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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
NEA Service

BY NEA Service
They're shooting chickens and
16-pound swans - real ones -
at a transparent glaSs-plastic
window" these days to develop
Windshields that will protect
pursuit pilots from stray wild
fowl.
A compressed air gun with a
3l2 inch barrel fires the chick
ems at the rate of 200 feet per
second. Another gun discharges
the swans at 270 miles-per-hour.
High = S e movies, strain
gauges and accelerometer pick
ups determine results after the
splatter.
Since windshield protection
for pilo.s against lightning, and
ice formation, cannot be sacri-
feed for the lesser danger OF
wildfowl collision, the problem
has been = perplexing one.
A pursuit ship moves through
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
BY WALTER b. CLAUSEN

PEARL HARBOR, T. H., June
Is - Up - How the u. s.
Nays long-range patrol bomb
ers discovered the Japanese
fleet off Midway, a night tor
pedo attack against the invaders,
and thrilling rescues Of navy
filters from rubber life boats
were disclosed today in new &C
counts of the battle.
Captain Logan Eamsey of
Philadelphia, operations officer
for the army, navy and marine
corps, land-baSed planes at Mid
way Island, in unfolding further
details of the battle said the
night torpedo attack vas the
first time in history the planes
had been so operated.
The crew of one patrol plane,
forced down by fuel shortage,
were eight days at c fighting
off sharks which ripped at the
rubber of their small life boats.
GREAT CHAPTER
Ramsey said the achievements
of the large patrol bomberS
(PBY's) in discovering and at
lacking the enemy formed one
of the greatest chapters in the
newest form of naval action
which he termed "aeroamphibi-
Gus warfare"
He estimated that the Japan
csc threw several hundred air
craft into the battle. Other re-
ports have stated most of the
enemy planes were destroyed.
Surrounded by heroes of the
engagement, Captain Ramsey
outlined the general action and
each in turn filled in the de-
tails.
"In general" he said, "the mis-
sion of the flying boats is to
obtain information about the
enemy; to go great distances
from bases to penetrate areas in
all kinds of weather, evaluate
information and get it back to
headquarters. The fortunes of
the entire fleet depend frequent
ly on the information of these
young men"
FIRST DISCOVERY
He said Ensign Jewell Reid,
%, of Paducah, Ky, made the
first discovery of the Japanese
fleet June 3 while on routine
patrol hundreds of miles from
his base.
Here is Reid's story:
eve had a job TO do and tried
to do our utmost.
Before dawn on June 3 we
left Midway on a routine pat
rol. Hundreds of miles out in
mid-morning we sighted several
objects dead ahead on the hori-
zon but they were not distin-
guishable at III high altitude.
We closed j. and made out the
objects to be enemy warships.
The weather was clear with very
little haze and we knew we
stood out well for A-A (anti-air-
craft) fire. We reversed course
in order to ascertain the track
and speed of the enemy and to
get more information TO our
base.
1--WE got a beam the main body
of the enemy and proceeded in
close enough for another look.
Then we sent in an amplified
report.
SAW IL SHIPS
1--WE saw IL ships, including
two battleships and heavy cruis-
ers and troop ships. We spent
several hours in the vicinity
getting all the information we
could. | don't think we were
seen. If we had been we would
have been shot down. This was
the enemy's occupation force.
Through a few scattered
clouds we got astern of the enc
m. fleet to avoid any enemy air
forces ahead or on the side and
to observe without being seen,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

This plant is not yet producing
at even near-capacity. For it
was built ahead of schedule,
and the new government-financ-
ed feeder plants now being built
are not yet ready to supply it
with pig. When it is running
at top speed, perhaps by years
end, the Aluminium Company
alone will be producing alumni
mum at a rate Of so times as
fast as it did before 1899.
Even that is not all. The ends
of this roughly U-shaped plant
look unfinished. They are. They
were closed off with sheets of
corrugated sheet steel, easy to
tear down for future expansion.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
FOLLOW THAT IMPULSE!

