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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
BY KEN C.. FERGUSON
>I.OTTERY OF DEATH

LOTTERY OF DEATH
Scene: A downtown Mount
Clemens office.
A group of Ave men are bent
.over hat, and one by one they
draw folder slips of paper from
a hat.
Written on the slips are num-
bers 1-2-3-4-5.
Each man picks a number
from the hat.
The Lottery of Death is on!
Each man represents a human
life; a life which will be snuffed
out on Macomb county high
ways over the Labor Day holi-
day.
Each number represents un-
told agony and suffering.
Fantastic?
IS AWARD
Yes, and no. For this game
has been going on weekend at
ter weekend, the prize a IS bill.
The participants may be
thought heartless, but others
will think Of Them NJ realtsts
. as they do.
This interesting little game"
started in February, 1941, and
the players" are banking on
the drunk and reckless drivers
that ply Macomb county high
ways each weekend.
They are banking on the
fact that Sheriff Jacob F. Theut
undermined staff cannot be at
100 places at one time.
They are banking on the care
lessness that marks the youths
of 1941, as we'll as the drivers
physically incapable of operating
q motor vehicle safely.
KILLERS?
These men are not immune
to suffering; they are not heart
less.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Peach Coronation
is Set for Sunday
Gala Romeo Festival Opened
1T Noon Today; Parade Monday

= With the presentation of the
village key to Peach Queen
Margaret Emery and the 10
girls Of her court at 1890 pm.
today the eleventh annual
Peach Festival at Romeo got
under way. Village President
Charles Ellsworth did the hon.
ors.
This afternoons schedule in
cludes q horse-pulling contest
from 1 to 5 pm, and the pre-
liminaries of the Soapbox Races
from 2 to 4 pm. A free pro-
gram of vaudeville acts II slated
for 8 pm. on East st. Clair
street, and ut the same time, Z
baseball game between New
Baltimore and Romeo will start.
A program Of vaudeville acts
at the bandstand and . street
dance on West st. Clair street
will occupy the evening.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Luftwaffe axes Grim
oil Near allinn
POSSIBLE TOTAL OF 81 SHIPS
MAY HAVE BEEN LOST TO RUSSIA

oBERLIN, Aug. 3O-(R-At
least 43 and possibly as many
as 81 Russian transports have
been sunk in the Gulf of Fin
land by German mines and war
plane in the Russian evacuation
of captured Tallinn, the Ger
man high command declared to-
day.
The Russian Baltic fleet also
tlost n cruiser. fours.destrnyers,
: nine minesweepers md three
patrol boats, sunk BY nslSaes md
air bombs, the war bulletin from
Adolf Hitler's headquarters de-
clared.
Besides, five destroyerS, an
auxiliary cruiser and . mine
sweeper were heavily damaged,
It said.
AS the Luftwaffe hammered
ceaselessly at the ships carrying
Russian forces east from the
Esthonian capital taken by the
Germans yesterday, the high
command issued this summary
of the Soviet losses on the sea:
During the attempt to break
out from Tallinn to reach other
harbors, two destroyers, nine
minesweepers and three patrol
boats of the Soviet navy were
sunk through mine operations of
the German navy. Two addition
al destroyers and one mine
sweeper were badly damaged by
mines.
Combat planes, in stubborn
attacks, sank one Soviet cruiser,
two destroyers and damaged
through bomb hits an additional
three destroyers and one auxil-
larry cruiser.
Transport fleets which the
enemy brought to Tallinn to
evacuate troops and war mate
rial ran straight into German
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Lions Ready
for Gala Event.
Riehrsswd Scene
OF Festivities

eve are III 1T foe tn great
est Labor Dsy celebrates In the
county," Ray Stoecker, general
tiireetor-of Ne alfaify seiA- 4edav.
The Lions Club Of Richmond 4
sponsoring the celebration In
Sportamen's Park. Richmond.
The fun pcogram includes 3D.
dresses BY Jesse p. Wolcott, con-
gressman from this district, and
Harry +. Kelly, secretary q
state. The climax Of Z bathing
beauty parade will Be the ehooo-
ing Of Mis- Richmond lo41J
After the baby parade, ~1aby
Richmond 1041' will be chosen
See LlONS-Rago 4 Z
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Four Injured
in Crashes
Cor cIip.-off
Three Mail Boxes

oFour persons were slightly in
jured in two automobile acct
dents last night.
Mrs. Mary Spear, IS, Mrs.
Harry De Fer and Mrs. Henry
De Fer, all of St. Clair Shores,
were slightly hurt when q car
driven by Mrs. Spear crashed
into three mailboxes and sign
on jefferson, near Croker, at
1898 pm.
Ernest L. Dumas, 80, Of De-
troit, escaped serious harm
when he lost control of his au-
tomobile on North River road
at Oils pm.
All were said treated at st.
Joseph's hospital and released.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
A Beggar Dies Rich
RAGGED ECCENTRIC LEAVES ST 900
IN CASH AND $4,000
ON DEPOSIT

