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The echo., 1945-04-13
WANTED 1000 MEMBERS

Any president who adds as many as
40 to 40 members will be known a
the Big American Bomber plane.
Any president who adds as many as
25 to 80 members will be known as A
Streamline Railroad Train.
Any president who adds as many
as Is to "a will be known as a Non
Stop Freight Train.
Any president who adds as many as
10 to ID members will be known as a
Local Freight Train.
Any president who adds from l to
members will be known as doodle
Bug, or short train with two coaches.
What class will you be in at the end
Of the drive!
The contest will be conducted as
follows:
All new members who are not less
The echo., 1945-04-13
WANTED AND MUST HAVE 1000
MEMBERS ADDED BY THE
CONVENTION

The General President made an APP
peal in the Board for 1000 members
to be added by the Convention in
July.
The Presidents have already start
ed the ball to rolling. Below we are
giving the number of the lodge, the
name of the president and the num-
Der of members added since the close
of the March Board up to ten days Of
the opening Of the Convention.
We are going to have six classes Of
presidents:
Any president who adds so or more
members will be known as n e fast
P-38 Airplane.
The echo., 1945-04-13

han twelve nor more than sixty years
of age who can comply with the regu-
lations Of the Constitution will be ad-
mitted.
Second, Amy persons who wish to
renew who became unfnancial on OF
any time before December 1914.
Presidents are urged to be careful
and see to it that the applications for
membership or for renewal of mem
bership will be good sound risks. Re.
member that you cannot violate the
Constitution and take persons into the
H. B. A. who are not good risks.
Special prizes will be awarded TO
presidents of the six classes. The
prizes will be announced by the Cen
eral President and Secretary later.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
Mount Clemens odd Crowd
Set for 65th Annual Meet

Carrying on the tradition Of
three generations of Mount
Clemens residents, members of
the Old Crowd will journey down
the Clinton River on Thursday
for their 65th annual outing, a
day of reunion spent in sociabil-
ity, games, fishing and feasting.
l.. Stanley Cady, third gen.
Grafton member of the Crowd,
will lead the parade from the
County Building at $50 a. m,
to the dock on East Broadway,
where boats will take the Crowd
ers to the former Denmarsh
hotel site for their day Of fun.
After the festivities conclude,
the annual business meeting will
take place, during which, If tradi-
ton is continued, George w.
John, ce-president, will be
elevated to the principal office,
and a new vice-president elected.
Secretary and treasurer Of the
Old Crowd are Trufant IT, TOMB
Shoemaker, and Art Donaldson,
who have served in these offices
close to 20 years each.
IMPORTANT POST
Most colorful office in the Old
Crowd is that Of Fish Locator,
an official who wears an or
namental crown and is charged
with the all-important task OF
leading fishing parties to the
right places where the fish Turk.
Albert (Biz) Glefke is Fish Loca-
tor.
No less dignified Is the office
of Custodian of the Bass Drum,
a role filled by Anthony Keils
for many years. An old Crowd
member for more than half
century Keils originally attended
the reunions as a drummer boy
with the band, before being ad-
mitted to membership.
Bob" Babcock is chaplain of
the Crowd and Fred Schock is
bandmaster.
The executive committee,
which handles the important
catering and refreshments job,
is composed of John Schelling,
Irwin Egle, John Frederick, Ro-
land Charbeneau, Gus Klockow,
Carl Glefke, Russell Dubay and
John Madou.
The medical staff 10 composed
of: Doctors w. j. Kane, H. G..
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
Factory
Blaze
oil Is

DETROIT. Aug. IL - R -
Police and fire officials pushed
an inquiry today into one of De-
troit's worst calamities in his
tory the boxing plant blaze
which snuffed out the lives OF
Is persons yesterday.
In the hushed rooms of Re-
ceiving hospital doctors and
nurses worked at the same time
to keep the death toll from ris-
ing, with more than a score of
injured and burned under treat
ment.
The swift blaze. feeding on in
flammables, broke out in mid
afternoon and swept the plant
of the Export Box & Sealer
Company. Within moments the
two-story building had turned
into a crucibie, and the employ
es. mostly women. fought to es-
cape.
Some, with clothes aflame
plunged through upper story
windows to the sidewalk below
One woman burned to death on
a window ledge.
Bodies of several victims were
burned beyond rec ignition
Three remained to be identified
many hours afterwards.
Two men, both employees
were under technical arrest TO-
Gay as the investigation pro
crossed. One of them was burn,
ed and in the hospital as a police
prisoner.
The company, which employee.
$50 persons, was engaged
boxing war materials for over,
seas shipment. Fire Marshal Ed
ward w. Hall said one theory
was that the fire resulted from
a leak of inflammable matter
from q decreasing tank.
Many workers live in tn
neighborhood of the plant, OF
Grand River and Fifteenth
street, and pitiful scenes wer
enacted as relatives came from
their homes and tried to iden
tify victims.
The fire was Detroit's wQrs
since the Study Club fire o
1929. in which 80 persons died
President r. j. Thomas of tn.
United Automobile Worker.
(CIO) Union announced HI
would demand a grand jury In
vestigation of the boxing fac
tory blaze. Employees are mem
bers OF the unions Local 985.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
Two Deiroiiers
Injured In Crash

