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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-27

Two Men Hurt
i'm Auto Crash

Two men were injured early
Thursday when their car failed
to negotiate a South River road
curve one quarter mile north Of
the Jefferson avenue bridge.
Taken to st. Joseph hospital
were Wilbur Sahrow, ID, Ia
South Highland. the driver, and
Donald Sutherland, 81, of Is
South Rose street. The car was
demolished.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-27
Snow Blankets
Hunting Area
in Michigan
By the Associatsd Press

Deep snow tlanketed sections
of Michigan's northern peninsula
today after a Thanksgiving Day
storm accompanied by q pre-
cipitous drop in temperatures,
together causing some danger to
deer hunters. 1t was the areas
worst storm in three years.
Although the storm was gen.
eral throughout the peninsula,
the copper country bore the
brunt of it with an hours long
fall choking highways to the ex-
tent that a number of secondary
roads were still drifted today.
More than a foot of snow fell
in the western end of Marquette
County in less than "a hours.
The fall was also heavy at
Houghton and some precipita-
ton was reported at Escanaba
and Sault Ste. Marie.
County highway crews went
out in force to keep the main
roads clear. During the day the
temperature in Marquette fell
from 40 degrees to 10. A num-
Der Of citizens went about down.
town Marquette on skis.
State Police brough nine
stranded hunters into Marquette
after their automobiles had bog
ged down in snow in the Saux
Head Lake region about 20
miles north of the city. The
hunters walked five miles to
reach a telephone.
The drifts virtually buried a
number of cars in Ishpeming,
Negaunee and Marquette. Scores
of others were stalled on the
highways.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-27

Six New York state furniture
manufacturers have signed con-
tracts to work on plywood
planes and gliders instead Of
their customary products.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-27

Some promising results have
been obtained merely by paint
ing or spraying thiokol latex on
tire cArcasses in which the ia
brio remains sound; this process
may supplant vulcanizing.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-27

The albatross weighs less than
IS pounds, yet has a Widespread
of almost IL feet.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Selection Rules
Modified for
Defense Homes
By EILEEN SHERIFF

Essential Sin-migrant" war
workers employed by Government
agencies in the Washington metro
politan area who are not earning
above a specified income level are
now eligible to be certified for de-
fense homes in Greenbelt, accord
ing to information received by
Town authorities this week.
In this group are members OF
the armed forces up to and includ-
ing the rank of captain in the
Army and Marine Corps and up
to and including the rank of Lieu
tenant (senior grade) in the Navy
and Coast Guard.
All applicants must be certified
by their employing officers as be-
ing employed as essential war
workers.
The total family income for
applicants must not exceed $4,000
per year, except where both hus-
band and wife are employed, in
which case it shall not exceed
$28OO.
An Immigrant war worker is
defined as a person whose employ
ment in Government war work in
side the Washington metropolitan
area began on or after July 1, 1941
and who lived prior to that date
outside this area. Also eligible are
(D those having families living
outside the metropolitan area or
living apart from the employee be-
cause Accommodations cannot be
found for them here, (2) en-
ployees now living beyond a rea-
sonable committing distance from
their places of employment, or
(3) those who are living in
trailers, tents. shacks, or other
temporary shelter, or under ar
rangements SO intolerable as to i'm
pair efficiency. In addition persons
are eligible who, regardless Of date
of migration to the Washington
metropolitan area have been forced
to move since July 1, 1941 through
no fault of their own.
Prior to this week, only persons
employed by the Army, Navy or
Maritime Commission were eligible
to apply for these homes.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
USO and Red Cross
Get arty Funds

From the funds raised at last
Saturdays "Tacky Party" the
Woman's Club is donating 500 to
the U. S. o. and $525 to the Red
Cross to help fill kits for service
men.
Town Manager Roy S. Braden
acted as master of ceremonies for
the party, assisted by Herbert
Hall who kept the dancing and
games going at merry pace. De-
fense stamps were given as prizes
for the man and woman and the
four children who were judged to
have the cleverest costume. Re-
freshments were served by the
Canteen under the leadership of
Mrs. Daniel j. Neff.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Town Council Meets
Monday Night

The Town Council will hold
regularly scheduled meeting at 8
p. m. next Monday, November 2 in
the offices over the Variety Store.
Although the Cooperator was un-
able to secure specific information
on the agenda, several matters of
interest to the citizens were left
unfinished at previous meetings.
Some consideration has been
given to the possibility of operat-
ing the school bus only during
inclement weather. Another major
problem which the Council must
eventually act upon is the proposed
repeal of the present garbage COL
lection assessment and the passage
of some substitute tax, possibly a
personal property tax.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Teachers Take Part
In Annual Meetinq

