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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

Covered by the fire Of long
range guns including some late
~ In the Maginot Line. this in
vading fleet will arrive: first
motor torpedo boats and submar-
ines, then heavier craft, German
battleships will be thrown unhes-
itatingly into m action 30 cruz
cial. and attacked by the same
aerial torpedoes with which Brit
ish planes sank Italian battle.
ships. the same dive-bombers
that have sunk British cruisers.
Then will appear the most re-
markable flotilla ever to sally
forth.
All winter the Germans have
been preparing flight, pre-fab-
ricated vessels, Diesel-propelled
big steel Dutch ferryboats and
motor coasters of 500 to 600 tons:
3000-ton Rhine river barges, re-
inforced with steel and concrete
to carry ammunition, guns,
trucks and tanks. These will be
landed over unrolling steel gang
ways. With them will come Ger
man infantrymen trained nine
months in swimming and wadin9
ashore, to spring at British infan-
trymen whose stubborn devotion
at Dunkerque won the Nazis' re.
spect.
IRRESISTIBLE FORCE VS..
IMMIVABLE OBJECT
And then u. s. military Off
Gals declare, irresistible force
will meet immovable object.
For the British are girding for
tremendous struggle. Their army
of 1000, 900 NEARLY half Home
Guards) is practising day and
night to repulse every conceiv-
able attack. Reports have reach
ed Washington of "maneuvers of
an extent hitherto unknown in
Britain" Fortifications, mines,
trenches are everywhere, criss-
crossing the country. The As
600, 900 gas-masks already dis
tributed are being increased by
25-hour day factories.
New naval vessels are coming
down the ways. That is import
ant, for il the Germans establish
q bridgehead on British soil, they
must keep that bridgehead sup
piled with food and ammunition
mainly by water.
II they win such q bridgehead,
many U. S. officers will be less
surprised than II they keep it
always q difficult operation.
Britain may be invaded and
yet not conquered.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
copYRlGHT. 1871.
NEA OERvlce, ING.

"Sure enough" Kent agreed
and stood up. He put out his
hand for a minute against the
leather lounge and then walked
straight ahead, through the door,
back into the dim recesses of an
adjoining room which held the
wine cabinet.
Miss Carter said nothing but
the look she turned on April
was more expressive than any
words. It was a challenge, in
fact, to signify that no matter
whether the future for Kent held
lightness or dark, he was never
to be pitied.
Away back in her mind, April
was remembering small bits
she had heard about Elizabeth
Carter through the years. Aunt
Elizabeth was recluse, a proud,
arrogant person who stayed on
the hill, shut in by her ginger
bread house and the falls of the
formal garden.
Hadn't there been a love affair
years ago, a tale of scoundrel
who'd courted her and then alb
seconded with most Of her for
tune? At any rate, Aunt Eliza
beth lived remote from Pattons-
vile, her only contact with the
outside world through Kent, the
orphaned nephew she h a d
brought up from childhood.
Now Kent was back, balancing
the tray with the tiny crystal
goblets in the mock manner of
a waiter.
The elderberry wine at first
sip was warming, tangy. The fire
glowed. A drowsiness came over
April and she shut her eyes
briefly as she heard Kent tell
ing her aunt more about the
days excursion.
Outside, the sleet still struck
the windows but not so violently
and the wind had changed its
tune to one of melancholy instead
of q battle cry.
April stood up. II must start
for home," she said suddenly.
Mother and Dad will be wor-
ried about me-"
"Oh, not yet" Aunt Elizabeth
said, and now her eyes were
brighter than ever. II under
stand that you sing? 1t would be
kind Of you to let me hear .
song or two before you leave" r
Kent turned to April. eyes.
Ann, sing for me-"
But April pushed by him,
pushed by the door to the parlor
where Aunt Elizabeth was al
ready opening the keyboard Of
the piano. and ran to the hall.
Nip keeping guard by her coat,
sprang TO his feet.
"I'm going home, I tell you,"
April sobbed. II can't sing to-
night. I never could sing. ! hate
singing"
with that, she opened the door
and slipped through.
(Ts - CsatiAuo6)
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

