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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-25

nobody even remotely resemb-
ling Vaughan Dunbar had ever
set foot in the building.
Lieutenant Thatcher hurried
TO the station of the Long Island
Railroad, which was close at
hand. But urgent questioning
of the newsman and the ticket
seller brought only blank faces
and shaking heads.
They took the automobile to
the sheriffs office at Mineola,
and went through the tedious
business of discovering that its
wheel, doors and driving appara-
tus bore, amply, the fingerprints
of Vaughan Dunbar-and of no.
body else.
For the first time, Lieutenant
Thatcher seemed discouraged
And the metropolitan area alarm
was extended TO become a ma
tional alarm.
The police, and his own news
paper, continued the search for
Bill Stewart, prowling some
where over the embatted con.
tinent of Europe. And back al
Stone House, Lieutenant That
cher lifted his cocktail glass "a
his lips, sighed, swallowed spar
ingly, and regarded Captain
Meehan with care.
(To Be Continued)
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-25
THE CAR is FOUND
CHAPTER XIX
BY MORRIS MARKEY

Cynthia laid the cablegram on
the table standing at the arm
of her chair.
II see" she said. But it was
plain that she did not see at ALL
"Of course you do" said Lieu
tenant Thatcher. "You see that
we are dealing with an impostor
= pretender of the boldest sort
And we haven't a single clew as
to who he really was, or where
he really came from. Except
one.
He paused, and became more
intent.
THAT is the extraordinary
note this man left on the desk.
Il may be the rawlings of a crazy
man, of course. But you see,
we can't depend on that. He
may really have known your
father years ago. And so it is
important for us to hear every
thing you can tell us about Col
onel Merriwether's past life"
She hesitated. She hesitated
long enough for the others in the
room-Fred West, first, and then
the rest Immediately after him
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-25
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I AM A MURDERER
CoPYRioHr. ieA1.
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/ to get to their feet and move
toward the door. But Cynthia
called them back.
There is not much" she be-
gan. And then, in a very tired,
small voice, she told all of them
the same story which she had
told Vaughan Dunbar on that
night beside the pool.
When she was done, there was
complete silence for a little
time. Even Lieutenant Thatcher
seemed unable to pick up the
thread OF his talk, and Captain
Meehan was lost in a study. 1t
was such a pathetic and such a
little story. And told so few
things about Colonel Merriweth-
err. ..u.
Henry Prentiss had sat with
his chin on his fists, looking at
the floor, while she told it, and
he did not lift his head now.
Mitchell Grace was flushed with
embarrassment as IL he had been
forced against his will to witness
the unwilling of privacies. Anne
started to cry, and Fred West
took her arm in a hard grip, and
she stopped.
Lieutenant Thatcher coughed,
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Richmond

Mrs David Carl entertained
for the members of the Rich
mond Woman's Club in h r
home. Nineteen members were
present. Mrs. H. A. Simmons
gave a paper on the resources
of Russia and Mrs. Royce Howes
discoursed on the new Soviet.
Refreshments were served. On
Feb. the club will meet with
Mrs. Charles B. Lutes. Chang
Kai-shek and the Soong Sisters,
the westward trek and the new
life movement are the subjects
to be covered by Mrs. L. W..
Youatt and Mrs. l. M. Hunt.
The members of the Methodist
Mems Club will meet Monday
evening, January 25th for their
dinner and meeting. A program
has been planned.
Richmond Columbus Farmers
Club will meet on Thursday,
January % at the home of MIR.
and Mrs. Ray Houston.
The members of the Diversity
Club were entertained at the
home of Mrs. l.. j. Jefferies.
Mrs. Waldo Herman gave talk
on 1.-The F our Freedoms or
What we are fighting for Re-
freshments were served. Each
member wrote a letter to some
boy from this village in the serv-
ice. The next meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Cliff
ford Hensch on Feb. /. Mrs.
