summed it up
thus:
"Actions will ccrtmt • • •.
The terms to defeated Italy can
only be adjusted in the light of
the assistance which she gives
us. To put it another way
Italy will be punished for her
misdeeds, but she may obtain
remission for good conduct.”
No official comment has been
forthcoming so far from the ex
iled governments of France, Yu
goslavia, Greece and Albania—
Italy's four chief victims —but
men of those nationalities have
emphasized that they and their
compatriots will not forget eas
ily.
GREEKS SKEPTICAL
“We certainly are not yet
ready to fight shoulder to shoul
der with them as allies,” de
clared one Greek.
A high Yugoslav said he wel
comed “anything that will
shorten the war” but added that
“if it means a move whereby
any new Italian regime will be
given concessions at the expense
of the Yugoslav nation, battling
now for life, we will be disap
pointed.”
The Provisional Committee of
Directors of the Italian Socialist
Party in London was frankly
antagonistic.
The committee labeled the Ba
doglio government “an hnposi-
See CAUTIOUS—Page 2
Leaves Today
iff f. 1
LIEUT, (j. g.) ERNEST J.
BUCKHOLZ. Mount Clemens
High school athletic coach, who
today left for Princeton, N. J.,
to begin Navy training for war
service at sea.
WEATHER_REPORT
COLDER TONIGHT
AND FRIDAY FORENOON
Monitor-Leader Office
MONITOR-LEADER BLDG.
Cass at Walnut
Key Jap Base
Shattered in
Biggest Raid
MacArthur Hurls
Every Available
Plane at Foe
By C. YATES Me DANIEL
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIF
IC. Oct. 14— (/P) — General Mac-
Arthur threw every bomber and
fighter plane he could rik in a
gigantic smash Tuesday at Jap
an’s key sea-air bastion of Ra
baul on New Britain, and the
resultant devastation prompted
the conervative general to say,
“I think we have broken its
back.”
The raid by the biggest air
armada ever amassed in this
area “marks the turning point
in the war in the South Pacific,’*
declared the Airforce Comman
der, Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney.
The far-reaching results—they
may speed the unhinging of tho
whole perimeter of defenses aii
chored to Rabaul—were:
Destruction or severe damag#
of 177 enemy planes, an estim
ated 60 per cent of the air force
on Rabaul's airdromes.
Sinking of at least 17,600 tons
of ships, including three destroy
ers and three merchant ships,
as well as 43 small seagoing
See RABAl’L—Page 2
Green Again
Heads A. F. of L.
0
Labor Union
Renames Leader
BOSTON, Oct. 14 (/P) —.
The American Federation of La
bor today re-elected President
William Green for his 20th term
as head of the labor organiza
tioen.
Green was nominated by
Frank Duffy, of the Carpenters
and Joiners Union, and was re
elcted by the castiivg of a single
ballot.
In his acceptance speech.
Green forecast a fateful year and
said the federation would con
tinue to urge that its “way
ward brothers” return.
“We only ask,” he said, “that
they come back as they left us,
with no additions and compli
cations.” He added that the
rights of present AFL affiliates
“must and will be protected.”
The convention also re-elected
See A. F. OF L—Page 2
Arid Romeo
Volos on Sale
of Intoxicants
ROMEO Residents of this
arid village were trooping to
the polls today to register their
preferences on the matter of
local option, wherein the sale
of intoxicants is concerned.
Dry as a bone, insofar a*
sale of liquors by-the-glass ia
concerned, the village has wit
nessed a determined effort upon
the part of liberals to defeat
the restrictions imposed on li
quor sales by virtue of a prev
ious election.
Village officials estimated ft
substantial vote would be regis
tered on the issue, sole question
before the voters in today’s spe
cial election. Polling places re
main open until 8. p. m.
*
FIVE CENTS