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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
Greefings>'44

The nice thing about any New Yeor is thot it
provides with good excuse to turn over new
Ieaf We seldom do or, when we do, we quickly
spoil the new Ieof. But that is our fouIt. We
have the opportunity. we hove the incentive, we
have the reminder. The rest is up to US
Here comes New Yeor, 1914. II con be pretty
fine yeor. II is the year in which hope TO knock
out Hitler and, important, the kozism for
which he stands. 1t is the year in which hope to
get steam roller rolling in the Poetic against
the Jops.
Already, almost mpereeptibIy, we have reached
virtual peck in production, and in eertoin lines
have attained oetuoI or Immediately prospective sur
pIuses in materials. Before 1914 is ended some
Of those SURPRISES may begin turning into the more
essential civilian items.
In l943 coffee rotionins was ended, sugar rotion
ing lightened, and we reached the probable depths
Of moIodministroton of food Shortages, thot for
1914 con hope expeetontIy for something better.
A lot Of other bright prospects could be enumer-
oted. They oil things which should contribute to
making the New Year better year.
On the other hond. the worst of the fighting in
Europe ond the Poetic lies oheod. Tens Of thou
sands Of our young going to die, and mony
times thot number will be wounded. in 1914. to pro-
teet the blessings hove ond those TO which
look forword.
Those who have died ond those who will die
ond equally. those who risk deoth and fortunate
enough to eseope-ore entitled to return to OF least
as good country they left TO go TO wor. II is
responsibility TO protect their rights in thot
spect.
Are we going to sit back. and Ieove it to the
in uniform to make 1914 better year for US? Or
ore we going TO turn that Ieof here OF
home, ond do something TO moke 1914 better yeor
for the men in uniform?
Well, for better for worse. here the
year.
Greetings, young fellow You're very welcome.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
Postwar Jobs
Eyed by(itY
Moyor initiates
Broad Discussion

Initiated by Mayor Donald r.
w ste n dorf discussion at
Wednesday nights City Conn.,
mission meeting conferred on
general plans for postwar pro-
jects in Mount Clemens for gen.
cral community benefit and
employment of manpower re-
leased from factories and the
armed forces.
No conclusions were aimed at
or reached. but Mayor Western
dorf commented that the finan-
cial and taxation background of
the city, the physical needs in
the nature of Improvements, the
public Indebtedness, and the
prospect of Federal aid would
all be fully surveyed in prepa-
ration for an elaborate postwar
program.
Westcndorf initiated a dis
cussion of the city bond situa-
See JOBS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
Reid Ascends
High Bench
Judqe Reid Climbs Pinnacle
After 50 Years Service

Attaining the ambition of a
lifetime Circuit Judge Neil t.
Reid, of Mount Clemens, to-
morrow will become Mr.. Justice
Reid of the Michigan supreme
court; the highest honor that
can be achieved in this state by
an attorney.
While Justice Reid will not
report in Lansing until Monday,
Jan. 3, his official eight year
term begins on New Years Day.
He was sworn in Immediately
following certification of the
smashing victory won by him
last Spring.
In ascending the high court
bench Justice Reid becomes the
second man in Macomb county
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
Deputy Drain
Chief Named

Appointment Of Martin j.
Murphy, for IL years connected
with the County Drain depart
ment, as deputy drain commits
sioner. effective Jan. l, was an
nounced today by Drain Com
missioner William Harper.
Murphy has been field man
and acting superintendent of
drain construction for the coun-
ty, and will continue to work in
the field Harper states. Arnold
F. Rockensuess is in charge of
office routine.
Murphy's annual salary will
be increased $3.50 to a total of
So $50, Harper stated. The new
deputy is married and lives with
his wife and four children at l25
Hubbard avenue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
Many Gifts
Await First
1914 Baby

