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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-03

Smith, foreman of the same di.
vision. Arthur Kraft, previously
employed by the commission at
80 cents per hour as q grader,
replaces Smith at $3.50 per
month.
Lumley said that Louis p.
Schoenherr and Edward Schoen-
herr, son end brother, respec-
lively of the former commits
sioner, had both resigned. The
former received $40 per month
as a mechanic attached to the
Warren division and the latter,
recently appointed court officer
to Circuit Judge James E. Spier.
got the same salary as an as
sistant foreman.
Replacing Edward Schoenherr
is Edward Schueneman, veteran
former road commissioner, de-
feated for reelection two years
ago by Lumley.
Lumley said that Karl Brink,
until yesterday. classified as an
assistant engineer, and Bert
Harvey, former city engineer of
Mount Clemens, would Jointly
shoulder the commissions en-
cheering burden.
Brink was continued at SITS,
per month while Harvey's SAL
airy was raised SIS monthly to
the same figure. Luke had re-
ceived $500 per year.
Lumley also announced that
Arnold N. Boots" Ullrich, vet
eran road commission clerk, had
been raised SIS monthly to
$4,000 per year and that Mrs.
Irene Clary, a clerk, had been
boosted to 500 per month from
500.
Paul Schoenherr, another son
of the retiring commissioner,
was retained as superintendent
of Division No. l at Romeo at
$l0U per month.
Other division heads retained
at the same salary are: Calvin
Estes, Division No. 2 at New
Haven; Harry Schwaberow, Di-
vision No. 8 at Mount Clemens:
and Bob Rosso, Division No. 5 at
Van Dyke.
Lumley said that the commits
sion will limit itself largely to
maintenance this year. 1--WE con-
template but little construction"
he said.
Elected IN February, 1899, at
Ann Arbor, Luke was installed
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-03
Markets

kkODUCE
DETROIT. Jan. 3-tAP,-(u.s. Dept.
Agr)-
APPLES: Mich bu crts US. No an:
Delicious l.50-l.os: Baldwins l.o0-i.3S; RI
Greetings s5-i.0o; Mcintosh i.3s-i.s0;
Spys l.2s-l.oo; Wageners %; Jonsthans
ava Ito.
Celery: Mich squares hearts 1870.
Onions: 50-lb sacks US No I Mich. yell
lows 1880 percent = and larger 70-7S.
SWEET Spanish 2a&' mostly 100.
Potatoes: US No I loo-lb sacks. Idaho
Russets l.7o-i.ss; Maine various varieties
l.45-l so Mich Cobblers I %. Ruseot Rur-
ais l.i5-l20. Green Mountain 10. White
sacks 40. MINI. Cobblers IFS Idaho
Russets l0-lb sacks 30-1l: i5-lb sacks
Maine various varieties 23-3l. Mich 37M-
Rhubarb: Mich Hothouse so-lb cartons
choice size S.oo-3so. Fancy sise Aoo-soo.
POULTRY
DETROIT. Jan. 3-(AP)-Poultry mar
ket easy. Hens average run, II cents; Leg
horn hens : lbs, up. ~ cents; cocks, q
10 cents; Rock springers, 10 cents: Leg
horn spfineers. II cents; ducks. white
ibs., up. - cents; geese, ~ cents. 49,
GGGs
DETROIT. Jan. .3-tAP)-,u. s. Dept.
Agr.l-U. s. Graded Michigan Eggs In
case lots Vo.B. Detroit:
Whites, extras tGrsde A. large Ss-ao:
medium 23-2l; small le-11: standards
Grade b, large 24h-76: medium 22-39:
small is-2oh; trades t0rade c. Isros 10
sou,
Browns, extras Grade A, large -:
medium &c: standards (Grsde ~ large
-: medium ~
Detroit broker prices: Butter. best
creamery In tubs %: eggs. current re-
ceipts 30; dirties ~: checks 10
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-03

