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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20

The bulk of Christmas mail
must be in the post offices by
December / this year II deliv-
cries on time are to be assured,
according to Smith w. Purdum,
S n d Assistant Postmaster
General. Purdum is responsible
to Postmaster General Frank c.
Walker for smooth and efficient
air and railway mail service.
Unprecedented wartime de-
mands on the postal and trans
portation systems, plus a pros
pective record volume of Christ
mas mailings, were cited by Mr..
Purdum as necessitating earlier
mailings than ever before. 1T
is physically impossible for the
railroads and air lines, burdened
with vitality important war ma
terials, to handle Christmas
mailings as rapidly as in normal
times" Mr.. Purdum said. IF
the bulk of parcels and greeting
cards are held back until the
usual time-the period of about
December Is to 23-they simply
cannot be distributed in time,
and thousands of gifts will reach
their destinations after Christ
mas"
HUGE BULK
In l941, about 21,950 mail
cars were required between De-
cember IL and "a to deliver
Christmas mails-enough cars to
make a train 70 miles long. This
year, the extra cars needed to
move holiday mails are largely
being used by the armed serv-
ices. shortage is in prospect.
The postal service usually
borrows about $500 trucks from
the Army and other govern
ment agencies, and rents about
10000 from private owners, to
handle the Christmas mails. This
year, it will be extremely diff
cult to obtain enough of these
vehicles to meet even a substan-
tial part of the need. The Army
needs its own trucks and private
owners are reluctant to let
someone else use their tires.
Railroads are cooperating by
converting some hundreds of
steel box cars and similar equip
ment for mail transportation,
and Joseph B. Eastman, Director
of Defense Transportation, has
ordered the unnecessary travel
be curtailed to the limit during
the holiday season. But these
measures cannot assure deliv-
cries of gifts on time unless the
public cooperates by mailing
early and thus spreading the
transportation load over q
longer period than usual.
ENORMOUS LUCK
Purdum called attention to
the task of the Post Office De-
partment in moving millions Of
pieces of mail every day to and
from soldiers, sailors and ma
rines throughout the world. This
extraordinary job must be kept
current, even while the holiday
rush of mailings is handled.
Also, he pointed out, the postal
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20
Charge Girl
With Assault
Press Ssoreh For
Mrs. S. Q. Wallace

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Nov. 30
up - On a complaint charging
three counts of child stealing
and assault with a deadly wea-
pom with intent to murder, Mrs.
Margaret Sharon O'Dea Wal
lace, 26, was ordered arrested
yesterday in the attack on Mrs.
nez Mac Lam, %, a former
Michigan resident.
Mrs. Wallace, a Los Angeles
resident whose whereabouts at
this time are unknown, was or
dered arrested by Municipal
Judge A. F. Molina on a COM
plant prepared by District At
torney Thomas Whelan.
Captain Blake Mason of the
sheriff's office said that Mrs.
Mac Lam told him that Mrs.
Wallace beat her with a rock
near Encinitas, north of San Di-
ego, last Monday and took her
three children. Mrs. Mac Lam,
recovering in a hospital here,
was found unconscious at the
foot of a cliff.
The three children were found
latc- abandoned in Los Angeles.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20
|MounfCemens
High School
BY Tom 8 Dick Donaldson

PROGRAMS
The program for the Senior
play, almost Eighteen" Is
nearly ready for press. The pro-
grams will be light green with
snow flake finish, and green
holly punt will be used to give
it a Christians effect. The play
is on Thursday and Friday, De-
cember 10 and II, in the High
school auditorium. This program
wa selected by Mr.. Frank Kis-
sci, Miss Hubbard and Tom
Donaldson. Due to the fact that
paper and other printing sup
plies are very hard to get the
program will be only one page
this year instead of two or three
as in previous years.
LOCKER
The students of City High
have been warned about keep
ing their lockers in good shape.
They are responsible for his or
her locker and any marks are
to be taken off Immediately and
t':ese lockers are also to be kept
neat at all times. There is regu-
lar lockers inspection every few
weeks to make sure the students
do this.
NEXT SEMESTER
The election of next semes-
ter's subjects will be made out
in about two weeks. So students
a. asked to start planning their
subjects for next year.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20
Crash Driver
Faces Warrant
Z DJaekout Violation
= CHARGED