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. So
R-Passersby who for years
threw dimes at q ragged old man
then hurried along without stop
ping for the razor blades he
peddled on the streets learned
today those rags he wore hid
their weight in gold.
Police regarded the peddler
as Q harmless eccentric, shrug-
ged and wondered who would
bury him after he toppled from
. porch on which he rested and
fell TO the Sidewalk with Z fatal
heart attack.
But their shrugs swiftly
changed to gestures az smase-
ment for neatly fastened with
Q safety pin to his tattered peck
ets was 81 800 IN cash and Q
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30

Special services will be held
in all churches Sunday morning
In honor Of the festival. The
afternoons festivities will start
with . band concert 1t / pm,
followed by the finals Of the
Soapbox Races. A baseball
game between Selfridee Field
and Romeo will start at 3 pm,
and at 4 pm. another free
vaudeville show will be staged.
A band concert will start at 8
pm.
The highlight of the day, and
one Of the most colorful events
OF the festival will be the
browning Of the Peach Queen
at 3 pm. on the high school
campus. Macomb County Prose
cutor Ivan Johnston will Of
ficiate.
Sundays program will wind
up with . free vaudeville show
Monday VIM - the big day
1t the festival y and Il win start
with 4 jvvenll ~ pa1hde nt 90
ann i At 1880 Am :. hno6h 81
g1me betvV IA Inlay CITY all6l
Romeo will Mart. Is vaudeville
show viii hetin u II :. n. = The
bandstan3.
The floral parads, which + NJ
ways one Of the high apots Of
the day; win start q : pm. and
occupy most Of the afternoon.
A vaudeville show at the band
stand u slated for 3 pm. and 1t
7 pm. another band concert u
scheduled.
A Gay Nineties parade will
occupy the firSt part Of the
evening. The comical floats will
start to move along Main street
at 3 pm.
The grand finale Of the festi-
val will be the Queens Ball In
honor Of the queen and her
court. The ball will start at
10 pm, and u will b held In
the ballroom ut the high school.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Store Gums ..PhOOey
CRACKSHOT CHARLEY tiAIABY PREFERS
INSTEAD A KADE-OVER
FORD AXLE
FORD AXLE


BY ROMNEY WHEELER
OATLANTA. Aug. 30-(R-
Store-bought guns may satisfy
some folks, but not crackshot
Charley Hardy. He'll take .
made-over alto axle.
That's right . Ford axle-
the kind that right now are ROLL
Ing over many . county rod.
And Charley heading today Tor
Camp Perry. 0hi2 end the Na-
tional Rifle matcheA thinks b
may bring home the top champ
ionship with his hybrid gun.
The akle We bored tn1D = ~
calibre rifle barrel ~ Hamhy =
year ago ct Rome, &C., by y. e.
Adams, . now-d deed gannnilh.
Held in Q machine rest. lIamby
ava Il viii pump 100 shses IN
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30

. ons-inch circle ct 100 yards
which u shooting for any weA-
pom. VI ~
Mounted on . wincheslsr,
bolt-action mechanism, ~
hand-shapod barrel waa uqnf
last month By Hamhy n winnloo
the Southesn 1oUt1nal ehoGn
ionship at 0reoasGoUoL N. g, z'
II had baoa tE11nG ~ >o
years % ~ a'1Ol ~ :
$500: s: s'''s & :! ! !.
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30

mine barriers together with
conveying war vessels.
"Sinkings to date amount to
Fl transport ships .totalling
48,200 tons, and eight transports
badly damaged, by mines.
"Bombers destroyed % mer-
chantmen, chiefly troop trans
ports, totalling $4,000 tons, and
so badly damaged an additional
80 ships that the loss at . great
number of these vessels also Ii
apparent.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
.nl!q!||JJl.lEiles
nolite
Pottery Dispute
Flares Anew

