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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
sBEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHING TON :

Agricultural Morke tino Service
estimotes that the Wooe of
form Iobor was up on overooe
OF IS cents Q -doy over o year
ago, with a top Of OILS with
out board in Rhode lslond and
Connecticut, and q notionul
overoae Of 81 10 q doy wifkout
boord. Naturally. when form
icoor prices storted going 10.
FORMERS beson to mention Il.
unfovorobIy.
It's in the areas where d.
tense production activities ore
concentrated thot this eompe-
t'fion for form labor suoplv Is
fe't most keenIy. II you won't
fhot oreo roughly bounded. rs
the triangle stortinn in Mime
soto, extending eostword
through New EneIond. down
the Atlantic to North Coroiino
then dioaonoIIy northwest book
to Minnesota. Elsewhere. Dick
out the location Of an ornov
comp or q defense plant and
you'll find labor flockino Ia to
get The higher woees.
This decrease in the form
labor surplus hos been report
ed as high as 30 per cent from
the automobile monufocturino
oreo Of southeastern Michioon
ond along the lakes to Buffalo.
Another sharp decline was in
the Philadelphia WiIminoton
oreo. Elsewhere, migrant labor
hos appeared and in some see.
tons there hos been q definite
indication .hot q shortage of
form labor, il it develops fur
ther, would be met by increos-
ed use Of farm machinery.
BOARDS TOOK
NEEDED WORKERS
One other foctor that hos
complicated the form labor Sit
uotion has been q misunder-
standing about seIective scr.
vice registrations. A majority
OF the six million forms in the
United Stotes are still fomily
sized farms. Sons help their
fathers on these forms and
gradually toke over their oper-
otion, As these sons oppeor for
droft registration, however, in
stead Of claiming deferment on
the grounds Of dependency,
they have claimed occupotion-
al deferment. Droft boards
have rushed these farm boys
right into the service, leaving
the forms without competent
help. Thot's one of the errors
the droft boords ore now BEING
asked to correct.
Handling the form labor
shortage is something that hos \
to be done locally. Responsibility
ity for correcting bad situotions
is being put on stote farm labor
committees made up Of repre-
sentotives Of form ooencies
and WPA.
South Dakota is rointed to in
Washington as one stote that
has handled this problem we'll.
1t has made form-by-form
checkups on labor supply.
When one county reports a
shortage Of help and another
has q surplus. q shift Is made
and everybody is kept hoppy,
theoretically, at Ieost.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY The Associated Press

WAR HITS LIBRARY
INDIANAPOLIS - Add eff
fects of war as told in letter
to the indianapolis Public Lii
brary:
Dear ladies: the four mathe-
NAUTICAL books that l have check
ed out will not be checked in for
a few years, due to the present
war. will try to return all
books and dues when possible
it,"
The letter came from Royal
Canadian Air Force recruit at
Manning Field. Toronto, Ontario.
TRY THIS ONE
or ULSA. Okla. - You've
heard of the golfer making a
birdie the easy way - by smack
ing one of the feathered friends
in the head with the ball.
Otto Detjen added a new
twist.
His ball struck a bush. A
crow swept out, picked up the
ball in its bill, flew over the
green, depositing the pellet four
feet from the cup. His oppon-
ents made him play 1t over.
o
OPEN HOUSE
oSALT LAKE CITY - The
perfect host, that's Edward l..
Vetter.
Expecting friends from Buff
falo, N. Y, he covered his lawn
with signs such as:
"Please pick the flowers
walk on the grass" leave the
mud on your Shoes" food in
the ice box"
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
oWAUKEGAN, Ill. - When
states attorney Harry A. Hall
was in high school some 20
years ago he rescued two girls
from drowning in Cages Lake.
Recently three youths were
saved when their speedboat ov-
erturned on Fox Lake.
The rescuer-Harry A. Hall,
Jr., IA.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
10 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

III YEARS Ago TO-DAY
1881
The weather was in the high
COS with promises Of cooler
weather before long.
The cornerstone Of the new
nesday. July 1, with an airplane
courthouse will be laid on We'd
demonstration planned, and the
presence of Gov. Wilbur Bruck-
err expected.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1906
Our genial friend, the Hes
sian fly, has made his appear
ance and growing wheat Il suf-
fering greatly.
Jno. F. Gatz has announced
that he will open new Ice
cream parlor.
50 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1891 =
Miss Julia kendrtck 10 nome
home from the Monroe convent.
Miss Fanny Croker will teach
at indianapolis next year.
60 YEARS AGO TODAY 4
1881
r. N. sackett 10 home frpm
Colorado. So 10 George Hu0-
bard, after an absence q SIX
years. And Miss julia Hubbard
il home from Evanston, H.
where she had been attsnd1mg
school.
Mrs. Gilbert Loneptan d1o0
On The 18th IN hss ooth yeorx !,
Evening star., 1941-06-05

