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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
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van, Sheila and Kathleen, still
in party formals, chung to her
hands. Many Warde stood be-
side the door, twisting a hand
kerchief into a 1imsy rag.
Upstairs nurses hurried in and
out of the operating room; the
surgeon, Johnson, damned all
maniac drivers as he scrubbed
his hands.
It seemed like hours before
Martha heard Hugh's car stop
outside, heard his footsteps in
the hall. His arms embodied all
Of them.
ut may not be as bad as you
think" he said, but his words
lacked conviction. II was able
to give him only a quick ex-
animation out there. Don't jump
to conclusions. He's got a few
broken bones, but he'll come out
of this all right. He's got a stout
heart, and that's half the battle.
"Ill be upstairs while john
son operates. Let you know how
he is just as soon as I can. Don't
worry now, Jerry's going to
make this"
He hurried up the stairs.
Martha glanced at the clock
3 am. A new year only three
hours old. And so much had
been crammed into that three
hours.
1t seems like three years since
Kathleen had turned from the
phone, told her that Valerie's
car was wrecked. Somehow she
knew, by some intuition ever
mother possesses. that Jerry was
hurt, even before the superin-
tendent of the hospital called.
But how. serious was he hurt?
Even now she did not know.
She recalled now the bumps
and falls Jerry had suffered
learning to walk. "Hardhead,"
Hugh had called his son then,
because a bump never seemed
to bother him. Would he still be
"Hardhead" tonight?
Her thoughts raced on, far
understanding the crawling
minute hand of the office clock.
Finally, as IL from a great
distance, she heard a nurse say
ing:
Twill you come upstairs now,
Mrs. Connolly. Doctor wants
you and the girls to come up"
Ito BE Continued)
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

DAYTON, o., Jan. 0-E9-
Army ~ corps officers, prepar-
ing - train pilots for fighting
st alti1udes where there is little
oxygen and plenty Of weather,
today examined data obtained
On = 3,060-mile nonstop bonn
parchment plane flight.
Military aviation experts here
disclosed that "classes" of 80 or
% men would be brought to
noorby Wright and Patterson
Eio3ds every week or two for
training In high altitude flying.
The army's theory that its
pilots ana bombardiers are going
70 DO their jobs miles off the
ground was the basis, officers
said. for IN experiment which
sent Z 1our-engined (B-17-C Boo
inR) bombardment plane roar
ing southwestward on a weekend
cruise Of 70 hours and five
minutes at attitudes ranging
from 5000 to $4,000 feet.
pupils" In the new Nightly
ing training program will learn
to perform their duties while in
hAling oxygen. Their lessons
learned they will return to home
fields. throughout the nation to
become teachers of other army
pilots.
One officer predicted that 90
per cent of American bombing
would be done from high alti-
tudeS, making training in the
handling of oxygen equipment
essential. Among projects here Is
one 70 determine the service ceilr
ing for bombers, which officers
said have operated as high as
$4,000 feet.
"A six-man crew navigated the
huge bomber in the Oxygen
zone" Saturday night and Sun
day. Capt. p. O. Benson, chief OF
the Wright Field Aeromedical
Laboratory, who observed first
hand crews reactions, said the
men breathed oxygen "at least
half the time"
The flight originally was plan
ned at q constant 15,OOO-foot
level, and captain Benson was
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
A5CAp 10 Vote
on Licensing
Will Consider PIon
Of Five Advertisers

ONEW YORK, Jan. 6-(R-
Directors Of the American Soc
iety Of Composers, Authors and
Publishers plan to vote today on
a proposal of agencies repre-
senting five national advertisers
that they be licensed to use
ASCAP music on radio pro-
grams.
The proposal, as explained by
ASCAP'S legislative chairman
E. c. Mills, would be designed
to put ASCAP tunes back on
network programs. ASCAP mu-
sic has been banned since jan
uary 1 because Of the radio In
dustry's refusal to agree 70
ASCAP'S demand for increased
charges.
However, it was not known
whether the broadcasters would
permit ASCAP music on the air,
even If licensed, since they now
are using music Of their own
publishing company, Broadcast
Music, Inc. There was no i'm
mediate comment from the
broadcasters.
Licensing Of advertisers
would change ASCAP's 20
year-old policy. In pervious
years, ASCAR has licensed only
radio stations and networks,
and the advertiser has paid in
directly through ASCAP'S cut
on the gross income of the
broadcasting industry.
The National Association Of
Broadcasters announced yester-
day that q telegraphic survey Of
IFS radio stations showed only
negligible" protests against
the ban on ASCAP music.
ASCAP'S general manager
John G. Paine declared, in re-
ply, that IL the broadcasters
have not noted any resentment
by the public, they must be
playing ostrich
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
BY H. T. KOOP

