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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-04-24

him nice, tat part In bad Men or
Missouri" but he would have none
of it, and was suspended.
John Loveton, producer of sThe
Court of Missing Heirs" insists that
actors In mob scenes say sane, per-
tinent words. He had his lesson long
ago; he was part of mob scene
on a radio drama broadcast, and
when an unexpected silence fen on
the air his voice doomed out, shout
ing "GobbIe! Csbble! Goblet"
He's never acted since, but as a di-
rector he cracks down on anyone
who doesn't contribute something
sensible to those background MUIR
murs and mutterings.
Paramount believes that a new
Jean Harlow, or Clara Bow, has
been discovered In the person of
"sultry, blonde" Veronica Lake, Ito
quote a press agent who is fea-
tured in 81 Wanted Wings" ''Not
since Greta Carlo leaped to over
night fame in her first picture, ''The
Torrent" have New York movie
critics lavished such acclaim upon a
newcomer" to quote another press
release. Maybe so. but the low cut
of Miss Lakes necklines made such
an impression on good many peo-
pie that they hadn't a great deal to
say about her acting.
ODDS AND ENDS-UniUersal has taken
IN option on the screen services of Baby
Sandy's brother-tCho Is one geek old
The March OF Times latest, The 2. B. I.
-I94I," shotUs hoto the Federal Bureau
of Investigation is concentrating on the
prevention of espionage and sabotage IN
industry 4. MufuaPs The Peoples Play
house" heard Tuesdays and Thursdays,
presents dramatic sketches based on ideas
submitted BY the public RKO is
screening Parachute Battalion" tCith
Robert Preston, Nancy Kelly and Harry
Carey You'll see Tommy Harmon,
AL-American haIf-back, IN Harmon Of
Michigan"
Some of the radio shows you hear
are rehearsed endlessly; that's why
the actors on Al Pearce's program
especially appreciate the way he
handles things. The actors have a
quick reading of the first draft of
the script on Thursday, get together
to 'smike' the show Friday morn
ing, and don't report again until just
before broadcast time, when last
minute revisions are made. It's all
part OF the low-pressure system
which Pearce has found, after Il
years of broadcasting, still works
successfully.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-04-24

ington, Benning met Fincke who had
come there to do espionage work for his
government Benning continued TO pose
as a friend, and proceeded to invesd-
gate mysterious gold mining company
operating In New York. He believed 1t
was 'front.' for a vast spy ring.
Now continue with the story.
Evening star., 1941-04-24
S52,433 Navy Contract Let

The Bureau of Yards and Docks
OF the Navy Department yesterday
announced the awarding of s52,433
contract for elevators in the ex-
tension of the gun assembly shop
at the Washington Navy Yard. The
Murphy Elevator Co. Louisville, KY,
was given $50 days to complete the
work. The contract was among
those sotaling s1,643,723 announced
by the department.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Worlds Greet Bridges
Pictured on Stamps

- . . . . . . . . . . ~

BRIDGES are a favorite theme
- for stamp designers and the
specialist who collects such issues
will find many of the most famous
structures easily available.
The Sidney hafbor bridge Is
pictured on Australia's stamp,
above. The $30,O00,000 structure
was opened in 1892. The bridge Is
3770 feet long, 400 feet high, al
lows Roadway Of ITO feet for pas
sage Of vessels.
United States pictured the
Eads bridge across the Mississippi
at st. Louis in the ans-Missis-
sippi issue and the Honeymoon
Bridge at Niagara Falls in the Pan
American Exposition series. Ecua-
doris Golden Gate Exposition is
sue pictured the Golden Gate
bridge.
Southern Rhodesia included the
Victoria Falls bridge in the Cecil
Rhodes 50th anniversary COM
memorative set. Canada hos the
Quebec bridge on stamp. One Of
Lyons numerous bridges is shown
on q French issue Of 1899.
Liechtenstein in c u d ed two
bridges in the 1887 Labor issue Of
four values. Dominican Republic
pictures three structures, San Ra-
fsel. Trujillo and Ramns bridges
On lo3l-3S RELEASES.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

