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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31

Farquhar~on's father was an
officer In the English army In
Iadia- In the United States
- . furiough 10 recover from
injuries received In . battle,
- was travelling In the south
whsn he met the girl he want
ID 10 marry, daughter Of .
paAatsr q Mobile. Alabama
- resigned his commission In
shs Engiish army. settled In
Boston snd became . promi-
Dent figure Of that era.
The boy who was to have a part
In the settlement of the Puyallup
valley WAS born IN Boston three
years after Ezra Meeker arrived
In . log house on a farm In Indi-
sna. Ne graduated from the high
school IN Boston and was a junior
at Andover when the Civil war
broke out. With q number OF his
classmates. FarQuharson answered
Lincoin's call for volunteers a. 4
of The Boston Light In
fsnsry. organised IN 1898 and Sec
ond oldest militia organisation In
the United States.
In joining the northern army
Farquharson found himself be-
tween two impelling forces. His
mother was a strong sympathixer
with the South and was incensed
when she learned that her son had
joined the Union army. His
fathers sympathy was with the
North but he had no convictions.
ie thought 1t was all right IL the
wanted to own slaves
md was not disturbed over the
,ecession issue. He wanted his son
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31
syI.T..sH SHORT

For the time being Ezra Meeker drops of dramatic
story Of the development of the Puyap valley The
changes and character takes the center the
He is Albert Farquharson descendant of titled Scotch
family whose forebears leaders the Clan Farquharson
and fought with King James l. of England three centuries
before Ezra Meeker BORN His mother descended
he HUME
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31

IN keep ont of the army but said
ic he was determined TO 20 he
ought 10 fight with his mothers
people.
Young Farquharson had no
convictions on the slavery Ia
sue but he and his associates
at Andover were against seces-
sion. He marched south with
the first army ~ sergeant of
Co. A, 4Sd Massachusetts, In
fantry.
He afterwards was transferred
to the signal corps and fought in
many of the major engagements
OF the war. including Gettysburg
He also was with Admiral Far
rsgut In the battle OF Mobile bay
and a couple Of months later was
mustered out and returned 10
Boston.
At home he found his mothers
health broken and the family In
reduced circumstances because of
the severe losses suffered by her
people In the South. She died q
few months after the close of the
war.
Unframed for business and
knowing no trade except what
little he had learned OF the cooper
age business Fsrquharson. rest
less and dissatisfied. finally quar-
relied with his father and started
west.
He tells In his diary that he
bought . ticket for the then
most western point TO be
reached by . railroad. There
he joined q group Of adven-
turers and for about three
years was an Indian fighter,
gold hunter and freebooter.
In 1870 Farquharson went to
Kansas City and a fortuitous cir
enabled him to 20 into
business making flour barrels for
the Diamond FIGURING Mills. one
Of the largest manufacturers of
flour in the United States. His
own profit was about $40 a day
and when he had accumulated
about $4,000 he decided to 60 TO
San Francisco. The Indiana firm
which supplied his Kansas City
factory with slaves. learning of
his intention, offered to back him
In plant at San Francisco II
business conditions were favorable.
Here another character
comes on the stage, Claus
Spreckels, the sugar King"
who controlled the sugar mar
ket of the United States.
Sprcckels was not satisfied
with the service given by the
company supplying him with
sugar barrels. The complaint
WAS on both quality and price.
Through a chance meeting with
3 former resident of Boston, Far
quharson was troduce to
Spreckels. who seemed To think
tavorably of his proposal. They
parted TO meet the next day to
arrange a contract.
In the meantime, Flint. Peabody
4 Co, who had the contract for
the Spreckels barrels, learning
hat Farquharson was likely to
become competitor. offered him
the management of their business
In Washington territory. They ex-
planned that they were obtaining
large quantities of hazel hoops and
stave material from Washington
hut could not depend on regular
deliveries. They offered him a
salary and commission IL he would
take charge of that branch of the
business.
The opportunity to 20 into
. new country intrigued Far
quharson. He accepted the
offer only to regret his de-
cision when he reached Tenino.
then the terminus OF the
Northern Pacific. He WAS
about to pack up and return
to California when he sud
denly changed his mind and
entered ON q course that WAS
TO make Puyallup one of the
first centers Of q specialized
industry In the Puget Sound
country.
Ito ne Couffnuedl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31