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-(R-
Widespread raids on Paris librar-
les and bookstores by the Ger
man Gestapo, highly placed edu-
cational quarters disclosed today,
have swept their shelves clean OF
anti-Nazi writings and much
philosophical and historical lit
erature.
The raids began, authoritative
sources reported, when the Ger
man secret police visited book
shops, stalls and newsstands a.
long the Seine late last summer
and ordered the proprietors to
hand over within q half hour all
copies of 143 books on a list
which was presented.
The American library in Paris
was described as among the in
stitutions served with such an
order, but information received
here said that the Gestapo re-
moved no books, accepting .
promise that all those objection
able from the Nazi viewpoint
would be withdrawn from circu-
lation.
Since those first raids, supple
mental lists of banned books
copies of which have reached
Washingtonians - have b e n
passed out to Partisan libraries
and booksellers. In general, the
order is that nothing of an anti
German character" may be sold.
Most of the volumes on the
first list were by French authors,
and included not only books on
the Nazi regime and totalitarian
governments, but also several
about the Russo Finnish war.
These accounts of large scale
confiscation Of books in the
French capital matched previous
reports of European origin that
similar action had been taken
elsewhere in German-occupied
territory.
A four-dsy purge" of public
and private Libraries started in
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6-(P)
With the New Year and Sugar
Bowl celebrations still ringing in
its ears, New Orleans, the town
that loves a parade, stepped out
gaily today into a seven-week
carnival season eliminating at
Mardi Gras.
Tonight comes the Ball of the
Twelfth Night Revelers, the Soc
ial event that additionally pens
the carnival season twelve nights
after Christmas.
Thereafter one ball will follow
another, although most of the
city will leave the formal fun
making to the debutantes and
their escorts until the Madi Gras
weekend.
Mardi Gras, the Fat Tuesday"
before Ash Wednesday and it's
farewell to the world, the flesh
and the devil, falls this year on
February Is.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

Years Of Age
Anniversary Prompted
Presidents Speech

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-(RD-
Speaker Sam Rayburn of the
House was 50 years old today
but, despite q White House state
ment to the contrary, he said
that had nothing to do with
President Roosevelt choosing the
day to present his annual mes
sage to Congress.
Stephen Early, one of the Pres
ident's secretaries, said the an
niversary was one of the reasons
why the President decided upon
today to deliver his address.
mo, Rayburn contradicted,
"that hasn't anything to do with
it at all.
Fact is that when the White
House called me up to see what
day I thought best for the Presi-
dent to come up here, I said it
didn't make any difference and
it didn't occur to me that Mon
day, suggested by Senator Bark
ley, was my birthday until after
I hung up the phone.
"The two things are only a CO.
incidence"
The man whose ~ years in the
House were climaxed Friday by
election to the speakership was
more concerned with his duties
of the day-and of the respon-
sibilities of Congress.
His crowded schedule offered
no opportunity for a birthday
celebration until the evening
when "Sam,' as he is usually
called, was invited to the home
of MIR. and Mrs. Lee Aston, "who
have cooked me a birthday din
ner every year for Is years." The
Astons hail from Sherman,
Texas.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
Maxi Gestopo Censors
Paris Public Librories
Shelves Swept cIean Of Anti-Nozi
WRITINGS and Subvsrsive Stories

Alsace Dec. Is, with the books
destinated for a ceremonious
bonfire. "Purges" likewise have
been reported in the Province
of Lorraine and in the Neither
lands, extending to schoolbook
texts.
The latest advices from au-
thentic neutral sources said that
the Gestapo had siezed the Ii
braries of all Masonic organiza-
tons in France. The BibliotheQue
Rationale (the French National
Library thereupon put in q
claim for these books, but the
latest word was that the Ger
mans declined to hand them
over, saying that the material
would be sent to Germany for
purposes of study"
The library of the Alliance
Israelite in Paris, worth several
million francs, also was said to
have been seized and sent to Ger
many.
From the Bibliotheque Ma
tionale-one of the worlds lead
ing libraries-the Germans were
reported to have received an in
ventory of manuscripts, rare
books, ETC., which had been stor-
ed elsewhere in France for secur-
ity during the war.
German officials, according to
the information received here,
have been exercising close sup
ervision over the French publish
ing industry. They also have
taken over the Maison du Livre
Francois, most important French
book exporting agency.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
American Legion Will
Resume Building Parties