Greenbelt Elementary and High
School teachers attended the Mary
land State Teachers Association
meeting at Baltimore October 23-
"a to hear the development of the
convention theme "Our Oppor-
tunities as Teachers of American
Youth.
The convention was addressed
by Association President R. 8.
Hyson, Tasker G. Lowndes, presi-
dent Of the State Board of Educa-
ton, and DIR. William C. Carr,
secretary of the Educational Pol
icies Commission.
Since the Baltimore meeting did
not affect the kindergarten teach
ers, Alice Hitchcock, Doris Seigh-
worth, Lillian Bloomster and Mrs.
Alys Orban observed" at the Bun
ker Hill and John Burroughs Kin
dergartens on Friday, October %.
At the same time Mrs. Reba
Harris and Mary Engstrom,
Greenbelt librarians, attended the
Maryland School Library Con-
ference in Baltimore.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Fall of Marking
WI Be Subject

Professor W. c. Scharffenberg
will give an illustrated lecture on
"The Fall Of Marking" at the
November meeting of the Woman's
Club. The group will meet in the
Athletic Association Clubhouse at
2 p. m. Thursday, November 5.
Mrs. Arthur L. Rysticken, Mrs.
Roy S. Braden and Mrs. Frank H.
Donoghue will be the hostesses.
The Board Of Governors for the
club will meet at 8 p. m. Wednes-
day, November a, at the home Of
Mrs. Leon G. Benefiel, COB Cres-
cent Road.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Tobacco Shop Opens
In Old Bus Depot

The Tobacco Store, Greenbelt's
newest cooperative enterprise, is
now operating from 7 go a. m. to
11:15 p. m. under the manage
ment of Mrs. Helen Walls. The
first week of business is reported
by Tom Kicker, general manager
of Greenbelt Consumer Services,
to be satisfactory enough to JUS
tify the move which set no this
separate shop.
Located in the old bus depot
the new store handles the sale of
newspapers, magazines, tobacco
and smoking needs, candy in bulk
or boxed, and also maintains a
fiction lending library and a film
service. These services were for
merly available in the Drug Store.
Additional eating facilities for
use in the Drug Store are now
waiting on approval from the
War Production Board. Plans
have been completed for extern
sion of the fountain bar into the
space formerly occupied by the
candy and tobacco counter.
Also awaiting a WPR priority
is additional shelving for the
Variety Store.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Movies ON Program

Movies ON Program
Several motion pictures on as
poets of civilian protection during
raids will be shown as one attrac-
tion for the evening. More impor-
tant, however, will be a general
report on the progress made by
Greenbelt's Civilian Defense Corps
in these months of preparation. A
number of important announce
ments will be made at the meeting,
including plans for the towns
second big 1Dney-raising rally.
This time it will be a Victory
Rally, scheduled for early Decem-
ber with another thousand dollars
as the goal.
Chiefs Meeting Tonight
All chiefs of defense units will
be required to attend chiefs of
staff meeting tonight at the Town
Council room, 7:30 p. m. The
session will be given over to out
lining in detail the program of
each unit in the local corps. Prob
lens in cooperation and coordin-
alton among defense units will be
worked out.
Training for all defense units
is scheduled to begin at once, and
all persons who have filled out
applications for civilian defense
work will have been contacted
shortly and told when and where
to report for duty.
Clnb Makes Flags
The task of flag making for
official use of the Defense Corps
is being taken up again by the
Women's Club. Smaller flags will
be made for emergency vehicles
used by the corps. Materials will
be purchased by the corps for these
flags.
More volunteers for the rolling
Of bandages have been requested,
and they should contact Mrs. A.
Hamlet Mt Greenbelt 5556 between
8 and 12 in the forenoon, not at
night as previously indicated in
the Cooperation.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
slblishing Association

Five directors for the next year
ere named Wednesday night at
Ize annual meeting of the Green
1T Cooperative Publishing Asso--
alton, Incorporated. Reelected
Hfe Phil Wexler and Donald H.
0oper. New directors are Waldo
lott, Bill Moore, and Morris
erkeltaub.
Directors will pick their own
Ulcers, and be responsible for
Tie publishing of the Cooperator
Turing their term of office.
At the meeting, held in the Co.
operator office, the financial re-
4 Ft- for the last year was accepted,
VI draft of the bylaws was
%. .,foved, and the date of the Co.
operator dinner announced as
November IA.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Yursery Co-opBoard
Re-elects Vachon

