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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-24
MOuntaineers Lose Fourth
Straight, But Look Better

midway mark, the score was
not as bad as it appeared for the
locals had donated seven points
on fouls.
Roy Scrimger, guard for ST.
James, had opened the game
with free throw but Palmer
Hudson, Mountaineer center
followed with a long one from
the field to give the locals their
first lead of the season, FL
Capt. Don Murray of the visitors
dropped a dog shot, but Ear
Goike-most improved player
on St. Mary's-hooped a pair OF
goals to match three free throws
by the visitors and tied the score
at 6-6, shortly after the start Of
the second quarter.
However, st. James opened ur
their lead to lie on the strength
of three more foul shots and Il
field goal, midway of the period
and were never pressed again.
PASSING PROVES WEAK
The Mountaineers' zone de-
Tense was loose during the frs
two periods, but in the thirc
quarter, they drew it tight, stop
ping all close shots only to see
their foe ring in a handful o.
buckets on pass interrogation!
and dribble-ins. Sloppy passing
has been the bane Of the loca
parochials' offense in every
game and last night it again paic
off in points for their opponent
Little Clinton Jibway, sub for
ward for the Ferndale team
racked up eight points, six Of
them off Mountaineer errors tt
place as runnerup to guard Jack
Reekwall Of st. James for scor'
ing honors. ReekWall collected
9-points.
Behind 25-11 going into the
last quarter, the Mountaineer!
changed to a man-to-man de-
Tense with some success, bu'
stymied their own efforts by
wild shooting. Refusing to take
time to work the ball in, they al
ternated in frantic one-handec
shots from the sidelines and Sc
shots from the middle of thu
court.
COKE OUT ON FOULS
Shortly before the game end
ed, Earl Goike-who topped thu
local scoring with eight points
was forced from the game or
fouls. Behind 29-15, Palmer
Hudson slid in basket from thu
sideline as the game ended t.
pull the locals up within /:
points of the winners.
"We're improving" S a {
Coach Lee Hart after the game
land that's about all can ash
from the boys. We've got a pail
of tough games away from home
next week-with st. Rita's ant
st. Alphonsus-but there'll be ;
lot of tough work between tn,
games"
In feature game of the Sec
ond Division, West Side of tn,
Catholic League last night, ST
Mary's of Royal Oak defeated
ST. Fred of Pontiac, 1922, Il
maintain an unblemished rec
ord. Both teams had previousl,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-24
Hockey
Schedule

~ the Associated Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
SATURDAY
Boston 1t Montreal.
Brooklyn at Toronto.
New York At Detroit.
SUNDAY
Detroit at New York.
Montreal ct Boston.
Toronto at Chicago.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-24
tn This Corner

ST. MARYs cAGERs DEMONSTRATE NEED
FOR RELAXATION; INCREASED
SPORTS IN STORE
By DENNIS BROWN
eLOCAL JOTTINGs There probably no infdeis but II
doubts relaxation plays in sports they should
take look at ST. Marys cagers some afternoon
t that without relaxation you just can't hay
while shines The Mounaneer cagers have ;;, lost
itterbus you blame stagefrsht In practise ses
sons Harris has demonstrated that they nave
While not sensational they that they
and shoot with fair degree Of skill But game tame
you've never seen Relaxation is, of vital factor
in every sports in golf diving and basket
d.nce sntidoe for stage fright and
taneers work out of their difficulty after few more
games Certainly showed Improvement last night
The majority Of boys have had previous game ex
perience and naturally slow to gain confidence IN their
ability they do, look for reversal OF tne
game form Such clashes last weeks "a loss to ST.
Francis, for example should be gone with the wind
sPORTs BOOM: for sport but less equipment
less participants to be the a ny h ns
Mount Clemens Michigan authorities see tit to
move the under the Daylight Savings Law
Should enjoy that is conditions holding
lack Of rubber may counter balance the increased
And the toopns Of young men to the may syme
logical increase in softball teams. go
The possibility if, of course that older men-one with
wives and join in the softbal leagues while
golfers addcts their playing hours despite
1ns s foR AFTER
Golf the two most logical sports to enjoy
the daylight The average golfer gets
out only about during the Saturday
Sunday he has had only short time to
play dark during the week Under daylight savings
rules getting off at o'clock (the last summer
will plenty of time for nine holes of golf and he isn't
in foursome make Is or ID holes providing ne
doesn't collaborate with the rough too much
Tennis will enjoy the benefits there be plenty OF
time several after dinner Although the rubber
bugaboo will present problem
general, there'n be hours OF sunlit recreation
the country at large and Macomb County with Its fine OPP
portunties for payswmming golf tennis boating riding
baseball etchould among the deriving the most
benefit the law.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-24

