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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
Public Installation

A PUBLIC INSTALLATION
of the new officers of the White
Shrine of Jerusalem Is set for
Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in
Masonic hall.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-26

IF RESPECT for authority is
instilled early in children. there
will be less need for punishment
later on, members of Child Study
Group One were told last eve
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22

qualified as sharpshooters or ex-
perts are up there as coaches.
The army uses the coach and
pupil method and it's okay.
/ already see that these two
recruits have coaches that are on
their toes.
They adjust the sings and the
show is on. 1t means more than
Just an army issue medal TO this
pair.
It's cinch that the lad who
takes Mary TO the party tonight
will have an inside track.
First five shots are at the sitting
position. Most of the soldiers take
their time. a few get excited and
shoot too fast. and some are SO
slow that the bull'e-eye jiggles.
watch the targets being drawn
up and down and / feel pretty
good at the number of white
markers (bulls-eye, 5 points, and
red ones ID points,.
The coaches keep advising: y
Don't pull that trigger, just
squeeze t." And:
"Another buIl's-eye, you're do
Ing fine. you Louisiana swamp
angel" and they groan when the
pitmen wave the red flag for a
complete miss of the target.
Chef is firing like a veteran
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22

gets five out of five sitting and
three bulls-eyes and two tours
kneeling, for a total of 4S out
of so.
AL is two under that. Then
comes the standing position, 10
shots each at the 10-inch bulls-eye.
This is a strained position for
most rockies, and 1 don't like II
too much myself. although / can
drive tack with the Springfield
30.06 at any reasonable distance.
Here those powerful arms of the
big mountain bruiser, Chet. show
up to advantage.
Darned If he didn't get a 36. TO
AIS al. AS they come off the
firing line Chef says to AL:
"Guns speak louder than
words, soldier"
I'll say this for AL, he doesn't
seem concerned.
Don't forget we've got rapid
fire coming, hill-billy," he warns.
/ don't want to get too tech
nical except to say that in rapid
fire you start standing up with a
clip of five cartridges in the cham
Der. five more in your cartridge
belt.
At a given signal you drop TO
sitting or kneeling position and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22

put 10 shots in the target in
exactly one minute.
Standing to sitting is first, then
standing to kneeling after the
targets are marked and scored.
Possible 100.
Well, to be brief, Chef is doing
some good shooting, but he gets
off his first 10 shots too fast (has
6 or z seconds to spare), while
AL squeezes off his last one a chin
whisker before the target goes
down, and in the stand to kneel-
ing it's about the same.
AIS timing is perfect. Result,
AL shags a neat SO, Chef gets only
so, with AIS final total $50, or
two more than necessary to qualify
as expert.
Poor Chef, who looks woebe-
gone, lacks four of making ex-
pert: has TO be content with a
sharpshooter's medal.
AL can't help piping up:
"Guns speak louder than
words"
I'll say IL for Chef. he takes il
standing up and shakes hands with
AL and grins.
"Can I be best man nj the
wedding, Az"
Al says:
"You bet, soldier"
And darned IL it don't turn out
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22
Daily Quiz
By Walt Disney
Spiders on the Fly
BY THE ACE ANswERMAN

THE government Of the United
States is composed of three
coordinate branches. Name
them.
"A hawk that doesn't fly Is used
as tool in what industry?
3-0n July 8, 1889, John L. Sulli-
van beat Jake Kilrain in Is
rounds at Richbourgh, Miss
What special significance did
the bout have?
North Americas westernmost
point on the Boring Strait is
named after what prince?
'-When participants wear spiked
shoes and bathing suit they
are engaged in what sport?
,-Half a mile above the brink Of
Niagara Falls an island divides
the Niagara River into two
streams. What island is il a?
There are state banks and
national banks but fishermen
prefer the Grand Bonl;c. v vs.
that?
ANSWERS on P-se ~
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22
DOESN'T TUMBLE

He says he doesn't know beans
about the army, but he gives me
q sample of dismounted and ex-
tended order drill. manual of arms
and military courtesy and he
doesn't make a tumble.
mark down this light-hearted,
blue eyed kid as future sergeant,
maybe a shavetail. which isn't as
important. and for other reasons
check off the Wells gent as a
three-striper, too.
Well. this evening I can see
right now that they both fall for
Mary like couple of tons of brick
and mortar, and I can't say l
blame the boys.
] would have, too. only I'm too
weatherbeaten and a pal of her
dads, and she calls me Uncle"
and tells me all her troubles be-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22
Knowlede Test
BY DIR. SABINA III. CONNOLLY

