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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-29
MONITOR-LEADER
MacOmb Sailor Survives
Inferno of Bombed Carrier

Thomas Hanley's As months
se-vice with the US. Navy from
the Arctic Circle of the coast of
Japan are packed with danger
spiced episodes of adventure.
but the one incident which will
live in his memory long after
others are forgotten is the saw
ing of the USS Franklin. the flat
top that was home to him since
the proud carried was commits
stoned.
Hanley, Water Tender nc,
native of Warren, Mich, and for
some years an Armada resident,
has a vital investment in the
Franklin.
He was one of the salvage
party who braved 1870 degrees
of heat, escaping steam, poison
Gus fumes and exploding am
mutton to descend deep into the
bowels of the battered craft to
start her engines turning.
Shells and bombs were still
ripping through the aircraft
carrier 80 miles from the shores
of Japan. Men were still trap
ped in compartments below
decks, and even veteran sailors
feared the extreme list of the
floating airfield would send her
upside-doWn to the bottom at
any moment.
MODEST HERO
Hanley won't talk much about
his feelings when he followed
1t. Gg) Donald A. Gray down
into the heat of the engine
rooms, where the Armada man
had charge of one large fire
room. The navy says they were
band of heroes; typical of the
Franklin men who saved their
battle-scarred and flame-seared
ship, despite the cost of LII
casualties.
That's why the 25-year-old
navy veteran of many actions
has an intimate, warm spot in
his heart with the name Frank
lin" indelibly imprinted on it.
Didn't he help save her?
When Tom Hanley first came
home to his mother, Mrs. James
Hanley. at their farm home,
1926 Center road, northwest of
Armada, and to his wife. the
former Neva Chapman, r. NJ.
and 18-monts-old Kay Ann, he
didn't say much about the
Franklin. His family and friends
knew plenty had happened, but
official secrecy sealed the young
sailors lips.
STORY WELL TOLD
The night of Thursday, May
II, when the worlds radio and
press hailed the gallant men of
the Franklin, fully explained
Toms proud bearing.
1.-THE story has been we'll
told" he tells his friends, land
there's not much l can add to it.
There were some great heroes
on board that ship, some of them
unknown.
Men performed deeds of
heroism below decks-and many
sacrificed their lives to save
others-which will never be
known. The list of the boys who
died. 872 of them, must always
be honored"
Seaman Hanley, a pious Cath
Ollie, has only one correction to
make to the widely-publicized
story of the Franklin's ordeal.
1.-THE papers and the radio
gave great publicity to 1t.
Comm. Joseph Timothy O'Cal-
laghan, our Catholic chaplain
and there never was Drawer
man or a greater hero" Hanley
asserts.
UNSUNG HERO
However" he emphasizes,
mo one who was there will for
get the job our Protestant chap
lain did. He was a Baptist, and
without detracting from the
glory of Father O'Callaghan's
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-29

When Napoleon took Berlin in
1905, civilians cheered and the
Prussian Army accepted uncon-
ditional surrender.
Evening star., 1945-05-20
NJ EG Reminders on RationinQG

with list price of less than $2,5OO
is confined to persons who can
show the immediate need for a
car in the following occupations:
Oftlcers and employees of Federal,
State or locan governments en-
gagged in firefighting. prevention
and detection of crime, enforce
ment of laws relating specifically
to the protection of public health
and safety, transportation of mail
on behalf of the United States
Government, physicians and sur
geons, veterinarians, public health
nurses, ministers, members in the
armed forces in the performance
OF their official duties (not home
to-work traveD, taxicabs and rent
al cars, who do not now have use
of serviceable cars.
Local boards will supply new
prices. Both buyer and seller must
execute a certificate of transfer
which must be shown by new
owner when applying for gasoline
ration.
Before cars can be titled, the
purchaser must supply the District
director of vehicles with receipt
showing the former owner has
turned in his gasoline ration to his
board.
new domestic cooking
and heating stoves designed to
burn oil or gas are now rationed.
Apply to your local ration board
for stove purchase certificate.
classes of drivers may now
have tires recapped without OBJ
tanning certificates from their ra-
ton boards. Holders of B and G
books eligible for new tires. A.
book holders eligible for used tires
(grade 81.
Certificates must be obtained
from the. rationing board for the
purchase of grade l tires or any
new or used truck tires. Ger
tificates are issued only after pres
entation of applications on which
tire inspector has certified the
neeQ LOT requirements and II ap-
plicants are eligible
Rubber Boots and Rubber Work
Observation-Disclosures have been re-
laxed to make all persons who
need type 4 below-the-knee light
weight rubber boots eligible for
ration certificates for their pur-
chase.
Certificates must be obtained
from local boards for six types of
heavy rubber footwear.
on Price-There are CELL
ing prices on the following items
sold by individuals: Mechanical
refrigerators. washing machines
vacuum cleaners. gas stoves. bed
springs, typewriters, cameras, pas
senger cars and trucks. Call
the price clerk of your local War
Price and Rationing Board for
further information.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
SOURCES OF EDUCATION

Teh following lines appeared in a
sermon relative to a church's teach
ing on Christian marriage, sermon
by a Protestant pastor about his own
church. These lines apropos educa-
ton in general are of interest:
Education was formerly in the
hands of the church and the public
schools, but no longer. The church
today makes scarcely any impression
at all, and the public still demands
that the schools shall limit their cur
riculum to the accepted academic
studies. The result being that young
people and most adults receive their
real education from three other sour
ces-the movies, the radio and the
press. All of these may be used for
good or ill, but in the matter OF
training for marriage, the total re-
suits have been definitely detrimen-
tal."
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
EDUCATORS FORGATHER

The leadership in public education
in Maryland is fully appreciative OF
the fact that conservation attitudes
and practices are in need of class
room treatment, thus, courses in this
subject have been instituted, with
the cooperation of the Department
of Research and Education, in most
of the States colleges where teachers
are trained. This unquestionably is
a marked step forward in the field
of conservation.
During the past summer, the many
County Supervisors gathered at the
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
for an intensive course in this field
and for periods of observation on the
current practices in soils, forestry,
game, fish, etc. Students registered
for the formal summer courses in the
State Teachers College, Towson, and
at the University of Maryland, like
wise, took up temporary residence at
the Laboratory for study and obser-
vation. 1t is expected that State,
Baltimore and County Superinten-
dents will convene at Solomons Is
land during early fall.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
THESE AMAZING YOUNGSTERS

Every now and then we are amaz-
ed by some story about teen age
farm boy wEo has raised enough
pigs or corn to have bank account
in four figures, but the following
tale of seven year old youngster
beats anything we have come across
before. Even with the help from his
parents, his project is remarkable.
We quote from The Progressive Far
mer-which can usually be believed:
How would you like to own a bust
ness and make enough money to send
yourself to college when you get big?
Well, that's what little seven year
old boy in North Carolina is doing!
His name is Kenney Bales, and he is
owner, president, general manager
and handyman of a furniture factory
tkat makes stools and novelties.
Kenney is lucky enough to have
foster parents who could give him
5000, so he added that to his own
500 and started his business three
years ago in the back of his fathers
hosiery mill. But Kenney's success as
businessman isn't due just to luck.
He works hard at it, too. Every day
after school, he comes by his factory,
sees that all the workers are busy,
Helps nail on bench tops, and tidies
Up the place. Right now his father
buys the material for making this
furniture and sells the finished fur
niture, but Kenney plans to do that,
too, when he finishes school and can
give more time to his business.
In three years, Kenney has already
made enough money to put him
through college, so now he is putting
his profits into starting a new build
ing which will hold just his factory
and nothing else. He has also bought
a piece of land where he seasons the
wood for his furniture.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
JOBS IN THE FORESTS

Jobs for many thousands-parti-
cularly jobs for thousands of the
young men who will come out of the
armed services and the war indus
tries in the full of their physical pow
ers and can find opportunities for
employment in the Nations forests
is one theme in a little pocket-sized
pamphlet issued by the u. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. What Are We
Aiming ATT" outlines three-point
forest conservation program recon-
mended by the Forest Service, and
gives the why's and wherefores. The
three points are: CD Public regula-
tion; (2) public aid to forest owners
and CD more public forests.
Useful and needed work in forest
restoration and development in
cludes:
ID improvement and expansion
of facilities for forest protection and
management; CD fire hazard reduc-
tion; 90 measures to improve tim
ber growth; (4) reforestation-
planting; 60 range improvement,
including the revegetation OF depict
ed ranges; (6) watershed improve
ment and flood control; ca develop
ment of forest research and admins
trative facilities; (8) new forest re-
creational facilities; and CD the i'm
provement Of fishing streams and of
wildlife habitat.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26