Total ...... Ia 3 IL 81
Score at half: Mount Clemens
%; Monroe Is.
Mount Clemens IL IL 8 $50
Monroe ....... 10 6 8 6-31
Missed free throws: Mount
Clemens-Plegue, 1; Mordan, 2;
Siewert, /; Strassburg, 2; Mon
roe-Curry, 1; MCGEE, /; Pratt,
1; Naveaux, 1; Thompson, /.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-24
STANDINGS

club. Green and raw when the
season started, they are slowly
rounding into shape.
DONATE POINTS
Throughout the first half, it
looked as if the local parochials
might have a chance of grabbing
off a victory. Behind 1915 at the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-24

Total ...... 10 8 Z 70
Score at half; st. James IS; St.
Mary's 6.
Missed free throws: st. Mary's
Coke, 2; Hudson, 3; Petit
prem, /; Dubay, 1; st. james
Mills, 2; Murray, 2; Reekwall,
/; Mullin, /.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-24
COKE OUT ON FOULS

Shortly before the game end
ed, Earl Goike-who topped the
local scoring with eight points
was forced from the game on
fouls. Behind 29-15, Palmer
Hudson slid in a basket from the
sidelinc as the game ended to
pull the locals up within IL
points of the winners.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
BY JERRY CRAVEY

The CIO is i'll Imperial valley S
polite society now
At any rate, the Congress of In
dustrial Organizations is open to
a rush.
The history of labor versus man.
agement in the valley being what
it is. it is no small wonder that
agricultural management here has
interpreted the new tand for I'M
perial Valley startling enunciation
of the CLOS policy of organization
among migrant farm laborers as a
ripoSte
For after a long series of abor-
tionS in the organizational field
here. the CIO has now sent fresh
crew of fenccrs into the valley.
with the avowed purpose of max
ing every lettuce and pea packer
a dues payer, yet declaring that
there shall be no strikes
MORALE STRESSED
What the CIO agricultural un-
ionistS are saying for publication
is that they want to help win the
war by unionizing the shed work
crS. that they want TO help the
shed workers by Stabilizing the
vegetable packing industry.
A bulletin issued by the union,
which has set up headquarters at
l4O South Fifth street, in El Cen
tro, telling prospective members
what the CIO means to the war
effort, says:
The CIO also recognizes that
one of the most important contri-
buttons it can make TO victory is
to continue and increase its Or
ganizing efforts
The bulletin goes on with a
harangue about the Importance Of
morale among the workers in this
emergency, and how morale might
be aided by lettuce packers be-
longing to its union.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
Parties to Honor
Drafiees leayinq
Here in February

SelectceS scheduled to leave Fl
Centre Feb. 9 and II will be honor
guests at farewell parties planned
and arranged by Ell Centre resi-
dents.
At each parry the group will
gather at draft board headquarters
on Sixth street where John w
Donohuc. draft board chairman, will
speak briefly. The party then will
proceed down State street to Sew
enth street, down Seventh to Main
and east on Main street to the
Southern Pacific station where May
or Robert HattOn will speak briefly
IN farewell to the Sclectecs. Men
were scheduled to leave Ell Cent
at 1920 pm. the night of tn ~
ties.
A parade including the hi
school band Sergeancttcs, Sta
Guard of Ell Centre. American Lc-
gion members and color guard. and
various patriotic group representa-
ton is being arranged, Mayor Hat
ton said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
PUBLIC OFFICES AREN'T
PRIVATE PROPERTY

If Mrs. Roosevelt were merely express
ing her "yearning for art or her "love
for the masses" through the medium of
some business or organization privately
financed and privately operated, it would
be only extremely bad taste for the First
Lady. But Mrs. Roosevelt is spending
public money to support and even en-
courage people the general public re-
CARDS as undesirable, and in supporting
them she is weakening the structure of
government
She has no reasonable excuse, she can
have no logical defense, against the crit
icisms which her thoroughly disagreeable
activities have brought down upon her.
It is unfortunate, however that these
criticisms should have to be voiced at a
time like this, when-above all other
times-thoSe in high places should make
sure that petty personal ambitions are
not allowed to interfere with the great
est possible efficiency in the war effort.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
THIS IS OUR TEST
(WiIliam Allen Whitc)

