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UNITED PRESS
84th Year, No. 143
Reds Plunge Forward in Drive Menacing Budapest
YANKS CRUMPLE RHINELAND DEFENSES
Tokyo Night Return Without Single Loss
350 Villages
Fall to Red
Army Forces
Moscow Confirms
Smashing Attack
by Russian Troops
LONDON, Nov. 30 (/P)
Russian and Yugoslav Partisan
forces thrust forward 25 miles
west of the Danube in South
western Hungary today in a
huge offensive that has the
three-fold possibility of cncirc
t ling Budapest, driving straight
into Austria sealing off all Nazi
troops in the Balkans.
Premier Stalin in an order of
the day yesterday announced
the capture of 350 communities
in southern Hungary and north
ern Yugoslavia, confirming the
drive about which the German
radio has spoken for the last
week.
Pecs, coal mining and railway
center 98 miles southwest of
Budapest was seized, as was
Mohacs, a like distance directly
south of the Hungarian capital
and Bataszek, 85 miles south of
Budapest, Moscow said.
WIDE BREAKTHROUGH
The broadcast Russian com
munique said the drive across
the Danube by Marshal Feodor
X. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine
Army and Yugoslav Nationals
was north of the big river's con
fluence with the Drava, a point
130 miles due south of Budapest.
The brcaKthrough was on a 93-
See RUSSIA—Page 2
a
U. S. vs Pooch
Litigation
Draws Throng
CENTER LINE Attracting
the interest of hundreds of fami
lies in the vicinity, particularly
those in the Kramer Homes gov
ernment housing project, the
case of the United States of
America vs. Leslie Schofield, is
now proceeding in the court of
Justice Guy L. Frost.
The litigation with the high
sounding title is not an anti-trust
case involving billions of dol
lars, a treasury suit aimed at
reclaiming valuable property or
a decision on territorial rights
between sovereign states.
It centers on the right of a
little cocker spaniel named
“Rusty” to live on the housing
development, in violation of
regulations w’hich forbid dogs to
tenants.
The settlement of this problem
’ has attracted the attention of the
projects’ 200 families, 760 chil
dren and the 12 dogs now left
out of a former dog population
of 200, who have faithfully at
tended sessions in Justice Frost’s
court where the United States
District Attorney (representing
See DOG—Page 2
Kramer Homes) and Attorneys
Charles A. Rctzlaff and J. Rus
sell Laßargc argue “Rusty’s”
fate.
Standing by is the defendant,
See DOG—Page 2
‘Mrs. Uliniver'
is Senior Play
“Mrs. Miniver”, Jan Struth
rr’s story of an English family
during the present war, has been
selected as the annual Mount
Clemens High school Senior
play. The production, which is
being directed by Miss Mary
Joan Purcell and presented by
the class of ’45, will be given
December 14 and 15 at eight p.
m in the high school auditorium
Tickets may be purchased
1 from any senior at a cost of 50c
for adults, and 40c for students
du Thursday night only.
Monitor Jib SJratipr
War Bond Sales Lag
Far Behind in City
Gallants of Mount Clemens are on the march towards a
$300,000 bond sale goal to be attained in one week.
On Thursday, Dec. 7 third anniversary of Japan's infamy
at Pearl Harbor the one-week drive will be climaxed by a
mass meeting at the Medea ballroom when all sales units are
expected to report the $43,000-a-day pace successfully accom
plished.
Dec. 7 has been designated “Over-the-Top” day for Mount
Clemens by chairman Martin G. Schwark. The office of state
chairman Frank N. Isbey will cooperate in the Medea rally and
a special program of headline events is being arranged.
“People arc willing and anxious to buy bonds; Gallants and
merchants arc pledged to sell them,” Schwark said today. He
advised all agents and agencies to stock up with bond materials,
See BONDS—Page 2
Death Halts
Sedition Trial
Federal Judge
Dies in Sleep
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30
Death during the night of
presiding Justice Edward C. E:-
cher today apparently brought
to an end the seven-month-old
mass sedition trial in Federal
District Court.
Eicher, 65-ycar-old former
lowa Congressman, died at his
home in nearby Alexandria, Va.