Harry Ollrich post, American
Legion will resume its weekly
beneht parties Wednesday night
at the club house, Publicity
Chairman Karl Brink announc-
ed this morning.
The post will hold its regu-
lar weekly meeting tonight,
Brink said.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
THREE HOURS OF 1941
CHAPTER x

All automobile accidents look
alike, Hugh Connolly thought,
as he left his car, pushed his
way through the crowd of NOR
bidly curious who jammed the
scene. Traffic blocked for half
a mile; misunderstanding patrol
officers, trying to keep cars NOV
ing. People jumping from their
cars, running up for a close view.
A white-faced woman hurrying
back to her own sedan. Head
lights concentrated on a single,
small area. Automobiles twisted
into weird, unreal shapes.
He saw the officer who had
summoned him. Hello, Harry.
This looks like a bed one"
The patrolman took his arm.
1T is bad, Doc. This fellow over
here" he motioned with his
flashlight. Think he's gone.
You'd better take a | o o X,
though The light focused on a
still form on the pavement. DR.
Connolly adjusted his stethos-
cope, knelt beside the still fig
ure.
Probably never knew what
hit him." Hugh said. How about
the others?"
There's another fellow in q
bad way beside the a in the
ditch. He was still breathing
when l left him."
The flashlight beam flicked
over the outlines of a long, ex-
pensive coupe The car seemed
strangely familiar. Hugh dis
missed the thought as he slipped
down the bank, hurried TO the
injured man. The patrolman's
light shone full on a white.
blood-smeared face.
"This is my boy" DR.. Con-
nelly said in a tight, strained
voice. This is my son, Jerry"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
D SERIAL STORY
CHRISTMAS RUSH

fault! He's wrecked my car-my
new car! I'll be SCARED for life!
He made me drive over here! !
didn't want to! Now, he's wreck
ed my carl"
"Valerie, please" Hugh said
quietly. You're a bit hysteri-
cal. Try to calm down, girl"
That's right" her v o / c e
shrilled. Look after your own
boy. Let lie die. / could bleed
to death, for all you care"
"Valerie, stop that scream
ing" Hugh Connelly's voice
snapped the command. Harry.
let's have a light" His glance
swept over the girl. "You have a
scalp wound, but it's stopped
bleeding already" The wall of
a siren came from the highway
'Ill send you in TO the hospital
for a thorough check. Harry,
take her up to the ambulance;
send a stretcher here"
He did not see them 60, did
not hear Valerie's screamed &C.
cusations. He was on his knees
in the snow, beside Jerry, lis
tening for a heart beat.
Jerry! jerry he whispered.
MY boy!'
They brought the stretcher,
lifted Jerry carefully on to it,
climbed back to the roadway.
us he hurt bad, Doc?" the pa
trolman asked.
Conclusion, possible skull
fracture. Can't say for sure. His
arm is broken, may have inter-
nal injuries. Pulse is strong.
That's a god sign" He waited
as a white-clad inferno slid the
stretcher into place. Valerie was
moaning, more quietly now, in q
seat near the front.
"Tll 60 on now, Harry" the
doctor said. Nothing I can do
for that other fellow" He start
ed into the ambulance. Have
someone drive my car in
But. Doc, there's q man and
a woman pretty bad cut up in
the farmhouse across the road"
Hugh turned to the inferno.
Administer adrenalin IL neces-
sary. Get Johnson. Tell him to
operate, whether I get there or
not. He's in charge"
He did not look back as the
ambulance carried Jerry away
from him.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
By O LEHRBAs