John Tones will speak on The
Status of India before the War
and Miss Bernadine Mitchell
will have as her subject Pres
ent Day India"
Mrs. F. Scott Burke was host
ess to the members of the Rich
mond Study Club. A current
event was given by members in
response to roll call. Mrs. Cor
don Adams re a d a paper on
Busy Days in Panama" prepar-
ed by Mrs. Helen Bailey and
Mrs. Howard Bauer read an in
teresting paper on Panama-Leg-
end and Romance. The group
will meet on Feb. 3 at the home
of MIR. and Mrs. Gordon Adams.
The occasion will mark the an
nual Husbands Night. Mrs. j.
Guy Fletcher and Mrs. Lewis
Smith will assist.
The members of the Eta Zeta
Pi club were entertained at the
home of Mrs. Harry Kolts, Jr.
A sleigh ride was planned for
Monday, Jan. 25. The evening
was spent in sewing. The next
regular meeting will be with
Mrs. Lyle Jewell as hostess at
the Whitaker home on Feb. l.
Owing to the condition of the
roads, the members of the c. A.
L. club have postponed their
party which was to have been
held on Thursday evening, to
Monday evening, January Is.
On this evening the members
will enjoy a sleigh ride to the
home of MIR. and Mrs. Frank
Lueck for $50 supper. After
the supper, cards will be en-
joyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. VILLA m E.
Baumgarten entertained in their
home on Main street on Wednes-
day evening honoring their son,
Charles, who was indicted into
the armed forces on Thursday.
Mrs. William Harris will en-
terrain for the members of the
10-A club in her home on Thurs
Ia,, ouoniyoo
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HEART-BROKEN ENGLISH GIVE UP HOMES TO AID INVASION

he must move again. Old, tired. it was
hard for him to understand He feared
being sent to city. For somebody who
had never been on a railroad train, 1t
would be hard to take.
Trout. the 72-year-old sexton quietly
slipped his cider What must be must
bes what say" he stated philosophi-
cally at last-and asked for another
pint. But later I found him in the
graveyard looking at the grave he'd dug
some years ago for his parsons wife, at
the head Of which stood stone en-
graved with her name and that of her
old husband, with the date of his death
still left blank. People plan to live and
die near their homes in rural England
but the war won't let them.
found the 84-year-old parson sitting
in his rambling vicarage-a room strewn
with his possessions-all of which go
with him to the bed-sitting room found
for him in a nearby town. He was
cheerfully making out his list Of groc-
cries and preparing to pack the church
plate, for that must all 60, too, you
know. Are you interested in brasses?
We've some lovely ones here" I can't
give his name, for 1t is in reference
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with three children drew water for the
weekly washing. I've not found any
where yet, for people round don't want
any more children-theyve already got
full up with evacuees from London. But
l expect the government will find some
thing for me. What frets me Is how
frantic my husband in the army in
Africa will be when he knows we've lost
our home"
68 Beehives to Move.
A couple passed us, trudging cheer
fully up the hill to the village hall,
where the various government depart
ments had representatives giving advice
on every problem. We've got SO bee
hives to move they laughed, "and
that's a job this time of year. The bees
don't like it."
Pvts. Chester D. Adkins, Harts, w.
Va, and Frank Laverty. MoorestoWn,
N j.. looked on sympathetically while
the contents of a small cottage were
piled up in the street for collection by
official cars.
In the village hall puzzled villagers
and farmers stood in line to ask ques-
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books through which the Germans could
locate the village.
Outside there was much activity.
United States Army trucks moved with
difficulty up and down the steep grades,
preparing for the coming troops. Sem
tries in helmets, stood watch at coun-
try lanes.
cottage door opened and the first
villager to leave-89-year-o Grandma
Guest-was helped out to waiting car
There she had been born, worked as
a flsherwoman, married, raised seven
children and two little orphan neigh
bors. Into the car were packed in
Vulnerable bundles-pathetic collection
of lifetimes souvenirs and treasures.
It's hard" she kept repeating, when
you've been married here-and with my
sons away at sea. But it can't be helped
they tell me"
Parked outside the schoolhouse was
station wagon. present from the Brit
ish War Relief Society of Burlingame,
Calf, and two helpers handed out pies
and tea to villagers too busy to cook for
themselves.
