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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-26

Richmond township is critically
i'll in ST. Joseph's Hospital, Mt.
Clemens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Waun,
and family, are spending the
week at a cottage at Desmond
Beach, near Port Huron.
Mrs. Louise Burke Oswald of
Akron, Ohio, rs spending some
time in the home of MIR. and
Mrs. F. Scott Burke. Mrs. Os-
valid attending the Memorial
Mass held Saturday for Francis
Robert Burke, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. Scott Burke.
MIR. and Mrs. Rudolph Hansen
and daughter will spend the
coming week at the Sample cot
tage at Desmond Beach, north
of PIT. Huron.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cassidy
have returned TO their home
here after spending the week
end at Niagara Falls. Mr.. Cassi-
dy will return to his work this
week at the Board of Education
in Detroit, after enjoying a va
cation at his home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Kar-
mon, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Fist
Ter and Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
Schweiger are enjoying a
weeks vacation at Drummond
Isle.
Mrs. Leslie Dittman and fam
lily and Mrs. Edgar Weeks and
family are spending the week as
the guests of Mrs. Donald Fos-
ter and children at the Foster
cottage at Jose Lake.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-26

BOSTON W.n)-Firemen in Ice
land receive S74 a week, reveals
Fireman Kjartan Peturson who
is studying at fire control school
here. However, the Icelander
explained that the cost of liv-
ing In mis- country has gone up
ia per cent since the start Of
World War II. An egg there
costs Is cents
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-26
Richmond

RICHMOND Matthias Not
haft, Sr., of the Ridge road,
Richmond Township is critically
i'll in ST. Joseph's Hospital, Mt.
Clemens.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

ence of teachers of the city rural schools wer present.
From 900 to HOO p. M, Mrs. Myrtle B. Van Wall
kenburgh special representative of AynBacon Company
and authors of the Qunen Readers began of the most
interesting demonstrations how teach reading in the
LIST and 3rd grade teachers had been asked furnish thirty
citing the third busy with their work which
sisted of drawing and coorng in their work BOOKS The
s and 81 grade eahes had been asked to furnish thirty
(30 children divided into SUPERIOR and slow and
along with each pupils his ability indicated
slip OF paper pinned where it could readily be
At LIS p M, re-assembed ard public school music
and how teach discussed demonstrated by Miss
Lucy Beddoe special representative of the American Book
Company At 2:l5, demonstration and lecture reading
and discussion reading the grades to given by
Miss Kathleen WISE special representative of Lyons and
Carnahan Company. Miss Wise able to demonstrate
superior technique So grade combination which held
the teachers spellbound for than an hour.
The lectures of these three experts
highly teachers held both the rural and urban
teachers of the county spebond opened their under
standing regards to how entertaining and helpful this
method of attack teaching children to read and under
stand the rudments of music be- if properly done
To sum- up what impressed the teachers most by these
expert instructors what the paramount detectives OF the
primary teacher should be, namely:
To give the child pleasure
To create genuine desire to read.
To stimulate the childs interest in books.
To develop inqurng attitude towards the tunda-
mental reading process itself.
To make progress in teaching children to read indie
pendently.
To develop the power to to recognize printed symbols
carriers of real ideas and to introduce reading as
thoughtgetter.
In motvating lesson learned that the attention and
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01
CHURCHES

Tulane Baptist Church, Yazoo City enjoyed delightful
day the last PASTORAL day. Service opened at twelve
o'clock with the song, Jesus Love Thee Scripture from
Matt 2O16, prayer by Rev. c. NJ. Sanders. The pastor
preached soul stirring from ST. John IA, these
words, "n my fathers house many mansions if it were
So would have told YOU Offering for the day was
$12284
REV ]. P SANDERS, Pastor.
v M. JOHNSON Secretary.
MARY HOLMES, Reporter
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01
SEIZED ESQ MILLIONS OF JAP GOLD

1t has happened again. this time Japan and under dill
ferent conditions
General Douglas Macarthur has stated that American
occupation troops have seized than $50 million dol
of japanese gold silver and platinum 1t is be-
eved that much of this treasure stolen from China the
Philippines or other countries which the Japs made raids
The will be put places for safe keeping until
method of disposal can be decided upon.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01
HOY n BEAT THE CERdANS = HAVE WbiPPED THE JAPS!

shulato the interest of the pupil may be done by
Meeting til eading lesson with their immediate environ
ment with st hand experience related to the story they
to read.
Picture reading key words introduced
such way to provide the motive to furnish the content
clue and t. keep the thought sequence of the story
uppermost in the child's mind.
Oral and silent reading with word recognition
planned in most interesting fashion
If the teachers will the suggestions given in the
demonstrations, that great improvement in their
technique in teaching reading and the rapy of the young
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01
% ea- S an sa1c Held In Yazoo Co.
g, High School, Tuesday,
eptenber 18, 1916
TAYLOR, Principal Of Yazoo County
Training School s'

time in two years reading clinic has
County Training High School by special
sons-C arnahan Book Company, Allyn
the American Book Company.
10 the date of the meeting which was
nber 10 at nine o'clock, invitations
lnty teachers by Mrs. Louise Walker
lxne arrived most appreciative au-
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
Tanks Advance On C.agayan Valley For Major Battle

MANILA, June 12-F-Amer- ican forces resumed their advance Monday toward the broad Caga- van valley in northeastern Luzon, where the last major battle of the Philippines may be fought. Gen. eral Macarthur said in a commun- ique that the Thirty-Seventh Di- vision was pushing north along highway four and had destroyed seven enemy tanks as the Japan csc increased resistance.
 The fighters caught Japanese truck convoy on the highway and demolished forty-eight vehicles. Far to the north the Japanese is being harassed by light naval units, which pounded enemy posi- tiohs along the northern coast of I.uzon.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
Introduce Bill To Abolish Interior Dept. Authority

WASHINGTON, June 13-tF- Senator Magnuson has introduced a bill to abolish the authority of the Interior Department to estab- fish Indian reservations in Alaska.
 Magnuson told reporters he did not intend to press action on the bill, but expected it to be the basis of the hearing in the Senate In- dian Affairs Committee in Seattle, where all matters concerning the Alaska natives could be discussed.
 The bill, he said, resulted from efforts of "some persons" to have additional reservations established in the Territory.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13

NEW YORK, June 13-R- Caruthers Ewing, general counsel flor the Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Co, says the two hundred thou sand dollar loan to Brig. Gen. FL 'lott Roosevelt from John Hart ford, president of the A. & P. was settled for four thousand dollars.
 Hartford yesterday term e d substantially correct" the story in Pegler's column that the son of the late President borrowed the money in 1889.
 Brig. Gen. Roosevelt couldn't be fe4ched for comment.
 'Segler's account is "not the whole story, but it is substantially correct" Hartford said, adding q would not have made it public
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
POL SH ACCORD NEAR
5-Year-Old Boy Killed By Army Command Car

Sonny Henry, 5-year-old son of Ella Henry, was run over and in- stantly killed by an Army Com mand car, on Front Street in front of the U. s. Mercantile store building. The child was playing in the street and was not seen by the driver.
 Guy Mish, owner of the Nome Hardware Store, was driving his truck, directly behind the army vehicle and witnessed the entire accident, said that both right wheels of the car passed over the child, killing him instantly. The accident occurred at about TAO p.m.
 The three men in the vehicle, including the driver, Wm. OTAughlin, claimed they did not see the child until after the acci- dent- A
 This is the second accident in the past few weeks In which an Army vehicle has run over and killed a child, the other being Richie Beach.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
Truman Sees An
 Early Settlement Of Polish Question

WASHINGTON, June 13-tF- President Truman announced that the Big Three meeting had been set, but said he couldn't announce the time nor place until his arrival there. The President also told news conference he expected the meeting in Moscow this Friday to work out unified Polish govern ment on a broad base to produce results.
 In obvious good humor after an earlier conference with Hopkins and Davies his representatives to Moscow and London, the Presi- dent told reporters the results they obtained were completely satisfactory and gratifying. He said he would take Stettinius, Byrnes, Hopkins, and Davies to the Big Three meeting if the health of the latter two permits.
 The President said that the all- important thing was that London, Washington and Moscow continue, in unity in the confidence and re- spect which brought results in the military picture and which is sure to make for a lasting peace. :.
 He said that he, Stalin and Churchill must trust each other. Discussing last nights announce ment regarding the forthcoming meeting of American Russian and British with the three groups of Polish representatives, the Presi- dent said he thought we were on
 Continued on Page Eight
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt Sorrows $2O0,OOO; Pays Back Only A,OOO

