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.. V 'm Impartial Cavarap* •* AH Local Hpwc ASSOCIATED PRESS URITED PRESS •5Hi Year, No. 15S STARK REVEALS PRE-WAR SECRETS Back from Moscow BBfT.% : vi ■L S•■ v / vJjf ’ ‘’^^■Ub^KJL v W -v/ ji * P#:' ■f .'■ - >■!•,■;■ *, < , :.'. '-•jE>w .»•- -. ~V: . '■wKjjt : '\ ' |4i p-V.-. ■» - ■ ■ -,/v -wfl^B^P- I I ||L' ?’ ..-■ wzwßoil. -\ >V. / , ’;., .• % > *'*.'. HE* J- "' c '^^f^< % **r' !<*,:> -*rW ? ' 1 r /{F’"A y ■HHHBjid (NEA Telephoto* SECRETARY OF STATE James F. Byrnes, center, is welcomed Borne by British Ambassador Lord Halifax, left, and Undersecre tary of State Dean Acheson, right, upon Byrnes’ arrival by plane Rt Washington National Airport from Big Three Ministers Con ference in Moscow. Byrnes Ignores MocArthur Statement On Moscow Pact WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—(A*) —Secretary of State Byrnes pre pared today for his fourth trip abroad in six months after telling Americans why he believes his third contributed to lasting peace. Also in his radio report last night on the Moscow Conference Firemen Save Woman from Blazing Home A 57-year-old Mount Clemens (woman narrowly escaped death from asphyxiation on Saturday when fire, believed to have been caused by a cigaret she was smoking, ignited bedding and clothing which filled her room with thick fumes. She was unconscious and suf fering from burns and cuts when firemen succeeded in reaching her. At St. Joseph Hos pital her condition'was regarded ns serious and she is still there today in “fair” condition. The woman is Mrs. Mary Wal- Ski, of 21 Don street, wife of Alex Walski, The fire took place et 7:05 p. m., Raturday and fire men kept property damage at a low figure. Fire Chief Ed Smith said that thick smoke which filled Mrs. iWalski’s room would undoubted ly have caused her death if fire men had not rescued her. The rescue was performed by Lt. Kenneth Dubay, aided by ffTeman Carl Woltman, William ies RESCUE—sFage t W M —————— Probe Brutal Slaying of Divorcee, 40 DETROIT, Dec. 31 OP) Police investigating the slaying Ol Mrs. Gladys Cordelia Mars don, 40-year-old divorcee, to day probed the possibility her Mayer might have been a civil ■° deemed in a bemedalled •rmy uniform. Meriden's body, brutally oeaten and clod only in shoes and stockings and with a slip "'■Mad Um neck, wss found early Sunday in a school ed near the wealern city lim- An autopsy diaclaaad death m iaa put u was not eeoclmtvo aa to dpth or in# woman had - haga, the Jaw waa brthw. teeth wore hfahad traf and ms nerous cuts and bndmo maaS ■•r Met, anna and lag* jSgmßw A ■ BB I ■ I B Ht nl^^H bb jA Vv BL gg^| - • (Biff d SSgT3 BaUg Monitor JHL-H?ait?r ■of Foreign Ministers, Byrnes as sured the nation that new inter national machinery set up for control of Japan will not obstruct "the outstanding and -efficient administration" of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur. It will, he insisted, leave the United States in a top policy-making role. SQUARES COMMENT The cabinet officer ignored a tartly • worded statement Mac- Arthur issued in Tokyo earlier in the day in which the supreme commander said he had not been consulted during the Moscow talks and declared: "I have no iota of responsibility for the de cisions which were made there." Speaking from the Conference room of the State Department, Byrnes described how this coun try, Russia and Britain reached agreement on issues involving Japan, atomic energy, peace treaties, China, Korea, Romania and Bulgaria. He said too he had Foreign Ministers Bevin of Britain and Molotov of Russia almost agreed on a three-power commission to study problems of troubled Iran. He added he waa "not discour aged" by the near-miss. FOURTH SESSION He might have said they will have another opportunity to agree on an Iranian policy in London at the first meeting of the United Nations assembly next month. That will be con ference No. 4 for Byrnes in the half-year he has held the top cabinet position. The Iranian government has said it will lay before the assem bly its charges that the Azerbai jan revolt waa assisted by Rus sian occupation forces. PLAN CIVIC CENTER Shores to Buy Club ST. CLAIR SHORES * Blos som Heath, a lake-front night spot which for decades enjoyed a national reputation as a gambling establishment, and which more recently waa the center of a legal controversy when a Negro group sought to operate it, today bekmgs to (|« people of St. Clair