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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
BILL QUITS THE ARMY
CHAPTER XVIII

The bartender in Pete's Bar
and Grill looked up with what
was for him stark bewilderment.
An expensive gray car squealed
to a stop at the curb outside. In
the red and blue glare of the
huge neon sign, the two girls who
crossed the sidewalk looked
CHASTITY. Their lips were blush,
their faces pale, neither of them
wore hat. And they sprinted
into the cafe as il the police were
behind them. The bartender put
down the glass he'd been polish
ing and reached up to turn off
the burbling radio.
"What can do for you,
ladies?"
The redhaired one-she was
pretty even though she looked
as il she'd been through steam
wringer-asked quickly. WAS a
soldier in here tonight? A tall
soldier with dark curly hair?
He--he might have been very
tight. :"
The bartender shook his head.
mo, ma'am. Not that know of,
We had a couple of sailors" He
called to a stout waiter at the
other end of the room. Louie,
you see a soldier in here tonight?
A soldier about three sheets in
the wind?"
"No soldiers in here tonight"
Louie called back. Last night,
but not tonight
Thanks" said the blond girl,
CURLY. "Come on. Martha. Bill
hasn't been anywhere we used to
60 together, and il he hasn't been
in any of the places around here,
the only thing that's left is to
search the joints on South
Street"
The bartender wiped a small
space in front of him with sud-
den vigor. Look. ladies, IL
was you, wouldn't 60 messing
around no South Street after no
soldiers this time of night"
But the two girls paid no atten-
ton. They ran back out to their
car ana started off with a grind
ing of gears. Had the bartender
but known IL. il had been like
this in a succession Of cafes and
bars-and- grills all over town.
At 4:30. Martha and Suzanne
came out of the last smoky joint
on South Street. And still they
hadn't found him. Suzanne said,
We've been everywhere. Bill
must have taken a room some
where and gone to slcep!"
Maybe he went back 10
camp" Martha said. Suppose
he--he went back t-tight7"
BEST thing he could have
done. But I have feeling he
didn't 60. Listen. we're quitting
now. Stay with me tonight. In
the morning we can phone the
camp. II he'd not there, we'll
start looking again." She saw the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10

job sometimes. Like the night
Killian ran into house to put
out an incendiary and found no
sand or stirrup pump. Only two
dozen eggs on the kitchen table.
1t takes eighteen eggs, by actual
count, to put out a moderate
sized incendiary, Killian now
says.
Then there was the night
when a man who had been
blown out of bed into the street
raced back into the half de-
molished house for a clothes
brush to dust himself off.
BOMBED AREA
is A GHOST TOWN
But it was the night / met
Jim Killian and his A. r. p.
crew that impressed me.
That was the night a single
German bomber kept droning
around in a great circle over
the center of London trying to
spot his military objective.
Eight high explosives were
dropped during a fifteen min
ute period-then the plane dis
appeared out over North Lon
don.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
Army Tests
Big BoIIlbers
4 Swift New Flying
Fortresse. Tried Out

WASHINGTON. Feb. 10-tR
Tho army has started tests on
ress" bomber, faster than the
the newest type Flying Fort
big planes which have flown re-
peatedly to South America, and
fitted with new equipment de-
veloped in the European air war
fare.
Announcing this today the
War Department said briefly
that the latest improved Bid
model was fitted from armor
plate and leak proof fuel tanks,
and with more powerful engines
which could deliver speed "well
in excess" of 800 miles an hour.
While the cruising range Of these
ships has never been officially
divulged, it has been reported
they can fly 5000 miles without
refueling.
The announcement of the new
est 194l model Boeing bomber
followed disclosure that the air
corps expects to receive this
month the first new fighter
planes equipped with the new
fuel tanks, armor, more deadly
fire power and other features
lacked by American military
planes until after the European
war development.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10