OAlthough officials Of the
United Pottery Workers (ClOl
yesterday filed q five-day notice
Of intend to strike, the pos
sibility Of accord before the
deadline on Monday, Sept. 3
appeared bright today.
Charles E. Doll, general man.
ager Of the Pottery plants, said
he had received . copy q the
strike notice but declined to COM
ment further. UPW officials
claimed the notice had been sent
to the State Mediation Board
in Detroit but officials there said
they had not received the an
nouncement.
STRUCK APRIL II
A walkout Of UPW employees
closed the plant on April II. A
period Of peaceful picketing pre-
coded brief violence outside the
plant before the gates finally re-
opened m May Is.
Art Baxter, Z UPW official,
said yesterday that the hve-day
notice does not necessarily mean
4 strike will be called. He said
union members will meet, prob
ably Thursday, to take Z strike
vote.
DISCRIMINATION
Baxter charged that un O n
members have been the victims
Of Company discrimination. He
said some members. had been
fired and others were given i'm
definite ,layoffs. The notice al
legged further that the rival Pot
terry Workers Cooperative II .
company dominated union.
Baxter pointed out that the
strike notice won't become cffec-
tive until Monday, Sept. 3 be
See PO1TK1Y-Pags 3
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
The Queen!
Ruler Of Peach
Festivol 10
Thrilled
BY QUEEN MARGARET
Of The Romeo Peach Festival

oThursday was exciting but to-
day has beep equally so. Our
morning began with an inter-
view with two !Fichigan Sena-
tors, Prentiss Brown and Arthur
Ven d en- burg during which
pea C he s were presented and
photographs taken.
Next, to the office of Vice
President Henry Wallace with
whom I was very proud to be
photographed, after coffee in the
Senate restaurant we took the
underground train to the Capt.
toll. Luncheon at the Press Club.
At four thirty we had tea at
the Chilean Embassy with Sc
nora Michel. from there we hur-
ried to the airport where we
boarded the plane for Detroit
bringing to a close two eventful
days in Washington.
p. S.-Last nights din n r
party on the terrace Of the Hotel
Shoreham with Governor Van
Wagoner's nephew - my escort
will always be . pleasant men,
DRY.
End p. S.-Everyone here IL
dancing the rhumba apparently
In keeping with the good neigh
Dor policy.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
License Deadline
Ut $50 TONIGHT

AThe South Gratiot avenue
branch Of the Secretary Of
States office viii ~ -epaA m.
I'll use o'clock this evening
70 accommodate last minute
buyers Of license plates. Dead
line for half-year plates u
midnight, tonight.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Martial Law Declared

OLONDON, Aug. 3O-QF1-Mortio law hos been declared
Teheron copto Of lron under direction Of the War Min
stsr Germon broadcast of Teheron dispatch sold today
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Would Try Laval for Crimes

oSlNGAPORE Aug 80 - up - The Free French For Eost
headquarters settlement today expressed hope for the
cove Of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deot they be tried
by the French notion and legally made ITO pay for their
crimes"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Claim Tallinn i'm Red Hands

oMOSCOW Aug. 80 - F9 - Toss, officokSovet news
oeency today circulated dispotch dotted Yesterday from
Tolnn reporting to the Estonon copoI still Soviet
hands, THE 0ermons coming capture Of the Gulf Of Finland
Yesterday sold German forces stoed and took in the
early morning.) M
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30

oLONDON Aug. 3O-QP@Gunfre from ships and Navel
oireo destroyed damage 900 German planes from
the so Of the August the Admiralty reported today
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
late < X X
bulletins
Assassin Wins Sympathy
ovlCHY, Unoccuped Fronce Aug. 301tF1-SYmpothy for
Paul Coette Youthful DeGoulst who attempted ossossin
oe Pierre Lovo this week. become evident todoy the
wounded poiticion 10y fighting for his fe
Assassin Wins Sympathy
Chinese Launch Offensive

oCHUNGKING, China, Aug. 3O-QP6Chinese forces have
gone on the offensive In five provinces and threatening
the copoIs Of Of them in operations begun Mondoy
soys the Chinese War Ministry
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30

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Evening star., 1941-01-03

isolated, Bulgaria was thenceforth
too weak to do much on her own
account.
Now, a new war has given Bull
garia fresh Importance in the Balkan
Setup. Already her pro-German
leanings have been rewarded by the
return of Dobrudja from Rumania,
under axis pressure, and German
diplomacy has undoubtedly dangled
the hope of other rewards, especially
the return of a Mediterranean out
let lost to Greece after the Great
War. But misfortune has chaStened
the Bulgars and made them wary.
Also, the Frightening prospects of
Greece and Turkey as Britain
clincheS Mediterranean supremacy
improve Bulgaria's bargaining posi-
ton. In Vienna, Premier Philoff may
be able to stand up to axis pressure
in way which would have been
impossible two months ago. And
Balkan statesmen are notoriously
ShreWd traders.
Evening star., 1941-01-03
Bulgaria Bargains

