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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Navy Diver
Seeks Body

Efforts to locate the body of
Anthony Hnatiuk, 24-year-old
Detroiter who drowned Monday
in SIS feet of water in the
Couchez Gravel Pit, 14-Mile
road near Gratiot, were contin-
ued today by sheriff's deputies.
A U. S. NG y diver was to don
apparatus today in an effort to
find the body, believed lodged
beneath some heavy object at
the bottom.
Norman Mig Moore, local
swimmer, has been diving for
the body for four days while
deputies u-ad graphing hooks.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Girl Refuses 10 Sign
Complaint; Trio Freed

Three Mount Clemens youths,
aged II and Is were released to-
day by the prosecutors office
after a IS f. year old girl, found
asleep with them early Saturday
in a a parked in Shadyside
Park, refused to sign a com
plant.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Help Shortage Causes
Delay in Laundry

One day service has been dis
continued at the Macomb Laun-
dry because of lack of help and
rubber conservation, Mrs. Mat
hllda Burkhardt, the owner, said
today.
She urged that customers send
their laundry in early, particu-
larly prior to holidays when
service is sometimes as many as
10 days behind.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Metropolitan Club Calls
Important Meetinq

Metropolitan Club members
will hold an important meeting
Tuesday at 8 p. m. at the John
r. Murphy hotel, it was an
nounced today.
Motion pictures will be taken
at the meeting and shown at the
club picnic in July.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Wholesale Food Price
Increases Finally Halted
Although Farm COMMODITIES Exempt
from Ceilings, Prices Retreat

rectly or indirectly affect farm
commodities to varying degrees,
experts said. Some foods, how
ever, such as eggs and poultry,
milk products, flour mutton and
lamb, are exempt even in whole
sale and retail trade.
Various developments other
than price control have had i'm
p%ortant influence in causing
certain commodities to back
down from 1912 highs, which,
in most cases, were tops for the
past several years.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Night Blooming Cereus
Attracts Flower Lovers

Garden Club members and
flower lovers are invited to
view the night blooming cereus,
now Towering on the front
porch of Miss Florence Dur
ants home at 48 Dickinson.
Six blossoms already have
opened and two others are ex-
pected to blossom within the
next two days.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
THE TABULATION:
Gardens
Continued from Page One)

available to either children or
adults, it was pointed out.
It is the committees wish that
every inch of every garden be
turned to advantage.
To claim any plot the per-
son doing so may iust attach his
name to the corner stake of the
plot he desires to use.
1t is not too late for planting
lettuce, spinach, radishes, ruta-
bagas, onion sets, beets, late
cabbage, parsnips Swiss chard,
wax beans, lima beans and sweet
corn.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Increased First Aid
Attendance Asked
Only 7 Attended
Glasses Lost Week

Pointing out that only seven
persons attended the first class
in first aid held last Wednesday,
Clinton township Civilian De-
tense officials today pleaded for
a larger attendance when the
course is offered again this We'd
nesday at 7 pm. at the Wolf
road school.
A certificate will be awarded
those completing the 20 hour
course. Air raid wardenS and
auxiliary firemen and police
should attend.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Monitor Represented
al Advertising Meet

Charles j. Sheppard, of The
Daily Monitor-Leader staff is in
Columbus, o., today attending a
three-day convention of the
Newspaper Advertising Execu-
tives Association, at which be-
tween 800 and 400 outstanding
publications are represented.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Oil Burner Causes
Pomeroy Home DAMAGE

Fire caused by a defective oil
burner caused small d a & c
Saturday TO the home Of II. s.
Pomeroy at 1866 Harper in Gin
ton township before Pomeroy
extinguishcd the flames.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Meet
This EVENING

Members Of the Mount Glenn
ems BARRIERS Association will
meet this evening at $50 o'clock
at the Van Hollenbeck Shop, 40
New street, it was announced
this morning.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Fire Does Slight
Damage TO Mcleod Home

Fire caused by water boiling
over on the stove did small dam
age to the home Of Mrs. Otis Nc
Leod at 20 Barbara street Sat
urday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
BY the Associated Press

With the Germans threaten
Ing a new widespread campaign
against all shipping in the At
lantic north of the West Indies,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Fatalities
Continued from Page One)

