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The sub., 1943-04-22
Camp Young Desert Training Center IndiO, California

Dear Eddie:
 Was happy to receive your let ter. which I received yesterday. The climate here is very different from what I have been used to. To give you an idea, this camp is about 200 feet above sea level and during the day the temperature during the winter months reaches 90 degrees and the evenings are very cool, like late fall in New England.
 Our tents have no electric lights and we burn candles. Our com pany is strictly a transportation outfit, supplying the Army with all kinds of supplies.
 During the summer months the temperature reaches 135 degrees q am tol6. The air here is very light and one feels fit as fiddle all the time, and I am not exag- gerating. Last Saturday I went to Palm Springs, which is about 52 miles north of this camp and this city is the last word for a sporty desert resort which is even warm CT than our camp and is also warm CT than Los Angeles and surround ing area, and therefore is patron ized during the winter months by the west coast people and espe- cially the movie colony in Holly wood.
 forgot to mention that our camp here is almost surrounded by low mountain ranges and the sum- sets here are heavenly to see and no wonder people are so romantic out here in California, and now I can readily understand why peo- pie also wear such colorful sport apparel.
 have not yet received any mail from any of the boys. but should they find time to write, will sure- ly answer their letters. I know you will keep 'em slid- ing. and you can depend upon our keeping these 21lton 6x6 trucks rolling.
 Sincerely,
 Samuel D. Rabinovitch.
The sub., 1943-04-22
Style And Safety
E. B. Acker.

The ways of have been somewhat baffing to industry officials especially when to convnc ing feminine workers that they should safe hardos Although British have been at work much long, than American women the hair-do hazard still exists in English factories In fact it is reported to be the principal cause of accidents to
 The safety experts explain rather paintvely that the laons appeals The current up-swept style danger os they say because curl fall out of place and catch in whirling machinery and protective cap bandanna would spoil the cofure.
 But the dstraught officials haven't given up yet They suggest that Hollywood would bring back the boyish bob the girls would promptly rush to the nearest haresser to copy the style and the hair would promptly sh Perhaps they have hit upon the way get around the fobe which makes milady willing to risk safety for style.
The sub., 1943-04-22

Re9rinted by 9etmissii0a of Aath0t.
The sub., 1943-04-22
A. A. F. c. T. D. (air crew) Bucknell University. J. c. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Hi Bill:
 By the time you get this letter you probably won't even remem- Der me. It seems like years since worked in the tinshop. I'm stationed at Wilkes-Barre. Pa, right now. came here about three weeks ago from Atlantic City. N. J. What place that was. l It is the hell-hole of the Army even worse than Devens. ! got into Atlantic City at 3:3O a, m. after a twelve-hour train ride. We had one hours sleep and have been on the go ever since. I miss stopping for my g o'clock break fast.
 It's really swell here though. There are only couple of hum dred of us air crew students here so the people aren't used to us yet and treat us swell. Beautiful girls were stopping me on the street last night every five minutes while was walking on guard duty. They invite us to Sunday dinner and throw us dances all the time. The only thing wrong with being in the Army is the fact that I won't get leave for 18 months when I ship across. How are things at the Boat? I get a lot of New London news, but not much from the happy lit- tie family in the north yard tin- shop Nursery. I did hear that you had girls working there now. We have pretty good basket ball team here. I'm on it by some sort of miracle. The coach was only going to let real pros or col- lege varsity men try out. felt pretty confident for some unknown reason and told the coach that I played for the Diesels. He treated me like a king then and when I finally made the team I told him that T played for Bulkeley High and the tinshop. He didn't know what to say.
 I must be keeping all you fel- lows from your work. so I'll stop now.
 Al D'Amico-If Bill Haase or Red Macdonald don't see this let ter, please say hello and thank them for the breaks they gave me.
 Tell the gang to write. as we all love to get mail here. Henry s. Carey. Jr.
The sub., 1943-04-22
Blake w. Rainy "A. S.) Go. 1O26 U. s. N. T. s.
 Newport, R. I.

