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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
Sixth Member
Of Family
Joins Service

oHenry TebQ Jr., @ Inches
street. & following throuGll =
Yesterday, Henry observed
his l7th birthday enroute g ~
Grees Lakes Nava 1rom1ng
Station at Chicago, tl,s sixth
member Of two Generations q
his family 10 enlist IN Uncle
Sans armed forces. ~ /.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
Police Officers Seek
HI and Run Car Driver

OPolice today were seeking
the driver of q car which
crashed into and broke off .
light pole on South Gratiot early
this morning. The accident u
said to have occurred at approx
imately 4 o'clock.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
LauntIl Probe
Of Fatal Blast
Philsdslphie
Checks Cause

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. IL -
R-Eisht city agencies launch
ed independent investigations
today into triple gas explos-
ION that killed five persons and
shattered Z row Of houses in
South PhilAdelphia.
The investigators - including
representatives Of the police, fire
and health department and city
chemists office-sought to de-
termine the exact cause Of the
blasts and fire that devastated .
block long row Of houses, inside
10 families homeless, and iniur-
ed at least Is persons.
All agreed that the explos-
ions at dawn yesterday resulted
from IN accumulation OF illum-
mating sas In cellars.
Mayor william Lamberton
said three officers Of the United
Gas Improvement company,
whose lines ruin beneath the
area. had called on him and con-
tended . water main leak had
caused the collapse Of gas lines.
Blackwell Newhall. assistant
TO the president Of the gas COM
pany, said the leaking water
main had chewed out q cavern
80 feet long and 10 feet deep
under Greenwich street - scene
Of the tragedy - and left q six
inch gas main unsupported for
80 feet.
Assistant city solicitor James
+. Ryan disputed this view and
asserted workers had dug down
to the water lines and found alb
solutely no evidence Of 4 leak"
Firemen worked in the glare
Of noodlights throughout the
night In search Of possible other
victims OF the blasts. None were
found although officials had not
closed the search.
The five victims whose bodies
were recovered from the ruins
were James Clarke. 81. . police.
man, who was buried under fall
ing debris rs he rushed into .
home to save 4 family; Frank
Ruhl, 81. an insurance patrol
man; and Mrs. Angelina Trero-
tala, 20, and her two daughters,
Lena, FL. and Marie, Is.
Firemen reported many Of the
dwellings were 50 badly damag-
ed they would have to be rax.
ed.
The Red Cross set up emery.
ency headquarters In q service
station TO aid evacuated families
and Mayor Lamberton said the
city would take care" Of the
homeless.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
Welding Class
Being Planned


oCENTERLINE-All men over
IL interested In q l0-weeks
trade course In acetylene weld
ing are asked to contact Gaylord
Busch at Busch High School In
Center Line, it was announced
today.
The course will commence rs
soon as 10 men enroll. Tuition
cost and other information may
be obtained from Busch, IL was
said. He can be reached by tele-
phoning Center Line 1880 or at
the school located Ut .0701 10
Mile road.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12

Tehaece Predecessors
For mahy centuries beeoea III
discovery q tobacco IN III New
World. hsmp. opium. md var
ious herbs were used "a pipes
BY peoples In oil parts q tlae
world.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
~ WALTER b. HEAD
President % TIE boy Scouts
~ AuNnraen

oNever In the history Of our
country have Ne needed the
character building. and citizen
ship training influences Of the
Boy Scouts Of America 20 urg-
emily q we do today. Scouting
instills ~ our beys reverence fos
God, admiration for country,
love for home and respect for
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07

When = pair OF swing trumpet
playueS 1All for the same girl,
No. net only blow their own
hogns - they'd like to blow
ooch Othor's brains outl
Hut when one of the trumpet
players can dance, well, that
puts him q couple of feet in
front a his rival. doesn't 1t?
( That's what happens in Para
mounts newest comedy, Sec
ond Chorus" coming Wednesday
% III Jewel Theatre, when Fred
Astaire, - . trumpet player
with frolicsome feet, crosses
horns with trumpet player Bur-
Roso Meredith for the love OF
beautiful Paulette Goddard.
Not only are they rivals for
Paulette, but they also are as
pirauts for places in Artie
Shaw's swing band, which Is
featured In the exuberant story.
Shaw, In the picture introduces
Z larger, and, from all reports,
swingier band than he had be-
fore his vacation from the Utter
bugs.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07

