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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17

able to procure newspapers or
any other articles as there are
no stores nearby.
John Thelen, Jr., has received
word THAT his son, Junior The
len, has arrived safely with the
u. S. troops in Australia.
The members of st. Angus
tines Catholic Church are spon-
soring their annual Homecoming
this year on Sunday, August 2.
Dinner and supper will be serv-
ed and attractions on the
grounds will be carried out
throughout the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Rabine
and family are enjoying the sum-
mer in their trailer at camp
near Lexington.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hahn are
spending ten days at Camp Ar
cadia on Lake Michigan.
Mrs. Alice Congdon has re-
ceived word that her son, Lloyd,
has been promoted to staff Ser
geant with headquarters in Palm
Springs, California. He is in
charge at the Torney Hospital
there. Sergt. Congdon is furn-
ished living quarters for both
himself and wife.
First. Lieut.. Ned Hand, former
resident of this village, has ar
rived safely in Australia.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Coleman
of Ypsilanti have purchased the
Duengel residence on Main
street, formerly occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. M. Mallul. Mr.. Mallul
and family are returning to De-
troit owing to the illness of Mr..
Mallul.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Friday and
daughter Janet are at their cot
tage at Desmond Beach, north of
Port Huron.
Miss Lorraine Zuehlke, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Zuehl-
Ike, is visiting in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Hall in Detroit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
Around the Town at Utica

Arson Wright, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Wright, has been
enjoying an outing at Houghton
Lake. His brother. Edie, has
been visiting his aunt, Mrs.
Robert Houghten, in Detroit.
DR.. Theos A. Grove accom-
panied by Mrs. Grove and little
daughter, Gloria Ann, left Tues
day to attend the sessions of the
Michigan State Chiropractors
Society at Grand Rapids. DR..
and Mrs. Grove will spend the
remainder OF the week in north
ern Michigan.
Betty Boettcher, Of Webster
City, Iowa. is at the home of
her uncle, Edward A. Schwarz-
koff. Miss Boetcher will enter
a hospital in September for =
preparatory course in nursing.
Melvin Stenke of the Kroger
company is taking q 10 days
vacation visiting points in the
east and south.
Earl Stein rural letter carrier
of the Utica post office, has re-
turn d from attending the
State Rural Carriers meeting at
Traverse City.
Utica relatives received word
of the birth of "A 10 ID. son,
James Richard, to Mr.. and Mrs.
William Allen Houghten of
Saginaw on July 10. Mr.. Hough-
to1 is a former resident of Uti-
ca and Mrs. Houghten a former
Mount Clemens girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Smith
and children, of Crosse Pointe,
have moved to their new home,
the Frank Pointer place, which
they recently purchased. Mr..
and Mrs. Pointer have moved to
the Henry Gage home. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gage are occupying their
new home on Clinton street.
A meeting of the Utica Board
of Commerce to discuss impor-
tant civic matters, is called for
Tuesday, July 81. at eight
o'clock, at the council chamber.
Mrs. Jack Harvey has return
ed from a two weeks visit with
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
Blame Squirrels
brAchMties
of Phantom

SOMONAUK. ILL.,, July IL
(P)-Jittery citizens of this Fox
river town have called in the
police TO combat som" unseen
nocturnal phantom, but the law
so far hasn't been able to see it
either.
Police Chief Elmer Damneitz
agreed something queer has been
going on the last three weeks.
There have been strange win
dow tappings in the dusk; doors
have been opening mysteriously;
and some folks have reported
seeing a shadowy form fitting
from tree to tree and sailing ov-
er fences.
Then Verne Jacobs. restaurant
man, saw the apparition - 4
large man. he said, with long
legs - vaporing about his gar
den. He said he stepped into the
yard and let 60 with both bar
rels of a shotgun. He couldn't
have missed, he insisted, but the
harge apparently passe d
through the wrath, because the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
Increased transportation
Costs Curtoifs Shipments
One ond ons-HaK Cent Per Gollon
Tex Moy Absorb Cost Of Subsidies
WASHINGTON. July Up