used by the late Wilbur C..
Whitehead to demonstrate the
importance of timing in the
play of the cards. Notice that
all four hands are identical.
Each has one card of each de-
nomination from ace to deuce;
the hand and suit patterns are
the same; simply the suits are
rotated in the four hands.
If this deal Is played at no
trump, Whitehead pointed out,
the defenders win the odd trick.
Declarer's supposed advantage
in seeing his dummy" Is null
lifted. The opening leader
starts with the deuce of his
long suit, and the defenders
bring in a long card one jump
ahead of declarer. In effect,
declarer's long card is useless.
since it has to be discarded on
the adverse long card.
Now notice what an advan-
tage is gained by the side that
can get possession of the joker.
Suppose that the joker happens
to be the 53rd card, and that
South wins the contract at no
trump.
West opens the deuce of
hearts. Dummy goes down and
declarer takes the joker into
his own hand, discarding the
five of clubs.
Declarer lets East win the
first trick with the queen Of
hearts. A heart Is returned and
South plays low. Many posi-
BILE variations Of play branch
out from this point, but the
student will discover that North
South are. sure Of eight tricks,
and any slip OF defense viii
give them nine. :.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
HOUSING HOPE

One Of the byproducts which we con
oct from the defense effort is improved
Housing. The London Times not long
900 asserted that the improvement in
British housing was the greatest con-
structive benefit derived by the people
from that whole confused post World
War decade.
We had made stort at housing
Improvement before the defense effort
began. Now there ore new housing
needs orisino from that effort. Greet
new industrial plants rise where there
was nothing few months oSo. Comps
are swelling to the point where they
have ereoter populations than neorby
towns, which offer no accommodations
for wives, children, and relatives Of
soldiers, nor for trodesmen drawn to the
scene by the soldier poyrolIs.
Much housing must be built. Sholl
it be jerry-buiIt, or Of permanent value?
Shall it be planned or higeledy-pig-
qlety? Every bit Of that is so planned
and built as to be Of later and permo-
nent use to the country and its citizens.
is so much extro dividend from the de-
Tense effort.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
CO-ORDINATES
SMALL SHOPS

One rule concerning the SUBJ
mission of ideas has been born
out of some unhappy expert
ences of the movie studios: un-
solicited suggestions or plans re-
ceived by mail will not be ex-
amined or even opened. If the
pictuse companies didn't have
that policy they'd constantly be
defending suits claiming theft of
story ideas. The only way you
could get your hypothetical
aerial bomb considered would
be to walk into headquarters
and tell 'em about it.
Although I'm not able to de-
scribe any specific devices for
warfare, can mention another
phase of preparedness which the
foundation has done in this area
and that's the coordination of
Is machine shops which indi-
vidually weren't big enough to
go after government orders.
Only the other day there was
hullabaloo in the east about
breaking down some of the big
orders into piecework jobs for
small shops which have ma
chimes and mechanics available
part time. The Crosby outfit has
been doing that quite awhile,
providing co-ordinators n d
specifications engineers and in
spectors to keep track of every
thing on a production line lead
ing through machine shops
which are miles apart. The en-
terprise now Is organized into
Tech Aircraft.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19

This is the third of a series
of articles on "Super-Contract
Bridge" q form of the game U.s.
ing the joker described. by Capt.
John M. Ellicott, u. s. NJ, retir-
ed, in his book entitled "Su-
per-Contract Bridge"
The joker is shuffled with the
deck and Is cards are dealt to
each player, as usual. The 53rd
card Is placed face up on the
table. After the declarer Is de-
termined, and after the dummy
is spread, declarer may ex-
change the turned card in either
of his two hands.
The joker may be attached to
any suit the owner designates,
except that he cannot attach it
to a suit on which he has pre-
viously shown void. The suit
needA not be designated until the
joker Is played. It ranks above
the ace of its suit, and thus op-
crates as a kind of wild" super
ace.
The hand shown today was
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19

lists which considers projects
and inventions.
AS Crosby explained. it, the
foundation is clearing house
for ideas and an agency for put
ting the good ideas into the
hands of the right people. Let's
say you have scheme for a
new kind of aerial bomb. but
lack the resources, facilities or
maybe the full technical ability
to develop it. So you take the
plan to the Crosby Foundation,
where the board of experts de-
cides whether it is feasible and
of real value. If it is, the group
is prepared to do whatever is
necessary to get it into work
able form, to bring it to the at
tentlOn OF army ana navy OIL
Gals, and to arrange for manu-
facture.
There have been some cases
in which development work has
been financed. The foundation
has a laboratory of sorts, but it
also gets a good deal of unof-
ficial aid from the California
Institute of Technology, which
has facilities for making every
thing from a wrist watch radio
to a 20O-inch telescope.
The Crosby researchers are
satisfied with their obccurity,
and the president gave two rea-
sons for not wanting to say
much about what's going on
secrecy in the interests of de-
fnse, and uneasiness about start
ing a parade of inventors to Pas
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
. HiehIights From
The Latest Books Z

