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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01


secret weapon - he'll scare off
the Japs."
That was right at the begin
ming. But the men who were so
quick on the wise-crack then
have grown more serious as
they have lived and fought
through months of heat, STRAIT
ing, sniping and bombing. After
the initial landing and attack,
I was away from Guadalcanal
bouncing around the ocean, for
about a month. It was when !
returned that I noticed how
these lighthearted fighters had
changed.
GUN WOULD BE HANDY %
If you're a non-combatant
serving with us. forces as a
photographer or correspondent,
you're not supposed to 60 armed
even where there are Jap
snipers all around you in tropic
jungles. But there's many q time
you wish you had q light ma
chine gun, q AS and q couple of
pockets full of hand grenades.
Life is like that in the Solo
mons.
Stay back of the front lines
and you don't get any pictures
and that's your job out there.
1t doesn't make much difference
anyhow. one place is as safe as
another, everybody figures.
Bob Miller of the United
Press and I were together on
those first days of Guadalcanal.
A few Japanese snipers opened
up on our forces, but the main
body of Japanese had headed for
the hills. We moved our lines
steadily on their heels.
An abandoned Japan s e
work-village, tents shattered by
our shells, provided swell pic
ture possibilities. When the
Smelling started, the Jap work
men had just left-their break
fast dishes scattered around per-
sonal belongings in orderly ar
ray by their pallet beds.
We looked over thousands of
pieces of Japanese fighting and
construction equipment aban-
doned in the hasty retreat, found
a couple of ill japanese men we
promptly made prisoner; looked
longingly at case after case of
Jap beer we wanted to sample
but didn't because we were
afraid we'd find it poisoned.
We had lost our Marine patrol
in the interest of investigating
the camp and didn't know ex-
actly where we were in relation
to Japanese-occupied territory.
So when machine guns started
chattering a few yards away we
threw ourselves on the ground.
About the time my holders
were empty of unexposed film
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01
Wage Dispute
Flares Anew
Portlond Shipyords
Scene Of Stoppose

SOUTH PORTLAND, Me-,
Dec. l-(R-A wage dispute OF
long standing hared up again
at the South Portland Shipbuild-
ing Corporation yard last night
in q brief work stoppage by
welders, tackers and drillers.
A management official said
that an American Federation Of
Labor representative, by telling
the men that the company was
not putting into effect raises au-
thorized by the war labor board,
has melted them to walk off
the job"
"How many men quit their
work on liberty ship hulls
neither the management nor
workers spokesman would esti-
mate. Some of the men laid off
q few minutes: others for the
balance of their shift, a matter
of two hours.
Members of q workers COM
mittee, who would not identify
themselves, said that virtually
all the welders and tackers
working on hulls stopped at
$50 pm. because they had
learned that the raises would be
paid department by department
at the rate of two departments
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01
DSR, Railroad
Named In Suit
Action 10 outsrowth
OF crosh fotol 10 Is

DETROIT. Dec. 1 - R -
The Grand Trunk Western Rail-
way Company and the Detroit
Street Railway System was
named co-defendants in a $25,-
600 damage suit yesterday as a
result of the Oct. % grade cross
ing crash in which 16 city motor
bus passenger were killed.
The suit, filed in Circuit Court
on behalf of Wilfred j. Strange,
truck driver, alleges tn a t
Strange suffered permanent i'm
pairment to the vision of his
right eye when the bus ~as
hurled against his truck and
shattered glass struck him in
the face.
The suit charges the railroad
with illegally permitting its
train to approach an intersection
without ringing bells and sound
ing whistles. It accuses the DSR
of overlooking the bus so the
drivers vision was DISTRACTED
and of operating over railroad
tracks without taking proper
precautions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01

