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Evening star., 1941-04-19

Brisrley -----------.- 022 20I 2lx-10
Runs-.Raba, MulvihN Bello. Vincent.
Hodskins Insbers,- Cordus t2), Stitt. En-
loe 20. Errors-Smith, Mulvihill Walsh
t2). Enloe. Two-bsse hit-Reed Home
Bello, Walsh, Insbers, Cordua, Whelan
Double plays--Hodskins .tunassisted), Null
vihill lunassisted. Left on bases-Go1.
De Bettencourt. 8; of Insbers. i. struck
out--By De Bstencourt. ]; by Carroll 3;
by fngbere. 10. Hits-Off De Bettencourt.
8 in 8 innings; of Carroll. 5 in 2 inninss
of 1nebere. 10 in q innings, Wild pitch
Ineberg. Winning pitcher-fntbers. LOSING
pitcher--De Bettencourt. Umpire-Mr.
MattinEly
Evening star., 1941-04-19
Witness Wos Thinking
OF Third Wife, TtheI

One man alexander j. Casserole,
"a, toothbrush salesman described
Hostaks appearance as plain as
the nose on your face" He failed
to specify whose nose he had in
mind, but friends believed he was
thinking of his third wife, Ethel
According to Casserole, the spirit
walked with sinister. gliding
motion" and disappeared shortly
before midnight.
Well, seeing doesn't mean any
thing. The ghost of Banquo was
seen, and so was the ghost of the
highwayman. But now we have a
new development. Mysterious Hos
tax has been photographed in ac-
ton.
Conan Doyle used to argue that
the spirit world could be photo
graphed. Houdini said no. My
self, never have seen ectoplasm re-
produced by the camera, but a
citizen of Seattle has just sent me
a photograph purporting to rep
resent mysterious Hostak STOPPING
over a fallen foe, one Ben Brown,
a prizefighter famous for his traffic
with ghosts. incidentally, Brown is
not a licensed medium. He'd bet
ter watch his step.
Evening star., 1941-04-19
From the
Press Box
GhostIy Adventures
Of Hostuk Continue
BY JOHN LARDNER,


NEW YORK, April 19 (N.ANA0.
Lovers of ghost stories probably
will be glad to know more of the
adventures of mysterious Al Hos
tax, the phantom middleweight Of
Seattle, twice champion of the
world, the toughest piece of ecto-
plasm this side the Castle of Mac
beth.
I've already told you that Hostak
has been seen. Though strictly a
Seattle haunt by origin, he ap-
peared by night to a crowd of peo-
pie in Chicago not long ago and
caused low cries of wonderment
and despair. A comet was seen
over the stockyards that same eve
ming, and a rooster crowed at mid
night.
Many witnesses, knowing there
Is no such person as Hostak, went
to have their heads examined the
next day by a reputable physician.
The box score on these cases was
as follows:
Sane, 10 per cent.
Democratic, per cent.
Republican, per cent.
Third offenders, per cent.
Foreign born, per cent.
In favor of light wines and beer,
per cent.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
JUSTICE, AND MERCY

The problem presented by the Pecu-
liar sect known as Jehovoh's Witnesses,
who children ore taught to refuse to
salute the national fIoe in school. has
met with various attempts at solution,
none final.
1t is encouraging to see that one at
tempt at solution hos been blocked in
the courts II was bad solution. A
court at Nashua, New Hampshire, SEN
fenced three such school children to Q
refornotory for school delinquency"
growing out Of this offense.
It is highly unlikely that sending
children to reformotoy for comply
ing With religious scruples taught them
by their parents would ever solve any
thing. The stote supreme court oPpor-
emily felt that way, for il reversed the
sentence. Within the limits Of mercy
thus assured by the court, the 'oeol
school authorities may now seek their
own solutions. which are oImost certain
to be, IL not completely satisfactory. at
least better than the reformotoY. .
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16

program Of recreation and guidance
for tn. soldiers Of the United Stotes
ouortered near Mount Clemens will
actually ooin impetus and expand as
the weeks pass by. We hope so and
we will do our utmost to deserve the
splendid reception which both the mill
tory and civiIions have extended to US:
Ii we can make lonely soldiers feel
Just bit cheerier, if we con exert bet
ter influences in their dolly lives ond
if we con help those boys to better,
cleaner futures we shoIl feel thot our
purpose hos been achieved.
Thot is why we are here.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