sage pad with the little gift pen
Gil.
MRS. Marshall?"
Eyes, yes"
MRS. Marshall, I wonder If
you could indicate the nature of
your message" In the cautious
phrases, Martha sensed an ele-
ment of surprise and of suspi-
cion.
whats the matter? Isn't he
there"
did you expect him to be
here?" the voice asked.
She didn't know what to say.
The voice went on, holding a
steely note now" II this is Mrs.
Marshall, the commanding Off
Ger thinks it best to inform you
that your husband has been
absent without leave. We do
not know his whereabouts and
absenting himself without leave
is an extremely serious matter"
absent without leave?" she
gasped. "But I thought -
thought ne had a pass" The
telephone shook in her hand.
"Oh, I'll try to find him at once,
I'll try to make him 60 back.
IL had no idea"
"You thought he had return
ed, after a leave?"
Eyes, yes, that's 1t. He--he
was here yesterday. ! thought
he'd gone back. I'll look for him
at once. I'll find him."
"Mrs. Marshall, il he doesn't
return within ten days, your
husband will be classed as de-
serter."
"Oh!"
There was a click. The man al
the other end had hung up. Mar
tina sat there, the blood pounding
at her temples.
Deserter. The word had an
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
He Cooks aFire Bomb with Is Eggs
But Mostly, Jim Killidn Keeps Basy
Tunneliag into Bomb BLASTED Houses
to Rescue Trapped Fellow Londoners

bombs Of q previous raid and
walking down the center of that
street was like moving through
an Arizona ghost town. Bril-
liant moon, no lights. deserted
streets, crumbling walls-it was
all there. Only the bark OF
anti-aircraft guns in the distance
and q rolling cloud of plaster
dust moving slowly up the
street, swept along by a strong
breeze off the Thames, proved
II was London.
BRAVE DEATH
TO CARRY ON
It was a block of small Sec
ond-rate office buildings which
the German bomber had hit
with his last 500-pounder. Three
ancient four-story center pieces
of brick and plaster had fold
ed to the ground like a drop
curtain. Killian was there with
six other wardens trying to tun-
mel through a clogged emergen-
cy exit to the small public shell
ter below.
One wall. still standing, was
shaking in the wind and every
one expected it to Collapse down
onto the tunneling men at any
m ment. Someone suddenly
shouted Look out" and the
wall, with ponderous finality,
crashed.
The dust cloud was terrific
and when 1t had cleared the
ambulance drivers who had
been waiting rushed forward to
rescue the wardens. Only they
had not been trapped. having
jumped beneath piles of mason
ry.
And when the drivers reach
ed them, there was Jim Killian
and his A. r. p. squad once
again struggling to clear mar
row passage to the people en-
tombed below.
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expression on Martha's face,
and shook her gently. please,
Martha! There's nothing else we
can do tonight"
But in the house on Stafford
Road, Martha couldn't sleep. She
tossed restlessly on the bed in
the pretty guest room. Where
was Bill? What was he doing
now? Almost she prayed that
Suzanne was right-that Bill
was drunk somewhere, sleeping
it off.
With the first streak of gray
in the dawn sky, Martha got up.
Reveille was at $50. They'd an
swer the phone at the camp now.
II want to talk to Private Mar
SHALL" she told the gruff male
voice. I'm sorry to call at this
hour, but it's terribly import
ant"
cts very irregular" said the
voice. unessily. "I'll have to ask
the adjutant."
After a while, more authori-
tative voice said, Hello. Lieu
tenant Gresham speaking. What
is it,"
This is Mrs. Marshall" Mar
tina explained. MRS. William
Marshall. I'd like to speak to my
husband, Private Marshall" She
gave the number of his com.
pany and because she couldn't
think of anything else, she added
the name of the top sergeant
with whose wife she had become
acquainted.
II see," said the voice, in a
tone which carried no under
standing whatever. Wait just
a moment, please" Then there
was another silence. A longer
silence, this time.
Martha bit her lip. and
scrawled nervously on the mes
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10

Until five o'clock one Satur-
day afternoon when some 200
bombers of the German Air
Force flashed through q Gordon
of balloons and Raj fighters
and gave the East End the
works-from oil bombs and in
cendiaries to aerial torpedoes-
driving Jim Killian and every
man, woman and child. In the
whole area to the ground.
soft JOBS" GOES
UP IN SMOKE
When the raid was over and
miles of Quilted buildings had
been left smoldering in the chill
hours of the next morning, 1t
was Killian who emerged as this
wars new soldier.
Jim Killian of the East End.
From that night Killian be-
came q hero to everybody but
Killian.
He works twelve hours on,
gets twelve hours off. During
the bad weeks he works 48
hours at stretch. The chief
warden says he can't get the
man to take a break.
His first job was to help res
cue nine people trapped under
q house:
"There were groans as we
worked through the night. We
drove q pipe down through the
debris 50 the people in the base
ment could have air. 1t took us
eleven hours to reach the two
families. A grandmother and
two small children were the
only ones alive. @
RESCUE Is ALL
THAT MATTERS
By now Killian has still not
become quite used to the sight
of sudden death. But he says
when there's a job OF digging
people from the ruins OF a
building, when minutes c n
mean the difference between
life and death, 1.-THE only thought
Is to tear away everything that
buries them. Your mind shuts
out the horrors and you do the
job" 49,.
There's q little humor to the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10