were to see a lot more of In
weeks to come. q rain that never
was appreciated.
JAPS ATTACK
Early silence of the night was
ominous. It didn't last long. Japs
tried to rush the camp, and for
hours machine guns, Spring
fields and ASS barked over our
heads. A Jap plane came over,
dropping flares. In the distance
naval gunfire started and the
earth trembled from the shock
of big shells.
Runners came into camp to
report to General Vanderbilt:
"Sir, enemy craft approach
ing offshore. We can see them
on the horizon"
Patrols were sent out to in
tercept possible Landing At
tempts.
Water rolled down In sheets.
Later the general called to-
gether the three correspondents
then on the island-Miller, my
self and Dick Tregasgis Of ms,
who had landed from another
ship-and told US he thought we
should leave.
Were glad to have you stay
if you want, but il you're smart,
you'll get out with the trans
ports this afternoon. II you want
to stay, you must figure ON BE-
ing here for six weeks or more
and not being able to get your
material out"
/ had more than 100 pictures
I regarded as pretty important,
and looking forward to seeing
sea action, decided to leave.
Tregasgis made the same de-
cision. Miller threw his fates in
with the Marines and elected to
stick out for the balance Of the
campaign.
Tregasgis missed the boat that
day. ! didn't.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01
Sherman Montrose Writes Series
of Sir Thrilling Articles

SHER MAN MONTROSE,
Acme Newspictures camera
man, who landed with the
Marines on Guadalcanal last
August, and whose pictures
were distributed to newspa-
pers of the country through
the Photographic pool" has
just returned to San Francisco
from his assignment. Mont
rose and his equipment are
undergoing repairs, but de-
spite the fact that the photog-
rapher Is convalescing from
malaria, dysentery and badly
infected leg, he has written
six gripping, eye-w ess
stories Of life on Guadalcanal,
Of which this is the first.
BY SHERMAN MONTROSE
Written for NEA Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. l.
You live for about a year in Z
on Guadalcanal-if yol
live-so it seems like Ions
time since that early morning
in August wheE the Marine.
splashed ashore from their land
ing barges and the word solo.
mons" became important tc
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01
GIFT
VALUES

" your ideo Of the perfect gift IS that Is SNORT oos
charming. useful that will be Iostno rssmhronce
Of your esteem you will find ideal choice Of C.
eosonoI pieces are now showing on our foosa
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01
Catholic ScoulInq
Group Is Formed
Meme pontioe Nor
10 Heed Committee

Maurice Fitzgerald Of Pontiac
has been named chairman of Q
new committee on Catholic
Scouting in the Clinton Valley
Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Rev. E. J. DeKeyser of Utica IL
the area chaplain, and Norbert
F. Vandenberg, of Pontiac, the
field commissioner.
These appointments were
made by Rev. Leo N. Sheltreau,
Chaplain of Scouting for the
Archdiocese of Detroit, in con-
formation with the new nation
al policy which has for its ulti-
mate aim a Boy Scout troop in
every Catholic church, and ev-
cry Catholic boy q scout in a
Catholic troop.
The new committee met ut
Utica Friday night with scout
executive Herbert N. Watson, 70
make plans for getting the pro-
gram under way.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01
Describes Marine Assault on CuadaIcal11
Maternity HesplId
Relieves (feWdlo1

The Mount Clemens 1GoooCns
ity Hospital. now In opeeofieu g
81 South Gratiot, was opono0 81
relieve crowded conditions r
larger hospitals, aecoedinG -
Mrs. Leo Totrykus, regisoogo1
nurse in charge.
A full 10 days 1t the hoGpll1l
Is guaranteed to mothers, Nm.
Totrykus announced. Sho ~
the hospital was establishod @
the suggestion Of . number G
Macomb County doctors.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01

u ChAHAES MCM OhAR1
WITH THE u. S. FLEET IN
THE PACIFIC, Dec. / -P-A
seventeen-year-old kid named
Russell -ay on the deck of our
crippled carrier, trying hard to
smile. His fists were clenched,
but tears just would leak out
the corners of his eyes and
trickle down his smoke-be-
grimed face.
Russell was badly burned and
suffering intensely. But sailors
don't complain. And Russelrs
sailor, a wounded war veteran
at an age for a boy to be in
school and timedly asking a girl
for q date, or playing baseball
and football.
BRAVE ENOUGH?
But Russell's fighting to win
this war - fighting alongside
men old enough to be his father.
AS a doctor applied soothing
ointment, the boy tried to smile,
and asked:
Doctor. am I being brave
enough?"
A private first class from New
York City stuck with his gun
after shrapnel tore away his up
per front teeth and gums. He
had to be ordered away. With
his mouth almost hidden in
bandages he tried to give every
one a friendly smile. Complain?
Sure and why not - but only
about one thing:
Soup, nothing but soup. They
had steak for breakfast and all
! could do was smell it,"
Then there was Lieut.. Comdr.
E. L. Calhoun of Hoquiam,
Wash, who underwent an ap-
pendectomy complicated by
peritonitis just eight days be-
fore the battle. On the morning
Of the engagement, he fell and
ripped open a corner Of his in
cision.
Commander Calhoun was on
cruiser to which 90 injured
men were taken. He worked
with them for Is hours until
ships officers put him to bed,
and then worked IL hours or
more daily for another five days
and undoubtedly saved many
lives.
THANK SURGEON
Many men can thank the mid
dle-aged unassuming Calhoun
for recovering without scars. !
can vouch for that. Many days
later I am still tipping with one
finger but evidently will have
no scars and my burned hands
are healing surprisingly fast.
There were other doctors like
him, too. There were Lieut..
Comdr., w. H. Schwartz, 80, of
Ojai, Calf, who went into the
Navy on graduation from the
Iowa University medical school
IL years ago, and Lieut.. c. c.
Chesko, 80, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
who Joined a year ago. They
treated SO on their cruiser.
On q destroyer, to which
many wounded were taken,
there was medical Lieutenant J.
Robert Schmidt, %, of Cincin-
natl, graduate of the Cincin-
natl Medical School who had
been in the Navy but six
months. Schmidt and his aides
worked u n d r country-doctor
conditions-no X-ray, no labor
atory, no operating table.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01
BY SHERMAN MONTROSE
Written for NEA Service

Dressed in a
regulation M a
r in e wv or k"
uniform, with a
full pack, two
cameras, plate
holders, filters,
cans of devel-
oper and hypO,
/ was waiting
to 60 over the
side a n d down
the rope lad
d e RS w h e n
S o m e b o d y
cracked: " H e
looks Ii Ike q
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01

Thiokol can be bonded to the
surface of q tire by heat and
pressure and becomes an inte-
grail part Of the tire without use
of an adhesive.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01

The Athens, w. Va, county
jail, vacant for q year, was
strapped and yielded 80 tons Of
steel.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01

a week. They claim the raises
were three weeks overdue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01

During 1910, 10,103 pssSune
visited Fort Laramie Nat30nn1
Monument, Wyoming.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-01
Xnk founded
Smile and
Cenc.i Fists

EDIrOn'S NOTE The relieving
episodes In the October naval action
In the southwest Pacific are described
By Charles McMurtry, Associated
Press esrresDeudent whe was badly
burned when . Japansss plane crash
dived an American carrier which the
Navy announced ~ suak.
The future outlook., 1942-12-19
Appoint More
Specialists

In order 10 strengthen further It's
field office facilities. the War Pro
duction Board today announced the
assignment 10 the office OF Field
Operations OF 10 Industrial specialists
on mnchine tools.
These specialists. who will be MS
signed 10 regional field offices IN
nreas where their services will be Of
the most value. viii get their direc.
tions on the machine tools program
from the Tools Division.
The specialists are equipped to MD
Ing TO the production OF machine
tools, production tools, chucss. anti.
friction bearings and other articles Of
similar types.
The future outlook., 1942-12-19

the i1VetS.
The future outlook., 1942-12-19
Liquor Taxes Are
Figured In

Seventeen states selling liquor and
wines were given permission by the
office OF price administration today
to figure In fcdernl taxes before
rounding Off ceiling prices TO the
nearest five or ten cents
The so-cnll,-l monopoly states
previously had been authorized Ia
round of their prices 10 the nearest
five or ten cents, IN accordance with
their custom last March, nud they
also Ind been allowed 10 pass on the
new federal taxes which went into
effect November !. Todny's action
The future outlook., 1942-12-19
Resurvey of Nurses
Being Initiated

T" explore the adequacy OF the nn.
tons nurse powcr In the present
critical shortage. rcxurvcy of nll
professional nurses IN the United
States s being initiated hy the sub.
committee on nursing, office of de.
fcnse health and welfare services.
Paul V. McNutt, federal security nd.
mlnisirator. announced todny.
In preparation for lnunrhIng the
survey. a meeting of nil state agents
for the inventory has been cnllrd for
November i3 In Wilson Han. Admin.
isirntlon building. national institute
OF health, Betbesda. Maryland These
special agents. appointed by the t..
:. Public Health Service. also ARE
representatives OF the State Nursing
Councils for War Service.
This survey, 10 he conducted by the
United States Public Health Service.
VII bring up-to.date the inventory of
nurses taken IN January. 1911, aud
Include approximately 5000 nurses,
who have graduated from accredited
schools OF nursing In the last two
yenrs. II viii bc carrled on In close
cooperation with professional nurs.
Ing organizations and lorul Rtsl rrnss
The future outlook., 1942-12-19
u. S. Sugar Corp.
Suit Defendant

Attorney General Francis lilddlc
announces that n federal grand Jury,
sitting In the southern district OF
Florida, nj Tampa. today returned
nm indictment on two counts charging
the United States Sugar Corporation.
its personnel iunuagcr, and three OF
rs camp supcrintcndcnts' with con
spiracy 10 hold Negro sugar cane
workers IN condition OF peonnge'
In violation of the federal civil rights
and antipconasc statutes.
Named ns defendants were. United
States Smenr Corporation NJ j.. Won
Mach, personnel manager. Clcwiston'
Florida Evan Ward Mcleod, upper
intendcnt. linre Reach Plantation
Oliver +. sheppard, superintendent
South shore Plantations; and II MIR.
Nenl, superintendent. Miami l."'ls
Plantation.
Count one of the indictment
charges thmt the defendants "lulu'FL
oppressed Threatened aud lnlim,dhl.
ed" Negro field workers IN the free
exercise of thir rights under the l3ih
amendment OF the constitution hy
holding them In involuntary servi'
tude. Count two charges conspi'
The future outlook., 1942-12-19
Not Much
Coff In Cafes

Coffee ra,Ionlne will curtain CON
sumption of the beverage In rcsiGu'
rants, hotels and institutions hy
sbout the same percentage from nor
NAL M to the individual consumer
the OpA announces,
Explaining the ratIning rules ms
fhey apply to restaurants, hospitals
ard other institutions, OpA officlaSs
pointed out that these places where
coffee tx used will he cut more thnn
~ per cent from their normal use.
Thy previously had estImnted the
consumer cut at about 3S per cent.
Following their registration on No
vember o3. n and -. "instituiionnl
uscrs" Will receive from their local
War Price and Ratloning boards for
use from November - to January 81,
1a43, inclusive allotments Of the same
amount OF coffee that they SERVED
In September and October During
September and October, however,
their use Of coffee had been cut
from normal through the War Pro.
dnctIon Boards coffee conservation
Order M.i35. This order limited de
1iveriez nt the roaster and wholesale
level TO approximately 65 per cent of
the amount delivered In Sptembr and
Octobr 1911; although the percentage
received by individual users varied.
The future outlook., 1942-12-19

racy to violate the federal antI.pcon.
age statute
Maximum penalty under the first
count tsecfion 81. title IS, u. $. code)
is Imprisonment, for ten years and n
fine Of $1,000. Conviction on the sex.
ond count (sectlons sS and 44i title
IS. 4. $. code) carries II maximum
penalty OF two years and fine of
$4,000.
The Indictment followed Inyestgn
tIon by the department OF complaints
that the sugar company was recruit.
lng workers In southern states for
employment on It's sugar cane plan.
tntons near Clewiston. Florldn. Of.
fpring free transportation. The com.
plants charged TINT upon arrival,
however. workers were notified they
were indebted to the company for the
cost of transportation aud that the
debt had TO be worked ont before
they could lcnvc, Workers who ut.
tempted Ia escape the various CAMPS
were unprecedented and returned Ia
the plantation.
The Grand jury Investigation. re-
qurSt''d hy Assistant Attorney Gcner.
nj Wendell Rcrgc. IN charge Of the
Criminal division, was hnndled for
the department by United States At.
torncy Herbert $. Phillips
The future outlook., 1942-12-19
nursing committees,

nursing committees.
Miss penrl McIver. principal nurs
Ing consultnnt Of the u. $. Public
Health service said today that, "All
registered nurses aud all grndunte
nurses who are inactive and have let
their registration lapse ARE being
urged to participate in the survey.
Only by knowing the resources OF
the country IN nurse power can We
plnn adequately TO meet total war
needs,
The survey will be conducted by
means Of post cards, which Will he
mailed by state agents 10 every
nurse In .their respective states
Tabulntcd data furnished by those
responding will he compiled. by the
states and sent to the y. S. Public
Health service In Washington Indl.
vdunl cards will be retained locally
for use Of local nursing councils for
war service In planning mn equitable
distribution Of nurses 20 meet mill.
tary and civilian needs.
The future outlook., 1942-12-19
u. S. Now Ready
For the Enemy

