British capture bloody Cassino and Myitkyina airdrome
Allied forces under Stilwell toppled the Myitkyina airdrome in Burma after a 20 day march and besiege Myitkyina city. Gliders and transports landed engineers and Chinese troops as Marauders aided in the operation that narrows the Burma China corridor to beneath 80 airline miles.
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Associated Press
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
China
Southeast Asia
Stilwell
Myitkyina
Mandalay
Frank Merrill
Ledo Road
Ambitious 34 Seek County Posts in Macomb Primary Fight
Sheriff Jacob F. Theut attracts attention as 34 candidates file for county offices before the Tuesday deadline. Only two seek the prosecutor post with Wilbur Held and Fred Nicholson running. Longtime county official Alice Tucker declines reelection as Theut exits. Tegeder withdraws and refiles for Register of Deeds on the GOP ticket. Legislative races split by North and South districts promise contests challenging presumed party strongholds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob F. Theut
No. 1
Broadway
Mount Clemens
Big Jake
Sheriff's Office
Wilbur F. Held
GOP
Fred Nicholson
Alice L. Tucker
Macomb County
William C. Tegeder
Drain Commission
Register of Deeds Office
Guy L. Brown
Lee
Formia Falls to U S Troops as Cassino Falls
Allied reports say British Eighth Army captured Cassino fortress ruins and Benedictine Monastery while American forces seized Formia, 25 miles southwest, signaling the Gustav Line's collapse. Polish troops also took Hill 593 as German defenses were encircled.
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Naples
Eighth Army
Cassino
Formia
Monastery Hill
Green Devils
Gustav
Hitler
Italy
Ford Tax Reduction Expected
Lake Township officials weigh a possible reduction in the Edgel B. Ford estate valuation after a study. Supervisor Adrian Lingemann hints at a public update within a week. The estate, assessed at 2 167 000, faces sale pressures that could remove tax revenue if sold to a public institution, prompting talk of a new reassessment to attract buyers and preserve tax rolls.
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ST. Clair Shores
Edgel B. Ford
Lake Township
Adrian A. Lingemann
Ford
Distiller Purges Self of Contempt
Lansing, May 18. Circuit Judge Leland W. Carr and special prosecutor Kim Sigler announced that Thomas McMaster, vice-president and general manager of Arrow Liquor Corp., has purged himself of contempt of court by refusing to answer questions from Carr’s one man grand jury investigating State government. The contempt citation was withdrawn after hours of closeted talks.
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Lansing
Leland W. Carr
Kim Sigler
Thomas McMaster
The
Arrow Liquor Corp
Carr
McMaster
Missionaries Die as Allies Strafe Japanese Prison Ship
Dutch priest Father William Van Baar reports that 60 missionaries including a Roman Catholic bishop were killed when Allied planes strafed a Japanese prison ship off the New Guinea coast. The Dutch bulletin cites the Netherlands Indies News Agency.
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Allied
Australia
New Guinea
William van Baar
Society of the Divine Word
Netherlands
Netherlands Indies
Sugar for Canning Drive Draws Busy Day
About 900 applications for sugar during the two day drive in Mount Clemens Harrison and Clinton district were processed on opening day by the Office of Civilian Defense. Mrs Russell Stark said 510 Mount Clemens housewives filed at precinct booths and got purchase certificates, 200 in Clinton township, and about 150 more at Harrison township hall. A 7:30 to 9 p m service for wartime workers unable to attend was planned for tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Clemens-Harrison- Clinton
Office of Civilian Defense
Russell Stark
VOCD
Mount Clemens
Clinton Township
Harrison Township
Strikers May Tie Up Every Detroit Truck
Detroit Mayor says Bert Brennan warned to stop every truck entering the city over a jurisdictional dispute involving soft drink delivery workers. Michigan labor dispute appears settled as 52 000 war production workers idle by 3 300 foremen begin returning to work.
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Detroit
Edward J. Jeffries
Bert Brennan
Teamsters Joint Council
AFL
Michigan
Long Assembly
Seven File in Charter Elections in Mount Clemens
Growing interest in the nine member Charter Revision Commission election appears as petitions circulate for nomination on July 11. Seven candidates are named by the City Clerk: William T. Kelly Oscar Watz A D Brewer Otto Nickel Arnold F Ullrich Harold G Krauseneck and John H Nunneley with women group nominees also filing petitions and others like Robert G Peltier being urged to run. The City Commission urged continued public interest in the charter revision effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Clemens
William T. Kelly
Oscar Watz
Rotary Club
A. D. Brewer
Board of Commerce
Otto Nickel
B. of C
Arnold F. Ullrich
Road Commission
Harold G. Krauseneck
John H. Nunneley
Circuit Court
League of Women Voters
Robert G. Peltier
Macomb County Ration Board
Charter Commission
City Commission
Memorial Day Program Plans Near Completion
City officials and veterans meet at the V F W hall North Gratiot Monday at 7 pm to discuss the annual Memorial Day parade on Tuesday May 30. The ceremony will reflect the absence of many young men serving in the armed forces. Guy H. Griffith named honorary grand marshal after the death of Capt Gilbert LaCroix G A R veteran. See PROGRAM-Page 2.