WASHINGTON. Jan. 8 - A
new congress - the Seventy
seventh in the history of the
United States-assembled today
to face the problems Of the
gravest International situation
since the historic 1917 session
convened.
Old and new members alike
agreed ON what were the para
mount issues:
Total Defense" for America
-sn enormous undertaking for
which staggering new appropria-
tions would be sought: and great
er aid for embattled Britain,
with the related question Of the
administration's foreign policy.
Both subjects, in COMPRESSION
al opinion. were packed with
potentisl controversy, and even
before the new session came into
official existence, there was
ample evidence that the issues
would be well aired in debate.
On defense, the main differ
ence Of opinion seemed likely to
center on the progress of the
program and its methods, rather
than on the objective of q ma
ton well armed against any
aggressor.
British aid and the admins
tration's foreign policy had far
more explosive possibilities from
a forensic point Of view, and
were co .dered the questions
that would produce the bitterest
contention.
Although overshadowed to a
certain extent by problems i'm
mediately connected with the in
ternational situation, there were
q number of major domestic
issues to demand attention from
the new congress-msny of them
with a bearing on the defense
effort, and all containing seeds
Of controversy.
Well up on this list were high
er taxes, an increase in the ma
tional debt limitation, changes in
present fiscal policies, plans for
Fastening a balanced budget, So
cial Security Act revision, sup-
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have no specific mission and
would have no duties outside of
England.
Hopkins will not be the per-
manent, new ambassador, Mr..
Roosevelt asserted, because his
health is not sufficiently good 10
allow him TO take over a desk
job. 1t was because of his health
that Hopkins resigned in August
as Commerce Secretary.
He is one of Mr.. Roosevelt's
most intimate friends and has
spent much Of his time at the
White House or with the chief
executive on out-of-town trips
since his retirement.
Hopkins will have no title.
Mr.. Roosevelt said, but proba-
bly, will receive his expenses
from the government. No other
person will accompany him.
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DR.. Frank H. Purcell, Detroit
Orthopedic surgeon.
"Many suggestions or the use
OF this money have been con-
sidered," Wagner said, "but un-
til this fall there has been no
official group authorized to
spend the money.
"As soon as the local chapter
was organized in September Of
last year q committee set to work
to determine where the money
could be used" Wagner contin-
ued.
1.-THE cases which will be ia
ken csre ut this time are To-
Gated in st. Clair Shores, Roseville
Shelby township, and East De-
troit. AL are in need of sur
gerry. They will be under the
supervision Of Miss Mary D.
Thompsor, Macomb County ply
siotherapist and DR.. Frank H.
Purcell who conducts the Grip
pied Children's center at st. Jo-
seph's hospital.
I'VE have also been promised
the cooperation of the National
Foundation for Infantile paraly-
sis In experimenting with Mount
Clemens Mineral waters to de-
termine their value in the treat
ment Of this disease. Mr.. Vande
Walker. who Is the Organization
Director for Michigan for the
National Foundation gave def
nite assurance that within the
next several months he will have
DR.. Gudekunst, Medical Director
for the Foundation visit the city
to discuss the possibility of q
grant Of money for this purpose.
Other members Of the local
committee are Martin G.
Schwartz, vice chairman; George
bankers, treasurer; Arthur ].
Platten, Secretary: Lawrence F.
8chott, Hugh Neale, Mrs. c. r.
Ullrich, DIR. r. "A. Salot, Ber-
nard kalahar, Center Line; Rus
rel Hilbert Romeo; Louis Pingel,
New Baltimore; George A. Fran
cis. Saint Clair Shores; Charles
Retxla6, East Detroit.
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were 50 intense they couldn't
see the bomb bursts in the at
tack on Bremen, a follow-up Of
Wednesday nights blasting as
sault in which more than co.
600 incendiary bombs and heavy
loads of explosives were drop
ped on the German shipping
center.
The British, in turn, admitted
considerable" damage by Car
diff as wave after wave of Nazi
bombers Numbered over the
Bristol channel port.
A Cardiff AFRAID official
said 1T was q very bad night, I"
with movie theaters, shops, COM
mercial buildings and homes
wrecked by showers of fire
bombs and high explosives.
Dispatches from Dublin said
at least 20 persons were wound
ed and two others buried in
debris when lone rai6er-ap-
parently German - bombed the
capital of neutral southern Ire
land (Eire) an hour before
dawn.
The attack on the capitals
residential section followed a
series of mysterious raids else
where in the country during the
preceding SO hours, in which
German-type magnetic sea mines
were reported dropped.
Raids over Britain were light,
London having a single alert
which ended before midnight.
From far-off Hongkong, mean
while, came further reports that
the mysterious German raider
of the south Pacific is COM
manded by Count Felix Won
Luckner, famed German Sea
Devil" of World War days.
Survivors of two Norwegian
vessels sunk by the will-o'-wisp
prowler said Won Luckner him
self addressed them after his
ship, the former British-owned
7,1O0-ton Glengarry, had sunk
their craft off the island of Su-
matra.
The survivors said nine Nor
wegians were killed in an ex-
change of gunfire before the
crew of Won Luckner's raider
boarded the Norwegian vessel.
Great Britain, increasingly
hard-pressed for ships, wants ad-
ditional u. S. destroyers to guard
her conveys reliable sources said
in London. One Of the first
missions of Lord Halifax after
he comes to Washington as the
new British ambassador will be
to see If he can get them, il
was reported. The estimated
loss of 100000 tons of British,
allied and neutral shipping duQs
ing the first 16 months ~ IN
war underlined the need.
There was little change In the
situation on the war fronts In
Albania and North Africa. The
Greek high command reported
successful local actions" against
the Italians in Albania, but zero
weather was said to be limiting
the fighting. The Greeks said
both prisoners and q number Of
machine guns were captured by
the troops.
British troops continued their
siege of Bardia, Italian frontier
base in Libya, into its 18th day.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-03
The Letter Brings
Bet1e Davis to Jewel

