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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
LIFTS De GAY ABOUT IT,
SAY THE PEOPLE

The American people ore spending
more money to have fun than ever be-
fore.
beginning in midsummer on oVo-
,onche Of Gosh hos been pouring from
Americon pockets into the tills OF those
Who have amusement for sole.
~voriety." organ Of the fun-vend-
ina world, describes the situation IN IT'S
characteristic style as "terrif" 1t seems
10 be. For look what's happening:
Summer theoters, dedicoted to
deficits. disclosed surprising black fig
.ures. The first football games pIoyed to
$1,000 people in Chicoeo, $1,000 in
New York, and corresponding crowos
elsewhere. Chicoeo's civic oPe,o
smoshed all summer records with q -
600 people. Roce trocks have been try
inoino to keep people from being
trorpled to deoth in front OF the bet
tino windows. DistiIIeries report so'es
un IS Der cent over Lost summer, ond
the movies, looking for their onnuoi
summer slow season, have wotched
with ioy attendance figures piline up to
from 10 to 10 per cent above lost yeor.
The leoitimote theoter. in those pieces
where IL still exists, is booming.
Even more thoughtful forms OF d.
version, like the sole OF books, IS up
something like 20 per cent over lost
veor. The fresh air ond sunburn resorts
have had their share from rolroods cor
wing more passengers than ever before.
The first reoson for. all these things
is. Of course, thot for the first time IN
n1ony yeors, people have money to
spend. Denied thot pleasant sensation
for a Iona time, they insist on spending
IT, So long as they spend it on motters
not competing with notionol defense
land sunburn, movies, books, and foot
ball contests generally don'p who is
going to soy them noy? Nobody
Does this indicate Iieht-nndedness
in the foce Of growing realization OF
crisis in the notions offoirs? We think
not. No people was ever more soreIy be-
set, nor more broveIy ond erimly embot-
tied than the British. Yet such diversion
as is available there is potronized cog
erly, not to soy Ironically.
For many people, diversion is oil
thot keeps them going in q world whose
terrors increase dolly. II q man spend
40 hours week driving rivets into the
wings Of oirpIones, shall he not relox
the rest Of the time, and spends his
the time, and spend his ronTAHRHR
money to DO so? Sertoinly, and he'll
drive all the more rivets for thot.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
By the Associated Press
1RONG TACTICS

WRONG TACTICS
oWITH THE THIRD ARMY
A new member of the Military
Police captured six enemy" SOL
diers during q recent battle In
the South war maneuvers.
I. was mis- first capture and he
was proud.
So he loaded them into Q taxi
cab and TOOK them to the Com
mana Post Is miles away at his
expense. There he found that
the battle WIS over and all pris-
oners had been set free.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17


ments Of some Of these big
bills.
THIS GETS COMPLICATED
First off, he found that
along in March. 1910. q roll
Of these ox-chokers had been
used TO open an account in
New York by O couple Of gen.
tIemen who q short time previ-
ously had entered the United
Stotes os refugees kicked out
Of Germany by Hitler persecu-
tion. Little by little, it was
found that this account, odd
ing up to SCI 500, was being
transferred by cable to the
Bank Of Panama, credited to
the account Of q man who
lived in Rio de Joneiro.
Then O bank in Rio began to
draw on the Panama account,
and to transfer the funds in u.
s. dollars to q bank in Johon-
nesbure, South Africo. The
purpose of all this internotion-
al banking wos apparently on
effort to hide the troll. U. S.
big bills were used wherever
possible bee ouse they ore
sound currency the world over.
and the jueeIers tried to make
the exchange look like normal
business transactions.
As the money finoIIy got to
South Africo. however. it was
troced and found to be used
for the purchase Of industrial
diamonds in the iIlegitimote
diomond trade. Diamond pro-
duction is Of course closely
control by the British in South
Africo, but q certain amount
Of bootIeeeine in the lower
erode industrial diamonds /:
carried on. The foct that the
Nozis we're forced to &C
through all this international
undercover stuff shows how
desperately the German indus
trioI machine needed these
diamonds for their precision
cutting and machine tooIing
Once the diamonds were
bought, the problem wos &c
get them back to Germany
and here is where the really
fascinating game OF intrigue
began.
From South Africo, the do
monds we're Struggled back te
Rio. Now Rio itself is quite c
diamond market, center fo'
the BroziIion fields which sup
ply O port Of U. S. industry:
low erode diamond demond
but not enough to meet the
world demond for the better
quality stones. So the Ger.
mans, still trying to cover ur
their troll from South Afrioc
via New York and Panama
took their Struggled Diamond.
right back into the diomonc
fields Of BroziI and there wen,
through q foke discovery
and mining operation. to make
it oppeor their supplies were
obtoined on the open market
AND 50 TO BERlIh;
Ostensibly legitimate dio
monds, the German supply wa.
now taken in the open beck tc
Rio, and here Il was Legitimate
freight which could be toker
} os legally decIored coroo back
to Europe. Thot was cosy. Just
, lost month, the diomonds were
put on boord the pIone OF or
ltolion airline running iron
Brozil to ItoIy ond off the,
went.
Discovery Of all this tonolee
web was unfortunately no
made in time to prevent tn
: shipments covered by this por'
ticulor $6ll,5O. but iron
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
BOTTLENECK

GRANTS PASS, ORE.-Gal-
ice School turned down q teach
er who arrived in a coupe. What
is sought is an instructor with .
sedan. Tie teacher must trans
port children to and from school.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-17
~ PETER EpSok
Dolly Monitor Weshinston
CoReaanondaAi

WASHINGTON, Sept. IL
This is the $6ll,5OO inferno
tionol spy and diamond smue-
Cling story of q certain rich
man - you'd know just how
rich. il it were permitted to
mention his name, which cont
be done just now becouse to
do so would end his useful
ness to his Uncle Samuel.
Anyhow, early in the de-
Tense effort this man voIun-
teered his services to his coun-
Try as an ooent in one Of the
intelligence units. He hod all
the qualifications necessary,
speaking several languages.
knowing his around. having
good contocts and all thot, so
he was assigned to checking
up on German operations in
South America.
One of the focts Of life this
counter-espionoee agent had
observed in New York wos that
Nozi ogents. when closing q
deal, always produced q roll Of
bills Of fontostic denonnino-
tons like $500, or $1,000 or
even $4,000. Bills in those
sizes ore rather rore, as you
may have noticed, and because
Of thot they can costly be troc-
ed, merely by noting their seri-
al numbers every time they ore
banked. Knowing this, the
rich-mon counter espionage
oeent storted to troll the move
ments Of some Of these big
bills.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07

in manpower in Crete great. In similar att tempt on Britain it will surely be much greater But manpower is the commodity Adolf Hitler can afford to without stint.
 To date Germanys military successes have been due to the revolutionary nature of the tactics em- ployed and the audacty of their execution It took months for Britain to comprehend the importance of bitzkrieg tactics. France never did. Except in the drive against the Italians in Egypt and Libya Britain has employed this lesson only on the de- fensive The experience in Greece leads to the con- clusion that panzer divisions effective only on the offensive It is by graspng the initiative wher ever possible that Germany has made her pheno- menal gains Britain and the Allies will have to do likewise if the Germans are to be defeated.
 Here, however, political factors enter the war equation Berlin does not hesitate to take measures that would be considered outrageous in normal times. She violates the rights of neutras conJures up the most preposerous alibis for illegal action but she gains her point. These are not normal times The democracies have been reluctant to emulate the aggressors in being audacious politically They have been cautious at great cost It is price they cannot long continue to pay
 The Allies need not have been as ruthless the Nazis to have bostered their defenses by audacious acuon in the past For example, the go-easy policy toward France unjustified any ground has turned out to be a tremendous handicap. Had Britain oc- cdped Syria immediately after the French collapse sine would have blocked the road to Iraq for the Nazis and in addition would have had much larger French force fighting on her side. The same applies to North Africa. London's reluctance to 3Candon the polite old way allowed the Nazis to penetrate Morocco, Algeria and Tunis Now the trench empire becomes base of operations against the Allies.
 What is true of British policy is equally appi- cable to American policy. That is why must look on this Cretan affair as threat to the defense efIorts of the democracies. America is as much an enemy of these aggressors Britain. They follow the old formula of declaring than they fellow the square maneuvers of Wengtons day
 Crete should warn the United States that it is in imminent danger if it hesitates in seizing Dakar Trouble may may not be encountered in taking it at once. An attempt to capture it once the Nazis are in full occupation would be costly If totalitari- an aggression is to be defeated, if America is to be protected the same audacity which the Nazis display must motivate democratic military and pol tical actions
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07

put have dropped to 58,l percent of the total defense orders. Middle At lantic states fell off II per cent to 28.4 per cent; those in the South Atlantic section dropped l.3 per cent to l3.5 per cent; and New England sagged IA per cent to 1892 per cent.
 The most dramatic shift to the Midwest has been in aircraft produc- tion. At the end of the first defense expansion period last fall, 70 per cent of aviation output was on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. But when plants now under construction are finished, 55 per cent will be in- land.
 NOTE-Thanks to the foresight of hard working Col. Francis H. Miles, chief of the Army ammunition divis- ion, at least one phase of defense production is being located in the safe" zone. He is scattering ten new powder and loading plants in the hinterlands: two in Indiana two in Ohio and one each in Vir- ginia, Alabama, Illinois, Missouri Iowa and Tennessee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
20 YEARS AGO f{aE {yfr EMPIRE

