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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Bumper Peach
Crop IS Seen J.
1850. 900 BushsI
Hervsst Likely

OCheering news for MichlGan
housewives comes from peach
producing sections of the state
where estimates have been made
that the fruit likely will total
2,580,000 bushels. nearly q mil
lion more than the 1910 harvest.
More cheering news Is that
many of the more progressive
orchard operators are thinning
out the small green fruit so that
the fruit left to mature will at.
tain . more attractive size.
That last practice Is recon.
nended heartily by H. D. Hoot-
man, extension specialist in hor-
ticulture at Michigan State Col.
.ege. In fact, the thinning may
make a few less peaches but
housewives will be more apt TO
purchase and can many Of the
peaches for winter consumption.
That fits in with suggestions
from the federal government
that food for defense" be laid
away from home crops, permit
ting SURPRISES for Britain of
more solid foods.
Now that the June drop is
over, HOFFMAN says, fruit grow.
ers can get busy thinning the
peaches. Best practice is to al
low six inches between fruits.
Growers who have seen in
dustry and the army "siphon
off" many young men usu-
ally available for orchard work
and the prospective harvest are
hiring boys and women as well
as some of the Mexican beet
workers. Men usually are assign
ed to the larger trees and the
boys and women to the young
or small trees.
When the curculio has stung
fruit, this Is to be culled out
when thinning. The curculio dies
if the stung fruit is thrown out
into the sunlight between the
rows.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Sunday School Sets
Attendance Contest

The East Detroit Tabernacle
Sunday-School announces an at
tendance contest for the month
of July which will end with a
picnic on Aug. 2.
The Sunday-School m e e t S
every Sunday at 1880 a. m, and
extends a hearty invitation to
all those who do not attend Sun
day-School elsewhere.
The Young Peoples Society"
under able leadership always
provides an interesting program
for its meeting on Sunday night
at els.
A musical program of both
vocal and instrumental precedes
the evangelistic service which
begins at 7:30.
The pastor Rev. David Martin
will be the speaker of the eve
ming.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Is Attend
Reunion
Sunday

0y U2U0s As 60S0tA6AlN
FRASER The Hoffmeyer
Family Reunion. held Sunday,
June 20, was attended by more
than Is relatives. who gathered
for an all day session at st.
Marks Church, in Roseville.
Program for the large assem-
bly, included attendance OF
eleven o'clock services at the
church, followed by q picnic
lunch, games and election meet
ing.
Complete slate of officers were
reelected to their present posi-
tons. Walter G.. Steffens was
re-voted president Of the family
association, as were Elmer Hoff-
meyer as vice-president an d
treasurer and Ethel Hoffmeyer
as secretary. Working on the
committee with the three off,
Gals will be the following men,
bers: Arthur Hoffmeyer, Elsa
Schoebel, Lillian Gerlach, Her
bert Hoffmeyer Otta Petit and
Othnar Hoffmeyer.
o.
Mrs. Michael Foster of Otto
street entertained her Pinochle
Club Monday evening.
o.
Mrs. Walter c. Steffens, 32711
Utica Road, Fraser, was sur
prised on her birthday anniver-
sary Tuesday, with many con.
gratulatory visits of friends and
relatives during that afternoon
and evening.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Review
Continued from Page II

(COntlnueO from rage ~
mittee success in future similar
ventures:
The letter, which was read at
the luncheon session, follows:
Thanks to Mr.. Charles v. I'll
tus I am again afforded the OPP
portunity to congratulate you
and the flying personnel of Self
ridge Field on the occasion of
your entertaining some one hun
dred crippled children from the
Detroit Orthopedic Clinic and
Mount Clemens at an air review
today.
1.-THE idea of welcoming these
young unfortunates to luncheon,
a tour of Selfridge Field and
open house at the Sigma Gamma
Hospital, plus the aerial demon
stration, to my mind is indeed
most commendable gesture.
The fact that the majority of
these children are convalescing
from the ravages of infantile
paralysis, I am sure, will attract
the attention of all those who
admire our Nations leader, him
self a victim of that malady. His
example in facing the stressing
problems of the country and
world today, in spite of his han
dicap, should be and l am sure
will be an inspiration to every
one of your guests today.
1.-THE close association of your
men with these crippled young
ones is certain to react favorably
and l am confident they will be
better and happier for the good
time you have shown them to-
day"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25