each of Bette Davis perform
ances should top the one which
preceded it. 1t happened with
Dark Victory" 1.-The Old Maid, :"
"All This and Heaven Too" and
according to all advance re-
ports, she rides to greater glory
in her newest vehicle, 1.-THE Let
ter"
THE Letter" tells a strange
story. It tells of a beloved and
sheltered woman who murders
a man, murders him in cold
blood, pumping his body full
of bullets until her husbands
gun is empty. Why did she do
it? Well, she tells her husband
and her lawyer that she did it
to defend her honor. But is
seems there was letter. A..
a letter in her handwriting ad-
dressed to the murdered man,
and now in the possession of his
widow, an Eurasian woman. If
that letter were to show up in
court, there could be no other
verdict than guilty" But down
in the Chinese quarter of Sing
apore, there is mysterious tran
saction under cover of night,
and on the day before the trial.
there is no sign of the letter.
These are the ingredients of
the drama. Bette Davis is the
central figure about which it re-
wolves. Herbert Marshall is the
husband, James Stephenson the
lawyer who sacrifices his deep
personal integrity to save the
life of his friends wife, Gale
Sondergaard is the Eurasian
To tell more of the story
would lessen its tremendous i'm
pact as it unfolds upon the
screen in all its dramatic in
tensity.
M0OC uuuCI Tic OlTcCtkOn VI
William Wyler, who directed
Miss Davis in "Jezebel," a per-
Torrance which won her the
Motion Picture Academy Award
in 1888, The Letter" has al
ready been named by Red Book
Magazine As the Best Picture of
the month.
Max Steiner, whose musical
score for THE Informer" won
him the coveted Motion Picture
Academy Award in 1885, has
written the brilliant background
music for THE Letter." Howard
Koch prepared the screen story
from Maugham's play, and Tony
Claudio, A. s. c., another Acad-
envy winner, is responsible for
the photography.
Besides the principals already
mentioned, the cast includes
Frieda Inescort, as the lawyers
gracious wife; Sen Yung, as the
but sinister Chine4e law
clerk; Bruce Lester, Elizabeth
Earl, Tetsu Komai, Doris Lloyd
and Cecil Kellaway.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-03

That t9pclnating, tantalixing
and dangerous Bette Davis, is
back on the screen, following up
her recent daxxling success IAN
This And Heaven Too" with
THE Letter" w. Somerset
MIaughazn's greatest drama Of
q wognsn's heart. "The Letter"
will have Il local premiere show
ing q the Jewel Theatre on
Thursday.
e = becoming automatic that
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ary was limited by the board to
$500 per year.
Each OF the three commission
ers in addition will receive $500
each for car allowance. Other
budget items approved included
$4,000 for expense accounts
and 1872, $50 for salaries.
Also dismissed by the COM
mission yesterday were Law
renee Rinke, a $3.50 per month
mechanic attached to Division
No. 4 at Warren, and Sylvester
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Cooley
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the Romeo post who handled the
accident. Witnesses were also
brought in for questioning. In
ssmuch a. the family or the de-
ceased man do not wish to pro-
secute, however, Prosecutor Ivan
A. Johnston does not believe q
negligent homicide charge will
be brought against Mergener.
Funeral services will be held
from the Wilbur Funeral Home,
Romeo, Sunday at 2 p. m. Burial
will be at the Utica cemetery.
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as president of the state high
way engineers in April. He will
continue to serve until April of
this year.
After ~ years of faithful
service, I can't understand why
l was dismissed" Luke said this
morning as he removed personal
belongings from his desk.
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Theft


belonging to ozro secord, $50
Amin, Detroit, and led a wild
chase along Iroquois road.
Detroit police held Broskey
at the 18th precinct Jail until
he was picked up by Mount
Clemens police yesterday after
noon.
He claims he hod been drink
ing; and repo1 1ly confessed
having "borrowe N number OF
other cars in the past and aban-
doning them.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-03