BY the we'll looking woman
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Square, could not affect the career OF
the living Stalin.'
Some years after Lenin wrote his "tes-
lament" Stain himself read 1t at
party meeting and explained that he was
rude toward those who treacherously
break their word, who split and destroy
the party" He said that he had twice
offered his resignation as general secre-
tary and that twice it had been rejected.
The rejection, of course" as Chamber
lin points out. was by party congresses
composed Of his hand-picked adherents."
All of Stains American visitors have
been impressed by the straight forward
ness OF his replies to questions, and his
keenness In asking questions on his own
account
Ralph Ingersoll then editor Of PM,
now an Army captain, who interviewed
him in l94l, was struck by "the thor
oughness with which he knew his own
mind and the rapidity and intelligence
and perception with which he expressed
it." Ingersoll found him often blunt,
what's called brutally frank" Willkie
reported that che asked searching ques-
tions, each of them loaded like a re-
volver each of them designed to cut
through to what he believed to be the
heart Of the matter that interested
him" He piled Donald NJ Nelson, the
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tions as to how, when, where they were
to CO.
Its terrible time of year to move"
explained one official. The blackout
makes the days so short The sheep are
lambing and hard to move. And of
course, though the government pays all
reasonable transport, it's hard to get the
trucks, and all hay not moved must be
burned"
And it's the worst time to get farms"
Clipped in wiry little man. All farms
come up for sale at Michaelmas Sep
tember 29) and Lady Day March 25)-
nobody ever thinks of letting farm this
time OF year. All you can get is land
which has been vacant for years, and
which nobody wants. But they'll move
my cows, though if it's too far doubt
If they'll thrive, as this is the land
they're used to, and you can't muck
about with cows, you know But we'll
do our best. no doubt of that; the coun-
try needs the food
Looks Like Chaos.
1t looked as if the chaos would never
cease, as If nobody would ever get the
problems untangled. And yet gradually
the list was taken care of.
The local squire a retired major,
stumped angrily from the building. His
house is just outside the boundary line.
but his cottage tenants lived inside. and
had to move. A neighbor told me he
hadn't stopped working for three days.
They're his people, you know, and he
feels it as if they were members OF his
own family, And it's quite business
trying to keep them together, so they
won't be separated at Christmas"
The blackout was starting. In the inn
Henry Cleave, a jovial, redfaced small
farmer, was talking with his friends,
Sergt. Robert Geschke of Cleveland,
Ohio, and Pvt. Louis A. Adams OF Som
erville, Mass. Mrs. LAYERS told me this
first batch Of American boys had won
the hearts Of everybody in the village
They're lovely boys-they've helped the
old people moving their baggage, and
they're so kind and seem to understand
how we feel"
The door opened, and Sergt. Joseph
Medved Of Cleveland, Ohio. came in
Soon he was deep In conversation with
a truck gardener, discussing the best
way to move root crops, while Mrs. La
vers muttered wryly. The next pub
have will be on wheels, and then I can
take it with me-"
AS I walked down to the bus, past
shadowy yard where couple still
worked In the dark to lift their man.
glel-wurzels root vegetables for feeding
stock. tall man joined me. Talking
quietly OF new home for himself, his
wife and child, he added quietly: II just
got back from q German prison camp
30 anything will seem better than that"
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Kremlln on a special mission for Presl-
dent Roosevelt. He found Stain on this
occasion, five years after their first talk,
more aggressively active" In his think
ing More even than before, Stain gave
the impression of being ''in the drivers
seat" At the same time, Davies felt
himself in a mental atmosphere more
judicial more philosophic' than that of
1888
The hardness OF Stain is proverbial
1t showed itself in his acts as a revolu-
tionary under the Gar in the plotting
by which he sent Trotsky into exile and
rose to supreme and undisputed power,
In the liquidation of the kulaks trich
farmers), In the use of the weapon of
famine against the recalcitraht peasants,
in the blood purges of 1936-l93S 1t is the
Soviet philosophy, and his own, that the
end justif1es the means
mo revolution he has said can be
made with silk gloves When the ire
pressible Lady Astor asked him, on her
famous visit to Moscow with George
Bernard Shaw. How long are you going
to 60 on killing people?" Stain replied,
"As long as it is necessary"
Souvarine calls Stain "a hard man
among the hards" and Lenin, in what
has come to be known as his tesla
ment,' written about a year before his
death in January 1924, declared that
Stain was too rude" Ienin used the
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Raids Scare Nazis

Belgian workers deported to Germany,
who have succeeded in re-entering oc-
cupied Belgium, say that the German
population is terrorized by the air raids,
especially in the Rhineland.