Continued from rage One)
for minor injuries and sent
home from the same establish
mCnt.
CAR SIDESWIPED
According to Prosecutor Char
les Wilson, of Oakland county,
the accident occurred when the
PrOkOVoW car, driven west on
West Maple road near the AL
stead road by Miss Czuj, was APP
parently sideswiped by a car
driven by Bernard Peter Jo-
hansen, 16, 21753 Piper avenue,
East Detroit, and owned by Eu-
gene MorolliS, of East Detroit.
Her a thrown out Of control
when SideSwiped, ii shot off the
road and in getting back onto
the road Miss Czuj swung too
far over and rammed the car
driven by Floyd Smith and fol-
lowing the Johansen car head
on.
They were all driving fast,
as near as I a figure it," the
prosecutor declared. THE cor
oner is coming in this afternoon
and we may hold an inquest but
it probably wouldn't tell us any
more than we know now. No
one is being held"
FUNERAL THURSDAY
Funeral services for the two
East Detroit girls will be held
Thursday afternoon, William D.
Clyne, mortician, declared to-
day.
The tragedy married the reun-
ion of the 1941 Ninth grade class
of the Kern Road school that had
been held at Dodge Park at
Walled Lake. Sponsoring the re-
union or an honored guest was
Harold ROwlcy, former princi-
pal of the Kern Road School,
now teaching at Detroit Eastern
high school. The JOhanscn and
the Smith cars were filled with
classmates who had been Chums
last year and the girls had been
waving back and forth between
the cars just before the crash
came.
Riding with Johansen was
Eugene Morollis, owner Of the
car; Betty Jane Harris, IS, Eu-
genie Doyle, Is, and Leonore
Swinton, Is, all East Detroit
school girls. The only mem
Ger of the parties in the two
'arS who did not attend East De
.roit high school was Viola
Steele, who was said TO attend
7osevillc high school.
OUTSTANDING PUPILS
Teachers declared that the
dead girls and their com
,anions, Miss Steele and Miss
edwards were outstanding stu
Miss BCaubien is survived by
Ter parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
" G. Beaubicn, four brothers.
'harlcs, deputy city clerk Of
Cast Detroit: Merton, with the
States Army Forces at
.IClbournc, Australia; Cleatis. of
Clemens, and Melvin, at
one sister. Beverly. at
.omC: and her grandparents.
1rS. Sarah Bingc, Of Anchor
lille, and Mrs. Alexander Beau
len, Of Detroit. !
Miss Garwood is survived by !
parents, MIR. and Mrs. Beam !
iarwood, and one sister. Kath- !
cen, at home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
FIND CALF

A one-Week-old Jersey calf
reported as lost or stolen Satur-
day by j. A Rutherford, 1896
Stevans, Mount Clemens, was
recovered two hours later.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
Theft Of Tools, Tire
Reported by Woman

Clara Pelzcr, 256 Maple Court.
Harrison township, reported the
theft Of tools and one used tire
from her home to sheriff depu-
ties Saturday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
RENTAL LAWS

Raine Howard, Mount Glenn
ems realtor, described the new
rental law to 40 High T w We
members as guest speaker this
noon.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
MACON1B - Last Time

This picture is dedicated to the gallant men
both Americans and Philippines who
broVeIy gave their lives that freedom and
democracy can and will be won
Evening star., 1942-08-09