myself. I regret very much it was published"
 Ewing said the debt had been settled three years later on Gre quest of the Roosevelt family" through the then Secretary of Commerce Jones. Ewing then said that Roosevelt secured the loan in 1929 to finance his Texas radio in- terests. "They were losing money hand over fist"
 He said in 1922 Jones told him the Roosevelt family wanted to compromise the debt. He took Roosevelt's note and stock as col lateral. Jones who "gave me a check payable to John Hartford for four thousand, dollars, which was all Hartford ever received on the loan."
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
Tanks Seize Both Ends Of Yaeju Escarpment

GUAM, June 13-R - Using ropes for scaling, and the pre- dawn darkness for cover the United States Tenth Army forces seized vital heights at both ends of the Yaeju escarpment on south ern Okinawa Tuesday and held on grimly during daylight against heavy counterattacks.
 No-surrender Japanese in two separated fast dwindling forces on the island, brought every wea- pon to bear, even ripping machine guns from wrecked airplanes as they elected to die. With typical flourish of defiance the Japanese navy men, trained originally as a landing force held grimly a small pocket on Oroku peninsula.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
Eubank Hopes To Visit Aleutians To Count Sheep

OGDEN, Utah, June 13-<R- Carlyle Eubank is hopeful of get ting up ot the Aleutians sometime this summer to count the sheep. Eubank, an Ogden insurance man, who before the war with Japan counted twelve thousand sheep on Umnak.
 The latest count of his flock, mailed in by his foreman is thir- ty-five hundred, made before the current lambing season. eve asked the Navy to give me pri- ority to fly up there. It looks as though they were back where they were. in 1880. I want to see if it will pay to try to begin all over again." Eubank said.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
INTERNAL REVENUE TAX ESTIMATES DUE

The Internal Revenue Tax Es- inmates for the year of 1945 are due Friday.
 At this time all those who have not filed previously must pay one half of the tax due for the year. A deputy collector for the Internal Revenue Office, MT. Leon Bagley is located temporarily in the U. s. Commissioners office.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
ROBERT TRUCKEY
 ARRIVES IN NOME

Robert Truckey, son of Col. and Mrs. Phil Truckey, arrived from Seattle, where he has been at- tending the University of Wash ington. He will be employed by the Lomen Commercial Co.,, where his father is in charge of the frieght office.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
WIPES Stines In
 Nome On Business

Word has been received that Norman Stines, Alaska Chairman of the War Production Board will arrive in Nome on Thursday and will be located at the Wallace Hotel. He will be here to assist the public in obtaining priorities and permits for building and other re- stricted materials.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-13
m. AND MRS. JOHN LOWE NETTING SON HERE

KIT. and Mrs. John Lowe, par ents of Robert Lowe, who is sta- toned here with the ACS, are visiting here with their son for a few weeks.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

MacDouGall, TO present his mistress
demand that she { l a paper re-
leasing Durant from o. / ms against
him. A police squa Is said TO have
taken the GerZin forces away.
Next, Tim sued Liz for S15,385,
the stipulated value of the personal
property he had left in the castle.
Liz declared she didn't owe him a
cent, what with the ruination of her
furniture and the rent he hadn't paid.
Then she posted a $4,000 bond. Tim
posted a deputy sheriff.
So the battle remained stand-off
until the battlers, or their lawyers,
got tired and made a settlement Tim
got his furniture back. Liz got the
livestock; a horse, 35 chickens and
a hog. The deputy sheriff is gone,
and SO is MacDougall-castle life was
too strenuous for him. a recent
communique reveals that Liz got
more than Tim bargained for-the
hog turned out to be SOW and paid
nine dividends.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

way, hinged, and rigged with ropes.
The house itself, U-shaped, is still
stables on two sides; the middle Sec
ton had been remodeled into human
living quarters.
Once Liz was on the premises, the
Battle of Brentwood became a sort of
indoor siege, to see who would
weaken first There were no overt
hostilities until the day she went to
the loft where Mr.. Durant had stored
her furniture. 1t was, she says, a
shambleS rare Colonial furniture
broken, moths feasting on Oriental
rugs. There were words over that.
Then she told Tim he would have
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