WASHINGTON, July II Up
Senator George (D-Ga) said
today responsible representa-
tives of large oil companies had
told him that payment of gov
eminent subsidies to meet in
creased transportation costs soon
would assure a sufficient flow
OF petoleum into Eastern states
10 make gasoline rationing I'M
necessary.
At the same time, he diseios-
ed that a Federal war service"
tax of n cents a gallon on Pc
troleum products had been sug-
gested to absorb the cost of these
subsidies. He added that II the
Treasury approved. he would lay
the proposal before the Senate
Finance Committee, Of which he
is chairman.
Previously, Secretary of Com
MERGE Jones announced that the
Defense Supplies Corporation
would assist in financing trans
portation and distribution of
petroleum products to the East
ern seaboard.
A gasoline price increase of
ga cents a gallon, permitted by
the Office of Price Administra-
ton in 19 rationed states, gener-
ally was expected to be cancell-
ed when such subsidy payments
become effective. However. Z
high government official, who
asked that his name not be used
cautioned against expecting too
much in the way Of gasoline
price reduction.
He explained that subsidy de-
tails had not been worked on,
yet and added that the primary
purpose of the arrangement was
to hold down the price of fuel
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17

PHILADELPHIA, July II -
The Gestapo wanted very much
to get hold of the secret formu-
la for making synthetic rubber.
To thwart their efforts to get 1t.
the inventor had to flee from Po-
land, to Italy, to South Ameri-
ca. He is now in Philadelphia,
and the formula the Germans
Il led to snag off is available for
Allied Nations use, andn in fact,
is being checked by the Congress
sional subcommittee seeking to
solve the synthetic rubber prob
lem.
The formula is the discovery
of Waclaw Szukiewicz, q prom
inent Polish scientist. A chemis-
try student in his native coun-
try, back in 1925, he was thrilled
by huge American-made farm
tractors. He was particularly
interested in the big rubber tires,
because he knew about Europe's
rubber problem, and hoped to
solve it.
Szukiewicz knew that buta-
diene was the raw material out
of which synthetic rubber is
made. In his own laboratory, far
from modern, he began expert
menting with the production of
butadiene from alcohol.
HIS NEW PROCESS
OUT-SPEEDS OTHERS
In 1897, after eight years of
painstaking work, the young
Pole achieved a new process for
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17

Mr.. Harvey's mother, Mrs. Fam
ME Harvey, in Grand Haven.
Mrs. Adolph Ziehm, Mrs.
Charles Maeder and Miss Flea
nor Priehs will leave on Thurs
day for Akron, New York,
where they will visit with their
sister and aunt, Mrs. H. A.
Ewald, and attend the wedding
of Carlton Ewald, son of Rev.
and Mrs. Ewald.
At the annual school meeting
of District No. / fri. Shelby and
Sterling, held Monday evening
at the high school auditorium,
Utica, George Eppler and Edgar
F. Schulz were reelected direc-
tors for q term of three years.
The matter of the introduction
of manual training into the
schools was discussed but owing
to restrictions on building and
no available funds definite &C.
ton could not be taken.
Douglas Harvey is at home
after q two weeks trip to Gal
weston, Texas, where he visited
his uncle, Bert Harvey, formerly
of Mount Clemens. Douglas &C.
c ipanied Mrs. Harvey and son
to the Texas city where Mr..
Harvey Is consulting engineer
with q synthetic rubber COM
pany. Mrs. Harvey will remain
with her husband during his
stay in Texas.
Mrs. Augusta Lehner returned
Monday from q six weeks visit
with her grandson, DR.. Howard
Messmore, and family at Grand
Rapids, Julia Ann and Patsy
Messmore, who spent the week
past in that city, returned home
with her.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17

try was paying ~ cents a pound
for natural rubber. According to
DR.. Lewis H. Marks, head re-
search chemist ut the plant. the
alcohol company could make
100000 tons of synthetic rubber
a year with the new formula as
low as % cents q pound. In ad-
dition, it is claimed that essen
tial supplies of glycerine can be
recovered as q by-product.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17

oil and other necessary oily
needed in homes and factories.
for heating or lubricatinS
George told reporters repre-
sehtatives Of several producing
and distributing companies had
said that with the guarantee q
a refund to cover the increased
cost of transporting petroleum
products to the Eastern Statog,
necessity of rationing caroline
in those states would cease TO-
exist.
"They said there was some
shortage in transportation H.
cilities but what was really
holding back the flow Of oil into
the East was the loss they were
sustaining on every gallon trans
ported" he added.
He emphasized, however, he
had no personal knowledge that
price, rather than the lack 01
transportation facilities, was the
chief contributing factor to the
East's shortage of gasoline.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17