Germans are often heard to sum up
their thoughts on the war in the fol-
lowing words: TT would be better to see
the English in our streets than to have
them over our heads"
One factory at Dortmund, producing
formerly four or five tanks day, was
turning out only one tank a week toward
the end of June. Disorganization Of
transport and destruction of numerous
industrial centers have paralyzed the
workshops where aircraft, heavy motor
vehicles and tanks were being assembled.
The German people detest foreign
workers, whether volunteers or deportees,
as their labor enables the Na1s to dis.
patch German workmen to the front.
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Chinese Regaining Prestige
AS Result of Cairo Par1ey
By James d. White.
Associated Press Writer.

mr.. White spent 10 years in China
as a correspondent. was repatriated
in 1912, and recently interviewed re-
patriates returning on the Grips
holn)
Flying back to Chungking from the
Cairo conference. Generalissimo and
Nine. Chang Kai-shek carried more
with them than the tri-partite agree
ment to strip Japan OF the fruits OF
a half century of conquest.
The conference with President Roose-
welt and Prime Minister Churchill meant
more than that to Chang. to his gov
ernment and to the Chinese people.
1t was Chiang's first meeting with
other chiefs of state It confirmed
the generalissimo in his role-if there
have been recent doubts-as Chinas
unchallenged national leader In war
and in the peace to follow.
1t was full Allied recognition of
China's place as a great power, today
and tomorrow.
Prestige, commonly known as face"
means much in the Orient
Rebuilds China's Prestige.
The Cairo conference was the latest
of series of events which have helped
to rebuild the prestige of both China
and her generalissimo from the low to
which it had fallen through the fortunes
OF war.
Americans coming most recently
from Japanese dominated Asia-repa-
triates on the exchange ship Gripsholm
express this opinion
They say that the Cairo conference
will do more than any other single fac
tor to give the Chinese greater conf
dence in themselves, their Allies and the
future.
This is big order.
China fought alone for more than four
years. Chang and many other Chinese
warned repeatedly that Japan would at
tack the democracies of the west. After
Pearl Harbor the Chinese watched with
bitterness as their predictions came
true-bastions of the British Empire
crumbled before the Japanese and the
United States and Britain could not pre-
vent the conquest of the Philippines and
the Dutch East Indies
Allied prestige fell to an all-time low
in Chungking as the Burma road was
lost and Chinas last great supply con-
tact with the outside world fell into jap
anese hands.
Chinese Saw Change.
Chlang's own prestige fell in the minds
Of some Chinese. The old rift between
his government and the Communists
was exhumed
Then in August, 1912 American ma
rines landed on Guadalcanal in the
South Pacific Though this was 4,46O
miles from Chungking, the Chinese
knew it was the beginning of the long
road back to Toxic.
The United States Army established
its l4th Air Force in China and almost
for the first time Chinese soldiers fought
with strong air support. With such
help they have just turned the japanese
invaders back at Changteh in what is
called the fiercest fighting in China
since the battle Of Shanghai in 1887.
The first big Allied gesture toward
China was when the United States and
Britain voluntarily relinqushed their
extra-territorial rights in China whereby
their nationals were responsible to their
own laws and courts rather than to
Chinese.