Then they trot to three-Way mirror and
60 over themselves thoroughly to hunt
for ticks. Then only do they dress.
The building itself was designed as a
tick prison. There is just one door to
the most dangerous room. The floor is
concrete, and it's washed down at the
end Of each day with near-boiling water,
tempera ture which can kill ticks Every
possible joint in walls, ceiling, floor is
sealed. The windows are covered with
mesh so fine it would stop tick. And
yet-a few years ago the girl on the
telephone switchboard two floors below,
came down with spotted fever. She
lived.
There's light ahead, though for the
staff because Of a discovery made by
DR.. Herald r. Cox, dynamic redhead
who'd been hunting for some other way
to keep the infection alive. He thought
maybe fertile eggs-with their tiny, de-
veloping chick embryos, might be the
perfect breeding ground for the organ
ism that carries the fever.
He tried two or three tissues in the
egg with no luck. Then one day he had
nothing but some yolk sack membranes
that's the Shiny thing on which the
chick embryo feeds in the egg until it's
ready to hatch. He shot that slime with
spotted fever organisms, stuck it away,
and found to his delight that it was
simply loaded-spotted fever dynamite.
This year the vaccine was made $780,
Half from live. infected ticks. Half from
letting the infection grow in eggs. Cox
thinks it's possible that shortly the lab
can do away entirely with raising ticks.
That would mean the crawling, threat
ening death around the staff would be
gone.
But there's still danger. Cox showed
me the lab in which the eggs are han
died A young woman was using tWeezers
to lift this infected slime out of egg
shells from which small top slice had
been removed.
Cox pointed to the eggs-"just one of
them, right now, carries enough infection
to give spotted fever to 100000 people
that's right, 20,000,000. If Miss Lyndes
permitted one drop of it just to fall on
her skin, no doubt she'd have the fever -
watched Margaret Lyndes' hands.
She moved slowly surely, carefully.
There have been nine deaths, all told
among the men who tried to solve the
mystery OF spotted fever. There was one
scientist who worked up to the minute
he died.
DR.. Thomas B. McClintick had come
out here from the Washington Office OF
the Public Health Department to do some
special research. He took spotted fever
1t was in the days when, maybe, the men
Evening star., 1942-08-09

the trigger is tunbled and away goes the
ship
The tension is over for most folks
when the craft hits the water but not
for Keith and the other launching ex-
perts. They keep their mental fingers
crossed until the vessel, which may be
800 feet long, is brought to stop within
about 200 feet Of the end of the ways.
Various methods have been used by
shipbuilders throughout the world to
stop the ships-launching them into soft
mud banks, placing raftlike formations
in their paths, attaching braking tim
bers to the hull-but Fore River uses a
method employing drag chains
babies weighing many tons that are at
tached to the hull and are pulled over
the ground, making huge burrows.
They experimental with the use Of
such chains by testing their power to
slow up heavy locomotives which dragged
them over various types Of ground.
Keith always is jittery lest huge
timber from the cradle become disen-
Evening star., 1942-08-09

foot, but in those few bad seconds when
the bow section is taking it," the pres
sures on the grease run up much higher.
The water end of the ways aren't
creased until the day of the launching,
because these have been bathed by the
tides for many months. So. at low wa
ter before the launching, that section is
dried thoroughly with blow torches and
then the grease is put on.
Well, your vessel is in the cradle and
the lady is drawing bead with the
champagne bottle. Now, what's to do?
Many vessels have been started on
their trip to the water by having men
armed with blow torches cut through
steel plates linking the ground ways to
the sliding ways. But method used on
some recent warships involves the release
of trigger like arrangement in which
an arm extending up into each sliding
way is held fast by hydraulic piston.
When some one opens the releasing
valve, the water is let out of the hy
draulie chamber, the piston comes back,
Evening star., 1942-08-09
world Photo.

gagged when the vessel strikes the water
and become imbedded upright in the
bottom of the river in such way that 1t
might punch hole in the ship.
"This is particularly true for light,
high speed vessels which are more frag-
lie than. say, a freighter. Cruisers and
destroyers and the like are built for
speed and hence have less local strength
than rugged merchant ships. Thus,
when you have only about half inch
of steel between you and the ocean, its
something to think about
Keith says the strains which a vessel
undergoes in launching may sometimes
equal the betting around she takes in a
fair-sized storm.
Well, that's launching. But, how do
Keith and the others feel about it when
it's ell over?
I'VE build 'em and we put EN- over
board he says bit sadly, with shrug
of his shoulders. "And sometimes after
they leave the yard we never see them
again."
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Visit to Spotted Fever Lab Is Packed With Thrills