SEATTLE-Mrs. E. E. Young,
more than likely, will follow
her lunches in the future.
Up at 3 a. m. to get an aspirin
tablet, she thought she saw three
men near her daughters car.
Her first impulse was to investi-
gate. Instead, she took the as
pirin and returned to bed.
In the morning she found the
spare tire missing.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

"he exact size of this gargan-
tuan factory is a military secret,
yet it will give the enemy any
thing but comfort to ponder
these generalities:
So vast is this plant that fore
men scoot between operations in
small cars.
So vast is this plant that in
just one stage of is fabrication,
the aluminium travels a straight
line down a continuous strip
mill more than a quarter of a
mile long.
SO vast is this plant that,
from pig to product, aluminium
travels three miles under its
roof.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

San Antonio, Tex, and Maurice
Smith of Lodi, Calf, told of
their flying boats tracking the
enemy raid into Midway. On
June 4 they located two battle
ships and two carriers in the
S'~iking force Of Japanese north
west of Midway. They reported
at $50 a. m. that Japanese
planes were enroutc to Midway
a little more than an hour be
fore the enemy bombers reach
cd Midway.
Captain Ramsey said the Ma
RES at Midway destroyed "a of
the raiding planes.
SPOT PLANES
Lieut.. William f. Chase Of AL
toona, Pa, and William G. Cor
bCtt, of Philadelphia, spotted 45
Japanese planes headed for Mid
way $50 miles from the Island.
Captain Ramsey remark C d
that sharks had cut two rubber
boats in two and had overturned
another.
Among those with Fulghum
on the raft were Ensign Lee Nc
Celery (home town unavaila-
blC): aviation mechanic John
Weeks, Fallbrook, Calf, and
aviation mechanic Virgil March,
.',.mcda, Calf.
Lieut.. Norman K. Brady, OF
Sanborn, Ia, told of a rescue
395 miles out Of Midway Lieut..
William T. O'Dowd, Of Month
cello. Ind, also told of the res
u work.
One of the most thrilling was
the rescue by Lieut.. August
Barthcs, of Bcloxi, Miss, of two
men who had been afloat eight
days. When he landed on he
heavy sea he recognized one of
the men on the raft as his school
days companion, Ensign Thomas
Ramsey. of Prings, Miss.
Ensign Verne Umphray, 81, of
Portland, Ore, rescued the nine
survivors of Lieut.. Probst's fly
ing boat.
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BY TOM WOLF

Bf IONT VLT
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, June 8
In the shadow of the Great
Smoky Mountains, on rich roll
ing land, which for years has
been synonymous with agricul-
ture, America is winning the
battle of industrial production.
On the red clay of a leveled
off hilltop, the Aluminium Com
pany of America has built a gil
gantic new plant which has
smashed, for the present, at
least, the bottleneck in alumni
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

During the 1885 1886 cold
snap, 20 square miles of dead
fish were sighted off the coast
o. North Carolina.
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IT'S A TASK

IT'S a TASK
A total of 4987 different
guages are used in the construc-
ton of a Bren gun, which con-
tains 172 parts and requires 3174
separate operations to produce.
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How Navy Discovered Jap Fleet off Midway Island
Rescues Of Navy Filters
from Life Boats Revealed
Crew Of One Patrol Phone Fought
OFF Sharks Eight Dogs in Small Boot

meanwhile sending reports to
our base"
Captain Ramsey interjected:
. That night of June 3 we de-
cided to launch a nig..t torpedo
attack by Navy flying boats. 1t
was a very hazardous mission
and was placed on a volunteer
basis, We wanted to hit some
]troopships and give the slant
eyes a bath. This was a diff
cult job. 1t had never been
done before. The distances
were very great. We hesitated to
do it but felt we had to hit the
enemy.
Lieut.. William Richards, 81,
of CollingsWood, N. j., execu-
tive officer to Ramsey related:
FLYING BOATS USED
1--WE had four flying boats.
We were all ready to 60 by the
time the army ~bombersweturn-
ed. We four took off together
and headed for the position Civ
en- as the location of the enc
my.
when we came into sight of
the enemy fleet, it was quite
visible. 1t was impossible to
distinguish types but we saw
two columns of large ships with
several smaller ships ahead and
astern. They had no lights.
They were heading straight for
Midway.
"Once we started our night
attack, each pilot was on his
own. Lieut.. Charles p. Hibber-
ed, of West Springfield, Mass,
and myself were at the controls
of my ship.
Il gave the attack signal. I
had already spotted vat | be-
lieved was the largest ship. 1t
was too far away and too black
to identify, but l hoped it would
be a carrier. We made a long
straight approach to our OBJ
jective and encountered no anti
aircraft fire. They didn't even
know we were coming, so we
were able to get in close and
let go our torpedo without OPP
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
PULLED AWAY

AS soon as we released our
TORPEDO we pulled away in a
sharp right turn over the stern
of the target ship. My two rear
lookouts reported a huge explos-
ion and heavy black smoke on
the ship we attacked. Three
of our ships dropped torpedoes
two of which definitely were
hits. Our hit was on a big troop
ship of about 5000 tons. A
second transport was hit of
about the same size.
This vas the first time such
a thing ever had been done by
flying boats and we we're more
than 500 miles out from our
base"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