But this fell fiat in the eyes of the
| ~ wi, o1,
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patriates. In the first place, these
rights had not been fully enjoyed in
Japanese-occupied China, where the
majority Of Allied economic interests
and personnel were concentrated in the
treaty ports, like Shanghai
Japs Beat Us to Draw
Furthermore the japanese beat US to
the draw OH this move and not only
'relinquished" their own extra-terri-
territorial rights but handed back to
puppet Chinese regimes the Interna-
tional Settlement in Shanghai the
foreign concessions at Hankow, Shang-
hal, Tientsin and elsewhere, and tho
diplomatic quarter in Peiping.
To the Chinese. say repatriates, It
looked as though the Allies were be-
latedly giving up what they no longer
possessed
But it was different story when
the American Congress repeated the
Chinese exclusion laws. This had not
been done by the time these epatriates
left occupied China but word had got
around that it was going to be done
and the Chinese were talking about it.
Repatriates say that the Chinese are
quietly jubilant that America Is volun-
tarily wiping out what the Chinese
always considered to be an affront to
their national and racial honor.
The Chinese think of it as one more
sign that America considers China and
her people capable of pulling their own
weight in the world to come.
Then China was asked to sign the
four-power declaration at Moscow. To
Chungking, this meant that China was
going places and was on her way.
Repatriates report, too, that the
Chinese were somewhat surprised-and
pleasantly so-when America gave
Nine, Chang Kai-shek such tremen-
dous official and popular ovation during
her visit here last year.
They know now we meant it.
To sum up:
The average Chinese now knows two
important things, repatriates say He is
happy that Americans no longer have
a law on their statute books which
single him out as Chinese and ex-
clude him from even theoretical resi-
dence in this country
Called Best News Ever.
And he knows that his leader, Chang
Kai-shek, has gone far to the west Of
Cairo and there conferred for days with
Lu Ssu-fu and Ch1u Chi-erh (the
Chinese names for Roosevelt and
Churchilp and that this has never hap
pened before to any Chinese leader.
Chungking officials said Of the Cairo
conference: The best news ever
printed in the Chinese press"
The news has penetrated even to Oc-
cupied China. And measure of what
the meeting means to the Orient Is
seen in the way the Toxic radio han.
died the story.
At first, Toxic propagandists belittled
the meeting and did not intimate that
| Chang had attended for China Then
they mentioned as if casually, that the
| generalissimo was there.
| Yes. face" means much in the Far
East, and the presence OF China's leader
at Cairo. representing his country as one
Of the big four" powers of the United
Nations, gave face" to China on .
scale that can hardly be comprehended
except against the background Of Ori-
entail ideas and history
The best Toxic could do was to try to
gloss it, over
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Congo Pitches In
oSS it over

The policy of all-out production has
become more and more part of the
economic life of the Congo Production
for the war, increased production. are
demands which have found response
even in the most remote corners of this
immense African Empire
Results of this all-out effort are par
ticularly outstanding in the Kivu and
Maniema districts Of Costermansville
Province. on the eastern border of the
Belgian Congo. Work in agriculture,
as we'll as in the important timber and
mining industry, has been stepped up.
In the latter field, gold and cassiterite
are the two major ores mined, and as
the Importance of cassiterite Ia tin
bearing ore) has increased with the
advent of war, so has its production
increased, with a resultant drop in the
production of gold. In spite of a short
age Of tools and manpoWer, cassiterite
mining has reached the high-produc-
ton level set by the government.
In Maniema, the lumber industry Is
working overtime. A test of this in
Auoely ~Aiilil6lleSS 10 SACRIFICE 1OT llo
war effort was made in May, 1912, when
the Congo government launched an ap-
peal for materials for railway ties,
which were needed to build railroads
near the battle fronts in the Near East.
The response was immediate Shortages
in manpower, specialists, tools, food and
trucks were overcome, and not only
were the increased demands from Con-
golese and Rhodesian industries full
filled. but the production of railroad
ties was begun and continued with
such vigor that before long the necessary
amount of Maniema timber stood In
imposing piles in the foreign ports
where it was needed.
This example of vigorous production
for the war effort has also been equaled
in other fields. Cinchona bark produc-
ton has increased by $50 per cent and
pyrethrum has increased by Al per cent.