Mrs. Penny Vachon was re-
elected president of the Nursery
School Parents Board last Fri
flay Other officers elected were:
{rs. Valnette Nelson, vice presi-
Cent; Mrs. Ann Hull, as secretary;
ax1d Mrs. Henrietta Barnhart, trea-
snrer. These officers will serve
for the coming year, supervising
faae affairs of the towns coopera-
I'VE nursery school, for g. and A.
ear-olds.
A Halloween party planned by
ki1e mothers was held for the boys
nd girls this morning.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Tomorrow Nights
Halloween Dance
Is Fund Raiser

Tomorrow evening at 10 o'clock
JOHNNY Sinclair's 9-piece orchestra
will start the music rolling for
what the Citizens Association
promises to be one of the out
standing entertainments of the
season.
The combination Halloween
party and dance affords the op-
portunity for merrymakers to
come in costume, formal dress or
street clothes for three hours of
waltzing, jitterbugging and all va
riations of the fine art of foot
shuffling Greenbelter's have up
their sleeve. The Auditorium will
be decorated in keeping with the
spirit of the occasion, James
Smith, chairman of the ways and
means committee promises. In line
with Association custom, the ad
mission price will be so cents;
tickets may be secured in advance
by individuals named in last weeks
Cooperator OR at the door.
Mr.. Smith stresses the fact that
this is the first dance of the fall
season from which proceeds will
be available for the treasury of
the Association. "You citizens sup
ported the Russian Relief dance;"
Mr.. Smith comments. "We hope
that you will give us a boost now
as we need funds to carry on the
regular activities of the organiza-
tion."
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Guidance Authority
Speaks Here SUNDAY

DR.. Harold C. Hand of the
College of Education at the Uni
versity of Maryland has been se-
cured as speaker for this weeks
Sunday evening meeting being
sponsored by the Community
Church.
DIR. Hands topic will be "What
the War is Doing to Education"
The speaker is one of the
country's foremost authorities on
educational guidance. In addition
to his regular classes at the Uni
versity of Maryland, he conducts
a class in guidance at Columbia
University on Saturdays.
DR.. Hand has been with the
nearby University for three years.
He came to this section of the
in California.
country from Stanford University
During the past summer DIR.
Hand taught a seminar class on
student government, an outgrowth
Of which was the revision of the
student government constitution
at the University.
Reverend johnson expressed the
hope that all persons in the COM
munity avail themselves of the
opportunity to hear DIR. Hand
Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the
Auditorium,
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
FunAssembly
Talents of Pupils

An assembly by Groups I and II
titled "Hallowe'en is Fun" was
given last Thursday morning in
the Auditorium of the Greenbelt
Elementary School-and it was
fun!
Upon entering the Auditorium
one found tables with cunning
favors and placecards, pictures on
the walls, and on the stage a large
blackboard with poems and stories,
all made and written by the
children.
Patsy Dunbar as mistress of
ceremonies introduced the perfor-
mers. Mrs. Parper's group mo-
deled costumes, each child telling
how his costume was made. Mrs.
Whittaker's boys and girls read
storoes and poems they had writ
ten. A representative of Mrs.
Thomas room read the menu they
planned for their Halloween party
and another showed a map drawing
of Greenbelt and the route they
planned to take in the parade. The
children from Mrs. Lekness' room
told about the drawings that de-
corated the walls. and how they
planned to decorate their own
school room. Entertainment with
songs and games was provided by
the very "small fry" from Miss
Leeberman's room. Mrs. Gwynn's
first grade told how Halloween
could be celebrated best in Green
belt. With the playing of music
all children marched from the
Auditorium, Patsy's departing SEN
tence still causing a giggle, II
hope the Goblems don't get you on
Halloween.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Legion Will Hold
Open House Nov. 5

On Thursday, November 5, the
Greenbelt Post 1856 of the Ameri-
can Legion will hold an open house
party for the benefit of veterans
in World War I and men in the
armed forces of the present war.
This is a "getting together" for
veterans and military men who
have recently moved into Green
belt, according to Commander Vir-
gil Estes.
The affair will be held at the
Legion Clubhouse on Southway ex-
tension at $3.50 p. m. There will
be no charge.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
H. i. sciidti0a
It's Moore on Board

