MONITOR-LEADER The MONITOR-LEADER The • BEHIND THE SCENES McKENNY ON MACOMB PUBLISHING COMP AN ¥ February 15, Clemens, Michigan Page4 1944 Mount • rhursday Friday at Avenua and JF«*- IN WASHINGTON Published Trt-Weekly—Tu«sd«> •nd Cau BRIDCE mail matter of the sei'ond claaa at ¦ut S’i eel. Mount Omen* F.ntered as poatoffice at Mount Clemena, Michigan. BY PETER EDSON sabotage by Americans in their By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY 1 - - JOB PRINTING Juvenile delinquency own country BUSINESS - CIRCULATION CLASSIFIED A Battle Scarred Veteran caused has not been America's Card Authority Mount Clemrus *551 more sabotage in the United checked. What makes Mrs. A. M. Sobel Connecting All Departmer.ta foreign-di- EDITORIAL DEPART MFNI -Mount Clemena States last year than "TECHNICAL” SABOTAGE of New York a great bridge AND WOMEN'S NEWS Mount Clemen* noil rpcted saboteurs, to SOCIETY 21M according In the three years from Jan. player? If you watch Roseville Telephone Exchange Sut)s*.Mbera--CaU Roaavtl.e sit and •Direct connection; no toll) information from the Federal 1. 1940, to Jan. 1, 1944, 13.672 her, the plays she makes seem Investigation. - Bureau of cases of M CMRIB Os IHi ASSOCIATED I'BESR reported sabotage have perfectly natural, and therefore CLIENT OF INIUIIPKISS been investigated by the G-men. kitbitzing her may seem new* dispatcher era«- Knocking on wood, Director even Pres* Is e«Llu»:ve;% entitled to u'e any ot all sabotage “h,r>'s 1 A Pass far the Army-Navy Production saboteur outside the United uncovered during the year, 2 ¥ Pass 3N T Pass salaction technical sabotage was on Thursday. States. discover- 5 A Pass 6N T Paas which will be formalized ed in 874 cases. 7 A Pass Pa.- 1 Past Emphasis in these records is the employes, plus the The pattern of these Opening—AJ. 11 The unswerving loyalty of of course placed on the fact that cases in the past year showed one management have resulted in a it is the “foreign-directed” sabo- nota- untiring efforts of ble change. A large tage which has been checked. number of keen student of the game ap- of Under-Secre- sabotage reports investigated production team that, in the words The record on domestic, made- by preciates how fast she thinks. the FBI involved Patterson, constitutes an "out- in-America sabotage is some- acts commit- tary of War Robert P. ted by juveniles. Let me give you an example thing else again, and it is a sad of her fast thinking and the co- to victory. In Alabama, length standing contribution confession that while foreign-di- a 12-foot operation she gives her partner. of green Mount Clemens can, and do, take rected sabotage has been so suc- timber and a cast iron The whole key to this hand is The people of sign-post were placed cessfully prevented, home-made on a rail- that West must hold the four of their fellow citi- road track pride in the reflected glory by a 16-year-old boy, hearts to the Jack, but in order Just who thought by personnel. that wrecking a to do so. she cannot protect clubs zens of the Hacker Boat company might • train he obtain canned and spades. East must be made FLASHES goods and candy. to realize that he must protect Three fires in a Boston shoe those suits. On the third dia- MORIBUND DICTATORSHIP OF factory were traced to another mond, when East showed out, 16-year-old boy who merely Mrs. Sobel (West) realized that In an ante-valedictory interview, retiring Gov- • wanted to tease girl employes she was going to be squeezed. • LIFE until they “blew their top.” Her first discard, therefore, was crnor Charles Edison of New Jersey minced few words IN HOLLYWOOD Hy th« Prni CRANE CRIPPLED the queen of clubs, and on the dictatorship of fouirth In explaining how it happens that the By F.RSKINE JOHNSON was a kid back m Fort Madison, But they needed him on the BRACING NEWS More serious was the act of and fifth diamond, she an 18-year-old boy discarded her other club and only moribund rath- NEA Staff Correspondent lowa. offstage HARTFORD, Conn.—Mrs. Ed- who stuffed "I am the law" Hague is O Keefe, one of the set to read some lines to then the queen of spades. Now Frank Dennis Before working as an extra, ward M. Curtin, Jr., has asked waste into the machinery of an to that 600-pound grizzly bear. East was informed er than completely defunct. few Hollywood extras become he toured vaudeville wuth his the Red Cross to help her get overhead crane he was operat- that he must a star, complained today that he They wanted the bear's reaction hang on to the ten of clubs and own act, called “Lesson in word to her husband, an Army ing in a Pennsylvania steel mill. "Patronage is the answer/' said Governor Edison. had never seen so many scene to O'Keefe’s line. “Pardon me, ten of spades—and thus the con- Golf,” played in stock and little lieutenant last reported in a The crane broke down and a y/ stealers. “I don t think anyone but I didn't know you were a large was defeated. He has lost a great many appointments under me, theaters. He’s married to Hun- North African hospital. portion of the plant had to tract had bear.” in Hollywood history has garian-born Stefffi Duna, and be shut down as a result because he will lose more under my successor." She wants him to know that ond I believe so much competition." he moan- they have a year-old son. “The bear,” said O Keefe, the crane handled all the mill’s not one, but two surprises await gave way recently to a Republican, ed. We to talked putting on his hat, “is going to raw materials. The boy’s reason Governor Edison would like have his return home. Their names • Dennis is Eleanor Powell's to Dennis a little longer. steal the picture.” for the sabotage was that he had SO THEY SAY Representative Walter E. Edge. co-star in anew movie titled are Sheila and Maura Curtin. been out carousing the night be- It is neither necessary or pos- “Sensations of 1944.” “The big- fore and needed sleep. "In spite of all we can do, Washington still stands He sible to occupy Japan for any gest sensation in the picture.” FROZEN NORTH thought he’d catch up while the plen- length of time after her defeat. for Hague appointments, and he is still getting sighed Dennis, “willbe if any- Book Reviews STRATFORD, Conn—Lieut. crane was being repaired. All that is necessary is to defeat one notices me.” Olive Thompson, Army Nurse This boy had a record of ty of federal patronage. In fact, that's about all he LITERATURE S LITANY estly and ably told by Edward de- her thoroughly and then deprive We thought Dennjs had a Corps, home on furlough after linquency going some Have you ever wondered what R. Stettimus. Jr , in “Lend- back five territories.—Prof, right to grounds 16 months in Iceland, was asked her of her is living on now." moan. Even Gray's “Country Churchyard” Lease—Weapon for Victory” years, had trouble in school, was for legal action. about the weather at her north- expelled stealing Nathaniel Peffer of Columbia While he declined to mention President Roosevelt looked like, whether there actu- (MacMillan: $3). for from the University. In Hollywood, stars scream, ern post. church poor box, breaking the ally was a Sherwood Forest, • • • Jersey governor conceded freely go on sit-down strikes and even We in the United States just as cold here by ndme, the New what sort of house Elizabeth “I've been in showcase windows, hang! n g wind up in Cedars of Lebanon watched the war spread over Anyone with anything at all of that he called "one Barrett escaped from to marry Stratford, since I've been home, around taprooms. His greatest the implication a statement hospital with nervous break- the world with curiously divid- up to sell will find a China market Robert Browning, where it was as I ever was there,” she re- defenders were his parents, downs if they are asked to work ed minds. Our neutrality acts after the present storm, but we ofHhe most blunt I have ever made." the Hound of the Baskervilles plied. who, not realizing what they or animals. and trade barriers prevented us will have to learn to do busi- with babies bayed, or speculated on the as- were doing, let the boy grow up This is significant for a number of reasons. Gov- There are no babies in “Sen- to a great extent from assisting ness on a basis we knew pect of Reading Gaol, the Wall GETS COLD FEET to become a saboteur. never sations of 1944.” But there are any of the nations involved in before.—Thomas H. Koener, ac- ernor Edison is a Democrat, elected with the support in “Puck of Pook's Hill,” the BOSTON—A bird that came Desire to get off from work more animals than people. (One war. Solution of this problem is countant in Shanghai during Jap Hague spite of campaign statements, Inn to which the Highwayman home to roost too long is flying early so as to keep a date with of Mayor in way to get around the manpow- the story of lend-lease. again but probably has a severe a girl friend caused a youthful occupation. came riding? • • • er shortage ) Also W. C. Fields. %vhich he kept scrupulously, that he would not take While the story is non-fiction, case of chilblains. employe in a Los Angeles steel Dennis, you see. operates a Did you know there actually If it were not for the enor- it is told in a style that should railway firm to commit an act of sabo- from the dictator of Jersey City. The acts in- is a “Rock of Ages.” a Tintagrl Boston elevated re- mous sacrifices of our Russian Orders circus restaurant. make very interesting informa- tage. He took a sledge hammer K« << ¥ Castle in Cornwall where the pairmen today rescued a pigeon clude a 600-pound Siberian and beat on an electric furnace ally the odds would be roughly legendary King Arthur was sup- tive reading for those interested whose feet were frozen to the grizzly bear, tigers, lions, a till the fire brick lining four or five to one against the posed to have been born, a city in our government and its fu- elevated's iron structure. inside More than that, Mr. Edison was a protege of Pres- black panther, some zebras, a collapsed. Os course the plant United Nations in the European that was the prototype for Cam- ture foreign policies. Roosevelt. He left the post of assistant secre- wire walker, a dancing horse, a had to shut down and the young theater.—Col. Theodore de Cue ident line of chorus girls and W. C. elot? NE* ER FORGETS A FACE Palmer, Jr., Army Specialized PHILADELPHIA— Detective man kept his date. Later, he tory of the Navy to run for the New Jersey governor- Fields. Even if the landmarks of Eng- threatened to kill anyone who Training chief. • Edward Mayer's memory click- • • • We agreed with Dennis that lish writing don't arouse your reported the incident, but five ship. It was said freely, and never questioned, that QUESTIONS ed as he questioned a man held he had some pretty stiff compe- curiosity, “Literary England” employes willingly reported to No man who understands the (Random on a charge of stealing a fur he did this at the request of the President. tition. House: s4l is a beauti- the FBI just what had happen- difficulties in both theaters of “Why.” he said, “in one scene ful book to have around the AND piece. war can convince himself that So here is no case of a Republican attempting to ed. they've even got me walking in- house. It is a collection of “Say!” said Mayer, “aren’t Activities of juvenile sabo- any early end is likely.—Navy • guy walked out of Injure a Democratic president, or even of a reaction- to a room and sitting on a chair photographs taken by David E. you the who teurs are cited by FBI Director Secretary Frank Knox. ANSWERS • • • is that and bear. I have to tip Scherman illustrating famous here 13 years ago after you Hoover in issuing a sharp warn- ary Democrat trying to belittle the author and di- me, song story. for stealing golf my hat and say, ‘Pardon I scenes of English and Q —What are the chief exports were held ing against complacency. “The There Is only a hair’s breadth rector of the New Deal. Rather, here is a New Dealer didn’t know you were a bear.’ Descriptive passages from the of the Union of South Africa? balls?” war is now going our way,” he between final victory and de- Fields works appear man admitted he likes and admires the President, but who also They’ve got W. C. throw- original opposite A—Gold. diamonds, wool, The was says, “but it is reasonable toTas- feat.—Jap Premier Hidecki To- who ing eggs into an electric fan. each picture, and these are pre- mohair and sugar. and Mayer rearrested him on sume that as the noose tightens Jo. they’ve by explanatory charge. • • • ieves in democracy, conceding that one of the Why, even got Orson ceded short • • • the old on the necks of the Axis tyrants, .bel (Jose Can- of Richard Wilcox. Welles’ uncle-in-law paragraphs Q—What is the Stabat Mater? a still greater effort may be America’s secret weapon is most vicious political dictatorships in the country sino) dancing while I make love Book is attractively hound BURROWING TROUBLE gun or anew plane. A—A famoue Latin medieval made to disturb production on not anew to Eleanor. Why, they’ve even and should prove a collector’s small dam hos been bottle-fed by the New Deal with patronage hymn on the Crucifixion, writ- DOVER, Del.