Shores. Property owners on Friday voted 557 to 249 in favor of pur chasing the oM building and 17 acres of adjoining land for $55,- BM. and adding $22,000 to this outlay for renovation expenses. Tipsy Drivers Face Police Crack-Down PROSPEROUS 1946 IS ASSURED New Industries Relied Trend in HI. Clemens B. of C. Secretary Predicts City to Flourish During *46 Record payrolls, increased building, civic improvements and new industry will combine to make 1946 a banner year for Mount Clemens residents, A. D. Brewer, executive secretary of the Board of Commerce, pre dicted today. Painting an optimistic picture of the future, Brewer visualised an easing of the current housing shortage by "construction of more homes in ’46 then were built in any previous year." Brewer cited the lack of hous ing as "the most serious draw back to the city’s growth’* while adding plans are in the making to meet the problem. SEES BATH BOOM The secretary is certain ho tels and bath houses are in for a boom year and that retail businesses will enjoy increased prosperity. While welcoming four new in dustries to Mount Clemens, Brewer made it plain he is not forgetting the stabilizing influ ence of long established indus trial concerns on the community. He said Ironrite will go into full production by February 1 with 500 employes, that Electro master will get underway with 300 workers by March 1 and that R. M. Whyte and Willey Sign are offering employment to substantial numbers. While predicting the long awaited completion of Gratiot avenue widening, Brewer en dorsed the proposed Clinton River spillway and urged a clean-up campaign along the river front. "The river should be our at tractive front door rather than Bee ClTY—Page t 4,000 Gallons of Gas Go Up in Explosion WASHINGTON Kerschel Shreive, 36 -*year - old Detroit truck driver, narrowly escaped with his life at an early hour Saturday, when his gasoline laden tank trailer overturned on the highway, exploded and caus ed a fire which lighted the coun tryside for miles. Four thousand gallons of gas -Bee GAS—Page t The building will be trans formed into a community recre ation center and the surrounding grounds will' be dedicated to picnic and outdoor gathering purposes. The nearby beach may become a boat harbor. The favorable vote automati cally empowered village officials to saR a If or 20-year baud is sue, and arrangements for this will be made immediately. Ev ery effort will be made to pro tect the building from further weather damage during the win- See SHORES—Page 2 Mdcmhß Cotiftty't Only Doily Nowspnpor MOUNT CLKMKNS, MICH.. MONOAY. DECEMBER 31. 1945 Report Bormann Captured. LONDON, Dec. 31 (/P) Reuters News agency said in a dispatch from Nuernberg today that Czechoslovak newspapers had reported the arrest of Mar tin Bormann, Hitler’s deputy party Fuehrer. The report was not confirmed immediately. The dispatch said the Czecho slovak newspapers reported that Bormann had been seized in the British zone of Germany. It added however, that Allied se urity officers refused to confirm or deny the report. .. ; > Fire Losses Show Increase $85,053 Do mo get in Eight Months A slight increase in fire dam age in Mount Clemens during the fiscal year beginning May 1 was reported today by Fire Chief Edmund Smith. Although a full comparison cannot be made with the 1944 year which began May 1 and ended on April 30, 1945, Chief Smith estimated that this year’s fire damage will surpass the previous year’s total by several thousand dollars. SERIOUS LOSS Smith said that $85,053 worth of damage has been caused by fire in the city during the eight months’ period beginning in May. In the 1944 fiscal year, cov ering the full 12 month period the total loss in property and contents totaled $115,262. The local fire department has answered 161 calls so far this year as compared to 273 calls in 1944. During the eight months pe riod property valued at $131,- 500 was ravaged by fire as com pared to $154,200 in 1944. SEES INCREASE Although these figures show that fires during the present year are causing damage at a corresponding rate to 1944 Smith said that the danger period for fires is during the winter months and he predicted that this year’s total loss should top the 1944 mark unless people take ex treme safety measures. Firemen fought two major conflagrations during the 1945 fiscal report. On June 1 fire gutted the Cun ningham drug store and building at the corner of Gratiot and Macomb streets. Smith