A little over a year ago this
site was just another grassy hill
top of the Tennessee Valley.
Plans for the plant, built Is part
of the Aluminium Company's
S215,O 900 900 se1f-financed war
expansion program, were first
discussed in November, 1910. A
year and a quarter later the
giant overhead cranes within
the factory were starting the
first huge ingots of aluminium
rolling through the fabricating
mills.
Here in one building, watch
ing aluminium pig become alum
mum sheet, you can e the
United Nations marching to vic
tory. The tough, lightweight
metal that is here kneaded and
pounded into shape is building
the planes and ships that will
dictate the armistice.
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BIG STOCKPILE is
BUILT UP

Better duck in your seat now
as the giant cranes swing the
c, IS above your a toward the
annealing furnaces. Up to this
point the alumipum has been
hot while it was being shaped.
After a%nnealinG, it will be
worked cold. Other mills will
roll it still thinner.
Steer your car deftly between
rows of giant machines which
represent the best of American
engineering genius. Watch more
overhead cranes, more rolling
mills, cutting, stretching, press
ing, heating, cooling. AT last the
sheet is ready for inspection
and shipment. Your cars speed
ometcr shows you've driven
nearly three miles.
At the end of the drive you
sec, packed and ready for ship
ping, a Sizeable stockpile of fin
ished sheet. None is sent out ex-
except by Army orders. The ex-
istence Of this stockpile is visual
proof that the aluminium bottle
neck, in sheet fabricating, at
least, is not now existent.
Such is the size Of one Of the
monster new plants in which
America is fashioning the wea-
pons for democracy's arsenal.
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NTARBY PLANT PRODUCES
METAL PIGS

lllC dluillllluII pig llSCll 10
produced in a nearby plant.
"Alumina," the finely-poWder-
ed, whiteish "ore" from which
aluminium is refined, is obtained
by chemical processes from
bauxite in the earth's crust.
In huge electric furnaces, call
ed reduction pots" the alum
ina is broken by an electrolytic
process into its component parts,
aluminium and oxygen, by the
means of a molten cryolite bath
through which a powerful cleo
trio current passes. The oxygen
is burned off, and the aluminium
is poured into pigs. The pig is
shipped to the mammoth new
plant.
Now hop into a midget car
and follow the path of this pig
inside the factory as it is melted
and cooled, So u a S h and
squeezed, cut and trimmed into
fighting weight.
First it is melted for pouring
into ingotS. You have to step on
the gas now to keep pace as the
huge overhead crane hurries the
ingots to the soaking pits.
Swing the auto around a corner
and you're looking straight
down the "hot strip line" You'll
drive more than six city blocks
straight down the bowels of this
fcctory before you get to the
end Of the line.
An overhead crane hauls the
ingot from the soaking pit to the
line. Now, screeching and clat-
tering down this rolling mill,
squeezed under 1000, 300 pounds
pressure, the metal snakes
out from the eight-foot ingot in
to a strip nearly a tenth of a
mile long. Even in your a it is
hard to keep pace toward the
end Of the line, as the thin
sheet Kisses along to the Con
ti~uous mill"-where it is roll
ed, like a window shade, for
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PLANE SINKS

ProbSt'S plane was battered
by waves and sank.
Commander F. MaSsic Hughes
of Selma, La. then described
how these flying boat crews had
worked strcnuouSly for their
mission for months prior TO the
Midway battle. Each of the big
planes carries IL TO IL men.
Commander Hughes said:
Their operations indicated
then skill and stamina in flights
up TO Ia hours, mostly with only
two hours sleep between flights
and sleeping in dugouts."
Lieut.. Commander Robert G.
BriXner, of Piedmont, Calf,
commanding the second group,
then said:
Our planes came back TO
Midway after the operations of
June 4 and continued the search
and attacking operations June 5.
and after the engagement was
over and all the enemy forces
cleaned out Of the battle areas,
we turned TO resume operations
which continued for ten days
He told how, after an enemy
was discovered June 3, the
Army'S BIZ bombcrS were sent
out and carried out the plan of
hitting first and hitting hard.
TRACKED ENEMY
LicutcnantS Harry =. Ady, Of
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40 ON MISSION