VAN DYKE - Two Detroit
residents were seriously injured
early Monday morning in q two
car collision on MOT between
Eight and Nine Mile roads.
The two injured persons are
Herbert Heringhausen OF 7404
Dexter Boulevard. head and
body injuries. and Minnie Smith,
Al, 867 Manistique, Detroit.
decorations of the head and
fractured right knee. Both were
taken to Saratoga hospital.
Warren Township police who
investigated the accident said
that the car operated by Herring
hansen was driving south on NJ
81 and crossed the middle OF
t road and smashed into a car
driven by Edward Posey, 354
South Belle river, Marine city.
Posey who is a fire chief In Ma
rine city escaped injury.
Heringhausen was given q
ticket for reckless driving.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
Unnatural Breath
BY GEORGE mccoy
Cady-McCoy Pharmacy

II may be that no friend Of
yours will tell you that your
breath offends. but your doctor
or dentist will. These profess
sional men have no false scrup-
les about the truth.
The truth can make you free
of this most disturbing trait. II
the dentist gives you q clean bill
of healthy teeth, see your doc
tor. He may discover any one
of several reasons for an un-
pleasant breath. Perhaps. It II
caused by infected tonsils, per-
haps by nasal catarrh, perhaps
you have any one Of . half doz-
en- other causes.
Relief is possible and certain
when the basic cause II deter
mined. Act upon the doctors
diagnosis and prescribed cure.
Be sure to select q competent
druggist to supply any needed
remedy.
This 10 the sixteenth Of o series Of
Editorial Advertisements appearing b
this paper each Tuesday.
Copyright
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14

Berry. ]. M. Croman Jr., r. W.
Ullrich, A. w. Heine and Milton
Smith.
ESTABLISHED IN 1880
The Old Crowd was originally
established in 1880 by the "Im-
mortals' - Edgar Weeks, James
B. Eldredge and T. Jefferson
West, and the original invitation
- prepared by Talmadge A.
(TAL) Lee, who printed the
1945 program - Is reproduced
in this years folder announcing
the reunion. 1t reads:
Social Reunion Of the old
Crowd who dweit In Mount
Clemens all the way from 1880
to 1880 has been arranged to
take place on Wednesday, Au-
gust IS, 1880. Of course you are
invited to Join in.
THE steamer 'Paulina' has
been chartered for the day and
will leave Mount Clemens at 9
o'clock a. m, sharp, arriving at
the mouth of the Clinton River
and club house where dinner
will be served at 1890.
1.-THE afternoon will be occu-
pied in fishing, swimming and
excursions on the 'Paulina'. Sup
per at the club house. Fireworks,
music, dancing, etc. in the eve
ming. NO LADIES INVITED
Parties from abroad will please
signify their acceptance as early
as August 10th.
Thos. j. West
Jas. B. Eldredge
Edgar Weeks
Self-constituted committee.
H. w. Babcock, secretary"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
Supervisors Study
Pension Procedure

ployes Savings Fund. Accum-
ulated contributions are payable
on retirement or death with in
terest credited ut 3 per cent. This
rate, after several years, may be
dropped 60 two or two and one
half per cent. actuaries suggest.
The retirement allowance may
be claimed by employees with 80
or more years of service; those
who are IS years old and have
Is or more years service; those
age 70 with 20 years service, and
those age IS years with Is years
service.
ONE HAS IS YEARS
In the survey Of county en-
ployes, actuaries list one woman
with 81 to IS years Of service;
one with 30 to 81 years, and two
between "a and 26 years service
The highest category Of employ
es was 40 with one to two years
service when the survey was
made.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
-FiveInjured,
Driver Held
in Car Crash

