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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

We've seen coffee drinkers
and more coffee drinkers In
our java-guxzling days; the
chaps that want 1t thick and
black, with no cream or sugar,
and those that want a small
amount Of cream with the
dark stuff, but Rev. Joseph l..
Kennedy Is q new one for the
book. He p0urs rs much coffee
In the bottom Of his cup as the
amount Of cream most people
use (about 4 quarter inch),
and then fills the rest Of the
cup with cream. We wouldn't
believe II unless we'd seen II
after a recent Boy Scout meet
ing. Joe likes a little coffee
with his cream.
THEY TELL US that Mrs
Henry w. Miller is quite a
friend of the birds. at % South
Wilson. and has cultivated their
acquaintance by gene u s.
ly feeding them with the best
in self-service cafeteria style.
She has even contrived things
so the aristocratic birds, blue
jays, cardinals, etc, feed on one
side of the house in a GLASGOW
cred shelter, while the harder
common birds eat chow in a less
fancy spot on the other side Of
the dwelling f. sort of a trades
mems entrance. The class dis
tinction has produced no dis
sension, they say.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
When anyone asks that bird

When anyone asks that bird
Richard DeKetelaere, detec-
tive and pigeon fancier,
slows 1t going?" Dick pulls
IN amusing act. With a very
straight face he goes on like
this. "Everything's o. X,
'cept I lost one of my B & E
pigeons last night. Two of
them were out checking up on
q Job, and only one got back.
He'd lost his ear-muffs and
was half frozen, but l gave
him q bath in some of my best
club and he soon revived.
Those pigeons have solved
more burglaries for me than
you'd think. l have them out
days and night :" BY that
time, you realize you're being
kidded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

Defeated japanese generals
use sword TO destroy them
selves via the hara kiri route.
There's an economical idea for
Hitler, who has been using up
valuable bullets on some of his
Russian-front generals.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

The Red Cross Is sending gar
den tools to Americans impris-
oned in Germany. Good luck to
the boys-but we hope victory
comes up before their victory
gardens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

II paperhanger Hitler wants
to learn anything more about
pastins, he can just take a look
at Berlin.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
New Baltimore

NEW BALTIMORE - Mrs.
Leslie Maliskey and daughter,
Shirley. and son, Terry, visited
Mrs. Floyd Strauch Tuesday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

MIS-. fIOyQ StrauCn TUESDAY.
Two showers were given for
Mrs. Irwin Fritz in the last few
weeks. The first one was given
by the Sewing Club, at the home
of Mrs. Gilbert Turner. The
second shower was given by Mrs.
Louis Pingel and Mrs. Russell
Potter at the latter's home, on
Friday. Guests we're Mrs. M.
Lashley, of Indianapolis, Mrs.
Orvy Bates, Mrs. Ed. Lanstra,
Mrs. Allan Hurley, Mrs. Harold
Engelman, and Mrs. John Marsh.
Charles Schmidt, who was
taken i'll suddenly, is improving.
Mrs. Paul Rivard had lunch
with Mrs. Paul Schmidt, of De-
troit, on Thursday.
Miss Ethel Rivard and Mrs.
John Marsh and daughter, Shar-
on, were luncheon guests of
Mrs. Harry Schmidt, of Detroit.
Mrs. AL. Dave entertained the
Sewing Club Wednesday eve
ming.
Mrs. George Dewy Miller en-
tertained the Tuesday afternoon
DeSert-Bridge Club.
Congratulations to AS and
Mrs. Jack Thomas on the birth
of a daughter, Cheryl Diane,
March 4, at st. Joseph's Hos
pital, Mount Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

Mrs. George Dewy Miller en-
tertained the Tuesday afternoon
Dessert Bridge Club.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

Mrs. AL. Dave entertained the
Sewing Club Wednesday eve
ming.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

Charles Schmidt, who was
taken i'll suddenly, is improving.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

Mrs. Paul Rivard had lunch
with Mrs. Paul Schmidt, of De-
troit, on Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
Burma