At the end OF the first year OF
American participation In this war
one fact csmerges clearly: the Unit
cd States was better prepared to
fight the enemy this tim than II was
In the last war.
lnstcnd OF waiting for direct prov
ocntion, the United States, recogniz-
Ing the defenders OF its own interests
In advance helped arm Its friends
and then proceeded to enlarge and
train It's own army. turn out muni-
tions and start wnrshlps down the
ways against the day when the axis
would make war on America.
As u result OF the American pre-
paredness program which got under
way about the time France was top
pling, the United States had spent
more none yfor war purposes three
months after It's entry into the war
than II did during Its entire 20
months participation In the last war.
Specifically. by February. 1912, $780,
000.00O,OO0 had been spent In the
current war compared with the Sis,-
J6G. 100000 figure covering the peri
cd starting April o, 1917, when Amer
lea entered the last war. down 10
Armstice day In November. 1918. ,
The future outlook., 1942-12-19
Washington Street School
Enters Tin Can Drive

Pupils at the Washington Street
Primary School Joined the clty.wide
tin can drive by bringing, tin cans
to school. Mrs. A. W. Bakers second
grade class was given the honor by
bringing the largest number.
The future outlook., 1942-12-19

merely allows addition Of the new
taxes before rounding the gales
price out In order 10 eliminate the
odd cents In the seillug price. stt
The future outlook., 1942-12-19

Comforts necessary for the fitness
n crews on military aircraft include
air supply. heating, seating sound
prooflng, lighting, food, lavatory
facilities .,
The future outlook., 1942-12-19

Motor truck taxes In lsi1 OK
ceeded one half billion dollars.
Evening star., 1942-12-18

BY Lillian Cox Athey

crowned by bright crimson crumpled
petals. There are many stamens.
The fruit is globular, topped with
a crown-like calyx, and the interior
is packed with many seeds enveloped
in a bright glistening pulp. The
seeds are arranged in segments,
separated by thin skin that is
very acid.
1t is this property that makes
the cooling drink known as gren-
adine. The pulpy seeds and thin
partition are boiled sugar and water
added, and it is a delectable drink
on hot afternoon. In Europe this
drink is ordered for fever patients.
The promegranate is multiplied by
hardwood cuttings planted in the
open ground in February or by
layers and also by softwood cuttings
during the summer months. II you
wish to grow small shrub in your
greenhouse it is not difficult to do So
In the Southern States, where the
pomegranate flourishes, you may
easily obtain fine little tree. There
are a surprisingly large number of
varieties grown for their fruit and
there are five varieties grown as
ornamentals only. These do not
produce fruit. In Asia, Northen
Africa and China the gruit grows
to the size of large grapefruit,
sometimes even larger. So far our
pomegranates are the size of very
flne orange. The fruit begins to
ripen by the first of September and
can be kept in perfect condition for
several weeks,
Evening star., 1942-12-18
LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME

had left him. There he sat ano
pretended to be looking in the direc-
ton in which Peter had gone as If
to make sure that Peter was really
on his way home But all the time
Chatterer was watching out of the
corners Of his eyes to see If Peter
was hiding anywhere near. He
didn't see Peter but he didn't have
the least doubt that Peter was
somewhere about.
After a while he ran over to a
hole between the stones of the old
wall and pretended to be very busy
there just as if it really were the
new house he had found. He kept
popping in and out and looking
around as If afraid that some one
was watching him. He even got
some dry leaves and took them
inside as if to make bed. All the
time, although he hadn't seen a
sign of Peter. he didn't have the
least doubt in the world that Peter
was watching him. When he grew
tired a new idea popped into his
shrewd little head. He popped out
of the hole and sat up on the wall
Then he said aloud that verse which
had made Peters ears burn so. He
had meant to make Peters ears
burn. He said that verse just as ii
he really did believe that Peter was
not spying on him and was glad
of it.
When he had finished. he whisked
out Of sight again to give Peter q
chance to get away. But this time