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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
PhiIathea Class
10 Meet Friday

PHILATHEA CLASS of the
Presbyterian Church will meet
at the church parlors on Friday
March -, at $50 o'clock for
potluck supper, followed by bus
mess meeting and installation of
officers.
Mrs. George w. John will talk
to the class on Victory Gardens.
Mrs. Frank Leonardson and her
division will be in charge of the
program and dinner.
MRS. AUGUST BIEWER of
Detroit will entertain the men,
bers of her Mount Clemens
bridge club at luncheon and
cards Thursday afternoon.
GIRLS MIS- SION AR Y
GROUP Of the Methodist Church
will meet Wednesday evening at
1880 o'clock with Josephine
Place, 176 Moross avenue.
RALPH GRAY of Sugarbush
road, whose birthday annivers-
ary was March 5. was honored
by members of his birthday club
at q dinner at his home on Sat-
urday evening.
WHATSOEVER CIRCLE of
Kings Daughters will meet Fri
day at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs.
Alfred Copony, 237 South Ora
tot avenue.
+ LOYAL WORKERS CIRCLE
Of Kings Daughters will meet
Thursday with Mrs. Jennie
Kidd, 10 Howard street at 2 o.
clock. Dues will be collected al
the meeting.
JUNIOR MACCABEES will
lnset Saturday 1t ! o'clock for
Inp- dancing and business meet.
iag 81 barron hall Plans will
- ma6e for IN Easter party,
- vj1lch rsfreshments will be
4 ANu1Dopg CIRCLE Of Kings
- III nnnuok a fhe Horn>
~ - potluck supper
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
Clinton Township Plans
Civilian Defense Rally

Prosecutor Ivan A. Johnston
and Superintendent L. w a d e
Fast will be the principal speak
ers at a Clinton Township Civil
ian Defense meeting to be held
Friday, March Is at 8:15 pm.
at the Wolf Road school, Coord-
inator Earl Buss said today.
All Clinton township residents
are urged to attend. Supervisor
Otto Sherlock Is chairman of
the meeting.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
Cruelty Cited as Bosis
for Divorce Action

Charging extreme cruelty,
Mrs. Margaret Dubay. of Mount
Clemens, filed suit in circuit
court yesterday asking divorce
from her husband, Gordon.
The couple married Sept. 10,
1893 and eparat ed Jan. 5,
1912.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
Hitler Gets
French Fleet!
Moscow Soys 40
Woreroft Shifted

LONDON, March 10 - R -
Some 40 French warships, under
construction at the time of the
French armistice of June, 1910,
have been handed over by the
Vichy government to Germany,
the Russian news agency Tass
reported from Cairo.
In an agreement reached a
long time ago, the Cairo cores
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10

pendent said, Vichy arranged to
transfer a large part of the
French navy, including m ny
submarines, to the Germans.
Among the ships included in
the transfer. lass said, was the
battleship Clemenceau and an
8,000-ton cruiser.
In January, 1910, last official
reports on French naval build
ing indicated 1913 warships of all
classes were under construction.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
New Hoven Nan
Reported MISSING

Sheriff's deputies today are
searching for Roland burst, 20,
reported as missing Monday by
New Haven Police Chief Alton
Posey.
burst is described as five feet,
seven inches tall and weighing
$50 pounds. When last seen he
was wearing a black jacket, blue
trousers, gray hat and shirt and
black shoes.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10

VICHY, Unoccupied France,
March 10-@- Authorized
circles today denied that 40
French warships had been
turned over to the Germans,
as reported in a lass, Soviet
news agency, dispatch yester-
day from Cairo.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
SELF SACRIFICE

KANSAS ClTY-Miss Gather
inc Conroy's going to have to be
satisfied with q verdict from an
ll-man jury in her damage suit.
Pilot Tex Lagrone, the 18th
Juror got his ORDER from Wash
ington right in the middle OF the
afternoon session yesterday. At
torneys on both sides agreed TO
sacrifice one juror to the war
effort.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
THE BELLS TELL

SAN DIEGO. CALIF.-Bells of
the 144-year-old mission of San
Luis Rey ring for peace and for
war.
At three o'clock each after
noon the clapper strikes, re-
minding all who hear to pray
for q quick, victorious peace.
For blackouts in San Luis Rey
valley, the bells toll steadily for
three minutes. One minutes
ringing signifies the all clear.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10

Marine parachute troops have
computed that they fall 500 feet
in 5 seconds.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
USE-STAMP STOLEN