tween the British Near East and
Turkey, Britain's on-belligerent
ally.
The Board of Trade, govern
ment department, issued the declara-
ton CHASING French-mandated Syria
and Lebanon as enemy occupied
territory for the purpose of the
Trading With the Enemy Act and OF
economic warfare"
Syria and Lebanon thus became
the first French mandates or COL
onies to be blockaded by the British
The Board of Trades action was
announced soon after the Australian
government had issued a similar
order.
Egypt, Britain's non- n-belligerent
ally, yesterday listed Syria as Ger
man-occupied territory in the first
such action.
Today's Board of Trade announce
ment also stated that as from May
81 Syria and Lebanon were regarded
"as an enemy destination for con-
traband purposes and all goods orig
mating or owned in that territory
will be liable to seizure"
Britain declared all France sub
ject to the British blockade last
July, but French colonies and man.
dates were allowed to trade freely,
(See NEAR EAST, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-06-05
5000 Coast Guard Sailors
To Man Navy Transports
BY the Associated press.

6N Ine ASSOCIATED SIeSSs
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau disclosed today the Coast Guard
was turning more than 5000 of its
sailors over to the Navy to man
new Navy transports.
Mr.. Morgenthau said at a press
conference this transfer was the
cause of an executive order signed
by President Roosevelt yesterday
directing that an unspecified number
of Coast Guardsmen should "oper-
ate as part of the Navy"
He estimated that 700 of the Coast
Guardsmen would man the liner
America, which the Maritime Com
mission requisitioned from the
United States Lines last week and
assigned to the Navy.
Some of the men going to the
Navy were freed for this work when
10 Coast Guard cutters recently were
turned over to England. Others are
being collected from Coast Guard
stations throughout the country.
Secretary Morgenthau added that
Rear Admiral r. r. Waesche, COM
mandant of the Coast Guard, be-
heved the men could be spared
without interrupting the regular
work of the Coast Guard"
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Nazi Armistice Unit
In Morocco Reported
To Number Us Men
Officers, Living Like
Aristocruts, Declared
To Favor English Music
By WILLIAM C. McGAFFIN,


CASABLANCA, French. Morocco,
June 4 Delayed R.-A highly
placed informant at Rabat says the
German armistice commission IN
Morocco consists of about 125 men,
including 80 officers, and that 1t
never has numbered more than 200.
This informant made the state
ment. as he said. to refute the fam
tastic rumors started periodically by
badly persons insinuat-
ing the existence in this country OF
German air and naval bases
English Records Favored.
Members of the commission are
comfortably installed in an aristo-
cratic section of Casablanca where
phonograph music is one of their
diversions Their neighbors say,
however, the choice of music is linn
tied largely to English records, in
cluding Lambeth Walk" and Wen
Hang Out the Washing on the Sieg-
fried Line"
The authority for the size of the
German commission, who cannot be
named, said Morocco's supply situ-
alton has become worse. He men,
toned the recent British seizure of
the Morocco-bound French tanker
Sheherazade, which carried an oil
cargo from the United States.
Not only are We without gasoline
needed for the harvest, but Morocco
has been completely stripped of
stocks to assure means of public
transportation" he said.
Seizure Held slap in Face
He called the seizure of the She
heradaze a slap in the face" and
said it was done with the knowledge
of Washington authorities, whose
representative, Robert Murphy, fixed
up details of the transaction for
the shipmen0 right here last jan
uary"
This source said lack of oil would
prevent sending of sufficient wheat
to France to bridge the present 25-
day gap in wheat stocks until the
next harvest.
Evening star., 1941-06-05

cording to qualified observers.
The assault, on which there was
little direct information, well may
have been the preliminary for the
main event of a struggle for domi-
nance of the Mediterranean and the
Near East, which already threatens
to involve a large segment of the
French empire 1t was the heaviest
attack yet made on Alexandria.
(Oil tanks at Alexandria were
set ablaze last night by German
bombers attacking the port with
good effect" D.NB., official
German news agency, reported.
The glare of the flaming oil
could be seen far over the sea,
D.NB. said)
An official announcement in Cairo
said the heavy bombardment
wrecked many buildings and in
f1icted numerous casualties, but that
the number of injured is not yet
known.
Coincident with receipt of news
of this attack the British govern
ment declared a blockade against
French-mandated Syria and Leb-
anon, proclaiming those areas
enemy occupied territory" for the
purpose of restricting British COM
merce with them.
In Axis hands, Syria could base
a land drive toward Suez and Alex
andria, via Palestine and Trans
Jordan, and would be a wedge be-
Evening star., 1941-06-05