A second flying boat was com
manded by Lieut.. Gaylord
Probst, 20, of 8O2 Bundy Dive.
Los Angeles; the third by Lieut..
Douglas c. Davis, %, Of ST. Lou
is, Mo, and the fourth by Lieut..
Allan Rothenberg, %, Of Wash
ington, d. c
There were some 40 men in
this historic mission.
Three of the flying boats got
back to their bases. The one
commanded by Lieut.. Probst ran
out of fuel and la led on the
ocean. They floated on their
rubber life boats for three days
before they were rescued at
gan ~ y, Itv,A q
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PLANTS | Il is
SECRET

nnm DrOduCtlOn.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-16
A TRIUMPH
EXPLOSION

A Government delayed time fuse
exploded on Tuesday in the laps OF
the executives of the Triumph Ex-
plosive Company at Elkton. 1t re-
suited in the Navy Department TAX
ing over complete charge of the
Company and the arrest of j. Ben
Decker. executive vice-presldent,
and two other officials, on charges OF
bribery aggregating over one mil
lion dollars, with other arrests to
follow.
The Navy took possession Tues
day of the plant of Triumph tx
plosives, Inc, at Elkton, Md, and
two subsidiaries at Milford, DEL, and
the White House announced that
the FBI had arrested plant vice.
president and an Army and a Navy
inspector on bribery charges.
A White House statement said
the inspectors were charged with
accepting brides in the guise OF
service fees" and that the Nays
"preliminary investigation indicat-
es that more than $1,000,0O0 in
management irregularities may be
involved"
Those arrested, the White House
said, were Josef Benn Decker,
executive vice president of Triumph;
]. A. McCambridge, until recently
civilian Army inspector at the Tri-
umph plant, and Reginald Gregory,
chief civilian Navy inspector at
Triumph.
The two subsidiaries taken under
governmental control are the Mil
ford Ordnance Company and the
Sussex Ordnance Company All have
been placed in charge of Command
er A. B. McCrary, acting for the
Army and Navy.
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RALLY DAY AT METHODIST
CHURCH

Rally Day services in the Metho-
dist Sunday School were held in
the Church auditorium at 9:45 A.
Mr.. Claude c. Buck, Supt. presiding.
Rev. J. r. Bicking gave an illus
trated talk. Adjourned to class
rooms for the lesson. Junior League
at 1880 P. M. in charge of Mrs. Ella
Buck. The Pastor preached at the
evening service from the text "The
Son of Man is come to seek and to
save that which was lost" The two
weeks special services begin next
Sunday, the Pastor in charge, as
sisted by Pastors of the neighboring
Churches.
The annual Praise Service of the
Presbyterian Church will be held
Thursday afternoon in the Chapel
DR.. William M. Blair, returned
Missionary from India, will be the
speaker.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-16
WOODLAND

Mr.. and Mrs Frank Bitner re-
ceived a cablegram Saturday, from
their son Leo, who is in Northern
Ireland, that he has been made a
Sergeant.
Walter Todd, Jr., spent the week
end with his home folks. He is at
the Philada. Navy Yard.
Miss Martha Wier spent Sunday
with her cousin, Mrs. Adam Jack
son of Blythedale.
Mr.. Elmer Watkins and Mrs. Ed
ward w. Krummel of Aiken, Md,
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilbert B. SINNERS.
Mrs. Harriet Campbell Of Elkton,
Mrs. Carroll Tyson of Leslie, were
dinner guests Friday, of Mrs. J.
Fred Fox.
Misses Ruth Dudder of Linthi-
cum Heights, Md, and Dorothy An
thony of Centreville, Md, were Fri
day to Sunday guests of Miss Vir-
ginia R. Barnes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldred Campbell,
Betty, Barry and Jack of Media,
Pa, were Saturday night and Sun
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Har-
vey Hawley. Their Sunday guests
were Mrs Hawley's sister, Mrs
Maynard Roop and Mr.. Bob North
land of Roanoke, Va, Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Roop of Baltimore, another
sister, Mrs. Eulace Hawley and their
brother, Mr.. Fiege Sumner and
Mrs. Sumner of Coatesville, Pa,
and Billy Lyons of Perryville.
Mrs. Rufus G. Jackson was a
dinner guest Sunday of her cous-
ms, the Misses Maxwell's.
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SPORTSMEN'S CLUB OBSERVES
LADIES NIGHT