A telegram from Babyland
advising that Old Doc Stork is
approaching Mount Clemens
with the official 1914 New Year
Baby, arrived at the Monitor
Leader office this morning.
Late this afternoon the StorK
who appears TO be winning the
sixth annual New Year Baby
Derby was reported In full
flight high over the outskirts of
the city making a preliminary
survey of the route he will take
for a perfect landing when the
signal of the New Years arrival
is sounded.
AS usual each year a group
of Mount Clemens business mon
has arranged a royal welcome,
topped with a shower of gifts,
for little Miss or Master 1914.
Complete rules for the contest
will be found in an advertise
ment on page five of today's
issue. Physicians are asked to
cooperate by turning in rec
ords of their New Year births
promptly TO the Monitor-Leader
office.
A complete list of the gifts
follows:
A selection of $3.50 worth OF
baby merchandise from Swan S
Pharmacy.
See BABY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
Headline Stories
of Year Now Wanna

Jan. 2-Lester Arnold, 80, of
ID kIbbee street, was the city 5
only victim OF the New Year )
celebration. He died from in
juries suffered IN a fall at his
home during party.
Jan. 4-EIghteen men were
arrested, jailed and fined after
raids by Sheriff Jacob +. Theut
on two Eight Mile road gaming
houses in Warren Township.
Jan. 5-Unrecognizably bat
tered, the bodies of two minor
Detroit police characters were
found stuffed in the rear of an
abandoned automobile on South
Broadway. Local authorities re-
cordedit as murder, presumably
committed in Detroit. and a
widespread investigation was
launched.
Jan. Lieut.. Col. Boyd ID.
Buzz Wagner, formerly of
Selfridge and combat ace with
many Jap planes TO his credit.
was found dead in the wreck
age of his plane in Florida.
Jan. ll-Sheriff Theut raided
two blind pigs south of Mount
Clemens allegedly sci ! ing
drinks TO minors.
Jan. l2-Circult Judge Neil
Z. Reid announced his candi-
dscy for supreme court office.
Jan. l6-Approved for Army
induction we're 1875 Macomb
County men, 88 from the War
rem Township Mount Clemens
area.
Jan. 19-Heavy snowfalls
clogged the wheels of industry
and tied up transportation over
a wide area. Peter Veins, Sc, of
Mount Clemens died after ex-
erting himself shoveling his car
from deep snow.
Jan. 28--Mount Clemens de-
cided to salvage 800 tons of
steel rolley rails on South Ora
tiot for War Materials Inc.
Jan. 29--Circuit Judge James
4. Spier, World War veteran,
donned a uniform as a major in
the Judge Advocate Generals
department.
Feb. 6-Heavy rains flooded
Easements and highways south
~of Mount Clemens, hampering
war plant workers.
Feb. 9-Mrs. Paul Hogue,
Mount Clemens, was named
community service member of
the War Price and Rationins
Board by Paul w. Mckee, chair
man.
Feb. 11-Further heavy rain
fall increased hazards in the
Macomb County area. All police
and public works departments
were on day and night duty.
Feb. 15-Lieut. Malcolm p.
MAC" Moore, former local
newspaperman, station e d in
Hawaii, was promoted to cap
tain.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
BY T. f. APPLICABLE

DETROIT, Dec. 3l--(P)-A
tide of violence that flowed to
the shadow of Detroits City
Hall and cost 81 lives before
Federal troops quelled the dis
order-provided the outstanding
news event in Michigan during
1943.
BY an almost unanimous vote,
editors of Michigan newspapers
participating in an Associated
Press survey named Detroit's
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31

LANSING, Dec. 81 - Up -
The State of Michigan had no
major act of sabotage during
1913, and expanding state police
activity which included compile
ton of a new two-way commune
cation system described as the
finest in the world today re-
ceived part of the credit for this
from Commissioner Oscar G..
Olander.
The new system, linking posts,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31

gan news stories OF 1913" And
these two listed it in second
place.
Far outranked by the top
Story, Judge Leland w. Cars
one-man grand jury investiga-
ton of the legislature was &C
corded second place over the
death of Edsel Ford, president
of the Ford Motor company; the
court martial proceedings that
followed the shooting of Negro
See BEST STORIES-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
DO MASTERFUL JOB
State Police Alert

defense plants and the mobile
units of the patrol and blockade
system with two-way communi.
cation, makes possible a 80 per-
cent increase in service without
increase in personnel. Olander
said. He based his estimate on
the time officers who have only
one way connections normally
lose finding telephones and es-
tablishing connections with
headquarters.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31

emergency paved the way for
soldiers to aid Detroit authori-
ties; as soon as grim military pol
icemen started patrolling the
streets the hoodlums lost their
taste for fighting.
The riot story was so stunning
in its aspects of violence. SO sig-
nificant in its sociological impli-
cations, that only two of the edi-
tors in the Associated Press poll
failed TO make IL No. / in their
selections Of the ten best Michi-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
noe NAMED CIRCUIT JUDGE
Dt|U YEAR BELLS 1914
By Robert D. DUncon

