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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HCLLYWOOD-If the motion
picture industry really Is trying
to win amigos and influence
opinion in Central and South
America, it certainly seems to
be going about it the hard way.
Our federal government has
set up q bureau to promote bet
ter understanding and closer re-
lations Of all sorts between the
American republics. The young
man in charge is Nelson Rookie
teller, whose family has been
known as an acquisitive and
dominant power in the oil bust
ness Of the world.
So II Is worth noting that one
of the most popular pictures be-
ing exhibited in Argentina just
now Is "Petroleo," produced by
a Buenos Aires studio and deal
ing Indignantly with U. S. oil
grabs In the Argentine. All the
villains are Yankees.
SOUTH AMERICAN WAY
HOLLYWOOD VERSION
Under Mr.. Rockefeller in the
good neighbor department is
John Hay Whitney, head of the
motion picture division. Merely
by being the owner of a large
and widely distributed fortune.
Jock Whitney Is more likely to
be regarded by our Latin neigh
bors as q Yanqui imperialist than
an altruistic internationlist.
! suppose Mr.. Whitney has
been In South America, but I'LL
bet that he never sat In q theater
down there during the showing
Of one Of Hollywood's so-called
South American pictures and
heard the natives murmurins In
mixed amusement and resent
ment. II he had done that, he
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04

wodld not keep pointing with
satisfaction to the fact that
Hollywood is making and plan
ming more pictures with South
American locales. ~,
It's harder to imagine that
Hollywood could ever do right
by those countries south of the
Rio Grande than that an Argen-
tine picture company could ac-
curately mirror the life and
thoughts and moods of people in
one of our states.
And here's a question that this
correspondent has never been
able to get answered in Holly
wood: Even If we were able
to represent faithfully the GUS
toms, backgrounds and all the
rest-what of it? Would it help
to make South Americans adj
mire us?
Would you, for instance, think
any more of England If the Lon
don studios began filming their
conceptions of life in the United
States? The chances are you'd
think them pretty stupid to try
to compete in that way with our
own movie companies.
If you're asked to see q Lon
don-made film, you'd want it to
tell you something about Eng
land or the empire. And a "Mr.
Chips" a Citadel or a "Pyg-
malion" would show you quite
q bit about their people and their
way Of life.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04
IfsvrpsAs FOOLISH As THlss

u \ r disturbing to read that Mex-
q = ii,ofcusy, BtoziIion industrial do
e. :, quartz. nnico ond platinum ere
~ 6otiuht RIGHT under our very noses
7 rtruI and South America by the
I uisass. According to recent news
\ rIGS from the south, Japanese o9ents
solst.blddino. out-troding, and OUT
ssluo American oeents in buying
NAG supplies Of these ond other
Fu(ocic noterioIs in such quontity os
S9n Si,ouest tl1ot some Of them ore beng
MN, shipped to Germory.
liere is He United States, at Peoee,
;jtS! shpping and delivery facilities IN
1jfed, sitting otop the biggest pile
b 0pld Is the whole world. GLOWING
sn Is Buy out from under its veIy
q styoteoic and industrial moteriols
r ti,s highest importance, thus m
T1lSGsosirn japanese trode with countries
ie witch the United Stotes is hoping
4cn0 HE some.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04
LATINS LIKE
OUR WESTERNS

South and Central Americans
seem to feel pretty much the
same way about U. S. pictures.
They like our westerns and
musicals and historical epics-
in fact, everything that can be
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04
20 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

The erection Of the proposed
sugar mill project has been de-
layed until later In the year.
1t was said today.
Not only will there be q great
deal Of building In Mount Glenn.
ems this year. but many farmers
have stated their intentions OF
building new barns.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Mich
OILS entertained q party OF
friends Monday evening.
o. B. Evans has been nomi-
mated for President Of Richmond.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04

A Chicago youth drove a stolen auto all
night long and Judge gave him 80 days-plenty
Of time to catch up on his sleep.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04

We wouldn't mind living to be 100 If they'd
let US sit down the last 20 years.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04

he World War ckenopd eyseything bat
- wy q thinking. -C4e0toe g. Davis harm
a>1tnbue, NDAC, 49,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04
4 JoNGs, REVIEWING OFFICER

esjm parade OF ships sliding
uoh the green, voters to the
IT, IN "a Goes on uninterrupted
W JenGs, tl,ot last marine re-
loS. y,pust Be himself weary
mis- seemingly endless
nt end novol vessels to the
u o6e. now believed to
3lIIs last review to rest
~ bottom, with the
p6ople jgY.cnd oyound
4 osa petnjont
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04
FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY

A small boy was driving . dog
down Front street Saturday sf-
ternoon. The dog stopped sud-
denly in front of two ladies, who
thereupon duly shrieked. Don't
be afraid" said the small boy,
"he won't kick" 36e
The bill for the incorporation
Of Warren village has passed the
senate and - likely TO 60 throuGh
the house this week. Opposi-
ton to the bill q confined % z
half dozen men. Warren has .
promising future.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-04

R14yNSEC1lyy ~ uS9AsO uvSso' S..Sy
ssnrx rs eertoin explosives. The Mexican
sIyISs,etorx system could use some GOOD
lSr oold Booking, Yet we sit and
.SislYStl1 the precious fIdsks Of mercury
sc "a; {seofi,ino of to- Jopon .ond from
b 7, - possibly to Germany, bringing
klco Joponese money and credits
y ~ ~ 5.aust necessarily Be exchonoed
I q for japanese goods.
For = mere decimal fraction Of the
ISid burjed at Fort Knox. the United
( yrtes should be oble to buy the lost
~ of Mexican melfury product ior at
y hioher price than the japanese can
Then whot: The United Stotes would
t,0Vo tie vital mercury. Mexico would
shuya the cold, Q more stoble currency
6S3ter olioned to our own, credits With
Witch to buy American goods she con-
I HI ROW clifford. The general inferno
sfSon6I circulation Of gold would be slim
Sututod. otter the one-woy flow that hos
brought to American Golfers more than
e0per cent { the worlds supply.
ls Tie sone thing is true Of halt the
o0r1tries OF South America. We wont
10 lhcreose trade with them. All right.
4 hovp surplus gold. They have these
~ Jnoteriols, now going to eou'-
u0Jno them in aggressive wor.
"a permit this, TO sit and see our
AiolNGS beaten at our own gone, and q
Y Is,o lra Wf1ict, w hold all the cords at
I j1lS Is tsolly too much. We even have
machinery set up: the Metals Re-
4 co, the Defense Supply Corporo-
d opd the. Treasury itself, are OIL
wv thnEoed with buying up stock
Slt1 of strote0lc materials.
Exev dollar, every bar Of gold sent
1c1ith Is buy these things before sor,e-
AZ GETS them may save its weight
ma! l0od later on. =
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19
BY THOMAS M. JOHNSON NEA SArvirA COrFeSnnn1ent

l l NEA Service Correspondent
 Washngton roof of the world men cc mgn6 Ehrouding Greenland worlds largest island.
 crouching bulk of this great island from the deks upright Ipes o the Coast 1uard-Amercas Little Navy" - . that stand of this mhay strategic
  with depharge Yguns and underwater sound detectors TOT with high-ntensity searchhghts GERMANS HAVE LOOKED IT OVER
 Regarded military experts nearly wide-open door to possible raids New England prime responsibility the Coast Guard
  Greenland military poten- through travelling scientist and not Green and station whence predict afraid weather over Britain
 
 te sensitive the Coast Guard does its work under state bartment directionvery quietly.
 The exact strength Greenland notobe Washington However it's safe to say this is no iceberg patrol
 WHY GUARD CALLED LITTLE
 ghhfp force being increasingly cruising cutters plus 4odd smaller cutters auxli- fight
  is nearly Guard planes The Coast Guard already playing unique part In national watches all foreign ships has partly taken patrol sealed 5000 sps rados habor alone nearly twenty training possible protect shsn which being mtarized peacetime but not peaceful smuggling airplane illicit stills points proudly ghhouses distress saving last PAT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19

teriors of their equipment with never a thought of the quite consid-; erable voltage which turks there for the unwary.
 A number of women here hold Class A. amateur licenses. And. since the war abroad set in to demonstrate how effectively or dinary communication lines can be severed, club meetings usually end in @ discussion of ways and means for offering their services as aids to emergency communication in the event of war on this continent.
 Proficiency Is Tested
 It takes hard work to get a lic- enSe to operate an amateur radio station. For a Class B license, an applicant must be able to send and receive 13 words 8 minute in h. ternational Code. He also must score 75 per cent or better on a rigid examination given by the Federal Communications Commis- sion dealing with the theory of radio. For Q Glass A license per- son must operate with q Glass B license for a year and take an additional test on highly technical phases of radio. This latter exam inatlon would curl the hair of many professional radio men.
 Holders of Class B licenses are restricted to the use of CIV or code on all shortwavc bands except the crowded i60 meter and 10 meter bands. But with Glass A license. q ham can use radio telephone ori ell amateur bands.
 Asked what women talk about when the OM is away at work and they sit down for Q session Of "tun. Ing the band." Mrs. Ownbey re. veaied that talk of children. house. keeping and other related subjects is abandoned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19

