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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14

waiting for the Axis to come and
get us, but that we are up to go
out and get It,
we want this parade to be one,
grand gesture to that end and we
want organizations like the AM
crican Legion, the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, the Red Cross, the
Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the
Rotary, KiWaniS and Lions
club, the various fraternal or
CARNATIONS, the Salvation Army
any and all of them who be-
- -, -, -. :. -. ,. - ; -, -
be ncighborly and aggressive in
our war effort"
The Board of Commerce office
door Will be open Thursday at
t p mand well welcome repre-
SentativCs of all such organiza-
tons TO meet with us and thresh
this thing out. II the attendance
makes a shift to larger quarters
necessary, well shift,
What we want is everybody
out before the Axis has us all
in"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14
Former Se!fridqe
Filler unrepoTied

Selfridge Field officers and
enlisted men are gravely con-
eerned about their hero.
He is Lieut.. Col. Emmett o.
DOnnell, a former captain at the
local Air Corps post who was
awarded the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross for extraordinary
heroism during the fighting on
the Bataan peninsula in the
Philippines, where he reported
ly shot down a number of Jap
anese planes.
Since the fall Of Bataan, no
word of him has been received
at the post here, it was pointed
out by Corporal r. A. Koch, of
the public relations department.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14
Brrrr! Merchants
Plan Yu|e Party
Committeeman TO Hear
Parade Promoter

Maybe it was the unSeason-
able snow of the last week that
suggested it but whether that
was it or not, the merchants di-
vision Of the Mount Clemens
Board Of Commerce convened in
the Boards office in Walnut
street this morning to talk about
the forthcoming Christmas cele-
bration.
Addressing them will be An
drew Sallada, promoter of the
successful Santa Claus and bal
loon parade of last December.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14
Believes Present Tax Load is Adequate
One Eye and Black Back
Give Patrols Many Worries
Deputies Sigh as CoreIess Drivers
Zip Along, Sons Proper Lights

"Or One Eye and his side
partner Black Back drew the
ire of Deputy j. B. South, of
Sheriff Jacob Theuts depart
ment this morning.
You've met the pair lots of
times and very often they are
close kin 10 the Si,mese twins.
They are the guys who roll
over county and city highways
with just one light on the front
of their cars burning and none
burning in the rear.
They cause more accidents
and are a greater menace TO the
night driver, especially TO Off
GERS, ambulances, and fire de-
partmCntS on emergency runs
than any others Of the motoring
breed, who aren't driving drunk,
Deputy South pronounced.
The deputy also pointed out
that upon seeing any cars equip
ped with red flashers coming
up behind them or approaching
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14
Ba|ing Wire
Proves S(ar(e
Shortage Worries
War Board Head

It's commendable TO make hay
while the sun shines, but if you
make hay and can't bale it for
lack Of baling wire, then things
are bound TO 60 haywire.
That remains today as the on
ly conclusion CasSius Thoring-
ton, chairman Of the Macomb
County War Board of the Fed
eral Department of Agriculture,
can draw from his intensive re-
search into the baling wire sit
uation in this county today.
BY all indications there are
going to be more hay-balers in
this county this year than there
is going to be baling wire to use
with them, the worried chair
man believes. The fact that the
Federal government has restrict
ed the county'S quota of baling
wire TO 70 per cent of that used
i'm l94l may be regarded as an
efficient and economical measure
in Washington, but it looks like
just another headache for the
husbandman, ThoringtOn init
mates.
Seventy per cent of the 1871
quota Of baling wire here won't
have the MaComb county hay
tied up in bales, it will just have
the Macomb county haymakers
tied up in knots, according to the
view of the war board head.
He plans TO make an early
showing in the matter to secure
relief.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14

and patriotic zeal in this war so
far. What we want TO do here
in Mount Clemens is to stage a
parade that will indicate TO him
Srrut Gr1-ce - .unrro oo,rr"roc'rofr' s'fet &
is staging a parade, not merely
to please him, but TO emphasize
TO its people that the community
is going about in the home cf-
fort to back up our soldiers,
sailors and marines
There has been too much en-
phaSiS on defense and not
enough on Offcnse and our par
AIDE and demonstration will be
at least one thing to serve notice
that we aren't sitting on our
pants and twiddling our thumbs
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14
Higher Levies Opposed
as Curb to Initiation
Brood Prosrom Nay Coll for Freezing
of Prices, Wages, Profits, Bonuses