A cablegram just received by the
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America, from two Ameri-
can church leaders studying food
conditions in Europe, says that it is
believed a million Europeans will die
this winter from hunger and cold
most of them children and older men
and women. They say that in wide
areas in Europe no child born in
1916 is now alive. This word comes
from DR.. M. r. Zigler, of the United
Brethren Service Committee, and
Mrs. Elsie T. Culver, of the Church
Committee on Overseas Relief. who
urge American churches to hasten
relief through agencies connected
with the World Council of Churches,
Geneva (Switzerland) and New
York,
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
PLENTY OF sPUDs

Potatoes in plenty are in prospect
this winter. The second largest crop
of potatoes on record, according to a
late estimate by the u S. Department
of Agriculture is moving to market.
The indications are for yield of 433
million bushels, says the Production
and Marketing Administration. This
is Is percent more than the average
for the last 10 years.
The Government has already need
ed to step into the market with a
purchase program in support of the
intermediate crop. Growers of late
potatoes are protected by loan pro-
gram which will support prices to
growers.
For consumers, the Department
is recommending liberal use of pota-
toes, as good food that will be on sale
at reasonable prices during the win
ter and early spring.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26

"The food situation in Germany is
serious-but you probably know
about it from your newspapers, :"
writes Bishop F. H. Otto Melle, head
of the Methodist Church in Germany
to Bishop Herbert Welch, director of
the Methodist Committee for Over
seas Relief, New York City. Well
informed pepole," he adds, fear that
about two and half million people
may starve in the next winter in Ger
many. There is a tremendous
stream of fugitives from the East.
Millions of people, expelled from
East and West Prussia, etc., are ov-
erflowing into Berlin and other parts
of Germany. They are not allowed to
stay in Berlin; but we must give our
Methodist brethren a shelter for at
least one or two days while they are
passing through the city We have
tried to organize relief work. In
our services a second collection is
taken in a basket for little pieces of
bread which the friends may sacri-
flee from the few bread-rations they
have, and there is also a wardrobe
for used clothes. Our services,
partly held in small rooms, partly
in rooms of friendly churches, partly
among church ruins without roofs,
are places of new revelations of the
Lord"
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
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AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS

For several months tie State De-
partment of Health has been carry
ing on an intensified program to
combat tuberculosis" DR.. r. IL. Ril-
ey, Director of Health, has announ-
ced. "Our Tuberculosis Control Pro-
gram is carried on through the Bu-
reau of Communicable Diseases, in
cooperation with the United States
Public Health Sc. vice.
"The need for joining battle
against this disease is generally rec
ognized. In our State mere than
1900 persons died of tuberculosis in
1914. 1t is still the leading cause of
death between the ages CT fifteen and
thirty-five.
early diagnosis is being stress
ed, becaGse the disease can be cured
in less time and recovery ouc.rs with
less disability when injection is dis
covered in the early stages. For best
results tuberculosis should be detect
ed by X-ray before any symptoms ap-
parent to the patient have occurred.
Accordingly, the State has purchased
two photofluorographic nits TO make
small chest films of seemingly heal
thy persons. The machines, which
few months, will be used to detect
early tuberculosis in high school stu
dents, industrial workers and other
large groups. 1t is anticipated that a
significant percentage of previously
unsuspected cases of early tubercul-
losis will be found by this method
Once diagnosed, it is highly impor-
tant that these cases receive prompt
medical care and supervision through
out the course of their illness. Hos
pitalization for residents of Maryland
is made available by the State sani-
toria system. Aid to families whose
chief wage Garner must undergo pro-
longed sanitorium care is necessary
to prevent patients from leaving the
santiorium against medical advice,
as many now do. Vocational rehabili-
tation is now available for patients
who will never be able to return to
their former occupations.
"In recent decades much progress
has been made in this States battle
against tuberculosis, but the con
quest of this enemy of public health
is still far from complete. In its pre-
sent campaign to eradicate the dread
ed disease the State Department of
Health is cooperating closely with
the Maryland tuberculosis Associa-
tion, the State santioria system, the
State Department of Uublic Welfare
and the Rehabilitation Division of
the Department of Education. With
these agencies we are attempting to
develop well-balanced program
that considers the many medical,
public health and sociological aspects
of the tuberculosis problem in Mary
land.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
JAPANESE FARMING DEPRESSED