William moore was elected to
sIEp board of directors of the
xeenbelt Health Association at
Ae quarterly meeting of the
eociation Wednesday night. MIR.
core replaces Curtiss Barker.
he change in the bylaws
ting voting by absentee ballot
ID had been recommended by
board was carried by the
mbership. It is now possible,
showing cause why a meeting
o. mot be attended, TO obtain an
ksentee ballot which viii have
lN same value as vote cast in
ss0n.
he board was authorized by
zAe membership to employ such
auditing services as may be nee
&RsAry to obtain complete
Ancial balance.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Charts Outline
Town Government
For Monday Night

The November membership
meeting of the Greenbelt Citizens
Association Monday evening, No
vember 2 present lesson in civics
which no Greenbelter new or old
can afford to miss, according to
Stanley Ostler, president. Two
huge charts are in the process of
preparation, one of which shows
the various local departments and
offices of our landlord, the Fed
eral Government, and the other
shows similar material for the
town administration.
Although the set-up is not SO
complicated when you see it on
paper" Mr.. Ostler told the Co.
operator, 81 think old residents az
well as new will find the presen-
tation Monday evening education
al-it certainly was for me.
BY the way, did you know
that the Town cuts the grass by
the roadways and the Government
mows the apartment lawns across
the sidewalk" asked Mr.. Ostler.
II hope the people will bring
questions about civic administra-
tion and we will try to have them
answered." he said in summing
up the agenda for Mondays meet
ing.
New Entertainment Ready
The Entertainment committee
which has presented "True or
False" and "Truth and Conse-
quences" at previous meetings is
planning for group singing at 8
p. m: to open the meeting, and
social evening Of games, folk
and bridge following the business
session. To make the occasion
more party like, the committee
urges married couples to attend.
The new residents are especially
vited in order to get acquainted
b their neighb0rs.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Voters To Ballot
Tuesday, Nov. 3

About 500 Greenbelters who
are registered Maryland voters
will go to the Legion House on
Southway extension Tuesday to
cast their ballots for state and
county officials.
Listed below are Republican
and Democratic nominees.
Democrats:
Governor-Herbert r. O'Conor
Comptroller of the Treasury
J. Millard Tawes.
Attorney General-William C.
Walsh.
Representative in Congress-
Lansdale G. Sasscer.
Chief Judge, Circuit Court
Ogle Marbury.
Associate Judges, Circuit Court
John B. Gray, Jr., and Charles
C. Marbury.
State Senator-L. Harold Soth-
oron.
Sheriff-Roger Earle Sheriff.
States Attorney-A. Gwynn
Bowie.
Register of Wills-William E.
Clifton.
Clerk, Circuit Court - Brice
Bowie.
County Treasurer-R. Ernest
Smith.
House of Delegates-Samuel n.
Harvey, Noah Joffe, Leroy
Pumphrey, Napoleon B. Steward,
John S. White, Perry o. Wilkin-
son.
County Commissioners John
Howard Beall, Harry M. Bowen,
William A. Carson, ID. Leonard
Dyer, Theodore B. Siehler.
Judges, Orphans Court-Lans-
dale G. Clagett, Vincent A. Oster-
man, Millard Thorne.
County Surveyor-Vinton D.
Cockey.
(continued ON Page p
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-30
Second Defense Mass Meeting
For GreenbeH Is Nouember IS

November the date selected for Civilian
meeting in Greenbe
announcing the date Commander Arthur Rsicken made it
that all attend Civilian
Defense workers required to Admission will be
but each will War Stamp the
of admission
Evening star., 1942-02-06

from "a Chinese living In Montana"
who sent q $25 money order Ito help
kill the Japs" and added me buy
bonds later"
.Inclosing IS cents in cash, an g.
yesF-old Florida boy said he had
saved 1t for movie, but was send
ing it to Washington 80 that you
can use it to help build a ship so
you can lick Japan" The boy also
wanted permission to join his father.
attached to the destroyer Barry,
and l could help the Navy, see?"
An l1-year-old California boy sent
a dollar he had earned cutting
lawns. In his spare time, the boy
wrote. he has been helping troops
at a nearby military post. but II am
not saying what I do when I help
the boys. because I believe in keep
ing military secrets" The son of a
marine, the boy wanted his dollar
used to help buy an airplane Ito
bomb the Japs."
Evening star., 1942-02-06
Navy Mans Wife Tells
OF Jan Attack on Samoa