WASHINGTON, April 14-CPO
The Administration was re-
ported authoritatively today to
have decided against asking for
drastic new tax increases as a
means Of combating initiation.
Attempts were under way TO
compose disagreements a m n (
high government officials over a
broad program envisioning the
freezing of prices, wages, profits
and bonuses.
Secretary of the T r Sury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was rep
resented by his aides as believ-
ing the present S7600,000, 900
tax program was sufficient, that
voluntary sales of war bonds
could be stepped up to Sll 600
100000 year thus absorbing
excess purchasing power, and
that conS u m er merchandise
= should be rationed.
OPPOSES PLANS
He was understood TO be OPP
posed TO most Of tn plans ia
thercd by d group led by Price
Administrator Leon Henderson
and Mariner S. ECClcS, chair
man of the Federal Reserve
Board, who repeatedly favor not
only a much sitter tax program
but a simultaneous assault on
all important inflationary fac
tors as well. This would mean
freezing of nearly all wages and
prices, compulsory war bond
purchases, profit limitations, and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14

them motorists are supposed to
check their speed and pull to the
side of the road as the cars so
equipped are official vehicles on
emergency runs.
Then he apologized.
We're always sorry when we
have to keep our bright lights
going when some motorist ap-
preaching us is trying TO dim us
down, but we're generally roll
ing and need all the light we
can get-especially with OF
One Eye and Black Back on
the roads along with us.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14
Lumber Stolen from Shed
Behind Broadway Home

Mrs. Louise Barney, of 178
North Broadway, reported to
city police Monday that a guam
tity of lumber was taken from a
shed behind her house some
time during the past week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14

general retail credit controls.
President Roosevelt has cur
tailed his engagements to devote
as much time as possible TO the
problem, his solution Of which
may be outlined in a fireSide
chat within the next two weeks,
Strong congressional opposi
ton has developed against any
new efforts TO boost taxes and
Chairman George (D-Ga) of the
Senate Finance Committee told
reporters it was highly qucs
tionable' w h e { h er Congress
would be willing to 60 beyond
the present program. George s
views were understood to be
shared by Chairman Doughton
(D-NC) of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
SEEK HUGE BITE
Discussion Of further tax in
CreaSes was reported to have de
veloped out of a desire on the
part Of some government fiscal
experts to take a $4,000, 100000
bite out of the nations rising
purchasing power in order to
block an upSurge in prices.
These experts had figured
that corporations this year would
earn $6,000,000,0OO more than
in l94l, that labor would receive
an a d d tional $4,000, 100000
from the war boom and that
farmers would take in an extra
4,0O0,000,OO0.
Unless this added spending
power was curbed, they reason
ed, there would be no stopping
the inflationary trend of bidding
/ higher nrices foe uoo"a -.
This could lead to a situation
where workers would need con-
/ tinually higher wages TO pay the
rising prices, while businessmen
would keep raising prices to pay
the higher wages. The cost of
( living, which already has risen
more than 10 percent in the last
year, would soon be out of the
reach of large portion of the
population.
While stiff tax increases were
suggested, one highly placed ad-
ministration o if CT al said he
thought the result could be &C
complished by a general fixing
Of prices for commodities and
/ services as of a certain date.
/ Price fixing orders which COW
cred services, he pointed out,
would level off wages, salaries
of executives and bonuses paid
toaemployes besides being wide
spread in their effect on such
/ service industries as laundries,
auto repair shops and others
4 which dealt only incidentally in
/ commodities. Profits of corpor-
ations sharing in the war pro-
duction program would be held
down by prices fixed on the COM
moditieS they produce he said.
One Of the Presidents most
difficult decisions was said TO be
the selection of a date on which
the price level would be based
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14
Lick the Axis Program
Promise to be Successful
Choirmon, Assistants Mop
Plons for All Out Effort