VAN DYKE-Five young peo-
ole were hurt. two of them seri-
ously. and an l8-year-old mo-
torist is hospitalized as a police
prisoner, following an accident
at $50 a. m, Sunday on Mound
road, south of the 12-Mile road.
Warren Township Police re-
ported that a driver of one of
the cars, Joseph Post, ID. of 800
Tourney, Detroit, is a police pri-
soner at Saratoga Hospital. They
said his machine rammed into
the rear OF one owned by Ernest
Rrppert, II, of 5849 Baldwin,
Detroit, which had been halted
by Rupert who was having
trouble with his headlights.
Rupert, they said, had been
adjusting the rear lights of his
car just prior to the collision,
and managed to Jump clear be-
fore the impact.
Rupert escaped injury, and
those hurt besides Postal were:
Fay Osborn, Is, and James
Burke, %, both in serious con-
dtion, and Robert, 10, and Mary
Greer, II. All are Detroit re-
sidents.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14

Why did they have to build
all of the empty seats in street
cars going the wrong way?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
1876 MacOnlb Vets
Are DemObiliZed

LANSING, -(R- More than
10000 Michigan men were dis
charged from the armed forces
during July. 80 per cent Of them
under the Army's rehabilitation
program, State Selectivs Serv-
ice Headquarters has announced.
Brig. Gen. Leroy Pearson.
state director, said 10,528 men
were discharged last month, g.
1872 because of disability. The
total was the largest number yet
recorded in any one month, and
twice the number who returned
in June.
July discharges brought the
total for the year for Michigan
to %, 1913, and ,294 of the $685.
900 Michigan residents who have
served in the armed forces have
now been separated.
Separations by counties In
clude Allegan, SO; Bay, 1872;
Berrien. 222; Calhoun, 221; Gen.
esee, AIT; Houghton, los; Ing
ham, 239; Jackson, 100; Kala.
mazoo, 1913; Kent, 562; Mac0mb,
1876; Monroe, 112; Muskegon,
200; Oakland. S43: Ottawa, 105;
Saginaw, 254; st. Clair, 116;
Washtenaw, 155. and Wayne,
4,110.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14

Further progress In Macomb
County's efforts to establish q
pension. savings and retirement
fund for more than $50 employees
was recorded at Fridays meet
ing of the county Board OF Sup
ervisors, when q three-man SUBJ
committee was appointed to act
on employees classifications.
The committee is composed of
Supervisors Grover Powell, of
Washington Township; Kenneth
w. Hill, of New Baltimore. and
Earl Tallman, Of Warren Town
ship. They will regulate and ad-
lust classifications of employees
who are engaged in varying
types of work during the work
ing day.
It was announced to the Sup
ervisors by Controller Sherwood
j. Bennett that recent amend
ments to state laws relating to
retirement plans for municipal
employees will entail some revis'
ion of the prospectus originally
set up for Macomb County, in
October, 1914, by A. G. Cab
riel, consulting actuary, OF De-
troit. Bennett said Gabriel will
handle this revision without cost
to the county.
SCOPE EXPANDED
The scope of the pension plan,
supervisors were informed, has
PRACTICALLY doubled since it was
originally proposed last year
due to the inclusion of employees
of the Macomb County Road
Commission in the scheme.
At that time, supervisors were
baffled as to how the county's
portion of the pension plan
could be contributed, since II
was believed that road funds
were strictly earmarked for road
purposes. There was no problem
in respect to the county contrib
uting approximately Sl7,335 ir
the first year and $1l,644 ir
future years for 131 general en-
ployes earning $262,250 annual
ly.
But supervisors were puzzled
as to how they could legally ap'
propriate $22,219 for 124 roao
employees earning $249,094 an
nually.
INCLUDE ROAD FORCE
Newly amended legislation has
now made it possible for the
county to make it's contribution
legally from road funds, and the
retirement plan now embraces 9
total payroll of $5l1,344, with
the county's first-year contrlbu
ton being $50, 554; future years
$24 SAT. and prior service, $l4,'
GOT.
The county's first annual con
tribution will be TIA per cent, O.
the entire payroll. Employees viii
contribute five per cent OF theil
annual pay on each payroll no
in excess of the $4,000 figure
which will be placed In the EN-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
A survey of township and