1921
 President of Association to w. Chairman Charles Goldstein Robertson Faulkner John w. Troy
 from Alaska Dan Sutherland today introduced the Federal Farm Loan Act to Alaska Lewis of the Juneau Water Works sailed south the Admiral o Francisco.
 for the Sika Tennis Club nearing petn large enrolled Historic newly formed tennis club
 Engineer for the United States work Admiralty Island Hentze man was quoted being optimistic industry Alaska The Arctic Brotherhood Hall painted
 owned by R. M Keeny being used for the repair work the Pacific Steamship wharf
 Highest, lowest 48 cloudy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07

Japan at the rate of more than ten tons a month.
 Acting under a provision of the international postal code, Postmas- ter General Frank Walker notified the totalitarian powers last month that he had burned Is tons of their literature. Since then another ten- ton batch has been seized and de- stroyed, but the flow continues.
 Postal officials have made an in- teresting discovery in their inspec- tion of Soviet propaganda. The bulk of it is being mailed from Tokyo and other Japanese ports instead of from Russia, which makes officials be- lieve that the Japanese and Rus sians have a secret working arrange ment.
 Every piece of foreign matter en- tering this country now is inspected by customs and postal officials. Any thing found to contain propaganda IS burned immediately, except cer- tain items turned over to the FBI for investigation.
 Copyright, 194l, by United Feature
 Syndicate, Incl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
LABOR AND DEFENSE

Offlcers of the Army and Navy. steamed up with the defense effort get severe jolt when they run up against labor union rules which re- main rigid regardless of emergency
 The Washington Navy Yard, for instance, is being expanded and im- proved. In the course of this work some piles were being moved, and a pile-pulling rig" began to yank a pile from the river bed.
 Just then a union carpenter ran up, waving his hands. "Waitlo he said, wait, you haven't got enough men on that job! The rules say you have to have five pile-drivers and a foreman"
 The work was halted and the car- penter produced his book of union rules. He was right The rules speci- lied that regardless of the fact that machine did all the work. there must be no less than six men, in- cluding a foreman, on the job.
 Result was that six carpenters were called off their work in an ad : Joining building and stood around while the machine proceeded to Dull the pile out of the river bed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
n war conditions.

in war cOndltlOnS.
 National Issues: Subtle methods of discrediting capital and its re- lations to labor will be widely em- ployed this month when public an- xiety regarding strikes will be ex- pressed emphatically. Due to far reaching obstacles threatening fast production of war materials, there will be wise solution of industrial problems. In other words, the seers declare that the stubborn resistance of workers will prove beneficial in hastening permanent agreements between employers and employees.
 International Affairs: The war has been designated as Plutonian in its influences and that means world evolution. Effects of the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter will be more and more apparent. The rise of Russia to a powerful place in the world conflict may be expected. even though diplomacy will be responsible without recourse to bloodshed. Great changes in the Soviet system of government are prognosticated for 1942 when un- rest and discontent among the peo- pie will eliminate. In l943 a new gers predict AS Russia gains power Russia will emerge, foreign astrolo- both France and Italy will sink in world importance.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of test. They should avoid nasty decisions or impulsive actions. Patience should be cultivated.
 Children born on this day prob- ably will be high-strung and inn petuous, quick-tempered and ar tistic. Literary talents are foretold for many of these dual-natured folk.
 Copyright, 194D
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
LOOK and LEARN %syy c. GORDON

States of the Union begin with the letter wv? g. What origin lido" applied dog? water does the for bath? United States into office by his father?
 being mine points of the law? ANSWERS:
 Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming faithful loyal. About 30 gallons A. Calvin Coolidge upon the death of Warren Harding B.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
AUDACITY, GREATEST WEAPON

The Nazi attack Crete will doubtless rank as of the great landmarks in the technical develop ment of warfare. It was the first large invasion conducted solely by air
 The conditions were very favorable to Germany if net ideal Crete lies only 70 miles from the Nazi occupied Greek mainland It is rugged and forested and most of it thinly populated, simplifying the landing of small contingents It defended by strong British and Greek forces yet without the painstakingy prepared aerial and ground defenses the British have accumulated in their homeland.
 The battle of Crete is important, apart from its immediate role in the Nazi lightning campaign for the Near East, sort of dress rehearsal for the aerial invasion of the British Isles. With i'm portant differences, of course, Crete offers many technical problems to the German high command closely akin to those of Britain itself
 To regard the attack Crete as a rehearsal for the invasion of England, however, is to ignore the facts that have deterred the Germans from attempt Ing to land in Britain. England is literally fort ress, grded by months of thorough preparation for a ong-expected assault In addition to large and well-equipped army great proportion of the popu- lation is armed and drilled. Except that both are islands, there is comparison between Engands capacity to crush the invader and the improvised defenses of Crete If there were why does Hitler hesitate to dare the supreme test of his military chine9 If he felt he could invade England he would have had no need for the dress rehearsal Crete such rehearsal necessarily disclosing many fact which will be useful to the British in withstandng similar attack on their home island
 The vertical invasion of Crete challenges not only the military men, but also the statesmen direct ing the defense effort of the democraces The prob lem which this first affair attack in history raises and underscores must be met if the nations are to sustain and win this war.
 Parachute troops were used in the Netherlands and Belgium They unexpected In Crete the British and Greek forces supposedly on guard against them Success of the invasion from the skies will emboden the Germans to try against Britain even though they know much warmer reception will be awaiting them on the British Isles The loss
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
MODERN ETIQUETTE 0y ROBERTA LEE

standing in crowded street-car her escort also extend his thanks?
 thank the person who offers he his hat to him.
 dancing when they wish to leave during a dance?
 They of dancers They middle the floor and walk between the they certain to be in the
 starting smoke cigarette other in the party?
 this he should offer to those nearest him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
Just a Tiny Fragment
Seattle Times)


 Maps are forever revealing bits of odd informa- ion that one may long ago have known but since orgotten. Thus a glance at the North Atlantic Coast of North America as reminder that a tiny fragment of the great French Empire exists here, right under the British of Newfoundland
 It is the French colony of Saint Pierre and Miqueon. last remnant of Frances lost Canadian empire the only French colony in the world outside Of the tropics It is composed of three larger islands Saint Pierre and Greater and Smaller Miquelon, and fringe of islets, all from IS to 30 miles off the rugged Newfoundland coast.
 The French have possessed Saint Pierre and M- quelon, with one or two interruptions, since 166O when they were colonzed by Bretons and Basques. The total area is 93 square miles, the population $500 Cod fishing is the principal industry
 Nowhere near important as the French colony Of Martinique, that potential powder keg of the Caribbean, these bleak granite rocks nevertheless nave possibilities as points of difficulty They jut out toward those Atlantic stepping stones the Poru- guese Azores. And hard by Newfoundland, is the site of new United States Naval base.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07

Tenerowicz r e civ ed a package marked From the CIO," and post marked from his home town of Ham, tramck. AS his secretary cut the twine a loud ticking was heard. Hysterically she called Capitol po- hcemen, who gingerly immersed the ominous parcel in a bucket of water.
 Cautiously removing the brown paper wrapping, the policemen dis covered that the bomb" was only the inside of a cheap clock. It had been skilfully bound so that a cog wheel in the spring was released the moment the twine was cut, starting the ticking.
 Police jammed the hands of the clock on the chance that a "timedD dynamite cap was concealed under its face, and it was turned over to the FB1. But the guards figured it was crude joke to scare Tenero- wicZ
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
MONDAY, JUNE g

It4
 Adverse aspects rule today. Mars is in threatening place and Pluto warns of dramatic events. It is 2 date for cautious procedure and unfavorable to persons who wield power or authority.
 Heart and Home: Routine mat ters should engage women's atten- ton. The beginning of this week brings apprehensions and uncer- tainties for all who think. Girls should cultivate poise in character and expertness in any vocation that they may choose. Wars invariably change the status of women of every class and emphasize the im- portance of wage-earning. After the present world upheaval there is a sign of promise for extension of serious purpose and curtailment of the pursuit of pleasure among per- sons of every class.
 Business Affairs: Food concern tration will improve to an extent which is most fortunate for Army sustenance. Purveyors of meats and groceries will have increased de- mands upon their stocks. The cost of living will increase, but pros- perity will prevent undue strain upon the average purse. Merchants and manufacturers will reap sub stantial profits through the sum. mer Stocks and bonds will sharply fluctuate, but there will be no pan. ic despite unexpected developments
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
Wooden Shoes Are
 Stylish, praetieaI

HELSINKI, Finland, June i - Wooden shoes are the latest rage with women in Finland.
 In popularizing the new fa- shion. shoe merchants cooperated with the government in trying to conserve the national leather sup ply, which has. run low since the outbreak of war and is now strict ly rationed. During the spring thaw. the quaint footwear, consisting of native thin leather tops and wood- en heels and soles, reached their height of popularity because of the superior protection afforded by the high wooden bottoms against melt ing snow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-07
CAPITOL BOMB SCARE

Capitol police have been warned to silence, but there was bomb scare in the House Office Building recently.
 Represe tative Rudolph G. Ten erowicZ of Michigan, whose Polish constituents are raising Cain about his unexpected vote against the lend lease bill, was the victim"