Noah LabelIe, 147 Avery, re-
ported to the sheriffs office
Monday the theft of a federal
use stamp from his truck.
Evening star., 1942-12-07

battle develop from the hrst noun
tain pass phase to . brief stage In
the open. Thereafter ensued q sue
cession Of struggles for advantageous
hill positions.
Enemy Fled Into Hills.
We parted for q while when the
colonel commanding the operation
dispatched him on one mission and
me on another, I taking with the
jeep driver and Maj. Corley's order
ly, Pvt. Felice de Felice of Brooklyn.
Maj. Corley's final words were
Keep going, even to the town and
beyond, II necessary"-far from
comforting as we were almost Ger
tain the enemy still was in that
place.
About 5 miles from the town we
picked up a small group OF French
artillery onhcers, who accompanied
US into the village. The enemy had
gone into the hills.
The first-aid station was an Arab
Evening star., 1942-12-07

standing achievements as a tiller Of
the soil and breeder of livestock.
Mr.. Wickard came to Washington
shortly after his first political ven-
ture-a successful race for the In
diana Senate in 1882. He resigned
the post to become assistant director
of the corn-hog section of the Agri-
culture Department
One of his first tasks was to help
draft the program which called for
the slaughter of many hogs. Later
he became director Of the section,
then assistant and director of the
North Central Division of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration.
He was appointed Undersecretary
Of Agriculture in 1899.
Greatest Output Demanded.
Now with the Nation at war and
with many more mouths to food, the
cry no longer is for less production,
but for more-for the greatest farm
output in history.
Mr.. Wickard. solidly built and
with a jutting jaw quickly offset by
an easy smile, is doing his own part
to produce the huge crops he Is de-
manding. His fertile 380-acre farm
in Indiana is titled to the limit. The
Secretary has turned it over to his
father. Andrew Jackson Wickard,
and his daughter, Ann, but still
Evening star., 1942-12-07
Wickard Urges South
To Support Planned
Farm Programs
Warns Failure to Vote
For Cotton Quotes May
Bring Decline in Prices
Dy the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 7.-Secretary Of
Agriculture Wickard brought to the
South's farmers two direct pleas
today-to support planned farm
programs, especially by voting for
cotton marketing quotas on Decem-
Der II and to produce more for home
needs.
The Secretary, who yesterday was
made chief Of the home food front,
introduced before farm war boards
of II Southern States q discussion
Of regional production goals for 194a
with the declaration that Failure
to use our resources to the fullest
will be nothing short of tragedy"
Some people are saying that the
war has done away with the need
for farm programs and that farm
ers should grow whatever they wish
Mr.. Wickard said.
But actually, he contended, etc
urge farmers to scrap farm pro-
grams and do as they please would
be like telling factories to manu-
facture what they please-whetheI
1t be automobiles or radios, regard
less of the need for planes, tanks
and guns"
Remember" he warned, that
there will be no 80 per cent Of parity
loan on the 1943 cotton crop If cot
ton farmers vote down quotas. With
out quotas, the price Of cotton is
likely to decline and cotton farmers
will be caught in the wise Of rising
costs and falling prices"
Mr.. Wickard discussed problems
Of labor and machinery and, point
ing to the tremendous rise in food
needs of military and lend-lease
programs, declared thta even with
the best the farmers can do, things
are going to be pretty hard in 1e43. ;
But, he added, prices should make
farming profitable.
Evening star., 1942-12-07