Ing which time LIZ Kept her part OF
the house locked.
Once Tim and some henchmen ven.
tured TO return. Liz, it is alleged,
let fly with a pistol and ran for the
drawbridge but by the time she
reached it Tim and company were
.aking fences like fourlegged hunters.
Then Tim sent other minions and
a truck for his furniture and Liz re-
PEELED them. Another effort, led by
the redoubtable GerZin, was more
nearly successful. He and three addi-
tional minions are alleged to have
gained admission on pretext and
forced LIS faithful retainer, Donald
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22
She Had
TO Invade
Her Own
Sanctuary

THE Battle of Brentwood is over
the Siege Of Whitney Castle, near
} Los Angeles, is lifted, and in her
cx-polo sanctuary Liz Whitney, with
Il detachment of dogs, two shotguns
and a pistol in her boudoir and the
drawbridge pulled up behind her. is
basking in the privacy she craved
1t required four months of be-
Sieging her own house and an old
friend in it, plus considerable lawyers
work, before she could call peace and
quiet her own. But she's got it-for
the moment, at least.
When Mrs Whitney, former wife
of Col. John Hay tJock) Whitney,
the millionaire turfman, took a look
about Llangollen, her 3060-acre estate
of Virginia, and decided she must get
away from it all, she thought of
Brentwood as a good place to go.
OF course, Brentwood had an occu-
pant, Tim Durant former husband
Of Adelaide Brevoort Hutton, Bar
baras cousin man-about-tOWn and an
independent film producer. But he
was in no legal sense a tenant; he
was an old and dear friend; there was
no lease, and he hadn't paid the rent,
she says, for three years. All she
had to do, il appeared, was move in
while he moved out.
She packed up a few horses and
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

monk raised the banner of victory
above the battlements at Brentwood.
Once before Liz Whitney had be
sieged a stouter castles the movies.
The odds were she would win she
had beauty, fame, friends, and il was
considered no insurmountable OBJ
stacle that Husband Jock happened
TO be owner.produccr OF Gone With
=, Wind" But she didn't.
ere are those. too who consider
her divorce as not quite a victory.
Shortly afterward Jock married the
one-time Betsey Gushing from whom
James Roosevelt had been parted, and
James married Nurse Romelle Schnei-
der. 1t did seem as IL Liz were being
left out Of things.
But it Is reported that she got
$1,000 900 settlement along with y
decree. and full title to LlangolleUo,vt ,
il couldn't be considered exactly a
full-dress defeat.
And now she's got a loft full of
battered furniture and a horse she
doesn't need and Frank Muskie, an
ex-prize fighter, on the payroll TO
stand guard below when she pulls the
drawbridge after her every night.
But at least she's got away from
II all.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

dogs ana a monkey
named Blonde, and
blithely set forth for
Brentwood. Mr.. Dur
ant received her af-
fably, it seems, but TO
her astonishment, she
had difficulty in con-
vcying to him the idea
that he was a depart
ing guest.
"When 1 got there" "
she says, Il told him
| wanted to go up TO
my room and he
seemed terribly sur
prised."
Surprised or not, he
let her go up TO what
had been her boudoir,
and pull the draw
bridge after her. The
castles drawbridge is
rCallY q nriXate stair
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

to get rid of his faith
full retainer,-one Joe
Gerzin. Durant, she
asserts, said he was
afraid to get rid of
Joe. Instead, Tim left
and Joe stayed, as also
some of Tins guests,
for three months. dur
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

Inc iloi 81, lllOuBH,
is worth only three
cents, she says, and
She ought 10 kr
about that. The
horses she brought
along were virtually
none 10 her once she
owned more horses
than anyone else in
the history OF the
American turf, and
some of her horses at
tended the reception
that followed her wed
ding 10 Jock Whitney.
Fifteen dogs were
nothing, either - she
used TO import dogs
worth 5000 apiece,
and just as horses al
tended her wedding,
four dogs went along
. TO her Reno divorce. 1t
was in Reno, too, that
she rode a COW decked
with the whitney
racing colors into a
night club-and pre-
sumably Blonde the
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