You help yourself when you buy
U. s. Defense Bonds,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31
Descendant Of Titled Scotch
Clan Enters Meeker Drama
Forsbedrs of PuYallup Suem Borrel
Moker Fought Under King Janies I

kdt"rs >cte-Thi IL N q
Puysiup
TO Others particularly Claus spree
N yaIe -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Good Citizens
An EDITORIAL

oIn day when all too many Of our citizens ore
prone to wax vocal over the rights Or wrongs OF
the nations foreign policy it IS refreshing to tind
that the League Of Women Voters hos sighted
the Ultimate gool-notionoI unity--ond IS back
ing constructive program OF olI-out support
for notionol defense.
Thot is question upon which there IS no
LONGER room for serious differences OF opinion.
II is one upon which all potriotic citizens must
feel complete harmony. The defense OF the
American way Of life tronscends in importance
all personal and political issues. Il must be &C.
connpIished ropidIy and impreenobly.
The League Of Women Voters IS doing
much to soIidify American opinion behind that
vital ISSUE The question can no longer be: 20
we believe in foreign entonolements? It u.s.. re-
duced to sheer foot: Do we wont to defend that
which makes this notion possible!
Thot the League Of Women Voters hos
chosen Mount Clemens as the site OF its l94l
convention is fact in which oil Mount Clemens
residents toke pride.
Here among US todoy ore zeoDous, forsseelno
leoders Of Legislative improvement enterprises
who have oIreody contributed much to HE bet
terrnert Of government Adopting purely non
portison viewpoints the intelligent, toct soot1ro
jeoders of the leooue are women Of mcso ehnn
ordinory standing in their respective corsvNnl-
ties Of them II can truly Be said: Jhey ore
worthy citizens.
The Dolly Monitor tokss pleasure y soyinpI
"Hello" to the Leagues Representatives G40soe.'
ed here todoy We hope thsy like M(o&9k C)onn~s
See lGAGOe-fUoo1
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Convention
Today
League Delegates
Pour into City
Nv MARY r. TAYLOR

ny MANI 6s "A AOR
AVivid flags Of South American
countries, augmented by colorful
travel posters will be used this
evening at the banquet Of the
State Convention of the League
Of Women Voters to set the
stage for the speaker Of the eve
ming. Miss Mary Winslow, OF
Washington. D. c., expert on
Pan American relationships, will
talk on American All" at the
Colonial hotel, following the
banquet. Mrs. James A. Starr,
state president, will preside. The
public is invited to hear Mrs.
Winslow.
The convention, which Off
cially opened this morning at
the headquarters in the Colonial
hotel, has drawn to Mount Glenn
ems about 100 delegates from IA
local leagues in Michigan.
USE DEFENSE THEME
Mrs. Starr addressed the con-
See CONvENT1ON-Page 3
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Need Another Worry?
WELL, HERE'S ONE, YOU CAN
STAND OFF AND LOOK
OVER
OVER

The temperature at the earth's
center now, he estimated. Il
about 1000 degrees centigrade-
20 times the boiling point OF
water.
But that heat generated with
In Q liquid core, he said, would
have no way of escaping and
thus would destroy more and
more earth, gradually liquefying
the entire globe.
Tordham's widely-known seis-
mologist, the Rev. Joseph Lynch,
8. J., held out hope, however.
that the world would not come
70 . liquid end. =
Evidence produced by thermo
dynamics, terrestrial magnetism
and seismolosy, he said, indi-
Gates the earth has . solid core
which would permit escape BY
conduction Of any radioactive
heaG
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Moscow Claims Nazis
Lose Over 10000 Men
RED ARMIES LASH AT INVADERS
IN EFFORT TO WREST DECISION

