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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17

in the vicinity of Cheboygan. In
1880 he retired.
He was a life member of the
Cheboygan Lodge, No. 283, F. &
A. NJ, member of the Che
boygan Chapter. No. 100 Royal
Arch Masons, the Cheboygan
Commandery, No. so, Knights
Templar, the Elf Khurafeh Or
der of the Shrine, Saginaw, the
Fraternal Order of Eagles and a
life member of the Shipmates
Association, composed of Span
ish- American War Veterans, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
the "Old Crowd" club Of Mount
Clemens.
He was married to Miss Mar
garet Lemp of Mount Clemens
on Dec. IL, 1901. They came to
Cheboygan to make their home.
Mrs. King preceded her hus-
band in death on November 10,
1898. He is survived by four
children: Mrs. Albert Merritt,
George King, and Mrs. Charles
Wool;Nd of Cheboygan, and
Staff Sgt. James King, who is
stationed in North Africa.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17

Word has been received in
this city of the death in Grant
Hospit-l, Columbus, O., of Mrs.
John Agnes, former resident of
this city and widow of the late
John Agnes, we'll known must
clan.
Mrs. Agnes died on March %
FOLLOWING an illness of more
than six months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Agnes, who
lived on Ferrin Place, were we'll
known to the older generation
OF this city. Mr.. Agnes conduct
ed the orchestra at the old Park
Hotel and participated in most
shows and festivals of that
time. He died Dec. "a, 1897,
after having served as music
instructor in the Millersburg,
O., schools.
Mrs. Agnes last visited Mount
Clemens four years ago, when
she stayed with Mr.. and Mrs.
Norman Schultz, on North Ora
tiot avenue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
Lillian, Taylor

Mrs. Lillian Taylor, age SO
years, wife of William Taylor,
died Sunday at st. Joseph Hos
pital after an illness of six
months.
Mrs. Taylor was a native OF
Clinton Township, the daugh-
ter of the late Thomas and Eni-
ma Blaisdell, whose homestead
was on the Romeo Plank road.
She attended the Methodist
Church, Mount Clemens, and
lived with her sister, Mrs. Cora
Smith, Romeo Plank road, who
survives her.
There are three brothers:
Edgar, of Oscoda; Frank, OF
Mount Clemens, and Oscar, Of
Detroit.
The funeral will take place
Wednesday with services at 2
p. m, conducted by the Rev. Al
fred Landon at the Hubbard
Funeral chapel. Burial will be
in Clinton Grove Cemetery
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
Fred kIinA

CHEBOYGAN, Mich.-Funer-
al services were held here Mon
day for Fred King, 70, a native
of Mount Clemens, Mich, and
veteran of considerable action in
the Spanish American War. who
died last Thursday at his home,
Duncan avenue, following a
lengthy period of i'll health. Mr..
King was a retired lighthouse
keeper.
The knights Templar were In
charge of funeral rites and bur-
ial was in Pinehill Cemetery.
MIR. King was born in Mount
Clemens on August 20, 1871.
When a young man he entered
the Navy in 1897 and served
through the Spanish American
War. He was promoted to gun
captain of the battleship Texas
and was on the ship when it had
the grisly task of bringing home
1873 bodies Of sailors killed on
the Maine. The funeral ship was
caught off Cape Hatteras in a
terrific storm in which a big
English tramp ship went down.
The Texas arrived at Newport
News on Christmas Day. Twelve
petty officers, men of outstand-
ing character were selected to
accompany the bodies to WASH
ington for state funeral services
and Gun Captain King was one
of them.
He served in four naval &C.
tions and had a medal in COM
memoration. He was on the u.
S. S. Massachusetts,, the moni-
tor Aphrodite, the sailing YES
sci Lancaster and the Texas, and
he came out of the war without
a wound.
He enlisted in the Lighthouse
service and served 80 years, all
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
Mrs. Williams

ROSEVILLE Funeral serv-
ices were held Tuesday morn
Ing for Mrs. Helen Williams,
IS, who died of coronary throm-
bosis Saturday evening in st.
Joseph's hospital, Mount Glenn
ems.
Although Mrs. Williams had
fallen and broken her leg ID
days before, she was recover
Ing satisfactorily from the all
ment, and her death was unex-
pected.
Mrs. Williams had been in
Macomb county for the past 26
years, aid was associated with
her husband, Jeff Williams,
who survives her, in the theatre
business in East Detroit and
Roseville. The family home was
Ut 26616 Hollywood, Roseville.
Services were held at $50
am. from the Raul Funeral
Home in Roseville, and at 8
am. from st. Veronica's church,
where solemn requiem high
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
M.('.H.S.
Notes
by
Barbara MacLachlan

The Girl Reserves will hold
their annual Spring Swing spon-
sored by the CIR alumni, this
year at Hillcrest Country Clue
May Is. AS always the dance is
a semi-formal, girls bid affair.
Tickets, the sale of which will
be limited, will go first to CIR
members and alumni, then to
10th, 18th and 18th graders, and
tickets still left after that (if
there are any may be purcrN s.
ed by others not in the afore-
mentioned groups.
If the first days gathering is
any sign, MCHS students will
contribute greatly to the United
Nations Clothing Collection in
its week of contribution. Mon
day, the first day of the week
set aside for collection. all the
boxes in the front hall were pill
ed high with used but wearable
clothing of MCHS students.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
Charles TUSCANY

Funeral services were held to-
day for Charles Tuscany, age
60 years, a lifelong resident of
Mount Clemens, who died unex-
pectedly on Saturday morning
after a brief illness. Mr.. Tus-
cany was pronounced dead on
admission to st. Joseph Hos
pital.
The deceased was the son of
the late John and Olive Tus-
cany and lived at IS New
street. He was formerly associ-
ated with his brother in a bar
Der shop on Broadway and for
some time had been an elevator
operator at st. Joseph SAM
tarium. He was an active men,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
Failed to Be Colonel: Now Commands Them Al

Keep 1t up and you will have
done a great deal to lessen the
need of European children and
adults.
There are still seats available
for the Junior play, Seven Sis
ters." to be presented Thursday
and Friday of this week. Any
Junior is ready and willing to
sell you a ticket.
At recent election of the A
Cappela choir, Lois Broughten
was chosen the new president Of
the group. The choir, under the
leadership of Mrs. Delmar
Wright, is practising many new
pieces. some for participation in
coming concert.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17

Funeral services for Paul Pit
man, age 38 years, of Romeo,
will be held Wednesday at $50
an, at the LaCroix & Groes-
beck funeral home, with Rev.
ia cob Whitman officiating.
Burial will be in Holy Sepulchre
Cemetery, Detroit, where Mr..
Pitman's wife is inferred.
Mr.. Pitman died after in
juries suffered accidentally at
the county Jail.
For many years he had been
q garage mechanic in Romeo,
and was formerly a resident Of
Tennessee, where his mother
and other relatives survive.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
New President Did Tough
Job Well; Never Griped

years earlier he had nearly
worn out Kansas City luncheon
clubs expounding this theory at
any and all opportunity.
Remembering some of the ex-
posures of graft that followed
the first conflict, Truman said:
1T doesn't do any good dig
ging up dead horses after the
war is over like the last time.
The thing to do is dig this stuff
up now and correct it. If we
run this war efficiently, there
won't be any opportunity for
someone to stir up a lot of in
vestigations after the war, and
cause a wave of revulsion that
will start this country on the
road to unpreparedness after the
war is over"
Truman sponsored a resolu-
ton to set up committee to
check on war expenditures. The
Senate approved, but cut the ap-
preparation to SIS, ZOO and hand
ed Truman the Craftsmanship be-
cause it was his idea.
Truman took that routine
committee craftsmanship and by
hard work, intelligence and
luck ran it out to the presidency.
When the First World War
came, Truman helped to organ
ize the Second Missouri Field
Artillery, which became the
10th Field Artillery of the 35th
Division when modified on the
United States entry into the
war.
Truman took officers training
at Camp Doniphan and was
graduated as a second lieuten-
ant. In France a few months
later he entered another officers
school. won his captaincy and
was assigned to command Of Bat
terry D of the 129th.
The battery had been recruit
ed at old Rockhurst High school
in Kansas City, and consisted
mostly of Catholics. Truman,
Baptist and a Mason, led it to
the Argonne Front Aug. Is,
1918. The battery was on the
line in the Vosges mountains
when cease firing sounded on
armistioe morning. On the way
home, the men took up a collec-
ton and gave him a loving cup.
A. GOOD OFFICER
Truman slept in the same
mud and ate out of the same pots
and pans that we did," Eugene
p. Donnelly, now Jackson Coun-
ty Public Administrator, recalls
when his men started on leave
Truman would call them in in
dividually and ask them how
they were fixed financially II
they were short Truman would
lend them $50 francs personal
ly."
Truman was mustered out q
major May 6, 1919 and return
ed to independence. Soon after
ward he entered the field artil.
lery reserve as a colonel and
still holds his rank. He sought
active duty under this rank af-
ter the Second World War broke
out.
The constitutional and mill
tary history of the United States
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
FDR'S Name
to Appear ON
Peace Stamp

WASHINGTON, April II -
up - Franklin d. Roosevelt's
name will be added TO a new
five-cent postage stamp COM
memorating the San Francisco
United Nations Conference.
Announcing this yesterday.
Postmaster General Frank C.
Walker said Mr.. Roosevelt sug-
gested the original wording for
the stamp.
This Toward United Nations
April 25, 1945" will be enclos-
ed in quotation. Below will be
the name Of the late chief exec
utive.
The stamp goes on sale at San
Francisco April 25 and at other
post offices April 26.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17

today are his favorite studies.
He is even yet an ardent anna
teur military strategist and, as
President Roosevelt took great
interest in his old first love
the Navy-so President Truman
likely always will be close to the
Army. and particularly the field
artillery, whose song he plays
and sings with his buddies on
any appropriate occasion.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
By GEORGE X. WALLACE

Political writer. Kansas Cuy Stst
INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, April
17-(R-Three great loves have
influenced and guided President
Truman's life since before the
turn of the century-affection
for family and friends, for mill
tary life and for politics-and
the military influence was as
strong for 20 years in the mid
die part of his life as politics
have been later.
President Truman, IL he had
had his way, would be colonel
of artillery in Europe or the Pa
cific today instead of command
er-in-chief of the armed forces
of the United States.
For, with the coming of World
War II, Harry S. Truman got out
his old World War I uniform and
tried it on. 1t fitted as we'll as 1t
always had, and Truman tried
valiently to enter again the
service in which he had served
actively and inactively for 36
years. But he was 56 years old,
a Senator in Washington, and no
longer able physically to serve.
Rejected, Truman decided
that the next best thing he
could do was to watch as close
ly as possible the government
expenditures in the war effort to
be sure money wasn't being
wasted. Economy and value in
government spending always
had been his pet theory, and is
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
Obituaries

mass was celebrated by Rev
FIR. Francis Cox, with Rev. Ger
aid Lowen as deacon and FIR
Francis Dietz as sub-deacon
Burial was in the family lot at
Mount Olivet cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-17
Der Of st. Peters Catholic par.

ish.
The funeral was held from
the LaCroix e. Groesbeck fu-
neral home at 8 an, with serv-
ices at st. Peters Church at $50
am. Burial was in the Catholic
Cemetery.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
HOUSE MEMBERS ARE
NOW ON VACATION

Washington - House members
took off last week for their long
est vacation since 1898 after a
listless final session in which they
boosted the pay of a group of leg
islative employees and discussed
the palatability of horse meat.
Barring emergencies which
might recall them to work sooner,
they won't return to business un-
til October 8, the 11-week holiday
being the most extended unbrok-
en- surcease from official work
since the six months vacation of
1888.
There was no fanfare or cele-
bration as the adjournment bells
rang the end of a six-month SEES
sion with only about fifty mem
bers in their seats at the finish.
Quitting time was 2:22 p. m. east
ern war time.
House action included adoption
of a resolution giving raises of
from $500 to $1,000 annually to
a group of miscellaneous House
employees who failed to receive
increases several months ago
when the House voted each of its
members $4,000 expense funds.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26

Women have been called upon
to furnish a large portion of the
extra labor needed to harvest the
bumper peace crop in the Spar
anburg, S. c., area.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
STATE APPLE CROP TO
BE Low THIS YEAR

Raleigh = The 1945 State COM
mercial apple crop is estimated
by the State Department of Agri-
culture at only $4,000 bushels
less than one-fifth of last years
production of 1892, 900 bushels
and even smaller than the poor
crop grown in 1913. Some or
chards in the Brushy Mountain
area of Alexander and wilkes
counties report fair setting OF
apples. The crop in other noun
tain sections, however, is excep-
tionally spotted and generally ex-
ceedingly light.
North Cardinals peach crop,
now at peak harvest, was set at
2,37O, 900 bushels-the same es-
innate given a month ago. Al
though this years crop is approx
imately 100000 bushels less than
the quantity grown last season,
commercial production in the
Sandhills is reported higher than
for last season. Commercial rail
shipments are now expected to
total about $500 cars as compared
with LOO in 1914.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
MUST PAY
20 BILLION DOLLARS

New York-The Herald Tri-
bune said a secret agreement was
reached at the Yalta conference
whereby Russia, Great Britain
and the United States would
split $4,000, 900, 900 to be supplied
by Germany in reparations.
In a dispatch from Washington,
the newspaper said:
" Roosevelt, Churchill and
Stain agreed to extract $2O,O0O,-
100000 in PREPARATIONS from Ger
many in five years.
sc. The agreement was that
Russia would get the bears
share, or so per cent; the United
States 20 per cent, Great Britain,
20 per cent, and the minor vic
TINS of the Nazi aggressors in Eu-
rope, a total of 10 per cent"
The Herald Tribune added:
Russia is now going on the
theory that what was said then
(the Yalta conference last Febru-
ary) by the President, the Prime
Minister and the Premier, still
goes-Senate or no Senate"
The article said that at Yalta,
Stain said, in effect: IF you
leave the situation to me, I'll get
$50, 600, 900, 900 out of them"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26

The last controls on the dis
tribution of milk cans have BEEN
revoked, it was announced by the
USDA.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
MAPS ON TRAINS FOR
G. rs WILL ROTATE

Washington - The army is 60
ing to experiment with ''sleep
shifts" on Pullmans in an effort
to relieve the shortage of sleep
ing cars, it was learned this week.
Under this system, a soldier will
occupy a berth eight to II ncurs
and then relinquish it to another
soldier for a similar period. The
remainder of the time will be
spent in day coaches.
The first test train, made up of
coaches and Pullmans, will leave
Camp Kilmer, N. j., at 9 a. M.
Sunday for Fort Sam Houston,
Texas.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
100000 Will Soon Lack
Jobs In War Production Work

Washington The War Man.
power Commission reported this
week that cutbacks in war pro-
duction since We Day will lift
the nations unemployment total
to the 100000 mark by August
l.
This will be an increase of L.
100000 over the June figure.
On that date, only 100000 men
and women were out of work in
the entire country.
VINO is not worried about the
sudden increase in unemploy-
ment, however. It expects most
of the jobless to be absorbed in
reconversion production. From
August until Nov. l, about 100000
unemployed are expected to re-
turn to work in reconverted in
dUstries and expanded civilian
activities.
Unemployment is not evenly
spread throughout the country.
Some areas, like Portland, Me-,
Evansville, Ind, Jacksonville,
Fla, Detroit, Mich, Houston, Tex
as, and Fresno, Calf, have a sur
plus of manpower But other CT
ties such as New Bedford, Mass,
Baltimore, Md, Akron, Ohio, Mo-
bile, Ala, and Portland, Ore,
have a shortage.
In the past two months the Mid:
west has suffered the greatest
number of cutbacks in its war in
dustry and consequently has the
most widespread lay-offs. Heavi-
est cutbacks have been in Michl-
gan and Ohio. where thousands of
people have been laid off in air.
craft, ordnance, and small-armG
war plants in Detroit, Grand Rap
ids, Muskegon, and Pontiac,
Mich, and Lima, Toledo and
Mansfield, Ohio.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
Hart, Wounded
Veteran, Returns


Pfc. Wells R. Hart, of Husk,
who was wounded in action, has
just returned to Woodrow Wilson
General Hospital by a hospital
ship.
Young Hart, veteran of four
campaigns in the European thea
ter of war, spent IA months over
seas. He entered the army in
September, 1943.
When wounded, he was admit
ted to Halloran General Hospital
and on July 9 was transferred to
Woodrow Wilson General Hospi-
tai.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26

WAR BONDS your way +
back the Wacs. Waves
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
44th DIVISION HAS
COME HOME AGAIN

New York-The 44th Division
came home aboard the mighty
Queen Elizabeth-14,766 of the
men who sailed for Europe 10
months ago and drove all the way
across Germany to Austria for
their part in the final kill of Ma
zism.
The worlds largest hospital
ship, the Francis Y. Slanger, also
arrived. The Slanger locked at
Staten Island with 1861 litter and
ambulatory patients for Halloran
General Hospital.
Other ships which locked were:
The Monticello, with 1887 men
including the 23d and 18th Reg
ments of the I'd Infantry; the Lee
ieune, with 4,621 men of the 1ltn
Regiment of the 5th Infantry Di-
vision; the Bret Harte, with 1858
reassignment troops, and the
Nishmaha, with Il liberated air
force prisoners of war.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
RIDGECREST ASSEMBLY
HAS BEEN CANCELLED

It has been announced that be-
cause of transportational difficult
ties the Ridgecrest Assembly has
been cancelled and plans have
been made to hold Little Ridge
crest meeting in the Baptist AS
ISOLATION in this county beginning
on August IL and continuing
through August II.
The B. T. u. Associational Di-
rector, D. c. Severt, has asked
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
w. jefferson Man
Aboard Gregory

Aboard the u. S. S. Gregory in
the Western Pacific (Delayed).-
Emory N. Lewis, seaman, first
class, U. S. N. R., husband Of Ola
Deane Lewis, Route l, West JEFF
ferson, serves aboard this destroy
er which already has shot down
six enemy planes and taken part
in two major engagements, al
though she has been fighting in
the Pacific theatre only since
last October.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
GENERAL BRADLEY rs
HOME FROM EUROPE

Washington - Gen. Omar N.
Bradley arrived by plane from
Europe last week and left i'm
mediately for a vacation prior to
taking over as head of the Veter-
ons Administration on Aug. IS.
Bradley's destination was not
disclosed and the War Depart
ment said he would be ''incom-
municado" until ready to assume
his new duties.
The former commander of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26

ground forces in Europe, Bradley
flew here by way of New York:
His plane landed at 1919 p. m. at
the Washington National Airport.
A military aide said the gen
erals vacation would be his first
in IL or 13 years and that he was
BADLY in need of rest"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
National And World News During The Past Week
Tucker Hotel.

The new company, home-own~
ed and operated, is ready to ac-
cept dogwood and pay the highest
prices possible, Mr.. Parker said
Bring your dogwood in today
to the w. J. Dogwood Company.
It is urgently needed for the waE
effort" he declared.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
NEW lockwood COMPANY
OPENS HERE THIS WEEK

Glenn Parker and Dema Wood,
well-known West Jefferson bust
nessmen, have announced the
opening of the w. J. Dogwood
Company, located next to the
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26
BIBLE SCHOOL AT
THREE FORKS CHURCH

A Bible school conducted by
Miss Virginia Dare league will be
held at Three Forks Baptist
Church and the Peak Valley Bap-
tist church, beginning July 80.
Miss league has asked that chill
dren attend their respective
churches.
Assisting Miss league are Miss
Dare GRAPHICAL, Mrs. Helen Mil
Ter, Mrs. Jean Eggers and others.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-07-26

that each church in the county
plan to take advantage of this
meeting. watch for further an
nouncements about the meeting, -
he urged.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Governor Dewey's Fortunes
By Rayn ond Molsv

tional origin" A State War Council,
created before Mr.. Dewey took off1ce,
had a Committee on Discrimination in
Employment which used persuasion and
conciliation to prevent discrimination
in war industries. This committee pro-
posed bill in 1914, but since the end
of the legislative session was near,
Gov. Dewey recommended in its stead
the creation Of temporary commission
to investigate and to present new bill
In the 1945 session. No doubt from a
political point Of view this action of
Gov. Dewey seriously injured his
chance to carry New York in 1914. His
motives were unjustly attacked by ex-
ponents of such legislation.
But he can now say that he has spe-
cifically delivered the goods as he prom
ised year ago.
The new bill will be administered by
a commission of fve, to be appointed
by the Governor before July /. The
Governor will have plenty of worry
about the personnel Of this commission,
and when it Is installed 1t will have
serious problems OF administration Un-
der the bill, complaints filed must be
investigated and then passed upon by
the commission. If the complaint is
justified, the commission issues a
cease and desist" order. If this order
is violated, penal provisions enter the
picture. judicial review is provided, how
ever.
If this measure proves workable, Gov.
Dewey's prestige In the Nation will
be enhanced. He has met q serious prob
lem without hedging. Yet the real test
lies ahead because this law enters an
unexplored field and its advocates may
expect too much, too soon.
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