Might be Used
with Real Gas
Against Britain
BY THOMAS M. JOHNSON

NEA Service laiiiiasy wrilss
WASHINGTON, Feb. - -
Fake mustard gas alternated
with real mustard gas-that's Z
dual secret weapon" with which
the Germans may create . dread
guessing game for the defenders
Of the British Isles this spring, It
has been disclosed here.
The Germans are known to
have large stores Of mustard and
arsenic preparations that pene-
trate clothing and masks. and
they could drench British ports
with enough genuine gas to cause
heavy losses II garrisons and CT
villains should stay. But the Ger
mans could not follow such At
tack with immediate invasion,
because real gas clings to the sur
face for as much as several days.
That's where the fake gas
comes into the picture. When the
real gas'has made the British jit-
terry, the Germans later may
spray. the fake, which smells like
the real thing but does not burn.
Even If the British expect fake
gas, they won't know for sure
whether it's real, because mus
tard burns don't appear for
hours.
In such a situation the British
wouldn't know whether to stay
in town and let real gas do its
deadly work, or leave-and let
the Germans in. Or the Germans
might us the fake gas to start
with, counting on panic.
HOW, WHEN AND WHERE
OF EXPECTED INVASION
Army and Navy experts en-
phasized that it will not be long
before this seemingly authentic
report is proved right or wrong.
They said Government officials
are not laying it on too thick"
when they warn the country that
the war is approaching its great
est crisis.
They likened today's situation
to the tense spring of 1918, when
the Germans nearly won by
methods then new. And they be-
clared that Germany now has
weapons far more numerous and
far more deadly. Here's how q
majority of military experts here
described their INSTALLATION of
the expected invasion:
WHEN: Any time after March.
WHERE: Everywhere-feint-
ing for an opening. Perhaps di-
versions against Iceland and Ire
land first; then invasion of east
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
ESCAPE FROM AN AUNT
CHAPTER x

Step by step, Aunt Elizabeth
Carter descended the stairs.
And with every step, it was to
April Burnett like the AK fall
ing, the loop tightening.
"Still afraid of Aunt Elizabeth,
aren't your" Kent was whisper
ing. close to her ear. "She's
really a darling when you know
heI."
April's heac went up, a silly
phrase darted through her mind.
"Your sin will always find you
out"
All right, she'd take it. She'd
face the music. Shed even be flip
and pretend she had taken an
inpudent delight in the masque-
rade.
Aunt Elizabeth was at the bend
in the stairs, coming closer at
every second. April had never
seen her before and now, even in
the midst of her own torment,
she could find herself studying
the old lady with a certain de-
tachment.
What had Kent said? still
afraid of Aunt Elizabeth, aren't
your" That meant that Ann had
been timid in the presence of the
old lady. Well, she wouldn't be.
She found herself saying clearly,
How do you do?"
Miss Carter came closer, peer
ed up at her with eyes as round
and black as currant berries.
Kent said, "I've wanted you
and Ann to meet for long time,
Aunt Elizabeth. This is Ann
Burnett"
"Ann Burnett?" The old wom-
an reached out wrinkled, ivory
hand. Ann, chr"
She looked closely at April,
but there wasn't flicker of
recognition. April grasped the
hand, gripping it SO she wouldn't
do anything foolish like faint
ing in q heap on the floor. So this
was il! Ann and old Miss Carter
had never met.
It was obvious from Kents in
PRODUCTION, from the way the
great aunt was studying her. II
you could drop dead from sheer
relief, April Burnett knew she
would have come TO- the end of
her life then and there.
In the blessed last-minute re-
prieve, she found the frozen
mask Of her face lifting in .
smile. "It's very nice to know
YOU" she began, trying to speak
% Ann would.
mp gave one last shake to his
beck and barked,
Kent covered the awkward
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

which in Chief of Staff General
George Marshall's estimate pos
sesses twice to four times the
number of British planes.
There will be new types of
planes that can fly into the STRAIT
osphere, higher than any British
fighters, to protect any ground
thrust anywhere, while across
the narrow Channel dive-bomb-
ers shuttle back and forth.
One day last fall the Nazis had
two thousand planes over Eng
land; this spring $4,000 Of the es-
timated 10000 will be In action
at once. They will drop millions
of bombs-explosive and incen-
diary-and carry German tanks
to British soil.
Military circles declare that
Skoda the, enormus Czech muni-
tions works, is making special
armored two-man vehicles light
enough for a plane to carry. With
them would 60 many times the
force of parachutists and air in
fantry that tacticians credit with
Hollands fall. elders might be
lowed.
AFTER AIR AND GAS
ATTACKS COME TROOPS
Second in the U. s. officers
chow" of invasion will come at
tack with gas.
Then, when parachutists, air
infantry and gas attacks have
done their work, they will be
backed up by Q real" invasion
by troops carried to British
shores in ships.
These will be able to land only
after q naval battle remarkable
in character.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
y THOMAS NJ. JOHNSON