making butadiene rubber that
was faster than any other Euro
pean process. Interested friends
collected money to help hin ex-
pand his experiments, and, when
the Germans attacked Poland in
1899, he was turning out about
1000 tons of rubber a year.
But that was the end of his
work in Poland. The Nazis seized
his plant, but he himself man.
aged to escape, taking his pre-
cious formula with him. He went
to Italy and set up a new plant
there. But when Italy declared
war on England, he pulled up
stakes, fled Europe altogether,
and got himself struggled into
Brazil. From Rio, he made his
way to the United States, set
tied in Philadelphia.
After some negotiations with
the u. S. Patent Office and the
War Production Board, Szukie-
wicz's formula has been made
available for commercial use in
the United States through the
Publicker Commercial Alcohol
Company, said to be the worlds
largest industrial alcohol maker.
CONGRESSMAN SEE
PROCESS AT PLANT
Recently group of Senators,
Congressman and other govern
ment officials, headed by Sena-
tor Guy M. Gillette, inspected
the process in action at the Pub
ticker plant.
The Szukiewicz formula, ac-
cording to a report made by q
firm of New York chemical en-
gineers for the Army and Navy
Munitions Board, will produce
synthetic rubber from alcohol
in q single step with an alcohol
conversion of IS to IS per cent.
Of course, the hitch here is,
that the making Ct alcohol from
grain involves the diversion of
critical materials and services
which the WPB is loath to re-
lease.
Szukiewicz, in pre-war Po-
land, had produced synthetic
rubber at the equivalent of 80
cents q pound in American mon
ey. Before Japan shut off the
East Indian sources. this coun-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
Richmond

Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Hahn
have received word that their
son, Lieut.. John II. Hahn, has
arrived at a destination some
where in Alaska. John states,
that, while there are no trees or
buildings of any kind nearby,
they do enjoy fishing, especially
trout. The camp is situated 400
feet from the snow land. Johns
mailing address is Lieut.. John H.
Hahn, Battery IF" 503rd CA
(AA)-A. p. I. 948, Seattle,
Washington.
The boys in the camp are un-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
INSULT & INJURY ITEM

KANSAS CITY-ILDRIEDGE
j. Boisvert discovered burglars
had broken into his tavern in the
night.
They only stole $50, he told
police. They also:
Drank IS BOTTLES of beer and
sliced off enough ham to make
the two dozen sandwiches they
paused to eat.
They tossed the rest of the
ham to their dogs, who left mud
dy tracks an a gnawed bone on
the floor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
PAYMENT Of Subsidies May End Gas Rationing in Eas

only damage was TO the garden.
Sheriff Mike Welter of La
Sale county, hurrying ever from
Ottawa carload of deputies found
no ghost.
Sheriff William Runnels of
De Kalb county, also told of the
mysterious goings on. remarked:
II wouldn't be surprised if the
whole thing were caused by
squirrels.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
ONE HE MISSED

DENXER-Sgt. Leonard John
son watched every operation
Maj. Dwight B. Shaw performed
at the Fort Logan hospital in the
last two years-until yesterday.
Then the sergeant was strick-
en- with acute appendicitis. The
major did the job.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17

Bird life In the United States
has been decreased - per cent
in the last 60 years.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Selected Stocks Up
Fractions TO 81 in
Quiet Trading
Russian War Reports
And Indian Crisis
Restrain Buyers
By VICTOR EBANK.
ASS. eiated Press PinAnetsl WRITE

ASS clated Press PlnAncial Wrttf~
NEW YORK, Aug. 7, - Bullish
forces had a shade the best OF the
debate in today's stock market as
selected issues ignored another
cloudy news budget and registered
recoveries of fractions to around a
point
The principal hy in the rallying
ointment was the lack OF any real
activity. The ticker tape loafed
from the start and. while comebacks
were we'll maintained in most cases
in the closing hour, an assortment
of small declines was in evidence.
Transfers for the full proceedings
Appropriated 100000 shares. one of
the lowest fve-hour turnovers in
two years.
The list again had to contend with
the Russian battle crisis and the
Anglo Indian situation. Such bid
ding as appeared apparently was
due to light investment nibbling
and the belief the market was a
trifle oversold. Drying UP Of iqui-
dation to a mere trickle was helpful
Good share performers most of
the session included United States
Steel, Bethlehem, Chrysler, General
Motors, Santa Fe. American Tele-
phone. Sears Roebuck. international
Harvester, Dupont and Air Reduc-
ton.
Down occasionally were Phelps
Dodge. Texas Co.. United States
Gypsum, Montgomery Ward and
Owens Illinois.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Bituminous Output
Coins During Week