While there is some progress reported in
north Burma against Japanese forces in that
area, it seems more probable that the enemy
there will be starved out as a result OF the
campaign Admiral Nimitz and General Mac
Arthur are waging to cut Japanese supply
lines than defeated in open battle by Lord
Mountbatten's slowly mounting forces in India.
What the Allied strategy may be in the
Burma arena is not clear, but IT the future
witnesses no more speed in mobilizing forces
and material for attack from India, Macarthur
and Nimitz will have completed their opera
tons in the central and southwest Pacific be-
fore it can be launched, and the japanese
there be cut off as so many thousands OF them
are on Bougainville, New Guinea, New Britain
and New Ireland, the Marshalls, the Mar1anas
and the Admiralties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
Real Test Still To Come

New Hanover county did well in selling E
bonds during the Fourth War Bond campaign.
The goal was passed by more than $25,00O In
the final check-up, New Hanover was topped
only by Mecklenburg which has larger popu'
lation and greater wealth. On this record, we
are well entitled to stick feather in our cap
and call it maccaroni if we want to-. which
we don't.
1t is enough to know that once more we met
demand and overran the goal, il only by l
per cent. But that was not the real test. Be-
cause of the intensive drive, both by employers
and the campaign staff, workers bought freely
as they should But the real test will come
when bonds still to be delivered on the pay
roll deduction plan arrive. Will the purchasers
hold them against maturity or at least until
an emergency arises which requires their be-
ing cashed? The measure Of their patriotism
and common business sense may then be
taken.
It is to be hoped that the line in the post
office lobby Of persons offering their bonds
for cancellation will be much shorter hence
forth than it has been in the past. It should
be remembered that bond cashed in now
is OF no financial help to the country in its
war emergency and of no value at all to the
owner once the money received for it is spent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10

when they were ready because no nation was
capable of stopping them speedily. Hitler was
confident he could conquer Europe and move
upon the United States before we could train
an army, build navy or provide shipping
for war tools.
And he came so near to doing just that, that
we tremble at our narrow escape. He came
SO near to European victory that the United
Nations will be generations in paying the cost
of stopping him and homes in every section of
his enemy countries must sustain the loss of
fathers, husbands, sons. And japan was well
on the way to equal success in the Pacific
for the same reasons.
# we want to be secure in the future we
must have the military strength at all times
to discourage other Hitlers, other Hirohitos,
from similar exploits. Compulsory military
training represents step toward future ma
tional security.
How much better it will be for onconing
generations to be prepared for war and never
have to fight, than TO be unprepared as we
were, and pay such price as we are paying
for our lack Of preparation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
Effective Help

It happened during a session OF the Whining
ton USO council, when district agents were ex'
planning proposal to reduce the number OF
paid workers at the Second and Orange center
from seven to five, as part Of the national
Ireadjustment program through which 1t IS
hoped certain econimics in operation may
be effected without placing a handicap upon
services to enlisted men
As usual in such circumstances there were
lengthy explanations not always easily under
stood by laymen, and the meeting seemed
more likely to make progress backward than
toward the objective. until it was brought out
that while this particular center is set up on
the national USO books to have seven-person
staff, and the money is earmarked for their
pay, there have seldom been more than five
and often fewer workers on the job, and the
whole project involved a paper change In
personnel rather than an actual reduction;
whereupon the council approved the recon-
mendation Of its own committee on operations,
in the assurance that staff OF five workers
will be maintained at all times.
So far so good. 1t may not have been clear
in some minds how a shifting or reshuftlng
of personnel could achieve an actual economy,
but as the council has nothing to do with the
financial set up, and economics has under
gone some strange changes in recent years.
the only possible result of trying to under
stand what it Is all about would be to IND
grayer hairs at the temples. A better result
of the meeting, from the lay viewpoint, was
the tribute paid by Col. Adam E. Potts, COM
mandant at Camp Davis, to the citizens and Or
CARNATIONS of Wilmington in recognition OF
their cooperation in accommodating men in
the armed service spending their leisure time
in the city
Unsung heroes, he called thena-the churches
and Sunday schools and civic groups that
have turned their quarters into lodging places
for soldiers whom the USo could not take care
Of. It is his opinion. Colonel Potts declared,
that the USO has always been operated here
on scale too limited to meet the need. and
without the help gladly given by persons and
groups the visiting troops would have had
dreary time of it indeed.
The Colonel is right. The people OF Will
mington have gone to great lengths to provide
not only accommodations but recreation also
for the men at arms who spend their brief
furloughs here And he may be sure there
will be no lessening of the service so long
as need for it exists.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
Military Training