the 44th Division bearing bat
talions which looked pretty much
alike had passed the substa-
ton during the early morning
hours. The lieutenant was ad-
vised that if the Sd Battalion in
question had passed, no one had
noticed it, but that if it should
be discovered in dead-end lane,
directions would be furnished so
it could reach the battle ground"
in time to participate.
An artillery company appar-
emily had similar trouble. Just
south of Alexandria, Va. report
ers found a line of trucks pulled
up by the roadside. The young
officer in command said they
were waiting for some other
members of the unit who appar-
emily had experienced difficulty
getting through Washington.
Shortly after 8 o'clock he ap-
parently gave them UP and gave
orders for his convoy to proceed.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
S3,5OO,OOO Sought
For Military Posts
In Capital Area
House Group Approves
Funds for Construction
And Lond Acquisition

Construction costing S3.500,0 900 at
military posts in the District, Mary
land and Virginia during the fiscal
year beginning July l is included
in a new s196, 757, ,632 program of
building and land acquisition recon-
mended today for the Army by the
House Appropriations Committee.
The building fund was proposed as
part of a s9,826, 500 ,492 supply bill
for the coming years military func-
tions of the War Department. The
construction items exceeded budget
estimates by $104,040, 800.
1t is in addition to large sums
carried in previous bills for mill
tary posts, although much of the
money heretofore provided will &C
tually be spent during the new fiscal
year.
Construction Projects.
Among the construction projects
were:
Alexandria. Va, quartermaster
storage, S2.500000 Atlanta, general
depot, S5,755,000; Charleston, S. c.,
quartermaSter storage, S4,500, 900;
Memphis, Tenn, quartermaster stor-
age. S8.500,000; New Orleans, quar-
termaster storage, S1,500,000; Rich
ond-Charlotte area, Va. and N. c.,
quartermaster storage, $1,000, 900;
Puerto Rico, quartermaster storage,
$4,000; Schenectady, N. Y, general
depot, $350,OOO.
Fort Benning, Ga, facilities for
three parachute battalions, S1,745,-
ITO; Fort Myer, Va, magazine and
radio receiving station, $4,000; Fort
Myer, rebuilding barracks destroyed
by fire, $250,000; West Point. N. Y,
laundry, $299 900; Puerto Rico, gen.
eral depot, radio building, 5000;
Camp Lee, Va, quartermaster school,
$750,000.
Boiling Field Work.
Boiling Field Air Corps facilities.
approximately s315,OOO; Borinquen
Field, Puerto Rico, facilities for
ground garrison, $571,0OO; Edge
wood Arsenal, Md, new field,
100000; Langley Field, Va, lean
tos and parking aprons, 1924
600; Puerto Rican air depot,
initial construction, $5,70OO00; Tus-
kegee, Ala, cantonment for estab-
hshment of flying school and pur-
suit squadron (coloreO, S1,663,O57
Westover Field, Mass, runways,
grading and drainage, S660,0OO.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Police Asked to Be on Lookout
For Lost Infantry Battalion

Maryland State Police today
were asked to be on the lookout
for a lost" battalion of the
Hath Infantry.
AS requested, they maintained
a sharp lookout at the substa-
ton at Waldorf as convoy after
convoy of Army trucks moved
southwark toward Morgantown,
where the trucks were to cross
over to the Virginia battle
ground" But they were not
quite sure which was lost, the
battalion or the lieutenant seek
ing it.
The lieutenant said he was
calling from a pay station at
Central avenue and the Grain
highway, which was along the
route the missing" Sd Battalion
of the Hath was scheduled to fol-
low. But nowhere in sight was
the "lost" battalion.
Police were interested and
sorry. but hundreds Of trucks OF
Evening star., 1941-06-05
King Boris Pays Visit
To Hitler and Goerinq
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, June 5.-King Boris of
Bulgaria has paid a visit to Adolf
Hitler and Reichsmarshal Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, the Official Ger
man news agency, D.NB., reported
today from Vienna.
The date of Boris visit was not
given. but it was reported he was in
Vienna yesterday for a private
visit in Germany" to see his father,
80-year old former Gar Ferdinand
of Bulgaria, at an estate in Slo-
vakia.
Ferdinand lives at Coburg, Ger
many. He abdicated in 1918 and
went to Germany when Bulgaria,
an ally of the Central Powers in the
World War, bowed to the Allies.
In reporting congratulatory mes
sages from Hitler and Foreign Min
lister Joachim Won Ribbentrop to
Ferdinand on his 80th birthday
February 26, the Deutsche Allege-
mine Zeitung remarked:
Gear Ferdinand, who is a Prus-
sian field marshal general, always
showed himself a friend of Ger
many"
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Relief Beneficiary
Accused of Gambling
By the Asscc:sted Press.

