The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-13

around his collar. He was
blue and numb when someone
finally released him. But
those are the kind Of hardships
inventors undergo to make this
better world in which TO live
and fly planes.
Which brings us back to the
origin of Patterson's inven-
tive pursuit down through
the years.
His quest for a method of keep.
ing planes free from ice at high
attitudes started in 1926, after
his younger brother, Robert N
Patterson, a u. S. mail pilot
was lost on the run between
Seattle and Los Angeles .
when his plane became overbur-
dened with ice.
For Is years the elder Pat
terson's inventiveness was un-
productive of the perfect re-
suits he has now attained
but by 1941 he had a device
which was able to clear three
eighths of an inch of ice from
a windshield in four seconds.
War Department officials were
very interested, and a test was
ordered for Dec. II, 1941. .
Patterson had his equipment all
ready, but you know what
happened on Dec. 7, 1941, al
Pearl Harbor. BY the 18th,
the War Department was work
ing day and night to push the
defense effort (and it WAS de-
Tense them and the experts
scheduled to survey the Patter-
son de-icer were scattered to
distant points. In the sue
ceeding months. manufacturers
were too busy with war produc-
ton to listen to Patterson's ideas
for production of special refine
ments to complete his product.
And the de-icing experience
he had in the local ice plant
after he finally obtained his
appointment with military ex-
perts might have ended
differently. Fortunately
it did not prove serious
and postwar aviation will
probably bless the day that
someone heard the inventors
frantic poundings on the ice
plant door and released him.
WHO IS A LION? This ques-
ton Is asked and answered by
the official Lions Club program
distributed at the charter night
ceremonies held at Tassie Tav-
ern last night for the st. Clair
Shores Lions Club and in
the hope that there are such per-
feet men around we'd like
to print the Lions ideal: "a
Lion is he who achieves sue
cess, lives well, laughs often,
loves all human kind, gains the
respect of intelligent men and
the love Of little children. He
fills his niche, does we'll his
work, and makes Gods world a
better place than it was by just
brighted flower, perfect
poem, human mind awake to
its own loveliness. He feels the
glow of beauty in all life, and
never fails to voice his praise
of it. He sees the best there Is
in fellow men, and gives to them
the best there is in him. His
life is one vast inspiration 4.
That man is Lion!"
Encouraging news was re-
ceived here this week by Mrs.
Gail l.. Roberts, of 104 Avery
street, In a letter from a SOL
der who had seen her hus-
band, Staff Sergt. Charles l..
Roberts, 20, recently listed as
missing after aerial action
over Germany, and now a pris-
oner of war Charles
middle name must be Luck
the writer, John w. A. Brad
ford told Mrs. Roberts, "be-
cause he came out of the
tumble all right" The
tumble referred to was a jump
from a BRA bomber, based in
Italy Bradford reports
that Sergt. Roberts Is we'll
and being treated properly at
the prison camp where
Red Cross photograph records
keen the hoyS cheerful