ANN RBOR - Two East
Detroiters today had received
degrees from the University of
Michigan at commencement ex-
ercise held Saturday night.
Robert M. -vanHouse was
granted a degree of Bachelor of
Science in Mechanical Engine
ering while Gordon D. Hartrick
was granted a degree of Master
of Forestry.
They were included in a class
of approximately $500 candi-
dates.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25

Roseville-In line with the re-
cent trend in communities of
the expanding South Macomb
area, Police Chief Walter Kim
merley today had petitioned the
Village Commission for an ex-
pansion of the Roseville Police
forge.
In his request, which was
turned over to consideration of
Police Commissioner Snyder,
Chief Kimmerley cited the
rapid growth in population and
the fact that law enforcement
agencies in other communities
were at present being expanded.
His request said that the pres
ent seven man force was mad
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Fourth

in Philadelphia in 1776. 1t has
been essentially q home festival.
II am glad, therefore. to learn
that the office of civilian de-
tense Is to lead the nation this
year in a grand rededication to
liberty on the Fourth of July, I
commend this celebration to
Americans everywhere to the
end that in this solemn COM
memoration we may find re-
newed faith in the blessings
which are ours because of the
struggle and sacrifice, the cour-
age and fortitude and vision of
those who made this nation "a
reality"
There have been reports that
the President might deliver q
speech on independence Day,
but the White House would not
confirm them.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Killings
CONTINUED from Page ~ y

State troopers refused to COM
ment on rumors that Mccoy is
also being held in connection
with the brutal murder Of Miss
Hazel Briggs, of Detroit, whose
charred body was found near
Manchester late last winter.
FAIL TO IDENTIFY
Detective Pearce, attached to
the East Lansing post, told re-
porters that although Mccoy,
arrested last Friday, showed
remarkable familiarity" with
the case, residents at Fenton
failed to identify him as the
crossword puzzle addict Ray
Larson sought in the Staying of
Mrs. Hildebrand an d Mr.. and
Mrs. Jehial Davis.
There is no question the
man has been on the Davis
farm, Pearce added, "but his
physical appearance differs con-
siderbly from the description of
Ray Larson, who went to work
for the Davises five weeks be-
fore the murders"
The trio died from knife
wounds after being beaten with
a hammer, officers said.
NOT DISCARDED
Sergt. Lawrence Meeham, al
SO of the East Lansing depart
ment, said that although there're
questions concerning the pris-
ener's identity, "his confession
cannot be discarded as a story
of deranged man."
Meeham and other officers
would not say whether or not
they are working on the pos
sibility that the mysterious Lar.
son had nothing whatever to do
with the crime, and had fled
fearing he would be implicated
in the deaths.
LINKED TO BRIGGS
The triple-murder was link
ed with the Briggs case after
relatives said that the slain
stenographer had received "sev-
eral telephone calls from a
man giving his name as Ray
Larson" A number of partially
worked crossword puzzles were
found near the badly burned
body.
Rumors that officers were at
tempting to link the prisoner
with the now famous Patterson
Case were based on reports that
a man answering Larson's des-
criptions and peculiar habits
was seen near the slain wo-
mans home a few days before
the murder.
Macomb county of fl e RS
admitted that the Patterson
murder investigation was "still
open" and that new angles are
being probed."
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25

dictated the Germans were push
ing three principal spearheads
into Soviet territory: one north
east from east Prussia toward
Kaunas and Siauliai in Soviet
lied Lithuania; the second to-
ward Grodno, Wolkowysk and
Kobryn, in Sovietized northeast.
ern Poland north of the vast
Pinsk marshes, and the third in
the direction of Wlodzimierz and
Brody in the Sovietized Polish
Ukraine.
The progress of these drives
was not disclosed. The Russians
spoke of stiff resistance" and
heavy German loses including
annihilation of an entire Nazi
mechanical regiment.
German press and war CORE
spondent accounts of the fighting
spoke, too, in terms of terrific
destruction and heavy losses in
flicted by German artificial fog
screened, flame throwing ground
units and dive-bombing Stukas.
DNB, official German news
agency, said an entire Russian
division-perhaps $4,000 men
had been destroyed.
The Russians said German
planes bombed Crimean Sevasto-
pol twice and repeatedly raided
Minsk, capital OF white Russia;
Kiev, capital of the Ukraine;
Riga, capital Of Sovietized Lat
via, and other western cities.
The Soviet air force was re-
ported to have left the Black Sea
port of Constanta and Warsaw,
German.dominated capital OF
Poland, in flames and to have
raided Danzig, Koenigsberg in
East Prussia, and other cities at
least three times each
Helsinki, capital of war-weary
Finland which has announced a
policy of neutrality. reported 1t
was raided again shortly after
dawn today by Soviet bombers.
The Firms, apparently seeking
to remain out of the fight, have
protested previous bombings OF
Finnish soil as an unjustified
violation of their territory.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Quiz
DEFENSE
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1878 The bond rtu IN cdins
IN ten bond rhich rH increase to
sfOO other proportion.
O what will the Government the for my
bond?
cork at IN the National Defen'e pro
ora~ freedom dwA safety Of TIC Umifed sdes ava
oil Us Seops evevvrhers.
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
BY TOM WOLF