"A warrant charging Russell
Kirkum, %. of 1851 Kunstman,
washington, with violation OF
the state blackout ordinance was
issued late yesterday by Justice
Of the Peace Frank E. Jeanette
on authorization of Assistant
Prosecutor Howard r. Carroll.
State Police from the Romeo
post charge that car driven at
{ high rate of speed by Kirkum
crashed into a car parked on the
right side of Knight road, near
r. y Center, during the blackout
Wednesday night. Kirkum, they
assert, was driving at a high
rate of speed without lights. i.
Carl Ullrich, q, Route 2,
Mount Clemens, owner of the
parked car, escaped injury but
. passenger in his car, Benny
Witukiewicz, 10, 1910 French
road, was seriously hurt as was
Kirkum.
Both men are in st. Joseph's
hospital and arraignment of
Kirkum will be delayed until
IL RECEIVERS, Carroll said.
II convicted under the black
out ordinance, Kirkum faces a
maximum sentence Of 90 days
n q 500 fine.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20
Authorize Increase
In WAC Enrolment
Will Reiss Corps
Up TO 10000

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -
(R)-President Roosevelt releas-
ed today an executive order au-
thorizing an increase in the ul-
innate strength of the Women's
Army Auxiliary Corps from u.s.
900 to 100000 but said it would
be a long time before the latter
figure is reached.
The President told a Press
conference that the new action
fixes the WAAC Corps at a max
imum statutory strength of $780,
900. This, he said, is looking
pretty far into the future, since
a good deal of training will be
required.
The Corps is expected to have
$4,000 women on duty by next
July.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20
Would Abolish
Child Guidance
Agency in State

LANSING, Nov. 20 - R -
DR.. L. j. Carr. director of the
Michigan Child Guidance Insti-
tute at Ann Arbor, today rec
commended that the agency be
abolished and its work trans
ferred elsewhere Ito reduce con-
flict" and as an economy.
He proposed that the Agency's
clinical functions be transferred
by the Legislature to the State
Hospital Commission, and that
its research and educational
work be assigned to the Univer-
sity of Michigan, where the
agency is quartered.
DR.. Carr said $4,000 should
be appropriated to the Univer-
sity to carry on scientific study
of community causes of delin-
quency," and an effective educa-
tional program in cooperation
with Probate Courts, schools and
adult leaders designed to lessen
the delinquency problem.
THE Institute has become the
center of needless conflict that
should not be continued in war
time" he asserted. The state
ment, contained in the recon-
| mendation forwarded to Cover
nor-elect Kelly, did not elabo-
rate on the dispute. In the last
session of the legislature, the in
stitute was criticized by some
legislators, and advocate of gov
ernmental consolidation have
called recently for union of
Child Welfare activities.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20
Famed Marine
Command Dies
Gen. John LeJeune
Victim Of illness

BALTIMORE, Nov. 20 up
Major General John A. Le-
Jeune, former commandant Of
the u. S. Marine Corps, died in
Union Memorial Hospital this
morning.
He was 70.
Major General LeJeune, who
since 1929 had been superin-
teEdent of the Virginia Military
Institute at Lexington, Va, had
been seriously i'll for about
tn ee weeks.
Survivors include his widow,
the former Miss Ellie Harrison
Murdaugh, of Portsmouth, Va;
three daughters, Mrs. Glennon,
wife of Capt. James B. Glennon
of the u. S. Navy, Miss Laura
T. EeJeune, and Miss Eugenia
D. LeJeune.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20
EorIy Christmos Mailing
Stressed by Postal Chiefs
Enormously increased Problems
Foes Postoffies Workers
Foee PostoffieO Workers

establishment Is operating with
many thousands of inexperi-
enced personnel, employed to
take the place of men called to
the armed services. The new en-
ployes naturally cannot handle
the holiday mail jam with the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20
Senate Believed Ready to Reject Anti Poll Tax Bill

smoothness and speed Of the
postal veterans whom they re-
place.
In view of all these handicaps
to the service, Purdum added.
postal patrons should mail their
gifts by December II they wish
to insure that their friends will
not be disappointed at Christ
mas.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20
REQUIREMENTS