Bogdan PhilOff, the Bulgarian
Prime Minister, has made a sudden
trip to Vienna. The official reason
is that he has gone to consult a
medical specialist. This is probably
true, for Premier Philoff is not a
we'll man, and Vienna is famed for
its physicians and surgeons. How
ever, Vienna has likewise become the
political clearing house where axis
and Balkan statesmen meet to dis
cuss their respective interests, so the
trip undoubtedly has an important
diplomatic aspect.
Throughout the present war, Bull
garia has leaned toward Germany
and more than once it has looked as
though she would openly join the
axis. Since the Italian disasters,
however, the attitude of the Bull
garian government has been rather
reserved, and Premier Philoff re-
Gently declared that his country
would countenance mo foreign
regimes" and wanted no "protec-
ton" from any source.
Nevertheless, Premier Philoff has
long been friendly to Germany and
during his absence the country will
be run by the Minister of the Inte-
rior, whose pro-GermaniSm is still
more pronounced. 1t is interesting
to note that this gentleman is named
Grabovsky. 1t is thus fair to assume
that men of such known leaningS
may play in with the axis. But it is
equally probable that they will try to
drive a good bargain for their coun-
try, and that they realize the risks
of throwing in Bulgaria'S lot unre-
servedly on the axis side.
Bulgaria has had bitter experience
with making the wrong choice. Be-
fore the Balkan Wars of 1928, she
was the leading Balkan state. The
Christian Balkan allies triumphed
over Turkey, but when Bulgaria
tried to enforce her ideas of terri
torial settlement, she was defeated
by her former allies, Greece and
Serbia, while Rumania seized the
Bulgarian province of Dobrudja and
Turkey retook most of what had
been lost to Bulgarian arms. Burn
ing for vengeance, Bulgaria Joined
the Central Powers in the Great War,
but picked the losing side and was
further penalized by more territorial
losses. Disarmed and automatically
Evening star., 1941-01-03

but must on the contrary pull in her
horns for a protracted struggle. Of
ficial DEGREES admit that the food
and raw materials relationships are
measures of necessity "to insure
supplies for the armed forces and
civilian population in time of war"
If the tide of war continues to
flow against the Italians in Albania,
Greece and Libya, and economic
conditions at home deteriorate in
cumulative degree, it would be rash
to predict that Mr.. Churchill's re-
cent appeal to King Victor EN-
manuels people to divest themselves
of their regime of disaster will re-
main futile; for it is evident that
all is far from we'll in the Fascist
land.
Evening star., 1941-01-03
ItuIy's Mounting Woes

President Roosevelt's New Year
Day message to King Victor En-
manuel III, expressing hope that
the italian people may be enabled
during 1941 to enjoy "the blessing
of a righteous peace" comedies
with fresh evidence of Italy's mount
ing economic woes. Effectually shut
off by the British blockade from
those sea-borne supplies on which
her national life is so vitally de-
pendent, Italy's plight with respect
to foodstuffS and raw materials
for industry grows progressively
worse. No amount of stentorian
bluster by II Duce as to the coun-
try's "invincibility" can suppress the
diSquieting facts.
The gravity of the situation has
lust been manifested by the Gre
alton of dicta torShips to ration food
and rawstuffs. Giuseppe TaSsinari,
Minister of Agriculture, is now
clothed with supreme authority
over production and consumption
Of foods of all kinds, including eX-
ports, imports and distribution to
both civilians and the armed forces.
Drastic penalties are decreed for
boarding, and the nation is adjured
to practice the limit of Self-denial.
Slaughter of cattle and hogs is rigid
ly controlled and traffic in meat
subjected to sharpest scouting.
There is telltale proof in these un-
precedented recourses that mid
winter finds Italy in the midst of a
serious shortage of basic food staples.
OF no less significance is the desig-
nation of Renato Ricci, Minister of
Guilds and veteran Fascist StalWart,
as virtual czar of Italian industry.
AS in the case of the food dictator,
Ricci will have the final and auto
cratic say in all matters concerned
with the handling and disposition of
raw materials, and will determine
the proportion of them available for
civilian needs after requirements of
the army, navy and air force are
provided for.
The restrictions thus to be i'm
posed upon the normal economic life
of the nation reflect Mussolini's real
ization that Italy may no longer
count on an early end of the war,
Evening star., 1941-01-03
District Health Record