Dec. 80 totalled only 37,556 tons,
or approximately half the aver
age weekly loss for the SO weeks
of the war, the Admiralty said.
In Albania, the Greek allies
of Britain announced new sue
cesses against the Italians south
of Valona on the coast, and in
land near Klisura. The Greeks
captured 173 additional prison
ers, Athens dispatches said.
The effect of Italian reversals
in North Africa and Albania on
Germany was a subject of wide
speculation. Many observers be-
lieved Germany would be forced
to act soon to offset Italian
losses and retain the military
initiative the Nazis have held
throughout most of the war.
Neither German nor Italian
officials Immediately comment
ed on President RooseveN's
message to Congress yesterday
in which he called for ever
increasing armament aid to
Britain, Greece, China, and all
other nations fighting the dicta.
tors.
The Italian newspaper II
Popolo Di Roma, however, &C.
cused President Roosevelt of
trying to involve the United
States in the war and said his
speech reflected hostile" at
titude toward totalitarian states.
DNB Official German news
agency gave the German pub
lie a summary of the address,
which 1t said was in line with
the presidents known
foreign political attitude"
The situation remained tense
in the Balkans as Bulgarians
waited to learn the significance
of large German troops concen-
trations along their northern
frontier. The odds were report
ed four to one in Sofia that the
Nazis would move in within \
few days.
Bad weather, meanwhile,
caused a lull in the aerial wac
fare between Germany and
Great Britain.
No Nazi raiders were report
ed over Britain during the
night, and the British said their
air force had limited its activi-
ties to armed reconnaissance
flights oyer the German 'inva-
sion ports along the channel.
Observers along Britain's
south coast said they saw occa-
sional flashes across the chan
mel and heard the sound of dis
tant explosions, but authorize.
tive quarters in London said
there has been no extensive
British bombing raids.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
$40 for Wife, $3.50 for Each
Child Provided in Meuv Bill

CLEANSING, Jan. 7.-(R-The
State Defense Council seeks
state and federal aid for the de.
pendents Of Michigan men serv-
ing in the nations armed forces,
similar to the aid extended in
World War days.
The council submitted to the
legislature today q plan calling
for q state allowance of $40 q
month for a wife, $3.50 q month
for each minor dependent, and
additional aid where need ex-
listed.
Meeting in Detroit Friday,
the council is to consider q petit
ton to Congress for a revival
of matched-fund aid such as was
provided in the first World War.
Under this plan the government
provided for dependents an
amount equal to that contribut-
ed by the family head from his
military or naval pay.
The councils report, SUBJ
mitted to Governor Van Wag-
oner and the legislature, de-
clares:
"An increasing number of
men will be called into the mill
tary service. Many men have al
ready been called, through the
Michigan National Guard, the
Reserve and the Marine
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
2efense Council Seeks Aid for Draftees' Families
Center Line
is Scene
of Accident

OThree cars were involved in
an accident at Center Line
early this morning, but the driv-
ers didn't stoop to arguing about
who was to blame. for good
reason.
For one of the cars was driv-
en- by John South, one of Sheriff
Jake Theut's deputy sheriffs.
Deputy Sheriff South said the
accident occurred when he stop
ped for q red light at Gratiot
and Van Dyke. Cars driven by
Lewis Schepers, $40 14th street,
Detroit, and Eugene Lee, ITO Ell
lott, Detroit, also stopped for
the light. But not soon enough,
it seems.
The Lee car crashed into the
rear of the vehicle driven by
Schepers which in turn collided
into the renr of the car driven
by the law enforcement officer.
Not unlike the Nipponese dip
lomat, Schepers and Lee alight-
ed from their cars, and in no
uncertain terms said; $50 sorry"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
'MayoFJaiIed
In Vice Probe
Hsmtsemek's Leader
csts 60-Dey

cDETROu, Jan. 7-(R-May-
or walter Kanar Of Hamtramck
last night, was sentenced to q
o0-day Jail term and ordered to
pay I 800 fine following his ap-
peorance before Circuit Judge
Homer Fersuson's one : man
grand jury.
Judge Ferguson found Kanar
In contempt for "evasive and
contradictory" answers to ques-
tions. No. further explanation
was offered by Judge Ferguson,
whose one-man grand jury is re-
parted to be investigating recent
gambling raids In Hamtramck.
Kanar was taken TO the Wayne
County jail shortly after mid
night He said he had been called
By Judge Ferguson at 2 p. m.
yesterday.
"Judga Ferguson started firing
questions 1t me and I don't know
for which question I am locked
up" he said.
n native Of Poland, Kanar is
- yqarp old. He was twice elect
cd q the Hamtramck city coun-
c1 and represented Hamtramck
n The state legislature before be-
coming mayor. He took office
a1ter Rudolph G. Tenerowicz was
0Joctod 70 Congress.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
Nazis Deny
Raids
Say Britoin
is Responsible

OBERLIN, Jan. 7-(AP)-Ger-
many disclaimed today any re-
sponsibility for bombs dropped
near Dublin the night of Jan.
%, but said it was possible that
German planes might have flown
over neutral Ireland (Eire) the
night of Jan. 1-2, authorized
sources said.
The German government pro-
missed the Irish Charge d'Affaires
in Berlin that it would continue
negotiations C o n c e n 6 the
flights and reported bombing,
and would offer regrets and re-
parations for possible damage, If
investigations showed German
filters were to blame.
A German 'communique said:
British lie agitation is at work
to have this assertion appear as
a painful German challenge to
Ireland.
"This has a specially vicious
effect if one remembers how the
British air force itself time and
again Systematically violated
foreign territory as over Mar
seille, Geneva, Zurich, Basel,
ETC., causing damage there -"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
Banks

CONTINUED from Page One)
meeting at $50 p. m, Cashier
Charles r. Walters announced.
THE Mount Clemens Savings
Bank stockholders will elect. its
board Of directors at 10 a.m.,
Cashier George Hodson said. The
directors may not name bank
officers until a week later, he
added.
The Citizens Savings Bank, of
New Baltimore, will hold its
meeting at 1880 p.m., Cashier
Louis Pingel said, while the New
Haven Savings Banks meeting
is set for 100 am, according
to John l.. Tesch, cashier.
Other meeting times are: Ar
mazda State Bank at 10 am;
Macomb County Savings Bank,
of Richmond, at 10 am; First
National Bank of Richmond at
3 p. m; Romeo Savings Bank,
at 10 am; Utica National Bank
at $50 p. m; Community Bank
of Warren at 3 PM; and the
State Bank of Fraser at 3 pm.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
Draft

CONTINUED from Page One)
at sos pm. on the preceding
day.
Names Of men filling the 30
man quota of Draft Board No.
2 will not be available until
Saturday morning, Arthur M.
Spring, secretary, said this morn
ing. The men will leave the
Municipal Building at Roseville
on Jan. FL at $50 am.
The 10 men from Draft Dis
trict No. 3 will leavI at $40
am. on Jan. 20. Names of the
men called were announced in
THE DAILY MONITOR yester-
day.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07

Reserve. Selective service il
making q monthly call for more
men to 60 into training.
while the theory Of calling
these men Is not to demand the
service Of men with dependents,
nevertheless many married men
and men with dependents have
been found In every branch OF
the service.
"The matter OF dependency
is one that can seldom be deter
mined for any great period of
time in advance" The report
pointed to such possibilities as
loss of work, death or disabling
accidents to persons who might
take over the support of . fam
lily whose only other contributor
was In the service. It recon-
mended that an appropriation be
made to reimplement the act of
1917 under which such aid was
previously given.
THE cost Of caring for these
dependents Is just as much a
part of national defense a. pay
of the men in service" the re-
port said.
Van Wagner said he would
not discuss the report immedi-
ately. Neither would he discuss
a conference he held yesterday
with former Governor WILDER
M. Brucker, head of the coun-
Gil, relative to the plea for Fed
eral aid.
The governor said Brucker
would be replaced AZ soon as he
could choose an able successor.
He added that Brucker already
has offered to resign.
Van Wagner disclosed he
was studying complaints from
labor unions against the appoint-
ment of Heinrich A. Pickert,
former Detroit police commits
sioner, as commander of the De-
troit area of the Michigan State
Troops, an agency created to re-
place the National Guard while
its members serve in the army.
He said he has learned Pickert
was not formally appointed
commander by Dickinson.
Fifth Corps area headquar-
tiers has assigned to him, Van
Wagner said, two aides to CO.
ordinate occupational deferment
in connection with the draft, to
make certain that defense In
dustries are not disrupted by
lost manpower. They are Lieut..
Col. 1. E. Brent, representing
the u. S. Army, and Lieut.. Com
mander Edmorse s. Pettyjohn,
of the navy.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07