—A the home front. Juvenile sabo- It is America's magnificent treasure. in St. Johns river collapsed, sev- tage may danger youth. And how they are rising • • • ten in the 13th century by a be the worst it alive. Dennis could to keep It looked like Franciscan monk. eral acres of lowlands were now, but we should continue to to the occasion will astonish ev- • * • use a sedative. Or a stiff drink. When, in early 1942—some two families • • » flooded and farm guard against the f o reign eryone.—Commdr. Gene Tun- BRIEF BIOG few months after Pearl Harbor were forced temporarily to ney, back from the Solomons. —Of which of the 16 Soviet agent.” The Hague machine has been notable for its Seriously though Dennii said —Germany’s U-boat specialist, Q leave their homes. republics is Josephine Stalin a Am»*r <• Pu*gJ« of every plank in platform of he was having a lot of fun. Ev- Admiral Doenitz, threw his first- The collapse, said City Mana- brutal disregard the en if the 600-pound bear is such string team of submersible raid- native? A—Georgia: ger G. L. Wilcox, was due en- NOVELIST liberalism, its apparent ignorance that the a smart scene stealer that every- ers against the exposed shipping his father was a modern Georgian peasant shoemaker. tirely to the burrowing of a col- one on the set claims it took the lanes off our Atlantic coast, the ony given • • • of beavers. Constitution has been a Bill of Human Rights. bear three years to teach Train- bitter truth was brought home HORIZONTAL 3 Os the thin* that two- —Which mineral formation, 4 Solar disk In spite of its support from Washington the er Ernie Pallenberg Jr., the forcibly to America a Q NEW SIDELINE 1 Pictured tricks. ocean war had caught up with usually found in limestone writer, (Egypt) SAN FRANCISCO—The City 5 Novel Hogue machine is slipping badly. Dennis said he calls the bear us before we had completed a caves, points downward, a stal- Board of Supervisors was told 6 Written form Jack. “He shoves you around in two-ocean navy. agmite or a stalactite? 13 Beverage 'There are many Democrats in hiding," Gov- by J. J. Sullivan, a member, of Mister just like Jack Oakie.” Navy sought to pro- A—The stalactite. 14 Circular and a scene How- the that some whoesale liquor deal- 7 Early English ernor Edison said," ashamed to be identified as Dem- O Keefe, who made shipping with all • • • tapering Dennis vide coastal ers were forcing retailers to buy (abbr.) good in Hollywood the “hard” possible aid by forming “Hooli- —When was the U. S Bur- 15 Boat paddle Medicine language ocrats. Their interest can be renewed and refired as Q a dozen Bibles at $16.50 before 16 Symbol for 8 Lieutenants way, doesn't hesitate to give full gan’s Navy” of converted peace- (abbr.) (abbr.) 41 One (Fr.) eau of Standards established’ they would deliver the spirits. samarium the Hague steamroller becomes less powerful." The credit for his success where time vessels manned by auxil- 9 Turn 27 Symbol for 42 Curve A—On March 3, 1901, by act 17 Work with name credit is due. iary coast guardsmen over the 10 Behold! erbium 44 Girl’s time has come. of Congress. WHAT NOW? needle and 45 Knock • 28 Slave “Except for the grace of God protests of professional Navy • • 11 Pillar POCATELLO, Id aho He thread (anat.) 46 Cast iron and Director Jack Conway,” he men, and the true story of one 12 Age 29 Tissue Q When were spectacles won’t have to worry about a 18 Place Street (abbr.) (abbr.) says, “I might still be struggling of these ships, the ocean-going 17 Caterpillar 31 first worn? dog a life any longer. The dog 20 Symbol for 32 Biblical 47 And (Latin) along as an extra.” yacht Zaida, are thrillingly told tantalum hair AXIS AVIATION A—About the middle of the catcher has resigned to clip hair. 19 Designate pronoun 52 Taxi He had been working as an by Lieut. Lawrence Thompson, 14th century. 