oss = stsl to
oeDlle Mother

M. Harold Howcraft, 20,
Q1ooo did Sunday evening n
- AuGne Of her parents, Mr.,
/ ~ Mr.. Frank Chapman. 2l0
NertA wilson, Mount Clemens,
Whnfo 10 had been staying for
~ p0se three weeks. Mrs.
: sgpWxxest had been Ill sor 10
naou4he.
nooides her parents, . hus'
hoaA, Harold. and . daughter,
J6yco, age four, survive her
( ne q also survived by two
sbcothers, Wayne and Francis, Of
0lseo, and . sister, Mrs. Glen
Holstoin. Of Flint.
FUNERAL services will be held
eroun the home Of her parents
Wdanoeday at 3 PM. Rev. Will.
lam y. Dunn, pastor OF the Till
2lnfantlia Chapel. officiating
burial under the direction Of the
9clsWarxkon Funeral Home, will
IS IN the Utica cemetery.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
SERIAL STORY
CONSCRIPT'S WIFE

YESTERDAY: Bill In In town. raving,
hunting Martha. He's been at the office,
then nj the boarding house. He has dis
covered Martha was In New York with
Paul. ,Dn desperation. Martha goes to
suzanne. The girl has seen Bill. tried
IN repair the damage her angry words
have done. But there Is no stopping
Bill. Suzanne knows ne has been drink
ing. suggests they search the town for
him.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
Graft Trials
are Again
Delayed

ADETROIT, Feb. l0---tP -
Trial of former Prosecutor Dun
can G. McCrea and 80 other de-
PENDANTS on graft conspiracy
charges growing out of grand
Jury investigation was delayed
again today. Circuit Judge Earl
c. Pugsley indicated that court
proceedings would not be re-
sumed before Thursday because
Of the illness of one of the de-
PENDANTS.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
Hockey
Results
nv the Associated Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Saturday
New York Americans 8; Mon
treal 3 (tie).
Boston 3; Toronto 2.
Sunday
New York Americans 8; Mon
treal 3 (overtime).
Boston 2: Detroit 2 (tie).
New York Rangers 2; Chicago
1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Saturday
New Haven 4; Cleveland 3.
Pittsburgh 8; Buffalo 4.
Hershey z: Providence 3.
Philadelphia z: Springfield q
Sunday
:, indianapolis 2: New Haven J..
Buffalo q; Pittsburgh 1.
Providence 8; Hershey Z.
Springfield 2; Philadelphia l.
AnGER1CAN ASSOCIATION
Saturday
Omaha 2; Minneapolis I 1.-TWO
overtimes).
Kansas City q; Tulsa 8.
Sunday M
II. Paul Z: Omaha 1.
xansos City z; Tulsa 4.
vllo 1nlnsU SeAeduled TonighD
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
Sports.
Roundup
Eddie Briefs