Norwegians arrested during the
week-old state of civil siege In
Oslo were tried by court martial
and sent to prison camps in Ger
many or in the Norwegian Hin
terlands.
n the main war theater, while
the Russians claimed q stagger-
ing defeat for the Germans on
the central (Moscow) front,
Adolf Hitler's high command rs
serted that the Gerna9 offensive
was Weeping into. an opera-
ton OF the greatest extent"
Beyond this general state
ment, the high command gave no
details, but Nazi military dis
patches said German Panzer
columns slashing eastward across
the Steppes from the Dnieper
River were threatening Russia's
great Donets River industrial
basin.
NEW DRIVE
In the North, Nazi armies were
said to have unleashed q new
drive to choke off rail supplies
Moscow feeding the Red armies
defending Leningrad.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17

anew YORK, Sept. 17-R-
Just In case you've got nothing
else to worry about-the end
of the world may come at about
the year two billion $4,000, 000,-
00O).
On the other hand, It may
not.
That's the way two eminent
scientists sized up the world
ending situation yesterday at the
Fordham University centenary
celebration.
Predicting the possibility Of
the world ending In the year
two billion, DR.. Victor Hess,
1885 Nobel prize winning phys
icist, said such . state Of affairs
must be based upon the assump-
ton that DIE earth has . liquid
core containing radioactive mat
Ter.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17

oRussia's armies today reported
. smashing counter-offensive on
the central front, 80 miles north
east of Smolensk, in which the
Germans were hurled back vest
ward with 10000 killed and
wounded after an eight-day bat
tie.
The Soviet Army newspaper
Red Star said the fighting ragged
around Yartsevo, on the main
highway between Smolensx and
Moscow.
Other dispatches said the Rus
slams, still pressing the attack,
now were in q position to invest
Smolensk, $50 miles west OF
Moscow, captured more than SIX
weeks ago by the Germans.
RECAPTURE VILLAGE
Soviet reports also declared
that Red Army troops defending
Leningrad h a d recaptured q
strategically important cross
roads village lying t one of the
approaches to the northern in
dustrial city thus wrecking Ger
man plans for a new thrust
against Leningrad itself.
Coincidentally, the press OF
German Allied Finland declared
that certain Swedish newspapers
through blind antagonism to-
ward Germany had lost sight OF
their own interests and were
playing into the hands OF Russia.
ACCUSE PRESS
The Swedish newspapers were
accused of spreading rumors in
furious to the Finnish cause.
Simultaneous dispatches from
Stockholm, the source OF many
reports on anti German revolt in
Norway, said more than 1000
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17

LEAGUE LEADERSHIP. G.
H. Malbin, Mount Clemens, Con-
vention Chairman of the League
of Women Voters, Is shown
above, left, discussing last min
ute preparations for the annual
state convention Of the League;
with AEisenyp orothw -Creerr atAt
~ DeutAtive of the raatiOn4
organixation, at the Colonial ho-
tel Tuesday evening. Below are
shown Mrs. James A. Starr, state
president, Grand Rapids, left,
and Mrs. G.. A. Person, Jr.,
president Of the Mount Clemens
League, studying organization
literature dealing with national
defense.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Armada Women
In Wreck
Out Of Control,
Cor Strikes Bridge

1.-TWO Armada w o m z n were
painfully injured yesterday aft
ernoon when q car in which they
were riding struc k q bridge
spanning the East Branch river
near Meade.
The injured Gertr' de H. Ban
tien, II, and Frances Collins,
%. were taken to st. Joseph's
hospital by Deputy Sheriffs Cor
nelius G, denau and Edward Ca
hill where they were treated and
discharged.
The driver, Miss Bantien, told
the deputies that she lost control
of the car when it was struck
in the rear end by another auto
mobile.
The car was demolished.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Forty Hours
DevOtiOns
are Ended

oWith the deep solemnity that
has characterized the ceremony
since its inception more than 400
years ago in Milan, the Forty
Hours Devotion came to q close
last night at st. Peters Cath
olic Church.
More than a thousand persons
filled the edifice as the rich
pageantry of the Church was
called upon to memorable the
hours during which the Body OF
the Lord remained in the sep
ulcher.
The Rev. Fr. Henry Smith, .
Redemptorist Father from De-
See DEVOT1ONS-Page 3
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Union Leaders
are Arrested;
Militia Called .
Police, Stots Act
Swiftly to Curb /
Outflow Tisup