A person wishing to open a
restaurant in Zurich, Switzer-
land, first must satisfy a board
of examiners that he knows how
to choose and serve pure food.
The examining board is made up
of two restaurant operators, a
teacher of fruit farming, gov
eminent chemist, and a labora-
tory chief.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-20

A census of one acre of a farm
near Washington, D. c., showed
that 50 pairs of birds made their
homes there.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-03-12

proper containers, and the brood.
er ready by the time the baby
chicks arrive from the hatchery.
If it is not possible or convenient
to secure commercial mash the
following mixture is recommend
ed if surplus of skinned milk
or buttermilk is available for the
chicks and this is supplemented
with a good tender range, since
green feed must be supplied:
40 lbs. yellow corn meal
40 lbs. ground wheat
80 lbs ground oats
10 lbs. fish meal or meat meal
$3.50 protein)
3 lbs. ground limestone
IL lbs. salt ~
After the first seven to ten days,
scratch grain may be fed in addi-
ton to the mash. The following
formula may be used: so lbs. fine
ly cracked yellow corn with 40
lbs. finely cracked wheat. The
scratch feed should be fed twice
each day and the mash should be
placed before them at all times
in feeders of ample size to take
care of the number of chicks in
the brood allowing at least one
inch of mash hopper space to each
chick. Scratch grain should be
fed in troughs, either on top of
the mash or in separate troughs,
instead Of feeding in the litter.
Keep fresh clean water in the
fountains or skinned milk or but
ternilk available for the chicks
to drink at all times.
The County Agents office also
has plans available for laying
houses, brooder houses and other
farm building plans for the con-
venience of Ashe county farmers.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-03-12
Congress Asked To Double
Income Taxes By Treasury
Hugh "VictOry" Tax Plan To
Effect Cigarettes, Candy
And Gasoline

Individual income, $4,000, OO0,-
600; corporation, $3,060,0OO, 900;
inheritance and gift, $3.50, 000, 600;
and excise, 81, 34O,000,000.
Another $680,000, 900 would be
realized by taxing income from
state and municipal bonds-both
existing and future issues. Hus-
band and wife would be required
to file joint return.
The treasury requested authori-
ty to collect part of the individual
income taxes at the source-up to
Congress has been asked by
Secretary of the Treasurer Henry
Morgenthau to double income
taxes of persons earning under
$4,000 a year, and to increase
other levies to raise an additional
$4,000, 100000 annually in war
revenues.
Congressman r. L. Doughton
heads important ways and means
committee in the House, which
will decide how the revenue will
be raised, but Secretary Morgen-
thau has suggested the following
increases in taxes.
10 per cent of the taxable portion
of salaries.
The treasury secretary recon-
mended that Congress also raise
another $4,000, 100000 more year
by extending the social security
program and payments.
Personal exemptions for income
tax purposes and normal tax rates
for both individuals and corpora
lions would not be changed. Per-
sonal exemptions for Individual
incomes are $3.50 for a single per-
son, $1,000 for a married person
and $500 for each dependent. The
normal income tax is four per
cent. The surtax will be changed
to begin at six per cent on the
first $500 and climb to IS per cent
on net incomes of 100000 and
more.
Increases in excise taxes would
include:
Transportation, S to IS per cent;
lubricating oil, 4 IL cents to 10
cents a gallon; beer, S. to So a
barrel; kilograms, from 10 to Is
per cent; local telephone, from 6
to 10 per cent.
Increases in excise taxes on auto
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-03-12
Farmers Given
Opportunity To
Hire WPA Help
Certain Conditions Must Be
Met, But Refusal Not
Be Allowed

Ashe county farmers now have
the opportunity to employ WPA
laborers on their farms, according
to announcement made by State
WPA Administrator c. c. Nc
Ginnis and received by B. w
Jones, county WPA supervisor.
Certain conditions must be met
before the laborer can be employ.
ed by the farmer, but if the WPA
worker refuses to be hired fol
farm labor, he might be dropped
from WPA rolls, according to Mr.
McGinnis.
The complete announcement wa:
as follows:
anyone needing farm labor
who is unable to obtain it at the
prevailing farm wage, is advised
to apply to the nearest U. S. En-
ployment office (every Tuesday
morning in Jefferson) or to any
local WPA official. The WPA will
make available any qualified
workers under it's jurisdiction
Employers should feel free to
offer a job to any qualified per-
son whom they know is working
on WPA
eff anyone offered a job, wlre-
Their through the U. S. Employ
ment service, a WPA official, or
directly by the person who wishes
to hire him, and refuses to accept
the offer, he will be Immediately
terminated from WPA. This is
providing, of course, that the
wage offered is prevailing for
similar work in the community,
and that he is able to do the
work offered, and that working
conditions are reasonable.
'Citizens are requested to CO.
operate by advising w. c. Wilson,
director of training and re-em-
ployment at the WPA Raleigh
office of any instances where a
WPA official fails to cooperate in
attempting to fill their labor re-
quirements, or where a WP A
project worker refuses to accept
a bona fide offer of private en-
ployment. Prompt investigation
will be made and appropriate
action taken in each instance re-
ported"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-03-12

