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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-10
Perry's Invaders Found
Strange Customs in japan

eggs (not enough of the latter to
satisfy half a hungry MANI
sponge cake, striped candy that
reminded the author of Ameri-
can sweets. No meat chick
ems were kept for eggs. They
liked liquor officials drank
"roteen. brandy, gin and saki al
ternately, mixture that would
swamp the d-v-l himself, and
finally went off as happy as two
such polite beings could ever
get"
SANITATION: Villages were
clean, people neat. children
scrubbed they used sand
instead of soap. "Lewdness of
manner and gesture" drove Nc
Cauley away from the bath
houses. "where men and women
bathed together Village houses
were of wood. with no windows,
but sliding doors with paper in
the sashes instead of glass 3.
in one village the roof Of every
house was equipped with a tub
of water and broom. for fire
prevention large pyramids
of buckets In the streets. near
tubs of water, stagnant from be-
ing kept too long.
HARA-KIRI: One japanese
said the notion about commit
ing suicide by ripping out their
entrails was wrong. A would-be
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-10

son, member of the stage crew
is having quite time with the
sound records.
Seeing that the play takes
place in Hungary the names and
places are rather difficult to
pronounce but after repeating
them several times the cast IS
beginning to do fine job. They
are having difficulty remem-
boring the names of the seven
sisters which include Katinka,
Sari. Ella, Mitzi, Terka, Liza
and Klara.
ALERT DIRECTORS
Miss Hubbard, director of the
play, has just called for a cut
because someone missed a cue.
They will start over again and
with the prompting aid of the
Student Director Marilyn Bleak
ley, who incidentally is doing
fine job, they won't miss the
cue next time. Other members
of the Stage Crew are back
stage working diligently paint
ing scenery and washing lights
while Miss Hubbard and the cast
for Seven Sisters are working
very hard to make this play a
success.
At the close OF the rehearsal,
your reporter became so inter
ested that she remained until
the very end, the cast were re-
minded to cover the town thor
oughly to sell tickets which
went on sale the beginning OF
the week. Hope to see you all at
the play on either April 10th or
Goth.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-10
Tom Harmon
Now a Captain

ANN ARBOR, Mich, April 10
--(R)-First 1t. Thomas Dudley
(To~-N Harmon, former all
America halfback at the Uni
versity of Michigan, has been
promoted to captain, the War
Department has informed his
parents.
Harmon, who is attached to
the Army Air Forces, twice
escaped after his plane had
crashed, once in South Amer
lea and again in China.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-10
The Champ Gets
a Promotion

CAMP SHANKS, N. ", April
Il -tPD-The Army has given
Joe Louis another promotion.
Camp Shanks announced yes
terday that the heavyweight
boxing champion, who has spent
three years in khaki, has been
promoted from staff sergeant to
technical sergeant.
The promotion was "in recog-
milton of his excellent work
overseas during the past year
when he took part in 81 exhi-
bition bouts in Africa, Italy and
Sicily" the announcement said.
Louis was made sergeant
upon enlistment Jan. IA. 1912.
He was promoted to staff SER
geant Feb. 20, 1914.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-10
Junior Play Gives Promise
of Being Superb Production

EDITORS NOTE: Enthusiastic
MCHs students are giving a novel
touch To advance stories concerning
the Junior Play "Seven Sisters"
which will be presented at the
school auditorium April 1929. In the
scene reporting. covering those de-
tails Of rehearsals and other prepa-
rations. prove the highlight Of to-
days story.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-10
Presbyterian Annual
Meeting on Thursday

The annual meeting of men,
bers of the First Presbyterian
church will be held Thursday
evening at the church parlors
following pot-luck dinner
schtdrled to begin at $50, the
Rev. Joseph l.. Kennedy said to-
day.
Election OF officers and cele-
bration of the church's 10th
anniversary will be included on
the the business program.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-10
M.C.H.S.
Notes