"whish" of q falling bomb. A
column of water bigger than the
others ICONS into the air q half
mile from our ship.
That's ali. Just one.
I'VE scared him off," says the
captain calmly.
Afternoon-for the last hour
we've been passing floating
mines. We steer between two Of
them and flash q signal to the
convoy. The merchantmen re-
ply with whistle toots, and
move around the sinister ex-
plosives like elderly chorus
girls.
II got knocked off the bridge
when we hit one of the blinkin'
things" says a yeoman signaler
as we look down on the big bar
rel-like mines.
Late afternoon - it's bitterly
cold. Snow squalls hide the Eng
lish shore and snow Is crusting
on deck and around the guns.
The crew Of one Of the four
inchers is playing fGllow-the-
leader to keep warm.2N
The convoy moves steadily
onward to port. Mine sweepers
churn out to pick up any stray
mine.
Evening-We nose in, the
captain directing the ticklist
job of tieing up at a buoy in the
face of a shrieking wind. He
turns:
Here's another one in" he
says. What about a drink"
Yes. It's still the English
Channel.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
Too Late?
Funny!

q Jan. 7-(AP)-
United States naval and marine
officers received invitations too
late to attend the annual jap
anese naval review held today In
Hongkew, japanese = controlled
section of the international set
Element. The invitations arrived
after the ceremonies were COM
pleted.
British officers also were alb
sent, apparently for the same
reason, but Italian and French
attaches witnessed the display of
force, which included q parade
of 5000 Japanese marines and
mechanical units.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
Livestock

DETROIT, Jan. p AP)-Cattle 1900.
Active and steady. Choice to Prime year
linss li.5o-l3.0o. Good &c, choice yeariings
I o.S0-il.S0. Choice to prime heavy steers
1i.So-l3.60. Good to choice heavy steers
10. 70 SO. Short fed cattle 0.00-l0.00 Best
cows 6.50-7.00. Fair to good beef cows
s.7S-0.80. Best butcher and heavy bolog-
m bulls 7.S0-0.00. Medium weight bolog-
nas 6.So-7.5o. Mixers and springers SO. 90
5000.
Calves 900. Steady. Best calves 400.
Fair 10 good 12.00-l3.50.
Sheep and lambs 2.5O0. Steady. Best
lambs o.7S-l0.00. Fair to good 8.50-9.50.
Best sheep 500.
Hogs 1000. Prospects steady. Previous
7.3S for 10000 ID hogs.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
Markets


DETROIT. Jan. 7-(AP)-(U. S. Dept.
Of Agr.)-
Apples: Mich blu crts US No 1 an
Delicious l.60-l.75; Jonathans l.25-l.35
RI Greetings ISL 90: Mcintosh and Spys
l.2S-l. 30; Wageners $3.50.
onions: so-ib sacks US No. / Mich Vel
lows 1890 PEI cent a inc larger TOTS,
sweet Spanish 2A" 95-1.10.
Potatoes: US No / l00-lb sacks Idaho
Russets 1.70-l.85. Maine various varieties
l.45-1.50. Mich Cobblers $50; Chippe-
was 100: Green Mountains l.35-l.40; Rus
set Rurals 1.l5-l.25; 15-lb sacks Maine
various varieties 22-2l Mich Green Noun
tsinI 22h-23. Rhubarb: Mich dollhouse
5o-lb cartons choice size 1.75-2.75, fancy
size 3.5O-3.75.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-07
Second Chorus 10 Star
Fred Astaire at Jewel