NEA Service staff CsrrssSsndsnt
NEW YORK, June rs - Tin
Pan Alley, Kingdom OF Music.
is ruled today by a queen. The
exalted throne from which she
reigns is q bathtub.
1.-the, blonde and restless,
Gladys Shelley, recently crown
ed Queen of Tin Pan Alley,
l941," fell heir to the musical
throne by the all-time record
feat of writing the lyrics for rs
songs, all of them published.
in a single year. Most of them
were composed in the bathtub
of her spacious upper Fifth
Avenue apartment.
'Pve got to relax to compose, y
explained Miss Shelley, land
there's no place like the tub to
lie back and let yourself COM
pletely relax. 1t was while l
was taking a bath, for instance,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
New Queen Of Tin Pan Alley
RULES FROM BATHTUB THRONE;
WON CROWN AS CHAMP LYRICIST

that I got the idea for How
Did He Look?" (currently her
best-sellins song.)
"Of course don't get all my
ideas In the tub. Many of them
come to me in moving vehicles.
l must have borrowed two dozen
pencils from bus drivers in the
past year to jot down lyrics
while spinning up Fifth Ave-
nue.. But for some reason I've
never gotten any good ideas for
a song while riding in a taxi"
DASHING OFF LYRICS
is HER FORTE
Like so many others, Miss
Shelley drifted into the song
writing business accidentally.
She'd been on Broadway Gin
"Moon Over Mulberry Street.;
Baby Pompadour") and played
stock Gin Albany, Brooklyn,
Long Beach and Montclair."
Then she wrote a book of light
verse, "It's All Nonsense Any
how" One critic compared her
with Dorothy Parker. ooh.
boy, have got that review in a
gilt frame!")
One day Miss Shelley went
to a radio addition to hold the
hand of nervous singer friend.
The friend chad q good voice.
but laid an awful egg" and 20
Miss Shelley consumed the. ex-
ira time talking to the pianist.
He played an original compost
ton to her and right then and
there she dashed off some lyrics:
plaza 358." That was her first
song.
Dashing off lyrics is Miss
Shelley's forte. She wrote the
words to "Pavanne," her second
song, in 20 minutesNafter sew
eral top-notch lyricists had tried
unsuccessfully for several days
to get some appropriate words.
publishers like to think
you've strained and sweated
over an idea," Miss Shelley ex-
planned, 80 when they gave me
the melody of some song they
want lyrics for. l usually keep
il a week. But il I can't write
the lyrics fast-in an hour, say
I'D better give up trying on
that tune"
WRITING LYRICS
BY LONG DISTANCE
No composer could possibly
keep up with Miss Shelley's
prodigious output, and so she
writes with a number of diff
ferent people. Among them Is
Fred Astaire, and among the
songs she has written with him
are Just Like Taking Candy
from a Baby" Sweet Sorrow"
and Reaching for the Stars.
She has an unique arrangement
with him. He records his tunes
in Hollywood and then sends
her the record by mail. She
obliges with lyrics.
writing lyrics is essentially
easy" Miss She LEY said.
you've just got to tell story
in SO bars. First, / usually get
title-often from a bit of con-
versation. Then / 60 for the last
line. you've got to have sock
finish today or the tunes marked
lousy. After that you fill in the
middle. That's all there is to
it,"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Menaced
Continued from Page II

union shop, continuation of
present seniority rights, reten-
ton of the present insurance sys-
tenn and higher wages.
To the unions demand for q
20 per cent blanket increase,
Dyer said, the company offered
five cents an hour more for those
receiving up to IS cents an hour,
and 10 cents an hour additional
for those getting more than IS
cents.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Champ
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page -
his eyes. Perhaps he was think
ing they say I've lost my punch.
Boy, what couldn't do with
this in a ring"
The incident occurred when
the famous fighter made a social
call on his old friend, Sheriff
Jacob F. Theut. Joe was ac-
companied by Bill Robinson,
manager of the boxers Macomb
county farm located near Utica.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Cure
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page II
the council to confer with Gov
ernor Van Wagner relative to
what steps might be taken in
opposition to government pro-
posals that the automotive in
dustry's production be slashed so
per cent.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Reception
HOnOrs
bursts