BOND-STAMP SALES


Weekly stamp and bond sales
are continuing regularly but as
yet the sales have not reached
the $500 mark which was set
several weeks ago. The APP
preaching European victory does
not wipe out the Pacific front
and the money derived does not
and the money derived from
these weekly sales is badly need
ed. Students are urged TO buy
regularly and in as large
amounts as they can possibly af-
ford.
SELECT SUBJECTS
Election of subjects for tho
next semester will be made just
after the 10 weeks marks are
given out. If students will begin
thinking about what courses
they are interested in taking. a
great deal of time will be saved
when they actually do select
them.
INDIAN LIFE
Students in grades 9-12 saw
program this afternoon in the
auditorium, entitled The Lau-
bins. The program was about a
tribe of Indians. There will be
an auditorium assembly the 26th
of this month when a professor
from Michigan State College
will talk. Also, some pictures on
Victory Gardening will be
shown.
G. H. PROGRAM
The annual G.. r. senior pro-
gram will be given this year or
May 4. All club members who
are seniors and are interested in
being in the program are asked
to meet in Room 2ll, Wednes-
day at four.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
Governor Submits
Educational Plan
O'COnOr Plan Would Increase
Teachers Pay, Cut Class
Size

Governor O'Conor formally sub
mitted to the General Assembly a
far eaching educational program
which he said, Twill represent the
greatest single advancement in edu-
cation to be made in our state" 1t
includes pay raises for teachers, re-
duction in the size Of classes and ex-
tension Of twelve-year curlicula
throughout the state.
In county which levies 81 cents
per 500 in its tax rate for school
purposes and this levy does not pro
duce sufficient funds to carry the
minimum program, the State would
pay the difference.
The scale for teacher salaries goes
from $1,000 to S2,O5O, without de-
grees, and $500 to $2,250 for those
with degrees.
There would be additions for prin-
cipals. The salary scale for high
school principals would range from
$3.50 to S2,75O with additions for
schools having more than five teach
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
JENNINGS

According to reports, Spring is
just around the corner but it seems
to be quite a distance to the corner,
for each succeeding week brings sew
eral inches of snow and bitter cold.
Root Beachy, the local weatherman,
prophesies that the last Friday in the
month rules the following month,
which, although very cold, was a
nice day. Let's see what Mr.. Ground
hog has to say about the weather next
month.
Pfc. Clark Wilburn has written to
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jason Will
burn, that he met Pvt. Lee Bittinger
somewhere in Belgium. Pfc. Wilburn
stated that Bittinger is the first per-
son he has seen from home. He is
with an engineer unit and took part in
the D-day invasion. Pvt. Bittinger is
the son Of MI and Mrs. Harvey Bit
finger, of Negro Mountain.
Miss Ethel Platter left here on
Saturday for Baltimore to make an
indefinite visit with her sister, Mrs.
Evelyn Wise.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Wilburn and
family, of near Bittinger, visited the
formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jason
Wiburn, Sunday,
Mr.. and Mrs Orville Bittinger an
nounced the birth of a daughter at
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, on
Friday, January 26
Pvt. William Swauger, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Swauger, has been
transferred from New Cumberland,
Pa, to Camp Wheeler, Ga.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Stark and son
John, Westelnport; Miss Nellie Bit
finger, Mountain Lake Park. and Mrs.
Prentis Porter, Norman, Okla. are
spending few days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond E. Bittinger, of Wash
ngton, d. c., former residents Of the
Park.
The Everready circle of the Luth-
eran church will meet at the home of
Mrs, George Coddington, Alder street.
on Thursday evening, February 8, for
covered dish supper. The meeting
will start at seven o'clock. Members
are asked to bring their banks with
them.
Mis-. j. Kirk Cosner is spending
some time with her husband in Akron,
Ohio, and her sister. Catherine HOOK
en-, Of Aurora, is staying with the Cos
ner children in Oakland. A niece of
Mrs. Cosner, Shirley Jean Sell, of
Pierce, West Va, had a tonsil opera
tion in the City hospital, Elkins, last
week, Mrs. Cosner accompanying the
child to the institution.
First 1t. Charles shilke, Army Air
Corps, son Of Rev. and Mrs. Charles
i. Shilke, former pastor Of the local
Lutheran church, and Mrs. Shilke,
whom he married on Christmas Day.
were guests Tuesday Of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas eraser, Second street. Mrs.
ShiIke is a former resident of Somer-
set, Pa. Lieut.. Shilke returned to the
States during the past fall from the
Europe area and was hospitalized at
Richmond, Va. He will report for fur
Their assignment at Las Vegas, Ne
vada, upon the termination Of his fur
Tough.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
Riley Identified