The National Coal Association,
from incomplete carloading reports
from the railroads, estimates btu
minous coal production in the United
States for the week ended August l
as about 11.175,0OO net tons. This
figure indicates an increase of Al
per cent over corresponding week of
1941; production that week was TO-
675, 900 tons.
The report of the Bituminous Coal
Division of the Department of the
Interior shows production of II, ,100.-
900 tons for the week ended July 18
and 11,050,0 900 tons for the week
ended July Is.
Production January ! through
August l, 1912, about 333 ,983 900
tons; January l through August 2,
1941, 275 400 900 tons; an increase Of
21.2 per cent.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
President Defends Mead
AGAINST Isolation Charqe

President Roosevelt today defend
ed Senator James NJ Mead OF New
York. who bears the White House
blessing as candidate for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomina-
ton in New York, against charges
OF isola ationism.
Asked at a press conference for
comment. the President said that
If Senator Mead is an isolationist,
he is too.
In response to other questions, he
said he was not going to vote in
the New York Democratic primary
because there Was no contest in his
congressional district. The guber-
material candidate Is selected at
State convention.
The President added with q
chuckle that he was not permitted
to vote in the Republican primary,
much as he would like to.
Representative Fish Is seeking re-
nomination in the Republican pri-
mary as Representative from Mr..
Roosevelts home district. The
President obviously meant he would
like chance to vote against Mr..
Fish.
Evening star., 1942-08-07

from August IA the time within
which shares of its IS preferred
stock may be exchanged for common
stock OF its subsidiary, Houston
Lighting q Power Co.
The company also asked that 1t
be permitted to extend for 90 days
the "dealer-manager" program In
itiated by the company TO facilitate
exchanges.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
.WPb Limits Output
'0f Railroad Watches
To War Needs
Only Transportation
And Military Orders
Can Be Filled
p the Associated Press.

p the Associa ted Press.
Manufacture OF railroad stand
ard" watches was limited by the
Wer Production Board today to
those required to fill military orders
or orders placed by certified railroad
employees.
Railroad standard watches are
large, usually key wound, and are
made especially for railroad men.
Shearling Imports Curbed.
WPB also announced that i'm
ports Of sheep shearlings would be
restricted after 1901 am. August II
anc that applications for authority
to import must be filed with WPB
after that time Tanners holding
untitled Army Air Force contracts
are the only persons eligible to i'm
port shearlings.
Additional leather for civilian
shoes will be made available under
orders permitting tanners to use any
goat SKINS which cannot be pro-
ceSsed into more than 6a% square
feet Of leather. Goat skins are used
for upper leather of shoes.
Under previous orders. tanners
were required to reserve for military
use all goat skins which would pro-
duce more than So square feet OF
leather.
Turbo- Blowers Restricted.
The board prohibited placing or
acceptance Of orders for turbo- blow
ers, important in the steel expansion.
copper, synthetic rubber and other
war production programs. without
specific WPB approval.
The restrictions do not apply to
blowers for delivery to the
Navy or Maritime Commission for
shipboard use, or to any privately
owned shipyard or plant for install
lation on ships built or repaired for
the Navy or Maritime Commission.
Evening star., 1942-08-07

Reserve District,
today announc-
ed the appoint a
ment of Wins
low B. Van De-
vanter as re-
gional chairman
for the District
o + Columbia,
and stated that
this appoint
ment has been
approved by the
Secretary Of the
Treasury, Mr..
Morgenthau.
- 49, ~
Evening star., 1942-08-07