nonics and part Of the Once Of
Agricultural War Relations.
Agencies Included.
The new Food Distribution Ad-
ministration includes:
The Agricultural Marketing Ad-
ministration. the Sugar Agency OF
the Agricultural Conservation and
Adjustment Administration, and
those parts of the Bureau of Animal
Industry of the Agricultural Re-
search Administration and Of the
once of Agricultural War Relations
concerned primarily with distribu-
ton Of food.
Mr.. Wickard was directed to utilize
existing facilities and services of
other governmental departments ito
the fullest extent compatible with
efficiency" in carrying out his new
responsibilities
Mr.. Roosevelt's order abolished the
Food Requirements Committee of
the War Production Board, to be
replaced by an advisory committee
to be named by Mr.. Wickard and
include representatives Of the State,
War and Navy Departments, the
Office of Lease-Lend Administration,
the Board of Economic Warfare and
the War Production Board.
Evening star., 1942-12-07
EVENING STAR WASHINGTON c. MONDAY, DECEMBER - 1912
WiIheImina Promise!
Colonies More Voice
In Kingdom Affairs
Queens Broadcast
VisuuIizes Postwar
Commonwealth
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. Tin 4 broadcast
address marking the frst anniver-
sary of the outbreak Of war in the
Pacific, Queen Wilhelmina Of the
Netherlands extended to her colonial
subjects yesterday the tacit promise
OF greater voice in the affairs OF
the kingdom after the war.
The Queen, speaking over the Free
Netherlands station here, visualized
the creation Of a postwar COM
monwealth" in which the Neither
land, the Netherlands East Indies,
Curacao and Surinam would be in
dependent in internal affairs, but
united in readiness to render mu-
tual assistance"
Such partnership, she said,
would give the kingdom and its
parts the strength to carry fully
their responsibility, both internally
and externally"
The new commonwealth, the
Queen declared, will leave no room
for discrimination according to race
or nationality-only the ability OF
the individual citizens and the needs
Of the various groups of the popu-
lation will determine the policy OF
the government"
Il know that no political unity nor
national cohesion can continue to
exist which is not supported by the
voluntary acceptance and the faith
of the great majority of the citi-
zenry," she said.
Queen Wilhelmina recalled that q
kingdom wide conference to plan
the future structure had been in
terrupted by the war. The precise
form which the political reconstruc.
ton will take naturally cannot be
determined until the end of the
struggle, she declared.
Evening star., 1942-12-07
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President, Roosevelt's selection of
Secretary OF Agriculture Wickard as
supreme commander of the Ma
tion's food front places that job in
the hands Of a real dirt farmer.
Claude Raymond Wickard came to
Washington in the early days Of the
New Deal virtually political un-
known. Seven years later when he
succeeded to the Agriculture port
folio vacated by Vice President Wal
lace he became the first cabinet
member who had made his living
solely by farming.
1t was a seven-year Jump from
the cornfield to the cabinet for the
Hoosier farmer who was born on a
farm and began farming as soon
as he was old enough to carry swill
to the hog -troughs.
From College to Fields.
He helped on the Wickard acres
while attending high school at
Delphi, Ind, and even came home
from Purdue University to lend a
hand during rush times.
In 1927 the Prairie Farmer Maga-
zine selected him as master farmer
of Indiana. Then 81, he was the
youngest farmer ever 50 honored.
The gold medal he received was but
one Of 20 he finally won for out
Evening star., 1942-12-07
Russia Believed Requesting
Exclamation on DarIan
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. Soviet Ambas-
sador Ivan Maisky has seen Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden several
times in the last week, giving rise
to speculation that Soviet Russia is
requesting clarification of Admiral
Jean Darlan's position in French
North Africa.
The Foreign once and the Soviet
Embassy declined comment, but the
Times, the Herald and the Daily
Mail all stated today that definite
protest had been lodged by Maisky
on Darlans assumption of power
Eden was said to be planning a full
statement at secret session of the
House of Commons in the next few
days.
Other sources said it was believed
the Ambassador was inquiring about
the disposition of numerous political
prisoners, including French Commu-
nists, who were imprisoned under
the Vichy regime in North Africa
Fighting Frenchmen here said not
all of these had been freed since the
American occupation.
Evening star., 1942-12-07
Sweden Repairs Shoes

Shoe repairing has received q new
impetus in Sweden now that the
Stockholm authorities have en-
larged allotments Of sole leather to
dealers. The step was taken when
restrictions were placed on the sale
OF new leather shoes. ALLEGATION Of
sole leather to shoe factories Is un-
changed.
Evening star., 1942-12-07

blockhouse In an open field ut the
base Of the hills.
Whenever q vehicle left or ap-
preached bullets scattered all over
the place. Within q few hundfhd
yards camels grazed and q lamb
only a few days old-bleated for
protection.
Inside the house an ancient Arab
lay dead.
Capt. Harry Rainey Of Scranton,
Pa. medical oficer in charge of the
station, carried on despite all
hazards,
Evening star., 1942-12-07
Coins Desert City

Disappearance of small coins from
Santiago, Chile, has been traced to
several causes. but mainly because
nickel money became so valuable as
a war metal that spectators bought
up the coins. Copper coins moved
into other areas where acute short
ages had developed.
Evening star., 1942-12-07
Land Clash
Continued From First Page }

tight In the mountains, was Maj
John Corley Of Brooklyn, in charge
Of transport.
Utilizing the precious minutes
when the JU-88s were not directly
above up, Maj. Corley did all pos
sible further to disperse the vehicles,
to conceal the supplies and get the
men to safety.
With Maj. Corley I had seen the
Evening star., 1942-12-07

finds time occasionally to pay q
quick visit and get into his old work
clothes.
Food, Mr.. Wickard says, will win
the war. And he adds:
Food. good food and plenty Of
1t is one Of the best missionaries for
democracy that I know Of"
Evening star., 1942-12-07
Wickard Is Given
Full Control Over
War Food Program
Secretary Placed in
Charge Of Production
And Rotioning

