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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24
CHILD HEALTH
DAY IS NAMED
FOR MAY lST
This Day Has Been Set Apart
By Proclamation OF Herbert
O'COnOr, Governor OF Md.
ASKS ALL MARYLANDERS
TO GIVE COOPERATION

Dr. R. H. Riley, Director Of the
State Health Department, calls at
tention to a special proclamation is
sued April 10, at Annapolis, by Gov.
O'Conor, setting aside the first day Of
May to be observed throughout Mary
land, as Child Health Day, in accord
ance with Congressional authorization
for the nationwide celebration of the
day and the Presidents annual pro-
clamation. The Governor asks all
Marylanders to cooperate with par
ents, teachers, health authorities, and
other duly constituted agencies in fur
thering and safeguarding the health
of the children of this State, not only
in this particular way, but through
out the year.
The Great Seal of the State affixed
to the proclamation dates back more
than three hundred years when the
charter was granted to the colony,
and links the present with the past.
1t gives special significance to the
Governors message which calls atten-
tion to the urgency of protecting chill
dren from preventable illnesses parti-
cularly in "these trying times" of
physical and mental handicaps, and
of otherwise caring for them so that
they may be preserved for the re-
sponsibilities which will rest upon
them as citizens of tomorrow. The
proclamation follows:
WHEREAS, Friday, the first day
of May, 1912, has been designated by
a joint resolution of Congress, and
by proclamation of the President of
the United States of America, to be
observed throughout the Nation as
Child Health Day, and
WHEREAS, it is of the utmost inn
portance that the lives of the chill
dren of Maryland be so protected
from preventable illnesses, that they
may develop to maturity without
unnecessary physical or mental handi-
caps, particularly in these trying
times, when the health of the chill
dren is so vitally important, to pre-
serve them for the duties which will
fall upon them as the citizens of to-
morrow, and
WHEREAS, the promotion of Child
Health requires the active cooperation
of all of our citizens, and is assured
only when every mother and child in
the State are given the care that
medical science advises.
NOW, THEREFORE, 1, HERBERT
r. O'CONOR, Governor of the State
of Maryland, do designate Friday,
May 1st, as Child Health Day, and
urge that in every community public
sentiment support the efforts of par
ents, teachers, health officers, physi-
clans, nurses and all other agencies
which promote the health and we'll
being of children not only on Child
Health Day, but througout the year.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24
REFERENDUM ON
MAY 5TH, 1912
ga. NJ, TO 5 P. M
Polling Station To Be In The
County Agents Office, Snow
Hill. Ballots Mailed

Whether the advantages which
come from a soil conservation district
will be made available to farmers
of Worcester County will be deter
mined according to County Agent R.
T. Grant in an official referendum to
be held on Tuesday, May 5th, 1912.
There will be polling station in the
office of the County Agent in Snow
Hill from 9 A. M. to P. M.
Any owner or operator of farm
land in the proposed conservation dis
trict is eligible to vote whether or
not he is in favor of the creation of
district will be the same as the boun-
daries for Worcester County.
Mr.. Grant further states that mail
ballots have been mailed to all farm
ers in the county for their conven-
ience to vote in the referendum by
mail instead of coming to the polling
station. He explains that only bal
lots postmarked on or before May 5th
will be counted.
If this district is formed Mr.. Grant
points out it will not materially affect
work now being done in drainage by
the CCC Camp in Powellsyille. The
formation of a district will also be a
definite step toward maintaining
drainage bitches that have already
been dug by the Powellsville Camp.
The program will be coordinated
through five-man board of super
visors, three of whom will be elected
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24

tended a savings yardstick for the average income
Garner. 1t suggests how everyone of the 100000
employed persons in the United States may partici
pate in the war effort through the systematic purchase
Of Defense Savings Bonds.
'The job ahead of US is far bigger than most of US
realize Secretary Morgenthau declared in making
the table public 81 know that the American people
ready to do their part to win the war One Of the
ways can do much more is by intensifying our
effort in the purchase of Defense Bonds"
While persons without dependents may be able to
set aside more than the suggested figures, persons
with several dependents, with other heavy family
obligations, may be unable to save at the suggested
rate, the Treasury Department pointed out
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24

2 c. Hillman, Pocomoke 2 z
M. Andrews, Pocomoke 2
Z Rev. J. H. Powell, Berlin 2 2
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24
Whof Should You Pledge To Help7