ADDr0x1mht0 HNIuS. IV0Ay'
1l.noAM "a 535 1900 Noon o5 355
P.M122.955 200 PM $4,000
Total 2l2250
+Unit of trading, ten shares: sAles
printed in full In bankruptcy or reeeivsT-
ship or beinE reorganised under Bankruptcy
Act, or securities assumed by such COM
paries Rates Of dividend IN the foregotns
table are annua, disbursements based On
the last quarterly or semi-annual declare
extra dividends are not included. I'd n
dividend; xr Ex rights. Also extr. f q
SO far this year fPayahle in stock. Z Pat1
last year. Payable in Canadian funds
K Accumulated dividends paid or declares
this year.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Central Maine
Wants Private
Sale of Notes
~ ths Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. THE
Central Maine Power Co. has filed
an amendment with the Securities
and Exchange Commission propos-
ing the private, instead Of public,
sale OF 5000, 900 Of 10-year serial
notes. maturing In 1882.
= Central Names original registra-
ton listed the notes for public sale
along with $4,000 900 of first and
general mortgage bonds; Series M.
due 1872. The registration also pro-
posed the issuance OF 61.9l0 COM
mon shares, $40 par value, to be
offered to holders Of common and
6 per cent preferred stock. The uln-
subscribed common shares would be
sold to New England Public Service
Co, direct parent of Central Maine
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Pennsylvania Water
Declares Dividend
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 7.-Directors
OF the Pennsylvania Water & Power
Co. yesterday declared the usual
quarterly dividends Of 81 a share on
the common and 81 rs per share on
the IS preferred stock. payable Octo-
Der l to stockholders of record,
September IS.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Van Devanter Heads
Banks War Bond
Committee Here
Richmond Reserve Picks
Choirmon to Push
D. c. Campaign
By EDWARD c. STONE

Hugh Leach, president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond,
and chairman of the Victory Fund
Committee for the Fifth Federal
Evening star., 1942-08-07
kutionuI Power Asks
Extension on Offer
Bs tn. Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. THE
Securities & Exchange Commission
announced today the National Power
d Light Co. had hled An application
for permission to extend 80 days
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-12-11
Reu. Fenby Is Dead
After Long Illness

Funeral services for the Rever-
end j. Tracey Fenby, Methodist
minister who died December 2 at
Mt. Alto Hospital, were held yes
terday, with burial in the Green
belt cemetery.
At the time of his death, DR..
Fenby had been agent for three
years for the Farm Bureau Insur-
ance Company of Washington,
and engaged in promotional work
for several Washington coopera-
tives.
Born in Carroll county, Mary
land, the oldest of five children, he
was graduated from Western
Maryland College in 1917. He
served overseas with the 311th Ma
chine Gun Battalion from July
1918 until May 1919. During his
ministry he served in many Mary
land and Virginia churches from
1921 to 1889.
From 1929 to 1881 he studied at
Boston and Yale universities dur
ing which time he worked with
Boy Scouts and summer camp
groups. He was in charge Of
"Cheer Center" in Baltimore, a
recration project for homeless
men from 1881 to 1885.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Philena T. Fenby, of Reisterstown;
two brothers, Jonathan Fenby, of
Reisterstown, and Frank Fenby,
of Olney, Md; two sisters, Mrs.
Ruth Bradshaw. Of California, and
Mrs. Philena Kay, of Worton, Md;
three daughters, Harriet, of Havre
de Grace, Md, Jeanette and juan
ita, of Greenbelt, and his widow,
Olga S. Fenby, of GA Crescent
Road in Greenbelt.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-12-11
Duckpin Leagues
Roll Merry Race

In spite of voluminous 355 and
365 sets by Larry Pinckney and
AL Bowman, the hard hitting
Commands downed Corner Del
two games out of three, with Red
Allen and Herb Hall in the dri-
ver's seats. The latter pair had
335 and $40 sets respectively.
The two out of three victory
placed the Commands in a very
good position to overhaul the
leading Vftamen crew. tieing
them with the gang they downed.
After the first three teams
comes the usual group of dead
locked teams, separated only by
a pinfall count. The league has
remained consistently close all
season.
Vitamen took the opportunity
of edging one game further into
the lead through the efforts of
Burke, who felled the pins for a
week high set of 357.
Livingstons stayed in the run
ming by coping two wins from
the back-sliding Co-Oppers. The
victors' play was featured by their
dependable anchor man, Hal
Jones, who had just received a
hurry-up call from Boston, Mas
sachusetts in regards to a date
with Uncle Sans Coast Guard.
Following the the standings of
both the mems and women's lea
CUES, with a few records concern
in individual skill: