The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-28


writes us from Lomita, Calf,
Eyes, we have readers all over)
to report that besides en-
joying this column stuff :.
he's now entered in the Beverly
Hills Open, at the California
Country Club with SIS, 900
in prizes to shoot for. "Chuck"
likes CALIFORNIA; sunshine very
much and has managed to get in
many hours Of golfing. He goes
into the open tournament in
the best form ever with
Mrs. Nicolai and the children,
now with him, as the best fans
in his gallery. Good luck, boy!
That Batchawana Bay Bach
el0r, ex-sheriff "Jake" Theut,
just back from his camp sew
eral hundred miles north Of
the 500, pours into our ear
such appealing fishing stories
that 1t makes Z fellows work
so much harder in the confines
Of an office. "Jake" caught
four fish in Batchewana Bay
weighing Is lbs. each
beautiful lake trout and
the landing of each one was a
tussle. If they're under IL
lbs. up there, big Jake" says,
a good sportsman throws 'em
back! They use a sort of
stovepipe wire, about 22-
gauge, for lines because
they sink down better in the
zoo to 800 feet of water in the
bay And when you sink
q drinking jug tor let some
beer bottles dangle) deep down
in that water, "Jake" says you
get the coolest drink anyone
ever had.
LAKE ST. CLAIR was whip
ped up to fury and the wind
was almost of gale proportions,
when two Mount Clemens men
started home in their 16-foot
cupboard boat Saturday :.
Their families had notified the
Sheriffs Office and the Coast
Guard was searching the lake,
because the couple, absent since
7 a. m, were due back about 4
p. M, and when darkness de-
scended they were still missing.
But all's we'll that ends
well. Fred Reamer, 81, and his
son-in-law, Ralph Riley, 80,
both of Anchor Bay Harbor,
were reported safe about 10 p. m.
We hope all lake stories"
end this way.
Once in a while a story
comes over the wire that Is
far too late for the days pa
per but you hate to con-
sign it to the wastebasket.
Here Is one, by the Associated
Press out Of Miami and
we know you'll recognize it as
one of the most unusual short
stories of the whole war
Standing beside his own self
dug grave, S/Sgt. Edward L.
Steele, "a, U. S. Flying Fort
ress gunner, awaited the bite
Of machine-gun bullets from a
Nazi firing squad. II heard
the guns click as the Germans
got ready to fire l fig
ured that was the end, so I
reached into my pocket and
brought out q snapshot of my
wife and baby to take a last
look :" Suddenly the Ger
mans lowered their machine
guns. One of them stepped
forward and gruffly demanded
to see the photograph. 81
thought It was just another
dirty trick-taking away my
picture before they killed me-"
Steele related. The Germans
went into a huddle, scrutiniz-
ing the photograph and occas-
ionally turning to glance at the
American.
THEY SEEMED to be debat-
ing. Finally they motioned me
away from the grave and order
ed me into a nearby automobile.
. Did you think we were
going to kill you?" one of the
Nazis asked EYES," Steele
replied. The Nazi shrugged.
THE photograph-your wife and
baby-well, here you are still
alive" Recounting his mar
row escape today, Steele said the
Germans had told him in Eng
lish to dig your own grave" af-
ter his plane was shot down near
New Munster, Germany, last
April Is A veteran of q
Steele is awaiting re-
assignment at Army Air Forces
Redistribution center No. 2, Mi
ami Beach. His wife and child
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