WASHINGTON D, CThe following table BY Treasury
Department intended savings yadst average income
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24

F. Outten, Newark 2
G. c. Johnson, Pocomoke 4
S. J. Bishop, Pocomoke .
S. Armstrong, WhaleyvilIe 1
Passenger
Rev J. Whedbee, Stockton 4
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24
DR.. LIelUelyn Is Com
71isSioned In M. Corps
Continued From Page u

ing of arms. Inasmuch as the War
Department rating was so satisfac-
tory, the Governor then proceeded
with the Commissioning of the re-
manning officers.
The commissions issued included
the following local men: DR.. Louis
Llewelyn, Captain in the Medical
Corps, (Pocomoke City); Marvin H.
Tawes, of Somerset County, to be End
Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, Salisbury.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24
IS Surveyors Are En-
can1ped Near Here
Continued from Page ~


moved ahead to the next position
The towers, Of course, are built in
the daytime but the actual surveying
is done at night. The surveyors US
ually leave camp about three o'clock
in the afternoon and drive to the
station or tower they are to occupy.
Observations are then taken before
dark on prominent landmarks; such
as, water tanks, lookout towers,
stacks, church steeples, etc, to locate
their positions. After dark the sur
veying is done on the main stations,
which are called triangular stations.
To measure the angles electric lights
are used from the tops of the steel
towers. The survey is done at night
as the atmosphere is much clearer and
lights at night can be seen much far
ther than targets can be seen in the
daytime. The men talk back and
forth between stations by flashing
the international code with lights. If
you see lights flashing at night for
the next two weeks it will be the men
Of the L. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey engaged on their defense surveys
for our armed forces.
The Chief of this survey party is
Lieutenant George w. Lovesee, of Ft.
Collins, Colorado. He has been with
the Coast and Geodetic Survey, which
is one department of the Department
of Commerce, for Is years. Lieuten-
ant Herman c. Applequist is the Ex
ecutive Officer. He is from CalifOr-
MIA and has been with the department
since 1880 The other surveyors are
Civil Service Employees headed by
Mr.. Lester B. Odgers, from Haddom,
Kansas, who is the field foreman. The
men are from all over the United
States and many of them have been
with the department since 1880. There
are a number of children in the camp
all of whom are too young to go to
school. The mothers usually have to
take the children home when they
reach school age, so many of them are
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24
Fall Students OF The
Schools Listed May /
Continued from Page u

ferred to their family physician so
the parents may have ample time to
have these defects corrected by the
opening of the Fall Term.
Examination blanks are in the
hands of the Parent-Teachers Assn,
Health Chairman, Mrs. Vaughn w.
Wilkinson and her committee, and
parents are asked to please cooperate
with this committee in filling out a
portion of this blank in order to have
everything in readiness for Registra-
tion Day, Friday, May 1st.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24

at later date by the people of the
county; the other two appointed by
the State Soil Conservation Commit
tee. These five supervisors must be
owners or operators of land within
the proposed district, which is all of
Worcester County.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-24

Clayton Edward Hammond, William
Bernard Harmon, Lavette Washing
ton Johnson, Calvin James Dennis,
Jr., Milton Lindwood Epps, Robert
Marshall Hunter, Rowland Leon Al
len, Shumway Fassett Birmingham,
Mary Magazine Taylor, Miriam Al
thea Quinn, Hattie Neomia Gaines,
Virginia Elizabeth Harmon, Beatrice
Ida Truitt, Rhoda Lee Emma Hay
ward, Wilsie Irene Bishop, Naomi
Frances Dickerson, Geraldine Jack
son, Mary Ellen Taylor, Blanche Ma
RE Wilson, Leona Virginia Smith.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Accident Fatal
10 CA. Brown
Insurance Mon
Crash Victim