The Corporal Dan Riley, who was
mentioned in an article in The Satur-
day Evening Post a week or two ago,
has been identified. He is son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Riley, now Of
TOWNSVILLE, w. Va. He worked for a
time at Walnick's Store in Oakland
on Saturday nights, also On a lumber
ing job for Forrest Warwick, and also
was employed for a time by the Reed
and Canaan dairy, Mt. Lake Park, ac-
cording to Mrs. Vida Nethken
The article was written by Tom
Siler on paris: the CTS Silver Fox
hole" and was accompanied by sew
eral photographs of Paris taken by
the Army Signal corps.
Last week several telephone calls
were made to try to find out the
soldiers parents, but without avail
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01

Rogers-L awrence-At quiet ceres
mony Sunday afternoon, January 28.
at | 80 p. H., at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. G.. Gortner, Second street.
Miss Verilda Lawrence, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Lawrence, of
Seminole, Pa, became the bride of
ODDS Jennings Rogers, a sergeant in
the United States Marine corps, and
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Rogers,
of Morgantown, W. Va.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. George d. Birll. pastor Of St.
Marks Lutheran church, in the pres
ence Of members of the two families
and a few other guests. Wedding
music was played by Mrs Bi,k.
The bride was attired in a gown of
net over white taffeta, with a head
dress of small white ostrich tips, and
carried bouquet OF white roses. She
had for her bridesmaid, Miss Mary
Fletcher, Of Morgantown, who wore
pale blue frocll and carried pink
carnations. Little Miss Patricia Gort-
ner was ring bearer and she was also
attired in pale blue Sgt. Rogers had
Mr.. Fortney. Of Morgantown, as his
best man.
The Gortner home was decorated
with pink and white carnations.
Following the ceremony, there was
a reception at the home of the groom
in MorgantoWn. from to 8 pm.
After short honeymoon the groom
will report to the Marine base at
Quantico, Va, from which place he
expects to be sent overseas in the
near future. The bride, who has been
making her home with Mr.. and Mrs.
Gortner for several months, viii re-
turn here for the duration Of the war.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
Coal Company Files
Appeal from Accident
Commissions Verdict

An appeal from the State Indus
trial Accident Commissions decision
in the case Of Michael G. Bedene,
Kitzmiller, has been filed in circuit
court by the McNitt Coal Company,
Inc
The commission, following a hear
ing, last year awarded Bedene COM
pensation based ON S18.58 a week for
the period of his temporary disability
According to Bedene's attorney, Clar-
ence Lippel, Bedene was injured Au-
gust 18, 1913, when a large rock fell
on his leg while he worked in a mine
William S. Jenkins, counsel for the
company, filed the appeal from the
verdict
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
Anti Drive
To Be Continued

Because of the Indictment weather
which has hampered a number of
people. in contributing to the 1915
March Of Dimes campaign, the appeal
to raise funds to combat infantile
paralysis viii be continued through
next Wednesday. according to a tele-
gram received here yesterday from
Senator Radcliffe, general chairman.
by Dr., E. |. BaumPartner, county
chairman.
Basil O'Conor, chairman Of the Ma
tional Foundation for Infantile Par
alysis, also instructed chapters to eX-
tend their campaigns in states where
unfavorable weather and coal short
ages had curtailed campaign activi-
ties.
DR.. Baumgartner said that reports
OF receipts to date were in the neigh
borhood of $37500.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
Oakland High Trips
Elk Garden, 81 to "a

Oakland high basketeers checked in
q 1924 victory over Elk Garden (W
Va high courtmen here last Friday
night after the Oakland girls had
trimmed the Elk Garden sextet, 30
10.
The Oakland boys, in front Cd, 12-
II and 21-16 at the quarters, were
paced by George Kahl, who had nine
field goals. Elliott and Mason each
had three doubIedeckers for the visi-
tors. The lineunS:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
MARRIED

Mohan- Wilburn-Mr. and Mrs. Roy
r. Wilburn. Grantsville. announce the
marriage of their daughter, Rheba R.
to Mr.. c. J. Mohan. of Butler. Pa.
A double ring ceremony was per-
formed by the Navy Chaplain. 1t. H..
3. Brown. at Des MONIES. Iowa, in
the First Lutheran Church, Sunday
afternoon. at 200. January 81. 1915.
Attending were Ensign Walta NJ.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
Garrett Case VIII Be
Tried in Allegany