Those who understand that eternal vigilance
is the price of peace will hear with grateful
hearts that congressional support is increasing
for compulsory military training Of American
youth.
On the other hand chronic pacifists and tim
id souls will view it as a stepping stone
to further wars.
For the benefit of the latter it may be said
that had we been prepared when Hitler came
into power in Germany the present war would
not have been started.
1t was only because Hitler knew none Of his
present enemies could stand against his arm
ed forces for a considerable time that he was
encouraged to launch forth upon his conquests.
The same was true Of the Japanese war-mak-
ers.
Neither Berlin nor Tokyo hesitated to strike
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
With Ernie Pyle

blood, speaks fluent Spanish, and
therefore gets along fairly well in
Italian. His experience was grue-
some one, although it turned out
fine. His plane went into a dive
and he couldn't get to the pilots
compartment, so all Tanguma and
the other gunner could do was try
to get out. They finally made it.
Tanguma landed upside down in
a tree. Italians came running ard
cot him down. He gave the para
chute to the crowd. Forty-five min
utes after his jump he was in a
farmhouse eating fried eggs.
An Italian volunteered as guide
and started walking with him. The
Italians wouldn't take money for
their help. The other gunner got
back also.
Next I put down Sergt. Charles
Ramseur, of Gold Hill, N. c. Ser
geant Ramseur used to fly with
my dive-bombing friend Maj. Ed
Bland, and Major Bland says he's
tops.
Ramseur was about to shave off
a half-inch growth of whiskers. He
was feeling a little abashed be-
cause the first sergeant had spo-
ken sharply about it that after
noon. When he did shave, he left
mustache and a straggly little
goatee.
Ramseur is the quiet. courteous,
unschooled but natively refined
type you find so often in the hill
country in the South. He hopes to
be going home soon, although his
orders haven't been put through
yet.
Ramseur has taught himself en-
craving since being in the Army.
AT least it's form of engraving.
He pricks out designs on all his
medals with a ,penknife. His can.
teen top is covered with names
and flight insignia. He has a photo
album with aluminium covers made
from a German plane. and all
over it are engraved names and
places. Sergeant Ramseur hopes
maybe this talent might lead to
an engraver's job after the war.
On the fiber lining of his steel
helmet he has chronicled his mis-
sions, with small bomb repre-
senting each one. They cover the
entire front of the helmet. and he
looks at them with relief.
| more Tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
A Timely Message

Col ]. T. Knight district engineer, address
ing the Kiwanis club on Wednesday, made a
strong appeal for greater service at home in
the interest of victory in battle.
It is time tor the civilian population to give
more thought to ways in which it can be Of
service, and to stop leaving the job of winning
this war to the Army and Navy. They can't
hope to win without full support of every in
dvidual on the home front.
It is not enough to have large armed
force. No matter how many men we put into
the field, or how well they are trained, with
out a constant flow of supplies they cannot
last very long. 1t is our duty-we ought to
consider it a privilege-to keep this supply
stream in motion.
When from five to twelve tons Of supplies
must be moved for every man sent into combat
the tremendous size Of the job is seen. 1t
certainly can't be done by few. There is
something someplace along the supply line for
everybody to do. The sooner everybody re-
comics this fact and lends hand the sooner
may we hope for victory.
This is the sense, if not the words Of Colonel
knight. It ought to be taken to heart and stir
every last individual to greater effort 1t is not
the Armys and the Nays war alone, but
everybodys war. Let's get away from the idea
that the fighting is nearly over and time for
shouting near.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
BY JOHN sELBY