Greetings from Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit
from Mrs Ivy Sharkey who is visiting her W. E. Shar
key Jr and family in Detroit She accompanied there
by her granddaughter Mrs Irving Williams and niece Jaun
tia Simmons. Both Mrs Sharkey and Mrs. Williams are
former residents of this city and of New Orleans
Mrs Sharkey is the mother of Mrs Mildred Femmngs and
Mrs Williams her niece.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01
he Century Burial Association
The People We Know

Mrs. Nellie Pierce enjoyed delightful visit in
TO Dr. and Mrs C. H. Lane of Greenwood Miss
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

Miss Elizabeth Miller recent visitor to New Or
leans, La, in the home of Mrs. Ivy Sharkey.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

Mss Islen Thomas, daughter of Mr.. Sam
prominepaa hired ltter carrier of this city, was
ing Miss bmas Yes in Chicago and operates az
beauty salon tH1re.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

Visiting Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Harrison Jr,lwere rs. Har-
rsons sister and her husband Lieut. WASH
ngton of the u s. A her brother Mr. Robert Mackel hon
onrabe discharged veteran and his wife, and two younger
brothers, Walter and Edd Mackel all of Nachez.
Mrs Ether Henderson back her post teacher in
Yazoo High School No. after extensive vacation in the
East
Mrs Seletia Wright Yazoo Street. enjoyed visit
to Jackson in the home of Mr. and Mrs D. D. Shepherd
Mrs Florence Sandberry Younger who clerk
at the Century Burial office left with her husband for Los
Angeles, Calf, where they expect to make their home
Mrs. Frances Morgan niece of Mr. T. j. Huddleston Sr.
in Chicago with her husband who just back from
than two years service overseas in the U. S. Army
Mrs. Serena Walton is back home in Jackson, Miss
where she and her husband receiving the congra-
tions of many friends upon the arrival in their family
baby girl frankie Sarahyn Mrs Walton taught in the
high school here few years ago.
After nine years service as general superintendent of
ST. Stephen Methodist Church. Prof R. p MCGEE gave up
the office his resignation accepted with regret of
October l. Mr. j. B. Overton has taken this office
and has the good wishes of the Church and friends.
Miss Elizabeth Tucker, freshman at Tougaloo College
was home recent weekend visit.
Prof and Mrs. r. P. MCGEE had as their guests,
eral Sundays ago. Mr. and Mrs. p L. Wilson, Mrs David
Paige and her two children Matte and David L of Clarks
dale.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

r 1nd Dave Sims and daughter, of Greenwoodl
MIS- mic raid Mrs Lnne B. Willis and Mary Ellen
ARD Miss Ann rnoored Jackson to be the bed
Mr. T. j. Sims who is ILL., His many friends wish for
him speedy recovery.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

Mrs Emma Clifton of Detroit Mich visited her mother
Mrs. Evira Tucker and her sister, Mrs Sadye Thomas;
with Mrs. Clifton her children Catherine and T.
Sgt Walter Clifton, who just back from duty
Europe Many of the old friends acquaintance
joyed Mrs Cifons visit.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

DR.. and Mrs. R. B. Harrison Jr. attended the funel
heir uncle-in-law, DR.. A. W. Dumas ST., of Natchez.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

Miss Elizabeth Tucker, freshman at Tougaloo
vas home on a recent weekend visit.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

Misses Veola and Urna Franklin have just returned
from visit Illinois, Michigan and Indiana where they
spent very enjoyable vacation In Chicago, they
the guests of their sister, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Doty and
family of 6647 ST. Lawrence Avenue Several parties
given in their honor.
The century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??, 1945-10-01

Navy men home on ten days furlough from Camp Per-
ry, Virginia, Nathan Steward &c, William Henry
Levy &c, West Williams, Jr, &C. and Jake Steward &C.
Miss Teresa Warner home again after spending
era months in Chicago, Illinois, where she employed
in defense work