Dear Eddie:
 just received your letter; it was thoughtful of you. The fellows in the service like to get mail. and that goes for me too. We'll, to- morrow we start our training, and will be in training for at least B weeks or longer. We have been waiting for our company to fill up. and it looks like we're all set to go. So far we haven't done much of anything but small jobs around the barracks.
 By your letter I see that it won't be long before more of the boys leave for the service. Well. I guess that is to be expected. Murry was certainly hurried when they wanted him. Who is working at my fathers bench now that Murry and I have left?
 It looks like you fellows at the E. B. are going to have women helping you before long if l am any judge of matters. Well, I guess most of them expected it any, way. The boys at the shop will have dates after work. Tell Ernie. Sam and Chick to take it easy be- cause you know they have to go to work again the next day.
 We'll, for me 1t looks like I was just out of luck; as I left the wo- men came in. Maybe it's all for the better.
 The chow here is O. K. We go to movies about 3 times 8 week. The other night we saw the pro- gram Spotlight Bands" presented by Coca-Cola, coming from the Training Station. Every week they tour one of the Service Camps and make broadcast with diff ferent dance band each week.
 Last week it was Louis Prima and Co. They were very good and all the men enjoyed them, includ- ing myself.
 Well. give my regards to the boys in the shop, including MT. Sprague,
The sub., 1943-04-22
When
Winifred L. Knapp

Frightened cry of Youth
 Unuttered prayer of age. Cracking laughter of fools, Sonorous voice of sage. Plaintive call of the weak, Robust shout of the strong. The sauve smooth talk of wealth Hope deferred Oyerlong.
The sub., 1943-04-22
OUR MEN AND WOMEN
IN SERVICE A k A A h

Harry Blair, Jerry Prunier, Louis Reyes, also Casey in the Office.
 Sincerely yours,
 Blake w. Rainy P. 8. Write again, and Keep ErA Sliding"
The sub., 1943-04-22

Kindly word of the just,
 Furtive whisper of greed, Blind leaders call to blind, Alphabets, slogans, creeds. Dictators, Captains, Kings Join in terrible song
 Rising to God on wings How long O Lord how long?
The sub., 1943-04-22
S'&fsss'', g: @= lsttsMbttls
 Gditot.
Editor:

GuAtOES
 Being a shipyard worker and a regular reader of the Sub" I cam not pass by unnoticed the ever increasing space devoted to airing the Absentee"
 Having worked for eight months without absence, cannot be &C., cused of being in this class, or con- doning such practice. In fact, it Is thoroughly agreed to be highly unpatriotic and extremely adverse to the effort in which most of us are laboring heart and hand.
 Yet, in our midst, is another, as yet unnamed. No doubt this worker" can be multiplied by thousands in the shipyards through out the country. He never misses a day at work" He is always prepared to stay any number of overtime hours; in fact, he Is sure to be the last to leave on his shift. He is paid by the hour, SO carries careful record of time worked" He pores over his pay slip each payday to make sure there has been no mistake of few cents made against his favor. In all, to the outsider, he is a model and patriotic war worker, but when it comes to hours of actual work and output, this mans record makes the absentee's days off look like a five-minute smoking inter- val.
 The absentee" is just not there. His time-card is blank for that day. He is not paid for that day, and most important, someone can take over his machine or his bench for the day.
 In times of peace, >shipyards find what the output should be per man and per hour or day. Why should this "worker" be allowed to con- tinue at one-half or less the pace of the man next to him? If we are in such dire need of manpoWer in our war shipyardS, why not see to it that all persons performing like operation have an output somewhere near the best worker at that task?
 have been referred to as a job killer" by this class, yet, in their snug, smiling and selfish way. they either do not care, or just fail to 600 that thev are no less killers Of our own boys than the Nazis or Japs.
 This worker will recognize him self by the above description. Has he an argument.
 An American
The sub., 1943-04-22
Editor:

Editor:
 Every night now when we DICK up the paper all we can read about is absenteeism. One person claims all of us workers are a bunch ot drunks: the next thinks we make SO much money we just take day off when we feel like 1t. Would some of these writers care to try a few nights at the shipyard on the HOO D. m. to T a. m. shift, with the wind blowing across the ways at zero, as many of these men did night after night during the past winter? Or maybe they would care to lie on this nice warm steel and do a little welding as a few of these men and women do day and night. Or wallow around in the nice warm mud in the Victory Yard that just goes over the top of your rubbers? >.
 If you think we're kidding, come down one of these foggy, damp nights and see how super-hurnan you are.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29
Fire Blotter

Fires in dwellings occupied by
Roger Nelly at 1886 North Main
street and Gordon Serrell, SO
Pearl street, were attributed to
Overaows in all burners, fire Off
Gals state. The fires which &C.
Cured late yesterday afternoon
and caused but slight damage to
the two apartments were extin-
guished by firemen Of Engines 1
and Z, Truck 2 and the Auxiliary
Company.
Firemen were summoned to
fOur-story apartment house at
134-142 Cherry street shortly
after midnight when an over
heated stove in a children's play
room alarmed the occupants.
Damage was slight and the fire
was brought under control when
Engine and Truck 3 from the.
East Main street house responded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06
Calendar ofCom;ng G"eph