BY LLOYD LEH8BAU
WASHINGTON, jan. 6-(R-
Spanish Falangist activities in
the American republics are un-
der close watch by the State de-
partment, it was learned authori-
tatively today, because officials
believe there Is increasing evil
dence that Spain's collaboration
with the Axis may be extended
to foster the spread of German
and Italian propaganda in the
Western Hemisphere.
The Spanish government, in
formed sources said, has opened
q propaganda campaign designed
to revive dreams of SPANS one
time ascendency in Latin-Am-
erican affairs. This campaign,
they said, Is to be advanced by
Falangist propagandists in Span
ish embassies, Legations and con-
sulates in South and Central
American countries and in the
Philippines.
Copies of official Spanish gov
eminent documents received
here, these sources reported, pro-
vide increasing indications that
Falangist workers, operating
through Spanish government Of
fees, may also become clearing
agents for Axis propaganda.
At the present time, according
to official information here, Ger
man and Italian activities in La
tin American countries are be-
ing directed toward intoxicating
Nazi and Fascist doctrines, en-
couraging potential Fifth Col
umns," and fomenting opposition
to inter-American policies or
plans for unified Hemisphere de-
tense.
ITO date the Spanish Falangist
propagandists appear to have ac-
complished very little" an in
formed source said, "but they are
increasing and expanding their
activities among the Spanish
speaking peoples of the Ameri-
can republics and might become
a menace to American solidarity
unless they are exposed"
The director of the propaganda
drive. this authority asserted is
Ramon Serrano Suner, Spain's
foreign minister, who is head of
the dominant Falangist party
and a leading advocate of closer
Spanish collaboration with the
Axis.
When he became foreign min
lister after visits to Berlin and
Rome, it was pointed out, he
issued a statement declaring that
"the Falange abroad from now
on will be an alement to consider
in the diplomatic life of SPAIN"
Serrano Suner, informed
sources said, began almost i'm
mediately q survey of Spans
diplomatic and consular officials,
especially in South and Cen
trail American countries, with the
announced intention of placing
outstanding Falangists in i'm
portant posts-a process now un-
der way.
Coordinating the campaign
General Franco, chief of the
Spanish state, issued a decree
on Nov. 2 creating the Hispanic
council.
This decree announced that
Spain asserts her role as spiri-
tual Axis of the Hispanic world,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
Five Million
Unemployed
In March, 40

AWASHINGTON, Jan. 6-(P-
The census bureau reports that it
found 5,110,270 persons - ap-
proximately q tenth Of the ma
tons available labor force -
iobless and In search Of employ
ment last March.
The figure was based on data
compiled ut the time the decen-
NAL census was being taken.
In addition, the bureau re-
sorted yesterday, there were 2
30O,O02 working on public pro-
jects - those Of the National
Youth Administration, Civilian
Conservation Corps and Work
Projects Administration - and
smother 1888, 144 whose employ
ment status was not determined.
The beureau expressed belief
few of the latter were lin the
labor force"
Estimates by private and labor
examinations on the number un-
employed ut the beginning OF
1910 ranged from 100000 by
the national industrial confer
ence board to 10000, 900 by the
Congress Of Industrial Organiza-
tons.
The census bureaus figure was
based on Q five per cent cross
section of the population in each
Of the 154,000 census districts.
This calculation also showed
that there were 100 ,972, 1876 per-
sons II years or older last March
Of whom 45,350,430 worked on
private or non-emergency gov
ernment work. 28,838,484 en-
gagged in housework, 1910, 1856
went to school, 5,220,098 were
unemployable, 1,226,374 in insti-
tutions and 1886, 348 we're not
seeking work for other reasons.
The bureau conceded that in
it, final estimates there might
be q considerable upward re-
vision of the number working
on government emergency jobs,
noting that at the end of last
March federal agency records
showed the total Of such en-
ployes to be 3,377,701.
The available labor force was
calculated in the preliminary
figures at 80 ,994,1 men and
1885, SOS women, including 49,
llo, 466 men and 1881, OPT
women working and 3,844, 1872
men and 1,265,538 women seek
ing work.
Differences in Classification
prevented Z comparison with the
1870 unemployment figures.
The bureau had no statistics
On the number of unemployed
WHO have obtained Jobs since
the census was taken, but Sec
retary Of Labor Perkins esti-
mnted recently that from Nov
e6pbof, 1880, to November, 1910,
~ number Of employed persons
tmHoo1ed 100000.
Da1so estimated In her an
ktupoet yesterday that the
proeT1m would make S.
10 100000 jobs avail
n uon and women In the
- . hall.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
Housewife Loses Ring;
Seeks Us Return

Mrs. Charles Stockwell. 43h
South Gratiot avenue, Noticed
the police department here sat
urday night that she lost . we'd
ding ring valued at $3.50 while
shopping in the downtown sec
ton. Mrs. Stockwell discovered
her loss near Kresge'A, end noti~
Aed police immediately.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