What is the equal in days: (a)
of a fortnight; tbl of a COM
mercial month; (c) of a leap
year?
What three songs are sung by
other nations to the same tune
as our America?
3-What is the name of the money
unit in (a) Sweden; OBJ Brazil;
(c) Italy.
Give three words you could use
instead of (a) insolence; (b)
prudence; (c) Indulgence.
lin what state ta) are the
Green Mountains; (b) are the
Blue Ridge Mountains; (c) are
the White Mountains?
;-Where did these happen: (a)
the first permanent British set
Element in the United States;
OBJ the famous cutting OF the
knot by Alexander the Great;
(c) the birth of John Adams?
(Answers on Page 25)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22
Daily Short Story
Guns Speak Louder
By SANFORD FARRELL

I'M GETTING plenty fed up with
- the argument The ysrdbirdS arc
putting up, although l take no
part. We are sitting in a booth
drinking beer, and corporal from
Texas is nickeling the luke box
for an hour on what becomes an
annoying repetition of deep in the
heart or same.
am taking Mary out 10 a
movie, with refreshments 10 fol-
low. and she's having one lemonade
10 my four beers when these two
rockies come in the joint and. be-
cause l like the kids, | invite them
10 Join the party.
You see. Mary is only 20 and
she's the daughter of my old side
kick out Of the TNventy-eighth In
fantry-Tech. Sgt. Mike Maloney
and when he heard / was in this
training camp drilling recruits. he
postcards me TO sort OF look after
the girl.
That isn't hard to do, aS she's
Just about the neatest number in
that big five and ten in town and
as nice as she is pretty.
TOO OLD FOR COMBAT
Me. I'm a graybeard out of the
regulars, with nine hash marks on
my sleeve. and they say I'm too
old TO join a combat outfit, but
Just the Mccoy for a replacement
training center.
That's why I'm senior instructor
Technical sergeant TO yout Of
Company B. and every eight weeks
new cycle of men comes in who
don't know how TO do left face and
are taught a hell of lot in those
two months about soldering.
These two lads are plenty smart
and ! make EN- acting squad lead
ers pretty soon. >-------.--
That lets 'em wear dark blue
arm bands on the left sleeve with
corporars chevrons. although they
draw only S21 day once a month
for stiff 4S-hour week.
Chef Wells is from Colorado:
lives up in Cripple Creek when
he's home.
SIX FEET THREE
He's 6 feet 3 and well set up
and, while his book learning isn't
what IL might be. he's one of those
guys who's been around a lot.
although he is born in 1918. four
years after I signed up in the
army and about the time I was
pushing the Krauts around at
Charpentry and Exermont with
the First Division.
AL flor Allen Williams is just
Mary's age and he is in college
somewhere up in Wisconsin when
he enlists about the hour the
Teller County draft board taps
Chef Wells on the shoulder and
says. "Uncle Sam wants you"
Williams hasn't any military
training that goes into the record.
but when I check up on the boys
as they enter camp he tells me-
about his two years in military
Srh0ol
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22
Answer to yesterdays puzzle.

now. and maybe Mary could too
but we let EN- argue.
At one point Chef kind of sneerS
and says:
81 suppose you got one of
them tin medals shooting BIS
in school"
AL flushes before saying:
81 sure did. Only 1t was a
bolt action .22."
The talk gets around to the fact
we're going on the range Friday
and l became malicious and put ir
my oar
"Ain't there regimentaI
dance Friday night at the Serv-
ice Club? ?"
And. before you could say Jack
Robinson. they both ask Mary il
she'd like to go.
This puts Mary in a spot, but ]
figure she can wiggle out of it
as she has a mighty level head
beneath that unruly mop Of GOA
black hair.
She says she's delighted, and is
just praying for an invite to the
dance, and wonders if Chef and Al
ought to flip a coin over which
ones to take her.
Then she has the afterthought
I figure she's already manufac-
tured, and says:
Nnv do
go with the one who makes the
highest score on the range
Friday"
You can see both boys beam.
Chef is thinking of how he shot
that five-pronged buck right be-
tween the eyes last year up in the
Frying Pan River country and AL
is remembering the day he copied
an expert medal at military school
firing under National Rifle Asso-
citation rules.
DEAL Is ON
So the deal is on.
These boys don't 60 on the
range altogether green.
We give them what we call dry
runs" for a week and a day of
practice firing, but it's one thing
to sight the bull's-eye and blaze
away just for practice and still
another when it's up to you to
qualify for a rating.
l see men in preparatory fire
score 1853. just what il takes for
a sharpshooter, and then go all
to pieces and not make the neces-
sary 1874 out of a possible 200 for
marksman in record firing the
next day.
To make expert rifleman, you
must do 178 or better, and, friends,
that's pretty fair shooting even at
200 yards.
l watch Chef on the ready line
of target full of confidence as
a stallion.
/ check his piece, no oil in the
barrel, just a film of it on the
bolt.
His rifle always passes inspec-
ton. On the next box, target al,
is AL, and he's not nervous either,
but he don't bust out with con-
fidence like Chef does.
His piece is every bit as ship
shape. / don't hold with some
regular N. c. O's who laugh at
these military school boys.
They may not be West Pointers,
but I'd like 10 boss a platoon
of EN-.
The first order finishes its slow
fire problem, the second order
moves up on the firing line, with
Chef and AL in II.
Non-coms and privates airead!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22
WATCHES PLAY