We're really beginning to
roll" Otto Nickel, chairman of
the Board of Commerce COM
mittee for Lick the Axis week,
tcScc.fra,ect y l,rS aec taIi*Of Sasssia5-
ton today, in coming prospects
for Thursdays meeting Of what
will be largely amplified COM
mittee.
The session of the group will
be held at the Board of Com
merce office at p. m.
With the Board Of Commerce,
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and the
city Of Mount Clemens repre-
sented on the original commit
tee, notices have been sent by A,
D. Brewer TO leaders in the Am
crican Legion, Veterans of For
cign Wars and TO Mrs. Walter
Tiffin. chairman Of Victory
Gardens, requesting them to be
present.
But chairman Nickel himself
went a good deal farther than
that by throwing down the bars
for all and Sundry.
This isn't a Board of Com
perce enterprise, this a patriotic
community enterprise, intimate
~ associated with civilian de-
Tense and the success of Ameri-
can arms all over the world
wherever our boys are fighting, y
he declared. There's nothing
exclusive about it, and its very
nature makes it all inclusive and
we want everybody and anyone
to come to Thursdays meeting
who is interested in such sort Of
enterprises.
WAR ESSENTIALS
The plan of the week during
which collection Of such essential
war materials as paper, rubber,
cardboard, scrap iron, rags, cor
rugated boxes and caSt-off silk
stockings, will be combined
with-although segregated from
the collection of trash from
local houses and yards, is to
have the Lick The Axis" idea
emphasized in a pre-collection
parade TO be held May 2.
The actual collection will be-
gin May 4.
Under the set-up today the
collection of wastepaper, card
board and corrugated boxes has
already been undertaken by the
Boy Scouts: Girl Scouts are col
lecting rubber and rags and
probably will plead for Cast-off
silk hosiery, and the American
Legion is working out a plan for
the collection of scrap iron.
UNITED EFFORT
The picture, as / see it, ;"
Chairman Nickel declared, lis
that all of these organizations
and any-and all others wishing
to join in this demonstration of
civilian determination that the
Axis must be whipped-will go
ahead with their own individual
plans which will simply be CO.
ordinated through the general
committee to avoid duplication
of effort and a conflict in aims.
The president has said that
there haven't been enough par
AIDES, not enough flag-waving
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14
Police Chief Reported
in Improved Health

Chief Arthur Rosso, of the
Mount Clemens police depart
ment, who retired to his bed Sat
urday when stricken with the
flu, was reported improved this
morning but will not return 10
the office for a day or two, it
was stated.
The chief stayed on the job
Saturday until his temperature
began TO soar early in the after
iIUorf.
That kind of burned him up.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-03-28
Yellowstone River in 1865 Held by
Indians Who Resented Invasion Land