WASHINGTON. Feb. "a -
'sWar begun7" replied Moltke,
droWsily, when they woke him
dep IN the night. top drawer.
Pull plans. Just follow them"
Then he rolled over and slept
again.
y The thorough Prussian who
pgopored for France in 1870 q
de&eot unequalled until 1910, set
style for military preparedness
that has been adopted and i'm
proved upon here in defense-fe-
verish Warrington.
For example, suppose that ;. :.
over Iceland, enemy bombing
planes fly ,Americaward; in Mex
10, 4 General starts q revolution;
In Jnpan, . premier makes a
threatening speech -. Then, in
the quiet office Of the War Plans
Uivision, General Staff, War De-
yartznent, Z bright-eyed, sturdy
nan III Z dark business suit at a
HI uahosany desk will push a
b16tton.
sx1tss look over the Black
~ he win say. Or the green,
O. NJ red
IIs Igo HAVE REPLACED
u01xLE. or BOURBON
n 1Gpitkess day, his American
counte1part would have ex-
ttnctod Hoon . compartment of
tint d. = bottle Of Bourbon
Whin1ney. Hut little Phil Sheri-
dQnss lo4l successor, Brigadier
QeQoral q Loonard +. Gerow,
1qD1g ~ artificial stimulus these
Ting dayS.
~ jebs official definition Is
y 1ofmllate plans for use in the
W q MIR Of the military
oo 1epofutely, or in conjunc-
n - WIN tn naval forces"
/. approved procedure is
~ estimate the situation,
n B Inflammation on 4S4 fac
a Veged a lntelligence's
3 = lndox go then prepare
1. u "a 49, HIT n these days Of
3 1A14 W1t4nfo. WPD must
NJ T. ~ = ~ .thAn Moltke. It's
- etines plan first
\ i I lnterH there's
WV 49, III plan q on
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

=. I6b. 49,,
lo6ny eaaspected bur-
p P rs doD&roy clues .
"a y . I business office
Y 13lnU i y5O, 900 fire which
!, ~ y odj olning warehouses ear
G1afday.
kt IRE companies fought
4 - 1n1o six hours, combating
$3.50 which shot 80 feet In the
S Clzisl Roy IA. Kitchens
1 I ~ net the blaze appeared
renk out simultaneously ut
potnts sustained the theory
i " 6eunn. and authorities said
~ Lolli, l3-year-old news
y enld them he saw Z man
m from one Of the ware
oGD immedintely before the
heoka out. Firemen said
found the door from which
l nan was seen to emerge UNI
\ cGhed when they arrived.
uiics said they found the
register Of the Lovegrove
= olons Wholesale Co., one OF
~ firms whose property was
damaged, smashed and looted.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
BY RUTH AYERS

said. "She doesn't seem what Is
called, nowadays the type"
And now the black, bright eyes
were taking in Aprils yellow
hair and doll-lashed eyes and the
biistered white hands.
April saw the look of chagrin
on Kent's face and she spoke
quickly. But I am the type"
she trilled and even to herself it
was exactly what she knew Ann
would have said. There's
nothing like the sight of hills,
fresh air and sunshine to make
you feel fit."
"And hailstones, too, I pre-
sumo"
Outside, the sleet struck the
windows and the wind was a
bowling mob.
April sat still, her hands twist
ing. Then, momentarily, her taut
nerves relaxed. Aunt Elizabeth
Carter was speaking to Kent.
The eyes she turned toward him
were neither sharp nor gentle.
Instead, there was something of
the Spartan written there. 1t was
as if she were ignoring the fact
that Kent was temporarily blind,
as if she scorned the very thought
of affliction.
She said, "Since Jasper isn't
at hand to make coffee. you will
60 to the wine cabinet, Kent, and
bring out the bottle of elder
berry and a tray of glasses"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
Hughes Starts
18th Year
IN Bench

AWAsHNGTON, Feb. 24-R
Charles Evans Hughes today
started his 12th year a Chief
Justico Of the United States.
Friends Of the white bearded
7o-year-old jurist expressed the
opinion that he would continue
g preside over the supreme
court % long q he II able to
tllfill the duties required.
He began service as chief JUS
fioe on February -, 1880, sue
coeding william Howard TAFT.
Previously Mr.. Hughes had
been assocIate justice Of the SUI
preuno court from 1910 to 1915.
Ho Yesisned "a make IN unsuc-
csa1lnl race for president on the
1epuhlican ticket against Wood
row Wilson.
III s1prerne court was in re-
60 today and will not reas-
sembIo until next Monday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
AFTER AIR AND GAS
ATTACKSCOME TROOPS
Shores Man IS Fined
on DisordefIy Count