In the picture, Astaire Is the
trumpet-playing leader Of the
Ivy College Perrenials and Mere
dith a trumpet-tooter who tries
to mislead. The swing crew is
held together year after year
only because Astaire and Mere
dith are very smart - in de-
liberately flunking their courses
so they could stay in school and
in the band business. Just when
everything is going swell, with
Paulette Goddard as the band s
business m manager, disaster
strikes. Astaire and Meredith
are graduated.
The band breaks up and Paul
cite gets a job managing Artie
Shaw's aggregation. She gets
Fred and Burgess additions with
Shaw, but each ruins the others
chances with practical jokes.
The film zips along merrily until
the climax, when Fred leads
Shaw's band by doing . dance
with a baton and a trumpet at
a concert backed by Charles
Butterworth, who plays a veal
thy music-lower who is tone
loof
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Middleton
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adds, 1--WE fire and he gets our
location, and then a little while
later we catch hell from the
bombers."
We steam on and the drone
of the airplane's motor dies
in the dark.
An hour later the blackness
turns to grey. Dawn breaks
dirty and grey. The Dover cliffs,
topped with snow, rise out of
the wind-swept seas. Off on the
other side, a thin line of black
separates the sea and the sky
the French coast.
From his chair where he has
huddled in sleep during the
night, the captain speaks.
well probably get some
Smelling soon. Don't worry" he
adds, they're not very accur-
ate"
Suddenly an orange flame
stabs the grey French coast.
You look around at the look
outs. They gaze indifferently at
the sea. An officer starts count.
ing. When he reaches 60 there's
another sound.
"Whack, whack, whack!"-a
shell in the air. And then the
explosion. Behind us a column
of water leaps $50 feet skyward.
For five minutes this goes on.
Its over a thousand says
an officer.
Don't be a fool" answers an
other, cts only about 988."
The captain grins.
They're arguing" he says,
"how many bricks (shells) Jerry
has chucked at us in the last six
months"
Every time a shell bursts
there's a "whee," and a shower
Of she'll fragments. The ships
doctor shows you on casually
a jagged piece of metal two and
a half inches long.
"They make an ugly wound"
he says.
We are out of the Smelling
area--only aircraft to worry
about now. We don't have long
to wait. Off to the east we see
q plane with the familiar twin
tails of the Messerschmitt 10.
Guns swing to meet it, but the
plane vanishes before the guns
can open fire.
A moment later the guns of q
destroyer astern begin cracking.
Then ours &C off, and when the
four-inchers start slamminR
away that's noise.
You hang onto the rail. The
deck jumps as the guns bang
away. You try to fix your bin
oculars on the planes. There are
more than one now. The concus-
sion bumps the eyepieces against
your nose There's that familiar
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War
CONTINUED From Page One)

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sources asserted bluntly that if
Germany's war machine crossed
the Danube, the Turks would
march into Bulgaria to meet
them.
Hitler has a growing army
poised in Rumania, perhaps for
a widely-heralded new thrust
into southeast Europe-against
Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey or even
Russia.
COS of 4-to-1 prevailed in So
fla, capital of Bulgaria, that the
Germans would move into King
Boris III's little Balkan nation
possibly in a few days.
After a two-day delay, Musso-
lini's high command finally ac-
knowledged the fall of Bardia,
ending a siege in which "our
troops for Is days wrote sublime
pages of courage and inflicted
heavy losses on the enemy"
Heavy also were our losses in
material and men - fallen,
wounded and missing" the Fas-
cist communique said.
A semi-official Italian state
ment declared "the world must
consider Bardia as a glorious
page in Italian arms"
The Fascist sacrifice gar
rison" at Bardia, the statement
said, was opposed by 1000
British troops supported by
great armored units" not less
than 1000 planes, and "the en-
tire Alexandria fleet"
The statement asserted that
the Italian garrison shot down
SO British planes, sank two war
ships bombarding the stronghold,
sank a steamer, and badly dam
aged a destroyer, torpedo boat,
gunboat and monitor.
The italian cabinet, meeting
under II Duce, sent greetings
of admiration" to leaders of
Italy's armed forces fighting
heroiccally on many fronts" and
declared italy had taken ian un-
shakeable decision to continue
the fight until victory -"
In London, Food Minister Lord
Woolton acknowledged that the
siege-girt island kingdom is suf-
fering from a meat shortage, but
said he believed it was only tenn
porary; and at the same time,
chief medical officer Sir Wilson
Jameson noted a marked war
time increase in cerebro-spinal
fever Meningitis
Sir Wilson reported an in
crease from 1900 cases in 1899
to about IL, 500 in 1910. Previous
reports have expressed fears that
the disease might be seriously
augmented by the fact millions
of Britons sleep in damp, closely
confined subways and afraid
shelters during the winter
months.
A brighter note was sounded
by the Admiralty, announcing a
sharp reduction in the toll of Bri-
tain's vital sea-borne commerce
"by enemy action"
Losses for the week ending