said that this fire alone caused a total damage of $55,000. The dam age to the building was astimat- See FIRES— Page 2 In the Monitor GENERAL NEWS— I, 2,3, 6, $ AND 12, MARKETS—3. OBITUARIES—3. YRAR IN REVIEW—4. ■ART CONTEST—S. ‘ SOCIETY—7. NEWS PICTURRS-S. SPORTS—IO. RADIO AND COMICS—II. - . V 7NT frluf! hi Jan ui mA i Sail. rhea, MTT. Jcha Mitch.U. stm -t imp ■- r— — —— dd Peace Officers Warn Motorists to 'Go Easy' Joil Colls Yown for Drinking Mocomb Drivort The wildest, zaniest New Year s celebration since the start of the war was in the offing for Mount Clemens today as thou sands of revelers prepared to give the first peacetime year a rousing welcome. In anticipation of the exub rance of the celebrants, Pert ice Ctyef Arthur I.fßosso and Stytr-' iff Harley Ensign today aug mented their forces to keep ac cidents and fatalities at a mini mum. Four Military Police officers from Selfridge Field will be on hand to offer aaistance to the local patrolmen and to help keep service personnel in hand. WARN DRIVERS With driving hazards in creased greatly by the snow and freezing weather, all motorists < were asked to drive somberly | and sanely and if possible to leave their cars at home. Chief Rosso said that he has called out auxiliary policemen to help patrol the streets and to keep a lookout for any disorders or misconduct on the part of the celebrants. He said that all the Mount Clemens police cars would pa trol during the night and would stop all drivers guilty of the slightest violation of highway regulations. VOICEB APPEAL Sheriff Ensign made an open appeal to drivers to abstain from driving if they have touched any liquor. He said that he would rather see the people leave their cars at home and call his office for patrol cars to take them home than to see them drive while under the in fluence of liquor. He pointed out that any sacri- See WARNING—Page 2 Red Cross Moves into New Office at 44 Gratiot Macomb County Chapter, the American Red Cross, today oc cupied its new quarters at 44 South Gratiot avenue, where of ficials invite public inspection. Junior Red Cross and public ity offices soon will be moved to the same building. Once the move is completed, all branches of Red Cross service will be See RED CROSS—Page S CONTEST RESTRICTED TO CITY Fine Gifts Await First'46 Baby To the first baby born in the city to Mount Clemens parents following the ringing in of the New Year will go many useful gifts provided through the gen erosity of local merchants. The rules, as outlined fully on Page $ of today’s edition, pro vide that the report of the birth must be, accompanied by a writ ten statement from the attend ing physician giving exact time and place. To be eligible, the baby must be born with the cor 40 Die on Highways in Couniy During '45 Figures released today by Macomb County law enforcement agencies show that 40 persons met violent death on county high ways during the past year. The grim harvest of automobile fatalities is nearly double the toll of a year ago when 25 people died in automobile accidents. Bare statistics show that the great majority of highway deaths were caused during the past six months when speeding and gaso line bans were lifted. Sheriff Harley Ensign said that more persons have been killed in automobile accidents during the past year than from any other single cause. < CARS NEED REPAIRS Increased traffic and cars bad ly in need of repair were reasona given by Sheriff Ensign at the chief contributing factors in the sky-rocketing toll. Ensign said that drivers op erate their machines at the same speed at they did when they were in the best of shape and discover, too late, that they can’t stop in time or that their tires can not stand the strain of fast driving. The great majority of deaths were caused in the rural areas of the county, patroled by sher iff’s deputies. The sheriff’s report Shows that 12 motorists were killed during See TRAFFIC—Page X Bewildered Little Guy Attains Fame WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 — iff) —Once more the man of the year is the bewildered little guy, any little guy who has lived through another 365 days, try ing to understand them, day by day. Bumping along in the but this last day of the year, he shuffled again in his mind the pieces of 1945. It was like taking a deep breath before diving headlong into 1946. He remembered with a un comfortable, strange feeling the dark beginning of 1945. The Germans had banged through