"The Eagle and The Dove" by
v. Sackville-West doubleday, Do
ran; $3.50.
Possibly the most violent con-
trast in all the Calendar of Saints
is that between the two Teresas,
St. Teresa of Avila, and st. Therese
of Lisieux. Both were saints and
both were Carmelite nuns; that is
about the extent of the similarities
". Sackville-West's The Eagle
and the Dove" is an amazingly in
teresting study of the different
courses that led each saint tn
canonization.
X st. Teresa of Avila is of course
the eagle. She was born in Spain
% years after Columbus sailed of
tc the west, and she died 80 years
after that event. She was shaped
by two main influences-God and
her times. This, too, can be said
of her namesake, but the shaping
was in no way alike.
st. Teresa was reformer. She
founded converts, and prescribed
rules for their conduct, sometimes
without express authority and il
variably with justice. She was OF
noble birth, always at home with
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
Daily Prayer
FOR COMFORTING SPIRITS

From overseas comes tidings of
heroes who are lonely and home
sick and weighed down by the fear
that they are neglected or forgot
ten. o. God, give us grace to be
constant comforters of those best
sons of our Country. May our pens
be tireless and skillful in writing
to them. May we share our blood
with them, and pour out, sacrifici-
ally, of our money. Day and night
may our prayers ascend to Thee
in their behalf; for Thou carest,
even when we forget Stir up our
minds to devise new methods Of
reassuring our fighting men of our
faith in them and of our love for
them. May no word of complaint
steal into our correspondence; but
may every letter be a bringer Of
cheed ad fortitude. Make us COM
forters and inspirers and ambas-
sailors of the Christ whose Cause
we serve. Amen-W.T re.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
The Literary Guidepost

the great, and never above using
the means these people put at her
command even though she fought
them just as Justify when their
arrogance interfered with the work
of the Lord. She Travelled much,
and was known to some unsympa-
thetic church dignitaries as 'that
gadding women" Teresa never felt
oppressed by her calling nor was
she above enjoying herself. Actual
ly, convent life in Sixteenth CEN
fury Spain was far from strict, and
Teresa often tangled her tambou-
rine and danced to the castenets
of the otfe.. nuns. She was a tenn
pestuous and a shreWd woman,
capable of facing the Inquisition
with smile and winning her
point.
St. Therese of Lisieux came
from a bourgeois family, and was
barely out of swaddling clothes
before she decided to become
nun. At 16, she was admitted I'M
willingly by the Carmelites. Even
the Pope would not order her ad-
mission, though she asked him.
But after she died at "a, of tuber-
culosis her prioress sent copies of
her autobiography to othe-. Car
melite establishments instead of
the usual brief notice, and that
was the beginning of the marvel
Gus, at times fantastic, spread of
her fame. St Therese was COM
Portable saint, little saint, Miss
West shows. and her appeal was
universal. She had been dead 10
years when she was canonized.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
MihailOvic In Eclipse

When Hitler was overrunning southern Eu
rope at will, General Mahailovic, Yugoslav
guerrilla leader, was putting up such stiff op-
position that he is said to have immobilized
up to twenty-five German divisions
He became one OF the legendary figures Of
this war Perhaps many stories concerning
him and his horde were more romance than
fact. Perhaps much that was said of him was
exaggerated. But the fact is well established
that he did, in actual fact, make a good
fight, and probably kept thousands Of Nazi
troops from joining their fellows on fronts
which had greater strategic value to Hitler
than Yugoslavia which was already under his
heel
Now he is a fallen hero. His place on the
pedestal is occupied by Josep Broz, commonly
called Tito, who enjoys the smile OF Stain
and who, it must be conceded, has done
some effective fighting against the Germans
For some time past it has appeared certain
that Britain and probably the United States
would offer him more and more help, both in
equipment and counsel and even possibly send
him substantial reinforcements when and il
an Allied drive is undertaken through the Bal
kans.
King Peter, the boy head Of the Yugoslav
government in exile. and whose military
leader is Mihailovic, is reported about to visit
London. When he arrives it seems likely that
he will be told where to get off, or on and
learn that so far as the British and American
Allies are concerned, Tito is carrying the ball,
with Mihailovic on the bench If this trans
in-exile, which may be good thing consider
ing the inefficient role some of them have
been playing in the war.
Tito is Stalins man, and Stain is Russia s
dictator. Also, Stain, in addition to being a
capable military leader, is sharp bargainer.
1t is to be assumed that Russia's influence in
Yugoslavia will not be Withdrawn when, and
if, Tito is successful in his campaigns against
the Germans and peace is being negotiated
all over the world Even if Mihailovic were
again active and winning battles for the AL
lies, it would be politically expedient for Brit
ain and the United States to back Stain S
man, over Mihalovc, for what trading ad-
vantage the move might give them at the
peace table.
But whatever comes in Yugoslavia, it should
not be forgotten that Mihailovic was striking
the enemy long before Tito came upon the
scene.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
Nv ERNIE PYLE