YESTERDAY: DR.. Connolly pays
sheiia's fine. brings the girls home.
Martha promises they may 80 10 the
party late. 10 they will remain 1t home
10 watch the New Year In. The doctor II
called. there's ben an accident on the
highway. one man killed. another ser
iously injured. After he leaves, the high
way patrol calls again. reports one Of the
ears bears . university license The car
belongs TO Valerie Parks.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

According to q recent an
nouncement, there Is q move
under way TO standize British
and American war planes to
speed production. The plsnes
will embody lessons being
learned In the present air bat
tles.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
LONGEST ELECTRIFIED
RAILWAY

The worlds longest electrified
railway n located In Italy. Il
runs from Bremen Pass to Reg
Rio-Calabria, . distance of go
miles.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
BY TOM HORNER

Later, in the farmhouse, as he
swabbed glass from cuts, he
heard the story of the accident.
This man and woman were not
seriously hurt.
eve we're coming down the
road behind this big, green
coupe" the man told him. 1.-THE
boy wasn't driving fast and he
was on his own side of the road.
"Then this other fellow-the
one that got killed-came to-
ward us, fast, weaving from side
to side. He must have been do
ing 80 or 90. The boy in the
coupe swung of the pavement,
but this fellow hit his left front
fender.
That's about all I remember.
Next thing I knew this car was
rolling over and over toward
us and we crashed into it, or II
crashed into us, before we could
stop. The coupe went of into
the ditch.
my wife and I crawled out
we didn't know we were SO
cut up then-and we saw there
wasn't much to be done for the
guy on the highway. He helped
get the girl out of the coupe
she kept screaming about her
car-and then some other people
stopped and made us come over
here"
That's what all the tracks
show, Doc" Harry put in. 81
checked them myself. 1t sure
wasn't your boys fault"
The injured man looked at DR..
Connolly in awe. us that your
boy, Doc? What you doing here,
working on us? That boys bad
hurt"
Hugh nodded as he applied a
final strip of tape. There's q
surgeon at the hospital to look
after Jerry. I wanted to be sure
you two were all right. I'm 60
ing in now. You and your wife
better come along. Give you =
complete check, just to make
sure we haven't missed any
broken bones"
Martha Connolly stared at the
blue-Rray walls of the hospital
waiting room. trying to keep
from screaming. "Oh, Hugh.
Why aren't you here Why didn't
you come with him."
Beside her on the wicker di-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06

Valerie saw the doctor at that
same instant, rushed toward
him, screaming: 1T was all his
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Evening star., 1941-11-16

harpy has been driving nuts for the past half hour
"Harpy?" Paco repeated. Il no understand -"
The woman who lost that brooch yesterday.
"Ah! Now got it. She overwholm you with gratitude
Gratitude hell She's been pesterng to death But it's
all right As give to her, she quiet down.
Paco stared Give who to WHAT"
The brooch. You brought it, didn't you?'
How can bring it with when send it last night!
The manager rowned
What trying to pull Romero? Garcia told me you
found the brooch and said you bring back today
But you understand give to Garcia last night when
you send him for it ="
What you talking about? Garcia walked out IN the
middle of the show last night haven't him since
Paco began understand Garcia had tricked him. No
had sent him the brooch ALL But still the thing didn't
make sense Why much fuss about piece of costume
jewelry? He rash enough to voice his query.
Costume ewely Why you idiot, that brooch is worth two
thousand dollars"
Paco face assumed the general appearance of defunct
trout Real diamonds!" he moaned rs impossbe!"
You think so? Go inside and ask the woman who lost it.
Then we'll call the COPS.
R FERNANDEZ stunned But then his fear of the law
became secondary to burning The woman had not
returned the previous night Garcia had said She probably
hadn't discovered the loss of the brooch until long after
Garcia who had evidently realized genuine had tCked
Paco into giving Paco realized that his only chance
to tell the manager the truth He did in heart endng detail
and wound torrent OF oraory begging the manager to
grant him few hours of grace Il no blame you for be angry
he concluded Il know story sounds fish, But you let me
90 away for little while maybe find Garcia If do,
bring back to you brooch and also corpse.
The manager hestated He liked Paco and wanted to be-
lieve his story At he said, "A right, Felipe go ahead
But you back here pretty darned the cooler
Paco headed for the Spanish section north OF 10th Street.
feventy thankful that Garcia had mentioned where he
lived He found the address but only to discover that
Garcia had moved.
The landlady didn't know he had gone just
Paco ready give up III despair help came from another