THURSDAY, MAY s
LADIES' AID OF Trinity Lutheran church. school,
p.
GAMES PARTY in Veterans hall, sponsored VFW Post
and Auxiliary at $50 p
FRATERNAL ORDER of Eagles, in Aerie hall, at 8 D M
RED CROSS WORK Masonic Service Center Cadete in Ma
sonic hail. at 1880 p m.
METROPOLITAN AUXILIARY, in John r. Murphy Club.
rooms, at p. m.
REBEKAH LODGE in Barron hail. at p. m.
FRIDAY, MAY
RUMMAGE SALE in Krauseneck building Broadway spon-
sored by Presbyterian groups.
IOOF. initiation, in Barron hall at 1880 p m.
MACOMB COUNTY Board of Kings Daughters at the Home
at 2:30 p.
PUBLIC CARD PARTY in Masonic hail. sponsored by
Star, at p. M; OES meeting at AS D. m,
SATURDAY, NAY
RUMMAGE SALE in Krauseneck building Broadway spon-
sored by Presbyterian groups
JUNIOR MACCABEES tap-dancing and meeting in Barron
hail. at 100 p m.
DANCE at Masonic Service Center, sponsored Macomb
County White Shrine of Jerusalem, $50 D. m
PUBLIC DANCE in Harrison hail. sponsored by Herman
Xix PTA.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06
81 apaneSe.AmericanS
Hate the FatIlerlamd
BY BETTY MCDONALD
NEA Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. May 6 - Un-
usual secrecy shrouded the ar
rival of heavily loaded troop
convoy from Hawaii this month.
Crowding the decks were $500
soldiers, silently watching the
outline of America loom out of
the fog. Ninety per cent of these
men never had seen the land
they'd pledged their lives to de-
fend. They were Japanese-Amer-
leans.
The story of the convoy trip
across $500 miles of water, and
of secret train embarkations to
their training camp at Fort Shell
by, Miss, was described by a
young officer who accompanied
the Japanese-Americ soldiers
from Honolulu. He is Capt. Aims
ley Mahkoa, recent visitor in
Washington, and firm believer
in the loyalty of the Nisei.
"The boys were all volunteers,
from cane fields, schools, de-
Tense jobs. They were selected
from over 5000 japanese men
who signed up" Capt. Mahikoa
said.
They weren't very good sail
ors-most of them were seasick
but they turned out to be ex-
cellent soldiers. They obey COM
mands without question; they
drill without complaint; their
minds seem to slip automatical-
ly into military patterns of liv-
ing"
HAD MONEY AT FIRST
On the trip across, Capt. Ma
hikoa recalled that many of the
buck privates were loaded with
money earned at lucrative de-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06

Tense jobs at Pearl Harbor and
other military areas. Their crap
games often netted $1,000 pots.
They tipped lavishly. Once,
aboard troop train, they threw
coins down on the heads of pas
sersby.
On arrival in port Capt. Ma
hikoa was unable to phone his
wife from whom he'd been
separated for three years. She
lived only four blocks away. Sc
crecy was essential, and the Jap
anese Americans carried their
duffle bags from boat to train
under cover of darkness. He
said:
They weren't allowed off the
train. We were afraid of what
might happen if people knew
about $500 Japanese being in the
vicinity. Once l was asked by
people at station what nation
ality the boys were. l told 'em
these were crack troops from
Chang Kai Shek's army, here
for training!"
When train porters asked the
soldiers themselves. the answer
was always: "Hawaiian-born
American!"
A trifle homesick, they all
wore paper leis, sang island
songs TO ukelele accompaniment
on the trip to camp. Most of
them speak pidgin English, ia.
'maliar in Hawaii, but their jar
gon baffled the officers in
charge at Shelby. They went
crazy over candy bars, and one
buck private sent a porter out
with $50 to buy up the station.
Most of the japanese Ameri-
cans, before leaving Hawaii, said
they were willing to fight on
any front. Some even asked fo.'
action in the japanese theater
Army men, however, think it
advisable to send them into ae-
ton on the European front.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06
The Mother
of Mothers
Day, Smiles