ST. CLAIR SHORES Mr..
and Mrs. John burst dorothy
Gill) were honored ut q wed
ding reception given by the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Gill, at their home on
Cubberness road, Saturday eve.
ming, June FL.
The bursts marriage, which
took place In Monroe, January
/, was announced last week by
Mr.. and Mrs. Gill.
Out-of-town guests at the re.
ception included Mr.. and Mrs.
Alex Smith and daughter Joyce
of Muskegon, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal.
ter Stark. Mr.. and Mrs. Otto
Stark and Mrs. Anna Levitt and
daughter Mae, all Of Marine
City. The William Lonsbys If
Marysville were also guests.
The ellis other daughter.
Rita, left this week with friends
to vacation for two weeks in
Muskegon.
Miss Beatrice Tyner, head of
the English Department 0f Lake.
view High School returned to
her home In Holland, Michigan
where she will spend the sum-
mer with her parents.
Mrs. Winifred Hoffman of
Hoffman avenue was feted at a
surprise stork shower on Wed
nesday by the Ladies Aid of
Redeemer Church.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Tax
Continued from Page II

CONTINUED from Page ID
which, plus $64,6 deducted for
operating expenses, was the
amount collected until April 80.
OF that sum, the state general
fund gets one third, or 1892, PAT,
and the remainder goes to the
cities, villages and townships on
q population basis. The counties
receive nothing.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
War

were said to have captured the
former Lithuanian city Of Wilma.
A Helsinki dispatch reported gi-
gantic fires in Leningrad follow.
ing q German raid.
From the German high COM
mand communique, issued again
from the "Fuehrer's headquart-
ers" on the eastern front, came
the Nazis confident forecast of
success.
CITE SUCCESSES
I'm the east. fights of the
army, airforce and navy against
Soviet armed forces take such
favorable course that great sue
cesses are to be expected" the
communique said.
The Russians acknowledged
that they had been unable to
halt three powerful German
drives on the central and north
ern fronts. In the south, Ankara
reports said German and Ru-
manian troops had occupied Ger
nauti, capital Of Bucovina pro-
vince, and Chisinau, capital of
Bessarabia, both taken over from
Rumania by Russia q year ago.
The Russians bombed War
saw, Danzig and Rumanian Con-
stanta to match German assaults
on Ukraine cities and claimed
they destroyed 381 German
planes while losing 374.
Germany reported sinking two
British freighters and setting
big fires in Liverpool In raids
against England which the Brit
ish themselves characterized as
light"
Britain kept up her heavy
bombing of Germany and the
German occupied coast in an at
tempt to relieve some of the
Nazi pressure on her Soviet al
ly. Raj bombers followed up
their 14th successive night raid
On Germany with a sweep across
the channel today.
British reports said greater
tonnage of bombs had been
dropped on Germany during the
past two weeks than in the en-
tire month of April.
A heavy air offensive was said
by the British to have paved the
way for new advances of imper-
ial troops attempting to wrest
Syria from Vichy French forces.
The British were said to have
retaken Merdjayoun from the
French and to be attacking with
in IL miles of Beirut, Lebanese
capital.
French reports told of count
erattacks VIII ch recaptured
Djezzine, south of Beirut and
checked British forces driving
on the desert town of Palmyra.
The British theoretically pro-
tested q Falangist demonstration
outside the British embassy In
Madrid yesterday, claiming il
was staged by Germans"
Italy reported its torpedo
planes had damaged a British
cruiser off North Africa.
A Russian communique &C.
knowledged loss of STA planes in
three days, most of them wreck
ed on the ground when the Luft.
waite struck through the dawn
in the first hours of the war. The
Soviet communique c | m e d
however, an even heavier toll OF
German planes - 381, 16l Of
them downed in aerial fights and
at least 220 smashed as the Red
air fleet struck back at German
airdromes.
The Russian communique in.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Old Etiauette Hint