and placed on the Big Horn, Clark's
fork and across the Yellowstone. A
Mr. Davies took the contract to build
them. When these boats we're in good
running order news arrived that the
military would permit no travelling on
the contemplated route, because Of the
Indian outbreak. On learning this,
these ferries we're abandoned, and the
men in charge of them, set out for
the Davies camp.
Three men and a pony had been as
signed to each boat, making the party
six in number, which left Clark's fork.
Their first camp after leaving there
was visited by Indians who professed
their friendship by signs. They were
permitted to approach the camp when
it was noticed that one of them car
ried a sword. This he exhibited with
pride, and generously handed 1t to a
Clark's fork man, Colonel Smith. TO
examine, while the indian asked in
return to take Smiths revolver. Smith
gave it to him, and was Immediately
shot dead. The rest Of the party ran
into the bushes, and SO escaped with
no further injury than one man shot
through the muscle of the leg.
Meanwhile the contractor had been
having his troubles One day seven
stalwart Sioux warriors entered his
house. without knocking, or other
warning of their arrival-one may be
certain who Is at all familiar with
Indian etiquette-and demanded TO be
fed. 1t was no time to demur at ex-
tending hospitality to the unlimited
guests, who could not even be request
= - De-. ut the
woodpile before eating. Davies accept
ed the inevitable; but sat with his
truSty rifle across his knees,s and kept
close watch Of his guests, while his
wife cooked their meal and served
them. The Indians ate their fill and
then peacefully departed. After they
left Davies was about to put up his
gun, when he discovered what nearly
made him faint-the gun was not
loaded.
Fired at House
On another occasion 20 mounted
braves swept by the Davies house be-
tween it and the river, firing at the
house as they passed. A man by the
name of Morgan who was in the house
tried to make a loophole through
which to shoot, by knocking out a
piece Of the mud chinking. He sue
ceeded, but an Indian who noticed
what Morgan was doing, fired at the
hole with such accurate aim, that the
shot went through Morgan's hat and
cut away lock of his hair. Enraged
at this attack, Morgan rushed to the
door, threw it open, and discharged
his gun at the then fleeing Indians,
wounding one of them In the hip.
Sometime before the return of the
ferrymen, three prospectors who were
journeying to the Yellowstone, came
TO a place that was covered with
clumps of bushes, with Wide interven-
ing open spaces. AS they were passing
through it, Indians fired on them from
ambush, killing two Of them. The third
leaped from his horse and ran to the
creek, where he ensconced
himself behind a pile of driftwood. The
Indians continued to fire, and the
prospector-Ford by name-returned 1t
as effectively as possible, even after
he was shot between the thumb and
first finger. and received a bullet
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-03-28
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-03-28

In 1865, the Indians, gOaded 70
desperation by the invasion OF their
best hunting grounds by the white
men and instigated by the Sioux VINO
had left Minnesota, crossed the MIS-
souri,. and located north of the Platte,
made an effort to unite their forces
in driving the invaders from the In
dian country.
It was the lure of gold that led to
the trouble. The Indians undoubtedly
knew it was in the Black Hills long
before its so-called discovery. Tney
knew it was there, but its presence
meant nothing to them. They could
not eat 1t nor wear it, nor could II
raise tepees over their heads. The COM
ing of the goldseekers into the Black
Hills spelt ruin to the red men. with
their hunting destroyed, they would
lose food, clothing and tepees; game
supplying them with all three.
Then, too, how could they have any
confidence in a nation that failed TO
keep its promises? The entrance OF
prospectors and those who followed
them there, was a direct violation OF
a treaty between themselves and the
United States government. The In
dams were desperate, and they did
what white men would have done un-
der similar circumstances-they went
on the warpath. The killing OF Custer
and the numerous minor casualties
that occurred, until the Indians we're
subdued, can be charged to the vacil-
lating policy of our government.
Ignorance was Plentiful
This was partially due to ignorance
at headquarters, against which the
army of the northwest had to struggle
then and later, and which operated
against the development Of that re-
gion for many years.
In the days of Indian occupancy,
the Yellowstone country was their
Flanders, where the hardest battles OF
the Rorth were fought. During 1866
and until the Indians we're overcome,
it was the battle-ground between white
and red man. The dark and bloody
ground" Of the northwest.
All travel through that section was
accomplished at great risk, and settlers
remained on their homesteads at peril
of their lives. There is something OF
the mob spirit when men go into
battle, but 1t is a different motive
that actuates those who individually,
or with one or two comrades nerve
themselves for conflict. Along the yell
lowstone, men on the road to the gold
mines; living on isolated ranches;
trapping or engaged in other activities
were murdered. How many will never
be known.
An instance in point is the finding
near the mouth of the Big Horn, In
1855, the skeletons Of five men and
one golden haired woman Who they
were never has been discovered Sew
eral persons were killed who were
travelling by boat or mackinaw down
the river, and some trappers met with
a similar fate.
The gold discoveries in Montana
were drawing the attention of the
world to this favored locality, and 1t
was expected there would be heavy
with the opening of the
season Of 1855. The new Bozeman and
Bridger trails offered a shorter route
to the gold fields. In preparation for
this, three new ferry boats were built, |
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-03-28