A survey OF township and
school taxati on conditions
which depicts most townships
with q very health" financial
status, and most school districts
in critical" shape - has been
made by the Macomb County
Tax ALLEGATION board and pres
ented to the Board OF Supervi-
sors for study.
II was submitted by Paul 3.
Hirt, of Mount Clemens. chair
man of the tax ALLEGATION board,
who stated in a preamble to the
report that body's qualification
at the supervisors recent move
TO institute more uniform as
sessing methods in the county.
(After the recent tax equal
1 .tion fight, Mayor Albert A.
Wagner, Mount Clemens and
Supervisor Earl Tallman. of War
rem Township, successfully mo-
ton to LAY plans for q careful
study of property valuations
throughout the county" 20 that
property valuations could be
based on factual and not fanci-
full figures.)
The tax ALLEGATION body's re-
port to the board, Hirt said. was
intended ITO assist the supervisors
in this and other moves to
modernize and improve assess
ing and taxation structures.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS-SUFFER
School districts are the prin-
cipal sufferers when assessed
valuations are reduced to below
actual value. since state school
funds are granted on the basis
of such valuations.
Before pointing out the crit
ic2l condition" of school dis
tricts, the report to the super
visors told how the average
township tax rate has been re-
duced from $2.98 per $1,000 in
1888 to a low of $1.04 in 1898,
tax spread of 100000 and
$4,000 respectively.
The average 1914 rate was
81 %, producing $l35,0O0. The
report continues:
Although the average town
ship rate has been reduced, the
townships as whole represent
very healthy financial picture
Ten out of Is townships have
enough cash on hand to carry
them through at least full year
without an additional tax levy"
CAN'T MEET BUDGET
1.-THE school situation, how.
ever, is very critical, and show!
that 81 of the school district!
cannot meet their budgets witt
the rates available under thu
15-mill tax limitation, and man!
of the school districts have ad
ditional voted taxes"
Although not solving thu
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14

The man who thinks he has
no chance these days can thank
himself for being correct.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
Burma Area Iroeps
Homecoming Planned

HANDY. Cleyon -lR-Ds-
tails for movement h o N . o1
American soldiers In the India
Puma theater will be published
"a day or 80 after surrender II
signed" the southeast Asia
commando nnounced today
Men who have been. over
seas the longest and VINO are no
longer needed to help liquidate
american activities in this part
Of the world will probably get
the breaks as they should" the
announcement said. "Some Of
them should be home for Christ
mas, perhaps for Thanksgiving,
il peace comes now"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
Center Line Youth Fined
for MoIestinq Girls

ENTER LINE - William
Wise, 10. of 26279 Crystal ave-
nue. was fined SIS and $3.50
costs Saturday by Justice Sam
Robinson for allegedly modest
ing several girls on the street
and trying to induce them to
enter his car.
Three juvenile boys who were
riding with Wise were given
warnings by the court.
Chief Elmer Flechsig Of the
Center Line police said that
Wise sought to give the girls a
ride while they were walking
west on Van Dyke near 11-Mile
road. The girls refused, the
chief said, but the youths were
so persistent that the girls put
in a complaint with the Center
Line police.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14
townships in Lap of Luxury;
School Fund Finances Meogre

comb. with no township tax
rate and $11,138 cash on hand
has enough funds to last II for
ever" according to the report.
Another township (Sterling)
with a so cent tax rate and
$1,000 now on hand for a $500
annual budget, has enough
cash on hand to last Il IS years
without another township tax
spread.
The average township has cash
on hand TO last il one 10 four
years without spreading any tax,
the report points out.
On the school district side of
the ledger the picture Is as pes
simistic as the township side is
optimistic.
Due to the l5-mill limitation,
many districts are operating or
endeavoring 10 operate on tax
vastly inadequate compared to
the figure the tax ALLEGATION
board estimates is really" re-.
quired" for proper operation. y.
INADEQUATE TAX
For instance, fractional dis
trict S, of Erin Township, is op-
Grating on a SIS mill rate in adj
dition to $50 mill rate voted
by the district taxpayers. The
tax ALLEGATION board points out
that "a 90 mill rate is necessary
to run this district.
The tax spread in Erin frac-
tional district 5 is slightly more
than S38, 1000, whereas the county
board estimates that $l20, 900 is
needed TO operate.
Similar comparisons are found
in the following:
Erin 2, fractional-rate, els
mills: needed, 800 mills; Erin /
fractional - rate, Ills mills
needed, $500 mills; Warren S
fractional, rate, BIS mills; need
ed, 5000 mills; Erin 4, fractional
rate. 6.65 mills; needed, 260(
mills. The average school dis
trict needs its rate at least dou
BILE. the survey indicates.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14

problem. more equitable valua-
tons Gas planned by this super
visors) will help the acute school
financial problem consideration,
the tax ALLEGATION board asserts.
The startling fact Ii reveal
ed In the township tax situa.
ton that one township, Ma
The Valley settler., 1945-07-06
FIX I eNSION NEWS