Mrs. Aston Richardson, wife of a
Navy electricians mate, and her H.
year-old son, Robert. returned to
Washington yesterday from Samoa,
American island in the Pacific,
where they were under fire during
the Japanese attack January IL.
They are going to stay with MIR.
and Mrs. George w. Darne of
Vienna, Va, who are Mrs. Richard
sons parents
Mrs. Richardson and her son had
been in Samoa for two months when
the island was attacked at 2:30 am.
on January IL. They crouched in
refuge. where she said the women
and children went, through the at
tack and heard the firing "as orderly
as anything" She related that after
the outbreak of war. women and
children had been sent from possible
places OF danger and that they went
to bed at pm. and arose at m.
to go to their refuge. where they
remained until daylight.
Robert was to start today at the
Vienna Elementary School.
Evening star., 1942-02-06

today that the Red Army in the
south had captured Patropavlovka,
10 miles east of Dnieperopetrovsk.
1t added that Dnieperopetrovsk, site
of a great power dam which the
Russians blasted ahead of the Ger
man advance last summer, is be
coming more and more clearly the
direct objective of the Soviet ad-
vance"
The Moscow radio reported fight
ing on the northwestern Russian
front at the approaches Of town
designated only as 'V.",
AL Nazi counterattacks were
smashed. hundredsso of soldiers were
slain and much booty was captured,
Russian accounts declared.
The Soviet midnight communique
broadcast from Moscow also said
cavalry unit operating In one
sector Of the Kalinin front wiped
out 800 officers and men in seven
days of fighting.
Equipment Destroyed.
This communique reported the
destruction along the whole front by
the Red air force of seven German
armored cars, $50 trucks carrying
soldiers and war material. $50
wagons with ammunition, tank
trucks with fuel and seven anti
aircraft machine gun posts.
In addition, two ammunition
dumps and one fuel dump were re-
ported blown up.
At one sector of the western
front (the area before Moscow the
communique declared that one Red
Army unit destroyed three regi-
ments of German infantry.
Above the Kalinin front, the
Kuibyshev radio announced, bitter
battle is raging in the Valdai hills
below Leningrad. The radio said
the Germans had dug in but
the Russian artillery had been
pounding the intrenchments for
several days.
Evening star., 1942-02-06
Conservation Of Poper

Every citizen Is called upon
to see that not a pound of paper
is wasted. Demand from every
clerk that any unnecessary
wrapping Of packages or un-
necessary use of paper bags be
dispensed with.
Waste paper for paperboard
is vital to the packaging of a
great quantity of war equip
ment.
Do not burn newspapers, but,
when you have saved enough
for bundle, give them to the
school children who are CO.
operating in the defense pro-
gram with the parent teacher
organization in The Stars
campaign for reclaiming old
newspapers.
Evening star., 1942-02-06
Treasury Asks 10 Use
lick -Japs' Gifts
For War Purposes
Irote Patriots, Including
Youngsters and Chinese.
Send Gosh to u. S.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Treasury Department wants
Congress to permit the use for war
purposes of small cash donations
made by patriotic citizens including
two enthusiastic boys and an irate
Chinese
Receipts of the gifts, along with
thousands of others coming In since
Pearl Harbor at what would be a
rate of $3,0O0,oO0 annually. was dis
closed by the Department during
House hearings on the second war
powers bill.
Existing law, department officials
explained. prevents the acceptance
of gifts for the purpose for which
they are offered. All such donations
must 60 into the general Treasury
fund.
AS examples of the public's re-
Sponse to Pearl Harbor, the depart
ment exhibited several letters from
unidentified donors, including one
Evening star., 1942-02-06
Cop!. james Nominated
TO Be Reur Admiral

President Roosevelt yesterday
nominated Capt. Jules James. So.
commanding officer of the naval
operating base at Bermuda, to be
a rear admiral.
Capt. James, whose home is in
Danville, Va, was graduated in 1908
from the Academy at Annapolis.
In recent years he has served as
acting director of naval intelligence
and as a member of the Navy's
general board.
Evening star., 1942-02-06
Ex-Representative Boyce
Dies in Delaware al 86
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DOVER, Del, Feb. 6.-William H.
Boyce, 86, former member of Con-
gress and before that an associate
justice of the Delaware Supreme
Court, died today. He had been
in poor health for six years.
A native of Laurel, Judge Boyce
began the practice of law at George
town in 1887 and served two terms
on the State Supreme Court-1897-
1909 and 1909-21.
He was elected to Congress on the
Democratic ticket in 1923, serving
until 1925. He also was delegate
to the Democratic National Con-
ventions of 1896 and 1924.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day.