The bidding Is given ~ It
occurred at our table. We went
down on trick as our opponents
cashed the ace and king Of clubs.
I criticized Mrs. Mckinney.
saying that she should pass Ave
no trump. Her reply was that
while II was true could make
Ave no trump, she thought 1t
would be impossible for her to
pass. She thought I should have
passed five diamonds.
Well. of course, In tournament
bridge match point scoring, to
play a hand in diamonds II you
can make Ave no trump would
be a bad score. The argument
went on pro and con. and we
fiinaly decided to take the hand
up with some of the outstand-
ing ulayers Of the country.
Oswald Jacoby said he would
bid three diamonds instead Of
two diamonds, and then II might
be possible to end In no trump.
Wsldemar Won Zedtwitx sgreed
to two diamonds. Over three
hearts he would bid four dia-
monds. All the experts agreed
thst I should pass the Ave dis.
mond bid even though ] definite
~ knew that Ave no trump
would be the best score, since
II would be almost impossible
for my psrtner to pass ave no
trumps.
Msybe you end your psrtner
would like to argue out how the
hand should be bid.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16

From Oteen, N. c.. Mrs. Nc
Kenney and I drove to High
Point, N. c., and played In q
duplicate game on Saturday aft
ernoon at the High Point Coun-
try Club. Before the start Of
the game, c. M. Waynick, editor
of the High Point Enterprise,
called up me for a little talk.
during which I emphasized the
Importance of the partnership
tolerance. Then I sat down to
play the first round with Mrs.
Mckinney against r. B. Terry,
the publisher of the paper, and
this hand came up. Mrs. Nc
Kenney held the North cards,
and ! sat South.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
ly characters who really coun,
are a boy and a girl.

ly characters who really count
are a boy and girl.
BUSY
MAN
Just q couple of sound stages
from where that picture Is be-
ginning production, anoth her
writer director who believes In
laughs for their own sake is COM
pleting a third filming of that
old stage farce. Nothing But
the Truth" Elliott Nugent is a
lean, bespectacled gent with
enough energy to keep up with
the zany clownings of Bob Hope
and Paulette Goddard. to write a
play for Broadway at the same
time, and to make plans for a
venture into movie producing.
AS If that weren't enough, Nu-
gent returned to acting recently.
He and James Thurber wrote
THE Male Animal" for the New
York stage and when they en-
countered casting trouble MI
gent stepped in and starred in it
for Is months.
Son of j. c. Nusent, also an
actor, director and writer, FL
lott played in the family vaude-
vile troupe ID years, had top
billing in several plays he helped
write, came here in 1929 with
Bob Montgomery to appear in
$50 This Is College" Except
for the long engagement in
Male Animal he hasn't acted
in 10 years and declares he won't
again.
Couldn't 60 on doing juwe-
niles forever" he said. I'm IL
now and might still fool 'em on
the stage. But I couldn't kid q
movie camera"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
: BEHIND THE SCENES
M WASHlNG TON :

ID up there by the local gen.
dormss. mueosd and finger.
printed, and sent into FBI
headquarters for q eheekup on
whether he .',os had previous
experience in beira finger
printeds in other boiliwieks.
They can give you the answer,
usuolly, IN about three min
utes.
J, There ore four main divl-
sions to this finosrprint file.
civilians who hoven't done any.
thing but be fin9erprinted for
Identification purposes, army
ond navy folk, criminoIs, ond
women. The wonnen, you're
told, don't commit as many
crimes as the men but they
commit worse ones when they
do.
In another wing IS the nome
file and the nicknonns file.
Millions Of names, just names.
The nieknomes eomesin handy,
il seems, in eose somebody
hears one bank robber call on
other Whitley" as they dash
owoy with the loot. FBl checks
through its "Whitey" file ond
gets q list Of suspects. The
tourists get Iouehs when the
guide pulls open q drower in
the lady nickname department
and reods off, as Q typicoI ex-
hibit, "Belchine Bessie. l."
DETECTING 4
IA TEST TUBE
Scientific crime detection Is
given it spectoculor bow when
the tourists ore shown the ex-
hibit room Of the FBl lob, its
pride and pet. There's q por-
table X-roy m q { hine that
shows q hocksow blade con-
ceoIed in the sole Of q shoe, an
ultraviolet light that reveols
the invisible ink laundry mark
on a collar. Yes, the tour is
educational, too, for it is news
TO most Of US thot the Ioun-
dries have been putting over
this fost one, identifying the
wash by mysterious hiero9ly-
phies that cant be seen with
the naked eye.
Visitors don't get to see }.
Edgar n oover unless they
cotch him coming or going
but its worth your time, ony-
way.
And Oh, yes. There's q gym
nosium and on indoor forget
range in the basement where
the G-ren keep in trim when
they're in town.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
en- to play Director Sullivan,
some of whose comedy hits, are

en- to play Director Sullivan,
some of whose comedy hits are
listed as $50 Long Sarons,"
"Hey-hey in the Haymow," and
ANTS in Your Plants of 1882"
Title of his proposed social epic
is For Whom the Night Falls"
There's a lot of sharp satire on
Hollywood. along with q few
leers at the Unhappiness Boys.
John Ford and Frank Capra.
For a gal to follow McCrea in
his eventful wanderings, Sturges
picked Veronica Lake. the flop
py-haired dish from 81 Wanted
Wings" whom Bob Hope tagged
as "the only one-eyed movie
star
Miss Lakes revealing cos
tunes in the aviation picture
were a great trial for the CEN
sors, and she has a few slick
gowns in "Sullivan's Travels"
Most of the time, though, she
will be in hobo garb-trousers,
tattered coat, turtle-neck sweat
er and a cap hiding that cele-
brated hair.
There's a sequence in which
Sturaes has defiantly written a
reminder of the sweater ban by
the Hays Office. When McCrea
is trying to persuade her to give
up the masquerade and 60 back
to Hollywood he remarks, "You
look about as much like q boy
as Mae West does" He'll have
to do some battling to get that
on the screen.
Although Stufges seems to
have written a gentle sermon
about laughter, he hasn't aban-
doned any of his other rules for
simple storytelling. Not once
has a pitcure of his had q love
triangle, or even q villain. On
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Descendant Of lncos
Tried to Restore Empire
-......~~sS~N


THE io-year administration OF
Andres Santa Cruz, pictured
on the Bolivian stamp above, was
one Of the most brilliant In the
history Of the Latin American re-
public. Reforms which he insti-
tuted placed Bolivia upon Q hrm
basis for future development.
Descended from Atahuallps. last
Of the Inca smperors through his
mother, Santa Cruz received his
military training In the Spanish
army, but later adopted The pa.
triot cause and gained distinction
in the struggle for independence.
He headed Bolivar's Council Of
state. governed Peru during the
Liberstor's absence, served ss
minister TO Chile. He was elected
president Of Bolivia in 1873.
Santa Cruz gave Bolivia rs
legal, code, estsblished universe
ties It Ia Pax and Cochambsmbe.
But his ambition ruined him.
In 1855 hs united Peru and %.
livia In . confederation, nsmsd
himself Supreme Protector"
Chile declared wss. broke The coz.
federation and ssnt Santa Cru
into exile.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
Q FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES . Il
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

FIVE IEANO AOO AOO
1895 !.
"The Belle of Barcelona"
three act operetta, will be pre-.
sented by Mount Clemens High
School students on May %, un.
der the direction Of Richard
Schoenboehm and Jean Currie.
All Boy Scouts in the city will
participate in the Memorial Day
observances.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
Hopes for widening Gratiot
avenue this year fade.
Mary Gay Won Boeslsger ana
James Randolph Doll set May
FL as their wedding date.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1905
The suburban cars have NOV.
ed onto Griswold street, and wild
flowers can now be planted on
Woodward avenue.
Barney Green Is going into the
business of making electrical
signs, and is building a fine
one for the Green Tree"
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
J. J. Bowling enters his race
horse in the three minute trot'at
Port Huron July LIST.
DR.. John Flintermann, an old
and eminent Detroit physician.
has concluded to locate in Mt.
Clemens and is fitting up offices
over Ullrich & Crocker's bank.
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1881
Eugene Shook Is the happy
father of q future president.
Mr.. Amiel moves his barber
shop TO the other side Of Pearl
street. into the Bentley building.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
BY LUCE NEVILLE
NEA Service staff Correspondent

NEA Service Stsu Cesreep0uosns
HOLLYWOOD. Preston
Sturges, the writer.director who
has declared that he'd never
make a picture with . social
message, seems to be slipping a
bit in his resolution. because In
the script of "Sullivan's Trav-
els" he powerfully sffirms the
Importance of simple laughter
in a troubled world.
The moral is aimed only at
Hollywood since the story Is
about a director of comedies who
decides to make a great social
document, a drama of the peo-
pie. Realizing that he knows
nothing about poverty and suf-
fering among the underprivileg-
ed. he starts out to become a
hobo. After a lot of goofy ad-
ventures, he encounters some
Of the soul-sesring experiences
he sought and returns to Holly
wood to make-more comedies.
For by this time he also has
learned that people don't want
to see their troubles re-enacted
on the screen; they want the ton
ic of make believe and laugh
ter.
It's fun to read a Preston
Sturges script because even the
stage directions are set down
with wise-cracks. He begins
with a foreward This Is the
story of a man who wanted to
wash an elephant. The elephant
darned near ruined him."
TRICKY
TITLES
Joel McCrea is the actor chos-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
. Hiehliehts From
The Latest Books =

Keeping physically At Is the guy
not only Of soldiers but OF
every American in this era OF
about defense. The formula
for building and maintaining
health Is simply outlined by
DIR. Victor G. Heiser IN his
newest book, Tougher Up
America" (Whittlesey: ~.
Excepted here are come OF ms
tins on how to get the great
est returns from exercise:
To enjoy these benefits from
exercise we should take 1t at
the right time. regularly, DAY
after day, increasing our endur-
ance. make our bodies more
powerful and supple implements:
Exercise 10 minutes today and
four or Ave hours q week later
will do moro harm than good.
These weekend exercises who
sit around In . swivel chair for
Ave days and indulge In such
hearty sports over the weekend
that It takes several days to re-
cover are only piling up in their
systems the poisons of fatigue.
And as for crowding q whole
years sport into two weeks OF
vacation, the parctice Is 50 per-
nicious that it il q tribute to the
residence o. the human body
THAT we survive vacations at all.
Sports, when they are not
TANNED into occasional week
ends and accompanied by over
eating and drinking. are the best
exercise because they ara fun.
II we can manage them regular.
~. they will keep Us in splendid
physical trim. But they should
b chosen according to our age
and strength.
The best exercise from the
point OF view Of hardening ~
and building up our vitality 10 .
snort thst cen be played regular
Is most Of the year Ground. ]
place sports ahssd Of caIistsen.
ice becouse sports ere fun, end
ne bsusot moro highly trom
whsyevor NJ 60, wheIhoe 4 =
sstinG. working o. playinG & e
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16

cissitudes Of military life necessarily
curtoiI. Our writing rooms ore ovoil-
oble to all men in the uniform Of their
country. Our recreotionol facilities ore
nointo:ned solely for them and our
entertainments are designed to occord
them the right type Of wholesome en-
joynent which men in barracks miss so
soreIy.
Our doors are open from 7:3O a. m.
until midnight dolly. The Red Shield
Club ard Hostess House are designed
for the soldiers utmost enjoyment
and betterment.
We think the average Of SO army
men who poss in through the Red Shield
Club portals daily in Mount Clemens
like Us and appreciate what we are
trying 70 do for them. We know that we
like them and will continue to do every
thing right and reasonable for their
enjoyment.
Mony reIotives and visitors Of Self
ridge Field soldiers have taken 3D.
vcntoae Of our hotel facilities. Our
building is entirely modern, hos been
equipped with new furniture through
cut and is, we feel, q proper place for
the entertainment Of soldiers and their
relatives
Our reception in Mount Clemens,
accustomed as we ore to the cooper
otior Of the general public, has exceed
81 our fondest hopes. The people OF
Mount Clemens and the miitory per-
sornel at the huge oir-bose. whose men
w strive to serve, have outdone them
selves, it seems. in offering us every
conceivable assistance.
For ti,ot cooperation and for the
genuine friendships which have result
a ~ humbly and sincerely extend our
ttsonks. Without such q splendid spirit
our most ernest efforts could ochieve
\ Ch6paetn DonoId Lee, of selfridee
4 FIX. ~ 6esn particularly helpful to
IN klIt llncerity Of purpose ond untir-
z(q6 6ototion 20 the spiritual welI-beinq
e. tn tefo( flock mork him os gentle
4 liSuolIy we'll fitted to his ordu-
'curss, our coptoin Dorothy
uHd our Envoy. MurieI Roster
~ Immensely in the in
I3od Shield Club octivi-
k Clemens, as hove rep
W vlstuolIy all civic and
tont that our wide
~. %.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
. BARBs

With short skirts, womsn's
overhead expense Is wasted.
Good luck has , habit OF al./
ways buttins in while . man 10
hard 1t work.
Who says our spirits are
down? Americans have spent sl.
most 80, 200, 200. 900 for liquor
since prohibition was repealed.
800
Easiest wsy TO find .. tack %
turn OF the lights and hunt bare
footed
When you come out the little
end Of the horn. turn around and
blow!
csopksd politicians figure Il
VI - es'as eus = u wh'ss-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16

The Salvation Army Red Shield club
hos now been functionin9 in Mount
Clemen. for slightly more than tour
weeks und it seems appropriate to me
that we Of the Army" stoff report
b,ief'y Just what we have done ond
Wnot we hope for in the operation OF
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
FoREHANDED DEFENSE


dence bestowed on Winston Churchill
by the House Of Commons is not only
a deserved tribute to on inspiring war
Ieoder but on evidence Of the British
peoples united determination to CORY
or Yet these two purposes Of the 447.
too vote have kept in the background
some serious concern about Britoin's
war effort, and particularly about the
prospects Of American old. -3---
Mr.. Lloyd George was riehtfully dour
in his warning that the United Stotes
would have to do q greet deol more
than she has so for if she is to turn
the scales. This is the most important
point made in the debote ond it should
be given loudsPeoker emphasis in the
United Stotes. For by the lend-Leose
Act the American people committed
themselves to defect of the Nozis ond
yet they ore still waiting for the war
to come closer to them.
Sooner or Ioter they must tip the
balance. To do it nov will toke much
less weiqht than otter the Nozi war
mochire has pulled more notions in
on the opposite side. To do it now will
keep war forther from the Western
Hemisphere. Military strotegists see
Two steps which could quickly make
the United Stotes' power felt and 1t
taken now might turn the tide.
One is the use Of American ships to
insure delivery Of lend-Ieose aid to the
British lsIes-the base Of the fleet and
air force which are keeping war away
from the Western Hemisphere.
The second is some development OF
the measure by which Americas own
orred outposts ore being established
in the Caribbean islands and Green
land. A London dspotch to this news
Paper points out that more bases in
the Atlantic ore needed to insure the
ouordina of what Mr. Churchill few
doys ago called the "Atlontie lifeline.
This dspotch proposed Courtesy
visit Of American naval units to Dokor.
It is certainly necessary for the Anneri-
can people to think in these terms un-
less they intend to retreat into con-
tnentoI SHE'LL
The Nozis ore extending their power
in Morocco. 1t is but q step 70 Ookor
And Dokor not only lies close to. Brit
aims supply lines from South America
and the Far Eost; it is closer to South
America than Hamburg is to Athens
Even its occupation by the 0ermons
would tremendously increase the power
Of the Fifth Column in Latin America
The Azores constitute another vitol
outpost. In the World War the United
Stotes had naval base there. They
are as close to America as most OF
Greenland and lie othwort both ship
and air lanes. Portugal is friendly to
Britain and doubtless would welcome
temporary American occupation, par.
tculorIy since the Nozis ore reported
gathering shipping for seizure Of the
Islands. Such steps as these might tip
the balance in the Bottle Of the AtIon-
tic strengthen the protection off9rded
by British seq power. They would be
forehonded. stroteeieolly sound meos-
ures to keep war away from America
From The Christian Science Monitor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16

uuS VSstNSsS
First OF
all we have
provid ed,
for soldiers
away from
home, hos
pitoble and
heerfuI at
mosphere
where, we
hope. they
cot, obsorb
y bit Of that
PGfsonol,
homelike
sen Sc. Of
well being
Mot the VII
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-16
GUEST EDITORIAL
That's Why We re Here
BY
BROADER GEORGE FIGURES
Supervisor
The Salvation Army
RID SHIELD CLUB -

RnlroHy NOTE: rbe following editorial By SrissamI
SSesrrs Tisures supervisor 81 Msunt Clemens shvs"en
Any neS shieIS Club and Hostess House e.ptssss' &
SnsrseaNon fer fine cooperation beth ms"tary .ne
s~s IesIess have accorded sffsrts What Brtgsder
yissres az nst say that he veteran Of eenseeu
~ - - Sensss yssHs bss worked snTngy Tor menns
q - passsss fer ths Red shield Cisb opening nc e
Sasss - - lsSy - its spsrssn A. With ell etbsrs J"
sAe ssriss - Daily nsniter Guest Editsr. ses CIV
~ aeeessssiIy coincide With those Of this newspaper