Before the war, Japan's agricul-
ture was in chronic state of depres-
sion The factors that were respOn-
sible bear upon the country's war
time state and the post-defeat prob
ems according to a report by w. /.
Ladejinsky of the U. S. Department
If Agriculture. A summary of the
report by the Office of Foreign Agri-
cultural Relations says:
despite Japan's rapid strides in
industrialization, agriculture was, be-
fore the war, the most important
segment of the country's economy,
providing employment for 40 percent
If the population and producing
about 80 percent of the food supply.
japanese silk, the raw material for
which is furnished by the mulberry
bush, represented 80 percent of all
.he silk entering world trade. Hence
agriculture was indirectly the source
If large part of the foreign ex-
hange with which Japan paid it's
way internationally.
MANY technical improvements di-
ected primarily toward increased
yields, were sponsored by the Gov
ernment, and Japanese farming in
the decades before the war was going
through a chemical and botanical
revolution. This revolution, while
successful was limited in scope. De-
spite the increased yields obtained,
the majority of Japanese farmers,
with an average of only 2.7 acres OF
cultivated land per family, could not
make ends meet from agriculture
alone, even in the years of relatively
good prices, and depended on nom
farm employment for about one
fourth of their income. The causes
underlying the situation may be trac-
ed to policies that shaped Japan's
industrialization, the country's topo-
graphy, the pressure of a population
on a relatively small cultivated area,
the uneconomic size of holdings, and
a widespread tenancy system"
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
DEPENDENCY BENEFITS

The cost of administering depen-
dueed Ly $1,3G6, 900 during the past
fiscal year, even while to volume CT
business was Substantial. Dcrease. d
This saving i'll operating expenditures
is revealed by Brig. Gen. Leonard II.
Sims, USA, Director of the War De-
partment ONCE of Dependency Bene-
fits in Newark, N j., in q fiscal re-
port received by Capt. Omar +. Hawk
officer in charge of the Philadelphia
regional office, Field Investigations
Branch of the Newark agency
Administlat costs for t,s isc,ll
year 1945 were $19,20O,O00. General
Sims stated. This is less than FOUR
tenths of one pe.cent of the total
program expenditures for adminis-
tering and disburaing family allow
ances and Glass e ts-of-pay
for that period, tie ODB officer said
These aggregated S5,254,S i3, 1876. In
1914, administrative costs totaled
$20,500,000, while total program ex-
penditures aggregated little III re
than two-thirds Cf the 1941 lig.Ie.
The ODB, the largest iAstaila ion
of it's kind in the world, has ail., ady
disbursed more than liz li..ion
dollars on behalf of l 6 mi li.a 4 pen
dents CT Army personne.. 3aDdrse-
ments Of the 3-yea.-old :, ..ity of
the Office of the tiscai 4,.feutor,
Headquarters, Army Serv t4 Force,
constitute about ten percent of all
War Department expenditures, ana
five percent of all Fedora! expeidi-
tures
During the ficsal year eniing 80
June 1945, tie n mber of c..acks dis
bursed by the ODB increased 50.S
per cent over those disburse dthe pre-
vious fiscal year. Payment accounts
increased 1872 percent, with $685.
S43 accounts on the ODDS books at
the end of June 1945. A total of 4 :
792,576 changes were processed in
the accounts million more than
in the previous fiscal period The ag-
ency's mail rooms handled 29,785,-
1872 pieces of mail, exclusive O.
| checks
The ODB has waged an unremit.
ting campaign to save time, labor
and material while speeding pay
ments to dependents. More than 116
employee suggestions have been
adopted since September 1913. These
suggestions have saved an estimated
| $67,2S6 in cash, 6S,80O man-hours
of work, $4,000 copies of forms, and
$500 units of communications.
Through the revision of forms, tie
reduction in size of form letters, the
reuse obsolete forms for office mem
oranda and scratch pads, and other
means, the ODB has slasehd 25 pei
cent off the amount of paper stack
needed. A nestimated $117,180 in.
clueds $4,000 netted from the sale
of waste paper during this past year
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
ARMY STAMP