OJoseph Wilhelm, -, of st.
Clair Shores, pleaded guilty Of .
charge of disorderly conduct be-
fore Justice of the Peace Frank
E. jeanette this morning and
was assessed q fne Of -. Will
helm was arrested by city police
Saturday afternoon.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

coast beaches leading towards
the vital industrial Midlands, fol-
lowed by attempts to scale the
Channel cliffs. This Army Off
GERS pointed out, would complete
the classic pincers attack beloved
especially by Hitler's personal
military advisers.
HOW: First, by winning air
command with the Luftwaffe,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

YESTERDAY: April plays her part ~
10 the picnic's close. But she rushes
hemewards, trying to escape . storm In
the air aud the storm Of emotions. The
hail begins ~ they reach Kents home.
April knows u she meets Kent's aunt she
will be revealed ~ an impostor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

New York City's roo contains
antIhAls with feeding periods
RANGING from once every Ave
yllniates % once every two
vGoaks.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
Two Big Safes Hold No. I
Army Secret: BIueprints
for Repe||ing Invasion

troops do we need; guns, tanks,
planes? How do they get there?
Then what?
WPD must be ready to pull out
of the hat plans to meet any en-
envy, anywhere. But its favorite
enemy is Old Man Logistics, al
ways quizzing: How are you 60
ing to get there?"
BY rail? Thirty men to a coach
SO to a boxcar-figure it out. BY
road? A field army would choke
roads from New York to Albany
for a week. And feed 'em. Two
thousand tons of food for man
and beast; ten thousand tons of
supplies day-gas omitted. Dit
to $4,000 tons of ammunition
when they fight. March tables;
time tables; supply tables; maps.
With these, WPD fights Logis-
tics.
BY sea? The Navy must escort
troopships, maybe blast a land
ing on some island. Talk that
over with the Navy. More maps;
charts weather reports. Land
here? No soap-rockbound coast;
nor here-shoals. All, here's the
place-but the other fellows
. know that, too. Can they get
there first?
STEEL SAFES SUPPLANT
AN OLD DESK DRAWER
Such work requires all
aroundness, and General Gerow
has it. Born near the Petersburg,
Va. battlefield, he went not to
West Point, but, like General
Marshall, to v. M. I. He started
as an infantryman, smelled pow
der at Vera Cruz. In France he
had q high Signal Corps job. He
went through all the army's
graduate schools, including War
College; then studied chemical
W0IldIc, tuCII WCIt Oo(h w HI
fantry, serving in the Philippines
and China and in important jobs
here, including WPD before he
became its head in December.
Under him, WPD works out
everything, puts II on paper,
classifies the papers. The Green
Plan, for instance, might have to
do with European invasion Of the
st. Lawrence Valley, lately stud
led in detail by picked officers
1t the War College. But neither
II, nor the Red Plan, nor Blue
nor Yellow, u In the top drawer
Of Sheridan's old desk. These
plans are In two large green steel
safes, very modern, very secure.
Perhsps no safes in this country
hold anything quite % important
- uAese bluepEints for repellins
Invasion.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

u yEolvw opd other animals
~ hnnt heve lAt-tipped noses,
~ ~ aostrfs IN front and
The union times., 1941-05-17
With A. F. L. Locals
 Around inc Country
ssThe City of Cod"

1.-The City of COd' BOolON-Union officials standing firm on plans for strike by 925 craftsmen and abore employed by private con racators $0OOOOO of new piers dry docks and ho buildings at the navy yard and its annex.
 F. A. Johnson, secretaytreasurer of the Building Con uctlon Trades Council A. F. of L said that the proposed sr was Tn protest against government employment of M 100 WPA workers and lOO civil service employees the projects He ded that the work should be done by union labor prevan wage rates.
 Navy spokesman declared that the indicated work about it, ~ - ~
 Teamsers Win PORTLAND Me-Trucking between Boston and Maine wa \ resumed last week under providing hourly reases ot c Sc and time and half overtime The contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamste Chaueurs Ware housenen Helpers ended 2week strike of 700 drivers
 Arizona Lumber Mills Struck By Carpenters FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.-Operaons were halted May at twol mills of the Saginaw Manistee Lumber Co., by strike of 6O workers The wakou called by the United Brotherhood o Carpenters oners AFL which demanding that the hour rate tor laborers be increased from Soc to 5Oc Another strike expected large lumber operation at McNarv Ar which imported Negro workers from the south few year ago III an attempt to hold down wages Many Negroes ard no" organized and ready to walk out with white employees
 Win N.LR.B. Election KANSAS CITY, Mo-The Int Assn of Bridge & Structural Iron Workers (AFL) by 255 to v NRB election al the plant of the Kansas City Structural Steel Co.,
 $1 Increase for Plasterers DEIROlT-Detrot PlaSerers Union (AFL) won $ day increase making the scale $340 per 8hour day. Bus At Elmer Riggs announces Sec. Russell Chds Painters District Council (AFI) rel ports raises of 12c to 25c hour Brush workers will ge $l37 instead of SIPS hour sprayers 75 instead of swing stage $75 $62H depending on distance from ground instead of $1.50
The union times., 1941-05-17
Meridela Barber