PHILADELPHIA. May 6-(P)
The Mother of Mothers Day.
a frail little spinster who re-
sembles Whistler's mother, urg-
ed today that her countrymen
wear war stamp flowers this
year instead of the traditional
carnation.
1T was done in 1919 recall
ed Miss Anna NJ. Jarvis as she
sat in her victorian parlor,
darkened by blinds which hid
a broken window and cluttered
with 30-year collection of
Mothers Day proclamations, let
tiers, newspaper clippings and
mementoes.
Worn and fragile at IS, she
retains little of the energy that
enabled her TO pen thousands of
letters, speak and lobby until
Congress in 1914 set aside the
second Sunday in May as Moth
er's Day.
But the fire of devotion to
her own mother, whose work
among the civil war needy in
Harrison county, Va, stimulat-
ed Miss Jarvis life work, still
CLOVIS in her, its singleness of
purpose pointed by the war.
While American. at home
wear war stamps. she'd like
mothers writing to their sons
on faraway battlcfields to label
the envelopes Mothers Day."
and suggests that chaplains re-
mind service men to honor their
mothers May 9.
Of wartime employment of
mothers in industry, she says:
Replacement of defense work.
ers depends upon willing moth
erhood, but mothers first duty
is TO her children. Those with
small children belong, as ever,
in their own homes"
In her study, museum of tri-
butes to motherhood, faded
rugs and newspapers protect
from leaky roof the heaps of
papers which overflow chairs
and sofas.
There's so much work here"
she sighed, land l haven't even
an index"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06
Pupils Sold $40, 600
in Bonds During
April Campaign

Students of the Mount Glenn
ems Public School system sold
more than $4,000 worth of
bonds during the second drive
ending April 80, Superintendent
l.. Wade Fast said today on the
basis OF still incomplete reports
This weeks totals were: Glenn
ems, S24 $50; Dickinson, S56.85:
Donaldson, $500: Gran
S25.45, Lincoln, $3.50. Ma
comb, $500; Wilson, Sl39.4O:
high school, Sl,l70.5O; total, ST.
$3.50.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06

y
maintained perfect scholastic
records during the third quart
err at Mount Clemens High
school, the honor roll released
by Principal Monte McFarlane
revealed today.
Forty two boys and ninety
three girls won places on the
honor roll. 1t follows:
800
ia Margot Breitmeyer
ia John Bullock
ia Erma Muckenhirn
LIB Victor Potoroka
ia Janice Stuck
2.83
TIA Dorothy Menke
TIA Stuart Pigman
$50
l0A Mary 10 Burgess
ia Robert Magary
ia Grace Niemann
2.67
"a Arden Albee
10A June Hirtz
ga Dorothy Kandt
"a Shirley Levine
ia Hester Matthews
10A Norma Metler
"a Eloise Nielsen
ga Larry Trombley
$50
OBJ Ann Bonnet
"a Helen Davis
ga Charlotte Fornadley
OBJ Roger Golden
TIA Eleanor Miller
LIB Florence Miller
LIB Charles O'Grady
TIA Paul Tripod
$50
lob Irene Benz
OBJ Ruth Campbell
ia Ruth Jane Darnell
TIA Lawrence Fox
GA Betty Meitz
ia Pauline Pringnitz
ga Fred Shaw
"a Eunice Walkenhorst
2.4O
"a James Darnell
10A Dorothy Denison
10A Ellen Jane Ferry
ia Betty Jane Flory
10A Ruth Hauer
liza Shirley Kraatz
TIA Imogene Middleton
OBJ Velma Jean Peters
ia Anne Pigman
10A Alvin Sahrow
OBJ Shirley Stier
2.33
10A June Bennett
ga Marilyn Bleakley
LIB Sibyl Levine
ga Ruth Papist
ga Donna Sedora
ga Virginia Ullrich
ga Lauryne Vermette
2.25
ia Robert Barnes
LIB Charlotte Bar
12A Ann Daner
ia Harold Grewe
ia Lorraine Hodson
ia Carl Mueller
Marcia Coulon
John Crane
10 Ann DriScoll
Virginia Duncanson
Rose Marie Ferry
LIB Kenneth Redfield
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06
Marauders
are Nabbed
by Police
EAST LANSING, May 6-tP)

EAST LANSING, May SIP
- State police headquarters re-
ported that two men sought in
connection with resort robber-
les in the Houghton Lake area
were apprehended by State Po-
lice at Milo shortly after / a.
M. today.
The two were caught by troop
ers from the West Branch post
as they attempted to steal an au-
tomobile, police here said. One
was identified as Ralph Ridge
way. 80, former Midland resi-
dent, and the other was not inn
mediateiy identified.
II The men apparently had fled
into Oscoda county after escap-
ing a blockade in the Houghton
Lake sector which troopers and
conservation officers had main
tanned from Monday midnight
until noon yesterday.
A car abandoned by the two
men near Higgins Lake Monday
night was full of loot from cot
tages in the area, police said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06
HAS 800 RELATIVES
SERVING

