davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
ARGENTINE AFTERGLoW

Banning by Buenos Aires Of the film
Argentine Nights" on the ground thot
it misrepresents the Argentine os "on
incredibly ridiculous tropical country.
should have at least one wholesome
effect.
Now thot the Areentines see them
selves buffooned by Hollywood, they
may understand that equolly gross
mistakes ore committed in Hollywood
films in pretending to record life in the
United Stotes.
With Argentine Nights" and q
brood Of its North American counter
ports consigned to limbo, the Aner-
cos might begin to understand each
other as they really ore Otherwise Ho-
Iywood will be cutting off its one re-
moinine export market. Fortunately q
number Of other films ore serving as
better ambassadors between the con-
tinents
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15

Halliwell Hobbies and Wynd-
ham Standing enact buffers with
straight dignity, but give an i'm
preston that, they'd like to un-
bend. Preacher Is all disdain and
condescension. Robert Greig Is
ponderous, waddling symbol OF
upper-crust pomposity. Blore Is
suffering, perpetually insult
ed butler who chews up his
words. Barnett Parker Is the
goofy, comedy type. Franklin
Pangborn plays butler when q
prissy one is needed.
Cossart, middle-aged and port
ly, plays it straight. His charac-
tiers give an impression of SYM
pathetic intelligence and q good
but restrained sense Of humor.
He's proud of fan mail sent him
by real buffers who consider him
q credit to their profession.
The stuffy, dead-pan. demean-
or OF buffers makes them handy
instruments for scenario writer's.
Especially lazy writer's. It's q
cinch to hang a few laughs on
the patient automatons of domes-
tic service. Because they glide
around noislessly and register no
oppression, it's also easy to make
t.e butler a sinister figure of the
'Whodunit?" flickers. Right up
to the big denouement scene in
the middle Of the last reel he's
one Of the murder suspects.
Eric Blore hoped for years to
escape, and came close to 1t as a
shyster in 1.-THE Lady Eve" In
Road to Zanzibar" he was Just q
nasty crook. He got back to
butlery, and on the right side OF
the law, in New York Town."
with q better role.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
NEVER AGAIN

For so long os the world remains in
condition in which the weak and un-
ready ore always at the mercy Of the
strong and prepored, the United Stotes
must never be caught in the position
in which it found itself year oeo.
The lesson is clear; let us burn it into
our consciousness. Lost August, the
bIueprints for the army los millimeter
howitzer were turned over to q Mil
woukee company which had never
node anything like it: Todoy the first
gun is on dispIoy. Eight months from
blueprint to gun, and everyone fomilior
with the problems involved considers
it q speed record.
Suppose there bod not been eight
months before tie gun wos needed?
II isn't O pIeosort thought, but we'd
better think dbout IT.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

three-bid should show I suit OF
at least six cards in length head
ed by A. X. @, or a seven-card
suit headed by A K ] and on
side strength. This type OF bid
gives your partner Q clear pic
ture Of your hand.
Marquadt told me he had read
my articles in the Asheville Cit
izen-Times when he hrst came to
the hospital, and he recalls that
at one time I advocated q very
different three-bid, but we oil
agreed the new type three-bid
was the safest. For example, see
how we'll il works out on the fol-
lowing hand.
North knew, after his part
mer's opening three-bid, tha t
South held at least six solid dia.
mond tricks. North could there.
fore venture TO bid three no
trumps, over Vests spade bid.
on one bare spade stopper and
only three high cards In the
hand.
West took the opening lead
with the ace Of spades and led
another spade. Declarer then
cashed nine tricks. No opening
could have stopped game, thanks
to the lower shoppers In hearts
and clubs.
II South does nos make the
opening three-bid, Vests spade
bidding will probably make Il
impossible for North-South 70
get 10 their game.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
Stamps Aid Science
In War Against Cancer

FRANCE has been defeated in
= war with Germany but the war
against disease never ends. A re-
cent French semi-postal, above.
symbolizes the battle of Science
and the seven-headed dragon,
Cancer.
This II the second French re.
lesse 10 provide funds for control
Of cancer. The 1898 issue pictured
Pierre and Marie Curis. discover.
ers Of radium. The CURES were
also honored on yansma's postal
tax issue, and Nine. Curie appears
on . Turkish stamp.
william Konrad Won Roentgen,
whose discovery Of x-ray gave
medicine another weapon in the
fight against cancer, entered phi
lstely's gallery on . Dsnzig stamp.
Rsdium and cancer institutes also
have been pictured On several
stampo.
EDUCATION b The greatest force
IN ths cure Of cancer. For medical
science knows cancer can b
cured, II recognized end treated
by surgery. x.ray or radium In
early stages. The principal OBJ
ttscles which must Be overcome
no fear, Quacksry. delay.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
By WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Three OF the most ardent
bridge fans I've met recently are
Miss Iris Bolton, Miss Esther An
derson, and Erwin Marquadt, all
patients al. the U. S. Veterans
Hospital at Oteen, N. G. The two
girls are former nurses. Mar
quadt has been in the hospital
for IL years,
Did we have a lot Of fun dis.
cussing the value of the three
bid? My contention is that q
three-bid insults your partner.
as II intends to put him out OF
the bidding as we'll as the OPP
ponents. Properly, an original
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
. HiehIiehts From
The Latest Books .

There was one thing about
Kirby Harron. Whenever he
said he was going to do some
thing he did It. Kirby was born
outside of Richmond's society
section, and he hated that. He
determined to do something
about it. He built q financial en-
pire, became q "bis business"
man. He crushed those who got
in his way, relentlessly. Even
his wife and mother did not
escape.
Clifford bowdey tells the
story of Kirby Harron In Sing
for q Penny" Little, Brown:
S2.50) and in Kirby's hght for
power and prestige Is reflected
both reconstruction In the South
and the advent Of "moneyed In
terests" of 10000. Dowdey's
novel is as driving. as potent -
his hero. :,
John OMara saw Kirby was Z
gambler who would not be beat.
en-, became Kirby's partner.
Walter Bower, Kirby's banker.
uncle, recognized the genius OF
the man for making money,
backed Kirby's enterprises.
Il was not fate but business
that brought Kirby into conflict
with the Meades, . family con-
trolling rival paper plants. But
it was fate that Kirby should
love and marry Nancy Pendle-
ton, niece Of the Meade brothers.
BY skillful manasemet, uneth-
ical II not criminal practices,
Kirby built his empire. He had
no time for sentiment. When he
made paper, he made the best,
at lowest cost. When he built
railroads. he drove men with m
iron hand. And when h. won. he
had no thought for the losers.
He sent his uncle to q vetef.
ans home; he wrecked his broth
er's romance; he let his wife 60
home, divorce him, rather than
compromise with her uncles.
Nancy came back, but not un.
iii he had won; not until Kirby
needed q huge corporation, with
offices In both New York and
Richmond. with control Of paper
mills, insurance companies,
banks and railroads.
And when Nancy asked him,
'You've got this business now.
What .next?" Kirby answered
fs-ldore." ~
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
GET READY TO HELP

Americans ore receiving appeals
from 100 different agencies seeking to
old this cause or that, and most Of
them ore. in worrying degrees. entirely
worthy OF support None, however, is
worthy Of more universal support than
the drive Of the United Service Organ
izotions which will begin June 3.
This is the joint drive Of all the maj
or welfore oeeneies working to provide
recreotionol facilities for soldiers dur
ing their time off. Soldiers on their
free time With nothing to do but to
sourter up and down the streets Of q
stronos (ond often q very smolI) town,
ors.o sight which ore perpetual re-
Rroneh 70 our defense effort. Ameri-
a, With al her resources, can do better
bqn this We have been slow to get
g - With the need for cleon, decent
4 re- which soldiers can 90 during
W fins. But the problem is be-
fot lost, and the SIC, 1885,
lDed for 800 service clubs
: nh novy comps ond large
+ Il1l5nsenfs, is ,certoinIy q
M 4 couSe in which oIt
-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
Q FROM 't
THE MONITOR
FILES
FIVE YEARS AGO TO-DAY

FIVE YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1889
American Legion Auxiliary
Poppy Day will be May %.
Police Chief Arthur !. Rosso
asks city commission for radio
scout cars for the police depart
ment The commission decided to
give the matter further consid.
Grafton at q later date.
TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1891
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward A. Heine
narrowly escaped death by as
phyxiation from gas fumes at
their home.
Total operating profit OF
$27,912 for the year 10 an
nounced by the city waterworks
and filtration plant.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1905
The boating season opens UP
and Old Man Rockefeller moves
gasoline up from 10h 70 12h
cents q gallon.
Mount Clemens put up more
than $1,000 for San Francisco.
and that u more than The rest
Of the county did.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891 I'M
n. J. 0ibbs b making plans for
thu Avery Heuns extension.
The QssnStsriy report ~ the
MI Cjoo1onD Savings na4ks pub
listod q ~ isgue, saa0WS more
than otoo 80 on dsposit. Who
says ~ nerth Of The county u
9 1sAas AGO TODAY &
Csvl IsCrolx he's cold The
suow Matilda 80 George chof.
ponlne, Of Hsfrison. tor 800.
Tho Matilda viii engage n the
vood traffic between Detroit
ind. liverpool"
G. D. Seeley has made his
plsce Of business very coy and
inviting. -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
OUT OF THE NIGHT SKY

Far obove London, drumming dog
eedIy through the night sky, Germon
plone, one Of many, enters the London
oreo. Below them the city sProwIs
along the Thames. trying to conceal in
its darkness the oreotest concentration
of human beings on the globe.
Eyes stroin at the Pickering dioIs on
the instrument boards Of the planes.
Pilots and bombers, unknown and new
er-to-be-known boys, make their COL
culotions in silence, tense with concen-
trotion
A signal, finger on q lever, the
press of q finger on q button, and the
bombs plunge downward through the
darkness.
Edward the Confessor began the
building of Westminster Abbey in 1850
A. D. For 900 years q rooe Of men
worshiped God, crowned their kings,
honored their greet upon that spot
along the Thames side. Down, down,
out Of the night sky shrek the bombs,
and q heop Of smoking wreckoge
snoIders where kings had stood in owe.
Into the stern old-foshioned room Of
the House Of Commons, where Disroeli
and Gladstone debated, and where Sir
Edward Grey told the peoples repre-
sentotives that war had come in 1914,
folls compressed destruction. Into the
British Museum, greatest depository Of
the worlds knowledge, it foIs oeoin.
TIL, boys in the bonbers, conscious
of nothing but thot they have done
their job, ore already far away, per-
hops oIreody on their way back to their
boses, as firemen pillow their way among
the juynbled benches Of the House Of
Commons.
What was it thot thus become heaps
of rubble at the touch Of button by
obscure German youths high in the
night sky? Nothing thot was not it.
self only brick ond stone, timber and
cement and tinted glass;
The House Of Commons is more than
thot. 1t is on idea, and bombs cannot
destroy it The rude Saxon worriors
had their Witon, or assembly Of free
men, when the site of Westminster was
swamp. Simon of Montfort coIled
the first parliament, direct ancestor Of
the one whose house has been bombed,
in l265 A. D.
For more than six hundred years,
this Mother Of Porlioments has been
developing, finding new and better
means by which free men may govern
themselves 1t is more than q porticu-
lar political institution. 1t is on ideo-
ar idea thot hos spreod to toke hold
on the Imagination Of men across the
wide world
1t is bigger than any building,
stronger than stone or gloss or steel.
The French constitutional assembly, in
1889, bored from its house Of meet
ing, took on oath to defend constitu-
tionol government-in q tennis court.
The spirit Of freedom needs no roof.
Bombs may shotter the House; they
cannot move the Commons.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
. BARBS

The Kentucky Derby probably
taught a lot of people to cut
out the horse play.
Hitler says 194l will be the
greatest year in Germany's rise.
What goes up -.
It's much easier to get on your
feet when you keep them down
off the desk.
Nothing is panied more by ex-
treme vanity than q big foot In
q little shoe.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
By LUCE NEVILLE

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD - OF all the
players who are indelibly typed
in pictures and the minds OF
fans. none struggle more stren-
uously against their secure and
highly-paid fate than the buffers.
"And at the same time that
we're trying to break away
from our door-opening and yes,
madam roles" observed Ernest
Cossart, "we're congratulating
ourselves on being constantly in
demand and on our long engage
ments.
mine times in 10, the butler
in q picture stays on salary from
the first day to the end of shoot
ing. In 'Skylark,' because I'm
the butler, was on salary as
long as Claudette Colbert and
Ray Milland were there. It's nice
work--and I can get II, but I
keep on looking for other kinds
Of parts"
JARED
BY CRITICS
Away back in 1910, Cossart
played butler on the stage and
drew a couple Of unfavorable
comments from reviewers. After
that he lodged such roles for rs
years, but one came along in
1885 that he welcomed. It was
in accent on YOUTH" and next
to the buffers of "Ruggles of
Red Gap" and THE Admirable
Crichton" it probably was the
best job of butling ever offered
by the theater.
1t brought him to Hollywood
for the film version and for two
years he played nothing but but
lers. Alarmed by such tipping,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
: BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHlkl GTON :

80 sWSEWs VIII SOSt W.
Treosury sreorly So million to
exercise this control In the
next year, but the government
6 considers this money we'll
spent as u prevents the Dump
ING Of these assets on u. S.
mqrkets ond as II prevents
these ossets from foIIino into
the honds Of Germany through
Noxi pressure on residents Of
the occupied countries.
An interesting contrast, not
q parallel to this situotion, Is
the eose Of whot has happened
to American copltol in Ger
many. y. S. nationals own
obout $500 million osse&s in
Germany. $50 million more
than Gernons own here. Ford,
GsneroI Motors, Singer SEWING
Machine, WooIworth. inferno
tionol Telephone 9 Telegraph,
Electric Bond and Share ond
Union Corbide ore some Of the
biggest. Of course, those firms
ehoven't been oble to oct q
dime out Of Germany since
ttitter. In most e oses, the
plants ore undoubtedly at work
on German war orders today
through outright plant seizure.
SMALL FRY
EXEMPTED
When the assets Of any no
tion ore frozen in the United
Stotes, what happens first Is
that word goes from the Treos-
ury Foreign Funds Control Of
flee, under Assistant Secretary
John w. PEBBLE, to the l. Fed
eroI Reserve Banks. These
banks notify their m . m Der
banks. brokers, agents and
others deoIine in foreign ex-
changes that assets Of these
foreign nationals m ust be
scheduledwith the Federo! Re-
serve Bank within so days.
Owners Of assets less than
$3.50 ore exempted, as are the
foreign nationals who are resi-
dent and d. mi c led in the
United Stotes.
All others. however, are IL
censed for 9O-doy, renewable
periods to carry on their busi-
ness, spending 50 much money
q month in the several cote
yories conforming to the type
Of business they had been do
Ing. Reports must then be filed
to show how the money wos
actually spent.
Efforts have been mode TO
reduce as much as possible the
red tope. All these neootio-
lions tore necessarily eompli-
Seoted, but as the activities in
foreign funds control progress
ed, L become opporent thot
there were q number of stond-
ordixe d transactions which
could be adequately controlled
by general licenses.
It is q tremendous lob, this
freezing Of assets. Starting
with q small force in the Trees
ury, the foreign funds control
force hos ..rown to over 100 In
Washington. For offices II hos
token over q whole floor in the
big Raleigh hotel with an op-
ton on space in two more
floors.
No wonder It's hard to get q
room in Washington these
doys.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
THERE WILL BE WORK TO DO

Lots Of people ore furrowins their
brows over this question: when the
defense boom eollopses. what sholl we
: do with our productive facilities to keep
them busy and to keep men in jobs'
II is very reol question, and one
WE7ic.l viii require our very best ettorts
10 solve. Its noture ought not to be
misunderstood, however, at the stort.
The reoI question is not: "Whot
work is there to be done" 1t is: "How
sholI we do it,"
There will be plenty Of work to be
done wher the war emergency is over,
plenty Of work to creote here in our
qreot America the kind Of country it
ought to be.
Have our cities no sIums ond blight.
ed areas tc be torn down and replaced
with dwellings reoIly fit for men ond
women to live in? Are our roads, built
for the horse-ond-bueey era, sufficient
for the motorized era? Are roilroods
crossing travelled foods at grode
inork ct weIl-desioned community?
Are there not even NOW too many peo-
pie living without electricity, without
ordinary minimum sanitary facilities?
Shall not the oirpIone be as common
as the automobile is today, cheap,
cosy means of transport for the over
zoe family? ShoIl we ever be obIe truly
to soy tf1ot we raise too much food,
when the Surgeon-GeneroI says thot 40
per cent Of the people ore not properly
fed? Viii there be no friendly neigh
boring countries to Whom we con lend
techniques and money to roise their
stondords Of living with our own? Are
there no more schools, recreation fields,
and cultural centers to be built? Is it
conceivable thot men, once shown the
focilities ond the techniques for build;
ina olt these things as they have never
been built before, will then be denied
thenn?.
To ask questions like those is to on
swer them. The only question is:
How"
The answer in turn by no means i'm
plies public provision for oil these
things. Builders Of things, constructors
Of buildings and works, ore already
turning their minds to means Of drow-
ing privote copitoI on vast scole to
such projects. The Urban Development
Corporations law in New York stote is
only one such plon This provides eosier
condemnation Of blighted areas, and
certoin tax concessions on improve
ments (nsteod Of immediote taxing
Improvement, as we do now.
The New York law is only q fore
runner. There will be other plans, oil
addressed to solving not the question
'Whot9" but the more vexotious prob
lem How"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15

Anl Ddrt6 ksee tAsl 0ssi sssvSe
n procticst wiscAief Ssssast Ain:
eaI 10 sesl. % Abtstkse ths Srtsst,
Bring AitAsy tAs epAeS.-Sewsse
1S:S.
He wss hasinjured thee IVES
either stronger or weather. IL
wsalsr. spare him; 4 stronger
spere thyssl8 eensea4 -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
~ Per1R GoSok
Dsily Msnlees Wsshlnslea
cosrospoM6ent

Dolly Momleos W0ohlw1eoo
Correspondent
Z WASHINGTON - Som .
consideration being given to
the ideo Of freezing the 81 50
million worth Of Cermon, as.
sets now held in the United
Stotes. adding this little nest
coo to the $4.5 billions OF this
countrY's ossets owned by the
nationals Of the IA notions
Hitler hos taken over. there
should be corrected the enron.
eous ideo that when this freez-
ing process tokes place, the
money Is put in q bank and
left there till something else
freezes over.
In the first ploce, these os-
sets oren't all money. They
may be stocks and bonds, or
they may be reoI property like
apartment houses, or they may
Be businesses like drug or opti-
col goods manufacturing es-
toblishments, or importing
houses or agencies for the
wholesolina Of French per-
fumes or YuoosIqvion opium.
The point Is thot oil these as.
sets don't hove to be converts
ed into Gosh and the Gosh stuck
off in q sofety deposit vault.
BUSINESS
AS USUAL
All these businesses ore al
lowed to CORY on pretty much
os usual. II they make q profit
on their operations, thot's all
right too. The only restrictions
ore thot the profits or proceeds
cont be sent back TO the occu-
pied country where they might
be seized for the benefit OF
the Nozis.
The is. Treasury doesn't
otte mpt to run these busi-
nesses, either. The Treasury
hos enouoh headaches Of its
own and you wouldn't coll this
foreion-owned property con-
troll on aspirin. Management
of frozen assets is left where
itwos before the freezing took
place, subject only to lieens-
ina and control Of the Trees
ury regulations. In this respect.
the freezing differs entirely
from the work Of the Alien
Property Custodion in the lost
war when physical control ond
management we're token on all
enemy assets.
The present Treasury con-
troll costs the owners OF the as
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15

Lucie Neville is pinch-hit-
ting for Paul Harrison, now
touring army camps and de-
tense industries.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-31
Jury Illegal,
.M(Cred S Plea
international New, Photo

Former Prosecutor Duncan c.
McCrea today filed a motion in
Circuit Court asking that his con-
Wction in the grand jury gambling
@ySA, sass ~ 81. aside apd- 1Apes
trial granted on grounds the jury
which tried him was Illegally Sc
lected.
McCrea. who was sentenced 10
from four to five years and fined
$1,000 by Judge Earl c. PugSley
after his conviction charged that
the jury comission delegated its
authority in picking the jury panel
10 Clarence Shaw. commission sec
rotary. instead of actually picking
the panel itself
He also all ged that the slips
containing the names of the pros
pective jurors. which were pulled
from a box. were written by Shaw
instead of by the county clerk, as
the law provides.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-31
Windnt Silent
On War Report

NEW YORK. May 31-John G,
Winant. American ambassador 10
London. back in the United States
yseport 10. PreSidacct;,, tsposeyelt
on Britain'S war effort, declined
today TO reveal what he would tell
the President
The quiet and shy ambassador
who dashed here by clipper plane
with his assistant. Benjamin V
Cohen. was taken somewhat by
surprise when a holiday crowd OF
about 1000 extended him an
ovation at LaGuardia Field base
Deluged with questions from
newspapermen, Winant remarked
that he didn't want to say any
thing" but finally stated:
II expect to be here only a
few days. will report first 10
the President and then to the
secretary of state"
While there was considerable
secrecy about his immediate
destination. il was considered
possible that he might make his
report this weekend TO Mr. Roose-
welt at the Presidents Hyde Park
home.