at the battle of the Bulge. The war with Japan. The end, when? President Roosevelt for the fourth time took the oath of of fice, an old and tired Roosevelt now. He went to Yalta. The un forgettable pictures of him there: That sick, thin face. We were choking the Ger mans now. The Krauts heaved and shook and trembled. President Roosevelt said “I have a terrific headache," and died. Harry S. Truman stepped into Mr. Roosevelt's place, it was a place in history. He knew it. Ev eryone did. America wished him well, and waited. See LITTLE GUY—Page S porate limits of Mount Clemens to bone fide residents. Included in the list of gifts are the following- A $5 deposit from the Federal Savings and Loan Aasociation of Mount Clemens and $9 in mer chandise from the baby depart ment at Swan Pharmacy. Merchanidse worth $5 from the Kresge Dollar Store's infant department. A baby locket from Schunke Jewelry. Jap Schoolboy ■ H. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ NONE OP THE CARBPRKE qualities of the American schoolboy are present in the royal scholar shown above Crown Prince Akihlto, heir to Jap throne. In this exclusive picture, posed especially for Tom Shafer, NEA Service-Acme Newspictures photographer, the prince is shown on his way home from Peers’ School, Tokyo. Korean Hotheads Fight American Gls in Streets SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 29 (Delayed) UP) Korean hot heads fought in the streets of Seoul and threw rocks at Amer ican soldiers today in violent protest against the Big Three's five-year trusteeship plan for their country. Rightist speakers addressed a mass meeting which demanded immediate recognition of a Ko- See KOREA—Page t Baby’s first picture from May fa fr Studios. A $2 trade certificate from the Children’s Shop. Thirty quarts of homogenised milk from Miller Brothers Creamery. A package containing Ms nursing bottles, six rubber nip ples, a hex of baby powder add a bottle of baby oil bop Ban now Drug Cos. | A book entitled "How a Baby Grow*** from the book depart ment of •tore. ' y *' WEATHER REPORT colmb rowan CLKAB ON TOMMY «3 Maaftor-Laaitr Offlas MONITOR-LEADER HUMk * Cub it Walnul . v Admiral Says Kimmel Had §1 Ample Notke DiaeloaM Own Dnin to Kotor War in SumiiMr of *4l v m N. f T WASHINGTON, Dec. 91—(If)* —Adm. Harold R. Stark asaftal i i today that Adm. Husband B» / Kimmel, Pacific Fleet command er at Hawaii, waa amply warned to be on guard before Hue Jape*; ; nese struck Pearl Harbor One. 9» ' 1941. The 1941 chief of naval opera* tions began his story of |iio oar events when the Senate-HouSO Committee investigating the Japanese attack resumed Si hearings after a weak • long Christmas recess. NSW RECESS , <vj Stark was railed to the staadfe amid indications that the asft# mittee will take stUl another IV cess—possibly as long as SO days to find counsel. The legal' staff which hes elded la the in* quiry since it began la November hes announced Inis**' tions to quit, possibly after eav amination of Stark. Along with a 90,009 • word statement from Stark, the aaM»; mittee received rninmlnnue OOP*: respondence which ho wfaOo Oh. naval officers during the'MNdkfli before the Pearl Harhor attaok* From Stark and these reootdk the investigators laarnad tights 1. Stark felt that aefchm Oa»* ; ly supported hie efforts to Ipf*. star the strength es the fleet th»- sere the war. 9. At the thus Geramay tasked Russia. Stark n»f#df /Imtriiraa entry kto me war Sn Watchnight| Services to Hail 1946 t The spiritual sftAa of Ma ■strS Year will be aapimdhe# thousands of chttrdapaaas hai- Mount Clemens tonight and «nj Tuesday, with Watah IMdifil New Year’s Day aarrieaasafend»f' uled in Protestant thaniaa Mf|£- a full series of Holy Day Msirigg# planned in both Mount (Mk Catholic Churched in the Cathollaealaadnr, OhOfe day is the Feast of Mg OIMMPP cision. It is a Holy Mr hPM||j ligation and maadS-'Mt hgpjM the same times as an Sundayn, M A brief summary afttßMMi cipal Protestant olmmna the New Year Is sa tsttewaT] 111 Gilbert Memorial 'HeJUkI Church: Watch . HIM-. alB wiU be held tonight frcsnOiwdlS until midnight • JEJ®! p. m. t the affair win canriri mmm social hour and refiwOnnsaOl M* the church parte* mmiimmmj with an hour's serril|j^''|k / ' I MHi church. Trinity Lutheran Ckm+fttimi men service will at 7 o’clock this nashiMg KngUsh servko at o3W The special Iter VdHflf wiU ba at 0 a. a* Mjft Stiff at 11 s. ml, with flaajß officers at OMm jriQMd^|j|i|i|| five cum-