/ sit back with my beerand q
cigar and watch Chef and Al make
their play for Mary. AL is a little
shyer than Chef, but Mary plays
no favorites and gives each OF
them the sweetest smile this side
of Bali and / see trouble brewing
II starts as Chef tells Of
bagging deer and bear on the
western slope, and he allows that
he's the best rife shot in the
Cripple Greek gold camps.
AL by this time is over some
of his nervousness and says:
you squirrel hunters will be
up the creek without a paddle
when you get on the range.
You'll be shooting at a fixed
target, and that's lot different"
Chef roars:
"How about Sergeant York,
soldier? He shot squirrels all his
life and he made expert before
he went across to snag all them
Germans"
AL opines that this proved the
rule.
"York is the exception" he
says.
LETS THEM ARGUE
OF course. could step in with
both boots and stop the argument
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22

that way. I should know, because
l gave the bride away.
THE END
Tomorrow's short story: "She
Didn't Walt" by Belle Bruck.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22

OF course. I could step in with
both boots and stop the argument
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-22

cause Mike is somewhere with
Mac Arthur down under, the lucky
stiff.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Song Writers TO Appear
AT Press Club Canteen

Two composers of popular songs
will appear before servicemen at
the National Press Clubs weekly
canteen tomorrow afternoon.
They are John Redmond, who
wrote I'm the Blue Hills of Maine" ."
and Nat Simon, composer of You're
a Sap, Mr.. Jap" and other songs.
A 15-piece band from the Navy
School of Music and an octette of
sailor singers will be heard.
The song and instrumental team
of George Owen and Tony Parker
will appear. Strickland Gilliland,
humorist, will tell some stories. Art
Brown, organist at the Capitol
Theater, will play and lead COM
munity singing. Mai. Gordon Hit
tenmark, radio announcer In civil
life, will take part.
Sergt. John Carlin from Fort
Myer, accordian player, will be on
the program. Table tennis will be
demonstrated by Stanley Fields, ex-
hibition player. He will play Lou
Gorin and James Shea. Bill Obey
OF the Navy, will play Larry Girard
OF the Army Air Forces. Redskin
football stars will be introduced.
The canteen is open from 2::3O
to $50 pm, in the club auditorium.
Last Saturday nearly 500 soldiers,
sailors and marines attended. The
affairs are sponsored by Press Club
Post No. 20 of the American Legion.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
SIS, 900 in JeweIry
Takes Accidental
Ride on Train

Jewels valued at $25 900, left in a
taxicab here yesterday by Mrs. Alice
Seeburg, wife OF a wealthy Chicago
manufacturer, were recovered sew
eral hours later on a New York
bound train, where the jewel case
was among the luggage Of a prom
inent Long Island woman, police re-
ported today.
According to police, Mrs. Seeburg
forgot the valuables as she left a
taxicab shortly before noon to check
into the Mayflower Hotel The Long
Island woman, q departing hotel
guest, engaged the same cab to take
her to the railroad station.
Discoving her loss, Mrs. Seeburg
notified the hack inspectors ONCE,
which, aided by Detective Sergts.
M. B. Moore and John O. Curtis and
a hotel bellboy, ascertained in which
taxi she had ridden. A check Of the
hotel records then revealed which
guest had checked out of the hotel
at the time Mrs. Seeburg had ar
rived. The taxi driver recalled that
his passenger had said she wanted
to catch the train to New York.
Pennsylvania Railroad police, noti-
fed by local railroad officials, board
ed the train at Trenton and located
the jewel case, which the Long
Island woman mistakenly had car
NED along With her own luggage.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Johnson Renamed Head
OF Midway Citizens