oKANSAS CITY, Sept. 17-<R
Swift official action today
checked an unheralded power
strike which BACKED out this
city of 400, 900 for four hours,
plunging hospital operating
rooms into darkness and STALL
ing laden streetcars and trolley
buses.
Police seized six men involved
in what Mayor John B. Gage
called an outlaw strike against
the Kansas City Power and
Light Company. A battalion Of
the recently organized Missouri
Home Guard was modified by
Gov. Forrest c. Donnell and an
other was ordered to stand alert.
Neither was called into action
Immediately.
Albert F. Wright, representa-
tive Of the international Broth
efhood of Electrical Workers,
ALL, was arrested at q power
tHNf by order Qf police chief
Harold Anderson. ne wa. re.
leased On bond after being HID
incommunicado several hours.
CHARGE SABOTAGE
Anderson said charges Of sab
otage or malicious mischief
would be sought against the
other five men arrested-all
striking employees.
IF any deaths have been caus-
ed by this the charges should
be murder" Anderson said.
A police detail headed by
Mayor Gage and Chief Ander-
son elected some Is strikers
from the northeast power sta
ton. Current poured back
through the lines as non-strikers
went back to work under po-
lice protection.
A. E. Belts, vice president Of
the power company, said enough
men were on duty to operate the
See STRIKE-Page ;
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Supervisors Committee,
FILA Officials 10 Confer

OThe Industrial and Public Re-
lations Committee of the Board
of Supervisors will meet with
FILA officials from Detroit and
South Macomb community lead
ers TO settle the buildery-FHA
dispute now holding up home
building in East Detroit and
Warren, the Supervisory decid-
ed yesterday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Topic
Of Club Talk
kiwonions Heor
Area Coordinotor

oRobert G. Hargreaves, Re-
gional Coordinator of the Mich.
igan Council of Defense, this
noon explained to Mount Glenn
ems Kiwanians the part each can
play in defending America.
His speech follows in full:
Governor Van WACO er,
Chairman of the Michigan
Council of Defense, is repeat
eddy urging us to help build a
foundation of neighborly and
united people who are deter
mined to defend Psnerica. On
this foundation our civilian de-
tense can be constructed. Our
Council of Defense was created
by the legislature to aid in this
purpose. It's task to help every
man and woman, boy and girl,
find a part in defending Am
erica that he or she can really
See KIWANIS-Page 2
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
County Se|etiees
FACE Army Induction


= Macomb County Draft Boards
/ and 3 this morning each send
IL men to Detroit where all
face possible induction in to
the u. S. Army.
Selectees from the Mount
Clemens Warren township area
listened to a farewell speech
given by Alton H. Noe, draft
board chairman, before leaving
the Mount Clemens Savings
Bank building by bus. Board
No. 2 at Roseville sent eight
selectees to Detroit yesterday
morning.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Sought
for Defense
Volunteers Requested
To Register This Week

OWith the number of registra-
tons beginning to mount for vol
unteer defense activities, officers
of the Mount Clemens Civilian
Defense Council today predicted
"a satisfactory response" from
local patriotic citizens before the
close of the registration next
week.
All persons in the city, who
wish to aid in the vital work on
the "home front" are urged to
apply for blanks and register at
the office of The Daily Monitor,
the Board of Commerce, the First
National Bank and the Mount
Clemens Savings Bank.
Principal reason for the in
creased tempo of registrations
today was reprinting In The
Daily Monitor yesterday, q copy
Of the enrolment blank, and the
Identification card each accept
ed volunteer Is to receive. One
group Of 80 people filled the
blanks and sent them to the CO.
ordinator's office.
Judge James Z. Spier, direc-
tor of the public information
committee, was to confer this
afternoon with Charles Titus
and Henry Reese, coordinator.
Lawrence Blades was named
director of enrolment today by
Judge Spier.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
League Convened
Here Decade AGO

This Is the se con 4 time
since Mount Clemens founded
it, League Of Women Voters
II years ago that . state con-
vention has been held here.
Ten years ago, during the
pfesidency Of Mrs. a. a.
Thempson, The state eenven-
tion was held here, with head
quarters il the Celenial ho-
tel, - Il II this year. The late
Mrs. Roland Nank was CO.
vention chairman . decade age,
and enc Of the main problems
discussed 1t the sessioas was
"Nlaintaining Standards Dur
ing The Deprsssiea."
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Refuse Aid to NaZi Envoy

oBUENOS AIRES, Sept. 17-to-The Argentine Foreign
MINISTRY advised German Ambassador Edmund Won Ihernonn
eoedy surrine remarks mode during congressional! deoote
on choroe thot he had obued his diplomatic privileges
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Movie Probe Ridiculed