anew YORK, Feb. lowell
1amily, here are . few crumbs
you might be interested in
Around here. they'd like to know
why Chally Wright, the crack
featherweight, has 70 90 out Of
town 70 do his fighting -. A
recent poll BY . society Of op.
ticians revealed that Tommy
Harmon and Sonia Henie tote
tie prettiest peppers When
boeIIetball coach Gus Tebell OF
tn u. Of Virginia wants lit.
~ action. he simply hollers,
ssDilll" Eight Of the Is guys
on the varsity squad come arun-
nink Since opening his new
restaurant (which Is going over
hi Benny Leonard has chang
"a hiS slogan from keep punch
ine'' 70 keep munching."
Watson Clark, the old Dod-
Tor Southpaw, has been elect
@ city commissioner Of Clear
water, PA, where the Brook
lyui train Three Of KAN
Sne ota1o's - fsetbaif hope
fuls went - seen around the
canaIas this fall - teacher
troahIb w. II wasn't Jack
nIAvYa whn Altered Odds Of 100
- / that yea couldn't name .
yookio hall slayer who would
appoas IN 100 games next sea
eoa (as We reported), but =
oonaowhat les famous guy on
DroaAway ~. (Credit ~ with
an-oeroFl !. "A guy like Doyle
Would ~ craxy to make bet
Ilko that with such guys -
Nevikeff coming up.
Pepper Martin promises
thero'll be another Gas House
Gang In Sacramento this sum-
nasr and says he doesn't mean
maybe Just a. we told you
weeks ago. Gen. John ]. Phelan
has been recommended for an
other term % chairman Of the
New York State Athletic Com
mission II. Bimelech IL looking
hetter every time he, works out
q Hialeah q. The press around
ne country feels that the cleo.
ton Of Elmer Layden as car
means the end Of Carl Storck
q president Of the National
ToCtball League-which Is toe
bad, since Storck Is q capable
oe0elstive. let alone being first
claoO gay With Is fellows
ho1ding out, II begins to look
like TIE Cub rebellion Is some
thing - watch. since most of the
ron-GaDusrs are key men.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
Borden's Report
1910 Purchases


OFrom farmers in the Macomb
scounty area. Borden's Creamery
purchased SO 1888. 1874 pounds of
milk for 81 ZOO, 1913 in 1910, the
company reported today.
In 1899 the report continued,
the receipts totaled 56,428,884
pounds. valued at $995,701. The
creamery operates receiving sta
tons at both Richmond and
Romeo.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10

OminOuS ring. She remembered
vaguely that in wartime, deser-
tiers were shot at sunrise.
Her hands curled into fists.
Her fingernails bit into her soft
palms. She walked unsteadily
to Suzanne's door. "Su! Sui"
Suddenly. the sharp ring of
the telephone sounded in both
rooms. In Suzanne's, and in the
room she had just left. She ran
back. The ringing had stopped.
Suzanne must have answered al
ready. She lifted the receiver,
certain il was the camp, calling
back. Perhaps Bill had just come
in!
But it wasn't the camp. She
hesrd Suzanne's voice asking
"Who. OPERATOR"
"Mr. Paul Elliott in New York
is calling Miss Decker. Is this
Miss Decker"
Eyes. yes, put him on"
Martha cried, Suzanne, I'm
on the line too. Maybe it's some
thing about Bill. I'd like to lis
ten"
"Of course. Be quiet. Let's see
what it is"
Hello, Suzanne?" came Paul's
voice. Suzanne. do you know
wher. Martha isl"
I'm right here" Martha cried.
Right here on the extension.
What is it, Paul?"
"It's your precious husband!'
shouted Paul. "He came near
getting himself murdered! He
barged into the hotel at 5 this
morning, made the man at the
desk tell him my room number
When ! opened the door, he
knocked me down"
"Oh, Paul! PAUL."
1.-THE damn fool accused me Of
hiding you. Martha, do you un.
derstand? He thought you were
here!"
"And you vented me TO stay
there! 3uppose I'd been there
Paul? Just think how Il would
have been!" She was sobbins.
ut was bad enough. Il took
two bellboys TO pull him of me
They wanted 10 turn him over "a
the police"
"Oh, Paul, where 10 he?"
s'How should I know where
he Is! All I know 10 he's prob.
ably skipped out Of camp and
headed for Jail and I wanted "a
warn you. He might 90 back
to town and stage q scene with
you, since he didn't And you
here. The mans crazy"
paul" she walled. Paul, you
should have kept him there
Brought him home. Oh, Paul
he's absent without leave, he.
deserted from the army"
kept him here? He was wild
My God, he blacked my eye
nearly broke my head"
"Weve got 70 find him! II he,
still IN New York, maybe the 20
lice. :"
mo. I'm call up q detective
agency. I'll ny home. right away
I'll cut the conference short.
think he's gone back. Hut the de-
tectives vii pick him up II he''
still here. Don't 90 % pieces
Martha. I'll be there a. soon q
I can make t."
- a Confinuohl
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10

In the early morning hours,
walking toward that b o C k
where the last high explosive
had landed was tension
heightened as any Hitchcock
thriller.
For two solid blocks build
ings stood charred by the oil
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
Shores Husband Charges
Mate with Cruelty