The U. S. Post Office Department
has placed on sale a new tkree--cent
stamp known as Army Stamp" The
color is an olive green variety of
khaki and the design shows Ameri-
can troops in parade on the Champs
Elysees in Paris.
1t is matter of record that the
soldiers shown in this design were
members of the 2Sth Infantry Divi-
sion, commonly known as the Key
stone Division" They were not mere
ly on parade in celebration of the
liberation of Paris. but this Division
had been in combat all the way from
st. Lo and VIXEN they marched
through Paris, they were on their
way to the front lines. Some of them
never returned.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
FAMILY ALLOWANCES FOR
ENLISTED MEN

Family allowances are being au-
thorized for dependents of all men
now enlisting or being inducted into
the Army, it is announced by Brig.
Gen. Leonard H. Sims, USA, Director
of the War Department Office of De-
pendency Benefits. That activity of
the Office of the Fiscal Director,
Headquarters, Army Service Forces,
located in Newark, New Jersey, ad-
ministers soldiers benefits for the
entire Army.
''The Servicemen's Dependents AL
lowance Act of 1912, as amended is
still in effect" General Sims stated.
Under this law, wives, children, de-
pendent parents and other depen-
dents of all enlisted men and women
and aviation cadets are entitled to
family allowances.
"This applies of course to men and
women now entering the Army as
we'll as to those who were inducted
before the war ended" lie explained.
The wife and children of an enlist
ed man are eligible to receive family
allowance payments as his Glass A
dependents, the ODB Director said.
Parents, also brothers and sisters
(under certain conditions) are ELI
gible only if they rely on the soldier
for chief or substantial support.
The ODB administers Glass e al
lotments as well as family allowan-
ces, he pointed out. These allot-
ments are voluntary assignments
from soldiers pay; nothing is added
by the government.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
CHILD SAFETY

Parental responsibility for child
safety is stressed by the Keystone
Automobile Club in a statement urg-
ing fathers and mothers to increase
their vigilance now that motor traffic
is again approaching the peak of pre-
war years.
cit is a serious mistake said
George E. Keneipp, Manager of the
Club in Maryland, "for parents to let
young children develop careless traf-
fic habits. Because of decrease in mo
tor traffic during the war there has
been a marked tendency for pedes-
trians of all ages to disregard safety
rules of crossing only at intersections
and obeying traffic signals.
Parents of young children should
realize that traffic is steadily increas-
ing and with it there is correspond
ing increase in the death and injury
toll. What was safe for child to do
under conditions existing a year ago,
may be fatal today.
DRIVERS are under obligation to
pay particular attention to the safety
of walkers, but even the most care
full driver cannot avoid accidents ii
children or older pedestrians walk
out from between parked cars, cross
diagonally between intersections or
attempt to cross in the face of a red
light.
"a great deal of sorrow and suf-
for;po oop ho avoided If cafafv nrao-
tices are maintained.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26
DID SAINTS REALLY HAVE
HALOS?

BY tuning in sound vibrations q
New York painter says she can see
chandeliers of lights over peoples
heads and she believes. ancients could
see them, too. Read an interesting
story based on this theory in the No
vember 4th issue of
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The midland journal., 1945-10-26
TAX CUTS

Government taxes are in for large
cuts perhaps below the actual needs
for healthy Government financing.
This is in repsonse to an almost uni
versal demand from the public for a
slash in taxes. Just how the situation
will be made to balance is not plain.
Maybe we will all buy more Govern
ment bonds. That's all right-they
will always be good.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26

A sweet potato every day helps
.upply vitamin A, as well as energy,
IRON, and other food nutrients, say
The home economics experts at the
University of Maryland. Uncured
Maryland sweet potatoes are now
coming to maket in good supply.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26

Cold feet? Maybe it's your cigar
cites. Research workers at the Mayo
clinic have found that smoking ordi-
nary cigarettes containing nicotine
slows the circulation of the blood in
the arms and legs so that they be-
come colder, according to the 1945
Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the
Year.
The midland journal., 1945-10-26

Truman's slip of the tongue put
ting Pearl Harbor day ahead may
indicate he had advance knowledge
OF the attack,