A Garrett county case involving a
$1,000 damage suit and injunction
proceedings will be tried in circuit
court in Allegany county, February 8.
The damage action was filed by
Arthur Resh. who alleged that the de-
PENDANTS, Scott Holiday and Adam
Oester. trespassed on a timber tract
in the Keyser Ridge section. Resi- is
represented by L. Ray Jones, Charles
G. Watson and F. Brooke Whiting.
Walter w. Dawson and Asa 7. Mat
thews represent the defendants.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
Rebekah Lodge at
Loeb Lynn Installs

Recently selected officers in the
Lake Lynn Rebekah lodge at Loeb
Lynn We're installed last Friday eve
ming. Those installed were Emma
Friend, noble grand; Cora Wood, vice
grand; Bess Cuppett, recording sec
rotary; Lucille Wilson, financial sec
rotary; Ruby Turney, treasurer; Viii
ma Ours, warden; Mary Goss, con-
ductor; Hope Moon, chaplain; Eva
Mickey, right supporter Of noble
grand; Helen McRobie, left supporter;
Grace Ours, right supporter of vice
grand; Nell Bittinger, left supporter;
Grace Bittinger, musician.
All offices are held for six months
with the exception of the financial
secretary and treasurer, which con-
tinue for year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
Engagement Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry L. Yost, Oak
land announces the engagement Of
THEN daughter, Miss Virginia June
Yost, to Sgt. Leroy ]. Holkamp, now
stationed at Fort George G. Meade,
and the son Of Mr. and Mrs. II. G..
HoIkamp, Of Louisville, Ky. The we'd
ding will be an event Of early summer.
Miss Yost is a graduate of Oakland
High school, class Of 1899, and has
leen employed at Fort Meade for the
past three years. Sgt. Holkamp is a
graduate Of Ahren's Trade School, in
n11i wi ln
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
Barton rims Local
I High School 1873

Barton high school defeated the
Oakland high school team here last
night 48 to %. Barton took 1876
lead in the first quarter and led all
the way. The half ended 21-9 and the
third quarter 32-16.
G. Clark with twelve points was
high scorer with B. Warwick next with
eleven, both of Barton. T. Warwick,
of Barton, and Bosley for Oakland,
had ten each. Other Oakland scorers
Trickett 4, Liller 2, Teats 3, Jones /,
Friend 2 and Stanton H. Walter and
Kildow played but did not score.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
American Legion To Meet
Monday Evening

The regular meeting Of Proctor Kill
dow Post, No II, American Legion,
will be held on Monday evening, Feb
ruary 5, at the new Legion home, be-
ginning at 500 O'clock
The Legion home has been under
repair in the interior for several
months and parts Of it are now ready
for occupancy by the local organiza-
ton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01

Marucci- Adams Announcement
has been made of the marriage Of
Margaret g. Adams, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. f. W. Adams, of Oakland,
to Corporal Alfred T. Marucci, son of
MMr. T. Marucci, Of Republic, Pa.
The ceremony was performed Tues
day morning, January 30, in the Holy
Rosary Catholic church in Republic.
Corporal Marucci has just returned
home after serving two years over
seas in Belgium, France, and the
Mediterranean area. The bride has
been employed in Warnick's Store in
Oakland. Corporal Marucci expects to
be. stationed on the west coast upon
his return to duty.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-01
MARRIED

Parsons Deets-Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Deets, of St. George, W. Va, an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, LESSEE Minear, to Boyd NJ. Par
sons, also Of St. George.
The ceremony took place Sunday
afternoon. January IS, at 2:3O o'clock
at Red House, with Rev. Alvah X
Jones reading the single ring service
The bride was attired in Il navy
blue dress with matching accessories
The only attendants were Miss Hazel
Deets and Miss Kathryn Kyle, of Par
sons. w. Va.
Evening star., 1945-01-14