A Justice Department official,
declining to be quoted by name,
said the Jurist’s death would
mean that the current trial
would have to be terminated
and the hearing started all over
again.
The 27 defendants are accus
ed of conspiring to disatfcct the
loyalty of American armed forc
es and to set up a Nazi form of
Government in this country.
The trial opened last April 17
with 30 defendants. One later
died and two won severances.
After a summer recess, the
hearings have recently been con
fined to afternoon sessions to
permit defense attorneys to car
ry on their own law practises.
Most of the attorneys have been
serving without compensation.
From its outset, the mass
hearing was marked by uproar
and confusion. Selection of a
jury proceeded at a snail’s pace
throughout the first two weeks.
Then with the box still not fill
ed, the task had to be started
from scratch again with the ex
piration at month's end of the
District Court jury panels.
Slate Liquor Stores
to Open An Hour Later
LANSING, Nov. 30 (/P)
Beginning Friday State Liquor
Stores will open at 11 a. m., an
hour later than usual. Brig.
Gen. Louis A. Kunzig, business
manager of the State Liquor
Control Commission, announced
today.
MOTHERS END BUS-STRIKE
Educational Needs Come First
After keeping their children
from school for more than two
weeks in protest over lack of bus
transportation—an action which
cut school attendance 35 per
cent —a group of mothers of
Cady’s Corners School, Clinton
Township, have agreed to send
all children to school rather
than hamper their education by
absenteeism.
Instead, the protesting Manor
Heath subdivision mothers’
group has embarked on a policy
of cooperation with other elec
tors in the school district in an
effort to procure transportation'
and other benefits through pos
sible consolidation of other
22 PAGES
La Luce
Irks Pals
on Junket
1 LONDON. Nov. 30 (A>)
Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce and the
male members of the roving
House Military Committee are
feuding over publicity.
Several of the battlefront-
I bound lawmakers are annoyed
! because the Connecticut Repub-
I lican—in point of service the
committee’s “freshman”—has re
! reived most headlines since their
! tour began.
j The situation wasn't improved
3 esterday.
j Independently, Mrs. Luce sal
lied forth on a short flight in a
fortress while her male col
leagues remained groun de and,
plodding through the mud in an
inspection of three air bases.
She rejoined the party several
hours later in time to welcome
home some bombers from their
mission to Germany.
TWO PURPOSES?
I Rep. Matt Merritt (D-NY),
acting chairman, said he had
nothing to do with the flight—
that he wasn't consulted.
I “I thought,” observed another
See PUBLICITY—Page 2
Pvt. John Rhinard
Missing in Action
Unreported Sine Nov. 9
War Deportment Reveols
Pvt. John E. Rhinard, 36
years of age, husband of Mrs.
Olive Rhinard, Monitor-Leader
employee, today was reported
missing in action somewhere in
Germany.
Pvt. Rhinard. who has been
overseas since July of this year,
had entered the service in Dec
ember, 1943. Prior to that time
he had been employed at the
Hudson Arsenal. The War De
partment message to Mrs. Rhin
ard said that he had been miss
-1 ing since Nov. 9.
Mrs. Rhinard lives at 139 Vi
Grand avenue, Mount Clemens.
school districts with Clinton No.
5.
The state-Aavored school dis
trict consolidation plan would
allow the area to benefit greatly
from projected postwar govern
ment aid now being devised for
consolidated districts. If an ag
ricultural district (with seven
man school board) was created,
the State of Michigan would pav
all transportation costs in such
a district.
Initial steps in the study of
District 6 problems will be taken
at tonight s School Board meet
ing, when voters will ask of-
Open every evening till 9 P.M.
Priehs Mercantile—Adv.
Macomb County's Oldest Newspaper
MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1944
FDR Fires
Biddle
Assistant
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30
(/P> President Roosevelt, step
ping into a red-hot justice de
partment row, fired Assistant
Attorney General Norman Lit
tell today for “insubordination.”
Littell had been warring with
his chief, Attorney General Bid
dle, in exchanges that followed
Biddle’s demand for Littell’s
resignation. Littell accused Bid
dle of having interferred in one
justice department case in favor
of Thomas G. (Tommy the
Cork) Corcoran, former presi
dential intimate now in private
law practise.