mobiles, radios and other durable
goods were not asked because war
demands will cut off the civilian
supply, treasury experts said.
The proposals includes tax on
soft drinks of one cent a bottle,
hiking the levy on a 15-cent pack
age of cigarettes from 6 1-2c to
&c and doubling the present gaso-
line tax of l IL cents a gallon.
Candy and chewing gum would
also be effected.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-03-12
Farm
NEWS
BY ROY HI. GROUSE
AShe County Farm Agent

ting a front seat in our Argicul-
tural program this year. Stats
tics show that too many Ashe
county farm families do not have
sufficient poultry and eggs for
family needs. This condition can
be remedied this year if every
citizen will only realize the seri-
business of the war and the serious
need for food to win the war.
Every family in Ashe can get
started right with poultry this
year if they act now-financial
aid is available through local
agencies for those who need it
for this purpose.
Whether chicks are to be brood
ed with hens or under brooders,
it is more economical in the long
run to purchase few chicks from
a reliable hatchery rather than to
hatch them from average home
flocks of mixed chickens. Chicks
of special breeding can be pur-
chased from reliable sources at
a most reasonable price; that is,
from birds that have been bred
to produce eggs. Egg production
is inherited. While it can be in
fluenced by feeding, housing and
management, it is of the greatest
Importance that quality chicks be
purchased from a reliable source
and from birds that have high egg
production ancestry. Hatcheries
are going to receive more orders,
perhaps, than they will be able
to fill, so it is very important to
place orders now. Also for the
reason that it is advisable to get
early hatchery pullets for the lay
ing flock.
BROODING OF CHICKS
One of the most satisfactory
ways of brooding chicks for the
average farm, where it has been
customary to set hens and use
brood coops, is by using the is
expensive and easily constructed
Lamp Brooder. The Home Agent
and County Agents have demon
strated a model lamp brooder at
many club meetings througout the
county. Detail plans for making
this brooder are available at the
County Agents office for anybody
in the county who is interested.
This brooder will accommodate go
baby chicks and, by getting an
early order of chicks, you will be
able to brood a second brood Of
so chicks or 100 per brooder this
season. Where more than 100
chicks are brooded at one time
it is recommended to construct
a brick or rock furnace type
brooder.
|. FEEDING BABY CHICKS
Feed should be placed before
baby chicks as soon as they are
Matched and care to eat and
should remain before them at all
times. A good commercial mash
is recommended for the feeding
Of the chicks for at least the first
six weeks. Starter mash should
be purchased if possible. Each
chick normally will consume a
pound and half of feed the first
five weeks. Feed and water, with
the chill off, should be in the
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-03-12
FARM NEWS

FARM NEWS
Ashe county's 461 All club
members and over 400 Home
Demonstration Club members are
making a very definite effort to
have a 100 percent participation
in the Victory Food and Feed
campaign for 1912. They are lay
ing the foundation for a continu-
GUS program to supply ample food
for the family and a much needed
additional cash income. Each All
Club member pledges to have a
Victory family garden this year,
in addition to any other club
project he or she carries out, as
an aid to winning the war.
NEED MORE POULTRY
Poultry, being among the most
essential foods for Victory, is get
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-03-12

Deliveries of tin cans for home
canning will not be affected by
the recent curtailment order, sin
ce the Government hopes that an
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-03-12

increase in home preserving will.
relieve pressure on commercial
Gamers.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-04
Bomber Attacks
May be Repeated

