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>'<ed m Urn new*pape. and also the local new. John Edgar Hoover is again Technical of some type rather monotonous. But the or nol 15 cc**l* m SLBSCitiqrHSC'KIPTIONri RATES’ Bv carrier »r Mount Clemena. ‘ was found in 1404 lit- published nerein any suburban town m Ma- able to report. There were no cases—a ——— amei in ¦ ¦mi ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦! acts of foreign-directed sabo- tle over one out of every 10 cas- "t. .1 AAK a week. IBU per a- Bv »nr es, but in the vast majority 7 3 threa issue ve„ Out of elate tage to come to our attention in the ¥ * ‘f 10 reporting promptly any irregu- sabotage was 9 6 TuSSnSS ;,.“coS£ a™fa Tor by the past year.” The report is motivated by ju- ? J97 SrVreVla delivery venile delinquency, spite, care- larity KEM ASSOCIATION even better than that. It is, AAK 7 '-TcrtUl . ' ~ lessness, pranks or Since the start of the war there just plain Mrs. Sobel ill T-OF TOWN OFFICES ordinary dumbness. ¦ j j. DevUu' * Associates in* has been no evidence of success- AQJB6 N 4 Vorlll AlO9 5 25 West 4.!rd Street ful foreign-directed sabotage There have been 508 ¥J532 W 2 j, j. Devme J* Associates, in* convic- E against the American war ef- tions for sabotage these 63 ¥ Q MS North Mlcntgan Avenue in three ? 8 7 j j. Devips Ss Aaaoclatee. In* fort.” years, with convictions totaling AQ J 8 Dealer ?• * Atlanta Boulevard Drtva. N E- J __ 1342 years, one A 1098 3 This record of the FBI drive life sentence and ¦ six executions, A None against foreign sabotage consti- fines and recov- PROUD eries of over $250,000, ¥AK 8 4 THEY CAN BE JUSTLY tutes one of the most notable of 10 3 2 Nearly half of ? AKQ Hacker the home front victories. It is the reported A5 4 2 management alike at the also a tribute to shore and bor- cases of sabotage—6723—were Duplicate—None Workers and in vul pride in their der patrols of the armed forces 1943. And while no foreign- company plant can justly take directed acts South West North East Boat Award in keeping the foreign agent of sabotage were 1 A Pa>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.