Charles A. Brown, 80, Of Ma
rine City, q Metropolitan life in
surance agent attached to the
Mount Clemens office for nine
years, Is dead today, the victim
of a traffic accident near Marine
City at $50 pm. Friday.
Brown, who was to have left
on his vacation today, was ap-
parently h d e d for Mount
Clemens when his car was struck
by q truck driven by Andrew
Smith, 40, Marine City. The ac-
cident occurred on Marine City
highway at Palms road.
Brown was thrown through
the back door and the car con-
tinued on for 500 feet before It
stopped. He was instantly killed.
Surviving are The widow,
Gladys, q son, Donald, four sis
tiers and four brothers. Funeral
services will be held at 2 p. m.
Monday from the Arthur e.
Smith Funeral Home, 1880 Sew
enth, Port Huron.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Mass Of Documents Faces
Scrutiny in Spy Trials
Public cIomors for More News
Of Ssnsotionol Sobotoss cose
WASHINGTON, July IL

WASHINGTON, July IL -
up - A mass Of documentary
evidence today confronted q
military commission sitting for
the fourth day to decide the
fate of eight German saboteurs.
But rs the men set ashore on
east coast beaches from enemy
U-boats again faced the commits
sion of generals, there were
complaints over the secrecy
which has surrounded the first
days of the life or death hear
ing.
Elmer Davis, Director of War
Information, said the public
would feel better" il more
news were available from the
trial chambers.
Major General Frank n. Nc
Coy president of the commits
sion, gave scanty details Of the
trial Of the men alleged to have
come here from Germany TO-
slow the war effort through vio-
lence in production centers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Small Plants
May Not Get
Big Volumes

WASHINGTON, July 11-(R)
Donald Nelson today warned
that although he expected ex-
cellent results from the new
smaller war plants corporation,
it was not a relief agency and
that the majority of little bust.
ness men might not get help
from it
The War Production Board
chairman yesterday appointed
five directors of the corporation,
authorized to use $150,0OO,000 to
assist smaller business firms to
get war contracts.
eve are fighting Q war;" said
Nelson, land the War Production
Board is a war agency. AS far as
the replacement Of war orders is
concerned the controlling fac
tor must be the ability Of the
manufacturer to deliver what the
Army and Navy want"
He added that at is unfortu-
nately very likely that the num-
Der Of small business fir m s
which we can help in this war
will be smaller than the num-
Der we cannot help"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Austro!ion Envoy Cites
Close Amity Among Troops
soys Americans. Australians
Differ But Have Same ldooIs

LOS ANGELES, July IL -
Up Sir Owen Dixon, Austria
liam m iniste to the United
States, said today that too much
emphasis had been placed upon
the minor differences in speech,
habits and aspirations of Aus
tralians nd Americans, but
that despite this the troops of
the two nations were mingling
in closest amity."
The diplomat. who spoke at
the opening Of his country's ex-
hibit at the Los Angeles Coun-
ty Museum of History, Science
and Art, also made it clear that
American aid to Australia was
not a one-way affair.
Under the arrangement be-
tween this country and mine for
reciprocal aid" he said, mo In
significant part of that contri-
button will 60 in providing sup
plies and services for the United
States forces in Australia.
ut Is an error to regar d
America as supplying without
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11

return materials of war for Aus
tralia's need. On her side Aus
tralia is fulfilling her obliga-
ton of supplying for the use of
the United States forces what
ever she can make available for
the purpose"
Sir Owen, warning against
contrasting Australian and
American men or implements Of
war, said:
"A distinction must exist, but
1t does not justify q contrast,
The American troops have been
received in Australia in q spirit
Of comradeship which could not
have existed il the culture of
the two communities had not
been akin
THE differences between
Australians and Americans are
by no means imperceptible and
doubtless your lads have been
- alive TO them ~ we have
Geographical separation
and climatic and other natural
See ENvOY-Page 3
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\. Negro troops
Terrorize Town
One Killed
by Officers

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.. July II
-(R)-Six Negro soldiers arm
ed with machineguns, automatic
rifles and pistols terrorized the
business district about 3 q. m. to-
day before one was shot and
killed and another wounded,
Sheriff Perry Francis reported.
Maj. H. c. Nichols, in COM
mand of Negro troops on guard
duty here, said police shot two
of the soldiers and captured the
others.
Names Of the soldiers were not
Immediately available. I
The sheriffs office reported
the soldiers apparently were an
gered by refusal of admittahce to
an all-night cafe.
They obtained the arms and
began shooting in the street out
side the cafe, the sheriffs office
said.
Only a few shots were fired. II
was understood, and no citizens
were injured.
Sheriffs deputies and City po-
lice were called. OfficerS fire
dropped two of the soldiers end
the others were seized and taReQ
to Jail, Major Nichols said.
Major Nichols said the soldier
killed was intoxicated and that
all were away without leave
from their camp.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Car Thieves
Strike Twice
Wotkins, Levine
Autos Stripped