These announcements indicated
that officials are not discountlng
the possibility ca japanese assaults
on the continental United states
or Canada.
Some military experts, however,
believed that the Dutch Harbor at
tacks might be prelude to Japa-
nese attack on Siberia. They con-
tended that the japanese consider
Alaskan bases a potential threat
to their northern flank should they
attempt to campaign to the north.
The Japanese have long regarded
the American owned Aleutian chain,
which extends in an arc some l,5OO
miles westward from the southwest
tip of the Alaskan mainland, as a
potential threat TO their empire
Dutch Harbor is the major Ameri-
can base in those islands and lies
some l.400 miles east of the nearest
Japanese islands md about 2,5OO
miles from Tokyo.
There was another theory that
the attacks against Dutch Harbor
may have been inspired by the Jap
anese feeling that the American
air attack on Tokyo on April Is
may have originated there. As III
the case of the raid on Tokyo. there
was no information here rs to the
starting base for the japanese blows
at Dutch Harbor
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-04
New Blows Aimed
At Nazi Defenses

Continued from Page Onel
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek
conferred with three American
military leaders-Lieut. Gen. Joseph
w Stilwell, Maj. Gen. Lewis H
Brereton and Brig Gen. Claire l..
Chennault
Stilwell is Chiang's chief mill
tary adviser and Brereton and
Chennault command air forces in
India and China. indicating that
plans were being rushed to strength
EN- Allied all power against the
japanese in eastern and southern
China.
japanese attacks on three fronts
around the city of Chuhsien, in
Chekiang province. continued de-
spite stubborn Chinese resistance.
The enemy troops. using strong
artillery and aerial forces, appeared
TO have fought their way TO the
outskirts of the city and Tokyo
predicted that it would soon be
captured
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-04
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Continued from Page One)
ture of other damage, if any.
In emphasizing that the first at
tack probably was launched to test
Dutch Harbor's defenSes, the Navy
indicated that further Japanese ae-
ton there might be expected.
Stimson, in making direct warn
ing on that score, recalled that only
last week he had said that the
United States must expect reprisals
from the japanese as a face-saving
gesture for the powerful blow struck
at Japanese industrial centers by
Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle and
his special air squadron.
Asked whether his warning ap-
piled to the continental United
States as we'll as to outlying posses
sions. he said he would place no
geographical boundaries on where
the enemy might strike.
DEFENSES PREPARED
The attack on Alaska was no sur
prise here. such tactics by the Jap
anese have been anticipated for
some time and it was known that
vigorous steps had been taken to
make the entire Pacific coast ready
for what happened at Dutch Harbor
yesterday.
To-day even those steps were in
tensified. Panama Canal officials
said the alert which had been in
force since Tuesday had been tight
ened i'll line with similar measures
taken in the United States.
The western defense command
and the fourth army in San Fran
cisco asked the public to watch for
possible appearance on the Pacific
coast of Japanese wearing American
army uniforms and to assume that
such individuals might be fifth
columniSts. Those authorities also
silenced all radios along the coast
from Mexico to Canada last night
as a precautionary measure lin view
of the situation earlier today"
In British Columbia, the vast Can
aalan province that stretches from
the American Canadian border along
the Pacific coast to Alaska and the
Yukon all radio stations were 81
lenced and defense forces were pre-
pared for any eVentuality.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-04
Truck Line Gets
inland Permit

The California Railroad commits
sion Thursday granted Pacific
Freight Lines permission to expand
its Los Angeles -Calexico service TO
include service to Camp Dunlap
fVe miles northeast of inland
This service has been supplied
Camp Dunlap for some time under
a temporary permit, Wright Dar-
ter, manager of the FL Centre Pa
cific Freight Lines office. sale
Thursday. Most of the freight 60
ing TO the military camp at present
is composed of building materials
Extension of the service to Camp
Dunlap did not necessitate use CT
additional equipment.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-04
Man Denies He
Beat Wife Here

Ivan Miller. 39-year-old fruit
packer, Thursday denied that he
had beaten his wife and her
daughter b. a former marriage as
Mrs. Miller was said to have told
police at the time of his arrest in
FL Centre Tuesday.
He said he volunteered in police
court to pay his wife's hospital
and doctor bills, and pay her $25 a
week as long as he was packing
santaloupes in Imperial Valley.
Mrs. Miller refused to press
charges of drunkenness and dis
turbing the peace against her hus-
band.