BY Robert D. DUncon
he bells hove much 10 soy tonight.
And II IS we'll TO listen. not hoIfheor,
Beneoth the brozen eueophonlc eIomor.
ProeomIne birth once more OF ne~yeor
,housond throoted voice booms deep
In measured. solemn syllable It mourns
Our shining. flome ert decd fyeor nov gone
And then IN nsIue tone II enmly worms
Against crossing os humon won't
All memory OF darkness doys n,ehtmoush
The t~ekemonth post hos forged blode
Still new. by II vost hordes must perish.
Before the Doy OF Light moy down
Cost of old embroce the new the bells lntone
Strength born OF fire will sonauish heights oheod
And end mon serfdom. thot Peoce moy reign clone
The bells m Tokyo Berlin
Toll forth no proud. determined DIN.
The Undertone OF eoch poeed boom
SepUIchfoIIy IS sounding. Doom"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
RACE RIOTS SEIFRIDGE
High Tide of Violence HiqhIiqhfed 1913

Bloody Monday" the top Michi-
gan news story of the year.
Hundreds of persons were in
jured, other hundreds arrested,
thousands of dollars in property
damage resulted from the fight
ing between hoodlums of white
and Negro races that developed
after a fracas on the Belle Isle
bridge the night of Sunday, June
20.
TROOPS TAKE OVER
A presidential proclamation OF
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31

history ever to have achieved
that distinction. The late Franz
Kuhn was the only other county
resident so honored.
SERVED so YEARS
In relinquishing the circuit
judgeship which he has held for
See REID-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31

A detailed tabulation OF total
deaths resulting from auto &C
cidents in Macomb county fol-
lows:
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See AERIAL-Page 2
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
Paths OF Righteousness

The Bible and war, are completely
alien, we may say. And yet, the Ameri-
can Bible Society, which is holding it's
127th annual meeting today (on May 13th)
at it's headquarters in New York City,
which for so many years has made it's one
business the production Of the Scriptures,
last year broke it's previous high records
of distribution of the Scriptures at home,
abroad, and in it's work for the Blind. 1t
is the war which is definitely opening new
paths and creating needs for the Book
toward which there is such a general turn
ing.
The world is indeed walking in new
paths today, men at arms women in indus
try. Natives of far off climes are wearing
the uniforms of empires and fighting on
battlefields in distant continents Thou
sands of American youths are trudging the
hot sands of Africa's deserts, making their
camp in the jungles of tropical isles serv-
ing their flag
Winding everywhere long these
paths, crossing and recrossing, now bril-
liant and inviting, now hardly discernible,
are the paths of righteousness wherein any
man may find his soul restored.
In a dark, disordered world the Bible
has gone everywhere to illumine the paths
of righteousness - the paths that lead to
the God and Father of Jesus Christ, who
comforts, guides upholds and saves. It is
in the pockets and the hands and the hearts
of millions of armed men, who are ready to
die for the truth it teaches. It has been
opened in homes all over America and
elsewhere, where it has been too long clos
ed.
Never such confusion, never so many
treading new paths never so many far
from home, never SO much temptation,
never so much suffering so widespread
across the world, and with it ALL never
was the Bible more eagerly sought after,
never, possibly so earnestly read.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
Gardening Luck