All cAMg
 The 4-lt Club maml65ers of-the Mat:.I aausko Valley and Eliutna are in full swing. G1t at Klng's Lake this we eke Pros, rams have been planned under the pcervt si on of che Dis. trtct Tome Lemons tra or Agent Hi s| Frances 6yrne and the L0ricu1tural Agent, Mir. Wme Rogers. The girls are now en toying camp whiae the boys are to leave Palmer Sunday "fter churfhs Sunday is also Family ey at king's s Lake,. and 1nl1 arc 2. skeo to come out for a day of fun end pi chi c vi tn the chi 1drcn. Fam: lilies are asked to bring their own lunch..
 MoTH. IND FLAME
 Any moth .that. flutters around a light in the house these days and evenings need cause the hors ewifc little worry about wools and furse But the: Ii tile moth that avoids the flame; of Ii aht and hastily disap~a pc ars: into the darkness 'i"s probe bly, the clothes moth. --the culprtU that leys the eggs--that hatch into tiny worms --thGt eot and mince on your woolens and furs, -ctustng damage to clothes. and household fabri cs at the rate of mi llions' of. dol1ars', worth, @ year. -. "---..:
 Th1S and other characteristic tics of the clothes moth are worth the attenti on of the housewife, parti- culer1y this year when clothes and fabrics ere scarce and precious, and need to be guarded against moth damage. Entomologist Of the us. Depa rtment Of Agr1 culture offer the .foll owing remi nder:
 Before putting winter clothes
 ray, hang them in the sun for sev- sral hours and brush out all seams and pockets where moths and worms may hide. /-.
 2. Then, put clo thes. away, either in Q trunk that closes tight, or in box that can be entire 1y sealed. Into this container wi tn the clothes put l pound of napthalene flakes or paredi chlorobensene crystals to every hundred cubic feet of space. (Parao aoichlorobenzene may be 6iffi~, cult to buy this year cause the > ma materia1s from whi ch it i s made are now being used for war products( x hc 4~.'
Evening star., 1945-12-01
SoiIor Swept Off BottIeship
In Heavy Seas Rescued il Hour

Capt. McInerney ordered his
navigator to plot the position where
the sailor went into the sea. The
battleship turned about in Is TO
20 foot waves and began the search.
Fifty-one minutes after the sea-
man went over the side the crew
found him ana threw him . lifeline.
He managed to put 1t around his
shoulders and was hauled to safety.
Recovering from exposure, frac-
tured Jaw and decorations Of the
face received when he was washed
overheard, he said yesterday:
when ! hit the water ! took on
nay shoes and pants and tried to
keep facing the ship. but the waves
were so high ! couldn't tell where
! was, and ! only saw 1t twice.
u kept losing consciousness and
/ don't remember grabbing the rope
they threw to me. / remember
thinking OF home, and the second
time I saw the ship I hoped It
would hurry up and get me because
! was weaker all the time"
He said he would marry his
childhood sweetheart, Bernice
Brummett, also Of Erwin. He wears
is battle stars for action In the
! Pacific.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Gen. Green Takes Armyposf
|0f Judqe Advocate General

Maj. Gen. Thomas 3. Green was
sworn in today as Judge advocate
general bf the Army. post in
which he has been acting chief for
about two months. He succeeds Maj.
Gen. Myron c. Cramer, who is re-
firing after heading the Armys
legal stad since December /, 1e41.
Gen. Green a native of CAM
bridge, Mass, entered the Army in
1917 after serving as a sergeant In
the Massachusetts, National Guard.
He Is graduate Of Boston Univer.
sity Law School.
Early in the war he served. In
Hawaii as executive officer to the
Military Governor. He returned to
the United States in April. l943, to
become assistant Judge advocate
general and took over Gen. Cramer's
duties last October for q four-year
term which began today.