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Three More Arrested
On Defense Bond
Lottery Charges
Montgomery Editor
Among Defendants
In Nearby Probe

Three more men, including the
editor and publisher of the combined
Silver Spring Standard and the
Montgomery County Independent,
were arrested last night by county
police in connection with an alleged
lottery to raise funds for national
defense.
Richard M. Musser, editor and
publisher of the Standard and In
dependent, was charged with pro-
noting and advertising lottery and
released under $500 bond.
Others Arrested.
The other two men, arrested on
charges of promoting a lottery, are
Harry Duncan, 1888 Connecticut
avenue NV, said by police to be
the proprietor Of a restaurant chain,
and James Townsend, 2108 Sixteenth
street NV. Their bond was set
at $500 each.
Last week, Detective Corpl. Frank
Lane and Policeman Roscoe Purdum
of the Montgomery County police,
arrested Thurman r. Rigdon, 49,
of Lexington, KY. and Samuel John
Rankin, 20, of the Burlington Hotel
in Washington Both men were
charged with operating a lottery
and with obtaining money under
false pretenses.
At a habeas corpus hearing yes
terday before Circuit Court Judge
Stedman Prescott, Mr.. Rigdon's
bond was set at $4,000. A similar
bond has been set for Mr.. Rankin.
States Attorney Ben G. Wilkinson
disclosed at the hearing that Prince
Georges County authorities have is
sued warrants against both Mr..
Rigdon and Mr.. Rankin, charging
them with operating a lottery in
that county. Mr.. Wilkinson said
that he would present the cases be-
fore the grand jury in March.
Coin Boxes Confiscated.
The arrests of Mr.. Rigdon and Mr..
Rankin followed confiscation by po-
lice of 18 coin collection boxes which
allegedly had been placed in various
stores and restaurants under au-
spices of the Defense for America
Advertising Corp.
The boxes. police said, were pro-
vided with envelopes containing
spaces for the names and address of
contributors. According to police,
signs on the boxes stated that draw
ings would be held from the boxes
and defense bonds would be given to
those persons whose names were
drawn from the boxes.
Police said Mr.. MuSSer had in
serted advertising on the alleged
lottery in his newspaper.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Father B. W.Prosise,
Hyattsvi||e Pastor,
Dies in Baltimore
Washington Native,
Al, Had Been III
For Several Months

The Rev. Bernard w. Prosise,
pastor of ST. Jeromes Catholic
Church in Hyattsville. Md, died this
morning in st. Agnes Hospital, Bal
timore, after an illness Of several
months He was At.
Father Prosise had been pastor
of st. Jerome's since June %, 1889.
He was born in Washington on
March 18, 1894, and was educated
in Immaculate Conception School,
Washington; St. Charles College,
Catonsville. Md. and st. Mary's
Seminary, Baltimore.
Ordained to the priesthood in the
Baltimore Cathedral in 1922 by
Archbishop Michael J. Curley, he
afterward studied at the Sulpician
Seminary at Catholic University.
His first assignment was to St
Mary's Church, Cumberland, Md,
where he served four years as assist
ant pastor. Then he was sent to
st. Paul's Church, Baltimore, where
he remained 10 years as assistant
From there he was assigned to St
Mary's and ST. Paul's Churches
Pylesville, Md, as pastor, and after
two years at this assignment he went
to ST. Gregory's Church, Baltimore,
where he served one year as acting
pastor before coming to Hyatts-
vile.
Services for Father Prosise will be
held at 1890 am. Monday in St
Jerome's Church. Archbishop Cur
ley will give the obligation. The
Rev. John F.. Lane of st. Patrick S
Church, Mount Savage, Nd, will
celebrate the requiem mass.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Sligo Park Hills Citizens
Back Referendum Petition