BY the Asscc-sted Press.
NEW YORK, June 5.-Accused of
accepting $1,000 in old-age pension
checks while collecting $4,000 in
horse race bets, Mrs. Gertrude Oliver
Clark, II, was released in $500 bail
today pending trial on charges of
falsely claiming to be destitute.
ANY one" said Magistrate Francis
X Giaccone, who squanders relief
money on gambling, or betting on
races, is guilty of great injustice
to the poor of the country, as we'll
as to the taxpayers"
Mrs. Clark said she did not use
relief money for gambling. asserting
her winning streak was started with
a borrowed stake of 5000.
She said she was penniless nov,
because she didn't know when to
stop.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Axis Advance Posts
Heavily Damaged by
Bombs, British Claim
Italians Admit Rhodes
Is Struck by Raid;
Beneusi Also Attacked
By the Associated Press.

CAIRO, Egypt, June 5.-Heavy
damage 10 Axis advance posts in
the struggle for the Near East was
claimed by the British Royal Air
Force today In attacks on the Libyan
port of Bengasi and Martha air.
port on the Italian island of Rhodes
Direct hits were scored on han
gars, causing violent explosions, in
the raid Wednesday night on Ma
rita, the communique said, land a
number of bombs fell among dis
persed aircraft"
At Bengasi, on the same night
it said heavy R. A. F. bombers
caused considerable damage" on
the water front of the Axis-held
North African base and touched
off heavy explosions on and near
the city's airport.
One Italian CRAP, attempting to
ward off the British raiders, was said
to have been shot down at Bengasi
The communique also said several
German Messerschmitt 109s were
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Roosevelt Appeals
To Congress for Early
Approval Of Seaway
Message to Both Houses
Coils St. Lawrence Power
VitoI for Defense
By JOHN c. HENRY.

Warning that too many people
have underestimate the degree to
which our national resources must
be taxed in the present emergency,
President Roosevelt today asked
Congress for prompt approval of
legislation for Canadian American
development of the st. Lawrence
seaway and power project.
The Presidents recommendation
was contained in challenging mes
sage directed to both House and
Senate.
Advising the legislators that under
emergency pressure the gigantic
project may be completed in less
than four years, Mr.. Roosevelt
sounded this further ominous note:
II should like to agree with the
people who say that the country s
danger will be over sooner than
that, but the course of world events
gives no such assurance, and we
have no right to take chances with
the national safety
90 VI SoNtlOll4I1S lIldL IIl6 NdUlOIl
cannot afford any more mistakes
of underestimation, the Chief Exec
utlve hit directly at the sectiona
interests which in the past hav,
blocked this power and transporta.
ton project.
The enemies of democracy ar,
developing every hydro-electric re-
source and every waterway from
Norway to the Dardanelles," tn,
President said. Are we to ALLOW
this continent to be outmatched be.
cause short-sighted interests oppos,
the development of one of our great.
est resources?"
Throwing the gauge then directly
at the legislative branch, Mr.. Roose.
velt continued:
Your action on this project will
either make available or withhold
100000 horsepower of low-cos,
electric power for the joint defense
of North America.
Your action on this project will
either open or keep bottled up one
of the greatest transportation re-
sources ever offered a people.
Both countries need the power
Both countries face power shortages,
which threaten to become more
serious as the demands of the de-
tense program multiply with almost
incredible rapidity."
Bill Ready for Senate.
Legislation carrying out admin
istration desires for this project
was introduced in the House Mon
day. A companion bill is ready for
introduction in the Senate.
On March 10, this year, an agree
ment was reached between the Can
adian and American governments
for joint prosecution of the work.
subject to congressional approval
here and appropriation of the neces-
sary funds. 1t is understood that
the present scope of the project
would call for about S285 100000.
A fourth of a series of technical
reports on effect of the DEVELOPMENT
CSee ST. LAWRENCE. Page A-8)
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Uncle Sam Hiring
Women as Spies,
| Gen. Miles Hints
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Are there Mata Harris working
for Uncle Sam?
Brig Gen. Sherman Miles, in
telligence chief, suggested the
possibility, limiting in testi-
mony made public today that
the Army might be using
women for counter espionage
work.
Recounting the Army's trou-
bles in obtaining properly quail
ified persons for military intel
ligence activities, Gen. Miles re-
Gently told a House Appropria-
tions Subcommittee:
I'VE have got to go out and
get men-and women also, but
particularly men-who are spe-
cialists on their particular jobs"
He did not amplify.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
South American Beef
Bids Asked by Army
BY the Associated Press