"CG, IS nam" code Tor any ody." You will have heard a YL or n XYL = one of several hundred eminine radio "hams" who are lic- nsed to build and operate their wn amateur radio transmitters. he sets are highly efficient and omplicated and they operate from asements, attics, garages, clothes losets and from hooks next to the aby's crib all over the nation.
 To clear the record ham jargon pr young lady" is YL. An XYL is
 young lady who has married and robably uses the OM's (Old fan's) radio rig to carry on her obby.
 Speak Own Language
 Other amateur radio terminol- gy which may be traced directly } the growing army of feminine ans in the designation for chil- ren. The general classification for hildren of radio amateurs is "Lit- Le Harmonics." Boys are known s "Iittle ops" (operators) and lrls are called Little YLs."
 It st. Louis is the second of two ,cal groups of feminine hams or- anised to promote amateur radio. Inc tirst was organized in Cleve- and. And a national league called 'LRL (Young Ladies Radio eague) is seeking new members. There are l2 members in the St. ouls club, which is headed by |voDBD, or Leta Bush. A monthly ewspaper is published by the club, |dth Janice Ownbey as editor. Mrs. |Dwnbey is wife Of Q radio news |dltor who holds q Glass A anna Air license.
 Mrs. Ownbey estimated that from I've to ten amateur licenses are |ranted Co feminine hams each |lonth. All of them, she said. are asslonateIy interested in radio. And hey dIve into the complicated in.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19

Rey ham" in addition to being leader of the with clever twist He uses code the rhythmic motif Bob legendary character Grandpa Snaz actually has fan club in Sheridan Missouri annually Arthur Allen heard on the Yankee CornersU has an odd superstition Friday person him Thus walking under ladder meet of good luck him WATMutuals Raymond singled another award The latest distinguished analyst the Annual Adver-
 Advertising Selling Magazine to an ndiydual for excellence sponsored broadcasts"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19
New York Stations
wEAF-SeO = WOR-7l0 WJZ-76O = WABt-S6O

4:00-WEAF-'Ba Wife WoR-News, Sidney Walton WJZ-'Mother O Mine WABC-'Portia Faces, Life 4:15-WEAF-'Stella Dallas,
 sketch
 WOR-Talk
 WJZ-Club Matinee: Variety WABC-'We the Abbotts' -WEAF-Lorenzo Jones' WOR-Danceiand
 WABC-'Hilltop House 5-WEAF-'Young Wilder WJz-Music; talks; news WABC-'Kate Hopkins 5:00-WEAF-'Girl Alone,' sketch WOR-'The Superman,'
 sketch
 WJZ-Irenee Wicker WABC-"The Goldbergs' 5:15-WEAF-'Lone Journey WOR-Little Orphan Annie WJZ-'Bud Barton sketch . WABC-The o'Neills, sketch 5:30-WEAF-Jack Armstrong WOR-'Mandrake, Magician WJZ-Drama Behind News WABC-Music Clubs 5:45-WEAF-Life Can Be Beau tifur WOR-'Capt. Midnight WJZ-Children's Sketch 'Scattergood Baines' 6:00-W WEAF-Charlie Spivak's woREUncle Don
 WJZ-News; music; pro-
 grams
 wABc-News; Edwin c. Hill WJZ-Bill Stern, sports WABC-Hedda Hopper 6:30-WEAF-Capt. Tim Healy WOR-News, F. Singiser WJZ-Glenn Riggs
 WABC-News, Paul Sullivan -WEAF-'Gasoline Alley WOR-Here's Morgan WJZ-Lowe1l Thomas WABC-The World Today 7:00-W Warnings Orch WOR-Stan Lomax, sports WJZ-'Easy Aces
 WABC-Amos m Andy 7:15-WEAF-John w. Wander wOR-Confidenti Yours WJZ-Lost Persons WABC-Lanny Ross, songs 7:30-WEAF-Cavalcade of
 America: Don Voorhees WOR-'The Lone Ranger WJZ-Echoes of New York: Kay Lorraine
 WABC-Drama, Meet Mir.
 Meek OO-WEAF-Tony Martin, songs WOR-Where Are You
 From? Dr. Henry L. smith Wilma Mcfarland WABC-Big Town: Edwrad c. Robinson 8:15-WEAF-'How Did You
 Meet 0-WEAF-Plantatio Party Doring Sisters
 WOR-Boake Carter WJZ-'Manhattan at Mid- night
 wABC-'Dr. Christian Jean Hersholt; news S:45-WOR-Fitzgerald & Willis 9:00-WEAF-Tim to Smile:
 Eddie Cantor
 WOR-Gabriel Heater WJZ-Roy Shields Revue WABC-Fred Allen, Kenny Baker, Portland Hoffa 9:15-WOR-News 9:30-WEAF-Mr. District At-
 torney, Jay Jostyn
 WOR-Chicagoland Marion Claire
 WJz-News; Spin and Win, 10:o0-WEAF-Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge WOR-Raymond G. Swing WJZ-Story Dramas
 WABC-Glenn Miller's Orch. 10:15-WOR-News; Cy Caldwell WJz-Leland M. Ford WABC-Gen. Hugh Johnson 1o:30-WOR-Guy Lombardo's Orchestra
 wJZ-Doctors at Work WABC-Golden Gate
 Quartet 10:45-WABC-News of the World 11:00-WEAF-Lyle Van, news WOR-News; weather WJZ-News: Fight Preview WABC-Sports- Time 11:15-WEAF-You Want Music WOR-Sports: John Steel WJZ-Woody Herman Orch. WABC-Shep Fields Orch. 0-WEAF-George Mccoy WOR-Dave Roses Orch. WJZ-Dick Rogers Orch. WABC-Joe Reichman's
 Orch. 11:45-WEAF-Ton Pastors Orch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19
Dial Doings
The announcer
By JIM PARKER

final broadcast of the Chicago Theate of the Air would presented March brought WGN Chicago where the WAT- program With only 5000 seats available and officials decided public drawing Claire Gorn and Henry Weber selecting the lucky listeners from such widely scattered points as California; St. Louis will receive evidently travel to Chicago to w while Mutual listeners from coast coast listen specially presentation of T Pagiaci"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19
ROAMING THE AIR WAVES :.
WAT2 PROGRAMS
l2oO Eil0cycles

3:O0-Interlude: Edna O'Dell,
 Songs 3:15-The Islanders 3:30-News 3:45-El Paseo TroubadourS 4:00-It's Dance Time 4:15-Henry Cincone's Orch. 4:30-Radio Gossip Club 4:45-The Johnson Family 5:00-John B. Hughes, Commen-
 tator 5:15-Melody Revue 5:30-News 5:45-Capt. Midnight 6:00-Yankee News 6:15-Sports Page-Bill Derwin 6:30-Lowry Kohler, Songs .6:45-Pleasure and Profit 7:00-Fulton Lewis, Jr. 7:15-Here's Morgan 7:30-Phone Your Answer 7:45-Wythe Williams Predicts S:00-Nwe England Town Meeting 9:00-News: Concert Album sketball-Harvard vs
 Princeton 10:00-Raymond Gram Swing Over Manhattan 10:30-Guy Lombardo's Orch. News 11:15-Interlude: Weather 11:30-Adventures in Rhythm 12:00-Sign Off.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19

radios MT District Attorney" will feature Cigarette underwroe the baseball in New York last will be Inability get time major stations advanced Uncle through the medium of anscrpions Perda special arrangement
  for tomorrow nights Tommy Dorsey written by a music instructor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19

Earle McGi casting director has sixth when picking the right actors for the right parts Re- gently Richard Maxwell Friend In Decd show called for a despang soul who throws herself into vol of committing suicide Following subconscous hunch McG Uc veteran stage and sta play until after the broadcast did Miss Uric reveal starring role for Belasco twenty years aeo-her big ascent to the of volcano to throw depths almost exact duplication of the role in the radio broadcast
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19

Saturday to 7:SO Beginning Washgtons Birthday the originate the problem of caring for
 boy the NEG mic Smile" broadcast at Caval- cade of "Pan President" tribute to on tOnights broadcast WEAF at 7SO
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19
ODD ORDINANCE

According to the general ordi- nances of Trenton, N. J., it is il- legal to throw any tainted pickle in the city streets" The ordinances were .aid down in 1792.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19

WATR-MBS features, tonight 5:45, Captain Midnight s45 Voices of Yesterday New England Town Meeting BIO National Speaker 95 Basketball Harvard
 TO- Raymond Swing 1O:SO LOmbardO I:sO, Adven- ture Rhythm
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-19
lonely Hams Go On Air,
 Calling CO To Come In
BY NED BUTLER TIniAAd praec SfoNF TnrrncnOndn

Lous 1E-CUP-Fip night along the 6o meter band In all probability you'll hear feminine oice:
 Calling co Calling tuning A cau"
Evening star., 1941-02-16
GviIiun Groups Help

OUPPLEMENTING this military effort, the
National Youth Administration is establish
ing radio schools all over the nation - New
York City's unit is already under way with
1000 enrolled in the communications division
There are also two subsidiary ham" groups,
sponsored by the American Radio Relay
League, that have been active for several
years: the Naval Communications Reserve,
numbering over 5000 amateurs. and the
Army Amateur Net, including close to 5000
Others Six nights weekly the official Army
and Navy stations broadcast to their respec-
tive amateur groups an hour of code drills,
and tactical and maneuver problems to sharp
en- their skill in specimen runs of military
traffic.
In addition to all this there is the Amateur
Emergency Corps, organized in districts
throughout the nation for handling any dis
aster- emergency communications.
This is no paper" setup, but live organi-
zation holding periodic drills that eliminate
in an annual field day, at which local clubs
transport their self-powered equipment to
remote and isolated locations and engage in
(ConfinVed on pase 15)
2-Is-n
Evening star., 1941-02-16

~ UT of Fort Benning, Georgia, moves
Il combat team of the new streamlined
- Army, on maneuvers: an infantry
regiment, an artillery battalion and signal
company, with attached engineers and quar-
termasters. Two miles or more in advance of
the main body go reconnaissance troops in
armored cars and on motorcycles; overhead
wheel observation planes. Along parallel roads
mile away on either side thunder columns of
scurrying tanks.
Thousands of men and machines with their
supply trains are advancing at forty miles an
hour, spread out over an area that would
seem too vast for any one officer to command.
Yet almost instantaneously the entire move
ment stops on a dime" in response to a
single spoken word: Haiti
At the river the scouts have found that the
retreating enemy" has destroyed" the
bridge, while the aerial observers detect much
activity to the east suggesting the establish
ment of defense lines.
BY radio the scouts and the observers re-
port their findings to the commander.
BY radio the commander promptly halts
the advance of every unit; orders the engi-
neers forward with their pontoons; lays out
the new positions the artillery will assume,
radically alters the prearranged line of attack
for the infantry and tanks.
To all units in his columns go his orders,
tapped out in cipher by the radio operators
in the signal cars accompanying the troops.
The tanks get their orders almost individually
through radio officer in every fourth tank
And for the time being the forty-fom radio
operators of this teams signal company are
busy bunch of boys
Evening star., 1941-02-16
In modern war, radio bars the commands. That's why
our new Army and Navy sending sos to the
nations $4,000 amateur operators the hams" who
have saved untold lives in earthquake fire and flood
by Paul w. KearneY

Transpose all this into terms of the British
drive through western Egypt and Libya, roll
ing much too fast to lay wires, using the fleet
offshore as its heavy artillery and you see
why coordination between all the arms must
tick like clock - and why the only means
of accomplishing it is by radio.
For radio is indispensable to the modern,
mechanized army, which advances 200 miles
in the time it took the old army to move forty.
On the march there is no other adequate
communication; even in action it is flexible,
mobile and quick; it permits contact with
headquarters or units whose positions are
unknown. And there are no wires to be torn
down by artillery. In short, you couldn't win
a war today without radio.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
VifoI Hobby

i HAT is why, at the reception centers where
draft selectees are classified as to their special
aptitudes, each mans record card includes
significant question: What are your hob
bies?"
Several blank lines follow for the listing of
each individuals hobbies. But two lines that
are printed on each card as evidence of their
urgency are PHOTOGRAPHY (the eyes of the
army and RADIO Gts ears).
OF the two, the most critical shortage will
be of radio men, for never in military history
has their role been so vital to both Army and
Navy. And the great reservoir of talent upon
which the military must depend for the bulk
of this technical personnel are the 5000
amateur radio fans of the country, whose
spare-time hobby has suddenly become
vital defense resource.
And don't let the word amateur" fool you.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
U. 5. Army

from its telegraph, telephone and other sig
nal technicans. The enlarged Navy will prob
ably need another $1,000. And this total, all
of military age and physique, must not dis
rupt the professional ranks so vital to COM
mercial communications, air and marine
transportation, the Coast Guard, the police,
the forest service and others.
1t takes three to four months to make
acceptable military operators out of suitable
raw material, whereas the licensed amateur
can be polished up in two weeks. Therefore,
relying on the hams" as backlog, the Navy
is conducting seven schools for enlisted men,
which turn out 1000 operators annually
And at Fort Monmouth New Jersey, the
Army Signal Corps school will receive about
600 draftees in March or April who will be
trained to bring the corps full strength up to
500 officers and $1,000 men, Meanwhile, in
every camp, units from the regiment on down
are training their own radio men.