w ulldu Rlltl W UllC)
We noticed in the papers that Canada
is complaining because certain munitions
intended for Canadian volunteer troops
in Hong Kong were deflected and given
to General Macarthur in Manila. On the
same page we heard the startled fright
ened cry of the Australians that their
troops were fighting in Malaga when
they are badly needed at home
The rising murmur of protest is audible
in the United States because our troops
are being sent to the Far East. not to
Manila but to defend strategic bases at
tackled by the Japanese The Japs are
hurrying madly to conquer the eastern
coast of China and the islands stretching
southwark through the Philippines to
Australia.
When ones own soldiers, ones own
home. ones own colonies are in danger
it is hard to sec the great war in the Far
East as one indivSible struggle for de-
mOcracy. Yet that is the truth about this
war. However. we feel about 1t we must
defend "frecdom everywhere" or lose it
at home.
The test if this war is to free the
world from tyranny is going to come
along that line. If the democratic allies
can rise to the intelligence necessary for
d united fight, with each country sacri-
ficing its own interest for the common
good, the battle can be Won Otherwise
we shall repeat in the Far East what Hit
Ter did in continental Europe: Norway
and Denmark occupied Holland devas-
tated. Belgium defeated, France in gall
ing chains, and then the quick march
through CzechoSlovakia. Serbia, Yugo-
Slavia and Greece, one at a time because
they could not see that their common in
terest should have united them.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
Hard of Hearinq
Society Official
Talks Before Club

Mrs. Grace Wedemeyer, Oakland,
vice president of the Pacific zone,
American Society for the Hard OF
Hearing, was guest speaker at the
Ell Centro KiWanis club meeting
Friday noon in the Barbara Worth
hotel.
Mrs Wedemcyer made a plea for
legislation to aid hard of hearing
children, pointing out that deaf,
blind and crippled children are al
ready cared for by the state but
for the hard of hearing children lit
tie is done.
She also discussed plans for re-
hablitation of men in the armed
forces after the war is over. Bomb
ing greatly increases the hazards
of deafness for them.
Dr. Goblc Hurst gave his life his.
tory for the club, saying that he
was born in the malaria country in
northeast Texas. coming to the
valley in 1918 and attending Cen
tra high school and Junior college
H. R. Anderson was in charge OF
the program and George r. Kirk
president, conducted the business
meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
Letter Describes
Pearl Harbor Raid
For Valley Couple

Through Pearl Harbor attack
from start to finish with nothing
to show for it but the shakes was
the way Glenn Clayton, in the
United States Navy, described his
personal experiences on last Dec
: in a letter to his uncle and aunt
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Clayton OF E.
Centre.
| The Letter was dated Jan 2l. 1t
was not the onlr letter long desired
at the Clayton home. Mrs, Clayton
has a brother in the Navy at Pear
Harbor, another with the Marines
in Iceland, and one in the Army
stationed at Camp Roberts.
, INSIGNIA SIGHTED
III his letter Clayton said: I was
sitting aft with a cup of coffee that
Sunday morning waiting to go
ashore. At first we thought the
were our own planes making their
practice a little too real-until we
/ spotted the rising sun insignia on
the side of their planes. Then we
knew it was the real Mccoy. Al
!
surprise Cand to top it off on a
Sunday morning when things are a
/ little lax not once did I see a sign
of panic Men on some ships thai
we're sinking or afire and knew they
were going to a certain death, stayed
with their guns until they we're fin
! ished. Some of them could have
/ jumped overheard and reached safe
ty and others could have stepped off
onto the dock and run for it.
THEY CAN'T WIN
Just how in the II are the
Japs ever going to lick guys of that
calibre?"
Clayton next told how his wife
Millie. worked in a hospital for a
week after the attack, helping with
the wounded He said, Bombs,
Sharpnel, and fire made an awful
mess out of some of the men but
it didn't seem to bother her"
Clayton said they have a blackout
at O'Clock every night. And ]
mean blackout,' he said. They
really nail anybody that shows d
light, which is only right. The is
lands are under martial law now
There has been no liquor sold since
| the war started"
/ He is a son of T. A. Clayton OF
Riverside, who at one time had a
restaurant at Heber. He has been in
the Navy II years.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
BrawIey Boys Sent
To State School