vaccine you and can take must work
with these live, infected ticks because
the vaccine is made from them.
There are stages in the ticks life when
it's just stored in TASKS or pill boxes.
But there are three stages when it must
be taken out and fed on rabbits or guinea
pigs which have been infected with the
fever. And the tick comes away from its
meal with plenty of poison in 1t to knock
off any human.
There are men who spend whole days
removing ticks from TASKS and putting
them into the ears of infected rabbits
where they can feed. That's the stage
when the baby tick has just hatched,
and then it's no bigger than pin head.
One flask will hold 1000 such crawlers.
1t takes sharp eyes and deft hands to
avoid collecting a colony Of ticks up
your forearm or under your belt.
Once the rabbit has the ticks on him.
he's tied in bag, and then put in a
cage of such fine mesh that the ticks
can't escape. But then comes another
step in this vaccine making which is
closely similar to handling dynamite.
The lab workers have to unite the bags
around the rabbits and salvage all the
ticks, shaking them into a washing ma
chine Again, who can tell whether all
the thousands of infected insects found
their way safely into the machine?
Variations of that happens three
times to the ticks before they're ready
to be ground up into vaccine.
So the staff goes through an elaborate
protective ritual. First, every one from
DR.. Parker to the telephone girl is vac
cinated every three to four months just
to be sure And even that doesn't mean
100 per cent sure" In 1923 a young
scientist, Arthur Kerlee, died even
though he'd been vaccinated. There was
another complication, but no one can be
sure.
Rigid Precautions.
Then there's more ritual for the men
who work in the part of the lab where
the ticks are raised. In the mornings
they leave all their street clothes in a
special room of cabinets. Then they ster
nude into another room, where they put
On white coveralls, on which they coulc
easily see any crawling ticks. All day
long as they work, they stop every two
hours to examine themselves for any
tick that may be starting to burrow into
their skin.
Then at night they reverse the process
They step into the coverall room anc
place their coveralls in an oven whief
during the night, bakes to death any
ticks which may have clung to the cloth
Evening star., 1942-08-09

out here saw the danger of the infection
more than the men who d never seen the
disease.
So McClintick decided to be Exhibit
A." He insisted on being put on the
train for Washington, although he knew
he was dying And it's painful death.
CThe disease can't be transferred from
one human to another)
McClintick got there to show his fellow
scientists just what the last stages of
spotted fever look and act like. He died
"a hours after he arrived in Washington.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
BY Frank Carey,

QUINCY, Mass.-One Of the most
spectacular shows on earth-the launch
ing of warship or merchant vessel
has to be staged without single re-
hearsal
You go to a launching; for example,
one held at the great yard of the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding Corps Fore River
plant here in historic Quincy.
Some one makes speech from bunt-
ing-draped platform in the shadow of
on one arm whacks bottle of cham
pagne against the cleaning hull and
nlurmurs, II christen thee Gladiator" "
Some one throws q switch and the ship
moves easily down to the water as you
and thousands of others cheer
But If that's all you saw, you missed
the boat"
Elaborate Preparations.
Actually the launching which took
place without flaw before your eyes,
within span of few minutes, had to
be outlined, at least roughly, on paper
perhaps two years before the launching
date-even before the shipbuilding COM
pany was awarded the contract to con-
struct the vessel
You were looking up no doubt, so that
you wouldn't miss the christening cere-
mony--so you missed the fact that may
be 500 men aboard and beneath the hull
were removing veritable forest of tim
ber supports and driving in tightening
wedges-all according to a long-per-
fected timed to the second plan, And
you missed the chaps who slapped two
coats Of paint on bare spots after the
supports were removed.
But If you were down beneath the hull
at a Quincy launching you'd find grey
haired man with big cigar in his
mouth who could give you the lowdown.
He's Prof. Henry H. w. Keith, head
of the Department Of Naval Architecture
and Marine Engineering at Massachu-
sets Institute Of Technology.
A Launching Expert Tells How.
A technical adviser and consultant to
Fore River, he has been associated with
the launching of more than 100 vessels,
including the aircraft carriers Lexington
and Wasp, the battleship Massachusetts,
and various cruisers, destroyers and great
merchant ships.
"rt's one he'll Of job-and requires
all hands and the ships cook" Keith
says.
And he adds that while ship launchers
have plenty Of precedent to guide them
the theory Of launching has changed but
little since the Romans slid their galleys
into the water on tinnbers creased with
tougher nut to crack.
It isn't just a case of going into a
drafting ROOM sitting at table and say
ing: Lets see now. Well have to build
some ground ways from the yard to the
water, grease them with some lubricants
then build sliding ways on which this
baby will slip into the water encased in
q cradle"
Plenty Of things can happen that
upset the whole applicant after you've
made one set Of plans says Keith, who
declares that at Fore River the launch
ing planners meet regularly to hash out
new problems, like football team at
tending blackboard sessions months be-
fore the big game.
For example, the slope Of the ground
ways may have been calculated SO as
to be adaptable to tidal conditions antici-
pated for certain date. Then the order
comes through, Sorry, boys, but we've
got to launch this hull couple Of
months sooner than we expected"-and
changes have to be made.
"A change Of foot in the tide will
give an entirely new set of conditions" :"
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Rocky Mountain Laboratory.