George johnson was reelected
and installed as president of the
Midway Citizens Association at a
meeting last night at the Morgan
School.
Other officers installed by Woolsey
H. Hall, retiring recording secretary
of the Federation of Civic Associa-
tions. included Lawrence Larry, vice
president; w. Ellsworth Reid, re-
cording secretary; Malcolm Daniels,
corresponding secretary; Miss Louise
Walker, financial secretary; James
Campbell, treasurer: Joseph Jenkins,
chaplain, and Mr.. Daniels, Mrs. Vir-
ginia Peters, Mr.. Quander and Mrs.
Georgia johnson, delegates to the
Federation Of Civic Associations.
DR.. Edward Harris, president of
the Civic Federation, addressed the
meeting on civilian defense and the
need for support of better housing
conditions.
Dr.. Harris also urged the educa-
ton Of all children in the District.
He also called for steps to be taken
for better moral conditions in Dis
trict communities.
The association voted to send its
regrets to the family Of the late
DR.. George H. Richardson, former
president Of the Federation of Civic
Associations and etytc leader.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
D. {. Ja|opy Roundup
In Scrap Drive Falls
Short Of Expectations
Only l69 Donated Out
OF $50 Listed as Junk;
Original Goal 1000

The Districts "jalopy drive" {"
geared to collect 1000 junked and
abandoned automobiles for 2,000,-
000-pound scrap metal total in No
vember, fell far short of this effort.
the Salvage Committee revealed to-
day, but the campaign will continue
indefinitely.
According to a committee tabu-
lation, approximately $50 cars have
been tabled as jalopy possibilities,
of which 169 have been donated.
More than half" OF the 1869 have
been lacked up and dismantled, the
announcement said.
Greatest source Of talopies, the
Committee pointed out, are parking
lots, where operators are holding ths
cars for small storage or repair
charges. Parking lot managers
with jalopies are asked to get in
touch with the Committee at Re-
public 8488, If they have not already
done so.
1t also was revealed that collec-
tions to date include 1alopies ranging
from 1920 Ford to a more recent
Packard model which sold originally
for $4,000
In urging continued cooperation
In the jalopy drive, the committee
observed that one jalopy contains
enough steel scrap to produce more
than twenty-seven 20-mm. aircraft
cannon or three 2,000-pound aerial
bombs.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
White House Luncheon
Honors Gen. Sikorski

Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, Prime
Minister of the Polish government
in-exile and commander in chief Of
Poland's fighting force, was honored
by President Roosevelt yesterday at a
White House luncheaon attended by
more than dozen State, War and
Navy Department officials.
Gen. Sikorski Is here on invitation
of President Roosevelt to discuss
present and postwar problems.
Those attending the White House
luncheon today included Ambas-
sador Ciechanowski. Admiral Will
liam D. Leahy, the Presidents chief
of staff; Representative Bloom,
chairman of the House Foreign Al
fairs Committee; Undersecretary Of
State Sumner Welles, Undersecre-
tary of War Robert P. Patterson,
Undersecretary of Navy James v.
Forrestal, Assistant Secretaries of
State Breckenridge Long and Dean
G.. Acheson; Norman H. Davis.
chairman of the American Red
Cross; Harry L. Hopkins, special
assistant to the President; James F..
Byrnes, director of Economic Stabili-
zation; Col. William J. Donovan, di-
rector Of Strategic Services; Ray
Atherton, chief of the Ctate Depart
ments Division of European Affairs;
Marvin H. Mcintyre, secretary to
the President; Maj. Gen. Edwin M.
Watson. the Presidents military
aide, and Capt John L. McCrea, his
naval aide.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Bradbury Heights Group
Asks New Park Portal

The Bradbury Heights Citizens
Association last night advocated
construction of an entrance to Fort
Dupont Park at or near the inter-
section of Alabama avenue and
Burns street Sc, and improvement
of paths. within the park area.
Frank P. Randolph, who intro
duced the resolution, outlined the
history of the park since its erection
as fort during the Civil War.
The association recommended
that a letter be written to the cap
tain of the 18th precinct, requesting
that a traffic policeman be stationed
at the intersection of Thirty-eighth
street and Alabama and Pennsyl-
vania avenues Sc, during school
rush hours.
Samuel E. Peake told members
that Seat Pleasant express buses
refused to stop for school children,
thus forcing them to wait until the
local buses came along.
One bus driver today refused to
pick up some school children at
PENNSYLVANIA and Minnesota ave-
nues Sc" Mr.. Peake said. Instead
he told them to wait for the local
and closed the door in their faces
Mr.. Peake expressed the fear that
this procedure would work hard
ship on the children on cold days,
adding that the particular bus, on
which he was riding, was not full.
The association met at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Baker. 4465
Alabama avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Army Run-Around Stumps Probe
Of Camp Springs Wood Waste