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V.F.W. Hall
North Gratiot
Guy H. Griffith
Gilbert LaCroix
G.A.R
West Wall a Grim Barrier to German Defenses
Allied reconnaissance photographs reveal the west wall as camouflaged concrete clusters and minefields along the coast. The map shows gun emplacements and huge sunken batteries, with underground installations and canvas camouflage. Allied planes collect up to 180 pictures per sortie to expose the defenses for Eisenhower.
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London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Channel
West Wall
Salespeople Wanted for Immed iate Application
Advertisement from Im eh s Mercantile seeking salespersons. Apply immediately per an in-house notice signed Ady.
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I'mehs Mercantile
Priess Mercantile
Line-Up for the 1944 Macom County Primary
The released list covers all entries for the July 1 primary. Republicans and Democrats nominate candidates for Prosecutor County Clerk Treasurer Register of Deeds and other offices with incumbents in several roles. Names include Harley Ensign Richard Maxwell John C Childers L. W. Van Meter Paul Schram Edward J Fritz Roy Deising F Scott Burke Robert C Havel Harry W Lumley Elmer Logie Wilbur F Held Fred Nicholson Guy L Brown William G Miller Lynn Whalen Henry Brunee William Lawson Fred J Cromie William C Tegeder among others.
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Harley Ensign
New Baltimore
Richard Maxwell
Detroit
John C. Childers
Mount Clemens
L. W. van Meter
St. Clair Shores
Paul Schram
Edward J. Fritz
Utica
Roy Deising
Roseville
F. Scott Burke
Richmond
Robert C. Havel
Harry W. W. Lumley
Elmer Logie
Wilbur F. Held
Fred Nicholson
Center Line
Guy L. Brown
AA Gunners’ Field Day on Anzio Beachhead
Anti aircraft artillerymen of the Fifth Army shot down 349 enemy planes and 242 probable kills in under three months on the Anzio beachhead in Italy. War Secretary Stimson reported today. The gunners’ best day saw 5 destroyed and 11 probably destroyed amid a harbor shipping raid against targets including ammunition dumps and ground personnel.
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Washington
Fifth Army
Anzio
Italy
Stimson
Cruelty Case Ahead for War ren Father of 11
Frank Buckley, 43, of 3500 Parker Street in Warren Township, is set for examination before Justice of the Peace Donald J. Parent at 11 Friday morning in Mount Clemens on charges of cruelty and neglect toward several of his children. The warrants were issued last week by Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held and filed by Dr. John F. De Yonkers Jr., Warren Township health officer.
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Frank Buckley
Parker Street
Warren Township
Justice of the Peace
Donald J. Parent
Mount Clemens
Wilbur F. Held
John F. de Yonkers, Jr
Macomb County Trunkline Maintenance Up $87,062
The State Highway Department will spend 182,829 dollars this fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, on state trunkline maintenance in Macomb County, up 87,062 from 1942-43. Highway Commissioner Charles M. Ziegler says the rise aligns with an intensive program to raise trunkline standards.
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State Highway Department
Macomb County
Charles M. Ziegler
Ziegler
Pupils Plunge Into Farm Work Classes
War Food Production will not decline with manpower shortages as about 200 students from eight Macomb County high schools join farm work classes taught by Elmer Fuhr. Fifty students have already been placed in full or part time farm jobs on local tracks and farms. teachers seek more workers via calls to Roseville numbers.
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South Macomb
Roseville High School
Eastland High
Roseville
Fraser
Greater Gratiot
South Lake
Lake Shore
Lakeview
St. Clair Shores
East Detroit High School
Elmer Fuhr
Michigan State College
Fuhr
Hit the Deck Opens at Mount Clemens High School
Rollickling Entertainment presents a two night musical comedy Hit the Deck starring a jolly crew of singing sailors and maids. The show features Vincent Youmans songs with nautical and oriental color, notable costumes, and special effects. A War Bond booth is set up at the school for fundraising.
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S.S. Nebraska
Mount Clemens High School
Saucy Parrott
Orient
Vincent Youmans
See Musicale
Air Power a Failure at Cassino
Allied bombers dropped 2500 tons of explosives on Cassino on March 15 in what was hailed as the greatest aerial assault against a single objective in the Mediterranean theater. The bombardment reduced Cassino to rubble, yet German resistance remained fierce as Allied troops advanced through the town guarding the Liri Valley.
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Associated Press
Cassino
Liri
Rome
Mediterranean
Ira C. Baker
Germans Told to Fight to the Last Man
A dispatch from aboard the Gripsholm at Barcelona reports Nazi Germany urging troops to hold the line "until the last man" as Allied invasion nears. The piece notes Germany’s fortifications and intact communications despite heavy Allied bombings with rail hubs crowded with troops.
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Larry Allen
Gripsholm
Barcelona
Nazi Germany
France
Germany
Allen
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Tal
FONDI
Miles
Pignataro
Esperia
Spigno
U.S
BY Noland Norgaard
Macom County
Democrats
William G. Miller
Lynn Whalen
Register OF Deeds
Henry Brunee
William Lawson
Fred J. Cromie
Anzio Beachhead
Buckley
Rollicking Entertainment
Tobruk
Libya
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