We were in the million-d dollar layout
known as the Rocky Mountain Labora
tory of the National Institute of Health.
It's devoted to the study Of diseases
cc-ried by wood ticks, lice and feas.
It has grown from a wooden shack
r. Dr. r. R. Parker 25 years ago, when
to first was sent out here to find out
what caused the mysterious Rocky
Mountain spotted fever, and what to
DO about It, Parker now directs the
huge, modern lab
It was built here because in the sur
rounding Bitter Root Valley there seemed
to be more deaths from spotted fever
than anywhere else in the country.
There was a time when valley people
thought they got the fever from the
water. But Dr. Cooley, who's studied
ticks since 1902, proved that the little
crawlers carried the infection. He had
to live a whole spring and summer in
tick infested woods to prove It,
Then DR.. Parker. working with DR..
r. r. Spencer, finally evolved IN 1924
the vaccine which now immunizes peo-
pie against the disease-and it's a
violently unpleasant disease.
It used to kill 80 out OF every l00
people who got it. Now, among the vac
cinated only out of 100 die.
60 this year 10000 people were given
Evening star., 1942-08-09

the vaccine-people living in the danger
Gus areas where the infected ticks cling
to bushes, grass and animals, and then
grab onto the clothing of humans who
pass by The vaccine even is shipped
to Brazil and Colombia, where public
health doctors are fighting similar
fever.
But the making of that vaccine means
that the 100 men and women on the lab
staff must work every day with possible
death around them: Death carried by
little, crawling, insidious things that
hook onto your clothes (they can't jump
or fly, hunt stretch of flesh, and sink
four fangs into the skin to suck blood.
You can pick them up while fishing,
hunting, picknicking They're particu-
larly dangerous to men who work outside
cattle and sheep men, railroad section
hands. miners, CCC and forestry per-
sonnel.
DR. Parker says the proportion Of In
fected ticks varies In different regions.
In some places less than l per cent can
give you spotted fever. In some it's 5
per cent.
1t used to be that the Bitter Root
Valley was Stunned with fear and dread
by travelers-a mysterious, beautiful
valley where death lurked in the bushes,
with one canyon where every home had
spotted fever death in the old days.
But now spotted fever cases have
shown up in all but eight States-Con-
necticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Kansas. Parker doesn't believe, as
some do, that the disease spread from
Montana. He thinks it always was there
and wasn't known well enough to be
recognized What's more the spotted
fever in the East is carried by another
tick: The dog tick.
Be on Your Guard.
He tells you how to be careful:
First, II you're outdoors in areas where
infected ticks live, get vaccinated every
March. Second, while you're outdoors
go off and look over your whole body for
ticks three times a day-every two hours
is better Third, If you find one, pull 1t
out slowly with your fingernails, or a
tweezer. 1t has to be feeding on you fol
two hours before it can infect you-that
is, II it's an infected tick. Don't crush It
If it's infected just the Juice, splattered
on your skin, could give you the fever.
That gives you an idea how careful
the lab workers have to be. Ticks every
where, and every last one of them highly
infected.
The men and women who make the
Evening star., 1942-08-09
BY Sigrid Arne,
yfytJn yIycrlS

HAMILTON, Mont.-Dr. r. A. Co..
ley's black eyes snapped, and he stopped
with his hand on the doorknob. He
pointed to sign which said, Danger.
No one but lab employees admitted"
He capped that with You're the first
unvaccinated persons admitted in a
long time. Keep sharp eye. Don't
touch anything and don't put anything
down that q tick could crawl on. Stand
in the middle Of the floor"
We stepped through the door, down
q corridor, and into room Of shelves
loaded with cannisters.
"See!" said Cooley, and pointed to
the floor. We saw a tiny, dark crea-
ture, little less than quarter-inch
long, making for the left shoe OF Grant
Macdonald, Wide World photographer
Cooley ground the insect under his heel
That little fellow" said Cooley dryly
"could finish you quite as effectively as
q bullet. And there's million OF them
in this room, in those cannisters
They're sealed, but few escape"
We stood in the middle of the floor
but strictly.