A resolution favoring the circula-
ton of petitions calling for a vote
in November on the charter form
of government for Montgomery
County has been adopted by the
Sligo Park Hills Citizens Associa-
ton.
Delegates to the Montgomery
County Civic Federation have been
instructed to- approve the circula-
ton of referendum petitions when
the subject is brought before the
Montgomery County Civic Fedora
ton at its February meeting.
Adoption of a charter form of gov
ernment in Montgomery is one of
the recommendations of the Brook
ings Institution.
The association also has adopted
a resolution opposing the relicensing
of any penny arcades in the area.
The measure contends such amuse-
ment centers attract too many chill
dren and contribute to juvenile de-
lnquency.
Joseph B. Simpson, jr., deputy
chief afraid warden for this area,
spoke on the county's civilian de-
fense program.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Third Corps Area Loses
Two T.. T.. T.. Offices
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 29-Third
Corps Area headquarters announced
yesterday district headquarters of
the Civilian Conservation Corps at
Williamsport, Pa, and Richmond
would be discontinued in line with a
general reduction in c. c. c. activi-
ties.
Executive officers at the Northern
and Southern district Offices will be
transferred to corps area headquar-
tiers in Baltimore. Both 1t. Col.
William R. Hazelrigg at Williams
port and 1t. Col. Marion L. Young
at Richmond will report here Mon
day.
At present there are "a c. c. C.
camps in Maryland, Virginia, Penn
sylvania and the District of Colum-
bia. These, the headquarters an
nouncement said, gradually would
be reduced to "a very small number. 4"
No effort was being made to enroll
additional personnel, it was stated.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Armed Pair Hold Up
Bus Driver in
Chevy Chase
Two Tuxi Drivers Robbed
Store Looted; Purses Of
Two Women Snotched

Two youths who held up a Capital
Transit Co. bus driver at the Chevy
Chase Circle terminal about $50
o'clock this morning and fed with
cash and bus tokens were hunted
by police in the District and nearby
Maryland today.
The holdup was one OF several
robberies reported to police over
night.
The bus driver, Edward s. Houser,
80, of 1882 T street Sc, said one
youth was armed with q revolver.
The holdup youths were about 18 or
10 years old. he said.
/ Abandoned Auto Was Stolen. =
Montgomery County police said
two youths fed from An auto parked
in front Of . tavern in the $500
block of Wisconsin avenue early to-
day when the police scout car ap-
preached. The officers said the
abandoned auto had been stolen in
Baltimore.
Whether the pair was involved in
the holdup of Mr.. Housel was not
learned. The amount taken from
him was not reported.
Two taxi drivers reported to police
they had been held up. Roberto
Soloman, 933 H street NV, told
Montgomery County police he picked
up man at Union Station and was
instructed to drive to Chevy Chase,
Md. At Connecticut avenue and
Lenox street the passenger told him
to stop, struck him over the head
and demanded his money. The
driver said he turned over SIS and
the man disappeared.
Gunman Gets Is Cents.
John H. Fuins, 36, 269 N street
NV, the other Taxi driver, said a
passenger directed him to the 400
block of Varnum street NV, drew
a gun and demanded his money.
Thetdriver said he replied he had
no money and was ordered to drive
on, at gun point, to Fifteenth and
P streets NV. There, the bandit
took Is cents from him and fed.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Ship Sinking Used 10 Warn
MARYLAND Of War Peril
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Jan. 29.-Lt. Col.
Henry S. Barrett, citing the sinking
of at least one tanker of the Della
re-Maryland-Virg peninsula,
asserted today that mass indif-
ference of Marylanders to the very
real danger of air attack" consti-
tuted the greatest menace to their
own safety.
Referring to the Francis E. Powell
sinking, the director of air-raid pre-
caution services for the State said:
IF the enemy can do that, right
here at our doors, what else can he
do? He has bombers which can
reach these shores and return, but
he doesn't care whether they re-
turn, just as he doesn't care whether
the submarine reaches home port.
The submarine is out to do what
damage it can at whatever cost and
the bombers would proceed on the
same basis.
IF it weren't for sugar, tire and
automobile rationing I believe rs
per cent of the people would not
know we are at war, and even with
rationing they aren't thinking in
terms of danger"
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Newspaper Guild Elects
Gordon Cole President

The Washington Newspaper Guild
&C. I. o. elected Gordon Cole, labor
reporter for the United States News,
as president at its annual election
yesterday.
billiard Stokes of the Post was
named first vice president, Alfred
Toombs of The Star second vice
president and Belmont FAIRIES Of
The Star was reelected secretary
j. Earle Moser and August Stern
of the Times-Herald, both unop-
posed, had earlier been declared
elected treasurer and financial sec
retary, respectively.
Members of the new Executive
Committee, In addition to the six
officers. are: Frank Acosta, Federal
Unit; Leonard Askin, Post; Elisa
beth May Craig, Correspondents
Unit; Frank Ewing, Associated
Press; Leo Gubisch, Newspaper In
formation Service; Norman Kahl,
Editorial Research Reports; Lester
Kidwell, United States News; Bryant
Putney, Federal Unit; Edward Ryan,
Post, and James Wechsler, PM.