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -
W.D-Auxiliary Olivia Eubanks
of the End WAACs training Gen.
ter here has 800 relatives in the
armed services including her
collie dog, Bonnie. She said
there are enough members of
her family, counting in : laws
and third cousins, to make two
companies.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06
Three Girls. Two Boys
Win Scholastic HOnOrS

40
ia Walter Allor
l0A Marianne Briley
LIB Ada Davis
Oh Richard Fox
lib Joyce Gulden
ia Lois Hafenfeld
10A Barbara Kroner
Oh Sophia Mighion
lib Mary Papajohn
l0A Marion Rentel
Oh John Roberts
lib Lawrence Schott
l0A Norman Schwan
1QA Edward Sheldon
lib Donald Warren
2.l7
"a June Bowman
"a Mitzi Burkart
l0A Carol Coulon
"a Betsy Green
lob Shirley Hulett
"a Lucille Korxynski
10A Violet Mensior
"a Katherine Moran
l2B Barbara Nicholson
"a Ruth Rauschelbach
TIA Evelyn Riley
ia Elizabeth Ross
"a Jean Syria
"a Ray Vickers
lib Ann Jean Walton
"a Raymond Warren
"a Earline Wegforth
"a Armenian WEI
lob Carolyn Wiegand
"a Wanda Wright
JUNIOR HIGH HONOR ROLL
10 Ann Ball
Bernice Benz
Betty Lou Bonnet
John Buckley
Barbara CASTOR
Dolores Glefke
Marian Guild
Bob Hameister
Phillis Kearl
Betty Krickstein
ellis Levine
Sheila Lewis
Albert Matz
Beatrice Meddaugh
Bill Meyers
Harry Mighion
Kenneth Miller
Robert Neale
Nancy Nickel
Tom Poole
jeanne Prindle
Robert Randolph
Joan Reitzel
Joan Rosso
Elaine Sanders
Harold Schingeck
Patricia Schott
Jean Schutt
Kent Schwandt
Janet Sherman
Norma Shook
John Suttle
Gerald Syria
Mary Thompson
Bruce Toner
Patricia Trombly
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06

In 1923, tiny scout planes were
but to be used in ranging ahead
of submarines and finding vic
TINS and then flying back to the
submarine and being taken
aboard again.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON D. c. OCTOBER TO- 1913

matter what sort of work she en-
cages in, SO long as her point OF
view remains feminine" says Merle
IF they once lose that feminine
approach to life, the biggest wal
of all, the war between the sexes
will be on, when present hostilities
cease and the men come home
These men will find women set ir
jobs and privileges once considered
theirs exclusively, and will fine
home Is just place where his boss
relaxes. His wife has become the
dictatorial, assertive feminine boss
that all men dread.
"A girl can stand at lathe eight
hours day, she can grease cars
and motors, run bus or Streetcal
or run a riveting machine. If she
thinks of herself as feminine, she
will remain SO. If she begins tc
be affected by that insidious feel
ing of mastery that can easily come
with wearing trousers, wonderland
l mean all of us-Will have lost
their most valuable asset
1T is strange" she continues
when you analyze it, but trousers
are only cloth cut in rather un-
interesting pattern. not too flatter-
ing on the average feminine figure
Our war world has made it neces-
sary for women to wear these gar
ments to perform their work, but
they should be made aware of their
danger.
Soldiers, and all the men in the
armed forces, don't like women in
trousers or in masculine looking
clothes. Every actress who has gone
on camp tours will tell you the same
story-that the boys admire the
wide, droopy brims and clinging,
fitted feminine costumes.
If women would realize that their
most important weapon in the bat
tie of life is their feminity they
wouldn't be so ready to throw it
away for false sense of impor-
tance gained through wearing
pants.
AT session of the French Cham
Der of Deputies before the war, one
Deputy was arguing for extreme
masculine rights for women After
ALL he said, there is very little diff
ference nowadays between men and
women For a moment there was
silence. Then up jumped another
deputy 'Hurray for the difference,
he Saj6 roverontly
That's The way I feel, too," says
Merle.
Evening star., 1943-10-10

spot a chorus boy clowning in a
square dance. He Kisses at him and
the boy starts as though lashed and
behaves himself. So it goes, inces-
SAINT activity, unremitting watchful-
ness, until finally, at 11:14, lambert
leans forward to the voice box with
a sigh. House curtain" House
lights up" The show Is over
But Lambert is not through. He
rounds up the chorus boys. Johnny
was clowning in the Alamo square
dance. You will have to stay with
me and rehearse for half an hour
Amid a chorus of groans Johnny
speaks up. "It makes me feel like a
heel to keep the rest of the lads" he
complains
Think how I feel" Lambert re-
torts witheringly.