Three l6-year-old BraWlcy boys
were enrOute to the state inSti
tuition at lone Saturday by order
OF juvenile court authorities in
Imperial county, all three COM
mittcd because of malicious mis-
chief.
The juvenile court in Ell Centre
Friday the three boys admitted
that on last Dec 10 they took an
automobile used in lawn work at
the Del Rio country club at Braw-
Icy and dumped it over a 30-foo
embankmcnt; on Jan. . they stole
a valuable canoe frcm the A. K
Paul place near BraWley and hid
it along the shore of Salton sea.
and on Jan 20 stole Pauls trac-
tcr and deliberately damaged it
by tearing out parts and punctur
ing the gasoline tank.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Raney
said the boys did not explain to
him why they committed the three
OffenSeS
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

tSanta Barbara News-Press)
Practically 'every living thing connect
ed with civilization-eXcept man-is fed
according to studied plan to attain
greatest possible comfort and efficiency
for the recipient Of the food. Rabbits or
chickens. dogs or cats, hogs or sheep
the food they are given has been studied
with view TO their comfort health and
efficiency.
But man "eats what he wants and suf-
fers, loses efficiency and dies too soon if
what he wants does not happen, by a
fortunate but not too frequent coinci-
dence, to be what he should have.
Therefore. give thought to Eat Right
Week" February | to 8. 1t is true that
it is just one more in an overcrowded cal
endar of weeks" and "days,' but it is 4
peg on which to hang a little worthwhile
thinking.
The efficiency of this nation, in its
struggle for victory, must be the total
efficiency of all Americans. The effici-
ency Of the individual American has a
major part of its foundation on what the
average American eats-and how much.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
Missionary Sees War

passengers were taken aboard bV
the Tomcsis and later aboard the
Dresden, a prison boat where 207
Of them spent five weeks in the
hold of the vessel. The prisoners
included 1875 Protestant and Catho-
lie missionaries and their children
They had very little food only
one blanket each in spite of the
cold weather, and the sanitary
conditions we're deplorable. They
had to sleep in their lifebeltS, many
were without shoes, and their cloth
ing soon was in horrible condi-
ton. They were taken to occu-
pied France where Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwards we're kept but SO British
subjects were taken to Germany
Later Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards were
taken to Lisbon and thence to New
York City.
Edwards said he planned to re-
turn to his mission as soon as he
could get a boat going there. He
has, he said, much work still to
do.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
Hope wanes for
Crew of Tanker

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ j., Feb T.
Hope for rescue of rs missing
crew members of the torpedoeC
tanker India Arrow diminished to-
day
Eleven cIcwmcn and Capt Carl
S. Johnson, who were brought here
carly yesterday by a fishing boat
after drifting "a hours in an open
lifcboat almost within sight of lanG
left the coast guard station here
for New York today.
The India Arrow. owned by the
Socony- Vacuum Oil CO, was tor
pcdoed and shclled approximately
35 miles southeast of Atlantic City
Wednesday night. Inc survivors
were picked up in the one life
boat launched from the sinking
ship
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
CIO Changes Plan
TO Unionize v.

Tiller. The CLOS new organizer
here, has an unique appeal. Per-
maps 1t Is away over the heads OF
the Shed workers. The shed own
erS probably will be better able
to grasp what it all means and,
in truth, the shed owners prob
ably would benefit from the CLOS
new conception of unioniSm among
the migrants.
POLICIES CHANGED
Here it is, in nutshell:
The CIO, while quite frankly ad-
mitting that present working con-
ditionS in Imperial Valley sheds
are about as good as could be eX-
pected, and a great deal better
than they used to be. has in mind
closc-knit organization of skilled
packers and shippers that would
give the shed owners an mex
hauStible reservoir Of manpower in
all packing and shipping ccnters at
exactly the season they are need
cd
This would be accomplished by
100 per cent unionization of these
skilled workers, with the usual un-
ion discipline and of course, the
usual union privileges. The union
would assume the responsibility
for clearing skilled men and wom-
en- from one seasonal packing cent
er to another, IA plenty of time
to move the crops marketWard as
rapidly as they are harvested.
PREVENT SHORTAGE
This would preclude the possibil-
ity of a skilled labor shortage H.
peak seasons, and would be a
genuine boon to the shed owners
The workers, on the other hand
would be guaranteed uniform
they worked, whether it be in Ore
gon cherries. or Arizona carrots or
wage and hour schedule wherever
Imperial Valley lettuce They would
be insured against the sudden
whims of any packer who might
desire to run in horde of short
pay boomers.
In other words, the CIO avoWed-
ly has set itself up in Imperia.
Valley as a sort of champion Of
both the workers and the shed
owners. guaranteeing to the one
steady employment at fair wages,
and assuring the other that it shall
never be lacking in skilled man
power
It's an ambitious program One
that, doesn't sound at all like the
cid CIO that became too militant
for its own good.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08
IT'S TIME FOR
A RESIGNATION