Lincoln on the Foe Of 81" BY
Henry Willard (Knopf: Sf2j) IL
the brief but graphic record OF
a young netospdpermon tOho
spent five months 10Th the Pres.
ident bettCeen HE election IN
1860 and his inauguration. Ac.
tmally, the little book Is collec-
ton Of the reporters dispatches,
pith notes. As such the volxme
Is one of the most revealing pic
lures Of the Cirtl War President
yet pritten. Here Is a typical
bit. II describes Villdrd's meet
ing pith Lincoln at railroad
station.
He and met accidentally
about 8 o'clock on a hot, sultry
evening, at a flag railroad sta
ton about 20 miles west of
Springfield, on my return from
a great meeting at Petersburg in
Menard county. He had been
driven to the station In q buggy
and left there alone. ! was al
ready there. The train that we
intended to take for Springfield
was about due.
After vainly waiting for half
an hour for its arrival, 4 thun-
der-storm compelled US TO take
refuge in an empty freight car
standing on a side track, there
being no buildings Of any sort
at the station. We sQhatted down
on the floor Of the car and fell
to talking on all sorts Of SUBJ
jects. It was then and there he
told me that, when he was
clerking In q country store, his
highest political ambition was
to be a member Of the state leg
islature.
"Since then, Of course" he
said laughingly, II have grown
some, but my friends got me into
this business (meanins the can
vass). I did not consider myself
qualified for the United States
Senate and Il took me q long
time to persuade myself that I
was. Now, to be sure" he con-
tinued, with another of his pc
culiar laughs, II am convinced
that I am good enough for Il;
but, in spite of IL all, I am say
ing to myself every day: 1T II
too big . thing for you; you
win never get IT, Mary insists,
however, that I am going to
be senator and President Of the
United States. too" These last
words he followed with Z roar or
laughter, with his arms around
his knees, and shaking al over
with mirth at his wife's ambi-
ton. "just think" hs exclaimed.
"of such . sucker - me- Ser
President"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
: llS SYSTEM AND
{ UoLlc HEALTH

The argument over government
Les considerable confusion in the
apublic mind.
The medicol profession is not. as
scgne seem to believe. stubbornly oPPos-
"a 10 efforts Of government to old the
sick and diseased. It heartily approves
~ such efforts when legitimate and
sound. X supports government hosPi-
tuls where privote facilities ore locking
imports government medical old OF
those afflicted with mental and nervous
diseases supports the long established
excellent work done by the public
heoIth service.
Since 1874, surprising as It may
seem. the American Medical Associo-
lion has repeatedly urged the estobIish-
,nent OF a Federal department OF health
with q secretary who shoII be q doctor OF
medicine and q member OF the Presi-
dents cobinet. II has invariably offered
Wt,oIeheorted cooperation in Develop
ina efficient and economical ways and
rneons Of expanding public health and
mnternol and child health services.
Whot, then, does the nedico| pro-
fession- along with qualified loymon
oppose?
K opposes political ventures in the
snedicoi field which would inevitably
ond rapidly reduce public health ston-
dords and destroy or homper essen
tiol work in the bottle against disease.
Political domination Of the medicoI pro-
fessior1 would mean that q doctors poll
tlcul pull wos more important thon his
obiIities as q practitioner. itwould
uaSon that medicine would become. q
nreot new field for political patronage.
Thus, it would mean unnecessary
deaths, unnecessary suffering, unneces-
sory illness. :.
"A doctors party label has no infIu.
ence on his exPertness at diagnosis ond
proonosis. But, under sociolized medi-
cine, the party label would come first.
The "spoils system" would invade the
public heolth.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
MORE ADVERTISEMENTS