Art of Good Behavior" pub
lished in 1880, gives the follow
ing etiquette hint: IF possible.
the knife should not be put in
the mouth. but IL il is done, let
the edge be turned outward"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25

Pound for pound. steel is
cheaper than many kinds of
wood.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-17
by Paul Harrison :.
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and Foib|es

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. II = Thi
is a sort of ugly duckling story
about June Havoc, who is the sis
ter of Gypsy Rose Lee.
1t has a happy or at least comply
ending, too Until last winter June
always had been eclipsed by the
luch charm of her elder sister.
Then, suddenly. she became a SEN
Sation on Broadway. And now, a
movie actress, her appeal has been
atteSted officially by the Hays Of
flee, which has ordered additional
sequins and supplementary ruffles
for one of her costumes.
At first, it's all rather confusing
to an interviewer. You look at the
neat chassis and into the big, soul
full blue eyes. How, you ask your
self, could this blond package pos
Sibly have been tossed out of the
Broadway cast of The Women, y
where she played a revealing bit in
the bathtub scene, for not having
enough physical allure?
And then Miss Havoc grins, and
YOU have the answer. The gal is
funny. She looks more drolllsh
than soul-ish, more quizzical than
physical, more scieamy Cnan dreamy
more clamorous than glamorous.
And perhaps she even was ludicrous
when nude-icrouS.
SAD EYEFUL
saw her over a glass of milk
at a local bistro. II make more
noise and have more fun than any
body" she said. But l never
drink
However, she added, its a long
time between pictures, if not drinks.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-17

1t may sound ridiculous at first
to suggest that Americans owe to
their country a duty to take care
of themselves. But it is so,
Certainly a man ought to try
to play safe in his occupation, IN
his recreation, and at home, for
the sake of himself and his family,
for every compelling and personal
reason.
Yet we know that they 10 not
The mounting toll of auto and
other accident deaths is proof pos
tive that disregard of human life
is by no means confined to war
We modcrns tend to regard human
life lightly.
That tendency must be resisted.
Human life Is precious. 1t is true
that it is horrible TO pour it out
on the altar OF the war god. Why
mus, this D. done? Because man
seems not yet to have a way TO
avoid 10.
The annual toll of accidents is,
however, n5other matter, Here
the way to avoid it is clear. Care
and thought are all that are re-
quired. Nobody thinks it good or
necessary that life should be
crushed out of human bodies in the
smoking wrecks of automobiles or
the sudden shock of industrial ac-
cidents. The way to avoid them is
clear. The way TO avert the toll
of war is not yet clear.
So now every citizen owes a
double obligation to be careful He
always owed an obligation to him
self and to others near to him
Now he owes an additional obliea-
ton to his fellow Americans. The
hand stretching stilfly out OF the
wreck of an automobile makes nc
shells. assemblies no bOmbers. VT
cannot spare our skill, our spirit
our lives.
The National Safety Congress i
meeting in Chicago Oct. Clio tt
make an all-out attack on accl-
dents that are hampering the de-
fense program. They are rea
handicap. Americas productloi
would be immeasurably increaseC
if time lost due to accidents coult
be eliminated.
Is it stupid to stress this whcI
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-17
ADVOCATES
OE DEFENSE

New York Herald -Tribune)
If there is one argument that the isola-
zionist spokesmen have repeated more
than any other, it is the argument that
the United States should avoid foreign
action in order to be strong at home. The
United States must make itself impreg
nable on these shores :.
Then, all at once, a very serious threat
to the progress of domestic rearmament
appears General Marshall testifies that
if the One-year service term is not eX-
tended our trained forces will largely
melt away Whose voices are in
stantly raised to insist upon this wreck
ing of the defense system? None other
than the voices of the isolationists.
Senator Wheeler is Immediately in Op-
position to the General Staff request. Yet
no longer ago than the Fourth of July
Senator Wheeler was eXclaiming that
I'VE must build stronger the sinewS of
this Republic; we must make democ-
racy impregnable from within and with
out; we will build mightier and mightier
our armed forces"
What is the matter with these gentle
men? Are they so carried away that
they cannot understand the meaning of
their own words? Or do they wish the
Nation to believe that all their enthus-
iaSm for an impregnabe national defense
was a diSingenuOuS cover for very diff
fprpOt motives