BY Ihe AsSOClaIed FItsS.
Defense officials disclosed today
that the Army has asked for bids on
100000 pounds of South American
canned corned beef.
Offcials said the bids had been
asked by the Quartermaster Corps
office in Chicago. They were with
out information as to when bids
would be opened.
The purchase was proposed, Of
ficials said, after the War Depart
ment had certified that the quantity
and quality desired was not available
in domestic beef.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
BY the Associs ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Petroleum Administrator Ickes de-
clared today restriction on oil con-
sumption in the East was probable
within a month, and added that he
hoped if severe measures become
necessary they would be undertaken
on a voluntary basis.
The deficiency of oil in the popu-
lous East. Mr.. Ickes said, might be-
come so critical that not only gas
less Sundays might be necessary
but might mean that we can't drive
for pleasure on any day"
Restrictions now appeared neces-
sary only in the East, he added.
Mr.. Ickes strongly urged imme-
diate application of daylight saving
time to the whole country and criti-
cized C. w. Kellogg, president of the
Edison Electric Institute and chief
of power for the Office of Production
Management. for his recent state
ment that the power situation will
be found to have been adequately
provided for"
Sees Shortage Now.
There is a power shortage now,
MI. Ickes told his press conference,
and it promises to become worse.
Returning to what he viewed as
impending curtailment of oil con-
sumption in the East. Mr.. Ickes said
the matter was being definitely
discussed on patriotic appeal
basis, rather than by compulsion.
1T worked out that way the last
time" he, said. land it probably
would work again"
Reallocation of Americas mari
time tanker feet appeared Ger.
tain, in q quick Government move
to cope with the approaching OF
shortage.
Meanwhile, administration lead
ers sought to get House vote or
the legislation asked by President
Roosevelt for expediting the i'm
mediate construction of oil pip
| lines.
Government officials did not in
dicate, however, TO what degre
| they were hopeful of reducing tn
prospective scarcity developing from
the transfer of one-ffth of tn
domestic oil tanker feet to British
| service.
It was problematical whether tn
| twofold attack on the emergenc!
would remove the likelihood of such
conservation measures as 'gasles!
Sundays" and lower temperature
in oil-heated homes next winter.
No Immediate Relief.
Informed sources pointed out the
pipe line bill held no immediat,
promise of bettering the oil-tranS-
portation situation, because new
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Army 10 Fly Bombers
To Atlantic Coast for
Delivery 10 British
Air Corps Organizing
Ferry Commond,'
Stimson Announces
BY NELSON NJ. SHEPARD.

Secretary of War Stimson dis
closed today that the Army Air
Corps is organizing a ferry COM
mand' whereby American pilots
will fly warplanes for the British
from aircraft plants in this country
to points of departure on the At
lantic Coast, where the British will
take over.
Junior air pilots will be used in
this cross-country ferrying, which
Mr.. Stimson pointed out serves the
dual purpose of speeding plane de-
liveries to Britain at critical time
and providing essential training for
the younger American pilots.
The new command is a RESPONSE
bility Of Maj. Gen. George H. Brett.
chief of the Army Air Corps. He
has placed the unit directly under
Col. Robert Olds.
Delays to Be Watched.
Headquarters of the ferry COM
mand during the initial stages, at
least, will be established in Gen.
BrettS Office here. Mr.. Stimson
stressed that special efforts will be
made to insure against delay of
airplanes in transit from plants to
the Atlantic Coast. This is vital,
it was pointed out, since the new
program is directed toward expedit-
ing the delivery of warplanes to the
British.
The service will be established
much along the lines of the old
pony express" of frontier days,
which had stops at regular intervals
for riders to change horses.
Checking stations" for pilots
and maintenance of equipment will
be installed on the transcontinental
routes to be used. Mr.. Stimson
said these stations will be at points
where pilots may be changed and
airplanes serviced.
Special Schools Planned.
Two schools for Virginia pilots
are to be established to assist in
providing personnel for the ferry
command. The sites have not yet
been selected. At these schools
the pilots will receive instruction
in the operation of two and four
engined planes. This will greatly
accelerate the training of young
pilots and otherwise benefit the Air
Corps personnel.
The instruction which the junior
pilots will receive in ferrying the
British planes. it was stressed, will
give them opportunities to familiar
ize themselves with the operation
of large bombers.