Thieves stole six tires from
two cars owned by South Wilson
boulevard residents early today
and were frightened away -
they sought TO strip Z third chr
in Green Glen Park on Ryan
road. go
Gaining entrance through the
rear of q window In Abe Le-
vines garage behind 100 South
Wilson, the thieves drove Lee
vines 1o4l Chrysler to . lonely
road near Hillcrest Golf course
where they stripped it Of five
tires, the car radio and Access
series.
Deputy Sheriff Fred Simms
discovered the car at $50 q. m.
today, As minutes before Levine
reported the theft to city police.
Levine said he garaged the car
at 1880 p. m. yesterday.
See THIEvESEPage -
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Nazis Widen
Vital Breach
in Red Lines
Ponxers Sworn
Across Don
Toward Caucasus
BY HENRY C. CASSIDY

ny AAEINN4 W ShoOAOx
MOSCOW, July II - up -
German divisions having cap
tured Rossosh, pressed a three
pronged offensive toward the
Don River with such vigor that
the Russian Army newspaper
Red Star acknowledged their
developing success" today.
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's
Soviet field forces battled on
against spearheads jabbed across
the Don at Voronezh, and in the
direction of the strategic river
at Kantemirovka, las miles to
the south; and near Lisichansk,
200 miles below Voronezh.
Red Star said the Germans
fighting to expand their hold
ings on the east bank of the
Don were finding rough going
because of tank traps and heavy
Russian artillery tie, but ac-
knowledged "the area of fight
ing west of Voronezh is spread
ing"
C0UNTER-ATTACKS
|@-<The Vichy radio said Soviet
troops had blasted q three-mile
breach in the Nazi lines above
voronezh; apparently in q series
of counter actions reaching
northwestward as far as 100
miles to Orel.)
The Soviet defenders of Kan
temirovka, IS miles south of
Rossosh, were reported by the
army publication to be operat-
ing under "very Improbable
and difficult conditions"
Red Army men counter-at-
tackled tenaciously on the TANKS
and fought to close breaches in
their river positions before Vor-
onezh, the administrative center
(pop, 212,O00) Of Russia's black
earth area.
Military observers said the
stubborn defense of Voronezh
had forced the Germans to
swing south the main weight of
their greatest campaign of
1912.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Open Sewer
Bids JuIy21
$40, 900 Project
Set for Van Dyke

Bids for contracts covering
construction of eight and one
quarter miles of sewer, at an es-
timated cost of $4,000 in War
rem township will be opened
July Fl at II a. m. at Van Dyke,
it was announced this morning
in dispatches from the Chicago
regional office of the Federal
Works Agency and by Warren
township officials.
The new project will be the
last two of a group of eight, six
of which are already completed
or under construction.
Specifically the new project
will include sewers north and
south of Nine Mile road between
Mound and Ryan roads on all
streets except Eureka avenue;
on Hoover avenue south of the
Nine Mile road; all laterals in
Dodge, Maxwell, Cadillac and
Hupp avenues west OF Hoover
avenue; in Wagner avenue for a
distance of one-half mile south
of Nine Mile road, and in Toep-
fer avenue for a distance of one
half mile north of the Eight
Mile road.
The most important item Of
the project will be the connec-
ton of the existing Mound Park
sewerage system with the Nine
Mile Hallway drain.
The two latest sections of the
work will be the last in a gener-
al township project under the
supervision of the Federal Works
Agency in connection with de-
velopments in the vicinity and
will have cost, according to Chi
cago dispatches, 81 1925, 900.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
S|euths Trap
Aliens Who
Aided Spy
100 Men, 70
Women included
in Latest Bog