An analysis of the 194l
budget adopted by the road
commissioners yesterday re-
veals plans for the expendi-
ture Of $329,255.06, tho same
amount appropriated for this
year by the old commission
in October. A total Of
$9,111.40 realized through va
ri0us dismissals and abolition
Of salary increases proposed
In the old budget was simply
transferred to the equipment
fund by the commissioners
In the new budget.
Evening star., 1941-10-14

every front. But when there is
plain unwillingness to tackle the la
Dor problem and assure continued
production at home, there begins to
be a Skepticism as to whether the
administration is in earnest.
Unquestionably there are in
fluences at work which take advan-
tage of patriotic labor leaders to
foment strikes and discord. Un-
fortunately it takes very little
needing these days to stir union
officers into finding an issue for a
strike. There is certainly nothing
to be lost to union official who
starts a strike. He incurs no pen
atty, nor does anybody else on the
union side. But, of course, if the
blame can be transferred to an en-
ployer, it will be done, and today
the United States Navy, which
should be busy arming ships and
attending to a thousand and one
tasks at sea and in its own navy
yards, is actually taking up valuable
time and energy in supervising
about s49O,OOO,0OO worth of ship
building contracts at Kearny, N. j.,
all because the Roosevelt admins
tration is afraid to face realities.
But why should anybody fret
about the labor situation? Why
Evening star., 1941-10-14
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-The war
in Europe seems far removed
from the New York mayoralty
election. It should be-but 1t
isn't. Despite the fact that the
two principal contenderS for
mayor of Americas biggest city
have declared their support Of
all-out national defense and the
foreign policy of the President,
political leaders here are count
ing strongly on the influence of
the war on the voters and groups
of the voters in the coming elec-
ton. Both Mayor La Guardia
and his opponent, District Attor-
ney William O'DWyer, have given
the Presidents foreign policy an
o. K.
Mr.. ODWyer, the Democratic
nominee for mayor. in his ad-
dress accepting the nomination,
declared a municipal campaign
is no place for the discussion of
national issues or international
questions. Our foreign policy
is not the business of the Mayor
of the City of New York" he
said. He added, however, in order
there should be no doubt of his
position, Il, hate Communism,
Fascism and Nazism. I alb
hor the dictators. = 1 believe
with President Roosevelt that the
most effective answer to Hitler's
method of total attack is total
Evening star., 1941-10-14
This Changing World
Turkey Is Reported Next on Germony's List
As Nozis Prepare Drive to Seize Oil Fields

government is quietly proceeding
with general mobilization. All
classes of reservists up to the age
of 40 have been ordered to join
their regiments. Two panzer di-
visions which were stationed not
far from the Turkish border are
reported to have been ordered to
be ready for action. The German
air force in Bulgaria-somewhat
depleted since last May-has been
recently reinforced by bomber
and pursuit squadrons. The Bull
garian military authorities are
now requisitioning carts, horses
and oxen for the army.
The Sofia government has been
told by the Germans that while
Berlin does not insist that Bull
garian forces be sent against
Russia because of the historic
friendship between the peoples of
those countries, they may now be
called on to fight the Turks, ira
ditionally the enemies of Bull
garia. The Bulgarian peasant
soldier can be relied on to fight
the Turk with enthusiasm. Fur
thermore, Bulgaria has been
promised a rich prize. Edirne,
which the Bulgars have coveted
since the war against Turkey in
1912, is one of the inducements
offered by the Reich to King
Boris. The Turks have only a
small force in European Turkey,
and the Bulgarians know that
with the aid of German mecha-
Evening star., 1941-10-14
The Political Mill
War and Anti-Wor Sentiment Expected to PIoy
Big Role in New York Moyoroty Election