heroes are these nameless CT flyers. They
have a little trouble expressing their graft
tude sometimes. They give the pilots souvenir
enemy rifles, sabers, torn Jap battle-fag
that they captured at the risk of their lives.
1t isn't much, but it sort of says how they feel.
Better than headlines, maybe.
Oh, yes. This report would not be complete
without the story of one Worm that Turned.
1t seems that a sergeant-pilot found 30
pound Jap bomb lying on the field at Myitky-
ina. He headed back home. carrying the pre-
cious souvenir in his lap. He was brooding
about rifle-hole in the windshield Of his
defenseless plane just above his head. Per-
haps he wanted to be a bomber-pilot because
he washed out in primary school.
By an odd coincidence, he said. he found
himself over narrow-gauge railroad, and by
an equally odd coincidence there were Jap
locomotive and string of supply cars toilng
along the track. And by the oldest coinci-
dence Of all - he seemed very embar-
rassed about the whole thing - his plane
happened to tip over onto one wing just
then. The door happened to come open, and
the bomb happened to slide opt of his lap and
hit the locomotive right on the nose. He said
there was very beautiful pink explosion, full
of flying spectacles and buck teeth. He was
sorry to lose his nice souvenir, but he felt
much, much better about that Jap p-made hole
in his windshield now. The End
Evening star., 1945-01-14

finished Ledo Road to deliver surgeon for
an emergency appendectomy. They rig
bomb racks under the flimsy wings and haul
mortar ammunition or barbed wire to out
posts under siege. Stah-Sgt. 7. Y. Qwon,
Chinese pilot, made a dozen
trips in a day Juggling dynamite to Myit-
kyina. They carry live chickens and
ducks, and sometimes a case Of beer that
is worth its weight in gold out here.
They are frequently called in to help search
for lost plane, dragging the jungle at tree
top level They fly numerous photo-missions
over the enemy lines, following in the wake
of fast A-36 bomber like puppy chasing
an automobile. During the North Burma
campaign, they dropped dispatches and i'm
portant maps to an isolated unit. They flew
combat team commandos on reconnaissance.
When pack artillery was dropped to Menilrs
Marauders on May 2, they flew right over the
Jap positions to divert artillery fire.
They like best of all to act as artillery OBJ
servers. Gives them grandstand view. they
say Sometimes they locate Jap ammuni-
ton dump, and mark the target till the bomb
Evening star., 1945-01-14

ers come over. As they dodge IN and out amid
the tracer bullets and shells the Japs lob up
at them, they gaze sympathetically at the
infantrymen below; they wouldn't trade
places for anything in the world Those guys
down there have really got it tough"
Most of them have crash-landed in the
jungle, and most have walked out. They tell
walk-out stories on each other, as they sprawl
Evening star., 1945-01-14

on cots around the basha at night, with the
monsoon rain beating against the basket
weave walls and the jackals bowling. About
Tech. Sgt Stan Colwell, ex-schoolteacher
from Eureka, California, whose single engine
oonked out over jungle stream and bunch
of highly irritable rhinoceroses. He sat on the
wing of his plane, out of reach of their tusks,
until some natives heard his yells and came
after him in dugout canoe.
Or Staf-Sgt. w. T. Burgess of Charleston,
S. c., who crashed in the heart of the Bur-
mese mountains. After couple of miserable
days fighting mosquitoes and leeches and
gnawing hunger, he was found by party
of Kachin hillsmen. They put him up for the
night in the chiefs house, in single large
room with rs or 100 men and women all
sleeping together There was one homemade
mosquito net; they draped that over him,
and then they put the chiefs year-old baby
under the net with him. "And then the
mosquitoes came up through the floor. he
said, land bit the hell out of me anyway"
They gave him one-piece sarong to wrap
around him, while his own clothes were dry
ing. Unfortunately a couple of rescue planes
appeared overhead just then, and Sergeant
Burgess had nothing else to wave at them but
the sarong. 'They told me later it was too
bad wasn't Dotty Lamom."
Paxalysis Victim Rescued
HERE was another rescue story you never
saw in headlines, about soldier in remote
outpost who was stricken with infantile
paralysis His abdomen was paralyzed 50 he
couldn't breathe, and he had to be evacuated
at once to the nearest iron lung. which hap
pened to be in Calcutta. They fitted an inn
provised artifcial-respiration device into a.
cub plane For three hours the pilot operated
this respirator with his left hand while he
fought his way through the worst typhoon
weather seen thereabouts in Burmese moon.
He landed with the gas supply 50 low that his
engine quit just as he was taxing down the
strip.
They say there are no heroes in the Army
nowadays: just men. But the men themselves
have heroes. You ask the soldiers fighting
out here and they will tell you their own