IN ITALY,-(by wireless)-Gun
ner Sergt. Alban Petchal, who
comes from Steubenville, o., said
that if l would come over to their
tent after supper they'd see if they
couldn't drum up a snack before
bedtime. He said they often cook
ed to pass the time.
So l went over about 8 o'clock
and Sergeant Petchal said, Il
didn't put the potatoes on yet. We
were afraid you weren't coming"
The potatoes were already peel
ed. Petchal sliced some thin and
dropped them into a skillet on top
of the fiery gasoline stove. When
he got them crispy brown he
said, "Have you ever eaten eggs
scrambled right in with pota-
toes"
Sergeant Petchal said that's the
way his mother always fixed them,
so he broke up a few eggs in the
skillet, scrambled them with the
potatoes, and served them in the
mess kits. They were wonderful.
The eggs cost 20 cents apiece.
There were seven boys in the
tent, all aerial gunners. We sat
and talked for long time about
things in general. Finally I start
ed to put down their names, and
one by one I discovered that every
boy in that tent with one exception
had been through at least one vio-
lent experience.
Sergt. Robert Sweigert is from
Williamsport, Pa. The others good
naturally call him pretty Boy"
because he is sort of suave look
ing. He had on nothing but shorts,
and while was there he shaved
and then took sponge bath out
of a washpan.
Sergeant Sweigert was wounded
once by flax and spent two months
in a hospital. Another time his
plane made crash landing after
being badly shot up, and it broke
in two and caught fire when it hit.
Yet the crew escaped. The boys
showed me snapshots Of the de-
molished plane.
Then we turned to Sergt. Guada-
lupe Tanguma, Of San Antonio,
Tex. He had just got his orders
home, and may be in America by
the time this gets into print. He
was feeling wonderful about it.
Sergeant Tanguma is Of Spanish
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
OF CHALLENGE

LONDON, March 9.-RHDe-
claring that 1914 is "a year of
challenge" Production Minis
ter Oliver Lyttelton told COM
mons today that Britain's pro-
duction is being modified to
meet the new needs of attack
by increasing the output of
specialized invasion equip
ment."
There are many new spec
lalized requirements new
weapons, special invasion
equipment and secret devices
and equipment-that are of the
highest urgency" he said.
Explaining that the produc-
ton OF certain basic items Of
equipment will be reduced, he
said there must be increased
production of certain types of
bombers and fighters of prov
ed superiority while those
which now are less suited to
the conditions to be met must
be reduced"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
BETTER CHANCE

WASHINGTON, March 9.-R-
The American soldier wounded in
this war has almost twice the
chance of surviving compared with
the soldier in World War 1. The
Army reported today that despite
the use in modern warfare of the
most destructive weapons ever
known, only 81 per cent of the
American wounded have died, as
compared with 81 per cent during
the last war;"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
TOP OF THE MORNING

Taken clear it is as quick-acting and fatal
as prussic acid, drop of 1t on shaved
rabbit causes immediate CONFUSION and
death. The nicotine dissolved out of few
cigarettes and placed on the tongue of q
grown man would kill him in Is minutes. II
you smoke a pack a day, you inhale 400
miligrams of 1t a week. That much in
single dose would kill you as quick as a
bullet GENE TUNNEY.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
Kipling Named 1t

Those beached whales on Bulls Island con-
stitute what Kipling would have called an un'
savory episode.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10

In describing the world after the war,
Tokyo broadcast said trains will speed along
new railroad and pass through tunnel
under the Sea Of Japan. Down where the
Japs will be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-10
Our Chief Aim

To aid In every way the prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory.