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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
|ChrvsIer Turns Idea Into
Arsenal within 10 Months

of this will be in the form of rough
castings and forgings from outside
plants. The ChrySler job will be
finishing and tooling this material
and assembling. The tanks will be
nine feet high. nine feet broad
and 20 feet long. They will have
a crew of seven men. Armament
will be one rs nm. gun, one 81
nm. gun, three 80 caliber machine
guns and an anti-aircraft gun. The
engine will have 400 horsepower.
Its a complex job" says Hunt.
For instance, the stuff that goes
into transmission alone requires
1000 hours of work"
PLANT WILL TAKE
FIVE THOUSAND MEN
While the arsenal is being built,
the company is getting we'll along
with such preparatory work as max
ing handredS of blueprints, plac-
ing orders for machinery, gauges
aleS ana precision tools, and con-
ldering matter of personnel. Hunt
'AAA NdSAAC OVVO lllCll anu ShptClS
tc pick most of them from the 50,-
600 in the Detroit plant of his COM
pany.
The arsenal will be 1880 feet by
500 feet. 1t will be streamlined in
operation, material flowing along
through the various processes until
at one end of the building complet-
ed tanks will be hoisted by cranes
onto waiting railway flat cars, To
get five tanks daily, 88 will be in
constant process of construction.
Bulky Edward j. Hunt, Canadian
born, but long an American citi-
zen, was educated in Michigan and
is practical mechanic, having ham
died every kind of machine in auto
making. He has been with Chrysler
more than 25 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

DETROIT, Feb. g. Come the
FIRST days of next fall and five big
R5-ton tanks will roll out from a
new Chrysler plant in Detroit every
day of five-day week if Edward
y Hunt. bustling godfather of the
defense project, knows what he's
Baking about-and he usually does.
The tanks will be ahead of sche-
|dule-to cap feat of turning a
Farmers field into an arsenal in
less than year.
I'VE have let no grass grow un-
|der our feet" says Hunt. Pres
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
FACTORY TO BE
READY IN APRIL

The government let the contract
last Aug. Is. Sept. Il ground was
broken for the tank arsenal; steel
work began Nov. 10. The plant is
booked for completion by April.
Machinery already on order will be
installed then, and by early fall the
first tanks should be completed.
The government will supply the
tank engines and the armor plat
ing. All the rest of the material will
come from the company. Much
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
SILLY GOOSE!

Once upon q time-thoueh it doesn't
much motter-o beautiful horse be-
came envious Of some Of the good
points in the makeup Of his fellow
creatures. He was rother oonceted, too,
about his own talents os designer.
So, fable tells us, he desired to be
nude in another image than the one
he possessed. He asked for q neck arch
ina like that Of q swan. Moreover, since
he was to be ridden upon by men, he
considered he should be already equip
ped with sort Of Saddle or other OPP
propriote upholstery.
His wish was eronted Result: q
camel. Comels, it is sold, can be very
III ratured. No wonder, if they ever
look at themselves in pool and COM
pare themselves even with an "old
ORGY mare" A camel might easily feel
resentfuI toward his foolish forebeor,
the fabulous horse with the stream
lined MOTORS.
But this years circus goes both Of
them one better. For Mother Goose
rides in on q huge bird with long
bill, white feothers-but four legs!
And il the horse who thought he
wanted to be coneI wants to know
what he finally mode Of himself he con
turn to the newspapers and look at his
lotest photographs. From the Chris
tion Science Monitor
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17

Cafes are going to be more
intimate" he said decisively.
Music will be softer; more
strings. Why, in a year. or so,
wouldn't be surprised if you
could even detect melodies in
popular stuff"
Rosenthal has had just about
the most varied career of any
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to the
Lido Venice; nickelodeons to the
slickest theaters' in gay spots of
London and Paris. He COM
posed operettas and musical
comedy tunes, and he played in
cheap vaudeville houses.
He was a protege of Victor
Herbert, but first of all he was
the son of Joseph Rosenthal, who
played violin with the Metropol-
itan Opera orchestra. After the
youngster had studied half
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
.
. IN STAMPS

0vERPRlNTS. such as that on
~ the Greek postal tax stamp
above, are much In the news. The
Greek issue. picturing Queens Oh.
ga and Sophia, was issued in 1889,
overprinted for 1910 release.
Greece also overprinted l037-38
postage issues, 1880 postage dues
and 1899 postal tax for use in
Albania before the Greek retreat.
Nazi control of Bulgaria Is In.
dictated in overprints OF Bulgaria's
Liberation issue. An overprint Of
Latvia's apple stamp and the ag-
ricultural issue, COMMUNICATING
Riga's fair, continues the phila-
telic progress Of the former Baltic
state into the Soviet Union.
Postage revisions produce an
overprint of 1cclsnd's Matthias
Jochumsson portrait stamp. land
New Zealand conserves stamp
stocks by raising the values Of the
King George vi half penny and
~ penny.
Dominican Republic commem-
crates the signing Of . Pan
American treaty Of friendship
with IN issue Of seven values pic
turing Dominican patriots.
China's industries are TO be IL
Illustrated in Q new thrift series. !.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
. BARBS

An optimist is a person who
believes that houseflies are look
ing for a way to get out.
.
Churchill says America stands
at Britain's side. And, from
there, it's only jump right into
her lap.
A midwest habitual robber
drew 80 years. He's in for the
time of his life.
y
You haven't a ghost Of q
chance if you're scared by the
shadow of a doubt.
Judging from divorce figures,
this is not only the home of the
brave but the land of the freed.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

bid is to explain that ! love to
bid spades. and I do think it
important to show your four
card majors in the early stages.
When the dummy went down I
asked DR.. Tyson where his
fourth spade was.
won the opening lead with
the ace of clubs and led the two
of spades. East played low and
when played the jack from the
dummy. West won with the king.
West led the queen of clubs.
which dummy won with the
king. I returned to my h n d
with the diamond ace and led
another small spade. East again
played low and the queen won.
decided to play for b split in
trumps, rather than in diamonds,
SO led the seven of spades. Hap
PLY the ace and ten both fell to-
gether. At this point the oppo-
nents returned a heart. II they
had not. I would have discarded
the king and queen Of hearts on
good diamonds and thus have
made five-odd instead of four.
After the hand was over DR..
Tyson said. IF you think I was
wrong in supporting the spades
twice with only three trumps.
don't you think you were Q little
optimistic in bidding spades
twice on four to the eighth"
Ireplie d. Right you are
Doctor. but Is = lot Of fun
making a hand Of this kind"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
BY WILLIAM MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

After the duplicate at the High
Point Country Club was over
we were guests CT Mr.. and Mrs.
r B. Terry at their home, where
they had several tables of rubber
bridge Four local doctors invited
me to join their game, and /
played one rubber with them,
My partner was Or. T. d Tyson,
when the following hand came
up.
Or. Tyson was South and /
held the North cards. About the
only way I can Justify my spade
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17

I
ing the commohd for the first shot OF
on aggressive war, ever envisions
Iona-drown and bitter eombot. Notur.
oily, the ooeressor believes himself
vostly superior, or he would not stort
the fight at all. He coniures UP O pleos-
ant picture of q short, snoPpy con-
poiqn in which the enemy is vonquished
with minimum Of casualties, his OBJ
jective is ottoined, ond the whole nasty
business wrapped up and delivered on
schedule.
Such war was the Fronco-Prussion
war Of 1870 single months cam
poianine. from Aug. z to Sept. 2. COM
plete victory, finish Bismarck had
every reason to be satisfied:
But il doesn't often work out that
way. All too often, he who draws the
sword expecting quick and easy victory.
let's loose forces he never expected to
see unleoshed. Thus Japan, still referr-
ino to the "Chino incident" otter four
wears Of bitter and exhousting warfare
or the aror,d scole, is using the term it
expected would apply. Probably only
ar incident" was pIonned--o quick
sweep which would defect the Chinese
military. throw the country into chaos,
out Of which Japan would roise q pup
pet stote to administer in her own inter
est as much Of China as pleased her.
She reused insteod the sleeping dragon,
erected new Chino, and hos not yet
seen the end of the difficulties which
may stern from what was intended to
be an incident"
So Germany. Hitler had ample req
son to expect that q quick surgical oP-
Grafton could be performed on Poland.
with Russio holding fost the other end
of the scissors and the rest Of Europe
poroIyzed into inoction. Instead the
British and French rose in defense OF
Poland, and conquest has had to fol-
low conquest in an endless succession,
while the war which storted SO modestly
with the obIiterotion Of Poland spreads
wider and wider across the earth. with
no forseeobIe end
Perhaps it is thoughts like that
which filled the mind Of Rudolf Hess,
and coused him to view With blank dis
may the consequences to European civ
iIizotiop Of what was probably thought
Of Two years ago as "the Polish incl
dent"
Perhaps Hess thought too often Of
those terrible words: Put up again thy
sword into his place; for oil they that
take the sword shall perish with the
sword.
Perhaps Hess has thought too often
Of that other time, only 20 years ago,
when Germany storted swinging the
sword, and persisted with it.
Perhaps he saw q version Of q long,
long rood to q European 0ethsemone
that was for different from the quick,
flashing BIitzkriee Of 1889.
Perhaps the bright prospect Of Rule
by Germany became obscured by the
dismal alternative Of Ruin for oil Eur
ope.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
. Hieh|iehts From
The Latest Books .

The life of a young Danish
sailor, from his childhood to
the sea, is infinitely detailed in
Kaj Klitgaard's novel, 1.-THE
Deep" doubleday, dor a n:
$2.75).
The experiences of the young
sailor in all parts Of the world
60 to make a definite psychology
cal novel delving into the mys-
terry of mans existence. As his
life becomes woven with that Of
Carl, a would-be writer. Erik, an
artist, and Cita, Erik's half
sister, he Is caught in q web that
forces him to make his final de-
cision. The climax comes as a
stunning surprise.
Beginning his career as q cab
in boy on q small sailing ship.
the Dane moves around the
world, soaking up impressions
probing into the lives Of his COM
panions for the meaning and the
purpose of life. The death Of a
sailor in a storm at sea, white
clay pipes sinking down into the
blue of the Gulf stream. fo'castle
scenes and Cita-all are painted
wildly, but overshadowed by a
brooding almost akin to that of
the sea itself. Unobtrusiveiy,
Kiltgaard parallels the depths
of the ocean with the mysteries
of human nature.
The transition from sails to
steam as the young sailor realizes
his ambition to become part of
visa. greatest of Danish steam
ship companies. leads him to con-
ceive of a dream-ship in lonely
watches at sea. Ironically. his
dream ship conception brings
his own tragic end.
In Rio the Dane meets Cita.
She Is to him as all the dreams
he dreamed on all the oceans Of
earth. Klitgaard develops the
Danes love of the girl more by
suggestion han statement.
Around Cita is the mist of the
young sailors dreams. The novel
ends on Q shocking turn of plot.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
SoofHsAYERs.
THEY SooTH5

The report from Berlin that sootF-
sever crystol-oozers, q n d fortune
fetless have been forbidden to make
StooI nppeoronces gives just the right
touch st, wild, weird uneorthIiness TO
the story Of Rudolf Hess flight from
Germony
five hove been correctly informed.
dijtie, himself has not been above an
A6ccojiOaol bout with the ostrologers,
ND 10 see him banning from public no
NE tt.2 porticulor brand Of necro-
Snoncy which is sold to have appealed
tb Hes IS comic indeed II il prove true.
Yet ~ must not be nisIed by this
Aliooed recourse to the supernatural by
M Moxi ieoders The practice is not
}px6Etly unknown in the United Stotes.
s3pjs IN high pieces here have
kf|oep above seeking an occasional
~ tom the stars. Yet Hitler hos
III RIGHT thus for, in q strictly mill
l1Ieh leuds to. question that
noly on all this toIk Of NEGRO
III Hitler, or ony leoder, ever
esati1a odxleo Of soothsoy-
)(6, u t3eSe, OF Joe
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
~ PETER gDsok
Dolly Meatses WsshlNsten
Coseospo0domt


WASHINGTON will
lay its heed on the block Of the
n ouse Appropriations sub
committee within the next few
doys' when hearings begin t.
see how much this controvee-
siol federoI agency gets fol
the fiseol year Of l942.
Proponents Of economy say
that WPA's appropriations ore
too big and must be hacked.
They point to the foct thot
employment Is going up onc
the demand for relief should
be going down. They choree
that too much WPA spending
is for non- defense activities
that could be done away with.
They would like to get the
boondooglins ond boIoney Out
OF the woy.the sewing prof.
ects, the ort projects, the mu-
sic projects, the recreation, H.
bray, museum, writing, ono
historical records work - in
foet, oil the white collar prof.
ects-token Oft the books.
Some Of the more extreme
economists would 90 so far as
to wipe out the whole WPA in
the belief that even all the
useful things which WPA is do
ing could be done better and
done cheaper by private indus.
try.
All those ore admittedly
serious charges. WPA hos G
case to present in Justification
Of it program. The question,
therefore, is whether Congress
will cut the head off WPA's
appropriation, whether it will
just remove q few Of the Wis
oero, or whether old WPA Ap-
preparation Bill will lift its head
off the block and walk away
with even more money in its
pocket than it hos today.
For the current fiscoI wear,
ending June 30, WPA got q
total Of 81 $50, $50, 900, suf-
fioient to provide an average
Of about 1000, 900 Jobs q
month. Right now, the WPA
rolls ore running about ,52O,-
600 Of which $50 900 ore on
defense projects like oirports.
roads to comps, sewers, water
works or other utilities 70,
comps and new defense indus
try towns. Thot leaves $780,
600 WPA workers employed
on non-defense projects.
PLAN BIG
CUT THIS YEAR
For the next fiscal year be.
ginning July !, q preliminary
Budget Bureau figure Of
$o75. 100000 has been sue-
eested. In terms Of jobs, Ho-
ward 0. Hunter, acting WPA
commissioner, hos estimated
that this appropriation woule
mean on overoee Of | 200, OOC
employees q month, or q 80 pei
cent cut from this years az.
eroee. As the peak employ.
ment lost February was | 1872,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
NEA Service staff Correspondent

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD The scene
was a New Orleans cafe in 1910.
Red plush and ragtime. Guests
were jittering around the dance
floor as they tried to get &C.
customed to the strange new
tempo in which the orchestra
was improvising Wait Til the
Sun Shines, Nellie" The leader,
Bing Crosby, pretended to tootle
a clarinet. Brian Donlevy 81
lently fingered a cornet.
Only bandsman in the bunch
who really could have played his
instrument was Harry Rosen-
thai. the pianist.
EARLY DAY
RUG-CUTTING
Mary Martin, a vocalist with
the orchestra, came on for a
song and overheard a patron
complaining that nobody could
dance to such music. She Of
fered to show him, and did.
Other dancers picked up the
steps and liked it.
This is one of several actual
incidents in the history of jazz
which have been put into Para
mounts Birth Of the Blues"
Another is the origin of the COM
mon practice Of slapping the
strings of bull fiddle; a must
clan tried ii when his bow broke
in the middle of number.
When they finally got the shot
and the orchestra fled from the
hot lights, the stocky Rosenthal
came over and talked about
music. Seems he's going to be
the maestro with a seven-piece
orchestra at Preston Sturges'
remodeled Players Club.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
STRONG oUTPoSTS
AND X DUTY

In June Of lo3o. just before the sec
ord World War broke ocross the world,
ne whole United Stotes ormy hod only
1877 $50 men in active service. Todoy
more tl,on 100000 American soldiers
are monnina the outer romPorts OF
Hf6erjtu an ID e tense in the outlying
bases.
VI. The United Stotes has todoy, IN
other words, more soldiers manning the
o,,tlxino boses from Kodiok lslond to
G.,orn and from Greenland to 0u'ono,
thon the totoI force available tor de-
f4nse in 1889.
Thot onnona other things, hos been
BROUGHT about by those who chose TO
nIunoe the world into war insteod OF
seeki,o civilized ways to keep clv'''zo-
ton ofloot.
They are oone from the comps they
knew in the United Stotes, but they
must not be forgotten. Means must be
devised for keeping these American
soldiers in touch with the home coun-
Try.
Such q dispersion Of forces, with
r,aorIy fourth Of the ovoilobIe soldiers
stotisned outside the continental LIMITS
81 the country, is something new. and
therefore something we never nave
ihouott much about Britoin. with ITS
fdr-spreod empire, was accustomed TOR
decodes to having its SONS scottereo
from Burno to the Folklond Islands.
But !. IS new to Americans. both to
those who 90 and to those Who stoy.
With such large detochments OF
An1ericon soldiers serving in torowoy
posts, every effort must be made to see
e: Is ti,ot they ore not forgotten, ord.
more i,portont, that they do not feel
forgotten.
Mil American newspapers go to
them regularly and by the fostest proc
tjcoble route? Will they hove recreo-
fibne.. fccilties in posts which, interest
ia at first may grow dull and bore
Some otter short hitch? Short-wove
broodcosting firms have olreody indl-
coted that they ore owore Ut the prob
lem. and are attempting to adjust pro-
oroms so thot American boys in the
outposts will be in regular touch with
home by dir.
\ Letters, othletie equipment. gifts
dpproprrioite to the seasons, vitol little
links With. home ore going TO be more
o,d more important as the oversees
dorrisons grow in strength. They must
not Be forgotten. r
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
Q FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

FIVE YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1886
Mount Clemens hotels rush
improvements as season starts
early.
Mrs. David Rouleau succeeds
Mrs. j. H. McHale as head OF
Kings Daughters, at seth an
nual convention.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
The faculty golf team captain
ed by Supt. Fast ID ahead ~
holes in the tournament now be-
ing held. *
White Hawk motorcycle club
is formed to do away with the
common motorcycle nuisance.
Joseph Trombley Is elected pres
ident.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1906
The model of the statue OF
General Macomb has arrived IN
Detroit. It represents the gen.
eral overlooking the fields OF
Plattsburg.
The new cars Of the Rapid.
nine in number, are expected
June I.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
Three dog fights on Walnut
street every day.
This city sppesrs 70 have 2
large end varied assortment q
useless patriots and small.hors
politicians. --(LsnsinS poper).
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1854 -
Mrs. Sam Fitch .OetD 5000
from the Cleveland street rail.
way company. BY which her hus-
band yves killed.
Edgar Weeks will erect 2
building on his lot beck Of NJ
old American hotel.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17
: BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHlNG ON :

90 u No gu q mode TO J.
zoo. 600 ~ ls,ly, II win sneon
that WPA will have lopped off
nsorIy 100, 900 Jobs In less
than five months, which 10
pretty healthy cutting.
All these cuts IN at hove
been mode 50 for hove beer
IN the oreos which have de-
fanss contracts. WpA's own
economists claiming that 80
per cent Of defense contracts
have been let in oreos repre-
sentino only 20 per cent Of the
country. i is cosy to UNDER I.
stond why neorly 10000
workers now on WA rolls for
non-defense projects are in
oreos which have few defense
contracts. These ore, roughly,
the Rocky Mountain oreo, the
plains and the south.
In Rovenno, O.. which hos
q big powder mill. WPA hos
been cut IS per cent. At Rod.
ford. Va, WPA rolls have been
cut 81 per cent. Those ore, or
rather were. small eornmuni-
ties, but in larger towns and
cities where there. is bio de-
Tense octivity, WPx cuts hove
oIso been sizeoble: Fl Peso "a
per cent. Seattle 40 per cent,
Akron 81 per cent, Cleveland
81 per cent and Detroit SO per
cent.
What this means Is simply
that unemployment hos been
spotty. The cool areas Of SOUTH
eastern. Ohio, western Ind
lana, southern illinois ore still
in the dumps. Areos where
copper cannot be mined prof.
itobly at the present govern
ment fixed price Of II cents
q pound have relief problems.
Rural areas have not picked
up, particularly in submorein-
al farm oreos.
When moves ore mode TO
cut relief in these oreos, q yell
usually goes up that is heard
by congressman. Communities
which don't have defense &C.
tivities feel that since they're
not getting any Of that gravy
they certainly should be enti-
tie TO- WPA relief gravy to
which toste they have become
accustomed.
Local communities stort
yelling, too, when their WPA
nurseries or school lunches or
art projects ore hit. The free
WPA opero ond symphony
concerts having built UP q pub
lie following, there are cries
in the night when onyone
starts throwing axes at the bull
fiddIes.
SEEM TO
LIKE THEIR JOBS
The charge that WPA Is
competing with privote indus
thy for labor is q tough one to
substontiote. WPA labor gets
paid from $50 TO $50 q month.
Why anyone should prefer
thot type Of employment when
there ore better jobs going
begging is hard to figure. Also,
workers on WPA must toke
Jobs when they're offered in
prixote industry.
What it all boiIs down to is
the belief that unemployment
hosn't yet smoothed out. There
is discrimination ogoinst the
employment Of unsk iHed
WPAers. particularly the old
ones.
Will Congress cut in the
foce Of thot? Not much, It any.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17

Fother wos explaining defeotism.
ron, yes" sold junior. TITS sort Of
,Ioszon ond O Supernon put together,
huh?"-From the Christion Science
Monitor,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-17

II il not only with physical
invasion that you and are con-
cerned, but with . spiritual i,s-
vasion which, II permitted.
would work greater havoc than
all the tons of high explosive I. +. I.
--viscount Halifax. British am
bsssador TO the u. s.