William E. Merely, of st.
Clair Shores, charged extreme
cruelty in a suit for divorce from
his wife Clara E., filed in cir
cult court Saturday. The cou-
pie was married Dec. 20, 1884
and separated in November OF
1910.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
EASILY tanned

Recent experiments show that
a rhinoceros quickly becomes
tame and gentle in captivity,
even though it may be full
grown when captured.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
WILL ATTEND MEETING

oCounty Agricultural Agent
William Murphy said today that
he plans TO attend district
meeting OF county agents in La
peer on Thursday. s
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
Flashes
of Life

A1CI1lEoND, Ind.-Mrs. Lu-
6l1le Durria 2l-year-old bride of
~ veelks, went home to her
NJ hocause she disliked her
3 on6's pet monkey, Oscar.
Y y Nv court, she charged her
l Ind, william. IS, with as
lt md battery. He BACKED
bcth her eye, she said, when
- inaiSted he get rid Of Oscar.
J16oe ,. a. Ball, withhold
~ Judgment, freed Burris and
! or xfrom Jail and ordered the
sogl1 - help Mrs. Burris move
t ~ cuuple's farm home.
rlJ1lom had to choose be-
stl 6l you und the monkey ne
~ So - chose the mon
=. V "
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10
SOLD IER.'
BY PAUL MANNING

LONDON, Feb. 10-Jim Klian big man, is he
q particularly brave
When broke out Killian didn't join the Army the
Navy He Joined the A. r. p So during the following months
OF tranquility he walked his East End beat in blue ovea
and white tin hat he like his friends who
the Auxiliary Fire Brigade accused having grabbed
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10

Editors Note: What b Can
da doing for the British cause?
Wade Werner provides the ~.
ywer in five daily stories, Of
which this n the first, Tor the
Special News Service and the
DAILY MONITOR. Tomor-
row: War Productlon.)
By WADE WERNER
AOTTAWA - Correspondence
Of the Special News Service)-
Silence hides the achievement'
of Canada's young navy.
It gets little publicity, even
in Canada; and censorship blur'
the few glimpses one gets now
end then of its activities.
Yet II shares one of the most
critical and perilous assignment.
Of the whole war: keeping that
supply line open between NORTH
America and the United King
dom.
It is a navy without battle
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-10

COPYRtChT. toAt.
NCA SERVICE. INC.
Evening star., 1941-01-17

War we were threatened by German
naval power, because that power
was directed against the continued
existence Of Great Britain and It's
powerful navy. To meet German
aggression the United States built
its Atlantic fleet. We had only
weak Pacific fleet, but We served
notice of our interest in two oceans
when. President Theodore Roosevelt
gave practical demonstration Of
United States naval strength by
sending the Atlantic fleet around
the world.
All doubtless remember that the
World War gave Japan her chance
for expansion throughout the islands
of the Pacific, and remember that
this was the occasion of her Twenty.
One demands upon China. We were
able to check Japan's further ag-
gressions by moving our entire feet
to the Pacific when the conclusion
of the World War eliminated the
German fleet in the Atlantic.
Still Have One Ocean Navy.
Since that time we have main
tanned a one-ocean Navy in the
Pacific, and that Navy has proved
adequate in both directions only
because the existence and the de-
ployment of the British navy gave
us security in the Atlantic. In ef-
feet, both we and the British Com
monwealth of Nations actually have
had two-ocean Navy, operated for
single peaceful purpose.
We still have a one-ocean Navy.
We are building a two-ocean Navy,
but its structure will not be COM
pleted for six years. We need to
complete that structure as fast as
we can, because the other part of
our present tWo-ocean Navy is now
in grave danger. The British navy
can survive only if the British Isles
survive. Should the British Isles
fall, we can only believe that the
British navy, which never runs from
danger, will fall at the same time
I think we can safely assume that
the British navy will share the fate
Of the courageous nation that sup.
ports it.
Last year the Congress was
solemnly warned by the chief of
naval operations of the grave threat
to the freedom of the United States
and its sister American republics
which would exist were Britain to
suffer defeat. The naval forces now
in the possession of the axis powers,
or which are under construction,
would greatly outnumber our own.
Our feet would necessarily be di-
vided. to meet danger in both oceans.
Time Needed to Build Ships.
Whether it would be strong
enough to protect even the regions
nearest to us is a matter that can
not now be foretold. Certainly we
could not project our strength across
two wide oceans. With the Navy
retained at home, we could not do
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