Il is not mere coincidence that
newspaper advertising volume con-
tinues to grow and that business con-
tinues to expand. There is business to
b hod in an ever-swelIino volume ond
tie wise business man knows that the
nay 70 oct it is through newspaper 3D.
Nertisino. The firm that had the greet
est increase in volume lost year we're
those that did the greatest amount OF
newspaper advertising.
Newspaper advertising pays today
as never before because the consumer
knows thot steodiIyrisine prices Of con-
surner commodities makes keen buying
imperotive IL the budget is not to be
stretched too far. and reads the odver-
tisemen$s.
Newspaper advertising hos played q
great part in erecting modern civilizo-
ton. Il has brought about Ioree-scoIe
production and lower prices. thus bene-
fitino both producer and consumer 1t
VIII pjoy an ever larger role in the days
tpFome. There is a pent-up market for
rpc<|s todoy that con be turned into
N ~ sales BY the newspaper advertiser,
.Dd The people ore reading the DDS as
st3ovet befoee to determine where they
SSos spsnd their money to the best 3D.
Noy>S0oe.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

= - - A$AA~OS Se0~
1885
Mr.. Beal, teacher of history
and tennis coach at Mount
Clemens High, Is q proud father.
Congratulations.
Mrs. Frederick Mckay was
hostess to members of her BIRTH
day club last evening.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
Eight high school and grade
teachers have been absent dur
ing the past week, because Of
colds and influenza. This is be-
lieved to be q record.
Hundreds Of high school stu.
dents are preparing for the 18th
annual operetta, "Once in Blue
Moon"
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1906
Late Thursday night, as the
lid was slowly extending over
the moon, an old sport stood on
q Mount Clemens street corner
and cussed the authorities that
be.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY
1901
The experimental well at the
water works Is down 20 feet
and the digRers have reached
hard pan.
Miss Kate Roskopp will en-
terrain the Dresden club at her
home next Monday night.
Harry T. Newton and. jean
cite Alien were married by Rev.
Herman Scripps 1t the home OF
+. w. Newton on Park avenue.
50 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1891
Edgar Weeks left for West
Superior Monday, and = not
likely to return until fall.
Mr.. George r. Griffeths, Sec
rotary Of the school board OF
Cincinnati, was . guest Of Mrs.
George Carey this week.
60 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1851
+. n. O'Nsal was In town over
Sunday. He says he roped Tn
over 1880 In . few weeks
campaign at jackson. He ~.
turned 70 his field Of labor Nom
day.
The Methodists have. substi.
tuted plates Tor TIE old fash
ioued bags IN taking up collec- !
items, and nicklee oomo where
pounloe ~ booegU. -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
IT'S ALL 4
JUGGLING ACT

Well, maybe we're learning.
We have tossed out, from time
to time, sly hints that We
might be interested in moving
part Of the U. S. Poetic fleet
to Singapore. Whether that is
actually done or not, the mere
tolk Of II Is good medicine for
some people, If given at the
right time.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
: BEHIND TIE SCENES
M WAsHIll GTON

esq., mevlcon velotions. Glod
bonds were extended all over
the ploce.
Officjot Washington really
believed there was q chonce for
these relations to improve. The
| Presidents cIeor mol" when
osked II re thought war would
break out in the Poetic wos
big news in Toxic. Sideline ex-
perts who had been predicting
war In another IS minutes had
to suck back most Of their
predictions.
NO TRUSTING
TO LUCK
And then whot happened?
The President asked Con-
gress to appropriate 1898 mil.
lion to build bombproof shell
tiers, improve horbors and
strengthen dir and submarine
bases in Alosko ond on half
q dozer tiny islands south and
west OF Hawaii, outposts of de-
Tense dnd offense oeoinst ia.
pan. Westermost of the prof.
ects is at Guam.
Only 100000 was asked
for Guam, and thot was eor-
marked foA horbor improve
ment. Such q sum is Of course
only q fraction of the $780,
100000 or so thot the navy
hos previously estimated nee
essory to do q real fortifyine
job on Guam, but this is q first
step that must be completed
before the real defenses can
be begun. IT is therefore an
indication that the odministro-
ton would like to see Guam
fortified, eventually and as
such it must be salt voter and
suIPhuris ocid in the slant eyes
Of the Joponese. For Guam is
only 800 miles from japan
and the subject Of its fortifi-
cotton hos been so painful to
the japanese that Congress al
ways previously refused op-
propriotions for such projects.
The island today is practically
undefended and indefensibIe.
Whot. therefore, about the
timing on this move? II could
hardly have been accidental,
and so the whole doy's pro-
ceedines had the effect Of soy
ing that while we don't think
there will be any trouble in the
Pacific, still, we won't trust to
luck.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19