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt owes II to the
American people 10 get out of office.
Traditonally, because of the place her
husband holds she is the First Lady 1t
is time she became the First Lady-and
nothing else. BY meddling. she has
brought contumely upon the highest of
flee in the nation She has abused the
privileges that are hers by right of mar
riagc alone and imposed upon the intel
ligence of the whole country.
1t is not easy to speak of the Fist
Lady with blunt diSrespect. 1t is not
pleasant. But there comes a time when
public interest must Supercedc courtesy
and fortnight discussion must leap
across the barriers of time-honored social
usage This is such a time.
Mrs Roosevelt has gone about her
Job AS co-director of the Office OF Civil
ian Defense with all the rude thought
IessneSS for public feeling of a fiShmon-
gers wife who has suddenly inherited
million dollars. She has displayed the
mental and diplomatic ineptneSs of
backwoodS high school girl suddenly
blinded by the brilliance of a Hollywood
premier.
she mas ignored Wise COuUSel, eNtll
from the highest places in her insistentc
upon making of her every national et-
fort something that looks like a gather
ing of long-haired radical arty artists
from Greenwich Village. Before this,
she has appointed Communist poet
supposedly reformed) and a radical
youth movement" worker (also suppos-
edlv reformed, but who was her protege
even before his Self-styled reformation),
to positions in the Office of Civilian De-
fenSo.
Now she has been instrumental in ap-
pointing HollyWoodian Melvyn Douglas
to an $4,000 year OCD job after even
Governor Olson could not get away with
handing the actor d national guard COM
mission in his nome state Douglas left
lists leanngs, his contributors to ultra
radical causes and his activities in those
causes, are notorious in California.
And to another OCD job this one pay
ing $4,000 a year, she has appointed Il
night club rhythmic dancer who is de-
scribed as an "old friend" and who once
named d dance she originated the Flea
nor Glide" The dancer is Meyris Chan
ey, whose night club tours of duty in
cluded San Francisco. She will be in
charge. of all things, of children's activ-
tiles in the OCD division of physical fit
ness.
Are these the kind of people the pub
lie wants on jobs in which the public
has vital interest. and where the salar-
les are paid out Of tax money We think
not
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08

from nothing to 100000 Protest
ant Christians.
LEAVING HIS MISSION
He was aboard the Athena Whcl
the boat was torpC doed at night
Edwards. his wife. and their Sol
spent five hours in a life boat be-
fore they were taken aboard tho
Norwegian tanker. KnutC NclsCA
along with 400 of the | 400 pas.
sengerS of the Athena They were
taken to Ireland
ANOTHER ATTACK
Eighteen mCnthS later Edward.
and his wife were aboard The Zam-
Fam enroute back to their mission
The 2amzam was Shelled in th>
early morning at a point five days
northwest of Capetown. The boat
was showered with shells for nine
minutes by a German surface raid
cr which picked up the survivors
from their lifeboatS. The German
looted the Zamzam for six hours
before sinking it. permitting the
zamzam passengers to watch. The
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-08

William II. Edwards. main speak
er at a Christian church district
convention in Holtyillc Sunday
went through 80 years as a mis-
sionary III the Belgian Congo III
Africa the torpcdoing of the At
henia. the Shelling of the zamzan
Is months later. five weeks abcarc
German prison boat, an enlorcee
stay ii occupied Francc-and SUI
has a sense of humor.
He undoubtedly wouldn't be max
me speeches these days If he hadn't
become an American citizen a year
before the British entered the way
He would be in a German con-
centration camp today if he had
not rcncuncCd his British citizen
ship
HEART IN MISSION
The missionary would much
rather talk about the passing OF
the old Africa and the coming
of the new Africa than describe
his experiences at the hands OF
the Germans. His heart is in the
Disciples CT Christ mission Chris
tian church, at Bolenge, Coquilhot-
vile. CONGO Beige West Centra!
Africa. which is situated 1000 miles
inland at a point where the mighty
Congo river is six miles wide. A
Place. by the way, which Edwards
said is not as warm as Imperial
Valley. where the temperature
never goes above "a degrees. He said
Il is more important to concen-
tratc on the T. years of missions
i'll the Belgian Congo which have
seen the Christian population grow