21 Six and four 34 He wrote 53 Make a 21 Golf device ** The trade magazine American Aviation predicts extra for five years when Con- U. S. N. R., in the book, “The 22 Any •< • • • LOTS OF PLUCK 22 Forenoon mistake wav singled him out of the mob Navy Hunts the CGR 3070” 24 Corded fabric 36 56 Sea eagle —. Bulwarks .that after the war no Axis nation will be permitted q What is thallium, and CHICAGO —When nine-year- 26 (abbr.) for a bit in Jean Harlow s last (Doubleday, Doran: $1 75). Encounter egg Decimeter 57 English river old Gordon Terroux accident- 23 Louse 39 to operate any international air service or domestic picture, “Saratoga.” He gave The Zaida was one of the what is its use? 28 Eject food (abbr.) 59 Myself A—Thallium, ally himself in the leg. he Rose-rolored 25 Hawaiian such a good performance that coastal picket boats which were is a rare bluish- shot 30 40 Universal 60 Hawaiian bird lines, and that there will be a ban on the building metal; crlrr.ly bandaged wound, Sleeping 26 Doctor of within two months he was play- out in great numbers to white the salts of the the 33 sent visions , U K I? lt> 17 IS 'O n civilian flying Axis coun- ing romantic lead in “Bad- one continuous line of metal are used in the manufac- took an aspirin and went to bed. fv of aircraft and on within the serve as 35 Insect man of Brimstone.” Since then observation posts, and to serve ture of certain optical glasses. His aunt, Mrs. Floyd Walker, 1 • 37 Upon tries. • • discovered his plight hours later he s forged steadily ahead. as rescue craft for survivors of 38 Music note Wr '~W to a hospital for If the magazine is correstly informed, presum- “Extra work is a very dis- torpedoed merchantmen. Hers Q —ln Greek mythology, who and took him 30 Cudgeled couraging occupation,'' he says. was a motley crew; there were was Thetis? proper treatment. Doctors said 43 Mulct ably these complete prohibitions will be only tem- • “The odds so much against a few old yachtsmen among A—Mother of Achilles. he would recover. 48 Coinage • • • —Hud porary, so far as present decisions are concerned your ever making good and get- them, but her skipper had play- 49 Braid q Alban hills, Shrangri-La Field at Glen- 50 ~ they permanent ting a break it kills your ambi- ed Buck Rogers in a serial prior —Where are the Termination Whether eventually will be made tion and all your hopes.” to his enlistment, and his mate and how do they figure in the dale, Cal.,, perhaps the strang- 51 Snake must depend upon the ultimate decision how to pre- FAMOUS FAMILY had come straight from a bank. war news? est Army Air Force field in the 52 Symbol for break, caught —The Alban hills are the world, reproduces all the fea- cerium a" Until he received that How they were by ter- A serve world peace O'Keefe kept plugging only by rific storms while on a routine natural defenses facing the An- tures of a combat zone operating 54 The gods .0 Sun god for theater, tossed plains south of Rome, where base, so that graduating techni* 55 Have we decided that Germany and Japan, par- an inherent love the patrol, and and blown for zio 56 Editor (abbr.) raised. His Allied made their surprise cians may demonstrate their in which he had been 21 days before their is the 58 Limb ticularly , in ability simulated war con- shall forever be held economic, indus- father was a headline comedian the lively seafaring tale that amphibious landing. under Native metal • • • 60 political to restrain them from of the famous “Off and On” fellow-reservist Thompson tells. ditions. . 61 Rend ond serfdom, • • • trial Flanagan and Edwards team. Q —-In the jargon of the arm- 62 Small rock | may necessary, sometimes future war? That prove But who has His mother, Charlotte Ravens- LEND-LEASE LOH'DOH’N ed services, what does “fubar” A single iceberg VERTICAL enough ice to cover an .decided? Where? When? Are the people of the de- croft, was a vaudeville singer. How lend-lease came into be- mean? contain 1 Possesses O Keefe's real name was Ed- ing, what it is, how it works, its A- Fouled up beyond all entire square mile to a depth of 2 Shade tree • i/mocracies to be informed officially? ward Jame« Flanagan when he development and future is hon- recognition.”. 500 feet. M—¦ —'A