NEW YORK, July II - R-
The arrest of 158 German aliens,
members of an organization
which the government said fur
nished money for the return to
Germany of one of eight subma-
rine-borne saboteurs who recent
ly landed on American shores,
was announced today by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Those apprehended were 1870
men and % women, picked up in
raids yesterday which touched
New York City, Long Island and
Westchester County, the FBI
said.
The 158 were identified by p.
E. Foxworth, assistant FBI di-
rector in charge of the New York
office, as members of the Ger
man American Vocat o l
League, or Deutsch-American-
ische Berufskemeinschaft.
Foxworth said the alleged sab
oteur now on trial before a mill
tary commission in Washington
for whom the organization paid
passage .t,nGermssy from this
country in 1889 was Heinrich H.
Heincke. The Nazi labor front
obtained a job for him in Ger
many at that time, Foxworth
added.
Five of those arrested admit
ted being members of the Nazi
party in Germany, Foxworth
said, and several others were
employed in war production
factories in this country.
Contraband seized by gov
eminent agents in the raids, the
FBI said, included motion pic
ture films which pictured men,
bers of the league in rifle prac-
tice at Camp Bergwald, near
Bloomingdale, N. j. Also picked
up were cameras and five short
wave receiving sets.
The league had 1000 men,
bers in the United States, the
FBI said, adding that the organ
ization operated through 20 To-
Gals and put out two publica-
tions, one in German and the
other in English, which were de-
scribed as anti-American, anti
British and intensely pro-Na-
Ii"
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There were indications that
the trial would 60 far into next
week.
McCoy's statement said the
commission spent most Of yes
terday hearing testimony Of IN
FBI agent, and reading docu-
ments. There was no indication
Of their contents.
He added that counsel for the
defense and the prosecution both
had told the commission that the
volume Of evidence IVES expect
ed to prolong the case.
The trial was strictly N army
proceeding. The comlhisgion -.
mitted the signal coepo - u1o1o,
both still and silent uU01n
pictures Of The scone uootGol
yesterdays proceedings opsoo
Davis, at . pres coueeeQ1E'
said he tried q haze peseB ~
so-iation reporters admttted ~
that the army objected "a tAe'
ground there would b evidauoo
See T1lALS-rags 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Sink Transport

CHUNGKING, July IL - R)
Allied bombers sank a Japanese
transport in the river at Nam
chang, capital of Kiangsi Pro-
vince, and destroyed ten Japa-
nese planes on the ground while
Chinese forces pushed the in
vaders back in other areas of the
Province, Chinese dispatches re-
ported yesterday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Mystery Man
TO Aid Sale
Of War Stamp

Shoppers who purchase War
Stamps at Mount Clemens stores
next Wednesday, July IS, may
get even q greater return on
their investment than that offer
ed by the government.
A Mystery Man" will 60 on
the prowl in the downtown area
passing cut IS and 81 bills In *.
change for official War Stamp
receipts issued by store clerks at
the time of sale.
A city-wide War Stamp drive
is in prospect Wednesday xnder
the sponsorship Of Mount Glenn
eQS retail stores.
FGrtterdgtxns concerning the
Mystery Man" may be found in
Monday and Tuesdays editions
of The Daily Monitor-Leader.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
158 Germans Arrested in Sweeping New FBI Rad
Mother Asks
Fugitive Son
to Give Up

WASHINGTON, July 11-W.D
The distraught mother of ac-
cused "sniper" slayer John Elk.
lund, who escaped from q U. S.
marshal outside the district jail
last night and fled hand-cuffed
into a dense woods, today ap-
pealed to her son to surrender
and obtain his full freedom"
Her frantic plea went out as
Washington. Maryland and Vir-
ginia police and a detail of so
soldiers widened their search for
the slightly-built Eklund who Is
charged with the ambush slay-
ing of q negro. The searchers.
aided by blood hounds. were
See 'SNIPER'-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Jap Prison Camp
Called sTerrible'

LONDON, July II - up -
Conditions in the concentration
camp on the Japanese-occupied
island Of Amboins, In the Meth
erlands East L.dies, were de-
scrited today as terrible" BY
q prominent Hollander who re-
Gently escaped and was inter-
viewed here today by Aneta,
Dutch news agency.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-11
Sub.Depoi Workers
Stage Picnic Today
Over 500 Expected
at Selfridse Event

About 500 civilian workers of
the sub-depot, a utility office Of
the constructing quartermaster
corps and some 100 officers" and
men, all from Selfridge Field
will picnic this afternoon at na-
mona Park, it was announced
this morning.
The event is hea6ed by Major
H. L. Kumpfsr and aides In the
preparations and program will
be Captain Joseph De Wees,
Lieutenant John Bemel and
Kenneth HARDWOOD, superintend-
ent of construction at the SUBJ
depot.