So many booklets, advertisements, ra-
dio talks, newspaper features and lectur-
ers are warning us of the countless things
we must watch in order to have success
full Victory garden that the average nov
ice must by now be pretty discouraged
about the whole thing.
All the advice being handed out is
sound advice If followed to the letter the
chances of having bumper crop from a
Victory garden are excellent. But it is al
so true that quite number of people who
disregard few of the rules will also have
a successful garden.
Perhaps, in order to keep us from get
ting too discouraged, some of the garden
experts ought to reveal few of the stor-
les about tomato plants which grew in
weed-choked fields and still produced to-
matoes, of rhubarb which kept producing
year after year without any care at all and
of fruit trees which produced bushels of
delicious fruit without having been pruned
or sprayed.
In general it is of course advisable to
warn us about all of the tragedies we may
face in a garden so that we will be pre-
pared to deal with them, but by now some
of us need little of the encouragement
which comes from hearing about people
who made good through just "green
thumb" luck.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
Let's All Cleanup

The town of West Jefferson and the
merchants are to be congratulated on their
efforts to cleanup the town of unsightly
rubbish and garbage. Every citizen should
cooperate in the movement and not only
clean up next week during official Clean
Up" Week, but should make special effort
to keep their premises clean.
We believe it would be a good idea for
the town council to place some garbage
cans at convenient public places in order
that the passing public might have place
in which to dispose of their garbage in
stead of following the line Of least resist
ance, throwing it on the street, an act
which is unlawful
We hope the cleanup idea will not
stop with the town of West jefferson but
will extend throughout the county. In our
county of Ashe, so richly blessed with ma
tural beauty, it seems almost a crime to
have the scenery spoiled by unnecessary
rubbish.
And while we are on the job of clean
ing up, let's go one step further and beauti-
fly where it is possible. A little paint or
even white-wash goes long way on an
unsightly building or fence. A little plant
ing of flowers or shrubbery is also big
help in many cases.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
GERMANS SURRENDER
IN NORTH AFRICA

Continued from Page One)
to the coast to cut them off from
their comrades facing the British
eighth army to the south after
the British first army had stab
bed across the base of Cap Bon.
Once established across the
neck of the peninsula, first army
armored units Immediately NOV
ed up both sides of the noun
famous strip jutting into the Med
iterranean, rounding up 10000
prisoners during the day and
capturing all the territory be-
tween Hammamet and Benz All
choum in an 18-mile sweep up
the southeast side.
Allied airmen carried out an
other tremendous raid on the
Mediterranean island stepping
stones necessary for continental
invasion. Nearly 200 bombers
escorted by more than 100 fight
err planes smashed at Marsha, ST.
cily's closest port to Cap Bon.
Churchill was accompanied to
Washington by staff of military
and naval experts.
His swift trip to the United
States after the sudden collapse
of axis arms in Tunisia led to
conjecture that he had come for
final checking over of plans
for hammering open another
front on the European continent
and perhaps to project allied
strategy even beyond that point.
While the impact of the axis
North African defeat was reflect
ed in reports of soaring revolt in
Europe and mounting axis woes,
the Nazi-controlled Danish radio
predicted yesterday "this battle
for Germany is about to begin"
; The broadcast, recorded by the
Associated Press, dealt at length
with difficulties that would face
an allied invasion of Hitler's Eu-
rOpean fortress.
1t said that behind his fortifi-
cations, Hitler had from 14,000,-
900 to 100000 soldiers set to
meet the invader.
Nearly 200 allied bombers es-
corted by more than 100 fighters
smashed at the port of Marsha,
Sicily, yesterday in another ire
mendous bombing raid.
The attack followed heavy
blows on airfields in Western ST.
city Monday and the largest day.
light raid of the campaign Sun
day when nearly 400 planes
pounded Palermo, Sicily.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
transportation Fights

One of the toughest longtime prob
lens our nation needs to solve is that of
transportation.
During this war the railroads have been
doing a marvellous job. So are the nations
truck operators, the barge lines, the ship
ping industry and, of course, the aviation
transportation lines.
But under the surface there has long
been bitter fight going on between COM
peting methods of transportation. The
trucking and barge operators say that the
railroads are trying to ruin them by back
ing state regulations to interfere with their
operation. The railroads claim that the
truck operators and bus companies are get
ting away with murder-that the railroads
are paying taxes and submitting to regu-
lations which make it difficult for them to
compete with highway transportation.
During the war strict government reg
ulation may be necessary, but to preserve
free enterprise in the big transportation
industry after the war the competing in
dustries must end their vicious fights
Otherwise government control of trans
portation is inevitable.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
WINSTON CHURCHILL
NOW IN WASHINGTON