3lkDpots OF strikes ore ever current
< noe industries.
!, m tlc0es psople ore about fed
ivygeponsibility on the part Of
W. VI111 Tire creom of the no.
a. beino drofted into the
M 6s1sntjon Of 81 90 q doy,
~ y 1l11ujly b short shrift for
peko odvontooe Of every
III spty pOxer ond more
= M Ndzuf tlssy con
- joI3 i1otisods foe
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD - Fascinated
by the idea of a singing star
making bomb sights, range
finders, submarine detectors and
other accessories of interna-
tional carnage, I went to see the
president of the Crosby Re-
search Foundation. 1t turned out
that Larry Crosby, brother of
Bing, is head of the organiza-
ton devoted mostly to develop
ing ideas for national defense.
About all the warbling actor
had to do with the foundation
was approve its purposes and
help provide for it's establish
ment. A lot of enterprises have
sprung from the concern called
Bing Crosby, Ltd, by way of the
Crosby Investment Co. The
Crosby Research Foundation is
in itself non-profit, though l
suppose it will point the way to
some more commercial activities
for Bing's business-managing
brothers, Everett and Larry.
HELPS
INVENTORS
Scarcely anybody In Holly
wood or elsewhere knows any
thing bout the foundation,
which has offices and labora-
tory In Pasadena. The manager
is a John Rathmell, who Is list
ed in motion picture records as
a writer for independent studies
Of stories such as "Ghost Town
Gold" and Riders of the Whist
ling Skull" However, there Is
a board of engineers and SCENT
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19


is so much extro dividend from the de-
Tense effort.
MORE IMPORTANT THAN BRIDGES
There is going to be lot Of discus
sion about the move to deport Harry
Bridges, the west coast Iongshoremen's
Ieoder. Most OF it is going to be beside
the point.
There will be greet debote on
whether Bridges rights are being in
frineed upon, debote on whether the
new proceedings against him smack Of
persecution. All that we ore not discus
sing here, because it is4not the most i'm
portont phase of the question.
Suppose Bridges is deported. Does
anyone suppose that such an oct will
change the situation in the unions over
which Bridges hos exerted leadership
and influence? Does anyone suppose
that the followers he has led along q
path so closely parallel to the Com
munist Porty line will suddenly change
just because on individual has been de-
ported? Will the deportation, for ex-
ample, of Mrs. Browder, wife of the gen.
erol secretary Of the Communist Party
have the slightest effect, except per-
hops to strengthen the beliefs Of all
people who incline to sympathy? Of
course not. The whole history Of the
rodicoI movement for 100 years shows
the futi|ity Of such efforts to silence the
individual.
Organizations should be won away
from such leadership, not by breaking
the leoders nor by breaking the or9oni-
zotions. Both courses are futile. The
only course which offers real hope is
the continued demonstration that such
leadership is fotoI. 1t wos fotoI to the
German trade unions; fotoI to the
French; fotoI to the Spanish. 1t is al
ready beginning to be worse than han
dicop to the American, as it has proved
itself to have been to the British.
Whether Harry Bridges is Conn.,
munist or not, we don't pretend to
know. Considerable investigation with
facilities beyond our own have foiled to
give cleor-cut answer But in these
doys when the regular Communist pro-
cedure is to deny membership and to
lead non-members down the party line,
it doesn't matter SO much, anyway. The
only question is: does the mans course
over q period Of years appear to have
been shaped by the interests Of Amer
icon trode unionism or by the interests
Of international StoIinism? Thot is q
question to be considered not by court
Of law at all, but by the members Of his
own organization, and those who have
accepted direction and influence from
him.
The question Of the rights Of in
dividuoIs is important. But we speak
here Of the question Of their influence.
To think, to speak, to write-these
ore rights. But to lead is not q right
thot is privilege which those who fol-
low can toke owoy at any time they
may be convinced thot the leadership
is bad.
Are the American people concern
ed with Communist leadership among
the workers in key industries?
There is only one way to change
thot situation effectively: to show how
disastrous such leadership is almost
certain to be; and to provide an oter-
motive Of leadership equally obIe, equal
ly aggressive and wholly devoted to the
direct interests of the workers and to
our free republic.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19

can re no problem existing between our ma
tons thst cannot be settled by diplomacy.
--Admirol Nomura, new japanese ambassador to
ths Us.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19

nGstsr who doesny want "a. eat things
- - him s.ck. y sick.