President Roosevelt interven
ed after the senate war investi
gating committee, headed by
Senator Mead (D-N.Y.) had side
stepped in immediate decision
on whether to investigate “ir
reconciliable” differences be
tween the two justice officials.
Fighter Pilots
Rip Jap Convoy
Sink 13 Ships
Nearing Leyte
GEN. MacARTHUR S HEAD
QUARTERS, Philippines, Nov.
30 — (/ P)—- Slashing American
fighter planes sank 10 Japanese
transports and three destroyers,
with at least 4.000 reinforce
ments aboard, in a blistering
Tuesday - Wednesday battle
which crippled an apparent Nip
ponese effort to land a full new
division on Leyte Island.
The latest strike, pushed to
21,000 the Japanese death toll
for reinforcements who failed to
reach port, but some fresh troops
evidently slipped ashore to join
the rain-swept battle of Ormoc
Corridor.
Two transports in this sixth
major reinforcement convoy
were destroyed in Ormoc port,
after they partially had unload
ed men and supplies. One ves
sel blew into pieces when hit.
The other eight transports
were destroyed “well out at
sea.” today's communique said,
and an estimated 4,000 troops
were lost.
53 AlliedToTdiers
Exchanged (or Germans
PORNIC, France, Nov. 29
(Delayed) (JP) —Fifty-three
Allied soldiers. 19 of them Amer
icans, came back from the gloom
of a prison cage in the German
held port of St. Nazaire today
in a prisoner exchange.
The exchange took place in a
neutral zone between two strips
of barbed wire amid formal
salutes.
ficials to attend the Dec. 13
meeting of the Clinton Town
ship Board with a view to ask
ing that body’s opinion on school
district consolidation,
If the township board, at
some later date, should approve
a proposal to consolidate, all
people in the district would be
required to vote for or against
consolidation. The proponents of
the plan point out this fact in
the hope that opposition will not
develop until the subject has
been fully studied without the
partisan bitterness which has
characterized previous school
meetings.
Consolidation of school dis-
See PUPILS—Page 2
Super-Forts
Set New Fires
in Jap Capital
Mammoth U. S.
Planes Strike
Anew at Japan
B> the Associated Prroo
All Superfortresses which
participated in the third B-29
strike on Tokyo Wednesday
night returned to their base,
a 20th Air Force communique
sad today.
In the three raids on Japan's
capital, two Superforts have
j been lost. The crew of one of
i these was rescued by a destroy
er.
i Returning airmen reported
that anti-aircraft fire was mea
: gcr and inaccurate. Results were
not observed because of a cloud
cover.
Fire-scarred Tokyo, its de
fenses admittedly penetrated
j twice in five hours Wednesday
(U.S. Time) by Superfortresses,
j is getting a foretaste of a cam
j paign “to destroy the heart and
I tht#nerve centers of Japan's war
machine.”
Gen. H. H. Arnold, command*
I ing General of the Army Air
j Forces, placed that interpreta
tion last night at Kansas City on
| a gathering drive which has put
f bombers over Tokyo on three
days within a week.
THREATEN DEATH
' This air war on Japan proper
had these ramifications:
Fires started Wednesday rag
ed for a considerable time in
I Tokyo.
Incensed Tokyo radio an
nouncers fumed that any Yank
llier who parachuted after
“blindly” bombing Toyko would
be “killed on the spot by the
angry Japanese people.”
Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso
j held a Cabinet meeting yester
day because—to quote Tokyo
radio—“in due course various
bottlenecks are expected to ap-
See TOKYO—Page 2
Ls. Thomas Dluge
Killed in (rash
Young Pilot Dies
in Arabian Accident
First Lieut. Thomas J. Dluge,
age 23, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George G. Dluge, of 11 Fourth
street, died in a plane crash in
Arabia. Nov. 26. the War De
partment officially informed the
family today.
Lieut. Dluge had spent almost
his entire life in this city; at
tended St. Mary’s parochial
school where he was president of
the 1939 graduating class. He
won his wings at Randolph Field.