Continued from Page One)
resurveyed in the light of the al
lied victory in North Africa.
Washington observers recall the
language used in the official
communique summing up their
last meeting-at Casablanca -
which said plans for "offensive
campaigns" in 1913 had been
completed by the two allied Lead
ers and their combined chiefs of
staff.
One of those offensives which
the communique mentioned in
the plural has now been capped
with great allied sweep in Tu-
nisia. Where will the next ones
hit and when?
The Berlin radio broadcast
Tuesday night, less than two
hours before Washington's an
nouncement of Prime Minister
Churchill's arrival in the United
States for war conference with
President Roosevelt, a declara-
ton that Churchill was "attend-
ing a large conference of all
prominent military and civilian
men in the Near East being held
at Cairo"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
Buying Bonds

This county and every individual who
had a part in raising and surprising the
large quota assigned during the recent
second war loan drive, are to be congratu-
lated.
There were a number of large buyers
but larger number of smaller buyers and
this is encouraging. Every individual who
buys an $1875 bond has a slice in the
Freedom for which we are all striving,
just as every youth who enters service.
Let's remember this and all continue to
buy all we can in the months that are to
come.
In a message received by this news
paper and others throughout the nation,
Secretary Morgenthau expresses his ap-
probation and thanks for the truly re-
markable" contribution they made to the
second war loan. eve feel quite certain
that never before has any cause received
such complete and effective support from
the newspapers of the country and we are
grateful for it,, Mr.. Morgenthau writes.
This newspaper is happy to be able to
cooperate in drive Of such vital impOr-
lance to the nation and the world
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
''The Horse And
Buggy Days"

I may be old and doty
And dead-set in my ways,
But it's all because 1 was borr
and raised
In "The Horse and Buggy
days."
And things now are so different
From what they were in my
boyhood days,
That I just can't get adjusted,
To these new tangled ways.
When I was a boy, we rode
horseback, s.
Or more often we'd just walk
And when we met a neighbor,
We had time for a little talk.
But in these days of hectic life
People just pass on by;
They have no time for "how-do
you-do?"
The heads are held so high.
We had no A. A. A. back then,
To tell us what to grow,
And how much of each kindred
crop,
That we are allowed to SOW.
And also we had no rationine
boards
To tell us what to eat,
Nor how much we were allowed
to buy,
Of sugar, coffee and meat.
And then we had no bar-maids,
Selling beer and wine;
For women had to much respect
then,
To engage in such line.
And the girls never used 1ipstick
Nor cut their flowing tresses;
They kept their hands soft and
white,
Washing their mothers dishes.
1t may be we are progressive
With all these new-fangleo
ways;
But for me, I rather be back in
THE Horse and Buggy days.
BY J. E. Parker
Parker, N G..
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
A Fine Edition

Wilkes county is doing an outstanding
job in the Food for Freedom campaign, &C
cording to the reports revealed in the re-
cent edition of the Journal Patriot
There are perhaps many other counties
doing an equally good job, but few of them
have it called to the attention in such
fine edition as that of the Journal Patriot
Both the paper and the people Of Wilkes
are to be congratulated.
While not as large and outstanding
farming county as many in North Carolina,
Wilkes makes the most of what it has and
happily has number of products that are
grown on a commercial scale. Of special
interest is the part the county plays in
poultry production. ...
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
STORES ARE TO CLOSE
ON WEDNESDAY p. M

CONTINUED from Page One)
stores, service stations and other
service establishments giving
service to the public, but chiefly
to retail stores.
The closing agreement turned
in by the merchants committee
included all dry goods and de-
partment stores, all grocery and
furniture stores and several 9TH
ers.
Local beauty parlors and den
fists offices have been closing
for some time on Wednesday af-
ternoons.
Serving on the committee were
Sharpe S. Shoemaker, Glenn
Parker and Jack Rhodes. A par
tial list of the names reported by
the committee for closing are
published elsewhere in an an
nouncement advertisement.
tents, or the equipment, or part
of the labor required for home
canning operations may consume
the food produced without sur
rendering ration points.