Rising Sun Sportsmen's Club held
its first annual Ladies night on
Tuesday evening at the Madison
House, North East Sixty-two ladies
and gentlemen attended. An elabor-
ate chicken dinner was served. The
tables were beautifully decorated in
sportsmen fashion.
J. E. Ingram, chairman of enter
tainment committee, introduced Mr..
Wilmer, we'll known ventriloquist
and his little boy Jimmy, who en-
tertained the group with his witty
sayings and singing old songs. The
group sang "God Bless America"
with Mrs. John Bond at the piano.
Mr.. Stively then presented the guest
speaker, DR.. Whitson, of Quarry
Vile, Pa, who spoke on Sports
manship and what it stood for and
gave an interesting account of his
activities in France during first
World War. The president thanked
the ladies for attending and Mrs.
Bond led the group in singing
"Till We Meet Again"
REAL ESTATE SALES
Wheeler & Grier, realtors, repre-
senting Mrs. Laura M. Wilson, have
sold her attractive bungalow home,
212 S. 5th St., Oxford, Pa, to Mary
E. and Estelle M. Reynolds of Ris-
ing Sun, Md, who will move to their
new home on or about November 1.
The same brokers have also sold
for Charles Bunker his 40-acre
truck and poultry farm at Gatch's
Quarry near Churchville, Hartford
Co., Md, to DR.. Lensworth Cottrell
of Bel Air. Possession to be had on
November LIST.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-16
AN OPEN LETTER
FOR STATE SENATOR

Der of the House of Delegates few
years ago. The bill, while intro
duced in the State Senate as local
measure, in reality was sponsored by
large Sand and Stone Company,
which contemplated getting large
part of the money through the sale
of Gravel, Sand and Cement. The
part 1 played in favor of the school
teachers of Cecil county, as well as
in favor of the fishermen, is also
well-known to hundreds of our
citizens.
1 am still unafraid to fight for the
taxpayers, and will do so.
My motto is, keep down nom
essential spending and save tax
payers money" which should result
in lower State and County taxes.
FREDERICK H. LEFFLER,
Elkton, Maryland.
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J. p. THOMPSON & SONS
COMPLETE
DISPERSAL SALE
$50 Head
Registered Holstein-Friesian
CATTLE
CATTLE
Fully Certified and Accredited
Wednesday, Oct. %, 1912

Selling at the Farm located on
Route 500 at Nine Points, which is
IS miles south of Lancaster, 10
miles north of Oxford, Is miles west
of Coatesville and Is miles east of
Conowingo.
20 Cows all of Canadian Breeding
including some of Canadas best
blood lines. 80 of these cows will be
fresh, % to freshen in November,
the others due at various. times of
the year.
Is Two-year Old Heifers, due to
freshen this Fall. 10 Heifers bred to
freshen next Spring. 20 Yearling
Heifers. 80 Bulls, from months old
to serviceable age. 26 Weaned
calves, nicely started.
All the Young Cattle were born
on this farm and are all sired by
Ferndale Dean Pietertje, a son of
Dunloggin Dean Marathon, who is
from an 500 pound fat daughter of
| Marathon Bess Burke. His Dam
Yankton Queen Pietertje has a two
year old record of 14,844.O lbs.
milk and 1927 lbs. fat.
Remember this entire Herd is
Fully Accredited for T. B. and Ger
| titled on the Blood Test. Can go
| into any state.
Also selling Colts, two years
old; a Pair of Mules, 6 Brood Sows
and Bears, 40 tons of Alfalfa Hay,
first and second cutting.
Sale to start at 10 o'clock.
| Order of Sale: Hogs at 10 o'clock; ;
Hay at 1920; Cows at IL.
Buyers are requested to be in
their seats at this hour. Selling to
be done under cover.
For Catalog write to Harvey Ret
tew, Mannheim, Pa, Sale Manager.
J. P. THOMPSON & SON
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COUNTY COMMISSIONER

Having been drafted by the Re-
publican party to serve as candi-
date for the Office Of County COM
missioner for the Third Commits
sioner District, take this means of
asking your support and friendly
influence, because, due to present
conditions, it will be impossible for
me to contact all voters personally.
II elected to this office, using the
words Of Lincoln with malice
toward none; With charity for alp'.
PERRY A. GIBSON
Rising Sun. Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-16

Having been nominated for State
Senator at the Democratic Primary,
L take this means of appealing to
ALL Voters for their support at the
November Election. l expect to call
upon as many voters as possible, but,
due to the Gasoline and Tire situa-
ton there will be many I will be
unable to see.
The most essential thing before
our people Is to win the WAR.
Everyone can do his or her bit, even
if we cannot bear arms. Let's do
1t.
My promise to the people of Cecil
county, if elected, is to work and
vote in their interest
There are hundreds of people in
this county who remember the sue
cessful fight l made against the
Million Dollar Road Bond issue for
Cecili county, when l was MEM