WASHINGTON Sept. l7-QPp-President Roosevelt placed
the current Senote Investigation Of socoed movie war popo
condo in the coroon class today with in
ference that the Investigators compared fovoroby with
Charlie Chaplain in the sIop-stick reolrn
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Fascists Claim Victories

OROME Sept l7-QP-The tolion high command reported
today that Foscst outposs had repeed British forces IN
SCOUTING operations in North Africo and Ethiopia
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
late X X X
Bulletins
Lection Urges Hitler Defeat

ANIL WAljkEEM Sept, l7-lF)-Ihe American Legion Mo-
tono Convention todoy odopted resolutions proposing the
removal of geographic imitotons on the use OF American
troops and coIlina for the defect Of Adolf Hitler.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Eovut Protests to Axis

ocoiro EGYPT Sept l7-The Egyptian government has
protested to Berlin and Rome here sold today over
the Axis bombing of the Coiro oreo.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
Saw Invasion Developing

oBERLIN Sept l7-R-The Germon invasion Of Russio is
"eveIopino into an operation of the greatest extent the
hioh commend reported today
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-21
PEOPLES FORUM

having a look at their catches. ]
felt most flattered when VIII De-
merritt asked me to go out with
him one day. which / did, as is
also related in an article ap-
pearing in the Jan. 1871 Harp
er's Bazaar.
Mrs. Jessie Porter Kirke. who
operates The Old Trading Post
graeiously let ne look over her
collection Of Florida Keys books
and pamphlets when ! was gath
ering the material for Mercy Is
land.
The woman who owns the
breadfruit tree was very nice &c
me. too, in showing me the tree
and giving me fruit from IL
pods. and leaves, 10 use for de-
scription. which win be found II
the book
think Key West Is a very In
terestIng place. The only reason
/ didn't so there 10 live wheE
working on this book was that
tho0ght ! could get a better per.
spective on the Keys by working
away from II. not beng too elose
10 H.
| beiieve Mercy Island II y
gets any sale al all SaA create
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-21
PAHOKEE DOWNED
KEY WEST CACERS
coHcHs' "a" FIVE succuMB.
Ed. 3z.3s; LOCAL b" CLUB
VICTORIOUS. 1918

Pahakec high schools varsity
cagerx. playing az horTTe. edged
. travelling Key West quintet last
night. 3s-32. Principal Horace
O'Bryant learned this morning in
wtre from c0acS John Offutt
The Key West r. team won
It's share Of the double bin. shad-
ing Pahokec's second -stringerx.
1919
Ralph Flash Arnold. . future
varsity star. vras highest scorer cf
the locals in birth games
Tonight. TIE Conctas wriii move
On 10 Ssrart for . return battle
with tire varsity clubs IL thai
city.
Key West Is row on even terms
with upstate teams. having won
tz9o ard lost tyre.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-21

(which appeared in "The Ameri-
can Weekly.
An article on Herman Gray,
worlds top deep-sea fishing
guide, which will appear in
THE American Magazine.
| To top this all off, Theodore
Pratt now also appears with his
latest Florida novel, Mercy Is
land, published by Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc. The regular nation
al publication date of the book
is April 7th, but special pre-
view Florida edition is being
brought out Feb. "a. This is cur
rently obtainable only at book
stores and lending libraries in
Florida. 1t is the first book to
appear in Florida under the inn
print of a prominent New York
publisher before it is given to the
rest of the country.
Mercy Island" accomplishes
a thing about Florida that has
never occurred to any one before.
The traditional locale for a story
laid on a tropis island has always
been the South Seas But in his
book Theodore Pratt finds a ro-
mantle tropic island within the
United States among the Florida
Keys.
The novel tells the story of a
deep-sea fishing party which
gets stranded on a remote Flor
ida key far out in the Gulf A
gracious man is found living
there, where no human being has
ever lived before. The conflict
arises from the strange reason
this man in there, the love of the
only woman among the party,
and the fierce, primitive struggle
to remain alive on the exotic is
land and find a way to leave it.
Theodore Pratt plans soon to
settle permanently in Florida. He
says, You can breathe here. In
Europe, where l lived for five
years, you certainly can't breathe
any more. And in New York
where / come from. it's getting
so you can take only short
breathes. Florida is my coun-
try. especially when it provides
me with the unusual material ]
found for Mercy Island I won
der if people who live here know
how lucky they are?"