Louis, where he was employed for many years. When there he gained the acquaintance of the famous Mis- souri outlaw Frank James, brother of the famous Jesse James of early Ozark Mountain fame. They became quite good friends, and Frank used to walk two miles across St. Louis to have Teddy shave him twice a week, for the shop in which he was employed was at the opposite end of the city from the point where Frank James was employed.
 Visits Europe
 While employed in St. Louis, VOn Sutta took trip to Europe one summer. He met some of his wife's relative in Sweden. They were on a vacation from their home in Worcester, Mass, for a visit in Oslo, Norway, and points in Swe- den. They returned in September and Teddy returned in October. They coaxed him to call on them in Worcester and although his i'm tentions were to go back to St. Louis, he found himself going to work in Worcester the following Monday.
 He first went to work in St. Louis in 1896 and from there shifted to Granite City, Illinois, where he took part in the organization of another barbers' union. The town did not have sufficient quota of members, so barbers of East St. Louis were admitted to membership in order to fill out the quota needed. Some years later, Won Sutta returned to Worcester with his wife and after several years employment finally moved to Bridgeport, where he was a working barber for several years. From Bridgeport he came to Meriden in 1909 At that time the local bar Der union had 25 members.
 Organizes Locals
 Won Sutta, and two other union barbers of Meriden one now located in New Haven and the third since deceased, went to Middletown in their spare time and organized a barbers' local in that city, loaning their com patriots over the mountain the money for the charter of local that is now quite well established.
The union times., 1941-05-17
AMERICAN SUPPLIES TO AXIS?

DERSSTENT charges that Japan and Germany are being
 supplied with materials from the United States were scheduled this week for congressional investigation
 Senator Guy C. Gillette (Dem, Iowa) Congressman John M Cofey (Dem, Wash) sponsored resolution call ing for probe by special committee and predicted its approval.
 Gillette said he had information that American companies supplying the Axis nations with fuel oil lubricants Germany is getting these vital products from South American properties of American corporations delivery being made to German and Italian tankers in the Canary Islands 1Owan asserted.
 The Japanese navy, Gillette said operating oil pro- duced in California German submarines and raiders which sinking American supplies consigned Britain powered with petroleum from country he asserted
 Partial confirmation of these charges in De- pertinent of Commerce that during March country exported OOO barrels of petroleum Japan compared with ,OOO barrels in February.
 report by the National Petroleum Association conveyed the startling information that, for its oil supplies Japan would not be saning menace this country in the Orient shipments off, the report said, Japan would find it impossible conduct
 Commenting that statement, Congressman Clyde T. Ellis Dem Ark said he favored giving Japan week quit the RomeBerln Axis and that that action then Im ready start polishing her off the face of the earh
 get in trouble with Her Ellis predced sJapan will stab i'm the back"
The union times., 1941-05-17
Labor Observance by Church
Catholics Throughout Country to Celebrate Famous
 Papal Encyclicals Defining Rights of Worlds Workers

O be celebrated this month with public rallies church broadcasts
  his encal Condition the Working Classes year Pope encical the Social Order Both defended right bargain collectively the right of all workers living
 Many to Speak Among the first of the observance will be national radio broadcast Saturday the NBC. headquarters of the National A Senator Joseph OMahoney Wyo) and Congressman Arthur D. Hey (Mass) will participate
  Holy Name Cathedral and through Tuesday Speakers include Bishop Edwin OIara of Catholic Welfare Oahoney Colonel Philip Fleming Wage Hour Act administrator many other notables In New York AM May l8 will be held St. Parics
  Catholic Trade Unonsts and longtime champion of abor delivering the