Encouraging progress was made
during 1910 in Washington's battle
against disease, but the statistics
made public by District Health Officer
George c. Rutland in his annual
survey Of the health front show that
the lines must be tightened in sew
eral important sectors and that the
fight in general must be waged with
ever-increaSing intensity if new vic
tories are to be achieved in 1941.
Outstanding among the accom-
pliShmentS of the past year were
reductions in infant and maternal
mortality rates and in the death
. rate for diphtheria. Infant deaths
in 1886, when mother and child well
fare services we're inaugurated on
a full time basis, we're Seventy-tWo
per thousand live births. The health
services have effected a steady re-
duction in the infant death rate
during the past five years, until now
the rate is slightly less than forty-SlX
deaths per thousand live births. That
means a reduction of thirty-SiX per
cent in baby mortality since 1886.
Maternal mortality decreased from
48 deaths per thousand live births
in 1889 to 27 last year. The infant
and maternal death rates now are
at the lowest points in District history
and both are below the national
average. Deaths from diphtheria, a
disease which once was greatly
dreaded for its ravages among chill
dren, averaged only one per 100000
of population last year, as compared
to nearly two per 100000 in 1899.
Dark spots on the health picture
included a slight increase in the
tuberculosis death rate, which now
stands at 86.2 per 100000 of popula-
tion, and rise in mortality figures
for pneumonia, heart disease, kidney
ailments, cerebral hemorrhage and
diabetes. The increase in tubercu-
losis deaths is especially disturbing,
for tuberculosis is a disease which,
In large measure, is influenced by
occupational, sanitary and health
control facilities of a community. 1t
reflects no credit on a city to have
a health record marred by an in
crease in tuberculosis mortality. This
is one of the reasons why DR.. Rutland
has placed so much stress on the need
for additional health centers in
thickly populated areas where public
health services are lacking. DR..
Rutland pointed to the opening of
the Southwest Health Center as the
principal achievement of 1910 in the
offensive against human ills in Wash
ington. Similar bulWarkS are ur-
gently needed in the Northeast and
Northwest. Funds invested in such
facilities pay rich dividends to the
community in the form of health
benefits and human lives saved.
Evening star., 1941-01-03
A New Conqress

Inc capacity or democratic lnSt1-
tutionS to function effectively in
periods of great stress will be ap-
praised to a very considerable extent
by the manner in which the Seventy
seventh Congress, convening today,
discharges It's duties.
Seldom, if ever, has new Congress
assembled under more trying condi-
tlOnS. The bulWarkS of the demo-
cratic way of life, under heavy
assault for the past six months,
aSSuredly will be Stormed again
during the coming year by a cOmbi-
nation of enemies who will be
satisfied with nothing less than total
conquest, and, in large measure, the
success or failure of this new attack
will be determined by the part we
play in the defense.
In a relative sense, a democracy
always functions slowly, and this is
not without its advantages in normal
times. But in periods of great
emergency, such as the present, the
emphasis must be on speed and more
speed, for the most carefully con-
Sldered policies can come to naught
if their augmentation is too long
delayed.
The new Congress, broadly speak
ing, will have to deal with two
primary problems. First, there is the
question of rendering more effective
aid to England in her firSt-line fight
against the axis powers, and, sec
ondly, there is the problem of speed
ing up our own defense program so
that we may enjoy a maximum of
security in this hemisphere if the
British should be defeated.
Solution Of these problems, and
particularly the first one, will call for
prompt and decisive action. 1t will
be necessary, Of course, to examine
carefully and to discuss thoroughly
all specific emergency measures that
are laid before the Congress, but this
consideration must be given solely
with view to the national welfare.
There is no place in the present
picture for partisan or sectional
politics, nor for blind adherence to
prejudiceS that have been outlawed
by the swift march of world events.
The members of the new Congress
must be prepared to take risks, for
there is risk in anything that we do
or refrain from doing But the
greatest risk of all is that specific
policies decided upon will be nullified
by needless delay in putting them
into effect. 1t would avail us moth
ing, for example, to adopt measures
to extend greater assistance to the
British if they should be defeated
while these measures were under
debate.
AS General Douglas Macarthur
has said, most wars are lost because
the loser is too late in everything
that he undertakes. We are not
technically at war, but our defeat
will be no less disastrous if this con-
flict is lost because, being at peace,
we should be too late in giving full as
sistance to those making the fight.