voters, for example. who hate
Hitler and who want to see him
exterminated. There are the
Irish-American voters, who do
not like Hitler any more than
do the Jews. At the same time,
there are some of the Irish who
are suspicious of England after
seven hundred years of expert
ence, much of which has been
bitter, and more of them who
believe that the United States
should not become involved in
the present war.
Divisions Forecast.
= Large groups of voters of Ger
man blood are hostile to Amer
ican entry into the war, too.
And there are many italian vot-
ers in New York. Just as the
Jers and the Poles, for example,
are expected to support Mayor
La Guardia, so the Irish, the
Germans and many of the Ital-
ians are counted upon to vote for
Mr.. ODWyer. Not because Mr..
ODWyer has failed to give his
support to the Presidents for
eign policy, but because of the
two candidates they regard
Mayor La Guardia as the more
intent upon the final entry of
this country into the war, if that
course becomes more and more
likely.
The Irish-AmericanS in New
York have an added incentive for
the support of the Democratic
nominee-Mr. ODwyer is one of
them in race and blood and
church. Not all of the Irish, of
course, are going to vote for Mr..
ODWyer, any more than all the
Jews are going to vote for Mayor
La Guardla, but the great bulk
of them are expected to do so.
If the race turns out to be close
and 1t very we'll may be-a
great deal will depend, accord
ing to leaders here, on the extent
Democratic Jews stick to Mr..
ODwyer, the regular nominee of
their party, and how many of
them, impelled by their feeling
about Hitler and the war, turn
to Mayor La Guardia. 1t may
be the deciding factor.
Communist Ticket Fades.
A division of opinion among
the leaders exist over the actual
feeling of New York City's mil
lions on the subject of the war
and President Roosevelt's foreign
policy. One important Demo-
Evening star., 1941-10-14
Turkey Is Warned.

These military preparations are
not concealed from the Turks.
They are intended to intimidate
President Ismet Inonu. Herr
Franz Won Papen, the Nazi AM
bassador at Ankara. has warned
the bewildered Turkish leaders
that they can expect but little
help from the British. They are
being told by the Ambassador
that Russia is crippled. The
Reich is prepared to pour at least
100000 men into this new theater
of War-not counting the 100000
Bulgarians. And the Reich can
supply that force with necessary
equipment by land and via the
Black Sea, while the British must
send their requirements thou
sands Of miles. Germany, the
Nazi Ambassador is telling the
Turks, must get to Mosul at all
costs. If Turkey permits the
passage of troops, her territorial
integrity will be guaranteed and
she will be given compensation
in Syria and Iraq, But if she re-
sists she will be reduced to a mere
shell.
The Ankara government has
few more weeks to decide. In the
meantime, it is anxiously watch
ing the course of the battle in
Russia. On its outcome hinges
the future Of whether it
will live up to its agreement with
the British or follow the example
of Hungary, Rumania and Bull
paria.
Evening star., 1941-10-14
Dynamite Seen in Use Tax
Republicans Wait to Witness Reaction of u S.
Collections on Autos Before Congressional Elections

tax to fat So. The reduction sub
seQuently was voted by the State
Legislature.
After sacrificing this State rev.
enue in behalf of their car-oWning
constituents, Louisiana officials are
annoyed no end by the intention
of the Federal Government to grab
it off The intimation from Louisi-
ana is that the Treasury can expect
no State help in it's job of collection.
Estimate $500 More Clerks.
At the time the auto tax proposal
was before the House committee,
the Treasury estimated that $500
additional clerks would be required
to administer it, and present indi-
cations are that this will not prove
an exaggeration. First, it appears
a Federal force will have to be put
in each State collectors Office to
compile an up-to-date list of auto
mobile oWners-a big job in itself.
The tentative plan of the Treas
ury is to provide a tax receipt in
the form of q windshield sticker.
Sometime before February l each
automobile owner will be forward
ed an application form with in
structionS to fill it out and return
it, accompanied with a check or
money order for S2O9. When this
is received, the auto sticker will be
dispatched by return mail. This
means the mailing of at least
64000O00 letters for each collection
-l28,OOO 900 for the year.
viii Uncle Sam have to provide
police TO stand at every street
corner or rural crossroads and
spot the non-payers? The Treas
ury hopes not. Its expectation is
that large percentage of automo-
bile owners will come through with
their payments before February /.
Those who fail to do so will re-
ceiVe another letter embodying a
not too gentle reminder. This prob
ably will point out that an auto
mobile operator without a tax stick
er is liable to arrest. If this second
letter fails TO produce results, the
next thing in the mail may be a
summons TO appear in Federal
court and explain why you haven't
paid.
This being a use tax" the own
er can tell Uncle Sam to go jump
in the lake if he is not using his
car, but he'll have to prove it, and
also if he has disposed of the car
which the Government lists him as
owning, he'll have to prove that. A
serious difficulty in this connection
is that there are no local Federal
courts. In some cases citizens will
have TO be hailed hundreds of miles
to tell why they are delinquent
in their s209 obligation.