Texas., Feb. 11, and flew in to
Mount Clemens to visit his par
ents during October. He was a
See CASUALTY—Page 2
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LT. THOMAS J. DLUGE
Yanks 'Barbarians'
Jap Radio Charges
(By the Associated Press)
America, a Japanese propagandist told his countrymen in a
broadcast today, “is a barbaric nation unparalleled in the
world.”
The propagandist, Goro Nakano, former New York corres
pondent of the Tokyo newspaper Asahi, said he “stripped the
mask of justice and humanity” from “the enemy Americans” to
inspire a “feeling of hatred toward the American people.”
In the broadcast, recorded by the Federal Communications
Commission, he cited as evidence of American barbarism wrest
ling matches, black-face comedians, plays like “Tobacco Road,”
and actresses selling kisses for war bonds.
Nakano said he was “amazed at the bloody barbarity” of
wrestling in America where “huge and horrible looking mon-
See PROPAGANDA—Page 2
Strikers
Delay War
Output
DETROIT, Nov. 30 (JP)
Approximately 9,000 workers in
Detroit area war plants were
made idle today in a series of
strikes that closed two plants
and seriously impaired opera
tions in a third.
Closed were the Graham-
Paige Motor Corp. factory and
the Brigs Manufacturing Com
pany’s Mack Avenue plant. Also
at a standstill were production
activities in the aircraft engine
division of Chrysler Corpora
tion's Dodge main plant.
A Briggs spokesman said 4,000
workers left their jobs today in
See STRIKES—Page 2
Baby Diane
Fights Off
Sun Allergy
EAST DETROIT —Thanks to
the genius of a modest physician
who sank his heart and the skill
of his scientific mind into her
baffling case, two-year-old Diane
Eaton of this community is now
well on the road to recovery
from a sun allergy which was
slowly killing her six months
ago.
“The battle is not over by
any means,” her physician said
Wednesday. “However, Diane,
who was slowly dying in a dark
ened room six months ago, now
exercises in the open air and
mild sunshine every day, and is
holding her own as far as weight
is concerned. Blood transfusions
are no longer required.”
SHUNS PUBLICITY
The physician, who has tried
to detach himself from publicity
connected with the unusual case,
is Dr. Domenico M. Anncssa, of
Detroit.
To Mr. and Mrs. Pruett Ea
ton, of 15029 Crescentwood ave
nue, their daughter's recovery
from what seemed certain death
is nothing short of miraculous.
A year ago when Diane start-
See BABY—Page 2
HOLEY W OODITIS
Best Battle of 1944
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 30
OP) The story of one of Holly
wood's best battles of 1944, the
bout between bandleader Tom
my Dorsey and movie romco Jon
Hall, was to be unfolded today
for a jury trying Tommy, his
good-looking wife and his friend.
Allen Smiley, on felonious as
sault charges.
There are going to be several
versions of the fracas. A tall and
statuesque blonde singer, Miss
Jane Churchill, of Kansas City,
Open every evening till 9 P.M.
Priehs Mercantile—Adv.
0
U. S. Casualties
Top 536,000
Ovtr Half-Million
Dtad and Wounded
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30
(A*) Casualties for the armed
forces have reached 536,950.
From Pearl Harbor through
November 15, army casualties
amounted to 461,058, Secretary
of War Stimson said today.
This was an increase of 6,878
in one week from November 7.
Navy casualties are 75,892, an
increase of 1,277 for the week.
Here are the army casualties,
together with those a week ago;
kiled 89.840 and 88,245; wound
ed 258,106 and 254,823; missing
57,514 and 56,442; prisoners 55,-
598 and 55,210.
The navy casualties: killed 29,-
480 and 29,208; wounded 32,600
and 31,574; missing 9,326 and
9,347; prisoners 4,486 and 4,-
486 (unchanged).
The enemies’ casualties in
clude nearly three-quarters of a
million prisoners taken by the
Allies in Europe since D-Day in
Normandy, in addition to those
captured in Italy, Stimson re
ported in a war review.