through the muscle Of his left arm.
After the second wound Ford aban-
doned hope Of escape He was not only
becoming weak from loss Of blood, but
he had only one charge Of ammuni-
ton left. This he purposed to make
tell Peering through his driftwood
barrier. he sighted an Indian who was
seated on the ground engaged in work.
ing over his revolver Ford shot and
the Indian fell dead His companions,
now convinced OF Ford's unerring aim,
took flight.
When they were out Of sight, the
wounded man crawled from his refuge
and made the best Of his way down
the river. until opposite the Davies
camp, where he was rescued and at
once tainted dead away He was well
cared for at the Davies home, until he
recovered sufficiently to be sent to
Bozeman.
A party Of five men that season de-
cided to go by boat down the river,
It being the quickest and easiest way
OF travelling. They traded a couple Of
horses for provisions; stole a boat,
and set out. Their fate would have
been prophesied by any old-time Sun
day school book. They never reached
their destination, and 1t was believed
they we're killed by the Indians. Quite
likely they would have been massacred
had the boat not been stolen.
Again, two men were building them
selves a boat at some point below the
mouth of the canyon when, 1t is said,
they were attacked by 20 Indians. The
number 40" appearing as often in ac-
counts as the mystical seven in Holy
Writ Whether there were always Just
20 or not, matters little. There doubt
less seemed to be a hundred to those
attacked At any rate there we're
enough OF them TO convince the men
1t would be wise to flee.
Reached Emigrant Gulch
Climbing a neighboring bluff, they
hastily constructed a breastwork OF
rocks, when one Of them incautiously
raising his head above 1t. was shot,
and fell dead The Indians, however,
were ignorant Of this fact and sur
rounding the bluff poured in a con-
tinuous fire at the lone man at its
summit. At length they tired Of the
sport and went away. The surviving
man buried his friend and then found
his way to Emigrant gulch and later
down the river
In August OF the same year Of 1855,
Colonel Kimban and a man named
Bum we're joMneying to the Yellow
stone from Bozeman. Some Indians.
claiming TO be Flatheads, met them
with the friendly salutation of How,
howl" Accepting their preferred friend
ship in good faith, Colonel Kimball
advanced to meet them, and while in
the act Of shaking hands with one,
was shot by another Indian, and in
stantly killed.
Bum escaped by hiding in the brush,
and after nightfal retraced his steps
to Bozeman, which he reached more
dead than alive. He never recovered
from the shock Of this tragic expert
ence and persisted the following win
ter, not from the effects of the Indian
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-03-28
1912 COnipIetiOns

Cobb-Jeffries- Stuff No. 2 NE SEA NEa 3-35-6w
Cobb Texaco-Fee No. NE NE8 SCI S-S5-6W
Frances Ou-T1xbal 2Oi No Sc SEA Me- 3O-32-5W
Frances Oil-Tribal 1877 No. NV SWa NW3 30-32-5W
Indian Reichoff No. c Lot 10 Sec. S-34-6W
A. Katley-Agt-M atson No. Lot 2 sec lo-34-6W
Iawler-E oerr-Clarkson NO 2 SW Swa SW3 9-33-5W
Santa Rita-Jacobson No. G SEA SW3 I-S5-5W
Santa Rita-Tribal No. Is G NWa SEA S-55-6W
Tarrant-Lenoir No. SW SWs NWa lI-Sl-5W
Texaco-GOvt B. NO 5, G Lot Sec. 2O-52-5W
Texaco-State MASS No. 10, SWa SWt l6-S2-5W
Texaco-Govt A No. SEA SWa lf-S2-5W
Texaco-A Miller No. Q NE3 NEa 32-3s-5W
Texaco- Bonnet No. CIVIL SEA SEA 1-S2-oW
Texaco- Miller No. SWs SEA 29-SS-oW
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-03-28

Improvements to the ma
tional youth administration dormitory
the city reservoir and the municipal
golf course win be made possible early
this spring by the approval Of an
allotment Of @42,39O by the works prog
reSs administration. Approval Of the
allotment was announced by Matt
Staff, secretary Of the Helena Cham
Der Of Commerce, and Mayor Jack
Martin, who received word from Con-
gresswoman jeanette Rankin.