workers were burning great piles of
logs on cleared sections of the air
port site. Some of the logs even
had been split before being burned.
Representative Sasscer, Democrat of
Maryland, seeking to make inquiries
of Camp Springs officials on behalf
of one of his farmer constituents.
also had been given a run around" +"
When Mr.. Patterson was told at
the press conference that picture
showed the "stumps" to be logs
which any one would be glad to
burn in fireplaces during this period
of governmental fuel rationing, he
apparently was unwilling to believe
that Army policy" could have been
disregarded in this instance.
That policy, as he emphasized it
is: When a place is cleared, wood
Is finally disposed Of, but not by
burning"
He did not elucidate.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Naval Officer, Wife,
Boston Fire Victims,
Buried in Arlington
Rites Held in Chapel
Where Jesse D. EIIiotts
Were Wed in 1889

Funeral services for 1t. Jesse Dun
can Elliott, U. S. NJ, and his wife,
who were burned to death Satur-
day night in the Boston night club
fire, were held yesterday in Fort
Myer Chapel, where they were mar
ried in July. 1889
They were buried side by side in
Arlington Cemetery, with full mill
tary honors accorded 1t. Elliott.
1t. Elliott was the son of Col and
Mrs. j. Duncan Elliott of Aquasco
Md, who formerly lived here on
Wyoming avenue Mrs. Elliott was
the daughter of Col. and Mrs.
Charles H. Nulson, commandant at
Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
Friends of the couple and their
parents, including officers in the
various branches Of the armed
forces, attended the services.
z The Navy Band played with drums
draped in black. A platoon of sail
ors from the Navy Yard and a
platoon Of marines from the Marine
Barracks lined up before the Fort
Myer Chapel.
Serving as honorary pallbearers
were seven Navy lieutenants and one
Marine Lieutenant, Annapolis class
mates of 1t Elliott. They were Its.
N. E. Thomas, W. M. Porter, F. F.
Smart, A. r. Mcfarland, r. H.
Northweed, r. A. Bevernick and
Geoffrey Norman of the Navy and
Marine 1t. G. P. Carroll.
Capt Robert D. Workmen, Navy
chief of chaplains, read the funeral
service.
Evening star., 1942-12-04

Disregarding pictorial evidence of
workmen at the Camp Springs (Md)
airport project burning cords of
wood which the Army refused to
sell to neighboring farmers. a War
Department investigation" has re-
suited in a virtual white-wash of
Army responsibility. ..-
Or maybe Undersecretary Robert
P. Patterson, who was assured that
the logs were merely stumps of
trees, is being given the old Army
run around" and doesn't know it.
At the weekly War Department
press conference yesterday when he
substituted for Secretary Stimson.
he said he knew of no wood being
burned at Camp Springs-it was
only stumps."
Earlier in the day the War De-
partment had instituted an inquiry
on the basis Of news reports and
picture which showed clearly thst
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Santa Claus Receives Gift;
WPB Removes Salary Ceilings

The fat old gent In the red suit
and white whiskers, who turns up
In the stores about this time every
year, received a Christmas present
himself today from the War Labor
Board
Demonstrating that there Is no
ceiling on the Yuletide spirit. the
board issued blanket wage-control
exemption to all bona fide Santa
Clauses on condition that they ra-
diate spirit Of good will and cheer.
The board took this action fol-
lowing telegram from Lew Ha-
han of the National Retail Dry
Goods Association in behalf of a
small store as to whether it could
raise the pay of its Santa Claus
this year from $40 to $S5 a week.
Evening star., 1942-12-04

In an unanimous resolution, the
board decided that Santa Clauses
could receive raises provided that
the term bona-fide Santa Claus
shall be construed to include only
such persons as wear red robe,
white whiskers and other well-rec-
ognized accouterments befitting
their station in life and provided
that they have a kindly and jovial
disposition and use their high Office
of juvenile trust to spread the
Christmas spirit of good will among
all men, women and children"
The exemption covers only the
Christmas season, the board said,
and shall not be considered as a
precedent, since the role of Santa
Claus in war-torn world is
UNIQUE"