Winston Churchill
70 Years Old Today
Fighting Prime-Minister
Celebrates by Working
LONDON, Nev. 30 (>P)
Winston Churchill, 70 years old i
today, was greeted with a roar- j
ing cheer when he entered the i
House of Commons to follow his j
usual custom of putting in a
full day's work on his birthday. |
“Seventy not out”—an ex
tremely good score in cricket— |
was the personal greeting given ;
the Prime Minister by 87-year- !
old Laborite Will Thorne, the I
oldest member of Commons.
Churchill wore a deep red ■
rose in his buttonhole and ap- I
peared in high good humor as
various members came up to
congratulate him.
Mo., was ready to present the
first. She went to a party cele
brating Mrs. Dorsey's 26th birth
day last Aug. 4.
About 3 o’clock the following
morning the fight broke out.
Miss Churchill told a grand jury
that indicted the Dorseys and
Smiley that she and Tommy's
wife, Pat Dane, had a torrid bat
tle of their own. She lost some
of her long, golden locks and
she and Pat tore each other’s
clothes.
That was Jane's introduction
I See DORSEYS—Page 1
WEATHER REPORT
MUCH COLDER
ZERO WEATHER PRORARLR
Monitor-Leader Office
MONITOR-LEADER ILOR
Cass at Watat
Lindern Falls
to Advancing
U. S. Columns
Attack
Menaces Whole Shield
for Dusseldorf, Cologne
By WILLIAM FRYE
| LONDON, Nov. 30 —<
i Ninth Army Americans captured
| Lindern and fought street by
street through burning Breeds
today up the railroad to Munch”
i en Gladbach in the great Allied
, offensive cracking the Roer Riv
j er line before Cologne and Due*
seldorf.
Survivors of the Elite SS gar*
I rison of strategic Lindern were
captured with the town 14W
1 miles from the Prussian arsenal
and rail city of Munchen Glad*
bach. Most of the Beeck gar*
rison were killed; the stragglesfl
fled toward nearby Wurm.
j FIGHT BY PLAIN I
I The First Army at the south*
ern end of the critical 23-mila
front on the Cologne Plain cap*
tured Lamersdorf and Graashga
. and emerged from Uw Mnrtgsn
Forest pinelands. Lt» Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges* troopg
fought a seesaw battle for ab
Inde river bridge at Inden, win*
ning it, losing it, and then re*
gaining the western end of the
small span.
In the center of the western
front, the U. S. Third Army held
firm against a series of counter
attacks loosed from the Sig Med
Line in the Saar, guarding roads
though the rich coal and steel
region to Karlsruhe, Coblenj
and Frankfurt.
The Germans stiffened before
Cologne, 23 miles from nearesl
American guns. The capture of
Lindern brought Dusseldorf
within 28 miles of American
lines. i
DRIVE TO RHINE >
French First Army troopa
drove to the Rhine at St. Lsu&R
immediately north of the Swiaa
city of Basel, cutting off the
German SS garrison at TTmilngna
from escape into Switserlaode
an Associated correspondent or
that frontier reported. ;
Men of the U.S. First Amy
burst into the open from the
i pines of the Hurtgen Forest,
where hundreds from both Mden
have died since mid-October.
Gains were scored along Ri
entire 25-mile front on Use Co
logne plain east of and
Geilenkirchen where the ttm
Army group of Lt. Gen. Omar
Bradley was battling
flame throwers, tanks **4
frightful artillery and air bar
rages. The new Ninth Army at
tack won high ground dominat
ing the ke£ town of
OVERLOOK SAAR *
The U.S. Third Army on thn
Saar front pushed into high
See GERMANY—Pago S
Shrieers Offer
Concert Tonight
The paths of all music lovare
in Macomb County lead tonight
to Mount Clemens High HrliSel
auditorium where the Moslem
Shrine “Million Dollar” band
and chanters make a special aR*
pearsnee at t p. m., under gap*'
pices of the Macomb Shraa i
Club.
A special program, faoturlng f
Sousa band marches and pat* >.
riotic aigs for vocal and lastro
mental performers has been at*
ranged by the hand, gbrlat
Club members of all ptltg of
Macomb County art cooperating, t ■
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Shrine s fund for crippled qMttyt
ren which operates *(*&**£&s
the United States and CbSia|
Even traveling egpagHM
band are underwrlltqpl
Moslem Shrine,
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ton C. Smith, Mount
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